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The Seminal » The Cold Hard Reality About Global WarmingThis is why there is not a snowball’s chance in Hell that the Congress will pass any form of substantive climate change legislation this year. For those who like lists, here are three good reasons why we won’t see major progress this year.
The Case Hasn’t Been Made. The climate change case has not been made with sufficient force to galvanize enough public opinion to push legislators to vote that way, especially in an election year when politicians go into turtle mode. Events, be they the mess in Copenhagen or the exceptionally powerful cold snap we are going through, have not been on the side of climate change proponents.
Climate change: the true price of the warmists' folly is becoming clear - TelegraphThe bills for such follies are coming in thick and fast. Last winter’s abnormal cold pushed Britain’s death rate up to 40,000 above the average, more than the 35,000 deaths across Europe that warmists love to attribute to the heatwave of 2003. Heaven knows what this winter will bring. And remember that the cost of the Climate Change Act alone has been estimated by our Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband at £18 billion every year until 2050 – a law that only three MPs in this Rotten Parliament dared oppose. Truly have they all gone off their heads.
Chilly Florida Not Animal-Friendly | NBC MiamiPlain old fish aren't having it any easier. Tequesta tropical fishery owner Michael Breen says he began clearing thousands of floaters from his ponds a few days ago, and told MSNBC he expects the worst.
"If we have three consecutive days where we don't warm above 50°, the entire farm is dead no matter what we do," he said while pumps ran continuously to provide warm water to an estimated $500,000 worth of gills.
"We haven't been hit like this in a long time."
Backwards Weather To Get Wackier | NBC MiamiMiami will be under a freeze watch on Sunday
Speed skating on frozen Cambridgeshire Fens for the first time in 13 years - TelegraphMore than 200 spectators braved the bitter cold to watch the first speed skating races on the frozen Cambridgeshire Fens for 13 years.
Clean Energy: Sun, Wind, Subsidies - WSJ.comCritics say subsidies of any kind waste taxpayer dollars. But even fans of renewable energy worry this public largesse is costing too much. They say renewable energy deserves subsidies to help it mature to the point where it can compete against fossil fuel. But they are concerned that society, in its haste to roll out wind turbines, solar panels and other forms of clean power, is spending billions of dollars without spurring as much renewable energy as it could. The recession has worsened the waste, they say, as governments increase subsidies to meet renewable-energy targets and create "green" jobs.
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Some renewable-energy subsidies have been "enormously wasteful," says Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a London-based research firm.
Energy-Rich Venezuela Faces Power Crisis - WSJ.com"In a certain way, Chávez is attacking capitalism with the orders on shopping malls," said Emilio Grateron, mayor of Caracas's Chacao municipality, a bastion of those opposed to Mr. Chávez. "By limiting the hours we can go to malls, he is trying to slowly take away liberties, to create absolute control over things such as shopping."
In Venezuela, whose capital Caracas is consistently ranked among the world's most dangerous cities, residents see shopping malls as one of few havens in the country.
The Carbon Market Blinks — $130b trainwreck slows « JoNovaFor the last five years the carbon market has been doubling year after year. But in 2009, the exponential growth trajectory paused. Point Carbon issued a report this week estimating that the world wide market in carbon trading in 2009 totalled around $136 billion dollars, which is not much higher than the 2008 figure. After years of living in a rapacious bubble, prices are about 60% below the peaks of 2008, carbon traders are starting to peel out into other commodities, and the sails are looking decidedly flat on the Maxi Yacht known as Carbon-Credits Inc.
Cold weather freezes thousands of fish in OS Harbor - WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - Building South Mississippi Together |Department of Marine Resources Director William Walker says this is very common in extremely cold weather coupled with low tide. The fish become trapped in shallow water then die of hypothermia.
[So how much energy does it take to produce the Coke or Pepsi?]: This Eco Friendly Coca Cola Phone: A Better Concept for a Green World | WalyouThis one will not only generate energy from the sugary drink like our regular Coke or Pepsi, it will generate water and oxygen too as by products which is positive side about this concept and this bio battery will have to potential to operate the phone for three to four times longer then a normal, single charged lithium battery used today. It’s really a different concept to create a better world.
Year off to coldest start since 1940 - Huntsville - al.com...
The coldest start to a new year since World War II is shivering into the record books.
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The extreme weather has already claimed one life in the Rocket City. Authorities say Ronnie Warren, 52, died when the kitchen stove he was using to help heat his Hunters Ridge Drive apartment caught fire around 2:40 a.m. Friday.
Cold another name of ‘cruelty’ to Aila-affected people « BangladeshNine old persons die of cold in the last four days in three affected unions
Fires more lethal in winter months | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | Zanesville Times RecorderThe U.S. Fire Administration stated nationwide "nearly 40 percent of residential fire-related injuries and 50 percent of residential fatalities occur between the beginning of November and end of February" in a report released in December.
There are a number of reasons for this, Cooper said, most related to home heating and people being more likely to be indoors.
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DANGER OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING ALSO HEIGHTENED IN WINTER
Homeless man dies in fire made to provide heat | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleA homeless man who had been staying in a lean-to made from scraps of plywood died Friday after his clothing apparently erupted in flames from a fire he started to ward off the cold weather, Houston police said.
3 Omaha residents die in extreme cold weatherOMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Authorities say at least three Omaha residents died in this week's bitter cold.
newsdurhamregion.com | Rate of global warming has to have human causeI would ask what he thinks is making this global warming so different from all previous ones, if not human activity?
Denis Andrew
China's coal-rich province rations power amid icy weather BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's coal-abundant Shanxi rationed electricity as the province reported the most severe power shortage in three years as the current coal output fell short of demand drove up by the prolonged icy weather.
The Met Office can’t think of any warming effect other than CO2 in the past 100 years. We can. | The SPPI BlogAs for Mr. Groves’ suggestion that only CO2 can have been to blame for those two decades of recent warming, measured results published repeatedly in the peer-reviewed literature suggest that CO2 and other anthropogenic greenhouse gases cannot have been responsible for more than around one-sixth of the warming that was observed in the two crucial decades we have been studying. That makes humankind a bit-part player in the climate. The planet does not need to be saved from us after all.
For the love of God: Support Climate Change | CLIMATEGATEThe article goes on to make climate change analogies to civil rights and slavery, and it even includes an photo of Martin Luther King, and more bullshit about healing the planet, blah, blah, blah. You have to read it though–if we were to except all the crazy parts of the article, we’d have to paste in the whole damn thing. Read it yourself and post your thoughts.
Fuel bill hikes to pay for new wind farms | This is MoneyThe 'dash for wind' is being fuelled by climate change targets set by Europe.
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But critics warned that the plans were unrealistic, deeply flawed and would leave the UK dangerously dependent on wind to keep the lights burning.
Media Mayhem: Our media columnist's first annual 'Hot' or 'Not' list | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkThe weather seems headed in the opposite direction from global warming, and Arctic storm fronts blasting across North America have prompted plenty of crowing on the part of climate change deniers. From Seoul to Miami, records are falling at the bottom end of the thermometer. Globally, will 2010 turn out to be a cold year? It’s too early to tell. But things certainly have gotten off to a cool start. COOL
The climate still is heading upward though. Despite anecdotal observations that the last couple of years have been relatively cool in North America, the overall climate continues to head very convincingly in one direction.
