Bummer: Rattlesnakes allegedly can't slither the allegedly required 5.5 meters per day to escape the allegedly CO2-induced alleged planetary overheating

Fast Climate Change Moves Slow Species: Scientific American Podcast

They found that rattlesnakes, which are cold-blooded, deal with temperature changes by moving: their ranges have shifted about 2 meters a year to keep the snakes inside their comfort zone. Now, if global temperatures increase by another 1 to 6 degrees Celcius] over the next 90 years, as current models predict, rattlers could be forced to slither up to a thousand times farther. And the snakes may not have the legs for such a trip.

But maybe I shouldn't be so worried, after all, I remember when global warming was going to allow pythons to slither from Florida to San Francisco at a rate of 20 miles per month:

one of them has already slithered about 100 miles toward San Francisco...At 20 miles a month, a determined Burmese python from Florida could arrive in San Francisco as early as August 2020.

South African bishop accuses rich countries of 'climate apartheid' : News :: Inspire Magazine

Bishop Davies, whose organisation is a partner of Christian Aid in London, UK, said it would be immoral to allow global warming to exceed 2 degrees celcius.

"If temperatures go up to four or five degrees it will catastrophic," he said.

"In Africa we are concerned. Scientists say African temperatures will increase twice as much as the global average..."   [Which scientists allegedly say that? ]

It's all so confusing: Left-wing economist mumbles something about an atmospheric trace gas and the necessity of overcoming inequality

Climate Negotiations Fail to Keep Pace with Science: Scientific American

In other words, the world's present infrastructure—cars, power plants, steel mills and the like—already emits 80 percent of permissible greenhouse gas emissions, leaving essentially no room for growth after 2017. "After that point, we will have to build all zero carbon infrastructure," Cozzi note...

..."We're all grappling with two defining challenges: overcoming inequality and climate change," observed economist Lord Nicholas Stern at the same event, dubbed "Momentum for Change" by the U.N. "If we fail on one, we fail on the other."

Bummer: Jim Hansen and another raving lunatic suggest that tweaking CO2 would melt all of the world's ice, raising sea levels by up to 229 feet

2-Degree Global Warming Limit Is Called a “Prescription for Disaster” | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

If the number reaches 560 ppm, a doubling of preindustrial values, sea level globally could rise 25 meters, according to Eelco Rohling, professor of ocean and climate change at University of Southampton in the U.K., who presented data at the AGU meeting with Hansen. Many large cities worldwide lie at that elevation or lower. The two scientists agreed that if nations continue to emit CO2 at current rates, the world could reach 560 ppm by 2100.

The paleoclimate record also shows that 560 ppm would be enough to melt all the ice in the Arctic, and later the Antarctic. Rohling said that once the Antarctic melts, sea levels would rise by 60 to 70 meters. “If governments keep going the way they are going,” Hansen added, “the planet will reach an ice-free state.”

Climate Conditions - Weather in Antarctica - Antarctic Connection

On the polar plateau, temperature is controlled by solar input, latitude and altitude. The annual average temperature is -50°C (-58°F).

Snow and Ice - Weather in Antarctica - Antarctic Connection

Basically, Antarctica is a snow and ice "factory" with ice depths on the Polar Plateau reaching 15,000 feet (the continent's average ice thickness is 7,000 feet).

Romney talks to Santa Claus about Global Warming - YouTube

Mitt Romney fields a question from Santa Claus about global warming in Manchester, NH on December 17, 2007.

Europe tells U.S., China to stop "Ping-Pong" game with climate

"What is frustrating me and my delegation here . . . is to see for the third time that this UN conference is hijacked by a Ping-Pong game between the United States and China," said Leinen.

Twitter / @DanaRohrabacher: In one hour I will be givi ...

In one hour I will be giving a major speech on the House Floor on Global Warming: c-span.org/Live-Video/C-S…

The broken hockeystick | Climate Nonconformist

The arguments against the hockey stick graph are stacking up, so I thought I’d summarise them.

Climate FAIL from A to Z presented at Durban | Watts Up With That?

Lots of useful links and notes

Peter B. DeMenocal: Beyond Denial: The Next Frontier in Climate Change

Crop yields decrease by about 10% for every 1°C of warming  [Ever notice the lush plant growth north of the Arctic Circle, and the complete lack of plant life at the equator?  Me neither]

Climate change – is David Attenborough right? | Radio Times

Had he wished to be objective, he would have pointed out that, while satellite observations confirm that the extent of Arctic sea ice has been declining over the past 30 years, those satellite observations show that, overall, Antarctic sea ice has been expanding over the same period.

Had he wished to be objective, he would have pointed out that the polar bear population has not been falling, but rising.

Nice photo choice: To illustrate an article about the ravages of global warming, NPR uses a picture of Chicago cars half-buried in snow

2011 Breaks Record For Most Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters : The Two-Way : NPR

Scientists blame an unlucky combination of global warming and freak chance.

Temperatures dip below record low in Palmdale | abc7.com

PALMDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- Temperatures dropped to record lows Wednesday, dipping below freezing in some Southern California towns.

Palmdale residents woke up to temps in the low 20s. As if that wasn't cold enough, the mercury dropped to 13 degrees later in the morning, breaking the old record of 15 degrees, which was set 33 years ago.

How the GOP Should Explain Climate Change | FrumForum

There is ample evidence that global warming is happening and that human activities are the key factor causing it

Early morning temperature a record low » San Angelo, Texas

In the early hours of the morning today the mercury dipped to 21 degrees, a record low for Dec. 7. The previous low for the day was 22 degrees, which was set in 2000, said Mike Johnson, meteorologist for the National Weather Service at Mathis Field.

U.S. Delay on Climate Pact Spurs Backlash - Bloomberg

“Even with 2 degrees Celsius it’s not going to be a vision
of paradise,” Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in an interview.
If emissions continue on a rising trajectory, the gain this
century could be as much as 6.4 degrees, he said.

Frozen Planet: David Attenborough on global warming | Radio Times

The [Arctic] ice is almost half as thick as it was in the 1980s....

In 2010 it was announced that every single ice front [in the Antarctic] is in retreat.

Twitter / @MikeBaillie: Small pacific island boy t ...

Small pacific island boy told Ban Ki-moon that he is afraid to sleep at night because his island is slipping below the waves. #COP17

Avaaz - 3 days to save our dying planet!

Our oceans are dying, our air changing, and our forests and grasslands turning to deserts. From fish and plants to wildlife to human beings, we are killing the planet that sustains us, and fast. There is one single greatest cause of this destruction of the natural world -- climate change, and in the next 3 days, we have a chance to stop it.

Climate Changes Faster than Species Can Adapt

Newswise — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The ranges of species will have to change dramatically as a result of climate change between now and 2100 because the climate will change more than 100 times faster than the rate at which species can adapt, according to a newly published study by Indiana University researchers.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: My TEDxPSU Talk from Nov 1 ...

