More USHCN Comedy in D.C. | Real Science

How cool is that? They were able to take the manufactured Lincoln rise in temperatures, and “fix” the record of a second station using the same data! They took a downwards temperature trend at Lincoln, flipped it upwards, and got a double global warming bonus from one roll of the dice.

And who would have thought that the weather is more than three degrees warmer just 70 km to the south of Lincoln? We are so lucky to have such clever scientists fixing the data for us.

Otherwise, we would have just assumed that Washington D.C. was getting cooler – like the thermometers say.

The Virginia Triangle | Real Science

These two stations are 120 miles apart. How is it that they both needed to be changed from a cooling trend to a steep warming trend after 1990?

- Bishop Hill blog - Sir John Beddington on FOI

The emphasis, which was added by me, is to point readers to the part of Sir John's evidence that was, ahem, questionable. As I'm sure many readers here know, UEA have been unable to come up with any agreements that would prevent them releasing data to other researchers. They were repeatedly able to release the data to their pals. So where did this idea come from that release was prevented by confidentiality concerns?

What is the Message of the Midterm Election? How About Dirty Money Well Spent? | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

As just one example, the energy industry spent $69.5 million on TV advertising attacking clean energy and climate change. That’s ten times the amount raised by environmental groups, much of it filled with distortions and outright lies.

[If you have $31 million, is that more than 1/10 of $70 million?]: Pollution debate outlasts Proposition 23 - MarketWatch

By the time the smoke cleared, however, the opponents to the measure raised more than $31 million, compared to about $11 million by the proponents, according to public campaign finance disclosures compiled by Maplight.org.