Saturday, February 27, 2010

Al Gore Gets Quiet on Climate Change- Heat Sources Affect Climate Data
Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore -- the public face of global warming -- has been mum on the topic.
...
"When his movie came out," Inhofe added, "parents of small children told me their kids had to go to the psychiatrist over bad dreams about global warming. We owe it to the public to find out where the science came from. This is the greatest scientific scandal of our generation."
...
Inhofe said global warming science is still being used by the Obama administration to support regulations to rein in emissions, despite indications that Britain's official weather office may redo all of its data, and indications that the U.N. will anounce changes in reaction to Climate-gate. He said he believes that global warming legislation could not generate more than 20 votes in the Senate right now.
Yfrog - b7px - Uploaded by climatechamp
Looking forward to another great day's training with all the other Climate Change Champions at CAT Machynlleth!!
NYC Storm Breaks 114-Year-Old Snowfall Record for Central Park - Bloomberg.com
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- A winter storm that pummeled New York City for two days broke a monthly record for snowfall in Central Park that stood for 114 years, according to the National Weather Service.

The storm killed at least three people, knocked out power to more than 700,000 electrical customers across the U.S. Northeast and grounded at least 3,844 flights from regional airports. As the city digs out, forecasters are already watching another storm that may hit the U.S. East Coast next week.

“This is stuff that doesn’t happen too often, maybe a couple of times a century,” said Jeffrey Tongue, a weather service meteorologist in Upton, New York.
Progress Ohio | Dave Harding's Blog: TUESDAY IN COLUMBUS: Senator John Warner (R-VA): "Solving Global Climate Change Can Help Ensure America's Security"
Senator Warner will speak to the critical links between national security, energy and global warming and to new strategies for combating climate change, protecting our national security, increasing our energy independence, and preserving our nation's natural resources.
Obama’s Green Jobs Plan: Losing Jobs through Efficiency and Inefficiency | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
The other way the government can destroy jobs through a clean energy initiative is to mandate and subsidize labor intensive, inefficient, and expensive power sources. If it takes more labor and capital to produce renewable energy, there is a net drain on the economy. Government spending will create some jobs to build windmills and solar panels and work at biomass plants but this diverts labor, capital and materials from the private sector that could be used more efficiently to create even more jobs
Many leading scientists tell the EPA to think again | The SPPI Blog
Because of the need to have only those highly qualified to provide answers to each of the questions outlined above, we strongly suggest that the EPA grant the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Petitions, and in particular, adopt its recommendation regarding the use of the an on-the-record hearing conducted pursuant to 5 U.S.C. §§ 556-57.

While following such an analysis process may well be more arduous than planned, the implications of ill-founded CO2 regulation could be truly catastrophic. Hardly a day goes by without another prominent scientist joining the ranks of those who reject the conclusion of the IPCC that the primary driver of the Earth’s climate system is CO2 emissions from human use of fossil fuels rather than other natural forces.

No comments: