New climate realist blog

Please check out this new blog by retired physicist John Blethen. It's entitled "Heliogenic Climate Change".

Below the title, it says:

The Sun, not a harmless, essential trace gas, drives climate change

Your View: Global Warming

Check out the post and comments here.

Over the last six months or so, I don't think there are a whole lot of people who've read more of these threads than I have.

I find it absolutely heartwarming to see that massive numbers of people have figured out that Gore and the IPCC have very little credibility.

Al Gore's RSA talk updates 'Inconvenient Truth'

From this page:

On Friday, former Vice President Al Gore closed RSA 2008 with a keynote speech on emerging green technologies. The talk, running 45 minutes in length, was an update of the presentation he used in the Academy Award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." The 2007 Nobel Laureate says global warming is real, and it may be worse than we previously thought. Three times during the speech, Gore was interrupted by hecklers. Each protester was removed by security.

See also the post and comments here.

Update 1: More about the protesters is here:

After talking for about 20 minutes, the first of three hecklers stood. A young woman started challenging Gore to admit he wanted to depopulate the Earth. She stood, taunting for about a minute before several security guards arrived to escort her out. As she was removed, a young man and a young woman toward the back stood up and began singing loudly. They, too, were removed. Then, after several minutes of silence from the audience, a middle-aged man stood up and started yelling that Gore was lying to the audience. He got the boot, as well.

Update 2: Check out this claim by Gore:

Meanwhile, Gore reiterated that the Arctic floating ice cap is melting at a pace rapid enough that some scientists have estimated it to disappear entirely in the next five years, while adding, "It's been there for three million."

Update 3: Don't miss the entire thing here.

Excerpt:

After 15 minutes into the meat of his speech, Gore exclaimed that "the Arctic ice cap will be completely melted within 5 years". You could hear some gasps in the crowd. Not sure what others thought, but I thought it was without merit. So now it gets good. About a minute later, a brave young woman in her early twenties near the front row begins to tell Gore that he is wrong. He trys to laugh it off. She stays standing and continues to yell at him. Before her interruption many people began to leave early. I think the 5 year melting of the arctic was too much. So, she continues. The guards close in on her. I decided to follow her out. I could not take it anymore. I wanted to say something to her. I make it to the door right behind her. She is being escorted by three guards. I managed to get close to her and thanked her. She smiled and said your welcome. A cop meets them outside and continues with them up the escalator. I follow behind on the escalator. I hear really loud singing. A group of 10 or more come out of the keynote room singing a funny song. It was something like "Al Gore NotCo2, blah blah blah" The NotCo2 part sounded like Nazi. They followed close behind me on the escalator. There seemed to be more commotion and I witnessed many more people leaving early after I had exited. When we reached the top of the escalator, the cops and guards escorted the woman away. I did not catch where they went. The singers made to the top and then disappeared in an unknown direction. There was quite a bit of confusion going on. My thought is that the speech was cut short by so many leaving and the few causing the disruption. He got what he deserved.

Rep. John Dingell Calls Out His Fellow Democrats On Global Warming

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"Basic Journalistic Principles in Jeopardy"

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The Fraud of Global Warming - Binghamtonians, Don’t Fall for the Lie

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Guest Opinion: State must put energy needs before climate change legislation

Here.

Excerpt:

It is simply unacceptable if Montanans will pay significantly more for electricity and gasoline, and possibly even lose their jobs, for legislation that has minimal worldwide impact on reducing greenhouse gases.

But of course

See this post, entitled "John Doerr: Not nearly enough money going to green tech".

More on Gore and Doerr is here.

The Harlem Globetrotters take a very short ride on Gore's bandwagon

More evidence that carbon dioxide hysteria peaked in early 2007:

1. In March '07, I took the kids to see the Harlem Globetrotters (fun show, by the way). The souvenir program mentioned global warming on no fewer than three pages, included a dedicated two-page spread about the team's "stand" against global warming:




2. I took the kids to see the Globetrotters again in April '08. This time, the souvenir program contained no mention whatsoever of global warming, climate change or the environment.

Global Warming: Time for a debate

Here.

UN Climate "Models"

From this link:

We received an email asking why we didn't believe the UN IPCC models predicting world climate meltdown in a few years were good models. We sent back a list of items the UN Climate Yo-Yos deliberately omit from their models.

And the sketch [below], just in case he still didn't get it.

Leaving the band to pursue "fashion and other projects"

By the way, this decision may also help prevent future generations from perishing in a CO2-related inferno!

