http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/8266828/Identified-the-austerity-mother-cutting-back-on-helicopter-flights-and-Bond-Street.html

Here's a perfect candidate to head the 10:10 campaign. She's made great strides in reducing her family's carbon footprint eg forgoing private helicopter flights or cancelling that half-term break in the Maldives in favour of returning to her weekend home in the French Alps.

Even Hollywood might want to give her a special award.

Revkin on the imprecision in climate science predictions.

The report to go with previous:-

TEQs

A Policy Framework for Peak Oil and Climate Change

http://teqs.net/report/

Make yourselves ready:-

“Brits Ponder Fuel Rationing”

“Today I attended the launch of a report commissioned by the British parliament that called for the rationing of fuel to help meet the government's carbon emission targets and prepare for future fossil fuel scarcity. The report called for an electronic trading system for energy quotas”

Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/01/18/brits-ponder-fuel-rationing/#ixzz1BPNTA2Dz

In September last year, there was an interesting discussion following this post about revised position of the Royal Society on climate here on the Bishop's blog: http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2010/9/30/royal-society-on-climate-change.html

I noted several hostages to fortune in the RS report, and one was in paragraph 45 of it:

'45 Because of the thermal expansion of the ocean, it is very likely that for many centuries the rate of global sea-level rise will be at least as large as the rate of 20cm per century that has been observed over the past century. Paragraph 49 discusses the additional, but more uncertain, contribution to sea-level rise from the melting of land ice.'

So far, so bad (for the RS at least). See: 'Based on the most current data it appears that 2010 is going to show the largest drop in global sea level ever recorded in the modern era.' at: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/17/sea-level-may-drop-in-2010/

This encourages me to think it would be interesting to hold an annual appraisal, a sort of progress report, on the veracity and credibility of the RS' report on climate.

I'm rather worried this almost makes sense.

Have I become a closet Republican? Please no!!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2a_1295330160

The BBC puts your money where their mouth is.

Starring Bradley Whitford, Neve Campbell and Rupert Penry-Jones, Burn Up is a two-part provocative drama set in the real-life context of climate change.

Kudos Film and Television's Stephen Garrett said, "As a lifelong fan of the political thriller, it's been incredibly satisfying to marry it to the most urgent issue facing us as the century unfolds – a potent cocktail of fiction and fact that we hope will enlighten as much as it will entertain."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/burnup/

Thanks Jerry.

Point taken. Wrong fire. But, as you say, irony (and fire) still remain.
Greenpeace still in the wrong.

Stuck Record

Quite happy to be corrected, but do you have a ref for that? The only claim I can see is a single comment in one of the linked pages.

I don't have an exact ref for it, but perhaps reading the Jerusalem Post link will help? There were two fires about a month apart, one in Golan heights (? this is late at night for me) in November which the JPost article refers to and relates to the toilet paper. The second fire is late December which was the the big and very fatal fire and that was in Carmel. I'm not an expert on Palestine geography but the locations are relatively far apart.

In any case the irony of a greenie setting fire to a forest based on 'pack it in pack it out except what you burn' remains.

thought I'd do a summary
http://www.realclimategate.org/2011/01/an-excellent-guardian-article-about-the-brisbane-floods/

Germaine Greer in the Guardian Environment section:
"Meteorologists warned Australians six months ago to prepare for a soaking. And nobody did a thing …"