Snowmen Families Hit by Meltdown Double Whammy

Here.

Unrest in Egypt: More Fallout from Ethanol Subsidies

Here.

Global Warming Today: Yes, Volcanoes Are Caused By It

Here.

Eco-Teens

Here.

The Polar Bears Are All Right

Here.

Pachauri to seek new term

Here.

Gore Lied; People WILL Die

Here.

CLIMATE CHALLENGE UNDERESTIMATED

From this post:

An email from Donn Dears of TsAugust

Quirin Schiermeier commented on the work done by Roger Pielke Jr. et al, and reported on the challenges associated with developing technologies needed to combat climate change. This has been our concern and is the thrust of our recently published book, "Climate Folly".

"Climate Folly" is short, but highlights the key issues in a non technical format targeting the everyday reader. It establishes that we currently do not have the proven technologies needed to achieve a substantial cut in CO2 emissions. The exception, of course, is Nuclear, but it's highly unlikely the United States will build enough nuclear power plants to cut CO2 emissions 80% by 2050.

It emphasizes we should wait to enact Cap & Trade regulations until we have demonstrated that the technologies will really work on the necessary scale. Wind, for example, does not have sufficient scale, even if it was economically justifiable. Indur Goklany's comments support this view.

Much of the debate in the media in the United States has focused on the purported science surrounding global warming. While the scientific arguments are difficult to follow and cause many people to accept the headlines, the idea that we do not have the technologies available to accomplish significant cuts in CO2 is something non-scientists can readily understand.

"Carbon Folly" is an effort to involve the average person in the issues affecting them directly, i.e., no electricity-no jobs, etc. Da Vinci believed man could fly and designed wings to be strapped to a person's body. But, only a fool would jump off a cliff before proving the technology would work.

Like Corn Ethanol and Soy Biodiesel, Big Wind Power Push Depends on Government Mandates

Here.

Geologist: Climate change or climate con?

Here.

Now Steger deliberately uses explosives to frighten global warming's poster child

From this post:

The talk of the evening is about the polar bear that just visited our camp.

The last miles of the leg today we crossed polar bear tracks many times, and it was not a surprise when it paid us a little visit. It was a middle sized bear just sniffing around our camp to figure out what we were making for dinner. Will shot off a bear banger after a couple of minutes to scare it off and Sam had time to take some pictures...

Update: Check out the "05 Apr 04 Eric Day 06" Audio Dispatch here. Eric says they encountered "a whole bunch of [polar bears]" including "three within three hours"; he says two of the three were "out to eat us".

If polar bears are doing so poorly, why are people continually seeing so many of them?

Explorer suggests that SUVs caused the failure of his expedition

From this article, entitled "EXPLORER'S NORTH POLE ATTEMPT HALTED BY ICE":

A Plymouth-born explorer has been forced to abandon his bid to become the fastest man to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole.

Ben Saunders, 30, is to be rescued after his equipment failed in 'appalling' ice conditions.

The main bolts which attach the binding of his boots to his skis sheared off and the damage was beyond repair.

From Saunders' web site:

The ice conditions I have encountered have been the worst I have ever seen, and worse than I could have imagined. I am witnessing at first hand the disintegration of the last of the Arctic’s multi-year pack ice. If climate change in the high Arctic continues at its current rate, I may be one of the last to be able to attempt this journey on foot.

So the Arctic ice was flat and stable until human carbon dioxide emissions ruined it?

Maybe not.

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

Another excerpt from the 1909 article:

Five flags were planted at the the top of the earth, and a bottle containing records was deposited between the ice blocks of a pressure ridge.

"Global warming? Don't worry about it."

Here.

Why I wrote Deniers

Here.

"An inspirational kickoff from David Suzuki"

From this post:

A room, bursting with 250 Inconvenient Truth trainees gathered in Montreal Friday afternoon for the opening of the first Canadian (and the first bilingual) Al Gore Bootcamp.
...
Suzuki listed some of the things that have happened already:
...
· The Northwest Passage was ice free for the first time [besides a whole bunch of other times] in history last summer
...
Back on their feet for another standing ovation, the Al Gore acolytes in THIS room clearly agree.

The Cost of Global Warming and How We Should Approach the Issue

Here.

The Inconvenient "Truth"teller: Al Gore captivates Montreal

From this post:

...He even found time to work in the self-deprecating reference to the day’s unseasonal snowfall, saying, “The weather today was completely refusing to cooperate with my message.”

There were a few differences in the program. The slides were all in French, and a few were slightly modified for Canadian content. And he pitched some of his comments more directly to the Canadian audience. He said, for example, that “What we decide to do in this decade will affect the whole course of human history,” and at such a time “the world looks to Canada.”

He said that Quebec has such an influence in Canada, that Canada has such influence in North America and that North America has such influence in the world that that action those in the audience had a responsibility to act and a real hope that their actions would be worthwhile.

A final difference, in this presentation, was the passion – perhaps even anger and frustration – that he brought to the delivery. Although he pretty carefully avoided commenting on the current U.S. administration – “with which I fear I am losing my objectivity” – he seemed more obviously emotional than he was in the film or than he has been in the presentations attended by others in this audience.

Clowning and Climate Change

Here.

Will Steger saves some propane

Another real head-scratcher is at the beginning of the video linked here.

It shows a large crew of modern people working with hand tools to cut ice from a lake, then using a team of horses to haul it away. On the video, Steger calls this "free" refrigeration, and claims "you're not putting any carbon in the air".

Questions:

1. Was any carbon dioxide emitted in transporting the crew and horses to and from the work site?

2. Was any carbon dioxide emitted in growing, processing, transporting and preparing the food that powered the people and horses during this endeavor?

3. Was any carbon dioxide (or methane) emitted by the crew or horses during this endeavor?

Experts: No link between hurricanes and global warming

See the post and comments here.

Survey Says: Americans Just Want to Keep on Trucking

Here.

Falsification of IPCC AR4 projections

Here.

Germany Scraps Plan to Raise Ethanol Content for Cars

Here.

"suddenly it was El Nino which warmed the world"

Here.

BBC keeps on denying the Sun’s influence on climate

See the whole thing here.

Airline Executive ‘aghast at the global warming hysteria’

From this article:

Emirates Airline executive vice-chairman Maurice Flanagan wrote in the Dubai-based carriers annual report that he was "aghast at the global warming hysteria sweeping the place".

Airlines are at the heart of the travel and tourism nexus.

"If the green extremists, and their cohorts in governments and the media have their way, hundreds of thousands of jobs in the travel and tourism industry will be lost in the years ahead, against a very dodgy maybe, unsupported by any conclusive evidence, and with a tide of evidence sweeping in the opposite direction."