Climate Observations: Looks Like One Prediction Came TrueFlorida Has Disappeared.
Note how the blue "Light Snow" coloring blends with the Atlantic and seems to cut off most of the Sunshine State.
Man-made Global Warming: Myth or Fact?greenlifestylemagazine.net — Mother Nature does provide ample means for climate change without the help of man. Minor changes in the Earth’s orbit and tilt are thought to be the most significant causal factors for the Ice Ages, and the sun itself has varied in intensity, causing warming or cooling. So what is the truth about global warming? Is it manmade or is it natural?
CO2 saturation and residence time – your questions answered | The SPPI BlogIndeed, as you rightly point out, about half of the CO2 we emit comes out of the atmosphere immediately and is taken up either by plants or by the oceans. The UN’s 2001 report, which had a few rare flashes of honesty absent from the 2007 report, admits that climate science is unable to add up what is called the “global carbon budget” to within 50% of the right answer, not least because it cannot explain how it is that around half of all the CO2 we emit disappears immediately from the atmosphere. This inability to come anywhere close to understanding the carbon cycle is one of many reasons why the claim in the UN’s 2007 report that it is 90% certain that more than half of the “global warming” since 1950 was caused by our CO2 emissions is false and without scientific foundation.
Letter to the Editor of New Scientist | The SPPI BlogSerious questions about the funding of ‘policy-relevant’ science should now be asked. The belief that the emission of greenhouse gases, especially from energy use, has been enshrined as ‘fact’ in international law since 1992. Scientific research was required to support this claim and hence its associated ‘solutions’ or responses. To the best of my knowledge, the CRU-hack story is not over yet and serious implications for climate ‘alarmism’ are still possible. Any enquiry should go beyond the people directly involved and include senior government figures responsible for funding and advocacy of a cause science was expected to serve.
Sincerely
Dr. Sonja A.Boehmer-Christiansen
Cartoon by David ‘Josh’ Gifford | The SPPI Blog
LED Stoplights Failing in Winter « Watts Up With That?[ABC News] LED Lights Don’t Melt Snow on Traffic Lights, Hiding Signals From Drivers
EU Referendum: Why?Gas supplies are running critically low, firms are being shut down and there is a very real prospect of electricity cuts, as the electricity generators are hammering the supply to keep up with demand.
So why is it that we are currently supplying to the French 2.2GW of power, produced from our scarce and dwindling gas supplies, via the interconnector?
The National Domestic Extremism Team may be watching you | CLIMATEGATETherefore, dear Brits…
Your government believes that Climate Change “Deniers” are extremists, and the NETCU, who reports to ACPO’s Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, is watching them.
Have a nice day.
Russ Steele: Global Warming Solutions Act could be your job killer | TheUnion.comShould we to believe CARB's modeling forecasts for thousands of green jobs? Or, should we look to the examples set by Spain and Germany who found that using stimulus funds to promote energy saving and generate green jobs have a negative effect on employment. Also, when the stimulus stopped, the jobs vanished.
What should we believe — models, or the real world? Considering the real world evidence, I think that AB32 is a job killer, and it could be your job!
NEVADA U.S. SENATE POLL: Reid hits new low in poll - News - ReviewJournal.comMore than half of Nevadans are unhappy with Sen. Harry Reid, according to a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It's the worst "unfavorable" rating he's received in the newspaper's surveys for this year's election, and it comes amid quiet speculation -- or perhaps wishful thinking by his opponents -- that it's time for the Nevada Democrat to retire rather than lose re-election.
EU Referendum: Green grows the opportunity...No doubt, the association is beneficial to TERI Europe. As the IIED is keen to assure us, it is not a "grant-making institution." Instead, its income (over £12 million in y/e 2009) is "shared with collaborators and partner organisations in joint project activities".
Nothing here, of course, is remotely illegal. These are just kindly, dedicated people toiling in the vineyard to save the poor, earning a modest crust in the process - some might say. Others might note – not always with approval – that "saving the planet" seems to be a hugely profitable enterprise.
Or, as little Nick once put it, "Green grows the opportunity".
Copenhagen: Yet Another Giant Beginning with an Uncertain End | YaleGlobal Online MagazineUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the Copenhagen Accord “a beginning.” A beginning? Wasn’t the Framework Convention on Climate Change, negotiated in 1992, a beginning? Wasn’t the Kyoto Protocol a beginning? Why, after two decades of negotiation are we still “beginning”?
Florida Orange Growers Brace for Possible Killing Freeze - WSJ.comFlorida orange growers are bracing for record cold to hit the citrus belt as an arctic blast plunges temperatures into the kill zone Saturday and Sunday nights.
Sleet and snow mixed with rain has been reported Saturday from the Tampa Bay area to near and north of Orlando, the first time snow or sleet has occurred in west-central Florida since Jan. 8, 1996, the National Weather Service in Tampa said.
The immediate Tampa Bay area hasn't seen snow since Dec. 23, 1989.
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Frozen concentrated orange juice futures have gained 17% amid fears that crop damage could be substantial, something that hasn't happened in two decades.
Snowing in Florida? Yes, it is! (photos, video)Many WFTV viewers submitted iWitness photos of the snow fall and you can see them in a slideshow here: Snowing in Orlando, Florida Photos
There is a miniature snowman that stands about six feet [?] high and a ‘snow shark.’ The snow fell as a result of record lows that have swept the nation bringing an arctic freeze to the Sunshine State.
Our Galileo, Will we do better this time? « the Air VentGuest post from Dr. Ismail Bhat, Professor & Head of Department of Geology & Geophysics at University of Kashmir. Dr. Bhat is yet another professional scientist with the understanding and credentials to challenge the consensus. This time on sea level rise, he rightly compares how the current political situation has handled prominent and reasoned disagreement to the inquisition of Galileo by the Romans. How far have we really come since Galileo’s time?
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Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner: the Galileo of our “scientific age”
Biased BBC: David Shukman on weather and climateAs far as the BBC is concerned, some weather events are more climate change than others.
Climate sceptic to add to hot air debate | Environment | Telstra BigPond News and WeatherThe man known [since when?] as the high priest of climate change sceptics, Lord Christopher Monckton, will fire up the debate with a speaking tour of Australia starting this month.
It's not snow but it's pretty close | abcactionnews.comPASCO COUNTY, FL - It's not quite snow but it's pretty close. Bay area viewers have been calling
ABC Action News with reports of sleet in Pasco, Hernando and Citrus Counties. They've even been sending us pictures.
You can definitely see the accumulation of ice and sleet on the tops of cars.
Md. saves pelicans that failed to migrate - STLtoday.comThis week, as a curtain of bitter cold descended on the region, about 40 brown pelicans were spotted — starving, freezing and in danger of dying _ on a wind-blasted shoreline in St. Mary's County. They weren't supposed to be there: The birds, relatively new arrivals on the Chesapeake Bay, usually migrate south to escape mid-Atlantic winters.
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Four years ago, Maryland officials received reports of dead pelicans washing up in wintertime. Dissections showed that they had died of starvation and cold. And the bad choice not to follow the crowd south.
