Breezy Talk: Interior Secretary Salazar’s Offshore Wind Dreams - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is heavily touting the offshore wind-power potential of the U.S. Is he overdoing it?

Craig Daily Press / Ex-governors to debate global warming

Former Colorado governors Richard Lamm and Rill Owens plan to debate climate change, specifically whether global warming exists, whether it is caused or exacerbated by industry, and if society should take steps to reduce its causes.

NBC Brings Back Polar Bears and Penguins for Global Warming Alarmism

NBC’s story featured Neil Hamilton of the World Wildlife Fund who said, "The science is telling us that we are actually in a much worse situation than we would think we would otherwise be."

Thompson agreed and blamed man for shifts in climate saying, "A situation made worse by manmade global warming that now needs a manmade solution." Her report didn’t include any voice of dissent, though many exist.

An Environmental "Brain" Drain to D.C. - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

During the Bush administration, environmentalists wandered in the wilderness. Now that Washington has suddenly become the promised land, many are leaving their groups and heading to jobs in policy.

Renewable Energy: The Road Less Traveled for a Reason » The Foundry

To sum it up: Government subsidies that distort the market and ultimately must be paid back by means of borrowing and/or higher taxes. More expensive energy. Net job losses.

C3: The Oceans Are Rising Faster Than Ever! Greatest Lie Ever Told? Let's Review Place #6: Seattle

For years (decades?), climate alarmist scientists have been claiming that the oceans were rising with "unprecedented" speed due to human-caused global warming. These scientists claim that because of all the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, due to human-caused warming, the sea levels are rising at an accelerated pace and will continue to so - up to a 20 foot rise by the end of the century is predicted. If this accelerated sea level rising is happening as claimed, then it should be evident across the world. Fortunately, the sea rise at Seattle is less than one foot per century. This is just but one example of ocean facts countering sea-rise alarmism hype - more to follow. (On average, recent satellite measurements put global ocean level increases at 3mm/year or 1 foot/century.)

GM, Segway to introduce car parody « Green Hell Blog

Weep, chuckle, or whatever below…

‘Carbon Price Signal’ - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Why not be honest and say, "the really, really high energy costs created by a cap-and-trade system will encourage energy efficiency because people won't be able to heat their homes to the terrarium-like temperatures that President Obama enjoys in the White House."

Can Renewable Technologies Provide U.S. Electricity Needs? (Only hypothetically, using unrealistic assumptions) — MasterResource

These reports are in sharp contrast to forecasts produced by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), an independent agency of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Oh, that Romm

So it will soon be time to retire the word “permafrost” from our vocabulary, along with “polar” bear and “glacial” change.

Reuters poll ignores only 2489 of the alleged 2500 "IPCC experts"

OSLO/BONN (Reuters) - Global warming is likely to overshoot a 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) rise seen by the European Union and many developing nations as a trigger for "dangerous" change, a Reuters poll of scientists showed on Tuesday.

Nine of 11 experts, who were among authors of the final summary by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 (IPCC), also said the evidence that mankind was to blame for climate change had grown stronger in the past two years.

Giving personal views of recent research, most projected on average a faster melt of summer ice in the Arctic and a quicker rise in sea levels than estimated in the 2007 report, the most authoritative overview to date drawing on work by 2,500 experts.

Freeze May Adversely Affect Wheat Crop

ENID, OK -- It will be at least a week before Oklahoma wheat farmers know how much damage an early spring freeze has done to this year's winter wheat crop.

Oklahoma Wheat Commission director Mike Schulte says the cold weather probably will have a large impact.

Los Angeles Clippers and BeGreen Carbon Offsets Team Up To Boost Earth Day Awareness with 'Green Night Game'

Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 7, 2009 -- Encouraging fans to take action to reduce their environmental footprint, the Los Angeles Clippers and BeGreen, the carbon offset division of Green Mountain Energy Company, are teaming up to host the first-ever Green Night Game at STAPLES Center.

On Saturday, April 11, as part of the team's game against the Portland Trail Blazers, the Clippers hope to boost awareness of and support Earth Day 2009 by using a portion of the ticket sales from the game to purchase renewable energy credits (RECs) that will neutralize the environmental impact of fans' travel to and from the game. BeGreen also will donate additional RECs to offset the electricity usage at STAPLES Center on April 11.

Green obsession puts deadly heat on elderly | Herald Sun

THE green jihad against airconditioners must stop. Too many elderly Australians have died already.

Victoria's chief health officer, Dr John Carnie, this week said some 374 Victorians may have been killed by the January heat wave, most of them old.

In South Australia, the toll is estimated at 80.

Just how many died because power blackouts knocked out their airconditioning is not known. And I doubt either government will ever say.

But what we are told is that both states now have plans to cut off the airconditioning - or make it too costly for pensioners to use - just when the heat is at its most lethal and the lives of the elderly hang in the balance.

YouTube - Grant Woods talks global warming

On the Grant Woods Show, Grant points out that some highly-regarded, mainstream scientists don't all agree on what global warming is

Sunday Forum - ContraCostaTimes.com

The energy and carbon footprint-control parts of the budget are founded on the rubbish of man-made global warming.

This hoax on the American people is a power ploy by the socialist pols and the bureaucrats, a money machine for the windmill and power industries, and a graft for financing useless ding-dong studies by ethics-challenged so-called "scientists" out for research money.
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Ron Kilmartin

Times Sunday April 5 letters - ContraCostaTimes.com

The global warming hoax is all about wealth redistribution and the diminution of American economic power, period. Every dime we spend goes to the pockets of traders, much like other financial derivatives that have led us to financial ruin.

Cutting pollution is a worthy goal, but if anyone thinks we are responsible for climate change, he is just not using his head. Richards' attempt to silence people shows the arrogance and closemindedness of Al Gore's groupies.

Bob Armstrong

DNR: Fish-kill cleanup up to landowners | wausaudailyherald.com | Wausau Daily Herald

According to the Department of Natural Resources, residents had best get used to the odor because there are no plans to clean up the fish, which died after low oxygen levels in February killed as many as 80 percent of the reservoir's fish.

Arctic will be ice-free within a decade - Telegraph

Records for the Arctic only go back as far as 1979, when it became possible to collect data from space, however scientists are confident that the current levels of ice are lower than they have been for at least a century from observational records.

"It could be several hundred thousand years ago the last time we were ice free, it was certainly seven to eight hundred years since we have had close to conditions like we have now," added Dr Meier.

He said the melting of the Arctic is happening much faster than previously anticipated because of man made climate change.

Hope shines in dim Earth Hour at Edsa Shangri-La | ABS-CBN News Online Beta

Floating lanterns lit up the swimming pool, giving gentle illumination. Guests enjoyed smoked salmon on sun-dried tomato muffins, spicy shrimps and refreshing pandan crème brulee, among other delicious treats served by waiters with artfully-painted make-up. A video of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” also played, reminding and awakening awareness regarding the effects of climate change.

Global warming zealots cause harm | News-Leader.com | Springfield News-Leader

As a person facing old age and a fixed income living, my supposed "golden years" are looking to be more of a trial by fire than enjoying grandchildren and fond memories. The future national debt will pale in comparison to the present and future cost of energy governed by global warming zealots eager to sacrifice any modicum of comfort at the altar of their "green religion".

More climate fraud from the WWF

WWF - Polar bears and penguins 'just tip of climate change iceberg'

Global average warming due to climate change since the late 1800s is showing severe impacts at less than one degree, as the Arctic is warming at about twice the global average and parts of the Antarctic are also outstripping the global average.
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The warming of the Antarctic is not yet as acute as the Arctic, but it is yet a further indication that the meltdown of our polar caps continues apace. If world leaders fail to act on this information the effects will be calamitous.

