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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Climate change emails row deepens - and Russians admit they DID send them | Mail OnlineHowever, the full context of that ‘trick’ email, as shown by a new and until now unreported analysis by the Canadian climate statistician Steve McIntyre, is extremely troubling.
Derived from close examination of some of the thousands of other leaked emails, he says it suggests the ‘trick’ undermines not only the CRU but the IPCC.
CTV British Columbia- Copenhagen protestors stage nude rally in VancouverMeanwhile, a handful of Greenpeace activists were taking the fight to the streets of Vancouver, bracing the city's brisk winter weather unclothed in protest.
"I think taking off our clothes in the middle of the Vancouver winter shows the commitment that we have to this issue," spokesperson Andrea MacDonald said.
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Beginning at the Commercial Drive Skytrain Station just before noon, participants stripped down and put on sandwich boards reading "Stop the Tar Sands" and "It's getting hot in here."
A letter to parents who are not gullible « JoNovaThe worst kind of fake hero wants power and money. He tells you he’s here to save you, but insists you must pay him lots and now! (Also known as scam artists). Mr Hamilton wants to be in charge so he can spend your money, stop you saying what you think, and stop you voting for other people. This is called a “tyrant”. Mr Hamilton wants power. He doesn’t want to answer our questions politely, he just wants to scare us into doing it, or force us with threats.
‘Carbongate’ The Great Carbon Heist – RootedThe effected Australian family farmers are not celebrating their contribution. The impact on the relatively few citizens who have been asked to bear this enormous burden should outrage each and every fair minded citizen of this country.
The lock-up of their land has caused great hardship and driven many devastated landholders to desperate measures including suicides. A symbol of the despair and desperation felt by those carrying the Nation’s entire Kyoto burden is New South Wales farmer Peter Spencer who is in the 20th day of a hunger strike on a two metre platform high up a 300 foot tower on his property just outside of Canberra.
Copenhagen climate change summit: The world is COOLING not warming says scientist Peter Taylor ... and we're not prepared | Mail OnlineIn his provocative book Chill, he warns that the world is cooling not warming and that solutions proposed at Copenhagen ignore the risks of a possible return of the Ice Age...
What links the Copenhagen conference with the steelworks closing in Redcar? - TelegraphThe carbon credits boom is already costing British jobs, says Christopher Booker.
Weekly Address Watch: During the middle of the Copenhagen talks, for the twentieth time in twenty-two weeks, Obama ignores global warmingWeekly Address: President Obama Applauds Important Step Forward on Financial Reform
[Politician Jay Inslee: I see ocean acidification]As Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) said at the hearing:
He said there was “a little emotion in my voice because I have seen in my neighborhood what this phenomenon is doing,” referring to the higher rate of acidification in the oceans, especially “the shallow waters off our Pacific coast….
YouTube - [Another completely nutty claim: Carbon dioxide is causing "osteoporosis of the sea"]Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, gives a demonstration during the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Hearing, "The State of Climate Science" held on December 2, 2009
Protests and Talks Intensify in Copenhagen - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comA wind turbine, glowing blue in spotlights, spun slowly in the background and hundreds of mainly young people walked along the car-free boulevard, many gathering around roaring bonfires built of discarded sticks from cardboard placards carried earlier in the day.
Paul Krugman debates Bjorn Lomborg on global warming, CNN Sunday « Climate ProgressCan the Nobel Prize winner in economics out-debate the Danish delayer? I think so.
Lateline - 07/12/2009: [Extended interview with James Hansen]TONY JONES: There's been a huge debate in Australia over emissions trading. Are you saying that even with the best will in the world an emissions trading scheme in Australia will be ineffectual.
JAMES HANSEN: Absolutely. These cap and trade trading schemes are a terrible idea. You can see what they do. They are a way to continue business as usual because they include these offsets, for example. They're not attacking the fundamental problem. Who they're good for is the big banks. In the United States it's going to be Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America, the trading companies.
They have trading groups within their bank who are very skilled and they're going to make money, and where does the money come from? It comes from the public. There will be increased energy prices, big banks will make money, but the problem will not be solved.
There will be little reduction in emissions.
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JAMES HANSEN: You know, if you look at this global temperature curve and smooth it over a few years you'll see that it's continued to increase over the last decade. And in fact, it's not true that 1998 was the warmest year. 2005 was the warmest year.
Cartoon: Would Being More Eco-Responsible Matter If Climate Change Were a Hoax? Even IF global warming and climate change were a hoax, would the Copenhagen Climate Conference and other environmental negotiations still be worth it?
As far as we're concerned...oh yeah! [the cartoon suggests that the greatest scientific fraud in history will make your children healthier!!]
Climate science Q&A: warmest decade on record? | The SPPI Blog...If the Climategate conspirators had been less politicized and less dishonest, they would have been having conversations of this kind, rather than working out ways of bending the data so as to blame more than half of the warming from 1975-1998 on CO2. – Monckton of Brenchley
[Does this mean that CO2 will kill all of our grandchildren?]: Health Care to Keep Democrats From Copenhagen Conference - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.comSenator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told colleagues on Saturday that Democrats could not send a delegation to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.
“It doesn’t look like we’re going -– not as a delegation,” Mr. Kerry told colleagues as a he left the Senate chamber after a vote on a package of spending measures. “Harry needs the people here on health care.”
Arrests During Climate Change Summit Protest Copenhagen | World News | Sky NewsPolice say 968 people have been arrested during a climate change protest in the Danish capital Copenhagen.
Hundreds of youths dressed in black threw bricks and smashed windows as at least 30,000 people demonstrated in the centre of the city as world leaders debate global warming.
The rioters, whose faces were covered, went on the rampage in the heart of the city, prompting swift arrests as some 50 policemen in riot gear intervened.
Greenshirts: by their tactics you will know them | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogIt’s not just the fervent self-righteousness but the trampling of the rights of others to even speak that makes the ”greenshirts” analogy so accurate - and a warning we must heed.
Hundreds arrested at Copenhagen protest rally | Environment | The ObserverA British demonstrator, Georgy Forshall, told the Observer: "Two of my friends are in there. The police said demonstrators had been throwing stones, but my friends were in a cow costume, they wouldn't have been able, physically, to throw stones."
"Don't leave us out in the cold" [Confused] Youth call for science based target and 350 ppm on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
[Lack of warmth is tough on elephants]Sitthidej Mahasawangkul, director of the Lampang-based Elephant Hospital, has advised mahouts and elephant owners to take special care of elephants, particularly sick and old ones, during the cold season.
Cold weather can have an immediate effect on the health of elephants, Mr Sitthidej warned.
They were supposed to cut emissions instead | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogKevin Rudd’s mad plan to hand out free pink batts, to be installed by any cowboy you like, has sure stimulated the NSW fire brigade. Even Environment Peter Garrett admits to his green plan having started at least 28 house fires in NSW alone.
