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The price of green | green, price - Opinion - Jacksonville Daily News It makes no sense for the government to create a burden on consumers and then come back with a program to alleviate that burden for some of the people.
Government is already costing us too much when it comes to paying taxes and regulations. Increasing costs for the sake of making power more expensive just doesn't make sense.
Being green is already expensive. We don't need the costs raised artificially by yet another government enforced scam.
Herseth Sandlin: Climate-change bill is a mistake for S.D.A climate-change bill heading for a showdown on the House floor won’t have the support of Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin because “it simply doesn’t do right by South Dakota.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for the South Dakota Democrat and her colleagues on the Agriculture Committee to report out a bill by the end of next week. It could be moved to the floor shortly thereafter.
“I think that would be a mistake,” Herseth Sandlin said in a conference call with reporters on Thursday. “What we need now is time, time to work through the objections and concerns that I and many of my colleagues from rural areas, from agricultural areas, have with the bill.”
IPCC Admits they Could be Wrong about Humans Causing Global Warming « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.If that headline surprises you, then it is a good indication of how successful the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been in their 20-year long effort to pin the rap for global warming on humanity. I’m not reporting anything really new here. I’m just stating what is logically consistent with, and a necessary inference from, one of the most recognizable claims contained in the Summary for Policymakers in the IPCC’s 2007 report:
Climate pact: What kind of deal can emerge in Copenhagen?"I don't see anyone coming forward with anything that could prepare the ground for a breakthrough," said Kim Carstensen of green group WWF. "What I see is the reverse, I see ground being prepared for a battle."
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Rumours abound, too, of preparations for accommodating President Barack Obama in Copenhagen, although whether this is in the role of deal-maker or deal-blesser is unclear.
"Either way, we are talking about a tax": Dude, Where's My Cap-And-Trade Primer? : NPRCongress is about to take up legislation to curb carbon emissions with a cap-and-trade program. To understand how the cap-and-trade system works, no textbook is required. You just have to be familar with the word dude — like surfer dude.
How Business Can [Allegedly] Tackle Climate Change | Green Business | ReutersThat leaves a second area, the refrigerant gas, which traditionally has been HFCs. Today, we are buying coolers that use a much safer gas, CO2. Acting alone, however, we will not have a very big impact. Coca-Cola is responsible for only 1 percent of the world's compressor purchases.
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Neville Isdell former chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company. The preceding was adapted from remarks by Isdell at the Gathering of One Hundred Leaders conference in Washington, D.C., presented by The Climate Group.
Twitter / Tory SorensenWatched an 11 yr old girl make a beautifully passionate speech about climate change. Her parents should be so proud.
Warming and Wildlife - Environmental Defense FundGlobal warming is already having an impact in nearly every ecological zone in America. Click on any of the icons below to learn more about seven "ambassador species" – living plants and animals already feeling the heat.
[I just added this blog to my RSS reader] - Cobourg Skeptic – Global warming is not man madeAustralia is a country where lack of water has always been the major environmental concern much like cold and ice is the concern in Canada. Australia has large areas of desert much like Canada has large areas of tundra. So it is natural that when all the scare talk of global warming became popular in the 1980-90’s, that Australians jumped on the bandwagon. It was not reassuring when record breaking droughts arrived in 2007-2008. But now, Australians are becoming skeptical. Maybe the science isn’t proved and maybe it’s not caused by man but is a natural cycle. And maybe being a “believer” in “global warming” fulfills a need and becomes a “religion for the politically correct”!
Is this any way to treat the man Oprah called "our Noah"? Harvard guy barely mentions Gore and his scamI AM back at Harvard, marking my 40th anniversary at the university (crimson, by the way, is its official colour).
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Al Gore, another Nobel laureate, was also in town to push global warming to his returning ‘69 classmates.
Crops under stress as temperatures fall - TelegraphOur politicians haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker.
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For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend "climate change". In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.
Chicago: So far, June's chill is one for the recordsThe cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O'Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.
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Will: How Barney Frank Intervened at GM | Newsweek Newsweek - George F. Will | Newsweek.comFrank's motive for intervening in GM's decision making was not political but altruistic. Really. He wanted to save the planet. If the Norton facility were closed, he says, GM parts for New England would be trucked from Philadelphia, and that would complicate the task of turning down Earth's thermostat.
Nowadays, green reasoning is the first refuge of scoundrels. Global warming has become like God: It is an explanation for everything and an all-purpose excuse for the political class to do whatever it wants to do. What a large portion of it wants to do—what it has a metabolic urge to do—is boss people around. It can maximize its opportunities for doing that if it maximizes the number of people dependent on government, and the number of ways in which they are dependent.
Climate Observations: The Matthews FactorIf we assume that removing the impacts of volcanic aerosols and the natural variations of the North Atlantic would cause a proportional decrease in the trend of Global RSS MSU TLT anomalies, then the GCMs used by Matthews et al have grossly overestimated the significance of CO2 on global temperature.
American Thinker Blog: 'Global-warming' debate heats up in snowy Australia
Global warming and partisan politicsAs an example, it is not normal that Republicans would object to the idea of conserving energy where possible and becoming less reliant on foreign oil.
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So here we are in June 2009, with Republicans fighting the idea of energy independence through new technology, and Democrats ignoring the poor.
Scientists Wonder Whether Painting the World's Roofs White May Be One Way to Slow Global Warming - washingtonpost.comMaking roofs white "changes the reflectivity . . . of the Earth, so the sunlight comes in, it's reflected back into space," Chu said. "This is something very simple that we can do immediately," he said later.
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But if anybody is seriously considering a global whitewash, "simple" and "immediate" are probably not words that come to mind.
"I don't think that it could ever be done at a sufficient scale," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, Calif. He added: "It's hard enough, in many of the cities of the world, to keep the streets swept, much less to keep the city reflective."
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"We may have to figure out a way to artificially cool the planet while the atmosphere is still super-saturated with greenhouse gases," said Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. This could be it, he said, "because the planet, it's a closed system, it's an absolutely closed system, except for one thing: sunlight."
Anger builds over carbon trading [swindle]Anger over Ottawa's complicated new carbon trading plan is starting to simmer now that farmers have read the details and learned it may not be as profitable as first believed.
"Why would I sign up?" said Inwood, Ont., farmer Don McCabe, who is also president of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada.
Hot climate premiums - Lawrence Solomon The insurance industry has not been a passive beneficiary of the widespread perception that carbon dioxide drives extreme weather events. This industry — generally considered the world’s largest with $3-trillion in annual revenues — has been quietly working to manufacture the global warming consensus since the 1970s, when it first warned that CO2 could lead to “the pollution of the Earth’s atmosphere,” then an almost unheard-of claim. Through its work with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its member governments, through its sponsorship of international conferences on climate change, through its funding of environmental groups around the world and through its presence in academia, the insurance industry has helped make public opinion pliable to its perspective.