(Via Marc Morano)

More from Andrew Bolt

Here, here, and here.

The sustainable Ken Livingstone

Here.

Maybe this is why the idea of a "nanny state" sounds particularly good to him...

"zero Carbon" is just a fictional soundbite

Here.

The REAL inconvenient truth: Zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change

See this Daily Mail article by Nigel Lawson.

Excerpt:

It should not need pointing out that a lurch into protectionism, and a rolling back of globalisation, would do far more damage to the world economy - and in particular to living standards in the developing countries - than could conceivably result from the projected continuation of global warming.

But even if this danger can be averted, it is clear that the would-be saviours of the planet are, in practice, the enemies of poverty reduction in the developing world.

So the new religion of global warming, however convenient it may be to the politicians, is not as harmless as it may appear. Indeed, the more one examines it, the more it resembles a Da Vinci Code of environmentalism. It is a great story, and a phenomenal bestseller. It contains a grain of truth - and a mountain of nonsense.

And that nonsense could be very damaging indeed.

We appear to have entered a new age of unreason, which threatens to be as economically harmful as it is profoundly disquieting. It is from this, above all, that we really do need to save the planet.

Two posts from Jim's Blog

Here and here.

Interference in science can be disastrous

Here.

Kid doesn't want "the world to go extinct"

Here.

Research and Commentary: Cap-and-Trade

Here.

Kansas: Coal bill backers one vote short of two-thirds margin in House

Here.

Media Curves: Gore's Climate Change Message Flops With Republicans

Here.

Arizona: Speakers challenge global warming

Here.

As per usual, our global warming "awareness" is to be raised by people burning absolutely massive amounts of fossil fuel

Traveling all over the world? Flying in planes, helicopters, and hot air balloons? Decades of auto racing?

It's all here.

Global Climate Scam billboards in Minnesota

While driving today on Interstate 35E in the St. Paul, Minnesota area, I was pleased to see a couple of these billboards.

Solomon: We've been had!

Here.

"It's been a rough go for the GW religionists lately"

Here.

Guilt Offsets

Here.

March 2008 RSS Global Temperature Anomaly Data: slightly above zero

Here.

The most important stories of the week

Here.

Sneaky "people"

Here.

Panic more slowly about warming

Here.

What Happened to the Precautionary Principle?

Here.

AUSSIES SPEND $36 MILLION TO STORE CO2

Here.

The Hot Air Of Desperation

Here.

More from Greenie Watch

Here.

RSS MSU: 0.08 deg C warming in March

Here.

Australia: Liberals wary of `climate change’ tag

Here.

Lloyd's warns of a lack of natural disasters

Here.

Montana Climate Change Advisory Committee, Part I

Here.

Excerpt:

Wow. 11 folks who, by their affiliations and/or professions, appear to be predisposed to the notion that climate change is caused by man. Then, there are 2 management level guys from the power companies who are most likely to avoid rocking the boat at all, one Republican legislator, one actual scientist (and a geophysicist at that), and the remainder seem likely to be chosen from the community at large.

When I was active in a couple of service groups, and we held nominations and elections for officers, we used to all make the sound of a train whistle, since we knew the deck was stacked, and we were going to be railroaded.

Even No Impact Man admits: life without electricity made him "unhappy" and "depressed"

What happens when you try to extend Earth Hour into your real life?

From this post:

In Zone 1, which is where we lived in the last months of the project, with no lights and no electricity, we found that we had restricted our resource use to the point where we were making ourselves unhappy again. Not having light after 4:30 made me depressed and caused us stress because we didn't have the daylight we needed to get our jobs done. Doing laundry by hand is hard work and time consuming.

Global warming "solutions" are hurting indigenous people, says U.N.

Here.

On the sustainable Ted Turner

1. See Says The Man With FIVE Children

2. From this post:

Ted's Happiness-Is-a-Private-Plane philosophy: "To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless."

"a good excuse"

Here.

Why [Alarmists] Are Losing the Global Warming Battle

Here.

But what about the methane?

From this article:

"Global warming is a most serious issue. Some 33 students from Sweden are riding on bullock carts. The idea of riding a bullock cart is to emphasize transport simplicity," said B. Nirmal, an organizer of the event.

A "no, nothing" wing

See the WSJ piece here.

Excerpt:

Ms. Sebelius is a Democratic wunderkind and her name is circulating for a cabinet post in an Obama Administration, maybe even Vice President. She's representative of the party's "no, nothing" wing, which knows only what energy it wants to ban or limit, not what it is going to offer in place. Coal provides more than half of U.S. electricity because it is cheap and abundant – and viable. Wind turbines and the rest of the boutique alternatives are none of those, a reality that Democrats are going to have to square when they actually bother to pass a climate-change bill.

Major La Nina Storm with Tornado Outbreak, Flooding and Blizzard End of Next Week?

Here.

The road from Kyoto

Here.

Excerpt:

What would a materially effective policy do? It would break the link between poverty reduction and carbon emission. It would recognise that the developing world needs to consume - and will consume - more energy, not less. It would recognise that attempting to control human-created carbon emissions by setting binding output targets and relying on artificial carbon markets and dodgy offsets, as Kyoto does, has not and never will work.

Divergence between NH and SH temperatures in March 2008

Here.

How not to measure temperature, part 56

Here.

Bush beats Gore on climate?

Here.

Redistributing the Billions from Emissions Trading: A Note from John Roskam

Here.

Not John Doerr's finest hour

See what John Doerr was saying around the peak of the carbon dioxide hysteria (March '07) in this video:



If your time is limited, check out just the first couple of minutes and then jump to 15:50 or so. He starts to get weepy around the 17:00 mark.

A related article is here.

A quote from Doerr:

I'm scared. I don't think we're going to make it.

(Maybe he had a premonition of being eaten by Ted Turner?)

More information on the video, entitled "John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech", is here.

More information about Gore, Doerr, and Kleiner Perkins is here.

LEWIS: Check that bandwagon

See this opinion from the Iowa State Daily.

Count Costa a sceptic

Here.

BBC claim: 'No Sun link' to climate change

Here.

Update: From a comment (by Anthony Watts?) here:

REPLY: It seems they looked at the wrong particles. This is the telling quote:
“For example; sometimes the Sun ‘burps’ - it throws out a huge burst of charged particles,” he explained to BBC News.

“So we looked to see whether cloud cover increased after one of these bursts of rays from the Sun; we saw nothing.”

Of course he likely wouldn’t. Cosmic rays are orders of magnitude more energetic than sun driven partcles. Svensmark’s theory is about Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR), not protons or other sun emanated particles which are typically lower in energy.

