Denver Energy Industry Examiner: Man's contribution to climate change is negligible in geologic time

Most geologists, including those in the energy business, take a REALLY long view of the earth's history including global warming and cooling cycles. Within the framework of geologic time, i.e. the earth's history, man is a very late entry and relatively small contributor to climate changes.

Surely we aren't talking about THE Andrew Ferrence?!

"Frost Heaves Partner with Climate Action Group"

South Burlington, Vt.-The Vermont Frost Heaves of the Premier Basketball League are pleased to announce that they have joined the ranks of athletes and sports teams to partner with 350.org, a group dedicated to curbing global warming and moving the planet to a clean-energy economy.

"As professionals themselves, the Frost Heaves have respect for what the pros in any discipline say-and the most credible science holds that we'll need to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million to avoid irreversible damage to the earth," said team president Alexander Wolff. "Sports and athletes can reach the public in powerful ways, and we're proud to team up with a group raising awareness and urging action in this critical area."

Other 350 Athletes include linebacker Dhani Jones of the Cincinnati Bengals; Boston Bruins defenseman Andrew Ferrence; mountaineering legend Conrad Anker; Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist Anders Aukland of Norway; U.S. cross-country cycling Olympian Adam Craig; and the Clif Bar Under 23 Cyclocross Team. Two of the Frost Heaves' Vermont neighbors, mountain bikers Sabra and Lea Davison of Jericho, are also 350 Athletes.

Is Global Warming A Hoax? The Real Story on Climate Change and the Non-Future of Human Civilization (opinion) by Mike Adams the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) Is global warming a hoax? We've received a huge number of reader questions (and even complaints) about this issue. Many are convinced that global warming is just a hoax contrived by the government to grab power and destroy the economy. In my view, that explanation is half right.

ABC's Stephanopoulos Declares Cap and Trade Dead for 2009 | NewsBusters.org

This is marvelous news for climate realists the world over, for the longer we go without cap and trade, the less interested Americans will be in supporting such given the cooling the planet has seen since 1998. And, as even the warmers agree that this trend is likely to go several more decades, the window of opportunity for the Gorebots is beginning to close.

I hope that makes YOUR Saturday better, for it sure did mine.

American Thinker Blog: Kids Are Being Taught That Carbon Kills Polar Bears

And should your 7-year-old return home from school one day upset that your “carbon footprint” is killing poor Koda the polar bear, explain to the little tyke that polar bear populations have more than doubled since 1960. That warming is over, that it wasn’t caused by anything people did and never threatened polar bears. And that what he or she saw in class wasn’t real, but only make-believe.

Just like manmade global warming itself.

Wind Watch: Feinstein tries to halt solar projects on donated land

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is urging the U.S. Department of Interior to stop processing applications for more than a dozen solar energy projects sought on Mojave Desert land that was donated to the government by a conservation group.

Gallup: “Support for Nuclear Energy Inches Up to New High”

Good news! As many as 59 percent of Americans now support nuclear energy, according to the Gallup organization. Gallup notes there is still a significant gender gap in support for nuclear, with 71 percent of men supporting it to only 47 percent of women.

Twitter / Carl Graham

Saw The Great Global Warming Swindle today w/Campaign for Liberty @ MSU. Great flick. You can Google & watch it, too.

Al Gore’s ETSU talk moved to mini-dome

Former Vice President Al Gore will speak in East Tennessee State University’s Memorial Center next week to accommodate as many listeners as possible, ending concerns by some they would be denied access.

Gore will deliver “Health Threats and the Climate Crisis” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the university’s major sporting event complex, also known as the mini dome, allowing roughly 3,000 people to hear him speak.

Originally, Gore was scheduled to speak in the D.P. Culp University Center’s Martha Street Culp Auditorium. The university had provided for about 800 free tickets to the auditorium and about 900 more for additional broadcast sites on campus. All those tickets were gone within one hour of becoming available on Thursday, prompting the circulation of petitions on campus to get the venue changed to accommodate everyone who wants to attend.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cap-and-trade traded away?

George Stephanopolous reported yesterday that Senate Democrats forced Barack Obama to choose between two break-the-bank policies for this year. The White House apparently surrendered on cap-and-trade in order to get started on a massive overhaul of the nation’s health-care delivery system....
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That may put off the rest of his reforms until 2011, though. Obama will not want to impose a nationalized system in an election year, especially if he’s performing as badly then as he has in the last two months. Republicans are already licking their chops for the midterms, and a major socialist initiatitve will be exactly what they need to compete for control of the House. That probably pushes cap-and-trade to 2011, too.

Jennifer Marohasy » New Pacific Island

The great majority of oceanic islands in the Pacific were formed by this type of volcanic activity.
While the volcanoes are active, the islands rise relative to the global averaged sea-level. When volcanic activity stops, the islands will cool and eventually start to sink.

So there are islands rising and sinking all the time.

In fact the problems at Tuvalu, where Al Gore has claimed seawater inundation from rising sea waters, may have more to do with natural subsidence.

Regarding the Economics of Environmentalism, A Response to CAP’s Brad Johnson | GlobalWarming.org

So it seems there is some uncertainty on global warming. What is certain, however, is that reducing emissions also reduces economic growth, by making energy more expensive.

American Thinker Blog: Al Gore vs. 7 Climate Scientists

The dissenters against Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming (AGW) have long desired an open and honest debate with Al Gore. But Mr. Gore has never consented.

Here’s the next best thing: a video presentation of edited arguments from 7 renown climate scientists that demolish the rationalizations presented in Gore's movie “An Inconvenient Truth."

New guide to bogus climate change solutions released « melange

Rising Tide North America is pleased to announce the release of the first short yet comprehensive survey of these bogus climate change solutions.

” A world free of climate change” — The Climate Scam

Coventry climate change funeral march, featuring Jim Hansen. Fortunately, only a few hundred participated. Perhaps even the British are growing tired of Hansen’s alarmism?

Australian Climate Madness: Earth Hour - why bother?

Earth Hour is being criticised from all sides - the Greenies think it's a pointless political gesture, and the sceptics think it's, er, a pointless political gesture. Given the choice, The Age will only focus on the first of these, of course...

Climate Observations: Oceanic Volcanism and Sea Surface Temperature

As you will note in the video, Sea Surface Height and Sea Surface Temperature anomalies vary greatly over the course of days, weeks, months, years, and decades. These continuous perturbations are not likely caused by an infrequent awakenings of oceanic volcanoes. They’re caused by coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions.

Artists Explore Antarctica’s Alleged "Long Goodbye" - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

My piece on a new study proposing that West Antarctica’s meltdown would take centuries to get under way and millenniums to complete inspired a couple of readers to point to artwork on this issue.

American Thinker Blog: More Global Warming Alarmist Child Abuse?

What do you suppose Donna Woelfel-Bergh is teaching her children? And why?

Woelfel-Bergh said of her daughter, "She loves being on stage and performing."

And just who do you suppose might be directing this little tearjerker?

Earth Hour sponsors admit they’re hypocrites | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Aware of the criticism, Earth Hour’s organisers last year countered it with something concrete: businesses that signed up would need to pledge to reduce their emissions over the following year by 5 per cent. But this year, even that requirement has been dropped, and there has been no accounting of whether last year’s sponsors lived up to their pledge.

“We decided we’d actually downplay (concrete cuts) this time,” says Greg Bourne, chief executive of Earth Hour’s organiser, WWF Australia.