  My TEDxPSU Talk from Nov 13 has been posted (#climatechange #deniers have of course targeted the comment section) fb.me/1bzdId0nu

Another bright idea by Bill Gates: Guy worth $59 billion, living in a $147 million mansion, wants to forcibly spread YOUR wealth around

The Robin Hood Tax - CNBC

The day after the Robin Hood protest, for example, Mr. Gates, the chairman of Microsoft and one of the world’s wealthiest men, presented a report to a closed-door meeting of the G-20 leaders that laid out his ideas on how rich countries could aid poor ones. One of his proposals was a modest tax on trades of financial instruments that could generate $48 billion or more annually from the G-20 countries.

The Richest People in America - Forbes

[1. Bill Gates, $59 billion]

Bill Gates' house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bill Gates' house is a large mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m2) house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. It is nicknamed Xanadu 2.0.

In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US $1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million

More Evidence (Again) It’s The Sun

Yet another reconstruction showing the sun at work. Today, however, the sun doesn’t do anything. At least that’s what the experts at the IPCC would like to have us believe.

TckTckTck »2000 Durban students ROAR for climate [swindle] @COP17 : The Global Campaign for Climate Action

This morning, members of TckTckTck and CAN joined 2000 Durban students in creating the world’s largest human lion on the beach. Their goal? Urge leaders at COP 17 to have the courage to create a breakthrough agreement that will ensure a safe future for young Africans and people all over the world.

Seattle and Olympia - Top ten coldest November on record

SEA-TAC AIRPORT AND OLYMPIA BOTH SAW THEIR AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURES FOR THE MONTH BREAK INTO THE TOP TEN COLDEST FOR NOVEMBER.

The Six Steps To Becoming A Member Of The Team | Real Science

1980-1998 – Temperatures are rising, must be the CO2

Post 1998 – Temperatures are not rising, but ocean acidification is killing the corals

The Arctic is melting faster than expected, and snow is declining

Snow is increasing and temperatures are going down, but it doesn’t matter if the science is right. Lowering fossil fuel usage is good for the planet.

Nothing we predicted is coming true, but we have no marketable skills and don’t want to end up destitute and homeless.

This is all a huge mistake, but we have to crank out bigger and bigger lies to keep the funding coming in.

Swamps Cause Global Warming - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Heard this on NPR this morning, now swamps are causing global warming. The Greens normally love wetlands, but now they want to flood them and grow weeds to stop global warming and to make millions of dollars while saving the planet. Maybe the state of Louisiana should sell carbon offsets to California, they're whole state is basically a big flooded swamp.

16,000 People Ignore Jim Inhofe's Lame Video Message, in Which He Claims Durban Talks Are "Being Ignored" | ThinkProgress

Further isolating himself from the mainstream diplomatic and scientific community, Inhofe embraced his good friend Marc Morano, one of the leading cyber-bullies of climate scientists. Inhofe praised Morano, who has called for violence against scientists: “Good work, Marc,” he said.

Mark this one down. It is one of the most ignorant pieces of commentary ever published.

johnosullivan - Official: I Just Bet My House on the Outcome of Science Trial of the Century

I had little reason to hesitate. My conscience was reassured after reading more of the fresh crop of Climategate 2.0 emails that are so damning of Mann’s ‘science.’ I urge readers to examine for themselves Steve Milloy's selection of those emails and see how caustic Mann’s colleagues were privately about his “crap” tree ring graph. The striking difference between those scientists and Dr. Ball is that only Ball had the courage to speak out publicly.

Without experts as principled as Dr. Ball it is very unlikely the general public would be any the wiser about the grotesque billion-dollar fraud called man-made global warming. So please donate what money you can and become part of this force for good.

Sceptism spreads to even Quantock’s choir | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

McGrail is blind to the insane courage of that dissenter, willing to risk mockery and scorn in the bowels of a Quantock audience. See, when he McGrail writes “we need to be willing to speak about the unspeakable”, he still fancies he’s talking about the comic regurgiating the standard apocalyptus and not the boy in the audience who cried wolf.

At Climate Talks, a Familiar Standoff Emerges Between the U.S. and China - NYTimes.com

The holy grail of these talks, a global treaty encompassing all nations and limiting temperature rise to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels, appears as elusive as ever.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: No warming signal found in study of frozen ground changes over past ~ 20 years

A paper published today in Environmental Research Letters examines a 71 year history of seasonally frozen ground changes in Eurasia. The paper finds freeze depths decreased (indicative of warming) between the late 1960's to early 1990's, but that "from that point forward, likely through at least 2008, no change is evident." The paper finds the observed changes linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a natural climate cycle, rather than the uncorrelated steady rise in 'greenhouse gases.'

July 2009: UEA's Dave Palmer admits removing data to deny Steve McIntyre the information, then writes "This still leaves us with a PR problem but eliminates the legal problem"

Email 1175

date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:59:07 +0100

On phone to ICO at moment awaiting input on the section 77 question - am arguing that
taking the files off was to meet with our contraction obligations under which we received
it and to repair what we perceive as a lapse in security....

They have now stated they don't think the removal of the data is in contravention of
section 77 in that the sole purpose of the removal was NOT to deny the requester his
legitimate right of access to the information. I did tell them that that our intention was
stated in our response to Mr. McIntyre; namely to deny him the information on the basis of
EIR Reg. 12(5)(f) & the public interest & this did not alter their position.

This still leaves us with a PR problem but eliminates the legal problem....

Cheers, Dave [Palmer, UEA; to Phil Jones et al]

Huntsman on AGW: I believe in it again, although I didn't believe in it for a while after I believed in it that other time

Jon Huntsman: 'I put my faith and trust in science' - latimes.com

After delivering a vague response when asked Tuesday if he believed that humans are responsible for global warming, Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman Jr. said Wednesday that he has “faith and trust in science.”

“Let me be very clear on this: There is no change,” Huntsman told Politico’s James Hohmann after delivering a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition. “I put my faith and trust in science. So you have 99 of 100 climate scientists who  have come out and talked about climate change in certain terms, what is responsible for it. I tend to say this is a discussion that should not be in the political lane but should be in the scientific lane.”

Everyone's got cold feet and brides are getting nervous - National News - National - General - Glen Innes Examiner

THE big chill is hitting the big day. The Bureau of Meteorology has been fielding anxious calls from brides-to-be asking for long-range weather forecasts, amid the coldest start to a Sydney summer in almost 50 years.

Inside Job « the Air Vent

One thing which is abundantly clear from the emails is the incestuousness of the climate consensus.   Of course they fail to see the problem but that is what happens when you are blinded by the goal.  Below is a particularly honest statement by Hulme on Pachuri’s election to head the IPCC.  He is fully aware that the IPCC is not really about the science.  DEFRA’s (UK version of the EPA) support of Martin Parry is particularly interesting as you can find internet references of him sitting in front of DEFRA later on to make reports back.  So they put him in place and receive reports back on issues which are more about energy and money than science.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: What Are the Odds?

