Ten months on from the failed Copenhagen climate summit, a binding global agreement on emissions cuts is still out of reach. Stephen Sackur speaks to Tony Juniper, the former head of the campaign group Friends of the Earth, who is now working with Prince Charles calling for a sustainable revolution. In this age of austerity, have environmental issues have slipped down the political agenda?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vjxps/HARDtalk_Tony_Juniper/

Monseigneur

The French Academy of Science's report on climate change has been published.

http://www.academie-sciences.fr/publications/rapports/pdf/climat_261010.pdf

The Nature blog has commented already.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/10/french_climate_farce.html

Another conference for warmists on the theme of "Why won't they believe us?"

http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~geograph/2010-10-27_climate_controversies_program.pdf

Perhaps I should have my coffee before typing!

Climate Fools day

and the link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/oct/25/climate-fools-day-sceptics-parliament

Bishop, your name crops up for the Climate Folls day meeting at Westminster, are you attending?

[No - can't justify another trip to London right now]

Looks like Graham Stringer has a busy day Wednesday:

http://climatefoolsday.com/ Sceptics at Westminster.

Anyone going to the Select committee meeting in the morning might like to check this meeting out in the afternoon.

is anyone going to field this?....

THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY – HONG KONG

presents

"Storms of My Grandchildren"

by
Dr. James Hansen

on
Monday, 1 November 2010

The Jardine Penthouse, 48/F Jardine House, One Connaught Place

Complimentary Drinks Reception 6.30 pm; Lecture 7.30 pm

(This event is being co-hosted with The Civic Exchange)

http://climateprediction.net/content/millennium-experiment-famous

Remember the BBC experiment using distributed computing to operate a climate model? The team that started it are still going with many experiments ongoing.

rg : Historical climate records tell various stories — Let's test them all.

We'd like to understand the climate changes since 800 AD (i.e., for just over a millennium). In addition to the post-industrial era, this period includes so-called Medieval Warm Period (~900-1300 AD) and Little Ice Age (~1300-1900AD) (see e.g. Medieval Warm Period on wikipedia). The anomalously warm and cold periods are probably caused by the variation of volcanic & solar activities, land use changes and perhaps the change of oceanic circulation pattern, but the contribution of each component is not well understood...

The piece by Judith Curry is certainly gaining attention, (though of course the BBC environment and science correspondents are desparately ignoring it), but just as significant I think is the discussion over on the Air Vent (entitled 'Momentary lapse of Reason, and later posts). This was started by a physics paper being put up for open review, with the result that the ability of the Global Climate models to deal with real life is seriously challenged. This leads to a very very interesting (and extremely courteous) detailed discussion which in itself is fascinating, but more important is that both sides of the debate are talking part including 'Very Well Known People' such as 'Gavin'. It's also spawned an equally deep discussion over on Lucia's Blackboard which is attempting to quantify the possible effects described in the paper.

All makes for extremely interesting reading, but does it also mean the final death of 'the science is settled' and mean that open questioning and elucidation is once more on the cards?

Can't for the life of me imagine why the illustrious Science and Environment correspondents of the worlds premier broadcasting company fail to note these extraordinary (earth shattering?) developments.

Fate of the World anyone?

http://www.fateoftheworld.net/videos.html