Tom Nelson: 2010-03-28

Saturday, April 03, 2010

What would Reagan do about climate change? - latimes.com

Reporting from Washington - Supporters of climate-change legislation are using a surprising figure to promote their cause: Ronald Reagan.
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"I can say with no hesitation that Ronald Reagan, were he alive today, would not believe that global warming was a crisis and would not support energy-rationing legislation," said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the pro-market Competitive Enterprise Institute.

[Fuller claim: Skeptics "haven't had much of an impact"]

In other words, there is pretty convincing evidence that there is no co-ordinated media strategy used on behalf of skeptics or lukewarmers. They've stayed ahead of the game so far because they have a handful of useful aggregators and their own unruly sense of independence (and stubbornness) to keep them going.

But because they have none of the above-mentioned tools, they haven't had much of an impact, either. Which is why Phil Jones and Rajendra Pachauri may keep their jobs, and why the shoddy standards of climate science may take a long time to improve.

Sack the voters | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Actually, Paddy, what you are railing against is the realisation by politicians that the voters will punish them for climate alarmism that comes with a big bill. It’s not capitalism that’s “failed” you, but democracy, with voters refusing to endorse the policies you prefer. Those who see in this an argument against capitalism simply confirm that, as ever, the anti-capitalist movement is at heart anti-democratic. Climate alarmism is just the latest refugee of the Western totalitarian.

Singer on Climategate Parliamentary Inquiry « Watts Up With That?

The latest report is by the British House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee, which largely absolved Philip Jones, head of UEA’s Climate Research Unit and author of most of the e-mails. How can we tell that it’s a whitewash? Here are some telltale signs:

* It refers to the e-mails as “stolen”
* It did not take direct testimony from scientifically competent skeptics
* Yet it derives the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with the basic science and that warming is human caused – essentially endorsing the IPCC

Greg Barker gets a tickle from eco-caviar - Times Online

CALL him the sturgeon general. The shadow climate change minister has developed a sideline that will make some of his fellow Tories choke: “ethical” caviar.

Greg Barker, a millionaire Conservative MP and the party’s green spokesman, is set to cash in on the latest fashion for fish-friendly sturgeon eggs.

[Will your car really get 35 mpg in 2016, and if it does, how much bad weather will be prevented?]

"This is a victory for drivers who, by 2016, will get 35 miles per gallon, spend less on fuel and send less of their dollars overseas," Jackson said

CLIMATE CHANGE [SCAM]: Native Peoples Reject Market Mechanisms - IPS ipsnews.net

SAN JOSÉ, Apr 1, 2010 (IPS) - Solutions to global warming based on the logic of the market are a threat to the rights and way of life of indigenous peoples, the Latin American Indigenous Forum on Climate Change concluded this week in Costa Rica.

Proposals from governments and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), such as the Clean Development Mechanism and the UN-REDD Programme (United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries), "are new forms of economic geopolitics" that endanger indigenous rights enshrined in treaties, says the final declaration of the forum, which ended Wednesday.

Big Chill proves python catchers right - Carl Hiaasen - MiamiHerald.com

Reptile traders say the freeze killed so many snakes that the government should stop worrying about it.

Small is fatal for our songbirds in Britain's great winter freeze | Environment | The Observer

Of particular concern are the bittern and the Dartford warbler. "The population of the Dartford warbler was down to around 10 males in the 1960s but has made a comeback recently," added Madge. "However, it is now looking as if it has taken a bad hit this winter and it is quite possible some local populations will have been snuffed out."

Al Fin: A Climate Reckoning: Dusting Off the Guillotines

It is important to emphasise that at this time the important thing is to keep a clear and accurate record of what persons in positions of responsibility are doing. Then, when all is clear, to hold them to account for what they have done. It is much too early to understand the economic devastation that is coming as a result of misguided and corrupt institutional policies. The chain of causation will be much clearer in the future.

Alarmist ice "expert" Serreze: Never mind

Arctic ice recovers from the great melt - Times Online

It hit an all-time low size of 1.65m square miles, about 39% below average, prompting many scientists, including some at the NSIDC, to suggest that global warming had pushed the Arctic to a tipping point from which it might not recover.
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“In retrospect, the reactions to the 2007 melt were overstated. The lesson is that we must be more careful in not reading too much into one event,” Serreze said.

YouTube - Gilda Radner Nevermind

Noted meteorologist challenges global warming theory

[Joe Bastardi] believes “proponents of the global-warming theory” tend to overlook the fact that extreme weather is not new to the nation or the world.

“My point is this: If I understand what had happened before, and I see it happen again, it gives me an advantage over someone who won't even look.”

He has little use for devotees of former Vice President Al Gore, whose Nobel Prize was for spreading the global-warming message. “I can understand not believing in God,” said Bastardi, a devout Roman Catholic. “I can't understand making Al Gore your god.”

Lawrence Solomon: France to hold official debate on climate change - FP Comment

At the suggestion of France’s science minister, Valérie Pécresse, France’s National Academy of Sciences will hold an official debate on climate change to try to defuse this newly explosive issue..

The Academy of Sciences debate, expected to be held by October of this year, follows two months of heated debate on radio and television, during which France’s two most prominent sceptics, Claude Allegre and Vincent Courtillot, have sown great doubt in the minds of a once unskeptical French public.

Pajamas Media » Obama’s Stage Magic

Watching the Obama administration's energy policy is a lot like trying to learn stage magic. You have to learn to look where he doesn't want you to look.

Putting a Price Tag on the Melting Ice Caps - TIME

According to lead author Eban Goodstein, Ph.D., over the next 40 years Arctic ice melt will take an economic toll of between $2.4 trillion and $24 trillion. Unless we change course — and fast.

Why is the melting Arctic so expensive? "The Arctic acts as the planet's air conditioner, and that function is already breaking down," says Goodstein, an economist and Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
...once released, CO2 stays in the air for at least 100 years.

British Council and Norwegian Embassy organize climate hoax art competition for children in Sri Lanka

Climate Change And I: Children’s Expressions Though Poetry, Poster And Art | The Sunday Leader

Children from 12 to 20 from all over Sri Lanka expressed their views on climate change through the creative mediums of poetry, poster and art in the climate change competition organised by the British Council in partnership with the Norwegian Embassy.

MPs begin the Climategate whitewash - Telegraph

Arguably the most interesting revelation from this non-inquiry was the admission by Professor Julia Slingo of the Met Office that it uses the same computer models for short-term weather forecasting as it does to predict climate 100 years ahead. Three years running these models have come so unstuck with their predictions of "barbecue summers" and "milder than average winters" that the Met Office has now abandoned its seasonal forecasts. Had the MPs asked her why, therefore, the models' long-term forecasts should be regarded as any more reliable, they might have shown a spark of intelligence. As it is, when it comes to official inquiries into Climategate, we are now one pointless whitewash down with two more to come.

Climate Change Act has the biggest ever bill - Telegraph

One of the best-kept secrets of British politics – although it is there for all to see on a Government website – is the cost of what is by far the most expensive piece of legislation ever put through Parliament. Every year between now and 2050, acccording to Ed Miliband's Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc), the Climate Change Act is to cost us all up to £18.3 billion – £760 for every household in the country – as we reduce our carbon emissions by 80 per cent.