It is early 2006, and you are asked what the probabilities are of 6 years in a row of US hurricane seasons with no landfalls of intense (Cat 3+) hurricanes. No such event had ever been observed.

What would you say? Here is what I'd have said

Jon Huntsman, how could you? | Grist

When you cravenly reversed yourself on climate change, you broke my heart. Sure, it was the only way to make yourself look even a little like a viable Republican candidate, but Jon, do you really want to be a Heather? Did what we shared mean nothing to you?

Have fun explaining to your grandchildren that they have to flight in the resource wars because Pappy wouldn’t stand on principle, you cheap bastard.

The GOP's Crackpot Agenda | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Many of the top Republican contenders, in fact, once sounded the alarm on climate change; today, they scoff at its very existence.

Are We Standing on the Edge of the Climate Change "Abyss"? - Reason Magazine

But how much should we rely on prominent well-meaning energy experts to accurately discern the future?

- Bishop Hill blog - Oxfam - trying to create famine

Anthony Watts' story about Oxfam trying to get a global tax on shipping imposed is extraordinary (note Anthony's caveats about the reliability of his source however).

Free trade is what prevents famine. Oxfam's actions will make famines more likely and much worse.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Increasing Replication Of Un-Reproducibility In Science

Update All see this issue of Science. Ben Santer has a paper which argues that the twentieth century temperature increase (starting when? ending when? how much? the increase same every year?) has been reproduced, but that any reports of cooling have been greatly exaggerated.

If you want to win the game, you must join in : Nature News & Comment

Third, scientists need to seek opportunities to engage with politicians directly. One possibility, suggested to me once by a senator in the Canadian parliament, is for scientists to volunteer during election time to work in a candidate's office.

Sen. Boxer to climate change deniers: ‘You are endangering humankind’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) blasted skeptics of climate science Wednesday, alleging they are “endangering humankind.”

“The message I have for climate deniers is this: you are endangering humankind,” Boxer said during a press conference in the Capitol. “It is time for climate deniers to face reality, because the body of evidence is overwhelming and the world’s leading scientists agree.”
...
Boxer also dismissed a series of hacked emails that Republicans and others say show climate scientists hiding data that raises questions about global warming. An initial batch of emails was released in 2009 and additional documents came to light last month.

Several investigations have concluded that the emails do not indicate that climate scientists were suppressing information.

"The emails stolen in 2009, which included personal communications and gossip, were thoroughly studied, reviewed, investigated, and were found not to undermine the consensus on climate change in any way," Boxer said. "The most recent set of emails also appear to be more of the same."

Inhofe to climate conference: Nobody’s listening any more « Hot Air

Fast forward two years.  We have Climategate 2.0 accompanying another UN conference on climate change, this time in Durban.  The one big difference?  The White House has completely ignored it.  Senator Inhofe sends his greetings to the Durban conference and gleefully points out that they have become irrelevant

Durban COP17 climate talks: day 10 diary | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk ["climate change denialists drop in"]

Remember when climate hoax legislation was going to make all EU citizens rich through the process of selling each other wind turbines? Never mind

Weary Durban delegates won't be left as 'only idiots acting' - Politics

A refusal to be cast in the role of “the only idiots doing anything” on emissions targets summed-up one senior negotiator’s position, as a sense of gridlock deepened at the UN climate change summit in Durban.

NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco blames CO2 for bad weather

NOAA: Record number of $1 billion disasters this year, partly due to climate change | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog

I had a chance to talk with NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco, who spoke at Rice University Tuesday evening, about this last night. I asked her what she attributed this years record number of disasters to. She cited four factors:

• Larger population in the United States
• More people with insurable property
• More people living in harm’s way, especially in coastal areas
• An increase in extreme weather events due to climate change

Lubchenco told me, “We have good reason to believe that what happened this year is not an anomaly, but instead is a harbinger of what is to come.”

She said there’s good confidence among scientists that the United States will see more heat waves, droughts and flooding events due to climate change, which is in line with a recent IPCC report on weather extremes.

Carbon Credits Turning 'Junk' as Ban Shuts Door: Energy Markets

Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Investors are rushing to sell emission credits before they become almost worthless in 2013, pushing prices to a record low.

A United Nations program that encourages reductions in greenhouse gases awarded almost twice as many credits this year as in 2010 for projects that destroy industrial gases known as hydrofluorocarbon-23 and nitrous oxide, according to UN data compiled by Bloomberg. With Europe set to stop recognizing some credits in little more than a year, investors are "racing to beat" the ban, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Making things up: Warmist Noam Chomsky imagines "major campaigns" launched in 2009 by energy industries and businesses to promote climate realism

Noam Chomsky: US climate policy is 'lethal insanity' | Green Left Weekly

In 2009 the energy industries, backed by business lobbies, launched major campaigns that cast doubt on the near-unanimous consensus of scientists on the severity of the threat of human-induced global warming.  [WTF, specifically, is Chomsky talking about here?  I'd like a detailed explanation from someone on the warmist side, say Andy Revkin.]

Climategate email scandal shatters public confidence in paying to go green > National News > News | Click Green

It finds people are increasingly reluctant to make personal financial sacrifices to protect the environment

Can Climate Change Alter Vacation Plans? - General News - redOrbit

The average shift was four days.

Human Factor Huge on Climate Change : Discovery News

It is "extremely likely" that human activities are "by far the dominant cause of warming" in Earth's climate since 1950, according to a study published this weekend in the journal Nature Geoscience. The amount of warming contributed by natural forces - for example, changes in solar radiation - during that time was, say the study's authors, "near zero."

The “contrived phony mess that is falling apart” that won’t go away | Planet3.0

I had the honor of a brief conversation with Jeff Masters last night. As I anticipated the admiration was non-mutual. He’s not a close follower of the climoblogosphere and had not heard of me. But I had the chance to ask him if really thought the weather was “going haywire”; I specifically used that informal old midwesternism. He said that he had seen nothing before to compare with the anomalous weather patterns of the past two years. I doubt there is a much closer observer of the day-to-day meanderings of the atmosphere than Jeff Masters.

 

Guardian: Photo of people who believe so deeply in the global warming hoax that they will allow themselves to be photographed holding up a preprinted sign that someone has handed to them!

Public support for tackling climate change declines dramatically | Environment | The Guardian

I love this from the Guardian: "...the number of fossil fuel power stations and other energy hungry infrastructure that we build in the next three to five years may determine the whole future of the planet "

Durban talks unlikely to result in climate change deal | Environment | The Guardian

The International Energy Agency, one of the most respected bodies on energy policy, warned that the number of fossil fuel power stations and other energy hungry infrastructure that we build in the next three to five years may determine the whole future of the planet

Growth of the climate change sceptics: 37% now think claims are exaggerated | Mail Online

Just 22% are in favour of green taxes - compared with 31% a decade ago
54% thought air pollution was a huge problem in 2000 - but just 28% now think it is an issue

Twitter / @Revkin: AGU news ~3 feet of sea-le ...

