C3: New Refutation of Mann's 'Hockey Stick' Science: Medieval Warming Prosperity Collapsed Due To Devastation of Rapid Climate Cooling

In peer-reviewed research published by the influential Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists reconstructed 5,600 years of climate conditions in Greenland. This new reconstruction confirmed the warm and optimum climate conditions of the Medieval Warming and the rapid onset of the frigid Little Ice Age.

In the case of Greenland's flourishing Viking settlements, the climate change to a cold phase meant total destruction of their existing society and settlements.  [But what about their "right to be cold"?]

Europe tackles huge fraud : Nature News

Regulators scramble to recover millions of euros awarded to fake research projects

Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community

A vast number of scientists, engineers, and visionary businessmen are boldly designing a future that is based on low-impact energy pathways and living within safe planetary boundaries; a future in which substantial health gains can be achieved by eliminating fossil-fuel pollution; and a future in which we strive to hand over a liveable planet to posterity.

At the other extreme, understandable economic insecurity and fear of radical change have been exploited by ideologues and vested interests to whip up ill-informed, populist rage, and climate scientists have become the punching bag of shock jocks and tabloid scribes.

Aided by a pervasive media culture that often considers peer-reviewed scientific evidence to be in need of “balance” by internet bloggers, this has enabled so-called “sceptics” to find a captive audience while largely escaping scrutiny.

Coal compensation under fire as 'mine or two' face closure | theage.com.au

THE Resources Minister, Martin Ferguson, has conceded a few coalmines might close under a carbon tax, as the government fights moves by the Greens to pare back the $1.5 billion compensation offered to the industry under the former emissions trading scheme.