- Bishop Hill blog - The Royal Society and alarmism

A very interesting essay on the Royal Society and its sudden change from a body that promoted science as the antidote to apocalyptic vision, to one that used the same tool to promote the idea of disasters.

Hottest Year Ever : “December was coldest month for 25 years” | Real Science

it was also the coldest December since records began 100 years ago.

The Reference Frame: Republican AGW crusader Kerry Emanuel

No one really cares about a Celsius degree that the Earth may add or subtract in average. What some people are enthusiastic about is the possibility that the tautology of climate change, when "properly" marketed, allows them to regulate and control whole nations.