Tom Nelson: 2008-06-01

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Welcome to the petrol prices warmenists demanded

Welcome to the petrol prices warmenists demanded | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Time the left side of the brain knew what the right side was thinking. First, the green “solutions” to global warming truly do involve pain. Second, despite this pain we’re feeling already, emissions continue to soar, meaning this is barely the entree, and prices must rise far more still. Third, given this, it makes sense to weigh the cost of “solutions” to global warming with their benefits, to see whether it wouldn’t just be cheaper, after all, to do not much.

And maybe voters will finally have an incentive to check the assumptions of the global warming alarmists. Isn’t it true that the planet hasn’t warmed since 1998? Isn’t it true that the latest predictions are that it might not warm for another decade or two at least? If so, how much faith can we put in the models upon which the warming alarmists relied to predict rapid warming and to demand a painful tax on carbon?

Another UN idiot blames carbon dioxide for Lake Chad's drying up

allAfrica.com: West Africa: Jan Egeland's Sahel Climate Change Diary - Day 5 (Page 1 of 1)

As I wind up this intensive trip to three countries and dozens of sites over the last five days, I more and more think that this journey should become obligatory for all the delegates going to the Copenhagen climate change conference at the end of next year. It would have reminded people what it is all about, namely life or death for millions of people. There is so much at stake, so much has already been lost by the most vulnerable people.

From a related link here:

Gore says “global warming” dried up Lake Chad in Africa. It did not. Over-extraction of water and changing agricultural patterns dried the lake, which was also dry in 8500BC, 5500BC, 1000BC and 100BC. Ms. Kreider says, “There are multiple stresses upon Lake Chad.” However, the scientific consensus is that at present those “stresses” do not include “global warming.”

"I am a global warming alarmist."

Global Warming Alarmism

But perhaps even more pernicious is the way that “carbon credits” are distributed.

The credits are best described as a pulled-out-of-thin-air government-created fiat currency, that is accepted only by the government in exchange for the government’s permission to let you emit CO2. (If ever a system was perfectly set up to be abused and politicized by politicians, this is it.)

Government bureaucrats will decide sector by sector and industry by industry which companies get the credits. Implicitly, that same decision by government regulators also determines which companies will need to buy credits from the politically-connected companies who could get their carbon credits for free.

Update: From a related Coyote Blog post, entitled "How Mussolini-Style Fascism Almost Came to the US":

First, it was the National Recovery Act, where FDR explicitly tried to creat an economic system modelled on Mussolini-style fascism. This was killed by the Supreme Court. But the will of government to create an economic system where private companies win and lose based on how well connected they are to politicians never goes away. The latest attempt to set up such a managed system was via the Lieberman-Warner climate bill...

It was the coldest June 5 on record for Vancouver, at just over 11 degrees C.

Neve Campbell cares so very much about the environment that she's "seriously thinking" of replacing her Beemer with a Prius!

On the move: Neve Campbell - Times Online

She says she has always been involved in environmental issues and helped host the British leg of Live Earth last year. Naturally, that meant the Porsche had to go. “I had it for seven years,” she says. “It was green, by colour, not CO2 output, and it was a fantastic car. I have a BMW now, but I’m seriously thinking of getting a Toyota Prius. It just makes sense, it’s better for the environment.”

Rational stuff from George Bush

Interview of President Bush by Gianni Riotta, Rai TV, Italy

In terms of the current energy issue, we're too dependent on hydrocarbons. World demand is such, relative to supply, that the price of energy is high. And therefore, we need to be spending monies on new technologies to enable us to become less dependent on oil. And I'm a big nuclear power guy. I believe the United States must be much more aggressive expanding nuclear power -- for two reasons: one, less dependency on hydrocarbons; and two, it will make us better stewards of the environment. I mean, if you're concerned about global warming, one thing you ought to be concerned about then is making sure that we've got power generated from a clean source of energy -- a renewable source of energy, which is nuclear power.

The food prices concern me, obviously. But the truth of the matter is, one reason why food price is so high is because energy prices are high. I mean, when you think about it, farming is a pretty energy-intensive business -- fertilizer is an energy; driving a tractor is an energy; crops to markets require energy. And so the crux of a lot of the problem is the energy prices.

So we have a "God-given" right to have a beach bonfire, but no right to car commute alone to our night job at the children's hospital?

West Seattle Blog… » 2 more beach-fire updates: Council commentary; “briefing” details

"the sexiness has gone out of the [AGW] movement...AGW was fun ... as long as nobody lost an eye."

Celestial Junk: The Day the Music Died

"Real News Stories To Share With Global-Warming Skeptics"

View From Above: Global Warming News - May 2008

Blogasaurus Versus Mediasaurus

Global Warming Politics

The Hockey Stick returns as web karma

The Hockey Stick returns as web karma « Watts Up With That?

Global Whining

Global Whining « The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker

About carbon: Your very breath adds carbon to the air. That’s right; the U.N. wants to tax you for breathing, make you trade “carbon credits” for the privilege of existing. They’ve already invested in the infrastructure in the New Carbon Economy, and they’re ready to shove it down our throats. This bogus “crisis” is supposed to bring us around to accepting them as our natural “rulers.”

"Greenies hate people anyway so it figures"

Greenies: Britain should have ‘zero net immigration’ policy « Immigration Watch International

Britain should set an example to the world by reversing its steeply-rising population growth and allowing no more people into the country than leave, the Government’s chief “green” adviser has said. Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, said it was entirely possible to be “very progressive” on immigration while still having a policy of “zero net immigration” and no further population growth

US Lawmakers Block Crippling Climate Change Bill

China Confidential: US Lawmakers Block Crippling Climate Change Bill

Good news: a vote for sanity and economic security.

Amid record cold temperatures in America's western states, a steady stream of data casting doubt on the theory of manmade global warming, soaring energy prices, and rising awareness of biofueled food inflation, AFP reports that American "lawmakers blocked a sweeping climate change bill Friday, after Republican warnings of high energy costs dashed Democrats' hopes for pollution caps under President George W. Bush's administration."

Of a world population of 6.6 billion, at least 40 people showed up to protest outside Exxon's annual shareholder meeting

Watching Those We Chose: Free-time fun - protesting Exxon

About 40 people were there at various times when I was there, including members of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Southern Christian Leadership President Charles Steele Jr. was among people who spoke.

"Republicans try to stoke Dem discord on climate legislation in the House"

Shenanigans in the House | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

Zogby Poll: 67% Favor Building New Nuclear Power Plants in U.S.

Zogby International

CBS Frets Energy Cost, Skips Impact of Bill to 'Fight Global Warming'

CBS Frets Energy Cost, Skips Impact of Bill to 'Fight Global Warming' | NewsBusters.org

This headline very seriously misjudges the actual situation

How Global Warming Is Helping Democrats Win the Heartland

The problem is the short shelf-life of global warming hysteria.

With every passing day, AGW skepticism is growing, eco-fatigue is setting in, and awareness of the cost, futility, and fraud of government CO2 "solutions" is going up.

As the backlash grows, it's clear that backing new green taxes is becoming a great way to LOSE elections.

Lieberman-Warner Spin Tornado Ensnares Journalists

Lieberman-Warner Spin Tornado Ensnares Journalists | NewsBusters.org

Why Our Gas Prices are so Ridiculous--and How They're Trying to Make it Even Worse

The Discerning Texan

91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of American-made oil and gas.

86% of House Democrats have historically voted against increasing the production of American-made oil and gas.

