Lake Champlain: Learning to adapt to the new normal | Burlington Free Press | burlingtonfreepress.com

As if to underscore the Nature Conservancy report, a winter of heavy snow and a record wet spring combined to bring on an epic Lake Champlain flood that far outpaced any previously known spell of high water...warmer, wetter world has unpredictable implications for Lake Champlain, according to the Nature Conservancy report.

The added warmth could limit the winter snows that melt and contribute to a rising Lake Champlain in the spring.

- Bishop Hill blog - Will Black react?

This is all getting rather interesting. Some very numerate people have been looking at Phil Jones' claim about statistical significance in the temperature records and the consensus seems to be that Jones has got it wrong.

- Bishop Hill blog - Helmer's new book

Roger Helmer, the sceptic MEP, has published a new book entitled Sceptic at Large. The Hockey Stick Illusion gets a mention.

Quadrant Online - Climate policy crisis

If you write to a state or federal Minister of Climate Change to register concern about global warming policy, you will receive a reply to the effect that “the government sets its policy on climate change using advice from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)”.

What is it about environmental matters, and global warming in particular, that causes Australian politicians to revert to such a 19th century, colonial cringe attitude? Why should we be paying climate obeisance to an unelected, unaccountable (to Australian citizens) branch of the UN? Are our own scientists inadequate? Or is it just that we are simply not grown up enough to manage on our own what is admittedly a highly controversial subject?