Investor's Business Daily -- Drill, Ivan, Drill

Energy Policy: Oil prices have risen to a six-month high on the prospect of economic recovery. Russia plans floating reactors to power Arctic drilling. We plan to do nothing to increase supply.

Job One For Chrysler's New 55% Owner: Extracting Sunbeams Out Of Cucumbers

Its chief executive says: "If the Japanese can design (an) affordable, well-designed hybrid, then, doggone it, the American people should be able to do the same."

Yes they can — if the American manufacturer can do what Toyota does with the Prius: sell its hybrid without significant, if any, profit and sustain this practice, as Toyota does, by selling about twice as many of the gas-thirsty pickup trucks that the president thinks are destroying the planet.

The Clunkers Compromise - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The House of Representatives has its “cash for clunkers” bill and it bears only a dim family resemblance to the enviro-alarmists’ original vision of forcing Americans into smaller, greener cars. Call it the “Cash for Old Guzzlers to Buy New Guzzlers” bill. Call it reality. Call it a refreshing reminder that green dreams to remake mankind must still get by mankind’s Congressional representatives.

Skeptic's Corner: Gonna need more bracing

Pretty disengenuious to come out with a study now justifying colder temperatures that were not projected in their original models that were used to justify the alarm of global warming. The fact that the study is being done by the people who are responsible for the temperature records we rely on for determining the validity of their alarm, is in itself alarming to say the least, as if James Hansen wasn't bad enough. Instead of trying to find out why the models are wrong they continue to prop up their failed hypothesis with more studies to explain away the failures of their original hypothesis, ain't science great.

The Associated Press: Calif. wildfire imperils Santa Barbara; climate scam promoted

[Tom] Morse, the executive director of the environmental group Global Preservation Projects, said he's not surprised by so many fires, blaming it on global warming.

"Temperatures are rising and humidity levels are dropping. It means more fires," he said.

Global warming can't be blamed for specific fires, but it creates conditions that foster larger and more frequent wildfires, scientists say.

"A warming climate encourages wildfires through a longer summer period that dries fuels, promoting easier ignition and faster spread," the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change wrote in 2007.

But if alarmists can seize on decade-old warming, why can't realists seize on decade-old fraud?

Ian Talley of Dow Jones Newswires reports that Reps. Joe Barton of Texas and Greg Walden of Oregon have seized on a decade-old emissions-trading fraud case to question the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to run a cap-and-trade program

Pests plague region - Star News Group

A spokesperson said the City had received reports of mice in houses, sheds and among piles of litter.

“This year Geelong, and many other areas, has experienced an early spell of cold weather, including unseasonable snowfalls in higher areas, and this makes rodents scurry from their usual habitats, looking for warmth,” the said.

Global warming a voting litmus test | The News-Review - NRtoday.com

I would like to suggest a new litmus test for determining which candidates to vote for in coming elections. If they believe in man-caused climate change (code global warming), don’t vote for them. This reveals fundamental flaws in their reasoning process or character. A politician who believes this is either dim-witted or compromising integrity for perceived votes. Take as examples Kulongoski or Ron Wyden. I rest my case.

Morley Houston
Roseburg

Deseret News | Bishop: Dem bill ruins future, GOP bill saves it

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, says quite different futures could be created by competing Republican and Democratic energy bills.

"Remember those sequels to 'Back to the Future' where there were two worlds? Our world is the one where the McFly family is happy. The Democratic version is the one where Biff runs everything" and the world is a wreck, he told a Capitol press conference on Thursday.

Sask. premier, Montana governor sign [deal to blow another $270 million on the climate scam]

The leaders of Saskatchewan and Montana have signed an agreement on a $270-million plan to capture and store carbon dioxide, but there's still a big question mark over where most of the money will come from.

Premier Brad Wall signed a memorandum of understanding with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Thursday in Regina.

Critics unimpressed by Obama's proposed budget cuts - Politics AP - MiamiHerald.com

The administration's book of cuts and terminations comprises 121 programs, ranging from ending production of the F-22 fighter jet, which costs about $3.5 billion a year, to eliminating "local government climate-change grants," which the budget office said lack "focus" and which cost about $10 million.

Budget veterans recalled that such hit lists are as old as some of the programs themselves. President Ronald Reagan, who was elected in 1980 after railing against government bloat, quickly issued his own hit list, but after eight years in office, only four programs had been eliminated.

Climate scam pays: NASA Announces Fiscal Year 2010 Budget

WASHINGTON, May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA announced Thursday an $18.69 billion budget for fiscal year 2010 to advance Earth science, complete the International Space Station, explore the solar system and conduct aeronautics research. The budget request represents an increase of $903.6 million, or 5 percent, above funding provided in the fiscal year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act. All totaled, an additional $2 billion has been added to NASA's 2009 and 2010 budgets under the Obama administration.

NASA's fiscal year 2010 request funds a robust program to continue the agency's missions of exploration and research. It supports the administration's commitment to deploy a global climate change research and monitoring system. It funds a strong program of space exploration involving humans and robots with the goal of returning Americans to the moon and exploring other destinations. And it supports the safe flight of the space shuttle to complete assembly of the International Space Station by the shuttle's planned retirement.

No scare, no payoff: NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming :: Elites TV

PASADENA, Calif. — The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth’s tropics — the type associated with severe storms and rainfall — is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Do Google's carbon offsets add up to much? | Green Tech - CNET News

So is Google being cavalier, or worse disingenuous, by purchasing carbon offsets? It's impossible to say exactly what its motives are, but it's clear people there have thought this question through.

In Case You Missed It: EPA Nominee Suggests New CO2 Rules May Expose Small Emitters

WASHINGTON -- New federal greenhouse gas emission regulation could expose a raft of smaller emitters to litigation, a nominee for a key post in the Environmental Protection Agency told lawmakers Thursday.

Intrade Prediction Markets: If you're sure that cap and trade is coming in 2009, 2010 or 2011, place your bets now at low prices

Will Steger Foundation offers climate scam indoctrination for young people:

The Will Steger Foundation is proud to announce the 4th annual Summer Institute for Climate Change Education on Wednesday August 19th, 8:30-4:30 pm at the University of Minnesota and as an online webinar. Applications available for download here.

This year we will focus on the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen and unveil a brand new curriculum on international climate solutions for grades 9-12. Keynote speakers include renowned author and climate activist, Bill McKibben, along with our own Will Steger.

10 Acres of Melting = Global Warming | Climate Skeptic

Greg Schiller covers this ground, and more, as he reveals that the real culprit in Newtok appears to be normal everyday riverbank erosion, and a state government that insisted on building a town in this particular location.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: A sense of perspective on global warming

This chart is from Paul Macrae's weblog 'False Alarm.' Please bear it in mind the next time you read some of the more hysterical pronouncements from those predicting catastrophe due to global warming. The black line in the chart shows the inexorable fall of CO2. The blue line shows the ups and downs of temperatures that seem to have no relationship at all to the black line...

James Baker - All must play a part in fighting climate change

There is no question among serious thinkers that all major economies must participate in any solution to the threat of climate change. That is essential environmentally – because the challenge is a global one. It is also essential economically and politically – because no country wants to damage its economy or its citizens.
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Last, as we address global climate change, we must continue to research it – and especially its causes – in an open-minded fashion.

Christians Unsure About Climate Change's Causes, but They Back Solutions - God & Country (usnews.com)

Can evangelicals and Roman Catholics be skeptical of human-created climate change but still want to combat global warming? Sure.

Skeptic's Corner: THE WATCH

Watching the North Pole Melt at an accelerating pace...

Biofuels Bill: Federal Subsidies Will Top $400 Billion, Enviros Say - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Replacing oil with home-grown biofuels is already proving to be an environmental headache for Washington. Fixing that could turn out to be an expensive headache, as well.

