Lack of runaway warming in Alaska? Nenana ice 83% thicker than it was 15 years ago

Nenana Ice Classic measurements

[2010]
3-Feb 44 Inches

1995 Nenana Ice Classic
27-Jan 23 Inches
8-Feb 24 Inches

River ice in Alaska: “pretty good proxy for climate change in the 20th century” « Watts Up With That?

“The Nenana Ice Classic is a pretty good proxy for climate change in the 20th century,” Dr. Jeffries said.

Growing uncertainty about Global Warming cause

You see how this works. A season of destructive hurricanes in the Western Atlantic -- the obvious result of mankind's insatiable addiction to CO2-producing fossil fuels. A global season of glacial cold -- that's just natural variability. The former is evidence of climate change. The latter is simply weather.

Did they pick Vancouver to “prove” global warming? « Don Surber

Records show in February the average high is 47, low 33. That’s pretty much what the forecast is.

Snow? It averages 19 inches a winter. That’s not an ideal location for a winter Olympics.
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The host of the 1988 Winter Olympics, Calgary, averages 50 inches of snow a year and much colder temperatures.

Maybe the Olympics committee had a reason for selecting Vancouver over the much colder Pyeongchang, South Korea — a reason that had more to do with politicized politics than anything else.

Snowstorm and climate change - latimes.com

For starters, the amount of recorded warming over the last century, about 1 degree Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels, is nowhere near enough to eradicate winter in the mid-Atlantic.  [but if it warms that much in the 21st century, will our descendants perish in fiery floods?]
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"All you need is cold air and moisture to meet each other" to make snow, said Jay Gulledge, senior scientist for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "And with global warming, the opportunities to do that should be more frequent."

The late, great global warming scare: Ben Lieberman

...skeptics are facing a new challenge: overconfidence.

That's because everything of late has been breaking their way. OK, overconfidence may be an exaggeration. But the wheels are really coming off the global-warming cart. "Climategate" -- the recent leak of e-mails showing gross misconduct among scientists with key roles in the U.N. report -- raises serious questions about how much of the global-warming science we can really trust. They were, after all, manipulating the temperature data to show more warming, and subverting requests by independent researchers to see the underlying data.

European carbon scheme is a success, research says | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is a success and its flaws have not harmed its basic aim of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, multi-national research showed on Friday.

Experts at French state bank Caisse des Depots, the Paris-Dauphine University, the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research in the United States and University College Dublin collaborated to evaluate the scheme's trial period, which has widely been viewed as a failure.

World may not be warming, say scientists - Times Online

...new research, including work by British scientists, is casting doubt on such claims. Some even suggest the world may not be warming much at all.

“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
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Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the chapter of the IPCC report that deals with the observed temperature changes, said he accepted there were problems with the global thermometer record but these had been accounted for in the final report.

“It’s not just temperature rises that tell us the world is warming,” he said. “We also have physical changes like the fact that sea levels have risen around five inches since 1972, the Arctic icecap has declined by 40% and snow cover in the northern hemisphere has declined.”
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Dr Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at the Met Office, said: “This new set of data confirms the trend towards rising global temperatures and suggest that, if anything, the world is warming even more quickly than we had thought.”

The professor's amazing climate change retreat | Mail Online

But, thanks to the row over leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit, we now learn that this body’s director, Phil Jones, works in a disorganised fashion amid chaos and mess.

Interviewed by the highly sympathetic BBC, which still insists on describing the leaked emails as ‘stolen’, Professor Jones has conceded that he ‘did not do a thorough job’ of keeping track of his own records.

His colleagues recall that his office was ‘often surrounded by jumbled piles of papers’.

Even more strikingly, he also sounds much less ebullient about the basic theory, admitting that there is little difference between global warming rates in the Nineties and in two previous periods since 1860 and accepting that from 1995 to now there has been no statistically significant warming.

A Dog Named Kyoto: Coren on Ball

Michael Coren had an interesting interview with Canada's foremost climatologist, Dr. Timothy Ball:

“If people knew just how deep and dark this conspiracy is — yes, conspiracy — they’d be amazed,” he explains. “More and more academics are standing up to refute climate-change theories, but it’s still dangerous to do so. It can mean the end of a career, the targeting of someone by well-organized fanatics.”

Cold temps further endanger Florida's manatees - CNN.com

So far this year, a record 280 or more manatees have died from cold stress-related illnesses. That's estimated to be 5 percent of the total population in Florida.
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Marine biologist Andy Garrett says he's never seen anything like this before. The full impact of the cold weather on the manatee population is still unclear, according to Garrett, who works for Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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It's normally the young manatees that are most stressed by cold weather, but this year, full-size adults are dying.

"That is a very bad sign," she said.

Wet Ariz. winter leads to more border deaths | The Sierra Vista Herald

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An unusually wet winter in Arizona this year has been fatal for some illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico into the United States, with nine people dying from hypothermia since November.

The same number of immigrants died of hypothermia during the previous three winters combined.

Snow Still Causing Problems In Atlanta

ATLANTA (February 13, 2010)—The buses weren’t running Saturday in Atlanta and motorists were being urged to stay home while crews made sure Georgia highways were clear of ice and snow.

Hundreds of additional fights were canceled Saturday morning at Atlanta's airport, in addition to the ones canceled Friday because of the rare snowfall that hit Southern states.

As much as 7 inches fell in central South Carolina.

Global Warming, A Man-made Crisis: Part 1 :: The Market Oracle

Have you hopped aboard the global warming/carbon credit trading train or are you starting to question what you have been told and question what the benefits are for those who promote such 'science' as opposed to you as a private citizen of this planet?

[We're saved!]: Potential human responses to climate change will be integrated into future models of global climate - 7thSpace Interactive

RICHLAND, Wash. -- An international team of climate scientists will take a new approach to modeling the Earth's climate future, according to a paper in 11 February Nature. The next set of models will include, for the first time, tightly linked analyses of greenhouse gas emissions, projections of the Earth's climate, impacts of climate change, and human decision-making.

This approach will influence the next international scientific assessment undertaken by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It will provide the framework for thousands of individual scientific studies on climate impacts and adaptation, climate modeling, and changes in the way societies generate and use energy.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Beyond the "Consistent With" Canard

Over at the Center for American Progress, Joe Romm has recommended that journalists use the "consistent with" construction to imply in misleading fashion a linkage of specific weather events with human-caused climate change. Implying such a linkage is simply wrong, because weather is not climate.

'There has been an effort to discredit science, scientists'

...the increasingly shrill chorus of the current campaign against the IPCC and its core findings smack of orchestration.  [by who, specifically?]

Are Scientists Always Smart? « Watts Up With That?

[Steven Goddard] We see a parallel to global warming. The earth is not warming out of control. Sea level is not rising out of control. The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are not collapsing. The IPCC documents have been shown to be littered with junk science and fraud. The hockey team has been shown to be misusing their positions. Yet the consensus hangs on to the ridiculous, for the same reasons they did from 1912 to 1960. No one wants to “forget what they learned and start over again.”

Why I'm cancelling my kids' subscription to The Beano – Telegraph Blogs

And if we’re really going to “educate” kids about the Danish wind farm experience, mightn’t it also be a good idea to mention how it has been a complete disaster for the Danes – driving their utility bills to ruinously high levels and forcing them to rely for most of their electricity needs (wind power being very erratic) on conventional power imported from their neighbours? Or is that the kind of unpalatable truth that ought to be kept from our dear ones?

African crops yield another catastrophe for the IPCC - Telegraph

In the wake of all the other recent scandals, "Africa-gate" may be the most damaging of all, because of the involvement of Dr Pachauri himself. Not only is the reputation of the IPCC in tatters, but that of its chairman appears irreperably damaged. Yet the world's politicians cannot afford to see him resign because, if he goes, the whole sham edifice they have sworn by would come tumbling down.