McKnight may be righter than he thinks | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Wow. Lavoisier has website link to a free-maket think tank? To a reputable think tank that hasn’t actually had a donation from Exxon-Mobil since 2005? Must be corrupt, then.

But the amounts McKnight bandies about are actually so pathetic that to call them peanuts is to flatter them. You want to see money so vast that you might indeed wonder at the corruption of public debate? Then check the Times’ list of the world’s green billionaires and you’ll see that money really is colored green...

Kerry promotes global warming scam - Local & State - News & Observer

CHAPEL HILL -- Americans should treat the fight against global warming as this generation's civil rights movement, rising up against companies that are planning a massive lobbying campaign to block efforts to reduce carbon emissions, Sen. John Kerry said Friday.

"I believe we have staring us in the face a moment of remarkable opportunity and we need to seize it," Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said.

The test, he said, is whether the nation will find the political will, and whether people will rise up and hold elected and business leaders accountable, he said.

The Herald Bulletin - VIewpoint: Global warming is a scam, not a crisis

By Michael Imhof

Global warming is a scam. I’m not the only one of this opinion. John Coleman, Weather Channel founder and meteorologist, has repeatedly gone on record blasting this bogus doctrine...

Promoting the climate scam in schools: Elementary school kids inspired to 'get rid of the villain Mr. Carbon' -'(boo! hiss!)'

Cool the Earth is an organization that reaches into elementary school classrooms and Girl Scout troops all over the country, and they're working to make saving energy and being good stewards of our natural resources fun. Participating schools are given a packet of materials to kick off the program with an all school assembly, where characters like Koda the polar bear, Earth, Mother Nature, and Mr. Carbon (boo! hiss!) introduce the topic of global warming and how human actions contribute to the problem. The kids are inspired to save Koda's icy homeland by getting rid of the villain Mr. Carbon.

The students are given a small book of action coupons to take home that recommend tips such as powering down home electronics that use energy when officially "off" but are still in standby mode by unplugging the device or turning off the power at a power strip. Students can earn rewards in the form of prize cards featuring Wasteful Wendy, Rennie Reusable and other characters, for actions such as getting their families to eat one pound less of beef in a week, thereby saving 130,000 gallons of water (the water to grow the crops to feed the cattle, and so on.)

Global warming? More doubts - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

New studies suggest that "global warming" -- no matter if its origins are proffered as man-made or part of a natural cycle -- might soon require a new name. Can you say "global stasis" or "global cooling"?

The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice - Telegraph

The ony problem with a project to prove that Arctic ice is disappearing is the fact that it is actually getting thicker, says Christopher Booker.

'Superstar' Knut: Poster Bear for Warming Dangers No More

According to “Good Morning America,” “he was one of the biggest stars in the world.” Knut was “big business” for the zoo, but also for environmentalists and their global warming alarmist agenda.

But now that Knut isn’t so cuddly, but is in fact a “killing machine” the media and alarmists have shifted the spotlight away from him.

George Monbiot, John Tomlinson debate global warming

Is this the right climate for climate change?

Today, you can't turn on the TV or radio without someone from the Democratic Party telling us the economy is in shambles. So why drive economic production down further with ill conceived climate change policy, especially one that does not result in measurable global effectiveness? Don't forget, as the U.S. curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions, China, India, Russia and other nations without such strict environmental policy will only increase their emissions. Is this increased economic strain worth it?

Regents approve climate change minor at UM | KXNet.com North Dakota News

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) The University of Montana is adding a minor in climate change studies beginning this fall, school officials announced.

The program includes classes in climate change science, ethics and possible solutions.

UM Regents Professor of Ecology Steve Running, who shared a Nobel Prize on climate change with former Vice President Al Gore, will direct the program.

A long, wet winter could translate into good growing conditions for Swiss farmers. - swissinfo

Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere after a long winter of a kind that hasn't been seen in Switzerland for 20 years.

Recession Killing Obama Climate Plan - Capital Commerce (usnews.com)

If it want to still push a green plan, better the White House eventually pivot and instead push a carbon tax that, for instance, returns 100 percent of revenue back to consumers as a dividend. That's the plan favored by climate activist and NASA scientist James Hansen. Or it could adopt the "tax what you burn, not what you earn" approach of Al Gore, who advocates replacing America's Social Security payroll tax with a revenue-neutral carbon tax.

New FERC Chief Buys Into Climate Change Scam - washingtonpost.com

Add a new name to the list of Obama appointees devoted to aggressive action on climate change.

President Obama yesterday named Jon Wellinghoff -- a lawyer who once served as Nevada's consumer advocate and a believer that electric-car owners could someday get paid to provide backup battery power to the electricity grid -- as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Chris Mooney - Climate Change's Myths and Facts - washingtonpost.com

Readers and commentators must learn to share some practices with scientists -- following up on sources, taking scientific knowledge seriously rather than cherry-picking misleading bits of information, and applying critical thinking to the weighing of evidence. That, in the end, is all that good science really is. It's also what good journalism and commentary alike must strive to be -- now more than ever.
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Chris Mooney is the author of "The Republican War on Science" and co-author of the forthcoming "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future."

If the world is warming, why was winter cold and snowy? | theithacajournal.com | The Ithaca Journal

For all that cold Artic air, we can thank La Niña. But for the snow, part of the blame goes to global warming.

Oversight Kills Climate Change Bill Passed by Utah Legislature - KCPW

(KCPW News) A bill that would have limited the executive branch's power to enter into climate change agreements was killed by a technical glitch this legislative session. But Rep. Roger Barrus (R-Centerville) says he's already working on several scenarios to revive his bill. One of these is to include it in a request for a special session, which is solely up to the governor to convene.

Dr. Syun Akasofu on IPCC’s forecast accuracy « Watts Up With That?

It is advised that the IPCC recognize at least the failure of their prediction even during the first decade of the present century; a prediction is supposed to become less accurate for the longer future.

Warning Signs: The First Day of Spring

The early morning snowfall that greeted the first day of spring on parts of the East Coast seems symbolic to me of the undeniable fact that the Earth is into its tenth year of a cooling cycle. As it continues to cool, perhaps for another twenty to thirty years, such snowfall will not be regarded as anything but old news.

American Biodiesel Makers Reeling - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Low diesel prices and high soy prices are “the exact opposite of what they need to really be profitable,” Mr. Zindler said — adding that biodiesel, much like ethanol, may now need to rely on government quotas for biofuels to survive, because at the moment “there is no market-based reason for consumers to buy biodiesel.”

Jennifer Marohasy » The Ocean Really is Cooling

Craig Loehle has analysed the data from only the profiling floats for ocean heat content from 2003 to 2008. In a paper recently published in the journal Energy and Environment he has concluded that there has been ocean cooling over this period.

"Optimistic" Obama Distances Himself from "Malthusian, woe, Chicken Little, the earth is falling" — MasterResource

Well, here is a little secret that should be brought out in the open. Most business executives following the climate-change debate believe that the climate alarm is exaggerated and is here-we-go-again Malthusianism. Obama sensed this and backed off from Malthusianism, as well as brought up the shaky subject of climate science. A psychologist would call this a double win for the “skeptics.” Indeed, if the science were really “overwhelming” in favor of a problem and a government solution, it would be recognized and agreed upon, and the president of all people would not need to state it.

A Preview for Pres. Obama? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Mandated solar generated electricity for Los Angeles is voted down...

Enough gunk! We need fresh air in the debate | The Australian

What's in a name? The lie. For the truth is that it is not a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, but a Carbon Dioxide -- pollution or not -- reduction scheme.

