Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations
and its implications.
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Nicola Scaffetta has just published a new paper which I think will become one of the cornerstone publications on our future understanding of the Earths climate system.
London: Making artificial clouds to fight global warming could make things worse, according to experts.On Faith Panelists Blog: From Eden to the Gulf: Abundance, greed and disaster - Arthur Waskow - Rabbi, founder and director of The Shalom Center
Just as the oil blowout in the Gulf grew from Big Oil's unwillingness to restrain itself from gobbling up even the most hidden sources of fossil-fuel energy, so the planetary climate crisis grows from the same insatiable hunger. Big Oil and Big Coal have become "Drug Lords" that have shaped our society so as to force us into addiction to the burning of fossil fuels. Addiction is a spiritual failing. It also bespeaks political corruption and oppression.Wind farms in Russia spin idly - RusBizNews.com
The defense industries in the Urals have decided to develop wind farms to generate electricity. The industry managers are hoping for steady demand from the public, as well as subsidies from the government. But experts claim that only the largest wind farms have any hope of succeeding. As columnists for RusBusinessNews have explained, as long as Russia has natural gas, government officials are not going to pay any attention to wind energy.Economic/Environmental Assessment of Grid-Tied Photovoltaics: Arizona Lessons for the U.S. — MasterResource
there is a good chance that the RES will have outcomes that are directly opposite its intended effects.
The prestigious, peer-reviewed and respected scientific journal, Nature, published an article on the 22 April 2010, which used the very scientific term 'paltry' to describe the emission reduction pledges in the Copenhagen Accord. The article concludes those paltry pledges would give a greater than 50% chance that warming will exceed 3 degrees by 2100. 3 degrees is devastating, catastrophic, climate change. It's the climate change that most people, plants and animals won't survive. A greater than 50% chance. Would you get on a plane, with your daughter, your brother, your friend, your pet dog and your favourite plant if there was a greater than 50% chance of crashing? Didn't think so.
The sunspots, in fact, now predict a 30-year cooling, to be delivered by the Pacific Ocean’s shift into its cool phase. That, too, will undoubtedly be a product of the sun’s internal chemistry and further evidence of the sun’s massive importance to Planet Earth.
Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, explains what it's all about:
"The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to discuss."
The predictions for Solar Cycle 24 have plummeted from "one of the most intense" to now one of the least intense cycles of the past 400 years. If the anemic activity continues, the sun may be entering a quiet phase similar to the Dalton Minimum, characterized by approximately 50 sunspots/month at the peak of the solar cycle.Brazil buries carbon plan - The National Newspaper
A proposal supported by the UAE to fund the fight against climate change by burying carbon pollution underground has been blocked by a powerful, perhaps insurmountable foe: Brazil.C3: Memo To Senators: U.S. Climate Scientists Are Manipulating Temperature Data, And You Also
Let's say you're a climate scientist whose livelihood depends on government funding for global warming. What would you do to assure the global warming funding continues, so that you attain a secure future, financially and emotionally, in your chosen climate science field?
Golfers, security guards and others that spend a lot of time outdoors are noticing more snakes than usual slithering across South Carolina.Norway PM succeeds Brown in U.N. climate [scam] group
And that means more snake bites.
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will take over from Britain's Gordon Brown as co-chair of a U.N. group looking at ways to raise finance to help poor nations to combat climate, Norway said on Sunday.Kerry hits another touchdown - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com
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Norway, rich from oil, has promised to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 30 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels -- among the most ambitious goals in the world. The country's emissions are, however, far above the target.
Note to John Kerry's staff: Your boss should stay away from sports references.
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The remarks follow such Kerry highlights as calling the Green Bay Packers' Lambeau Field "Lambert Field," conflating the names of Red Sox sluggers Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, and naming Eddie Yost as his favorite Red Sox player of all time. Yost never played for Boston.
Here is what one project designed to increase the awareness of children about climate did earlier this year in London. They got a successful writer of vampire stories for children, a Mr Darren Shan, to pen a piece for them on [the climate change hoax]. Here it is...Warming in Last 50 Years Predicted by Natural Climate Cycles « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
This is powerful evidence that most of the warming that the IPCC has attributed to human activities over the last 50 years could simply be due to natural, internal variability in the climate system. If true, this would also mean that (1) the climate system is much less sensitive to the CO2 content of the atmosphere than the IPCC claims, and (2) future warming from greenhouse gas emissions will be small.
[S.E. Hendriksen] ...Prof. Tom V. Segalstad (Oslo Norway) made that calculation long time ago when the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 380 PPMv… if you burn all known fossil fuel, it will end up with 456 PPMv in the atmosphere (a rise of 20 %), so a doubling of the CO2 in the atmosphere is not possible due burning fossil fuel.
But a CO2 release from the oceans (because of warming) can do it without any doubt.
When he's not trying to save the world, Turner's hawking his "Ted's Montana Grill" restaurant chain, which is known for its bison burgers. Turner, who is the country's largest private land owner, said he has 55,000 bison. "They'll just start piling up if we don't eat something."Flashback: Ted Turner: If We Don't Prepare For Global Warming We'll Be Extinct | NewsBusters.org
"And if enough of us choose to do the wrong thing and we don't prepare for global warming and we don't make the changes that we know we should make, then we'll be extinct"Flashback: Eat less meat to tackle climate change: UN panel
LONDON - Eating meat causes environmental degradation and the world population needs to become vegetarian to tackle climate change, says a UN panel.
Kerry said the carbon pricing was not a tax.Flashback: YouTube - Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket
“Unfortunately there are some folks who call anything and everything that’s dreamed up in Washington a tax. There is no tax,” he said.
“This will not raise the cost of energy for most consumers,” Kerry added.
Barack Obama: "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." (January 2008)Flashback: YouTube - Dingell: Cap-and-trade a big tax
Congressman John Dingell, a key Democrat, says that "nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and it's a great big one."Flashback: Warren Buffett Slams "Cap and Trade" as a Regressive Tax on All Americans
March 09, 2009 — This morning on CNBC's "Squawk Box," billionaire investor and prominent Obama supporter Warren Buffett slammed the administrations proposed $646 billion carbon tax known as cap and trade as a regressive tax that customers are going to pay for.