"If you want to save the planet, start by fixing the traffic lights"

Cascadia - Articles/News: If you want to save the planet, start by fixing the traffic lights

While not a panacea, technology offers immediate solutions. Department of Transportation studies, for example, show that deploying traffic light "signal optimization technologies" such as "adaptive signaling" and "traffic responsive signaling" reduces fuel consumption by 10 percent to 15 percent. With nearly 76 percent of vehicle-miles driven on urban streets, a 15 percent reduction in fuel translates to saving 19.3 billion gallons of fuel a year. With all due respect to the hybrid crowd, those real, immediate savings are substantially more than would be saved if we could replace every one of the 41.5 million SUVs on the road with a similar SUV hybrid. That's because the savings in gas is relatively modest between the two when compared with the fuel that can be saved by making all the cars on the road more efficient.

"our august Washington leadership is not prepared to drag humanity back into the stone age quite yet"

From On High

The good news is, the legislation's co-sponsor - our own John Warner - will be retired and knitting booties in his rocking chair by the time this nefarious bit of legislation raises its ugly head again next term.

The bad news is, the Senate is full of goofy old men.

Eco-fatigue sets in

the Hyacinth Girl: Brainless but enjoyable.

I was going to write about global warming--climate change, whatever--but then I realized that I just don't care anymore. I'm paying entirely too much for gas, I get shamed for buying bottled water, and nothing I do is ever going to make a difference. I can say that I believe conservationism is the way to go, but I'll only be "green" enough if I'm willing to recycle my own wastewater. That's right, real eco-warriors drink their own pee.

What should we pay to avoid an infinitesimal amount of warming in an apparently cooling world?

Pounds 30bn Bid to Bury Carbon Waste in North Sea - Science - redOrbit

EXCLUSIVE: THE full scale of plans for a world-leading Pounds 30bn scheme to capture two-thirds of the region's CO2 emissions and store them under the North Sea is unveiled today.

Hundreds of jobs would be created by collecting carbon dioxide from power stations and manufacturing plants, liquefying it and piping it into empty gas fields under the North Sea from plants around the Humber estuary to stop the greenhouse gas escaping into the atmosphere.

A partnership led by Yorkshire Forward and involving major energy and industrial companies is bidding for Pounds 1bn from the Government to help set up the scheme, which could reduce the region's emissions from 90 million tonnes to just 30 million - and significantly reduce the UK's total emissions.

The first phase could be operational by 2014, although it could take up to 20 years for the full network to be up and running, connecting about 18 sites including power stations, steel and chemical works in a 40-mile area around the Humber which has the highest concentration of carbon emissions in Europe.

Installing the pipe structure would cost about Pounds 2bn, although the entire scheme - including all the infrastructure, pollution control and carbon capture technology - will reach Pounds 30bn. As well as the Government funding, Yorkshire Forward would contribute, energy and industrial partners would invest in carbon capture technology and private sector investors would be sought.

Seattle: Bundle up -- it's June

Bundle up -- it's June

Was it June or Jarch? Is that the summer or winter solstice two weeks away?

After all, Friday's rain, cloudy skies and chilly breezes capped a week of unusually cold weather for, gulp, the first week of June. The temperature got all the way to an October-like 54.

In the mountains, snow was falling as if winter never left.

The weather was so odd that carving Halloween pumpkins might have been more fitting, given the fall colors and cold-weather gear spotted on Seattle's streets.

Friday, June 06, 2008

Parallels between Lysenkoism and AGW

Parallels between Lysenkoism and AGW « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

NOAA reports on our cooler than normal spring

NOAA reports on our cooler than normal spring « Watts Up With That?

The March-May spring season was the 36th coolest on record for the contiguous United States, according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Separately, last month ended as the 34th coolest May for the contiguous United States, based on records dating back to 1895.
The average spring temperature of 51.4 degrees F was 0.5 degree F below the 20th century average. The average May temperature of 60.3 degrees F was 0.7 degree F below the 20th century mean, based on preliminary data.

Why won't grown-ups compliment me for riding my bike?

Hybrid cars get compliments – why not my bike? | csmonitor.com

334 AGW skeptic articles

Some Cranky Guy » Carbon Credits Explained

Obama on trace amounts of carbon dioxide

Barack Obama : : Alarmism We Can't Believe In | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the Climate Change Bill

We can’t afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, and the periods of drought. By 2050, famine could force more than 250 million from their homes. And if we do nothing, sea levels will rise high enough to swallow large portions of every coastal city and town.

My favorite headline of the day

"Gaia Wants You To Eat Your S'Mores Cold!"

BREAKING: Boxer’s Math Does Not Add Up: Letter Reveals 10 Democratic Senators Opposed Climate Tax Bill

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Lieberman-Warner RIP

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Excerpt:

I don't think I've ever seen as pathetic an attempt at legislative management as the majority's bumbling attempts to promote the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill this week (and I lived through the Major government in Britain). From Sen. Boxer's stumbling delivery, through the farce of the full reading of the 491-page "minor textual" amendments to today's failure by the majority even to reach 50 votes for cloture when it was a free vote, this has been high comedy all around (or low tragedy if you are an alarmist).

Prince Charles merrily makes up "facts" to support his irrational fear of carbon dioxide

From this page:

Today is World Environment Day, a day that should remind us that there is just the smallest window left for us to act to stop catastrophic climate change. The frightening reality is that the consequences of global warming are being felt far more rapidly than most scientists predicted even 18 months ago.

The polar ice caps are melting faster, the ability of the oceans to absorb carbon dioxide is diminishing and our weather patterns are ever more erratic and more extreme.

McKibben continues his doomed efforts to gain traction for his "350" movement

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Senate Climate Bill Fails - 'Largest Tax Bill Ever' Defeated

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Global Warming in a Cooling World

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Itinerary Change We Can Believe In?

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Not only did Senator Obama lie to and trick his press peeps, but think of all the fuel wasted to fly them to Chicago on an unnecessary trip? Think of the CO2 emissions! How many twirly light bulbs must Americans install to make up for this one, worthless trip? Thousands of airline workers have been laid off because of high fuel prices. Think maybe conserving jet fuel might be appropriate?

Birth of a Boondoggle

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Global COOLING for Dummies Pt. III

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The Sanctity of Climate Models

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"This vote should be considered a litmus test for whether a Senator is willing to stand up against hysteria and junk science"

The Jawa Report: The "Climate Change" Bill - Roll Call Vote

"We win if we say that we really would have liked to do something, but didn't?"

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Andy Revkin's strange devotion to the Word of James Hansen

James Hansen: Tax C02 Emitters; Pay Citizens - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

The entire carbon tax should be returned to the public, with a monthly deposit to their bank accounts, an equal share to each person (if no bank account provided, an annual check — social security number must be provided). No bureaucracy is needed to figure this out. If the initial carbon tax averages $1,200 per person per year, $100 is deposited in each account each month. (Detail: perhaps limit to four shares per family, with child shares being half-size, i.e., no marriage penalty but do not encourage population growth.)
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But we can save the planet and alligators by making sure that not one thin dime of the carbon tax is siphoned off by lobbyists for their clients — 100% must be returned to citizens as dividend. Make this your motto: “100% or fight! No alligator shoes!”

Check the position of your congresspersons. If they spout things like “global warming is the greatest hoax in the history of the universe,” check the shoes of the people who visit them or have dinner with them. Changes in Congress are needed if we want our children and grandchildren to win this one.

Because of great benefits to the nation, humanity and nature, this approach soon would be adopted by other nations, providing an obvious path toward international agreements.

