Maunder Minimum – ended Scottish independence? | ScottishSceptic

I’ve been looking at Scottish history around the Maunder minimum (1645 – 1715) and the following is very interesting

Most Jakobshavn Glacial Retreat Occurred Before 1950 | Real Science

It is quite clear that glacial retreat has nothing to do with CO2.

In The Future, The Only Jobs Left Will Be Green | ThinkProgress

The rest of this post imagines Labor Day a couple of decades from now

Update on Spencer & Braswell: Part II | Climate Etc.

[Jonathan Jones comment] With a tiny handful of exceptions (Judy, Richard Betts, Hans von Storch, Eduardo Zorita, surely there must be a few more?) the whole of “mainstream” climate science seems to be going into collective meltdown. To ordinary scientists their behaviour just gets more bizarre with every day.

I have worked in all sorts of areas of science, some really quite controversial, and I have never seen this sort of childish throwing of toys out of prams in any other context. I can’t see any solution beyond some proper grown ups getting involved and telling Trenberth and Gleick and friends to sit on the naughty step until they learn how to play nicely.

Conroy has “grave doubts” about climate science | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

That Conroy is a sceptic of the theory that man is heating the planet dangerously is not news to me. Add fellow ministers Martin Ferguson, Gary Gray and even, some say, Craig Emerson and others.

But what concerns me is that Conroy, in his desperation to save the Government, could play with the “diversion” of a media inquiry to intimidate the press - an inquiry that, if left unchecked, could impose restrictings on press freedom. Like conniving at monstrous irrationality and irresponsibility of a carbon dioxide tax to “fix” a largely imaginary problem, it is putting politics above policy, and party advantage above the national interest.