Cold weather could lead Texas to set record demand for winter power | The Dallas Morning News

hat's bad, but even worse, the cold is slowing down coal deliveries. And Texas uses a lot of coal from out-of-state.

[Junk] Scientists Call for Greater Regional Cooperation to Combat Climate Change | Environment | English

Scientists and officials from 10 countries have been meeting this week in Bangkok, as part of the lead up to a special report on managing extreme weather events.

Maryland Weather: Astonishing snow photo from orbit - Sun reporter Frank Roylance blogs on meteorology - baltimoresun.com

I know lots of people will point to this as "proof" that global warming is a hoax. But it is such an astonishing image - all of England, Wales and Scotland covered in snow - that I just had to post it.

“Climategate: Are Green Auto Rules Based on Flawed Science?” | The SPPI Blog

Leading climatologists, Congressman Upton headline Detroit Auto Show panel debate on “Climategate: Are Green Auto Rules Based on Flawed Science?”

Sponsored by the Detroit News – WJR Radio, Detroit

Detroit Athletic Club, January 12, 2010

10 AM – 11.30 AM

Villain of the winter's tale lies in Greenland - The Scotsman

According to Professor James Curran of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish winters are bound to become less and less severe as a consequence of global warming.
...Our winters are much, much milder than they used to be particularly over the past decade and will continue to become more mild but that does not mean to say that on increasingly rare occasions we won't get severe cold spells like this.

Tax Support of Approved Climate News « Watts Up With That?

Oh, so balance is not balance when it is “false” balance, that being when skeptics are given anything approaching equal time without caveats and qualifications designed to make their statements suspect.

Manatees Fighting for their Lives After Record Deaths In 2009

2009 was the deadliest year in state history for manatees. 429 were found dead in Florida waterways, about a hundred were victims of careless boaters.

2010 is also getting off to a shaky start for the mammals. The cold weather has manatees fighting for their lives.

Daily Arctic Sea Ice Maps: Check out 1/6/10 snow and ice cover vs 1/6/06

Rats! Cold driving them into your home | home, rats, cardosi - Top Story - WEST PALM BEACH

Locally, Truly Nolen Pest Control says they have seen a remarkable increase in calls during our lasting dip in degrees where people are seeing rats making themselves right at home.

Hundreds of green turtles discovered "cold stunned" | turtles, cold, loggerhead - Top Story - CBS Channel 12 News

Ninety-three sea turtles found floating in the Mosquito Lagoon along Florida's Atlantic coast were rescued after the cold water shocked their tropically inclined systems.

Most of the "cold-stunned" turtles were endangered green sea turtles, with the exception of one loggerhead.

The cold weather packing hospitals | weather, cold, hospitals - Top Story - CBS Channel 12 News

PORT ST. LUCIE - You've heard it for days and you have felt it, it's cold outside. That chill in the air, keeping hospitals busy. Thanks to the drop in temperature in SouthFlorida, St. Lucie Medical Center is seeing an increase in the number of patients with colds, bronchitis, and pneumonia. Dr. Rudy Lindner says ever since it got chilly, his emergency room has been full of patients with low immune systems who went out into the cold and got sick.

Sport Fishing - Cold temperatures impact Florida fish and wildlife

The FWC Fish Kill Hotline has received several reports of cold-related fish kills over the past few days. Extended periods of unusually cold weather can kill fish outright by cold stress or make fish more susceptible to disease.

W.Pa. barn collapses after heavy snow sits on roof - Lebanon Daily News

MEADVILLE, Pa.—A two-year-old dairy barn billed as indestructible when it was built for a western Pennsylvania fairgrounds has collapsed after heavy snow piled on its rounded roof.

The $465,000 Heritage Hall Dairy Barn at the Crawford County Fairgrounds collapsed on Wednesday.

Animals at a Sioux City pet store evacuated after snow-laden roof collapses - WQAD

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Dozens of animals were evacuated from a Sioux city pet store after snow and high winds caused part of the roof to collapse.

Global Warming Hysteria: Declining Poll Numbers From a Rational Public » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Increasingly, the governing class seeks to push the governed where they don’t want to go. That works in autocratic societies. But we are still free. Unless the global warming alarmists change their ways, the public’s support for fighting “climate change” will continue to deflate like a tire punctured by a nail.

Weather-related death toll rises to 22 as Britain braces for coldest night yet - Times Online

The death toll from Britain’s biggest freeze for decades reached 22 today as the country prepared for its coldest night so far, bringing the promise of even more treacherous conditions.

Stories from Ice-bound Britain - contains video

5.32pm Michael Dukes, the forecast manager at Meteogroup, says the Nasa satellite image of Britain shows snow over almost the entire country. He says that the swirl of cloud over East Anglia is the cumulus cloud system that caused snow showers today.

“You can clearly see the whole of Britain covered in snow there,” he said. “It’s very unusual to have such uniform coverage. I’ve seen many similar images in text books but never such an even cover as that.”
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4.58pm Icy conditions have caused so many accidents in the Hartlepool area that the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton has run out of crutches.

Worst Winter Ever? | StarTribune.com

But when you combine the cold, the wind, the ice, the snow, the general gloom in the zeitgeist, and the grim knowledge that the winter has three months of full-strength hell to go, well: yes. It could be the worst. Until the next.

During Blizzard: WTTW Touts Global Warming for Corporate Sponsor | Chicago Daily Observer

As placid interviewer Jay Shetsky held the microphone, global warming enthusiast Howard Learner (head of the Environmental Law & Policy Center) recited the catechism of Warming…in temperatures so cold Learner’s nose looked like a ruddy ice-cube. The location shot was an abandoned coal plant taken over by Exelon under federal subsidy where a wind energy project is being constructed with federal subsidies…to combat-this dastardly threat to all our lives.

NorthJersey.com: Residents discuss global warming

Some people expressed their displeasure with the recent frigid temperatures, something Mary Salpukas, who led the session, pointed out is linked to global warming — as the temperatures rise, the major leaps between temperatures are becoming more commonplace.

"We will get more extremes of weather," Salpukas said.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: 2.5 Wind Turbines per Day

The average rate of offshore installation up to now has been one turbine every 11 days. To hit the government’s target that Britain should source 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, that figure will have to rise to more than two a day by the end of the decade.

Offshore wind is one of the most expensive forms of electricity available.

Warning Signs: Not by Fire but by Ice

“Earth’s north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles a year due to magnetic changes in the planet’s core, new research says.” The article by Richard A. Lovett, noted that “The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field, but researchers can infer the field’s movements by tracking how Earth’s magnetic field has been changing at the surface and in space.”
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Since ice ages and magnetic reversals appear to occur together, it is entirely likely that what we’re really looking at is the next ice age and, to make matters much worse, a potential magnetic reversal.

EU Referendum: Looks like climate from here

And, for all Monbiot's prattling, this is not "freak" weather – it is part of a pattern that has been with us for three years, the inevitable result of an established cooling cycle, where we have seen each of the last three winters more severe than the rest.

Climate Models Irreducibly Imprecise | The Resilient Earth

Scientists are currently arguing about temperature changes of tenths of degrees per decade or even per century. Given the state of GCM and available computer resources, valid predictions of climate changes of these magnitudes simply cannot be accurately calculated. This is not a mater of opinion, it is a statement of fact based in mathematical analysis of climate models by multiple scholars. To base the future of the world's economy and possibly the course of human civilization on climate model predictions is insanity.

Livestock being frozen to death in their thousands - The Scotsman

THOUSANDS of farm animals face being frozen to death as Scotland experiences its worst winter weather in almost 50 years, farmers have warned.