Harrison, Arkansas - Cold chicken means less bread for growersBlackburn is currently raising about 85,000 chickens for Tyson Foods on his farm near Carrollton. The extremely cold temperatures have made it necessary to run his five propane-fueled heaters non-stop. He is on his second 1,000-gallon tank in three weeks.
“If this weather — and I’m a weather fanatic; I watch it all the time — holds,” Blackburn said, “at that rate, I’ll have 60 percent of what these chickens will make in propane.”
EXCLUSIVE: The real scandal of climategate: They got the math wrong - The MétropolitainThere is a dangerous misconception that we can change the climate. If the sun is the cause, it is obvious that we cannot control the sun. If the cause is CO2, then we also cannot control the atmospheric temperature. Even if we could reduce carbon emissions to zero today, the warming from CO2 currently in the atmosphere will be with us for centuries. That is how long it will take the excess CO2 to dissolve in the oceans or react with rocks.
The tale of 2 beakers -- both can't be right - washingtonpost.comI find it considerably ironic that the Jan. 3 Outlook essay "Scientists need to speak up -- and fight back," in which Chris Mooney said that scientists need to more effectively communicate with the general public on matters such as "Climategate" and differing scientific opinions, was illustrated with a picture of two beakers of differing sizes side by side, each labeled "500 ml."
Paint away the carbon dioxide - tech - 09 January 2010 - New ScientistGROWING grass on your roof and other attempts to make homes carbon neutral are mere "green bling". So says Rachel Armstrong of University College London (UCL), who suggests that her smart paint can turn buildings into carbon sinks.
Energy supplies: When the wind blows | Comment is free | The GuardianBeware of suspiciously round figures. The only certain thing about the prime minister's claim yesterday that Britain's offshore wind industry "could be worth £75bn and support up to 70,000 jobs by 2020" is that none of those three numbers will turn out to be correct.
China says achieved goal in Copenhagen climate deal | ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese negotiators achieved their goal at Copenhagen climate talks in ensuring financial aid for developing nations was not linked to external reviews of China's environmental plans, its top climate envoy said on Saturday.
Supplies reach dangerous levels, businesses struggle in arctic UK weather | The Courier-MailWITH temperatures in the some parts of UK only marginally higher than those at the South Pole, many businesses have had their gas turned off and their daily operations severely disrupted.
UK energy operator the National Grid began rationing gas yeserday in central and northwest England.
Your Television Loved Global Warming - Art HornOver the past two decades, old media exploited the human drama of AGW to boost sagging ratings. They bear a huge amount of blame for the hoax.
EU Referendum: On holdMy lips are sealed and the blog must remain silent for a week on Patchygate, not through any legal intervention – white flags are being run up the mast in that quarter as well – but simply, I have to give the newspaper the first crack of the whip.
Climate "expert" in the eye of an integrity storm | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/09/2010STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Michael Mann switched from physics to climate science back in graduate school because he thought climate offered a better chance to work "on a frontier."
He got his wish, and now, as the director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, he has experienced an aspect of frontier life more like the Wild West - a bounty on his head.
After dozens of Mann's personal e-mails were hacked in November, the tenured professor has been called a fraud, a clown, and worse by columnists and bloggers.
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"My suspicion is, this has been orchestrated at a high level," he said of the hacking.
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Mann points out that the hockey stick is not widely seen as a smoking gun implicating human activity in global warming. And it was not the giant graph used in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. That was a graph of the carbon dioxide component of our atmosphere - which also is rising sharply.
As the son of a math professor, Mann said, he was more of a computer geek than a weather weenie while growing up in Amherst, Mass. At the University of California, Berkeley, he double-majored in applied math and physics, and then went to Yale University to study condensed matter physics - which involves the complicated behavior of atoms, molecules, and electrons in semiconductors and other materials.
I Love CO2: Love it! Wear it! Stick it! Merchandise now availableGrab your shirts, stickers, hats, and even a clock, then send the pictures to us. We will publish your best CO2-loving portraits on this site. Al Gore is having nightmares already.
American Dialect Society picks 'tweet,' 'Google' as top words for 2009, decade - washingtonpost.com"Twitter" the word of 2009 and "global warming" the word of the decade.
Bitter cold stretches south, but milder weather in forecast for some - CNN.comKey West already set a record low temperature on Thursday, bottoming out at 47 degrees -- shattering the previous low set back in 1897.
Not such a silly question? | John Redwood MPThe global warming theorists were out in force on this site to condemn for me for asking a simple question of Mr Ed Miliband. They accused me of being silly, of failing to grasp the “settled science” and of wasting Parliament’s time and money. The question was “Why is the Northern hemisphere winter so cold, and which climate model predicted this?”. If the question was so wayward, why couldn’t Mr Miliband answer it?
They made a number of false claims about me. They said I did not understand the distinction they draw between climate and weather. Of course I understand that. The point at issue is when does enough weather become climate? When does a succession of cold winters and/or summers affect the averages sufficiently to change the trend? Some used to think that if it got colder – or warmer – for a decade that was “climate”. Now it appears the global warmists think it has to be a trend for 30 years.
Listen to the Earth, But Also to the Bean Counters - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online[from a reader] I agree with you, but I just want to point out the harm that is done by your statement that “reality is almost surely somewhere closer to the middle.” You have no basis for that conclusion other than the pressure against deniers and toward consensus. The facts are we don’t know, and until we know there is no way to determine if switching to other fuels will be more cost effective than building more sea walls and desalination plants. But spending our money to treat a wrongly diagnosed cause will leave little left to deal with the impacts.
Climate Feedback: Sea stars suck it upThe echinoderms - a group of marine animals including sea stars, sea urchins and sea lilies - bury much more carbon than previously suspected, finds a new study published in the journal Ecological Monographs.
Al Fin: Sun Takes Unprecedented HolidayIf multiple long, slow solar cycles begin to line up in a row -- like airliners waiting in a queue at Chicago's O'Hare -- Earth's climate may be in for a long, cold few decades.
Energy Tribune- The Persistent Delusion of ''Energy Independence'': Despite the Facts, Democrats, Republicans, and the Neoconservatives Continue To Hype Energy Autarky 1. According to the Energy Information Administration, just 18% of our oil imports come from the Persian Gulf.
2. The US produces 74% of all the energy it consumes. The remaining 26% (almost all of which is oil) is imported. And as stated above, only 18% of that 26% comes from the Persian Gulf, Thus, just 4.7% of US primary energy comes from the Persian Gulf.
Graph: Pack ice off IcelandThe graph below is also interesting. It shows that there was no pack ice off Iceland for about 180 years from 1020 to 1200 AD. So it was warmer then than now too. It seems clear that the alleged unusual warming of the late 20th century is totally bogus and nothing more than faked statistics from crooked Green/Left "scientists".
UK plans for most ambitious offshore wind project in the world will need 'supergrid' - TelegraphBut energy companies have warned that the only way to transport the electricity to land is to build a massive "supergrid" in the North Sea with Denmark, Germany and Norway. The multi-billion pound grid will also deal with the peaks and troughs caused by the intermittent nature of wind by spreading the supply of energy across a greater area when the wind blows and taking advantage from back up supplies when it is still.
Energy experts also said the UK will need to build a "gigantic new harbour", somewhere like the Humber Estuary, to deal with the equipment needed to build the turbines as well as new boats and an apprenticeship programme to deal with the skills shortage in engineering.
Global Warmists’ Mouths Frozen Shut - Ross Kaminsky - HUMAN EVENTSAfter the climate hoaxers and extortionists quietly slunk home after their utter failure in Copenhagen, one might have expected a barrage of “the end is nigh” press releases by Al Gore and friends, explaining how the refusal of governments to kneecap their economies will lead to us all being slowly convection baked to death in a never-ending trend of man-made global warming.
But apparently the alarmists have gone into hibernation…perhaps because world-wide record breaking cold would expose errors so great that even the “mainstream” news would have to call them out as full of (much needed) hot air.
Met Office: What's causing the cold weather?The current cold weather in the UK is part of the normal regional variations that take place in the winter season. It doesn’t tell us anything about climate change, which has to be looked at in a global context and over longer periods of time.
[Giles Coren]: If I hear another global warming joke, I’ll . . . - Times Online. . . go completely insane. [I think it's too late] Climate change doesn’t mean we’ll have lots of lovely [ie warm] weather all the time, you numbskulls
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Nobody who understands the science is claiming that global warming (if it happens) is going to make Britain hotter in the long run.
You hear me? Nobody is saying that, not the bleeding-heartedest, most climate-credulous ladyboy Yakult-drinker in Islington. It will do the opposite. Global warming will in the end interfere with the ocean currents, knock out the Gulf Stream, and remove the protection we have from the icy Nordic weather that is our due, as sharers of the same latitude as Siberia. Britain will get colder. So this joke about the weather just isn’t there.
The American Spectator : Oscillate ThisAs you'll learn at this link from NASA, the dominant current cold temperatures we're having (as well as warm ones we've had in the past that were attributed to greenhouse-gas driven global warming) have a lot to do with oscillation patterns, as NASA explains
Canada's growing polar bear population 'becoming a problem,' locals sayHarry Flaherty, chair of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board in the capital of Iqaluit, says the polar bear population in the region, along the Davis Strait, has doubled during the past 10 years. He questions the official figures, which are based to a large extent on helicopter surveys.
“Scientists do a quick study one to two weeks in a helicopter, and don’t see all the polar bears. We’re getting totally different stories [about the bear numbers] on a daily basis from hunters and harvesters on the ground,” he says.
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Forty years ago, old-timers living in the area around Hudson Bay were lucky to see a polar bear, Nirlungayuk says. “Now there are bears living as far south as James Bay.”
The growing population has become “a real problem,” especially over the last 10 years, he says. During the summer and fall, families enjoying outdoor activities must be on the look-out for bears. Many locals invite along other hunters for protection.
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In the Western Hudson Bay area, where harvest quotas were reduced by 80 percent four years ago, communities are complaining about the number of polar bears. “Now people can look out the window and see as many as 20 polar bears at the ice-flow edge,” Flaherty says.
During a public hearing last September focusing on the polar bear population in the Baffin Bay region, hunters reported more sightings of females with three cubs. The normal litter is one or two. Flaherty, himself a serious hunter, says the abundant food supply – primarily baby ring seals – in the area is responsible for the bigger litters.
The on-the-ground reports, if accurate, seem to contradict the official story of the beleaguered polar bear. According to the standard theory, warmer temperatures (caused by human CO2 emissions) are shrinking the ice floe, the polar bear’s main hunting ground, forcing populations to compete for a diminishing food supply. Warmer temperatures also are to blame for the loss of thicker “multi-year ice.”
Flaherty and many others disagree with the official story. “We are aware there are changes in the weather, but it is not affecting the daily life of the animals,” he says. “Polar bears hunt in the floe-edge areas, on newly formed ice, and in the fiords in search of baby seals. They don’t hunt in the glaciers [areas of multi-year ice].
“We’re not seeing negative effects on the polar bear population from so-called climate change and receding ice,” he says. He is convinced that some scientists are deliberately “using the polar bear issue to scare people” about global warming, a view widely shared by many Nunavut locals.
Weekly Address Watch: For the twenty-fourth time in twenty-six weeks, The First Green President ignores global warmingWe’re making historic investments in science and in a clean energy economy that will generate and keep the jobs and industries of the future right here in America.
GlobalComment » The Big Chill in Ireland: a lack of true gritDublin ground to a halt this week. The airport closed. The buses stopped. Thousands of commuters were stranded because it snowed. It is embarrassing to be caught on the back foot like this.
EU Referendum: Still more global warmingIt says a great deal for us as a country, and our catastrophically incompetent government that they cannot even keep the roads clear. Refuse collection has been suspended and we have not had our bins emptied since before Christmas. Civil society is gradually seizing up.
The warmists are still out in force though, defending their sacred religion and the nation treats them for what they are – a laughing stock.
Warmists buried under Britain’s snow | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog...warmists such as the Age editor or the green groups now insisting that record cold in one part of the world proves nothing have no hestitation in claiming that record heat in another part, though, proves plenty.
Twitter / Jeffrey TaylorMan, this global warming sucks. It's currently 16 degrees in OKC. That's warmer than the 8 degrees this morning. See, we need Copenhagen.
Predictions Gone South… Or North – The Prescience of Prince Charles: Only Eighteen Months To Stop Disaster!Here is England, 18 months later, covered completely by ice and snow.
Forecast: Bitter weather here through weekend; Monday looks promising» Knoxville News Sentinel Assuming we stay below freezing, we will have matched the existing record of nine consecutive days - set in February 1895 - during which highs failed to top 32 degrees.
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Meanwhile, Knoxville police said they handled more than two dozens wrecks with injuries and damage during the snow and ice storm Thursday and its aftermath today.
They did not respond to more than 120 wreck calls during the same period.
Science and Pseudoscience - Windows LiveObservation shows that despite increasing atmospheric CO2 content and accelerating human emissions, the atmospheric temperature has actually fallen since 1999. In scientific terms the hypothesis has been falsified.
This is the position of the climate sceptics and it is the proper scientific one. We are not looking for data to disprove warming, we are saying that the existing data don’t support the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Gore Effect Hits Wisconsin TodayWisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle was set to announce in Madison and Milwaukee press conferences today his "Clean Energy Jobs Act," which for some strange reason had the term "global warming" expunged from the legislation that is largely the product of his Task Force on Global Warming. Turns out he may have been stricken with the same malaise that Al Gore suffers from, as the governor's office sent out this notice to the media late this morning about the second planned presser:
The event in Milwaukee has been postponed due to weather conditions.
Both Sides Gird for Bruising Senate Debate Over EPA Amendment - NYTimes.comSenate climate legislation advocates are bracing for a floor battle this month over a Republican campaign that they fear could drag down efforts to pass a major global warming bill before the real legislative debate can start.
Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has the green light to offer an amendment on the Senate floor as soon as Jan. 20 that is aimed at halting U.S. EPA regulations on climate change.
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"It's definitely a pain in the ass," said a Democratic aide at the heart of the legislative battle.
