Justin Ert ;-)

Thanks for the link. I didn't know about this one.

Usual renewables advocacy. 80% of global energy supply from renewables, eh?

It never ceases to amaze me that organisations seeking credibility (eg IPCC) lend their imprimatur to b*ll*cks like this.

Mind you, it is WG3...

TT, seems the guardian is making the more idiotic of its global warming articles commentless, the one of buckeling rails and WiFi deserts was also commentless, but the same subject in the Telegraph allowed comments and they were 100% saying the report was rubbish.

@breath of fresh air

Pity that Graun article on La Nina isn't commentable. It's got a quote from a "weather expert" saying "It used to occur once every five to six years, but it is increasingly frequent and severe due to global warming."

However, if you look at NOAA's La Nina page, that doesn't seem to be borne out by the data.

Has this been covered anywhere?
http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/
The IPCC have a Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. Choice cuts include:
"Close to 80 percent of the world’s energy supply COULD be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies a new report shows"... and:
"...a cut of around a third in greenhouse gas emissions from business-as-usual projections, COULD assist in keeping concentrations of greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million."... And:
"This COULD contribute towards a goal of holding the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius...".
There is a nice SPM and a press release, but I guess the report itself comes later.

La Nina causes floods, but it also made worse by Global Warming !!!!!

I thought La nina was a cooling event, as usual my engineering logic is suspect in the eyes of post normal science ;)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/10/heavy-rains-flooding-colombia

A MUST listen....
BBC - More or Less
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b010xykh

BBC reporter: If you can't prove that there are [Environment refugees], we should not be making the statement.. we can't prove it

response: Quote of the week? -

'You can't prove that smoking cause cancer, Science is never ever completely final, Science is always a bit iffy'

'a bit iffy' !!!!

from Norman Myers, when challenged that the 50 million refugees was now shown to be wrong.

A must listen...

BBC reports on the disappearing UN 50 million Climate refugee map...

BBC - More or Less
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b010xykh

In this week's programme:

"The blogosphere has been awash with accusations of a climate change conspiracy. The UN, it's claimed, tried to cover up a prediction made about "climate refugees". More or Less investigates."

The BBC's take is quite interesting and even sceptical!......... and interviews the blogger that spotted the story

mentioned used in the Stern report, etc, etc....

plus highlights the error message on the missing map page..

"The error message reads: Dear visitor, it seems like the map you are navigating by is maybe not fully up-to-date, or that it might have an error in it, or is it that your GPS is not loaded with the correct data? We are just taking the scenic route, darling! See Honey, We're not lost. I know where we are: This way I think... mmm!"
.

Also - quotes experts - saying the 50 million figure is and was nonsense, and makes the point, it was made by an environmentalist used it to SCARE politiciand and publics into action..

A MUST listen....

Quote of the week - 'Science is a bit iffy' from Norman Myers, when challenged that it was wrong

To follow up from Phillip Bratby's post...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13343055

Roger Harrabin covers the split in the cabinet (DECC, Defra and FO on one side; Treasury, Business on the other) on radio 4 Today at about 7.20am.

BHP Billiton chairman Jacques Nasser has turned up the pressure on Julia Gillard to abandon plans for a carbon tax, calling for a "go-slow" approach to tackling climate change and warning that the rest of the world is unlikely to follow Australia's lead.

Speaking in Melbourne yesterday, the chairman of Australia's biggest company and the world's biggest miner added to recent calls by his chief executive, Marius Kloppers, for a sector-specific approach to dealing with carbon pollution that did not hurt businesses that had global competitors.

We've got to be careful we don't get into the trap of really believing our behaviour is going to influence other countries; I don't think that will be the case.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/go-slow-on-carbon-tax-bhp-billiton-chairman-jacques-nasser/story-fn59niix-1226052891034