Witness Intimidation in the Global Warming Debate?Worshippers of the religion of global warming want people to think they are just good-natured, environmentally-conscious folk who want to save our planet and everything on it from apocalypse.
While I am sure there are a few worshippers who do fit that bill, most of those pulling the strings behind this, the biggest hoax ever attempted to be perpetrated on humanity, aren’t nearly so benevolent in their intentions…or methods.
TEXAS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT Blog | The Dallas Morning NewsThis year, [Exxon] chief executive Rex Tillerson declined to respond to shareholder comments, and his answers to questions were mostly narrow and brief. At one point, a shareholder activist took him to task for not challenging those shareholders who stood up to proclaim that climate change was a hoax, contrary to Exxon's official position. Tillerson was unmoved.
[Near-consensus at last? Carbon scheme "a scam"]: Australian green activists protest against government's poor climate policiesNew South Wales Greens upper house MP Lee Rhiannon addressed the crowd at Sydney with the message that the government's scheme would continue its reliance on fossil fuels, and called for urgent action to tackle runaway climate change. She reportedly called the carbon scheme a "scam".
June 8: Greens' UN climate [swindle] advice: Slash CO2, pay $160bn- Developmental Issues-Earth-The Economic TimesOSLO: Environmental activists called on Monday for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and for developed nations to pay $160 billion a year to help the poor as part of a radical new UN climate treaty.
"It's going to be unpopular with almost everyone," said Tasneem Essop, of WWF International, of the blueprint issued on the sidelines of 181-nation UN talks in Bonn about a UN pact to be agreed in December in Copenhagen.
Weather History - June 13: [Did Hummers cause the 1889 forest fires?]Meteorological events that happened on June 13th:
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Forest fires raged across northern Wisconsin and Northeast Minnesota, destroying millions of feet of timber.
Cap and trade schemes are bad for the economy and for the environmentWith concern over global warming disappearing in a hurry, proponents of a cap and trade scheme are desperately churning out arguments in hopes of convincing Americans that carbon dioxide restrictions are necessary.
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America should ditch any effort to regulate carbon emissions. The science is unsupportive of such schemes and their economic effects are disastrous. Like everything else valuable in this world, a clean environment is the product of human ingenuity and free individuals cooperating for their own benefit.
Ah, California in mid-June: Swimming Phelps flies to victory in chilly Santa ClaraANTA CLARA, California: Olympic superstar Michael Phelps had a lot more trouble with the cold weather than with his competitors Friday at the Santa Clara Invitational swim meet.
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"It's cold out here, I'm freezing," Phelps said. "It's windy and chilly."
[One step "forward", three steps "back"?]: Denmark says climate talks moving 'too slow'COPENHAGEN: Danish climate and energy minister Connie Hedegaard, whose country will host a UN climate summit in December, said Friday that talks towards a treaty to tackle global warming were moving "too slow."
"Of course we have to respect the way the United Nations works. But to me, there is no doubt that things are moving too slow," Hedegaard said in a statement as the preparatory 12-day talks in Bonn wound up.
"At the negotiators meeting in Bonn that has just finished, only a reading of the text was achieved. At the same time, the text is now over 200 pages," she said.
The draft negotiation text was initially 50 pages, but swelled to include overlapping or competing proposals that will lead to a great deal of haggling over the coming months.
"This is a shame because there actually existed a focused document with contribution of all parties when the meeting started," Hedegaard said.
Carbon trader: Nations may form global CO2 [swindle] market without UN dealNEW YORK, (Reuters) – Rich countries may act on their own to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing a carbon market they hope will lure in poor nations even if U.N. climate talks get bogged down, experts said.
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To get past the differences, the rich world, including the European Union and the United States, may form a carbon market outside or parallel to the U.N. talks. Rapidly developing countries like China may be inspired to join the market to sell emissions offsets such as clean energy projects.
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“Getting everyone to agree with everything (in Copenhagen) is going to be very difficult,” said Peter Fusaro, a carbon trade expert at Global Change Associates.
“So I don’t think the possibility of a market developing outside of the process is out of whack at all. I think it’s very possibly an outcome.”
Climate change nonsenseAn awful lot of nonsense about climate change is spouted, as we know. I think the thing that bugs me the most though is that people don't seem to be understanding the very reports they rely upon for their logic and calls to action. You know, things like various greenies insisting that we should revert to local and regional economies....when the very IPCC report they rely upon for predictions of climate change states that this would make things worse, not better.
Twitter / Darren WillmanAt the Global Humanitarian Forum youth forum on climate change, we'lll be simulating the Copenhagen talks.. And I'm representing Saudi..
[Do solar fluctuations make you fat?] Globesity: How climate change and obesity [allegedly] draw from the same roots | GristYou’ve heard all the reasons before: We drive too much. We eat too much meat and processed food. We spend too much time with plugged-in devices—computers, TVs, air conditioners.
But what problem are we talking about—climate change, or the worldwide rise in obesity?
Both, according to Globesity: A Planet Out of Control?, a book by four public-health researchers who show how climate change and obesity draw from a shared web of roots. Both problems worsen as car culture spreads, desk jobs replace manual jobs, and carbon-intensive foods (including meat) become available to more and more eaters, according to the book, published first in French and this spring in English.
Global warming, climate change and the politics of languageYou'll notice that my headlines always have global warming in them (yes, I write my own headlines--feel free to suggest better ones). Yet most of the wire services use climate change, or have for the past three years. This is because someone finally noticed that the 'globe' is not 'warming.'
GOP slams Democrats' climate [swindle] bill as an energy tax - USATODAY.comWASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Saturday slammed a Democratic bill before the House that seeks to address climate change, arguing that it amounts to an energy tax on consumers.
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"During these difficult times, the American people don't want a national energy tax out of Washington, D.C.," the Indiana Republican said.
Commentary: Climate [hoax] talks must stick to principlesBONN, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The second round of UN climate talks concluded on Friday in Bonn, Germany with limited progress. The climate seemed to have become warmer but the talks cooler during the 12 days of negotiations.
[We're doomed!]: Iceland ice lagoon filling up [with ice, in June!]: [thus we're all going to get kidney stones, therefore we need to wear shirts made out of chicken feathers, and we need to give $45 trillion to fraudsters, etc!]Jokulsarlon, Iceland’s famous ice lagoon is nearly full. The lagoon is fed by ice breaking off the Vatnajokull Glacier, which is the biggest in Europe.
One of Vatnajokull’s glacial tongues, which directly feeds the lagoon, Breidamerkurjokull, has been in fast retreat recently, and Jokulsarlon is now very nearly full up as a result of ice falling off, RUV.is reports.
