Chris Huhne pushes for tougher action on climate change which could mean more wind farms | Mail Online

Mr Huhne - like most Liberal Democrats - is an avid fan of wind farms, and once described them as 'beautiful'.

Just weeks after party leader Nick Clegg became Deputy Prime Minister, his lawyer wife Miriam accepted a lucrative job with Acciona - the world's largest provider of wind farms.

Conrad Black: Israel’s friends in Canada | Full Comment | National Post

All Canadians can be proud that the country has a prime minister who does not grovel to the received international opinion on matters such as the Middle East. (He rendered the same service on the global-warming debate by not signing Canada prematurely onto one of the Doomdsay scenarios, that have become the subject of scientific reappraisal.)

EDITORIAL: Pacific islands not sinking from global warming - Washington Times

So the islands aren't sinking, the Hockey Stick has been thoroughly debunked, the Himalayas still have snow and the polar bears are alive and well. As just about every tenet in the Church of Global Warming has been debunked, it's time for the movement's high priest, Mr. Gore, to offer a refund to those from his flock who bought his work of fiction.

Pajamas Media » A Remarkable Lie, from Your Taxpayer-Funded NOAA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, facing the reality that their temperature readings are hopelessly inaccurate, claims that ... accuracy doesn't matter. Wow.

Chris Huhne: Why I'm turned on by turning things off - Profiles, People - The Independent

And, while he looks forward to a "green tax shift" in future budgets, he accepts that his chances of tackling global warming are threatened by the naysayers with whom he now shares the government benches.

"There are climate-change sceptics on the Conservative benches and I am aware that I have to work hard to keep them on board," he said. "The key point is that they are also receptive to the arguments about energy security."

Madonna drops in by helicopter | Mail Online

With just 500 guests, a hog roast and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, a school fete is not the usual place you would expect to find the queen of pop.
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Wearing a beige jacket, grey trousers and brown sunglasses, the American star arrived by private helicopter after flying in from her home in Central London.

Flashback: Climate change concert star Madonna accused of hypocrisy | Mail Online

Madonna herself also has a collection of fuel-guzzling cars, including a Mercedes Maybach, two Range Rovers, Audi A8s and a Mini Cooper S. Yet she will headline the London concert to "combat the climate crisis".

Reid, in Fistfight, Could Take More Punches From Climate Bill - NYTimes.com

[Sharron Angle] also believes the United States should withdraw from the United Nations, asserting that it is a bastion of liberal ideology and "the umpire on fraudulent science such as global warming."

"I'm a clean-air proponent," Angle said in an interview. "I don't, however, buy into the whole ... man-caused global warming, man-caused climate change mantra of the left. I believe that there's not sound science to back that up."

Father says he is sorry for science fair hoax

Dr. J.R. Castillo admits the “recognition” his daughter received from the “2010 National Science Fair” was indeed a hoax.

“With that being said, we sincerely apologize to anyone and everyone who was affected by this. This has been a drain on our family and I just want to move on,” Castillo wrote in an e-mail. “What was intended to be a way to honor our daughter for a job well done on her project has really gotten out of hand and we’re ready to put this behind us.”

Giddens, Lawson argue quite sensibly on climate change • The Register

Although the political elite is almost entirely signed up to mitigation policies, the reality is that they can't introduce them, because it means electoral suicide. Mitigation entails a world of pain - with jobs lost, higher energy costs and a lower standard of living. This appeals to a few puritans - the kind of people who mourned the end of rationing, perhaps - but not the general public. So we've seen Australia drop its emissions trading scheme, and in the US, the only Republican backer of a climate bill change sides.

Benny Peisar, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, suggests another reason for the lack of momentum. Up until about two years ago, he points out, environment ministers would regularly meet at global conferences, and make grand proclamations. They set the policy. But since then, finance ministers and prime ministers and presidents have taken control of the policy, and they've done the maths. So what pledges politicians continue to make, are ever more meaningless.

Was Margaret Thatcher the first climate sceptic? - Telegraph

...In other words, long before it became fashionable, Lady Thatcher was converted to the view of those who, on both scientific and political grounds, are profoundly sceptical of the climate change ideology. Alas, what she set in train earlier continues to exercise its baleful influence to this day. But the fact that she became one of the first and most prominent of "climate sceptics" has been almost entirely buried from view.

Gluckman needs reining in by PM - Newstalk ZB

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=177105

There is a call for the Prime Minister's chief science advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman to be reined in or be given the boot.

Long-time National Party activist and Climate Science Coalition co-founder Terry Dunleavy says when John Key appointed Sir Peter to the role, he said he would be a direct line to advice and an independent voice. Mr Dunleavy says on the issue of climate change, Sir Peter has emerged as nothing more than a propagandist advocate for man-made global warming.

He says he has not only ignored many scientists who have challenged the hypothesis, but has also called them deniers and denialists, which Mr Dunleavy describes as despicable terms.

Statement by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch Before the United States Senate | Climate Realists

I wonder if any of my colleagues have seen the article by the National Geographic Society published not long ago. The magazine reported that due to global warming and its accompanying increase in water vapor, the Sahara desert has shrunk at a remarkable rate due to global warming. Let me repeat that for those listening today. The Sahara desert had SHRUNK to Global warming and its accompanying increase in water vapor. The desert is experiencing a remarkable increase in vegetation and humans and other species are moving into new areas that have never been habitable in recorded history. I’d be very interested if anyone over at the EPA is aware of this gigantic benefit of global warming in the driest region on the planet. Mr. President, I ask that a copy of this article also be printed in the record following my remarks.

Mr. President, needless to say, there is a very strong case that the EPA is acting on assumptions that are in no way settled, and it is up to this body of elected officials to take control of this matter and ensure that the public interest is being protected.

Activist wants climate change out of standardized test | GJSentinel.com

The author of a petition asking local educators not to teach climate change as fact wants authors of the Colorado Student Assessment Plan test to follow the same guideline.

Local attorney and former School District 51 Board of Education candidate Rose Pugliese presented two petitions to the District 51 school board last month. One advocated the creation of a district-wide policy that would prohibit teaching man-made climate change as scientific fact. The other asked the district to prohibit teachers from injecting personal political views into instruction and grading.

India: Only six states submit action plan on climate change: Panigrahi

Ahmedabad: Only six states so far have submitted the state action plan on climate change to the Centre, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Climate Change said here on Saturday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had urged all the states to submit a state action plan on climate change, detailing on how they are going to tackle this sensitive issue in all the sectors.
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"The states have failed to submit the action plan on climate change including Gujarat even after of expiry of two subsequent deadlines of December 31, 2009 and March 31 this year," Panigrahi said.

List of Indian states

India is a Union of 28 States and 7 Union Territories.

David Bellamy joins march against wind farm - Telegraph

Hundreds of protesters were joined by conservationist David Bellamy on Saturday in a march against a proposed wind farm.
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Developers insist the area is remote and would enjoy access to a nearby power line - and accused Bellamy, who is a professor of adult and continuing education at Durham University and a special professor of botany at Nottingham Unviersity, of being "discredited" for his views on climate change.

What Cameron should tell Obama about BP – and Gary McKinnon – Telegraph Blogs

[Lord Tebbit] I am sorry that ‘ruralidiot’ thinks I am a warmist. I am entirely unconvinced about global warming or whether man is responsible for it. I am, however, in favour of conserving our limited supplies of hydrocarbons.

World Bank approves US$450mn loan for climate change [swindle]

The World Bank has approved a US$450mn loan to help the Mexican government develop public policies to adapt its water sector to climate change, the bank said in a release.

[Another ill-advised move by a person who evidently doesn't read Climate Depot]: Hulu CTO Eric Feng Leaves To Work With [Fraudster] Al Gore At Kleiner Perkins

Hulu's chief technology officer Eric Feng is leaving the company to become a partner at top Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he'll be a technical advisor to former Vice President Al Gore.

Is the recessional pattern of Himalayan glaciers suggestive of anthropogenically induced global warming?

Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report of 2001, a hype regarding the future of Himalayan glaciers, flooding of Indo-Gangetic plains and coastal areas and drying of glacially fed rivers has been created. However, the recent studies of some of the Himalayan glaciers indicate that the rate of recession of most of the glaciers in general is on decline. These observations are in contradiction to the widely popularized concept of anthropogenically induced global warming. It is believed that the rise of temperature of around 0.6°C since mid-nineteenth century is a part of decadal to centennial-scale climatic fluctuations that have been taking place on this Earth for the past few thousands of years.

[State that uses a lot of oil tells *us* to stop using so much oil] - Vulnerable Hawaii Asks Senate to Pass Climate Bill This Year

Hawaii imports about 45 million barrels annually and burns over five million gallons of oil per day to meet roughly 90 percent of its current energy needs. It costs nearly $10 million daily to buy this oil. On average, each Hawaii resident produces approximately 18 tons of carbon dioxide each year.
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All 50 states gain economically from strong federal energy climate [scam] policy, the coalition declared.

We're saved: Mansion-dweller inserts global warming hoax message into World Cup song

R Kelly 'back home' in Africa - Times LIVE

R Kelly and the Soweto Spiritual Singers will perform the World Cup anthem, Sign of a Victory, at Soccer City on Friday.
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He said his intention was for his song to ''inspire world peace and shine a light on global warming, and bring humanity around the world together. I have gained more respect for the craft [soccer] through my song."

R. Kelly Puts Chicago Mansion On Market For $2.9 Million | Jet | Find Articles at BNET

Famed Grammy Award-winning singer R. Kelly recently listed his 8,000-square-foot Lincoln Park mansion in Chicago for $2.9 million, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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After demolishing the site's landmark 15,000-square-foot-stone mansion, which was owned by James Maros, one of the 50 original operators of the McDonald's restaurants and the creator of the Ronald McDonald doll, Kelly built a 20,000-square-foot home made of stone and timber wood.

Sign Of Victory Lyrics R.Kelly

Now I can the distance of the journey,
high and front with all your might,
you open your eyes to global warming,
been through it all, you sacrificed your life

Alarmist suggests that CO2 may be killing venomous snakes, which may make medicines scarcer, and which may increase rodent populations, which may increase disease

Why vanishing snake colonies have ‘large-scale implications’ for humanity

The first documented evidence of the baffling disappearance of up to 90 per cent of snake colonies in five disparate spots on the globe has “large-scale implications” for humanity, a Canadian expert says.

And the “most obvious cause, intuitively, would be climate change,” biologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto, told the Star.

“Snakes are top predators in their eco system,” said Head. “They are regulators on rodents. If we remove that regulator, you can expect an increase in the number of disease vectoring (carrying) animals.”

Venomous snakes are taking the biggest hit in the findings, which has serious consequences for medicine, said Head.

“Snakes are not an insignificant component of human society,” he said. “There are large-scale implications” to the disappearance of some kinds of snakes, including the role of snake venom in medicine.

“You can draw your own conclusions.”

Surface temperature measurements: how reliable? - Counterpoint - 7 June 2010

[Q] Your blog WattsUpWithThat.com is hugely popular, I think it's the most visited climate site in the world, isn't it?

Anthony Watts: It is. It caught me quite by surprise but it now regularly exceeds two million visits per month and we get visitors from all over the world. When we compare the traffic to other climate sites, surprisingly it is the largest climate related informational site in the world.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Castrate People To Prevent Global Warming Suffering?

Singer says that because of the suffering sure to be wrought by global warming, we should “make ourselves the last generation on earth.” How? Well, “If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required.” Italics all mine, baby: this is the second time in a week we meet those would use castration to fight global warming. Hey, Petey, if you’re looking for sacrifices, then there’s no better way than to set the example.

Scientists versus Lobbyists: Looking for a Winning Strategy Against Big Wind — MasterResource

My hope as a physicist is that our representatives make energy and environmental policy decisions based on sound science. So far that has not been the case. The main reason for this is that we are engaged in an epic battle between scientists and lobbyists for those with financial or political agendas.

Gulfs remain after climate talks

The meeting was prolonged many hours by a dispute concerning a proposed workshop to examine further emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol, which involves all developed countries except the US.

Russia, with Japanese support, argued that the workshop should cover emission cuts by all countries.

Cold, rain may bring flooding and snow | coloradoan.com | The Coloradoan

Fort Collins and the surrounding foothills could see up to 2 inches of rain through Sunday night as a massive, slow-moving storm system creeps over Northern Colorado.
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"It really doesn't look like until Father's Day weekend before we start to see a summer pattern set in," Day said. "We may have lost most of June."

Cold winter slowed crawfish harvest — Baton Rouge, LA

Minvielle said farmers probably made 10 percent to 20 percent of what they would make in a normal year.

Third Climategate report 'imminent' – expect a shortage of whitewash in stores this weekend – Telegraph Blogs

This is the third investigation into Climategate and the universal expectation is that it will be as much a snow job as the previous two, though those precedents will be hard to beat: not since Tom Sawyer manipulated his friends into whitewashing his aunt’s fence has a team worked harder than the successive establishment figures who have exonerated the Decline Hiders from any culpability.

Climate splitting Democrats

Senate Republicans fell short Thursday, 47-53, of overturning the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, but exposed a significant split among Democrats that may bode ill for passage this year of comprehensive energy and climate-change legislation.

As the Washington Post reported, the contentious vote "suggested the Senate is far from decided on whether to put a price on the industrial emissions that stem from everyday activities such as lighting a home or driving a car."

Cap & Ruin

Sen. Harry Reid has a dandy idea: force his troops in the United States Senate to pass a bill - The American Power Act (APA) – by July that will skyrocket your electric bills, wreck an already staggering economy drive jobs overseas and cause more unemployment in the midst of a depression, all in the name of preventing the planet from getting spit roasted by the phantom threat of global warming.

Replay set for November in Cancún after climate talks hit the post on key areas - The Irish Times - Sat, Jun 12, 2010

Outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer, who’s leaving to join KPMG, used World Cup imagery in his farewell speech: “We got a yellow card in Copenhagen and the referee’s hand will edge towards the red one if we fail to deliver in Cancún and beyond.” But he honestly doesn’t believe that there will be a comprehensive deal before 2020.

Unintended consequences: After global warming utterly fails to kill two mountain goats, the global warming *scam* kills them

Mountain goat study halted by animal deaths

A mountain goat study in Glacier National Park has been suspended following the deaths of two goats after they were shot with tranquilizer darts.

The University of Montana study, aimed at exploring the effects of climate change on mountain goats, got under way this month with preliminary field work in the Many Glacier Valley.

A 6-year-old male mountain goat died Tuesday after it was darted in the Ptarmigan Lake Trail area near Mount Altyn by Dr. Robert Moore, a Wildlife Conservation Society veterinarian.

Lieberman Tasked With Leading Climate Change Negotiations

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/11/lieberman-tasked-with-lea_n_608936.html

It wasn't clear, said people briefed on the meeting, if Kerry was still committed to pursuing full climate change legislation this year. 

