The Met Office responds to Doug Keenan's statistical significance issue

Bishop Hill reports that Doug Keenan’s article about statistical significance in the temperature records seems to have had a response from the Met Office. WUWT readers may recall our story…

Scientific peer review and publishing taking a turn for the better

A number of people have brought this recent article in the Economist to my attention. Some excerpts:

New Report: Economic Analysis Reveals Wind Power 'Worse Than a Mistake'

Press release from The Global Warming Policy Foundation One of the UK’s leading energy and environment economists warns that wind power is an extraordinarily expensive and inefficient way of reducing…

Carbon capture scrapped in the UK, "…descended into farce"

All they needed was unlimited money and it would have worked… From the BBC: