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- Bishop Hill blog - Yeo stushie

The big news this morning is that BH favourite Tim Yeo has been caught up in a lobbying scandal. He appears to have offered to become an advocate for a private company for a fee of £7000 per day.
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While it looks as though Yeo is going to fight the allegations, claiming without a hint of irony that he was on the point of writing to the company to tell them that he was uncomfortable working on the basis they'd discussed, the general vibe among the Westminster insiders seems to be that Yeo is toast.

Decadal Oscillations Of The Pacific Kind | Watts Up With That?

The reversals in the state of the PDO can be definitively established in Figure 4. They occurred in 1923, 1945, 1976, and 2005. One thing that we do NOT see in the record is any reversal shorter than 22 years (except a two-year reversal 1988-1990) … and we’re about eight years into this one. So acting on way scanty information (only three intervals, with time between reversals of 22, 31, and 29 years), my educated guess would be that we will have this state of the PDO for another decade or two

With CO2 Cuts Tough, U.S. and China Pledge a Push on a Rarer Greenhouse Gas - NYTimes.com

As some environmental analysts had hoped, President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China found room to maneuver on global warming in their California desert retreat. They sidestepped the super wicked issues impeding restrictions of the greenhouse gas of greatest concern, carbon dioxide...

Arctic Melt Delayed | Real Science

The high Arctic is normally melting by now, but temperatures are well below normal and the melt season will be even shorter than normal.