Nansen Corrects Sea Ice Data – Sea Ice Extent Now Greater, Near Normal for Most of April/May « Watts Up With That?

By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts

From Steve: In May, WUWT reported on an apparent error in the Nansen ice extent data. It appears that we were correct, as Nansen has adjusted their 2009 extent data upwards.

The questions Fielding wants Wong to answer | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If Fielding can get straight answers from Wong to these questions, he’ll have done us a great service.

Levy on international air travel could [reward climate change fraud] | Environment | The Guardian

The aviation levy, which is expected to increase the price of long-haul fares by less than 1%, would raise $10bn (£6.25bn) a year, it is said.

It has been proposed by the world's 50 least developed countries. It could be matched by a compulsory surcharge on all international shipping fuel, said Connie Hedegaard, the Danish environment and energy minister who will host the final UN climate summit in December.

"People are beginning to understand that innovative ideas could generate a lot of money. The Danish shipping industry, which is one of the world's largest, has said a that truly global system would work well. Denmark would endorse it," said Hedegaard.

Blah, blah, blah: More from alarmist Romm: [Allegedly] Anti-science [alleged] conservatives are [allegedly] stuck in denial but for climate "science" activists, [allegedly] the reverse is true

As I explained in my post, “Diagnosing a victim of anti-science syndrome (ASS),” you can generally tell a denier or delayer by repeated use of the following phrases, which are connected to the long-debunked talking points:

* Medieval Warm Period
* Hockey Stick
* Michael Mann
* The climate is always changing
* Alarmist
* Hoax
* Temperature rises precede rises in carbon dioxide
* Pacific Decadal Oscillation
* Water vapor
* Sunspots
* Cosmic rays
* Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark
* Ice Age was predicted in the 1970s
* Global cooling

IISD RS @ Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009 - Highlights for Saturday, 6 June 2009 - Bonn - Germany

Global youth and residents of Bonn marching on the grounds of the conference venue. The rally was staged to remind participants at the Climate Change Talks that their decisions would affect the world.

PoliGazette » Enviro-nazis Ultimate Solution

Like many Americans last November, I voted for change. I had hope. I no longer have hope since the president I voted for never mentioned a fraction of the agenda he now espouses. I did not vote to lower my standard of living, humble as it may be. Nor did I ask to jump into the economic abyss in order to “save” the planet.

When the economic chickens of this agenda do come home to roost, many people will change their perception of the whole quasi-religious scam known as “climate change.” Once you view the fall you’re about to take, it’s natural to turn around and take a good look at who is pushing you.

I voted for change, not economic suicide.

Nancy Pelosi: Climate change [fraud] game-changer for China relations

I believe that two priorities of my service in Congress - protecting the environment and promoting human rights - are coming together in addressing the challenge of the global climate crisis.

The crisis can be a game-changer in the U.S.-China relationship; it is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. Our governments will have to make difficult decisions that must be based in science. The challenge of the global climate crisis must be met with openness, transparency, respect for the rule of law, and the government must be accountable to the people. The principle of environmental justice must be upheld, especially when poor people are more adversely affected by drastic environmental changes than others.

RealClimate fraudster Gavin Schmidt doesn't sound happy

Alert readers will have noticed the fewer-than-normal postings over the last couple of weeks. This is related mostly to pressures associated with real work (remember that we do have day jobs). In my case, it is because of the preparations for the next IPCC assessment and the need for our group to have a functioning and reasonably realistic climate model with which to start the new round of simulations. These all need to be up and running very quickly if we are going to make the early 2010 deadlines.
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However there is still cause to engage - not out of the hope that the people who make idiotic statements can be educated - but because bystanders deserve to know where better information can be found. Still, it can sometimes be hard to find the enthusiasm. A case in point is a 100+ comment thread criticising my recent book in which it was clear that not a single critic had read a word of it (you can find the thread easily enough if you need to - it's too stupid to link to). Not only had no-one read it, none of the commenters even seemed to think they needed to - most found it easier to imagine what was contained within and criticise that instead. It is vaguely amusing in a somewhat uncomfortable way.

Oh, the inanity: If you pay for a bicycle rickshaw ride, will that really improve the world's weather?

As countries around the world mark World Environment Day Friday, members of the U.S. Congress are preparing to debate new legislation aimed to slow global warming. From Washington, VOA's Kate Woodsome examines how actions in the United States may influence the international debate on combating climate change.

Blocks from the U.S. Capitol building, John Mulqueen navigates a bicycle rickshaw through the traffic on a rainy Washington street.

Mulqueen is one of many drivers in a growing fleet of bicycle taxis that carry tourists, and sometimes business people, around the capital. He says his customers enjoy the open-air ride, and feel good they are not polluting. "There are definitely people you get who are doing it because they don't want to take a car, or they want to take it because it's eco-friendly," Mulqueen observed.

Your mainstream media on drugs: More giggle-worthy nonsense from the New York Times

For China-U.S. Talks on Climate, Issues Old and New - NYTimes.com

As a senior American team arrived in Beijing on Sunday for climate talks, the standoff was taking on the trappings of cold-war arms control negotiations, with gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions replacing megatons of nuclear might as a looming risk for people across the globe.

Glenn Goodall » Blog Archive » My Climate Change [Swindle] Pledge

On Saturday, at Forbury Fever - I and other councillors signed Reading’s Climate Change Pledge. You can too here. Also, the entire Lib Dem group have said they will be signing up to this.

The Pledge states you accept that:

* Climate Change is a reality and primarily man made (although not all national parties believe this!)
* Climate Change has wide ranging impacts on our environment, health, economy and well-being
* Climate Change is everyone’s issue and I can get involved to reduce emissions

New Zealand: Wet May heralds long, boggy winter | Otago Daily Times Online

Most farmers were comfortable but it was natural to want a late start to winter.

"You always like it to arrive a month later," he said.

California: June has brought rare rain and subfreezing temps to higher elevations

RIVERSIDE - The strange winter-like low pressure system that brought unusual June rain to Southern California brought subfreezing cold temperatures to higher parts of Southern California today, a rarity in June.

An overnight low of 32 degrees at Idyllwild, in the Riverside County mountains, was one of several extremely-cold June temperatures observed today.

And it was even colder at campgrounds not far away.

The National Weather Service says it was 28 degrees at Baldwin Lake, an often-dry depression east of Big Bear Lake, said meteorologist Noel Isla at the National Weather Service office in San Diego. The NWS does not keep historical records for Baldwin Lake, but the record low for this date at nearby Big Bear Lake is 26, set in 1982, Isla said.

Daytime temperatures were 30 degrees below normal today in the nearby desert resorts.

Climate [fraud] bill [allegedly] to cut US deficit

US climate legislation approved by a House committee would raise more revenue than it would cost in federal spending through 2019, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report.

The budget estimate says the legislation, to cap greenhouse-gas emissions and create a system to trade pollution permits, would raise $845.6 billion, while adding $821.2 billion to federal spending, a $24.4 billion net gain.

William R. Hawkins, FrontPage Magazine - Global Warming: The New Key to Our China Policy

Chinese leaders do not believe in the “global warming” hokum, but they do want to boost energy efficiency in a period of rising costs and reduce urban pollution for health reasons.

Twitter / Manny Can

Convinced we truly have the clinically insane holding offices & positions of power, delusional, addicted to the climate change lie & power.

NWO Climatists Rig Doubling Of Arctic Ice Thickness To Be Dramatic Thinning…. « Centurean2’s Weblog

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: 'Realists' challenge claim of consensus on warming - Washington Times

"This is the first time the realists have had a comprehensive reply to the IPCC," [Joseph Bast] said. "The other side kept saying, 'Where is your report? Where is your IPCC?' This book says we're here, we have got our act together."

The report, the largest collection of independent research on the topic, doesn't claim perfection.

"This is not the last word on climate change," Mr. Bast said. "It's much more intellectually honest."

EDITORIAL: Cool it on warming

Jun 07, 2009 (Boston Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- New analyses of satellite data could mean that the scenario of a global warming disaster without large reductions in emissions of earth-warming gases could be about to shrink like a cheap suit in the rain.

Bravo, Steve Fielding: "I kept an open mind on the road to Washington" | The Australian

IT seems every Australian has an opinion on the Rudd government's emissions trading scheme. Green groups have been calling for stronger emissions targets while businesses have been pushing for more assistance to be granted to affected industries. Others simply argue that Australia should be waiting until Copenhagen before rushing ahead with any scheme. The one question, however, that no one seems to be asking, is whether or not we even need an emissions trading scheme at all?

Summer in Montana: Winter blast chills Great Falls events

The snow melted even before it hit the ground in and around Great Falls. But several outdoors events in the city still were hampered or canceled because of the rain and a record-low temperature for the day.

A reading of 32 degrees at 9 Saturday morning broke the previous mark of 33 degrees set on the same date in 1951.

[In retrospect, probably a good decision] Water Park opening delayed by weather | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune

[June 5] The Electric City Water Park, scheduled to open for the season Saturday, will be closed this weekend because of inclement weather.

City of Great Falls recreation staff will be monitoring weather conditions over the next couple of days, and will determine whether the weather is warm enough to open the park on a daily basis.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Making a difference on global warming

We would be healthier people if we moved from coal to either natural gas or nuclear power. [Would we?] It makes sense to do this no matter what our opinions are on global warming. A sane and sensible plan to convert to cleaner power generation over time would be good for our country and our planet even if we were heading into an Ice Age. One way of encouraging this transformation is by assigning a price to the polluting aspects of using coal and making the polluter pay this price.

I don't understand why people don't acknowledge this.

What a difference a day makes

June 7, The Age, Australia: [Victoria: Allegedly not enough snow, and it's probably your fault:] Lonely lifts wait on ups and downs of ski season

THE Victorian ski season began yesterday, but for the eighth time in 10 years there was barely enough white powder for a snowball fight, let alone any downhill racing.
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One person who managed to find what little snow there was yesterday was State Environment and Climate Change Minister Gavin Jennings, who officially opened the season at the resort.

June 8, The Age, Australia: [Victoria: Never mind, Mother Nature just delivered:] Snow right on cue for ski season opening party

June 8, 2009

Mother nature has delivered timely snowfalls to alpine resorts for the start of the ski season.

By Sunday morning about 10cm of snow had fallen at resorts in Victoria and NSW.

Health, climate change [fraud] vie for boost in US Congress | Reuters

Obama is trying to sell climate change legislation as much more than doing something good for the environment. "Green" job creation and weaning the country off of foreign oil are his major talking points.

Kausfiles : Detroit's New 'Green' Delusion - Slate

Environmentalism has become the latest distraction and delusion for Detroit. Chrysler admits that small, fuel efficient FIAT models aren't going to sell in large numbers--but hey, they're going to have a "halo effect" that will "burnish" the entire Chrysler line! Chevrolet will only sell a few thousand Volts--but the bicoastal elite appeal of green will suck media-addled buyers into the "reinvented" GM.

No. Detroit cars will sell when they're bulletproof, not when they're green (or, in Lutz's new spin, when they're made by a company that also sells something "green").

Oh, please: [Clueless] climate [fraud] envoy Todd Stern on U.S. climate action and the possibility of deal with China

Stern also cautioned against urging the Chinese to move forward if others remain complacent. “We need to recognize that if we aren’t careful, we may spend the next few years pushing China to do more, but will then spend all the years after that chasing them, as they hurtle profitably down the road to the low-carbon transformation,” he warned.

The Nuclear Industry Embraces Junk Science - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

But now, as the same media and green fear-mongers attempt to destroy the coal industry for causing global warming, killer hurricanes, and coastal flooding, the nuclear industry has jumped aboard the junk-science bandwagon.

The industry’s trade group, the Nuclear Energy Institute has launched a public-relations campaign exploiting the current political climate and urging Americans to go nuclear in order to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming. “Any credible program to address climate change must include carbon-free technologies such as nuclear energy,” reads NEI literature now being disseminated to media outlets and state capitols around the country.

Skeptic's Corner: Skeptics From Around the Globe

Dr. Franco Battaglia, professor of Environmental Chemistry University of Modena

"It follows that scientists worldwide have not only failed to understand anything, but the hoaxer and dreamers: the anthropogenic global warming is the most colossal forgery of the century....the biggest sham of the last 15 years...the conjecture of anthropogenic global warming should be regarded as pure speculation today- physcally disproved by the real facts"

[Trace amounts of carbon dioxide allegedly] to push London temperatures up to 105F - Telegraph

London could regularly see temperatures of 105F (41C) and south-west England could be hot enough to grow grapes and sunflowers, according to a map of how climate change will affect Britain in 2080.

A whole lot of absurdity packed into one article

Yvo de Boer, global climate [fraud promoter]

PARIS: Yvo de Boer, it could be argued, holds the fate of the planet in his hands.
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So how did a Dutch public housing bureaucrat wind up at the epicentre of the fight to slow global warming?

"I had a policy in my life up to then to try something completely different every three or four years," de Boer said of his decision in 1994 to apply for a job within the Dutch environment ministry to head the climate change department.

"To my great amazement, I got the job. I knew nothing about climate change, absolutely nothing," he said in an interview.
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Today, more than three years after then UN chief Kofi Annan tapped him to head up the United Nation's climate initiative, he has not lost sight of those priorities.
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For some diplomats, however, it is evidence that he has overstepped his role as a neutral facilitator.

American Thinker: ICCC Three Brings Climate Reality To Washington DC

At ICCC II, Monckton asserted that “There is no climate crisis. There was no climate crisis. There will be no climate crisis” and that therefore “the correct policy response to the non-problem of climate change is to have the courage to do nothing.”

His declaration twelve weeks to the day later that we “must not fail” accurately underscores the urgency of exacting such courage from our policymakers.

Reality must prevail. This bill must die.

More ridiculous BS from the mainstream media: "Nine alien insects to cause pain, illness and even death in Britain as climate warms up" - Telegraph

Insects which harbour tropical diseases, inflict painful rashes and bites, and can even undermine the foundations of buildings, will become a growing problem due to climate change, scientists are predicting.

Sunday In-depth: Florida Governor Charlie Crist, from green to ‘gutless’?

They were heady, green days for Charlie Crist in July 2008 as he flew to London to attend a global climate-change conference and hobnob with members of Parliament to discuss the planet’s growing environmental crisis.

Back in the day, Crist shared a national spotlight with the likes of movie star Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, gaining attention as a group of state leaders who stepped up for the environment when George W. Bush’s administration turned a blind eye to science.

It was zenith of his 2007 pledge to turn Florida green, lower emissions and grow a biofuel industry. Last year, he laid out a $200 million investment in his green vision. But today, as Crist is all but a lame duck governor running for the U.S. Senate, very few of those hopes and promises have come true. Blame the knuckle-draggers in the Legislature. Blame the recession. Or, if you are like some environmentalists in the state, blame Crist for not having the strength or guile to get his way on green.

Scary stories: Peter Foster, Financial Post

This past week -- as delegates from 182 countries circled and plotted in Bonn about how to avoid the great upcoming Copenhagen Climate Policy Collapse -- there appeared the usual bumper crop of stories that either regurgitated climate alarmism, positively promoted it, or otherwise carried the banner for pointless policy upheaval.

Despite Al Gore's claims of too much denialism in the press, the mainstream media has been almost entirely captured by his alleged "Inconvenient Truth." The skeptical voices that have always been essential to science--and freedom--have been marginalized and ridiculed, and nonsense walks proudly on stilts.
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The one straight statistic to emerge from the subsequent piece was that the sea level had risen by 20 centimetres in San Francisco Bay over the past hundred years. However, reporter Leslie McKinnon quickly switched to forecasts of sea level rises of "a metre to a metre and a half " made by somebody called Peter Gleick of something called the Pacific Institute. [Fraudster] Mr. Gleick declared that sea level rises were accelerating -- or at least would be--because climate change was happening "faster and faster."
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Achim Steiner, who heads the UN Environment Programme, was quoted as saying that "There have been many milestones reached in recent years, but this report suggests renewable energy has now reached a tipping point where it is as important --if not more important --in the global energy mix than fossil fuels."
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At the conference, the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels suggested that the success of alarmism had a lot to do with the absence of fact-checking in the media. But while that may be true, it seems as much due to the fact that many in the media regard themselves as eco-warriors. As such, they never let the facts stand in the way of a good, scary environmental story.

Former head of NASA's Weather and Climate Research Program disses the climate knowledge of Gore and Obama: "They don't understand what the hell is going on."

The Man Who Cried Doom

NASA's James Hansen is the least-muzzled climate alarmist in America.
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Theon says the same kind of models that now predict runaway warming were predicting runaway cooling prior to 1975, when the popular fear was not melting ice caps but a new ice age, and "not one model predicted the cooling we've had since 1998." Spencer insists "it's all make believe--if you took one look at the assumptions that go into this, you'd laugh." But none of that seems to matter too much.

"Gore was in his corner and now the president is in his corner," [head of NASA's Weather and Climate Research Program from 1982 to 1994, John] Theon says. "They don't understand what the hell is going on." [Via Climate Realists]

I haven't checked, but I wonder if this is mandated in Waxman-Markey?

But of course: In an attempt to make the world's weather cooler, why not dress completely in clothes made out of cork?

Cork, a plant fiber, is a growing substitute for leather and doesn’t require a polluting fabrication process thanks to its natural elements and unique cell structure that allows it to retain carbon dioxide.

So one can wear an entire cork outfit and minimize global warming?

To a degree.

More pure insanity from the UN

Building Climate Awareness at the Grassroots Level - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Anthropogenically induced changes in climate leading to adverse alterations in temperature, precipitation and sea level pose a mega threat to the lives and livelihoods of people every where in our planet.
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In each village, a woman and a man can be trained to serve as Climate Risk Managers . They should be well versed in the art and science of mitigating the impact of climate change on human health, animal welfare, crop husbandry and livelihoods.

Wisconsin: Green Bay lowest high temperature for June 6 since 1943 « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

If it seemed cold to you in Green Bay on Saturday, it was.

The high temperature for the day, reached at 9:50 a.m., was 52. That set a record for the lowest high temperature for June 6, according to the National Weather Service office in Ashwaubenon.

The old mark was 53, set in 1943.

Where's the evidence that CO2 is destroying the US maple syrup industry?

1. March '07: New York Times runs typical sob story about the allegedly devastating effect of carbon dioxide on the Vermont maple syrup industry: "Warm Winters Upset Rhythms of Maple Sugar" - New York Times

“You might be tempted to say, well that’s a bunch of baloney — global warming,” said Mr. Morse, drilling his first tap holes this season in mid-February, as snow hugged the maples and Vermont braced for a record snowfall. “But the way I feel, we get too much warm. How many winters are we going to go with Decembers turning into short-sleeve weather, before the maple trees say, ‘I don’t like it here any more?’ ”

2. June '09: Daily Kos again promotes the notion in #1 above: Global Hunger is a Global Warming Issue

As I write that title, two memories come to mind. A year or so ago, I ordered pancakes with real maple syrup at a restaurant. As my order came, Hekebolos remarked "Enjoy American maple syrup while it still exists." It's no longer news that climate change means that areas that used to have cold enough winters to produce maple syrup might now be too warm.

Ok, so how were real maple syrup crops in Vermont in 2007, 2008, and 2009?

3. StopGlobalWarming.org: [An admission of a bumper maple syrup crop in 2007]

[Vermont, 2007] Mr. Crocker's total crop, produced through April 20, was 6,100 gallons, just 120 gallons below his best year ever.

4. From the comment section here: [A report of very good Northeast maple syrup crops in 2008 and 2009] | Yahoo! Green

Posted by ericstocks Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:49pm PDT

Well, last year (2008) was like the "storm of the century" for Maple Syrup production in the Northeast. We couldn't even keep up - temps were perfect. We quit before the weather did. 2009 was also a really good year, having just ended. Beautiful syrup and lots of it. These reporters don't know jack.

5. And it's not just the Northeast: Bumper Wisconsin maple syrup crop in '09 - Chicago Tribune

Associated Press
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Higher prices and a strong sap run have Wisconsin’s maple syrup producers feeling hopeful this season.

Joe Polak is a third-generation maple syrup producer and co-owner of Maple Hollow in Merrill. He says the sap has run and run this spring, giving him one of the best crops he’s had in a long time.

Michigan Taxes Too Much » Fraud upon Michigan and the poor.

The country, the world, and Michigan is hurting. But its not from Global warming, but rather the blind acceptance of a “green” religion that had no basis in fact.

Now we see if our leadership will “change course.” Will we watch as excuses are made to hold onto unrealistic economy damaging policies that were initiated under this fraud of CO2 as damaging to our planet? Perhaps, but only if we allow them to think we don’t know. All I know is Michigan Winters are still pretty cold.

Alberta, Saskatchewan get snow in June

Ah June, when the long sunny days bring thoughts of swimming holes, tents and — toboggans?

Yes, snow has fallen in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan this weekend.

Isn't this June? Snow sticking around on Pikes Peak

So why is winter sticking around on the peak three weeks past when the snow has usually melted its way into Colorado Springs' faucets?

View From Above: AGW And The Green™ Fallacy

First it was man-made or Anthropogenic Global Warming™ (AGW). But then, when warming apparently peaked in 1998 and global temperatures began to flat-line or even decrease, the term "global-warming" fell out of favor. The new buzzword became Climate Change™. It's hard to say "global-warming" with a straight face when there isn't much of it going on, and when the number of skeptics is increasing daily. Climate Change™ is a much better term because it can mean so many different things to so many different people. It is a deceptive phrase, as it can cover a multitude of scenarios besides global-warming (even though most still use Climate Change™ as a synonym for AGW™). As such, it is not unusual to hear the occasional brave (or "foolhardy") soul suggest that cooling is caused by (or is a part of) Climate Change™.

And Now . . . Carbon Labels - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

California’s Senate has passed a Carbon Labeling Act that will introduce a standardized label establishing a methodology for determining the carbon footprint of every consumer product — that is, the total amount of carbon that went into producing that Twinkie you’re holding. The labels will be voluntary (for now).

Should Climate Models be accepted as Evidence in a Court of Law? « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

In summary, I would say that a totally impartial judge might well find that climate models are inadmissible as scientific evidence in a court of law under the 5 criteria implicit in the Daubert standard. Of course, it might be difficult to find an impartial judge on the subject of global warming.

BURGER OF TRUTH | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

You can imagine why a Guardian writer like Hickman is startled by all of this; from his perspective, McNelis (a dual warming and Obama heretic) might as well be telling him that lumber is a drink and ghosts should be entitled to vote.

Climate Change Flying Risk [Will an additional 1 part of CO2 per 10,000 cause your plane to plummet from the sky?]

