New frontiers in climate litigation. Note that you'll have to pay money, or assume the identity of a googlebot, if you want to read Hayward's WSJ link.

Seems ok now, fingers crossed :)

Site formatting: I have experienced similar problems recently, which resolved themselves afterI cleared my cache (Tools > internet settings > delete ... )

Is there something odd about the site formatting? The section 'a few links I've stumbled across' is just a long list of odd text and the general items are now appearing shiftedn to the right. Anyone else having problems?

Lord Beaverbrook --
Thanks for the reference to Carlin's paper. I'm only about a third of the way through -- it's a forty-page paper! -- but already it's shown me some new aspects. Plus the references are great, such as this gem from Lindzen:

Indirect estimates, based on response to volcanos,
suggest sensitivity may be as small as 0.3–0.5°C for a doubling
of CO2, which is well within the range of natural variability.
This is not to suggest that such change cannot be detected;
rather, it is a statement that the anticipated change is well
within the range of what the earth regularly deals with. It is
further noted that the common assertion that even small
changes in mean temperature can lead to major changes in
climate distribution is ill-founded and, likely, wrong.

Pot calling Kettle Black

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Miliband-scorns-SNP-39fairy-stories39.6752724.jp

Millipede vs Salmond

this is worth bookmarking...

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/15/the-un-disappears-50-million-climate-refugees-then-botches-the-disappearing-attempt/#more-38006

and they failed to disapear the webpage and map proprely, WUWT and every sceptical website should make hay with this one.. AS, 50 million refuges by 2010, has now turned into 50 million by 2020, without a blush.

Anthony watts has sent this letter off,,,

I’ve sent her this message tonight:

Dear Professor Tirado,

It appears that the original claim made by the UN of 50 million climate refugees by 2010 has been proven totally false by a simple census count. UNEP has already removed the claim from their website. See this story: http://wp.me/p7y4l-9T0

At AAAS in Feburary, you made a nearly identical claim, but simply 10 years into the future. On what basis did you make this claim, and in light of the failed prediction and removal by UNEP of the old claim, are you prepared to retract the new 2020 refugee claim you made here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jnW80NlFZ259UCgMAHSd3ekHutiQ?docId=CNG.aa651167cd0af745b3cb395cf1d402e3.c41

Millions of readers await your response at WUWT. Thank you for your consideration.

Anthony Watts

http://www.wattsupwiththat.com

UPDATE3: Reader Andrew30 provides the linkage of this farce to the main body of the UN, not just the UNEP as some have complained.

General Assembly, 8 July 2008
GA/10725
Sixty-second General Assembly
Informal Meeting on Climate Change and Most Vulnerable Countries (AM)

Statements
SRGJAN KERIM, President of the General Assembly, opened the discussion by saying that 11 of the last 12 years had ranked among the 12 warmest since the keeping of global temperature records had begun in 1850. Two points were significant: that climate change was inherently a sustainable-development challenge; and that more efforts than ever before must be exerted to enable poor countries to prepare for impacts because it had been estimated that there would be between 50 million and 200 million environmental migrants by 2010.

Panel Discussion
The Assembly then held a panel discussion moderated by author and journalist Eugene Linden. The panellists were Reid Basher, Senior Coordinator at the Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Ian Noble, Senior Climate Change Specialist at the World Bank; and Veerle Vandeweerd, Director of the Environment and Energy Group at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Suggestion for a Friday funny I have just come across at Scottish Sceptic:

http://scottishsceptic.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/our-carbon/

http://www.ipcc.ch/scripts/_session_template.php?page=_33ipcc.htm

For those interested, the papers for the Abu Dhabi meeting of the IPPC are available on-line

Lord Beaverbrook (Hushgate):

Long suspected - nice to see it so clearly exposed! Now can we expect to find examples fron UK, Australia etc. etc.?