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Monster ice sheets destroy homes, terrorize residents | Grist

Even in an age of melting glaciers, it seems that ice is still capable of packing a serious punch.

Minnesota CO2 drops from over 400ppm to 362ppm in one day!

I think it’s problematic measuring the entire planets CO2 levels from one station in Mauna Loa Hawaii. CO2 levels vary all over the planet just like temperature, plus, the ocean is the largest emitter of CO2 on the planet. Measuring CO2 levels from a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific might just be measuring the natural off-gassing of the ocean.

- Bishop Hill blog - The word spreads

In the current edition of The Field (not online), motoring correspondent (and occasional BH commenter) Charlie Flindt is reviewing the latest Chelsea tractor from Mazda:

It’s funny how the world goes round. Not many years ago, four-wheel-drives were the most evil machines on the road, the spawn of the devil. The once-powerful Global Warming fraternity made it clear that such machines were redundant. Snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”, Dr David Viner, of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, told the Independent. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” So to own a four-wheel-drive was to invite scorn, ridicule or worse from Prius-owning, yoghurt-wearing, muesli-knitters. How things have changed. Snow is regular, as well as crisp and even. The supplements bulge with adverts for fourwheel-drive cars – a well-known German car maker, famous for its obsession with rear-wheeldrive, ran a series of ads over the winter pointing out that many of its models had four-wheel-drive. Small comfort for those who may have spent 60 grand on a machine that spins impotently at the bottom of a snowy slope – a sign of the meteorological times.

Not The Onion: Wall Street Journal Hits 'Rock Bottom' With Inane Op-Ed Urging 'More Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide' | ThinkProgress

Yes, even school children know more than Schmitt, Happer and the editors of the Wall Street Journal.