Copenhagen failure could cost US$1 trillion : Nature News

In this year's 450 scenario, spending on low-carbon technology necessary to keep to the 2°C target as increased by $1 trillion compared with last year's estimates, from $10.6 trillion to $11.6 trillion.

Swedish Documentary on Climategate « Climate Audit

Here, as so often in this affair, one sees someone [fraudster Michael Mann] who purports to be a “scientist” making unsupportable statements. There is no evidence that the tree ring density data after 1960 is “bad data” in the sense that it was measured incorrectly, that there was some sort of instrumentation or measurement problem. On its face, the density data shows that this particular proxy didn’t respond in a linear manner to warmer temperatures in the late 20th century. See here for a blog discussion of the IPCC and the trick and here for a longer (updated) exposition.

Mann states, as though it were a fact, that the Climategate dossier originated by someone “literally breaking into an academic institution”. To my knowledge, there is no evidence at the present of a “literal break-in”, with many commenters presuming that the dossier was compiled by someone at the UEA. Mann accuses critics of “dishonestly cherrypicking and looking for words out of context”. However, no Climategate defenders, including Mann, have provided additional contextual material justifying the words in question.

Importance Of Glaciers As A Source Of Fresh Water Exaggerated – Austrian Scientists

Not long ago, the IPCC got one on the knuckles for grossly exaggerating Himalayan glacial ice melt, preposterously claiming the glaciers there would be gone by 2035. Now it comes to light that the IPCC has also grossly exaggerated the importance of glaciers as a source of fresh water supply for populations.

ACTIVIST CLIMATE GUY: $10K Climate Challenge

Peter Laux, Locomotive Engineman from Australia, “will pay $10,000 (AUS) for a conclusive argument based on empirical facts that increasing atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuel burning drives global climate warming.”

All Large European Wars Occurred With CO2 Below 350 ppm | Real Science

Europeans have been killing each other by the millions throughout recorded history. Apparently this was due to climate change. Whoever could have known?