Public Misperception of Climate Change Is a Function of Too Much TV - Forbes

[Pat Michaels] People perceive increased drought because this is a big country and usually about one-sixth of it is experiencing some level of drought, making it easy for a camera to find a shriveled cornfield every summer. People watch too much TV.

It would have been nice if the Yale/GMU survey would have asked folks how much money they would spend to stop all these misperceived horrors, but Stanford has beaten them to that punch. The answer is–not very much.

“Forensic Bioinformatics” « Climate Audit

...failing to report adverse results (e.g. a verification r2 of ~0 or hide the decline) are forms of data manipulation that should be taken seriously in the climate community, but aren’t.

Open water means a warm Arctic | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Antarctic sea ice extent dropped below record levels seen for the date but remains well above average.

Learning To Distinguish Warm Snow From Cold Snow | Real Science

You might ask “How do you tell the difference between global warming snow and global cooling snow?“

That is easy. During the 1970s, funding depended on creating concern about global cooling. Now it depends on creating concern about global warming.