CSIRO's Climate Change science kit | Australian Climate Madness

• 1 hockey stick (broken)
• 1 climate change calculator (multiplies everything by a fudge factor automatically)
• software for deleting emails (Windows and Mac)
• phone numbers of editors of all sceptical climate journals with handy script for threatening voicemail message
• model windmill (self-combusting)
• Himalayan glacier ice cube kit
• application form for government funding (pre-approved)
• plastic polar bear to create your own Al Gore-style weepy animation
• model pink batts insulation experiment, with fire extinguisher and pro-forma writ for negligence
• fake carbon credit certificates (actually real ones, but hey, they’re the same!)
• guide to Freedom of Information legislation in 50 major jurisdictions
• application for IPCC lead author status (pre-approved)

The Puzzle of Rising Methane - NYTimes.com

It’s true that methane was stable for roughly a decade ending in 2006. That apparent stabilization occurred after a long rise in the methane content of the atmosphere related to human activities, so it came as a relief to scientists. They have had a hard time figuring out exactly why it happened, but the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic decline of its successor states is assumed to have played a role.