Peter Foster: No bravo for Rio+20 | FP Comment | Financial Post

Canada is going to Rio+20 summit, despite its ­hostility to fossil fuels

The Rio+20 Earth Summit on Sustainable Development, which starts in two weeks, will be a farce, even if everybody keeps a straight face. The grand UN-based system conceived to co-ordinate the activities of all mankind has proved utterly unsustainable, a dysfunctional mess that generates nothing but endless meetings, agendas and reports.

That sustainable development would inevitably collapse under its own contradictions was inevitable. What is fascinating is why every country on Earth — including Canada — would earnestly have committed to a concept hatched by a cabal of ardent socialists. Equally fascinating is the almost universal reluctance to acknowledge the organizational disaster that has ensued... 

Since one of sustainable development’s key objectives is to kill the fossil fuel industry, it hardly seems to fit the Conservatives’ promotion of Canada as an oil and gas superpower...

It’s time for that little boy in the crowd to state the obvious. The sustainable Emperor has no clothes...

Quark Soup by David Appell: The Long-Term Loss of Arctic Sea Ice

when I do calculate something like this, I always wonder/worry about what if the first few years in the data series were high or low relative to the overall trend

100 Degree Days On The Decline In Oklahoma | Real Science

1934 brought sixty-one days over one hundred degrees to Oklahoma City, compared to just thirty-eight days in 2011. NOAA says that the Oklahoma summer of 2011 was the hottest on record in the US, because some people there feel the need to lie about climate – to keep their funding going.

Arctic’s wintry blanket can be warming | JunkScience.com

Forest snows keep northern soils relatively toasty, diminishing how much climate-warming carbon they can sequester