The Reference Frame: Have Muller or Watts transformed the AGW landscape?

Don't expect another random paper claiming that there is a mistake in some partial result or methodology used in the past to change the basic perception of the climate and the climate change debate by either alarmists or skeptics. This won't happen and it is very correct that it won't happen because no sources of fast and urgent knowledge exist. We are very far from knowing everything about the climate – but we are very far from knowing nothing, too. What we know is already enough for everyone to decide about the answers to questions such as "Does science justify the regulation of CO2?"

Never in the field of human scientific endeavour has so little been so rubbished by so many

That's my summary of what you will read below about the Muller BEST project's latest emission:

Flannery’s Commission tells another outrageous porky | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Bottom line: renewable energy is so expensive and unreliable for base-load power that it gives Australia just a tiny proportion of its electricity, says the Australian Energy Regulator, most of it thanks to the dams Greens hate. Coal and gas give us 90 per cent:.

Backstory on the new surfacestations paper | Watts Up With That?

I’m a bit burnt out, so this is a just a few notes to quench some speculations about Steve McIntyre’s role and to help everyone understand what this week has been like.