Environmental groups Earth Track and Friends of the Earth just put out a study quantifying biofuels subsidies through 2022, as the U.S. plans to massively increase production of biofuels. The upshot? The cost to taxpayers would be about $420 billion over that period, or an average of about $28 billion a year.

EPW FACT OF THE DAY: ‘IF A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST…’

The $300 million effort, dubbed the ‘We Campaign,’ was spearheaded by Gore’s new climate outfit, the Alliance for Climate Protection. It features, among other tidbits, heartwarming commercials of Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi, sitting side-by-side on a couch, calling for climate action. Another ad, narrated by actor William Macy, makes parallels to America’s historical challenges. “We didn't wait for someone else to storm the beaches of Normandy,” Macy said in the ad. With all of this fancy ad-making, one wonders: since Gore’s highfalutin campaign commenced, has the public noticed? Does the public care? Has the public bought into Gore’s apocalyptic predictions?

FACT: According to Frank Newport, editor of the Gallup Poll, the answer is a resounding, unequivocal ‘no.’

Barton, Walden Seek Answers from EPA on Cap-and-Trade Fraud Case in California

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today asked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for information on EPA’s oversight of a pollution credit trading market as it relates to a closed criminal case, U.S. v. Anne Masters Sholtz.

The case involved the sale of counterfeit pollution credits in a cap-and-trade program gone wrong. The Regional Clean Air Incentives Market was established by the South Coast Air Quality Management District in California.

“We believe this case has great relevance in the context of pending legislation on climate change,” Barton and Walden said. “It is important that Congress assess not only whether EPA has an adequate regulatory regime and surveillance capacity over pollution credit trading but also whether there are any factors (e.g., resources, legal restrictions) constraining federal law enforcement in combating criminal cap-and-trade fraud.”

Comment: Do we really need a National Climate Service?

Hilarious news.
More offices means bigger fear they generate to survive. How many "Old Families" will grow from your tax money? The more money Americans throw at fighting the climate change, the harder it will be to scientifically question the data this scam is based upon.

Just What Is Waxman-Markey For?

In all, it seems very likely that Waxman-Markey’s “cap and trade” scheme is not about cooling the planet, but about creating a new income stream for government to pay for a completely unrelated and vastly expensive new entitlement.

Meanwhile, whatever the bill’s effect on global warming, it will hit the average American household with one of the best-hidden tax grabs of recent times.

David Roberts: Republican Incoherence on Climate Change

Their base is full of flat-earthers that don't believe the scientific consensus.

David Rothschild “climate change” ad

Mr. Rothschild again demonstrates that it is his family, along with Al Gore, perpetrating this myth, for the purpose of global carbon taxation. As usual, he is using the Nazi tactic of appealing to children with dumbed-down messages of propaganda.

FLASHBACK: Top Global Warming Advocate: Jupiter & Saturn Closer To Sun Than Earth

Virgin sees space tourism as just the beginning

LONDON (Reuters) - Long-haul trips could be made in spaceships instead of planes in 20 years' time if Virgin's efforts to commercialize space travel succeed, the president of Virgin Galactic told Reuters in an interview.

Will Whitehorn said Virgin's plans to take tourists into space were just a first stage that could open up a range of possibilities for the company including space science, computer server farms in space and replacing long-haul flights.

Virgin Galactic, part of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, has collected $40 million in deposits from would-be space tourists including physicist Stephen Hawking and ex-racing driver Niki Lauda, and hopes to start commercial trips within two years.

Whitehorn said the bookings from 300 people willing to pay $200,000 each for a space flight had convinced Virgin the venture was viable. It is currently running test flights and hopes soon to win a license from the Federal Aviation Authority.

If the rich people are allowed fossil-fueled space joyrides, might anyone else complain about petty restrictions on their lightbulbs or choice of car?

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Global warming, common sense and expert opinion

If global climate change is a real problem, then the communication strategy of its advocates is pathetic, and may lose them all the good will built up over decades of environmental struggle. It is pathetic because it resembles in all its shotgun approach and hysterical pronouncements nothing more than a con game. It is reprehensible--almost criminal--in its attempts to demonize everyone who disagrees with them, to state that all skeptics are deniers in the pay of the energy industry.

Nobody is arguing that the greenhouse effect is controversial. Nobody is arguing that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and that we are emitting more of it. But only computer models are making the case that this will cause catastrophe--and the data isn't good enough for computer models to be accurate. Your case needs more, if you want people of common sense to believe you.

If it's real, get serious. If you don't know, just say so. And come forth now with a set of conditions that you agree would prove your theory wrong. Follow the rules of science.

Global Warming Bill Moving Through Congress - Cattle Network

...here's the rub. The legislators that control the Subcommittee (and the Energy and Commerce Committee) appear to be staging the testimony on the legislation so that there isn't a legitimate debate. At the April 24 hearing, former Vice President Al Gore testified that global warming legislation was akin to the Marshall Plan and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which, by the way, his father voted against as a U.S. Senator). Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, invited the United Kingdom's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to testify along with Gore. However, the Democrats in control of the hearing cancelled his invitation when his plane arrived in D.C. on April 23. Why? They didn't want Gore humiliated. Monckton has published a mathematical proof that there is no "climate crisis" in a major, peer-reviewed academic journal — Physics and Society. The article is titled, "Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered" and demonstrates that a doubling of the concentration of carbon dioxide compared with pre-industrial levels will increase the global mean surface temperature by little more that 1 degree fahrenheit — a meaningless increase. That's far less than the 6 degree increase that the United Nation's climate panel (IPCC) concluded in its 2007 climate assessment report.

Brazilians flee anacondas, alligators amid floods - Examiner.com

But Paulo Barreto, a researcher at the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, noted that the flooding comes just four years after a major drought. He blames climate change and said such events put stress on the environment "that could affect the survival of plant and animal species."

Reuters AlertNet - INTERVIEW-Senior House Republican sees climate bill delay

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are likely to set aside a controversial climate change bill for a few months, giving them more time to build support and instead concentrate on a healthcare reform effort, a senior Republican said on Thursday.

"The pressure is going to build on Chairman Waxman, not to give up on climate change, but to set it aside and let it simmer a while and then go to healthcare," said Representative Joe Barton in an interview.
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"I honestly don't see him (Waxman) getting a bill out of committee...by the end of May," Barton said.
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Waxman's end-of-May deadline for committee action is made difficult by the fact that there are only about 10 more working days left before Congress goes on recess until June.

Science Journalism's Crystal Ball : CJR

Surprisingly, it was the prolific Chris Mooney, the youngest panelist and a prominent member of the new generation of science bloggers, who was the most wary of the future. Mooney, 31, who runs The Intersection in addition to writing magazine pieces and three books, admitted that he sounded like the “old man” of the group, contending that the other panelists were “way over-optimistic.” Mooney said that the consequences of the “dismal and disturbing” cutbacks in traditional mainstream science journalism “are pretty disastrous” and warned against putting too much stock in the online world. “Does the new media offer any real salvation?” asked Mooney. “It’s a Wild West out there. … I fail to see how it replaces what is being lost.”

He noted that while “science blogs are booming,” there is a lot of competition in the blogosphere from commentators who promote the anti-evolution, anti-global warming, anti-vaccine mindset. “Polemics are more important than accuracy,” said Mooney, and the biggest problem is that people tend to go online looking for things that reinforce their own point of view...

Letter: Washington In Chaos?

Many citizens see it, but just as many are in denial. Queried recently about the appointments of Carol Browner as his "global warming czar," he waved it off with "ideology does not matter." Browner was a leader (one of fourteen) in a Socialist group calling for "one world government." She also advocated "shrinking our economy and teaching Americans to consume less."

Global Warming and Ocean Heat | Climate Skeptic

One statement in particular really opened my eyes, and made me almost embarassed to have focused time on surface temperatures at all:

For any given area on the ocean’s surface, the upper 2.6m of water has the same heat capacity as the entire atmosphere above it

Wow! So oceans have orders of magnitude more heat capacity than the atmosphere.

