It has a gigantic supercomputer, 1,500 staff and a £170m-a-year budget. So why does the Met Office get it so wrong? | Richard North - Mail Online

From a fuddy-duddy organisation created in 1854 to provide a service to mariners, and then aviators when the aeroplane was invented, the Met Office became an arm of the Ministry of Defence. But it has since transmuted into a powerful advocacy unit that sees its main mission to convince the world that we are prey to ' dangerous climate change'.

Twitter / Jay Trobec

1/2/10 Record cold South Dakota A.M.: Sioux Falls -30, Aberdeen -30, Watertown -31, Brookings -29, Sisseton -33.

Die Klimazwiebel: Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch: Projections and Predictions

The survey data suggest that the terminology used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is not adopted, or only loosely adopted, by a significant minority of scientists. Contrary to established guidelines, approximately 29% of the respondents associate probable developments with projections, and approximately 20% of the respondents associate possible developments with predictions.

Inside baseball: A few technical notes

Since a few readers have asked me "how I do this", here are some notes on the software etc that I use:

1. I do most of my work on a dual-processor Macbook Pro; my home internet connection is 12 Megabit DSL.

2.  I use Google Reader with 140+ subscriptions.  If you're curious, I've exported my subscriptions to an XML file on Dropbox here.

3. My browser is Firefox; I regularly run a number of searches of news, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, etc  (example: "cap and trade" OR "carbon tax")--maybe 14 different searches in 14 different tabs.  I also regularly check sites like Climate Depot, Celebrity Paycut, the Guardian's climate change page, etc.

4. I get a number of tips via email (if you'd like to be credited for a tip, just let me know).

5.  When I get up in the morning, I often run through all of these sources and find maybe 60 links that interest me.  I mark these with a Firefox add-on called Read It Later.

6.  I can then run through the 60 interesting links using a Firefox add-on called ScribeFire, which allows me to highlight some text, then quickly post it.  I usually add several items to a given post because Blogger limits me to 50 posts per 24 hours.

7.  Within the last year, I've picked up an iPhone, which allows me to browse my RSS subscriptions from almost anywhere, then add new links to my Read It Later list.   An iPhone app called "Reeder" is handy for this.  I've set up my Blogger account so that I can put up new posts via email.

8.  My total compensation for doing all of this is zero dollars per year.   I think the global warming hoax is a destructive, evil thing, and I'd like to contribute to its decline.

9.  If you find an interesting global warming story, please consider pointing it out by starting your own blog, submitting it as a comment, or emailing me.   Who knows--the story may percolate up to a site like Drudge, which reports over 7.8 billion (with a "B") visits in the past year.

Cold weather brings freeze warnings and potential for brush fires - St. Petersburg Times

Temperatures will be 15 to 20 degrees colder than they usually are this time of year through Monday, according to the National Weather Service. And freeze warnings are posted for most of the Tampa Bay region Saturday night. Dry air coupled with high winds have also heightened a brush fire threat.
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"We might get another shot next weekend," said [meteorologist Brian McClure]. "This is the story that just keeps going and going. It's going to be cold pretty much every single night."

I Love CO2: Carbon Bribery and Corruption

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the practice of governments trying to buy support for their failing Ration-N-Tax Scheme using tax money raised in an underhand fashion from the same people.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense” Mr Viv Forbes, said that since the “Climate Scare-a-Day” campaign of 2009 has failed to spook the people, the New Year will see acceleration of the next ploy - “carbon bribery and corruption”.

Climate change endangers our public health- Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club - Northwest Connecticut's Daily Newspaper

According to Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), global warming’s health effects are vast: injury and death from natural disasters, heat-related illness, pest and water borne diseases, malnutrition, and air and water pollution.

The Migrant Mind: Does Algae Reduce the Ice Core CO2?

1978 minus 20 is 1958. These guys are acting like Keeling, whose curve starts in 1958, was the very first person on earth to measure atmospheric CO2 content. Clearly this is wrong. And just as clearly, their derived CO2 profile differs markedly from that of the historical atmospheric measurements turned up by Beck. Look at how the ice core measurements above have no correlation with the historical atmospheric measurements. This strongly implies that something is happening down in the ice cores to change the CO2 content. So, let's look at this issue.

Mau ‘can earn Kenya Sh4bn a year in carbon [swindle] trade’

Kenya can make up to Sh10 billion per year in the international carbon trading market if water towers are conserved.

The Met Office gives us the warmist weather - Christopher Booker - Telegraph

Scientific method has gone out of the window, to support a theory that looks more questionable than ever. The whole set-up – Met Office, Hadley Centre, the CRU, the IPCC – looks hopelessly compromised. It is a state of affairs so bizarre that it cries out for political intervention. Yet our politicians, from Gordon Brown and David Cameron down, are so in thrall to this new religion that they cannot see evidence staring them in the face – that the show has gone off the rails. How many more winters and summers will it take before sanity finally breaks in to put an end to this scandal?

EU Referendum: Pachauri: How much is this man getting?

What we are seeing here though is an interesting modus vivendi - three different payments to support the chairman of the IPCC, yet each payment is made by a different organisation to a different organisation – one in the US, one in the UK and one in India. No one knows what the other is doing - except Pachauri, of course.
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With so many paymasters though, and such a multiplicity of payment routes, Pachauri's financial affairs should be raising these sort of alarm signals. This man, however, seems to be above the law.

Twitter / steve hartland

34 yrs ago @ our wedding it was 98 degrees. Today for Josh n Keisha's wdg it's 28 degrees! What does this say about global warming?

Twitter / Dr. Sarah Warren: [Are today's mudslides caused by Hummers?]

What does global warming look like? Fatal mudslide hitting resort in Brazil. Poor are hit hardest but wealth is no shield from impacts.

[But then what caused mudslides in the pre-Hummer days?]

A catastrophic mudslide buried and preserved the ancient village of Ozette in the early 1700s.

The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » Sierra Club Leader Using Public Health Camel Nose

Carl Pope is many things. But that’s for another time.

For our purposes today, he is a writer and Executive Director of the Sierra Club. He’s saying “climate change endangers our public health,” which is as specious as it is predictable.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » UK Met Office can not find heights for ten UK stations

here have been references at other blogs to sloppiness in Jones station data files. I find it staggering that in the 1500 odd station data files newly released by the UKMO, of 36 stations in the UK, there are 10 with heights missing. And this is after 20 years !!

Obama’s Climategate Moment « The Tory Aardvark's Blog

The Anthropogenic Global Warming crusade has been adopted by the left as their last chance to destroy capitalism by the back door, and as with all campaigns run by quasi commumist socialists the first step is to surpress discussion or dissent with statements like “The science is beyond dispute“. Further dissension is then shouted down, dissentors are smeared and lies spread about them.

2 Cold Shelters Open In Palm Beach County - West Palm Beach News Story

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Saturday night, wind chills are expected to drop into the 20s -- the lowest of the season, threatening the safety of some area residents.

Orlando weather forecast: Cold, cold. and cold. Red Flag Warning

We are going to see the longest stretch of cold weather, than we have seen in many years. We could be breaking record lows along the way.

Bummer summer Canada's top weather story in 2009

No matter where you lived in Canada last summer, you had something to complain about, Environment Canada's René Héroux said. It was either too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet or too stormy.
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Héroux said none of the country's extreme weather events in the past year can be blamed on climate change with any certainty.

"No one can say scientifically that these events are due to climate change, but the intensity and frequency of these events are certainly coherent with climate change theories," he said.

