Sadly the flowers have refused to follow the BBC's climate change rules, says Christopher Booker
According to Morales, mother earth’s worst enemy is unbridled capitalism.
“There are two alternative routes: we can either save capitalism or we can save mother earth,” said the Bolivian president, who over the past four years has nationalized some of his country’s most important productive sectors, including as gas and oil.
A Heartland Institute sign prominently displayed at the conference said it all: "Global Warming? It is not man made, it's a natural variation, the human impact is very small, computer models are flawed, and there is no "consensus". Global Warming is also not harmful, past warmings were beneficial, no current warming harms, future warmings will be modest, and warming is better.
The economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powerful than the argument for tackling climate change, a major report for the United Nations will declare this summer.
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The TEEB report shows that on average one third of Earth's habitats have been damaged by humans – but the problem ranges from zero percent of ice, rock and polar lands to 85% of seas and oceans and more than 70% of Mediterranean shrubland.
CLIMATE DEPOT MORANO audio, about an hour, talks about the global warming scam.
Even the media is starting to run scared of the issue since it has been exposed as such a dishonest scam. Listening to Morano is a treat. He really lives this climate stuff and is completely on-top of it. He was activated by his discovery that the rain forest alarmism was phony when he investigated it.
When you place Al Gore in a room with several hundred high school and college students for an exchange about global warming, as I observed this week, two factors combine to keep the discussion from bogging down.The Anti-Copenhagen | FrontPage Magazine
First, little energy is frittered on the question of whether man-induced warming is a matter of scientific fact; it's a given.
If cap and trade loving policy-makers and alarmist researchers were really serious about this issue, they would have been at the Heartland Conference, learning, discussing and exchanging information.Democrats Say Climategate Politicizing Science - HUMAN EVENTS
The House Energy Independence and Global Warming Select Committee's Democrat leadership actually held a hearing yesterday to complain about what they called the “politicization” of climate science in the wake of the Climategate scandal.
I am not making this up.
Only about a third (32%) says it is very important for Congress to address climate change in the coming months, including 47% of Democrats, 29% of independents and 17% of Republicans. This is consistent with earlier Pew Research surveys that show the public putting a relatively low priority on addressing climate change.
As the snow piled waist high this winter and temperatures plunged to 40 below zero, Mr. Lkhagvasuren crammed two dozen of the weakest goats and sheep into his yurt. The unlucky ones, more than 1,000 animals, froze to death in a great heap outside his front door. “I tried everything but could not fight against nature,” he said tearfully in a recent interview, the stench of rotting flesh overpowering despite a devilish wind. “I am broken and lost.”
Mongolia and its 800,000 herders are reeling from the worst winter that anyone can remember. According to United Nations relief officials, nearly eight million cows, yaks, camels, horses, goats and sheep died, about 17 percent of the country’s livestock. Even if the spring rains arrive soon, 500,000 more animals are expected to succumb in the coming weeks.
A few hours have passed since my first comment in Plait’s n-th tired “you’re all deniers!” blog, and not a single word on how would Phil or any AGW believer handle any debate with Harrison Schmitt, geologist, Astronaut, Moonwalker, and a skeptic of AGW.Hide the plateau | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Tom Quirk is puzzled. Why, in its State of the Climate report, did the CSIRO leave out the last 20 years of data of methane concentrations?The rise of green terror | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Is it because the concentration of this greenhouse gas has barely increased since, against the warmists’ theory?
The green movement is the home of the modern totalitarian - and saving the planet sure excuses a little terrorism:
Following PJM's exclusive story on a leaked Spanish government report, a newspaper in Spain confirms that the country's "green economy" policies — the model for the Obama administration's "green jobs" efforts — have been a disaster: expensive, ineffective, and unworkable.Marked Mann - IBD - Investors.com
The Weather: A state attorney general is challenging the creator of the global warming hockey stick graph, and the researcher's allies are yelping about intimidation. But who are the real academic bullies?
According to the International Energy Agency, every year the world fails to seriously deal with climate change raises the price tag by $500 billion -- a lot of which, no doubt, Americans will be on the hook for.
A group seeking to suspend California's global warming law said Thursday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration used its offices to campaign against the initiative, a violation of state law.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that Congress, not the Obama administration, needs to address global warming.
Dr. Scott Denning, a climatologist from Colorado State University, praised The Heartland Institute for inviting him to its Fourth International Conference on Climate Change. Denning was among just two AGW advocates who accepted Heartland's invitation to speak. And Denning emphasized that he was glad he did.World Climate Report » Another Rare Bird: Trumpeter Swan’s Story
[caption] Trumpeter swans thriving in a world of enriched CO2.Cooling Fear of a Malaria Surge from Warming - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
This paper is sure to please longtime critics of climate overstatement — reinforcing the reality that efforts to get attention that go beyond the science are bound to kick back.[Flashack]: This silent suffering | Rajendra Pachauri | Comment is free | The Guardian
Third, and worse, climate change hides its influence among a wide range of today's key global problems. It impacts heavily on nutrition and diseases such as malaria, and increases poverty. But that impact can be lost among the many contributing factors.
No infringement on academic freedomGISS Arctic Trends Disagree with Satellite Data | Watts Up With That?