Just a minor difference? An understandable, even appropriate, abbreviation? No way. The difference is huge and quite deliberate. It's not even "justified" on the basis of a snappy acronym. CPRS or CDPRS -- neither has the vowel necessary for snappiness.

There's no question the continual harping on "carbon pollution" is intended to send a subliminal impression. We're getting rid of all those little bits of black stuff floating around in the air. And who can possibly be against that?

Australian Climate Madness: Fairfax fantasy - green power is so cheap

Always desperate to plug the green agenda, The Sydney Morning Herald gleefully swallows a WWF report that claims Australia could build a low-carbon economy based on solar, wind and geothermal power for less than half the cost of the Government's economic stimulus package.

Lubchenco’s Goals on Oceans and Climate - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Q. Will you continue the work you’ve done trying to improve how scientists communicate findings pointing to human-driven climate change and the consequences for society?

A. It’s becoming harder and harder to deny that changes are under way. The science is just so overwhelming. In terms of specific groups of people and just citizens, we have an obligation to provide information to Americans about climate and other changes and that information needs to be relevant to their lives and credible, obviously, and understandable to them.

AMBROSE: Human sacrifices to global warming god

Back in 1500, we learn from a Princeton professor, the Aztecs figured the climate debate was over, and that if you wanted rain and sunshine and other such blessings, it was simple enough what you had to do — sacrifice 20,000 lives a year to the right gods.

In the year 2009, it’s an equally sure thing in the minds of some that carbon in the atmosphere is going to fry us unless we put the welfare of millions on the line, and here is the latest on President Obama’s plan — it could cost industry almost $2 trillion over an eight-year period.

UK: Anger after government halts solar energy grant programme | Environment | The Guardian

The government ran into a storm of criticism yesterday after quietly closing its grant programme for solar energy last week, which campaigners said made a mockery of its commitment to build a low-carbon economy.

California Legislator Wants to Halt Global Warming Act - by Krystle Russin - Environment & Climate News

Citing devastating economic consequences and a lack of real-world environmental impact, California Assemblyman Dan Logue has introduced legislation to suspend AB 32, the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

Two Scientific Approaches | Climate Skeptic

We’ve reached an incredible level of statistical hubris, that somehow we can manipulate tiny signals from noisy and biased data without any knowledge of the physical realities on the ground (”bias” used here in its scientific, not its political/cultural meaning)

Washington Times - TYRRELL: Cap-and-trade promises disaster

In this setup there will be countless opportunities for corruption as polluters try to bribe CAP's agents, or the agents try to elicit bribes. As with the SEC, there will be incompetence and lax enforcement. Finally, there will be senators and members of the House of Representatives making special pleadings for corporations in their regions, labor unions, special pleaders of all sorts.

Obama budget will bring back $4-per-gallon gas

Though the president has pledged that 95 percent of Americans won’t see their taxes rise by a single dime, his administration fails to tell us that every single one of us will see higher energy prices as a result of his budget.

By hiking taxes on energy companies and imposing a gigantic global warming tax, Obama virtually ensures rising costs for the energy we need.

The Obama budget’s massive tax increases on domestic energy have somehow slipped under the radar, yet it’s these tax hikes and other punitive measures that will surely reduce domestic energy supply and increase energy costs.

Through a mixture of production tax increases and manipulative tax code restructuring, Obama’s budget slaps a whopping $80 billion tax hike on energy companies. In a brazen political move, the budget would single out the oil and gas industry alone for harsher tax treatment.

Cleaning Coal Won't Be Dirt Cheap - WSJ.com

So far, the test is grabbing only about 1% of the greenhouse gas the plant coughs out. The method still consumes too much energy, says Sean Black, a manager at Alstom SA, the French company managing the test. "We're just in the beginning of this process," he says.

Video: Cooler Heads Coalition Briefing by Dr. David Evans and Joanne Nova

The Cooler Heads Coalition and the Competitive Enterprise Institute present a briefing by Dr. David Evans and Joanne Nova on the state of global warming science and its impact on public policy. Learn more about the global warming debate at www.GlobalWarming.org.

VIDEO: Inhofe Explains Cap and Trade on Fox News

The day after delivering a floor speech on the economic dangers of the Administration's cap and trade program, Senator Inhofe appeared on Fox News to reveal the projected costs.

Michael Steele: ‘We Are Not Warming’ - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Steele -– the originator of the “drill baby drill” slogan that dominated last year’s Republican National Convention — appears to be aligning himself with Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, also a Republican, who has denounced the idea of a global warming catastrophe as “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” and said that many of the Obama administration’s early moves amounted to “environmental thuggery.”

Alarmist polar expedition: Not powered by wind or sun?

The expedition has access to two sources of electrical power. The first is a fuel cell powered by Methanol.
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The second available power souce is from Lithium Thionyl Chloride (non rechargeable) batteries.

Americans: Economy Takes Precedence Over Environment

PRINCETON, NJ -- For the first time in Gallup's 25-year history of asking Americans about the trade-off between environmental protection and economic growth, a majority of Americans say economic growth should be given the priority, even if the environment suffers to some extent.

Breakthrough: The Challenge Ahead: More than a Third of Senate Now "Swing" Vote on Climate

A high hurdle: of the 36 Senators identified as swing votes, all but seven must be convinced to vote "Yes" in order to secure passage of any climate policy in the U.S. Senate.

Peter Foster: Climate protectionism - FP Comment

Like so many of President Obama’s other choices for his cabinet, Mr. Chu is turning out to be a disaster, both for his quasi-religious belief in global warming pseudo-science and for his Do-It-Yourself economics. Meanwhile he doesn’t seem to know much about energy beyond his own research cul-de-sac of solar, wind and biofuels. And we Canadians getting heated about whether our science minister believes in Adam and Eve.

Climate Change Issues Warm-up as the Obama Administration Hosts Euro - GLG News

What is totally unclear is the amount that humans are causing, I have heard from as low as 8% to as high as 70%, who’s right. Frankly we can’t tell who’s right and the reason for that is that we can not accurately model the world’s global climate. It is too large and complicated a task to complete. I understand that statement is hard to accept, but it remains a fact, we just can’t in this instance know it all. So what does this mean, do we bury our collective heads in the sand and not address our portion to climate change or do we address our portion whatever it may be and do what we can.

9-year-old girl 'cries herself to sleep' over Gore's climate scam...'It just broke my heart'

The night Michelle Bergh saw a television special about Arctic warming trends' threat to polar bears, the 9-year-old cried herself to sleep.

"It just broke my heart. This is a really big deal. They're dying," the Stillwater girl said. "I really want my children and grandchildren to see a polar bear some day."
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"It absolutely upset her. Tears were streaming down her face," said her mother, Donna Woelfel-Bergh. "She went to bed sobbing that night."

Nenana Ice Classic update: Note that the March 19 ice thickness is GREATER in 2007-2009 than it was in 1989-1991

Nenana Ice Classic: Data back to 1989 is now available here

The Calgary Sun - Weather stems advance of tree-killing beetles

EDMONTON -- Frigid temperatures this winter have killed off more than 90% of the mountain pine beetles in Alberta forests, scientific data suggests.

Biodiesel backers push mandate to 'save industry' | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

Kibbie said opposition is from petroleum marketers, who stand to lose the income tax deduction, and truckers who are wary of biodiesel because of its propensity to gel in cold weather.