As Galileo was to the Catholic Church, anthropogenic climate change skeptics are to the Church of Settled Science | CLIMATEGATE

History surely repeats itself. Today, Pope Al Gore sits at the throne, holding on to the Holy Global Warming Scripture as God’s Word, not to be questioned, and mocking–along with his bishops and blind worshippers–those who clamor for science over faith.

And, again, as history repeats itself, science will eventually win. But the battle will be hard fought and bloody, and as in the days of Galileo, nothing less than freedom is at stake.

American Thinker Blog: Graph of the Day for January 2, 2010

Hoven's Index for January 2, 2010

Of the 50 US states' highest recorded temperatures through 2003, the number occurring prior to 1940: 33.

Number occurring after 1980: 10.

Instapundit » Blog Archive

DON’T THINK OF IT AS A WIDESPREAD DRINKING PROBLEM, think of it as antifreeze against global cooling.

C3: The Pathetic Responses of The Climategate Deniers: Their Consensus Lameness Indicates The Serious Problems With Climate Science

Any scientist who even attempts to defend the Climategate scientists and their gross misconduct at attempting to silence critics' science should be removed from any position of science education, research or authority. For scientists to even hint at condoning scientific fraud and conspiracy is 100% unacceptable. At a minimum at least, these Climategate deniers will have less credibility to stand on when appearing at a trial as an expert science witness, potentially hurting their wallet and their reputation. A good lawyer will make a shambles of their testimony as a witness for scientific truth.

Climategate: what do we do with a problem like Pachauri? – Telegraph Blogs

So thank God for Richard North, for my money one of the most diligent, thorough and heroic bloggers on the planet. Once he’s got his teeth into something, he just won’t let go. And currently his jaws are clamped so firmly round Pachauri’s ankles I really see no escape for the jet-setting, troll-impersonating, cricket-loving, ice-and-meat-shunning millionaire beardie unless like some grubby poacher caught in a Victorian man trap Pachauri decides to get out his penknife and hack both his own legs off.

[Two months ago today: Al Gore once again shows off his incredibly crappy crystal ball]

Gore: I am more optimistic. I do not think that we will have the final enactment of the Conference Committee Report in Congress before Copenhagen. But if President Obama is able to go to Copenhagen having passed legislation in the House and having passed it in the Senate, it will be inevitable that the legislation comes out even if the Conference Committee is still pending.

SPIEGEL: What are your expectations for Copenhagen ?

Gore: I think it is realistic to expect a treaty. It will not be as strong as I would like it to be. But it will put a price on carbon and change the forward planning of businesses and cities and states, provinces and nations.

Preventing warm weather the Evan Kopelson way

1. Leave luxurious living quarters and move into a tiny yoga pod
2. Watch as a fossil-fueled van delivers a $100 check to help defray your fossil-fueled Los Angeles to Copenhagen flight
3. Fly to freezing Copenhagen, where UN incompetence leaves you shut out of the climate swindle talks

Evan Kopelson: Setting out on ‘The Sustainability Journey’

I just crossed a threshold in my journey to sustainability. About 2 weeks ago, I took a leap of faith — or was it madness? I sometimes wonder — and gave up everything “luxury” I’ve ever owned, from my grand piano and all my recording gear, to my big furniture – couches, beds, desks, tables, lamps, kitchen appliances, everything – and left my home of 12 years, a massive 3 bedroom apartment on the beach featuring expansive spaces, enormous windows with lots of natural light all day, a roof deck where you can see from the ocean to the Hollywood sign and beyond, with 360-degree fireworks every July 4th, and an elevator opening from my private 3-car garage right into my unit. I gave all that up 2 weeks ago and moved into a “pod” the size of my former walk-in closet, made from reclaimed materials and located in the backyard of a communal living experiment called Yoga House with seven other people.

[Taking a fossil-fueled trip from Los Angeles to Copenhagen]

How sustainable is it to fly by airplane to Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations conference on climate change?
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Yesterday, I received a completely unexpected Fedex package with a $100 check from an old friend from college. He asked to be kept anonymous, but said it was inspiring what I’ve been accomplishing by setting out on these so-called “impossible dreams” and he wanted to help me get to Copenhagen.

My dear friend Laura saw my video on Facebook and said to count her in for $100.

Including my own $100, I’m $300 closer…but about $1,700 away, with taxes, fees and ground transport while in Copenhagen. That doesn’t even count accommodation...

The Sustainability Journey: On Flying to Copenhagen

Smart Planet was kind enough to furnish me with the letter of assignment I would need to gain press accreditation by the UNFCCC for a media pass into COP15. Unfortunately, I was shut out of the media accreditation process along with 10,000 other journalists.

Science is Hard: Realist vs Believer in the comment section here

A skeptic should question, but one doesn’t want to become a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, a crazy anti-vaccine person, or the kind of moron who denies global warming (caution: clicking any of the three previous links could actually cause you to become dumber). So, how does a skeptic learn enough about a scientific issue to figure out whether or not to believe something?

Twitter / Charles Wesley

Phoenix, 46 -- Miami Beach, 51..and Tampa, 40. Evidence of "Globabble" if I ever saw it. Al Gore, you dont know what you're talking about!

Train fares have gone off the rails | Cat Hobbs | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Fares keep rising because the government is cutting its contribution to the railways and making passengers pay more instead. Fares will account for 75% of the cost of running the railways by 2014, up from 50% in 2007.

[Why can't I find the words "climate" or "warming" in this article?]: In the next decade, I hope to become more radical | Costas Douzinas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The left is the main hope against xenophobic, securitised, apocalyptic barbarism. We should expect radical change

The Greatest Story [Allegedly] Rarely Told - Dot Earth Blog - [Alarmist Revkin] NYTimes.com

[Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University] The complete lack of any significant coverage in the U.S. media of environmental issues in general, and global warming in particular, is not surprising.

By the way, it's 2010: Why aren't Watts Up With That and Climate Depot listed in Revkin's "blogroll"?

Update: Revkin is, however, linking to Marc Morano's tweets in his "Copenhagen Climate Conference on Twitter" section at the link above!

The purple scorpion: Global warming tosh and dosh

It's tedious to lay the Met Office's failings out on a slab for inspection, but it's necessary, since their ropey forecasts are an important part of global warming alarmism. They predict global warming on the basis of concealed temperature data, using computer models based on incomplete scientific theories of the climate which prove poor at predicting the future. On that basis, these social modellers who can't even do weather forecasts tell everyone in the world to become poorer. So they deserve to be attacked and ridiculed.

Witterings From Witney: The Cost Of Climate Change

Richard North, EU Referendum, provides another link to data on Climate Change and a link to Defra randd which list programmes and costs.

There are 11 pages of programmes and having only totalled the first two pages, this comes to the staggering figure of £154,170,696.

It is worth noting that this site has not been updated since 30th September 2004, so God alone knows what the cost of all this 'scammery' has now reached.

EU Referendum: The waste we are funding

...This is part of an international effort which has the taxpayer funding German teenagers (pictured top left) to wave "climate justice" banners outside the Bella Centre in Copenhagen, with more teenage activists inside (above) - the British Council all while keeping up its flow of propaganda on its blog, offering us such delights as: "Dr Pachauri has been phenomenal in his role at IPCC and the fourth assessment report of IPCC is the basis for all scientific information on climate change."

Is this really what we pay our taxes for?