Cap-And-Traitors - IBD - Investors.com

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/537154/201006112358/Cap-And-Traitors.aspx

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin accused the Republicans of choosing "political science over the real science," even after the EPA's junk science based on the manipulation of data by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been exposed as a manufactured fraud.

“‘Denialism’ has no place in scientific debate,” my letter in Nature Medicine | GlobalWarming.org

The key sentence in the letter is this, “‘Denialist’ is an ad hominem argument, the meaning of which is defined entirely by the user, intended to discredit the accused without evidence.”

The “anti-denialism” campaign is, to use a word I rarely employ, a literal conspiracy–albeit something of an open one in that it’s openly pushed by Chris Mooney. (Inset.) The purpose is two-fold...

The Associated Press: Critics slam new climate change proposal in Bonn

BONN, Germany — A new round of climate talks ended Friday with rich and poor countries both sharply criticizing a new text meant to pave the way toward a deal to halt global warming.

Just wait a few minutes

Strangely, when a new report comes out that says the IPCC claims are so much hype, you can actually hear the crickets chirping at media organizations around the world. A plane crashing makes for a titillating headline. Planes landing safely do not. But the media can hold out for only so long as the public catches on to the deception and they use the Internet to scoop out the truth.

TEEB report has multiple errors in first chapter alone, Part #2 « ClimateQuotes.com

Do I have to go through the entire report? This looks like yet another government-created piece of science-plated garbage. It looks like science on the outside, but don't scratch the surface!

World government lite – the Cancun Treaty is coming | The SPPI Blog

...the German draft swallows the climate-extremist version of events hook, line, and sinker.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: IPCC: This Time Will be Different (Not), A Guest Post by Richard Tol

I think that the IPCC should suspend the AR5 process, fix the procedures for nominating and selecting authors, and postpone the report to 2015.

The deep oceans drive the atmosphere « JoNova

U.S. Northeast Carbon Permits Draw Record Low Price (Update4) - BusinessWeek

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Carbon dioxide permits in the U.S. Northeast’s cap-and-trade program tumbled to a record low price at auction amid a surplus of the pollution rights and doubts that Congress will create a national emissions market this year.

"Unfailingly polite" guy weighs in: Marc Morano is on the "lunatic fringe"

Bridging the Climate Divide

Bart Verheggen is a Holland-based atmospheric scientist, who is unfailingly polite and often quite insightful. In addition to his own blog, Bart is a frequent commenter at many climate blogs, where he often raises the level of debate.
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[Bart] And you have more paranoia-based ones, such as Marc Morano. That’s someone who I would put on the lunatic fringe on the skeptic side.

Why Lindsey Graham killed the climate-change bill: 3 theories - The Week

Angry proponents of the bill, which would institute a carbon cap-and-trade system to lower greenhouse gases, say that Graham has effectively killed any chance the bill will pass this year, or for many years to come.

Breakfast Beverage Prices Boom

Your morning routine got more expensive this week as coffee and orange juice prices leapt higher on a weather scare in Brazil. That South American country is the main source of imported U.S. orange juice and produces 20% of the coffee we consume each day. Unusually cold weather struck Brazil this week, which could damage the orange and coffee crops grown there.

More cold and snowy winters to come in Europe, eastern Asia and eastern North America

ScienceDaily (June 11, 2010) — A warmer Arctic climate is influencing the air pressure at the North Pole and shifting wind patterns on our planet. We can expect more cold and snowy winters in Europe, eastern Asia and eastern North America.
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"Cold and snowy winters will be the rule, rather than the exception," says Dr James Overland of the NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States.

China: Qinghai earthquake survivors face harsh winter

The day before yesterday, the nearby airport received a dusting of snow. At night, the mercury is hovering somewhere between zero and 4 degrees Celsius. Today, the daytime temperature may reach 17 or 20 degrees Celsius.

But it's not the wild swings in temperature that worry the Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and staff; it's the prospect that many of the tens of thousands of homeless survivors of the earthquake in Yushu are likely to face a winter without adequate shelter.

Hot Air » White House requests comments to define “green jobs”

After spending two years on the campaign trail and more than another year as President talking about “green jobs,” the Obama team has decided to take a significant step forward. They’re now asking for imput from the general public in order to figure out what they hell they’ve meant for the past three years

Bonn climate [scam] talks diary | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Someone was so angry at Saudi Arabia's continual "wrecking" tactics – which have blocked several moves by developing countries to reassess the science of climate change and increase the commitments of rich countries to cut emissions – that he or she took the plastic nameplate that sits in front of delegates in the plenary hall, and broke it. They then dunked it in the men's, and then in the women's lavatories, taking photographs and writing graffiti on the pictures. This deep insult has led the Saudi ambassador to complain. But the UN is not planning an investigation.
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And some conference culinary advice [from de Boer]: "How to cook a delegate: If a meeting lasts six days, you need to boil him for five days and he will be ready on the sixth. If the meeting lasts two weeks, cook the delegate for 13 days at a slightly lower temperature i.e, people use the negotiating time available!"
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Climate meetings often wash up strange coves who know more than anyone else about something. Today it was the turn of Steve Sawyer, the world's only "walking wind power lexicon". He used to be the chief executive of Greenpeace US and international but is now the very grand secretary-general of the Global Wind Energy Council. Sawyer was not here to counter assertions made this week by Viscount Monckton that wind power will do nothing to lower global temperatures: "A crazy peer from the UK is not really my debating partner," is all that he would say on that matter.

FOXNews.com - Everybody Hates the U.N.'s New Climate [Hoax] Plan

A streamlined climate draft, meant to help talks on a new pact, cut out some of the most draconian options for greenhouse gas and dropped all references to "Copenhagen" -- where a U.N. summit in December fell short of agreeing a treaty.

Kirk Heinze: Let science rule the climate change debate | MLive.com

Dietz and his colleagues agree that natural factors, like the sun’s radiation, are responsible for some of the warming. However, the scientists on the NRC panels are largely convinced that the majority of climate change occurring over the past century has been “caused by human activity, primarily by the release of greenhouse gasses.”

Although skeptical reactions to the NRC panel reports were anticipated, the tenor, tone and negativity of some of the responses have been disturbing. There are those who totally dismiss the findings of a prodigious two-year effort by many of our nation’s leading scientists. And on what grounds? You would think on scientific grounds. Such is not the case.

Kirk Heinze | [He's not even a climatologist!]

Greening of the Great Lakes host Kirk Heinze has served in MSU's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources for three decades as a faculty member, a department chairperson and, most recently, as director of Agriculture and Natural Resources Communications.

With the climate scam in its death throes, international climate talks descend even further into farce

Saudi placard vandalized, climate talks slowed further

The official placard of the Saudi Arabian delegation was vandalised at the venue of the global talks here in preparation for the next climate summit. As a result, the talks were held up for hours on the last day Friday.

The May 31-June 11 talks were anyway mired in controversy when it was found Friday morning that someone had removed the Saudi Arabian placard from the hall where the plenary sessions were taking place, had broken the placard and placed the broken bits inside a commode, and had then e-mailed a photograph of the vandalised placard to the Saudi government, according to a security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

There were unconfirmed reports that a Saudi Arabian national flag had also been placed with the broken placard.

Unsurprisingly, the incident overtook everything else when what was supposed to be the concluding session started late Friday morning. Delegates from one country after another condemned the vandalism.
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As the hours dragged by, delegates from South Africa changed into their country's football jerseys and urged their colleagues to wind up quickly so that everyone could watch the start of the World Cup. But with more and more delegates waiting to speak, that appeared unlikely.

No Frakking Consensus: How Many IPCC Scientists Say So?

