'Meltwater from Asia's peaks is much less then previously estimated...The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from Himalayas to Tian Shan on border of China & Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside 2largest caps – Greenland & Antarctica – is much less then previously estimated'

'Even with an eight-year estimate, it's not clear how far into the future you can project," he says. 'A lot of people want to predict into the end of the century, but I think it's too dangerous to do that ... We don't have enough info to know what'll happen. There's some ebb and flow to these things'

Study published this week in journal Climate of the Past: 'Analyzes an 'unprecedentally large network of temperature...proxy records" [a total of 120] and concludes that warming of the 20th century was 'within the range of natural variability over the last 12 centuries.' Only two of the eight types of temperature proxies analyzed indicate 20th century warming exceeded that of the Medieval Warming Period'

'Despite a warm 2012 January in the U.S., overall, January temperatures over the last 15 years have fallen off a cliff - falling at a minus seventeen degrees per century rate'

Motl: 'Santorum's attitude is much more reasonable and scientifically well-informed than the attitude of dozens of people who consider themselves natural scientists and who are sometimes considered to be scientists even by their environment. In some sense, I think that Santorum is more liberated from some of the ideological misconceptions commonly associated with Christianity than the atheist scientists and left-wing candidates'

'The EPA, for instance, is using the Lorax character to help promote low-power appliances that carry the Energy Star label...EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency hopes the movie will help children understand the link between saving energy and saving the environment. "It's important to connect these dots between energy savings and efficiency and a cleaner environment," she said. "Bringing together the Lorax and Energy Star is a great venue for doing that."

Curry: 'Manufacturing a consensus in context of IPCC has acted to hyper-politicize the scientific and policy debate, to the detriment of both. Its time to abandon the concept of consensus; consensus matters far less than simply being right and the arguments themselves that ought to be the focus for discussion'

'The appeal to consensus is simply an appeal to authority in a very young and rather immature science'

Singer on John Holdren: 'Obama has acquired a scientific advisor who is an absolute nut when it comes to global warming'

Santorum: 'I for one understand just from science that there are 100 factors that influence the climate. To suggest that one minor factor of which man's contribution is a minor factor in the minor factor is determining ingredient in sauce that affects entire global warming & cooling is just absurd on its face and...unfortunately politicians who happen to be running for the GOP nomination for president who bought into man-made global warming and bought into cap-and-trade'

'Domestic oil output is highest in 8 years. The U.S. is producing so much natural gas that it now may approve an export terminal. World's biggest methanol maker will dismantle factory in Chile & reassemble it in U.S. to take advantage of low natural gas prices...U.S. has reversed 2-decade-long decline in energy independence, increasing proportion of demand met from domestic sources over last 6 years to 81% through first 10 months of 2011 -- highest level since 1992'

'From corn to marijuana crops, this year's drought — the worst since the Mexican government began recording rainfall 70 years ago'

UN officially throws global warming under the bus?! UN now says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change' -- 'Environmental governance'

'...and even shock them out of their unawareness'

'...for main purpose of promoting false theory that human CO2 emission was causing 'global warming/climate change/extreme weather phenomena.' Note that the theory has become a moving target over the last decade, but it is still relatively easy to track and shoot down'