Sea Ice News: NSIDC’s Dr. Walt Meier on this Arctic ice season | Watts Up With That?

According to Ogi et al. (2010), 50% of the year-to-year variation in extent can be explained by the variation in winds.

The Reference Frame: John Kerry slams "disgraceful climate denial"

I have lived in communism for years but I have never listened to a similarly fanatical, ideologically motivated speech.

What he says is both ideologically motivated as well as untrue. It is not true that people like us want delays and backpedaling. What I want is to punish the criminal activity of certain climate alarmists as soon as possible.

Greens do Rio | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The IPA’s Tim Wilson is at the Rio+20 summit at which 50,000 delegates have jetted in to talk about lessening man’s footprint on the environment. Writes Tim:

Cars waiting to transport delegates from Cococabana beach to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Not hybrids.

Meanwhile, buses run only a few metre away.

The Boulder Global Warming Fraud Train Keeps Rolling On | Real Science

Complete bullshit. Temperatures in East Antarctica have cooled, and sea ice has steadily increased. Much of the claimed 0.6C global warming has been winter temperatures at high northern latitudes. How is that supposed to affect Penguins in Antarctica?

Book for Laframboise | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Donna Laframboise is about start her speaking tour of Australia, just as the carbon tax hits. She is the author of the superb The Delinquent Teenager, exposing the ICCC rorts which produced the “consensus” science on global warming.

- Bishop Hill blog - A problem with the AGW hypothesis

A paper published in Nature last week claims that 12 million years ago the sensitivity of the Earth to carbon dioxide was profoundly different, with very high temperatures maintained despite very low levels of the bogeyman gas....If, as this report on the paper suggests, the Miocene was "a time of nearly ice-free conditions in the Northern Hemisphere and warmer-than-modern conditions across the continents", shouldn't all of those positive feedbacks have kicked in and fried the planet?