Debunking Gore's 'consensus' hoax

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New Zealand politicians discuss "climate change" issues

Here.

Excerpt:

Rodney Hide: Can the Minister tell the House what the emissions trading scheme will cost the country in its first 5 years of operation, and by how much it will reduce carbon emissions; if he cannot tell the House that, why not?

Joe Bastardi responds to Gore's Comments

Here.

Polar bear cartoon

Here.

Get your "Stupidity Offsets For Sale" Tee Shirt

Here.

Interesting quote from Peter Garrett

From this article:

"We're not only talking the talk, we're walking the walk," [Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett] said as the hour ended. "Whatever your view is about the magnitude of the problem ... we can save money by using energy wisely and efficiently, and that gives us the added bonus of reduced greenhouse gas emissions."

1. He appears to be admitting that there is not a consensus on the magnitude of the "problem".

2. He talks about saving money first, mentioning that "allegedly saving us all from a fiery death" angle only as an "added bonus".

Solar Cycle 23 Forecasts - The Movie

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I hope the polar bear cubs appreciate this person's partial hour of sacrifice

From this post:

My earth hour experience began alone. My mum and brother went out for dinner and so I happily walked around in the darkness with the steady flickering of 2 candles and the steady glow of my laptop [unplugged from the wall] to guide me. About 20 minutes into Earth Hour mum and Aaron return home and then my Earth Hour experience transformed into somewhat of a interesting 40 minutes.

It started with the constant questioning of ‘why aren’t the lights on?’ to the constant suggesting of ‘i need the lights on’ ending with the sudden sound of ’smashed glass’. And as you can imagine glass + broken + the floor + the darkness = shredded toes! So you can probably guess that about 35 minutes into Earth Hour we had to break the darkness by switching on the lights. But after it was all cleaned up the lights went back off and the questions and suggestions came flooding back.

More scientists speak out against global warming hysteria

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ABC's Shameful Global Warming Character Assassination

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Excerpt:

ABC News states Singer "argues, against overwhelming scientific evidence, that a warmer planet will actually be beneficial." Where is the overwhelming evidence that a colder planet is better than a warmer planet? ABC does not say.

Strangely thick ice for the Nenana Ice Classic

According to the data here, the Nenana ice hit a season-high 54.5 inches yesterday, which looks to be the highest recorded number since 1994.

Also see the ice-out dates listed here.

Note the earliest/"warmest" year was 1940, evidently after CO2 hit high levels when we all bought Hummers, McMansions, and cell phone chargers during the "booming '30s".

Note also that the latest/"coldest" year followed 24 years later in 1964, when C02 levels evidently plunged after the massive post-WWII economic depression and also after all the successful carbon offset trading, climate change bureaucracy, and CO2 regulation of the 1950s.

More on the Nenana Ice Classic is here.

Green Whackos & Greenwashers

Here.

Excerpt:

We should embrace debate as to what it is to be a rational environmentalist. We should accept both infrastructure proponants as well as global warming skeptics into the environmentalist fold, because the strengths of their convictions may be no less sincere, and their contributions no less valid. And to those professionals who are targeting Inhofe from Oklahoma, an independent voice in the heartland of America, know this: California is also in play, because the truth is stronger than the trend, and it is wrong to try to silence and demonize those who disagree.

IBD on Gore

Here.

Excerpt:

Climate Change: Al Gore says that those of us who are skeptical that man is warming the planet have a flat-Earth mind-set. But if Gore would open his mind, he'd learn that more than likely the opposite is true.

Cheers and Jeers

From this page:

Jeers: To the Keller school district for indoctrinating my third-grader with lesson plans on how to prevent "man-made" global warming. Protecting the environment is noble; preaching faulty science is not.

-- Rob Beckley, Roanoke

Record snowfall in northern Maine leaves deer herd in deep trouble

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Excerpts:

DIF&W officials estimate that in the hardest-hit areas, where the snowpack is still 4 to 6 feet deep, roughly 30 percent of the deer herd won’t see the snow melt.

Fawns, yearlings and weaker females will likely account for the vast majority of the mortality, with two or three age classes perishing in some areas. Pregnant does that survive the winter may lose their fetuses after months of starvation or give birth to malnourished fawns with scant chance of survival.

This season’s high mortality will ripple through the deer population for years to come.

"If you had a snow year like this every year in northern Maine, you would not have deer," said Lee Kantar, DIF&W’s lead deer biologist.
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Nor is Mother Nature exclusive in her wrath.

The snow is so deep in many parts of northern and western Maine that even long-legged moose are finding it hard to get around. Once again, the youngest and smallest of the species — calves and yearlings — will likely suffer the most as the deep snow prevents them from reaching food and the extreme cold saps away precious energy.

Thick arctic ice hampers annual seal-clubbing event

Here and here.

One infinitesimal “bandwagon”

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Google's homepage goes black to publicize Earth Hour!

From this page:

We believe in doing our part to help combat climate change, and found the Earth Hour initiative to be a timely, important event.

Some related information is here:

We applaud the spirit of the idea, but our own analysis as well as that of others shows that making the Google homepage black will not reduce energy consumption. To the contrary, on flat-panel monitors (already estimated to be 75% of the market), displaying black may actually increase energy usage. Detailed results from a new study confirm this.

I think it would also be a nice gesture if Page and Brin were to ground their personal Boeing 767 for Earth Hour, since it reportedly burns about 1,550 gallons/hour.

Global Warming Hoax Updates

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Excerpt:

Awareness that global warming might not be all its cracked up to be is spreading. I had little time to blog last week, but almost half of the hits that came to here were from searches like 'is global warming real?' and 'climate change scam'. The people want to know, and unfortunately for the Gorebot and his sidekick Suzuki the Internet can provide answers to inconvenient questions.

Lawsuits, Sarbanes-Oxley Law Ravage U.S. Capital Markets

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"Earth Hour: turn your lights on at 8 p.m."

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Excerpt:

Tonight, the officials in many cities, including Atlanta, Phoenix, San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto, Bangkok, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Mexico City, Ottawa, Warsaw, Copenhagen, and Dublin, joined the activists. The Chicago skyline will probably disappear, too. All Czech cities, towns, and villages unanimously rejected the idea.

Incidentally, the believers who will replace light bulbs by candles should know that a candle produces as much CO2 as a 20W light bulb powered by average energy sources during the same time. Five candles replace the CO2 output of a 100W light bulb.

Catastrophic carbon constraint

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Ice cubes melt on volcanoes

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The red, red Koyapigaktoruk comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along

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Excerpt:

So, as it turns out, there are plenty of Eskimo words for robin that have existed for a long time and in languages that are spread among bands of Inuit all across the North American Arctic—and it is all plain to see with only a few clicks of the mouse along the information superhighway of the internet.

Thus, another cute (and ill-founded) global warming scare story bites the dust.

XIX Century’s AGW Believers

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Who needs fuel from food?

Here.

