I write from what I call a climate realist perspective — the emerging scientific view that on our current greenhouse gas emissions path we will will destroy the livability of the climate for 1,000 years.
Although the sun is shining, many WA grain growers are still counting the cost of a severe frost at –4oC on the night of September 22, 2008.Climate change - it's part of natural cycle
Overall financial loss to growers was around $105 million, says consultant Garren Knell of Consult-Ag.
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For the past 30 years in WA, the incidence of frost has increased.
"The science is flawed; and if the science is flawed then the whole concept of emissions trading is invalid."Polls - Farm Weekly
Prof Plimer said climates always change, always have and always will.
"Climates change in cycles and will change randomly," he said.
"Where those cycles change are based on where that solar system is in the galaxy, how our orbit wobbles, how energetic the sun is, tidal effects and extraordinary events such as massive volcano eruptions."
"What you don't see is any evidence in the past, and that is only 4567 million years, that carbon dioxide has driven climate change.
"It is the exact inverse."
Q: Should the Federal Government delay the introduction of an emissions trading system?
Yes - the economy is too vulnerable
(71.5%)
No - action on global warming is needed now
(25.2%)
Undecided
(3.3%)
Total Votes: 1001
Poll Date: 1/03/2009
We have created a system for growth that depended on our building more and more stores to sell more and more stuff made in more and more factories in China, powered by more and more coal that would cause more and more climate change but earn China more and more dollars to buy more and more U.S. T-bills so America would have more and more money to build more and more stores and sell more and more stuff that would employ more and more Chinese ...Washington Times - BURNETT: Carbon offsets scam
It is debatable whether Congress should even take up climate legislation as evidence continues to mount the climate disaster tales told by the likes of Al Gore and James Hansen are more imaginary (based on models) than real.The American Spectator : Horner : It's a duck
However, if Congress does act, it should be skeptical of the merits of carbon offset schemes. Thus far, they have proven expensive and open to fraud and abuse.
Please allow me to help. There's no need for a "Top 10 Things to Call the Global Warming Tax."
It's a global warming tax.
Because the temperature rise across the entire 20th century was trivial (just over one half of one degree), the best bet is that the rise (if any) over the 21st century will be trivial too. Warmists avoid that obvious truth by postulating various "amplifying" factors that will make the 21st century rise much greater than that seen in the 20th century. And chief nominee as an amplifying factor is cloud cover and water vapour generally. Sadly for the Warmists, evidence is accumulating that those very factors have in fact a minimizing rather than an amplifying effect. The entire edifice of Warmism is built on the sand of an unproven theory which looks like being in fact the reverse of the truthCan Minnesota trees help control climate change?
A serious carbon credit program probably won’t be as simple as getting paid to leave trees standing. Instead, experts say, forest owners will be required to show how they are managing their forest differently to capture more carbon than would have otherwise occurred. They will be paid for the difference between doing nothing and making changes.
Experts in Cloquet last week said it’s clear that any kind of carbon credits for forest storage will require verifiable action by landowners to make sure the carbon really is there and that it stays there.
So far, the cost of verifying how much carbon each plot of land can store has been more than the value of the credits. But when higher prices come, abuses are expected as unscrupulous landowners seek to cash-in.
Prime minister Gordon Brown, business secretary Peter Mandelson and energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband launched a consultation on its Low Carbon Industrial Strategy in London this morning.Twitter / Shetland Sheepdog
Mandelson marked out the growing importance of the Low Carbon sector, which currently employs 880,000 people in the UK.
“Low carbon is not a sector of our economy, it is, or will be, our whole economy, and a global market,” said Mandelson.
Freaky March snow in western WA today. Global warming is colder than I thought it would be.euPortál - President Klaus: Is Environmentalism a Bigger Threat to Humanity than Global Warming?
Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking about “saving the planet” is an effective way to show their “caring” for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality. We should keep resisting it.Toronto: Record snowfall more than doubles city budget
The city's snow removal budget topped $1 million last year, largely because of December's record-setting dump when 116 centimetres of the white stuff fell during a three-week stretch.
Those of us who were lucky enough to be asked to speak at the conference will present a wide variety of views on all things related to global warming…er…I mean climate change: the latest science, politics, economics, etc.Ten Reasons to be a Global Warming Skeptic « The Air Vent
Of course, I’m most interested in the science…and there are a number of different opinions on what controls changes in the climate system. For instance, I now believe that most of the warming in the last 100 years was due to natural cloud variations caused by the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. I will be presenting evidence for that on Tuesday morning, along with new evidence that the climate system is much less sensitive than the alarmists claim it is.
If you think global warming is a hot topic now, just wait. The regulations coming along now have a cost and scope of massive proportion. We’re looking at the undoing of the very industries which only a hundred years ago freed us from animal powered travel. I’ve thought about it and here’s ten reasons why everyone should be a skeptic.Wind Watch: Altona wind turbine collapse: photos
Less than a year old, this wind turbine in Altona, N.Y. collapsed on Friday, March 6.
Perhaps the most looming example of this misplaced trust is in the international arena of adapting to climate change. Through the auspices of the United Nations, the central governments of the world are crafting plans to manage all aspects of modern life. Nothing will be left untouched by the UN and its member states.Israpundit » Blog Archive » Americans Wake Up to Obama’s Carbon Emission Scam
We must all help educate the American public as to the fact that the “global warming” scare is exactly that: a scam with which to enrich fat-cat special interests, non-producing nonprofit groups that have to pay their staffs and directors to pretend to work, and foreign countries like China that will be happy to take our energy-intensive jobs. It differs little from the medieval scam of selling indulgences for sins, with Al Gore being the chief indulgence seller; he has made millions of dollars from “Earth in the Balance” and similar entertainment media.
There is no more alarming gap in Tory thinking than the complete vacuum that represents their energy policy. For three years they have indulged themselves making "green" noises about the need for a "low carbon economy", "smart meters", more wind turbines, without giving any indication that they have the slightest practical knowledge of where our electricity actually comes from.Carbon Cappers: Missing The Mark(ey) On Cap-and-Trade
Has anyone out there been following Europe’s troubles with cap-and-trade? And we want to follow their mistakes because we think it’s possible to make the same mistake here?Heliogenic Climate Change: Free money
One Illinois farmer found that agricultural techniques he was already using on his land qualified him to sell carbon credits on the Chicago Climate Exchange. Since he began developing his offsets projects, he’s received $4,000 from credits he’s produced.
A dire climate-change warning will be issued by the Prince of Wales when he tells the world we have "less than 100 months to act" before the damage caused by global warming becomes irreversible.Obama Car Czars To Visit Detroit To Learn About Industry
Well, thank heavens. We'd hate to have the men charged with saving our auto industry not be well prepared.FuturePundit: Global Warming Fears Translate Into Tax Increases
If the Left wants to be seen as sincere about climate change then they will support only tax revenue-neutral ways to cut CO2 emissions.ExxonMobil’s Tillerson on Renewable Energy: Realism amid Politics — MasterResource
This is very interesting. Former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond and now Tillerson have argued against investing in politically dependent renewables because they have been-there-done-that, with investor losses in the 1970s. And looking at the present and future technology of wind and solar relative to what ExxonMobil can realistically add, they are not sanguine about going forward in the same area.
How odd that, last Monday, none of our media global warming groupies should have bothered to report what was billed to be "the largest ever demonstration for civil disobedience over climate change". There was talk of hundreds of thousands of protestors converging on Washington to hear Jim Hansen, the scientist who talks of coal-fired power stations as "factories of death", call yet again for all coal plants to be closed. Perhaps the lack of coverage was due to the fact that, before Hansen arrived to address a forlorn group of several hundred hippies, Washington was blanketed in nearly a foot of snow.
To celebrate the 100th birthday of the late Dr. Roger Revelle, the oceanography institute he once directed is today presenting an award in his name to his most famous disciple – Al Gore. And, while this charlatan should never seriously be considered for any scientific tribute, the specific intent of this one makes Gore a particularly unworthy maiden recipient, and he knows it.
Question: Is global warming such a bad thing?
Answer: Not really.
Scientists are drilling beneath the Antarctic glaciers to peak at the remains of life 400 million years ago. The London Independent called it the Lost World. There’s more life in the Amazon than in the polar regions. The idea that an Ice Age is better than a warm one is so daft that only a liberal or the ill-informed would believe it, but I am being redundant.
I've never seen anything quite like this in my now 40 years in Washington. I've never seen anything like the enlistment of the mainstream media in a political crusade -- and this is a political crusade, because it's about how we should be governed and how we should live; those are the great questions of politics. It is clearly for some people a surrogate religion. It's a spiritual quest. It offers redemption. But what it also always offers, whether it is global cooling or global warming, is a rationale for the government to radically increase its supervision of our life and our choices. Whether the globe is cooling, whether it's warming, the government's going to be the winner and the governing class will be the winner.
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...In fact, the global warming "caucus," if you will, seems to me singularly toothless. They can't even get the globe to cooperate. It stubbornly refuses to warm at the moment.
I’ve been saying for years that this whole farce of AGW isn’t about climate. There’s too much evidence that any warming is a natural phenomenon and too little that humans have anything to do with it (if it’s also warming on Mars and Jupiter where there are no humans, go figure).
No, it’s about socialist meddlers who have total contempt for the private property rights of American citizens and want to disburse that property–both domestically and abroad–in ways that they in their elitist wisdom see fit.
European enthusiasm for President Barack Obama's ambitious programme of US renewal does not hide deep uncertainty over the likelihood of his delivering on measures to combat climate change.Michael Boskin: Obama's Radicalism Is Killing the Dow
As for energy policy, the president's cap-and-trade plan for CO2 would ensnare a vast network of covered sources, opening up countless opportunities for political manipulation, bureaucracy, or worse. It would likely exacerbate volatility in energy prices, as permit prices soar in booms and collapse in busts. The European emissions trading system has been a dismal failure. A direct, transparent carbon tax would be far better.Lake Superior is freezing over « Watts Up With That?
Moreover, the president's energy proposals radically underestimate the time frame for bringing alternatives plausibly to scale.
Lake Superior last froze over in 2003. It has now, again, frozen over. The frequency of freeze overs has historically been around once every 20 years. Now, in the last decade, we have seen two freeze overs.
LONDON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a national effort to create a low carbon economy, stressing that green a recovery is the very option for the economy to beat the current recession.Roger Revelle & Al Gore: Coleman's Video Report, 3/6/09
"As I look round at the challenges and opportunities of our economy today, and the tasks we face ahead, I don't think we will have the strength of recovery we need unless it is a low carbon recovery," Brown said at Friday's Low Carbon Industrial Strategy Summit in London.
So think of the irony. Today Al Gore received the first Roger Revelle award, an honor named after the man who sent Gore on his global warming campaign.
But the truth is; Revelle realized that it was a false alarm and the science was flawed before he died.
Revelle died of a heart attack in 1991.
L-orizzont of the cold weather saying that there was a 45 per cent increase in cases of hypothermia in the last two years and that the weather is resulting to be deadly amongst old people.
[Thomas Werner, CEO of SunPower] went on to say that climate had not cooperated with his enterprise either, explaining that “its hard to convince people in Germany [thus far SunPower’s biggest market] to put solar systems up when they are digging out from under a huge snow storm.”nbbusinessjournal.com - Going where climate change is taken seriously
Pertz cited some impressive metrics from Clipper before adverting to the judgment of T. Boone Pickens, who he quoted as having said “this wind stuff is dead as hell” just a few hours before. Pertz said that unfortunately, he was inclined to agree.
Atlantic Hydrogen Inc. isn't letting the economic slowdown stall plans to launch a new clean-energy technology.
After all his travelling, David Wagner, president and CEO of Atlantic Hydrogen, has a good idea of how governments are approaching programs to support carbon intensity reductions.
Company president and chief executive David Wagner is racking up air miles as he jets around the world to meet with potential customers of the CarbonSaver technology.
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After all his travelling, Wagner has a good idea of how governments are approaching programs to support carbon intensity reductions - programs that could spell success for Atlantic Hydrogen's CarbonSaver technology.
"In Europe they are taking this whole climate change issue a lot more seriously than we are in North America," he said.
Thank you for raising your voice and demanding action, stopping at nothing—not even snow or bitter cold—until you were heard. You are the leaders of the next American energy revolution, one that will protect our planet while creating green jobs to build a strong and sustainable economy.Peter Foster: Heartland is keeping the lights on
Because I was not able to speak to you on Monday due to weather flight delays, I recorded this video message to say thank you...
I'm heading to New York tomorrow (at my own expense) for a conference organized by the Heartland Institute and billed as "The world's largest-ever gathering of global warming skeptics."Where's global warming? - Jeff Jacoby - The Boston Globe
But for many people, the science of climate change is not nearly as important as the religion of climate change. When Al Gore insisted yet again at a conference last Thursday that there can be no debate about global warming, he was speaking not with the authority of a man of science, but with the closed-minded dogmatism of a religious zealot. Dogma and zealotry have their virtues, no doubt. But if we want to understand where global warming has gone, those aren't the tools we need.
A month ago, I coined the term “envoy of disappointment” to described Todd Stern, who had been chosen to become the State Department’s roving ambassador on climate change, a new position created by the Obama administration. The label reflected the reality that the U.S. will remain unwilling to put its economy at a competitive disadvantage by signing an international treaty to fight the supposed threat of climate change*, no matter what kind of “hope” and “change” Obama brings to Washington.Heliogenic Climate Change: Republicans grill Geithner
Recent evidence suggests I was right.
The harshest criticism came from Lummis (R-Wyo.), who said the administration’s energy proposals would destroy productive capacity and punish American energy producers.Climate change: Council wasting tax dollars on fear
“Cap-and trade is the biggest damage you could do to the productive capacity of this economy,” she said. “What you’re going to do is send oil and gas production overseas.
“To take something like natural gas, which is the cleanest burning hydrocarbon, and punish it, and punish the people who produce it, is the most counter-productive thing that you could do.”"
It's not necessary to conduct a study or pilot project with our tax dollars every time some eco-enthusiast dreams up another (shovel with rope handle) theory on how to save the planet. It's bad enough we have Gordon Campbell siphoning dollars out of our pockets with his carbon-tax scam.
Let's get back to work, taking care of real business, and cut spending.
Roland Seguin, Langley Township
Investigator Daniele Ramos, too, has been fascinated by reports that there is a debate. She alerts us to a simple tool she uses to analyze the debaters’ arguments. Ramos writes: “The arguments I’ve heard and read (saying there’s no global warming problem) nearly always have a very low F/R ratio. The F/R ratio - the ‘Facts-to-Rage ratio’ - was invented (I think) by the journalist Josh Marshall. As soon as I find myself in a discussion with someone whose argument has a very low F/R ratio,I relax and simply enjoy the spectacle. It does wonders for my stress level.”Lynchburg breaks 84-year cold record - News- msnbc.com
roanoke,va - Lynchburg broke an 84-year record Tuesday morning, posting the first single-digit temperature for that date since records have been kept. The low came in at 5 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Blacksburg. The previous mark was 11 degrees, set in 1925.Warning Signs: What Fresh New Horror Comes Our Way?
The Obama administration is engaging in the total politicization of science. Its views on global warming have no resemblance to published studies or even common sense. Global warming is not happening, nor does the United States have to convert to Green or “clean” energy.
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One Obama appointee after another hold views that have little relationship to reality despite their academic resumes. Steven Chu, the new Secretary of Energy, is on record saying the coal threatens the environment. Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, in the 1980s was predicting massive famines because of global warming. It’s one thing to be wrong. It’s another to be wrong and to hold a high level government position.
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Cuba has been hit by 25 cold fronts so far in the current winter season, which makes it among the most active in the country since the 1916-1917 season.Feb '09 - UN's Ban hopes Obama to star at March climate summit - Forbes.com
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is organizing a summit meeting on climate change next month where he hopes President Barack Obama will confirm a "sea change" in U.S. environment policy, diplomats said.Is this late March climate summit going to take place? If not, why?
Several national diplomats and U.N. officials said they were aware of Ban's plan to invite Obama and the leaders of up to several dozen other countries to New York in late March for what they described as a "mini summit" on climate change ahead of high-level talks on the global financial crisis in London.
I write to report on a debate that defeated the motion “This House Believes Global Warming is a Global Crisis” during a meeting of the St Andrews University Debating Society. It is difficult to arrange a debate of anthropogenic (that is, man-made) global warming (AGW) because few proponents of AGW are willing to face such debate. They know from past experience that they always lose such debates because there is no evidence that AGW exists and much evidence that it does not.Four big problems with cap-and-trade: Irwin Stelzer
The solution, of course, would be a straight-forward tax on carbon, the proceeds to be refunded through the payroll tax system. But unlike the hidden tax of cap-and-trade, a carbon tax is out there for the voters to see. And given the choice between a stealthy tax and a visible tax, politicians will pick the former every time. [Via Coyote Blog]Pajamas Media » The Incurious Case of the Carbon Alarmists
Question global warming theory by commenting on an alarmist-based site and a reply will likely direct you to the writings of blogger Coby Beck. A self-described software developer specializing in “artificial intelligence,” Mr. Beck is the author of “How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic” — a series of phenomenally popular blog posts seen as unassailable dogma among his fellow believers.
Had it been his intent, Beck could not possibly have forwarded more solid grounds for delegitimizing his movement. “Climate Skeptic” is a mash of remarkably cursory, blinkered responses, leaving unanswered questions readily apparent to the cold, scientific observer. Yet Beck’s charges seem quite willing to battle with his tinfoil-and-cardboard, Hanukkah-play weaponry, swinging madly and wondering why the supposed faith-based and unenlightened are so slow to die or convert.
Those who talk about global warming take a very superficial view of earth’s energy system. Even many who call themselves scientists seem to think earth is a simple system of solar radiation in, heating of earth's matter and radiation out. They believe that earth must radiate as much energy out as it absorbs or it will become hotter. They ignore the role of the biosphere and the complex energy role of water. Earth would be uninhabitable if it didn't convert much of the solar radiation it receives into other forms of energy besides heat.
"We fully support Dot Eco in its efforts to secure the .eco top level domain through the ICANN application and look forward to working with them to promote .eco," said Mr Gore.Bay Area's 'Big Three' mayors sign climate change pact - San Jose Mercury News
The firm said proceeds from the registration would be used to fund research on climate change and other environmental issues.
"If we're going to do electric vehicles in San Francisco, we've got to make sure that if someone drives south, they can actually get back north," Newsom said, "and the only way they're going to do that is if they have a recharging station."In three years, how many electric cars will be commuting between San Francisco and San Jose?: the distance between san francisco and san jose - Yahoo! Answers
45 miles is about right, and you can drive it in under an hour if theres no traffic. you can take caltrain too, it drops you off near AT&T (SBC) Park in SF and near Downtown in SJ. If you take a "baby bullet" train it takes just under an hour.
As many of you know, I recently threw my substantial weight behind the .eco domain extension. .eco is a key development in the fight against climate change.Rudd’s audience grows restless | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The .eco domain extension gives individuals, businesses and organizations concerned about global warming and environmental issues the ability to show off their green philosophy. When you visit a website with the .eco extension, you can be sure that the website is carbon-neutral.
O’BRIEN: Very briefly, Ross Garnaut, the architect of your plan to reduce carbon emissions and tackle climate change, said in a speech last night that the economic crisis gives you some breathing space in mitigating climate change, perhaps two or three years. Given the enormous pressures on business right now for at least the next year or two, given your desire that you express all the time to protect jobs in this crisis as much as possible, hasn’t Professor Garnaut given you the opportunity to now delay and to justify delaying your Emissions Trading Scheme by a year or even two?…Green for get physical | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
O’BRIEN: But the whole economic landscape has changed massively and you are saying on the one hand you’re in the game right now to protect jobs, to save jobs. On the other hand you’re being told by business jobs are going to haemorrhage; jobs are going to bleed if you persist in introducing your ETS scheme in 2010.
Why is it that whenever you hear of a politician being physically attacked by a protester, you immediately conclude: almost certainly of the Left, and probably a green?Mad not to believe in the Apocalypse | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
On the face of it, who really sounds mad: Ethical Man or those who doubt him?
Governor David A. Paterson of New York is thinking of giving the utility industry more free allowances to pollute under the Northeast carbon-trading system, as my colleague Danny Hakim reports today.More Doubts on “Green Jobs” — MasterResource
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Carbon traders worry that a move by New York could undermine confidence in the fledgling carbon-trading market.
The carbon-trading plan “has struggled with credibility from day one given the starting overallocation of emissions allowances,” Alex Rau, of the carbon trading firm Climate Wedge, said in an e-mail message, “and behavior from the regulators like this will only undermine what little confidence there has been in the market.”