We the public have been misinformed, repeatedly, about the number of IPCC scientists who've explicitly endorsed the human-climate-change link.

If the planet really is in peril, we need clarity about facts such as these - not spin.

Bear season under way, eight bruins already killed in Nevada's Sierra valleys | SierraSun.com

Carl Lackey, a wildlife biologist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife, said the department has killed eight bears this spring, mainly due to the late-season cold weather and snow conditions have pushed bears into the valleys, and residents and visitors locked up their trash or food too late, which drew the bruins into cars and homes.

Nearly $1 Billion more to be spent burying beneficial trace gases in an attempt to prevent bad weather in 2050

Secretary Chu Announces Nearly $1 Billion Public-Private Investment in Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that three projects have been selected to receive up to $612 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - matched by $368 million in private funding - to demonstrate large-scale carbon capture and storage from industrial sources.

Leicester bureaucrats fall for global warming scam AND hydrogen car scam

Riversimple and City of Leicester to launch world's greenest car

A ground-breaking agreement that will see 30 highly energy efficient hydrogen fuel-cell powered cars on the streets of Leicester was signed today (Thursday June 10th) by Riversimple, the sustainable car company, and Leicester City Council. In the first project of its kind, the deal will see the council and Riversimple cooperate to find both private citizens and organisations to test drive the vehicles and locate and man a suitable refuelling point.
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Sheila Lock, Leicester City Council's chief executive, said: "This confirms Leicester's status as a city which is leading the way in environmental terms. We recognise that we have a duty to our residents, their children - and to the country - to reduce pollution and help prevent global warming. This is yet another step in making Leicester a better place to live and we look forward also to the possibility of providing factory jobs if things go well."

Flashback: Joseph Romm: Hydrogen-powered cars aren't so environmentally friendly | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Would you buy a car that costs 10 times as much as a hybrid gasoline-electric one, like the Toyota Prius? What if I told you it had half the range of the hybrid? What if I told you most cities didn't have a single hydrogen fuelling station? Not interested yet? This should be the deal closer: what if I told you it wouldn't have lower greenhouse-gas emissions than the hybrid?

Other than the traditional media, and some presidential candidates, who are as distracted by shiny new objects as my 16-month-old daughter, nobody should get terribly excited when a car company rolls out its wildly impractical next-generation hydrogen car. Too many miracles are required for it to be a marketplace winner.

How doubts about global warming are on the rise after 'big freeze' winter and emails row | Mail Online

Professor Nick Pidgeon, of Cardiff University's school of psychology, said the fall in belief in climate change could be down to people's 'finite pool of worry' and greater concern with the financial crisis.

He added: 'The short-term effects are more obvious - the emails and the fact we had a very cold winter - and people think "where is global warming when we're sitting here in 3ft of snow?".'

Climate Science and the IPCC Fail Legal Cross Examination

The political whitewash of the work of Michael Mann, Phil Jones and all those associated with the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was stunning and brazen. They did not listen to anyone who knew what the accused had done. They examined only a few papers carefully selected by the Royal Society, which itself had a history of political involvement and propaganda.

So they only spoke with the defendants, only considered a controlled fraction of the evidence, and the judges were carefully selected for their prejudice. It bypassed every basic element of jurisprudence. When those basics are applied in legal examination of the climate data and record the ‘official’ science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is proved wanting.

Italian Green Jobs: Where’s the Spaghetti? — MasterResource

Mr Lavecchia is a fellow and Dr. Stagnaro the research and studies director at Istituto Bruno Leoni. This post follows the release of their recent analysis for Italy showing that for every ‘green’ job created by government, 4.8 ‘gray’ jobs are lost in the private sector.

- Bishop Hill blog - Quote of the day

Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous. That particular consensus judgement, as are many others in the IPCC reports, is reached by only a few dozen experts in the specific field of detection and attribution studies; other IPCC authors are experts in other fields.

Mike Hulme in a forthcoming paper about the governance of the IPCC.

Die Klimazwiebel: Public opinion and the crisis of climate science

But what does it tell about a science when climate scientists act like politicians in an election campaign, preparing for a final public vote on the reality of climate change? In my opinion, this is not a crisis of the public; instead, this indeed profound 'politicization' is a signal of a deep crisis of climate science itself. The crisis is not out there, in the public - it is inside science.

C3: What Damage Has Human CO2 Emissions Done To Coral Reefs? New Peer-Research Says 'Nada'

Climate science alarmists predicted that coral reefs would decline due to increase ocean "acidification" from human CO2 emissions. To test that prediction, scientists examined over 1,900 coral reefs in the Caribbean over a 35 year span. Other than an outbreak of a coral disease in 1981, the coral reefs have been stable, showing no impacts from changes in water pH.

Millionaire Chris Huhne finds new ways to waste your money – Telegraph Blogs

The idea that “scientists” – whoever “scientists” are – believe that whether the EU can cut its plant food (aka CO2) production by 20 per cent or 30 per cent will make the blindest bit of difference to “climate change” is absurd beyond measure.

Bonn climate talks diary | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Viscount Monckton and the ever-eccentric Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow gave their first official UN press conference this morning but alas, these sceptics and rightwing free marketeers were not well received. Only eight journalists, two men who admitted later they had gone to the wrong meeting, and a fan who cheered wildly at everything that m'lud said were in the audience to hear him lay into renewable energy.
..."A mix of high intelligence and complete ignorance," offered one diplomat observer on the Viscount's performance.
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Bust-up of the week came last night when small island nations and other vulnerable countries slipped in a late night request at an obscure technical committee for an official UN review of the latest climate science and scenarios to limit temperatures to a 1.5C rise..."1.5 to stay alive!" is their battle cry.  [I may try this dramatic slogan the next time my wife and I have a minor dispute over our nighttime home thermostat setting.]

Amish Farmers Play a Large Role in Polluting the Chesapeake : Discovery News

One of the problems plaguing the bay is excessive fertilizer and manure runoff. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is leading the conservation effort and discovered that Amish farmers from Lancaster Country contribute an alarmingly high level of the runoff.

The Amish lifestyle epitomizes sustainability.

Senate aide says cap and trade dead, scaled-back bill likely | Raw Story

The cap and trade legislation passed by the House of Representatives last summer will be defunct in January, and it's uncertain whether the next Congress will take up the issue.

Sen. Rockefeller on climate change rules: ‘I don’t want EPA turning out the lights on America’ « Coal Tattoo

Among alarmists, a great gnashing of teeth

Murkowski resolution goes down to defeat in stupid episode that means nothing | Grist

What does the Murkowski vote "mean"? It means the Senate is a dysfunctional institution and the climate movement in the U.S. is fatally weak.

Brad Johnson (climate [hoax] brad) on Twitter

# Wow, the GOP really just doesn't give a rat's ass about science any more. All 41 vote for #murkowski
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# Clear demonstration of the weakness of MoveOn, climate movement, enviros, scientists, etc. in moving Senate on #energy and #climate
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# Lemieux votes for Murkowski resolution to deny scientific reality and making Florida the next Atlantis. #dirtyairact
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# All I can say is wow, we suck, climate movement. @350 @EnviroAmerica @NRDC @drgrist @ericpooley @UCSUSA about 15 hours ago via TweetDeck

# Snowe, Collins vote for Murkowski resolution to deny scientific reality and acidify lobsters. #dirtyairact

Idaho: Weather dampens crop growth

Little, chairman of the Idaho Barley Commission, said he has some poor looking grain stands. Even his pasture grass is shorter than normal.

"I think this is the shortest grass I've seen," he said. "It's not a lack of moisture; it's a lack of heat units."

