MSNBC suggests that trace amounts of CO2 cause Arctic birds to die in freak accidents

Climate link found in strange Arctic bird deaths - Science- msnbc.com

‘You see a bird for apparently no good reason fly into the cliff and die’
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More than 20 Northern fulmars were caught in an avalanche slide and died hitting the sea ice.
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In another slapstick, albeit sad, event, a thick-billed murre was found dead after getting its foot stuck in a crack in the cliff face on Coats Island.

PAUL KRUGMAN - Climate Change [Insanity] - Building a Green Economy - NYTimes.com

If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they say, we are facing a rise in global temperatures that will be little short of apocalyptic. And to avoid that apocalypse, we have to wean our economy from the use of fossil fuels, coal above all.
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And this brings me to my third point: models based on this research indicate that if we continue adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere as we have, we will eventually face drastic changes in the climate. Let’s be clear. We’re not talking about a few more hot days in the summer and a bit less snow in the winter; we’re talking about massively disruptive events, like the transformation of the Southwestern United States into a permanent dust bowl over the next few decades.
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At this point, the projections of climate change, assuming we continue business as usual, cluster around an estimate that average temperatures will be about 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher in 2100 than they were in 2000. That’s a lot — equivalent to the difference in average temperatures between New York and central Mississippi.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The numbers made easy: How Republicans will likely take the House

...it’s pretty likely they’ll take the House this year. Frankly, dozen seat buffer is well within the realm of possibility.

Twitter / Eric Novak

I just found out that I'm invited to an intimate & exclusive meet and greet on Earth Day in Montreal with Al Gore! Way cool!

Remember that poll on the global warming law? - Orange Punch : The Orange County Register

There were only seven questions, unlike other polls that can have many times that number. And the questions avoided mentioning projected costs of the law or that even if it were fully implemented immediately, it would do nothing to affect worldwide temperatures.

Instead, people were asked loaded questions along the “Are you still beating your wife” line of inquiry: Do you generally support the law that requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions that “cause global warming.”

Another warmist in the Arctic: GE sponsors 15-year-old to promote climate hoax

Shortly after twice reporting a temperature of -34 C, he suggests that the ice is "falling apart" around him.

Skiing and trekking to the North Pole: Parker Liautaud blogs to save the earth - Update

Parker Liautaud, 15 years old, is reporting on his progress skiing his way to the North Pole. He has made his goal to become the youngest person to ski to the North Pole, and to use that attempt to bring greater awareness to the urgent environmental issues of the arctic.
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And more importantly for his purpose of letting the world see the ravages of global warming on the arctic - There was a lot of open water today. It really shows what's been going on in the Arctic - it's falling apart. Right now we're camping on this patch of old ice, but all around us is open water, broken and thin ice. To our north there's a massive pan of very thin ice. Everything is freshly frozen, if not open.

Twitter / Parker Liautaud: Temp -34, Windchill -42. W ...

Temp -34, Windchill -42. We did about 11 Nm today, it was a really good day. We have about 35 Nm left, and about 5 before we’re half way. 3:00 PM Apr 4th via API   [His previous tweet also reported a temperature of -34]

Son of Venture Capitalist Gets Foursquare Badge for Polar Trip - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com

Normally if you’re the teenage child of a multimillionaire, you might expect a nice car or designer clothing as a present, VentureBeat reported.

But if you’re the 15-year-old scion of Bernard Liautaud, who founded and later sold Business Objects to SAP for $6.78 billion and is now a partner at Balderton Capital, you can probably do a lot better.
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Mr. Liautaud fils rounded up a sponsorship from G.E. for a trip to the North Pole promoting environmental awareness.

Wheat Rises Most in Five Weeks on U.S. Plains Freeze Forecast - BusinessWeek

April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Wheat rose the most in five weeks on speculation that cold weather will damage crops in the U.S. southern Great Plains.

Temperatures will fall into the “middle and high 20s Fahrenheit” (around minus 4 Celsius) from western Nebraska to West Texas, Drew Lerner, the president of World Weather Inc., said today in a report. Damage to grain that has emerged on plant stems may be “spotty,” Lerner said in a report.

C3: The Natural Climate Makes Sea Ice Experts' Predictions Look Big-Time Stupid: Experts Stunned By Polar Sea Ice Growth

Read here. Great article regarding the wild and irresponsible predictions by "experts" about the Arctic sea ice extent (or lack of) made over the last decade. Simply summarized, for political and funding reasons, scientists made claims about melting sea ice, based on models that were designed to predict melting sea ice in the first place -- it's a simple as that. No IPCC scientist or government expert predicted, nor any climate model, that the polar sea ice would actually expand as the chart below shows. Consensus "science" and climate models present a united front in documenting why both are worthless.

Unwarranted trust | Professor David Henderson

The main headings of unprofessional conduct within the process, all identified and fully documented well before the recent revelations, have been:

1. Over-reliance on in-group peer review procedures which do not serve as a guarantee of quality and do not ensure due disclosure;
2. Serious and continuing failures of disclosure and archiving in relation to peer-reviewed studies which the IPCC and member governments have drawn on.
3. Continuing resistance to disclosure of basic information which reputable journals in other subject areas insist on as a precondition for acceptance.
4. Basic errors in the handling of data, through failure to consult or involve trained statisticians.
5. Failure to take due account of relevant published work which documented the above lapses, while disregarding IPCC criteria for inclusion in the review process.
6. Failure to take due note of comments from dissenting critics who took part in the preparation of AR4.
7. Resisting the disclosure of professional exchanges within the AR4 drafting process, despite the formal instruction of governments that the IPCC‘s proceedings should be open and transparent‘. And last butfar from least -
8. Failure on the part of the IPCC and its directing circle to acknowledge and remedy the above deficiencies, a failure which results from chronic and pervasive bias.

Frank admission from 'UN Climate Hero' and Climate Project presenter: 'I actually now try not to talk about climate change because especially in this country it's so polarizing | GORE LIED

Yes, the post-release of An Inconvenient Truth afterglow has certainly worn off as the Climate Project presenters are no longer being greeted adoringly as saviors of the planet, but are rather greeted by prickly questions about the validity of the science of man-made global warming.

Is the Obama administration pushing a new climate hoax gas tax?

Source: Climate Bill to Tax Oil at Terminal Rack | Chem.Info

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Details of an oil industry tax are being filled in Congress as part of an upcoming U.S. climate control bill, sparking a spirited lobbying campaign this week over how the revenues from that tax would be used.
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But the source added that no final decisions had yet been made on whether revenues from the tax would be deposited into the Highway Trust Fund and whether they would be earmarked for specific "green" projects or road and bridge repairs that the highway fund normally handles.
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A transportation tax on refined oil would likely be passed on to consumers, who could see gasoline prices rise by around 15 cents a gallon. But the actual increase would be linked to the price of pollution permits electric power companies would have to buy under a cap and trade scheme in the bill that also is aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

Aw, why bother pricing the global warming law? - Orange Punch : The Orange County Register

A bill that would have required economic analysis of any significant regulations dictated by the California Air Resources Board died in committee yesterday on a strictly partisan vote. (Guess which party voted against)
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Oh, yeah, by the way. Even the most alarming of the global warming alarmists admit the proposed economy-killing, freedom-limiting regulations being considered by the air board won’t have the slightest effect on global temperatures, which also by the way, haven’t increased in 15 years even though the dreaded CO2 emissions have skyrocketed.

