The Carbon Sense Coalition » Two Fatal Flaws

The Senate must reject the “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill” on the basis of its “Two Fatal Flaws” – the science and the economics. It is not supported by independent scientific assessment, nor does it present any credible cost benefit analysis. Moreover, at a time when politicians are calling for better financial disclosure and discipline, this Bill is alarming in its deceptive advertising, shows contempt for good practice by omitting independent expert reports, and stands condemned for failure to disclose the numerous vested interests supporting its claims.

Opposition has 'no climate policy': Wong

Senator Wong defended the scheme saying the nation needed a plan in place to reduce emissions.

"It's a bit like getting fit, you don't get fit by saying you want to get fit, you get fit by having a plan to get there," Senator Wong told Network Ten.

"Similarly, Australia needs a plan to reduce its emissions."

More climate fraud from Steven Chu

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is warning that if countries they don't do something about climate change, "some island states will simply disappear."
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Chu says that rising temperatures lead to more damaging hurricanes and rising oceans. Chu says those results are scary and could wipe out islands such as Trinidad and Tobago.

Just call me the minister for speed

THE science minister Lord Drayson is to drive in the gruelling Le Mans 24-hour car race at the head of his own team, despite being blind in one eye.

The millionaire politician, who advises the government on climate change, will be racing a V8 Aston Martin at up to 180mph in June. The former pharmaceuticals entrepreneur is the first minister to make it on the international racing scene.
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Drayson’s progress has not been without controversy. The Le Mans race is possibly the least environmentally friendly sporting event – 55 cars racing to see which team can travel furthest in 24 hours. It is open only to the wealthy. There are suspicions that £1m in donations Drayson made to Labour in 2004 helped to secure his elevation to the Lords. His subsequent ministerial appointment has fuelled allegations – strongly denied – that he is a wealthy playboy who has bought a government seat.

Ron Bailey: Global Warming and Its Discontents

At today’s installment of Reason Foundation’s weekend, reason science correspondent Ron Bailey presented about the state of global warming science and policy. As we’ve noted before, Bailey has moved into the camp that believes global warming is occurring, but — and it’s a major BUT — the cure is likely to be far worse than the poison.

Go green on top, or face $100,000 fine, city proposes

Toronto is poised to become the first city in North America to make green roofs mandatory on most new buildings and set standards for their construction.

A city committee yesterday considered a proposed bylaw that would require roofs on new buildings with an area of 5,000 square metres or greater to be 30% to 60% covered by vegetation. The bigger the building, the more planted space it would have to have--otherwise fines of up to $100,000 could be levied.

Ice cap could be widening | The Daily Telegraph

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades".

Mark Nickolas: Steve Schmidt: Political Ambulance Chaser

The second type are a category I'd describe as the stubborn old goats. Those politicos cling to positions well after the real debate is over and public opinion has embraced it. Sen. James Inhofe's continued blather about global warming being a hoax is a classic example, as are those who continue to argue against stem cell research.

More Americans Believe Global Warming Natural Versus Man-made | NewsBusters.org

Maybe this is why climate alarmists like Joe Romm are getting more and more insane with their claims on this issue.

After all, with the planet cooling -- and destined to do so for many years to come according to most meteorologists and climatologists -- the window of opportunity to tax carbon emissions is shrinking.

Utilities say cap-and-trade means higher rates

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Utility companies say electric bills for their North Dakota customers would increase by some 40 percent under proposed federal cap-and-trade programs aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

UK team sets sail for first carbon-neutral Greenland crossing | Environment | guardian.co.uk

A British team sets sail tomorrow from Plymouth to attempt the first ever carbon-neutral crossing of the Greenland ice cap.

globeandmail.com: Suzuki decries NDP over plan to axe carbon tax

VANCOUVER -- Canada's most prominent environmentalist is calling on British Columbia New Democrats to rewrite their election platform to drop their plan to axe the carbon tax introduced by the rival Liberals, suggesting an NDP victory could render politically "toxic" a needed environmental reform.

"If [Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell] goes down because of axe the tax, the repercussions are the carbon tax will be toxic for future politicians," David Suzuki said yesterday.

"No politician will raise it. That's why environmentalists are so upset."

Obama is poison to Al Gore - Lawrence Solomon

Why has Al Gore’s position lost so much credibility with the American public? While the Rasmussen poll does not explore this question, two Obama factors could be at play.

First, public hostility toward George Bush and the Republicans likely expressed itself in part as hostility toward global warming scepticism, with which Bush and the Republicans were identified. As soon as the Republicans lost power, many in the public lost their fervour in opposing climate change scepticism.

Second, the recession, combined with proposals from the new Obama administration to start taxing carbon in one form or another, gave the public new reason to question whether carbon dioxide really is the demon that climate change doomsayers claim. Upon investigation, the public would have found little to support the doomsayer case.

Spring snow strands hundreds on Colo. highways

DENVER – Hundreds of people were stranded at shelters Friday night after transportation officials shut down an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 70 between Vail and Golden because of wet, heavy snow and multiple accidents.

The American Red Cross opened a second shelter in Idaho Springs after its first shelter there filled to capacity with more than 300 people, said Jim Rettew, a spokesman for the organization's Mile High Chapter.

Lots of climate realists in the comment section here: small dead animals: YY2Kyoto: Don't Forget To Recycle!

WUWT: "The real question is, how often are we going to see the Wilkins Ice Shelf be a lead news story as poster child for “global warming” to illustrate ice loss in Antarctica that is actually growing. I guess as long as we have NSIDC’s Ted Scambos to help the media, it will be “something we get to see fairly often”."

Skeptic's Corner: No Laughing Matter

I guess it is worse than thought. Notice that even among Democrats there is barely a majority who believe the party line. The unfortunate thing is that like so much else in today's America the ruling class will care very little about what the subjects think. They will do what they want as if we did not exist and they know what is best for us. The time is coming when this continued arrogance is going to blow up in their faces, let's just hope it is not literally.

'Save the planet' rhetoric soars to crazy new heights - Christopher Booker, Telegraph

Truly these days, in more ways than one, are we moving towards a new dark age. Fortunately, however, the latest available data show the downward trend in global temperatures continuing, At least the one thing we don’t need to worry about, it seems, is global warming.

Local reps opposed to cap-and-trade proposal | ohio, proposal, jordan - Local News - LimaOhio.com

"We could lose manufacturing jobs left and right," said Rep. Bob Latta, R-Bowling Green. "It kind of looks like the Obama administration has declared war on Ohio and Indiana. I'm concerned because we've got to keep people working. We want to keep people here."

Report on Arrakis: US environment agency deems CO2 a health risk

I'm telling you, the government will tax us for breathing out C02. Who were the scientist hacks that the government contracted for the study? Carbon dioxide is part of many natural cycles it is not a pollutant. There is no scientific evidence that proves C02 is a pollutant. NONE!

Radical Ways to Cool the Planet | Newsweek International Edition | Newsweek.com

As forecasts for global temperatures grow increasingly dire, scientists are taking a serious look at an idea once considered crazy: reengineering the atmosphere.
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The idea of engineering climate isn't new. In 1965 a report fell on President Lyndon Johnson's desk exploring ways to manipulate climate to compensate for a rise in temperatures. (Oddly enough, the report never mentioned cutting emissions.) The idea made the rounds in scientific circles over the next decades, but by the 1990s it had disappeared from discussion, mainly because policymakers were trying to build a consensus for emissions cuts. "It became so un-PC we couldn't talk about it," David Keith, a physicist at the University of Calgary, told a TED conference in 2007. "It just sank below the surface; we weren't allowed to speak about it."

Green Nightclubs Put an End to Dirty Dancing | Newsweek The Good Life | Newsweek.com

The entrance fee is £10 for those who arrive courtesy of fossil fuels; cyclists and walkers get in free. Customers are allowed in only if they sign a pledge promising to work toward reducing climate change.