Svensmark said as a quote: “Terry Sloan has simply failed to understand how cosmic rays work on clouds”

We’ll see how it shakes out.

Lord Monckton debunks global warming (1 hour 7 minute podcast)

Here.

Glenn Beck: Lord Monckton on Global Warming

Here.

Global warming profiteers are wrong

Here.

Al Gore: “This is about survival ...we can’t wait for someone else to stop global warming”

Here.

Paleoclimate scientist Dr. Bob Carter Reviews 'An Inconvenient Book'

Here.

Get On Line: Wind Power’s Real Hurdle

Here.

Ottawa says no to Kyotocide

Here.

Parapraxis (Or, Ted Turner's Tongue Slips Out)

Here.

Remember when caffeine was bad for you and you had to drink 8 glasses of water a day?

See the articles here and here.

One cool view of global warming

Here.

Robins, the Inuit and the "Warming" Arctic

See Andy Revkin's post here.

Excerpt:

The Web is now providing an ongoing 24/7 fact-checking process...

Global warming and Fairbanks’ power solution

Here.

Excerpt:

Let me quote Maurice F. Strong, one of the world’s leading environmentalists and senior advisor to various U.N. Secretaries-General: “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring about?”

This means that the western civilization is threatened, rather than our climate.

ABC Journalism: Fraudulent or Truthful?

Here.

Maybe the "globe" isn't quite as "warm" as Richard Branson's kid thought it was

There are now some updates on Will Steger's "globalwarming101" site.

Although the whole objective of the trip is to convince us that humans are warming the globe, they don't seem to offer up much convincing evidence as of Day 4.

1. It appears that Sam Branson may have gotten mild frostbite on his nose on the first full day out.

2. Their "daily" entries started out giving detailed position, wind and temperature information, but now the temperature information is omitted. I wonder why?

3. Although we were promised daily updates, they seem to already have skipped a couple of days (and for some reason, the audio entry for Day 2 is in Norwegian only). I wonder why?

4. The video currently up on the site shows the team using a fossil fuel-powered snowmobile before their expedition. It also shows a fossil fuel-powered forklift evidently helping to load their gear onto a fossil fuel-powered plane (not everything fit into one plane).

More on the expedition is here.

Are Carbon Cuts Just A Fantasy?

Here.

At least 70% of British youth not buying into Gore's alarmism?

From this article:

You might think fears about the environment and terrorism are weighing heavy on the minds of the nations youth - but according to one new survey young Brits are more worried about debt.

The Youth Future Fears UK survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI and commissioned by UK volunteering charity CSV and Tesco, found that 48 per cent of all 16 to 25-year-olds rate debt as one of their biggest fears.

That compares with 40 per cent worrying about unemployment, 38 per cent losing sleep over violence crime, and a green 30 per cent placing the global warming top of their list of concerns.

Why did they have to spend $300 million if the first stuff was so successful?

Here.

Gore to "train" 230 more people

Here.

Kyoto supporters have no idea

Here.

Check out the claim from Andrew Leonard at salon.com

From this post:

It's amazing, really. Pick a random datapoint of climate skepticism floating through the infosphere, and you can almost invariably connect the dots back to Exxon.

Polar Bears are a Prop, Not An Endangered Species

Here.

THE CHURCH OF WARMISM & PUBLIC HEALTH

Here.

More from Greenie Watch

See it all here.

A complete list of things caused by global warming

This site is a gold mine of global warming hysteria, and it's still being updated.

I just check the site for "moose" links and found this one:

As usual, data in any direction supports the conclusion that we are all doomed. On Isle Royale on Lake Superior, wolves eat more moose because of global warming - and it's bad. But on Canada's Ellesmere Island, wolves are eating less and so have moved elsewhere - and it's bad.

“Missing Ocean Heat” re-visited

Here.

CNN’s View of Climate History

See the post and comments here.

Excerpt from this related link:

What Knight has identified as "climate change science" in his timeline is a crappy form of political advocacy using the greenhouse effect as hostage and done by third-class and mostly dishonest members of the scientific community (and non-scientists) with very limited abstract reasoning, poor quantitative skills, and a low scientific integrity. It has almost nothing to do with science and certainly not with good or important science. Mr Knight and CNN should be deeply ashamed for the lies they are spreading.

William Gray: global warming is a religion

Here.

Must be a lot less CO2 over Washington this spring

From this article:

So far this Spring, the high temperatures have been sticking between 45 and 55 degrees, a near 30 degree drop from the balmy temps last year, when highs cracked 80 degrees and made for comfortable touring.

The Wilkins Ice Shelf Con Job

Here.

Apparent Relations Between Solar Activity and Solar Tides Caused by the Planets

Here.

Al Gore, Capo of Carbon Racketeers: Banned in Britain

Here.

Wind Facts

Here.

Gore Campaigns to Win Over 'Tiny, Tiny Minority'

Here.

Excerpt:

I am proud to raise the “They” flag. Because I dare ask questions, those pesky things journalists are supposed to handle. Who is funding Gore’s $300-million campaign? Lesley Stahl let Gore emphasize how much he is helping underwrite the ads. “Well, Tipper and I – thank you again – have put all of the profits from the movie and the book that we would have otherwise gotten, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ to this,” Gore said.

But according to The Washington Post, he’s committed “more than $2.7 million.” Let’s assume a new Gore book and a few proceeds from the Live Earth fiasco add another few million.

So where does roughly $290 million come from? Are there donors, like Gore, somehow involved in carbon credits, alternative energy or some standard left-wing cause? We don’t know because journalists are so blinded by their devotion to Gore that they don’t dare challenge him with questions a high school journalism student would ask.

Journalists usually love to investigate funding. They point out the funding for conservative groups all the time. Last summer, a left-wing front group called The Union of Concerned Scientists complained that groups opposed to Gore received funding. NBC’s Anne Thompson told viewers “interest groups fueled by powerful companies” had funded “denier groups.”

Carbon Copy: Europe’s Still Not Cutting Emissions

See the whole thing here.

Excerpt:

It’s not a surprise but a bummer nonetheless: Greenhouse-gas emissions are still rising in Europe despite lots of autographs on the Kyoto Protocol and an elaborate cap-and-trade system.

Early analysis of data out today from the European Commission shows that emissions rose about 1.1% last year to 1.9 billion metric tons. That’s after similar increases in 2005 and 2006.

The Age should celebrate

Here.

Thank God for spin

Here.

Excerpt:

THE Australian delegation to climate change talks in Bangkok has turned the clock back to the Howard era by failing to back binding greenhouse targets...

Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy

See the whole thing here.