Are aircraft flying into higher energy storm systems because of the effects of climate change? If so, what can we expect in the future? Most likely, an increase in the number of damaged and perhaps crashed aircraft, although no one can say for certain.
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Trevor Williams is a University of Victoria Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate specialising in renewable energy, power grid modelling and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

CapitalClimate: Climate Collapse: Fiction Fodder

Post-apocalyptic dystopias have long been a theme of science fiction, and the growing public awareness of global warming has recently been finding expression in fiction. A trilogy (Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting) by Kim Stanley Robinson, completed in 2007, was set in a climate-changed Washington, DC.

Actually, what we're witnessing these days is not climate collapse; it's the collapse of the climate scam.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Come Fly With Me

I know he promised his wife that he would take her to a show but if we all have to make sacrifices for the good of the planet, perhaps he should have started with their little jaunt to New York for a date.

But it seems for President Obama that sacrifice is something only other people (poorer people) make.
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Ann McElhinney & Phelim McAleer are the producers and directors of the documentary Not Evil Just Wrong - the True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria.

UN teaches child to be warming hypocrite | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Alice Wang will travel to South Korea in August for the United Nations Environment Program Tunza International Children’s Conference.

Warning Signs: Weather Malarkey

I have never been able to figure out why people who know that the forecast for the local weather is likely to be wrong by the afternoon of the same day or within 48 hours still believe that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can accurately predict what it will be ten, twenty or fifty years from now.

Virginian Leads Sensible Climate Change [Fraud] Efforts | Richmond Times-Dispatch

Passing far-reaching climate change legislation can be done wisely if we stay focused on avoiding unnecessary costs and remain committed to developing clean energy technologies.

[So what if it's a complete fraud?] If global warming a myth, it has good consequences

If global warming and climate change is a myth, it could be the best myth ever, spurring use of renewable energy and increasing energy efficiency in our homes, businesses and transportation.

We can choose to be mired in the past, digging for opinions that reinforce our world view. Or, we can choose to be an innovative, forward-looking, entrepreneurial people who see opportunities in climate change, mythological or not.

Nature causes global warming: Opinion: The Arizona Republic

Yes, there are some of us doubters out here who haven't drunk Al Gore's Kool-Aid and do look at the scientific facts that, yes, there is global warming, and that it is nature, not man, that is causing it.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » WattsUpWithThat labels people who advocate putting a price on global warming pollution as “criminal,” the same as “murdering people”

Full-time global warming disinformers, like Swift boat smearer Marc Morano and Anthony Watts, have dedicated their lives to promoting disinformation and delay whose inevitable outcome — if a large fraction of people continue to be suckered by them — is unspeakable misery and/or violence to billions of people.

Lawrence Solomon: Climate insurance - FP Comment

That Greenpeace orchestrated the reinsurers' conversion into public advocates for climate change reform, however, is a delusion. The reinsurance industry, then as now, had an interest in extreme weather events and it knew where its interest lay -- if CO2 did exacerbate climate, the reinsurers would have had a financial incentive to pump more of it into the atmosphere. Whether or not CO2 exacerbates climate catastrophes, the reinsurers have an incentive to make us believe that it does, and with many of us they have succeeded.

tehran times : Mexican president: Climate change becomes new threat

MEXICO CITY (Xinhua) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Friday that the biggest threat for human beings is climate change, which could lead to damages in Mexico equal to 6 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP).

YouTube - MSc in Carbon Management - fighting global warming

Scotland could become world leader in fighting global warming via the University of Edinburgh Business School's Carbon Management Programme.

YouTube - Why choose the MSc in Carbon Management? - University of Edinburgh Business School

A student of the Business School gives their reasons for choosing this particular MSc programme.

Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere

1* Was it a good idea for the federal government to take ownership of General Motors and provide $30 billion in additional bailout funding?

26% Yes
53% No
22% Not sure

Monckton's latest, from this week's Heartland conference

PDF here.

This is great stuff, but I wish it was easily available in html format, rather than PDF.

If it was in html format, I think it would be more widely read and quoted. Am I wrong?

Update: Romm defends remarks as 'not a threat, but a prediction' -- Strangle Skeptics in Bed! 'An entire generation will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds' | Climate Depot

[Update: Joe Romm has deleted the remarks on June 6, but defends the strangling skeptics in bed comment as "clearly not a threat but a prediction" and claimed "some people misread it." Romm wrote: "The original was clearly not a threat but a prediction -- albeit one that I certainly do not agree with. Since some people misread it, I am editing it." ]

The Illusion and Politics of Necessity — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

The arguments that many activists put forward are effectively a cascade of ‘one follows the other’ assumptions that diminish in their necessity and certainty as they move away from what has been established by climate science, into the increasingly contingent domain of Nth-order effects of Nth-order effects.

Here is the weather ... for July 2080 [Ok, now will you PLEASE cough up those trillions of dollars!?]

Some may question how the Met Office can make predictions a lifetime into the future, when it struggles to produce forecasts for the next few months. However, climate change impacts are predicted to be so strong that, over decades, they are easier to predict than short-term changes.

London is predicted to suffer the worst with a combination of global warming and the so-called urban heat-island effect pushing daytime summer temperatures to stiflingly hot peaks of 41C by 2080, compared with a maximum of 31C now.

Alarmism 101: Bury the key sentence in paragraph nine

Study: Climate change altering lake levels - MLive.com

The report is the first fruit of a five-year study by the International Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canadian panel that mediates Great Lakes issues and recommends governmental actions. The $15 million International Upper Great Lakes Study is examining whether actions are needed to stabilize water levels in lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior.

Water levels in lakes Michigan and Huron, which are technically one lake, plunged nearly 4 feet between 1998 and 2007, approaching record lows. Wetter, cooler weather in the last 18 months has raised levels back to within 5 inches of their long-term average, but there's no guarantee that will continue indefinitely.

Man. ethanol plant holds off on new-crop contracts

Husky Energy's ethanol plant in western Manitoba is holding off on new-crop feedstock contracts due to uncertainty in the market, according to a Husky source.
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Cold weather across the Prairie provinces and dry areas in western Saskatchewan have some people thinking about the possibility of lower crop production this year.

Gore to take another fossil-fueled trip to Australia | theage.com.au

FORMER United States vice-president Al Gore will visit Melbourne next month to launch a new organisation inspired by Repower America — his plan to switch the US economy to clean energy in 10 years.

The new group, Safe Climate Australia, is founded by concerned scientists and business and community leaders and will be launched in partnership with VicSuper, the Victorian Government's preferred super fund.

Mr Gore will address a 1000-seat breakfast next month. Safe Climate Australia will invite the business, engineering, opinion and political leaders it believes can help it produce a clean-energy transition plan to rapidly decarbonise the Australian economy.

One of the group's founding members, Ian Dunlop, a former Shell executive and chair of the Australian Coal Association, told The Sunday Age that Safe Climate Australia was not a new advocacy group, rather an apolitical organisation that wanted to produce a practical plan.

Youth speak out on climate change [fraud] goals | smh.com.au

BROOKE SATCHWELL'S life is a staple of glossy magazines but in her own time the actor has been ploughing through the Garnaut report - the weighty, 600-page tome outlining the economic impact of climate change on Australia.

"I was forewarned it was going to be a very dry read but it's not, actually, it's very interesting," she said.

Brooke Satchwell should also plough through this report: About Climate Change Reconsidered

Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is the most comprehensive objective compilation of science on climate change ever published. It offers a “second opinion” to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007. Unlike that report, Climate Change Reconsidered finds global warming is not a crisis, and never was.