State global warming bill introduced - Wisconsin

“Addressing climate change is not just an environmental issue, it’s about creating green jobs,” Doyle said in a statement about the bill, named the Clean Energy Jobs Act.

Cold Snap Lighting a Fire Under Energy Complex and Agri-Commodities

Even parts of the country that are used to subzero temperatures are likely to suffer some damage. About 500 million bushels of corn are stuck under snow in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin, according to Martell Crop Projections, Bloomberg reported.

Church of Global Warming — The Movie | CLIMATEGATE

We bring you a new hour long movie called Church of Global Warming, a very well done, high quality movie, presented in six parts here. It’s a great primer to send to to any of your uninformed global warming believers. Its producer, James Follet, is a energy industry professional, spending the past 10 years in renewable energy company. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and then worked as a Neuroscience researcher at the Free University of Berlin.

Last Gasp of the Old Debate Template | Climate Skeptic

Rolling Stone (and here)  manages to write over 5000 words on those opposed to climate alarmism without once acknowledging that any skeptic might have well-intentioned disagreement with the science itself. Without once addressing a single scientific issue in the debate, the article dismisses the need to do so by painting every skeptic of every stripe as shills for the oil and coal industry. All the while ignoring identical rent-seeking, financial incentives, and enormous political and propaganda spending in the alarmist community.

This is such a stale and unhelpful way to address climate issues that I am relieved that 2009 may mark the year when this form of argument no longer had much power — which is why I have, perhaps over-optimistically, labeled this the last gasp of the old climate debate template.

John Hirst – Models Predicted Temperatures Would Stop Rising! « the Air Vent

So this reporter, armed with a few inconvenient facts, goes after John Hurst until at the end John states flat out that Met models predicted that temperatures would flatten in recent years. That’s all great, except that they keep predicting warmest year ever and keep missing the mark. If the models predicted flattening of temperatures, why would they keep predicting warming?

Deep Freeze: Weather Helps Natural Gas but is Glut Gone? - Environmental Capital - WSJ

It’s cold out there.

By “out there,” we mean pretty much anywhere in the U.S. north of Brownsville, Texas. Check out the U.S. weather map. Temperatures range from a chilly-for-Florida 49 degrees in Miami and a “This isn’t why we moved to Texas” 23 degrees in Dallas, down to a “Do we even have a weather map color for this?” 27 degrees below zero up in Montana. Now that’s cold.

Stimulus funds for weatherization moving forward, but slow - KCBD, NewsChannel 11 Lubbock |

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - Texas has millions in stimulus funds to help people cut their energy costs, but only seven homes had been weather-treated by the end of November. Texas had spent $1.8-million of the $163-million available over the past four months, and most of that went toward administrative costs.

[New Orleans: After nearly two centuries of "warming", why is it still so cold?]: Brr for Battle of New Orleans 195th anniversary

(AP) — CHALMETTE, La. - No matter how cold it gets, the National Park Service says it will still hold the 195th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of New Orleans this weekend.

Park ranger Kristy Wallisch says the weather is historically accurate-some historians think the weather helped the Americans beat the Bristish on Jan. 8, 1915. Wallisch says that winter was especially cold and wet, and the British probably expected it to be much milder.

Bastardi: Today’s frigid weather similar to 1970s when Ice Age was alarm | GlobalWarming.org

Accuweather’s meteorologist Joe Bastardi has a new video titled “Worldwide Cold not Seen Since 70s Ice Age Scare.” Bastardi points out that the frigid conditions affecting significant parts of the world today - North America, Europe, and Asia - are very similar to the patterns in the 1970s, when fears of a new Ice Age were hyped by the media. He repeatedly compares maps of the cold spots from January 1-10, 1977 and current ones and notes the strong similarities

The Cautionary revelation of the apocalypse: Cold winter is an anomaly?

So there you have it, we get poorer, more people will die and we give power and money to the already rich and powerful and it is all based on a lie. I suggest you take note of any climatologist or whatnot that are lying to you right now, those people will be laughed at even more than the people who believed that the Earth was flat. In many ways that was a much more believable statement.

Graham won't bow to [non-idiots] - Local / Metro - TheState.com

He hopes compromise legislation he is working on will be more palatable to lawmakers who have expressed concern about two other greenhouse gas bills that "don't have a snowball's chance in hell" of passing Congress.

Speaking to more than 100 people at a climate change conference in Columbia, Graham said Congress needs to act to control greenhouse gases or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt its own regulations.
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"I have come to conclude that greenhouse gases and carbon pollution is not a good thing," Graham said. "All the cars and trucks and plants that have been in existence since the Industrial Revolution, spewing out carbon day-in and day-out, will never convince me that's a good thing for your children and the future of the planet."

Reports of Climate Bill Death are Greatly Exaggerated « Climate Progress

Many pundits (and Democrats) think it’s poison.
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Anyway, I’m not wholly confident a climate bill will pass in 2010—it’s the Senate, after all, and lots can go awry. But none of the early obituaries for cap-and-trade sound very persuasive. What’s more, it’s worth considering what would happen if Dems did abandon climate change this year. The party’s expected to lose seats in both the House and the Senate this fall, and there aren’t a whole lot of green Republicans on the ballot (especially now that Charlie Crist could get snuffed out in Florida). So how will tackling carbon emissions get any easier in 2011 or 2012? It feels a little extreme to say, “It’s now or never,” but on this issue, that’s a real possibility…

JR:  I certainly agree it would be harder in 2011 or 2012, since the Dems are likely to lose some two dozen House seats and possibly a few Senate seats (albeit some to “moderates”).  If you want a bill, this is the year to pull out all the stops.

All American Blogger » Cold Kills

In the last week, America alone set 1200 new records for cold and snow. More will die because of cold temperatures, but we are supposed to surrender our property to stop warming predicted by climate models that didn’t see this cold coming.

Climate Change Fraud - Tim Ball: Depoliticizing the Weather Forecasters

In 2008 I wrote, “They define the rules, determine who the “nominated experts “ are, and have the final say in the numbers used. This is in keeping with their process of control and determination to prove their dictated goal of finding a human source of global warming.” Now the public knows the extent of the deceptions. We are dangerously close to what happened in the Soviet Union in the 1950s when, “Under Lysenko’s guidance, science was guided not by the most likely theories, backed by appropriately controlled experiments, but by the desired ideology. Science was practiced in the service of the State, or more precisely, in the service of ideology.” We can shut down national and international government run weather and climate bureaucracies except as data collection agencies.

Cold Sends Manatees To Warmer Water - Video - WESH Orlando

Turtles Rescued From Cold - Video - WESH Orlando

Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low – only “zero” could be lower – in a month when sunspots became more active « Watts Up With That?

As you can see, we’ve never had such a low value before, and the only place lower to go is “zero”.

But this is only part of the story. With the Ap index dwindling to a wisp of magnetism, it bolsters the argument made by Livingston and Penn that sunspots may disappear altogether by 2015.

Questioning the Climate Change Establishment | The Spectator

December was cold too, if you remember – yet apparently not included in the figures for 2009 which, if you recall, were jubilantly announced as being the fifth hottest since records began in the middle of November – ie when there was still 11 per cent of the year to go, the coldest bit. None of this disproves man made climate change, of course – but it does surely bring us back to that argument about whether or not we’re qualified to comment. I am well aware that one cold winter proves or disproves nothing; it is the mere blink of an eye, almost an irrelevance. But then, it wasn’t me who said that 2010 was going to be a scorcher and that this was indicative of man-made climate change. 2010 is also the blink of an eye, in the scheme of things. But as I say, the same people who insist that we are going to burn to a crisp and all the polar bears will die told us, authoritatively, that 2010 was going to be a scorcher for this very reason. So far it isn’t. So far they are very wrong. And could not be more wrong. This is why we should question their calculations and why we have the right to do so.

