Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #680
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Rudd fails to run “clean energy government”
Unfortunately, this is just another in a long line of examples demonstrating that using green power is expensive and impractical. If green power can't even run Parliament House, how on earth does the Rudd government expect it to run Australia, when the ETS has pushed up the cost of regular power beyond reach?
UK: Gordon Brown’s transaction tax given lukewarm reception
So in the dying days of the UK Labour government, with no hope of being re-elected, Brown is trying to impose global socialism for one last time, with a "transaction tax" on all financial institutions, to funnel a proportion of all global financial transactions back to the government for redistribution, one of the beneficiaries of such a tax being "tackling climate change". But no-one is buying it, thankfully (not even the US):
Kilimanjaro's snows have been vanishing for a very long time by Christopher Booker
The latest warmist warning sign - the retreating snows of Kilimanjaro - has been well documented for over 100 years.
Nepali cabinet meeting at base camp of Mt. Qomolangma uncertain: official - People's Daily Online
The government has proposed flying some 60 people to the Base Camp for the meeting. Besides the 27 cabinet ministers, members of the cabinet secretariat, the chief secretary, a doctor's team and media persons from home and abroad will accompany the entourage.
Gore: Rejecting the "Global Cooling" Myth
Global cooling is a myth, designed by climate deniers to prevent us from having a real debate on this vital issue.
Brits give up hope for Copenhagen global-warming treaty
"Big Carbon"? Wouldn't that include all carbon-based life forms on the planet? Leftist paranoia continues apace. The US can continue to provide Copenhagen with "dead weight," in order to balance the false hysteria of the radical environmentalists pushing this nonsense.
Capping Carbon Will Threaten National Security More Than Bolster It
Cap and trade bills and climate treaties will do much more economic harm than environmental good and would limit the resources available to effectively prepare and respond to natural disasters or national security threats
When did saving the planet get so dull?
A first hand account of what it is like to cover the UN climate change negotiations.
The Guardian on Gore
...looks mysteriously unsleepy, despite having just flown in from a three-day trip to China. (After LA, he's due home for one night in Nashville, then off on a book tour that will take him to South Africa and Egypt. Denialists enjoy attacking Gore's personal carbon footprint, even though, as denialists, it's not clear what they're objecting to.)
Where Is All the Carbon Coming From?
Call it energy anorexia -- the Obama - Pelosi - Brown - Rudd disease. Like anorexia nervosa, energy anorexia is a deadly pathological response to an imagined problem. Energy anorexia threatens the life of the body -- in this case the nation.
There is no greater threat to an industrial economy than the restriction and destruction of its energy base. This tragicomic self-destructive impulse is made all the more pointless by the obvious fact that it will not change anything, in terms of global carbon balances.
There is no greater threat to an industrial economy than the restriction and destruction of its energy base. This tragicomic self-destructive impulse is made all the more pointless by the obvious fact that it will not change anything, in terms of global carbon balances.
The Daily Maverick :: Too late to cool it?
If we're now wondering what happened to global warming, perhaps it is not such a good idea to drop a dead weight on the already-fragile global economy. Perhaps it is time to let reason triumph over emotion, and spend our efforts on problems we know exist and know how to solve. Let us hope the UN's Copenhagen Climate Change conference is bewailed as a monumental failure by the vested interests of the green lobby, and a belated victory for the rational cost-benefit analysis of the Copenhagen Consensus
Climate change is all about power
When the time of the Coming Ice Age came and went and nothing froze over they turned the thermometer upside down. No more Coming Ice Age. Coming Global Warming.
But it still was never really science. The "scientific consensus" was built on scientific conjecture and flawed computer modeling and government bribe money and true believer's wishful thinking and the virulent human-hating of the environmental messiahs.
Al Gore: Junk-science huckster
Once again, Democrats refused to permit the Republicans' intended witness to testify. They knew Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, would rubbish Gore's Doomsday scenarios. So Gore was allowed to mislead Congress and promote his unfounded assertion that humanity faces "an irreparably damaged planet," if we don't immediately slash fossil fuel use. He didn't face a single tough question over any of his false or misleading claims.
Climate sceptics persist against Turnbull
The sceptics dominated debate on climate change in a meeting of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party yesterday.
One rank-and-file Liberal member was given rousing applause when he said global warming was a natural phenomenon and the theory that human activity had caused it was ''absolute rubbish''.
Another speaker said those proposing action on climate change were working towards creating a ''world government'', while a third said any engagement on the issue would signal that the Liberals had ''raised the white flag''.
So what?: Poor Countries Threaten to Walkout of Copenhagen Climate Change Summit
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 6 (UPI) — Poor countries Friday threatened to walk out of next month's Copenhagen climate change summit if developed countries do not pledge greater emissions cuts.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Dr. James E. Hansen-update
The most recent posts (all in PDF) to the mailing list include:
- Nov. 6, 2009: I Just had a Baby, at Age 68 (two-page update), plus Global Warming Time Bomb presentation at Club of Rome assembly.
Scientists rip lawmakers - Salt Lake Tribune
They challenged lawmakers for giving the "fringe" position of a climate skeptic equal weight to that of the broad, scientific consensus that climate change is happening, largely because of human activities.
Experts say that fears surrounding climate change are overblown
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature backed the article, saying that climate change is "far from the number-one threat" to the survival of most species
Why Copenhagen 2009 is the last chance to "save the world" by Norm Kalmanovitch
Victims or not, the world leaders must be held accountable for allowing this fraud to be perpetuated for an entire decade after global warming ended without ever questioning the validity of the premise and blindly accepting the word of the politically motivated IPCC.
Quote of the Day – Rupert Murdoch
"If Rudd thinks we can set an example for the rest of the world with a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions – the ETS – all it would do is push up the cost of living in Australia and the rest of the world will laugh."
Lawrence Solomon: Numbers racket - Full Comment
The upshot? Australia has turned its economy inside out largely on the basis of imagined endorsements.
Australian PM warns skeptics 'are too 'dangerous to ignore' and are 'holding the world to ransom' -- Climate Depot Responds
'Yes, we plead guilty to promoting 'inaction' -- 'Skeptics will proudly celebrate the collapse of Copenhagen Treaty'Climate Talks End on Divided Note | CommonDreams.org
"Better to have a good agreement in a year than a bad one now," is how one delegate summed up the week's events.
