Articles: A Warmer Planet Is a More Peaceful Planet

By A new report published August 24 by Nature magazine claims that "global climate is a major factor in organized patterns of violence" around the world. The report's author, Solomon Hsiang of Columbia University, writes that his work "represents the first major evidence" that warming temperatures foster the conditions for civil unrest and war.

One problem: the study is 180 degrees away from reality.

- Bishop Hill blog - Proxies

I was thinking about all those proxies indicating medieval warmth that were reported in the NIPCC report. I found myself worrying that they might suffer from the same problem as the tree rings - namely that their proxy nature might be justified post-hoc, by showing that they correlate to temperature in the instrumental period. This of course leaves you with the possibility that the correlation is spurious.

- Bishop Hill blog - Farmers

So not only do we have to pay farmers through the nose via the Common Agricultural Policy but we have to pay them again via feed-in tariffs.

This will end badly.