Plastics News - Sony aims for zero environmental footprint by 2050

TOKYO (April 7, 12:30 p.m. ET) — Electronics giant Sony Corp. has announced a new environmental plan that sets a goal of achieving a zero environmental footprint by 2050, including goals for using fewer conventional plastics.z

Georgetown University: Students Take Environmental Solutions to the Hill

Another team wants to help Baltimore prepare for the predicted increase of vector-borne diseases from climate change by lobbying city officials to impose fines on property owners whose sites are ideal for mosquito breeding.

"It is absolutely essential that the Baltimore City Council take immediate precautions to prepare their city for this impending public health crisis," said Stefan Gramp (SFS'10). "Urban environments create a micro-climate effect known as urban heat islands. This means that the ideal climate for dramatic increases in mosquito populations exists now."

History of malaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Malaria was once common in most of Europe and North America, where it is now for all purposes non-existent.

Faint young sun paradox explained by Stanford – greenhouse effect not involved « Watts Up With That?

Early Earth stayed warm because its ocean absorbed more sunlight; greenhouse gases were not involved, Stanford researchers say. See more about the Faint sun paradox here. A video clip follows.

[Obama voter Tom Fuller]: Salving our conscience at the expense of the poor

Boycott Greenpeace

Here in the U.S. there are currently 22 coal power plants under construction. If I might be so bold, I would like to suggest that Greenpeace practice its activism here in the land of the rich and let the poor and the dying have access to the power they need to lift themselves out of misery.
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Anybody who contributes to Greenpeace after this is supporting the modern equivalent of colonial imperialism.

News: Fate of the World Unveiled - GamersHell.com

Red Redemption has announced that Fate of the World will be the title of its latest game currently scheduled for release in Q3 2010. The game features a set of global warming scenarios covering 200 years of Earth's existence. At the heart of the game are 10 'Masterplans' where the player calls the shots for all mankind including 'Apocalypse' where the gut wrenching goal is to raise the planet's temperature a lethal degree; 'Lifeboat' where the goal is to save only the player while abandoning everyone else to whatever catastrophes await them; and 'Utopia' where a player can try to build a perfect society while battling population growth.

Lines drawn on climate change

In one of the cartoons the god Shiva, who customarily resides in the freezing Himalayas, is forced by global warming to live humiliatingly in a fridge with all the impending unpleasant consequences.

Report: No Hybrid for Obama - U.S. News Rankings and Reviews

CBS News reports, “As he took questions at a North Carolina plant that makes battery components for hybrid cars, the president was asked about prospects for an electric-powered White House limousine. Mr. Obama revealed that when he first received Secret Service protection, he asked if he could ride in a hybrid vehicle. But his protectors rejected the idea.”

The problem, Autoblog Green explains, is the weight of the President’s ride. “The Presidential limo is about two to three times heavier than the average car,” thanks to the heavy armor plating and other security features it requites, so it “would not be able to accelerate with a hybrid powerplant.” Instead, the limo, built on the chassis of a GMC Topkick commercial truck but designed to look like stretched Cadillac DTS, “uses a heavy-duty diesel engine to move around.”

C3: Computer Models Predicting Species' Range Shift Due To Global Warming Fail Spectacularly In Bird Test

Climate alarmists state that most species will be forced to move substantial distances from their present territories because of global warming. The climate alarmist scientists developed models to predict just how far a species would move due to the increased warmth. Researchers compared the outcome of the models to the actual empirical evidence of birds shifting their territories in the Italian Alps. Surprise! As is most often the case, the computer models were wrong.

EU Referendum: The great drought (not)

Reading the warmist literature on Brazil, you would find it difficult to avoid the impression that that Amazon rain forest was in the grip of perpetual drought, on the brink of collapse. But, as we remarked earlier, warmist history stops in 2005 in the year of the last great drought. Since then, though, we have seen record rainfall.

[Is carbon dioxide really the biggest threat here?]

There is no need to consider whether my child might die from malaria, as nearly 900,000 children do every year, simply for lack of a $10 bed net to protect them from parasite-carrying mosquitoes.
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Medical breakthroughs and top-notch medical care are not required to save millions of lives each year. Pneumonia kills nearly 2 million. Diarrhea kills 1.5 million. Both are easily prevented and treated. Child blindness, too common in the developing world, can be prevented by just two Vitamin A pills per year. Total cost: about four cents. Better nutrition and safer birth conditions would annually save the lives of several hundred thousand pregnant women.

Australia sidelines team working on ETS, shrouding scheme in doubt

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has quietly transferred the team working on his emissions trading scheme (ETS) to another project, indicating he may have decided not to bring the programme before the Senate for yet another vote next month.

Rudd’s ruling Labor Party has amassed a team of more than 150 people and an annual budget of A$57m ($52.8m) dedicated to the ETS. But with the Senate having already rejected the scheme twice, and Rudd hesitant to call a snap general election, the decision has been made to redirect the “phantom team” to other projects.

US lawmaker says odds against Senate passage of climate [hoax] bill

Chances remain low that the Senate will pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation this year despite a more bipartisan approach in recent months to build political consensus to support it, US Senator Mark Pryor [D-Arkansas] tells Recharge.
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“The politics are better, but it’s still more likely that an energy bill will pass without the climate component,” he says.

Transcript of Rudy Giuliani & Wolf Blitzer Interview on CNN

Giuliani:  [Charlie Crist] supports Cap-and-Trade, which I think -- we could go into that. I mean that's going to -- you know, 20 more buildings in Washington and another 50,000 federal workers trying to figure out what the caps are going to be on every one of our industries and homes and buildings and...

TBR.cc: Errors in Royal Society of NZ climate change paper

The Royal Society of New Zealand has again nailed its sorry little tail to the mast of a sinking global warming ship, with a statement designed to convince news media, politicians and the public that the science behind climate change is sound.

The latest paper comes in the wake of embarrassing errors discovered in the UN's AR4 report, and of course the Climategate disaster which revealed scientists conspiring to prevent studies they disagreed with from being published.

What makes the latest RSNZ paper embarrassing are some basic errors and cobbled together assumptions. Let's take a look at a couple.

EU Referendum: A snake oil election

Speaking last month, energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband said that the environment and climate change could emerge as a "top three" issue during the campaign as each party seeks to tout its green credentials.
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Now we are told by The Guardian that Green business leaders are increasingly sceptical that this will be the case and are predicting that "low carbon policies" will slip down the agenda as politicians choose to focus on the economy.

From a survey in The Sun yesterday (pictured), that is exactly what seems to be happening. "Green issues" rank a lowly ninth in the list of voters' concerns, and that portmanteau term covers a whole range of issues, not just global warming – including energy, one presumes.

The Naked Green Emperors Must Stand in Line - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The American Interest

Given the many dangers humanity faces, and the limited economic and political resources available to counter them, it’s not as clear as Prince Charles thinks that climate change needs to be the number one issue we address in the next 18 or 87 or however many months he thinks we have left.

