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Cap-and-trade only issue Senate candidates agree on | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal...because of the potential harm that might inflict on Kentucky’s coal industry, the two top Democrats and two top Republicans in the May 18 Senate primary all oppose the idea.
“It would be tantamount to political suicide for a candidate of either political party to support it,” said Republican campaign consultant Ted Jackson. “… It would have a severe punitive economic impact on everyone in the state.”
With Elections Near, Australia's Rudd Backs Off Ambitious Carbon Trading Plan - TIMEAustralia is not alone in its inability to come to an arrangement to slow climate change, but it's probably the most red-faced. "Post-Copenhagen, I don't think any world leader was as religiously zealous as Rudd on climate change," said McKibbin. "It looks absolutely ridiculous on the world's stage... the Prime Minister acknowledged it was too hard and shifted focus to something else, instead of trying to propose a better policy."
EU drops energy regulations that could have shut Drax | Business | The GuardianPressure from the British government and energy companies has encouraged the European Union to drop new regulations that could have led to the closure of Drax and other heavily polluting coal-fired power stations within six years.
Al Fin: Negative Climate Feedbacks Mock Carbon HysteriaIt is time to call a "time out" from the hysteria, and to begin an intensive program of data collection, correlation, and analysis. There is nothing moral or enlightened about being hoodwinked and bamboozled by criminals and opportunists.
[Michael Mann: one of the "heroes of the environmental movement"?]Two experts and heroes of the environmental movement – Dr. Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice, and Dr. Michael Mann, one of the world’s preeminent climate scientists, were the keynote speakers. (Stay tuned for videos of their presentations.)
This podcast features a panel discussion on global warming policies that are great for the environment, the economy, and create great green jobs.
Nebraska: Record overnight lows in PanhandleJesse Lundquist, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cheyenne, Wyo., said the temperature in Alliance, Neb., dropped to 14. The previous record for May 8 was 29 set in in 1976.
In Scottsbluff, the temperature dropped to 21. The previous record was 23 from 1898. Sidney's temperature fell to 25. The previous record was 27 in 2002.
May snow in Minnesota | StarTribune.comSnow reaches the Twin Cities (around 3 am Saturday morning), but cuts off before it can accumulate. One of the latest observations of snow in MSP history.
* 2-5" snow falls over northeastern third of Minnesota and Wisconsin Friday night - Saturday morning.
Die Klimazwiebel: Himalaya claim significantly used by IPCC vice chair in November 2009it shows that the false claim of a consensus view in this matter was not just somewhere hidden in a technical document, but used prominently by leading IPCC persons, namely a vice chair of AR4, and - as it seems - the new chair of WG 2.
Cameron's first stupid mistake – Telegraph BlogsNot content with having destroyed British conservatism, David Cameron has decided he might as well go the whole hog and finish off the British economy as well.
He announced it yesterday as one of his key priorities if and when he forms his Coalition of the Suicidal with Nick Clegg. He said he would make “the creation of a low carbon economy a priority.”
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A low carbon economy is virtually the same thing as NO economy.
The Crisis Comes Ashore | The New RepublicMost of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases is stored in the oceans and reemerges over time into the atmosphere. As a result, we are capable-–through inaction—of making truly disastrous consequences inevitable long before the worst impacts are manifested. Our perception of the dangers of the climate crisis therefore relies on our ability to understand and trust the conclusions reached by the most elaborate and impressive scientific assessment in the history of our civilization.
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During the last 22 years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has produced four massive studies warning the world of the looming catastrophe that is being caused by the massive dumping of global-warming pollution into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, this process has been vulnerable to disruption and paralysis by a cynical and lavishly funded disinformation campaign. A number of large carbon polluters, whose business plans rely on their continued ability to freely dump their gaseous waste products into the global atmospheric commons—as if it is an open sewer—have chosen to pursue a determined and highly organized campaign aimed at undermining public confidence in the accuracy and integrity of the global scientific community.
...The largest carbon polluters have, for the last 17 years, sought to manipulate public opinion with a massive and continuing propaganda campaign, using TV advertisements and all other forms of mass persuasion.
R K Pachauri - BiographyThe name of Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director General of TERI and Chairman of the IPCC has become synonymous with climate change and the environment. Internationally recognised as a leading global thinker and leader of research, the more so since sharing the podium with Al Gore to receive the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, he has effortlessly worn these two hats. Now, however, he finds himself catapulted into a third unnamed role as international statesman promoting climate change awareness. As the world wakes up to the reality of imminent climate change, environmental issues have suddenly taken on an extra urgency and Dr Pachauri's work schedule has expanded enormously. These days he is constantly on the move, criss -crossing the globe to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counter such change.
Eminent U.S. Climate Researchers Stand United on Science, Policy Action | SolveClimate.comThe decision to let Monckton testify outraged Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who said the fact that the GOP "couldn't produce one scientist to deny this clear consensus...says a lot about the status of this debate, which we should not be having."
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) had similarly harsh words for Monckton.
"I find it a little embarrassing and sad that the minority's witness is a journalist with no scientific training, who didn't come here with any information against the science," said Blumenauer. "It's entertaining but...there's nothing here that contradicts the basic science."
Let the Sun Set on Solar Subsidies | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.The country that leads the clean energy economy will lead the global economy. We’ve heard some version of that story a number of times from President Obama, whether it be in his State of the Union address or trying to sell the stimulus at wind and solar manufacturing plants across the country. Countries like Spain and Germany are leading the race in the clean energy; as President Obama says, “they’re making real investments in renewable energy.” But what’s at the finish line? If Spain and Germany provide any indication, it’s a slumping economy, and both countries are cutting back the subsidies:
ASA - ASA Adjudication on World Wildlife FundBecause polar bears were officially classified as vulnerable and threatened, and because we understood that the overall trend for polar bear numbers was in decline, we concluded that the ad did not give a misleading impression of the status of polar bear numbers.
Climate Common Sense: Abbott Flies his True Sceptic Colours to ChildrenTony Abbott has something Kevin Rudd lacks and it is called a spine and he is one of the few political leaders in the world willing to bet his career in opposing the Global Warming campaign.
