Internal Strife At NOAA? | Real Science

NOAA announced last year that the snow had no human fingerprint, but two weeks ago James Overland at NOAA said just the opposite.

“On the Scent” « Climate Audit

Here is an excerpt from a troubling Climategate email that hasn’t been discussed much (if at all) – from Raymond Bradley to Frank Oldfield of PAGES (172. 0963233839.txt) on July 20, 2000. I’m presenting only an excerpt today, but will discuss more from this email on another occasion.

Bradley stated of MBH98-99 results:

in the verification period, the biggest “miss” was an apparently very warm year in the late 19th century that we did not get right at all. This makes criticisms of the “antis” difficult to respond to (they have not yet risen to this level of sophistication, but they are “on the scent”).

'Blue carbon' plan takes shape : Nature News

Mangroves and seagrasses could be protected by valuing the carbon they store.

Chris Mooney | The Denialists Progress: From Doubt-Mongering to Certainty

Don’t get me wrong: I know those attacking climate science never really believed it, and were probably always as sure of themselves as they appear now. Nevertheless, they’ve now been dramatically emboldened—they’re willing to go much farther. They don’t feel the need to behave as the Bush II administration did, at least leaving the door open in a rhetorical sense. Now, they’re slamming it shut.

Where we once had climate “skeptics”—always preserving the scare quotes--now we really do have deniers.