"They have a biodiesel mandate in Minnesota, and there's been plenty of trouble with it there," said Bob Kohlwes, president of BTI Special Commodities trucking company in Des Moines.

More about spring | CharlotteObserver.com

The "creeping" of the seasons has been noticed by meteorologists. They note that the average warmest and coldest days of the year are about two days earlier than about 20 years ago.

Some scientists say this is actually a result of global climate change, and that the real change is the shortening of winter and lengthening of summer. Other scientists disagree, saying the uneven orbit of the earth is causing the seasons to slip slightly.

If that's true, summer could be in December, January and February in another century or two -- but none of us will be around to worry about that.

WalesOnline - News - Wales News - ‘You cannot run the world without coal’

Mr O’Sullivan said: “There is no way to save the world. You can’t stop burning coal because most of the hospitals in the world would close, you’d have no industrial base and no income being earned anywhere in the world.

“The one hope the world has got is that coal will save them.”

Istanbul - Spring remains to be seen

As the entire nation has felt the effects of the cold and rainy weather, snowfall in March in Istanbul has come as a surprise. Both today and tomorrow will be cloudy, however the cold climate is expected to return the two days following.

Seattle P-I: Chinese hold U.S. feet to fire on global warming

Although his country now leads the world in greenhouse gas emissions, a top Chinese official on Wednesday sought to turn up the heat on the United States for talking a good line on global warming -- but not acting.

Receding Glacier Park Ice Not Due to Global Warming - by James M. Taylor - Environment & Climate News

The accompanying figure shows the temperature history for Kalispell, dating back to 1896. Typical of the trend throughout the United States, temperatures peaked in the 1930s (before humans were emitting significant amounts of carbon dioxide) and have been in a long-term cooling trend since then. As the figure shows, temperatures today are below the 100-year average.

Regional land use changes may be affecting the glaciers at Glacier National Park. Almost certainly the “rebound effect” is occurring as the glaciers move

C'mon, is the planet really warming? - The Denver Post

I don't pretend to be a climatologist and I'm not against energy progress; merely a citizen who is troubled by the alarmist's irrational doomsday message and the lack of in-depth scrutiny by the media. With Internet access it's not hard to obtain both sides of the story.

If we continue to accept alarmist's "science" without examination, we shouldn't be surprised when adverse changes in lifestyle and staggering expenses affixed to the greening of America come home to roost.

Alan E. Deegan

Poll: Global Warming Ranks Last in Public Concern - by Thomas Cheplick - Environment & Climate News

Since 2007, when addressing global warming was added as one of the options in the organization’s annual poll, the perceived importance has declined each year. Addressing global warming was seen as a top priority by 38 percent of adults in 2007, 35 percent in 2008, and now 30 percent.

American Thinker Blog: Global Warming Alarmists Propose Limiting Population ... to the Point of Extinction

In a statistical study entitled “Reproduction and the Carbon Legacies of Individuals,” published in Global Environmental Change by Murtaugh and Shlax of Oregon State University, and again published here , the authors propose that the potential savings from reduced reproduction rates among humans are some 20 times more effective than the savings wrought by life style changes.

It is clear that the authors follow the Liberal mantra of the ends justify the means. If we can reduce carbon emissions by reducing the number of children, then we should do it, they gloat. It appears that carbon reductions trump even “life” itself.

American Thinker Blog: The Cure for Global Warming Alarmists

A person who had thought more on this topic than most is the late roguish comedian George Carlin. Carlin developed some very succinct methods of dealing with those who would not listen to reality. In fact, he developed a very special message for those environmental alarmists and Global Warming advocates….a comedic dissertation on their arrogance and stupidity. Suddenly it was no longer tiring or repetitive to engage with liberals. It was actually a hoot!

Society Insults Members by Honoring Hansen - by Bill Gray - Environment & Climate News

James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute, has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the American Meteorological Society’s highest award, the Rossby Research Medal.

I am appalled at this decision, which was announced January 14. Hansen has not been trained as a meteorologist—his formal education was in astronomy—and his long record of faulty global climate predictions and alarmist public pronouncements has become increasingly hollow and at odds with reality.

EU Referendum: The sweet smell of retreat

The UN's "climate change chief" is accusing EU politicians of moving the goalposts in global talks on climate change hysteria.

EU Referendum: You can't just ignore it

Right! One can just see the panic in the streets … "the ice is going to melt in a thousand years time!", the crowds shriek. Maidens swoon, grown men weep and they have emergency debates in parliament. Meanwhile, Louise Gray and her cohorts continue to scoop up the droppings …

EU Referendum: You can be sure of Shell

But when we have John Sauven, the executive director of Greenpeace UK, declaring that Shell has "rejoined the ranks of the dirtiest, most regressive corporations in the world", we know we're on to a winner. Squirm, baby, squirm! I shall make a point of going to a Shell garage next time I need petrol.

Dying for a heatwave | Herald Sun

Never mind. Hadow's team may be deep frozen, half-starved and cut off from rescue by howling gales, while their loved ones shiver in Britain, but think they'll stop believing the world is actually a sauna, and heating to hell?

Hell would freeze over first. This is a faith where believers can feel cold and think hot -- displaying all the symptoms of Festinger's cognitive dissonance, but without feeling any need to reconcile two conflicting perceptions. Theory kaput.

More from the Catlin alarmists

Personally, I am exceptionally glad to be on the move again towards our goal, with fresh kit to try and keep my camera operating. I've also got some new padding to put alongside my frost-bitten toe.

And more

"My sleeping bag is full of ice and I'm not joking when I say that. It is full of ice - inside and out. My breath is frozen on the walls of the tent. Everything I touch is frozen solid...It is difficult to eat, the food we have is frozen into nothing short of the same texture as roofing tiles.

Because pedaling a bike prevents hurricanes: Twitter / Andy Clarke

Sitting in the committee room waiting to testify before the select committee on global warming. Got my bike pin on.

Greening the Trip to the Great Beyond - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

But cremations, green burial advocates say, generate carbon dioxide emissions, mercury (from dental fillings), and other unpleaseant things like dioxin, hydrochloric acid and sulphur dioxide.

CO2 Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Economic Train Wreck, Constitutional Crisis, Legislative Thuggery — MasterResource

Call it an economic train wreck, a constitutional crisis, or legslative thuggery. Litigation-driven regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) under the Clean Air Act (CAA) is all of the above.

Obama Will Shock Consumers with Higher Electric Bills » The Foundry

Hold onto your thermostat as well as your wallet! Annual utility bills may rise $1,800 under President Obama’s “cap and trade” energy tax plan. That wipes out his pledge of a $800 a year tax cut for 95% of Americans.

$750 billion green investment could revive economy: U.N. | Environment | Reuters

Steiner also said that the world urgently needed funds to jump start a U.N. deal to fight global warming, due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December to succeed the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.

He floated the possibility of taxing oil in rich nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to help a new pact become the cornerstone of a greener economy.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » China’s argument du jour for finishing off a livable climate

Now as this country appears poised to take serious action, China has announced plans to keep expanding coal use at a pace so rapacious it would single-handedly finish off the climate no matter what we and the other rich countries do. This forces the Chinese to construct ever more elaborate arguments to defend their ever more indefensible actions (much as Bush did for most of his presidency).

Alarmist Deltoid: Shorter Heartland Conference

Allow me to shorten Heartland's 2009 International Conference on Climate Change for you...

