James Hansen frets manmade CO2 emissions are 'loading the climate dice' — the UK Met Office takes a different, broader view. From the Met Office’s report on today’s meeting about 'unusual' UK weather: 'There are a number of possible factors which could be ‘loading the dice’, including declining Arctic sea ice, solar variability, long-term ocean cycles, and other long-term cycles of natural variability.'

'A 20 °C temperature rise would be beneficial for life – with the insane fearmongering about a 2 °C warming (from which only 0.7 °C or so was realized in the last 100 years)'

'Lewandowsky’s work unwittingly demonstrates that what is passed off as peer reviewed and published ‘science’, even in today’s world, is no more scientific than the worst ramblings of the least qualified and nuttiest climate change denier on the internet. It looks like science, certainly, but the product only survives a superficial inspection'

'An international research team led by Erik Ivins of the Jet Propulsion Lab of Pasadena, California has taken a closer look at the GIA-correction and has reworked the data. They just recently published the results in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Based on data of the last decade, they’ve determined that the Antarctic ice melt represents in the worst case an amount of o.16 mm/year in terms of global sea level rise. That is signficantly less than what the IPCC proposed in its 2007 climate report. Back then the IPCC propoosed a sea level rise contribution by Antarctica in the worst case of 0.56 mm per year, see Table SPM1 of IPCC AR4).'

Study 'finds the 2012 extreme Great Plains drought was within the natural variability of climate and that there is no evidence of a link to AGW. According to the authors, "it is concluded that the extreme Great Plains drought did not require extreme external forcings [i.e. anthropogenic global warming], and could plausibly have arisen from atmospheric noise [natural variability] alone." The four authors hail from different divisions of NOAA, which is a 'denier' according to James Hansen.Do Extreme Climate Events Require Extreme Forcings?Arun Kumar, Mingyue Chen, Martin Hoerling, Jon Eischeid'

'Rather than admit that climate models have become a fiasco, it would seem that the “establishment” is now “circling the wagons” and rationalising to be able to connect all weather events to “man-made climate change” – defined as being anything over and above “natural variability”. Why would the “natural variability” of just the last 150 years be the benchmark. Why would the Little Ice Age or the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period not be part of the “natural variability” to be used as the reference? If the flood levels in Germany this spring reached the same level in Passau 500 years ago, why wouldn’t the weather/climate of 500 years ago also be part of “natural variability”?'

Head of UK Met Office Hadley Centre: 'we now have rock-solid evidence to demonstrate that the world is warming'

Pielke Jr. : 'How can a NOAA spokesdude get away with telling USA Today that droughts are increasing when USGCRP, IPCC and peer reviewed research sez no?'

Real Science Rebuttal: 'Amazing. An increase of 0.0001 mole fraction of an odorless, colorless, largely inert gas will destroy civilization. These nut jobs make Harold Camping seem like a serious individual'

Biello: 'What happens with climate change after 2100 if we don't do something? Nothing good'

'92% of all temperature 'records' of individual years over the last 2,000 years are unknown. It also means that 98.5% of all temperature 'records' of individual years over the last 10,000 years are unknown'

'There has been no global warming statistically distinguishable from zero for getting on for two decades'

'Gosh, I never knew that sea level rise was so abrupt that it would catch those speedy airliners off guard so fast they couldn’t move out of the way. The climate change onset was so fast…that maybe future archeologists will find fossilized passengers with half chewed peanuts still in their mouths.  As they say, ‘the stupid, it burns’.'

'Despite the fact the drought was worse than 1988, yields were 50% higher. Part of that are improved hybrids and farming practices but part is the positive effect of CO2, which produces more growth and makes plants more drought resistant. The 1988 drought in 2012 dollars produced between $80B and $120B in losses. Under conditions of atmospheric CO2 enrichment, stomatal apertures typically decrease, thereby reducing stomatal conductance and transpirational water losses from plants.

'Water Stress: When plants are growing under less than optimal conditions of soil water availability, the percent growth enhancement due to atmospheric CO2 enrichment is generally greater than it is when water is readily available to them'

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Update – 2nd Highest Ever To Date: 'As of day 167, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is the 2nd Highest Ever to Date. About 740,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean'

'We covered this extensively at WUWT last summer, including the “unprecedented claim” where a researcher said it was a recurring 150 year event that was ‘right on time‘. It turns out jet stream changes and thin cloud cover was the driver. Also “the analysis shows that ocean temperatures and Arctic sea-ice cover were relatively unimportant factors in causing the extra Greenland melt.'

Skeptical  meteorologist  deniesman-made warming 3 times! 'The only other CNBC guest that cast doubt on climate science was Reynolds Wolf, a Weather Channel meteorologist who denied manmade climate change three times on air'

'The permanent corn belt drought is over -- Arctic ice is very close to normal -- Antarctic ice is above normal -- Arctic temperatures are at  a record low for this time of year -- Longest period since the Civil War without a major hurricane landfall in the U.S .-- Despite the fact that there is zero evidence supporting their position, our apocalyptic friends continue to ramp up the BS – with full support from the White House.'

Flashback: Climate Depot Round Up of Marcott’s Collapsed New Hockey Stick Study — Prof. Pielke Jr. Mocks As The ‘Hockey Stick that never was’

Wash Post excerpt: 'Obama expressed concerns about the political pain involved, saying that 'dial testing' of his State of the Union speech showed that the favorability ratings 'plummeted' when he vowed to act on climate change if Congress refused to do so.'