EU Referendum: Moonbat squeaks

Weather is not climate. All that cold, in the UK, in North America, in Asia, Russia ... don't mean nuffink.

So why do they use weather stations to measure climate? Just a thought.

C3: As Actual Evidence Mounts, IPCC & Models Appear To Have Been Totally Wrong: New Little Ice Age?

The IPCC expertise is solely focused on human CO2 as the primary climate driver. The IPCC climate models, as a result, have been designed with the same myopic focus. Yet all the recent weather conditions and longer term temperature trends indicate (and verify) the climate is not being driven by human CO2.

Q&A: Google’s Green Energy Czar [still believes in the greatest scientific fraud in human history] - NYTimes.com

[q] Google is obviously best-known as an Internet company. Why is Google involved with alternative energy in the first place?

[a] I’d say there are two reasons. One is that we use a moderate amount of energy ourselves
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there definitely is a time horizon in the sense that to really develop the breakthroughs and innovations that are needed to deal with the climate crisis, we need to make renewable energy cheaper than coal in years, not decades.

Flashback: Google Data Center's Massive Energy Appetite | GreenerComputing.com

The Oregon facility is considered one of the jewels in Google's crown, and the company refuses to talk about the precise costs and energy demands involved. But there is clear evidence that the footprint of a centre such as The Dalles plant is enormous: industry estimates suggest that once it is running at full capacity by 2011, it could require as much as 103MW of power to run – enough to supply every home in Newcastle.

To put that number into more U.S.-centric terms, 103 megawatts is enough electricity to either:

a) Run Google's data center in The Dalles; or
b) Power the city of Oakland, Calif. for almost four months.

BBC interviewer absolutely grills UK Met Office’s John Hirst over weather forecasts and salary | CLIMATEGATE

Oh this is good, really good.
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In this clip, Andrew Neal grills Met Office chief John Hirst.

The best line (4:08) of the video and perhaps of the year: “Since you can’t the summer or the winter right in your forecasts, why should we give any credence to your forecast to what the temperature will be in the 2050 or 2020, which is what you do.”

This is the BBC? Sound more like Fox News, and we love it!

Tulsa World: School's out: Big chill cancels classes for safety

The frigid forecast has prompted Tulsa and area school officials to call off classes for the rest of the week.
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A quick survey of the Hamilton student body Wednesday found that about 60 students didn't have gloves or even coats, so Wiggins began scouring her school's free clothes closet for coats and called on the PTA for help in purchasing new gloves for every child who needs them.

Team Responses to MM2003 « Climate Audit

This incident was my first introduction to the Team just making stuff up. I couldn’t believe that someone described as a “Scientific American Visionary” would either stoop to making up stories or to be so foolish as to make up stories that were readily refuted by the email record. I was even more amazed that the climate science “community” acquiesced in this sort of fabrication. This was totally outside my experience.

“Experts: Cold snap doesn’t disprove global warming” « [Alarmist Joe Romm]: Climate Progress

We’ve only had about 1°F warming in recent decades, which can’t do much more than skew the odds — it certainly hasn’t warmed anywhere near enough to have driven us outside the bounds of the much larger temperature swings that come from regional weather patterns, let alone the seasons.
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And, of course, 2010 still remains likely to be the hottest year on record, given the moderate to strong El Niño we are still experiencing — more on that shortly.

Cold Snap “Proof” That Climate Change Not Happening? « 350 or bust

What is important to remember is that as more and more climate change-inducing emissions accumulate in our atmosphere (such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) our climate will become more and more unstable and unpredictable. The result will be more and more instances of extreme winter weather like parts of the world are now experiencing. There will also be more droughts, hurricanes, etc.

Departures Shake Democrats - WSJ.com

Controversial initiatives already on the operating table, such as climate-change legislation, almost certainly won't be revived this year, as nervous members start pondering their chances in November.

Army garrison enlists in climate change fight by joining 10:10 campaign | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Blandford garrison was the first Ministry of Defence site to build a dedicated kitchen garden and it has recently submitted plans to plant a new orchard.

Quadrant Online - The King Has Got No Clothes [climate realist music]

Chorus

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, A cold wind blows, THE KING HAS GOT NO CLOTHES

The Migrant Mind: 2009 annual report before Dec 2009 report done

For those who look quickly you will see that NOAA has put out the ANNUAL 2009 report on the state of the climate before they did the December 2009 report.

- Bishop Hill blog - BBC to review climate coverage - so what?

This is, frankly, a sideshow. Complaints about the BBC's handling of climate change have been brushed aside by the BBC Trust time after time. They are simply going through the motions in order to fend off complaints. No heads will roll, no changes will be made. Richard Black will continue to shut down his blog comments whenever there is a sceptic story in the air.

The only possible resolution to this problem is to close the BBC down.

An Authoritarian Climate | GlobalWarming.org

To put it another way, the authoritarian solution to the global warming problem, in so far as it exists, is the imposition of poverty, for that is the inevitable result of the restriction of energy use that is the authoritarians’ sine qua non. Those of us who are trying to think of alternative solutions to the problem, however, are convinced that it is the same institutions that have delivered us from poverty that will deliver us from whatever ills a warmer world might impose.

EU Referendum: Work in progress

All being well, we will be publishing a major piece in The Sunday Telegraph this weekend, with the paper allocating real resources to the continuing investigation.

EU Referendum: Prepared for the wrong eventuality

Of course, if they had spent a fraction on winter preparations of the billions they have spent on global warming, we would not be having these problems. But then it would take a grown-up newspaper to make that observation.

The global warming smell test

...these guys won't even tell us what stations they use to measure temperatures, let alone what system they use to adjust the raw data. When they speak to politicians, they use a chart that conveniently conceals evidence that the data they are using is more uncertain than they want to let on.

It really doesn't pass the smell test.

The Daily Bayonet » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan.7th 2010

Railway dude and UNIPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri says that carbon must be sucked out of the air. And by ‘carbon’ he means money and by ‘air’ he means out of your pocket and into his.

The intractable non-problem of climate change | The SPPI Blog

The Royal Society of Edinburgh, a science pressure-group largely funded by taxpayers, has decided to join the rent-seeking classes worldwide in trying to extract cash from you and me in the name of Saving The Planet from the non-threat posed by “global warming”. The lobby-group has set up an enquiry into the gap between the policies the governing classes would like to inflict upon us and the policies that we, the governed, might be willing to accept. Here is the joint submission from me, my lovely wife, the Carie Estate, and Monckton Enterprises Ltd. The bureaucrats won’t enjoy it, but perhaps our readers will. The Royal Society’s questions are in bold face: our replies are in Roman face.

Climate Resistance » Spiking Copenhagen

Two predictions. First, we are anticipating that “scepticism” or “denial” – call it what you want – will become more organised this year, perhaps it already is. Second, although the climate issue is not going away, it has suffered terrible PR, and there is widespread recognition that the climate change pudding has been over-egged. We anticipate that the environmental debate will begin to refocus around the issue of over-population, rather than climate.