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Wednesday the investigation by his office into the research activities of a former UVA scientist is about possible fraud and is in no way an infringement on academic freedom Cuccinelli said that he is not investigating Dr. Michael Mann's scientific conclusions and that the legal standards for the misuse of taxpayer dollars apply the same at universities as they do any other agency of state government.
GISS Arctic temperatures have been rising much faster than other data sources.Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Poised for a Plunge « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
Just an update…as the following graph shows, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) along the equatorial Pacific (“Nino3.4″ region, red lines) have been plunging, and global average SSTs have turned the corner, too.Thune: Climate Rules Worse Than Cap-and-Trade - Roll Call
In the case of cap-and-trade, the Obama administration is now trying to sneak its plan past Congress and the American people by issuing new rules through the Environmental Protection Agency. Under the guise of regulating greenhouse gases, administration officials are slipping in through the back door what they couldn’t get in through the front: a massive energy tax on families and small businesses.
Jovian factories and SUV’s caused the giant planet to lose a red ring, the activist group Climate Camp is tearing itself apart over a Bolivian blowout and a Canuck paper says that 75% of the global population will be dead in 19 months. All this and a hottie besides in your weekly round-up of all things warmy.
no Republicans have stepped up to support Kerry's billCure For Global Warming – Invade Canada! « Musings from the Chiefio
The “hot” Arctic is easily explained as an artifact of how the baseline data were selected (see the Benchmarking The Baseline posting for more on that) as this graph of “baseline vs all-data” shows they picked a time of cold Arctic temps for the baseline:Climate Observations: Tom Karl’s Trends Are Wrong - At Least in Slide 21
A number of bloggers on the WattsUpWithThat thread “Tom Karl’s Senate Dog & Pony Show – it’s worse than we thought, again” noted the curious errors in the trend lines in Tom Karl’s presentation to Senate. The one that stood out for me was slide 21, presented here as Figure 1. It showed the global land surface temperature anomalies and linear trends for the new (Version 3) versus existing (Version 2) Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) dataset.
7. Global warming is a hoax. So Sean Hannity assures us, citing the Climategate brouhaha -- which was itself shown largely to be a hoax of its own. Meanwhile, the world’s ocean levels keep rising, and glaciers and the polar ice cap keep receding -- regardless of the endless words thrown up denying that they are.Earth Is Cooling, Sea Levels Not Rising, Scientists Say
As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider enormously expensive cap-and-trade legislation, supposedly aimed at curbing alleged global warming caused by man-made emissions, scientists and policy makers at a conference in Chicago heard from experts in various scientific fields challenging the crumbling assumptions that have provided the foundation for global-warming alarmism.Climate-Change Study Points to Man's Role - WSJ.com
The National Academy of Sciences, a group of elite American researchers that advises the U.S. government, on Wednesday issued an 869-page report reasserting mankind's role in altering the climate and calling for specific policy measures to help forestall undesirable effects.
Climate and energy issues barely registered in this month's primary coverage, but Rand Paul (son of Ron) saw fit to take on the Copenhagen climate talks after becoming the Republican Senate candidate in Kentucky last night.
"We have a president who went to Copenhagen and appeared with Robert Mugabe, Hugo Chávez and others -- Evo Morales -- to apologize for the Industrial Revolution," he said. "These petty dictators say that to stop climate change it's about ending capitalism. The president, by attending Copenhagen, gives credibility and credence to these folks, and he should not go."
For a few weeks it looked like Solar Cycle 24 was well underway. Now the sunspots have sputtered to a stop, with 10 days of no spots. Could we be on the cusp of another Grand Minimum?[Wait a minute: If CO2 might kill our grandchildren, why did Obama fly a guy from Chicago to DC just to cook?]
He flew to Washington on Monday from Chicago and when he arrived, he Twittered, "Just arrived in DC. Headed to the White House kitchens. I have to say: I'm a little nervous."
If hard-to-get Democrats feel compelled to oppose cap and trade in districts where members have recently supported it, that is not a good sign for legislation.'Abolish U.N. climate panel, indict chief'
Former Thatcher adviser documents fraud by global bodyRoger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Borenstein and Revkin on New NAS Reports
Writing for AP, Seth Borenstein says that the US National Academy of Sciences has embarked o0n a new course of open advocacy and decided to overtly recommend a cap-and-trade program or a carbon tax, which he associates with specific legislation being considered in CongressSouth Pole Update | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists
April weather was somewhat significant being the coldest April on record averaging -80.7F which was lower by 0.2F than the previous record set in 1998 (records began in 1957). On top of that, we set the second earliest mark in reaching -100F ever recorded dipping to -100.7F on April 13th.Malaria may not rise as world warms : Nature News
Studies suggest that strategies to combat the disease are offsetting the impact of climate change.- Bishop Hill blog - The idea of Oxburgh
One of the most troubling aspects of the scientific inquiry into the Climatic Research Unit was the appointment of Lord Oxburgh as chairman. Oxburgh's many links to the renewables industry and to green campaigning organisations (disclosed or otherwise) are now common knowledge among followers of the climate debate.The Hockey Schtick: Spotless Days hits 800
How Oxburgh came to be chairman of the panel is an interesting question that has been bothering me since his appointment was announced.
