YouTube - Daring to Question Al Gore

The director of "Not Evil, Just Wrong," a documentary challenging Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," dares to ask a question at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference. Apparently Mr. Gore only allows the 'right kind' of questions to be asked of him.

Guy who had ice in his underpants claims that the world's overheating

Idiot peddles climate fraud to children

STONY PLAIN — Robert Swan is the first person in history to walk to both the North and South Poles, but he's worried no one will be able to follow in his footsteps.

"I might end up being the last person to do it," he told students in Stony Plain on Friday. "At the rate we're warming up our world, there won't be ice to walk on."
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It involved a rather unpleasant 70-day journey. Swan got a laugh from the crowd when he told them about a particularly unpleasant aspect of travelling in -76 C. Sweat freezes under clothing.

"I'll tell you what, boys and girls, I do not enjoy having ice in my underpants. It's a bit tricky."

More seriously, though, by the time he made his trek, human-caused damage to the environment affected him personally. His journey to the South Pole was made under the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. As a result, his eye colour changed permanently, from dark blue to light blue, and the skin on his face blistered, then peeled off.

[By the way, if this guy's sunburn was caused by the "ozone hole", what caused this Antarctic sunburn in 1914?]

From a description of the diary of one of the members of Shackleton's 1914 expedition:

On 12 November, Hussey records his first wash since leaving the Endurance, and the effects of polar sunburn: 'My nose & face are peeling as though I'd been at Margate for a month'.

[And why this caution about Arctic sunburn?]

...the face must be protected with a special shield, or heavily greased, to prevent sunburn. Goggles, too, must be worn all day outdoors as a precaution against snow blindness from the intense glare.

Freeze warning issued for Oklahoma Panhandle

The National Weather Service office in Amarillo, Texas, issued the freeze warning for all of the Panhandle through 11 a.m. Sunday. The weather service says record cold temperatures are expected in the area starting Saturday.

Cold, wet summer makes for not-so-great pumpkins | Michigan

An unusually cool and rainy summer means the jack-o’-lanterns that adorn area porches and yards this fall are smaller than in years past and has reduced the state’s pumpkin crop by 30 percent.
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“We only had about 15 tons of pumpkins this year,” said Schultz, 27, who has been planting and harvesting pumpkins since childhood. “Normally it’s around 35 tons, but during a banner year, we’ll have 45 tons. I have never seen a summer like this one.”

Not Enough Progress at Bangkok Climate Talks

Canada was amongst a small group of countries, including Russia, who are trying to dismantle Kyoto.

Retreat on carbon crackdown - Times Online

The government has caved in to business on a key aspect of its latest scheme for cutting pollution after an intense lobbying campaign by executives.

YouTube - The Role of the Sun

There is far better reason for global warming -- the sun. Global warming alarmists claim there is not enough energy change in the sun's output to explain earth's warming. They are partially correct. But it is not the total amount of energy emitted by the sun, but the TYPE of energy released. As the sun becomes more active, as it did in the 20th century, it emits more solar winds which keeps more cosmic radiation from entering the solar system. That mean's the earth warms. Watch the video to find out why.

Fall of the Republic: Crash Course in the Globalist Agenda

...It moves on to explain how the global warming junk science scam is being ruthlessly exploited to sell the public on carbon taxes that will be handed over to the same global elite and transnational corporations. Fall of the Republic documents how the manufactured illusion of over population and climate change sold by the likes of Al Gore will be used to control the American people through home inspections and punitive fines for crimes such as allowing the faucet to run while you brush your teeth.

Bill Maher: [Because they don't believe that CO2 is dangerous, America's young people are stupid]

Yeah, [the country's youths] don’t seem to be rising up. It takes the youth, really; they’re the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn’t be the old geezers, but the signs are very worrying. Half of them, apparently, don’t believe in global warming. They think it’s a hoax, which is more of that stupid, stick-their-head-in-the-sand attitude.

Holdren sought 'planetary regime'

White House science czar John Holdren has called for the United States to surrender sovereignty to a "Planetary Regime" armed with sufficient military power to enforce population limits on nations as a means of preventing a wide range of perceived dangers from global eco-disasters involving Earth's natural resources, climate, atmosphere and oceans.

Frequently-flying hypocrites | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Qantas answers an investor’s query about its passengers’ commitment to saving the world from global warming:

CO2 emissions from burning Jet Fuel: 12,608,518 tonnes (Financial Year 2007 - 2008)

Voluntary Offsets paid for by customers: 66,000 tonnes (Sep 2007 - Sep 2008)

Adds reader Scott:

Yet polls indicate ~67% of people want action on climate change???

Australia: How the West was not won on climate

Speaker after speaker at the conference expressed scepticism about the science of climate change and warned that the Rudd Government's scheme would be disastrous for the West Australian economy, which is heavily dependent on mining and agriculture.
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Liberal senator Mathias Cormann also spoke strongly in favour of the motion, saying Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's claim that the scheme would help reduce emissions was a "fraud, a scam, a con on the Australian people … In the absence of a comprehensive global agreement, it will push up the price of energy, it will cost jobs, it will place pressure on our economy, it will put our energy security at risk … and it will do nothing to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions."

Snow Closing Roads in Northeast Colorado

A band of heavy snow at the rate of 1"-2" per hour in spots and strong wind gusts are creating blowing snow, poor visibility and slick road conditions on several major roadways in North East Colorado early Saturday morning.

Rocky Mountain region blasted by early snowstorm

About 2 inches of snow in the Denver area was blamed for hundreds of minor car accidents, plus a more serious pileup on Interstate 25 near Colorado Springs.

The National Weather Service says record low temperatures were set in many Colorado towns today. The temperature at Denver International Airport was 17 degrees this morning, 8 degrees below the record low of 25 degrees set in 1905.

The Canadian Press: No gratitude on Prairies for early snow, cold Thanksgiving weekend

There's bound to be little gratitude on the Prairies this Thanksgiving weekend for an early taste of snow and sub-zero temperatures.

Many areas in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have already experienced flurries and Environment Canada is predicting more in the next couple of days.

Daytime temperatures are hovering around freezing - about 10 degrees below normal - but are dipping five to eight degrees below that overnight.

Energy security?: U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior has frozen oil and gas development on 60 of 77 contested drilling sites in Utah, saying the process of leasing the land was rushed and badly flawed.

Trip to 2010: Worst-Kept Secrets Will Kill Climate Bill : Red, Green, and Blue

Whatever the result, it now seems highly unlikely that the House and Senate could possibly agree on a bill in conference committee during this session, and any climate change legislation will likely have to wait until after mid-term elections. Of course, by that time, President Obama will be ramping up his own re-election bid and with hurt feelings among many of the constituencies that supported him in 2008 (gay rights groups and anti-war activists chief among them), Obama may choose to take on some more mainstream initiatives and leave climate change to the side for a while
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Take it for what it is: my imagination. Except that we already know that most of this WILL certainly happen. What we don’t know yet, is how we’ll react.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Global warming arrives in Minnesota

We have had two cold and long winters in a row, and today indicates that 2009-10 will be longer and colder yet; last year, we didn’t get our first sticking snowfall until the end of October.

Twitter / Jeff Murman

Thanks for putting a quick end to global warming Obama! Snow in early October, what's next? Wine from the water fountains??!?