Reuters AlertNet - Forty leaders plan to attend climate talks-UN
"My understanding is that 40 heads of state have indicated their intention to be present," he said. They include British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as leaders of African and Caribbean nations.[Will all these other people still attend?]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering attending, a spokesman said in Berlin. U.S. President Barack Obama is among those undecided.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has not formally invited leaders to the talks, currently due to be limited to environment ministers. "There is no official figure" of how many leaders will come, a Danish spokesman said.
An estimated 15,000 people representing Governments, NGOs, IGOs, along with over 1500 journalists will travel to Copenhagen from all over the world for the conference.
Permafrost’s future: Where's the runaway melting?
With data going back as far as 50 years or more, researchers have seen mixed thawing patterns since the state emerged from a cold snap in the 1960s and 1970s.Climate Feedback: Barcelona climate: Momentum builds for a "political agreement" in Copenhagen
Alaska saw a dramatic increase in permafrost thawing in the 1990s, but the trend has slowed in the past decade, particularly in inland areas.
In the Interior, the picture is muddled. Many permafrost sites have been largely unchanged this decade. A few permafrost areas have even seen cooling trends in the past three years.
Conventional wisdom posits that the bill needs to be finished in the first half of next year, because once lawmakers start campaigning for the 2010 elections in the fall they won't want to touch the issue. That pushes things off until 2011.Lord Monckton, Ambassador Bolton, and the Copenhagen Treaty: Reflections on a Conversation | Energy & Environment
The debunking of bad science-along with the actual, non-environmental motives of the U.N., its various member states, and Mr. Gore-should create a clear body of evidence that Copenhagen has nothing whatsoever to do with actually saving the planet.Barcelona diary: Russia keeps everyone in dark and Pershing scores direct hit | Environment | guardian.co.uk
At the end of every negotiating day, the massed ranks of the non-government groups award "fossils" to the country they think has done the most to set the talks back. Yesterday the US and Britain were joint winners of the prestigious but dishonourable award for their statements that a legally binding agreement could be delayed by very many months.We're doomed without a green religion | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
There is a further twist to the argument. Compulsion will be needed but compulsion alone won't do it. People aren't made like that. They need to believe in what they are forced to do. They need idealism, and that will also mean its dark side: the pressure of conformism, the force of self-righteousness, huge moral weight attached to practically useless gestures like unplugging phone chargers. They need, in fact, something that does look a lot like religion. But we can't engineer it. It can only arise spontaneously. Should that happen, the denialists, who claim that it is all a religion, will for once be telling the truth, and when they do that, they'll have lost. I just hope it doesn't happen too late.
October 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.28 deg. C « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly in October 2009 fell from +0.42 deg. C in September to +0.28 deg. C in October. The tropical and Northern Hemisphere were responsible for this cooling.Climate change is going to get you Opinion | goldcoast.com.au | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
The global-average sea surface temperature anomalies in October continued their fall from the peak in July, despite the irregular onset of El Nino conditions:
...thank you eco-warriors for putting the fear of God into a seven-year-old boy.Why are we sceptics? Because we’re MENTALLY DERANGED! | Australian Climate Madness
Yes, and if you challenge me on that I will split your skull in two with this axe.Obama will lose any hunger for slowing growth | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Forget any hope of Barack Obama getting through his proposed global warming taxes. This week’s election defeats in Virginia and New Jersey mean he’s barely likely to get much of his $1 trillion health care package through the Senate.Or up to your (decayed) ankles in 100 years | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Who ya gonna trust - the warmists’ models or your lying eyes?SEA levels on Australia’s eastern seaboard are rising at less than a third of the rate that the NSW government is predicting as it overhauls the state’s planning laws and bans thousands of landowners from developing coastal sites.
New climate change treaty could be ready in 2010, U.N. official says - CNN.com
Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona.YouTube - Feed The Future Matt Damon - U.S Department of State
"What we will need after Copenhagen is a little time," said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations climate change secretariat. "I don't know how much time to turn that operational language into a treaty, if that is what governments decide."
New video by U.S. Department of State narrated by actor Matt Damon [promotes massive climate fraud at the 54 second mark]Climate Change: India Plays Tough on Carbon Emissions - TIME
"The rich have to reduce their emissions so the rest of the world can grow," says Narain, speaking in her office in New Delhi. "This is about sharing growth between nations and people. If we can't, then India has to be a naysayer for a bad climate agreement."BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: All's fair in the climate blame game
For some of the youth caucus, the issue is simple, with the "school report card" they prepared giving pass marks to every bloc from the developing world and failing every industrialised country.All hope is lost for Copenhagen climate treaty, British officials say - Times Online
The admission that no treaty will be signed at Copenhagen marks the failure of the process agreed at a UN meeting in Bali in December 2007, when industrialised countries agreed to deliver a binding climate-change agreement within two years.The Quiet Death of the Kyoto Protocol — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
Eleven months later, the dream of a successful global climate policy seems as far out of reach as ever, and America continues to have profound disagreements over climate policy with much of the world. In the good old days of the bad old Bush administration, it was easy to paper over the profoundly complicated and difficult obstacles to effective national and international climate agreements; “Blame Bush!” was a cry greens could all rally around. Today, the inconvenient truth of the matter is harder to hide, and to a surprising degree, the rallying cry for the rest of the world remains “Blame America!”
Global Climate Change Treaty Delayed
But speaking from Barcelona, Hugh Cole of the charity group Oxfam, says European leaders need to focus on their own lack of political will."Polluters" feel the heat in rising legal tide
"As far as we're concerned they're basically hiding behind the United State's lack of ambition," he said.
...It is another sign of a shifting paradigm that will slowly turn hitherto respected energy businesses into corporate pariahs and expose their directors, executives, consultants and lobbyists to increasing scrutiny, finger-pointing and litigation over climate change and its consequences.Climate talks 'waste of time' - World - Javno
Austrian Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich Friday blasted UN climate talks in Barcelona as "a waste of time", as hopes faded of sealing a new global warming treaty by the end of the year.Enviro Groups Face Some Tough Decisions on Path to Climate Bill - NYTimes.com
- That was a waste of time. Nothing was achieved whatsoever - Berlakovich said of the Barcelona meeting in an interview with the Austria Press Agency.
"There's a desperation to pass any bill, no matter how flawed," Suckling said.
