China, Coal, Congress, Cancún, Climate - NYTimes.com

On a panel I ran Tuesday night for the United Nations Foundation, Ronny Jumeau, the Seychelles ambassador to the United Nations, expressed quiet exasperation on behalf of small island nations that expect to feel outsize impacts from rising seas. (Here’s a Webcast of that discussion.)

“Give us something,” he said. “Anything.”

Chairman Not-Waxman - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Chairman Henry Waxman (D., Left Coast) is out. Hail the new chairman, Fred Upton (R., Middle America).

In a demonstration of the sea change that November 2 has brought to Washington, Upton — an auto-friendly Obamacare-reviling global-warming critic — has been given the reins over the House committee with perhaps more power to reverse President Obama’s radical agenda than any other: Energy and Commerce.

Art Horn: MSM Inertia: What We Can Learn from 120 Years of Climate Catastrophe Reporting | Climate Realists

The media falls in love with catastrophic predictions, and is consistently 10-15 years behind(!) in reporting on what the global temperature is actually doing.

Suddenly, Skepticism of Peer-Reviewed Science is OK | Climate Skeptic

The problem in climate science has been that its proponents want to claim that having research performed by a small group of scientists that is peer-reviewed by the same small group is sufficient to making the results “settled science.” Once published, they argue, no one (certainly not laymen on blogs) has the right to criticize it, and the researchers don’t (as revealed in the Climategate emails) have any obligations to release their data or code to allow replication. This is just fresh proof that this position is nuts.

The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism

The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism looks at both the evidence that human activity is causing global warming and the ways that climate ‘skeptic’ arguments can mislead by presenting only small pieces of the puzzle rather than the full picture.