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Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change
Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change | Environment | The Observer
The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer.
The results have shocked campaigners who hoped that doubts would have been silenced by a report last year by more than 2,500 scientists for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which found a 90 per cent chance that humans were the main cause of climate change and warned that drastic action was needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
I wonder if SUVs can be plausibly blamed for this
Pantagraph.com | News | Illinois once 'emporium' of malaria
“When I first settled in Peoria some thirty-five years ago (about 1848) the entire prairie was saturated with malaria,” wrote Dr. J. Murphy in 1883. “In fact, the entire area of central Illinois was a gigantic emporium of malaria.”
British Columbia- Cold weather puts damper on berry crop
CTV British Columbia- Cold weather puts damper on berry crop - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
The Lower Mainland's unseasonably cold, wet weather has put a damper on B.C.'s strawberry crop.
Berries that should be thick and juicy on the vine aren't ready to be picked this late in June -- two and a half weeks after they are usually ready.
"This is only the second time we've opened this late," said Rhonda Driediger, who has worked in the fields in the Fraser Valley since she was a child.
It's in sharp contrast to 2004, when hot temperatures in April produced a bumper crop -- with pickers starting as early as May.
At the time, some growers were worried it was too hot -- and the warming trend might last for years.
A climate zero: The testimony
A climate hero: The testimony | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
Hansen found his opportunity through former Sen. Tim Wirth (D-Colo.), who chose to showcase the scientist at a Congressional hearing. Twenty years later, the hearing is regarded as a turning point in climate science history.
To build upon Hansen's announcement, Wirth used the summer's record heat to his advantage. "We did agree that we should figure out when it'd be really hot in Washington," says David Harwood, a legislative aide for Wirth. "People might be thinking of things like what's the climate like."
They agreed upon June 28. When the day of the hearing arrived, the temperature in the nation's capital peaked at 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). The stage was set.
Seated before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 15 television cameras, and a roomful of reporters, Hansen wiped the sweat from his brow and presented his findings...
A Window on Water Vapor and Planetary Temperature - Part 2
A Window on Water Vapor and Planetary Temperature - Part 2 « Watts Up With That?
Simply eyeballing the time series suggests the 1977 Pacific phase shift is a much better fit with changes in trends than is the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Bottom line is that the regions climate models are programmed to expect atmospheric moistening are not actually doing so, making either the models or the atmosphere wrong. None of the above time series leads to a plausible conclusion that we should anticipate any increase in weather activity.
Avery: Thermometers Are Doing the Talking
NBU: Thermometers Are Doing the Talking by Guest: Dennis T. Avery, 6/9/08
The big temperature increases are all in those unverified computer models so beloved by the Green movement. The mothers of the world’s kids and the workers who grow and catch its food now demand to see the thermometers climb more than .2 degrees before they renounce their food and jobs. Without energy, the workers can’t work, the farmers can’t farm, and the children can’t eat.
Until and unless the Greens and the UN can offer some evidence beyond the guesses of computer models that consistently over-estimate the warming that is occurring, we’ll accept the unsung voice of the thermometers.
Who Pranked CBS?
BigCityLib Strikes Back: Who Pranked CBS?
So, maybe I've been hanging with Buckets for two long, but it seems unlikely that staff at CBS would have altered a Marketwire release to look like something from (AP). I would therefore wager that somebody outside of the company copped Chalko's Marketwire press release and reformatted it to look like an AP piece to give it enhanced credibility, then fired it off to CBS.
More on Exxon as The Great Satan
The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA
Q: So this movement has more staying power?
A [David Suzuki]: It damn well better have. What happened in 1988 was two things. One is when we hit the 1990s, the economy went into a recession and the fossil fuel industry, led by Exxon Mobile, began to spent millions of dollars on an anti-climate change campaign. They set up dummy, green-sounding organizations to say that global warming was junk science and they supported a handful of skeptics - some of whom were paid by the tobacco industry years before to say smoking wasn't dangerous - to say that global warming isn't caused by humans. They were very effective in creating confusion in the minds of the public, who said, 'Oh well, I guess scientists haven't made up their minds.' I think what Exxon Mobile and the other fossil fuel companies did was criminal. It was a criminal activity that they deliberately set out to garble the message and distort what scientists were saying.
Sweden: 'No concrete global warming proof in polar region'
The Local - 'No concrete global warming proof in polar region'
Upon their arrival at Svalbard in Norway, however, the royals are likely to be informed by Swedish polar researchers that there is in fact very little concrete proof tying global warming to climate changes in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Some indeed argue that there is more change in today’s political rhetoric than there is in the environment.
Somaliland: Sleepwalking into disaster
Garowe Online - Home
And then came the global warming hysteria, an idea that has more to do with Europe’s prosperous middle class politics and media than it has to do with Science but which no politician in the West could be seen to question let alone oppose. It basically makes three claims: that the world is warming up; we are causing it; and it is a bad thing. Each of those claims could be challenged but no one dared to be seen on the `wrong’ side of this `debate’.
We in Somaliland didn’t even know the `debate’ was taking place but we certainly did not escape its impact. Some bright spark somewhere in this green global warming swamp decided it was a good idea to put food into combustion engines instead of human mouths. Vast swathes of the world’s most productive arable lands in America and Brazil were converted into `biofuel’ farms. The result is man-made shortage of food across the globe while, ironically the biofuel mass production did not affect the price of fossil fuels at all. It, continued to go up and up.
As nations ran out of staples, the world’s biggest exporters stopped selling food. China, India and Thailand refused to sell Somaliland traders anymore rice. The Burma typhoon didn’t help either. Food donors like America who used to insist on giving cheap wheat to the world’s starving said they would rather give aid agencies hard cash. People like the UNDP who feed our schoolchildren are finding it harder and harder to find food on the world markets.
The poorest of the poor are now starting to eat less and less in every town and every hamlet all over Somaliland. The Hargeisa media is not reporting it because it is in complete shock; just like the rest of the country. We stand frozen in front of an impending catastrophe.
North Korea: Serious cold-weather damage to corn crop
Press Releases: DPR Korea, North Korea Today No. 147 Jun 2008
Severe Damage on Corn from Cold Weather in Saebyul County
The unusual low temperatures in North Hamgyong Province, Ryanggang Province, and North Pyongan Province has caused serious cold-weather damage to corn crop. On May 3, approximately 30 Jungbo (approximately 73.5 acres) of corn per farm in Saebyul County of North Hamgyong Province was destroyed due to frost and strong winds. Some farms plowed up the corn fields damaged from the cold weather and have planted beans instead.
The madness of Jim Hansen
A climate hero: The early years | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
On June 23, 1988, in the sweltering heat, Hansen told a U.S. Senate committee he was 99 percent certain that the year's record temperatures were not the result of natural variation.
The true deniers of climate change
Global Warming Politics 
The true deniers of climate change are not the thousands of scientists and economists, the climate realists, who are critical of the ‘global warming’ grand narrative, but the ‘global warming’ zealots who believe that we can either ‘stop’ or ‘stabilize’ climate change, two of the most ridiculous and hubristic concepts ever to afflict human arrogance.