“The world is caught in a polar pincer movement,” said Neil Hamilton, Director of WWF International’s Arctic Programme.

“What is happening at the poles will control the world’s climate. If we do not stop the poles from melting, the whole world will feel it, in the form of runaway warming and rising waters.”

Note that the global sea ice anomaly is currently ABOVE zero.

Five Hot Spots in Congress's Upcoming Climate Change Debate - US News and World Report

2. What would be done with all the money the government would make?

Hillary Clinton continues to actively promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time

WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2009 (ENS) - "Global warming has already had enormous effects on our planet, and we have no time to lose in tackling this crisis," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the first-ever joint session of the Arctic Council and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, which opened its two-week conference today.

Alarmist story: Climate change in Lake Superior ice

What started as a high school science fair project is the latest piece of evidence that global warming is affecting Lake Superior.
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However, this winter has been colder than usual, Trinko-Russell said. The ferries stopped running Jan. 1, a week or two earlier than usual, and resumed last weekend.

Howk acknowledges that one reason for the shorter ice season might be that diesel ferries with steel hulls can plow through thin ice more easily than the wooden hulled fishing vessels of a century ago.

Skeptic's Corner: Skeptics From Around the Globe

Dr. Wibjörn Karlén Emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University , Sweden

"Newspapers should think about the damage they are doing to many persons, particularly young kids, by spreading the exaggerated views of a human impact on climate .... As far as I can see the IPCC 'Global Temperature' is wrong. Temperature is fluctuating but it is still most places cooler than in the 1930s and 1940s ... it will take about 800 years before the water level has increased by one meter"

American Thinker: Would You Buy an Electric Car?

Unlike political rhetoric read from a teleprompter, cars are real. You can touch them and drive them and determine whether or not they're good, bad or indifferent. And the reality is that electric cars don't match the performance of conventional vehicles you're driving now.

Climate change in North Dakota « Climate Sanity

My conclusion is that the precipitation variation seen over the last 100 years in North Dakota is not unusual when compared to previous centuries, when CO2 levels remained near 280 ppm

Repeat after Comrade Wong, children | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Er, should a competition to scare kids about global warming really offer as first prize two plane tickets?

Sea Level Graphs from UC and some perspectives « Watts Up With That?

The point I’m making is that in 100 years, for some places that extra foot won’t make much of a difference. Some low lying areas will be affected certainly, but even some of the lowest lying areas of the earth won’t see all that much impact from a third of a meter of sea level rise in 100 years. Probably the worst place to live is in a river delta which is almost at sea level anyway. Even so, 30 cm falls short of the lowest notch on this graph of 1 meter.

Buzzine » Deep Thoughts with Miley Cyrus

EI: What about environmental issues? Are you into global warming?

MC: Yeah, that’s what I do with Youth Service America — we do a whole thing where kids could find ways…it doesn’t matter what you do, but as long as you’re doing something. It doesn’t matter if you’re cleaning up trash or if you’re going house to house and asking people what they want to do to help — big or small, if you’re doing something, you’re making a difference, so that’s the way I think of it.

EI: Do you believe your generation can actually save the world?

MC: I think so much has been done and it’s a lot to undo, but I think we can because we’ve got so many different technologies of seeing what’s wrong and whatnot, and I think there’s a way to do that, but we can’t do that without anyone’s help.

Climate change algorithm created - UPI.com

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, April 6 (UPI) -- A Canadian-led team of scientists has developed a mathematical approach to the relocation of people that will result from climate change.

University of Lethbridge Professor Sajjad Zahir and colleagues Ruhul Sarker of the University of New South Wales and Ziaul Al-Mahmud of the Lethbridge Community Network have devised an algorithm to address the problem of population relocation.

The team said its approach will help governments decide what fraction of a population would need to be relocated and how many people could stay behind for effective adaptation to climate change.

The researchers said their algorithm takes into account people's preferences, various costs and planning priorities, with the ultimate aim of ensuring that the issue of relocation is addressed fairly and is economically viable.

Kids' comp 'is climate change propaganda' | National Breaking News | News.com.au

First prize is a trip for two to Canberra (the winner and a parent), a Nintendo Wii console, sports kit and Wii Fit pack, and books for the winner's school.

Senator Bernardi slammed the competition.

"Encouraging children to look after the environment is laudable aim but this seems to have more in common with the ministry of propaganda than the balanced education of our children," he told AdelaideNow.

"One can only guess that the only children eligible to win this competition will be those who conform to the Rudd Government and Minister Wong's extreme political propaganda about climate change.

"I doubt the competition materials will include any discussion of how the Rudd Government ETS (emissions trading scheme) will export Australian industry overseas and result in hundreds of thousands of job losses for Australian workers."

A Southern Man don't need him around, anyhow:  Neil Young Record Out Today; fossil-fueled tour coming up

Always topical, apparently Young’s latest album, “was inspired by the changes and challenges happening all around him, with special focus paid to the global economic crisis and climate change.”

Pajamas Media » Memo to Environmentalists: Carbon Production Can Be a Good Thing

A new method of energy production is sending the climate change crowd into an amoral, irrational frenzy.

Because of the climate scam: GE invests more than $200m in three Noble wind farms

Renewable Energy Certificates generated by the three projects are sold to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, helping to achieve the goals established under the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard. The projects benefit from a long-term energy hedge provided by Citigroup Energy, Inc.

Climate Change - by Erl Happ and Carl Wolk | Climate Realists

This paper provides a radical reinterpretation of the dynamics that drive atmospheric temperature in the stratosphere and upper troposphere and how this drives temperature at the surface. It is embarrassingly at odds with mainstream climate science. Nevertheless, I proceed with cautious deliberation.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV - Environmental debate heats up; validity of global warming questioned

The American people deserve a free, honest and balanced discussion of energy issues that will produce an energy policy based upon facts, and free of ideological bias. Fear-mongering and demagoguery have no place in this discussion, but that may be beyond the abilities of the politicians and the media.

James H. “Smokey” Shott, a resident of Bluefield, Va., is a Daily Telegraph columnist.

CO2 - Love It: Fighting the carbon scam is vitally important

In conclusion to you, my dearest friend, it should be fairly obvious that I am trying to help someone. I'm trying to help 6.5 billion someones, to better their lives, and more importantly I'm trying to ensure over a third of them enjoy their right to develop, to live, to exist. It's disgusting to me that there are forces out there who would keep the developing nations walking barefoot through extreme poverty, and do so claiming it's all to "save the world" from a problem that does not even exist.

Should you put your child's health in the hands of a paediatrician with an irrational fear of Diet Pepsi bubbles?

We chose the topic of global warming because we think that paediatricians have a special part to play in highlighting the risks to children and the need for us all to take a personal responsibility for change.

Our keynote speaker from the US covered the climate science in a very graphic way – and we could see all his slides! We took questions first in York and then handed over to the international audience – dominated by questions from Argentina, Colombia and the US. Three more speakers followed on the effects of global warming on the health of the vulnerable, the medical benefits to a population of reducing carbon overuse (eg fewer road accidents and less obesity) and the legal issues of the generational impact of climate change on children as yet unborn. Finally, we had an extended discussion on action we could take.

Doubt No More, Humans Cause Global Warming | Trends Updates

The debate whether humans have brought about global warming has been settled. Human activity that brings about the emission of carbon dioxide or CO2 has been causing the rise in the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. The burning of fossil fuels, through human activity, has produced about 75 percent of the increase in CO2 levels for the past 20 years. Carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas that rises to the atmosphere, is the main cause behind the rise in the Earth’s temperature. It is man that has caused for the planet to heat up.