For a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions, billowing smoke is not an ideal result. Nor are the three dead.
Climate policy Q&A: peak oil and alternative energy | The SPPI Blog[Monckton] Until the environmental movement disentangles itself from the international marxist Left, it will continue to resist sensible resource development. I am uneasy, therefore, at your suggestion that we should pursue the economically-destructive, climatically-irrelevant, scientifically-illiterate, mathematically-innumerate policies advocated by lavishly-funded, self-serving pressure groups closely in league with today’s worldwide governing class.
When and if the price of oil or coal or gas rises high enough to warrant the development of alternative fuels, the market will take care of the problem. The history of State intervention to try to pick future winners shows that only a lunatic would expect to succeed by going down that route.
Jon Snow falls for Ed Miliband's figures - TelegraphThe curious role of the UK Met Office, one of the leading promoters of climate change hysteria under its chairman Robert Napier, a former professional climate activist, has made it an international laughing stock. After its earlier prediction that 2007 would be "the warmest year on record', global temperatures plummeted by 0.7C, more than the entire net warming of the 20th century. Each year since then its winter and summer forecasts have been hilariously wrong (eg this year's prediction of a "barbecue summer"). And of course these forecasts were made with the help of a computer model – run by its Hadley Centre, in conjunction with the Climatic Research Unit now at the centre of the "Climategate" scandal – which is the same as the main one supplying temperature data to the UN' s IPCC.
Thousands protest at climate summit - thestar.comPolice estimated their numbers at 25,000, while organizers said as many as 100,000 had joined the march from downtown Copenhagen, waving banners that read "Nature doesn't compromise" and ``Climate Justice Now.''
Hundreds of Protesters Arrested at Climate Talks - NYTimes.comThe police and organizers estimated that 60,000 to 100,000 participants joined a long march from Christiansborg Slotsplads, or Castle Square, southward to the Bella Center
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People calling for a free Tibet were well represented, and a small contingent of climate skeptics and libertarians derided the United Nations talks.
“We want to be able to live our lives like we’ve always led them before — as free citizens in free democracies,” said David Pontoppidan, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Copenhagen, who addressed passers-by through a megaphone over the chatter of two helicopters hovering far above. “We want free debate; we want to be able to be taken seriously even though we don’t agree with the U.N.”
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Andrew C. Revkin and Lars Kroldrup contributed reporting.
gulfnews : UN climate chief rules out conspiracy behind debateIn an interview with Gulf News, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), said: "In every field of endeavour, there might be a few ‘black sheep' who deviate from ethical practices. But that does not mean the whole system can be labelled as being dishonest or fraudulent on the basis of one particular incident, even if it was true."
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The scandal broke on November 19 when hundreds of UEA's internal e-mails were hacked and posted in the public domain. "We are living in an age when there is no chance someone can get away with any make believe, at least not for long," he said.
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Defending IPCC, widely regarded as the leading authority in the world on climate change, Pachauri said: "I m not aware of the actions of individuals. But IPCC is an extremely transparent body. Everything we do is in the public domain. Those we deploy to carry out assessments are selected from a long list of people nominated by governments based on their individual backgrounds, experience and expertise. "At every stage of the draft of any report IPCC produces we carry out detailed peer reviews. Each of these comments is put up on the website after which the authors decide on accepting or rejecting the reviews. Again, reason has to be shown for rejecting a comment," he said.
New research suggests the earth is heading towards six degrees temperature rise by the end of the century.
Historical video perspective: our current “unprecedented” global warming in the context of scale « Watts Up With That?WUWT reader “docattheautopsy” produced a YouTube video for us for distribution for which I’m grateful and you can see below.
Twitter / A TribbleDisney commercial with kids pledging to 'save the planet' ...."I pledge allegiance to the Planet..." #hhrs #tcot #climategate
Australia may foot huge climate change bill for China | News.com.auBut new Opposition finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce immediately attacked the proposal.
"Essentially this Copenhagen plan means we borrow money from places like China to pay them to help them develop. I don't think they need our help. They're doing a very good job on their own."
Back to the bunker | [Left-winger John McQuaid doesn't get it] | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukAt times it's gotten flat-out ridiculous. Writing recently in the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger compared scientists who question anthropogenic climate change to Galileo. Obviously, though, a broad scientific consensus - its precise shape still shifting as scientists debate - cannot compared to church dogma, even if some scientists are behaving capriciously.
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This is a childish view of science, politics, and the world. And in fact, bad as "Climategate" is for the cause of mitigating climate change, it's a far bigger disaster for the American conservative movement - worse, in its own way, than last year's loss to Barack Obama. George Bush treated science and scientists with contempt, and America is still paying a price for it. Meanwhile, belief among US conservatives that global warming is occurring has dropped alarmingly. What's desperately needed now is some real leadership, and conservative policy input, on how to address the most serious issue of our time. Instead, it looks like American conservatives are back in their bunker to stay.
Pew: Oct '09: Belief in global warming is falling across partisan lines 
Richard Littlemore | Pacauri: Email theft a "recreational distraction"The theft and release of the University of East Anglia emails is nothing more than a "recreational distraction" to the Copenhagen climate summit, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chair Dr. Rajendra Pachauri said at a news conference today.
Yet immediately after he said it, another senior IPCC member said he believed that his colleagues have, from the very beginning, underestimated the potential effect of the email story on public understanding of climate science - and public support for action in Copenhagen.
Carroll: Creating a bad climate for scientists - The Denver PostYet Pielke is despised by a number of influential climatologists. And no wonder. He refuses to ignore those who overstate or misrepresent data to further a policy agenda. He bridles when scientists pretend to speak "for science" when advocating political positions that will actually be determined by the interplay of social and economic values and judgments. And he calls out scientists who indulge in these tricks.
In turn, some treat him as a heretic.
C3: New Solution To Eliminate Man-Made Global Warming? Recent Analysis Reveals How To Do...case after case is revealing that the Climategate data fraud of creating "hockey stick" temperature records in order to mislead policymakers and the public goes well beyond the cubicle walls of the UK's Climate Research Unit (CRU).
Protesters Urge Action on Climate Change at Summit - FOXNews.com“Pay the climate debt, America,” Dustin, a protester from Taiwan, said. “We think the world needs an ambitious climate treaty. My country is suffering from climate change. Several villages were buried this year.”
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Not everyone agreed with the protesters. A young economist from Copenhagen watched as the crowd march by.
“In a hundred years people will say, why did we do so much for the climate, when you could have done so much for the people starving," he said.
[Speaking of ridiculous claims]: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Memorable quotesSir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Bedevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!
Dennis Miller: Swingin' Copenhagen | Washington ExaminerIn lieu of having the facts (i.e., the thermometer!) bear out their hypothesis, they are now going to have to get creative. They are going to have to press the bet now and steer into the delusional skid, and that sort of desperation makes for a really unsavory individual no matter how much good they are ostensibly doing for their fellow man.
