A Summary of The B.E.S.T. UHI Pre-pre-pre-pre-paper « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

5. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that if 27% of the Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly (GHCN-M) stations are located in cities with a population greater than 50,000, then assuming a UHI of 3C/century the contribution BY UHI to the world MEASURED average is 3*27%=0.81C

6. Nevermind, there’s always space for pure speculation

Coalition lashes carbon critics - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock Journal

THE federal opposition has launched a fierce attack on the renewable energy sector, accusing its ''vested interests'' of opposing the Coalition's climate policy because they want to profit from Labor's $10 billion clean energy fund.

Opposition finance spokesman Andrew Robb told The Age that the Gillard government's proposed $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation - which will help finance green investment - would be ''a honeypot to every white-shoe salesman imaginable''.

- Bishop Hill blog - BEST paper out

To mark the occasion the BBC has dusted off some of its old hockey stick pictures for its front page. It really is an amazing graph - like a drug to some people.

The long pause in warming confirmed « Calder's Updates

Global warming real? Not recently, folks. The black curve in the graph confirms what experts have known for years, that warming stopped in the mid-1990s, when the Sun was switching from a manic to a depressive phase.