Thursday, February 18, 2010

Oklahoma Climatological Survey Strangely Mum
[David Deming] When I testified before the United States Senate on December 6, 2006, I stated that the public was “vastly misinformed” on global warming and that “there is no sound scientific basis for predicting future climate change with any degree of certainty.”

Looks like I was right. Since the Climategate scandal broke, the global warming hoax has collapsed like a house of rotten cards.

The Earth has not warmed appreciably for the last decade.
Yvo de Boer's resignation compounds sense of gathering climate crisis | Mark Lynas | Environment | guardian.co.uk
How can everything have gone so wrong so quickly? A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue, civil society everywhere was enthusiastically mobilising to demand that world leaders "seal the deal" at Copenhagen, and the climate denial crowd had been reduced to an embarrassing rump lurking in the darker corners of the internet.

Now there seems to have been a complete reversal.
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No wonder Yvo de Boer wanted to get out.
The price of environmental destruction? There is none | Andrew Simms | Environment | guardian.co.uk
By applying the Treasury's own estimates of the social and environmental cost of carbon emissions, we calculated that the total bill for those costs would reach £46.5bn, massively outweighing profits and plunging the companies into the red.
World's top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Report for the UN into the activities of the world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment
YouTube: Second City on climate change deniers

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