Oops: Bob Tisdale's comment gets deleted at Romm's site, then is published as a post at a busier site

There was nothing earth shattering in my comment, no reason for it to be deleted. Here take a look. It simply illustrated cause (El Nino events) and effect (poleward heat redistribution).

wattsupwiththat.com vs climateprogress.org - Traffic Details from Alexa

Lack of global warming hits North Dakota (again)

Snow falls in western ND, in June

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.

East-West All-Star Baseball Series canceled | Dickinson, North Dakota

Published June 06 2009
East-West All-Star Baseball Series canceled
The North Dakota East-West All-Star Baseball Series scheduled for Sunday afternoon has been canceled due to snow and cold weather.

Climate realism on a Motley Fool CAPS blog

I hope the President gets behind this and drops the "cow fart tax" aka carbon credit tax scam or global warming garbage.

New Senate ad-hoc committee looks at costs of cap-and-trade tax

Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, will chair a new Arizona Senate ad-hoc committee on climate initiatives to educate the public about cap-and-trade legislation and the cost to citizens and our economy. The first two meetings will be June 8 and June 22.

Twitter / Gene Hawkins

Global Warming is dying more every day. Anyone with any sense realizes it's just a political issue for the power-hungry.

Twitter / [Sorry, you should have sold two years ago]

Anyone interested in this domain name DM me an offer. GlobalWarmingCrisis.org

Twitter / Gary Baumann

Did anyone else notice how " Global Warming " was brought up at the Memorial service for D Day/. So what's going to be next for these hacks?

[Maybe carbon dioxide didn't cause this particular plane crash?] - NYTimes.com

Investigators are looking into whether inconsistent speed measurements could have played a role in the crash. The sensing system includes a part called a Pitot tube, which was what Airbus recommended replacing. The tubes are vulnerable to icing in cold weather, which the plane, flying through severe thunderstorms, could have experienced.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Global warming and the media agenda

Lastly, it is very convenient for politicians to talk and even legislate about global warming, because the results will not be apparent during their political careers. Hence, they can receive credit for taking action (any action?), but will never be judged on whether that action was correct or not. It doesn't get much better for politicians. 'My grandchildren will thank your grandchildren' is guaranteed to put a smile on a politician's face.

So when lobbyists, scientists, the media and politicians consistently get rewarded for keeping an issue in the public eye, it's time to drag out one of the best song titles of all time--Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks get the credit for "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?"

Global warming and a tale of two planets - Telegraph

Kofi Annan claims that global warming is already "killing 300,000 people a year". The situation looks a little different in the real world, says Christopher Booker.

Senate GOP to Ramp Up Cap-and-Trade Pushback - Roll Call

Senate Republicans on Monday are set to intensify their campaign against President Barack Obama’s proposal to cap carbon emissions with a hearing promoting the use of nuclear power.

Three Republicans — Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Jim Bunning (Ky.) — are slated to participate in the hearing, which was scheduled to coincide with renewed efforts by House Democrats to pass a cap-and-trade energy bill before the July Fourth recess.

Even as Democrats continue work on energy legislation in the Senate, Republicans are hoping to poison the well for cap-and-trade policies long before a final bill has a chance to advance to the floor. Senate Republicans also hope their plan to limit greenhouse gasses by expanding the use of nuclear power will influence the energy debate in the House, possibly derailing the move by Democrats there to pass the cap-and-trade bill.

“Climate change might be the inconvenient problem, but nuclear power is the inconvenient answer,” Alexander said Friday during a telephone interview. “We want a rebirth of industrial America. We want to create jobs.”

We're saved!: More public money blown because of climate fraud

Thomas Borch, assistant professor of environmental soil chemistry in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University, has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. The nearly $500,000, five-year award will support Borch’s research on climate change impacts on the interrelationship between iron cycling and organic carbon.

National Science Foundation: Definition from Answers.com

The National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency that subsidizes scientific research and education, was created in 1950 after several years of debate over the proper organization of national science policy.

Anorak News » Blog Archive » Climate Cops And Green Shirts: The War On Global Warming

HEY kids, wanna play a game of green shirts and baddies?

NPower, the electricity people, want you, the Britisher Jungvolk, to inform on your mums and your dads if they disobey the rules on climate change.

Grab a gas mask, a tin hat and come closer. Baroness Young of Old Scone, head of the Environment Agency, says climate change is “World War Three”. And in zer war you want to be on the side of the good guys, right kidz? We vill take ze moral highground, and victory will be ours.

Attack the non-believer.

Daily Kos: Where are Progressives on Climate Change? [Shouldn't these people do a better job of pretending that this is really about carbon dioxide?]

We have real opportunity here. We have the opportunity to improve our economy, to improve our social equity, to strengthen our social structure if we tackle global warming challenges intelligently. Or, we can reinforce existing inequities, reward polluters again for their pollution, and weaken our odds of successfully turning the tide on Global Warming's rising seas.

Carroll: Carbon cutting pipe dreams - The Denver Post

...there is a growing lobby for micromanaging nearly "every aspect of our lives" in the crusade to reduce carbon output.

That lobby could get away with it, too, unless we begin to inject some reality into the discussion regarding what we should be trying to achieve.

GE's Jeff Immelt Fights Back | NewsBusters.org

...it seems that GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, whom one would think has better things to do, was so upset that three shareholders -- Deneen Borelli, Jesse Watters and Tom Borelli -- would ask him questions about the GE-owned networks' liberal bias, trade with Iran and lobbying for cap-and-trade that he ordered retaliation against a news media outlet that reported they had done so.

Specifically, the LA Weekly's Nicki Finke's Deadline Hollywood column is reporting tonight that after Paul Bond of The Hollywood Reporter wrote a story about the three questions and the shareholder's meeting (a story immediately picked up by the Drudge Report), Immelt immediately ordered a GE-wide ban on Nielsen Business Media, which owns The Hollywood Reporter.
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Maybe someday he'll figure out that if he cleans up his networks and starts running GE like a capitalist firm instead of as a welfare queen-wannabe, he can get the criticism he hates so much to stop.

American Thinker Blog: NASA's Latest Discovery: Sun Heats the Earth

Could Dr. Hansen’s Reign of Error as head of the Goddard Institute for Space Flight be coming to an end? Or will Robert Calahan get the ax for telling the truth?

Science or ideology? What's it going to be NASA?

Seems odd, since almost all Republicans oppose it: Why Does the Much-Touted Climate Bill Look Like It Was Stolen From the Republican Playbook?

The plain truth is that the cap-and-trade provisions of the bill are ineffectual. They may even be pernicious because they would lock us into a convoluted and largely unworkable Republican-inspired global cap-and-trade architecture and a massive pollution permit giveaway program from which it will become increasingly difficult for us to extricate ourselves in the coming years.

An equally important political truth is that the cap-and-trade provisions are unnecessary. For while the Democrats have begun to embrace anti-regulation, market-based strategies, the evidence is clear that virtually all of the progress we've made in building a clean-energy society has been achieved a result of command-and-control policies.
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Most environmental leaders and Democratic Party officials argue that we should support this bill no matter how imperfect because it represents an important, small step forward. Strip it of its cap-and-trade provisions and I would agree. Retain the cap-and-trade provisions and I see it as a giant step backward that may well hobble further progress in federal efforts to combat climate change for years to come.

Hit with McGuinty trifecta: lose, lose, lose - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA

In 2010 we will be hit with new hydro rates by way of smart meters, the harmonized sales tax, and now the carbon emissions cap-and-trade swindle. The effects will be devastating and in fact may force many seniors living on fixed incomes out of their homes.

Is this what we elect governments for? I think not.
WALLY REAUME

Climate fraud converted to more cold cash? - The Denver Post

BOULDER — It's time for an in-your-face approach to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the Boulder City Council decided Thursday night.