Climate madness from Richard Denniss | Australian Climate Madness

I have never understood why people continually say "it's in Australia's interest" to cut emissions. Cutting emissions isn't in any country's interest if that country values its standards of living, the health of its economy and seeks to alleviate poverty. But it's a price that may have to be paid in order to assuage the demands of radical environmentalists. And then there are the weighty tomes. Denniss is an economist too, so it's not surprising he places so much faith in other economists, but the Stern report was, to quote Lawrence Solomon, "a comic mishmash of bad math, bad faith and worst-case scenarios treated as overwhelming probabilities." Garnaut's was much the same. To base policy on that kind of hyperbole is madness. Add that to the punishing cost of replacing coal with hugely expensive alternatives for electricity generation and you have a recipe for certain economic disaster. And to what end? To reduce global emissions by three fifths of sod-all.

Storm drains winter budgets

After one major storm, the state of Maryland already has plowed through its snow-removal budget for the season, and many counties and cities, including Rockville, have done the same.

Officials say they will be forced to cut back on other services to pay for snow-removal and salt operations for the remainder of fiscal 2010.

CapitalClimate: Florida Freeze Feeds Futures Frenzy Orange Juice Prices Increase on Record Cold

A RECORD COOL MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 50 DEGREES WAS SET AT ORLANDO TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 57 SET IN 1980

Bah Humbug! « the Air Vent

Dickens life demonstrates the extraordinary variability of the British winters during that era, when the coldest and warmest winters in the CET records can be juxtaposed. Generally there are few examples of constant cold winters year after year-the LIA was becoming much more sporadic than it had been several centuries earlier, when bitter cold weather appears to have been the norm. To put this era into perspective mature English people might be surprised to learn they lived through a much colder winter than Dickens ever experienced. 1962/3 at -0.33C was the third coldest in the entire CET record compared to Dickens coldest year 1814 at 0.43c, the fourth coldest in the record. (1962/3 was a bit of a one off-Dickens experienced a greater number of relatively cold winters)

Fun with computer models? Don’t bother | The SPPI Blog

You may like to read my paper at SPPI’s website on why models of the climate can’t work. The central problem is that the global climate is mathematically-chaotic, so that even a minuscule perturbation in just one of its parameters at the outset will cause everything to go all over the place a few weeks out. The key paper on this is Lorenz (1963), in the climate paper that founded chaos theory. See also Giorgi (2005). Therefore I don’t think there’s anything much to be gained by computer models of the climate except for forecasting the weather up to a few weeks ahead. After that, all models must fail, as Lorenz proved. The IPCC is quite well aware of this, but simply ignores it because – and here’s the thing – it can only make out a case for climate alarm by using models. You can’t get to the same alarmist result by using real-world data, which all point to a considerable stability in the climate, just as you say. So, except for the very short term, I don’t play with climate models any more.

C3: Greenland Glaciers Disappeared During Holocene Thermal Maximum & Low CO2 Levels, Peer-Research Experts Discover

As a result, it was only to be expected that once the millennial-scale oscillation of temperature bottomed out and began to rise again, the result would be a significant warming and recession of local glaciers, irrespective of anything the air's CO2 content might do..."

Twitter / Andy Revkin

While some crow over global cooling, lots of hot spots: http://j.mp/HotCold & US tipping to > hot records than cold: http://j.mp/HiLow

Twitter / Andy Revkin

#Climategate conspiracists pushing reward for revelations of climate fraud involving US taxpayer money: http://j.mp/co2bounty #agw

BBC to investigate itself on climate change bias | CLIMATEGATE

The review will begin this spring and the results will be published in 2011. A “scientific expert” will lead the review on climate change and other controversial science issues.

Weather and Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan: Winter Highlights

It was the coldest day in Beijing since 1971 yesterday with a low dropping to 2 below zero... A remarkable low achieved there and it appears the three records lows in a row are set to continue. Can Beijing take a run at their all-time record of 9 below zero?

Joe Biden: Why America Needs Trains [why isn't the global warming hoax mentioned here?]

The Climate Alarmists Next Assault on Freedom

Those of you who have paid attention to the Climategate scandal will not be surprised to see in the video the extent to which the Alarmist have tried to block Dr. Svensmark from publishing his theories. My prediction though is that after the Global Warming Alarmists get shot down in flames again in Mexico City in December, they will jump to a new horse, embrace the scientists working on Global Cooling, and plot a new course for world governance.

Are you ready for their next assault on your tax dollars?

Blizzard that proves the peril of our climate-change ignorance - The National Newspaper

Don’t try telling anyone between Boston and Beijing about global warming; they might just hit you with a snow shovel.

The worst blizzards in decades have struck across the northern hemisphere.

2010 International Climate Change Adaptation Conference Climate Adaptation Futures: Preparing for the unavoidable impacts of climate change 29 June - 1 July 2010, Gold Coast Convention Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia | NCCARF

Co-hosted by Australia's National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility and the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, this conference will be one of the first international forums to focus solely on climate impacts and adaptation.

GreenFudge.org » Mexico Embraces the Challenges of 2010 Climate Change [Scam] Summit

Mexico’s main goal is to get all nations to agree to a 50% emissions cut by 2050—whether they are developed or not.
...Mexico is not quite sure how they will accomplish what Copenhagen did not, but they are at least going to try, noting that it is a “big challenge for the country”. It certainly has a greater chance of happening in Mexico, however, since the country has long been seen as a bridge between rich and poor nations.

Darwin (AGW) Awards vs. The Tragedy Of Cold-Related Deaths « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Tragic as it is, the death at the age of 70 of Canon Hereward Cooke on Dec 15 in Copenhagen after having cycled in a snowstorm is the stuff of a Darwin Award.

The Big Chill -- 2010 Freeze Means End Is Near - The Grumpy Gardener - Alabama

The global warming Paul Reveres are all in a tizzy this week. Over half the country is experiencing record cold. Here in Birmingham, we've into our fourth straight day of temps that haven't risen above freezing.
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We almost never have a day here that stays below freezing. In fact, we haven't had a cold spell like this since the 1940s.

Ice delays morning flights at TIA - Bay News 9

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- Add a new reason for delayed flights at Tampa International Airport - ice.

Seven flights were delayed early today and three flights were delayed on Wednesday morning due to ice formation on planes, according to airport officials.

The problem is that the airport does not have a "recovery system" in place like northern airports to remove ice from the wings of planes.

So pilots just had to wait for the ice to melt naturally.

BBC News - Veteran pilot dies in United States plane crash

A veteran pilot has been killed after the plane he was flying crashed into a partially-frozen river in the United States.

Jim Beaton, 78, from Newtown in Powys, was flying a Cessna aircraft from a factory in Kansas to Russia.

It is thought ice built up on the wings and caused the plane to crash in Maine, just 43 minutes after take off.
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He flew from Kansas last week - but stayed in Bangor, Maine, for at least four days waiting for better weather.

As another record falls, is snow on way? | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY

A record low was set this morning in Melbourne as the bitterly cold weather continued, and now forecasters are saying there is a slight chance Brevard could see snow flurries by week's end.
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"We got down to 28 degrees," Moses said. "The old record was 32 degrees previously set in 2001. But it was actually colder yesterday, with temperatures getting down to 27 degrees."

UK: Fallen tree causes hundreds to lose power in plummeting temperatures

A fallen tree caused hundreds of homes to lose power in plummeting temperatures.

Yesterday 359 households in the Abinger and Wotton area lost electricity at 7.05am when a fallen tree brought down an overhead power line in the heavy snow.

Scottish Government defends handling of cold weather during angry Holyrood exchanges - Herald Scotland | News | Politics

The exchanges came after Mr Swinney told MSPs that last month was the third coldest December since records began and that the weather had got more severe since the new year.

