Bumper cold weather payment payout of over £4 million for Age UK gas customers

Following the coldest period in decades, gas customers on the Age UK* Energy tariff, provided by E.ON, are set to receive a Cold Weather Payment in total of over £4 million. Funded by E.ON, this sum will provide some financial relief to those in later life who faced higher energy bills through one of the worst winters on record. This payment which will benefit Age UKs gas customers is in addition to the Governments cold weather payment.

Dropping the ball on global warming - How the World Works - Salon.com

Those of us who are convinced that the earth is rapidly warming due to human activity can rail all we want at their shortsightedness, but there may be room for some perverse optimism here. Never mind what happens in the voting booth this November -- if the vast majority of climate scientists are correct, the case for action on climate change will only get stronger over time.

Tom Toles - Meltproof

Quality reader comments here the last couple weeks, although the bizarre, seemingly WILLFUL ignorance that some commenters inflicted on the subject of climate change was enough to give one serious pause. A pause long enough to consider the value of comments posted under a pseudonym. My former employer the Buffalo News is about to ban the posting of anonymous comments on its website.
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I'm not sure if the climate-change deniers would be significantly more bashful if they had to show their faces when they spewed their asinine lack of understanding of the subject. I doubt it. Some people are dumb and PROUD OF IT.

Weather Bane - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

A few days ago, a carbon-emitting, climate-controlled 737 whisked me from one Washington to another, leaving the naturally air-conditioned paradise of a summer in Seattle for a plunge into Hades on the Potomac.
...[Inhofe] gets his science from a dead fiction author, Michael Crichton, who wrote a fantasy thriller about climate alarmists.
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But I rely on the experts, those people who’ve devoted their lives to understanding changes in the earth’s temperature, to guide political leaders, and ultimately get me to join the rest of the planet in trying to keep us from slow-cooking ourselves to death.

If my doctor brought me biopsy results showing cancer, I would do something about it. Inhofe would likely call the doctor an idiot, say the biopsy was a hoax and have me skip merrily to an early death.

Climate Common Sense: More Alarmist Hypocrisy - Please Stop Me From Flying!

Timothy Egan in the New York Times flew across the country to Washington to bag Senator Inhofe for not constructing a greenhouse because it is hot in Washington , and to lobby for laws to stop people like himself flying across the country .
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Oddly enough the disastrous winter in Mongolia doesn't get a mention or the people currently dying of cold in South America. Mr Egan also hasn't consulted the satellite record which does not agree with June being the hottest month although the doctored land-based records say so!
However Mr Egan is a true "liberal" when he says he wants the Government to stop him from using excessive carbon instead of choosing to do it himself!

Positive Climate Feedback « the Air Vent

Positive feedback is used in every climate model to demonstrate aggressive warming from small changes in CO2. Climate scientists agree that these models are accurate despite the disgustingly poorly quantified response of climate to warming. The models also incorporate ridiculously long and nearly impossible CO2 absorption times. Let’s not get started on the aerosol assumptions, yet everyone is so sure – well climate science is. You question them directly and get obtuse answers and references to papers which are as full of assumption as can be imagined. They really don’t know these important answers – so they couch it in uncertainty and have piled enough of it on top of the piles of others to declare consensus and further, that unbelievers (or the unconvinced) are deniers, deceivers, on the payroll of whichever energy company powers their cushy lifestyles.

What causes this kind of self deception. It is a deception in my opinion because there is a LOT more than uncertainty in climate science and it’s astoundingly easy to find. You can see it in the way climategate was handled. They can’t explain the fact that data is contradicting their conclusions, so they delete the data. It’s the case with Kelly discussing the deletion of endpoints for a presentation. If you add Jones, Mann, and Briffa discussing hide the decline, it’s a done deal. They spent literally over a decade pointing out the same flaws to each other that today’s skeptics discuss in paleo-papers and yet…………. still publish the unpublishable, conclude the inconclusive, sophisticizing the unknown settling for the term …uncertainty.
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Mann was discovered at 29. Yet he doesn’t think I (or we) understand him in his complexity. I’m equally certain that he doesn’t understand the Air Vent. Parity right? Mann had already been internationally recognized for success when he ran into the correct math after all. Imagine the pressure on a 29 year old. When you see his climategate personality, his unfortunate narcissism is far more palpable and kills the sympathy. He was young and chose to turtle rather than admit error. Today he is older, and still turtling.

I’m Damned COLD « Musings from the Chiefio

Given the cold in South America and South Africa and Australia, this is “not good”. We’ve got some heat in the Eastern USA and Russia, so with luck they will mature enough crop to be interesting. For us out in the Cold Zones, it’s not going to be a big harvest.

This is just not “Global Warming”.

Northwest Windpower: Problems Aplenty — MasterResource

It does not seem wise to force Oregonians to purchase an energy source that has so many associated costs. At best, wind power simply replaces a clean reliable and affordable energy source of power: hydroelectricity. At worst, it invites increased price volatility and the prospect of more greenhouse gas emitting facilities. Ultimately increasing wind generation leads to financial burdens on businesses and individuals across the state that ought to be considered further. Legislators should not attempt to choose winners in emerging energy technologies nor force costly energy sources upon ratepayers. Instead utilities should allow ratepayers to pay for the full cost of renewable energy voluntarily and expand renewable energy according to ratepayer demand.

American Thinker: Obama's Failing Presidency

If the bill is passed, that's what counts. Results and consequences exist in a totally different dimension with no tangible connection to the inner-Beltway continuum. Once a bill is on the books, it stands as an accomplishment in and of itself, complete for all time, like a prehistoric stone obelisk left for future generations of peasants to gape at.

Compare this to the quotidian world in which the rest of us live. Suppose you take a car to the garage for repairs. Two days later, you pick it up, only to discover after rolling through a red light and nearly ending up underneath an eighteen-wheel semi that the problem remains unfixed. When you return to the garage, the owner tells you that none of this matters, since he and his mechanics worked out the bill, wrote it down, and then voted on it.

What happens at the garage at that point is exactly what should happen on Capitol Hill at least once a year (and may in fact happen this November).

American Thinker: Of Course Obama's a Socialist

You can call Obama a socialist, a progressive, a liberal, a black liberationist. The choice of words doesn't matter. What matters is that President Obama is a card-carrying member of the ruling class, and every act of this president aims to concentrate more power in the government or distribute favors to his supporters.

America was not founded for this. The 600,000 did not die in the Civil War for this. The GIs did not crush Nazism and Communism for this. And that is why it shall not stand.

Another 10 of the Worst AGW papers: Part 3 « JoNova

To natural born critics AGW is the gift that keeps giving. It would be cruel to say these papers all exhibit unworldly qualities because that is inevitable if your purpose is to generate a virtual reality with computer modeling. But, as the old saying goes, you have to be cruel to be kind; so some of these papers are speculative and unrealistic; others are eristic and the rest egregious in intent or execution. A scientific theory such as AGW is, like all human endeavours, only as good as its best examples; the following papers, all peer reviewed, represent the best of AGW. The papers are in no particular order, or lack thereof, of merit.