According to the politician’s logic, if the government required that all buildings be outfitted with polka dot wallpaper, it would stimulate the economy.Wind Watch: Wind turbine collapses in Altona
It can take weeks to construct and energize a single turbine, which at full height stands about 392 feet tall.Wind Watch: Blades as fast as a guillotine
What is hard to comprehend is that at 20 rotations per minute, the tip speed of the blades for the three turbines works out to 180 mph, 215 mph and 222 miles per hour. The speed and power of these blades is what amputates the wings and heads off flying eagles. From miles away the blades look rather slow, but up close these huge blades move faster than a guillotine.Wind Watch: Wind farms are not 'farms'
There is an awfully big push these days to have farms turned into wind factories, to take agricultural land and turn it into an industrial wind turbine complex, complete with all the infrastructure of access roads, poles and wires. This is NOT farming. This is not even remotely similar to farming even though many still like to call a gaggle of 400-foot wind turbines a wind ‘farm’.
They are nothing more than an industrial use of agricultural landscape.
Gregg’s reaction could signal a broad, if quiet, Republican retreat from the cap and trade concept. Less than a year ago Gregg backed the cap and trade concept...Aging Satellites Threaten Climate Research Future : NPR
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Obama’s plan also failed to get any support from Corker of Tennessee, another Republican who previously expressed support for the cap and trade concept.
Wielicki says NOAA's top priorities have been fisheries and weather. NASA has focused on putting people in space and doing space science, not earth science.The Reference Frame: Klaus: Notes from a U.S. trip
"So you end up with two agencies, who are the primary climate agencies, having climate as the third priority," Wielicki says. "So how are you going to get climate done? And the answer is, you're not."
Despite the long hours, one can't see much from the window. There is only one dominant thing that is so huge that it cannot be overlooked. It is nothing else than Greenland, a "green land" which is however, even in the era of the purported global warming, an empty white wasteland of ice and snow. That's a different situation than in the Medieval Warm Period, between the 10th and 14th century, when agricultural soil was being tilled at many places of the island. In those old times, people were not emitting much CO2 into the air. One could dare to think that other factors than CO2 were influencing the global temperature. But I am going to attend a global warming conference, so I should perhaps avoid blasphemies in advance.
The means by which this “initiative” was carried out is then made clear by a plethora of clips from Fox’s most popular shows - the Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Prison Break - which are all loaded with messages about global warming and the need to do something about it.Horn Group, Inc. > Blog > Maybe Global Warming is the Wrong Argument (keep reading)
“What could we do on a practical level to start making a difference,” asks one executive before another answers, “The biggest thing we’ve done is inserting messages about the environment into some of our content.”
I think it would surprise most people that I, as an environmentalist and ‘Green PR’ professional, think Global Warming is a tired subject and usually respond to the argument with “who cares?”...My position is that in order to spark change and policy we need to bePaging Al Gore - WHITMAN COUNTY (WA), Part of the Red County Network
talking less about global warming and more about issues that are less debatable and strike people on a more personal level.
Pullman has set a new record low temperature of 9F, shattering the previous record of 12F.
Al Gore and his mad scientist sidekick James Hansen would condescendingly explain to us that it's the weather masking the climate. So stop being greedy and turn off your evil, CO2 producing heat, it really is too warm underneath all this cold.
The company, based in New York, owned a biomass fuel plant in Carthage,Fred Singer, Investor's Business Daily -- Anti-CO2 Campaign Like An Atom Bomb On U.S. Economy
Missouri, that used turkey waste as a feedstock. The company filed for
bankruptcy on Wednesday...It is becoming more and more obvious that not all green things are really green.
The CO2 wars have begun. Presumably following White House directions, the EPA is ready to issue an "Endangerment Finding" on carbon dioxide, paving the way for regulations to control CO2 emissions. But with over one million "major stationary sources," a full-blown application of the Clean Air Act would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb directed at the US economy — all without any scientific justification. Hence there is speculation that the White House strategy is to use the threat of EPA regulation to force Congress to take action.Let’s Give The Kids A Break « Piece Of Mind
After watching the film, each of the classes I showed it to had a short discussion. The classes were essentially evenly divided on the issue of Global Warming - but there was not a single student who thought the film was any good. They were smart enough to see that scary music combined with a healthy dose of being talked down to by holier-than-thou liberal activists does not constitute a convincing film.
These words essentially mark the end of the climate change issue, because there are no actual facts that support the premise and “the free and open inquiry” that had been denied to all the top level scientists attempting to get the facts to the public should see the truth flood the press.Australia: Coldest March night in 31 years « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze
Perisher, NSW recorded a low of -7 degrees, that’s 10 below average and their coldest March night in at least 31 years.Green Energy Police « Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind Farms
Editor: If this does not wake you up to the scam that is the Green Energy Act of Ontario nothing will. The freedom you used to enjoy in your own home is about to be removed under the guise of saving the environment.
This is probably the first time in several years where Al Gore has inserted himself in a situation where he is confronted by people who don’t really agree with him.House Bill for a Carbon Tax to Cut Emissions Faces a Steep Climb - NYTimes.com
Many economists and academics, as well as a handful of Mr. Larson’s colleagues on both sides of the aisle and perhaps a few White House officials, if secretly, agree that a carbon tax is a simpler and more effective means of tackling global warming than the complex cap-and-trade scheme embraced by the Obama administration and most Democratic leaders in Congress.Roger Revelle & Al Gore: Coleman's Video Report
This video will explain the connection between Roger Revelle and the Global Warming campaign, and how Revelle changed his mind before he died.
The multiple episodes of applause from the crowd during his conversation suggested that many ECO:nomics attendees also shared his views.Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Revenue Rumble: Following the Money in the Climate Change Debate
But the debate over the cap-and-trade bill, at least at the WSJ’s ECO:nomics conference in California, is all about following the money. Specifically, is slapping a price on carbon emissions to raise government revenue, as outlined in the Obama budget, a redistribution of wealth?
Of course it is, says Jason Grumet, an energy adviser to the Obama campaign and the president of the Bipartisan Policy Center.
“The question is, is it a good or bad redistribution?,” Mr. Grumet said. “The free market should rationalize [the external costs associated with dirty energy sources.] We tax the things we don’t like, like carbon, and we lower taxes on things we do like, like labor.” That leads to greater economic growth in the end, he says.
We’ve seen a fair amount of commentary over my recent CNN appearance, which makes my point exactly: the debate over the science of climate change is keeping us from moving on this issue.Wind Watch: Ontario’s war on carbon
Who’s pushing for all this? Not the people. The major backers of green power tax-and-grab regimes are hundreds of businesses that stand to collect billions in subsidies and tax benefits from solar, wind and other alternative energy forms.