Excerpts:

According to wife Tipper, "Al's survival after his defeat in 2000 depended on his immersing himself in the climate cause." [emphasis added] Somehow, CBS didn't find this peculiar statement worthy of further exploration. I do -- as it may suggest that the "PR Agent for the Planet" became so in an effort to lift himself from the throes of depression.
...
A 1604 novel by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes told of another man who descended into fantastic delusions of grandeur as a victim of his own frustrated obsessions. Enraptured by tales of chivalry, Alonso Quixano fancied himself a knight errant and, sporting an old suit of armor, dubbed himself "Don Quixote de la Mancha" before embarking on an imaginary mission to save the downtrodden.

But while Quixote's delusions were mostly benign, Don Gore de la Tierra's are not. The "word" his misguided mission spreads has facilitated policies of potential calamity far exceeding the actual problem their implementation is meant to remedy. From economy starving Kyoto-style cap-and-trade treaties to population starving ethanol mandates, unintended consequences invariably turn such quixotic green solutions into sheer disaster.

Time and time again.

Obama: I'd Hire Gore

From this article:

WALLINGFORD, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday he talks regularly with former vice president Al Gore and would consider putting him in a Cabinet-level position or higher.

A woman at a town hall asked the Illinois senator if elected president would he consider tapping the former vice president for his Cabinet, or an even higher level office, to address global warming.

"I would," Obama said. "Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I'm already consulting with him in terms of these issues, but climate change is real. It is something we have to deal with now, not 10 years from now, not 20 years from now."

Update: A related link is here. The post points out Gore's staunch support for ethanol, as evidenced here. Also see this post, entitled "Al Gore Saved the Ethanol".

Climate-Change Campaign Questioned

Here.

Excerpts:

The three-year, $300-million campaign, which started this week, will be run by the Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit organization in Menlo Park, Calif. Mr. Gore is estimated to have contributed $2.7-million to the effort.
...
...Matthew Vadum, editor of the think tank’s publications, writes that the investment company has “considerable influence” over carbon-credit trading groups and that if the new advocacy campaign succeeds in convincing Americans to support carbon-emissions trading, “Al Gore will be uniquely positioned to cash in.”

However, Richard Campbell, a spokesman for Generation Investment Management, called the suggestions a “nonsense story.”

In an e-mail message to The Chronicle, he writes that neither Mr. Gore nor any other members of the investment company’s board will make money from the expansion of carbon trading.

Food for Fuel II

Here.

Excerpt:

Sorry, shoppers. Don’t forget to thank all the politicians and activists who have jumped on the food-for-fuel bandwagon, your household budgets be damned.

Axe buildings to cool overheated European cities, "expert" says

Here.

Bob Hoye on global warming

Here.

Excerpt:

The understanding of the physics of the earth's climate will continue to advance under a disciplined, rather than hysterical approach. Convictions about man-made global warming will soon be ranked with convictions about astrology and alchemy.

Myths and Distortions About Global Warming

Here.

Overblown: The Real Cost of Wind Power

Here.

America Offers Al Gore $300 Million to Shut Up

Here.

Bank of America: More Heat on Coal

From this post:

As the Innovest report detailed, along with a host of government and industry analyses, climate-change legislation will almost certainly make natural gas the most cost-effective fuel for power generation. It already makes up 20% of U.S. power supply, and companies are furiously looking for more in the oddest places.

The burning question for policy-makers, if not for financiers, is how much America’s energy, climate, and industrial policies win by shifting reliance to a fuel that basically tracks the price of oil and will have to be increasingly imported. Just ask Long Islanders

A Cavalier Attitude Toward Intellectual Freedom

Here.

Busy beaver Pachauri continues to advocate policy like there's no tomorrow

See details of his African visit here, and note again that the formal mandate of the IPCC is to be "policy neutral."

Salon.com article: Al Gore "a little delusional"

Here.

Excerpts:

Gregory Benford thinks Al Gore's a good guy and all, but he also thinks the star of "An Inconvenient Truth" is a little delusional.
...
"I never believed we were going to be able to thwart global warming through carbon restriction," Benford says. "Carbon restriction requires nations to subvert short- and midterm goals for a long-term goal they've read about online, and that's just not going to work."
...
"I know of no realistic person who thinks carbon dioxide emissions are going to do anything but grow," says Pete Geddes, executive vice president of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment. "Most European countries are not meeting their emissions goals, and of the ones that have, it's because their economies are collapsing. In the United States, this notion that we're going to reduce our emissions by 80 percent is pure fantasy."

Earth Hour about consumption

Here.

Excerpts:

The problem is, the idea of Earth Hour gets caught in the increasingly contentious debate of climate change and global warming.
...
Instead of looking at it as a way to combat the so-called threat of global warming, the once-a-year event should have been billed as a way to look at our consumption.

London mayoral election (May 1) as a referendum on global warming

An interesting interview with London mayor Ken Livingstone is here.

Excerpt from the link above:

They discuss whether Ken Livingstone's bid to make the London mayoral race a green election will pay off and what his Tory rival, Boris Johnson, has to offer on the the environment.

John Vidal asks the London mayor about why he is behind in the polls if voters are as eco-conscious as he says they are. Is Ken's green ticket just too radical for most Londoners?

At about the 23:30 mark of the podcast, Livingstone uses phrases like "really damaging" and "terribly demoralizing" to describe the effects on alarmists if he were to be voted out of office.

At about the 26:50 mark, Livingstone says that after Bush leaves office, Boris Johnson would be "the most high profile politician anywhere in the English-speaking world still in denial [over global warming]".

At about the 27:30 mark, Livingstone refers to Boris as "in environmental terms, the Antichrist".

From yesterday's related Reuters article here:

Boris Johnson's lead in the opinion polls has narrowed but still remains in double figures over his nearest rival in the race for Mayor of London.

The Conservative candidate was two points down at 47 percent, while Labour's Ken Livingstone was static on 37 percent, the joint Evening Standard and ITV London Tonight poll showed.

More from Livingstone is here.

Excerpt:

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.

Improving climate change communication, or dumbing down the science?

Here.

Excerpt:

Uncertainty is part and parcel of science, and it is vital that scientists are honest about uncertainty.

MSM Columnist Praises Earth Hour Youth Going Door-To-Door In Denver To Enforce Lights Out

Here.

The same old Kyoto revisionism

Here.

Environmental Vandalism

Here.

Local Fossil Fools Day Demonstration Photos

Here.

PAM DZAMA: ‘Global Warming' Is Now ‘Climate Change'

Here.