The Reference Frame: Kevin Rudd: deniers are dangerous
It's interesting that Rudd exactly agrees with Moonbat. Both Gentlemen think that the climate change hysteria began to die two years ago.Climate change deal must be global priority, says Darling - Telegraph
World leaders have been urged not to let money stand in the way of a global deal on climate change.Absent GOP, Dems advance climate bill: Times Argus Online
Boxer said the Republican demand for more analysis was "duplicative and waste of taxpayer dollars." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has agreed to do a full analysis on the final version of the legislation.Hundreds gather to discuss climate change
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"She clearly made the right decision and because the requested analysis is in fact going to be forthcoming ... it was obviously the right way to go," Gore said.
Gore seemed to lower his expectations for Senate action before the Copenhagen conference.
“CO2 has gone up in the last ten years. It is continuing to go up, but temperatures have stabilized and in fact they're slightly dropping, so the theory doesn't match the facts,” Harris said.
He says for lawmakers to attack the coal industry because of what he calls a political theory, is not right.
“It is not necessary to cripple this area for a theory that is actually very quickly being shown to probably being wrong,” [Tom] Harris said.
But he promised he'd heal the planet!
Naked emperors: the Greenpeace Guide to Climate Politics | Greenpeace International
When the reality of climate change politics is stripped of rhetoric, most of the industrialised world's leaders are seriously underdressed, and Obama isn't wearing a stitch.
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A year in office should have been long enough for Barack Obama to turn the United States from climate destroyer-in-chief to at least a mid-table performer. Alas, he ranks at the bottom. For everyone who hoped to see the political promises made during his campaign turned into real action, this is a disappointment. “Yes we can!” has been replaced with “No we won’t.”
The Bear Growls, The EU Grovels: Adventures in the European Gas Market — MasterResource
Among those hoping that global warming is real we should now count the EU. As winter approaches there is, quelle surprise, the initial hint of yet another gas supply crisis between Russia, Ukraine and Russia’s EU customers.PM - Kevin Rudd attacks 'climate change sceptics' 06/11/2009
Speaking at the Lowy Institute in Sydney this afternoon, Kevin Rudd described climate change sceptics and what he called 'deniers' as reckless gamblers who were playing with the future of Australia's children and grandchildren.Fiery mountains of coal may have caused mass extinction 250 mln yrs ago
Mr Rudd said they were radicals not conservatives, and were driven by vested interests. [MP3]
One suggestion is that the heat of the magma could have baked many billions of tonnes of CO2 out of the coal over a geologically brief period of a few thousand years.
The ensuing climate change and ocean acidification would account for the extinctions.
The Migrant Mind: Cap and Trade's $1760/family tax hike
The most important thing is that your costs for driving, for getting electricity, for buying anything transported to you will rise rapidly.SEN. BOXER BREAKS SENATE RULES… Passes Cap-&-Tax Out of Committee Without Single GOP Member in Attendance
The liberal California senator passed the dem’s cap-&-tax legislation out of committee without a single GOP member in attendance. This is against the rules and the first time it has ever happened.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Dumbest Argument for Climate Action Ever?
I don't know why I have the question mark in the title. Check out this embarrassing argument for action reported in the Guardian:Columnist doesn't present all facts - Opinion - TheSunNews.com"The world's poorest communities can't afford to wait. The cost of any delay to a climate deal will be counted in children's lives. We estimate that 250,000 children could be killed by climate change next year," said Benedict Dempsey, Save the Children's humanitarian policy officer.
10. Man-made climate change is a scam used by governments worldwide to raise taxes on wealthy nations and redistribute the wealth to poor ones. This is why countries like China and India are exempt from having to conform to treaties on emissions.Danish Translation – Håndbog for skeptikere! « JoNova
We wish the people of Copenhagen well and hope that their businesses might prosper during this most enormous of international junkets. We also hope the name Copenhagen is never burdened with being attached in perpetuity to the largest scam in history.
Senators look past Barbara Boxer's climate bill - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com
“It dooms that particular legislation. The question is what comes next,” said Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. “We will see what Plan B is.”Intrade betting: A cap and trade system for emissions trading to be established in the United States in 2009?
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But the tripartisan trio faces a significant challenge to persuade southern, rural and Rust Belt Democrats to support the bill. In a Thursday afternoon meeting of moderate Democrats, several argued that the Senate should focus on spurring green-job creation instead of tackling cap and trade in the next few months.
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“I think the bill could have been improved substantially,” said Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who voted for the bill but objected to his inability to offer amendments that would help protect his state’s coal and steel interests.
[Yesterday's record low close: 2 cents on the dollar]Gamecock Gamesmanship, Uncloaked - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Sen. Graham doesn't even seem to know what this loosey-goosey "framework" is, gushing as he does in the New York Times with Sen., Kerry about a critical component of it being something that sounds like cap-and-trade — then having his Washington and South Carolina staffs, as well as outside consultants tell voters and the media that he doesn't support cap-and-trade, and never will.More On Lindsey Graham’s Left-Leaning Bedfellows :: FITSNews
As reported on FITS last week, the pro-Graham radio and television ads were originally scheduled to be paid for by a group known as the “Truman National Security Project.”C3: How To Shave 1°F Off Global Warming: Simple, Eliminate All Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions For 31 Years Straight - The Idiocracy of Elites
Once our investigation began to expose this organization as nothing but a liberal front group, however, Team Lindsey quickly switched gears. In fact, they began scurrying frantically to switch the ad’s sponsors, even though a few radio ads bearing the name of the group had already started running.
Literally, what the political and MSM elite idiocracy are claiming needs to be done immediately to "save" the polar bears will completely destroy civilization. To reach zero CO2 human emissions, means no coal, no natural gas, no oil and no human fires.
Red-faced Times abandons fishy eco ad • The Register
Al Gore: Climate Pirate - HUMAN EVENTS
The Times newspaper says it won't be repeating an advertisement that contained a false and misleading piece of environmental alarmism. The advert, part of a series boasting its eco-credentials, claimed that the world's oceans would be free of fish by 2048. But the prediction was debunked when it was made three years ago, and the academic responsible has since joined forces with his critics to disown his earlier claim.RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: When the twin religions of 'global warming' and shopping collide... | Mail Online
Politicians, in particular, love the great 'climate change' scare because it takes them a step nearer their fantasy of global government and allows them to impose an exciting array of new taxes, punishments and controls upon the peasants who pay their wages.YouTube - Gore on Morning Joe - Full of BS [9.5 min]
It has spawned a vast, self-perpetuating industry worth a fortune, of which the great 'carbon offset' scam is the most exploitative and ridiculous incarnation.
