The Reference Frame: Xena: Rio+20 failed to mention billions of casualties

Before a discussion about the billions, it would be interesting to see at least 1 person who has been affected by weather events of the kind that statistically significantly deviate from the weather events that the mankind has known in the previous centuries and millenniums by their intensity or frequency.

- Bishop Hill blog - British science journalists on Climategate

Tomorrow the Association of British Science Writers begin their annual conference in London. Browsing idly to see what they were up to, I chanced upon a podcast of a session of their first conference in 2010, in which they discussed Climategate.

It really is amazing stuff. Here's a brief summary of what was said

Climate Lessons: Monckton from the Conference in Rio: scaring children with climate propaganda is child abuse, and parents should not tolerate it.