The council unanimously approved increasing the city's voter-approved carbon tax from its minimum to its maximum level beginning Aug. 6, providing an additional $810,000 annually toward meeting the city's carbon-cutting goals.

As of this posting, a screen shot of the poll at the link above:

YouTube - WEARECHANGE Ottawa Confronts Suzuki and Trudeau about the Man Made Global Warming Hoax

The mainstream media and governments alike will have you belief that all climate scientists are in agreements on man made global warming. My honest research have shown different. I ask should we be voting on this when the science behind climate change is incomplete ?

More overwhelming global warming evidence: Texas spring so incredibly warm that frost only killed 99% of this guy's peach crop

Jun. 6--Hill Country residents looking for home-grown peaches this year may have to change their address to an east Texas ZIP code, or settle for local strawberries, blackberries and vegetables instead.

An early April frost killed the majority of the peach crop this year, leaving farmers and orchard growers scrambling to fill the void left by the devastating freeze.

"We lost 99 percent of our peach crop this year," said Gary Marburger, owner of Marburger Orchard near Fredericksburg. "The peaches we did save are really small, which usually means too much fruit on the tree, but the seeds are dead and they just fell off the tree."

Time for gas tax honesty in B.C.

...The federal government will probably not try the same trick with a carbon tax since the federal Liberal party's carbon tax was overwhelmingly rejected by Canadian voters in the 2008 general election. The proposal was rightfully seen as a tax grab designed to transfer money from consumers to new social engineering programs.

B.C., however, still has a carbon tax , and it will get bigger on July 1. When the B.C. government fell for the consensus rhetoric of the global warming alarmists and introduced the carbon tax on July 1, 2008, people were outraged enough to boost the NDP's popularity over the governing Liberals for the first time in years. The NDP even tried to use the carbon tax as a wedge issue in the 2009 election, but with lower gasoline prices and worries about the economy, it didn't work.

Let's pay $45 trillion allegedly to fight alleged overheating allegedly caused by 4x4s, and let's also buy 4x4s to get through the harsh winters: Rural EMS need to go off-road - Manitoba, CA

Having 4x4 ambulances at their disposal would be beneficial for rural emergency medical services personnel during harsh winter months when roads are blocked, says a local EMS supervisor.

[In an insane attempt to improve the world's weather] Liverpool schools to go meat free once a week

LIVERPOOL schools and businesses could go meat free once a week under radical new plans.

The council is to consider having an official city-wide “meat free day” in a collective bid to protect the environment.
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The proposal comes on the back of a three-year Greenpeace study which claims western demand for beef and leather and an increase in cattle ranching is leading to intensified deforestation of the rainforests.

The plan is the brainchild of the council’s former education boss and staunch vegetarian, Cllr Paul Clein.

He told the ECHO: “I believe climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face.

“This is about changing the mindset and showing you can make a difference in the long term.”

The Seven Most Iconic Liberal-Guilt Documentaries :: List of the Day :: Paste

The Lesson: In the granddaddy of these movies, we learn that Al Gore is well versed in PowerPoint, and, oh yeah, we’re destroying the planet. No one will deny the good this movie has done, but man did it seem to enjoy rubbing it in.

Massey Energy CEO encourages cowards

“You have to be competitive,” Blankenship said. “You can’t always take from the rich and give to the poor, or have empathy in your judicial decisions.There are dozens of business people who tell me while they don’t believe in global warming, it is a political reality. They feel if they speak out, they will receive extra scrutiny. They should speak out and say what they think.”

Climate change--China's [Alleged] Perspective

...climate change is mainly a consequence of the traditional economic development pattern and extravagant life style.

California summer: Rain, snow and a rescue from cold - Local - The Modesto Bee

Unseasonably wet and cold weather Friday resulted in fender benders, heavy snow and a rescue effort for schoolchildren who got cold on a Tuolumne County hike.

Medics treated four children after they suffered hypothermic symptoms while on a camping trip with their Napa Valley charter school in the Pinecrest Reservoir area, according to the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department.
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The California Highway Patrol is advising drivers to behave "as you would if you were driving in December." Chains are required on Highway 108 east of Strawberry, and the California Department of Transportation closed Tioga Pass on Friday because of snow.

Have it your way: Burger King franchise cites cockroaches and Oz in defense of 'global warming is baloney' signs | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Me: But "Global Warming is Baloney" is certainly a different sort of message, a more political viewpoint?

McNelis: I would agree that it's a viewpoint, but not necessarily a political one. But we're not sheeple around here, and while Barack Obama would like to have you believe that no one is entitled to have a view other than his, if someone wants to stand up and say "Global Warming is Baloney", then I'm all for it. It doesn't matter to me, whether I believe in it or not. They have first amendment rights to say whatever's on their mind. And nobody dictates otherwise.

Are trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas really Pakistan's biggest problem? | Climate change clouds hover over Pakistan

Greenpeace activists pose next to a Greenpeace balloon to demand a future without nuclear power on World Environment day on June 05, 2009 in the center of Madrid.
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The deleterious impacts of this practice had been witnessed in the form of greenhouse effect, global warming and climate change which manifested themselves in excessive flooding, frequent and violent storms, drought, melting glaciers, changes in rainfall pattern, loss of biodiversity, and calamities like tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes, [EPD Director-General Dr Shugufta Shahjehan-Pakistan] said.

Twitter / Sean M [Anyone have a link to this column?]

Today's Irish Daily Mail has what is supposed to be a funny column from Shay Healy but which the global warming deniers will love!

Thomas Kostigen [Promotes Climate Fraud at] "Ethics Monitor": The imminent costs of global climate change - MarketWatch

We often hear about the predicted doom -- by 2025, 2050 or 2100. But climate change today can be traced to increased displacement of people, resulting in more refugees, scarcity of food and higher malnutrition rates. There also is increased population concentration, resulting in more disease.

California may take gas-tax funds away from local governments - San Jose Mercury News

"If the governor wanted to lead us out of this financial mess, he would raise the gas tax 10 cents a month for the next year," he said. "He could use this increase to pay down the budget deficit and for road repair. This would reinforce his talk about climate change and reducing our carbon footprint and encourage people to drive less."

That's a hard sell for voters, especially with the state unemployment rate in double digits. Few in the Legislature seem willing to go down that road.

Assistant TO the Regional Manager

Greg Combet became Minister for Defense Personnel, Materiel and Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change.

Australian singer takes unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to New York

Her concert tickets have even been made out of recycled paper.

Higgins stopped by The Early Show Saturday Edition's "Second Cup Cafe," to sing "Where I Stood" and "Steer" off of her latest album, "On a Clear Night".

AMBROSE: The environmentalist threat - Washington Times

For all the good environmentalism has done, it is at its far-out fringes not science, not rational, not wise, not beneficent, but a wild-eyed, dishonest, dangerous, modernist superstition that, incredibly enough, has come to have great influence in the corridors of power. A consequence is policies that can lead to unspeakable disaster.

In a democracy, at least this much is required of the people - that they watch this thing very carefully, refuse to be its dupes and speak up in defense of the human good.

Jay Ambrose is former Washington director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard News Service.

Breaking: Animals don't always respond by going extinct every time anything changes: Ancient Mammals Not So Finicky -- Grom 2009 (604): 3 -- ScienceNOW

More than 1 million years ago--as an ice age withered--the world warmed, glaciers shrank, and vast forests gave way to sprawling grasslands. The ancient deer, llamas, and peccaries that had spent thousands of years eating tree leaves had to make a decision: stay and eat the grass or move north with the shifting woodlands. Scientists have long thought that the mammals were too fussy to forgo their favorite food, but new research shows that their palates were surprisingly adaptable. The findings may help researchers understand how animals will respond to climate change in the future.