UK eases first year of carbon trading scheme | Carbon Offsets Daily

Retailers and big business caught in the UK’s domestic carbon trading scheme will only need to report on their emissions for the first year of the programme, not surrender allowances, under changes announced today.

Can we finally discuss this like adults? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

For years we were told that the debate is over. Now even the BBC’s climate corresponent admits it isn’t at all...
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Here is just one more sign that the shameful and frightening hysteria that so gripped the media, choking debate abnd leading dissenters to be vilified, is finally subsiding.

Al Gore Delivers Speech To Science Journalists In Madison

While Gore was on his soapbox inside, hundreds gathered outside in the freezing cold to oppose his alarmist climate change policies.

Al Fin: BBC Wakes Up and Says: The Debate Is On!

Why is the BBC suddenly willing to step away from the "consensus chorus of climate change catastrophe?" Would it have something to do with Steve McIntyre's treatment of Briffa's [cherry picked] Yamal Peninsula series? Or perhaps they are thinking of recent confirmation of Svensmark's cosmic ray theory? Perhaps they have discovered Anthony Watts' analysis of surface station temperature biases?

Author claims that global warming is not our fault

"I would go as far as to suggest that man's activity throughout the 19th and 20th century, coupled with relatively frequent volcanic activity has actually been keeping the planet uncommonly cool."

ABC: Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped By Global Warming | NewsBusters.org

So, according to Blakemore, the problems in Afghanistan -- drought, heroin production and trafficking, unemployment, AND the growth in the Taliban and al Qaeda -- are directly linked to global warming.

Exit question: What HASN'T been blamed on climate change since Nobel Laureate Al Gore figured he could become rich spreading this as yet unproven theory?

[Can you prevent hurricanes by hanging your underwear where your neighbors can see it?]: Debate Follows Bills to Remove Clotheslines Bans - NYTimes.com

CANTON, Ohio — After taking a class that covered global warming last year, Jill Saylor decided to save energy by drying her laundry on a clothesline at her mobile home.

India a climate change deal maker: Jairam- Hindustan Times

Ramesh, however, added that India is not “obligated” to take on legally binding emission reduction targets. “That is not on the table as far as India is concerned,” he said.
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Nations should scale down ambitions for a global climate deal in Copenhagen in December rather than have "exaggerated expectations", he added.

Global warming, Joe Romm and famous wagers

...What's even funnier is that Romm believes that temperatures will rise by (I think he has said this) 7 to 9 degrees this century, but he's only willing to bet on 1.5 degrees. Talk about the courage of your convictions.

I took the bet because in print Romm comes off as a hectoring bully, saving the worst of his invective for people (like your humble author) who actually believe global warming is real and should be addressed, but who don't believe the worst of the hysterical claims about the end of civilization. Now, Romm may well be a very nice person in person, but his weblog is not a force for good in this debate. And you have to stand up for bullies, even if it costs something real.

It's way too cold to play baseball in Denver; Rockies and Phillies game postponed - Sports Pros(e)

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sportsprose/2009/10/its_way_too_cold_to_play_baseb.html

 Major League Baseball decided to move the game back after a snowstorm blanketed the area and iced over roads. Tonight's game-time temperature was expected to be around 25 degrees, which would have made for the most frigid postseason game ever.

Minnesotan starts 15-day bike tour for climate change | StarTribune.com

ROSEVILLE, Minn. - A 23-year-old Roseville man will start a 15-day, 350-mile bike tour on Saturday to raise awareness about solutions to stop climate change.

Reed Aronow is a Minnesota youth delegate to the Copenhagen climate negotiations in December.

Featured Comment: Minnesotan starts 15-day bike tour for climate change

He's doing a great job so far

My yard is covered in snow on Oct. 10th! Maybe he should cut his trip short?

Global warming hooey | Michael Coren | Winnipeg Sun

Worries about climate are being manufactured by the international left

[Bogus models tweaked; alarmist "breakthrough" announced]

Combining these two effects, the authors discovered that the increased availability of nutrients from more rapid decomposition did not counterbalance the reduced level of plant growth calculated by natural nutrient limitations; therefore less new growth and higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations are expected.

This breakthrough is one more step toward a more realistic prediction for the future of the earth’s climate. (ANI)

Al Jazeera English - Focus - The "ground zero" of climate change

International scientists count Bangladesh as one of the countries worst hit by climate change.

The country loses an estimated 100 square kilometres of land to river erosion ever year, and nowhere is the situation more dire than on Bhola.

Flashback: Prometheus: Ocean Encroachment in Bangladesh Archives

Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) have studied 32 years of satellite images and say Bangladesh's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually.

Denver breaks 104 year old cold temperature record as Arctic chill sets in

Friday night the cold front moved in and temperatures plummeted 23 degrees in five hours. Before midnight the mercury read 18 degrees thus shattering the old low temperature record for October 9th of 25 degrees. That record dated to 1970.

This morning the low temperature at Denver International Airport has dropped to 18 degrees. That sets a new record low temperature for October 10th as well. The previous record low of 25 degrees was set more than a century ago in 1905.

Minnesota: Wardrobe tips for a cold day in Gopher Nation

History is made today at TCF Bank Stadium at the Gophers-Purdue game. It's the first time since old Memorial Stadium closed 28 years ago that fans will feel as if they're out duck hunting, not in the hermetically sealed Metrodome. The predicted high temperature for today will be about 40.

We asked for it and we got it — college football in Sorel boots.

I don't know if Al Gore is still in Wisconsin, but he might want to stop by the stadium today to pitch his global warming scam to the chilly thousands.  He could point out that while carbon dioxide almost overheated Minnesota enough to prevent snow today, the lack of carbon dioxide on October 10, 1928 trapped so little heat that the high barely hit 90 degrees.

Al might point out that when the hypothermic fans return home, they can try to make it even colder outside by turning down their thermostats and not eating meat.   Al might also encourage them to support Nancy Pelosi's federal global cooling plan, which involves a great transfer of their limited wealth both to government bureaucrats and to criminals in foreign countries.

Deadlock in Bangkok

"Houses on the riverbank were swept away. Caravan parks on the lagoon just disappeared overnight. The horses in the polo estates drowned in their stables," he said.

Then came the drought. "In January we started praying for rain."

I Love CO2: Green Hysteria, From Polar Bears To Puppies

Matthew Sinclair of the Taxpayers' Alliance decried the ad campaign. "This is a disgusting attempt to use taxpayers' money to scare their own children, particularly when money is so tight following the recession," he told The Register. "... The government should not be using taxpayers' money to produce this kind of shock advertising, which would probably not even be allowed on TV if it was produced by an independent campaign."
The good news is that the more outrageous the scare tactics of environmentalists get, the more likely people are to realize that the theory of manmade global warming destroying the planet is a sham based on flawed science.

UN IPCC Science scrutinised and found wanting : Open letter to all members of Parliament | Climate Realists

...the IPCC report itself advises that the level of scientific understanding of the majority of climate drivers is very poor."

The Gore Effect strikes Wisconsin! « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

Ocean Heat Content: Dropping again « Watts Up With That?

I found Bob’s Arctic Ocean Heat Content graph quite interesting as it may explain why we are seeing a recovery in sea ice for the last two years. It also reminds me a lot of the graph seen of the Barents Sea water temperature plotted against the AMO which WUWT recently covered here.

Skeptic's Corner: How's 'bout tellun the pols? huh?

It is this kind of stuff that is just ignored or swept under the rug that is so frustrating. A generation is going to learn not to trust scientists. I have the greatest respect for those few who are speaking out but the rest are pathetic elitists who are condemning the world towards an unnecessary economic disaster -disgraceful.

What's wrong with Obama's green team? | Marc Gunther

Today, I’m at the Society of Environmental Journalists convention in Madison, Wisconsin. It has attracted a parade of administration officials: Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary, marine biologist Jane Lubchenko, who leads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Nancy Sutley, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality; Gina McCarthy, an EPA administrator in charge of air quality, and others. Al Gore keynoted, and we heard from economists, scientists and a CEO or two during a very full day.

The Obama people came to sell cap-and-trade, hard.
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Offsets are a way that regulated industries, like the utilities that own coal plants, can comply with the “caps” on global warming pollutants by paying unregulated entities – in this case, farmers – to reduce their emissions. (Just trying to explain this makes me dizzy.) So, while the costs of fuel and fertilizer will grow because they are made from fossil fuels, the potential value of offsets to farmers could reach as much as $15 billion a year, Vilsack said. To put that in context, he said, net income to all farmers is about $55 billion a year.
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So how, [Gina McCarthy, an EPA administrator] was asked, would EPA monitor offsets in such places as Indonesia and Brazil? “It’s my new retirement package,” she quipped. The real answer, she added, is that the government will have to rely on third-party auditors.

Climate bills shifted to back burner yet again | VentureBeat

Initially, Boxer said her co-authored bill would start working its way through the Senate by the end of this month, but fears that emissions restrictions would be costly for businesses and further disadvantage the U.S. economy have killed the buzz. Right now, staff members for the Environment and Public Works Committee in the Senate are working on proposals for the distribution of pollution credits — perhaps the most heated aspect of the legislation. The controversy this sparks when it rolls out next week could hold the bill up for months.

Carbon credits fly in the Windy City - thestar.com

CHICAGO–This city has come a long way from selling pork bellies.

Today, it's a place where farmers on windswept, parched farms in Saskatchewan can sell excess carbon credits to coal miners in Australia. This type of trading, on the Chicago Climate Exchange, might be an effective way for businesses and governments around the world to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions.
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By not tilling, farmers cut back on carbon emissions and earn credits worth about $2 to $5 per half-hectare.

CCX CFI End of Day Summary

[How could you write the article above without mentioning that carbon credits have crashed 70-fold in value to 10 cents a ton?]

Not Fighting Climate Change Will Cost $500 Billion a Year

...do you know how much it will cost not to fight climate change right now? How about half a trillion dollars a year?

Dreaming we’ll be saved from our folly | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Don’t worry, she assures us: to replace dirty coal-fired power in 2020 we’ll have either nuclear power or clean-coal technology.

Two critical problems. First, clean-coal technology on the scale we’d need has not been proved anywhere, and even if it is made to work (at what cost?) is unlikely to be ready and installed in a decade. Nuclear power is meanwhile banned by the Rudd Government, and would take at least a decade to install from the lifting of any ban - presuming no state government, green army or politicised judge halts it in the meantime.

Global Warming I. Just Revealed As a Gigantic Scientific Deception » Euro-med

The Hadley Centre in Exeter and the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia are among the primary drivers of global climate change alarmism. Their data has formed the basis for the IPCC’s “we’re all doomed” reports; their scientists – among them Professor Phil Jones and tree ring expert Professor Keith Briffa – have been doughty supporters of Mann’s Hockey Stick theory and of the computer models showing inexorably rising temperatures. When McIntyre approached the Met Office and the CRU for more information they refused, claiming implausibly that it would damage Britain’s “international relations” with all the countries that supplied it. Later they went a step further and claimed the data had been mislaid.

Billings encased in cold; storm heads south

Brian Tesar, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Billings, said temperatures dropped quickly Friday morning, tying the record low of 18 degrees set in Billings in 1993.

"We'll break that easily tonight," Tesar said Friday. The record low for Saturday was 21 degrees, he said. "I think we'll probably bust that by at least 10 degrees."
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Joe Lester, also a meteorologist with the NWS Billings office, said that if the temperature drops to 15 degrees this weekend, it will set another record.

"The earliest we've ever been 15 degrees or lower is the 28th" of October, he said. "It's not only a record for the day, it's the earliest we've ever got this cold by 2 weeks."

YouTube - Nebraska: Proof of "Global Warming" Snow on October 10th, 2009

Global Warming doesn't exist. It IS a fraud and it is only about money. All comments require my approval...so, don't bother trying to "convert" me or anyone else.

islandpacket.com | Think before bankrupting major electricity source

President Barack Obama said: "If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."

He wants to bankrupt the source of 48.5 percent of our electricity. I can only conclude he is either arrogant or blindly fanatic. Neither is appropriate for the president of this country.

The Reference Frame: BBC: What happened to global warming?

The British government began its "Act on CO2" propagandistic campaign, in order to fight the growing skepticism among the citizens. After 10 years of intense brainwashing, most of them still think that global warming won't be a problem for them or their kids. The 2-star fairy-tale propagandistic video above is targeting 3-year-old girls as well as adults who are their intellectual equivalents.

For another result of the "Act on CO2" campaign, see this dramatic video. The narrator speaks like an excited general of an army who gives orders to the soldiers. The energy in the wires and CO2 emit strong light in the movie. Eventually, they melt the Earth. ;-)

Philip Stott compares the campaign to 1984, the book. Of course, unlike Orwell's world, our world often allows the people to find the right answers to the question, not just the government-paid untrue propaganda. So the U.K. government's investment is bound to be just a waste of money. They would have to execute millions of people, including Paul Hudson of BBC, to make a real difference.

Why? It's because one simple article by Paul Hudson compensates the lies in TV commercials that cost millions of pounds.

Local weather report: It snowed overnight here in Minnesota, and with a current temperature of 27 degrees, it's sticking.  With the globe allegedly overheating, the first snow only arrived about 5 1/2 weeks early this year.

[Skeptical Minnesotans wonder: Why so cold recently, and why so warm long ago?]

From 1899 to 2007 there have been 31 years with either a "zero" or a "trace." The last time the Twin Cities has seen a brown Christmas was 2006. The deepest snow cover on December 25th was in 1983 with a hefty 20 inches. It was also a very cold Christmas that year, with the high temperature of 1 measly degree F. It was not the coldest Christmas Day in the Twin Cities. That dubious award goes to 1996 with a "high" temperature of 9 below zero F. The warmest Christmas Day in the Twin Cities was 51 degrees in 1922. There was not a white Christmas that year. In fact, the Minneapolis Weather Bureau log book for that day states that the day felt "spring like."

With Copenhagen looming, Obama completely ignores global warming yet again in his weekly address to the American people

[He's now given the issue only one tiny mention in his last thirteen weekly addresses combined]
 Still, there are some in Washington today who seem determined to play the same old partisan politics, working to score political points, even if it means burdening this country with an unsustainable status quo.
...Now is the time to rise above the politics of the moment. Now is the time to come together as Americans...

30% Say Obama Is A Bipartisan President - Rasmussen Reports™

Just 30% of U.S. voters now think President Obama is governing in a bipartisan fashion, down 12 points from late January and the lowest such finding of his presidency.

[Does Obama think that he's speaking only to a CO2-hysteric international audience here?]