Jim Hansen

If Revkin thinks that only "scientists" are qualified to comment on global warming science, I wonder why he feels that Hansen is qualified to offer detailed commentary on tax policy.

"almost all life on Earth will have been extinguished"

GORE LIED: The End Is Near

A conspicuous lack of overheating in Colorado, two weeks before the summer solstice and hundreds of years after the Industrial Revolution

ReporterHerald- Chilly weather isn’t very June-like

The National Weather Service received readings of 6 inches of snow near Rabbit Ears Pass and 4 inches near Red Mountain Pass.

“People towing trailers and such may be leaving expecting some nicer weather, and when they get to the mountain passes, they’re going to say, ‘What’s this white stuff?’” said John Kyle of the National Weather Service office in Grand Junction.

“It’s such a late-season storm,” he said.

Colorado 5, which reaches the summit of 14,264-foot Mount Evans, was closed at Summit Lake, about 1,200 feet below the peak.

Detailed results of Lieberman-Warner vote

U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote

A small number of Congressional insiders polled

National Journal Magazine - Congressional Insiders Poll

Senate climate bill fails

Note that our presidential candidates evidently didn't care enough about this issue to actually show up for this vote...
Senate climate bill blocked

Democratic leaders fell a dozen votes short of getting the 60 needed to end a Republican filibuster on the measure and bring the bill up for a vote. The 48-36 vote failed to reach even a majority, a disappointment to the bill's supporters.
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"There is no tax increase," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., one of the bill's chief sponsors said. She said the emissions trading system would provide tax relief to help people pay energy prices. And supporters disputed that it would substantially increase gasoline prices.

Four Democrats joined most Republicans in essentially killing the bill.

Both presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, were absent, although supporters of the bill said they had sent letters advising they would have voted for the bill.

McCain's letter is here.

Darn it all, but scheduling problems prevented him from being in Washington this week to deal with "the most important environmental challenge facing not only our nation, but the entire world."

He doesn't specify exactly what those scheduling problems were, but I'm guessing it was some combination of important dental work, death of grandparents, sick children, dog chewing on important travel documents, etc.

The ‘Global Warming’ Mad House

Global Warming Politics

This is absolutely mind-blowing! Here is a Government Minister seemingly using the excuse of ‘global warming’ to prevent the progress of train travel. My, the Fat Controller has truly lost his top hat this time. What about all the folk who would move from plane to train? What about the severe overcrowding on our Inter-city services? What about the known demand for such services? And, why should the UK lag so far behind the rest of Europe where fast rail is concerned? France alone has over 1,000 miles of high-speed track, with more planned.

With this little bit of ministerial gerrymandering, we have surely plumbed the ‘global warming’ nadir. Not only is every type of weather, from drought to flood, to be caused by ‘global warming’, ‘global warming’ is now the portmanteau excuse of the Government to do either nothing or something. The argument works anyway it wishes.

"It's a creed preached by sinners to the insincere"

Look out for more dotty warming sceptics | NEWS.com.au

Climate Change Conundrum…Global Warming or Cooling?

CO2sceptics News Blog |

Whatever happened to global cooling?

CO2sceptics News Blog |

What price liberty?

OpinionEditorials.com – What price liberty - Sernoffsky

That climate change exists is fact. That man has anything to do with it, or can stop it, is not. Although some of the global warmists may, indeed, have only the best of intentions, the very concept is little more than hubris, and the real impetus behind the movement has nothing to do with environment and everything to do with control. As Thomas Paine so succinctly put it, "The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes."

Just a wee bit tilted toward the alarmist side

The Post

...We are triggering numerous natural mechanisms that are causing a runaway greenhouse effect that threatens to wipe out most species alive and kill billions of people this century, according to top scientists.
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Those opposed to this act are climate terrorists, contributing to the mass murder of future generations. The science is extraordinarily clear and far more studied than anything else in history. George Bush, George Voinovich and the others working to derail this critical piece of legislation will be seen as the Adolph Hitlers of our day, contributing to a holocaust vastly eclipsing the horrors of World War II.

A 50-50 chance that climate change will destroy civilisation this century?

See the post and comments here:
A 50-50 chance that climate change will destroy civilisation this century? : June 2008 : Ambrose Evans-Pritchard : Business : Telegraph Blogs

Earth pictured engulfed in flames in a serious "Global Emergency" pamphlet

A prime example of brainless alarmism is here:

Unity Publishing Project

Stephen Harper should call the Kyoto accord what it is -a train wreck

The Daily Observer - Ontario, CA

Could Prime Minister Stephen Harper or Environment Minister John Baird please explain what they mean when they say Canada continues to be a participant in the Kyoto accord?

How can we be a participant when the PM has said we cannot do what Kyoto requires of us -lower our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by an average of six per cent below 1990 levels between now and 2012?

We're 29.1 per cent above our Kyoto target. Achieving that target is the point of Kyoto.

So what, exactly, are we participating in?

Yes, the Liberals are hypocrites for ratifying Kyoto and then doing zilch to implement it.

Yes, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion supports a carbon tax he once opposed.

But the Conservatives have been no more coherent.

Beach bonfires may be banned in Seattle for fueling global warming!

Beach bonfires may be banned

From a related post here:

It’s the new facism in the guise of caring for your welfare.

Next on the agenda: Banning those massive wildfires in the western states, volcanic activity worldwide, and sun spots.

They’ll fix it. Just you wait and see.

James Hansen jets to Hawaii to tell us that jetting to Hawaii will kill us all

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » James Hansen’s latest PowerPoint presentation

This looks like pure parody, but on page 24 of Hansen's PDF file, he actually sums up the "Basic Conflict" this way:

"Fossil Fuel Special Interests" vs "Young People & Nature (Animals)"

New Zealand: "a lot more natural snow this year"

Coronet Peak first to open for South Island ski season | TRAVEL | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz

NZSki CEO James Coddington says the ski field is in prime condition with an unprecedented base of 60 centimetres due to a lot more natural snow this year.

Forecasters are also predicting up to 10 centimetres of snow to fall in the deep south this weekend due to a cold snap moving in from the south.

South Africa: Flu vaccine stocks run dry as big chill looms

The Herald Online **News**

With predictions that this year will be the coldest winter since 1992, a shortage in flu vaccines is bad news for the country.

Heat rises at wind farm meeting

Sustainable Shetland chairman Billy Fox told the meeting that the group believed that the wind farm had nothing to do with fighting global warming, but was all about making money for the local authority.

He said the council had shown no regard for the communities and "pristine hillside" that would be affected by such a development.

Gallup on Climate-Change Views: Republican-Democratic Gaps Expand in Recent Years

Climate-Change Views: Republican-Democratic Gaps Expand in Recent Years

Climate-Change Collapse

Political Diary - WSJ.com

Environmentalists are stunned that their global warming agenda is in collapse. Senator Harry Reid has all but conceded he lacks the vote for passage in the Senate and that it's time to move on. Backers of the Warner-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill always knew they would face a veto from President Bush, but they wanted to flex their political muscle and build momentum for 2009. That strategy backfired. The green groups now look as politically intimidating as the skinny kid on the beach who gets sand kicked in his face.

Those groups spent millions advertising and lobbying to push the cap-and-trade bill through the Senate. But it would appear the political consensus on global warming was as exaggerated as the alleged scientific consensus. "With gasoline selling at $4 a gallon, the Democrats picked the worst possible time to bring up cap and trade," says Dan Clifton, a political analyst for Strategas Research Partners. "This issue is starting to feel like the Hillary health care plan."

Cameron warns Brown his own party will ditch him if he does not scrap green tax rises

Cameron warns Brown his own party will ditch him if he does not scrap road tax rises| News | This is London

(Via Benny Peiser)

Even though the models are fudged and the science is riddled with fraud, should we spend the 45000 billion dollars "just in case"?

Tough climate goals cost $45 trillion by 2050: IEA | Environment | Reuters

BONN (Reuters) - A goal to halve planet-warming carbon emissions by 2050, similar to an aim Japan is urging G8 leaders to agree next month, would add $45 trillion to global energy bills, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.

"It's a lot of money," IEA analyst Peter Taylor told a meeting on the fringes of a climate conference in Germany, previewing the agency's Energy Technology Perspectives report to be published in Japan on Friday.

"It implies a completely different energy system," he said.

'India won't cut greenhouse gas emission against development'

India eNews - 'India won't cut greenhouse gas emission against development'

India will not reduce greenhouse gas emission at the cost of development and poverty alleviation, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Namo Narain Meena said Thursday.

NASA’s Temperature Adjustments Too Convenient

Skeptics Global Warming » Blog Archive » NASA’s Temperature Adjustments Too Convenient

If you study the graph in the article, you can clearly see that negative adjustments have been applied negatively the further back in time you go. Conversely, you’ll see that adjustments to temperature data have grown into the positive almost consistently since about 1970. With satellite data saying the planet is cooling, the Argos buoys showing the ocean not warming and climatologists saying the planet is cooling, why does NASA continue to modify base temperature data?

Senate Democrats May Pull Climate Bill

Senate Democrats May Pull Climate Bill - washingtonpost.com

If this week's Senate debate on a proposed cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases was supposed to be a dress rehearsal for climate legislation, things are not looking too good for opening night.
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"We are going to have Democrats voting to end debate on what they call the most important issue facing the planet and Republicans voting to continue debate on it," said Don Stewart, communications director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Some Democrats were worried yesterday that the GOP might try to block withdrawal of the legislation to prolong a debate that many Democrats think no longer works to their political benefit. Republicans have pounced on the high price of gasoline and have stressed that the climate legislation, by introducing a price on carbon dioxide emissions, would further raise the price of gas along with that of all other fossil fuels.

June in Montana: Cold weather at camp for global warming activists

Climate Ground Zero

After 3 days at camp here in Montana we have a heavy rain day. Some folks were unprepared for the wet and cold conditions here in the Big Belt Mountains of Montana and this weather has tested their patience and endurance, but overall people are dealing and in great spirits.

From a related press release here:

York, Montana ~ Global Warming activists from around the globe are converging at Sweats Gulch in the Helena National Forest 20 miles East of Helena, Montana for a week of training and preparation to confront decision makers and the dirty energy industries over their failure to address the global climate crisis.
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Staff and volunteers from Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, Earth First!, Rising Tide, and Globalwarmingsolution.org will be joining other grassroots activists for this weeklong seminar on nonviolent direct action tactics such as blockades, climbing, Web 2.0 and media relations.

I Am Surrounded By Idiots ::.

BabyTrollBlog

UN's "World Environment Day" has now come and gone

World Environment Day

The objective of the day is to highlight resources and initiatives that promote low carbon economies and life-styles, such as improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption.

To me, the worldwide lack of interest in this day highlighted the ongoing collapse of global warming hysteria since its peak in early 2007.

For example, in the A section of the St Paul Pioneer Press yesterday, I failed to see any mention of either World Environment Day OR the Senate debate on Lieberman-Warner.

I wonder who landed the Al Gore role

Delhi Events: DANCE "Vasundhara" A ballet on global warming at Habitat World, IHC - 12th June 08

Global warming strange to many

The Jakarta Post - Global warming strange to many

"All these slides belong to Al Gore, I just selected the pictures that are appropriate for you to help you understand climate change more easily," [Amanda Katili, an advisor to State Minister for the Environment Rachmat Witoelar] told the participants.

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Time to Retire 'Denier'

FOXNews.com - Junk Science: Time to Retire 'Denier' - Opinion

Global Warming Hoaxers Fly from All Over to Discuss Carbon Tax on Airline Tickets

Moonbattery: Global Warming Hoaxers Fly from All Over to Discuss Carbon Tax on Airline Tickets

New Poll: 81% of Americans Support Greater Use of Domestic Energy Resources

American Solutions - Domestic Energy Resources

Global warming leader can't find the time to learn the details of the Bill That Was Supposed to Save Future Generations From a Fiery Death

Crist quiet on global-warming bill - 06/05/2008 - MiamiHerald.com

Consider his travel schedule the past two weeks: presidential candidate John McCain's Arizona ranch two weeks ago; New York fundraisers for Republicans as well as his socialite girlfriend; private Tuesday fundraisers in Tampa and Fort Lauderdale with Republican Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and others to discuss not the global, but the ''political climate'' this year; a ceremonial pitch Tuesday in Atlanta at a Marlins-Braves game; a Republican Governors Association meeting Wednesday in Atlanta; and a Thursday elbow-rubbing with former football jock Tiki Barber Thursday in Tallahassee after a marathon clemency board hearing.

Another complete idiot weighs in

The Associated Press: NY skyscraper hosts 2 daredevil stunts in 1 day

The first man, Alain Robert, unfurled a banner as he climbed that said "Global warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week." He was arrested when he made it to the top.

Yeah, good luck with that, Arnold

Schwarzenegger Battles Climate Change With Launch Of ‘Together’ Campaign // Archives // ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

Schwarzenegger said: “By making it easier and more affordable for Americans to fight climate change, we are taking a giant step towards a brighter and cleaner future. I extend my best wishes for every success in saying ‘hasta la vista’ to climate change.”

Vancouver: Summer cancelled? It just feels that way!

News1130 - ALL NEWS RADIO.

The cold, rainy weather could have an adverse impact on local fruit and vegetable growers. Dorothy Anderson with Aldor Acres in Langley says farmers hate the sight of puddles this time of year. "Especially the strawberry growers, there should be berries at this time, but instead there are flowers and a lot of rot."

Green scene a flash in the pan

Green scene a flash in the pan? - ContraCostaTimes.com

Canberra to open world-first "legal" climate change centre

LIVENEWS.com.au > National > Canberra to open world-first climate change centre

A study centre, described as the world's first legal research centre into climate change will be opened in Canberra today by environment minister Peter Garrett.

Subjects on the researchers' agenda include the international legal regime for tackling climate change, after the Kyoto agreement runs out, climate litigation, and issues involving renewable energy, transport and forestry.

Painting by numbers: Hansen's peculiar thermometer

Painting by numbers: NASA's peculiar thermometer [printer-friendly] | The Register

The great carbon bazaar

BBC NEWS | Business | The great carbon bazaar

Arguably, this defeats the whole point of the CDM scheme, set up under the Kyoto climate change protocol, as these projects are getting money for nothing.

The Myth of Vanishing CO2 Emissions

The Marshall Institute - The Myth of Vanishing CO2 Emissions

They begin by asking: "How can the world reconcile its growing energy needs and reduce the extreme poverty of 1.6 billion people with demands to reduce CO2 emissions?" and conclude that "[t]he bottom line is that a growing population and growing economy are not compatible with lower emissions, given the state of today's technology and the technologies that could be in the market in the next decade. Proponents of cap and trade legislation should be held accountable for reconciling their assertions with economic, energy and technology realities."

If human carbon dioxide emissions killed off these puffins, why did their numbers rapidly increase for almost forty years before their recent decline?

Big downturn in number of puffins at UK's biggest colony - Science

Breeding pairs of the unique Atlantic puffin at the site have reduced from nearly 70,000 in 2003 to 41,000 pairs this year, a dramatic decrease from the expected 100,000 had normal rates of increase been applied.

The dramatic fall comes after almost forty years of rapid population increase according to research carried out by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology released this week.

“Something worrying appears to have happened over last winter and probably the one before," said Professor Mike Harris, Emeritus Research Fellow at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology who led the study. "Puffins appear to be joining the ranks of other seabirds in the North Sea that are suffering reduced breeding success and decline in numbers.”

Senate action on climate bill seems doomed

World news Feed Article | World news |

``We're going to do everything we can. I've never said we've got 60 votes,'' said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. But her tone was one of resignation.
...
``We welcome this debate,'' McConnell told reporters. ``If this is the most important issue facing the planet, it is ludicrous to think we're going to do this in four days with no amendments.''

"AGW is a monstrous scam"

The Lies and Myths of the “Anthropogenic Global Warming” Fear Mongers and the Dire Threat They Pose | MND: News and Commentary Since 2001

AGW is a monstrous scam and any action taken by congress or any government will most certainly have grim unintended consequences, just as all poorly thought out and ill-conceived laws have, throughout our nation’s history.

Climate Tax Bill 'Doomed From The Start,' Inhofe Says

.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Minority Page :.

Gibberish Indeed

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Getting Our House in Order

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Kill this bill — decisively. Kill it dead. Push on, damn the torpedoes, remember what Patton said about his flanks, etc. Try to actually win instead of averting defeat. That’s done by doing the right thing. You worry about your base questioning your seriousness? Well, that’s in your hands, not theirs.

Bravo, Congressman Rohrabacher

Lieberman-Warner Debate, Rep. Rohrabacher: “Do you really think the world is filled with morons?” « Watts Up With That?

Do you really think the world is filled with morons? When it comes to bait and switch, used car salesmen are paragons of virtue compared to this global warming crowd.

Polar Bear Shot in Iceland; Icy Spring May Have Led It There

Polar Bear Shot in Iceland; Icy Spring May Have Led It There - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

The bigger story in the bear’s journey is that it may have been facilitated by the unusual abundance of pack ice between Greenland and Iceland this spring.

Environ Mental Ism

Climate Resistance: Environ Mental Ism

Oils ain’t all oils

Oils ain’t all oils | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

South Dakota Voters Approve New Oil Refinery

Skeptics Global Warming » Blog Archive » South Dakota Voters Approve New Oil Refinery

I need to see a lot more evidence before I'm buying this explanation

IAR Global News - June 2008 - Puffin numbers decreasing

The Isle of May is the largest puffin colony in Britain, with 69,000 pairs of puffins recorded as living there in 2003. Researchers had expected to see 100,000 pairs this year, but the April figures showed just 41,000.

It is suspected that climate change may have reduced the amount of plankton for puffins to feed on, causing many to starve to death.

Thousands of scientists sign petition against global warming hysteria

Thousands of scientists sign petition against global warming

Gore’s movie claims there is a “consensus” and “settled science” about human-caused global warming. It was particularly unsettling because teachers all across the country showed the movie to students to indoctrinate them in global warming.

“Unfortunately, Mr. Gore’s movie contains many very serious incorrect claims which no informed, honest scientist could endorse,” said project spokesman and founder Art Robinson.

Robinson said Gore’s folly has gone so far that it is damaging people’s lives.

“The campaign to severely ration hydrocarbon energy technology has now been markedly expanded,” he said. “In the course of this campaign, many scientifically invalid claims about impending climate emergencies are being made. Simultaneously, proposed political actions to severely reduce hydrocarbon use now threaten the prosperity of Americans and the very existence of hundreds of millions of people in poorer countries,” Robinson said.

Is this politics versus science? Yes. Which is more dangerous, Gore’s false claims or the policies that spring from his deception?

King Carbon, King Cobra

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Gore-trained speaker lies to his audience

Seminar deals with global warming - SWVAToday.com

He said there were three misconceptions associated with global warming. One, that people don’t agree on the issue. “Global warming is real, human-induced, and will have a detrimental effect on the planet,” he told the audience.

We're carbon emissions trading brokers, and we're here on a noble mission to save your grandchildren

Leading Carbon Emissions Trading Broker, CantorCO2e Co-Sponsors AB 32 Corporate Compliance Seminar

Australia: Green-car fund to hurt economy

The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.

THE Federal Government's $500 million plan to subsidise Australian car manufacturers to build green cars is unlikely to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and would hurt the economy, says the Productivity Commission.

The Government's own think-tank also warned that far from encouraging innovative green technologies, the subsidies risked reducing productivity and repeating earlier policy mistakes which had contributed to the car industry's current problems.

Australia: Household energy use soars

The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.

The report found that although houses, lighting and appliances were becoming more efficient, the energy savings were outweighed by the trend for larger houses and more households with fewer people.

The climate of climate opinion

The climate of climate opinion | theage.com.au

THE Rudd Government is beginning to reap the effects of unrealistic expectations created by its own election grandstanding on climate change.

All too often, the debate in Australia drifts off into a fantasyland of no oil, no coal, no nukes; a naive, childlike vision of a future with just the sun and wind in our faces … and sackcloth on our backs.

A non-reality-based perspective

EnviroMedia Social Marketing : Climate Change Starts Here blog : Blog Archive » Climate Security Act Would Activate WWII-style Job Re-training

The writers of the Climate Security Act (CSA) of 2008 (being debated by the US Senate over the next week) have proposed provisions that will help re-train workers and provide up to three years of wages and health insurance for anyone who loses their job due to climate change regulations...Imagine if abandoned auto factories were re-opened to build giant wind turbines (currently built overseas) or giant coal mining pits could become fields of solar panels?

Revkin claim: About half of CO2 emitted today "will still be aloft in a century"

Climate Debate: Democracy In Action? - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

In the first three days of the debate on the bill, according to my rough calculation, about 246 million more tons of carbon dioxide flowed into the atmosphere from human activities worldwide. Something like half of that will still be aloft in a century.

That claim is contradicted here:

First according to the TAR, about 65% of the 730 GT of atmospheric CO2 is removed every year. That gives a mean residence time of 1.52 years, and a half-life of 0.65 years....The IPCC claims that CO2 is an LLGHG, a long-lived greenhouse gas, persisting in the atmosphere variously for decades, centuries, and even millennia, however the residence time by the IPCC formula and data is between 1.5 and perhaps 5 years.

Update: Note also this claim:

Senator Lieberman has estimated the bill would reduce overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by up to 63% by 2050. The bill states as its purpose: "Prompt, decisive action is critical, since global warming pollutants can persist in the atmosphere for more than a century."

Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown attracting heat, and favors, in global warming bill debate

Sherrod Brown attracting heat, and favors, in global warming bill debate - OPENERS - Ohio Politics Blog by The Plain Dealer

Brown says that maybe, with the right incentives and amendments, he could support a bill to limit carbon emissions (which in the case of Ohio would mean a reduction in burning coal for electricity). So Boxer is offering emissions allowances for states that rely the most on coal, and financial incentives to ease Ohioans' pain.

According to Greenwire, a specialty service covering environmental issues, Boxer is also offering to establish a clean-energy institute in Toledo. Brown already had proposed that the government invest heavily in developing clean energy. To get the bill passed, it appears that Boxer would make sure that some of that investment took place in Ohio.

I wonder if US Republicans can plausibly be blamed for this

Climate change will probably beat us: [Alarmist] Garnaut | theage.com.au

Prof Garnaut was pessimistic about Australia's ability to tackle climate change.

"An observation of daily debate and media discussion in Australia could lead one to the view that this issue is too hard for rational policy-making in Australia," he said.

The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet - Part 4: Short Videos

All American Blogger » The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet - Part 4: Short Videos

Weathering climate change

Weathering climate change - WhatPC?

A study carried out by trade credit insurer Atradius among a selection of businesses in six European countries found that two thirds believed their governments pay little or no attention to threats of climate change.

Live Free Or . . . Lie?

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Perhaps I am being presumptuous, but it could be that Sen. Sununu might view this as a free vote, as do a few other solons who would never consider supporting such a monstrosity, if facts and logic were guiding their decision. The word on the street is that some senators are feeling heat from warming advocates — and believe they can suport the bill now, when no one sees it having any chance of passing, and then oppose it next time around when it almost certainly will be even more monstrous. (So the thinking goes, though the concept of this 491-page, 4th-version-in-two-weeks bill getting even worse is itself difficult to grasp).

This is a mistake...

The National Wildlife Federation evidently thinks the only opposition to insane climate legislation comes from evil US Republicans in bed with Big Oil

Climate Security Act Newsroom: Senate Republicans Block Debate on Global Warming - National Wildlife Federation

"Senate Republicans are literally throwing the book at this bill to help oil companies block any action on global warming and a clean energy future. By stalling this bill, Senate Republicans can only stall America's economy. We need to jumpstart our economy with action now to invest in new technology and create clean energy jobs.

"The choice is clear - recharge the economy or let it sit in neutral. Move forward with legislation that addresses an enormous problem while transforming our energy future or stick your head in the sand and hide behind Big Oil propaganda.."

Polar bear fuss much ado about nothing

The bears were added because, if the global warming computer projections of our weather 50 to 100 years in the future turn out to be correct -- which they've never been so far -- the loss of polar sea ice (currently at its highest level ever recorded because of back-to-back record-cold winters) potentially could cause the bears to drown, like the ones former Vice President Al Gore lied about and did computer-generated cartoons of in his famous documentary.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Australia: Polls show public's carbon offset skepticism

Scopical - News Business & Finance, Sport, Politics, Tech/Media, and Entertainment

On the eve of World Environment Day, new Australian data shows that most people still doubt whether carbon offsetting can actually assist in the fight against global warming.

In an online survey of about 1000 people, Sustainable Communities and Environment data shows a rising 81% of Australians consider themselves to be fairly, very or extremely green.

The data also shows that of those surveyed, just one in five believed recycling more was a way to reduce carbon emissions. Only five in one hundred believed the use of green power would help combat climate change.

General Electric Press Release Claims CO2 "a possible" Factor in Climate Change

Coal is Dirty | Welcome to the Clean Coal Body Slam

More Talking Than Listening in the Senate Debate About Climate Change

Congressional Memo - More Talking Than Listening in the Senate Debate About Climate Change - NYTimes.com

Cold weather causes "devastating losses" for some Michigan fruit growers

Southwest Michigan's fruit growers dodge latest cold snap- mlive.com

Last Thursday's cold snap left the area between Oceana County and Traverse City ``the worst it's ever been ... with no fruit in that region left,'' Longstroth said his colleagues reported during their regular conference call Tuesday...

Selective Precaution

Lawrence Solomon on Climate Security Act on National Review Online

Senators Joseph Lieberman (I., Conn.) and John Warner (R., Va.) base their proposed Climate Security Act legislation on two fundamental premises: That there is a scientific consensus on global warming and that, even if the scientists are wrong and the global-warming risk never materializes, we will at least have aided the environment.

Both premises are wrong. Not just wrong. The premises could well have it exactly backwards.

A note from Australia

Ski resorts to party on without snow : thewest.com.au

The weather bureau has given the industry a huge fillip with a forecast that this winter will be the coldest in decades but for the immediate future - this long weekend - the prediction is for showers above the ranges but no snow.

Law firm forms climate change practice group

Law firm forms climate change practice group -

Why didn't I think of this?

Q&A: "We're Running the Risk of Unstoppable Climate Change"

CR: We need to shift to a no-growth society. Our resources are largely depleted and are being used unsustainably so it makes sense to recycle and reuse what resources we have and redesign our lives and economies on this basis. For instance, with the proper insulation and ventilation our bodies alone could heat our homes. But rather than investing in research and development that could make this possible and affordable, governments are subsiding the use of fossil fuels. If solar energy was subsidised in the same way, solar panels would be far cheaper and better.

We're saved YET AGAIN

Sheep flatulence inoculation developed - Telegraph

Helpful "climate" tips from the U.N.

Drive less, ditch electric toothbrush: U.N. climate tips | Environment | Reuters

Ditch that decadent electric alarm clock and go with a wind-up one; and of course, you should follow the UN's lead and avoid excessive jet travel.

Double Standards, Hypocrisy, and Hey! A Trip to Bonn

Amazon Green Scene's Blog: Double Standards, Hypocrisy, and Hey! A Trip to Bonn Permalink

...is there anything quite like having 2,400 delegates from 162 Nations all jetting in to Bonn, Germany for a summit on--you guessed it--Climate Change?

More from Planet Gore

Muzzle or Megaphone?
Sweden Weighs in on Lieberman-Warner

Gina Cobb's Instant Solution to Global Warming

Here.

The Global Warming Bill in a Nutshell

From this post:

Having learned from the Farm Bill that people will pass anything if you buy enough of them off, Sen. Boxer has proposed a substitute amendment to the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill currently before the Senate, which will redistribute trillions (yes, trillions) of dollars to the environmental-industrial complex.

Let's keep this debate going!

Here.

Only skeptics are driven by money?

From this post:

Note that carbon credits are a zero-value asset unless by government fiat they are declared to have some value. In the absence of global warming legislation and cap-and-trade schemes, this company's portfolio is worth nothing. Only the lobbying by Gore and his "non-profits" can make it have value.
Interestingly, this carbon credit portfolio also has zero value even under alternative CO2 reduction alternatives, such as a carbon tax. Under a carbon tax, there is much less opportunity for rent-seeking by powerful people like Gore, and carbon credit portfolios are worthless. Interestingly, Gore proposed a US carbon tax 15 years or so ago. My guess is that he would no longer support a carbon tax, as it would bankrupt many of his investments.

Price / Value of Solar

Here.

Videos of Senators commenting on Lieberman-Warner

Here.

Alarmist Joe Romm is currently liveblogging the action here.

Mayor Bloomberg creates a new government job

From this post:

Adam Freed, an assistant state comptroller and holdover from the Alan Hevesi days, sent an e-mail to contacts today announcing he's leaving the state payroll to join the Bloomberg administration.

Freed, who has worked for the comptroller's office for five-and-half years, wrote that he will be leaving on June 13 to fill what appears to be a newly-created post at City Hall: Senior policy advisor for climate change adaptation.

Climate worrywarts, grow up

Here.

"Profit" of Doom

Here.

Climate skeptics should rejoice!

From this article:

"Much of the enthusiasm and ambition that we saw in Bali with the launch of negotiations doesn't seem to be present (anymore)," de Boer said, referring to a meeting on the Indonesian resort island in December. Then, some 190 countries decided on a timetable for talks on a new climate pact.

