- Bishop Hill blog - Nature Climate Change

I would have thought a wholehearted commitment might involve the authors of papers submitting data and code to the journal at the same time as they submit the manuscript. A commitment merely to ask authors after the event was, of course, behind most of the scandals over climate science data in the last ten years.

Will Nature Climate Change demand that code be available as well as data? Will they withdraw papers if authors refuse to release data and code? I can't say I'm confident.

Binding climate change deal is impossible after Barack Obama's election defeat, says John Prescott - Telegraph

Barack Obama's setback in the US mid-term elections has killed of any hope of securing a legally binding global climate change deal, John Prescott has said.
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After President Barack Obama's ''shellacking'' at the hands of Republican opponents in mid-term elections, there was no prospect of the US Congress approving legal requirements to cut greenhouse gas emissions, said Lord Prescott, who was a key UK negotiator at the Kyoto global warming conference in 1997.
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''I heard him after his election disaster. Now they are saying they don't want to be involved in any kind of legal agreement. So forget the legal agreement - you can't get it. That's the reality.

''The Americans can't deliver anyway and if they tried to get something through Congress, they couldn't get it anyway.''

He added: ''Let's have a voluntary agreement. Let's stop the clock. Instead of Kyoto having to be done by 2012, stop it for about five years, put in a voluntary agreement and a verification system.

- Bishop Hill blog - Report on the Purdue forum

Pielke Jnr also had some eminently quotable words:

When you think about the CIA, much like scientists, they're experts," he said. "We wouldn't be very happy if the CIA used their influence to support what country we should invade next and began tilting their findings to support it."

This must have been pretty persuasive for any undecideds in the audience - which was apparently a sell-out. The article quotes one student as saying

"You never know what's going on behind closed doors," he said. "It shows that we all have to be more aware of who we get our information from."