John Bittman column: Global warming reaction is nonsense What's remarkable to me is that there is an almost-religious fervor attached to global warming, when any churl would see that it's global baloney. Politicians at Kyoto and Copenhagen were trying to spend trillions of dollars based on science that any churl would know is nonsense.
Politicians who lined up to support global warming by voting for cap and trade, and the loons at the Environmental Protection Agency who have named carbon dioxide as a poisonous gas, have two things in common. They are idiots and they should be removed.
In summary, global warming existed from about 1650 until 1998. Humans were not the cause, ever. Anyone who says differently is after your money, a hoaxer, a pathological liar or all of the above — at least in this churl's opinion.
The Reference Frame: Roy Spencer: feedbacks seem to erase most of warmingThe figures 6 or 10 W/m^2/°C lead to something like 0.5 or 0.3 °C warming per CO2 doubling, well below the 3 °C "best estimate" of the IPCC. If this figure were true, the observed 20th century warming would already be greater than the effect of doubling. That would mean that by 2100, we should expect a slight cooling because the total warming has already "overshot" the calculated CO2-induced warming - and we may expect the natural warming (which was a part of the observed one) to be undone.
Dr Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC - No Fossil Fool | OriginalsMuch has been written over recent months about the enigmatic Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC), Dr Rajendra K Pachauri. He has been labeled a crook and a fraudster by some, because of his extensive interests in companies that stand to benefit from carbon trading, but those searching for direct and actionable evidence of wrong-doing will be disappointed.
What they will find is someone who has used his position as IPCC Chairman to attract major funding to his own organization, The Energy and Resources Institute2 (TERI), known previously (and concurrently by some), as the Tata Energy Research Institute. [Full report here]
Speaking of Pachauri, his blog seems to have gone awayUnder Maintenance
Majority of Arkansans believe global warming unproven, poll finds | Arkansas NewsOn the question of whether participants felt global warming was a scientifically established reality, 66 percent said it was unproven, 25 percent said it was a reality and 9 percent said they did not know.
“I think the results show a distrust for authority in general and scientific authority in particular,” Bass said.
On whether they support cap-and-trade, which is in the clean-energy bill now before Congress, 55 percent said they oppose the legislation, 22 percent said they support it and 23 percent they are undecided.
J. Brad Coker, managing partner of Mason-Dixon, said he’s not surprised by the poll results, and that they reflect answers to similar questions in other states.
ABC News Watch: Fake photo used in Science articleCOMMENT: ABC recently reported on a letter signed by 250 scientists published in the journal Science.
The letter is accompanied by a photo of a lone Polar Bear on an ice berg credited to ISTOCKPHOTO.COM. The photo is a fake with the following note in the photo caption at Istockphoto: "This images is a photoshop design. Polarbear, ice floe, ocean and sky are real, they were just not together in the way they are now."
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What does the use of a faked photo say about the scientific credibility of the journal in question?
Report overstates environmental cancer risk, group says - TwinCities.comA dire government report on cancer risks from chemicals and other hazards in the environment has drawn criticism from the American Cancer Society, which says government experts are overstating their case.
Cold temperatures set records around Utah | Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Alpine, Brigham City and Brigham Young University all set or tied record low maximum temperature readings Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
Alpine shivered at 46 degrees to break the 1975 record for May 6 of 48 degrees. Brigham City was 45 degrees, compared with its 47-degree record set in 1965.
BYU tied a May 6, 1917, record by only climbing to 50 degrees Thursday.
Sen. Graham Officially Backs Away From Climate Change Legislation « The Speakers LobbySen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., officially backed away from climate change legislation Friday, citing the current political environment will make it “impossible” to pass the bill.
Snow falling in northern MinnesotaMINNEAPOLIS -- Snow is already falling in northern Minnesota along U.S. Highway 2 from Grand Forks through Bemidji and east into Duluth. Two to four inches of accumulation is possible in the arrowhead by Saturday morning.
Electric car drivers fear being stranded with flat battery - Times OnlineThe era of carefree motoring may soon be over, according to a study which reveals that drivers of the new generation of electric cars are plagued by nagging fears of being left stranded by a flat battery.
They narrow their horizons and rarely venture far from home, abandoning the old notion of the freedom of the open road.
A six-month trial involving 264 drivers found that almost all experienced “range anxiety” and travelled only short distances.
Monsoons & Megadroughts | The Resilient EarthWe find ourselves in a familiar situation, with climate science coming down firmly on both sides of the question. Some scientists say more drought, others say more precipitation—competing theories abound, all incorrect or untested. There is strong evidence that pre-climate change times saw multi-decade periods of persistent El Niño and La Niña conditions. You can bet if such conditions arose today that they would be loudly proclaimed a result of global warming, even though such events are perfectly normal. My future climate prediction is for possibly wet weather except in areas of drought—the way things have been since the beginning of the Holocene. Truly, there is nothing new under the Sun.
Clash of the Titans: Endangered Tortoises vs. Solar Power DevelopersAside from the entertainment value of observing environmentalists being hoisted with their own petard, a more sobering aspect of the solar project in question is that it is part of a larger planned "solar farm" the size of Rhode Island. How's that for a small footprint? And the term "solar farm" deceptively sounds very Earth-friendly, though it doesn't at all represent the fact of thousands of square miles covered by nothing but solar panels.
The image of an actual "solar farm" shown above gives us a better idea of why desert dwellers of any and every species might object to having their neighborhood turned into one. The particular section of the "solar farm" under discussion would have "seven 459-foot metal towers, a natural gas pipeline, water tanks, steam turbine generators, boilers and buildings for administration and maintenance," all "surrounded by 8-foot steel fencing."
WWF: Expect Snowfalls in July! « P Gosselin – NoTricksZoneWarmer and yet snowfalls in the summertime? You gotta be kidding.
[If you scoff at the global warming scam, does it mean that you don't love your kids?]In his "Odds of Cooking the Grandchildren" Staniford shows us the implications of a PNAS paper that I'd missed:
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Moreover, ask yourself whether you consider a 5% chance of that outcome an acceptable risk. There's an answer - it involves rapid deindustrialization, it would be difficult, politically complex, painful and costly. So it comes down to this very basic question - how much do all of us really love our kids and our grandkids?