Al Gore: Climate Pirate - HUMAN EVENTS
It is said that Horatio Alger’s heroes gain wealth and honors and achieve the American Dream by “leading exemplary lives, struggling valiantly against poverty and adversity.” Were there Horatio AlGore stories, in contrast, they would be filled with tales of ruthless exploitation of innocents, lies, hypocrisy and gross profiteering.
Gore on Charlie Rose: Transcript
I spoke with the premier of China at some length just last week in Beijing, and I judged him to be extremely sincere in saying "We want an agreement. We will not be an obstacle to an agreement." And the Indians have now said that they will accept binding obligations.BBCW: The Thinking Man's Thinking Man? Please Don't Think for Me or America
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What do you expect to come out of the Senate?
AL GORE: Well, there`s a lot of optimism, partly because some Republicans -- not too many -- but some have now joined in an effort to get legislation.
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Just today the Chamber of Commerce changed positions, not courtesy of the Yes Men with that stunt in Washington a few weeks ago, but they`re now saying, surprisingly to me, and I`m glad about it, that they want to get legislation and they`re working with the sponsors of the bill.
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AL GORE: We ought to have 80 percent to 90 percent reductions as quickly as we can.
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AL GORE: Never before have we faced a challenge that brings the potential for ending human civilization as we know it. And the timeframe within which we have to act is shockingly short.
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This is now the largest, fastest-growing movement in history.
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...even though it has gone through this exhaustive 20-year peer review process with the 3,000 best scientists in the world
unanimously endorsing it, every national academy of sciences in a developed country on this planet endorsing it, still, based on some radio talk show host or some odd orthogonal argument...
... "Science" magazine did a review of every peer review article for the previous ten years, a large sample of more than 10 percent. None of them disagreed with this consensus. [53-minute video available here]
Has anyone seen the latest cover of “Newsweek.” It features a deceptive looking Al Gore with a green apple over his head. While looks of deception is nothing new coming from Gore’s eyes, Newsweek may be pushing something on Gore than he probably can handle—intelligence. They call Al Gore “the thinking man’s thinking man.”
Al's Journal : Congratulations 350.org
It was truly an amazing day and one that will have a tremendous impact.T-43 Days? Is the UN Secretary General Hitting the Reset button? » The Foundry
“A reasonable success?” He thinks? What happened to “[f]our months to secure the future of our planet”? How can such a critical date for the fate of humanity be as flexible as when one does a load of laundry? It doesn’t seem to make sense, unless of course, the never really was such a crisis.More on Secy. Chu’s convoluted climate economics | GlobalWarming.org
Chu should at least consider the possibility that pricing carbon would vitiate what little competitiveness the U.S. clean-tech sector has. Low-cost energy is a source of competitive advantage, as China powerfully demonstrates. By increasing energy costs, cap-and-trade would make all U.S.-based manufacture less competitive, including companies specializing in clean-tech products.The price of inconvenient reality | The Australian
After years of inflated expectations of what can be achieved in curbing carbon, it is clear that any deal that would make an appreciable difference in emissions levels will be costly. As a responsible global citizen, Australia should play its part. But we have no obligation to join any push to use climate change to redistribute global wealth to assuage the consciences of climate change billionaire Al Gore and social campaigners such as Bono, whose carbon footprints far exceed those of the ordinary Australian taxpayers they expect to foot the bill.The Age kisses Gore’s backside | Australian Climate Madness
To the editors of The Age and all the other Fairfax media outlets, Al Gore is a brave warrior for the planet, courageously flying all over the world by private jet in order to make more money out of an imagined climate crisis. I beg to differ – the man peddles misinformation and refuses to debate, in other words, he’s a snake oil salesman.Live blogging the Al Gore [climate hoax promotion] event at Lisner Auditorium [Washington, DC]
7:23 Gore is telling jokes now. He said that while he was writing the book, he was sitting in a fast food restaurant with a friend. A woman walked by him and gave him an odd stare two times. Gore said he said hello to the woman, who proceeded to say to him, “Do you know if you dyed your hair black you would look just like Al Gore.” The joke drew laughter from the crowd.Tired joke Al Gore tells: A woman walks up to Gore and says, "If you dyed your hair black, you’d look just like Al Gore" | GORE LIED
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7:19 Gore just took the stage to a standing ovation from the crowd.
7:16 The president of Politics and Prose is now speaking, and said the bookstore is committed to the sustainability movement. She said she cannot understand how everyone in the U.S. is not on board with the movement, and said she feels Gore’s new book will be a great tool to get more Americans on board with the “Green Revolution.”
So, this story that Gore keeps telling of the woman who says he looks “just like Al Gore” is perhaps the last time that Gore was actually out in public with strangers in an unscripted moment. If Gore would just climb out of his cocoon, and have a few more unscripted moments with strangers and face a few of the tough questions, not only would probably get some new material for his comedy routine, but he just might get a little more respect from those that he’s failed to persuade.
Letter: How about some scrutiny of Green greed? - EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA
For those leaning in from the left wing, the difference between Republican greed and Democrat greed is that Republicans rely on the free market to generate profits, while Democrats use the force of government to compel others (us) to enrich themselves.Climate-Accord Deadline May Slip a Year as Nations ‘Play Games’ - Bloomberg.com
That's the kind of difference that caused this nation to shed blood and risk everything a couple hundred years ago.
Japan can’t make an aid pledge yet because it’s still studying how to generate funds for helping poorer nations adapt to warmer temperatures and cut their own emissions, Japanese negotiator Akira Yamada said.Florida College Republicans group hosts meaty barbeque to protest PETA | L.A. Unleashed | Los Angeles Times
The group also puts on a Carbon Credit Bake Sale twice a year -- on Arbor Day and Earth Day -- to poke fun at climate-change policy. People who buy a cupcake or cookie get a credit allowing them to litter in a designated area. Griffin made sure to point out that all the trash is cleaned up and the money is donated to the Nature Conservancy.Climate Change - The Nature Conservancy
Climate change is already affecting our lives and the places we live, and has the potential to dramatically impact the lives of future generations.Deal delayed, world doomed, Rudd shagged | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The Nature Conservancy is joining with policy makers, community members, businesses, scientists, industry leaders and others to slow the pace of climate change.
So remind me again why Kevin Rudd insists on rushing through his own colossal tax on emissions before the Copenhagen meeting? Is there a special prize for the shag on the rock?