Unearthed hour

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Solar Setback in San Francisco

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A truly massive collection of global warming information

Here.

Two graphics from the above link:

Al Gore Valentine

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Will you celebrate the darkness?

See the whole thing here.

Excerpt:

Not long ago Prime Minister Harper was in Estevan, Saskatchewan touring the Boundary Dam Power Plant. This is the facility that will be the recipient of Federal funding to refurbish a 100 MW unit to sequester carbon dioxide. The cost of doing this will be 1.4 billion dollars. The finished unit will be reduced in useable output to 60 MW. Presumably the other 40 MW will be used to extract the carbon dioxide.

This raises some troubling questions. We still need all 100 MW, not just the 60 MW that will be left. If this formula holds in the construction of new power plants and all the information I have says it will, this means for every 100 units of electricity we need in the future, we will need to build 166 units of production. This means an increase of capital costs of 66%. It will also mean that our fuel consumption (and by extrapolation, our operating and maintenance costs) will increase by 66% too.

More from Joe Romm

From this post:

The wheels may be falling off the media’s climate discussion, if a new L.A.Times piece is any evidence.
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At 800 to 1000 ppm, the world faces faces multiple catastrophes, including:

1. Sea level rise of 80 feet to 250 feet at a rate of 6 inches a decade (or more).

Note also his comment here:

I try very hard to be non-partisan. Some Republicans deserve praise and get it on this blog. Some Democrats deserve criticism and get it.

Now, nonpartisan doesn’t mean I’m not pro-progressive and anti-conservative — although I must confess that I don’t see how the refusal to conserve our resources and the refusal to conserve our livable climate and the complete disregard for the health and well-being of our children and indeed all future generations really deserves the label “conservative.” That strikes me as an agenda of radical change for the worse being imposed on billions of people not yet even born.

I actually think my views are quite conservative. I would actually call them pro-life if the term had not been co-opted for other purposes.

Note also Romm's remarkable paragraph here:

UPDATE: I knew I would forget something. I think “delayer” works as a stand-alone, and I’d recommend that to most people. But I will still probably use “delayer-1000.” Yes, it is “jargony” but over the next decade many if not most Americans will learn all about 280 ppm, 350 ppm, 450 ppm, and 1000 ppm. That’s because CO2 ppm will become the single most important number in the lives of every human being on this planet and their children and so on. One reason I proposed the more unwieldy “delayer-1000″ is that we need to accelerate the learning process as much as possible. I am aware of the virtual impossibility of changing widely-used jargon — almost everybody in the EV community hates “plug-in hybrid” but we just couldn’t get all the key players on board to use another term. So this post is, realistically, mostly a media critique to try to get them to stop using “skeptic” and an explanation I can link to for the terminology I’m going to use.

They Still Need Witches To Hang

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Excerpt:

Little has changed. CO2 is but the witchcraft of the age, and flying is the certain sign that you are a witch. The witch finders will divine familiar spirits, lurking in your patio heaters and SUVs, but, above all, they will seek for ‘deniers’, to scourge and to whip them in public, before consigning them to a burning Hell on Earth. How they revel in their righteousness.

These are the new Puritans and Inquisition rolled into one intolerant and dangerous secular religion. They seek indulgences through carbon trading and carbon offsets, while divining miracles in hydrogen cars and strawbale houses.

Don’t kid yourself—1 hour won’t save world

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McCain and Warming

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Scientist Demands Apology From ABC for Global Warming Hit Piece

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Can We Trust the Polar Bear?

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Why so modest?

Check out the cartoon here.

Some questions that 60 Minutes won’t be asking Al Gore about “global warming”

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Bad Time for Green Schemes

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Clinical psychologist Mark Konecky's global warming propaganda for fifth-graders!

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Excerpts:

In the program Art Against Global Warming, sponsored by Gloucester-based clinical psychologist Mark Konecky, students transform their ideas into artwork to express and share how the world can be a better place if global warming is stopped.
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For Konecky, the experience has been inspiring and empowering as he is doing something that helps children feel more active, energized, and powerful, he said. His goal for the students is to help make them agents for positive change in the community.

“My hope is that the children feel, working as individuals and as a group, that they are agents for positive change and they can help educate their peers and their parents about some of the problems that they’re concerned about in the world, and they can also be educating themselves,” he said.

...because every time you use an electric pencil sharpener, a polar bear cub dies

From this article:

Fort Saskatchewan Elementary is one of those schools. But the local school took being “green” up a notch yesterday as teachers went back to the old-fashioned way of teaching, without smartboards, overhead projectors or even electric pencil sharpeners.

Once the clock struck 1 p.m., everything was unplugged, unhooked, turned off or powered down; even for the school’s administration who weren’t allowed to use the school intercom, make outgoing phone calls or use their computers.

“There (was) a little brainstorming for all the classes, myself included, to recognize how many things we do rely on electrical power for,” said principal Deb Weir.

She explained that though the teachers won’t have a set plan to focus on discussing global warming and the amount of energy individuals use in their daily lives, it would be hard to not talk about it.

Earth Hour: A brilliant ad campaign.

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Excerpt:

Just a thought - I wonder how much WWF donated money went into the pockets of Leo Burnet?

The thought that turning your lights off for a single hour in a year will make a difference is pure silliness. Even funnier still is that you wouldn't even be bothering unless an advertising company told you to. And again, this is just trendiness. It will all be forgotten the next day.

More on the Wilkins ice shelf

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Excerpt:

Another expert, Anthony Watts, chief meteorologist for KPAY-AM radio in California and the founder of www.surfacestations.org, said "the recent news stories on Antarctic ice shelf collapse completely miss two very important facts.

First, the Antarctic Peninsula is an extension of the Pacific Ring of Fire, and populated with volcanoes both on the surface and submarine. Second, satellite imagery from NASA shows there to be hot spots around and within the Antarctic Peninsula where the Wilkins Ice Shelf is located. NASA computer models show one such volcanic hotspot is centered directly under the Wilkins Ice Shelf."

One reason why alarmists are so very afraid of public debate

From this Science Daily article:

ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2008) — The more you know the less you care -- at least that seems to be the case with global warming. A telephone survey of 1,093 Americans by two Texas A&M University political scientists and a former colleague indicates that trend, as explained in their recent article in the peer-reviewed journal Risk Analysis.

"More informed respondents both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming," states the article, titled "Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the USA."

America's three most respected scientific minds get together

I actually laughed out loud when I read this one.

Excerpt:

The Rev. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson are sitting on a couch and in walks Al Gore.

This isn't a joke.

It's the plot of a new commercial in the former vice president's fight against global warming.
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Sharpton's office referred questions about the shoot to the Alliance, which wouldn't comment. But a peek at their permit to film on the Oceanfront shows the part that went to Sharpton was originally listed for outspoken filmmaker Michael Moore.

Kelly said he heard a conflict prompted a last-minute switch and Sharpton flew down.