Arctic ice makes surprising, if temporary, comeback - The Globe and Mail

“This is weather,” said Mr. Serreze. “Don't conflate this with climate.” He notes that on the Atlantic side of the Arctic, ice is low.
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“Everyone’s on this now,” sighed Mr. Serreze. “What you’re seeing now from the usual suspects is that it's the end of global warming, and we don’t see it that way.”

Mr. Serreze points out that the satellite data his graph is based on offers no information on ice thickness. He suggests that most of the recent ice in the Bering Sea is likely to be very thin and won't last.

Inside the seething green roach pit where they EAT their own – Telegraph Blogs

I don’t visit Real Climate very often. In fact almost never because tis a silly place – as you’d expect of a site initially established primarily to defend Michael Mann’s indefensible Hockey Stick. But this thread I found is just fantastic. Not only are the comments led by your favourite BSc and mine – yes Jo Abbess, BSc. But it offers the glorious spectacle of the editor of the Guardian’s Environment blogs, one Dr James Randerson, grovelling piteously as he tries to argue that his newspaper hasn’t betrayed the great AGW cause, it hasn’t, it hasn’t!

On Green"peace".org: Physical threats for climate realists?

Climate Rescue Weblog: Will the real ClimateGate please stand up? (part 2)

Emerging battle-bruised from the disaster zone of Copenhagen, but ever-hopeful, a rider on horseback brought news of darkness and light: "The politicians have failed. Now it's up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It's not working. We need an army of climate outlaws."

The proper channels have failed. It's time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism.

If you're one of those who believe that this is not just necessary but also possible, speak to us. Let's talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.

If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:

We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.

And we be many, but you be few.

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

On Sunday, my family will join other Christians all over the world in marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And while we worship in different ways, we also remember the shared spirit of humanity that inhabits us all – Jews and Christians, Muslims and Hindus, believers and nonbelievers alike.

The Reference Frame: Claude Allègre dismisses a useless and stupid petition

During the most recent two months when the controversy about the book escalated, the climate scientists and their allied journalists have argued in the press that Allègre's book is full of heresies and blasphemies humiliating the holy glory of the AGW religion - or, using their code language, the book is riddled with "errors, distortions of the data, and outright lies."

Obama: He understands the Enron fraud; privately, is he starting to understand the global warming fraud?

Full text of Obama's address in Charlotte - Politics - NewsObserver.com

...[On Enron] it turned out when you actually got in there and started looking at what they were doing, they were building a house of cards. It was manufacturing profits out of thin air.
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For those of you who are concerned about climate change, nuclear energy doesn’t produce greenhouse gases.

Europe – Balkans and Former Yugoslavia « Musings from the Chiefio

There is not a lot in common in these records other than a lot of dropping of temperatures over a long period of time as CO2 levels rose dramatically. Then the 1991 or so “bullseye” change of process and “presto!” instant Global Warming! Except in those places dropped from the record and in those that kept on dropping.

I’d bet that either not much is happening at all and it is just an artifact of bad measurement technique, or that there is a very shallow cooling trend and some incredibly bad change of process made in 1990. In no case would I bet on CO2 as having any relationship at all. A correlation plot of CO2 percent with temperature will have a negative correlation over the bulk of all time in the graphs, and then a non-correlation with the astounding hockey stick in the last 20 years as the rates are too divergent.

Substantially, we are “Dancing in the error bands” of our processes. Nothing more.

French Researchers Ask Science Minister to Disavow Climate Skeptic - ScienceInsider

PARIS—More than 400 French climate scientists [there are over 400 French climate scientists?!] want science minister Valérie Pécresse to take a clear stand against the country's most vocal climate skeptic, geochemist Claude Allègre of the Institute of Geophysics of Paris (IPGP). On Wednesday, the group sent Pécresse a letter denouncing Allègre's latest book, L'imposture climatique (The Climate Fraud), and asking her to express confidence in the climate research community. Allègre was science minister from 1997 until 2000.

The book—a series of interviews with journalist Dominique de Montvalon—includes a harsh attack on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which Allègre calls a "mafia-like system" that propagates a "baseless myth." Climate scientists and journalists at several newspapers have argued that the book is riddled with errors, distortions of the data, and outright lies.
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"I couldn't care less," Allègre was quoted as saying today by Libération. He called the letter a "useless and stupid petition." Climatologists "have wasted a lot of public money [studying climate change] and they're afraid of losing their funding, afraid of losing their jobs," he said.

Ark. Senate hopeful says he's embracing Dem label - BusinessWeek

[Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Arkansas] also highlighted her opposition [to] "cap-and-trade" climate change legislation in which overall pollution reduction targets are met by allowing facilities to buy and sell pollution credits.

Bjørn Lomborg: Feel-good Earth Hour not answer to global warming

The main thing that anyone accomplished by turning off the lights at nighttime for an hour was to make it harder to see. The environmental impact was negligible. Indeed, even if everyone in the world had participated the requisite hour, the result would have been the equivalent of turning off China’s carbon emissions for roughly 45 seconds.

[We're saved! Massive, reliable, cost-effective, already-built power plant to get close early!] | OregonLive.com

Portland General Electric filed Friday to close Oregon's only coal-fired plant early, by 2020, in exchange for installing $470 million less in pollution controls than proposed by state regulators.
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The decision is significant for the utility's ratepayers. After hydropower, Boardman is PGE's biggest, most reliable and least expensive source of power. But PGE said it's cheaper to avoid the costly pollution control upgrades and close the plant early than it is to install the upgrades and operate through at least 2040.
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"We absolutely think this is a huge win for the environment," said Dave Robertson, PGE's vice president of public policy, adding that the regulatory pathway is clearer for the 2040 option. "We're really taking the higher, more difficult road on this."

Increase in Arctic ice confounds doomsayers | Mail Online

Dr David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation think-tank, said: 'The recent observations make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic.'

Weather, success of small businesses often tied | WNCT

Beautiful summer-like days not only boost morale, they have a similar effect on business.

It’s spring in eastern north Carolina, flowers are blooming and business is booming, especially on the patio area of Chico’s in downtown Greenville.
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“It was a pretty cold winter, pretty cold, wet, dark winter this winter so I think everybody’s especially excited,“ agreed Will Zarbock, server. “It may just be me, but like when it’s sunny outside you know endorphins going, everything’s happy. Spend money, let’s have fun. Spend money, let’s go out and stuff.“ [Obviously this guy isn't a climatologist, or he'd know that the warm weather might give him painful kidney stones.]

All that spending means changes for the restaurant. Cold weather froze the Greenville area and also their hiring.

Europe – Mediterranean « Musings from the Chiefio

The Mediterranean is in a cooling trend, not warming, but a very flat cooling trend. The data since 1991 are biased in some way that “hides the decline”, but the “who” and “how” are not yet known.

Energy Density is Key — MasterResource

When it comes to power, density is the key. Energy density. The reason that solar power, wind power, and ethanol are so expensive is that they are derived from very diffuse energy sources. It takes a lot of energy collectors such as solar cells, wind turbines, or corn stalks covering many square miles of land to produce the same amount of power that traditional coal, natural gas, or nuclear plants can on just a few acres.

Each of these alternative energy sources is based on mature technology. Agriculture and fermentation have their roots in prehistory, windmills date back at least to 65 B.C., the photovoltaic effect was discovered in 1839. Yet in nowhere in the world are these technologies serving as primary energy sources without significant government subsidies. While incremental improvements can be expected, what is needed for them to become viable is an order of magnitude increase in productivity. As old and as well-researched as the technologies are, such improvements are possible but unlikely. As significant future energy sources these technologies are dead ends, which is why the government, and not the private sector, is funding them.

Color them green in Fairhaven | SouthCoastToday.com

FAIRHAVEN — There's nothing like a good book and the Fairhaven Sustainability Committee recently donated one to all the schools in town during National Green Week.

Fittingly, the book was Al Gore's “One Choice: How we can solve the climate crisis.”

Most Oregon greenhouse gas not what you might think | OregonLive.com

Analyst Todd Wynn said the inventory of greenhouse gases appears to be justified by the "speculative rationale of higher global temperatures in 100 years."

"Unfortunately, the real intention for establishing emission sources and tracking emissions is in anticipation of future regulation," Wynn said in an e-mail. "Tracking and monitoring is the first step in subsequent onerous regulations that a lot of environmental groups would like to see implemented."

Exclusive: We’re Off to See the Blizzard, the Wonderful Blizzard of Osthofen » Publications » Family Security Matters

Combine these issues with the shenanigans being pulled by the IPCC and it is easy to see why the Huns leaped off the sham wagon. It is impossible to believe in global warming when you are freezing your lederhosen off. Now, some people would probably welcome a little global warming into their lives. What German wouldn’t enjoy a little fun in the sun, especially after such a brutal winter? The climate alarmists assured people that the planet had a fever, when in reality; the planet has been battling frostbite.

How fraudsters behave

Gore gets camera-shy for N.C. speech, limits media [and won't take live questions]

RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Vice President Al Gore may have won an Oscar for his documentary on global warming, but he appears to be a little cool toward the camera for a speech in North Carolina.

A Gore aide said Tuesday that media members will only be allowed to record video and audio of the first five minutes of Gore's talk at Duke University on April 8. Photography will also be limited. Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said the restrictions are standard for his talks but she wouldn't say why they are in place.

Duke spokeswoman Scottee Cantrell said Gore will speak for about 45 minutes and take questions collected from students.

Friday, April 02, 2010

Thousands of sheep killed by Ulster’s freak storms - Local & National, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

One farmer who contacted William Cross, UFU group manager for the Larne area, estimated that the blizzards could have cost him £15,000 in loss of livestock.

“He has lost 100 plus ewe sand God knows how many lambs are still under the snow,” Mr Cross said.

”You couldn't have picked a worse time for this weather — the lambing is going full blast now. With the sleet, when the lambs drop onto the ground, the ewes haven’t got time to get them licked dry so they just freeze.

The Associated Press: Council: Feds should dump Mass. wind farm project

BOSTON — A federal council recommended Friday that the secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior reject a proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound, saying it would have "destructive" effects on dozens of nearby historic properties.

Press Release – SLF: Suing EPA Over CO2 | The SPPI Blog

The proposed measures in the EPA’s arsenal will cripple the American economy at a cost of at least $1 trillion over the next decade – and will provide no significant environmental benefit to the climate and environment over the next 30 years.

SLF is providing background legal and scientific information on this website during the pendency of the various legal actions in order to ensure that the American people have access to the proceedings and to solid representative materials of the scientific inquiry into climate change.

Barack Obama aims to drive gas guzzlers off the road with greener laws - Times Online

The Natural Resources Defense Council said they were “good for consumers, companies, the country and the planet”. Ray LaHood, Mr Obama’s Transportation Secretary, called them “historic”, claiming they would save consumers $3,000 per new vehicle and cut emissions by 1 billion tons.

The Big Three producers will have to spend about $52 billion to upgrade engines, power trains and air-conditioning systems to meet the requirements. The average cost of a new car or SUV is expected to rise by $1,000 as a result, meaning that the future of American motoring depends on consumers’ willingness to pay a modest premium for old-fashioned cars — or a larger one for something very different.

An alarmist tries to understand those allegedly Bible-banging climate realists

Why climate realists and skeptics talk past each other | Grist

...if you view climate science as a house of cards, with each piece dependent on another piece, one loose card can topple the whole apparatus. (The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, to add yet another metaphor.) So the improper emails at the heart of the “climategate” uproar or one incorrect report on Himalayan glaciers can seem like a fatal blow, even though the body of scientific work confirming climate change vastly outweighs them.
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One reason why some people adopt the house-of-cards view is that they transfer the metaphor from fundamentalist religion. Fundamentalism requires that every single tenet of a holy scripture be true. If not, the whole apparatus topples. Hence the Biblical inerrancy view—the Bible is true not just as a whole, but in every single historical and scientific detail.

The deplorable rise of the plastic Easter egg - Andrew Leonard - Salon.com

But I still can't get my head around the fact that this weekend, millions of children will, knowingly or unknowingly, reenact ancient rituals honoring the mystery of life by hunting for plastic eggs that symbolize the exact opposite of fertility and birth. Instead of resurrection, plastic eggs are all about everlasting nonbiodegradable un-death, inauthenticity and cheap disposability, not to mention global economic trends eating away at the livelihood of blue-collar American workers.

I tried and failed this morning to find out who invented the plastic Easter egg, so I could curse his or her memory.

Private property is toast, and global warming a hoax - Daily Democrat Online

Regulatory actions relating to human-caused climate change need to be repealed or suspended until human-caused climate change is fully debated and settled. The hypotheses must be fully vetted and, in the end, be based on sound and peer-reviewed data. The cost to individuals and society to comply with these unfounded scientific political ideologies will cause great harm to our economy. Global warming has to be proven before its rules are imposed. And until that scientific basis is proven, Yolo County's General Plan must not implement Policies and Actions that apply all those fees, fines and mandates.

-- Vicki Murphy is a resident of Brooks.

Pajamas Media » EPA Wasted $13,000 on Low-MPG Car Rentals in Copenhagen — Were Offered Free Zero Emission Cars (PJM Exclusive)

At last December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ran up a $13,000 bill for conventional combustion engine cars, a private driver, and old-fashioned baggage vans, according to government records.

The EPA paid more in two weeks for cars than most Americans make in a month. Lisa Jackson, the EPA administrator, chose to ignore Copenhagen’s readily available crunchy alternatives, like hybrids or algae-fueled vehicles that were available — for free — to VIPs and governments through the Danish Foreign Ministry, or demonstration cars that ran on new green fuels produced by California companies. Jackson rented from the very conventional Avis, and drove around in a 158-horsepower, 16 valve conventional gas-powered Ford Mondeo.

The car that Lisa Jackson and her driver used in Copenhagen would have failed the president’s new fuel efficiency standards released yesterday of 35.5 miles per gallon. Her Mondeo only got 25.2 miles per gallon.

March Modeling Madness « Watts Up With That?

Is March In The Upper Midwest Losing It’s Freeze? The actual data doesn’t seem to support Climate Central’s recent claim.

Kulongoski to speak on climate change policy

EUGENE, Ore. - (April 2, 2010) - Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a national leader in climate change policy, will talk about the potential economic benefits of responsible environmental practices in a talk April 14 at the University of Oregon School of Law.

The governor's lecture, "Addressing Climate Change: The Right Policy is also the Smart Policy, " will explore how climate policy can address issues of social equity and environmental stewardship, as well as foster economic development and energy security. The event will be held at 3:30 p.m. April 14, in Room 175, Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate Street in Eugene.

Pickens Says U.S. Offshore Drilling Probably Won’t Find Much Oil - BusinessWeek

April 1 (Bloomberg) -- T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire energy investor, endorsed the Obama administration’s plan to open areas of the U.S. East Coast for oil and natural gas exploration although he cast doubt on what might be developed.

“You can drill in those areas,” Pickens said in a Bloomberg Television interview broadcast today. “I do not think you’ll come up with very much oil. But, let’s do it. I am for anything American.”

YouTube - Is Jeopardy's Alex Trebek A Global Warming Denier?

April 02, 2010 — 3/30/10: Jeopardy's Alex Trebek questions a climate scientist competing on the show whether global warming is real. He sounds skeptical.

What the New CAFE Standards Really Mean - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Utlimately, there is no getting around the fact that setting higher CAFE standards is just a way for cowardly politicians to avoid telling their fellow citizens that they should pay more for the privilege of driving.

[It's not the tsunami, it's the carbon dioxide]: 7,600 flood deaths predicted

Up to 7,600 people would die along Tokyo Bay if tidal waves caused by a strong typhoon strike the bay after sea levels have risen as a result of global warming, the government's Central Disaster Management Council predicted Friday.

The council's forecast was part of a report made by its expert panel about the damage likely to be caused by large-scale flooding when an extremely strong typhoon hits Tokyo and its vicinity. It was the council's first prediction of human casualties from tidal waves as a result of higher sea levels caused by global warming.

Himalayan Glacier Update: Nature Report Misleading | The Resilient Earth

The article's explicit claim of “settling the science” is just untrue, unless continued ignorance counts as settled science. Even though the scientific opinions expressed in the Nature “news feature” are all over the map, the tone chosen by the reporter is one of dread and impending disaster. The truth is, science just doesn't know much about these remote glaciers and as Dr. Armstrong said, “if there's no data, you shouldn't say anything.” Climate change alarmists please take note. What we do know is this—reports of the glaciers' imminent demise are still just climate alarmist scaremongering.

21st century global cooling trend debunks United Nations computer climate models

In reality, science has never operated by consensus. Over time, prevailing views are either substantiated or dismissed as new evidence emerges. The momentum is now very much with researchers who have identified natural forces as opposed to human activity as the primary driving force behind warming and cooling trends. Ideally, they should find greater expression.

Ellsworth still skeptical of cap-and-trade » Evansville Courier & Press

Ellsworth, a Democrat running to take over Senate seat being vacated by Evan Bayh, was quick to remind Gerth and his colleagues that he voted against a cap-and-trade bill when it went before the House of Representatives in June.
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“I don’t think it’s going this year,” Ellsworth said. “I don’t think it has any appeal in the Senate. It may come back next year and be revisited in a different form.”

Obama's Offshore Drilling Pitch Sways Few Fence-Sitters on Climate Bill - NYTimes.com

Obama has not moved many GOP votes, if any.
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But Murkowski, considered one of the more "gettable" Republicans for the climate bill, made clear that Obama's administrative action hadn't won her vote.

"The climate bill will be judged by its own merits," said Murkowski spokesman Robert Dillon. "If it's done as a bribe, it's not going to help."

YouTube - [Will Google really let Gore put up three climate hoax promotion videos on YouTube's home page?]

YTVideoVolunteers — April 01, 2010 — Al Gore and Repower America want you to create a video for a nonprofit organization working on climate change. We'll take the top three submissions and put them on the YouTube homepage on Earth Day for the 40th Anniversary.

Britain's garden centres have their fingers crossed as cold snap dampens spirits - Telegraph

The clocks may have gone forward but the recent cold snap could turn this weekend into a nightmare for retailers, writes retail editor James Hall.

Video of Sarah Silverman Amanda Little and Phelim McAlee Climate Debate - thedailygreen.com

Glo: You discussed Climate Gate (or Climate Gate-Gate as Silverman put it) the other night at the debate. The main scientist embroiled in the controversy has just been exonerated, will this put an end to the debates about scientists faking information?

[Alarmist Amanda Little] It won't silence skeptics for the simple reason that they've never grounded their arguments in reality. The mounting evidence [like what, specifically?] against their argument just seems to inflame their fury and intensify their resistance. They will go down fighting.

After March heat, chill returns to Kashmir

The temperatures in the month of March had soared sharply with the highest day temperature in valley being recorded above 26 degree Celsius, which according to the meteorological department was 11 degrees above normal temperature of 14 to 15 degrees Celsius.
Lately, the temperatures in the first two days of April have plummeted by several degrees, owing to incessant rainfall in the plains and snow in upper reaches, forcing people to wear woollens again. The maximum day temperature during the past two days has been between 17 to 19 degrees Celsius.
Experts say that this freak weather is an indication of the impact of the global climate change. This surely an affect of the climate change which is more prominent in spring season and winters,” said Dr Shakeel Rumshoo, an environmentalist and a senior faculty member at University of Kashmir.

[Oh, the humanity]: Toronto enjoying record-setting warmth - CTV News

Torontonians are taking advantage of the great weather. They were hitting the tennis courts in Trinity Bellwoods park downtown and the beach volleyball courts in the Beach.

There are reports of people being seen eating ice cream and drinking beer on patios.

It's all fun and games until everybody gets kidney stones and dengue fever.

Ark. GOP senate primary heats up over climate change dispute (2010-04-02)

(UALR Public Radio) - Republican Senate hopeful Jim Holt's campaign is suggesting that rival Gilbert Baker supports cap-and-trade energy legislation. But the resolution he's criticizing Baker for co-sponsoring in the Arkansas Legislature last year doesn't mention any type of cap-and-trade measure.

[A more powerful climate driver than your iPod charger?]: Svensmark explains the faint young Sun paradox at Heliogenic Climate Change

“Abstract: Using kappa Ceti as a proxy for the young Sun we show that not only was the young Sun much more effective in protecting the Earth environment from galactic cosmic rays than the present day Sun; it also had flare and corona mass ejection rates up to three orders of magnitude larger than the present day Sun. The reduction in the galactic cosmic ray influx caused by the young Sun’s enhanced shielding capability has been suggested as a solution to what is known as the faint young Sun paradox, i.e. the fact that the luminosity of the young Sun was only around 75% of its present value when life started to evolve on our planet around four billion years ago [and yet the Earth didn't freeze over]. This suggestion relies on the hypothesis that the changing solar activity results in a changing influx of galactic cosmic rays to the Earth, which results in a changing low-altitude cloud coverage and thus a changing climate. Here we show how the larger corona mass ejection rates of the young Sun would have had an effect on the climate with a magnitude similar to the enhanced shielding capability of the young Sun.” “How did the Sun affect the climate when life evolved on the Earth?“ h/t Lubos Motl

GM-Toyota quits California at Heliogenic Climate Change

High energy costs (caused by “green” laws), high taxes, and onerous enviro and labor regulations have driven GM-Toyota out of California...Many other businesses have done and will do likewise. Greenies say California is a model for the nation. If so, the nation is in deep trouble

The Ultimate Peer Review « Digital Diatribes

The internet has become the ultimate peer review, not because a paper is reviewed by a select few experts, but because it can be reviewed by anyone, from a high school dropout with an interest in the subject, but with maybe a unique insight, to the PhD who is an expert in the area of study. Granted, some comments will not be helpful, but as the analysis of Stieg, et al has demonstrated, a team of people who are not necessarily experts in that particular area of science, but may be engineers, statisticians, economists, and yes, scientists can make a valuable contribution to the review. It is that varied experience and knowledge that can bring a different point of view to a study and point out deficiencies or irregularities in the analysis or presentation that ultimately make the study better. This is the true essence of peer review, to try to obtain the best product possible, while winnowing out the junk.

So where's the warming?

Climate Observations: “Polar” Sea and Land Surface Temperatures (Not Anomalies)

He's paid his dues, time after time

Who are you, Brian May? - Times Online

...Most of my most knowledgeable scientist friends don’t believe that global warming exists. I have still not seen any proof that the planet is increasing in temperature, or that we have a hand in determining such changes. I do think the concept has led to some good changes, such as an increased awareness of how wasteful we are. But lots of people are cashing in on the carbon industry, distracting us from more important issues, such as how to treat animals.

Brian May: Information from Answers.com

Brian Harold May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen.
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May earned a PhD in astrophysics in 2007 and is currently the chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
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Shortly after graduating from college with an honors degree in physics and math, May focused full-time on music when Smile signed to Mercury Records.

Yet another poorly-reasoned, poorly-researched sob story from the New York Times

Despite Mild Winter and Few Hunters, Seal Pups Face Threats - NYTimes.com

In Port au Choix, Newfoundland, and other communities around the gulf, hundreds of desperate harp seals arrived in late winter to give birth on fragments of ice clinging to the shoreline. Then, a few weeks ago, seal pups born elsewhere began floating in on small, shrinking pieces of ice.
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“We haven’t seen any seals around the shore here anywhere,” said Robert Courtney, the president of the North of Smokey-Inverness South Fishermen’s Association in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. “I think they went to the north, 300 miles from where we are. It’s too far.”
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The Canadian government counts 6.9 million harp seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence herd. In a normal year, they would produce about 280,000 pups.

[Where is the evidence that carbon dioxide is devastating to harp seals?]

The Northwest Atlantic harp seal population is now estimated to be approximately 5.6 million animals, nearly triple what it was in the 1970s.

We're not saying that CO2 caused this, we're just noting that in the long term, CO2 allegedly causes this

Southern California beach erosion is worst in a decade - latimes.com

Shifting sand is part of a natural cycle that happens each year. Each spring, potent storm surges pull sand from the beaches out to sea. Over the summer, gentler waves gradually push it back ashore.
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Global warming and sea rise are contributing to the deterioration of beaches in the long term, scientists say, but those forces are not to blame for this spring's dramatic changes.

Warning Signs: Nobody's Listening

Within days, Obama’s EPA director announced new regulations regarding auto mileage and the agency’s intent to regulate carbon dioxide, a natural gas essential to all life on Earth. There is now the likelihood that Congress will ram through the disastorous Cap-and-Trade Act, a tax on all energy use.

Despite the exposure of the biggest fraud of the modern era, "global warming", the Obama administration is pressing ahead with legislation based on it!

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama MIA on Dem midterm campaigns?

Today’s CBS poll showing Obama at 44% and dropping is the reason why Democrats don’t want him anywhere near their campaigns.

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Children's Voice Against Climate Change

Lagos — Children from public schools in Lagos converged on the Ikeja Nigeria Police College to commemorate the anniversary of Climate Change Club in the state.

There is no gainsaying that children are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, as all sorts of disasters threaten their life span. Of course, the more endangered the world is, the more their future is threatened.
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Sosan also decorated members of the Sewage Clubs in the public schools.

[Australia: Television personality Sam Newman casually admits that he's a non-believer] | Herald Sun

You know the world's been here for billions of years and we're worried about whether we're going to ruin it or not. Don't worry about global warming, all that stuff about the planet. The planet will spit us out before we spit it out.

YouTube - Scotland Freezes During BST - Whatever Happened To Global Warming?

April 01, 2010 — The coldest winter Scotland has seen since records began continues.
This clip is taken from the BBC's 'Reporting Scotland' on the 31/3/2010 (BST)

Forecasters: S. Florida Winter Among Coldest Ever - cbs4.com

MIAMI (CBS4) ― Unless you spent this winter somewhere else, you know it was chilly, at least by South Florida standards. Now, with the data in, the National Weather Service has made it official. The first 3 months of the year were the coldest ever reported in Miami Beach, Naples, and West Palm Beach, and was among the coldest winters ever for Ft. Lauderdale and Miami.

Scientist: Arctic ice melt natural « Don Surber

The high-pressure sales techniques of junk scientists like Michael Mann is one tip-off that he and his crackpot theory is a scam. The other tip-off is Al Gore and company have done nothing to ameliorate their carbon footprint is another tip-off.

[Did CO2 really kill these trees?] « Colorado Independent

Don Ross, 67, a retired bush pilot who is riding his bike from his home in Alaska to Washington D.C. to raise awareness of the effects of climate change in Alaska, spoke at the event. He said he has witnessed widespread die-off of trees and new wandering caribou migration patterns.

Copenhagen climate summit wasn't a flop, reports say - Los Angeles Times

The conference was "no failure" and produced "the highest number of new government initiatives ever recorded . . . in a four-month period," Deutsche Bank, which tracks climate policy as part of its research on clean energy investments, declared in a March report.

Vail film fest documentary puts human face on climate change | VailDaily.com

Nash said civilization is at an intersection, an intersection that has over-population, lack of resources, over-consumption and a changing climate all colliding with each other, for the first time, creating over 25 million climate refugees. The experts Nash spoke to around the globe predict 50 million climate refugees in the next couple of years to numbers that range from 150 million to a billion in the next four decades.

Congratulations, Taxpayer! You Own a Volt! - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit — Taxpayers spent $60 billion to bailout GM. They own 60 percent of the company. And now they’re buying its cars.

As part of his oil drilling scheme Wednesday, President Obama also announced that Washington will “purchase the first 100 plug-in electric vehicles to roll off an American assembly line.” The only model that fits that description is the Chevy Volt. At $40,000 a pop, that’s another $4 million out of the taxpayer’s wallet.

In Response to California Fuel Regulation, Cargo Ships Chart More Precarious Routes - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

In an apparent effort to skirt a new clean-fuel regulation in California, an increasing number of ships traveling to and from one of the nation’s busiest port complexes — at Los Angeles and Long Beach — are abandoning a long-established shipping lane, choosing instead to travel along a riskier route that traverses a Navy weapons testing and training area.
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The board estimated that complying with the regulation would typically add $30,000 to a California port visit, roughly 1 percent of the typical fuel costs for a vessel crossing the Pacific Ocean. It is believed this added cost – as well as concerns that the cleaner fuel may increase wear and tear on ship engines – is behind the change in tack.

RealClearPolitics - Interview with Secretary Salazar

KING: The flip side of the argument has come from some Republicans who say this is too timid, that you should not have taken Bristol Bay out of play up in Alaska, for example. You should not have taken out of play the Pacific Coast. Why those decisions?

SALAZAR: Well, those decisions are based on the fact that there are some natural ecological wildlife values up there that are just absolutely the greatest. Bristol Bay provides about 40 percent of the fish for the United States. It is a place where presidents from the past, Republicans and Democrats, wanted to protect that place. The same thing is true with the Pacific, and the National Wildlife Refuges of the Marine areas there are absolutely at the very top of the line.

So, we're going to protect those environments because they are very special places. On the other hand, if you summed this up, John, I would say this, you know, in the Gulf of Mexico we say let's go for it, and we're going to do it surgically to protect the Florida coast. In the Atlantic, it's a look-and-see. In the Pacific and in some places in Alaska like Bristol Bay, they're too special to drill, so we're going to conserve, and so this is a balanced plan. It represents a new direction for us and this administration based on what had happened in the past; we're not just thoughtlessly going and rushing to lease everywhere in America.

1. Why isn't the Gulf of Mexico special?

2. If we can drill "surgically" in the Gulf of Mexico, why can't we drill "surgically" in those other places?

Scrappleface: Obama Policy Barrage Combats Dem Reelection Threat

The White House calendar calls for a five-month series of daily news conferences during which the president will announce that his agenda is “completely focused on one thing.” The following day, he’ll use the same words, but substitute a different issue.

Here’s a draft outline of the president’s daily news conference topics between now and election day.

Monday: greed, greed, greed
Tuesday: grads, grads, grads
Wednesday: carbon, carbon, carbon
Thursday: jobs, jobs, jobs
Friday: batter, batter, batter

Climate Common Sense: Eight False Beliefs Of Climatism

Author Steve Gozeham ,in his book Climatism describes the political doctrine of Climatism as a set of eight false beliefs:
1-Greenhouse gases emitted from man's industrial activities are causing global warming.
2-The climate of Earth was optimum prior to the growth & industrialism of human population.
3-Human activities are destroying the earth's climate.
4-Climate is the top priority...more important than human lives, freedom, western industrial civilization and prosperity in the developing nations.
5-We can save the planet if we all work together.
6-Carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
7-Fossil fuels are dirty and should not be used.
8-Wind and solar power are free and should become our energy sources.

[Will there be a 5th annual cap-and-trade forum?]

The 4th Annual CAP-AND-TRADE FORUM is the only event in Canada covering Canadian and U.S. policy, regulatory issues, and practical emissions reduction solutions with international emissions markets and CO2 mitigation experts at the forefront of the efforts sharing their experiences and observations.

The program is designed to provide insights into the most recent Canadian, U.S and international carbon policy and market developments. It includes carbon offset trading and related policy development affecting regulated emitters, individuals and potential offset sectors.

U.S. may be setting new course for handling climate change, energy supply - Winnipeg Free Press

One of the architects of the Senate climate bill, Democrat John Kerry, said late last year that he didn't know what cap-and-trade meant. His co-sponsor on the bill, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, has since declared widespread cap-and-trade dead.

Into the Wind Blog

Former President George W. Bush will be addressing WINDPOWER 2010 in Dallas in May.

Virginia governor quits wind energy coalition - The Hill's E2-Wire

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, is removing his state from the Governor’s Wind Energy Coalition after the group sent a letter supporting a national renewable electricity mandate he opposes. Here's the termination letter.

Climate change and the TV meteorologist | News Cut | Minnesota Public Radio

"I feel tremendous pressure to take a side on global warming," Steph Anderson, a meteorologist at KTTC TV in Rochester told me in an e-mail. "I'm a scientist, so people expect me to have a scientific viewpoint on it, and reasoning behind it. Turns out, I don't like to talk about it."

"Honest and upfront, I don't talk about it, I don't believe in it. Mostly because I can't say it's happening, yet. It's hard enough to get a seven-day forecast right; I'm supposed to believe that the earth is going to warm excessively in so many years? Climate has changed over the earth's time. We've had ice ages and warmed back up. It's cyclical. Who's to say that won't happen this time around? Weather's hard enough to predict, but I don't predict climate, I don't work with models that do such things, but I know that in order for me to believe something, I need concrete data over a long period of time. Frankly, I haven't seen that yet with the global climate change debate.

YouTube - Repower America Campaign Update [Four days after its release, this call to action has garned 454 views]

Set an ambitious new goal of 200,000 letters and over a half a million phone calls in the coming weeks.

[Gore vs Obama]: Statement by Alliance for Climate Protection President and CEO Maggie L. Fox on President Obama’s Energy Security Announcement

Washington, DC – Alliance for Climate Protection President and CEO Maggie L. Fox today issued the following statement on President Obama’s energy security announcement today at Andrews Air Force Base:

“This plan continues our reliance on dirty fossil fuels – we cannot simply drill our way to energy security. Americans are demanding a clean energy future that goes beyond drilling and incentivizes the technologies that are critical to building a 21st-century clean energy economy. What we need now is presidential leadership that drives comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation that caps harmful carbon pollution, puts America back to work, ends our reliance on foreign oil and keeps us safe.”

[We're saved!]: MSPs fly out on £30,000 business-class 'jolly' – to talk about climate change - The Scotsman

THE Scottish Parliament is to spend £30,000 of taxpayers' money sending six people on a week-long trip to North America to highlight the dangers of climate change.

'Whether-Weather' exhibit explores human side of global warming - Don't Miss - fresnobee.com

Gillum definitely sides with the human-caused point of view, and one of the aims of his exhibition is to explore the relationship of people to the environment.
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Geneven Yang, for example, filled balloons with water, froze them and hand-painted faces on them. As they hang and slowly melt, the paint will drip on paper below, creating a permanent abstract record of an ephemeral event.
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Some pieces are highly political. Others focus on smog. There's even a melting Jesus planned.

Climate Common Sense: Northern sea ice growth a fluke? The AGW canary is very much alive!

Of course I suppose the large percentage increases in summer ice in 2008 and 2009 were just flukes also?
The AGW crowd has so much invested in the ice-free Arctic scare that it will be more and more difficult for them to explain it's cyclic recovery.

Global Cooling Radio (listen and talk to your favourite skeptics) « JoNova

Mark Gillar who writes the Hootville Gazette has taken the initiative and arranged a set of radio interviews with the who’s who of skeptics like Lord Monckton, Patrick Michaels, Ann McElhinney, Marc Morano, Chris Horner, Steve Milloy, Joseph D’Aleo, and yours truly. The first one starts tomorrow morning (US time). You can email or phone in questions. Some details are below, but most are on the Global Cooling Radio site, and of course, details may change in the future, so check in at his site.

C3: The Climate Model Snow Predictions Fiasco: 9 IPCC Climate Models Predicted Less Snow For Northern Hemisphere - Total Opposite of Reality

"While some journalists insist that recent winter snows are proof of global warming effects, they miss the fact that models have been predicting less snow in the northern hemisphere....As we know, winter snow cover has actually increased about 5% since it bottomed in 1989, and is now close to a record maximum....So far, the climate models have the wrong polarity on their predictions of winter snow cover changes."

[Tom Yulsman: Another alarmist who claimed to know why sea ice fluctuated downward, but doesn't know why it fluctuated back upwards] | CEJournal

Many of the readers of Wattsupwiththat.com seem to think they know why Arctic sea ice has grown to a normal extent, as shown in the graph above — something that hasn’t been seen in many years. I have no idea why, so rather than speculate I’ll wait for the National Snow and Ice Data Center to publish it’s next monthly report in the coming days.

Power Line - A run-away train called the EPA

JOHN adds: The Democrats are crazy to push the carbon-suppression agenda. Once voters figure out what is going on, it will be massively unpopular--more so than their attempted takeover of health care. The Dems' health care initiative will reasonably be supported by some who think (rightly or wrongly) that it represents money in their pocket. ("If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul"--the guiding philosophy of the Democratic Party.) But the anti-carbon jihad impoverishes everyone. There is not a single voter, other than those who are engaged in some kind of "green" scam, who stands to benefit from a deliberate suppression of economic growth.

EU Referendum: Cap 'n' fail

That still left the heavy industry sectors, such as steel and cement production, with about 185 million tons of permits, or 30 percent more than they needed. These are valued at current prices at about £2.13 billion, given to them free under the EU system.

Obama’s Remarks on Offshore Drilling « Climate Progress

For decades we’ve talked about the threat to future generations posed by our current system of energy –- even as we can see the mounting evidence of climate change from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf Coast.
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I know that we can come together to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation that’s going to foster new energy — new industries, create millions of new jobs, protect our planet, and help us become more energy independent.

The Migrant Mind: Global Warming = More Snow Cover?

It is really interesting that when global warming was supposed to be accelerating, starting in 1980, that the snow cover was in general, consistent with the belief that the world was warming. Snow cover anomalies were below the previous period. But then, after 1994, in general, each October has seen above normal snow cover, all the while that the globe is supposedly rising to hotter and hotter temperatures and the CO2 levels (gasp) were rising as well. Clearly the only logical conclusion is that snow has a different melting point today than it did in the past because that is the only rational way to explain how the globe can get hotter and yet be covered by more snow. A friend suggested I call it HOT SNOW.

Obama to Crush Economy with Massive CO2 Taxes as Early as Next Week

Abandoning all loyalty to the democratic processes this nation holds dear, President Obama has made the decision that getting energy tax legislation through Congress with the approval of the American people is just too much of a pain to bother with. Instead he will have the EPA declare as early as next week that CO2 is a dangerous global warming gas and will start regulating its emissions immediately.

Obama’s promise to open up vast stretches of ocean on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico to energy exploration is simply a ruse to soften up the public for soon to be announced draconian regulations.

Global Warming Ruling: A Monument to Bad Science and Judicial Activism

Conclusion. In conclusion, what do we get—we get a Supreme Court ruling that is scientifically flawed, which was arrived at by ignoring logic and legal precedent, in order to reach a result that would please the global warming fanatics.

99% of Americans will never know about the legal errors that led to this ruling. Eventually the scientific community will come to acknowledge that the Massachusetts v. EPA case was politically based and scientifically flawed. But for now, the case represents a theory that is falsely held to be a fact, which has risen to the top by popular demand, regardless of true science.

Global Warming, Underestimated | The Cornell Daily Sun

Using the melting of the Arctic as an example, [Prof. Charles H. Greene, earth and atmospheric sciences] demonstrates the IPCC’s inaccurate predictions.

“The IPCC model of Arctic Sea melting shows concerns that the Arctic would lose all ice cover by the end of the century,” Greene said. According to his research, “We are losing ice much more quickly. It could be gone by 2025 to 2030.”

2007: [Asymmetrical Revkin - When sea ice fluctuated downward, he considered it a BIG DEAL] - NYTimes.com

Astonished by the summer’s changes, scientists are studying the forces that exposed one million square miles of open water — six Californias — beyond the average since satellites started measurements in 1979.

At a recent gathering of sea-ice experts at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, Hajo Eicken, a geophysicist, summarized it this way: “Our stock in trade seems to be going away.”

2010: [When sea ice fluctuated back upward, Revkin covers it with a "ho-hum" Tweet]

Arctic sea ice ups, downs will inevitably be embraced by someone. Now ice extent is up near satellite-era average: http://j.mp/SeaIceUp #agw

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Ken Salazar in oil country: Hey, I just remembered that CO2 isn't going to kill us all!

Louisiana will be first to benefit from expansion of oil and gas exploration, Obama's Interior secretary says | - NOLA.com

Louisiana will be the first beneficiary of President Barack Obama's expansion of oil and gas development and exploration on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today in announcing an expedited lease sale of 18 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 18.

"I wanted to come here to New Orleans because the Gulf of Mexico is essentially the place where the lights are green in terms of moving forward with production," Salazar said.

July '09: Obama's Interior Secretary: Still promoting the greatest scientific fraud in human history

We will not fully unleash the potential of the clean energy economy unless Congress puts an upper limit on the emissions of heat-trapping gases that are damaging our environment. Doing so will level the playing field for new technologies by allowing the market to put a price on carbon, and will trigger massive investment in renewable energy projects across the country.

We are also seeing the dangerous consequences of climate change: longer and hotter fire seasons, reduced snow packs, rising sea levels and declines of wildlife. Farmers, ranchers, municipalities, and other water users in Colorado and across the West are facing the possibility of a grim future in which there is less water to go around.

Dot Earth Moves to NYT Opinion Section : CJR

“The voice of science in this saga is kind of like the parent talking to the wayward teenager: ‘If you keep doing x, then y will happen,’” he said. “What does it take to shift the way that all play out? My take on why the whole geoengineering idea makes people so queasy is because it reinforces this reality that we’re not just talking about slowing a warming influence. We’re talking about henceforth being managers of climate, and we’re not a species that is attuned to do anything like that.” [Which species are attuned to doing anything like that?]

Geoengineering is, of course, one of those controversial topics that brings critics out of the woodwork, and Revkin has weathered his fair share of attacks from both the right and the left on that and other topics. While he has never shied away from responding to criticism, Revkin says that he will likely use his newfound freedom in the Opinion section to confront his critics more directly.

How to improve a Hummer’s mileage and add retro style | Grist

Easy: Put two horses in front of it and take it for a ride through Central Park. While we're not sure how much you'd have to pony up to get this kind of horsepower, the video below is worth watching to see how Dean's Hummer hoofs it.

April Fools' Day: GOP Mocks Obama's Campaign Promises - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

In the video, entitled "Democrats' Rainbows & Unicorns," a reassuring voice congratulates the president for solving global warming "by replacing cars with low emission unicorns... powered by the renewable energy of rainbows."(you can watch the video at left)

When the Germans give up on AGW you really do know it's all over… – Telegraph Blogs

Der Spiegel would never have got away with this article four years ago. But then, in 2006, according to a poll, 62 per cent of Germans surveyed answered “Yes” to the question “Are you personally afraid of climate change.” In 2010 that figure has dropped to 42 per cent, which for those of you who haven’t done the math means that the majority of Germans are now not personally afraid of climate change.

Way to go, Germans!

FOXNews.com - Boxer Facing Toughest Re-Election Battle of Her Career

For the first time in her political career, Barbara Boxer may be about to meet her match – according to one poll, Boxer is neck and neck with all three of the Republicans who hope to run against her in November.

New York Times Declares Cap and Trade Dead. So How Come It's Not? : TreeHugger

I consider the New York Times to be the paper of record in the United States, as many people do. But its coverage of climate issues in particular has been frustrating lately.

Climate Activists Call for Tighter Emissions Caps - NYTimes.com

"They got something for nothing, and they're worth something, so it is a windfall profit if they sell them today," said Mark Lewis, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, referring to the steel sector. The surplus permits accrued by the European steel sector in 2008 and 2009 were worth €1.5 billion, taking into account the current price of carbon, Mr. Lewis said.

Roger L. Simon » Environmentalism: the new home of the Luddite reactionaries

Marx was right about a (very) few things, but one of those was his oft-quoted gloss on Hegel about history repeating itself “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

And speaking of repeating farces, the anthropogenic global warming movement is reaching maybe its hundredth sold-out, standing room only comedic spectacular with the latest news that the purportedly disappearing arctic sea ice is back to “normal” levels after less than a decade. Next the over-breeding polar bears will be invading our cities. Attention Don Siegel, wherever you are. Meanwhile, it seems the Germans, of all people, have had enough of this farce and are closing their Global Warming Theater. (Well, I always preferred Schiller.)