The Reference Frame: Twelve percent of NAS establish their AGW inquisitionYesterday, 255 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences - which has 2100 members in total - signed an open but paid letter in Science:
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Such letters usually create lots of noise but we shouldn't forget that the signatories represent just a fringe minority of the National Academy of Sciences so this letter doesn't directly imply that the whole academy is rotten.
'Climate Change Scientists' Numbers Dropping Dramatically - Minnesotans For Global WarmingThere used to be 2,500 scientists who believe in Global Warming now there are only 250.
Today in a desperate attempt to restore their reputations a mere 250 scientists came forward to do damage control from the hacked emails that exposed their Ponzi scheme last fall.
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On the other side of the debate 31,000 regular old "Scientists" have signed a petition saying they don't believe in Global Warming.
So let's see, that means 123 Out Of 124 Scientist DON'T Believe in Global Warming!
C3: France's Grape Region Records Slight Cooling Since Medieval Warming, Peer-Reviewed Research FindsFrance's Burgundy region farmers, famous for their wines, also had the foresight to record grape harvest data going back to the ending of the Medieval Warming Period. Using that evidence, researchers constructed a temperature record revealing a very slight cooling since the hot temperatures of the Medieval Warming.
Clearly, this unique record reveals that modern era temperatures are in no manner "unprecedented," especially when compared to the warmth of the lengthy period that stretches from 1370 through the 1600's.
Recent Variations In Upper Ocean Heat Content – Information From Phil Klotzbach « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.The Climate Prediction Center recently released its equatorial upper ocean heat content for April 2010. One of the primary areas that they focus on is the equatorial heat content averaged over the area from 180-100W. The decrease in upper ocean heat content from March to April was 1C, which is the largest decrease in equatorial upper ocean heat content in this area since the CPC began keeping records of this in 1979. The upwelling phase of a Kelvin wave was likely somewhat responsible for this significant cooling.
Lindsey Graham: “It’s not a global warming bill to me.” | GlobalWarming.orgAlthough the bill includes a cap-and-trade program for the electric power sector, which is to be extended over time to other sectors of the economy, Graham is still asserting that it’s neither a cap-and-trade bill nor a global warming bill. He stated: “It’s not a global warming bill to me. Because global warming as a reason to pass legislation doesn’t exist anymore.” He also explained: “There is no bipartisan support for a cap-and-trade bill based on global warming.”
Permit me to translate Graham’s Clintonese: “We want capntrade even if the original and central rationale is no longer credible, and oh, by the way, we’re not calling it capntrade anymore. I’m in this to win but I’ll be a no-show when Kerry and Lieberman introduce the non-global warming, non-capntrade, global warming-capntrade bill.”
Senator Graham calls for pause in climate billThe spill started when an oil rig exploded and sank, rupturing the underwater oil well lines.
That disaster, Graham said in a prepared statement, "creates new policy and political challenges not envisioned in our original discussions. In light of this, I believe it would be wise to pause the process and reassess where we stand."
'New Yorker' Editor [reports on Gore before he became a full-time global warming scam artist] : NPRIn the months after losing the battle for Florida's electoral votes and conceding the Presidency to George W. Bush, on December 13, 2000, Gore seemed to let himself go, dropping out of sight, traveling around Spain, Italy, and Greece for six weeks with his wife, Tipper.
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When Al and Tipper Gore had recovered from the initial shock of the 2000 election, they spent $2.3 million on the house they live in now: a hundred-year-old colonial on Lynwood Boulevard, in the Belle Meade section of Nashville. They still own a place in Arlington, Virginia — a house that was built by Tipper's grandfather — and a ninety-acre cattle farm in the Gore family seat of Carthage, Tennessee; but Arlington was perilously close to Washington, and Carthage was too remote for a full-time residence, especially for Tipper...There are fewer books and more televisions than you might expect....A 2004 black Cadillac, which Gore drives, was parked in the driveway. A '65 Mustang — a Valentine's Day gift from Al to Tipper — was parked in the garage.
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Excerpted from Reporting by David Remnick Copyright (c) 2006 by David Remnick.
[39% would vote to re-elect Obama]Only 39% of voters said they would vote to re-elect Pres. Obama if the election were held today, while 50% say they would vote for someone else.
Advocacy By Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Yangyang Xu In The PNAS[Richard Lindzen] “In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity, and where the primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage.”
ABC's Catalyst: increased CO2 is bad for plants | Australian Climate MadnessYou thought increasing CO2 in the atmosphere would be good for plants? Wrong. It's bad, and the ABC's "science" programme jumps on this research without pausing for breath. Brilliant.
Name-calling fairy dust: “Conspiracy Theorist” « JoNovaThe USS Skate surfaced at the North Pole in 1959, and the US Navy has photos of it.
Warming of Greenland? « Calder's UpdatesThe strongest reasons for doubting the man-made global warming hypothesis come from pre-industrial climate change. During the past 10,000 years, since soon after the end of the last ice age, there have been bigger ups and downs in global temperatures than during the 20th Century. Yet according to the IPCC, citing measurements of gas trapped in polar ice, the concentration of CO2 varied by only about 20 ppm throughout those 10,000 years – less than a quarter of the change during the 20th Century.
So whatever caused the pre-industrial climate changes, it was not CO2.
BBC News - Today - Ozone hole discoverer's warningDr Farman also blamed the science establishment for "brushing aside" specific criticisms of climate science. It is impossible, for instance, properly to peer-review computer climate projections from the Met Office, he says.
"Show me paper from the Hadley Centre and invite me to peer review it - I simply can't… it took 2,000 man years to write it!" The fact that other models reproduced the findings was not in itself conclusive, he says, adding "It's getting peer review into bad odour."
He said the teams investigating the controversy at the University of East Anglia should have invited some climate sceptics on board. "Lord Oxburgh's review (which cleared researchers at the Climatic Research Unit of any wrong-doing) was not convincing, he said.
Pajamas Media » Climategate: Sensenbrenner Report Challenges EPA Greenhouse Finding (PJM Exclusive)Rep. James Sensenbrenner today releases a report calling the science behind the EPA's endangerment finding for carbon dioxide into question.