The article says that Gore was apparently directing the commercial.

Could he seriously think that this will help him win over an increasingly skeptical public?

The 5 Most Ridiculously Over-Hyped Health Scares of All Time

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Another admission that this is not really about carbon dioxide

See this article, entitled "Equity and Justice Must Be at the Centre of Any Action Plan Against Global Warming".

Excerpt:

Importantly Bali saw the long-overdue encounter between the climate movement and the global justice movement finally take place in earnest, and neither movement will ever be the same again.

If You Can't Win The Debate On Science, Try To Baffle Them With Bullflop

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Another brain dead editorial from the New York Times

From this page:

Nothing dramatizes the urgency of global warming quite like a fracture of this scale.

Better information on the ice in Antarctica is available here.

Quantifying uncertainty in AGW

Here.

Soot from China, Asia, Escapes into Global Air

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SWEDEN RECORDS COLDEST EASTER IN MORE THAN 100 YEARS

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We need more nuclear plants to avoid blackouts, say German power chiefs

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Dark Hour - a Sign of the Times

See the whole thing here.

Excerpt:

“The only thing that lifted mankind from the Stone Age was carbon energy from coal, oil and gas – for heating; for steam power; for electricity and water; for mining, smelting and refining of metals; for transport on land, sea and air; for lighting, heating, cooling and communications; for production of food and chemicals; and for power for processing and manufacturing.

“All of this comfort, safety, convenience and prosperity is now threatened by hysterical claims that man’s carbon emissions can and should be stopped. Even though the weather records and the science deny the doomsday forecasts, the politicians, like lemmings, are leading us over the Greenhouse Cliff. Without the nuclear parachute, it will not be a pleasant fall.

“Many other countries have already experienced their own dark days, most caused by silly decisions taken to appease the Greenhouse Gods.

“If we continue down this path, we can no longer assume that electricity will come at the flick of a switch. Consumers need to learn a new vocabulary for these bad new times – “load shedding, demand management, quota allocation, rolling blackouts, brownouts, emission permits, load prioritisation, interruptible customers, emergency customers, zone rota systems, power emergency declarations, priority lines, three-day-week rationing, power outages, grid instability, electricity rationing, operating reserve, maintenance shutdowns . . . .” - all the jargon of a power system in crisis, suffering from stagnant or falling capacity and growing demand.

An apt headline

See this post, entitled "Canada Goes Nutso Over Earth Hour".

Excerpt:

For some reason the entire country has gone a bit crazy over Earth Hour. Earlier this week more people had signed up for it online in Canada than in the entire United States, with ten times the population. The US has slipped ahead by a few thousand right now, but in Canada one in 606 citizens is on board; in the US it is one in 5,347.

Update: This news item "groans under the strain" of ridiculous Earth Hour hype.

Excerpt:

What began as a simple attempt at bringing climate change down to the living-room level has snowballed, burying those who argue Earth Hour is mere tokenism that will do little to cut greenhouse-gas emissions or that participating businesses are only interested in their cash registers.

More than 240,000 people and almost 18,000 businesses in countries as far-flung as Botswana, Vietnam and Denmark have all signed up as participants this year via a website groaning under the strain.

A related item is here.

"Why should African farmers suffer because do-gooders are trying to cut carbon emissions?"

Here.

CBS presses Al Gore on climate change skeptics

Do not miss the whole thing here.

A related link is here.

Update: Don't miss The Reference Frame's post here; also see the Anthony Watts post here.

Also see "The Global Warming Challenge: Scott Armstrong Calling Al Gore" here.

Junk Science blog writes:

Uh-huh… so ‘rare’ are skeptics that wannabe carbon magnates are spending $300,000,000.00 on one ad campaign trying to stampede the public into giving them a guaranteed slice of every energy transaction.

How I Stopped Demagoguing and Learned To Love The Oil Companies

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Global Warming as Global Distraction

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Reality Check On Antarctic Sea Ice

Here.

Excerpt:

Unfortunately, it appears that most journalists just parrot the perspective of the first news release on these climate issues, without doing any further investigation. If this is inadvertent, they need to be educated in climate science. If deliberate bias, they are clearly advocates and the reporters should be clearly and publically identified as having such a bias. In either case, the public is being misinformed!

Networks Hype Rising Sea Levels in One-Sided Global Warming Reports

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The Clean Energy Scam

See the Time article here.

Excerpt:

If biofuels are the new dotcoms, Iowa is Silicon Valley, with 53,000 jobs and $1.8 billion in income dependent on the industry. The state has so many ethanol distilleries under construction that it's poised to become a net importer of corn. That's why biofuel-pandering has become virtually mandatory for presidential contenders. John McCain was the rare candidate who vehemently opposed ethanol as an outrageous agribusiness boondoggle, which is why he skipped Iowa in 2000. But McCain learned his lesson in time for this year's caucuses. By 2006 he was calling ethanol a "vital alternative energy source."

The Failure of AGW Advocacy

Here.

While you're there, also check out this post, entitled "Unseasonable Weather, A Common Occurrence".

Media Hype on ‘Melting’ Antarctic Ignores Record Ice Growth

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Some graphs that Al Gore doesn't want you to see

Here.

Not reporting but crusading

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The payoff for plug-in hybrids: 95 years?

Here.

Blood and Gore: Veep’s Firm To Spend Big on VC

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Excerpt:

Generation Investment Management LLP, the London-based firm founded by the dynamic duo of David Blood, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and former Vice President Al Gore, is launching a venture-capital fund to complement its asset-management work around sustainability. Having invested already in public companies, Messrs. Blood and Gore now will put money into startups.

Gore's spending for his $300 million carbon dioxide hysteria campaign is spun as altruistic, but couldn't this be viewed as marketing for his massive "green" business interests?

At what point does the SEC start investigating Gore's carbon dioxide fraud?

Birdies Bye Bye: Joint Press Release by Prof David Bellamy and Mark Duchamp

Here.

Excerpt:

In short : if someone wanted to set about exterminating the world's migrating birds, placing windfarms in migration hotspots would be looked upon as best practice.

Typo in 2002 Australian Report Responsible for Plastic Bag Mythology

Here.

Excerpt:

The plastic bag is the latest useful item to fall victim to a factually challenged campaign aimed at achieving a world-wide ban in the false name of being 'green' or 'saving the planet.' Australia has to take much of the blame for this, due to a 2002 report misinterpreting the original 1987 Canadian Study in Newfoundland claiming that 100,000 marine mammals and birds were killed by 'plastic debris.' In a 2002 report commissioned by the Australian Government into the environmental effects of plastic bags, 'plastic debris' became 'plastic bags.' The report became known as the Nolan-ITU report. In 2006 the report was updated. The same sentence was repeated but 'bags' was changed back to 'debris' with an explanatory note stating that the original article actually referred to 'fishing nets.' The damage to the reputation of the plastic bag was already done.

How not to create jobs in Nevada County

Here.