Climate scientist Hansen wins $100,000 prize | Reuters

"We really have an emergency," Hansen said in a video link with the prize panel in Oslo about feared climate changes such as a thaw of ice sheets on Greenland or Antarctica or a loss of species of animals and plants in a warming world.
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Hansen said that world temperatures were on a rising trend despite what he called a "well orchestrated campaign" in the past year to discredit scientific findings about global warming. He did not say who he reckoned was behind the campaign.

General Election 2010: what the parties agree on – climate change and the green economy – Telegraph Blogs

Amid all the clashing of policies that we can expect over the next four weeks, one important set of issues – though much debated of late – will remain uncontentious, at least among the major parties. Despite all the furore over climate science following the hacking and hyping of the University of East Anglia e-mails – and despite apparent growing scepticism among the public – all the three main parties fully accept that humanity is causing global warming and that urgent action must be taken to combat it.

US climate researcher James Hansen wins Norwegian prize : Environment

Oslo - US climate researcher James E Hansen was Wednesday named winner of the annual Sophie Prize for helping improve "understanding of human-induced climate change" and its potential threat to the planet.
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The prize is worth 100,000 dollars. An award ceremony is set for June 22 in Oslo.

Hindus [all of them?] want world’s wealthy countries to do more for environment

Nevada (US), April 7 (ANI): Hindus ask richest nations of the world to do more for environment in view of the global ecological crisis.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that richer nations should lead the way and show responsibility by cutting greenhouse gases and atmospheric ozone concentrations and tackling global warming.

Climatebasics.com

Links for Climate Skepticism

White House to Congress: Energy-only bill would be ‘unfortunate’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

White House climate czar Carol Browner said Tuesday that the Obama administration is urging Senate lawmakers not to proceed with an “energy only” bill that shelves limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Drought turns southern China into arid plain | Environment | The Guardian

The government has embarked on a massive rain-making operation, firing thousands of cloud-seeding rockets into the sky

End of the IPCC: one mistake too many - April 7, 2010

'Climategate' suggests a conspiracy to commit fraud by a small gang of influential UN panel scientists

By S FRED SINGER
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The 'climate establishment', with a vested interest in maintaining climate scares and fanning fears, is desperately trying to save the IPCC and the AGW myth. A number of 'investigations' have been started, mostly trying to excuse IPCC errors and 'whitewash' the frauds committed. The latest such effort involves national science academies, called on by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. But it's too late: the public no longer trusts the UN, the IPCC, and its prophets of doom.

Transportation groups stake early claims to carbon fees as climate bill develops - The Hill's E2-Wire

A slew of transportation groups are pressing the bill’s architects to ensure all the money raised through planned carbon fees on motor fuels is plowed back into road and transit projects.

House liberals shift climate tactics, will not draw 'lines in the sand' - The Hill's E2-Wire

“We learned that the Senate does not always — in fact doesn’t ever — take the work that the House has done,” said Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), a vice chairman of SEEC.

Holt added that while it was essential to put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new energy research, “you have to be willing to compromise.”

New Zealand leader warns against gridlock on climate change [scam]: Environment

Wellington - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key urged climate-change experts from 28 countries Wednesday to cooperate in efforts to cut farm greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

"Flexiblity is the order of the day," Key said, opening the first meeting of the Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases.

New Zealand talks on farm emissions start in Wellington | POLITICS News

The Government has budgeted $45 million over four years to the alliance, the United States has promised $NZ 127m over five years, and Canada $NZ 37m over four years.

"You can see the amount of resources will grow and I think will grow quite rapidly."

Twitter / Roger Helmer

Shock Horror! The FT reports that some Tory candidates have doubts about man-made climate change. In touch with public opinion, then.

Testing the waters once a week for swimmers’ health – Beach Beat – Orlando Sentinel

This winter, there has been a chronic bacterial problem on those beaches. There seem to be more birds, bigger flocks visiting the beaches. Weather may play a role, with the unseasonably cold winter and record low water temperatures (dipping down into the 40s). It may be that the bacteria may be able to persist better on those chilly, overcast days.

Luckily, the advisories are out when the water is cold and not in the heart of the beach tourist season, when the days are hot and humid and the beaches are packed with swimmers.

Volcker: [Carbon tax may be needed to cover entitlement costs]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States should consider raising taxes to help bring deficits under control and may need to consider a European-style value-added tax, White House adviser Paul Volcker said on Tuesday.

Volcker, answering a question from the audience at a New York Historical Society event, said the value-added tax "was not as toxic an idea" as it has been in the past and also said a carbon or other energy-related tax may become necessary.

Though he acknowledged that both were still unpopular ideas, he said getting entitlement costs and the U.S. budget deficit under control may require such moves. "If at the end of the day we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes," he said.

Flashback: YouTube - President Obama's Pledge Never to Raise Taxes on Anyone Making Less Than $250,000 a Year

taxreformer — February 04, 2009 — This footage was taken during than presidential candidate Obama's speech in Dover, NH. President Obama pledges not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.

It's come to this: Climate-focused climate hero tries not to talk about climate

Roz Savage rows the ocean blue for a green cause | Digital Media - CNET News

In her role as an environmental campaigner, Savage has been named a U.N. Climate Hero. She is also a trained presenter for Al Gore's Climate Project, and is an Athlete Ambassador for 350.org, whose mission is to inspire and unite people to find solutions to climate change. Bill McKibben, who co-founded 350.org, says Savage's perseverance is part of what makes her such a good spokesperson.
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Although she's been at it for a while now, Savage says she still feels like she's learning how to talk about environmental issues to reach the "unconverted," particularly, when it comes to climate change. "I actually now try not to talk about climate change because especially in this country it's so polarizing," she said. "I prefer to talk about sustainability because it is just kind of common sense on a finite planet. And the other thing is that sustainability is a positive thing to move toward."

Skeptics Climate threat to Greenpeace website - Telegraaf.nl | Climate Realists

You'll be happy to know that there is a strong backlash in Holland against the greenpeace threats, as highlighted on CR.

CHOGM wives do their part on climate change | The Trinidad Guardian

She said contrary to popular belief, the spouses of leaders attending these summits do not just accompany their husbands and wives on a mini vacation and expect only to be entertained.

EU satellite to check climate change impact on ice

Pessimists expect a sea rise by 2 to 3 meters (6.6 feet to 9.8 feet) by the year 2100, [Heinrich Miller] said.

C3: Finally, The D.C. Rubes (oops, "Elites") Are Being Told By Washington Post That Climate Models Have Problems

The coastal elites, who have serious delusions of grandeur and omniscience disorders, are just now learning that climate models have been ineffective (okay, absolute failures). Between the coasts where reality exists, it is common knowledge that the computer models are worthless and not getting any better, despite researchers wasting billions on the models.

YouTube - Cap & Trade is a Bad Deal (30 seconds)

A new commercial from the National Center for Public Policy Research and FreedomWorks. It points out the crippling economic realities of cap & trade and how John Deere management is allowing back room deals to be cut on it in Washington. These deals will help enact a policy that will eventually come to harm the company and its employees at a time when America is already in dire economic condition. Deere employees are urged to point this out to management by calling the John Deere compliance hotline at (800) 933-3731.

