Jane Coles: comment added by me to Light Blogging today re GOS, but no answer from them yet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/geoffrey-lean/8081532/Global-warming-Climate-hawks-win-the-name-game.html

Warmies have picked a new name for themselves, we should now refer to the as Climate Hawks. Hmm, they are certainly hawking something but it smells like the same old rotting carrion, and the only bird involved will be the one we flip in their direction.

Prince Charles's green comitments bear fruit for the family finances.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323228/Queens-38m-year-offshore-windfarm-windfall--owns-seabed.html

H/T Tax Payers Alliance http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/waste/
Job cuts, anyone?

“Carbon Reduction Officer £18 - £20 per hour
We are currently recruiting for a well known Local Authority in London for a Carbon Reduction Officer. This is an excellent opportunity which has funding until March 2011.
Your role will be to assist in reducing the councils carbon emissions through implementing a programme of energy and water saving measures.

The duties of the post will be to:
1. Gather and collate energy and water consumption data in order to manage consumption and cost.
2. Develop a carbon reduction strategy
3. Liaise with both internal and external clients on energy and carbon reduction
4. Promote and provide carbon and energy reporting services to client departments.

This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate who is knowledgeable in this area as you will be responsible on creating an action plan for the borough”.

Or watch it here on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bab6kDtFTJA

There's an interesting documentary showing on the Histry Channel + 1 at 12 today called Ancient Apocalypse. It's about the drought that ended the Maya and it's connection to the LIA. Repeated again at 5 and 6 this evening. For Sky users that's channels 529 and 530.

Interesting blog on the Telegraph comment pages from one of the more mainstream commentators:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8081276/Spending-Review-Honesty-is-the-best-policy-before-the-bigger-fuel-bills-start-to-bite.html

You might want to put up a post about another smear attempt. Read this discussion of a letter from Mann, Ehrlich and Rahmstorf to Nature.

Not only is this blatant ad hominem, it's bad ad hominem. As far as I can tell, the only connection that Greenberg has with the Marshall Institute, is that he once participated in a roundtable discussion, which the Marshall Institute published. The fact that Mann et al. linked to sourcewatch.org, which exists solely to provide "dirt" against any non-consensus thinker, is enough to discredit anything they wrote.

It's another in the vein of the Anderegg et al. PNAS "blacklist" article.

UK government's Food Standards Agency, in conjunction with the University of East Anglia (who else?) urges everybody goes vegetarian, and also urges organic vegetarian diet in schools, hospitals and at other public institutions.

Allowed: Vegetables, pulses, yoghurt - if grown organically

Not allowed: Beef, cheese, cocoa, tea, coffee

Why? To cut greenhouse gas emissions of course!

I personally find it funny how eating hippie rabbit food is not only fashionable, among certain classes, but now virtuous too! So virtuous that it must be imposed on the rest of us.

Maybe somebody should nominate it for Anthony Watt's climate craziness of the week?

Donna Laframboise over at nofrakkingconsensus.wordpress.com/ has been posting an example a day of AR4 lead authors who were graduate students and in at least one case a former Green Peace staffer. Great reading and her efforts deserve wider distribution.