The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: Challenge alive and well, AGW alarmists fail to claim $10,000

Peter Laux, Locomotive Engineman from Australia, “will pay $10,000 (AUS) for a conclusive argument based on empirical facts that increasing atmospheric CO2 from fossil fuel burning drives global climate warming.”

Peer review is f***ed up | Climate Etc.

JC comments: During the past few weeks, we have seen two interesting examples of peer review:  the pre-publication extended peer review of the BEST papers, and the post-publication extended peer review of the Ludecke et al. papers. The extended peer review in the blogosphere was far more substantial than the papers were likely to receive in the normal peer review process.   In both instances, the extended peer review of these papers conducted in the blogosphere were not part of the formal peer review process.   Scientists who do not check the blogs might be completely unaware that this extended peer review has occurred.

Exclusive: Backlash grows over Cameron's green sell-out - Green Living - Environment - The Independent

Environmental u-turns: How PM has failed to make his government 'greenest ever'

California’s Crazy Justification for Expensive Electricity

In other states, cost and necessity are fundamental to regulators’ determination whether a utility’s resource acquisition proposal is in the public interest. In California, however, these issues are ancillary to the project’s chances of being built. That’s crazy! Environmentalists love to claim that California energy policy is a beacon for the country to follow. To my eyes, it’s a warning to be avoided.