The American Spectator : Alarmists, meet petard: Chris Horner

The standard refrain of the global warming alarmist industry, including their media enablers, is to shriek "ExxonMobil!" at every turn, in a fairly sad manifestation of the form of argumentation designed to distract from facts known as argumentum ad hominem.

Unintelligent Design: Scientists Ridicule UN, EU Climate Pseudoscience | Richard Schulman

More than six hundred scientists, economists, legislators, and journalists from around the world met in New York on March 8-10 for the second International Conference on Climate Change. Presentation after presentation documented the pseudoscience and dictatorial intentions behind the climate alarmism of the UN, EU, and Obama administration.

Harold Brown, The Daily Citizen, Dalton, GA - Americans cool as activists cry wolf over global warming

If you weren't there, you probably didn't hear much about this week's second International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by the Heartland Institute and cosponsored by 60 organizations, with scientists, economists and policy experts in New York to confront the subject of global warming. So you wouldn't have heard that global warming is as uncertain as those who would fix it.

CNSNews.com - Americans’ Opinion of United Nations at Record Low

In the latest annual Gallup poll on the subject, only 26 percent of respondents said the U.N. was doing a good job “in trying to solve the problems it has had to face.”

The score marks a new low point in a steady decline since 2002, when 58 percent of respondents thought the U.N. was doing a good job.

Manmade Climate-Change Hoax - Commentary: The Post Chronicle

President Obama and the Congress – or at least most of it – have been breast-beating about the terrible effects that mankind has wrought and continues to wreak upon the climate, their claims asserting the inundation relatively soon of many land areas by the oceans, not to mention the increase in temperatures, called global warming, a buzz-term used by the alarmists. One result of this climate-fear-mongering, naturally, has been the carbon-cap legislation, complete with stiff penalties for concerns that allegedly infuse the atmosphere with too much greenhouse gas, meaning consequent higher taxes and prices for everything as the losses are recouped.

Climate of recession raises sea levels alarmingly :: Gerald Warner

What this is all about is the constant need to replenish the coffers of those scientists who have taken the UN's shilling by sounding ever more urgent alarms, in the hope that public opinion will compel governments to keep on paying Danegeld to climate-change alarmists. As the recession deepens, improvident bankers and the global warming industry are the last remaining beneficiaries of the public purse deemed sacrosanct. The Al Gore brigade intends to keep it that way, so do not be surprised if the salt water rises over your chin shortly - in the computer model if not in real life.

SNP dumps £200m new forest scheme - Scotsman.com News

THE SNP government's ability to meet its ambitious climate change targets has been thrown into doubt after it shelved a controversial leasing scheme to raise £200 million for planting new forests.

ksl.com - Utah governor, Legislature at odds over climate change

SALT LAKE CITY -- The battle to combat global warming is a top priority of Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, but that position is in the crosshairs of most Utah lawmakers, revealing yet another sharp rift between moderate and conservative Republicans.

We Need Real Debate On Global Warming, Not Blind Faith - WSJ.com - Letters

Vaclav Klaus has it exactly right. Global warming is bandwagon science adopted by the political elites who have the same mindset that led to communism or socialism.

Robert Berglund

Chilly weather hard on homeless - Hawaii

Bruce Lipai, who was sleeping on the sidewalk in Kakaako, said it was coldest at about 5 a.m. His daughter's lips were turning purple. "I was trying to do everything to make her get warm," he said.

Time for Climate Change Proponents to Change Their Tune? : Red, Green, and Blue

So how do those of us that are trying to promote reduced-carbon lifestyles and greener businesses deal with the public’s changing attitudes towards climate change?

Mabinogogiblog: Is the game up for climate change skeptics?

Sponsored by the free market fundamentalist Heartland Institute, up to 600 elderly men gathered at the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change to refresh their convictions that the International Panel on Climate Change is wrong, and that they are right.
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If I were a betting man, I would put my money on decarbonising the global economy.

I'm sure Pascal would agree.

Climate change already shaping society - environment - 12 March 2009 - New Scientist

Jean Palutikof of the University of East Anglia, UK, pointed to numerous studies warning that climate change is going to deeply transform our society, by increasing the death rate, for example, or changing the way we grow food. If you look in the right places, says Palutikof, it is already possible to see our behaviour changing.

Pajamas Media » Skeptics Score at Climate Change Conference

But that’s not why I think the skeptics are winning. The rational skeptics are winning because the global warming crowd has simply dropped the two words “global warming” from its vocabulary. No more official global warming! This is like the old Soviet Communist Party. You have to analyze not just what’s said but what’s not said. You have to look to see who has been airbrushed out of the pictures of the Politburo waving on top of Lenin’s tomb watching the May Day parade. And “global warming” has disappeared from respectable scientific discourse. Only the elementary school teachers of the world will keep teaching about global warming, because their lesson plans are already written, and they’re a little slow on the uptake.

Somehow it’s all morphed into climate change...

President Obama just sent $400 million to replenish the eco-scare industry. With that kind of money coming in on a regular basis, and the new “science czar” in the White House who is one of the true believers, the climate horror industry is not going to decline anytime soon. We may be losing our banks, the dollar may crash, and you’ve just lost half your savings, but here is a growth industry with fabulous prospects for the indefinite future.

James Lewis is a scientist by trade, and carps as a hobby about the passing parade of human fraud and folly.

Maldives aims to become first carbon-neutral country - Asia, World - The Independent

The Maldives – the island nation threatened by rising sea level as a result of global warming – is attempting to become the world's first carbon-neutral country.

The Independent has learnt that tomorrow President Mohammed Nasheed will reveal details of a plan to achieve full carbon neutrality within 10 years. In doing so, his country of islands in the Indian Ocean, will join a small group of nations racing to be first in what environmentalists have described as "the Carbon World Cup".

Five other countries – Costa Rica, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand and Monaco – have signed up to a UN-backed plan to become zero net emitters but none intend to achieve carbon neutrality as quickly as the Maldives, a nation of island atolls which is highly vulnerable to rising sea levels.

Carbon scam companies: results

Turmoil in the carbon markets threw up two contrasting sets of company results on Thursday, one from trading exchange business Climate Exchange, the other from EcoSecurities, a carbon trader.
Turnover at EcoSecurities, which invests in projects that generate carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol, rose almost tenfold from €7.2m to €69.5m (£64.4m) in the year to December 31. This helped narrow the pre-tax loss from €43.3m to €31.2m.

Push to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Would Put a Price on Emitting Pollution - washingtonpost.com

"We think a well-designed cap-and-trade program will not have an adverse short-term impact on energy prices," said a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "But if we're completely eliminating the price signal, then we're removing the incentives for investments in energy efficiency."

Budget move for climate bill draws rebuke from 28 senators - NYTimes.com

A White House-led push to move global warming legislation in the Senate without having to deal with an expected GOP filibuster has drawn opposition from 28 senators, including six Democrats and several moderate Republicans.

An expensive approach to climate change | Cap and binge | The Economist

America’s politicians are at last getting to grips with global warming, but in a dangerously expensive way

How to lie about cap-and-trade - How the World Works - Salon.com

Ironically, many environmentalists believe that the administration is diverting too much cap-and-trade revenue to tax rebates, and would like to see a far higher percentage devoted to clean energy technology investment. Honest people could have a good argument on the merits of such a proposal. But you can't really have an honest debate with critics like Mehan, who manage the magic trick of turning a straightforward cap-and-trade policy proposal into an illusionary "cash cow"/health-and-social-welfare Trojan horse.