The Climate Change Scam – Quotes from the Idiot Left « Uncommon Sense
Unbelievable quotes aren’t they? The plan is to do and say anything to further the cause. The real objective is social reengineering not saving the planet. It is time to see this, for what it is. Climate change is a giant money making, power grabbing scam for the elite – and YOU are the victim.Paleoecologists Offer New Insight Into How Climate Change Will Affect Organisms
The paper uses examples from recent paleoecological studies to highlight how climate variability of the past has affected the distributions of tree species, and even how events that occurred many centuries ago still shape present-day distributions patterns. For example, the authors note that some populations of a Western US tree species owe their existence to brief periods of favorable climatic conditions allowing colonization in the past, such as a particularly wet interval during the 14th century.Rudd wages war on Coalition climate deniers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
"The climate system varies at all ecologically relevant time scales," said Booth.
Mr Rudd accused those who question climate change science of "holding the world to ransom".The Very Convenient Gore
"Climate change sceptics, the climate change deniers, the opponents of climate change action are active in every country," he said.
"They are a minority [no, they're not]. They are however powerful and invariably they are driven by vested interests [and are] powerful enough to so far block domestic legislation in Australia."
Quoting several Opposition frontbenchers at length as proof of scepticism and a "do-nothing" attitude within the Coalition, Mr Rudd accused the Opposition of political cowardice and a "failure of logic" in so far refusing to pass the scheme.
"The tentacles of the climate change sceptics reach deep into the ranks of the Liberal Party and once you add the National party it's plain the sceptics and the deniers are a major force," he said.
My first impulse when I saw the Costco Gore cover was to think: Lenin was right when he said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them." (Even if, as some scholars suggest, Lenin didn't say it.) Or as Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, an anti-global warming website, noted, "It makes no sense that a company that supersizes everything from laundry detergent to cookies to potato chips would hold up as their hero a man who wants to ration energy in the United States."
It certainly is incongruous to read Gore renouncing "dirty and expensive carbon-based fuels," at a store that sells big-screen TVs and discounted gasoline.
American Thinker: That light in the tunnel is still a locomotive
The Senate poured more fuel into Obama's locomotive engine yesterday with important committee action on a climate change bill. As real scientists jump -- with more haste and larger numbers each day -- from the global-warming hoax car, Democrats apply their Gore-enabled blinders and forge straight towards that economic cliff.Cartoons to “teach kids to save Barrier Reef” | Australian Climate Madness
This is yet another example of completely unacceptable brainwashing of our children, sanctioned by the Rudd government, using especially sinister methods to do it. And the most idiotic thing of all, linking the 1.5% of global emissions produced by Australia to the fate of the Barrier Reef. Climate madness.My tip? No ransom, and they’ll be eating by Christmas | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Four Australians threaten to cut their carbon footprint for good unless the world hands over a $160 billion ranson - each year. ABC’s AM thinks this is a serious demand that entitles the head of the gang to air time.Fwix / Head of NOAA talks about climate change
A news editor needs replacing.
"It's a new world we are entering, one highly modified by climate change," said Dr. Jane LubchencoClimate change myths | The Sixty Zone
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Decrying climate change critics as sowing "doubt and misinformation," Lubchenco said the way to sway more people about the reality of climate change is to "personalize" the message.
"We need to focus not just on the impacts happening down the road, but on things that have already happened - droughts, floods, rising sea levels - region by region," she said. "People want to know, 'How will it affect me?' We need to document changes that are happening in people's backyards."
Following on from my article, Global Warming Nonsense, Professor Fred Singer, in the video below, shows conclusive evidence that climate change is caused by natural forces, not by human activities. The second video shows us how the so-called “experts” have over-estimated the effects of greenhouse gasses.
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And to raise more suspicion, why did Al Gore (author of An Inconvenient Truth) purchase a holiday home on Figure Eight Island in North Carolina (USA) after telling the world that sea levels would rise by 12ft?
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall speaks out against proposed cap-and-trade plan
Wall said the analysis shows the federal government could extract about $46 billion annually in carbon credits from industry under a cap-and-trade program. That money will simply be plowed back into government coffers and spent on roads, hospitals and government programs, he said.Ingrid Newkirk: Come on Al, Steak or the Earth?
"It's not an environmental policy then. It is a tax,'' Wall told PNWER delegates from five states, three provinces and two territories. "And it arguably is wealth transfer at historic levels."
(And judging by the results of a Los Angeles Times poll this week, it would seem that if he fails to kick his meat habit in the noble cause of saving the Earth, the scorn he felt when driving a Lincoln Town Car will look like small potatoes indeed.)Don Martin: Prentice invites climate critics to 'bring it on' - Full Comment
Mr. Prentice used the word ‘tough' more than 15 times during our 30-minute chat Thursday to describe the stance Canada will take at the summit and the challenge he will face in signing a deal that will keep economic aftershocks to a minimum.Hopes dim ahead of Copenhagen talks - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Sources say his proposed policies on curbing greenhouse gases have circulated for weeks through the federal cabinet with little sense of urgency or forward progress.
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Canada will not sign any deal that doesn't force India, China and Brazil to meet negotiated targets for their own greenhouse gas reductions -- a demand that may well be rejected by those countries.
We cannot afford to allow sterile rationality and national self-interest torpedo what is essential for global justice.
Peter Foster: From Berlin to Copenhagen - Full Comment
This week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the U.S. Congress that inaction on climate change amounted to a new “Berlin Wall” of “short- sighted self-interest.”Gore to Obama: Don’t Skip Copenhagen - Washington Wire - WSJ
Ms. Merkel’s claim was upside down. There is indeed a new threat to freedom in the offing, but it is the Green Wall that she is recommending. It will span the globe, and there will be no escape.
What collapsed twenty years ago was Communism. What didn’t collapse was anti-capitalism, which remains the principle driver of most shades of politics. The new name for anti-capitalism is environmentalism. The most important political trajectory of the past two decades has been from the rubble of the Wall to the forthcoming climate conference in Copenhagen.
Washington Wire: A survey released last month by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that fewer Americans see global warming as a very serious problem. The survey also found a decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity. What do you make of that?
Gore: I think that poll was something of an outlier. [how about the 75+ polls here?]
B'More Green: Cardin, other Dems move climate [hoax] bill in Senate
"We have an urgent responsibility to act," Cardin said, adding that if action is not taken, there could be irreversible catastrophic climate change that could jeopardize the availability of water, food and fuel for all. "We will face a world that's less diverse, less beautiful and less secure," he concluded.Al Gore [to take fossil-fueled trip to Miami]
On November 9, Barbara Kingsolver will read from her latest novel The Lacuna, and former US Vice President Al Gore discusses his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.Al Gore [to take fossil-fueled trip to Portland]
Gore was scheduled to be in Portland promoting his newest book, "Our Choice," said Jeremy Wright, Bradbury's campaign manager. "Bill called the vice president and asked about a fundraiser," and Gore agreed, Wright said.Václav Klaus: ‘Largest tax increase in world history’ - Full Comment
The Nov. 19 event is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Left Bank Project...