“What is unusual is the unprecedented duration of this freezing weather,” he said.

This WUWT article from 2008 was on Fox News tonight « Watts Up With That?

Sean Hannity read from it during his Fox News show.

Read the original article here:

November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt.

Snow? You've never had it so good! - Channel 4 News

Global warming means prolonged periods of snowy weather are becoming less frequent, writes Julian Rush.

Travel information as more snow is forecast - Channel 4 News

Heavy snow and freezing temperatures have been causing major travel problems across Britain and conditions are expected to worsen overnight.

2020 visions : Article : Nature

Global governance
Jefrey Sachs
Director, the Earth Institute

By 2020, the world needs an effective system of global governance for managing sustainable development.
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Finally, global financing for poorer countries must improve if international agreements on climate, land use and biodiversity are to succeed. The record of aid delivery to poor countries is dismal. Rich countries regularly promise support that never arrives. Two proposals have been made that could improve things: a small tax on cross-border financial transactions, and a global levy on carbon emissions. Both should be implemented alongside more traditional forms of aid to secure a more reliable source of development finance.

The greatest threat of the 21st century: not AGW but Eco-Fascism – Telegraph Blogs

Peter Spencer is an example to us all. I’m not suggesting we all go on hunger strike but we ought surely to emulate his clear-eyed courage in facing up to the greatest menace of our age. That menace is not, of course, the illusory threat of AGW which our governments so cheerfully use to fleece us and impose control of over us. That menace is eco-fascism. It’s real, it’s terrifying and it’s time we fought back.

Investors.com - Salazar Slips Energy Policy In Reverse

Energy: As energy prices surge to uncomfortably high levels, a top administration official wants to make it harder for U.S. companies to get more oil and gas. Once again, we're shooting ourselves in the foot on energy.

Global Warming Hysteria: Leonard Nimoy Warns Against “the Coming Ice Age” in 1978 » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Those bad winters seem like the current one. Oh, oh!

Dr. Stephen Schneider, who appears at the end of the video to worry that the cure for the ice age might be worse than the disease, is now a global warming alarmist. Ha!

Cold weather repeat offenders - KFOR

MIDWEST CITY, OK -- 44-year-old Joe Baker has made a lifetime of crime. To escape extreme weather, Baker has been booked into jail dozens of times over the last decade for minor offenses. He's in the Oklahoma county jail right now for petty larceny.

It's Cold ... Very Cold | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth

Wind chill may drop below zero as coldest weather in 12 years hits North Texas

Estonia - Record snow in Tallinn

Tallinn-Harku weather station measured 43 centimetres of snow today, a new record for December 31.

ERR reported that the previous record was registered in 1965 when there was 36 centimetres of snow.

News - Miliband calls on EU to back 30 per cent emissions cut - The Ecologist

The EU needs to commit to a 30 per cent reduction by 2020 compared with 1990 levels and push others to a higher level of ambition, says climate [hoax] secretary

News - 'Moralistic' environmentalists turn people off buying green - The Ecologist

Poll shows that consumer willingness to buy ethical products has fallen, but the recession may not be the only cause

U.K. Gas Market No Laughing Matter - WSJ.com

The cold weather has exposed real weaknesses in the U.K.'s energy security. In part, the problem reflects the contradictions of a European energy policy focused more on reducing carbon-dioxide emissions than ensuring security of supply. It has helped trigger a dash for gas as well as encouraged investment in wind power, no good for base-load electricity generation.

Reply to Andrew Dessler’s Guest Post On Water Vapor Feedback « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

This suggests that, at least up to the present, the effect of human climate forcings on global warming has been more muted than predicted by the global climate models.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Surface minus satellites – some differences look political

So I am saying there are HUGE inconsistencies in satellite minus surface figures around the globe. Post ClimateGate – it is interesting that we heard the Russians speaking out against the quota of warming IPCC/CRU/Jones find in Russian datasets.

Winter kills: Excess Deaths in the Winter Months « Watts Up With That?

[Indur M. Goklany] 108,500 Deaths in the US in 2008; 36,700 in England and Wales Last Winter; 5,600 in Canada (2006); 7,000 in Australia (1997-2006 Average); Thousands in Other Developed Countries

As the World Burns : Rolling Stone

How Big Oil and Big Coal mounted one of the most aggressive lobbying campaigns in history to block progress on global warming
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...as the failure to pass the climate bill reveals, it may be easier to defeat a dictator like Hitler than to overcome internal threats to our future as powerful as Big Coal and Big Oil. Despite the near-certainty of a climate catastrophe, there are no crowds marching in the streets to demand action, no prime-time speech from President Obama. Even the most aggressive climate legislation the Senate might pass — something on par with the House bill — will still fall tragically short of what climate scientists tell us needs to be done to avoid the looming chaos and destruction. In that sense — the only one that ultimately matters — the battle over global warming may already be over.

The Climate Killers : Rolling Stone

Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming
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The Profiteer
Warren Buffett
CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

Despite being a key adviser to Obama during the financial crisis, America's best-known investor has been blasting the president's push to curb global warming — using the same lying points promoted by far-right Republicans.
...In recent months, the Oracle of Omaha has invested billions in carbon-polluting industries, seeking to cash in as the world burns. His conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, has added 1.28 million shares of America's biggest climate polluter, ExxonMobil, to its balance sheet. And in November, Berkshire placed a huge wager on the future of coal pollution, purchasing the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad for $26 billion — the largest acquisition of Buffett's storied career. BNSF is the nation's top hauler of coal, shipping some 300 million tons a year. That's enough to light up 10 percent of the nation's homes — many of which are powered by another Berkshire subsidiary, MidAmerican Energy. Although Berkshire is the largest U.S. firm not to disclose its carbon pollution — and second globally only to the Bank of China — its utilities have the worst emissions intensity in America, belching more than 65 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2008 alone.
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Morano, who worked for Sen. James "Global Warming is a Hoax" Inhofe, left Congress last year to set up shop as the Matt Drudge of climate denial. Today he runs Climate Depot, a website whose sponsor is funded by oil heir Richard Mellon Scaife. A private version of a congressional blog that Morano ran for Inhofe, the site serves as a clearinghouse for climate kooks. "He's a central cell of the climate-denial machine," says Kert Davies, research director for Greenpeace. "He's been very effective in delaying action on this crisis."

EPA’s Tailoring Rule: Temporary, Dubious, Incomplete Antidote To Massachusetts v. EPA’s Legacy of Absurd Results (Part 1) — MasterResource

The Tailoring Rule is an eye opener, because it reveals, or rather confirms in spades, that the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA has created an almost bottomless well of “absurd results” — disastrous consequences that EPA can avoid only by poaching legislative power and amending the Act.

Peter Kellner | YouGov, 12/14/09: Climate change is low priority for most Britons

YouGov has conducted a detailed survey, for the Left Foot Forward website, on British attitudes to climate change, as world leaders prepared to go to Copenhagen for the final, crucial days of the climate change summit. Our results suggest a mounting reluctance for Britain to take tough, immediate action to help avert global warming – a trend can be reversed in the near future only if a binding agreement is reached at Copenhagen; and even then, the public will need to be persuaded that other countries will deliver on their side of the bargain.

Getting the Facts About the Global Warming E-mail Scandal

The general consensus is that Climategate is largely hype, but one aspect that can’t be ignored is that some people seem to be buying it. A recent CNN global warming poll indicates that the number of Americans that think global warming is a problem is in decline. While several factors are likely contributing to this shift, the e-mails can’t be helping. So even if you agree with the Union of Concerned Scientists [shouldn't they be "concerned" about massive scientific fraud?] that the whole fiasco was a “manufactured controversy,” the way these controversies and subsequent media frenzies have the potential to cause actual shifts in thinking is still a significant concern.

