Denialist Morano on scientists: “Rejoicing that their entire careers are getting pissed on” (posting from Climate Science Watch)

Morano continued: “[Global warming alarmism] has become toxic, and that is a huge victory…Science is winning in the end here.”

At 25:50 in the interview Morano says: “It is so nice to have the light of day and stench of corruption coming from people like Michael Mann and Rajendra Pachauri and Phil Jones and the upper echelon of UN scientists. We should be rejoicing that their entire careers are getting pissed on at the moment and justifiably so.”

Why the Guardian should have backed the Tories | The Spectator

6) "Behind the party leader's own engagement with green issues there stands a significant section of his party that still regards global warming as a liberal conspiracy." As do most of the grubby little voters, the working class whom the Guardian purports to salute.

U.S. promoting 'North American' climate change plan

The U.S. State Department has announced a "North American" plan to attack so-called "climate change," releasing a statement in praise of a continental effort to "phase down" hydrofluorocarbons.

The federal bureaucracy today announced: "This North American amendment proposal calls on all countries to take action to reduce their consumption and production of HFCs, with developed countries taking the lead in this effort, as they have consistently under the Montreal Protocol."

Live Blog Of Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting - MarketBeat - WSJ

Munger, generally a grumpy fellow, is optimistic about the ability of humanity to solve its biggest problems. He sees solar energy as an answer to many of our problems... eventually. For now, when he does construction, "I never miss an opportunity to pass up putting them in" because they're currently too expensive.

Graham backs expanded oil drilling despite Gulf of Mexico spill - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) – a strong drilling proponent and industry ally – said in a Senate floor speech Thursday that the accident should not cause a retreat from offshore drilling, although new safeguards may be needed on rigs.

“For advocates that say we can't afford to drill off of our coast, then what coast should we drill off of? Should we have all of our oil coming 100 percent from Saudi Arabia or Venezuela or Honduras or West Africa?” she said. “We have to take responsibility to drill where we can safely, out away from our shores, and be as safe as we can be.”

Canadians’ ‘Veggie Van’ nears end of record-setting green odyssey

And while she said that their aim was never to get into arguments with people who had different ideas about climate change, encountering criticism gave them a chance to confirm their actions and values.

“We’ve done so many presentations where people get excited about our message,” said Whittaker. “When someone does challenge us, that’s when we get excited.”

Both Whittaker and Jerry took environmental studies at university in Victoria.

Partisan Pairings at Tonight’s Correspondents’ Dinner - Washington Wire - WSJ

Or get in a big made-for-blogging scream-fest. A memorable instance of the latter occurred in 2007, when rocker Sheryl Crow and a colleague confronted White House adviser Karl Rove at the dinner over the Bush administration’s global warming policy. (“Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official administration position on global warming, which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country,” Crow wrote later on Huffington Post. “We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results are in (www.IPCC.ch). Mr. Rove exploded with even more venom….”)

'Utter honesty' needed from climate scientists | OregonLive.com

A recent editorial in the journal Nature admits that implicated scientists are scared. They know that honest mistakes are typically forgiven but fraud is not. The editorial urges them to fight back with a war of words: "The core science supporting anthropogenic global warming has not changed." Such a bluff can succeed only if the public remains ignorant that the core is rotten.
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All plants and animals owe their very existence to carbon dioxide.
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Gordon J. Fulks of Corbett holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago, Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research.

iowahawk: Citizen Gore

Then, the great Global Warming collapse of 2010. Muckraking reporters from Gore's rival, the Internet-Examiner, released the East Anglia emails dooming the carbon market. In the days following the crash, one Gore climate speech is canceled. And another. And yet more. He is laughed off the nation's stage and retreats to the opulent solitude of Montecito. Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace, aloof, never visited, seldom photographed, an emperor left to direct his failing empire. Vainly attempting to sway the destinies of the planet that was no longer interested in his apocalyptic visions of drowning penguins.

Then, last week, as it must to all men, the Green Reaper came to visit Albert Arnold Gore. Only a few dignitaries were on hand for the funeral procession as the black Prius hearse bore its solemn burden to its final resting place -- Laurie David's compost heap.

The La Nina shark rises to bite « JoNova

Does this herald the end of this years warm spell?

Frank Lansner has been watching the Southern Oscillation Index and noticed it’s rapid climb out of El Nino territory.

global warming want to bet « Calder's Updates

As reported by Jim Giles in Nature, Mashnich and Bashkirtsev said that the average global surface temperature in 2012-17 would be lower than in 1998-2003, using data from the US National Climatic Data Center. Solar activity certainly seems to have declined in the Russians’ favour. But like the gamblers themselves, onlookers must now wait until 2018 to know the outcome.

Benefits of organic food a 'myth' | The Daily Telegraph

ORGANIC food does not have greater nutritional value than conventionally grown food, a major University of Sydney study has found.

In a result that will provoke dismay and anger in the organics industry, the study's authors found that food grown without pesticides or herbicides should not be promoted as healthier because there was no evidence to show that it contained more nutrients than normal food.

[Gore takes fossil-fueled trip to Singapore]

Date: 3 May 2010, Monday | Time: 09:00 – 10:30am

“Thinking Green: Economic Strategy for the 21st Century”
Keynote Speech by Vice President Al Gore

Anorak News » Al Gore’s Fontainebleu Trumps Gisele Bunchen’s Ark

No Frakking Consensus: Press Release Masquerade - Part 2

The IPCC wants us to believe food processing will suffer due to climate change but it can't come up with a single reference that even mentions the sector.

With the ETS dead, Turnbull returns | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The timing is exquisite. Turnbull is returning in the week that Kevin Rudd shelved the emissions trading scheme which Turnbull so foolishly fought for, voted for and lost his job over.

Cow on Display at Aquarium Causes Beef With Farmers - KION - Monterey

Just a few days ago, a dairy farmer visiting the aquarium came across the cow on display. The cow was outfitted with a gas mask and a bubble which read, "I can't believe I'm saying this but what the world needs now is less methane and that means fewer cows." Hank Armstrong, Vice President of communications at the Monterey Bay Aquarium said. "For dairy farmers and people in the beef industry it was a problem. They took offense to it." As all of this was happening a Facebook group was created asking folks to boycott the aquarium until the display was removed. Last check shows 4,100 members strong. But before more drama followed, the aquarium decided to take action.

Bill McKibben Thinks Echo-boomers Will Solve Climate Change | Tobin Hack | Big Think

It was acknowledged by several panelists that the human species is doomed in several ways, that the damage is done, that we can adapt and mitigate, but that big climate change is coming.

And then, out of left field, Bill McKibben started talking encouragingly about something funny: young people. Most staffers and volunteers on his 350 campaign, he said, are 25 years old or under – and that’s just fine by him. He likes their attitude. Their feeling is, as McKibben put it: “we know that things are already bad… but we’re not going to moan about it, we’re going to do all we can now.”

Partly, he said, that’s because young people know they’re going to have to “live with this for a long, long time.” But McKibben also thinks it’s partly just the can-doism of youth, which makes them “mature in ways that many of us are not mature.” Could climate change be a puzzle only the youngest of the echo-boomers are emotionally equipped to solve?

How bad is climate change? Don't ask expert Joe Romm - Green House - USATODAY.com

Joe Romm is no ordinary blogger on climate change. A physicist who held a senior post in President Bill Clinton's administration, he's unusually well-respected.

Twitter / Conservative outcast

Global Warming Hoax:Even Obama’s Illinois is not Warming, look at the Temp Charts! http://bit.ly/aoZpTA

Al Fin: More Oil Seeps Naturally Than from Human Spills

The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound released 10.8 million gallons of oil -- or almost 250,000 barrels of oil. But natural oil seeps off California release up to 80 times that amount. And natural seeps in the Gulf of Mexico release twice the amount as the Exxon Valdez every year.

Irony of Ironies: Could Gulf Spill Kill Cap-and-Trade? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The spill has already caused the weaker sisters to run from the notion of voting to support domestic production, as they were never really all that into it. Lawmakers willing to know so little about a scheme as to support it on the notion it would control temperature aren't overly concerned with the issues themselves — let's face it. And the quite-possible inability to get Republicans onto the cap-and-trade bill — making it that much harder to pull off the trick of calling it an energy bill — would be all she wrote.

Cool It! And Let's Think for Ourselves by Dr. Mike Norton-Griffiths | Climate Realists

In September last year, the World Meteorological Organisation hosted some 1,500 climate scientists at the much unheralded and poorly reported World Climate Conference 3 in Geneva, Switzerland. WCC3, an important precursor to “Copenhagen”, was called primarily to discuss, and advise on, the relative importance of shorter term climate cycles versus longer term trends.

It succeeded in showing both the true depth of the divergence of views among the world’s top climate scientists, and how uncertain are predictions about global warming.

- Bishop Hill blog - Something rotten in the state of Denmark

Denmark, the poster child for wind energy boosters, more than doubled its production of wind energy between 1999 and 2007. Yet data from Energinet.dk, the operator of Denmark's natural gas and electricity grids, show that carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation in 2007 were at about the same level as they were back in 1990, before the country began its frenzied construction of turbines. Denmark has done a good job of keeping its overall carbon dioxide emissions flat, but that is in large part because of near-zero population growth and exorbitant energy taxes, not wind energy. And through 2017, the Danes foresee no decrease in carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation.

Marc Beauchamp: Not all global warming skeptics are 'stupid' » Redding Record Searchlight

On Earth Day Redding architect James Theimer had some harsh words for skeptics of human-caused global warming. One harsh word, actually. At a “sustainability conference” at Shasta College he repeatedly said deniers, skeptics and even people “on the fence” about global warming were “stupid.” Not just misinformed, but “stupid.”

Religious environmentalists gather to combat climate change - latimes.com

The gathering at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral was yet another sign of a maturing religious environmental activism and sophistication 40 years after the first Earth Day. At that time, religious bodies were virtually silent about "green" issues. Not now. Indeed, longtime environmental advocates such as author Bill McKibben, the keynote speaker at St. John's, said that whatever success there may be in staunching the worst effects of climate change will depend in large part on people of faith.

The Overbrook Foundation: "Experts" Talk Climate at the Met

James Hansen spoke next, with the dispassionate certainty of a scientist who has been looking at the causes and implications of global warming for over thirty years.

Al Fin: Science Journal "Nature" Opens to Climate Heretics?

Finnish physicist Jyrki Kauppinen conducted research which led him to conclude that only 5 - 10% of warming -- at most -- is due to anthropogenic CO2. The study is tentatively to be published in a June issue of Nature. If not, the author plans to have the study published in a Physics journal
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If Nature does publish this piece, it will mark a significant turning point for the British journal of science, which up until now has consistently carried the water of the climate alarmist orthodoxy.

EU Climate Policy Update: Italy Rethinks Kyoto — MasterResource

Another breach in the badly aging Kyoto wall has been opened.

The Reference Frame: April 2010 cooler than April 1998

The UAH anomaly in April 1998 was 0.76 or 0.77 °C, respectively, so the April 2010 anomaly will still be a whopping 0.2 or 0.3 °C cooler than April 1998.

Now he's a whistle-blower again: Revkin forgets all about that convenient and temporary privacy stance that he took regarding the ClimateGate emails

Leaked Memo Sees Bigger Oil Risk - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

“The following is not public,” reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Emergency Response document dated April 28. “Two additional release points were found today in the tangled riser. If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked resulting in a release volume an order of magnitude higher than previously thought.”

Flashback: A Tale of Two Revkins

Private Climate Conversations on Display - Staunch privacy advocate Andy Revkin - NYTimes.com

The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.

Valley was the ‘bull's eye' for late April snowstorm | AspenTimes.com

About 12 to 14 inches of snow fell overnight at the top of Aspen Mountain, according to Aspen Skiing Co. Vice President of Mountain Operations Rich Burkley, but the wind created pockets twice that deep.

WATER: Big Sierra snowpack may ward off more drought restrictions

The snowpack has grown to 143 percent of normal for this time of year across the 400-mile Sierra Nevada, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

Carbon tax comes into effect today | Irish Examiner

The Government's carbon tax on oil and gas comes into effect today.

The carbon tax was one of the cornerstones of the Greens' shopping list when it entered government.

A Disaster's Silver Lining - Bill McKibben

Dirty as the water is off the Mississippi Delta, that’s barely the tip of the damage from fossil fuel. If that oil had traveled down a pipeline to a refinery and then into the fuel tank of a car, it would have wrecked the planet just as powerfully. We now realize, as we didn’t on the first Earth Day, that the slick of carbon dioxide spreading invisibly across the atmosphere is driving change on a massive scale: by raising the planet’s temperature, it’s melting everything frozen, raising the level of the ocean, powering ever stronger storms. In the Gulf, and in every other ocean on the planet, that extra carbon is turning seawater acid. You can’t see it, but it’s wrecking marine life far more effectively and insidiously even than the spreading oil.

Judith Curry: The Finale

JC: Senator Inhofe, Marc Morano, and Rush Limbaugh are politically motivated. Their rhetoric doesn’t help at all, and I think pretty much everyone badmouths what they have to say. My point is that it is incorrect to lump the skeptical bloggers with Limbaugh etc., and their rhetoric detracts from the case that the scientific skeptics (including the bloggers are trying to make).

Show Us the Cap-and-Trade Bill! - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So why can't we see the bill?

Because of serious, career-threatening political risk, if it's given a good once-over before the cram-down.

Gulf oil slick is a disaster for world climate deal - Telegraph

Offshore oil drilling could become unacceptable, eliminating Barack Obama's bargaining tool with the Republicans, writes Geoffrey Lean.

U.S. coal burn up 7 pct for week - Genscape | Markets | Reuters

HOUSTON, April 30 (Reuters) - U.S. coal use rose 7 percent last week from the week before, Genscape said Friday, as unseasonably cool weather hit the Northeast.

Disgraced fraudster Michael Mann to speak at left-wing "Creating a Climate for Justice" event

Global warming, environmental justice conference Sunday

Dr. Robert Bullard, known as the "Father of Environmental Justice," is a featured speaker at Sunday's conference on global warming and environmental justice issues at the August Wilson Center of African American Culture, on Penn Avenue, Downtown.

Sponsored by Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, a statewide public interest advocacy organization known as PennFuture, the conference, "Creating a Climate for Justice," runs from 1:30 to 6:15 p.m.
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Also speaking at the conference are Dr. Michael Mann, a climate change expert from the Pennsylvania State University and a lead author of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Scientific Assessment Report

Botswana :: Why schools should close during winter

Young as they are, especially at primary level, children are forced to wake up early on a cold winter mornings. Watching these six-year olds, walking long distances, some of them scantily dressed and barefooted, can be a very painful sight. Many of them, especially in the rural areas or townships come from poor families without the wherewithal to dress their families for the winter season.

