Linking Hurricanes With Global Warming And CO2 | Real Science

It has been almost seven years since a major hurricane hit the US, the longest such period in US history. It has also been seven years since Florida was hit by a hurricane, the longest such period in Florida history.

By contrast, during the year 1886 the US was hit by seven hurricanes, including two major hurricanes. Hansen says that 1886 was one of the coldest years on record.

Climate beatup: “scientifically invalid but a box office success” | Daily Telegraph Miranda Devine Blog

DAVID Karoly’s paper - which claimed the past 50 years in Australasia was the warmest on record - had been peer-reviewed and published online by the Journal of Climate last month to widespread acclaim.

Now it’s been quietly removed and “put on hold” after Canadian skeptic Steve McIntyre - of hockey stick debunking fame - pointed out it contained a whopping big error. Or what Karoly and his young co-author Joelle Gergis, call a ‘’data processing issue’’.

Lovelock goes mad for shale gas – Telegraph Blogs

My only criticisms of Lovelock's recantations are that a) they couldn't have come a few years earlier (they would have been a lot braver – and more devastating – when the global warming craze was at its peak and that b) they seem to have been prompted at least partly by self-interest.