Friday, March 30, 2012

General Motors in America's Heartland | Climate One

GM famously killed the electric car ten years ago

Obama Goes Medieval on Oil Companies - On Energy (usnews.com)

Granted, the oil industry gets tax breaks: everybody does. One of the two tax breaks being discussed is a break for industries that manufacture in the United States, and Obama is suggesting that only the oil industry not receive this, which is hardly "fairness." 

Australia and Vietnam working together to protect vulnerable communities [from carbon dioxide]

Australia is helping Vietnam to identify its communities and regions at risk of the impacts of climate change....
Australia is contributing $2.03 million to build on existing partnerships between Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and scientists from Vietnam's Ministry for Natural Resource and Environment and the Hanoi University of Science.

McKitrick & Michaels Were Right: More Evidence of Spurious Warming in the IPCC Surface Temperature Dataset « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

I find the above results to be quite compelling evidence for what Anthony Watts, Pat Michaels, Ross McKitrick, et al., have been emphasizing for years: that poor thermometer siting has likely led to spurious warming trends, which has then inflated the official IPCC estimates of warming. These results are roughly consistent with the McKitrick and Michaels (2007) study which suggested as much as 50% of the reported surface warming since 1980 could be spurious.

I would love to write this work up and submit it for publication, but I am growing weary of the IPCC gatekeepers killing my papers; the more damaging any conclusions are to the IPCC narrative, the less likely they are to be published. That’s the world we live in.

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