‘Greenest President Ever’ trip to India has a carbon footprint bigger than the citizens of many US cities | Watts Up With That?

Obama’s trip comes in between Memphis and Raleigh on a per capita basis.

10:10 spin til it hurts « JoNova

After the marketing disaster of the century, 10:10 desperately needed to save some face. They had accidentally showed us their totalitarian desires and lost at least 20,000 members in a week. How embarrassing.

How do you hide that? In true PR form, you frame your membership numbers and “save” the members you lost: keep the thousands of people (or fakers) who have joined and then left your group on your tally. (Just don’t call it “current members”.)

A sky-high eye on climate change : Nature News

The Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid has additional capacity to measure aerosols. We were surprised to find short pulses of pollutants [including black carbon, possibly from India, Nepal and China] in concentrations typical for urban environments in such a pristine environment. When the air mass changed from clean to polluted, we often saw a burst of new cloud condensation. This happens surprisingly frequently, about 50% of the days in a year, and could have a lot of effects on aspects of the climate system, such as radiation balance and precipitation. Another interesting finding is that black carbon deposition could increase snow and ice melting of a typical Himalayan glacier by 12-34% through reducing the surface albedo [a measure of how strongly a surface reflects light]1.

Only the Tea Party can save us now – Telegraph Blogs

We’re talking about the future not just of the US here, but of Western Civilisation itself.

If this isn’t obvious, let me explain why. As you all know, since Climategate I’ve been dedicating far more of my time than is healthy to exposing the great Global Warming scam. This is not because I’ve suddenly realised I’m a scientist manque who wants to spend the rest of his life obsessing about forcings, feedbacks and solar radiation. It’s because I understand that “Environmentalism” is but one strategically significant theatre in a much greater ideological war being waged across the world. It’s the same one Toby Young is fighting over education; the same one the likes of Rod Liddle, Andrew Gilligan, Nick Cohen and Mark Steyn are fighting over political Islam; the same one Melanie Phillips is fighting over Israel; the same one Douglas Murray is fighting on pretty much everything. And its ultimate outcome is at least as important as those of the ones we fought in 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. At stake is exactly the same thing the Greek alliance fought for when Western Civilisation was born at Salamis in 480 BC; the same thing we citizens of the West have been fighting for ever since: the right to forge our own destinies as free men and women, rather than remain infantilised, oppressed and enslaved as vassals of a tyrant state.