American Thinker: The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Democrats

What struck me the most about this meeting was Gore's complete inability to utter a sentence addressing his life's work. The former Vice President, Nobel Prize laureate, and Academy Award-winning producer standing before us was a moron, unable to articulate a simple comeback to address all that he has stood for since leaving office. He could have simply ignored us and kept walking, as he does with reporters, but by stopping and standing there dumbstruck, he looked like a fool.

American Thinker: Climategate and the Migrating Arctic Tree Line

These types of "errors" and "omissions" seem to be indicative of the entire "Global Warming" investigation conducted through, or in collaboration with, Dr. Jones. Perhaps the best conclusion to come to is that the entire body of work compiled by the IPCC is tainted and therefore unreliable for any policymaker.

Dec 15, 2009: Young-people-negotiate-Copenhagen-deal-using-Google-Wave | Microgeist

In the past week, they've also used Wave to discuss the likelihood of a successful deal (60% thought there would be) to whether the hacking of climate scientists' emails would influence the talks (a surprising 64% said yes, despite feeling elsewhere online that Copenhagen had pushed the email story off the agenda).

AccuWeather.com -New, Colder Weekend Freeze Looms for the Gulf Coast

Another, potentially colder outbreak of arctic air will threaten the fruit and vegetable industry beginning this weekend in the South.

AccuWeather.com Video - Snow Derails Train in Blighty!

Heavy snow has delayed millions in Britain, and it's to blame for a train derailment in Scotland.

AccuWeather.com Video - Dangerous Travel as Snow Blankets Midwest

Alberta Clipper storm races through the midwest with snow reaching into the southern states.

UK is a snow go zone with 16 inches falling today | The Sun |News

COMMUTERS on the roads and rails were suffering travel chaos today as the country woke to more than a foot of snow — during the iciest winter for A CENTURY.

AccuWeather.com - Fresh Brutal Cold Gripping Plains, Will Expand Eastward

RealFeels will remain below minus 15° across Iowa and surrounding states Friday afternoon.

Twitter / Guy Benson

Gibbs: Unicorns became extinct due to Gitmo and Global Warming.

LinkSkin Eco Friendly Eyewear | [Features global warming hoax promotion on their "main" page]

Beware greens bearing gifts - Washington Times

When Neville Chamberlain came back to Britain after negotiating the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler, he announced that he had achieved "peace in our time." We all know how that turned out. Mr. Graham is now trying a similar dance with the greens, the would-be totalitarians of the 21st century. Let's hope Senate Republicans have enough Winston Churchills among them to block Mr. Graham's futile and perilous appeasement.

32% Confident Congress Represents Their Best Interests - Rasmussen Reports™

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 32% of likely U.S. voters are even somewhat confident that their representatives in Congress are actually representing their best interests. That figure includes just eight percent (8%) who are very confident of that fact.

Top British firms drag their feet to reduce carbon footprints | Environment | The Guardian

A report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) says a lack of ambition from companies in the energy, materials and utilities sector threatens government plans to cut emissions by 2020.

Tips on how to cycle in snow | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Up in Vermont, I rode on dirt roads carpeted in packed snow and sand: with a windchill of -20C, the biggest issue was avoiding frostbitten fingers; staying upright was no problem.

Saving the bacon: The Copenhagen Post

Pig farmers rush to save hundreds of pigs trapped beneath a snow-laden roof in northern Jutland

Brutal week for homeless expected: The Copenhagen Post

With temperatures predicted to remain under freezing for at least another week – and falling to a chilly -13C on Friday – humanitarian organisations are expressing grave concerns over the fate of the homeless.
Just before Christmas, two homeless men froze to death, one in the Jutland town of Horsens and the other in the northern Jutland town of Skagen. Low temperatures from 20-22 December hovered around -11C in the Copenhagen area and got down to -15C in mid-Jutland.

Cold Iguanas Free-Fall From Trees - Miami News Story - WPLG Miami

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Record lows across South Florida are literally freezing the invasive iguana in its tracks.

Kamikaze iguanas, plummeting from their treetop perches, have long been a Floridian urban legend. On Wednesday morning, Local 10 caught the free-falling lizard on tape.

January's freeze will persist at least into weekend - St. Petersburg Times

At the Rawlins Tropical fish farm in Lithia, owner Art Rawlins called the weather situation critical.

"I expect a disaster before the week's out," Rawlins said.

The temperature in one of his ponds was 54 degrees Wednesday morning. The fish inside, accustomed to water near 72 degrees, were very lethargic, Rawlins said.

It will be a while before he can start counting fatalities. Dead fish don't float when the water's so cold, he said.

Global Warming is Dead. Long Live Global Warming! | Psychology Today

So strap on your boots, gloves, and thermal underwear, and remember, this is what winter feels like. Sometimes it's cold, sometimes it's damned cold, and sometimes it's not so bad. A colder-than-average January doesn't disprove climate change any more than one warmer-than-average month confirms it.

Deep freeze in South kills 6, harms Fla. crops

Authorities said four people in Tennessee, one in Mississippi and one in South Carolina have died from the cold since the weekend. They included a man with Alzheimer's who wandered out into his yard in Nashville and froze to death, and a homeless man found dead in a tent in South Carolina.

The total doesn't include people who died in car accidents on icy roads and in fires started by stoves and space heaters.

Midwest Bracing for Heavy Snow, Wind Chills of -50 - ABC News

Snow was piled so high in Iowa that drivers couldn't see across intersections and a North Dakota snowblower repair shop was overwhelmed with business as residents braced Thursday for heavy snow and wind chills as low as 50 below zero.
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"It's brutally cold, definitely brutal," meteorologist Tony Zaleski said.

Several deaths have been blamed on the cold. An 88-year-old woman died of hypothermia Tuesday in her unheated Chicago home...

Tulsa World: Wind chill minus 13: Residents warned of risk of hypothermia

As bitterly cold temperatures approached the Tulsa area this week, emergency medical personnel are urging people to stay warm to avoid a potentially life-threatening condition called hypothermia.

Pajamas Media » Bast: Understanding the Global Warming Delusion (PJM Exclusive)

A poll of climate scientists reveals they still believe in AGW, though they do not believe their models are any good. Now that's delusion.
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The histories of other “extraordinary popular delusions,” as Charles Mackay labeled them in 1841, suggest it may take decades for elite opinion to acknowledge the truth. Some very bright people will go to their graves still believing in “global warming.”

But believing is not knowing, and that crucial difference both caused and is spelling the end of one of the great delusions of our age.

U.S. carbon [swindle] rules pose oil sands hurdles - The Globe and Mail

Canada's oil sands producers face the prospect of a patchwork of costly climate regulations in their key U.S. markets as American states step up their efforts to adopt California-style low-carbon fuel standards.

U.S. carbon [swindle] market growth seen without climate [hoax] bill | Reuters

DALLAS (Reuters) - Voluntary carbon markets in the United States will grow especially at the regional level even if a stalled federal climate bill fails to impose "cap and trade" on American industry, the chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) said.

"I think we will continue to see interest in voluntary carbon markets ... And I would expect that without a federal law you will continue to see growth in regional initiatives in the United States," Richard Sandor, the exchange's founder, told Reuters in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
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Political uncertainty has contributed to low carbon prices in the United States. The Carbon Financial Instrument contracts on the Chicago exchange have fallen to about 15 cents per tonne from about $2 early last year. In Europe, carbon allowances are worth about $18.50 a tonne.

