Al Gore: Games Are The New Normal @PSFK

Wait a minute: I'd been planning to spend the 2020s searching for food morsels while treading water and tending to my malaria and kidney stones. When am I supposed to play games on my iPhone?

We are not 'spoilers' of climate talks: India - India - DNA

Brushing aside accusations that India was acting as a bully and "spoiler" during climate talks, its negotiators here are firm that New Delhi will not accept any new legally binding carbon emission cuts, saying its policy is "clear, consistent and compassionate" on the issue.

John Prescott: suspend the Kyoto protocol | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The Kyoto protocol should be suspended in order to safeguard its future, said one of the lead architects of the treaty, the former Labour minister John Prescott.

I can’t hear you « the Air Vent

This email demonstrates again exactly why hockey stick temperature curves are all crap.

Bo Christiansen wrote an email (copy below)  on March 16 2009, stating in no uncertain terms, what I have written here dozens of times.  You can’t regress extremely noisy data on a short series (temperature range) and then project it 2000 years into the past. 

William M. Briggs, Statistician » What Is A True Model? What Makes A Good One?: Part VI Climate Model Focus

Climate models don’t have strong skill (as far as I’ve seen) at predicting yearly global average temperature. They do not (again, as far as I’ve seen) beat persistence. Thus, their predictions cannot yet be trusted.

A Reconstruction Of Unadjusted US Temperatures | Real Science

As you can see, US temperatures have declined over the last 80 years. The climategate 2.0 E-mails tell us that the DOE doesn’t want the raw temperature data available to the public.  Here is why – they now publish only data which has had 0.6F degrees added on to recent temperatures, and about 0.1F degrees subtracted from older temperatures.