Blog: The Last Days of Global Warming Theory?

Is the Pope Catholic?  What would people say if he were to come out and admit he might be wrong about the divinity of Christ? 

That is essentially what has occurred in the Church of the Green Goddess; James Lovelock, father of the Gaia hypothesis, Defender of the Environmentalist Faith, most radical of Global Warming alarmists, has recanted!

...The next few years should be fun, as Alarmist scientists, desperate to disassociate themselves from this failed theory, run for the tall grass. The Alpha Male of the pack has just retreated.

NSIDC Press Room: International Polar Year Conference 2012

Assessment of Arctic Sea Ice in the CMIP5 Climate Models
Julienne Stroeve...Researchers are working on new climate models that better capture observed changes in the climate system, such as the rapid retreat in the Arctic sea ice cover during the last 50 years. Climate models in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) grossly underestimated the amount of observed sea ice loss. Sea ice plays an important role in the climate system, and may contribute to feedbacks that would further warm the Arctic. Stroeve will discuss the latest efforts to improve sea ice projections for the next IPCC report, AR5, scheduled for publication in 2014.

- Bishop Hill blog - Another CSA moves on 

Hot on the heels of the announcement that Sir John Beddington is stepping down as government chief scientific adviser comes the news that Bob Watson is to depart from the CSA role at DEFRA.

His replacement is Professor Ian Boyd, who researches mammals at St Andrews and appears to be, well, a scientist rather than an activist.

This looks like some welcome depoliticisation of the top echelons of the scientific civil service to me.

Long live free speech « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

If I wanted America to fail …

To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream.

I would start with energy.

I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. So, I’d make Americans feel guilty for using the energy that heats their homes, fuels their cars, runs their businesses, and powers their economy.

I’d make cheap energy expensive, so that expensive energy would seem cheap.

I would empower unelected bureaucrats to all-but-outlaw America’s most abundant sources of energy. And after banning its use in America, I’d make it illegal for American companies to ship it overseas.