Despite huge spending, it has not been proved that the human effect on the climate is significantAlistair Darling: There are substantial barriers to a climate deal - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
The threat we face is as much economic as it is ecological. The worst effects of climate change could cost 20 per cent of global GDP – greater than the two world wars and the Great Depression.Alistair Darling: Information from Answers.com
Alistair Maclean Darling (born 28 November 1953) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South West since 1987, and was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 28 June 2007.
Expect a Boxer Rebellion - Patrick J. Michaels - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Less than 48 hours after citizens in New Jersey and Virginia turned around the last year's support of President Obama and his policies by a whopping 25 percent, Boxer rammed a cap-and-tax bill through her committee that is even worse than the one passed by the House last June. That House bill provoked the first angry "town hall" meetings — everyone remembers them as being about health care, but they really started in response to climate legislation — that culminated in Tuesday's landslides.World Climate Report » A Rational Look at Sea Level Rise
No matter what, is that Gore’s pictures will never represent reality for the simple reason that we won’t let them. Do you really think that the powers that be will let a large portions of Manhattan Island sink beneath the waves like Gore depicts? Of course not. Instead, appropriate responses will take place to protect the high-priced development there. This will happen not only in Manhattan, but in most places where we have already invested a lot of time, effort, and money.Predictions of climate change induced natural disasters falling flat
But what if you predicted global natural disaster catastrophes and they didn’t happen? Does that invalidate your entire message? This is the conundrum faced by climate change alarmists as many of their predictions begin to fall flat.
Boxer Rams Economy-Killing Energy-Rationing Bill through EPW Committee | CEI
“We congratulate Chairman Boxer and the committee’s Democrats for their methods. They have so poisoned the atmosphere in the Senate that the terrible Kerry-Boxer bill is now dead,” said Myron Ebell, CEI Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy. “We also congratulate Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and the committee’s other Republicans for their steadfast opposition. They have made clear that the Democrats cannot move this catastrophic bill without violating the Senate’s rules.”x"Marketing Madness: Coal for Kids" - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
The coloring book below, designed to teach children about the coal industry, was published by the public relations arm of the West Virginia Coal Association.Hmm--I looked through the book, and I failed to see the "madness". Did they forget to inform the children that burning coal releases carbon dioxide, which then kills the polar bear cubs?
Climate [fraud] legislation is running into a chilly reception - washingtonpost.com
On Tuesday night, climate activist Nancy Jackson was speaking to one of the most climate-skeptical audiences in the country: Kansans. She was speaking to college students here in Manhattan -- a town where one religious leader was able to draw congregants to screenings of "An Inconvenient Truth" only by passing out Nerf balls, so they could hurl them at the image of Al Gore.Give Us $7B or We Kill the Trees - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
"Take climate change off the table, okay?" Jackson said, after reciting evidence that the climate really is changing. "You don't have to buy it for everything I'm about to say, because everything we do [to combat climate change] is a good idea for at least three other reasons." [Ok, what are the three other reasons that carbon sequestration allegedly isn't insane?]
I think this is the sequel to the next Austin Powers movie . . .Invisible Elephants « the Air Vent
New Scientist: Pay us oil money, or the rainforest gets it
This graphicAndrew Winston: Jon Stewart's Oddly Uneducated Views on Climate Change
http://climatereason.com/LittleIceAgeThermometers/
contains some 50 Instrumental temperature records that precede the 1850 Hadley Global temperature information. (Just press on a red dot on the globe) There will be a well referenced study behind it in due course to put this information into perspective. It will hopefully become an invaluable resource for all researchers of climate.
Gore was trying to say that we do have all the technologies [Like what? Do we have electric cars that can successfully compete in a free market?] but we just need the political will to enact them (perhaps oversimplifying the issues, but directionally correct).
Being green is no religion | Wendy M Grossman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Whatever happens in Nicholson's case, the wider concern is one of turning science into religion. Grainger tried in court to characterise his beliefs as based on fact and science, but the court ruled that his beliefs were so extreme as to be "more than opinion".Barcelona climate talks beset by rich-poor stalemate | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Bruno Sekoli, chair of the least developed group of countries, said that it was more important to get a good deal, however long it takes. "We do not want a compromise deal. If it takes a year, even two years, then we will continue talking. A bad deal is not good for Africa or vulnerable countries."Copenhagen is an opportunity for ethics to trump economics | James Garvey | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Avoiding action on climate change because it might be too expensive is on a moral par with harming other people for moneyVideo: Global warming [scam] messages take a new direction - washingtonpost.com
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James Garvey is secretary of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and author of The Ethics of Climate Change
Graham: I would have voted no on Boxer bill - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com
“There are simply not the votes to pass this bill through the Senate,” Graham said. “If the Boxer bill were to come to the Senate floor as written, I would vote “no.”CQ Politics | Climate Bill Out of Committee, But at What Cost?
“This was an extraordinary experience, and in many ways a bonding experience,” said Boxer, a California Democrat. But even fellow Democrats on the panel were uncomfortable with the breakdown of bipartisan cooperation.What the Voters Said - FOXNews.com
The electorate is also clearly in no mood for a polarizing fight over climate change and instead seems open to the type of bipartisan agenda John Kerry and Lindsay Graham proposed last week involving both investing in alternative energy, as well as ocean drilling and the selective use of nuclear power.Underwhelming results from a Democratic poll: CD2 voters [allegedly] believe global warming is real, favor taking action « New Mexico Independent
According to the poll, 52 percent of voters believe that global warming is happening now and an additional 20 percent think it will happen in the future; 21 percent believe it will not happen.New York Times' Hit Job on Al Gore Sparks Controversy : TreeHugger
A plurality of those polled, 43 percent, believe that efforts to reduce global warming “will create American jobs” while 30 percent say it “will cost American jobs.”
The piece was ominously entitled Gore's Dual Role - Advocate and Investor--as though he were guilty of some sleazy, duplicitous agenda.Who's to Blame for All the Dithering on Climate Legislation? | Environment | AlterNet
Yes, Inhofe is behind much of it, but he's only part of the problem.
