Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Aug. 18th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

Australia might be going the way of the Titanic, a climate skeptic wants to be President and you’ll never guess what fracking causes this week.

Jon Huntsman on Global Warming - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

So we should trust the alarmist scientific community about stopping our use of oil, but not do anything that will cut our oil use as that would stifle growth? I guess this is why politicians get paid the big bucks.

Revisiting Climate and the Food Supply - NYTimes.com

The surprising result was that increased drought in Europe, at least in this particular computer analysis, barely mattered at all. The cyber-wheat was able to mature faster in a warmer climate, offsetting some effects of water stress late in the growing season, and it also responded well to the increasing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as many plants are expected to do.

The upshot was that “wheat will avoid the most severe drought stress by maturing early,” the paper said.

Murdoch, Hackgate, Climategate, the Guardian and the vile hypocrisy of the left – Telegraph Blogs

Steve McIntyre has examined the Climategate connection more thoroughly I have space for here. You can read his inspired sleuthing  here, here, here and here. I certainly agree with his assessment that UEA’s decision to recruit a man like Wallis represents a very strange use of public money. Surely, if you were an academic institution of genuine probity your first priority were one of your departments (in this case the CRU) to be implicated in skullduggery would be to investigate the allegations properly, rather than see it as a PR issue to be covered up by a hard man from the world of rock n roll and tabloid newspapers.

What can we conclude from all this? At the very least that the whole business stinks.