Warming up - a consumer backlash against rising electricity prices - NYTimes.com

Connecticut's legislators are again facing a decision on whether to scrap its decade-long experiment with a managed electricity market and create a public power authority that could purchase electricity directly for the state's consumers.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » More CO2 insanity from Obama

[Obama] I just want to point out, you know, anybody who has been to Las Vegas recently and looked at Lake Mead; or who is familiar with what’s happening in agriculture in California right now; or go down to Atlanta, which may not have any water soon, because of what’s happening in terms of changing weather patterns; or talk to Kevin Rudd in Australia — that’s going to cost us money too. It’s just not — it’s not priced.

And I’m not somebody who — I’ve never bought into these Malthusian — woe — Chicken Little, the earth is falling — I tend to be pretty optimistic. I wouldn’t be here if I weren’t pretty optimistic. But I think this is — the science is overwhelming. This is a real problem. It will have severe economic consequences, as well as political and national security and environmental consequences.

Copenhagen wears no clothes! « The Air Vent

I’m going to highlight anything which is a blatant lie in red in the future. We all know this statemet has no basis in reality. What’s interesting is that there are scientists …. (leading) scientists who are still willing to say it! We’re not this stupid guys.

Cap and Horse Trade II: There is Pushback to Obama’s Climate Tactics - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Granted, as a Republican, Mr. Graham probably wasn’t going to be a firebrand supporter of climate legislation anyway. But the point remains that the administration’s approach to climate policy seems to be losing, not gaining, potential allies.

Still Dreaming in California — MasterResource

Naïve statements as to the effectiveness of carbon dioxide emissions restrictions to alter the future course of climate perhaps serve to spur on action or make people feel better about what they or their governments are doing in the short run. But over the long term, California is going to get the climate that it gets (and damages still are going to occur, as they always have) and at some point, those in charge are going to have to start explaining what went wrong with their plan—and let’s hope, for the sake of current and future Californians, that the explanation will only involve the climate, and not the economy.

Sound Science for Thee, but Not for Me (does ethanol analysis count in this new world?) — MasterResource

But … those studies all overlook two very important considerations that bear on the analysis. First, they ignore the impact that corn ethanol production has on crop prices and, thus, on land use decisions world-wide. Take that into account and the case for ethanol relative to gasoline goes up in smoke according to Searchinger et al (2008) and Pineiro et al (2009). Second, those studies assume lower nitrous oxide emissions (a potent greenhouse gas) from ethanol production than is actually the case. Plug in the more accurate estimates from Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen (2007) and, again, any case for ethanol disappears.

They Think You're Stupid - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Reporters — and headline writers — need to bear in mind that scientists continuing to one-up each other in unverifiable claims about future catastrophes that will befall us unless a desired agenda is adopted does not on its own merit a news story. Further, these claims do not conflate with empirical temperature observations, which the record is clear are not greater in scope or rate than previously predicted.

It is inconceivable that reporters and editors are this regularly and ritually stupid. They do this on purpose, not merely to sell copy, but to frighten you into accepting an agenda they have adopted — with revolutionary fervor, if very little substance — and hence the ruses and lies.

Global warming keeps …. not happening? « Save Capitalism

It’s amazing how the global warming alarmism is still loud in the debate. I will keep my prediction that 2009 will be the year when the AGW theory for the first time runs into serious resistance (not to devalue the resistance it has already met - without the skeptics that have been shouting loudly for the last decade, there wouldn’t be any debate at all now)

Fleece of Gideon: William Tucker: "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NUCLEAR WASTE."

What remains after all this material has been extracted from spent fuel rods are some isotopes for which no important uses have yet been found, but which can be stored for future retrieval. France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains -- from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy -- beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.

Pajamas TV - PJTV Daily - "CO2 Cap & Trade Scam" - Video - 12 minutes

Gore jets to London, sips on CO2-laced drink, talks about his carbon-offsetting scam business

We will create green new deal, says Gore | World news | The Guardian

For a man with the very survival of human civilisation weighing heavily on his broad shoulders, Al Gore cuts a surprisingly relaxed figure. With a Diet Coke in hand, and chewing gum rolling around inside his mouth, one of the great "what ifs" of modern political history strolls into the boardroom of his London-based asset management firm, located in one of the city's "most environmentally friendly buildings".

Gore is in the capital, as he is every few months, to spend a couple of days meeting with his partners at Generation Investment Management, the "sustainability-driven" asset management firm he set up in 2004 with David Blood, who, as the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, once managed investments worth $325bn (£232bn). As is the case everywhere, the numbers are somewhat smaller these days, but the firm they both wanted to call Blood and Gore (sadly, it was overruled by the rest of the board) still manages a pot of investments worth billions, according to Blood.

As chairman, Gore, 61, says he spends about "one day a week" working for Generation, but his press handlers won't expand on what investments he holds or remuneration he receives, other than to say he initially used his own money to "experiment with" in trial investments during the two-year period when the company's "structure and philosophy" was being established ahead of any outside investors being invited to join them. It is tempting to see Gore's role at Generation as the day job, allowing him the time and financial security to spend the rest of the working week on his three-decade-long quest to warn the world about the perils of climate change. But he insists that his role at Generation is as important as any of his other high-profile projects.
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Gore says that, since the election of Barack Obama last November, he feels much more bullish about the chances of political progress in tackling climate change. But one group who are unlikely to ever "get it" are the ever-vocal contingent of climate change sceptics, the most prominent of whom were gathered at a conference this week in New York. Al Gore, the world's best-known climate change "alarmist", as the sceptics like to say, was a popular source of ridicule and ire at the conference. Gore brackets the sceptics with those who believe in creationism: "It's fed by a huge amount of funding from carbon special interests who have been financing these phoney, pseudo-scientific reports and they have a self-interest in sowing doubt. Doubt is their product.

Revkin's Dot Earth Blog: Scientist: Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion - Comments from Richard Courtney | Climate Realists

OK. So, Schellnhuber is said to have asserted that if emissions of greenhouse gases - notably carbon dioxide (CO2) - were to rise by 7 deg.F then 5 billion people could die.

But constraining carbon dioxide emissions at their present level would deliberately kill at least 2 billion people - mostly children – before the middle of this century. And reducing the emissions would kill more millions – possibly billions – of people. This would be a genocide of a magnitude not previously possible in all human history.

The reason for this is simple. All human activity is enabled by energy supply and limited by material science, and the human population is growing.

The energy supply enables the growing of crops, the manufacture of tools, and the use of those tools for construction and the provision of goods and services. Material science limits what can be done with the available energy; e,g. an iron plough share is better than a wooden one, ability to etch silicon enables adequately reliable computers, etc.

ECO-BLOAT: EXTRA MELTING OF GREENLAND'S ICE

An email from Dave English [prospector@znet.com] pointing out that the Warmists have not done the math behind their scare

David Adam writes from Copenhagen: "Scientists at the Copenhagen conference said that modest IPCC estimates of likely sea level rise this century need to be increased. Extra melting in Greenland could drive sea levels to more than a metre higher than today by 2100"

This is typical eco-bloat. Taking into account that the Earth's surface is 70% ocean and that it takes 1.1 cubic mile of ice to make a cubic mile of water, to raise the oceans one inch would take 2400 (2398+) cubic miles of ice. To raise the oceans one meter would take 94,488 cubic miles of ice melting. Greenland is melting at 55 cubic miles a year, their dream is to make us believe that the melting would become not two or four times faster than today but 18.67 times faster, from 55 cubic miles a year to 1027 cubic miles a year for 92 years.

Save the planet! Hurt people! | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

What violence couldn’t be excused to “save the planet”?...

Charles warns against his gases | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Charlie’s private Airbus A319 (above) will seat just 29, but the aircraft holds 134 passengers when used commercially.

More from alarmists who are trying to convince us that the Earth is overheating

Today was tough. Mostly for Martin who’s been walking with an awful blister on his foot. It burst today and every step has been agony. He has to stop and dress it every few hours, which isn’t easy in -34 degrees, though we’re all well briefed in foot care.

We’re all very, very cold and have lost feeling in our fingers and toes.

Santa Rosa students go green

Eighth-grader Brynna Thigpen wonders just how hard it really is to save the world from global warming.

It’s as easy as the flick of a switch.
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The students at Rincon Valley Middle School celebrated their week of eco-consciousness by hosting hip-hop artist Torman Jahi of Oakland, who performed at lunch Friday.

Jahi performed a rousing rap called “Green Flow,” in which he had hundreds of pupils on their feet chanting “Going! Going! Green! Green!”
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Jahi’s performance was paid for by the Climate Protection and Recovery Fund established by Santa Rosa City Councilwoman Veronica Jacobi.

Cap-and-trade: Obama's 'economic dagger'

Citing a recent Pew Poll in which Americans ranked the economy at the top – and global warming at the bottom - of a market basket of political issues, Inhofe calls cap-and-trade legislation “a form of global taxation” and believes it can be defeated again, even though it has the full backing of the Obama administration. The realization is slowly but surely growing here that duplicating Europe’s failed cap-and-trade scheme would be a knock-out blow for the U.S. economy because it would dramatically increase energy costs and cripple the nation’s dwindling manufacturing base. The Detroit News aptly called cap-and-trade “a giant economic dagger aimed at the nation's heartland.”

Even Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-ND, warned that the president’s $3.5 trillion budget “can’t pass here” if it contains cap-and-trade provisions that virtually guarantee a stratospheric rise in energy costs for families and businesses. The Obama administration has already signaled its intention to limit the supply of energy by blocking funding for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain and canceling existing federal oil and gas leases. Less supply inescapably means higher prices. So let us hope that Inhofe’s bold assertion that “we are winning the argument with the American people” is correct. If it is, it comes just in the nick of time.

Turnbull won't back ETS in current form - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Federal Coalition has strengthened its opposition to the Government's proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS).

The Associated Press: Republicans criticize Obama's budget plan

"The president and his allies in Congress want to spend too much, tax too much, and borrow too much," Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa says in the Republicans' weekly radio address. "Somebody has to pay — if not the middle class now, then later. Eventually the middle class gets hit."
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He also said Obama's proposal for mandatory limits on carbon dioxide emissions to combat climate change will lead to higher energy costs and amount to an "average hidden tax increase of around $3,000 per household a year." The Obama administration maintains that revenue from auctioning off carbon emission allowances would offset much of the higher energy costs for many Americans.

Scientists are grim, economists more optimistic about climate scam - NYTimes.com

At the congress, it seemed that all the scientists had to share with their peers was bad news, but a number of economists saw the climate crisis rather as an historic opportunity to reorganize the world economy and develop new, clean and job-creating activities.

And has Al Gore ever steered you wrong?

Al Gore: World will agree new climate deal - Telegraph

The Nobel peace prize winner believes the election of Barack Obama as US President and a growing awareness among business leaders of the environmental threat means there is now enough political momentum to tackle the problem.

He said: "There is a very impressive consensus now emerging around the world that solutions to the economic crisis are also the solutions to the climate crisis."

Mr Gore said he was confident that a global climate deal will be agreed at the UN-brokered climate talks scheduled in Copenhagen in December.

Speaking in an interview with the Guardian, he said: "I actually think we will get an agreement at Copenhagen.

"Obama's election is one of the main factors. But we also have a big ally in the reality the planet is under assault. This collision with human civilisation is increasingly dire."

Mr Gore says he has also detected a shift on the part of many of the world's business leaders.

"They're seeing the writing on every wall they look at. They're seeing the complete disappearance of the polar ice caps right before their eyes in just a few years..."

Earth Hour not worth the candle | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

What a surprise. Interest is waning in a useless protest against a warming that might actually be good, but which has halted and is beyond our control anyway...

The Psychology of the Psychology of Denial — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

Last week, we mentioned an academic conference at the University of the West of England about the psychology of climate change denial, which appeared to be rather lacking on the academic front. It was a gathering of a handful of higher beings - Jungian analysts, climate activists and eco-psychologists - who, having shrugged off the shackles of the human condition, are now able to diagnose what is wrong with the rest of us.

Tampa weatherguy Paul Dellegatto named "Worser" person by Keith Olbermann

WTVT-Ch. 13 chief meteorologist Paul Dellegatto is such a mild-mannered guy, it's hard to imagine him in a televised throw-down with one of cable TV's most outspoken anchors.

But that's what happened Wednesday night, when MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named the Tampa weatherguy to second place in that evening's "Worst Person in the World" listing, citing a recent statement by Dellegatto during a newscast saying there are some signs that runaway global warming isn't happening.

Media Mayhem: Don't trust this man | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Marc Morano, a Republican operative, has taken denying climate change to a whole new level. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Mike Hulme: What was the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference really about?

...we should let politics decide without being ambushed by a chimera of political prescriptiveness dressed up as (false) scientific unanimity.

Sound Science for Thee, but Not for Me — MasterResource

...I am a bit tired of the standard liberal narrative that would have us believe that the Left is sound science and nothing but sound science 24/7. Science is used as a weapon of convenience by both Left and Right. If it’s helpful to their cause, they will pose and posture with the best of them. If not, scientists will be – at best – ignored and – at worse – ball-gagged in the attic.

Knockdown, Dragout: Think Tank v. WSJ Edit Page on Cap-and-Trade - Environmental Capital - WSJ

It’s certainly fodder for a lively debate. The only thing that would make it better would be moving it to Comedy Central.

Completely insane "scientist": Warming Could Cut Population to 1 Billion - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

COPENHAGEN — A scientist known for his aggressive stance on climate policy made an apocalyptic prediction on Thursay.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said that if the buildup of greenhouse gases and its consequences pushed global temperatures 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today — well below the upper temperature range that scientists project could occur from global warming — Earth’s population would be devastated.

Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - The Week in Alarmism

In what can only be described as ironic, it always seems that when a skeptics' conference is held or a new poll is released showing people aren't as alarmed as the media would like them, a flurry of articles are issued with the most dire of predictions.

HANS H.J. LABOHM: What we are not being told | Climate Realists

Attached my latest article for ‘Research Review’, March 2009: ‘What we are not being told’.

What is so special about this article? Certainly not the contents. It’s all old hat for climate sceptics.

No, it is the fact that the journal has invited me to write it and that the article has been published, whereas so many similar articles have been turned down by editors of many newspapers and journals.

Prince Charles warns of eco-disaster | Herald Sun

He stressed: "Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy."

Save Us From "Save Our Planet" - E. Ralph Hostetter - FrontPage Magazine

Climate-change believers have identified carbon dioxide as the principal cause, among all greenhouse gases, of global warming. There is no scientific evidence that proves such a claim is valid or that there is any man-made cause of global warming.

From the Amazing Revkin: An Update on Climate and Energy Basics - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

So this might be a good time to step back from the fray and review the points that a wide range of climate and energy experts agree on. Everyone I know who works in conflict resolution — Ted Kheel being a good example — says it’s vital to start with points of possible accord. Here goes:

1. A big buildup of long-lived greenhouse gases will very likely influence the climate in a host of ways that could impede the journey toward a stable, prospering human population later this century.

Paul Chesser: Where is Public Opinion? | GlobalWarming.org

As I suggest today in an American Spectator piece, we may be to the point where public opinion is completely out of sync with how the best known (at least historically) news outlets are covering the global warming issue.