Today marks the 800th spotless day in the transition from solar cycle 23 to 24, placing this transition so far as the 3rd highest for number of spotless days over the last 14 solar cycles (since 1850).NC Media Watch: First stage win for science in US House of Representatives
Art Robinson ran in the GOP Primary to represent the Oregon in 4th Congressional District. Wise Republican voters selected Dr. Art Robinson to represent them in the November 2010 Congressional race against Democrat Peter DeFazio.ICCC – Day Three « Musings from the Chiefio
I saw an online video by Art Robinson at the 4th International Climate Change Conference explaining why he is running. He wants to being some scientific rationality to the discussions on issues in Congress, especially climate change. “Let’s have at least one real scientist in Congress,” he said.
The Opposition will slash millions of dollars of pointless climate change spending promises by Labor if it regains power:Climate Common Sense: Chariots of Fire - Ancient Global Warming!
The ancient Romans apparently lived in a warmer environment than the present day according to a National Academy of Science study reported in the Washington Times. It was probably caused by increasing numbers of higher horsepower chariots on the road and by increased CO2 from Nero's penchant for large outdoor barbeques. The problem of spent chariot fuel on the highways must also have taxed the Emperor and his environmental advisors!The Reference Frame: Snow in Czechia: second half of May
The highest peak, Lysá hora [Bald Hill], is at 1344 meters and it received 50 cm of snow in the last 72 hours. But you find lots of snow beneath the summit, too.CLIMATE CHANGE - RIP by Will Alexander, South African UN Scientist | Climate Realists
At a Brookings Institution conference on climate and energy policy, President Obama’s lead climate diplomat, Todd D. Stern, gave the keynote talk, restating the administration’s unbending demand that any legally binding provisions emerging in treaty talks must apply to all substantial contributors of greenhouse gases.Testing Time for Climate Science -- Jasanoff 328 (5979): 695 -- Science
...the IPCC performs a mix of functions—part scientific assessment, part policy advice, and part diplomacy—that demand external, as well as internal, accountability.Elevator Speech | Climate Skeptic
Richard Lindzen, in his presentation at the Heartland Conference, has the best short (100-ish word) summary of the core of many skeptics’ concerns with catastrophic AGW theory that I have seen for a while:
Despite alarmist claims* to the contrary, according to both tide gauge and satellite altimetry data, the rate of sea level rise since 1900 (and over the past 6000 years according to paleologic data) has been decelerating, not accelerating.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The Definitive Denier
[Edward Skidelsky] An accusation of “denial” is serious, suggesting either deliberate dishonesty or self-deception. The thing being denied is, by implication, so obviously true that the denier must be driven by perversity, malice or wilful blindness. Few issues warrant such confidence.Pajamas Media » The Insane Myth of ‘Renewable’ Energy
The nonsense from green energy lobbyists is nothing short of crazy talk. Why is Congress, or anyone else, buying it?Pajamas Media » BREAKING: Leaked Doc Proves Spain’s ‘Green’ Policies — the Basis for Obama’s — an Economic Disaster (PJM Exclusive)
PJM has received a leaked internal document confirming Spain realizes its green failures, just as Obama pushes the American Power Act based on Spain's program.Brendan DeMelle | House Select Committee Hearing Thursday On Political Attacks Against Climate Scientists
The U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing on Thursday to examine the recent string of politically-motivated attacks against climate scientists.
I was listening to Radio 4′s Today programme yesterday and was quite surprised that they spent nearly 5 minutes reporting from the Heartland Institute’s International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC). This conference is different to almost all other climate conferences as it is dominated by climate change “sceptics”.William M. Briggs, Statistician » Sue Over Climate Change? Comer v. Murphy Oil
The Today programme is one of the UK’s most influencial news programmes and I’ve never heard a report on this show from any other climate science conference despite there being many, many others every year. (I’m not including Copenhagen here as that was a climate policy conference, not a science conference.)
You know the old saying: if you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes. And then sue a company with a lot of money—the inclemency must be their fault.Inhofe Floor Speech: The Heartland Institutes International Climate Conference
And I should note that, if Kerry-Lieberman were successful in passing-- which it won't be-it would go to conference with the Waxman-Markey bill. That's right, if this bill passed, then Waxman-Markey lives.The Hockey Schtick: American Physical Society begins to Backpedal on Climate Policy
We still have a liberal press that is in denial. Last Friday in the USA Today, there was an article about lizards becoming extinct as a result of global warming. We still see stories like this one, that just assume that catastrophic global warming is taking place, which it is not.
The Council of the American Physical Society (APS) has adopted on April 18, 2010 a "Climate Change Commentary" to append to their definitive and "incontrovertible" 2007 policy statement on climate change. The commentary allows considerable backpedaling from the prior policy while appearing to save face.
Growing numbers of firms are linking executive remuneration to environmental performance – Andrew Williams investigates those companies pioneering the concept of carbon bonusesLeaning forward: Why the American Power Act is worth fighting for | Grist
Both left and right have attacked the bill relentlessly since its inception in the House, and for the vast muddled middle the lesson has been simple: if both sides hate it, it must not be worth supporting. A climate bill has come to Congress and it has almost no passionate supporters.Big Green and little green clash over the American Power Act | Grist
When Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) unveiled their long-awaited American Power Act last week, it drew two sharply different responses from two collections of activist groups.Junk science devastates farmworkers at Heliogenic Climate Change
Two hundred groups that might be called "little green" immediately condemned the climate and energy bill in a joint letter, calling it "greenwashing in the extreme." The coalition consists of regional environmental, peace, and religious groups -- such as Don't Waste Arizona, the Snake River Alliance, and the Turtle Island Restoration Network.