In some cases, because of the chilly weather, the children abscond from school. This obviously has an adverse impact on their performance making it difficult for us as a nation to achieve one of the key pillars of Vision 2016, which envisages an educated and informed nation. Also because of the biting weather, most of those in attendance will find it difficult to pay attention to their teacher. Even their teachers are affected by the cold weather and are likely to spend a good part of the day trying to keep warm.

Coal Sans CO2: Appealing Pipe Dream - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Overall, I have yet to see anyone rebut the simple calculations of Vaclav Smil, the resource and risk polymath at the University of Manitoba, who has shown how capturing and processing just a small percentage of today’s CO2 from coal combustion would require as much pipeline and other infrastructure as is now used globally to get oil — a costly commodity — out of the ground. Imagine the price required on carbon to make that doable beyond boutique scale.

Green Scheme is Greatest Scam on Earth

We used to have a few names for people selling nothing but hot air… con-men, snake oil salesmen, charlatans and thieves. But today’s society has been indoctrinated to think “carbon credits” (hot air) are a good deal, worth enriching only a handful of leftist elitists like Al Gore, who are raking in billions in cold cash selling nothing but hot air.

AccuWeather.com - Weather News | Honeybees Suffer More Losses Following Harsh Winter

The harsh winter of 2009-10 is being blamed for contributing to the stunting of North America's already-dwindling honeybee population.

According to the results of a survey conducted by the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), bee losses over the winter totaled 33.8 percent.

Scientists Link Quiet Sun & Cold Winters | The Resilient Earth

So will the Sun turn somnolent, lessening the amount of radiant warmth it showers on Earth? Could another Little Ice Age be in our immediate future? Predictions are for a less active Sun during the upcoming Cycle 24, but only time will tell. We have had decades of near hysterical warnings about rising temperatures, all of which may be negated by the unpredictable fluctuations of our local star. It will be interesting to see how long it takes climate science to change its doomsday predictions for the next several decades. Indeed, it has taken almost half a century for climate science to dig itself into its current hole, it may take as long to dig itself back out.

When White House Correspondents Go Green, Follow the Money | GlobalWarming.org

...So, my question is, who is getting the White House Correspondents’ Association’s money? The shareholders of Acciona? GE and Wachovia (now Wells Fargo)? It’s one thing for carbon offset money to, for example, fund a nonprofit organization in the developing world to manage a reforestation project, but how does it make any sense to pay money to a Spanish corporation for operating a wind farm that’s already been privately financed and has been producing energy for almost two years? Am I missing something here?

Technology News: Green Tech: Greenpeace Ranks Cisco First on Climate All-Star List

[I shudder to think how bad today's weather would be without the vital climate-improving work of these all-stars.]

Bill Nelson: Climate bill with offshore drilling 'dead on arrival' - The Hill's E2-Wire

A senator who wants to nix plans to expand offshore oil drilling in the wake of a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico said Friday that a climate bill with drilling expansions included is a non-starter.

World must move on from Copenhagen summit, says EU's climate [hoax] chief | Environment | guardian.co.uk

In an interview with The Guardian, the chair at the opening of December's tumultuous talks defended Denmark's handling of the event, saying its achievements at a time of economic crisis would not have been dreamed of even three years earlier.

Jerry Brown Defends Embattled State Climate Law but Is Open to 'Adjustments' - NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown defended the state's climate change law yesterday, explaining that he sees room for "adjustments" but would not support an outright suspension of greenhouse gas reductions until the economy improves.

Senior Dems Talk Tough on Climate, Immigration - NYTimes.com

Graham's alignment with the second highest-ranking Senate Republican represents the strongest signal yet how far away he is from returning to the bargaining table on global warming and energy. Graham met briefly yesterday in Kyl's office with Kerry, and also earlier in the day with Lieberman. But Graham said yesterday he would not even vote for his own climate bill so long as immigration is on the table.

Obamas Cap And Trade: An Energy License To Sell Your Home

What this says is that 1 year after the enactment a home cannot be sold unless it complies with the energy and water standards that are provided in the bill. Along with this there is a record breaking tax increase, to the tune of around $6,800 per year for a family of four. This isn’t all it does either.

Comment on article from S. Fred Singer: Oh, Mann: Cuccinelli targets UVA papers in Climategate salvo by Courteney Stuart | Climate Realists

"There is a good chance that Virginia’s Attorney-General Ken Cuccinelli will come up with the “smoking gun” -- where other so-called investigations have only produced one whitewash after another.
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There go all the windfarms, both onshore and offshore, the wasteful ethanol projects, and the hydrogen economy. Maybe Al Gore will cough up some of his ill-gotten $500 million, gained from scaring the public, from carbon trading, carbon footprints, and all the other scams.

C3: EU Research Finds No Increase In Severe Storms - Contradicts AGW Model Predictions

Global warming alarmists and the climate models have long predicted that the frequency of severe storms would increase. Data worldwide indicates otherwise and a new study by an EU researcher confirms this.

GREEN JOBS OR SHALE GAS? THE NUMBERS TALK, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY : Center for Global Food Issues

CHURCHVILLE, VA— The shale gas industry’s boom is creating 100,000 jobs in Pennsylvania during 2010, according to Penn State University. Only a few of these new jobs are on drill rigs; many of those jobs go to highly-skilled oil patch veterans from out of state. But the gas industry’s expansion has created jobs by the tens of thousands in steel production, construction, and services.
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Meanwhile, the giant state of California has created only 48,000 “green jobs” over the 13 years from 1995 to 2008. Green jobs still make up only 1 percent of California’s economy. Worse, says State Senator Bob Dutton, the high energy taxes needed to create those few green jobs are at the same time killing millions of jobs in all sorts of industries across the state.

Natural gas not so clean

Advocates of natural gas like to mention that it’s a relatively clean fuel in terms of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. But that may not be the case after all, according to Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University. He believes that the all-in impact of natural gas may turn out to be just as dirty as oil or coal.

Howarth told MIT’s Technology Review that his calculations factor in not only the amount of carbon dioxide produced by natural gas, but also the impact of natural gas leaks. Methane, the major component of natural gas, is more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide so those leaks can have a surprisingly large impact on the environment. In fact, Howarth calculates that using natural gas results in the equivalent of 33 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule of energy while petroleum fuels emit only 20 grams of carbon dioxide for the same amount of energy.

2008 - Energy Policy for the Ignorant

As we've often said, the Democrats prey on ignorance. Often they know better and are being cynical; sometimes it's because they are ignorant themselves. A shocking example of the latter case was revealed yesterday when Nancy Pelosi appeared on Meet the Press. Mrs. Pelosi declared herself a major advocate of natural gas as an energy source, but then revealed that she is ignorant of the fact that natural gas is a fossil fuel.

This wasn't just a slip of the tongue; Pelosi repeated the error several times.

'Glenn Beck': Real Story Behind Cap-and-Trade - Glenn Beck - FOXNews.com

Now, I know this is complicated but that's how progressives like it because then the media doesn't bother to investigate because they're like nobody is smart enough to be able to follow it.

But with Obama's help, the Joyce Foundation has given $1.1 million to help start the Chicago Climate Exchange. Al Gore, Goldman Sachs and Fannie and Freddie invest heavily.

Fannie Mae buys a patent for something to do, nothing with housing. It's great. No one says a word...

