Thursday, September 13, 2012

Sea Level Acceleration: Not so Fast Recently | Watts Up With That?
While some alarmists project sea level rise of between 1 to 6 meters (3 to 20 feet) by the end of this century, currently sea level is only inching up at a rate of about 20 to 30 centimeters per hundred years (or about 7 to 11 inches of additional rise by the year 2100)—a rate some 3-4 times below the low end of the alarmist spectrum, and a whopping 20 to 30 times beneath the high end...Since 2003—the last data assessed by the IPCC—the rate of sea level rise has slowed
- Bishop Hill blog - The futility of the EU
Some months ago I covered Amelia Sharman's paper on the way the EU mandate on biofuels had come into being - a tale of corruption and graft if ever there was one.

Having spent the last five years enforcing the use of biofuels, the commisison has now changed course
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Flawed from the outset? That's a strange way of summarising what happened. The policy was never intended to reduce carbon emissions - it was designed to benefit a handful of farmers.
- Bishop Hill blog - Barker under investigation
I can't say I'm holding my breath. Experience of suggests that Whitehall investigations, and particularly those involving green tinged politicians, end with a nod and a wink.
Mojib Latif / Bart Verheggen CO2-Fingerprint Tale Suffers Hefty Setback – From New Susan Solomon Paper
Like Mann’s hockey stick, some climate fairy tales keep insisting they are real. The CO2-fingerprint tale is another example.

Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt comment here on a new paper that completely discredits the atmospheric CO2-fingerprint theory, long ballyhooed by Mojib Latif and Bart Verheggen, for example.

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