Climate change advisers says fracking can be OK - Telegraph

Shale gas should be part of keeping the lights on while cutting carbon, according to the Government’s climate change advisers.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper finds temperatures during Roman & Medieval warm periods were warmer than previously thought

A paper published in Nature Climate Change finds prior temperature reconstructions from tree-rings "may underestimate pre-instrumental [pre-1850] temperatures including warmth during Medieval and Roman times." Many reconstructions show temperatures during the Medieval and Roman periods were warmer than the present, and this study suggests they were even warmer than previously thought.