- Bishop Hill blog - ++++Statement from Norfolk Police++++Norfolk Constabulary continues its investigations into criminal offences in relation to a data breach at the University of East Anglia. During the enquiry officers have been working in liaison with the Office of the Information Commissioner and with officers from the National Domestic Extremism Team. The UEA continues to co-operate with the enquiry however major investigations of this nature are of necessity very detailed and as a consequence can take time to reach a conclusion. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.
Climate Change Fraud - Idle Cars are the Devil's WorkshopBurlington, VT, has shortened the amount of time you can legally idle your car.
It's an effort to cut down on carbon emissions believed to contribute to global warming.
Under the ordinance change that took effect at the start of the new year, you can only let your car idle for three minutes at a time instead of five minutes. And there no longer is an exception for the winter months.
Cold Can't Shake Global Warming Faith of ABC's Blakemore | NewsBusters.org
C3: As of December 31, 2009: 12-Year U.S. Cooling Trend Is Now -11.03°F Per CenturyOverall decade-long global cooling trend has not abated. Both the U.S. and the world are definitely not experiencing global warming, in any sense of the concept. The case for AGW is without merit as temperatures have done exactly the opposite of what IPCC experts and climate models predicted a decade ago.
MUST READ: CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE by Will Alexander, SA U.N. Scientist | Climate RealistsThe predictable collapse of the Copenhagen discussions and the subsequent ridicule in the Internet make it most unlikely that meaningful international agreements will be achieved in the foreseeable future.
There is a very real possibility of a deterioration in international relations if nothing is done to bridge the ever widening gap between the alarmists and the sceptics that will also provide a face-saving exit for the politicians.
[Who is paying for this, and why?]: Stoney Creek teacher set for journey to AntarcticaLocal Grade 3 teacher Jacqueline Phillips is among a group of staff and high school students on the trip of a lifetime organized by Gatineau, Que.-based Students on Ice.
And through the magic of the Internet, she will keep in touch with her students at Gatestone Elementary School in Stoney Creek with daily blog posts.
Phillips is among nine chaperones on the trip that leaves today and lasts till Jan. 11. She will be joined by a staff of 14 scientists, oceanographers and glaciologists, as well as an artist and 65 students from Canada and around the world.
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: The green gadflys - Full CommentCaldeira’s study showed that doubling the amount of carbon dioxide while holding steady all other inputs— water, nutrients and so forth— yields a 70% increase in plant growth, an obvious boon to agricultural productivity.
Joplin Independent:Is global warming a threat to agriculture?Doesn't that mean gathering only data that support their theory? I believe this may well be just another public relations stunt by the Obama Administration to scare the American public into believing that U.S. agriculture and food production are in jeopardy so they can implement massive legislative and regulatory changes. I, for one, am not buying it, and I will not budge off of my notion that global warming is the largest man-made hoax the world has ever seen.
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Global warming's triple whammyhe oomph seems to have gone out of the supporters of dramatic solutions to global warming. From Al Gore on down, the scientists, media, NGOs and concerned members of the public have been a lot quieter.
It isn't hard to figure out why--Climategate, Copenhagen, Cold. The triple whammy.
Henry Waxman Reviews Obama'Barton said to me, 'I don't believe in global warming, I don't believe it's a problem, and I don't believe in working with you on a problem that I don't believe exists.' At least he was honest.'
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Waxman had three objectives for clean-energy legislation, known as the Waxman-Markey bill (Chairman Edward J. Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee), that would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, promote the development of new technologies and create millions of new jobs, and reduce carbon emissions that contribute to global warming [note: global warming listed third of three reasons].
A Rebuttal to a Cool Climate Paper - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comFor those out there seeing any talk of a human warming influence as a hoax, it’s also useful to note that this intellectual tussle over climate sensitivity is over how much human-produced greenhouse gases will warm the world, not if they can do so. [No kidding?]
Evil carbon-fired power plant saves manatees from global warming at Heliogenic Climate ChangeThe oil- and gas-fired plant was taken off line last year for modernization but FPL has installed a special heating system to keep waters at an attractively balmy temperature for the manatees who have been gathering at the outlet for years.
Institute for Energy Research » Blog Archive » $135,295 per Job: Obama Announces $2.3 Billion to Create 17K Green JobsLatest round of government handouts to create temporary ‘green’ jobs, line corporate fat-cat pockets
Obama’s Green Jobs Plan Will Do More Harm Than Good » The Foundry On the campaign trail Barack Obama promised if he were elected president, he would create 5 million “green collar” jobs. Today President Obama announced $2.3 billion in tax credits for a clean energy economy will ostensibly create 17,000 jobs. “Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future,” he said in a speech this afternoon.
Make no mistake; this government-run plan will kill more jobs than it aims to create.
» It’s Déjà Doom All Over Again: ‘The Fate of the Earth’ and Global Warming Hysteria - Big JournalismWe must not allow intemperate emotionalism or a preening morality to cloud the truth or to substitute a “higher” truth for the actual truth. That is propaganda, not journalism.
Kenai Borough: No to climate [hoax] compact - Juneau EmpireKENAI - After signing onto a global climate change compact in September, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly rescinded its signature Tuesday night.
With the majority of assembly members agreeing that the Alaska Coastal Communities Global Climate Change Compact could do more harm than good for the Kenai Peninsula and its economy, the assembly passed a resolution 6-3 to remove the borough's name from the compact.
BBC News - 'Wildlife in crisis' in frozen UKBritain's wildlife is being pushed to "the brink of a crisis" as sub-zero temperatures continue to grip the nation, according to conservationists.
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The harsh winter could hit bird numbers "for many years to come", they warn.
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"The extremely hard winter spanning 1962 and 1963 was arguably the single event that had the greatest impact on wildlife within living memory," said Mark Avery, the RSPB's conservation director.
"With the icy weather predicted to last at least another week, this winter could be the single greatest wildlife killer of the new millennium."
Britain Faces Temperatures As Cold as the South Pole - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.comAs Britain shivers in temperatures as cold as the South Pole, forecasters are warning there is more to come.
On the coldest night for 14 years the mercury dropped to -7.6F in the Scottish Highlands, with well below freezing temperatures elsewhere in the U.K.
FBD: Cold weather destroys an estimated €15m worth of potatoes (Ireland)January 08 2010 - The freezing weather conditions seen in Ireland over the past two weeks has had a devastating impact on potato producers, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA).
Scammed by scientists, we must dump cap-and-trade | Napa Valley RegisterDear editor, Now that the University of East Anglia Hadley Climate Research Unit has had its climate research fraud exposed for the world to see, will the madness stop with punishing the common man as a result of intentionally falsified data? Will California repeal AB 32, now based on false data? Will the federal government drop cap-and-trade? Cap-and-trade would be the largest tax ever placed on a civilian population and is based on the false premise that man is contributing to climate change via nature’s fertilizer, CO2.
Harsh winter hits Yemenis fleeing conflict: ICRC | ReutersGENEVA (Reuters) - Yemeni civilians fleeing a civil conflict in the north face harsh winter conditions that are increasing their misery, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday.
Debate heats up over IPCC melting glaciers claim - environment - 08 January 2010 - New Scientist[Hasnain] blames the IPCC for misusing a remark he made to a journalist. "The magic number of 2035 has not [been] mentioned in any research papers written by me, as no peer-reviewed journal will accept speculative figures," he told New Scientist.
