1972: Global Cooling Flood Killed 237 People In South Dakota | Real Science

The CIA placed the blame squarely on global cooling

Professor Hans Schellnhuber: IPCC Needs Overhaul… “Boundaries Between Science And Politics Completely Blurred”

In summary, Edenhofer loves the IPCC just the way it is, but Schellnhuber thinks that politics has ruined it.

Jonathan Porrit: Repositioning the Climate Change Debate « Tallbloke's Talkshop

At the end I approached JOnathon Porrit who had said that Europe had invested 47 billion in alternative energy and pointed out to him that the UBS report I had read says the European Union has spent 270 billion propping up the price of carbon, when it could have been directly spent generating jobs and renewing Europe’s ageing power generation fleet, thus reducing co2 emissions by 42%. He agreed that carbon markets had failed, but said it was all the fault of the Americans who had insisted in the introduction of carbon markets as the price of their agreement to Kyoto.

I asked Andrew Shepherd why, if Kevin Trenberth’s missing heat was hiding in the ocean, was it not possible that a lot of extra solar derived energy was hiding their too, accumulated during decades of well above average solar activity in the mid to late C20th. He told me I’d need to ask an atmospheric physicist about that. Non-plussed, we left them to it and headed off for our de-brief meeting.

Joe Bastardi Rips Al Gore: “Stunningly Ignorant…He Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About”

“That’s stunningly ignorant, or stunningly deceptive what Al Gore said. [...] He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. And ever since he shot his mouth off over Katrina, we’ve seen total global tropical activity go to record low levels.”