Skeptics should enjoy BBC's March 31, 2015 "Costing the Earth" show

It's a panel of warmists, but lots of interesting admissions are made, such as that evidence fitting the warmist narrative is over-emphasized.

At 7:00, Hulme says "there has been a pause for sure".  He admits in the early 1990s, there was "an idea that [surface temperature would] rise in a linear way...maybe we didn't understand enough about natural cycles".

At 8:00, Hulme admits that in the mid-1990s, there was "a rather simplistic understanding" of global warming. "Models at that time did not have a rich enough understanding of how the oceans worked in order to point out that actually rhythms of the climate could produce pauses and hiatuses".

At 11:20, Czerski claims "scientists tend to be really happy, actually, when [reality] doesn't meet their models, because it means they're going to learn something. There tends to be a delight in it, rather than a disappointment."

At 11:30, Heap asks why Antarctic sea ice has grown, when 95% of the best 50 models had Antarctic sea ice *decreasing* over the last 30 years.

At 19:58, Mark Lynas says "if you're in the polar regions, you might be able to grow pineapples in 2080".

Links

Humanity is on a crash course with carbon - Mark Lynas - The Independent

Even at four degrees of warming there will be a global collapse in food production due to drought and heat stress of crops in main breadbasket areas.
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The single and overriding priority for any environmentalist in the 400ppm world must be to quickly eliminate coal power.
There is no prospect whatsoever of us running out of coal – or indeed any other fossil fuel – in time to save the climate.

Flashback: So I just watched "The Island President" on iTunes

--Nasheed's climate advisor, Pie-Throwing Mark Lynas, is shown many times. How, exactly, did Lynas qualify as the guy that Nasheed trusted to judge the alleged influence of CO2 on bad weather?
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--Clean-air heroes Nasheed (and Lynas) are shown enjoying nice, relaxing cigarette breaks.

Weather damaged wheat in China will drive prices up - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Frost and weather damage in China may result in 20 million tonnes of Chinese wheat being declared unfit for human consumption, according to a grains trader from the NSW central west.

Corn Declines as U.S. Rains Boost Outlook for Record Production - Businessweek

U.S. corn production may rise to 13.95 billion bushels, 29 percent more than the previous season when crops were hurt by drought. The rebound will help boost global stockpiles to 150.97 million metric tons by the end of the 2013-14 marketing year, 22 percent larger than the previous season, according to the USDA.

Links

Science: In Borneo, ancient stalagmites tell modern story of rainfall and climate change -- Friday, June 7, 2013 -- www.eenews.net

The other set is a series of rapid increases in the Earth's temperature known as Dansgaard-Oeschger events.

Evidence for these rapid warming events, on the order of 10 degrees Celsius in just 30 or so years, has shown up in the Greenland ice core, said Kim Cobb, the paper's second author. 

Warmist v. Warmist: Romm is turning on NYT’s Justin Gillis! What has world come to? Romm: ‘Climate Scientists Ring Alarm Bell, NY Times Hits Snooze Button’ | Climate Depot

Warmist Brad Johnson Upset at NYT's Gillis: 'Yet again, Justin Gillis gets the "write the story climate deniers want to talk about" assignment'

Twitter / etzpcm

Holland: "no amount of marketing or advice on soc and behav sciences will help rescue climate science from inexorable rise in scepticism"

Oops… iron seeding of algal blooms to trap CO2 may backfire | JunkScience.com

A new study on the feeding habits of ocean microbes calls into question the potential use of algal blooms to trap carbon dioxide and offset rising global levels.

Radical Environmentalism and Second Thoughts | FrontPage Magazine

Lynas and Moore have apologized and recanted, respectively. One can only hope more of their ideological ilk will follow suit.

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400 ppm! We didn't listen! – Telegraph Blogs

What I thought we could all do, in what few moments we have left on planet earth, is to re-read some of Mark Lynas's wise words, even as we reflect on our selfishness and greed and refusal to change our lifestyle.

