Toodle, Lew | Watts Up With That?

4. Lewandowsky allowed multiple responses from the same IP address. This means that someone could spam the survey, entering time and again to influence the results. Would they? One of the sites that linked to Lewandowsky’s survey has as part of their secret tribe of activists a person who wrote, “...people like us have to build the greatest guerilla force in human history. Now. Because time is up…Someone needs to convene a council of war of the major environmental movements, blogs, institutes etc. In a smoke filled room (OK, an incense filled room) we need a conspiracy to save humanity” and another who wrote of skeptics, “Sometimes you just want to let loose and scream about how you want to take those motherfucking arseholes, those closed-minded bigotted genocidal pieces of regurgitated dog shit and do unspeakable violence to their bodies and souls for what they are doing to the safety of what and who we all hold dear.” So, yes, they would probably do so in support of their cause.

-119F : Coldest September Temperature Ever Recorded On Earth? | Real Science

The temperature today at Vostok, Antarctica is -119F, which may be the coldest September surface temperature ever recorded on this planet.

Ten Months Since Peter Gleick Named Head Of AGU Ethics And Integrity | Real Science

Fraudster, thief, liar and likely forger Peter Gleick, was named head of AGU ethics almost ten months ago.

- Bishop Hill blog - Legal education for climate scientists

The first seminars look pretty interesting. The first is on document retention, a subject that someone more cynical than me might characterise as "what can safely be deleted. The second is "an inside look at the Michael Mann case" and seems to have evasion of FOI as its focus.

Suppose The Poles Were Reversed? | Real Science

What if the North Pole was gaining sea ice, and the South Pole was losing sea ice?

Alarmists would come up with an ad hoc theory explaining how it confirms the models, and proves global warming.

Junk ad hoc climate science has no rules other than confirmation bias, and keeping the funding stream alive.