British Council gets in on the climate act - Telegraph

Why is the British Council spending taxpayers' money on the recruiting of 100,000 "international climate champions", asks Christopher Booker
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Last December, our television screens were filled with scenes of young demonstrators from all over the world parading through the streets of Copenhagen to call for action to halt global warming. Few people will have been aware, though, that they were being funded with the aid of millions of pounds from British taxpayers. What makes this even more curious is that the money was provided by a body set up to promote British culture internationally.
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All this, it is comforting to know, is being led by the climate-change activist Dr David Viner, formerly employed by East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (the focus of the "Climategate" emails scandal), who is most famous for the prediction he made in 2001, that within a few years winter snow would become "a very rare and exciting event". No doubt the climate champions we are funding in the eastern US will have been grateful for our support last week as they tried to explain the several feet of snow across the region which broke records established in the 1880s. What it all has to do with Macbeth or Pride and Prejudice is something of a mystery.

Amazon.com: Why your global warming crisis book hasn't arrived yet

"Scientific" American continues to promote the greatest scientic fraud in history, even *after* the fraud has been publicly exposed in great detail

What Does Winter Weather Reveal about Global Warming?: Scientific American Podcast

[David Biello] What's worse, U.S. government scientists predicted last year that global warming will actually increase snowstorms, thanks to the potent combination of more moisture in the atmosphere from warmer average temperatures paired with the usual cold of winter. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted the same in 2007. In short, winter storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent, with stronger winds.

A Most Important Interview: Stott

First, if I were asked what has been one of the most worrying, and disgraceful, aspects of recent climate-change science, it has unquestionably been the conscious attempt to bury the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) to ensure that there is not a significant historical phase warmer than the present. This is not the way science should work, and, in this context, Phil Jones’ cautious, and most welcome, replies are extremely pertinent

» Um — About Those Vanishing Polar Bears… - Big Journalism

In fact, these hunts being such an integral part of their culture, a few Inuits elect to retain the tags for themselves to do the killing. The new ruling means that now they’ll probably keep them all. A recreational hunt lasts a few days and—like all hunting–does not always climax with kill. But the tag is considered used once it’s sold to a recreational hunter, kill or no kill. On the other hand, Inuit hunters always kill a bear because they have months to fill that tag. So now that U.S. recreational hunters are barred by U.S. law from bringing home their conversation-piece rug, the Inuits have no choice but to keep their tags, assuring that more polar bears will be killed.

1/20/2013: How Global Warming is causing blizzards in Washington--the Explanation

More water vapor means more clouds and more precipitation. More clouds and precipitation causes cooling which could lead to global cooling. So if it is warming or cooling, it is proof of global warming.

No wonder Al Gore says the science is settled. It predicts everything that has and can happen.

Although this looks like a parody, it isn't. I've seen these arguments by warmists on various sites to explain things that don't seem to compute with global warming.

Storm-related ailments keep hospitals busy - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Slips and falls sent many to the hospital last weekend, but doctors were surprised to treat 23 people for carbon monoxide poisoning at UPMC Presbyterian hospital.

The Uncertain Fate of the IPCC - OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC

Opponents of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tried strangling the IPCC in its cradle when the body was formed twenty-one years ago. Only hard-core climate change deniers are now sounding the death knell of their nemesis (as they have many times before), but support for the IPCC appears to ebbing, for a variety of reasons, and the future of the foremost science-based organization on climate change is in question.

YouTube - What does Average Temperature Mean?

C3: Peer-Research Finds Global Warming Decreases Coronary Heart Disease Deaths

Chinese researchers found that as the minimum temperature increases (DTR decreases), there resulted in substantially less elderly deaths caused by coronary heart disease.

Climate Observations: La Nina - The Underappreciated Portion Of ENSO

Contrary to the beliefs of anthropogenic warming proponents the 1997/98 El Nino was NOT fueled by a long-term accumulation of heat from manmade greenhouse gases.

[We're saved!: USDA ISSUES FINAL RULE ON ORGANIC ACCESS TO PASTURE]

"Clear and enforceable standards are essential to the health and success of the market for organic agriculture," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "The final rule published today will give consumers confidence that organic milk or cheese comes from cows raised on pasture, and organic family farmers the assurance that there is one, consistent pasture standard that applies to dairy products."

FOXNews.com - Harvard Hometown Plans Coercive Taxes, Veganism to Stop Climate 'Emergency'

Congestion pricing to reduce car travel. Elimination of curbside parking. A carbon tax "of some kind," not to mention taxes on plastic and paper bags. Advocating vegetarianism and veganism, complete with "Meatless or Vegan Mondays." Those are just some of the proposals put forth by the Cambridge Climate Congress, an entity created in May 2009 to respond to the "climate emergency" plaguing the Massachusetts city.

Senior Scots scientist in climate probe row - Scotsman.com News

Dr Benny Peizer, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank which claims the debate on climate change has become distorted, called for Prof Boulton to step down, too. He said: "Prof Boulton obviously is a very distinguished geologist. The problem is, he is a very outspoken campaigner on this issue and he's given talks calling for galvanising public opinion. He also worked at the very institution that he is now going to be investigating. That, we think, is a conflict of interest."

He said he was "speechless" about why Prof Boulton and Dr Campbell had been appointed in the first place.

"It looks like a shambles and it looks like the chairman of this panel hasn't really thought this through," he said. "Everyone must have told him (Sir Muir] that it's a very contentious issue and he should make sure the panel members have no bias at all."

Controversial choice for Climategate committee - Scotsman.com News

There is surely a case here to answer, particularly since this hearing is to be held in private. Sir Muir may well have prejudiced the outcome before the inquiry has even started.

Boulder Struggles With Energy Conservation - WSJ.com

BOULDER, Colo.—This spring, city contractors will fan out across this well-to-do college town to unscrew light bulbs in thousands of homes and replace them with more energy-efficient models, at taxpayer expense.
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But there are signs Boulder's efforts are starting to lose favor. Voters county-wide last fall rejected a measure that would have doubled a public fund set up to give homeowners low-interest loans for efficiency upgrades, such as a new furnace.

In the same November election, city voters elected to the council several newcomers eager to moderate Boulder's aggressive environmentalism.

Huge Climate Story…. Honesty. | SONICFROG DOT NET

Did anyone else just hear the “bump-bump” of the Jones bus running right over the infamous Hockey Stick?

3rd step to save the world.. stop climate fascism | MNN - Mother Nature Network

HRJ 12 claims that all those melting glaciers, the warming seas, and spiking mean global temperatures -- real, measurable, validated climatological occurrences taking place RIGHT NOW all around the world -- are a hoax, or rather... "a well organized and ongoing effort to manipulate global temperature data in order to produce a global warming outcome."

I'm not saying people can't be entitled to their own opinions, however ignorant and fact-denying they may be, but to so blatantly misrepresent scientific facts to political ends INSIDE the confines of a legislative body seems tantamount to a hostile takeover of democracy.

Snow in Washington Has Climate Alarmists Showing Ignorance of Climate Science: Tim Ball

The most common comment I get after a presentation explaining what is wrong with the CO2 global warming theory is “I had my suspicions but didn’t know enough to know.” Illogic of the claims that heavy snow and cold temperatures are due to warming is not lost on people who may not understand climate science. However, they need to understand why they are illogical otherwise they can only harbor a suspicion. This quiet emboldens the alarmists and especially the mainstream media who generally continue to push the fallacies. Exposure of these outrageous claims will eventually silence those who mislead for their own political or economic advantage.

Washington's snowstorms, brought to you by global warming - Bill McKibben - washingtonpost.com

Looked at dispassionately, those political attacks essentially buttress the consensus around global warming. If that much money and attention can be aimed at the data and all anyone can find is a few mistakes and a collection of nasty e-mails, it's a pretty good sign that the science is sound (though not as good a sign as the melting Arctic).
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Looked at dispassionately, the round of snowmageddons crisscrossing the mid-Atlantic carries the same message. But it's hard to be dispassionate when you're wondering, six hours of shoveling later, if there's a good chiropractor in the neighborhood and what kind of dogsled you might need to reach her.

It's almost like a test, centered on ground zero for climate-change legislation. Can you sit in a snowstorm and imagine a warming world? If you're a senator, can you come back to work and pass a bill that blunts the pace of climate change? If the answer is no, then we're really in a world of trouble.

[Show us your long underwear]: Parade goers bracing for cold Mardi Gras weekend

"It's freezing out here,” he said. “I've got about five layers on. I'm still cold. It's probably gonna get worse, but, what'cha gonna do?"
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"Gloves are a must, hats are a must, waterproof shoes preferably and socks. Once you get wet, it's all over," said Dr. Jullette Saussy, New Orleans EMS director. "This is gonna be one of the coldest Mardi Gras that I remember. I'm sure there are ones that precede this. But it's cold, and in addition to that, it's wet, which makes it seem colder."

Did Global Warming Save Ancient Rome? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

A panel has been convened to examine the above. The conclusion is that it is more likely than not that evil Exxon has helped emit greenhouse gases for the one reason of defending Ancient Rome from Hannibal.

Congenital Climate Abnormalities « Watts Up With That?

[Willis Eschenbach] The answer is, there is no unusual warming. There is no anomaly. There is nothing strange or out of the ordinary about the recent warming. It is in no way distinguishable from earlier periods of warming, periods that we know were not due to rising CO2. There is nothing in the record that is in any way different from the centuries-long natural fluctuations in the global climate.

In other words, we have spent billions of dollars and wasted years of work chasing a chimera, a will-of-the-wisp. This is why none of the CO2 explanations have held water … simply because there is nothing unusual to explain.

NOAA and the New "Climategate" Scandal

The failure of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to produce a binding treaty has bought time for a rational reassessment of the entire “science” behind the theories that were the premise for gathering 192 nations in Copenhagen. However, participation in the Copenhagen Accord still poses an imminent threat to the economic vitality of the industrialized world at a time when the economies of many of those nations are already reeling in the midst of recession. The scandals have laid bare what now appears to many observers to have been a “rush to judgment.” It is time for cooler heads to reevaluate global warming.

2 Views, 1 'Climategate' Rally On Penn State Campus - News Story - WJAC Johnstown

National Wildlife Federation member Ed Perry told WJAC-TV Friday that the international coverage on the story is damaging Mann's professional reputation.

"He's well respected in the science community and this group is doing nothing more than assassinating the character of one of Pennsylvania's finest climate scientists," said Perry.

Group to lead by example with cap-and-trade system

Still, Schwarzenegger and the others stressed the need for a national plan.

"If we all link together, this could be a very successful thing," he said. "Cap and trade is where the action is."

AZ Rejects Economy Killing Energy Taxes | The Foundry

The economic costs of cap and trade for the nation as a whole are bad enough. A study by The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis found that a national cap and trade program would make the United States about $9.4 trillion poorer by 2035. Much of this decline would be from reduced economic productivity and job loss. Under the House legislation there would be 1.15 million fewer jobs on average than without a cap-and-trade bill.

Autism and Climate Change, is there a connection?

My point here is simple, due to these two garbage theory's, nearly 4 full decades, 40 years, of possible research and literally billions of dollars were completely wasted. We may as well have just started looking into autism, it's cause and any possible cure.
Now, if I have to spell out the current Climate Change connection here, I'm frankly shocked you managed to read this far in the first place.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Dean: Republicans don’t believe in science

Actually, we do respect science. What we don’t do is adopt belief systems based on hypotheses from so-called scientists that use incomplete and unreliable predictive modeling, include wild conjectures as fact, pass off student dissertations as reliable research, and accept advocacy claims without testing, all while conspiring to hide contradictory evidence and scheme to ruin the careers of those who question them. Science requires that claims get tested, that predictive models that fail get discarded, that data and process remain open for review, and that critical thinking get welcomed instead of demonized.

Hide the decline - Latest News (home)

WELLCOME TO hidethedecline.eu, a NEW SITE starting up February 2010.
Call us skeptics or realists: At this site you'll find valuable information about global warming in our A-Z section.

Reconciling Different Conclusions | Climate Skeptic

So, from the same data, we can reach trends that are an order of magnitude different, from 0.6mm to 5.4mm.

Weekly Address Watch: For the twenty-ninth time in thirty-one weeks, The First Green President ignores global warming

After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility.

EU Referendum: Gate-gate?

It says everything of the audience, however, that one of the members was al-Gore, the man who needs a bodyguard to do a book signing, and is himself the butt of innumerable jokes, to the extent that his credibility is below zero with the general public.

But within the glitterati – where the denizens are completely detached from reality – their fantasy world survives intact, while they congratulate themselves on their cleverness and concern.

The Reference Frame: Warming by 20 °C in Vancouver

I was checking whether January 2010 was the warmest ever January in Vancouver, as you can read in some news outlets. Using the WeatherData function in Mathematica, the answer is No. For example, the average temperature on the airport was 7.8 °C in January 1994 but only 7.63 °C in January 2010. So as far as I can say, the media are not telling us the truth.

Link for CRU Inquiry CCE-Review.org | Climate Realists

Here's a link for your bloggers to keep tabs on the CRU inquiry as it goes along.

As they are only looking at procedures at CRU it's really the
UEA report into the 'science' that we all want to see.

» Climate Change: A Canadian Newspaper Prints the Obituary of a Man-Made Hoax - Big Journalism

Tomorrow’s researchers, examining the archives of the U.S. print media, will marvel at the willful negligence displayed by the MSM outlets, how they failed to apply critical thinking to the “scientific” claims of man-made global warming even as, one by one, those claims were discredited and peeled away like layers of an onion, until there was no onion left.

Impartial analysts will note how the British press most clearly exhibit to their former colonists what Freedom of the Press looks like while the American MSM, like migrating lemmings, silently trudged hip deep through the mounting pile of invalidated claims that screamed of the earth’s imminent death at the hands of man.

At UN, Climate Change Financing Discussed, IPCC Glacier and Pachauri Questions Not Taken, China Eligibility Debated

UNITED NATIONS, February 12 -- At an ill-attended press conference held at 7:30 am Friday in UN Headquarters in New York, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon introduced Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and his UK counterpart Gordon Brown as chairs of an Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing.

In a tightly controlled media Q &A session that followed, Mr. Ban did not address the controversy swirling about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's scientific blunders and chairman Doctor Pachauri.
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Footnote: The UN's and Ban's climate unit under Janos Pasztor, which was told there was no room for it in the UN's Temporary North Lawn Conference Building where Ban has his office, is now looking at space in the Alcoa Building on 48th Street, Inner City Press is told. For now, they are left behind in the nearly empty UN skyscaper where asbestos removal has already begun. Meanwhile, Pachauri has wished asbestos on his critics....

BBC News - Climate data 'not well organised'

Phil Jones, the professor behind the "Climategate" affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised.

He said this contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics - a decision he says he regretted.
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Professor Jones said climate scientists needed to do more to communicate the reasons [like what, specifically?] behind their conclusion that humans were driving recent climate change.

- Bishop Hill blog - What a night..

The whole thing is a must-read, but it's also worth standing back and marvelling at Professor Jones' ability to express uncertainty in a manner that will be readily comprehensible to the layman. This is something that we have been told many times is very difficult to do. Perhaps we are getting somewhere now.

