National Climate Ethics Statement | Watts Up With That?

Coffee spew alert:

National Climate Ethics Statement

To Be Released November 30 On Capital Hill

Senator Barbara Boxer and Rep. Henry Waxman Among List of Speakers

The Climategate email network infrastructure | Watts Up With That?

While I am comfortable discussing with IT shops how to architect email systems to protect data and properly service legal requirements such as FOIA requests, I have to admit that I wouldn’t know where to start in terms of submitting one.  If I did, I just might ask for all the emails they have pertaining to FOIA requests, and I’d be specific about wanting all the email, regardless of it being in the main email system, the archives, or on backup media, and all the email that ever existed, regardless of having been deleted by end users.  Then for the capper, I’d ask for their data retention policy and see if they managed to meet it in their response.

Just sayin’

dmh

Danish Crown Prince [thinks riding his big-boy bike will help prevent hurricanes]

Danish Crown Prince Frederik rode a bicycle through the streets of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi this week to raise awareness of climate change.

Pine beetle toll on Alberta forest falls by half

EDMONTON — Alberta said Tuesday that its annual aerial survey of pine beetle-infested forest shows the number of trees killed by the invasive insect fell by half compared with last year.

ABC: Climate change to "kill Australians" | Australian Climate Madness

That’s not the article title any more, but it is the title in the URL (see image here). Let’s scare people by saying they will die if we don’t “tackle climate change”… with a pointless carbon tax that will reduce global temperatures by seven ten thousandths of a degree.

- Bishop Hill blog - Schellnhuber and the Tyndall Centre

It appears that some people at UEA were unhappy with Schellnhuber's appointment. In #0432 Tom Wigley lays out his opinions of the new man. In this remarkable email we learn that Schellnhuber is taking a two full-time salaries - one from UEA and the other unidentified but presumably the Potsdam Institute. We also learn that Wigley does not think Schellnhuber is worth the money.