New Study: 'The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years' -- Scientists 'stunned'

'Incidents, widely covered in the media, have created the perception that jellyfish numbers are rising alarmingly... as a result of overfishing & climate change...'We...concluded the evidence was not there,'' Prof Duarte said...This 'rise of slime' hypothesis has been widely cited by other scientists and echoed in the media, often with ''alarmist headlines, despite a lack of evidence', Prof Duarte said.

Geophysical Research Letters study 'finds that over past decade the global avg. effective cloud height has declined and that 'If sustained, such a decrease would indicate a significant measure of negative cloud feedback to global warming...The negative climate forcing from a decrease in avg. global cloud amount during past 10 years has more than offset the positive forcing from increase in ghgs'

Updated to include full key quote: Study in Journal Climate of the Past: concludes 'Though we find the amplitude and spatial extent of the 20th century warming is within the range of natural variability over the last 12 centuries, we also find that the rate of warming from the 19th to the 20th century is unprecedented' -- 'Only two of the 8 types of temperature proxies analyzed indicate 20th century warming exceeded that of Medieval Warming Period'

'Despite a warm 2012 January in the U.S., overall, January temperatures over the last 15 years have fallen off a cliff - falling at a minus seventeen degrees per century rate'

Curry: 'Manufacturing a consensus in context of IPCC has acted to hyper-politicize the scientific and policy debate, to the detriment of both. Its time to abandon the concept of consensus; consensus matters far less than simply being right and the arguments themselves that ought to be the focus for discussion'

'The appeal to consensus is simply an appeal to authority in a very young and rather immature science'

Singer on John Holdren: 'Obama has acquired a scientific advisor who is an absolute nut when it comes to global warming'

'...for main purpose of promoting false theory that human CO2 emission was causing 'global warming/climate change/extreme weather phenomena.' Note that the theory has become a moving target over the last decade, but it is still relatively easy to track and shoot down'

'As '97%; of the world populace knows, the IPCC has falsely prophesied for the last two decades that human CO2 emissions are causing 'runaway'" warming that is resulting in a climate 'tipping point.' As the above two charts clearly indicate, the IPCC climate model prediction of runaway warming has been immensely wrong'

'The rise has been an average of 5 human hair widths per annum, with most of that over 60 years ago...Sea level rise the second last refuge of the global warming scoundrel, with ocean acidification being the last refuge. It no longer provides any refuge now that the relationship with solar activity has been quantified'

'Even with an eight-year estimate, it's not clear how far into the future you can project," he says. 'A lot of people want to predict into the end of the century, but I think it's too dangerous to do that ... We don't have enough info to know what'll happen. There's some ebb and flow to these things'

Motl: 'Santorum's attitude is much more reasonable and scientifically well-informed than the attitude of dozens of people who consider themselves natural scientists and who are sometimes considered to be scientists even by their environment. In some sense, I think that Santorum is more liberated from some of the ideological misconceptions commonly associated with Christianity than the atheist scientists and left-wing candidates'

UN officially throws global warming under the bus?! UN now says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change' -- 'Environmental governance'

'...and even shock them out of their unawareness'

Flashback 2009: Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges

'Prof Phil Jones' trip to the Pacific is among more than a QUARTER OF A MILLION miles of air travel he has racked up in the past 5 years. The boffin's fuel-burning flights mean his carbon footprint is so big it would take 95 acres of trees a year to absorb it all, Government figures show. Critics have blasted Prof Jones, who works on reports about the environmental dangers of flying, for 'breathtaking hypocrisy'

'In time, wind and solar power, electric cars, biofuels, and other environmental delusions will join that list'

Prof. Judith Curry 'argues that global climate is affected by so many factors, ranging from solar output to volcanic eruptions, that predicting how the world will warm is impossible...'We don't know what the climate will be for the next several decades. In terms of when global warming will come 'roaring back', it is possible this may not happen for the first half of the 21st century'

(Note: HadCRUT is temp records of combined sea surface & land surface temp records compiled by UK Met Office & Climate Research Unit)

'Their reported precision is about five orders of magnitude larger than their accuracy. What a complete joke'

'Hansen has 0% 1880s coverage in Antarctica, less than 10% in S. America & Africa, less than 50% in Australia, Asia & Canada, less than 25% in Greenland, & almost no coverage in Alaska. The bulk of Hansen's feeble warming over last 130 years is based almost entirely on fabricating Arctic temp data...The bottom line is that his warming trend since 1880 is primarily based on non-existent temperature readings in the Arctic. Is Hansen the worst scientist in history?'

'Temps can fall by up to 4C downwind of farms Tory MPs write to PM demanding dramatic subsidy cuts' -- 'They have long been championed as a way to combat global warming by creating clean energy. But wind farms can actually alter the climate according to a new study. The team from the U. of Illinois found that daytime temps around wind farms can fall by as much as 4C, while at night temperatures can increase'

'Hansen is missing data from at least 0.70 of land surface during 19th century, yet reports trends within 0.01 degrees. He would fail any undergraduate science class for using a precision 2 orders of magnitude larger than his accuracy...His global trend is entirely dependent on cheating in US...He had almost no temp data in 1880s for Africa, Greenland, S. America, N. Canada, Siberia, Arctic, Antarctic & S.Asia'

Vahrenholt: 'The IPCC is more of a political than a scientific body. As a rapporteur on renewable energy, I witnessed how thin the factual basis is for predictions that are made at the IPCC...Many decision-makers don't know that new studies have seriously questioned the dominance of CO2. CO2 alone will never cause a warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century'

'The EPA, for instance, is using the Lorax character to help promote low-power appliances that carry the Energy Star label...EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency hopes the movie will help children understand the link between saving energy and saving the environment. "It's important to connect these dots between energy savings and efficiency and a cleaner environment," she said. "Bringing together the Lorax and Energy Star is a great venue for doing that."

Santorum: 'I for one understand just from science that there are 100 factors that influence the climate. To suggest that one minor factor of which man's contribution is a minor factor in the minor factor is determining ingredient in sauce that affects entire global warming & cooling is just absurd on its face and...unfortunately politicians who happen to be running for the GOP nomination for president who bought into man-made global warming and bought into cap-and-trade'

'Domestic oil output is highest in 8 years. The U.S. is producing so much natural gas that it now may approve an export terminal. World's biggest methanol maker will dismantle factory in Chile & reassemble it in U.S. to take advantage of low natural gas prices...U.S. has reversed 2-decade-long decline in energy independence, increasing proportion of demand met from domestic sources over last 6 years to 81% through first 10 months of 2011 -- highest level since 1992'

'From corn to marijuana crops, this year's drought — the worst since the Mexican government began recording rainfall 70 years ago'

'The girls had to step over a river of urine. I could smell it as soon as I walked into the hallway'

At the 28:25 mark, the host refers to Marc Morano as 'Marc Moronic' -- At the 31:10, D.R. Tucker says that Morano went after him, and ;whatever he [Morano] is for, politically, I am against...Any ideology that tolerates that sort of behavior is a movement or an ideology that is intellectually dead as opposed to science, which is intellectually alive'

Morano: 'Ad is an insult to space aliens. Why would space aliens be impressed with a car that already had the same results in 1896? The 1896 Roberts electric car got the exact same battery range as the Chevy volt -- 40 miles. If people are sober, they are not going to be swayed by this [Volt] ad. With all the govt mandates and subsidies, this is what is known as a huge government boondoggle'