CO2 hysteria fading fast in China
FT.com / Columnists / Philip Stephens - Saving the planet will be difficult, but do not despair
Denial is a still a big problem, as demonstrated by the latest survey of global attitudes from the Pew Research Centre. The good news is that majorities in 14 of the 24 countries covered by this annual poll see global warming as a very serious problem. The bad news is that those countries with the smallest concerned majorities are the ones that are also contributing most to the stock of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Less than half – 42 per cent – of people in the US think the rising temperature of the planet is a serious problem. In China, the figure is a mere 24 per cent. That compares with figures of 70 per cent and above in Japan, France, Tanzania and Turkey and 92 per cent in Brazil. That for Germany, surprisingly, is only 61 per cent and for Britain, less surprisingly, 56 per cent.
The state of opinion in the world’s two worst polluters is worrying. In both the US and China, people are less concerned about climate change than they were a year ago. The proportion in China has almost halved from the previous 42 per cent.
Ronald Reagan's son Michael: Tear down that wall
Tear down that wall
Today there is another wall, one that stands between energy independence for the United States and continued reliance on foreign oil at a time when skyrocketing prices at the gas pump threaten to wreck our economy, bankrupt millions of American businesses and reduce countless numbers of Americans to poverty and hunger.
That wall must come down, and come down now.
And, God willing, should Republicans shrug off the rotting carcass of the global warming hoax on their shoulders now weighing many of them down, and summon up the courage to tell the Democrats who built that wall that they must tear it down, they will drive the huge numbers of Democrats off Capitol Hill in the November elections.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Better get used to it
Critter News: How to Deal with a Global Warming Denier
Believe me, global warming deniers are everywhere. I have heard denials from even the people I would least suspect. They'll say global warming is "natural," it's just cyclical climate change. Or that humans really don't have that much of an impact.
The New Scientific Method: When You Don’t Have The Data, Fudge It
Blue Crab Boulevard » The New Scientific Method: When You Don’t Have The Data, Fudge It
So what scientific evidence do we have that Global Warming is leading to extreme weather events? Well, we don't have any, not in the sense of actual observed weather events. Shouldn't that give someone pause? Normal people probably would taken aback by the lack of evidence. But we are not dealing with normal people.
Still "definitely weeks" until Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road may open for the "summer"
Missoulian: Snow going: As crews work to clear Sun Road, opening date in question
Which will plow the 2008 spring opening right into the record books as one of the latest ever. It's even possible winter may still lay claim to the highest reaches come the Fourth of July.
“It's been a long, persistent winter,” said park spokeswoman Melissa Wilson, “and a very cool and wet spring.”
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“We're only now getting back to where we were to begin with,” Foster said, “and it's worse than it was the first time we plowed it. This winter has been amazing.”
Crews have labored each spring since 1933 to clear the popular but precipitous route, and on average the job is done by about June 8.
The earliest opening was mid-May, back in 1987.
In 1943, with workers away at war, the road wasn't opened over Logan Pass until July 10. Since then, the latest openings came on June 28, 2002, when the road remained buried by late-season snows, and July 1, 2007, when leftover damage from a fall storm slowed the spring opening.
Warming On 11 Year Hiatus
Warming On 11 Year Hiatus « Watts Up With That?
Even with the warm spike 1998 El Nino year included, the flatness of the 3 metrics used to track global temperature is telling especially when compared to the Keeling CO2 curve for the same 11 year period...
Unfortunately, Another Biased Assessment
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » New CCSP Report Appears “Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate” - Unfortunately, Another Biased Assessment
Since this assessment is so clearly biased, it should be rejected as providing adequate climate information to policymakers. There also should be questions raised concerning having the same individuals preparing these reports in which they are using them to promote their own perspective on the climate, and deliberately excluding peer reviewed papers that disagree with their viewpoint and research papers. This is a serious conflict of interest.
Enjoy it while it lasts
Mayor Nickels gets national kudos for his climate hysteria
For Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, climate change is the gift that keeps on giving. It's earned him coverage in Vanity Fair, Time and Rolling Stone. Public figures far and wide have bestowed their compliments for his global warming leadership. Now he's won first- place honors in the 2008 Mayors Climate Protection Awards Program at the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual meeting being held now in Miami.
Text Book Allegedly Shaky on Global Warming
Text Book Shaky on Global Warming - The Washington Independent - U.S. news and politics - washingtonindependent.com
Most notably, they suggest that there isn't actually a consensus in the scientific community that human activity is creating global warming. They seem to say that climate skeptics are as reputable as, say, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.Well, that last statement IS an outrageous slur against the climate skeptics.
BREAKING: Gore Allies Attempting to Ground Our Hot Air Tour in Nashville
Americans for Prosperity - Americans for Prosperity Foundation :: BREAKING: Gore Allies Attempting to Ground Our Hot Air Tour in Nashville
As you know, this afternoon at 3pm Central time, we're scheduled to hold our Hot Air Tour event in Nashville, during we we hope to launch a hot-air balloon and float over Al Gore's house in an attempt to expose the high cost of global warming alarmism
A couple of days ago, a Gore spokeswoman ominously warned that they'd be working to block our event...
Let The Fear Mongering Begin
Let The Fear Mongering Begin (M4GW)
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But wait a minute, if Global Warming is causing all this severe weather why is it happening this year, the coldest year in over a decade? Why isn't anybody actually looking at the data and saying maybe it's the cold weather causing these storms, maybe its the lack of Solar Activity that creates more storms.
Reduce Emissions to 1910 Levels?
Committee on Energy and Commerce, Republicans : Press Release :: Barton: Waxman, Inslee Bills Would Reduce Emissions to 1910 Levels
Barton: Waxman, Inslee Bills Would Reduce Emissions to 1910 Levels
Back then, ‘40 million people in America and two-thirds of them lived on farms and the method of transportation was foot power or animal power’
Al Gore's Epic Hypocrisy
FOXNews.com - Junk Science: Al Gore's Epic Hypocrisy - Opinion
He apparently sees himself as a 21st century Ben Franklin. But while the founding fathers risked their lives and fortunes in the pursuit of political freedom and self-government, Gore risks just a small part of his vast fortune in pursuit of potentially huge profits that will come at the expense of our pocketbooks and freedoms.
He can hardly be called heroic. Even more grandiosely, Gore sums up his slideshow by stating, "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 a bright and optimistic human future.'"
Move over, Achilles and Hector. Make room for Gore-acles, the hero of the future epic "The Iliad (Global Warming Edition)."
What we admire most about the global warming alarmists is their duplicity
Orange Punch » Blog Archive » What we admire most about the global warming alarmists is their duplicity - OCRegister.com
Dominic Lawson notes this is right in tune with the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s plea to Saudis to “do something” about the high price of oil, which he describes as “a remarkable display of diplomatic chutzpah from a man who, as Chancellor, spent a decade telling us that increasing the price of petrol on British forecourts through fiscal means was very much in the best interests of the whole planet.”
At some point, even hypocrites flinch.
Should we even consider the possibility of less heat and longer winters?
The Watch Newspapers - News, Sports, Weather, Classifieds, Local Events and Businesses in Telluride, Ridgway, Ouray, and Norwood Colorado, as well as the Communities of the Western San Juans - Watching
What the future is almost sure to bring is more heat – much more than the rise of recent decades. “The American West will be the epicenter for warming,” said Roger Pulwarty, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder.