AP: Climate Gatekeepers « the Air VentThese people have just produced a piece of propaganda disguised as credible reporting. The intent is to fool the public and is itself a fraud. You wonder why people don’t read the papers any more? — Here’s a hint, it ain’t because we’re trying to save the earth from tree farmers.
American Thinker Blog: Tom Friedman's global warming conflict of interest (Updated)Global warming apostle and NY Times columnist Tom Friedman has been out doing the media rounds in an attempt to tamp down the increasing climate science scandal. Confining himself to outlets significantly invested in the deception, like CBS and CNN, Friedman has cast every aspersion and used any and all logical fallacies he could think of to counter the clear and persuasive evidence that the scientific studies are corrupted and the scientists are corrupt.
The Hitlerettes of “SustainUS” | The SPPI Blog[Monckton] Dear Student, – Thank you for taking the trouble to let me know what you think. Perhaps a little background would be helpful. Some 50 robotically-chanting thugs invaded a meeting that some colleagues and I were holding, jostled and intimidated us, and did their best to interfere with our right of free speech for as long as they could get away with it. They showed not the slightest intention of engaging in civil discussion with us.
Three German and one Danish members of our audience were distraught. They said no attempt like this to prevent free speech had ever been seen in Copenhagen since the Nazis had occupied the city during the Second World War. The Hitlerettes had lied in order to get into the meeting, and had clearly been lavishly funded (by taxpayers, mostly, according to our enquiries for the police report) and had also been very carefully briefed. Peaceful protesters would have demonstrated outside, rather than violently breaking up our meeting in the manner all too familiar to those who know the mid-20th-century history of Europe.
300 detained in Copenhagen protest - thestar.comPolice estimated their numbers at 25,000 [from a world population of 6,800,000,000], while organizers said as many as 100,000 had joined the march from downtown Copenhagen, waving banners that read "Nature doesn't compromise" and "Climate Justice Now."
Danish supermodel Helena Christensen was in the crowd. "They will be very bad politicians if they do not hear us by now," she said about the policy-makers negotiating in Copenhagen.
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Ian Fry, the representative of the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu, made an emotional appeal for the strongest format, one that would legally bind all nations to commitments to control carbon emissions.
"I woke up this morning crying, and that's not easy for a grown man to admit," Fry said, choking as he spoke in the plenary crowded with hundreds of delegates. "The fate of my country rests in your hands."
Jack Handy quotes"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”
The Science of Climate Negotiations: Scientific American"The question is not whether it is desirable to reduce the rate of growth of emissions in developing countries. Of course it is," Dasgupta says. "The question is who pays?"
Copenhagen: the scientists' view: Scientific American[Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair, Working Group III, IPCC] sums up the IPCC's findings this way: humans cause climate change; climate change has severe impacts; and it is not too costly to reduce emissions.
Raised in the mountains of Jamaica, Binger did a brief stint as a chemical engineer in the petroleum industry before earning a doctorate in agronomy at the University of Georgia....[Binger] Every person on this planet is better off at 1.5 degrees C than they are at 2 degrees C.
There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Al Gore: Not This Thinking Woman's Thinking ManOption B: He's grown complacent and lazy. Mr. Gore has gotten used to having his ring kissed by the media. (CBS news anchor Katie Couric gushed last month that she was "honored" to be giving Mr. Gore, the "Godfather of Green [and] the King of Conservation," publicity for his new book.)
That's not the kind of milieu that keeps one sharp.
Abbott: Rudd's Copenhagen entourage an "unfair expense" | Australian Climate MadnessBut surely Statesman Rudd requires all of those 114 delegates (including a personal photographer) in order to appear sufficiently like a future UN secretary general for the unofficial job interview he's attending? Oh, you guys all think he's going for climate talks? Ha, ha - good one.
Warning Signs: Cartoon: Scaring Everybody All the Time
Betting on Copenhagen - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.comSecond alien: And? On Anafraxion we’ve been using carbon dioxide as a climate regulation mechanism for eons. It works rather well.
Fourth alien: Sorry, fellow life forms, but could you explain to me why carbon dioxide matters? My kind have been space-farers for so long, I don’t really remember how our planet worked.
Third alien (rolls one of his many eyes): The Earth’s climate is affected by many factors — methane gas, volcanic eruptions, ocean currents, the planet’s orbit, that kind of thing. But by far the most reliable way to affect the climate is to fiddle with the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When that rises, the atmosphere traps more of the sun’s heat, and the planet warms. When it falls, the reverse happens.
Global Warming’s Cold Shoulder - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.comDo advocates of global-warming theory at the Copenhagen conference think it helps their cause to ignore questions from skeptics?
So . . . Which Time Were You Lying? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineThis is fairly typical Obama administration sniveling and dissembling: Don't blame us, carbon regulation was in the works since our reckless predecessor . . . but . . . this marks the first time our government ever showed responsibility. This decision is not posturing in advance of Copenhagen . . . but . . . what a great thing for us to do as Copenhagen began — the Euros really dug it.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: AP on Leaked CRU EmailsIt is these efforts to stage manage climate science that I have argued is the most troubling aspect of the emails. These activist scientists stated that they were interested in the truth, but their actions as revealed by the emails showed a greater interest in truthiness in order to shape a public message and defeat their nefarious opponents.
AP IMPACT: Science not faked, but not pretty - Yahoo! NewsThe AP studied all the e-mails for context, with five reporters reading and rereading them — about 1 million words in total.
Ahmadinejad to get U.N. podium - - POLITICO.comCOPENHAGEN –Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe plan to address negotiators at international climate talks in Copenhagen next week.
Sparkling wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it making it fizzy. The carbon dioxide may result from natural fermentation, (either in a bottle, as with the méthode champenoise, or in a large tank designed to withstand the pressures involved (as in the Charmat process) or as a result of carbon dioxide injection. The classic example of a sparkling wine is Champagne...
Why Does Bread Rise?This "bread rising" happens when the yeast and honey are mixed together, the yeast feeds on the honey and gives off a gas, called carbon dioxide. This carbon dioxide gets trapped in the bread dough, causing the dough to rise and helping give our bread its wonderful taste!
Editorial - This Week in Copenhagen - NYTimes.com [once again ignores massive climate fraud]Todd Stern, the chief American negotiator, responded correctly: With emissions in many industrialized countries peaking or declining, just about all of the growth in greenhouse gases is expected to come from the developing world between now and 2030, half from China. Rich nations must still reduce emissions sharply, Mr. Stern said, but “there is no way to solve this problem by giving the major developing countries a pass.”
Trevor Davies, UEA on Leaked Documents: Then and Now « Climate Audit [Welcome to our new home!]Trevor Davies, University of East Anglia Vice Chancellor, recently condemned the use of “stolen” emails on behalf of the University of East Anglia e.g. here.
In email 0925823304.txt , Trevor Davies wrote to Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, Mike Hulme, Jean Palutikoff and Mick Kelly (who are referred to as the “CRU5″ in the email) saying that he is in position of a “leaked document” regarding funding from the research council, which he needs to keep secret to avoid “compromising the source”. On this earlier occasion, Davies didn’t appear to have any pangs of conscience about using leaked documents nor to have reported the source of the leaked document to local police.
The Associated Press: GOP: US competitiveness at risk from climate pact"If President Obama has his way, the Copenhagen conference will produce mandatory emissions limits that would destroy millions of American jobs and damage our economic competitiveness for decades to come," Blackburn said the GOP's radio and Internet address Saturday.
Global Warming "Consensus" Crumbling, Michigan Senate Passes More Indoctrination [Mackinac Center]The case for a global warming scientific "consensus" may be crumbling, and with it the clear and present "emergency" that requires a massive reordering of the world's economy, including slower economic growth for the U.S. and the rest of the developed world.
But never mind all that, say heads of state in Copenhagen, EPA directors, and Michigan state senators - this isn't about science, it's about politics!
30,000 at Copenhagen climate demo: policeDanish television channel TV2 News put the figure at between 30,000 and 100,000, the total claimed by one of the organisers, Greenpeace International chief Kumi Naidoo, in a statement to the crowd.
Police had said earlier they expected more than 50,000 participants in the rally, which was to be followed by a six-kilometre (four-mile) march through the city to the Bella Center, the conference venue.
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"Copenhagen is in the eye of the storm. Each year 300,000 people are dying because of climate change. This is not about adaptation, it is about survival," Naidoo said.
Obama to choose Nobel winner for TVA boardThe White House announced the president's plans to nominate Marilyn A. Brown for one of two vacant seats on the nine-member board.
She shared the Nobel prize for her work with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Former Vice President Al Gore was another winner, all honored for sounding the [bogus] alarm over global warming and spreading awareness about how to counteract it.
City Brights: Zennie Abraham : Climate change [hoax] impacts TransAmerica Pyramid - gets LEEDS awardThe concern over climate change has led to a major restructuring of the iconic TransAmerica Pyramid.
The Reference Frame: What does "1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels" mean?Should the people stop driving or breathing? Should the people of the world commit suicide? I assure you that this won't stop temperature from changing.
Even after the bloody crackpots exterminate billions of cows or people or prevent them from driving, the global mean temperature will keep on jumping up or down by something like 0.2 °C per decade, 0.8 °C per century, 2 °C per millenium, 8 °C per ten or more millenia (and cooling into another ice age is likely to be the next step on this timeframe).
Ask Our Reporters About Copenhagen - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comThe Times’ Andy Revkin and Tom Zeller Jr. are on the ground covering the talks, the protests, and the myriad sideshows surrounding the event.
Submit your questions, and they will answer a selection of them in a video feature early next week.
EU Climate pledge: “road to ruin based on failed science and fraudulent data” by Piers Corbyn | Climate RealistsChallenge to Met Office/UN forecast that 2010 ‘could be the warmest on record’
Mr Corbyn said “This (ref4) is brazen political propaganda to boost the chances of a political deal at Copenhagen. It is based on failed computer models which have no scientific basis and have a track record of complete failure. ALL the UN/IPCC etc forecast for ongoing warming since 2000 have failed (ref5) and the UK Met Office’s own forecasts for the summers of 2007, 08 and 09 and the winter of 08/9 scored zero success out of 4.
Consensus melts away at Hopelesshagen – CrikeyTo describe the pace of negotiations during the first four days of the Copenhagen climate summit as “glacial” is not just cliched; it is an insult to glaciers, especially given the rate at which they are melting around the North Pole.
Sarah Palin Makes it Official – Climate Change is a Fraud | Web 2.0 JournalBut it is time to put a stake in the ground and study the issue. Let the democrats in the US run with the issue, and it might cost you something in your quality of life. Let the republicans run with the issue and you may float away with your lungs melting.
It’s a Climategate walk - fewer protesters than the models predicted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogHey, it’s just like Climategate - real world data undermining the predictions.
[Tiny number of] Climate marchers in Jacksonville urge carbon cuts | Jacksonville.com“We may be small here, but we’re in good company,” John X. Linnehan told the 18 others who joined him at Friendship Fountain on the Southbank to begin the 1.5-mile walk.
A few marchers joined as the walk continued, bringing the group to about 25. A few carried signs about lowering carbon emissions, much of which comes from energy production.
Jacksonville, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJacksonville is the principal city in the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan Area, a region with a population of more than 1,313,228
All American Blogger » Press: Can You Comment on Climategate? IPCC Member: Security!Here’s the thing. If this is such a non-issue, why the dodge? Why not take this question straight on and squash it? According to the eco-mafia, this is beind spun into a scandal when one doesn’t exist, so a journalist asking a question about it gives an expert on global warming the opportunity to rip it to shreds.
Instead, they go for the use of force to squash dissent.
Very telling.
Britain and France want bank tax to fund climate change [swindle] - Business News, Business - The IndependentBritain and France called yesterday for a new global tax on financial transactions to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Mark Lynas’s Copenhagen Notebook: 12/12/2009 - Climate Change, Environment - The IndependentIt's easy to mock the proceedings here. Upwards of 25,000 people, most of whom came by plane, meeting to write convoluted UN legalese that no one understands and doesn't seem to ever change anything.
But I think if you were an alien looking in you might take this meeting as evidence of humans behaving like an intelligent species. We've used rational, objective analysis – otherwise known as science – to establish beyond reasonable doubt that we have a problem which threatens the habitability of our world
Barking Spider: ACT ON CO2 - HOAXENHAGEN [Videos]Japan’s climate targets are conditional - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009If the Kyoto Protocol is extended without setting emission reduction goals for the United States and China, Japan threatens to back out of its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The Greenroom » Forum Archive » A Memo To The Global Warming CultDear global warming fanatics,
Please. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourselves. Take a deep breath, and try to understand what has happened to you during the past month. You need to accept that your dreams of global domination are over. Increasingly shrill attempts to terrify the masses into ignoring Climagate are only making you look foolish. The con job you’ve been running for the last thirty years is busted forever.
When Falls the Coliseum » Let’s have an inquisitionAl Gore and others declared long ago that the debate over global warming was over — that it was accepted science, and that all those ignorant enough to defy them were “deniers,” akin to those who doubt the existence of the Holocaust. Unfortunately — despite the nifty ad hominems — the flatearthers refuse to adhere to dogma, especially in light of the so-called “Climategate” scandal. Society must deal with these people in the same manner society in the past dealt with those who challenged science: through an inquisition.
