New Statesman - Watching the Arctic melt, I realise apathy must be frozen out

When a colossal wall of thousand-year-old-ice explodes right in front of you, with a noise like a very large bomb falling very far away, and you feel the chill sting of spray on your face as the ice is eaten away by human greed, you realise that a choice is still possible.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Expert on carbon markets: "You couldn’t design a better instrument for corruption"

Still, before the final unraveling of the case for human caused global warming, billions of dollars are likely to be wasted on corruption e.g. in connection with carbon markets (cap and trade), recently described in this way by an expert: “You couldn’t design a better instrument for corruption"

- Bishop Hill blog - Glikson on the MWP

Australian scientist Andrew Glikson has a very strange article in the Conversation. He appears to believe that we sceptics are like something out of 1984.
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I wonder if he was involved in writing the Times Atlas of the World?

4th International Climate And Energy Conference in Munich Germany

Leading scientists, experts and critics of the AGW science and man-made climate change are gathering to present the newest results. Mark it down on your calendar!

New speakers this year will include:
- Andrew Montford
- Werner Kirstein
- Henrik Svensmark
- Chris Horner
- Piers Corbyn

They’ll be joining an impressive line-up of speakers like Nir Shaviv and Jan Veizer.

World Climate Report » Corn (i.e., CO2RN) v. Drought

We realize that our future will see droughts in the corn belt – whether these future droughts are related to human activities can be debated forever. The good news is that elevated CO2 will give corn in the future a defense against any droughts that occur – corn will simply require much less water given the biological benefits associated with extra levels of CO2. The goodness will be felt the world over, not just in America’s corn belt.