Global Warming Predictions Invalidated | The Resilient Earth
A new study in the journal Science has just shown that all of the climate modeling results of the past are erroneous. The IPCC's modeling cronies have just been told that the figures used for greenhouse gas forcings are incorrect, meaning none of the model results from prior IPCC reports can be considered valid.SBVOR: NOAA Reports 3rd COLDEST October Since 1895!
Inconvenient Truths about Continental USA Temperatures:Barcelona diary: The USual suspects, paper trail on forests, and dirty Canada | Environment | guardian.co.uk
2009 - 3rd coldest October since 1895!
2009 - October was 4F COLDER than the 1901-2000 average!
Connie Hedegaard's opening speech at the climate talks was well received, but sadly the Danish environment minister who will host the final negotiations next month in Copenhagen left a copy of the speech lying around, and it showed what had been cut out. Connie intended to say "we are aiming for a binding political agreement", but mysteriously dropped the word political at the last minute. Tellingly, she also removed a sentence which ran: "Honestly, who believes anyone's pledges will improve by a few months' postponement of a deal?" Yesterday the EU fully accepted that the talks would run over, saying it would not affect the outcome.British climate change campaigners ride The Wave | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Climate change marches in the UK haven't, to date, pulled in the kind of numbers you might expect to see at, say, an antiwar march.Don't let the reckless City trade carbon | Andy Atkins | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
I'm sure there are multiple reasons for this, but principal among them is probably the underlying lack of desperate urgency many people still feel towards the threat of climate change. It is still largely deemed to be a distant problem, particularly as politicians seem to be fixated with talking about targets for the now mythical year of 2050. Holding a march on a Saturday in December is also, no doubt, another contributing factor.
As the City recovers from one disaster, the next is on its way – but carbon trading will damage the planet, not just the economy
Democrats make progress on climate law bill's future remains uncertain | Alarmist Suzanne Goldenberg | guardian.co.uk
Democrats on a key Senate committee took a small step forward on a US climate change law today - but also inflamed Republicans to a degree that could ultimately defeat efforts to pass legislation to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions.Why my verdict gives hope to climate change believers | Tim Nicholson | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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The bill's prospects are also threatened by twin defeats this week for
Democrats in governors' elections in New Jersey and Virginia. Senators,
especially those from coal producing and rust belt states who had earlier
raised concerns that the climate bill could be a "jobs killer" are now much
more likely to distance themselves from Barack Obama's agenda.
"The question is, do people think we're tending to the things they care
about?" John Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia who has been on the fence on climate change, told reporters. "Don't think people in my state are going to stand up and start cheering about Copenhagen," Rockefeller said.
I'm not the high priest of climate change. My environmental beliefs are rational, and courts were right to find in my favourAnalysis: What hope for Copenhagen now? | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The dreamGlobal climate deal at least a year away, negotiators say | Environment | guardian.co.uk
President Obama's team takes a giant risk in Copenhagen and pledges ambitious US cuts in carbon emissions, in the hope that it can sell them to a sceptical domestic audience in the New Year. The move shocks China and India into pledges of action, with short-term targets morphing into longer-term commitments. Japan, Canada, Russia, Australia and others are carried away on the subsequent wave of optimism and join Europe in agreeing the kind of greenhouse gas reductions that scientists say could still limit temperature rise to 2C. As beaming world leaders jet in, Copenhagen delivers a deal to save the world.
Plausibility: 1/10
Negotiators say they have abandoned hope of signing a legally binding emissions treaty in Copenhagen and are planning only for a meeting of world leaders
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It is now more likely that President Obama will go because he will not be forced to sign a legally binding agreement which the US senate could then reject.
Angry words as timetable for climate deal starts to slip
Antonio Hill of Oxfam International blasted advanced economies for "backsliding."Climate Science and Climate Scepticism — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy
"There's no question: they're trying to get a get-out-of-jail card," he told AFP, referring to a tactic used in the board game Monopoly.
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Greenpeace climate policy director Martin Kaiser said US "intransigence (is) threatening to kill the prospect of a legally binding Copenhagen treaty."
"What's unfolding today is being driven by America, which in turn is being steered by big fossil-fuel interests," he said. "Now is the time for Europe -- Sarkozy, Merkel, Brown -- to stand up, not give up."
Ben (C-R editor) gave a presentation at York University last week, in a debate organised by the Freedom Association, alongside Professor David Bellamy and Richard S. Courtney, and opposite Stephen Hockman QC (who intends to establish an international climate change court), Simon Bowens from Friends of the Earth, and a couple of environmental science students...Listen to the audioNegotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions - AP Business - Ledger-Enquirer.com
Yvo de Boer, the top U.N. climate official who oversees the negotiations, said any decision emerging from Copenhagen that is accepted by all 192 countries would be "morally binding" even without formal legal status.Lack of global climate deal won't crush green tech | Green Tech - CNET News
Research and events company Cleantech Group on Thursday released an analysis called "Why Cop15 Doesn't Matter," referring to the Copenhagen 15 climate change talks scheduled to start December 7.The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » About those “Republicans for Environmental Protection”
In fact, in yet another display of the power of “new media,” our investigation into these ads appears to have been what prompted Graham’s handlers to ditch the left-leaning organization that was initially responsible for the content of the ads in an effort to find a new “issues launderer” for this message, although the group they finally settled on ultimately traces its roots to organizations run by George Soros, America’s foremost liberal financier.
Do the Brazilians hate their grandchildren, or have they all been brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh?
Brazil Industry Seeks To Avoid Targets At Dec Climate Meeting - WSJ.com
BRASILIA (Dow Jones)--Aiming to minimize the impact of new international climate regulations that could cut off a movement toward sustained local economic growth, Brazilian industry officials are hoping to avoid establishment of near-term carbon emission targets or other restrictions at an upcoming international meeting on climate change in December.
