Press Release: ATI Welcomes Michael Mann to the Case

ATI welcomes Dr. Mann to the case. Now he will have to defend his email content before a neutral court and offer more than slurs and innuendo to support his contention that he can hide his behavior and his emails from the public who paid for them in the first place.

Medical climate metaphors--Revkin

Medical climate metaphors,  new, newish and much older.   One big issue with medical metaphor: Greenhouse symptoms are often far from cause (the sources of emissions are separated in both space and time from the worst impacts). The metaphor only works if the world’s citizens see themselves as cells in a single vulnerable body - and there’s scant evidence of that if you track the climate talks over the years, and now decades.

U.S. Considered Taking Partial Ownership of Solyndra - NYTimes.com

In the days just before the solar panel maker Solyndra sought bankruptcy protection, the Obama administration considered another emergency debt restructuring that would have made the government the owner of 35 to 40 percent of the company, according to e-mail messages provided to House investigators.

Pollution makes powerful cyclones more likely, claim scientists | Science | The Guardian

A thick layer of pollution over the Indian Ocean may be creating atmospheric conditions that promote fierce cyclones

Flashback: IPCC thinks you're stupid: With 29 of the 30 deadliest tropical cyclones occurring more than 20 years ago, they're ready to claim that CO2 will lead to "sharply increased risk for large swathes of humanity in coming decades"