In other words, if 100% of the permits were auctioned off, the left would have almost another trillion dollars to spend on new social programs.AEI - Short Publications - Indirect Energy and Your Wallet
In this Outlook, we will further explore Americans' use of indirect energy--this time by examining how much money an average household spends on indirect energy and what options Americans have to reduce that spending. This will be particularly relevant as Congress considers putting a tax on carbon emissions, either directly or through a carbon-emission trading system, in coming years.
But seriously, who are these people and should we rely on their views?Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. » New Report On The Lack Of Recent Global Warming
Finally, if the global heating continues to remain suspended (for whatever reason) in the coming years, it will seriously damage the credibility of the climate science community as represented by IPCC and CCSP assessments.Morano to Depart Senate! - Inhofe aide to launch new platform for skeptics | CO2sceptics
I will miss working up here, but a great opportunity has arisen! As I told the reporter, (which was not included in story below) it has been an honor working with Senator Inhofe the past three years. “Senator Inhofe has courageously stood alone to face the onslaught of Gore, the UN and media driven climate fears. As one of the more than 650 international dissenting scientists noted recently, Senator Inhofe will be recognized as nothing short of Churchillian in his efforts to combat unfounded man-made global warming fears,”
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography is awarding its first-even Roger Revelle Prize to former Vice President Al Gore.Greenpeace co-founder: 'Don't feel guilty: Use soft toilet paper on your derriere'
Arguments about 'virgin fibre' nonsense, environmentalist saysJohn Kerry: CO2 regulation won’t work « Green Hell Blog
Senate Foreign Relations committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry — a.k.a Mr. Teresa Heinz — said in a March 5 speech yesterday that, even with “the best” climate regulation proposed so far, including the cap-and-trade scheme outlined in President Obama’s budget proposal, atmospheric CO2 concentrations will nevertheless increase and cause “catastrophic and irreversible climate change,” according to Carbon Control News.
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“All the current plans take you to about 550 [ppm], but science has now said 550, 450 is not enough,” Kerry said. “We have to go back to 350.”
BRUSSELS, March 5 (Reuters) - Industry should be the main source of money for a climate fund to coax the world's poorest nations into a global deal to tackle climate change in December, a draft report for a European finance ministers meeting said.Michael Moore weighs in
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The European Union has shied away from naming how much it might contribute to poor nations, but EU reports say global investment to fight climate change will need to rise to around 175 billion euros ($220 billion) a year by 2020.
That's the difference -- The American people agree with me, not Rush.Oct '08: 18%
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They want tougher environmental laws and believe that global warming is real, not a myth.
The study — the American Climate Values Survey (ACVS), conducted by the consulting group EcoAmerica — also found that only 18 percent of survey respondents strongly believe that climate change is real, human-caused and harmful. It also found that political party affiliation is the single largest indicator as to whether people see climate change as a threat.
Robin Williams: We are beyond global warming, at this point it is Cooking" 21:36Search the Latest Job Postings on Cool Climate Jobs
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the global conservation organization, seeks a Director to lead its climate change programs engagement with business and industry in support of policy objectives such as green stimulus, clean energy, US climate legislation, and US participation in a global climate deal.Twitter / GMRobertson
global warming suited un-tenured failed ronin scientist as fuzzy and qualitative - "madoff" science to con grant bucksThe Obama administration: It's all about the climate hoax
When I spoke to John Podesta, the man who headed President Obama's transition, he described climate issues as "at the heart of having the US be at the front and project a wholly different face to the world."
That became clear last month when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton undertook her first diplomatic mission abroad. Climate change was her primary issue as she travelled through Asia. She raised it at every stop along the way: Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and China.
The sense of urgency was evident.
"What we hope is that you won't make the same mistakes we made," Secretary of State Clinton said in China, "because I don't think China or the world can afford that."
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has had green custard thrown over him by a protester as he arrived at the launch of a low-carbon summit in London.Kimberley Strassel Says the Climate Change Lobby Is Beginning to Realize That Cap and Trade Is a Tax - WSJ.com
The protester, Leila Deen, is a member of the Plane Stupid group campaigning against a third runway at Heathrow.
The move was a "last resort" after the democratic process failed, she said.
Cap and trade is going to cost them.Gaming climate change | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times
Candyland, Scrabble and ... Climate Change?
The Climate Change Game, a one-or-two-person computer game, starts you out as leader of a country on a quest for reelection. Win by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to Kyoto Protocol-required levels, maintaining the Earth's temperature and using energy efficiently. In short: solve problems caused by climate change, and snag reelection votes.
A story-behind-the-story: I first discovered Grandia’s acumen when I stumbled on coal-is-clean.com, which sure looked like a pro-coal outpost with its slick graphics, patriotic headlines ( “Clean coal powers America’s greatness”) and scientific claims (“Scientist: Coal is just a diamond in the rough”).Al Gore promotes the greatest scientific scam of all time at ECO:nomics summit
However, click on any link and you’re redirected to coal-is-dirty.com, with the latest news from the anti-clean coal crusade. I wondered who’s behind this anti-industry psy-war, and a quick search of networksolutions.com yielded the answer: Grandia, who blogs from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Al Gore's response: "I don't want to be rude to you...but these numbers have been debunked numerous times." Essentially, to paraphrase, he said it wouldn't be worth anyone's time to enter a debate in which hypothetical economic projections are pitted against solid, real facts. Gore cited a few examples.
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A few examples Gore provided -- 1 foot of sea level rise displaces 1 million people with current models showing 20 feet or more of sea rise. Then there is the big "methane monster" lurking beneath the permafrost in Greenland which could release in just a few short years a giant packet of greenhouse gases equal to the amount of all the CO2 released to date. Even subtle shifts in climate effect the breeding cycles of insects and birds (which eat the insects) leading to a shift in populations of malarial mosquitos and bacteria-toting ticks. And then there is the threat to pollinator insects like bees, without whom our entire food chain could well collapse.
But Gore did end on a positive note and in fact a place of agreement with his nemesis Lomborg. R & D is key. Al Gore believes that we do have the technology we need right now to be fossil-free by 2020.
So there you have it. The last, best hope for affordable electricity killed. No nuclear and, of course, no new coal plants.Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree — Climate Resistance
This weekend, the University of the West of England’s Centre for Psycho-Social Studies is holding a conference on ‘The Psychological and Political Challenge of Facing Climate Change’...Democrats Want To Bring Scientists Back Into Environmental Policy Debate | Political Hotsheet - CBS News
America's policy decisions about global warming and its impact on endangered species could once again be influenced by the scientists and researchers who understand the issue best, as President Obama considers wiping out Bush administration rules that excluded such experts from the process, reports the Associated Press.
