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Why the Cook paper is bunk: Part I – Shub Niggurath Climate

From 1991 to 2011, the fractions of papers accepting the orthodox position decrease with time

Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Operations: EPA’s Continuing, Conscious Overestimate — MasterResource

“As long as the EPA continues to rely on assumptions about industry activity that are not, in fact, based on actual industry activity, their estimates for methane emissions will remain wrong. The fact that those assumptions result in inflated emissions estimates makes the agency’s conscious decision not to adjust its methods even more troubling.”

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds significant cooling effect of irrigation; implies water vapor feedback is negative

A new paper published in Environmental Research Letters finds a significant cooling effect of agricultural irrigation in Northwest China during the period from 1959-2006. The authors find an average cooling of May-September temperatures of −0.15 ° C to −0.10 °C per decade in areas with extensive agricultural irrigation. The data implies increased water vapor acts as a negative feedback on temperature, the opposite of claims by climate alarmists. The paper adds to prior work demonstrating that the true sign of water vapor feedback is negative, and demonstrates that the assumption of positive water vapor feedback in climate models is false.

- Bishop Hill blog - Yeo reported to police

The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics has reported Tim Yeo to the police, pointing out that he appears to have breached the Bribery Act.