- Bishop Hill blog - Boulton braced for trouble

I think there now has to be a major question mark over the whole of the Russell Review. With two of the five panellists appointed having been shown to have been wildly unsuitable, many will conclude that Muir Russell has set out to produce a predetermined result, not to reach the truth.

Maybe they need to start again.

Is Jupiter Undergoing Massive Climate Change? A Weekend Feature

The Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory images may support the idea that Jupiter is in the midst of violent global climate change.
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The planet's temperatures may be changing by 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, with the giant planet getting warmer near the equator and cooler near the South Pole.

Partial Transcript Of Richard North vs Roger Harrabin BBC Radio 5 live Exchange « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

GL- “Could this actually be a seminal moment”?

RH – Yes. And it is “part of the way we learn to cope to the internet“. Establishment behaves “in a normal way” as if the Internet “is not going to shout back at them“, and without thinking they need to deal with a broad public that was “inconceivable to them when they started their career“. “This is going to make me behave differently“

Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.

Will Cape Wind Save Billions? Glenn Schleede Challenges Study by Charles River Associates — MasterResource

Frankly, the numbers in the slick 9-page “consultant” study released by the developer of the Cape Wind project of $4.6 billion in savings over 25 years just don’t add up for at least four major reasons

War and global warming

We have the institutions, the politicians and the media all on board. It's just those pesky people who insist on staying on the sidelines

Using dogs to adapt to global warming - The Globe and Mail

...a researcher is suggesting that the Quebec Inuit should try switching back from snowmobiles to dogsleds.

Socialist Alliance Tasmania: Climate Change

Socialist Alliance activists who participate in Climate Action Hobart were involved in the development of Climate Action Hobart’s 10 Steps for a Safe Climate Future.

The media’s ETS U-turn | The Spectator

There’s change in the air: the Fourth Estate’s changing tune on environmental policy. In the 18 months following the release of the Garnaut Report, the media lectured us that global warming, specifically opposition to Labor’s emissions trading scheme, would badly burn the Liberal party. Today, without missing a beat, the same journalists say the ETS is a political godsend for Tony Abbott, and Kevin Rudd will now try to avoid a double dissolution showdown on climate change. We’re all ETS sceptics now.

EVANS: Has global warming got you snowed in? - Washington Times

When the global-warming hoax eventually collapses, the victim will be science. When science suffers, we all suffer.
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Leonard Evans has a doctorate in physics from Oxford University and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers on many scientific subjects.

Utah Legislature: Professors blast climate-change disbelievers | Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — The ever-boiling controversy of climate change science bubbled over at a Friday evening press conference, with several members of the local academic community calling political disbelievers "irrational and unreasonable" in their pursuit of legislative nonsense.
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Characterizing the resolutions as absurd, University of Utah professor Phil Emmi said such legislative disbelievers muster their political clout in a variety of slick ways.

"They do not need to be reasonable, and they think they can get away with such nonsense," said Emmi, a professor of architectural planning. "They play on the fears of those who would be hurt by change. … They're conniving, irresponsible, but not dumb."

Inventing Green « Awesome Twitter Exchange on the Politics of Clean Energy

DR: @JesseJenkins For the millionth time, nobody’s arguing abt whether it wd be good to invest more & create more jobs. It’s a straw man.

JJ: @drgrist you still have made no case to that effect, (while many others see differently). Arg to date appears “it offends my sensibilities."

Only In It For The Gold: A Hill of Snow

[Alarmist Michael Tobis] Irritating though it is to see Climate Depot always featuring cold or snowy weather, Morano in this interview completely demolishes his opponent, who is bound and determined to make this huge snow event evidence "for", um, "climate change".

UN panel will give $126b for climate [hoax]

UNITED NATIONS chief Ban Ki-moon has set up a high-level advisory panel to mobilise more than $US112 billion ($126.2 billion) in funding to help developing nations battle climate change.
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Mexico is to host the next UN-sponsored climate summit in the beach resort of Cancun from November 29 to December 10.

Skeptic's Corner: A Long Road Home Revisited

I have a suggestion for our nation's policy in regards to the Arctic, Al Gore not withstanding. It gets extremely cold there and there will be ice so build the damned ships.

Boulton’s 18 Years at UEA « Climate Audit

...the Inquiry bio left out Boulton’s 18 years of employment at the University of East Anglia.

I understand that climate scientists think that leaving out adverse information is a “good way to deal with a problem”, but people who aren’t climate scientists think that it’s a trick.

Royal Society of Edinburgh, Oct 29, 2009 « Climate Audit

There are thousands of people in the world who are qualified to serve on this inquiry who have never met Jones, Briffa and/or Mitchell; who haven’t worked for 18 years at the University of East Anglia and who aren’t currently active in climate change policy advocacy – people who meet Muir Russell’s criteria of having “no prejudicial interest in climate change and climate science”. Boulton isn’t one of them.

Boulton and Glaciergate « Climate Audit

In a Jan 29, 2008 speech, Boulton reported that by 2050 “most of the Himalayan glaciers would be gone”

Former NASA scientist defends theory refuting global warming doctrine

Examiner.com: Are man-made CO2 emissions the cause of global warming?
Dr. Miskolczi: Apparently not. According to my research, increases in CO2 levels have not increased the global-average absorbing power of the atmosphere.

Tim Lambert: How I "wiped the floor" with Monckton | Australian Climate Madness

[UPDATE: I should also add that Lambert's five minute sum up at the end was particularly weak (actually lasting about two minutes), allowing Monckton really to cash in with a far more powerful conclusion. You can watch them here and make up your own mind - Ed]

If the science is so settled and Lambert was so right and Monckton so wrong, it certainly didn't show. The debate isn't over.

Clarence Page: Yes, global warming could mean more snow - chicagotribune.com

I don't necessarily agree with all of the alarm that Gore has expressed on climate change. Nor do I disagree with all of the skeptics who question how much climate change is caused by human activities like sport utility vehicles versus natural activities like belching cattle.

AP ClimateGate Apologist/Participant Borenstein Can't Keep Global Warming Out of National Snow Story | NewsBusters.org

Looking at the bright side, at least Borenstein didn't come out and try, as did the News York Times (HT NewsBuster Martin Finkelstein), to tie some kind of generalized increase in weather extremes to global warming.

FULL UNEDITED INTERVIEW WITH E. MICHAEL SMITH | KUSI - News, Weather and Sports - San Diego, CA | Coleman's Corner

The work E. Michael Smith has done and what it reveals is information our policy makers must have. It goes a long way towards totally derailing the global warming campaign. Will the networks ever put this man on the air? Will congress ever take testimony from him? I hope playing this entire interview helps. Please click the video button and watch this interview in its entirety.

Climate change: calling planet birth | Environment | The Guardian

Family size has become the great unmentionable of the campaign for more environmentally friendly lifestyles
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"At such far-more-manageable numbers… we would have the benefit of all our progress, plus the wisdom to keep our presence under control," Weisman writes. "That wisdom would come partly from losses and extinctions too late to reverse, but also from the growing joy of watching the world daily become more wonderful. The evidence wouldn't hide in statistics. It would be outside every human's window, where refreshed air would fill each season with more birdsong."

Cantwell’s climate [hoax] bill [allegedly] gathers steam | Grist

And what does Sightline think of Cantwell’s bill? We like—no, make that love— elements of it, such as the full auctioning and three-quarters dividend, though there are some smaller aspects we’re not wild about.

House panel wants Utah out of climate [scam] coalition - Salt Lake Tribune

Friday morning, the House Committee on Public Utilities and Technology approved a nonbinding resolution, 6-2, to urge Gov. Gary Herbert to pull out of the Western Climate Initiative.