From this page:

Trevisan explains her decision to leave CSS: "I decided to move forward and dedicate more of my time to fashion and other projects. Just a big change of priorities, as I will never stop playing music."

"I am also a bit worried about climate change. People should care more and do something about it. I decided to fly less."

Pork Purveyors, Lamb Lobbyists, and Poultry Pushers Are Much Harder on the Environment Than Gasoline, Says PETA

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Southern Baptists: Our Position on Global Warming Was Misrepresented

Here.

Global Cooling or Global Warming - Which Is It and How Can We Know?

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An opportunity for Roger Harrabin

Here.

Manitoba's Kyoto bill will be a first in Canada

Here.

Excerpt:

Conservative Opposition Leader Hugh McFadyen said the plan lacks teeth.

"I was surprised that after all the NDP's bravado on climate change they would announce something that would be such a dud in terms of both targets and the means they propose to get to those targets," he said, pointing out that 95 per cent of the reductions won't be achieved until after the next provincial election.

"No enforcement mechanisms, no incentives to help move any of the companies or others to that may be emitting CO{-2} toward the target. ... In the immortal words of Marge Simpson, 'Aim low, kids. Aim so low that nobody will know when you succeed.' "

The joys of getting ready in the morning in this age of global "warming"

See the Sam Branson video here.

The Great Un-Debate on Global Warming

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"It is a rights issue"

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“The Climate is Changing, naturally.”

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"increasing concern about the rush to biofuels"

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Ouch! Jo Abbess must be feeling unloved

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Excerpt:

The following comes directly from the Campaign against Climate Change UK activists portal. Comments are unedited, sequential and complete as at 05:50 GMT Saturday, April 12, 2008. it must’ve come as quite a shock to Jo Abbess that even her fellow enviros are appalled by her actions.

Even more troubling is that the BBC folded to pressure from what increasingly appears one lone and unsupported fruitcake who offered not a single instance of factual error in the original article. As yet we know of no one who has received a reply from the BBC requesting further information on the alleged request for change from the WMO. Developing…

LORD LAWSON NOT ALONE!

Here.

Battin Drops Effort to Stop Global Warming

Here.

Excerpt:

Battin stated, “I don’t want to say I feel cheated by the promise of saving the planet, but OK I feel cheated. I purchased this credit to do something about climate change.” With the Committee’s lackluster response, and recent press coverage pointing towards a looming global cooling crisis, Battin believes the “global warming” alarm is likely overheated.

Bonehead Moves of the Week

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The Times: Enforcing Green "Virtue"

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Updates on the remarkable winter of 2007-8

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Democrats Face ‘Ferocious Infighting’ Over Global Warming Legislation

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Californians' power bills to bankroll climate institute

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Excerpt:

Are you willing to pay 12 to 30 cents more a month on your utility bill for an institute coordinating energy and climate change technology research across the state?

Actually, you don't have a choice. The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday unanimously approved the $600 million California Institute for Climate Solutions, which will be paid for by money from ratepayers' monthly electric bills, to the tune of $60 million a year.

The institute aims to speed up research into cutting greenhouse gas emissions, such as auto exhaust, that contribute to pollution. This work is already under way at laboratories as well as universities such as University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford. The idea is that the institute will help the various entities work together.

Update: Another related post is here.

Climate Change Conference Invigorates Global Warming Debate

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Excerpt:

Bast said, "it is my hope, and the reason The Heartland Institute organized this conference, that public policies that impose enormous costs on millions of people, in the United States and also around the world, will not be passed into law before the fake 'consensus' on global warming collapses.

"Once passed, taxes and regulations are often hard to repeal," said Bast. "Once lost, freedoms are often very difficult to retrieve."

Hurricane "expert" reconsiders global warming's impact

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Excerpt:

One of the most influential scientists behind the theory that global warming has intensified recent hurricane activity says he will reconsider his stand.

The hurricane expert, Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this week unveiled a novel technique for predicting hurricane activity. The new work suggests that, even in a dramatically warming world, hurricane frequency and intensity may not substantially rise during the next two centuries.

The research, appearing in the March issue of Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, is all the more remarkable coming from Emanuel, a highly visible leader in his field and long an ardent proponent of a link between global warming and much stronger hurricanes.

His changing views could influence other scientists.

A related post is here.

Much more background information is here.

A political party of climate realists in Norway?

Here.

Global Warming Watch: Day 22 of Minnesota Spring

See the post and comments here.

WINDPOWER - 29% BY 2030?

Here.

Yet Another Problem with IPCC Climate Models

Here.

Holding the Poor Hostage

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Hansen pressures textbook publisher

See the post and comments here.

50-minute interview with Dr. Tim Ball

Here.

Some background:

April 3, 2008: Interview with NRSP Chairman Dr. Tim Ball on The Richard Syrett Show, CFRB radio, Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Ball and Richard Syrett discuss the science and politics of climate change.

A Textbook Case of Politics

Here.

Biofuel Madness: Environmentalism exploited for political purposes

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"'Global Warming' is Causing Malaria, Floods and Malnutrition?

Here.

JunkScience blog posts

Westinghouse wins first US nuclear deal in 30 years
Dominic Lawson: As they tackle climate change, governments are starving the people they set out to help
Don’t reporters check anything anymore?
Expert to get warm welcome
That about covers it (cartoon)

Warm under the collar

Here.

UN Climate Change Panel closes session in Budapest

From this page:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will not stop preparing its regular global reports, the next one is due in 2014, chairman of IPCC Rajendra Pachauri said on Thursday, at the closing of a four-day session held in Budapest.

Diana Urge-Vorsatz, one of the over 2,000 scientists who authored the latest report in 2007, said there have been doubts about the future of the regular reports as scientists wondered where research on the subject was headed.

Pachauri said the next report will aim to look for regional rather than global scenarios and possible solutions, and highlight the economic and social aspects of climate change.

At its Budapest session, IPCC adopted a special report on climate change and water management, pointing to the urgent need to adapt to heavier rains, flooding and drought.

Terrorist used "global warming project" as a cover story?

Here and here.

One More Time: CO2 Is NOT a Pollutant!

See the video here.

Gore Admits Financial Reasons for Advancing Global Warming Hysteria

Here.

Australian Paper: No Criticism of 'Earth Hour' Allowed

Here.

Is the causal link between cosmic rays and cloud cover really dead??

Here.

A related link is here.

Green jobs law an empty promise

Here.

Excerpt:

In Hawaii, Connecticut and California, lawmakers passed legally binding emissions reductions without suggesting how those reductions would take place. The governors of New Jersey, Florida and Colorado committed their states to non-binding emissions targets, but kept silent on their strategy for achieving these cuts. For all the talk, no one has yet to put forth a viable plan to reduce emissions.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that everybody isn't out to get you

Check out the diagram on page 10 here.

Farmers Anxiously Awaiting End to Rain and Cold

Here.

More dismal polling numbers for Gore

From Rasmussen Reports (April '08) here:

Thirty-one percent (31%) consider Al Gore an expert on Global Warming. That figure includes 48% of Democrats,12% of Republicans, and 27% of those not affiliated with either major party.

Note that 47% believe human activity is primarily to blame for Global Warming, down from 50% in July '07.

Also from the July '07 link above:

Only 34% believe it is possible to stop Global Warming.

A Typical Example of "Academic" Indoctrination

Here.

Gore recruits a big name!

From this article:

The Bootcamps have already run across the U.S. and one was recently held in India where over 1,000 people participated. Europe is next on the hit list as Gore continues to recruit what he fondly calls his cavalry. Even movie stars are on board, with Cameron Diaz part of the charge.

This is odd:

A scientist on Gore's staff is present during the training to answer any technical questions posed by the volunteers...

Why can't Gore answer these questions himself?

"Absence of Clouds Caused Cretaceous and Eocene Supergreenhouse"

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California to charge consumers for $600 million global warming research center

Here.

A related post is here.

On Global Warming and Horrible People

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CBO Report Exposes Lieberman-Warner Bill’s $1.2 Trillion Tax Increase

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Exposing the Climate Change Agenda

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GE’s Househugger tv commercial

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An Age of warming bias

Here.

GOVERNMENT PUBLISHES PAPER PREDICTING GLOBAL COOLING TO 2020

Here.

A related post is here.

Still more frostbite suffered on a trip to raise our global "warming" awareness

From this post:

My cheeks are a bit frostbitten, and I have had it now for some days - white spots and swollen. I am hoping it will heel fast.

Another firsthand report from the Arctic

From this post:

"The cool temperature here is really cruel, about -40 °C [-40 °F, a fixed point haha], and it was the worst problem on our journey (together with the bears). I couldn't even imagine it was that cold. Thanks God that at least the wind has stopped. Now I am dreaming about a warm bathtub."

Senator Corker says new energy policy would affect nation ‘in many, many ways’

Here.

I recommend listening to the accompanying hour-long Bob Corker podcast. It's an eye-opening look at how politicians and others view the prospect of a stealth cap-and-trade "tax".

According to Corker, the Lieberman-Warner bill could result in transfers of wealth on the order of trillions of dollars.

At about the 40-second mark, Corker admits that "not a lot of Senators have a lot of knowledge on this issue".

Speaking of podcasts, I highly recommend listening to this one featuring Christopher Monckton.

"Minnesota puts teeth into carbon-reduction policy"

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Excerpt:

The emerging MPCA policy is turning heads for several reasons.

First, there is no state policy that requires any agency to actually put carbon-reduction policies in place. Moore is moving on his own.

Second, the Pawlenty administration has been conspicuously timid in embracing recommendations of its own Climate Change Advisory Group. Earlier this year, a joint "preliminary" position announced by the Department of Commerce, either ignored or took an arms-length approach to carbon-reduction actions to meet stringent goals of the Next General Energy Act.

Note the obligatory visual of smokestacks belching something other than carbon dioxide.

Food Riots Spread in Haiti, and Across the World, Fueled by Ethanol Mandates

Here.

A related post (about Al Gore "saving the ethanol") is here.

Another related post is here.

Surprising admission at RealClimate

From this post:

One should not mix up a scenario with a forecast - I cannot easily compare a scenario for the effects of greenhouse gases alone with observed data, because I cannot easily isolate the effect of the greenhouse gases in these data, given that other forcings are also at play in the real world.

UN climate change body to prepare new assessment report

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Climate change: A Contrarian's Opinion

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More Global Warming Nonsense

Here.

Little fund says GE's 'junk science' hurts business

Here.

Lawyers draft blueprint for next president to 'bypass' checks and balances to combat global warming

Here. (Via Marc Morano)

James Hansen - Al Gore stooge

Here.

Battin's carbon credit bill chokes in 2-6 vote

Here.

Krupp's "Warming" meets Ponte's "Cooling"

Here.

Cold, Cons, And Coal

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SOLAR CYCLE 25 (and more)

Scroll down here.

"A Textbook Case of Downplaying Global Warming?"

More from Revkin here.

Shell warns Europe on CO2 permits

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Strategic Green

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How not to measure temperature part 57

Here.

Excerpt:

Why is a station that is classified as rural, with an apparent cooling bias due to tree cover, with a long history containing only a few moves, in a small agricultural town with little growth in the last century get an adjustment like this that causes the past to get colder, and create an artificially enhanced positive slope of temperature trend?

Troubled BBC

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Biofueled Food Inflation Crushing the Poor

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Olympic Torch Emits 5,500 Tons of CO2

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School textbook spouts global warming "myths"

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Critics say global warming panel recommendations could increase energy costs, job losses

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Excerpt:

The 56-member Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group, appointed last spring by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, worked much of the year to develop strategies for the state to meet a legislatively prescribed goal of cutting emissions by progressively deeper levels over the next four decades.

Its final report, which is being released for public comment, recommends a wide array of approaches, from working with other states to develop a market-based system for cutting utility emissions to reducing vehicle miles traveled. Some require administrative changes while others require legislative action.

If the state adopts them, Rep. Michael Beard, R-Shakopee, questioned "what we are getting for the effort we are expending?''

"Show us the benefits, show us the cost, help us make a good decision,'' Sen. David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, added.

Global Warming Censored: How the Major Networks Silence the Debate on Climate Change

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GOP seeking a single voice on climate issue

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Excerpt:

“Voters are much more skeptical about the science than we had previously assumed, so it naturally follows that most are also unwilling to accept the costs and job losses associated with cap-and-trade legislation,” said Thomas Pyle, president of the institute. “In short, the matter is far from settled in the eyes of the public.”

Environmentally, We're Number One

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Guest Opinion: Global warning: Beware of zealot Al Gore - Ellen Prekop

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"Doesn't everyone remember the massive human die-off of 2000?"

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Climate change forecasts 'invalid' - researcher

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Facts on Global Warming

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Charlie Daniels weighs in

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Geologist: Sun’s shift could mean global chill

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Excerpt:

“In three years we’ll at least know the direction we are headed,” Easterbrook said. “If we are one degree warmer in 2010 than we were in 2005, I will appear here and eat my words.”

Global Warming Has Officially Jumped the Shark

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Money for India’s ‘Ultra Mega’ Coal Plants Approved

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Excerpt:

Is all of this bad? If you’re one of many climate scientists foreseeing calamity, yes. If you’re a village kid in rural India looking for a light to read by, no.

The trend is still not Gore's friend

Here.

Again, I think world carbon dioxide hysteria peaked in early 2007. I'm confident that public skepticism about Gore's fraud will only increase from here.

Snowe and snow

See the pages here and here.

Precautionary principle

Here.

Garth George: Climate change warriors, cast down your weapons

Here.

More from Greenie Watch

Here.

Alarmist blogger disses Al Gore's ad campaign

Here.

Excerpt:

Even during the increased media attention to global warming that accompanied the release of An Inconvenient Truth, the percentage of people who ranked global warming as an important issue fell. If the environmental movement had 15 minutes of fame, that was it — what makes Gore think that this ad campaign is going to succeed where his feature film failed?

Gore “not interested” in debate with Dr. Willie Soon and Lord Christopher Monckton

Here.

Obviously, Gore won't debate because he is "not interested" in publicly getting his clock cleaned.

If he was capable of debating these guys successfully, he would jump at the chance to do so--it would help his cause much more than any $300 million propaganda campaign.

BBC before and after

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The Admen Cometh

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Cranking up the Rhetoric

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Ted Nordhaus on the Politics of Personal Destruction

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Another Target for BBC Censor Jo Abbess?

Here.

Syrup run's late start worrisome

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Update: A related post from Climate Skeptic is here, entitled "Global Warming Whining".

Climate madness, or the health effects of global warming

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Clinton and Obama Talk Religion, Not Science

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Another propaganda piece

Here.

UAH Global Temp Anomaly: also slightly above zero

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OFFICIAL: CO2 induced global warming is bunkum

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US Reliance on OPEC Oil Increased in 2007

Here.

Global Warming Bullies: BBC caves in to enviro wacko

See the YouTube video linked here.

The slick trick behind global frauding

Here.

BBC folds, then folds again

Here.

The Return of the Precautionary Principle

Here.

Interesting tidbit from Ottawa

From this article:

Three committees have descended into anarchy:

-Environment committee, where Tory MPs are filibustering a NDP climate change bill that is supported by the other two opposition parties.
...

"Outsourcing the Climate Skeptics"

Here.

A related link is here:

R. K. Pachauri (via email):

Thank you for your email of 3 April 2008.

It was just a couple of days ago in London that I was speaking to a highly respected journalist, and he asked why the skeptics had become suddenly quiet. I responded by saying that in my view it is only the lull before the storm because they must be organizing themselves to strike at the IPCC. Indeed, this is precisely what has happened. All of us, of course, have to keep our cool and stick to truth and scientific facts in dealing with the agents of some vested interests who want no action on climate change.

Elmer Beauregard's first cartoon

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Academic cool on warming

Here.

Excerpt:

RESPECTED academic Don Aitkin has seen the ugly side of the climate change debate after being warned he faced demonisation if he challenged the accepted wisdom that global warming poses a danger to humanity.

Professor Aitkin told The Australian yesterday he had been told he was "out of his mind" by some in the media after writing that the science of global warming "doesn't seem to stack up".

Congress enters new phase of global climate change deliberations

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Excerpt:

"We are moving forward, but not as quickly as we'd like. But we are determined to get it right," he said of his committee's efforts. One question is whether a carbon cap-and-trade program would use State Implementation Plans, New Source Review, or an entirely new approach, Dingell said.

"We're looking at carbon capture and storage, new technologies, and other components to continue using coal in an environmentally proper way, since the United States is, in fact, the 'Saudi Arabia of coal.' Any plan also must include judicious use of our domestic natural gas resources. It is my hope that we can adopt legislation to address all these problems before the end of this year," he said.

Climate change confirmed but global warming is cancelled

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Excerpt:

The climate is not highly sensitive to CO2 warming because water vapour is a damper against the warming effect of CO2.

That is why history is full of Ice Ages - where other effects, such as increased reflection from the ice cover, do provide positive feedback - while we do not hear about Heat Ages. The Medieval Warm Period, for example, is known for being benignly warm - not dangerously hot.

We live on a benign planet - except when it occasionally gets damned cold.

The Keystone Issue of Global Warming

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Look who's "debating" now

Here.

The Comedy of Global Warming

Here.

Another Hurricane Update

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Peak Oil Update, 10x increase in US reserves?

Here.

Why multiple climate model agreement is not that exciting

Here.

The EU scores again

Here.

PHILIPPINES: Albay province gets serious about climate change

Did CO2 really cause all the bad stuff mentioned here?

LEGAZPI, 8 April 2008 (IRIN) - "Ask the old people here in Albay province and they will tell you, they've never experienced this magnitude of storms and typhoons before," Nong Rongasa, executive director of the Centre for Initiatives and Research on Climate Adaptation of Albay province, told IRIN. "Every week there is a climate change-related event - high tides and heavy rains."

As further evidence, Rongasa cited a combination of heavy rains, high tides and sea surge that recently flooded Lagazpi City, the provincial capital. "It's just never happened before," he said.

If so, what caused the bad stuff mentioned here?

New "thinking" on climate change: Al Gore's new slideshow premieres on TED.com

Here.

Update: My personal favorite moment of absurdity was this part:

"I believe we have the capacity at moments of great challenge to set aside the causes of distraction and rise to the challenge that history is presenting to us," he said. "How may generations in all of human history have had the opportunity to rise to a challenge that is worthy of our best efforts; that has a challenge that can pull from us more than we knew we could do? I think we ought to approach this challenge with a sense of profound joy and gratitude that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for our bright and optimistic future."

Another “Flat-Earther” Speaks Out About Global Warming

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Blowing hot and cold over climate

Here.

Could the Dixie Chicks AND Toby Keith find themselves on the wrong side of a scientific debate?

Here.

Where are all the Governors?

Here.

PUBLIC TO PAY £3 BILLION TO SAVE ENERGY

Here.

Maryland: Global Warming Bill Dies In Committee

This is encouraging news for climate realists. It shows that insane CO2 legislation can fail even with a Democratic legislative majority and even with a governor who's a climate alarmist.

Related links are here, here and here.

The beer facts of warming

Here.

Confessions of a Global-warming Skeptic

Here.

A related article entitled 'Global warming "skeptics": A [clueless] journalist's perspective"' is here.

Check out this claim:

As far as the scientific community is concerned, the "debate" about whether global warming is occurring and to what extent it is caused by humans is over.

Obama and Clinton Agree on Coal

Here.

A related post is here.

Los Angeles considers global warming tax

Here.

Krugman: Biofuels have been a "terrible mistake"

Here.

63-year-old Arctic "explorer" Will Steger: "I've never seen so many polar bears in my life"

Check out the 09_Apr_06_Will_Day_08 audio here.

The many polar bears in the area are evidently snacking on lots of newborn ringed seal pups.

Speaking of Steger, note these excerpts from this article:

Phoning into the conference call from Iqaluit, Nunavut, the northernmost Canadian territory, arctic explorer Will Steger stressed that we have the answer to global warming. “One of the most promising solutions is really in the transportation sector — and that’s the development of ethanol,” Steger said. “Ethanol is really something we need right now.”
...
His particular penchant for ethanol, however, might be partially explained by the backers of his latest trek. The Renewable Fuels Foundation, Chippewa Valley Ethanol, investment bank Piper Jaffray, and ethanol plant builder Fagen are all expedition sponsors with considerable ethanol interests. And this marks the first time we’ve noticed ethanol companies sponsoring global warming research.

Steger admits that corn ethanol is an imperfect solution, but noted that the technology is constantly evolving, and said it’s something we can start implementing on a larger scale now.

Maritime sealers return to ice

I can only assume that somebody (other than the city of Tacoma) has already been secretly cutting CO2 emissions through double-sided printing; how else can this be explained?

"The ice has been a rather large impediment, you know, contrary to what it was in previous years. I mean, for the past two years we didn't have any ice," said DFO spokesman Luke Legere.

"It seems this year we've gone from one extreme to the other where there's too much ice. It's very hard-packed, very thick, so it's made things really difficult for the fishers to actually get to where the seal herds are."

Now global temperatures are CERTAIN to plummet!

You can now rest easy, for a Tacoma task force is going to save the world from carbon dioxide.

From this article:

Among the ideas with the greatest potential impact are:
...
• Using two-sided printing for all city documents.

But We Thought The “Debate” Was Over?

Here.

Green lobbyists really do run The Age

Here.

The BBC, the activists and the lies

Here.

Brazil's Energy Independence: Lessons for the U.S.

Here.

"there is quite a serious amount of eco-exhaustion building up"

From this article:

[Richard] Watson, author of Future File: A History Of The Next 50 Years (Scribe), is a keynote speaker at Designex, the interior design industry's annual trade-only exhibition and seminar series, starting next Thursday. It's where manufacturers and big homewares brands launch their latest products.

This year's exhibition has an eco-conscious mood. Even Jamie Durie is weighing in as an Al Gore-nominated ambassador on global warming, delivering a seminar on climate change and what the design industry can do about it.

Watson, however, remains cynical about our personal commitment to reducing global warming.

"Green is this year's colour," he says. "If I see another carbon neutral cappuccino or beer where trees have been planted to offset emissions ..." He sighs. "I think there's a very strong fashion element to this. And there is quite a serious amount of eco-exhaustion building up.

"What I see is people pulling down houses to build new ones to the very boundaries and putting in enormous amounts of glass and installing massive air conditioners. The average Australian family is getting smaller but the average Australian dwelling is getting bigger and the size of the rooms is going up. At the same time if you look at the airlines only 1 per cent of clients pay for the carbon emissions' offset option [on their airline ticket]."

Oh, to be in England...

Check out the whole thing from Climate Resistance here.

"Ugh! More global warming BS targeting miners' pocketbooks"

Here.

Warming science load of hot air

Here.

To Stop Global Warming, and Eco-extremism

Here.

Chicken Little squawks again

Here.

Young, Green Entrepreneurs Flock to Carbon Market

Here.

Debate at the Gazette

Here.

Garnaut’s green offsets

Here.

More Pressing Issues than Global Warming

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Claim: "Gore is a just a messenger of climate science"

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Expert: "We're brainwashing our children" about global warming

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Lord Lawson claims climate change hysteria heralds a 'new age of unreason'

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Solar cycle minimum at the earliest in second half of 2008?

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The $100 Billion Windfall: Why Utilities Love Cap-and-Trade

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UNPRECEDENTED EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY ...

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Washington cherry farmers fight frost

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"I feel very lucky," Pringle said. "I've haven't been doing this long -- only 41 years -- but I don't think I've seen a March that has been this cold, this long."

Pringle and Olmstead have been fighting off the freezing night temperatures with water, which when it freezes releases heat, which rises and protects the trees. Wind machines, used in conjunction with the water, pull the rising warm air back through the orchards.

Other growers are using orchard heaters filled with propane or farm diesel, said Jim Kelley, a Pasco grower and consultant. "That's pretty expensive," he said.

With propane at nearly $2 a gallon, it can cost up to $800 a night to heat an acre.

But growers are doing anything they can to save every bud, he added.

The BBC Changes News to Accommodate Activist?

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Update: See also the related post by Lubos Motl here.

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Well, this is how the media and not only media work these days. If the article doesn't obey the requirements of far-left movements from the very beginning and if the journalist resists the first batch of aggressive e-mails, he will usually surrender to the second batch. Many journalists are either biased activists or cowards. And some of them are both.

Dim Bulbs

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Actually, not one developed country is cutting emissions at all since making the Kyoto promise a decade ago.

I love the smell of possum in the morning

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any funnier...

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Comment from Jim Peden

Al Gore now combines Amway and Evangelism to produce a series of "training sessions" which in turn will produce an army of "climate change fighters". His new Climate Project is non-profit volunteer group that focuses on his now totally-discredited movie, An Inconvenient Truth and his follow-up presentations. Gore will lead the participants through the junk science and format of his presentation, so they can repeat it in their communities.

His reported advertising budget? $300,000,000.00.

Each participant makes a commitment to give the presentation at least 10 times. No mention of a pink Cadillac as a prize for the most converts.

On a related note, check out this sentence from the presenters' Climate Statement:

We are 275 volunteers, of diverse backgrounds and ages, and representing all Canadian provinces and territories, who have been trained by Nobel Laureate the Honourable Al Gore to deliver his Academy Award-winning climate change presentation – to raise awareness and to inspire action on this planetary emergency.

If there's one thing we've all evidently learned, it's that those Oscar voters are absolute sticklers on scientific truth in movies.

More evidence that Jim Hansen is a nut

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Speaking to The Guardian, Hansen said that CO2 levels should be slashed to 350ppm – a level below the current stock of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere – if "humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed".

"If you leave us at 450ppm for long enough it will probably melt all the ice – that's a sea rise of 75 metres," he added. "What we have found is that the target we have all been aiming for is a disaster – a guaranteed disaster."

Given that sea levels have risen maybe 8 inches in the last century, it's nothing short of madness to suggest that a bump in CO2 will raise sea levels nearly 3,000 inches.

Al Gore on Hansen in Time:

When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist with the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet's environment.

Hansen is not just any old crackpot scientist--he's THE crackpot scientist at the very epicenter of carbon dioxide hysteria.

For some of those who have placed their reputations on the line over the idea of a "climate crisis", it's got to be terribly disheartening to slowly realize that Jim Hansen's credibility is shot.

A related post is here.

Update: It looks like even fellow alarmist Gavin Schmidt is distancing himself from Hansen now.

Excerpt from RealClimate:

Hansen posits that the long term trend in the deep ocean temperature in the early Cenozoic period (before there was substantial ice) was purely due to CO2 (using the Charney sensitivity). He then plays around with the value of the CO2 concentration at the initiation of the Antarctic ice sheets (around 34 million years ago) to get the best fit with the CO2 reconstructions over the whole period. What he ends up with is a critical value of ~425 ppm for initiation of glaciation. To be sure, this is fraught with uncertainties - in the temperature records, the CO2 reconstructions and the reasonable (but unproven) assumption concerning the dominance of CO2. However, bottom line is that you really don't need a big change in CO2 to end up with a big change in ice sheet extent, and that hence the Earth System sensitivity is high.

Storm dumps 2 feet of snow in northern Minnesota

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United Nations special envoy on climate change debates her American chauffeur

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Multidecadal Ocean Cycles May Determine If This Cooling Continues and If Summer Drought Occurs

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Increasingly detached from reality

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CO2 monthly mean at Mauna Loa leveling off, dropping?

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Vanities of the Warmists

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Two posts from Coyote Blog

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Rewriting History, Time and Time Again

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Britain: April snow worst for two decades

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The Worst Moment in History for Biofuels

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Two posts from Andrew Bolt

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Two posts from A Dog Named Kyoto

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Al Gore Responds to NewsBusters, Denies Global Warming is His Meal Ticket

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So, Gore flaunts his prowess as a savvy investor-entrepreneur by appearing in glossy business magazines, but when someone points out the obvious, that his business interests and environmentalist crusade overlap, he gets indignant?

BBC Changes 'Temperatures Decrease' Article to Incite Climate Hysteria

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Reporters feel the heat over climate change

Check this out from alarmist Bob Ward.

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According to an Ipsos MORI opinion poll last summer, 56 per cent of people mistakenly tended to agree or strongly agree with the statement that "many leading experts still question if human activity is contributing to climate change".

See also the related post here.

"six significant issues to consider as we try to fight global warming"

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Steger's group uses more explosives to frighten more polar bears

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Just after Sigrid finished her dispatch last night our campsite was again visited by polar bears. This time it was two bears. One huge mamma bear and her two year old cub. Unlike our curious visitor earlier in the evening these bears were not easy to scare off and they got very close to our dogs and tents - we measurered the distance at about 6 meters. It took about 5 bear bangers and flares to scare the bears off and we were all pretty scared when they got as close as they did. Luckily for us the bears are well fed this time of year as they feed on the newly born seal pups and the adult seals that are nesting under the snow on top of the ice.

Today when we continued our journey we saw over 20 different bear tracks and it became clear to us that we now are in an area that is a great habitat for the bears.

Some People Believe Things That We Disagree With, Just Deal

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Maybe Al should have rammed through his dimwitted CO2 legislation first, BEFORE he invented the Internet

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"First" victims of the greens

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"the religion hole that aligns modern elites like iron filings in a magnetic field"

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The difficulties of winning a debate when all of your arguments are flimsy

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"Blame The Environmentalists, A Hoax-swallowing Congress, And A Hoax-swallowing President, For Rising Food Prices"

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BBC censors Harrabin

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Environmental hysterics

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God, what did we do to ever deserve this?

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Training Day: Al Gore offers "The Truth" - slide by slide

See the whole thing here.

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Gore also spoke about the inevitable quibbles that presenters will have to keep in mind, “attacks on reason by sceptics who are getting paid money from large carbon polluters.”

I wonder how many of these 35 "errors" remain in Gore's slide show?

Uncommon cold is an antidote to warming fears

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Pour cold water on 'global warming'

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Snow falls across much of the UK

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