The meeting in Japan was intended to lay the foundations for the fight against global warming for the upcoming G8 Summit in Japan in July.

However, de Boer is not optimistic that a goal to forge a global warming pact by December 2009 to succeed the Kyoto Protocol will be realized. It's first phase was slated to end in 2012.

But the enthusiasm to save the planet has waned.

Diagramming the legislation from Hell

Check out the incredible Lieberman-Warner-Boxer chart available here.

BUSTED!

From this post:

Can the IRS please tell me how Al Gore can get away with having the nonprofit Alliance for Climate Protection do all the PR heavy lifting for his for-profit investments?

If Gore somehow escapes indictment over the next five years, he should consider himself lucky.

Off the Grid: Microgeneration - the Spark of Endarkenment

Here.

Sunspots Vanish, Earth Cools, CAGW Dying

From this post:

CAGW is dying for lack of substantiation. It is being propped up by Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, other corrupt politicians, the news and entertainment media, and a few outspoken "climate celebrities" whose futures hinge upon keeping the public believing in catastropohic warming.

It is a matter of time. The current neurosyphilitic US Congress is gambling the economic future of the US on the CAGW hypothesis. If the hypothesis fails--which so far it is doing spectacularly--the futures of the climate crusading congressmen and celebrities will fail equally spectacularly. They simply must keep the charade going as long as they can, for their own sake.

I'm not completely convinced that this is a great idea

Suffolk Life Newspapers - William Floyd Students Work To Save Forge River

Students from Liz Bedell's environmental class and Amy Meyer's Environmental Club, both at William Floyd High School, and fourth-graders from Michele DeNicolo's class at Tangier Smith Elementary School, are launching bio-haven floating islands into East Mill Pond. This initiative is being coordinated between Save the Forge River, Inc. and the school district.
Bio-haven floating islands, made from 100% recycled materials from plastic drink bottles, are buoyant mats, planted much like a garden, and contain plants native to Long Island that have been grown in the students' classrooms, then launched onto the water. Layers of material are bonded together with foam, where the floating islands are intended to reduce nitrogen levels in the water system by supporting the growth of microbes and plants.

Rudd told plan to tackle "pollution" may cripple business

Rudd told plan to tackle pollution may cripple business | The Courier-Mail

jobs

For Better Weather, Elect Obama

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Boxer Calls Largest Tax Increase -- A ‘Big Tax Cut!’

.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Minority Page :.

The Lieberman-Warner global warming cap-and-trade bill has been called many things, but this appears to be the first time it has been called a “huge tax cut.” The reference to the bill as a “big tax cut” was made by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), despite the bill’s being considered the largest tax increase in American history.

Could McCain actually be this stupid?

WEBCommentary(tm) - Uncle Sam’s Choice

In early 2008, sixth-graders at the Trail Ridge Middle School in Longmont, Colorado held a mock trial to decide, yes or no, if human beings have caused global warming. Pre-teen advocates for either side collected and analyzed data, then presented arguments to a jury of their peers who, after measuring the facts, voted, seven to four, that humans beings had not caused global warming.

In late May of 08, Dennis Miller recounted on his radio show how, during a visit to Senator McCain’s office in Washington, Miller asked the Senator via what reasoning McCain had arrived at his pro-anthropogenic global warming beliefs. As “proof” of anthropogenic global warming, the Senator produced a Gore-like “Snow-job of Kilimanjaro” photo that showed the volcano’s ice cap receding. Thereby, McCain revealed a lack of facility for the objective collection and analysis of factual data that even seven of eleven sixth-graders possess.

The Death Blow to Anthropogenic Global Warming

200806041099 | The Death Blow to Anthropogenic Global Warming | / | Global Warming

Planet Green's Scheduling Challenge

Planet Green's Scheduling Challenge - 6/4/2008 12:01:00 AM - Broadcasting & Cable

Discovery is hedging its bet that climate change is an issue that will continue to resonate with viewers in the years ahead and that Planet Green will be seen as a part of the solution.

“This is such a big issue for the world -- climate change and the repercussions of it. This is a big investment by Discovery Communications against a big problem,” O’Neill said. “We hope that we can be part of a growing solution based movement here. This is a long road, a long journey, and we’re committed.”

When Reason Fails

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Once again, the best way to avoid global warming catastrophe is to do whatever some special interest group already wanted done anyway

» PETA Campaign against non-veg food to save planet - Thaindian News

“Arguably, the best way to reduce global warming in our lifetimes is to reduce or eliminate our consumption of animal products..."

Polar bear killed in Iceland

Polar bear killed in Iceland | IceNews - Daily News

The distance between Iceland and Greenland is about 300 km (200 miles). Although there are no confirmed records of a polar bear swimming between the two countries, the animal has considerable stamina and could have made the crossing if there had been icebergs on the way to rest on.

Global Warming 'Alarmism' Is Hurting New Jersey Economy, Say Conservatives

Global Warming 'Alarmism' Is Hurting New Jersey Economy, Say Conservatives -- 06/04/2008

State lawmakers in New Jersey and other states have succumbed to the "greatest scam" of the past 100 years in the form of Kyoto-type mandatory emissions caps at the expense of their own citizenry and financial well-being, Republican Assemblyman Mike Doherty said in an interview with Cybercast News Service.

Gore continues to maneuver to further cash in on his carbon dioxide fraud

Business finance news - currency market news - online UK currency markets - financial news - Interactive Investor

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Generation Investment Management, the private equity fund chaired by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, has acquired a 9.5 percent stake in Camco International Ltd, a carbon asset developer.

Cap and Corrupt

The Foundry » Blog Archive » Morning Bell: Cap and Corrupt

Hurricane Lieberman-Warner

Hurricane Lieberman-Warner - HUMAN EVENTS

Climatologist Patrick Michaels thinks it would have virtually no effect on the climate, an additional 0.013 degrees (Celsius) of "prevented" warming. That's another little bitty fact that will never see the light of day on most press reports. Instead what we'll get is the usual hot air, except this time it has the price tag of 660 hurricanes.

Children Get The Bear "Facts" On Climate Change

Children Get The Bear Facts On Climate Change (from Swindon Advertiser)

The theme of the event is Climate Cops, which is part of npower's Greener Schools campaign.

The more we study the Arctic's shrinking sea ice cover, the more we appreciate the key role of clouds and water vapor. Our colleague, Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, has linked changes in the ice edge northwest of Alaska to variations in springtime cloudiness and in the water vapor content of the lower atmosphere. She has observed an increase in springtime cloud and water vapor over the last three decades that can be clearly linked to retreat of the ice edge.

Also of interest is Figure 1 on that page--note the increased sea ice extent (over the "long term" 1979 to 2000 median) for May 2008 in the area of northwest Alaska.

"Food" Climate Change Day of Action

UK Indymedia - 3rd June Food Climate Change Day of Action in Nottingham

Bees' pollination work stung by cool temps

Leelanau Enterprise » Bees' pollination work stung by cool temps

The unusually cold May climate, filled with frost warnings and nights dipping into the upper 20s and low 30s, has been preventing some bees from pollinating.

Nikki Rothwell, director of the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Resource Station, said bees prefer warmer conditions. But with tart cherry trees in bloom, it’s a crucial time for pollination.

“Cherries are only susceptible for about six days,” she said. “So even if the blooms look visible out there, the reproductive parts aren’t able to produce a cherry.”