CO2 = Pollution. Now What? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Over all, carbon dioxide and climate remain a very tough fit for the legislative and legal arenas. This reality was on display during Supreme Court arguments in November 2006 that laid the legal foundation for today’s announcement. Confusion arose over which layer of the atmosphere was the repository for smokestack and tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide. James Milkey, assistant attorney general of Massachusetts, corrected Justice Antonin Scalia, saying: “Respectfully, Your Honor, it is not the stratosphere. It’s the troposphere.”

“Troposphere, whatever,” Justice Scalia replied. “I told you before I’m not a scientist.” Over a brief flutter of laughter from observers, he added, “That’s why I don’t want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.”

Twitter / Pavel Korolev

Snow in Moscow: Global warming! Global warming? WHERE ARE YOU GLOBAL WARMING?

Ohio Panel: Climate [swindle] action a must

Al Stroucken, O-I's chief executive officer, followed Mr. Brown's opening remarks by saying it is "unacceptable" for businesses to reject concerns about climate change.
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That report's lead spokesman, Joel Scheraga, head of the U.S. EPA's global change research program, told The Blade that climate change "poses real risks to human health," especially in the Great Lakes region.

"EPA Recognizes Peril of Greenhouse Gases" (Houston Chronicle headline indicative of alarmist bias) — MasterResource

Headlines sell papers, but this scream from atop Page 1 of today’s Houston Chronicle deserves critical comment. A fair and accurate (but less sexy) headline would have been: “EPA Declares Peril of Greenhouse Gases.” Just changing one word–from “recognizes” to “declares”–makes all the difference.

The Chronicle, particularly the editorial page, has been a bastion of climate alarmism rather than informed skepticism, or what a lot of us simply call climate realism. (Eric Berger, the “sci-guy” at the Chronicle, is more of a straight shooter on day-to-day global-warming reporting.)

For alarmists, more devastating polling news from Rasmussen

Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere

Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.
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These numbers reflect a reversal from a year ago when 47% blamed human activity while 34% said long-term planetary trends.
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President Obama has made global warming a priority for his administration. Half (49%) of Americans think the president believes climate change is caused primarily by human activity. This is the first time that belief has fallen below 50% since the president took office. Just 19% say Obama attributes global warming to long-term planetary trends.

Wise Up Journal - » Telegraph: U.S. declares, CO2, a life giving gas to vegetation, a ‘threat to public health’ *

Related:

Earth’s atmosphere
Nitrogen (N2): 78.08%
Oxygen (O2): 20.94%
Argon (Ar): 0.93%
Carbon dioxide (CO2): 0.03%

Let Children Create Their Own Electricity | Cutie Gadget

The Fastronouts can be attached to a bike using clip in the moon cruiser. The dynamo in the moon cruiser could be released and functioned like bike lamp dynamo. It gives power to activate light, sound, and odometer in the Fastronout. This toy is not also gives understanding about energy and the efficiency to children. It could make them more active. Yet it could reduce the obesity risk, one of the biggest children problems in these days.

Near riot as air heated over wind farm plans - Dearne Today

A NEAR-riot resulted in closure of a Barnsley Council planning meeting, as tempers rose over another proposed wind farm near Penistone at Crow Edge.
The bust-up between councillors was over the Labour voting that saw the three turbine wind farm at Blackstone Edge given the green light, subject to approval from the Secretary of State.

One Wombwell area councillor said: "There was an angry, heated argument and the meeting had to be abandoned while people calmed down."

Spatially Weighted Antarctic Temperatures - No Peninsula « the Air Vent

If I’ve learned anything from all these plots, it’s that the Antarctic isn’t warming at 0.12 +/- 0.7 C/decade. It just isn’t. The actual trend is much lower than that and since 1967 it has even dropped a little across the continent.

The Associated Press: Congress weighs far-reaching global warming [swindle] bill

The fallout from global warming, while subtle now, could eventually be even more dire.
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Then there is the question whether the public will have the appetite to accept higher energy prices for a benefit that will not be seen for many years. Climate change ranks low on many voters' priority lists.

Every year since 2001 has been among the 10 warmest years on record. Sea ice in the Arctic and glaciers worldwide are melting.

But the problems are not as apparent as they were in the 1970s, or even the early 1990s, when Congress addressed acid rain and depletion of the ozone layer.

"If carbon dioxide were brown, we wouldn't have the same problem," said Gus Speth, who organized the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970. "But it's a subtle issue. ... The problems are chronic not acute, and it is largely invisible to people unless they're reading the newspaper or checking the glaciers or going to the South Pole."

IPCC Scientist says UN's function 'is to provide an appearance of scientific justification for political policies'

Of course the next IPCC report has to be delayed.

The IPCC is the InterGOVERNMENTal Panel on Climate Change. Governments are political bodies. And the IPCC’s function is – and always has been – to provide an appearance of scientific justification for political policies.

That appearance becomes progressively more difficult to sustain with each year the globe fails to warm. [Via Climate Depot]

Warming alarmists cry wolf | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Sum up: the science shows that wolves are suffering from inbreeding more than climate change, and from unusual cold rather than unusual heat. But try telling that to a professional liar global warming alarmist.

(Thanks to reader Neil.)

The Associated Press: Congress weighs far-reaching global warming [swindle] bill

The fallout from global warming, while subtle now, could eventually be even more dire.
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Then there is the question whether the public will have the appetite to accept higher energy prices for a benefit that will not be seen for many years. Climate change ranks low on many voters' priority lists.

Every year since 2001 has been among the 10 warmest years on record. Sea ice in the Arctic and glaciers worldwide are melting.

But the problems are not as apparent as they were in the 1970s, or even the early 1990s, when Congress addressed acid rain and depletion of the ozone layer.

"If carbon dioxide were brown, we wouldn't have the same problem," said Gus Speth, who organized the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970. "But it's a subtle issue. ... The problems are chronic not acute, and it is largely invisible to people unless they're reading the newspaper or checking the glaciers or going to the South Pole."

Little Rock Immigration Examiner: After Tea Party events

On April 25th, several leftist will gather to indoctrinate the public into believing in the Global Warming/Climate Change/No US industry Agenda. The global warming agenda has cost the taxpayers millions and is the main reason why we buy fossil fuels from other nations instead of using our own fossil fuels. Most people don't that a lot of our oil comes from Mexico, which maybe the reason that the US continues to put up with the lazy, corrupt, and arrogant Narco-Regime that is the Mexican Government. I think it would be great to counter-protest this event with signs and handing out info showing the truth about the Global Warming Agenda.

Ex-WLS weatherman calls warming 'greatest scam in history' :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation

At the hearing, Coleman said activities of man do alter the weather and climate, but not significantly.

"People with the anti-fossil fuel agenda [have] jumped on the global warming bandwagon and just won't let go,'' Coleman said.

Committee chairman Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) shrugged over Coleman's testimony.

"You've got to hear the other side of this argument, no matter how overwhelming the evidence is to the contrary," Grijalva said.

Oregon State's Jane Lubchenco takes over at NOAA, promotes greatest scientific fraud in history

Lubchenco said Obama told her that climate change and economic development should be her agency's top priorities. On top of those are NOAA's traditional responsibilities of forecasting weather and overseeing oceans and fisheries, of particular interest to the Northwest and its endangered salmon runs.

Lubchenco is pushing the creation of a climate service akin to the National Weather Service that would provide predictions on the changing climate.
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It is a skill that could come in handy considering the complexity of a government agency with 12,500 employees and a $4 billion annual budget, about half of the entire Department of Commerce.

WORLD Magazine | Copenhagen DOA | Mark Bergin | Apr 17, 09

ENVIRONMENT: As a planned follow-up to the failed Kyoto Protocol, next December’s climate summit in Denmark appears to be a non-starter | Mark Bergin

The near universal failure of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has for years now pressed environmentalists and politicians to long for a new international climate accord. Through a green haze of optimism, many such global warming alarmists have set their eyes on Copenhagen, site of a long-scheduled climate summit this December. If successful, its aim is to install a replacement plan for when Kyoto officially expires in 2012.

But still eight months from that meeting, its vital signs have all but flat-lined. Whereas Kyoto died on the operating table, Copenhagen may prove dead on arrival.

May 2nd Global Warming Debate: Alarmist Jason Box vs Realist Robert Wagner

Hey everyone, I think this may be the first time there has been a true
public UNDERSTANDABLE debate on Global Warming. As you know I have
been reducing the global warming argument into small easily digestible
pieces so regardless of your scientific background you can understand
this issues. Well I have been giving this presentation for 4 years and
this is the first time an IPCC Scientist has decided to refute my
claims. You can see our debate online right now, but it will be a lot
more fun watching the live event.
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Dave, from Ridin The Wave, has worked to put together a World Class
Event for the We Surround Them Group and interested citizens. The
Global Warming controversy is now at our doorstep. The ultimate
question: Is it real, or is it a hoax?
May 2nd is the date, the approximate time is 2 pm to 6 pm, location
Columbus, Ohio. The final venue and time slot TBD.

The show will feature a presentation by world renowned Climate
Researcher, Professor Jason E. Box of the Byrd Polar Research Center
and Dr. Robert Wagner, also known as the Internet Skeptic. Local
celebrities and/or politicians may also be included as details emerge.

Wonk Room » Live Q&A With Rep. Donna Edwards: Energy, Climate, And Environment

Q (Brad): The media has depicted global warming as a scientific debate, when the science is in. Still, people like George Will are recyling old columns and denying global warming. Why is the media still giving space to these deniers?

EDWARDS: Amazing. For most of us who have to actually make policy and spend precious taxpayer money on things that will make a difference, the science is settled. Finally, we have an Administration that also understands that this is not a science debate — it never was. This is an important conversation about making investments in research and technology and in those technologies that don’t reproduce old problems. This is true across disciplines. Tax and other investments to create incentives for renewables and disincentives for industries that continue to pollute. It’s the traditional carrot and stick — only it’s time for the federal government to carry a bigger stick because time is running out. We’re still giving tax breaks to oil and gas companies, and we gave tax breaks to people buying SUV’s — those are not policy choices that have any hope of real change for the earth.

I think the challenge for media is to use the science and the facts and for us to challenge them. I’m hopeful that while the old talking heads are still singing the “anti-science” tune, most of America doesn’t really believe it. This is the reason that President Obama did not get push back from the public about the significant investments on energy and climate in the Recovery and Reinvestment package — aka, stimulus.

Just what is it with evangelical Christians and global warming? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

A poll this week [actually, 2008?] showed that only 34% of America's white evangelical Protestants accepted there is solid evidence that global warming is real and that it is attributable to humans

DNA: Entertainment: Jennifer Aniston goes green, gives home eco makeover

London: Actress Jennifer Aniston has given her Beverly Hills mansion a USD 15 million [!?] eco friendly makeover using solar panels liberally.

The Marley and Me actress has installed a reflective metal roof in her house in a bid to conserve energy. Aniston has even swapped her Range Rover car for a Toyota Prius doubling her fuel efficiency for half the price, the Daily Mail online reported.

The USD 15 million renovations are said to be just part of the Friends star's environmentally friendly projects.

The 40-year-old actress is also said to be equipping her new Malibu pad with eco-friendly devices including drought-resistant plants.

Despite owning a swimming pool, Aniston has confessed that she is keen on saving water and confesses to taking only three-minute showers.

Guy at Toastmasters convention: Toastmasters can help solve global warming

He said he believed they had the power to influence people "to contribute towards making a positive change in the world around us" in all the current global concerns and issues, such as the financial crisis, global warming and political upheavals.

Some crops damaged after cold, rain | BlueRidgeNow.com | Times-News Online | Hendersonville, NC

It may be too late for the peaches. Kenny Barnwell, who farms in the Edneyville area, said the county’s peaches and nectarines were hit the hardest, almost wiped out.

NPR science reporter Richard Harris weighs in

Harris will contribute his perspective on the role of the media in an age when going green is finally trendy, but the challenges are bigger than ever. “My job is not to be an advocate per se, but help people understand what all the facts are, and the facts often lead us to an obvious direction we should be heading in,” he says. “I’ve watched this issue evolve for well over 20 years. I’ve seen the scientific consensus congeal around this.”

With that duty also comes the need to impart the complexity and gravity of these issues and the difficulties ahead in solving them. Harris says he also tries to show in his pieces that there is no quick fix, but rather that sweeping societal changes will have to be to made to slow the pace of global warming. “It’s so much more than, you go buy a Prius and the problem is solved,” he says.

In his many years behind the microphone, Harris has also witnessed the decline in the fourth estate, which he sees as having real consequences in the realm of science journalism—not just on the writers who’ve lost their jobs as newspapers axe their science sections but on the public’s access to unbiased information about important issues.

“It does add to the polarization of the issues. It’s not black and white. It’s not certain to be a catastrophe, but you have to recognize that it is a very real possibility,” he says. “Then some news outlets or blogs work full-time to say climate change is a hoax. There is a collection of people who focus their attention only on information that supports their own belief system.” That, he says, given the extraordinary amount of work to be done, is just not productive. Because as trendy as the Klean Kanteens and sustainable cotton T-shirts may be, the real solution will be a revolution. “I think we need to quietly find out a way to transform our technology,” he says. “You create technology so that everyone will naturally want to adapt and not be talked into it. That’s an incredibly tall order. It may be impossible.”

Richard Harris takes advantage of fossil-fueled travel

Harris, who joined NPR in 1986, has traveled to the ends of the earth for NPR, reporting from Timbuktu, the South Pole, the Galapagos Islands, Beijing during the SARS epidemic, the center of Greenland, the Amazon rain forest, and the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (for a story about tuberculosis).

Carbon Footprint Reduction Services | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

There are numerous services that allow you to pay into a fund offset your carbon footprint. But how does it actually work?

Humans declared toxic | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But what will trees use for food when carbon dioxide is eliminated.

Madness is on the hoof.

Get rid of ethanol subsidies, state's auditor says

Minnesota should get out of the business of subsidizing the state's ethanol industry, the Legislative Auditor's office said today.

Commentary: We must act on climate now | McClatchy

We face a similar choice today on climate change. The risk of a sudden shift in the world's climate seems slight - but it has happened many times in the Earth's long history, and the effects would be catastrophic and irreversible. By insurance standards, the risk is not slight - scientists put the chance of catastrophic temperature increases at 1 in 20. AIG thought its risk was much smaller - less than 1 in 1000 - but government regulators will not let them take that chance again.

We would not step off a curb if there was a 1 in 20 chance of getting hit by a truck. We would not get on a plane if 1 out of every 20 crashed. Yet if we do not take strong and immediate action to reduce the world's greenhouse gas emissions, we face a 1 in 20 chance that climate change will tear apart the economic, political and social fabric of the world. Can we muster the will to prevent it?

Clear scientific evidence, mounting daily, demonstrates that the economic, environmental and security costs of climate change will dwarf even the profound global impacts of today's economic turmoil. To take but one example, the Arctic ice cap, the engine of our weather system, may disappear completely within five summers. The consequences for farmers and others who depend on familiar weather patterns are impossible to predict, but they are unlikely to be good.
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Timothy E. Wirth is the president of the United Nations Foundation (www.unfoundation.org).

Green TEA party: EPA seeks public input on proposed CO2 ‘endangerment’ finding « Green Hell Blog

It’s time for a green TEA party. Tell the EPA that you are taxed-enough-already and that you oppose the agency’s use of junk science to tax and regulate you even more.