[Peter Ridley] Has that method used for reconstructng past atmospheric compositions using air recovered from ice cores, which Professor Richard Alley refers to as the “Gold Standard”, been subjected to a proper assay showing that it is not in fact fools gold?
Why do I ask this? It is because I have not yet been able to find any worthwhile research providing convincing evidence that air “trapped” for hundreds and hundreds of years within ice retains unchanged the composition that existed at the time of initial capture. As I understand it that air is first “trapped” in snow as it forms and falls and is then retained within the increasingly densified ice as it is compresses beneath more falling snow.
As Jaworowski et al. have pointed out, most recently in 2007 at the time that the non-scientific AR4 SPM was issued – ahead of the finalised report upon which it was supposed to be based was written - there are numerous physical and chemical processes that distort the original composition.
...There should be a name for it - the small pang of ill-feeling we all get reading or hearing the words ''climate change''.
''Climate change'' now carries the little, pre-emptive defeat previously only attached to phrases like ''Middle East peace process''. Encountering it is exactly like answering the phone to a charity telemarketer: the same feeling of prodding repetition, strained goodwill, and small-bore guilt that lingers about as long as an ad-break during an episode of House. It's dripping with the feeling that there's no problem so big we can't argue it into a state of hopelessness, as long as we work together.
How did we get here, wanting to be somewhere else? The anorak nature of the debate can't help (as I write this, I know a retired engineer somewhere is readying an unintelligible post about how the hockey stick graph is rubbish - check the comments section when this article goes online); nor can the weary return to the left-right argument about regulation versus risk, which would operate in exact reverse if the solution proposed involved launching cruise missiles. Then there's the stall when gears change between talk and action. But none of those things are really fresh - there's something deeper, more nefarious and more stupid happening right now. Climate change has fallen out of fashion.
Global warming is not a fairy tale but a fearsome reality, Benoy Viswom, Minister for Forests, has said. He was inaugurating the ambitious “Haritha Muttam Haritha Veethi” initiative of the Kollam City Corporation here on Sunday.Voodoo Economists 4: The idiocy of crowds or, rather, the idiocy of (crowded) debates « Climate Progress
Quoting scientific studies, Mr. Viswom said that if the temperature of the earth rose by another 3 degrees Celsius, man would meet the fate of the dinosaurs. Installation of air-conditioners will not save the human kind. It was high time we understood that the destruction of life-sustaining environment was suicidal, he said.
[Stott] Humanity lives successfully from Greenland to Singapore to Saudi Arabia. 70 degrees C.WikiAnswers - What is the current temperature of Earth's surface
The average temperature of Earth's surface has varied between 13.8 and 14.6 degrees Celsius (56.8 and 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit) during the period from 1950 to 1999.
In the year 1999, the average global temperature was approximately 14.4 degrees Celsius (57.9 degrees Fahrenheit).
Outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will meet former US Vice President Al Gore when he visits the country on June 8 for a lecture on global warming and climate change.When to declare palms dead | HeraldTribune.com
A:As the cold weather came to an end, the advice from the University of Florida researchers was to be patient and give the palms six months to determine their fate.[Question: If you spend five times the normal cost for a "green" firehouse roof, how much bad weather will be prevented?] - TwinCities.com
The price tag for the 9,000-square-foot roof is about $500,000, said Dave Nelson, St. Paul project manager for the fire department building. A traditional roof would have cost about $100,000, he said.
In the coming weeks I shall argue that just as the world has come to realize at the heart of the recent financial collapse was the toxic private household mortgage – backed securities of the US, there is a real danger of its later repeat in the growth of toxic carbon offsets and fraudulent carbon dioxide emissions permits and allowances, which are now flooding into the poorly regulated and weakly supervised global carbon exchanges.'Cap and trade' is a reason to oppose Rep. Mary Bono Mack
Even Obama admits cap and trade will cause major increases in energy bills across the nation. The bill is so full of onerous, outlandishly expensive clauses they cannot be enumerated.YouTube - Global Warming in May 28-31, 2010 (I wish)
The Desert Sun refers to Mary's “conservative credentials.” With her votes for cap and trade, she becomes just another pandering to Obama left-winger. Although I have been a supporter of Mary for many years, I can only make this statement now: Shame on you, Mary, you do not deserve re-election.
June 06, 2010 — Decided on a last minute trip to Yellowstone National Park for the 2010 Memorial Day weekend and had no clue what we got ourselves into to. We were freezing.
Remember the local news headline where the science teacher converted his '82 Volvo wagon to run on the grease from McDonald's? The press, fellow teachers, and students swooned at how green-conscious and forward-looking the teacher was. Not surprisingly, no student asked if there were enough burger joints to power a lot of cars and, if there were, whether or not the infrastructure (e.g., gas stations) to distribute French Fry Fuel exists. Bull Tech is technology that seems visionary but whose "Green" value is illusory because the real environmental or financial costs are concealed, or the widespread adoption of the technology is impossible, or because it is financially unavailable to most Americans.‘Peak Oil’ Movement Prepares for the Worst - NYTimes.com
Examples of Bull Tech include the Chevy Volt, the Tesla, ethanol, and biofuels. Take for example the much-hyped electric automaker Tesla. Can you guess the average cost of a new car sold in America? $28,400. The price of an absolute, base-model, stripped-down Tesla? $50,000. This is after $7,500 tax credit from Uncle Sam, so the real cost is $57,500 plus the cost of installing a 220-volt plug in your garage. Not only are Teslas financially out of reach for the average American, but they aren't zero emissions, either. The electricity to manufacture and power them has to come from something, and guess where it most comes from? Coal-fired plants.
Andre Angelantoni is not taking that chance. In his home in San Rafael, Calif., he has stocked food reserves in case an oil squeeze prevents food from reaching market and has converted his investments into gold and silver.
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Mr. Angelantoni, 40, came to his concern about peak oil from an interest in climate change, because he felt its impact would be more precipitous.
SYDNEY — Weather-related catastrophes brought about by climate change are increasing, the top UN humanitarian official said Sunday as he warned of the possibility of "mega-disasters".
John Holmes, the Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, said one of the biggest challenges facing the aid community was the problems stemming from changing weather patterns.
