Among Climate Scientists, a Dispute Over ‘Tipping Points’ - NYTimes.com

Environmentalists and some climate experts are increasingly warning of impending tipping points in their efforts to stir public concern. The term confers a sense of immediacy and menace to potential threats from a warming climate — dangers that otherwise might seem too distant for people to worry about.

But other scientists say there is little hard evidence to back up specific predictions of catastrophe. They worry that the use of the term “tipping point” can be misleading and could backfire, fueling criticism of alarmism and threatening public support for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Twitter / Scott

Well, lights back on. Most of the neighborhood stayed lit. Even those houses that were unoccupied or the people were outside. #earthhour

Is this a picture of an alarmist somehow saving polar bear cubs by writing using the light of a computer monitor?

WWF's Earth Hour has already been translated into nearly 30 languages, and will literally be happening from pole to pole – including our very own ice team on the Arctic Ocean and the UK Operations team here in London.

Given that the Operations Room runs around the clock, this opposes certain logistical issues, but we’re still doing our bit. Are you?

CA Academy of Science AGW display apparently not very popular « Watts Up With That?

For the most part these displays were ignored, except for a few casual observers seeking refuge from the long lines at the real science displays. This lack of interest and participation seems to reflect the recent Gallup Polls indicating people are not really concerned about global warming, or ocean warming either. It could be our children have caught on to the scam, or they have reached global warming overload for the school lessons, and want some real science for change of pace.

AP Continues to Perpetuate US-Kyoto 1997 Mythology | NewsBusters.org

Finally, the mythology in previous AP articles on the topic is that Bush "rejected" Kyoto, when the fact is that it was never submitted it to the Senate in the first place.

The difference between 2009 and 1997 is not, as Capiello implies, that Congress is controlled by Democrats. It's that there is a Congress that happens to be controlled by Democrats may be, as Capiello claims without qualification and without providing clear evidence, "moving to embrace mandatory limits on greenhouse gases."

One thing that hasn't changed is AP's dogged and disgraceful insistence on misleading readers about what really happened with Kyoto.

unapologetic conservative: Earth Hour (Let There Be Light)

I am joining Rush Limbaugh tonight between 8:30PM and 9:30PM and turning on all the lights in my house. I'll put the spotlights on outside as well for good measure. I'm totally sick of hearing about the fake global warming scam (recently rebranded "climate change").

The global warming scam is just another excuse for the government to get more control over what you're doing in your daily lives...

Frozen scientists in the dark over Earth Hour | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It’s hard to believe how many ways reality is being denied by these frostbitten scientists, sitting in the dark on an ice floe, turning off a torch to stop a warming when it’s 39 degrees below freezing. Meanwhile the expedition’s sponsor, Prince Charles, blew all the saved emissions and more of this shivering crew, lightless on the dark ice, just by driving to the jet that’s blasted him from country to country on his grandly gassy global warming tour of South America...

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Draw Quality Complaints - NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — It sounds like such a simple thing to do: buy some new light bulbs, screw them in, save the planet.

But a lot of people these days are finding the new compact fluorescent bulbs anything but simple. Consumers who are trying them say they sometimes fail to work, or wear out early. At best, people discover that using the bulbs requires learning a long list of dos and don’ts.

Take the case of Karen Zuercher and her husband, in San Francisco. Inspired by watching the movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” they decided to swap out nearly every incandescent bulb in their home for energy-saving compact fluorescents. Instead of having a satisfying green moment, however, they wound up coping with a mess.
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Irritation seems to be rising as more consumers try compact fluorescent bulbs, which now occupy 11 percent of the nation’s eligible sockets, with 330 million bulbs sold every year. Consumers are posting vociferous complaints on the Internet after trying the bulbs and finding them lacking.

PrairiePundit: The sea level rise scam

Remember that when Greenland was green it was not underwater. That fact flies in the face of the scare mongering about the melting ice cap. It appears to me that the "climate change" lobby is trying to frighten people into making an exorbitant investment in a scheme that will let left wing control freaks take charge of the world economy and screw it up worse than the communist did their own.

Andrew Kenny - Superstition, not science, feeds top folly of our age

Man-made global warming, the notion that mankind is changing the world's climate in a dangerous way, never had much grounding in science. It has now departed from proper science altogether and become a millennial religion of rich people in rich countries.

We can expect the well-funded Jeremiahs of climate change to produce apocalyptic warnings of disaster (sea levels rising by metres, disappearing ice caps and other such nonsense) before the Copenhagen climate negotiations in December, where the faithful hope to persuade governments to damage their economies with foolish efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions.

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the slight warming of the 20th century was perfectly natural - no different from previous natural warming periods. It had little, if anything, to do with rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2).

More alarmist BS by from Richard Gray: "Species to be relocated as rivers dry up" - Telegraph

Rivers during the summer could have up to 80 per cent less water in them by the middle of this century, leaving the country facing widespread drought, according to a new government report to be published this week.
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"Traditional two-year droughts we have had in the past could easily turn into three- and four-year droughts," said Mr Bishop. "It is not a linear erosion of our resources between now and 2050, but it becomes particularly acute after 2030."

During the intense alleged droughts, won't carbon dioxide also cause simultaneous intense flooding in the same areas?

Errors in IPCC climate science » Some early contact with bias and mythology in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology BoM near two decades ago

I first got to know the BoM in 1991 when GW was in its infancy and was surprised at the extent to which PC myths coloured peoples thinking.

I noted very early on that many long term small town sites were as warm in the 1880’s as they were in the 1980’s and when I asked about this - BoM sages wisely told me, “Ah yes, that is due to the introduction of the Stevenson screen thermometer enclosure into Australia in 1907 when the BoM was formed.” It was explained that older more primitive exposures could cause the higher readings. Nobody espoused an alternative view, it was group-think.

More stunning stupidity from Tom Friedman - Mother Nature’s Dow - NYTimes.com

It’s true, Mother Nature doesn’t tell us with one simple number how she’s feeling. But if you follow climate science, what has been striking is how insistently some of the world’s best scientists have been warning — in just the past few months — that climate change is happening faster and will bring bigger changes quicker than we anticipated just a few years ago. Indeed, if Mother Nature had a Dow, you could say that it, too, has been breaking into new (scientific) lows.

Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' - Telegraph

The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story, writes Christopher Booker.

Obama starts climate change [scam] forum for big economies | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday invited 16 "major economies" including the European Union and the United Nations to take part in a forum on climate change to facilitate a U.N. pact on global warming.

Obama, a Democrat who has taken a more aggressive stance on climate change than his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, invited the group to a preparatory session on April 27 and 28 in Washington.

Cold weather eases flood threat in Fargo | Environment | Reuters

Cold weather froze flood waters in the fields around this metropolitan area of 175,000 people, keeping spring melt from adding to the flooded river, said Mike Hudson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fargo.

Airport, hotels join Earth Hour effort: 15,000 watts saved as very large jet engines presumably kept roaring away as usual

15, 000 watts were saved at the Nadi International Airport as Airports Fiji Limited switched off non-essential lighting for the hour. Hotels and resorts in Nadi and along the Coral Coast did the same.
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The Mercure Nadi also provided a "candlelight dinner" experience for guests, which included a barbecue outside under tiki torches, in addition to extending its happy hour at the bar for the duration of Earth Hour.

Catlin Expedition: Impaired Judgment? « Watts Up With That?

[Steve Goddard] What is the point of taking a lot of measurements at one location on the same day? Arctic ice continuously shifts and melts or freezes, and the ice they are standing on will have moved hundreds or thousands of miles by next year. The temperature is -42C. No doubt the ice is getting thicker at that temperature.

