- Bishop Hill blog - Costs exceed benefits

A new book on the history of the UK's relationship with climate change by Rupert Darwall is published today. I hope to have a review in due course. In the meantime Darwall has an article in the Telegraph to launch the book. I don't think there's much that will be new to the BH reader, but it's important to keep reiterating the lunacy of the policies of successive governments.

Record snowfall in Amarillo, Texas

The blizzard that hammered the central United States dumped 19.1 inches (48½ cm)of snow on Amarillo, breaking a 120-year-old record for one-day February snowfall.

How to Win Any Climate Change Argument

One thing the infographic shows clearly is that Warmists have only the vaguest notion of the arguments against Warmism. They carefully shield themselves from knowing too much. That "tipping points" are the key element of the Warmist argument and that such points are sheer guesswork they seem not to know

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Greens Bash Moniz for Energy Secretary

WSJ.COM 3/6/13: The environmental community is throwing a fit over President Obama's nomination of nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to run the Department of Energy. Their protests are primarily a comment on just how radicalized the green movement has become in recent years.
Mr. Moniz, after all, is exactly the sort of true-believer environmentalist that one would expect Mr. Obama to nominate to follow Steven Chu. The physicist is a huge supporter of throwing taxpayer dollars at renewable energy projects, which has unfortunately become one of DOE's core functions.

Canary Freezes And Dies | Real Science

Alaskan ice is rapidly approaching last years record high levels. Experts* say that Alaska is the global warming canary in the coal mine, and that missing sea ice is killing the bears.