EPA Climate Fight: Senate Votes on Who Should Regulate Greenhouse Gases - ABC News

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, came to the Senate floor this morning armed with props -- blown-up pictures of oil-soaked birds in the Gulf of Mexico. She said that while the images are difficult to look at, they are a direct consequence of the United States' addiction to carbon-emitting fuels.

"For someone to come to this floor and say carbon [dioxide] -- too much carbon [dioxide] is not dangerous, then I'm sorry, we're going to have to look at these pictures, even though we don't want to," said Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment Committee.

Massive forest carbon scam alleged in Liberia

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf established a commission investigate a proposed forest carbon credit deal between the West African nation's Forest Development Authority (FDA) and UK-based Carbon Harvesting Corporation, reports Global Witness, an NGO that originally raised concerns about the scheme, which aimed to secure around a fifth of Liberia's total forest area — 400,000 hectares — in a forest carbon concession. Police in London arrested Mike Foster, CEO of Carbon Harvesting Corporation, last week.

Cap-and-trade Con

What explains this suicidal cap-and-trade agenda? “Alarmists look on abundant energy as a peril to be controlled,” said Christopher Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “It was never about climate. The environmental agenda seeks to use the state to create scarcity as a means to exert the state’s authority over your lives,” he told Heartland conference attendees in May.

Colorado: More snow this weekend?

Experts say cold weather in the forecast this weekend could help bring down high waters, as it would reduce the rate of snow melting off mountain peaks.

Dave Barjenbruch, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder, said cold air should be moving into the county by tonight.

Snow could begin accumulating on high peaks, continuing Saturday and possibly accumulating in towns by Saturday night.

Climate: UN talks head into final day < German news | Expatica Germany

A new round of UN talks entered its final day on Friday amid hopes that a proposed negotiation blueprint for a post-2012 climate treaty would survive anger and suspicions lingering from last December's Copenhagen summit.

The document is being gingerly presented as a summary of the many -- and often hugely contradictory -- views in the 194-nation arena about what the much-trumpeted pact should contain.

Pelosi, Hoyer Bristle at Talk of Cap-and-Trade - Roll Call

...while Democrats were eager to talk about plans for advancing energy legislation, one issue they wanted to avoid talking about was cap-and-trade.

Senate Rejects Republican Effort to Thwart Carbon Limits - NYTimes.com

The near-even division among lawmakers showed that a 60-vote supermajority on climate change legislation remains elusive.
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“Climate change is happening,” said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who is a sponsoring a main climate change bill with Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts. “The science is convincing and the current pattern of energy consumption is just making a bad problem worse.”

Hot Air » Murkowski’s amendment to stop EPA from regulating greenhouse gases fails, 47/53

...consider this a trial run on the viability of cap-and-trade. If Reid can’t get 60 to agree that, yes indeed, carbon is very dangerous, he’s not getting 60 for a much broader regulatory regime like C&T. Nor, given the latest polling from Nevada, will he want to even try. Exit quotation from Dan Foster: “I don’t want to hear a liberal bemoan executive supremacy ever again. This is Congress abdicating its own authority because the Democrats know they can’t get the votes to pass cap-and-trade.”

Jerry Brown Kicks Off Campaign with Visit to Solar Company, Solaria |Triple Pundit

In his comments, Brown specifically touted his support for AB32, California’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction and clean energy bill, describing it as “a very flexible framework for reducing our dependency on fossil fuel, curbing pollution and dealing with climate change and most importantly creating the jobs of the future.”
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During his remarks today, Brown challenged Whitman to debate these central issues, but added, “even if she doesn’t want to debate, I’ll be glad to stand next to her and let you ask questions of her and me. What is she afraid of?”

Tide turns on climate change | wangle

As Clive Hamilton says in his excellent book “Requiem for a Species,” an average of 2 degrees hotter is like having your head in the oven and feet in the fridge.

AFP: Saudis block call for global warming report

The spat soured the mood in Bonn, where a 12-day round under the 194-nation UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) draws to a close on Friday.

"The atmosphere [in the meeting] was very bad. Many countries said they were very disappointed with the Saudis," said one source.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Castrations To Increase Due To Global Warming; Or, Reindeer Not Having A Ball

Well, if you were an intellectually inclined academic, first thing you’d think of is slicing the jingle bells off the males.

Senate Vote on EPA Carbon Rules Splits Democrats (Update1) - BusinessWeek

“We need to pass a cap-and-trade bill,” Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said after the vote on Murkowski’s measure. “I think it can certainly get passed next year; it can’t this year.”
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters after the vote he’ll wait for a meeting with Democrats next week before deciding what should be in next month’s energy legislation, although it won’t be branded as “cap-and-trade.”

“We don’t use the word cap-and-trade; that’s something that’s been deleted from my dictionary,” Reid said. “Carbon pricing is something we’re talking about.”

Reid claims ‘resolve’ among Dems on energy but acknowledges differing views - The Hill's E2-Wire

But lawmakers said after the meeting no clear decisions were made on the scope of Senate plans, and Reid – who hopes to bring legislation to the floor this summer – acknowledged the diversity of views.
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Rockefeller – who has long worried about how emissions limits would affect his home-state coal industry – said some lawmakers expressed concern about the viability of the Kerry-Lieberman plan.

“I think there is a dominant concern ... that what’s the point of doing anything without 60 votes,” he told reporters. “And I think that there’s some feeling that you don’t spend time on the floor trying to figure out if you have got 60 votes. You have to understand before you go to the floor that you have got 60 votes.”

Asked if he thought Kerry’s plan could get 60 votes, Rockefeller replied: “I don’t think so. But I think John [Kerry] does.”

Discovery News - Brit Science Writer Loses Statist Faith

http://www.discoverynews.org/2010/06/brit_science_writer_loses_stat035591.php

by George Gilder

The preeminent UK science writer Matt Ridley, formerly an editor of The Economist and author of the best-selling Genome and other books, has long upheld the politically correct canons of his trade. But in his new book, The Rational Optimist, he has finally exhausted his patience with the environmental movement and the rest of the economic left. The cause of his sudden and violent disillusionment is the collapse of global warming science, which he and the Economist have long gullibly accepted but which Ridley has now discovered to be so deeply flawed as to rise to the level of fraud.

UK grows more sceptical on climate change -poll | Energy & Oil | Reuters

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE6591GM20100610?sp=true

...less than a third believed climate change was purely a result of human activity.

A Pyrrhic Victory on Climate Change | Mother Jones

Sen. Lisa Murkowski's proposal to ban the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases lost in the Senate today, 53-47. That's the good news. Unfortunately, 47 yes votes is the bad news. I don't have the vote breakdown yet, but I assume this means six Democrats voted in favor of Murkowski's resolution. This obviously bodes poorly for a Senate willing to seriously cap greenhouse emissions, and it bodes really really poorly for a Senate will to cap greenhouse emissions after Democrats lose a bunch of seats in November. I remain extremely discouraged on this front.

Warmist can't take the heat | Herald Sun

What we do know is that our chat this week was the first time I can recall that Flannery, the highly influential author of The Weather Makers and chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, has been confronted at length.

Read on, to see how even this giant of warming alarmism dealt with it. You may well then wonder if the great warming scare of the past decade would ever have taken off had more journalists fact-checked the wilder claims and predictions of not just Flannery, but other professional scaremongers such as Al Gore, David Suzuki, Peter Garrett, Rob Gell and Bob Brown.

Sen. Boxer’s Demagoguery Knows No Bounds | GlobalWarming.org

Boxer ignores — and conceals — the simple fact that the Murkowski resolution would overturn the “legal force and effect” of the endangerment finding, not its scientific reasoning or conclusions.