"When it comes meteorological disasters, weather-related disasters, then there is a trend upwards connected with climate change," Holmes, who is in Australia for high-level talks on humanitarian aid, told AFP.
"The trend is there is terms of floods, and cyclones, and droughts."
Berliner said the county fully expected a fight from Mirant on the carbon tax, and therefore didn't write into the budget the $15 million in revenue the tax would have generated.American Thinker Blog: Carly Fiorina injects global warming into her race with Barbara Boxer
The warmist scare is losing traction. Should Fiorina win the nomination next Tuesday, and press this line of criticism of Boxer, we shall see if even blue state Californians have had enough of the scam.
The local tourist board revealed that the past week has brought consistent snowfall, including Mount Dobson's largest single deposit of snow since 1986.
With a powder base of around 130cm, the mountain looks set to open for the winter season before its planned launch date of 1 July.
JOHN BOSCAWEN - ACT MP
Regardless of whether you believe in the science of global warming or not, New Zealand will be leading the world from 1 July if we introduce the ETS in its current form. Our top four major trading partners don't have an Emissions Trading Scheme, who's gonna buy our exports, it's certainly not gonna be Australia, China, United States or Japan. I've travelled up and down the country from Northland down to Gore in Invercargill and I get a consistent message from National supporters, farmers and New Zealanders generally that they don't want this, they don't understand this, they don't understand where the money's going. I believe the government is under estimating the cost for householders, they're saying that the average household's going to pay an extra $3 a week. For farmers that'll be $80 a week, and it also understates the flow on effect.
What we're doing is we're increasing the price of electricity.
WA's Environment Minister, Donna Faragher, says she believes humans are partly to blame for climate change.
This week, the Water Minister, Graham Jacobs came under fire for asking staff to remove the term "climate change" from a number of department documents.
Dr Jacobs rejected claims he was a climate change denier but said he was not convinced it was caused by humans.
Pachauri proposes tariff hike, CM agrees
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R K Pachauri, on Saturday, came out strongly in favour of increasing power and water tariffs in the Capital.
Speaking at an event to mark the World Environment Day, Diskhit said, “We will have to take serious efforts to save the environment. We will have to control wastage of water and power. If the solution to limit consumption of water and power lies in increasing the tariff as suggested by Pachauri, then we support it.”
Pachauri suggested that increasing tariff would make people appreciate the resources more. [Wait, where's the part about preventing bad weather?]
United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon
Biodiversity, the incredible variety of life on Earth that sustains us, is in peril. Species are becoming extinct at the fastest rate ever recorded. Most of these extinctions are tied to human activities that are polluting and depleting water resources, changing and degrading habitats and altering the global climate. From frogs to gorillas, from huge plants to tiny insects, thousands of species are in jeopardy.
I won't pretend that climate change isn't happening, and that the scientific consensus, which grows more solid by the day (and not less solid), holds that humans are responsible for much of this change. We can validly debate the solutions, but it is simply stupid to pretend, for the sake of appearing to be fair, as if there is a fundamental scientific debate that has yet to be solved. On the other side of the coin, simply acknowledging the science does not presuppose any particular solution. You CAN cover a debate about how to fix global warming, and whether the trade-offs that must be made are worth their price. These are open, contestable questions. The fact of global warming isn't.Marc Ambinder - Authors - The Atlantic
Marc Ambinder is the politics editor of The Atlantic. He has covered Washington for ABC News and the Hotline, and he is chief political consultant to CBS News.
Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels.Tom Nelson: [So how can the 20th century warming be spun as more rapid than this 18th century warming?]
How Does Today’s Warming Compare to Past Climate Change?
Earth has experienced climate change in the past without help from humanity. But the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events.
Why Do Scientists Think Current Warming Isn’t Natural?
In Earth’s history before the Industrial Revolution, Earth’s climate changed due to natural causes unrelated to human activity. These natural causes are still in play today, but their influence is too small or they occur too slowly to explain the rapid warming seen in recent decades.
[David Archibald] What is also interesting is the 2.2° temperature rise from 7.8° in 1696 to 10.0° in 1732. This is a 2.2° rise is 36 years [in Central England]. By comparison, the world has seen a 0.6° rise over the 100 years of the 20th century. That temperature rise in the early 18th century was four times as large and three times as fast as the rise in the 20th century.
RALSTON, Wyo. - Because of a late freeze, Dwight Gilbert has planted his sugarbeets twice.Relocating animals to safer climes - Emirates Business 24|7
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Yet, even this week, Dwight said some area farmers who thought they didn't have freeze damage to their beets are starting to see some damage.
The days of leaving animals and plants alone in the wild to cope with climate change are over.Mexico doubtful on climate deal
In an interview, Patricia Espinosa, Mexico's foreign minister, said: "Normally, when you have an exercise of drafting a treaty between 194 nations you need some time, you would need much more than the six months that are left."
...I really consider myself to be a citizen of the world, who is looking for a special lady to take short carbon neutral hikes followed by globe trotting in my private plane to attend conferences with other longwinded academics. Must have your own reusable water bottle.
Hobbies? You bet! While I enjoy quiet walks on beaches, my passion is stridently lecturing lesser mortals about the deleterious effects they are having on coastal ecosystems. So if you like the sound of my voice, that will be important because there really won't be much time spent in my company when you won't be lulled into a mind-numbing stupor.
Climate change is a given for scientists converging this week at the University of Hawai'i-Hilo for the Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology.
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His research colleague, James Marsh, professor of international business economics at UH-Mānoa, said progress can be made simply by moving past the debate. Even though he's not a climate scientist, he has reviewed the research and finds it solid, he said.
"I don't listen much to skeptics," Marsh said.
"We were somewhat teased by Mother Nature," said Lorenz Magaard, a scientist at the UH School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. "But if one looks at the total picture, it is clear. I think there is enough scientific evidence that global warming is going on."
Magaard cites the melting of glaciers and increased acidification of oceans as signs. He said a UH colleague has created models that showed predictable climate activity for millions of years, but changes over the past 40 years fit the model only when it includes human activity.
