Hillary Clinton Under Fire for Ties to Pipeline Lobbyist | Mother Jones

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was already under fire from environmental groups and some senators after she indicated in late October that a controversial pipeline proposal from Canada to Texas is likely to be approved, despite the fact that environmental review of the project is ongoing. Now, several of those groups are questioning Clinton's ties to the top lobbyist for the pipeline company.

Paul Elliott was Clinton's national deputy director during her campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2008. Now he's the top lobbyist for TransCanada, the company that wants to build the 1,661-mile pipeline that would carry oil from Alberta's tar sands all the way to refineries in Texas.

Putting The Albedo BS To Bed | Real Science

Putting all this information together, it becomes painfully clear that excess Antarctic ice has a large impact on the Earth’s radiative balance. Sunlight reflects back into space from the excess ice. Excess Antarctic ice has a substantial cooling effect on the planet.

By contrast, the Arctic receives essentially no solar insolation this time of year. And the Arctic minimum occurs in mid-September – when the Sun is about to set for the winter. Arctic ice loss in late summer is at high latitudes when the sun is low in the sky. It has very little impact on the Earth’s radiative balance.

It is long past time for climate scientists to stop propagating nonsense about “polar ice loss” as a positive feedback.

Arctic Oscillation spoiling NASA GISS party | Watts Up With That?

We have shown how NASA and the other data centers have mined the data for warmth and manipulated the data – new and old – to enhance the apparent warming. This includes a cooling (up to a quarter degree or more celsius) of the pesky warm period from the 1920s to 1950s right up to 1980. This includes the NASA GISS base period for anomalies of 1951 to 1980. Numerous data issues post 1980 have exaggerated the warmth.

Climate Models Forecast A Wicked Hot Winter For The Upper Midwest | Real Science

Looking pretty sharp so far! Only off by fifteen degrees or so, but they can forecast one hundred years from now to within one tenth of a degree.