Science, Climate Change and Integrity | Guest Work

A statement from Professor Keith A Hunter FNZIC, FRSNZ, Vice-President – Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Science has not “proved” beyond all reasonable doubt that human activities are changing the climate. But it has clearly shown that there are multiple lines of evidence all pointing in the same direction, and this view is supported by theories that are well-founded in fundamental sciences like physics.

Warmists in the Arctic: It's cold enough to "freeze the proverbials off a brass monkey"

 Can They Fix It? Yes They Can!

When you’re operating at temperatures that can freeze exposed skin in minutes, you’ve got to expect a few things to go wrong. But when you’re at least 500km from the nearest store, playing Mr Fix It means displaying forward-thinking skills that would put a clairvoyant to shame.

In the RSS feed for the same item above, the paragraph still looks like this:

When you’re operating at temperatures that could freeze the proverbials off a brass monkey, you’ve got to expect a few things to go wrong. But when you’re at least 500km from the nearest store, playing Mr Fix It means displaying forward-thinking skills that would put a clairvoyant to shame.

The Reference Frame: Nature: eccentricity negatively drives big climate variations

Lisiecki confirmed that the timing has been remarkably correlated with the approximate 100,000-year eccentricity variations in those 12 cycles or so. Moreover, the correlation is actually negative. When we're getting a greater amount of solar energy per year, because of the eccentricity changes, the Earth actually seems to be cooler! This fact actually seems to have been true for 5 million years.

The paranoid style in American climate politics | CEJournal

And what about all that knowledge that literally many thousands of scientists have produced over the course of many decades? [like what, specifically?] Stephens implies it’s all but worthless because the scientists have been at work for venal purposes.

- Bishop Hill blog - WaPo on climate models

Now last time I heard, the models could get into an ice age but couldn't get out again, so I'm not sure whether Gavin is being entirely straight with us here. Perhaps the models have moved on though, although one could still wonder if they could move so quickly from not being able to get out of an ice age to being useful.

Climate change row over the mystery of the shrinking sheep - Telegraph

Scientists have questioned claims that global warming is causing sheep to change size and colour in the latest row to engulf climate change science.

[How performing small rituals can prevent bad weather] Wins Web Video Contest - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

How to fight climate change? Well, you could start by just saving some electricity. Or saying no to plastic bags. Or turning off the tap while you brush your teeth.

During coverage of mining tragedy, CNN anchor Campbell Brown calls Don Blankenship a "global warming denier"

Search for Miners Continues - CFB News - FOX Sports on MSN

BROWN: In the wake of the West Virginia mining disaster, Don Blankenship, owner of the Massey mining company, is finding himself under some very serious scrutiny tonight. The controversial CEO is a global warming denier who shelled out millions of his own money to defeat a state Supreme Court justice who had ruled against his company.

Arctic winter ice recovers slightly despite record year low, scientists say | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The melting Arctic ice cap recovered slightly over the last winter, but scientists warned that it was still one of the worst years on record.

Column - How our “best and brightest” were conned | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Of the 100 summiteers brought in to discuss global warming, not one was an identifiable sceptic.
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...he’d designed a great green tax to help stop global warming - a tax that was already Labor policy, is blocked in the Senate, and is now so unpopular that Rudd barely dares discuss it.

EU Referendum: Taking on the greenies

How interesting it is though that the South Africans are prepared to take on the greenies, when our own more "sophisticated" politicians roll over and give them everything they demand – unless we see different on Thursday.

It’s official: Arctic sea ice recovered in March | CEJournal

In short, weather and natural variation happen.

Sometimes they conspire with warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases to drive Arctic sea ice to astonishing lows, as happened in 2007. Sometimes they conspire to thwart the human influence, as appears to have been the case in March.

Are TV Weathermen in a Fog About Global Warming?

Could natural causes alone be responsible for such a dramatic swing in record high and low temperatures? Highly unlikely, because without some major catastrophe, natural climate change would occur much more gradually over a much longer period of time. Are cities warmer today than they were in the 19th century? Well yes, and human activity is obviously responsible for that.

Flashback: David Archibald on rapid, natural temperature variations

What is also interesting is the 2.2° temperature rise from 7.8° in 1696 to 10.0° in 1732. This is a 2.2° rise is 36 years [in Central England]. By comparison, the world has seen a 0.6° rise over the 100 years of the 20th century. That temperature rise in the early 18th century was four times as large and three times as fast as the rise in the 20th century.

The significance of this is that the world can experience very rapid temperature swings all due to natural causes. The temperature peak of 10° in 1732 wasn’t reached again until 1947.

Q&A with IU climate "expert" Ben Brabson: HeraldTimesOnline.com

QUESTION: How do you feel about people who have no scientific background working to discredit something they don't understand for political or financial gain?

Anthony DiMaggio, "Witness to Mediagate: Making Sense of the 'Climategate Scandal'"

Leading global scientists have been exonerated of blame in the "climategate" controversy, although this won't stop right-wing and corporate-funded pundits from attacking the science of global warming.

A firestorm of comments over LaHood’s big bike speech | Grist

Four weeks ago Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood climbed on a table and declared the reign of the almighty auto was finished. Federal transportation funding would no longer favor cars at the expense of bicycling, walking, and mass transit, said the 65-year-old Republican from downstate Illinois. A few days later he followed up with details and an explanation that this is what Americans have been asking for.

The effects of his words have been rippling out ever since. Gleeful, perceptive, wary, and downright stupid responses are floating about on bike blogs, Streetsblog network members, and other transportation forums. Here are some of the most entertaining ones...

Science Catfight - Joe Bastardi vs. Brenda Ekwurzel | April 6, 2010 | ColbertNation.com

Joe Bastardi and Brenda Ekqurzel debate whether humans are the cause of global warming. (10:47)

[Funny stuff from the alarmists at Nature: In brief article about Arctic ice maximum, they include a photo of ice with an open lead]

In other ice news, NASA’s Operation IceBridge has seen stretches of open water in the sea ice during flights surveying the Northwest Passage (image below).

Again: If CO2 caused this open lead in 2010, what caused the open leads of 1909?

Venomous purple jellyfish are swarming towards Britain, warn experts | Mail Online

Global warming is causing swarms of highly venomous jellyfish to move into waters off the British coast, experts today said.

[Did you know that there is a "Citizens Climate Lobby" calling for a climate swindle of $15 per ton of CO2?]

Beginning on July 1, 2011, impose a carbon fee on all fossil fuels at the point where they first enter the economy. The fee shall be collected by the Internal Revenue Service. The fee on that date shall be $15 per ton of CO2 equivalent emissions and result in equal charges for each ton of CO2 equivalent emissions potential in each type of fuel.

Past Conference Calls | Citizens Climate Lobby

Listen to complete call featuring Dr. James Hansen
View Press Release: Hansen: ‘We have a planetary emergency’

Last Speaker: Dr. James Hansen, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, on the Columbia University faculty, and Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is the leading authority on the study of climate change – he spoke as a private citizen. He recently published his first book, “Storms of My Grandchildren.”

Pew Center on Global Climate Change [issues a press release: Where's the part about saving our grandchildren from fiery floods?]

“Energy efficiency is smart business,” said Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. “In addition to dollar savings, companies that get serious about energy efficiency often realize other important benefits including improved corporate reputation, productivity increases, better worker morale and employee retention. In short, it is a winning solution for companies.”