Meanwhile, the expedition sponsor (HRH The Prince of Wales) has been jetting around South America enjoying the life of entitlement currently reserved for global warming patrons. The formula is simple - as long as a celebrity keeps talking about global warming, their carbon footprint and lifestyle excesses are above reproach. Perhaps if AIG had of named their bonuses “carbon offsets,” they could be partying in South America too.

As of today, global sea ice area is again above normal.

Lights Off: Mission Complete. | Voxy.co.nz

My girlfriends and I personally rediscovered how to make a dog, a gorilla, a lama, a bird and a thumbs up on the wall as shadow puppets. It was a good hour.

Now, I feel like I did something. I give a damn, and it was an easy damn at that. However, where do we go from here? Is there more easy damning I can do?
Here’s the dilemma or the misconception I think a lot of people like me have- I know there’s this problem called Global Warming. I don’t fully understand it, although a lot of very patient scientists and reporters, and Al Gore, keep trying to educate me.
However, I really don’t want to start wearing sackcloth and have to go live in a forest. I want baby steps, at least until we collectively decide we actually have screwed ourselves over and have to go share bush real estate with Bambi.

“Monsters Vs. Aliens”: Creatures great and small come alive, and all in 3-D

Here is a movie where emergencies are denoted by panicky little men screaming “Code Nimoy!” And where the president of the United States (Stephen Colbert, no less) thinks he’s going to charm a space robot by dancing to the theme from “Beverly Hills Cop.” And where they can sneak in an Al Gore global warming joke so fast you barely notice.

Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard: Climate change and rising sea level - San Jose Mercury News

Until somewhat recently, climate change seemed to be happening fairly slowly, but many indicators are showing more rapid change than most scientists had predicted. We should be hoping for the best but planning for the worst.

Gary Griggs is director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Long Marine Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz.

Obama: We're watching rising rivers - CNN.com

"Even as we face an economic crisis which demands our constant focus, forces of nature can also intervene in ways that create other crises to which we must respond and respond urgently," Obama said Saturday in his weekly webcast.

The Calgary Sun - Slide kills Alberta snowmobiler

It's the third fatal avalanche in B.C. in four days and the 24th in Canada this winter.

The snowmobiler is the 18th victim who was riding a snowmobile when an avalanche struck.

Canadian Flag Global Warmed

The famous Maple Leaf of the Canadian flag converted in a Pineapple. Another creative approach to the Greenpeace global warming awareness campaigns

Why, for me, ‘Earth Hour’ is a conscience salving stunt …

TURNING OFF my lights for an hour tonight is no hardship whatsoever. I can light a candle, open a bottle of red and bung on a DVD. Actually, it’s a pleasant romantic option for a Saturday evening. Even though I am a paid up member of WWF, I consider the idea to be a silly scam: a publicity stunt which has the danger of salving our consciences with feel-good factor and lulling us into a false ‘do-good’ sense that we are actually helping.

Truth is, my computer uses way more energy than all my light bulbs each minute I use it, and with twenty per cent of global warming attributable to beef production, we’d all be far better off boycotting a burger for an hour. But that would be far too political. It’s not surprising that large corporations and businesses are happily signing up. Many offices are closed on Saturday evenings. It will, in fact, save them money.

Worldchanging: Bright Green: The only way a reporter ought to look at a climate skeptic is down.

Having wasted 20 years here in the U.S. on a completely non-factual "debate" about whether fossil fuels were implicated in climate change, it's a bit shocking to see this story by Azadeh Ensha, where an industry-funded spokesperson is allowed to get away with the statement, "It is beyond dispute that any connection between meat production and global warming is a false one."
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In this day and age, the only way a reporter ought to look at a climate skeptic is down. That's doubly true when the skeptic is getting paid by an industry involved in melting the ice caps.

Warming worriers burn with indignation | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

However, while the world embraced the third annual Earth Hour, only 500 Victorian businesses signed up to last night’s event online, a third of last year’s total. Australia-wide, there were 2,500 businesses against last year’s 7230. Apathy, financial woes and the whine of the Grand Prix were among reasons cited by Melburnians for staying alight amid so much darkness.

...But global warming is one of those holy causes in which journalists may freely lie, and indeed must and do. Do you really think 1 billion people, or more than one in seven people around the world, from the villages of Uttar Pradesh to the working-class suburbs of China, turned off their lights for an hour. Could that figure be even remotely true?

Markey Malarkey - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

These days, snake oil salesmen aren’t selling their wares at carnivals — but in broad daylight in major newspapers.

On the Arctic alarmists - Unclear on the concept: More about the brutal cold and the importance of fossil fuel

...they work through the tough periods by thinking about various short and long term goals (from their next hot [fossil-fueled] meal, to the promise of better [ie warmer] weather).
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For example, all explorers find it extremely frustrating to be stuck in a tent due to bad weather, consuming precious [fossil] fuel and food while the drift of the ice is taking them backwards every second! (‘Two steps forward, one step back’, March 18th).
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Fear may also be an acute state, when there is anticipation of a potentially negative outcome occurring. Imagine seeing polar bear tracks (‘we are not alone’ – March 13th), being woken up by the sound of the ice smashing around your tent in the middle of the night (‘fractures’ - March 3rd), or waiting in a tent in terrible conditions while your food runs out (‘resupply’ – March 19th). If fear of pain is something which might concern you, imagine being in Martin’s shoes (quite literally) in those moments every morning when he knows he needs to pull on his boots over his frostbitten toes. As he commented in his BBC news blog, “it is the worst part of his day” and his anguish is clear to be seen.
... consider that Martin has reflected that his biggest fear is falling though the ice and having to swim across black inky stretches of freezing, polar bear ‘infested’ water...

The right to be cold?: F is for Frostbite

Early explorers to the Poles suffered greatly from frostbite because they did not know how to protect themselves from icy winds and harsh conditions. In1898, when Robert Peary made various attempts to reach the North Pole – he lost eight toes to frostbite on one journey! The toes came off his feet when his boots were taken off back at base after one particular expedition…not a pleasant experience. Nevertheless, this situation didn’t stop Peary! He said: `A few toes were not much to give to achieve the Pole’.

State board's global warming standards irk environmentalists

Language that instructed students to "analyze and evaluate different views on the existence of global warming," which had been offered as an amendment and was adopted unanimously in an initial vote Thursday, led to outrage among environmental groups.

"In a last-minute assault on science and sensibility, the board appears to be supporting its own ideological views rather than those of proven science," said Ramon Alvarez, a senior scientist with Environmental Defense Fund.

The chairman of the state board, Don McLeroy, called the standards "perfectly good."

"Conservatives like me think the evidence (for human contributions to global warming) is a bunch of hooey," McLeroy said.

But the state board approved standards that engage some of the underlying causes and effects of global warming, including one that calls on students to "analyze the empirical relationship between the emissions of carbon dioxide, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and the average global temperature trends over the past 150 years" and another to "describe the effect of pollution on global warming, glacial and ice cap melting, greenhouse effect, ozone layer, and aquatic viability."

The current standards, which were adopted about a decade ago, barely touch on climate change.

"Asking students to independently discover the relationship between ice melting and global warming is important," said James Canup, executive director of the Texas League of Conservation Voters. "But the main message coming out of there is that Texas is setting a bad standard by putting question marks next to global warming in the textbooks."

“Earth Hour” Nothing More Than Hipster Symbolism « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

The fundamentalist warming religion must realize the irony of the ideals they emulate for an hour, but refuse to live by. If they really wanted to make a difference, they could go and live in the third world where they wouldn’t take up so much wasted space and electricity, thus combating global warming. But no. That wouldn’t be as exciting as twittering about Earth Hour and preparing all sorts of wonderful social media networks and meetings for people to feel extra magnanimous to mother Earth.

Twitter / paresh patel

Please bring on the "global warming". Tulsa is going to have 3"-6" of snow by Saturday morning.