Shipping Carbon Dioxide to Sea for Burial - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

On the sidelines of an international climate change conference in Copenhagen, Maersk announced this week that it was exploring ways of delivering the gases directly to burial sites using specially designed sea vessels, initially in the area of the North Sea.

Al Gore must be a woman | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenburg, who can’t report on an international conference of distinguished warming sceptics without spitting, discovers another reason to ignore their facts...

Myron Ebell: Alarmism increasing twice as fast as predicted | GlobalWarming.org

That is, the soothsayers have read their chicken entrails again and decided that their previous divinations were not dire enough. This has nothing to do with actual sea level rise. For the past several years, sea level rise has been below the average rate of the twentieth century, which in total was about seven inches.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Sen. Corker on CCS

“I’m a skeptic,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). “It seems like when donkeys fly they’ll do it on a commercial basis. Secondly, a lot of water is used in that process.”

AoL project to tackle global warming-Pune-Cities-The Times of India

PUNE: The Art of Living Foundation (AoL), supported by the Department of Social Forestry, Govt of Maharashtra, is aiming to get 100 students each from 60 city-based schools for the Seed to Sapling Home Nursery' Project.

Addressing a news conference on Friday, Nitin Pradhan, the Mission Green's Pune co-ordinator, said that the aim of the project was to involve school children in the fight against global warming.

The Canadian Press: Researchers plan to use fuel-guzzling Humvee to study alleged Humvee-ogenic climate change

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Scientists hoping to advance human exploration on the Moon and Mars are taking their team on a road trip along the cold Northwest Passage this spring.

The four intrepid researchers are taking their Mars-1 Humvee Rover where a road vehicle has never gone before, all in the name of science.
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The scientists leave next month and will be escorted by two snowmobiles which will carry fuel and food.

Check out the pictures here: MARS-1 Humvee Rover | NASA Haughton-Mars Project

The distinctive orange MARS-1 Humvee rover is a unique experimental field exploration vehicle modified for the HMP by AM General, manufacturer of the famous High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) or Humvee. The refurbished four-wheel-drive all-terrain rover rolled out of AM General's plant in Mishiwaka, Indiana, on May 14, 2002, bearing the one-of-a-kind serial number "MARS-1". The vehicle configuration is that of a military ambulance HMMWV. To increase traction and tread lightly, the MARS-1 is equipped with wide tracks manufactured by Mattracks, Inc.

The MARS-1 is equipped with a tall rear cab affording compact work and living space (including two sidewall-mounted sleeping bunks) for crews of up to four researchers engaging in several day-long field traverses across the rugged Mars-like rocky polar desert terrain of Devon Island.

Alan Caruba - Debunk: Disappearing Daily Newspapers

...The most egregious example is the alleged “environmental” reporting in The New York Times which has never reflected the actual science of global warming and other Green obsessions. For some twenty years or more, it has had a succession of reporters, all of whom were astonishingly indifferent to science or even the truth.

The latest is Andrew Revkin who was unable to ignore the fact that 700 or so of the world’s leading climatologists, meteorologists, physicists, economists, and others were meeting in New York this passed week to debunk global warming. His report on the event was an insult to those participating and attending.

Mitchell Anderson | Paris Hilton and the Alleged CO2-induced End of the World

This chasm of opinion between the scientific community and the public shows how criminally irresponsible many in the mainstream media have been about portraying climate science, and how effective the misinformation campaign by the fossil fuel lobby has been in deceiving the average American.

Does public opinion even matter? In a voting (and shopping) society like ours, it is about the hottest commodity going. Right or wrong, any politician goes against it at their peril.

Alert: '90 per cent of the participants do not believe the UN IPCC report' - Japanese scientists challenge warming claims: (Australian Sun)

Japanese scientists cool on theories | The Australian

THREE senior Japanese scientists separately engaged in climate-change research have strongly questioned the validity of the man-made global-warming model that underpins the drive by the UN and most developed-nation governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

"I believe the anthropogenic (man-made) effect for climate change is still only one of the hypotheses to explain the variability of climate," Kanya Kusano told The Weekend Australian.

It could take 10 to 20 years more research to prove or disprove the theory of anthropogenic climate change, said Dr Kusano, a research group leader with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science's Earth Simulator project.

"Before anyone noticed, this hypothesis has been substituted for truth," writes Shunichi Akasofu, founding director of the University of Alaska's International Arctic Research Centre.

Dr Kusano, Dr Akasofu and Tokyo Institute of Technology geology professor Shigenori Maruyama are highly critical of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's acceptance that hazardous global warming results mainly from man-made gas emissions.

On the scientific evidence so far, according to Dr Kusano, the IPCC assertion that atmospheric temperatures are likely to increase continuously and steadily "should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis".

Dr Maruyama said yesterday there was widespread scepticism among his colleagues about the IPCC's fourth and latest assessment report that most of the observed global temperature increase since the mid-20th century "is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations".

When this question was raised at a Japan Geoscience Union symposium last year, he said, "the result showed 90 per cent of the participants do not believe the IPCC report".

Paul Chesser, The American Spectator : The Amazing Revkin

Not surprisingly he dashed their hopes of groovin' around and around, and instead applied the usual Society of Environmental Journalists' marginalization template...

According to Kare 11 TV: Coldest March temperature ever recorded in Minnesota: -35 F; Wikipedia disagrees

From kare11.com | Twin Cities, MN

...we broke a statewide record for March, Embarrass and Babbit both recorded -35 degrees on Thursday morning and that broke a statewide record for cold that held since 1896. International Falls(-28) and St. Cloud(-15) were a couple of spots that broke daily records for their specific location as well.

List of Minnesota weather records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lowest Temperature −50 °F (−46 °C) March 2, 1897 Pokegama Dam

It wasn't just cold, it was record cold | Yakima Herald-Republic Online

Thought it was colder than usual Thursday morning?

You were right. In fact, a record set more than a half century ago -- in 1956 to be exact -- was broken.

The temperature dropped to 15 degrees in Yakima on Thursday, 2 degrees lower than the previous record for that day.

DEP Chief Gina McCarthy Picked For EPA Climate-Change Post -- Courant.com

In the first departure of a Connecticut official for the Obama administration, Gina McCarthy, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, has been nominated for a major position in Washington handling climate change, the White House announced today.

‘Global warming a global warning’

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Guess what a triple nine followed by a double nine means - its that magic number 99999 which will remind you to switch off lights for nine minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year of this millennium.

“This is not going to save you so much of electricity, but it will give you an opportunity to speak about global warming and its adverse effects and thus create an awareness," said M B Nirmal, founder and director of Exnora International at the Park Centre at Technopark here on Thursday.
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Pointing that global warming is also a global warning, Nirmal said that turning to vegetarianism will also help the cause.

American Thinker: Obama's energy policy will increase dependence on foreign oil

President Obama’s biofuel and oil policy is on a collision course to a national catastrophe. Yet, the alarms are not sounding and the red lights are not flashing.

American Thinker: Obama Administration's Midterm Campaign Themes

While this will be only a campaign language event, it will particularly appeal to those who are persuaded by the case for man-made global warming. That issue will be the test case for enhanced international cooperation.

Muzzling Science - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...That’s news. And how did our national media react to these blockbuster revelations from one of the nation’s top ex-government scientists? [Crickets.]

[Ahem.] Isn’t that muzzling the facts?

Britain: Climate drops down agenda

Fewer people thought climate change was one of the three most important issues facing Britain in 2008 than in 2007, according to surveys by the Office for National Statistics for the DfT. Whereas 32% of the 2,245 respondents identified climate change as one of the top three issues in 2007, 27% of 2,191 respondents put it in the top three in 2008. Eight percent saw it as the most important issue in 2008, down from 9% in 2007...