Steve Milloy says it’s time for a Green Tea Party. Here’s the bumpersticker. | GORE LIED

If you’re like me, you’re up for a Green Tea Party. Here’s your bumper sticker:

CO2 - Love It: EPA doesn't ♥ CO2: Time to make our voices heard

In a landmark decision long pushed for by some environmentalists and money-hungry politicians, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has almost officially declared CO2 -- AKA plant food, the air you exhale, the bubbles in beer, and the basis of all life -- a "pollutant".

As the Earth continues to cool and the rest of the world has begun to realize that CO2 is neither a pollutant nor a climate driver, the EPA and the Obama administration continue to push the hoax of the century on an increasingly skeptical public. It seems as though Al Gore and the lobbyists are also ramping up their campaigns against science and reason in light of the fact that more and more people are waking up to the reality of this scam.

Rep. Jordan urges against cap and trade plan | mansfieldnewsjournal.com | Mansfield News Journal

MANSFIELD -- U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan didn't mince words Friday during a speech to area manufacturers at PR Machine Works Inc.

"This cap and trade is a terrible idea," the Urbana Republican said. "To try to do this anytime is a bad idea, but to do it during a recession is even crazier. It will wind up being the largest tax increase in history for every single American, because every good and service is going to cost more. Your energy is going to cost more and just as important, it's going to cost jobs."

U.N. leader helpfully provides 30-year weather forecast

Ban, who accepted questions from students, challenged them to tackle important issues like global warming in their roles as leaders of the future.

"In 30 years you will see the impact of global warming," he said. "This is your world and your future. I hope you will take this issue very seriously."

The Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse: Media recycles photos and storylines from previous years « Watts Up With That?

It seems that not only is the photography recycled, so is the storyline. It seems to happen every year, about this time. Note the photos show shear failure and cracks, not melted ice. Shear failure is mostly mechanical-stress related, though ice does tend to be more brittle at colder temperatures.

Stay slim to save the planet | Newspost Online

Scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’’s department of epidemiology and population health say food production is a major contributor to global warming.

The research team suggested that a lean population will consume almost 20 per cent less food than a population in which 40 per cent of people are obese.

Transport-related emissions will also be lower if people are slim because it takes less energy to move them around.

Dr Phil Edwards, one of the leaders of the study, said he thought people had a “responsibility to the climate”.

Bahamas Weather Conference - Day Two | ABC 6 | Featured Story

Dr. Landsea's opinion is that natural processes are the driving force behind the latest upswing in hurricane activity. It is similar to the busy period that occurred from the 1930s to 1950s.

Global warming maybe poisoning food for Arctic people

London, April 18: In a new research, a team of scientists has found that global warming is not just transforming the land for the Arctic people, but it is also poisoning their food, with mercury levels in seals and beluga whales reaching levels that would be considered unsafe in fish.

State University of New York professor suggests that we've already got about 6.6 billion too many people

Washington, April 18 (ANI): The faculty of a US university has determined that an overpopulated planet is the biggest problem that we face today, followed by climate change and a need for renewable energy resources.
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“Overpopulation is the only problem,” said Dr. Charles A. Hall, a systems ecologist. “If we had 100 million people on Earth - or better, 10 million - no others would be a problem,” he added.

Colorado: 3 to 4 feet of snowfall

On Friday, heavy, wet snow closed highways, canceled flights, caused power outages and forced school closures in parts of Colorado and Wyoming. Snow accumulations of 3 to 4 feet were recorded in the mountains, with 4 to 6 inches measured in Denver.

Random Thoughts and Musings.

[Photo] Denver, mid April right now - global warming? Pah!

CO2 = Pollution. Now What? - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

If the ruling is enforced we will have a fascist government in control of all aspects of production, distribution and wealth generation in this country.

If, as is equally likely, the ruling cannot be consistently enforced, we will become a nation of scofflaws, with bribery, corruption, political favoritism and gunbattles between the Green Police and CO2 bootleggers on a scale not seen since Prohibition.

Either way it turns out, this ruling is folly. And all for fear of the chimera of climate change generated by unvalidated computer models.

If we, the American people, let this happen, then we deserve our fate.

— Dale R. McIntyre, PhD, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Choose: Garrett or the icy facts | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Or should we believe the Rudd Government’s Minister for the Apocalypse, warming alarmist Peter Garrett?

Mr Garrett insisted global warming was causing ice losses throughout Antarctica.

What does it say about the Enivornment Minister’s trustworthiness that he cannot acknowledge the plainest facts that challenge his warming alarmism? What other inconvenient truths is he refusing to admit, discuss, publish or finance?

Warning Signs: Stop the EPA Before it Destroys America!

What the EPA and other elements of government can and will do is use the international “global warming” hoax to pass new laws and more regulations to destroy the economic viability of all activities that utilize energy.

Driller thriller: Antarctica's tumultuous past revealed - environment - 13 April 2009 - New Scientist

Andrill's results reveal a breathtaking picture. They show how the West Antarctic ice sheet has collapsed and regrown at least 60 times in the past few million years. Andrill predicts that it could once again tip toward collapse by the year 2100.

Investor's Business Daily -- Rail And Reality

Transportation: President Obama envisions a bullet-train network that will transform the way we travel. He suggests this is the 21st-century version of the interstate highways. Here's why it's not.

Skeptic's Corner: "Oh, Ye of little faith ! "

Please note that they do not point out that according to this poll 53% of religious Americans either do not believe in man made global warming or are not sure. What is interesting is that in May of 2008, PEW did a poll and overall only 47% of Americans believed in Man Made Global Warming which again means 53% did not.
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So despite the media hype,the supposed scientific consensus, the political onslaught, Americans are not really buying it. What is the word for it-traction. This issue does not have any traction. Politicians would be wise to quit the games and soundly denounce this insanity, the ones that do outside of certain demographic areas, Northeast and West Coast, would find considerable support I believe.

Catastrophic Results Through Unfounded Global Warming Solutions « Nancy J. Thorner

At a time when many Americans are being indoctrinated in a belief system based on a political agenda rather than science, it becomes the responsibility of those who have not drunk the global warming Kool-Aid to question and to confront those who are pushing global warming propaganda.

Proposed climate change legislation that seeks to limit coal, oil and nuclear as sources of energy must be opposed in mass by the American people, unless they view with fondness the horse and buggy days. Not to do so would mean a victory for global warming alarmists and their agenda.

EPA paves way for broad emission limits - Los Angeles Times

However, William Kovacs, a vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said that even with an endangerment finding, the EPA would be able to delay emission limits until technology improves and compliance costs fall to avoid what he called "disastrous" regulations that would all but put the agency in charge of the entire economy.

Save Your Job and Life–Abolish The Environmental Protection Agency! « Pronk Palisades

Carbon dioxide or CO2 is not pollutant, it is a trace gas and one of the greenhouse gases. The most important greehouse gas is water vapour, which also is not a pollutant.

The radical socialists want to increase taxes on the American people to finance more government programs for their supporters.

They need to make you believe that you are responsible for global warming by using electricity, heating oil, and driving a car or truck.

This results in carbon dioxide emissions which in turn according to the EPA causes global warming.

Nice story, but as the above videos have shown, it is simply not true.

Racing to Prepare | Odd opening paragraph from yet another alarmist in the Arctic

DEADHORSE, ALASKA– Deadhorse is surprisingly accessible, but it is definitely in a wildly remote place; yesterday I woke to sunny skies and a temperature of -17 degrees (Fahrenheit). Spring warmth is coming – three weeks ago it was 30 below – but it is still winter here in the Arctic. Snowdrifts are quite deep and it is still bitingly cold. A little over a year ago I was doing field work in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, and I spent several days working in temperatures down to -32 but that was without wind. The wind up here makes it particularly cold and I put on extra layers just to walk to the lab in the morning.