Excerpt:

It seem to me this is very steep price for economic development, a $20 million incentive for 500 jobs.
That $40K for each job. "So, how may jobs does Nevada County want at $40K each," asks a regular reader of this blog?

Global Smearing

Here.

Excerpt:

In a letter to ABC News, Dr. Singer complained that “Dan Harris also referred to unnamed scientists from NASA, Princeton and Stanford, who pronounced what I do as ‘fraudulent nonsense’… They are easily identified as the well-known global warming zealots Jim Hansen, Michael Oppenheimer and Steve Schneider. They should be asked by ABC to put their money where their mouth is and have a scientific debate with me. I suspect they’ll chicken out. They surely know that the facts support my position -- so they resort to anonymous slurs.”

Interesting sunspot discussion

Here.

Alarmist Dr Kate Rawles: Why the climate change debate has gone wrong

Here.

More on Rawles is here and here.

Update: A related Coyote Blog post is here.

Excerpt:

To a large extent, understanding the passion of climate alarmists is a chicken and egg problem. Normally, scientists identify a problem and then we seek to solve it. But, as you can see with this woman, climate science works in reverse. The debate began with people who believed that technology and economic growth needed to be diminished, and then found global warming as a conveniently manufactured "problem" that pointed to their already preferred solution.

Brothers in arms

From this post:

Isn’t it strange how people assume that global warming will cause a great loss of biodiversity? Perhaps it’s time to tell them that the tropics are in fact the source of a majority of our planet’s biodiversity.

Something Rotten in the NYT

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ETHANOL OBSESSION KILLS LOCAL BUSINESS

Here.

“Across California, profit margins [of ethanol plants] are vanishing”

Here.

Revkin to speak at $1700 a ticket Aspen Institute Event

From this post:

Aspen Institute’s exclusive Environment Forum begins this Thursday. On the speaker list this year is Amory Lovins, Van Jones, Andrew Revkin, Cathy Zoi, Lester Brown and many more of the world’s greatest environmental experts. If you can afford the ticket ($1700 - ouch) then this conference is not to be missed.

I admire the tenacity of anyone willing to bike or walk from New York City to Aspen this "spring".

Free love is one thing; freedom to have your lights on is another

Here.

Costello has ways to make you pray

Here.

Update: Check out Tim Blair's "Fun Added" post here.

Also see this post, entitled "Not why I give Tim my money".

Broken Ice Dam Forces 13,000 From Homes in China

Here.

Extended ski season in Europe

Here.

A convenient untruth

Here.

Excerpt:

That is why climate change is the ultimate declinist wet dream. Sure, there is a long tradition of declinist hobby horses, including overpopulation, the exhaustion of natural resources and the industrial poisoning of the land and the sea, but climate change is the rug that pulls the whole room together. From cars and consumerism to mass travel, fast food and inexpensive lighting, declinism gathers up everything the left dislikes about contemporary society and puts it all in the dock facing the same charge: it is causing the planet to heat up. Thanks then to the imagined horrors of climate change, declinism transforms what is essentially an aesthetic preference for live entertainment over television, locally grown produce over fast food and the ability to walk to work instead of commuting in a car into a lifestyle choice of world-historical importance.

Indian minister attacks biofuels

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At Last, Some Brave UK Politicians

Here.

More on Pachauri's serious problem in "leading by example"

From this article:

...As for me, I'm going absolutely crazy travelling (laughs). I can only accept 5 to 10 percent of the invitations I receive, but even that is enough to keep me flying continuously. This doesn't make me feel very good but the message has to be spread.

A quote from Pachauri from earlier in the very same interview:

Mahatma Gandhi said; "to be the change you want to see in the world". I believe strongly in this.

Faulty thinking from Amy Klobuchar

From this article:

[U.S. Sen. Amy] Klobuchar was in Rochester to participate in a discussion at Mayo High School on global climate change. She said high school students and young people are often more open to issues of global warming, because "they realize they're going to have to deal with this 20 years from now."

I agree that naive young folks in the range of 4-15 are more susceptible to global warming propaganda.

After people become old enough to read, drive and vote, the brainwashing task clearly becomes much more difficult.

By the way, Amy, lots of intelligent adults hope to still be alive in 20 years. Of those who don't have that hope, very many care deeply about loved ones who will probably be alive in 20 years.

"Information overload can lead to denial"

Check this out from alarmist David Suzuki.

Public money being used to pay students to create global warming propaganda?

Here.

American adults continue to reject Gore's climate propaganda

From this article:

...Konisky recently surveyed 1,000 adults concerning their attitudes about the environment.

The survey polled respondents about their levels of concern for the environment and preferences for government action to address a wide set of environmental issues.
...
According to the survey, the top three issues that the public wants the government to address are protecting community drinking water, reducing pollution of U.S. rivers and lakes, and improving urban air pollution issues like smog.

"Americans are clearly most concerned about pollution issues that might affect their personal health, or the health of their families," said Konisky.

In the survey, global warming ranks eighth in importance.

Dot.bombs redux — capitalizing hot air

Here.

Global sea ice extent now 1,000,000 square kilometers above the "long-term" average!

See the graph here.

To put that in perspective, that amount of extra ice is over 2,400 times as big as the little chunk that just broke off the Wilkins Ice Shelf. That truly vast amount of "unusual" ice is more than 17,000 times as big as the land area of Manhattan!

How to make a mountain out of a molehill

Here.

Excerpt:

Times Online admits though that all the eight ice shelf collapses in the past 30 years have occurred on the Antarctic Peninsula and that there is evidence that mean temperature at the South Pole is actually falling. But Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the IPCC, has seized on the Wilkins event to give warning of “irreversible and abrupt changes” including cataclysmic sea level rises.

In the light of world temperatures slightly falling I guess IPCC is desperately catching at every straw.

Rep. Hastings cool to global warming fears

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Cold North Pole. Cold South Pole.

Here.

CA Electric car goal could be cut again

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Medellin and the Kyoto Cartel

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What Else Won't the Greens do for us?

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Is carbon dioxide killing Minnesota moose?

A typical alarmist story from Minnesota Public Radio is here.

Key excerpt:

Moose cows appear to be giving birth at a normal rate, but a growing number of those spring calves don't survive their first year.

It sounds like researchers have no hard data on why the calves aren't reaching their first birthday. Blaming this on human carbon dioxide emissions sounds, at best, like a politically correct guess.

Why does this article fail to even mention wolf predation?

According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the number of Minnesota wolves grew by a factor of three (or even six) from 1973 to 2004. Doesn't it seem intuitive that a wolf population over 3,000 could have a significant impact on calf survival on a moose population of under 8,000?

Do wolves eat moose calves?

From a study in Norway:

Of the main prey taken (moose, roe deer, and beaver), moose calves contributed 61% of the biomass ingested by wolves in summer.

