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Florida wading birds: Cold and hungryThousands of wading birds have foregone nesting this year throughout the northern Everglades, South Florida Water Management District senior scientist Mark Cook said.
“Perhaps they’re just too hungry to be sitting on their nests,” he said.
Nest surveyors counted 4,670 nests in the northern Everglades this past week compared to more than 41,000 nests last year, a record-setting flush of feathers.
Cook suggests that at the same time the cold weather sapped the birds’ energy, high water levels spread their fish prey across a larger area, making it more difficult to find food.
[Were these letters from "believers"?] - The Frederick News-Post OnlineOn March 12, we received two identical letters about global warming that were signed by different readers.
We don't print form letters because they are not original work. We want our readers to voice their own opinions in their own words, not pass along the prepackaged thoughts of someone else with their names attached to them.
AccuWeather.com - Weather News | Feet of Snow Expected in Mountains of CaliforniaA late-season storm system will bring heavy snow and high winds to the mountains of California Sunday into Monday, rendering travel nearly impossible in some areas. Some elevations over 5,000 feet will pick up several feet of snow by the end of the day Monday.
Africa – The Islands « Musings from the ChiefioI just can’t see a way for a globally diffuse effect to manifest in all these different profiles. Things sitting in the same bathtub ought to be the same. Unless, of course, you are measuring local site issues and not climate….
Interior Unveils First Departmental Open Government PlanInterior’s flagship initiative, for example, will be in the area of improving access to climate change information. This initiative will identify, organize, publish, and promote the use of hard science and data associated with natural resources management.
Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Fox News believes global warming will be catastrophicRupert, CEO of News Corporation, Fox’s parent company released a statement in 2007, that News Corp. was positioned to lead by example on reducing its carbon footprint and use its operation to “reach our audience” on the perils of global warming.
[January 2010]: Media ownership and the Rupert Murdoch tipping point? « JoNovaToday Quadrant magazine reports what many of us have been speculating behind the scenes: Murdoch has realized the IPCC and the “consensus” are fake.
Sarah Palin storms ‘beauty contest’ - Times OnlinePalin’s allure to a new generation of conservative women — not to mention the pistolpacking rednecks who also adore her — might be severely tarnished should she lead her party to defeat against Obama.
But she was on terrific form in New Orleans. She ridiculed Democrats as the “snake-oil-based, global warming, Gore-gate crowd” and announced that her favourite bumper sticker opposing Obama’s healthcare legislation was: “Don’t retreat. Reload.”
Green takes backseat during downturn The economic crunch has caused many Canadians to cut back on conservation and tune out Earth Hour, recent studies suggest. [How do we know that the economy is the cause?]
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Environmental concern has dropped ever since the recession began, Simpson said, and these surveys reflect that fact. About 27 per cent of Canadians rated the environment as their top concern in 2007, he noted, but that dropped to 14 per cent last year when the recession kicked in.
Don't tell the voters we face bankruptcy - Booker - TelegraphA final huge shadow which will barely be discussed at this election, because the main parties are all but unanimous on it, is the way our politics has become permeated by everything which can be related to global warming, from soaring taxes to the propaganda dished out in our schools, from the wishful thinking that we can spend £100 billion on building thousands more useless wind turbines, to the disastrous distortion of our national energy policy by the "green" obsessions of both the EU and our own political class, which threaten within a few years to turn Britain's lights out.
Global Warming: Two Photos That Prove It's a Scam...the entire concept is a shameless scam designed to -- surprise! -- redistribute wealth.
The satellite photos tell us everything we need to know.
Video: Palin’s Anti-Science Word Salad - Charles Johnson - The Lizard Annex - True/SlantThe scientists of the CRU have been vindicated by two independent investigations now. But cynical, stupid people like Sarah Palin are still lying about it, and pumping up the GOP base with nonsense they know is not true.
The GOP is indeed the “Party of Saying No to Reality.”
Here’s Palin serving up her childish, dishonest word salad to a star-struck audience.
Climate change scientists turn to Inuits for research | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkThe Inuits, located in and near the Arctic, explained to Weatherhead and co-author Shari Gearheard that there are unexplained changes in weather patterns. The natural time scale to a weather event is becoming more erratic. In other words, it could be cold one day, and warm the next – as opposed to usual three weeks of warm weather. Canadian Inuit tribes have noticed that their traditional forecasting measures are becoming less accurate. Inuits believe this is because the weather has become erratic.
Giving up climate treaty may unblock U.N. deal | Reuters(Reuters) - The prospect of a global climate treaty is fading as the world's top two carbon emitters, China and the United States, avoid legally binding action. Experts say a shift to a less ambitious goal might help.
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One senior developing country delegate accepted privately that the U.N. process may never agree a legal pact.
Cloud Start-Up Tackles UK Climate Change | SYS-CON AUSTRALIALondon, 9th April 2010 - Today sees the launch of CloudApps, Europe's first enterprise application vendor focused on climate change regulatory compliance and the management of carbon as a business asset. The company researched the market for 18 months, before piloting solutions based on customer feedback. It is now set to revolutionise the way companies across the planet proactively deal with their environmental impact.
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Globally, the carbon management market is independently estimated to be worth $380 million last year and to be growing at some 40% per year until 2017.
U.S., Denmark cut climate aid after summit: Bolivia | Green Business | ReutersBONN, Germany (Reuters) - Bolivia accused the United States and Denmark on Saturday of cutting aid to the South American country as punishment for its fierce opposition to the Copenhagen Accord for fighting global warming.
Flashback: Hillary Clinton In Copenhagen: US Ready To Join $100 Billion Climate Finance DealCOPENHAGEN — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the United States is prepared to join other rich countries in raising $100 billion in yearly climate financing for poor countries by 2020.
No Frakking Consensus: Poll: How Many Non-Peer-Reviewed References?This coming week, I'll be releasing the results of a crowd-sourcing project involving 40+ people from 12 countries. Together we've examined all 18,531 references in the 2007 IPCC report and calculated the percentage that appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals.
This poll is a version of the "how many jellybeans in the jar" game. Please feel free to supply your own answer to the question: How many 2007 IPCC report references are not peer-reviewed?
C3: To U.N. Climate Representatives In Bonn: No One Believes The Bullsh*t Any Longer - Go Home, PleaseUnfortunately for the U.N., their non-scientific claims that modern world temperatures are accelerating and that temperatures are unprecedented have proven decisively to be "unprecedented and accelerating" bullsh*t.
Video/Photo of Randy’s Right @ Al Gore Protest at Duke University « Randy’s RightFor the student who said I had no honor because I was leaving after 3 hours and did not stay to answer more of his questions: Remember my words: Al Gore did not answer any questions and I answered your questions for over ten minutes. Under your own definition, he has less honor than I have but you would defend him and his documented lies. Also, thank you for pointing out that my opinion does not matter and your opinion does because you are a student of Duke University. Really?
The Illusion of a Sensitive Climate System: A Stovetop Demonstration « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.Researchers up to this point have been trying to diagnose climate sensitivity from observations of natural climate variations based upon a false assumption.
Seraphic wingnuts brighten Bonn | The SPPI BlogHere in Bonn, where the architecture and the ambience are famously boring, we had rather hoped that the proceedings of the UN’s Climate and World Government Conference would be livened by the antics of the Traffic-Light Tendency – the Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds.
But where are all the protesters? Where are the screeching crowds of badly-dressed enviro-zombies? The row of just a dozen tables for “Non-Governmental Organizations” – UN-speak for pressure-groups – was largely empty.
UN chief says "time to deliver" on climate change (AFP) | Yahoo! GreenVIENNA (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for more political will to tackle climate change and urged Israel once again to freeze settlements to revive Middle East peace talks, in an interview with AFP Saturday.
After a disastrous summit in Copenhagen in December, where states failed to agree on a deadline to reduce carbon emissions that cause global warming, a legally-binding agreement on climate change still appeared far off.
"I take climate change as a high priority... (but) when we will be able to have this legally-binding treaty, that depends on the political will of the member states," Ban told AFP in his plush suite at Vienna's Hotel Sacher.
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The UN chief insisted: "The Copenhagen summit was a success in mobilising political will. The problem... was there was a clear lack of transparency, of full confidence and trust among the member states."
A Look at the Australian Climate Network: Cairns - Making Numbers Work For YouOnce again, Cairns Airport demonstrates the problem of cherry picking "data" to support a narrative. Two more representative rural weather stations in this district (Innisfail and Cardwell) - both with much longer data histories - have been passed over, presumably because they support the wrong narrative. Instead, a station which is located at one of Australia's fastest-growing airports, in one of its fastest-growing regional centres - has been selected. Again, presumably because it provides some support for the politically correct narrative.
SGW (Rocket Scientist's Journal)THE FINGERPRINT OF THE SUN IS ON EARTH'S 160 YEAR TEMPERATURE RECORD,
CONTRADICTING IPCC CONCLUSIONS, FINGERPRINTING, & AGW
SOLAR GLOBAL WARMING
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD
[Kenyon College attempts to prevent bad weather by prohibiting cafeteria trays one day a week]What the College has done is institute "Trayless Tuesdays" - a prohibition on cafeteria trays that will be in effect every Tuesday until our eco-battle has been won, one tray at a time.
The Reference Frame: Ocean acidification: a non-problemTo summarize, I am 99.99% certain that there is no problem of "ocean acidification" worth talking about. Every year, the average pH is changing by 0.002 or so. No single organism with lifetime comparable to human life or shorter can possibly detect the change. Only the systems - coral reefs - that live for a longer time need to be watched. But there are good reasons to be certain that the slight drop of pH has no significant negative impact on them, either.
The Science Fiction Of Global Warming -- Signs of the Times NewsIn any case the scientific manipulation and outright lies from our scientific so called experts is taking on a more desperate note these days when it comes to trying to convince the masses of their science fiction. The desperation now will come in the form of satellite information they hope to provide proof with but since they simply cannot prove the existence of a problem (because there isn't one) we will continue to be provided information from corrupted computer simulations rather than concrete proof. This due to the fact that they cannot provide physical evidence.
[It's a quagmire]: UN process under fire at climate change talks - TelegraphClimate change negotiations remain in the mire after the first meeting since Copenhagen showed rich and poor countries are still not ready to trust each other.
Turlock Journal - Climate change science more certain than everA recent report, "The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science," documents how, over the past two years, many uncertainties regarding climate change have been resolved, observed trends in climate have continued unabated, and the basis for attributing them to human causes has only strengthened.
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Anthony L. Westerling is an associate professor of environmental engineering and geography at the University of California, Merced
Gaia’s a DenierAlberta’s Climate Change Strategy made sense when the facts and the budget supported it. No longer
NC Media Watch: Energy cost the kiss of death to the economy?If we can all agree that higher energy costs have and economic impacts, then we can also assume that if AB32 regulations drive up fuel and energy cost, there will be an economic impact. If one is true the other has to be true as well. You cannot have it both ways?
American Thinker: How Much Risk is Too Much?With the addition of the mercury containing CFLs into our homes and offices, the cumulative risk, or probability of harm to human health has increased, as a result of actions taken to address alleged man-induced global warming. In this example, it is clear that the Precautionary Principle is being used by environmental activists to manipulate social and economic activity. On one hand, CFL light bulbs for in-home use are mandated and are a clearly unacceptable risk activity, while on the other hand the vast uncertainty over man-induced global warming is accepted and used as the basis to cause the unacceptable potential risk exposure to toxic mercury.
Lawrence Solomon: The new climate game - FP Comment...Today, decades later, the climate science establishment is still whacking away, faster and more frenetically than ever, as more and more skeptical scientists, journalists and politicians surface. And now there’s a new species of skeptic in need of whacking down — the many inquiries that have sprung up in the wake of Climategate, the unauthorized release of some 3,000 documents from the computers of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University showing that data had been manipulated and destroyed.
- Bishop Hill blog - A chat with Graham StringerIt is not that Jones has been found innocent; on many of the charges he just hasn't been tried yet.
Concord Monitor - Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter leads on climate change [scam]A couple of years ago Congressman Ed Markey held a Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming hearing atop Cannon Mountain. Some memorable testimony came from hunters who say they see ticks much longer into the autumn than previously, and that moose suffer more from ticks and blood loss, because our weather has warmed. Evidence is more bloodied trees where moose have tried to scrape off ticks no longer terminated by reliably-arrived cold. Further, the moose they like to hunt are being driven by our warmer New Hampshire weather into Canada. We also heard from fishermen and syrup boilers. All reported seeing disturbing change.
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My ecologist daughter Geneva often reminds me we need to phrase it "global climate change." Temperature gone warmer in one place may provoke temperature gone colder in another. Precipitation can be more or less, and of changed frequency or duration per storm. We've seen that in New Hampshire last year and this.
Orchards fight frost | OregonLuis Balero, superintendent at Associated Fruit Orchard, said the full complement of heaters and fans was deployed across 1,400 acres of pears in the early morning hours Friday, but it wasn't enough to keep the temperature above freezing.
"We worked and worked and worked, but we could only hold 27 (degrees)," Balero said. "We started lighting every heater at about 2 a.m. and they were running all night, until the sun came up."