We Didn't Listen! - Video Clips - South Park Studios

South Park is in a panic as global warming attacks.

LETTER: Fight climate change by making lifestyle changes

If Americans continue our wasteful ways and ignore climate change, rumor has it Superstorm Sandy will sic her big brother on us, making Sandy look like a day at the beach.

Ask Umbra: How would you spend $50 million for the planet? | Grist

José Quinoñez, executive director of Mission Asset Fund, says he would “invest every penny in funding advocacy groups that focus all of their energy on changing public policy … the only way to bend the curve on deadly emissions is to change our laws.”
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And Auden Schendler, VP of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company and author of Getting Green Done, would put the money toward building a civil rights-style movement to solve climate change

Ice-Free Arctic Has Normal Ice | Real Science

Warmist RP Siegel: CO2 may make the American Midwest uninhabitable by 2100; also, growing seasons will be longer and “Most people would enjoy higher temperatures, and the evidence supports the proposition that humans would live longer and avoid some sickness.”

Top Ten Effects of Global Warming on Business

If we hit the 6 degree Celsius increase we are now on track to meet by 2100, even if we double our current rate of carbon reduction, according to Mark Lynas, author of the book Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, southern Europe, north Africa the Middle East, and the American Midwest will be uninhabitable due to excessive heat and drought. At the same time, inundated coastal cities will need to be evacuated.
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8. Longer summers
This will not only provide more time for outdoor recreation, but more importantly, given the increasing population, a longer growing season. This could well prove to be critical in meeting the demands of feeding all these people.
9. Milder winters
According to some studies, warmer winters will mean lower mortality from disease. One Stanford study says, “Most people would enjoy higher temperatures, and the evidence supports the proposition that humans would live longer and avoid some sickness.”

Green Goliath: "figures provided by Greenpeace show global income in 2011 as $313.4m"

Mark Lynas: truth, treachery and GM food

Lynas's metamorphosis gathered real pace when he started work on his 2004 book High Tide. It concerned the consequences of manmade climate change and involved him touring the continents seeking out its effects. This was a cause he was happy to be swept into: climate change made a perfect subplot for his grand narrative about the world of evil capitalism ruining nature.
...Lynas also experienced a more subtle realignment in his worldview. He'd been used to seeing the Green movement as the brave, scrappy underdogs. But the more he looked, the more little David began to resemble Goliath. "Just take the numbers," he says. "Greenpeace, the whole international group, is a $150m outfit [in fact, figures provided by Greenpeace show global income in 2011 as $313.4m]. Bigger than the World Trade Organisation, and much more influential in terms of determining how people think." For Lynas, the modern Green movement is one of undeniable force. It's changed the world "sometimes for the better", but not always.

Climate Common Sense: Climate Change Clean-out is Coming!

There is little doubt that a new Coalition government in September will be disinclined to commit more than a token amount towards the climate scam and given the requirements for budget cutting the Climate Change bureaucracy should be quaking in their boots. Campbell Newman in Queensland has given a foretaste of the future by ruthlessly closing down the Queensland Office of Climate Change.
The Financial Review estimates that 20 billion dollars of cuts are likely with a new federal government.

- Bishop Hill blog - Lindzen at the Oxford Union

The Lindzen debate at the Oxford Union was, I think, a rather significant moment in the climate debate. One in which sceptic views got a fair hearing in an open debate. Lindzen was to be accompanied by a panel of invited experts consisting of David Rose, Mark Lynas and Myles Allen. Part 1 was an interview of Lindzen with interjections from the panel, while part 2 opened up the debate to the floor.
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The star of the show, however, was David Rose, whose controlled aggression and moral outrage was combined with great lucidity and an ability to get complex points over in an accessible fashion. This was star in the making stuff. His opponents on the expert panel on the other hand were strangely muted and almost seemed as if they had no stomach for the fight. There was in fact a great deal of agreement on many aspects of the debate - for example, everyone agreed that Hasan's "97% of scientists" line was irrelevant (and as Barry Woods explained later isn't true anyway). Perhaps more importantly, everyone also seemed to agree that current policy choices are foolish, the main differences being over whether emissions reductions are required.