Swift Solutions: An Immodest Proposal for Fighting Global Warming - Environmental Capital - WSJ

A couple of observations are in order. Calling the planned cap-and-trade program a tax seems to underscore the point made by Rep. John Larson, who just introduced a bill to establish a straight carbon tax. The main argument against carbon taxes in Washington is that “tax” is a dirty word, even though people as different as Exxon boss Rex Tillerson and Al Gore favor that approach.

But since opponents of cap-and-trade call that a tax anyway (since it will raise energy prices) maybe the idea of a carbon tax is losing some of its negative semantic baggage.

More problems documenting the allegedly overheating Arctic

The sort of problems Martin's likely to encounter on the ice with the Z5, range from the batteries losing power to the camera buttons sticking. Extreme cold prevents the chemical reaction required for batteries to work and release power, which can only be remedied by keeping the battery warm and therefore using a rotation system with one battery on the camera and another keeping warm inside your jacket. The internal workings of the camera will operate for a few hours down to about -30˚C before the tape mechanism starts to struggle and the mechanisms controlling the focus and zoom rings start to stiffen and eventually will cease to work at all, the lens regularly freezes over, spindrift gets everywhere and the lcd screen will freeze at about -20˚C making it unusable.

As if that isn't enough to contend with, the real difficulty lies in actually using the camera in the cold. It's a real juggling act between making sure you can operate all the rings and buttons on the camera to achieve the best possible shot, and avoiding getting frostbite as you've had to remove your outer gloves in order to do this!

And more from alarmists in the Arctic

If I am totally honest it is pretty horrid out here and not very nice but you just have to keep on going.

Twitter / Whaleoil

There is little point in debating, Climate Change is a religion populated and proselytized by fanatics. I am a heretic

Twitter / Sarah Livermore

Waaaah! i have to do reasearch a debate on global warming! who even cares?

Iain Murray: A Global Green New Deal - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | GlobalWarming.org

In other words, this global green new deal will solve no problems, while exacerbating the current problem of too little money to go around by extracting more money from the viable economy. Just like the original New Deal, then.

Show Your Work! | GlobalWarming.org

Fiona Harvey of the FT is one of the better journalists covering the environmental beat, but I’m afraid that is a bit like saying that someone is one of the better members of Congress. In this blog entry on green jobs she commendably raises some objections to the idea that “green jobs” can be a panacea, but then shows her own biases with an unsupportable assertion...

Sammy Wilson is a flat earther, fumes eco-film maker - Local & National, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

“Let’s not give any more air time to people who don’t know what they are talking about. This guy is not a scientist, he is not prepared to watch the film or listen to the evidence, so let him go back to the flat earthers,” said Franny.

Last week, the minister told the Belfast Telegraph: “I think there are enough fantasies floating around without me giving any credence to them. If we are going to examine this subject we should examine it in the cold light of the evidence, not the fantasy world of the film producers.”

Ms Armstrong said she believed there was no time to lose in dealing with the problem. “We have just a couple of years left to stop the situation and save everything that we have achieved,” she said. [Via Climate Realists]

WSJ asks some good questions - EDF’s Fred Krupp: On Cap-and-Trade, Offsets, and Indiana Grandmothers

WSJ: One other big objection, to the USCAP climate proposal and probably to the Obama plan, is that it would allow companies to reduce emissions by buying “offsets” made elsewhere, like the proverbial Mongolian wind farms. But there are all kinds of questions about the legitimacy of those offsets. Why would they be any different in the U.S. plan?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Republican governor says the darnedest dumbest thing

All of that applies to a state mileage tax as well. It doesn’t take a $5 million study to understand how much of a burden this would be on Minnesotans.

Climate Progress » Joe Romm » Welcome Rolling Stone readers to “America’s fiercest climate-change activist-blogger”

[The CO2 sensitivity-focused magazine] RS has a list of 100 Agents of Change of which I’m #88 [woo hoo, I beat Joshua Micah Marshall and even Taylor Swift, but why couldn’t I have been 2 ranks lower, fulfilling my lifelong dream of being Agent 86?].

Countries Say Warming Imperils Polar Bears - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

One thing that’s clear about the bears, many biologists say, is they are resilient and adaptable, having survived earlier warm periods since they evolved. The other is that they clearly have a harder time when there is less sea ice. This means that are not likely to vanish entirely, despite the popular mantra of late that we need to “save the polar bear.”

$2.4 Billion for Electric Cars - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

President Obama has announced $2.4 billion in funding to support the next generation of electric vehicles — White House.

Yabba Dabba Doo! - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Will the press one day ask him where we will get the electricity to power all of these promised electric vehicles?

Investor's Business Daily -- Is Socialism Overtaking Capitalism In The Way Schumpeter Foresaw?

So far we've got the stratospheric spending to the tune of a $3.6 trillion budget, and from planned investment in everything from green energy to mortgage securities to autos, it seems that the alleged good that comes with government largesse will morph into the bad of government-directed investment.

Denmark Vesey: The Aztec King & The Global Warming Scam

There was once an Aztec king who demanded excessive tribute from his subjects in the form of gold and crops. Eventually the people refused.

The king warned the people that if they failed to pay him tribute he would tell his God to "take the sun away" and everyone would eventually die.

The people still refused, realizing no one could "take the sun away".

Mitchell Anderson | Climate Realists Allegedly Grumpy Over New Climate Fraud Promotion

The most sinister PR campaign in history would of course like to continue spinning the myth of perpetual controversy about climate science, however this learning resource is crystal clear...

American Thinker: Capping & Trading on Obama's $250,000 Lie

Like the stealth carbon tax program which underscores the point, Obama’s $250,000 “no tax increase” cap is little more than a hustle.

Fraudulent in purpose and perpetrated by the consummate con man.

Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy :: Great Tar Sands Debate - UofRegina - LIVEBLOG

-Petro Prime Minister, son of an oil man. He thinks climate change is a scam to cheat oil men from money.

Carbon market poised for first wave of post-2013 trading

The low price of carbon might have attracted plenty of criticism, but those in the know are already preparing for the post-2013 recovery

But how's it working in Europe?: Why the United States REQUIRES a strong climate bill to remain competitive, Part 1

Contrary to popular belief, a strong climate bill will not harm US competitiveness. Quite the reverse — it is our only hope for restoring U.S. leadership in key job creating industries such as solar energy, wind power, and automobile manufacturing, which was lost in large part because of conservative orthodoxy

TheHill.com - Climate debate focus shifts away from environment, toward jobs

Although Democrats, who are more supportive of a cap-and-trade program than Republicans, are firmly in control of Congress, several prominent members within the caucus remain concerned about job losses and the impact higher energy prices could have on lower-income workers under the climate proposal.

Given that dynamic, supporters say, the shift from save-the-planet to save-our-jobs is no accident, and Obama’s success in convincing people of his worldview will determine how successful his climate program will be.

“It’s deliberate and very smart,” said Matt Bennett, vice president for public affairs at The Third Way, a think tank with close ties to centrist Democrats on Capitol Hill. “The president understands that the only thing that really resonates with the American people right now is economic recovery and growth.

small dead animals calls James Hansen "The Man Who Invented Global Warming"

And I mean "invented" in the strictest sense of the word

Global carbon price unlikely for 10-15 years: analysts - Carbon Offsets Daily

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A single global price for carbon emissions is not likely for another 10 to 15 years because governments are dragging their heels on legislation, market analysts said on Wednesday.

“By 2025, we could have one single currency,” orbeo carbon analyst Emmanuel Fages said at a Point Carbon emissions trading conference in Copenhagen.

