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Government 'scientific advisers': who needs these nuts in white coats? – Gerald Warner - Telegraph BlogsThanks to climate change scams, swine flu and a whole host of own-goals, the status of the white-coated prima donnas and narcissists has never been lower in the public esteem. It was Rush Limbaugh, of all unlikely candidates, who at the height of the Climategate exposé made the thoughtful point that more than climate was at stake: the credibility of the entire scientific community was collapsing. He was right. After a period of priest-like authority, the pointy-heads in lab coats have reassumed the role of mad cranks they enjoyed from the days of Frankenstein to boys’ comics in the 1950s.
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Despite all this, Professor Nutt opposed the reclassification of cannabis as a Class B drug. In that purblind opposition he betrayed his detachment from real life. So do his colleagues in the global warming lobby. The public is no longer in awe of scientists. Like squabbling evangelical churches in the 19th century, they can form as many schismatic sects as they like, nobody is listening to them any more. Unquestioned authority derived from a white coat and a doctorate is as dead as the Druids.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: New Scientist Wants an ExplanationI discussed this situation last month in a post in which I argued that the problem here is not that the IPCC made a mistake. That is just troubling. The greater problem is how the IPCC has responded to having a mistake pointed out...
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That the IPCC has made some important mistakes is very troubling, but perhaps understandable given the magnitude of the effort. Its reluctance to deal with obvious errors is an even greater problem reflecting poorly on an institution that has become too insular and politicized.
Unfortunately, the glacier error is not unique. The IPCC contains a number of other egregious errors that also deserve some answers.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cuban cold snap kills 26 patients in mental hospitalIt’s also worth pointing out that a mass of people dying of hypothermia in the tropics doesn’t exactly bolster the claims of global-warming activists.
Is the NOAA, not CRU, is ground zero for exaggerated global warming data? | CLIMATEGATESmith and D’Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations.
Investors.com - Will Californians Repeal Cap-And-Trade?A 2009 study by economists at California State University, Sacramento, commissioned by the California Small Business Roundtable, found that implementation costs for AB32 "could easily exceed $100 billion" and that the program would raise the cost of living by $7,857 per household each year by 2020.
"This has been the blind leading the blind, political correctness that has collapsed the economy in California," says Logue. "California already has the fifth-cleanest air in the country, so why are we doing this when no one else is?" California obviously wants to lead by example, even if it means going over an economic cliff.
Climategate Controversy Roils the Insurance Industry - Hit & Run : Reason MagazineIf the CRU Climategateers and other climate change researchers had been as transparent about their science as the insurance commissioners are demanding that insurance companies be, this controversy would likely never have arisen.
Lawrence Solomon: Better off with Bing - FP CommentWhy would Google want to tamp down interest in climategate? Money and power could have something to do with it. Search for Google and its founders and you’ll see that they have made big financial bets on global warming through investments in renewable and other green technologies; that they have a close relationship with Al Gore, that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is close to Barack Obama.
Son of Climategate! Scientist says feds manipulated dataReporting points in coldest regions simply eliminated by U.S. agencies
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In a one-two series of Climategate aftershocks that assuredly will further rattle the global warming community, a report has been issued by U.S. researchers accusing government agencies of cherry-picking temperature readings used to assess global temperatures, and a series of embarrassing e-mails were released revealing what happened when a blogger dared to point out a mistake by NASA climate scientists.
The Texas Drought, The Florida Chill -- Climate Change?Lisa Goddard, a scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, who also spoke at the conference, said in an interview that studies that distinguished more clearly between "natural variability" in the short run and "man-made climate change" could not only reduce public confusion but also could be useful tools for government officials, farmers and others.
Doesn’t feel like globe is warming | Bernie Kuntz | Jamestown, North DakotaI suppose I shouldn’t poke fun of the people who have turned “global warming” into their own religion, but I am sincerely waiting for some warmer weather. I understand that global warming zealots are in line for billions of dollars of grants and other contracts, and I am fully aware of the almost comical e-mail leaks of scientists who manipulated data about the earth’s temperature.
10 freeze to death in a week in Delhi; power cuts, fog back- Hindustan TimesIn the past week, at least 10 homeless persons have died of suspected hypothermia — when the body attains below normal temperature.
Harsh Winter Taking Its Toll On UK EquinesHorses across the UK are getting into strife as record snow falls and temperatures plummet.
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The DSPCA (Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) says they expect up to 1000 horses to die this winter.
Carlisle OAPs still trapped in homes due to icePensioners living on a Carlisle street have been trapped in their homes since Christmas because of the icy conditions.
Puzzle me this: climate change theory allows no ice ageLord Monckton's concept is based on the idea that the calculations have inflated the warming potential of greenhouses gases by about six times.
Cold weather blamed for death of patients - CubaTwenty-six patients at Cuba's largest hospital for the mentally ill died this week during a cold snap, the government said yesterday.
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The statement came in response to reports from the independent Cuban Commission on Human Rights that at least 24 mental patients died of hypothermia this week, and that the hospital did not do enough to protect them from the cold because of problems such as faulty windows.
Commission head Elizardo Sanchez said that so many patients dying of hypothermia was "absurd in a tropical country" and claimed the deaths could have been prevented if the government had granted long-standing requests from international aid groups to tour Cuba's medical facilities, including the capital's 2,500-bed mental hospital.
Chip Knappenberger: We're warming. But not so fast - TwinCities.comIt boils down to this: Current climate models overestimate the amount of warming we should expect from our carbon dioxide emissions, and thus actions aimed at limiting carbon dioxide emissions will have less of an impact on climate than is anticipated. In other words, we'll be going through a lot of effort for little result — if mitigating climate change is the name of the game.
Met Office to review forecasts after failing to warn public of fresh snow - TelegraphThe Met Office has admitted that it failed to warn the public of the heavy snow that brought swaths of Britain to a standstill on Wednesday.
