Indonesian government looking to cash in on the climate scam?

The blue print on a national plan of action on climate change, which was launched by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during the climate change conference in Bali in 2007, states that Indonesia’s marine biodiversity can absorb some 67 million tonnes of carbon, equal to about 245.6 million tons of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) per year.

A Dog Named Kyoto: So how do you like our green world?

Those who have been lobbying for a "green economy" no longer need to look very far to see an example of what they wish for.

We are now experiencing it first hand.

The decline of Richard Littlemore: Alarmist journalist reduced to railing at real scientists

The question, for Dr. Ball - an expert with no credentials and, increasingly, an advocate with no audience - is this: If he would have us criticize Hansen and Weaver for alarmism - for "frightening people" in a theatre that is about to be engulfed in flames - what accusation would he hurl at the usher who blocks the door and recommends people return to their seats and ignore the smoke already curling around their head.

I'd suggest "criminal negligence" at the least, especially if that "usher" truly had above-average scientific understanding and was particularly able to assess the risk.

As the bodies start piling up, others may prescribe more dramatic charge - perhaps some variation of "deadly irresponsibility." In the first degree.

Marc Morano and Joe Romm debate the politics of climate change :: Milo Yiannopoulos

"It was funny to hear Romm citing how many governments support the AGW [anthropogenic global warming] claims," Marc wrote to me afterwards. "Romm used that point to 'prove' the 'science' was settled. Very alarming."

I've corresponded with Marc via email on several occasions. Each time, I've been impressed with his grasp of the science surrounding climate change. In this debate, he pretty much nails cap-and-trade, the "wealthy white politics" of the climate lobby and the flaws in the IPCC process.

There's a superb analysis of the debate over at Newsbusters - including a response from Romm.

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, President of the Hip Hop Caucus: Tears from Heaven: Dr. King Would Want Climate Justice

You see, it is mostly poor people of color in the U.S. and around the globe who are feeling the impact from climate change, through increases in heat-related illnesses and deaths, rising energy costs, and of course natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina.

We can end poverty and save our climate at the same time.

Christopher Booker: Yet more mind-boggling figures on global warming - Telegraph

So this independent expert was asked to peer review the method used by an “independent” committee (which he had already been working for) to produce figures that seem rather to have been plucked from the thin air of which only 0.04 per cent – one 2,500th – consists of the self-same carbon dioxide which we are now expected to believe we will benefit by £1 trillion from not emitting. Truly we are governed these days by stark, raving lunacy – and no one is meant to notice.

New Study: Black Carbon Responsible for Half of Arctic Warming - insciences

Because black carbon only remains in the atmosphere for several days to weeks, reducing it can bring about almost immediate mitigation of warming, whereas decreases in temperature lag reductions in CO2 by 1,000 years or more.

IPCC'S FATAL ERRORS (by Jeffrey A. Glassman)

Here is a list of eight major modeling faults for which IPCC should be held to account.

Global Warming - Fact or Fiction?

But green leaders maintain that even if some warming is consistent with millennial cycles, something is triggering the current change. According to the nonprofit Environmental Defense, some possible (natural) explanations include increased output from the sun, increased absorption of the sun’s heat due to a change in the Earth’s reflectivity, or a change in the internal climate system that transfers heat to the atmosphere.

But scientists have not been able to validate any such reasons for the current warming trend, despite exhaustive efforts. And a raft of recent peer reviewed studies—many which take advantage of new satellite data—back up the claim that it is emissions from tailpipes, smokestacks (and now factory farmed food animals, which release methane) that are causing potentially irreparable damage to the environment.

Al Fin: Free Online Access to the International Conference on Climate Change: Audio, Video, PDF, PPT

Becoming better informed on this issue may save you from falling for yet another Obama / Pelosi scam -- programmed energy starvation. Whether referred to as "cap and trade", "carbon tax", or other euphemisms, it comes down to energy starvation in the name of an invented crisis. Obama zombies do not mind being suckers to their messiah. Thinking humans may feel differently.

US believers [buying into the greatest scientific fraud of all time], hold media fast for Lent

"It's an insult to God, it's a sin to spoil the environment, to hurt creation," said Episcopalian pastor Reverend Sally Bingham, who is coordinating "The Regeneration Project," an interfaith group of some 4,000 congregations looking for a religious response to global warming.
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"This year, I gave up meat. Last year, I turned off my heat. I had to wear a ski parka inside my house. My children would not visit, they thought I'd gone crazy," Bingham said.

Bad news for Catlin Expedition: Satellite Data Shows Arctic Cooling in March « Watts Up With That?

...since the beginning of 2005, Arctic temperatures have been cooling at a rate of 1.8 degrees C per decade, or 18 degrees C per century.

Obama’s Song

While in London supposedly lifesaving measures were being adopted, the specter of climate change made its appearance on the very day that the final G-20 agreement was passed, as a tragedy that was more serious than the economic crisis.

An AFP cable informed that:

“According to a new scientific study, around 80% of the Arctic polar ice cap could disappear by a date as near as the year 2040, instead of staying around until 2100 as it had been estimated earlier.”

It was allegedly The Greatest Problem Ever, but here the global warming scam only gets mentioned third

The Burlington Free Press says the group feels bottled water is a waste issue that touches on areas of public health, economics, global warming and the world water crisis.

More Trouble For Al Gore And Natural Global Warming/Cooling Deniers | American Conservative Daily

Al Gore and his non-merry band of scientific illiterates running about and promoting false claims as proof of man made global warming (or climate change as they have altered course to in recent years) are not happy with a new report out of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Nope. They are not happy at all.

Commentary » Blog Archive » Flotsam and Jetsam

Wasn’t there a ban on lobbyists? “Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change, disclosed earnings of between $1 million and $5 million from lobbying firm Downey McGrath Group, Inc., where her husband, Thomas Downey, is a principal. She states $450,000 in ‘member distribution’ income, plus retirement and other benefits from The Albright Group, a lobbying firm whose principals include former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.”

Harsh winter leads to fish kills in Minneapolis | KXNet.com North Dakota News

Spring walks around some Minneapolis lakes might come with a whiff of fish because those lakes are experiencing a fish kill after a harsh winter.

The Minneapolis parks department is warning on Friday of fish kills on Diamond Lake, Grass Lake, Loring Pond, Powderhorn Lake and Lake Hiawatha.

Damage likely from winter's severe cold - Home & Garden - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

KENNEWICK -- It's been at least four years since local gardeners have had to worry much about winter injury on their landscape plants.

However, this past winter's severe cold spells have resulted in some very sad looking plants, such as photinia, winter creeper and rhododendron.

Oakland men found dead near Soda Springs, California - Chico Enterprise Record

Officials believe the men died from exposure. There were no signs of suspicious injuries on either body.

It appeared they had tried to protect themselves from the cold by lying beneath downed logs. The men had neither matches nor a lighter between them.

Jay Ambrose: Obama administration wrong place to look for common-sense energy policy - SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

Because Democrats abandoned a plan to use a Senate squelch-the-minority maneuver to pass a disastrous cap-and-trade carbon tax, the idea may be done for this year. But don't give thanks too quickly.

It's far from dead and buried and other disastrous energy policies are being readied for public infliction. Before the Obama administration and its congressional allies are done, we could be reeling from one of the most extraordinary spectacles in American political history — a wholly misguided war against our own self-interests as a people.

An Open Letter: "Dear Climate Change Deniers..." | Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism's Blog

There has been a disturbing amount of press lately (including a full page ad in Monday's Washington Post) by 'climate change skeptics' like the Heartland Institute- those who don't believe the earth is warming, don't think human activity is the cause, or don't think we should worry about it. Scientific evidence to the contrary, these 'skeptics' continue to argue that taking action against climate change is unnecessary and will cripple our economy, send American jobs overseas, and generally destroy our way of life. None of this is true.