House approves $6 billion cash for caulkers program - May. 6, 2010NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- House lawmakers on Thursday approved a $6 billion measure that aims to provide rebates to homeowners who invest in energy efficiency improvements -- but not without a fight from Republicans.
American Thinker Blog: Global warming folliesThis purposeful misrepresentation and propagandizing of science in order to enrich a political elite and enslave a populace makes me so angry I could burst into flame.
After Climategate Attacks, Climate Scientists Fight Back - TIMEHas any field suffered a faster drop in public confidence than climate science?
UK Election Results: What Next? - Better GenerationThe nagging doubt, however, that there is still a climate-sceptic wing in the Conservative Party. David Cameron comes across reasonably well on green issues compared to the party; only four of the 635 Conservative candidates contacted gave their support to four policy pledges on the environment put to them by Friends of the Earth. The fear for those who want action on energy and climate change is that if Cameron can forge a government, particularly without having to rely on the Lib Dems, there could little desire for significant action.
Show Us What You've Spent to Lobby, and What $$ You Expect to Gain, CEO Told - Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog - A Conservative BlogAs predicted, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers was on the hot seat Thursday as the National Center's Tom Borelli and Deneen Borelli pressured him to reveal just how much money the utility expects to make from the global warming cap-and-trade regulations for which it is lobbying.
ReliefWeb » Document » Africa needs about $3 bln a year [in climate swindle cash] - "expert"NAIROBI (AlertNet) - The cost of preparing the world's agriculture to deal with increasing global temperatures will be $7 billion annually, a senior climate change researcher said this week at an African conference designed to push farming up the climate change agenda.
Another Global Warming Scientist Slates Legal Probe by John O'Sullivan | Climate RealistsThe Evidence Shows Probable Cause
If anyone doubts Cuccinelli’s just cause then I suggest they read the Wegman Report, those leaked Climategate emails plus the British investigation known as the Oxburgh Committee Report.
Small investors could be big losers under federal climate change [hoax] legislationSmall investors could be big losers if a greenhouse gas reduction plan known as cap and trade becomes law and accounting standards for carbon credits have not been established, according to a new study released today by a University of California, Davis, professor.
All Opinions Are Local - Climategate's real perpetratorThe recent attacks on climate science, including the accusations against Mr. Mann, a former University of Virginia professor, have been repeatedly investigated and thoroughly dismissed. Most recently, a panel appointed by Penn State, Mr. Mann’s current affiliation, cleared him of any significant misconduct. The National Academy of Sciences also reviewed the underlying research and found it to be sound.
The science has proved solid, and more political attacks can’t change that fact...
The writer is director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Climate Center.
[Mansion-dwelling, frequent-flying Tom Friedman] - No Fooling Mother Nature - NYTimes.com...we need to remember that even if we halted all off-shore drilling, all we would be doing is moving the production to other areas outside the U.S., probably with even weaker environmental laws.
[China.Is.Using.An.Awesome.Amount.Of.Fossil.Fuel] - NYTimes.comHONG KONG — Even as China has set ambitious goals for itself in clean-energy production and reduction of global warming gases, the country’s surging demand for power from oil and coal has led to the largest six-month increase in the tonnage of human generated greenhouse gases ever by a single country.
Europe's Carbon Mafia, And Ours - IBD - Investors.comAll across Europe authorities have been conducting raids, rounding up individuals involved in a new version of Climate-gate. This time the data aren't corrupted. Europe's Emissions Trading System is. The system is so sick, it's turned out to be a scam built upon a scam.
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Climate change has been found to be a fraud. Now the system to fight it has been. Yet it's that system the administration and others want to establish here through cap-and-trade legislation such as Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer.
Peru to require $400 million annually for [climate swindle] : Peruvian TimesPeru will require some $400 million annually to mitigate affects from climate change, Environment Minister Antonio Brack said Thursday.
Los Altos Town Crier - Climate-change discussion warms up: Veteran talk-show host launches bookSponsored by the South Peninsula Area Republican Coalition, Brian Sussman – veteran Bay Area TV meteorologist and current KSFO radio talk-show host – appeared before a supportive crowd of more than 160 people Friday at Main Street Cafe & Books in Los Altos for his first book signing.
Sussman’s book, “Climategate” (WND Books, 2010), released Thursday, is based on the theory that the global-warming and environmental movement is a hoax propagated by liberals to accumulate money. Sussman said the release of his book on Earth Day symbolizes his conviction that the day has never been a celebration of Earth, but an attack on man.
“There’s something else going on with this global-warming scam,” Sussman said to loud applause and approving nods. “I want to get the word out, and we need to stop this nonsense.”
» The Kerry-BP ‘Energy Refund’ Bill - Big GovernmentAhhhh. “Big Oil” has been working closely with Kerry to draft a bill to…make sure the government takes your money to give it all back. That sounds like a perfectly reasonable explanation and logical use of a company’s lobbying dollars.
Could CO2 be the green fuel powering tomorrow's cars? | Environment | guardian.co.ukImagine a green fuel that could power our cars, keep the wheels of industry turning, and wean us off our addiction to oil - a fuel called CO2
NC Media Watch: AB32 Update: Opponents are re-framing the issue to dirty air!We all know that CO2 is not dirty, as it is what humans exhale. It is also an essential component for plant growth. We also know that increasing CO2 will only have a minimum impact on temperatures. So, opponents have to re-frame the issue to dirty air from dirty Texas energy companies.
UK hardy stocks reassessed after two cold winters Two cold winters have caused growers and gardeners to reassess what is hardy in the UK after years of successfully bringing exotics into the country.
Iowa: Cold weather poses threat to corn cropThis spring has been a positive one thus far for farmers with corn planting moving along at a record pace, but cold weather could slow that momentum. Frost is a possibility for some areas of northern Iowa this weekend, and Iowa State University agronomist Roger Elmore that would set back the corn growth.