"It is not proper for IPCC to include references from popular magazines or newspapers," Hasnain adds.
[In case you missed it: Helpful advice from ClimateGate fraudster Gavin Schmidt]Shortly after the post, Lucia, a PhD and specialist in fluid mechanics, received an email from prominent climatologist Gavin Schmidt from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). It said in part, “[A] word to the wise… I don’t think that bloggers are shielded under any press shield laws and so, if I were you, I would not post any content, nor allow anyone else to do so.”
US climate change legislation Q&A: what will happen in 2010? | Environment | guardian.co.ukClimate change legislation may stall in the Senate, but the federal government, and several states and cities are moving ahead. The business world is also coming on side.
FOXNews.com - 2010 Could Be Democrats' Last Chance for 'Change'Though moderate Democrats are expected to be extra cautious in supporting agenda items like climate change legislation because of the political peril some face at home, the likelihood that 2010 will be the party's last best shot at passing the reforms President Obama campaigned on could make this year a veritable derby of "change" legislation.
"The Obama administration has known for a long time that they will never, and I mean never, have 60 votes in the Senate again," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "They will never, and I mean never, have a 40-seat majority in the House again. This is as good as it's ever going to get for them. They're going to get as much as they can get while they can get it."
Climate Change Policies Are a Civil Rights Issue | GlobalWarming.orgAs I have written, almost every single policy pushed to address global warming by environmental groups hurts the poor.
Can global warming or any science be corrupted by politics? | Jack Hunter | Charleston City PaperLike Bush Republicans and the Iraq war, global warming has become an integral part of liberal identity and the Left would no more question climate change than Christian fundamentalists would question the divinity of Christ. Whether in politics, science, or both, this is exactly what blind faith is — and all the more reason to question it.
EU to pursue climate deal through G-20 - Taiwan News OnlineThe EU said Friday it will pursue a new deal on global warming through the Group of 20, since last month's U.N. climate conference of nearly 200 nations led to unwieldy negotiations that didn't accomplish much.
BBC: forecast of a mild winter 'wasn't actually wrong'. And they called climate sceptics 'deniers' – Telegraph BlogsNot since Soviet reports, circa 1952, of record tractor production figures for the Ukraine have the claims of any government agency, anywhere on earth, displayed such detachment from reality. The same applies to the BBC, which must be broken up and sold off by the government that replaces Dave in 2015. It is now churning out lies on a scale that would have made the commissar in charge of Radio Moscow under Stalin blench. The breathtaking words of Watts were followed by a studio debate involving two supporters of climate change orthodoxy. (What did you expect – Monckton, Delingpole, some revisionist deviationist from the party line?)
Beleaguered climate [hoax] bill seeks lift from Obama | ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech to Congress could indicate how badly he wants a global warming bill, which opponents say will cost U.S. jobs and raise prices -- a scary prospect for politicians trying to ride out a horrible economy in an election year.
Sec. of State To Talk Climate Change [Scam] in South Pacific | Clean SkiesSecretary of State Hillary Clinton is headed to the South Pacific to talk climate change.
The State Department says Clinton will visit Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia late next week, following a Tuesday speech on foreign policy in Hawaii.
World Climate Report » Is Earth’s Temperature Controlled by the Sun?Nicola Scafetta is an atmospheric scientist with Duke University’s highly regarded Department of Physics, and in a recent article in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, he provides an excellent introduction for us stating “Estimating the solar contribution to global mean air surface temperature change is fundamental for evaluating the anthropogenic contribution to climate change. This is regarded as one of the most important issues of our time. While some theoretical climate model studies indicate that the solar variability has little effect on climate (these studies estimate that less than 10% of the global warming observed since 1900 is due to the sun), several empirical studies suggest that large climatic variations are well synchronized with solar variations and, therefore, climate is quite sensitive to solar changes.”
World Climate Report » UPDATE: 2009 Another Normal Year in the U.S.The annual average temperature for the U.S. in 2009 was 53.13°F, just a smidgen above the long-term (1901-2000) average. This now marks two years in a row in which the U.S. annual average temperature has returned back to normal after its recent 10-yr stint in the much above normal category.
It’s Cold and My Car is Buried in Snow - How Can Global Warming be Happening?“Climate scientists aren’t at all surprised that there are more drenching rain or blizzards in certain parts of the country,” said Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel, a climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). “That’s consistent with well-documented climate change trends over the past several decades. Unless we take some dramatic steps to curb global warming, we likely will see a lot more regional precipitation over the next few decades.”
Opinion : We are being manipulated by charlatans - Inside Tucson BusinessThere will always be new scares although none will ever achieve the universal penetration of global warming/climate change. That one is still believed by a remarkable number of people. Part of the reason is that Gore cut governments all over the world in on the action. He showed them how they could extract huge suns of money from the people to make sure the sun didn’t get too hot or too cool. And the global acceptance of the climate change hypothesis was self authenticating.
» As Climategate Becomes Pressgate, Questions for the Media - Big JournalismWe tried numerous times to get a response from either reporters or editors at the Associated Press, but was told that none of the five reporters who worked on the article nor their editors had time to answer any questions. “Well, that won’t happen at this time anyway,” Jack Stokes, Manager of Media Relations with the Associated Press, said when asked if any of those involved with the story could comment even briefly.
» Peer-to-Peer Review: How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement, Part I - Big JournalismRemember these names: Steven Mosher, Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Jeff “Id” Condon, Lucia Liljegren, and Anthony Watts. These, and their community of blog commenters, are the global warming contrarians that formed the peer-to-peer review network and helped bring chaos to Copenhagen – critically wounding the prospects of cap-and-trade legislation in the process. One may have even played the instrumental role of first placing the leaked files on the Internet.
This group can be thought of as the first cousins to Andrew Breitbart’s collective of BIG websites – obsessively curious, grassroots investigators that provide vision to the establishment’s blind eye.
Twitter / Rob ReinaldaLet's take the idiots who look at a foot of snow and say "What global warming?" and put 'em on a shrinking ice floe with hungry polar bears.
John Derbyshire reads the Bard of Belle Meade.A dramatic reading of One Thin September Soon.
Pennsylvania governor bracing for cold - UPI.comHARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The governor of Pennsylvania [Ed Rendell] signed an emergency declaration to ease restrictions on gas and heating fuel deliveries because of cold weather.
[Last month: Pennsylvania governor wants to save us from devastating warmth]"The recommendations in the plan not only can help stave off environmental devastation due to climate change but will have enormous beneficial impact on our economy," said Governor Rendell. "The Climate Change Advisory Committee estimates the plan could result in the net creation of 65,000 new full-time jobs and add more than $6 billion to the state's economy."
The Canadian Press: Snow on French Mediterranean, parents fight for sleds, as Europe shivers through cold snapLast weekend, avalanches killed seven people in Switzerland at the start of its ski season.
...[London] A charity call centre set up to help the elderly cope with the snow and ice was shut down because workers could not get to the office.
Deep snow in Lanarkshire, Scotland, leftAlec Allison using a tractor to clear itfrom the roads of his farm.But that didn't help his sheep. At one point, he used a long stick to search snowdrifts where he found and freed one of his sheep.
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Norway is facing its lowest temperatures in more than two decades. The mercury dropped Friday to -42C (-44F) at Roros airport, in central Norway - the coldest temperature measured in mainland Norway since 1987.
