Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Inhofe: Boxer using 'corporate prostitutes' to sell climate bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
Inhofe predicted that the climate bill would only get 30 votes in the Senate based on his vote count of last year's Warner-Lieberman climate change legislation.
Climate change believer takes firm to tribunal | Environment | The Guardian
A man who claims he was unfairly dismissed from his job because he believes in climate change is attempting to have his environmental views recognised under religious law.No consensus yet on climate change: Hulme | mydigitalfc.com
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Nicholson, from Oxford, said his views – which compelled him to make his home more eco-friendly and do not allow him to fly – affect his entire life. In a witness statement to the previous hearing, he said: "I have a strongly-held philosophical belief about climate change and the environment. I believe we must urgently cut carbon emissions to avoid catastrophic climate change."
Hulme argues that the idea of climate change is so elastic that one can shape it, change it and mould it to suit one’s particular interest. “The reality is that there is little convergence among different interest groups,” he said. What everyone agrees is the existence of this problem, how humans are altering climate and how bad it is for the human society. But their preferred solutions are diametrically in the opposite directions.An Ice Artist's Poignant Plea to Halt Global Warming : TreeHugger
Despite all the scientific and anecdotal evidence, some people still manage to be skeptical, unaware, or just plain unconcerned about global warming and its effect on both people and planet. For those on whom facts and figures haven't worked, the World Wildlife Fund must have thought, a beautiful and haunting piece of art just might.Sorry: I looked at the picture, but I'm still not convinced that CO2 is dangerous.
Stunning stupidity from alarmist Marc Gunther: Comparing the Chamber of Commerce to Letterman
About Marc Gunther
So now America’s biggest business lobby and late-night comic David Letterman have something in common: They have really, really embarrassed themselves.Hey Marc Gunther, try this "mainstream" on for size.
Of course, there are significant differences between Letterman’s womanizing and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s backward-looking opposition to climate-change legislation, which is causing the chamber to lose members, prestige and, worst of all, clout.
For one thing, the chamber’s blunder was entirely unnecessary [so Letterman’s womanizing was necessary?].
For another, the chamber has yet to apologize.
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This is a little nutty, and it’s hard to know why the chamber would venture so far outside of the mainstream. Maybe ideological blinders?
About Marc Gunther
Marc has a B.A. from Yale University, where he majored in English.
[The dawn of the Industrial Revolution was hundreds of years ago; why aren't these bears dead yet?]: Alaska oil explorers encountering more polar bears | Green Business | Reuters
There were 321 polar bear sightings in and around Alaska oil and gas operations in 2007 and 313 in 2008, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That is about four times the annual average posted for the period of 1994 through 2000.New polar bear rule sent to White House | Reuters
Obama administration Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on May 8 that the melting of polar bear habitat is "an environmental tragedy of the modern age."Art Horn - Global Warming is Neither
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Asked about the new proposed rule, John Kostyack of the National Wildlife Federation said the Obama administration needs to be more "honest with the science than the previous administration."
"There is extremely strong link between climate change and the decline of the polar bear, and if we hope to conserve the polar bear for future generations, we're going to have to take some strong steps to reduce the non-climate stressors ... the chief one would be oil and gas development," Kostyack said in a telephone interview.
The 1960s population estimation of polar bears was 5,000. Today that number is 25,000.Featured interview: U.S. lawyer John Jackson on polar bear hunt | MoreCanadian
MoreCanadian.com: Do you think polar bears should be on the endangered species list in the first place?
John Jackson: No, they should not. The listing was premature and too all-encompassing. Why deprive native people of their most valuable resource decades before projected ice melt, including areas where summer meltdown is not forecasted? Most if not all of the bear today will have died of natural causes before the projected ice melt. At least half of the bear are in areas not projected to melt in the summer. Many bear do well without summer ice, like the Davis Strait population which is increasing and has never had summer ice. Many learned meteorologists believe that the 11 year long solar cycles are important and that we will be in an unpleasantly cold period by 2020. Many areas will improve for that 11-year period. Much of the Arctic ice has been too thick and permanent to support bear and prey and should improve as it warms.
The main “cause” of global warming is air conditioners. p7 « JoNova
Seriously, who would put a sensor which gets periodically blasted with hot air from machines that generate anything up to 100,000 horsepower of thrust? Not to mention the two square kilometers of tarmac that absorbs heat 12 hours a day. Is there any chance that a thermometer so close to all that asphalt or concrete would record the same temperature as one in a field of cows?EPA Air Chief Offers 'No Apologies' for Greenhouse-Gas Permitting Rule - NYTimes.com
Since its release last week, the rule has come under fire from industry groups and many clean air experts, who argue that EPA does not have the legal authority to raise the threshold for greenhouse gas emissions. Many observers fear that courts will overturn the rule, leading to strict regulatory requirements for small sources like hospitals and schools.Clean-Energy Execs Take Pitch for Climate [Fraud] Bill to White House - NYTimes.com
"This is not about politics [or carbon dioxide?]; this is about people and jobs," said Dave Vieau, CEO of A123Systems Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based maker of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. "Anyone here who runs a business, and many of you do, knows that if you're going to make effective long-term plans, you've got to understand the rules of the game.
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The investor coalition Ceres and the Clean Economy Network organized this week's fly-in of executives from more than 100 companies, representing sectors as diverse as renewable energy, information technology and athletic apparel.
Garth George: Copenhagen blabfest is a load of hot air - World - NZ Herald News
It is clear that the theory that CO2 causes dangerous global warming is false. It predicted increasing warming as the CO2 content rose. But temperatures fell, twice in the past 100 years. Now, in another fraudulent about face, they will try to say that man's CO2 is now causing the cooling. In other words, no matter what happens, they will adjust the theory to claim it proves their failed thesis. This is pseudo-science.Why global warming isn't taking a break | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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What a disgraceful waste of time, resources and money this whole business is.
This article was shared by our content partner RealClimate, part of the Guardian Environment NetworkAmSpecBlog : Arlen Specter, Potential Cap 'n' Traitor
Cap and trade is going to prove an even tougher sell than health care.
Winter-like weather could impact Rockies vs Phillies playoff series
Current forecast models are showing temperatures for start of the game Saturday to be in the upper 30’s and a 30 to 50% chance of snow. Wind chills could be dipping to the upper 20’s. A lot can change with the forecast between now and 7:37pm Saturday when the first pitch of the game is thrown out. However, this definitely bears watching.[Odd stuff]: Why I Shouldn’t Date an Annex 1 Guy « It’s Getting Hot In Here
Among the 12 of us tracking the delegations here at Bangkok , I’m really tempted to go out in the evenings after a hard day’s work in the negotiations. I think after running after 60 year old negotiators from my country I require some youthful energy to enthuse the atmosphere!United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From the perspective of a Non Annex 1 girl ,I feel that it would be literally impossible for me to find love among my team of 12 (keep in mind, there are no non annex 1 guys) due to the following very very STRONG reasons...
Annex I countries (industrialized countries): Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of AmericaWhy Copenhagen Climate Talks Will Fail – The New China Syndrome (Part 3)
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the environment.CLIMATE KOOK ALERT: Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data « Lake Minnetonka Liberty 2.0
We have collectively been conned on a monumental scale by a hoax that has now turned into a scam, and to make that scam acceptable they give it a really friendly title, the idea being …. how could you disagree with something that is just so good.
I keep telling you it’s a scam, I keep telling you it’s about the money, the power and nothing else, and still, there are people dumb enough to buy in to the hoax of man made climate change. Unbelievable how feeble-minded some are. It defies logic and common sense. I’m a chemist and work in the science field and I can tell you factually, if all the bogus claims were true, there wouldn’t be any life on Earth right now. So you flat-Earthers better get with the program, or I’ll have to make fun of you as the medieval witch burning, virgin sacrificing morons that you are. Yeah, my directness is blunt and offensive because I’m sick and tired of this absolute bullshit being peddled as fact. I’m fed up.
HOCKEY STICK BUST OR BROKEN? WHO CARES? CONCENTRATE ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS!
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[From Jon Richfield, via Benny Peiser] In short, I think that if there were a few dozen or so workers, among the referees, journalists, and research workers, who were at the moment contemplating possible long jail sentences for this global warming fiasco, (whether AGW is a material concern or not) that would be a salutary and salubrious thing. And the same would go for any other field of research.Climate Change Triggered Dwarfism in Creatures of the Past - US News and World Report
Ancient soil-inhabiting creatures decreased in body size by nearly half in response to a period of boosted carbon dioxide levels and higher temperatures, scientists have discovered.Yahoo Autos crowns Smart Car worst car of the 2000s
The pint-sized ForTwo sacrifices a lot of passenger space for a relatively unimpressive 41 mpg on the highway, has an SUV-like propensity to roll over, and is equipped with an aggravating sequential manual transmission. Sure, the ForTwo looks cute, but after you drive it you won’t be smiling anymore.Farmers warned more snow on the way | NATIONAL News
MetService is warning farmers of more significant snowfall.
[Reuters photo]Still more brazen fraud from the IPCC chief
Rajendra Pachauri joins 7.30 Report
[RAJENDRA PACHAURI on the IPCC] Whatever we do is very transparent. Every stage of the drafting of our report is peer reviewed, and whatever comments we get from the peer review process are posted on the website of the IPCC, and the reasons why we accept or reject those comments are clearly specified. Where we accept a comment we say, "Yes. Accepted." Where we don't, we have to adduce very clear reasons why the authors don't agree with the comment. So it's a very transparent process.From David Holland's response on CCNet:
The statement is entirely untrue and very misleading. No “comments” or “reasons” are posted at the IPCC website or ever have been so far as I know, and to my certain knowledge not all of them on the Fourth Assessment were ever published.From Ross McKitrick's response on CCNet:
Dr. Pachauri insinuates that reviewer comments are posted right away, or at least automatically if not right away, to the IPCC web site. I was a WG I reviewer, and like all the others our comments were submitted confidentially. We were instructed not to divulge the review materials publicly. The only reason WG I comments eventually got posted on the internet (months after the report was released) was that Steve McIntyre and David Holland pursued the IPCC with FOI requests. Having fought so long to keep the review comments from being released, it is rather rich for Pachauri now to invoke the fact that they (grudgingly) conceded the requests as a reason to boast about a process that apparently never had that outcome in view.
But is carbon dioxide really the root cause of all of these problems?
YouTube - What is a climate hearing?
Climate hearings are going on all over the world. They offer poor people an unique chance to share their stories about how climate change is already impacting on their lives. They're making sure that politicians hear their voices.
Exquisite global "warming" farce in Montana
Students to form human ‘350’ - October 7, 2009
Montana: Say it ain’t so: Single-digit temps forecast
[Missoula, Montana] Students will gather to physically form the number 350 on the Griz football turf at noon today to promote climate change action.Missoula, Montana Forecast: 43 degrees F at noon, with chance of snow this evening
The number is significant to climate change because it represents, in parts per million, a safe limit to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, said Erica Bloom, ASUM sustainability coordinator. The present carbon level has reached 387 ppm, well beyond the level determined as acceptable, she said.
Montana: Say it ain’t so: Single-digit temps forecast
Two systems are forecast to drop into Montana today and Thursday from Canada, with each expected to bring up to 3 inches of snow to Helena and a foot of snow in the mountains. Once the clouds clear on Friday, temperatures could fall to 5 degrees or lower on Saturday, according to Ben Schott with the National Weather Service in Great Falls.
He noted that typical weather for this time of year calls for highs in the 60s, and the previous record low for Oct. 10 was in 1987, when the mercury hit 15 degrees.
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And if you think five degrees is cold, don't even think about going to Yellowstone, where Schott said they're expecting lows to dip from 15 to 20 degrees below zero this weekend.
Texas governor opposes cap-and-trade bill. No surprises there, then | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The Republican Rick Perry makes no attempt to tone down his hatred of the 'radical green energy crowd'Charles The-Dean W. (CharlesThe_Dean) on Twitter
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The bandwagon attempting to derail the progress of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill through the Senate is really starting to gather an impressive head of fossil fuel-fired steam.
"""GLOBAL WARMING""""I am SO TIRED of hearing the LIES about this. How is it that so many people can be taken in by this nonsense?Hot Air » Blog Archive » Palin: Dollar woes show need for energy independence
In his book Architects of Ruin, Peter Schweizer points out that the Obama administration is focusing primarily on “green energy,” while ignoring our need to develop our domestic conventional energy resources.General Electric: Tear Down That Wall! The Green Tariff Wall, That Is - Environmental Capital - WSJ
Embracing protectionism, after a fashion, is shaping up as one way to pass climate legislation and start saving the planet.
Wrong move, says General Electric, a company with an obvious and multi-billion dollar interest in keeping trade avenues open, especially when it comes to clean technology.
Breaking: Carol Browner says clean energy bill without carbon cap would be a “big mistake”; Nobelist Chu agrees, warning we otherwise face catastrophe, with St. Louis above 90°F for 1/3 the year
Energy Secretary Steven Chu was even more blunt.Meteorologists predict weekend snow
Chu said a shrinking cap and rising carbon price was “very, very important.” He said it is the part of the bill “that really means something,” and “the rest is just carrots.” Chu is a big supporter of carrots but was clear that the long-term signal and steady emissions reductions were critical to avoid catastrophe.
As unbelievable as it may seem, the white stuff is just a few days away — at least in some areas of Northern Michigan.Today’s proof of global warming « Don Surber
It is only Oct. 7 and already we have our first Snow Day of the year — in Bellevue, Idaho. It happened on Monday, Oct. 5.ISA | John G. Salls: The sun causes global warming, not people
“This may be one for the record books, not only how early this heavy fall snowstorm is, but the fact that it appears to have created the earliest snow day in the history of the Blaine County School District,” reported KTVB.
We are currently in a 10-year long period of 0-temperature change that not a single one of these models predicted. Scientists now believe this plateau will last another 10 years. In addition, based on these shaky predictions, we modify our behavior in such a way that it will affect the prosperity of every individual on the planet.
Worse yet, we will try to control the temperature of our entire planet based on our shaky understanding? Most of us are lucky if we are able to control the temperature of a process, even a simple one, to within 1 degree, and now we think we control the temperature of the entire planet?
Speed Bump: Don’t Bank on the Electric-Car Revolution, Lux Says - Environmental Capital - WSJ
Even if oil prices hit $200 a barrel by 2020, Lux figures electric cars will make up less than 8% of global new-car sales. If oil stays where it is today, electric cars could make up a mere 3% of the market.C3: Peer-Reviewed Study: Extreme Global Warming Has Unleashed Incredible Sea Rise Past Century! Oops, Only 7 Inches
Read here. Another expert study shows that sea rise is but a fraction of what climate alarmist scientists and MSM claim. Rise over past century averaged less than 7mm/year, or 7 inches per century.Save the planet! Pee before you fly | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Belief in man-made global warming will soon be laughed out of existence.Yamal and the Divergence Problem « Climate Audit
The "divergence problem" has been discussed on many occasions at this site. If ring widths have gone down in the last half of the 20th century despite increasing temperatures, how can we use information from prior periods to reconstruct past temperatures? Kurt Cuffey was much puzzled by this conundrum at the NAS panel hearings.
I had a debate with climate alarmists last night | The Real Revo
[LLORT3] IMHO, climate change denial is worse than Holocaust denialism, since doing nothing about pollution and overconsumption will kill a lot more ppl than Hitler did.[Ya think?]: Chamber Representative Says Clean Energy Mandates Distort the Market - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
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Ah I mean ppl who deny man has an effect on climate change are worse than Holocaust deniers because lots of these old white guys [isn't this phrase ageist, racist, and sexist?] are in positions to do something about it, otherwise lots more than 10 million will die. :(
Clean energy mandates and other means of spurring use or renewables “distort the workings of the market,” said Stephen Eule of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.The economic insanity of global warming alarmists
It should seem obvious that if a terrible economy results in low CO2 emissions, then enforcing low CO2 emissions means a terrible economy.
Bummer: Climate change affecting ayurveda, livelihood of 600,000 doctors
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Climate change poses a huge challenge for ayurveda and it is the reason behind many medicinal plants vanishing from India, President Pratibha Patil said here Wednesday. The All India Ayurveda Congress also agreed with her concern, saying it is gradually affecting the livelihood of 600,000 ayurveda practitioners.Senior G77 members protest steps to change Kyoto pact | Green Business | Reuters
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Senior G77 members walked out of a meeting during climate talks in the Thai capital saying they would not discuss a future without the Kyoto Protocol climate pact, delegates said on Wednesday.`Murder' of Kyoto Protocol will end chances of climate [hoax] deal: G77 - India - The Times of India
South Africa's lead negotiator, China and OPEC countries left the informal session late on Tuesday that was discussing the shape of new climate agreement that would bind all nations in the fight against climate change.
BANGKOK: The gridlock at Bangkok climate negotiations worsened on Tuesday with key G77 members, including India and China, indicating that the "murder" of Kyoto Protocol could end up killing prospects of a deal at Copenhagen.CAP-AND-TRADE: EUROPE'S GREEN SUICIDE
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The EU, which till date had been goading the US to put up targets under Kyoto, instead began to sidestep the issue of its own emission reduction targets for the mid term. The EU spokesperson, speaking to the media, said the EU was still working on the formal offer to be made for Kyoto at the negotiations. EU had earlier made a contingent political offer of 30% reduction below 1990 levels by 2020 but had not put it formally within the negotiations.
For the Indian delegation, despite the global hype, the Obama administration's decision to follow the Bush regime and refuse to sign on to Kyoto did not come as a great suprise. But, then came the U-turn by EU — a grouping that has always sought to gain the "leadership" role at climate talks.
Carbon leakage is making a nonsense of Europe’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) — the mechanism that enables businesses to trade permits to emit carbon dioxide. Worse still, the ETS is exposing Europe’s corroded underbelly and the rot that is infecting huge tracts of industrial plant as companies shift their spending from an over-regulated Europe to places further east.
In Brussels, the competitive threat is viewed as carbon leakage — the import of goods from countries outside the ETS and from states that have not made a big commitment to reduce CO2 emissions.
The European Commission is missing the point. It is not carbon that is leaking, but investment. Billions of dollars of potential investment in heavy industry, notably refining and petrochemicals, is moving east in search of lower costs — and carbon trading is making the money drain flow faster.
[Still more complete left-wing insanity from Tom Friedman: Now he's comparing 7-Up bubbles to a nuclear bomb]
But there are now two other bombs our children have hanging over them: the debt bomb and the climate bomb.[Is George W. Bush still president?]: US threatens to derail climate talks by refusing to include Kyoto targets | Environment | guardian.co.uk
As we continue to build up carbon in the atmosphere to unprecedented levels, we never know when the next emitted carbon molecule will tip over some ecosystem and trigger a nonlinear climate event — like melting the Siberian tundra and releasing all of its methane, or drying up the Amazon or melting all the sea ice in the North Pole in summer. And when one ecosystem collapses, it can trigger unpredictable changes in others that could alter our whole world.
The US threatened to derail a deal on global climate change today in a public showdown with China by expressing deep opposition to the existing Kyoto protocol. The US team also urged other rich countries to join it in setting up a new legal agreement which would, unlike Kyoto, force all countries to reduce emissions.Senators link drilling with cap-and-trade [swindle]
WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic senators negotiating a possible compromise on climate change legislation insisted Tuesday that the measure must include provisions to boost nuclear power and expand offshore drilling.Senate Dems Opening to Nuclear as Path to GOP Support for Climate [Fraud] Bill - NYTimes.com
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has been huddling with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and other moderates on the issue, said linking nuclear power and offshore drilling with a cap-and-trade plan for limiting carbon dioxide emissions is “the winning formula” to pushing the measure through the Senate.
"I think the planet is heating up," [Republican Senator Lindsey] Graham said. "I think CO2 emissions are damaging the environment and this dependence on foreign oil is a natural disaster in the making. Let's do something about it. I'd like to solve a problem, and if it's on President Obama's watch, it doesn't bother me one bit if it makes the country better off."
Both sides in climate debate arguing over Chamber of Commerce pullouts - TheHill.com
Climate backers crowed about Apple’s departure in particular because they said its brand represents innovation and forward thinking to consumers. On Monday, Apple announced it was quitting the group, “effective immediately.”Stay with Kyoto protocol, urges UN climate [swindle] chief
Daniel Weiss, the director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, called Apple’s defection “earth-shattering.”
“This is a real black eye for the Chamber, and demonstrates that its radical anti-global warming stance led to real soul-searching among its more enlightened corporate members.”
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“Why have 3 million members stayed?” said Michael McKenna, an energy lobbyist and Republican pollster. “If this were a referendum, who would be winning?”
Bangkok, Oct 7 (IANS) "When I have only one pair of shoes, it makes sense to stay with that pair." With these words, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer Wednesday came out clearly in favour of retaining the Kyoto Protocol to tackle global warming, despite strong efforts by many industrialised countries to dump it.
[How many hurricanes will this policy prevent?]: Airline goes green by asking passengers to use the toilet before boarding | Mail Online
A Japanese airline has started asking passengers to go to the toilet before boarding in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) claims that empty bladders mean lighter passengers, a lighter aircraft and thus lower fuel use.