In fact, her area of interest is crucial to the climate change debate. It's her job to measure the snow layer on top of the Antarctic ice so that, in turn, the thickness of the polar ice can be accurately measured. Thinning ice will lead not only to rising sea levels but changes in global weather patterns.Snow job in Antarctica – digging out the data source | Watts Up With That?
...it meant a lot of time flying over the frozen Antarctic landscape in [fossil-fueled] helicopters, measuring the snow layer with experimental airborne radar and comparing those results with handheld measurements on the ground for accuracy.
Her work was extremely difficult, hampered by outdated computer gear and the challenges of working in a hostile environment. The airborne radar wasn't as accurate as what she was hoping for. ''The readings were accurate to about five centimetres but the thickness of snow is at times only 10 centimetres, so we were really trying to improve the accuracy and fly a larger area. The vibrations of the helicopters contributed to us not collecting much data. We could have done things so much differently,'' she said.
It seems digging out weather stations is a regular pastime in Antarctica, so data issues with snow burial of AWS sensors may be more than just about “Harry”.
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This regular burial and digging out of stations brings the whole network of AWS stations to be used as sensitive climate measurement stations into question.
Speaking at a programme organised to mark the World Environment Day in Kathmandu, the PM reasoned that the developed countries have to pay compensation to the developing and poor countries for their exploitation of natural resources.Rudd running on anger | The Daily Telegraph
He detailed how Mr Rudd was privately scathing of Chinese efforts to derail a deal in the Copenhagen climate-change talks last year.
"Those Chinese f****** are trying to rat-f*** us," Mr Rudd is quoted as saying.
Last year, Energy Secretary and Nobel laureate Steven Chu, who ran a major national laboratory in California, warned that if we keep on our current path of unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions, it could be devastating to California's climate: "You’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California."
No worries for Carly, though. She has a bigger concern than her state's future -- her own political future. She wanted an endorsement in her GOP primary contest from the leading anti-climate dis-informer in the Senate, James Inhofe, Boxer's bête noire on the Environment and Public Works Committee and a man once described by the Washington Post as “the last flat-earther.” When she won Inhofe's backing, Fiorina was asked whether she believes in global warming. Her reply: "I think we should have the courage to examine the science on an ongoing basis."
ENVIRONMENT minister Peter Garrett has admitted he was not consulted about the government's decision to ditch its proposed emissions trading scheme and that he knew nothing about it until he read it in the newspapers.YouTube - TV ad: Safe
Barbara Boxer thinks climate change is a "very important national security issue." Carly Fiorina will work to keep you safe.Republican candidate Art Robinson hopes to unseat Democratic incumbent Peter DeFazio
ODE: So climate change is not something we should be concerned about?Maine Scientists Surprised by GOP Candidates' Views on Climate Change
Robinson: No. It’s something that, basically, you have a field of endeavor in which scientists try to understand the changes and predict them, because there is certainly an advantage in being able to predict ... and it was fine, and then the field got hijacked by the politics and the hijacking didn’t do anything except obscure the good science. And, interestingly, if you look at what man can do to Earth temperature, if we wanted to be prepared for temperature change in the Earth we should hope that it gets too warm, because we can cool it. If it gets too cool, we can’t warm it. If the Earth gets too cold for us, there is nowhere to get the energy to warm it. It’s just not possible. If it gets too warm, it’s very easy to block enough sunlight to cool it, and several scientists have shown very economical ways that that could be done. I don’t advocate doing that today, but mankind can cool it to any extent it wants by blocking the sun, they can’t warm it at all. So if fluctuations go on, and uh, we had our druthers, we better get it too warm because that we can fix. I’ve read every paper in this field; I’ve studied this for ten years, and I can tell you — there is just nothing there. It’s a political front, unfortunately, that’s just what it is.
All but one of the seven Republican candidates decline to embrace the science behind climate change. And that surprises and disappoints science professors at Maine's colleges and universities.Alberta climate change [scam] fund approves $71M in projects
EDMONTON — Alberta’s climate change fund has made its first investment in clean energy, with a decision to invest $71 million in 16 technology projects this year.
This is just a sampling of a larger group of businesses whose woolly rhetoric is designed to mask their own-self interest -- at the expense of the American economy as a whole. Big business spokesmen for cap-and-trade claim they are trying to save the planet and achieve regulatory certainty. But the only certainty they're after is guaranteed profits. It's comforting, in a way, to know that their eyes are always firmly fixed on the bottom line.Losing Glacier Data « Climate Audit
...Perhaps this also explains why Lonnie Thompson has refused to archive sample data for Dunde cores taken in 1989 – still an important contributor to proxy studies. He doesn’t know where the data is and doesn’t want to admit it.Oxburgh versus Emanuel « Climate Audit
[Emanuel: The documents exist, but you should get them from Oxburgh. Oxburgh: The documents don't exist?]
This week’s guest is Naomi Oreskes, co-author with historian Eric Conway of the new book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. [43-min MP3]BEISNER: Move over, global warming - Washington Times
Nonetheless, as global warming fears collapse in the face of Climategate, the green socialist machine is scrambling to be ready to switch gears. Perhaps the new rationale for global wealth redistribution and deindustrialization will be preserving biodiversity. It's a good candidate: It has all the flaws of global warming - bad science, bad economics and totalitarian politics.Issues in BP War Room photo! - pourmecoffee
[Steven Chu in a room with energy-guzzling big-screen TVs, bottled water and other drinks in disposable containers, Cracker Jacks in wasteful packaging, non-locally grown coffee, etc?!]
WASHINGTON: Arctic sea ice is at its record low in the recent geologic history, a major international study has claimed. The first comprehensive history of Arctic ice, carried out by a team of scientists from five countries, found that the recent retreat is the worst in thousands of years.Flashback: The undeath spiral | Watts Up With That?
Over the last three years, Arctic Ice has gained significantly in thickness.
On this side of the debate: Every scientist in the world. On the other: Mr. Potato Head.
There is no debate here -- just scientists vs. non-scientists, and since the topic is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. Just because most people believe something doesn't make it true.
There’ve been times when I’ve sparred with David Roberts, a smart, funny, valuable voice on energy and the environment over at Grist.Flashback: Chilling Intolerance for Free Speech on Global Warming
"When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg." -David Roberts, Gristmill, Grist Magazine, September 19, 2006
This goes back to the three pillars of climate science: incomplete theory, erroneous computer models and inaccurate data. Here is an admission that the connection between human activity and CO2 emissions has not been accurately measured. Climate scientists have inferred mankind's contribution from measurements in overall atmospheric content, blaming humanity for the sharp rise in GHG levels even though there is considerable evidence that levels of such gases have been higher during previous interglacials than they are today. New sources and new sinks are being discovered every day, and nature's response to changing CO2 levels is to change itself. No wonder climate scientists haven't guessed right yet.Brendan DeMelle | Christopher Monckton Brings His Brand of Crazy To Bonn Climate Talks
Climate deniers often like to talk about “global warming profiteers,” some mysterious breed led by Al Gore who, so the story goes, are out to make the big bucks off scaring people about climate change. But if there’s anyone making money off lying about global warming these days, it is “Lord” Christopher Monckton, who continues his globetrotting tour to hawk confusion and misinformation at the Bonn climate talks this month.Climate: The Extremists Join the Debate at Last! | CFACT Europe
[Monckton] Just about every one of the 115 slides presented by Abraham in his shoddy little piece of lavishly-funded venom contains serious, serial, material errors, exaggerations, or downright lies. All I have been able to do here is to give you some flavor of how unscientific, inaccurate, and deliberately mendacious Abraham’s video is.Climate change leading to major vegetation shifts around the world
BERKELEY — Vegetation around the world is on the move, and climate change is the culprit, according to a new analysis of global vegetation shifts led by a University of California, Berkeley, ecologist in collaboration with researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
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"The dieback of trees and shrubs in the Sahel leaves less wood for houses and cooking, while the contraction of Arctic tundra reduces habitat for caribou and other wildlife," said Gonzalez, who has served as a lead author on reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The self-descriptive online propaganda tool SolveClimate selectively "reports" that despite a new rule implemented last year by the Texas Board of Education, which would allegedly require "teachers to cast doubt on human contributions to climate change," that students and educators are largely ignoring itI'd rather have Monckton in a foxhole with me than Monbiot – Telegraph Blogs
Oh, and there’s one more key difference which I think we would do well to consider when judging Monckton as against the other side. Unlike the Warmists, Monckton is not proposing urinating $45 trillion of your money, my money and the world’s money up against the wall in a name of a problem that doesn’t actually exist.
All hail Monckton. I’m proud to call him an ally and a friend.
Is it all down to man-made global warming? Not according to a recent study, which finds that about half of the glacier loss in the Swiss Alps is due to natural climate variability — a result likely to be true for glaciers around the world.
"This doesn't question the actuality, and the seriousness, of man-made climate change in any way," says Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, who led the study. "But what we do see is that current glacier retreat might be equally due to natural climate variations as it is to anthropogenic greenhouse warming."
Summer has been a long time coming for Storlien-Visjövalen ski resort in central Sweden, near the Norwegian border, where the last of the snow only melted away on Wednesday.
The late thaw contributed to the longest continuous period of snow cover in the region for at least 60 years, according to the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).
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Storlien was not the only place where the snow cover remained for an unusually long period of time. Southern Sweden was hit with the harshest winter in about 20 years with unusually heavy snowfall.
This has nothing to do with stopping the leak, preventing further leaks or cleaning up the coast. It’s all about advancing Obama’s agenda.2010 on track to become warmest year ever | Environment | The Guardian
The melt season started almost a month later than normal at the end of March and is not expected to end until September.US: Cold snap hits farmers hard
Chilly spring has warm-weather crops waiting for sunshineBP Spill Shows We Need to Pass BP’s Bill? - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Many local growers are eager to see the end of an unusually cold and wet spring, which has stalled the growth of many warm-weather crops and potentially set the stage for disease.
A wide array of crops is affected by the cold, said Stacy Gore, vice president of the Butte County Farm Bureau as well as an almond and rice grower.
How do you know there’s no good reason for any particular agenda? When the reasons — or excuses — offered for pursuing that agenda keep changing.So it is that a global-warming tax became a climate-change tax, then somehow a job-creation energy tax, and then a national-energy-security tax, and now is an energy tax to show how engaged and angry President Obama is at BP’s oil spill.
The beer at the low end of the scale is based on figures for the Keswick Brewing Company, a microbrewery quite near where I live. Just about everything you can think of was included in the study I did for them. There were the obvious things such as ingredients, packaging, fuel, electricity and transport. I also included such elements as staff travel, the carbon cost of having to replace their equipment every so many years, and office stationery.
This blog has two primary areas for investigation:May 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.53 deg. C. « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
1. Examples of children being frightened about climate
2. Examples of children being fed misleading information about climate
...SSTs indicate El Nino has ended and we may be headed to La Nina. NOAA issued a La Nina Watch yesterday.Monckton takes scientist to brink of madness at climate change talk | John Abraham | Environment | guardian.co.uk
In the race for the hottest calendar year, 1998 still leads with the daily average for 1 Jan to 31 May being +0.65 C in 1998 compared with +0.59 C for 2010. (Note that these are not considered significantly different.) As of 31 May 2010, there have been 151 days in the year. From our calibrated daily data, we find that 1998 was warmer than 2010 on 96 of them.
I know a thing or two about global warming. I have worked in the field of heat transfer and fluid mechanics and I have published more than 80 papers on these topics.[But he's not even a climatologist!]: University of St. Thomas : School of Engineering : John P. Abraham, Ph.D.
I am a university professor and also an active consultant in the energy and environment industry. What I heard in his talk surprised me.
Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Phil Mote single-handedly damaged the economy of Washington State when as state climatologist he published a cherry picked data analysis allegedly linking western snowpack to global warming. Action taken by the Governor and Seattle’s equally clueless mayor have moved the state in the wrong directions with regards to energy policy and planning and left the state unprepared for the snow and cold of recent winters, costing lives.The undeath spiral | Watts Up With That?
