Twitter / Andy Revkin [faces involuntary Earth Hours]

Hud Valley 'historic' blackout http://j.mp/BRRRrrr Scrabble by candlelight. Getting cold. Wish followd @greeninc advice http://j.mp/grnFire

Michelle Malkin » John McCain: Unrepentant Climate Change Republican; Update: Lindsay Graham pushes carbon caps

Update: Brooke Buchanan from McCain’s office e-mails:

Saw your recent post on your blog and wanted to let you know the floor statement was dated wrong on the website and since been updated (see link below). Senator McCain actually gave the floor speech on March, 19 2009. I would appreciate updating your post to reflect.

The Reference Frame: Reuters about "lull" in global warming

...Except that similar "extraordinary" patterns during various seasons and at different places of the Earth occur almost all the time, every year. They're what the whole atmospheric dynamics is all about. Claiming that the dynamics is about something completely different - and attributing every weather event to an "extraordinary" miracle - is a sign of a superstitious, irrational approach to the climate that denies the reality.

Global warming: Stonewalling and preaching instead of communicating

If a commenter disagrees with a blogger on an establishment site, such as Joe Romm's Climate Progress, or Deltoid or Real Climate, they first get massive abuse from other commenters, and then their comments disappear. It's insanity.

IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri to face independent inquiry - Telegraph

Environment and Climate ministers meeting in closed session in Bali last night insisted that an independent review should be carried out following the publicising of mistakes in its last report, and a row surrounding Dr Pachauri's robust response to his critics. If his management is found to be at fault his position could become untenable.

Participants in the unprecedented meeting – held at the annual assembly of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Governing Council in Bali – were sworn to secrecy over the decision and it is only expected to be announced after its detaled scope and composition have been worked out by UNEP and the World Meteorological Organisation, the two UN agencies that oversee the IPCC's work.

The ministers – led by Hillary Benn, the Environment Secretary,and his counterparts from Germany,. Norway, Algeria and Antigua and Barbuda – refused to allow Dr Pachauri to decide who would carry out the review, insisting it must be completely and demonstrably independent of the IPCC.