Government 'hot air' on climate change challenged by 10.10 vote - Willott - politics.co.uk

Tomorrow, the Liberal Democrats have secured a debate in the House of Commons on climate change forcing all MPs to vote on whether to commit Parliament itself and the entire public sector to cut their carbon emissions by 10% by 2010.

The Migrant Mind: All the climate models are wrong!

The global warming hysteriacs have gained their worries from the output of global climate models. The models have become a proxy for actual observational data. If the models say the world will warm, no one looks out the window to actually see that the world is freezing. The world can't be freezing if the models say it is warming. There is an implicit belief that like the Bible, the models are infallible.

‘Global Warming’ Issue Questioned - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

WHEELING - As a fifth-generation "coal guy," Rob Murray knows the importance of coal to the nation's future.

But with coal under attack through the cap-and-trade legislation before the U.S. Senate, Murray now is out questioning whether carbon emissions really are causing harmful global warming effects.

He says with certainty, though, that many coal jobs will be lost is the proposed climate control legislation meant to improve air quality standards is made into law.

Our nuclear tragedy | Jonathon Porritt | Comment is free | The Guardian

The idea that a few new reactors can solve climate change is attractive – and completely unrealistic
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And the tragedy is it won't make much difference anyway – even if the reactors do eventually get built after inevitable delay. If every OECD country follows this route, instead of pursuing the alternative mapped out above, then emissions of greenhouse gases will keep rising at a dangerously fast level, average temperatures will soar, the Greenland ice cap will melt far faster than anticipated – and all those shiny new reactors will be several metres under water. Oh, for a little bit of realism.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Not Evil, Just Wrong reviewed: Guest Post by Bernie

The movie’s low budget probably accounts for the lack of crisper messaging and more potent graphics.

[Yet another inane global "warming" article in the Guardian]

"Our reindeer were hungry. There wasn't enough pasture," Jakov Japtik, a Nenets reindeer herder, told the Guardian. "The snow is melting sooner, quicker and faster than before. In spring it's difficult for the reindeer to pull the sledges. They get tired," Japtik said...
[Don't a lot of people thrive in climates that don't allow reindeer to pull sledges?]
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Herders say that the peninsula's weather is increasingly unpredictable – with unseasonal snowstorms when the reindeer give birth in May, and milder longer autumns. In winter temperatures used to go down to -50C. Now they are typically -30C, according to Japtik. "Obviously we prefer -30C. But the changes aren't good for the reindeer..."
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Many Russians, however, are sceptical that climate change exists. Others rationalise that it might bring benefits to one of the world's coldest countries, freeing up a melting Arctic for oil and gas exploration, and extending the country's brief growing season. Russia's scientific community seems sceptical of global warming and the Kremlin doesn't appear to regard the issue as a major domestic problem; public awareness of climate change in Russia is lower than in any other European country.

However, even Russians working in the Arctic are unconvinced that their country faces a serious climate-change problem. "It's rubbish. It's invented. People who spend too long sitting at home have made up climate change," Alexander Chikmaryov, who runs a remote weather station on the Yamal peninsula, said, standing in his dilapidated station strewn with rusting engine parts and a broken-down wind turbine.
The weather here is, not surprisingly, bitterly cold; the sea freezes nine months of the year. The word Yamal means "end of the world" in Nenets language, and in Marresale you see why.