[In case you missed it: In his statement on the Nobel Prize, the most powerful man in the world dons his sandwich board and claims that carbon dioxide might "empty cities"]: In a statement given in the Rose Garden, President Obama acknowledged the challenges ahead to enact climate change legislation. “We cannot accept the growing threat posed by climate change, which could forever damage the world that we pass on to our children -- sowing conflict and famine; destroying coastlines and emptying cities,” he said. “And that's why all nations must now accept their share of responsibility for transforming the way that we use energy.”

[After Obama's insane statement above, the Washington Post had this to say]

All told, Barack Obama spoke for six minutes Friday. He said little concrete, nothing controversial, nothing contentious. And yet, once he walked back into his house, contention dominated the day.

Kevin Libin: Copenhagen plan could wreck global economy - Full Comment

“Any elected leader who signed the climate treaty would be signing the death-warrant of his nation’s democracy,” says Lord Monckton.

Bangkok sees much ado about Protocol

But what happened here in Bangkok was that several major developed countries were "jumping ship from the Protocol into a new nationally binding model," he said.

"If they jump ship, then we will be left with an empty shell," Mr Khor said. "Then it will be replaced by something else as it will no longer be a binding commitment for the international community. We have an ironic situation, where we have seen the dismantling of an internationally binding model into something inferior."

Cold snap closes roads, downs trees in the North Island | New Zealand

A fresh blast of wintry weather has closed roads, toppled trees and downed power lines in the North Island but the South Island has escaped relatively unscathed.

Army defends us from warming mania | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Has it finally become permissable to doubt? How fast the (intellectual) climate is changing. After all, it’s only a year since The Chaser toured a show that mocked me as the last remaining sceptic in Australia.

C3: U.S. State Governors: Is New Hampshire Governor The Dumbest About Global Warming?

...Why the governor of New Hampshire is worried about "global warming" is beyond comprehension. Global warming for the state of New Hampshire and the U.S. is a non-issue. If it keeps cooling in New Hampshire the state, will begin to have some very serious problems that the Governor seems not to be planning for.

Wha’ Happened? | GlobalWarming.org

USA Today reports that at least nine states (and probably more) are not meeting their renewable portfolio standards. What coulda happened?

CapitalClimate: What's Up With TV Weathercasters? [Why don't these people fear carbon dioxide?]

Online, of course, one of the most notorious anti-science sites is run by a former broadcast meteorologist.
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Do the harsh lights of the TV studio fry the parts of the brain responsible for processing science? My theory is that these folks just become unable to see the forest for the trees when they spend so much energy focusing on hour-to-hour and day-to-day weather.

Don't Fry Our Economy!

Madison, WI- Today hundreds gathered in at the State Capitol in Madison, Wi to oppose Al Gore and his alarmist Climate Change policies. Despite the cold, an enthusiastic crowd gathered to send Al Gore a clear message: “Don’t Fry Our Economy!”

Climate change cited as reason for Nobel Prize to Obama despite inaction

Friends of the Earth said in statement that while they were pleased the president won the award, they were concerned about unmet expectations. “We have concerns though, that the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded President Obama this award on the basis of expectations that have not yet been met,” the group said in a statement.

Gasps as Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize - NYTimes.com

In Europe and much of the world, Obama is praised for bringing the U.S. closer to mainstream global thinking on such issues as climate change and multilateralism.

Orwell’s green Britain | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Have these people lost their minds? The real danger is clearly not global warming but an unprincipled, over-mighty government with totalitarian instincts of the kind Hamilton shares

Peruvian Glaciers Prove Little Ice Age Was Global | The Resilient Earth

Licciardi et al. have reinforced what had already been reported by many others—the Little Ice Age and all of the other well documented warm and cold periods that have occurred during the Holocene were real and global in nature. The revived attempts to rewrite Earth's climate history have been shown to be fraudulent and anthropogenic global warming has once again proven to be a theory built on bad data and statistical quicksand.

Bangkok climate talks end in recrimination | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Global climate change talks came to an end in Bangkok today in an atmosphere of distrust and recrimination, with the rift between rich and poor countries seemingly wider than ever. After two weeks of negotiations there have been no breakthroughs on big issues such as money or emissions cuts.

With just five days of negotiating time now left before the concluding talks in Copenhagen in December, delegates said it appeared a weak deal was the most likely outcome, and no deal at all was a possibility.

Why don't these people fear carbon dioxide?

Oblivious to climate change - The National Newspaper

BANGKOK // Awareness about climate change and the threat it poses is woefully lacking in Arab countries, Arab delegates and activists attending key climate talks in Bangkok told The National.

The absence of debate about climate change in the Middle East suggested the Arab world was “living on another planet”, said Wael Hmaidan, the executive director of IndyACT, a Lebanon-based non-governmental organisation.

Britain faces return to the three-day week within four years - Times Online

Ofgem raised the spectre of a return to the three-day week for British industry as the country scrambles to renovate its crumbling power infrastructure ahead of new EU pollution rules that will force the closure of a quarter of UK power stations by 2015.

Alistair Buchanan, Ofgem’s chief executive, said: “There could be a potential shortfall in the period 2013-18 ... Life might be pretty cold.”

In extreme scenarios such as during periods of unusually harsh winter weather, Mr Buchanan said that Britain could be forced to switch off power supplies to large factories to conserve dwindling electricity supplies for households.

Limbaugh: Obama Nobel more embarrassing than Olympics loss - War Room - Salon.com

Keep in mind that the prizes are political. There is a lot of pressure from different political bodies. Obama, just as Gore before him, is a stooge of the New World Order Crowd, of the Carbon Exchange, Cap and Trade Ponzi Scheme crowd, and a protege of Saudi Arabia. These people have bet billions of dollars and don’t want to let go of their puppet without a fight. They are trying to pull any string they possibly can to legitimate this fraud. An award is just one of those strings.

Geologist: The Earth Needs CO2

RUSH: Why does it sound unbelievable? Only because there is a culture that has developed resulting from the hoax that CO2, which we exhale, is a poison and that it will destroy the climate. When in fact he's right, green things live it. They need it. Green things cannot live without CO2. I got to thinking about this and I think that these senators all know this. Now, there are probably some idiots in the Senate who probably have bought the hoax. I mean not all those guy's elevators go all the way to the top floor. Many of them are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal. But still they're there and they got elected. But most of them know full well this is a hoax...

Africa: Western Climate Negotiators Cut Hopes for Copenhagen Dea

"Last month, President Obama, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other leaders of industrialised nations all lined up to say how committed they were to tackling climate change and reaching an effective agreement on how to do this when UN negotiations end in Copenhagen in December," says Saleemul Huq, senior fellow in the climate change group at the International Institute for Environment and Development and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"This gave the world high expectations for the international negotiation session that has run for the past two weeks in Bangkok," says Huq. "But it seems like the negotiators from industrialised nations either didn't follow their leaders' speeches or haven't been received any new instructions because in virtually every aspect of the talks there has been minimal progress of any substance."

American Thinker Blog: Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data

America is being asked to spend trillions on a theory, some of whose foundational data has been destroyed, allegedly for a lack of storage space. If the data cannot be reviewed, it cannot be trusted, scientifically.
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This data destruction has the odor of fraud about it.

