Why the Yale and George Mason University poll attempt to tie “extreme weather” to global warming is rubbish | Watts Up With That?

Since warming hasn’t been cooperating lately, in desperation, Yale and George Mason University are trying to use a poorly wording and loaded poll to convince us that “weather is climate”. Problem is, the data does not support it.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The $100 billion a year "Green Climate Fund" wants immunity privileges for its operations and officers

Most likely the "Green Climate Fund" will never receive anything close to the anticipated amount of money,  but one thing is certain: Even if the final cash flow will be only 5 or 10% of the annual $100 billion promised, somewhere in one of the six candidate countries a huge headqarters, housing hundreds of highly paid global warming bureacrats, will be erected as a monument to global (warming) stupidity.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @richardabetts @mcrucifix ...

@richardabetts @mcrucifix @GlobalEcoGuy the claim that uncertainty is reason for inaction entirely bogus. Opposite true. Read Nordhaus etc.

How to write a Daily Mail article about climate change | Carbon Brief

To be fair to the Mail, it's come quite late to this party: Telegraph skeptics Christopher Booker and James Delingpole have been relying on the network of climate skeptic
blogs for ever.

Twitter / @grist: Cleantech spending drops 7 ...

Cleantech spending drops 75% in five years: bit.ly/HTMVCA

Twitter / @dbiello: does the end of tax incent ...

does the end of tax incentives mean the end of wind power? bit.ly/HSaV95

Claude Barfield: The First Carbon Trade War? | JunkScience.com

The European Union—or at least its feisty climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard—seems determined to take on the whole world by demanding that all airlines pay a carbon tribute for the privilege of crossing EU airspace and landing at EU airports.