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.?

Suppressed EPA Hushgate climate report returns to snag CO2 regulation

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/04/ron-arnold-suppressed-epa-hushgate-climate-report-returns-snag-co2-regula#ixzz1Jaox6ijv

EPA insider offered scientific objections to the EPA findings but was not allowed to tell anyone. Now 2 years later he is published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/8/4/985/pdf

Alex Salmond promises Scotland will be powered entirely by renewables by 2020:

Some fudging:

Mr Salmond's aides stressed the 100 per cent target would not mean non-renewable power stations would close. Rather, the First Minister said a combination of renewables and non-renewables would ensure Scotland produced twice the amount of electricity it required, which would be readily bought up by the rest of the UK.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/politics/Salmond-under-fire-for-cloud.6752112.jp?articlepage=2

Oh dear.

This is pretty telling regarding modern PR Bish, some parallels regarding selling the CAGW story too ;^)

http://realbusiness.co.uk/news/how-i-got-a-blank-book-to-the-top-of-the-amazon-charts/page:1

Our famous Railway Engineer gets about a bit. He's driven his glacial locomotive over to Rome:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/

see the pdf link on that page to "Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene "

Stuck-record

Another good reason to lift the absurd proscription on the stuff then. Perhaps then growers would simply use the sun instead of hiding in cellars.

A psychotherapist and climate activist has had second thoughts about pushing such activism on to children: http://rorandall.org/2011/03/23/should-we-be-working-with-children-about-climate-change/

She argues that it might cause them anxiety, that it might be counterproductive for the cause, and that people are just picking on them for their own selfish ends.

I have added some comments here: http://climatelessons.blogspot.com/2011/04/not-just-another-brick-in-wall-hey.html

Oh Dear.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/13/marijuana_thermageddon/

"Evan Mills, who works at Lawrence Livermore Labs but conducted the study in his own time, estimates that indoor pot growing accounts for 1 per cent of energy usage in the United States, with each spliff representing two pounds of CO2 emission. Heavy."

Barry

Some (or all?) of the Paul Dennis debate is available here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fgPrhzp7ht4J:slsingh.posterous.com/41313406+paul+dennis+slsingh&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

As to why he turned the comments off, there are relevant comments at the end of the following thread

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/4/3/singhs-response-to-nelson.html