Bonn Climate Talks Give Obama's Green Team First Chance to Impress

The Obama administration will enter the complex world of global climate talks this weekend in Bonn amid a furious domestic debate about whether the US should be placing limits on the pollutants that [allegedly] cause global warming [but are certainly used in photosynthesis, cause bread to rise, provide the fizz in Obama's Diet Coke, etc].

Twitter / J K

All that worrying about global warming and all we had to do was to switch our lights off for an hour. Doh!

That oughtta do it | Earth Hour: Seattle

The Pan Pacific Seattle Hotel will invite guests to shut off or dim their room lights and gather in the candlelit lobby and bar. The hotel's hallways will be illuminated by battery-powered candles, and only safety and exit lights will stay on, said Sierra Trujillo, the hotel's executive assistant.

Glow-in-the-dark necklaces will be on hand.

On fossil-fueled airplanes, US climate scam team heads to Germany to advance mandatory restrictions on the public's fossil fuel use

This time the U.S. delegation represents the views of a White House committed to mandatory action on climate change. And unlike 1997, when the Kyoto Protocol was drafted, there is now a Democratic-controlled Congress moving to embrace mandatory limits on greenhouse gases.

Job Losses From Obama Green Stimulus Foreseen in Spanish Study - Bloomberg.com

March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created if Spain’s experience with windmills and solar farms is any guide.

For every new position that depends on energy price supports, at least 2.2 jobs in other industries will disappear, according to a study from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

Wind Watch: Wind turbines will change Cohasset

The Cohasset Planning Board will soon render its decision whether to approve or deny Plymouth-based CCI-Energy their application for a permit to site New England’s two largest wind turbines on Cohasset Heights, the most elevated point in our still beautiful town.

Lacy underwear secret tool of polar expedition [PR effort] - Telegraph

Speaking from the Arctic via satellite phone, he said: "It an entirely genuine situation. If you can get gossamer thin material and attach it your ski pole it is particularly useful for this project because we can cannot use the compass as we are so close to magnetic north and it is too cold to use the GPS.
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Mr Hadow and his team are having to take a route that has never been taken before so they can get the best readings for scientists. They were also forced to leave during the winter, when there are few daylight hours, before the ice has melted further.

This has made it a particularly gruelling trip. The team has walked through rubble fields, over thinning ice and had to evacuate camp after the ice broke up around them. Mr Hadow said he is having to spend up to three hours in temperatures of -40 degrees Celsius and below to drill down and measure the ice after hard days trekking.
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The results of the Catlin expedition, which is supported by WWF and Prince Charles, will be fed to scientists and used to inform an international deal on climate change at the end of this year.

When it's -40 and too cold to use the GPS, how fast is the ice "thinning"?

Wind Watch: Confessions of Energy Legends: Wind Power Technically, Economically Inefficient – Can’t Really Replace Natural Gas in Electricity Sector

When asked what electricity generation fuel they envisioned for load balancing once the NG has been diverted to the transportation sector (a pillar of The Pickens Plan) Boone responded “I don’t want to replace natural gas with wind … I would say that you use natural gas for power generation and a transportation fuel … natural gas will last for 20 to 65 years. Then you’re going to have to get on the battery.” Not a positive word for wind.

The follow up comment from AEP’s Michael Morris was even more damning for the fading fame of the towering turbine: “Today wind is electrically inefficient and economically inefficient but it won’t always be. We’ll crack that equation – Thank you.”

FOXNews.com - U.N.'s Participation in Earth Hour Is Full of Hot Air, Critics Say - United Nations

And, for the first time in the event's three-year existence, the New York headquarters of the United Nations will also go dark, a move officials say will save $102, a figure that fluctuated wildly from its whopping initial estimate of $81,000 when requested from U.N. officials. After the story appeared on FOXNews.com, a spokeswoman called back to say their estimate was incorrect and the savings was $24,000, but then called back a third time to say it was really $102.
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"It's an attention-grabbing gesture that they expect to pay off for them big time," Claudia Rosett, a journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com. "For the U.N., climate change is the biggest cash cow of all time. They expect it to pay off for them big-time at the enormous and unaffordable expense of this and future generations."

Policymakers’ letter asks tough questions re carbon tariffs | GlobalWarming.org

So, in the midst of a deep worldwide recession, countries will be planning to make energy less affordable, to force some major emitters out of business, and maybe start a trade war over border tariffs. Don’t we already have enough economic problems to contend with?

Sound Politics: Global Warming Update (L)

Seattle weather --

Last March: 5 record lows, 0 record highs

This March: 7 record lows, 0 record highs (so far)

I'm just saying.

Obama Recruits Gore’s ‘Alliance’ [Scam] CEO, Cathy Zoi

We were thrilled a few weeks back when President Barack Obama tapped Van Jones to join his administration and help promote the green jobs scene. Now, another high-profile force in the green world is joining Team Obama — Cathy Zoi, CEO of Al Gore’s non-profit, the Alliance For Climate Change Protection.

Zoi has been nominated by the President to serve as Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy in the Department of Energy. Taking over for her back at ACCP will be Maggie Fox.

Investor's Business Daily -- Copenhagen: Environmental Munich

Writing in the Financial Times recently, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said: "As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not communism."

Klaus told the Cato Institute recently that "environmentalism is a religion" that accepts global warming on faith and seeks to exploit it to reshape the world and economic social order.

Its commandments are now being written. The U.N. will be its temple and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon its high priest.

Investor's Business Daily -- Calif.'s Solar Flare-Up

Energy: The governor wants to carpet the desert with solar panels. The senator says it will destroy the ecosystem. The battle between environmentalists and conservationists is one of alternative energy's big drawbacks.

Welcome, America, to Obamaville « Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax

During the coming little ice age, which is evidenced abundantly by solar conditions matching closely those of the Maunder Minimum, living in Obamaville will not be quite as much fun as it is today.

Development of energy resources has been sabotaged by The One, complicating greatly the human impact of normal, almost regular solar-induced climate cycles. Energy supply was already highly inelastic, meaning it cannot increase easily with demand. Thanks to The One, energy supplies will not increase at all. Increased energy supply to farm or process or transport food? Forget about it, says Obama. The forests will burn all too quickly when Obamaville residents get cold.

Jennifer Marohasy » Make a Night of It – Earth Hour

THE Carbon Sense Coalition today came out in support of Earth Hour, but said it should be renamed “Blackout Night” and be held outdoors, for the whole night, in mid-winter, on the shortest and coldest day of the year.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that spending just one night in the cold and the dark, with no hot coffee or beef on the barbecue, using no light, heat or vehicle energy from coal, gas, petrol or diesel, and without protection from metal or concrete structures, would be good practice for the blackouts and shortages to come if world rationing of carbon products and carbon energy is achieved.

Because cars cause hurricanes: National Wildlife Foundation Backs GM Battery Plan

DETROIT -- A new recovery plan for General Motors is getting support from the nation's largest wildlife conservation group, the National Wildlife Federation. NWF President and CEO Larry Schweiger says GM's plan to develop advanced battery technology for plug-in hybrid cars is a critical step in confronting global climate change.

Keep Your Lights On Tonight | WesternFront America

For a whole hour they will go dark to remind us to “conserve energy” that does not need conserving. It needs to be expanded into parts of the world where there is no electricity and, as a result, there is no economy which is another way of saying there is a lot of poverty, sickness, and early death.

Pickens to Obama: think big [...transfer of public wealth to me]

During his 30-minute pitch at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on March 25, Pickens hardly mentioned pollution or global warming, instead pushing national security and economics to close the deal. “I want to get off foreign oil,” Pickens says, “the biggest transfer of wealth in human history.”

Rudd can’t dine out on Obama | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Greg Sheridan says Kevin Rudd got a far cooler reception from Barack Obama than reported...