UPS carbon neutral shipping | Home
Whether you ship hundreds of packages daily or only ship occasionally, you can use verified carbon neutral shipping to offset the climate impact.BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | A brief history of climate change [fraud]
As the UN climate summit in Copenhagen approaches, BBC News environment correspondent Richard Black traces key milestones, scientific discoveries, technical innovations and political action.Twitter / suzbub
"Nature, via climate change, is charging us with ecocide and we must respond if we want to avoid the death sentence." (Micah White)Help us make the banners for climate summit | Greenpeace International
We need your suggestions for what to write on 3000 banners which will be used in the march on Copenhagen December 12th.
60,000 people are expected to show up to demand our leaders deliver a fair, ambitious, binding treaty to save our world from global warming.
If you were there, what would YOUR banner say? What would be the phrase YOU would want to see on 3,000 banners?
UN to US: $10 trillion for climate or else… « Green Hell Blog
Comply or Else - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online
The United Nations says in a new report that unless we (meaning U.S. taxpayers and consumers) cough up $10 trillion to the world’s renewable energy rentseekers and carbon abatement scamsters, the planet will be destroyed by UN-fabricated global warming.
Comply or Else - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online
But in the age of green reporting, every story must be read with skepticism. Reuters’ echo of activists claims that consumers demand green cars is demonstrably false as hybrid sales as a percentage of the U.S. market have dropped from 3 percent to less than 2 percent of the market since 2007.Don't Miss it! Climate Depot's Factsheet on 1970s Coming 'Ice Age' Claims | Climate Depot
In fact, Mazda is investing in hybrids because government gives them little choice.
Despite many claims to the contrary, the 1970's global cooling fears were widespread among many scientists and in the media. Despite the fact that there was no UN IPCC organization created to promote global cooling in the 1970s and despite the fact that there was nowhere near the tens of billions of dollars in funding spent today to promote man-made global warming, fears of a coming ice age, showed up in peer-reviewed literature, at scientific conferences, voiced by prominent scientists and throughout the media.Go West (Africa): Exxon’s $4 Billion Bet on Ghana’s Jubilee Oil Field - Environmental Capital - WSJ
What does it take to stir Exxon into making a big deal for more oil assets? The rare combination of good geology and favorable politics—Ghana, in other words, whose oil reserves look like catnip to Exxon’s tiger.Climate Change Puts South India Under Water : EcoWorldly
...while talks have already begun on coming up with an equitable deal and the very fear that there may be none, over 300 people have already lost their lives while millions are displaced and missing in this global warming related freak weather event, predicted well in advance by the IPCC in its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007.
The Copenhagen Mash: Could a Dreadful Music Video Could Hurt Climate Change Talks?
But wait! You can feel good about yourself too! Simply upload a clip of you saying "tck" to their website!Cremated bodies to power air-con in Taiwan- Hindustan Times
I swear I'm not making this up.
TCJ's campaign is but the latest example of what I like to call activist narcissism, the impossibly naive belief that getting a bunch of beautiful people together to preen and act outraged is an adequate substitute for real change. If these musicians (and impossibly hot actresses) really want to effect change, perhaps they can stop flying around the world on private jets and living in 10,000 sq. ft mansions.
A Taiwan crematorium plans to use exhaust from its ovens to power its air-conditioning system, officials said Wednesday, in a move critics blasted as insensitive to mourning relatives.Government Sees Lower Winter Heating Bills - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
The Taipei Mortuary Services Office has invested 7.7 million Taiwan dollars (240,000 dollars) on technology that recycles exhaust from cremations, converting it into electricity, deputy director Yang Yi-lin told AFP.
Thanks to lower energy costs and forecasts for a milder winter, Americans will pay less to heat their homes this year that they did last winter.Winter Forecasts must be sending shivers down the spines of Global Warming people
With all the snow falling across a large area of the West and Northern tier of the USA, Scotland's Highlands and the European Alpine region, folks at the IPCC, NOAA, UK Met, Al Gore and others who depend on their warm models must surely be squirming just a little at the thought of some of these winter forecasts that are increasingly appearing from the closet actually holding water.Tennessee Pols to Lamar Alexander: Forget About Low-Carbon Fuel Standards - Environmental Capital - WSJ
There was a low-carbon fuel standard in the first version of the Waxman-Markey bill; it later disappeared. It has yet to appear in the Senate climate bill. Yet the very idea of a low-carbon fuel standard that could put Canadian oil off limits has the energy-security crowd mobilizing.
High Capital Costs Plague Solar
U.S. Solar Growth: Mostly for Swimming PoolsGreen group says U.S. climate bill won't hurt farms | Green Business | Reuters
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The report breaks down the new capacity as follows:
1. 342 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV);
2. 139 MWth (thermal equivalent) of solar water heating
3. 762 MWth of pool heating;, and
4. 21 MW of solar space heating and cooling.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming poses more of a threat to U.S. farm incomes than does the climate change bill passed by the U.S. House, which will have a "negligible" impact on American agriculture's bottom line, an environmental group said on Wednesday.[Will this prevent future bad weather?]: Bamboo keyboard and mouse
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has said the House climate bill would increase farm expenses by $700 million, or 0.3 percent, from 2012-18. That would be offset by revenue from a carbon offset market, estimated by USDA at $1 billion a year in the near term and $15 billion in 2040.
Every one of us know the impact of Global warming, how it effects the environment weird now and more than this the future. What we are going to do for the feature generation and how to route them up from these defects.Peter Foster: Not ‘Evil’, just ‘Stupid’ - FP Comment
The film Not Evil Just Wrong is far too politically incorrect to be feted in Hollywood or the politicos. This is the last movie they want anybody seeing
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Climate Robo-Educators
The outcome at Loomis? After giving classroom lectures on the science of climate change (certainly excluding the lack of upward change during the last decade), and at the end of Lamm’s evening presentation, many students immediately signed online ACE’s “Declaration of Independence from Fossil Fuels.”More on the ocean acidity scare
See this PDF of several decades of pH measurements of "Monterey Bay Aquarium Incoming Seawater". Note that from when measurements started until the present, there is no trend. The range is from about 7.7 to 8.1, with the first and last being about 7.9, which is consistent with this PDF -- which makes clear that ocean pH is highly variable, with an "average" of around 7.6 (a skewed distribution?), meaning that the bay is more alkaline than average ocean water.CO2 limits coming, Duke exec warns | Cincinnati.com | The Cincinnati Enquirer
Limits on carbon emissions are coming either through legislation or EPA regulation no matter your beliefs on whether global warming is a serious threat, the executive overseeing Duke Energy Corp.'s programs dealing with climate change, renewable energy and environmental technology said this morning .Al Fin: Clouds and Climate: Confirmation and Uncertainty
When are climatologists going to stop pretending that they understand the climate? When are they going to admit that their knowledge is far too limited to base the economic future of the developed world upon them? Do not hold your breath. These climatologists have based their reputations and livelihoods upon the soundness and reliability of their methods and projections. For them to do the right thing now would require a level of character and integrity that is simply beyond them, at this point in the process.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Korholas on Climate Policy
Which means that it is up to you to put political pressure on the funding agencies that pay these pretenders -- to bring them to heel. Make them honest for once. Only pressure from the people who pay the piper can possibly slow down this train wreck to a manageable speed.
Environmental organizations are generally considered experts in preventing climate change although many of their solutions have proved downright destructive, write Atte Korhola and Eija-Riitta Korhola.
The Migrant Mind: Inaccuracies in the Temperature Record
he temperature differences are huge, sometimes exceeding 10 degrees for the average temperature difference. And this, in turn, raises the question of how accurately can we measure the temperature. The claim is made that the world has warmed by 1.1 deg F. To make that statement we must, in turn, have a capability of measuring the temperature to an accuracy of less than 1.1 deg F.RC Real Censors « the Air Vent
...It was snipped and never saw daylight.Letter to the Editor: Stop promoting unfounded fears - FP Comment
...Environment Canada (EC) remains a leader in climate propaganda and it still features the Mann “hockey stick” on its website as if it were meaningful.Open Passage Expedition: WWF-supported travelers "heartily enjoy" eating allegedly endangered animals
I recently asked EC Minister Jim Prentice why it is still there. Assistant Deputy Minister Dr. Brian T. Gray wrote to me, “We recommend that website users always check the date when a departmental website page has been updated,” admitting it had not been updated since 2003.
The hunters we met along the way this summer were incredibly generous in sharing their caribou, seal, fish, geese, whale and bears, and we heartily enjoyed eating them.
Ecochondria: Global climate change impacts Broward, commissioner says
County Commissioner Kristin Jacobs says global climate change is real, and Broward residents need to be concerned about the effects now, not in coming decades.Sleeping With The Jaguars - Dr. Stephen Leeb, editor of The Complete Investor newsletter.
Already, Jacobs said, low-lying Monroe County, which takes in the Florida Keys, is suffering salt water damage to police squad cars and eroding fire hydrants.
...there is something else in the wings that could dramatically accelerate an already sure uptrend in energy prices. We are talking about global warming or the lack thereof. Global warming has become a well entrenched ideology among scientists. Increasingly, however, the consensus view states that the next 10 to 20 years could actually be a cooler period within a long-term warming trend. We could see colder winters and lower average worldwide temperatures during this time. But according to the scientific community, a generation of colder temperatures is not reason to turn up the thermostats.Minnesota: Global warming alert!
We have always had trouble with zealots whether they be Scientologists or ivory tower ideologues. And global warming is no exception. A few experiences and recent articles make me especially skeptical.
Snow on October 9th? That’s less than three weeks into autumn. Last year, we didn’t get snow until the weekend before Halloween. Looks like a long winter of global warming coming our way this year….Catching Our First [Thriving Polar] Bears, Based on a Tiny Floating City | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists
This female cub is only 10 months old but already weighs 211 pounds.
Cold weather could hurt pumpkin harvest | KDRV
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. - Recent cold nights and frost advisories could take a toll on the Southern Oregon pumpkin harvest.New Zealand: Frost fear averted as wind flips direction
"If we had a big frost last night, there would have been a huge amount of damage, particularly to green orchards, which are still largely unprotected by frost.Vegas Ski Resort Opening Wednesday - Las Vegas News Story - KVVU Las Vegas
"It could have been potentially quite devastating - millions and millions of dollars of damage."
Helicopters were on stand-by in case of frosts, and some flew. That in itself cost "quite a bit" of money, as some helicopters had to be brought from Taupo and Rotorua.
LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort announced Tuesday it is opening the resort earlier than it ever has.New Zealand: Cold snap stops Samoan workers sending money home
The country’s recent cold snap has wreaked havoc for asparagus lovers, reducing crops and pushing up prices.
The crop battering has also caused dire problems for hundreds of Samoans who are in New Zealand on a regional seasonal employment scheme.
Many workers are desperate to make money to send back to their tsunami destroyed villages.
Climate czar has it down cold
Yet, it turns out, Holdren might have been closer to the truth in the 1970s than he is now peddling the global warming hoax.Harsanyi: The doers against the "thinkers" - The Denver Post
Global temperatures in 2009 are continuing a decade-long decline, with June temperatures reaching levels not seen since the 1980s.
Jim, who has never read Hume in his life, might take time to study the failed European cap-and-trade scheme and wonder why anyone would hamper the American economy with a regressive tax that brings only marginal environmental gains.Business owners are hunkering down | tennessean.com | The Tennessean
Specifically, the prospect of $2 trillion in new taxes for “Cap and Trade” and “health-care reform” has me dumbfounded and fearful.Cap-and-trade won't stop global warming -- themorningcall.com
The policy question should be, ''Is it rational to throw America off a cliff when the result on earth's temperatures over the next hundred years would be too small to measure?''
With earth in a decade-long cooling period (expected to last for decades more), oceans rising at 2 to 3 millimeters a year (as they have for millennia), Arctic Sea ice coverage advancing steadily since a satellite-era low, and monster hurricane seasons failing to materialize, we should demand that Sens. Specter and Casey defeat this legislation. The case for an impending planetary catastrophe has simply not been made.
James M. Policelli
John Warner ties security, jobs to climate change [hoax] -- dailypress.com
Asked if the war in Iraq is the result of climate change manifesting itself, Nathman said "it's hard to say."Carbon credit market is riddled with fraud | Probe International
Another scandal in the carbon credit market is just one example in a growing list of fraud involving carbon credits.How cap-and-trade is like ritual self-flagellation
Climate legislation signals to the world that we repent our selfish ways and we'll now take our lumps for the team. But are we ready for a green hair shirt?Warner takes climate-bill support on road | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
"Yes, it's complex. And yes, it's costly," Warner answered. "But the rest of the world is figuring out how to do this, and Americans are going to end up being the ones buying all the technologies that others developed."
Still, Warner may have trouble convincing the two senators from his home state, both Democrats, to vote for the bill, which goes before five Senate subcommittees within weeks.
Sen. Jim Webb, for example, has "expressed real concerns about the concept of cap-and-trade" and "does not really share the opinion of Senator Warner on this issue," said Jessica Smith, Webb's communications director.
UN climate [scam] chief hails Bangkok talks
"There is a willingness now to talk about -- at least in theory -- what would happen to all the good things under Kyoto if it were not to continue," said de Boer.Cool weather pattern brings longing for one more blast of summer
So much for the whole global warming argument. I think we are experiencing global cooling instead.China lashes out at rich nations for not honoring past commitments
"What is happening right now in these negotiations is not very encouraging to say the least," said Yu Qingtai, China's special envoy for climate change, repeating a fear he expressed on Monday that some nations were trying to "terminate" the Kyoto Protocol, the UN's top weapon to curb climate change.Energy Efficiency Ranks High in China's Plans; CO2 Is Seldom Discussed - NYTimes.com
"Are we serious about the commitments that we undertake? Are we serious about the agreements that we reach? Do we have the political will to act on the basis on what we say?” he asked, speaking on the sidelines of ongoing climate talks in Bangkok.
But when he is asked how many tons of carbon dioxide emissions the average solar water heater saves, silence fills the hall.
"Normally, in China, we just calculate energy efficiency," the guide offers finally. "There's no calculation of carbon dioxide."
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Yet as the topic turns to the greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat in the atmosphere, the businessmen in short-sleeved button-down shirts shift in their swivel chairs and glance at one another.
Montana: Say it ain’t so: Single-digit temps forecast
Temperatures are expected to plunge into the single digits this weekend, possibly breaking record lows by more than 10 degrees.Utah: Monday was record-setting cold day
Two systems are forecast to drop into Montana today and Thursday from Canada, with each expected to bring up to 3 inches of snow to Helena and a foot of snow in the mountains. Once the clouds clear on Friday, temperatures could fall to 5 degrees or lower on Saturday, according to Ben Schott with the National Weather Service in Great Falls.
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"So we could break the record by 10 degrees, and that's not just breaking it - it's shattering, cutting it into pieces, putting it in the garbage disposal and then into the blender," Schott said. "It's pretty amazing to break a record by 10 degrees."
If you thought Monday was an extra chilly day in Salt Lake City, you were right. In fact, it was record-setting.GRAINS-Corn rallies 4.9 percent on worries about frost - Forbes.com
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Five other Utah locations in central and southern Utah — Delta, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Cedar City and Hanksville, also set record low overnight temperatures Monday, ranging from 10 to 33 degrees.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Corn futures rose 4.9 percent at the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday, closing at their highest level in 14 weeks, on worries that a killing frost could reduce what now looks to be a record-large U.S. harvest, traders said.Manitoba - Weather Slows Harvest
The majority of corn fields are showing some signs of frost damage and producers are anticipating light bushel weights and harvest challenges due to high moisture content.COMMODITIES-Gold hits record on weak dollar; corn up on frost By Reuters
Some experts estimated that frost damage could wipe out about 10 percent, or 500 million bushels, from the upcoming U.S. corn harvest.
UN Climate Report Confuses Arctic and Antarctic « Talking About The Weather
Now, it comes to light that the report features a photograph purporting to show Arctic icebergs melting, when the actual image is of Antarctica.Colorado: October off to record cold start
A series of fronts sweeping over the Western Slope has led to clearing skies, and that has dropped the thermometer to record lows on several occasions in the first week of October.Deeds: Democrats’ national agenda has made campaign ‘tough’ « - Blogs from CNN.com
The latest record was set Tuesday morning, when the temperature at Grand Junction Regional Airport plunged to 27 degrees. That broke the old record for the date of 32 degrees, which was set in 1998, according to the National Weather Service.
It marked the third time in the past six days Grand Junction has experienced a record low.
Deeds said his campaign is now “re-framing” the race to keep a focus on Virginia issues. He told the moderators that he disagrees with Obama on “some issues” but only named one: the cap-and-trade legislation currently before Congress.Sheep fire crews get a break from the weather -- latimes.com
As record cold hits Southern California, evacuated Wrightwood residents get to go home and the blaze is 75% contained.YouTube - global warming is a scam rant
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In Los Angeles County, a record low temperature of 32 degrees was set in Lancaster on Tuesday, breaking a record of 34 set in 1969.
On Monday, a record low of 53 degrees for the day was recorded at Los Angeles International Airport. That broke a record of 55, set in 1957, the weather service said.
global warming is a scam it's a natual phenomina CO2 is a good thing for the planet
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Bollywood Star Gives South Asian-Canadians (& Government) a Climate Change Warning : TreeHugger
Termed the "Sean Penn of Asian Cinema" by Maxim magazine, Rahul Bose is taking his star power to his South Asian-Canadian community to get out the vote on climate change. Maybe they should call him the Al Gore of Asian Cinema instead.Why some people don't believe in global warming, as if it's a religion
Think about standing in the middle of a busy street, trying to cross, Hamburg continues. “Traffic is speeding past from both directions. The probability that you’ll fail to get across is high. That is what’s going to happen with climate change. We will be surrounded by disasters. The longer we wait, the fewer options we will have.”Northrop seeks teachers for climate [hoax] expeditions - The Daily Breeze
Browning describes how we will finally understand the need for action: "Each of us will have—or has had—a moment of epiphany about climate change, a moment of understanding the urgency of the problem. That moment comes in the garden, or on the banks of a once vibrant, trout-filled river that is now still or in depths of a forest that no longer echoes with the croaking of frogs. It comes because the droughts are more prolonged, year after year, or the storms more severe. Or because your grandfather tells you that what is now the low tide mark on your beach was, in his youth, the line of the highest tides—as is happening where I live [where, specifically, is this spot?]. Oceans have been rising, as have temperatures, and faster than expected. It does not require a leap of faith to “believe” this; it is a fact."
Teachers selected for the program can pick between research projects in the Bahamas, where they will be looking at the effects of coastal development on the islands, or the Arctic, where they will be monitoring global warming from Churchill, Canada.Sacrificing Jobs on the Altar of “Green”
Support for a cap and trade national energy tax is dwindling and supporters have been throwing everything they can at the debate to see what will stick. You would think that saving the planet would be a sufficient sales pitch to justify destroying the economy, but most people aren’t buying that argument. In order to sell the American people on this dangerous legislation, some supporters are playing up the national security angle. The official name for the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill that narrowly passed the House is, “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.” The argument that hypothetical global warming is a national security threat is weak at best. The senate has decided to go for the “jobs” angle with their version.Opinion: Clean-tech investment flowing to California because of climate [swindle] policies
When California chose to be a first mover on climate change, it was with the understanding that our action would invite others to join us. And they have. Together we are creating the momentum toward a clean-energy future that will grow our economies, save our planet and create millions of new jobs.
Mary D. Nichols is chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board.
[Complete insanity]: Green roofs offset global warming, study finds
A green roof's ability to sequester carbon lasts only a year or two. At that point, the amount of carbon emitted by the decay of soil and plant material balances out the carbon taken in by photosynthesis. Still, that's two extra years of offsets that make a green roof potentially worthwhile, said David Sailor, an engineer at Portland State University in Oregon.The Politics Of Petroleum Fear - Forbes.com
The world is filled with uncertainties. How can politicians be so certain on the veracity of anthropogenic global warming? There is a large and persuasive body of scientific evidence that carbon dioxide is not the villain assumed in the Global Warming debate. Their naïve warming assumption is then compounded by the claim that man is the cause of the carbon effect. On both counts numerous scientific studies have countered to the opposite. Nevertheless both assumptions are regarded as fact today by the G-20 political leaders.[Still more public money blown on climate swindle]: Research in Kansas on renewable energy, climate change attracts $20M federal grant - KFSM
The Lawrence Journal-World reported in a story on its Web site that some of the research will examine modeling to predict the effects of climate change and using nanotechnology to harness solar energy.Chamber defends climate stance - TheHill.com
He said the Chamber “continues to support federal legislation and a binding international agreement to reduce carbon emissions and address climate change.”
Fresh Views of Climate [Scam Promotion]: Contest Winners - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
[Check out the video of innocent schoolchildren being frightened by blatant climate fraud]England is sinking while Scotland rises above sea levels, according to new study - Telegraph
England is sinking into the sea while Scotland is rising at such a rate it may counteract the effects of sea level rise due to climate change, according to a new geological map.Opinion: Climate change is already making us sick - San Jose Mercury News
The urgency is driven by evidence that the effects of climate change are having immediate impacts on human health: The World Health Organization estimates that at least 150,000 people have died annually of causes related to climate change since 1970. Heat-related illness and mortality are increasing...EDITORIAL: Cool cash to be made on warming mania
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Although it may seem counterintuitive, passing a climate change bill in the Senate could help the health care bill. The conventional wisdom has been that the president has enough political capital to tackle only one big issue at a time. But political capital is a renewable resource that grows out of political success. If the Senate could pass climate change legislation this fall, Obama would suddenly have a huge political win that would enhance his credibility on health care.