Expect a cooler than normal April | Seattle-Tacoma News

This may be a cool month for the Tri-Cities, says the National Weather Service in Pendleton.

It's predicting below normal temperatures and near normal precipitation for the month. Normal highs for the Tri-Cities during April are 67 degrees and normal lows are 41.2 degrees. Normal precipitation is 0.51 inches.

March also was cooler than normal in the Tri-Cities.

Believes Global Climate Change Is 'Patently False'

The Port Washington News would do well to share the results of real science rather than junk science concocted by alarmists like Al Gore and repeated by the mainstream media in the U.S. I look forward to a more educated discussion on this topic in future editions of our community newspaper.

Mike Medeiros

The Daily News Online > Letter: Don't believe wind energy is 'green'

I don't know about you but I'm sick and tired about windmills being touted as as a solution to our energy problems. Presented as green energy they are probably the greatest threats to the environment. The huge machines not only pollute the view but kill birds, bats, ruin farmland and probably drive humans in close proximity crazy.
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Don't let our representatives in Congress dump these viable sources because of scares about climate change.We can't change it folks.

Berney Staats
Stafford

AFP: When Barack met Vaclav

Bilateral meetings between Obama and Topolanek and President Vaclav Klaus, a vocal opponent of climate change science and a fierce critic of the European Union, have been reduced to a minimum.

State of the nations - Free Press Opinion

Global climate change seems to have dropped off the mainstream media’s agenda.

Missouri: April '07 so warm that the Easter Freeze only caused $400 million in crop damage

Unknown is the effect of this expected freeze in comparison with the last memorable freeze, 'The Easter Freeze," which occurred in late April 2007 and caused $400 million in crop damage throughout Missouri.

nanpalmero: Al Gore CTIA Keynote Liveblog

10:09AM: A guy in front of us is literally falling asleep. Literally. Like, head bobbing back before he catches hiself.
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10:13AM: There’s a common thread in all the current crisis. Economy, security, enviroment. We need to change. No more carbon fuels (uh, give up your Gulfstream, Al, and you can preach that, brotha man). Need fuels that “are free forever.” Wind, sun, etc. And if dude next to us elbows us one more TIME he is getting shanked.

Skeptic's Corner: Jody's Rant

Recently you have a convention of hundreds of scientists, many of them world renowned, presenting arguments against the very thing Jody is so worried about "climate change" and the main stream media virtually ignores them. Yet a twenty something PhD candidate is given a world wide forum to spout her views on a major news network's web site as if she had some sort of authority on the issue. Read the article and you be the judge of the importance of Jody's rant.

Skeptic's Corner: Too Bad

SPPI’s authoritative Monthly CO2 Report shows that in recent years global mean sea level, as measured by the JASON satellite, has not risen for three years, probably in response to ocean cooling.

Texas PUC Chief Fears Climate Change Legislation Could Raise Electricity Prices

Apr. 4--The chairman of the Public Utility Commission is worried that federal climate-change legislation could pummel the Texas economy, and he asked the company that operates the state's electric grid to study the matter.

Should the greatest scientific fraud of all time really be at the center of all economic decisions?

The British envoy added that there was need to make sure that climate concerns were at the center of all economic decisions, adding that his government would like to hear Zambia's voice demanding more global action on climate change.

Lawsuits can "help" in the fight against climate change « Robert Kyriakides’s Weblog

Six years ago, Friends of the earth, Greenpeace and the City of Boulder Colorado filed a lawsuit against the Import-Export Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation claiming that these defendants had provided more than $32 billion in export credits, finance and insurance to fossil fuel projects without considering, as they were legally obliged to do, the environmental impact of their finance upon the United States, in terms of climate change. Later Santa Monica, Oakland and Arcata supported the claim.

Letter to the Editor: “…the only thing certain about global warming is the amount of fraud and deception used to promote it….” | GORE LIED

[Roger Huetig] Obama says that the science of global warming is certain but the only thing certain about global warming is the amount of fraud and deception used to promote it and the amount of predictions that don’t come true.

jfleck at inkstain » People Seem to Favor Action on Climate Change Until….

This resonated for me after spending the day Friday talking to folks in Washington about what happened this past week in the U.S. Senate, with a series of votes that suggested enthusiasm for free climate lunches and not so much for action that might incur any costs.

With no significant warming since 1995, Revkin's now getting interested in natural climate fluctuations

Study: Cool Spells Normal in Warming World - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

I’ll be doing more pieces on the climate basics soon, including a look at arguments that ocean cycles like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation are the dominant driver of recent climate change.

I wonder if warm spells are "normal" in a naturally warming world?

Dalton Minimum Returns: Solar danger, we are at the cross roads

ames Marusek writes that "we are now at a crossroad. Two paths lie before us. Both are marked with a signpost that reads "Danger"! Down one path lies monstrous solar storms. Down the other path lies several decades of crushing cold temperatures and global famine. Since this site focus on the return of a Dalton Minimum lets look at the path to crushing cold and global famine.

Ross Gelbspan | Ever Wonder Who's Financing the Skeptics' Resurgence?

OPEC said oil was not to blame for climate change and consuming countries should pay to fight the threat.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) now run by non-meteorologist

I suppose it is what we could expect with the BoM coming under the wing of Minister Penny Wong, the Minister for Climate Change and Water. It has been obvious for over a decade that CSIRO has been more gung-ho than the BoM about pushing an agenda underpinned by ridiculous “climate change” modeling. Now a CSIRO staffer has taken over the BoM. Why not go the whole hog, make the BoM a Division of CSIRO, tidier.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Why are BoM 3 month forecast models so pathetically WRONG

Just taking a quick look at the latest January to March rainfall and temperature three month Outlooks from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). I have linked to the originals for rainfall and temperature. Note these forecast maps were issued on 17 Dec 08. I have made the actual rain and temperature anomaly maps at this useful page. You can choose rain or temperature (max or min) for various periods or parameters. I am not saying medium term forecasting is easy but I am puzzled the BoM maps are often so EXACTLY wrong.

Still living in 2007: The green scene is [allegedly] taking over America - Times-Standard Online

News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, a billionaire and an unlikely environmentalist, set 2010 as the corporation's carbon neutral target. This was a big 360-degree turn-around after voicing skepticism about global warming following the screening of Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” (A film that was Carbon Neutral by following their own advice).

Carbon neutral is the hot ticket in filming these days, kicked off with “Syriana,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” and “There Will be Blood,” to name a few. After the credits roll, they typically give credit to the production being 100 percent carbon neutral.

This is definitely a process where strong math skills will come in handy. First, consultants measure the carbon dioxide output that is estimated to be used during a production, then methods are used to cut energy consumption and usage during a production. This includes flights, driving hybrids or using bio-diesel, electricity conservation methods, and recycling. Even using locally grown organic food for catering can add to the equation.

Romm keeps the CO2 hysteria knob set on 11

Hill conservatives have rejected all 3 climate-saving strategies, an approach that would doom your children and grandchildren and the next 50 generations to untold (and purely preventable) misery.

Matthew Yglesias joins Romm in keeping the CO2 hysteria knob set on 11

This is good for Republicans, since it helps them achieve their goal of destroying the planet. And it’s good for Democrats, since it helps them achieve their goal of pretending to try to avoid the destruction of the planet while ensuring that, in practice, the planet is destroyed. And Senators Johanns was born in 1950, so he’ll almost surely be dead by 2050 (along with countless residents of flood-prone areas of the developing world) so it’s basically all good.

Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker urges respite, doubts forecast as weather service predicts high second crest

Even before record snowfall in March, ice and snowpack in the region was as much as three times normal levels, according to the weather service.

'Zero chance' of imminent change on US climate legislation | The Australian

THERE is "zero chance" of climate change legislation being signed by the US before the UN Copenhagen summit in December, according to sources close to the Obama administration.

Climate alarmists call for more groupthink | OpenMarket.org

Because of this “doublespeak,” say the experts, “The dangers of global warming are not getting through to the public.” I have a better explanation. Blaming SUVs for hurricane Katrina sets off the public’s B.S. detector, as do implausible scenarios of sea levels rising 20 feet and the climate “tipping” into an Ice Age in our lifetimes or those of our children.

Global Warming - What a Hassell(hoff) « Don’stuff

I happened across this today… I’m not sure what to think… What say you?

Cap-and-trade advocates press on after budget battle - NYTimes.com

But Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), one of the lawmakers pressing for reconciliation, is concerned sponsors won't be able to get 60 votes through regular order. And if they can, Sanders worries that the bill would be watered down too much to address the threat of climate change.

"I'd say the votes over the last few days have been disappointing," Sanders said. "And it suggests to those of us who understand the crisis in terms of global warming and want to see bold action are going to have to work with the American people and develop a strong, grassroots movement to put pressure on the Congress to address this crisis. That's what we've got to do."

Stimulus package makes climate change 'the biggest loser of G20 summit' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

• G20 stimulus package has 'short-changed the planet'
• Fears that greenhouse emissions will continue to rise

Questions About Global Warming Climate Change | Political Humor by Radioactive Liberty

If anyone here can give a coherent answer to all of these questions, I’m open to reducing, or even eliminating my skepticism.

YouTube - Hosting Two Forums on Cap-and-Tax - April 9

On April 9, Rep. Bachmann will be hosting two forums, one in St. Cloud and the other in Woodbury, to discuss President Obama's proposed cap-and-trade policies. Chris Horner from the Competitive Enterprise Institute will give a presentation on what this policy means to you and your family, and how it will financially impact every American - regardless of income.

SET Energy » Blog Archive » US Govt Report: Wind and solar still small in 2030

Wind & Solar Remain Small

In the reference case, the EIA expect wind and solar to remain mice compared to the elephants of fossil fuels. Wind grows to 44 GW (p. 48) or 2.5% of US electricity, only 75% higher than the ~25 GW at the end of 2008. It would take only 2 1/2 years at 2008’s 8+ GW growth rate for 44 GW to be reached. Seems to me they are short-changing wind power.

Solar is dismissed even further into the margins. Growth is expected to make solar less than half the size of wind today by 2030 (p. 140), rather than its potential greater than 100 GW in my opinion. Their models have probably not incorporated the 30+% solar modules price drop currently taking place since last summer. It’s clear that the industry will have to prove themselves to EIA officials in coming months that they can emerge profitable in 2010 despite module prices below $2.50 per watt.

REFILE-Obama climate [scam] plans face long route for passage | Markets | Reuters

John McMackin, a director of a glass container company and part of a lobby for energy-intensive firms, said this vote shows there are still a large number of moderate Democrats from heavy manufacturing states that are skeptical of climate change legislation.

Insurers seize climate change [scam] opportunity with over 600 new products - 03 Apr 2009 - BusinessGreen.com

The insurance sector is responding rapidly to the opportunities presented by climate change and the emergence of low carbon technologies with a glut of new products and services that should help accelerate the adoption of greener business models.

That is the conclusion of a major new report from sustainable investor group Ceres, which found that there are 643 climate change related products and services being offered by almost 250 insurers worldwide, including a doubling in new product offerings launched in 2008 alone.

Offshore Wind: Plenty of Potential, Even More Hurdles - Environmental Capital - WSJ

There’s a simple reason that offshore wind still makes up less than 1% of global wind installations: The greater cost of offshore wind outweighs the benefits of stronger and steadier ocean breezes.

Opposing Views: NEWS: The U.S. Military Goes Green to Fight Global Warming

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2009 – Ever imagine filling up the fuel tanks on a military aircraft with french fry grease? It’s no April Fools' Day joke -- that’s exactly what the Air Force could do someday if a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research program proves successful.

Strasbourg town hall: Obama continues to promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time

This is the generation that must also stop the spread of the pollution that is slowly killing our planet, from shrinking coastlines and devastating storms to widespread misery and famine and drought. The effects of climate change are now in plain sight.

Europe has acted with a seriousness of purpose that this challenge demands. And in the last few months I'm proud to say that America has begun to take unprecedented steps to transform the way that we use energy. We appointed a special envoy to help us lead a global effort to reduce the carbon that we send in the atmosphere.

But we all know that time is running out. And that means that America must do more. Europe must do more. China and India must do more. Rolling back the tide of a warming planet is a responsibility that we have to ourselves, to our children, and all of those who will inherit God's creation long after we are gone. So let us meet that responsibility together. I am confident that we can meet it. But we have to begin today. (Applause.)

The Reference Frame: RSS MSU: 0.06 °C month-on-month cooling

The mid troposphere cooled by 0.09 °C in one month (RSS). In this layer, the anomaly of the Arctic dropped (cooled) by 1.5 °C in one month!

The cooling appears despite the fact that the recent La Nina conditions are essentially over. During the most recent week, they have been replaced by ENSO-neutral conditions.

In the U.S., 358 low temperature records and 409 snowfall records were broken during the most recent week. New blizzards are expected.

All-time Snow Records Tumbling Again for the Second Straight Year

Just a week after the last major northern plains blizzard another major event is on the way. The Nebraska NWS office in North Platte puts it this way “another late season heavy snowfall event is evolving. The heaviest snowfalls are expected over northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota Saturday and Saturday night. It appears that winds will gust well over 50 miles an hour across southwestern and central Nebraska by Saturday evening.

Spring voting chooses Blue States/Red States « Watts Up With That?

January, 2008 was the snowiest month on record in the Northern Hemisphere, with nine out of the last eleven January’s above normal.

In Hot Water: Energy and Climate Bill is Really, Really Comprehensive - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The efficiency section gets attention, which is odd considering other seemingly crucial points were glossed over. The 648-page bill did not dedicate a single line to addressing big-picture questions such as how carbon-emissions permits will be distributed or what will be done with the presumptive cap-and-trade revenues.

Yet the bill’s authors took the time to dictate new efficiency standards in excruciating detail. If you’re planning on putting a slanted roof on a new house, get ready for one standard for “initial solar reflectance” for “fiberglass asphalt-shingle roofing,” and a different standard for other types of shingles.

Or take light fixtures. The bill found 10 pages just for portable lighting. If you’re curious, that means a new raft of standards for things like “art work light fixtures”—and yes, those are the lights affixed on the bottom of picture frames. Christmas lights, on the other hand, escape any new regulation.

Certain appliances also got the juices flowing. Reflecting perhaps California’s disproportionate influence in Congress these days—Henry Waxman is the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee—one sub-section is dedicated to something called “portable electric spas.” Yes, that’s just what it sounds like.

Hillary advisor: ‘Too many people’ « Green Hell Blog

A question for Dr. Federoff: Exactly who are the surplus people?

You know, the eugenicists only hated some people — those they viewed as genetically defective. The Nina Federoffs of the world seem to be even more indiscriminate.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Congressional Insiders Forsee Incremental Change

These terms are imprecise enough to allow for many interpretations, but seeing two-thirds of Democrats polled foreseeing “incremental change” cannot be a good sign for those hoping for something more. The lesson of course is that climate policies must be aligned with what is politically possible. The risk is well captured by one of the Democratic Insiders who commented that s/he foresees Incremental change “”Cloaked as ’sweeping change.’ “

National Journal Magazine - Congressional Insiders Poll

"This issue [energy and climate change] is quickly becoming toxic for many Democrats. And they pursue it at their own political risk."

