OCEAN HEAT INCREASE WONT PLAY BY THE MODELS RULES

Despite the 'best' projections, predictions and theories the oceans just wont co-operate with the projections of the climate models and only show muted heating.

Roger Pielke Sr posts some detailed information at his website.

NGOs CROWD OUT DURBAN

The Durban climate festival has about 14,000 delegates of which 6172 supposedly represent the 190 plus countries affiliated with the conference.  5884 of the delegates are representatives of NGO's.  I say supposedly because it has been discovered that a number of the so-called government delegates are in fact NGO personnel.

How is it that NGO's get to represent in almost equal numbers as government delegates on what is supposed to be the critical public policy issue of the century?

Anthony Watts expands on the numbers in an article at Watts Up With That.

PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE DECLINES DRAMATICALLY

The Guardian in the U.K. reports on the effect Climategate 1 and the GFC have had on people's attitudes to parting with cash to 'stop' climate change.

"The British Social Attitudes survey shows that in 2000 43% of the population would pay "much higher prices" for "the sake of the environment". Last summer support fell to just 26%, with the poorest sections of society most reluctant to save the planet with their cash."

CARBON TAX DELIVERS CERTAINTY ON PRICE RISES

Households and small businesses in NSW will face higher than expected rises in their power bills next year because of the federal carbon price according to Annabel Hepworth in The Australian.

The price rises to be introduced on July 1 were expected to be 10 per cent for EnergyAustralia, 2 per cent for Integral Energy and 9.5 per cent for Country Energy but the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal said yesterday it would have to revise this in light of the government's $23-a-tonne carbon price.

Also affected by the new carbon price will be council rates expected to rise at double the inflation rate.

"The largest adjustment was to include the anticipated impact of the federal government's carbon tax from mid-2012" said Brian Robins in the Sydney Morning Herald.

The only certainty in all of this for families is that the promised compensation will not be enough.

LEAKED EMAILS CONFIRM CLIMATE CHANGE QUESTIONS

A Newcastle University professor, whose research questions the science behind climate change says he feels vindicated by recent leaked emails from an international expert on the subject.

Stewart Franks says there is no evidence that carbon dioxide drives global warming and he blames the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for scaring people about a future climate catastrophe.

MORE SUSPICIONS ABOUT THE GLOBAL WARMING GRAVY TRAIN

Miranda Devine writing in The Sunday Telegraph highlights yet again those who do not like the story will do what they can to block it.

"And the latest batch of leaked climate scientists' emails, dubbed Climategate 2.0, confirm suspicions of something fishy about the global warming gravy train.

The emails show eminent climate scientists conspiring to have PhDs stripped from sceptics, to have journal editors fired for publishing papers which contradict predictions of imminent apocalypse, and colluding with the media to slant coverage.

This wasn't science. It was politics."

Peer-reviewed sea level research blocked.