Stephan Lewandoski is surveying attitudes to climate science at

http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=HKMKNF_991e2415

As someone who in my time has worked with professional survey companies and Government statistics bureaux, the survey is moderately flawed - e.g. asking two-parter questions with a single answer, failing to define a few terms such as 'climate scientist', failing to account for perfectly plausible answers - e.g. does HIV cause AIDS? Correct answer is probably that HIV is a necessary but not sufficent condition (even that is wrong - some people have AIDS but no HIV, many people have HIV but not AIDS - with or without treatment).

Overall he is getting your ( American style ) political beliefs, then a bit of science - very badly worded and designed to turn honest answers into climate propaganda - and then a bit of lifestyle stuff.

With the science questions, the less you know the better, because Thinking Scientists™ look at the deeper questions, so they are as likely to answer 'wrongly' as any non-scientist

Ahoy Lad

I can see recruitment for the submarine service falling off sharply if this goes ahead. ^.^

I know there are some really off the wall ideas for generating energy, but this is surely taking the p*ss :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-11023725

There is another reason for finding out how much climate change is to blame for various events. "Hundreds of billions of dollars are potentially available [in a UN fund] to help developing countries adapt to climate change," says Allen. Who gets what share of the funds depends on being able to say which regions have suffered most as a result of climate change. For now, at least, that remains an open question.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727754.200-time-to-blame-climate-change-for-extreme-weather.html

I assume this attribution process will be absolutely immune to corruption ... ?

Fascinating and compulsive story here and very relevent to our climate change debates. If oil and natural gas are not about to run out then some of the pressure to move to "clean energy" is removed.
Need one of our inhouse physics doctorates to review this :P

I found this on "GREENIE WATCH" can anyone comment?

The claim that oil is a fossil fuel is another great myth and folly of the age. They are now finding oil at around seven MILES beneath the sea bed -- which is incomparably further down than any known fossil. The abiotic oil theory is not as yet well enough developed to generate useful predictions but that is also true of fossil fuel theory

The Camp for Climate Action (web site) has put out a guide for dealing with the media. Here are some quotes.

… a lot of journalists are not bad people, just weak and cowardly.

Most journalists are convinced that people can’t concentrate for more than a few seconds. This is mainly because they themselves can’t concentrate for more than a few seconds.

Your key messages should be said over and over and over again … The more they get said, the more likely that they might actually lodge themselves into a journalist’s small mind.

Introduce [journalists] to the people who’ll get on well with them, and keep them away from the people who won’t be able to restrain their contempt.

This reminds me of a book that I read: How to Win Friends and Influence People. Not.

Tete Rousse and Wackypedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850

In 1892 a GLOF released some 200,000 km^3 (2.6×10^14 cu yd) of water from the lake of the Glacier de Tête Rousse, resulting in the deaths of 200 people in the French town of Saint Gervais. GLOFs have been known to occur in every region of the world where glaciers are located. Continued glacier retreat is expected to create and expand glacial lakes, increasing the danger of future GLOFs.

Well thank goodness the BBC is reporting only that

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11080827

The lake, which is said to contain 65,000 cubic metres (2.3m cubic ft) of water, was discovered last month during routine checks.

Which is about 10^-11 smaller. I guess things are improving in the alps.

P.S. Did William Connolley edit the Wackpedia Article perchance?

Amazon.co.uk today

Return to Almora: 114,060 in sales rank; no reviews

Hockey Stick Illusion: 1,584 in sales rank; 1st in GW books, 55 reviews (52 x 5-star).

With a hat tip to WUWT, here is Walter Russel Mead's review of Patchy's latest piece of fictional excresence. I particularly liked the following comment, "Yet again Walter Russell Mead performs a selfless humanitarian service: reading this clot of codswallop so we don’t have to.

Comment by vanderleun – August 22, 2010 @ 7:05 pm"

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