Obama: Maybe implementation of painful alleged solution to Greatest Problem Ever can wait until after my reelection run

President Barack Obama has proposed such controls, but told a group of corporate executives that "this will be a difficult transition for many businesses to make," and that is why he did not envision the caps starting until 2012.

From 'global warming' to global holocaust: Joseph Farah, WND

As Barack Obama adopts the radical "global warming" agenda of Al Gore, it's time to consider where this extremist, anti-people, Luddite, Malthusian concept of apocalyptic, man-made climate change inevitably leads.

First, you must understand that no one – not even Al Gore – believes that the most restrictive voluntary or even coercive steps being discussed today will have the slightest impact on global temperatures.

Most don't believe it for the same reason I don't – they understand "global warming" is a scam designed to empower government, preferably at the global level.

DeWeese's Daily Dose: The Earth is Fine - Save Yourself

I just returned from the historic New York gathering of more than 700 Global Warming skeptics sponsored by The Heartland Institute and co-sponsored by the American Policy Center.

Below are some of the media articles highlighting the incredible information provided. It's a shame every American couldn't have been there to hear the truth that Global Warming is the greatest scam ever perpetrated on the human race. It's an even greater tragedy that the mainstream media chose once again to mostly ignore these experts and, instead, continue to print the news releases (pretending to be science reports) of the alarmists.

The Coming Global Cooling Crisis followed by the Global Drying Crisis | Midwest Voices

What temperature are we shooting for anyway? Do we want a cooling trend, a warming trend that is slower than today, or an absence of change (is that possible?)? Are we really sure that we can affect change on that large of a scale?

American Thinker: California's Wet Dream

Translation: the total melting of Greenland is a pipedream, as is the scientific sewage flowing from the Pacific Institute.

Oh, and by the way...Mr. Gore? If all of these predictions are spot on and the ocean is soon gobble up San Francisco...do the right thing. Make a statement by selling that fancy pants condo you own in the future flood zone.

And to the legislators feeding from the public trough in Sacramento: spend your precious per diem cash on these kooky studies-not our hard earned tax dollars.
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Brian Sussman is a conservative talker on KSFO 560AM in San Francisco. He is also a award-winning former television meteorologist.

EPA Carbon Reporting Scheme To Benefit More U.S. Firms, Says Expert - Carbon Offsets Daily

New York, NY (AHN) - More U.S. firms will benefit from the proposed national carbon reporting system of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to a group that gathers carbon emissions data from major corporations around the world.

Businesses unaware of looming UK carbon regulation - Carbon Offsets Daily

The government has today laid out the details of its domestic emissions trading scheme that will affect some 20,000 public and private sector organisations who spend more than £1m a year on electricity.

But the CBI says many businesses will be unaware and unprepared for the scheme – known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) – and called on the government to do more to prepare industry for the “shock” of green regulation.

Right-Thinking from the Left Coast : "My Cows Fart In Europe’s General Direction"

Exit question: who came up with this evaluation? What government toady is in charge of figuring out precisely how much—to the nearest euro—to charge for a cow fart? What if i give my cow Beano? Do I get a fart credit?

NASA solicits new studies on the current solar minimum « Watts Up With That?

This is interesting. It seems that NASA has taken an interest in the current solar minimum and is getting ready to launch one or more studies about it. They are soliciting proposals. Leif, here is your chance. - Anthony

World's "leading" "scientists" desperately promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time

In what was described as a watershed moment, more than 2,500 leading environmental experts agreed a statement that called on governments to act before the planet becomes an unrecognisable – and, in places, impossible – place to live.

At an emergency climate summit in Copenhagen, scientists agreed that "worst case" scenarios were already becoming reality and that, unless drastic action was taken soon, "dangerous climate change" was imminent.

In a strongly worded message that, unusually for academics, appealed directly to politicians, they said there was "no excuse for inaction" and that "weak and "ineffective" governments must stand up to big business and "vested interests".

Steps should be "vigorously and widely implemented", they said, to reduce greenhouse gases. Failure to do so would result in "significant risk" of "irreversible climatic shifts", the statement added.

The plea came as Lord Stern, the former chief economist of the World Bank whose report two years ago drew attention to the possible results of global warming, told the conference that unless politicians grasped the gravity of the situation it would be "devastating".

Increases in average temperatures of six degrees by the end of the century were an increasing possibility and would produce conditions not seen on Earth for more than 30 million years, he said.

That could mean massive rises in sea level, whole areas devastated by hurricanes and others turned into uninhabitable desert, he claimed, forcing billions of people to leave their homelands.

Where are Gore’s hurricanes? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Meanwhile on the ABC’s PM, a wide-eyed reporter asks a warming alarmist to tell him even more about worsening hurricanes and a warming that actually halted a decade ago. Not a single reference is made to observational data. Not a single sceptical question is put.

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer 17 March 2009 in Copenhagen - Carbon Offsets Daily

(Bonner Wirtschaftsblog) Bonn - On Tuesday, 17 March 2009, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Mr. Yvo de Boer, will give a press briefing on the margins of “Carbon Market Insights 2009” in Copenhagen.

A key focus of the UN’s top climate change official will be on what the UN negotiating process needs to deliver in order to arrive at an ambitious and effective international climate change deal at Copenhagen in December of this year and the potential role of an expanded carbon market as part of the Copenhagen agreed outcome.

Norsk Hydro Australia Project May Be Derailed by Carbon Trading - Carbon Offsets Daily

An expanded Kurri Kurri plant may generate as many as 3,000 jobs “directly and indirectly,” said Brynhildsbakken. He spoke after the Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Hydro may cancel the planned A$4 billion ($2.6 billion) improvement because of costs from the government’s proposed emissions trading system.

This just in: The UN is still promoting the greatest scientific scam of all time

"Water is linked to the crises of climate change, energy and food supplies and prices, and troubled financial markets," the third World Water Development Report said.

Twitter / uncle_vinny

WTF, Olympia legislators!? If we can't start on climate change here, where's it gonna happen? http://is.gd/n9Oq Session over. Fail. Go home.

Lord Stern: Prepare for six degrees — The Climate Scam

What is it with these people? Are the cataclysmic prognoses a way of trying to convince themselves that global warming indeed has not stopped? Recent news told us about a cold spell that might put a brake on anthropogenic global warming for another 20 to 30 years. High school kids will almost be retiring by the time the warming returns. The AGW-movement looks more and more like a religious one. Now we are supposed to believe that the mighty global warming will come back. Have faith. The world will come to an end and we humans will be judged for our misgivings.

Lord Monckton’s speech — The Climate Scam

Lord Christopher Monckton’s speech from the climate conference in New York can now be downloaded here [PDF] on The Climate Scam.

The Heartland Institute - Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change; Lots of PowerPoint now available here

Christopher Monckton - Magna est veritas, et praevalet (Great Is Truth, and Mighty Above All Things) (HTML Remarks)

Power Line - Amazing Facts of the Day

Even allowing for the regulatory yoke Europe's cowed citizenry labor under, the logic here is hard to follow. Why is some Bulgar's Holstein allowed to increase his flatulence while the poor Jutlander's has to put a stopper in it? Is there's a dearth of flatulence in the Balkans but a Code Red alert over the North Sea? Couldn't the EU introduce flatulence offsets?

Gore-trained climatologist fights against state coal-powered plants - News

Robert McAfee, a climatologist for Repower Arkansas, began his presentation on the need for new energy sources in the state by comparing it to the downturn in the economy.

"If we have an environmental collapse, there is no bailout," McAfee said.

