Study: Climate pollution from gas drilling overstated - The Hill's E2-Wire

A prominent energy industry consulting group is alleging that recent Environmental Protection Agency and Cornell University estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas development are vastly overstated.

Mann UVA emails released | Watts Up With That?

Via email I’m getting reports that the American Tradition Institute has a CD ROM of the Mann University of Virginia emails in hand and are evaluating them.

They are in a 4.3 Megabyte file consisting of 3,827 pages.

Global warming: Ever the politically hot topic - The Washington Post

●The Aug. 20 front-page article on the political ramifications of the arguments over climate change quoted several people who said human activity is causing global warming and recounted data on global temperature statistics (as if that proves anything about human causation). It also cited two well-known skeptics of this claim. Were those skeptics allowed to explain why they are skeptics? No, they were only allowed to say that climate change is a political issue. Well, duh.

When will The Post present the real arguments and let its readers decide whether there is a “consensus”?

Donna Fitzpatrick Bethell, Washington
The writer was the undersecretary in the Energy Department from 1988 to 1989 and serves on the board of the Science & Environmental Policy Project.

El Nino doubles risk of civil wars: study | Reuters

(Reuters) - The El Nino climate cycle, which spreads warm, dry air around the globe every four years or so, doubles the risk of civil wars in 90 tropical countries, researchers reported Wednesday.