UPDATE 1-Japan manufacturer CO2 may rise despite econ slump

Japan's greenhouse gas emissions in the year just ended are being closely watched as 2008/2009 was the start of the country's five-year period of the Kyoto Protocol, the current U.N.-led global climate pact under which many nations aim to reduce emissions.

Obama: Accord on climate [scam] will be tough (OneNewsNow.com)

Obama said, "This is going to be a big, big project, a very difficult one, and costly one."

He said the goal is worthy but "the politics of this in every country is going to be difficult."

Maybe the debate's NOT over

As the debate about global warming rages on in state buildings and living rooms, I hear increasing concern from my congregation.

Boiler ordinance sparks heated debate | GazetteOnline.com - Cedar Rapids, Iowa City

When he mentioned global warming, the mostly-hostile crowd burst out laughing.

Rise of the carbon cops | smh.com.au

Andy Best threw out a challenge to his students to save electricity around the school, promising he would plough any savings into the school's Eco Kids organisation.

"And why don't you be a light monitor at home and ask Mum and Dad for a raise in your pocket money if you save money on power?" the school principal added for good measure.

"The next day a parent stopped me and said, `Last night we were only allowed to have one light on at home because of you,' " Best says. [Via Climate Depot]

Via Benny Peiser:

In China, which was politically excluded from the Kyoto Protocol, coal fired power plants were being constructed at a rate of two a week. The net effect of this is that China was powering its economy at less than 2cents/kWh while the USA was attempting to compete with power costs at least five times greater because of global warming advocacy. It is not a coincidence that when the Chinese overtook the USA in CO2 emissions in 2006, that the economy of China also increased dramatically while the US economy was starting to stagnate because of the limited and costly energy supply.
--Norm Kalmanovitch, CCNet, 7 April 2009

Dutch Government ditches eco ticket tax in efforts to halt declining traffic at Amsterdam Schiphol on GreenAir Online

Mon 30 Mar 2009 – The Dutch Government is to scrap from July 1 its air passenger ticket tax, first dubbed the ‘eco’ tax when it was introduced against major opposition by aviation and local industry last year. The controversial departure tax, which ranges from 11 to 45 euros, is blamed for a steep decline in passenger traffic at the main Dutch airports, particularly at Amsterdam Schiphol. The move was welcomed by airlines, particularly those from the low-cost sector, who called for similar taxes to be abandoned in Italy, Ireland and the UK.

The tax was expected to raise around €300 million ($395m) a year but a commissioned report concluded that it would cost the Dutch economy €1.3 billion ($1.7bn) in lost revenue.

A bit of sense from UVa President John T. Casteen III

In a 2007 statement, Casteen said he shared the initiative’s concern about global warming and supports measures at UVa that would curtail harmful emissions.

Yet Casteen added that he opposed the climate neutrality pledge for several reasons, such as that it would require UVa to commit future taxpayer dollars to the goal without appropriate planning or cost justification.

It would, he said, require UVa to commit itself to implementing technologies to cut emissions that do not yet exist. Casteen also pointed out that the General Assembly has not authorized such an action, which he said would be required under Virginia law.

Crikey - This ice shelf global warming hype leaves me cold - This ice shelf global warming hype leaves me cold

The sharp fault lines in the Wilkins break up are break points, not melt points. They would have fractured that way regardless of whether the Wilkins environment has warmed (or even cooled) by the few degrees that have been claimed for it.

If I Had a Million Dollars: Qld to spend $1m on sheep fart study

IF someone gave you a million dollars, what would you spend it on?

How about finding out how to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas blown out by cattle and sheep.

ClimateDepot.com Launch Aims To  Redefine Global Warming Reporting | Climate Depot

Washington, DC (ClimateDepot.com) - Marc Morano, former Communications Director for the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee and senior aide, speechwriter, and climate researcher for Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), will become the executive editor and chief correspondent for ClimateDepot.com, a pioneering climate and eco-news center. The news effort, set to debut this week, will be a special project of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) with the goal of becoming the most comprehensive information center on climate news and the related issues of environment and energy.

Scoop: Waikato Uni hosts free climate change lecture

An Australian professor who argues climate change is a natural phenomenon gives a free public lecture at the University of Waikato on April 29.

Bob Carter is a Research Professor at James Cook University (Queensland) and the University of Adelaide (South Australia). He says current public views about climate change are based upon 20 years of talking up dangerous global warming by a hugely powerful coalition of self-interested groups and agencies.

What Climate [Scam] Czar Carol Browner Really Does | Newsweek Leadership and the Environment | Newsweek.com

Now her power lies mainly in persuasion—for example, encouraging Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel-winning physicist, and his team to supply new scientific and technological ideas for greening the economy.

Q&A: Columnist Tom Friedman on Climate Change | Newsweek Leadership and the Environment | Newsweek.com

Begley: A Gallup poll found that 41 percent of Americans—a record high—say concerns about climate change are exaggerated. Why is the public so resistant to the findings of climate science?
Friedman: What's ironic is that that poll comes out at a time when more and more studies are suggesting that climate change is happening faster, bigger, quicker and with more powerful impacts than we anticipated just a few years ago.

The Associated Press: Snow interrupts Mich. spring, at least 4 dead

WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — An early spring snowstorm dumped almost 8 inches on some parts of Michigan and was blamed Monday for at least four deaths and a power outage affecting about 124,000 people.

Nenana Ice Classic Update: Thickest reading of the year today

6-Apr 46.00 Inches

When fraudsters claim that the Arctic sea ice is the thinnest "ever", why don't they provide actual thickness numbers?

Slate Editor Weisberg Second-Guesses the Potential of Climate Change Catastrophe | NewsBusters.org

Although it's not an outright dismissal of the anthropogenic global warming theory, it is a refreshing change from the usual gang of alarmist rhetoric coming from the likes of former Vice President Al Gore and NASA scientist James Hansen.

Newsweek: Chu downgrades the climate crisis: Climate scam only mentioned AFTER economy and security

Finally, we must move beyond oil because the science on global warming is clear and compelling: greenhouse-gas emissions, primarily from fossil fuels, have started to change our climate. We have a responsibility to future generations to reduce those emissions to spare our planet the worst of the possible effects.

For our economy, our security and our environment, we must free ourselves from foreign oil. We must depend not on the oilfields of the Middle East but on the farm fields of the Midwest and on our vast wind and solar resources here at home.

Skeptic's Corner: Oh boyoboyoboy, golly geez

Oh boyoboyoboy, golly geez ain't this just soooo exciting! Peak mind you, PEAK I SAY scientific bodies, are going to present modelling !! At a conference OMG I can barely wait to see what they show us, I wonder if the conference is in Washington where Mr Garrett and the money...I mean the real scientist who know all about the ice bridge breaking up in Antarctica are. OK what other details are in this gripping scientific article.

PJC Journal :: New World Order: More AGW scam reporting [see the post for links]

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), government-funded “scientists”, have announced that the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is on the verge of collapsing.

Funnily enough, the BAS said exactly the same thing last year except last year the Wilkins Ice Shelf was the size of the Isle of Man and this year it’s the size of Wales. That’s a hell of a lot of growth considering that global warming is supposed to be melting all the ice.

And there’s still no explanation from the BAS or any other global warming propagandists as to how the Wilkins Ice Shelf can collapse in 1998 and again in 2008 2009.

There is, of course, one explanation for all this: it’s another piece of outdated propaganda, invented by the author of the IPPC work of fiction on climate change (who happens to be the BAS lead “scientist”) and faithfully reproduced by lazy journalists in the mainstream media.

ksl.com - Recent storms bring welcome addition to Utah snowpack

In the last fourteen days, Alta Ski Resort received 14 feet of snow.

Deep calm: why is the Sun so quiet? | COSMOS magazine

2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). To find a year with more 'blank' Suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days.

Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008. Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).

It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, USA.

Dr. James Hansen endorses Cliffside Climate Action! 2 weeks until we take direct action against Duke Energy « It’s Getting Hot In Here

With just 2 weeks to go until we hit the streets of Charlotte, NC todemand that Duke Energy cancel the Cliffside coal plant, renowned climate scientist James Hansen has endorsed the Cliffside Climate Action that will take place April 20. In his words, ” Stopping Cliffside is the best thing North Carolina can do to stop global warming.”

Today In History: April 6 (Vogue.com UK)

...Julia Roberts was joined by George Clooney, Al Gore and Robert F Kennedy Junior on Vanity Fair's May 2006 cover for the magazine's first ever Green Issue shot by Annie Leibovitz. In the same year, the actress agreed to become a spokesperson for Earth Biofuels, a company that develops renewable energies like biodiesel and ethanol.

Don't miss the graphs here: Bundle up...in Hawaii?

One last tidbit, Albright also points out that the southern rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona recorded a low temperature this morning of -5 degrees, obliterating their record low for the day by 22 degrees and marking the first time they've ever been below zero in April.

Climatology speaker [allegedly not correct]

As a natural resources student, an environmentalist and a relatively decent human being, I was appalled by the greedy, sarcastic message being fed to students as "science" last Tuesday night in Castleman. For those of you who missed out on this well-spoken mockery of research, Chris Horner - a Washington, D.C. lawyer with an interest in climate science - gave a sardonic, condescending lecture on how America's youth has been brainwashed by the environmentalist left to believe that communism and rejecting progress is the only way to save humanity from certain doom. The performance was sponsored by Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). I'm not sure what their tomorrow looks like, but if it's anything like Chris Horner's, they probably won't be around to see it.

Question: Why is "Watts Up With That" not on Revkin's blogroll?  (right side of page--scroll down)

Question of the Week: Would You Take the 100 Mile Challenge?

No coffee, no chocolate, no olive oil, no, no, no, no…..I don’t think so. Alas, I fear bucolic peace escapes me.

Fuel Tax Gased: Senate Panel Removes Hike from Energy Plan - Florida

The week-old proposal to pump money into a new renewable energy trust fund with revenue collected from an increase on fuel taxes has already run out of gas.

YouTube - Global Warming [Propaganda] Hosted & Narrated By Alanis Morissette

The Global Warming - The Sings and The Science

Arkansas : Late Freeze Threatens Fruit Crop

SPRINGDALE — A cold snap that hit the area late Sunday has put the region's entire fruit crop in jeopardy as temperatures were predicted to drop below freezing Monday evening into early today, according to Elena Garcia, horticulture research specialist at the University of Arkansas.

"I anticipate there will be damage to this year's fruit crop. The extent of that damage is still unknown," Garcia said.

As much as $3 million in local fruit production hinges on just how far the mercury drops early today, experts said.

Jennifer Marohasy » Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse

GIVEN it is still really cold at the Antarctic, is it really very scientific to blame global warming for the likely collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf? How good is the evidence supporting this hypothesis as the possible cause of the possible shelf collapse, as opposed to say ice growth generating internal stress or undersea volcanic activity?

Plan to introduce [climate scam levy]

AIRLINE passengers may be asked to pay a special £5 tax to help the poorest nations cope with climate change.

The surcharge would raise about £6.8billion a year and help developing countries worst affected.

It would increase the price of a long haul fare by one per cent but add another £44 to a first class ticket.

wildsingapore news: Carbon cap deal "very difficult": U.N. climate chief

Asked whether he ruled out agreement on the most commonly referenced range of emissions cuts, Yvo de Boer said:

"I'm not ruling it out but I'm saying it would be very difficult. If you look at the offers that are on the table at the moment they're a long way from that range."

wildsingapore news: Government CO2 market growth may deter "green" spending

LONDON (Reuters) - Clean energy project developers may lose carbon offset buyers as a result of the global economic downturn combined with increased transparency in a government-level emissions trading scheme under the Kyoto Protocol, French bank Societe Generale said on Monday.

Arctic sea ice allegedly thinnest ever going into spring

WASHINGTON — The Arctic is treading on thinner ice than ever before. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice in the Arctic is only 1 or 2 years old. That makes it thinner and more vulnerable than at anytime in the past three decades, according to researchers with NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.

"We're not set up well for summertime," ice data center scientist Walt Meier said Monday. "We're in a very precarious situation."

Hold the Salt? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

Do you want New York’s mayor and health commissioner leading a nationwide initiative to halve the salt in your food?

Jennifer Marohasy » Scaring Children with AGW

And I suppose that it is just a coincidence that these two ventures should be launched in the same week on opposite sides of the Pacific, with their closing dates timed to ensure press attention in the lead up to Copenhagen.

How Democrats Can Win the Climate Debate « It’s Getting Hot In Here

If Democrats want to win on climate policy, they must think fast and move quickly to regain control of the debate. Last week was the opening round of the national climate fight, and the Democratic Congress was nearly knocked out.

WWF [Bribing Kids To Promote The Greatest Scientific Fraud of All Time]

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 6, 2009) - WWF-Canada is inviting schools and communities across the country to help young people shape our response to global warming.
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On top of that, adds Butts, it's a chance to win a bike and see their work posted on WWF-Canada's website.

When is Positive Feedback Really Negative Feedback? « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

I get an amazing number of e-mails from engineers who point out that the climate system can not be dominated by positive feedback, because that would mean the climate is unstable, in which case it would have careened out of control long ago.

Raising Islands--Hawai'i [climate fraud]

Increasingly, science is identifying evidence that warming is happening faster than anticipated, that seas are rising faster than previously estimated, that oceans are acidifying at alarming rates.

‘Useful Idiot’ of the Day « Green Hell Blog

David Frum’s dubious attempt to “[build] a conservatism that can win again” features a piece from Washington, DC attorney John Murdock entitled “Global Warming: It’s true, get used to it.”

Faith-Based Science - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

NASA’s chief solar physicist Hathaway says we don’t know why such solar quietude happens. But, don't worry, NOAA director Bogdan says solar activity should be increasing “anytime now,” and the regularly scheduled warming should continue. Ah, yes, the old "We don’t know what causes this but it should change anytime now." At some point. They sure hope. I mean, their budgets have done awfully well under this particular panic that's falling on cold, hard times.

Show Me the Money! - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...Oh, he remembers to toss in climate change there once, at the end of the letter, as an apparent afterthought.

So we see that the chairman — of the Energy Committee, mind you — understands not so much the substance of the issue at hand but at least the real important thing: raising revenue from taxpayers, especially for pet projects.Which makes sense, really, given that New York’s scheme, like RGGI and Kyoto (even if put on steroids) would each do one obvious thing — finally achieve a long-held wish-list of rent-seekers and nagging pressure groups — and notably avoid doing another — detectably impact the climate. That is, this has never been about the climate. There’s no reason to start expecting it to be, now.

Poor nations call for 'levy' on air tickets to [allow them to cash in on the greatest scientific fraud of all time] | Environment | guardian.co.uk

World's poorest 49 countries tell UN meeting that aviation industry must help them cope with global warming by raising money from a tax on airline tickets and emissions trading scheme

A few key quotes: It's not about the climate, folks, it's about greedy politicians taking more of your money

To me, it seems obvious that the problem of rusting, poorly-maintained windmills is destined to grow

Desert Valley Star - Local Desert News Article - WINDMILL REPAIR UPDATE

Palm Springs, CA – City officials continue to investigate and keep tabs on how a Florida power company is meeting requirements for repairing their damaged and malfunctioning windmills here.

City officials met Jan. 21 with representatives from Florida Power and Light (FPL), to continue their investigation and dialogues with the company over an abatement process started last fall over the poor condition of its wind turbines.

Climate Scam Propaganda in WSJ: Ice, Ice Maybe

The winter weather across much of the world may have been a lot colder than normal, but there’s no reprieve for the poles: The ice is still melting.

Stop Global Warming - Change.org: Where's the 'Obama App' for Global Warming?

Meaning: Who's using social media to organize, inform, and direct the energies of millions of Americans who'd like the US to take strong action on global warming?

Subprime lending returns, now colored green « Green Hell Blog

As we continue to dig out of the mess caused by liar loans and other subprime hijinks, the New York Times reports that “green banks” are springing up.

How will green banks decide to lend money?...

Unintended Consequences | Coyote Blog

...In other words, we are paying the industry–handsomely–to use more fossil fuel. “Which is,” as a Goldman Sachs report archly noted, the “opposite of what lawmakers likely had in mind when the tax credit was established.”

[Allegedly] Carbon-Free Blogging: Saving Wales - "Intelligent" Travel Blog

I'm writing this from a recycled wooden desk in northern Wales. What's more, I'm writing it on a computer that's powered by a windmill and uploading these pictures using electricity generated by solar power--that makes this a 100% renewable, carbon-free blog post.

Guess what cap and trade really is - Orange Punch - OCRegister.com

The pending cap-and-trade proposal in Washington to directly and indirectly punish emitters of greenhouse gases (that’s all of you, by the way) by extracting money from them in reality promises a near eternal pot of gold for those who claim to be saving you from this nonthreatening condition.

Green Jobs: Making Society Poorer (Basic math can show interesting things) — MasterResource

The arithmetic or green jobs is ineluctable and grim. For each utility worker who moves from conventional electricity generation to renewable generation, two jobs at a similar rate of pay must be foregone elsewhere in the economy, otherwise the funds to pay for the excess costs of renewable generation cannot be provided. Moreover, by raising costs throughout the economy, high cost green energy will reduce the competitiveness of US exporters, thereby destroying (presumably well-paying) jobs in such industries.

Climate Change [Scam] Needs Financial Stimulus

According to WWF calculations, each industrialized country would have to commit to a share of the total amount of €145 billion ($US 196 billion) that is needed annually by 2020 to fund adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. This amount consists of €100 billion ($US 135 billion) for mitigation – including measures to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation –plus €40 billion ($US 54 billion) and €5 billion for an insurance and risk mechanism.

Chairman Chu - Rationalzing false rationing « The Air Vent

...There it is right there. Did you read that. This is a flat lie put right in front of you . We’re going to power our vehicles with our farms. I’ve done the calculations here a number of times and apparently am going to have to do them again. Don’t be fooled people, check the numbers. There isn’t enough land to pull this off becasue the photosynthetic conversion of sunlight has terrible efficiency. The biomass from the farms is currently used to replenish soils and feed people, cutting back on either of those is idiocy by itself. But Chu doesn’t care.

Biofuel does not work, Chu knows it. After all, before he sold his scientific credentials to become a far left politician, he was a leading scientist. Why then is he selling the American public these deliberately false hopes. Chu, you are a liar, a fraud and I don’t mind telling you such. I have a lot of readers which see my normal tone, even with some of the crazy people who post here. However this man deserves our contempt and I’m not one to mince words about it.

The Cost of [the] Global Warming [Fraud]: A Story in Pictures » The Foundry

...And what should be the final nail in the coffin: All this economic pain is for very little, if any, environmental gain. Analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency concludes that if the U.S. reduces CO2 emissions 60 percent by 2050, it will reduce global temperature by 0.1 to 0.2 degree Centigrade by 2095. A multi–lateral approach wouldn’t fare much better. Why? Well, there’s a lot of reasons. After all, the science behind global warming is anything but conclusive, but one reason could be how small man’s contribution to carbon dioxide emissions is.

Conference of the Century! (Fantasizing about capped 350 ppm CO2) — MasterResource

There is no known way to get there except draconian cutbacks in economic output, population, or both. Poverty is of course a perenniel source of conflict within and among nations as well as the leading cause of preventable disease and premature death. Moreover, climate policies punitive enough to induce negative economic and population growth are likely to meet with resistance and promote conflict rather than peace.

"Renewable" Energy: In Search of Definition — MasterResource

Renewable is an energy resource that is replaced rapidly by natural processes… Non-renewable is any resource that is not replaced in a reasonable amount of time (our lifetime, our children’s lifetime, …) and is thus considered ‘used up’ and not available to us again.

Such words as “rapidly” and “reasonable” are subjective, relative terms—not scientific. Another pivotal aspect ignored in these definitions is the fact that although a source (e.g., wind) may be quickly replenishable, it uses up other resources (e.g., land) that are non-replenishable. We will run out of suitable land for wind power sooner than we will run out of fossil fuels. Shouldn’t the entire package be assessed as a whole?

Twitter / Matthew Perez

34 degrees? In georgia? in april?! Global warming my ass.

Twitter / Bobby Rohrer

Global warming my arse. It is freakin cold here in Hotlanta.

[For starters, just don't expect your iron lung to work on calm days] -Salazar: Eastern wind could replace coal for power - Forbes.com

Windmills off the East Coast could generate enough electricity to replace most, if not all, the coal-fired power plants in the United States, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday.

But those numbers were challenged as "overly optimistic" by a coal industry group, which noted that half the nation's electricity currently comes from coal-fired power plants.

All people want is cold beer and hot showers: Alternative Energy & Climate Change under the Stimulus Bill | CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com

The Chinese have an extraordinary high consumption of coal because it is so cheap, Chinese coal plants require around 1/3 the capital expenditure of a comparable facility in the United States.

eNewsUSA: European Union Outlines Ambitious [Climate Scam] For Copenhagen

"[7] . . .the importance of expanding the international carbon market. This is an essential tool for achieving the deep emission cuts needed in the most cost-effective way. The carbon market can also be a major source of the additional financing needed. Member States have agreed that at least 50% of revenues from the auctioning of emission allowances in the EU should be used to combat climate change, both at home and abroad. Our vision is to build an OECD-wide carbon market by 2015 by linking the EU emissions trading system with compatible cap-and-trade systems being set up in other industrialized countries. The moves underway to introduce a U.S. federal cap-and-trade system, point to the real possibility that a transatlantic carbon market could be in place from around 2012, and this is enormously encouraging."

SimpleUtahMormonPolitics.com: Is the LDS Church Succumbing to Global Warming Hysteria? | KVNU's For The People

Between the Church turning off temple lights during “Earth Hour” and last week’s meeting with ALGORE, one might wonder.

According to SUMP, there were rumors that something would be said about global warming during the LDS Conference over the weekend (there wasn’t) but the post reiterates the tenet of LDS faith that includes being good stewards of the earth.

Is the lack of anything about “global warming” at conference enough to allay rumors that the Church was about to get behind the cause? Or are there still rumblings and grumblings?

Video: Al Gore Wants to Assure Us That We Are Not, In Fact, All Gonna Die | Deceiver.com

At least that’s the message I took away from this new cartoon at Al’s very own Earth-savin’ Current.com...

Steve Milloy: Color Your Future Green: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life « FOX Forum « FOXNews.com

Greens aim to bring about their brave new world through federal law or local ordinance. But where that’s not practical, they’ll settle for inducing artificial shortages, pricing you out of your “bad” habits by hiking taxes and surcharges, or simply trying to condition you, and those around you, to believe you are engaging in an act of severe personal transgression.

The greens justify all this as necessary to solve our alleged “planetary emergency.” But they don’t intend for you to live this downsized and penitent lifestyle for some finite period of time until the supposed crisis is over. It is to be a permanent restructuring of life as you know it.

