Was the Northeast Passage first navigated in 1660? | Watts Up With That?

If true, it suggests periods of reduced Arctic sea ice during that time that made this feat possible.

Yet Another Technically Moronic Green Idea Belly Flops

The German FAZ reports here that Hamburg-based SkySails will lay off half of its workers. Managing director Stephan Wrage, an industrial engineer, blames reluctance by shipping companies to invest in his “innovative technology”.

Amerika headed for theocracy? : Stoat

It does seem to me that the advantages of science are long-term, and that politicians (and not just politicians) find more advantage in denying science short-term (and this includes the odd folk over in WUWT-land, who actually think they are doing Blog Science, so are not anti-science in principle, indeed they think - possibly even honestly, some of them - that they are defending science. But they are deluded). Without long-sighted people in power / authority, I can't really see why the long-term stuff should win out.

Doug Proctor: Climate Change is caused by Clouds and Sunshine « Tallbloke's Talkshop

This paper pretty much refutes co2 driven global warming. We all owe a debt of thanks to Doug Proctor, who has put a huge amount of work into this paper over the last months. It’s a long read, but then, you didn’t really expect the issue to be resolved with a couple of paragraphs and a plot done with Microsoft Paint did you?

IPCC 2007 Forecasts For Warm European Winters Are Completely Wrong

The headline on recent news clipping reads Toll from Europe Freeze tops 220, see here and here. Reading news clips about the current weather in Europe and Asia and then comparing that to what IPCC said in its 2007 report about what Europeans should expect for future winter weather is as if the IPCC was predicting the climate for another planet.

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