Sweden committed to climate change [scam] - The Irish Times - Fri, Mar 27, 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE “will be an absolute focus” of Sweden’s presidency of the European Union from July 1st when it takes over from the crisis-stricken Czech Republic, according to Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren.

kzduff

A number of people have recently expressed concern (or confusion) on Twitter about a new site from a group calling itself the "International Climate Science Coalition", which purports to be a group of concerned, reputable scientists who are climate change "skeptics". The site implies that they are climate scientists who have sufficient background to make these judgments. This blatant dishonesty makes me so furious a simple "tweet" was not enough. I describe below who these guys really are.

BBC NEWS | Protestors to march against poverty, and oh yeah, also against The Most Important Problem of All Time

Thousands of people are expected to march through London later to demand action on poverty and climate change ahead of next week's G20 summit.

London braced for "economic" march : Shropshire Star:

Thousands of people will march through central London today to call for a “fundamental change” to the global financial and economic system.

Wonk Room » Global Boiling: Unprecedented Flooding Of Red River Leaves Fargo ‘On The Brink Of Disaster’

A key consequence of global warming predicted by climate scientists is an increase in overall precipitation as well as extreme precipitation events, leading to increased flooding.

Fargo air temperature this morning: Only 200 degrees short of boiling

1. It is so cold in North Dakota (12 degrees in Fargo this morning) that the rivers are frozen; they are actually blowing up ice with explosives to try to route the flood waters.

2. The flood waters are freezing in place, inside peoples homes, which will prevent people from recovering their valuables and cleaning up after the storm until the ice melts, which could be weeks.

3. It is so cold that people cannot walk through the flood waters without getting hypothermia, and the wind chill is even worse.

From alarmist Tom Yulsman - "Joe Romm: the entirely dispensable censor" | CEJournal

Follow the bolded words below to see what passes for intelligent discourse on Climate Progress, Joe Romm’s allegedly “indispensable blog”

I Told You Kyoto Wasn’t About Global Warming, New UN Plan “Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy” | All American Blogger

Obama will agree to this, but will it be popular with the people? There is a growing number of Americans who are doubting the Church of Global Warming’s teachings. If the consequences of this move are shouted from the rooftops, it could be the thing that makes Barry a one termer.

Raven’s Reasoning « The Air Vent

Today my eyes caught a discussion between Ravin and Tammie …… After reading, I realized that I actually have a blog and an audience as well. So instead of getting my comments clipped, I’ll just post it here and let anyone who wants to make comments.

Earth Hour – Another Empty Feel-Good Event For A Bogus Cause

Since there is ZERO scientific evidence to support the theory that global warming…er, sorry…climate change is either cause or influenced by man-made elements, I personally will be turning on every light and as many electrical appliances as the circuitry will allow to show my rejection of this pathetic empty feel-good event based upon a bogus caused hyped by environmental extremists. I urge everyone who also feels the way I do to join me in this action showing the environmental wackos that they aren’t fooling everyone. The global warming crowd is in decline ever since more reputable scientists and climatologists have come out in opposition and have shown solid scientific evidence that the most of the claims made by the global warming mod headed by their propaganda guru Al Gore are false and not supported by good science.

The Greatest Scam in History

Are you one of the victims of the "greatest scam in history"? I'm not referring to the scam conducted by Bernie Mad[e]off. I'm referring to what veteran meteorologist John Coleman calls the "greatest scam in history"...

Sanjay Khanna: "Pessimists Die Quickly" (Gulp)

But as James E. Hansen, leading climate scientist and director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has pointed out, "The worst thing about cap-and-trade, from a climate standpoint, is that it will surely be inadequate to achieve the sharp reduction of emissions that is needed. Thus cap-and-trade would practically guarantee disastrous climate change for our children and grandchildren."

So, barring literal, Bible-style miracles, we're on direct course to Disaster. Full. Steam. Ahead.

So we're going to get a strong-kneed compromise?

During a press conference in Berlin earlier today, according to the Associated Press, Stern didn't hold back any feelings at all with regard to the US' position on Kyoto: "We do not have any interest in the United States in having a repeat of the Kyoto experience," remarked Stern, "where we signed an agreement that is dead on arrival when we brought it back home. We need to be guided on this internationally by a combination of science and pragmatism. It does not serve anyone to do a weak-kneed compromise that doesn't move us in the direction that the science is telling us we need to go. By the same token, it doesn't serve anybody to have an agreement that is scientifically pristine and perfect and which cannot be supported by our public back home."

More insanity from lead alarmist Dr. James E. Hansen

Mar. 24, 2009: Air Pollution Climate Forcings [PDF], Talk at Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen on Mar 11, 2009. Also available as PowerPoint.

The stuff on pages 6-8 of the PDF really has to be seen to be believed. Hansen actually admits that the IPCC aerosol estimate was "pretty much pulled out of a hat", then he goes into an extended schtick about asking his young grandchildren about the aerosol forcing.

NC Media Watch: And the real tipping point is where?

[Paul Stevens] I have been struck, recently, by what I think is a significant shift observable in the public media. I don't mean that suddenly all newspaper, television and internet outlets are suddenly printing anti-global warming pieces. Rather, it is in the comment sections under most internet blog and news items and in letters to the editors of hard copy news journals.

There now seems to be a preponderance of public comment that rejects the wilder claims of the AGW proponents and that recommend nuclear power as a clear and reasonable alternative to windmills and solar photovoltaic as primary generators of electricity. I would say this turnaround has occurred within the last year....

Earth Hour Food and Drink In Chicago, brought to you by fossil fuels

Chef Mark Payne’s three-course menu at the Ritz includes seared [locally grown?] scallops with spring peas, and the Four Seasons’ Kevin Hickey has a $55 four-course menu of risotto with lamb bacon and veal strip steak accompanied by grilled ramps. (All to be enjoyed by candlelight, of course.)...

Drink in the dark at the Hard Rock Hotel’s Base Bar, where a DJ, [disposable] glowsticks, $5 cocktails and organic wine make for an Earth Hour party that’ll go till 11pm.
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MarketHouse, which recently scored some high marks from Eat Out editor Heather Shouse, will be making rain vodka cocktails and serving a menu prepared with no electricity or heat. (Don’t worry, it’s not raw-foodist hour: Chef de cuisine Tom Rice is preparing chilled poached shrimp, beef carpaccio and more.) 10% of proceeds go to the World Wildlife Fund.

Twitter / ArcticSurvey: Still not ideal swimming weather

Temperatures have dropped off the thermometer once again, reaching lows of -40 and lower!

Celestial Junk: Anti-Canada Hour

What is even more insulting to Canada, is that Global Warming science is on shaky ground, as bit the conclusions of IPCC scientists come into doubt, and even the methodology by which they came to their conclusions bet savaged.

For anyone who cares to examine just how shaky the "science" is, I advise a long period of time spent burried in the archives of the following sites, each of whith specializes in different aspects of so-called climate science...

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Blue Green Alliance Reaches Historic Agreement on Climate Legislation

The Blue Green Alliance, a partnership of four unions and two environmental organizations, today announced support for comprehensive climate change legislation. The legislation is an effective way to rapidly put millions of Americans back to work building a clean energy economy and to reduce global warming emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Note that the alleged jobs are mentioned first, followed by the carbon dioxide justification.

Obama told to keep climate change out of budget bill | Markets | Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Four key U.S. House panel chairmen on Friday told President Barack Obama that energy and climate legislation should not be attached to a huge budget bill in order to avoid a possible Senate filibuster, because such a move would make it harder to reach an agreement.
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The letter was signed by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, Chairman Emeritus John Dingell and subcommittee chairmen Edward Markey and Rick Boucher.