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Karen Holl is a professor of environmental studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
For example, to implement the California Air Resources Board’s global warming regulations alone will cost California businesses more than $100 billion “upfront” to comply, says state Sen. Tom Harman, R-Costa Mesa, plus $182 billion in revenue lost. That comes to $3,857 for every household in California, and 1.1 million lost jobs, as costs mount.
David Suzuki: Crisis has created potential opportunity in Copenhagen | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
The threat of climate change is real and imminent. Scientists from around the world have confirmed this through continuous study and observation—despite what the increasingly desperate and nonsensical arguments from deniers would have you believe.Local temp to dip, humidity to shoot in future - Pune - City - The Times of India
PUNE: "As a result of climate change, Pune will witness a slight decline in temperature and an increase in the level of humidity," Krishna Kumar,Representative requests financial data from Minneapolis
program manager of Climate Change, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, said on Tuesday.
In Gordon’s blog, he detailed the city’s success with climate change grants that have “mobilized Minneapolis residents to decrease both their expenses and their carbon emissions through actions like installing compact fluorescent light bulbs.”'Don't skimp on housing' | Society | The Guardian
“This shouldn’t be controversial,” he wrote.
"Some families are living in very poor conditions," he says. "We're in the 21st century; we need proper standards. It affects people's health. The cold weather goes straight through the walls. If these were insulated, people would reduce the amount of visits they make to their GP with problems like asthma."
Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era
Where are the headlines? Where are the press releases? Where is all the attention?
The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history.
Loveland to open Wednesday, A-Basin on Friday | AspenTimes.com
Oct. 7 marks the earliest opening day in Loveland's 40-year history, Sellers said. Over at A-Basin, spokeswoman Leigh Hierholzer said they'll beat their earliest opening by one day.
Energy Tribune- Global Warming is Neither
As global temperature continues to fall over the next decade the world will wake up. This will eventually have deep and profound effects on energy markets. Hydrocarbon-based products will become more valuable. The value of alternative energy sources like wind, solar and bio fuels will collapse. In step with that collapse will be the demise of carbon credits originating from cap and trade policies. Just when this will happen depends of the severity of the next several winters. The depth of the cold of the coming winters will change the social and political climate in ways that only nature can orchestrate.
Inconvenient Questions: Stanford U. Bans Climate Film from Airing Interview with Cooling turned Warming Prof. Stephen Schneider -- 'You are prohibited!' | Climate Depot
Stanford University has attempted to ban a documentary film from airing a climate change interview with one of its prominent warming activist professors, Stephen Schneider.
C.I.A. Climate [Hoax] Center Irks Barrasso - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Senator John Barrasso, a conservative freshman Republican from Wyoming, said on Tuesday that he would try to stop the Central Intelligence Agency from opening a new climate change center by choking off its funding.Ugandans demand for fair deal on climate
“The C.I.A. is responsible for gathering foreign intelligence information for the United States,” Mr. Barrasso said in announcing an amendment to a 2010 spending bill to block any money being spent by the agency on the new office. “I don’t believe creating a center on climate change is going to prevent terrorist attacks.”
“We want global justice. It’s time for leaders to make a fair deal that will consider vulnerable communities and force rich counties that have got profits from degrading the environment to finance adoption and mitigations,” Mr Twinomugisha said. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change will hit the poorest and most vulnerable the hardest though everyone will be affected.Boxer hopeful for climate bill this year despite drawn-out health debate - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
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In Uganda, the country’s climate status is declining daily due to incessant degradation of the environment. It is estimated that the country’s forest cover that was at 11 million in 1990, has now reduced to about four million.
The chief sponsor of climate change legislation in the Senate said she's hopeful to pass her bill this year, all the while cautioning that a protracted heatlhcare debate could push back action on the climate bill.International Energy Agency Sees Gains in China - NYTimes.com
“The cost of addressing climate change is manageable,” Yvo de Boer, the executive director of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said in a foreword to the report. “The cost of not doing so is unaffordable.”
Snow Wreaks Havoc In Parts Of Wyo - cbs4denver.com
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) ― Parts of Wyoming are digging out from a snowstorm that caused powers outages and traffic accidents.[If you actually go outside, you're less likely to believe in Gore's global warming scam]: 7 tips for staying warm at a football game
More than a foot of snow fell Sunday and Monday in the Lander area, while up to eight inches of snow fell in Sweetwater County. Gillette received about five inches.
Tip 6: Extra, extra. Your feet freeze on the cold metal bleachers or cement. The solution is to bring a copy of Sunday's Times-News to the game and put it in front of your seat. The paper will insulate the bottom of your footsies (no joke). On the list of practical uses for your newspaper, this tip ranks between lining your bird cage and wrapping up dead fish.John Kerry: Awesome recession is helping the environment | The North Star National
What did Kerry just unwittingly admit? He admitted that cap-and-trade advocates and like-minded global warming believers see economic prosperity as a huge source of the supposed problem. That’s why they’re proposing the perfect solution – from their perspective – in the form of a massive tax increase directly on industry.Daily Show Hits Democrats For Giving Polluters Free Pass On Cap-And-Trade (VIDEO)
The Daily Show criticized the cap-and-trade bill put forth by the Democrats because it completely appeases the companies who created the problem in the first place. Stewart notes that "Democratic leaders are touting a plan that would limit emissions with a system of pollution permits, then give those polluters years worth of those permits for free."
Bono, Shakira, Salma Hayek and More Team for Clean Water 'Mission' - Spinner
The event will kick off from the International Space Station with an introduction by Laliberté (left), the founder of Cirque du Soleil. He will then introduce Al Gore and environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki, who will illustrate many of the problems relating to the safety and accessibility of the world's water resources.American Thinker Blog: UN Quietly Scrubs Embattled Graph from Climate Report
It appears the latest downtrend was just too much truth for these UN “scientists” to handle.An inconvenient truce as green | Herald Sun
Unbelievable.
Still -- Any idea what may have prompted UNEP’s sudden chart switch decision?
THIS mad global warming scare could at last be over. And all thanks to just 10 trees in Siberia.C-Ville: UVA - Humans began changing climate 7,000 years ago
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Unreported in any newspaper here - and how typical that is - is a startling challenge to the central claim underpinning this greatest scare of our lifetime.
When William Ruddiman stepped away from the classroom in 2001, he expected to be more retired by now. But eight years later, the UVA emeritus professor of environmental sciences just can’t seem to stop working, all because of a little idea of his that humans haven’t just been changing the planet’s climate over the last 200 years—but starting 7,000 years ago.