Leaps of Faith for Global Climatists | Climate Realists

To think that a free roaming, three atom molecule has any impact on this flow is questionable, but that a change of 10 parts per million will be catastrophic is insane. Carbon dioxide is not a villainous molecule. Soon this hoax will be discredited but it will serve for eternity as an example of the power and danger of group think.

AFP: US won't drop cap-and-trade [swindle] auctions: White House

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House is committed to auctioning off polluter permits under a "cap-and-trade" system to fight climate change, a top official said Thursday in remarks likely to anger US industry.

"You should anticipate no changes in our climate proposals," Office of Management and Budget chief Peter Orszag told reporters, despite reported hints that President Barack Obama might now compromise about the auctions.
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Obama argues that with the future of the planet at stake, the United States must now take the lead on global warming after years of denial under the former administration of George W. Bush.

Gregory Murphy: Cap and Trade Is Genocide

Financial interests centered in the City of London and on Wall Street are pushing for the United States to destroy itself by the adoption of a cap-and-trade scheme, based on the hoax of Al Gore's global warming. Part of this policy of cap and trade calls for the deployment of low energy-density, intermittent, renewable energies, like wind and solar, to replace existing baseline sources like nuclear and coal.

The reality of this policy of cutting or capping carbon dioxide emissions is that there will be an explicit limit on the amount of energy produced, and there will be a limit as to what type of sources will be available to produce this limited amount of energy. By limiting the amount of energy available for medical purposes, heating of homes, cooking, and providing freshwater, cap and trade will set the stage for genocide.

Free [fossil-fueled] cars for poor fuel road rage - BostonHerald.com

Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work.

Obama’s Budget: Same Energy Blueprint, but What About [that $646 billion in climate scam money]?

Getting back to the question of money – and in particular revenue from a cap-and-trade program. President Obama earmarked $646 billion (at least) from cap-and-trade for clean-energy investment and tax rebates. But that assumed that 100% of the carbon-emissions permits would be sold to industry.

The House is struggling to muster enough support for its climate and energy bill, and compromises appear to be in order. Bloomberg reported today that the House Energy and Commerce Committee is mulling giving away to industry more than half the emissions permits.

That wouldn’t necessarily derail the $15 billion a year in planned clean-energy investment. But it would take a chunk out of the money the government planned to use for the “Making Work Pay” tax break, which would put money raised by fighting climate change back in families’ hands.

PRESS CONFERENCE ON UN CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS, PROSPECTS FOR REACHING GLOBAL AGREEMENT - 7thSpace Interactive

[Connie Hedegaard, Minister for Climate and Energy of Denmark, who will chair the Copenhagen meeting] said countries should be made to feel that there was a political price to be paid for not delivering a successful agreement. Referring to the intense negotiations in Bali two years ago over the climate change “roadmap”, which established 2009 as the deadline for a global deal, she said: “Some countries argued they would not support this roadmap. But, in the end, in the very last second, they changed their mind. Why? Because the political pressure was so immense that, in the end, no country dared to be blamed for not delivering. And I think there’s a lesson to be learned from Bali in ’07 for Copenhagen in ’09.”

We're saved!: 15 recipients to get climate change scam grants

May 7. 1:15 p.m. CLIMATE CHANGE GRANTS Minneapolis Mayor R.T.

Rybak announces the 15 recipients of the 2009 Minneapolis climate change grants.

World Climate Report » Snow and Ice Surprises

The article, in its various forms carried by many news services, states “The famous peak stood 4807 metres tall on the French-Italian border, but has been growing since 2003 at a faster rate in recent months. The volume of ice on Mont Blanc’s slopes has almost doubled since 2005 to reach 24,100 cubic metres this year, and snow has built up faster due to greater frequency of winds and higher temperatures in the summer, believed to be caused by global warming.” We learn that “Last month, surveyors from France’s Haute-Savoie region measured the Alps’ tallest peak at 4,810.90 metres (15,784 feet)” and that “The height as well as the volume of Mont Blanc has increased considerably, because the snow has massed on the summit over the last two years.” The article goes on to say this is unique to Mont Blanc given its height, but when all we hear is that mountain glaciers are retreating, we again find this interesting piece with evidence quite to the contrary.

An Incoherent "Truth": More from alarmist Gavin Schmidt

Imagine a group of 100 fisherman faced with declining stocks and worried about the sustainability of their resource and their livelihoods. One of them works out that the total sustainable catch is about 20% of what everyone is catching now (with some uncertainty of course)...

Surrey Leader - U.S. greens worry for B.C.'s carbon tax

U.S. environmentalists will closely watch B.C.'s election results Tuesday to track the fate of the continent's first carbon tax.

As with many B.C. green groups that back the Liberal-imposed carbon tax and have criticized NDP opposition to it, there's a sense south of the border the policy measure may become politically toxic if the Campbell government falls.
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The carbon tax went into effect last July at a rate of 2.4 cents on a litre of gasoline. It rises to 3.6 cents this July and will reach 4.8 cents by 2010. Diesel and heating fuels such as natural gas are also covered by equivalent amounts based on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted.

The NDP cite government advisors who suggest the tax may have to rise to 24 cents a litre to be effective.

American Chronicle | Cap-And-Trade Energy Tax Will Cause Redistribution of Wealth among States and Working Families

WASHINGTON. D.C. – An analysis of the economic impact of the Waxman/Markey cap-and-trade bill by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Republican staff has found that the legislation creates a regressive tax and that economic studies likely underestimate the full cost of the proposal to the economy.

Last year, then Presidential candidate Barack Obama said, "Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses will have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost on to the consumers." While cap-and-trade defenders now try to downplay the costs, the report finds that the President´s earlier prediction is likely correct.

‘Why Al Gore is too chicken to debate me’ | spiked

Imagine if a well-known British environmentalist - Zac Goldsmith, say, or the less well-off but just as eco-committed Prince Charles - was on his way to Congress in the US to take part in a debate about climate change, only to be told at the very last minute that he was no longer welcome. That he was being denied this prestigious public-speaking platform for unspecified reasons.

Twitter / Michael G.R.

So yesterday I did a post about how global warming science DOESN'T equal Al Gore (http://bit.ly/Onzdf)... and most commenters attack Al Gore

Let's Put This Meme to Rest: Global Warming ≠ Al Gore : TreeHugger

Let's Put This Meme to Rest: Global Warming ≠ Al Gore
by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 05. 6.09
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If figuring out what's really going on was the true goal, the so-called skeptics would be discussing the science (and not just repeating sound-bytes about it). But since that's hard and there's an overwhelming scientific consensus, it's much easier to reframe this as "Al Gore's thing" since people who don't like Al Gore will be strongly predisposed to also dislike his ideas (which in itself isn't very rational -- if someone you don't like says the sky is blue, that doesn't make it yellow, and a good idea should still be a good wherever it comes from).

About Me « Michael Graham Richard

Michael was born in 1982. He lives in Gatineau, Québec, Canada.

Currently a full-time journalist/blogger, he has been with TreeHugger since May 2005. Between March 2006 and January 2008, he was editor-in-chief. Since February 2008, he is editor of the Science & Technology and of the Cars & Transportation categories and that gives him more time for his first love, writing. As of August 2007, his employer is Discovery, the company that bought TreeHugger.

AFP: 'Cap and trade' to hurt America in the wallet: analyst

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A proposed US market to trade rights to emit greenhouse gases would adversely affect both consumers and producers at a time of national economic distress, according to testimony from an independent government agency Thursday.

"Under a cap-and-trade program, consumers would ultimately bear most of the costs of emission reductions," said Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, in testimony to the Senate Finance Committee.

"Higher prices for energy-intensive goods and services would lead to a variety of consequences for different industries, regions of the country, and income groups," he said.