The deliberate hero

From this post:

As reported in the August 2007 issue of Foundation Watch (“Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade: The Money and Connections Behind It”), Gore has created a web of organizations to promote the so-called climate crisis. His battle against CO2 emissions could make him millions of dollars. How that’s for a motive?

Why baby birthing complications in India are your fault

It's simple, really: CO2 was emitted when the electricity used to power your CD player was generated. This CO2 warms up the Earth; this warmth melts the ice caps, which raises sea levels, which causes salt water to get into Indian drinking water, which is then drunk by pregnant Indians, who then get high blood pressure, which then leads to delivery complications.

Details here.

"Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals"

Check out the barking madness of Ted Turner here.

Update: A related post is here.

False alarms and climate change

Here.

Excerpt:

It is high time for an open debate over the human influence on climate given that the federal government — after nearly 20 years of debate — is still considering whether to enact mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. If the science behind climate alarmism is weak or weakening, this should not be hidden from the public in a rush to enact legislation. Fire-ready-aim is hardly the basis of sound public policy.

IPCC Review Editors Comments Online

Here.

Update: Excerpt from this related Jennifer Marohasy post:

There is a very good letter from David Holland to Prof John Mitchell here.

First Nations Perspective: Climate change

Here.

Excerpts:

The global climate change argument, that the 'Globalists' are trying to promote through their propaganda dept., suggest that the current increase in temp. and weather severity is man-made. I suggest the more important issue of man-made pollutants of this Earth mother, is the most important topic to discuss.
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Let us start to tackle the real problem with as much zeal as the hoax...

No climate agreement without India, says US

Here.

Philippines: Greens Debunk Arroyo Claim That Rice Crisis Is Result of Climate Change

Here.

Interesting disconnect

Here.

Excerpt:

Aren’t these the same guys who want to dramatically increase the consumer price of gasoline to discourage its use? Aren’t they considering all manner of anti-consumer taxes and caps on fossil fuel-sourced energy while mandating expensive and unreliable ‘renewables’? And they are whining about fuel companies charging market price? What strange critters…

Preachers aren’t funny. Simple

Here.

How not to measure temperature, part 55

Here.

Remember, this massively flawed data helps form the very foundation of a "pyramid of insanity" that features massive numbers of unproductive carbon dioxide bureaucrats and traders, people locking themselves to bulldozers and harassing school-run mothers, etc etc.

Challenge to Dr Cullen for evidence of "consensus"

Here.

A related post is here.

DeSmogBlog perspective: US polling on global warming "shockingly depressing"

From this post:

Consider the following data from Pew (January 2008) on where the U.S. public's priorities lie.

It is shockingly depressing information, but it is consistent with many other surveys: Just 35 % of the American public rates dealing with global warming, a la a bill like Lieberman-Warner, as a "top priority." That puts global warming behind Iraq, healthcare, the economy, the budget deficit, poverty, immigration, crime, and many, many other things. It puts it tied for dead last on the roster that Pew provided--tied with making Bush's tax cuts permanent, for crying out loud.

Gag me with a spoon

From this page:

"We need every one of the Fossil Fool nominees to stop fooling around with our future and start showing the bold leadership necessary to avert a climate crisis," said Brianna Cayo Cotter of the Energy Action Coalition. "Youth from around the world are demanding a clean, just energy future and it's time corporate executives and politicians stopped standing in our way."

New Zealand: Senior Nat MPs deny catastrophic AGW?

Here.

Update: More detail and a pretty remarkable 3-minute YouTube video are here.

Excerpt:

[National] leader “Slippery” John Key has been all over the place on the issue. In 2005 whilst speaking in parliament he said:

“This is a complete and utter hoax, if I may say so. The impact of the Kyoto Protocol, even if one believes in global warming-and I am somewhat suspicious of it-is that we will see billions and billions of dollars poured into fixing something that we are not even sure is a problem” - Hansard, 10 May 2005.

Making Al Gore proud

From this article:

At 6:30 this morning, North Carolina residents locked themselves to bulldozers to stop the construction of Duke Energy’s massive Cliffside coal-fired power plant being built 50 miles west of Charlotte, NC. “In the face of catastrophic climate change, building a new coal plant is tantamount to signing a death sentence for our generation,” said local farmer Matt Wallace, while locked to a bulldozer.

Turning off global warming fears

Here.

Did Fred Flintstone's car cause the climate change that allegedly helped kill off the woolly mammoth?

Here.

British policy advisor says Gore is in 'panic' mode

Don't miss the whole thing here.

Excerpt:

"The alarmists are alarmed, the panic mongers are panicking, the scare mongers are scared; the Gores are gored. Why? Because global warming stopped ten years ago; it hasn't got warmer since 1998," [Monckton] points out. "And in fact in the last seven years, there has been a downturn in global temperatures equivalent on average to about [or] very close to one degree Fahrenheit per decade. We're actually in a period ... of global cooling."

Monckton contends Gore is now "panicking" because he has staked his reputation as a former American VP on "telling the world that we're all doomed unless we shut down 90 percent of the Western economies." He also contends that Gore is the largest "global-warming profiteer."

A SPONSOR of Maryland's Global Warming Solutions Act turns around and tries to exempt a local steel mill

See the details here.

New quote from Stone, who is no longer a sponsor of the bill:

"I think it will (remain in business) with those other amendments, if they stay on the bill," as debate moves to the House, Stone said. "I want to see the greenhouse gases reduced. I think global warming is a real problem. But this one plant?....I'm not sure it makes the difference over how much global warming we will have."

"Replacing Kyoto: Is Japan Right?"

Here.

A long vacation for climate realism

Here.

Another Scientist Dissents: No Consensus on Global Warming

Here.

Excerpt:

Assertions by zealots and politicians, who should really know better, that climate change is the ‘most important environmental problem facing the world,’ ought to be subjected to the cold light of reason says Michael Shaw. Before untold resources are spent, shouldn’t we at least compare climate change to other problems facing mankind? (9) What about issues like communicable diseases, malnutrition and hunger, sanitation and access to clean water? Many, if not all, of these demand immediate attention and can aid folks in serious need at present, not some future generations, that may or may not be affected by the weather in the 2100s.

Lastly, 30 years ago we were supposedly headed into a cooling cycle akin to the Little Ice Age. (10) Now, it’s an unprecedented heating cycle. If you ask me, that’s an awfully quick time for a flip-flop on the weather. If the 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to one day, then 100,000 years of human history would by 4 minutes and a 100 year life-span would be 0.2 seconds. (11) So, in less than 0.1 second in cosmic time we’ve switched on climate change. Seems like we need a few more cosmic time seconds to gather more data.

Stunt unearthed from facts

Here.

