Earthquake? Blame Global Warming - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Playing on people’s ignorance by giving them Big Business scapegoats for earthquakes, hurricanes, and other acts of nature opens the gates for massive damage suits that will make the tobacco settlement (now pouring millions into a state government treasury near you) look like a piker.

The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria - Forbes

The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) can’t figure out what benefits taxpayers are getting from the many billions of dollars spent each year on policies that are purportedly aimed at addressing climate change.

- Bishop Hill blog - UEA says it doesn't have Dennis emails

For FOI geeks like me this is not unexpected. Paul Dennis indicated that he has deleted his local copy of the emails so the only copy will be on a backup server. IIRC someone (perhaps the ICO) has said that if the information is only on a backup server then it is not "held", although whether this is something that would stand up in court is another question. My guess is therefore that there may be more to the university's refusal than meets the eye.

[Settled science]: Number of species on Earth tagged at 8.7 million : Nature News

There are 8.7 million species on our planet — give or take 1.3 million. The latest biodiversity estimate, based on a new method of prediction, dramatically narrows the range of 'best guesses', which was previously between 3 million and 100 million. It means that a staggering 86% of land species and 91% of marine species remain undiscovered.