Arctic Ice Loss: Portent of Doom or Reason to Rethink IPCC Climate Sensitivity Assumptions?

as WCR points out, if the IPCC models’ climate sensitivity estimates were correct, then the greater-than-expected positive feedback from greater-than-expected Arctic ice loss should be producing greater-than-expected global warming. Yet, despite the extra unanticipated warming influence from accelerating ice loss, the world is warming more slowly than IPCC models project.

Far from being a portent of doom, greater-than-projected ice loss, coinciding as it does with smaller-than-projected warming, indicates that actual climate sensitivity is less than model-estimated sensitivity.

New emails spark fresh controversy over TransCanada's pipeline in U.S. | CanadianBusiness.com

Terry Cunha, a spokesman for TransCanada, said the emails simply show a lobbyist at work
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"Mr. Elliott was and is simply doing his job _ no laws have been broken. His role is very similar to the job the over 60 registered D.C. lobbyists for 10 environmental groups perform."

He said TransCanada was challenging Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups to release emails from their dozens of lobbyists to and from State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency officials.

Nine inches of snow in West Virginia - and it's only Oct 3

3 Oct 11 – “Parts of the Appalachians looked like a winter wonderland during the few two days of October with snow and gusty winds howling,” says Accuweather.com.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » I’ve Registered As An IPCC Expert Reviewer

Even though I say it myself, I appear as well qualified as many other reviewers. I am now taking wagers on whether I will in fact be picked.