C3: More Climate Science-Lies: University of Nebraska Claims "Record" Drought In 2012

Honestly, climate-liars must be an 'affirmative action' position at most colleges and universities - producing climate science-lies must get one tenure

Letters: On the Arctic... | The Economist

[Ridley/Montford/Peiser] According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates, polar bear numbers are at least twice as high as in the 1960s. Of the eight populations said to be decreasing, the official data table and map produced by the Polar Bear Specialist Group shows that two are only “thought” or “believed” to be declining entirely due to hunting; four are in decline only according to computer models, despite some claims by “traditional ecological knowledge” (ie, locals) that they are thriving; one has more than doubled but is now said to be “currently declining” because of crowding; and one showed a real decline that has recently been reversed. Meanwhile, the four populations you described as unknown include the huge Barents Sea population, which has seen dramatic increase in sightings, damage to huts and devastation of barnacle goose colonies on the west coast of Svalbard, all prima facie evidence of “thriving”. There is a strong smell of “policy-based evidence making” here.

Since the 1970s the population of white whales around Svalbard has increased, as have walrus and barnacle geese numbers. Protection from hunting has had, and is likely to have, a much bigger impact on Arctic wildlife than climate trends.

Twitter / ret_ward: Excellent set of new paper

Excellent set of new papers on climate change risk perception and communication: http://bit.ly/Mp6XAb

The ABC of groupthink | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Gerard Henderson on yet another mutual omm session on the groupthink ABC:

Last Monday, the ABC Radio PM program addressed the issue of human induced climate change. It was the day after the introduction of the carbon tax/ETS, and PM interviewed only carbon tax advocates who either support the Gillard Government’s scheme or who believe that Labor should be doing more.