WSJ: Death of climatology religion « Don Surber

These green reporters should be paid in crackers, not cash.

More Met Office Spin About Annual Temperatures (In Time for Durban)

Once again, for political reasons, the Met Office is “jumping the gun” and drawing conclusions about the global annual temperature of 2011 before all the data has come in. It is also erroneously saying that even with a globally cooling La Nina event 2011 is a record year.

1996: Briffa email

As always I seem to have been away bullshiting and politiking in various meetings for weeks! I try to convince myself that this is of use to us as a dendrochronological community but I am not so sure how much that is really true these days.

Email 1580, year 2000

[Phil Jones] There is only some concern rather than serious concern about the THC.
Neither HadCM2 nor HadCM3 turn it off, only reduces it a little. If it turns off there is nothing we can do about it, except try and survive. I would play this down a bit, even say it is scaremongering by Rahmstorf.