Wind farms may change weather conditions

Researchers say that wind farms can alter weather conditions due to significant change in air temperatures near the ground.

China climate talks are revisiting old ground, says top US negotiator | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Jonathan Pershing, the US deputy special envoy for climate change, said the first three days of talks in Tianjin had yielded disappointing results because participants were revisiting old arguments over procedure rather than building on the Copenhagen accord.

"What is frustrating in these negotiations is to see countries not using that as the basis, but relitigating things that we more resolved over the course of the Copenhagen negations," he said.

C3: Democrats & Computer Models Claim Texas Is Warming: Real Data Has Texas Cooling Last 15 Years, -2.7°F/Century Trend

Here is the recent headline from USA Today: "Expert: Texas is getting hotter due to global warming".

What are the real Texas temperature facts, though? As the NOAA temperature graphs for Texas reveal (the below graphs represent temperatures through August 2010), over the last 100 plus years Texas temperatures exhibit a cooling trend equal to a minus 0.10 degree Fahrenheit per century. For the second graph below, the temperature trend for the last 15 years is a minus 2.7 (-2.7) degrees Fahrenheit per century. What about the warmest decade "evaaar!", ending on December 31, 2009, you may ask? Welllllll.....Texas temperatures declined during that time span declined at a minus 7.3 (-7.3) degrees per century rate.

Quadrant Online - ABC fails listeners

What’s the worst radio interview ever conducted on climate change? Could it be Australian?

Maybe so. ABC radio’s Robyn Williams’ October 2, 2010 interview of UK-based public relations director Bob Ward is certainly a contender for the worldwide gold medal in the ‘worse ever’ category. The interview, broadcast on the nationally prestigious Science Show, is so bad that listeners don’t need to actually know anything about climate science to spot the most obvious flaws.

Is the Western Climate Establishment Corrupt? Part 2 « JoNova

The establishment barks “cherry-picking” at skeptics who claim a particular year was cold, or quiet, or less stormy, but where are the caveats when the mass media churns out record single “hot year” headlines as if they matter: 2010 is hottest year EVER!

What’s not obvious is that breaking those records depends on the data set. According to satellite data there have been no “hottest year ever” records since 1998, though as it happens, NASA doesn’t seem too keen on using data recorded from space. Go figure.

Looking Closer At One Region Near The Pole | Real Science

There is no valid reason I can think of for the selective loss of all the MYI inside that rectangle. How would an observer even know looking from above? If the ice remains intact at the surface, how would you know that the MYI underneath was gone?

Temperatures inside that rectangle were generally below freezing for the entire period of record.