[More powerful than your iPhone charger?]: Ecuador volcano throws boulders up to a mile

The South American country’s Geophysical Institute says the volcano has thrown pyroclastic boulders up to a mile from the crater, and that there have been at least four earthquakes in the area.

Murray on the high price of heeding warming alarmists | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

David Murray, chairman of our Future Fund, thinks we’re not only strangled by tough workplace laws but threatened by global warming alarmism

Alberta’s emissions trading scheme the latest to be scammed | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But I’m sure the Gillard Government is so highly competent that it won’t allow such rorting of its own scheme, even though most of the “cuts” to our emissions by 2020 will come from buying similar “offsets” from overseas countries, such as Romania, Bulgaria, China and maybe even Nigeria.

Good luck with that.

Climategate 2.0: Jones, Briffa say Mann, hokey stick ‘on dodgy ground’ | JunkScience.com

Phil Jones points out Keith Briffa withheld that criticism from a 1999 article Briffa wrote for Science — in 1999. 

From the Climategate 2.0 collection, Jones tells Michael Mann that Briffa withheld damning criticism about the hokey stick from a 1999 Science article:

Keith didn’t mention in his Science piece but both of us think that you’re on very dodgy ground with this long-term decline in temperatures on the 1000 year timescale.

Phil Jones concludes his chastising e-mail with:

I can’t think of a good ending, but hoping for a favourable response, so we can still work together.