AGU news ~3 feet of sea-level rise by 2100. usat.ly/vVyN3o via @dvergano Same as projection in 1988: j.mp/rev1988

UK government climate advisers call for biomass push | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Britain will need a massive expansion of wood-burning stoves, wooden houses, wood-guzzling power stations and other similar technologies if greenhouse gas targets are to be met, the government's advisers on climate change have warned.

Flashback:  Gaia Wants You To Eat Your S’Mores Cold! - By Jonah Goldberg - The Corner - National Review Online

According to a memo to the park board from the staff released Thursday, “The overall policy question for the Board is whether it is good policy for Seattle Parks to continue public beach fires when the carbon … emissions produced by thousands of beach fires per year contributes to global warming.”

On the SkepticalScience Post “Pielke Sr. Misinforms High School Students” | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations

SkepticalScience appears to be unable to grasp topics of discussion and fails to disguise their use of the common debate tactic of misdirection.

Climate Counts: Corporate Climate Leaders Make Big Gains in 2011

Our optimism is tempered by the reality that global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: "The real story of Chris d ...

"The real story of Chris de Freitas and Climate Research" @hottopicnz bit.ly/vdQcM2 #climatechange #deniers #climate #CRUHack2 #HSCW

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: Cassandra's Legacy (Ugo Ba ...

Cassandra's Legacy (Ugo Bardi): "Climategate 2.0: fool me once..." bit.ly/rxhaV8 #CRUHack2 #climatechange #deniers

Durban: The China Diplo-Speak Syndrome

 My strong suspicion is that Xie’s statements at the Durban press conference on Monday amount to a kind of octopus ink cloud of diplo-speak designed to confuse credulous activists and over-eager negotiators about its real intentions and goals. If it works China hopes to escape Durban without being blamed for its "failure." The Chinese have no intention of agreeing to an international treaty that would limit their greenhouse gas emissions any time soon. I’ll keep you posted on how this develops.

Peter Foster: Saving Kyoto And The Euro By Friday

The foundering this week of not one but two experiments in megalomanic government pretension — the Kyoto Protocol and the European superstate — should provide cause for reflection about the limits of government. Instead, what we are seeing is desperate attempts to paper over the yawning policy cracks.

While Europe Sleeps, China's Shale Revolution Could Surpass US

China is set for a shale gas revolution which will surpass that seen in the United States, the chairman of Sinopec, the country's second-largest oil company, said a day after Reuters revealed Royal Dutch Shell Plc had begun shale gas production in China.

Public Support For Tackling Climate Change Declines Dramatically

There has been dramatic decline over the past decade in the public's support for tackling climate change in Britain. Backing for higher green taxes and charges has waned and scepticism about the seriousness of the threat to the environment has increased.

Climate Change - As If We Care

At a AGU Town Hall meeting in San Francisco last night a group of engaged scientists discussed
"Directions in Climate Change Education and Communication"

...
The Panelists included Michael Mann, Richard Somerville, and James Hoggan.

Somerville started the show by underlining the urgency of the matter of climate change and he repeated several times that the science was clear and well understood. This is when I started to get slightly annoyed.  I just came from a meeting on Extreme geohazards in Spain where we discussed among a number of other issues, the challenge of communicating uncertainty. Climate change is no differently understood than extreme geohazards in this respect - there are uncertainties.

In my view scientists should stick to communicate science and not divert to politics. It undermines their credibility - at best. At this town hall meeting the participants did not discuss communication of science - they discussed politics and strategies to influence the public, the politicians etc. That is not what I signed up for and I noticed a certain disapproval from the rest of the group when I asked James Hoggan, a renowned PR-consultant, his advise on how we as scientists could best communicate uncertainty. Unfortunately, he didn't really answer my question. His focus at this meeting was basically his books and his award winning website desmogblog. That was all fine and dandy, but I'd be more interested in tapping into his professional PR competence...

Global warming evangelist has a message for West Texas - latimes.com

Hayhoe's success in changing other minds has been uneven.

Her book for evangelicals, "A Climate for Change," sells tepidly because Christian bookstores won't stock it. At a senior citizen center in Lubbock, a man shaking with rage shouted an expletive-studded monologue about how the greenhouse effect doesn't exist. At a talk for Texas Tech business school students, her arguments were simply dismissed. At the end of any given talk, perhaps one person might tell Hayhoe she's convinced him of the scientific consensus on global warming.

Note that in the photo of Hayhoe trying to convince us that CO2 might kill us all, she's both smiling and clutching some planet-killing bottled water.

Drowning in a tide of fear | Herald Sun

CLIMATE change agitators are driving innocent people from coastal homes with their absurd logic and dubious figures. 

It's not climate change that is threatening the coastal towns of Australia.

It's exaggerated predictions of rising sea levels that are slashing property values, driving away small businesses and causing residents to tear out their hair.

From Queenscliff and Port Albert in Victoria, to Gosford and Byron Bay in NSW, the consequences of another dishonest scare campaign are being felt.

Another freeze warning for Salinas Valley Wednesday morning - Central Coast News KION/KCBA

GONZALES, Calif. -- The Salinas Valley felt a blast of winter Tuesday morning as temperatures dipped into the 20's in southern Monterey County, and farmers and residents are bracing for the chilly temperatures to remain.

Ice, Cold Cause Delays At Most Borderland Schools - News Story - KVIA El Paso

The borderland is still reeling from the season's first snow storm and record low temperatures. A new record low temperature was set at the El Paso International Airport, where the thermometer registered 18 degrees early Tuesday morning.

UK water shortages, hotter days, more floods: What the weather has in store for us in 2100 | Mail Online

The coming decades will see British farmers enjoy a boom in their crop yields, it has been claimed.

NASA’s Hansen, vicar of the Church of Chicken Little, doubles down | Wizbang

The only way to avoid this disaster is to send more money Hansen’s way.  And stroke a check to Al Gore while you’re at it.  

Pay now or your children will die.  And their puppies.

Healing the planet: With no fewer than four planet-killing bottles of water within easy reach, Greenpeace's Ann Lamont lectures us on the evils of CO2

Greenpeace Africa Executive Director, Ann Lamont on localising climate change as a subject. - YouTube

BBC News - UN climate talks 'need science-based ambition'

 

"We are all agreed that the Earth is in danger, and we're all agreed that we must do something about it," [Zuma] told delegates.

...Mr Ban said that movement towards a green economy was crucial in order to overcome not only climate change, but the coming shortages of natural resources.

"The answer is clear, even if the exact path is not," he said.

..."Ministers here in Durban have no excuse if they ignore the deafening alarm bells coming from the scientific community," said Keith Allott, head of climate change at WWF-UK.

Twitter / @YolandiG: Finally a celebrity at #CO ...

  Finally a celebrity at #COP17. Harrison Ford will share the stage with Zuma at an event tomorrow. @josinjozi

COP-17 on knife-edge | City Press

Informed sources close to the negotiations said a Durban deal was on, but hard work remained to work through these differences to get something done by Saturday morning. It was no longer about trying to get to the middleground, a source told City Press, but about reframing the debate, “framing the choices at the table differently”.

Media Inaccurately Presents Huntsman's Radical Climate Reversal As A 'Squishy' 'Tweak' | ThinkProgress

Huntsman has switched teams from Al Gore to Jim Inhofe.

Newt In 2008: We Should Lower Carbon Because It's Conservative To Avoid 'Stupid Risks' | ThinkProgress

New $25 billion per year climate swindle discussed at Durban

Chris Huhne: tax on shipping to help poor countries fight climate change - Telegraph

Shipping would raise around $25bn per annum, about 0.2 per cent of global trade, adding a fraction of cost to freighted goods and cruises.

Brisbane: coldest December day in 123 years | Australian Climate Madness

RealClimate: AGU 2011: Day 2

As is relatively well known, the different satellite instruments over the last 30 or so years have shown a good coherence of variability – especially the solar cycle, but have differed markedly on the absolute value of the TSI (see the figure).

- Bishop Hill blog - UEA's latest wheeze

I recently put an FOI request into UEA asking for minutes of meetings of the Tyndall Centre Advisory Board - readers may remember that Tyndall was involved in the plan to get sceptics cleared from the airwaves, apparently at the instigation of the BBC's Roger Harrabin.

The university's acknowledgement of the request seems to flag fairly clearly how they intend to avoid disclosing anything embarrassing:

If the information you request contains reference to a third party then they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether or not to release the information to you. You will be informed if this is the case.

NGOs: It’s Worse Than We Thought | Watts Up With That?

Six thousand official NGO representatives, including those masquerading as government representatives. Five thousand government delegates. Fifteen hundred media. A thousand mystery contestants, camp followers, and bodyguards. The beauty parlor is filled with sailors, the circus is in town, and the NGO folks outnumber everyone else.

Please, Congress, please, can we defund these climate parties? We’ve spent millions of dollars and burned millions of litres of jet fuel to haul these parasites to their annual party on some lovely tourist beach somewhere, Rio one year, Cancun the next, Bali the next.

IPCC's Dr Rajendra Pachauri: Himalayan glaciers are undoubtedly melting - Telegraph

Controversial action by Anthony Watts

Watts has been assisting prominent Warmists to avoid any further releases of their emails. He is trying to disable any Climategate III.

Why on earth would be do that when the Climategate releases have been so helpful to skeptics? It appears to be out of some misguided sense of honour but I suspect that the real motive is that he is tired of being reviled by the climate establishment and is hungry for some praise from them: Deeply regrettable on many levels.

A Swedish blogger who herself finds great holes in the reporting of climate statistics is particilarly upset because she knows how unprincipled and dishonest the climate establishment is. She sees what Watts has done as akin to aiding and abetting criminals in their crime.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Just Fooling, We Had No Idea What We Were Doing

Because the last thing a bureaucratic is ever going to say is “we don’t know.”   So they told they public the rail line would have 117 million annual riders, when even an estimate of 5 million is probably high.  Jeff Skilling is in jail for a far less substantial exaggeration of his business prospects.

Biggest emitters to Europe: “You Pay” | Climate Nonconformist

India are the world’s second biggest emitters, therefore the second biggest contributor to the fanciful climate catastrophe. It sounds a lot more like wealth redistribution than a means to combat global warming. 

Influential people are getting the message: Gina Rinehart explains the science of climate change « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Internet is the gift of gifts. How easy would it have been for the government departments, coopted scientists, and obedient media to have gotten away with the outrageous scam of forcing us to pay to change the weather? Their lock on the mainstream media would have made it easy to disguise the truth. And yet, it crumbles (all  bar the Antipodes).

Ordinary People Talk About Global Warming, Fires And Tornadoes | Real Science

The Cry grows quite stale and threadbare | Australian Climate Madness

The Cry has indeed grown stale and threadbare. Trust once lost is never regained. The IPCC and the climate science community have lost that trust, squandering it and abandoning their scientific integrity in pursuit of politically correct environmental agenda supported by misrepresentation, bullying and spin. It will take an extraordinary effort to rebuild it again from scratch, and that’s no exaggeration.

50 inches of new snow for Wolf Creek ski area | Ice Age Now

Wolf Creek ski area just across the NM border in Colorado got 50 inches (127 cm) of new snow from the latest storm cycle.

Summers Getting Cooler In Oklahoma City | Real Science

The number of hot days per year has dropped by 30% over the past century. 2011 is not included because it is not in the USHCN database yet.

Heatwaves Getting Shorter In Oklahoma City | Real Science

The number of consecutive hot days per year has declined over the past century. 2011 is not included because it is not in the USHCN database yet.

Romm Makes It Official : Weather Equals Climate | Real Science

Climate used to be 30 years. Now it is any weather event which Joe can use to scare his sheeple. He imagines that Japanese bombers are coming to drop CO2 bombs on his neighborhood.

Salvaging the Mythology of Man-Caused Global Warming - Peter Ferrara - Townhall Conservative

If you read this column completely and carefully today, you will learn about the true state of the scientific debate over global warming. You will not get the truth about that from the Washington Post, the New York Times, or the rest of the self-regarded "establishment" media. They are devoted to the fun and games of play acting as if there is no legitimate scientific debate over whether mankind's use of low cost, reliable energy from oil, coal and natural gas portends catastrophic global warming that threatens life on the planet as we know it.

Climate Lessons: Happy Head, Chilly Children, Troubled Teachers, Perplexed Parents, Riled Readers - an example of authoritarian eco-arrogance at work

Quote from article 'The school's headmaster, Rob Benzie, shut down the radiators as an experiment to show students how the school could cut its carbon footprint.

MANNx TEDx and all that | Watts Up With That?

The Mann at TEDx PSU (Penn State) video is now available. There’s no political content warning unfortunately, as Mann spends more time standing if front of giant faces of politicians and political pundits he hates than graphs and data. This TEDx is light on science, heavy on political trash talk. He even manages to work a photo of a child with a polar bear in at the end. The best part of the video is that it is only 16 minutes long.

- Bishop Hill blog - UN seeks to undermine FOI

Email 1251 is from Phil Jones to Tim Osborn and Dave Palmer. They have been discussing how to deal with David Holland's request for the release of Briffa's IPCC-related correspondence, but the conversation moves onto a slightly different track

Severe winter storm hammers New Mexico

The storm, the third to hit the state recently, spread heavy snow – up to a foot deep in places – throughout most of New Mexico, closing schools and major highways across the state.
...
Kerry Jones, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque, said residents could expect another inch or two of snow throughout most of New Mexico, and to expect “bitter cold” with temperatures 15 below zero in some areas.