The resolution is a referendum not on climate science but on who shall make climate policy: Elected lawmakers who must answer to the people at the ballot box or politically unaccountable bureaucrats, trial lawyers, and activist judges appointed for life?

Evidence About The 1970s Global Cooling Consensus Keeps Piling Up « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Time to repeat myself: we have a ‘widely accepted [by the scientific community]…global cooling trend’, at least judging from Mitchell’s work in 1972; doubts about that growing in the same scientific community from 1975/1976, as per Damon and Kunen’s paper; but not early enough to prevent Newsweek from publishing its 1975 article, one that even mentions a certain Dr Murray Mitchell. That means that pieces of the global cooling puzzle do suggest that cooling was a widely-held view in the 1970s. Admittedly, such an agreed view did not last the whole decade: rather, it concerned the 1972 to 1975 period.

The Hockey Schtick: Antarctica 4°C Warmer during last Interglacial

According to a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews 29 (2010), new high-resolution ice core data from two sites in eastern Antarctica show temperature proxies more than 4°C higher during the last interglacial (~130,000 years ago) than the present interglacial.

Tradecraft of Propaganda « JoNova

Who knew Nigel Calder’s father was a skeptical reporter who was drawn into writing war time propaganda to help the Brits in World War II? Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist (back before it became Non Scientist), and author of The Chilling Stars, is one of the few science journalists I really admire. So I was delighted when readers here told me Calder had started his own blog, and very interested to read a recent piece by him describing the parallels between World War II propaganda and official Climate Science gloss productions.

X-Factor Hid Fakery in the Greenhouse Gas Theory by John O'Sullivan, guest post at Climate Realists | Climate Realists

NASA added the ‘x-factor’ into their man-made global warming equations and wrongly doubled the greenhouse gas effect. It’s due to vectors, says new research.

Warning Signs: These Are NOT Your Friends

Friends of the Earth just keeps repeating the lies of the now discredited global warming hoax and, if the EPA gets away with its agenda, it will drive up the cost of energy and harm the U.S. economy.

Election 2010: Nevada Senate: Angle 50%, Reid 39% - Rasmussen Reports™

Sharron Angle, following her come-from-behind Republican Primary win Tuesday, has bounced to an 11-point lead over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada’s closely-watched U.S. Senate race.

Sharron Angle on the Issues - sharronangle.com

Cap and Trade will injure the free market system and cripple America's energy supplies. Cap and Trade, which is based on an unscientific hysteria over the man-caused global warming hoax, steps over the constitutional boundaries of the federal government and is merely another way to tax the people.

Sharron Angle will vote "no" on Cap and Trade.
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I blame Karl Rove: Why is *this* article on nature.com?!

Global warming's impact on Asia's rivers overblown : Nature News

Freshwater flow dominated by monsoon rains rather than glacier run-off.
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What this means, Armstrong says, is that river flows are dominated by seasonal rains. "The glaciers are tiny, compared with the monsoon," he says.

The Senate and CO2 - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Few people on Capitol Hill foresee passage of the Murkowski resolution. But the vote amplifies the sense that the Senate is nowhere near close to coming up with a viable counterpart to the House climate bill passed last year. Even President Obama, in recent remarks urging action by the Senate, referred to latest offering from Democrats, the Kerry-Lieberman bill, as “a plan,” clearly keeping it at arm’s length.

Yale Law Journal: Climate Debate Killing Hundreds > The Deniers by Lawrence Solomon

The climate change debate has killed hundreds if not thousands of people, according to "The Dirty Climate Debate", an article published in the Yale Law Journal. The deaths, along with other health tolls and widespread environmental damage, are a consequence of a change of heart by leading environmental organizations in the U.S., as part of their strategy to win the climate change debate.

“Prominent environmental groups like the Sierra Club are now opposing efforts by utilities to install environmental controls on their power plants, the same controls that these groups have fought voraciously to attain for over thirty years and that many utilities have avoided,” states author Brian H. Potts. “These environmentalists are choosing to sacrifice known short-term health and environmental benefits for their long-term climate policy goals.”

TEEB report has multiple errors in first chapter alone, Part #1 « ClimateQuotes.com

...However, the rest are all estimations or patently false. Not only that, but none of the references for the entire first chapter of the TEEB report are peer-reviewed. They are nearly all (UN) government reports or environmental institute reports. Not only do they entirely rely on non-peer-reviewed material, but their claims don't even match their cited sources.

If the Arctic ice is so fragile, and if fossil fuel use might kill our grandchildren, should NASA deliberate break the ice with a massive fossil-fueled ship?

NASA - NASA Icebreaker Voyage To Probe Climate Change Impact On Arctic

ICESCAPE takes to sea onboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, the United States' newest and most technologically advanced polar icebreaker. The Healy conducts a wide range of research activities, providing more than 4,200 square feet of scientific laboratory space. It is designed to break four-and-a-half feet of ice continuously at three knots and operate in temperatures as low as -50 degrees Fahrenheit.

CGC Healy - Ship's Characteristics

Fuel Capacity 1,220,915 GAL (4,621,000 liters)

Ezra Klein - Murkowski resolution fails, 47 to 53

Lisa Murkowski's resolution blocking the EPA's authority to regulate carbon failed in the Senate today, 47 to 53. Six Democrats crossed over: Mark Pryor, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Jay Rockefeller, Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu. Some people were surprised that Bayh crossed, but I'm not. He's retiring, but his votes will reflect on Brad Ellsworth, who's running to replace him, so he's going to stick with the state's most important interests. Zero Republicans voted against Murkowski.

So the good news, I guess, is that Murkowski's resolution went down. The bad news is that in a 60-vote Senate, it's hard to imagine a climate bill, or even a mere energy bill that does something about coal-fired plants, getting through.

Omani who scaled Everest raises concern about global warming

Omani adventurer Khalid Sulaiman Al Siyabi, who just returned from Nepal after summiting the Mount Everest, said that the biggest threat to the universe is the rapid CO2 emission resulting in ice-melting of the Himalayan mountains in Nepal.
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The climbing mission was delayed several times due to ice slips, fluctuating temperatures which at times touched minus 50 degrees Celsius, and strong winds reaching 80km per hour, Al Siyabi said.

No, Sen. Durbin, Choice Not Between Real Science and Political Science | GlobalWarming.org

Durbin claims that EPA made its endangerment rule after consulting with “scientists across America.” In fact, as the endangerment rule acknowledges, EPA largely based the rule on the IPCC reports. As the Climategate scandal reveals, the IPCC reports do not meet U.S. Government transparency and accountability standards.

If Sen. Durbin thinks greenhouse gas emissions are so dangerous, then he should follow the Constitution and do the hard work of trying to assemble legislative majorities capable of turning his agenda into law.

Wood burning power plants may hurt global warming fight

Burning wood for electricity can be worse for global warming than burning coal, a new Massachusetts-sponsored study shows, casting surprising and serious doubts on a long-touted renewable energy source.

Climate change: Europe falling short on backing for Kyoto

"European Union leaders claim they still support the only existing climate deal that has legal teeth – the Kyoto Protocol – but their actions tell a different story," said Dr Alison Doig, Christian Aid’s Senior Adviser on Climate Change.

"By not giving the Protocol their strongest possible support and by allowing other rich countries to abandon Kyoto and instead make weak, non-binding pledges through the Copenhagen Accord, they are condemning Kyoto to death.

Himalayan ice is stable, but Asia faces drought - environment - 10 June 2010 - New Scientist

In fact, only the glaciers that melt into the Ganges are shrinking, according to the most detailed analysis yet of how climate change will affect key Asian glaciers.
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Walter Immerzeel of Utrecht University in the Netherlands used data from a pair of satellites known as GRACE to estimate changes in the thickness of the glaciers that supply the Indus, Brahmaputra, Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow rivers between 2001 and 2007.

He found that only the 100-metre-thick glaciers that feed the Ganges are thinning, at a rate of 22 centimetres per year.

The glaciers that sit at the head of the Indus grew at a rate of 19 centimetres per year on average, while those that melt into the other rivers in the study were unchanged.

Cause of global warming found: Supermarket Trolley's

Banning trollies to reduce our carbon foot print? The NSW government is f*cking useless.

According to 'researchers' trollies are causing people to buy more produce and hence drive to the supermarket and increase their carbon footprint.

Obama's Climate Complacency: Blame Rahm? | Mother Jones

"But then there were the Washington operatives on the political and economic teams who did not want to waste a bunch of bullets on some weirdo green crusade when the polling numbers weren't there, and it would be a bloody battle to take that hill. They said, 'Let's go take some other hill.'"
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When Waxman and Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought the Waxman-Markey bill to the floor, they forced Obama's hand. He began pressing members, Gore worked the phones from Nashville, and Emanuel put aside his misgivings and mounted an effective whip operation. With an impressive last-minute display by Pelosi, the bill passed 219 to 212—and then the momentum dissolved in the face of conservative opposition. Obama's stealth strategy failed to take into account the vigor of American denialism and opposition to cap and trade.

Hot Air » Boxer: Carbon dioxide will be “leading cause of conflict” in next 20 years

[Boxer] I’m going to put in the record, Madam President, a host of quotes from our national security experts who tell us that carbon pollution leading to climate change will be over the next 20 years the leading cause of conflict, putting our troops in harm’s way. And that’s why we have so many returning veterans who want us to move forward and address this issue, so we can create those new technologies that get us off this foreign oil.

Activist Teacher: Some Big Lies of Science

Climategate only confirms what should be obvious to any practicing scientist: That science is a mafia when it’s not simply a sleeping pill.

U.S. Senate debates stopping EPA climate rules | Metals & Mining | Reuters

"This resolution does nothing to create jobs in Nevada or any place else in our country. It does create jobs where we're importing oil -- the Middle East, Venezuela and places like that," Reid, who represents Nevada, said.
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California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer displayed an enlarged photograph of a bird drenched in oil from the BP (BP.L: Quote)(BP.N: Quote) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as she took the floor to argue against Murkowski's bill.

Crude Oil Imports Top 15 Countries

CANADA 2,020 1,897 1,934 1,845 1,901
SAUDI ARABIA 1,149 881 1,000 944 1,128
MEXICO 1,086 996 1,040 1,092 1,203
VENEZUELA 984 913 908 949 1,029
NIGERIA 939 896 945 860 607
ANGOLA 490 312 358 644 612
IRAQ 475 540 506 587 570
BRAZIL 299 192 256 334 365
ALGERIA 276 282 296 215 242
RUSSIA 248 214 199 219 173
KUWAIT 218 228 169 181 218
COLOMBIA 216 371 291 254 235
ECUADOR 183 145 182 210 241
UNITED KINGDOM 142 260 177 85 56
CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE) 124 76 81 56 44

Emily's Post: Ron Johnson: Friend of Big Oil, foe of the glaciers - Isthmus | The Daily Page

Here's what [Republican candidate for Senate, Ron Johnson] said, when asked whether he agreed or disagreed that "man-caused global warming is a proven fact":

I totally disagree...I'm always surprised that people think this is the sweet spot in global history in terms of this is where we should be climate-wise. We live in Wisconsin – I'm glad there's global warming or we'd be standing on top of a 200 ft. thick glacier. So I think it's absolutely not proven, and for us to be contemplating fixing something that is not proven is absurd.

Climate Common Sense: Ocean Acidification ? - The Sea is Alkaline You Dumbos!

Now Blind Freddie can see that with a pH of 8.1 ,a natural pH variation of 1.1 and a pH change of only .1 in the last century the sea will never turn acid and that the change attributed to AGW is negligible compared to the natural variation and all the wee sea beasties will not be dissolved in an acid bath of mankind's making!

Inside the Beltway Climate [Hoax] War - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

...The resulting book, “ The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers and the Fight to Save the Planet,” is a fascinating, if depressing, look at how Washington works — or doesn’t work, if your goal is meaningful laws limiting the human impact on climate. The cast of characters ranges from former Vice President Al Gore and James Hansen, the NASA climatologist who has become an impassioned climate campaigner, to Frank Luntz, the longtime political and semantic strategist for Republicans — and, in this case, environmentalists.

The book vividly reveals the layers of financial and political interests that can eviscerate environmental legislation and describes the tussle within the Obama White House over how hard to push on climate.

CNSNews.com - McConnell Charges That ‘Major Part’ of Democrats’ Cap-Trade Bill ‘Essentially Written by BP’

(CNSNews.com) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that BP, the energy company responsible for the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, helped craft the bill proposed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) that would tax businesses for carbon emissions and raise the cost of fuel for American consumers.

The Daily Bayonet « Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jun. 10th 2010

Greenpeace activists are headed to jail, a hippie invades Wattsworld and it has been a rough week for alternative energies wind and solar.

BP is asking for its punishment—literally | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

BP, joined by Enron, invented carbon cap-and-trade in the mid-1990s. Yeah. That cap-and-trade.

I know, because I was in the room.

'Follow the Islamic way to save the world,' Charles urges environmentalists | Mail Online

Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic 'spiritual principles' in order to protect the environment.

Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway: Yale Environment 360

In the case of global warming, there is strong evidence that this contrarian campaign is enjoying success, with recent polls showing that more than half of Americans are not particularly worried about the issue and that fully 40 percent believe there is major disagreement among scientists about whether climate change is even occurring. This confusion is no doubt due, at least in part, to the persistent campaigns of obfuscation by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other global warming deniers who use right-wing talk radio, the Internet, and television programs such as Fox News to propagate their message of doubt.

Jonathan A. Schein: Al Gore Doubles His Carbon Footprint -- Huffington Post

The Gores should live happy lives--together or separately. Increasing one's contribution to greenhouse gases should not be a consideration in matters of the heart. However, their split may give rise to a study of how the high rate of divorce has contributed to greenhouse gases by creating a need for additional housing.

BBC News - Al Gore to teach climate student from Swansea

A 17-year-old A-level student from Swansea is to be trained by Al Gore in highlighting climate change.

Rhys Hughes will fly to Tennessee to spend three days with the former US Vice-President later this month.

Local luminaries laud Al Gore’s message even as Twitterverse turns him into a heartthrob | Manila Bulletin

Meanwhile, perhaps to lighten things up a bit, Senator Loren Legarda acknowledged that her new haircut was “environment friendly… I need less water to wash it… So, akma sa climate change ang aking buhok.”

David Doniger: The Three Biggest Honkers from Senator Murkowski and Her Supporters

Honker #1: It’s not about the science.

Ah, but it is. The resolution of disapproval would overturn EPA’s science-based finding that global warming pollution is dangerous to Americans’ health and to their environment.

As the vote nears, many Murkowski supporters are trying to soft-pedal their science denialism. But some cannot help themselves.

Clouds and Global Warming : Image of the Day

On balance, scientists aren’t entirely sure what effect clouds will have on global warming. Most climate models predict that clouds will amplify global warming slightly. Some observations of clouds support model predictions, but direct observational evidence is still limited. Clouds remain the biggest source of uncertainty (apart from human decisions to control greenhouse gas emissions) in predicting how much global temperatures will change.

