NC Media Watch: What climate change can we expect from a Grand Minimum?

The last time sunspots vanished from the sun for decades was during the Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1700 AD was marked by drastic cooling of the climate and the maximum cold of the Little Ice Age. Millions starved to death as crops failed around the world.

If you are truly interested please read The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, by Brian Fagan, especially the chapters on the Maunder Minimum.

An opening mind. Part II | Climate Etc.

Journalists for the most part have dropped the ball on the climate change issue, and the watchdog/accountability role has been ceded to the blogospheric auditors, notably Steve McIntyre. There are very few mainstream journalists behaving in a true investigative way on the climate change issue.

Gas Up « The Daily Bayonet

Shale gas will inevitably end the current fad of subsidizing inefficient renewables for the simple reason that businesses and consumers will punish any politician that keeps raising energy prices when an affordable alternative exists. Transformation to shale gas will happen, but it will happen against a background of howling screams from the green left who want anything but affordable, abundant energy.

Uncertainty and the IPCC | Climate Etc.

Given the complexity of the climate problem, expert judgments about uncertainty and confidence levels are made by the IPCC on issues that are dominated by unquantifiable uncertainties.