Now, with £10 million more of hard-pressed British taxpayers' money about to flow into the coffers of an organisation owned by a multi-millionaire businessman by the name of Dr R K Pachauri, it would be highly germane to question whether David Cameron has all his marbles in place, wanting to protect this funding stream.

Wolf Howling: Dr. North's One Man Crusade To Expose Corruption

The man above, appropriately attired in the Chairman Mao outfit, is Rajendra Pachauri. Whether you realize it or not, he is of immense importance to you. He is rich. He is immensely powerful. He has financial interests hidden under a hundred different rocks. And if he gets his way, he will be stealing money out of your pocket and significantly lessening your quality of life. Remember that as you read this post.
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That Pachauri heads the UN's IPCC while having a vast conflict of interest is pure corruption. And the bottom line is that until people like Pachauri are exposed and made to step down, if not locked down (which would be appropriate, since we are talking about theft that would make Bernie Madoff look like a mere pick pocket), then the science of AGW will always remain politicized and there is little chance of stopping this world record scam from reaching into our pockets.

Remains of Antarctica's first plane found - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The aircraft was built eight years after the first flight of the Wright brothers in 1911 and has been buried in ice since around 1975.
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"Our carpenter was just taking a walk along the beach and just saw the metal in 10 centimetres of water, just right next to the ice."

Dr Stewart says the remains have been under their feet the whole.

"The ice melts back very quickly, it's on the edge of a harbour which is covered in sea ice most of the year and then as summer comes the edge of the ice gradually pulls off in huge chunks," he said.

Dip of the icebergers as men of the Antarctic brave pool party

While it proved a successful day for the flying teams, at sea it was a different story, with the ice-breaker Aurora Australis waylaid by pack ice 140 kilometres from Casey on the way to Davis Station. The ship became stranded the night before, and was by yesterday afternoon making painstaking headway after a plane was sent from Casey to survey the ice and help the captain plot a course through the closing pack.

Heavy fog causes 2 train accidents in northern India, leaving 10 dead and 47 injured - 1/2/2010 4:42:24 AM | Newser

Fog, which is a usual winter occurrence across northern India, has disrupted railway schedules across Uttar Pradesh, Srivastava said.

Weather and Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan: An Unforgiving Period of Winter Settling into the Lower 48

Yes, it will grow colder I think before it grows warmer for the Upper Midwest, I do see subzero highs for Minneapolis and teens below zero for portions of eastern North Dakota and western, northwestern Minnesota. Tonight it's likely to bottom out around 16 to 18 below in the Twin Cities whilst lows close to 40 below may be found up along the Canadian border at International Falls and Fort Frances, Ontario.Portions of northwest Iowa where it's already 26 below at Sioux Falls, we may see a couple lows in that area of the state drop under 30 below.

Hysterical stuff from the Times Online (JPG):

[100 years from now:  The sea is an acidic soup.  Coral reefs are dead. Wildfires rage every summer in the forests that remain in Europe.] 

Strange Geoglyphs Discovered Beneath Clearcut Amazon : TreeHugger

Ranzi seems open to other possibilities:

Was it really forest [when the drawings were built] or did they occupy this area at a time of climate crisis, like that of 2005?

Global warming in the excluded middle.

If man ended his contribution of CO2, or all contributions of greenhouse gases, completely, the causes of climate change are still multifarious and not completely known or understood; and, if the absence of man’s contribution slowed global warming, it is unlikely to stop it. Man is not smart enough to stop global warming, and the unintended consequences can’t be known if man could stop global warming. It seems shortsighted to argue over whether or not man caused global warming and how man can stop it. The issue might be how to live with the changes global warming will bring about. It seems an unequivocal fact that man can’t stabilize the climate. The thought that we could would be tragic hubris. There may be more Earthly physical changes for which humans should be preparing.

Matters to Contemplate: Is planet doomed by a 'Climate Crisis?' Scientists disagree | rgj.com | The Reno Gazette-Journal

No rational business would shut down productive assets before more productive ones are available, but that's what is being proposed. Shutting down coal, which produces almost 50 percent of our electricity, without equally productive sources in place makes no economic sense."

How it all ends: Global warming fades into the background

[Note no mention whatsoever of the global warming hoax]: - BBC correspondents look ahead to the big events of 2010

As the new year dawns, five BBC correspondents share their predictions for 2010 with Stephen Sackur, for BBC Radio's Correspondents Look Ahead.

Weekly Address Watch: For the twenty-third time in twenty-five weeks, The First Green President ignores global warming

US Pattern: Major Winter Storms and Brutal Cold to start 2010

Lows tonight may fall towards 15 below zero for Minneapolis and near zero for Chicago whilst northern Minnesota and North Dakota may see lows drop to 30 below in places like Grand Forks and International Falls. Wind chills will fall into the 35 to 45 below range as winds blow hard out of the NW.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Rush Limbaugh fit as fiddle: http://j.mp/RushHeart Docs say no heart disease, but that's not surprising. Wouldn't it require a heart?

Stolen climate correspondence and global warming « The Berkeley Blog

I do not “believe” in global warming, I accept it based on the evidence. I will accept it no longer when evidence shows it is not happening, but I will not reject it based on skeptics pounding on old emails, books or editorials using selective evidence, or just rhetoric, especially when they reveal predilections about saving the economy. If they really want to do that, then they must look at all the evidence impartially and assess it appropriately without bias of their own backers or opinions, before they decide what to do. That is what scientists try to do, within the usual failings and weaknesses of human frailty.

Heliogenic Climate Change: It was deleted, it came back, now it's deleted again

EU Referendum: Pachauri: TERI-Europe – the enigma (Part 3)

Al Capone was never prosecuted for his major league crimes – to get him jail the Feds did him for tax evasion. Much the same thinking is behind the pursuit of Pachauri's outpost of empire, TERI-Europe.

Located in London, this is the one part of his empire which comes under UK jurisdiction, where the Charities and Companies Acts apply, in a situation where there is a very strong smell of malpractice – to put it mildly.

A more pointed assessment might veer towards the supposition that this is a "front" organisation, its primary purpose being to launder a substantial flow of funds to other recipients, with minimum scrutiny and accountability.

Roger L. Simon » 2010: A Year of Living Dangerously?

...These thoughts started coming to me on my return from my recent trip to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Conference. One thing was clear from that event. Few were interested in climate science or the veracity of the link between CO2 and global warming, but many were interested in money and control to be gained from them. Very interested.

Climate change key is environmental stability | David A. Bahr | Bemidji, Minnesota

As an ardent activist in the crusade to curb human contributions to global climate change, I want to thank the Pioneer for its objective reporting in the Dec. 16 stories regarding climate change. The article “Professor urges objectivity…” was careful to mention my involvement in environmental sustainability efforts, including efforts to reduce human emissions of greenhouse gases associated with global climate change. I am convinced that human activities contribute strongly to global climate change, whether or not they are the “primary driver,” and I believe it is imperative that we minimize those human contributions.

Twitter / steve day

Say what you like about the Copenhagen Summit, but it's seen off global warming in double quick time.

Even the New York Times now openly mocking global warming, comparing it to Y2K and other mass hysteria phenomena (a.k.a. Algoreophobia)

Last one out of the global warming panic room, please turn out the lights.

That means you, Al.

Pope [promotes climate hoax]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict used his traditional New Year address on Friday to call on people to change their lifestyles to save the planet, saying environmental responsibility was essential for global peace.

Recalling that world leaders had gathered in Copenhagen last month for the U.N. climate conference, the pope said action at a personal and community level was just as important to safeguard the environment.
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The pope, who had a scare last week when a woman with a history of mental problems knocked him down during Christmas Eve mass, also said "ecological responsibility" should be taught as part of the education syllabus.

