Antarctica gaining Ice Mass — and is not extraordinary compared to 800 years of data « JoNova

It’s difficult to say anything for sure about Antarctica because the weather is so variable. Bumper snow one year, not so much the next. (Noise and uncertainty is large). But 800 years of ice cores spread across Antarctica shows the Surface Mass Balance (SMB) is more likely to have been increasing over the last century. (Which fits with what Zwally et al found in 2012 with ICESAT satellite data).

- Bishop Hill blog - Another paper finds that climate sensitivity is low

1.6°C, again and again - there really is quite a lot of evidence for low climate sensitivity now, isn't there?

McKitrick Study Slams Wind Energy for Sky High Costs and No Beneficial Climate Change say Friends of Science - Halt Pending Wind Deal in Alberta

The Fraser Institute's report by Dr. Ross McKitrick shows that Ontario's Green Energy Act intended to stop global warming, is causing energy prices to soar with the plan now 10 times costlier than alternatives that would have yielded the same environmental benefits. Friends of Science ask Alberta School Boards and Alberta government to halt pending long-term 25 wind power purchase deal with BluEarth Renewables, Inc. due to financial risks to taxpayers.

Climate change to bring vintage weather for New Zealand wine growers: scientist - Xinhua | English.news.cn

The production of wine grapes benefited from relatively constant warm and sunny conditions over the summer, which helped the grapes mature and develop the unique flavors of different varieties, University of Canterbury meteorologist professor Andy Sturman said.

The Daily Caller » Colorado closer to creating position of ‘climate change czar’

On a day when Colorado was hit with an unexpected late-season blizzard that dumped nearly a foot of snow on northern parts of the state, a Democratic bill creating the position of a state climate-change czar passed out of committee on a 7-6 party line vote.
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Republican committee members — some of whom squabbled with Rosenthal’s witnesses about scientific details and causes of global warming — saw the bill as a waste of time.
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“Obviously, climate change is real,” said Rep. Steve Lebsock, whose comment was met with audible laughter from one of the committee members. “The policy that this state makes is critical to our future.”