One of Minnesota's Latest May Snowfalls Appears Imminent | StarTribune.comPaul's Star Tribune Outlook for the Twin Cities and all of Minnesota
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Friday night: Rain changes to snow, 1-2" slush by morning (2-4" far north metro, towards Mille Lacs, Princeton and Taylors Falls). Low: 33
Cold Weather Hurts Crops EASTERN OREGON - "The frost last night nipped my potatoes that were up real nice," said Hermiston farmer John Finley.
That's what happens when temps get down to nearly freezing in May.
John Finley is now covering his crops - which makes them grow more slowly. It's bad timing since the Pendleton farmers' market opens Friday.
a bad patch of crops could cost growers several thousand dollars as the season goes on. All thanks to the weather.
Asparagus farm takes hit from recent cold weather - KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA FRANKLIN COUNTY, Wash-- For asparagus workers at Middletons Six Sons Farms, recent cold weather has been devastating for their crop. They only pick about 30 buckets worth of vegetables out of 180 acres.
"We usually expect approximately 1,000 boxes a day," Laura Middleton explains.
Arizona: Cold snap brings wine growers out to defend vineyards with heat"Last year we lost 60 tons of grapes - mostly of two (white grape) varietals that were out, when we had an early April frost. This year, every varietal is out, and we'd lose almost all of our crop - red and white would have a negative affect," he said.
Cold, Wet Spring Threatens Wyoming Sugar Beets POWELL, Wyo. (AP) ― Sugar beet growers in the Big Horn Basin are worried that the windy, cold and wet spring may damage their crops.
Ric Rodriguez says he lost some beets this week but he wasn't sure how many. Keith Murray says he's worried about subfreezing temperatures but hasn't had time to check because he's busy with other crops.
ETS a con job' says ACT spokesman | Stuff.co.nzThe Government is "conning" the public as it forges ahead with an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), despite Australia delaying its own scheme until 2013, says ACT MP and climate change spokesman John Boscawen.
Most unconvinced climate change man-madeTwo out of three Australians are not convinced climate change is man-made, and even those who do believe it is aren't prepared to pay much to fix it, a new poll shows.
Testimony of The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Before Congress May 6, 2010Then the “global warming” that we might forestall if we shut down the entire global carbon economy for a full year would be 8.5 ln[(388+2)/388] = 0.044 F. At that rate, almost a quarter of a century of global zero-carbon activity would be needed in order to forestall just one Fahrenheit degree of “global warming”. Two conclusions ineluctably follow. First, it would be orders of magnitude more cost effective to adapt to any “global warming” that might occur than to try to prevent it from occurring by trying to tax or regulate emissions of carbon dioxide in any way.
Secondly, there is no hurry. Even after 23 years doing nothing to address the imagined problem, and even if the IPCC has not exaggerated CO2’s warming effect fourfold, the world will be just 1 F warmer than it is today. If the IPCC has exaggerated fourfold, the world can do nothing for almost a century before global temperature rises by 1 F. There are many urgent priorities that need the attention of Congress, and it is not for me as an invited guest in your country to say what they are. Yet I can say this much: on any view, “global warming” is not one of them.
William M. Briggs, Statistician » I’m Sick of All These Climate Skeptic DeniersThere are a lot of people out there—unqualified, un-degreed, un-peer-reviewed people—who actively reject the consensus among climate skeptics. These people are rank deniers.
In New Paltz, a Heated Exchange Over 114 Years of Highs and Lows - WSJ.com"The site is optimal for daily climate analysis," write Ben Cook and his co-authors, noting that the station has been in the same spot and has had methodical recording over the years.
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Self-described climate-change critic Anthony Watts of Chico, Calif., questions such claims following a 2009 investigation of the Mohonk site by surfacestations.org, a website that researches and challenges climate station records and surveys. The former TV weather forecaster and weather equipment entrepreneur notes that the thermometer box is wind-sheltered and is situated near artificial heat sources, such as a building with a chimney, and that there are trees nearby, the shade and reflections from which can influence temperature readings.
He also notes the thermometer box is 29 inches from the ground; 59 inches is the standard. "They err in saying that site is optimal," said Mr. Watts. "The lower the thermometer and closer to the surface of the earth it is, the warmer the temperature."
Peter H. Gleick: Climate Change [Fraud] and the Integrity of ScienceAre the climate deniers going to go away? No. Nothing will convince them, since science hasn't. There are still people -- a lot of people -- who do not believe in evolution, or plate tectonics, or the Big Bang theory. But the longer that policymakers hesitate to act, the more the balance will shift to suffering. I believe that history will prove those delaying action to be dangerously wrong, at a time when it is urgent that society be courageously right.
Socialist Lefty Alex White [trained by Al Gore?]He’s a young official of the ultra-left controlled Victorian branch National Tertiary Education Union and is not someone we would normally find ourselves agreeing with. He is a member of the Socialist Left of the ALP, was involved in the notoriously corrupt Melbourne University Student Union well beyond his teen prime (and prior to its recent liberation by patriots) and claims to have been trained by Al Gore at the 2009 Climate Project Asia Pacific Summit.
Ken Cuccinelli sits down with WSLS to talk about first 100 days in office | WSLS 10CUCCINELLI: “We have an obligation under the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act to police the use of state money. There’s a half million dollars that went into some of these grants and the publicly available information at least leads us to say or ask if these grants were used for what they were requested for.”
C3: Trees of Medieval Warming Period Found Under Swiss Glacier: Scientists Conclude MWP Warmer Than PresentStudying the fossil remains of trees located under a Swiss glacier, scientists verify that the treeline was some 200 meter higher than the current one. This indicates that Medieval Warming Period (MWP) was not only warmer, but lasted an extended period.
Ashley Judd’s Carbon Footprint at Chicks On The RightHer husband, who is a racecar driver, a sport known worldwide for its itty bitty carbon footprint (snort) owns a helicopter and probably around a dozen sports cars. In fact, next to their castle in Scotland, they built a giant stacking garage in which to house all of his cars, up to 20 even! And Dario apparently is interested in buying his own jet, too, so he can spend more weekends with his eco-conscious wife.
[From the comment section]Having a chauffeur drive you around is not car-pooling.
Nelson says energy bill unlikely despite massive oil spillFollowing the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the potential economic and environmental disaster that spill could create in coastal areas, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said Wednesday he doesn't see Congress moving this year toward a comprehensive national energy policy.
