Google Abandons Global Warming

http://www.Real-Science.com/google-abandons-global-warming

Until today, Google News had a sidebar for global warming. It is gone this morning. 

Chris Matthews: People Who Believe God As The Creator Are "Troglodytes" | RealClearPolitics

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/26/chris_matthews_people_who_believe_god_as_the_creator_are_troglodytes.html

Chris Matthews: In other words, there is no manmade influence on climate change? Is that your belief, Ron Christie? I didn't know that. Are you out there with the full-mooners on this one?

Ron Christie, Republican strategist: Let me enlighten you on this one, Chris. I think global climate change is the biggest fraud that's been perpetrated in this country. The scientific evidence isn't there. This is something that Al Gore and his cronies have made millions of dollars of perpetuating a myth. That's what I think. 

Email 1145, May 2005, Jonathan Overpeck to Briffa/Jansen: "We're hoping you guys can generate something compelling enough for the TS and SPM - something that will replace the hockey-stick with something even more compelling"

Email 1145

We're hoping you guys can generate something compelling enough for the TS [Technical Summary] and SPM  [Summary for Policy Makers] - something that will replace the hockey-stick with something even more compelling.

Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwNjEyNDYyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email

Speaking for many scientists and engineers who have looked carefully and independently at the science of climate, we have a message to any candidate for public office: There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically.

Study of wolves will help scientists predict climate effects on endangered animals

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_2-12-2011-10-7-57

We know that climate change is having an impact on the lives of animal species around the world. This is clear through the changes we've seen in their population sizes, as well as their body sizes

Travel less (unless you’re a politician, UN big-wig or bureaucrat)

http://climatenonconformist.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/travel-less-unless-youre-a-politician-un-big-wig-or-bureaucrat/

The article then touts the benefits of internet broadband and video conferencing and lauds the fact that they don't have any greenhouse drawbacks. Yet, we have politicians, dignitaries, youth activists, actors, celebrities, scientists and bureaucrats jetting off to some luxury location every year to make a deal on reducing these same greenhouse gases. If only they would subscribe to the same anti-transport policy that their friends in the environmental movement want to subject the rest of us to.

First Estimate of Solar Cycle 25 Amplitude – end of Modern Warm Period?

http://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/first-estimate-of-solar-cycle-25-amplitude-end-of-modern-warm-period

First Estimate of Solar Cycle 25 Amplitude – may be the smallest in over 300 years In a guest post by David Archibald at Watts Up With That he suggest based on the current data that we are about to see the end of the Modern Warm Period. 

New Resources of Note

http://planet3.org/2012/01/26/new-resources-of-note/

 the new energy in defending and advancing science in general and climate science in particular is a welcome development.

How to be a Really Good Climate Change Alarmist

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-be-really-good-climate-change.html

10: Don't worry about Cognitive dissonance. 

Sixteen prominent scientists publish a letter in WSJ saying there’s “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/27/sixteen-prominent-scientists-publish-a-letter-in-wsj-saying-theres-no-need-to-panic-about-global-warming/

This is quite something. Sixteen scientists, including such names as Richard Lindzen, William Kininmonth, Wil Happer, and Nir Shaviv, plus engineer Burt Rutan, and Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Harrison Schmidt, among others, write what amounts to a heretical treatise to theWall Street Journal, expressing their view that the global warming is oversold, has stalled in the last decade, and that the search for meaningful warming has led to co-opting weather patterns in the blame game

Ocean Heat Content: Climate Models Continue To Fail Miserably At Predicting OHC

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/01/ocean-heat-content-climate-models-continue-to-fail-miserably-at-predicting-ohc.html

The NASA climate model developed by James Hansen has been atrocious at predicting global warming over the last 15 years and the evidence mounts it is even worse at predicting ocean heat content 

Shock News From HadCRUT – 2011 More Than 0.3 Degrees Warmer Than 1878

http://www.Real-Science.com/shock-news-hadcrut-2011-0-3-degrees-warmer

I think the whole surface temperature record is complete crap, but 0.35 degrees is all Phil could come up with? 

School Board Member Skeptical of Textbook - Hellertown-Lower Saucon, PA Patch

http://hellertown.patch.com/articles/saucon-valley-school-board-member-concerned-about-textbook

"The book talks about global warming," Eichfeld said. "It is presented as fact. (Global warming) is a theory and not a fact."

Eichfeld said he does not believe global warming is a proven fact, and said the subject may become "obsolete in a few years."

Gavin Schmidt: Climate Homeopathy

http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/gavin-schmidt-climate-homeopathy/

I was tickled last week when I was browsing on the realclimate website and came across an exchange between our old friend Vukcevic and Gavin Schmidt, who pooh-poohed Vuk's proposal for an effect on arctic circulation relating to changes in Earth's magnetic field, another vastly powerful force. Gavin didn't think the energy equivalent involved would be sufficient.
"Or do you have some magic mechanism?" he jibed "climate homeopathy perhaps?"