DailyTech - President Obama Calls on America to Kick Gas Habit, Go Biofuel

On Tuesday, President Obama announced the new task force and called on Americans to embrace ethanol. He states, "We must invest in a clean energy economy that will lead to new jobs, new businesses and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The steps I am announcing today help bring us closer to that goal. If we are to be a leader in the 21st century global economy, then we must lead the world in clean energy technology. Through American ingenuity and determination, we can and will succeed."

Do You Trust the Government to Take Your Money and Give it All Back to You? (Part 4 in a 10-Part Series) » The Foundry

The reason cap-and-trade and carbon tax have been used interchangeably in the global warming debate is because they are essentially the same thing: a massive tax on energy. Although a more direct approach would be to tax carbon dioxide, it does not make it any more acceptable. But this tax is different because the revenue generated will be given back to the people, presumably.

When has that happened? Can we honestly believe every dollar extracted from Americans from a cap-and-trade or a carbon tax will be given back in the form of a rebate or a tax cut?

WW II pilot recalls harrowing flight; Aviation club convenes in Fortuna - Humboldt Beacon

George Jutila gave a short presentation on global warming. He said that science is composed of observable, verifiable data.

According to Jutilla, we may be possibly entering a period of global cooling. He stated that these cooling and warming cycles have occurred over thousands of years without any man-made influence, and that man-made CO2 is responsible for 0.28 percent of global warming gases in the atmosphere. Jutilla, a physician living in Fortuna, said that the government is looking at global warming as a way to raise large amounts of money through cap and trade programs.

If It Makes People Believe, Is It Okay To Lie About Global Warming? | Gather

So what does all this melting, mud and erosion have to do with global warming?

Not a thing.

Coastal erosion is natural and has been happeing since the time of the glaciers, but the erosion in town is caused by something else entirely: European construction methods and land-use practices completely unsuited to polar regions.

Again, what's the COST of not throwing money at harebrained non-solutions for non-problems?

But if we're going to be honest about the economics here, then you have to assess not only the costs of doing something, but also of doing nothing. And if you're going to argue against reforms, then you have to argue why the consequences of inaction are a preferable outcome, not merely why action might prove expensive or uncertain. Choosing the status quo is, after all, a choice.

Grading Google's carbon neutral claims | Green Tech - CNET News

Google has reached its goal of becoming carbon neutral for 2007 and is almost entirely neutral for 2008, Google's Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl announced on the official Google blog Wednesday evening.

Official Google Blog: Reducing our carbon footprint [How much cash has Google spent on carbon rip-offsets?]

In June 2007 Google made a voluntary commitment to become carbon neutral. To honor this commitment, we calculated our global carbon footprint, purchased high-quality carbon offsets, and worked with a third party to certify our calculations and validate our offset portfolio. Through this process, we've neutralized all of Google's 2007 emissions, as well as part of our 2008 emissions. We'll continue to invest in offset projects until we reach carbon neutrality.

We're saved!: President Clinton to Speak at Ethanol Summit in Brazil - Domestic Fuel

Lay down the red carpet. Former President Bill Clinton will be a headliner at this year’s Ethanol Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil June 1-3, 2009.

Npower reports CO2 reduction not a business priority in current economic climate

PRLog (Press Release) – May 07, 2009 – Npower has released data that shows more than eight out of ten businesses feel that Government targets to reduce CO2 emissions are unrealistic, with many not seeing the benefit of a small carbon footprint and relegating carbon reduction measures to concentrate on managing costs.
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In this latest index, the majority of businesses (83%) said the target to reduce CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050 was unrealistic. Attitudes on the potential commercial opportunities of a small carbon footprint are equally downbeat; only 31% think new business will occur as a result of reducing emissions, compared to 47% in npower's 2008 index.

The findings also reveal that the economic downturn is leading businesses to prioritise finances over CO2 reduction; 97% said they are currently more concerned with reducing costs than emissions.

The Daily Bayonet » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 8th, 2009

Onwards to (almost) 100 stories, articles and stuff the greens preferred you didn’t pay attention to.

Transforming Power | Straight.com

In many ways, the centrepiece of this work is the chapter on Bolivia, where an indigenous socialist named Evo Morales was first elected in 2005 on a platform of “refounding” the nation after centuries of colonialism and poverty. Rebick sees in Bolivia “one of the most extraordinary revolutions in the history of humanity”, a profoundly democratic process that draws its strength from its resilient indigenous communities and its well-organized social movements. Morales, for his part, is a world leader in demanding radical action on climate change.

April '08: Evo Morales Addresses Indigenous Leaders at United Nations in New York

Amongst his damning words of the capitalist system, Morales predicted that the food crisis would put an end to the free market. He blasted the use of land and food for luxury vehicles, stating that biofuels is a misuse of resources that leaves millions hungry while others are obese.

Several times during his speech, delegates clapped their hands in agreement and Morales received a standing ovation upon finishing his remarks.

Alaska, April '08: Final dispatch from climate change summit

Unfortunately, Bolivian President Evo Morales was unable to participate. The Bolivian Foreign Minister (FM), David Choquehuanca, stood in for the president...
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Mr. Choquehuanca's presentation contrasted capitalism and socialism as they related to Mother Earth. Capitalism uses Mother Earth for profit and personal wealth he said, whereas socialism uses Mother Earth for sustenance and life. He asserted that the capitalist system was in crisis, and was a symptom of the imbalance between regions, nations and people. The crisis, he said, was due to an imbalance between man and nature, and a return to the laws of nature is the way to recovery. A full recovery requires the laws of man be replaced by the laws of nature because the laws of man disregard the laws of nature. He said it was time for a reorientation of society so man and Mother Earth can once again live in harmony under the laws of nature, and that the Third World can not afford to continue to subsidize the First World.

The foreign minister's presentation was interrupted by applause several times and he was given a standing ovation at the conclusion.

Senate committee urges green targets redesign - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A Senate committee has called on the Federal Government not to proceed with its planned emissions trading scheme.

The Opposition-dominated committee has also called on the Government to consider nuclear power as a way of reducing Australia's greenhouse emissions.

Committee chairman Mathias Cormann says the scheme should be redesigned and rewritten.

"We think that the Government has completely ignored the fact that at times it may be better to increase emissions domestically in Australia if that means an overall reduction in global emissions," he said.

EU Referendum: Every silver lining has a cloud

So, one "environmental" policy here leads to an environmental disaster elsewhere. The "silver lining" of largely mythical energy saving creates a dark cloud in China.

April 22, 2009: Long winters kill Alaskan moose

Kavalok noted that this is the time of year when moose, weakened from a long winter, die all over Southcentral Alaska. Biologists say it is natural for significant numbers of moose to die or be found dead every spring in Anchorage, Wasilla, Kenai and other communities.

The biological term for these deaths is "winter kill."

Though moose browse the twigs of willow brush and other shrubs for food all winter, the woody products they are eating do not have enough nutrition to sustain them. To get through the winter, the animals must rely on fat reserves to bolster the low-calorie diet. If the fat reserves run out before nutritious green vegetation begins to appear in the spring, the animals usually die.

Last year's calves, which are just now being chased away by mothers about to give birth to new calves, are among the animals most vulnerable to because their fat reserves are small.

South Dakota big-game animal declines: It's not the cougars, it's the lack of global warming?

Lead veterinarian Tom Huhnerkoch said it would be a "knee-jerk" reaction to conclude that lions are the main cause of reduced numbers of big-game animals. Studies show that deep snow and severe winter weather is more likely to cause such declines, he said.

"I know it's not the cougar causing the biggest problem," he said.

ISA | Panel heats up on global warming issue

Others seem sure. Thomas Peterson with the National Climate Data Center at NOAA has looked at temperature readings from 600 A.D. until now and said the trends show temperatures right now should not be as warm.