We have seen a steady year over year thickening of the ice since the 2007 melt season.Just what is it that greens like George Monbiot find so offensive about prosperity, abundance, happiness? – Telegraph Blogs
Why, who knows, with luck, Monbiot and his fellow Watermelons might even take us back to that glorious era in 1750 BC when they knew how to treat energy with the respect it deserves. Back then, an hour’s reading time for a sesame oil lamp would have cost you more than 50 hours’ work.World Cup 2010: Climate change fouls and goals | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The transnational sports clothing company Nike announced that the nine teams wearing its uniforms -- including Brazil, Portugal and Netherlands -- will use jerseys made from recycled plastic bottles.
So from Yellowstone Park to Switzerland to Korea, we find good news for critters that don’t like periods of drought. As noted repeatedly, the build-up of greenhouses should warm the Earth as well as increase precipitation. So far, we seem to be witnessing fewer droughts and greater streamflow.Report: Rising Sea Levels Will Have Dire Impact On Bay Area Economy - KCBS
Financial losses from climate change will be significant unless key infrastructure is reinforced, said the director of the National Ocean Economics Program, Judith Kildow.NASA Charged in New Climate Fakery: Greenhouse Gas Data Bogus by John O'Sullivan, guest post at Climate Realists | Climate Realists
“San Francisco aiport is ground zero. Those runways are going to be under water in the not too distant future,” she said.
Shock new evidence of a NASA scientist faking a fundamental greenhouse gas equation shames beleaguered space administration in new global warming fraud scandal.Global Temperature Is Warmest on Record, NASA’s Hansen Says: Reality Check | The SPPI Blog
Caught in the heat are NASA's Dr. Judith Curry and a junk science equation by the space agency’s Dr. Gavin Schmidt creating disarray over a contentious Earth energy graph.
Hansen is a man on a mission to save the planet and this includes civil disobedience. As Michael Goldfarb described it “Recently, but presumably still in his capacity as a private citizen and defender of the Earth, Hansen wrote an op-ed for the Guardian in which he described coal-fired power plants as “factories of death.” This on the heels of testifying in a British court on behalf of six Greenpeace activists on trial for causing $60,000 in criminal damage to a coal-fired power station in England.” Could this civil disobedience carry over to the data?
...Granholm is leaving office because of term limits, and several of her potential successors are vowing to jump-start new coal plants and take the state in the opposite direction on renewable energy and climate change.Climate sceptics and fringe political groups are an unhealthy cocktail | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk
If their scientific case against anthropogenic global warming is so strong, why can't they simply let their peer-reviewed articles in their chosen specialist fields do their bidding for them?The Reference Frame: The Arctic doesn't amplify global temperature swings
There is no "climate" in the RSS temperature tables from 1979 to 2010: everything is "weather".- Bishop Hill blog - The irrational polemicist
George Monbiot has written the most extraordinary review of the book I'm currently reading - Matt Ridley's Rational Optimist. I'm not sure I've ever read such a bilious review of a book before, and certainly few that have been devoted quite so much space to ad hominems. If anything, Monbiot comes over as slightly deranged.- Bishop Hill blog - Monckton to overthrow government..
...or something like that. Lord Monckton is apparently to be the new deputy leader of the UK Independence Party and politicalbetting.com is wondering if global warming sceptics will now all leave the Conservative Party.
...as Center for American Progress blogger Joe Romm quickly pointed out, there was one big word missing from Reid’s letter to the chairmen: “climate.” The Senate letter includes no indication that the energy measure under consideration would include a nationwide cap on greenhouse gas emissions or a price on carbon, which President Obama directly called for in his Pittsburgh speech on Wednesday.
Wal-Mart has also endorsed Cap and Trade, which the public is also against. Barack Obama has promised that Cap and Trade will “skyrocket” our electric bills.
One study says Cap and Trade would hike electricity rates 90 percent, destroy over a million jobs, and reduce U.S. gross domestic product by nearly $10 trillion over the next 25 years.
How did Wal-Mart get on THIS bandwagon? It’s called global warming. Al Gore came to Bentonville and convinced Lee Scott that the sky was falling. Mr. Scott even would claim that carbon dioxide causes hurricanes.
Since that time, we’ve had the Climategate scandal. Some of the science behind global warming was faked. And temperatures are not going up much. In fact, some evidence suggests they are going down.
The Scottish Government has revealed the details of its £200,000 emergency aid fund, announced in April, to support those Scottish sheep farmers whose flocks were hardest hit by the harsh winter.Mongolia counts carcasses after harsh winter - World - Wire - Kentucky.com
As a result of the extremely cold weather, the losses recorded on some Scottish sheep farms during January to April of this year were significantly higher than normal.
More than 8.2 million animals, nearly a fifth of all livestock in Mongolia, have died in a winter of snow, cold and gales so severe Mongolians have a special term for it - "dzud." A sense of loss and the stench of decay hang over one broad valley after another across the vast range lands.
The WWF wants Canadian hippies to pin car keys on their shirts to show support for alternative transport, polar bears need a new press agent and NASA has more problems than Apollo 13 had extra holes.C3: U.S. Climate Data Reveals Past Global Warming Far Exceeds Modern Temperature Change
3. Over the 9,000 years, the average temperature increase from the trough of the preceding cooling period to the next temperature peak has exceeded 2.0°C. In contrast, the Modern warming has barely reached a 0.7°C increase since the Little Ice Age cooling trough.Japan unveils $4 bn of climate cash spending - News - Point Carbon
4. There have been nine significant warming trends leading to temperature peaks over last 9,000 years; and, all exceed the Modern warming trend in terms of absolute degree change (increase).
Japan has allocated over a third of the cash it has pledged to spend on fast-start climate aid.Opinion: Did Al Gore Invent His Marriage Too? - AOL News
But Gore had a reputation for exaggerating. Among other things, he got himself into hot water with the remark that he helped create the Internet. He also once intimated, inaccurately, that he and Tipper were the models for the couple in the Erich Segal 1970 novel "Love Story," later a movie that starred Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neill.
So why didn't we suspect he was exaggerating the quality of his marriage?
To challenge the theory of climate change is a dangerous thing.
That is the lesson Water Minister Graham Jacobs learnt as the Opposition took the Government through the 2010-11 State Budget.
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Greens member Alison Xamon called for the Water Minister to "immediately resign" and added "To have a climate change denialist in a position of such importance for Western Australia's future planning scenarios is akin to having Dracula in charge of the blood bank."
