FT.com / Travel - Plight of the hunters

Next morning word spreads through the village that a hunter has shot a polar bear, 40km out on the sea ice. A few hours later, he returns and, by the time I arrive, a large crowd has gathered to meet him. Though the bear is a familiar sight, it’s still an honoured kill and everyone is excited to see it. The skin and joints are already in buckets ready to be loaded and taken home. The local police car offers its services to ferry the meat back to his house. “We’ll eat some of it for my youngest son’s birthday,” the hunter tells me as the crowd disperses. “It tastes very, very good.”

On Warming, Antarctica, Clouds and Peer Review - NYTimes.com

I’m glad [McIntyre] decided to take the plunge. Still, he finds much to gripe about, spending much of his initial post on the Journal of Climate paper alleging that the journal had recruited reviewers whose goal was “to suppress the article.” Using an exclamation point to reinforce his pique, he described the 88 pages of reviews and responses and chided me for criticizing him for not, until now, “running such gauntlets.”

These complaints somehow ring hollow from a man whose Web site sometimes seems to be a celebration of verbiage, numbers and contestation.

Climate-change scientist, Oppenheimer, proud to be within 65% margin of error | RedState

Okay…there’s almost no way to take these guys seriously anymore. Check out Item #4 at the following FoxNews link:”Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts.” Oft-quoted Princeton scientist and climate-change advocate Michael Oppenheimer speaks of a 65% margin of error in their temperature predictions. If that’s the standard these guys are using, then everything they say is completely meaningless. I could probably make 20 climate predictions while singing “Ring My Bell” and pruning my azaleas and be within the margin of error!

The climate change wake-up call | Global development | guardian.co.uk

the Maldives has committed itself to becoming carbon neutral in 10 years and Bangladesh has committed $200m from its national budget to implement its national climate change strategy and action plan.

The Japan That Says No; Rejects Carbon Trading – “Major Setback”

Japan has decided to back out of carbon trading, likely from intense pressure from industry. This will no doubt disappoint many in organized crime