If Utah were to withdraw from the six-state climate alliance, which is developing a region-wide cap-and-trade program, it would become the second state to do so.

Dana Milbank - Global warming's snowball fight - washingtonpost.com

Still, there's some rough justice in the conservatives' cheap shots. In Washington's blizzards, the greens were hoisted by their own petard.

For years, climate-change activists have argued by anecdote to make their case. Gore, in his famous slide shows, ties human-caused global warming to increasing hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought and the spread of mosquitoes, pine beetles and disease. It's not that Gore is wrong about these things. The problem is that his storm stories have conditioned people to expect an endless worldwide heat wave, when in fact the changes so far are subtle.

Other environmentalists have undermined the cause with claims bordering on the outlandish; they've blamed global warming for shrinking sheep in Scotland, more shark and cougar attacks, genetic changes in squirrels, an increase in kidney stones and even the crash of Air France Flight 447. When climate activists make the dubious claim, as a Canadian environmental group did, that global warming is to blame for the lack of snow at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, then they invite similarly specious conclusions about Washington's snow -- such as the Virginia GOP ad urging people to call two Democratic congressmen "and tell them how much global warming you get this weekend."

Argument-by-anecdote isn't working.
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The science is overwhelming -- but not definitive. Romm's claim was inadvertently shot down by his partner on the call, the Weather Underground's Jeff Masters, who confessed that "there's a huge amount of natural variability in the climate system" and not enough years of measurements to know exactly what's going on. "Unfortunately we don't have that data so we are forced to make decisions based on inadequate data."

Exceptionally cold weather sending utility bills soaring

The bigger bills are even harder to swallow for hundreds of thousands of North Texas residents hit with power outages because of a record snowfall that sent tree limbs crashing onto power lines.

In parts of Oncor's sprawling service territory -- notably the Killeen and Temple areas in Central Texas -- electric customers jolted by big power bills have questioned the accuracy of digital "smart meters" that have been installed in recent months there.

Rubio questions climate change

In an interview with the Tribune on that subject Friday, Rubio called Crist "a believer in man-made global warming."

"I don't think there's the scientific evidence to justify it," Rubio said.

Asked whether he accepts the scientific evidence that the global climate is undergoing change, he responded, "The climate is always changing. The climate is never static. The question is whether it's caused by man-made activity and whether it justifies economically destructive government regulation."

[It's a long bike ride from Tennessee]: Al Gore to appear at Barbara Boxer L.A. fundraiser this Saturday

The location of Saturday's event is not disclosed on Boxer's websites, but Variety reported that the Boxer fundraiser with Gore will be held at the home of Laurie David. David, ex-wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David, has a website which describes her as a "global warming activist". A message at the website states "The time has come to unite all Americans to stop the single greatest threat facing us today". David has been fined in the past for 'wetland violations' at her Martha’s Vineyard home.

AFP: Microsoft co-founder Gates [promotes the greatest scientific fraud in human history, *after* it's been publicly exposed in detail]

LONG BEACH, California — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has broken from philanthropic work fighting poverty and disease to take on another threat to the world's poor -- climate change.

"Energy and climate are extremely important to these people," Gates told Friday a TED Conference audience packed with influential figures including the founders of Google and climate champion Al Gore.

"The climate getting worse means many years that crops won't grow from too much rain or not enough, leading to starvation and certainly unrest."
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"The formula is a very straight forward one," Gates said. "More carbon dioxide equals temperature increase equals negative effects like collapsed ecosystems. We have to get to zero."
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Gates said that if he were allowed a single wish in the coming 50 years, it would be a global "zero carbon" culture.
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Gates dismissed climate change skeptics, saying terrapower would render arguments moot because the energy produced would be cheaper than pollution-spewing methods used today.

"The skeptics will accept it because it is cheaper," Gates said. "The might wish it did put out CO2, but they will take it."
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"These next few months represent the last feasible political window for quite some time to get this done," Gore said. "So much is at stake we have to double down."

BBC News - Q&A: Professor Phil Jones

D - Do you agree that natural influences could have contributed significantly to the global warming observed from 1975-1998, and, if so, please could you specify each natural influence and express its radiative forcing over the period in Watts per square metre.

This area is slightly outside my area of expertise. When considering changes over this period we need to consider all possible factors (so human and natural influences as well as natural internal variability of the climate system). Natural influences (from volcanoes and the Sun) over this period could have contributed to the change over this period. Volcanic influences from the two large eruptions (El Chichon in 1982 and Pinatubo in 1991) would exert a negative influence. Solar influence was about flat over this period. Combining only these two natural influences, therefore, we might have expected some cooling over this period.

E - How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible?

I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there's evidence [like what, specifically?] that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.
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N - When scientists say "the debate on climate change is over", what exactly do they mean - and what don't they mean?

It would be supposition on my behalf to know whether all scientists who say the debate is over are saying that for the same reason. I don't believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this. This is not my view. There is still much that needs to be undertaken to reduce uncertainties, not just for the future, but for the instrumental (and especially the palaeoclimatic) past as well.

Al's Journal : Worse Than We Thought

http://blog.algore.com/2010/02/worse_than_we_thought.html

More evidence of the climate crisis is unfolding before our eyes. The situation in the Arctic is worse than data from satellite pictures have told us: 

[Left-wing blogger and commenters weigh in]: Wonkette : Utah Legislature Passes Non-Binding Resolution STICKIN’ IT To Commie Climate Change Fairies

Utah. It’s one of those states that we just have to deal with. Its legislature has just passed a resolution that… uh… well it tells the fedril gubmints to LAY OFF THEIR FREEDOMS and put a sock in this Climate Change scam, because look.

"Warming" Water Spurs U.S. to Consider ESA Protection for 82 Coral Species - NYTimes.com

The Obama administration will consider federal protection for 82 coral species threatened by warming water temperatures.

Flashback: Record cold in Florida kills reef coral « Watts Up With That?

Never mind predictions of catastrophic bleaching from global warming, cold is the culprit of this story. With ocean heat content now shown to be dropping slightly since 2005, there is even greater concern.

Green Student Indoctrination - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit — Michigan eighth-graders are 36th in the nation in math and 33rd in reading. But legislators are making sure they excel at what matters — like greening school buses by checking their tire pressures.

In 2006, Michigan created a bipartisan “Green School” law that tasked government to recognize schools with green programs. To qualify, an institution must task its students to complete half of a list of 20 green options, including...

CapitalClimate: Gulf Coast Storm Brings Rare Heavy Snow to East Texas, Northern Louisiana

This was also the largest snowfall in Shreveport since December 16th, 1983. Natchitoches reported 6.0". Snow amounts in Arkansas ranged up to 5.8" in Texarkana. In Texas, reports ranged from 2.0" near Lufkin to 7.0" at Longview and 10.0" at Lindale.

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Scientists' Opinions Are Sometimes Irrelevant

Two days ago scientists in the Netherlands issued a 3-page open letter on the scandal-plagued Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Only 55 people attached their names to this document. Nevertheless these folks claim to speak for "the Netherlands scientific community."
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If a customer decides that the meal is less-than-acceptable, that it isn't worth the money, and that she has no interest in repeating this particular dining experience, a signed statement from 55 chefs talking about the splendid design of the kitchen changes nothing.

[How to turn a billion dollars in "green" investments into $25 in cash?]: David Gelbaum, Clean Energy Investor, Remains Bullish Despite the Downturn - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Gelbaum, after all, is one of the country’s largest private investors in green technology, and The Quercus Trust, his family fund, has approximately $400 million parked in more than 40 green technology firms.
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“I’m not broke,” he said. “I’m just not in a liquid business any more. It was not a question of a lack of wealth, it was a question of lack of liquidity.”