The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet - Part 3: The Debates

All American Blogger » The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet - Part 3: The Debates

Old, underfed and facing the winter

Old, underfed and facing the winter - Editorial - Opinion - Nelson Mail

The Nelson region fares better than many others, with a surfeit of the clear, still, sunny days that have typified the last few weeks. But the nights are cold and growing colder, posing a threat to the health and wellbeing of those elderly citizens who live in poorly-insulated dwellings and are worried by the expense of adequately heating them.

Overall, the Lieberman-Warner bill promises substantial hardship for the economy overall, for jobs, and for energy costs. Given current economic concerns and energy prices, this is the last thing the American people need. At the same time, the environmental benefits would likely be small to nonexistent. The Lieberman-Warner bill fails any reasonable cost-benefit test.

UAH MSU: May 2008 cooler than April by 0.19 °C

The Reference Frame: UAH MSU: May 2008 cooler than April by 0.19 °C

UAH MSU have released their new satellite data for May 2008. The global anomaly was -0.17 °C, the coldest reading after January 2000 and the third coldest monthly figure after September 1993.

Reid still claiming that global WARMING is "the most important issue facing the world today"

GOP tries to scuttle climate-change bill

"I am terribly disappointed with how the Republicans are directing their troops on the most important issue facing the world today, global warming," Reid said.
...
Republicans argued Tuesday that the bill is a heavy-handed government answer to climate change. The bill would require industry to pay for the right to emit greenhouse gases, which could yield over $6 trillion through 2050 in revenue the government could distribute.

Consumers affected by higher energy prices would receive $800 billion in tax rebates. Farms and forests could qualify for $300 billion in aid for conservation programs.

The auto industry would receive $68 billion to produce more efficient cars. States that take early action to cut emissions would get $566 billion.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., complained that this new spending would be the "mother of all earmarks." He suspects the bill's sponsors are seeking to win support by "spreading this money around to various interest groups around the country."

Cap and trade? The devil's in the details

ottawasun.com - Comment - Cap and trade? The devil's in the details

It's Time To Start Questioning the Climate Change Crowd

411mania.com: Politics - It's Time To Start Questioning the Climate Change Crowd

Gore walks around telling everyone he is absolutely right about climate change. He says the science is on his side. He says the evidence is on his side. If all of this is true, why does he refuse to debate the issue? If you were 100% correct on an issue and someone challenged you, wouldn't you relish the opportunity to make a fool out of them? Gore is scared he will be exposed for the fraud he is, so he hides behind his Oscar and his Nobel Prize. He knows if he was to debate the issue he would be ruined, both as a global icon and financially, since he is heavily invested in many of these "green" industries.

Media Double-Standard on Global Warming "Censorship"

Media Double-Standard on Global Warming "Censorship" | NewsBusters.org

IBD: Senate Climate bill 'makes human sacrifices of the American people on the altar of the environmental earth goddess, Gaia'

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- The Planet Tax
(Via Marc Morano)

"Centrist" Climate Bill Deserves Defeat

Centrist Climate Bill Deserves Defeat | Environment | AlterNet

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Warming faith defied in Parliament

Warming faith defied in Parliament | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

"Dr. Hansen has been heard far and wide"

NASA Press Office Is Criticized on Climate Reports - Hansen news trend still postive « Watts Up With That?

Clark: Let's "lead" the world by implementing a carbon trading scheme similar to the ones that have already failed elsewhere

New Zealand committed to leading on climate change, leader says :

"We believe there are far more gains from being a leader than being a follower," Clark said.

"The emissions trading scheme has been well designed, and it is in line with similar schemes either already in place or under development around the world.

Chamber opposes emissions reduction bill

Chamber opposes emissions reduction bill - UPI.com

WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- Curbing carbon emissions would be better addressed by developing new energy technologies, not by raising taxes, a leader of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says.

US experts, activists slam Bush opposition to climate change bill

AFP: US experts, activists slam Bush opposition to climate change bill

"Nay-sayers for taking action now on solving global warming keep pointing to solutions as being a cost to the economy. Nothing could be further from the truth," Bracken Hendricks, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress think-tank, told Tuesday's news conference.

So how do you hire massive numbers of new bureaucrats at no cost?

Tough 2020 climate goals unachievable-US

INTERVIEW-Tough 2020 climate goals unachievable -U.S. | Reuters

BONN, Germany, June 3 (Reuters) - The United States will tell a July meeting of the Group of Eight rich nations that it cannot meet big cuts in emissions of planet-warming gases by 2020, its chief climate negotiator Harlan Watson said. "It's frankly not do-able for us," he told Reuters on Tuesday, referring to a goal for rich countries to curb greenhouse gases by 25-40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels.

Bad Ideas for Saving the Planet

An Australian scientist proposes pumping the atmosphere full of sulfur to stop global warming.

Suzuki doesn't like nuclear power. Or coal. Or big dams...

David Suzuki: A nuclear reaction | Straight.com

5 Ways Climate Change Is Hurting McCain

5 Ways Climate Change Is Hurting McCain - Capital Commerce (usnews.com)

5) If many of Ron Paul's libertarian-minded voters abandon the GOP for the Libertarian Party or just stay home, McCain's big government cap-and-trade plan might be a prime reason why.

Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change

Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change | Danger Room from Wired.com

The Army is weighing in on the global warming debate, claiming that climate change is not man-made. Instead, Dr. Bruce West, with the Army Research Office, argues that "changes in the earth’s average surface temperature are directly linked to ... the short-term statistical fluctuations in the Sun’s irradiance and the longer-term solar cycles."

Pimp My Bill

Planet Gore on National Review Online

Then remember that this is a scheme that no one dares claim would actually do anything about global warming, even if it were happening.

Schematic of Lieberman-Warner’s bureaucracy

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(If you find a readable copy of this diagram, please let me know). A "simpler" diagram is available here.

Update: A readable version is here.

Straight Talk on EU Emissions?

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We are told that Sen. McCain might not be around to cast a vote on the bill in its present incarnation — in fact, none of the three remaining presidential candidates are likely to leave the trail to weigh in on the supposed remedy to the supposed greatest threat facing mankind.

In spite of the climate-alarmist claim that 20th-century warming was "unprecedented" over the past one to two millennia, and that such warming in the Great Lakes region of the Northern Hemisphere should be leading to the massive lakes going "down the drain," real-world data provide no support for this contention, or anything even close to it. In fact, they tend to suggest just the opposite.

UN climate chief says cutting fuel taxes a bad idea for the environment

UN climate chief says cutting fuel taxes a bad idea for the environment - International Herald Tribune

Solar Forcing of Multiple Climatic Parameters

CO2 Science

Eight researchers (8) hailing from China (1), Finland (1), Russia (4) and Switzerland (2) recently published a paper wherein they describe exciting new evidence that makes the case for a causative link, or set of links, between solar forcing and climate change about as iron-clad as it can get.

U.S. DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY AS FEARS GROW THAT CLIMATE CAMPAIGN MAY BACKFIRE

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Excerpt:

"This is what happens when the committee staff and the chairman get so deep into the weeds of the bill that they can no longer see the political realities," said a senior Senate Democratic aide.

"Boxer is walking us off a cliff," another senior Senate Democratic aide said.

Many Democrats across the ideological spectrum foresee a public relations disaster looming, given that whip counts show that not even a majority of Senators - less than 45 by most aides' counts - are likely to vote for Boxer's substitute, which was authored by Sens. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.).

(Via Benny Peiser)

The Martian Consensus

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