Quark Soup by David Appell: Rio+20 Finally Phones It In

Did anyone consider a release that simply stated the truth: "Rio de Janeiro, 22 June 2012 -- Nothing got done here, because the big players on the world stage oppose all actions to mitigate climate change [Wait, what?!  Isn't English major Chris Mooney constantly telling us that American Republicans are the people who oppose climate change hoax solutions?] and protect the environment. And we think that's a big problem."

Up to a foot of snow for Mt Shasta California

In summer !

Up to 14 inches of snow for Mt Rainier WA

In summer !

Up to 16 inches of snow for Mt Baker WA

In summer !

Remarkable Admission By Gavin Schmidt In Response To The McKittrick and Tole 2012 Paper | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Gavin writes [highlight added]

“The basic issue is that for short time scales (in this case 1979-2000), grid point temperature trends are not a strong function of the forcings – rather they are a function of the (unique realisation of) internal variability and are thus strongly stochastic…..There are other issues, but his basic conceptual error is big one from which all other stem”

This is an amazing statement with respect to multi-decadal trends. Perhaps Gavin misspoke. Otherwise, he is stating that that multidecadal local temperature trends are dominated by non-global climate effects and not by the global annual surface temperature tend.  I agree with this view, and am pleased to see recognition of the behavior of the real world climate system from Gavin.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s A Mystery Why the European Economy is Not Growing

European economic problems must be due to the “austerity” (which means, in popular Leftist use, not growing government spending faster than the rate of inflation).  I am sure this kind of thing has nothing to do with high unemployment rates.  I would certainly be really excited to hire more employees under these conditions:

For most Europeans, almost nothing is more prized than their four to six weeks of guaranteed annual vacation leave. But it was not clear just how sacrosanct that time off was until Thursday, when Europe’s highest court ruled that workers who happened to get sick on vacation were legally entitled to take another [paid] vacation.