UN Weather Body: Antarctic Ozone Hole Expands due to cold weather

NYT

Climate change is doing strange things in the waters off New England

WaPo

Global warming has stopped and a global cooling has begun--enjoy the warmth while you can

WUWT

History of Bush-Obama in Iraq

Instapundit

Extreme solar storms could be more common than expected

ArsTechnia

Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics

Isagora

Phil Plait's Questions if Global Warming is a Hoax

Slate

ThinkProgress thinks CO2 makes you dumber

Daily Caller

Dems investigate funding of climate skeptics

Daily Caller

NYT: Greenland Ice Sheet is Melting--We'll All Going to DIE

Daily Caller

Climate Models Uncertainty Loop

David Roberts in Vox

No Climate Change Will Not Make the Persian Gulf Uninhabitable

Eric Holthaus in Slate

12 times the GOP establishment kicked the conservative base in the teeth

Ricochet

Report says Gulf cities may be unlivable by end of century

WaPo

The Ryan Revolution

Free Beacon

Record Hurricane Drought-Ten Years and Counting

Watts Up With That

A Whiter Shade of Candidate

SlateStarCodex

Charting Global Temperatures and CO2

Steve Hayward at Powerline

Mrs Trudeau Hottest First Lady in the World

NY Post

Predictions of a New Ice Age in Great Britain

Express

What the Climate Wars Did to Science

Matt Ridley in Rational Optimist

Obama's DOJ has always been half-hearted about Muslim terrorism

would really rather go against domestic opponents CNN

if you desire peace, prepare for war

"There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." —George Washington, 1793

French govt suspends weatherman who writes book opposing COP

Telegraph

Goals must be SMART

In my world where decisions must be taken and outcomes matter, the goals are SMART:

Specific – target a specific area for improvement.
Measurable – quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress.
Assignable – specify who will do it.
Realistic – state what results can realistically be achieved, given available resources.
Time-related – specify when the result(s) can be achieved.

List of Top 10 CO2 Emitters

NewsNet

The 25 Best Quotes About Liberals

Townhall

O'Sullivans First Law

O’Sullivan’s First Law, named for John O’Sullivan, former editor of National Review, speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher, and author of the fine book The President, The Pope, and the Prime Minister, goes as follows: Any institution that is not explicitly right wing will become left wing over time.  Good example include such seemingly anodyne institutions like the League of Women Voters, PTAs, National Public Radio, most professional associations like the American Bar Association, the Pew Charitable Trust (which actually was intended to be explicitly conservative, and still got captured by the left), and so forth. 

Powerline Steve Hayward

Michael Crichton's Murray Gell-Mann Effect

Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

Math errors indicate climate not nearly as sensitive to CO2 as thought; maybe sun's influence

Perth

Paris CO2 reduction pledges inadequate

Alternet