Change is a cold certainty | The Australian

RUSSIAN sea captain Dimitri Zinchenko has been steering ships through the pack ice of Antarctica for three decades and is waiting to see evidence of the global warming about which he has heard so much.

Zinchenko's vessel, the Spirit of Enderby, was commissioned in January last year to retrace the steps of the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, marking the century of his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09.

Spirit of Enderby was blocked by a wall of pack ice at the entrance to the Ross Sea, about 400km short of Shackleton's base hut at Cape Royds. Zinchenko says it was the first time in 15 years that vessels were unable to penetrate the Ross Sea in January. The experience was consistent with his impression that pack ice is expanding, not contracting, as would be expected in a rapidly warming world. "I see just more and more ice, not less ice."

Rodney Russ, whose New Zealand company Heritage Expeditions has operated tourist expeditions to Antarctica for 20 years, agrees. He says ships regularly used to able to reachthe US base of McMurdo in summer, but ice has prevented them from doing so for several years.

"Vessels are usually stopped 8km to 14km short of the base. A few years ago, that was often open water," Russ says.

"We have experienced quite severe ice conditions over the past decade. I have seen nothing in this region to suggest global warming is having an effect."

The climate of disastrous consensus | The Australian

"The science is now based on consensus, and we have thousands of scientists who have got everything to gain by saying the world is going to end. We have lost the tie to evidence. So I make great comparison ... between the way creationists operate and the way some of the rabid environmentalists and global warmers operate. The parallels are quite similar."

Plimer reserves his sharpest criticism for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has driven the international debate. Very much for the worse, in the professor's judgment. "The IPCC process is related to environmental activism, politics and opportunism," he writes in Heaven and Earth.

Plimer argues that the IPCC is dominated by atmospheric scientists, who in turn are obsessed by carbon dioxide emissions, skewing the process. The problems are compounded by primitive computer modelling. He reviewed five computer predictions of climate made in 2000, underpinning IPCC findings, and found there was no relationship between predicted future temperature and actual measured temperature even during a short period. Ditto for a link between temperature and the atmospheric CO2 content.

"To get a complete view of the planet, you need to have far more than atmospheric scientists on the IPCC," Plimer says. "What they have done is separate the atmosphere from the way the world works ... you need solar physicists, you need cosmologists, you need astronomers, you need geologists, bacterial specialists and on you go ... we don't hear anything about those things from the IPCC."

Miranda Devine | Planet doomsayers need a cold shower

Plimer, 62, has spent much of his life working in Broken Hill, in the real world of rocks and soil, far enough from the social pressure of academia to think for himself.

Such independent scientific dissenters have been demonised, their evidence marginalised, as climate change has become a quasi-religious belief. But you cannot stop one side from debating what is the biggest policy decision of our era.

Plimer's book, accessible as it is to the layperson, will help redress the power imbalance between those who claim to own the knowledge and the rest of us.

CO2 = Pollution. Now What? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

It’s nearly official. Carbon dioxide, the bubbles in beer, is a pollutant in the context of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday. The long-lived heat-trapping gas, while benign in a brew pub, is deemed a threat to public health and welfare through its growing impact on climate and, in the long run, sea levels.
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Then there’s the global nature of global warming. Molecules of carbon dioxide spewed by a taxi cab in Beijing or a power plant in Boston mix freely in the atmosphere, adding to global-scale heating in the long haul.

Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking | The Australian

ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
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Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m.

Try again on carbon emissions trading scheme: Ross Garnaut | The Australian

CLIMATE change adviser Ross Garnaut says it could be better for the Senate to vote down the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme so Australia could "have another crack" at getting it right later - a view a majority of senators have now said they share.

Waxman Won’t Compromise on 20% Carbon Cap in Climate [Con] Measure - Bloomberg.com

April 17 (Bloomberg) -- House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman said he won’t compromise on his proposed 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gases over the next decade in the face of criticism from lawmakers who say the economy could suffer.

“I want to keep those caps in place,” Waxman said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend. “It’s what the scientists are telling us we must do” to avoid a global catastrophe, he said.

Can we see a list of the names of these scientists?

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar still believes

“We are at a point where we are having to make and will make some decisions that will move us forward, as part of President Obama’s comprehensive energy plan,” Salazar said in his introductory remarks at the Anchorage meeting. “… We are at the point where we have to address the issue of energy. And climate change is a signature issue of our time.”

Did global warming "clearly" cause this particularly cold, hard year on the wolves and moose of Isle Royale?

National Parks Conservation Association Applauds EPA’s [Promotion of Climate Swindle]

WASHINGTON - April 17 - Statement of Mark Wenzler, Director of Clean Air and Climate Programs, National Parks Conservation Association:

"We applaud U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson for taking the first step today toward regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. For years, our national parks have clearly demonstrated the effects of climate change, from disappearing glaciers in Glacier National Park to record floods in Mount Rainier National Park and dwindling wolf and moose populations in Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior.

"With this decision, the Obama Administration has shown it is living up to its commitment to make decisions based on sound science. We hope Congress will take up this work now, and pass a strong clean energy and jobs legislation that will reduce our nation's greenhouse gas emissions and alleviate the impacts of global warming on our nation, including our national parks."

Bone deformities linked to inbreeding in Isle Royale wolves | Eureka! Science News

Winter Study 2009

Each winter since 1959, researchers have been tracking and observing the wolves and the moose that are virtually their only prey. During this year's Winter Study, Vucetich and Peterson found two dead wolves with misshapen vertebrae, one killed by other wolves and the other, which also had severe arthritis, frozen under the ice of a lake.

This was a particularly cold, hard year on the wolves and moose of Isle Royale. The researchers counted 24 wolves, close to the long-term average population size

Gag me - Governor Schwarzenegger Statement on Greenhouse Gas Emissions as Public Health Threat EPA Conclusion

Sacramento, California - Following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion today that greenhouse gas emissions are a public health threat, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the statement below:

“While the federal government was asleep at the wheel for years, we in California have known greenhouse gases are a threat to our health and to our environment - that’s why we have taken such aggressive action to reduce harmful emissions and move toward a greener economy. Two years after the Supreme Court declared greenhouse gas emissions a pollutant, it’s promising to see the new administration in Washington showing signs that it will take an aggressive leadership role in fighting climate change that will lead to reduced emissions, thousands of new green jobs and a healthier future for our children and our planet.”

LewRockwell.com Blog: Waiting to exhale

The EPA has made its junk-science official: carbon dioxide (which we all exhale) is blameworthy for global warming. The next Ice Age is overdue.

Obama’s EPA Wants To Control Your Life Even More : Black Bear Blog

As President Obama continues his unrelenting onslaught to gain complete dictatorial control of this nation, his environmental extremist head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson (former EPA head under the Corzine regime in New Jersey) announced that 6 gases deemed greenhouse gases would be used to further control and limit the constitutional right of the people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

While the rest of the world moves on scientifically, having determined that carbon dioxide and man-made global warming is a hoax, science matters not to a fascist dictator and his extreme leftist regime.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Australian Govt carbon reduction scheme “dead in the water” - setback for IPCC

News reports are building that the Australian Government will never achieve meaningful reduction of carbon emissions.
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Not even two years from the election of the Rudd Govt and reality has set in.
Interesting too that the new National Govt in New Zealand is also less carbon obsessed than the previous left wing regime.
So the IPCC is being sent some rough lessons in RealPolitik from the Antipodes.
As a former PM said, “..the dogs bark but the caravan moves on..”.

James Hansen on civil disobedience against coal plants and other issues | CEJournal

The documentary film crew asked Hansen whether he favored civil disobedience in demonstrations against coal-fired power plants. He partially evaded the question (and Susan and I didn’t have an opportunity to follow up to try to pin him down), but watch the video and you will see that he didn’t rule it out.