DeSmogBlog: [Climate Realist] Database

An extensive database of individuals involved in the global warming denial industry.

Kevin Grandia | Marc Morano: Global Warming Spin Doctor flogged as "Perfect Counter Guest Debater"

Marc Morano infuses the environmental debate with a balanced and truthful scientific perspective. Marc’s agenda is to revolutionize Climate and Environmental news dissemination to portray the accurate truth.

Marc says: “Much of what the media reports is simply a regurgitation of the rhetoric from partisan and ideologically driven environmental groups, foundations and the United Nations, which are spinning data to promote a cause. Sadly, many of today’s mainstream climate reporters would be better suited writing newsletters for Al Gore than attempting to inform the public about the latest climate science developments”

Exercising their right to be cold: Still more about the alarmist team hoping to raise our heating bills on a scam that will allegedly make the world even colder

In disadvantaged inner cities it’s known in medical circles as Urban Hypothermia. GPs adopted the term after seeing an increase, during winter, of elderly patients who have switched off their heating, fearful of the cost, and become ill as a result because of the cold.

Chronic, as opposed to acute, hypothermia is the official term.

The Catlin Arctic Survey Team have now been working in temperatures of below -40 degrees centigrade for more than 30 days. When the three (Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley) leave messages on the TVM - a machine that records the messages they phone into London HQ - their voices often sound slurred and they occasionally muddle their words.

Extreme cold affects the senses and everyday skills we usually take for granted, like speaking. According to CAS medical adviser Doc Martin, the team are constantly battling chronic hypothermia, which was to be expected. (Pen Hadow has described it as an ‘occupational hazard’).

“Chronic hypothermia affects people who are under-nourished, physically and mentally tired and not sleeping well”, says Doc. “You can see the connection between vulnerable elderly people and the physical and mental condition that Pen, Ann and Martin are in”.

You say "fighting the good fight"; I say "promoting the greatest scientific scam in history"

For my own therapy, I followed the Washington conference with 10 days of speechmaking and networking in London and Paris. As happens each time I visit the European Union, I met an extraordinary number of individuals fighting the good fight with enormous energy and stamina. Among them has been Pavan Sukhdev, the Deutsche Bank economist who is leading a project to quantify the economic value of the many services provided to human beings by the environment and who now is working with the United Nations Environment Programme to design a Global Green New Deal.

China, India reject climate agreement that obstructs economic growth

BONN - India and China have told the United Nations a climate change agreement that slows down their economic growth and locks them into poverty is unacceptable to them.

The UN’s climate change boss said Monday the two Asian giants have taken a series of ‘ambitious’ domestic actions to combat climate change but want to draw the line at anything that would upset their economic growth strategies.

‘Both of those countries are increasingly taking action - at home - not waiting for an agreement,’ said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Arctic sea ice [allegedly] younger, thinner as melt season begins

Sea ice extent averaged over the month of March 2009 was 15.16 million square kilometers (5.85 million square miles). This was 730,000 square kilometers (282,000 square miles) above the record low of 2006, but 590,000 square kilometers (228,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average.

Has anyone out there seen any actual sea ice thickness measurements from the Catlin Arctic Survey? If not, why?

Bio-Diesel Going Poof - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I assume the New York Times corporation must use diesel fuel in at least some of their delivery trucks. Maybe the suits should start using the more expensive biodiesel in their operations? Shareholders might object, but we have a planet to save!

UK: Ice on bike paths hinders response to global warming scam

Many respondents to the survey reported having near-misses in terms of accidents, with a significant proportion either having been involved in an accident, or knowing someone who had, as a result of ice on frequently used paths.

The council gives priority for gritting to "maintaining safe driving conditions on an agreed network of roads, which will normally include all busy roads".

As a result of that priority, many footpaths and cycle paths remained ungritted this year.

It’s a Funny Old World

Yet, in all this, there also lies a most pleasing irony: the very survival of the two newspapers that probably rant on more than any others against the so-called environmental ‘evils’ of the car is - wait for it - partly “dependent on second-hand car sales (it [the group] owns half of the normally highly profitable Auto Trader).” Isn’t that just wonderful! Think of it - Old Savonarola himself, George Monbiot, Sister Polly Toynbee, and Brother Robin Mackie are thus supported partly from the profits generated by a house journal of the petrol heads. I feel quite exhausted, clutching my stomach, with mirth.

YouTube - Bloggers Tackle Global Warming Questions

7/30/08 - A growing number of bloggers are now using the internet to question the science of global warming.

Hard freeze puts farmers on edge in Midwest, South - USATODAY.com

A blast of cold Canadian air will chill Arkansas overnight Monday, dropping temperatures in some parts of the state into the 20s.

[Lack of global warming] Wreaks Havoc On Opening Day -- FanHouse

Sing along.

"Oh the weather outside is frightful..."

Singing Let It Snow is loads of fun in December, but it really sucks on Opening Day around Major League Baseball.

The Kansas City game in Chicago against the White Sox has already been postponed due to expected cold weather. Many other baseball cities are watching the radar as snow and rain is threatening many Opening Day games. This situation begs the question, why does Major League Baseball schedule early season games in cold weather cities?

Corn, Soybeans May Rise as Wet, Cold Weather Delays U.S. Crops - Bloomberg.com

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Corn and soybeans may rise this week on speculation that wet, cold weather in the U.S. Midwest will delay spreading fertilizer and planting crops, threatening yields.

Here in the St Paul area, the local paper says that temperatures reached 86 degrees on this date in 1991. Eighteen years of human CO2 emissions are evidently powerful enough to drive today's predicted high all the way up to 39.

Australian Climate Madness: Indoctrination Alert as school kids question Penny Wong

Year 6 students at Cammeray Public School have written to Penny Wong to ask about how the government is "tackling climate change" [I wonder if the students came up with that idea themselves, or whether they were "encouraged" to do so by their bearded lefty public school teachers? - Ed].

No Global Warming Tours for You! - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

This is good news as it seems that it's always these Antarctica cruise ships that run into trouble. Let the eco-tourists pay more for safer ships on which to take their vain, carbon-spewing trips on behalf of the planet.

World to end tomorrow; women, minorities to be hardest hit?: H. CON. RES. 98 (Introduced-in-House)

Recognizing the disparate impact of climate change on women and the efforts of women globally to address climate change.
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Whereas recent studies indicate that women and children are 14 times more likely to die than men during natural disasters;

More alarmist idiocy

Maple Syrup Global Warming - How Global Warming Affects Maple Syrup - thedailygreen.com

As the change of seasons unfolds unpredictably, the first farmers to feel the pain of climate change may be maple tree tappers.

===reality check=====

Wisconsin: Maple syrup producers optimistic | wausaudailyherald.com | Wausau Daily Herald

"It's one of the best crops we've had in a long time," said Joe Polak, a third-generation co-owner of Maple Hollow in Merrill. "The sap has been running and running and running."

Maple Weekend 2009 | WIVB.com

ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) - New York Maple producers had a bumper crop in 2008 making more than 330,000 gallons of syrup. This year the goal is to produce even more and the effort will be in full swing during Maple Weekend.

So far, so good for maple syrup producers - The Lindsay Post - Ontario, CA

After a few bitterly cold and snow-filled winters, the maple syrup business is enjoying a successful season.

I've been personally doing a little work on a maple syrup operation in Minnesota. It has been a very good year.

Typical illogical alarmist claim: Warming in the Arctic would make it harder for reindeer to access food that lies beneath the snow

Happy News - Satellite Snow Maps Help Reindeer Herders Adapt to a Changing Arctic

Arctic reindeer herders are facing the challenges of adapting to climate change as a warmer Arctic climate makes it harder for herds to find food and navigate. To help them adapt, the ESA-backed Polar View initiative is providing the herders with satellite-based snow maps.

