ABC News Watch: Blog review beats peer review

Seems the authors of that study are now wearing some egg on their faces as the paper is withdrawn from publication following the identification of errors by Steve McInyre and others.  See Climate Audit for more details.

Bloggers: 1 Peer reviewers: NIL

Can do Campbell | Climate Nonconformist

Ah, yes. shut them down with the authoritative intimidation. Bully them into submission by dropping the most prestigious-sounding names you can muster. Climate Depot tackles this warmist propaganda line:

Only two dozen or so governing board members of the academies of sciences votes on bland UN IPCC like statements. The governing boards are steeped in funding and the state sponsored science of the day. The full membership, ie., the rank and file scientists, do not get to vote on this statement and in many cases are completely unaware any such warmist statement has been released to the public by the governing board.

The Reference Frame: There ain't no nearby tipping points

It's obvious that our changes of the CO2 concentration etc. are totally unspectacular relatively to the geological history of our planet. The Earth has already seen 6,000 ppm and 10,000 ppm and even higher concentrations. They hadn't destroyed life. Our industrial changes of the CO2 concentration are tiny perturbations in comparison and because we know that the previous large changes hadn't caused a qualitative change of the behavior, our changes won't do it, either. For all purposes, our changes to the CO2 levels and many similar things are just tiny perturbations and their effect may be linearized. A tipping point with its qualitative change of the behavior requires the linear approximations to break down and we know for sure that they won't break down.

Yesterday’s Record Rainfall & Low Temps « CBS Seattle

The low temperature at Moses Lake was 38, a degree lower than the old record set in 1982. Winthrop tied a record low of 31.

Christchurch homeless battle bitter cold - Story - NZ News - 3 News

Canterbury is finally thawing after a snowstorm which boasted the coldest day on record.

But the homeless are struggling to cope.