I Love CO2: The environmentalists attack schools - Indoctrination alert

Here is my fifth grade daughter's experience with the global warming propaganda apparatus, Canadian edition.

Poor Joe gets no respect: Romm's Co2 driven drought claims slapped down by former NYT reporter Revkin | Climate Depot

Former New York Times Reporter Andrew Revkin tweet on Jan. 1 2009:

Revkin: "Joe R(omm) still sees Aussie's Big Dry (drought) as co2-driven event http://j.mp/co2panic Not what climate scientists see: http://j.mp/AusDry"

NC Media Watch: Drought is not increasing in the U.S.

Regardless of the drum beat from Al Gore and the Governor of California drought in the US is not increasing, or accelerating. It is declining across the nation and in California this year the drought is only moderate.

Hundreds of cars torched in France at New Year | Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year's Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday.

Fast pace of glacier melt in the 1940s: lower aerosol pollution

ScienceDaily (Jan. 1, 2010) — The most recent studies by researchers at ETH Zurich show that in the 1940s Swiss glaciers were melting at an even-faster pace than at present. This is despite the fact that the temperatures in the 20th century were lower than in this century.

Its a Wrap: The Most Underreported Stories of 2009 - Big Government

[#1] Then … there was Climategate. Russian hackers revealed emails from a British university (whose edicts on global warming are included in the U.N.’s decision-making process on climate) which showed that the scientists basically had no idea what they hell they were talking about but they did know that their original assessment of increased global temperatures was unsupported by data, thus, “hide the decline.”

Tom Harris: Climate conference organizers asked for trouble in Copenhagen

...Held at Copenhagen’s cavernous Forum, with four 20 foot screens suspended from the ceiling and fed live from the Bella Center, it promised to be a massive event with thousands of concerned activists anxiously awaiting the latest updates from world leaders engaged in saving the planet.

However, by then it was too late and NGOs had either arranged their own side events, renting other facilities in the city, hit the streets to help fuel the protest marches or left the city in disgust for parts unknown. The massive hall stood essentially empty by Thursday evening with only 30 die hard campaigners watching the first word leaders‘ speeches. Friday afternoon, when negotiations inside the Bella Center were most intense, only about 100 of the thousands of NGO reps even bothered to show up at the event arranged by the Danish Foreign Ministry.

Copenhagen has the markings of being the last really big hurrah for massive UN-backed climate change conferences. Let’s hope so. Having totally failed politically and logistically, and thoroughly alienating everyone involved in this exorbitantly expensive process, Copenhagen should stand as a symbol of all that has gone wrong with the climate change movement. Originally well intentioned, though often misguided, climatism, as it is now being labeled, has largely morphed into an ungainly politically motivated machine that is more about money that it is about saving the environment. With its blind adherence to dogmatic beliefs that simply do not match observational evidence, it is time real environmentalists abandoned this horse and got back to the basics – land, air and water pollution, issues we know we can handle properly with sufficient public interest and good will.

Die Klimazwiebel: 2010: Copenhagen in retrospect.

In a session in Copenhagen, Schellnhuber made a spectacular contribution. If global temperature will rise 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today, Earth's population will be devastated:
'In a very cynical way, it's a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something - namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people.'

Camp for Climate Action: From the climate detainees. | Facebook

Climate change is an extreme and ultimate expression of the violence of the capitalistic growth paradigm.

Record cold weather roundup – hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the last week « Watts Up With That?

Here’s the roundup of cold and snow records for the past 7 days. While there is a handful of new high temp records, it is clear where the bulk of the statistics is. Note the new record lows in Florida.

Power Line - It Didn't Start With Climategate

The whistleblower at the University of East Anglia who leaked emails and other documents that reveal the fraud that is being perpetrated by the world's leading global warming alarmists did us all a great service. But it is important to realize that the deception didn't just begin: rather, the global warming hysteria movement has been shot through with fraud from the start.
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So the Kyoto protocol was based on fictitious science, exaggerated or fabricated outright for political purposes. The same Professor Santer who hijacked the Second Assessment Report figures prominently in Climategate. Many of his emails were disclosed by the East Anglia whistleblower; among other things, they show Santer resisting all efforts by independent scientists to obtain information, through Freedom of Information Act requests, about the statistical manipulations that Santer applies to raw climate data to "prove" the existence of anthropogenic global warming.

Fraud: it is the one constant in the history of the global warming hysteria movement.

The 2013 IPCC report: more bias to come, especially about clouds | The SPPI Blog

It is time to disband the IPCC, as my noble friend Lord Lawson has long advocated. The IPCC simply will not look fairly and properly even at the most compelling evidence if it runs counter to its preconceived position. It also excludes researchers whose views it dislikes: I was prevented from attending the scoping meeting in Hawaii last year that drew up the first outline of the chapter structure, even though the process was supposed to be open and transparent. A rude and peremptory email from the organizer of the meeting made it quite plain that I would not be admitted.

Local News | Outgoing Mayor Greg Nickels leaves stamp on Seattle | Seattle Times Newspaper

As Seattle mayor, Greg Nickels became more popular away from the city than in it. He was named president of the U.S. Council of Mayors and gained a national reputation as an environmental leader. Locally, though, he came to be seen by some as a bully who alienated the neighborhoods and angered members of the City Council.
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Voters were already in a bad mood when a brutal snowstorm buried Seattle two weeks before Christmas 2008. Unplowed, icy and rutted streets paralyzed the city during the important shopping season.

Nickels refused to use salt and outfitted snowplows with rubber blades. At a post-storm news conference, he gave the city a "B" for its performance.

The city's snowstorm response seemed to epitomize voters' sense that the mayor was out of touch.

Woman dies in bus shelter - Canada - Canoe.ca

The pair wasn't homeless, she said.

Such deaths are a harsh reality for Winnipeg's vulnerable residents, who become even more vulnerable when the mercury dips, said Len Perry of Siloam Mission.

Plowing of city sidewalks disabled's wish for 2010  | London Free Press

Well, here it is my third winter in a wheelchair, and as I watch the snow falling and wind whipping around my apartment building, I wonder if this is going to be the year the City of London finally remembers its citizens in wheelchairs, who are stranded in their homes from the first major snowfall until the ice and snow melt on the streets and sidewalks which are never or seldom cleared.

Climate Physics: Some realist videos

Britain facing one of the coldest winters in 100 years, experts predict - Telegraph

Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.

EU Referendum: What more can you say?

When you get stories like this and then look at that they've spent on their obsession, homicide comes to mind.

Sooner, rather than later, there has to be a reckoning.

[Why can't I find any mention of global warming here?]: Gore 2000: Gore as President - An Alternate History - Newsweek 2010

AGU journal highlights -- Dec. 31, 2009 | Science Blog

7. Major Australian droughts traced to different causes

Southeastern Australia has been subject to several severe, long-term droughts during the past century, including the "Federation" drought (1895-1900), the "World War II" drought (1937-1945), and the "Big Dry" (1997 to present). All three droughts were widespread and devastating, but until now the causes and nature of these three droughts had not been compared.

Dr. Tim Ball: Control of Climate Policies by Unaccountable Bureaucracies; The Canadian Example

CanadaFreePress published some of this article a few years ago but few saw it because it was quickly pulled after I received a legal threat I was financially unable to fight. Legal threats to silence people are a common practice of supporters of human caused global warming. I related my experience to Dr Fred Singer and he immediately named the lawyer. How did he know? He and others had received threats from the same lawyer.