Rudd the songA Michael Smith Drive listener has emailed in his parody of the Kenny Rogers song ‘The Gambler’, attacking Kevin Rudd’s latest comments about sceptics and climate change deniers being “radicals”. Listen into this hilarious outtake.
The Noble Lord is right | The SPPI BlogFrom The Lord Donoughue
(Hansard, House of Lords, 14 January 2009, cols. 645-646)
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In conclusion, this debate should not be between those who allegedly nobly wish to save the planet by radical decarbonisation and the selfish deniers who do not care for the future of the world. We must continue seeking practical ways to cleanse our environment. Above all, we must seek for objective science to establish what is happening to our ever-changing climate. I hope that we will not rush into panic measures that fatally damage our western economy. We must make sure that we get the scientific facts right and that our policy responses are ones of proportionate adaptation.
Daily Pundit » Climate Scam Update.So if the data doesn’t fit the theory and you can’t “adjust” it, ignore it or claim it is in error.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Rasmussen: Three different Republicans within six points of Boxer in CaliforniaDeep blue state, profoundly unlikeable Democrat, heavy baggage from Hopenchange, Republican upstart uncomfortably close: This sounds familiar.
Al Gore drops on newspaper's annual list of most influential US liberals; calls Gore 'the bogeyman for climate change sceptics', and cites accusations of 'massive conflict of interest', errors in AIT, etc. | GORE LIEDPakistan: Climate change [or possibly witchcraft?] affecting crop output, says OxfamThe overall temperature in some of these areas has been forecast to increase by as much as 5.3 per cent [?] over five to six decades, rising almost every year.
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Crops are now sown 15-20 days later than before and are harvested early – an effect of increasing temperatures.
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The report said the summers have become hotter and winters much warmer across these areas. In some areas, communities have noticed some degree of cooling during the monsoon season over the years. The respondents also reported their livestock getting sick more frequently. In the past the cattle used to be sick mostly in winters, but now exposed to more sickness they are consuming more resources to be cured.
A global warming sucker punchAt some point it will be clear to even the most casual observer that one side in the global warming debate fights dirty.
Review: “Global Warming: The Other Side” | CLIMATEGATEE.Michael Smith notes “When doing a benchmark test of the program, I found patterns in the input data from NCDC that looked like dramatic and selective deletions of thermometers from cold locations.” Smith says after awhile, it became clear this was not a random strange pattern he was finding, but a well designed and orchestrated manipulation process. “The more I looked, the more I found patterns of deletion that could not be accidental. Thermometers moved from cold mountains to warm beaches; from Siberian Arctic to more southerly locations, and from pristine rural locations to jet airport tarmacs. The last remaining Arctic thermometer in Canada is in a place called ‘The Garden Spot of the Arctic,’ always moving away from the cold and toward the heat. I could not believe it was so blatant and it clearly looked like it was in support of an agenda,” Smith says
Adjusting Davis at Heliogenic Climate Change
New Scientist: Oops, the glaciers won’t have melted by 2035 | CLIMATEGATEThe wheels are falling off…
Watts Up With NASA? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineBut for now, take a gander at this e-mail from the New York Times's Andrew Revkin to James Hansen — included below one of Hansen's missives massaging Andy's late entry into the fray with an apologia for which NASA's Reto Ruedy later gushed in thanks (causing Andy to despair, in apparent further apology that he couldn't do more, that the issue had become difficult for him to ignore). The thread is dated August 23, 2007:
i never, til today, visited http://www.surfacestations.org and found it quite amazing. if our stations are that shoddy, what's it like in Mongolia?
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Speaking of crummy data and Mongolia — among other neighboring locales — some amazing discoveries have trickled into the open that will also receive a further airing shortly. Who knew that, for example, tiny China needs only 35 stations to tell us the country's surface temperature within a hundredth of a degree . . . such that more than 350 could be closed? We know the China data is valid.
AccuWeather.com Video - February Will Make You Shiver, with This Idea I Deliver[Interesting Joe Bastardi video] The coldest start to an El Nino winter since the '70s, in the wake of the thaw, may have a top 10-15 cold February nationwide.
Earthquakes didn't kill Haitians - Underdevelopment didThe reason so many people died in Haiti is because its people live in poorly built houses and have not benefited from development which brings with it cities and houses which can withstand earthquakes.
But guess who are the most active opponents of cities and modern concrete housing?
The environmental movement, sees cities and growing urbanization as "unsustainable" and something that must be stopped.
The Reference Frame: Czar Sunstein planned to infiltrate your homeThe "best response" according to Sunstein and Vermeule is for the government to "cognitively infiltrate" all the groups of people who believe any conspiracy theories - for example the "extremist group" of 200 million of the U.S. global warming skeptics. Government should take over their lives, "enlist independent groups to supply rebuttals" (I am sure that Real Climate and others have already been enlisted haha), and do many other things that guarantee that only state-sponsored propaganda may be printed in the newspapers or shown on TV.
I kid you not. Read the paper. That's what they propose as a "fix" to the "problem".
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I am flabbergasted that similar borderline mentally ill people work at the top posts of the U.S. government.
More on Earthquakes Caused by Global Warming Nonsense » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things BlogThe Danny Glover foot in mouth nonsense about the earth reacting to the failure of Copenhagen brought two such stories to mind from our archives. First, trying to stop global warming by harnessing geothermal energy has caused earthquakes and resulted in lawsuits. Second, when the media was out to destroy all policies Bush, including dropping Kyoto, CBS and MSNBC swallowed whole a science quack’s claim that global warming would cause earthquakes.
Leah Lamb: Tits and Ass or Climate Change? Welcoming the Environmental Journalist to the Endangered Species list[Lovely piece by the Online Producer of Al Gore's Current.com Green Channel] If you are still looking for something to add to your new year's resolution list, (make sure I introduce myself to 10 new journalists covering the environmental beat); Below is a list of journalists suggested by the Society of Environmental Journalism. Also included are journalists who were suggested via twitter and facebook
Climategate chapter 2--more nails in coffin of 'global warming'In fact, the Jones Gang and other flat-earthers of the 'global warming' religion saw the research of Soon and Baliunas as such a threat to their preset agenda that they advocated 'dealing with them severely.'
And now it is our turn to deal severely with the charlatans of the Climategate scandal.
Haiti and Climate Change: What’s the Real Problem? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.Natural disasters will occur with or without global warming and their frequency or intensity cannot be linked to global warming. The answer to natural disasters is not to try to change the temperature but rather focus on increasing economic growth. Markets and economic growth will lead to stronger houses with solid floors and roofs, and paved roads with more accessibility. Countries and cities can devote resources to building better levees, rebuilding sand dunes and upgrading buildings to withstand damage.
Young: Everybody's an expertQuite a few climate deniers, remotes in hand, will cite a recent made-for-Fox-News tempest in which hacked e-mails between climatologists were portrayed as undermining the numbers about global warming.
It makes for good TV, but analysis of the 1,073 e-mails in question, involving a team of five [expert?] Associated Press reporters, found "the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked."
"Don't confuse me with the facts," could be a slogan for the modern-day understanding of expertise. Or what's a Sarah Palin for? A "contributor" for Fox News, that's what.
The Daily Bayonet » Disovered: New Species About to be Snuffed Out by Global WarmingThe new species aren’t ‘formally described by science‘, but that doesn’t stop the ’scientists’ claiming that the new species are doomed by global warming.
Maybe these frogs and lizards like the warmth.
The food carbon [swindle] calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming? - SmartPlanet.comHelene York, vice president of strategic partnerships at Bon Appétit demos the company's Low Carbon Diet Calculator. The software tool allows users to calculate the carbon emissions created in everyday meals such as cheeseburgers, tacos and chicken sandwiches and then they can decide how their food choices impact the environment.
Asset International / AI5000 - Study: From 2000 to 2008, Climate-Change [Hoax] Funding More Than DoublesIn 2008, funders granted more than $850 million in climate-change grants. [How much did climate realists get in 2008?]
[Highly dubious claims]: Wind-powered resorts leave a smaller footprint - The Globe and MailOthers, such as Grouse Mountain in B.C. and Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts, are powering themselves with their own wind turbines; Jiminy was the first resort in North America to have its own wind turbine when it went up in 2007, supplying about half the resort's energy needs, and the Grouse turbine will supply up to 25 per cent of the area's power needs in the winter when it is fully operational this month.
Aspen, Colo., is considered one of the greenest resorts, Scott says. It has been working on its sustainable credentials for a long time, and the city and the Aspen Skiing Company are now listed on the Chicago Climate Exchange, meaning they actually lose money [to the tune of a dime per ton of CO2?] if they don't stick to targets.
ClimateGate's Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds - WSJ.comAs NewsBusters reported on November 28, Penn State University is investigating Professor Michael Mann, the creator of the discredited "Hockey Stick Graph," for his involvement in an international attempt to exaggerate and manipulate climate data in order to advance the myth of manmade global warming.
According to the conservative think tank the National Center for Public Policy Research, Mann received $541,184 in economic stimulus funds last June to conduct climate change research.
Climate Change Fraud - Scott Brown, global warming realist, surges ahead in new pollsEd. Note: If you're a resident of Massachusetts, or as Martha Coakley spells it, Massachusettes, be sure to vote in the Jan. 19 special election. Electing Scott "Cosmo" Brown will make him the prized 41st vote which will in effect block the Democrat's efforts to send the U.S. back into the stone age via Cap-and-trade legislation, as well as stomping on the EPA's new totalitarian regime.
Fossil Fuel Use 2034? Not Much Different. - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comA quarter century from now the United States’ reliance on fossil fuels will have declined only marginally, according to a projection from Black & Veatch, the engineering and energy consulting firm.
Global Warming Debate Won't Cool Down - Sphere NewsNot all scientists believe that the science related to global warming has been settled, and they remain skeptical of global warming. Many skeptics are well-respected scientists; at least one is a Nobel Prize winner.
The Energy Collective | An endangered species: the environmental reporterEnvironmental reporters know when they’re being duped by faux experts; political or GA reporters don’t.
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Sadly, the environmental reporter has become an endangered species. I heard yesterday that the Oregonian just disbanded its environmental reporting team and made them all into general assignment reporters. Also yesterday Keith Johnson announced that his Wall Street Journal blog Environmental Capital was “closing its virtual doors.” In October, the prestigious Columbia School of Journalism announced it had stopped accepting applications for its Earth and Environmental Science Journalism program because of “the current weakness in the job market for environmental journalists.” In a letter to its faculty, the school wrote “media organizations across the country are in dire financial straits and thousands of journalists’ jobs have been eliminated. Science and environment beats have been particularly vulnerable.”
Will of American people will never be able to stop global-warming myth | The News-Sentinel - Fort Wayne INGlobal warming (GW) has been the perfect ruse for us. It allows us to achieve all our goals and to do so in a way that is underhanded, yet allows us to claim that we are literally “saving the planet.”
Once we get the desired treaties and laws in place, think of all we will be able to do.
Sue Cischke: Ford's Actions Speak to Climate Change PositionAt the end of the day, we believe our position on climate change is very clear. You know it by our actions. You see it in our commitment to reduce the CO2 emissions from both our products and facilities. Bottom line - we are doing what's right for our customers and the environment.
[Ford ramps up production of SUVs] | Washington ExaminerTake, for instance, Ford's announcement yesterday that due to growing demand, it is ramping up production of two of its least fuel-efficient products, the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.