Balero said Associated Fruit has about 3,500 heaters for its orchards, and each heater burns a gallon of diesel fuel per hour. He said it's expensive — and rare — for an orchard to use that many heaters during one night, but Thursday was one of those nights when it was necessary.
"It was one of the coldest nights I've seen in five years," Balero said.
Veteran orchardist Ron Meyer said the overnight frost was the coldest since 1972, when the valley's pear crop suffered extensive damage after the temperature plunged to 18 degrees.
Lamb prices shoot up after sheep shortage - TelegraphThese difficulties have come to a head this winter, which thanks to the heaviest snow in 30 years has produced poor quality grass in many areas, meaning some lambs have not survived.
Slickers inspect slick | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogI’m not sure what’s worse - that we’re led by such pretenders, or that such pretences actually work.
Weekly Address Watch: For the thirty-seventh time in thirty-nine weeks, The First Green President ignores global warming...we’re tightening Washington’s belt by cutting programs that don’t work, contracts that aren’t fair, and spending we don’t need. And that’s why I’ve proposed a freeze on discretionary spending, signed a law that restores the pay-as-you-go principle that helped produce the surpluses of the 1990s, and created a bipartisan, independent commission to help solve our fiscal crisis and close the deficits that have been growing for a decade. Because I refuse to leave our problems to the next generation.
"Science" Friday’s One Sided Global Warming Debate — My Permanent RecordAs I listened this afternoon I steamed. The topic was “Weathercasters and Climate Change.” The panel was Ira and three proponents of the theory that links humans to global warming. There were no on-camera/on-mic meteorologists. No skeptics! Only adherents.
This was the equivalent of inviting Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo to debate whether Churchill was a statesman!
Hello? Where’s the balance?
L.A.'s Global Warning - WSJ.comWhat's really holding the city hostage is the state's global warming law and the mayor's green energy agenda, which includes boosting renewables to 40% of the city's energy portfolio by 2020. The state's renewable goal is 33%. The mayor says the city could face hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if it doesn't comply with the state's numerous renewable energy and carbon reduction mandates. But of course complying with these mandates means a sharp increase in energy prices, as Los Angeles residents are now discovering.
L.A.'s predicament is merely a preview of what municipalities across California have to look forward to as the state's renewable energy mandates begin to bite. It's also a cautionary tale for states that want to emulate California's global warming law. Little wonder a popular revolt is building against the state's carbon dictates. A repeal referendum may make it on the ballot in November.
A timely reminder from Polly Toynbee's greatest fan of the Vichy Tories' record on AGW laws – Telegraph BlogsI feel sure we would all like to thank the Cameronian Party for that pro-active record on AGW crusading and the further impositions it has planned for us. The appropriate date for expressing our gratitude is Thursday, 6 May.
Letters: Polite request for scientific data | Science | The GuardianIt's true that most data sets contain a huge amount of value-added from the researchers who have "cleaned" the data (removing obviously incorrect values, filling in gaps, smoothing implausible discontinuities etc) and have constructed new variables. But the collection of the source data is taxpayer-supported. And the public consequences of making a mistake with the data are huge. So scientists are weakening the peer review process they think is such a "crap shoot" by denying others access.
A Banner Year for [the wind power scam] - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comA record 10,010 megawatts of new wind capacity was installed in the United States last year, accounting for 39 percent of new electrical generation, the American Wind Energy Association said in its annual report.
That raises the nation’s total wind energy capacity to more than 35,000 megawatts, or enough electricity to keep the lights on in 9.7 million homes. “Over the past five years, wind power and other renewable energy technologies, combined with natural gas, have provided over 90 percent of all new generating capacity in the U.S.,” the report’s authors stated.
Wind Power Has Been OversoldOver the past decade, California’s 1,500 MW of windmills have averaged 25 percent of their ‘nameplate’ capacity. During peak summer demand it was only 9 percent. Germany has found its windmills producing only 6 percent of its installed capacity. (3)
Wind and solar-generated electricity already enjoy subsidies nearly 50 times higher per unit of energy than ordinary coal and 100 times higher than natural gas. (5) The Royal Academy of engineering in the UK in 2004 estimated that the cost of wind power is two-and-a-half times the cost of other forms of electricity. (6) Guess who pays for all the subsidies and inefficiencies? Denmark, touted for its lead in wind turbines, has the highest electric rates of any industrialized nation, an average of about $.38 per kWh compared to $.08 in the US. (7)
Africa – North Africa Graphs « Musings from the ChiefioWell, I just don’t see how CO2 could lay around being all lazy like until 1991 in most of the countries, then suddenly have an epiphany and start working ‘double time’. Especially when right next door other countries are cooling (but surrounded on all sides by “warming” air masses) and the West Coast gets “Sticked” in the ’70s while the East gets it in the ’90s. ( I hate getting it in the ’90s… )
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But it is all very easily explained by “instrument and process issues”.
Eco-racketeering, a business with a future | Presseurop - EnglishThe arrest of an environmental activist who demanded money to withdraw his opposition to real estate projects has lifted the veil on a new type of blackmail, which writer Ivan Brezina maintains pales in comparison with the stock and trade of major public figures in the environmental movement.
The Looming ‘Energy’-Bill Fight - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online[Video] I had a good time on Fox Business Channel the other night addressing the audacity of the Democrats and Lindsey Graham's combined effort to add a gas tax to their light-switch tax, thinking they can reap sufficient wealth to spread around, buying off enough constituencies to drag their energy-rationing scheme over the finish line (as with health care) before voters get their chance to weigh in on the effort to "fundamentally transform America."
Virginia: Boucher Has Nearly $2 Million - The Eye (CQ Politics)Republicans are targeting Boucher in part because his southwestern Virginia district has a strong conservative lean on cultural issues and also because of his vote last year for a climate change bill that included a "cap and trade" system to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Sarah Palin Fires Back at Obama, Mocks His "Experience" on Nuclear Issues - Political Hotsheet - CBS NewsThe former Alaska governor, reading from prepared remarks, deemed the Environmental Protection Agency the "economic punishment agency" for claiming a role to regulate carbon emissions. She said the Obama administration's nuclear policy was " a lot of smoke and mirrors" because it was difficult to actually build a nuclear facility.
Palin also said global warming skeptics were "a little bit vindicated" by revelations that "there was some snake oil science" going on in climate change research, deeming the situation "Goregate."
Joanna Dafoe | Let's Get to Work, CanadaThe atmosphere here in Bonn could not be more different from Copenhagen. There is a small NGO presence, and only three (3) Canadians.
I do not think that our smaller numbers indicate a loss of interest.
UN rifts exposed after Copenhagen setbackDivisions and finger-pointing on Friday marred the first day of talks here aimed at reviving the UN process for climate change after the bitterly-fought Copenhagen Summit.