If 18 models get the same result, is that better than just one? Why? Climate science should provide a thorough explanation for this, especially if climate models are to begin informing policy decisions.NC Media Watch: May was cold, but how cold?
We argue in a paper now available in Environmental Science and Policy (PDF here) that agreement is only significant if the models are sufficiently independent from one another. The climate science community has mostly ignored the crucial problem of model independence while taking advantage of a tacit belief in the force of model agreement.
The average temperature of Grass Valley in May was 49.32, or 9.03 degrees below the average. It makes one wonder where is the Global Warming?
But how much did the film actually shift public opinion on global warming? Even a cursory look at the data seems to suggest that over the long term, not much.Fiorina Vs. Fiorina: Let's Talk About The Weather...Or Not | TPMDC
Consider this: When asked by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal in July 1999 for their views on global warming, 23% of respondents said, "Global climate change has been established as a serious problem, and immediate action in necessary." By June 2006, right after “An Inconvenient Truth” came out, that rose to 29%. The figure peaked at 34% in January 2007. Less than three years later, however, by December 2009, the number was back down to where it had been in 1999--at 23%.
In an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos in May 2008, Fiorina was asked point-blank about Republican concerns that cap and trade amounts to little more than a tax increase. She showed a truly Boxer-like eagerness for weather talk at the time.C3: Memo To Senators: The Natives, The Media, The Legal & The Scientific Communities Piss On Global Warming Hysteria
After years of climate alarmism from "scientists" about global warming, the beast known as the public, in all its many forms, is decisively turning against the faux-science used to generate the faux AGW-crisis. Putting aside the multiple polls that reveal climate change/global warming to be of low importance to the general public, there is other evidence that strongly suggests that the global warming hysteria is withering rapidly.
After an unusual about-face prompted by a late recusal, a federal appeals court has scrapped a ruling that said the nation's largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions could be sued for the damage caused by global warming.Carbonrally applies gaming concept to cutting carbon - Mass High Tech Business News
The site makes a game out of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, offering regular carbon-reduction challenges to members who sign up for free.
As a member, you get detailed information about what your actions mean for climate change and you get to see how much CO2 your commitments – such as using a reusable coffee cup or planting a vegetable garden – are saving. You can play individually or as part of a team. (The current winning team on the 30-day leaderboard as of June 3 was the Panthers, a 72-member team that had reduced 37 tons of carbon [dioxide, worth $3.70 at the Chicago Climate Hoax Exchange] .)
PROFITEERS have jumped on the "doom and gloom bandwagon" surrounding climate change and are cashing in on the drive for "green" technologies, according to TV presenter and author Johnny Ball.'Climate Climbdown' - IBD - Investors.com
Ball, a long-time sceptic of mankind's role in global warming, will outline his views at a seminar in Inverness next week when he will share the stage with leading environmental campaigner Tony Juniper.
Environment: The Royal Society of Britain is rewriting its official position on global warming. We'd say the consensus that man is causing the planet to heat is cracking, but there never was a consensus in the first place.Nasa analysis showing record global warming undermines the sceptics - Times Online
The Met Office said its own analysis of temperature records suggested that the global temperature remained just below the 12-month record achieved in 1998. However, Vicky Pope, head of climate advice, said it was possible that Nasa was correct because the Met Office had underestimated recent warming detected in the Arctic.The failure of AB 32
When Gov. Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 four years ago, California’s jobless rate was 4.9 percent. It’s now 12 percent, reaching as high as 20 percent in 8 counties. The state’s budget bleeds with red ink (deficit: $19.1 billion) and its economy is among the nation’s worst.Global Warming [Hoax] for Young Minds: A Global Warming and Sustainability Guide for Children
This fun and engaging activity book teaches young children about the importance of global warming, and what even kids can do to protect our planet.
London, June 3 (IANS) Eating meat causes environmentaldegradation and the world population needs to become vegetarian to tackle climate change, says a UN panel.
Several times I have heard variants of this: after listening to climate change warnings, someone asserts that he is going out and buying an even BIGGER SUV. That will annoy somebody! And when the elderly are dying in an unprecedented heat wave or farmers watch their fields blow away in a dust storm or refugees pack what they can carry and head for a camp somewhere, consider that someone will be successfully annoyed. What fun!
But isn't that the same as when I say that Sarah Palin is a preposterous fraud? No. Because unlike oil spills and climate change, she IS a fraud, not least for her downplaying both of those risks for cheap applause and expensive speaking gigs.
--Tom Toles
...he suddenly went blind and had to be abandoned to die from the cold.They think you're stupid: You owe money to scammers because it's allegedly too warm on Mt Everest
...they were now dangerously close to needing rescue themselves, and had to abandon him and struggled back into camp at 5.30am, exhausted and suffering from hypothermia and frostbite.
...He is the 30th climber to die on the mountain in the past five years.
"...Conditions were sunny, but extremely cold, windy, with blowing snow."
Firstly, there aren’t that many scientists involved in the IPCC deliberations. The inner core is possibly twenty souls. Secondly, they were untroubled by the necessity to concoct fraudulent data to get their desired results.Paul Gipe on Wind’s Ecological Problems Circa 1995: Worth Another Look? — MasterResource
Think about it: industrial wind parks are noisy, intrusive, cement-and-steel intensive, require service roads in the wilds, and must be shadowed by inefficiently-run fossil-fuel generation. And did we say that wind in more expensive than other forms of electric generation that provide non-intermittent power?
Any science that is based on "certain" skills and some "luck", while only seeking data that "fit together like pieces of a puzzle" and thus rejecting data that does not conform to the IPCC global warming hypothesis, sounds an awful lot like the discredited hockey-stick style of science.Al Gore Pick-Up Lines: Tongue-in-Cheek Dating Advice on Twitter - ABC News
Borowitz signed his tweets with the hashtag #Gorepickuplines, and thus an Internet meme was born, spawning a trend on Twitter that is yielding some pretty funny responses.Good News, Ladies: Al Gore Announces Himself 1) Single, and 2) Ready To Mingle
What is the point of this endless hectoring? Al Gore does not live his life this way. We all know that. What is the point of the hypocrisy and false piety, then?Misinterpreting Natural Climate Change as Manmade « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
...the global warming so commonly blamed on humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions can just as easily be explained as largely natural in origin, most likely due to a natural decrease in global cloud cover.Millennial Climate Cycles Driven by Random Cloud Variations « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
What I want to demonstrate is one of the issues that is almost totally forgotten in the global warming debate: long-term climate changes can be caused by short-term random cloud variations.