Expedition sales are up 45 percent, compared to a year ago, while Navigator sales have climbed fully 60 percent for the same period, according to Ford Americas president Mark Fields. He was quoted by Automotive News, the trade publication.
A new global coalition to tackle climate change -Times OnlineEach of the participants quoted their favourite scriptural reference: several choose the opening words of Psalm XXIV: "The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof."
Simon Cohen of the PR company Global Tolerance, which organised the launch, thanked Initiatives of Change for hosting the event.
“Kill camels to decrease emissions” at Heliogenic Climate ChangeThe Federal Opposition’s agriculture spokesman, John Cobb, says eliminating Australia’s feral camels would mean huge savings in carbon emissions.
To Curb Emissions, Port of Los Angeles Tests Hydrogen-Electric Trucks - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comThe trucks, which cost $255,000 each, have a potential range of up to 400 miles, according to Vision.
Battery power for trucks ... - Saturday, March 7, 2009 | 2:09 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun[comment] When they talk about cost, all they want to talk about is the cost of electrical power vs. the cost of a gas which they say still cost $4 a gallon. They do not talk about capital cost or the cost of having extra expensive batteries or replacing the expensive batteries.
The truck has a range of only 30 miles when it is doing full loads.
It needs 4 hours to fully recharge.
The truck does not have an AC or heating system.
The truck cost more than 3 times over regular yard truck.
The truck has expensive batteries that need to be replaced before the end of the truck's life.
Of course, the Port, the Mayor and the seller want to hype it. The Port and Mayor spent a lot of money on it.
If you want to be a kool-aid drinker then I can't stop you there.
Al Fin: Children: Don't Fear the Plant FoodIs it child abuse to fill a child's mind with fearsome images of impending doom? Certainly, if the doom being force-fed to schoolchildren is based upon a fabrication. If sweet, hometown schoolteachers are filling your child's mind with invented horrors which have no real basis in science, what should be done?
Michael J. Boskin: Don't Like the Numbers? Change 'Em - WSJ.comIf a CEO issued the kind of distorted figures put out by politicians and scientists, he'd wind up in prison.
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Rabid environmentalists have descended into a separate reality where only green counts. It's gotten so bad that the head of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, announced this past fall that costly new carbon regulations would boost the economy shortly after she was told by eight of the state's most respected economists that they were certain these new rules would damage the economy. The next day, her own economic consultant, Harvard's Robert Stavis, denounced her statement as a blatant distortion.
Scientists are expected to make sure their findings are replicable, to make the data available, and to encourage the search for new theories and data that may overturn the current consensus. This is what Galileo, Darwin and Einstein—among the most celebrated scientists of all time—did. But some climate researchers, most notably at the University of East Anglia, attempted to hide or delete temperature data when that data didn't show recent rapid warming. They quietly suppressed and replaced the numbers, and then attempted to squelch publication of studies coming to different conclusions.
The American Spectator : EPA Sniffs Smog...levels of air pollution in America have been declining rapidly since the 1950s despite increases in energy consumption and automobile use. According to air quality expert Joel Schwartz, "Even the worst areas have far better air quality than was typical of American cities during the 1950s, '60s, or '70s." Further improvements in air quality are bound to happen anyhow, as technology develops and as vehicles and power plants become cleaner.
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Why, then, has the EPA proposed this rule? Because the Obama administration wants to increase the cost of energy. The President's flagship global warming policy, "cap and trade," remains stalled in the Senate, with Senators of both parties all too aware of the damage it will do to their states. The President, however, promised in his election campaign that energy rates would "necessarily skyrocket," and the smog rule is another way to achieve that end without having to bother with the messy business of gaining Congressional approval.
Forum on the Future of Energy - WOWKTV.com The Forum on the Future of Energy is a public forum that will include a conversation between Don Blankenship, chairman and CEO of Massey Energy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president of Waterkeeper Alliance and an environmentalist.
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The Forum on the future of Energy will be held at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 at the University of Charleston’s Geary Auditorium. There will also be a live remote broadcast in Eddie King Gymnasium. The forum will be aired live on this Web site.
Flashback: Doubting Global Warming Could Be Treason - Associated Content - associatedcontent.comAt the Live Earth Concert at Giants Stadium, one of the non musical acts, Robert Kennedy Jr., shouted himself hoarse. He called those people who doubt either that global warming exists or that it is man-made or that it matters traitors and that they should be dealt with as such.
Inhofe to Rolling Stone: Hey, I’m Earth Enemy No. 1 : Rolling Stone : National Affairs Daily[Rolling Stone should note that, strictly speaking, our package wasn't a ranking — although Warren Buffet does appear on the first page, while Inhofe rears his ugly mug a few pages later.]
Green jobs or pink slips? - JSOnlineGov. Jim Doyle last week unveiled his marquee energy initiative, the Clean Energy Jobs Act. He says the legislation would create "green jobs," but it is much more likely to generate pink slips.
The legislation would mandate more green energy, such as wind and solar power. Of course, forcing people to use green energy creates jobs in the green energy industry, but it's not that simple. Green energy is expensive energy, which is bad news for Wisconsin's energy-intensive industrial base. Doyle's mandate might create some jobs in the solar panel installation business, but it's going to destroy just as many, and probably more, paychecks in the manufacturing business.
Climate and Cancer - William M. Connolley - StoatEveryone really knows the world is getting warmer and it is our fault. The endless slew of press stories to and fro makes little difference to this. Goverment policy continues onwards like a juggernaut and isn't touched by gossip. Witness the tiny impact the CRU email hacking had, in the end. It all seemed so exciting for a day or two. The obvious fact that people are reluctant to cut their CO2 consumption by not flying off on holiday is just the same as people still putting lots of butter on their toast and salt on their chips.
Carroll: Obama's green jobs fantasy - The Denver PostAs Boudreaux explained on his blog, "How can Mr. Friedman be so sure that the benefits of windmills, solar panels, and battery-powered electric cars will exceed the costs of making — will exceed in value that which must be foregone to make — these green fetishes a reality?
