The Reference Frame: Warm winter 1911-1912

"A genuine winter weather has been a dream for quite some time, a weather that would bring us a bit of winter scenery, one that would donate ice to the innkeepers as well as the joy of winter amusement to the youth," the publicist of National Politics complained on Monday, January 8th, 1912.

For One Roaming Bird, Climate Change Is No Albatross - NYTimes.com

European researchers have identified a creature they say is benefiting from the effects of climate change: the wandering albatross of the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica.

The scientists, who report their findings in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, say that climate change has strengthened and shifted winds in the region over the last few decades  [How do they know that CO2 caused these alleged wind changes?]

False(?) Positives | Climate Etc.

In many cases, a researcher is more likely to falsely find evidence that an effect exists than to correctly find evidence that it does not. 

 False Positive Psychology:  Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant

Bipartisan Concern EPA Regulations Will Lead to Higher Gas Prices

Senators Ask EPA Administrator Jackson to Examine Tier 3 Costs on American Families

Global Warming Weekly Round-Up, Jan. 12th 2012 « The Daily Bayonet

Watts Up With That passed 100 million hits. To add some perspective, that’s only 2,000 times larger than Al Gore’s Current TV’s largest audience.

Regulation Of CO2 And Other Greenhouse Gases By the State Of Colorado | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

In my view, this approach to regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the same manner as with the “traditional air pollutants” such as SO2, nitrogen oxides, lead, etc is a very major expansion to a different class of environmental issues. Unlike the “traditional air pollutants”, which have no positive benefits, CO2 does as it is utilized by vegetation as part of its growth and health.  While it certainly is a first-order climate effect with both biophysical and biogeochemical effects (some of which may not be desirable), to include climate forcings into the air pollution regulatory framework is a very substantial widening of their authority over business and the public.