Munchausen by Proxy and Global Warming

Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS) is a relatively uncommon condition that involves the exaggeration or fabrication of climate illnesses or symptoms by a primary caretaker (scientist). One of the most harmful forms of science abuse, MBPS was named after Baron von Munchausen, an 18th-century German dignitary known for telling outlandish stories.

Rudd Puts Climate Change on Hold

Who would have thought the difference between ''the greatest moral challenge of our age'' and ''absolute crap'' could wind up being so small?

AGW - Socialism

U N Promotes Anti-Capitalism via Global Warming Propaganda
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The following are all quoted from IPS news articles.

Op-Ed Columnist - American [Climate Fraud] Act - NYTimes.com

The federal government spends $30 billion on health research, but only $3 billion on clean energy research.

It’s clearly going to take legislative action to catalyze private investment and to increase federal research to where it should be — about $25 billion a year, [Why is this the correct number?  If we spend this money, how much bad weather will be avoided?] according to Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution. It’s going to take some equivalent of the Pacific Railroad Acts to kick this into gear.
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You get the sense that this country is straining against the leash [What leash?  Is there currently a law against new energy development?], eager for a new wave of energy development.

SlowTV | After Copenhagen: Tim Flannery in conversation with Robert Manne | The Monthly

At this crucial juncture in the world's response to climate change, Australia's most prominent environmentalist Tim Flannery speaks to leading public intellectual Robert Manne about whether there is reason for hope after Copenhagen.

ICE buying Climate Exchange for over $600 million - MarketWatch

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The IntercontinentalExchange on Friday made a bet on the future of emissions trading after reaching a deal to pay around $600 million in cash for the London-based Climate Exchange.

The Atlanta-based ICE had already cleared trades for Climate Exchange, which operates the European Climate Exchange, the Chicago Climate Exchange and the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange.

The Associated Press: Germany, Mexico trying to push climate [hoax] talks ahead

BERLIN — Germany and Mexico will co-host a conference of 45 countries this weekend to get negotiations on a global climate deal moving again.

Nenana Ice Classic: Ice goes out nine days later than it did seventy years ago

BREAKDOWN: Beck's cap and trade conspiracy theory | Media Matters for America

Cap and trade is really just a "scam" and "redistribution of wealth." In order to perpetrate this scam, the Joyce Foundation, an environmental organization whose board used to include Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett, steered grants toward developing the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Investors in the CCX included Al Gore, Fannie and Freddie and some Goldman Sachs partners.

Carbon dioxide swindle permits: They cost $20 per ton in Europe, and ten cents per ton in the US

EU Emitters Face Deadline as CO2 Rises Above Recession, Fraud - BusinessWeek

April 30 (Bloomberg) -- More than 11,000 emitters face rising carbon prices and a European deadline today for handing over permits to the world’s largest cap-and-trade system.

European Union carbon-dioxide allowances for December are up 20 percent this month, twice as much as Brent crude, closing yesterday at 15.35 euros ($20.33) on London’s European Climate Exchange in London. That’s the biggest monthly gain in a year as carbon markets overcome concerns about the recession, an oversupply of permits through 2012 and fraudulent trading.

CCX CFI End of Day Summary

[10 cents per ton]

Reid to Graham: We Don't Need You | Mother Jones

Reid addressed the Graham situation directly at the press conference, after fielding a question about whether their immigration work might imperil the climate bill. Graham, Reid said, "cannot logically use immigration as an excuse to not help with energy." He also said his calls for bipartisan work on immigration aren't necessarily directed at Graham. "There are 40 other Republicans," Reid said.
...the hurried roll out of their immigration framework seemed to be a clear indicator of where Reid is throwing his support.

Ireland - Harsh winter hits spring grass

Severe frosts in December and January, followed by practically zero grass growth during spring have left grass supplies across the country extremely tight.

Global Warming Hysteria: Al Gore, Hypocrite

Gore has made more than $100 million pitching climate panic. But he acts in his personal life as if it is all a scam. Do as I say, not as I do

Al Fin: Negative Climate Feedbacks Above and Below!

Climate modelers know virtually nothing about the mechanisms of climate. But that does not stop them from creating intricate climate models that rest upon a house of cards of faulty assumptions.

It may take us another 20 years to learn enough about the climate to model it halfway reliably. If we are good, lucky, and fast. In the meantime we would do well to chase the climate alarmist hoaxters off the stage before they do us all in.

The world cannot afford to humour the climate grifters any longer.

Big Hollywood » Video » Enviro-Elitist Harrison Ford Slams Critics Of His Enviro-Elitism

How do you get a Hollywoodist to make a fool of himself? Ask an honest question and then let him keep right on talking until he completely bares his ass.

CNSNews brings us yet another chapter in the fall of the once mighty Harrison Ford.

Listen to the psychobabble…

Listen to the rank-hypocrisy…

PS climate [hoax] staff angry at waste - The Canberra Times

Another source said many within the department were feeling ''gutted'' that the emissions trading scheme would not be revisited until at least 2013.

''There are a lot of angry people and a lot of scared people,'' they said.

Oh, Mann: Cuccinelli targets UVA papers in Climategate salvo | The Hook News Blog

In papers sent to UVA April 23, [Virginia Attorney General Ken] Cuccinelli’s office commands the university to produce a sweeping swath of documents relating to Mann’s receipt of nearly half a million dollars in state grant-funded climate research conducted while Mann— now director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State— was at UVA between 1999 and 2005.

If Cuccinelli succeeds in finding a smoking gun like the purloined emails that led to the international scandal dubbed Climategate, Cuccinelli could seek the return of all the research money, legal fees, and trebled damages.

[An alarmist criticizes Obama's apparent disinterest in the global warming hoax] | Grist

Yeah, the tea partiers ranted about “cap and tax.” And yes, I know, this criticism should really be addressed to President Obama, who -- let’s be frank -- has still not given any sign that he understands that this little problem with cooking the planet is more than just another political issue. Where is the big climate speech? Where is the political muscle? I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who noticed that the president flew to West Virginia to attend services for the 29 miners killed in the recent mining tragedy, but sent only brief videotaped remarks to the tens of thousands of climate activists who rallied on the National Mall last weekend. So hey, if the president isn’t going to show any spine on this, why should you?

APA - Melting sea ice would cause sea levels to rise by ’hair’s breadth’

Researchers at the University of Leeds calculate that around 1.5 million Titanic-sized icebergs each year are melting into the sea every year in the Arctic and Antarctic. This is causing sea level to rise by just 49 micrometers per year - around a hair’s breadth.

At that rate it would take 200 years for the oceans to rise by 1cm as a result of melting sea ice. If all the floating ice in the world melted it would cause sea levels to rise by just 4cm.

Cold snap wilts crops, inflates market prices - INSIDE JoongAng Daily

Although the temperature yesterday was up a bit, Thursday’s high in Seoul, 7.8 degrees Celsius (46 degrees Fahrenheit), was a record low for that date. The previous record for a cold day in April was 10.1 degrees in 1962.

It even snowed in Gangwon yesterday.
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“Some of the pear farms have suffered tremendously,” said Kim, “with more than 90 percent of their trees dying.”

Graham feared a gas-tax set-up - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained to the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein why he is no longer supporting the climate change bill that he helped to write. The long and the short of it is that Graham feared he was being set up.

Earn 'Points for the Planet,' at global warming talk in Morristown tonight | - Morristown Green - NJ.com

If you visit Morristown for tonight's free talk, "The Cloudy World of Climate Change," by Mark Zondlo of Princeton University, you should leave with a better grasp of global warming.