From another Scandinavian study:

Moose (Alces alces) was the dominant prey species both by number (74.4%) and biomass (95.6%); 89.9% of all moose killed were juveniles, representing 76.0% of the biomass consumed by wolves. Kill rate in terms of the kilogram biomass/kilogram wolf per day averaged 0.20 (range: 0.07-0.32) among wolf territories and was above, or well above, the daily minimum food requirements in most territories. The average number of days between moose kills across wolf territories and study periods was 1.71 days, but increased with time and size of growing moose calves during summer. Over the entire summer (June-September, 122 days), a group (from two to nine) of wolves killed a total of 66 (confidence interval 95%; 56-81) moose.

Thom Yorke questions London mayor Ken Livingstone

From this article:

TY: So squaring up to climate change, it's a moral duty on your part?

KL: Moral isn't the right term. We face a huge catastrophic climate change. We're close to the tipping point. Stern says four to two years. I met Dr Pauchari [chair of the IPCC, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, and recipient of last year's Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore], when I was in India, and he thinks we're now past the tipping point and you've got to come up with technologies that will mitigate the effects. If that's true, sometime over the next 10 years we'll have to rejig the whole of the economy, like we did in the Second World War.

TY: But how does that tally with the City itself? In the context of economic growth, for instance, I would imagine there is some level of resistance to these proposals from the City?

KL: Well, no. It's quite interesting, most of big business realise they've all got to change because they realise what's coming. Small business doesn't - they don't have the researchers to figure it out. But big, mega-business, they've got 20-year strategies.

TY: This is interesting to me, in terms of working with Friends of the Earth and the Climate Change Bill: what we're totally up against all the time is government inertia on drawing up a legal structure to put all these things in place. But are you telling me that business is behind it?

KL: There's a chunk of big business which is quite progressive on all of this, and there's a chunk that's deeply reactionary. Small business really isn't engaged, and they don't want anything to change because it costs them money. Our problem is persuading government. If I were running the country, tomorrow I'd ban plastic bags, I'd ban incandescent light bulbs. I'm quite prepared to have a nanny state if it means we survive. I'd rather have a nanny state and live than we all burn in some catastrophic climate change disaster.

Climate expert says new 'global warming' legislation will cripple poor

Here.

John McCain channels Jim Hansen

From this article:

"The risks of global warming have no borders," McCain said. "We and the other nations of the world must get serious about substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years or we will hand off a much-diminished world to our grandchildren."

Davao City prone to sinking: study

From this article:

Manila Observatory executive director Toni Yulo Loyzaga, in a lecture during the Disaster Risk Reduction Reporting seminar in Iloilo City Tuesday, said the flooding being experienced in Metro Manila is not just caused by the rising of sea level brought about by global warming, but also because the Metro Manila ground is sinking.

Earth Hour's soft fascism

Here.

Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends - Part 1

Here.

Argo's cool reception

Here.

Japan Calls Foul On Kyoto Protocol

Here.

Excerpt:

It is at last dawning on the world’s politicians that attempting to cap emissions is like trying to control a ferret up your trouser leg - and this particular ferret can leap up and nip you in the most surprising and tenderest of places - no, the economy, stupid.

Reality checks on the nonsense that is ‘global warming’ politics are becoming more obvious by the day. The hypocrisy can no longer hold.

Pachauri tries again

From this article:

BRUSSELS (AFP) — The head of the UN intergovernment climate change body on Wednesday voiced strong concern at the accelerated melting of the polar ice caps, calling for international tariffs on carbon emissions.

"Now there's enough evidence to show that there is accelerated melting of some of these large bodies of ice; west Antarctic ice-sheet, the Greenland ice-sheet," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told reporters at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Some background on Pachauri is here.

Note again that Pachauri is publicly advocating for his pet policies, even though the formal mandate of the IPCC is to be "policy neutral."

6th Grade Class Denounces Global Warming Skeptics as 'Horrible People'

Here.

Update: All American Blogger provides a detailed response here.

More Gore propaganda coming to a movie theater near you

Here.

A chat with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers

From this post:

DR: If you could speculate, completely blue-sky, what do you think Duke's generation portfolio is going to look like in 2050?

JR: Ooh, that's a tough question. [pauses] About 25 percent of our generation comes from nuclear today. I think it'll be more like 35 to 45. I think solar, which is zero today, will be 5, 10 percent. I think we'll have a mix of gas and coal gasification with sequestration.

DR: Still about 50 percent?

JR: No, I think it'll probably be more like 40 percent. Today [coal] is 70. We did a 2050 scenario, and by then we'll have retired every plant except two.

Misleading Reports Now About Antarctica

Here.

Update 1: Further detailed debunking of the latest "ice shelf collapse" hype is available here.

Excerpt:

Thank goodness for the internet.

Update 2: Climate Skeptic weighs in here.

Update 3: More information is here, in a post entitled "10 year old story used as Climate Change propaganda".

India not to participate in 'Earth Hour'

Here.

A related post is here, entitled "Cate Blanchett’s Moving Earth Hour Tribute".

Excerpt:

The power-free meal will, of course, be of a cold salad eaten off the ground with rain water lapped up from puddles.

The Case for New Oil Refineries

Here.

Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 3)

Here.

Bachmann is pro-choice on bulbs

Here.

Excerpt:

The Minnesota congresswoman says people should be free to use traditional incandescent or compact fluorescent light bulbs, and she has introduced a bill to halt a phase-out program.

Let’s just ignore the other problems

See this post about Lake Tahoe.

Manzi vs Chait

Here.

Have you people ever actually spent some time around real straw?

I have, and these straw shoes rank pretty high on my list of unappealing footwear.

The hot air of hypocrisy

See the whole thing here.

Wind energy group spent $816K lobbying

Here.

Update: A related post from Coyote Blog is here, entitled "Our Technology Is Not Economic -- Do We Invest in R&D, or Lobbying?".

"Boycott Facebook!"

Here.

Al Gore Bars Press from His RSA Conference Appearance

Here.

Update: A related post is here.

BMW 520d: more efficient than Toyota Prius

Here.

Let rest of world make climate errors

Here.

Enviro-Harassment

See the IBD editorial here.

HOUR OF POWER

Here.

Emissions Trading, the new Bubble Economy

Here.

Excerpt:

“The immediate effect of cap and trade legislation is the creation of new electronic assets called “permits to emit” with no reality, no separate existence, no asset backing and no intrinsic value whatsoever. Their value depends solely on a politician’s promise that people holding an emissions permit will have a protected position compared to those without a permit from the Carbon Czar. It is a principle Al Capone would have understood and welcomed.

“Immediately the government creates these securities with no substance and the Carbon Bank which stores no carbon, a huge new artificial industry will be created. There will be administrators and auditors, bankers and brokers, barristers and bureaucrats, carbon credit farmers and foresters, lawyers and lobbyists, traders and tax advisers, and all the high paid never ending research jobs in Zero-Gen and Zero emissions.

Global warming: Just deal with it, some scientists say

See the whole Los Angeles Times story here.