Iceland: Jokulsarlon Glacier LagoonAt the time when the first settlers arrived in Iceland around 900 AD, the edge of the glacier tongue of Breidamerkurjokull, is thought to have been about 20 km further north than it is now. The climate began to cool around the year 1200, reaching a peak in the period 1600-1900, which is sometimes reffered as the "Little Ice Age". As a result of this colder climate, the glacier advanced until about 1890, reaching a point only about 1 km from the coast at Jokulsa river. The following warm period from 1920 to 1965 caused great changes in Breidamerkurjokull glacier tongue where it retreated rapidly, leaving a lagoon up to 200 m deep where the glacier snout had been, and several kilometres of glacial moraines were exposed on both sides of the lagoon. The lagoon started to form around 1934-’35 and has been getting bigger every year. The lagoon grew from 8 square km in 1975 to nearly 15 square km in 1998 and now the edge of the glacier tongue floats on the water. It calves into the lagoon and icebergs of different sizes can be seen aground and melting rather quickly. The lagoon is quite deep, around 200 m etres .
Environment » Blog Archive » That will be $115 bln for clean energy, please | Blogs |Yikes. Seems it ain’t easy, or at least ain’t cheap, being green.
It will cost California some $115 billion for (pretty much) hitting 33 percent renewable energy by 2020. That’s more than twice the price tag of sticking with a goal of 20 percent. The difference, according to a long-delayed report issued today by the state’s Public Utilities Commission is due to the speed of building fast. There are all sorts of other problems outlined in exquisite detail. It’s all quite handy for those trying to get a sense of just what needs to be done to go green. A lot, it seems.
The International Conference on Climate Change - Part III - Skanderbeg’s blog - RedStateYour humble correspondent was in Washington last week to cover the most recent (Third) International Conference on Climate Change, which was organized by the Heartland Institute.
C3: Have Climate Models Accurately Predicted Atmospheric Humdity, The Key To Water Vapor "Positive" Feedback?Read here. Nope. Increasing water vapor is absolutely critical to the global warming theory as it is the positive feedback loop that CO2 emissions hypothetically cause. Thus, climate models predict higher humidity. Actual data shows the atmosphere being less humid - NO POSITIVE FEEDBACK! Surprised? (If so, go here and re-read all our previous postings about climate models' miserable record of predictions. You'll never be surprised by climate model failure again.)
We're saved!: We can improve the weather by wearing shirts made out of chicken feathers!The problem is, we use a lot of it -- in fact, way more than is safe, given the dangers of global warming. What you might not know is that we don't just use oil to drive our cars. It's also used to make all sorts of synthetic products, such as petroleum-based fabrics. Which makes you think: maybe there's something else we could use to make the same kinds of fabrics instead. That would be one less thing we need oil for.
A professor of Textile Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln named Yiqi Yang had the same idea. He came up with a suggestion: why don't we use chicken feathers?
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Yang says that people might not think of chicken feathers as useful right now, but that could change. Maybe some day soon we'll be vying to the latest fashion trend--cool, comfortable chicken shirts.
Climate Progress » Blog Archive » After Bonn, a safe future for youth still in doubtToday’s guest blogger is Kyle Gracey, Chair for SustainUS and a graduate student in public policy and geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago.
In 2050, I’ll be 77, and given the pace of the climate talks in Bonn these two weeks, I’ll likely spend most of my retirement either under water or on fire.
Coldest day for 43 years | The AustralianCANBERRANS shivered through one of their coldest days on record yesterday as morning fog cleared, only to reveal a bank of cloud that kept a low lid on temperatures.
Canberra recorded a top of 4.1C at 2.34pm, the city's coldest June day since the mercury topped out at just 2.8C in 1966.
Common Sense and The Perils of Predictions « Watts Up With That?In spite of these spectacular failures of less complex computer modeling in economics and public health, the atmospheric sciences seem to be making similar miscalculations. If your common sense would lead you to disregard these models’ forecasts when planning your portfolio and whether you get a flu shot, I would suggest we adopt a much more modest approach to the use of climate models. While they are useful research tools, the numerous uncertainties (cloud feedback, particulates, volcanic ash, the current quiet sun, etc.) are so great we cannot claim to have forecast skill decades into the future.
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Michael R. Smith is CEO of WeatherData Services, Inc., An AccuWeather Company, and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Al Fin: Planet Earth's Air Conditioner SystemPlanet Earth has its own negative feedback climate control that keeps the sun from overheating the planet -- regardless of what humans do or don't do.
Climate models have not yet caught on to this dominant feature of global climate, but give them a few more decades and trillions of dollars in research grants, and they might. Of course, by then the developed economies will be wrecked by Obama / Gore / Pelosi / Boxer style energy starvation. But that's politics, right?
Twitter / FilmDoctorCarbon dioxide is NOT poison! Don't believe "climate change" pseudo-science hysteria!!!
C-SPAN Video Player - State Department Briefing on [Failed] Climate Change [Fraud Talks with China]U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern briefed reporters at the State Department on a U.S. delegation's recent trip to China to discuss climate change and energy issues. Following Mr. Stern's remarks, Philip Crowley, Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Public Affairs continued with daily remarks.
Washington, DC : 38 min.
Hot or cold on climate change? - (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)The issue of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has caused world wide consternation and fear that our use of carbon based energy sources is contributing to an increase in mean temperatures, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and a loss of biodiversity.
Experts are still divided, so on the Morning program we will present both sides of the debate in order for you to be able to make up your own mind.
Throughout the process we would like your comments, questions or opinions.
RAIN DENIED | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair BlogA Tim Flannery prediction from 2008:
The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.
We’ve hit 2009’s midway point, and Adelaide’s water supply is currently at 54 per cent of capacity. That’s more than 100,000 megalitres, with yet more to come:
Australian Climate Madness: The hidden [?] agenda of climate change...look closely at the organisations represented. Here are some of those I could spot (I'm sure other photos would reveal more):
* Socialist Youth Organisation
* Socialist Alliance
* Socialist Alternative
OK. Here comes the tricky question: what's the common feature of those organisations (I've given you a hint)…?
The reality is that these climate change protesters care less about the environment than imposing a socialist world order. You have been warned.
American Thinker: California's expensive policy for increasing CO2 emissionsIn April, California adopted a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Since then, Governor Schwarzenegger has been marketing the policy to other states and even Canada. (Both British Columbia and Ontario have agreed to adopt the standard). Until recently, a LCFS was an element of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454) but was dropped after it became clear that the standard would sink the bill. That's good news -- for now -- since the policy will, at best, be much more expensive and less effective than a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, and, at worst, increase global CO2 emissions.
For TVA, Nuclear Is a Cash Cow - Carl Shockley - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineOne of the biggest raps against nuclear power is that it can’t make money and requires huge subsidies from the federal government.
Tell that to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Exactly two years ago, the country’s largest public utility restarted Brown’s Ferry Unit 1 — a 1,100-megawatt reactor originally damaged in a 1976 fire that is generally regarded as the nation’s second worst nuclear accident. TVA spent $1.8 billion on the renovation and expected to pay off the construction debt in ten years.
Now it is finding the reactor may pay for itself in three years. Like most other reactors in the country, Brown’s Ferry is now making close to $2 million a day. “Once you get these things up and running, the operating expenses are minimal,” says David Blee, executive director of the U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council. “Once you pay off the construction debt, you’re sitting on a cash machine that may keep ringing up profits for another 60 years.”
Too much carbon isn’t enough | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogThe Rudd Government is demanding oil companies give us even more of the carbon stuff it also claims is killing the planet:
RESOURCE companies sitting on oil and gas reserves worth billions of dollars will be pressed to develop those deposits sooner or hand them to someone else under a “use it or lose it” policy being formulated by the Rudd Government.
Climate pact in jeopardy as China refuses to cut carbon emissions - Times OnlineChina will not make a binding commitment to reduce carbon emissions, putting in jeopardy the prospects for a global pact on climate change.
Officials from Beijing told a UN conference in Bonn yesterday that China would increase its emissions to develop its economy rather than sign up to mandatory cuts.
The refusal is a setback for President Obama’s efforts to drum up support for an agreement at Copenhagen in December on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. As argument erupted between rich and poor nations at the Bonn talks, Yvo de Boer, the UN climate change chief, said that a worldwide pact to prevent global warming was “physically impossible”.
[Should Todd Stern be fired for uttering one sentence that doesn't deny reality?]China Daily carried a report on Wednesday, saying China and the US had achieved nothing substantial at the bilateral climate change talks. But that was not to be, for shortly before boarding the flight back home on Wednesday afternoon, US climate change negotiator Todd Stern told China Daily: "We don't expect China to take a national cap (on greenhouse gas emission) at this stage."
The report in Thursday's edition carried the reaction of US environmentalists, who insisted that Stern's stance was temporary because the Sino-US climate change talks had just begun.
It seems that many American environmentalists and think tanks are not happy with Stern's performance in Beijing. A US source even said: "This kind of language can lead to Stern's resignation".
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...And can we stop politicizing climate change, and focus on life-and-death questions, because fighting climate change is a matter of life and death?
BBC And Climate: News Before Things Happen? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGEIn summary, BBC’s Phil Mercer’s “news” article has likely been pre-packaged with an “informed guess” using activists’ own estimates made long before any demonstration had taken place.
And it has been rushed up to appear as top “Top Story” in the Science & Environment page just in time for Britons to read early on Saturday morning: before any meaningful check about its content could be done. More: before any other major news media thought is meaningful to report about it. Google News, in fact, shows nothing else apart from what already listed above.
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Now…by what stretch of imagination can an organization rushing itself forward, with pre-packaged rather than breaking news, present itself as reporting on climate change impartially and without a bias? Were this any other aspect of politics, BBC news could easily be categorized as a political outlet.
Perhaps some Editor over there will have an answer to this…
Wind Watch: The Wind Debate: An expensive job killerIf electricity generated by wind power is competitive with other forms of electricity generation, why does it require such large subsidies? In 2008, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported the following relative subsidies, on a dollar-per-megawatt-hour basis, for 2007: natural gas at 25¢, coal at 44¢, hydro at 67¢, nuclear at $1.59 — and wind at $23.37. And why is the proposed feed-in tariff for wind power in Ontario ($13.5 per kilowatt hour) and related costs at least twice the prevailing price for electricity in the province? If wind power is competitive, why doesn’t the wind industry renounce all subsidies?
I hope all the light bulbs are CFLs: Admiral Abramovich launches his £300million mega-yachtski: The world's biggest (and it even has its own submarine) | Mail OnlineIt is the biggest private yacht in existence and comes with a missile-detection system, two helipads, a luxury spa, swimming pool and a miniature submarine.
But when you're Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, only the most ostentatious displays of wealth will do.
His latest baby is the Eclipse, a 557-footer reported to have cost a staggering £300million.
Results: Lab experiment regarding CO2 “snow” in Antarctica at -113°F (-80.5°C) – not possible « Watts Up With That?Basically, there are so few CO2 molecules in the free atmosphere, sublimation rules over deposition as a solid. Yes some CO2 may deposit on a surface at at -80.5 C (-113F ), but it would quickly sublimate back into the free atmosphere, and thus accumulation would not occur.
Argentine Glacier Grows Despite Global Warming - Science News BOSTON — Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago.
Teachers to [be fed climate fraud propaganda]Each year, the University of Iowa's International Programs hosts teachers from around the state for a program focused on what Iowans need to know about the rest of the world.
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This year, the topic is global climate change and its political implications, said Buffy Quintero, International Programs Outreach Coordinator, who is helping organize this year's event.
"The purpose is to give teachers the most current and up-to-date information on global climate change and to share our expertise," Quintero said. "It is one of the most critical issues facing the next generation and our generation."
Miranda Devine: Fielding changes Canberra's climateOf course, he has been pilloried for being diligent enough to do the job he was elected to do.
He has been derided by people without any training in mathematics or scientific disciplines, who regard science, probably, as they do their computers - as a little black box to be understood only by an elite council of infallible gurus who are incapable of impure motives. Who is the gullible one?
The online newsletter Crikey described Fielding's trip to the US as "a futile mission based on a misguided assumption", a sick "stunt" akin to the Chaser terminal child illness skit. "The world is way beyond debating the science of climate change", it said. Oh, yeah?
Fielding has been smeared as a religious nutter, even though the real religious nutters are the green zealots who are hell-bent on destroying farming and mining for the sake of, at best, a minuscule environmental benefit.
Maybe we're all just too, too bored to bother saving the planetThe trouble is not the lack of hard evidence but that hard evidence tends to be technical and unphotogenic, and not many media outlets do technical and unphotogenic these days.
Amazonian shaman Davi Yanomami [promotes climate fraud]: 'Climate change is extremely dangerous for all of us' | Environment | guardian.co.ukShaman Davi Yanomami talks about the threat posed to South American Indians by loggers, miners and climate change
Jeremy Clarkson on why Gordon Brown won’t resign as Prime Minister | The SunAS I lit a fire last night and ramped the heating up a notch, I recalled that back in the spring the Met Office announced that we were in for a long, hot summer.
Egg? Face? Or a plot?
Because let's not forget that the Met Office is a Government organisation and that the Government needs us to have tangible evidence of global warming so it can keep screwing everyone with green taxes.
Bonn Wrap-Up: Global Climate Treaty This Year Looks Increasingly "Impossible" | SolveClimate.comThe next round of talks will take place in Bonn from August 10-14, followed by a series of meetings in Bangkok from September 28-October 9 and one in Barcelona from November 2-6. Then comes Copenhagen from December 7-18, where the world's governments are supposed to agree on a post-Kyoto climate deal, the most important treaty ever negotiated.
At this point, though, it seems the best we can hope for is that the world is able to agree in principle to an agreement in Copenhagen, and allow the detailed negotiations to continue into 2010.
There's no way around it, said de Boer,
"We’re still a long way from the ambitious emission reduction scenarios that are a beacon for the world."