Global warming used to be such fun for eco-activists and their political allies when it was a stick they could use to beat George W. Bush. For years, the Left milked global warming as a political-theater platform for partisan attack, direct-mail fundraising, and endless moral posturing. But now that they’re running the show in Washington, D.C., climate doomsters know they’ll be blamed if their policies de-stimulate our ailing economy. On two key battlefronts, these vociferous advocates of urgent action are now proceeding with caution.Climate change forecasts are useless for policymaking | By Kesten Green, J. Scott Armstrong, and Willie Soon
The models employed by James Hansen and the IPCC are not based on scientific forecasting principles. There is no empirical evidence that they provide long-term forecasts that are as accurate as forecasting that global average temperatures won’t change. Hansen’s, and the IPCC’s, forecasts, and the recommendations based on them, should be ignored.Israpundit » Blog Archive » U.S. Climate Action Partnership: By Their Works Shall Ye Know Them
It would be irresponsible and immoral of policymakers to impose the heavy burden of costly anti carbon-based-energy policies, in the absence of any credible evidence that those burdens will result in net benefits to man, beast or tree.
The U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) supports the imposition of greenhouse gas regulations, largely for self-serving reasons. General Electric, for example, cannot apparently manufacture cost-effective wind turbines and solar power generation systems, so it needs government mandates to force customers to buy them. Lehman Brothers meanwhile wanted to speculate in carbon emission credits, i.e. act as a non-value-adding middleman that profits from the exchange of the modern equivalent of medieval indulgences. It is no surprise that a company whose management cannot deliver anything of genuine value to society is no longer in business. Government welfare client AIG also was a USCAP member, and our opinion is that its membership in USCAP says a lot about the way it was managed.
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Finally, there’s General Electric, whose CEO Jeffrey Immelt these days spends as much time in Washington as Connecticut. GE makes all the solar equipment and wind turbines (at $2 million a pop) that utilities would have to buy under a climate regime. GE’s revenue from environmental products long ago passed the $10 billion mark, and it doesn’t take much “ecomagination” to see why Mr. Immelt is leading the pack of climate profiteers.
General Electric was once an innovative and productive company that relied on good engineering to sell its products. Its declining fortunes and revenues probably have something to do with its new business model that relies on government mandates to compel businesses to buy its products. As Aesop told us long ago, birds of a feather flock together, and the U.S. Climate Action Partnership is not the kind of company in which we would want any corporation that we owned to be seen.
Despite the ‘consensus’ of scientists that we are told agree that global warming is a fact, I observed more snow on the mountains, the glaciers had seemingly grown in size, and the climate
had become noticeably cooler. The locals—virtually all of them farmers—confirmed this.
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The consensus over climate change is largely based on suspect computer models that cannot predict the weather a week into the future let alone the state of the world’s climate decades from now. Much of the science is junk science and almost all of the data is subject to interpretation by humans many of which have their own ideologically driven agendas. This has been used to rally support from celebrities who along with the government are only too willing to help support the funding of pet research projects. There’s a religious, cult-like component requiring belief in “Gaia” or “Mother Earth” embraced by global warming proponent and billionaire Sir Richard Branson and movie director M. Night Shyamalan among others. And a complicit and largely science-challenged gaggle of mainstream journalists is all-too willing to cooperate in the cause-celebre.
His presentation opened with some of the Pickens ads, extolling the virutes of wind farms to boost U.S. energy security. As the lights went up, Mr. Pickens stared out at the audience and said in his Oklahoma twang, “I couldn’t believe this 80-year-old man was the only person in America with an energy plan.”1. If Pickens is the only person in America with an energy plan, what has the Department of Energy been doing for the last 32 years?
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“We’re in a game where we have no cards,” Mr. Pickens said. “If you’re in a game with no cards, get out of the game.” If the tables were turned–if the U.S. had abundant supplies of dirty oil–Mr. Pickens said he’d prefer burning American oil to using imported natural gas.
During the Carter administration, the Department of Energy was established in 1977 for the purpose—we were told—of reducing our dependence on foreign oil. Thirty-one years later the budget for DOE is $24.2 billion a year. It has 16,000 employees and some 100,000 contract employees. Are we energy independent yet?2. When Pickens says we have "no" cards, is he suggesting that America has "no" coal or oil resources?
* Two consecutive critics of Gore's priority on reducing carbon dioxide emissions brought out his passionate side. To one he said, "Climate comes first. Health depends on stable microbial populations and climate change disrupts this. Ticks come to Canada when you have global warming. When a man asked, "What do we get from controlling CO2?" Gore said, "We get to save human civilization as we know it, and the conditions for life on the planet. How is that?"Twitter / alansmurray
* When the second question brought another attack on CO2 as a top priority, Gore said that the "approach is misleading. It's not either or. There is an 80 percent chance that north polar icecap will be gone during the summer within five years. Do we want to explain that to our kids?"
# Al Gore says we should be "spanked" for inviting Bjorn Lomborg and Vaclav Klaus to ECO.....about 1 hour ago from txt
# Boone Pickens: "Whatever we do, it beats the hell out buying oil from the Middle East."about 6 hours ago from txt
# Will we build more nuclear power plants in this country in next 20 years? 67 percent of ECO:nomics crowd says "yes."about 7 hours ago from txt
# Michael Morris, CEO of coal burning AEP, retorts to my colleague Jeff Ball: "Last person who called me an obsolete behemoth was Jeff Skilling." Ha! ...about 7 hours ago from txt
# After listening to Bjorn Lomborg, ECO crowd rated cheap education, fighting tuberculosis and energy r&d as priorities over cutting C02 e
The Ministry for the Environment has received 655 submissions about Mighty River Power's proposal, which Minister Nick Smith called-in to a board of inquiry late last year.Twitter / david_h_roberts at WSJ ECO:nomics
Of those, 66 per cent opposed the wind farm, while only 20 per cent supported it.
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But the project's environmental benefits influenced those in support.
Michele Theobold only used two words "climate change".
# #eco:nomics Prediction: Gore's refusal to debate Lomborg will cause a torrent of ridiculous triumphalism on right-wing blogs.about 2 hours ago from web
# #eco:nomics Gore answers T.Boone: We are close to a political tipping point. (Much like he answered this question, um, two years ago.)about 3 hours ago from web
# #eco:nomics T.Boone asks Gore: when do we stop talking about this at conferences and start doing something?!about 3 hours ago from web
# #eco:nomics Gore answers Lomborg: um ... I want to be polite to you ... the scientific community has found your approach highly misleading about 3 hours ago from web
# #eco:nomics Lomborg asks Gore question! "Why won't you engage in this debate with me?!" Call the waaahmbulance.about 3 hours ago from web
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# #eco:nomics Oh lord, they've planted a crank climate skeptic [Willie Soon?] in the audience. Gore just totally dismisses him. Embarrassing for the WSJ.about 3 hours ago from web
# #eco:nomics Gore is putting the smack down on Lomborg. Points out that climate crisis *increases* other health problems. (etc.)
Apparently Henry Waxman (D-CA) has sold both Harry Reid (D-NV) and the White House on the strategy of having a mega-bill that combines climate and energy legislation. This post explains why I believe that is both a tactical and strategic mistake.Investor's Business Daily -- Geithner's Gas
Economy: We had high hopes that President Obama's Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, would bring common sense and Wall Street wisdom to that tough job. So far, however, that hasn't been the case.Investor's Business Daily -- Capping Economic Growth
Fiscal Policy: President Obama sends his emissaries to Congress to explain why an economy-killing tax on energy — a tax all Americans will pay in all aspects of their lives — is necessary to save the Earth.