"Snow is of paramount importance for reindeer herding because its quality determines whether reindeer are able to access the pastures that lie beneath it for much of the year," said Anders Oskal, the Director of the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR). "Detailed circumpolar snow information is, thus, becoming increasingly important following the recent changes in the Arctic climate."

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

Just a week after the last major northern plains blizzard another significant snowfall occurred this weekend. Models did poorly with the location of the heaviest snow bands and generally overdid the magnitude. These models sometimes have difficult with the first 48 hours, but Susan Solomon and friends tell us you can depend on cruder models to predict the climate 100 years or even a thousand years in advance.

Power Line - Global Warming, Please

We're not complaining, really; south of us they got ten inches last night, and last week a foot of snow fell to our north. But this is starting to feel like the winter that never ends.

All of which is a reminder that the earth's climate has been cooling for the last decade, something that was not predicted by the global warming alarmists' computer models. When models make predictions that are falsified by events, it proves that the models are wrong. Someone tell the Democrats, quickly, before their slavish devotion to a discredited theory devastates our economy.

Hopes for climate treaty set back by G20's weasel words - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

It was meant, in Gordon Brown's words, to strike "a global green new deal" to tackle climate change and pull the world out of recession at the same time. In fact, the G20 meeting has sharply put back the chance of an international pact to stop global warming running out of control.
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Participants in the negotiations – now under way in Bonn – say that, partly as a result, they are now further from reaching agreement than they were towards the end of George Bush's presidency, despite the new energy and commitment brought to environmental matters by the Obama administration. Rich and poor countries now appear to be further apart than at the end of 2007, when the former president was still trying to obstruct progress. [Via Benny Peiser]

Beijing Exercises Its Global Leverage - WSJ.com

Beijing played a big role in playing down the summit's emphasis on the environment, helping sink an effort by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown to commit governments to spend more cash on so-called green projects, Western officials said. As one of the world's biggest polluters, China was keen to keep green language out of the summit communiqu[eacute], according to people familiar with the matter. In its final communiqu[eacute], the G-20 reaffirmed its "commitment to address the threat of irreversible climate change," but serious discussions were left to a U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen in December, as China wished.

Fulfilling Environmentalist Fantasies, by Executive Order. « American Elephants

There has been no significant warming of the planet since 1995, including the year claimed to be the warmest in 1998. The sun has gone quiet with no sunspots, and the earth has cooled in the last five years, warming and cooling as it has always done.

The natural cycles of warming and cooling suggest that we are in for some seriously cold weather in coming years. The illusion that wind and solar can produce enough power to keep us warm is beyond reason. And greenies would quickly turn up to protest (and take legal action against) new power grids, extensive solar arrays, or large wind farms. They want the Earth to be pristine, the new Eden, and will fight to achieve their fantasies.

Letters: Climate change is too big an issue to leave to the experts | Environment | The Guardian

Climate change is, indeed, such a huge issue that we cannot afford to leave it to elites and scientists. Now that the issue has arrived high on the political agenda, we should not try to push it back into technocratic circles.
Dr Reiner Grundmann

Power and Control: Global Warming Will Make People Dumber

The danger is obvious. If the planet stays warm enough for long enough the average IQ in the cooler climates will decline.

Climate Change [Scam] Ponzi Scheme - Forbes.com

Every generation so far has expected the next generation to absorb its carbon investment into the atmosphere. Speaking not just as a scientist but as a new father, I'd wager that the next generation--my son's generation--faces a Madoff-like moment when the system collapses, the environment collapses, and very likely we'll have a whole load of civil unrest and other nasty consequences.

Funny enough, we understand the global climate system better than we understand financial markets.

Kentucky Progress: Leland does the math

Next, the federal government is seriously considering cap and trade legislation to wage war against mythical global warming. The U.S. Department of Energy’s own estimates put the lower end cost of this dangerous legislation to each family at $700 additional dollars per year. (In reality, the higher energy costs and other charges will actually cost the average American family upwards of $3100 additional dollars per year.) Using the same whacked out math formula that the aforementioned liberal website used to arrive at the $800 million dollar cash infusion, we can now assume a cost to the commonwealth of an additional $840 million if cap and trade legislation passes. That makes the “middle class” tax cut now worth negative $340 million to Kentuckians.

Video » How to sell the "clean" "energy" scam: Want Obama Girl? Save your energy!

Brian Keane, who leads a nonprofit called Smart Power, wants to do for renewable energy what the “Got Milk?” campaign does for milk and what the “Fabric of Our Lives” campaign does for cotton—he wants to make wind and solar and hydropower and geothermal energy really cool, and get more people to buy them. Here’s one way he is going about it, with a little help from a friend

Taking Personal Responsibility for Climate Change | SolveClimate.com

The other day, I went to a gathering of 50 people interested in advocating for clean energy in the United States. I rode my bike there. At least a dozen people commented on what a “good girl” I was for doing so.

PoliGazette » The Carbon Tax Solution to Climate Change Won’t Work

It’s going to take a lot of government incentivizing to get anyone to consider that part of the United States viable for wind, and the Northeast and Midwest viable for solar. So yes, Andrew is right. A carbon tax would end a large government regulation program, but a large government subsidy program would go in its place. That’s hardly limiting the size of government, at least from where I’m sitting. The subsidizing is likely to happen, anyway, minus a carbon tax, but it would still exist either way. Lets not even get into the overspending the government is likely to do in a knee-jerk reaction to public furor over their increased energy taxes.

So, there you have it. A carbon tax would create financial hardship for years, maybe decades, before alternative energy would become widespread, if it ever does. It would not actually lead to less government, but more government, since subsidies would need to be given to bring the technology to certain areas of the country. Personally, I think the former problem is the worse of the two, since we’re already in extremely harsh financial conditions. I simply don’t think a tax would be sustainable for long, even in the best of economic conditions. The reason is simple politics. Even if you could initially persuade the American public that this was a good thing, politicians would shy away once constituents started demanding the end of them. There are not many politicians that are going to tie their chances for re-election on an unpopular tax. It’s just not going to happen.

Quote of the Week #2 « Watts Up With That?

From “Pragmatic”, on the Lindzen on negative feedback thread:

“What most alarmists don’t seem to fathom is that real people want balance in their decision/learning process. Balance arrives on the wings of debate.”

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Do we need better predictions to adapt to a changing climate?

Many scientists have called for a substantial new investment in climate modeling to increase the accuracy, precision, and reliability of climate predictions. Such investments are often justified by asserting that failure to improve predictions will prevent society from adapting successfully to changing climate. This Forum questions these claims, suggests limits to predictability, and argues that society can (and indeed must) make effective adaptation decisions in the absence of accurate and precise climate predictions.

QUT offers climate change [scam] law scholarship - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Queensland University of Technology will become the first in the country to offer a scholarship to study the legal ramifications of climate change.

QUT is offering the scholarship, worth almost $100,000, for a PhD student to do research on legal issues arising from global warming.

The university says a lot of work has been done on science and economic aspects of climate change, but not legal ones.

The director of the university's Law and Justice Research Centre, Bill Duncan, believes it will be important in the future to fully understand the legalities of a carbon emissions trading scheme, or even global warming-related lawsuits.

"Lawyers are quite inventive these days and there could be actions against corporations for lack of compliance with regulations in relation to that," he said.

Mr Duncan says there will be a huge increase in legal action and regulation relating to global warming.

Wind Watch: Worry about whoopers

The valiant effort to save North America’s biggest bird from extinction has suffered a setback –nearly one-fifth of the cranes have died in the last 12 months. Drought and a wasting disease are the latest threats.

