Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Claim: Global warming hastens North American bird migration | JunkScience.com

some species shifted their arrival time by as much as 3-6 days per degree

Flashback: NASA employee Jim Hansen made $1+ million for outside climate work | JunkScience.com

Did James Hansen have government permission to profiteer from his climate work? Should Congressman Grijavla look into that?

Brendan DeMelle | Congressman Calls For Hearing Into Heartland Institute Payments to Federal Employee Indur Goklany

Heartland’s leaked 2012 Proposed Budget document indicates that it plans to pay Goklany $1,000 per month this year to write a chapter on "Economics and Policy" for a report by the Heartland-funded NIPCC.  Greenpeace notes in its letter to DOI Secretary Ken Salazar today that federal employees are warned not to take payments from outside organizations, particularly for "teaching, speaking and writing that relates to [their] official duties."

CHESTER, England, February 22, 2012: Big Freeze Fortnight Costs Households £1.6 Billion

British households will be forking out £1.6 billion extra, collectively, on their energy bills as a result of turning up the heating during the recent "Big Freeze" according to MoneySupermarket.com.

Fuel Fix » Heartland Emails Address Politics, Not Merits of Arguments

Instead of the media and advocates using a hacking to play “gotcha” and use pejorative words like denier to describe organizations that question climate orthodoxy, we all would be better served by supporting research to reduce climate uncertainties and to be more cautious about jumping to conclusions about the extent of human influence on the climate system.

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