A NASA Hangout on Rising Seas and Global Warming - NYTimes.com

This NASA Google+ Hangout will take place on Tues., Apr. 2, at 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT.

Ian Wilson: Could This Be The Climate Smoking Gun? | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Here at the talkshop we have recognised from the get-go that with the demise of the pathetically myopic and wholly incorrect co2-driven-climate hypothesis, a better theory will be needed to take it’s place. Now we have some more exciting news from Astrophysicist Ian Wilson. He has discovered a very solid looking link between planetary motion, solar variation, and Earth’s climate. The periods involved also tie in with the work going on in the background here on the Phi/Fibonacci thread. I believe we are getting closer to solving the solar system puzzle, and finding plausible explanations for cyclic climate changes on Earth which are evidenced by various proxy time series. Here, Ian uses the (in)famous bristlecone pine core data. Maybe this was the right proxy with the wrong approach all along. Just for the avoidance of doubt, that’s Prof. Michael Mann I’m alluding to. Excuse me while I spit the taste of his name out of my mouth.

Auditor General Slams Carbon Offset System | NoFrakkingConsensus

If carbon offset funds are given to people who would have done exactly the same thing anyway (business as usual) they aren’t accomplishing their purpose. Because no new reduction in emissions has actually occurred, the money has been wasted – it has merely been siphoned from a hospital’s budget and handed over to a third party with absolutely nothing to show for it.

The Auditor General says this is exactly what happened in the case of 70% of the carbon offsets purchased by the Trust for the year 2010. Those funds went to two projects that were well underway before the offset money became available.

Global Microwave Sea Surface Temperature Update for March, 2013: -0.01 deg. C « Roy Spencer, PhD

The satellite-based microwave global average sea surface temperature (SST) update for March 2013 is -0.01 deg. C, relative to the 2003-2006 average