But Sandor, an innovative and key figure in the history of the global derivatives industry, said he still saw "momentum" for cap and trade in the United States.

Guest opinion: Skeptics, show us your e-mails - Boulder Daily Camera

I call upon the climate change skeptics ---- political, scientific and media ----to share with the world a block of their unbroken, years-long chain of e-mails about climate change. I am asking them to do this on a voluntary basis in order to show us that they are super human and do not share the human frailty of "loose lips" that the rest of humankind is subject to.

2009 was one of Boulder's snowiest years - Boulder Daily Camera

As for the year 2009, it was very snowy, quite wet and cool. The 125.5 inches of snow ranks it the second-snowiest year on record at least since 1990, when the way the snow totals were measured changed. (The year 1997 had 158.7 inches).

The 22.19 inches of moisture made 2009 the 24th wettest, and the annual temperature of 50.8 degrees marked the second year in a row under 51 degrees. The average annual temperature is 52.0 degrees.

It's a cold, snowy winter in Boulder -- and expect a frigid Thursday - Boulder Daily Camera

This winter continues to be snowier than usual, as well. The 3 inches of snow that had fallen by Wednesday evening brought the snow total for this season to more than 70 inches in Boulder, roughly twice the average for early January, Kelsch said.

The BEAST 15 Most Heinous Climate Villains | The Beast

Some of the bastards responsible for subverting public understanding of climate change
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Michael Roddy graduated with honors from Berkeley, and has written numerous magazine articles and Congressional testimonies on environmental and construction issues. He currently owns and operates a small hotel energy management company, with offices in Seattle, Napa, and Yucca Valley, California. Mike can be reached at mike.greenframe@gmail.com.

The Heretics: Dr. Craig Idso – by Rich Trzupek | FrontPage Magazine

Idso, Singer and their many prominent contributors in the scientific community are gearing up to begin work on their second report, provisionally known as NIPCC-2. Initially, NIPCC-2 will be a living document, with its own website, updated periodically as chapters are developed and data examined. The idea, Idso explained, is to make the report production process entirely transparent so that anyone, no matter their predispositions with regard to global warming, can see, be part of and comment on the process. Given what the world has learned about the way that some of the IPCC data has been developed, such transparency is a breath of fresh air.

The Heretics: Steve Milloy – by Rich Trzupek | FrontPage Magazine

There was a time, Milloy recalls, when he was almost a voice in the wilderness, after he first started to speak out on the issue in 1996. “We’ve been slogging away at this all through the decade,” he said. “The first part of the decade was really tough. Today, there are lots of people questioning the science behind global warming, but back in 2000 it was very lonely out there.”

Freeze causes more than $10 Million in damage to local crops | Southwest Florida | Local & Florida

A University of Florida expert estimates the freeze caused tens of millions of dollars in damage to crops in Southwest Florida and soon there's a good chance you'll pay more at the supermarket. Wednesday night farmers were in a mad rush to save what's left before another freeze set in.

Cold snap will cost you | Southwest Florida | Local & Florida

Running your heat can cost up to a $1.65 an hour while using the air conditioner is about 40 cents an hour. .

Third Night Of Freezing Brings Significant Damage | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL

Temperatures dropped to lows of 27 degrees in Winter Haven, 29 degrees in Lake Alfred, 30 degrees in Frostproof and 35 degrees in Plant City.

Temperature Plummets to Record Low -- Barely | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi

The temperature in Finland reached a record low for this winter on Thursday. The Finnish Meteorological Institute says the temperature at the Kevo research station in Utsjoki, in northern Lapland, fell to -36.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning.

Temperatures in Cumbria lower than those in a fridge freezer

And at Heads Nook, near Brampton, the temperature was reported as -19C – two degrees lower than that of an average domestic freezer – with manufacturers recommending -17C for freezing food at home.

Bringin’ Home the Bacon - Drew Thornley - Planet Gore on National Review Online

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced $4.8 million in green-job training grants for Austin.

I'll be sure to report back if this federal handout does any long-term good for the economy. Don't expect to hear from me.

Snowy weather could cost Britain's economy £14.5 billion

The big freeze could cost Britain £14.5billion as the heaviest snow for 30 years causes widespread chaos.

'Humankind solely responsible for climate change'

India's top farm scientist M.S. Swaminathan holds humankind solely responsible for global warming causing climatic changes.

"Global warming is anthropogenic (man-made) and not caused by nature. Man is solely responsible for whatever is happening in the earth's atmosphere," Swaminathan, considered father of India's first green revolution, told IANS in an interview on the margins of the 97th Indian Science Congress (ISC 2010) here Thursday.
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"A rise in sea level as noticed in the last five years will force people in the coastal areas to shift to the interiors, putting pressure on scarce land and other resources," the eminent scientist prophesied.

Cold claims 195 lives in N. India

New Delhi, Jan. 6: The toll in the current spell of cold wave in north India today climbed to 195 with 38 more deaths even as chilly conditions further eased with rise in maximum temperature in the region.

Bangladesh: Cold wave [kills 39]

So far, the cold wave claimed 39 lives with most victims being children and the elderly. Hospitals in the affected districts have reported higher numbers of admissions with cold weather related illnesses. The weather has also caused crop and other natural resource loss, which will have a longer-term negative impact on the economic situation for the already poor communities in the worst affected areas.

2007: GOV. RITTER [promotes global warming fraud]

"Climate change is our generation's greatest environmental challenge," Gov. Ritter said. "It threatens our economy, our Western way of life and our future. It will change every facet of our existence, and unless we address it and adapt to it, the results will be catastrophic for generations to come.

2009: Bill Ritter inching closer to being Al Gore | Rocky Mountain Right

Remember how Al Gore went nuts after he lost the 2000 presidential election? How he suddenly went crazy for the climate change agenda and grew a weird looking beard? I predict this is what Bill Ritter is positioning himself to do after he loses reelection. He seems consumed with climate change and ending the use of fossil fuels. He doesn’t want to talk about anything else. He won’t tell his Democrat General Assembly where he is on the death penalty or a lot of other bills. He wants to talk about new energy.

So prepare to protect your title Al Gore, Bill Ritter is coming for your climate change protector crown.

2009: Power glide: Bill Ritter has bet his future on the new energy economy - ColoradoBIZ Magazine

He's about to find out how much political clout it really can generate
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“Listen,” he said. “I was just named by some group the greenest governor in America. I didn’t set out to be that. I just got there because we keep building public policy that will support this clean energy ecosystem, this new energy economy ecosystem.”

2010: Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D) Announcing Retirement … Another Blow to Democrats in 2010 | Scared Monkeys

Ritter comfortably won a first term as Colorado [Governor] in 2006; however, he was facing a tough reelection battle against former Republican Representative Scott McInnis. In less than four years, from landslide victory to withdrawal from race.

Monckton on Andrew Dessler’s Post | The SPPI Blog

The water vapor feedback, if it had been anything like as big as the UN and Dr. Dessler would have us believe, should have caused a massive increase in global temperature. It didn’t. – Christopher

Overcoming Climate Inertia by Joseph A. Olson, PE | Climate Realists

You could always visit the Met and RMS websites and warm yourself with the threats of the “barbecue” summer of 2009 that they promised and you never got. Or warm yourself with the Met warnings that this will be the warmest winter on record as soon as it stops being cold.

