Update on the fracking story...

Director Admits He Withheld Key Evidence From Final Cut of Oscar-Nominated Documentary

Best thing about Times iPad is you can't see comments. So Hugo Rifkind's superb article about climate change is un-polluted by nobbers

Twitted by Brian Cox

In its own strange way this is significant... from the world of sport...

BBC Sport: Virgin Racing fire technical director Nick Wirth

What has this got to do with CAGW?

CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics. Basically a virtual wind tunnel. Virgin Racing decided that they could use CFD alone without the need for wind tunnel testing. All the other teams always back up initial CFD with real testing.

The result? 4 seconds a lap slower. Which in F1 terms is like the difference between a Bentley and a Jag.

CFD uses known and proven laws of physics. Has had huge development funds thrown at it. You can verify it against reality (test runs in wind tunnel.) It is is used by some of the most competitive and technologically companies in the world.

Yet? It still needs real-word testing. Computer modelling done as well as it is possible to do so.

Yet? Still fails.

Ignore all the vanity super-computers and compare that to climate science.

MET Office comments on June 2011 reveal the real reason for lack of long range forecasts, 'They are not possible' Oh well another £170M invested in infrastructure for nothing. Rest of it reads like 33/33/34 probability forcasting at which the MET office excels.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/june-weather-set-to-disappoint-2292112.html

Helen Chivers, of the Met Office, said: "We are not seeing the hot spell lasting terribly long.

"For pretty much all the UK we have currently got a couple of days of predominantly dry weather.

"Temperatures today should be reaching the mid 20s; pretty much everywhere will be the low to mid 20s.

"The highest temperatures today will be in eastern parts of Scotland, Aberdeenshire should see temperatures up to 26c.

"We can expect 25c in Newcastle, Nottingham and in London as well."

***************Accurate long forecasts are not possible. *****

But the forecaster rejected the idea that tennis stars would struggle under the sun at Wimbledon and rock stars would dehyrdate at Glastonbury.

Forecasting between June 16 and 30 - taking in both events, she said: "UK sunshine amounts are slightly above average and temperatures around the UK look to be normal so that's why we are concerned about some of the headlines coming out."

People are calling for Huhne to resign for his speeding ticket and expenses machinations when the real reason he should go is that he is doing nothing to correct the risk to our energy supply that he inherited from the last bunch of incompetents:-

“Britain as vulnerable to energy price shocks as Uganda”

“Britain is at "high risk" of energy price shocks in the short term, with a dependence on imports making it just as vulnerable as Uganda, according to new research.”

"Although energy infrastructure is well maintained in the UK, high fuel prices at the pump and relatively high imports of both fossil fuels and electricity leave the UK vulnerable to disruption of their energy supply,"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/8551133/Britain-as-vulnerable-to-energy-price-shocks-as-Uganda.html

Some how I don’t see windmills hacking it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13616543

No more building wind farms then eh

The office of José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European commission, racked up a €249,000 bill for private jets during the same period he attended the 2009 UN convention on climate change.

The research also uncovered public money being used to fund a €75,000 cocktail party at a science conference – Discovery 09 – which was "filled with wonder like no other ... with trendy cocktails, surprising performances and top DJs", as much of the EU was in the grip of recession.

The study also showed the continued lack of transparency in how the commission spends its money. More than €42m of transfers to "natural persons" – individuals, whose names the commission keeps private – were found between 2007 and 2009, though these had fallen from €27m in 2008 to just over €1m in 2009.

However, a further €381m was spent on "confidential" activities, which the commission refuses to disclose for security reasons. The degree of confidential spending in 2009 was more than double its 2007 level, at €221m.

The findings will further raise tension in negotiations over the commission's bid for a 4.9% budget increase next year ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/01/jose-manuel-barroso-expenses-european-union

A "good news" story on the Graun:

World Bank warns of 'failing' international carbon market

The Graun is also claiming to have seen leaked documents that say the European emissions trading system is kaput. One can but hope ...

@ Messenger

I'm sure there is a model out there which can explain it all :)

(sorry, back in box)

Its worse than we thought part 55

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/01/christiana-figueres-climate-2c-rise

Global warming should be limited to 1.5C, UN climate chief saysChristiana Figueres tells carbon trading conference that the current limit of a 2C temperature rise is 'not enough'