So which is it, 3.75 or 5.2? - Telegraph

Mr Hadow spends up to four hours every day drilling through the ice at up to ten sites and then taking measurements of the thickness of the ice and snow, salinity and other critical information.

So far the thickest measurements has been 3.75 metres but most are around half that.

UPDATE 1-Alleged lack of permanent Arctic ice allegedly surprises explorers  | Reuters

Hadow has a manual drill that can go down 5.2 metres and so far has hit ice that deep just four times.

New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent « Watts Up With That?

Two of the Arctic ice sites show April 16 ice at recent record levels.

Global Warming 101 - Upcoming Cap and Trade [Scam] Summit

What: Cap and Trade Summit
When: May 28, 2009
Where: The University Club, Chicago IL

Will Business, Science, and Policy Collide or Converge?

President Barack Obama has called for a cap and trade program to reduce our carbon emissions 80% by 2050.To better understand the implications of this course of action, scientists, policy-makers and business leaders will convent a summit in Chicago to explore and shape the foundations of a sound cap and trade policy. Enlivened by a multi-disciplinary team of speakers, the Chicago Cap and Trade Summit will address the complex and varied facets of cap and trade.

For Cap and Trade to be an effective tool in decreasing future greenhouse gas emissions, policy-makers, scientists, and business leaders must link together in a coherent, consistent system that simultaneously meets environmental, economic, and societal needs.

Sponsored by The Environmental Change Institute (ECI), at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Will Steger Foundation, and CP Holdings, LLC, a leader in greenhouse gas management services, these organizations bring you a carbon conference to generate new perspectives on the components of an effective cap and trade system, one that works across all dimensions of society to generate the intended results.

Yet another alarmist Arctic trip: Peary Centennial Expedition

2. Secondly, the expedition will develop the 'Cool - Not Cool' campaign. We will illustrate via images the link between global warming, excesses in the lifestyles of developed countries and poor energy policies. The 'Cool - Not Cool' campaign will be integrated into the expedition websites, e-newsletters and pre- and post-expedition multimedia presentations.

E.P.A. [Promotes Climate Fraud] - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first time in the United States will regulate the gases blamed for global warming.

The E.P.A. said the science supporting its so-called endangerment finding was “compelling and overwhelming.” The ruling triggers a 60-day comment period before any proposed regulations governing emissions of greenhouse gases are published.

Lisa P. Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator, said: “This finding confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations. Fortunately, it follows President Obama’s call for a low-carbon economy and strong leadership in Congress on clean energy and climate legislation.”

She said that combatting the emissions that create greenhouse gases would help create millions of new jobs and lessen the nation’s dependence on foreign oil by fostering a more fuel-efficient transportation industry.
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The United States has come under fierce international criticism for trailing other industrialized nations in moving to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants. With this move, and the parallel action by Congress toward a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, the American government can now point to concrete progress as nations begin to write a new international climate change treaty.
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Among the ill effects of rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and the other gases, the agency found, were increased drought, more heavy downpours and flooding, more frequent and intense heat waves and wildfires, a steeper rise in sea levels, more intense storms and harm to water resources, agriculture, wildlife and ecosystems.

Wonkette trusts that if it's supported by left-wingers, you can just assume that the science is solid: Communist EPA Says Global Warming ‘Bad’

You knew this was coming: Barack Obama’s “Environmental Protection Agency” announced today — wait for it! — that the theoretical leftist fantasy of Global Warming/Climate Change is somehow “not cool” and therefore your tax cuts will now be used, through FEMA NWO death squads, to “create millions of green jobs and end our country’s dependence on foreign oil,” in the words of EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson, who probably doesn’t even believe Jesus had a pet dinosaur.

Professor Ian Plimer presents an easy to understand wide range of facts that debunks the AGW. | Climate Realists

This selection of YouTube links has been sent in by Magnus Andersson, Swedish blogger at klimathot-gameover.blogspot.com

About 47 minutes in 5 clips.

I guess this positive feedback explains why the first time the Earth warmed a little, runaway heating rendered it permanently uninhabitable

Meteorologists in the Netherlands are using a virtual cloud laboratory to study cloud behavior and the interrelationship with climate change.

Researchers are investing theories that warmer temperatures may lead to fewer low-altitude ‘fair-weather’ clouds such as cumulus, which reflect sunlight away from the earth and thus have a cooling effect, according to Reuters.

And of course, this is bad, because it could reduce timber prices

Authored by 35 top forestry scientists, the study says climate change could lead to ”substantial gains” in the supply of timber by fueling a northward expansion of the boreal forest – a coniferous belt which runs across northern latitudes and includes forests in main timber producing nations such as Can-ada, Finland, Russia and Sweden.

Why wouldn't warming make food more abundant too?

The Green Issue - Why Isn’t the brain green? - NYTimes.com: [Alternate title: Why won't those hicks in flyover country buy into the greatest scientific fraud of all time?]

Two days after Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States, the Pew Research Center released a poll ranking the issues that Americans said were the most important priorities for this year. At the top of the list were several concerns — jobs and the economy — related to the current recession. Farther down, well after terrorism, deficit reduction and en­ergy (and even something the pollsters characterized as “moral decline”) was climate change. It was priority No. 20. That was last place.

Will the EPA now try to regulate both beer bubbles and water vapor?

US rules global warming threatens public health

Washington - In a landmark ruling Friday, US President Barack Obama's administration found that greenhouse gases threaten US air quality and public health, setting the stage for new limits on industry emissions that cause global warming. The so-called "endangerment finding" by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had long been anticipated by environmental groups and marks the latest shift on US climate policy since Obama took office in January.

The ruling, which now has to be submitted for public comment for 60 days, would allow the government to regulate greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide under existing clean air laws in the United States.

"This finding confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a statements.

Global Warming: A closer look at the numbers

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4).

Oregonian editorial: Oregon “can and should be a climate change leader, but not at any cost, and not by rushing to put on the nation’s tightest cap. “ | GORE LIED

The Oregonian puts aside its past rhetoric, and takes a dose of reality. 12.1% statewide unemployment, that may have even pushed the perennial unemployment champ (Michigan) out of first place, will do that to you. There’s plenty of qualifiers in the text of the editorial, but still this is progress.

From Roy Spencer's book "Climate Confusion", page 64:

When we reach a doubling of the pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, probably late this century, we will have enhanced the Earth's natural greenhouse effect by about 1 percent.

From Gore's "Climate Project" site

New York, NY (PRWEB) 2, April, 2009 -- 4CORNERS ENTERTAINMENT is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Mel England’s SWIMMING WITH THE POLAR BEARS, directed by Jill André. SWIMMING WITH THE POLAR BEARS will play three benefit performances only at Off-Broadway’s Bleecker Street Theatre (45 Bleecker Street). In accordance with England’s survival story and his strong dedication to the continued existence of the planet, all profits from this production will be donated to The Climate Project. www.swimmingwiththepolarbears.com

Swimming With the Polar Bears - Showtimes - Cast - Awards - Theater - New York Times

'Swimming with the Polar Bears' is a funny, poignant and devastatingly personal look at the dangers of global warming. — TheaterSource

SHOWTIMES / VENUE
Opening Date: Apr. 20, 2009
Closing Date: Apr. 22, 2009

The water cooler is spreading a virus [without the internet, how much more difficult would it be for Anthony Watts to spread climate realism?]

Since Saturday night when her first song was broadcast to a British audience, Ms. Boyle’s televised appearance has been viewed by no less than 40 million people, a population eight times that of her native Scotland. In just the last 24 hours she has been mentioned, complete with a color picture, on the front page of the Washington Post, was interviewed live on the CBS Early Show, and has been booked for an appearance on Oprah.

