Record-setting May snowstorm still hammering Plains, Upper Midwest

This is the latest that we have ever put plows on this time of the year,” said Brian Wagstrom, director of public works in Minnetonka, Minn.

John Cook’s new survey – lots of questions, no answers | Watts Up With That?

I asked Cook a series of questions about it, because given his behavior with Lewandowsky, I have serious doubts about the veracity of this survey. I asked to see the ethics approval application and approval from the University, and he declined to do so, saying that it it would compromise the survey by revealing the internal workings. I also asked why each of the 50 emails sent out had a different tracking code on it, and he also declined to explain that for the same reason. I asked to see the list of 12,000 papers, so that I could see if the database had a true representation of the peer reviewed landscape, and he also declined, but said the list would be posted “very soon”.
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He stated that he had an expectation (based on past experience) that no skeptic bloggers would post the survey anyway. So why send it then?

The Blackboard » The papers: I think I have all titles.

[comment] Need to add categories:
“does not pass the smell test” and
“you got to be kidding”!

Twitter / Revkin

Are you saying there's more reviewed work pointing to AGW role in F1+ outbreaks than tornado droughts? My point is it was nonsense in '11.

Nations seek flexible climate approach, but no breakthrough in Bonn - Firstpost

“There’s been quite a lot of common ground appearing,” said Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat. But she said no nation was doing enough to combat global warming.
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Chinese chief negotiator Su Wei also said China could not impose caps on its rising emissions because it needed time to focus on economic growth, despite U.S. calls for tougher action by Beijing.