Whether the future will bring more snow, or less, remains uncertain. Warmer clouds can carry 30 percent more precipitation, which might mean lots of snow. Unlike the computer models that show heat, forecasts regarding precipitation are murkier. The only clear message is that winter will, on average, be much shorter – as it already is in California’s Sierra Nevada, where runoff is typically 20 days shorter.
"Fortress CRU"
Climate Audit - by Steve McIntyre » Fortress CRU
OK, CRU says that they have “been assured by the persons and organisations giving this information to us that they believe it to be confidential”. OK, what “organisations” are we talking about here? The only organization in question is IPCC, whose procedures require that comments be public. Is IPCC interfering at CRU off the record to prevent CRU from releasing supposedly open comments?Climate Audit - by Steve McIntyre » Fortress CRU #2: Confidential Agent Ammann
And yet here we have the spectacle of Caspar Ammann, sending expert comments to IPCC author Keith Briffa, stating that he “believes” his expert comments to an IPCC author to have been sent in “confidence”. What a crock.
Enough to make a used-car salesman blush
Check out the March '08 claims of Al Gore in the first four minutes here:
Australia: Massive CO2 fiasco looming
The emissions reporting framework is causing angst in corporate corridors | theage.com.au
Companies caught in the reporting dragnet must develop systems that enable them to report their carbon footprint to a new federal agency, the Greenhouse Emissions Data Office, on the basis of their direct energy emissions, and indirect emissions through energy consumption.
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The survey indicated, however, that most Australian companies had entered the ramp-up to the carbon trading system without having the knowledge they needed to cope with it, or even a plan to acquire that knowledge.
This partly reflects the fact that the Rudd Government has accelerated the introduction of carbon trading by two years to 2010, but it probably also reflects widely held but rarely voiced scepticism inside Australian boardrooms about the full-blown global warming catastrophe scenario.
Of course, what directors think is now to a large extent irrelevant: Australia's regulatory response to global warming is in train, and compulsory emissions reporting will not only usher in carbon trading, but continue to expand after trading begins in 2010.
Companies that make up probably more than 90% of the Australian sharemarket will eventually be publicly filing emissions information to avoid fines of up to $100,000 and public censure, and that information will be incorporated into the data that investors dissect to put a market value on them.
Cool Breeze Chills Global Warming Hot Air
Freedom is always the right answer: Cool Breeze Chills Global Warming Hot Air
...The alarmists dealt with this admission predictably - they changed their story. They claimed they expected global cooling all along. Funny, they never mentioned that. The IPCC reports from 2001 and 2007, the alarmists' bible from just last year and earlier, never mentioned global cooling. Al Gore's film never mentioned it. I've read hundreds of global warming news stories in the last few years, and not one mentioned global cooling along the way. The global warming alarmists are scrambling, and they'll say anything to keep their fraud alive. It's too lucrative for them to tell the truth.
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12,000 years ago, the leading edge of a glacier rested in Moraine, Ohio, giving the town its name. Humans didn't make that glacier advance or retreat, we adapted. We don't understand the cycles of the Earth and sun, let alone have the power to control them. Our species is so successful because our big brains enable us to adapt, and the solution to inevitable climate change has always been to grow our wealth so we can better adapt, but first we have to overcome the self-serving agendas of the anthropogenic global warming con-men and our power-hungry politicians.
Fortress Met Office
Climate Audit - by Steve McIntyre » Fortress Met Office
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We’ve been following with interest David Holland’s efforts to obtain information on how IPCC review editors discharged their important duties under IPCC process, with the most recent progress report here. Here’s another update.
Reviewing the bidding a little, IPCC policies state unequivocally that all “written expert review comments” will be retained for a period of at least 5 years.
All written expert, and government review comments will be made available to reviewers on request during the review process and will be retained in an open archive in a location determined by the IPCC Secretariat on completion of the Report for a period of at least five years.
Despite this unequivocal policy, John Mitchell of the UK Met Office, Review Editor of AR4 Chapter 6, claims to have destroyed all his working papers and email relating to his work as an IPCC Review Editor prior to Jan 30, 2008, when David Holland’s first inquiry were made. David Holland has made a series of requests trying to exclude potential evasions by the UK Met Office.
More complete BS from the Worldwide Fund for Nature
Southern Whales Threatened By Melting Antarctic Ice - Science - redOrbit
Note that the Antarctic sea ice has been GROWING:
Note that the Antarctic sea ice has been GROWING:
Global Warming and Energy Implications: Will Nature Soon Cool Hot Debates?
Energy Tribune
Measurements by four major temperature tracking outlets reported that world temperatures dropped by about 0.65° C to 0.75° C during 2007, the fastest temperature changes ever recorded (either up or down). The cooling approached the total of all warming that occurred over the past 100 years, which is commonly estimated at about 1° C. Antarctic sea ice expanded by about 1 million square kilometers – more than the 28-year average since altimeter satellite monitoring began.
But have these collective announcements ended the global warming debates? No, stay tuned for further developments.
Cyclical, abrupt, and dramatic global and regional temperature fluctuations have occurred in observable patterns over millions of years, long before humans invented agriculture, capitalism, smokestacks, and carbon trading schemes. To appreciate just how lucky we are to live in the present, consider climate cycles from a historical perspective. Over the past 400,000 years, much of the Northern Hemisphere has been covered by ice up to three miles thick, at regular intervals lasting about 100,000 years each. Very brief interglacial cycles lasting about 12,000 to 18,000 years, like our current one, have offered reprieves from the bitter cold. From this perspective, there can be no doubt that current temperatures are abnormally warm.
"What did I do to deserve this?"
What did I do to deserve this? | hattiesburgamerican.com | Hattiesburg American
And did you here the polar bear is now on the endangered species list? But Craig, you say, polar bear numbers are at all-time high since we've been counting them.
Yes, they are but they might, might, I tell you, be harmed by global warming. On which the science is settled.
The science is so settled that average global temperatures have actually declined since 1998, virtually eliminating the rise that has been touted as a reason to starve the poorer countries of the world and destroy capitalism.
And make no mistake about it, we are responsible for much of the rise in the price of food and we are starving the poor.
If the price of bread rises 13 cents that is no big deal here, but in a poor developing country it is the difference between life and death.
Washington state: What it's like to swim in that allegedly overheated ocean
Bellingham, Whatcom County Local News | Bellingham Herald
But the spring weather has been unseasonably cold, and so is the water. For every 1½ degrees rise in water temperature, he can swim another hour.
Humphreys trains to be in the water for 14 hours for his channel swim. He had hoped to do a four-hour swim this Saturday.
He can’t. Not in 53 degrees. He lasted one hour.
Last weekend, he swam from Post Point at Marine Park to Inati Bay on Lummi Island, which had him in the water for 2 hours, 25 minutes.
On Sunday, he swam from the park to the north end of Eliza Island, also 2½ hours. It was trying.
“It’s the cold water. It takes a lot out of him,” McKinnon says.
For his part, Humphreys describes stepping into 53- degree water, and staying there, as a shock that’s hard to wrap his mind around.
“It hits you like a hammer. It takes my breath away,” Humphreys says.
Gag me
Vespa Says Beeeee-Beep to Climate Change - thegreenpages - Canada
First-ever national carbon neutral driving program creating a buzz across CanadaFrom a related post here:
TORONTO, June 17 /CNW/ - Canada's first national carbon neutral driving program was launched today by Canadian Scooter Corp (Vespa Canada) and its partners Environmental Defence and the Carbon Reduction Fund. Under the new program, Vespa will offset the estimated greenhouse gas emissions for all new Vespas, including the green-themed EnviroVespas in yellow (sun), blue (sky) and green (grass).