Countries in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) split over whether the breach-birth compromise forged in Copenhagen last December amounted to progress or failure and squabbled over how to plot the steps ahead.
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The United States on Friday praised the [Copenhagen Accord] as the springboard to the future.
Delegation chief Jonathan Pershing hailed the accord as "a significant milestone... a remarkable breakthrough" that should not be sidelined or diminished.
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"We already have a very good basis for work," Chinese delegate Su Wei said, pointing to a draft drawn up over the two years before Copenhagen but ultimately placed on hold as it failed to resolve a logjam of issues.
The US representative was scathing.
"After two years we gave our leaders more than 100 pages of brackets," said Pershing, referring to the use of parentheses to denote disputed text.
Washington County coal plant gets green light | Fresh LoafWhen everyone’s talking about climate change legislation and nuclear power, six Georgia EMCs are charging ahead in a dash to build the state’s first coal plant in 20 years.
Climate Change Fraud - John Kerry to developing countries: Not In Your Backyard, Either!Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., issued a statement Friday critical of the World Bank's decision to approve a $3.75 billion loan to South Africa's Eskom Holdings to help build one of the world's largest coal-fired power plants.
"The Eskom project and America's decision to abstain must mark the end of the era of abundant international subsidies for dirty coal-fired power plants," Kerry said.
Climate Policy: If you don't like Copenhagen, try Asilomar | ScienceBlog.comBy the time the evidence reaches the point that the public will no longer be persuadable by denialists, it may be too late to reverse the trends.
US denies climate aid to countries opposing Copenhagen accord | Environment | guardian.co.ukBolivia and Ecuador will be denied aid after both opposed the accord
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The US State Department is denying climate change assistance to countries opposing the Copenhagen accord, it emerged today.
The new policy, first reported by The Washington Post, suggests the Obama administration is ready to play hardball, using aid as well as diplomacy, to bring developing countries into conformity with its efforts to reach an international deal to tackle global warming.
WKMS: How [carbon dioxide will cause poison ivy and wood ticks to attack your children]DOVER, TN (wkms) - A National Wildlife Federation report finds climate change will impact two notoriously unpopular species found in the Four Rivers Region. Both poison ivy and deer ticks can leave you itching for relief, but for some the reaction can be much more serious. Chris Taylor speaks to one man about his experience contracting Lyme Disease and gets some scientific perspective for what's on the horizon.
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National Wildlife Federation Senior Scientist Dr. Doug Inkley says cases like Keel's will likely increase in our area over this century. He says climate change is making for more mild winters and warmer conditions which are ideal for the parasite.
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Inkley-Poison ivy, in the future, is going to grow much more rapidly than it is now; perhaps twice as rapidly.
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Inkley- If you have a two or three year old child, you can expect that before their life is over, they're going to be looking at these impacts if we don't address climate change.
Al Fin: Caution: Glaciation In ProgressTime to abandon carbon hysteria? Only if you are intelligent and honest. If you owe your livelihood to the alarmist orthodoxy of climate catastrophe, you may feel obligated to maintain the pretense a bit longer -- until retirement, or the kids get through college, or some other arbitrary guidepost allowing a reversion to honesty.
NOAA enforcement chief accused of shredding documents removed from post | SouthCoastToday.comNEW BEDFORD — The chief of law enforcement for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been removed from his job after allegations of document shredding during an investigation by the Commerce Department’s inspector general, according to an aide to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Observations of a Skiing Actuary – Part 2 « Digital DiatribesI asked Tony, based on his experience and observation, what are his main conclusions. The following is his response:
1 – No trend in snowfall over the past 35-40 years in North American ski areas despite rising temperatures during most of that period...
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Collapse: Democratic favorables hit 18-year low in GallupIn this case, “18-year low” is a synonym for “all-time low” since they didn’t track the numbers before 1992.
A Bad Idea that Won’t Die « the Air VentThey are charlatans too, not because they don’t believe every piece of wildly exaggerated and even fabricated evidence presented by the IPCC, but because they don’t give one single iota of a care about a real solution. They want your money, they want control over how you use it, and they want it to improve their own personal small minded, hubris filled, narcissistic existences.
Moby's beef with Obama's bacon bit | Washington ExaminerHe even dared take on fellow liberal Al Gore.
"I asked him why ... he wrote a book about an inconvenient truth, he doesn't mention animal production," Moby said, "... and his answer was really honest, because it's too inconvenient of a truth for most people."
[Jobs, jobs, jobs: maybe later]: Oil and gas leases put on hold in Mont., DakotasBILLINGS, Mont. -- Federal land managers are suspending an April 13 sale of 91,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana and the Dakotas until they can study how oil field activities contribute to climate change.
A Sneak Attack on NYC’s Electric Bill | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.The decision to deny Indian Point its water-quality certificate is a bid to close the plant down — possibly with an eye on then shuttering other nuclear plants with similar cooling systems across the state or even nationwide.
This isn’t state bureaucrats doing their job — it’s an ideologically-driven move that could cost New York a vital source of clean, affordable energy.
Al Fin: Planet Earth Barely Notices Effect of Anthropogenic CO2There was five times as much CO2 in the air during dinosaur years as now, and twenty times as much before that [AF: When most plants evolved].....oceans continuously absorb CO2 and tie it up as calcium carbonate and limestone. There is now too little CO2 in the atmosphere for good plant growth (385 parts per million). Humans are slightly correcting the problem. Greenhouse operators often add three times as much CO2 to the air to improve plant growth. _ClimateBasics
EU Referendum: Go for coal (updated 2)You can see why the greenies are so upset. The plant will add potentially 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere over term - about three times the total UK annual emissions from power stations, motor vehicles and homes. It effectively makes a nonsense of our attempts to cut our emissions, especially when India is planning six of these units, dwarfing any UK reductions.
Global Warming's To Blame For Yeti And Other MonstersIt’s the easiest, laziest explanation for a cryptid sighting. It’s just some creature with mange! No matter what it might be, it’s just some critter with mange. The Oriental Yeti is a civet cat with mange. The chupacabra is a mangy dog. The other chupacabra is a bald raccoon. Whatever your monster, it’s just creature X with mange. While it’s a convenient excuse, it might also be true: mange is on the rise all around the world.
Mike Bowdenchuck, state director for Texas Wildlife Services, sees a lot of mangy critters. Mange is a parasitic skin infection caused by mites that results in sores and hairlessness. Here’s the key difference, and where global warming comes into play.
“Down here, animals don’t die of mange, because the temperatures are warm enough,” Bowdenchuck said. Mange is very common in colder areas, in fact wolves are getting it in Montana right now, and in North Dakota foxes get it. Up there it’s fatal, so you never see animals with the severe cases that we see in the southern climates, because they don’t live long enough for the mites to get that bad to cause the hair to fall off. They die of hypothermia first.”
Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America | CEIChristopher C. Horner, author of Red Hot Lies, has a new book coming out Monday, April 19, from Regnery Publishing. Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America is an exposé of the Green Movement’s rise to political power and the frightening consequences of Obama’s Green-friendly energy mandates. Horner reveals who in Washington is driving this expansion of environmentalist policy and analyzes how new restrictions will harm economic recovery and development in America.
John Muir legacy lives onIn 2005 the Sierra Club made the fight against global warming its number one priority and that commitment is now reflected at the highest levels of the US Government.
[The Scarlet C?]: Ten green sex sins that can sabotage your love life - Yahoo! NewsSin: Courting by car
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Climate change is the last thing you want to think about in the heat of the moment. [How about climate realism?]
Bonn or bust – The UN’s last, desperate bid for unelected world government | The SPPI BlogThis emergency conference, called by the UN’s bureaucrats because they were terrified that Cancun this December might fail as spectacularly as Copenhagen did last year, is a much quieter affair than Copenhagen. Not only has the air of triumphalism gone, after the scandals of Climategate, Himalayagate, Amazongate and so forth, but the belief that “global warming” is a global crisis has largely gone too.
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The only reason for the UN’s sense of urgency – a panic no longer felt by the majority of the delegates here – is that the bureaucrats know the game is up. Opinion polls throughout the free world show that no one now believes a word of the climate extremists’ nonsense any more. If they can’t get a binding treaty this year, they won’t get one at all, and they know it.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: More on the World Bank South Africa Coal Plant DecisionAccording to Reuters, the US, UK and the Netherlands all abstained from lending their support for the new power plant. Hand any of these countries explicitly opposed the decision, it would not have gone forward. So an abstention in the context of no other opposition works out as a "yes" vote in practice.
The EPA Is Running a Film Contest? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineFaces of the Grassroots: Environmental Justice Video Contest
In the mood for changeThis week, a survey of 206 Tory candidates in winnable seats conducted by the Financial Times revealed there is substance to this anxiety and Cameron may face the same level of internal dissent on key policy issues as did Malcolm Turnbull. Only a handful of his MPs unequivocally supported the notion global warming is caused by human activity and few agreed with the shadow chancellor's pledge to come down hard on bankers' bonuses.
Eco-centre sets sights on carbon-free Britain"We are saying 100 percent by 2030," CAT researcher Alex Randall told Reuters at the tourist attraction and research centre on the southern tip of Snowdonia National Park.
[Warmist visits Arctic; discovers that it's tremendously freakin' cold up there]I was nervous about the fieldwork and how I would cope in the cold temperatures (averaging around -30 to -35 °C at this time of year)
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The night we stayed out the temperature was around -37 °C and despite three sleeping bags, a couple of sleeping mats and going to bed in thermals and fleeces it still felt cold. In the morning we woke to find ice around our faces on the sleeping bag and on the inside of the tent roof – moisture from our breathing had frozen in the cold temperatures! [If you've ever actually spent some time in a tent in seriously cold weather, this should *not* be a surprise.]
...The skidoo like many mechanical and digital systems did not like the extreme cold and broke down and it chose to do so on the day a storm developed whilst we were at the sample site. We ended up having to return to camp during the storm on foot. The temperature at the ice base had been around -25 to -40 °C for our first week in camp but the night of the storm, with winds gusting up to 60 mph, temperatures that night reached below -60 °C with wind chill.
Update: Cloud Forcing Paper Finally Accepted to JGR « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.What I find fascinating is that, after outright rejection of the paper by reviewers, we had to go back to the very basics in order to convince reviewers of what we were saying, and take them through the whole issue of forcing-versus-feedback one step at a time.
ERIC BAERREN: Nuclear power and free markets A skeptic is not someone who approaches the issue assuming their already-held position is the correct one, which is the case of virtually every climate "skeptic," [how does Eric know this?] but someone who looks at the evidence and concludes that the evidence isn't terribly convincing.
Obscure state regulator leads national climate change [hoax] chargeMost Americans don't know it, but, unless the nation's governors take a stand, the country's private sector could soon be pressured and sued into adopting a wide array of climate-change policies, such as fossil fuel emission standards, otherwise known as carbon caps, even though the principal legislative vehicle for them - the Obama administration's so-called cap-and-trade bill - is laying on its Congressional death bed.
Most Wisconsinites don't know it, but one of the main driving forces nationally behind this end-run around elected officials is none other than a Wisconsin bureaucrat, and a little-known one at that: Sean Dilweg, who occupies the rather obscure post of state insurance commissioner.
European Union Climate Commissioner not in favor of Carbon taxNew Delhi, Apr 9 (ANI): European Union, which is not in favor of Carbon Tax mooted recently by the European Commission and advocated by French President Nicholas Sarkozy, today favoured “cap and trade system” for emission cuts”.
Siebel, Condi Rice-Backed Carbon [Scam] Startup C3 Ups FundsIt’s probably not too hard for carbon-focused startup C3 to raise funds. Despite the fact that the company is in stealth and hasn’t released a product or game plan, it was started by Thomas Siebel — the guy who sold Siebel Systems to Oracle for billions of dollars — and counts former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Senator and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham as directors. (You know about as much as I do about how this group came together on this project). Well, according to an SEC filing, C3 is looking to up its funding by around $4 million to a total of $30 million.
TG-635: Treasury Department Statement on the U.S. Position on the World Bank’s Eskom Investment Support ProjectToday, the United States abstained on the vote by the World Bank's Board of Directors on the Eskom Investment Support Project. This reflects concerns about the climate impact of the project and its incompatibility with the World Bank's commitment to be a leader in climate change mitigation and adaptation. At the same time, the United States recognizes South Africa's pressing energy needs and the lack of near-term feasible low-carbon alternatives.
Yale Divinity School-Environmental Dislocationsa conference with religious imagination exploring environmental justice and climate change
April 8-10, 2010 at Yale University
Snow storms cost $28.2M in Ohio damages The winter storms that blanketed most of Ohio in February caused a substantial amount of damage to Ohio property, resulting in thousands of winter-storm related insurance claims.
Snow and cold but sunny weekend aheadWe went to bed last night with the slight threat of some snowflakes in Seattle and woke Friday morning to a continuing winter storm warning in the Cascades.
The mountains could get 2 to 4 more inches of snow by noon, That would mean as much as 30 inches has fallen in the last couple of days.
Con: Earth is never in equilibrium - Richard Lindzen -- GazetteXtraTo a significant extent, the issue of climate change revolves around the elevation of the commonplace to the ancient level of ominous omen. In a world where climate change has always been the norm, climate change is now taken as punishment for sinful levels of consumption. In a world where we experience temperature changes of tens of degrees in a single day, we treat changes of a few tenths of a degree in some statistical residue, known as the global mean temperature anomaly (GATA), as portents of disaster.
Goldman’s Nicholas Said to Leave Environmental Commodities Unit - BusinessWeekApril 8 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s head of environmental commodities including carbon emissions, Gerrit Nicholas, has left the firm, according to a bank official briefed on the decision.
BBC News - UN climate talks to resume amid fear of more divisionsSome delegates are concerned that the whole process could collapse, given the divisions and lack of trust.
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"There's considerable uncertainty about whether there is going to be a US domestic bill that follows through on the president's 17% commitment," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
"[The administration is] very sceptical about the ability to get a full-blown legal deal that replaces the Kyoto Protocol or builds on it, given the state of play back home."
As to whether growing scepticism about the science of climate change - evidenced in some US opinion polls - was slowing the legislative process, Mr Meyer suggested it was not.
"The manufactured debate over the science is in our view just an excuse for [opposing senators] not to do what they weren't going to do anyway," he said.
Climate Common Sense: Car Indulgences for Sale in Queensland - SUV Sinners Saved!I have just received an email from the Queensland Climate Smart crew saying that for a meagre $60.00 my vehicle emission sins would be forgiven and I could sleep with a clear conscience.
American Thinker: The Scientific Socialism of TodayFor liberals, the solution is a simple as it is obvious: Eliminate all the alternatives. Entice, if possible, and force, if necessary, the American people to cross the bridge, and then burn it behind them.
American Thinker: The Naked LeftSeldom has the Naked Left been more exposed that in the myth of man-made global warming. As Marc Sheppard observes, the so-called science of man-made global warming has been hopelessly manipulated to reach preordained conclusions. Hiding something as huge as the Medieval Warming Period through the scientific equivalent of three card Monte shows that the emperors of bureaucratic "science" have no clothes.
Alternative Energy Sources For Schools in Fighting Global Warming | Education TidBitsIn an effort to answer energy crisis through out the world, there are many programs and innovations that are being proposed to stop the use of fossil fuels as an energy source and taking a look at renewable energy source such as solar, wind, and bio fuels. Now universities from all over the world are turning into engineers who can take advantage of such free energy sources to save on electricity in school operations.
Arctic Ice Expanding, Not RetreatingAt last December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, former Vice President Al Gore shrilly proclaimed that “The entire polar ice cap ... could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years.” As implausible as Gore’s claim already was at the time, recent developments in the arctic have only served to make the fear of an ice-free polar zone all the more absurd.
Ice missions to measure climate change takes off - TelegraphThe film The Day After Tomorrow imagined that the melting of the polar ice caps would cause a second ice age by reversing the gulf stream.
[Duncan Wingham, a climate physicist at University College London] said that scenario was "silly" but the satellite will give scientists a better idea of how fast Polar ice is melting, which can affect weather systems around the world, including in the UK.
Climate change deal could take another year - TelegraphYvo de Boer, head of the UN body in charge of negotiations, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), doubted a legally binding deal would be reached in 2010. He expected the best outcome from Mexico would be if countries agree the basic architecture "so that a year later, you can decide or not decide to turn that into a treaty". The 2011 meeting is in South Africa.
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The meeting may also throw up more information on who will replace Mr de Boer when he leaves the post later this year. Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, will choose the best person for the post - that could be upgraded to Under Secretary General of the UN in order to give it more status and power.
BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Bonn voyage for Copenhagen bus..some perceive a mud-splattered Rolls-Royce that can still be restored to its proper glories, others see only a broken down rustbucket that they'll pull on one last journey to the knackers yard.
C3: Will The U.S. Ever Warm? Past 12 Years Has U.S. Cooling At -6.60°F Per Century RateOf course it will warm again, but the decade-long plus global cooling trend has not abated. With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would also be cooling if they also had the level of temperature measuring coverage that the U.S. has.
“More and more concerned about our statement” « Climate AuditIn today’a post, I’m going to discuss a July 31, 2006 (725. 1154353922.txt) email from IPCC Lead Author Olga Solomina who sent the following email to Overpeck expressing “more and more concern” about the IPCC statement that “the Early Holocene was cool in the tropics” – an assertion that was critical to Overpeck’s “mortal blow” project
[Interesting stuff from a self-described "radical" biologist who was an IPCC lead author] | The University of Texas at Austin[Camille] Parmesan, an associate professor of integrative biology, wasn't cynical at all when she first got involved, in the mid-1990s, with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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"One reason why I'm more radical than a lot of conservation biologists is that I work on species sensitive to climate change," she says.
"In terms of actual reduction of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, what had happened?" says Parmesan, who was one of the lead authors of the Third Assessment. "Very little. At the same time, the amount of greenhouse gases being emitted just kept going up and up and up. In fact, we kept exceeding our predictions. It radicalized me."
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Parmesan also held on to some residual hope that the public would begin to take the threat of warming seriously, particularly in reaction to the increase in dramatic weather events.
"I thought that the 2003 heat wave in Europe, followed by hurricanes Rita and Katrina, would change the mind of the American public," she says. "It seemed like for a few months it did, and then that consciousness just went away again."
Actress Joanna Lumley speaks out on climate change scientists' errors – Telegraph BlogsShe was, as you can imagine, troubled about recent stories highlighting inaccuracies in certain claims made by some climate change scientists – but they evidently haven’t shaken her convictions that man is “a bit of a plague” on the planet. Here are her thoughts.
Climate change: Key influencers in the debate - TelegraphClimate change remains the most divisive issue of our age. As countries prepare to meet for the latest round of international talks to stop global warming, who are the key people influencing the debate?
Gore urges action by all on climate - Politics - NewsObserver.com"Not only is this a political issue, not only is this a market issue, not only is this a national security issue, a jobs issue; it is a moral issue," [Gore] said.
Some student groups registered to protest Gore's appearance at Duke, and one conservative group announced a protest. Few protesters were evident, however, outside Page Auditorium where he spoke. Tim Lucas, a marketing manager in the Duke communications office, said the number registered was comparable to protests usually staged for prominent guests.
An Inconvenient Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAfter winning the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, the Oscar was awarded to director Guggenheim, who asked Gore to join him and other members of the crew on stage. Gore then gave a brief speech, saying:
My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue; it's a moral issue.
What Your TV Is Telling You to Do - WSJ.comNBC Universal's Shows Are Sending Viewers Signals to Recycle, Exercise and Eat Right. Why?
...NBC Universal planted these eco-friendly elements into scripted television shows to influence viewers and help sell ads.
The tactic—General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal calls it "behavior placement"—is designed to sway viewers to adopt actions they see modeled in their favorite shows. And it helps sell ads to marketers who want to associate their brands with a feel-good, socially aware show.