As for his clean tech portfolio, Mr. Gelbaum said it has yet to turn a profit. “I’m in the red,” he said, adding that recession and credit crunch of the past two years have been challenging. “It’s been pretty bloody,” he said. “If you’re a clean-tech company, good luck in finding somebody to invest in you.”

But when it comes to his own clean-tech investments, Mr. Gelbaum said he is not going anywhere. “I’m very bullish on solar,” he said. “I think that solar and the smart grid have huge short-term potential.”

The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Resolving the Global Warming Fraud

Putting the global warming scam artists on trial would also help to knock some sense into the dim-bulb celebrities who still believe in it. They still have some influence over people who don’t follow science and the news carefully. Someone who seriously thinks global warming causes earthquakes is not going to respond to reasoned argument, but they might settle down if they’re shamed into it. At a minimum, we can cleanse the airwaves of fanatics who think questioning their pseudo-religion is equivalent to treason.

It’s high time we forced junk scientists to face the same legal standards we apply to medical malpractice. Western nations handed over a stunning amount of economic influence to the global-warming charlatans. Anyone who asserts influence over billions of dollars should face at least the same level of legal scrutiny as the doctors targeted by oily John Edwards types. Environmental radicalism has killed far more people than medical malpractice.

The Climategate Inquiry Team | CLIMATEGATE

[cartoon]

Jay Rockefeller on Obama: "And He's Beginning to Not Be Believable to Me." - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

Jay Rockefeller said, according to Real Clear Politics, "He says 'I'm for clean coal,' and then he says it in his speeches, but he doesn't say it in here. And he doesn't say it in the minds of my own people. And he's beginning to not be believable to me."

One wonders where Sen. Rockefeller was during the campaign, when President Obama promised to "bankrupt" the coal industry as part of his proposed cap-and-trade policy. The theory was that burning coal caused carbon to be pumped into the air, which in turn caused global warming or climate change or something. That this policy would prove to be very inconvenient, to say the least, to coal miners West Virginia, among other places, seemed to have escaped Sen. Rockefeller during the campaign.

[Another amazing admission from an alarmist: AGW is only a hypothesis, not a proven fact; there is no consensus]

As with all science, consensus and certainty is usually not reached until a hypothesis has been proven as fact -- and in the case of global warming, that could prove disastrous for all of us, even those who today believe it's nothing more than a spurious scare-tactic.

Durbin: D.C. residents panic as if snowstorm is 'a nuclear attack' - TheHill.com

Durbin, however, acknowledged that this past week’s worth of snowfall — which, with more than 55 inches, broke D.C.’s record — was due cause for D.C.-area residents to be concerned.

“But in fairness, this has been a heck of a snowstorm … You had every right to be concerned. Some of the other [storms], maybe not, but this one was the real deal.”

Parent against global warming talks in school

I’m just wondering: Since global “warming” is such a divisive issue, how is it that the schools feel it is appropriate to indoctrinate the children to believe what they obviously believe? Is it because the kids are stuck in the chair all day and the instructors have opportunity? (What about motive?)

YouTube - Thom confronts a global warming skeptic on the real Snowmageddon?

[with William Yeatman]

Climategate Investigation Off To A Rocky Start - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Indeed, we should all suspend judgment until the independent commission's report is issued sometime this spring, but this beginning is somewhat less than promising. Not to be "paranoid" or anything.

Elizabeth Kolbert and Peter J. Boyer discuss recent attacks on climate science.

[MP3]

Black Helicopters Over Nashville | Print Article | Newsweek.com

Steve Malloy, author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life, kicked off the first full day of conference proceedings by warning that Obama and his minions are conspiring to control every aspect of Americans' lives—the colors of their cars, the kind of toilet paper they use, how much time they spend in the shower, the temperature of their homes—all under the guise of U.N. greenhouse-gas-reduction schemes. "Obama isn't a U.S. socialist," Malloy thundered. "He's an international socialist. He envisions a one-world government."

Amazon.com: Fifty Degrees Below (9780553803129): Kim Stanley Robinson: Books (2005)

Earth continues its relentless plunge toward environmental collapse in Robinson's well-done if intensely didactic follow-up to Forty Signs of Rain (2004). As a result of global warming, the Gulf Stream has stalled, and when winter comes, impossibly frigid temperatures hit the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe. As people starve, multinational corporations explore ways of making a profit from the disaster. When Antarctica's ice shelves collapse, low-lying island nations quite literally slip beneath the rising waters. In Washington, D.C., clear-sighted scientists must overcome government inertia and stupidity to put into effect policies that may begin to salvage the situation. An enormous fleet of ships is dispatched to the North Atlantic to dump millions of tons of salt into the ocean in the hope of restarting the Gulf Stream. This ecological disaster tale is guaranteed to anger political and economic conservatives of every stripe, but it provides perhaps the most realistic portrayal ever created of the environmental changes that are already occurring on our planet. It should be required reading for anyone concerned about our world's future.

Area has second victim of cold temperatures | Kentucky

A Louisville man found outside of a home in southwest Louisville Thursday apparently is the area’s second victim of freezing temperatures.

Climate sceptics denounced by Brown as he launches climate change group | Environment | guardian.co.uk

But Mr Brown brushed aside the sceptics' challenge during a UN webcast to launch the group today.

"Those people who have become global warming deniers and those people who have become climate change deniers are against the grain of all the evidence [what evidence, specifically?] that has been assembled that global warming and climate change are indeed challenges that the world must meet and that can only be met together," he said. He has previously denounced what he described as "anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics".

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cautioned against thinking that the cold winter in the northern hemisphere – which is currently causing heavy snowfall in the New York area – disproves the global warming hypothesis.

"It may be true that you have seen some cold weather, as we have seen recently in New York, but the overall tradition of scientific evidence suggests that global warming is happening much faster than one may realise," said Mr Ban.

"That is what I have been told by the scientists and I believe that is true."

Marc Morano DVD Now Available...Must-View...Buy Some For Friends, Too, Before "Global Warming" Freezes All Of Us... - The American View

Been meaning to tell you about my friend Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com; he's an informative, witty demolisher of neo-Druid Gore, "climate change," etc. Spoke recently at one of our events; DVD of talk now available; it's hilarious; email me if interested JLof@aol.com. Really, you shd get it...

Utah delivers vote of no confidence for 'climate alarmists' | Alarmist Suzanne Goldenberg clings to her religion | guardian.co.uk

...it insisted – against all evidence – that the hockey stick graph of changing temperatures was discredited.

But, but, but… | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The greatest scientific scandal of our lifetime is unravelling before our eyes, and the ABC has to be dragged screaming to even notice. Don’t forget, the reason this scandal grew so monstrous was that the media refused for years to even question the deeply questionable. This has been a media scandal as well.

Planet Moron: CONSENSUS WATCH – 2/8/2010

Given the unconventional nature of global warming science, it is important that Consensus supporters be prepared for additional revelations including some of the following:
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Claim: Polar Bears are resorting to cannibalism.
Source: Nostradamus.

Claim: Global warming could cause malaria as far north as Germany.
Source: A flyer Michael Mann saw in Berlin for the post-punk German band, “Malaria.”

Claim: We must reduce carbon emissions or we are all doomed.
Source: The image of Al Gore miraculously appearing one morning in a bowl of Rajendra Pachauri’s Wheatena.
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Claim: Tree ring data proves CO2 causes global warming.
Source: Hidden message found when you play the Beatles “Revolution 9” backwards.
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Claim: Hurricanes will increase in frequency and intensity unless we transition our power generation away from carbon sources and toward wind turbines.
Source: An advertisement from wind turbine manufacturer, Southwest Windpower.

