Met Office better placed to predict 'big freezes' - Telegraph

Predicting a “mild winter” before the harshest conditions in 30 years was hardly the Met Office’s proudest moment.

Fossil Fuel Industry Opens Wallet to Defeat Obama - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama first ran for president, being green was so popular that oil companies like Chevron were boasting about their commitment to renewable energy, and his Republican opponent, John McCain, supported action on global warming.
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The lopsided nature of the energy messages this year contrasts sharply with 2008. Back then, global warming was a top public concern, and green ads greatly outnumbered those for fossil fuels, $152 million to $109 million, according to the analysis by The Times, which looked at 184 energy-related ads. In 2008, Chevron, one of the nation’s leading oil companies, trumpeted its investments in geothermal power, and Mr. McCain spent millions of dollars on ads featuring solar panels and wind farms as part of a solution to global warming.
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Energy first emerged as a major advertising topic during the last presidential election. Back then, one of the biggest spenders was the Alliance for Climate Protection, an environmental group backed by former Vice President Al Gore that spent an estimated $32 million on ads urging legislation to combat global warming.

This year, the alliance, now called the Climate Reality Project, is not buying television ads at all, focusing instead on social media, training and organizing. “Whatever we would spend, it would just be washed away in this sea of fossil fuel money,” said Maggie L. Fox, the group’s chief executive.

IPCC Refuses to Correct Errors « Climate Audit

Pielke Jr has an interesting post about more IPCC nonsense. He made four proposed error corrections to IPCC, all of which were refused. Which is the worst refusal is a bit of a beauty contest.

On balance, I think that my favorite is their reason for refusing to correct an inaccuracy in an IPCC press release. Their reason:

The January 25, 2010 IPCC statement is not part of an IPCC report, and the error correction protocol is therefore not relevant

IPCC Refuses to Correct Errors « Climate Audit

[comment] Its a political body whose very existence requires the AGW scare , here it just acting in that role .
I wonder having any ‘errors’ ever been seen which don’t support AGW ?