Survey: Climate change a concern, not a priority to Oregon coast professionals

The survey results placed climate change effects next to the bottom on a list of seven significant “potential stressors on your community during the next 10 years.”

Twitter / AgBioEye: Enviro converts: Mark Lynas, ...

Enviro converts: Mark Lynas, Bjorn Lomborg, Patrick Moore, Stewart Brand. Common denominator? http://bit.ly/W1NTUb  Facts & reason.

C3: Multiple EU Scientific Studies Determine Modern Flooding Is Not Increasing - Floods From "Climate Change" Prove Bogus

Green-sharia scientists in the pay of Big-Green constantly promote the idea that recent floods are the result of human-caused global warming and climate change - yet all empirical evidence and objective research proves that modern flooding is not increasing in terms of frequency and size

BREAKING: ‘Richard Windsor’ EPA scandal spreads, EPA Administrator James Martin resigns over hidden email accounts | Watts Up With That?

Vitter: New Richard Windsor Emails Show EPA’s Transparency Problem More Widespread

Pie-throwin', cigarette-smokin' clean-air guru Mark Lynas praises the "great problem analysis" in a Greenpeace report that suggests that trace amounts of CO2 will cause "untold human suffering, and the deaths of tens of millions from the impacts by as soon as 2030"

Twitter / mark_lynas: Extraordinary disconnect in ...

Extraordinary disconnect in Greenpeace 'carbon bomb' report - great problem analysis, no credible solutions offered: http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/PageFiles/480942/Point_Of_No_Return.pdf …

From the PDF above:

The costs will be substantial: billions spent to deal with the destruction of extreme weather events, untold human suffering, and the deaths of tens of millions from the impacts by as soon as 2030

Flashback: So I just watched "The Island President" on iTunes

--Clean-air heroes Nasheed (and Lynas) are shown enjoying nice, relaxing cigarette breaks.

Pie-throwing warming Mark Lynas: "I hold the UCS responsible for a significant proportion of modern-day global warming, thanks to its fiercely-held anti-nuclear ideology... Any scientists working for the UCS leave their credentials at the door. It is one of the most ideological of all the green groups"

Mark Lynas » Response to UCS ‘Science, Dogma and Mark Lynas’

This piece confirms my long-held opinion that the Union of Concerned Scientists is in dire need of a name change. I hold the UCS responsible for a significant proportion of modern-day global warming, thanks to its fiercely-held anti-nuclear ideology, which it has promoted via a dramatically unscientific campaign of fear for the last three decades, and which helped turn the US and other countries back towards coal dependency from the 1970s onwards.

Any scientists working for the UCS leave their credentials at the door. It is one of the most ideological of all the green groups, and the fact that the author of this piece takes issue with none other than the AAAS over the safety and efficacy of GMOs shows that it has no respect for scientific consensus in areas where real scientists conflict with its biases. The rest of the piece consists of personal attacks on me and a highly-skewed and selective scattering of references of the sort that any ‘climate denier’ would be proud of.

So I just watched "The Island President" on iTunes

Some notes:

--(Former) President Nasheed (and other people of the Maldives) are constantly shown using fossil-fueled cars, boats and airplanes.  In the film, he takes round-trip flights to the U.K., the U.S., and Copenhagen.  He never mentions purchasing any carbon offsets and he never talks about trying to cut his own massive carbon dioxide footprint.
--Planet-killing bottled water is shown many times.
--Nasheed's climate advisor, Pie-Throwing Mark Lynas, is shown many times.  How, exactly, did Lynas qualify as the guy that Nasheed trusted to judge the alleged influence of CO2 on bad weather?
--the number "350" is everywhere.  Nasheed is under the impressions that atmospheric CO2 up to 350 ppm is "safe"; anything above that is "dangerous".
--Nasheed refers to trace amounts of atmospheric CO2 as a "poisonous gas".
--Nasheed says he wants to "take down" developed countries.
--Clean-air heroes Nasheed (and Lynas) are shown enjoying nice, relaxing cigarette breaks.
--Nasheed appears to have had a comfortable modern home with a planet-killing big-screen TV.
--Besides smoking, the precautionary-principle poster-child Nasheed appears to ride in a car without bothering to use a seat belt.
--A climate hoax negotiator from India suggests that the U.S. doesn't believe in the whole CO2-induced "end-of-the-world" thing, and he suggests that the people of India aren't buying it either.
--At one point, Lynas suggests that CO2 might cause sea levels to rise 25 meters.
--Nasheed claims that the Maldives will go 100% carbon-neutral in ten years; he and Lynas talk about doing this using windfarms with natural gas backup; Lynas then mentions that the natural-gas backup would need to be switched off at the end of the ten years.
--Nasheed describes the Maldives as "Paradise meets paradise".   This is extremely puzzling to me, because I'm told that average temperature in the Maldives is something like 80 degrees F.   AP's Seth Borenstein informs me that 55.3 degrees F. is "superhot", so how can another 25 degrees of warming result in "paradise"?  Can someone please explain this to me?   Also, can a place without winter snowpack or downhill skiing really qualify as "paradise"?

Interesting credits at the end go to Terry Tamminen, David Fenton, Mary Robinson, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Of course, The New York Times happily swallowed the movie's propaganda, claiming "It is impossible, while watching it, to root against Mr. Nasheed or to believe that he will fail".  I disagree.

[Pie-throwin'] Mark Lynas » Don’t be fooled: man-made global warming does exist

The scientific consensus, echoed by every major academic institution in the world, is that increased greenhouse gases are warming our planet, and we reject this knowledge at our absolute peril. Global warming happens on a slower timeline than politics, but its physical reality is undeniable. Over the next century we are now more likely than not to see temperatures rise higher than they have been on Earth for more than 50 million years. I find that prospect terrifying.

Global warming: has the rise in temperatures 'paused'? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Prof Chris Rapley, professor of climate science at University College London: I despair of the way data such as this is translated as ‘global warming has stopped’! Global mean temperatures - whether measured or predicted - are not the issue. What matters is the energy balance of the planet and the changes that an energy imbalance will drive in the climate system - as well as the consequences for humans.

90% of the energy imbalance enters the ocean and is not visible to the global mean surface temperature value.

Warning Signs: The EPA is a Nation-Killer

In 2013 a flood of regulations will cost thousands of Americans their jobs and drive more industry overseas to avoid the cost of doing business in America. It will drive up the cost of energy from electricity, along with the cost of gas and diesel fuel. It will effectively kill much of the coal mining industry in a nation that is the Saudi Arabia of coal, an energy source that formerly provided fifty percent of all electricity in America.

Vitter Purges Environment Committee Staff - NationalJournal.com

The new top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has laid off almost all the professional staff—about a dozen—who worked under his predecessor, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., National Journal has learned.

Barometer For Measuring German Public Interest In “Climate Protection” Sets Record Low!

The results for the 3rd quarter are in, and they are not good if you are concerned about “saving the climate”. Public interest in protecting the climate has reached an all-time low in Germany.

Los Angeles Yanks Plug on Free Parking for Electric Cars | JunkScience.com

Without free parking, EVs are “expensive, underpowered and not really all that green.”

Major change in UK Met Office global warming forecast « Tallbloke's Talkshop

A more rational forecast by the Met Office is very welcome.

Mark Lynas' Apostasy, Modern Greens And What We've Still Got To Teach Them - [Tim Worstall] Forbes

I'd feel better about Worstall's ability to teach Greens things if he'd stop arguing that we need a massive new bad-weather-prevention tax.