The Costs of Going Green - Drew Thornley - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Were it not for the fact that poorly thought-out public commitments to renewable energy plans pose serious threats to taxpayers and budgets nationwide, the "it ain't easy bein' green" stories would be getting old by now. But, since the message is so important for policymakers to heed, here's another one, from yesterday's Wall Street Journal (sub required)...

Larry Summers and Carol Browner say Obama won’t budge on placing a price on global "warming" "pollution" « Climate Progress

White House aides Larry Summers and Carol Browner insisted that the administration was willing to bend on several key issues, including the mechanism for pricing carbon and increased domestic energy exploration. But both said the president would not budge when it comes to placing a first-ever price on domestic greenhouse gas emissions.

Gore's Dying Climate [Scam] Project - an update

I'm too lazy to count the actual numbers of presentations per month, but it's clear that the air is fast escaping this balloon.

The Climate Project - April 2008
[4+ screenfuls for me]

The Climate Project - April 2009
[A couple of screenfuls]

The Climate Project - April 2010
[Only half a screenful]

April 2008: Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army | Environment | The Guardian

Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.

If Gore has 10 million volunteers in America, only a handful or two of them appear to care enough to give his official climate hoax presentation in public this month.

Earth Day Network Announces Line-Up of Performers, Speakers For 40th Anniversary of Earth Day

Earth Day Network today announced plans for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, including appearances from Sting, John Legend, James Cameron, Reverend Jesse Jackson and other artists and thought-leaders who will perform and speak at The Climate Rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC. From tree plantings and school greenings to environmental rallies, live music events and community dialogues with elected officials, more than one billion people are taking action for Earth Day to fight climate change and build a global green economy. Earth Day Network and its partners are orchestrating large events in Washington, D.C., New York City, NY, Rabat, Morocco, Kolkata, India, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Tokyo, Japan.
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The Creating Climate Wealth Conference will convene hundreds of leading entrepreneurs to discuss innovative business solutions to climate change in Washington, DC, from April 20 to 22.

Think Progress » Daniels: Climate Science Is ‘Dubious,’ ‘Extreme Measures’ Advocated By ‘Zealots’ Won’t Address Global Warming

But yesterday on C-Span, [Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN)] weighed in on the science and it appears that he comes down on the side of the global warming deniers:

DANIELS: In terms of climate change, I think that everyone would be well advised to take a substantial time out. There’s been nothing but dubious news about the science of all this now for about a year, including apparent scientific wrongdoing. Meanwhile, we’re left with a situation where even if the zealots had their way, and the most extreme measures were taken, by their own computer models, we don’t move the world thermometer at all.

Warming after a cold winter will disappear quickly as it did in 2007: Joseph D'Aleo

So with a cooler La Nina and return to the negative PDO, temperatures should dip again much as they did in 2007 when we started the year with El Nino and ended with a strong La Nina.

Perspectives and Observations From a Skiing Actuary « Digital Diatribes

As a statistician I am not impressed at all with the accuracy of IPCC models and suspect there is no more than a 20% chance that they are correct.

FOXNews.com - Top Climate Scientist's Exoneration Won't Be the Last Word

In other words, once the Penn State inquiry is over, the inspector general will likely step in. And if it does, it will be the first time that climate studies here will be scrutinized by an independent government organization with the skill and tools to investigate effectively.

Damage control: Greenpeace removes threats « Watts Up With That?

As you read the update, you’ll see their spin. Of course it was “all taken out of context you see, and it’s those darned climate contrarians fault for it getting perceived as a threat”.

My response to Greenpeace: Bullshit!

Obama pumped up for fight with energy industry | Washington Examiner

It sounded like Obama was open to tapping the deep-water reserves off the U.S. coast. But as the details of the plans dribbled out, it became clear that it was a mirage.

The only ban Obama was lifting was the one he created.

Reagan Would Mock You, That’s What He’d Do - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

My instinctive reaction is that Reagan would have had tremendous fun with these guys, possibly deliver some punch line on the danger of abrupt island inversion, then proceed to focus on real, demonstrated threats to our security. Like, well, the global-warming agenda.

Kevin Grandia | Free first chapter of Climate Cover Up

You can download it here: Climate Cover Up: the crusade the deny global warming - Chapter 1 [pdf].

C3: Global Warming Scientists: The Destroyers of Sciences' Reputation & Credibility

Because the hard sciences did not stand up and fight the cultural left and their politicization of climate (global warming) science, the public no longer believes what any of the sciences are shoveling. Scientists of all stripes are now viewed as being beholden to either a political and/or funding ($$) agenda, versus following the traditional scientific truth and empirical evidence objectives. Climate science has soiled the bed that all scientists sleep in, and the hard science scientists just let it happen.

Speigel Online « JoNova

That any reasonably unbiased view ends up being supportive of skeptics is of course, just what you’d expect from on a topic where one side–skeptics have so much of that essential ingredient–reality– on their side. I found the whole article worth reading, and I expect Parts 3 & 4 are the most interesting for skeptics. It’s good to finally see the work of people like McIntyre and McKitrick making it into the realms of the mainstream media.

Journalists should have been knocking on their door back in 2004.

Legislating Physics « the Air Vent

So I’ll ask readers to think about this policy. How many of you have ever seen a pickup truck or SUV that can meet the 2016 standard? The answer is they can’t, they therefore will pull down the fleet number. So of course the other sold vehicles will have to have a higher mileage standard than average, again I’ll ask people to consider if you have ever seen a 45mpg family car with reasonable space, cost and features? Again, you haven’t. There is a simple reason for that. We don’t have the technology to produce workable vehicles at this level of performance. Sure 2016 is a few years away but in 2016 we still won’t have the ability to do this — the dirty secret is, the government knows this. It cannot add $1000 to the cost of the car, because you can’t build them.

They know it.

Federal stimulus plan for solar power will take decades to return investment | Texas Watchdog

If the people of Bedford, Texas, are still borrowing whatever they are calling books in 72 years, they may find themselves in the public library on the very day the energy saved by the library's planned solar power system finally equals the cost to build it.

The solar plant in Bedford, between Fort Worth and Dallas, would not have been built at all without a nearly $2 million Department of Energy stimulus grant.

Backdoor Energy Tax - Investors.com

Pollution Control: From cars to coal mines, the imposition of economy-killing restrictions is under way. Are the new EPA regulations on auto emissions the precursor to regulating carbon dioxide by executive order?

Power to the people - begging not to freeze to death | The Daily Telegraph

DOZENS of ordinary families and pensioners have begged the State Government to spare them big power price rises which will leave them cold and hungry this winter.

Myths and falsehoods from the assault on global warming science | Media Matters for America

The conservative media have mounted an all-out attack on climate science in an attempt to discredit efforts to fight man-made global warming. Media Matters for America has debunked prominent myths and falsehoods associated with this smear campaign.

MYTH: The scientific consensus on global warming has been undermined by recent events...

