Return of “The Plug” | Climate Skeptic

I don’t think there is anything we could do with a bigger bang for the buck than to reduce particulate emissions from Asian coal. This is FAR easier than CO2 emissions reductions — its something we have done in the US for nearly 40 years.

Chris Landsea and the Moral Midgets « NoFrakkingConsensus

Kevin Trenberth, who is not a hurricane expert, had participated in a press conference in which the media and the public were led to believe that a link exists between global warming and more intense hurricanes. When Landsea protested to the IPCC that this was improper, especially given the fact that Trenberth was in charge of the hurricane section of the climate bible then being prepared, he was blown off

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds temperatures and precipitation were higher 1000 years ago

A paper published last week in the journal Climate of the Past examines the climate of central China over the past 1800 years using two different types of proxies. The paper finds higher temperatures and precipitation were present during the Medieval Warming Period (960-1100 AD) than at the end of the 20th century. This paper adds to the published work of 986 scientists who have documented that the Medieval Warming Period was as hot or hotter than the present and was a global phenomenon. This study also shows both the rate and magnitude of the rise in temperature from the year ~ 700- 880 AD was much greater than over a comparable period including the 20th century.

Car Wars: The Empire Strikes Luxurymakers - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Electrics are simply inferior to high-performance gas engines. Take Tesla’s $120,000 Roadster sports car. Though impressive in performance, it is less capable than the similar Lotus Elise — which costs half as much. That’s one reason the Roadster is going out of production this year.