Lawrence Solomon: The gas of life - FP Comment

Third World countries have it backwards. The West’s CO2 emissions have been increasing crop yields while helping to ease the Third World’s water shortages. Rather than plead for reparations, Third World governments should offer a paean to Providence.

The bureaucrats at Copenhagen dread high CO2 levels. The biosphere craves them. Plants evolved when CO2 levels in the atmosphere stood at a healthy 1000 parts per million, two-to-three times today’s paltry level of about 380 parts per million. Plants crave CO2 so much that commercial greenhouse operators often enrich greenhouse air with CO2 — also known as nature’s fertilizer — to levels of 1500 parts per million, or four times that of our current atmosphere.

All American Blogger » China’s Now Rethinking One Child Policy, Dedication to Environment

The communists have no idea how they are disturbing the plans of the Eco-Marxists with this thinking.

Conspiratology – The Russians are Coming « the Air Vent

The university believes it has been targeted as part of a co-ordinated campaign by climate change sceptics.

There you go folks, now I’m part of the conspiracy. Keep in mind that it doesn’t matter that we have hundreds of documents pointing out (in no uncertain terms) the globalization agenda of the UN and IPCC. You get a tinfoil hat for even thinking about that. However, receive some unintended emails and blog about it, CONSPIRACY!!

C3: Monckton Goes Ballistic On "Hitlerettes" of Environmental Group: Were They Trained By SEIU or Realclimate.org?

American leftists/liberals have a long history, and very well documented, of anti-democratic proclivities/techniques associated with fascism and other leftist totalitarianism, which has now moved to the American and European environmental movements after the crushing death of communism.

Note in contrast how a typical climate skeptic challenges authority. Pretty scary and thuggish, huh?

YouTube - Protests Heat Up in Copenhagen

Protesters from around the world marched in Copenhagen, criticizing climate talks there as a handout to industry and demanding help for poor countries and deep cuts in heat-trapping gases.

Mann: “Let’s enjoy the media fiesta… “ « Climate Audit [Welcome to our new home!]

From an email from Mann to Ammann, Rahmstorf, Briffa, Osborn and Jones on Aug 12, 2005:

Meanwhile, lets enjoy the media fiesta on …

Needless to say, the media fiesta was not at the expense of a Team member.

All American Blogger » Global Warming, Car Crashes and the Law of Unintended Consequences

…how much does it cost to have a crew and a cherry-picker go out and scrape off the ice and snow? And the cost of the crashes? And the injuries? And the lives? And what’s the carbon footprint of that big diesel and full crew of shovel-leaners?

GHCN and Adjustment Trends « Statistics and Other Things

The graph has some interesting features. First of all, there is a fairly linear trend from about 1900 to the present. The increase is about 0.25o. A second unexpected feature was the fact that there seems to be a fairly constant reduction of 0.10o C from about 1990 to 2006! The expression “hiding the decline” comes to mind and I believe this would need some sort of explanation.