This is truly ironic. Tens of thousands of farm workers are out of work in California’s devastated central valley because enviros sued the feds to force stopping the pumping of irrigation water from the delta, supposedly because the delta smelt needed more water to survive. Now it turns out the problem for the smelt was not too little water but pollution from wastewater treatment plants. Tell it to the devastated farmlands and farm workers:Gore Inspires Graduates With Tales of Doom and Ruin
Hey you graduates of the University of Tennessee, the world stinks. It’s a terrible place filled with danger and environmental destruction. In fact, if you’re not careful, you’ll probably end up a wrecker of worlds yourself by heating up our planet with your evil capitalism, gushing oil over our virgin planet and destroying pretty birds, mining on the mountains and spilling debris on the little people below you, using coal and making things dirty, belching global warming filth into our air, melting our glaciers, increasing our humidity and making it rain (like causing floods like the one in Nashville because of your evil consumption), causing refugees, earthquakes, tropical diseases, subprime mortgage crises, chaos, dogs and cats living together openly…EU Referendum: A basic survival plan
A Katla eruption would likely be about ten times as powerful as the Eyjafjallajokull eruption and could cause worldwide disruption while expelling huge volumes of volcanic ash into the stratosphere. This could circle the globe potentially for years, depending upon the magnitude of the eruption, causing climatic upset and serious economic loss.At last! A defence of Warmism with some science in it
We could even be looking at another year without a summer (certainly within the next two years), which could make our current economic problems relatively insignificant by comparison.
But the accusatory tone towards skeptics is there too, of course. The article is by Kerry Emanuel, director of the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So this would seem to be the best science that Warmism can do. Yet all he succeeds in doing is to show how shaky the whole edifice is.
Given the shaky ground on which the global warming theory rests, deliberately increasing energy costs in a stagnant economy is irresponsible. Government should exist to support families and provide a healthy economic environment. Cap and trade energy policies do the opposite.‘Tainted’ Credits Cut UN Carbon Price: Energy Markets (Update1) - BusinessWeek
Snow in May I can handle. A snow job from Washington is too much.
“It is very disappointing for developing countries that want to bring a certain carbon commodity onto the international market to then discover that certain key buyers are not interested in buying that commodity,” de Boer said.American Thinker Blog: ICCC 4 Opens with a Climategate Surprise
But the debate is far from over, warned Bast. Advocates of global warming are supported by billions of dollars from government and environmental agencies as well as the renewable energy industry. Says Joe, “They’re not just going to quit and go home.”Christiana Figueres appointed new UN climate chief to continue global talks | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Joe got quite a laugh quoting School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia professor Mike Hulme’s words: “We need to ask not what we can do for climate change but what climate change can do for us.”
Figueres, who has been a member of Costa Rica's negotiating team on climate change since 1995, will replace Yvo de Boer as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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She is married, has two daughters and lives outside Washington, DC.
Another Roger Harrabin [audio] report from the Heartland Conference, this time looking at the question of whether sceptics are all right-wingers.Poizner goes from backer to foe of global warming law - latimes.com
The Republican primary candidate for governor now wants California to roll back AB 32. Four years ago he called the law a bold effort to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.Ag Summary: Abnormally Cool Across The Country, Corn Planting Ahead Of 5-Year Average | Cattle Network
With the exception of the Southeast, Delta, much of Texas, and portions of the Pacific Northwest, temperatures across the country were abnormally cool during the week. Most notably, average temperatures in areas of the central Rocky Mountains and Great Plains, as well as in the Northeast dipped to as many as 10 degrees or more below normal, slowing the emergence of some spring-planted crops.AGFC suspends Tilapia program | baxterbulletin.com | The Baxter Bulletin
This past winter, harsh winter weather caused high mortality rates at many of the facilities in the southern U.S. that normally produce and overwinter tilapia.How Hot Air Produces a Snow Job
If global warming apostles were just a bunch of nuts running around in tinfoil hats, you could just laugh at them and promptly ignore them. But our government and media establishment is filled with them, and they are determined to separate hard-working Americans from as much of their hard-earned dollars as possible.
I suggested a $1-a-gallon “Patriot Tax” on gasoline that could have simultaneously reduced our deficit, funded basic science research, diminished our dependence on oil imported from the very countries whose citizens carried out 9/11, strengthened the dollar, stimulated energy efficiency and renewable power and slowed climate change.
The truth is, I said, that the scientific debate is over. The scientists on our side of the argument have won (which is why no Warmist will dare debate Richard Lindzen, and while Al Gore won’t debate anyone at all: they know they’d lose). Problem is, I went on, this debate was never really about science anyway.
"This is the least painful, fastest way to raise millions of dollars for the county," Berliner said, pointing to the roughly $15 million county officials expect the measure to raise next year. Montgomery County is facing a nearly $1 billion budget gap.Kerry–Lieberman: A “Simple” 987-page Bill? (Enron postmodernism in a Senator’s voice) — MasterResource
“We’re trying to minimize the package,” [Sen. John] Kerry said yesterday of the 987-page bill. “We’re trying to keep it simple. We’re trying to keep it transparent and open and understandable for why something took place.”
