The Blackboard

Here is Joe Romm’s reaction to reading the announcement no climate agreement will issue from Copenhagen:
Some very good news on the international front, as the UK Guardian reports today:
I knew that people like Andrew_KY who oppose action thought delay in obtaining a climate agreement was good news. And, it turns out Joe Romm, a [...]

The Guardian is reporting that leaders have pretty well figured out they are not going to hammer out a binding climate deal in the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen. Here’s the current target for the agreement:
“Given the time factor and the situation of individual countries we must, in the coming weeks, focus on [...]

Those following the fishtale of m=11 smoothing to test the TAR projection will be interested to learn that Stefan Rahmstorf confirms what we, in the more “excitable” part of the blogosphere, suspected: He has abandoned m=11 year smoothing to test observations against models. He now uses m=15 years. JeanS shows the difference in trend [...]

Monckton’s June Missive invokes “Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies”.
So it is that the intellectual descendents of Goebbels are chained to the work-benches of their spin-factories, churning out an interminable series of colorful fantasies, each repeating and magnifying its predecessor, yet all having no point of contact with reality or truth.
As usual, [...]

Have you downloaded “The Synthesis Report” yet? You know, the one from the “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, Decisions” (aka, “The Copehagen Meeting”. )
Naturally, I flipped through to read their comparison of observations to temperatures. After all, annual average temperature this century have fallen mostly below the projections from the AR4 (i.e. the most [...]