Big, Big, BIG Money: Elizabeth Kolbert: Donating to the Deniers

Consider, for example, the contributions made in the last election cycle by Caterpillar’s corporate PAC. It contributed ten thousand dollars to Congressman Joe Barton, Republican of Texas and five thousand dollars to Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma.

Contradict a green at your peril | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Confront a green zealot and you could be hauled up for persecuting a religious minority...

A clanger from the Green/Left "New Scientist" magazine

Now this article was written in 2007 when there were many who had faith in such modelling. Now stating as evidence that General Climate Models must be valid because computer modelling of stock markets have worked so well is now obviously ridiculous. Then it was just a logical fallacy.

Pearce sets himself up as an expert on this when he obviously is not and he has been caught out by the fact that it is foolish to believe computers can foretell the future. Further to this, his extreme ignorance is shown by saying "financial markets are much trickier to model than the climate". It shows the author to lack an understanding of the complexity in the creation of a GCM and the weather.

There is also a link to prove GCMs have already predicted the future. It is J Hansen's 1988 prediction that is referenced. I thought that prediction failed!

Peter Ferrara: The American Spectator : You've Got to Have Heartland

The observed result is just the opposite of the modeled global warming fingerprint pattern. The data from weather balloons shows no increasing warming with altitude, but rather a slight cooling, with no hotspot. The satellite data confirms this result, no increasing temperature with altitude, no hotspot, no fingerprint.

This was the most important point made by the brilliant scientists from around the world who attended the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute in New York City last week.

The cap and tax menu « Dirty Democrats

This is just bad policy and worse economics. It is a fraud on the tax payers. These political con artist know that if they tried a direct tax on voters they would be thrown out of office so they concoct a way to make business collect the tax for them with a bogus promise to refund it to a select few Democrat constituencies. This is one of the most outrageous scams in the history of the world to help Democrats enact their control freak agenda. That these businesses went along with just proves how much company Enron had in pushing this scam.”

More from alarmist Bryan Walsh: In Search of the Climate's Tipping Point - TIME

When asked to quantify the impact of climate change, scientists come up with a lot of interesting answers, no two of them quite the same. For the lay person, then, perhaps the simplest way to understand it is to imagine a distant asteroid, somewhere out in space, on a collision course with Earth. It's not clear when or where the asteroid will hit, or exactly how severe the consequences will be. But it is clear that when it happens, the consequences will be far worse — and last far longer — than any natural disaster humanity has ever known.

That is the threat to the planet that many scientists can agree is posed by climate change.

Funny numbers from Palm Desert, California « Climate Sanity

There is something funny about these numbers. This is just one more gear in the elaborate political/economic/eco-religious Rube Goldberg machine that delivers energy to consumers in California.

Despite popular opinion and calls to action, the Maldives are not being overrun by sea level rise « Watts Up With That?

When somebody mentions “Maldives”, the image above of a tropical paradise often springs to mind. Andy Revkin wrote a story recently about the Maldives on his NYT Dot Earth blog that provoked quite an email exchange that I was privy to today. Here are some highlights...

Americans Couldn't Care Less About Global Warming

A new survey conducted by George Mason University and Yale Project for Climate Change, find that Americans rank global warming as the 10th most important national priority out of 11. This is in line with a Gallup Poll from last week that found the same.

Though global warming concerns are limited in comparison to the economy, people still want the government acting to limit pollution and emissions. The survey also found large support for renewable energy, with 92% of those polled saying they support more funding for research on solar and wind power.

We read these surveys as have your cake and eat them too. Lots of people say one thing in a survey, but do another thing in reality. Do we really trust that 79% of the public would be willing to lay out an additional $1,000 for a car that got better fuel milage? Of course not. The plummeting sales of hybrids shows this to be false.

The Raw Story | Climate change deniers have media outlets 'everywhere' now

Peter Dykstra, a climate change columnist for the Mother Nature Network, told RAW STORY that one of the main reasons for this drop in concern can be attributed to the success of climate change deniers in disseminating their message. While they are no more credible now than they were a few years ago, the difference today, says Dykstra, is that they have more friendly media outlets that are willing to broadcast their message.

The Daily Free Press - "Scientists": Boston may be in deep trouble

Northeastern coastal cities such as Boston and New York City could face serious flooding and rising sea levels by the end of the century because of global warming, according to a study released this week.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control has been predicting global sea level rise for years, but the study by Jianjun Yin, a University of Florida professor, is the first regional projection. Computer model simulations forecasted an additional eight inches of sea level rises for New York and Boston compared to the rest of the world.

McKnight contributes $100M to fight climate change - Fort Mill, SC

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota's largest private foundation is contributing $100 million toward a $1 billion initiative by several large foundations to fight climate change.

McKnight Foundation President Kate Wolford says the coordinated strategy is unique but necessary. She says that without immediate action climate change threatens all who are served by the foundations' programs.

According to John Beddington?: Climate will reach 'crisis point' in 2030 - politics.co.uk

"It's a perfect storm," Prof John Beddington will tell the Sustainable Development UK 09 conference.

John Beddington: Information from Answers.com

Beddington is a specialist in the economics and biology of sustainable management of renewable resources...

JoNova's "The Skeptics Handbook" updated

Global Warming | JoNova

Rise above the mudslinging in the Global Warming debate. Here are the strategies and tools you need to cut through the red-herrings, and avoid the traps.

John Kay, Jan '07: Green lobby must be treated as a religion

Environmentalism offers an alternative account of the natural world to the religious and an alternative anti-capitalist account of the political world to the Marxist. The rise of environmentalism parallels in time and place the decline of religion and of socialism.

America's Excessive Debt Disease | Editorial

Americans especially disapprove of Obama's costly proposal to generate at least $646 billion in "climate revenues" through 2019---from a "cap and trade" tax for every ton of carbon emitted. These expenses would be dispersed throughout the economy, falling on every consumer large and small. Within ten years they would make "climate revenues" the 6th largest federal revenue stream after individual and corporate income taxes, Social Security and Medicare payroll, and excise taxes. Of that, Obama proposes redistributing $15 billion annually to subsidize alternative fuel and $65 billion to subsidize workers who frequently pay no income taxes.

Worst of all, this proposed "climate tax" wealth redistribution mechanism results from a bogus global warming theory completely debunked scientifically. Human activity generates only 4% of atmospheric carbon, which totals only 2% of the vast global oceanic carbon sink, according to Resource and Environmental Geology Professor Tom Segalstad at University of Oslo. Moreover, atmospheric carbon emissions linger only five to six years---before the calcium-rich oceans absorb them, he says.

A Fox Thought: The Global Warming Story - Comedy or Tragedy - Good story in any case

As time has gone by I realize I am witness to a classic dramatic story unfolding. We are in the tail end of the "Falling Action" phase and rapidly approaching the "Denouement".

FT.com / Business Life - Fighters of climate change (?)

From a solar-powered cardboard cooker for Africa to a giant industrial microwave that locks underground carbon sucked from the atmosphere by vegetation, innovation and ingenuity still offer hope that it is not too late to tackle climate change.

NPR promotes the climate scam: Extreme Ice

Once a climate change skeptic, Balog here presents stirring time-lapse images of melting bodies of ice. By placing cameras throughout the Arctic and programming them to shoot one frame every daylight hour for three years, he and his team were able to capture unprecedented footage of the world in flux. The gathered evidence points to extreme melting in polar regions. But it also suggests that the effects of climate change are occurring at a much more accelerated rate than previously thought. Extreme Ice explores the potential implications of this undeniable "big melt."