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Last week, The Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey Ball reported that "government spending and price supports accounted for about one-third of the roughly $145 billion invested worldwide in clean energy in 2009 . . . ." Little wonder that under the Obama stimulus plan, "renewable energy producers are eligible for cash grants totaling 50 percent of the cost of projects they do this year — however high those costs go."
At what point does this gusher of subsidies become a scandal?
YEATMAN: Secret science from the CIA - Washington TimesIn light of the damage done to the reputation of science by the recent "Climategate" scandals - in which data that should have been made public wasn't and a group of scientists discussed ways to thwart the peer-review process and intimidate peer-reviewed journals, the scientific community should be wary of depending on research where secrecy antithetical to the openness of science appears to be a requirement.
wmbb.com - FWC: Report, but do not Touch, Dead or Distressed Sea TurtlesAmid chilling temperatures during Florida’s recent cold snap, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) responded to reports of thousands of stunned sea turtles floating listlessly in the water or washing onto shore over the past week.
Flashback: Global warming threatens sea turtlesAccording to recent statistics, the species of sea turtles have disappeared rapidly because of global warming.
Obama to create 17,000 green jobs. What's a green job? / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.comPresident Obama announced $2.3 billion in federal tax credits on Friday, which he said would create 17,000 new "green" jobs.
Which is great, except that no one can count green jobs because, fundamentally, no one knows what a green job is.
Flashback | Create 5 million "green" jobs - Obama promise No. 439:Will "create 5 million 'green' jobs; will invest $150 billion over ten years to deploy clean technologies, protect our existing manufacturing base and create millions of new jobs."
The Press Association: Woman found dead near Kensington GardensA woman has been found dead next to a pond in central London in gardens close to the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Reports speculated that the woman froze to death after falling in the pond then pulling herself out.
Cold, Dark, and Crowded - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineCan we count on a Tom Friedman column extolling the environmental virtue of Chinese energy rationing?
- Bishop Hill blog - Environment correspondentsThis is as much as anything an appeal for information: to do a little crowdsourcing.
I have been aware for a while that the post of Environment Correspondent isn't necessarily held by either scientists or economists, and can be a favoured career destination for activists.
I have produced a small list which can be downloaded here. It is by no means comprehensive.
1934 – 1998 Gissmatic « the Air Vent...you can see the dramatic progress toward shifting the 1934 temperatures downward. When you consider that 1934 was at one time .5 C higher than 1998 and over the years was repressed until they were equal...
SBVOR: A 25 Year Global Cooling TrendSince 1984, the ENSO-adjusted annual rate of change in global temperatures has been steadily decreasing! And, depending upon which dataset you choose to trust, sometime in the last decade, that trend took us into a NEGATIVE rate of change where the planet was COOLING!
EU Referendum: The way the money goes roundThe happy snap shown above, taken at the end of March last year, shows Mr Tulsi Tanti shaking hands with a certain R K Pachauri. And despite the poor quality of the photograph, it is quite evident that Dr Pachauri has a demeanour not dissimilar to a cat that has just swallowed the cream – which, in a sense, he has.
Mr Tanti is no ordinary well-wisher. He is the chairman and managing director of the multi-million Indian energy firm, Suzlon Energy, which has major interests in renewable energy. It is the world's fifth leading wind turbine maker and also has solar power interests. And he has just signed an agreement with Dr Pachauri promising to fund a programme in renewable energy engineering and management at one of Dr Pachauri's spin-off enterprises, the TERI University.
Another greedy government uses bogus “climate change” to extract more money from its citizens at Heliogenic Climate ChangeSouth Africa’s National Treasury will press on with plans to introduce a new tax on vehicles designed to curb carbon dioxide emissions, an official said Wednesday, despite concerns this could hamper the ailing auto sector’s recovery.
Seeing The Effects Of Climate Change (PHOTOS)In 2007, NASA scientists predicted that global warming would cause an increase in violent storms. Their conclusion was based on a climate model study. Some scientists believe that the severity of the hurricanes seen over the last few years has been caused by warming waters in the Atlantic. This damage was caused by Hurricane Ida, a late-season storm that hit El Salvador in 2009.
Flashback: 2009 Hurricane Season Quietest in DecadesAs the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end November 30, it will be remembered as one of the quietest in almost two decades, meteorologists say.
South West Climate Change [Hoax] Trade FairClimate Change: Challenge or Opportunity? A trade fair which aims to demonstrate ways to Save & Profit by acting on Climate Change.
10 Feb 2010 09:00 until 17:00 Exeter RacecourseKennford, Exeter EX6 7XS
How Wetlands Worsen Climate Change - TIMEBig, bad carbon dioxide gets most of the attention when it comes to greenhouse gases, but it's not the only one that's warming the earth.
Flashback: Destruction of wetlands worsens global warmingDestruction of wetland ecosystems will generate massive greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, warn experts convening at an international wetlands conference in Brazil.
[Fabulous job, boss!]: U.S. Negotiator Cites Potential of Benefits From Copenhagen Climate [Fraud] Talks - NYTimes.com“There is not a shadow of a doubt in my mind about the president’s commitment to this issue, and he fully understands the importance of putting together the strongest possible domestic program,” Mr. Stern said.
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He acknowledged that he was biased but said that the intervention of his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and President Obama in the final 36 hours of the meeting saved it from utter disaster.
Breaking News: Climate change activists are optimists. | CLIMATEGATEAh yes, warmers, we’ve never seen just a happy lot, so excited about their future.
The one chart you need to convert a global warmer | CLIMATEGATEWe don’t even need to say anything more, just click the chart to enlarge and read it.
