The Reference Frame: Monnett may have sent $1m to Derocher for a review

One of the hypotheses they're investigating is that Charles Monnett has directed $1 million to Andrew Derocher as a payment for a positive review of Monnett's paper that Derocher wrote.

Coal-fired Power Company can burn forests for “green credits”

Yes! You read the headline correctly. A United States appeals court in North Carolina has ruled that Duke Energy can burn whole trees In order to fulfill a 2007 state mandate that they derive 12.5 percent of electricity from “renewable” sources

Al Gore headed to Toronto | Ampersand | National Post

perhaps the biggest star in the line-up is Al Gore, who will be in Toronto on Oct. 13. The former U.S. vice-president will be presenting his new show, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.

Global warming – step changes driven by ENSO? | Watts Up With That?

the temperature increase (proxy for global warming) in the second half of the 20th century could have taken place in steps driven by major ENSO events. This challenges IPCC’s notion of increasing and accelerating temperatures and IPCC’s modelling argument for accepting the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis as the major explanation for the observed temperature changes.