- Bishop Hill blog - Walport on climate change

Mark Walport, the UK's new chief scientific advisor was interviewed on the BBC's World at One show. In an introductory segment Roger Harrabin suggested he would not be as "dogmatic" as Beddington on climate and this supposition was certainly tested by the interviewer Martha Kearney who pressed the new man for a bit of support on the green front.

National Journal: No strong scientific consensus on how global warming will affect people | JunkScience.com

One of the National Journal’s reasons for climate change going nowhere in Congress.

An Evening with His Lordship [Monckton] | Watts Up With That?

In all, just over 1½ hours of thoroughly well thought out, captivating, humorous and thought-provoking presentation, followed by about 20 mins of Q&A made the whole evening very well worthwhile

I would encourage any who can get to hear his lordship to do so – and most engaging, entertaining and informative session

Forecast: No End in Sight to AGW Excuses — The Patriot Post

As the cold in the US reaches record levels this late in the season, do you notice what is going on? They're articles about melting ice or ice expansion because of warming, but nothing about how cold it is so late compared to last year, with the drumbeat of how warm it was so early (even though the globe was colder than normal). It's obvious to anyone with common sense that this is agenda driven. And while the actual forecast for tomorrow, a week, a month, or years from now has some degree of doubt, there is one forecast we can be sure of: There is no end in sight to the "climate change" excuses.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds solar activity controlled heavy rainfall & flooding along major river in China over past 2000 years

A paper published today in The Holocene finds that short term changes in solar activity have had a major influence on heavy rainfall and flooding along the Lower Yellow River in China over the past ~2000 years. The authors find that when sunspot numbers decline during the 2nd half of solar cycles, heavy rainfall is more common. This would tend to support the Svensmark theory of cosmoclimatology, as declining solar activity leads to increased cosmic rays forming clouds, and hence increased rainfall. Once again, more evidence accumulates that tiny variations of solar activity can be amplified to large changes in climate on Earth.