C3: Global Warming? Not So Much, HadCRUT Confirms

The meme that global warming is producing extreme climate change and more severe weather events just does not hold up when the data evidence is scrutinized - over the last 15 years (180 months through August 31, 2012), the HadCRUT global temperature trend continues to be of global cooling (-0.12°C per century)

HADSST2 Southern Hemisphere Aug 2012 – Cooling For 15 Years | sunshine hours

Using data from the Climate Research Unit of the UEA , it appears sea surface temperatures may explain Antarctic Sea Ice at record levels.

SST in the southern hemisphere have a cooling trend of -0.068C / decade.over the last 15 years.

Who is ... Bjørn Lomborg? | The Copenhagen Post | The Danish News in English

His book was deemed to be scientifically dishonest, but Lomborg himself wasn’t in any trouble, as they figured he didn’t have enough expertise within that area to be deliberately falsifying facts.

What are blogs good for anyways? | Climate Etc.

JC comment: A few additional comments addressing what I think blogs are good for. Blogs allow for much more rapid discussion of breaking science than the conventional method of conference presentation, journal publication, and subsequent comments in the journal. Not only do blogs engage a wider range of scientists than the say a specialty conference, but they also engage the public on current research. There is also an increasing tendency to use climate blogs for propaganda. Propaganda is pretty much the mission for ClimateDepot, but stealth propaganda is becoming increasingly apparent on the ‘science’ blogs, as revealed by the recent SkS hack of their Forum.

A better explanation for the end of ice ages « Tallbloke's Talkshop

The standard explanation – increased co2, is a non starter.

NASA discovers “an Amazon (phytoplankton) rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert” – Must be caused by AGW! | Watts Up With That?

Maybe NASA should stick to Aeronautics and Space.