June 2009 Update on Global (and Regional) Temperature – RSS « Digital Diatribes

...any claims of acceleration in warming are simply false, as can be shown by the fact that ALL trend line measures are declining.

Pelosi’s Psycho Circus Returns to Iowa « Iowa Defense Alliance

n response to Pelosi’s encroachment of Iowa the National Republican Congressional Committee has launched three new ads calling for concerned citizens to contact their representative to urge them to oppose the cap and trade plan developed by Waxman and Markey. The NRCC understands that a cap and trade program would accomplish nothing more than hinder the recovery and growth of the American economy. Below you will find the three videos released by the NRCC. After watching they please contact your local representative. Tell them that you oppose the backdoor tax that the Democrats are trying to squeeze through.

$350 per tonne of hot air | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

I don’t mind a tax on stupidity, but resent the rest of us having to pay for this power, too. Naturally, though, the Greens thinks too much spending on solar panels is not nearly enough.

Recently up on GRL: Cooling admitted

But "within a long-term warming trend", of course. Actually that is pretty right. Temperatures have been rising in a zigzag way ever since the Little Ice Age. But that rise began long before SUVs!

Scott Harper: Global warming? Not so fast, skeptics say at meeting | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

The conference hall also was filled with a tangible air of frustrated defeat, like the brainy kid in math class who thinks he knows all the answers, raises his hand time and again, but is never called upon.

I was there, and I detected no "tangible air of frustrated defeat".

If anything was in the air, it was the sense of inevitable victory.

Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: A Somewhat Happy Ending to the Latest Death Threat Story...

...first covered in Climate Depot about the global warming believer and blog writer at the prominent liberal blog Talking Points Memo who asked: "at what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers?"

The gentleman appears contrite.

Ashamed of myself - a formal retraction and apology about my extremist global warming post | The Insolent Braggart's Blog

What was truly disgusting though were the right wing vultures who pounced upon the story like it was a piece of rotting flesh (a good analogy for the post). They quote mined the story - picking out only the part about jailing and murdering people who don't agree with you and made sure it looked like Josh himself approved the article.

Anti-global warming theory unfounded | pressconnects.com | Press & Sun-Bulletin

It was extremely disappointing that the Press & Sun Bulletin chose to aid the cause of global warming deniers by giving their viewpoint equal time on May 24 in a way that suggests their ideas somehow have equal merit. What's next, equal time for the 9/11 "truthers" or Holocaust deniers?

The theories that global warming is being caused by changes in the sun or by cosmic rays are nonsense and have been disproved thoroughly. If the newspaper really wanted to help global warming skeptics understand the science, perhaps it could allow them to submit their questions and have them answered by someone qualified to address the subject.

Tim LaVassar

Capitalism profits as Australia burns : Socialist Resistance

While bushfires have long been occasional occurrences in rural Australia, it is clear that their frequency and magnitude are being increased by climate change. The extent of the February disaster was conditioned by higher temperatures, extensive drought and strong winds — all products of human-induced warming.
environment rather than threaten profits.

Allen Myers is assistant editor of Direct Action, the monthly newspaper of the Revolutionary Socialist Party

Global Warming Will Wreck Your Business Plan: Lloyd's chief promotes climate fraud

Lloyd’s Chief Executive, Dr Richard Ward, said:

“Climate change will change the way we live and work, and will lead to greater competition for scarce resources, such as food and water. This is likely to result in increased economic nationalism and greater global insecurity, which will in turn add to the complexity and cost of doing business.”

Lots more wealth allegedly needs to be redistributed: Still more "solutions" to fraudulent climate problem

The world cannot effectively address climate change without altering our relationship with soil, the world’s third largest carbon pool, according to a new report.

'Worse Than Fiction' - WSJ.com

Global warming alarmists are fond of invoking the authority of experts against the skepticism of supposedly amateur detractors -- a.k.a. "deniers." So when one of those experts says that a recent report on the effects of climate change is "worse than fiction, it is a lie," the alarmists should, well, be alarmed.
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We could go on, except we're worried about the blood pressure of readers who are climate-change true believers. Our only question is, if the case for global warming is so open and shut, why the need for a report as disingenuous as Mr. Annan's?

YouTube - HOME (English with subtitles): Another climate fraud film - Edited by Al Gore!

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

Al Gore issues 24-hour Clarion tweet for ‘Home’

The commentary, narrated by Glenn Close in English and Salma Hayek in Spanish, was edited by 2007 Nobel-prizewinner Al Gore and famed environmentalist Lester Brown.

It's June...so it must be snowing: From sweltering to shivering in just a week, it could only happen in the great British summer | Mail Online

Yesterday, amateur weather watchers in Brampton, Cumbria, were astonished at the unseasonal snow.

'The cloud is beginning to clear over the Pennines and from Penrith lying snow is clearly visible on Cross Fell above about 2,300 feet,' said Adam Woodcock.

'This is very late in the season for snow even on Cross Fell. For it to fall and lie in the early afternoon in June is remarkable. [Via Global Freeze]

TruthNews.us » Blog Archive » Green & Lean: Austerity in the Age of Obama

Ever noticed how the environmental ‘crises’ and economic ‘crises’ both prey upon the green of it all? The color of greed, jealousy, disease, Federal Reserve notes and trees. The marketing of both manufactured green crises have hinged around selling us on tightening our belts and buckling down for the big one.

COMMON SENSE GLOBAL WARMING by Ronald D. Voisin | Climate Realists

Have you read about the grass-roots polls to ban dihydrogen monoxide (youtube search it for video - it’s hilarious). It’s a substance used in Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. People are just afraid of anything they do not understand. It’s just that simple. And people simply don’t understand CO2. It’s a vital component to the entire biosphere of the planet without which Earth’s entire life-cycle would collapse. But we are coached to think it’s a kind of poison.

An Independent Analysis of Global Warming [Updated June 4, 2009] by Heinz Lycklama, PhD in Nuclear Physics | Climate Realists

I'm issuing my updated "Independent Analysis of Global Warming(GW)"report at www.osta.com/gw for the following reasons

The class of 2009: Bravely facing up to the "looming threat" of slightly warmer weather (although it may cool for a few decades)

Gateway Regional High School in Huntington graduates 79 seniors - MassLive.com

"Our country is struggling economically and we face a looming threat of global warming among many other problems," [the brainwashed valedictorian] said. "But just because the future and the world look frightening and bleak doesn't mean that it will always be like this.

"Don't despair. We can get through tough times."

Inhofe’s plan: Stall climate action until the next president | Grist

Inhofe, best known for calling global warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” regaled the crowd with his plans to obstruct climate and energy legislation in Congress this year. His pledge? That Republican deniers will “stall that until we get a new president.”

Of course they do: Poor nations need $142 billion per year in climate [swindle cash]

Poor countries will need to be given about 100 billion euros ($142 billion) a year by 2020 to help them cut emissions in the fight against climate change, a draft report for European Union finance ministers shows.

June Snowfall Heads for Cypress Hills

McMurtry says the high elevations in the Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan could get 10 to 20 centimetres, or 4 to 8 inches, of snow starting Friday night and into Saturday. The Waterton park area of southern Alberta could double that.
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Early Friday morning, Regina and Saskatoon were among ten communities that set new record lows. McMurtry says it will remain unseasonably cold for the rest of the weekend.

High temp. a record low? | Winnipeg | News | Winnipeg Sun

Winnipeggers are shivering through a cold spell that will likely lead today to see a record low maximum temperature for this time of year.

The temperature at Richardson International Airport today is forecast to climb no higher than 9 C, and during the noon hour had reached only about 8 C — well short of the previous low maximum of 10.8 C, which was set for this date at that location in 1992.