Nothing Will Deter Global Warming Ideology » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog
The entire climate change agenda is as much about ideology and politics as it is about science. My fear is that in their zeal, they will not only destroy the economies of the developed world, but cause tremendous harm to the currently impoverished by stifling their development. For example, the “slow food” movement, driven mostly by prosperous Yuppie-types in part to halt global warming by reducing “food miles,” intends to drive down food imports, including those from the world’s poorest countries. I am all for local farmers’ markets, but slow food won’t do anything to stop warming, and indeed, is not capable of feeding billions of mouths. But if taken beyond a lifestyle choice for the already prosperous, it could work to prolong abject poverty around the world. Where’s the wisdom in that?Lawsuit says Texas must regulate CO2
Public Citizen's lawsuit against the Texas Commission on Environmental Regulation, filed Tuesday in Travis County District Court, cites arguments identical to those that the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed in a 2007 federal case.GRAINS-Frost fears push corn futures up 7.8 pct
CHICAGO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Corn futures rose nearly 8 percent at the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday, touching their highest levels in 14 weeks, on worries that a killing frost could reduce what now looks to be a record-large U.S. harvest, traders said.Record Low Temperatures Expected In NorCal - cbs13.com
"Weather is the main driver," said Vic Lespinasse, analyst for GrainAnalyst.com. "It's very wet and cold and there's a freeze this weekend with almost half the (immature) corn crop at risk."
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―As much as five inches of snow were recorded at higher elevations of the Sierra during the first weekend in October.
Think it's cold now? Temperatures may tumble even further as parts of northern California brace for record lows today.
The National Weather Service says near record or record lows are possible from last night through tonight.
Shipping and aviation volunteer for worldwide [climate swindle]
The international shipping and aviation industries are in their final spurts to try to agree on measures to battle global warming.Mmegi Online :: Ministry ponders winter school closure
"If the University of Botswana (UB) can allow a closure for the majority of the winter, why must the young pupils in primary schools be exposed to this harsh weather?" he asked. Modubule believes that when students are cold, they cannot concentrate in classes resulting in poor performances at the end of the winter term.Heavy snowfall, storm hits New Zealand :: Samay Live
The cold weather has also wiped out hundreds of newborn lambs in the central North Island and farmers have been urged to ensure lambs, and their mothers, had access to shelter.'Hot Button' Climate Issue Spotlights How U.S. Chamber Sets Policy - NYTimes.com
"Basically, they're simply responding to the majority of their businesses' expressed needs," said Kenneth Green, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "They're a membership-driven organization. You have to figure that the majority have said, 'I come up a loser under this stuff.'"
Google releases more tours to highlight climate change [fraud] | Google Earth Blog
Today, Google has released a few more tours. The new tours all deal with deforestation, and show ways to help protect forests from further deforestation in the future.Locals Try Sinking Plan to Store CO2 Underground - WSJ.com
Still, "people are worried about leaks," says Thomas Lautsch, Vattenfall Europe AG's head of CO2 storage. "They worry their kids will be suffocated, their cows will die, their property values will slump."The Mystery Of The "Hockey Stick" Chart Revealed - Minnesotans For Global Warming
A month ago while attending the Minnesota State Fair, I went to the Eco-Experience building which was quite interesting. Of course they had a big beautiful display about Global Warming and its "Impact" on Minnesota. They were saying things like our winters would be milder and Lake Superior would be 2 degrees warmer. Have you ever tried swimming in Lake Superior even in July? If it were 2 degrees warmer it would take you 15 minutes to die from Hyperthermia as opposed to 13. Hence, the name of our group.C3: Christmas In Copenhagen: UN Demands U.S. Taxpayers Pay Hundreds of Billions In Climate-Change Reparations
...Fears that Obama and radical Democrats will agree to massive wealth transfer from U.S. taxpayers to less developed countries are reasonable since EU diplomats are also pressuring the U.S. to do so. The largest danger to future U.S. economic prosperity is the UN and EU anti-Americanism that Obama Administration parrots.
Green Gold, Fool’s Gold, and the Chamber of Commerce
What a joke. An entire attack on an institution based on a gold rush for rent seeking. Congratulations, Harvard, this is the kind of material running under your banner.Lumber Company Enters Carbon Market - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
“This deal looks a whole lot like a giant timber company getting millions of dollars in carbon credits for business-as-usual operations,” said Brian Nowicki, a policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity. Mr. Nowicki argued that allowing clear cutting to any degree would pose a risk for the climate, while “simultaneously degrading forests, water quality, and wildlife habitat,” he said.[If the science is so settled, why are we asking this question?]: Do Dust Particles Curb Climate Change?
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[Even the New York Times has now noticed!] On the Chicago Climate Exchange, carbon is currently selling for 10 cents a ton.
A knowledge gap exists in the area of climate research: for decades, scientists have been asking themselves whether, and to what extent man-made aerosols, that is, dust particles suspended in the atmosphere, enlarge the cloud cover and thus curb climate warming. Research has made little or no progress on this issue.Ban voices hope ahead of final leg of negotiations on climate change [hoax] treaty
3 October 2009 – The frozen positions preventing governments from making progress in negotiations for a new greenhouse gas emissions treaty are beginning to thaw, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday in a series of speeches in Copenhagen, aimed at cranking up the pressure on nations to finalize an ambitious new pact at a conference in the city this December.
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“Tackling climate change can set us on the road to peace and prosperity for all, but half-measures or business-as-usual will set the stage for catastrophe,” he warned.
Small islands: Copenhagen set up for failure
"We are not working through the options as negotiations, we are simply restating our positions. So we may arrive in Copenhagen with the parties still very far apart. It's really setting up Copenhagen for failure or an inadequate result," says Leon Charles, chairman of the AOSIS negotiating team, to IRIN, a news media provided by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.UN Climate Report Rife with Errors « Harold Ambler - Talking About The Weather
Things get curiouser and curiouser with the United Nations’ world-class, cream-of-the-crop science compendium published two weeks back.Over the Summer, a Spread of Thicker Arctic Ice - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of “second-year ice” — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of melting. The result could be a reprieve, at least for a while, from the recent stretch of remarkable summer meltdowns.Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The light bulb goes … off
According to the center, second-year ice this summer made up 32 percent of the total ice cover on the Arctic Ocean, compared with 21 percent in 2007 and 9 percent in 2008.
In other words, we’re saving a few pennies at best on energy costs with CFLs over incandescents — and in return, making our homes potential toxic-waste areas and polluting landfills with mercury. It’s an insane policy that can only be justified by radical environmentalist lunatics.The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » The Green Man’s Burden
There is a historical tendency in Europe to seek to mold others in its image. This was part of what some styled the “white man’s burden” during the colonial era. Has this tendency reasserted itself as the Green man’s burden?
Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data | CEI
Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009―In the wake of a revelation by a key research institution that it destroyed its original climate data, the Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned EPA to reopen a major global warming proceeding.[Still more public money blown on climate swindle]: Feds award $2.7M for Wolverine carbon project
In mid-August the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) disclosed that it had destroyed the raw data for its global surface temperature data set because of an alleged lack of storage space. The CRU data have been the basis for several of the major international studies that claim we face a global warming crisis. CRU’s destruction of data, however, severely undercuts the credibility of those studies.
The federal government has awarded $2.7 million to a Michigan electric power co-op for a carbon storage project at a proposed coal-fired power plant near Rogers City.The Arts | 'Wondrous Cold': Burke exhibit shows there's much more to Antarctica than penguins | Seattle Times Newspaper
Sidor says that for most of the last 300 million years, Antarctica was not covered in glaciers and snow.Climate Costs: Can The World Really Afford to Roll Back Carbon Emissions? - Environmental Capital - WSJ
For environmentalists worried that the world is on the verge of catastrophic tipping points, quibbling over the check seems immoral. For others less convinced by the still-turbulent science of climate change, spending a few hundred billion dollars a year on an insurance policy seems reckless.
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