The threats are part of personal attacks and other tactics perpetrated by nasty web sites like Desmogblog, organized by James Hoggan, Chairman of the Board of the David Suzuki Foundation. William Connolley perpetuated many of the smears through his control of climate entries on Wikipedia. We now know those who were attacked were viewed as real threats by the CRU gang and their supporters at Realclimate.

Now the web of lies and deception associated with climate science are exposed it is time to revisit what triggered the legal attack on the CFP article.

YouTube - Al Gore Weighs In On Climate Gate (2) (CLIMATE CHANGE SERIES/ The Politics Of Hot Air)

This series has been uploaded following a request and information received that it was not easily available.

YouTube - Al Gore Weighs In On Climate Gate (1) (CLIMATE CHANGE SERIES/ The Politics Of Hot Air)

Road closures across Scotland as bad weather continues | Scotland | STV News

A number of roads across Scotland have closed from adverse weather as the country continues to experience a record cold snap.

The Carbon Sense Coalition » South Pacific Sea Level Changes

[Vincent R Gray] “The individual sea level records obtained from the SEAFRAME study on 12 Pacific Islands have all been assessed by the anonymous authors of the official reports as indicating positive trends in sea level over all 12 Pacific Islands involved since the study began in 1993. This assessment studies individual records and finds that all of them show no change of sea level in almost all of the records following the 1998 cyclones. It is considered that cyclones and tsunamis not only induce false readings which should be ignored when calculating a trend, but they also disrupt the leveling of the equipment so that previous years’ figures should also not form part of a trend.”

The Reference Frame: NYT op-ed about Y2K, AGW, and other cataclysmic prophesies

The Y2K problem fits into a long sequence of stories spread by the people who are simply fascinated with the global cataclysm: Nostradamus, asteroids, aliens, weapons of mass destruction, bird flu, swine flu, you name it. Today, the loudest one is global warming. The hysteria in the media exceeds that of the Y2K problem by one or two orders of magnitude. So one shouldn't be shocked that instead of 300 billion dollars, people are expected to spend proportionally more money, namely trillions or tens of trillions of dollars.

The Greenroom » Forum Archive » In Theory, It Ought to Be a Theory, But…

Ergo, AGCC is not a scientific theory. At best, it could be an interesting hypothesis for future scientific study.

Does December weather look like global warming? | CapeCodOnline.com

The absurdity of suggesting that the United States give monies to developing countries while we're on the verge of bankruptcy is just plain insanity. It's a communist/socialist idea that has never worked, and never will.History tells us that Leif Ericson found Greenland in 1005. He not only found it green but found grapes there. Obviously, this was long before the Industrial Revolution. Since man didn't cause it ... maybe a power far greater?

Chris Mooney with a New Year's resolution for practicing scientists: engage more with the public and the media : Abel Pharmboy

I agree to some extent but, in this particular case, I don't think that any concerted effort by scientific communicators could have overcome the bleating by Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck that took one or two statements out of context from among 1,073 e-mails and a million words, claiming proof of a massive global scientific conspiracy to manufacture climate change warnings.

The problem is that when one's statements are not bound by facts, you can pretty much say whatever you want; that will be the first thing uncritical sycophants hear and remember.

Terra Sigillata : About

Abel Pharmboy is a pseudonymous, independent PhD researcher/educator trained in pharmacology and toxicology, hoping to be a voice of reason and skepticism, but equally open-minded about conventional and folkloric therapeutic agents. I take prescription drugs, I take certain herbal products, I've interned in a pharmaceutical company, I've worked in a university, I've been awarded tenure, I've relinquished tenure...you get the picture. Readers will be the judges of whether I'm objective.

Record low blows into Siouxland

The forecast pointed to an overnight low of 22 degrees below zero, and the record low for Jan. 2 is minus 16, achieved twice, in 1942 and 1911. The high temperature Friday of 7 degrees was reached just before noon, and by 7 p.m. the temperature had already fallen to 7 below.
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The Dec. 8-9 and Dec. 23-26 snow blasts left a combined 29 inches of snow on the ground, which some county and city crews are still working to push off streets and roads.

As a point of comparison, ponder the record high for the day -- 59 degrees, reached six years ago in 2004.

Liverpool pensioners face cold weather death risk, claim Tories

MERSEYSIDE is facing an upsurge of cold weather deaths amongst pensioners.

Figures obtained by the Tories show that the North West’s “winter kill” rose from 3,210 in 2007-08 to 5,000 last year.

And the current severe weather and rising fuel poverty rates suggests that the three-month death toll over the current season will be higher than that.

[From Obama's hometown]: Man's Death Is Fourth Related To Cold This Winter - cbs2chicago.com

CHICAGO (AP) ― A man whose body was found in a park on Chicago's South Side is Cook County's fourth confirmed cold-related death.

OpEdNews - Article: Will Americans Reclaim Our Nation in 2010 From the Thugs and Con Artists?

Top scientists, economists and environmentalists all say that cap and trade is a scam which won't significantly reduce C02 emissions, and will only help in making the financial players who crashed the economy even more wealthy.

Will we defeat this worthless scam, or allow the failed banks like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citigroup - who have already taken many billions of taxpayer dollars - to make a fortune off of this con game at our expense?

State and local officials urge people to get ready for major cold snap | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat

A series of hard freezes is on the way, and low temperatures will begin dipping into the teens starting Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.

Rep. Ed Markey, Dec 9, '09: Palin: Birthing Global Warming Denial

Unable to win the climate debate based on facts, science or economics, Palin joins other Republican opponents in attempting to manufacture a scandal by seizing on stolen private emails from University of East Anglia in the UK.
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But had the Hoaxers performed a simple Google search on the topic being debated in the emails, they would have discovered that the scientific data set was openly discussed and debated in academic journals available to the public for years. (journals including Nature and Geophysical Research Letters).
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Perhaps the most telling aspect of Ms. Palin and the Republicans' attack, however, is the company they keep in this manufactured debate. Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia, desperate to keep Americans buying their oil, trumpeted the stolen climate emails in an attempt to kill a deal at Copenhagen that would reduce the world's demand for their only export.

Who else is standing with them? Like the scene in Casablanca, "round up the usual suspects." The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which regularly sued in support of the tobacco companies, is recycling their "hide the cancer" campaign by announcing a lawsuit against the EPA for finding that global warming is a danger to our health and environment. That's right, the deniers for hire that worked for the smoking industry are now sharing their tobacco playbook with climate opponents.

Cold weather continues to cause major disruption - The Irish Times - Sat, Jan 02, 2010

A Dublin Airport Authority spokeswoman said the airport had suffered heavy snow in four separate showers on new year’s night. Maintenance crews cleaning the runway and apron had successfully dealt with the first three showers but the fourth proved “very challenging” and it was not safe to open the airport until 10.30am.

“This level of snowfall wasn’t expected. The snow was falling quicker than we could clear it,” she said, adding that the airport was geared up “appropriately” for the amount of snow that could be expected in any given year. “There’s no point in investing millions in equipment that airlines wouldn’t pay for and we would hardly ever use.”

Wind turbine debate swirls - The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA

"We're living in the middle of a land wind factory. It's not a farm. It's industrialization. It's the industrialization of rural Ontario to help the urban centres offset their pollution."

Southerners Can Expect More Episodes of Snow, Cold and Freezes

The weather pattern evolving over North America is becoming ripe for cold and snow, deep into the South for January.