To celebrate the new program, the latest Vespas (the Italian word for 'wasp') from the land of love were joined this morning by their bee friends, and a host of well-known admirers, in an outdoor oasis at Terroni Restaurant in downtown Toronto.
"Vespa Canada has just taken a quantum leap in making transportation fun, affordable and most importantly, environmentally responsible," said Morey Chaplick, Canadian Scooter Corp.
The innovative carbon neutral driving program comes with a unique and serious twist that's all about the birds and the bees: supporting the habitat of wasps, bees, butterflies and other pollinators. To help its bee friends, Vespa also announced that it will support the protection of pollinator habitat through Environmental Defence.
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.
1997: US Senate votes 95-0 against Kyoto
Did Someone Say ‘Kyoto’? - The Clinton Record | Sweetness & Light
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Mind you, this vote was taken during the ever so environmentally enlightened regime of Bill Clinton and Al ("Earth In The Balance") Gore.
What the CCSP Extremes Report Really Says
- Prometheus: What the CCSP Extremes Report Really Says Archives
From the excerpts above it should be obvious that there is not a pattern of unprecedented weather extremes in recent years or a long-term secular trend in extreme storms or streamflow.
The Northeast Tibetan Plateau's Medieval Warm Period
CO2 Science
The researchers ultimately concluded that the "synchronous variations between Longxi precipitation and Northern Hemisphere temperature may be ascribed to solar activity, " which apparently produced a Medieval Warm Period that was both longer and stronger than what has been experienced to date during the Current Warm Period in the northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Hendrik Tennekes: A Revolution in Climate Prediction?
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Guest Weblog by Hendrik Tennekes: A Revolution in Climate Prediction?
“I worry about the arrogance of scientists who blithely claim that they can help solve the climate problem, provided their research receives massive increases in funding. I worry about the lack of sophistication and the absence of reflection in the way climate modellers covet new supercomputers (….) My worries multiply when I contemplate possible side effects. Expansion of research tends to support the illusion that science and technology can solve nearly every problem, given enough resources. Research supports the progress myth that pervades modern society, but that very myth seduces us into ignoring our responsibility for the state of the planet. Therefore, I want to restrain myself. I want to avoid making promises I cannot keep. I want to keep my expansive instincts in check. Above all, I try to be a scientist: I wish to think before I act.”
CBS, MSNBC Websites Promote Earthquakes' Tie to Global Warming
CBS, MSNBC Websites Promote Earthquakes' Tie to Global Warming | NewsBusters.org
Who exactly is this Dr. Tom Chalko? And how precisely are earthquakes related to global warming? The blog SansPretense has done a pretty thorough job dissecting Chalko's claims, as well as investigating some of Chalko's other "research." For example, Chalko contributes to a "scientific" journal that's ... not what many would consider scientific. It's called the NU Journal of Discovery -- the "NU" standing for Natural University. There's just one problem: There is no Natural University. Take a look at the "university's" website to see what I mean...
CBSNews.com Pulls Story Making Quake/Climate Link Claim
CBSNews.com Pulls Story Making Quake/Climate Link Claim
Site says it's AP, AP says it isn't ours; story identical to 'ubercrackpot' scientist's press release.
Blogger conference call on energy policy.
California Conservative » Blogger Conference Call
I just finished participating in a blogger conference call on energy policy. The conference call was hosted by Rep. Michele Bachmann and was attended by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Eric Cantor, Rep. Phil Gingrey, Rep. Tom Price, and Rep. Adam Putnam. Here’s a brief summary of what each of these representatives said in their opening statements...
"the proposed goal of the Governor's Commission on Climate Change will simply have no detectable effect on global warming"
Commission Does Little About Climate Change
Adopting the Virginia plan across all Kyoto nations would result in about 72 percent of the emissions reductions of Kyoto itself by 2050, again according to data from the Energy Information Agency. That means a savings of five hundredths of a degree of warming by then, and 0.13 degrees by 2100 (which is 72 percent of the warming projected for Kyoto). The 2050 figure is about 20 times less than the mean annual temperature difference between downtown Richmond and suburban Short Pump.
The Global Warming Bubble
Townhall.com::The Global Warming Bubble::By Rich Lowry
No matter what the price of gas is, the most sensible policy in the U.S. is to avoid costly schemes to fight global warming. If our economy keeps growing, we will be better positioned -- richer, and more technologically proficient -- to help others mitigate its effects decades from now. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid huffs that global warming is "the most critical issue of our time." Really? More critical than energy prices? Than health care? Than wages? Than terrorism? Than nuclear proliferation? Keep huffing, Mr. Reid -- that deflating bubble needs all the air it can get.
New Harris Poll
New Harris Poll Shows Americans Want to Go Green, but Don't Always Know How
Arlington, VA, June 19, 2008 - Over 90 percent of Americans are recycling, but only 3 percent are changing out their incandescent light bulbs for more efficient compact fluorescent models, according to a new Harris Poll released today.
Morgan rides off for climate debate
Morgan rides off for climate debate - Wellington - The Dominion Post
Gareth Morgan is about to ride off into the sunset on another motorcycling adventure.
Not satisfied with crossing the Silk Road from Europe to China and riding the length of Africa, the 55-year-old Wellington economist will head out on Tuesday to the northern parts of Europe with wife Jo and fellow riders Rob Clausen, Phil Lough and Tony Armstrong, hoping to find out whether the threat of climate change is real.
Mr Morgan said he was writing a book about climate change from a layman's perspective.
But he was unsure whom to believe - climate change "alarmists" or sceptics.
The Many Surprises of the Teen Vote
The Many Surprises of the Teen Vote by Jacob Bodnar
I was a little surprised.
During the special teens and politics episode of my podcast, recorded on June 11, I assembled a panel of four teenagers to discuss the 2008 election amongst other topics. I had a right leaning panelist, Andrew Schantz; a left leaning panelist, Jacob Visovatti; and two panelists that didn't really follow politics at all, Drew Jurgensen and Taylor Franz.
I asked about global warming, more specifically is it happening. The answers shocked me.
The two non-political followers flat out said no. The liberal said he didn't know (typical liberal) and the conservative said no.
I expected a least three yeses.
I fully intended to get an "of course" from the non-followers, I simply thought the media love fest with Al Gore and the earth's warming would have convinced them; I was wrong.
Bravo, Texas governor Rick Perry
TRAIL BLAZERS Blog | The Dallas Morning News
The McCain campaign (or at least the Republican Governors Association, under whose auspices this conference call occurred) dispatched Gov. Rick Perry this afternoon to provide a counter-point to the Democrats in the never-ending energy debate. (Truth be told, I'm not sure any non-Texas reporters were on the call. The questions came from the DMN, Austin Statesman, KXAN and a dude who didn't say where he worked but wanted to ask about the fire at the gov's mansion.)
The KXAN reporter asked whether Perry could envision himself as McCain's veep, to which the governor basically said no. But here's one reason it would be hard for them to co-exist: global warming. McCain believes in it, and Perry doesn't.