Would You Like Your Temperature Data Homogenized, or Pasteurized? « Watts Up With That?So what would appear to be a general cooling trend over the past ~130 years at this location when using the unadjusted HadCRUT3 data, becomes a warming trend when the homogeneity adjustment is supplied.
Power Line - When You're Out of Arguments, Call in the HeatSchneider's response, suggesting that the emails that were leaked by a whistleblower might have been "edited," was wholly disingenuous. A considerable number of the emails were Schneider's, so if they were somehow inauthentic, he certainly could have said so. But, of course, he didn't. In fact, as the University of East Anglia has explicitly admitted, and Phil Jones has implicitly admitted, they are genuine. Which means that Schneider had nothing whatsoever to say in response to McAleer's question.
Except to call security and make McAleer's cameraman stop filming, even though the event was ostensibly a press briefing open to the media
Australia not happy with draft Copenhagen treatyThe official UN deal, issued at the landmark summit on global warming on Friday, says rich countries must slash greenhouse gas emissions but poorer countries like China don't have to.
Twitter / Andy Revkin: VID: Who'd have thought cl ...VID: Who'd have thought climate negotiation is aerobic activity? U.S. delegation's post-briefing sprint: http://j.mp/UsCopSpring #cop15
Climategate: demanding what the mainstream media won’t give | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogIt’s Climategate, of course. Just 11 days into December and this blog already broke last month’s record for Unique Browers: 497,000, with 1.2 million page impressions. Thank you to you all.
Twitter / Stephanie GormanWow. RT @KatyinIndy: Laura Ingraham: Al Gore's book has sold 40,000 copies since November...Sarah Palin is on the way to TWO MILLION SOLD
Real scientists should care more about fraudWhy don't these warming believers care about the debasement of science? Why don't they care about scientific fraud? And if their science is so undeniable and certain, why have they refused to release their temperature data and why have they now destroyed it?
Those questions need to be asked, and answered. Real science demands nothing less. But, don't hold your breath.
Peter Foster: The Goracle speaks on Climategate - FP CommentThe emails, far from being meaningless or out of context, show alteration of data and attempts to rig the peer review process
The death of big environment: Paul A. Ibbetson - assessing loss and gainWhat has been gained by the Climate Research Unit e-mail(s) discovery is another valuable exhibit in the growing undeniable evidence that the promotion of man-made global warming is nothing more than an expensive ruse. What has been lost is that over the course of exposing this scam, true environmentalism may be tainted.
East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit - Searchable[Phil Jones, 2005] The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant.
American Thinker: Get Global Warming Out of Our Schools3. Direct your school boards to eliminate global warming from science curricula now. Do not take "no" for an answer. Provide the materials, get yourself on the agenda, and ask for a vote. Get it on the record.
American Thinker: The shocking lesson from the climate scandalPresident Obama's complete lack of concern for the fraudulent science associated with global warming is contrasted with the common sense of Sarah Palin. The gutsy Alaskan suggested that Obama ought to hold his horses on the whole climate change thing until The real verdict is in. Of course, the smartest man in the world will have none of that.
LETTER: Global warming looking like 'a gigantic hoax'Gore said polar bears are disappearing. Five minutes on the internet taught me that their numbers have been increasing for 40 years.
Mark Hohmeister: Don't tell mainstream media aboutThe problem is, the media are hiding the real news that all the data pointing to climate change were made up by atheist scientists or elves at the North Pole. Whatever, two months ago, not one in 100 people had even heard of the University of East Anglia. Today, every anonymous poster is an expert on how climate data were collected and massaged there, in much the same way that we all become experts on the luge during the Winter Olympics.
And never mind that the Democrat has had news stories, opinion columns, letters to the editor and editorial cartoons on the so-called climate hoax, or that we provide space in our forums and story comments for discussion of this — it has been one giant cover-up.
Fraudulent data on man-made warming | Napa Valley Register[Allen R. Lord / Napa] Dear editor, President Obama’s environmental henchmen (or “persons of hench” for the politically correct among you) are still abjectly clinging to the discredited pseudo-religion of enviro-Marxism.
The academic and scientific fraud perpetrated by the University of East Anglia is being ignored and the data upon which their conclusions relied has sadly been eaten by their dog. Pity. Notwithstanding, the Obama administration maintains that the underlying assertion that man-made global warming exists is not in any way deterred by the fact that its primary advocates have victimized the entire world with the largest scientific fraud ever perpetrated against humanity.
[But of course: George Bush made climate fraudsters "lose" their data?] - Nova Scotia News THE Bush/Cheney undead are still stalking the land, and on the global warming issue they’ve sunk their fangs into fresh blood.
Continuing from the Bush government’s suppression of the work of its own climate scientists, propaganda and befuddlement go from strength to strength.
Driven by U.S. right-wing politics and polluting-industry money, they’ve unnerved scientists with their tactics to the point that some of them have apparently suppressed data — or thought of doing so — rather than feed it into this engine of political disinformation, in the now famous University of East Anglia emails episode.
Climate change: Probe global warming hoax | Letters Unlimited - cleveland.comMaybe all the people who swallowed hook, line and sinker the false theory of global warming are afraid to admit they were duped. Maybe they would rather throw the entire U.S. economy and American way of life under the bus instead of admitting they were wrong. Most likely there is much money to be made under a cap-and-trade program, and these folks stand to make a ton of cash at our expense.
John J. Meredyk Sagamore Hills
What climategate really tells us - NYPOST.comOne of the several scandalous revelations of the Climategate e-mails is that this claim of consensus is a lie. Never mind the skeptics: It turns out many of the scientists in the CRU inner circle had doubts and disagreements about their data, methodology and conclusions, and often bickered with one another about defects in their project.
Tracking down the 'Climategate' hackers - CNN.comWith the help of Scotland Yard, local police say they are investigating. Security experts say the leak could involve a naive insider, a malicious insider or a break-in from the outside. Climate change skeptics say no matter how the emails were hacked the researchers had something to hide. Senator John Barrasso says he's heading to Copenhagen to find out.
The silliness of Climategate -- latimes.comSo what are we to believe: that huge numbers of British and American scientists have entered into a conspiracy to dupe the world on climate change? Why? What would they stand to gain?
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Long ago, Cicero suggested that a mysterious public act could be best assessed by asking: Who benefits? Is it really any accident that Palin and most of the GOP lawmakers trying to discredit the science on global warming come from states enriched by petroleum production and industries with sizable carbon footprints? (The delegate from Saudi Arabia has taken a similar position at Copenhagen.)
Climate of fraud - Letters - NewsObserver.comYou posed the question, would we rather be safe or take a chance on sorry? I agree that's the correct question. We shouldn't risk devastating the economy by committing to drastic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions when much of the scientific support for taking action may be based on unreliable and possibly fraudulent data.