Excerpt:

Our power actually produces just a third of all our greenhouse emissions, which means that the 100 tonnes or so we saved with Earth Hour cut less than 0.0002 per cent of what Australia belches out each year.
And to get even that tiny, tiny saving, look what we had to do.
We had the media giving this stunt non-stop publicity. We had to hold the blackout on a weekend, when most businesses were shut. We cheated by rescheduling our electricity use around Earth Hour—the Sunday Age, for instance, published an hour later to make the hour seem a bigger success.
Yet with all those tricks, and all the gassy PR stunts, we managed just 0.0002 of the 60 per cent cut in emissions Rudd has promised.

Google and the Green Machine

Here.

Excerpt:

As interesting as Google’s selective holiday-making is, it seems to me that the bigger story was Al Gore’s revelations during a 60 Minutes interview this weekend: he and others are funneling $300 million into a massive PR campaign to promote climate alarmism — a tax-exempt effort which also aims to persuade Congress to adopt mandatory “eco-friendly measures,” which would have the salutary effect of making Gore and Google’s mutual Silicon Valley investor friends very rich, as I have explained here. Try as I might to steer the conversation to this newsworthy topic, a resistant Bill Hemmer wanted to know what I planned to “do about” Google’s efforts to engage activist groups to contact Congress. Well, Bill: nothing, actually. Google has every right to petition Congress to redress grievances — real or imaginary.

Audio of "Between the Covers" interview with Roy Spencer

Here.

Progressives Hate The Poor

Here.

April 1 in Minnesota

Some Minnesota schools opened late today because of snowy roads. I took this picture this morning near my house:



The local paper predicts a high in the 30s today; it says the record high for this date was 82 degrees back in 1882--a clear indication that environmentally, things really went to hell soon after Ulysses S. Grant left office.

I'm a little fuzzy on the historical details, but maybe the infamous CO2 spike and mass extinction event of 1882 was just an inevitable result of Eli Whitney's invention of the Boeing 767 back in the 1870s...

Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam

Here.

I'll bet this will be highly productive

From this article, entitled "World waiting 'anxiously' for climate solution":

Some 1,200 negotiators from more than 160 countries met in Bangkok, Thailand on Monday to start to draft plans to fight global warming.

Discount the inconvenient

Here.

Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army

From this article:

Environmental activists yesterday described the plan as the most ambitious public campaign launched in the US.

"The resources are completely unprecedented in American politics," said Philip Clapp, of the Pew Environment Group.

Save The Earth — Hug A Logger

Here.

Getting out before the subsidies run out?

Here.

Comment On Weblog Titled “Josh Willis On Climate Change: Global Warming Is Real”

Here.

Comparing the Latest Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Here.

Protectionism By Another Name

From this post:

I must agree wholeheartedly with Lawson. Attempts to block trade from the developing world in the name of ‘global warming’ stink - they are a neo-colonialism, and a ‘protectionism-of-the-ecochondriac-rich’, too far.

Now it's only 'many' scientists

Here.

Global Warming Consensus Watch - Truth is Inconvenient

From this post:

Did you catch that? Gore is claiming for himself the right to lie - to “over-represent” the facts - in order to move public opinion toward his radical vision of the environmental future.

On Carbon Credits and Eco-Enslavement

Here.

Taking direct action against the people who allegedly caused Hurricane Katrina!

Check out the insanity here.

Note the related quotes from Al Gore and Jim Hansen here:

In a little-noticed op-ed in this past Thursday’s New York Times (”The Big Melt,” with a tip of the hat to Free Democracy for posting it) , Nicholas Kristoff reported on a conversation with Al Gore in which the former Vice-President said: “I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.” His comment was in response to the ever-quickening pace of polar ice meltoff, with all its deadly and catastrophic implications, and the role played by coal-fired power plants in advancing our demise.

The comment was also strikingly similar to a recent quote from Dr. James Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA: “It seems to me that young people, especially, should be doing whatever is necessary to block construction of dirty (no CCS) coal-fired power plants.”

Carbon Offset Credit Card!

Here.

Trash Media on global warming

Here and here.

Google Jumps The Shark On Global Warming

Here.

Excerpt:

“Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity that we’ve ever faced” — Oh please! Even if the temperature rise that they predict does occur over the next 50 or so years, we can cope with that. Warming is much easier to deal with than cooling, and there are most likely benefits to overall warming. Try telling that “biggest threat” crap to a WWII vet, who fought against the fascists in Germany, Italy and Japan. Try telling that to the victims of Stalin, Mao, Castro or the Khmer Rouge.

From a related post here:

For Google, this is absolutely stupid, ignorant and irresponsible. For a company supposedly handling access to content, they need to find out what the content is saying about the increasingly exposure of the faulty climate models used to predict the non-existent threat to humanity.

Glenn Debates Swedish Official Who Claims MEN Are Primarily Responsible for Global Warming

Here.

Absolutely massive chutzpah from China

Check this out.

Excerpts:

March 31 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. rejected a Chinese proposal that developed countries should contribute a percentage of their gross domestic product to mitigate the effects of climate change.

China, the world's second-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, called for developed nations to provide financial support of 0.5 percent of their GDP a year to help it and other developing nations fight global warming.
...
The sum sought by China would amount to $66 billion a year from the U.S., according to Bloomberg data.

Evidently, all China wants is to simultaneously be the largest world CO2 emitter, the largest seller of highly-questionable CO2 emission credits, and on top of that, to be a large beneficiary of a separate CO2-related annual handout from the U.S.

The Media Ignores Al Gore's Planned Global Warming Profiteering

Here.

Making Tea at the Hadley Climate Research Unit

Here.

Mile-high tower: Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built

From this article:

Experts say the technical challenges are enormous. Much of the lifting will be carried out by helicopters, which will also be used as commuter transport for builders.

Who is keeping track of all those carbon credit trees?

Here.

Age reporters now promoters

Here.

Since The Age is one of those noble unbiased mainstream news sources, can we trust that they spent an equal amount of effort in "promoting" the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change?

Perverted incentive

Here.

Excerpt:

...“But in the meantime,” writes Michael Wara of Stanford University in the journal Nature, “there is evidence that factories are ramping up production of HCFC in order to boost emissions of HFC, so that they can make windfall profits from cutting back on HFC later and selling the emission-reduction credits. They can hope to earn twice as much from selling their credits as they can from selling their refrigerants.”

Revkin (again) on Gore's ad blitz

Here.

Excerpt:

John P. Murry Jr., an associate professor of marketing at the University of Iowa who has studied public service advertising, said the campaign might be spending too little.

“I think the global warming project media budget should be 10 times as high,” he said. “Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi spend over a billion dollars each year to promote brand preference for soft drinks. In this light, the $100 million per year to change our lifestyles seems pretty small.”

