C2DC 2011, Japan : International Workshop on Climate Change Data Challenges

The C2DC workshop includes challenging topics like data preservation, data curation, long term access, metadata schemas, mark-up languages, multi-dimensional data modeling, data discovery, metadata management, harvesting, semantic interoperability, ontologies, data access, integration, provenance, storage, analysis, mining, exa-bytes systems, etc.

Twitter / Andy Revkin: Marc Roberts, fab eco-blog ...

Marc Roberts, fab eco-blogtoonist, finds a new use for all those unheeded climate reports:http://j.mp/InfoFlood #agw #climate

The American Spectator : Global Warming, Global Taxes

WASHINGTON -- Within 72 hours of the Tea Party's "shellacking" of Obama and Pelosi, Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, called for global taxation of the American public -- an idea endorsed by a high-level official of the Obama administration. Ban must not have been watching television on Election Night, because he missed the voters' rejection of big government, higher taxes, and out of control spending. Or perhaps he did see the results and thought it best to get his $100 billion of "climate financing" fees on the agenda of the lame duck Congress.

Why The Global Cooling Story Is So Important…In The Anthropogenic Global Warming Debate « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

On the face of it, the whole debate about “global cooling in the 1970′s” is a matter of despair. If we can’t agree on what has happened less than 40 years ago, and is still remembered by many people, despite the avalanche of available snippets of information, a great deal of them accessible to all via the Internet…then what can we agree on? And what is the meaning of “history” at all??