“With historic research showing we should be trending cooler, we are in fact warming,” Peterson said. He did say global warming is not uniform. “The Southeast in the U.S. and in Greenland has cooled a bit. But there has been warming in the Arctic and in the U.S. overall.” He pointed out some changes resulting from the warming cycle with plants blooming earlier, animals moving closer to the poles, Arctic warming with the ice thinning, and Antarctic cooling with ice getting thicker.

“Every single model shows we are warming, and that goes against what we should be doing right now,” he said.

One example showed a model of a summer in Minnesota by the year 2095 will have the same type of climate as Oklahoma. Southern Illinois, he said, will have the same summer climate as Houston. “I don’t even want to know where Houston will be,” he said.

March 30, 2009: North Dakota Harsh Conditions Kill Deer

It's been a tough winter back home this year, but I can't remember seeing the results as illustrated with these photos. You would occasionally come across dead deer walking for pheasants and would always see pheasants frozen solid from an overnight low reaching the 75 below windchills.

These photos were taken from a landowner removing the deer from the fields after several continuous days of COLD! Nature at work!

Rep. Herseth Sandlin Supports Global Warming [Hoax] Tax

PIERRE - In the coming weeks, Congress will address climate change legislation designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the next ten years to 20 percent below 2005 levels. The legislation would set a limit, or cap, on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel sources - oil, coal, and natural gas. Under the guise of protecting the environment, the proposed plan, dubbed “cap and trade,” is really a new tax designed to make energy produced from coal and gas more expensive. Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, a member of the House Committee on Global Warming, supports this legislation. Estimates from a South Dakota Public Utilities Commission study have shown that under cap and trade, residential electric bills in South Dakota would increase more than 48 percent. All South Dakotans would pay this tax increase.

Charlie Clark of Keldron, SD recently returned from lobbying in Washington, DC on behalf of the Moreau Grand Electric Cooperative and the South Dakota Rural Electric Association. “Moreau Grand has a higher percentage of lower income customers,” he said. “We have several hundred delinquencies, some more than 90 days late. If our customers are already having difficulty paying their electric bills, a 48% increase will be sure to skyrocket our delinquency rate.”

NORQUIST: Will pollute your prosperity - Washington Times

Why in the world would anyone want the Democrats in the White House and Congress to attach more boat anchors to the American economy?

The old argument was that global warming forced the government to act before we all died of heat stroke. This argument has waned as temperature data sets show 1998 was the high point of warm years and temperatures have remained relatively stable or fallen since.

Phony environmentalists who want government control over American energy use, the size of our cars and who can build what where told us in the 1970s that "global cooling" caused by energy use forced us to give the government more power. Then "global warming" caused by the same things that caused global cooling 10 years earlier required us to bend to the will of Washington bureaucrats. At some point, this is like a bad game of Jeopardy: Same answer regardless of the question.

Hit & Run > Even the EPA Raps the Biofuels Boondoggle - Reason Magazine

Turning food into fuel is a bad idea for many reasons, but it's minimal effect on the problem of man-made global warming make the biofuels mandates even more idiotic.

Can we afford NOT to throw away trillions of dollars on the greatest scientific fraud in history?

The Senate Finance Committee is holding hearings on cap and trade today. And Baucus starts it off with a nice point. "Action would not be without cost," he admits. "But the costs of inaction would be far greater."

That's really the key insight. No one advocates a cap and trade program or a carbon tax because it seems like fun. No politician pushes these proposals because they're a surefire ticket to reelection. It's simply that if we don't do something, the consequences could prove disastrous.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » One of These Perspectives is Reality Based

At some point these well-meaning scientists and their international colleagues will realize that shutting down coal plants is just not in the cards in the “near future.” The realities of global energy supply and geopolitics necessarily implies that capture and sequestration will have to be developed and deployed, if carbon dioxide emissions from coal are to be addressed.

Scientists acting as advocates is fine, as they are citizens as well. But is it too much to ask that their advocacy be well-informed and practical, rather than naive and impossible? Advocating faster progress on capture and storage technologies would be a good place to start.

Now I'm confused: Won't the White House garden save the world from fiery Armageddon?: Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief

Even her White House garden is framed more as an initiative for healthy eating and quality family meals than as a statement of commitment to local foods as an effort against global climate change.

The Search for Scientific Truth Sometimes Wanders into Strange Paths. « American Elephants

The rise in global temperatures since 1880 closely correlates with increases in postal charges, sparking alarm that perhaps CO2 has been usurped as the main driver of climate change.

The U.S. Postal Service is poised to raise the charges by 2¢ to a total of 44¢ for a first class stamp, on May 11, 2009. According to Jo Nova, the Postal Action Network (PAN) has already sprung into existence this afternoon and plans a boycott campaign of the new 44¢ Homer Simpson stamp.

Michigan's governor promotes the green jobs scam, which is precariously balanced atop the climate scam

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, whose state has been battered by layoffs in auto industry and related sectors, said jobs in the wind energy industry could replace manufacturing jobs there.

She said the industrial Midwest could move from being the Rust Belt to the Green Belt. Suppliers to the auto industry could easily be manufacturing wind energy components, she said.

"I continue to tell Michigan citizens that whenever you hear the words 'climate change' or 'global warming,' think jobs," Granholm said.

China can't continue to expect to be bribed on climate change :: Ben Caldecott

During Ed Miliband's visit to China this week he set out a rosy view of China's engagement on climate change. Despite these reports to the contrary, there hasn't been a fundamental change in China's negotiating position. Chinese negotiators have almost always been willing to entertain the concern western diplomats have for climate change, as long as the financial and technological rewards to China look sufficiently attractive.

Instead of the Chinese being possessed with an urgency to act on climate change - after all they will suffer disproportionately from it - they will only act with large incentives paid for by western governments. The view of Chinese negotiators is coloured by the idea that climate change is some sort of western conspiracy, designed to give European and American companies a competitive advantage that will keep China in relative poverty for another century. This view is surprisingly prevalent, even amongst officials in Beijing and in the most developed provinces, and leads to an obsession with self sufficiency and the need to obtain western technologies.

EurActiv.com - Global climate [hoax] deal [allegedly] needed to halt soaring coal production | EU - European Information on Climate Change

More of the world's electricity was generated from coal last year, reveals a new industry report, pointing at the futility of unilateral EU moves to cut down CO2 emissions.

The 2008 market report of EURACOAL, the industry association representing the European coal industry, shows that global hard coal production increased by at least 200 million tonnes (Mt) last year, most of which was mined in China. Higher energy prices and technological advances make it even more profitable to use already abundant coal resources, the report published this week said.

Benny Peiser headline: "MEANWHILE IN CLOUD CUCKOO LAND, MILIBAND DREAMS OF A GREEN CHINA"

Dramatic reversal in US position under Obama has brought Beijing to the table on emission cuts, says UK climate secretary

Benny Peiser, CCNet, 5 May 2009:

Rudd’s delaying-tactics, however, are likely to prompt the EU and the U.S. Senate to put on their own brakes, further grinding down the already deadlocked negotiating process over the future of international climate policies. The UN climate conference in Copenhagen is now almost certain to delay major decisions too.

Obama’s Emissions Plan Needs Tweaking, E.U. Climate [Swindle] Chief Says - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

But Mr. Dimas warned the United States that small annual reductions now would require much larger annual reductions — as much as 5 percent a year — after 2020, if Mr. Obama’s long term goal of reducing planet warming gases 80 percent by mid-century is to be reached.

“How they can achieve this is difficult,” Mr. Dimas said, who was speaking at an event in Brussels hosted by the European Policy Center, a policy research organization.

Hans Martens, the chief executive of the E.P.C., reinforced the point, noting that “politicians do have this extraordinary ability to set ambitious targets for their successors.”

