Spencer & Braswell’s new paper | Climate Etc.

I disagree with Gavin Schmidt that paloeclimate data is more robust than the satellite data

Carbon Tax needs a sunset clause | Watts Up With That?

the C-Tax should be scrapped immediately the global temperature falls below the 30 year average temperature, indicating the start of global cooling.

As the sun has gone quiet, and Queensland has just had its coldest autumn for at least 60 years, this looks likely to happen soon.

A Concise Slice of Climate-Science History - William Pentland - Clean Beta - Forbes

In 1954, Harrison Brown, a highly-regarded geoscientist at the California Institute of Technology, published a book that suggested solving world hunger by pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to stimulate plant growth.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Increasing doubts about aid to corrupted Kenya

There is, of course, the question whether development aid to Africa - even under the best kind of circumstances - in reality does more harm than good. But even those who still believe in the usefulness of foreign aid, should abstain from giving to corrupted regimes and countries. It is also worth noting that the likelihood of corruption increases with more and more of e.g. EU aid going to fighting (imaginary) human caused global warming/climate change.