A blast of early winter weather - Billings, Montana

Record low temperatures are expected tonight and Saturday night throughout the area. The last time we felt temperatures this cold in early October was in 1985.

[Does all this heavy equipment run on wind or solar power?]: Drilling the Sea Ice | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA– Drilling a hole through 7 m (21 ft) of sea ice is the first step in Antarctic diving. Check out the video below to see how it’s done.

[Antarctica: Still cold] | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

The locals I spoke with in Christchurch, while walking around town on Sunday morning, all complained about the cold, rainy weather...To me temperatures in the 40s F felt pretty mild after 37 days where the low temperature was never warmer than -6 F and the warmest temperature I’d experienced was +19 F. In fact, during my time in Antarctica the daily high temperature was above 0 deg F on only 13 of the 37 days I was on the ice.

As I walked through the Christchurch botanic gardens I enjoyed the feel of a breeze that didn’t threaten frostbite and hypothermia as the bitter cold winds of Antarctica did. The smell of spring flowers blooming was something that you never smell in Antarctica, and almost don’t realize missing until you get off of the ice.

Hedegaard loses climate chief negotiator (sacked)?: Google Translate (from Danish)

Connie Hedegaard's right hand and Climate Ministry chief negotiator Thomas Becker has decided to leave his job - allegedly because of internal strife within the Ministry.

Al Gore Still Lying about An Inconvenient Truth - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Now Gore is at it again. Listen to Phelim McAleer of Not Evil Just Wrong having his microphone turned off because he asked Gore if he disagrees with the court’s finding or wishes to respond to the specific findings of error. In dodging the question (shock!), Gore flatly lies — again — saying over and again that the court actually validated him. “The ruling was in favor of the movie, by the way. And the ruling was in favor of showing the movie in the schools.”

AFP: Africa needs $65 bln to meet climate change: minister

OUAGADOUGOU — Africa needs 65 billion dollars (44 billion euros) to deal with the effects of global warming, Burkina Faso's environment minister said Friday at the opening of a special forum on climate change.

[In case you missed it]: Obama Will Accept Nobel Peace Prize As ‘Call to Action’

He called climate change an unacceptable threat that “could forever damage the world that we pass on to our children.” In an apparent message to China and India, he urged all nations to transform the way they use energy.

[Every time you exhale, you're helping terrorists produce heroin]: Taliban, al Qaeda Helped by Global Warming - ABC News

The other global warming factor involves the extensive poppy farming that is making the Taliban and al Qaeda very rich, according to a number of studies.

The drought-resistant opium poppies that feed a booming heroin trade, say Sharifi and a number of other authorities, are making the Taliban and Al Qaeda very rich.

In the Cold of Battle : Journal Watch Online

But two scientists argue in Climatic Change that the link between climate change and war has not been adequately quantified. The team analyzed historical records of violent conflicts in Europe over the past thousand years, as well as temperature and precipitation data and climate reconstructions. They found that pre-industrial wars were actually correlated with colder periods, echoing a 2006 study that revealed a similar pattern in China.

The American Spectator : Inconvenient Questions

Phelim McAleer, co-director/producer of “Not Evil Just Wrong” and asker of difficult questions, reportedly just had his microphone turned off a little while ago as he queried Al Gore at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Madison, Wisc.

If you want to see what a joke the SEJ and its meeting is, just take a look at their list of panels.

Streetsblog Capitol Hill » Senate Climate Bill Delayed Yet Again As Obama Takes Nobel

But if the U.S. continues backing away from setting a broad emissions target this year, it could result in a further loss of momentum for the Senate climate bill, setting up a vicious cycle of sorts. And all this on a day when Obama takes the Nobel Peace Prize for helping America "[play] a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting.”

Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.com

[comment] The committee that awards the prize has covered itself in shame before (giving it to Carter for Bush-bashing and to Gore for peddling what the IPCC itself regards as fiction about global warming) but giving the prize based entirely on potential instead of accomplishments beats it all.

General Motors Sells Hummer To A Chinese Manufacturer - cbs2.com

General Motors Co. says it has signed an agreement to sell control of its iconic Hummer brand to a Chinese heavy equipment maker.

The Localizer: [to climate realists]: I love you but you're S-T-U-P-I-D

I hate to break it to you (although deep down you may already know this), but you are truly ignorant and stupid.
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In conclusion, you and your opinions are the primary reason our planet is on a collision course with dieoff and our flawed culture faces collapse.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The "Shameful Article": A Review and Update

As the world continues to suffer a "depression" in global tropical cyclone activity with activity at 30-year lows, and hurricane forecasters try to keep busy while watching the listless Atlantic, I thought that for those who haven't been reading this blog for the past 5 years (which I assume is most everyone;-) it would be worth reviewing a bit of the history of the science on hurricanes and global warming, and how that science was ignored by the IPCC.

Lemnis Concedes Bulb Label May Mislead - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“Hopefully, consumers know that 336 lumens is low output for a 60 watt,” said James Brodrick, manager of the solid state lighting program at the Department of Energy. “Roughly, it should be 850 lumens or better.”

Greenpeace: Nobel should motivate Obama on climate change - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

"If President Obama is to be a true Nobel Peace Laureate he must reverse the United States current blocking role in the climate negotiations to secure a fair, ambitious and binding deal for the climate this December," Leipold said.

WisPolitics: Gore predicts cap and trade will pass Senate by Copenhagen conference

Former Vice President Al Gore said Friday that he believes the Senate will approve proposed carbon cap-and-trade legislation before the Copenhagen Climate Conference is held in December.

"There's much more bipartisan dialogue underway behind the scenes than is presently publicly visible" on the bill, Gore told the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference.
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Even without a Senate cap and trade bill, Gore said a fundamental change in attitudes about global warming is already underway.
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The former VP said he believes President Obama’s efforts to change how the world approaches climate change is a main reason he won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Gore lamented that the debate on cap and trade has become such so partisan, noting that he and GOP U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner agree on "more than you might think" when it comes to climate change.
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Sensenbrenner also addressed a gathering of dozens of Gore protestors at the Capitol after the event during a rally sponsored by Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow and Americans For Prosperity-Wisconsin.
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Listen to Gore's speech here.

Hear Gore's Q&A with SEJ members here.

Audio [MP3]: Climate Depot's Morano on Joe Thomas Show: 'To have Sen. Kerry & Boxer as the face of climate bill is a pure gift for opponents of the bill'

'You could not ask for a better toxic brew than those two' --'My recomendation is to have Kerry and Boxer on every radio and TV show'

Worst. Alarmism. Ever. - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...While we’re on the subject of shameless global-warming alarmism, a reader asks if we caught this absurd stunt of the Maldives government cabinet, which is planning to meet underwater in a symbolic act demonstrating the supposed threat the island nation faces from global warming. They might meet instead in one of the luxury beachfront resorts they’re building — in what would seem to be a slight case of dissonance. As I indicated in Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism), they have been simultaneously lobbying for EU funds for more beachfront development, even as they hold out their hat for wealth transfers to compensate them for the impending man-made inundation they face — even though they are not.

Report Offers Road Map to a Green Indiana - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“Indiana literally has lying on the ground 33 million tons of crop residues,” said Mr. Cohen.

If farmers burned all the crop residue that's currently being plowed under, how would that affect the long-term fertility of the soil?

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | What happened to global warming?

Sceptics disagree. They insist it is unlikely that temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 1998 until 2030 at the earliest. It is possible, they say, that because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely.