You also can walk away with Points for the Planet, redeemable for prizes.

Chills & fever: Aftermath of SW Florida’s cold winter tells tales in palm damage » Naples Daily News

“Trying to grow tropical palms in sub-tropical and temperate climates means cold damage is inevitable. This year’s cold weather is not atypical for Florida. For example, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a series of hard freezes destroyed much of the citrus industry located north of Orlando, which is why that industry pushed south to Immokalee. During that same time period, severe freeze damage occurred on palms throughout the state,” according to their report. “The only difference between then and now is that there are a lot more palms planted in communities that did not even exist in the early 1980s. So, for many people, this is their first experience with severe cold damage.”

Twitter / mattyglesias

Even if a #climate bill somehow passes the Senate, reconciling it with the House bill will be nearly impossible.

Cap-and-Trade in California | Mother Jones

...This makes AB32's future hazy to say the least. Supporters need to fight off a well-funded initiative campaign and make sure a Democrat is California's next governor. And they need to do it in an electoral environment that promises to be heavily favorable to the GOP and to anti-government forces in general. Four years ago AB32 promised to be the most muscular climate bill in the country. But unless a bunch of things go its way, by next year it might be dead.

Late-season snow disrupts I-5 north of Los Angeles - San Jose Mercury News

FORT TEJON, Calif.—A late-season cold weather system brought hail and snow to the mountains of Southern California on Thursday, temporarily closing down Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles, while gusty winds swept the rest of the region.

Congress Daily: Voinovich: Climate Bill Needs Final Analysis

While Reid has promised to have a bill analyzed before it hits the floor, Voinovich sent him a letter today arguing the study must take into account any changes made by Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., between the time they unveil a climate and energy plan and when it comes up on the Senate floor.
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Voinovich also requested that both EPA and the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration do economic analyses.
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Kerry, Graham and Lieberman Wednesday sent an outline of their draft plan to both EPA and EIA for analysis. Neither EPA nor EIA received actual bill text but rather "specifications" that can be used for modeling.
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EPA officials say their analysis should take six to eight weeks. It is less clear how long EIA would need.

"Right now I can't give you a hard time frame," Cogan said. He said it would take at least six to eight weeks, possibly longer if the specifications they have been given are changed.

Willamette Valley Vineyards: Fighting Climate Change: Oregon Wineries Aim for Carbon Neutrality

The participating wineries — 14 finishers of an arduous process that launched with 30 wineries signed on — instituted a number of changes aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions including installing solar panels, retrofitting lighting, insulating tanks and using goats, sheep and raptors instead of lawn mowers and pesticides.

The Hockey Schtick: Antarctica's Sub-Tropical Past

if CO2 levels were 10 times higher than today and Antarctica a subtropical paradise could the run-away-catastrophic-positive-feedback-system possibly reverse?

Is Michael Mann Seriously Off his Head? by John O'Sullivan | Climate Realists

Unless the dodgy Penn. State professor divulges his computer codes that underpin his junk science no civil court will entertain him. Barking out his toothless threats scares no one. This fraudster is now a figure of ridicule and is set to go down in history is one of science’s worst abominations.

I’ll call Mann a climate crook all day long: let him sue me, I’m game.

US ambassador to Mexico: Climate change will sink Cuba

Mexico - The political problems between Cuba and the United States will be resolved in 50 years when the island disappears under water because of climate change, said Carlos Pascual, the U.S. ambassador in Mexico City.

If capitalism doesn’t end climate change, climate change will end capitalism - Jeff McMahon - Scorched Earth - True/Slant

Flocks of environmentalists and economists will alight in Vancouver this evening for a weekend of striving toward a more sensible capitalism.

The De-Growth conference hopes to achieve a “viable economic, social and ecological system” that’s kinder to both workers and to the earth, but these are no Molotov-hurling Bolsheviks. They’re just looking for sustainable capitalism.

That means shrinking the economies of the developed world. Which will be hard to do.
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Treehuggers and eggheads aren’t going to shrink the world economy from the Vancouver Library. Likewise, no raggle taggle mass of protesters is going to overthrow capitalism by rallying in Copenhagen, especially when they identify themselves largely through commodity preferences–hemp clothes, folk music, natural toothpaste. No army will do it either, if the massive red armies of the Soviet Union and China failed.

But the earth can do it. The earth can do it by creating conditions warm enough to disrupt markets. And look: she’s on the march.

Ezra Klein - Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'I care equally about immigration and climate change'

EK: So what you need isn't just an assurance on immigration. It's an assurance that if you're going to do the dangerous things on climate reform, you won't be hung out to dry on it.

LG: Right. Ask yourself: Why did they leak the story to Fox News? That told me they weren't committed to this issue. Why let a story start on a venue that would hurt your partner the most?

Uncertainty Should Be Powerful Motivator on Climate, "Expert" Says -- Science

With climate change science under political attack in the United States and little global consensus on how to move forward, an eminent climate policy expert urged that scientists and policy leaders embrace the persuasive power of uncertainty.

There is no doubt that humans are causing climate change and that existing technology can limit greenhouse gas emissions, Mohamed El-Ashry said at the 10th Annual Science & Technology in Society Conference cosponsored by AAAS. But science and policy leaders might gain more traction in the public debate over emissions by "highlighting the uncertainty of what might happen over the next 50 years, which is much scarier," he said.

United Nations Foundation » Mohamed T. El-Ashry

He has received a number of international honors and awards including the Champions of the Earth and the Haub Prize for International Environmental Diplomacy. He serves on the Boards of a number of not-for-profit organizations including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Resources for the Future.

5 Green Groups Declare Senate Climate Bill 'Unacceptable' | SolveClimate.com

Five national environmental groups declared the stalled Senate climate and energy bill "unacceptable" on Tuesday, saying the nation would be better off in the long run without it.

Michelle Malkin » Al Gore Has a New Carbon Footprint For Us to Fill In

It’s perfectly understandable — when you’re full of that much s#*t you need a lot of toilets — but a seaside mansion? Gore doesn’t seem too intimidated by the imminent rising oceans his fellow enviroscammers keep predicting. What a brave soul!

Even the commenters at Democratic Underground are turning on Gore.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 29th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

Al Gore has a modest new home in California, because every eco-cult leader needs a mansion on each coast. Australia’s government dropped emissions trading like a hot rock because the ‘climate crisis’ can wait until after the pesky election, and CNN emulates ancient cultures and is fearful of a vengeful planet.

German scientists suggest per-person carbon emission quotas | Earth Times News

Potsdam, Germany - German scientists called Tuesday for the world to accept per-person quotas for carbon dioxide emissions to kick-start a global trading scheme where poor nations will benefit.

The Potsdam Institute for Research on Climate Effects said everyone on the globe should be allowed 5 tons of carbon per year. That is just one quarter of the average per-person emissions for a US citizen, but still far above emissions in poor nations.

Putin attaches satellite tag to tranquilized polar bear in Russia’s Arctic

Wearing a bright red coat and cap, the 57-year-old premier kneeled at the head of a tranquilized polar bear to attach a satellite-tracking collar, then helped elevate the sedated beast for weighing. He shook its paw and uttered the words: “Be well.”

