THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Settled science: New paper finds climate models have a 50% consensus on Arctic sea ice

A paper published today in Climate of Past finds a 50% consensus by climate models on the response of Arctic sea ice to changes in solar radiation during the mid-Holocene. According to the authors, "Approximately one half of the models simulate a decrease in winter sea-ice extent and one half simulates an increase." The paper adds to many others demonstrating that climate models are unable to model the known climate of the past, much less the future.

Record snowfall in Northeast China

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds resilience of shelled plankton to ocean 'acidification', 'suggests the future of ocean life may not be so bleak'

"The story years ago was that ocean acidification was going to be bad, really bad for calcifiers," said Iglesias-Rodriguez, whose team discovered that one species of the tiny single celled marine coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi, actually had bigger shells in high carbon dioxide seawater conditions.

Study: China represents 68% of increase in global CO2 emissions, India 8% from 2000-2010 | JunkScience.com

Flashback: The 1997 Byrd-Hagel Resolution against the Kyoto Protocol was based on the omission of developing countries from emissions limits.

John Kerry gives Chinese free pass in new US-China climate pact; China only to do what is ‘nationally appropriate’ | JunkScience.com

The escape clause for China is the phrase “nationally appropriate action by the United States and China.” China has long said global warming was caused by the West and is the West’s responsibility to resolve.