McAfee, who has been trained by Al Gore's Climate Project as a messenger, spoke about the changes necessary to reduce the state's carbon emissions.

Obama defends climate scam to business leaders - Boston.com

In one potential concession, the Democratic president also indicated some flexibility over plans to sell all carbon dioxide permits to industry in a future cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

"If you're giving away carbon permits for free, then basically you're not really pricing the thing and it doesn't work, or people can game the system in so many ways that it's not creating the incentive structures we're looking for," Obama said, referring to his main proposal to fight climate change.

Mandate Concerning Truckers, Station Owners - KIMT.com – Iowa & Minnesota Together

"I think biodiesel's fine except the 15 percent less effective rating in other words for every gallon you put in the truck you're going to go 15 percent less distance."

Lots of folks there tell us they're forming their own opinion of the renewable fuel, mostly concerns.

"Years ago, a guy said you put that in and you'd be changing filters," said fuel truck driver Gene Pettit.

"The only problem that we see is the gelling effect of the diesel," said Merle Fabor.

Fabor is an assistant manager at the station. He says long haul truckers passing through stop here before heading into states with a biodiesel mandate.

"They get into cold weather they just won't burn it, and they try to avoid minnesota and those states where they have to buy biodiesel."

Czech minister slams Klaus over climate change | Financial 24

It is clear to me that there is no way we can stop the president, but I consider it necessary to point out that he is a comic figure worldwide and is definitely damaging the Czech Republic and its international position, said Bursik.

How communities can combat 'climate fatigue' :: The Hook

Dawson Creek has a reputation of being one of B.C.'s most progressive municipalities when it comes to renewable energy.

So when councilor Cheryl Shuman completed Al Gore's climate change training in Montreal last spring, she thought residents back home would be thrilled to hear the inconvenient truth.

Instead, she became "that climate change girl, almost in a derogatory way," she says.

"Even though the resident of my region are very keen to talk about renewable energy and saving energy and energy efficiencies…the minute you start talking about climate change, they start arguing with you."

Perhaps that should come as no surprise. There were signs of a general climate fatigue amongst the public two years ago...

Why are not citizens up in arms against a carbon tax? - GLG News

Carbon dioxide is a basic part of the atmosphere and its concentration varies all the time, sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much. Much depends on volcanic activity, a highly variable series of events which vent billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at peak periods of activity. But not to worry. The oceans soak it up.Without carbon dioxide, we would have no White Cliffs of Dover. Plant life needs it for photosynthesis. No carbon dioxide, no forests. What would a Coca Cola be without a charge of carbon dioxide?

President Obama's Toxic Brew

...for decades on end, the leftists among us have systematically engineered:
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• The colossal hoax known as man-made global warming which imposes punishingly harsh environmental strictures not only on the stupid masses but also on any exploration of the vast oil resources extant in this country, as well as the building of nuclear facilities, both of which promise total energy independence, possibly in less than a decade.

Plenty of wild speculation here: Purdue researcher links 'Peking Man,' bitter cold

Think of living in a "dry windy cold" much like winters in Calgary, Canada, without warm close-fitting clothes and well-made buildings to keep you warm, he said. And these inhabitants may not have even been able to warm up with a fire whenever they wanted either.

"They may have been freezing their buns off," said Rick Potts, a Smithsonian Institution human origins expert who wasn't part of the research. The research also demonstrates just how "wimpy" modern humans are, he said.

Gristmill: Alarmists now want to be known as climate realists

Andy's post is about how the cranks at the ongoing Heritage climate "skeptic" conference agree with climate realists that there's an "energy gap" and a need for substantial energy innovation. So we can all move forward together!

YouTube - The Myth Of Global Warming?

Global warming is a media myth Thom [Hartmann] debates Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute www.businessandmedia.org

Ban Humans to Lower Carbon Emissions?

...the Heartland Institute's climate-change summit was forged around a cadre of professional climatologists, atmospheric physicists, and economists who see the effects of a global-warming "hoax" as the death knell for scientific inquiry and the capitalist system of free enterprise. Many, if not most, were hoping that they could lend themselves in a fight for scientific truth and against an egregious global-warming scam.

Melanie Phillips, The Spectator: The inescapable apocalypse has been seriously underestimated

The atmosphere is cooling, the ice is expanding, the seas are not rising -- even though carbon emissions are increasing. The evidence is now crystal clear to anyone with an unwashed brain that man-made global warming theory is sheer unadulterated bunkum. So how do the warmers react to the ever more embarrassing evidence that they have hitched their reputations to the biggest anti-scientific scam in history? By ratcheting up the hysteria to fever pitch and shrieking that their predictions about the impending irreversible environmental apocalypse have grievously underestimated the catastrophe which is going to be far, far worse.

WWF launches urgent appeal to save polar bears

No sea ice equates no polar bears. It's really that simple, WWF polar bear expert Geoff York told reporters.

Climate change leading the world into catastrophe, claims Lord Stern - Telegraph

Climate change could cost trillions of pounds and lead to worldwide social unrest and decades of war, warned one of Britain's leading economists as he accused politicians of underestimating the scale of the problem.

YouTube - Nadia's Speech

Nadia wins gold for her gr.7 speech on "The Myth Of Global Warming".

New leaflet on climate change launched - GozoNews.Com

The theme put forward by the World Health Organisation on the occasion of World Health Day of 2008 focused on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change.
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The earth is warming, the warming is accelerating, and human actions are responsible. If current warming trends remain uncontrolled, humanity will face more injury, disease and death related to natural disasters and heat waves; higher rates of food-borne, water-borne, and vector-borne illness; and more premature deaths and disease related to air pollution.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING that there would be no math: “The Energy Department made a $500 million math…

I for one welcome our new, mathematically incompetent carbon overlords!

Al's Journal : Green Recovery

"We will eventually emerge from the financial crisis, although mistakes in management can affect its depth and duration. However, mistakes in managing the risks of the climate crisis may be irreversible."

Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert REALLY fears small amounts of natural atmospheric gas

We’re talking about a desolate planet, not really in that long a time, okay?

Wonk Room » New Yorker Reporter Elizabeth Kolbert: Global Boiling Inaction Is A ‘Total System Failure’

In an interview with Yale Environment 360, New Yorker reporter Elizabeth Kolbert explains that everyone, from journalists and scientists to politicians and economists, are responsible for the inability of the United States to respond to the threat of climate catastroph

World Climate Report » Highlights of the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change

Anthropogenic activities (primarily the burning of fossil fuels) are the cause of the increased atmospheric concentrations of CO2, enhancing the earth’s greenhouse effect does increase the global average temperature, and the combination of the two is responsible for much of the observed “global warming” of the past 30 years or so.

More Federal Support Allegedly Needed For Local Decision Makers Coping with Climate Change

Many state and local officials and private organizations are basing decisions -- such as how to build bridges or manage water supplies -- on the assumption that current climate conditions will continue, but that assumption is no longer valid.

Companies join Nike’s climate change scam group - Portland Business Journal:

Three more high-profile consumer brands have joined a Nike-led coalition pushing for progressive U.S. climate policies.

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS), eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) are the latest members of BICEP — Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy...
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Among the group’s missions is to advocate for a federal cap-and-trade system that sets a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and enacts a trading system for emissions allowances. It also wants to eliminate subsidies for fossil fuels and advocates for limiting the introduction of new coal-fired power plants.

IBD: In Hot Pursuit Of CO2

Climate Change: Washington is about to crack down on carbon dioxide emissions. It had better hurry because it won't have much time before the backlash strikes. The public is losing its faith in the global warming religion.