Twitter / ABTA Magazine

In the May issue — Aviation's efforts to combat climate change with on-board innovations, carbon trading and offsetting: http://bit.ly/miKPa

Stott: The Clamour Of The Times

Indeed, I would ask everybody to refuse to vote for any candidate of whatever party who employs one of the following ridiculous phrases:

+ “Saving the Planet/Saving the World”: a particularly persistent piece of political rubbish recycled by all ‘lazy’ or hubristic politicians who wish to appear ‘Green’;

+ “Stopping”, “Halting”, or “Controlling Climate Change”: another potty piece of rubbish from power-mad politicians who must have no idea whatsoever about the complexities of climate;

+ “Stabilizing Climate”: an equally-bonkers bit of nonsense. There has never been, and never will be, a ‘stable climate’ - the ultimate oxymoron;

+ “Fighting Climate Change”: a quixotic piece of twaddle if ever there were one - worthy of John Prescott himself [“For it is he!”].

The Clamour Of The Times

“Two British environmental activists, whose carbon-neutral voyage to Greenland's polar ice cap resulted in a storm-induced mayday call, were rescued by (wait for it) … an oil tanker.”

I just adore the “carbon neutral” bit. Dire weather destroyed their “solar panels and the ship's generator.”

And their saviour? The 113,000-ton tanker, ‘Overseas Yellowstone’, carrying 680,000 barrels of oil. Oh me! Oh my!

Skeptic's Corner: Skeptics From Around the Globe

[David Evans] Recently the alarmists have suggested we ignore the radiosonde thermometers, but instead take the radiosonde wind measurements, apply a theory about wind shear, and run the results through their computers to estimate the temperatures. They then say that the results show that we cannot rule out the presence of a hot spot. If you believe that you'd believe anything.

Venture aims to improve wind forecasting - NYTimes.com

NEW YORK -- General Electric Co.'s energy-technology division and a Weather Channel Co. subsidiary announced a joint venture yesterday aimed at improving predictions of wind farms' output capacity.

Interest in coal-fired ovens heats up | Pizza Equipment | Pizza Marketplace

For serious pizza aficionados, pies cooked in a coal-fired oven rank above all others.
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"Until about four years ago, we probably got one or two calls a year about coal-fired ovens, and then all of a sudden it was like the sky was falling," said Frank Milward, corporate chef at the Bellingham, Wash.-based oven manufacturer Wood Stone. "I would say that now I talk to a new person interested in coal almost every day."

Ford's saved!: Ford Truck Plant to Build Electric Cars - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Amidst one of the auto industry’s largest wholesale shifts in modern history, the Ford Motor Company is investing $550 million to turn a factory that was dedicated to making large and fuel-hungry sport utility vehicles into a modern and scalable small-car plant that will eventually produce an all-electric version of the Focus.

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Global Warming is FAKE. Open your eyes. http://bit.ly/11l72W #gwfail

With the planet allegedly on the brink of fiery apocalypse, alarmist is "worried" about lower temperatures

Theories on calmer sun flare up - Kansas City Star

If the effect is to cool the Earth, as in the so-called Maunder Minimum, the Little Ice Age that ran from 1645 to 1715, some scientists worry that it would mask the effects of global warming caused by a buildup of greenhouse gases.

“The problem is if the sun is, indeed, going into a minimum, which we don’t know yet, people will think that we don’t have to act on climate change,” said Angela Speck, an astrophysicist at the University of Missouri. “The sun came back out of that minimum in the 18th century” — when the River Thames turned to ice — “and it will come back out of this.”

“I’m inclined to think the effects are real,” said Adrian Melott, another KU astrophysicist. “But the evidence is nowhere as solid as it is for the carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere” and climate change.

“My worry,” he said, “is that it will lower temperatures and cause people to think it’s OK to burn all that coal and oil.”

How should we tax all that carbon? : The Island of Doubt

Sadly, climate change denialism remains relatively robust and widespread, with more half of all Americans and popular columnists of George F. Will's stature still unwilling to accept the science. I have no choice but to acknowledge the task of getting everyone on board will require more time and energy, even while we grapple with the much murkier world of economics.

Wind Watch: Why are wind turbines on the best land?

There has been a great deal of correspondence about the proposed wind turbine development in Sempringham Fen but no one seems to have given much thought about the long term effect on agriculture and the fact that the fen sites are being chosen solely because it is an underpopulated area with therefore little opposition.

The fens are the richest source of food producing land in the country. The Romans thought so and dug the Carre Dyke by hand to make best use of every acre.

With the Doomsday scenario of global warming, lack of water for irrigation and areas becoming too hot to grow crops, what are we doing? Covering the fens with wind turbines which are supported on huge lumps of concrete and which even the developers say will not be removable. And all to produce electricity for just one day out of three!

SN&R > Local Stories > An outsider’s view of Earth > 05.07.09

There are a handful of expert skeptics about the dangers posed by global warming. But given the unusual consensus among almost all other experts, nonexpert citizens have no responsible choice except to make saving the biosphere their top priority.

YouTube - In case you missed it: Marc Morano talks about Al Gore

Al Gore has profitted handsomely in promoting the Global Warming theory. His assets has risen from $2m to $100m. Go Green...nice returns for someone who flies around in his own private jet, which uses fossil fuel. Watch my right hand, not my left. Believe me when I say I have no monetary interest in Global warming !!!

Heliogenic Climate Change: USGS: climate change causes sand dunes threat

"Climate change is increasing the mobility of sand dunes in the southwest, posing threats to roadways, infrastructure, human health, cultural practices of the Navajo Nation, and much more. Vegetation on dunes serves as stabilizers, but as the climate warms and precipitation decreases, there is less vegetation growth." "Sand Dunes on the Loose Due to Climate Change"

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Your recommended daily dose of irony

Give the Fleur credit for pushing the boundaries of sailing technology on behalf of renewables — and demonstrating how useless they are for the purpose. And when the Fleur ran into trouble, their rescue turned into high irony on the high seas...
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In one incident Mr Stoddart hit his head and the wind generator and solar panels were ripped from the yacht.

Daily Pundit » No, Influenza Isn’t Like Global Warming

So “influenza scares” aren’t like global warming scares, for one simple reason: Influenza scares are real.

theblogprof: Just What We Need Right Now - An Al Gore Statue

One final thought. Since global warming is now a religion, won't displaying the Gore statue in a public location be tantamount to displaying the ten commandments???

Skeptic's Corner: Why aren't these bears starving?

[NPR] ...Regehr has weighed a lot of huge bears this year — one even set a springtime record in Alaska, at 1,266 pounds.

"He was borderline obese," Regehr says. "He was a very fat bear for this time of the year. If you looked at him in profile, his belly almost scraped the ground, so he was a really fat good-looking bear, and in general most of the bears have appeared quite healthy."

The bears may be in good shape now, but the ice that allows them to gorge on blubbery seals is retreating at an alarming rate.

Twitter / Therese Bech

700 international top dogs are meeting at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, May 24-26. I'll cover the highlights!

Twitter / Michael Savage

MYVIEW: Global warming is officially a hoax. But I still think that we should save paper and find something besides gas.

Summer Rayne Oakes, the poor (and stupid) man's Al Gore?

Q. Over the last couple of years, you’ve gotten more prominent, even being mentioned as a back-up speaker for those who can’t swing Al Gore’s fee. What’s that like, and what type of audience is your favorite?

A. Yah, that was a real honor—you know, to be mentioned side-by-side to Al Gore’s message. And it’s true, you know: In this economy, it’s hard to swing some of those speaker’s fees now that attendance is down. I’ve spoken at a lot of venues—from the World Trade Organization to boards of advisors of fashion houses to green conferences—but I most like speaking to college students. There is something about coming in to a group of students, who are about the same age, and just being real with them.

How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming | A Grist Special Series | Grist

Below is a complete listing of the articles in "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming.

ABC insists:  all agree on climate change | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

ABC Newcastle radio interviews Rudd Government frontbencher Greg Combet, with all the ABC’s usual balance:

AARON KEARNEY: Everybody, or almost everybody, accepts that climate change is a reality and realises that something needs to be done, but the reality is, is it not, that this specific industry will pay the price for the broader good?

