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Twitter / ClimateOfGavin: All the video from the AGU ...

All the video from the AGU Chapman Climate Science Communication conference now available: http://www.youtube.com/user/AGUvideos/videos … #climatechapman

Dutch advise to IPCC: limiting the scope to human induced climate change is undesirable « De staat van het klimaat

The (almost) obsession of IPCC with greenhouse forcing has greatly limited progress in climate science in my opinion, so I am glad my government now raises this point. And in my (Dutch) book De Staat van het Klimaat I concluded that IPCC in AR4 had not succeeded to come up with a “comprehensive” report. I also agree IPCC should pay much more attention to controversial topics. The treatment of controversial topics in AR4 and also AR5 was and is unsatisfactory for two reasons: there is not enough space reserved to go into the necessary details and the author teams are almost always biased in favor of the consensus view and therefore not giving enough credit to minority views.

Twitter / BetteMidler: Happy Independence Day! Just ...

Happy Independence Day! Just think, if we hadn’t won that war, today wouldn’t be a holiday AND we’d have health care.

‘Sue and Settle’: Secret backroom deals by bureaucrats and environmentalists hurt the American economy | Capital Research Center

Summary: In a process known as sue-and-settle, activists sue government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, negotiate settlements with friendly bureaucrats, and obtain judicial decrees that have the force of law. This process twists laws and creates disruptive regulations, while largely avoiding the scrutiny of Congress and the public.