- Bishop Hill blog - A curiosity from Slingo's paper

...This is rather odd, because the NAS panel concluded nothing of the sort. Slingo appears to have taken the IPCC's conclusions and ascribed them to the NAS.

One could again wonder about whether this represents a partial or impartial view of the science. Can one really brief policymakers on the paleoclimate reconstructions without mentioning the fact that the whole basis of these reconstructions is potentially undermined by the divergence problem?

Cold drives manatees into South Florida - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Driven by plunging temperatures, hundreds of manatees stampeded south on the Intracoastal Waterway over the past two days toward the warm water of power plant discharges in Riviera Beach and Fort Lauderdale.

Cold snaps have emerged as a leading killer of manatees over the past three years, exceeding deaths by boat collisions, according to figures kept by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Newt Debates Newt on Climate | repupplicans.com

That challenger’s name? Newt Gingrich. Watch as fireworks fly when the two lock horns. It’s not the first time they’ve clashed and it certainly won’t be the last.

The Reference Frame: RSS AMSU: 2011 was 12th warmest year out of 33

 Lamentations and panic overtook Al Gore's terrorist training camp as the most recent year dropped out of top ten

...The La Niña conditions should continue at least through May or June which should be enough, because of a 6-month delay, to keep 2012 cool. I would actually guess that 2012 should be a bit cooler than 2011.