- Bishop Hill blog - The Royal Society: the UK's independent voice on science

The Royal Society's various statements on climate change are often put forward as a reason why we should believe the IPCC "consensus" - if the independent academy in Carlton House Terrace is supportive of Pachauri et al, then reasonable people should be expected to accept their word too. But of course if senior IPCC officials such as Solomon are involved in drafting these statements then it makes a mockery of that "independence".

Enviros bluff Obama: Approve Keystone and forget about enviro help for Dem gains in 2014 | JunkScience.com

Enviros fear the worst with Keystone.

“While Obama doesn’t have to worry about running again, Brune has said green-lighting Keystone could hurt fundraising and make activists less inclined to campaign for Democrats facing reelection in 2014. Several Democratic donors told POLITICO recently that they will re-evaluate their fundraising efforts for Democrats if Obama approves the project.”

Field Museum houses clues to climate change:  [Old shark tooth dagger allegedly counts as evidence that CO2 causes bad weather]

Archeological evidence, in the form of a shark tooth dagger from the islands of Kiribati, also points to climate change, according to Christopher Philipp, Regenstein collections manager of Pacific Anthropology.

A shark tooth dagger brought to the Field museum in 1905 has teeth from two shark species, Carcharhinus Obscurus and Carcharhinus Sorrah, both of which are no longer found in the waters of Kiribati, said Philipp.