Not the Onion | Coyote Blog

A reader sent me this, and I was just floored. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is asking for legislation to ban black cars in California...
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Un-freaking-believable. This is what happens when you satisfy an emissions reduction goal (in this case CO2) via complex command-and-control legislation rather than simpler price mechanisms.

An Energy Plan with More Energy, Lower Prices » The Foundry

Surely wind and solar can play a role in America’s energy portfolio if able to compete in the market. The same can be said for any source of energy. But government “investments” in energy is generally code for taxes that lead to higher prices for energy consumers.

Obama's global warming [scam] could be tough sell in Indiana

Americans United for Change and MoveOn.org Political Action are running ads on radio, TV and the Internet urging Hoosiers to ask Bayh and other Indiana lawmakers to back Obama's budget proposal, which includes the cap-and-trade plan.

If Washington does act to reduce the burning of fossil fuels, the main cause of global warming, Indiana would be hit harder than many other states. More than 90 percent of the power consumed in Indiana is generated by coal, which sends more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for the amount of energy produced than any other energy source.

Indiana residents and businesses long have enjoyed some of the lowest electricity rates in the nation, about 20 percent lower than the national average. The low rates are one reason the state is the most manufacturing-dependent in the nation.

Harry Reid’s Cap-and-Trade [Scam] Tax Grab - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Harry Reid wants to use the cap-and-trade tax revenue to fund health care, which makes one wonder: What happened to the energy rebates that President Obama promised to help mitigate the "skyrocketing" cost of electricity he promised from his energy policies?

Progressives do it with the Lights on! — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

This, we think, shows how environmentalism has transformed or corroded old concepts and categories. Who are the conservatives, and who are the progressives?

Those who still protest that it is the CEI’s capitalism which drives their vision (well, d’uh) ought to ask themselves why the same, positive images of human achievement couldn’t be presented by a more Left perspective. Eco-centricism is anti-humanism. Keep the lights on!

If this is a pollutant, why isn't water a pollutant?: Carbon dioxide information from Answers.com

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, formula CO2, about 1.5 times as heavy as air. Under normal conditions, it is stable, inert, and nontoxic...Solid CO2 is known as dry ice...
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The atmospheric air we inhale contains virtually no carbon dioxide, whereas there is about 5% in the air we breathe out.
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Plants use CO2 in photosynthesis to make carbohydrates.
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In various parts of the world—notably in Italy, Java, and Yellowstone National Park in the United States—carbon dioxide is formed underground and issues from fissures in the earth. Natural mineral waters such as Vichy water sparkle (effervesce) because excess carbon dioxide that dissolved in them under pressure collects in bubbles and escapes when the pressure is released.
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Carbon dioxide has varied commercial uses. Its greatest use as a chemical is in the production of carbonated beverages; it provides the sparkle in carbonated beverages such as soda water. Formed by the action of yeast or baking powder, carbon dioxide causes the rising of bread dough. The compound is also used in water softening, in the manufacture of aspirin and lead paint pigments, and in the Solvay process for the preparation of sodium carbonate. In some fire extinguishers carbon dioxide is expelled through a nozzle and settles on the flame, smothering it. It also has numerous nonchemical uses. It is used as a pressurizing medium and propellant, e.g., in aerosol cans of food, in fire extinguishers, in target pistols, and for inflating life rafts. Because it is relatively inert, it is used to provide a nonreactive atmosphere, e.g., for packaging foods, such as coffee, that can be spoiled by oxidation during storage. Solid carbon dioxide, known as dry ice, is used as a refrigerating agent.

My notes on "The Media and Climate Change: Global Agenda 2008"

Andy Revkin video, March 2008: University of Delaware

29:00 Revkin talks about the threat of CO2-induced sea level rises: "...[it's] kind of like two people in San Francisco watching a parked car that's starting to roll down the hill, and they're arguing about whether it's going 1 mph or 3 mph. The problem is the car's rolling downhill and it's going to be a catastrophe when it hits something in a few minutes."

39:30 On Katrina: "The reality of what happened in New Orleans is completely simple, and has nothing to do with global warming."

40:16 "We folks in the media, we love hot imagery.  We love drowning polar bears, we love flooded cities.  We may say we hate them, but to some extent we love them, because it's a powerful story..."

63:55  "There's no one who questions if we burn it all with unlimited emissions we will have a profoundly different climate. And not just that--we'll be setting in motion as the IPCC made very clear, and there's no real dispute--many many centuries in which there'll be no new normal climate, and no new normal coastline.  Whether the rate is 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet per century, every century you'll have to draw a new map..."

71:36  "This is our diplomatic corps two years ago in Montreal, at these climate talks.  They're really good people, they're serving this administration and its interests.  Their mandate, their portfolio that they brought to Montreal was not to negotiate.  They could do anything they wanted for those two weeks--just don't negotiate. This is a treaty meeting--isn't that where you're supposed to negotiate?! So if they look constipated...They look like they have to go to the bathroom."

Tesla Unveils its $57,000 Electric Sedan - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

160 miles? That's it? And here's this poor Prius owner, complaining about her car's measly 300-mile range.

It makes you wonder how much more the Tesla will cost when equipped with the 230- and 300-mile battery packs.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Congress about to tackle the biggest issue of our time

Andrew Malcolm captures the absurdity of Congressional intervention in college-football championships...

YouTube - Climate change forces fish towards cooler waters.

Microsoft & Bill Clinton: We'll Save the Cities from Climate Change | On Sustainability | ZDNet.com

Yesterday, at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum, (former) President Bill Clinton launched the Microsoft & Clinton Climate Initiative joint effort, Project 2°, to save the cities of the world from ravages of climate change. Microsoft have developed a tool to help city Administrators assemble an inventory of their CO2 emissions and model planning scenarios to reduce impact.

Twitter / Natalie Ross [and maybe we can listen on a handmade natural radio?]

i will be playing in the dark for an Earth Hour special performance on Radio Wey. combat climate change by switching off your lights!

Claim: Trace amounts of CO2 have slowed Asia/Pacific development

A new report by the United Nations has pointed out three simultaneous threats in Asia and Pacific region - financial crisis, food-fuel price rise and climate change, which have decelerated the development process.

Climate Change Skepticism Earns Congressman Olbermann's 'Worst'

MSNBC host, citing material from left-wing blog, asks the Texas congressman to repeat his skepticism when 'the sun has just lit your neighbor's roof on fire.'

The Failure of "Earth Hour" 2008 - Greg Pollowitz - The Media Blog on National Review Online

The Chicago Tribune has an unintentionally hilarious collection of "Earth Hour" darkness photos from around the world. The one striking similarity between the photos is how many people decided to leave their lights on. For example, here's Chicago...

The UN Makes it Official: Global Warming Hysteria Is All About Redistributing Wealth « FOX Forum « FOXNews.com

For years, climate realists around the world have been warning the international community that the entire man-made global warming myth and resulting hysteria is all a scheme to redistribute wealth under the pretense of saving the planet.

In a document obtained by FOX News, the United Nations has made it official.

small dead animals: Y2Kyoto: Take The Earth Hour IQ Test

Even if a billion people turn off their lights this Saturday, the entire event will be equivalent to switching off China's emissions for six short seconds.

Enviro Wikipedia Assault on Human Achievement Hour | NewsBusters.org

Environmentalists are leading a worldwide hour of shame and darkness on Saturday, March 28. Invented by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007, the annual event has people and government turning out lights as an expression of angst over human energy use and global warming.

Bravo, Gov. Mitch Daniels: "I'm hoping that this whole climate change freight train is slowing down a little bit"

The governor urged Hoosiers to pay attention to a federal movement originating with the current administration in Washington D.C. of what is being suggested in the name of "climate controls" is what he called a "horrible threat to Greene County (and) to all of Indiana."