Where is the fuss over the UN climate talks? Today, one of the most important meetings in our history begins, though you probably wouldn't know it.
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National Academies of Science from the US, UK, Australia, India, China and others, have confirmed that climate change science is as settled as it gets — as certain as the science linking smoking to lung cancer and HIV to AIDS. Climate change a reality that's already affecting Australia and the rest of the world.
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Ellen Sandell is the general manager of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.
Boyer returns to talk about cap and trade[Ron Boyer, chief operating officer of Surefire Strategies] also revisited the claims of Al Gore and his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” saying that his findings were based on the skewed numbers and temperature readings. He gave many examples of Gore’s use of the alleged skewed numbers and the actual numbers.
Climate change: has the IPCC lost some of its credibility?
65% Say Americans Not Willing To Make Major Lifestyle Changes To Help Environment - Rasmussen Reports™The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 17% of adults believe most Americans would be willing to make major cutbacks in their lifestyle in order to help save the environment. Most (65%) say that’s not the case. Another 18% are not sure.
Clay Farris Naff, Huffington Post: Climate Modelers on the LamHounded by the graying yet still sporadically feisty Washington Post, climate modelers have fled to Sicily, where they have taken refuge among geologists. Little did they reckon on the dogged pursuit of a lone HuffPo blogger. The fleeing modelers, led by Robert DeConto of U. Mass.-Amherst, were still reeling from the WaPo drubbing...
Solar PV in Los Angeles: The emperor has no clothes, says UCLA | GristSome of the report's key findings:
* California's share of worldwide solar PV is continuing to decline.
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* Without federal and state subsidies, solar PV cannot pay for itself even in sunny Southern California with current tariffs.
Do birds help curb global warming? - Green OC : The Orange County RegisterThe early bird catches the worm — and, one UC Irvine scientist says, might also help reduce the effects of global warming.
In a new study published in a scientific journal this week, ecologist and lead author Kailen Mooney shows that birds, bats and lizards consume enough insects to reduce the damage they cause to plants and promote plant growth — by 14 percent on average.
Political prejudices dressed up as science | spikedIt is their doom-laden political outlook that really convinces greens the world is ending, not scientific evidence.
New Carbon Rules Raise Home CostsHome buyers face having to pay up to £8,000 more per new property under green targets imposed by the Scottish Government, the construction industry has warned.
Flowrate of World’s 4th Largest River Linked to Solar CycleA new study has postulated a link between solar activity and the flowrate of one of the largest rivers in the world, and suggests that it will lose water as the current low solar activity continues.
Ocean Conveyor Belt Confounds Climate Science | The Resilient Earth...This shows the weakness of the science behind climate change. The predictions of future climate change are based on current understanding of how climate works—the theory. And the theory is based on observations of climate behavior in the past—the data. Except that the data regarding fluctuations in the MOC were spotty and incomplete. Now, with better data it looks like the theory is wrong. This in turn, means that all existing models are based on incorrect assumptions and may also have been calibrated using erroneous historical data. Yet predictions of future disaster generated by these models form the heart of the climate change alarmists' case for radical socioeconomic change. And those of us skeptical of climate science's prognostications are considered the foolish ones.
San Francisco's Meat-Free Mondays gets a shrug - BusinessWeekSan Francisco supervisors passed the resolution Tuesday for no-meat Mondays in their latest legislative endorsement of healthy, eco-conscious living.
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Most shrugged it off as another one of those "only in San Francisco" initiatives that many forget about soon after passage.
[Because of the greatest scientific fraud in history, still more money changes hands]WARSAW: Poland has sold Japanese private sector entity carbon dioxide emission quotas worth 30 million euros (40 million dollars), Poland's environment minister said.
Oil drilling prompts Al Gore's first public split with President Obama - The Hill's E2-WireThe head of Clean Air Watch, Frank O’Donnell, said the Alliance has “by and large tried to promote an upbeat and positive message” about the climate legislation. “It’s not in their interest to slam Obama,” he said.
But the drilling expansion may have been a bridge too far, O’Donnell said. The policy, he said, “has absolutely nothing to do with climate.”
“It’s vote-buying, pure and simple,” he said.
Arctic Sea Ice Reports: who to believe? « Watts Up With That?Given that both NANSEN and NSIDC use the same SSMI sensor data, and calculate the extent based on 15% concentration, that half a million square kilometers difference in the “normal” sure seems significant in the context of the magnified extent view NSIDC presents. A half million here, a half million there, and pretty soon we are talking about real ice extent differences.
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Arctic Sea ice area is above the “normal” line as defined by NANSEN.
MURRAY: EPA's ginormous power grab - Washington TimesIt's a sure sign that a government agency has become overmighty when it vastly increases its budget, grabs power unconstitutionally and treats Congress with contempt. All of this applies to the Environmental Protection Agency. Unless Congress acts quickly to curb the EPA's power, it will become a huge drag on the economy. Few bodies are more deserving of cutbacks now.
[Ridiculous claim from Kathleen Sebelius: Will State Department climate hoax efforts really "slow the spread of infectious disease"?][Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius] also mentioned EPA efforts to reduce pollution; HUD efforts to develop “green and healthy” homes; and State Department efforts to “slow climate change” – which will “slow the spread of infectious disease as well,” she said.
Mark Landsbaum: Parents: Stop scaring kids about global warming | washington, mark, div - Opinion - The Orange County RegisterIn Washington, the Independent Women’s Forum's campaign, Balanced Education for Everyone, advocates that parents take control of their children’s education, "especially when it comes to alarmist global warming indoctrination."
Here are some women who get it right.
“Parents need to ask their children’s teachers, ‘What are you doing for Earth Day this year?’” said IWF President and CEO Michelle Bernard. “Too often, our children are being subjected to terrifying lectures on global warming and movies like ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and ‘The 11th Hour,’ while being told they represent settled science. That’s just not the case.”
“Dealing a Mortal Blow” to the MWP « Climate AuditMaybe it’s just a vocabulary thing. Perhaps Overpeck feels that the term “getting rid of” is a little too Tony Soprano-ish for the “Director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth”, whereas the term “dealing a mortal blow” has the right sort of Arthurian cadence for Overpeck, who would rather be cast as Sir Launcelot than Tony Soprano.
Be that as it may, while Overpeck was concerned that Deming might produce a “fake email” purporting to show Overpeck seeking to “get rid of the MWP”, Overpeck hasn’t challenged the authenticity of the Climategate email in which he aspires to “deal a mortal blow” to the MWP.
[Healing the planet]: U.S. to Abstain on South African Coal Plant - NYTimes.com...several sources say the United States plans to abstain, which will allow the Obama administration to put its objections on the record while still allowing the project to move forward.
