Frozen German Chancellor Plans To Lower Sea Level | Real Science

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned yesterday that in the quest for binding international emissions targets to fight global warming, doing nothing is “not an option”. “I’m under no illusion that there is a long road ahead,” Merkel said about efforts to reverse global warming, melting ice caps and rising seas.

- Bishop Hill blog - The silence of the Manns

I'm glad someone has picked up Mann's silence on Hockey Stick Illusion. It does cast Mann's protestations in an unfavourable light.

Bait-and-Switch Carbon Tax Act of 2013 — MasterResource

“The ‘bait’ for legislators is each gets to ‘bring home the bacon’ in the form of rebate checks to voters and huge new tax revenues for the federal government…. The ‘switch’ … is to propose baby steps for the first 10 years [versus what will be necessary] … in the out years.”

Climate Science As A Vehicle For Political Control

[Tim Ball] The full interview was in preparation for a larger documentary on the use of climate science to achieve a political agenda of wider government control that I anticipate will appear in conjunction with my upcoming book on the topic. The need was for an issue that had global impact thus forcing the participation of all nation states and deferral of control to a global governing agency – the UN. This video focuses on the connection between climate science and the UN objective with emphasis on the latter.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds climate models need another 5 to 50 years of research to predict impacts of climate change

A new paper published in Environmental Research Letters finds that current climate models are not able to predict regional, seasonal temperature and precipitation changes and have huge "mean errors between 1 and 18 °C." Therefore, according to the authors, the models are especially unable to predict the impacts of regional temperature and precipitation changes.