"The way it is being suggested is this carbon tax will be paid on your utility bills and would more than double utility bills in this state," Daniels said, and pointed out this would hurt the state's ability to attract new business and hinder jobs creation.

"What this is beginning to smell like is a plan that will tax the living day lights out of the Midwest so they can spend money on whatever (Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi has in mind in California," Daniels stressed. "I'm hoping that this whole climate change freight train is slowing down a little bit. They (the administration) is determined to do this thing. I've talked to (Senators) Evan Bayh and Richard Lugar about this and I think they are aware of the dangers."

Prius-owning Oregon democratic state senator: “I hate ethanol.” | GORE LIED

Sen. Vicki Walker, D-Eugene, co-sponsored the bill that would eliminate the ethanol blend requirements. She testified Thursday, saying the ethanol blend reduced the mileage in her hybrid Toyota from 42 mpg to 36 mpg.

“I hate ethanol,” Walker told the committee. “We all voted for this thing (in 2007), and I’m not liking what’s happened.”

Bonn 1, blog 1: The ‘pre-sessionals’ « It’s Getting Hot In Here

COP15 in Copenhagen this December – the meeting where governments are set to decide whether they will come together to lead on solving climate change peacefully, or whether they force us to take things into our own hands – is not the only UN meeting on climate change this year. There are three important ‘intersessional’ meetings of the UNFCCC bodies and working groups – ‘Bonn 1′, in Germany for the first two weeks of April, ‘Bonn 2′, for the first two weeks in June, and ‘Bangkok’ in
September.
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I am in a big room at the ‘Maritim’ hotel in Bonn, Germany, for the ‘Pre-Sessional events’ – before the proper negotiations start on Sunday. There is a long desk on a stage at the front of the room, where the Chair of the session sits, alongside a rapporteur and the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer – who looks positively bored. I sort of feel sorry for him. There are rows of desks for the 196 countries of the world, with two seats of each. Then maybe another 300 seats for NGO representatives at the back of the room, which quickly filled up. For people who arrived late (like myself and about 50 others) we can sit on the floor in the corridors. There are also far too many lights on – a large star-shaped arrangement of decorative lightbulbs, crystals and mirrors adorns the ceiling.

Today, the Chairs of each of the UN negotiating bodies are giving presentations, giving their summary of the state of negotiations and their recommendations for focusing discussion over the next few weeks. They are taking clarifying question-and-answers from the plenary floor. It is a lot like in any consensus-based meeting of activists where we agree on the process before going on to discuss the content – except their all wearing suits and being very ‘polite’ – to me, the room seems bereft of the passion which should be evident when dealing with such important issues as the very future of the planet and humanity. And there are certainly no twinkling fingers in the air when someone says something that we support.

Crist Facing Conservative Rebellion

Conservative dissatisfaction began soon after Crist was elected governor in 2006, focusing on his climate change policies and speeding up restoration of voting rights for felons who have completed their sentences.

Australian climate scam promoter Penny Wong takes fossil-fueled trip to U.S.

Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, departed Australia this week to visit Washington DC and New York City to discuss climate change with leading figures in the new US Administration.
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In New York, Senator Wong will give a speech to the International Peace Institute and in Washington DC, she will address the Pew Centre for Global Climate Change.

Will Steger to promote climate scam in our schools; he'll also bring 10 brainwashed Midwest youths on a fossil-fueled political advocacy expedition to Copenhagen

Expedition Copenhagen, December 7-18, 2009

The Will Steger Foundation is embarking on a new kind of expedition; one that brings youth voices to the global climate negotiations in Copenhagen. We will: lead a Midwest Youth delegation to Copenhagen with support from U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar; create an interdisciplinary standards-linked curriculum for grades 9 – 12 in partnership with the National Education Association; and provide multimedia blogs and real-time communications between youth delegates and classrooms in the U.S.

Gore implores ETSU audience to help battle global warming - Kingsport Times-News Online

Aside from these, Gore said warmer temperatures cause disease-spreading parasites, such as ticks and mosquitoes, to be more widespread. He also said humans have four advantages over germs — colder winters, colder nights, stable climates and rich biodiversity — all of which are hindered by global warming.

Gore said climate changes have led to more deaths from heat waves, shellfish poisoning, and an increase in cholera and kidney stones.

“At present, the world is not equipped now, either in developed or developing countries, for the emergence or re-emergence of these diseases that are spreading because of the new conditions global warming have put into play,” he said.

Gore said the United States must take the lead in addressing the climate crisis and commended President Barack Obama’s environmental efforts, but stated the environmental crisis is not a partisan issue.

“I don’t understand why bipartisanship gets into it,” he said. “I don’t get that.”

Do You Agree With Gore?

The environment is in peril, the former Vice President told a big crowd at ETSU Thursday night. He calls it an undisputable fact.

Still, I hear from lots of people who unapologetically DO dispute Gore’s claims. A friend who recycles, loves the outdoors, and calls himself an environmentalist says he has more faith in the earth’s God-given ability to “defend itself” than other envionmentalists who “cry doom and gloom.“ Still others flatly challenge the science and say claims have been made that can’t be backed by data. If you don’t believe me, just listen to talk radio.

Two Found Frozen to Death in South Salt Lake - KSTU

The pair were dressed in many layers of clothing, and plastic bags containing some of their belongings were found near the bodies.

Don't miss this: Alaska: Drowning in the snows of Kotzebue

PHOTO ESSAY: Seth Kantner gives us a glimpse of the harsh winter in Kotzebue.

NCGA Forms Climate Task Force   Pork - Industry News

The National Corn Growers Association’s Ethanol Committee has established a task force of corn farmers to focus on climate issues. Topics such as land use, greenhouse gas emissions, cap-and-trade policies, carbon sequestration and low carbon fuel standards will be discussed.

Tire Business - Calif. to make psi checks mandatory

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (March 27, 2009)— California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) has adopted a regulation that will require California’s automotive maintenance industry to check the tire pressure of every vehicle they service, starting July 1, 2010.
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The ARB did not say specify what policies will be in effect to enforce the ruling except to say a violation of the proposed requirements “may result in civil or criminal penalties.”

Nobel-winning climate [scam] scientist speaks at Expo Center tonight – OregonLive.com

Schneider contributed to a 2007 global warming report issued by the United Nations that painted a near-apocalyptic vision of Earth's future: More than 1 billion people would be in desperate need of water, extreme food shortages in Africa, a blighted landscape ravaged by fires and floods, and millions of species sentenced to extinction.

"Don't be poor in a hot country, don't live in hurricane alley, watch out about being on the coasts or in the Arctic, and it's a bad idea to be on a high mountain," Schneider told the media at the time.

Widely quoted on the latest climate research, Schneider speaks often of the challenge scientists face in explaining their ideas to the public.

"Nature is a perverse old girl, and she doesn't tell us how much (warming) is due to her and how much is due to us," said Schneider said in 2006. "So we look for fingerprints that you'd expect if the cause was humans rather than nature."

DC Rising Tide Disrupts Coal-to-Liquids Conference « It’s [Allegedly] Getting Hot In Here

DC Rising Tide came out swinging at the Coal-to-Liquids conference in Washington D.C. today. coal-to-liquids

STPNS - Obama: ‘You Screwed Up. You Trusted Us.’, Socorro, New Mexico

In case you haven’t looked into it, global warming is nonsense. All the money earmarked for the global warming hoax, or “climate change” or whatever they call it this week is money down the toilet.

Beyond the pork they will give to their buddies in the name of a “clean energy economy,” you’ll also get hit with “cap and trade” costs. That means two things to you:

First, it will come as a tariff (higher prices) on whatever goods they decide are contributing to their global warming hoax. You will pay the extra costs or you will do without the products, all in the name of a pseudo-scientific fiasco...