C3: Little Ice Age Destruction & Catastrophes: Peer-Research Documents The Terrible Cold Climate That Could ReturnGlobal warming fanatics and gullible politicians have left us in a position that we are totally unprepared for the eventual recurrence of ice age type conditions, be it "major," "little" or "mini." The chorus of global cooling alarms is starting to get louder but do we have enough time to prepare for the worst?
Climategate: Leaked Emails Inspired Data Analyses Show Claimed Warming Greatly Exaggerated and NOAA not CRU is Ground Zero by Jo D'Aleo | Climate RealistsThe global data bases have serious problems that render them useless for determining accurate long term temperature trends. Especially since most of the issues produce a warm bias in the data.
The Climategate whistleblower proved what those of us dealing with data for decades already knew. The data was degrading and was being manipulated. The IPCC and their supported scientists have worked to remove the pesky Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, and the period emailer Tom Wigley referred to as the “warm 1940s blip.” They have also worked to pump up the recent warm cycle that ended in 2001.
I'm Barack Obama and I Approve of this Company - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineAnd not just because its owner is the husband of my weatherization czar. Really, I promise.
Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE ON Danny Glover’s Pat Robertson moment. It’s true that he won’t be criticized the way Pat Robe…MORE ON Danny Glover’s Pat Robertson moment. It’s true that he won’t be criticized the way Pat Robertson was, but that’s just because Glover is espousing a state-approved religion.
EU Should Keep Offer For 30%-Emissions Cut-UK Climate Min - WSJ.comSEVILLE, Spain (Dow Jones)--The European Union should stick to its offer to increase its target for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions if other countries come up with similarly ambitious targets, U.K. Energy and Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt said Friday.
Abbott 'walking away' from climate change policy - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)The New South Wales Environment Minister, Frank Sartor, says Mr Abbott has not thought through his plan to recruit thousands for a 'green army'.
Mr Abbott has released two new environmental policies, including spending $750 million-a-year to recruit 15,000 people to work on environmental projects.
But Frank Sartor says there are already thousands of employees and volunteers working with the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Services on environmental projects.
Professional Discourtesy By The National Climate Data Center On The Menne Et Al 2010 paper « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.This failure by NCDC to honor professional standards is just another example of the lack of accepted professional standards at this federal climate laboratory.
Botanics warn of casualties after cold snap - Edinburgh Evening NewsNursery supervisor Pete Brownless said: "Unfortunately, the Botanics are exactly like everyone else – we'll have costly heating bills and damaged paving thanks to the weather, but we'll also have lots of dead plants."
Mr Brownless and his team are hoping for a warm summer to allow many plants a good chance of recovery.
Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: Climategate Stimulus Grant Covered by Fox, Limbaugh, Many OthersOur press release revealing that over half a million dollars in federal stimulus money is funding the work of a key Climategate scientist, Penn State's Michael Mann, has been receiving a lot of attention.
Thinking Green--The New Religion...the intellectual elites are not so secular as they believe themselves to be. As it happens, their religion may not be theistic, but it is a religion all the same.
That fact is confirmed in a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Stephen T. Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, argues that the new religion of many secular folk is ecology. As Asma explains, many secular types suffer from "green guilt."
More preparation needed for climate change, says PhillipsTECUMSEH, Ont. -- Canadian are not doing enough to prepare for extreme weather events brought on by climate change, Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips said Thursday.
“We clearly have to do more with less fossil fuels,” Phillips told a crowd of about 500 gathered for an EcoSchools workshop at the Ciociaro Club Thursday.
...The Greater Essex County District School Board was the first board to make the provincial EcoSchools program mandatory in every school.
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Fellow Queen Elizabeth student Annalee Chopchik, 12, said she collects Kool-Aid Jammers so they can be washed and sewn into purses.
Phillips told the workshop most scientists feel the world is warming up faster now. Canada is the second coldest country in the world and some might welcome warmer weather. But he told the crowd climate change will mean increased variability or “jokers in the weather deck” and more extreme weather.
He said the climate in Southwestern Ontario will be like that of Kentucky, which has more severe tornadoes than anywhere else in the United States.
Flashback; 2009 Coldest Year on Record? | News Talk 650 CKOM2009 could very well be the coldest year on record for Saskatchewan.
Environment Canada's top weatherman Dave Phillips says we've had colder than normal temperatures since December. "I could only find one year where you had nine consecutive months of cooler than normal, so it really is historic in the wrong way so to speak."
PRIMARY UNITED STATES CLIMATE CENTERS NOW CAUGHT IN DATA MANIPULATIONNOAA and NASA start with the unadjusted NOAA GHCN (Global Historical Climate Network). NASA eliminates some stations and adds some in the polar regions. For NASA, the computer program that manipulates the data is known as GIStemp, Both then add their own adjustments to calculate a global average temperature and a ranking for each month and year. The two inter-related U.S Government agencies have so intertwined their programs and data sets that both are being challenged by the investigating team that has produced this "smoking gun of U.S. Climate-gate.” “We suspect each center will try to hide behind, ‘It’s them; Not us’ and point fingers at each other," says the Computer Programmer from San Jose behind these new revelations.
Inside Europe - E.U. Seeks to Regain Influence on Response to Climate Change [Scam] - NYTimes.comBRUSSELS — Stunned by having been sidelined in the endgame of the Copenhagen world climate summit meeting, the European Union is debating how to regain influence in the fight against global warming.
[Even the "believers" don't really believe]: Apocalypse MaybeThe problem is that most of the bad stuff won’t be happening for another 20 to 30 years so it is hard to generate a real sense of urgency, especially when there are so many other pressing and very expensive problems that are crying out for immediate attention, Haiti being a good case in point.
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For today it is safe to call climate change "Apocalypse Maybe." But if we continue to ignore the warning signs from nature, if we continue to pursue the last drop of oil, the last ounce of coal, if we don’t learn to do more with less, if we don’t do a better job of fitting mankind into the global web of life then yes, our children and grandchildren will be looking at "Apocalypse Now."
