Farce of the 'green' Olympics taxis being transported 130 miles by lorry just to be refuelled

Hydrogen-fuelled cabs taken from London to Swindon
Station near Olympic Park closed for security reasons

Patrick Michaels: The ‘BEST’ global warming science goes lukewarm | JunkScience.com

My greener friends are rejoicing over the apparent “conversion” of Richard Muller, head of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) research team, from “climate change skeptic” to believer in global warming. A closer read of his New York Times op-ed, published on July 30, during what is climatologically the hottest week of the year, would certainly cool their enthusiasm.

German Historical Museum: Climate Change 1500 Years Ago Helped Cause The Roman Empire To Collapse

I thought the climate was gentle when atmospheric CO2 concentration was below 300 ppm – steady, unvariable and associated with few weather extremes. That’s what fraudster warmist climatologists tried to have us believe with an assortment a various hockey stick charts.

Someone needs to tell the German Historical Museum that.

A New Record of Late Holocene Climate at the Antarctic Peninsula | JunkScience.com

In what many have described as an attempt to rewrite climatic history, certain scientists have for several years promoted the idea that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) were neither global in extent nor strong enough where they did occur to have a discernible influence on mean global air temperature…

- Bishop Hill blog - Rougier on trust and the IPCC

This quote in particular was relevant to recent discussions of trust and the IPCC:

The IPCC reports are valuable sources of information, but no one owns the judgements in them. Only a very naıve risk manager would take the IPCC assessment reports as their expert, rather than consulting a climate scientist, who had read the reports, and also knew about the culture of climate science, and about the IPCC process. This is not to denigrate the IPCC, but simply to be appropriately realistic about its sociological and political complexities, in the face of the very practical needs of the risk manager.