What these two seemingly unrelated events have in common is the internet.
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This is a new era. No more do Susan Boyles need Oprahs to give them an American introduction, and no longer do Americans themselves need political parties to make a political movement. The days when movements require an imprimatur are past. Water cooler talk, which not too long ago, followed where the establishment wished to lead, now leads where the establishment has no choice but to follow.

Climate fraud used to promote high speed rail

"It's a way of solving our global warming problems that also creates jobs and provides a boost to the economy," he said. But the competition will be fierce. "We are very jazzed about it," said Karen Parsons, executive director of the Southern High - Speed Rail Commission.

Catlin finds some ice at least 17 feet thick

The team spends four hours a day drilling into the ice to take measurements. Hadow has a manual drill that can go down 5.2 meters and so far has hit ice that deep just four times.

"If we'd had more multiyear ice there it's more likely that he would have got (that deep) on more than just four occasions," Cunliffe said.

World Climate Report >> Arctic ice thickness fluctuating decades ago

[Ahlmann, 1953] The thickness of the ice forming annually in the North Polar Sea has diminished from an average of 365 centimeters [12 feet] at the time of Nansen’s Fram expedition of 1893-96 to 218 centimeters [7.2 feet] during the drift of the Russian icebreaker Sedov in 1937-40. The extent of drift ice in Arctic waters has also diminished considerably in the last decades. According to information received in the U.S.S.R. in 1945, the area of drift ice in the Russian sector of the Arctic was reduced by no less than 1,000,000 square kilometers between 1924 and 1944. The shipping season in West Spitsbergen has lengthened from three months at the beginning of this century to about seven months at the beginning of the 1940s. The Northern Sea Route, the North-East Passage, could never have been put into regular usage if the ice conditions in recent years had been as difficult as they were during the first decades of this century.

The White House - Press Office - Remarks By President Obama At Dinner With President Calderon 4/16/2009

We spoke about our obligation to take steps to build clean energy together that can power our economies and beat back climate change in future centuries.

More Signs of (the Alarmists’) Apocalypse | GlobalWarming.org

When an alarmist comes out to dismiss the erstwhile poster children, as I just saw in an article:

“‘When you come down to it, nobody really cares about what the global mean temperature is doing, or what the global mean sea level is,’ said Antonio Busalacchi, an oceanographer who chairs the WCRP.”

Oh. Right. Of course and…we knew that. So this must be the person who led the charge against throwing billions in taxpayer dollars at research on global mean temperature and sea level, and telling, e.g., Barack Obama to clam up about such piffles.

Researcher: More money needed for research

Ian Allison is leader of the Australian Antarctic Division's Ice, Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate program and a researcher within the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center.
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WHAT ARE YOUR MAIN MESSAGES TO POLICY MAKERS?

"The main thing is monitoring what's actually happening with sea level rise and the ice sheets. We've now got tools that can do that, we can improve those and make sure they keep going, particularly satellite-based systems.

We need better predictive tools to know just what is likely in the next 100 years. I don't think we should be rushing into building up coastal defenses until we know what we could be defending against. So our biggest requirement is to be able to refine our projections for what may happen in the future."

Should Canadians commit economic suicide because they fear upcoming US climate fraud legislation?

The most immediate problem Canada faces from greenhouse gas emissions is economic rather than environmental. At least that was the message at a news conference on Thursday held to unveil a report from a government advisory body on carbon pricing.

Bob Page, the chairman of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, said that if Canada does not introduce an effective, national carbon emissions control program, it will face potentially ruinous trade retaliation from the United States once Congress and the Obama administration introduce their own emissions control programs.

Global Warming Science and Public Policy, Christopher Monckton - "Wet Office" Issues a Scarewatch

Also, the scientific evidence that the additional CO2 in the atmosphere has an appreciable influence on global temperature is by no means overwhelming. Indeed, as the SPPI’s Monthly CO2 Reports show, there is nothing unprecedented or unusual about the rate of increase in temperature over the 20th century, or about today’s temperatures, which are well below those of the medieval, Roman, and Minoan warm periods, 5 Fahrenheit degrees below temperatures over the past 10,000 years, 10 Fahrenheit degrees below temperatures in each of the past four interglacial periods, and 12.5 Fahrenheit degrees below the median global surface temperature over the past 600 million years. End of scare.

Stunningly stupid comments from a politician in a position of power

Tavis Smiley . Archives . Rep. Henry Waxman . April 13, 2009 | PBS

Waxman: Well, there have been scientists brought together to see if they could figure out the science and make it clear whether this is a danger or not, whether it's a danger that's a great one or one that we can postpone for a while, and the overwhelming consensus of all the leading scientists that have looked at this issue is there is a warming of the planet, it's manmade, caused by our burning of carbon fuels, and it's happening faster than anybody ever thought it would happen.

We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.

If that gets released we'll have more carbon emissions and methane gas in our atmosphere than we have now. We see a lot of destruction happening because of global warming, climate change problems, so we've got enough warning signals and enough of a scientific consensus to take this seriously.

Henry Waxman: Information from Answers.com

Committee on Energy and Commerce (Chairman)

* Subcommittee on Health
* Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
* Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

Bravo, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito

Capito disputes need for swift climate action 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Rep. Shelley Moore Capito on Thursday disputed the need for swift action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and questioned whether projections of negative impacts warrant new regulations she fears will harm the coal industry and otherwise hamper the economy.

Despite a widespread scientific consensus, the West Virginia Republican said she's "not convinced" that human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide are leading to global warming that will alter the planet's climate in ways that could be dangerous.

"I'm looking at the studies, and trying to understand it," Capito said in a phone interview. "But I'm not convinced that the urgencies or the doomsday predictions are factual."
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Capito said she could not point to any specific scientific studies, papers or reports that back up her uncertainty about climate change.

"I can't tell you a particular article," Capito said. "This is something that I've come to reading a variety of articles and listening to experts."

Capito noted she heard a fellow a congresswoman give a floor speech the other day warning that if action is not taken on climate change soon, her children "won't have a planet to live on."

"I think that's ludicrous," Capito said.

Capito could point to JoNova's "Skeptics Handbook"

Key Links in the Global Warming Debate | JoNova

WWF: Every year, let's blow $196 billion of public money on the greatest scientific fraud in history

“If the UN climate talks were a bank in trouble, the billions would probably be pouring in already”, says Kim Carstensen, Leader of WWF’s Global Climate Initiative. “But even though the negotiations are getting close to bankruptcy, the money needed to finance a new global deal is not forthcoming. To ensure success in Copenhagen, we need a climate recovery package now.”

In WWF’s view, the deadlock in Bonn demands an immediate gesture by the developed world: adaptation money for immediate use, plus a commitment to serious long-term funding at an adequate scale as part of the new global deal. In the light of the more than one trillion US Dollar recovery pledges made by the G20 last week, the amounts involved to deal with the much more serious climate change problem are clearly feasible

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.

U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. promotes the climate scam

Dodd told the audience that people across the country are coming together to face the problems of energy sustainability.

“We are at a very transformative moment in our nation’s history,” he said. “Global warming threatens our health, our country and our world. And that is not hyperbole.”

The Simpsons Quotes - Kent Brockman Quotes

Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.

Chris Dodd: A guy with at least three homes,  and who summers in Ireland, preaches to us about OUR CO2 emissions

Check out the picture of Dodd's "cottage" (provided to me by Rennie), where he spends summers and which is looked after during the rest of the year by a caretaker. It's not exactly the humble tumbledown abode with a leaky thatched roof, a fireplace with peat thrown on it and donkey tethered outside that the Senator might like you to envisage.
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So why hasn't Dodd declared a more realistic true value of the property? No doubt he didn't want to highlight the fact that he had a third splendid pile, to go along with his residences in DC and Connecticut, as he sought the presidency (remember how all those homes harmed John McCain?).