[Here's an idea: Spend a lot of extra money for solar panels, spend a lot of extra time shivering in the dark when they fail to perform as you'd hoped, and enjoy an extra 6.5 cents annually in carbon credit income!!]In other words if 10 million typical U.S. homes went solar, supplying 100 percent of their electricity carbon-free, the U.S. would shed 6.5 million tons of CO2 annually. [ie, each home earns .65 of a carbon credit, with carbon credits currently selling at a dime per ton on the Chicago Climate Exchange]
Ghana: Govt Targets $30 Billion Climate Change [Swindle] MoneyGhana is positioning herself for a share of the billions of dollars expected to flow to African states, small island nations and other developing nations as a result of the commitments made in the Copenhagen Accord adopted at the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last December.
Bjorn Lomborg - From Copenhagen's ashes, a better way to fight global warming - washingtonpost.comDevoting just 0.2 percent of global gross domestic product -- roughly $100 billion (70 billion euros) a year -- to green energy R&D would produce the kind of game-changing breakthroughs needed to fuel a carbon-free future. Not only would this be a much less expensive fix than trying to cut carbon emissions, it would also reduce global warming far more quickly.
Crops are ruined- farmers [Ireland] FEARS are beginning to emerge of a food shortage in Donegal as crop farmers face the prospect of losing one hundred per cent of their produce in the wake of the big freeze.
Florida: Two weeks of freezing temperatures wreak havocNational Weather Service Meteorologist Jason Hess said that it’s the length of the cold that is most significant.
“This is the longest stretch ever in 100 years of record keeping.”
The 6 Most Baffling Nobel Prizes Ever Awarded | Cracked.comAl Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for helping spread the word about man-made climate change, which helps world peace because shut up, that's why. Whether or not you agree with him is your business. But it looks like he might not agree with himself.
What Happened?
Al Gore's house in Nashville uses over 12 times the amount of energy that a normal American house uses. "It's OK!" you say. "It's green energy!" But Gore didn't make the switch to green energy until after he started getting criticized. Then there's the pesky little fact that he owns over a quarter million dollars worth of stock in Occidental Petroleum, a big and evil oil company started by his father's buddy Arm and Hammer.
Al Gore's Brain (AlGoresBrain) on TwitterI placed a basketball in my solar powered microwave to simulate Global Warming. Over $4000 damage to kitchen.
Climategate panel: Are green auto rules based on flawed science? | detnews.com | The Detroit NewsOn Tuesday before a Detroit Athletic Club audience in downtown Detroit, The Detroit News and WJR Radio brought together leaders from the fields of climatology, energy politics, and the auto industry to debate whether the so-called Climategate scandal has undermined auto regulations.
In a spirited, sometimes contentious debate moderated by radio talk show host and Detroit News op-ed columnist Frank Beckmann of WJR, the panel left no doubt that there is little consensus on global warming.
New Information On The Cold Outbreak Of The Last Few Weeks – Its Long Term Environmental Effect « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.What this event illustrates is the importance of extreme short-term weather events in terms of long term consequences (in this case animal life), and that this effect is not captured at all by a multi-decadal regional surface temperature trend.
FOIed Emails on Hansen Y2K « Climate AuditIf anyone is wondering whether emails by U.S. government employees are “private” and “personal” – an assertion sometimes made in respect to emails at CRU, an institution subject to UK FOI – the answer in respect to NASA GISS appears to be no.
Vote for “Climate Change [Fraud] Communicator of the Year” | CEJournalThe Center for Climate Change Communication has just announced the nominees for “Climate Change Communicator of the Year,” and I’m honored and humbled to be one of the people on a list that includes some very distinguished and worthy people.
[And by the way, can we have more money now?]: Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures [allegedly] show | Environment | guardian.co.ukPalmer said it was a "disgrace" that so few satellites were launched to monitor levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. He said it was unclear whether the team would be able to continue the methane monitoring in future.
[He gets around]: Bay zoologist comes face to face with effects of climate changeNelson Mandela Metropolitan University zoology lecturer Dr Pierre Pistorius’s vast and varied research includes in-depth studies into the dwindling southern elephant seal populations on Marion Island, tracking reproduction changes in Norwegian moose, and monitoring coral reef resilience at the world’s largest raised atoll in the Seychelles.
Global Warming Fears: Norway's Moose Population in Trouble for Belching - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - InternationalThe poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.
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Norway has some 120,000 moose but an estimated 35,000 are expected to be killed in this year's moose hunting season, which starts on September 25, Norwegian newspaper VG reported.
2008: Moose multiplying in Scandinavia - UPI.comOSLO, Norway, April 19 (UPI) -- Biologists say there are now record numbers of moose in Scandinavia -- the greatest population since the Ice Age.
By the end of the 20th century, there were 30 times as many moose as there had been 100 years earlier, Aftenposten reports. The number of collisions between moose and trains, trucks and cars was also a record this winter.
Smart Grid Passion–On Your Dime (Part II) — MasterResourceIn Part I earlier this week at MasterResource, I asked critics for corrections to the surprisingly weak figures on avoided investment that smart grid advocates use to push their program. Having gotten none, let’s see where the figures take us.
Car giants giving false hope of emission-free future, report says - Times OnlineThe University of Oxford study, edited by Sir David King [but he's not even a trained expert in car design!], the Government’s former chief scientific adviser, found that the most effective way of reducing overall emissions from motoring would be a “drastic downscaling of both size and weight” of conventional petrol and diesel cars.
Flashback: Chief scientist in sports cars warning to women - TelegraphProfessor Sir David King said governments could only do so much to control greenhouse gas emissions and it was time for a cultural change among the British public.
And he singled out women who find supercar drivers "sexy", adding that they should divert their affections to men who live more environmentally-friendly lives.
Flashback: Why Antarctica will soon be the only place to live - literally - Environment - The IndependentAntarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government's chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week.
[Dangerous idiocy]: 'Global warming more of a threat than war'[Bulletin of Atomic Scientists] board member Lowell Sachnoff added: "Global warming is more of a threat than nuclear war."
The Age of the Urban Retro-Fit: Reversing Climate Change, One Green Roof at a Time | Architecture &Design | Fast Company - StumbleUponWe're obsessed with the death of cities: our Netflix queues are filling up with post-apocalyptic sagas, we stack our coffee tables with doomsday books, and drool over ruin porn. [who, specifically, is "we"?]
NASA Caught in Climate Data Manipulation; New Revelations Headlined on KUSI-TV Climate Special | SpaceRef - Your Space ReferenceClimate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour special airing on KUSI-TV on Jan.14 at 9 p.m. A related report will be made available on the Internet at 6 p.m. EST on January 14th at www.kusi.com.
First Climategate book released! 'Climategate: The CRUtape Letters' co-authored by Steven Mosher who was first to recognize the game-changing importance of FOIA.zip | GORE LIEDSo, one is a liberal and the other is a “lukewarmer”, so it’s hard to dismiss them out-of-hand as right-wing ideologues. Undoubtedly, Joe Romm and others will smear them anyway – it’s what the alarmists do when they’re desperate.
USHCN vs USHCN Version 2 – more induced warmth « Musings from the ChiefioCall me old fashioned, but I really liked it better when my history did not keep changing and past temperatures did not require frequent re-writing…
Record cold temperatures recorded in Belize - The Guardian NewspaperBut the country’s coldest spot was in the mountains of Baldy Beacon in the Cayo District where the minimum temperature recorded on Monday morning was 44 degrees. That is 14 degrees colder than the previous record low of 58 which was set in 2007.
Oilrigs should be used for homes in areas at risk of flooding, report says - Times OnlineDecommissioned North Sea oil platforms should be towed to the waterfronts of coastal cities at risk of flooding and converted into homes, shops and universities protected from rising sea levels, a study recommends.
Britain should not retreat from the waves but embrace them, adapting to climate change and consequent flooding by building new communities, either on stilts or floating platforms.
A team of senior architects, engineers and civil servants, appointed by the Royal Institute of British Architects and Institution of Civil Engineers, considered the options for responding to a 6ft 6in (2m) rise in sea levels by the end of the century.
Senate Majority Leader expects to pass bipartisan energy and climate [hoax] bill this spring: It “may be the most important policy we will ever pass.” « Climate Progress[Harry Reid] And though turning around the effects of years of recklessness might be the most difficult issue we tackle, taking on the clean-energy challenge also may be the most important policy we will ever pass. And we cannot afford to wait any longer to act.
Hot Air » [January 13, 2010] » PPP poll tomorrow: Reid’s all but finishedMind you, this is a guy who pulled 61 percent of the vote six years ago. Now, with the anchor of ObamaCare tied around both ankles, PPP’s giving him the last rites fully nine months out from election day.
More China provinces plan power rationing -report | Markets | ReutersBEIJING, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A rising number of Chinese provinces are preparing to introduce power rationing as electricity supplies lag behind demand amid harsh winter weather, local media reported on Friday, citing Zhang Ping, head of the National Development and Reform Commission.
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Coal stocks at major coal-fired power plants, which generate about 80 percent of China's power output, have been at 17-month lows in recent days as harsh weather, strained transportation, insufficient coal production and rising coal prices curbed stockpiling at power plants.
Snow damage hits London transport links with £40 million repair bill | NewsThe cost of repairing ice and snow damage to London's main transport links will top £40 million, the Standard has found.
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On top of this figure, Martin Low, Westminster's City Commissioner of Transportation and head of the Local Authority Transportation Advisory Group, warned that each borough could be left with a £500,000 road repair bill as the country emerges from its coldest winter in 30 years.
Scarewatch: Schneider again. | The SPPI BlogThe desperation of the climate extremists as global temperatures plummet for the tenth year in a row is growing. Stephen Schneider, professor of environmental biology and “global change” at Stanford University, said today:
“We can no longer prevent global warming — it is upon us. Rapidly melting polar icecaps, acidification of the oceans, loss of coral reefs, longer droughts, more devastating wildfires, and sea level rise that threatens island nations and seacoasts everywhere are clear signs of change in Earth’s climate. Disruptions of the monsoon seasons in India and China already threaten crop yields resulting in more frequent and severe food shortages than in the recent past … If we continue ‘business as usual’ our habitat could be disrupted beyond recognition, with consequences for our way of life that we cannot now foresee. Without vigorous and immediate follow-up to the Copenhagen conference and well-conceived action we are all threatened by accelerating and irreversible changes to our planet.”
Nonsense. Here’s why.
A question of quantities | The SPPI BlogWhy is it that carbon dioxide from carbonated beverages, pets, cattle, farm animals, humans, yeast, dry ice, fireplaces, charcoal grills, campfires, wildfires, alcohol and ethanol is good, and carbon dioxide from fossil fuel is bad?
C3: New Peer-Reviewed Research Further Undercuts Obama's Bogus Hurricane Claims (He Needs New Climate Advisors)Newest research from eminent hurricane expert totally eviscerates global warming fanatics' claims that hurricanes/cyclones are on rise due to warming. Unfortunately, Obama still favors scientists pushing the bogus science of global warming catastrophes instead of those who are in command of the scientific facts.
Mitchell Anderson | The Real “Climategate” Story – Current Climate Satellites are Woefully InadequateThe story you haven’t heard is that scientists can’t get the numbers to add up using existing climate satellites. After billions of research dollars spent and over a decade of trying, the energy budget of planet as measured by CERES and other low- Earth orbit satellite systems is out of whack by about 6 watts per square meter.
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