Beware George Osborne, we ‘environmental Taliban’ are on the march - [Pie-throwing warmist Mark Lynas] - The Independent

The Taliban reference smears all of us who care about the future. It is also the opposite of reality. It is not those working to avert dangerous climate change who are the faith-based ideologues, but those who deny the overwhelming scientific evidence on global warming, who use smears and dishonest rhetoric in their desperate battle to defend fossil fuels and stymie the progress that this country is finally making towards cleaning up its energy supply.
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Make no mistake: the Taliban coalition in favour of sustainable energy is broadening all the time. Under the guise of the CBI, whose director, John Cridland, is a strong backer of the greening agenda, it now includes probably the majority of British business. And it also includes much of the Government, not least the entire Department for Energy and Climate Change.

Osborne should watch out – the environmental Taliban are everywhere. We have the Chancellor surrounded and firmly on the defensive.

Good news: Interior Department creating their very own climate-change committee « Hot Air

Because none of the hydra-like heads of the Obama administration’s ever-growing bureaucracy can ever be really complete without it’s own personal council of green-energy-promotin’, climate-change-science-pushin’ environmentalist types, the Interior Department is all set to get their special board of eco-advisers to help them inform their decisions on future policy-making, whoop-de-doo...But hey, by all means, let’s just keep growing the government’s merry band of eco-crusaders and endow them with enough regulatory fiat that no mere commoner will be able to challenge their ostensibly conservation-minded ways. It’s all for the good of the planet, right?

Hillary Clinton On Energy And Foreign Policy: We Need To 'Address The Very Real Threat Of Climate Change' | ThinkProgress

[Hillary Clinton] Our oil and natural gas production is surging

Leading Coal Company Will Lay Off 1,200 Workers – Blames Obama EPA Regulations | The Gateway Pundit

[Obama 2008] “So if someone wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”

Articles: Climate Realism

[Fred Singer] Even with the Kyoto Protocol due to expire at the end of this year, Obama persists in giving highest priority to climate change policy if re-elected. Does the U.S. really want to lead the world in committing economic suicide? It pays to look at the rapidly disappearing scientific rationale for trying to mitigate a putative future global warming.Finally, it should be obvious, perhaps, but needs to be stated explicitly that if a warmer climate produces positive net benefits rather than damages, then, in principle, one cannot even conduct a cost-benefit analysis.  Nor should one try to mitigate emissions of CO2 in any way; our current policies are simply misguided.

- Bishop Hill blog - Missing the point?

There is lots of excitement among greens this morning over an article by Mark Lynas, which purports to show that wind farms do not increase carbon emissions.
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I haven't had a chance to go through this thoroughly, but at first glance the article appears to be entirely risible. The wind-sceptic argument is that efficiency losses in gas-fired generators offset (perhaps more than offset) any emissions savings from wind. So to show that wind power replaces gas-fired generation on a one-to-one basis is completely irrelevant seems to miss the point - it is a statement of the patently obvious, since supply (we hope) has to meet demand.

The question that needs to be addressed is that of the efficiency of the gas-fired generation that is still operating.

Or am I missing something in Lynas's argument?

Climate change already harming the global economy - environment - 26 September 2012 - New Scientist

"It has been assumed that a hotter living and working environment is nothing to worry about," says Tord Kjellström of Umeå University in Sweden. "But the 5 billion people living in the hot parts of this planet are already constrained by heat."

Question: If warmth is bad, why do so many people choose to live where it's warm?

Why Climate Change Is A Public Health Issue | ThinkProgress

Some public health officials argue that the image associated with global warming shouldn’t be a polar bear surrounded by melting ice caps, but rather a child suffering from heat exhaustion.