Excerpt:

Exhibit A is hurricanes.

The spate of recent storms, particularly Hurricane Katrina in 2005, has come to be seen as a harbinger of a warmer world -- a view popularized by Gore's 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Pielke's new analysis considered 207 hurricanes that hit the United States between 1900 and 2005. He looked at their strength and course and then overlaid them on a modern map that included all development over the years.

He found that the most devastating storm, had it occurred today, would be the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, popularly known as the Big Blow. Its path through the now heavily developed southern tip of Florida would have caused $157 billion in damage, followed by Katrina, whose toll was $81 billion. Six of the top 10 most damaging storms occurred before 1945.
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Pielke says that even if his critics are right, it is becoming clear that the world lacks the political will to enact global emissions cuts.

China's growing emissions are on pace to double those of the United States in a decade, and the country shows little interest in slowing down. The United States has refused to cap its emissions, and much of Europe is failing to satisfy even the modest terms of the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 landmark treaty on greenhouse gases.

"I would characterize us as realists," Pielke said. "Realists on what is politically possible."

Commenting on this story, Marc Morano wrote:

Note: this is significant. The mainstream media (LA Times) now realizes there is no 'consensus' and that so called 'solutions' to global warming are purely symbolic and unworkable. So they are now featuring the 'non-skeptic heretic club.' The media is beginning to understand and promote the Lomborg warming is happening, but not a crisis position.

Challenging ABC News's Attack on Climate Scientist S. Fred Singer

Here.

Excerpts:

The embarrassing truth is that the weak correlation between earth's temperatures and human-emitted greenhouse gases is rapidly worsening. The CO2 correlation with earth's thermometer record since 1860 is less than 22 percent. The correlation between earth temperatures and sunspots is 79 percent and strengthening.
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"It seems likely that if the earth's temperatures continue to defy the 'global warming consensus' there will be more attacks on those who study the physical evidence of the earth's previous warmings," says Avery. These include the Medieval Warming (950 -- 1300 AD), the Roman Warming (200 BC -- 600 AD), and the two much-warmer Holocene Warmings, which peaked about 5,000 and 7,000 years ago. There have been at least 500 such warmings over the past one million years.

You’d be tired and cross, too

Here.

Earth Scientist Speaks Up Against AGW Skeptic Slander

Here.

Hype Springs Eternal

Here.

Time to start adding a thicker blanket of greenhouse gases

Here.

"My Take on Global Warming"

Here.

Wayback Machine 1968: What Will Life Be Like in 2008?

Here.

See the actual 1968 article here.

I wonder if today's magical computer models can accurately predict the reality of 2048?

Poor ol' Deltoid

Check out both graphics that Tim Lambert actually posted here.

NYT's Revkin Laments Media's Incorrect hyping of frogs and warming

Here.

Note how this story was hyped by the National Science Foundation and the IPCC.

Here's the money quote from a January '06 article by Revkin himself:

Paradoxically, the fungus thrives best in cooler conditions, challenging the theory that global warming is at fault. But Dr. Pounds and his team, in studying trends in temperature and disease around the American tropics, found patterns that they say explain the situation.

Because warming increases evaporation, it can create clouds that tend to make days cooler by blocking sunlight, and make nights warmer by trapping heat. In an interview, Dr. Pounds said those conditions could have created favorable conditions for the spread of the chytrid fungus.

A related article is here.

By the way, I think even Revkin is slowly "losing his religion" about the alleged global warming crisis. I think the wording of this paragraph is telling:

An enduring conundrum at the heart of the global warming issue/challenge/crisis/emergency is that the dramatic facets that matter most to society — how fast and far seas will rise, how strong hurricanes may get, how many species will vanish — are the least certain.

Update 1: From a related post here:

Stick around. All the pseudoscience - and accompanying hysteria - are about to come crashing down.

And not a day too soon..

Update 2: World Climate Report has some interesting background here.

Excerpt:

This is yet another example showing that flimsy, but provocative findings that anthropogenic climate change is destroying the world quickly and easily make their way into prestigious scientific journals, the global media, and scientific assessments, and that it takes a long time to dispel these myths, despite evidence to the contrary that, in many cases, has been readily available all along. A service that we are more than happy to provide through our World Climate Report blog.

A sure sign that the West Virginia primary is drawing near

Both Clinton and Obama suddenly seem to see more redeeming characteristics in coal power!

More evidence that the U.S. public is not swallowing the climate hype

Written Dec. 12, 2007:

Over the last 20 or so years, when Gallup has asked Americans "What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?", 1-5% of the people have consistently answered "Environment/pollution".

In the most recent poll last month, the number of responses in that category was 3%.

I think that number is remarkably low, considering how very hard the media has pushed catastrophic climate alarmism. I think that if the general public was ever going to buy the climate alarmist story, they would have done so by now.

Current numbers are here; historical numbers are here.

(Note that the numbers can sum to more than 100%, because up to three problems per person were recorded).

3/25/08 update: A March 2008 Gallup poll shows 1% in the "Environment/pollution" category, which matches the lowest number seen in this poll since 1988.

When alarmists claim that Americans are "increasingly concerned" about global warming, they are guilty of wishful thinking (at best).

The Disconnect

Here.

NO MORE KYOTOS: JAPAN WANTS SOFTER EMISSIONS TARGET

Here. (Via Benny Peiser)

Update: Regarding Kyoto, check out the "three clever things" in the Marlo Lewis post here.

UN IPCC in 'Panic Mode' as Earth Fails to Warm, Scientist says

Here.

Still nothing but tumbleweeds at RealClimate

It's now been a week since a much-publicized NPR story entitled "The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat".

The Hockey Team at RealClimate has yet to do a post on this story. Why is that?

From RealClimate's "About" page:

We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary.

March of the zealots

From this page:

The global warming hypothesis was a godsend to the New Left. It provided a means of attacking industry and capitalism through the one great essential to modern life, energy. Anyone who questioned the dogma was subject to insults and threats, including the appalling crudity and tastelessness of being likened to the holocaust deniers. All realistic proposals to develop workable sources of energy are bitterly opposed by the green network, while patently stupid ones, such as wind turbines, are sustained by regulation and subsidy, with the added bonus of bringing down the free market. There are related areas of activity, such as biofuels, which not only threaten the world with greenflation but also starvation.

Above it all towers the figure of Al Gore, hyper-hypocrite and monster of monetary concupiscence. If just occasionally he turned up on a bike rather than his private jet (or waived the six figure fee for his repetitious diatribes, or engaged in debate rather than diktat) he might entertain some credibility among the reasoning few. It is, however, in the nature of the faithful that they turn a blind eye to the defects of their demagogues. Perhaps the one fact that restores one's faith in humanity is that the blanket coverage of the propaganda has failed to stir a majority of the populace, though in the new age majorities have no power.