Gamesa blows hot air - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Our history is full of instances of public longing for a spectacular and wondrous new technology to provide a miraculous solution to a seemingly insurmountable problem. Until a technology is developed to store wind-generated electricity, wind power is just another in a long line of fallacies and false hopes promoted by self-interested businesses and grandstanding politicians jockeying for our tax dollars.

The current wind-power craze is nothing more than needless hysteria and fear created by global-warming alarmists who use scientifically unfounded opinions to further their political agenda, and it is dangerous because they are influencing our government to take drastic actions that will negatively impact all.

Jack Buchan

The Air France crash on “global warming | InvestmentWatch

A member of the UN Climate Change commission yesterday blamed the Air France crash on “global warming”! One of Al Gore’s central theses of “Inconvenient Truth” was that we would be having more and more hurricanes every year since Katrina. What happened? Record lows every year. Being consistently wrong on climate science does nothing to diminish the attention these shysters are given by the mainstream media.

Kostigen is a joke. What kind of pathetic, insulated existence he must have to post the kind of tripe he does day in and day out.

I’ll tell you what “The imminent costs of climate change” are, and how the “impacts now being felt”…

The imminent costs are coming from all the BS regulations, taxes, and restrictions that the IDIOTS with their phony global-warming (now “climate change”, since that term wasn’t working out that well) data have caused! All to collect government money for their politically-lead agenda to scoop up as much cash and control of the clueless as possible!

Climate Change Pros: Male, Well-Paid, Secure -- and Looking for Love | Hugh Byrne on GreenBiz.com

Like all men of confidence, means and desire throughout the generations, guys in the climate change world are looking for love and making the moves necessary attain it. Here are the Top 10 Climate Change Professional Pickup Lines currently making the rounds in the green drinks circuit...

And when the pickup lines fail, why not just pay cash?: Climate conference sex boom - Politiken.dk

Copenhagen’s sex trade did brisk business during the recent business climate conference.

A New Era of 'Climate [Fraud] Thinking' | Green Business | Reuters

Everyone has a role to play in the transformation to a clean energy economy, from entrepreneurs to innovators, regulators, venture capitalists, policymakers and the financial sector, among others, according to Mary Nichols, who heads the California Air Resources Board.

A future greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system that puts a price on carbon dioxide, she said, will create financial incentives for industries and consumers to find creative ways to reduce emissions.

“So obviously companies that can figure out ways to cost-effectively create products that people want to buy, or things that people need, and do it with the lowest overall lifecycle impact on climate are the big winners in this new economy,” Nichols said Thursday during a keynote speech at the West Coast Summit of the Women's Network for a Sustainable Future in Santa Clara, Calif.

TheHill.com - Waxman-Markey measure portends devastating results

[Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), ranking member on the House Committee on Agriculture]  The cap-and-trade part of this bill will essentially create a national energy tax, and it will do more harm to production agriculture, American industry, and our standard of living than it will do any good for the environment. A national energy tax will impact all of us. If you like being warm in the winter, you are going to be affected. If you like being cool in the summer, you are going to be affected. If you own a farm, if you like to eat, if you run a small business or work in one, you are going to be affected. If you want to go anywhere, this bill will affect you.

From higher energy costs to lost jobs to higher food prices, cap-and-trade promises to cap our incomes, our livelihoods, and our standard of living, while it trades away American jobs and opportunities. For this reason, as this bill stands now, I cannot embrace it.

I am not alone. So far, 34 agriculture groups including the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Farmers and Ranchers, National Corn Growers Association, National Chicken Council, and National Turkey Federation have sent letters to members of Congress encouraging them to oppose the Waxman-Markey bill. Meanwhile, no large farm groups have endorsed it.

Fielding's climate mission | theage.com.au

THE fact-finding mission to the US of Family First senator Steve Fielding has culminated in him giving senior White House staff graphs provided by climate change sceptics and asking why he should not believe them.

Senator Fielding emailed graphs that claim the globe had not warmed for a decade to Joseph Aldy, US President Barack Obama's special assistant on energy and the environment, after a meeting on Thursday.
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"I now need the science to be resolved," Senator Fielding said. "I would be derelict in my duties and I think I'd be letting down the Australian people if I didn't properly research the issues and relied on one side of the debate."  [Via Australian Climate Madness]

Video: Al Gore's close encounter of the green kind | GORE LIED

Al Gore isn’t interested in magic solutions. After all, the closest thing we’ve got on earth to a magic solution (if one were actually needed) is nuclear. Gore will have no part of nuclear as that would be too simplistic, and would not allow Gore and his merry band of Warmers to take away our individual liberties, and implement new taxes to redistribute wealth.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Exclusive: New NSIDC director Serreze explains the “death spiral” of Arctic ice, brushes off the “breathaking ignorance” of blogs like WattsUpWithThat

Serreze: I have yet to lose any sleep over what is talked about in WattsUpWithThat or any other similar blog that insists on arguing from a viewpoint of breathaking ignorance.

Flashback: Check out this 1993 paper--with Mark Serreze's name on it

In particular, we do not observe the large surface warming trends predicted by models; indeed, we detect significant surface cooling trends over the western Arctic Ocean during winter and autumn. This discrepancy suggests that present climate models do not adequately incorporate the physical processes that affect the polar regions.

This all makes complete sense to somebody, am I right?

New Orleans mayor takes fossil-fueled trips to far-flung places to promote fossil-fueled tourism and to warn about the alleged dangers of fossil fuels?

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin left Friday for China, where he plans to meet with business interested in locating in the city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

Nagin will then travel to Australia to speak on climate change at a summit sponsored by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Last year, Nagin visited China to promote tourism and the port of New Orleans. He also traveled to South Africa and Panama.

Strangle Skeptics in Bed! Romm's Climate Progress features threat to skeptics! 'An entire generation will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds' | Climate Depot

A comment on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog threatens physical harm to those skeptical of man-made climate fears. The June 5, 2009 comment, posted at 3:01 PM, under the name "Creative Greenius" warns any dissenters from man-made global warming fears that "an entire generation that will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds."
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The full post of the Climate Progress comment is reproduced below. Climate Depot has also captured a screen shot of the comments in case they rapidly disappear like the Talking Point Memo article.

Global-warming special nothing but 'speculative drivel' (OneNewsNow.com)

[Marc Morano] "It is just sad watching this. They tried to turn a bunch of speculative drivel into a news-style program, which was nothing more than just pure science-fiction fantasy," he contends. "And again, to see the ABC News banner, to see someone like Bob Woodruff -- who had served honorably in Iraq when he got injured -- to see him now reduced to this kind of drivel at ABC news is very sad."

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Somebody Help Joe Romm

So maybe it’s time for an intervention. By staying silent, all you do is enable him. Don’t any of you righteous environmental bloggers find his tantrums embarrassing? Counter-effective? How does Grist even cross-post some of those classic Romm screeds without feeling slightly queasy? You know he’s not making arguments when he gets so nasty; these are primal screams. You have to help the poor guy if you want him to retain a shred of credibility on climate issues.

Joseph D’Aleo, ICECAP: Romm’s Fairy Tales

Joseph Romm, George Soros’s bulldog at the alarmist climate fantasyland web blog called Climate Progress has a post (h/t Climate Depot) ”NOAA puts out “El Nino Watch, so record temperatures are coming and this will be the hottest decade on record”.
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El Nino is coming on very much as it did last year at this time.

But Romm is ignoring it is doing so in a low solar and cool PDO era, with a cooling Atlantic and after a high latitude volcano, all of which project to a cool summer and a cold winter. The cold PSO usually also means a quick and brief El Nino. Years like 1965/66 and 1976/77 had similar conditions...