- Bishop Hill blog - Climatologists respond

I was struck by this:

Climate experts know that the long-term warming trend has not abated in the past decade. In fact, it was the warmest decade on record.

Energy Tribune- Ninety Seven Percent Is Not What You Think

It is interesting that of the 36 meteorologists who responded to question number two, only 23 of 36 or 64% thought that human activity was a “significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures”. The authors dismiss this group of trained atmospheric scientists outright even though their size is almost half of the 79 climate scientists used in generating the 97% figure! Apparently the 64% number was not convincing enough.  [Via Climate Realists]

LOCAL - Snowfall creates havoc in ‘white Istanbul’

Heavy snowfall paralyzed daily life in Turkey, especially in Istanbul, yesterday as the country’s biggest city experienced its coldest day in the last 33 years.

Dear James Hansen: Climate Non-Alarmists Are Intellectually Grounded & Well Intentioned (Sir, are you suffering from a ‘fatal conceit’?) — MasterResource

Humility is out. This NASA scientist has taken a ‘Greenpeace’ approach to the environment. He KNOWS both the problem and the answer to the problem, bringing to mind F. A. Hayek warnings about intellectuals who claim to know social problems so well that WE (the world) must adapt their coercive solutions. Beware of what Hayek called The Fatal Conceit.

The New Nostradamus of the North: New British study: There is no economic or environmental case for wind power

There is no economic case for wind power. Neither is there a case for cutting CO2

emissions by using wind power. These are the two main conclusions in a new study ("Electricity Costs: The Folly of Wind Power") by the renowned economist Ruth Lea, published by the independent think tank Civitas.