WWF and Oxfam pushing for a shipping tax at Durban COP17 – since when do NGO’s get to write tax laws? | Watts Up With That?

CFACT parachutes into Durban Climate Conference - YouTube

 Skydivers jump to draw attention to Climategate 2.0 scandal.

Jerry Sandusky and Michael Mann - Much In Common? | General

Now I don't want to compare Michael Mann to an alleged child abuser such as Jerry Sandusky. What is worth pointing out however is that Penn State apparently covered up child rape to protect their reputation. If they did that for Sandusky - it seems clear and Climategate 2.0 confirms that their internal inquiry into Michael Mann was worthless. And it is worth asking what further climate shenanigans they are covering up.

Climategate 2.0: an AR5 Perspective « Climate Audit

The IPCC AR5 Zero Draft summarize the present evidence on precipitation extremes over the past millennium as follows:

Overall, multiple studies suggest that current drought and flood regimes are not unusual within the context of last 1000 years [(e.g., Cook et al., 2010; Seager et al., 2008; Graham et al., 2010)].

I expect that this finding is not one that will be heavily promoted by WWF or Greenpeace.

- Bishop Hill blog - Mann the barricades

Michael Mann's talk at TED has just hit the ether. It's a pretty political piece, and I do wonder about TED allowing their brand to be used in this way.

Please try to avoid ranting in the comments.  [16-minute video]

Anthony Watts, what have you done? « UD/RK Samhälls Debatt

Anthony wrights to Phil Jones, a guy who literarily hates him and has done everything possible to smear and stop him, and tells him about security problems on their systems. And how to stop them so there can be no leeks in the future?
HUUHHH??????

Climategate 2 – yes, they’ve been lying to you. « Pointman's

If they sound like a gang of school bullies, it’s because in a sense, that’s precisely what they are like, with climate science being the school yard. The more you read the emails, the more you recognise the usual types. The macho leaders of the pack, the sycophants, the mad dogs, the groupies, the wannabees on the edges and the weak ones who’ve decided it’s safer to be inside the gang than outside it. They’re all there, every single one of them.

More U.N. Insanity Paid For By U.S. Taxpayers - Forbes

 As Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change admitted in an Investor’s Business Daily interview, “The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month [December, 2010] is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War.”

Skeptics Invade UN Climate Summit! Climate Depot/CFACT press conference at UN Summit in Durban S. Africa to feature Sen. Inhofe -- Wed., Dec. 7 -- 15:30 (8:30am ET) Room Kosi Palm (ICC Level 2) | Climate Depot

Climate Depot's A-Z Climate Reality Check report to be presented at UN Climate Summit -- 'The claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing'

Jon Huntsman tacks to skepticism on climate - Juana Summers and Alex Guillen - POLITICO.com

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/69892.html

However, Huntsman explained, "there are questions about the validity of the science — evidence by one university over in Scotland recently," apparently alluding to the "Climategate 2.0" emails from England's East Anglia University released last month.

Chevrolet Volt Battery Issues Growing, Safety Findings May Have Been Suppressed | AutoGuide.com News

Following on from the announcement that GM is looking at redesigning the Chevrolet Volt’s lithium-ion battery system in the wake of several highly publicized fires resulting from test crashes, comes further news that both the automaker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration delayed disclosure of their original findings by months.

NZ carbon price collapses below $10 a tonne | BUSINESS News

The price of a tonne of emitted carbon has fallen below $10 for
the first time today, with Westpac quoting a buy price for a New
Zealand Unit falling to $9.90 as European carbon prices
collapse.

What they call a “debate” in warmist circles | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Flannery, who has made a terrific living from climate alarmism, agrees that many sceptics profit from their scepticism.

I’m mentioned so often by the two alarmists that I wonder why they didn’t simply invite me along to have the debate they’d promised.

Global warming 'not slowing down,' say researchers

Researchers have added further clarity to the global climate trend, proving that global warming is showing no signs of slowing down and that further increases are to be expected in the next few decades.

Pachauri’s Green Torch Bearers « NoFrakkingConsensus

This press release was issued by an educational institution that Pachauri heads. It reveals that, during his day job, Pachauri encourages people to be green torch bearers.

Since this man also chairs the IPCC – a body that is supposed to be impartial with respect to environmental questions – this is totally improper.

The IPCC, therefore, is not a scientific organization. It is not committed to keeping an open mind.

Rather, for the past decade it has been led by someone who is busily raising the next generation of green torch bearers.

The science behind the Durban talks : Nature News & Comment

How do you translate politics into computer code?

Early Signs of CRU/IPCC Corruption and Cover-up

Many, can’t believe a small group of scientists achieved such a massive deception. Edward Wegman in his report to the Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Committee identified, through social network analysis,

“43 individuals all of whom have close ties to Dr. Mann.”

Geologists awarded $11.5 million to test CO2 storage | Kansan.com

The KGS has secured $11.5 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to fund a large-scale experiment in trapping the industrial greenhouse gas and storing it in underground reservoirs.

Small farmers crave horse power | Grist

Farmers may choose to lead draft animals for sustainability reasons, but they quickly learn it also changes the pace of the operation. [Ya think?]

Poorer countries overtake rich world's consumption carbon footprint | Duncan Clark | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The financial crisis of 2009 saw the developing world's carbon emissions from consumption shoot past the developed world's years earlier than expected, new research shows

Binding climate deal may be beyond reach, UN chief says - World - CBC News

"We must keep up the momentum," he said. "It would be difficult to overstate the gravity of this moment. Without exaggeration, we can say the future of our planet is at stake."

Heads in the Sand - Coral Davenport - NationalJournal.com

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a moderate elder statesman who is deeply respected among his party’s old guard, has long been on the record with his worries about the effects of climate change. He signed up his 604-acre farm to participate in the (now defunct) volunteer Chicago Climate Exchange cap-and-trade program, and he has not changed his views about climate science—even though he is expected to be a tea party target in 2012. Lugar calls the Washington climate-change debate “very ill-informed.”

Iceland Review Online: Daily News from Iceland, Current Affairs, Business, Politics, Sports, Culture

Reykjavík hasn’t seen as low temperatures for this time of year in half a century.

Freeze Warning for Citrus Growers - KGPE CBS47 Fresno

The state's annual citrus crop is valued at about 2 billion dollars and in 2007, the Central Valley was hit hard with record cold temperatures causing around 1-billion dollars in damage.

Mind games on global warming | SmartPlanet

the masses aren’t the ones setting climate policy

Newt: Evidence 'on both sides' of climate change debate - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com

When Beck asked him more pointedly if he believes humans are causing global warming, Gingrich avoided the question.

"I never believed in Al Gore's fantasies," he said, adding that he was opposed to cap-and-trade legislation.

Durban climate change summit: global deal will boost green economy in Britain - Telegraph

A deal in Durban could mean jobs in Britain, argues Andy Atkins, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth

Why should we believe economic analysis provided by some Friends of the Earth guy?

