Former vice president Al Gore joins 2013 Savannah Book Festival

“Random House, which publishes Al Gore, called us,” Higbee said.

“They’re putting together a speaking tour for his new book, which is coming out at the end of the month. They asked if the Savannah Book Festival would like to have him.”

Wind Energy Cost: Think Again ($0.15/kWh wholesale prohibitively expensive) — MasterResource

“Once these hidden costs [of windpower] are included and subsidies are excluded, wind generation is not close to being competitive with conventional generation sources such as natural gas, coal or nuclear.”

- George Taylor, quoted below.

The Blackboard » GISTemp: Figure C says anomaly dropped.

December’s anomaly is reported as 0.39C down from 0.67C in November. I’m not sure if that will stick.

Global warming at a standstill, new Met Office figures show - Telegraph

The Met Office has downgraded its forecast for global warming to suggest that by 2017 temperatures will have remained about the same for two decades.

Twitter / ret_ward: .@RHarrabin The Met Office ...

.@RHarrabin The Met Office decadal forecast was published on 24 Dec. @BBCr4today only covering story after @TheGWPF ran its story yesterday.

Twitter / ret_ward: It is interesting to see that ...

It is interesting to see that @BBCr4today is using propaganda from climate change 'sceptics' as a source for its news stories.

Twitter / BarryJWoods: What is interesting is why ...

What is interesting is why the Met Off did not release a press release about the good news!, @ret_ward @RHarrabin @BBCr4today @TheGWPF