- Darren Samuelsohn, “Kerry-Lieberman Bill Uses ‘Fewer Buckets’ in Giving Out Highly Prized Allowances,” E&E News, May 14, 2010.
Google news and LexisNexis searches have not identified one major news outlet covering the proceedings in Chicago.Bribing children to believe | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Show you really, really believe and you can win a laptop or iPod.Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » Preparing for Cancun
The silence out of the White House on the climate issue is deafening
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If China can’t meet its first target, why should the world believe that it will meet its Copenhagen promise of reducing carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent over 2005 levels? Unfortunately, nothing Wen said suggested a new way of doing business.
Mexico is stuck between these two climate giants, who are both disappointingly AWOL in helping Mexico make Cancun a success.
(Reuters) - The compromise climate change proposal unveiled last week in the Senate is in legislative limbo, its fate apparently uncertain until at least next month.
The plan by Democratic Senator John Kerry and independent Senator Joseph Lieberman to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming is not the subject of any committee hearings; it's not being debated on the Senate floor; it's not even been formally introduced.
At a weekly luncheon that Democratic senators hold on Tuesdays to talk politics and policy, the nearly 1,000-page draft proposal was barely mentioned, according to senators who attended this week's closed-door meeting, the first since its unveiling.
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In the meantime, many senators are questioning whether a climate change/energy development bill will see the light of day in the Senate this year.
"My feeling is it's not going to be coming up this year, but if it does I will dig into it at great depth," Senator Carl Levin told Reuters.
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Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which has fought hard for a climate bill, said during a speech at the Brookings Institution, "I would never say there is no chance of getting it this year, but I think the chances are painfully small."
M.I.T. professor says 'skepticism' implies anthropogenic global warming theory a 'plausible proposition.'Where is the left? | Grist
...no matter what is happening, Republicans act like they're winning. They rarely get everything they want, but every incremental gain is trumpeted as a triumph. Check out (former Inhofe staff propagandist) Mark Morano's blog: virtually every other post is about how the tide is turning and victory for climate-change deniers is nigh.
It's a message to activists and donors that their work is worth something. It's paying dividends. They are part of something grand, inevitable, and right. That kind of affirmation is energizing and it has tangible results; no matter what befalls it, the conservative movement keeps swimming, like a shark. It's always fighting, always pressing advantage.
...a leading climatologist says his research indicates that CO2 poses no threat to human welfare at all, and he says the EPA should revisit its findings.Al Gore takes on BP oil crisis, global warming in Monterey | thecalifornian.com | The Salinas Californian
“There is an overestimation of the environment’s sensitivity to CO2,” said Dr. Patrick Michaels, senior fellow in environmental studies at the CATO Institute and a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists.
[With photos] About 75 protested outside the theater against Gore's stance on global warming.Warning Signs: "Deniers" Meet and the Media Ignores Them...Again
“Denial” is not a river in Africa, nor is it a proper term for the legion of climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, and others like myself who have devoted decades to debunking the utter rubbish called “global warming.” So toxic has the term become, the charlatans pushing the fraud have long since abandoned it and begun to refer to “climate change” instead.Think-Tank Says Trained Chimp Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA
Chimp Predicts 6-8 Atlantic Hurricanes in 2010
May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Four gorillas found dead in Rwanda’s Karisimbi area probably died of extreme cold, the New Times reported, citing Rica Rwigamba, head of tourism at the Rwanda Development Board.
The gorillas, a female and three infants, were found dead between May 16 and May 17, the Kigali-based newspaper said. Post-mortems are now being carried out to confirm what killed the apes, all of which were known to rangers and were named last year, the New Times said.
There is little doubt that the political forces promoting climate change hysteria are under attack and in retreat around the world. It has also become obvious that little global consensus exists among climate scientists regarding how to regain the public's trust. There is, however, ample evidence that the climate change alarmists have not learned their lesson.U.N. picks Costa Rican Figueres as new climate chief | Reuters
In an interview with Reuters after her appointment, Figueres said the world can salvage a new deal to combat global warming but this was not a priority for 2010.Scientist: Global Cooling is the Real Crisis
Global warming conference participant says reduced sunspot activity may cause extreme cold fatalities, mass starvation.AGW - Socialism
U N Promotes Anti-Capitalism via Global Warming Propaganda...[thru] Inter Press Service - funded by the United Nations, Rockefeller Foundation, Oxfam and others.]Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » Will China Follow Lomborg’s Advice on Carbon Taxes?