Report: UK's Sir David King Embarrassed by Skeptical Scientists

Here.

Excerpt:

“Sir David King, not realizing he had been ambushed, launched into his usual exaggerated, alarmist presentation (he actually knows remarkably little about the science of climate, and makes an ass of himself every time he opens his mouth on the subject). The six sceptics heard him politely until one of them, who told me the story, could contain himself no longer. When Sir David said that the snows of Kilimanjaro were melting because of “global warming”, my informant pointed out that, in the 30 years since satellite monitoring of the summit had begun, temperature had at no instant risen above –1.6°C, and had averaged –7°C (Molg et al., 2003); that the region around the mountain had cooled throughout the period (Cullen, 2006); that the recession of the glacier had begun in the 1880s, long before any anthropogenic influence (Robinson, Robinson & Soon, 2007); and that the reason for the long-established recession of the Furtwangler glacier at the summit was ablation caused by the desiccation of the atmosphere owing to the regional cooling. It had nothing to do with global warming.”
[…]

“Sir David King, embarrassed at having been caught out, said he had never been so insulted in all his life. He flounced out of the meeting, followed by the rest of the British delegation. To Dr. Ilarionov, two conclusions were evident: first, that the supporters of the “consensus” position had based their argument on known scientific falsehoods and were accordingly unable to argue against the well-informed sceptics; secondly, that, as he put it at the time, the British Government were behaving like old-style imperialists. The breakdown in relations between the UK and Russia began at that moment.”

March Goes Out Like A Flamingo

Here.

Excerpt:

Here are some very lovely charts showing that in Minnesota the warmest era was the 1930s. Chart provided by Global Warming Science.

"sure signs of the exhaustion of the climate change argument"

Here.

More arguing using completely made-up "facts"

From this article:

Ninety percent of scientists agree that we are headed toward a climate crisis, and that, indeed, it has already started.

Earth Hour Comes to San Francisco - Lights Out for One Hour.

Here.

Excerpt:

Question: Turning off these decorative [bridge] lights for an hour saves enough electricity to power Al Gore’s house (his actual house, not his San Francisco condo in SOMA that’s visible on the right) for how many minutes?

Answer: About 13 minutes. Let’s work on that math, after the jump.

CBS's Stahl: Al Gore Is 'PR Agent For The Planet'

Here.

Al Gore's Last Gasp?

Here.

Good Thing We've Got The Dome

Here.

A Maverick Climate Policy

Here.

Show me the money!

Here.

One excerpt:

...why does someone need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to remind people how much they agree with them?

Google steps up eco-activism, will help flood Capitol switchboard

Here.

Is the Global Warming Hysteria Killing Environmentalism?

Here.

Alliance for Climate Protection's CEO speaks with a small group of bloggers

Here.

Excerpt:

Around 9-10% are activists, people who get it and are engaged.

Dessler admits that the sun is powerful enough to cause skin cancer at a distance of 93 million miles

Here.

Revkin on Gore's propaganda campaign

Here.

And is Eliot Spitzer the next Abraham Lincoln?

See this article, entitled "Climate change: Is Branson the next Churchill?".

U.S. poll: Global warming 8th environmental problem

Here.

Can't Anyone Solve Problems Without the Government?

Here.

Excerpt:

The more modern approach is not to spend you own money on the environment, but to lobby the government to force other people to spend their money on the environment.

Aussie politicians shun enviro-friendly cars

Here.

China cashing in on carbon dioxide hysteria

From this post:

China accounted for 51% of the world’s CDM carbon emission credits...
There is no doubt that China, the world’s largest producer of CO₂e per annum by overall volume on one hand and also the world’s leading CDM [clean development mechanism] project developer on the other, is the 800 pound gorilla in the carbon market.

A related link is here.

Note this excerpt from the Washington Post:

...emissions trading with developing countries has been a bust. China has deliberately designed factories to release prodigious quantities of greenhouse gases, then pocketed billions for redesigning them.

The law of unintended consequences...

Here.

The simple "algorithm"

Here.

Excerpt:

To help in the fight against unnecessary carbon emissions, 60 Minutes sent Leslie Stahl and a film crew to India to follow Gore and collect 71 seconds of footage.

Roger A. Pielke Sr.’s Perspective On The Role Of Humans In Climate Change

From this post:

The neglect of including the diversity of human climate forcings indicates that the real objective of those promoting the radiative effect of the addition of atmospheric CO2 as the dominate human climate forcing is to promote energy and lifestyle changes. Their actual goal is not to develop effective climate policies.

Avery: The oceans have stopped warming!

Here.

“Warming Island”—Another Global Warming Myth Exposed

Here.

"the cold temperature is not comfortable"

I just checked out some updates on Will Steger's site here. I am remarkably unimpressed by this attempt to convince us that carbon dioxide is dangerously heating the Arctic.

In a home page video, Steger says that they encountered the "deepest snow I've ever seen in the eastern Arctic".

In some March 30 audio, "Toby" says that the temperatures were -35 degrees with the wind "blowing pretty heavy"; he says "we are all covered in ice, around our faces".

A March 14 snippet from Sam Branson:

We were out on the trail out for about 4 hours, but within 5 minutes of leaving I was freezing. It really shocked me. I hadn’t worn nearly enough clothes. I was in my full body suit and outer jacket but had nowhere near enough warmth. Your under layers are essential and I wont make the same mistake again.

Note that "Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company" is listed as a supporter of this climate alarmist effort.

More Al Gore 60 Minutes Coverage

Here.

"Idiot media don’t see Al & the carbon scammers are trying to buy energy contol"

From this post:

Wow! Al is spending some on an ad campaign (along with plenty of his fellow scammers) in an effort to stampede the public and politics into stupid legislation that will mean Al et al will get a slice of mandated energy taxation. Check out the fawning coverage.

Al Gore actually compares war against Hitler to his proposed war against that stuff that makes your 7-UP fizzy

Idiotic "eco-warriors" now targeting school-run mothers

Here.

Excerpt:

Copying tactics used in Edinburgh recently, the eco-warriors plan to deflate the tyres on 4x4's using mung beans and plaster windscreens with stickers protesting against climate change.

They are pinpointing school runs in areas such as Kensington and Chelsea and also plan to picket expensive 4x4 dealerships in Mayfair and Knightsbridge.
...
Security sources said: "You've got the kids in the back, you're in difficult traffic outside school and someone rushes up and plasters a sticker over your windscreen? I'd say that was pretty scary and potentially dangerous.

14 feet of snow in Ottawa

Here.