Q&A: Vying for a Role as Climate [Hoax] Chief - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

Christiana Figueres, the lead climate negotiator for Costa Rica, is a candidate to succeed Yvo de Boer as head of the United Nations climate secretariat.
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Q. What about the growing sense of skepticism or uncertainty among a lot of ordinary citizens with regard to climate change? Has the urgency of the problem been overplayed to any extent, or in a way that is now backfiring?
[Figueres] You know, I think it’s just one more piece of this lack of trust — the lack of trust in the science. But the overwhelming evidence is that it is a threat, that it is a growing threat. I don’t think it was overplayed. And I think if [any] of us lived in Nauru, we wouldn’t think it was overplayed. It’s all a question of where are you sitting and drinking your coffee. The small islands are seeing the effects of this every single day. They see the water coming up and washing away their houses. We’re going to have a major crisis on our hands.

Flashback: Munger: Obama's cap and trade plan "monstrously stupid" - FP Comment

President Obama’s proposal for a cap and trade system to head off global warming would be "monstrously stupid," according to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. CEO Charlie Munger, in an interview with CNBC. “It would be a huge shock to the economy and it wouldn’t accomplish very much given the fact that the vast majority of the pollution, or rather the CO2, is coming from a place like China. And so I think it would be almost demented if we would rush into cap and trade right now in the middle of this economic crisis.”

Snow, cold temperatures expected until weekend | greatfallstribune.com

Snow accumulations of 15 to 25 inches are expected in the mountains with 2 to 5 inches of snow at lower elevations.

Carbon [Swindle] Market Poised for Growth, More Cases of Carbon Credit Fraud

The fast-track growth of the global carbon trading market, which grew at a compound annual growth rate of 89 percent from 2005 to 2009, has also resulted in several carbon trading scams over the past year in the UK, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and now Germany as European countries put more policing efforts in place.

Tom Switzer: Australia's Changing Climate-Change Climate - WSJ.com

Costly cap-and-trade legislation isn't the political winner it once was.
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It was always going to be an uphill battle for the U.S. Congress to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation in an election year. But with Senator Lindsey Graham's likely decision to withdraw his support from the landmark bill, the prospects are now virtually zero.

That is not just because Mr. Graham had been the only Republican senator to endorse a broad approach to tackling global warming. It's because the climate, politically speaking, has changed dramatically since June when the House of Representatives narrowly passed a climate cap-and-tax bill. President Obama's decision to make immigration reform a higher priority in the Senate legislative calendar is a recognition of this reality: Cap-and-tax is dead. And not just in Washington either.

Review & Outlook: Climate-Change Cover-Up Down Under - WSJ.com

...no matter how hard governments try, it's hard to cover up the fact that the more the public learns about the science and cost of fighting global warming, the less popular it becomes. Expect more climate climb downs to come.

[Why isn't Obama stepping in to heal the planet?] - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

Neither Obama nor Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Graham's best friend at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., have contacted the South Carolina Republican since he withdrew support on Saturday, according to people familiar with the situation.

[Calgary: Is it May yet?: Record snowfall predicted]

CALGARY - Hopefully you didn't put the winter wear away and kept the snow tires on your vehicle because most of today is going to feel a lot like winter.

With winds expected to gust up to 80 km/h and a record 15 to 25 centimetres of snow predicted to fall by the time the storm ends this afternoon, Environment Canada officials are warning of dire conditions.

"There's the potential for dangerous winter weather conditions," said meteorologist Chris Wielki.

"There will be blowing snow in the morning and strong winds. We are forecasting a record snowfall."

SCANLON: Obama's Goldman game - Washington Times

In 2004, the Goldman Sachs Foundation shelled out $35.5 million to liberal nonprofit groups, mostly to environmental organizations such as the Nature Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society. There were no recorded contributions to conservative or free-market public-policy organizations. None.
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Meanwhile, Goldman supports mandatory government limits on carbon emissions and probably would reap huge profits from a cap-and-trade emissions-control policy. In 2006, Goldman paid $23 million to purchase a 10 percent interest in the Chicago Climate Exchange, the only U.S. exchange that conducts trading in carbon offsets.

Experts say the U.S. carbon-emissions market could be worth $1 trillion annually by 2020, but trading in carbon offsets won't generate much profit unless the federal government forces corporations to participate in the trading scheme. It's in the interests of Goldman, which as of 2007 had committed at least $1 billion to "carbon assets" alternative-energy projects, to lobby hard for carbon controls.

Eco-hero/cartoon character Al Gore travel update

April 30, 2010--Philippines
April 29, 2010--Johannesburg, South Africa
(April 28, 2010--We learn that Gore and his wife just bought an $8.875 million ocean-view villa with swimming pool, six fireplaces and nine bathrooms)
April 27, 2010--New York (afternoon)
April 27, 2010--Chicago (morning)
April 26, 2010--Denver
April 24, 2010--Italy
April 22, 2010--Montreal

You know, after examining how Al Gore lives, I'm seriously considering going to bed some night without unplugging all of my appliances.

Ed cetera | Not another nanny for Seattle Parks | Seattle Times Newspaper

In 2008, less than one year after he took the job, Gallagher seriously considered a staff recommendation to ban beach fires at Alki Beach and Golden Gardens because "the carbon ... emissions produced by thousands of beach fires per year contributes to global warming." This was an exercise in purely symbolic progressivism. It was plain silly; there was an uproar about it, and Gallagher backed away from it. But he didn't disagree with the idea of it.

Frightful weather equals delightful profit for Southern Company | al.com

MOBILE, Ala. -- A cold winter made for hot profit at Southern Company, the parent of Alabama Power Co.
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"It was the third-coldest winter in 116 years," Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David Ratcliffe told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "We like that a lot."
Reflecting the cold weather, residential power sales rose 20.6 percent.

World Climate Report » In Defense of Humans

According to a new study just published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the global climate would be about 5°F colder than present were it not for human carbon dioxide and methane emissions.
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The bottom line here is that the world would surely would be a colder, drier, and browner place had we not come along and warmed things up a bit (and thrown in some atmospheric fertilizer along the way).

Emission scheme's $30m in experts | The Australian

THE climate change carnival is over for consultants, with a clutch of experts, market researchers, economic modellers and accountants now forced to look elsewhere for high-level policy work, after the Rudd government dropped its emissions trading scheme into the deep freezer.

YouTube - Megyn Kelly Report on 'Hide The Decline'

On Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Megan Kelly of Fox News reported on 'Hide the Decline,' a satirical video featuring noted climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann. Mann has threatened to sue the videos producers, a group known as Minnesotans for Global Warming.

Global Climate Scam » Neil Cavuto Interviews Creator of ‘Hide the Decline’

Prince Charles' film to air on American TV

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, has made a film about climate change and attempts to find innovative solutions to global environmental problems that will be shown on U.S. television. NBC says it will air the TV movie, called Harmony, in November and described it as "an urgent, accessible and practical call to action." NBC said the movie, and a companion television special, grew out of three decades of work on the issue of climate change by Prince Charles.

Scoop: “Sunset Looms For Global Warming Industry”

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for Sunset Clauses to be inserted in all past and future Global Warming legislation.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that even though the Ration-N-Tax Scheme is on ice, Governments are still wasting billions of dollars to create an artificial global warming industry.

The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud - IBD - Investors.com

Cap-And-Trade: While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House.

Debating with warmists who think my children are doomed | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

[Video] From the 7pm Project last night. I must say that I enjoyed arguing with Earth Hour’s Todd Sampson and wish only that I could have stayed on to say what I thought of his ludicrous video afterwards.

American Thinker: The Climategate Investigation

Buried deep within the report is a compelling piece of evidence. In volume two, there is a memorandum submitted as evidence from Lord Lawson of Blaby, chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which was in response to four very significant questions from the investigating committee. This memo confirms the claims by many global warming skeptics that the scientists at CRU were trying to hide data and silence the skeptics.

The debate continues: Dr Glikson v Joanne Nova « JoNova

Reply to Andrew Glikson
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Throw away your thermometers, we found the “hot spot” with wind-gauges!

Al Gore's a villain, but I love my hybrid like I love America - 2010-Apr-29 - CultureMap Houston

As you may have guessed by now, my motivation for the purchase had absolutely nothing to do with helping Bond-villain-in-the-making Al Gore in his tireless crusade to become a very, very wealthy man. (If you think Gore's motivations are anything but purely capitalist, I’ve got a unicorn over here that I’d love to sell you.)

Farmers fear frost impact - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca

CENTREVILLE — Nova Scotia fruit farmers have suffered potentially the worst crop damage in almost 25 years.
...Frost kills the pistols and the ovaries, the reproductive part, of the delicate flower.

Turkish apricot dealers look for view on size of crop

TURKEY'S apricot crop suffered major damage from frost earlier this year and speculation abounds over the likely final crop size.

With subsidies in the balance, Obama speaks up for ethanol | Grist

While the BBC explores the dark underbelly of the biofuel craze, President Obama affirms his support for crop-based fuels.

Senate Climate Bill Trio Headed in Different Directions - NYTimes.com

[April 27] Prospects for the Senate climate bill grew even dimmer yesterday after the trio working on a comprehensive measure emerged from a closed-door meeting headed in separate directions -- both literally and figuratively.

The Migrant Mind: Blank sun, cosmic rays, clouds and cooling

[2009] Today's update: Cosmic Ray flux has hit an all time high for the space age! That should mean more clouds, increased albedo and a cooling earth--sorry AGW folk.

CNSNews.com - Harrison Ford to Green Critics: ‘I’ll Walk Everywhere When They Walk Everywhere,’ ‘I Only Fly One’ of My 7 Planes ‘At A Time’

(CNSNews.com) -- Actor, environmental activist and pilot Harrison Ford, who owns seven airplanes, told his environmental critics that he will "start walking everywhere when they start walking everywhere.”

Global warming picking up steam, Obama top science adviser says

“The problem that we have is that the world is getting most of the energy that its economies need in ways that are wrecking the climate that its environment needs,” Holdren said.

Seoul's daily high tumbles to lowest in 102 years

Seoul recorded a daily high of 7.8 Celsius at 2 p.m. Wednesday, the lowest temperature at the end of April since the nation started its weather observation in 1908, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said.

The previous low for the last 10 days of April was set in 1962, when the mercury stood at 10.1 C, KMA officials said.

Al Gore, Tipper Gore snap up Montecito-area villa - latimes.com

Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.

The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

Scoop: ETS goes down with Goldman Sucks

Did Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong decide to deep-freeze their emissions trading scheme (ETS), because Goldman Sucks was caught out and charged with fraud?

Remember, Goldman Sucks is the financial power behind carbon trading worldwide:

Goldman owns 10 per cent of Al Gore’s Chicago carbon exchange; Al Gore’s partners in his Generation Investment Management hedge fund in London are all former Goldman Sachs executives—David Blood, Mark Ferguson and Peter Harris; Malcolm Turnbull, the man who almost delivered the ETS, by cutting a deal with Rudd without his party’s support, is Goldman Sachs’ main man in Australia.

FOXNews.com - EXCLUSIVE: Citizen’s Group Plans Extensive Audit of U.N. Climate Report

A leading global warming skeptic recruited a group of concerned citizens to fact-check the sources referenced in the U.N.'s latest climate-change bible -- and gave the report an "F." Now she's planning the nail in the coffin: a comprehensive audit of the entire report.

Virginia: Vineyard Loses Grapes In Frost

A unseasonable frost last year forced the winery to purchase two tons of grapes from a supplier, costing them thousands.

Heyns says that could happen again if temperatures dip too low tonight.

Top 17 Signs Your Belief In Catastrophical AGW Is Going The Way Of The Dodos « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Fellow AGWer! Are you worried you’re losing the climate debate? Worry no more. It’s a certainty in 17 easy-to-spot signs!!

Mysterious Climate Bill Is "Like Sasquatch" | Mother Jones

While the authors have touted the industry support they've drawn for the bill, it's not yet clear whether that will pay off in votes. And it's not just senators who are wondering what the draft will actually look like. Environmental advocates said they have yet to see legislative text. One compared the legislation to Sasquatch, quipping that people have heard talk of the details and glimpsed rough outlines of the bill, but no one has yet laid eyes on the real deal.

Irony Deficient: WaPo 'On Faith' Frets About Climate Change | NewsBusters.org

Even though Hayhoe wrote, “we can take an honest look at the facts” she clearly failed to do so.

Global warming retreat – except for California’s government - Orange Punch : The Orange County Register

A little-reported, little-noticed big deal has been going on as the wheels fall off the global warming party bus.

The state air board in its wisdom continues to advance a cap-and-trade scheme to siphon money out of the private sector while coercing businesses to turn green, whether it profits or benefits them, let alone the rest of the world.

Public Policy Polling: McCain's numbers plummet

55% of voters disapprove of McCain to just 34% who give him good marks.

T. Boone Pickens: Climate Change Bill Is Coming, 'It's Too Important For The Security Of America' (VIDEO)

Pickens added that he'll support the legislation -- provided it includes the natural gas credits he called for. Pickens is pushing tax credits of $65,000 for the purchase of natural-gas powered trucks.  [Why doesn't Pickens mention the alleged climate crisis?]

The Hockey Schtick: Re-recorded History

The animation below shows how the surface, weather balloon, and even satellite data has been adjusted between years 1995, 2000, and 2006

Bluster comes back to Bite Rudd « JoNova

...The answer of course, is that Rudd was never that convinced–not in a “save my grandchildren” kind of way. He just took the easy option of bluff and bluster. He tried to bully the nation into helping him pass the legislation that would make him look like a hero to the UN.

If my iPhone charger is really causing the polar bears to starve, why would they eat just the seal fat before moving on?

Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

Once they kill a seal, polar bears will often eat only the fat and move on.

Butterfly numbers dwindle | The News-Sentinel - Fort Wayne IN

The cold weather has taken a toll on Florida butterfly breeders this year, and that is reflected in the smaller-than-normal numbers of butterflies in Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory’s annual exhibit.

“Our butterfly numbers are down this year; we are treating each chrysalis like it’s made from gold,” said Rebecca Canales, supervisor of public projects and volunteer development at the conservatory. Canales said normally they can get 300 in a shipment; the last one had 80.

EPPING FOREST: MPs expenses dominate at political hustings (From This Is Local London)

The candidates were also asked for their opinions on climate change.

Mrs Richardson said she thought global warming was a “scam”.

Mr Smith said he was not entirely convinced there was global warming but UKIP's policy was to encourage greater production of nuclear power plants.

[Damn the observations; full speed ahead]: Sea ice loss driving Arctic warming cycle, scientists confirm | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Study identifies cycle of ice loss and temperature rise that could see Arctic's icy cover disappear sooner than expected

Blog: Michael Levi » Blog Archive » Will a Climate [Scam] Bill Cost Iran $100 Million a Day?

The effect could be comparable to the one that CAP focuses on: an 0.1 mb/d drop in Iranian production (against a backdrop of 4 mb/d of production and $100/bbl oil prices) would hit Iranian revenues to the tune of $10 million each day.