From climate scam believer Steve Scolnik

This latest mendacity by the Will-Full liar is effectively demolished by the Loom at Discover, so we won't waste time rehashing the details. However, for those who are not privileged to have the carbon-based publication soiling their doorstep daily, you might be interested in a little rundown of who's paying the bills on the sinking WaPo ship. Besides the full page Cato rant on Monday, here's what was supporting Will's juvenile scribblings on today's page A21:

* A4: GM full page, black & white
* A7: Oil and gas industry full page, color

Heliogenic Climate Change: Drowning islands: How dumb can journos get?

However, as pointed out by the Junkman, global warming (which isn't happening) has nothing to do with it...

When glaciers retreat, it's because of global warming; when they surge, it's also because of global warming

Why is the glacier surging? With increased global temperatures, the flow of water beneath the glacier is increasing and is lubricating the underside. In spite of the appearance of growth, the glacier is actually shrinking in mass.

OT: From the same link above: When this guy died, we think he was wearing a hat and robe that were between 160 and 370 years old?!

Subsequent DNA tests have revealed that he died between 130 and 340 years ago and is in fact related to at least 17 people on both sides of the international border. He grew up on the coast, eating a sea food diet. More puzzling is the dating of the gopher skin robe and spruce root hat he was wearing. Both are around 500 years old, which points to them being family heirlooms, passed down through the generations.

Climate dissenters in  Ghana: 'Global Warming is Not Normal' Say Experts, But Some MPs Disagree

Some members of Parliament's Appointment Committee may not agree with Ms. Hanny-Sherry Ayittey, the Minister for the Environment, Science and Technology, that tsunamis could be related to global warming. But experts say increases in temperature could lead to pressure in the earth crust, resulting in tsunamis.
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Dr. Yaro sees it as surprising MPs who were involved in the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol are questioning the reality of global warming.
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Making a case for the irregular nature of the weather worldwide, Hon. Osei-Owusu remarked that snow fell the most on days Al Gore embarked on climate change campaigns. Such inconsistency in weather worldwide, according to him, makes global warming a normal, sporadic occurrence than a trend.

Senator Thune Achieves Important Victory for the Taxpayers | Red County

That 89 of 100 senators voted for Thune's amendment shows they are in touch with the fact that the American people are going to be hit hard by any climate change legislation. It also implies they recognize that indulging hysteria about anthropogenic global warming is less important than the hardship such measures will bring to the taxpayers.

As usual, Will Steger continues to freely make up his own set of "facts"

Scientific opinion on global warming — the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and the oceans — has shifted in the last three years, Steger said, and those who argue against it are now in the minority. And despite what he called billion-dollar campaigns of misinformation on the subject, he’s still hopeful for a solution.

Scientific theories take awhile to develop, after all.

“The science is in 92 percent that we’re radically changing the planet. And (the theory of) gravity isn’t even 100 percent yet,” he said.

[Fraudster] Gore says economic, climate crises share solutions - San Jose Mercury News

Gore made the comments Friday in a speech at the International CTIA Wireless Show, a trade convention for the cell phone industry. He told the group that wireless technology will be a "one of the key tools that we use to solve the climate crisis."

Bogus climate projections allegedly "confirm" other bogus climate projections

Australian researchers joined hundreds from around the world to present their latest findings, which update and in most cases confirm some of the more bleak projections made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.

The Amazon report used computer models to calculate the effects of rising temperatures on the rainforest and found that if temperatures rose by 2 degrees by the middle of the century - considered a conservative prediction - between 20 and 40 per cent of the rainforest would die. If temperatures rose by 3 degrees, three-quarters of the forest would die and transform into grassland.

Obama Endorses Soros Plan to Loot America

“We reaffirm our commitment to address the threat of irreversible climate change, based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and to reach agreement at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen in December 2009,” the document states. This is a commitment to sign a new global warming treaty that could cost the U.S. economy even more trillions of dollars. But this agreement would also require Congressional approval.

Minnesota Senate repeals nuclear power moratorium

State legislators have renewed the fight about whether more nuclear power plants should be allowed in Minnesota. The Senate voted 42-24 on Thursday to repeal the state moratorium on any new nuclear plants passed in 1994. The action came after 40 minutes of discussion on an amendment to an energy bill.

Study: Low-Carbon Fuel Standards Are Unlikely to Reduce Warming - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A low-carbon fuels standard is likely to do little to reduce global warming emissions and can even be counterproductive, according to a paper published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

An Electrifying Irony (false promises and hopes in the transportation market) — MasterResource

Fast forward to a recent item in the Wall Street Journal that reports: ”In a five-page analysis of GM’s viability, the [Obama car] team critiqued GM’s marquee next-generation project, the electric-powered Chevy Volt, as ‘too expensive to be commercially successful in the short-term.’” Thomas Edison told Henry Ford as much in 1896.

Minnesota Senate repeals nuclear power moratorium

State legislators have renewed the fight about whether more nuclear power plants should be allowed in Minnesota. The Senate voted 42-24 on Thursday to repeal the state moratorium on any new nuclear plants passed in 1994. The action came after 40 minutes of discussion on an amendment to an energy bill.

The American Spectator : The Real Climate Deniers

Since man set foot on the earth, however, nothing has quite gripped the angst-ridden imagination like the weather gods visiting their fury at human behavior and life, so much connected with the use of fossil fuel energy. Media editors know this. Where once we banished such "end is nigh" eccentrics to the limits of society, today, they are fêted for spinning prediction as science and conducting publicly funded research to "save the planet." Their messages are aided by apocalyptic video game scenarios passing for media news reports.

Ann Carlson: New York Times' Climate Skepticism

Last Sunday's New York Times Magazine story about climate skeptic Freeman Dyson has me worried.

Long, harsh winter means fewer days for learning | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

Many students across the Northland got an extra week of vacation this school year, thanks to the weather.

“I have been doing this a long time, and I don’t think I have ever closed school quite this many times,” Lake Superior Superintendent Phil Minkkinen said. Minkkinen has been a superintendent for about 17 years. “This is definitely not the norm.”

A snowstorm that dumped more than 10 inches on the North Shore closed the Lake Superior school district Wednesday for the fifth time this year. Students also were let out early on Tuesday.

YouTube - My Piece of Mind - REAL PROBLEM is not Global Warming/Climate Change/Rich People! Pt 1

The REAL problem that our planet earth is facing right now is NOT global warming, climate change or your average joe rich people. BUT ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND WARS!!!

AND CARBON TAXING OR INCREASING THE PRICE OF ELECTRICITY AND NASTY SMELLY BLACK OIL (Petroleum and Diesel) IS NOT AND CAN NEVER BE THE SOLUTION!

YouTube - 1989 - Global Warming fraud

High tide for wind power?

It will not have gone unnoticed by many people that settled spells of either very cold or very hot weather coincide with static areas of high pressure, which are also characterised by periods of calm. Just when electricity demand is at its peak, the preferred renewable energy source fails to deliver anything.

This is essentially the basis of a rather good spoof piece of news circulating on 1st April. Like all good April Fool jokes, this had a degree of believability to draw in the unsuspecting reader. Starting with some commentary about the proposed Severn barrage providing predictable but fluctuating power, it moved on to the suggested introduction of flexible working patterns, school hours and timing of sporting fixtures based on the tide tables. And finally, there was a proposal by the wind industry to reschedule weekends and public holidays at short notice depending on the expected weather forecast.