Blame Game Leads to Climate [Swindle] Deadlock in Bonn | Environment | AlterNetGone are the days when U.S. special climate envoy Todd Stern received thundering applause for simply showing up at the UN negotiating table. The U.S. is quickly losing political capital as governments and civil society organizations question where the ambitious leadership promised during Obama's campaign and early days in office has gone.
US cities may have to be bulldozed [with hybrid bulldozers?] in order to survive - TelegraphDozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
UN Says Bonn Talks Are a Step Closer to Copenhagen Climate TreatyBonn chairman said talks had been 'surprisingly good-humored' while green campaigners said no major issues were resolved
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The UN's top climate [fraud] official today insisted that international talks ending today had made significant progess towards a new treaty on global warming.
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said: "A big achievement of this meeting is that governments have made it clearer what they want to see in the Copenhagen agreed outcome."
The meeting in Bonn, Germany, discussed draft negotiating texts that will form the basis for a new agreement on climate change to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The UN says it expects the deal to be "clinched" at a meeting in Copenhagen in December.
De Boer added: "In my view, an ambitious and effective agreed outcome in Copenhagen is in sight."
We're saved!: Hip Hop Caucus Fights Poverty and Climate Change by 'Greening the Block' Urban poverty and climate change significantly affect low-income and minority communities. A new Hip Hop Caucus campaign, Green The Block, aims to educate and mobilize urban and low-income youth to push public policies that address poverty and climate change at the same time.
For President Obama, Energy Is More Important Than Climate Change [Fraud] « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGEThat is, 3,066 “Obama” whitehouse.gov pages talk of “energy” but not of “global warming”; and not even once “Obama” pages mention “global warming” but not “energy”.
Just out of curiosity: only 4 “Obama” pages talk of “climate change” but not of “energy”.
One can safely assume that for President Obama, global warming/climate change is a sideshow to the far, far bigger issue of the future of energy. Therefore, when and if a choice will have to be made between “energy” and “global warming”, in all likelihood the current US Administration will choose “energy”.
Committee on Energy and Commerce, Republicans : Press Release :: Intimidation Has No Place in Government, Republicans Tell Waxman, MarkeyWASHINGTON – Intimidation and abuse of witnesses who disagree with ruling Democrats must not be permitted in the Energy and Commerce Committee, 20 of the panel’s Republicans told Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey, D-Mass., Friday. At issue is the curious case of an energy company executive who, within hours of challenging the cost analysis of Waxman-Markey global warming legislation, found himself the target of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission inquiry requested that day by Chairman Markey.
“Our committee has a responsibility to the American people to ensure that when we exercise our constitutional powers, we do it fairly and in a manner that engenders public confidence and leads to the truth. When citizens appear voluntarily before this committee to testify, we expect them to tell the truth,” the Republican lawmakers wrote. “Our witnesses, in turn, have every right to expect that in exchange for their honesty with us, they will not be subjected to sanction, retribution and vengeance simply because the facts and opinions they offer do not square with those of the committee’s members. Exercising the power of the majority requires a special responsibility to protect witnesses.”
The UN's secretary-general: The score at half-time | The EconomistTo his credit, climate change was Mr Ban’s early priority. He brought together government heads and nudged their officials along when agreement seemed elusive, putting his best Secretariat brains to work on the issue.
climate talks fail on all crucial issuesDelegates at the latest Unites Nations climate talks in Bonn agreed that they disagree on almost all crucial issues, after another long round of negotiations about the future of our planet ended, with little progress on the substantial issues.
“It is a bit like a classroom with bad students. They hope somehow they can get through by hiding behind their classmates, a little bit of tricks, hoping the teacher will not notice,” said Kim Carstensen, leader of WWF’s Global Climate Initiative. “Only that the consequences here are different. Not only you stay behind but you drag the whole world down with you.”
While scientists agree that the pace of devastating climate change is accelerating and bring new evidence showing that natural disasters caused by rising temperatures will hit the poorest and most vulnerable, rich nations have failed to make any sacrifices and concessions.
June 2009: CLIMATE CHANGE: Obama Sounds Too Much Like BushEchoing general disappointment with the new U.S. administration, Karen Orenstein of Friends of the Earth U.S. said: "The election of President (Barack) Obama created tremendous hope worldwide that the U.S. would finally play a leadership role in solving the climate crisis that - more than any other nation on earth - it is responsible for causing.
"Unfortunately for the survival of people and the planet, the Obama administration's position at these UN negotiations sounds frighteningly similar to that of (former U.S. president) George Bush."
June 2008: Text of Obama's speech Tuesday[Obama] ....this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal...
China Breaks with Climate CrusadersChina prudently recognizes that mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases will reduce GDP and punish economic recovery and future prosperity. President Obama projects government receipts of $646 billion from a new national carbon trading (taxing) system to mitigate greenhouse gases. Such “cap-and-trade” systems have been tried in the EU since 2005, and have failed both market and environmental goals. Ironically, Obama, his Climate Czar and his ambitious Climate Cabinet could learn a lot about capitalism from the Communist Chinese. Including the realization that during global economic recession:
1. Carbon cap-and-trade schemes will not pass Congress, and ;
2. Without controls on all global greenhouse gas emitters, nothing the US does in the way of costly greenhouse gas reductions will impact climates.
Lobbyists Battle Over Climate [Swindle] Bill's Escape Hatch on Carbon Penalties - NYTimes.comA provision in the House climate bill that offers a controversial hedge against high costs for curbing carbon is a top target for lobbyists -- with one pack fighting to expand it and another to strip it out.
The focus is on emission offsets.
Climate Change Conference Ends Without Agreement - washingtonpost.comUnited Nations conference on climate change -- intended to lay the groundwork for a global agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions in December -- concluded today with negotiators little closer to a deal.
The conference in Bonn, Germany, follows a U.S. House committee's passage of a bill to cap American emissions. The bill's sponsors had hoped it would inspire the world to take serious action against climate change.
That didn't happen.
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"Parties are not agreeing, but they're disagreeing in a very polite and civil way," said diplomat Michael Zammit Cutajar, who chaired a panel at the talks, in an online press briefing.
Journey to a hostile climate | theage.com.auTHEY'RE on talkback most days. They're writing for the letters page or thundering from opinion columns. You can find several archetypes neatly rounded up in Canberra, in the Senate, where Steve Fielding is the new doubter, Bob Brown is the old believer, Nick Xenophon is alarmed at the problem but unpersuaded by the solution, and Ron Boswell explodes at the very mention.
They are individuals finding different voices to reconcile their beliefs, ideologies, aspirations and histories with the alarm bells of climate science.
I wonder if it will contain a nice selection of climate realist books: TERI launches specialised library on climate changeNew Delhi (PTI): In a first of its kind initiative in the country, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) on Friday launched a specialised library on climate change to spread awareness and information on the issue.