Cap and Trade: Just another socialist hoax on the folks!

Saudi Minister Urges Caution on the Drive to Renewable Energy - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“In years to come,” Mr. Al-Naimi said, “if traditional energy supplies should prove inadequate because capital expenditure was curtailed due to unsustainable prices, unreliable indications of future demand, or hopes for a substitute for oil cannot deliver, such a supply crunch would be catastrophic.”

It’s not the first time that a Saudi official has expressed exasperation at American energy policies. The Saudis believe they have acted responsibly in recent years, spending $70 billion on the Kingdom’s largest capacity expansion program, and increasing production whenever the market needed more oil.

Prince Charles Visits GM’s Astra Plant in the UK - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Yes, I'm sure GM's senior management is thrilled that their company's future is in the hands of climate alarmists like Prince Charles and their mandates for automakers to produce cars that aren't profitable.

The Dogs Must Be Crazy - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Now, if our poseurs could manage to leave the lights, latte machines... hospital respirators, school buses and the like off, then they might stand a chance of complying with their stated demands. But since deep down they have no intention of doing so, recognize this as being — just like Kyoto, though without the body count and misery — a gesture designed to suit the vanities of the wealthy and soft.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hey, why not let the UN run the energy sector?

What could possibly be worse than having Washington DC impose a de facto nationalization of energy production through Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade policies? Having Turtle Bay do it instead...

Texas may end school anti-evolution requirements - On Deadline - USATODAY.com

The board also adopted language that would have students study the "different views on the existence of global warming," the Chronicle says.

Celebrities Send Messages Of Support For Earth Hour

Other celebrities who have shown their support for the initiative include Coldplay, Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Larry Flynt, Amy Grant, The Veronicas, Vince Gill, Cate Blanchett, Janeane Garofalo and Alanis Morissette.

Turn On to Human Achievement | GlobalWarming.org

What many caught up in this hype don’t realize is that not using energy for an hour is worlds away from what the WWF and other environmental lobbying and political groups are proposing. Rather than leaving you free to shut things off for an hour or two, these alarmists believe we need governments around the world to ration, tax, and other restrict the use of energy. This is an affront to our basic liberties, but also a life-threatening proposition for those living in the developing world.

So, rather than taking of the banner of the anti-energy, pro-government control brigade, I suggest that you join the Competitive Enterprise Institute in celebrating Human Achievement Hour. You can participate by leaving the lights on, watching a movie, going out to eat, or doing anything else that’s a part of modern life. You can also tell your friends about sites like GlobalWarming.org that are making the consequences of environmental alarmism known.

Climate Observations: Part 2 of The Large SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data

In The Large 1945 SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data, I illustrated that the 1945/46 shift SST anomalies also appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature data. In this post, I provide comparative graphs of HADISST anomaly data from January 1930 to December 1959 and the Marine Air Temperature and Cloud Cover datasets. I’ve also added two more COADS datasets, SST and wind speed. The wind speed data shows a shift in 1945 but of the opposite sign.

Earth Hour is stupid and pointless. Leave the blasted lights on :: Milo Yiannopoulos

How does my blind, hopeless careering around the living room, bashing my head against the light fittings as I go, really help the planet?
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You probably already know that any campaign whose posters claim you can "make a difference" is to be studiously avoided. But Earth Hour really takes the biscuit. I will not be participating in this silly, headline-grabbing inconvenience foisted upon us by the eco-fascists. Nor should you. And if I happen to accidentally leave all the lights in my house on tomorrow night, well... oops.

Cold, New Blizzard Threaten Fargo Flooded Areas

Report from AccuWeather shows fierce cold and the prospects of a new blizzard are adding to the woes of many battling record flooding over the northern Plains.

Ed Milliband suggests that if a small percentage of eco-nuts turn off non-essential lighting for one hour out of 8760, it follows that we should blow $45 trillion on the greatest scientific scam in history

"Earth Hour is shaping up to be an impressive symbolic response to our planet in peril," said the climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, who is supporting the event. "Popular pressure like this will leave little doubt around the negotiating table in Copenhagen this December that a meaningful global carbon deal must be delivered. Making us all more aware of the energy we use is a critical first step in making lasting changes to our lifestyles."

Trace amounts of CO2 apparently devastating to anyone hoping for 6-foot spring snowdrifts in Oklahoma panhandle

Jane Apple of Kenton in the far western part of the Panhandle said there are 4 to 5 foot drifts with visibility less than 100 yards.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Human Achievement Hour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Do Not Delete This is clearly a legitimate attempt to parody the so-called "Earth Hour" celebration (which is itself a manufactured celebration.) There are several references to it on the Internet now (over 1,900 from a Google search for "Human Achievement Hour"). Even solely as a counterprotest to "Earth Hour" the event has generated anough publicity and noteriety to be included, as Wikipedia often includes protests, pranks, and stunts...

Earth Hour bears down on Kansas City

Kansas City Council members are urging residents to turn off their lights between 8:30 and 9:30 tonight, as part of an international event called “Earth Hour.”

The effort is part of a campaign to show how everyone can make a difference in preventing climate change.

Spring snow storm bears down on Kansas City

If you’ve put away your snow shovels and winter boots, dig them out.

Late March isn’t too late for a big snow — and part of the area is going to see one on Saturday.

“We know with 100 percent certainty someone’s going to get really clobbered,” National Weather Service senior meteorologist Evan Bookbinder said Thursday.

The War on Carbon Terror - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Madame Secretary is no longer restricted to the thankless task of preventing terror attacks here at home, but at preventing "man-caused disasters" of all kinds. (And apparently, she is ready to confront her expanded portfolio of disasters cheerfully, having moved past the politics of fear.) There can be little doubt that by this "nuance," the rhetorical space is being cleared to involve DHS in the Obama administration's climate-change efforts.

As Chris Horner and I were saying over e-mail last week: get ready for the global war on carbon terror.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Why the “never seen before” Fargo flooding is just what you’d expect from global warming, as Obama warns

Besides Obama, the British and the Chinese understand global warming has driven their record flooding. The United States media? Not so much.

David Frum: The Shock Doctrine - Disaster environmentalism in action - Full Comment

In the same vein, if all we really wanted to do was reduce the emission of carbon, our preferred policy instrument would be a carbon tax. That tax could be easily set at a level just sufficient to offset the relatively modest price differential between coal and nuclear power: just a few cents per kilowatt-hour.

By contrast, a tax that raises the price of electricity high enough to make solar and wind competitive would trigger a revolution. Solar and wind can only compete in a market so gnarled and manipulated by abstruse regulations that nobody can decode the cost of anything. Which is why so many environmentalists prefer the Byzantine complexities of cap-and-trade to a carbon tax. The carbon tax is too simple and too transparent. It shows too much!

Outsiders to this hermetic debate are entitled to better explanations than we have been getting. The cultural and ideological commitments of environmentalists need to be declared. If carbon dioxide truly is creating a planetary emergency, then previous ideological bugaboos must give way. If conservatives can learn to live with a tax on coal, then environmentalists can learn to live with nuclear power. Devotion to renewables is not energy policy. It is fantasy.

YouTube flashback - Ted Turner - Global Warming Will Create Cannibals

Biden flies to South America on a plane that burns 900 gallons of fossil fuel per hour, then promotes climate scam

Biden Travels South | washingtonpost.com

Vice President Biden, taking Air Force Two for another workout, left Washington yesterday with his wife, Jill, for a short trip to Costa Rica and Chile.
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[Biden] Finally, we all face the threat to our planet posed by the changing climate, and, so, we share the need to develop clean energy sources to combat--and reverse--this critical threat. The President and I are deeply committed to leading in the development of an urgent and coordinated response to climate change. Working as partners, we must harness the potential of green energy in a way that protects our planet for future generations, while also catalyzing economic growth for the generations of today.

