The ‘Worst Hit by Climate Change’ Contest « NoFrakkingConsensus

There would seem to be two significant takeaways here. One is that it apparently isn’t hard to find experts who’ll say anything. Few of us have the time to notice that their declarations contradict what the expert down the road said last week.

Moreover, many of us (especially journalists) find it difficult to resist  personalizing big-picture stories like climate change. Apparently the issue isn’t compelling enough on its own – it needs to be linked to the self-interest of whomever the audience of the moment happens to be.

Hansen’s Arrested Development | Watts Up With That?

I bring it up because it is climate science at its finest. Since the observations were not of the expected range, rather than figure out why the results might be wrong, they just twisted the dials to “reduce the imbalance to the imbalance suggested by climate models.” 

Arctic cooling coming

Every now and again, however, somebody nastily looks at the whole temperature record, not just a selected slice of it. And the latest example of that is woeful news for the Warmists. Some Norwegian scientists have gone to the town of Longyearbyen in Norway's far North (bordering the Arctic circle) and checked out the temperature record there -- dating from 1912.

They found two things: That the temperature changes there are cyclic and the cycles are mainly explained by the activity of the sun. That enables them to predict Arctic COOLING from now to the year 2020. Abstract below

U.S. Justice Department request puts chill on skeptical bloggers

This is all rather chilling. It appears that being the proprietor of a blog in which strangers leave links pointing to material on third-party websites now exposes one to being raided by the police.

As a commenter on another skeptic blog has observed: “the mere fact of the raid is ‘intimidating’ (potentially) to many…. Some are braver or better situated than others to handle police scrutiny but NO ONE should have to face police raids merely for having a blog.”