US boosts climate change adaptation funds to Pacific

The U.S. partnership with SPC and SPREP is part of a larger US dollar financial commitment for a Pacific Small Island Developing States climate change programme.

Thomas Nides, the deputy secretary of state for the U.S, says they are keen to engage more in the Pacific region.

C3: Preeminent IPCC Scientist Conducts Research That Reveals Huge Problems With Climate Models

As the Solomon et al. research shows, as represented by the adjacent graph, the IPCC-type of climate models have aerosols increasing the warming trend instead of producing a cooling effect. In essence, the models contradict everything that IPCC global warming alarmists believe and claim.

Solar panels up in flames? | Climate Nonconformist

Rebates on home insulation proved to be disastrous for the former Rudd government. The scheme attracted crooked installers, and was rorted from top to bottom. The solar panel rebate seems to be attracting the same type of dodgy installers.

Standard Of Living Correlates With Energy Availability Almost One-To-One

To solve the poverty that still ravages many parts of the world, it is imperative that these impacted regions be supplied with the essential cornerstone of development: cheap ENERGY. It’s a fact: The more energy people consume, the more their standards of living improve.

The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: The Earth Is happily gobbling more CO2.

[new paper] As ever more anthropogenic CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere and the air's CO2 concentration rises ever higher, so too does the photosynthetic prowess of earth's terrestrial vegetation grow ever stronger, as the great global greening of the earth gains ever more momentum and sucks ever more CO2 out of the air and incorporates it into living biomass and soil organic matter, thereby muting the rate of global warming that would otherwise prevail in the absence of this important negative feedback phenomenon.