Air Force Two: Information from Answers.com

Air Force Two is the air traffic control call sign used by any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the Vice President, but not the President.[1] The term is often associated with the Boeing C-32, a modified 757 which is most commonly used as the Vice President's transport.

How Much Fuel Do Different Aircraft Burn? — Civil Aviation Forum | Airliners.net

B757-200 = 925 gal/hr

Earth Hour Energy Use May Outweigh Savings - News - eWeekEurope.co.uk

People blogging about Saturday's Earth Hour, and watching it on television, may use more power than is saved by switching lights off for an hour - but it's a symbol, say organisers

Cities around the world show their lack of belief in the global warming scam by conducting "business as usual" 8759+ hours per year

Saturday marks Earth Hour in Las Vegas. It's a global event, with cities around the world vowing to turn off their lights to send a message about conservation. And as News 3's Tiffany DeLeon reports in our neon jungle, it's really going to be noticeable.

Did we say 5 million green jobs? We mean 1/25 of that number

Some jobs would be lost in fossil-fuel industries like coal or natural gas. If those are factored in, according to the report, the net number of jobs created becomes 202,000.

Snow storm closes meat plants in U.S. Southwest | Industries | Consumer Goods & Retail | Reuters

CHICAGO, March 27 (Reuters) - A big snow storm that began early Friday caused several meat plants to curtail operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

The National Weather Service said the storm should continue through Saturday morning. Forecasts called for 8 to 18 inches of snow from the Texas panhandle north through western Kansas.

Chill slows planting in Mid-Columbia - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

"It's been cooler than normal, particularly (the first couple of weeks of March)," he said. "Not too cold to do crop damage, just too cold for crop development. We have been running about 10 days behind normal weather-wise."

Don't leave us in suspense: Are you finding lots of melting ice, or not?

A slight rise in temperature (-38 degrees C at the moment) has been a positive development on the whole. It means I can spend longer outside, carrying out the experiments that are the purpose of us being here. I made 48 snow measurements after we’d stopped walking today – the best yet.

Though there’s a big downside – and that’s that at night our sleeping bags are no longer frozen, but wet. I’m not sure which is worse. Martin’s is the most soggy and he’s hardly slept for 6 nights now.

Charges against wind companies upheld - AltoonaMirror.com

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A Blair County judge has upheld all but two civil charges brought against two wind companies by a Juniata Township couple, who have complained that 40 wind turbines on Blue Knob Mountain are noisy and cause light to flicker in their home.
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The Stulls say the resulting noise, vibrations and flicker have caused them to lose sleep and to suffer anxiety and emotional distress.

Allegheny Ridge denies the noise from the wind farm is excessive.

The civil case is important because state and federal energy programs emphasize the development of wind energy, but wind energy brings with it environmental damage to streams, and wetlands and animals, Tupi said.

What will it take for America to wake up to the threat of climate change?

President Obama hosted an interesting experiment yesterday. On his Open For Questions site, he requested people to submit questions to him and vote on submitted questions. Subsequently, in a special online Town Hall, he answered several of the most popular questions - fabulous stuff.

However, despite hurricane Katrina devastating New Orleans, one of the US’s best known cities and now Fargo and many parts of North Dakota under threat of 43 foot floods, the top two questions in the Green Jobs and Energy category were related to legalising marijuana, not climate. Wtf?

Is Global Warming About to Cause Harm to Your Pet?

Hotter summers and milder winters have a hidden health impact, with experts now cautioning that warmer year-round weather will make more countries a haven for disease-carrying pests.

Climate change could make Sydney deadly by 2060: scientist - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The forecast for Sydney in summer 2060 is hot, polluted and deadly to the elderly.

Pickens reveals actual scheme « Green Hell Blog

Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens revealed on Wednesday that his much-vaunted Pickens Plan is nothing more than a sell-more-natural-gas-to-make-Pickens-richer plan.

An Example Of The Misuse Of The Publication Process “Model Ensemble Estimates of Climate Change Impacts on UK Seasonal Precipitation Extremes” by Fowler and Ekström 2009

Since there is no way to validate their model results for the time period 2070-2100 and the IPCC models have not even demonstrated skill in predicting regional climate extremes for the current climate, the results in the Fowler and Ekström are just hypotheses. It is a disppointing statement of climate science that hypotheses, which have not been tested, are presented as papers in the literature.

As I See It » The science of Global Warming is disputed, but so what?

Is anyone upset?

Upset, that in spite of so much contrary evidence, the global warming crowd is going ahead with protections that are not needed. Protections that will cause the masses to suffer economic hardships that will be blamed on the free-market capitalistic system.

Why aren’t we the people screaming?

The Madoff scam was supposedly big time, but this one will affect millions of people, but it is sanctioned by the government, which makes it OK.

Even GE backs away from offshore wind - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Six years ago, before the project was stalled by powerful political headwinds, Cape Wind developers selected General Electric to do the work.

“G.E. Wind Energy manufactures the most advanced offshore wind turbines available today,” Jim Gordon, the managing general partner of Cape Wind, said at the time.

But G.E. no longer makes any offshore turbines, according to Steve Fludder, the head of G.E.’s green business unit, who sat down for a wide-ranging interview with The Times on Wednesday.

G.E. has instead focused its turbine business where it sees the vast majority of demand: on land. Offshore wind, said Mr. Fludder, is “just a vastly costlier proposition — not for us but for the world.”

Arne Jon Isachsen: To drive carbon emissions down, let's allocate every individual a "pollution" entitlement | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Idealism alone is not enough to drive carbon emissions down: we should give each individual a pollution entitlement

Incentives, incentives

Hmm, now, imagine you are a ruthless dictator desirous of making the most possible money out of your control of your country and its people.

It’s not entirely beyond the bounds of believability that such exist now, is it?

So what’s your best option under this scheme? Slaughter the population and sell their carbon quotas of course.

An interesting set of incentives to organise, don’t you think?

CNSNews.com - Government Should Compel Consumers to Use Alternative Energy, Congressman Says

(CNSNews.com) - Government policy should be crafted to raise the price of carbon-emitting energy sources so consumers are compelled to choose alternative energy, House Democratic Conference Chairman John Larson (D-Conn.) told CNSNews.com on Thursday.

Larson agreed that such a policy would likely result in higher electricity prices for consumers but said this is needed to protect the environment from the possible “catastrophic results” of not implementing a pro-green energy policy.

Some Republicans who spoke with CNSNews.com at the Capitol agreed that electricity prices would go up, and they dismissed President Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade plan as little more than a large tax on energy producers, the cost of which is passed onto consumers.
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“Of course” Obama’s plan will drive up energy costs, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told CNSNews.com. “The president’s proposal is unacceptable, because it’s just being used as a source of revenue.”

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) told CNSNews.com: “Of course the cost is going to rise. When people think of cap and trade, they are going to think of a giant tax increase.”

"Yabba-Dabba-Doo!": Electric car 'uses 50 times less power than petrol vehicle'

An electric vehicle which uses the same amount of power as a hairdryer is to take part in an endurance race later this year.

The car, codenamed 'Bethany', was designed by the Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) team and has six metres squared of solar cells.

Frozen, leaking water lines keep town crews busy - Meadow Lake Progress - Saskatchewan, CA

The long cold winter Meadow Lake has been experiencing has had an effect on more than just people’s attitudes.

Over the last week the Town has been dealing with numerous water line breaks and frozen pipes.

In an interview on Tuesday, March 24 Public Works foreman Rick Bannister said frost is causing a lot of problems around town.

“We had so much cold weather this winter, there is so much frost,” he said.

FOXNews.com - U.N. 'Climate Change' [Scam] Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy - United Nations

A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.