Hope for NASA Climatology – Joan Feynman | Musings from the Chiefio

Thanks to a comment by Gail Combs at WUWT I’ve got a bit of hope that NASA is not totally a lost cause on the issue of Climate Science.

While GISS may be toast, it looks like JPL still “has clue”.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Booming US solar panel industry captures 3% market share

The Obama green energy economic boom appears to be in full swing, with US solar panel manufacturers capturing a whopping 3% of world market share in 2011. To allegedly protect these vital interests and taxpayer beneficiaries, the administration has slapped a stiff 31% tariff on Chinese solar panels, starting a trade war that now places at risk a $3 billion market annually for US companies that supply and license Chinese manufacturers.

Bald Mann Speaks With Forked Tongue | Real Science

The 1990 IPCC report contained the inconvenient graph above, which didn’t look anything like a hockey stick. Briffa’s trees didn’t look anything like a hockey stick either. Mikey had to get rid of the MWP, but this was going to require some hard work. How did he do it?

1. Trashed all the post 1960 tree ring data
2. Replaced the post-1960 tree ring data with Hansen’s altered Northern Hemisphere temperature data.
3. When you have seen one tree, you have seen Yamal
4. Declared the MWP to be local to Northern Europe and Greenland.

The inconvenient truth | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun

But the fact remains despite years of political, media and environmental hysteria about global warming, Canadians care more about environmental issues they see as directly affecting their own health.

The same was true five years ago, when the Strategic Counsel found more Canadians considered toxic chemicals (61%), air pollution and smog (55%), and water pollution and quality (54%), more life threatening than global warming (52%).