Here is my latest attempt to round up the bits and bobs that I should have blogged about in recent days but haven't quite got round to.
Hilary Ostrov noted the IPCC apparently approving their recent report on renewables before they actually reviewed it. Some deft rewriting of history by the IPCC appears to have ensued.
Shub Niggurath takes a look at what I call the "official sceptics" and finds that almost none of them are sceptical of climate change. Does this say more about the nature of their scepticism than the status of global warming research? You would have thought the falsification of the models (or the lack of falsifiability according to some) would have raised a few doubts.
Popular Technology takes a look at that Carbon Brief article linking every known dissenter from the AGW dogma to ExxonMobil. A survey of the scientists criticised reveals very little by way of actual money flowing in their direction. Ross McKitrick refers the people who wrote the Carbon Brief article as "stupid" and "lazy". This is going too far in my opinion. The Carbon Brief team seem to have put quite a lot of effort in to their article.
Garth Paltridge calls for mainstream climatology to reach out to the sceptics. In the comments an excitable astrophysicist called Michael Ashley says they shouldn't (but in less polite terms than I have put it).
Steve McIntyre has noted the idea of using the movement of treelines as a proxy for temperatures. Reuters is now reporting a study which claims, remarkably, that the treeline could be 500km further north by the end of the century. This rate - 5km per year - seems rather fast to me.
A team from Denmark has published results of an experiment to produce aerosol nucleation using a particle beam. Their findings lend strong support to Svensmark's cosmic ray theory of climate change. Nigel Calder has the story.
Professor Bunyip has some fun with a proxy study of water flows on the Murray River in Australia.
President Obama issued an executive order requiring the federal government make plans to adapt to climate change. In the UK, the emphasis was more on mitigation (aka economic suicide), adopting a 20-year plan to drastically reduce carbon emissions. There are reports that a tape exists demonstrating that the plan's architect, Chris Huhne, perverted the course of justice by getting a minion to accept a speeding ticket on his behalf.