If wind power is becoming the butt of such jokes, someone should tell Ed Miliband that his vision of opposition to wind farms becoming socially unacceptable is unlikely to fly. Especially if the wind isn't blowing.

Bowdoin: Climate scam swallowed whole

The April Climate Days look to spice up—not heat up—campus next week.

Organized by the President's Climate Commitment Advisory Committee, the events include a Climate Fair, the results of the Climate Matters Contest, and a Common Hour lecture with environmental advocate Majora Carter.
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The top five proposals tackle the College's carbon emissions from a spectrum of angles. While one proposal suggests installing a "windmill field" on the Naval Air Station land, another recommends consolidating fall and Thanksgiving breaks, so that less energy is used in travel and re-opening the school twice. A third suggests raising the vehicle registration fee (Bowdoin's is one of the lowest in the NESCAC) and implementing a new parking policy under which cars could only be parked on the main campus for five or ten minutes.

A lesson from the G20 - to save the environment, get shopping | Matthew Taylor's blog

All the politicians and advisors I have spoken to recently about prospects for the Copenhagen climate change summit have been pessimistic. Not only are there the usual issues between the already developed and the developing nations (which are currently resurfacing at the UN climate change talks in Bonn), but with energy consumption and oil prices down because of the recession there is also a danger of complacency.

Indeed, for the environmentalists who protested against the G20 and the grossly inadequate response of global leaders to climate change, there is a bitter irony. If the global economy does not pick up, popular enthusiasm for international agreements will fade, climate change will look less important as a threat and action to tackle it unaffordable; the Copenhagen moment will pass and who knows when another opportunity for real concerted action will come.

So, far from rejoicing in the collapse of global capitalism, if you are green you should be praying for a return to growth. In fact, forget recycling, the greenest thing to do right now is to dust off the credit card and get out there shopping.

Smarter [climate scam promotion] needed

Source: European Commission, Environment DG
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In the UK, for example, three quarters of people believe that making changes to their travel habits, such as flying or driving less, will have a 'medium or major impact' on reducing the nation's carbon footprint. Yet only a third are willing to adopt these measures, and even fewer think that the public as a whole will do so...
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Instead of 'forcing' people to go green, say the researchers, we should be emphasising the local and personal benefits of climate change mitigation. This includes the financial savings associated with energy efficiency measures, as well as improved personal fitness and air quality due to reduced reliance on transport.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Does the Pew Center’s Eileen Claussen get the dire nature of our climate predicament — or did Duke’s Bill Chameides misquote her

“Binding targets for the developing nations is [sic] out of the question.”

– Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Who Will Profit from [the] Climate Change [Scam]?

Insiders say Michael Bloomberg, New York's independent mayor, has an explicit plan to encourage Wall Street to pull itself out of the dumps by financing renewable energy, "smart grid" technologies and other green innovations.

"A lot of trading is going to reside here in New York," said Peter Fusaro, chairman of Global Change Associates and organizer of the Green Trading Summit. "I can see nirvana coming."
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But the momentum building almost guarantees fresh excesses and abuses of the kind that came with previous Wall Street booms.

Andy Ertel of Evolution Markets urged his colleagues here to do all they could to discourage and distance themselves from the "Brooklyn Bridge salesman" who will inevitably come. He joked that he had already seen a Nigerian carbon market e-mail scam come across his desk.

"We're here about the environment first and making money second," Ertel said. "We have to be self-policing."

The Politically Viable Volt - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

That GM exec might also point out that the Toyota Prius isn’t “commercially viable” either (each model is still reportedly sold at a loss), but its very existence provides that company with a “halo effect” that enables it to avoid green scrutiny while it churns out larger, gas-guzzling vehicles like the Toyota Highlander that actually make money.

THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING CON | lease2u.co.uk

A lot of people have been hoodwinked into believing that global warming has been caused by people, countries, factories and cars emitting co2, carbon dioxide. THIS IS NOT TRUE. We have been the victims of a hoax that simply engineers more taxes.

I went to see Al Gore in Glasgow and it cost me £700 just to sit at a table and watch him speak about climate change, Hilton hotel in Glasgow. I believed it all. I thought, shit the planet is melting! You see, my planet, yes it’s mine as it’s the only one I live on has to be protected against harm as it’s also my son’s and your planet.

Obama's disaster in the making | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

Added Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington: "Starting with Enron and now the current financial meltdown, energy markets have been a target-rich environment for (undeserved profits) ... We don't need to solve our carbon problems by creating another fiscal crisis because we have a trading platform that has lots of holes and ends up being exploited."
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Not only was Enron an early supporter of cap-and-trade, so are many firms involved in the ongoing global financial meltdown, including AIG, which has received $173 billion in federal bailouts so far; Morgan Stanley ($25 billion); JP Morgan Chase & Co. ($25 billion); Merrill Lynch ($10 billion) and Goldman Sachs, which got a chunk of the AIG bailout because of its financial relationship with it.

As Republican Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon observed: "This is a disaster in the making. If you like the bubbles of the technology market and the housing market, I predict you'll love the bubble that will come from the cap-and-trade market." Indeed. [Via Climate Realists]

Don't use economic crisis as pretext to cut aid: Bill Clinton

The former Democrat president warned in an address at a "Global Progressive Forum" that in the "profoundly unstable" and "profoundly unequal" world, the current development situation was "non-sustainable".

He cited the situation in Haiti where AIDS victims die because "they do not have access to health systems" and the problems related to climate change.

Clinton urged "progressive" leaders present in Brussels to consider how they could translate their good intentions into concrete action.

The forum in Brussels, which attracted 1,500 people, was also addressed by a string of figures from the socialists and social-democrat ranks.

My Stand on Climate Change

I think Climate Change (aka Global Warming) is the "most commercialized" natural phenomenon.

Natural mechanism for medieval warming discovered - environment - 02 April 2009 - New Scientist

Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University says that based on the analyses and modelling that he has done, increased solar output and a reduction in volcanoes spouting cooling ash into the atmosphere could have not only kicked off the medieval warming, but might also have maintained it directly.

Spokane sets record for snowiest winter EVER « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

This is the second-consecutive heavy winter in Spokane. Last year, more than 92 inches of snow fell on the Lilac City, third most since records started in 1893.

Global Warming: A Classic Case of Alarmism | JoNova

[Dr David Evans] No one knows for sure what caused the little ice age or for how many more centuries the slow warming trend will continue. It has been warmer than the present for much of the 10 thousand years since the last big ice age: it was a little warmer for a few centuries in the medieval warm period around 1100 (when Greenland was settled for grazing) and also during the Roman-Climate Optimum at the time of the Roman Empire (when grapes grew in Scotland), and at least 1°C warmer for much of the Holocene Climate Optimum (4 to 8 thousand years ago).

Via Instapundit: How much total fossil-fuel will be burned by eco-hero Obama's trip to Europe?

IF THIS IS TRUE, WE CLEARLY NEED MORE AIRPLANES: “President Obama’s European visit this week has strained Air Force heavy-airlift capabilities and obliged the military to hire more foreign contractors to help resupply U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, according to military sources. The large delegation traveling with the president in Europe required moving several transports, including jumbo C-5s and C-17s, from sorties ferrying supplies to Afghanistan to European bases for the presidential visit, said two military officials familiar with the issue. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid any misunderstanding with White House officials.”

Alternatively, either (1) Obama could take a smaller-than-500 entourage; or (2) Some of these people could have flown commercial. One thing’s for sure — this would have been a bigger story if it had been Bush.