AMERICAN BUSINESSES FOR CLEAN ENERGYWASHINGTON, D.C. (April 7, 2010) – A group of 3,000 national and grassroots companies are taking part today in a new national advertising campaign calling for swift action on energy and climate legislation. These businesses, including the groups American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE) and the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), range from national brands -- like Google, Nike and Timberland -- to mom-and-pop companies.
Hacked climate science emails: were requests for information vexatious | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.ukSince I began writing about this issue, I've been assailed by climate scientists and environmentalists, all insisting that Jones did nothing wrong. If these emails meet their standards of professional rectitude I dread to think what else they would find acceptable.
You could argue, as many have, that Jones was responding to a campaign of harassment by climate change deniers. It's true that he was being badgered, and that some of those doing the badgering seemed to be motivated by something other than the unsullied spirit of scientific inquiry. But there was a simple means of getting the hasslers off his back: release the sodding data.
William M. Briggs, Statistician » Peer Review and Proof...it is a logical fallacy to claim, “Because this result was not peer reviewed and published in an academic journal, it is false.”
Chocolate spot threat for winter beans - 08/04/2010 - UK"The harsh weather conditions experienced over the winter have caused winter crops of beans to suffer some physical damage from frost and wind.
"Where this has been severe, leading to stunting and plant death, surviving plants have become much more susceptible to disease infection."
Tire Review - Harsh Winter Brings Sharp Rise in Tire DamagePothole damage to Britain’s roads could cost £10 billion and take more than a decade to fix, according to Bridgestone.
The tire manufacturer has reported a 10-fold increase in the number of tires damaged due to potholes from September 2009 to March this year, compared with the same period 12 months ago.
Bridgestone’s statement follows the worst U.K. winter weather in 30 years, with heavy snow and ice bringing most of the country to a standstill.
[We're saved: Journalists to spend two more weeks in Copenhagen learning to spread climate hoax propaganda]The course is intended for journalists from mainstream media in Danida partner countries as well as from the dominant greenhouse-gas-emitting developing countries (e.g., China, India, Brazil, and South Africa). Journalists from Small Island States are also welcomed. Influence on the local agenda will be an important criterion in the selection process.
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Course Goals
The general objective of the training course is to increase the flow of information about climate change in developing countries, thereby increasing awareness about the challenges faced while promoting political accountability.
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2 weeks, August 2nd to August 13th 2010.
Place of Study
Training will be provided in Copenhagen, Denmark by NORDECO (www.nordeco.dk) and DANICOM (www.danicom.net).
Global Warming: You Don’t Need a WeathermanOf course, some of this is just stupidity. The New York Times recently profiled a group of meteorologists who have no particular expertise in climatology playing the role of climate deniers to the general public as a means—it would appear—of retribution toward climatologists because of all those fancy degrees real scientists have. Meteorologists have only bachelor's degrees, while climatologists have doctorates and lab experience and the like and tend to look down on their little brothers and sisters.
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The cost [of CO2-induced apocalypse], both in money and human misery, would be staggering. And the likelihood of the world facing this situation is much higher than for any military scenario for which we spend trillions on our respective establishments to protect us. And yet, in so much of the media, all of this is somehow treated as a joke. Unfortunately, when these effects finally arrive, the joke will be on all of us.
Eric AltermanEric Alterman is a distinguished professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and professor of journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Fishing Line - 04-08-10 - California - sacbee.comSIERRA LAKES/RIVERS
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CAPLES LAKE - Weather has been BAD! 3 feet of snow last week and more coming in over the weekend made for tough travel and fishing conditions. Some diehard lodge guests did get out and fish at the dam and behind the lodge and caught over 40 fish. Trevor Bach of Sonoma and his friends used worms and Power Bait beads to catch rainbows, browns and brookies. The ice is still two to three feet thick with one to three feet of snow on top.
They walk among us - 1 in 5 believe in aliens | Oddly Enough | STV NewsSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Aliens exist and they live in our midst disguised as humans -- at least, that's what 20 percent of people polled in a global survey believe. The Reuters Ipsos poll of 23,000 adults in 22 countries showed that more than 40 percent of people from India and China believe that aliens walk among us disguised as humans, while those least likely to believe in this are from Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands (8 percent each).
Poll shows climate change not a big issue for voters in 2010 elections - The Hill's E2-WireThe partisan split that’s a constant in climate polling is duly represented here. Thirty-four percent of Democrats called the environment (including global warming) extremely important, compared to 18 percent of independents and 16 percent of Republicans.
Is Anthropogenic Global Warming really the fault of humans?Why were so many governments, media outlets, politicians, academics, and ordinary people so uncritically caught up in this Global Warming fabrication?
[Gallup: For registered voters, environment finishes a distant seventh in a seven-horse race]PRINCETON, NJ -- Fifty-seven percent of registered voters say the economy will be extremely important to their vote for Congress this year, making it the top issue in the 2010 elections. Healthcare, unemployment, and the federal budget deficit rank behind the economy in importance, with the environment the least important of the seven issues tested in the March 26-28 USA Today/Gallup poll.
Thomas Friedman’s World Is Flat Broke | VF Daily | Vanity Fair[Nov '08] ...based on the bad news coming out of shopping-mall owner General Growth Properties [GGP], it is no wonder Friedman is feeling crankier than usual. That’s because the author’s wife, Ann (née Bucksbaum), is an heir to the General Growth fortune. In the past year, the couple—who live in an 11,400-square-foot mansion in Bethesda, Maryland—have watched helplessly as General Growth stock has fallen 99 percent, from a high of $51 to a recent 35 cents a share. The assorted Bucksbaum family trusts, once worth a combined $3.6 billion, are now worth less than $25 million.
Flat N All ThatWhen some time ago a friend of mine told me that Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, was going to be a kind of environmentalist clarion call against American consumerism, I almost died laughing.
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Where does a man who needs his own offshore drilling platform just to keep the east wing of his house heated get the balls to write a book chiding America for driving energy inefficient automobiles? Where does a guy whose family bulldozed 2.1 million square feet of pristine Hawaiian wilderness to put a Gap, an Old Navy, a Sears, an Abercrombie and even a motherf*cking Foot Locker in paradise get off preaching to the rest of us about the need for a “Green Revolution”? Well, he’ll explain it all to you in 438 crisply written pages for just $27.95, $30.95 if you have the misfortune to be Canadian.
GGP files for bankruptcySo we have a self-proclaimed progressive lecturing us on our profligate ways and hectoring us about climate change, who lives in a house 6 times bigger than mine, and whose outsized wealth is [was?] largely based on paving over thousands and thousands of acres of land.
Talk about not walking the talk.
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