Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Normalized US Hurricane Damage 1900-2012, Including Sandy

The red line represents a linear best fit to the data -- it is flat.

Sandy’s climate context : CJR

Kolbert not only misleads readers to believe that climate change increases all extremes everywhere, but after asserting that Hurricane Sandy “fits” this “general pattern,” she cites a recent paper about heat waves to support her claim. It’s a classic bait-and-switch and totally irresponsible since the dynamics of heat waves are very different from those of hurricanes.

"Climate change caused ...": linguistics, empirics, & reasoned discourse

[warmist Dan Kahan] I myself am still not sure whether climate change increased the likelihood of a weather event like Sandy. I would have thought the answer was clearly yes. But Revkin's excellent dotearth post showed me that there is at least a division of opinion on this among experts

Die Klimazwiebel: Climategate revisited

Interesting is the opinion voiced by some that there was a period of openness in the climate science community following in the months after Climategate, but that this period is over, it has given way to a retrenchment. However, published research in the cimate sciences emphasizes uncertainties more than before, as Mike Hulme observes. Finally, the detective superintendent police officer investigating the case concludes that we do not know if the data was hacked or leaked. In a few weeks the legal powers to prosecute will cease so maybe the real email hacker/leaker will step forward.

Colorado Springs Gazette Urges Obama Administration to Come Clean on Abound, the Rocky Mountain Solyndra | Energy & Commerce Committee

The editorial board of the Colorado Springs Gazette recently called on President Obama to explain the $400 million failed DOE loan guarantee to Abound Solar, the now-bankrupt Colorado solar panel manufacturer under both criminal and congressional investigation. In response to reports that Abound was knowingly selling faulty solar panels while receiving taxpayer funds, the Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation to find out what DOE knew about Abound’s problems prior to finalizing the loan guarantee.