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Slovenian flyer completes eco-friendly Arctic voyage | GlobalPost

While flying over the Arctic, an important indicator of global weather changes, Lenarcic was surprised to notice that "temperatures on the actual North Pole were much higher than in surrounding areas."

The Divestment Dreamworld | NoFrakkingConsensus

Apparently, when carbon dioxide is combined with money the world turns into a fireball.

Briffa, Yamal, reputational damage, and all that | Watts Up With That?

Keith Briffa has just published a new paper using the Yamal-Urals regional chronology data, something long sought after via FOIA requests. That data was withheld, citing it wasn’t cooked done with yet, and that releasing it would damage the reputation of CRU scientists.

After Climategate in 2009, I’m not sure how CRU’s reputation could be damaged any further, but that was the reason given for not sharing the data. Maybe it has to do with the lack of definitive hockey stick and the dwarfing of the present by the Medieval Warm period being counter to some of the unsupportable claims that have been made about tree ring data and unprecedented warming.

Claim: 400 PPM CO2 gives the weather ‘personality’ of the extreme kind – rebuttal to CBS News Face the Nation | Watts Up With That?

CBS’s Face the Nation spent fifteen minutes today talking about “climate change” and its relation to the Moore tornado. The news outlet convened a one-side panel, with no climate skeptics present. The panelists, while on one hand saying there’s no link between tornadoes and increased CO2, on the other hand they were playing Janus and trying to convince the audience that now the weather has a new ‘personality’ while using scary and misleading graphics like this one...