Tuesday, March 09, 2010

RealClimate: [We really don't know clouds...at all]
...there are also many unknowns remaining, and the largest uncertainties concern clouds, cloud physics, and their impact on climate. In this sense, I find it ironic that some people still rely on the cosmic rays argument as their strongest argument against AGW – it does involve poorly known clouds physics!
Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric - The Boston Globe
Gore is a True Believer; his climate hyperbole is less a matter of science than of faith. In almost messianic terms, he urges Congress to sharply restrain Americans’ access to energy. “What is at stake,’’ he writes, “is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.’’

But while Gore prays for redemption, the pews in the Church of Climate Catastrophe are gradually emptying. The public’s skeptical common sense, it turns out, is pretty robust. Just like those Himalayan glaciers.
The Hockey Schtick: Climate Sensitivity: which do you believe-models or data?
[GIGO models] incorporate their amazing imaginary mystical positive feedback amplification factors as much as 14 times higher than what the empirical data shows.
Barcelona hit with heaviest snowfall in 25 years - Telegraph
Schools were closed, roads were blocked and power was knocked as Barcelona was hit with its heaviest snowfall in 25 years.

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