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"We need to move forward on energy and find common ground whenever we possibly can," he said. "There is a common ground that can be achieved here (on energy), but there is very little common ground on climate change."
Nelson said separating climate change and energy legislation into separate bills makes more sense.
"Because right now, if it's about climate change, that is not going to go anywhere," he said.
Climate Common Sense: Greenland Was Warmer 80 Years AgoNear-Surface Greenland Air Temperatures: 1840-2007 is a new paper analysing Greenland temperature data and has come to the conclusion that Greenland was warmer in the 1930's than now!
Cold Weather Impacts South Carolina Fisheries|ABC News 4Charleston, SC (AP) - Wildlife officials say last winter's cold weather has hurt the white shrimp and spotted sea trout populations off the South Carolina coast.
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Samples during the winter showed that as much as 90 percent of the shrimp were lost.
But that's still not as bad as a decade ago. During the winter of 2000-2001 as much as 95 percent of the white shrimp were killed off by the cold.
Senate cap-and-trade bill coming out next week -- BoxerSens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are planning to release their climate and energy bill as soon as next week even if they cannot win back their longtime GOP partner, according to a top Senate Democrat.
EUobserver / Anti-fraud investigators swoop on EU emissions tradersIn announcing its investigations into the pan-European racket, the agency said that as much as 90 percent of the entire market volume on emissions exchanges was caused by fraudulent activity.
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Environmentalist critics of the ETS however said that such criminal activity is not the exception to the rule, but intrinsic to a carbon market.
"Carbon markets are highly susceptible to fraud, given their complexity and the fact that it is not always clear what is being traded," said Oscar Reyes of Carbon Trade Watch.
U.S. Carbon Limits to ‘Slightly’ Raise Jobless Rate, CBO Says - BusinessWeekMay 5 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists have linked to climate change would raise the unemployment rate, the Congressional Budget Office said today.
Pelosi’s jobs talk drowned out - TheHill.comHouse Democrats are “all about jobs,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday, but the party’s effort to keep a laser-like focus on the economy is proving easier said than done.
Flashback: Pelosi on Cap and Trade: "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs"‘House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her advocacy for cap-and-trade is all about "jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs." But there's no evidence that employment has grown anywhere in the world because of energy mandates such as cap-and-trade.
Snowstorm slams city, wreaks havoc on roads, everywhere elseEDMONTON — Pedestrians fought winds gusting to 60 kilometres per hour and ankle-deep slush Tuesday while drivers battled poor visibility and slippery roads as 14 centimetres of snow blanketed the city.
Alberta climate change fund paid $63MEDMONTON — Alberta’s biggest greenhouse gas producers paid the provincial government about $63 million last year to cover failures to meet carbon reduction targets, officials reported Tuesday afternoon.
Ice Cap Lies and Statistics | National Review Institute BlogThe recent record-low temperatures in northern Europe and Asia argue strongly against Mr. Hood and the study’s proposition that there is a self-reinforcing pattern of warming “on a regional scale.”
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In his next example of statistical abuse, Hood mentions that 2007 saw a record low extent for the Arctic ice cap, which is true. He then says it “thawed to its second smallest size in 2008, followed by the third smallest in 2009.” When worded like that, it sounds grim, but perhaps a more honest wording would be “After reaching a record low in 2007, the summer minimum ice level improved in each of the following two summers and is now at a decade-long maximum for the current time of the year.”
Kerry, Edison and the Energy Quest - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com[Kerry] For nearly half a century, we were willing to pay any price and bear any burden to win the Cold War. The threat from Soviet nuclear warheads was a clear and present danger in our lives.
Just as clear and present is the danger the climate changes of this planet pose to our economy and national security.
[Kerry claims that his climate hoax bill wouldn't create new government bureaucracy]Kerry: Climate Bill Really a "Refund Bill" - "Nothing grows the size of government. Every penny goes back to creating jobs and protecting the American consumer."
Flashback: Kevin Rudd's Department of Hot Air costing taxpayers $90m | Perth NowTAXPAYERS will fork out $90 million a year to keep more than 400 public servants employed within the Federal Climate Change Department - despite most of them 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.
Greenhouse-gas numbers up in the air : Nature NewsTo control emissions, countries must first account accurately for their carbon. That will take considerable effort, reports Jeff Tollefson.
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The state of California is about to become a giant playground for more than 200 atmospheric scientists. Beginning this week and extending into July, aircraft will criss-cross the skies, measuring an array of greenhouse gases, aerosols and other atmospheric properties as they fly over cities, industrial facilities and agricultural areas. Dozens of scientists will man two ground stations, while a ship monitors the air off the coast and two electric vehicles zip about collecting samples upwind and downwind of selected sites.
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash - POLITICO.comBP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
NASA wins Webby awards - UPI.com...the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was the People's Voice Winner in the science category for its Global Climate Change [Hoax Promotion] site.
[NASA] Climate Kids: How do we know the climate is changing?Well, after observing and making lots of measurements, using lots of satellites and special instruments, scientists see some alarming changes. These changes are happening fast--much faster than these kinds of changes have happened in Earth's long past.
Shortlist for UN climate chief down to twoOnly two of 11 official candidates to succeed outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer of the Netherlands are still in the running, a diplomat said today.
The choice has boiled down to climate negotiator Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica and South African Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, he said on the margins of a meeting of some three dozen environment ministers.
If someone really believed that CO2 might kill our grandchildren, why would that person work to promote fossil-fueled tourism?
[Large dams built by beavers: They prevent global warming!] | Mail Online'Their dams are also good because they slow the flow of water leading to less drought and less flooding.
'And when plant matters dies in water it turns to peat and that is one of the best ways for storing CO2.'
[Flashback: Large dams built by humans: They cause global warming!]WASHINGTON - Dams and their reservoirs are significant sources of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, contrary to hydropower industry assertions, environmentalists said Tuesday.
Industry groups have described dams as "climate-friendly" because they are unlike coal-powered energy plants, which emit large amounts of the air pollutants that most scientists believe cause global warming.
However, a growing body of scientific evidence refutes those assertions, said the International Rivers Network (IRN), a U.S.-based anti-dam group, in its report, "Flooding the Land, Warming the Earth."
Weighing the Benefits & Costs of Offshore Drilling - Ron Bailey - Reason MagazineOffshore drilling remains a risk well worth taking, even in the wake of the oil spill disaster.
Time for some oil spill perspective | Washington ExaminerFrom an environmental perspective, off-shore oil drilling is far safer than Mother Nature. As the Wall Street Journal noted yesterday, oil that seeps naturally from the ocean floor puts 47 million gallons of crude into U.S. waters annually. Thus far, Deepwater Horizon has leaked about three million gallons. That sounds like a lot of oil, and it is. But the Exxon Valdez leaked 11 million gallons into Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Even those figures are dwarfed, according to the Economist, by the amount of oil spilled in man-made disasters elsewhere around the world. Saddam Hussein's destruction of Kuwaiti oil facilities during the Gulf War dumped more than 500 million barrels of crude into the Arabian Gulf. The 1979 blowout of Mexico's Ixtoc 1 well resulted in 3.3 million barrels being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. In short, Deepwater Horizon is an environmental crisis, but not the apocalypse that alarmists claim.
Team of Scientists Counter U.S. Gov't Report: 'Global warming alarm will prove false' -- Climate fears 'based on faulty forecasting procedures' | Climate Depot'The forecasting procedures described in the IPCC 4th Assessment Report violated 81% of the 89 principles relevant to climate forecasting'
[Nice timing, guys: Just as the climate hoax collapses, Target decides to endorse it]May 5--Target Corp. is throwing its weight behind stronger U.S. climate-change policies.
The Minneapolis-based discount retailer is joining a group of corporations that favor a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions, restrictions on new coal-fired plants -- and oppose the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's efforts to block an energy-and-climate bill in Congress.
The group is called Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy, or BICEP, founded in late 2008 by Nike, Starbucks, Levi Strauss, Sun Microsystems and Timberland. Richfield-based Best Buy recently joined the coalition, too.
Do lawyers have 'moral courage' to fight climate change? | News | eco-business.comSingapore, May 4 - Humankind has the ability to stave off climate change, but what is needed is political and legal will. Yesterday, former United States Vice-President Al Gore called on lawyers to find the “moral courage” and “rule of law” to find a solution to the environmental crisis.
“When the mountain glaciers are gone and there’s climatic chaos, the next generation of ours will be asking ‘What were you thinking? Didn’t you have any lawyers?’” he said. The author of An Inconvenient Truth was speaking to a packed hall of some 500 lawyers at the Inter-Pacific Bar Association Conference yesterday.
James M. Taylor: Cap and trade -- taxing our way to bankruptcy - Wednesday, May. 5, 2010Harry Reid apparently believes Congress has successfully numbed the American public to economy-busting programs that increase government power while delivering no real-world benefits. As the political spotlight now turns to costly, ineffectual global-warming legislation, we will soon learn whether Americans will finally stand up to a Congress intent on bankrupting the nation for no good reason.
Do Carbon Markets Really Help The Climate? | Emissions Trading | Allianz KnowledgeGovernments back cap-and-trade to cut CO2. But does emissions trading actually reduce emissions? Absolutely, insists European Climate Exchange CEO Patrick Birley, but forget the trades, concentrate on the cap.
Fart Chart: Cow Emissions by State | Mother JonesThe EPA has spent nearly $15 million and two years studying bovine emissions to assess how they affect climate change. So what's the result?
Lieberman: Pushing climate bill without Sen. Graham is ‘an open question’ - The Hill's E2-WireSen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is "open" to advancing the legislation without co-sponsor Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has suspended his support.
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“We are talking to him all the time. . . . He is still supportive of the bill, but because of all the political crosscurrents about immigration reform, he is not yet, as I understand it, prepared to join us in launching it,” Lieberman said.
More range anxiety with the Mitsubishi iMiEV - Autoblog GreenPut all of this together and it can be hard not to end up stuck on the side of the freeway, as a Southern California Public Radio reporter found out recently. Mitsubishi quotes a 100 mile range for the iMiEV under the Japanese 10-15 cycle which is notoriously optimistic. In the real world, 70 miles is a more reasonable limit. On her way home, the reporter had to stop for her third charge of the day, hoping to grab just enough juice to finish the trip from an outlet shared with a vending machine beside a gas station. Even then, an hour at the 110-volt plug was not enough to finish the 14-mile journey. Another cautionary tale showing that early EV drivers will have to plan their drips very, very carefully...
Ezra Klein - Did a climate bill just get less likely?...I'd say chances for an energy bill are looking pretty grim, unless the president decides to incorporate the spill into a broader campaign to reduce our fossil fuel dependence.
Climate science a ‘contact sport’ / LJWorld.com“It is more like hockey with no rules and no refs and you want to sharpen the blade and hit someone in the head,” [Climatologist Stephen Schneider] said in an interview Monday morning before speaking to a full crowd at the Gridiron Room in Kansas University’s Burge Union.
A professor at Stanford University, Schneider is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its reports on the Earth’s warming. He also published a report in the early 1970s that predicted the Earth was going to enter a cooling period because of human-made pollutants.
"Unprecedented" deaths of wild goats spark investigation | UKThe herd, which is said to have been established on Lough Ree's Inch-McDermott Island for years, seems to have lost up to three-quarters of its subjects through the mysterious deaths.
Although inspectors are currently awaiting test results from one of the live wild goats which was captured and taken for treatment, it is thought that one of the main reasons behind the spate of expirations could be the cold snap which gripped the area during the winter.
Chilly high of 50 degrees today is record low high for Portland, frosty mornings on the wayPortland's average high temperature for May 4 is 64 degrees, but today's high of 50 degrees was the coldest high temperature for the date, breaking the old record of 52 degrees for a record low high temperature set back in 1950. The all-time record low high temperature for Portland is 49 degrees.
Twitter / [David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts suggests that carbon dioxide caused flooding in Tennessee]Death toll in Tenn. flooding rises to 18 http://is.gd/bU7eu Golly, the climate sure is acting weird, huh? Dang "natural cycles."