One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say its hotting up.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Light bulb greenshirts hit Ohio

A plan by a Midwest utility to distribute energy-efficient light bulbs to customers backfired when it was learned that the recipients would not only have to pay for the bulbs, but also pay the utility for the electricity they wouldn't be using. ...

Boxer – Evander Holyfield to create one acre teaching garden — City Farmer News

“I guess I’m lean and green,” Holyfield said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I’m pretty much going to do all I can to fight against global warming. I’ll see what I can do to help and try to help other people who want to do the same thing.”

Evander Holyfield's House (Bing Maps) - [This is "lean and green"?]

Obama says he'll accept Nobel as 'call to action' | Breaking News | Star-Telegram

"Climate change is perhaps the best example of what the Nobel Committee described as President Obama's recognition of 'global responsibility for global challenges.' ... It is clear that President Obama's elevation of the environment to the highest levels of diplomacy has helped to solidify a shared understanding that no nation can escape the impact of climate change." - Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.

Secy. Chu crosses the line; he should resign | OpenMarket.org

Most importantly, when Chu speaks, he speaks for the Obama administration, which wields vast regulatory and prosecutorial powers over the business community. It is precisely because the executive branch is inherently coercive that we expect cabinent secretaries to avoid even the appearance of trying to suppress political dissent.

Chu should apologize to the Chamber and then do the decent thing: resign.

Get ready: Snow's on the way | Minnesota

It's a tad early: On average, the first 1-inch snowfall in the Twin Cities arrives on Nov. 18, based on records dating back to 1891.

No deal on crucial issues as UN climate talks end - ContraCostaTimes.com

BANGKOK—The United States was heavily criticized Friday at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok for failing to offer emission cuts or financing for developing countries—both considered crucial to reaching a global warming pact this year.

Electricity Costs in England - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Set to skyrocket, thanks in part to green technologies:

The Associated Press: Gore calls Obama's Nobel Prize win well deserved

WASHINGTON — Former vice president and Nobel Laureate Al Gore is calling President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win extremely well deserved and an honor for the country.

[You wish]: "Obama speeds up the climate bill"

When everybody else's attention was focused on health care this summer, the White House unnoticed stepped up its push to pass energy and climate legislation this year.

(3) #SEJ - [Gore promotes climate fraud in Wisconsin]

EurActiv.com - Parliament set to strip CO2 caps from EU air pollution law

European legislators have sounded the alarm against controlling CO2 emissions in a revised directive on industrial air emissions, fearing that it would doom the draft law to certain failure.

Offshore Drilling Could Add, Subtract Support for Senate Climate [Hoax] Bill - NYTimes.com

Adding wider offshore drilling could push several Democrats away from supporting the cap-and-trade bill. "They may think drilling sweetens the pot for some, but it sours the pot for others," said Athan Manuel of the Sierra Club, which opposes widening outer continental shelf leasing.

It's About Time Someone Said the Emperor Has No Clothes - GLG News

Global warming has become global cooling over the past 10 years, a cycle that was also observed between 1940 and 1975 -- carbon dixoide-caused warming theory cannot explain these patterns. It is clear that there is no genuine scientific evidence that ties man-made CO2 emissions to global temperature changes. The fact that those who promote "global-warming theory" try to quash any scientific debate reveals that there is little science behind their views but a very strong political agenda.

YouTube - Burning Panda WWF

The Danish division of the World Wide Fund for Nature is using the 'Burning Panda' to put focus on the earth's climatic changes amd how we all can turn down the global warming through symbolic actions.

The Hard Questions of Climate Change - Boing Boing

Deer Ticks and Lyme disease are moving North, says Durland Fish, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. But they're also moving East and South. In fact, he says, what looks like a climate-triggered expansion actually has more to do with reforestation, re-population of wild deer herds and suburban lifestyles that put more people in contact with both. So, then, hooray! Climate change isn't a problem and the hippies can suck it.

Well, again, not necessarily. By 2080, the global mean temperature is expected to increase by more than 5.4° F.
...the mosquitoes that spread malaria do favor tropical temperatures. So you'd think climate change would put more people at risk as regions bordering the tropics heat up. But Kevin Lafferty, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, pointed out in the April issue of Ecology that rising temperatures also mean some currently malaria-prone areas will become too hot for mosquitoes. Equally important, according to Lafferty, is the fact that many of those border regions are far wealthier than current malaria hotbeds, so it's really unlikely malaria will make a comeback in places like the United States. Sure, the South is getting warmer, but Americans still live air-conditioned, indoor lifestyles, and still have relatively high levels of access to mosquito repellants and malaria treatments. In his Ecology paper, Lafferty reported data from computer models suggesting that, while the worst strain of malaria could expand beyond its current habitat to gain 23 million new human hosts by 2050, it's also going to lose access to some 25 million people.

Twitter / Tim Niziol

Kerry-Boxer climate change bill pegs carbon tax at $15/ton [150 times the current cost at the Chicago Climate Exchange] - very expensive!

US Senate Panel Unlikely To Debate CO2 Bill Before Nov - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The Senate environment committee likely won't consider a landmark climate bill until November, officials and Democratic aides close to the matter said.

The Environment and Public Works Committee climate bill schedule - which is still being drafted - offers another sign that one of Obama's top policy priorities is unlikely to make it to the Senate floor until next year.

U.S. May Not Make Emissions Pledge in Copenhagen, Pershing Says - Bloomberg.com

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. may not agree to cut greenhouse-gas emissions in a new treaty this year because there is no domestic law setting a framework, the country’s top negotiator said at United Nations climate talks in Bangkok.
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“It will be extraordinarily difficult for the U.S. to commit to a specific number in the absence of action from Congress,” [U.S. negotiator Jonathan Pershing] said. “The question is open as to how much we can do. It’s not really possible to answer.”

Missouri Power Shift Summit

Wiley said he's learned the way to make progress on reducing carbon emissions is to frame the concerns as "a people issue" rather than a kind of scary environmental issue. He said real people are being affected by the scourge of carbon pollution.

"Missouri gets so much of its energy from coal, but there is no such thing as clean coal," insisted Wiley. "The increases in asthma cases and other diseases caused by the carbon pollution are the evidence that we need to change how we get power.

Norway Pledges 40 Percent Emissions Cuts - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Norway also is one of the world’s top oil exporters, but it puts the revenue into a centrally managed petroleum fund, which sets it apart from petro-states with spendthrift tendencies.

The result is that Norway can make more ambitious pledges than other nations, and then dig deep into its plentiful public savings to buy up larger amounts of international credits to offset its carbon footprint.

Carbon footprint - Encyclopedia of Earth

For example, the average North American generates about 20 tons of CO2-eq each year.

[Note that at 10 cents per ton, the average North American can buy complete bogus CO2 absolution for 2 bucks per year!]

The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 - Press Release

Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting.

Investors.com - Tree Ring Circus

Global Warming: A European Union official is threatening reprisals if the U.S. doesn't lead on a carbon emissions treaty. It probably doesn't matter to him that the climate change argument is falling apart.

Karl Falkenberg is just director general for environment at the European Union's executive body. But the way he's talking, he sounds more like a mafia don.

Cloistered Media Libs Don't Get It - HUMAN EVENTS

I understand that most liberals have decreed a consensus on catastrophic man-made global warming and barred further public debate despite global cooling for the past decade.

