1985 Hurricane Could Have Destroyed New York | Real Science

GLORIA The US Army Corps of Engineers has said that 1985′s Hurricane Gloria could have been catastrophic if it arrived at high tide and just a little closer to the City.

So Why Is The Temperature Not Going Up, Stupid? | Real Science

CO2 dwarfs everything else, and temperatures are going down.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Latest hair-brained geoengineering scheme proposes Saturn-like rings in Earth's orbit

A forthcoming paper proposes the latest hair-brained geoengineering scheme to allegedly offset global warming. The authors suggest that transporting, at a minimum, 1 trillion kilograms of dust into space to form a "Sun-pointing elliptical Earth ring" will shield the Earth from solar radiation. The paper joins other geoengineering schemes including using a pipe to an airship to spew sulfuric acid into the upper atmosphere to "fix" the non-existent problem of man-made global warming.

The British Energy [Propaganda?] Challenge

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (“the Department”) is inviting tenders for the development of a public engagement plan to generate greater popular acceptance of the need to move to a low-carbon energy system, preparing the public for the scale
of the investment and change required in the UK’s energy system – The British Energy Challenge.