Strange May weather in the Midi-Pyrenees - 05 May 2010 Yesterday saw a very unseasonable chill in the air and heavy snow cross some parts of the Midi-Pyrenees region.
Future Temperatures Could Exceed Human Livability : PlanetsaveThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated that warming by the end of this century could reach seven degrees Fahrenheit, Huber believes that an eventual warming of 25 degrees is feasible.
Disaster Dims Hope of Energy Bill Compromise - WSJ.comSenate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) said legislation can't move forward without three "pillars": expanded oil and gas exploration, more nuclear power and a price on carbon-emissions in exchange for the first two.
"At least temporarily, this has knocked one of the legs of the stool off to the side, so my guess is that nothing proceeds at the moment," Mr. Kyl said.
Mr. Nelson agreed, saying, "It makes it more difficult to get 60 votes," the number to break a Senate filibuster. "You're not going to get offshore drilling in an energy bill."
Rudd rumbled as man of no convictions, no courage and no achievements | Adelaide Now...Rudd has ditched even policies many voters had assumed he believed in with all his heart.
The most obvious example is Rudd's decision last week to postpone until at least 2013 the emissions trading scheme he'd once touted as his solution to apocalyptic global warming, grandiosely hyped by him as "the great moral and economic issue of our time".
The greatest cause one day; junked the next.
Farmers ponder climate [hoax] measures: [They'll consider supporting the hoax if they get a large cut of the swindled cash]When the Montana Farmers Union held its annual meeting last year, members broke from their national organization and opposed cap and trade. Chris Christiaens, MFU’s legislative and project specialist, said current climate change legislation would need work before his group would support it. Carbon offsets would have to be part of the equation, but so would land locked up in the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to leave marginal land out of production. CRP land should count for carbon offsets, as well, Christiaens said.
C3: The Ultimate Futility of Reducing CO2 Emissions, Pt.2: Would An 83% CO2 Cut By All Major Developed Countries Reduce Global Temps?Literally, a benefit that is practically unmeasurable in terms of temperature but would require trillions of dollars to be spent to carry out. An economic and environmental policy of insanity, favored by obviously insane government officials.
Maps of monsoon history « Calder's UpdatesConcerning man-made global warming, Cook and his colleagues comment only that “Monsoon failures over Asia in the modern anthropogenic period have at times been exceeded in magnitude and persistence over the past millennium.”
Dying Shell Fish Larvae: The Story of a Scam | OriginalsJane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator, is keen to expand her role, get more funding and enlarge her organization. She sees “Acid Seas” as a suitable vehicle and has given interviews claiming that the oceans are becoming more acidic and “threatening much of the life in the oceans.”
Fear And Timidity No Friends Of Science « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGEWe can’t simply evolve into separate tribes showing no critical thinking of what happens in other fields. And orthodoxies are meant to crumble, otherwise it is not “Science”. By the time they become widespread enough for the likes of Wolff to take them as “Truth”, they will likely be ripe for destruction by the next generation of scientists.
[Sign of the times: Writing about fossil fuels, climate fraud promoter Seth Borenstein barely mentions global warming, down at the end of his article] Add to that global warming. Burning oil and coal produces carbon dioxide, which scientists say [All scientists? If not, what do the other scientists say?] is changing the Earth's climate and will eventually change the life of nearly everyone on the planet.
This year, after what seemed like a cool winter in some spots, the heat is back on...
Research Questions Value of Cutting Black Carbon as a Global Warming Solution | Revenue Spark...new research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters suggests that black carbon's contribution in the climate system is not so straightforward as once thought.
While there is little doubt that the fine black particles released from diesel and biomass cook stoves warm the planet by sitting in the atmosphere and absorbing energy, they also affect cloud formation in ways that can create a cooling mechanism, the study says.
[I like this headline]: Wheego electric car potential to control global climate changeAs a low-speed/medium-speed vehicle, the Whip will be permitted to drive on streets with a
maximum speed of 35 mph. Its sealed lead acid battery has enough juice to keep it moving about 40 miles on a single charge.
- Bishop Hill blog - Climate panel in crisisThis is a translation of an article in the Norwegian newspaper Forskning. The original article was by Bjørnar Kjensli and the machine translation was tidied and corrected by readers Messenger and Geir Hasnes.
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A German climate researcher says that people are beginning to lose faith in climate research, pointing to the IPPC as one of the main causes. Norwegian IPCC veterans disagree about what the organization should do about it.
Natural climate change is our biggest threat - Landscape and garden expertForget car and jet engine exhaust fumes and forget peat bog depletion - man's biggest threat is natural and it's here and it's now and we've had a glimpse in the last month of the power it holds of our world.
NOAA - hottest in Europe!The Baltic Sea, The North Sea, The Caspian Sea, The Black Sea : NOAA Approx. 3,5 K warmer than UNISYS, "The hotspot area" North of Scandinavia: NOAA Approx. 4 - 6 K warmer than UNISYS - and more.
Climate Common Sense: The Ultimate in Stupidity-Computer Model shows Plants causing Global WarmingAdding to the Everything-Causes-Global -Warming file comes the nuttiest idea yet! Researchers have used computer modelling to show plants actually cause global warming. The research shows surprise,surprise,that the contribution of CO2 to Global Warming is "worse than we thought". I think that alarmist keyboards have those four words on a function key for fast retrieval.
Lots of Ice—But No Media CoverageThe area of Lake Superior covered by ice during the 2008-2009 winter reached 75,000 square kilometers on March 2, 2009, nearly twice the maximum average of nearly 40,000 square kilometers. By this time, Lake Superior was nearly completely ice covered, as were Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake St. Clair, a small basin between Huron and Erie. Even northern Lake Michigan experienced severe ice cover,” report B. J. Wang and co-authors. (1)
Where are the headlines? Where are the press releases? Where is all the attention?
PepsiCo’s Lobbying for Cap and Trade to be Hit at Annual Meeting | National Legal and Policy CenterSo for PepsiCo, its a slippery slope. Once you accept the dubious premise that your plastic bottles made from petroleum are destroying the earth, you end up having to support grandiose plans to save it, which of course necessitates massive government intervention in the economy.
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