Without nuclear, the battle against global warming is as good as lost | Mark Lynas | Environment | guardian.co.uk

the weather systems of the entire northern hemisphere are being thrown into chaos. With nuclear, there is a chance that global warming this century can be limited to 2C; without nuclear, I would guess we are heading for 4C or above. That will devastate ecosystems and societies worldwide on a scale which is unimaginable.
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It is nothing short of insane that politicians around the world, under pressure from populations subjected to decades of anti-nuclear fearmongering by people who call themselves greens, are raising our collective risk of catastrophic climate change in order to eliminate the safest power source ever invented.

More people die each day from coal pollution than have been killed by nuclear power in 50 years of operation, and that is even before factoring in the impact on global warming.

The staggering decline of sea ice at the frontline of climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

We are a few hundred miles from the north pole. The air temperature is -3C, the sea freezing. All around us in these foggy Arctic waters at the top of the world are floes – large and small chunks of sea ice that melt and freeze again with the seasons.
...In the past Stroeve has shown that ice melt has been happening far faster than the models predicted. Her new research, published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Papers, shows humans may have been responsible for most of the ice loss in recent decades.
"It suggests 60% of the observed decline in ice extent in Septembers from 1953-2011 was due to human activity. [60% seems like a very convenient number.  If the number was under 50% in initial model runs, how many warmists could resist the temptation to tweak something to get a number above 50%?] The decline is linked to the increase in temperatures," she says.
...Sea ice extent has varied naturally over the decades with some Russian data suggesting similar or even greater ice loss in some local areas in the 1930s. But the models are clear, says Stroeve. If you omit the observed records, keeping CO2 levels at pre-industrial levels, then none show a decline of ice cover. When you do put CO2 into the models, they all show a decline, she says.

"Just because there was possibly less ice in some areas at other times, that doesn't mean it's not human-induced now".

Lots of well-known warmists at the 2012 Aspen Environmental Forum right now

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Trenberth - skeptism is go

Trenberth - skeptism is good, but climate denialists are just that because they deny scientific facts. ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Lynas - sounding like a re

Lynas - sounding like a real scientist - what we're doing to the Earth is unprecedented in tens of millions of years - yup ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Cullen - most of public th

Cullen - most of public think melting ice when thinking CC, but I bet it's changing to extremes - storms, drought, heat waves, ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Emanuel - big storms are r

Emanuel - big storms are rare, so hard to convey what's going on to public in a way that the public remembers ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Mark Lynas - international

Mark Lynas - international climate negotiations - more enjoyable to be buried alive ‪#aef2012

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Emanuel - Atlantic hurrica

Emanuel - Atlantic hurricane power strongly linked with temperature - correlation stronger now since 2005 paper. ‪#aef2012‬

2012 Agenda

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Session 4: The New Weather mcnulty room, doerr-hosier center
Take two simple facts: carbon dioxide warms the air, and warm air holds more water vapor. Now stir them into
a turbulent, chaotic atmosphere and what do you get? Maybe the surprising floods and droughts everywhere
from Pakistan to Texas that have been happening lately. This session probes the potential links between rising
temperatures and increasingly volatile weather. Coastal areas are particularly vulnerable, yet many densely
populated urban areas are on the coasts. With 14 disasters in the US alone last year that cost more than a billion
dollars each, the new weather is getting expensive.
panelists
Heidi Cullen, Author, The Weather of the Future
Kerry Emanuel, Professor, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climates, MIT
Mark Lynas, Author, The God Species
Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
moderator
Hari Sreenivasan, Correspondent and Director of Digital Partnerships, Newshour, PBS

Inhofe alleges propoganda tactics in 'Big Green Environmental Handbook' | The Daily Caller

Nothing is off limits when it comes to the Environmental Protection Agency’s “war on coal,” including activists’ use of children as props to reach their ends, according to Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe.