McCain wants mandatory curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions through a cap and trade system. Perry won't support such a system under any circumstances. (Major Texas industries are opposed to federal greenhouse-gas controls, and are counting on Texas' delegation to help block bills like the one that died in the Senate this week.)
Deep thoughts from that kid who was in "Stand By Me"
Wanna Win the War on Global Warming? Get out of Iraq, says Corey Feldman « The BlogTalkRadio Blog
“If you look at all the monstrous catastrophes that have happened in the last three or four years, the signs are all there and I really hope people are paying attention,” Corey, 36, continued.
And though the rabid environmentalist, who’s a spokesman for Greenpeace and PETA, doesn’t have an immediate answer to global warming, he recommends the powers that be begin by attacking smaller problems – like the Iraq war.
Corey contends that stopping the production of missiles, bombs and chemical weaponry being used in the war would half the pollution and put a dent in the bigger climate-change problem.
Just take action
Squeaky Wheel Seeks Grease » Blog Archive » Observations as a result of the flooding in the Midwest, list-style.
-First, this flood is 5 years early, IMHO. The first one my family remembers was in 1973. The second one, in 1993. This one, 2008. Nature jumped the gun. Someone out there’s going to be blaming global warming and use this as an excuse for us to do…something. Like wear underwear made of recycled plastic or something.
Inconvenient Truth: Why Pricey Oil Can Make "Tackling Climate" Harder
Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Inconvenient Truth: Why Pricey Oil Can Make Tackling Climate Harder
People concerned about global warming tend to cheer surging oil prices, figuring that will spur less-polluting alternatives. Perhaps those people should think again.
In Europe, natural gas prices track crude oil. Recent crude price spikes have driven natural gas prices higher, too. That has made natural gas even less-competitive against traditional fuels like coal.
So, say carbon-market analysts Point Carbon, the oil price spike is leading some European power companies to switch from burning pricey gas to relatively cheaper coal, then covering their pollution by buying carbon credits in Europe’s carbon trading scheme.
Forget the Planet, Retrofit the Earth
Wonder Land - WSJ.com
Looking at images of nearly all Iowa underwater got me thinking about the difference in politics between fixing the here-and-now and fantasizing about the future.
Hypocrisy hard to bear
Column - Hypocrisy hard to bear | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
POOR Belle. Here’s a polar bear that never got to taste a global warming hypocrite, served fresh.
US Congressional Asylum: Criminally Insane?
Al Fin: US Congressional Asylum: Criminally Insane?
Obama, McCain, and the Democratic Party dominated US Congress are all pointing the finger at big oil companies. But a rapidly growing proportion of US voters can clearly see that it is Congress itself that is limiting the options of the American economy. Even a national media that is sycophantic toward both Obama and the Democratic Party cannot stop the groundswell of awareness by the public, of how the Congress is shutting off US energy options.
Americans for Prosperity to Fly 70-Foot-Tall 'Hot Air' Balloon Over Al Gore's Belle Meade Mansion
SunHerald.com : Americans for Prosperity to Fly 70-Foot-Tall 'Hot Air' Balloon Over Al Gore's Belle Meade Mansion
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 19 --
The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) will launch and fly its 70-foot-tall hot air balloon over Al Gore's Belle Meade mansion on Friday, June 20, from Nashville's Warner Park. The balloon features a huge message "Global Warming Alarmism: Lost Jobs, Higher Taxes, Less Freedom." The fly-over is part of the group's nationwide Hot Air Tour, www.CostofHotAir.com.
"Even as record gas prices and high food costs put a squeeze on household budgets, global warming alarmists are pushing policies that are out of touch with average Americans," said AFP President Tim Phillips. "Al Gore is the poster child for global warming hot air, so it made sense to make a stop in Nashville. We are providing citizens with an economic reality check on the hot air in the global warming debate."
California Republicans Leveraging to Delay Emissions Caps
California Republicans Leveraging to Delay Emissions Caps
A minority of Republican state legislators in California are trying to use their leverage in approving a past-due state budget to force a roll-back of the state's greenhouse gas emissions caps, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
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Democratic Senator Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach said, "Using a fiscal crisis to delay and roll back protections for Californians is just wrong."
Climate change idiots to target power station
Climate change protesters to target power station - Littlehampton Today
The mass action will involve four groups, each using different tactics, it was announced.
A Great Rebel Raft Regatta will launch an armada of rafts of every shape and size into the river Medway, including pirate ships and Viking-style boats.
A number of different themed rafts, made out of recycled materials, are already under construction, the organisers said.
Sarah Jenkins, who is helping to organise the armada, said: "Once on the river, we will swarm towards Kingsnorth like a giant shoal of disobedient fish, all with one simple and achievable aim in mind: shutting down the climate criminal."
Canada's Stéphane Dion evidently believes in the CO2 scam
Macleans.ca Interview: Stéphane Dion | Macleans.ca - Canada - Features
Q: You’re suggesting the carbon tax concept crosses partisan and ideological lines.
A: Yes. It’s beyond left-wing and right-wing. It’s an idea to reform our tax regime to make it cope with the main issue of the 21st century, no less than reconciling the people and the planet.
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Q: I suspect, though, the energy industry would rather continue without a carbon tax.
A: If we do nothing, if we don’t put a price on carbon, these industries will be the first to be boycotted. Nobody will want to use our oil sands, not in the United States, not in Europe. If we put a price on carbon, show that we are serious, we’re in a much better position than if we do nothing.
Q: You really think oil sands crude will be boycotted?
A: Well, it’s not oil sands they will target. They will target countries that are not pricing their emissions.
CO2 hysteria in Japan
Sapporo's Beer Cans to Show CO2 Emissions
The Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry launched a task force this month made up of academics, food and food package makers and retailers to establish rules on CO2 emission labeling by March next year.
As the Earth Cools: What Does it Mean for the Energy Industry?
200806181211 | As the Earth Cools: What Does it Mean for the Energy Industry? | / | Global Warming
Thus, there are now two belief systems about the climate. A largely Western belief system about steady and maybe catastrophic warming and a rest of the world belief system about impending cooling. The former belief system holds human activity responsible. The latter belief system scoffs at the ability of human beings to influence climate cycles. Belief systems, of course, drive policy and strategy which drive investment flows.
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The world has neither the capacity nor the will to change the trajectory of the global climate whether its warming, cooling or oscillating. Both climate belief systems are a form of intellectual and emotional self indulgence by elites. They are a distraction from reality, which is coping with and benefitting from whatever change in climate occurs. Corporate executives who ostentatiously bet their company’s entire strategy and reputation on carbon control will not, at the end, fare well. They are much better off creating strategies, products and services that help people adapt to the weather, not change it. Contingency planning should entail strategic responses to a warming globe, a cooling globe and a globe whose climate reverberates with laughter at human hubris. Human beings are miserable at forecasting but they are pretty good at improvising and adapting. Why not focus on the strength rather than invest so heavily in the weakness?
California: $1.1 billion being spent to just “think” about the alleged global warming problem
.: Highland Community News:. Highland, California
At the same time we are racing to implement these regulations, there are other government agencies just beginning to study the issue of greenhouse gas emissions and how they may be tied to global warming.
The University of California system, for example, is preparing to spend $500 million to create a think tank to analyze global warming and the Public Utilities Commission has adopted a decision which will spend $600 million more for a separate think tank to study the issue. That's $1.1 billion being spent to just “think” about the problem at the same time the State of California is moving forward with regulations that may or may not work but will cost businesses and consumers billions of dollars to implement.
Myron Ebell on the folly of banning offshore exploration
Joint Letter in Support of OCS Bill | CEI
According to the U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service, the offshore areas currently banned from development likely contain a mean estimate of 18.92 billion barrels of oil and 85.79 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that are “technically recoverable.”
Yet the United States is the only developed country in the world that bans development of most of its offshore gas resources.
This self-imposed ban has put our nation at a competitive disadvantage with Cuba and China. Cuba recently announced that it has negotiated lease agreements with China to explore oil and gas production just 50 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida. The United States can’t develop resources in the Florida Straits, yet Cuba and China can.
Pennsylvania: State global warming plan MIA
State global warming plan MIA (phillyBurbs.com) | Courier Times
In February 2007 [near the peak of CO2 hysteria], [Democratic] Gov. Ed Rendell said that within three months he would release a new plan on how this state would address the growing threat of global warming.
More than 16 months later, environmentalists are still waiting for Rendell to unveil that plan.
Britain set to miss EU renewable energy target
Britain set to miss EU renewable energy target | Environment | The Guardian
Britain could invest more than £100bn in renewable energy over the next decade and still fail to meet an EU target on clean technology, the government's own renewables advisers have warned.
How Veronica noticed that human CO2 emissions are allegedly dangerously warming our planet
EURweb.com - VERONICA'S VIEW: It’s Easy Being Green
Our planet is changing.
I noticed it about fifteen years ago while riding in my air-conditioned car in the summer. It seemed unseasonably hot that year, although I don’t recall temperatures breaking any records that year.
What I distinctly remembered is how hot the rays of the sun felt that year against my skin, despite the fact that my car windows were fully rolled up. In fact it was so hot that by the time I reached my destination, my thigh and upper arm were sunburned. It was quite painful and quite alarming.
Philippines Education Secretary Jesli Lapus drinks Gore's Kool-Aid
Education
MANILA, Philippines -- Education Secretary Jesli Lapus has ordered all public and private schools nationwide to plant trees in a bid to combat global warming.
Lapus’ order is contained in Department Education (DepEd) order No. 33, directing all schools to conduct annual “extensive tree-panting, tree-growing, and tree-caring activities” in their campuses and nearby communities.
He emphasized that schools should plant trees endemic to the Philippines like Narra, Molave, Acacia, and Kamagong.
Lapus also prohibited the cutting of trees on school grounds and urged school administrators to “take a direct hand” in implementing related activities.
Schools are also mandated to establish mini-forests and plant nurseries, conduct symposia and other related activities that would increase public awareness about the current state of the environment, according to the directive.
“[Global warming] requires us to take solid, concerted action to arrest the continuing decline of our environment,” Lapus said.
Three Cheers For Ann Widdecombe
Global Warming Politics 
And, although Ann is currently in a minority, I think I can detect that her stance will be increasingly vindicated. I happen to know that there are vast swaths of Conservative supporters, including MPs and Lords, who believe exactly what Ann argues, but who are holding their tongues until David Cameron is elected.
Orange County Register editorial: You can't ride a polar bear to work
Opinion: Editorial: You can't ride a polar bear to work - OCRegister.com
Republican presidential candidate John McCain this week reversed his position and drew environmentalists' wrath when he came out in favor of lifting the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Mr. McCain apparently realizes he needs motorists' votes more than environmentalists' endorsements. Better late than never.
Rising gasoline prices have focused voters' attention. A poll last October in the San Francisco Bay Area found 69 percent willing to pay an additional 10-cent gasoline tax to "fight global warming." This week only 37 percent liked the idea.
More on global warming and earthquakes
1. BigCityLib Strikes Back: CRAP! Immensely CRAP!!
3. AP & CBS duped by aura-reading charlatanSo far, CBS and MSNBN, plus many lesser news sites, have been conned. And, frankly, this is such a horrid display of newsmanship--publishing obvious bulls--t because you were unwilling to do two minutes of research--that it deserves an official and hearty BigCityLib denunciation.2. Quake n’ Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes? « Watts Up With That?
The AP and CBS were so eager to jump on the global warming bandwagon that they allowed a telepathic astral-projecting aura reader sell them on some hokum that can’t pass the scientific laugh test.
Layers and layers of fact-checking - wasn’t that the phrase?
Month of May, Global Temperature Recap
Month of May, Global Temperature Recap « Watts Up With That?
Global Data All In - NASA GISS Biggest Outlier Again
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow
All the data sources have now reported for global May temperatures with Hadley coming in today. University of Alabama MSU was the coldest with a -0.18C. RSS MSS was a close second with -0.083C. Hadley had a +0.278C and NASA GISS came in at +0.36C.
UAH and RSS MSU satellite data uses a base period of 1979-1998. NASA uses the coldest period of the last century 1951 to 1980. Hadley uses 1961 to 1990 as a base period. Obviously satellite provides the best coverage of the low and middle latitudes land and oceans. The other data bases are at the mercy of the country governments and of spotty imperfect ocean temperature measurements.
A PALPABLE HIT ON THE PALEOBOTANIC ORTHODOXY?
GREENIE WATCH
However, as we all know it is in the nature of orthodoxy to ignore `minor issues'. However, this time seems an even bigger dog has come to bite! So far it has not been seen with the scientific AGW establishment that one single paper comes along to destroy more or less the whole basis of many careers (yet) but I'd say this new Nature paper looks to be getting very close to such an occasion. Expect a firestorm of rebuttal, dissembling, and (dare I use the term?) denial.
Kyoto in Court
Kyoto in Court | DeSmogBlog
Illustrating just how determined this government is to ignore its obligations, government lawyers are arguing with a straight face that the court should ignore the "will of Parliament" because this is an “unusual ” law that the government did not expect the court to enforce.
Environmental movement 'has suddenly found itself on the defensive'
Offshore oil drilling opponents are rethinking - Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- The environmental movement, only recently poised for major advances on global warming and other issues, has suddenly found itself on the defensive as high gasoline prices shift the political climate nationwide and trigger defections by longtime supporters.
Opposition to offshore drilling -- once ironclad in places like California and Florida -- has begun to soften. Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida on Tuesday eased his opposition to new energy exploration off the coast.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
EarthFirst files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
EarthFirst files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - St. Petersburg Times
Unable to turn a profit from investing in such green technologies as biofuels and reclaiming rubber from old tires, EarthFirst Technologies, based in Tampa, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Only For Elites Could High Gas Be Good Thing
IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Only For Elites Could High Gas Be Good Thing
The other day in southwestern Fresno County, a poor part of Central California, I talked with a number of folks at a rural gas station. Most drove second- and third-hand pickups, large cast-off sedans or used SUVs.
Their general complaint was twofold: They didn't have the cash to buy a new fuel-efficient Honda or Toyota.
And they were now spending a day or two of their wages just to fuel their cars for their long rural commutes.
Lack of global warming very tough on Idaho's youngest and cutest deer, elk, and moose
Winter's Impact On Idaho's Wildlife | KMVT Southern Idaho | LOCAL
Last winter wasn't especially tough in most of Idaho.
But in some cases, cold weather lasted longer than usual - which put an additional drain on the body fat that deer, elk and moose live off of during the winter months.