Feb '08: Wind Farms Threaten Endangered Whooping Crane - Science - redOrbit

Federal officials warned today that wind farms have become a potential new threat to the North American whooping crane population. Long endangered, the gigantic birds were once at a U.S. population of just 15 in 1941. Conservation efforts have restored the number to 266 today.

However, wind farms have become so widespread in the migration routes of the birds from Canada to Texas that the cranes are now at risk of death or injury from either crashing into large wind turbans and transmission lines or through loss of habitat from the farms.

"Basically you can overlay the strongest, best areas for wind turbine development with the whooping crane migration corridor," said Tom Stehn, whooping crane coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in an Associated Press report.
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Crashing into power lines represents the most common cause of death for the whooping cranes. Stehn said the industry could help by marking its power lines, which run from transmission towers. "Each crane is precious when you only have 266 [in the U.S.]," he added.

Palm Beach: Cold front coming Monday night could knock temps to record lows « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

The last time it got that cold this far into April was in 1971, when a low of 45 was recorded in the West Palm Beach area, Ebaugh said. The Glades and other inland areas might experience temperatures in the mid 30s - something not seen there since 1931, Ebaugh said.

Real Motive: Dem. Senator calls cap-and-trade 'the most significant revenue-generating proposal of our time' - washingtonpost.com

Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) called cap-and-trade "the most significant revenue-generating proposal of our time," and said it would be difficult to pass without reconciliation because Democrats would be forced to accommodate a handful of Republicans as they did in the debate over the president's stimulus package. Although winning use of the maneuver is unlikely, Cardin said, "a lot of us don't want to give up without a fight." [Via Marc Morano]

BA, Air France Propose Global Emissions Trading [Scam] for Airlines - Bloomberg.com

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- British Airways Plc joined with three airline groups and the U.K.’s main airport operator to propose an emissions trading system for all carriers to help fight global warming.

Video: Activist arrested during confrontation with Al Gore in Chicago | GORE LIED

We’ve got the more persuasive science on out side, not to mention a world that has been cooling for ten years or more, therefore we don’t have much to gain from engaging in these types of activities.

Skeptic's Corner: Integrity Down the Drain

The question you should ask yourself is this; If sea level rise on the official sea level site are being down graded, how can scientists claim they are accelerating? What is their motive? certainly it can not be science.

Guy crusading against fossil fuels dreams of foods brought to him by fossil-fueled farms, fossil-fueled transportation systems, fossil-fueled cooking, etc

As I sledge-haul NNE today towards what will hopefully be a suitable landing strip for the next resupply, all I can think about is sitting in a café in Paris reading the papers in the morning sun, eating warm croissants. The image I have is so vivid I can almost taste the butter and feel the crunch. 35 days of freeze-dried expedition meals leads to strange cravings, and once the thought enters my head, it’s very difficult to shift.

However, I am consoled by the fact that in a couple of days time there will be a bacon sandwich winging its way over to me along with the rest of our resupply kit…… oh no, now I’ve got bacon sandwiches on the brain for the rest of the day!

Feb '09: Washington Times - RFK Jr.: Hog farms bigger threat than Osama

WASHINGTON -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday said he thinks hog farmers are a greater threat to Americans than Osama bin Laden.

Your Carbon Legacy

It may seem unthinkable today that our government - of the people, by the people and for the people - would ever assume the power to tell us how many children we can and cannot have. But much has happened in the past few months that truly was unthinkable, and only a single year ago. And if it's happened before, it can happen again; for in times of crisis - either real, as in the current economic crisis, or imagined, as in Al Gore's climate crisis - normally-rational people can do some wildly-irrational things. We must, therefore, maintain the eternal vigilance that is needed to preserve our God-given rights that no one has the authority to rescind. Stand up with us and demand that your elected officials carefully scrutinize both sides of the CO2-climate debate and think for themselves. We need thoughtful men and women of integrity to guide our nation, not mindless lemmings.

The NFL Needs More Players Like Dhani Jones | Bleacher Report

In increment to hosting and appearing on numerous television programs that comprise The Colbert Report, Carson Daly Show, and ESPN’s Cold Pizza and Timeless, Dhani has collected many decorations for his charity work for former Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Change Project and the United Nations' World Food Program.

White Roofs in Urban Heat Islands a Cool Idea

Akbari, along with Surabi Menon, another LBNL scientist, and Arthur Rosenfeld, a former LBNL scientist and now a California Energy Commission board member, claim that painting urban surfaces in warm parts of the world white or a light color could offset the carbon emissions of all 600 million of the world's cars for 18 to 20 years — at a savings equivalent to at least $1 trillion worth of CO2 reductions.

Washington Times - Obama proposals cap growth

Senate Democratic leaders do not have the 60 votes to bring cap-and-trade to an up-or-down vote. And even if they had 60 members of their party in the Senate, they would lose many, if not most, Midwestern and Gulf-state Democrats who fear that former Vice President Al Gore's so-called climate-change tax scheme on all carbon emissions would be the death knell of their states' oil- and gas-powered economies.

Four Sea Turtles Rehabilitated and Released into the Wild|ABC News 4

It has been a long ride for Godfrey, Lookout, Carter and Emerald. The two loggerhead and green sea turtles almost died during a cold snap in the waters off the North Carolina coast.

“They were very lethargic and their bodies shut down,” Kelly Thorbalson, the Program Coordinator of the Sea Turtle Rescue Program at the Aquarium said.

Missouri: Gardeners prepare for freeze expected tonight

Master gardener Shelley Vaugine of Springfield talked of the same freeze after she finished covering her crops with straw earlier this afternoon. “It was two years ago when we had that frost,” she said, noting it caused a great deal of damage to crops.

Vaugine fears this hard freeze will net similar results. “This is going to be a bad one,” she said. “This is going to be pretty severe for a couple of days.”

The great Antarctic ice scare: the facts | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Age runs yet another exaggerated scare story on global warming without bothering to check the most basic of facts to see whether the world is really doing what the warming scaremongers claim...

Coho killed after water diverted to protect crops

Officials say endangered coho salmon were killed after a sudden drop in the water level of a Russian River tributary this week due to the siphoning of water used to protect crops from frost damage.

North Carolina: Farmers fear late freeze

A cold front moving across the Great Lakes area will send temperatures into the low 30s by Monday night, with rain and snow showers possible, the National Weather Service said. Tuesday should clear up, but the high will be only about 40 and the low that night should be in the low to mid-20s.
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After the freeze in April 2007, the U.S. Department of Agriculture designated 56 N.C. counties federal disaster areas. Henderson County, the top apple-producing county in the state, suffered a near complete loss due to the cold snap that lasted for days.

Twitter / Bill Keller

another day of WINTER! Global Warming is supposed to be the issue, yet burned more firewood than EVER this winter (...not yet PAST tense)

It's all about the money | Lorrie Goldstein | Toronto Sun

Notice how every 'green' scheme to 'save' us from global warming will end up costing you more?
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Most people are rational. Most care about the planet and the legacy they will leave their children.

Given rational, practical, meaningful ways to improve the environment, they'll respond.

But simultaneously yelling at people we're facing Armageddon, while shilling for trivial nonsense like "Earth Hour" and picking our pockets to pay for pretend "green" initiatives, isn't rational.

It's surrendering to the fortune tellers and witch doctors.

Multi-tasking: Guy to pick up garbage, promote climate scam, and also come out in favor of world peace

Apa Sherpa, 49, has climbed Mount Everest a record 18 times but now he’s preparing for a 19th, this time to clean up the mess left by the thousands of climbers who have scaled the mountain since 1953.
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It is not easy but I hope I will succeed,” Sherpa said. “If I can reach the vase to the top I will be happy because it is for peace and climate change.”