An open letter to the Rt Rev Michael Langrish, Bishop of Exeter, on the subject of his foiled wind farm scheme – Telegraph Blogs

What surprised me about your letter was that a man intelligent enough to have gained two degrees (one from Cambridge) and canny enough to have risen to the not totally immodest heights of the Bishopric of Exeter should yet be puzzled as to why his flock might object to having a hideous pair of bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes plonked next to their tranquil North Devon villages.

Bishop, you are no doubt a very busy man, what with all the sustainability workshops you have to attend and all the junk-science books by Mark Lynas and George Monbiot you have to read in order to keep abreast of the latest weapons-grade drivel about "climate change." Probably you haven't found time yet to visit Chittlehampton, Black Torrington and East Anstey. But that's OK: thanks to the wonders of the internet you can now visit them without once having to leave your episcopal throne.

Looking For Killing Summer Frost Events | The Next Grand Minimum

My friend George Rebane, a Phd systems scientist, an I often discuss climate change and the onset of the next grand minimum.  In George’s view a June killing frost in America’s bread basket will be clear indicator the next grand minimum has arrived. Therefore, I keep track of June frosts events. Here is the latest: Eastern Idaho spuds hit hard by early summer frost

Climate as A Differential Equations Problem « the Air Vent

Quark Soup by David Appell: Hulme, The (Disappointing) Finale

the IPCC 5AR Zero Order Drafts that were leaked a few months ago already seem to be going far beyond science. For example, the 13th Chapter of Working Group 2, "Livelihoods and Poverty," has subsections on "Inequality and Marginalization," "Indigenous People," and "Gender," among others... Gender! What is that doing in a document assessing science?

...It's not the these aren't important issues, but we're being told climate change requires immediate action to, essentially, rebuild the infrastructure of civilization. We can't possibly solve all of humanity's endless number of problems while reconnecting the pipes, and to try would be to dilute the effort until it dissolves into nothing.

A Fresh Look at Clouds, and Heat, in the Greenhouse - NYTimes.com

The Lindzen focus is a distraction, to my mind. Anyone thinking that the erosion of Lindzen’s credibility will somehow build societal enthusiasm for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is probably overly optimistic. This was expressed bluntly in Mother Jones by Kevin Drum, who wrote that clouds (and Lindzen) aren’t “deniers’ last hope,” adding, “Human greed and self interest are their last hope, and there’s very little chance of that diminishing anytime in the near future.”

Up to 8 inches of snow for Cascades | Ice Age Now

Mark Lynas » Where sea-level rise isn’t what it seems

Whoa! No sea-level rise there, then. And yet of course climate campaigners – and even the Kiribati government – understandably anxious to highlight the future existential threat to the islands, have used storm surges, flooding events and suchlike as evidence of current sea-level rise impacts. Which they are almost certainly not, at least not in Tarawa atoll anyway.

Actor narrated CO2 scare video - YouTube

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: Official Monsoon forecast disappoints: The IMD plays safe, hedges its bet!

The country is set to receive normal South West Monsoon rains in 2012, for a third year in a row.

Hellfire and Heresy: Global Warming Hotheads Inflamed About Skeptical Challengers - Forbes

Environmental blog author Mark Lynas has expressed a similarly harsh moral view of climate crisis skeptics: “I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who are partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine and disease in decades ahead. I put this in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial-except that this time the Holocaust is yet to come, and we still have time to avoid it. Those who try to ensure we don’t will one day have to answer for their crimes.”

The Reference Frame: I can change your mind about climate: TV

Veteran liberal (right-wing) politician Nick Minchin did a very good job and the young climate activist Anna Rose was as charmingly naive and believing as I expected. In fact, I was feeling sorry about her. It's clear that if she learns the truth, i.e. that there is no threat or problem linked to the climate, she will lose a favorite toy, a meaning of her life, her career.

Climate alarm is turned off | thetelegraph.com.au

Rose continued in the same vein for much of the show.

She insulted Marc Morano in Washington, saying he was "the worst of the worst Republican attack dogs" who "makes things up" but refusing to provide examples or debate him.