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Memo to Hansen 2: Why is the country’s top anti-science blog reprinting your stuff?

I wasn’t going to post again on Hansen, but then I saw that WattsUpWithThat, perhaps the country’s top anti-science blog, had reposted Hansen’s entire new attack on cap-and-trade (see Jim Hansen calls Cap and Trade the “Temple of Doom”).

Now Anthony Watts is one of the hard-core deniers. Not content to simply dispute the science with disinformation, he publishes and republishes attacks on climate scientists like Hansen himself. Indeed Watts said ealier this year that Hansen is “no longer a scientist” and called on NASA to fire Hansen. But then Watts routinely smears all climate scientists, approvingly reprinting denier manifestos that claim global warming “is the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of humankind” — see Diagnosing a victim of anti-science syndrome (ASS).

“Carbon Capture and Burial – a Stupid Answer to a Silly Question.” | Climate Realists

In testimony this week to the New Zealand Parliamentary Enquiry into the ETS, the Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that it was impossible to achieve the gigantic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions suggested by various western governments without a crash program of Carbon Capture and Burial (CCB). He expanded on those comments today:

“There is no evidence that CCB would provide any climate or environmental benefits whatsoever – just a huge misuse of investment capital and a massive increase in the cost of living for any society silly enough to tread this path.”

Carole "C.J." Williams -- The Fat Lady Sings The AGW Blues

I won’t belabor the fact that AGW is a hoax by going into tons of ‘over-the reader’s head’ scientific detail; suffice it to say one of the greatest scams to be played out on mankind by some of the most deplorably self-serving and greedy individuals on the planet has been in the works for years. Those who still want convincing that AGW is a con game need only explore Mr. Schreuder’s website, as well as read his words here, words written so almost anyone can understand why the purported ‘global warming crisis’ is nothing more than anthropogenic globaloney.

Jillian Bandes : GOP Looks to Halt Cap-and-Trade - Townhall.com

The Republican get-together was large, open, and broadcast on television.

"What are the Democrats doing now?" asked Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) in front of a room full of reporters and cameras. "They're trying to cut a deal behind closed doors."

The "potential for unintended consequences" on cap-and-trade is "limitless," said Paul Cicio, President of Industrial Energy Consumers of America, another speaker at the summit. The legislation threatened to dismantle the manufacturing industry, create trade wars, and make carbon into a competitive weapon.

The Bias Against Oil and Gas | Print Article | Newsweek.com

It's insane not to encourage U.S. production. The same is true on economic grounds because the promise of green jobs is wildly exaggerated. Look at the numbers. In 2008 the oil and gas industries employed 1.8 million people. Jobs in the solar and wind industries are reckoned (by their trade associations) to be 35,000 and 85,000, respectively. Now do the arithmetic: a 5 percent rise in oil jobs (90,000) almost equals a doubling for wind and solar (120,000). Modest movements, up or down, in oil and natural gas will swamp plausible changes in green jobs. They won't save the economy.

Improved exploration and production techniques—drilling in deeper waters, horizontal drilling, hydraulic "fracturing" (pumping liquids into fields to open up seams)—have increased America's recoverable amounts of oil and natural gas. The resistance to availing ourselves of these resources is mostly political and psychological. Among many environmentalists, the idea of expanding fossil-fuel production is a cardinal sin. It offends their religion. The Obama administration too often caters to this reflexive hostility. The resulting policies aim more to satisfy popular prejudice—through reassuring photo ops and sound bites—than meet the country's needs.

Kerala online - Life-style - kidney stones in children

Modern diet and lifestyle, along with global warming, are contributing to an alarming phenomenon — kidney stones in children.

BillingsGazette.com :: Freudenthal weighs in on climate [hoax] bill

CASPER - Gov. Dave Freudenthal says legislation being considered in Congress places an undue burden on small refiners in Wyoming.

Because handing out bags of money might raise questions: Waxman Said to Offer Free Pollution Credits in Climate [Swindle] Talks - Bloomberg.com

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, sponsor of a plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, is offering power producers and companies such as steelmakers free pollution permits, said people familiar with negotiations.

Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the proposal in an effort to win approval in his panel for legislation to establish a carbon- trading system, said the people, who declined to be identified discussing the private talks. The free permits may be worth as much as $40 billion a year according to Mike McKenna, president of MWR Strategies, a policy consulting firm based in Washington.

Brainwashed child "filmmakers" buy into the greatest scientific fraud of all time

Brigham's new film "Mosquito in the Room" is a thoughtful documentary with interviews of Santa Cruz locals who've been pondering the intractable problem of global warming. But, in this case, the sober-minded interviewers are not yet experienced with the ravages of adolescence, much less climate change.

Maldives shocker: Climate scam money misdirected?

Yesterday, the prosecutor general’s office forwarded a case of corruption concerning Abdullah Algeen, former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s half-brother, to criminal court.

Algeen was charged with pocketing money donated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology intended for climate change research.

TV review: Snow

It ended with the prediction that global warming’s about to put the kybosh on white winters.

“We’ll become snow tourists,” predicts one commentator. It’s a sad thought. Maybe we shouldn’t have all complained so much earlier this year.

Skiinfo - Southern Hemisphere Ski Season Starts Five Weeks Early

The southern hemisphere's ski season will have one of its earliest openings on record this weekend when Mt Buller in Australia runs its lifts on Saturday, May 2nd.

The resort, in Victoria province, had not planned to open before June and the new date is five weeks ahead of schedule. It's the area's earliest opening in its 45 year history.

Prince Charles on MySpace: how greens are helping to kill the rainforests :: James Delingpole

This is what's wrong with the modern green movement: like one of its early founding fathers Adolf Hitler, it will insist on fighting its wars on too many fronts. Some of its battles really are worth fighting: over-fishing is one; the destruction of the rainforests is definitely another. Unfortunately, the main effort of its campaigning has been wasted on a chimera: the thing they used to call "global warming" and now call "climate change." As Bjorn Lomborg and others have pointed out, this has resulted in billions and billions of dollars being squandered trying to prevent a natural process, when the same amount of money could have been used to do real good: providing vitamins to deficient children; providing drinkable water to every person on the planet; etc.

It's also exactly where Prince Charles goes wrong in his video. He uses rainforests as an excuse to bleat about "the urgent fight against climate change" and "the battle against catastrophic climate change", conflating two very different problems: one real and quite urgent, the other largely illusory. If he stuck to the rainforests and ignored the anthropogenic global warming drivel, his message would have so much more impact and credibility.

Want To Buy A CO2 Generator? - Minnesotans For Global Warming

In the Description of the product it mentions:
"The burners used in Green Air CO2 Generators are specially designed to maximize the production of carbon dioxide and minimize heat as a by-product. This generator provides carbon dioxide far more economically than any other means of enrichment."

If you click on the Principles of CO2 Enrichment link you'll find this:
"Successful indoor growers implement methods to increase CO2 concentrations in their enclosure. The typical outdoor air we breathe contains 0.03 - 0.045% (300 - 450 ppm) CO2. Research demonstrates that optimum growth and production for most plants occur between 1200 - 1500 ppm CO2. These optimum CO2 levels can boost plant metabolism, growth and yield by 25 - 60%."

The media’s latest example of hype distracting public- The New Haven Register

Thanks to the media, a good portion of my time over the next several weeks will be devoted to explaining to patients why they probably will not die of swine flu. I have had patients call my office to stock up on Tamiflu. Local emergency rooms are seeing people because they are convinced they have “pig flu.”

This is just one example of a fictional crisis. The media creates plenty of them. Global warming is a made-up crisis too, but at least with global warming my office is not flooded with phone calls.

Even Berkeley residents balk at cost of global warming swindle

After two years of public outreach and debate on an ambitious and controversial plan to curb global warming, Berkeley's city council this week was forced to water down the proposal — which initially required an energy audit of every home — after angry homeowners complained the plan could cost them tens of thousands of dollars.