Ambassador of Norway Ann Ollestad inaugurated the library in presence of climate expert and TERI Director General R.K. Pachauri, who said "the initiative is important to create resources from where people can gain knowledge about climate change".
Lack of global warming hits Obama's hometown -- chicagotribune.comLittle League players have gotten a raw deal, said Jack Pruitt, head coach of the Welles Park Minor League Tigers in Lincoln Square.
"The rain hasn't been as much an issue as the cold," said Pruitt. "You can just see [the players] are just not as comfortable" when temperatures drop.
In Gurnee, the Park District won't open its Hunt Club Park Aquatic Center unless the forecast calls for a high temperature of at least 70 degrees. You would think that 70 is an easy benchmark for June. But using that threshold, the district's marketing director, Jennifer Gilbert, said the outdoor pool remained locked 9 of 15 scheduled swim days so far this year. On the six days it did open, the pool either opened late or closed early because of inclement weather.
On Thursday morning, swim enthusiasts heard familiar news.
"The aquatic center will be closed due to low temperatures," said a forlorn voice on the facility's answering machine.
Challenges Abound for Wine Grape Growers This Season | Lancaster FarmingJean Manspeaker, owner of Briar Valley Vineyard and Winery in Bedford, Pa., noticed the effects the late-spring chilly weather had on her vines when she and her husband returned from a trip to France on May 27.
“All of our vines are brown. We’re a total loss,” she said. “We totally didn’t expect that to happen.”
Temperatures during the May frosts have gotten down to as low as 28 degrees Fahrenheit in her area.
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...the recent cold weather snaps have been unusual to say the least.
Mark Chien, Penn State’s statewide wine grape educator, wrote in his May 20 wine grape newsletter about the trouble some growers throughout the state are having with frost injury.
He wrote that growers should start adjusting to a new reality this season — reduced crop and possibly a delayed harvest.
Crop concern grows"We cannot afford to have an early frost this year at all. Certainly that's something we cannot afford to have anywhere on the Prairies."
The CWB's production estimates for western Canadian wheat, durum and barley have fallen due to the late, cold spring.
The marketing agency is predicting a 20 per cent production drop to 29.7 million tonnes in the 2009 crop year, down from last year's 36.7 million tonnes, and also below the five-year average of 33.9 million tonnes. The all-wheat yield estimate of 33.4 bushels per acre is the lowest initial projection in seven years, says the CWB.
The consistent pattern of well-below-normal temperatures, which has persisted for five or six months, comes from a strong meteorological anomaly over Hudson Bay, said Burnett.
Weather History - In June 1877, how many Hummers were on US roads?1877
The temperature at Los Angeles, CA reached 112° during a heat wave. It would have been the all-time record for Los Angeles but official records did not begin until 20 days later.
The True Climate Mechanisms by Stephen Wilde | Climate RealistsEverything we see in the air and the oceans is part of that natural energy balancing interaction and human emissions have no part to play other than a very small insignificant human induced shift in positions or intensities of the main high pressure systems. Wholly imperceptible in the face of natural variability.
Fraudster Al Gore weighs in: We Can LeadSolving the climate crisis is good for American business, no matter what climate deniers want you to believe.
ICE Canola Pressured By Bearish Outside MarketsDuring its annual industry briefing on Thursday, the Canadian Wheat Board said it expects Canadian barley production to fall to 8.9 million tonnes in 2009-10 compared to 11.2 million tonnes last year. Cold weather is delaying crop development, which leaves the crop at greater risk of being damaged by fall frosts.
Temperatures rise in frozen Prince of Wales Hospital | The Daily TelegraphDOZENS of patients were left in freezing conditions, some so cold they could not eat, after one of Sydney's leading hospitals failed to fix a broken heating system as temperatures plunged during this week's cold snap.
Instapundit » Blog ArchiveTHE FIERCE MORAL URGENCY OF CHANGE: Washington Post: Obama Is Right to Allow Mountaintop Removal Mining. “DURING THE campaign and after his election, President Obama left environmentalists in coal country with the distinct impression that he was going to do away with mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachians.” But he didn’t, and that’s a good thing! “While Mr. Obama may have wanted voters to believe otherwise, he never flat-out said he would end this brand of mining. His decision reflects energy and political realities.”
Buying Off the Farmers or Causing Farmers to “Buy the Farm”? » The FoundryTo convince farmers the cap and trade energy tax is a good idea, politicians are using offsets as a revenue opportunity for farmers. Generically, offsets work like this: If a company is emitting carbon dioxide and cannot meet the reduction targets, the company can pay someone else to change their behavior to do something that may have otherwise done. That is, you can pay a logger not cut down trees or you can pay someone to grow trees. If it sounds silly and fraught with fraud, it is. It’s difficult to monitor and regulate. It’s also very easy to manipulate. A country can build a cleaner coal plant saying they were going to build a dirtier one. So the plan to save the planet that will cost Americans $4,300 on average in higher energy prices is relying heavily on counterfactuals, what-ifs and hypotheticals?
Electric vehicle "glut" might be coming, so watch these five companiesActually, here's how analyst Mike Omotoso's figuring goes: right now, governments and greenies are the driving force behind electric cars. WIth the high cost of the plug-ins and the low cost of gas, there just won't be enough customer demand for EVs once the initial rush (and the first wave of subsidies) is over.
Small Cars Don’t Sell Are the Future - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineDetroit, Mich. — The future of GM and Chrysler depend on increasing their production of small cars and hybrids, says the Obama administration — even as sales of small cars and hybrids are in the tank.
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Trouble is, Chrysler will be selling in the U.S. market where small car sales in May dove 39 percent compared to a 27 percent decline in SUV sales.
With its vast experience running auto companies, however, Washington apparently sees something that the industry has been missing all these years.
The Absurdity of Carbon [Fraud] in Canada - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineThis would be funny if it wasn't putting lives at risk:
The Lower Mainland's health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.'s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints.
Critics say the payments mean the government's strategy to fight climate change will further exacerbate a crisis in health funding.
"You have public hospitals cutting services to pay a [climate fraud] tax that goes to another 100 per cent government-owned agency," NDP health critic Adrian Dix said.
"That just doesn't make sense."
Hillary Clinton [suggests that carbon dioxide has hampered the world's farmers]: Attacking Hunger at Its RootsWe are committed to maintaining natural resources, so the land can be farmed well into the future. That includes helping developing communities adapt to climate change, which has had a major effect on the world's farms.
Science, belief and rational debateIn the meantime, the belief in the greenhouse has hypothesis is such that legitimate criticism based on contradictory evidence – the lack of predicted warming of the upper troposphere, the measured cooling of Antarctica, the lack of change in the rate of sea level rise or the failure of the models to explain or predict recent temperature trends, for example – are dismissed as the propaganda of paid lobbyists or cranks. All societies will gain if we make sure we understand the problem before taking corrective action rather than jump on the currently fashionable bandwagon. Addressing critics' questions seriously is a necessary first step.