NWF [Climate Hoax Propaganda]

[Video] In this week's National Wildlife Federation Climate Capsule:

How global warming could lead to poison ivy on steroids
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Drilling for the truth on energy with Dirty the Global Warming Denier Sock Puppet

[Remember: NWF also publishes children's magazines]

Ranger Rick (originally titled Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine) is a children's nature magazine published in the United States by the Education Department of the National Wildlife Federation.[1] The first issue was published in January 1967. Historically, the magazine has been aimed at children; the NWF site today suggests ages 7 and up. (NWF also publishes two companion magazines, Your Big Backyard, which is aimed at ages 3–7, and Wild Animal Baby, which is aimed at kids 12 months old to 4 years old.[2])
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Rick or any one of his friends, including Boomer Badger and Scarlett Fox, always finds a solution to whatever problem they encounter, thus encouraging children to do their part to protect their natural environment.

[Still more insanity from Bob Park: Because of the global warming hoax, let's cut world population by a factor of three]

3. CLIMATE: THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO REDUCE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT.
John Broder in today's New York Times says the concept of "cap and trade" is in wide disrepute, with opponents branding it "cap and tax." So what do we do? Of course we need to increase efficiency, reduce waste and protect the environment, but these things will only slow the process we're already in. What must be done is to reduce the fertility rate to below two, and keep it below two until world population drops to about a third of what it is now. It requires no draconian measures. We have only to educate women.

The Seattle project | Grist

On a wintery, gusty morning last Saturday, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn rode his bicycle down from his north-side home to a downtown architecture and design firm for a rather unmayoral event. Some 60 or 70 people had gathered for a daylong “unconference,” a loosely organized bring-your-own-lunch affair, to plot how Seattle can become the first carbon neutral city in North America.

Greenpeace could learn a simple lesson on manners from George Washington | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Threatening climate sceptics and warning Twitter followers you are armed with a knife are not smart moves from Greenpeace India's communications director, Gene Hashmi

Greenpeace got it right « the Air Vent

Well we won another small battle. Thanks to everyone who paid attention to our last post here on greenpeace. They have taken down their post and retracted their demands for an army of lawbreakers to target homes of skeptics and those who fight the good war against authoritarian politics. I’m certain that the continued pressure by readers here and elsewhere have led to at least a bit of introspection on the part of their leadership.

Global Warming and Parasitic Diseases of Livestock

Clearly, the world's climate alarmists have a woefully myopic view of real-world parasitic livestock diseases and a one-track mindset when it comes to dealing with them. Implementing the costly treatment plan they prescribe for the imaginary problem they foresee will only exacerbate the many real problems that exist in this area, diverting attention away from truly effective solutions and squandering important resources in the process.

California's Global Warming Law AB32 - WSJ.com

A La La Land climate law ignores economic reality.

Opposing Views: Global Warming Businesses Have Enron-Like Potential

There is now a "climate-industrial complex" - a cozy relationship between governments, NGOs, some scientists, and business groups who stand to gain. Al Gore is the poster child of this movement. It's not an accident that his green private-equity firm, Generation Investment Management, stands to make big gains in a carbon-constrained world.

Can a book on geoengineering change the climate conversation? | Grist

Maybe if you knew that reckless geoengineering could shift the Asian monsoons, which hundreds of millions of people depend on to grow their crops, you'd be more likely to buy a Nissan Leaf, give up beef, and march on Washington to demand tough climate legislation.

Arctic sea ice experiences growth spurt in March

The chilly weather conditions allowed the ice to cover more territory and much later in the season than any other March since satellites started measuring arctic ice in 1979. On March 31, the ice measured 5.89 million square miles -- 260,000 square miles more than the 2006 record low for the month of March.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

During March 2010, ice extent grew at an average of 13,200 square kilometers (5100 square miles) per day. Usually there is a net loss of ice through the month.

It’s Time to Terminate California’s Cap and Trade System | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Contrary to the claims of an economic boost from green investment and green job creation and “postage stamp” costs, cap and trade does the complete opposite by increasing energy prices-thereby causing a considerable reduction in economic growth, household incomes, and employment. A more prudent ballot measure would be to remove California’s cap and trade plan completely.

Heavy snow leads to stinky spring mess on SW Minn. lakes | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ

Heavy snows this winter were the main factor in the fish kill, as more than two feet of snow covered the ice on Lake Shetek. That prevented sunlight from reaching lake vegetation, which practically shut down oxygen producing photosynthesis in the water. As a result, the fish suffocated.
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Barstad, who has been working since the weekend, said the fish kill is the worst at Lake Shetek in almost 60 years.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Short New York Real Estate Because of Global Warming?

Therefore, those who believe Stevey’s predictions should be willing to bet on it. I am willing to take their Manhattan real estate off their hands at a discount that reflects the direness of global warming predictions. Say that Battery Park will be dunked by rising seas, then apartments down there should be worthless.

I’ll pay that price, and even kick in all associated taxes and transfer fees to anybody who actually believes Cohen’s predictions.

Any takers?

Lawrence Solomon: Arctic Ice at High Point - FP Comment

The Arctic ocean has more ice today that it did last year at this time, more than it had the previous year at this time or the year before that or the year before that. More ice, in fact that at any time since the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, using a sensor launched on a NASA satellite in mid 2002, began tracking the extent of Arctic ice.

Arctic Sea Ice Melting Season Posts Latest Start on Record - BusinessWeek

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- The extent of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean grew until the last day of March, the latest the annual melting season has begun in 31 years of satellite records, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.
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In September, the researchers said Arctic sea ice shrank in 2009 to its third-lowest summer minimum on record, remaining “well outside the range of natural variability.”  [What is that range?]

Summers: Energy and climate bill a top White House 2010 priority - The Hill's E2-Wire

National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers on Tuesday said that passage of comprehensive energy legislation is a top White House priority in 2010.
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Summers called energy policy vital to U.S. economic prosperity, while labeling climate change a major global threat.

[Malcolm Turnbull still believes]: Political leaders come and go, but global warming continues

Losing the leadership was heartbreaking, but while political leaders will come and go, the threat of global warming will not.
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The dispute about climate change policy and the loss of the leadership was traumatic but I am resolved to leave Parliament without bitterness or resentment.

Pajamas Media » After Climategate, Should Savvy Investors Short Carbon Credits? (PJM Exclusive)

Betting against cap and trade is a wager that President Obama and a Democrat-controlled Congress will somehow resist the temptation to impose a vast new regulatory regime on energy consumption.

Good luck with that bet.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Americans more interested in energy than environment

Maybe it took an extended economic collapse for Americans to get practical about energy production. It could also have some relation to the Climategate scandals and the collapse of credibility for anthropogenic global-warming advocates. Either way, Gallup’s latest survey shows Americans prioritizing energy production over environmental concerns for the first time since Gallup began polling on the issue in 2001

The Reference Frame: James Hansen and Huffington Post

The only AGW threat to Hansen's children and grandchildren is that they could be led to realize that their dad or granddad was mentally impaired.

Florida freeze boosted vegetable prices

Sixty of Florida’s 67 counties (including all areas where winter fresh produce is grown) were declared natural disaster areas by USDA on Jan. 29.

A year ago, a severe freeze during Jan. 20-22 damaged Florida winter vegetables, reducing volume and raising prices for crops such as green beans, sweet corn and tomatoes. This year, damage was much more severe because of the extended duration of the cold weather pattern.