Excerpt:

No one needs to ask Luc Guertin his view. His front yard on a suburban street here features his personal monument to eastern Canada’s unusually prolonged, relentless and snowy winter. A snow wall, about 18 ½ feet high, 6 to 10 feet wide and 30 feet long, rises along one edge of the driveway. Standing next to a flagpole at the top, a balaclava-clad mannequin holds a snow shovel aloft in “Rocky”-style triumph. A sign, decorated with fuzzy chickens, offers outdated Easter greetings to the steady stream of sightseers who make their way to Toulouse Crescent

Earth Hour Idiocy Cum Hypocrisy: Burn Hydrocarbons For Mother Gaia

Here.

Al's religious and political supporters list

Here.

James Hansen wants coal mining to stop

Here.

The Two Theories of Climate Change

Here.

Excerpt:

Over the last 20 years, a tremendous amount of effort has been used to define the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Theory of climate change, largely through the work of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This effort has been government sponsored and is largely based on science paid for with government grants.

The amount of money flowing into the study of man-made climate change has multiplied time and again over the years, solely because man-made climate change has been perceived as a crisis. The study of natural climate change, on the other hand, has not enjoyed a similar windfall. In fact, those insisting that natural climate variability is still dominant have had a very difficult time getting funding at all. Natural climate change is not considered a problem requiring a solution, so governments are not interested. Meanwhile, the scientific community has been downright hostile to those arguing against the AGW theory, for they threaten to kill the goose that is laying the golden eggs.

Name just 10 species we gassed to death

Here.

Evidence of a Significant Solar Imprint in Annual Globally Averaged Temperature Trends - Part 2

Here.

Excerpt:

The periodicity revealed in the data, along with the strong correlation of solar cycles to HadCRUT surface data, suggests that the rapid increase in globally averaged temperatures in the second half of 20th century was not unusual, but part of a ~66 year climate cycle that has a long history of influencing terrestrial climate. While the longer cycle itself may be strongly influenced by long term oceanic oscillations, it is ultimately related to bidecadal oscillations that have an origin in impact of solar activity on terrestrial climate.

Hitting EU’s energy targets will cost Brits at least £2,000

Here.

Yet another massive meeting of UN-led climate bureaucrats

Here and here.

Financial Institutions Hijack The Green Agenda

Here.

Monckton papers

Here.

Global Warming or Global Governance

80-minute climate realist video:



Some background information is here.

Everything he does...he does it fooor you...

Check out the arguments here from a guy who cares very deeply about your children, and who also happens to be in the wind power business.

Earth Hour Fun and Games

Here.

World not saved yet

Here.

Enjoy “global warming” while you can

Here.

N.H. snowfall nearing all-time record...IN LATE MARCH!

Here.

From a linked article:

It hasn't snowed this much since the winter of 1872-73.

What's really going on with Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and her "20%" wind energy mandate?

Excerpts from this article:

In the meeting, Sebelius sketched out her plan -- later made public in her State of the State address -- to have Kansas get 10 percent of its energy from wind by 2010 and 20 percent by 2020, the memo said.
...
Dec. 21, 2006 -- A confidential memo from James Haines, then chief executive of Westar Energy, says that Sebelius recognized that developing wind energy could increase costs and that, historically, Kansas Corporation Commission policy favors using the cheapest sources of energy. According to the memo, Sebelius indicated the state's policy would change and assured executives that companies that committed to wind power would be fully compensated for any added costs.

A lot of information here indicates that 20% wind power may not make any sense.

I wonder if the people of Kansas remember the details of the rolling blackouts in California a few years ago?

An interesting related story is here, entitled "Debate on coal bill exposes split among Democrats".

Excerpt:

A majority of Democratic legislators also opposed the bill Sebelius vetoed, but one supporter was House Minority Leader Dennis McKinney, a Greensburg Democrat who's often a reliable ally of hers.

Are you really sure that "we must reinvent everything from cars to concrete" based on your carbon dioxide fraud?

See Al Gore's journal entry here.

The Ecophobe Checklist

Here.

Amazon page for Lawrence Solomon's new book "The Deniers"

Here.

In Search of Al Gore: A Climate Pilgrimage

Here.

Excerpt:

Several members of the DeSmogBlog team are off to Montreal for a training session April 4-6 with Nobel laureate Al Gore - an opportunity to learn from the master how best to spread the word about the challenges of and solutions to global warming.

From a related post here:

I’m personally impressed by how successful Al Gore has been in refocusing the conversation and, given that he’s been coached by the best presentation advisors in the English-speaking world, I am looking forward to the training session.

Pepsi dives into dangerous global warming wars

Here.

Atmospheric chemical explosions celebrate close of "Earth Hour"?

Here. (Via Greenie Watch)

The Fight for a "Better"-Than-Nothing Climate Bill

Here.

Sir Richard Brazen

Here.

Ultra-Rich Cash In on Global Warming Hoax

Here.

Toronto Star readers on Earth Hour

Here.

When 'Science' Isn't Science

Here. (Via Skeptics Global Warming)

Earth Hour in Minneapolis

From this post:

Well, that was kind of disappointing. I’m not sure that anyone observing from the air would have noticed any difference in the city lights at all. A couple of the major buildings downtown did go dark, city hall’s lights went out. But most of the buildings on the city skyline stayed lit, the Hennepin County Government Center office lights remained on. As for the Channel 5 billboard, its blue light remains as bright and obnoxious as ever.

"I always get a kick out of these April 1 pieces"

Here.

Earth Hour crashes to Earth

Here.

Update: Check this out:

Symbolic, all right - of the way even fraud is excused in this “good” cause:

Sixteen office blocks owned or leased by the State Government took part. In a few cases, where staff were on 24-hour rosters, lights on some floors had to be kept on, but staff were instructed to pull blinds in order not to detract from the effect of the blackout.

Who is IPCC anyway?

Here.

Acting like planet savers

Here.

Age fixes the evidence

Here.

More on McCain and global "warming"

Here.

Excerpt:

To make matters worse, McCain said that the United States may have to lead by example. The Senator wants to set an example for those recalcitrant Indians and Chinese, who haven't bought the notion that crippling their economies to satisfy a dicey hypothesis-that is a good bet to be an outright fallacy-is in the best interests of their nations. Arbitrary action by the United States would amount to economic death wish fulfillment. Global engagement would likely produce a worldwide depression. But for liberals and FDR sentimentalists, that may prove quite a boon for the government activism trade.

Earth Hour 2008: a huge success?

Here.

Excerpt:

As you can see, "Earth Hour" had practically zero effect on the electricity demand in the Province of Ontario. While electricity use was barely below forecast, it was actually up slightly from the previous hour!