Bishop Hill,

Is there anything happening in the background as far as updates / assessments of the police investigation of the release of the CRU emails?

John

L'Académie des Sciences has issued a press release after all.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/09/veil-lifted-on-french-academy-de.html

@ ZedsDeadBed

Just so all the information is spread around....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z00L2uNAFw8

Poor old Moonbat is sounding very down in the mouth over at the Gruniad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/20/climate-change-negotiations-failure

Only a thoroughly heartless person could fail to be moved by such despondency (snigger).

Monseigneur

The French Académie des Sciences debate on Climate Science is taking place today. Closed sesssion, no communication to the Press. Speakers had to deliver their submissions, in confidence, by the end of August. Inside sources say the aim is to identify what is consensus and what is debateable.

http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2010/09/18/climat-debat-a-huis-clos-a-l-academie-des-sciences_1412854_3244.html

Well I never, a completely meaningless answer from Amazon re the recategorising of GW books. No further comment allowed from me apparently

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Bish, would you like me to copy and paste the Willie Soon opinion piece from yesterdays South China Morning Post. I’m not sure how we stand as its behind a pay wall (4500 words ish snip me if you wish)

Willie Soon
Sep 17, 2010

Hot air
Is carbon dioxide really the monster driving climate change? If not, maybe we should prepare for a colder world.

In my 20-plus years of studying carbon dioxide and global warming, I have found that hypothetical scares often come before any realities or factual presentations. Horror stories about rising seas inundating land, cities and wildlife, super typhoons and hurricanes, and epic "mega droughts" lasting a decade or longer are all promoted as devastating results of global warming caused by the rising levels of carbon dioxide, according to reports and scientists associated with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
But will any of these scary scenarios about the carbon dioxide monster prove true for Hong Kong?

My recent seminar at the University of Hong Kong's Department of Earth Sciences offered this simple answer: No. Objective science informs us that the so-called "consensus viewpoints" offered by the IPCC - about man-made carbon dioxide being the dominant factor in climate change - is primarily a political conclusion, and not likely a scientifically accurate one..........

http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=694fe125a8a1b210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=Hong+Kong&s=News

Re-branding Alert!

Global Warming > Climate Change > Climate Disruption

Bit like Windscale > Sellafield

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/16/white-house-global-warming-global-climate-disruption/

Grasping at straws?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/sep/16/britain-leadership-climate-change?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments

Ed Millionpound leads the Labour party into the wastelands of insignificance.