Victoria forum on climate change on Thursday

[Tom Pedersen, the director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria]  "We don't understand everything perfectly. But for 150 years now, we have understood the greenhouse effect. And for 150 years, we've been pumping out a lot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And for 150 years, the Earth has been warming."

New study shows rising water temperatures in US streams and rivers

The analysis indicates that 20 of the 40 streams studied showed statistically significant long term warming trends, while an additional 13 showed temperature increases that were not statistically significant. Two rivers showed significant temperature decreases. The longest record of increase was observed for the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, New York. The most rapid rate of increase was recorded for the Delaware River near Chester, Pennsylvania.

"We are seeing the largest increases in the most highly urbanized areas which lead us to believe that the one-two punch of development and global warming could have a tremendous impact on stream and river ecosystem health," said Dr. Kaushal.

EV WORLDwire: Ford, Microsoft Team on Electric Vehicle Charging Technology

Increasing numbers of electric vehicles, however, will have a significant impact on energy demand. That is because the addition of an electric vehicle to a household could effectively double home energy consumption while the vehicle is charging.

The British National Party — Blog — Labour's Climate Change Act: A Conspiracy to Defraud

To add insult to injury, this development comes hard on the news that the Government has contributed to green carbon-credits, said to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds, being paid by Western nations to India’s giant TATA Corporation — so that it can build that country’s largest coal-burning power station at Mundra, in Gujarat province.
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Like everything else associated with Labour, the Climate Change Act is just another excuse to de-industrialise Britain and rip-off the British taxpayer in the furtherance of its and the UN’s gobalist projects.

President's Offshore Drilling Proposal is All Fluff, No Substance - HUMAN EVENTS

[Inhofe] Republicans, don’t be fooled: the President’s proposal on offshore drilling will not mean more jobs, more energy, and less imported oil. If it’s accepted, it certainly will mean more dependence on foreign oil, more taxes, and fewer jobs.

The proposal is clearly designed to curry favor with Republicans, and even many Democrats, who remain staunchly opposed to his global warming cap-and-trade legislation. As Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman attempt to craft a cap-and-trade “compromise,” President Obama seems convinced that a less than half-hearted energy plan will win him votes. But the President hasn’t offered anything that’s worth accepting the largest tax increase in American history.

Why the GOP Should Support a Carbon Tax | FrumForum

The President’s triangulation on cap-and-trade and drilling is smart politics, designed to make supporting the energy bill more palatable for some Republicans. Rather than letting the President carve off a few Republicans, now would be a good time for the GOP to throw in a game-changer of our own by announcing support for a carbon tax, offset by reductions in the payroll tax.

DailyTech - Global Warming [Hoax] Treaty in Danger as China Battles the U.S.

China rallies developing nations to oppose emissions restrictions championed by the U.S. and its allies

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We need birth control, not geoengineering | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The pill, condoms and IUDs are some of the most effective – and cheap – weapons the world has to fight climate change.

Charities warm to climate [swindle]: Nature News

Global steps to battle climate change might have faltered, but philanthropic institutions in the United States have swung into action, more than tripling their support for climate-related causes in 2008. Donations jumped from the 2007 total of US$240 million to $897 million in 2008 (see 'Climate concern'), according to a report from the Foundation Center, an organization that supports philanthropies, in New York.
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The vast majority of the increase in 2008 came from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California, which gave a total of $549 million. Hewlett's donations included a one-time contribution of $500 million to ClimateWorks, which aims to help countries limit carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to less than 450 parts per million.

A Complete List Of Bad Things Attributed To Global Warming - Investors.com

Following is the list of phenomena (756 entries in all) linked at one time or another to warming. They range from acne, bubonic plague and a drop in circumcisions to Yellow fever, whale beachings, walrus stampedes, witchcraft executions and the threat of zebra mussels.

HAWKINS: Global warming is back - Washington Times

In addition to the Chinese threat, the United States and India face a common danger from Islamic terrorism. These are elements that should be pulling Washington and New Delhi together. It is a major strategic blunder for the Obama administration to emphasize climate talks that drive the two great democracies apart

W.Va. Calculates Survival in a New Climate - NYTimes.com

Like others in the county, Madison grocer Young and miner Brown express a sentiment of disbelief in the science behind global warming, especially after a year of record snowfalls.

More than anything, though, a sense of "Leave us alone" drips into the commentary when locals here are asked about plans to curb global warming.

"The bottom line is this: Am I going to be able to go to work and put food on the table?" said Brown. "Or am I going to lose my job because of some scientist or Al Gore who runs around with his band of gypsies preaching the global warming thing?

"I'm sorry, I want my paycheck."

Fighting Cap and Trade Helps GM Plant, Blackburn Says - Nashville Public Radio

At a meeting last night not far from the idled plant, Blackburn spoke with about 80 constituents; one asked how lawmakers might help bring a new project to Spring Hill.

Blackburn answered she wants to help manufacturers by forestalling any Cap-and-Trade law that would limit carbon emissions.

Hot and cold - Scotsman.com News

When the Arctic ice melts, scientists and environmentalists rush to tell us that this is a sign of global warming. Now, however, when the Arctic ice has dramatically increased (your report, 5 April), these same groups of people are counselling not to interpret this in terms of global warming as this ice growth is "weather related" and that weather is not an indicator of climate.
Sorry folks, but you can't have it both ways.

GM LINDSAY

TCPI to train 250 presenters on climate change [hoax] | The Jakarta Post

The Climate Project Indonesia (TCPI), a non-profit organization set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US vice president Al Gore, will train 250 Indonesian people on the climate change issues.

The free workshop will be held in Jakarta on April 24.

Incoherent baloney: The 350.org guy on his belief that cows cause bad weather (and why vast herds of buffalo didn't do so)

The Only Way to Have a Cow | Bill McKibben | Orion Magazine

We now use an enormous percentage of our arable land to grow corn that we feed to cows who stand in feedlots and eructate until they are slaughtered in a variety of gross ways and lodge in our ever-larger abdomens. And the fact that the product of this exercise “tastes good” sounds pretty lame as an excuse. There are technofixes—engineering the corn feed so it produces less methane, or giving the cows shots so they eructate less violently.
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...long before humans had figured out the whole cow thing, nature had its own herds of hoofed ungulates. Big herds of big animals—perhaps 60 million bison ranging across North America, and maybe 100 million antelope. That’s considerably more than the number of cows now resident in these United States. These were noble creatures, but uncouth—eructate hadn’t been coined yet. They really did just belch. So why weren’t they filling the atmosphere with methane?
...it’s hard to imagine, in the short time that we have to deal with climate change, ending the eating of meat and returning the herds of buffalo and packs of wolves to all the necessary spots. It’s marginally easier to imagine mimicking those systems with cows.

Humbug In Hobart « Musings from the Chiefio

It looks to me like we have a falling trend in Hobart, but that at the airport the Airport Heat Island can overcome it, especially during winter.

French feathers ruffled over wind farming dispute | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 06.04.2010

In Picardy, a sparsely populated region of northern France and home to 600 wind turbines, resident Virginie Mitburst can see 11 from her home.

"This room has the pleasure of being lit up every night by the lights flashing on the wind turbines," Mitburst told French public radio. "It's like a night club in here."

Mitburst said she thinks wind farm companies played on people's fears to push the concept of wind power, which she says have turned the countryside into an industrial zone.