Insanity and hypocrisy: Full text of Barack Obama G-20 remarks and news conference

Of course, we spoke about additional steps to promote economic recovery and growth. But we also discussed coordinated actions on a range of issues: how we could reduce the nuclear threat; how we could forge a coordinated response to North Korea's planned missile launch; how we can turn back terrorism and stabilize Afghanistan; how we can protect our planet from the scourge of climate change. I'm encouraged that we laid the groundwork for real and lasting progress on a host of these issues.
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We talked about a whole range of other issues related to, for example, energy, and how important it is for the United States to lead by example in reducing our carbon footprint so that we can help to forge agreements with countries like China and India that, on a per-capita basis, have a much smaller footprint and so justifiably chafe at the idea that they should have to sacrifice their development for our efforts to control climate change; but also acknowledging that if China and India, with their populations, had the same energy usage as the average American, then we would have all melted by now.

[Although the oceans are cooling] Humboldt Squid Population [Allegedly] Exploding Due to Global Warming

Humboldt Squid prefer warmer waters and the recent range expansion is most likely caused by climate. Since 2002, millions of Humboldt have migrated north. Since they live about a thousand feet under the surface of the ocean, changes in their range reflect warmer temperatures at greater depths in the ocean than just the surface.

From the Arctic warming alarmists: Still more complaining about the cold

It’s frustrating sometimes”, says Expedition Manager Rebecca Duckworth who, in rotation with other members at the London HQ, often takes the call. “The sat-phone can cut out every few minutes and they have to keep calling back”. The cold, as always, makes an every day task such as a phone call difficult. “They get terribly cold holding the phone. Ann likes to write notes so just wears an ordinary pair of gloves. Sometimes she has to keep hanging up, to warm her fingers before calling back again”.
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As for communicating with each other on the ice, Hadow laughs. “There’s very little opportunity to chat. While we’re hauling the sledges there’s no talk at all and when we rest we’re too tired to say much. In the tent the roar of the [fossil-fueled] stoves makes it hard to hear anything. Sometimes we’ll talk a bit once we’ve got into our sleeping bags, but aside from exchanges of information relevant to the expedition, that’s about it”.

Climate change – the clash of theories, by Professor Will Alexander « An Honest Climate Debate

The whole climate change issue is about to fall apart. Heads will roll.

Senator’s Provision to Protect Workers from [Climate Scam] Passes Senate

Bond’s amendment to protect workers passed with a vote of 54 to 44. The Senator’s provision requires that any climate legislation passed by the Senate this year does not cause significant job loss, especially in the Midwest, Great Plains and South. Bond has long-stressed his support for cutting carbon emissions and putting our nation on the road to a clean energy future, but insists that Congress not pass proposals that will cut family budgets and worker payrolls.

BBC NEWS |  US to be 'pragmatic on climate'

Surya Sethi from India said: "Progress is extremely slow. Rich nations seem to think that developing countries can help the world out of the climate problem. But the poorest 50% have just 11% of emissions.

"It is crystal clear that the answer is for the United States and other rich nations to change their lifestyles and their methods of production and consumption. We do not see any real evidence that they have grasped that issue properly yet."
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So much work remains that the UN is planning two extra preparatory meetings before Copenhagen.

Mr Pershing expressed cautious optimism that the framework for a legally binding deal might emerge by December, although he said some details might take longer to be settled. There was an energy behind the issue in the United States that he had never previously witnessed, he said.

"Cap and Tax Collapse: Congress balks at one more bad Obama idea." - WSJ.com

Please pass Al Gore a Valium -- and better make it a double -- because his cap-and-trade dreams just took a dive in the U.S. Senate. In a vote late Wednesday, no fewer than 26 Democrats joined all 41 Republicans to insist that any new cap and tax on carbon energy would require at least 60 votes.

Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander called it "the biggest vote of the year" so far, and he's right. This means Majority Leader Harry Reid can't jam cap and tax through as part of this year's budget resolution with a bare majority of 50 Senators. More broadly, it's a signal that California and East Coast Democrats won't be able to sock it to coal and manufacturing-heavy Midwestern states without a fight. Senators voting in favor of the 60-vote rule included liberals from Wisconsin, Michigan and West Virginia. Now look for Team Obama to attempt to impose cap and tax the non-democratic way, via regulation that hits business and local governments with such heavy costs that they beg Congress for a less-harmful version.

Sign of the times: You have to scroll nearly to the end of this typical "clean energy" story to find any mention of climate change - Gloucester, MA

In recent years the color green has all but given up its former connotations in favor of serving exclusively as a buzzword for environmentalists. However, the city of Gloucester knows green is the color of another thing: money.

FT.com / US & Canada - Senate blow to climate change laws

It also underscored the difficulty that Mr Obama will face winning support for his proposed cap-and-trade system even outside of the budget process, raising the possibility of the US arriving empty-handed at the next round of United Nations talks on climate change in Copenhagen in December.
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But the votes demonstrated deep resistance to the central aim of cap-and-trade: to change energy consumption habits by applying a cost to carbon emissions.

Republicans Criticize Cost of Cap-and-Trade Emissions Plan

Until recently, much of the debate on climate change focused on the extent of the threat. But now that House Democratic leaders are planning to take up legislation to set up a mandatory cap-and-trade system for greenhouse emissions sometime this summer, opponents are focusing on the cost.

"They seem to give people the impression that it's going to be a huge environmentally friendly free lunch," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. "This lunch is not free."
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Though it is hard to understand how, Pelosi said she'll make sure no one suffers.

"I will work to see that whatever we do does not increase the burden on rate payers and also has mitigation for business so we can be competitive."

Scoop: NZ "embarrasses" [by showing insufficient enthusiasm for the climate scam]

Auckland 1 April 2009 - The New Zealand delegation at UN climate talks in Bonn is embarrassing the country by outing us as laggards, says Greenpeace.

Climate Change Fight "Helps" [according to only 45% of Australians]

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many people in Australia believe taking action to combat climate change can help protect existing jobs and create new ones, according to a poll by Essential Research. 45 per cent of respondents think tackling environmental concerns could save jobs in tourism and agriculture and generate new ones in the renewable energy sector.

[Or maybe it's the sun] F. James Sensenbrenner Says Technology, Not Carbon Caps, Is the Answer to Climate Change - WSJ.com

...will China and India join in the effort to reduce CO2 emissions?

During December's U.N. climate-change conference in Poznan, Poland, I asked delegates from both of these nations if they would agree to cut their emissions. Both said, unequivocally, "no."

Australia: Tiny amounts of CO2 allegedly cause whale food to move enough to cause mass beaching of whales

Experts studying the mass beaching of whales along Australia's coast have warned that such tragedies could become more frequent as global warming brings the mammals' food stocks closer to shore.

Principles in Practice: A Critique of Global Warming Science and Policy: A panel discussion at UCLA

What: A panel discussion challenging widely accepted views on global warming science and policy, followed by a Q&A

Who: Keith Lockitch, fellow of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, and Willie Soon, geoscientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Interview of Roger A. Pielke Sr. On The Website “The Reef Tank”

The focus on carbon dioxide is preventing more valuable policy actions to protect marine life and other environmental resources, since the emphasis on carbon controls will divert funds from these other issues.

At Witz' End: My night with range anxiety

Unfortunately, we can't carry a can of volts. If an EV goes dead, you leave it. If you're really lucky, you might get close enough to a home or business whose owner will let you plug in, but what will you do for the next few hours while it slowly charges on house current? The other option is to retrieve it later with a tow truck or flatbed. And forget the rest of your trip.

In my opinion, range anxiety is the single biggest obstacle in the way of widespread consumer acceptance of battery electric vehicles. Every EV at any price can carry only a finite amount of energy and will consume it at a (highly variable) rate dependent on its size, weight, feature content, load, operating efficiency, weather and, yes, operator skill.