Institute for Energy Research » Blog Archive » Cap and Trade Primer: Eight reasons why cap and trade harms the economy and reduces jobs

These proposals are very, very costly and economically damaging. If enacted, last year’s flagship cap and trade proposal, the Lieberman-Warner bill, would increase the cost of gasoline by anywhere from 60 percent to 144 percent and increase the cost of electricity by 77 to 129 percent.

Up to four million Americans would lose their jobs under the program, which amounts to a $4,022 to $6,752 loss in disposable income per household. In return, we could have expected a 63 percent emissions cut. President Obama’s budget proposes to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 83 percent. If successful, it’s reasonable to conclude it would lead to even greater economic hardship than envisioned under Lieberman-Warner.

Other problems inherent in cap and trade exist, and they are manifold. What follows is a brief explanation of some of the most glaring...

Investor's Business Daily -- Assisted Economic Suicide

Clearly Joe Sixpack in his modest Midwest bungalow would be hit harder than the Al Gores of the world.

We call that spreading the poverty around. Cap-and-trade would be an economic tsunami.

Rising prices, not rising sea levels, are what threaten us. Scrap the cap.

Inhofe Speech: "Consensus" Continues Freefall - Why Americans Are Growing More Skeptical

March 12, 2009

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member Environment and Public Works Committee, Floor Speech

Climate realism continues to be on the march...

Respectful Insolence: The [second] most massive scientific fraud ever?

In what experts are calling one of the largest known cases of academic misconduct, a leading anesthesiology researcher has been accused of falsifying data and other fraud in potentially dozens of published studies.

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you… « It’s Getting Hot In Here

I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting for a clean and just climate...

Masters of the Universe - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Not a single member of the White House auto task force has any experience in the industry, but that doesn’t deter these federal Masters of the Universe...

Great Depression! Global hurricane activity reaches new lows. « Climate Audit

Global hurricane activity has decreased to the lowest level in 30 years.

Copenhagen Summit Seeks Climate Action - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

There are signs, some scientists warned on Thursday, that overheated descriptions of looming dangers coming out of the conference could actually backfire.

Follow the Money? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Rob Bradley over at the Master Resource blog reveals how James Hansen's alarmism has risen over time, if unsupported by temperatures. Using Al Gore's theory that correlation equals causation — even when the relationship is backward! — I'd say that federal spending (and/or Heinz and Soros money) drives alarmism. Alternately, if not the cause, they surely are the effect.

Socialists of the World, Unite! - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...Today, E&E News reports (subscription required) that Obama "climate czarina" Carol Browner — who was, until her appointment to a new post created to skirt constitutional constitutional Senate confirmation requirements for such influential posts, was an official of the Socialist International — is behind Obama's cap-and-trade proposal and particularly the effort to sneak it in the filibuster-proof budget reconciliation measure.

Hmm.

By the way, note that the site formerly known as CO2sceptics is now "climaterealists.com"

We are climate realists | ClimateRealists

IN A recent letter printed in your newspaper, Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies once again claimed that the UK Independence Party are “climate change deniers”. I can categorically say that we are not “climate change deniers”; but we are “climate change realists”, for, although we do believe that the climate is changing, we question the extent of Man’s contribution to this alteration.
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Paul Nuttall, UK Independence Party Chairman

Global warming 'will be worse than expected' warns fraudster Nicholas Stern

Economist says his 2006 groundbreaking report underestimated risk and accuses governments of not being ready for consequences of 6C temperature rise

Lomborg: Global warming will save millions of lives - Telegraph

For the UK, the Keatinge studies show heat-related deaths caused by global warming will increase by 2,000. But cold-related deaths will decrease by 20,000. The only global study suggests that this is true internationally: by 2050, there will be almost 400,000 more heat-related deaths a year, and almost 1.8 million fewer cold-related deaths. Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.

It Doesn’t Take An Economist … Or Does It?

The main effect of these schemes would be to raise the costs of cutting emissions. Much of the money doled out by the government would inevitably be wasted, adding to the overall bill for fighting climate change. Worse, such measures would risk distorting the carbon market, steering private capital as well as public money away from the cheapest technologies and towards those that have caught the eye of the politicians.

Climate fraud summit: ‘Worst-case scenarios are being realised’ | Climate Change

Climate trends are worsening and accelerating. “(T)he worst-case IPCC (for ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’) scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realised.”

Ocean Allegedly Expected to Rise 5 Feet Along Coastlines

SAN FRANCISCO - Driven by global warming, the ocean is expected to rise nearly 5 feet along California’s coastline by the end of the century, hitting San Francisco Bay the hardest of all, according to a state study released Wednesday.

» Climate change deniers are flat-earthers and mentally ill | Dvorak

Socialist/activist/columnist George Monbiot chimes in with another funny analogy. Apparently if you question the global warming agenda you think AIDS can be treated with beetroot and lemon juice. Interesting assertion by a non-existent association. I mean, cripes!

Nice Minneapolis Star Tribune headline: "Gallup: Global warming skepticism growing in U.S."

More Americans are skeptical about the seriousness of global warming than ever before, according to a survey released this week by the Gallup organization.

Speaking of the Twin Cities, yesterday's high of 8 degrees F fell only 53 degrees short of the 61 degrees reached in 1902, the year before those damn Wright brothers destroyed the planet with their planet-frying flying machines.

Dr. Don Easterbrook’s Letter to Andy Revkin, New York Times Story

...take a look at the attached satellite image of March 9, 2009 and compare it to the satellite image of June, 2008. Notice that cool water in the Pacific that extends from the equator all the way up the west coast of North America into the Gulf of Alaska is still firmly entrenched. This is the cool water phase of the PDO and it isn’t going to change for at least 2-3 decades (at least it never has in the past)and it is unaffected by atmospheric CO2 as shown by the three PDO switches this century that occurred before atmospheric CO2 increased significantly. What this means is that no matter what the cause of global warming and cooling, we cannot escape the conclusion that the Earth is in for global cooling for the next 2-3 decades and will bring increasing energy and resource demands at a time of rapidly escalating population growth.

Video: Bill Clinton doesn’t understand human biology? - OT

This may be the stupidest thing I’ve heard since Phil Donohue and Vladimir Posner tried arguing a few years back that human embryos become fish and dogs before becoming humans. (Yes, they did; I watched it with my jaw trailing the floor.) Unfertilized eggs have no research value in stem cell work because they don’t produce anything; they’re genetically incomplete. Only after fertilization does an egg become an embryo. Nor is Clinton simply making a momentary mis-speak; he repeats this no less than six times in this interview with Sanjay Gupta.

And note that Gupta — a physician who was Barack Obama’s first choice as Surgeon General — never bothers to correct Clinton. Did Gupta miss that lesson in pre-med?

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Public Opinion and Climate Policy: How about a completely voluntary "keep your tires inflated properly" policy?

I have long argued that public opinion on climate policy is sufficiently robust to allow for action to take place — the key question being, what action?

300 of 6.7 billion people protest against carbon dioxide in Brussels

It was an impressive feat and an amazing sight, over 300 people in Greenpeace jackets sealing off an entire building. We sat pushed hard up next to one another, three or four people deep, arms locked together to create a human wall. Inside our campaigners told the finance ministers that we would not move to let them out until they agreed to commit the money necessary for a climate bailout.
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The police eventually swooped in on our building and arrested everyone there. We were all handcuffed with cable ties behind our backs, many of the police officers were incredibly brutal and four people ended up being taken to hospital as a result. I could see people being crushed by truncheons, being pulled away by their jaw bones. Faces were harshly forced into the wet concrete ground, knees violently pushed into backs as we were thrust to the ground to be handcuffed. Faces were contorted in pain as ankles were twisted and legs were forced. Each person was then dragged across the concrete and dropped in groups, hands bound, and we waited. Eventually we were all taken on busses to a large basement building for processing by the Belgian police and released without charge a few hours later.