TheTandD.com | Cold weather bringing an early end to S.C. shrimpingCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Plummeting water temperatures are causing South Carolina officials to call an early end to the fall shrimping season.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reports Friday the fall season of commercial shrimping will end Monday night, nearly two weeks early.
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In the winter of 2000-2001, prolonged water temperatures of about 46 degrees killed roughly 98 percent of the shrimp population, which took two seasons to recover.
It’s Freezing: Must Be Global Warming by Mona Charen on National Review OnlineFor more than a decade now, the climate avengers have seized upon every warm summer, forest fire, hurricane, and tornado to grind their axe.
The American Spectator : Leftist Intelligentsia DementiaThe Copenhagen Climate summit demonstrated once again the leftist intelligentsia's visceral anti-capitalism. First from global cooling then to global warming and now to climate change, like elitist bloodhounds they follow the trail relentlessly through tangled inconsistencies in hope of catching their prey. And the scent remains strong: the capitalist system.
Copenhagen: U.N. Sponsored a Sad Waste of Energy, Passion, and Money | Richmond Times-DispatchRemember, the American taxpayer is on the hook for almost 20 percent of this idiocy.
Cold Is Weather; Heat Is the Wrath of the Climate Gods - Brendan O’Neill - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineThe greens who criticize people simply for asking probing questions about snowy weather events employ dastardly double standards. It is okay for them to interpret every hot summer and occasional flood as evidence that eco–Judgement Day is on its way, but it is not okay for anyone else to say: “Hey, it’s snowing. Maybe the warming of the planet isn’t happening as fast as we thought.” The real problem is not “national idiocy” but the way in which the environmentalist powers-that-be are resurrecting, in secular, pseudo-scientific lingo, the old religious idea that freak weather is punishment for mankind’s follies, and arguing that we must all lower our horizons and change our lifestyles if we don’t want to die in a flood or be burnt to a crisp in a bush fire.
Houston expected to dip below 20 degrees | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleThe Arctic blast that has gripped the Houston region and much of the state is expected to send temperatures to 20 degrees or below tonight for much of the region.
The National Weather Service predicts readings to drop to between 17 and 20 degrees over the western two-thirds of Harris County, northern Liberty County, all of Fort Bend County and points north. The record for the date is 19, last tied in 1996.
Dead man found in Heights likely victim of exposureBillings police officers early today found the body of a man who apparently died from exposure in the cold.
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The temperature was 9 degrees with a wind chill factor of minus 30 degrees.
Google Applies to Become Power Marketer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.comThe Internet search company, which consumes vast amounts of electricity to run the computers in its data centers, created a subsidiary last month called Google Energy.
Meadville Tribune - Fair barn's collapse not first time for Cover-AllAt least five others built by Cover-All or a related company, Summit Structures LLC, have collapsed since 2002 — three of which were due to heavy snow on their roofs, according to the Associated Press.
Cow muck saves farmer from snow death | News | Farmers GuardianA THICK layer of cow muck saved a Scottish farmer from certain death yesterday after the roof of his barn, weighed down with several feet of snow, collapsed on top of him.
Despite record cold, likely rain and slight shot at snow, officials put a wildfire watch in effect for this weekend. | Ocala.com | Star-Banner | Ocala, FLFloridians this week have wrapped themselves in heavy coats, stocked up on space heaters and winterized their gardens and homes. Now it looks like North Central Florida could get another taste of a real winter - snow.
Residents from St. Augustine south to Leesburg may wake up Saturday morning to snow flurries, thanks to successive cold fronts that have chilled the state to the bone and set record lows from the Panhandle to the Space Coast, meteorologists say.
On Thursday morning, Ocala set a record low at 21 degrees, far below the previous record of 28 set in 1928, according to the National Weather Service in Jacksonville. Record lows also were set in Orlando, Gainesville, Melbourne and Vero Beach.
Icy hazards persist through US, deep into SouthSnowfall was heaviest in Minnesota and parts of South Dakota, where blowing winds piled up drifts too big for snowplow drivers to clear. In Illinois, six snowplows were involved in accidents.
Nowhere was it colder than in Bismarck, N.D., where wind chills hit 52 below zero Thursday and the temperature reached 14 below. Wind chills were still near 50 below in the Dakotas for a second day.
Al Gore to give keynote at Phoenix education conference - Hot Off The Press (release)(PHOENIX, Dec. 14, 2009) – The best and brightest innovators and innovations of the education world will soon gather at the Phoenix Convention Center. Hosted by the Scottsdale, Arizona-based EDU Research Group, the EduRG Conference 2010 will be held February 27-28, 2010, providing a venue for students, teachers, businesses and technology to work together for the betterment of higher education.
Coldest spell in Wiltshire mocks at Al Gore - dnaindia.comWhat I meant was that just as I was beginning to believe the propaganda I read day after day for global warming, the coldest spell for 50 years hits England where I am — stranded in Dairy Cottage in a valley in Wiltshire, the home of Vidia Naipaul where I was visiting for two days before waking up on the third with a foot of snow on the window sills, the valet around white and the roads clogged to impassability.
News Hounds: Fox Nation "Asks" Is (Al Gore) A Joke Now?That was all the Fox Nation folks needed for a top-of-the-page headline, "Gore Mocked Over Freezing Temps: Is He A Joke Now?"
I don't think any serious-minded person thinks Gore is a joke. But Fox Nation's claim to impartiality and its supposed commitment to mutual respect and national unity is.
Al Gore to Speak at ALA Midwinter - 1/8/2010 - School Library JournalFormer vice president and environmental activist Al Gore will deliver the Arthur Curley Memorial lecture as part of the American Library Association’s (ALA) midwinter meeting in Boston next month.
Gore, considered an expert on climate change, is the author of Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis, (2009) An Inconvenient Truth (2007), The Assault of Reason (2007, all Viking,) and Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Houghton, 1980).
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Gore will speak at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, January. 16 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
45% Say Random Group From Phone Book Better Than Current Congress - Rasmussen Reports™A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 45% of likely U.S. voters now think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress. That’s up 12 points from October 2008, just before the last congressional elections. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagree, and another 19% are not sure.
Freezing Away in Global Warming-villeOh, wait. That’s right. There’s nothing but flawed computer models, conjecture, and hysteria to support the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming. All the real scientific evidence points overwhelmingly to natural and cyclic climate change going back thousands of years.
Manatees Crowd Into Canal For Warmth - News Story - WFTV OrlandoAt one point Friday morning there were about 100 manatees crowded into the little canal, seeking warmth...If the cold snap doesn't break and the creatures start to develop more severe signs of cold stress, the state could take unprecedented action and set up triage sites. They can not throw food to the manatees, because that would be interfering with their natural desire to seek out food.
There are a few manatees in the canal that are already showing some signs of cold stress, their skin turning a lighter gray.
Biologists say cold stress can lag about a week or more behind the cold temperatures so even if it warms up, they are worried about whether the animals are going to survive.
Just in Time for Winter : CJR...useful stories explaining the current cold-weather patterns are “missing in action.” [during heat waves, does the mainstream media provide lots of useful stories explaining warm-weather patterns?]