...he was challenged by Mr. Lomborg, the Danish skeptical environmentalist who thinks the world would be better off spending more money on health and education issues than curbing carbon emissions.
“I don’t mean to corner you, or maybe I do mean to corner you, but would you be willing to have a debate with me on that point?” asked the polo-shirt wearing Dane.
“I want to be polite to you,” Mr. Gore responded. But, no. “The scientific community has gone through this chapter and verse. We have long since passed the time when we should pretend this is a ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’ issue,” he said. “It’s not a matter of theory or conjecture, for goodness sake,” he added.
As an example, he pointed to a new addition to the budget for the island nation of the Maldives: “Funds to buy a new nation.”
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Its “kind of silly” to keep debating the science, Mr. Gore said (AP)
Yesterday, the new Treasury Secretary further shaped government policy based upon the farce of man-made global warming, attacking the American oil and natural gas industry and arguing that domestic producers should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks -- because such businesses and operations contribute to "climate change."UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, climate cult member
Amongst Brown’s message for Congress were three important passages on oil and climate. The first was a general concept of a “planet imperilled. “Past British prime ministers have travelled to this Capitol building in times of war to talk of war,” said Brown. “I come now to talk of new and different battles we must fight together; to speak of a global economy in crisis and a planet imperilled.”Alarmist Executive Director of the Sierra Club Carl Pope misrepresents climate realists
Washington, DC -- As the Obama administration begins moving America forward, the screams of anguish from its opponents are becoming a tad hysterical. There was George Will's stunningly inaccurate attack on Energy Secretary Steve Chu, in which Will claimed that Chu, who has a Nobel Prize (something that Will, so far as I know, has yet to earn), was misrepresenting climate science by saying that global warming could melt most of California's icepack. Will's flat-earth argument -- there hasn't been any global warming!
When thousands of student climate activists came to Washington to push for adoption of President Obama's call for doing something -- now -- about climate change, Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe and Fox News both claimed that the big snowstorm that arrived at the same time was proof that global warming was a hoax.
I’ve been quite surprised at the number of very strange things Treasury Secretary Geithner has said recently. You get a distinct sense that the man either isn’t doing his own thinking, or else he’s not strong enough to resist being told what to say by the White House.BO’s war on the economy | BitsBlog
The latest one was yesterday in the Senate Finance Committee. He said, get this, “We don’t believe it makes sense to significantly subsidize the use and production of energy sources” that contribute to global warming.
What’s a significant subsidy? Apparently that means being allowed to produce oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico...
As the economy and the markets continue to tank, the question become is the Obama administration just plain inept or purely evil. The evidence suggests the latter. The five dumbest word in a soft economy may well be “Cap and Trade,” and “”carbon tax.” The Obama administration is at least smart enough to recognizes Cap and Trade will drive energy costs, and the cost of living, through the roof.
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Anthropogenic global warming is a hoax and a fraud. The Obama administration is intent on wrecking the economy to solve a problem that is the produce of Algore’s fervid imagination.
When the “proof” of a scientific conclusion is the grounds for the personal profit of billions and maybe trillions of dollars before it’s all said and done, too much is at stake to allow for any dissenting voices. This is corruption at its worst.Pelosi’s Big Bad Energy Idea » The Foundry
Instead of a bunch of small, bad energy bills, why not have one, large bad energy bill? That seems to be the sentiment coming from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Cap-and-trade. A National Renewable Portfolio Standard. A New Smart Grid. Throw it all in there.Heliogenic Climate Change: Alternative energy sector wants massive subsidies from your tax dollars
In a separate study, New Energy Finance estimated the clean energy sector required $500 billion investment annually by 2020 to avert more dangerous climate change, versus an expected $350 billion under current trends...
For the record, contrary to what some may have concluded, GORE LIED does not hate Al Gore. We believe that Al Gore has lied about anthropogenic global warming, and that his “solutions” are nothing but a grab for money and power, but we do not hate Al Gore.Senate leader offers plan for `green' power grid
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate's top Democrat is proposing special power lines to carry renewable energy—like solar and wind power—from remote places.A Symptom of the Disease — The New Clarion
The Federal government would be able override states and direct where the lines would go and who would pay for them.
There are way too many Toyota Prius hybrids sitting on his car lots across America.
They stretch “as far as the eye can see,” Jackson remarked at The Wall Street’s Journal ECO: nomics conference. He estimated he had some 600,000 hybrid cars “that no one wants."
# Gore takes a question from Bjorn Lomborg. Asks Gore to debate. Gore: "tobacco industry wanted to divert people as well" "debate is over."26 minutes ago from TwitterFon
# Gore takes a question from Willie Soon. First he calls him "one of the deniers" and then dismissed the question. 30 minutes ago from TwitterFon
# Still more Gore: "I don't want to get into a debate," "most problems in the world cannot be solved without addressing the climate crisis."36 minutes ago from TwitterFon
# More Gore: "I favor both cap and trade and carbon tax," "a 96 mile square in AZ desert can power America if only we build the smart grid.
Obama's OK, however, because he's asking for it (double entendre intended...careful what you wish for) if not pushing for it quite so hard as was demanded of Bush. So, sit back and enjoy the next, oh, 14 months, through the June 2010 meetings in Bonn, as Obama is given a pass on a new treaty. Depending on how much of a spine EU industry finds, that may be time enough for everyone to agree to a graceful way out of this embarrassing panic. If not, however, either the "international community" will turn on Obama for failing to push the U.S. into the Kyoto swamp, or the American public will, for having done so.Liberally Conservative » Blog Archive » Global Warming’s “Speed Bump” - Did GW Every Really Exist?
You see, these people want their government grant money so they discuss fluctuations in the climate and “spewing greenhouse gases” that is providing an “explosive warning.” These folks don’t want discussion of global warming to go away and they do want any discussion of global cooling to leave along with the skeptics.The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog, Horner : Outrage to follow
Barack Hussein Obama and his “climate czar” will provide the money to bring us windmills and bubble cars in their effort to solve something they are clueless about.
....we know the greens and their media pals won't get too worked up about this, given that it wasn't really all that important to begin with. I mean, they hardly threw garlands at the guy.
One other explanation could be a raging double-standard, like that applied when, say, neither the Clinton-Gore nor Bush administrations asked the Senate to ratify the signed Kyoto Protocol (there is nothing in the Constitution or statute requiring such a request, by the way, but it is of course that gesture/matter of protocol on which the greens fixated at least when it came to one of those fellows, so we shall here, too). One was deeply caring and responsible and the other burned in effigy.
Many members of the community are making their voices heard that the confidence with which Dessler and Sherwood spoke of concerning the strength of the water vapor feedback is not mutually shared.Prometheus » Blog Archive » Obama Administration Breaks with IPCC, Focuses on Art of the Possible
Another attempt to paint the “science as being settled” is being strongly rebutted by working scientists.