AGW Today: Life Threatening Cold, End Global Warming! : Stop The ACLU

Pure comedy. You have to wonder if people even read what they write. From the Planet In Peril portion of CNN: Team battles Arctic winter to measure melting ice caps
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So, it’s really, really, really cold, the kind of cold that risks lives. They are traveling over the ice all the way to the North Pole to measure the supposed melting ice, which they happen to be traveling across. Did I mention that they are traveling across the ice that is supposedly melting at an unprecedented rate, while it is really, really, really cold?

We Don’ Need No Stinkin’ Treaty! - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Stern is of course the new “climate envoy” for the United States, the apparent voice of reason downplaying the idea of U.S. involvement in some grand Kyoto 2.0 treaty (credit for which apparent realism I give him in a Human Events piece from yesterday).

So it’s unclear which Stern is at work, but at least we do know that he, too, harbors aspirations of finding an end-run around the Constitution’s troublesome two-thirds Senate-approval requirement. It’s pretty clear that this is in fact the Party Line. Maybe it’s OK to talk about it now?

Wind Watch: FAA rejects 13 proposed turbines

ROXBURY — One of two wind-power developers behind a proposed local project said Wednesday he was baffled by a recent federal ruling that rejected 13 of 22 turbines because of height restrictions.

Remembering the Old James Hansen (give him some credit) — MasterResource

” The prospects for having a modest climate change impact instead of a disastrous one are quite good, I think.”

- James Hansen, quoted in Andrew Revkin, “Study Proposes New Strategy to Stem Global Warming,” New York Times, August 19, 2000, p. A12.

Justified Right: Will Everyone Named McCain Please Leave the Republican Party

I grew tired of McCain fighting our agenda, voting against tax cuts, bowing to global warming loons, insulting Christian leaders, ganging against us with his liberal “Gang of 14” and passing useless laws with liberals like Russ Feingold.

Michelle Malkin » Nancy Pelosi: The Jennifer Lopez of congressional travelers

Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is the Jennifer Lopez of congressional travel – fickle, demanding, and notoriously insensitive to the time, costs, and energy needed to accommodate her endless demands. On Tuesday, the indispensable government watchdog Judicial Watch released a trove of public records through the Freedom of Information Act on Pelosi’s travel arrangements with the U.S. military.

As Speaker of the House, Pelosi is entitled to a reasonable level of military protection and transport. But it’s the size of the planes, the frequency of requests and last-minute cancellations, and the political nature of many of her trips that scream out for accountability.

And, of course, it’s the double-barreled hypocrisy. There’s the eco-hypocrisy of the Democrat leader who wags her finger at the rest of us for our too-big carbon footprints and crusades for massive taxes and regulation to reduce global warming...

Jules Crittenden » Suicide Pact!

Better get a good coat, or it’ll be suicide by freezing, John [Kerry]. Check the scientific facts!

Will alarmist Revkin write a major piece on disunity in his own camp?: Alarmist Yulsman takes on alarmist Romm

Could it be that global warming has fallen as a priority for many Americans in part because they now have more immediate concerns, like finding a way to pay for a visit to the doctor, and even for groceries? Or maybe even that many Americans are rightly turned off by people who scream at them that the entire world is coming to an end, and that if you don’t believe it you are a dupe of people who are the moral equivalent of Nazis?

Webposted: Lubos Motl dissects Revkin's motivations - Calls a Revkin a 'Merry Coward'

If I return to [Andy Revkin], I can easily imagine him in the first months or years after this global warming virago collapses - because I can map him to effectively similar people in Czechoslovakia transitioning from communism to freedom. He will surely be painting himself as one of those more courageous people who was oh so badly suppressed by the evil alarmist aparatchiks in the New York Times - but he was still boldly writing almost the right stuff on his Dot Earth blog. And of course, people will be buying it because many of them have been, let's admit, even less courageous than Andrew Revkin. ;-) Most people simply see the alarmist whackos infiltrating all important places in the society, including Exxon, so they will surely respect the party line, won't they?

The American Spectator : Has Obama Killed Carbon Cap and Trade?

President Obama has driven a stake in the heart of his carbon cap-and-trade program. By transforming it from a relatively cost-effective environmental program into a cash cow to finance his ambitious health and social welfare agenda, he has encumbered it with very expensive baggage. Blue Dog Democrats and conservation-minded Republicans will gag on its cost to an economy now racked by recession.

Cap and Horse Trade: Obama’s Uphill Battle for Climate Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Passing cap-and-trade legislation was always going to be an uphill battle, made only tougher by the continuing deterioration of the economy. But the further the climate bill moves from an openly debated environmental program toward a social agenda implemented by fiat, the tougher it’s going to get.

Dick Witzig: You’ve been lied to by the media | RecordCourier.com

To the dismay of the UN, our wacko environmentalists and “cap and trade” politicians (preparing to burden you with unnecessary taxes) the “manmade global warming” hoax is being debunked by hundreds of expert climatologists. The planet continues its decade of cooling. By the way CO2 is not a noxious gas, you’re exhaling it. CO2 levels have no bearing on planetary temperature. You’ve been lied to. Readers, please check this assertion. Dr. Roy Spencer, Lord Moncton.....or hundreds of their colleagues (vis UN climate conference in Poland December 2008), Hadley in GB are reliable experts in the field of climatology. Al Gore is not an expert. He is a dufus getting rich on a hoax. I find it offensive that this dufus thinks we are dufi.

While Barack, etal, are about to commit billions of your (your children and grandchildrens’) dollars to windmills and solar energy, which comprise less than 2 percent of our current energy source, they oppose building refineries and safe, clean nuclear power plants (the source of 75 percent of France’s power). Can you picture Obama, Pelosi and Reid driving around in a car with a solar panel on the hood, a sail on the roof and a windmill on the trunk? No, the “Obamamobile” is for the masses.

April '08: AIG Completes Funding of Carbon Offset Projects in China and the United States | Reuters

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)-- American International Group, Inc. (AIG) announced today that it has completed funding for projects in China and the United States that will reduce or sequester greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Total funding of the projects is approximately $4 million.

Dec '08: Lehman misses out on carbon credit scam - Telegraph

What is the connection between the bankrupt Lehman Brothers and the likelihood that in four years' time our electricity bills will jump another 25 per cent (on top of the rises likely from soaring coal and gas prices)?

The answer is that, before its collapse, Lehman was pitching to become the leader in the vast trade created by the new worldwide regulatory system to "fight climate change" by curbing emissions of carbon dioxide.

Nov '08: Goldman Sachs bets on carbon offsets - FierceFinance

Goldman Sachs has been actively investing in carbon offset companies, betting that offsets will become big business soon, reports the New York Times.

Undated: Bank of America bets on carbon offsets

NEW YORK and LONDON, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America and Climate Exchange PLC today announced that Bank of America will become a member of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the world's first and North America's only voluntary emissions exchange with a legally binding greenhouse gas reduction registry and trading program. In addition, Bank of America has committed to join the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) and the European Climate Exchange (ECX). Bank of America will also develop, market and execute new environmentally focused products utilizing CLE-linked offsets, which are credits used by individuals and corporations to reduce total carbon footprint. Bank of America will help drive revenue to CLE through the sale of such environmentally-focused products.

Bank of America's membership on the CCX is a key step in the development of its carbon emission credit trading platform, which is part of the bank's $20 billion environmental initiative to support the growth of environmentally sustainable business activity to address global climate change.