South Pole Ice Fluctuations Controlled by ENSO

Whatever happened to CO2 driving the climate and causing melting of the ice caps? So now we have to use the ENSO as a barometer for ice melt (or freezing), sea level rise and climate variation? It is certainly a hell of a lot more plausible, that’s for sure.

Richard Somerville editorial: How much should the public know about climate science? « Climate Progress

# The essential findings of mainstream climate change science are firm. The world is warming. There are many kinds of evidence: air temperatures, ocean temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and much more. Human activities are the main cause. The warming is not natural. It is not due to the sun, for example. We know this because we can measure the effect of man-made carbon dioxide and it is much stronger than that of changes in the sun, which we also measure.
# The greenhouse effect is well understood. It is as real as gravity.
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# Our climate predictions are coming true. Many observed climate changes, like rising sea level, are occurring at the high end of the predicted range. Some observed changes, like melting sea ice, are happening faster than the anticipated worst case.
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# The standard skeptical arguments have been refuted many times over. The refutations are on many web sites and in many books.

Message to Young Journalists: Connect the Dots « NoFrakkingConsensus

It is now reasonable, therefore, to pose the following questions:

* Have we all been terribly misled?
* Are vulnerable members of our society enduring cold weather hardship for no good reason?
* Is the entire anti-CO2 movement a gargantuan mistake?

- Bishop Hill blog - More workers sacrificed to green god

Mike McKenna, director of Kronospan's Chirk factory, said the subsidies for electricity generators which use biomass encouraged them to take "the easy option" of burning freshly felled timber.

He told BBC Radio Wales: "The easy option for them is cutting down trees and burning them for electricity generation.

"That's because the subsidies are worth more than twice the value of the wood.