Whatever the result, a better understanding of our climate will ensure that we take appropriate action rather than invest so much in one particular preferred "solution" which shows little chance of success. Whatever the result, science will be the stronger for it. But, if things continue as they are and the catastrophists' view of climate change turns out to be wrong, it would hardly be surprising if the average person fails to place much faith in science.
David Friedman: Arctic Sea Ice Briefly ContinuedI concluded that he, unlike the gentleman at NASA, understood my question, and that his real answer was that it was all right to lie to people about the evidence as long as you were telling them what you thought was the truth about the conclusion. I sent him off a reference to the Orwell piece that discusses the dangers of suppressing the truth for fear that it would "play into the hands of" the opposition.
And I now know that nothing said by NASA/JPL ought to be trusted. Readers of this blog may want to check the JPL claim against the data for themselves before deciding whether or not they agree with that conclusion. I have provided the links above.
I Love CO2: Record low June temperatures around the world, againRecord low temperatures in 18 states - 6 Jun 09
Record low temperatures in 15 states - 5 Jun 09
Record low max temperatures in 24 states - 5 Jun 09
Record low temperatures in 11 states – 4 Jun 09
Record low max temperatures in 20 states - 4 Jun 09
Record low temperatures in seven states - 3 Jun 09
Record low max temperatures in 10 states - 3 Jun 09
The Blackboard » My reaction to a quote.Basically, it’s been pretty well understood that a bunch of parameterizations, each of which may appear plausible individually, may, when collected together, result in a system of equations that violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics in at least some instances. Or, the system may just do “weird things” (i.e. like being ill-posed.)
If these “unanticipated and unphysical interactions between its component parameterizations” can arise in bubbly flows, flows of sprays and gas-solid flows, why would anyone be surprised that similar interactions might apply in climate flows?
Global Shamming: Give Up Certain Foods and Alcohol to Fight WarmingI truly hope all this hogwash fails like the stupid BS it is! I will not stop eating food that I prefer; I will not stop drinking alcohol. I will not stop driving a gas-powered car. I will not stop eating tomatoes. I will keep using regular light bulbs as long as they're available.
Show your loyalty. Sell your Prius. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedStateWe’ve already established that this administration considers falling in with its policy positions to be ‘patriotic‘: and clearly, supporting the GM/Chrysler takeover is falling in with its policy positions. Considering that - as usual - the Political Class is wildly divergent from mainstream America when it comes to this issue, it is clearly their patriotic duty to make certain that the GM/Chysler bailout succeeds. That means selling that hybrid made by a foreign auto company and buying an American car*. And since it’s a crisis, well, they need to do that right now. Everything else has to be, so this should be, too.
If they were really loyal, they’d do it.
How the Global Warming Bill Will Affect Your Wallet - US News and World ReportHow much will the Waxman-Markey bill cost the average American?
GOP Energy Plan: Nuclear Plants and Global Warming Denial | ChattahBox News Blog(ChattahBox)—If the Republicans had their way, they would recreate our majestic American landscape into a grim terrain clogged with smog and pollution, scores of nuclear power plants and our natural environment defaced with strip mining, oil-shale drilling operations, “clean-coal” plants and oil refineries.
Think of the bleak post-apocalyptic version of the world depicted in the cult film classic, “Mad Max” and you get the idea.
House GOP: Let's Pretend We Care About Climate Change - The PlankSounds great! But, as Brad Plumer points out, the GOP energy bill specifically proclaims, "Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming." It's not surprising they think this, because the key drafters of the bill are climate change skeptics. Obviously, the Republicans aren't willing to impose higher prices on CO2 emissions because they don't think CO2 emissions are a problem. But they're pretending that they just have a magical free way to solve the problem rather than admit they don't really think it's a problem at all.
The Associated Press: UN climate chief confident of global warming pactYvo de Boer [former Dutch housing bureaucrat], the top U.N. climate change official, said he was confident of reaching an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen, though it will lack details that will require further work.
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On Thursday, India's chief delegate Shyam Saran said his country rejects any limitations on its development, but is willing to allow outside scrutiny of programs built from international funding and the transfer of technology.
Batchelor: Ice Age Ever Cometh « RBOThe true believers are much in the news, especially from the White House; you can see how a scary bedtime story of melting climates can focus the cohesive Democratic electorate to endorse the carbon tax. The doubters are not much in the news, and I speak with the wily coyote Marc Morano of Climate Depot now and again to find balance.
[Climate Fraud Promotion] Gets Teachers Dirty: Workshop Participants Hope [To Brainwash Students]The field trips were part of a four-day workshop for the elementary, junior high and high school teachers to learn more about global climate change and renewable energy. The second annual "Global Climate Change in the Southwest: An Academy for Educators," was hosted by SRP and the Arizona Foundation for Resource Education.
Dawn Koberstein, a consultant with the foundation and the math facilitator at Chandler's Frye Elementary School, said the goal is to leave teachers with a better understanding of global climate change and its impact on the environment.
"It starts by teaching children because they are our future," Koberstein said. "The kids go home and tell their parents. That's where change happens. It's better to start young."
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John Jung, a Mesa High School environmental science and geometry teacher, said he was looking for activities that will get his kids energized.
"I always felt environmental education should be required," Jung said. "We're at a tipping point of where we are with our species."
Ditch ‘warming’ and start talking ‘deteriorating atmosphere,’ PR firm says | GristThe non-profit PR shop ecoAmerica finally released the findings of its public opinion research today, bringing a trove of information about how on-the-fence Americans respond to different messages about climate change and energy.
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* Ditch “global warming.” It makes people think of Al Gore more than anything else, too polarizing. “Climate change” is almost as bad. “Our deteriorating atmosphere” is the term soccer moms and other “environmental agnostics” respond to best, the report found.
* Likewise, people don’t want to hear about “cap-and-trade.” Too wonky. When you’re talking about cap-and-trade, call it “Clean Energy Dividend” or “Clean Energy Cash Back.”
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OK, but the report doesn’t seem to acknowledge that most people have bull**** detectors that kick in at some point. Calling a cap-and-trade plan “clean energy cash back” makes it sound like you’re promising to create money out of thin air. You can call it a “free beer and hot wings” plan, but at some point, citizens are going to ask for more than spin.
Is "Our Deteriorating Atmosphere" The Best Way To Talk Climate?Well, not to be outdone, HuffPost Green has its own highly scientific method of market research that we'd like to try out. Let us know what you think [poll]:
How To Talk About Global WarmingEcoAmerica released the results of a survey it did to figure out how Americans best respond to discussions about global warming. The number one mistake made by environmentalists? Calling it global warming.
Apparently it's better to say our "deteriorating atmosphere." That sounds like idiotic hooey to us.
Guest commentary: Climate change reconsidered: reasons to question beliefsThus, contrary to claims by the anthropogenic climate change community, there is stark evidence that we are not the culprit. And before we spend “anything that it takes” to solve this now unproven problem, we may want to reassess public opinion. In fact, given that large parts of the world won’t make the changes that the U.S. and Europe are considering, it seems folly to have some nations air condition themselves while others leave the “barn doors open.”