Tulsa World: Cold snap may have broken wheat crop

Last week's freezes have devastated Oklahoma's winter wheat and could end up killing 40 percent to 60 percent of the crop.

The freezes of April 6 and 7 dropped temperatures into the low teens in some parts of the state, damaging the maturing plants, especially in southeastern Oklahoma.

Agriculture researchers and officials say many farmers were hit so hard that it will be unprofitable to harvest their fields this year.

Gore group debuts [more climate swindle ads]: Where, specifically, did the money for these ads come from?

Former Vice President Al Gore's environmental coalition began airing radio ads Wednesday, targeting a small group of lawmakers that will weigh the fate next week of a divisive plan to cap carbon emissions.
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The ads are set to run through next week, the first week lawmakers will be back in Washington and debating the Waxman-Markey climate bill. A spokesman for Mr. Gore's group would not say how much the ad buy was for, only describing it as "robust."

More heat than light | The Australian

The science on global warming is certainly not settled
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...to assume we know how much the planet will warm this century and what effect this will have is a matter of faith, not reason. And faith-based research is less science than secular religion.

Keith Lockitch : UCLA climate change panel — follow-up — VOICES for REASON

I tried to make it clear that I have no objection to people exploring new ways of producing energy, including energy from solar and wind–as long as they do it on their own initiative, on their own property, and fund it with private capital.

What’s objectionable is the fact that technologies that are currently impractical and expensive are going to be forced upon us by sundry “energy czars” who, in the name of the latest environmentalist scare-scenario (the claim of catastrophic climate change), will blithely wreak havoc on the economy–and therefore on all of our lives.

The real threat we face is not “anthropogenic climate change,” but what you could call misanthropogenic climate policy.

 Believe it or not, global cooling to start in 2023!

FLORIDA: Various theories are being propounded about the global warming phenomenon due to rise in green house gas emissions, coal, pollution, animal waste. But now a new research done by David Dilley of Global Weather Oscillation does blame the earth or the any of these causes for the rising temperature. It is is earth’s natural satellite –moon.

Due to the significance of these finds, Meteorologist and climate researcher David Dilley has offered his book, Global Warming-Global Cooling, Natural Cause Found” for download free of cost at ww.globalweathercycles.com

Such A Waste of Political Energy

This electric car policy is straight out of the Drones Club. It is worthy of a Bingo Little or The Honourable Frederick (Freddie) Threepwood . It is a policy from a Government that has lost its way completely on energy. It is the triumph of vacuous spin over substance.

Above all, however, it demonstrates electrifyingly how ‘global warming’ political hysteria is starting to warp sensible energy policy, and in a most dangerous way for the country.

Wearily, one must further observe that it is such a waste of political time and energy. We have more important things to do than to watch two grinning ministers take a spin round a racing circuit in Fife.

Environment - Climate Change - Living with climate change in Europe

In April 2009 the European Commission presented a policy paper known as a White Paper which presents the framework for adaptation measures and policies to reduce the European Union's vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Decisions on how best to adapt to climate change must be based on solid scientific and economic analysis. It is therefore important to increase the understanding of climate change and the impacts it will have. The White Paper outlines the need to create a Clearing House Mechanism by 2011 where information on climate change risks, impacts and best practices would be exchanged between governments, agencies, and organisations working on adaptation policies.

Is it May yet?

The National Weather Service forecast predicts a strong winter storm will bring 8-14 inches of snow to Greeley, central Weld County and eastern Larimer County, including Fort Collins and Loveland over the course of two days. A winter storm warning has been posted for the Front Range foothills from Wyoming to New Mexico until noon Saturday.

Accumulations of 18-36 inches of snow are possible in the mountains and spreading out onto the plains as the storm moves across the state.

"Real"Climate

April has, in a very real sense, become May.

YouTube - Global Warming is it real?

A video about Global warming and if it's real enjoy

YouTube - Barack Obama to Solve Global Warming... Using Pollution??

Damon's theory on how the left will save the planet.

Canadian socialists: `The goals that unite us are vastly more important than our differences' | Links

There are many academic conferences on Marxism these days, but this has been a conference of activists, of people of people who are actually fighting on the front lines, for climate justice, for indigenous rights and sovereignty, against imperialism, and for workers' power.
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I was very pleased to be able to spend a week before this conference speaking on climate change in several Australian cities, and in the process meeting and learning from a wide range of climate crisis activists.

Severe droughts in West Africa normal for region

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Droughts worse than the infamous Sahel drought are part of the normal climate regime for West Africa and global warming may intensify their recurrence, a new study says.

Ok, so you'll guarantee a measurable improvement in the world's climate?

"Yelvertoft Wind Farm will make a significant contribution to the fight against climate change."

Dalian, China: There has been no record of snowfall in mid April in the history of the city..until now

Affected by a cold front from the north, the temperature in Dalian, Liaoning Province, suddenly dropped on Thursday morning, with rains and sleets coming down. There had been no record of snowfall in mid April in the history of the city, according to the meteorological department.

Another odd claim from the UN

Asha-Rose Migiro, deputy secretary-general of the UN, told the conference that real progress is being made on achieving some of the Millennium Development goals.
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But improvements to maternal health are coming too slowly and climate change is increasing the cost of achieving environmental goals, she added.

Eco-friendly knickers are flying off British stores shelves

And now the zero carbon pants are so popular that they have been flying off the shelves and a new wedding range is planned next in line.

“We started GreenKnickers to prove that ethical can be funny, beautiful and sexy. The fabrics are so gorgeous, and super-duper green,” Sky News quoted Sarah as saying.

“They’re selling extremely well. Some customers say they’re the comfiest knickers they’ve ever worn,” she added.

The global warming undergarments, made from fabrics such as organic cotton, hemp and silk, reaches in a box made from recycled paper.

A pair, costing up to 25 pounds, plus 3 pounds for postage and packaging, even changes its colour as it warms up due to thermo-chromic inks. (ANI)

Lise Van Susteren promotes climate fraud in the Huffington Post

As a member of several organizations that involve professionals working in the field of mental health, I am stunned that this threat to the health of the planet and the public is so underplayed by these organizations and their members. An official from one leading organization expressed regrets that she was unable to attend a recent forum wrestling with the psychological and mental health aspects of climate change and noted, "no one on the staff is interested." The person she anointed in her place cancelled.
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Why are the organizations and their members, those most skilled at exposing the danger of denial and destructive behaviors, so silent about this crisis? Are they in denial themselves? Surely the science isn't disputed. Surely we don't believe that destroying life on our planet is "not our problem."
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We are already seeing wildfires, floods, sea level rise, storms, droughts, risks to our national security, and a mass extinction.

Lethal global overheating - strike the innocuous sounding "global warming" - is not something that may happen in the next century or even mid-century - it is happening now.

Lise Van Susteren

Lise received her Doctorate in Medicine in 1982 from the University of Paris. After interning at hospitals in Paris and Lome, Togo, she completed her residency in psychiatry at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry, Lise worked as a staff psychiatrist in public mental health centers in Alexandria and Fairfax, Virginia.
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In September, 2006, she was chosen as one of the first fifty persons to be trained in Nashville by Al Gore to give her version of his global warming slide show, the basis of the documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” She returned several times to Nashville as a Senior Trainer and in 2007 was named Eastern Regional Director of The Climate Project. She has presented her slide show to over 100 educational, religious, political, environmental and business audiences in the United States and abroad. In the spring of 2008 she developed a second slide show on the “health effects” of global warming which she presented to the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and American University. During the summer of 2008 she traveled to the Arctic Circle to give presentations on the impact of Global Warming in the Arctic.

She is on the board of the National Wildlife Federation, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and is a member of the working group of the Maryland Commission on Climate. She was recently named by Governor Martin O’Malley to the Board of the Chesapeake Bay Trust.