Daren Bakst
Some Lowland Areas Could See Snow This Weekend - Weather News Story - KIRO SeattleSEATTLE -- Crews and residents are preparing for the possibility of lowland snow in Western Washington as low temperatures continued to break records for the third straight morning at Sea-Tac airport.
Did Climategate kill Copenhagen?Global warming almost literally lived and breathed because of sympathetic--no, passionately supportive--media coverage. Climategate cut the ground from under it. So no matter what the science says, and science isn't done saying its piece on this issue, there will be a large number of newly deaf ears in the audience. You can only lose the public's trust once. Climategate has done that for global warming advocates.
US deniers behind 'Climategate,' experts allege | My SinchewWeaver said two men tried to hack emails in computers at the Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis in his building at the University of Victoria -- but left when workers challenged them.
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"The science behind global warming alarmism is falling apart from within, and the Climategate documents demonstrate why," said Sam Kazman, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in an email to AFP.
What motivates enviro alarmists?They think they have found the key to making themselves masters of the universe in the name of saving the planet from catastrophic, manmade global warming – even though it is as phony as a three-dollar bill.
Portrait of a local climate skeptic - thestar.comSo he asked Mann for the data in an email – and was stunned by the answer. The climatologist wrote he'd "forgotten" where the data set was but would get an assistant to find it.
"Here's a guy in his mid-30s, this is his claim to fame, the biggest paper of his life, probably the biggest paper of his career, it's been used on the front page of a UN study and sent to every household in Canada – how the hell could he not know where the data was?" McIntyre said.
"Nobody had ever checked this stuff with any sort of due diligence,'' he said.
This is who we are - cold, but not complaining | StarTribune.comI don't like to complain about the cold, because it's like getting a job at a slaughterhouse and whining that your white shirt is just ruined at the end of the day.
We live in Minnesota, and half the year our weather is either cold now or probably cold tomorrow. You know what you're in for, soldier; suck it up.
SEPP - Science & Environmental Policy ProjectSEPP’s Fred Singer has joined many others in countering the extensive press coverage of the upcoming UN Conference of Parties (COP) that will take place on December 7 which, in the United States, is Pearl Harbor Day. Beginning that day at 8 am Central Time, a virtual video conference will start and will continue until the end of the UN conference. The virtual conference will include many experts in climate and plant sciences from around the world. The topics are below. You can access the virtual conference from the following web sites as well as others:
http://speakoutforamerica.com/
http://www.co2science.org/video/cop/cop15.php
http://www.youtube.com/co2science,
Senior IPCC member has global warming skeptic threatened by UN “security” « Sister ToldjahUnlike the closed-minded nutjobs who have wrongly declared that the “science is settled” and who are scared sh*tless to actually debate the issue with skeptics, McAleer is fearless when it comes to challenging conventional wisdom on so-called “man-made” global warming. Not long ago he challenged the Goracle on a few global warming myths and as a result his microphone was promptly cut off by environmental “journalists” (read the story and watch the video here).
The burning issues behind 'Climate-gate' - More columnists - MercedSun-Star.comWhat the critics call "Climategate" continues to heat up the dispute in Congress and on the Internet, however.
Here's a look at the key issues
Humanity gathers in 'tribal barbecue' under one roof, talking about the future of planet | Environment | The Free PressIt's a "tribal barbecue," said another veteran, Peter Goldmark of the U.S. Environmental Defence Fund.
"We're talking about which businesses will grow, which investments will make sense, how we'll feed ourselves, what kind of energy we'll produce," he said. "This is the work of years and decades."
Tom Borelli : Al Gore and the Wizards of Climategate - Townhall.comLike Dorothy’s dog Toto, the posting of emails and documents on the internet from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has pulled back the green curtain on the secret world of leading climate scientists, exposing a disturbing pattern of apparent scientific misconduct.
Instapundit » Blog Archive PJTV: Bruce Bawer reports from the Copenhagen shadow conference. Best part is when Tom Harris defends the skeptical scientists and demands the United Nations release the evidence that its climate-change claims are based on.
Copenhagen climate change blah blah – Bad Science“CO2 isn’t an important greenhouse gas”, “Global warming is down to the sun”, “what about the cooling in the 1940s?” says your party bore. “Well,” you reply, “since the last time you raised this, I went and checked, and it turns out that there were loads of suphites in the air in the 1940s to block out the sun, made from the slightly different kind of industrial pollution we had back then, and the odd volcano, so that’s sort of been answered already, ages ago.”
Many US Farmers Skeptical About Climate Change | USA Costs aside, you'll find a lot of basic skepticism at the Farm Bureau and among farmers like Gwen Pitt that human pollution is responsible for climate change.
Pitt says, "My feeling on climate change is, I don't know that what we do as Americans or as people is what's causing most of what's happening. I think nature has its own course."
Al Gore Refuses to Discuss 'Climate Crisis' with John Stossel - WSJ.comThe Nobel Laureate only goes on TV programs where he knows he can say whatever he wants, regardless of accuracy, and never get challenged.
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According to an e-mail message sent to Stossel's producers on November 23, "the growing influence of the climate crisis message and the demand on Mr. Gore's time" made it impossible for the former Vice President to attend.
Of course, Gore's busy schedule didn't prevent him from being interviewed by CNN and MSNBC on Wednesday, nor did it stop him from appearing on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" just two days before he declined Stossel's invitation.
Deseret News | Global warming activists need to use scienceThe revelation of a trove of damaging e-mails among leading scientists in the global warming community raises a troubling question in this regard: If the science is so straightforward, why on the warming Earth would scientists need to fudge the research to prove it?
Or, to quote from some of the correspondence in the emerging Climategate controversy, why would there be any need to use a "trick" to "hide the decline" in temperatures suggested by some data? Why would there be an urgent need to "delete any e-mails you have had" about data for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or to orchestrate a response to deny information requests because "IPCC is an international organization, so is above any national FOI (freedom of information act)?"
AccuWeather Forecaster on Climate Change: 'It’s Ice not Fire You’re Going to Be Worried about Down the Road' | NewsBusters.orgWhile the wizards of smart are convening in Copenhagen, attempting to solve what they perceive to be the biggest global societal ill - anthropogenic climate change, one of the things that likely won't be discussed is the possibility of the opposite occurring, global cooling.
But AccuWeather's chief hurricane forecaster, Joe Bastardi warns it is a bigger threat than global warming. He says the phenomenon is coming, based on three priniciple reasons - 1) Natural reversal of ocean cycles, 2) Low sun spot activity and 3) An increase in volcanic and seismic activity. Bastardi made this case on the Fox Business Network's Dec. 11 "Imus in the Morning" program.
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Host Don Imus had his own view on the whole climate change craze - that it was a means for rulers of impoverished countries to capitalize financially.