...in rejecting a 25-40% emissions reduction by 2020 target as unnecessary and unachievable Stern is openly departing from the both the conclusions and implications that many have taken from the 2007 IPCC report, including its head, Rajendra Pachauri... What will the Obama Administration do if it learns that a 15% reduction by 2020 is not possible or feasible?
Many argue that the PRC will make sharp cuts in carbon emissions but only if the U.S. does so first.[2] This claim borders on nonsense.Letters to the editor -- Garrett County, Maryland
County commissioner Fred Holliday recently gave a presentation to the Maryland Association of Counties about the benefits of wind projects, extending his role both as a shill for one of the dumbest energy ideas imaginable and as a business partner with perhaps the most craven, exploitative limited liability companies around. Even county commissioners are entitled to their opinions, pretending to know what they do not. But elected officials are supposed to make public policy based on factual information, not the ballyhoo of corporate propaganda.Wind Watch: Supervisors ask for $1.5 million in stimulus money to pay for wind energy consultants
...supervisor David Blanchard suggested the county ask for $1.5 million in stimulus package money to pay for consultants who could assist.
The Canada Life CN Tower Stair Climb for WWFMcLean VA Rotary Presents Global Warming Talk by John Theon (one of Hansen's former supervisors)
The CN Tower proudly hosts this 19th annual stair climb to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund to support the fight against climate change. This popular annual fundraising event draws thousands of people who want to climb the 1,776 stairs of Canada ’s National Tower and contribute to a very worthy cause. For more information about registering contact the World Wildlife Fund at www.wwf.ca/cntower.
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April 16, 2009 to April 18, 2009
At the weekly Tuesday meeting of the McLean Rotary Club, guest speaker John Theon will lead a discussion on global warming titled, "Is Global Climate Change Man Made?" Theon is a retired NASA atmospheric scientist who recently declared himself a global warming skeptic.de Boer on Copenhagen: Transcript: 03/05/2009
Monica Trauzzi: So, we don't necessarily need to have something signed?
Yvo de Boer: Well, I think we need to get something signed and agreed, but I think it will be very difficult to get every final, small detail of a whole new treaty done.
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Monica Trauzzi: We'll need 67 votes in the Senate though in order to ratify the next global climate treaty. Looking at the makeup of the Senate right now, that seems like a long shot. It could be very difficult to get those votes. Is President Obama making promises that he can't necessarily keep at this point?
Yvo de Boer: Well, I don't think he's made any promises at this point except that he wants to engage and he wants to work towards the results. But I think the proof of the pudding is in what do we come back with some Copenhagen? Kyoto was rejected mainly for two reasons. It was rejected because it did not involve action on the part of major developing countries and it failed because it was felt that Kyoto would be harmful to the U.S. economy. So I think, for a start, those would be two points of attention in the negotiations as they move forward that would give whatever comes out a much better chance of making it.
If relative humidity remains constant, CO2 induced warming would cause increasing specific humidity and a strong positive feedback. But if relative humidity is actually falling (due to water vapour being displaced by CO2 as per Miskolczi) then water vapour may cause a negative feedback. The specific humidity has declined dramatically in 2008 at ALL levels in the troposphere.It’s the Sun, Stupid! « An Honest Climate Debate
Bill Clinton used to sum up politics by saying, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Now we can fairly sum up climate change by saying, “It’s the Sun, stupid!”Scoop: Radio Adelaide: NZAID Cuts + Climate Change Myths!
Willie Soon is a solar and climate scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. This is his personal opinion based upon 18 years of scientific research
Prime Minister John Key has reportedly said he believes climate change is possibly a myth, leading to Greenpeace refusing to attend the Parliamentary climate change committee.
In the end, Mr. Lomborg did take a glancing shot at Mr. Gore, who will speak later Thursday at the same event. Climate change is an emotional issue “that politicians can cash in on,” Mr. Lomborg said. “They can make all the promises, but somebody else will have to pay for it.”spiked | It’s not the end of the world as we know it
Hysterical claims that we have only 93 months to ‘save our climate’ are based on ignorance of human ingenuity.Josh Dorner: "Coal Industry Front Group CEO Refuses to Say Whether Burning Coal Causes Global Warming (VIDEO)"
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Robin Walsh is a member of the transport campaign group Modern Movement.
NARRATOR: Still, the industry refuses to say its plants contribute to global warming.
INTERVIEWER: Can you just answer that yes or no--If you believe that burning coal causes global warming?
JOE LUCAS (shaking head no): I don't know. I am not a scientist.
The idea that ‘climate change denial’ is a psychological disorder – the product of a spiteful, wilful or simply in-built neural inability to face up to the catastrophe of global warming – is becoming more and more popular amongst green-leaning activists and academics.David Suzuki: Understanding the science of climate change | Straight.com
Why does the public often pay more attention to climate change deniers than climate scientists?Powering Past Coal « It’s Getting Hot In Here
So about those signs you held on Monday. The ones you had to grip so hard that your knuckles went stiff and numb in the cold....Instapundit » Blog Archive » A QUESTIONABLE CHARITY OFFERS PRIVATE JET RIDES TO POLITICOS
A QUESTIONABLE CHARITY OFFERS PRIVATE JET RIDES TO POLITICOS: “CBS News has learned that high-profile names on the Educap flight list include CIA Director Leon Panetta, former Sens. Tom Daschle and Ted Stevens, former FBI Director William Sessions and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. . . .Tom Nelson: Nov. '08: Leon Panetta channels Al Gore
In fact, the deadly May 2008 earthquake in Wenchuan, China, that killed almost 70,000 people could cause a release of CO2 equal to about 2% of annual global emissions from fossil fuel combustion over the next few decades, the study says.Heliogenic Climate Change: Another heretic refused publication
Read Garth Paltridge's account of why the Journal of Climate refused to publish this paper because a reviewer opined that "the only object I can see for this paper is for the authors to get something in the peer-reviewed literature which the ignorant can cite as supporting lower climate sensitivity than the standard IPCC range"
Many of these environmentalist laws and regulations are passed by left wing liberal politicians (primarily Democrats) who have become brainwashed disciples of the fraudulent theory of global warming.The Global Warming Coal Factories Of Death
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This is the strange and political world of the proponents of man-made global warming. Coal plants that are really nazi death camps. Human rights initiatives that are not as important as the long term prospect of global climate change. Trials for scientists that do not accept global warming. Civil disobedience at coal fired power plants promoted by officials paid by the United States taxpayer. Taxpayer funded pilot programs that would eventually spend 350 trillion dollars to fire mirrors to deflect the suns rays back into space.Dr. Robert Musil promotes the climate scam
Reading from his book, he said, “If we citizens are to be more than mere spectators to a slow destruction of a planet, if we are to do more than assume that we are already cooked, or that some presidential, scientific, or technological savior will rescue us, we must understand for ourselves the sciences and realities of climate change.”
Musil gave the audience a brief history of how he became involved in global warming issues. As the former President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Musil led campaigns for safe and affordable drinking water, was a member of the Green Group, and met regularly with President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and other top leaders on these issues. His organization also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
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