this looks like it’s more about raising money (albeit money that might be earmarked for green “research and development investment”) than about directly altering Chinese emissions
An unusual heavy snowfall suddenly hit Zhangye city in Gansu province on May 17, and the thickest snow reached 20 centimeters. Due to sudden low temperatures and snowfall in early summer, more than 533 thousand hectares of farmland suffered frost damage and some greenhouses collapsed.Pajamas Media » Climategate 2010: The Inconvenient Facts About Global Warming
While allowing much room for disagreement on the details, the attendees at ICCC4 seemed to agree on one thing: policies with such enormous consequences should be based on the facts, however inconvenient they might turn out to be.The Reference Frame: Christiana Figueres: new U.N. climate boss
To be sure that the same pseudointellectual junk and political propaganda will continue to contaminate this portion of the international political scene, check her "campaign":Climate Science Policy Needs a “Team B” (Big Science + Big Government = Bad Science & Policy) — MasterResource
Having independent peer review is not a new idea.ICCC – Day Two « Musings from the Chiefio
I think you can see from these short descriptions just how much is going on here. The number of new insights per day is in some ways stunning. Nagging questions like “Why are only some winter months ‘warming’?” and “Why is Arctic ice reducing when the Arctic air has been cooling for a couple of years?” answered in every session. Even “Should I buy that Florida Condo?” 8-)The Canadian National Newspaper: Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012
Hydrate hypothesis illuminates growing climate change alarm
In fact, it lets energy polluters raise prices for huge windfall profits and gives Wall Street a bonanza through carbon trading derivatives speculation.New Ice Age 'to begin in 2014'
CHICAGO – A new "Little Ice Age" could begin in just four years, predicted Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia.Climate change's challenge - MontereyHerald.com :
Abdussamatov was speaking yesterday at the Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, which began Sunday and ends today.
And outside, a score or more people stood in the drizzle holding signs either deriding Gore for his views on climate change or supporting his efforts. Signs reading "Global Warming is a Lie" and "Stop Teaching our Kids Junk Science" were accompanied by others emblazoned with "Face the Inconvenient Truth" and "Save the Earth."Krakatoa and Eyjafjallajokull: Should Al Gore Be Worried?
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Gore called climate change the "most important challenge facing any of us," that if left unaddressed could result in the "end of human civilization as we know it."
...Apparently he wasn’t around to witness the eruption in 1815 of Mount Tambora, also in Indonesia, which resulted in an extremely cold spring and summer in 1816. New England and Europe were exceptionally hard hit with snowfalls and frost occurring in the summer months. Destruction of the corn crop forced farmers to kill their animals.
DUCKS are breeding out of season at Elsternwick Park, with an expert saying climate change is to blame.
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“Maybe this will be a good reminder for people to do those easy little things to cut their power consumption.”
Away from the likes of Chris Huhne and his mad vision of a land covered with wind turbines, the real world is beginning to intrude.Climate change to increase weeds… no, wait… | Australian Climate Madness
According to the independent business intelligence service Wind Energy Update, wind turbine operation and maintenance (O&M) costs are increasing sharply, rising to two or three times more than first projected and causing a 21 percent decrease in returns on investments.
More weeds, same weeds, fewer weeds, different weeds. Who cares? As long as we can write mind-numbing stories about "climate change" to keep our editors happy.BBC News - 'Climate change' danger to salmon and trout in Wye
"Paradoxically since this research, a series of wet summers have brought improvements to (Wye and Usk) juvenile salmonids densities but not universally as would be expected if climate change were the prevailing factor."AMERICAblog Gay: TAKE ACTION: Obama appoints self-proclaimed 'proud homophobe', who refers to gays as 'sodomites', and denies climate change, to fix oil spill
Nice guy for the Obama administration to be calling one of our best scientific minds - a climate change denying kook. I'm sure the oil companies are thrilled that the President is elevating this man in the public eye.
SALINAS, Calif. --Former vice president and Nobel laureate Al Gore was on the Central Coast on Monday...he drew an analogy between the gulf oil spill and global warming hoping his numbers would hit home.YouTube - Al Gore Keynote at SapphireNow 2010 Orlando
May 17, 2010 — Al Gore addresses SapphireNow audience and speaks about sustainability in the business context during keynote in Orlando
As Miller and Heartland president Joe Bast noted, it was an extremely odd audience reaction: McIntyre received a standing ovation upon his introduction, thanks to his dogged research and unrelenting demand for information and accountability, but then his blase' attitude about scientists' behavior -- particularly Mann's -- left most of the audience cold and some even angry. The applause for McIntyre was tepid upon the conclusion of his remarks. I don't think I've ever seen that before.Horner: Virginia's Cavalier Ethics: 'Mann used...hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars building on his work and the name he had created for himself with the Hockey Stick' | Climate Depot
'Mann's defenders embrace the dissent of McIntyre, the Hockey Team's original tormentor. This is particularly odd given that this statistics expert wasn't sufficiently a 'scientist' for their standards when it came to catching their hijinks with statistics. But, now, Steve's enough of a lawyer for them in this pinch'
Christian climate campaigners joined an overnight vigil in Central London over the weekend to remind Britain’s new government that dealing with the climate crisis needs to be their top priority. Mark Dowd of Operation Noah, the Churches Climate Change Campaign, spoke at an ecumenical vigil service at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, on Saturday night. “It is our responsibility to bear witness to the dangers of climate change” he reflected, “but success is outside of our control and we cannot measure it purely by such things as fantastic UN resolutions”.(Video) Bill Clinton Disagrees with Al Gore; Carbon Dioxide is Plant Food not a Toxin « Red Dog Report
Although he did not mention Al Gore’s name specifically, Clinton did point out that Carbon Dioxide is plant food and that using CO2 as fertilizer for algae is “like putting it on steroids”.Climate Observations: NINO3.4 SST Anomalies Are Now Negative
I just took a quick look at NINO3.4 SST Anomalies, and for the week centered on Wednesday May 12th, they’ve dropped into negative numbers: -0.075 deg C.The Media Is Ignoring Kerry’s Cap-and-Trade | GlobalWarming.org
After 7 months of negotiations, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman last week unveiled a major climate bill to a chorus of…silence. On the day after the rollout, the American Power Act failed to make the front page of a single paper with a national scope. The Sunday political talkies also ignored the bill. I didn’t hear a single mention of the American Power Act on Fox News Sunday, ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, the McLaughlin Group, or the Chris Matthews Show.Kerry – Lieberman: Corrupt Climate Science Used To Destroy US Economy
What gives?
The Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act (APA) is a disastrous, unnecessary solution for a non-existent problem. Worse, it’s a problem that exists only in a grossly inadequate computer model whose projections have never been correct. It is predicated on the false assumption that an increase in CO2 causes a temperature increase.
The majority of the American population now thinks that global warming probably doesn't exist. Part of that is the huge amount of money which has been spent on propaganda, but part of it is that the only continent which is not experiencing increased temperatures right now--is the continental USA*. If you want to be a climate change denialist, America is a great place to live.American Thinker: Climategate Taxpayer Fraud Investigation Draws Ideological Heat
The case for looking into Professor Mann's records for potential fraud to procure taxpayer money looks strong compared to the specious investigations -- unrelated to abuses of taxpayer money -- in which Democrats engage on a regular basis.Roger L. Simon » Talking Climate in the Windy City
What a relief it is the public is finally turning against this. And we have men like Monckton and Lindzen to thank for it, as well as many others at the conference. Steve McIntyre, whom I will be interviewing Monday, comes quickly to mind.
With any luck, in the near future, a few of our politicians may even wake up to this. But that may be pushing it. I have a suspicion most of them did even more poorly in calculus than I did.
Snow levels, at about 7,000 feet in the mountains Sunday, could drop as low as 5,500 feet early this week. Snow in the mountain passes could reach 3 to 6 inches over the next several days, Peterson said.Gore in Orlando today
Monday, May 17U.N. to pick Costa Rican as new climate [hoax] chief: sources | Reuters
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Broadcast Center: Keynote Studio 1 Keynote Presentation
Mr. The Honorable Al Gore, Vice President, of the United States (1993-2001)
Mr. Sir Richard Branson, Founder and President, Virgin Group
SINGAPORE/OSLO (Reuters) - Veteran Costa Rican climate diplomat Christiana Figueres is set to be appointed as the United Nations' new climate chief, sources familiar with the matter said Monday.
CHICAGO -- A prominent U.S. geologist is urging the world to forget about global warming because global cooling has already begun.
Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook's warning came in the form of a new scientific paper he presented to the 4th International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago on May 16, 2010.
After temperature sensors were planted on the moon, you see, they reported an upward trend year after year. Too much CO2 up there?Review & Outlook: Just Don't Call It a Climate Bill - WSJ.com
The Beltway wisdom says this combination of corporate welfare and economic destruction has little chance to pass this year, but don't be so sure. The left and Mr. Obama know their supermajorities are about to vanish, and they are ideologically willful enough to make one more effort to jam this through the Senate. They just won't call it a gas tax, or cap and trade, or anything close to what it really is.
You can also see our famous faked polar bear at:
COSMOS - The complex psychology of climate denial.
Science Daily - Federal Polar Bear Research Critically Flawed, Forecasting Expert Asserts
Mother Earth News: For or Against Global Warming?
Save Biogems Polar Bears
Conservation Magazine Lonely Polar Nights
Energy Tribune China And The “Deniers”: Why Climate Change Issues Are Problematic for the ChineseAnimal Discovery The temperature is rising
Bridget Jankovsky, who leads the Colorado chapter of the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), gave presentations to hundreds of kids throughout the day on the basics of climate change: the role of greenhouse gases, what human behaviors play the greatest role in increasing them—including meat consumption—the sensitivity of the earth to a difference in temperature of just one or two degrees, and how Americans in particular are used to "living large," using more resources per capita than any other country in the world. You've heard this statistic before, but the kids hadn't: If everyone on Earth consumed as much as we do in the U.S., it would take five planets to support all of us.CBS Highlights Meteorologists Who Doubt Human Activity Causing Global Warming | NewsBusters.org
Below is a complete transcript of the report from the Saturday, May 15, CBS Evening NewsKerry, Lieberman Ready to End Senate Careers | MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
It’s official. Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman have signaled the end of their political careers. The two have introduced what they’ve titled the “American Power Act.” Yep, it’s a global warming bill – Cap-n-Trade, Cap-n-Tax, etc. The premise for this bill is that the industrial emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) are causing global temperatures to rise and to prevent global catastrophe the industrialized world must reduce its emissions of CO2.
A pork and power bill based on global warming propaganda has been a priority for the Obama administration. Given that it has already been established, absolutely, that predictions of catastrophic man-made global warming are a scam, you might question the two senators’ sanity for introducing one.