Flashback: Obama fails climate science in his State of the Union address — Climate Depot’s point-by-point rebuttal to the President’s global warming claims: 'Mr. President, acts of Congress, the UN or the EPA cannot alter storms or weather patterns'

Hansen says a Democrat-designed carbon tax would simply enlarge the government — a problem since 'government never, seldom, makes the right choices.'

'With his administration under pressure from environmentalists to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project, President Barack Obama plans to unveil a package of separate actions next month focused on curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.'

'The 1890 fire was about 100X larger'

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi slams Warmist Heidi Cullen: ‘Colorado Wildfire distortion(given fires well below normal this year) by these propagandists examples of climatic ambulance chasing’ 

Bastardi: 'More Distortion from @HeidiCullen . The Sept 1898 Wildfire much larger.The "destructive "aspect is due to population increase, not wildfire’

NYT: 'Bill Nye, Firebrand for Science, Is a Big Man on Campus' - 'On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World' - 'In any given week, you’re likely to see Mr. Nye, 57, somewhere on television, calmly countering the arguments made by people like Marc Morano, the former Republican Senate staff member whose industry-funded organization, climatedepot.com, disputes the increasingly well-understood connection between rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and warming. In an exchange several months ago on 'Piers Morgan Tonight' on CNN, Mr. Morano denied that warming is occurring, and scoffed that Mr. Nye’s arguments were 'the level of your daily horoscope.' Mr. Nye quietly rebutted his opponent with the gravity of scientific consensus. 'This will be the hottest two decades in recorded history,'Nye said. 'I’ve got to disagree with you.'

Bill Nye pleased with NYT profile: —‘Many thanks to the folks of @nytimes for their assistance in my mission to change the world’

Analysis: As warmism melts, dead-enders look to Bill Nye’s creationist strawman for salvation: ‘Nye seems to think that people will start believing in warmism if they are convinced that ‘deniers’ believe the Earth is 4,000 years old. Check out this NYTimes puff piece on Bill Nye, who keeps talking about climate “deniers” in the same breath as those who supposedly believe the Earth is 4,000 years old’

Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue: ‘Sometimes his advocacy can step out in front of scientific consensus’ = new/improved terminology for ‘bullshitting’

Flashback on Nye's debate with Morano on Piers Morgan on CNN: Warmists concede Bill Nye ‘looked outclassed and flustered’ against Climate Depot’s Morano in CNN primetime debate on Piers Morgan -- Warmists at Little Green Footballs: 'Morano threw too many talking points for Bill [Nye] to field effectively and as is common when a scientist goes up against a professional PR hack, he looked outclassed and flustered'

For complete round up of the Nye/Morano CNN debate see here.

'But this makes for scary graphs showing disappearing Arctic ice, which are highly misleading. The 1990 IPCC report had satellite data going back much earlier than 1979, which showed that Arctic peaked in that year, and was much lower in 1974.'

'If NSIDC used all of the available data, their scary story wouldn’t look so scary. Starting their graphs during the peak ice year is pretty dodgy'

The 'scientific consensus' can no longer be defended simply by 'votes' from modelers and environmental activists.

Congressional Climate Clash: Skeptics v. Warmists in rare & contentious 3 hour Congressionally sponsored debate – Features Climate Depot’s Morano: Morano: 'The global warming movement is suffering the scientific death of a thousand cuts.'

Meet the old  'consensus', the same as the new 'consensus' -- we're all doomed! 'Fears of overpopulation and its effect on the Earth’s ability to sustain human life peaked in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when the scientific 'consensus' was that overpopulation would result in large-scale famines. Paul Ehrlich, in his book The Population Bomb — which predicted that 'hundreds of millions of people will starve to death' in the ‘70s — articulated many of these concerns. 

'McKinley’s open-minded approach is one that should be copied across the United States'

Congressional Climate Clash: Skeptics v. Warmists in rare & contentious 3 hour Congressionally sponsored debate – Features Climate Depot’s Morano: Morano: 'The global warming movement is suffering the scientific death of a thousand cuts.'

'This is the perfect word to describe many of the disingenuous activists like Al Gore, Joe Romm, Brad Johnson, Mayor Bloomberg, and Bill McKibben who see “human caused bad weather” in every cloud, and try mightily to make others believe the same...The peccatogenesists want us to believe that our supposed “misconduct” against Gaia, such as emitting to much CO2 over an imaginary “safe” level of 350 parts per million, or failing to care enough about an imaginary temperature target of 2°C which climatologist Phil Jones says was plucked out of thin air is the cause of bad weather'

In Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book Population Bomb, the third sentence reads: '

At this late date, nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate…' 

But according to the United Nations, the global crude death rate for:

• 1965-1970 was 13 per 1,000 population; and for
• 2005-2010 was 8.4 per 1,000 population.

So instead of a “substantial increase” as predicted by Ehrlich, the reality was that death rate dropped by more than one-third (35.4%).

Former VP Al Gore lamented today that scientists 'will not let us link record-breaking' tornadoes in Oklahoma and elsewhere to climate change because of inadequate record keeping on the twisters. 'But when you put more energy into a system, it gets more energetic'