Tokyo launches Asia’s first carbon emissions trade scheme | Grist

Tokyo's Governor Shintaro Ishihara, known for his strong nationalist and ecological ideas, led the city's unsuccessful bid to host a green 2016 Olympic Games, which he promised "would save planet Earth."

Has Winter's Unusually Cold Weather Tamped Down Python Population in Everglades National Park? | National Parks Traveler

That's the question that CNN looked into the other day, and their report comes to the conclusion that the cold wiped out 40 percent or so of the Everglades' pythons.

Hot Mantle May Prop Up the Seafloor - ScienceNOW

The seas may be rising due to climate change, but most of the seafloor is also dropping as part of the natural dynamics of Earth's crust. The question that has dogged scientists for decades, however, is why hasn't the ocean bottom sunk faster? An exhaustive analysis of the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide at least part of the answer—though experts think important questions remain.

Earth's crust is like an ice field floating atop the ocean.

Think Progress » Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT): ‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have Nothing Whatever To Do With Clean Air’

BENNETT: Greenhouse gas emissions have absolutely nothing whatever to do with clean air. CO2 does not add to pollutants or cause asthma or any of the other things you think of with dirty air. CO2 is actually a nutrient for plants and helps some parts of the continents grow more and have greater vegetation.

Canada: Earth Hour participation down

- in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, 33 per cent participated in Earth Hour this year, compared with 57 per cent last year

White House: [You know that attempt at horse trading? It wasn't an attempt at horse trading]

White House spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday that President Obama’s decision to expand offshore oil-and-gas drilling is not an effort to win support for legislation to impose greenhouse gas emissions limits.

“The President’s policy wasn’t a matter of horse trading over what he thought he could get out of this or that,” Burton told reporters. “It was driven by what he thought was the right policy for a comprehensive energy policy that puts our country on the right path towards more renewable energy, less dependence on foreign oil, and creating jobs of the future in the 21st century.”

Warning Signs: Destroying America with the EPA's Carbon Lies

...None of these facts is a secret yet, since 1989, the U.S. government has spent $79 billion in taxpayer’s money on “climate change” research. To suggest that the government, using the data generated, has any “control” over the climate is absurd.

The result of all that government funded research has been a public that has been subjected to the massive fraud called global warming. Weather data provided by NASA and NOAA, for example, has had to have been withdrawn due to errors.

CNN Tomorrow « Climate Audit

John Roberts’ show at 6:20 am to talk about the Parliamentary Committee. Roberts visited CRU in the heat of Climategate. They said that I would be appearing with Michael Mann – anyone heard of him? In the re-confirm, they said that I’d be appearing with Mike MacCracken.

Tonight’s Show: Junk Science (FBN 8pm & 11PM ET) « John Stossel

Climate scientist Roy Spencer will join the show to help sort fact from fiction in the global warming debate. Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute will expose energy myths on the Right and the Left. Plus, find out how environmental hysteria got light bulbs and plastic bag banned -- and how junk sciencee got me a free golf cart from the government.

National Hurricane Conference sparks renewed interest in global warming debate

Dr. Gray has long been an opponent to man-made global warming, instead subscribing to the theory of multi-decadal ocean cycles as the leading cause of the recent increase in hurricane activity since 1994. Citing such evidence that delves deep in to the science of meteorology, Dr. Gray explains how some of the information that has been presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 Update, President Barak Obama, and former Vice President Al Gore, among others, is just plain wrong (quite emphatically with the words “NOT TRUE” in his PowerPoint presentation.)

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 1st 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

Esquire featured hippie-kryptonite Marc Morano, Greenpeace upset the iCrowd and we have a genuine nerd fight between weathermen and climatologists. Pocket protectors at noon, gentlemen.

Coal Industry Still Vulnerable - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

We hope Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is right about climate change legislation. During a visit to Wheeling Tuesday, Rockefeller predicted there will be no successful effort to pass a "cap and trade" bill this year.
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On Tuesday, the senator told our reporter that he does not expect much action on the matter this year. Other issues, including education and health care, will be higher priorities, he predicted.

Biased BBC: AN OBJECTIVE OBSERVER?

Thus the BBC's "environmental analyst" is making oodles of cash - tens of thousands of pounds - by using his privileged BBC position to persuade conference organisers to hire him. All of the events he chairs have a common thread in that they are greenies or warmists trying to foist their views on the rest of us or make as much money as they can out of the massive subsidies that the EU and our government spray about for anyone on the right bandwagon. Put another way, Mr Harrabin makes bucketloads of cash out of the alarmism he spreads and has a therefore a major vested interest in it. His actions stink.

C3: Science Not "Settled": 3 Million Undersea Volcanoes Causing Ocean Acidification, But Also Slowing Climate Change?

Researchers keep discovering aspects of the Earth's climate system that completely undermines the credibility of climate alarmist scientists and existing climate models. In the case of the climate models, submarine volcanoes (whether one, or three million) are not accounted for despite everyone knowing they must have some major impact on our climate. These volcanoes spew millions (billions?) of tons of CO2 and other compounds into the oceans and researchers are just now starting to theorize and document what effects may be occurring as a result.

James Lovelock's climate change pessimism is unhelpful | Environment | guardian.co.uk

James Lovelock's argument that we ought to suspend democracy to fix climate change is less than constructive

Climate Catastrophe: A Superstorm for Global Warming Research - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

[See all eight parts] Plagued by reports of sloppy work, falsifications and exaggerations, climate research is facing a crisis of confidence. How reliable are the predictions about global warming and its consequences? And would it really be the end of the world if temperatures rose by more than the much-quoted limit of two degrees Celsius?
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Rarely has a scientific idea had such a strong impact on world politics. Most countries have now recognized the two-degree target. If the two-degree limit were exceeded, German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen announced ahead of the failed Copenhagen summit, "life on our planet, as we know it today, would no longer be possible."

But this is scientific nonsense. "Two degrees is not a magical limit -- it's clearly a political goal," says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). "The world will not come to an end right away in the event of stronger warming, nor are we definitely saved if warming is not as significant. The reality, of course, is much more complicated."

Schellnhuber ought to know. He is the father of the two-degree target.

"Yes, I plead guilty," he says, smiling. The idea didn't hurt his career. In fact, it made him Germany's most influential climatologist. Schellnhuber, a theoretical physicist, became Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief scientific adviser -- a position any researcher would envy.

Tom Nelson

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Alarmist ice "expert" Serreze: Never mind

British Council and Norwegian Embassy organize climate hoax art competition for children in Sri Lanka

On Green"peace".org: Physical threats for climate realists?

Obama: He understands the Enron fraud; privately, is he starting to understand the global warming fraud?

How fraudsters behave

Friday, April 02, 2010

An alarmist tries to understand those allegedly Bible-banging climate realists

So where's the warming?

He's paid his dues, time after time

Yet another poorly-reasoned, poorly-researched sob story from the New York Times

We're not saying that CO2 caused this, we're just noting that in the long term, CO2 allegedly causes this

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Ken Salazar in oil country: Hey, I just remembered that CO2 isn't going to kill us all!

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