Remarks by Czech President Václav Klaus on Cap-and-Trade | GlobalWarming.org
This country, my country, as well as the rest of the world face many real issues. We do not need to solve non-existing problems. I don’t think the real issue is temperature and/or CO2, but a new utopian vision of the world. We have only two ways out: salvation through carbon capping or prosperity through freedom, unhampered human activity, productivity and hard work. I vote for the second option.”Too gentle on Gore by half | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Leigh, the man is a fraud, in my opinion, and his record is littered with such examples. I appreciate your attempt to confront him with the evidence I put up last week, but that wasn’t nearly enough of an attempt to hold him accountable.[Yeah, right]: Kerry: Climate Bill Passage Shows 'We Have Momentum On Our Side' | TPM LiveWire
The Daily Bayonet » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov. 5th 2009
Jon Stewart makes the hippies enemy list, there is ennui in the Anglosphere and light bulbs are getting a warning label.Hopes fading for Copenhagen climate change treaty, says Ed Miliband | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, today became the first British politician to acknowledge publicly that the Copenhagen summit would produce no legal climate change treaty, but insisted a politically binding agreement was still possible – which he described as "a meaningful political track with strong numbers committed by all countries".Analyzing Cash-for-Clunkers - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
So much for the environmental benefits of the programEDITORIAL: Eat your pets, save the planet - Washington Times
We might never have known about the pet threat had it not been for the "carbon footprint" concept, a standardized measure that makes all manner of things fungible. It has been popularized by eco-hypocrites like Al Gore, who probably has the world's largest carbon footprint and has grown wealthy exploiting human fear and gullibility.Chris Horner - The Four Horsemen of Cap-and-Trade Defeatism: There’s only one ''Certainty''
For now, job one is to attain some semblance of leverage by killing this “climate” bill, not sitting down hoping to make your own execution a more orderly affair.Down on the Farm - William Tucker - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Stabenow’s idea is to marry the interests of two of her constituents — limping Rust Belt industries and ailing farmers — into one big subsidy package. The farmers will earn emissions credits by not cutting down trees, not planting crops and maybe diapering cows. There is even talk of urban farming: “We have a lot of excess land in Detroit and Flint,” Stabenow told CQ Today. “We could develop farms and forestation that would be positive for the city.”
Global climate change [swindle] deal ' a year away' - Telegraph
A global deal to stop catastrophic climate change won't be agreed for another year, officials have warned, as rich and poor nations wrangle over the sacrifices each will have to make.Results of your How Many Days Until Calculation.
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The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December has long been held up as the “last chance” for humanity to stop dangerous global warming.
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Officials are now frantically watering down expectations and talking about another year of talks before a treaty can be finalised.
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Sources close to the negotiations in Barcelona said the delay could be up to 12 months, with rumours already circulating of another UN summit in Mexico at the end of next year.
There are 362 days until Tue Nov 2, 2010Electoral calendar 2010: Information from Answers.com
* 2 November: United States, House of Representatives and Senate (one third:"Class III" Senators)William S. Becker: Road to to Copenhagen - Part 4: A New Social Contract
The cap-and-trade bill being considered in Congress would be a game-changer in the economy, for the first time creating price signals that discourage consumers from purchases that contribute to global warming. We need that, but we need a deeper change, too - a signal that we've changed our world view and consumption ethic as well as our price signals.Roger Carr: a strong commitment to [the greatest scientific fraud in human history] - Telegraph
The company has also found that 60pc of the emissions for its flagship Dairy Milk chocolate bar related to the cows that produce the milk for the product. It is working with farmers to reduce this by introducing new diets.Anorak News » Blog Archive » Al Goreans Sell Inconvenient Truth Sequel As The Bible Code
GLOBAL warming is no longer the terror it once was. Even rebranding it as climate change is not having the desired efect. What we need is a religious approach. Al Gore is on it.The big questions: leading by example - Telegraph
It will only be possible to achieve a significant reduction in carbon emissions if everyone — business, government and the general public alike — changes their way of thinking now.
Jack Welch blasts President Obama, Barney Frank - BostonHerald.com
“I desperately want more thought so we don’t throw out some of the great things we have in this country,” Welch said to more than 1,000 bankers who watched the 73-year-old via video hookup. “Right now, Barney Frank has the floor. He can send us down paths that might be bad for us. That’s frightening. I hope the elections in those two states will slow the speed at which we are attacking climate change, financial regulations and health care. We can’t just pile up deficits and restructure the entire economy in 12-18 months. It’s not doable. It’s insane.”BOXER VIOLATES COMMITTEE RULES, REJECTS CLEAR PATH FORWARD
[Inhofe] I am deeply disappointed by Chairman Boxer's decision to violate the rules and longstanding precedent of the committee. The Republicans offered a clear path forward to a bipartisan markup, but it was summarily rejected by Chairman Boxer. Instead, she decided to ignore the entreaties of all 6 ranking members from Senate committees with some share of jurisdiction over climate change legislation, as well as leading moderates in the Senate. Her action signals the death knell for the Kerry Boxer bill.American Thinker Blog: Boxer Goes Nuclear on Climate Bill
This is about a ticking alarm clock.Global cooling hurts Duke Energy « Green Hell Blog
The number of Americans now buying into the politically-tainted junk science on which this bill is based has dropped from 47% to 36% in the past year alone. And that waning number will make it increasingly difficult to pass what amounts to an enormous and needless exercise in national (and finally international) wealth destruction and redistribution. Particularly if the voting spills over to next year – an election year.
Hey Jim, there’s a reason children aren’t allowed to run the world.Boxer Rebellion: Senate Panel Approves Climate Bill Without GOP - Environmental Capital - WSJ
One interesting thing: Climate change and global warming does seem to be slipping down the list of Democratic talking points. Sen. Boxer said the bill “addresses a crucial issue of our time.”
What would that be? Turns out there’s several—but saving the planet from climate catastrophe isn’t one of them. The bill will “move us away from foreign oil imports that cost Americans one billion dollars a day, it will protect our children from pollution, create millions of clean energy jobs, and stimulate billions of dollars of private investment,” Sen. Boxer said.
Senate Climate Bill Produces Little But Partisan Heat - Scitizen
While such legislative "theatrics," as Rhode Island Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse characterized the Republican boycott, are nothing new, some warn that the EPW committee is marching into "seldom seen" territory in the fight over climate legislation.Senator Baucus says opposes Kerry-Boxer climate bill | Reuters
According the Energy & Environment News, a former Democratic Senate staffer said that ramming through the markup process may not be the wisest move and is likely to turn off swing-vote Senators. "That product is toxic," said the former stagger. "It's basically worthless."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus, an influential moderate Democrat, announced his opposition on Thursday to a climate change bill crafted by fellow Democrats John Kerry and Barbara Boxer.I’m agnostic on global warming, but carbon trading is not the answer to our prayers – Telegraph Blogs
Commissioner Bart Chilton observed recently: “We don’t want to see the largest commodity markets in the world–these Green CAT Markets–become a private jungle gym for speculators and fraudsters.”
Indeed we don’t. Yet we are creating huge, highly complex, artificial markets which will be far more difficult to regulate, in my view, than a straightforward product like, say, subprime mortgages.
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