- Bishop Hill blog - Richard D's epetition

Household energy bills are currently projected to increase by 30% - over £300 per annum - by 2020 as a direct result of policies that seek to reduce UK emissions of carbon dioxide. Because of uncertainties in both the science and the politics of climate change, including what other countries will be doing, and the burden such increases put on the poorest and most vulnerable in society, we ask that the increase should be no more than 5% of current energy bills.

- Bishop Hill blog - Dessler on Spencer and Braswell

Abstract: The question of whether clouds are the cause of surface temperature changes, rather than acting as a feedback in response to those temperature changes, is explored using data obtained between 2000 and 2010. An energy budget calculation shows that the energy trapped by clouds accounts for little of the observed climate variations. And observations of the lagged response of top-of-atmosphere (TOA) energy fluxes to surface temperature variations are not evidence that clouds are causing climate change.

The Reference Frame: Andrew Dessler: clouds don't reflect light

Let me summarize the basic errors in Dessler's crackpot rants

Global Warming Expected To Bring Yet Another Cold Central European Winter, Early Forecasts Show

so far preliminary forecasts are signaling a snowy and cold Central European winter.