Recapping the IPCC's Scandalous First Two Months of 2010: Sloppiness, Errors & Nitpicking : TreeHugger

[Matthew McDermott] In fact when it comes to rates of ice melting and sea level rise the report is overwhelmingly too conservative in its projections.

While we collectively need to work to point out these issues when they arise, I have to wonder, much like the timing of the Climategate email story, to what degree the unearthing and reporting of the IPCC errors is collective schadenfreude or willful misinformation on the part of those doing the exposing.

Consensus or Con? - WSJ.com

For an amusing example, listen to this New Yorker podcast on Climategate, featuring writers Elizabeth Kolbert and Peter J. Boyer. Boyer acknowledges that the emails raise serious questions about Climate science, but Kolbert denies it. Listen, though, to Kolbert's tone of voice: She sounds extremely defensive, as if she feels personally threatened by questions about global-warmist doctrine.

Lonnie Thompson on why the cold weather doesn’t mean there’s not global warming | Daily Loaf

CL: The film that you worked as an adviser on, An Inconvenient Truth, made a powerful impact on tens of millions of the people in this country (if not the world) in making an overwhelming case that global warming is manmade. But are you concerned that these recent setbacks have made your work harder?

Thompson: I got a lot of criticisms from my colleagues on why I would help a politician on such a thing…Sometimes I look at the current activity as a coordinated effort by vested interests that take things in a normal world you wouldn’t even hear about, but you blow them up, and you play them over and you play them over, and pretty soon they take on a reality of their own. But it doesn’t change the real world. At the end of the day, we live and deal with the real world, and I assure you that nature doesn’t care what happens to us. So my feeling is there’s a kind of last-gasp effort right now, but in the end the science will win, and we will deal with this issue, because we’ll have no other choice.

UPDATE 3-Oil firms drop group lobbying for US climate bill | Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - BP (BP.L) and ConocoPhillips (COP.N) will drop out of a group lobbying for the U.S. climate bill as proposed legislation would hurt the motor fuel and natural gas industries, the companies said on Tuesday.

The oil companies and Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) said they will not renew their memberships in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or U.S. CAP.

Rare geese missing after migration | MNN - Mother Nature Network

2,000 light-bellied brent geese are missing after finding their usual winter feeding grounds frozen in an especially harsh winter.
...Most of the rare geese winter in Denmark but extreme winter weather (which could be the result of climate change) has caused the Danish wetlands to freeze over this year. This forced the geese to find new feeding grounds.