Science claims a special place in the trust of the public because of its unswerving adherence to certain objective methodologies, involving transparency, peer review, replicability and honest purpose. NIWA has forfeited that trust in so many ways.The Reference Frame: Boston Globe on Lindzen and Emanuel
Clearly, the number of people who believe that AGW is a threat is much lower than what you see simply because (most) people realize the benefits of saying "Yes" and they like these benefits.The science of climate change: The clouds of unknowing | The Economist
The doubters are right that uncertainties are rife in climate science. They are wrong when they present that as a reason for inaction.
The AGW community is behaving exactly like the UFO cult studied by psychologist Leon Festinger in his classic study of cognitive dissonance.The Hockey Schtick: Mainstream US Media begins Balanced Reporting on Global Warming
A report on the CBS Evening News tonight titled Forecast: Global Warming points out that the recent George Mason University poll of TV weather forecasters shows only 31% believe global warming is primarily caused by man. {and over 25% went so far as to call it a scam}Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Meandering solar cycle 23 to 24 transition
it looks to me as though cycle 23 is not yet out of the woods.The Clamour Of The Times
Does this government - any government - really think it can convince the electorate that a policy which leads to significantly higher energy prices is justified at a time when there will need to be considerable belt-tightening for other reasons?
The average annual temperature at the South Pole was warmer in 2002 than it was in 2009…[Tom Fuller actually suggests that trace amounts of CO2 can kill people]
The present state of climate science, if anybody cares, is that temperatures are rising at about 1.25 degrees C per century, and that this will cause some serious problems in specific regions of the world, although we don't really know yet which regions they will be. It will save us time and money and quite a few lives in the developing world if we do some of the things we know we need to do anyhow a bit earlier than planned, such as satisfy our energy needs with a more balanced portfolio of fuels, weaning ourselves off of fossil fuels before they run out, and retrofitting our infrastructure to be more efficient.Creature comfort: the British 'safari jet' that transforms into a plush viewing platform | Mail Online
The four-engined Avro Business Jet Explorer Four has been designed to land on short runways and uneven landing strips, delivering its wealthy passengers directly into wildlife areas.BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: IPCC review: friend or foe?
Then, with the flick of a switch, a door on the side of the jet opens and a viewing platform extends from the fuselage - offering spectacular open-air views.
The organisation is accused of deliberately selecting report leaders "fully signed up to the global warming theology", as you might put it, and of deliberately excluding dissenting voices through a variety of mechanisms.
It is accused of routinely neglecting the influence of natural climatic cycles in its projections, and of concocting projections of the world's socio-economic future that bear little relation to reality.
It goes without saying that a cap and trade law – or, better, an outright carbon tax – is needed, and eventually it will happen.Obama Advisor Carol Browner [still promoting the climate hoax]
“If we wait until we can see and touch the consequences of climate change, it will simply be too late,” she said. “If we don’t act now — if we maintain the status quo and continue to rely on fossil fuels, we will face challenges of an unprecedented scale-drought, saltwater intrusion into freshwater supplies, disrupted agricultural production, and the spread of disease and poverty.”The Week That Was 2010-05-15: Fred Singer
We live in an Orwellian world where myth and propaganda have replaced science and reason even at the highest levels of discourse. As reproduced in TWTW last week Science ran a letter signed by 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences attacking Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for requesting documents relating to the work of Michael Mann while at the University of Virginia. The letter contained numerous spurious assertions as if they were scientific fact to include carbon dioxide emissions are making the oceans more acidic. As expressed below, if anything, emissions are making the oceans less alkaline.- Bishop Hill blog - Harrabin on Heartland
Roger Harrabin has posted a short report [MP3] from the Heartland Conference which is actually not too bad. There are a couple of irrelevant asides about tobacco funding, but there is a definite change in tone.NRO’s Manzi Mischaracterizes Global Warming Debate - by James M. Taylor
I wonder why?
Manzi is either ignorant of the scientific accomplishments of these three scientists, or sought to score a cheap point by taking advantage of uninformed readers.
...They have reconstructed a timeline of 205 eruptions in Iceland, spanning the past 1,100 years, and found that they occur in regular cycles — with the relatively quiet phase that dominated the past five decades now coming to an end.
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Grimsvotn, another highly active volcano, lies under the huge Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland’s southeast. An eruption in 1996 saw much of this glacial ice melt, causing a flood that washed away the country’s main ring road.
It is linked to the massive Laki fissure volcano whose 1783 eruption ejected so much ash into the atmosphere that it cooled the entire northern hemisphere for nearly three years. The resulting low temperatures caused crop failures and famines that killed 2m people and helped trigger the French Revolution.
A decision by a climate-change group to fly leading activists 12,000 miles to a conference threatens to tear the movement apart.Chris Huhne will ensure the coalition is soon out of power - Telegraph
The leadership of Climate Camp – which is opposed to flying and airport expansion – have been accused of hypocrisy after they sent two members on a £1,200 round-trip to Bolivia.
In the name of fighting an imaginary problem, we are soon going to have an imaginary economy – and Mr Huhne's name will join all the others on its tombstone.
Britain is still the only country in the world already committed by law to cutting its CO2 emissions by more than 80 per cent over the next 40 years - although we emit less than 2 per cent of the world's total. In the name of fighting an imaginary problem, we are soon going to have an imaginary economy – and Mr Huhne's name will join all the others on its tombstone.
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