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# "If the Senate defeats the bill," @algore told me in Copnhagn, "that is an event horizon beyond which it is difficult to see.”..
# Duke Energy's Jim Rogers saw #climate as a business opportunity. “I made money on sulfur, and I’ll make money on carbon [dioxide].” ...
# “By any measure that matters,” @algore said during a quiet conversation in Bali, "we haven’t done a damned thing.”...

Global Warming Or Gullible Warning? « The Jittery Goat

We are never going to get two scientists to agree on what way to place a roll of toilet paper in the roller, let alone agree on whether the earth is getting colder, warmer, or about the same. Believe me, if there was more money in unrolling toilet paper from the top, there would be a study to prove it is healthier.

Living on Earth: The White House Battle for a Climate Message

POOLEY: Well I think that politics is all about timing, and that the time for Obama to act really was 2009, that the window was beginning to slam shut and now it's really more about whether Obama can pry the window open again.

Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age | Science | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jun/20/ice-age-cannibals-britain-earliest-settlers

Britain's icy desolation ended abruptly 14,700 years ago when there was a dramatic leap in temperatures across the globe according to ice-cores found in Greenland and lake sediments in Germany. In less than three years, temperatures had soared by around 6 to 7 degrees Celsius and ice sheets began a rapid retreat throughout the world.

Such a jump in temperature brought about an astonishing change in the world's weather patterns – though the underlying cause remains unclear, scientists admit. Suggestions include the proposal that variations in the orbit of the Earth around the Sun allowed more solar radiation to bathe the planet and so warm it up. It has also been proposed that there may have been a sudden eruption of carbon dioxide from the oceans. This helped trap heat from the sun in the atmosphere and so heat up the world.

FOXNews.com - The Second Coming of Jimmy Carter

Obama’s first speech to the nation from the Oval Office sounded a lot like Carter’s famous “malaise” speech July 15, 1979, that all but defined the end of his presidency.

Only, Obama sounded out to lunch more than a year earlier than Carter. Both wanted to intervene in the energy crisis. Both wanted to rally a divided America. Neither was up to the task.

See if you can guess which one said the following:

“In little more than two decades we've gone from a position of energy independence to one in which almost half the oil we use comes from foreign countries, at prices that are going through the roof.” Or: “I laid out a set of principles that would move our country towards energy independence.”

Same issue, same bogus fantasy about “energy independence.”

“I'm proposing a bold conservation program to involve every state, county, and city and every average American in our energy battle.” Or: “Tonight I’d like to lay out for you what our battle plan is going forward.”

Same claim to military analogies, same fight for conservation.

[San Diego: Record cold]

I thought we needed an extra blanket night before last. Three spots around the county set daily records for low temperature Thursday. Campo got down to 33, shattering the previous mark for June 17 set in 1973 by four degrees. El Cajon's low was 52, two degrees below the record set in 1995; and the Ramona Airport dipped to 41, besting the record low set in 1974 by three degrees.

Being green will not get us out of the red - Telegraph

...Still in place, however, is a £200 million loan to Nissan (£20 million from our Government, the rest from the European Investment Bank), to enable its Sunderland plant to build thousands of Leaf electric cars, which will only be able to drive 100 miles before they need recharging – with electricity from CO2-emitting fossil fuels.

Exclusive: EPA View on Greenhouse Gases - A Load of Hot Air? » Publications » Family Security Matters

Because it is now reasonably clear that disastrous AGW is not in the offing, why doesn’t it make sense to abandon the emotional, financial, and political aspects of AGW, let the CO2 go, live with the elevated CO2 levels since they are nontoxic and the effect on temperature is negligible, concentrate on even more effective sequestration of the known stack gas and tailpipe toxins and endangerments to air and water quality, and leave the energy economy alone while we systematically use it to develop cheap. reliable alternate energy sources to supplant future depletion of fossil fuels?  [Via Climate Realists]

[Hmm--lots of climate change that wasn't caused by my phone charger; climate change that didn't kill all humans, plants, or animals; climate change that didn't end with the Earth an uninhabitable fireball?!]

According to a Jan. 1, 2010 BBC news article, by BBC News science reporter, Paul Rincon, "DNA analyzed from early European," scientists have studied and extracted DNA from the remains of a 30,000 year old European cave man who hunted wild mammoths in the region of Kostenki, Russia about five to ten thousand years before the last ice age began, at a time when Russia was warmer than it is today.
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The facial restoration of the 30,000 year old man in Russia, depicts an ancient Homo Sapien man in Europe who perhaps still retains his undifferentiated features before the last ice age. After the latest ice age, the features on ancient skulls appear to change in Europe, possibly due to thousands of years of diminished sun light and extreme cold.
...At 30,000 to 32,000 years ago, his estimated age, cave paintings show rhinos in France, and lions as well as mammoths an mastedons throughout Europe.
...But H also lived 20,000 years ago in Spain and Southern France, using the Pyrenees as a refuge from the ice age. At that time, penguins roamed in the Mediterranean, and winters during the ice age were similar to modern winters in Alaska.

