Thursday, August 19, 2010

NM Republicans are cool on global warming, climate change legislation « New Mexico Independent
Susana Martinez isn’t the only big-ticket candidate in New Mexico’s fall elections who questions whether human society is the root cause of global warming. The three Republicans running for Congress expressed opposition to climate change legislation and were generally hesitant to acknowledge that human activity is having important negative effects on the planet.
[Phil Plait thinks you're stupid--When we see changes in nature, we're supposed to conclude that CO2 is dangerous?] | Discover Magazine
But over the past few years — <sarcasm>coincidentally</sarcasm> the time when scientists say global warming is accelerating — the sea ice has thinned considerably.
...global warming also predicts changing currents, changing salinity, changing everything.

It’s a complex system that interacts with itself, and those are notoriously difficult to model. Positive feedback systems are exquisitely sensitive to small changes. That’s precisely why images like these are so disturbing: they are showing that the system is changing, and it’s the change itself that indicates trouble is brewing.
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Aug 19th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet
A warmist wants to name natural disasters after skeptics, Hillary Clinton smuggled a climate weapon into Russia and the truth about the shameful satellite saga.
[Obama administration blows more money on the climate hoax]: Oregon winery carbon program gets USDA funds - Sustainable Business Oregon
A new $92,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture will evolve the Oregon Environmental Council’s Carbon Neutral Challenge by funding the development of long-term certifications for wineries that remain carbon neutral, and others that follow their lead.
More from Al Gore: Climate [swindle] bill failure costs the U.S. billions of dollars - The Hill's E2-Wire
Al Gore, who days ago called for mass demonstrations on climate change, is also arguing that the failure of Congress to pass a global warming bill is “already costing our nation billions of dollars.”
Al Fin: Pity the Fools Who Blindly Believe "The Science"
It is time for the people who are footing the bill to take their responsibilities of oversight seriously. At this time a relative handful of well-placed gatekeepers in government and private funding agencies and publications are given the power to decide what will be funded and what will be published -- and taken seriously by policy-makers and the public. This utterly top-down approach to the censorship of science has led to a situation of near-ubiquitous fraud and abuse -- especially in particular areas of science which have become politically enmeshed.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Reinsurance Innumeracy
A better conclusion from this report would be that climate change -- even under the most extreme scenarios -- might increase or decrease future Caribbean hurricane damage relative to GDP, or even have no discernible effect, but the policy options that make sense in this region are insensitive to these uncertainties.

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