Alternate GSA Position Statement by Stephen Wilde | Climate Realists

Once one does fit those phenomena into the system it all falls into place without abusing any accepted physical laws or principles and all observed climate phenomena can be seen as inevitable by-products of internal variability.

Nature.com - The Great Beyond: Worst. Climate. Campaign. Ever.

In perhaps the worst advert for stopping climate change I’ve ever seen, the cringe worthy short has the father telling his child how scientists found that global warming “was being caused by too much CO2, and it was the children of the land who’d have to live with the horrible consequences” (transcript).

When the child asks plaintively “is there a happy ending?” a disembodied voice proclaims, “It’s up to us how the story ends.”

Well in that case I want Al Gore to ride in on an IPCC dragon and slay the carbon monster with his sword of Inconvenient Truth.

[See the ad for yourself here] - Times Online

But Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the University of London and a critic of the Government’s plan to cut CO2, said the advert was an attempt to manipulate people with alarmist language and apocalyptic imagery. “It is straight out of Orwell’s 1984: an attempt to control with images of a perpetual war against something, in this case climate change.”

Again, I'd like to see some town-hall feedback in the U.S.

Show 100 voters this ad, then ask if the voters are comfortable paying for similar ads.

Should public money be used to frighten children in an attempt to promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time?

Republicans take aim at Ore. congressman over SUV - Yahoo! News

SALEM, Ore. – Republican campaign officials took aim on Thursday at an Oregon congressman who has pushed for tougher vehicle emission standards, touting a YouTube video of the environmentally friendly Democrat driving what they called a gas-guzzling SUV in Washington, D.C.

YouTube - David Wu "Fighting To Protect Oregon's Environmental Legacy..."

Spokane: Global warming hysteria dying amid record cold, record snowfall, and early frost

This week: Polar front bringing wind, record lows | Spokane

In Spokane, the forecast for Friday calls for a high of 43. The record low maximum is 45 for the day. Early Saturday, the forecasted low of 19 would break the previous record of 25. That pattern should repeat itself for Saturday and Saturday night.

Oct '07: Spokane: Mayoral candidates in full debate mode

They fought over who was first on global warming. Hession noted he was "the first mayor in Eastern Washington" to sign on to a resolution calling for global protection and was named to a panel by the governor. Verner shot back that the City Council beat him to the punch, passing a quality-of-life resolution even earlier, adding "I'm really pleased that Mr. Hession has decided to get involved." To which Hession replied: "The quality-of-life resolution was drafted by my office and handed to her."

September 23, 2008--early frost hits Spokane again

According to the National Weather Service, the average date of the first frost in Spokane over the past 127 years has been October 7. For the last 30 years, that average date has been October 3. Last year, it was September 29. The low temperature this morning in Pullman was 32° Fahrenheit. At the National Weather Service office in Spokane, it was 29° F.

I'm seeing a trend here, and it ain't global warming.

March '09: Spokane sets record for snowiest winter ever

This is the second-consecutive heavy winter in Spokane. Last year, more than 92 inches of snow fell on the Lilac City, third most since records started in 1893.

May '09: An interview with Spokane city council member Nancy McLaughlin | Inlander

Nancy McLaughlin has heard just about enough of global warming. The Spokane city councilwoman doesn’t believe in it and last week voted against a plan put forth by Mayor Mary Verner angling the city toward a more sustainable future. She was in the minority along with Bob Apple, who opposed the plan mainly because there was too much political contention surrounding it.

Aug '09: Council candidates split on global warming’s cause

Just 4 of 12 think humans have significant impact

UN talks to end without deal on [climate hoax]

Rather than addressing the tough issues, U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said late Thursday that the failure by rich countries to agree on ambitious emission cuts and billions of dollars in financing to help poor countries adapt to climate change has increased the distrust between the two sides.

Friday funny: Captain Planet

In case you missed last night's episode of the ABC's Q&A, here's the animation they ended the program with...

Horsepower Sure Beats Horses! (Part II: transportation gains from the ‘master resource’)

Today’s post provides quotations form different scholars that describe the great advances provided by carbon-based energy transportation.

Detroit Goes Green . . . As Michigan Crops Freeze - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Perhaps Mr. Whittaker can mitigate his financial losses by turning his warmth-starved fields over to state-subsidized, global-warming-fighting windmills.

UK: Global warming is down to you says £6m Government ad campaign

Given global warming is not accepted as scientific fact by a large and usually silent part of the scientific community fearful of a backlash, the campaign could provoke anger that the government is broadcasting political messages with taxpayer's money.
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A spokeswoman for the Advertising Standards Authority also backed the campaign. She said: "It's not considered political if the majority of scientists who have studied climate change believe global warming is true."
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It is designed to make adults feel guilty about the legacy they will leave their children and features a father telling his daughter a bedtime story of "a very very strange" world with "horrible consequences" for today's children.

The ad then shows a British town deep under water, with people and animals drowning. Carbon dioxide is shown rising from cars, homes and everyday appliances in clouds of black soot, which then form a jagged-toothed monster.

American Thinker: The Science of Disinformation

The Science of Disinformation is the deliberate, immoral disregard of truth for the sake of selling something packaged as science. Think it can't happen? It is happening in a very big way, and right in front of our very eyes.

Why greens can’t be trusted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Green activism always struck me as a no-sweat morality, in which you got the moral kudos for demanding that others make the sacrifices. So no surprise here...

New paper: Barents Sea Temperature correlated to the AMO as much as 4°C – potential for sea ice effect « Watts Up With That?

A new paper just published in the Geophysical Review Letters finds a significant correlation between the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the water temperature of the Barents Sea.

I Hate Al Gore » Green power proves underwhelming Down Under

At some point you have to start feeling sorry for the greens. No one wants their cars. No one wants their light bulbs. No one wants their taxes. And most of all, no one wants to be scammed by their government.

NASA assuming what it has to prove -- as usual

The speaker reported below not only assumes that the Antarctic ice will melt but engages in outright deception when he says "A remarkable change is happening on Earth". That is the opposite of the truth. Given that the temperature rise across the entire 20th C was only a fraction of one degree, we in fact live in a time of exceptional temperature stability. Amusing, though, that he says of the change: "It's not an easy thing to observe"

Weather continues to delay corn, bean crops - Springfield, IL

Only about 5 percent of corn and 6 percent of soybeans have been harvested statewide, compared to a five-year average of 41 percent and 40 percent, respectively.
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Temperatures averaged 54 degrees statewide, 6.8 degrees below normal.

Climate Talks Ending With Dispute Over Saving Kyoto (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

“An attempt to replace the Kyoto Protocol with a new framework would be counterproductive,” Lumumba Di-Aping, a Sudanese negotiator who speaks on behalf of the G-77, told reporters in Bangkok. “What needs to happen is that those who are committed, the European Union, Australia, Japan, the rest of developed countries, need to rise up to the challenge rather than race to the bottom with the United States.”

British public refuse to fly less to reduce their carbon footprint | Environment | The Guardian

The extent of the public's refusal to fly less often has been revealed by research that suggests attempts to slash greenhouse gas emissions from aviation will struggle to get off the ground.

Fewer than one in five people are trying to reduce the number of flights they take for environmental reasons, warns the study from Loughborough University.

Richard Littlemore | Who's paying for McIntyre's attack on Hockey Stick?

The title ClimateAudit, however, makes me wonder if there is another other motive in McIntyre's madness. What would we learn if we could get our hands on a McIntyreAudit? Who's paying for this strategic, if not always careful, number crunching?

C'mon Steve, fess up.

NASA to begin massive climate survey of Antarctica

NASA next week begins the most extensive aerial survey of Earth's surface to chart the impact of global warming, with six years of flights over Antarctica to understand the frozen continent's glaciers and ice sheets.

So we don't already understand the frozen continent's glaciers and ice sheets?

Game 3 promises to give teams - and fans - cold feet | Philadelphia Daily News

Perhaps if the Marquis de Sade is reincarnated as MLB commissioner for the weekend, there is a chance for NLDS Game 3 to be played in Denver tomorrow night in what could be history's coldest postseason baseball game. The unofficial current record is a first-pitch temperature of 38 in Cleveland's Jacobs Field for Game 4 of the 1997 World Series between the Indians and Marlins.
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The Rockies' luck is about to run out. Each computer run paints a bleaker picture of what game-time conditions will be for the scheduled 9:37 (EDT) start. Bitter cold is now a given. Tomorrow's high could be below freezing. By game time it could be in the mid-20s with a keening north wind that could drive the RealFeel into the teens. There is also a 30 percent chance of freezing drizzle, snow or a combination. But extreme, wood-shattering cold will be the big story.

Animal flatulence data full of hot air

My friends, the statistics are dense and are manipulated regularly by partisan promoters; be they farmers, coal miners, Arabian sheiks, dump divers, or used car dealers.

Officials discuss Cap and Trade

Cap and Trade, three words that are igniting anger among many in Eastern Kentucky.

Gov. Lynch wrongly listed as part of UN climate pact - Friday, Oct. 9, 2009

CONCORD – Gov. John Lynch was wrongly listed as a supporter of a global climate change pact this week, his office said.

Lynch did not sign a United Nations declaration that 12 other governors joined in last week, but was listed as a signatory anyway. The declaration was presented during a U.N. conference in Los Angeles, hosted by California Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger.

YouTube - Gilligan's Island Sinking due to Global Warming (AGW)?

Unfortunately for the Professor his source of data isn't as reliable as he thinks. This of course unfortunately mirrors the real situation of the actual science data for Global Warming. Bad data sources with manipulated data, hidden data, and potentially scientists with political motives that shape their data to what they want it to be rather than what it actually is. Just like in real life with Anthropomorphic Global Warming the professors hypothesis of the island sinking is proven false due to bad data collection, misinterpretation, and above all fear based soothsaying of the future when its not prudent nor scientifically possible.

Obama. Nobel Peace Prize announcement

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

'Why should Obama be given a peace prize?'

Issam al-Khazraji, a day labourer in Baghdad, said: "He doesn't deserve this prize. All these problems - Iraq, Afghanistan - have not been solved... The man of 'change' hasn't changed anything yet."

Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative religious party in Pakistan, said: "It's a joke. How embarrassing for those who awarded it to him, because he's done nothing for peace. What change has he brought in Iraq, the Middle East or Afghanistan?"

Obama is the third senior US Democrat to win the prize this decade after former Vice President Al Gore won in 2007 along with the UN climate panel and Jimmy Carter in 2002.

World Climate Report » The Ups and Downs of Methane

...This behavior is quite perplexing. And while we are not sure what processes are behind it, we do know one thing for certain—the slow growth of methane concentrations is an extremely cold bucket of water dumped on the overheated claims that global warming is leading to a thawing of the Arctic permafrost and the release of untold mega-quantities of methane (which, of course, will lead to more warming, more thawing, more methane, etc., and, of course, to runaway catastrophe).

Condon lecture looks at climate change

CORVALLIS - Susan Solomon, an atmospheric chemist, Antarctic researcher and expert on climate change, will present the 2009 Thomas Condon Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is designed for a non-specialist audience. It is titled "A Tale For Our Times: Something for Everyone About Climate Change and the Reasons for Climate Gridlock."

[Flashback: Alarmist Susan Solomon compares the bubbles in your Pepsi to "nuclear waste"]

“We have to think about it much more like nuclear waste than, like say, smog or acid rain,” explains one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Solomon is leading the research team. She adds, “What we’re doing with carbon dioxide is forever.”

[Speaking of "forever"]: C3: The Liberal Attack On Science: The IPCC Fabrication of Atmospheric CO2 'Residency Time'

They did this despite the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed studies (and corroborating empirical measurements) finding that CO2 in the atmosphere remained there a short time.

Deeds flip-flops on cap-and-trade

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.

April '09: YouTube - Deeds Supports Cap and Trade

In a Democratic primary debate in April, Creigh Deeds speaks about a government-mandated approach to global warming -- including his work on the Governor's Climate Change Commission that recommended a Cap-and-Trade policy more strict that even Congress is considering.

Senators push on

Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry introduced their cap-and-trade bill on September 30 to the grumblings of about 98 Senators who really don’t want to deal with this issue this year.

Does Climate Change Hurt Hunting?

"Hunters notice things on the ground," says Colleen Reinke, a hunter. "They know that healthy game populations need healthy habitat, and healthy habitat depends on a healthy climate."

What, specifically, is a "healthy" climate?

Lawrence Solomon: Global blushing - Full Comment

Growing ice, the mob and red-faced professors: Warmists are having yet another bad week

Saskatchewan - Sask. harvest mired in wet, cool weather

"Persistent wet and cool conditions brought harvest to a standstill in most areas," the report said. "Farmers are worried that these conditions may significantly downgrade the unharvested crops."

Few think climate change will hit them, kids | Top News | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Less than half of Britons believe climate change will affect them during their lifetime and fewer than a fifth think it will disturb their children, a government survey showed Friday.

In the YouGov poll for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, 69 percent of respondents said flooding would be the most likely consequence in Britain, but only 26 percent believed the country was already feeling the impact of climate change.

"Recent research shows the public are unclear on what causes climate change and what the effects are," the department said.

California and Colorado ski resorts in a snow daze - Travel - LATimes.com

Southern California skiers are gearing up for an early season, with snow-making going on a full month before usual at Mountain High, thanks to an unusual October cold spell.

Winter Weather Advisory Issued for North Central Montana

An Arctic cold front will move through southern portions of north central Montana this evening. Snow and gusty north winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph will develop behind the front and continue through tonight before diminishing by early Friday morning.

Snowfall accumulations of 1 to 3 inches are expected on the plains with 3 to 6 inches in the mountains by Friday morning. Gusty winds will create areas of reduced visibility at times in blowing and drifting snow tonight. Temperatures will fall into the teens with wind chill values near zero at times late tonight .

Environmentalism & Morons

Do I think that carbon emissions, to take one salient example, will cause catastrophic global effects in the next fifty years? Two hundred? I don’t know, that’s what the scientists are there for. Certain quarters of society are claiming that the scientists don’t know what they’re talking about, forgetting that those same scientists are the ones who invented the wonders of industrial civilization whose impact is being dismissed. Who is more qualified to say that a house’s foundation is inadequate, the guy who designed and built the house, or the guy who lives in it? Ignorance and a vested interest in maintaining that ignorance are a catastrophic combination.

What "wonders of industrial civilization" were invented by James Hansen, Michael Mann, or Gavin Schmidt?