Global warming has now got to the stage where it is only maintained by media self-censorship. If the general public ever got to know of the scandals surrounding the collection and processing of data, or that there has been no detectable warming for the last decade, the whole movement would be dead in the water; but they don’t, so it isn’t. It has become the most powerful myth in human history, sending much of the world into a downward helix of economic decline. It is a tenuous hypothesis supported by ill-found computer models and data from botched measurement, dubiously processed.

Another weak mind sucked in by Gore?

Here.

Excerpt:

"The film does make you feel quite empowered in a way. At least it makes you feel like it's worth doing stuff," he says. "But yet, having thought all of that, my second thought was, 'I'm crap at all of this. I don't really understand any of it'." Watson says he took some comfort in the realisation he would not be the only person to feel this way - that is, keen to help but not quite sure what to do. "So I thought it would be nice to have a green movement that wasn't too hard-core and that rather than getting bogged down by the hopelessness of it all, just try to sort of 'have a fair go', as they say in this country."

Comedian Watson then becomes part of the problem by further spreading Gore's misinformation as "fact":

Last September Watson was among 150 volunteers in Melbourne whom Al Gore personally trained to be climate-change speakers. "It was extremely engrossing," he says of Gore's workshop. "It was two to three days of hard-core lectures about environmental science, so it could have been incredibly boring, but he does have a way of making it interesting, and he's a very, very compelling speaker."

Gore, slide by slide, talked them through his lecture, so the popular stand-up now has the responsibility of presenting his own, not-for-profit climate-change lectures.

Catch 22

Here.

After Year of Gains, Environmentalists Stall in Md. Legislature

Here.

A "surely it's global warming" open thread

Here.

Carbon tariff trade war?

Here.

Excerpt:

Tracking carbon inputs in any product is an impossible task, a nightmare of measurement and calculation that would require a massive bureaucracy at the World Carbon Trade Measurement Agency and tie up carbon trade negotiators for decades, assuming no trade war intervenes to crash the world trade system. An example is beer: Canadian beer would benefit if European beer faced a carbon tax on transport costs from Europe. But Canadian beer might use hops and other inputs that have to be transported across Canada. What kind of electricity and water sources are used in each location? Would carbon tariffs become a protectionist policy favouring Canadian beer?

The Legacy of the Environmental Movement

Here.

10 alarming facts about global warming

Here.

Repeat After Me—Overhyping Global Warming Will Do More Harm Than Good

Here.

But YOU shouldn’t fly

Here.

Oy vey

From this article:

[John McCain] spoke briefly during his talk about the need to revive the economy, without delving into specifics -- "People are hurting now, let's not deny that," he said -- but spent more time explaining why his recent European tour had strengthened his commitment to forcing a new global pact on climate change. In the event that global warming proves dangerous, he argued, the U.S. could not afford to allow greenhouse gas emissions to continue rising.

"Don't we have an obligation to the next generation of young Americans here? I think we do. I think we do," he said, adding that such action would please both our allies and younger Americans. "It's a big issue amongst our friends. It's a big issue among our young people. It should be a big issue for all of us."

McCain, who said he would push to make sure any successor to the Kyoto Protocol "includes China and India," declined to comment on the differences between his and the leading Democratic presidential candidates' plans, saying that he was unfamiliar with their plans because they do not have the same long legislative record he boasts in fighting climate change.

"I don't know what their position is because I haven't seen them show any particular commitment in the U.S. Senate or elsewhere" on climate change, he told reporters. "I have proposed legislation and fought for amendments."

In fact, both Clinton and Obama back an 80 percent reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 by mid-century. McCain backs a 60 percent cut over that same time period.

Just a couple of comments:

1. If young people are buying into carbon dioxide hysteria, it's because they haven't yet figured out that you shouldn't blindly accept whatever the mainstream media tells you.

If McCain's people mistakenly think that American voters will support an expensive fight against carbon dioxide, they should really take a hard look at these poll results.

2. Like GE's Jeff Immelt, McCain is clearly part of the problem here. He's clearly participating in an informational cascade, where his acceptance of bad information ends up infecting other people further down the line.

Case in point:

The piece concludes thusly: "On March 11, [Florida Governor] Crist explained the source of his passion (for fighting global warming): 'Do you know who first introduced me to the idea of climate change? It was John McCain.'

Not panicked at the prospect of an extra fraction of a degree this century

From this page:

I have been reminded of two things as this winter drags on, especially after trips to Florida and California. The first is that, Mr. Gore to the contrary, people actually like warmth and sunshine. That's why those two states are rich and populous and politically powerful. The cute young clerk in the San Francisco hotel where I now sit wrinkled her nose at our winter coats and our brief account of winter travails and fetchingly declared, "I totally can't like imagine such a place." Take away our warming blanket of carbon dioxide and Indiana will be uninhabitable.

How not to measure temperature, part 54: Los Angeles, the city

Here.

Sign Up to Endorse Declaration Against Carbon Dioxide Hysteria!

Here.

Climate Facts to Warm To (Part 2)

Here.

The Well-funded Alarmist Industry

Here.

This Long Cycle Should Portend a Cooling

Here.

"Black Carbon Pollution Emerges As Major Player In Global Warming"

From this article:

ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2008) — Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to scientists in an upcoming review article in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego atmospheric scientist V. Ramanathan and University of Iowa chemical engineer Greg Carmichael, said that soot and other forms of black carbon could have as much as 60 percent of the current global warming effect of carbon dioxide, more than that of any greenhouse gas besides CO2.

Two comments:

1. If the science is "settled", how can the estimated sensitivity for this one factor vary by a factor of three or four?

2. If the new estimates are correct, doesn't that lop a large chunk from a "new" modeled sensitivity for carbon dioxide, since we've only got a fixed .6 degrees C. of 20th century warming to work with?

WS Radio: Global Warming debate

Happening as I post this here.

It's supposed to be Dr. Roy Spencer vs Dr. Todd Albert.

I've had a bit of a traffic spike this afternoon from people searching for Spencer's "Climate Confusion" book--perhaps the searches are related to this radio debate.

Ace of Spades weighs in

Here.

Excerpt:

But what if -- just hear me out on this a second -- the Universe could actually give f**k-all about our carbon emissions? What if, horror of horrors, carbon dioxide (The Invisible Killer), the inevitable byproduct of industry and production and heating and farming and all those sinful, whorish human endeavors we engage in to keep ourselves alive and have a somewhat decent time while doing so, just wasn't that powerful a greenhouse gas at all?

You know-- what if it were one of the weakest greenhouse gases there is? As it, you know, actually in fact is?

What happens if there's no Natural-Forces God-Substitute at all to step in and punish us for living our happy, unconcerned, chubby and materialistic lives with all of our blithe production of carbon dioxide?

CO2 & Global Warming

See the table and text here.

Serious or spoof?

From this article:

Speed limits of just 15 miles-per-hour are to be introduced on major roads in planned new towns across the country as part of an effort to reduce global warming.