Delhi to hold Earth Hour every month

“The Earth Hour will continue. All lights in government buildings should be switched off at 8.30pm on the last working day of the month for an hour,” Delhi government’s Environment Secretary J K Dadoo said.

Climate Trust's director to step down – OregonLive.com

The Climate Trust has begun a search for a new director after Mike Burnett, who led the Portland nonprofit to national prominence for innovations in the carbon offset market, announced he was stepping down after 10 years.

Brown’s Green New No Deal — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

In other news, the failure of the government’s unicorn-spotting task-force has also been blamed on insufficient funding.

More seriously, that renewable technology cannot produce the goods - literally - at a time when we are, allegedly, suffering from ‘peak oil’, and massive subsidies are available to renewable generators, and fines imposed for failing to meet targets, all ought to wake our glorious leaders up a bit. Instead, the language emerging from the G20 meetings indicates their belief that the ‘economic recovery’ will be ‘green’ and ’sustainable’.

It will be powered by unicorn shit.

Australian Climate Madness: Climate change ignored at G20

Can you believe it? The greatest challenge to humanity since the dawn of time (© Al Gore, James Hansen, IPCC etc etc) but the G20 choose to sidestep it completely...

Pajamas Media » Growing Cap-and-Trade on the Tax Farm

Cap-and-trade is very bad for what it is, but it is even worse for what it is not. For the 36 years since the first oil embargo made the need for an effective energy security policy apparent, the American political class has fecklessly failed to deliver. Like the Bush administration’s fantastical hydrogen economy dream, which was a means of achieving energy security before it, cap-and-trade is yet another hoax that avoids solving the critical problem of freeing the nation from the threat of extortion by the oil cartel.

Kansas City: Forum participants and coalition use climate scam to promote their own interests

A forum aimed at looking at how the Kansas City-area, the region and the nation can reduce global warming and create economic opportunities through energy efficiency and clean-energy technology is scheduled for noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum in Independence.
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Show Me Your Solutions is a coalition of environmental and conservation organizations and community groups. It includes the American Lung Association, Audubon Missouri, League of Women Voters of Missouri, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Missouri Farmers Union, Missouri Votes Conservation, Natural Resources Defense Council and Pew Environment Group.

"Global Warming During the Ice Ages" Talk at County Museum

Although we often hear about global warming, we are actually in the midst of Earth’s most recent series of ice ages. Beginning more than two million years ago, near the beginning of the Pleistocene Epoch, these ice ages are characterized by prolonged periods of expanding glaciations and cooler temperatures, punctuated by shorter “interglacial” periods of warming–including the warm (and often hot) period we live in today.

David Doniger: "First Read" of the Waxman-Markey Energy and Climate Discussion Draft

The climate is too big to fail!

Gust Of Hot Air: Analysis of Australian Temperature - Part 1

....Hence we can conclude that 44% (1 - 0.66/1.17) of all increase in temperature in Australia since 1950 can be accounted for, simply by a better mathematical method of measuring temperature!

Since some legal advisor claims island people are scared by junk science, what do you say we send America back to the Stone Age (after maybe throwing a few billion dollars towards the island people and their legal advisor?)

"The scientific findings about climate change are frightening," M.J. Mace, a legal advisor to the Federated States of Micronesia who presented the demands at the March 29-April 8 meeting, told Reuters.
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"Why would small island states be happy with a level of ambition that is going to destroy their countries?" Mace said. The highest points of some Pacific, Caribbean or Indian Ocean states are only a few meters above sea level.
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"We found the 25 to 40 range to be insufficient," Mace said, adding that it left open a risk of dangerous temperature rises.

Mace said that the alliance also wanted the rich to promise to cut emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, by at least 95 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

Wind-driven ice pack waylays lakers outside Duluth harbor on Lake Superior - TwinCities.com

[Photo caption] The Alpena, Lee A. Tregurtha, and the USCG cutter Alder battle heavy ice conditions in Lake Superior near Duluth, Minn. Wednesday Apr. 1, 2009 The ships were stuck in the heavy ice and are waiting for a heavier ice breaker to make its way to this area of the lake.

Carbon trading [scam] will create 'new fields of employment' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Carbon trading in Australia will create millions of new green-collar jobs by expanding traditional industries and creating new ones, says the CSIRO's senior science leader.

JournalStar.com - Lincoln, Nebraska - Blog - Sound Off

Twenty-six Democrats joined in supporting the Nebraska Republican’s amendment to the budget resolution. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did not speak against its adoption, although he voted no.

Johanns teamed up weeks ago with Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia in a manner reminiscent of Byrd’s alliance with another freshman Republican senator from Nebraska 12 years ago.

In 1997, Sen. Chuck Hagel and Byrd joined forces in winning 95-0 Senate approval of a resolution opposing the terms of the Kyoto treaty governing global warming.

Gulfnews: More climate fraud from the UN's Yvo de Boer

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this year will be the moment in history when humanity can rise to the challenge and decisively deal with the issue. It is beyond the shadow of a doubt that greenhouse gas emissions must be radically reduced to prevent climate change from sliding into climate chaos.

The Daily Bayonet: Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 3rd 2009

Get that? Because Al Gore's great global warming hoax has bullied credulous politicians to pursue cap and trade legislation, profits are threatened. Ergo, global warming threatens business and must be 'solved'.

Alberni Valley News - [Climate Scam] Forum attendance a disappointment

Thanks to Port Alberni city staff involved in organizing the Climate Change and Sustainability forum, and to the Alberni Valley Foundation for their co-funding. Economist Bruce Samson didn’t hold any punches in terms of where planet Earth is at in 2009. Carbon dioxide is at 387 ppm and rising. The oceans continue to acidify.
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The turnout was a disaster considering the seriousness of the issue and who it impacts.

Cap and Trade, Cut and Run

The Obama White House has been counting on the Democratic Senate to muscle through its controversial "cap and trade" bill by using the budget reconciliation process -- making it possible to enact the costly carbon tax plan with 51 votes rather than the 60 usually needed to cut off debate before a measure can be enacted.

That strategy was dealt a big blow last night after more than two dozen Senate Democrats sided with Republicans in publicly blocking use of the reconciliation loophole. A carbon bill now can't be attached to a budget resolution, one of the few Senate initiatives that under current rules can bypass the 60-vote threshold.

Republican Senator Mike Johanns of Nebraska told reporters he was pleased that every Republican voted for his proposal, along with 26 Democrats. He said that many of his Democratic supporters opposed the reconciliation loophole on grounds of Senate procedure and tradition, but were also frankly leery of hitting voters with visibly higher prices for everything from electricity to gasoline.

"There are huge economic consequences to cap-and-trade legislation," Mr. Johanns said. "It will impact everybody."

Today, Al's promoting his climate scam in Salt Lake City

Al Gore is huddling later today with LDS Church leaders in Salt Lake City.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. vice president requested the dinnertime meeting to discuss climate change and its solutions, sources said.

More on some of Al's recent fossil-fueled travel is here.

Bon Appétit For Roger Williams University [Promotes the Climate Scam]

With the news that one-third of greenhouse gasses come from the food system, consumers are waking up to the fact that what is on their plate matters in the fight against global warming. A lot.

Skeptic's Corner: A Siren Song?

Wind and solar should not be thought of as “infant industries” but as government-dependent industries that penalize consumers and/or taxpayers. “Buyer beware” should also apply to the purveyors of political energy. Self-interested consumer decisions in the energy marketplace should be respected—and false promises about inferior energies exposed—for good public policy outcomes.

More records broken across eastern Washington

Up to seven inches of snow fell Thursday on parts of Spokane, pushing what was already a record snow total to nearly 100 inches for the winter.
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So far, though, temperatures have also been well below normal this season.

