Al Gore Jumps Every Shark in the Ocean | Power Line

To paraphrase one of Randall Jarrell’s great lines, you have to hear it, not to believe it. (If you care about the particulars of Gore’s rant—volcanoes, sunspots, etc, Marc Morano’s indispensible ClimateDepot site has the goods on each of these inconvenient truths.)

Indictment Of The ERA-40 Reanalysis In A New Paper “Erroneous Arctic Temperature Trends in the ERA-40 Reanalysis: A Closer Look” By Screen and Simmonds 2011 | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

This study explicitly documents a discontinuity in the 40-yr European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Re-Analysis (ERA-40) that leads to significantly exaggerated warming in the Arctic mid- to lower troposphere, and demonstrates that the continuing use of ERA-40 to study Arctic temperature trends is problematic.

Chris Mooney | The Attacks on Climate [Junk] Science Education Are Picking Up Steam

Students ought to be learning to think critically, to be dispassionate and apportion their beliefs to the evidence.

Attacks on climate science in schools aren’t just interferences with teaching, then. By supplying teenagers with politicized misinformation, you’re prepping them to have the kinds of emotionally driven argumentative responses that make our public discourse at the national level so fruitless.

You're not just instilling denial. You're creating the next generation of political dysfunction.

You're not teaching kids to think, you're teaching them to shout.

Driftwood On Ice | The Resilient Earth

It should be mentioned that the supposedly endangered polar bear survived this period of low summer ice in fine shape. And according to the physical evidence, all the other notable climate swings recorded by historical authors, such as the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, were real. Once again, the climate change alarmists are shown to be either overly excited and ignorant or cynical frauds and liars.

Finally, none of the nuances revealed about ice flow fluctuations are reproduced by the current crop of wonky computer models. If the models were correct they would have predicted the east/west oscillation pattern the author's discovered. As always, doing real science, collecting real empirical data, trumps any number of computer models. Instead of wasting time staring at computer displays, a climate scientist's time would be better spent collecting driftwood on the beach.