Murdock: Global cooling is here | ScrippsNews

This "lull" should doom the 0.54 degree Fahrenheit average global temperature rise predicted by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Vatican of so-called "global warming." Incidentally, the IPCC's computer models factor in neither El Nino nor the Gulf Stream. Excluding such major climate variables would be like ESPN ignoring baseball and basketball.

So, is this all just propaganda concocted by Chevron-funded, right-wing, flat-Earthers? Ask Dr. Martin Hertzberg, a physical chemist and retired Navy meteorologist.

"As a scientist and life-long liberal Democrat, I find the constant regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear mongering clap-trap about human-caused global warming to be a disservice to science," Hertzberg wrote in September 26's USA Today. "From the El Nino year of 1998 until Jan., 2007, the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere near its surface decreased some 0.25 C (0.45 F). From Jan., 2007 until the spring of 2008, it dropped a whopping 0.75 C (1.35 F)."

As global cooling becomes more widely recognized, Americans from Maine to Malibu should feel comfortable dreaming of a white Christmas. [Via CO2 Sceptics]

Let rip | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Australia Institute thinks it’s simply making a complaint about Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme:

The only effective way for households to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions will be to buy emissions permits and rip them up.

That’s actually a challenge. Go you green things. Dig into your own pockets.

Advocates for Action on Global Warming Chosen as Obama's Top Science Advisers - washingtonpost.com

President-elect Barack Obama has selected two of the nation's most prominent scientific advocates for a vigorous response to climate change to serve in his administration's top ranks, according to sources, sending the strongest signal yet that he will reverse Bush administration policies on energy and global warming.

The appointments of Harvard University physicist John Holdren as presidential science adviser and Oregon State University marine biologist Jane Lubchenco as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which will be announced tomorrow, dismayed conservatives but heartened environmentalists and researchers.
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In October, Lubchenco told the Associated Press that she believed public attitudes on climate change were shifting, adding: "The Bush administration has not been respectful of the science. But I think that's not true of Republicans in general. I know it's not."
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But Holdren's reported selection inspired no joy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market advocacy group that denounces global warming "alarmists" and opposes many environmental laws. Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at CEI, said, "I think he's a very bad choice. His views are extreme, they're not based in fact, and he's a ranter."

Of the overall Obama team, Ebell said, "They will pursue an anti-energy agenda that is designed to constrict energy supplies and raise energy prices."

Vancouver: Big chill set to break records

The plunging mercury looks set to break records this weekend.

"We're forecasting record low temperatures for the day on Friday," said David Jones, Environment Canada meteorologist.

"The record low for December 19 is -10, and for December 20 it's -11.8, both set in 1990. We're forecasting -10 and -12."

With the wind chill, the cold will feel even more bitter.

Letter: Science puts chill on global warming : Letters : TCPalm

IPCC conclusions of human causation are based on faith in a flawed theory and are not supported by a single study identifying a human component of global temperature. In the last 570 million years of Earth’s climate history, there has never been a period when greenhouse gases significantly affected climate.

Evidently, that hasn’t changed.

Bob Webster