If the ice is melting so fast, where's the sea level rise that we were promised?

UK: Climate change: A view from the top | News | Construction News

What do senior managers in the UK’s biggest construction companies really think about the business threats, and opportunities, from climate change?
...
The report showed there was industry-wide agreement that climate change is a threat to their business - 64 per cent thought so, although only 6 per cent rated the threat as “very strong” while more than a third saw it as “quite weak”.

It was also clear that managers below chief executive and chairman level tended to take the threat more seriously than their more senior colleagues.

EURweb.com - JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS: Climate Realists

During an exchange from the WSJ conference, Gore insisted that America is at a “political tipping point.” In other words, the political wheels are already in motion to enact policy based not on scientific fact, but on an ideological agenda.

No one narrative explains the willingness of global warming alarmists to distort facts and ignore or omit evidence that contradicts their theory of human-caused global warming. There is no one reason why alarmists attempt to bully climate realists with authoritative arguments – The IPCC declared it so it must be gospel – or simply refuse to engage contrary theories. There is, however, one narrative that seems ever more likely especially in light of the increasing threat of nationalization of industry. The narrative of social control through the rationing of energy begins to make plenty of sense.

Henny Penny knows more about weather than Al Gore | delawareonline | The News Journal

The largest scam ever is being perpetrated on the public.

Obama and Your Electric Bill - HUMAN EVENTS

So Obama’s $250-billion a year energy tax could approach a 50% increase in what you, as a consumer, pay for energy, since all costs are passed along to consumers. Yet the Obama budget audaciously claims that it will “reduce utility bills”

Schwarzenegger recruits his own green army - 19 Mar 2009 - BusinessGreen.com

California launches new Green Corp scheme to provide young unemployed with green collar training opportunities

www.dcexaminer.com: When America becomes Obamaland

Millions more people will be forced into unemployment lines by Obama’s embrace of former Vice President Al Gore’s strident predictions of imminent ecological disaster caused by global warming, purportedly caused by man’s excessive burning of carbon-based fossil fuels, chiefly oil.

Gore failed during the Clinton years to gain passage of a carbon tax, but Obama’s cap-and-trade program amounts to the same thing. Obama’s plan aims to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2030.

In the meantime, companies that exceeded the annual emissions reduction goals would be able to sell “carbon credits” to companies that fail to reach the goals, with the government collecting revenue on each transaction. Estimates of how much revenue will be raised range from $645 billion to as much as $1.8 trillion. The problem is that every penny of cap-and-trade revenues paid by corporations would be passed on to consumers, making the program effectively a back-door tax increase of massive proportion.

That tax increase will cost as many as four million more jobs, according to the American Council on Capital Formation.

Global Governance of Science

Just WHY does science need to be "governed"? And who is qualified to govern it? If science is not free enquiry, what is? That the governance is said to be "for the common good" identifies it readily with its Fascist and Communist predecessors. "For the common good" is the normal justification for tyranny

Global Warming Alarmist Irked by Cold Weather | NewsBusters.org

Why, oh why, can't Mother Nature cooperate so we can promote our global warming agenda? That pretty much sums up the attitude of global warming alarmist and documentary filmmaker, Gabriel London. His frustration came about over the fact that lately the very cold weather we have been experiencing has made the public more skeptical than ever over global warming. London explains in his Huffington Post blog why he is irked by the cold weather...

EurActiv.com - EU to dodge climate funding decision until summer | EU - European Information on Climate Change

The spring EU summit starting tomorrow (19 March) in Brussels had been expected to reach agreement on the EU's position for global climate negotiations in December. But European leaders are now planning to postpone a decision on funding for developing countries until the next summit in June, according to draft conclusions seen by EurActiv.

Counting the cost of frost - Australia

WITH grain growers reeling from more than $100 million in losses after frost damage last year, some are looking closely at multi peril crop insurance.

Twitter / Steven Rosenberg

What is Mitt's game plan here? I doubt he believes global warming is real; is "America warming" the most innocuous response?

Nasa's James Hansen warns 'democratic process isn't working' in climate change fight | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Protest and direct action could be the only way to tackle soaring carbon emissions, a leading climate scientist has said.

James Hansen, a climate modeller with Nasa, told the Guardian today that corporate lobbying has undermined democratic attempts to curb carbon pollution. "The democratic process doesn't quite seem to be working," he said.

American Thinker: Will Dems go for broke with Obama?

This is the strangest, scariest political season in a long time. The Obama crowd is going for a Great Leap Forward, with socialized medicine, government ownership of the banks, industry-killing carbon taxes, daily scapegoating of the rich, and now depriving wounded veterans of their VA benefits, along with trillion dollar bailouts just for starters.

Did you know about the "World Wide Views on Global Warming" web site?

The primary task for each national partner is to execute the national WWViews approximately two months before the climate summit. The succesful execution of this task is key to the succes of the project, and thus, without the skill and dedication of the national partners, there would be no WWViews.

Tim Nicholson: A green martyr - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

That conviction amounted to a philosophical belief under the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations, 2003, the judge ruled on a point of law at a pre-hearing review of an employment tribunal in London.

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | UN accuses EU over climate change

Yvo de Boer, secretary of the UN climate programme (UNFCCC) told BBC News: "Quite frankly the language from (EU) ministers re-writes some of the fundamental agreements we made in Bali.

"I don't think it's constructive to enter into a negotiation by trying to change the fundamental principles on which you've just agreed the negotiation will be based."

Twitter / jaconsultants

Interesting thing about Shell Oil is that their local rep questioned the reality of global warming at a public mtg. in San Diego.

UNFCCC Workshop Formulates Recommendations Regarding Climate-Related Hazards, Sectoral and National Level Planning - Carbon Offsets Daily

16 March 2009: The Workshop on Integrating Practices, Tools and Systems for Climate Risk Assessment and Management and Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies into National Policies and Programmes convened from 10-12 March 2009, in Havana, Cuba.

Sacked executive 'discriminated against due to belief in climate change' - Telegraph

Mr Nicholson told the tribunal that he clashed with other executives over the way it adopted its policies on the environment and corporate social responsibility.

He said he tried to get the company to act in a more environmentally responsible way, but was obstructed by senior company executives.

In India, Women Farmers Ready to Beat Climate Change

Zaheerabad, Andhra Pradesh - A collective of 5,000 women spread across 75 villages in this arid, interior part of southern India is now offering a chemical-free, non-irrigated, organic agriculture as one method of combating global warming.

Of COURSE we'll commit to miracles happening long after we're safely retired or dead

As debate focuses on 2020 reduction targets, there appears to be no disagreement over longer-term goals. “President Obama’s target of reducing US emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 is very much in line with the level of ambition that developed countries as a group will need to meet,” Mr Dimas said in Washington.

Ocean Acidification Scam « Buy the Truth

The evidence is inexorably mounting that the climate alarmists have been taking us all for a ride. It is only be a matter of time before their agenda is exposed as one of the biggest con tricks of all time. Thus they are already scrambling to breathe new life into the CO2 emissions scare. It will become obvious (by the passage of years if nothing else) that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does not, after all, cause any significant climate change, thus it will be necessary to blame CO2 (and hence man) for some other catastrophic event. So, prepare yourself for the coming “ocean acidification” scam.

