AP Analysis Overlooks Scientific Implications of Climategate
It is circular reasoning to appeal to a consensus that was shaped by scientists conspiring to eliminate all opposition. These scientists, though relatively few in number, wielded a disproportionate influence on the scientific community. Moreover, from the private emails it is evident that they were less confident about their own conclusions than they appeared to be in public discourse.YouTube - Sen. Barbara Boxer condemns JunkScience.com's 'Carbon Criminal' posters
Sen. Barbara Boxer condemns JunkScience.com's 'Carbon Criminal' posters that depict USCAP company CEOs trying to profiteer from cap-and-trade.Global warming--a climate scientist responds to how 'warmists' should speak to 'skeptics'
Bart Verheggen is a Dutch climate scientist who specializes in aerosols...Skeptic's Corner: "Notable Quotes"
[John Nielsen-Gammon] "To recap, the available evidence indicates that the IPCC authors of this section relied upon a secondhand, unreferreed source which turned out to be unreliable, and failed to identify this source. As a result, the IPCC has predicted the likely loss of most or all of Himalaya's glaciers by 2035 with apparently no peer-reviewed scientific studies to justify such a prediction and at least one scientific study (Kotlyakov) saying that such a disappearance is too fast by a factor of ten! "Countering Sen. Kerry’s Catastrophic Climate Claims (Part 1 of 2) — MasterResource
Editor note: On November 10, 2009 Mr. Green testifedbefore the Senate Committee on Finance about global warming. During the course of his testimony, an obviously agitated Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) challenged Ken on different aspects of the climate debate. His responses are printed here. [Part II of this series is tomorrow.]Unbearable Global Warming Hype Threatens the North Pole at Christmas « Watts Up With That?
It’s one thing when you are bombarded daily by news articles, it’s quite another when you want to buy a custom teddy bear and are treated to a video lecture on global warming. That’s why I’ll never buy anything from this company and advise my family and friends with children to avoid them also.Copenhagen: Rudd's same old story on ETS | Australian Climate Madness
www.buildabear.com – their main page below looks just like any normal toy page with a Christmas theme, but visit the games section and you enter a whole new winter wonderland.
It's as if the disaster that was Copenhagen never happened. Kevin Rudd has vowed to press on with the ETS exactly as before, same targets, same timetable, despite the fact that Copenhagen achieved virtually nothing. Finally speaking publicly for the first time since his return from No-Hopenhagen, the rhetoric is unchanged50 years of cooling predicted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Who said the science was settled?Study shows CFCs, cosmic rays major culprits for global warming - insciences
In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations.Hot under the collar in kindergarten | The Australian
Does anybody besides me think it's a bit weird to be mobilising six-year-olds on political issues?Carpetbaggers demand even more | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
These green carpetbaggers plan to be on the government teat for the rest of your life, and will always be wanting yet more of your cash.Dispatch: Great Britain’s View of the Copenhagen Outcomes » The Foundry
The narrative of Obama sweeping in and eking out good outcomes is not at all the reading here in Great Britain, where papers on both the left and the right have denounced the climate change conference as a farce that produced very little of value.[Can every location warm much faster than the average rate?] - The National Newspaper
The seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay has been increasing at three times the global average rate since 1985, putting local fish stocks under pressure, a study by a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England has found.2009: Booming elephant population wreaks havoc in Zimbabwe - The National Newspaper
The World Wide Fund for Nature and African Wildlife Foundation estimate that Zimbabwe has 110,000 elephants, above the optimum capacity of between 45,000 and 50,000. For communities living next to the wildlife reserves where the elephants are flourishing, the increased numbers are proving dangerous, destroying farmland, driving people from their homes and, at times, trampling people to death.2005: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Climate fear for African elephant
Dr Richard Leakey told BBC News global warming, combined with decreasing ranges, could make the animals extinct.[Can you really offset 144 million tons of CO2 for less than $600?] | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ
With its 14 miles of lights strung through trees, multi-color tunnels, glowing deer and special displays that include a Christmas light ship and replica lift bridge, Bentleyville's glow lifts from Duluth's harbor-front park to the freeway and hillside beyond.E.U. Blames Others for ‘Great Failure’ on Climate - NYTimes.com
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And it's not just the $4,000 electric bill. If that that electricity comes from burning coal, the process releases carbon into atmosphere, which scientists say contributes to global warming. The amount of power lighting Bentleyville would spew 144,000 thousand tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
That bothered Duluth architect Doug Zaun, a partner in Wagner and Zaun Architecture which prides itself on green design. For $576, Wagner and Zaun architecture purchased enough certified carbon credit to offset the 52,000 amps of electric power.
