From Hockey Sticks To Boomerangs

The Swiss online NZZ from Zurich has a report on a recent multiple-proxy temperature reconstruction produced by a Swedish team of scientists. It wasn’t that long ago when European media outlets were saying Mann’s old hockey stick was settled science – that is until a series of scientific and statistical analyses by leading experts debunked it and the pressure to drop it became too much to bear.

Now Europe’s media are quietly abandoning it and returning to what years and years of reliable literature originally had stated: The temperature trend over the last several thousand years was by no means flat and that there were periods that were just as warm, if not warmer than today.

Sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless warmist | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It is a mark of the closet totalitarian to feel themselves entitled to appropriate the property of others to serve their superior cause:

Winter storm: Map shows most of Northern Hemisphere covered in snow and ice | Mail Online

[2/3/11] At first glance it looks like a graphic from a Discovery Channel programme about a distant ice age. But this astonishing picture shows the world as it is today - with half the Northern Hemisphere covered with snow and ice.

Rudd’s green car crashes | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Yet another reminder of not only Labor Government’s colossal waste but of the folly of governments trying to pick winners