Heavy snow hampers traffic, blocks roads in Spain : Travel GeneralMadrid - Heavy snowfall hampered traffic in northern Spain on Friday, causing chaos in cities such as Santiago de Compostela, traffic officials said. The border pass into France was reopened at La Jonquera, but around 100 road links remained affected, with more than 10 of them closed around the country. Some schools suspended classes in the north.
Snowy Ireland runs out of salt, but not broken bonesIreland has been gripped by its longest cold spell since 1963.
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Lakes in the normally temperate west of Ireland have frozen for the first time in living memory and teenagers have been driving all-terrain vehicles on the ice on Lake Mourne in County Donegal despite warnings from the police of the dangers.
Prolonged cold spells in this normally rain-soaked island on the Atlantic are so rare that people still talk about the “Big Snow” of 1947, which lasted seven weeks and caused the ground to freeze so hard that the dead could not be buried.
“This cold spell is going on and on and could very well break records,” said Ray Bates, adjunct professor of meteorology at University College Dublin. Ireland rarely has snowfall, he explained, “because during the summer the Atlantic stores heat which it gives off in winter and the prevailing south west winds pick up that heat and brings it to us in the winter.”
Kids' Krafts: Make a penguin to celebrate [massive scientific fraud]It seems appropriate to bring attention to the plight of the penguin on Positively Penguin Day Jan. 9 with these instructions to make a penguin.
[Op-Ed] Korea’s Cold Wave The Korea Meteorological Administration’s weather forecast was 91.9 percent accurate last year, but has tarnished its reputation after failing to release accurate snowfall predictions around Christmas and the New Year. For example, it forecast heavy snow for Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Gangwon Province Dec. 29. Yet the three regions saw just sleet that day. The weather agency also predicted snowfall of 10 centimeters in Seoul Monday, but 26 centimeters ended up falling. Given its failure to release accurate weather forecasts, the agency was flooded with criticism. Many question why the weather body keeps giving inaccurate snow forecasts despite having a supercomputer worth tens of millions of dollars.
The heavy snowfall has been followed by a cold wave. The temperature in Seoul fell as low as minus 13.6 degrees Celsius yesterday, the lowest in 47 months.
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Critics say the Korean weather body blames global warming whenever it releases an inaccurate forecast. To improve its weather predictions, renowned meteorologist Ken Crawford was hired to head the agency with a salary higher than that of the president. Crawford yesterday announced 10 measures to provide more accurate forecasts including enhancement of radar management. Yet weather forecasts issued by humans despite advanced technology inevitably faces limitations. To correctly forecast the weather, a super computer should analyze data and calculate equations more than a million times. It is impossible for modern science to predict how fast and in what direction cigarette smoke will move five seconds later. So is predicting the constantly changing weather any easier?
Decline in Jobs Influenced by Bad [ie, cold] Weather - Real Time Economics - WSJThe headline decline of 84,000 jobs in the December employment report was worse than expected, but a key culprit may be the weather.
Gwyneth Paltrow swaps details with a member of the public after her 4x4 skids into the back of another car | Mail OnlineThe four-wheel drive on her Chelsea tractor of a BMW 4x4 failed to save her from the prang with a little red Kia as she drove along a treacherous stretch of frozen road.
Flashback: A Skeptic's Guide to Copenhagen - Page 1 - The Daily BeastG is for green, a mantra, a shibboleth, a way of life; the Guardian (house journal of the global-warming platoons); and Gwyneth Paltrow, who has said that she can "just feel" it getting globally warmer in her bones
Great Spoof of Corporate Greenies - Steven Hayward - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineGE, Chevron, and other corporate giants who show off their green credentials with splashy ads get their much-deserved comeuppance with this spoof ad for Veridian Dynamics, from ABC's Better Off Ted. The Office-inspired clone is rumored for imminent cancellation by the nitwork, I mean, network. Worth a view, and a shout to ABC to please spare us another cheap idiot reality show.
Al Gore’s Inconvenient Loot | I Hate Al GoreIf Gore’s motivation in pushing Global Warming is so altruistic, was it really necessarily for the already wealthy Gore to establish a multi-million dollar corporation in England to cash in? And given the history of Gore and Knight, are these people we should trust to drive a re-vamping of the world economy at the same time they’re lining their pockets because of our much smaller carbon footprints?
EU Referendum: A very, very sick jokeAnd just when you need it most, [the wind doesn't blow]. We're peaking at 59GW and wind was supplying a pathetic 3.5 percent of installed capacity, delivering a mere 147MW just after midnight, or 0.3 percent of our total power requirement. Coal, on the other hand, was bashing out 48.3 percent while gas came in second place with 33.2 percent.
Wind? This is a very, very sick joke.
Waxman-Markey’s impact on housing prices — more than your average postage stamp | GlobalWarming.org...the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) estimates that W-M could increase the purchase price of a new home by $1,371 to $6,387, and that this would have the effect of making 337,000 to 1.57 million households unable to qualify for a home mortage. Repeat after me: “Law of Unintended Consequences!”
Exposing the global warming myth - Community Press - Ontario, CAGeorge Sander's letter on the questionable practices of global warming profiteers ("Looking to feed at the taxpayers' trough") is a pearl. It helps derail the myth of global warming. In the past it has been so much easier for media to print prepared text from legitimate sounding organizations, because there was little reason to question their science. The e-mails mentioned in Mr. Sander's letter have revealed that these organizations were not legitimate but seemingly legitimate. With willing associates, they concocted highly dubious 'science'.
His final paragraph bears repeating in full: "This whole thing is just a big money game, with corporations on either side of the debate looking to feed at the taxpayers' trough." [Via Skeptic's Corner]
BBC News - Life in extreme cold around the worldIn the north-eastern Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the village of Oymyakon is commonly called the coldest populated place on Earth. Situated in an area of Siberia nicknamed "Stalin's Death Ring" (a former destination for political exiles), Oymyakon boasts an average winter temperature of -45C, with a one-time world record low of -71.2C. [Note that the benevolent Stalin sent his enemies to a very cold place, where they could enjoy life without kidney stones and dengue fever.]
Pressure Ridges | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar ScientistsIn the background, you can see a new feature on the Antarctic landscape: Scott Base has built three windmills for power.
How Scott Base WorksPOWER AND FUEL SUPPLY
* 400V 50Hz power supply
* 600 kW power generation capacity
* 2 main generators; 1 auxiliary generator
* Generators fuelled with AN8 (Aviation Turbine Fuel)
* 270 000 litres of fuel used annually
2008: Catching the Wind in Antarctica - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comMcMurdo bought its fuel last year for $2.86 a gallon — not a bad price — but it comes all the way from Greece, where a refinery creates a special formulation meant to resist extremely cold temperatures, which can turn the fuel into a useless gel.
The tanker makes the last few hundred miles of the trip trailing a Swedish icebreaker.
And if the fuel is taken from McMurdo on the 1,100-mile trip to the base at the South Pole, it is often flown in a C-130 cargo plane that burns 700 gallons an hour for the three-hour flight — each way. The result is that the trip burns two gallons for every one gallon delivered.
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With few alternatives in the harsh conditions, “diesel is still very much the lifeblood of the Antarctic,’’ said Mr. Stone.
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