- Bishop Hill blog - Fantasy inquiry team

OK, so if Sir Muir and his team are no good, who should be on the panel? - people who are suitably qualified in the areas the inquiry are going to examine, but without the environmentalist baggage. Here's a few thoughts

Media Mayhem: The skeptics 'win' -- for now | MNN - Mother Nature Network

The grasp of climate change denial is more difficult for me to fathom. One would think that most people knew better than to be won over by obvious manipulation, that most people would distinguish between the authority of science [ie, what Al Gore says?] and the yammering of political operatives.  [ie, what Richard Lindzen, Willie Soon, or Roy Spencer says?]

For a brief period in our history, an elite club helped us discern that difference.

NASA Scientists Plan To Approach Girl By 2018  | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Sen. Inhofe calls for head of UNIPCC to testify before Congress. | Clean Skies

2-12-10 Sen. James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, spoke from the Senate floor asking Rajendra Pachauri to respond directly to the Senate on reports his organization, the UN Interngovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published reports on climate change with errors. Inhofe calls it a "crisis of confidence" in the IPCC. Pachauri has denied the claims.

Global Warming Hysteria: Cambridge (MA) Goes Loony » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Whatever Cambridge does will have zero impact on any purported warming. Or to put it another way, it is just a way to make people with nothing better to do feel important. Even more to the point, these hollow gestures will allow the warming crowd to control how other people live.

Submission to the Independent Climate Change email Review

My submission will be oriented towards constructing a plausible hypothesis that led to wrong-doing, establishing motive that explains what is seen in the emails. There are several areas where the conduct of the principals should be examined...

No global warming in Dallas 'Take this snow and shovel it, Al Gore!'

All in all, there were six signs with different versions of the same message.

EU Referendum: Pioneers into practice

As part of a €760 million programme called Climate-KIC, that has distinctly Communist overtones, the EU and its "partners" are planning to spend a minimum of €4m per year on developing "Pioneers into Practice", new generations of "high-skilled specialists in the low-carbon economy."

East Anglia Plans Review of Climate Data - WSJ.com

"I think an independent review should have happened earlier," said Peter Frumhoff, director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a lead author of the IPCC's 2007 report. "The longer these attacks on CRU are left without a credible response, the longer they fester and corrode the public perception of the science."

Others said it didn't go far enough. "To do an assessment of the scientific research...is sort of beside the point," said Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "The main issue is to provide open access to the data and the metadata ... and let the broader community assess the data sets."

Surprise–AGW Moonbats Running Cambridge, Ma. « SOYLENT GREEN

I missed this following climategate-which these Einsteins obviously missed–but I heard about it (link to google for html or pdf) during the drive into work this a.m. and damned near wrecked laughing at some of this batsh#t crazy, statist/nanny/eco-marxist/scientifically and economically tone-deaf drivel that is being codified by the Cambridge town council.

World wide web of doubt | The Australian

The internet is allowing climate change sceptics to gain traction
...the blogosphere's role in the collapse of the climate consensus suggests middle-aged and elderly net users are equally capable of making their presence felt on a democratic medium.

Climate supremo escapes the heat of blunder

Renewable Energy Minister, Farooq Abdullah, compared Dr Pachauri to Mahatma Gandhi because, like India's independence leader, he was being ''targeted for his good work''. Like Dr Pachauri, Gandhi's chief opponents were British.

Dr Pachauri told an Indian newspaper he was an easy target because he represented ''the poor and the most vulnerable'' and alleged the money available to climate sceptics was far more than that available for ''saving the planet from climate change''.

The great collapse of the global warming myth « JoNova

The myth is unravelling, and I thank everyone who was part of the team: everyone who put a comment on a blog exposing it, or rang a radio station, or wrote a letter to a newspaper, or who phoned a politician. We can all feel ever so slightly reassured that even the best dam walls money can buy, enforced by social pressure from the politically correct, and enthusiastically reinforced by the mainstream media, were chipped away, and eventually fatally weakened, by thousands of little hammers.

Thank God for the Internet.

Investors.com - Heated Blizzard

Most of us know better, and they probably do too. But they've made their statement of faith and are having a hard time walking away from it.

Liberals and the Scientific Method - Mona Charen - National Review Online

It isn’t the snow outside that has discredited global warming. It’s the chill the warmists have imposed on scientific inquiry. They are acting as enforcers of orthodoxy, not seekers of truth.

The Blackboard » IPCC communications meeting/call today at UN Foundation

Despite the on-going wintry weather the UN Foundation will convene a meeting this morning, Friday, 10:30a.m. EST, to flesh out the best approaches to counter the concerted media and industry effort currently assailing climate science and the IPCC. We will focus on the components necessary to mount and staff a combined rapid reaction and proactive messaging communications operation. Several organizations are already engaged and or planning to and this is a critical juncture to make sure that efforts and resources are streamlined.

Follow the money: BBC exposed in biggest climate racket on planet | CLIMATEGATE

...Godfrey Bloom is now being entirely vindicated as we see that the BBC has been shamelessly plugging its own profiteering agenda and ignoring any dissent even when it involves news stories of great interest to its viewers and listeners. And all for the so-greater good of that ‘Low-Carbon Economy.’

Climategate: the official cover-up continues – Telegraph Blogs

You wonder, if Sir Muir really is that determined to keep his inquiry totally unbiased, independent, above-board and scrupulously neutral why he just doesn’t go the whole hog and appoint Al Gore, James Hansen and Rajendra Pachauri. I doubt the conclusions they’d reach would be any different.

Russell Panel Needs Complete Overhaul

A serious question now arises whether the panel in its current form has any credibility as a genuinely independent inquiry. It has already been exposed for not fulfilling its declared impartiality and is, in its present constitution, highly unlikely to inspire public confidence in its findings. The Russell panel is in need of a complete overhaul before it can be taken seriously.

Let’s build a climategate wiki together! | CLIMATEGATE

It will not be a wiki that is open to everyone to edit–that just creates havoc. Instead, although any person will be able view the information, it will be edited only by invited and approved skeptics. Yes, skeptics only. Unlike Wikipedia which pretends to be unbiased, do will not hide that we are biased. Honest, but biased. And we’ll be keeping the number of editors to a manageable number.

A Historian Looks ‘Back’ at the Climate Fight - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

[Spencer Weart] ...it will suffice to point out that unlike, for example, any political organization or business corporation, the I.P.C.C. lacked a well-funded and expert public relations apparatus

This is snort-worthy nonsense.  Does Weart really think that the side including the UN, Al Gore, GE, BBC, the US government, etc doesn't have the "funding" to successfully compete against Anthony Watts, Steve McIntyre, Bob Carter, Christopher Monckton, etc?

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™

Sixty-one percent (61%) say Congress should scrap the proposed health care plan and start all over again. Just 28% think it would be better to build on the health care plan that has been working its way through the House and Senate. Most think action should wait until voters select a new Congress in November.

CAP.TRADE.DEC2010 19:10

[Yet another new low: 10.6 cents on the dollar]

Global warming is having a seemingly peculiar [cooling?] effect on winter weather in the northern United States - NWF

“Odd-ball winter weather is yet another sign of how uncontrolled carbon pollution amounts to an unchecked experiment on people and nature,” said Dr. Staudt. “While global warming means shorter, milder winters on average, some snowbelt areas could see more heavy snowfall events.”
...“We can no longer plan based on the climate we used to have.”

IPCC co-chair Chris Field loses his cool with Roger Pielkie, Jr | CLIMATEGATE

Here in the U.S., we sure are jealous of the media in the UK, who are providing forums for debate on Climategate.

New Home for Former Vice President? - Neil Cavuto | Your World - FOXNews.com

[ERIC BOLLING, GUEST HOST] My point there, sir, was, and the reason why I asked them to make those full-screens is, 30 years ago, we worried about global cooling. Now we're worried about global warming. Is this not just the global cooling and warming over the course of 30-year periods?