"My view on global warming is that it's a gigantic financial scam to funnel money to these countries that think they ostensibly are going to use to improve conditions in their country, environmentally and so on, but officials use -- I guess apparently Tiger Woods did -- to hire hookers, ride around in limos and in cases of some of these diplomats and some of these countries buy cocaine, Joe," Imus said. "I know you may not believe that."
The Psychology of Climate Change Denial | Wired Science | Wired.comKari Norgaard: On the one hand, there have been extremely well-organized, well-funded climate-skeptic campaigns. Those are backed by Exxon Mobil in particular [what the hell, specifically, is Norgaard talking about here?!], and the same PR firms who helped the tobacco industry (.pdf) deny the link between cancer and smoking are involved with magnifying doubt around climate change.
Wired Seeks Psychological Reason for 'Climate Change Denial' | NewsBusters.orgNot a single skeptical scientist or layperson was included in Keim's article to explain for themselves why they don't believe in global warming, or at least that there isn't reason to panic and spend trillions of dollars to stop it.
Media Matters: With "Climategate" and Jennings smears, the right goes guerilla | Media Matters for America...the right not only wholeheartedly embraced these illegally obtained documents, it actively took steps to hide the fact that they were obtained by theft. Fox News spent an entire week describing the emails as "leaked," "revealed," and "uncovered." The conservative media critics at NewsBusters chastised the media for "paint[ing] the 'stolen' e-mails not as laudatory whistle-blowing, but as an unwanted impediment to the left's global warming agenda."
Cold weather stings everybody working outdoors | Edmonton | News | Edmonton SunEnvironment Canada predicts the mercury could drop as low as -31 C today and - 35 C tomorrow, warming only slightly throughout the week.
Deprogramming Children After Global Warming Scam | MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-TheoryEfforts to politically indoctrinate and manipulate school children are not new but they have intensified in the west in recent years. Parents in the old Soviet Bloc at least had enough experience before its fall to have some wisdom on dealing with it. Westerners however, are newbies.
NOAA/GHCN, the "Global Historical Climate Network", are crooks tooWillis Eschenbach (sounds like a pen-name of someone with a job to lose) has been looking in great detail at the work of one of the alternatives to the CRU. We know that CRU are crooks but what about the alternative sources of climate history? There are only two major alternatives and one of those is NASA/GISS run by Jim Hansen. So you have got the fox minding the henhouse there. That leaves only GHCN. So do they "adjust" their data in the same way that CRU do? Eschenbach uses the data from the Darwin area in Australia as a case in point. He presents the raw data -- which shows FALLINg temperatures -- and then the GHCN adjusted data -- which show RISING temperatures. And the adjustments done to achieve that are just plain weird. An excerpt from Eschenbach below followed by some comments on the risible "reply" to Eschenbach by Tim Lambert...
'Climategate': A primer on the email scandalThe National Post's Laura Blenkinsop examines the key emails that have come to light and the arguments that rage around them.
PNG to spend 3 million US on sending delegates to CopenhagenPapua New Guinea will spend more than 3 million US dollars to send a 30-member delegation to the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen which includes a consultancy recruitment drive.
CFACT arrives in Copenhagen | CFACTCFACT's delegation arived in Copenhagen, Denmark to educate delegates and media from around the world that the climate change treaty is All Pain No Gain
Times Online - Eureka Zone - WBLG: Fight Club Live [Debate: Lindzen vs Maslin]: Is mankind responsible for global warming?Mark Maslin is a leading climatologist and director of the UCL environment institute. Maslin has a particular interest in past global and regional climates...
There is also, however, a small but powerful lobby that disputes the majority’s findings. Richard Lindzen is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Answer to an environmental campaigner | The SPPI Blog[Monckton] If, as a growing proportion of the papers on climate sensitivity in the literature suggest, the UN has indeed exaggerated the warming effect of CO2 many times over, we might have to shut down the world economy for 200 years just to forestall 1 C of warming.
I make no apology for having adopted a quantitative approach in this note. Mathematics is the language of science, and those who do not speak that language ought not – with all respect – to make pronouncements on scientific questions which, like “global warming”, depend crucially upon calculation.
Climate Curveball: Senate Bill Taps Negative Mood Toward Wall Street - Environmental Capital - WSJAt 39 pages, the Cantwell-Collins bill is a lot easier to understand than the 1,400-page behemoth the House approved in June. It’s also a lot closer to the spirit of President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge, which called for “all pollution credits to be auctioned.”
But does that make it easier to pass? A big reason for giving away free allowances, after all, is to essentially buy the support of politically powerful industries. Or at least dampen their opposition.
STUDY: No Climate Change in Australia - associatedcontent.comAs established in the correlation study below, between 1995 and 2009, no statistically significant climate change occurred in Australia. Average daily temperatures in Perth and Sydney served as the supporting data for this study.
Cartoon Clicks: What won't stop global warming? - CNN.com
Danish police arrest 68 climate protesters; major protest planned for Saturday | GristA demonstration on Friday, held at various locations throughout the city, was the first protest since the start of the climate talks on Dec. 7. Some 500 youths belonging to the group protested amid a heavy police presence in the Danish capital. Helicopters buzzed in the skies above the protesters, directed by police on rooftops, while armored police vans and canine squads patrolled the streets.
“It looks like a military zone, the police are everywhere,” said Gerardo Gambirazio, an American geography researcher who took a break from the climate negotiations to check out the goings-on in the city.
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A massive demonstration Saturday in Copenhagen is expected to draw tens of thousands of people on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks.
Employees* rage against the Coke machine in Copenhagen | GristAt least 20 people took the pledge, reciting, “I, [name], with respect for crimes against people and the planet, from this day forward, for the rest of my living days will never, ever, drink Coca-Cola again until the Coca-Cola company ceases and entirely stops stealing the water from communities in India and stops union-busting in Colombia and ceases and desists entirely from relentless and absurd greenwashing like a ‘bottle of hope.’”
Opinion | Seattle's leadership on reducing carbon emissions and what comes next | Lame-duck Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels To take advantage of the opportunities of the new economy and prevent global environmental catastrophe, we must get out of our cars, turn down the thermostat in our homes and businesses, and teach our children well. How ably we accomplish all three will determine our future as a city, a region and a planet.
[Flashback: Nickels impressed Seattle voters so much that he placed third in the recent primary]...this supposedly environment-minded city—the Emerald City—rejected a genuinely green politician, handing him an ignoble third-place primary finish in August that eliminated him before the general election.
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So what went wrong? Nickels didn’t lose the election for any reasons related to this climate work, according to him and everybody else I asked about this. There was a botched response to a snowstorm last winter—city plows cleared the mayor’s neighborhood but few other streets in the city for several days.
Broin To Attend Climate Change SummitMuch of the world's eyes will be on South Dakota's ethanol industry next week at the international climate change summit in Denmark.