“It was obvious that the United States and China didn’t want more than we achieved at Copenhagen,” Mr. Carlgren said at a news conference in Brussels.CNSNews.com - Length of Congressional Bills Is A Problem for All Americans
(CNSNews.com) – More than 80 percent of Americans agree that Congress drafts lengthy, complex bills to hide spending on special interests and to prevent constituents from understanding what's in them before a vote is taken, according to a new survey.[Everybody panic!: Carbon dioxide is allegedly causing owls to turn red] - UPI.com
WACO, Texas, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Higher temperatures caused by global warming are prompting an increase in the number of red Eastern Screech Owls, a Texas biologist said.Investors.com - Obama Climate-Change Goals Hurt Recovery
President Barack Obama's weak Copenhagen accord may make it harder for Congress to pass punitive cap-and-trade legislation that requires greenhouse- gas emission cuts.Climate Feedback: Climate [junk] science '09: the highs and lows
A recent Gallup Poll showed that Americans prefer 75% to 10% not to enter into an emission-reduction scheme that doesn't include nations like China and Brazil.
5. Climategate causes more confusionCoyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wherein I Actually Agree with Dianne Feinstein
Just ahead of the December UN negotiations on a climate deal, thousands of e-mails and documents were stolen from a server at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Centre in the UK and posted on the internet. Predictably dubbed 'Climategate', the incident caused delight among climate change deniers and major embarrassment for some climate scientists — especially the centre's director, Phil Jones. The e-mails show researchers speaking privately to one another, and it's not always pretty. What the e-mails do not show, however, is a grand conspiracy to concoct global warming. Instead, they show sincere researchers struggling to do good work in a highly politicized environment — and sometimes losing their tempers.
I think that there is an important lesson here that even “clean” energy sources have environmental downsides.[Maintaining wind turbines isn't cheap]: Hoisting One for Wind Power: Climbing Crane Expected to Keep Vestas Turbines Spinning [Slide Show]: Scientific American
Blown generators, misbehaving gearboxes and damaged rotors keep turbines from maximizing the energy they draw from nature, raising the question of how to reliably maintain dozens of mammoth towers, some of which rise more than 100 meters above the ground.
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"Sometimes, even though spare parts are available to repair a turbine, it may take months to secure a crane to do the repair work," he says. Given that some of Vestas's turbines operate 70 to 105 meters above the ground, where the winds are strong, the heaviest cranes are required to do repair work. Unfortunately, such cranes are also the most difficult to move from place to place.
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Once the electricty arrives at the plugs, the CO2 has already been generated. Whether someone taps into the juice matters not a whit to how the power is generated and CO2 produced. Power generation requires levels to be maintained in order to serve the entire system. It's ignorant to think that someone is spewing CO2 when they plug into the system. The power has already been generated and the utility doesn't "crank down" the power just because they decide to use windmill power.
Lights are normally used at night when there is an EXCESS of power. That's why they promoted charging cars at night. All these "pig tail" bulbs, leds, taking phones, computers, TVs, etc. off standby do absolutely nothing to prevent CO2 from release. It's just an enviromentalist offering to Gaia to give people a feeling of "saving the earth."
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