Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, July 8 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

Canada’s primary hippie discovers that he’s a loser, the President might be going to Maine and alarmists have discovered the perfect headline.

Info commissioner finds saintly CRU crew guilty • The Register

The damning archive of emails, source code and station data was called FOIA.ZIP, and is believed to have been to have been compiled by an insider.

More Heat to Come—Eventually - Ecocentric - TIME.com

For those of us who write about climate, extreme weather events—not only heat waves, but also floods, droughts, hurricanes, wildfires and more—are a good excuse to remind readers that while no single extreme event can be cited as proof of climate change, the more you see, the more you have to believe something is going on. It's kind of like throwing dice: if you get snake-eyes three times in a row, you might raise your eyebrows. If you get ten in a row, it's pretty unlikely, but not impossible. If you get fifty, you're playing with loaded dice.

Flashback: [If Hummers cause current heat waves, what caused past heat waves?]: The hottest year: 1934? - Washington Times

Now, per NASA: 1934 is hottest, followed by 1998, 1921, 2006 and 1931.

Obama Is Slow on Global Warming Legislation - US News and World Report

At the beginning of the administration, [former Vice President Al] Gore sent Obama a confidential memo claiming it was imperative for the U.S. to pass a climate bill, or else Copenhagen would be consigned to failure. When I was in Copenhagen and everything was crashing and burning, one of the White House people said to me, "Well, it's not like we didn't know; Gore warned us."

[Unclear on the concept of snow hampering safe transportation]: Should We Declare Heat Days Like We Declare Snow Days? - Planet Green

...Gunther is right. We ought to be calling Heat Days when the temperatures get this high

[If people die because eco-nuts don't want us to put salt on treacherous roads, is that OK?]

"Many conservation biology research studies can easily be rephrased as questions that link daily life to the particular environmental issues described in the studies," said DeSalle. "For example, a report on land use and climate change can be explored in the classroom as 'how does having a big backyard harm native wildlife?' "

In the two case studies used in the research, the authors used real data from published studies and Science Bulletin video presentations developed at the American Museum of Natural History. One study examined how highways bisecting the Sierra-Nevada Mountains are blocking the movements of bighorn sheep and leading to inbreeding, while the other study explored how salt added to roadways to melt snow was causing freshwater streams to become progressively saltier.