INHOFE: Eric, you can go there and look at the cycles. There certainly have been four cycles since 1885.

Climatesense-norpag: IPCC Scientific Malfeasance.

The most egregious case goes to the heart of and in fact destroys the entire AGW paradigm. The key part of the science is in section WG1 8.6 which deals with forcings, feedbacks and climate sensitivity. The conclusions are in section 8.6.4 which deals with the reliability of the projections.It concludes:
"Moreover it is not yet clear which tests are critical for constraining the future projections,consequently a set of model metrics that might be used to narrow the range of plausible climate change feedbacks and climate sensitivity has yet to be developed"
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Those of us interested in objective science should try to see that the 8.6.4 conclusion gets as much exposure as possible. It deserves to be on the front page of the NY Times, The Guardian quoted by the BBC and read into the Congressional record in the USA.

Climatesense-norpag: [Realist writes to Pachauri]

Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: IPCC - Global Warming
Dear Dr. Page, I have gone through your email of 21/04/2008 in considerable detail and I have also done some background research on the issues that you have raised. At this stage I would like to acknowledge your message, and will see what actions are warranted as a follow up. With kind regards, Yours sincerely, R K Pachauri

Our westerly winds have gone west - Telegraph

Instead, the winds have come blasting down from the north and north-east, bringing perishing conditions from the Arctic and Siberia. Frozen birds have no doubt been crying, but not in a way that would delight the poet.

And it's not just this year. It was similar – if not so bitterly cold – last winter.
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Back in 1996, this pattern prevailed for more than a year, and I tried to find out why. Some experts tried to persuade me, even then, that it was down to global warming. But another scientist convincingly denied it. His name, I see from my records, was Dr Phil Jones.

Do we want to ignore climate change and risk losing all this? - Telegraph

There is a growing conviction [according to who?] that the cost of ignoring climate change will be far greater than of tackling it now, writes Geoffrey Lean.
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Given the amount of evidence [what evidence, specifically?] pointing to a serious level of danger, the onus is on the sceptics is to show that the risk is virtually non-existent.

Solar Subsidies Fail To Create Green Jobs, Again « PA Pundits – International

To add insult to injury, ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports that “a recent report by American Wind Energy Association showed a drop in U.S. wind manufacturing jobs last year.” That’s right—even with a government-subsidized demand, wind manufacturing decreased.

Wind Integration: Incremental Emissions from Back-Up Generation Cycling (Part V: Calculator Update) — MasterResource

What emerges from this analysis is that in electricity systems that must choose among fossil fuel-fired means of integrating wind volatility, no plausible scenario seems to exist where wind can play a positive role as the means to achieve fossil fuel or greenhouse gas emissions savings.

CapitalClimate: Dallas Sets All-Time Calendar Day and 24-Hour Snowfall Record

AM Update: The final record daily snowfall for Dallas was 11.2" on Feb. 11. The 24-hour total of 12.5" from 4 am Feb. 11 to 4 am Feb. 12 also broke the 24-hour record of 12.1" on Jan. 15-16, 1964.

The seasonal total of 15.7" is now the second highest on record, and this is the snowiest winter since 1977-1978.

How do non-scientists evaluate competing claims for global warming?

For me, reading about the shenanigans of Climategate was very important (which is why I helped Mosher write a book about it). Watching scientists act as dishonestly as their spokespeople made it clear that the certainty they preached had nothing to do with what the evidence showed. They were sexing up the record to make it look worse. I'm sure they had their reasons, and I'm sure that one of the reasons was that they believed it--but couldn't put the data together to show what they believed. (But there were other reasons, like career advancement, getting the next grant out of the government, not wanting to be shown up as wrong...)

Rare snowflakes start falling from Miss. to Fla.

Flakes were falling—or threatened—Friday from Texas to the Florida Panhandle and then up along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, bringing a rare white landscape to spots that haven't seen snow in a decade or longer. The storm was crawling east out of Texas, where it left the Dallas area with more than a foot of snow, nearly 200 traffic accidents, thousands without power and hundreds of canceled flights.

Wonk Room » Jim Inhofe’s Non-Communicative Communications Director, Matt Dempsey

[Alarmist Brad Johnson] Do I believe that a climate system that hadn’t been perturbed by man-made warming could have generated storm patterns largely equivalent to this year’s? It’s certainly possible, although there’s no record of it happening.

[Back when the ice was a mile thick at what is now Chicago (not long ago, in geologic time), I wonder what sort of storms hit the Eastern US]

When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago--an enormous weight that depressed the land beneath.

2010 Thermometer Langoliers Hit List « Musings from the Chiefio

Well, They Are At It Again

Don’t know what to make of this list yet, other than it directly ‘gives the lie’ to the assertion that thermometer ‘drops’ were / are entirely an artifact of GHCN being a creation at a historical moment in time (i.e. made in 1990’s era so that’s why they drop out then in The Great Dying of Thermometers – which itself ignores The Lesser Dying in 2006).

It also shows that the excuse of things being dropped for not electronically reporting is pretty much a lie, too. I note that Dallas Fort Worth Airport is on this list and I’m pretty sure they have electronic reporting…

And in a Blink of an Eye Summer is Gone | Antarctica

The sun is very noticeably lower in the sky and temperatures the past week have been much colder. Today is the coldest day since I arrived here last October at -40F. Hard to believe it’s just about here but it is. Winter!

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE INSTA-DAUGHTER JUST SAW THE AUDI ‘GREEN POLICE’ COMMERCIAL for the first time...

[Joe Tetreault] I just can’t believe an intelligently designed car would be marketed so poorly.

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley opens his diary

Perth: Packed ballroom, packed overflow hall, extra public meeting the following day, also packed. Back to Sydney (extra public meeting) and home to our beloved Highland hills for just five days. Two months in the US next. Suddenly, climate scepticism is popular worldwide. Feels good, that.

- Bishop Hill blog - More Boulton

Professor Boulton:

* spent 18 years at the school of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia
* works in an office almost next door to a member of the Hockey Team
* says the argument over climate change is over
* tours the country lecturing on the dangers of climate change
* believes the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2050
* signed up to a statement supporting the consensus in the wake of Climategate, which spoke of scientists adhering to the highest standards of integrity
* could fairly be described as a global warming doommonger
* is quite happy to discuss "denial" in the context of the climate debate.*

The idea that this man has no preconception of global warming science and has no connections with the CRU is clearly risible.

For Venture Capital, Efficiency Is in Vogue - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Venture capital investments in cleantech companies plunged by 50 percent to $2.6 billion last year as investors put their money in energy efficiency projects instead, according to a report released this week by Ernst & Young.

Are we all still comfortable with the idea of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama "investing" our tax money in "clean" tech?

EU Referendum: Shroud waving

The Mann "hockey stick" and the surface station temperature records have been sufficiently challenged to make any responsible journalist sit up and question the science. But, as long as ego-driven and fundamentally lazy fluff like Harrabin play their dire little games, this leaves the way open for charlatans like Liss to indulge in their shroud-waving.

Of Distributions and Means | Climate Skeptic

...run away quickly from anyone who says manmade CO2 caused Katrina or, even more incredibly, the Washington snowstorms — they are just nuts.

Twitter / Gwendolyn Bounds: [Every time it snows, how many Americans would be willing to crawl onto their roofs to clean off their solar panels?]

A renewable energy snow day: driveway plowed, walk shoveled, solar panels swept. http://tweetphoto.com/11091411

Snow now possible in all 50 states | CEJournal

Incredibly enough, snow is forecast for Thursday night and Friday during the day, stretching all the way from Dallas across the Deep South to Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle.

If this storm develops as forecast, all 50 states could have some snow cover as of Friday, according to Patrick Marsh of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, quoted in USA Today.