Yellowstone's Whitebark Pine May Be Declared an Endangered Species | articles | news

But whitebark pine is threatened by a number of factors, most notably mountain pine beetles, who are thriving these days and causing much damage to whitebark pine. Why are beetles thriving? Because of global warming; milder winters means beetles can live through a Yellowstone cold spell and allows them to move to higher elevations; the whitebark pine has no defense mechanisms against the mountain pine beetle. The lack of a winter kill gives the beetles a head start for the coming year.

WaPo Obit Tones Down Climate Scientist's Recent Attack on 'Hitlerian Lies' and 'Gun-Toting Rightwingers' | NewsBusters.org

The Washington Post obituary for liberal climate scientist Stephen Schneider, a media favorite over the years to promote the allegedly ironclad certainty of global warming, replayed a very recent jeremiad against "Hitlerian lies" by conservatives in the wake of Climategate. But the Post's version of his remarks toned him down and excised his attacks on "gun-toting rightwingers" who are Limbaugh and Beck fans.
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The Post obituary made no reference whatsoever to Schneider's arguments in the 1970s that the real peril was global cooling. That apparently would have been too much of a concession to the gun-toting rightwingers.

Dr. Martin Hertzberg: Scientific malfeasance | SummitDaily.com

The data show nothing particularly dramatic for the last several decades: temperatures, polar ice coverage, and sea level fluctuations that are all well within the range of normal variability. For more details, see my recent Café Scientifique talk on www.youtube.com and enter “climategate” and “hertzberg” in the search box. The data show that average Earth temperatures do not correlate with the recent increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and that neither of those quantities correlate in any way with the human emission of CO2 by fossil fuel combustion. The entire theory that “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere can reradiate energy back to the Earth and thus cause more heating, has been proven to violate the laws of thermodynamics, and thus to be completely devoid of physical reality. Acceptance of that theory by some journals, scientific organizations, and government agencies both national and international, represents scientific malfeasance on a grand scale.