After Rio+20, We Have to Solve the Earth’s Problems - NYTimes.com

We heard it from the young people who spoke at Rio+20 — sometimes through tears and with cracking voices — about the fears they have for the world we’re leaving for them.

Desperate Scientists Getting Bolder And Bolder With Their Lies | Real Science

Satellite measurements show no change in sea level along the California coast since the start of records in 1992. These so called scientists are engaging in fraud, and should be held to task for it.

Butterfly effects | The Spectator

Under such headlines as ‘British butterfly defies doom prediction to thrive in changing climate’, the usual suspects (e.g. the Guardian and the Independent) recently publicised a study claiming that, thanks to global warming, ‘a once-rare British butterfly’, the Brown Argus, ‘is becoming a common sight in the English countryside’. A paper from York University, it was reported, showed that these butterflies have moved so far north that they can now be seen ‘within a few miles’ of York. Not for the first time on reading similar claims, I wondered how it is that their authors seem to know so little about butterflies, My battered copy of the best book on British butterflies I know, published by Edmund Sandars in 1939, confirmed that 70 years ago the Brown Argus was found throughout Britain ‘as far north as Aberdeen’.

Rio secrets? They were hiding their failure – (I’m hopeful) Marc Morano cheers on behalf of the poor. « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

News coming in suggests Rio was a junket to nowhere. I’m still waiting for Monckton to go through the fine print. Is there a sting?

Still it’s not hard to feel happy.