Fire wrecks greenhouse in Forest of Dean | news | This is Gloucestershire

He will lose all 250,000 of the tender young plants – worth about £1 million – to overnight frost.

Video: Burt Rutan on Global Warming « the Air Vent

Mr. Rutan shows he’s done his homework and basically rails against the manipulation of data, false conclusions and takes several shots against consensus argument

Twitter / paul andrews: Man made global warming my ...

Man made global warming my foot. I have had to scrape the ice off my wind screen every morning for the last 3 weeks now.

Climate change [hoax] is inspiring the ultimate scary movies | Ryan Gilbey | Comment is free | The Guardian

This is why global warming is, to use a non-secular term, such a godsend for movie narratives. With the divine retribution angle now an anachronism, and international terrorism making Airport-style plots too near the knuckle, climate change as a plot device provides the right blend of terrible plausibility, comforting distance and chastening subtext. We know global warming is under way – well, most do – and yet the phenomenon is gradual enough to rule out any risk of reality stealing a march on fiction.

How theology can help save the world from climate change

According to her reading of the Book of Revelation, "God is mourning on behalf of the earth rather than cursing it". The famous plagues are not predictions, but threats and warnings, wake-up calls, projections in the future of the logical consequences of human actions if their course remains unchanged.

CapitalClimate: DC Super Saturday "Blizzard" Accompanied Coldest December . . . Since 2005

The December 2009 average temperature of 37.9° was all of 1.6° below the long-term average. This made it the coldest December in the Nation's Capital since it was 36.4° in 2005. The month was one of five Decembers of the decade to be colder than average, but well above the 31.8° in 2000. For the decade overall, December averaged just 0.07° below normal.

Once in a generation cold snap forecast for NC | WNCT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Forecasters say the coldest stretch of weather in years if not decades could be heading for North Carolina.

NC Media Watch: Feds may have to consider climate before they act - economic consequences?

Here is the operative phrase. "The move could open up new avenues to challenge projects."

Kiss your a$ good by if your are in the construction or timber business. This will open the door for all the environmental wackos to stop any project they do not like. Every device that uses energy produces CO2, which is alleged cause global warming. One of the major elements of the economic stimulus package was infrastructure projects, like highways and bridges. Slowing these projects will slow the economic recovery. Do the Obamaites know what they are doing?

Al Fin: Prepping for the Coming Ice Age

So, how would you prepare for an ice age, anyway? Ice sheets have been known to grow miles thick. How does one live, stay warm, grow food, maintain transportation networks, and provide schools, health care, power, sanitation, and other essential services when the land is covered with ice 1 mile thick?

Why the oil & gas industry manipulates global warming news

The Migrant Mind: How Synthetic is the Keeling curve?

At the very least, the IPCC should explain specifically why it is rejecting all these historical measurments of CO2. As it is, they act as if these measurements don't exist.

Alert after icy spell sparks spike in hospital visits (From Bournemouth Echo)

Poole Hospital saw a whopping 110 per cent rise in trauma admissions over Christ-mas week 2009 compared to 2008– up from 55 to 116. Most cases were broken wrists, ankles and head injuries – typical of falls on ice.

Climate Change 101: I can see Canada from my California spa!

Aside from all that, I have to admit that I was genuinely gleeful when I started to see the slope of global warming temperature charts slowly take a downturn. I was amused that the “global warming” hysterics had to make a rhetorical transition to the revised threat of “climate change” as the newest scourge of mankind. And I was relieved that the trek of the climate hysterics to the Mount Olympus of Copenhagen was an abject failure. For the moment, it looks like Mother Nature is teaching a lesson and some politicians are suffering a rude awakening. The climate for sanity is good.

Boozy Brits defy chill in 2010 | The Sun |News

Wasted ... girl lies face down in snow in Newcastle

Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US capital paid prison inmates to shovel sidewalks, crosswalks and bus stops after the biggest December blizzard in the city's history, the Department of Corrections said Thursday.

FOXNews.com - Reality Check: Obama Expected to Lower Sights in 2010

Republicans said they expect issues like a cap-and-trade climate bill and immigration reform to fall off the radar in 2010.

"I think ... the Democrats are not going to have an appetite again for a big-ticket item when there's such dysfunctionality within their own ranks," said Brad Blakeman, former adviser to President Bush.

On issues like global warming and evolution, scientists need to speak up - Alarmist Chris Mooney - washingtonpost.com

The central lesson of Climategate is not that climate science is corrupt. The leaked e-mails do nothing to disprove the scientific consensus on global warming. Instead, the controversy highlights that in a world of blogs, cable news and talk radio, scientists are poorly equipped to communicate their knowledge and, especially, to respond when science comes under attack.

“Sent loads of station data to Scott” « Climate Audit

I guess that it didn’t occur to Nature or to Gavin Schmidt that confidentiality agreements also apply to masters of the universe. If the data is as confidential as Nature and Realclimate say, then the distribution of confidential data to associates and other third parties in breach of the confidentiality agreements may warrant just as much attention as Jones’ effort to obstruct FOI requests.

Britain's big freeze threatens chaos for millions returning after Christmas break | Climate Realists

A cold snap has gripped Britain since mid-December making it the coldest for 13 years and in the past week seven people have lost their lives because of the dangerous conditions.

Why Ecological Revolution? - Monthly Review

Due to this acceleration of climate change, the time line in which to act before calamities hit, and before climate change increasingly escapes our control, is extremely short.

Twitter / Kevin Vaughn

Please note that this morning's global warming protest march has been cancelled due to icy conditions in H.R. http://myloc.me/2xbZC

Climate Observations: The Warming Of The World Oceans (0-700 Meters) In Degrees C

This equals a trend of approximately 0.042 Deg C/Decade or less than a half degree per century for the upper 700 meters.

The NY Times starts 2010 pushing the same damn disinformation about climate science it did in 2009 « Climate Progress

I don’t expect The New York Times to be an advocate of climate change energy policy but at a minimum it would be nice to get from the paper a greater understanding of climate science and the catastrophic risks facing me and my family.

Instead, on this 2010 New Years Day morning, the paper is a mule, smuggling counterfeit information into our homes.

Ken Levenson

In case you missed it: MIT ClimateGate Debate Video, Dec 10, 2009

[2 hours long.  If your time is limited, skip to the 8 min mark and watch a revealing 10-minute segment where alarmist scientist Kerry
Emanuel gives his perspective, followed by climate realist Dick Lindzen]

83 months and counting… | 100 months to save the world | Andrew Simms | guardian.co.uk

Now, with just 83 months to go before it is no longer "likely", to use the IPCC definition of climate change risk, that we will stay below the critical 2 degree temperature rise, our options are limited.

Is there any evidence? « JoNova

The all important question that rises above and before ALL other questions is the one of evidence.

Is there any evidence that carbon dioxide causes major warming?

Bay City power plant crippled by false global warming information | Bay City Opinion - - MLive.com

The U.S. government is not telling us the truth on the condition of our atmosphere, as the government will tax us for consuming fossil fuel products, this trillion dollar tax will be used for government funds thus ensuring their power. Our ecosystem is much like it was in the 1800s when we burned everything you could imagine. We need the electrical energy, generated by coal, for industry in northeastern Michigan. Vote smart.

The coming climate panic? « Climate Progress

Thus the conservatives who oppose strong GHG reductions — who say humanity’s best strategy is just to try to adapt to climate change — are best labeled “big government conservatives.” Adaptatation requires very, very big government — incomprehensibly bigger and more expensive government than prevention does

Boffins may be illegal | The Australian

THE Climategate scandal continues to unfold. The thousands of emails leaked to the internet from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reveal a tight-knit, influential group of scientists whose attitude to their profession is, to say the least, distorted.

