The Age Alarmism | Climate Nonconformist

Arctic sea ice refuses to go away like the alarmists have predicted, remaining relatively stable over the past few years. I fact, a study recently found that 5000 years ago it had been reduced to 50% of what it is today…and recovered.

Cashback as storms knock wind out of turbine sails - Evening Times | News | Editor's Picks

Windfarm bosses are expecting a huge payout after Hurricane Katia proved too gusty for the National Grid to handle.
...windfarm owners are likely to be in gales of laughter as they await a huge compensation cheque that could give them a windfall running into the millions.

IPCC Models Completely Botch East Africa Rainfall Projections

Portuguese blog Ecotretas here reveals how the IPCC completely botched its forecasts for East African rainfall in claiming the Horn of Africa should expect more precipitation. With severe drought now ravaging the region, the IPCC forecasts and models are beginning to look like a complete farce.

£200k bill for Church over solar panels (From Oxford Mail)

Both BMS and BUGB have contributed more than £100,000 for the project, and expect to cover the cost of the investment in 12 years by selling electricity to the national grid.

The panels are expected to offset nearly half a million kilos of carbon dioxide emissions over the same period.

Ready for a freeze? Well, crops aren't - TwinCities.com

most of Minnesota's 7.1 million acres of soybeans and 7.6 million acres of corn are not yet mature.

Early Freeze Could Severely Damage Minnesota Crop Production | KSAX.com

"Harvest dates, probably will be pushed up a little bit from where they were, just due to the fact that the plants are gonna die, and if you've got stock quality issues, you're gonna have to get the corn out," Long Prairie corn and soybean farmer Roger Zastrow said.

"Up til (Wednesday), the crops haven't been hurt. It's if we get down to frost tonight ... Statewide, it's very easy to say that we're going to lose 10 percent of our corn yield," he said.

"You're looking at 17, 18 bushel an acre, probably a little bit more than that that you're losing. At right now's prices of right around seven dollars a bushel, you're adding up to well over 100 dollars of loss per acre," Zastrow said.

He said Wednesday night's overnight forecast of 25 degrees could be very damaging.

The feeble consensus on climate change | Kabat and Adair | spiked

We propose a new litmus test: as a step toward dialing back inflammatory rhetoric, both politicians and pundits who address the issue of global warming should be challenged to define their terms, to make crucial distinctions, and to acknowledge the substantial complexities and uncertainties that exist. In other words, they should be challenged to show that they know something about the actual facts, rather than be allowed to get away with making uninformed assertions.