Lord Monckton tells Jewish climate change protester he is like 'Hitler Youth' - Times OnlineWhen Mr Wessel informed Lord Monckton he found the comment offensive and that his grandparents had “escaped the Nazis growing up in Germany”, Lord Monckton replied: “Because of the biofuel scam, world food prices have doubled. That it because of the global warming scare, which you won't look at the science of.
“As a result of that, millions are dying in third world countries because food prices have doubled because of the biofuel scam, because of the global warming scare.
“And you people don't care. And until you start caring I will call you Hitler Youth if you ever again interrupt any meeting at which I am present, where we are trying to have a private conversation.”
C-SPAN Video Player - Rep. Barton on Climate Change and Copenhagen conferenceEarlier this week, House Republican Leaders vowed to voice their opposition to climate legislation at the talks taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ranking Member of the Energy & Commerce Cmte. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) joined Newsmakers to discusses his Party's stance on climate change issues and the Copenhagen Conference.
Washington, DC : 32 min.
Heliogenic Climate Change: Quote of the day"The great truth-monger Al Gore claimed yesterday that 40% of the Artic Ice Cap has already disappered, and that the other 60% will be gone in 5, 10, or 15 years. If almost half of the Artic ice has already melted, then why aren’t London, New York, Miami, Venice, Houston, Singapore, etc., under water?" -- Christopher Monckton
Gordon the Big Engine Huffs and Puffs with BrusselsShe said: ‘That the EU is largely using money which otherwise would have been used to build schools or deliver health care in the developing world is shameful and will not be welcomed by developing countries in Copenhagen.’”
The Ugly Beast Returns - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review OnlineImagine if someone wrote an op-ed saying that we need a planetary ban on abortion. Feminists would get their dresses over their heads in outrage about such a naked assault on "reproductive freedom." But here is a woman in a very prestigious Canadian newspaper arguing, in effect, that every country in the world should force women everywhere to have an abortion if they already have a child.
Instapundit » Blog ArchiveSEN. JAMES INHOFE ON CLIMATEGATE. And talk of potential criminal liability.
Kerry-Lieberman-Graham-Boxer-Waxman-Markey » The FoundryThe bottom line: Adding a new Member of Congress or two to sponsor cap and trade legislation doesn’t change the outcome. This is not a jobs bill, nor is it an economic stimulus or a pollution reduction bill. It’s a net jobs destroyer that will cost American consumers in terms of higher energy prices and lost income for years to come. And the public isn’t buying it no matter how it’s sold.
The day Abbott saw the sceptics’ light | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogTony Abbott’s road to Damascus passes through Beaufort, in Western Victoria. Here’s a nice account of how Abbott came to out himself as a sceptic and damn the global warming theory as “crap” - a conversion which brought him the Liberal leadership, and which gave his party new hope
GISS “raw” station data – before and after « Watts Up With That?This raises a number of questions. for example: Why is data truncated pre-1900? Why did the slope change? The change appears to have been fairly recent, within the last month.
Another Message from the Senate - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineWow. Way to send a crystal-clear message to Kyopenhagen.
China, India helped draft controversial 'Copenhagen Agreement,' insider says -- latimes.comA person with deep knowledge of the negotiations says many developing countries knew in advance about the climate-change provisions they now are publicly protesting.
BBC News - Climate change - a story too often told the same waySo science was not speaking with one voice on the matter. It only seemed to be, because the media, on the whole, was giving no other story. Then this Climate Research Unit thing happened, and it was the end of the monologue. The dialogue has begun again.
The scientists are arguing on the matter, which is the proper thing for science to do, because in science the science is never settled.
Al Fin: Eliminating Billions of People to Salve Qualms of Pseudo-ScienceThis is a common thread among leftist environmentalists and green enthusiasts: eliminate up to 90% of the human population (or more) in order to make the planet more "sustainable." At this time, CO2 hysteria is a convenient justification for these calls to quasi-genocide. But any cause would do.
The Latest from Heartland - Video - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineDr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and chief science advisor for the Science and Public Policy Institute, takes on the alarmists.
[UN again promotes the greatest scientific fraud in history] - Bracing for the Flood - NYTimes.comEarthquakes. Cyclones. Tsunamis. Floods. Mudslides. Natural disasters have doubled in frequency over the last two decades. Catastrophes have also become more intense, destructive and threatening to human life.
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António Guterres is United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and former prime minister of Portugal.
Climate change fears may worsen depression - Mental health- msnbc.comDeadly heat waves, home-wrecking hurricanes, neighborhood-scorching wildfires: When you stop to think about it, global warming can be downright depressing. Now, scientists are starting to validate that feeling.
CBC Radio Employs Child Abuser as Friday Host « Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind Farms and News About the NWODavid Suzuki used his time on the radio with an international audience to promote his religion of climate change and hatred of capitalism. Suzuki personifies the ridiculous. He expects the masses to embrace the false science of man made global warming which is nothing more than a tax-and-grab movement to fill the cauffers of the church of the modern philosophy of naturalism. This is evident in the discussion in case you have the stomach to listen to the child abuse spewing from the imbecile’s mouth. He does all of this with an apparent straight face in spite of the clear evidence pointing to the utter inability of human invovement to save even one walrus or move the thermometer even one degree.
A greater question I would like to pose is… why? Why are the people at CBC, which is totally tax-payer funded, allowed to promote this religion without any consequences? And why am I being forced to pay for it?
Climategate: Anatomy of a Public Relations Disaster by Fred Pearce: Yale Environment 360I have been speaking to a PR operator for one of the world’s leading environmental organizations. Most unusually, he didn’t want to be quoted. But his message is clear. The facts of the e-mails barely matter any more. It has always been hard to persuade the public that invisible gases could somehow warm the planet, and that they had to make sacrifices to prevent that from happening. It seemed, on the verge of Copenhagen, as if that might be about to be achieved.
But he says all that ended on Nov. 20. “The e-mails represented a seminal moment in the climate debate of the last five years, and it was a moment that broke decisively against us. I think the CRU leak is nothing less than catastrophic.”
China says U.S. envoy "irresponsible" on climate aidCOPENHAGEN, Dec 11 (Reuters) - China on Friday attacked a top U.S. envoy as either "extremely irresponsible" or lacking in common sense, for saying at a global summit to tackle warming that no U.S. climate aid would go to China.
United States public debt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn May 2009, the US owed China $772 billion.
From the comment section[Norpag] USA and Canada are a net carbon sinks. EU China and third world should be forced to buy carbon credits from U.S. and Canada.
A paper published in Science by Fan et al in 1998 shows that on a net basis - which is the measure that should be used North America absorbs more CO2 than it puts out and should be allowed to sell Carbon credits to the rest of the world if justice were done.
Organized Crime in Charge of EU Carbon Trade, Police Say | CLIMATEGATEA new company is set up, using other front men, to repeat the carroussel. Crime rings that run such schemes can have several dozen or hundreds of companies whose real owners are difficult to trace.
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