- Bishop Hill blog - Beddington's meeting with Pachauri

The meeting doesn't seem suspicious to me - for the head of the IPCC to meet the chief scientific officer of one of his major funders is surely quite natural in the wake of a scandal. What is interesting is that I had asked to see all Beddington's Climategate related correspondence and papers, and there is no hint of such a meeting in what was disclosed. I find it hard to believe that UEA was not discussed at this meeting.

More FOI required.

Caltrans abandons weather, embraces “climate change” as the reason for washed out roads | Watts Up With That?

Only one small problem here, climate doesn’t wash out roads and bridges, weather does. This statement from Caltrans (below), with references to grandchildren, reads like a page from Jim Hansen’s book, Storms of my Grandchildren. I challenge Ms. Biggar to point to any event where Caltrans had to replace infrastructure and to prove that it was caused by climate change, and not weather.

Spanish Wind, Revisited — MasterResource

So far, in the solar industry alone, an estimated 75,000 jobs have been lost in Spain as a consequence of the subsidy cuts and another 40,000 jobs are expected to be lost by the time the cuts are fully effective.

The green jobs may have evaporated, but the residue from Spain’s renewable policies remain: Retail electricity rates increased from 20%, for residential rates,to over 100% for some industrial users, and unemployment passed 20%, all in 2010. What has happened in Spain was precisely as predicted by Professor Álvarez two years earlier.

Catlin Discovers That The Arctic Ocean Is Made Out Of Dr. Pepper | Real Science

Junk science taken to new heights by the frozen campers. The ocean has a pH of 8. Soft drinks have a pH of 3, one hundred thousand times more acidic than seawater. In industry, this would be called fraud.