"The wind power companies come round telling people they have to have these things because of the Kyoto agreement… and if we don't have wind turbines we're all going to die," Mitburst said.

Prime minister announces election date | ABTN

The Chancellor's failure to address air passenger duty in the recent budget left many in the industry angry.

A majority consider APD to be a stealth tax which was brought in to exploit the travel and aviation sectors when climate change prevention started to command political currency.

Democrats consider big gamble on global warming plan | Washington Examiner

Moreno [sic], who now runs the Web site Climate Depot, said Democrats may decide it is "now or never" for a climate bill.

"If they fail this year to get any kind of cap and trade system in place, they are looking at years into the political wilderness when it comes to addressing global warming," Moreno [sic] said. "We are talking about at least four to eight years before they have another real shot at passing this."

New Health Care Reforms Could Lead to Surge in Greenhouse Gas Emissions…or Not : CleanTechnica

President Obama’s new health care reforms will help millions more people in the U.S. get access to modern medical care and preventive health services, just like every other country in the developed world. All things being equal, that would lead to a rapid surge in greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the health care industry, which is already notorious for its resource-gobbling ways. However, things never are actually equal.

Malcolm Turnbull to quit politics

He lost his leadership because he supported an emissions trading scheme to tackle climate change.

Climate change denier misleads the public - Forum

As a faculty member at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences I've been involved in climate science for more than 10 years. I've been participating at many scientific conferences, such as the recent meeting in Portland on ocean sciences.

Among the thousands of scientists assembled, there were none that questioned the scientific consensus of climate change as published in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports.

Reply to article from Joe Bastardi: Up in the Air by Elizabeth Kolbert | Climate Realists

I have made my forecast, that by 2030 we will return to where we were at the end of the last cold PDO, in the 70's. No one on the AGW side of the issue ever had defined the optimum temp or co2 levels that are ideal for the planet. At the very least I am willing to make a forecast based on what I know, not on what I dont know.

A Look at the Australian Climate Network: Where is the Quality Assurance?

In their Climate brochure, the CSIRO+BoM make the assertion that "since 1960 the mean temperature in Australia has increased by about 0.7°C". Over a 50 year period, this represents about 0.014°C per year, and for this conclusion to be drawn, some exceedingly accurate record keeping would clearly be required. Of the stations which have been examined so far, it is hard to see how either of these assertions (namely, a quality assurance process or the temperature increase) can be supported.

Twitter / CatlinArcticSurvey

IceBase: the stove in the scientists' tent broke last night freezing all their copepod collections. Need then to catch more of them today.

The 32-Step Lifecycle Of Climate Alarms « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Just keep yourself aware of the 32-step lifecycle of a climate alarm, especially if linked about Anthropogenic Global Warming (as they all nowadays are):

American Thinker: Was the Arctic Ice Cap 'Adjusted'?

However, the "area" is a different story. Just by eyeball, no trend is apparent. In fact, calculations say it is growing 0.3% per decade!

That is simply astounding. The Arctic sea ice that is actually measured by imaging sensors is growing, not shrinking at all. Shout it from the rooftops: we are saved!

Scientists' use of computer models to predict climate change is under attack - washingtonpost.com

"You can say, 'You know what, I don't trust the climate models, so I'm going to walk into the middle of the road with a blindfold on,' " [fraudster Gavin] Schmidt said. "But you know what, that's not smart."

Climate scientists admit that some models overestimated how much the Earth would warm in the past decade. But they say this might just be natural variation in weather, not a disproof of their methods.
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But Warren Meyer, a mechanical and aerospace engineer by training who blogs at www.climate-skeptic.com, said that climate models are highly flawed. He said the scientists who build them don't know enough about solar cycles, ocean temperatures and other things that can nudge the earth's temperature up or down. He said that because models produce results that sound impressively exact, they can give off an air of infallibility.

But, Meyer said -- if the model isn't built correctly -- its results can be both precise-sounding and wrong.

"The hubris that can be associated with a model is amazing, because suddenly you take this sketchy understanding of a process, and you embody it in a model," and it appears more trustworthy, Meyer said. "It's almost like money laundering."
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If the models are as flawed as critics say, Schmidt said, "You have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?' "

The Hockey Schtick: NASA's Gavin Schmidt's Lies, Damned Lies, and Models

1. The models DO NOT WORK when tested against observational satellite data as shown by 5 peer reviewed studies, with no peer reviewed satellite data studies to suggest that they do. ALL 22 IPCC and GISS models greatly overestimate warming due to increased CO2 during the satellite era.

Filling our short-term fossil-fuel needs |  Terry Tamminen - Grist

Given our role in creating the climate crisis, we should plan to power at least half of our electricity needs with inexhaustible, clean sources of domestic energy by 2025.
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Mr. President, we need a real “strategy” that recognizes we will soon run out of oil and atmosphere, setting goals to sustain our economy and environment in equal measures.

Flashback: An interview with California environmental adviser Terry Tamminen | Grist

Terry Tamminen is a compact, affable man. With his bluntness and lack of pretense, it's easy to see why Arnold Schwarzenegger trusted him. The California governor brought Tamminen on as his environmental adviser in 2003, elevated him to secretary of the state EPA, and then appointed him a senior cabinet adviser in 2004. In part due to Tamminen's behind-the-scenes influence and tireless work, Schwarzenegger's first term saw the state pass numerous groundbreaking environmental laws.

Tokyo to trial electric 'filling stations' to boost green transport | Environment | The Guardian

Better Place has come up with a model that involves building networks of charging points and battery-switch stations. At these a robotic mechanism will swap the empty battery in a car for a fully charged one. This means electric cars can be "refilled" in minutes, rather than taking several hours to charge their batteries.

Spanish Jobless Claims Climb in March - WSJ.com

MADRID—Spanish jobless claims rose again in March as Spain suffered from an unusually harsh winter and one of Europe's longest-running recessions.

Skyrocketing tomato prices squeeze restaurants' bottom lines, menus | thetimesherald.com | The Times Herald

Florida's winter freeze killed off half of this season's crop supply

Climate Change Denial: The Smoking Gun | NEWS JUNKIE POST

Is there a legal right to shout “hoax” on a burning planet? It is well documented that corporate interests fund a widespread campaign of lies and misinformation about climate change. Worse, they have been enjoying considerable success just as they did with tobacco.
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Let’s be clear here. We are not talking about the right of corporations and individuals to voice dissenting opinions. This is not an ad hominem attack meant to cast doubt on their arguments based on who funded it. We know for a fact that their claims are false. Just as the tobacco lobby does and did, they are knowingly and deliberately disseminating lies for the purposes of personal profit. Lies that will kill many hundreds of millions of human beings.

James Hoggan: The Smoking Guns and Blue Dress Moments of Climategate

In many instances, the reactions sounded like a choreographed choir singing from the same sheet of talking points, or at least the same sheet of of well-worn memes and cliches, like 'smoking gun' and 'final nail in the coffin.'

Abandoning Congress is not a winning strategy for climate activists | Grist

Without a Congressional mandate behind it, the EPA will not have the political power it needs to implement rules with the kind of strength activists want and the science demands. The success of EPA rules absent Congressional action would depend on the politics of whatever administration is in power.