On Wednesday, both Ephrata and Pullman set records for the lowest high temperature for the date. Ephrata's high was 40 degrees, breaking the record of 47 set in 2006. Pullman reached 35, breaking the record of 39 set in 1975.

American Thinker Blog: Dems Failure to Fast Track Cap-And-Trade a Terrific Omen

Word has it Boxer flipped out after the vote. And who can blame her? Her baby is drowning in the cooling, stable-leveled Sea the locals call Reality.

Indeed, the Senate eco-maniacs appear to be losing their grip -- in more ways than one. And after their cap-and-trade con-job officially nose-dives this year, it may well be headed to the dustbin of dreadful ideas it belongs in for the foreseeable future. And the serene sanity of that decision, in turn, may just bridle our emissaries at the Battle of Copenhagen come December.

As I said, yesterday’s vote was tremendous news.

International Falls gets record snow this winter

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. - International Falls has recorded its snowiest winter on record.

The National Weather Service says the border city has recorded 124.2 inches of snow this winter. That tops the old record of 116 inches set in 1995-1996.

Oil not to blame for climate change: OPEC | Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - OPEC said oil was not to blame for climate change and consuming countries should pay to fight the threat, while the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell said drivers could help by not buying Hummer sports utility vehicles.

"Oil is not responsible," the producer group's Secretary General, Abdullah al-Badri, told reporters on Thursday on the sidelines of the International Oil Summit in Paris.

"It is the industrialized countries which are making all this pollution in the world."

Scientists say the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil, is a key factor in climate change.

Mommy Life: Global warming hoax, globalism, New World Order

This is a great British analysis of the global warming hoax, including charges by scientists that the media has distorted the scientific community's response, warnings of GW propaganda being used to further the new World Order, and an unequivocal denouncement by the original founder of Greenpeace.

Mich. senators vote to extend debate on climate change | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan were among them. Levin was one of more than two dozen senators (Republicans and Democrats) who signed a letter saying they believed the climate change bill and its biggest component – a cap-and-trade system of auctioning off pollution emission permits for industry – was too important and far-reaching (especially in the industrial Midwest) not to undergo substantial debate.

Al Fin: The Sun's Startling Plunge: Deep Solar Minimum Perplexes World's Solar Science

If you are one of those who fell for the Al Gore - James Hansen catastrophic warming scam, don't throw away your home heating devices just yet. Gore and Hansen have achieved notoriety, job security, and not just a little wealth through their little scam. But reality has the last word. It's not nice to fool mother nature.

YouTube - Red River Flood Hit By 24 Inch Blizzard: Global Warming?

I live in breckenridge MN the red river is one block from my home, and I can tell you global warming does not exist as we are getting pounded with 25 inches of snow in april!

YouTube - Arctic alarmist struggles mightily to put on frozen clothes [caution: f-word used]

Martin Hartley, the team photographer, gets dressed ... for more information on the Catlin Arctic Survey, and WWF's work in the Arctic region, please visit panda.org/arctic.

YouTube - London anti global warming march - should we let these people completely reconfigure our economy?

Al Fin: Arctic Warming? From Black Soot, Not CO2

Most of this soot comes from China. Since China has built a huge new coal plant every 10 days over the past year or so, there is no sign of slowing down for Chinese soot production. CO2, on the other hand, is a negligible contributor to arctic warming. Between soot and natural weather cycles, roughly 90% of arctic warming can be explained. CO2 may be responsible for under 5% of warming.

The World's Most Daaaangerous Band . . . of Skeptics - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So it seems that Late Night with David Letterman is looking for climate skeptics to have some editing fun with...As I noted to the producer in an email, we must really be getting under someone's skin to finally warrant A-list efforts at mockery...

Senate votes to kill cap-and-trade? | GlobalWarming.org

Nonetheless, the Thune amendment shows the path to victory. Cap-and-traders fear public retribution over high electricity and gasoline prices more than they fear the alleged horrors of global warming. Our task is obvious–keep calling cap-and-trade an energy tax, because that is what it is.

The inverted ideology of Earth Hour

Can you think of one part of your life that is not sustained by the use of energy, in particular the ingenious use of fuels like oil and coal? Earth Hour participants may enjoy an hour in the dark, though they will likely burn candles and battery power, safely knowing the life-saving benefits of industrial civilization are just a light switch away. If the draconian carbon-reduction policies that climate activists are demanding were actually implemented we would be trying to survive while shivering in the dark without heating, electricity, refrigeration; without power plants or generators; without any of the labour-saving, time-saving, and therefore life-saving products that industrial energy makes possible. Billions would die.

Bravo, Rosanna Pulido: Global warming is a "hoax"

IL-5 GOP candidate Rosanna Pulido's comments regarding global warming and immigration on the April 1, 2009 edition of WTTW's Chicago Tonight.

Would it be completely sustainable to shred 700 tires for each and every child in the world?

And the Obama girls’ swing set was also carefully selected for its green attributes — including recycled, shredded tires (1,400 of them), as well as non-toxic dyes.

British scientist blames China's brutal 2008 winter on global warming?

Last year China felt the impact of climate change. It was evident in the blizzards and flood and the frequent droughts in Guangdong province, UK's Chief Scientific Adviser John Beddington says, according to the China Daily.

Note that CO2 caused China's 2008 snow to melt so quickly that only nearly 500,000 buildings collapsed

Chenzhou was one of the most severely damaged cities in the rare winter snowstorms caused by a lingering, brutal winter. Meteorologists called it "the worst of its kind in five decades" for many of the regions in southern China hit from mid-January till February.
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Statistics later showed that as a result of the snowstorms, nearly 500,000 buildings collapsed and 1.69 million homes were damaged in south China.

Steel-Mill Wind-Turbines Show Obama’s Right or Chases ‘Fantasy’ - Bloomberg.com

Skeptics such as David Kreutzer, an energy economics analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, say Obama will be hard-pressed to meet his target and that green energy won’t come close to offsetting jobs lost in manufacturing and “old- energy” pursuits like coal mining.

An economy built on so-called green jobs is “an appealing fantasy” divorced from reality, said Kreutzer, whose organization favors a limited role for government. The nation’s unemployment rate “has much deeper roots than can be solved by installing a solar panel,” he said.

Obama, Democrats Suffer Major Defeat As Cap-And-Trade Fast Track Gets Axed | KXNet.com North Dakota News

Obama and certain Senate allies like Senator Kent Conrad have been working behind the scenes in Washington DC to set up a “fast track” process to ram-rod massive, sweeping policy changes like cap and trade and nationalized health care through the Senate by inserting it into the budget reconciliation process and by-passing the filibuster. Now it appears as though those efforts have, rightfully, been defeated.

Lorne Gunter was right; Al Gore, uh, maybe not - Full Comment

In case you missed it, here is a Canwest news story that validates what National Post columnist Lorne Gunter has been saying all along:

Climate change not all man-made, report says

Pelosi vows global warming [scam] bill by 2010 - Patrick O'Connor - POLITICO.com

Pelosi, who refers to climate-change as "the flagship issue" of her speakership, said the political dynamics in the Senate won't impact her decision to move legislation in the House -- even though her own moderate members have expressed apprehension about passing a bill if the Senate doesn't act. House moderates are particularly concerned that being forced to vote on a major global warming bill that has no chance in the Senate, since that vote may hurt them politically in conservative districts.
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If she can't wrangle the votes for a cap-and-trade measure, Pelosi and her leadership team might have to defer to a carbon tax. On Thursday, the speaker, who has advocated a cap-and-trade program in the past, wouldn't commit to either proposal, saying only, "We're having very productive discussions."