It seems that a religious belief in disastrous climate change has destroyed their common sense and their appreciation of what is the appropriate way to carry out research.

Climategate may at least demonstrate that the concept of a scientific consensus with regard to global warming is nonsense.
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Garth Paltridge is an atmospheric physicist and former chief research scientist with the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research. His book The Climate Caper is published by Connor Court.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Well isn't that special!

"[O]ne family in the United Kingdom is being praised and held up as an example for the rest of the country and world to follow.
...Studies have shown that a large percentage of the trash that gets put in landfills comes from some type of packaging. The Strauss’ managed to cut theirs down by doing things like bringing their own reusable packaging to the butcher.

Flashback: Climate Change Guru James Hansen [suggests that eating meat causes bad weather]

"There are many things that people can do to reduce their carbon emissions, but changing your light bulb and many of the things are much less effective than changing your diet, because if you eat further down on the food chain rather than animals, which have produced many greenhouse gases, and used much energy in the process of growing that meat, you can actually make a bigger contribution in that way than just about anything. So, that, in terms of individual action, is perhaps the best thing you can do."

[Denis Dutton on Y2K hysteria]: It’s Always the End of the World as We Know It - NYTimes.com

...turning practical problems into cosmic cataclysms takes us further away from actual solutions.

This applies, in my view, to the towering seas, storms, droughts and mass extinctions of popular climate catastrophism. Such entertaining visions owe less to scientific climatology than to eschatology, and that familiar sense that modernity and its wasteful comforts are bringing us closer to a biblical day of judgment. As that headline put it for Y2K, predictions of the end of the world are often intertwined with condemnations of human “folly, greed and denial.” Repent and recycle!

Recent global cool-down challenges validity of climate change models

As the Chicago Tribune reported, “There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That’s by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.”

[Brainwashed kid promotes scientific fraud]: Alec Vs. Global Warming: Brower Youth Awards | Free Speech TV

Alec Loorz was inspired by Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" to become an educator on the issue of climate change.

BBC News - [Brainwashed Bishop suggests that speeding will cause bad weather]

The Bishop of Reading has made a new year's appeal for people to live "more sustainably" in 2010 in a bid to tackle climate change.

The Right Rev Stephen Cottrell said that it was up to everyone to take notice as part of the future survival of the human race.

Dr Cottrell said simple steps could be taken to reduce carbon emissions - even just keeping to the speed limit.

Runaway Global Warming - Has Arrived pt 2 : Environment - Page 73

Is it possible for anyone to discern from this particular graph of ice core temperature data where anything remotely resembling something the earth hasn't seen, and recovered from, before, is actually happening?

Sure looks to me like prior "runaway warming" was alot worse in terms of temperature than anything seen to date without some horrendous extrapolation which certainly is not in evidence.

Climate crisis will be the challenge of new decade - The Irish Times - Thu, Dec 31, 2009

OPINION: What will the decade ahead hold for the environment? Mankind has yet to meet the stark challenges posed by global warming, which will not go away
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However unwittingly, we are the root of the problem, and therefore the solution. If an army were massing on our borders, if an asteroid were hurtling towards Earth, no one would question the need to act. But as we set fire to the only home humanity has ever known, we struggle to perceive the threat and have so far failed to act decisively.

Heavy snowfalls causing major traffic disruption - The Irish Times - Fri, Jan 01, 2010

Heavy snowfalls that left much of Ireland covered in a white blanket this morning have caused major traffic disruption.
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Widespread severe or very severe ground frost will set in tonight, with temperatures expected to range between -3 and -9 degrees Celsius.

Perthshire people to get first cold weather payments - Perthshire Advertiser

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy said: “These payments make a real difference to people’s lives.

“Last year we trebled the amount paid out under the Cold Weather Payment from £8.50 to £25 and, in 2008/09, we paid out just over £20 million across the UK.

“We don’t want to see people shivering in their homes at the coldest time of year and this payment is part of our overall strategy to reduce fuel poverty across the country.
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“I want to see all Scots warm [but won't they get kidney stones?] over the festive season and beyond.

EU Referendum: Pachauri: TERI-Europe – the enigma (Part 2)

...This, then, points to a profound suspicion about the operation. That it should have declared an income of only £9,000 and a lesser amount for expenses for its financial year ending 30 June had a particular advantage, viz à viz the Charity Commission. Falling below the £10,000 threshold on turnover, this meant it did not have to publish either its accounts or its annual report. Its affairs could be kept away from the prying eyes of the casual public.

So where's the climate crisis?

The weather gods were unusually kind to the U.S. in 2009, as the nation had no hurricane landfalls, a relatively quiet tornado season, no billion-dollar floods, and the lowest drought footprint of the decade by year's end.

Bitterly Cold Weather Hits Manitoba On First Day Of The Year 

Windchills will hover in the -45 degree range for the morning.
At the Main Street Project...A safe haven for Winnipeg's Homeless, a spokesman tells CJOB they are filled to capacity this morning.
In the last 2 days, the bitter cold has been blamed for 2 deaths in Manitoba including that of a 31 year old Winnipeg woman who was found dead in bus shelter Wednesday afternoon.

Polar bears face extinction within the century | Environment & Nature | Sideways News

The WWF believes that unless the warming trend ceases, the 20,000 to 25,000 bears in existence today are likely to be extinct within the 21st century.

The Reference Frame: Czech president: New Year address

What will happen in 100 years should be left to the authors of science-fiction. Let's keep both legs on the ground and let's deal with the problems that belong to us. There are more than many.

BBC News - Denbighshire mountain bike centre faces £60k snow bill

A mountain bike centre in Denbighshire says snow and ice has cost it around £63,000 in lost takings.

CLIMATEGATE...Global Warming scam, the hoax of the millenium

Even Inspector Clouseau could surmise that this small cabal of climate scientists conspired to fraudulently obtain taxpayer money.

C3: Methane Level Growth "Accelerating"? Fortunately, Climate Alarmists Wrong Again In 2009

As the chart below reveals though, methane levels did not "accelerate" as predicted in 2009, nor have they been on an accelerating trend for the last 8 years. In fact, methane levels will hold steady for extended periods, then will shift up for a short time (as in 2007), then return to a steady state; this growth pattern seems to have no relationship to human activities.

Rudd's New Year delusion on climate | Australian Climate Madness

Spinning is what Labor does best, and Kevin Rudd is a master of the art. Copenhagen was a disaster - only rescued from achieving absolutely nothing by the presence of the Obamessiah himself, who cobbled together a flimsy, eleventh-hour non-agreement in order to have something to announce to the waiting media. But not according to our Kevin, speaking in a typically patronising New Year address, who actually divined some kind of outcome

Tom Switzer: Don't expect too much down Mexico way | Australian Climate Madness

Always right on the money, Tom Switzer says that the chances of any agreement on climate in Mexico are microscopic

Mark Vogan: Myself, Mr Bastardi and the Chinese Model all in the same boat

As for the US, I am predicting that they will begin to grow colder and a major Arctic Outbreak of historic proportions loom for early on into the New Year.

Australia’s Rudd Stands by Call for Action on Climate Change [Hoax] - BusinessWeek

Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Action on climate change is in Australia’s national interest and must be pursued for the benefit of future generations, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said.