As I’ve documented elsewhere, prolific climate deniers such as Ian Plimer, James Delingpole and Christopher Booker who deliberately spread untruths on climate change can be wrong 99% of the time and right for less than 1% of the time and still ‘win the argument’ because the playing field simply isn’t level.Die Klimazwiebel: Guest post by Vicky Slonosky: A few thoughts on the history and philosophy of anthropogenic climate change
The idea that we are causing climate change can be frightening, but it also implies we are in control; that we can decide whether to let warming continue or whether to stop it. This is an idea has always been with us (Hans has a very good overview on the history of human attempts to control the climate), starting with prehistoric weather gods. It continues with countless examples through history, with priests attempting to save Alpine villages from advancing glaciers by throwing holy water on them during the Little Ice Age, to the Canadians diligently clearing the forest in an attempt to create Montreal-sur-Seine, and on through to today.EU Referendum: Slowly unravelling
Slowly, slowly, the great global warming scam is unravelling, leaving the politicians stranded, trapped by their vacuous obsession.High Praise – I’m “insulted” in Parliament « JoNova
[Mr OAKESHOTT, Federal Independent Member for Lyne] “I take this opportunity to raise the issue of the smoking guns that I have seen over the last six months. I smelt a rat in the shift that I saw and what looked to be—to their credit—a very well organised and very well-funded campaign from the likes of JoNova and Viv Forbes.”
For heavy-polluting coal-fired power plants, they would be excused from investing in expensive scrubbers over the next few years and in return would voluntarily retire the plants in 2020.NASA Climate Scientist James Hansen Condemns Attacks From 'Politicized' Media :: Uncensored News For Real People
Absent from Lugar's bill will be any new "cap and trade" system for carbon pollution permits, an idea that anchors climate change legislation passed nearly a year ago by the House of Representatives and included in a draft bill presented by senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on May 12.
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"Lugar's bill is a main alternative to the divisive cap-and-trade approach," said a press release announcing next week's bill introduction.
For anyone interested in how climatologists collate and interpret the all-important average global temperature datasets the paper (which is yet to be peer reviewed) is an illuminating read, but perhaps the most interesting section for a wider audience - which Hansen admits "might not survive depending on the advice of the [journal's] editors" - is the final concluding sectionEast Anglia Learns Nothing « Climate Audit
In breach of calls for openness and transparency in climate science, the University of East Anglia, together with Eugene Wahl and Caspar Amman, have refused to provide documents critical to the inquiry that Muir Russell should be undertaking.
Though Al Gore's reinvention as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmentalist has led to many accolades, Roberts said, he eventually has to come home where "his wife knows he puts his pants on one leg at a time."Reliable Source - Al and Tipper Gore separate -- and have a fortune to split or share
"It's much more fun to be a God than a person," she said.
They've done all right with real estate, too. The Arlington County house they bought in 1977 for $150K is assessed at $1.1 million. The Nashville mansion they bought in 2002 for $2.3 million is worth $3.3 million. They still have the farm in Carthage, Tenn., valued just below $1 million. And there's that $8.9 million place they just purchased in Oprah's seaside nabe of Montecito, Calif.Drax Burns Grass as U.K.'s Megawatt Valley Looks Beyond Coal
"We've become more and more concerned about carbon [dioxide]," Thompson, who aims to eventually shift half the plant from coal, said in an interview at the plant.Charles honoured for climate [hoax] legacy | Environment | BigPond News
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Elephant grass and other biomass fuels today cost three times what coal does, so biomass-fueled turbines need subsidies to be profitable, according to Thompson.
The Prince of Wales was presented with a bottle of 42 per cent proof whisky on Wednesday to commemorate Scotland's ambitious climate change targets.
“Without a major change in our energy policy, our dependence on oil means that we will continue to send billions of dollars of our hard-earned wealth to other countries every month – including countries in dangerous and unstable regions,” Obama said. “In other words, our continued dependence on fossil fuels will jeopardize our national security. It will smother our planet. And it will continue to put our economy and our environment at risk.”Obama on the climate bill: “We will get it done” | Grist
Another interesting aspect: At no point does he mention "climate change" or "global warming." "Smother the planet" is as close as he gets. Obviously he's listening to the messaging folks.PostPartisan - Obama ["forgets" the word "dioxide"]
"The time has come, once and for all, for this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future," Obama said to applause. "But the only way the transition to clean energy will ultimately succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future -- if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs is unleashed. And the only way to do that is by finally putting a price on carbon pollution."
After playing an interview of Boxer calling climate change "one of the very important national security issues we face," the ad shifts to Fiorina speaking directly into the camera. "Terrorism kills," Fiorina says. "And Barbara Boxer is worried about the weather."
Climate Depot executive editor Mark Morano tells OneNewsNow that global warming used to be a popular priority in Parliament.
"[For] both parties, that was their signature issue. They thought it was political correctness, they thought the public supported it, [and] politicians would drench themselves in the green rhetoric," Morano explains. "And now...economic and scientific scandals [in] England...[are] leading the world in skepticism of global warming. The sub-prime science has finally been exposed, and now people are rallying against it."
Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those that have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment.
The findings, published in the magazine New Scientist, were gathered by comparing changes to 27 Pacific islands during the past 20 - 60 years using historical aerial photos and satellite images
Cool temperatures continued to slow the growth of cotton plus rice and other small grains. Some grain fields suffered damage from frost in northern California.
...Since then, the Gores have purchased the Montecito mansion, a multimillion-dollar home in Nashville, Tenn., a condo in San Francisco in addition to their home in the Washington area, an Arlington Tudor. They bought a 100-foot houseboat named, aptly, Bio-Solar One in 2008. And they own a farm in Carthage, Tenn., that includes a zinc mine.
So how did they get all this stuff?
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