The Reference Frame: Climategate 2011: FOIA

Here, I give you a few demo quotes from the readme.txt file in the root directory. They surely show that Michael Mann is a fraudster even according to most of his colleagues; and most of his colleagues still have failed to act, well, impartially in their business.

The zip file contains a 13 MB "documents" subfolder, a 68 MB "mail" subfolder, the 20 kB readme.txt file that will be reproduced below, and a 133 MB archive called all.rar which unpacks to 806 MB. My rar-dealing application freezes but I suppose that all of the content in this file is protected by a passphrase that hasn't been published (try to guess it).

UBS: Emissions trading in Europe to crash | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A devastating analysis of Europe’s emissions trading scheme by UBS, the global financial services firm - and the implications for Australia are serious:

- Bishop Hill blog - The Heretic wins Evening Standard award

Congratulations to Richard Bean, whose climate sceptic play The Heretic has won an Evening Standard best play award. The award was given jointly to The Heretic and one of Bean's other plays, One Man Two Guv'nors.

I understand the show will transfer to the US and Australia in due course.

Extreme Cold In Alaska Claims A Victim | Real Science

(Reuters) – A top college runner from Kenya who spent two days lost in an Alaska snowstorm had both of his feet amputated because of severe frostbite damage, the University of Alaska at Anchorage said on Monday.

Comments On The Physics Today Article “Communicating The Science Of Climate Change” By Richard C. J. Somerville and Susan Joy Hassol | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The fundamental error made by the authors (as with the Sherwood article that I posted on last week), is their assumption of the dominance of added CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases in climate change.