UK government asked UEA to create climate ‘headline’ « ClimateQuotes.com

These indicators may be showing trends that are unrelated to climate, but they have public resonance and should be retained.

The Catlin Arctic Survey 2010

Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 is focused on what is widely considered to be the 'other' carbon problem beyond climate change...that of ocean change.

How Global-Warming 'Skeptics' Distort the Truth - The dangers of being a scientist today - Tudor Vieru, Science Editor - Softpedia

...if we turn our face from [science] again, as we did centuries ago, we can easily fall back into superstition and centralized leadership of the kind we don't want. For example, many people believe that the cooler winter that we experienced is a sign that the planet is not warming.

Latin American Herald Tribune - Hail Cannons in Argentina Spark Climate-Manipulation Dispute

The attorney acknowledged that it is “difficult” to determine the cause-effect relationship between the action of the cannons and the drought, but posed the question of why such a link couldn’t be possible if, as chaos theory puts it, “something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.”

Investor's Business Daily: A Green Tea Party

States' Rights: A revolt against economic hardship imposed by unelected bureaucrats based on junk science is brewing. This Tea Party movement wants the faulty finding on carbon dioxide to be reviewed and dumped.

Chu to governors: Capitol Hill renewable energy plans too weak - The Hill's E2-Wire

Chu said that a tougher RES – and long-term extension of renewable energy tax credits – would provide a greater draw for companies to build and keep renewable energy component manufacturing in the U.S., such as the Vestas plant in Colorado that he toured Friday.

“My fear is that unless Congress passes something that is a little bit more than that, there will not be that incentive,” he said at a forum on energy issues at the governors’ meeting. Chu said he would like to see a standard that is “a little bit more aggressive than what’s being considered.”

He noted that Vestas is “nervous” that unless there is a strong national standard, the market will not have sustained growth.

On the topic of global warming, The New York Times publishes seven letters: 100.0% are pro-hoax

Letters - Climate, Weather and Weirdness - NYTimes.com

No amount of moralizing will bring sobriety to the climate-denier movement. Deniers are traditionally protective of their delusional state of mind.

As the global warming hoax dramatically implodes, still more barking madness from your mainstream media

Economic View - Fighting Global Warming - A Small Price for a Large Benefit - NYTimes.com

FORECASTS involving climate change are highly uncertain, denialists assert — a point that climate researchers themselves readily concede. The denialists view the uncertainty as strengthening their case for inaction, yet a careful weighing of the relevant costs and benefits supports taking exactly the opposite course.
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Organizers of the recent climate conference in Copenhagen sought, unsuccessfully, to forge agreements to limit global warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. But even an increase that small would cause deadly harm. And far greater damage is likely if we do nothing.

The numbers — and there are many to choose from — paint a grim picture. According to recent estimates from the Integrated Global Systems Model at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the median forecast is for a climb of 9 degrees Fahrenheit by century’s end, in the absence of effective countermeasures.
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Scientists say that even the 3.6-degree increase would spell widespread loss of life, so it’s hardly alarmist to view the risk of inaction as frightening.

In contrast, the risk of taking action should frighten no one. Essentially, the risk is that if current estimates turn out to be wildly pessimistic, the money spent to curb greenhouse gases wouldn’t have been needed to save the planet. And yet that money would still have prevented substantial damage. (The M.I.T. model estimates a zero probability of the temperature rising by less than 3.6 degrees by 2100.)

Moreover, taking action won’t cost much. According to estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a tax of $80 a metric ton on carbon dioxide — or a cap-and-trade system with similar charges — would stabilize temperatures by midcentury.

This figure was determined, however, before the arrival of more pessimistic estimates on the pace of global warming. So let’s assume a tax of $300 a ton, just to be safe.
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In short, the cost of preventing catastrophic climate change is astonishingly small, and it involves just a few simple changes in behavior.
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[Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert] “If climate change were caused by gay sex, or by the practice of eating kittens, millions of protesters would be massing in the streets.”
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Most people would pay a substantial share of their wealth — much more, certainly, than the modest cost of a carbon tax — to avoid having someone pull the trigger on a gun pointed at their head with one bullet and nine empty chambers. Yet that’s the kind of risk [is it?] that some people think we should take.

Robert H. Frank is an economist at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

George F. Will - Global warming advocates ignore the boulders - washingtonpost.com

Last week, Todd Stern, America's special envoy for climate change -- yes, there is one; and people wonder where to begin cutting government -- warned that those interested in "undermining action on climate change" will seize on "whatever tidbit they can find." Tidbits like specious science, and the absence of warming?

It is tempting to say, only half in jest, that Stern's portfolio violates the First Amendment, which forbids government from undertaking the establishment of religion. A religion is what the faith in catastrophic man-made global warming has become. It is now a tissue of assertions impervious to evidence, assertions that everything, including a historic blizzard, supposedly confirms and nothing, not even the absence of warming, can falsify.

New Work on the Recent Warming of Northern Hemispheric Land Areas « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

One of the most disturbing changes over time in the GHCN database is a rapid decrease in the number of stations over the last 30 years or so, after a peak in station number around 1973.

Acidified landscape around ocean vents [allegedly] foretells grim future for coral reefs | Environment | The Observer

"The sea floor is often very colourful. There are corals, pink algae and sea urchins. But I have found that these are wiped out when the water becomes more acidic and are replaced by sea grasses and foreign, invasive algae.

Flashback: Jennifer Marohasy: Ocean Acidification: Photographs from Bob Halstead and a Note from Floor Anthoni

The shallows near Dobu Island off Papua and New Guinea have active underwater fumaroles pumping out virtually pure CO2. The sea grass is extraordinarily lush and healthy and there is very healthy coral reef a few metres away.

Attacks on climate change research are damaging the public's faith in science | Science | The Observer

Oceanographer James McCarthy, the AAAS's president-elect, said that after initial successes in tripping up the IPCC, sceptics will redouble their efforts to highlight other errors.

Let the Met Office shine on | editorial | Comment is free | The Observer

There's a big difference between the weather and the climate. And the Met Office is good at predicting both
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Nobody is better than the Met Office at telling you what will happen in your back garden in the next three days, or better qualified to predict the kind of climate we can expect in a decade, or a century. They might sometimes make mistakes, but we should still look to them for guidance and remember that the alternative is looking at the sky in ignorance.

The Media « the Air Vent

So let me reply to this last little sentence — “Lost in the blogging world is any sense of proportion, or the idea that science is built on cumulative work in many fields, the scientists say.”

Lost in the media world is any sense of understanding, or any ability to critically or objectively reason about an argument which goes against their political cause. Lost is the understanding which would make a good reporter figure out that you simply cannot throw away over half your data to make a conclusion. And finally, lost is the human race which is too damned stupid and lazy to see the scam right in front of their faces.

Post Carbon: Coal-state Dems hit EPA on climate - Juliet Eilperin

Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and several other coal-state Democrats sent a bluntly worded letter to Environment Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson Friday night challenging the agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants and other industrial sources.

The Rockefeller letter--which was also signed by Democratic senators Mark Begich (Alaska), Robert C. Byrd (W.Va.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Pat Casey (Pa.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Carl Levin (Mich.), and Max Baucus (Mont.)--poses a serious challenge for the Obama administration. While the administration is still pushing for Congress to pass a climate bill this year, it has not ruled out controlling greenhouse gases through regulation.

What the weatherman never said - Telegraph

Even after the "hockey stick" had been devastatingly exposed as no more than the result of trickery with a computer program, an "invention" far more damaging than any misquoting of his own words, Sir John was still defending it in front of the US Congress as if it were gospel truth. As a propagandist, he might still do the same today. But as a Christian scientist, might the beginning of Lent not be an appropriate time for him to engage in a little repentance of his own?

The Hockey Schtick: Global Sea Level Decrease 2004-2010 Part 2

The linear least squares regression equation is included and shows more of a downtrend in height (-.83mm/yr or -8.3cm/century) vs. the 0/100 dbar graph in the original post.

“UK Govt’s Chief Adviser on Climate Change” « Climate Audit

Someone who is billed at the openings of Coca Cola plants in Romania as the ‘UK Govt’s Chief Adviser on Climate Change’ hardly fits Muir Russell’s promise of having “no links to either the University or the Climate Science community”.

The University of East Anglia already has a hard enough time dealing with problems created by CRU. By betraying Russell’s promise to the university community, Russell and Boulton are being profoundly unfair to not only the staff, but the students of the university.

Climategate's guerrilla warriors: pesky foes or careful watchdogs? - The Globe and Mail

Exploring the increasingly influential community of online bloggers [do offline bloggers tend to be less influential?] who take aim at climate-change science
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In the wake of the scandal, blogs that question the reality of man-made global warming have surged in public attention, leading new readers to websites such as Wattsupwiththat.com (run by weatherman Anthony Watts) and climatedepot.com (run by conservative activist Marc Morano). The sites' rising popularity, and the growing influence they appear to wield in shaping public debate, is deeply worrying to the scientific community.
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Science journalist Chris Mooney, co-author of the 2009 book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, calls the Internet a “complete Wild, Wild West for scientific information.”

Mr. Mooney thinks the belief in the reality of man-made global warming, which is the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community, is losing ground in public opinion because of these blogs. “It's a drumming,” he laments. “If it's a football game, it would be 56-0.”

AN EPIC GAME OF NITPICKING
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One little-known irony of the debate is that for all the harsh words, many scientists have a grudging respect for Mr. McIntyre's intelligence. “He could be a scientific superstar,” Mr. Schmidt says. “He's a smart person. He could be adding to the sum total of human knowledge, but in effect he adds to the reduction of the sum total of human knowledge.”

YouTube - DEFRA Climate Change Propaganda

This video, from the UK TaxPayers' Alliance, exposes some of the many ridiculous ways in which DEFRA has squandered taxpayers' money through the Climate Challenge Fund.

YouTube - Global Warming Skeptic: Cool it

Filmmaker who was pelted at Copenhagen climate summit sees snowstorm as sign

How Unusual Is The Current Minimum? « Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax

Periodically, solar minima have resulted in human misery, hunger, and death. Those who forget history are truly doomed.

Associated Press spins more Climategate lies | CLIMATEGATE

...Thus speaketh Michael ‘bad science’ Mann always available for a buddy like Seth. Whatchya think of that?

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Newsflash: Snowless in Vancouver is Perfectly Normal

Excuse me, but I happen to not only live here in Canada, but to have had family and friends who resided for years in or near the breathtakingly gorgeous (not to mention murderously expensive) city of Vancouver.

I know, therefore, that they don't own many winter coats in that part of our vast country - and that mowing their lawns is a perfectly ordinary February activity. Vancouver's weather is much like Seattle's and, as a friend of mine who lives in the American city mentioned this week, her daffodils have begun to bloom.

Greens claim they’d be winning if they bothered arguing | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

...What a bizarre conspiracy theory. I have never heard of the American Atlas Economic Research Foundation or the British International Policy Network, and have never seen a dollar of Exxon money.

Have these people ever considered just arguing on the facts?

ksl.com - Utah Senate rejects EPA global warming policies

Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson was among those urging lawmakers to say "no."

"If we continue along this path, tragedy and untold misery will result among millions of people, including very likely our own descendants," Anderson said.

Guest Column From Scott Suder on Global Warming Bill - WQOW TV: Eau Claire, WI

The Legislature should be working overtime to keep the jobs we have and attract new ones, not rushing legislation through that will kill more jobs and take opportunities away from struggling families.

Let's take a closer look at some of the policies and mandates buried in the global warming bill that the authors don't want you to know about...

Virginia versus the EPA « Don Surber

Well, what we are getting from scientists is a pack of lies about an ice-free Arctic in 5 years, an ice-free Himalayas in 25 years and annual declarations of “hottest year ever” when in fact the temperatures are flat.

Finally, there will be some debate on this, at least in court.

USA Dept of Energy Jones et al 1986 350 pages station documentation now online in pdf

We are told that all of the station data listed in Appendices A can not now be found at CRU – these contain the data rejected by Jones et al. Which brings me to one of the great misinformation campaigns in climate science. That is the attempt by CRU and Jones to direct investigators to the GHCN station data in lieu of Jones et al/CRU station data. The two groups conduct distinctly different processes on station data and researchers will seldom get close to understanding what Jones/CRU have done by relying on GHCN station versions. The GHCN is riddled with its own multitude of errors and is more than a subject for study in itself.
I look forward to hearing from people making their own investigations of Jones/CRU data from their cities and regions.

How Al Gore Wrecked Planet Earth - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The American Interest

Anyway, as the Post now belatedly acknowledges, the movement to stop climate change through a Really Big and Comprehensive Grand Global Treaty is dead because there is no political consensus in the US to go forward. It’s dead because the UN process is toppling over from its own excessive ambition and complexity. It’s dead because China and India are having second thoughts about even the smallish steps they put on the table back in Copenhagen.

Doornail dead.

As the Post story shows, the mainstream media is now coming to terms with the death.

43-second video: Democrats Telling More Lies About Global Warming

Lies, lies, and more lies. That has been the story of global warming...since the 1980s.

These are the some of the Democrats who have been telling them.

EU Referendum: Self-deception writ large

This is not honest science. It is dishonest wordplay, and all the more contemptible for its pretence at being something else. If the authors believe – like Mann – they are telling the truth, they are deceiving themselves. It is self-deception writ large.

The Hockey Schtick: Sea Level Expert: "Sea is not Rising"

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden...

Nenana Ice: Very thick, and getting thicker

3-Feb 44 Inches
18-Feb 50 Inches

American Thinker: The Left's Great Motivator

The anthropogenic global warming scandal illustrates how leftist ideologues in the government, environmental, scientific, and academic communities and non-governmental organizations work in concert to ensure a specific outcome: worldwide acceptance of AGW. Leftist ideologues have influenced scientists, falsified data, broken laws, and conspired with other entities to ensure AGW's acceptance. Moreover, government policy based on AGW acceptance provides an opportunity to institute new laws and regulations ensuring the leftist's outcomes is successfully implemented. American Thinker's environmental editor Marc Sheppard documented the outright lies, deceptions, and criminal activity involved in the AGW scam.

Global Warming: "We Simply May Not Have The Power" | Voxy.co.nz

The alternative scientific explanations for global change suggests “we simply may not have the power” to create global warming. The ancient question that haunts mankind returns - can we humble our egos enough to appreciate that the world does not revolve around us? Some are attributing altered global temperatures to factors completely out of our control – gravity, planets, and the sun.

A life in the day of an Inuit woman - Times Online

It is in our culture to kill polar bears.

Roof crashes down on Farmington buses - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Throughout the region, heavy accumulations of snow and ice are causing roofs to come crashing down.

Climate Security: How to Frame a Winning Argument « It’s [allegedly] Getting Hot In Here

...have you ever tried to “lay out the facts” to a climate skeptic? You probably didn’t get very far. Likely, regardless of what you said, they countered with some unfounded argument. In the end they weren’t swayed and you were left frustrated because they couldn’t see the logic behind your brilliant argument. Why did your facts fail to convince them?
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We should begin using a term such as “climate security” to explain what we are advocating.

