Scientist: Evolution Skepticism Will Soon Be History | Sci-Tech Today

The debate over evolution will be a thing of the past within the next three decades, says paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey. But he warns that science shows extinction is always driven by environmental change, which is driven by climate change. Any hope for mankind's future, he insists, rests on accepting existing scientific evidence of its past.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Enshrining Peer Review as Part of the Scientific Method

...Because methodological challenges to scientists work that don’t appear in Climate Journals controlled by the scientists in question are not part of the scientific method.

By the way, the statement that “The raw tree-ring data used in our published work are available; anyone is free to use them in any way they wish” is absolutely hilarious for anyone who has followed this saga over the years.  To the extent they are available “freely,” it is only because Steve McIntyre and other challengers of CRU’s work engaged in a decade long legal campaign to get this publicly-funded data (necessary to verify and/or replicate the CRU’s published work) released.  Here is the McIntyre post to which CRU was responding, though they bend over backwards not to actually mention him.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper finds Greenland unlikely to melt from climate change

A paper from a paleoclimatology workshop finds that the southern dome of Greenland did not melt away during the extreme natural climate change of the "Eemian interglacial (125,000 years ago), when annual mean temperatures over Greenland were [about] 5°C warmer than now for some millenia [thousands of years]." The author asks, "will [the southern dome of Greenland] melt away for the first time in 400,000 years?" and concludes, "Probably not."  The IPCC claims [non-existent] positive feedback from water vapor could lead to 3°C warming from doubled CO2 levels, but lessons from the geological past show that even if the globe warmed 2°C more to 5°C for thousands of years, neither the northern nor southern domes of Greenland would melt away. 

Seattle considers resolution opposing coal-export ports in Wash. | The Republic

Councilmember Mike O'Brien, the resolution's sponsor, says mining and burning more coal isn't consistent with the city's goal to reduce climate change.

Project supporters say the ports would bring much-needed jobs to communities.