Ann Arbor to dim lights on Main Street for Earth Hour

[From the comment section] Seeing as the 100% sham of the Global Warming Crisis" is just that ... a scam... I'll refrain from the obvious jokes about 'dim bulbs':

They just don’t get it: Peabody to develop largest surface coal mine in Eastern US « melange

...it’s hard not to utterly despise the coal companies for their callousness when thinking of all the innocent lives being lost on the planet’s future journey until we get to that point of reckoning.

STOP HIGHER TAXATION PLANNED BY OBAMA at Desert Conservative

As I noted earlier, Obama is unleashing his grassroots team to force
Congress to pass his budget. And he’s using the budget process to
basically get approval on the three key components of his socialistic
agenda:

–massive tax increases

–state takeover of healthcare

–oppressive global warming carbon tax

Roger Evans in row over 'Climate Change Taliban' | Tory Troll

The Conservative leader on the London Assembly is embroiled in a row about referring to opponents of expansion at City Airport as 'the climate change Taliban.'

The Boring Made Dull: Cap-n-Trade: A Massive Tax Hike On The Way

The only real appeal of cap and trade schemes is that it gives the government increased control over the economy and raises government revenues in a convoluted way so that us rubes don’t make the connection that we’re being taxed.

So, spare me the reproaches that it’s not a tax – the government is mandating a change in business practice that generates revenue for the government. The government also controls who gets a cut of the money. Certainly sounds like a tax.

This will likely have the added bonus of closing down any bit of economic activity that relies on coal generated electricity, and energy costs are going to increase dramatically. Sure, the government will rebate some of the swag to the lower classes.

Keep in mind that the Democratic party regards making more people dependent on government as a feature, not a bug.

Hanging Out With Librarians « So Many Books

In the morning I went to a session from a library that is using YouTube videos as part of their instructional sessions for new students. For instance, they showed us a video of the Blue Man Group on global warming and then asked us to pretend we were freshmen for a moment as they demonstrated how they got students to use the video to think about where information came from and how to tell if it was reliable and what they might do to research the topic further. It was interesting but I am not sure how it could be translated to a law library.

GayandRight: No amount of CO2 cuts will satisfy believers...

Why bother with any cuts - what they want is just impossible....

China says US could hold up climate deal (AFP) | Yahoo! Green

WASHINGTON (AFP) - China pressed Wednesday for the US Congress to pass legislation to fight global warming, warning that inaction could hold up a new treaty slated for Copenhagen in December.

China's chief climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua held talks in Washington with the administration of President Barack Obama, who has vowed action to slow the planet's warming in a sharp reversal from his predecessor George W. Bush.

A UN-led conference in the Danish capital in December is meant to approve a new global warming treaty for the period after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol's obligations to cut carbon emissions expire.

But Xie said China -- by some measures now the world's biggest emitter -- was still waiting to see rich nations' commitments before putting its own ideas on the negotiating table.

Beddington: World faces ‘perfect storm’ of problems by 2030

Before taking over from Sir David King as chief scientist last year, Beddington was professor of applied population biology at Imperial College London. He is an expert on the sustainable use of renewable resources.

Without commercial carbon capture, it’s ‘game over’, E.ON boss tells government - Carbon Offsets Daily

Golby told the Adam Smith Institute’s future of utilities conference in London today that a mechanism would be needed for investors to recoup the costs of developing and operating carbon capture on a commercial scale. “Without it no one will be able to build it,” he said.

He said if the government did provide a “level playing field” then E.ON would expect, and accept, that it would have to fit the technology to Kingsnorth. “If they fund it, we will fit it.”

China minister rejects U.S. "pollution" duty idea

"I oppose using climate change as an excuse to practice protectionism on trade," Xie, a former Chinese environment minister, told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington think tank.

Senators may block Obama on emissions | detnews.com | The Detroit News

WASHINGTON -- Michigan's senators, reliable allies of President Barack Obama, are emerging as potential obstacles to one of his top budget priorities.

Both have raised major questions about a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions. Last week, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Detroit, joined a handful of more moderate Senate Democrats in opposing a procedural move that could make it easier for such a system to become law.

And Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Lansing criticized the administration for tying new money for energy research -- some of which could help the auto industry -- to passage of a cap-and-trade plan.

Throwing Chemicals Into The Air - Solution to Global Warming?

Certain bright minds say we should throw trillions of mirrors into space to slow global warming. It doesn’t seem like a bad idea at a first glance, but other enlightened thoughts say we should release chemicals into the air to do just that.

Nutters blame global warming for polar bear cannibalism - TeakDoor.com - The Thailand Forum

"We don't have hard evidence about climate change but we have evidence about the numerous symptoms of climate change on polar bears,'' Andrew Derocher, chair of the Polar Bear Specialist Group, an international network of researchers, said.

U.S. Allegedly Failing to Blow Enough Public Money On the Greatest Scientific Scam of All Time

Climate change will seriously impact public health, but the United States is failing to support the research needed to prepare for it, according to a report published in the peer-reviewed journal published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

“The lack of attention from the Federal government on the health risks of climate change to U.S. populations is needlessly putting multitudes at risk,” warns the report, “U.S. Funding is Insufficient to Address the Human Health Impacts of and Public Health Responses to Climate Variability and Change,” published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Brokaw’s Global Warming Special - count the errors « Watts Up With That?

Let’s see how many errors we can count. I’m guessing (based on past performance) we’ll see between 5 and 10 major errors. Maybe even a rehash of polar bears.

Steve McIntyre’s ICCC09 presentation with notes « Watts Up With That?

I’ve taken the time to post Steve McIntyres speech notes for the 2009 IPCC presentation along with the slides. It gives a much more complete view of the devastating presentation about Global Warming alarmism and IMO is a must read. SteveM’s notes for the speech are in Blue, as he says it he seldom uses the wording in the slides.

Steven Goddard: Arctic Ice Thickness Measured From Buoys « Watts Up With That?

All five buoys show water temperatures indicating ice thickness in the range of 3-4 metres. Catlin is attempting to take another 10,000 or so measurements on the shifting, moving ice they are trying to travel across. While that data may be useful in understanding the local behaviour of the ice, it likely will provide little information about long-term ice trends, unless the same measurements are taken on a consistent basis over many years. You can also see in the 2007J graph above that the ice has thickened at least half a metre since March, 2008.

In most fields of science, that is considered an increase rather than a “decline.”

A Dozen Reasons Why a Former CNN Executive Producer for Science Doesn’t Understand Doubters of Manmade Global Warming « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

The following editorial appeared on the Huffington Post website today (italicized entries, below)…and I couldn’t help but give the writer some of his own medicine (my responses not italicized, & in parentheses).

Wind Watch: Victory for wind turbine protesters

Protesters determined to stop a wind farm development at Langdon are celebrating after the plan was halted by a government inspector.

Proposals for the five turbines, with a maximum height of 120m, have now been scrapped.

Jubilant objectors met on the West Langdon village green for a special Mercury photo call and set off a flock of white doves, a symbol of everlasting tranquility.

There were smiles all round as the protesters waved their specially-made banner reading Common Sense Has Won the Day.

The Reference Frame: Personal fudge factor

Instead, it is pretty constant for each person: it is a personal fudge factor. This quantity defines the width of the allowed interval in which the people still feel good about themselves: so the quantities that determine the amount of cheating are not objective external quantities processed rationally but rather conscience.

For example, James Hansen's personal fudge factor is about 1,000% as one can see by comparing his predictions of ice melting with the result calculable from the data that are available to him. The Bible restricts the people's fudge factors: once we talk about the ten commandments, people - both believers and infidels - generally stop cheating.