Another IPCC Demand for Secrecy

http://climateaudit.org/2012/01/26/another-ipcc-demand-for-secrecy/

Unfortunately, IPCC seems far more concerned about secrecy than in requiring its contributors to archive data. I received another request to remove discussion of IPCC draft reports. On this issue, David Appell and I are in full agreement – see David Appell's collection of ZOD chaptershere.

Climate change: No. of people willing to 'go green' and change the way they live falls 10% | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092375/Climate-change-No-people-willing-green-change-way-live-falls-10.html

Dr Benny Peiser, of the sceptical Global Warming Policy Foundation,  said: 'Climate change is dropping off the political agenda. The person in the pub no longer cares. It is bottom of their list of priorities.'

Professor Knut Löschke: IPCC Representatives Do Not Shy Away From Fraud And Falsification

http://notrickszone.com/2012/01/26/prof-knut-loschke-ipcc-representatives-do-not-shy-away-from-fraud-and-falsification/

Löschke thinks the whole climate issue is a dangerous political sham and called on the public: "Wehret den Anfängen!" This is a call to defend against a dangerous movement.

At the end of his speech Professor Löschke compared the "international climate regime" to the socialist regimes in Germany. According to Bärligea, up to 8 people walked out.

Dept. of Agriculture Gives $235 Million Loan to Ethanol Company

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/289372/dept-agriculture-gives-235-million-loan-ethanol-company-greg-pollowitz

So, just how many federal agencies are going to play venture capitalist? 

One-Third Of The US Shows Warming Daytime Temperatures Since 1895

http://www.Real-Science.com/shows-warming-daytime-temperatures-1895

Before adjustments, 34% of the country shows warming since 1895.

Global Warming Weekly Round-Up, Jan. 26th 2012 « The Daily Bayonet

http://dailybayonet.com/2012/01/global-warming-weekly-round-up-jan-26th-2012/

Presentation by global warming skeptics draws big crowd in Portland

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/9848-presentation-by-global-warming-skeptics-draws-big-crowd-in-portland

More than 400 people jammed into a Portland hotel ballroom Wednesday night to hear a panel of global warming skeptics assert that manmade increases in greenhouse gases are not driving climate change.

Ice in Bering Sea threatens crab fishery: Commerical Fishing | Alaska news at adn.com

http://www.adn.com/2012/01/25/2283664/ice-in-central-bering-sea-is-threatening.html

EARLY: Southward extension is farthest over the past 20 years.

Scientists Discover That Frequency of Super Hurricanes Has Declined Significantly Over Last 600 Years

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/01/scientists-discover-that-frequency-of-super-hurricanes-has-declined-significantly-over-last-600-year.html

Super hurricane frequency was greater thousands of years ago when CO2 levels were low - new evidence shows modern global warming has not caused an increase 

Email 1104, March 2005: Heinz Wanner says he was highly critical of the hockey stick as an official IPCC reviewer in 2001, but "My review was classified "unsignificant" even I inquired several times"

Email 1104

I had to give several interviews (TV, radio, newspapers) but tried just to explain science. Now an old story is warmed up. I was a reviewer of the IPCC-TAR report 2001. In my review which I can not find again in its precise wording I critcized the fact that the whole Mann hockeytick is being printed in its full length in the IPCC-TAR report. In 1999 I made the following comments:

1. The spatial, temporal (tree-ring data in the midlatitudes mainly contain "summer information") and spectral coverage and behaviour of the data is questionable, mainly before 1500-1600 AD. 2. It is in my opinion not appropriate already to make statements for the southern hemisphere and for the period prior to 1500 AD.

My review was classified "unsignificant" even I inquired several times. Now the internationally well known newspaper SPIEGEL got the information about these early statements because I expressed my opinion in several talks, mainly in Germany, in 2002 and 2003. I just refused to give an exclusive interview to SPIEGEL because I will not cause damage for climate science. I just told a woman from SPIEGEL that I do carefully follow the activities and the forthcoming of the next IPCC report and I will then take position concerning the paleoclimate chapter there. I thought it is meaningful to infomr you about this fact./blockquote>

A really inconvenient truth is Earth not melting after all | Matt Patterson | Op Eds | Washington Examiner

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2012/01/really-inconvenient-truth-earth-not-melting-after-all/2134091

Only a generation as narcissistic as the baby boomers would assume that the temperature they were accustomed to as they came of age in the mid-20th century is the "correct" or "average" global temperature, which must be maintained in perpetuity no matter the costs.

Again, from NASA: "Global temperature in 2011 was lower than in 1998." Now there's an inconvenient truth for you.