British Gas will be cheered by cold spell - Telegraph

Profits may be even higher as few analysts updated their forecasts after the cold weather, which saw demand surge to a record high.

Obama on global warming: First Professor schools climate change deniers

Contrary to wing nut propaganda, a robust snowfall in our nation's capitol does not mean global warming is a myth. A rise in global temperature will create all sorts of strange happenings, including warmer and more frequent dry spells, as well as colder, stormier winters.

Kudos to President Obama for taking advantage of a teachable moment to try and educate a population often bombarded by right wing propaganda denying anthropogenic global warming.

Climate-change deniers get too much help from Post story - washingtonpost.com

The real focus should have been on how climate-change deniers rely on bits of irrelevant information to distort the "debate" on a threat that is as near to certainty as science gets.

This kind of journalism is one of the reasons that less than a quarter of Americans "strongly believe" the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is harmful and is caused by humans.

David Hilfiker, Washington

Global warming: Rolling heads gather no moss--and make for bad policy

...the NIPCC that published an 800 page report last year promoting skeptical views of global warming has the appearance of more of a one-time media stunt than an ongoing investigative effort.  [Did Fuller actually read the NIPCC report?]

Arctic ice was pushed out, rather than melted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Serial alarmist Marian Wilkinson on the ABC’s Four Corners hailed the big Arctic melt of 2007 as evidence the world was heating disastrously and man was to blame
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Wilkinson never explained why the end of the earth we had to go to for evidence was the top, and not the bottom, where sea ice was actually increasing

Jesse Ferrell: Lookin` like a fool with yo snow on the ground

The NWS issued this statement on Feb. 16th saying that the old record of 54 consectutive days of 5+ snow cover had been broken, and the new record was then 70 days
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Why the record? Since Des Moines is only 9th for snowfall, it's not the snow, as much as the persistent cold, that has allowed this to happen. According to AccuWeather.com they are 6 degrees below normal for this month, with January coming in at -3.5 F. They haven't been above 35 degrees since January 24th, so the snow just can't melt.
A similar situation is unfolding in other areas...

All-time Record Low Nearly Reached in Europe

--Europe as a whole has lately warmed following one of several far-reaching cold snaps to have happened this winter. However, as overall warming proceeded over the continent as a whole, the Russian Arctic (and Finland) waxed bitterly cold.

Khosedakhard, which lies in the far-northeast of Europe (which is not truly a continent but a subcontinent with arbitrary boundaries), has been at the heart of this late-week bitter cold. Early on Friday (0600 UTC), the temperature read -55.6C/-70F. I do not know if this was the low.

Wikipedia have that the lowest on record in Europe was -58.1C/-73F at Ust`Shchugor, Russia, which lies west of the Ural Mts and a few hundred km farther south.

Warning Signs: The Multi-Billion Dollar Global Warming Fraud

As the massive global warming fraud implodes, the one aspect of it that has not been explored in depth is the equally massive waste of billions of dollars spent by the United States and nations around the world, we were told, to avoid global warming.

Global warming may hurt some poor populations, benefit others

"The impacts we're talking about are mainly driven by warmer temperatures, which dry up the soil, speed up crop development and shut down biological processes, like photosynthesis, that plants rely on," he added. "Plants in general don't like it hotter [the plants in my yard must be exceptional--they seem to do MUCH better in summer than in winter], and in many climate forecasts, the temperatures projected for 2030 would be outside the range that crops prefer."

The study revealed a surprising mix of winners and losers depending on the projected global temperature. The "most likely" scenario projected by the International Panel on Climate Change is that global temperatures will rise 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) by 2030. In that scenario, the trade model projected relatively little change in crop yields, food prices and poverty rates.

£60m bill for the CO2 of our political class - Telegraph

The net result of all this trading and jiggery-pokery is that, after billions of pounds and dollars have changed hands, with a hefty commission for those bankers and other carbon traders along the way, there is no reduction in greenhouse gas emissions whatever. But at least our political class can continue to work in warm offices and fly righteously round the world on our behalf – while the rest of us foot the bill.

What Matters Most? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

[Indur Goklany] Until the start of the Industrial Revolution, mankind was poor, hungry, illiterate, constantly at the mercy of disease and the elements, and short-lived; child labor was the norm; and one’s life opportunities were predetermined by sex and parentage. Today, despite an octupling of the world’s population, mankind has never been wealthier, better fed, less hungry, better educated, longer-lived and healthier; less constrained by caste, class, and sex; and 75 percent of global population is no longer mired in absolute poverty. This progress was enabled by economic development and technological change driven by cheap energy — all made possible by institutions underlying individual economic freedom. To extend this progress to a larger share of humanity and those not yet born, even as the world’s population increases, what matters most is to continue to nourish or, if necessary, develop these institutions.

Climate Literacy » Blog Archive » The Climate Literacy/Energy Awareness Gap

Even in the recent economic down-turn, Boulder, with the vast majority of its electrical power coming from the coal-burning Valmont Power Plant, powering a large University and National Laboratories that conduct much of the nation’s research on climate, along with 40,000 people commuting into Boulder each work day, has experienced only a slight negative economic downturn… enough to perhaps explain the slight reduction in emissions that occurred last year.

And as the WSJ article points out, some of the problem Boulder is facing in terms of meeting the Kyoto goal (reducing emissions by 8% below 1990 levels by 2012) relate to the fact that it is easier to talk the talk than walk it.

YouTube - Unscientific America How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future 1/4

[Smug young alarmist] Chris Mooney is a journalist and blogger who focuses on science and politics. He is the author of three books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming in addition to his most recent.

Flashback: "Real"Climate: Storm World: A Review

...You will also not be surprised to find that William Gray and Kerry Emanuel are the two most prominently featured scientists. In part of course, because they neatly symbolize the two opposing camps in the current debate: contrast for example Emanuel’s work demonstrating a linkage between increasing hurricane intensity and global warming with Gray’s denial of any such link.

Barack Obama's climate change policy in crisis - Telegraph

President Barack Obama's climate change policy is in crisis amid a barrage of US lawsuits challenging goverment directives and the defection of major corporate backers for his ambitious green programmes.

EU Referendum: How green is my golf course?

As local residents increasingly struggle with a failing water supply, many eyebrows are being raised at the luxurious greenery which Dr Pachauri's merry men enjoy as they stroll round the greens in between saving the planet and relieving the misery of the poor.

This is not what most people had in mind when they describe Dr Pachauri as "green".

Tom Borelli : Lindsay Graham Seeks to Bail Out General Electric and Rescue Obama’s Energy Policy - Townhall.com

By advocating for a renewable energy bill on the eve of the demise of the man-made global warming theory and for its legislative offspring, economy killing cap-and-trade legislation, progressive Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) is simultaneously seeking to bail out GE and to rescue Obama’s energy policy.

Climate [junk science allegedly] survives scandal | Environment | BigPond News

Climate science is alive and well despite the scandal of leaked emails in Britain and 'glitches' in a report by the UN climate change panel, top scientists say.

'There's consensus that action is justified, indeed imperative to reduce the problem of a really serious long-term global effect on the climate,' said Lord Martin Rees, president of the British academy of science, the Royal Society.

'My personal take is the key bit of evidence is the rise in CO2 concentration plus simple physics. If we had no data other than that, that would be enough,' Rees told reporters on Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.   [If that's "enough", why are we spending so much on climate research?]

See Nothing, Hear Nothing, Report Nothing - PatriotPost.US

...as Friedman and other dogmatists peddle their propaganda, the case for man-made global warming is collapsing like a weak roof in a Beltway blizzard. In fact, we might call it "man made-up" climate change.

Climate-What? As UN Climate Chief Quits, AP Throws Pity Party; PJM’s Rosett Applies Reality Check « PA Pundits – International

The only things worse than having an apparatchik like de Boer taunt the world over its refusal to totally restructure itself in the name of the now unproven and unsupported nonsense I often refer to as “globaloney” are first, knowing that a Big Four accounting firm is willing to provide him a rich refuge, and second, realizing that the establishment media in the U.S. is so invested in globaloney that it won’t acknowledge reality when it delivers multiple smacks to the face.

Climate Science and Transparency - AAAS 2010 - Popular Mechanics

James J. McCarthy, chairman of the AAAS Board of Directors, Prof of Biological Oceanography
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-Scientists need to reach out to the press and public better: When blizzards hit the east coast of the United States, instead of understanding this as a product of more moisture in the air—which is predicted as a byproduct of global warming—it was seen by too many in the media as a temperature indicator.

Climate Common Sense: The New Republicans and The Intellectual Divide

Don't you like that "educated, well-earning, science-embracing, articulate, introspective, intellectual " which is applied to the writer and his peer group - modest , aren't they?

Can steam emitted by ships offset global warming?

Although ship tracks are helping researchers explore geo-engineering methods, the real plans won't use polluting aerosols from ships. Instead, Rasch and others suggest that ocean vessels could spray seawater aerosols into the sky to brighten clouds.

C3: The Freidman & Romm Temperature Predictions: How Do These Global-Weirding "Experts" Fare Against Reality?

As many elites know, Tommy "The Palace" Friedman, a famous pundit, and Joey "The Strangler" Romm, a famous partisan, leftist scientist, have formed a "global-weirding" tag-team to help educate the readership of the New York Times about climate science, since it's so confusing now days. For example, when you experience a cold summer and then a cold, snowy winter, it's really not global cooling that's causing it, it's global warming, so we need to call it global-weirding instead because global warming causes all sorts of weird stuff, even though it really seems like global cooling. Got it? No? Well that's why the elites need Tommy and Joey to help them.

No comments, says Ramesh on Saran's resignation

New Delhi, Feb 20 (PTI) Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today refused to comment on reports that Shyam Saran, the Prime Minister's Special Envoy on climate change, quit following differences with him.

[Switching jobs, but staying within the climate swindle industry]: KPMG - United Nations climate change leader joins KPMG

Mr De Boer said:

“Concerns over energy prices, energy security and climate change are driving a new agenda for sustainable economic growth.

Note that De Boer himself now lists climate change *third* here.

Climategate zombies and fraud - The Daily Observer - Ontario, CA

Some of you may not be aware of it, but Kyoto is dead, the notion that humans have caused global warming is in free fall. If you would care to read what our CBC socialist friends and much of the Canadian media is not telling you, go to a site called CLIMATE DEPOT, where you will get all of the current information daily.

Mack Thrasher, Laurentian Valley

Where Did the Global Warming Go? The President Explains It For You... - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Doubts about the climate change consensus extend far beyond some comical anecdotes about the weather. Ron Bailey explains why both credible and unreliable global warming claims have taken on a bad odor lately in "Climate Crackup," his cover story from the March issue of Reason.

Scientists troubled on fallen faith | ABH News

Decline in public confidence in climate science over the climategate scandal has emerged as a big trouble for researchers, claimed a top US academic at the science conference in San Diego on Saturday.

While speaking about ‘transparency and integrity in science’ President of the National academy of Science Dr. Ralph Cicerone said that there has been a decline in public trust on Climatology and it is spreading.
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Dr. Cicerone, however, expected the scientists to create a new level of trust with the people.

Olympic offsets for dummies - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA

The problem with the political discussion about climate change these days is its "let's pretend" nature.

Much like Environment Minister Jim Prentice was pretending this week that the $150,000 Canada is spending on carbon offsets will "help offset the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its Olympic Games."
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Finally, it's sad Conservatives still feel the need to indulge in symbolic silliness like buying carbon offsets as a penance for Prime Minister Stephen Harper observing, when he was Canadian Alliance leader in 2002, that the Kyoto accord, ostensibly drafted to reduce GHG emissions, was in fact a socialist scheme to suck money out of developed countries like ours.

It's sad because Harper was right.

IPCC responsible for public losing confidence in climate science: Expert

Dr Cicerone pointed out that the IPCC was widely viewed as the foremost authority on climate change, adding: “the greater the stature of the institution, the harder the fall”.

He said: “The IPCC could have gone public with all the information and said, ‘Here’s what happened and we screwed up’.

“It didn’t and I think that hurts the reputation of the institution,” he said.

GEORGE WILL: They tried to blind you with science - Taunton, MA - The Taunton Gazette

Last week, BP America, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar, three early members of the 31-member U.S. Climate Action Partnership, said: Oh, never mind. They withdrew from USCAP. It is a coalition of corporations and global warming alarm groups that was formed in 2007 when carbon rationing legislation seemed inevitable and collaboration with the rationers seemed prudent. A spokesman for Conoco said: “We need to spend time addressing the issues that impact our shareholders and consumers.” What a concept.

Guide to Conspiracy Theories - Newsweek.com

2. Anthropogenic global warming is a hoax.
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Kernel of Truth? Deniers have long taken advantage of scientists' cautious statements, and "Climategate" breathed new life into the movement, but the science stands: warming is real, and it's caused by human actions.

Boulder County businesses slow to apply for $12M in ClimateSmart loans - Boulder Daily Camera

As of Thursday, no businesses had submitted applications for the program. County officials said they're expecting most submissions closer to the March 29 deadline.

Guest opinion: The politics of global warming - Boulder Daily Camera

[Don Lloyd] Under the headline "Experts: Mistakes in report" (Camera, Feb. 11) it was admitted that "the facts were not so good" in the second report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "which attempts to translate what global warming [GW] might mean to daily lives around the world." It was confidently stated that "no errors have surfaced in the first and most well-known of the reports, which said the physics of a warming atmosphere and rising seas is manmade and incontrovertible." However, this conveniently overlooks the infamous "hockey stick graph" so prominently touted in the IPCC report to prove the concurrence of GW and rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. When this graph was found to be constructed using basic technical mistakes by the author, it was quietly expunged from the data and the report, never to be discussed again.

Weekly Address Watch: For the thirtieth time in thirty-two weeks, The First Green President ignores global warming

After a year of exhaustive debate, it is time to move forward on [health care] reform.

Florida's cold kills manatee from zoo | The Columbus Dispatch

Florida's cold weather has claimed a former Columbus Zoo and Aquarium manatee.

Assistant Zoo Director Patty Peters said Gene, who lived at the Columbus Zoo from 1999 to 2005, was found dead last month from cold stress.

Gene is among about 200 manatees killed by unprecedented cold weather in Florida this year.

johnosullivan - PROSECUTING CLIMATE FRAUD: THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION

Many international readers have asked where we, the people who oppose carbon legislation, stand in mounting our own legal challenges against policy implementation based on discredited junk climate science. In this article I shall outline the general legal strategies for challenging what is fast being recognised as the greatest criminal fraud of all time.
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What has struck me and many other commentators is the astounding extent and pervasiveness of this climate data fraud. Effectively we are confronting an international Ponzi scheme that has festered within five English-speaking nations; the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

Despite 50-plus inches, no ice age is here: [Jeremy Symons, National Wildlife Federation, promotes the greatest scientific fraud in human history]

For our kids and grandkids, snowstorms may be the least of their concerns if we fail to act to reduce pollution and invest in clean energy alternatives. Warmer average temperatures could increase concentrations of ground-level ozone, which is known to aggravate respiratory problems such as asthma, especially in children and seniors. Virginia's incredible diversity of native wildlife--more than 700 species of birds, fish, and animals--will have to adapt to rapid changes in climate and habitat or perish.

Why do polluters work so hard to persuade us not to believe NASA and other scientists? Because they are worried we are going to shift to cleaner alternative energy sources like wind and solar and also pursue greater energy efficiency. If we take a bite out of our dependency on oil, we take a bite out of their enormous profits.

Climate Change Education (CCE): [More public funding for the greatest scientific fraud in human history]

The Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program seeks to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts.
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NSF anticipates having up to $20 million ($10 million in both FY 2010 and FY 2011) to support CCEP Phase I activities, subject to the availability of funds.

Climate change's impact on forests being measured via expanding tree trunks - washingtonpost.com

Parker's data, which showed the trunks gradually fattening over time, indicated that many of the trees were growing two to four times faster than expected. That raised questions about climate change's impact on the age-old rhythms of U.S. forests.
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After the Civil War, forests were allowed to grow back when easterners abandoned their pastures and moved West. Virginia, for instance, went from 25 to 30 percent forested in the mid-1800s to 62.5 percent now.

Setting the climate record "straight" : Nature News

[Q] Are you worried about morale among the scientists?
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[Martin Parry] If scientists feel that they are going to be put under some sort of political and media microscope both while and after they do their work, then that could well affect their wish to participate in an assessment of this kind. It's important to ensure that the IPCC gets the best scientists and allows them freedom to engage across the board without fear of being criticized, as long as they do a thorough and honest and hard-working job.

Sexual predators flock to energy boom towns : Nature News

Oil and gas attract more criminals than tourism or agriculture do.

Flashback: Gangsters Go Green! Mafia Tied to Fraudulent Italian Wind Farms - Madagascar 'Timber Mafia' Thriving : TreeHugger

There have been an increasing number of stories coming to light detailing how organized crime syndicates around the world have been getting their dirty little fingers into the green world.

American Thinker: The Incontestable Tenets of the Green Church

If discussing politics and religion should be avoided at all costs, then science must join the list. Much of today's "scientific consensus" is actually religion in its purest sense. The scientific faithful are proselytizing, pronouncing woe to anyone who questions their doctrine.

Too many scientists are High Priests in the First Assembled Reformation Church of Environmentalism, or FARCE for short. They and their followers defend their god -- the environment -- with the same zeal with which fanatical Muslims defend Mohammad.

Actually, to grant church status is a bit kind; FARCE is a cult. Nonbelievers can have rational discussions with religious persons. But sensible debate is impossible with cult followers. Fact, history, and common sense don't matter to the cultist. Thus they don't matter to the FARCE adherent.

The slightest questioning of a FARCE tenet labels one a heretic. Denounce man-made climate change -- FARCE's core belief -- and you're a global warming denier. Blind obedience, sans individual thought and reason, is required.

Urgency unfounded on cap and trade bill

Dennison reported that Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester are urging early action in passing this thorny legislation in order to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from trumping Congress by creating rules relative to climate change.

I submit there is no urgency. The obvious impact of this proposed legislation on every citizen for decades to come requires far more than a race to pass. We elected our two senators to represent us, not play political games. They possess constitutional authority to amend or repeal the Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act and all other enacted legislation. Likewise, they have authority to tell the EPA to “sit down and shut up.” To use the EPA as an excuse for hurried legislation of this magnitude brings buck passing to a new level.

Joe Keating

Pajamas Media » Climategate 2.0 — The NASA Files: U.S. Climate Science as Corrupt as CRU (PJM Exclusive — Part Four)

Who pitches in to cover for NASA's FOIA release? Al Gore's cable TV station.

Arctic glacial dust may affect climate and health in North America and Europe

Satellite data have shown large dust plumes in the arctic, but persistent cloud cover has made finding the origins difficult.

[Shouldn't everyone just stay home and wear what's already in their closets?]: New York Fashion Week tries on green | Reuters

Sponsor Mercedes-Benz aimed for the semi-annual event to be carbon neutral for the first time, and several of the designers unveiling fall and winter 2010 collections emphasized organic materials and sustainable designs.

Mercedes-Benz said it bought enough carbon offsets to have net zero carbon emissions at the huge tents erected in Manhattan's Bryant Park, where many of the shows are staged and require power and heat.

"Fashion is using a lot of fuel and heat. It's a win-win all around," said Fern Mallis, senior vice president of IMG Fashion which organizes the event.
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The New York City Department of Environmental Protection partnered with Aveda, maker of skin and hair products, to help reduce consumption of bottled water by setting up tap water stations for Fashion Week attendees.

The green effort was not without its critics.

Dahlia Algunaim, visiting Fashion Week from her home in California, said she was puzzled by most of the tap water stations that were located several blocks from the shows and posed a painful walk for someone like her, clad in tall boots.

Why Climate Scientists Are Hurting Their Cause - Newsweek.com

What went wrong? Part of the blame lies, of course, with those who obstructed the efforts of the IPCC and the individual scientists, including bloggers who tried to sandbag scientists with spurious FOIA requests, and the perpetrators (as yet unknown) of the hack at the Climatic Research Unit. Part of the blame also falls on the climate scientists themselves.

Let's bury the dead parrot of the stupid ETS scheme | The Australian

It is about bad public policy and a depressingly corrupted public service. And a business community seduced by the lure of false certainty and shamed by its willingness to put its hands in the taxpayers' pocket as much as those who plundered the easy money of the insulation debacle.

The simple question to be directed at the Prime Minister is: why?

Sarah Palin Takes On The Global Warming Hoax | US for Palin

This folks, is why I support Sarah Palin. The woman has cojones! Big brass ones!

Most of the pretenders to the 2012 GOP presidential contest would never take on the global warming hoaxers, the flat earthers. Many of them actually believe global warming is real, which should disqualify them from ever holding any office. The rest are just political cowards because they know to question the global warming hoaxers is to face ridicule.

Some Like It Hot

Doesn’t influencing climate policy while heading TERI lead to a conflict of interest? Why aren’t you stepping down as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? Those are the kind of questions thrown at Dr R.K. Pachauri these days. However, what readers of his just-released debut novel, Return to Almora, might want to ask instead is: where did this engineer and UN technocrat learn to turn on the heat?

www.outlookindia.com | The Secret Diary Of Dr R.K. Pachauri

I tell you, the blame game has gone too far. The other day, two scientists from the Pretty Preity University, Bulandshahr, accused me of failing to alert the Haiti government of the earthquake that killed thousands on the island state. And all because of a paper I presented last year before the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) where I had predicted that the next big quake would be in Juneau, Alaska. “The prediction, based on research by Grade I students of a Cincinnati public school, made its way into an IPCC report and put the authorities in Port au Prince off guard....” Thus spake Professors Gravity Singh and Richter Ramamurthy and the Sunday Telegraph, London, reported their canard at great length.

The Technology Chronicles : Greenpeace puts heat on Facebook over coal use for new datacenter

The environmental activist group Greenpeace International launched a campaign Friday against Facebook Inc. for contracting with a power utility that will use coal to help power a new data center under construction in Oregon.
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"If your Facebook page is being powered by coal, then it's contributing to climate change," he said.

Premiers happy after U.S. climate change meet

WASHINGTON — Seven Canadian premiers on Friday pressed senior Obama administration officials to pursue increased bilateral co-operation on climate change with Canada, and came away believing the U.S. would not take any unilateral trade action against carbon-intensive Canadian industries.

Die Klimazwiebel: [Believer Werner Krauss]: A Poem for the Unknown Blogger

Your mind is full of bitterness, scorn, hate, and the will to destroy.
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Do you realize that there is not one reader left on the blog?
I bet you don't.

Here's where your £9 million of Climate Challenge Fund money went | CLIMATEGATE

Now the UK TaxPayers’ Alliance has made a video that shows where some of the money was wasted. After watching their video, read their exceptional full report in this PDF–it’s unbelievable.

North, South Reach for New UN Climate Change Chief

Pasztor also said de Boer's resignation had nothing to do with recent controversies about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and allegedly hyped data on the melt rate of Himalayan glaciers.

"Absolutely nothing" had been produced that would call into question the fundamental IPCC conclusions on the issue of climate change and its impact, Pasztor said, although he acknowledged mistakes had been made and recognized, and needed to be corrected. Pasztor said the fundamental science of climate change, however, had not changed in any way.

If climate science is dubious, shouldn't governments give carmakers a break? | detnews.com | The Detroit News

In a sane world, European governments would be scrambling to rescind tight regulation and extortionate taxation introduced in the name of saving the planet from the ravages of global warming, induced by CO2 emissions from cars.

After all, the science justifying action to raise the cost of energy generally and forcing the European automotive industry to raise its fuel economy to unattainably high levels, has been shown to be in doubt, if not downright fraudulent.

Republicans exploit the muddle in the middle - Salt Lake Tribune

Kimball Rasmussen is an energy executive who travels the West with a slick presentation purporting to address concerns over climate change. CEO of Utah-based Deseret Power, Rasmussen downplays the threat of global warming with cute cartoons and a pickle barrel of plain talk. He ends by "debunking" the myths about global warming.

The myths happen to be of Rasmussen's own creation, carefully worded to misrepresent the findings of mainstream climatologists. And his sources include some of the more tainted global-warming "skeptics." One of his scientific experts, Christopher Horner, is actually a lawyer at the right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute. Another is Dr. Roy Spencer, whose calculations have been widely discredited by his peers and who, by the way, also questions evolution.

Global doubting: Scientists need some humility - Salt Lake Tribune

Even if you throw out the tainted research, the trends -- rising sea levels, temperature changes and retreating polar ice -- are convincing and have been documented over many decades by different groups of scientists around the world.

Increasing global warming could cause longer-lasting weather patterns - Global Warming - Environment - Home - The Times of India

WASHINGTON: In a new study, University of Missouri (MU) researchers are studying whether increasing planet temperatures and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could lead to atmospheric blocking and when this blocking might occur, leading to more accurate forecasts.

YouTube - Morano: McCain is 'running scared' from global warming 'hoax'

Transcript: You know it's bad when John McCain is bailing out of global warming! [Laughter.] He's now claiming -- and this is not made up -- he just claimed a couple days ago he didn't even support a global warming bill despite co-authoring two, one in 2003 and one in 2005. He stunned his former aides with his new-found skepticism...

Investors.com - The Political Masters Of Propaganda And Their Well-Intentioned Disasters

Leading scientists who preached and promoted global warming from the world's top center on warming — the Climatic Research Unit at England's University of East Anglia — have been exposed as frauds due to their falsifying and changing past temperatures to hide facts showing the globe wasn't warming. Now we are seeing record-busting snow and low temperatures in the U.S. north and south.

New Democrat progressives must think people are too ignorant or ill-informed to recognize when they're being conned or lied to. People want jobs, not jawboning.

TPPF Report Confirms Worst Fears About Cap-And-Trade Impact On Texas Jobs & Economy | Texas GOP Vote

Through their rigorous analysis, TPPF has confirmed my worst fears about cap-and-trade – indicating it would kill close to 200,000 Texas jobs, raise power bills for the average Texas family by 54 percent, and slash our state’s economy by up to $40 billion. TPPF has reached the same conclusion that Texas Comptroller Susan Combs did last year: Cap-and-trade would devastate our state’s economy and destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Green activists are losing their fire - Telegraph

It's all about the bottom line. Raising funds has become their most important cause; the planet comes a distant second. I have never joined a green pressure group, and never intend to do so – but if I had, I would refuse to pay my subscription until it had regained the calling, courage and sheer cussedness of Lees and Clapp.

Global warming deniers want South Dakota's teachers to deceive children : Thoughts from Kansas

By a 36-30 vote, the South Dakota legislature recently passed House Concurrent Resolution 1009, "Calling for balanced teaching of global warming in the public schools of South Dakota."

Deep snow forces Md. dairy farms to dump milk - wtop.com

Middletown-area farmers Jeremy Thompson and Glen Kinna told The Frederick News-Post on Tuesday that they each dumped thousands of pounds of milk because trucks couldn't get through the deep snow to pick it up.

They say cows must be milked twice a day. And once the farmers' tanks are full, they have no choice but to dump the excess.

Thompson also says he lost two cows when part of his barn collapsed under the weight of the snow.

Ohio: Snow Causing Roof Collapses

The weight of the snow and ice around Southeastern Ohio is causing some roofs to collapse.

Harsh Winter Creates 'Emergency Situation' On Blue Ridge Parkway - News Story - WSOC Charlotte

A brutal winter has taken its toll on one of North Carolina’s most famous roads.

Thousands of fallen trees have created an emergency situation on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The superintendent of the parkway is submitting a request for emergency funding to the federal government, in the hopes of opening the parkway in time for spring.

Brushfire Sparks | Houston, We Have a Hoax

Much like the “flat earthers” of earlier times, these “warm earthers” have created results that fit their theories, and refuse to allow any challenges. Unlike real scientists, they choose to avoid the pursuit of the truth because, well, there’s no real money in it. They would lose millions in grants, lose a lot of prestige, and all those invites to really cool parties would just dry up.

So they perpetuate the hoax, sticking to their manufactured facts even as they resign their posts. The recent record levels of snow around the globe are solid evidence of “global warming”. Their position regarding the melting and eventual disappearance of the Himalayan glaciers may have been wrong, but they were right overall. The polar bears are dying off, even as all evidence indicates their populations are expanding. They’ve been wrong over, and over, and over, yet they continue to stick to their story and try to find ways to perpetuate the lies.

Record global snows (check). Record low temperatures (check). Missing (or lost) “data” (check). Evidence of tampering (check). Evidence of obfuscation (check). Evidence of obstruction (check). Continuing to lie in the face of the truth (check). Houston, we have a hoax.

Wonk Room » Obama Explains Global Boiling To Conservatives

Hoping to defend their fossil-industry funders from having to limit carbon pollution, conservative politicians and pundits are increasingly embracing conspiracy theories that global warming is an ideological hoax — even as the consequences of climate change grow more dire.

Al Gore Pivots to the Bottom Line

...But there is another issue: earthquakes. The area where the drilling was taking place – called the Geysers – is particularly prone to earthquakes, some 360 in 2009 alone and growing, according to Elizabeth Larson in the local Lake County News. Some geothermal energy is already produced at the Geysers, concerning nearby residents, some who remember days before geothermal...and almost daily tremors.

One local resident, who has monitored seismic activity in the area, told Larson (before the AltaRock project was shut down) that, “the community isn’t against geothermal, but they feel AltaRock’s project was rushed through a less-than-transparent process, that the company wasn’t upfront about the problems inherent in EGS [enhanced geothermal systems] technology and that they ignored critical seismic data in their environmental assessment. ‘It doesn’t feel like a real honest process,’ he said.”

HSBC sees challenges in global climatic changes

HCP is a five-year US$100mil partnership between HSBC and the climate group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and World Wide Fund for Nature to combat the urgent threat of climate change by inspiring action by individuals, businesses and governments worldwide.

World Dendro 2010 Withdraws Invitation « Climate Audit

I don’t entirely understand why dendros would feel so threatened by discussing things like the connection of linear mixed effects models to the construction of tree ring chronologies that they would refuse to participate in such a session, but hey – it’s climate science. they’d rather avoid criticism than confront it.

Don Young: Global warming is a "Scam" - video - KTVA

This week Matt Felling interviews Congressman Young about health care, global warming, and the state of Congress.

Heather Taylor-Miesle: Why Climate Change Deniers Should Still Support Green Energy

Fact: Climate Action Will Create Jobs

CSI | Mann Bites Dog: Why ‘Climategate’ Was Newsworthy

There is, however, a healthy, open, honest, and active scientific debate in the peer-reviewed scientific literature about the degree of climate change.

U.N. Report to Quantify the Environmental Impact of Major Companies - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A United Nations report to be released later this year finds that the world’s top 3,000 companies cause $2.2 trillion dollars in environmental damage per year, according to the consulting company commissioned to write the report.

The report is being compiled by the UK-based environmental consulting firm Trucost, and is based on eight years of research on large companies.

[Fraudster Al endorses the old "global warming causes bitter cold" selling point]

Paul Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, wrote an exceptional letter to The New York Times last week:

“Two physical findings stand out. In the last 50 years the world ocean has accumulated 22 times as much heat as has the atmosphere (data provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce). It is this repository of heat -- through processes like evaporation and ocean overturning -- that drives the changes in weather we are experiencing: heavier precipitation events, sequences of large storms, bitter cold spells and prolonged droughts in some regions"

Hype of Global Warming Far Scarier Than Science Shows | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

There is a reason proponents of costly measures to address global warming have so exaggerated the risks – they essentially had to for there to be any chance the public would accept the high price tag for action to ratchet down carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Once the gloom and doom is replaced by a more accurate assessment of the risk, such measures as the Senate’s Boxer-Kerry bill, a new UN treaty, or EPA regulations look like an especially bad deal.

Can Condoms Help Save Polar Bears? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“This is sick,” wrote one commenter at the environment blog of The Orange County Register. “Not that condoms are bad. But the reasoning behind this is disturbing and seems driven by sociopaths.”

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Is This Politics or Science?

Mann has therefore advertised – as surely as if he'd splashed it on a Times Square billboard – his own political orientation. He's made it clear that he personally buys into this profoundly partisan view of the world. He isn't merely a Democratic, he's hardcore.

How to Create Jobs and Save the Environment | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

1.) What is it? 2.) Why haven’t Congress and the administration acted? The answers are increased oil and natural gas production in the United States and we have no idea.

Global Warming: Meltdown | KUSI - News, Weather and Sports - San Diego, CA | Coleman's Corner

Watch the on-line version of the show by clicking the links below.

Wilkes Land Antarctica JOIDES Resolution Research Trip - Popular Mechanics

Now halfway through the expedition, we have dodged icebergs, sat out storms and ducked exploding sediment cores. In between, we have drilled down 3000 feet to reach the warm Eocene "greenhouse" world of 50 million years ago, and another site gave a beautiful, annually layered, 10,000-year record of climate since the ice last retreated.

Question: If the world was very warm 50 million years ago, why didn't positive feedbacks continue until the Earth was an uninhabitable fireball?

The crisis of confidence in climate-change [junk] science: Swift-boating climate change | The Economist

Recall that the East Anglia scientists were attacked in part for attempting to craft a public-relations strategy to hold off the relentless attacks of sceptics.

Green trade shows are starting to feel recycled - latimes.com

There are so many, even the most gung-ho of eco-mongers claim to suffer conference overload.

"It's a huge amount of money," said Stephanie Corbin, senior assistant editor at Tradeshow Week magazine. "Before the economic downturn, green was the hot topic. While it's definitely slowed and was put on the back burner for the recession, I don't think it's going away."

Barbour rallies governors to oppose EPA move to regulate greenhouse gases - The Hill's E2-Wire

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) is trying to rally support among his fellow governors for an effort in Congress to prevent EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.

A draft letter, which Barbour is circulating in advance of a National Governors Association meeting this weekend, says EPA’s regulatory push would place “heavy administrative burdens on state environmental quality agencies.”

United Kingdom mired in harsh winter - UPI.com

While the United Kingdom as a whole is facing its worst winter in decades, the Meteorological Office estimates the winter could be among the driest on record [wait a minute: don't we expect the allegedly warmer weather to be more moist?] thanks to significant decreases in the average winter rainfall.

Commentary: 'De Boer's Resignation Is Catastrophic' :: Uncensored News For Real People

The left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung writes:

"This resignation is catastrophic because of its timing: On the one hand the IPCC is under heavy fire from critics and needs defending. On the other, climate diplomacy after the shock of Copenhagen has started to revive again, with early discussions to probe how to put this process back on track."

"It's twice as perplexing that de Boer has set his resignation for July 1, and simultaneously announced a switch to the private sector. The next climate conference will begin at the end of May, in Bonn - both he and his successor will have to lead it. His new job as a consultant can also be understood as a signal that world diplomacy is not the way to win the struggle against climate change."

Dams Trigger Stronger Storms, Study Suggests

Now some researchers are sounding the alarm that dams—along with their reservoirs—might also trigger more frequent fierce storms that could be the dams' undoing.

What Are Our Alternatives, If Fossil Fuels Are a Problem? « Our Finite World

The largest renewable is hydro-electric.

Twitter / Mark Knoller

Obama heading home from Las Vegas. Watching if WH admits Obama events were political for Sen. Reid & Dems should pay for Obama visit.

Here comes the next bubble – carbon trading – Telegraph Blogs

“Carbon developers”, many of them employed by large multinationals, travel the world in search of carbon reduction projects to sell, while firms of carbon accountants have been established to verify on the United Nations’ behalf that those reductions are real. The whole thing, though well intentioned, looks wide open to abuse and scams. Mr Schapiro’s account of the carbon trading market is obviously a sceptical one, and no doubt there are others that take a less cynical view. But I wonder what all the wide eyed climate change campaigners are going to say when the first scandals begin to break, still more what they’ll make of it when the whole thing turns out to be another giant asset bubble – if indeed the non production of carbon can be described as an asset.

EU Referendum: Peabody Energy Company

Offers its 240-page argument on the EPA endangerment case. It relies heavily on "Climategate" and the CRU e-mails, plus the lacunas in the IPCC report - "Amazongate" and others – then concluding:

The EPA relied on IPCC reports that were not prepared in accordance with US data quality standards and therefore do not meet US standards of reliability. Thus, [the] EPA's attempt to transform a benign naturally-occurring substance into a dangerous air pollutant is based on evidence that it should never have used in the first place.

Do Climate Shocks Make Poor Nations Poorer? / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Ben Olken and Ben Jones have a new NBER Working Paper that merits mentioning.

We find that a poor country being 1 degree Celsius warmer in a given year reduces the growth rate of that country’s exports by between 2.0 and 5.7 percentage points, with no detectable effects in rich countries.

Some Michigan farmers 'believe' [they'll cash in on climate swindle], and want legislation | The Mudpuppy - - MLive.com

A group of Michigan farmers has declared its support for federal climate change legislation they say would boost clean energy production in the United States.
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The farmers discussed how their industry could contribute to greenhouse gas reduction through carbon sequestration in the soil, low-impact practices and leasing land for the placement of solar panels and wind turbines.
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All this while the American Farm Bureau Federation doesn't "believe" in human-induced climate change.

Enjoy the snowpocalypse? Get ready for more big storms, scientists say | Michigan News - - MLive.com

National Geographic quotes scientists who attribute the rise of massive snowstorms to global warming, El Nino, cyclical ocean heating and cooling patterns or some combination thereof.

More Mega-Snowstorms Coming -- Global Warming to Blame?

As snowstorm-ravaged states on the U.S. East Coast dig out, scientists say the past week's "Snowpocalypse" could be a taste of harsh winters to come—and that, strangely enough, global warming may be to blame. Others aren't so sure.

ABC News Watch: FOI request for climate time line emails-Request denied.

SOME QUESTIONS:
1. Why are documents related to ABC program material and datacasting content exempt from FOI?
2. Clearly where tax payer funds have been used to produce a faulty program, there is a compelling public interest in releasing documents that might shed light on how such faults got through the ABC's editorial system?
3. What have the ABC got to hide?
4. Does the ABC have its own Climategate in the making?

Czechgate: Part Two – The GISS rape of Prague | CLIMATEGATE

The CRU datasets from Czech stations – as probably the only temperature records from CRU officially publicly available at the time – were recently published by the Czech climatologists who obtained them from CRU despite Phil Jones declaring the data “missing”, “lost during the moving”.

Weird | Climate Skeptic

I have predicted it before but will say it again — some day, the environmentalists will look back on their global warming hysteria as a couple of lost decades in their own movement, when focus on real environmental issues were kicked to the curb in favor of going all in on trace concentrations of carbon dioxide.

Global warming: It started with fear

Again, without presuming moustache twirling villainy, the people involved were not inventing the problem--they were convinced, by and large. But they were taking advantage of it. And they were not inventing stories about all of their poster children--they were taking speculative articles from anywhere and exaggerating them to get support for their policies.

Breaking: Obama blames record Dallas snow on global warming

AFP: Obama rebukes climate skeptics

Obama cited the lack of snow in Vancouver during the current winter Olympics and unusual snowstorms in places like Dallas in the southern United States as examples of violent weather patterns brought on by climate change.

YouTube - President Obama "Explains" The Science Behind Climate Change

[As the world's most powerful man promotes the greatest scientific fraud in history, watch for Harry Reid nodding in the background] Obama goes on to blame carbon dioxide for "more violent storm systems, more unpredictable weather,...more monsoons, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more drought in some places, floods in other places..."]

Transcript: Remarks by The President At Town Hall Meeting In Henderson, Nevada

And what do I mean by that? Look, if you tell a company that there are no mileage standards on cars, then people end up making Hummers. Right? And everybody drives Hummers until finally gas gets so crazy and at a certain point people start saying maybe I should get a more fuel-efficient car.
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Well, that's the only idea that we're trying to talk about when it comes to these greenhouse gases that are causing global warming. If we say that, you know what, the pollution that's being sent into the atmosphere has a cost to all of us -- in terms of in some cases the air we breathe that's causing asthma, in some cases because it's causing climate change -- we just want you to take into account those costs and price energy accordingly. And that means that things like wind energy suddenly become more appealing because they don't produce those pollution -- those pollutants, and other sources of energy become less appealing because they do produce those pollutants.
...there's got to be a transition. We're not going to suddenly get all our energy from wind or all our energy from sun because we just don't have the technology to do it.

But what we should be doing is planning over the next 20, 30 years to move in that direction. That's what countries like China are doing. That's what countries like France are doing. That's what countries all across Europe are doing, and all across Asia are doing. We don't want to be left behind. We're the only ones who have kind of missed the boat. So we're still using 20th century technologies and everybody else is producing 21st century technologies.

Look what happened with the car. We started getting our clock cleaned when consumers decided they wanted a cleaner car and suddenly everybody was buying their cars from Japan, or now South Korea. And we want to make sure that that doesn't happen when it comes to wind turbines, it doesn't happen when it comes to solar energy, et cetera.

The Hockey Schtick: Satellite Altimetry: Rate of Sea Level Rise Slows to 1.5mm/yr

Expanding on prior posts on sea levels, the rate of sea level rise as measured by satellite altimetry has fallen from 3.2mm/year over the entire satellite records (note 2 different satellites at different times) to a rate of 1.5mm/yr since 2005

Corporate exodus from USCAP hidden away in blog post

Corporations are beginning to pull out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a major driving force behind "cap and trade" proposals. But The New York Times would prefer that readers not become privy to yet another setback for the environmental movement. When USCAP was formed it earned expansive coverage but news of its possible demise only earns a blog post…

Where is the coverage of corporations that have pulled out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) after lobbying in favor of anti-emissions regulations? The three year old pressure group was heralded and celebrated for its efforts in the New York Times when it first came together. But now that it is contracting, USCAP is suddenly less news worthy.

Denial not just for the deniers

Most people would not be surprised if told there was a leftist bias in political science or English faculties, but a 2005 study by academics Stanley Rothman, S. Robert Lichter, and Neil Nevitte found that "three out of four biologists and computer scientists now place themselves to the left of center, as do about two thirds of mathematicians, chemists, and physicists." Indeed, among physicists, the study found that self-described Democrats outnumbered Republicans in American universities by more than ten to one!

10 Wong Reasons to Tax us « JoNova

What’s scary about this is that people who are supposed to represent the public (our elected representatives) are using the equivalent of a medieval witchhunt to run the country, and the people who are supposed to inform the public (the journalists) don’t seem to notice.

Von Storch: “Climate Protection” Enhances Vulnerability « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

The vulnerability against weather extremes is enhanced because of the false perception that we are facing a revengeful environment which is striking back against the perpetrator instead of the view that extremes of this sort are “normal” and need preparation on our side even if these events are rare.

The Reference Frame: Interview with Michael Mann

This guy is a stunning mixture of a complete lack of integrity and a complete lack of sanity.

Al Gore's Brain (AlGoresBrain) on Twitter

Now is the time to buy your Carbon Credits. Call me and ask about our Global Warming closeout.
BREAKING: White House heralds projection of billions of new stimulus jobs by the University of East Anglia.

From Piltdown man to global warming

[Susan Martinuk, Calgary Herald] Holding to debunked science and making global policies based on debunked science benefits no one. It's time to acknowledge the UN's data is seriously corrupt and that global warming, as it has long been presented to us, may not be real at all.

Jordan enlists army in climate fight | Chem.Info

OSLO (Reuters) - Jordan has unveiled plans to help fight climate change, including upgrading its armed forces by 2020, an area usually overlooked in the global warming debate.

An Inconvenient Driveway

Activists and scientists have too much invested in human-caused global warming. For activists, it’s the threat by which they can create their version of a better world, and scientists have staked their careers and reputations on the accuracy of those computer models.

Given what’s at stake, inconvenient snow and cold has to be explained away. Assuming, that is, the people who do so can get out of their driveways.

1972 Article Unearthed: 'Worse than Hitler': 'Population Bomb' author Paul Ehrlich suggested adding a forced sterilization agent to 'staple food' and 'water supply' | Climate Depot

A 1972 article about “The Population Bomb” biologist Paul Ehrlich reveals a nascent environmental movement grappling with mass sterilization, climate fears, “international policy planning” and redistribution of wealth. The article reveals dramatic parallels to today's modern environmental movement.

Green Jobs: The Last Redoubt (invoking military images of us-versus-them) — MasterResource

All this bluster about trade wars, burying the opposition in wind turbine blades and biogas feedstocks, only works if you don’t really mean it.

Coral reefs being destroyed by climate change - Telegraph

Lost paradise worlds beneath the Earth's oceans including those around the Britain are being "systemically destroyed" by climate change and over fishing before they can even be properly explored, claim scientists.