More on Climate Feedback

Here.

Scientists Skeptical of Global Warming Alarmism Join Forces

See the video here.

From the transcript:

ABC News correspondent John Stossel offered an apology of sorts for his profession.

“I thank you for working hard to at least educate us in the mainstream media. And really, we’re not all evil, we just are — dumb. And it’s important that you get through that ‘dumb’ layer, and in my reporting on this, I’ve seen a few of you who have really done it well.”

I think Stossel is being quite charitable to some of his colleagues--for example, I don't think "dumbness" is sufficient to excuse the people behind this ABC hit piece on Fred Singer.

So this is what passes for a scientific paper these days?!

Take a gander at the paper linked here.

Note that while the post says the paper's title is "Experiences of Modernity in the Greenhouse: A Cultural Analysis of a Physicist 'Trio' Supporting the Conservative Backlash Against Global Warming.", the actual paper's title omits the word "conservative".

Gore group will launch climate marketing campaign

From this article:

Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend more than $300 million over the next three years on a marketing campaign aimed at getting Americans to address climate change. With ads developed by the Martin Agency (the folks behind the Geico cavemen and chatty gecko) and partnerships with grassroots groups, the campaign focus will be on the how-to aspect of cutting greenhouse gases. "Right now, we have incredible numbers of people in the U.S. who say global warming is an important problem that needs to be fixed," says the Martin Agency's Mike Hughes.

Sorry, Mike, but what you've got on your side is only a small number of loud voices.

According to Gallup, the American people rank global warming #9 (and falling) among environmental issues. See this link for more polling information.

On a related note, check out this:

On the environment, [Obama] said his first priority would be dealing with global warming with a cap-and-trade system of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

If you want to govern as a "man of the people", should your first environmental priority really be the public's ninth environmental priority?

Examination of global warming models urged in light of Argo data

Here.

NASA’s Hansen responds to NYT’s Revkin

From this post:

I guess that the “fair and balanced” approach is not aimed at me — it seems to infest a current popular style, which goes something like: well those are some opinions, what are yours? Which encourages responses, and propagation of responses, by people who don’t really understand what they are talking about. Maybe this style is inherent with modern electronic communications. But I liked the old style, which had a little more permanence.

Jim

My translation: "I liked things better in the old days, before all these people were completely ripping my arguments to shreds on the Internet".

Enviros promise ‘massive’ litigation over climate rules

Here.

More from Greenie Watch

Here.

ABC's eco-fundamentalists attack Fred Singer

Here.

Update: Check out the story's comment thread here.

Gore's carbon dioxide fraud is definitely reaching the end of its shelf life.

Deceitful carbon tax

Here.

GE's Jeff Immelt is part of the problem

Note his (non)-answer here:

MR. MURRAY: But you know what people wonder is: Do you do this because you personally, Jeff Immelt, believe that earth is heading for a crisis and you have a responsibility to deal with it? Do you do it because you believe that General Electric has the opportunity to make money selling green technologies, maybe more money than you make selling hydrocarbon-based technologies? Do you do it because it's great public relations? Do you do it because you think carbon caps are inevitable and you want to be at the table and have some effect?

MR. IMMELT: I would say that I work for investors. I don't believe in hobbies.

I get the distinct feeling that Immelt is only pretending to believe in the carbon dioxide fraud. I think a lot of people are doing this in the hopes of gaining money, votes or power.

I'm very glad that people like John Coleman and Bob Lutz are courageous enough to counter rent-seekers like Immelt.

Olympic Torch Lit By Solar Reflector

Here.

Note the rehearsal problems here.

UK Gov’t Claims False Success on Climate

Here.

Excerpt:

I have often argued that there are two technical reasons why an international agreement to undertake mandatory emissions reductions will not work. The first is that the European Union is demonstrating that you can undertake solemn commitments to reduce emissions by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and then do little or nothing to fulfill those commitments. The second is that it is extremely difficult to determine emissions levels in countries such as China that have poor record keeping and a history of fudging the numbers. It turns out that I was not suspicious enough. Even the British government was willing to fudge the numbers in order to be the world’s global warming leader without having to pay the costs.

"Beware Commies in Fairtrade jerseys"

Here.

Perhaps The Climate Change Models Are Wrong

Here.

Carbon tax is far from 'revenue neutral'

Here.

Do Environmentalists Want to Save the Planet or What?

Here.

IPCC Falsifies Sea Level Data

Here.

On the Goring and Freezing of America

Here.

Air Steadily Leaking from Climate Change Models

Here.

Fake Steve Jobs weighs in

Here.

A somewhat related post is here.

McCain adviser questions Democrats’ push for more than cap and trade

Here.

FREQUENT LIAR MILES

Here.

Teaching the green vibe

Here.

Dalton Minimum Update

Check this out.

Artist prefers 'human-free' world

Here.

Former Chilean president travels to Antarctica to probe global warming

Here.

Excerpts:

SANTIAGO, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos joined members of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society and some scientists in traveling to the Antarctica to probe global warming on Saturday.
...
Lagos is co-chairman of the commission. He was appointed in May2007 as the U.N. Secretary General's special envoy on Climate Change.

Are Marxists feeling heat of global warming?

Here.

Excerpt:

Shamik Lahiri, a [Communist Party of India-Marxist] MP in the Lok Sabha, however, insists that his party has always taken an interest in environmental issues.

“Even the last time environment figured in our political document. We passed a resolution on the issue at the (last) party congress,” he said.

Prodded further, he grudgingly conceded that the party does have a political motive behind underlining the threat of global warming.

“If we have highlighted the phenomenon of global warming in our political document this time, it is because the issue has political overtones,” Lahiri explained to IANS.

Global Warming Presented as Art Show Theme

Here.

More Trouble for the Global Warming Movement

Here.

More from Greenie Watch

Here.

Climate Facts to Warm To

Here.

Galoshes Good For Viewing Oslo Global Warming Installation

Here.

Excerpt:

The floor of Klima X is covered with a 10-centimeter deep layer of H2O which will continue to rise a few centimeters over the course of the two-year-long exhibit as two huge blocks of ice sitting on the floor (representing the two poles) melt in real time.

A few quick suggestions to make the exhibit more realistic:

1. Have the water rise only a fraction of one centimeter over the course of two years.

2. Show one pole melting a bit and the other pole growing a bit.

3. At the start of the exhibit, set up two rooms identically--one to show the results if we don't give trillions of dollars to rent-seekers in suits, and the other to show the results if we do give this money to the rent-seekers. At the end of the two years, note that the water levels and ice block size in each room are still identical.

For even more realism, actually remove some hard-earned cash from each patron's wallet before unveiling that second room.

Human greed and mainstream ignorance

Here.

What happened to global warming's rush of spring?

Here.

"Europe is all pompous platitudes"

Here.

Carbon Offsets Off Clinton's Priority List?

Here.

"Forecast for America: within three years, Al Gore will no longer be revered"

Here.