Experts say Berkeley's retreat may serve as a cautionary lesson to other cities and counties contemplating plans to fight global warming: Even residents of the nation's most liberal jurisdictions may balk when it comes to paying the price of going green.

"I think we can expect to see episodes like the controversy over mandates in the plan more and more, because environmental and political leaders haven't been responsible about the costs of climate stabilization," said Michael O'Hare, professor of public policy at the University of California-Berkeley. ''If you don't level with the public about the first part, it's not surprising when people balk at climate policy that requires them to do some heavy lifting."
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But is the approved plan toothless?

Neal De Snoo, Berkeley's energy program officer, who helped draft the 145-page plan, said no.

Even though it will now be voluntary, the plan still "provides a solid direction for where we need to go," and will ''give the city and homeowners tools they need to make these large (energy) reductions."

The Heartland Institute: Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?

This report, by meteorologist Anthony Watts, presents the results of the first-ever compre-hensive review of the quality of data coming from the National Weather Service’s network of stations. Watts and a team of volunteers visually inspected and took pictures of more than 850 of these temperature stations. What they found will shock you:

“We found stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat. We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.

“In fact, we found that 89 percent of the stations--nearly 9 of every 10--fail to meet the National Weather Service’s own siting requirements ...”

The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. And since the U.S. record is thought to be “the best in the world,” it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Perspectives on Cap and Trade [Scam] vs. Carbon Tax [Scam]

With one exception on either side, the academics prefer a tax and the environmental advocates prefer a cap and trade. I’d hypothesize that a lot of this difference can be chalked up to those who are looking at what is happening inside the Beltway — where cap and trade is currently king — versus those who are looking more broadly — where a carbon tax makes far more sense.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Environmentalist Edit-Whores Strike Again

I did a story, but my editor removed all references to debate about climate change, global warming or whatever they are calling it now. He didn’t tell me, which is unusual when removing such a huge chunk of a story, but I just discovered it today after it didn’t appear in our print edition.

Warning Signs: Die, Global Warming, Die!

...Despite this, the White House and the U.S. Congress—at least its Democrats—have been telling everyone that, because of global warming, the United States government must impose draconian regulations and restrictions on “greenhouse gas” emissions, by which they primarily mean carbon dioxide (CO2). The claim, utterly false, is that CO2 is “forcing” a warming that will kill us all if we don’t reduce energy and other emissions.

The utterly vile politicians advancing this—I will not name them because the very act causes nausea—had better begin to pay some attention to public opinion on the subject because the Gallup, Zogby and Rasmussen polling organizations all are reporting that large majorities of people no longer believe their lies.

Why America Does Not Care About Global Warming « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

So, for those of you in the environmental community who think the global warming message needs to be repackaged, or rephrased, or have a change in terminology …well…I think you are wasting your time. The people have gotten the message, loud and clear: Global warming is manmade, and it is only going to get worse.

The trouble is that the people simply don’t think you know what you are talking about. And if global warming is largely a natural process, cutting down on our greenhouse gas emissions is going to have no measurable effect on future global temperatures.

Now, if you think you might succeed through a different kind of deception of the public…well, that indeed might work.

Twitter / David L Morris

Of course when I say "Dangerous climate change theory", I put the pause in after dangerous, where as Jim Hansen would pause after change.

Alarmist journalist Tom Yulsman: "Scientists ice global cooling dead enders" | CEJournal

The science didn’t surprise me here. It’s just plain old common sense that a long term climate trend will include shorter-term ups and downs in temperature. But the explicit mention of bloggers and articles in the popular press on global cooling — and right at the very top of the paper — was new on me.

Wind Watch: Suzlon says retrofit of U.S. blades on schedule

The company has taken a $35 million charge for the program to replace all 1,200 blades in its previous generation of blades, some of which developed cracking near the base. One blade broke off a turbine in Illinois.

Plug-In Hybrids: More Hype Than Hope?

Having racked up some 17,000 miles, the plug-in Prius hybrids are averaging just 51 mpg. That's raising uncomfortable questions about the value and effectiveness of plug-in technology, even as President Obama pledges to have 1 million of them on the road by 2015.

"Getting 51 miles per gallon sounds fine compared to most gas cars," railed Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat. "But it's a black eye for a technology that trumpets it will get twice that."

Raleigh, NC: Civitas Poll: Obama Popular, Policies Not

Despite his high personal favorability ratings, voter support for Obama’s specific policy proposals garner much more negative reactions.

55 percent of voters are less likely to approve of Obama’s job performance when asked about his mortgage bailout plan. Likewise, half of voters (50 percent) have negative reaction to a proposed “Cap and Trade” tax to fight global warming.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Bjorn Lomborg and global warming: Part 1

"We should spend vastly more on research and development. The depressing thing is that everybody talks about green energy, but everybody think that means putting up windmills. Putting up very specific windmills. My point is if you actually want to do good, it’s not about putting up windmills that are, even now, inefficient, it’s about putting up windmills in the future that are so efficient that everybody will want one. That is actually a lot cheaper than what many people are arguing that we should be doing right now, and that kind of research and development is much cheaper and much more efficient in the long run. What the Copenhagen Consensus showed was that every dollar you invest in very quick CO2 cuts you probably do less than a dollar’s worth of good and if you take into account what kind of policy measures come up, it might be as low as 4 cents for every dollar, whereas if you invest in research and development that is bringing better technology for the future, you can end up doing as much as $16 worth of good for every dollar invested. My basic point is that I’d much rather do $16 worth of good rather than 4 cents.”

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Bjorn Lomborg interview, Part 2: Global warming politics and assessing his critics

One gauge of how important it was is to look at the vehemence of the attacks it received. A group of scientists who had also developed into media 'darlings' found themselves confronted and often contradicted by Lomborg's book. What infuriated them most seemed to be that Lomborg was using their own statistics against them. In his native Denmark, Lomborg was accused by three environmentalists of intellectual dishonesty, a case that went to the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty. The committee initially found against Lomborg, but was overturned decisively by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and a band of 308 scientists petitioned to have that committee disbanded. Lomborg's real sin apparently was to show facts and figures that contradicted the global warming alarmists' view of the world, something for which they still haven't forgiven him, if one goes by what is available on the Internet.

CHRISTOPHER HART: Why is the BBC so in love with Bono when he's a dreadful old hypocrite? | Mail Online

What sticks in my craw is the philanthropic posturing that goes with it all. It's rather odd to make grandiose pronouncements about how climate change will hit the world's poor hardest, while flying on a private jet between your many homes.

Emission plan disaster for New Zealand - opinion | Stuff.co.nz

Far from cutting farm emissions, we should raise them if it feeds more people, says Frank Brenmuhl.

The road to hell is proverbially paved with good intention. If anything proves this right, it is the emissions trading scheme, or ETS.

Rushed into law before the last election, the scheme is like some evil twin of the unlamented Electoral Finance Act.

While the latter brought civil libertarians on to the streets, who could oppose the ETS? It's like condemning the polar bear to extinction or being party to the genocide of island civilisations. The ETS will save the planet, or so we were told.

The Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading) Amendment Act was not the finest achievement of the 48th Parliament.

The ETS is uncosted tokenism that, though born of laudable intent, became a political fix. Tokenism isn't a great start for a major piece of public policy.

Most emission permits to be free: U.S. Rep. Doyle | Environment | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most of the pollution emission permits that industry would need under a climate change bill being negotiated in the U.S. House of Representatives will initially be given to companies, instead of sold to them, Representative Mike Doyle said on Wednesday.

The Pennsylvania Democrat, who has been working on portions of the bill aimed at reducing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, also told reporters that for the first 10 years to 15 years of the program, most of industry's permits would be free.
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Spokesmen for Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, who are leading the drive for a climate control bill in the House, were not available for comment.