The taxpayer-funded “save Gillard’s hide” campaign | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

How can you trust this lot with an $11 billion a year carbon dioxide tax when you can’t even trust them with $30 million?

- Bishop Hill blog - How to get to the top

Donna Laframboise has uncovered the remarkable story of the IPCC lead author, Sari Kovats, who was appointed a lead author on the IPCC report before publication of her first scientific paper and years before she had completed her PhD. In the meantime she appears to occupy the position of senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, desite the fact she was only awarded a PhD last year.

It stinks.

The “Missing” Ice In the Arctic | Real Science

NSIDC shows that Northern Hemisphere ice extent is about 1,000,000 km^2 below the 1979-2000 mean. Is this an Arctic death spiral?

Ice extent was at a century peak around 1980, which skews the median upwards.

Hysteria, Dogma Risk Catapulting Germany Back To The Dark Ages

Progress is not achieved by abandoning development

Imagine if the Wright Brothers had abandoned flight after the first mishap, only listening to the voices of fear that heavy objects have no place in the air and that it isn’t possible to eliminate accidents? Imagine if society had abandoned the automobile after the first deadly accident? Imagine if early doctors had been prevented from attempting surgery on a seriously ill person. Of course, if humans had given up after every failure, we’d still be in the Stone Ages – if not extinct.