Global Warming and Energy

Yet another link discovered between solar activity and climate, this linking a cold winter cycle along the Rhine to the solar cycle. These links are coming fast and furious.

Ice melt in Antarctica peninsula the norm over long periods.

The media has been desperate for a major hurricane to hit he US for years now, but they keep missing. This coverage of Isaac is typical. The reality is the storm is weakening, but the article scares us by claiming...

"Conditions favorable for rapid intensification"

Be very afraid of the weakening storm. Buy more newspapers. Watch more cable news.

I don't think for a minute that Michael Mann will follow through with his suit on National Review for defamation. Michael Mann is a fraud. He's emotional. He's narcissistic. But he isn't stupid. Neither are his lawyers. Once it becomes clear he will have to expose everything he ever wrote and every aspect of his scientific analysis, he will withdraw. He has nothing buy money to lose at first, and since he's funded by taxpayer dollars, he doesn't care about money. But at some point, he will he ordered to provide discovery. Then he will withdraw.

Here's my comment on wattsupwiththat.com.

"Come on. We all have dreams about this, but it will never happen. Mann is a fr***. He's a narcissist. But he's not stupid. And if he behaves stupidly, his lawyer won't be stupid. This is just another step in the great global warming fr***. The bad guys couldn't afford to back off. But they will back off before they are forced to deliver discovery. By then, they will have perfected their argument for why they "were forced" do so for the good of the [people, scientific community, lobsters, or something].
If you're having too much fun tonight over this, get over it. It's just another phase of the charade."

This will amount to nothing.