“If we do not act at home and abroad, we betray both our children’s future, and their ability to enjoy our natural wonders, including the Barrier Reef,” Rudd said today in his New Year’s message to the nation.

Action on global warming is at the top of Rudd’s agenda as he heads into a year that may see an election fought over the issue. The government has vowed to stick by plans to reintroduce legislation in February to create a national carbon emissions trading system after the nation’s Senate rejected the bill for a second time in December, creating an early election trigger.

Climate Change 101: Does the IPCC have it all wrong?

[Singer] I hope I can be around when we can look back on past decades and say: "How could this climate insanity have fooled so many smart people?"

Cartoon | Gary Varvel | The Indianapolis Star

The Copenhagen Summit has been successful in providing humor to the "Caption This" contest. This judges were unanimous in their decision for this week's winner, Douglas J. Bender, Elkhart, IN - "I'm ready for this conference. I deleted all my e-mails." [Via Climate Change Fraud]

Cartoon | Gary Varvel | The Indianapolis Star

Has global warming become a religion? The disciples certainly seem to have a strong faith in a catastrophic future. CO2 is sin and everyone who breathes is a sinner. To atone for your sin you can buy indulgences called carbon offsets. They have a prophet in Al Gore. Therefore, they need a prayer.

Carbon trading is a scam

While filling the coffers of big business and the bank, carbon-trading hurts ordinary people because green taxes push up energy costs and the price of staple foods such as bread, fresh vegetables and meat.
In the years to come the huge hike from green taxes will price the annual foreign family holiday out of sight, while Britain’s rural communities will be left isolated as bus and train services are slashed in a vain effort to reduce the country’s carbon footprint.

Note: This article is from the website of Nick Griffin MEP.

Timekeepers give 2008 an extra second - Telegraph

Among the reasons for Earth's slowing whirl on its axis are the braking action of tides, snow or the lack of it at the polar ice caps, solar wind, space dust and magnetic storms.

[Are we sure that they're starving?]: Polar bears wrestle in snow storm - Telegraph

A fine dusting of snow is blown into the air as two fearsome polar bears wrestle in this spectacular photograph.

Snohomish County Business Journal: Scandal rocks global warming issues

Anyone who assumed that these so-called scientific authorities in the debate were providing the straight scientific facts is going to have to think again. We have argued for many years that much of the scientific case for global warming alarmism was weak and some of it was phony. It now looks like a lot of it may be phony.

Hacked e-mails don't disprove climate change | theadvertiser.com | The Advertiser

The claim that this science is now discredited because of these e-mails has no evidence to back it up — but it is being said nonetheless. Some of those saying it are members of Louisiana's congressional delegation.

They should think long and hard about their actions. Not every state is asking for billions of dollars from the rest of the country to save a coast being impacted by sea-level rise, a consequence of climate change.

The Reference Frame: Happy New Decade

# the IPCC will either be abolished with its most shameful representatives arrested, or it will release the fifth report in 2014
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# the global mean temperature will change by 0.3 °C in an unknown direction, with +0.1 °C being the approximate human contribution (that's 0.03 percent change at the absolute scale)

American Thinker: A Bucket List for America

# Current politicians with no private-sector experience or scientific background stop believing that they are smart enough to run the American economy or change the weather. (Okay, that's right up there with "when pigs fly.")

Twitter / Sandi Robin

What? No Global Warming in TX. 2 day Blizzard headed our way,just got rested up from the last one! I'm too old for this!

The Benefits Of Clear-Cutting Trees in the Amazon - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Weird, ancient carvings in the ground.

NC Media Watch: This is why we can ignore Anna

The idea that one has to have a PhD in climate science to "reveal statistical manipulation in climate-change studies" is unadulterated crap! As demonstrated in the Climategate emails, the PhD Climatologist who wrote the emails demonstrated they have a very poor understanding of statistics. Points that Steve McIntyre, with an in depth understanding of statistical manipulation, has demonstrated time and time again at Climate Audit.

Climate, Caution, and Precaution « Watts Up With That?

The Kyoto Protocol is so far from being cost-effective as to be laughable. The PP can be thought of as a kind of insurance policy. No one would pay $200,000 for an insurance policy if the payoff in case of an accident were only $20, yet this is the kind of ratio of cost to payoff that the Kyoto Protocol involves.

Man-made global warming the greatest scam in history | New India

One way critics are silenced is by accusing them of ignoring “peer-reviewed science.” Yet oftentimes, peer reviews are nonsense. As anyone who has ever put his nose inside a university will know, peer review is usually a mode of excluding the unexpected, the unpredictable, and the unrespectable, and forming a mutually back-scratching circle. Through the process of peer review, of certain papers nodded through by experts and others given a red cross, the controllers of the major scientific journals can include what they like and exclude what they don’t like. Peer review is frequently a way of controlling debate, even curtailing it.

victor meldrew's brother: The Global Warming Scam

At long last the scientific world is waking up to the global warming scam and is replying with actual scientific reasoning and data which contradicts all the nonsense being pushed at us by the MSM (mainstream media).

Hospitals and prisons worst offenders in carbon emissions - Telegraph

Hospitals and prisons are the worst offenders when it comes emitting greenhouse gases, according to a government audit of emissions.

Copenhagen and other disasters « Andy Russell's Blog

As it turned out, the summit was a bit of a disappointment. The Copenhagen Accord seems a bit lame, especially pages 4 and 5, which are a couple of blank tables shoved on the end. It reminds of the kind of thing you would do at school if you had no results but wanted to make your report a bit longer.

ETS: Electricity prices to double within two years | Australian Climate Madness

… and treble by 2024. All thanks to the ETS. Fortunate, then, that it will never make it into law

ABC The Drum Unleashed - My dreams for 2010

[Catherine Deveny, comedian, columnist, author] Like all people apart from politicians my hopes for 2010 are world peace and freedom from hunger, poverty, discrimination and oppression. Oh and the reintroduction of stoning for Channel Nine executives, religious fundamentalists, people who ask you to bring your own meat to their barbeques, parents with ‘gifted children’ and ‘climate change skeptics’.

(Climate Change Skeptics (also known as morons) are people who don’t believe in science purely because they a) can’t bear to admit they couldn’t see it coming or may have contributed to it b) don’t care because they assume by the time the real catastrophe happens they’ll be old, dead or rich enough to buy their way out and or c) refuse to accept the evidence because if they do they will have to admit that it God doesn’t exist. Because if God existed wouldn’t we be special enough for him to spare us?)

YouTube - Christopher Field: climate change and forest fires

Christopher Field tells us about how ecosystems can contribute to a vicious cycle in which climate change causes more climate change...

NASA -vs- NASA: which temperature anomaly map to believe? « Watts Up With That?

Same source (NASA), but very different maps !!!

The more we produce CO2, the more that plants and oceans gobble it up

We actually live in a low carbon era so this is no surprise. Potential capacity for carbon absorption is large

Mohib Ebrahim’s Climategate poster at NREL « Climate Sanity

I downloaded the large version of Mohib Ebrahim’s very nicely made climategate timeline from Jo Nova’s blog. The local FedEx Kinko’s copy store printed out the 8 foot by 3 foot work of art in black and white for a mere $17. This poster is now hanging on the wall of my office cubicle at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It will be interesting to see how this goes over with my colleagues. Here is a picture of the poster….

Idiotic Comment of the Day: Clover Moore | Australian Climate Madness

Sydney's batty "Lord" mayor spoils the New Year celebrations by hijacking them to preach about climate change. It's just so last year