Very few calves survived the snows - and the animals that did make it through the winter are in poor condition.
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Troweill says, "Don't expect to see many young animals after a tough winter like this. But on the other hand, with good management, the animals will bounce back. And we'll be back to abundant hunting seasons here very shortly."
Is Global Warming Invisible?
Is Global Warming Invisible? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
Is “global warming” invisible, or at least very, very difficult to depict, one wonders. How else to justify image-rich weekly The Economist’s decision juxtapose to an article about “climate change talks”, a picture of a smog-choked Chinese city? A place where the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is surely the least of their pollution concerns…
John C Dvorak links to a skeptical global warming piece
» Global Warming is a HOAX Screed! Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.
This piece is poorly structured, but contains a lot of excellent info regarding the Global Warming debate. It attacks the “everyone is in total agreement” argument made by Gore.A short bio of Dvorak is here.
Ann Widdecombe:Yes, I am a heretic on global warming.
CO2sceptics News Blog | Ann Widdecombe:Yes, I am a heretic on global warming.
One of Britain's best loved MP, Ann Widdecombe, mentioned her views on Global Warming in her Daily Express column...
Pretty soon, you're talking about real money
The Dickinson Press
Basin Electric Power Cooperative says it will spend up to 300 million dollars to capture a portion of carbon dioxide at its coal-fired power plant in central North Dakota.
Because That’s What the Idiotic, True-Believing Faithful Do….
Daily Pundit » Because That’s What the Idiotic, True-Believing Faithful Do….
The tomato scare that has sickened 170 people and is the worst food scare since the E. coli/spinach outbreak is being blamed by some environmental activists on climate change….
Group Files Climate Change Ad Disclosures After Delay
Group Files Climate Change Ad Disclosures After Delay - June 18, 2008 - The New York Sun
An environmental group has filed federal disclosure reports on almost $710,000 worth of advertisements lobbying lawmakers in advance of a key vote on climate change legislation. However, the Environmental Defense Action Fund is not disclosing who donated the money for the television spots.
Scores of Peer-Reviewed Studies Contradict Global Warming Alarmism
Scores of Peer-Reviewed Studies Contradict Global Warming Alarmism - by Compiled by Peter Risdon - The Heartland Institute
Despite what many global warming alarmists assert in the media, there are many articles in the world's leading science publications contradicting the assertion that "the debate is over" about global warming. These articles destroy the illusion that there is a "consensus" among scientists about the causes of global warming. The following is the first of a three-part list of many such articles.
Offshore Drilling v. Alleged Global Warming
Offshore Drilling v. Global Warming - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog
Are environmentalists doing themselves — or the environment — any favor by denying states the right to decide whether there should be oil drilling off their shores?
Serious or spoof?
Today's Quakes Deadlier Than In Past, Study: Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years Ago Because Of Global Warming - CBS News
(AP) New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago.
The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases alarmingly fast and that this trend is set to continue, unless the problem of "global warming" is comprehensively and urgently addressed.
The analysis of more than 386,000 earthquakes between 1973 and 2007 recorded on the US Geological Survey database proved that the global annual energy of earthquakes on Earth began increasing very fast since 1990.
Dr. Chalko said that global seismic activity was increasing faster than any other global warming indicator on Earth and that this increase is extremely alarming.
"Scientists Kill Trees for Diversity"
Scientists Kill Trees for Diversity - Science - redOrbit
PELLSTON, Mich. - Chain saws scream in a northern Michigan forest, but it's not the familiar sound of lumberjacks.
This time the tree killers are environmental researchers. They hope that years from now, the aspens they remove will be replaced with a mix of maples, oaks, beeches and pines - which should soak up more carbon dioxide from an ever-warmer world.
Age drowns in green myths
Age drowns in green myths | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The Age will run on its opinion page even the most discredited of global warming myths that a professional Friends of the Earth alarmist can present...
Idaho: Cold temps shorten growing season
Idaho Mountain Express: Cold temps shorten growing season - June 18, 2008
Last weekend's warm weather will not be enough to compensate for early June's unseasonably cold temperatures, which cut short the Wood River Valley's growing season by at least three weeks.
Darlene McDonald, garden center supervisor for Webb Landscaping, says that the delay in planting and growing will result in less produce.
Southern Ontario Shivers In Unusual June Cold
CityNews: GTA Shivers In Unusual June Cold
With the summers in the GTA already so short, there's nothing quite so depressing as miserable and cold weather in the middle of June. But that's what residents of southern Ontario were faced with on Tuesday, as the endless up and down cycle of this late spring continues.
Many people awoke to the horrifying reality of having to turn on their furnaces in the morning, despite the fact it's June 17th. Others were reminded of conditions past - and future - when they grabbed a jacket on their way out the door.
Things didn't get much better when they got outside. A breeze from the northwest made it feel even colder all day, and a drenching afternoon rain in many areas only made it worse. Some people who refused to acknowledge the brief change of season were literally caught in the cold.
"Obviously I didn't check the weather when I went out this morning," shivers Lynne Penberthy, who's wearing nothing but a sleeveless top. "I just about froze to death!"
Al Gore proves the futility of his policy recommendations
American Thinker Blog: Al Gore proves the futility of his policy recommendations
Now that Gore has proven his measures are ineffective, it is time to drill offshore, ANWR, mine coal and oil-bearing rock, and build nuclear power plants on an expedited basis.
Try to top this one
How Humans Are Killing Life Before “Earth’s Death in 2050 AD” : EcoWorldly
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published a study in 2002 that documented the plunder of natural resources by human activity and warned that the globe itself could be outstripped in its capacity to support life, rendering the earth extinct in under 50 years.
Based on scientific data collected from across, it revealed that more than a third of the natural world has been destroyed by human activity in just over the past three decades, because of, among others, increased emissions of green house gases into the ecosystem.
Journalist/Campaigner Mark Lynas weighs in
Six Degrees but no PhD | Books | guardian.co.uk
Having said all that, I am acutely aware that I am not a qualified expert in my own right, and that I need to tread very carefully when making judgements about work carried out by people who are, after all, the real experts. That is why I have so little time for climate sceptics, who claim to know better than those who have spent their entire professional lives investigating the physics of the atmosphere. That vast majority of those who dismiss the reality of global warming are simply ignorant - and arrogant, to boot. Now that's a statement that no scientist would probably make. But it's true nonetheless, and it's my job to tell you that.
Al Gore Is Screwed
Al Gore Is Screwed « Without Politicians
If you are an environmentalist and/or a convert to the religion of global warming, you better start ordering your Prozac, because your whole identity is about to go down the drain.
A great quote
Cheboygan Tribune
I don't want to be a Chicken Little, but it does seem to me as if the sky is starting to fall.
A Window on Water Vapor and Planetary Temperature
A Window on Water Vapor and Planetary Temperature « Watts Up With That?
Here is some interesting news; according to data from NOAA’s Earth System Laboratory, atmospheric water vapor is on the decline globally.
A suspicious story
Add six small solar panels, energy-efficient appliances, decent home insulation, etc, then you're "off the grid", using one-twentieth the power of a normal household?!
