Another “escalator“ | Watts Up With That?

It quite consistently looks like the sea surface temperature anomaly trends in the last ~half of the century more or less follow the rises and drops of the solar activity during the solar cycles, except the last trend since the beginning of the SC24, where the temperature trend goes down, although the solar cycle was on the rise – but it appears to agree with the really considerable descent of the solar activity since the peak of the SC22 and especially after the peak of the SC23, only with a minor lag.

Aberdeenshire wind Turbine Collapses in 70mph Wind | Tallbloke's Talkshop

So it wasn’t just my greenhouse which got destroyed in the gales on earlier this week.

- Bishop Hill blog - Far fetched and fatuous

Lord Stern's latest wheeze is the startlingly fatuous idea that we are in the midst of a carbon bubble. The argument goes that markets are overvaluing fossil fuel assets which are worthless because they will have to remain under the ground so we can meet our emissions targets.

The market's valuation of fossil fuel assets seems to me to be a rather rational recognition that we need fossil fuels in order to keep the lights on. The idea that politicians will choose to let the lights go out in preference to burning gas and coal seems just a tad farfetched to me. They might try it but any that did try it would not be around for long, I would say.

Articles: Climate Change Conversation Aborted

[Fred Singer]An editorial essay by American Chemical Society (ACS) officers Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell (Science 5 April 2013) extends a gracious invitation for a "respectful conversation" about Climate Change. Yet when I tried to respond, the editors of Science refused to print it. So much for "conversation."

Aside from its admirable tone, the editorial itself is a mixture of things that are trivially true (i.e., that the climate is changing - indeed it does so, on all time scales, and is likely to continue) to statements contradicted by readily available evidence (that there has been an increase in weather extremes over the past century -- contrary to published official statistics). In between, one finds assertions that are still under intense scientific debate.