Both Sides Now (Clouds) - Joni Mitchell

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow,
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds, at all.

motoring.co.za - South African don't believe cars are the problem

In 2010, as with all the previous studies, only one percent of people around the world blamed aircraft for climate ills and only three percent blamed cars.

BBC News - A bad reputation

...with a few provisos, we can actually afford to chill out about certain carbon footprints, which aren't as bad as many of us might think.
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10. Keeping your old car can be a good carbon trade off. A new car has a footprint of between six tonnes (a small Citroen C1) and 35 tonnes ( a Landrover Discovery, say). Making cars for UK drivers has about half the footprint of the fuel they burn. So if your old car is safe and reliable, you mileage isn't too high and it's not a gas guzzling disaster, keeping it is probably the low carbon option. If you feel you need a new status symbol, spend any spare cash on solar panels or a wind turbine.

BBC News - South Korea rocket 'explodes' moments after take-off

The satellite - which had been intended to study the effects of climate change - should have separated from the rocket and deployed its solar panels some nine minutes after take-off, at an altitude of 302km.

Beeville update

mySouTex.com - It’s a hoax

“Neither the plaque nor the letter is authentic, and this amounts to fraudulent use of NSF’s name and logo. This matter has been referred to our Office of the Inspector General,” said Maria Zacharias, group leader in the NSF public affairs division.

Besides all of these factors, Zacharias said that it would be unusual for the topic “Disproving Global Warming” to beat 50,000 other entries, as the letter claimed.

“Global warming is kind of a fact,” said Zacharias. “The controversy is over how much of it is caused by humans.”
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Castillo said that his daughter discovered the contest through an ad for the “National Science Fair” on an educational Web site, but he did not remember which site.

According to Castillo, there was no entry fee for the fair, and the family had been in contact with someone in Arlington, Va., claiming to be the NSF. The actual NSF is based in the same city.

However, Castillo said that they did not have a copy of the application, and the packaging for the awards had already been thrown out.

Castillo said he believed someone had gone to great lengths to deceive his family and he had no idea why.

Note that under the headline "It's a hoax", there is a nice large closeup of Julisa’s father, J.R. Castillo.

C3: The Stupidity of The Chattering Class: More Evidence From WAPO's Andrew Freedman

The coastal leftist/liberal elites are struggling with major denial as to why the majority of Americans have turned away from the non-scientific alarmism about global warming and climate change. The "elites," instead of recognizing the truth of the matter, turn to conspiracy theories about sinister corporate entities spewing climate disinformation.

2007 Sea Ice Post Mortem | Watts Up With That?

The next problem with an “ice-free Arctic” is that summer temperatures north of 80N have not changed over the last 50 years. You can see that in the DMI graphs. If anything, recent years have had colder summers near the pole.

C3: Scientists Confirm Medieval Warming Exceeds Modern Warming In Alaska: It's Non-CO2 Climate Change

Much has been made by global warming alarmists about the warming of Alaska since the 1970's and thus inferring it is due to human CO2 emissions. What they conveniently fail to mention is that most of the warming was due to a major PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation) shift to a warming phase that took place during the late 70's.

More Fires Than Mongols: Illusions of Controversy in Climate Change « Father Theo's Blog

Bottom line—scientific doubt about climate change is a media and energy industry created myth.

[What's the temperature of ocean water right next to a seal's head?]: Seals track impact of climate change on reef

The seals have sensors glued to their heads that collect information about changes to temperature and salinity in the Southern Ocean.

Al's Journal : Humble Oil (now Exxon) Predicts the Future in 1962 Ad

The ad reads:

"EACH DAY HUMBLE SUPPLIES ENOUGH ENERGY TO MELT 7 MILLION TONS OF GLACIER!"
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In the early 1970’s Humble Oil, was rebranded as Exxon Mobil. This is just one of the many additions to the updated slideshow I am delivering at a training today in Beijing, China.

Asia's silent victims of pollution and emissions | Melody Kemp | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The global south is struggling with industrial emissions, always playing catch up in a bid to fix the ailments it has created

- Bishop Hill blog - The Climate Files

Fred Pearce has new book out on Climategate and will be speaking about it at the Royal Institution on Monday. Readers will remember Pearce as the author of a detailed series of postings on the Climategate emails in the Guardian at the start of the year. The book sounds pretty interesting...

- Bishop Hill blog - Russell report imminent?

DateJun 9, 2010 CategoryClimate

I hear on the grapevine that Sir Muir Russell's panel will be reporting "imminently". I imagine that means in the next few days. My guess would be that they will make the announcement on Friday so that they can run for cover straight afterwards.

Subsidizing CO2 Emissions via Windpower: The Ultimate Irony — MasterResource

My recent four-part Wind Integration Realities reviewed two new studies, based on actual experience, that show fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are increased, not reduced, with the introduction of wind.

Warning Signs: Just What You Don't Need! More Ethanol!

Higher ethanol blends will likely force millions of perfectly good, older vehicles into crippling retirement to the detriment of those who can least afford to be deprived of personal transportation.

Senate Climate Bill's Boosters Try Smorgasbord Strategy in Bid for Votes - NYTimes.com

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said yesterday she did not think the primary vehicle going to the floor would be the Kerry-Lieberman bill as it was introduced last month. "We never said that," she said. "We said Harry [Reid] was going to write his own bill. Never that that would be the vehicle.

West Michigan fruit crop suffering after early freeze | MLive.com

Tubbs said his 350 acres of asparagus also were damaged severely. The farm lost about "four pickings" and "some of the better pickings" which equates to a 10 percent to 20 percent loss, he said.

"We'll never get those pickings back. We'll never recover that. We're way down from last year and last year wasn't a real good year because it was so cold," he said.

SCENARIOS-Fate of climate bill uncertain as Japan poll nears | Energy & Oil | Reuters

TOKYO June 10 (Reuters) - Japan's government could run out of time to enact a climate bill before upper-house elections expected next month, fuelling worries it might drop a plan to trade carbon emissions by setting obligatory caps on firms.

Climate change and the great scientific dance-off › Environment Blog (ABC Environment)

The tantalising element of conflict is one reason why climate change is the biggest science story ever. Of course, the other is that current scientific projections are that it will have a calamitous affect on us all.

Lindsey Graham Said What About Climate Change? | Mother Jones

Reporters asked Graham several times about why he was supporting Lugar's bill, when just a few months ago he had argued that the Senate shouldn't pass a "half-assed" bill that lacked hard restrictions on carbon emissions. Graham replied that he now doesn't think pricing carbon is that important. "The science about global warming has changed," he noted, offhandedly. "I think they've oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they've been alarmist and the science is in question," Graham told reporters. "The whole movement has taken a giant step backward."
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I asked him, if carbon [dioxide] emissions aren't warming the planet, why are they bad? Here's his reply:

I just think it's bad … the reason I don't hang out in traffic jams and get out and suck up the wind is I think this crap is bad for you. We've had an increase in asthma cases. If you've ever been to Thailand stuck behind 400 motorcycles, it's a lousy place to be. It doesn't take a rocket scientist in my view to understand that the stuff floating in the Gulf, if you burn it doesn't make it better for you. If you wouldn't go swimming in this stuff, why would you burn it and want to breath it?

...Graham ended his commentary on the subject on this note: "I do believe the environmental benefit of a low carbon economy is worth the Republican party's time and attention. Does climate change have to be your religion? No, it is not my religion, it is my concern."