Which brings us back to good Sir Newton, and the ‘unless acted on by another force’ part of his Law. The RSMs could gather the courage to force the RS, the RMS and the Met into admitting that there is not now and never has been any human cause for climate change. If the Royal Society Members cannot or will not act to restore the principles of the English Scientific Method then you may have an additional source of warmth. Track down a RSM, seize his membership certificate and burn that. By their inaction they have proven their society membership certificate is as worthless as old books.

Joseph A Olson, PE

A New Propaganda Film by Natl. Resources Defense Council Fails the Acid Test of Real World Data by SPPI | Climate Realists

First, they called it “global warming”. Then they noticed there had been no warming for 15 years, and cooling for 9, so they hastily renamed it “climate change”. Then they noticed the climate was changing no more than it ever had, so they tried “energy security”, and even named a Congressional Bill after it. Then they noticed that most Western nations already had bountiful energy security, in the form of vast, untapped domestic supplies of oil, gas, coal, or all three, so they switched to “ocean acidification”.

Steve Janke: Statistical proof that Facebook groups cause global warming - Full Comment

I've created a very complex computer model using similar programs that are used to model the climate. That way, if I don't like what the model tells me, I can go ahead and make up new results, and just tell you what I want you to hear, the same way climatologists ignore their models when it suits them to spin whatever story they care to tell.

Here is what my model is telling me (or not, but then, I know I'm right, regardless of the data, the way climatologists are right, regardless of the data)

Report: Most money managers ignore climate risk to profit | Energy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

In a survey of asset managers, almost three quarters said they don't take into account global warming when analyzing a company, CERES, whose investors have $8.5 trillion under management, said today in a report.

Long Drought Ahead From Global Warming, [Bogus] Study Says | Amy Linn

Here are highlights of the research, straight from the UM statement:

-- By about the 2080s, hotter temperatures could cause about two months of additional drought.
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-- Over this century, the region could see an annual average warming trend of 3.6 to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit, with winter temperatures expected to increase more than temps in other seasons.

The study was funded by the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan nonprofit organization.

Snow could cost economy £1bn | The Sun |News

BRITAIN'S big freeze will blow a 1 BILLION hole in the economy — and could push long-suffering small firms to the wall.

Avatar, not Ed, will make the case on climate | Alice Thomson - Times Online

Avatar — rather than Ed Miliband talking about Copenhagen — could do the same for global warming. If you can get through the snow to see it.

How Britain's frozen day unfolded - contains video

A driver named Clive called the local BBC radio station from the blocked section of motorway to say: “There must be hundreds and hundreds of cars stuck. People have been just turning their engines off and falling asleep. I just pulled a couple of jackets over me and tried to sleep."

'Climate science' is an oxymoron. Time for Zero Tolerance of Green agendas – Gerald Warner - Telegraph Blogs

2010 should be the year when all that ends. It is time for Zero Tolerance of AGW fraudsters and their political masters. It is time to say: Green taxes? We won’t pay them. Nor will we vote for or permit to remain in office any politician or party that supports the AGW fraud. This year is one of those rare occasions when we have an opportunity to punish and control our political masters – provided Britons have the will to break with the two-party system.

Britain's cold snap does not prove climate science wrong | Leo Hickman and George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate sceptics are failing to understand the most basic meteorology - that weather is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends

Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather by Richard Black, BBC | Climate Realists

[comment] 7. At 3:27pm on 05 Jan 2010, ManmadeupGW wrote:
Sorry Richard you just don't get it. It does not matter how much you an the BBC campaign on the hypothesis that man made CO2 emissions will caues danfgerous global warmin, people are not stupid. Even if this winter had been mild we know the global temperature, if there is such a thing, has been fiddled as demonstrated by the Climategate emails....It is about time the BBC started to employ professional scientists and engineers... Your last post allowed someone to traduce Steve McIntyre and you are happy to let it stand? trick or cheat

Update: seems the comments have now gone, pity!

How Big A Failure Was Copenhagen? » The Foundry

The reality is that ratcheting down carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is a costly and ineffective solution to an overstated problem, and reality was the big winner that emerged from Copenhagen. The Copenhagen fiasco, along with the failure to pass domestic climate legislation this year, means that the debate gets kicked into 2010 with no momentum whatsoever. It will only get harder to push an unpopular global warming agenda in an election year — and that would be a very good thing.

Generic Congressional Ballot - Rasmussen Reports™

Republican candidates start the year by opening a nine-point lead over Democrats, the GOP's biggest in several years, in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Guest Post By [Alarmist] Andrew Dessler On The Water Vapor Feedback « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Thus, we can conclude with extremely high confidence that the water vapor feedback is strong and positive (I would categorize it, in the IPCC’s parlance, as being unequivocal). And I would categorize it as very likely that models are accurately simulating this phenomenon.

But it's been hundreds of years since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.   Where's the warming?

That Washington Post Piece on Science Communication and ClimateGate | [Alarmist Chris Mooney] | Discover Magazine

Things have been so nuts for me over the past few days, I haven’t even been able to blog my Washington Post Outlook piece from Sunday about the need for better science communication in the wake of the devastating blow dealt by the ClimateGate scandal. The piece has been drawing tons of supportive private emails, as well as lots of online critiques and reactions, and fully 800 plus comments on the Post’s website, many of them from climate deniers.

‘Snow blindness’ spreads in newsrooms « Harold Ambler

...That is why the blogsosphere has come to play a vital role for those interested in both weather and climate. Sites such as wattsupwiththat.com raise the hackles of global-warming alarmists simply by reporting weather news that the mainstream media misses. While there have been many instances of “warmist” bias and “snow blindness” in the past several years, not one compares with the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2009-10.

Pajamas Media » James Lewis - Global Warming as Climastrology

The good news for 2010 is that the climate fraudsters are on the run. The bad news is that they are hoping against hope that the sheriff’s posse won’t catch ‘em. Because the real reason for “global warming” is now clear beyond any reasonable doubt. The reason is ten trillion dollars in taxpayer dough for politicians, transnational bureaucrats, and phony science types. Put away those old world records for the Great Train Robbery and Bernie Madoff. You can junk Bonnie and Clyde. The climate fraudsters have now set the biggest record for massive fraud in human history.
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Now the New York Times actually had to go out and find an honest man to break the news to its readers (John Tierney). Its global frauding correspondent, Andrew Revkin, has resigned and fled the scene of the crime.
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The biggest news for scientists: Science magazine has dropped any mention of “global warming” or “climate change” in its latest issue.

Even the Staunchest Supporters of Global Warming Scam Forced to Report on Brutally Cold Winter (Wizbang)

It has been most interesting (and mildly entertaining) to see the mainstream media try to ignore the weather. That may be a lot harder to do this winter... and the televised coverage of fans huddled with ear muffs at the Orange Bowl in Miami last night certainly didn't help.

Ocean Acidification: Another Failing Scare Story? | The SPPI Blog

[Chip Knappenberger] Overall the SPPI report makes for a fascinating (although quite technical) read. I recommend it to anyone who wants to get into the nitty-gitty details of how marine organisms from corals, to phytoplankton, to fish respond to changes in the ocean’s chemistry as a result from atmospheric CO2 enrichment. By the end, after turning page after page full of examples from the scientific literature that seem to run counter to the ocean-acidification-is-most-certainly-going to-be-bad mantra, you really begin to wonder whether ocean acidification is any more than much ado about nothing.

Cold snap spurs power rationing in China | Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - Cities across eastern and central China are rationing power for industry and urging residents to limit gas use after a wave of icy weather sent energy demand soaring while straining supplies of coal that were already tight.

Waxman sees push for climate [hoax] bill in 2010 « Climate Progress