At Durban Summit, Leading African Activist Calls U.S. Emissions Stance "A Death Sentence for Africa"

We speak to Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria and Chair of Friends of the Earth International. He is author of the new book, "To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and Climate Crisis in Africa."

WWF - Climate change impacts in the US

Keya Chatterjee, head of international climate strategy for WWF in the United States, explains the imacts of climate change in the US, why COP17 is important in that context, and what Americans can do to help.  [Why not respond by killing the witches?]

World's tallest peaks most vulnerable to climate change - Times Of India

PRETORIA: The Himalayan region which is home to the world's tallest peaks, including Mount Everest, is particularly vulnerable as rising temperatures disturb the balance of snow, ice and water, threatening 1.3 billion people living downstream along Asia's major river basins, the head of a research body says.

Everest, Mount Everest, Everest Himalaya, Everest Expeditions, Everest Sources

The climate of Mount Everest is naturally extreme. In January, the coldest month, the summit temperature averages about -36° C (about -33° F) and can drop as low as -60° C
(-76° F). In July, the warmest month, the average summit temperature is -19° C (-2° F). At no time of the year does the temperature on the summit rise above
freezing.

The Onion: Global Warming May Be Irreversible by 2006 - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Bob Woodward says sitting next to Al Gore is 'taxing, unpleasant’ - TheHill.com

Describing an event where he was paired up next to the monotone-talking ex-vice president, Woodward said, “Now, sitting next to Gore is taxing.”

After some laughs from the crowd, Woodward continued, “In fact, it’s unpleasant.”

» ‘You’ve Been Gored’: UN Climate Change Convention - Big Government

 Politicians eye enviro issues like bus depot pimps scoping farm girls – which ones can be whored out and for how much money?

Eco taxes will provide an all-encompassing reason to siphon our paychecks.

RealClimate’s Steig: Pacific SST’s influencing Antarctic melt, no link to human causes demonstrated | Watts Up With That?

He noted that sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific last showed significant warming in the 1940s, and the impact in the Amundsen Sea area then was probably comparable to what has been observed recently. That suggests that the 1940s tropical warming could have started the changes in the Amundsen Sea ice shelves that are being observed now, he said.

Three-quarters of climate change is man-made : Nature News & Comment

Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports a pair of Swiss climate modellers in a paper published online today.

Durban 2011 – “We’re All Bernie Madoff Now” | Real Science

In order to sustain our lifestyles, we need to take billions of dollars away from trusting dupes.

Sir David Attenborough fears his grandchildren will not see polar bears - Telegraph

Speaking at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Centre in London, Sir David said his grandchildren may not see polar bears in the wild.

“They may not see polar bears. Polar bears are the obvious and most celebrated possibility of collapse,” he said. “Penguins will change their distribution
there is no doubt about that.”

David Attenborough - Biography

Has a daughter, a son, and several grandchildren.

If David's grandchildren are alive now and aren't seeing polar bears, maybe it's because they're not looking in the right places? Should we assume that as of today, CO2 has killed all of the polar bears?

Durban rumor: Angelina Jolie, Leo, Arnie and Richard Branson not attending

Yolandi Groenewald (yolandig) on Twitter

Yawn RT @NastasyaTay: Several delegates leaving. I assume it's because they're overwhelmed by Zuma's riveting oratorical skills. #COP17
...
@josinjozi And you can scrap Leo, Arnie and Richard Branson as well. Branson was coming, but suddenly fell of his own pr as a speaker
...Apparently that was a false rumour. Angelina is not coming

Advocacy Of A Particular Climate Science Perspective By A Panel Sponsored By The American Geophysical Union | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

In the November 29 2011 issue of EOS, there is an American Geophysical Union (AGU) announcement on “communicating climate science across a variety of media platforms. Is is reproduced above. The selection of the panel members shows clearly an advocacy perspective by whoever set up this AGU presentation. This can easily be shown by the selection of the panel members, which I have summarized below. I do not question the scenerity of the panel members, but objective readers of them will clearly see that this “communication” by the AGU is actually an advocacy for a particular perspective with respect to climate science and resultant  policies

Why south Durban stinks of rotten cabbage, eggs and cat wee | Environment | guardian.co.uk

"We have methanol, ethanol, solvents, toxins, dioxins, benzene, sulphides, bleaches, every chemical in the world here [even carbon dioxide?]. There is gas flaring twice a day. Leaks, explosions and fires are common yet there are 285,000 people living within a few yards of the factories and refineries."

BusinessDay - COP-17: Green Climate Fund ‘not enough’

Executive vice-president and chief administrative officer of American Electric Power says proposed $100bn-a-year fund is "woefully short"

Think he's talking about you, Andy?: "Many have become advocates for science that are too close to the scientists they report on"

David Whitehouse: The Pathetic State Of Science Journalism

Science journalism is not about taking sides, or about being a cheerleader. It's about shaking the tree, about asking award questions, about standing in the place of those who can't ask such questions, and being persistent, unpopular and dogged. It's about moral authority, something science in BBC News has lost.

...Many have become advocates for science that are too close to the scientists they report on. Anyone who has downed an orange juice at a scientists and journalists bash will not have to look far to see them compete to see who can be the most sycophantic. At one such gathering I remarked, tactlessly, that I was surprised, and disappointed, that half of the scientists there didn't hate half of the journalists! Scientists even run prizes for science journalists! Jonathan Leake, science and environment editor at the Sunday Times said recently, "Science in the daily media is too often reported in the same deferential way as political journalists used to report politics in the 1950s." Because of this back slapping closeness, many journalists lack detachment and by implication judgment about the stories they cover.

Delusional in Durban - Reason Magazine

One more proposal simply requires that rich countries commit to
cutting their “greenhouse gas emissions more than 100 per cent by
2040.” One way to achieve cuts of “more than 100 percent” might be
to shut down all American industry, transport, fossil fuel power
generation, and cover the landscape with carbon dioxide absorbing
trees.

T.S. Eliot wrote that “humankind cannot stand very much
reality.” This apothegm apparently applies to some climate change
negotiators here in Durban who, when reality becomes too much,
retreat to fantasies conjured by their rhetoric. The likelihood of
draft proposals that require deep greenhouse gas emissions cuts by
rich countries being adopted here in Durban is exactly nil.

1997: UEA warmist Mike Hulme muses on how to use junk climate science to gain political power

ClimateGate FOIA grepper! - Email 784

1. Who are the users? The key target group should really be those people at EU, national, regional or local level who are charged with long-term planning decisions or environmental legislation. Richard mentions coastal and water managers - these functions in most countries are usually split between many different agencies which causes problems. Local authorities, especially those in metropolitan areas, should also be seen as a key target group. As far as influencing Framework V is concerned, we have missed the boat, so additional research managers will need to be targeted.

By the way, I'm not convinced by Jan Goudrian's notion of targeting science journalists. There are some really dumb journalists around and although the idea is good to influence and improve the quality of public debate in this area, in the end journalists are about getting or creating a good story and not about the critical process of scientific exploration and reflection.

2. How do we canvass them? This is potentially a huge task and we need to devise some strategy to make it manageable. Inviting voluntary involvement runs into the same problem we faced here in the UK in that only those already convinced of the importance of the issue will get involved. For many other potantial users, they need convincing that there is a real policy issue here, and one that demands their immediate attention. And convincing people of the priority of this issue is not easy - after all, I don't think we really know where climate change impacts should fit in the hierarchy of policy issues, or even in the subset of environmental policy issues.

2000: Warmist Phil Jones goes to "solar variability and climate" conference in Tenerife; finds that "Many in the solar terrestrial physics community seem totally convinced that solar output changes can explain most of the observed changes we are seeing"; laments that THEY are "so set in their ways"

ClimateGate FOIA grepper! - Email 3165

Simon Tett and I went to conference that the press releases relates to. This was in Tenerife last week. The conference was entitled solar variability and climate, but climatologists were very thin on the ground...Many in the solar terrestrial physics community seem totally convinced that solar output changes can explain most of the observed changes we are seeing. The far-sighted ones are begining to doubt with the rapid rate of recent warming, however.
...
There was nothing new at the conference, but the solar terrestrial group are not going to go away. The next IPCC report may keep them quiet for a while, but trying to downplay solar influences in thier mind will probably be impossible. As with the greenhouse skeptics they are so set in their ways and have little comprehension of our literature beyond what they read in Science and Nature.

2003: Michael Mann on what "the community" should do to punish a journal that dared to print dissenting views on the climate hoax

Email 255

Thanks Mike
It seems to me that this "Kinne" character's words are disingenuous, and he probably
supports what De Freitas is trying to do. It seems clear we have to go above him.
I think that the community should, as Mike H has previously suggested in this eventuality,
terminate its involvement with this journal at all levels--reviewing, editing, and
submitting, and leave it to wither way into oblivion and disrepute,
Thanks,
mike

2001: Before excusing himself to shovel snow, Michael Mann writes: "My own perception is that the climate community, modelers as well as observationalists, simply don't take seriously anymore the idea that the history of climate change over the past 1000 years is part of an internal oscillation"

ClimateGate FOIA grepper! - Email 1353

Both Wally and Alley seem convinced that the climate of Greenland changed by 10 C in the space of 2-3 years at times in the past (Y Dryas etc). [Phil Jones]

...[Mann] On the other hand, think that a war of words w/ Broecker would be exploited by the skeptics, and perhaps we should just try to let this thing die...

[Mann] My own perception is that the climate community, modelers as well as observationalists, simply don't take seriously anymore the idea that the history of climate change over the past 1000 years is part of an internal oscillation.
...Well, I've still got some snow to shovel here in Charlottesville!

Happy weekend to all,
mike

In case you missed it, damning ClimateGate emails from Tim Osborne: They didn't commit fraud, they just "applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data"

Tim Barnett on the hockey stick- “statistics were suspect”–the rest of the team knew of problems with Mann’s reconstruction | Watts Up With That?

#4758 Tim Osborne – Criticizing other people for doing the same thing

Because how can we be critical of Crowley for throwing out 40-years in the middle of his calibration, when we’re throwing out all post-1960 data ‘cos the MXD has a non-temperature signal in it, and also all pre-1881 or pre-1871 data ‘cos the temperature data may have a non-temperature signal in it! If we write the Holocene forum article then we’ll have to be critical or our paper as well as Crowley’s!

...
Tiim Osborne 4007

Also we have applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data after 1960, so they look closer to observed temperatures than the tree-ring data actually were

Tim Osborne #2347

Also, we set all post-1960 values to missing in the MXD data set (due to decline), and the method will infill these, estimating them from the real temperatures – another way of “correcting” for the decline, though may be not defensible!

Top Climate Crooks Of 2011 | Real Science

There are hundreds of worthy contenders to choose from, but my nominations are for Julia Gillard and Richard Muller.

While there are hundreds or thousands of people engaging in climate fraud on a regular basis, those two have the unique distinction of having misrepresented themselves to get into a position of trust, and then betrayed the people who trusted them.

RealClimate: AGU 2011: Day 1

there was interesting discussion on the philosophy of climate modelling (from actual philosophers!)

Twitter / @Yolandig: Lost of Nazi security guar ...

Lost of Nazi security guards on a power trip around #COP17. International press complaining about the bad attitude.

The Reference Frame: Michael Duff, string critics, and global warming

If Michael Duff genuinely believes that there is a looming man-made climate threat, then he is a brainwashed simpleton just like other global warming whackos. It's 2011, Michael, and only complete radical nutcases and a bunch of corrupt pseudoscientists continue to believe that there is anything dangerous going on with the climate.

The Reference Frame: RSS AMSU: 2011 second coldest in this century

In the 21st century (which began in 2001), only 2008 was colder. 2004 was the third coldest year in this century so far and nothing will change about this top-3 ranking.

Global warming ravages Albuquerque with the Hayhoe effect « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

The Hayhoe effect is in full swing here in New Mexico. Currently it’s 13 degrees F (high was 20) and the “Average” is 48 degrees F. Where are Joe Romm’s rants about disaster when its f*king cold outside?

Consensus Media « the Air Vent

I hope people realize that we have 5 times the emails of Climategate 1.0.  The reading required is extraordinary and the story is far from done.  I’ve got enough material for dozens of posts now and am working very hard to condense them into meaningful statements.  In the meantime, things like this email jump out at you which just remind you the size of the machine that the global warming movement is.

New hurricane record – 2232 days and counting since major Hurricane made landfall on the USA – last record was year 1900 | Watts Up With That?

While the alarmists squall over trying to control what they perceive as “extreme weather” driven by global warming at Durban COP17, urging immediate action in the form of coughing up 100 billion a year to poor countries for “reparations”, a quiet record has gone almost unnoticed. As of midnight Sunday, it has been 2232 days since a major hurricane (CAT3 or greater) made landfall on the USA.Irene this year (Cat 1) doesn’t count, and I have doubts it was even a  Cat1 hurricane at all given the low wind speeds when it made landfall.

Common link in extreme weather events found – and no, it isn’t AGW | Watts Up With That?

From the University of Wisconsin-Madison  something you’ll never see posted on Climate Progress or mentioned by weepy Bill McKibben because it mellows their harshness.

17″ Of Global Warming In Arizona | Real Science

Two days ago, the Unchristian Antiscience Monitor was trying to blame the weather out west on global warming.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Katrina Flashback

The media loves to trumpet end-of-the-world predictions from folks like Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich, but they never go back five years later and back-check their predictions.  And despite their horrendous record for accuracy, the media eagerly publishes the next one.  Here is a proposed editorial rule for the MSM — no breathless publication of anyone’s next prediction without first revisiting the last one.