When the Guardian, that champion of everything “green” says it, you know it was a failure. Excerpt: The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last…
Month: December 2009
Deja Vu from the Met Office?
While England basks in a winter wonderland, with more on the way, and bookmakers are now slashing odds on a white Christmas (The Times reports “The odds on a White…
Analysis of Met Office data back to mid 1800's
John Graham-Cumming has posted an interesting analysis, he could benefit from some reader input at his blog. See here and below: http://www.jgc.org/blog/ Adjusting for coverage bias and smoothing the Met…
Obama takes on skeptics in speech, tries to rally climate crusaders
President Barack Obama spoke on the last day of climate talks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The President called on all major economies to put…
Obama trying to save Copenhagen Summit – what comes afterwards?
And here’s the stagecraft coming. Here’s how the rest of it might go down. By William M. Briggs Source: courtesy of Pajamas Media First, some good news. A lefty organization…
BREAKING NEWS: Sydney Morning Herald reports 11th hour Copenhagen deal forged
Just in time for Obama to announce it, and it only cost the USA 100 billion dollars. Thanks Hillary. UPDATE: Statistician William Briggs points out in an email to me…
Lord Monckton barred from Copenhagen conference – pushed to the ground by security
This was the scene yesterday in Copenhagen. As you can see the scene is rather agitated with lots of police action, including use of billy clubs. As of this writing,…
Climate Craziness of the Week – Hollyweird meets Copenhagen
There’s been so many to choose from this week, it has been hard to pick one. Until now. (h/t to Kate at SDA) Stephen Taylor of Canada writes on his…
Anti-climactic irony – Copenhagen Climate Conference finale hit with snow and cold
From the “weather is not climate” department, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Hey, where is everybody? In related news, global warming protesters are gathering in large numbers…
Spencer on his AGU presentation yesterday
Little Feedback on Climate Feedbacks in the City by the Bay by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) here in San Francisco…
Lord Monckton reports on Pachauri's eye opening Copenhagen presentation
From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen In the Grand Ceremonial Hall of the University of Copenhagen, a splendid Nordic classical space overlooking the Church of our Lady in…
China declares Copenhagen Climate Conference hopeless
From ABC/Reuters China has told participants in the UN climate change talks that it sees no possibility of reaching an operational accord this week, an official involved in the Copenhagen…
Turnabout is fair play – Greenpeace gets a dose of their own medicine
Greenpeace, who prides themselves on civil disobedience and bannering smokestacks and U.S. national monument Mt. Rushmore gets a banner or two on the Rainbow Warrior. It is dubbed now the…
Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data – cherrypicked warmest stations
I wonder if they used this station, which is famous in Russia? See details here Steve McIntyre reports on Climate Audit that there’s an email from Michael Mann that is…
NASA says AIRS satellite data shows positive water vapor feedback
From this NASA press release I’ll have more on this later. The timing of this release is interesting. › Play animation (Quicktime) | › Play animation (Windows Media Player) ›…
Gore gets bitten again by another factual blunder
Gore again, this time it is about mosquitoes, malaria, and elevation. Some history checking by mosquito epidemiologist Paul Reiter reveals he’s wrong about Nairobi. Turns out that some species can…
Copenhagen highlights the latest evidence of global torture
No, we aren’t talking about the journalists made to stand outside in the cold for 7 hours without a bathroom break. Though that could be considered U.N. caused torture. Something’s…
Another Al Gore Reality Check: “Rising tree mortality”?
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany In this Reuters story (15 December 2009) they report: “Describing a ‘runaway melt’ of the Earth’s ice, rising tree mortality and prospects of severe…
News on the new Non Scientist – Updated: now with bullying
Jo Nova has launched a new publication, inspired today by their latest article. Read on. You might think journalists at a popular science magazine would be able to investigate and…
AP's Seth Borenstein left out in the cold at Copenhagen for 7 hours thanks to U.N. incompetence
I try to remind people that the U.N. has not succeeded at much of anything during its history. Mostly it just makes pronouncements and consumes cash. When it comes to…
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