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Mogil is a certified consulting meteorologist, retired National Weather Service employee and a longtime weather educator.
Wait 'til next year: U.S. climate [fraud] bill, U.N. pact seen more likely in 2010 | Green Business | Reuters"Action in the Senate will be far more difficult than in the House," Eileen Claussen, president of the Washington-based nonprofit the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, told an Environmental Finance conference on Thursday. She said it's "nowhere near certain" that the bill would come to a Senate vote this year.
Two obstacles stand in the way. First, advocates must convince the public the bill, which might initially raise electricity and other energy prices, will ultimately save money by heading off damage caused by global warming.
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"I don't think not reaching an agreement (in 2009) will be particularly dire," one carbon market broker said.
Not green enough? Oregon's Prius (hybrid) tax credit could go as of Jan. 1, but will still issue tax credits for cars that are half coal-powered | GORE LIEDApparently, the hybrids just aren’t green enough for the Green Governor. And the plug-in electric cars are? Here in Portland, Oregon about 50% of our electricity is generated by hydro, and about 50% is generated by fossil fuels (coal and natural gas), and around 1% is generatated by wind, and other so-called renewable sources. So the plug-in electric cars that will still qualify for the Oregon tax credit will truly be powered by about 50% fossil fuels, 50% hydro, and about 1% wind, etc. I’m not sure the Green Governor really gives a damn about that pesky detail, as he’s likely more concerned about perception than reality
Tweeter is indoctrinating her students 'one classroom at a time' | GORE LIEDHey wendyboneabroad! If you are teaching 5th graders or younger, be sure to tell them the real inconvenient truth – that the earth has cooled their entire lives. If you don’t, you’re misleading them.
Investors.com - Neither Taxing Nor Rationing CO2 Survives Cost Vs. Benefit AnalysisSomebody should tell Energy Secretary Steven Chu that commencement speakers are supposed to give new graduates good advice. His Harvard commencement address last Thursday laid out some pretty poor premises for addressing the challenge of climate change:
Carbon conmen selling the sky: A con stacked on the carbon trading scam, which itself is stacked on the global warming scamPAPUA NEW GUINEAN landowners are being ripped off by conmen travelling village to village offering fake carbon trading deals and promising big returns from "sky money".
The crude carbon trading racket has duped at least 500 villagers since late last year around Popondetta, Oro province, on the north-west coast, an industry insider said.
Nike, Aspen, Clif Bar Run Full Page Climate [Scam] Ad In NY Times | Transworld BusinessIndustry members Nike, Aspen, and Clif Bar have joined a growing number of companies petitioning the government to enact a mandatory cap and trade program for green house gas emissions. The group put its money where its mouth is by taking out the following full page ad in the New York Tmes:
MinnPost - D.C. Dispatches: Peterson urges changes in energy and climate-change legislation“A lot of us on the [Agriculture] Committee do not want the EPA near our farms,” Peterson, who chairs the panel, told Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack at today’s packed hearing in Washington. “And, I don’t think you are going to get any type of a bill through Congress, whatever the administration wants, that is going to have that system, for whatever it is worth.”
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“My big problem is that they are mixing climate change together with energy independence,” Peterson told reporters Wednesday. “I don’t think that is smart.”
Caterpillar CEO Commits to Pro-Cap-and-Trade Lobbying Course While Admitting Risk to USA and His Own Corporation"Caterpillar CEO Owens' flippant remark that stockholders can just sell their stock if Caterpillar's lobbying efforts harm the company leaves me wondering: Does Owens expect us to sell our stock in America, too? Because by lobbying for legislation that would harm individual Americans and American competitiveness, it sure seems like that's what Mr. Owens and his board of directors have done," said Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. "Mr. Owens freely admits the legislation his firm backs will hurt the country and his company unless it also is adopted by major nations worldwide, but everyone knows the powerhouses China and India have no interest in doing so."
In Alternate Energy Plan, GOP Calls for 100 New Nuclear Plants in 20 years - Political News - FOXNews.comRep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, was a little more blunt.
"They like to call it ACES but I call it C.R.A.P. -- continue ruining America's prosperity," he said.
Unlike the Democratic bill which sets a goal of cutting carbon emissions by 83 percent by 2050, House Republicans argue that a targeted CO2 cut is unnecessary, unrealistic and too costly, and that the constraints on manufacturers will drive them overseas where they face limited pollution constraints.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, ridiculed the Democratic proposal as "lunacy."
"They have the idea that they and that the government can control how much carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere," he said. "At the end of the day we are going to do more for the environment with this all-of-the-above approach than they are with their cap and trade."
Barton added the impact of the Democratic proposal will be catastrophic for industry but negligible on the environment.
"Is it worth it to you to have the trillions and trillions of dollars and millions of jobs lost so that at best, 40 years from the average world temperature, whatever that number means, is two degrees Celsius less than it would be otherwise?," he asked, citing an EPA analysis of the Democratic bill. "I think the answer to that question is no."
Playing politics with global warming « Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind FarmsEditor:
One more reason to question global warming.
We are being manipulated into accepting a global carbon tax propagated by dubious science.
If they succeed in their “EVIL” scheme, your life and the lives of your children will be negatively impacted forever.
Think about it! A tax on ever aspect of your life because without carbon NOTHING exists.
Australia’s ‘Carbon Police’ May Enter Premises According to the Climate Change Minister’s office, the federal agents would be expected to enter premises and request paperwork to monitor firms’ emissions reductions, acting act on the Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority’s orders.
Pop Vox: Newsweek's Daily Arts and Culture Blog : Author Michael Pollan [promotes climate fraud; also informs farmers that cows won't die if you feed them a little corn]Gostin: Why is it so terrible that cows eat corn?
Pollan: Because it makes them sick when they eat it in large quantities. A little corn is not going to kill them, but when it's 80 to 90 percent of their diet, it deranges their metabolism.
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...Your meat consumption is probably your biggest contribution to climate change.
frocksonbikes.org tries to sell us on the alleged joys of riding a bike in bitter cold [to fight global warming]And the convenience factor of Frocking around still holds. When less fortunate people are waiting, frozen, for steamy, germ-filled buses (which seem to be even more erratic when it’s cold), you zoom past on your own timetable – sporting a pretty glow in your cheeks!
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That said, we’re not in denial of the single-digit temperatures, nor the Southerly gales that remind you there’s nothing between little Aotearoa and big old Antarctica.
The Waxman/Markey Energy Bill: Hey, who turned out the lights?? | the 941We no longer have just a theory behind the suspicions, but we have the science that backs the arguments. Even the scientists have given us a how-to manual with little stickers to put on the calendar that mark the years of our efforts. And to top it off, we have a Democratic majority! What more could we ask for?
Well frankly, a lot.
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