The Forest Blade > Opinion > Editorials
The Forest Blade > Opinion > Editorials
Nothing 'wacky' about the weather
Nothing 'wacky' about the weather
As the Iowa floods recede, leaving behind the impact of what the Iowa City Gazette describes as the "500-year flood event," the world records another sampling of climate change weather horror. It's Al Gore's nightmare scenario happening today, right before our eyes.
As Roger Pielke reports in today's Junk Science Week special, any such link between climate change theoretical models and today's weather, while often made, are really not supportable. Mr. Pielke, a political scientist at the University of Colorado, says claims to such links give climate modelers an aura of credibility that is not deserved. As he puts it, there's nothing that could take place over a period of a decade or less "short of an ice sheet advancing on New York" that would be "inconsistent with climate change model predictions."
If all weather events are consistent with climate models, then no current weather events serve as any useful indicator of climate change or as a sign that climate change is happening.
South Africa: Cold afflicting Cape Town
IOL: Cape relief agencies ready to help the needy
The City's Disaster Management Centre and local Red Cross shelters are prepared to supply extra clothing and blankets as cold weather continues to grip the region.
Shelters around the city have replenished relief supplies after the refugee crisis and are prepared to serve anyone in need.
The cold front that afflicted Cape Town last week shows no signs of weakening.
Former astronaut Sally Ride buys into Gore's CO2 scam
Ride's historic flight ignited passion to help 'fragile' planet - USATODAY.com
"Understanding our effect on Earth's climate and then mitigating our effect on Earth's climate is really the greatest challenge in front of us today, and in front of the next generation," she said. "I mean, we've kind of laid this at the feet of the next generation and I think that it's critically important.
Blind faith in warming wager
thewest.com.au
Global warming policies will be so immensely costly that a good deal of certainty is rationally required before action is taken. Professor Garnaut’s airy dismissal of the sceptics — they are “possibly right and probably wrong” — does not begin to approach that degree of certainty.
Bob Metcalfe: Avoid the Pressure of the Green Bubble
Bob Metcalfe: Avoid the Pressure of the Green Bubble « Earth2Tech
Ethernet inventor turned cleantech venture capitalist Bob Metcalfe says there have been a series of bubbles that have swept up the algae startup that he’s been leading as CEO for the past year. That would include not only the general global warming bubble, which he says Al Gore has been helping to perpetuate, but also a biofuels bubble and then the algae to fuel bubble. Man, that’s a sudsy market he’s been running in.
How Not To Measure Temperature, part 65
How Not To Measure Temperature, part 65 « Watts Up With That?
It is my opinion that the regular sensor moves closer to buildings and domiciles alone could account for as much as .5°C warming since 1985 when the MMTS started to be introduced.
Motl on Gore
The Reference Frame: Gore's personal electricity consumption up 10%
This story is an example how hypocrites have always worked. The most successful ones may earn USD 100,000,000 by downright fraud and lies. They pay USD 16,533 for renovations whose only goal is to fool everyone.
The resulting change of the electricity consumption is positive but millions of people are so stupid that they award prizes to the moral junk of Gore's type instead of putting these megafraudsters into the prison.
Question from Revkin
Climate + Oil + Politics = ? - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog
Is it fair to outsource our environmental problems — banishing even debate about drilling here while still drilling elsewhere (even as we start to find ways to use less oil, and eventually none)?
Another polar bear shows up in Iceland
Lost polar bear greeted with bullet | Herald Sun
A POLAR bear that travelled hundreds of kilometres from Greenland to Iceland has been shot by police - the second in as many weeks.
The bear was killed when it charged a group of journalists, Duetsche Press-Agentur reported.
ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: ARE THE SCEPTICS RIGHT?
Economics, Politics and Climate Change
In practical policy terms, once the apocalyptic forecast is seen in context and the likely failures of government action are recognised, the case for urgent, centralised action against climate change seems much less convincing than the conventional wisdom of the day would have it. One does not have to be a `climate change denier’ to see that a degree of scepticism about the present consensus might be in order. In that sense, I think that the sceptics are right. Most likely, now – as in the past – many analysts have become carried away by the results of their models, which purport to look into a far distant future, and have convinced themselves that they must embark on a crusade to enlighten others. Dissent must be discouraged and indeed, in a mild version of the Inquisition, the views of anyone who questions the conventional wisdom should be disregarded and, if possible, suppressed. In such a climate, we need scepticism even if it brings condemnation by the top echelons of the Royal Society.
"Scientists advocating for action are overselling the predictive capabilities of climate models"
Overheated claims - FP Comment
I have been asked by some of my colleagues why I raise these points, since action on climate change is a good thing and those questioning climate models typically are opposed to action. So what, I am told, if action on climate change is based on some exaggerations and false claims to certainty, isn’t the end goal important enough to justify bending the truth just a bit? After all, those opposed to action often show no hesitation toward exaggeration and hyperbole.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
"Al Gore has become a joke"
Warning Signs: Democrats are Forever Looking Backwards
First of all, what candidate would seriously want to be endorsed by a man who has made himself a laughingstock by advocating one of the greatest hoaxes of modern times? Al Gore has become a joke, huffing and puffing about global warming while the Earth is halfway through the tenth year of a cooling cycle.
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This brings us to Barack Hussein Obama who keeps telling us, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times…and then just expect that other countries are going to say okay…”
Since when does America set its domestic policies and determine its lifestyle based on what “other countries” have to say? What Marxist handbook was he reading when he concluded that the government has a right to decide what we drive, how much we eat, and how cool we want our homes this summer?
Rev. Gore Endorses Obama . . . in Detroit?!
Planet Gore on National Review Online
Inside the arena, Gore endorsed Obama as the best candidate to “save the planet” even as the state outside flirts with record low June temperatures following a late spring brought on by one of the coldest winters on record. Obama returned the praise, telling the crowd that “Al Gore has done more to educate the world about (climate change) than anyone” — though the candidate conveniently left out that he and Gore had arrived at the event in a motorcade of giant, gas-guzzling Secret Service-provided Chevy Suburban SUVs.
The Royal Society: From Science to Fiction
Climate Resistance: The Royal Society: From Science to Fiction
Eco-activist Mark Lynas, has won the Royal Society's prize for popular science writing, for his book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet.
Except that it isn't science, it's fiction. Science fiction; it takes a vaguely plausible scientific possibility, extrapolates it, and makes it the situation in which some form of drama plays out.
Observations 1, Hype 0
Camrose Canadian, Camrose, AB
It’s a generational thing.
The same family has been gathering weather data for Environment Canada for a combined 80 years and they were honoured for their dedication June 5, with gifts and certificates.
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With all the discussion around climate change, neither Adele nor Tessmer could comment if they saw a change in patterns. Adele added she “would rather look at the findings than believe the hype.”
Unclear on the concept
The Daily Bayonet: CAA Green Competition A Planet Killer!
The Canadian Automobile Association is running an Eco-Contest to find Canada's greenest driver.
The reward is a trip for two to beautiful Costa Rica...
Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
From this page:
NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”
In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
Crist changes mind about oil drilling
Crist changes mind about oil drilling | Q: Florida Politics
Gov. Charlie Crist backed away from his long-held opposition to offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and applauded Sen. John McCain’s call to lift a federal moratorium on coastal state oil drilling, saying the Republican presidential candidate’s proposal “is certainly appropriate.”
Crist went on to say he believes that drilling for oil in the Gulf could possibly bring down gas prices and that he wants a study on the issue.
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