C3: The Obama Legacy: Democracy Perverted by "Green" Corruption?

Obama and the Democrats want Americans to believe that their policies are about saving the world from global warming and at the same time creating green jobs. Unfortunately, the science proves that cutting U.S. CO2 emissions will do nothing to global temperatures, and what about green jobs? The "green jobs" farce is, well,.... er, a farce.

Pajamas Media » Senator Barrasso: Why Won’t Congressional Democrats Permit Science Oversight Hearings? (PJM Exclusive)

Senator John Barrasso M.D., in an exclusive interview with Pajamas Media, discusses science oversight — or the lack of it — in the Democratic Congress.

Rajendra Pachauri must be sacked for the UN to rescue its credibility on climate change – Telegraph Blogs

If the survival of the planet is in peril and the campaign to save it lies in the hands of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s chairman, can we replace the incumbent as a matter of urgency?
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Dr Pachauri finds the time to travel the world non-stop, speak at conferences, and nip back to India to play for his amateur cricket team. But if he is too busy to read and master his own report on the world’s most important challenge, shouldn’t we look for someone more focused on the task in hand?

Bill Maher: The Environment Is The Ultimate Health Care Issue (VIDEO)

Bill Maher called the environment the "ultimate health care issue" Friday night during "Real Time" and argued that our future depends on our ability to stop global warming. But some on his panel weren't so convinced.

Conservative talk radio host Amy Holmes, actor Hill Harper, and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson weighed in, with Harper being the sole panelist to agree with Maher's assessment. Johnson said he believes in climate change, but that its effects have been greatly exaggerated. While Holmes called herself a skeptic, and argued that the science behind the topic is not settled. She described it as a "raging debate."

Maher was blown away by Holmes' skepticism and shot down Johnson for opposing cap and trade legislation.

State global warming [hoax] fund hits $213M -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

ALBANY-- The state has raised more than $213 million under a multi-state program intended to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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In October, the governor raided $90 million from RGGI to balance the state budget, a step that outraged the environmental community. [Wasn't that money supposed to be used to save our grandchildren from fiery floods?]

Advice to priests: shut up about climate change, talk about sin – Telegraph Blogs

There’s an article in the new issue of the Catholic Herald that skewers trendy, fad-chasing Catholic priests more effectively (and politely) than anything I’ve written on this blog. It’s by Dominic Scarborough, and you can read it all here.

Report: The Case for Global Warming Stronger Than Ever - TIME

The fact that climate change evidence that was "very likely" a few years ago has now been declared likelier still by the comprehensive Met Office report suggests that the evidence for human-caused climate change is getting better all the time.  [How so, specifically?]

Climate Accepters Down But Still Big Majority | "Smart" Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

“If the natural scientists are right that the Earth’s temperatures will continue to rise and 2008 was an aberration,” Krosnick said, “as soon as those folks put their finger out the window and realize that 2010, 2011 are back on that track, they will flip back to the other side.”

[Change]: Former D.C. hospital crowded with homeless families - washingtonpost.com

Department of Human Services officials, who manage the shelter, attributed the crowding to record unemployment, now 12 percent in the District; a sharp rise in evictions; and record low temperatures and snowfall. The city has issued 99 hypothermia alerts thus far in the Nov. 1 to March 31 hypothermia season, compared with 92 during the season last year. Alerts are issued when the temperature and wind chill dip below freezing.

Violent backlash on against climate scientists

Until recently, nearly all criticism of the IPCC had been about its underestimations of the risks of climate change and inability to keep up with the latest science.

nebusiness.co.uk - News - Business News - Carbon tax casts a pall over industry

A CARBON "tax" could hit the North East’s industrial heartland with companies going bust or moving abroad, a minister has signalled.

Energy Minister Lord Hunt made the apparent admission as he came under pressure over the European Union emissions trading scheme in the Lords.

Benny Peiser: West’s Climate Policy Approach Is Wrong

The whole political debate has shifted quite dramatically in Europe, partly as a result of the Climategate scandal and partly as response to the Copenhagen fiasco. What used to be a very popular theme for politicians who thought it would win them votes is turning into a liability. There’s a public backlash and a growing scepticism that Europe is burdening its own people and industry while the world is not following.

New technique shows Roman Warm Period Warmer than Present Day

The study's findings suggest that details of climate recorded in Icelandic sagas are reasonably accurate.

In the 1000s the Icelandic “Book of Settlements” reports a famine so severe “men ate foxes and ravens” and “the old and helpless were killed and thrown over cliffs.” According to his shells, it was a difficult period with summer water temperatures peaking at only 5-6 degree C, down from as high as 7.5-9.5 degree C only 100 years earlier.

Peter Foster: Alice In UN Land

The UN has decided to follow the Red Queen's approach when it comes to recent mounting scandals over its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Exoneration first -- review afterwards!

Department of Climate Change behind on environment

The federal government's Department of Climate Change may be at the cutting edge of environmental policy development but it is well behind when it comes to its own effect on the environment.

The department has told a parliamentary committee that its Canberra headquarters achieved only a 2½-star rating on the five-star National Australian Built Environment Rating System and did not comply with the government's policy on energy efficiency in its own operations.

As a result, it is seeking approval to spend $20.5 million fitting out a new building which will have ''state of the art'' green features including passive air handling systems, photovoltaic arrays on the roof and facades and sophisticated energy management and lighting controls.

Benny Peiser: Climate libel chill - FP Comment

When asked for the data behind one study ‘proving’ global warming, CRU scientists instead planned to sue. Following the release of the Climategate emails from East Anglia University`s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), the U.K.’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee decided to investigate its implications “for the integrity of scientific research.” Benny Peiser of the Faculty of Science at Liverpool John Moores University submitted a memorandum, which appears below in edited form.

FOXNews.com - After Climate-Gate, U.N. Submits to Independent Review

In another sign of trouble for Pachauri, the U.N. announced earlier Wednesday that he was to appear at the press conference along side Dijkgraaf, but Pachauri failed to show up.
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Asked if there will be an effort to include climate change skeptics in the internal debates over which data are used, Dijkgraaf declined to answer.

"All scientists are skeptics," he said.

Attention All Patriots Fans - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Here's Tom Brady pitching the stupid turn of your lights for an hour thing

Climate Common Sense: Head down, snouts in the trough.

Melbourne's mayor Robert Doyle is not one to spare expense , having spent a quarter of a million dollars for a new Melbourne logo (which was the letter M) . It is not surprising then that it has been revealed that he spent $50,000 for a jolly in Copenhagen staying in a $1200 per night suite - all to help reduce Global Warming.

Sequestering carbon dioxide in a closed underground volume | The SPPI Blog

Source:  Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
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Published reports on the potential for sequestration fail to address the necessity of storing CO2 in a closed system. Our calculations suggest that the volume of liquid or supercritical CO2 to be disposed cannot exceed more than about 1% of pore space. This will require from 5 to 20 times more underground reservoir volume than has been envisioned by many, and it renders geologic sequestration of CO2 a profoundly non-feasible option for the management of CO2 emissions.

EU Referendum: The biggest mistake yet

As the inconsistencies and anomalies pile up, "circling the wagons", as the IPCC appears to be trying to do, is not going to restore the trust in the science that the warmists claim to want yet are doing nothing to achieve.

[Breaking: Anonymous person who studied biology claims to be convinced by unspecified RealClimate arguments!]

...only the most ignorant person could fail to see the terrible intellectual gulf between the quality of so-called skeptic sites and those defending the science behind the AGW thesis.

[Warmists in the Arctic: Have we mentioned that it's tremendously freaking cold up here?]: Ice Teams Feeling Under the Weather

Expedition Photographer, Martin Hartley, explains. “If you’ve never been to the Arctic, you can never really appreciate just how cold it can be sleeping in an unheated tent, with potential winds of up to 40kph whistling by, in temperatures as low as -30oC. Your freezer at home is only–18º or so. It’s therefore vital our scientists learn to not only cope with the discomfort, but also prevent any more serious conditions such as frostbite and hypothermia.”

Al Fin: A Mighty Fortress Is Our Climate Model

The climate orthodoxy is a crumbling castle of sand. Yet this pseudoscience is being taught to schoolchildren and is trumpeted by the mainstream media (and porno rags like Nature, Science, New Scientist, Scientific American, New York Times, etc) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The scam receives massive government funding from the Obama - Pelosi reich, and other green leftist dieoff regimes around the world.

Only a great popular uprising by the victims of the scam -- the people of the western world -- can turn back the great dieoff and energy starvation bandwagon.

American Thinker: The Granularity of Climate Models

It is easy to see why the climatologists trained on electronic calculators put so much faith in their computer models, they do millions of calculations, far beyond what one person could do with a slide rule and calculator. But garbage in still yields garbage out.

Howlin’ Wolf: Paul Ehrlich on Energy (Part I: Demeaning Julian Simon; Energy as Desecrator; Doom from Depletion) — MasterResource

I do not know of any mainstream scientist who has been more errant in his worldview predictions and who has gotten away with more sub-intellectual behavior.

Climate Progress Makes Stuff Up - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So much fun! On the heels of this game-changing revelation in an e-mail I received under the Freedom of Information Act, lamenting that the NASA GISS data are — in the eyes of NASA GISS scientists themselves — less credible than the Climategate CRU data. As a quick reminder for those who have been away on interstellar travel for the past four months — or just relying on broadcast networks and the NYT and Washington Post for your news — that is the data which for all legal and scientific purposes does not exist (they lost it/destroyed it/dog ate it). As you'll see, that is now of even greater significance than it was days ago.

Climategate.com shuts down « Watts Up With That?

[From the Facebook page of the Climategate.com operator] It wasn’t fair to my family that I had my face buried in my computer all day and night. It felt like I was on a treadmill and could not get off. And I also owed it to my family to earn some income somewhere instead of just working on “the cause” all the time.

The limits of evolution | COSMOS magazine

Only some species will adapt and evolve to survive climate change.

Andrew Revkin - The Death of Science Writing, and the Future of Catastrophe | Point of Inquiry

In this conversation with host Chris Mooney, Revkin discusses the uncertain future of his field, the perils of the science blogosphere, his battles with climate blogger Joe Romm, and what it’s like (no joke) to have Rush Limbaugh suggest that you kill yourself.

ARE WE READY TO PAY A TAX ON LIFE?

All this was inspired by the principle-which is quite true in itself-that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. -Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X[1]

YouTube [2 minute audio] - Monckton On Climate Hoaxers: "Jail The Lot"

BlackAndRight — March 11, 2010 — Wednesday evening, I had the honor of attending a presentation given by noted 'climate change' skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton, sponsored by the Bull Run Republican Womens Club in Manassas, Virginia.

I essentially wanted to know (with all the revelations of deliberate fudging of climate data to "prove" global warming is happening) what the legal ramifications on the players could be, considering how the billions of dollars cities, states, businesses, corporations, as well as whole nations have spent going "green", not to mention the adverse effects on developing nations?

Mary Robinson: 'I feel a terrible sense of urgency' | From the Guardian | The Guardian

After 13 years with the UN, former Irish president Mary Robinson is coming home to her debt-ridden country – not to retire, but to fight for 'climate justice' for all the world's poor

National Trust's latest PR push – fresh air or hot air? | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The Trust is selling jam jars of fresh, 'stress-relieving' country air to city folk – is it a bit of fun or patronising PR guff?

US to lobby for endangered species listing for polar bear | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Melting sea ice in the Arctic will kill thousands of bears in coming years, the US says, and continued commercial trade must not be allowed to make the situation worse

Switchboard, from NRDC :: Zak Smith's Blog :: Helping Polar Bears in the Gulf of Arabia

Yes, you read that right. NRDC is working to save polar bears in the Gulf of Arabia – Doha, Qatar, to be exact.

Peter Berkowitz: Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Rooted in the Dysfunction of Today's Universities - WSJ.com

The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies.

Carbon neutral caution | Grist

I thought it was interesting to take a look at the climate action plan from the city of Copenhagen. It's certainly a contender for the title of the greenest and most progressive city on earth, and it's a city that has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025. But what you find is that even for the Danes, carbon neutrality is more aspirational than actionable
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In other words, even Copenhagen doesn't have a plan to achieve zero emissions. They'll rely on what amounts to offsets for over a million tons of CO2, roughly half of their current carbon footprint

Chu: Blogs distort climate debate - The Hill's E2-Wire

Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday that evidence of human-induced climate change is overwhelming – and suggested the blogosphere hasn’t done wonders for public understanding of the issue.

“Despite what you may hear in the blogs and things, the overwhelming evidence of climate change is growing stronger day by day, year by year  [How so, specifically?  How much stronger is it today than it was on Nov 1, 2009?] ,” he said in a speech at the annual conference of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

The question, he added, is not whether the Earth will warm up, but by how much.

Response: Scientists should stop deceiving us | Comment is free | The Guardian

In holding that the aim of science is truth alone, they misrepresent its real aims

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis by Jeremy Rifkin | Book review | Books | The Guardian

...those whose power and wealth come from fossil fuels will do anything they can to promote "climate scepticism".

This is where the leaked emails come in. With global warming fuelling a resurgence of geopolitical tensions, climate science has become a weapon in a war of disinformation. Whatever lapses in intellectual probity they might reveal, the messages are being used to obscure a mass of evidence showing that anthropogenic climate change is real, and may be occurring more rapidly than previously believed. It is still possible to frame an intelligent response to the threat, but first we need to recognise that the climate has become a battleground. Empathy won't save us.

Is this a photoshopped image?

Collide-a-scape >> The Climate Reconciliation

...Since this particular blogger refuses to debate the disaster and climate policy expert one on one, perhaps they could instead participate in another CAP panel, which I would call, “Reconciling Climate Science, Politics, and Policy.” In my dream panel, they would be joined by Gavin Schmidt, Judith Curry, Todd Stern, and Andy Revkin.

Given how polarized and rancorous the climate debate has become, and given how far we are from a global agreement on reducing greenhouse gases, maybe it’s time for an institution to bring some representation of these varied and influential players together, on the same public stage, so they can hash out their disparate perspectives. Who knows, maybe in that dust up they could even find some common ground that would point to a new path forward.

Harsh winter draws blame as casinos again come up short

Blaming a series of storms that dumped record levels of snowfall in Atlantic City, the Casino Control Commission announced that the city’s 11 casinos took in $261.6 million in winnings in February, a 15.7 percent tumble from the year-ago period.

Fredericksburg.com - Harsh winter leaves many trees in need of pruning

IT APPEARS THAT the winter of 2010 is finally over--and good riddance.

Old Man Winter has left his mark on the landscape. Everywhere I go, there is arboreal devastation. Majestic trees that could not bear the burden of the heavy snows have fallen or at least have broken limbs.

Mote's hospital is hosting four times as many turtles this season as it did last season - The Bradenton Times

LONGBOAT KEY -- Mote Marine Laboratory is set up to host up to 10 turtles at one time in its turtle hospital. But during this unusually frigid season it has taken in 50 turtles from all over Florida.

Cold kills record number | KeysNews.com

The largest die-off of manatees in recorded history has taken place in Florida as a result of the state's prolonged, record-low temperatures this winter.

A total of 368 manatees have died in Florida waters so far this year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The unprecedented number of deaths in less than three months is just 61 shy of the number of manatees that died in all of 2009, 429, which itself was a record, said Katie Tripp, Save the Manatee Club's director of science and conservation.

Immokalee farmworkers still in desperate need for basic necessities following crop freeze » Naples Daily News

In its third week of food distribution, the Salvation Army of Collier County still needs food for Immokalee residents.

The Salvation Army opened a food distribution center in Immokalee to assist farmwokers following the crop-killing freeze in January which left many with little to no work.

The agency is providing a box of food on a weekly basis to more than 850 farmworkers for three more weeks — a total of six weeks. Food distribution will continue until the week of April 6.

“There is absolutely a continuing need for food,” said Chris Nind, director of development and community relations.
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Gov. Charlie Crist has asked for an emergency declaration from the federal government for all 67 Florida counties because the freeze damage was so extensive to agriculture.

Co2 The Debate Is Not Over by W. R. Pratt | Climate Realists

With regard to these claims about human emissions of CO2 I have remained resolutely unconvinced. This has freed my mind of the fear and guilt associated with such claims, currently effecting millions worldwide, and has enabled me to ask a few pertinent questions which I among many others feel need answering in order to establish the truth about such claims. Not least of all, can these claims be tested? By which I mean that if a claim is made to the effect that CO2 traps heat for instance, can this claim be tested? The answer of course is yes it can. The purpose of this book then is to address these claims or rather accusations against us with regards our CO2 emissions with a rational, logical, guilt free and above all, questioning mind.

Noisy wind farms face crackdown - Telegraph

Noisy wind farms face a crack down from councils following Government concern complaints are not being taken seriously enough.

Friends of the Earth finally cotton on to climate change data row - Telegraph

Consider this: Friends of the Earth, I hear, only meets this month to consider how to respond to the climate science row and the results of the Copenhagen summit in December last year. And – so bureaucratic has it become – its 77 national organisations can't act until they have met and decided on a joint approach.

The rationale, believe it or not, is that they will carry more weight if they all move together. But there is not much point in packing a heavy punch months after it might have counted. To change animal metaphors; they might like to contemplate horses and stable doors.

A Video Anti-energy Nuts Don't Want You to See - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Possibly we might ask why the succession of "comprehensive energy legislation" passed in recent years didn't do anything before this radical bunch crams another liberal wish-list onto the books, including some variety of global-warming scheme buried within another thousand-plus page bill.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Environmental Theater

Via Maggies Farm, much of your recycling ends up in a landfill, so that much of our recycling effort is just an empty ritual, a ceremony of dedication to the Earth mother god without any actual consequences. I have written for years that only aluminum and certain other metals really makes economic sense to recycle, so effort on all those other materials is just a fiscal loss to municipalities to save landfill space that is not really even running short. Given this, it is not surprising that, behind our backs, cash-strapped local governments are just dumping it.

Outlook cloudy on climate - St. Petersburg Times

In fact, just one forecaster among the five chief meteorologists at the Tampa Bay area's top TV news outlets agreed with the conclusions issued years ago by the American Meteorological Society and the global Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:

Namely, that the planet's temperature is warming and man is contributing to it.
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Indeed, the market's best-known skeptic on global warming, WTVT-Ch. 13 forecaster Paul Dellegatto, is also the only chief meteorologist in the Tampa Bay area who did not speak on the issue for this story. A New York-based spokeswoman for WTVT, which is owned by Fox Corp., said the forecaster would not comment.

Perhaps that's because last year, Dellegatto's offhand comments about global warming during a forecast drew the ire of liberal lion and MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann, who accused the meteorologist of slipping "denial propaganda" into the "local freaking weather forecast."

Olbermann said Dellegatto noted a cold snap in several cities, quoting the forecaster saying, "I just think the whole global warming theory is tough to see based on current calculations." For that statement, Olbermann named the Tampa forecaster in his nightly Worst Persons in the World segment.

Global warming summit shows need for Good News: Franklin Graham

President Obama and other world leaders came to Copenhagen for a United Nations climate summit, where the topic of global warming took center stage. I think all of us would certainly agree that steps can be taken to preserve the fragile environment we live in.

What is happening, however, in gatherings like this is frightening to me. A legitimate concern for the stewardship of our resources has been replaced by a radical, godless worldview that elevates the creation to idolatrous status.

Slide in climate change belief is a temporary glitch | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It has taken a perfect storm of snow, scientific doubt and political failure to dent public acceptance of the reality of global warming - but these factors will pass
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Looking forward, the critical category will be those people who accept climate change is occurring but think natural cycles – not humans - are more likely the cause. That position allows people to reject green measures as futile. The size of that group is large, perhaps 30-50%, but varies a lot between polls, probably due to different questions. The IPcC's landmark 2007 report concluded that it was 90% certain that we are causing warming. Whether people can be persuaded of that may be the key to whether meaningful action on climate change actually happens.

YouTube - Monty Python And The Holy Grail- The Black Knight

[It's only a flesh wound]

[Pachauri in Bhutan]- Climate change [scam] heads the agenda

16th SAARC Summit 13 March, 2010 - The 16th SAARC summit, scheduled to be held in Bhutan in April, will provide an opportunity where politics, hopefully, will not come in the way of cooperation, according to Nobel laureate and chairman of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri.

Climate change is the main agenda of the Summit.

Dr Pachauri, who is on a two-day visit, said that the summit will provide an opportunity for SAARC countries to discuss common problems related to climate change that will affect all the countries. “I think politics won’t come in the way, because the theme is a problem all the countries are dealing with,” he said in a brief press conference yesterday.
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On the request of Lyonchhoen, Dr Pachauri agreed to help explore the proposal of the Lyonchhoen to make the capital city into a bicycle city. Dr Pachauri offered to contact foundations, which will provide battery-operated bicycles, feasible to the terrain of Thimphu.

He also expressed his interest in setting up a centre for Tata energy resources institute (TERI), of which he is director general and Yale university (where he heads its newly established Yale climate and energy institute) at Bhutan’s education city, which is also being planned as a green city.

[It's 2010, and this brainwashed high school student argues that a community garden will prevent bad weather] | AspenTimes.com

As people who live in the world, we know that global warming is harming our Earth.
...Food transportation vehicles produce tremendous amounts of carbon emissions in the air, which in turn, are harmful to our Earth. Also, there is high risk of food contamination during the process.

As we have worked together, we have come up with an idea that we think will help this problem in the long run. Our solution to this problem is a community garden in the town of Basalt.

How to Speak with Wisdom? Another Sermon by Henk Tennekes « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Unless we call our brains to order, they live in a fantasy world, a virtual reality of their own making where they continue to pretend they know better. The overconfident use of supercomputers in climate modeling makes this worse yet. Supercomputers produce virtual reality generated by the virtual reality in climate modelers’ minds. Global warming is a product of Virtual Reality – Squared.

[Are we sure it's not colder up there now than it was 90 or 1000 years ago?]: The Catlin Arctic Survey 2010

Harald (polar guide at the Ice Base) then presented a lecture on cold weather injuries and other potential hazards relating to the polar environment. Signs, symptoms and treatment of frost bite was the main focus, with various photos of what to look out for and what to avoid. Losing fingers and toes is something that can be avoided if one is careful, but is of concern to us all.

One of the reasons for the scientists to undertake this training is to give them confidence in living and working in the polar environment. It also comes down to necessity should a member of staff that they’re working with have an accident. So, erecting tents and firing up mountain stoves to heat up water is part of basic survival training. All easy enough in more temperate climates, but at -30°C, with a wind blowing, little dexterity in finger movement due to fairly sizable mittens and a potential casualty to deal with is testing.

Bill Nye: Old people are stupid

[video] We all know that Al Gore invented the Internet; but did you know that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “discovered climate change”?

If you don’t believe it, you’re old; and old people are stupid and unpatriotic.

[Finish your broccoli or some Chinese kid's grandchildren will roast in hellfire] : TreeHugger

It seems that so many of our problems, from energy independence to climate change to world hunger to water, could be significantly mitigated if we could just get control of our food system and stop wasting so much.

PostPartisan - Washington Post - Why are climate scientists losing the American public?

Americans are having trouble telling the difference between relatively small criticisms of the science or scientists -- minor mistakes in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report or the release of overheated private exchanges among a few climate scientists, for example -- and the solid case for the bottom-line on global warming: that it’s extremely likely it’s happening, it’s extremely likely that it’s at least partially our fault, and, if unabated, it’s extremely likely to have some rather unpleasant consequences.

Why the climate change alarm is one big hoax

We appear to have been battered to a submissive intellectual pulp by the pro-climate change lobby, although it was only 35 years ago when I interviewed the world’s principal climate experts for the Washington Post, the consensus was that the earth was cooling.

Today some of these same scientists rubbish those who hold the previous hypothesis. Within as short space of twenty years they had fundamentally changed their minds.

WWF Releases Earth Hour App & Theme in App World | BerryReview.com »

Thankfully the WWF does not want us to turn off our BlackBerrys for Earth Day but they are asking participants to turn off their lights at 8:30PM local time on March 27th to show support for climate change. I don’t know how I feel about the whole idea but Xtreme Labs has released a free BlackBerry app counting down to Earth Day and an accompanying theme which costs $2.99.

Polar Defense Project » Young Global Leader

The World Economics Forum announced that it will honor Lewis Pugh as a Young Global Leader. The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a unique, multistakeholder community of exceptional young leaders (40 years of age and younger) who share a commitment to shaping the global future.

Flashback » Arctic Kayak Stunt Ends 600 Miles from North Pole

Well, Pugh succeeded in failing, ending up about 600 miles short of the North Pole, around 81.5 degrees north

Cap and Tax - The Editors - National Review Online

By trying to satisfy everyone, the Green Three may end up satisfying no one, thereby sparing the United States this legislation and its potentially ruinous consequences, which include trillions of dollars in misspent capital, higher prices on practically every good produced in the United States, and a permanent reduction in our global competitiveness, particularly vis-à-vis Asia and the European Union. And all of this for little or no real environmental benefit.

Reuters AlertNet - 'Comic activists' take on climate disasters

The young comic artists have plenty of first-hand material for their work. As climate change takes hold in the region, Lahkar, from Barbhag in lower Assam, has seen the once annual floods in his village turn into unpredictable disasters, with waters sometimes rising six or seven times a year.

The Reference Frame: Tamino vs random walk

He's trying to "debunk" a comment by his reader who argued that the measured temperature series may be represented as a random walk - which is a much better model to describe the measured data than a linear trend combined with a white noise.

Of course, Tamino doesn't like it because it undermines the power of the AGW religious cult he faithfully believes. So he tries to produce some counter-arguments. The only counter-argument he produces is that random walks produce unbounded functions.

Climate-change science panned - Salt Lake Tribune

Environmentalists and climate-change activists faced several defeats in the legislative session this year, with lawmakers repeatedly taking a strident stances against climate-change warnings.

Twitter / Mark Leneve

#domsmadeupfacts The inventors of global warming came up with the idea after watching an episode of Bonanza.

[Robert Gibbs: If gas prices go up again this summer, Americans will become less suspicious of the greatest scientific fraud in human history?]

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday said he expects the Senate energy and climate bill will get a much-needed push this summer after gasoline prices start their annual climb.

During his daily briefing, Gibbs said President Obama “absolutely” wants Congress to pass an energy and climate bill this year. And he predicted the measure would soon get some momentum.

“Energy has made it through the House, and my guess is there will be a clamoring for an energy bill when gas prices go up, as they normally do, as we get closer to more driving as we get closer to the summer,” Gibbs said.

Reframing the debate on climate [junk] science « Climate Progress

This guest post by communications expert Hunter Cutting is part of an ongoing Climate Progress series on climate messaging.
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The international consensus on global warming has seemingly experienced a spectacular slow-motion train wreck over the last few months, with “climategate” reports piling up in public debate like derailing rail cars filmed in freeze frame. The fascination for on-lookers, however, is that the science itself is largely blameless. Instead, the pile-up stands as a case study in how not to wage a political battle. And make no mistake; the attacks on climate science are pure politics. We have seen attacks on science before, just pick your favorite example: smoking, toxic pollution, seat belts, etc. However, until there is a fundamental reframing of the climate science debate, one that illuminates the politics, the current round of attacks will continue to enjoy success.
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Climate advocates should document and highlight the funding and industry ties for the current wave of climate deniers.
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A better setting for talking about climate science is a real time impact of climate change, be it a record heat wave or record heavy rains followed by heavy flooding. There is no denying what your eyes can see. Last fall’s record setting flood in Atlanta was a textbook example of the kind of impact that should be highlighted.

The New Road to Energy Sustainability

We want solar on every rooftop, a wind turbine in every field and a micro-hydro turbine in every running stream, wherever viable resources exist.
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We want a plan to manage our resources for the long term health of our society, like Norway and Saudi Arabia have.

Top Ten Oil Exporting Countries

# Saudi Arabia (8.73 million barrels per day)
# Russia (6.67)
# Norway (2.91)

Global warmists panic? - Orange Punch : The Orange County Register

At some point, the collapsing “settled” science and the faux economic utopias will converge. Wait to you see how they scramble then. It’ll make this PR effort seem calm and reasoned. The more global warming alarmism comes undone, the more it takes on the persona of its guru, don’t you think?

Pajamas Media » Climategate: Once Respected Nature Now Staffed By Moaning Ninnies

But what the man on the crosstown bus can smell a mile off is propaganda bulls***. Tell him the debate on anything is over and his antennae will start to twitch. Tell him that because the debate is over he will have to lose his job and pay higher taxes and gasoline prices and electricity costs and he will ask what you’re on and whether he can have some.

Energy and Global Warming News for March 12th: China finds itself awash in wind turbine factories

China’s massive investment in wind turbines, fueled by its government’s renewable energy goals, has caused the value of the turbines to tumble more than 30 percent from 2004 levels, the vice president of Shanghai Electric Group Corp. said yesterday.

There are now “too many plants,” Lu Yachen said, noting that China is idling as much as 40 percent of its turbine factories.

Climate change and poisonous chemicals focus of new UN study

According to Fatoumata Keita-Ouane, a scientist with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) who is leading the study, some data suggest that higher temperatures can make wildlife more sensitive to exposure to certain pollutants.

In the Arctic region, climate change can be expected to alter the exposure levels of marine mammals such as seals or the polar bear to toxic substances through a variety of means, including the melting of the ice caps.

[From UN.org] - Saturday, December 5

Have the hacked emails of climate scientists changed anything? While climate skeptics have pounced on the disclosure, scientists say nothing about the science has changes. “It’s a complete non-story,” says Achim Steiner, who heads to UN Environment Programme. He called the whole affair a “desperate attempt” by some to discredit the science. The science is all public, all transparent, he says. And besides, “thousands of scientists are working every day to prove each other wrong.”

[From UN.org] - The Copenhagen Accord

It took two years of intense negotiations and the full engagement of world leaders, but the deal reached in Copenhagen represents a marked break with the deadlocked political landscape that has prevented action on climate change for years. Reaching the Copenhagen Accord wasn’t pretty but the implications are huge.

Reuters AlertNet - [Attempted $100 billion annual swindle is "modest"] - economist

LONDON (AlertNet) - The annual $100 billion rich countries have agreed to mobilise by 2020 to help developing nations address climate change is "a very modest sum", according to a top academic who is a member of a high-level panel that will work out how to raise the money.

The case against the hockey stick « Prospect Magazine

Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious detail, datum by datum, how a great scientific mistake of immense political weight was perpetrated, defended and camouflaged by a scientific establishment that should now be red with shame. It is a book about principal components, data mining and confidence intervals—subjects that have never before been made thrilling. It is the biography of a graph.

As IPCC stumbles, sceptics gain ground- Hindustan Times

“I am offended that science is being perverted in the name of global warming — today’s environmental cause celebre,” Ralph B. Alexander, a PhD in physical from Oxford University and a climate sceptic, said.

Senator Inhofe: “Defeating Barbara Boxer Is Not a Victory, It’s a Contribution to Humankind” (Audio)

On Non-existent Global Warming—
I was the only one to say this was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. It all started at the United Nations. Then is was joined by MoveOn and George Soros and all the bad guys out in Hollywood.

On Al Gore—
(7:20 mark) Don’t feel sorry for Al Gore. We don’t know how many hundreds of millions of dollars he’s made on this but there’s some speculation that he might very well be the first environmental billionaire. So Al Gore will be fine don’t worry about him.

The American Spectator : Those Climate Pugilists

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/12/those-climate-pugilists

Rock-solid science is built with a firm foundation of verifiable and repeatable tests, with trustworthy facts and figures as their sources. The Whinergate scientists employedfudged data and their personal agendas to belligerently promote a fabricated cause,amplified by their similarly unpopular anti-capitalist cohorts and ever-expanding government. Now they profess surprise at thegrowing resistance to their mission.

They still have not learned that all the money,media and muscle at their disposal have not produced sound science, or a victory. Tactics may provide a temporary advantage, but facts usually win, even though sometimes it takes a while.

PostPartisan - Why are climate scientists losing the American public?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/03/why_are_climate_scientists_los.html

Americans are having trouble telling the difference between relatively small criticisms of the science or scientists -- minor mistakes in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report or the release of overheated private exchanges among a few climate scientists, for example -- and the solid case for the bottom-line on global warming: that it's extremely likely it's happening, it's extremely likely that it's at least partially our fault, and, if unabated, it's extremely likely to have some rather unpleasant consequences.

Wind resistance

In a paper published online Feb. 22 in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Wang and Prinn suggest that using wind turbines to meet 10 percent of global energy demand in 2100 could cause temperatures to rise by one degree Celsius in the regions on land where the wind farms are installed, including a smaller increase in areas beyond those regions. Their analysis indicates the opposite result for wind turbines installed in water: a drop in temperatures by one degree Celsius over those regions. The researchers also suggest that the intermittency of wind power could require significant and costly backup options, such as natural gas-fired power plants.

Climate change poses health hazards for Chicago

Heat-related deaths, the spread of infectious diseases and the threat of natural disasters in Chicago could skyrocket in the coming decades unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, according to the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Question: Why are so many people successfully living in much warmer places, say the southern US, for example, right now?

Frances Beinecke's Blog [If you breathe air containing trace amounts of CO2, is that like being poisoned with lead?]

The science on lead proved to be right, and no one doubts lead’s dangers today. But EPA acted, rightly, well before every last issue and denial was resolved. Despite the organized effort by deniers to confuse the public, the scientific consensus on the causes and severity of climate change is actually far more robust today than was the case for lead in the 1970s. The EPA was right to act then, and the EPA is right to act now.

The Press Republican - Article: Kimmel: Global-warming lawsuit frivolous, costly

PLATTSBURGH — David Kimmel, challenger for the 114th Assembly District seat, says a state suit against utility companies for causing global warming is frivolous and should be dropped.

He is calling upon his opponent, incumbent Janet Duprey, and other legislators to withdraw their support for the suit.

The Reference Frame: Richard Lindzen v. Hadi Dowlatabadi

An interesting aspect is that Richard Lindzen, the skeptic, and Hadi Dowlatabadi, a consensus scientist, agreed about pretty much everything. The changes of the climate are unspectacular, the Earth has seen much bigger changes of temperature and CO2, 600 ppm of CO2 wouldn't do anything visible, and so on.

Paradoxically, it was the journalist who was the only advocate of AGW panic. For example, he would repeat that there is a "general wisdom" that 350 ppm is a huge problem for the Earth. Where the hell did he hear that it is a "general wisdom"?

Save The Date: [Will Steger Climate Hoax] Summer Institute 2010

A January 2007 Pew Research Center poll found that 77% of Americans thought there was solid evidence that the world was warming. Just two years later only 57% of Americans think that this is the case. This year’s Institute will provide educators with an understanding of why this misinformation persists and the tools to respond to those in doubt, by getting back to the basics of climate science and climate change education methods.

Oldest measurement of Earth's magnetic field reveals battle between sun and Earth for our atmosphere

ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2010) — Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the Earth's magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as it is today, and that this weakness, coupled with a strong wind of energetic particles from the young Sun, likely stripped water from the early Earth's atmosphere.

Architecture + Morality: Designing for the Apocalypse: why many architects love a crisis

As professionals who try to address such needs and wants in all of its variety, architects are very much subject to AGW's affect on buildings, both in the way they are designed and engineered and in the way they respond to government mandates. In fact, architects are very much wedded to AGW, as it justifies their guiding design philosophy and helps structure their firms' core values. Many signature designers, including a few that I personally know, have put global warming at the the center of all that their work aims to be about

BBC - Earth News - Climate change makes birds shrink in North America

Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause.

Climate Common Sense: Bugger the sceptics – let’s start campaigning positively again!

Crikey as most Warmist media do , arrogantly assumes that if the public understood the AGW propaganda they would of course support it. What they don't understand is that a lot of people do understand what they are hearing and think it is BS.

New fraud promotion from Cornell's Rosenberg and Fitzpatrick

A few years ago on this blog, I spend a lot of time helping to expose Cornell's highly-publicized, peer-reviewed, fraudulent claim of the Arkansas rediscovery of a living Ivory-billed woodpecker.

Two key figures in that fraud have evidently moved on to promote the global warming hoax:

Coastal and ocean birds most at risk from climate change, report says - San Jose Mercury News

"There are a significant number of birds that are facing real, immediate threats," said John Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. "Climate change clearly is going to affect some more than others."

Feds: U.S. birds declining due to changing climate - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com

"Birds are excellent indicators of the health of our environment, and right now they are telling us an important story about climate change," said Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg, director of Conservation Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, in a statement on the report. "Many species of conservation concern will face heightened threats, giving us an increased sense of urgency to protect and conserve vital bird habitat."

Flashback: Fitz"patrick" STILL selling the Luneau video?!

This sounds like fraud to me:

Wednesday night, Dr. Fitzpatrick reviewed the evidence for the bird's continued existence. He showed the brief film and analyzed it. The bird in the film certainly looked, to an untrained backyard birder like myself, like an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Perhaps the most telling piece of evidence for me was the analysis of wingbeats that matched exactly with what was known of the wingbeats from the 1940s birds.

Flashback: Deliberate deception?

As I wrote previously, Rosenberg played some ARU kent calls, failing to mention that several searchers reported hearing and seeing blue jays making sounds very much like this in this area. Afterwards, he said "...we, um, believe they may very likely be an Ivory-billed Woodpecker".

In my opinion, Rosenberg's failure to even mention the critical blue jay information seems like a deliberate attempt to deceive the NPR listeners.

[Just how lousy was Cornell's Ivory-bill "evidence"? Check out these pictures]

I think that all eight of these pictures are probably just artifacts of an unfocused camera. I think that Cornell might suggest that two of them are views of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Here's a challenge for you--which two are Ivory-bills, and why?

By the way, the Ivory-bill controversy contained a lot of the same elements of the global warming controversy--an absolutely lousy "body of evidence", ridiculous models, believers versus realists, bloggers vs mainstream media, appeals to authority and peer-review, etc etc.

As I watch the global warming hoax crumble, I feel like I've "seen this movie before".

The Hockey Schtick: MUST SEE: New Richard Lindzen Debate

- Bishop Hill blog - An interesting medical paper

I chanced upon this abstract, which somehow seems very pertinent to the discussions we've been having on this site. If anyone can lay their hands on the full paper I'd be interested.

In the last 20 years there has been a progressive decline in the honesty of scientific communications. In science truth should be the primary value, and truthfulness the core evaluation. Everyone should be honest at all times and about everything, but especially scientists. On the contrary, the activity stops being science and becomes something else: Zombie science, a science that is dead but it is artificially kept moving by a continuous infusion of funding. Many are the causes of dishonesty in science, for example scientists may be subjected to such pressure that they are forced to be dishonest. The corruption of science has been amplified by the replacement of "peer usage" with "peer review" as the major mechanism of scientific evaluation, thus creating space into which dishonesty has expanded. The hope is in an ethical revolution capable of re-establishing the primary purpose of science: the pursuit of truth.

Medical Hypotheses 2009;73:633-5

[If you believed that Co2 might kill your grandchildren, how would *you* respond?]: Maldives battles rising tides with floating golf course plan

The island nation of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in what could be the first of a series of futuristic off-shore developments designed to counter the threat posed by global warming and the rising oceans.

Berlin’s Wild Boar Population Cut in Half by Hunters, Coldness - BusinessWeek

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- The German capital’s wild boar population has been cut by more than half to about 3,000 because of hunting and cold winters, city officials said.

Climate Debate in Halls of Utah Legislature | GlobalWarming.org

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a state legislator go toe-to-toe on the climate change issue with an alarmist, but the Fox News affiliate in Salt Lake City caught that very thing on camera this week. On Wednesday after a student-led global warming rally at the legislature, State Rep. Mike Noel, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, found himself in the same room with former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. Here’s the full discussion, in which the skeptic Noel is surrounded by environoiacs, including one who kept trying to butt in.

PJTV - PJTV Daily - CLIMATEGATE: The Global Warming Cover Up Spreads to NASA

Global Warming Alarmists have more reason to be alarmed thanks to Chris Horner's ongoing investigation of the climate science community. The more Chris digs, the uglier the science gets. PJTV's Danika Quinn talks to the "Red Hot Lies" author about the latest troubling revelation. The data NASA scientists use to calculate global warming, it turns out, is totally tainted. Why does the mainstream media continue to treat the institution as credible? Horner has some thoughts.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » American skepticism on AGW soars

The effort continues to crumble, and as it does, it produces another hockey stick — a sharp increase not in global temperatures, but in global common sense.

“Shut-eyed Denial” « Climate Audit

Most tasty quote (my emphasis):

Well, it happens. People make mistakes in science. Corrections get made. That’s how it works, is it not? Few papers get such scrutiny as this had. But that is an even more worrying thought: how much dodgy science is being published without the benefit of an audit by Mcintyre’s ilk? As a long-time champion of science, I find the reaction of the scientific establishment more shocking than anything. The reaction was not even a shrug: it was shut-eyed denial.

Global Warming Concerns Continue to Decline « The Washington Independent

If there’s any good news for environmental advocates here, then, it’s that concerns about global warming are unlikely to drop much further — at least as long as half the country backs President Obama and his legislative goals.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Bias in IPCC AR4 WGIII? A Guest Post by Richard Tol, Part V

In sum, the IPCC made a mistake in SRES. Instead of admitting and correcting the mistake in AR4, the IPCC distorts the literature review to hide the mistake.

For Full Disclosure Of Climate-Change Risks - Investors.com

The recent Securities and Exchange Commission "interpretive guidance" on climate change says companies should disclose not only potential risks from climate change, but also risks from climate-related legislation, regulation, international accords and effects on business trends

Kerry-Graham-Lieberman: The Tax Formerly Known As Cap-and-Trade | GlobalWarming.org

According to earlier reports, Graham et al. may propose to combine an electric utility sector cap-and-trade program with carbon taxes on transportation fuels. If so, then Kyotoism is truly dead. Electric utilities are gung-ho for cap-and-trade only if it’s economy-wide, so they can sell the free emission permits they would get under a bill like Waxman-Markey to other sectors receiving fewer or zero freebies.

An Idea I Had Too Late | Climate Skeptic

The idea I had too late is that three years ago, when I had the time, I should have put the whole IPCC report on the web in some sort of Wiki or 2-column format (almost like a Medieval gloss) we could have linked and collected challenges to each individual statement and attribution. I think a couple of people are working towards this right now, but I kick myself for not thinking of it earlier. What a resource we would have now!

C3: Canadian Research: Medieval Warming Tree Line Over 50 Miles Farther North Than Current One

Forests respond to warmer temperatures by advancing the forest tree line farther north, and when it is colder, the tree line retreats - it's as simple as that. During the Medieval Warming, Canadian forests were established much further north versus the forests of today.

EU Referendum: Is climate change losing us the war in Afghanistan?

The short answer to this seemingly off-the-wall question is yes. British political and diplomatic efforts on the region are not focused on brokering the political deal necessary to secure peace. Instead, they are being subsumed by the seemingly more important need to secure an international climate change treaty.

C3: Is Wind Power A Worthless Replacement For Fossil Fuels? Latest Data & Shenanigans Suggests Yes, It's Worthless

It is very obvious to objective observers that wind power is an expensive and non-robust solution to real-time energy needs. Other countries have discovered this, yet the Obama administration attempts to keep this type of information from the public.

Arctic Sea Ice: What Good The Climate Models? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Going back to the Guardian’s blog and graph, we can therefore understand that all it shows is squiggles moving more or less in the same direction of other squiggles.

Herod orders top UN scientists to investigate mysterious infant slaughter in Judaea – Telegraph Blogs

What marvellous news to learn that the UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon is to launch a thorough investigation into the science behind climate change! It’s the equivalent of Kenneth Lay promising to organise a full and frank investigation into the accounts at Enron, or Herod ordering an urgent inquiry into the appalling and mysterious slaughter of infants in Judaea: all it will do is end up confirming the prejudices of the person who commissioned the report.

Rep. Inslee: “This is a moment for scientists to channel their inner Rambo.” « Climate Progress

[video] Tells Senators to "put away your fear" and unleash clean energy jobs

Climate Change's PR Disaster | Mother Jones

Whatever the reason, though, the effects have been devastating.

The media, global warming and Climategate | [Public radio still desperately attempting to prop up the global warming hoax]

Scientists' efforts to defend the integrity of climate studies thwarted by unbalanced media coverage.
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William Freudenburg tracked how those new studies were reported in major newspapers. He's the Dielson professor of environment and society at University of California at Santa Barbara.

Professor Freudenberg found a curious disconnect in climate coverage. "There were very few new studies coming out indicating climate change wouldn't be so bad. There were more than 20 times as many new studies coming out indicating it would be far worse than the IPCC had estimated."

Let’s Talk Turkey « Musings from the Chiefio

In looking at the GISS anomaly maps, Turkey is always roasting

Global warming: One real problem and a thousand distractions

We do not know what the sensitivity actually is.

How carbon gases ‘have saved us from a new ice age’

MAN-MADE carbon emissions are staving off a new ice age, says a leading environmental scientist.

Why was the attendance so much better at the second rally below?

Earth Day Revolution Kicks Off

"For our generation, this is a battle for survival," said Rev. Yearwood (pictured above). "We need to reclaim our communities and we need to restore our planet."

Flashback: Michelle Malkin » Celebrating the 9/12 rallies; Turnout estimated at 2 million; Update: How many?; FreedomWorks in error

Harsh winter takes toll on aquatic life

A harsh winter is to blame for more than 10,000 dead fish at Krug Park.

Is a Hybrid Climate Bill Good Enough? | Mother Jones

...it's clear that they believe that cap and trade is so politically unpalatable at this point that they need to throw it out. But let's set the politics aside for a moment. Can senators defend their plan's environmental goals, if the mission is to cut carbon pollution and create jobs in clean energy? The answer seems to be no, at least according to Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).

Speaking at the Progressive Media Summit on the Hill on Wednesday, Boxer maintained the bill she wrote with Kerry that passed out of her committee last November--which looks a lot like the Waxman-Markey bill passed by the House--is the "gold standard" for climate legislation. "I'm for my bill all the way," said Boxer. "That's the best way, an economy-wide bill." Politically though, she acknowledged that her bill doesn't stand a snowball's chance in a warming planet of passing in 2010, hence the desire to pass a bill with much lower ambitions. "I'm not going to make an argument that the other approach is better," said Boxer. But, she added, "Is it better than doing nothing? Absolutely."

How Best to Debate Climate Deniers on TV? Simple: Don't. : TreeHugger

Again, I'm not calling on skeptics to be silenced, or suggesting that climate scientists shouldn't explain their findings--if anything, I'm in favor of more transparency, and better efforts by scientists to make their findings clearer to the public.

[But they're not even climatologists!]: Should Obama Send His Science Team on a National Campaign to Explain Climate Science? : TreeHugger

What do you think? Could a media blitz from our nation's top-ranking scientists help quell the onslaught of denier misinformation being peddled in outlets like Fox?

The Climate [Hoax] Post: Uptick in denialism halts glacier melt, lowers sea levels | Grist

Adaptation, already in progress: From Malawi comes this horrifying story of how extreme meteorological patterns can take individual lives. Unusually heavy rain on a house of unbaked mud brick caused a roof collapse that killed a mother, father, and two children in Lilongwe.  [Did trace amounts of carbon dioxide really cause this tragedy?]

Science won't tell us what to do about climate change, but it can make the controversy worse. - By Daniel Sarewitz - Slate Magazine

More research makes the controversy worse.

[As the global warming hoax collapses, is this a good idea?]: Industries hoarding greenhouse gas emission permits | Environment | The Guardian

Saved permits can be used to meet future targets to cut emissions without reducing pollution

[Should you avoid breathing air that contains trace amounts of carbon dioxide?]: Health the key ground in climate change battle

The danger and cost of climate change to the health of Europeans is at the forefront of the debate at the fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health.

More maize ethanol may boost greenhouse gas emissions

In response to the increased demand for maize, farmers convert additional land to crops, and this conversion can boost carbon dioxide emissions.

More elderly people in Belgium die due to harsh winter < Belgian news | Expatica Belgium

The cold and long winter has caused the mortality rate among elderly people to go up significantly, according to the Flemish daily Het Laatste Nieuws.

Over the past three months, 647 more Belgians died than on average.

Poland’s Harsh Winter Calls for Day of National Mourning - New Europe - WSJ

This winter has already taken 351 lives—mainly homeless people who have frozen to death or home dwellers who were poisoned by carbon monoxide leaking from faulty heaters. That’s higher than the total number of victims, who died in catastrophes like plan crashes and mining accidents, which have prompted Kaczynski to declare national mourning in the past.
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This winter’s bodycount does make you pause. Record-low temperatures as low as -34 degrees Centigrade in January have uncovered chronic Polish problems—lack of shelters for homeless people, not enough snowploughs, mountains of snow on pavement with no idea how to get rid of them.

Climategate: the IPCC's whitewash 'review' is the AGW camp's biggest mistake yet – Telegraph Blogs

This investigation is very good news for sceptics – not because it will denounce any significant flaws in the AGW imposture, but because it will not. AGW credulity is already a minority faith; but there is a further constituency of waverers, ready to break off like a melting iceberg from the main floe, whose final defection will mean the AGW movement is deprived of critical mass. This pathetic attempt at a cover-up could well be the catalyst for that decisive departure. Think about it and be glad.

USA Today Lends Helping Hand to Battered "ClimateGate" Scientist

Overall, Winter devoted 23 paragraphs to the views of Mann and his allies, vs. just six paragraphs quoting those from the other side of the debate, a nearly four-to-one disparity.

USA Today Defends Michael Mann on Front Page, Misrepresents ClimateGate | NewsBusters.org

Rather than exposing what's going on along with all those involved, America's press have taken it upon themselves to participate in the disinformation campaign while sheltering the guilty from blame or scrutiny.

Senators negotiate green economy bill with polluters who deny threat of global warming | Grist

the industry lobbyists thought the talks were “extraordinarily productive.”

[If you really believed that CO2 might kill our grandchildren, why would this be "bad news"?] | Grist

"The bad news," Dr. Kelly said, is that America's competitors in Asia and Europe are surging ahead to develop competitive clean energy industries and investing in a highly-trained and technically competent workforce

A Message for Climate Change Skeptics

Is global warming happening? The likelihood is more than 90 per cent that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are heating the planet. Can we know for certain? No. But playing Russian Roulette with nine of 10 chambers loaded with live bullets is a fool's game. Only the most reckless and speculative of gamblers would bet against such odds. And what's the point when the reward of winning is the status quo and the cost of losing is catastrophe.

This is the gamble that climate change skeptics are taking, even though they don't understand modern science, they don't understand the odds and they don't understand the consequences.
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Their reluctance to accept near-certainty -- as close as modern science gets to truth -- is now jeopardizing our chances of stopping an unstoppable slide into the unthinkable.

Global Warming Hysteria: Americans Not So Hysterical » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

A whopping 67% don’t think it will pose a “serious threat” in their lifetimes, up 9% in only two years. But that’s the problem with false hysteria. Generating it is relatively easy, particularly when it is supported by the Establishment and the MSM. But maintaining the fear long enough to really change society, that’s a lot harder. And once the balloon springs a leak, it is really hard to reinflate.

Consensus! Global warming threat is exaggerated! (Wizbang)

...the fact is that there's no scientific consensus to suggest that A) the planet is warming or B) that man has something to do with it.

Instead, there's a rising consensus that the global warming threat in and of itself is manufactured by man to foist and further a political agenda.

And the Gallup poll suggests that people are waking up to it.

Hope and change baby.

Environmentalism: A Shield for Jackasses - Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld - FOXNews.com

What drives green activism isn't saving the planet, it's envy of those who succeed. Ehrlich and these "colleagues" see environmentalism as the only game they can win — where counterfeit catastrophes create careers and you, the individual, are always to blame.

Carbon Fraud Revealed Down Under

Prime Carbon, an Australian producer and seller of carbon credits, has been accused of making misleading claims on its Web site and in other marketing materials, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Prime Carbon, whose Web site is closed pending review (see image), is alleged to have claimed an association with Australia’s National Stock Exchange – an association that was never evident.