The Blackboard » IPCC vs McIntyre: Round 2.

How exactly did the IPCC try to exact promises of confidentiality from people? Why might they think they could request SteveMc grant them confidentiality?

Volcanoes + computer models = Little Ice Age (not the Sun, stupid) | Australian Climate Madness

As soon as it becomes clear that the Sun has more to do with climate change than anything our puny civilisation can throw at it, the wheels will finally come of the global warming gravy train. So it is little wonder that those with snouts in the trough will do anything to play down the effect of the Sun to ensure that man-made CO2 becomes the only “control knob” on the climate system.

Just as “we must get rid of the Medieval Warm Period”, now we have “we must get rid of the Little Ice Age”. And finally, they’ve worked out how: blame volcanoes (with a little help from a computer model, naturally):

Heavy snowfall in Kabul, Serbia, Romania, Pakistan

Get Ready for Super-Extreme Weather: "We Are Just Now Experiencing the Full Effect of CO2 Emitted [by] the Late 1980s" | ThinkProgress

We’ve set in motion a dangerous boulder of climate change that is rolling downhill, and it is too late to avoid major damage when it hits full-force several decades from now.

EU Referendum: Reality bites back

These deaths are just the headline cases. How many more die from that silent killer, hypothermia, without anyone recording the event as such? When the differential mortality figures come in, what will be the seasonal excess?

But even with just the headline mortality, the point is made that cold kills. Defra and its greenie friend may make the case for increased deaths due to global warming. They, however, are talking about potential risks, conditional on warming that is no longer happening. We are talking about the reality.