Planet Panelists: The bill should move - Ezra Klein

What you're seeing here is why the climate bill was always doomed. Graham is under murderous pressure to drop the thing. No other Republicans have announced their support. It's an election year, and cap-and-tax is going to be a major theme on conservative talk radio. The evident fragility of Graham's commitment to the project is not evidence of bad faith, per se, but it's evidence that there was no way this bill could survive the polarizing political process.

[Generous with other peoples' money: US to increase climate hoax fund for Bangladesh]

The US is going to more than double its financial assistance in the coming financial year to help Bangladesh addresses challenges of climate change. United States Climate Envoy Ambassador Todd Stern stated this when he met with Bangladesh Speaker Abdul Hamid Advocate, MP and accompanying delegation in the State Department yesterday.

Amazon.com: Conned With the Wind: Obama's Climatic Hoax (Volume 1) (9781449917517): Georges Metanomski: Books

In 1835 the story "The Emperor's New Clothes" was published in Copenhagen. In December 2009 the same Copenhagen welcomes the Climate­Emperor Obama dressed up in wind woven clothes, swearing to choke with them the Global Warming. Is there still a child left who'll dare to say that the Emperor is naked?

Planet Panelists: KGL: "Kill the Good Life" - William O'Keefe

We may never know whether there was broken faith or whether Senator Graham simply went wobbly. Whatever the reason, the outcome may be no climate bill this year. If that is the case, it is unlikely that there will be one next year. That outcome would be good for the American people because the Senate seems to be wedded to a fatally flawed approach: cap and trade.

Deutsche Bank, RWE Raided in German Probe of CO2 Tax (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

April 28 (Bloomberg) -- German prosecutors searched Deutsche Bank AG and RWE AG in a raid on 230 offices and homes nationwide to investigate 180 million euros ($238 million) of tax evasion linked to emissions trading.

No Frakking Consensus: IPCC Falls for Press Release Masquerade

A press release was transformed into a news article that was later cited as evidence by the IPCC's climate bible - a document on which governments around the world base multi-billion-dollar decisions.

Mario Solis-Marich: Reid on Immigration VS Climate: Whatever Comes First

While the climate change proposal is of great importance the passion for it pales to that of immigration reform by the Democratic base and now of a growing number of independents shocked by Arizona's latest draconian effort.

This is Science? | Climate Skeptic

This looks like something a bunch of grad students might have dreamed up in a 10-minute brainstorming session over a few beers. 
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Remember, the point of this all is not science, but funding. This is basically a glossy budget presentation. Obama has said that climate is really, really important to him. He has frozen a lot of agency budgets, and told them new money is only for programs that supports his major initiatives, like climate change. So, every agency says that their every problem is due to climate change, just as every agency under Bush said that they were critical to fighting terrorism. This document is the NIH salvo to get climate change money, not actual science.

Department of Hot Air costing $90 million | The Daily Telegraph

TAXPAYERS will fork out $90 million a year to keep more than 400 public servants employed within the federal Climate Change Department - despite most now having nothing to do until 2013.

More than 60 of them are classified as senior executive staff on salaries between $168,000 and $298,000 a year. Their salary bill alone will cost an estimated $12 million every year.

A further $8 million will also be paid in rent for plush offices at Canberra's Constitution Place until 2012, where it is believed 500 new computers will be delivered this week.

Paul H. Rubin: Environmentalism as Religion - WSJ.com

While people have worshipped many things, we may be the first to build shrines to garbage.
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Many observers have made the point that environmentalism is eerily close to a religious belief system, since it includes creation stories and ideas of original sin. But there is another sense in which environmentalism is becoming more and more like a religion: It provides its adherents with an identity.

Global Cooling until 2030 by Girma Orssengo, B. Tech, MASc, PhD | Climate Realists

As shown in the chart above, if the global mean temperature cycle behaves the way it behaved for the last 130 years, there will be global cooling until 2030. In contrast, the IPCC projections that started its divergence away from observed temperature about 2005 will continue its imaginary trajectory towards its exaggerated target temperature.

Can Global Warming Give You Kidney Stones? - The Climate Report - The Atlantic

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that kidney stones could increase by 30 percent or more in some areas of the US, due to dehydration. That would cost the US health care system more than $1 billion per year.

If this is true, should we try to make it cooler outside for our grandchildren by not using our fossil-fueled air conditioners on very hot days?

Barbara Hollingsworth: Fannie Mae owns patent on residential 'cap and trade' exchange | Washington Examiner

The patent, which Fannie Mae confirmed it still owns with Cantor Fitzgerald subsidiary CO2e.com, gives the mortgage giant a lock on the fledgling carbon trading market, thus also giving it a major financial stake in the success of cap-and-trade [swindle] legislation.

FOXNews.com - U.N.'s Environmental Housekeeping in Chaos, Internal Report Shows

The U.N. is telling countries how to save the planet, but its own environmental housekeeping is a 'scattered' mess, according to a report by a special group of internal investigators.

CNSNews.com - Government Report Says Global Warming May Cause Cancer, Mental Illness

(CNSNews.com) – A new government report says global warming could lead to an increase in both cancer and mental illness worldwide, and it calls for more federally funded research to determine how that might happen.

Yet another lead author falsely cited; tourism mistake in the AR4 « ClimateQuotes.com

Schizo Sea Ice « the Air Vent

You can see that global sea ice has achieved a net change of about zero in over 30 years of global warming.

IPCC's River Of Lies - IBD - Investors.com

Global Warming: Another shoe has dropped from the IPCC centipede as scientists in Bangladesh say their country will not disappear below the waves. As usual, the U.N.'s climate charlatans forgot one tiny detail.

Another Russian Scientist: Arctic Is Cooling « P Gosselin – NoTricksZone

He says the cooling is due to the polar night and the associated missing sunlight, and this as a result will lead to ice formation. Some scientists are warning that politicians and corporations who promise lucrative oil and gas projects in the Arctic may have made dramatic miscalculations. The researchers say that no warming will take place, instead cooling will impact the earth over the next decades.

Twitter / Brad Johnson: [US Rep Jay Inslee compares CO2 to an oil slick]

Inslee: The oil slick is the least of our problems with oil -- there's an invisible oil slick around the world of greenhouse pollution

[Or what?]: Next government has 100 days to move Britain on to low-carbon track | Peter Young | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Look at this completely non-orchestrated, non-well funded, grassroots protest featuring all the professionally-made similar-looking signs!

Why Democrats shouldn't toy with Lindsey Graham - CNN.com

Here's the truth: Senators are not excited about voting on either measure before the election.

Climate change legislation could require tax increases, although one late compromise version eliminates the "carbon linkage fee" and replaces it with a plan that would allow companies to buy carbon allowances. Even so, as one aide to a senator in the Democratic leadership told me, "after stimulus, after the bailouts, after health care, the last thing Democrats want to do is vote on something that could be called a tax raiser."

Robert J. Shapiro: Goldman Scandal Erodes Case For Cap and Trade

Given what we've learned in the past few years -- and especially in the past few weeks -- about how Wall Street operates, do we really want to entrust it with the fate of the planet?

Pictures; Record snowfall totals in Vermont

Vermont, as well as other New England states, along with Jay Peak Resort, received record snow fall totals between April 27 and 28. Some areas reported nearly 2 feet of snow.

Twitter / Kate Sheppard

Kerry says they're sending climate bill to EPA for analysis. Meanwhile, I can't find a single senator outside KGL who has *actually* seen it