THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds cloudiness in Spain has significantly decreased since 1960

A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds that Total Cloud Cover (TCC) has significantly decreased over Spain by about 4% since 1960, the same period during which the IPCC claims there is no explanation other than man-made greenhouse gases to account for global warming. Poorly-understood natural fluctuations in cloud cover could alone account for global warming or global cooling, as discussed by Dr. Roy Spencer in his book...

Drought, Climate Change, Corn Prices, Ethanol and Biofuels - Forbes

[Worstall] The reason we’re against climate change (and let us just pretend that this drought is a result of it) is because it will have undesirable effects upon human beings. Most especially poor human beings, the rich will adapt well enough. It just seems very strange indeed to use the ethanol program, supposedly a method of beating climate change, to make sure and certain that those same poor are going to suffer from the drought possibly climate change caused. That policy doesn’t even work within its own logic let alone on any other.