[We're saved!  World Bank blows more money on scam to prevent bad weather]

The World Bank has offered Egypt a US$220 million loan to support a wind energy development project. The Clean Technology Fund has contributed US$150 million dollars in its first contribution to the Middle East and North Africa.
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"One of the advantages of this project is the reduction of gas diffusion that causes global warming through the development of clean energy resources," said Shandar Asicar Juvendar Agalo, the project team leader.

A cool place

The temperature inside is a steady -10 degree centigrade. A sophisticated insulation system and five-layered flooring ensure that the ice doesn’t melt even during eight-hour power cuts.
...Iceculture, Bayley's company, is one of the leading names in the ice hospitality business today, having done prestigious projects such as the inauguration party for President Barack Obama in Washington, a 2,000-block ice maze (now in the record books) for General Motors at the Toronto Auto Show, Elton John’s annual charity event in Britain and for Al Gore’s 2007 Nobel Prize acceptance in Oslo, for which they moulded blocks of ice into a melting Earth to depict global warming.

CQ Politics | National Environment Puts Boucher, Chandler at Greater Risk

In terms of messaging, it’s a good bet that Republicans will spend their time reminding the many voters in the district with connections to the energy industry about Chandler’s vote to support the House cap-and-trade bill. Republicans and even some Democratic operatives have called that vote an indefensible one in a state where coal is king.

“I’m 63 and I’m Tired”

I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.

7 Things You MUST Have For Global Warming Survival | Waterproof Backpacks

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Team that researched CO2's effect on human/bear conflicts tranquilizes a bear, which wakes up and almost immediately kills a hiker?

Grizzly Kills Man Near Wyoming's Yellowstone Park

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A grizzly bear killed a Wyoming man outside Yellowstone National Park, apparently just hours after researchers trapped and tranquilized the animal.
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The researcher found Evert's body where they had left the bear to wake up, about two miles from Evert's cabin.

"My heart goes out for the victim and the family involved in this. Nobody would want anything like this to happen," Chuck Schwartz, head of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team based in Bozeman, Mont., said Friday.

Potential Impacts of Climate to Timing of Grizzly Bear Denning

Past research by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) observed a trend towards later den entry during 1975-99 among adult male bears, and a corresponding trend of increasing minimum fall temperatures during the same period, which may be attributed to climate change. Climate-influenced changes in timing of den entry has implications for managers tasked with minimizing conflicts between bears and humans, particularly during fall ungulate hunting seasons. Results of this analysis are pending and if earlier observed trends are confirmed IGBST will discuss the potential impacts on both bears and people of a longer active season for grizzly bears in the GYE.
Contact: Chuck Schwartz

You know how sometimes it rains, and sometimes it doesn't? That's your fault

Ohio's like a lightning rod lately

"One of the signs of climate change that may occur here is that we'll get a lot of heavy rain events and they'll be followed by periods without any rain at all," [Ohio State's Rogers] said. "We've been seeing that pattern in recent summers."

Haydu said there is reason to suspect that the region is about to enter a drying period with fewer storms.

Jack Handey - Wikiquote

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

Google Trends illustrates the failure of Al Gore's global warming hoax

Google Trends: "global warming", pizza, iphone


[A closer look]: Google Trends: "global warming"

Theft darkens Soweto

The theft of about 400m of power lines left most of Soweto in the dark on Friday as several other areas in Gauteng suffered power problems.

Eskom's general manager of the north-western region, Alwie Lester, said large parts of Soweto, Kagiso, parts of Sebokeng and Katlehong were suffering power cuts.
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City Power spokesperson Louis Pieterse said cold weather conditions caused power failures around Auckland Park "for only 30 minutes".
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He said the cold weather put strain on the network as consumers use more appliances for heat.

Transition Brighton and Hove: Climate Change [Hoax] Speaker Training

This highly acclaimed one-day course, run by an experienced facilitator from COIN, will give you the skills, ideas and confidence to persuade others to act on climate change. Arrive keen to speak out on this issue, but not an expert, and leave able and prepared to deliver ahard-hitting half-hour talk.

American Thinker Blog: Tilting at windmills

Come out to West Texas all you greenies and see what endless ugliness you have wrought.

There is no such thing as a liberal feel good program that does not ultimately and inevitably result in dire and tragic consequences for someone, usually the innocent and unsuspecting.

Winter's snow brings poorer roads, layoffs | mansfieldnewsjournal.com

MANSFIELD -- In announcing the layoff of seven employees Thursday, Richland County Engineer Tom Beck said the fallout would mean less highway maintenance this summer and more snow-covered roads this winter.

At a meeting Thursday with commissioners, Beck blamed the layoff of six employees and one supervisor on last winter. Keeping county roads driveable for the first three months of 2010 cost $817,433, roughly $32,000 less than for all of 2009.

Yosemite supersized: Sierra’s big snow season means big waterfalls - Travel - LATimes.com

The cables to the top of Half Dome, which usually are in place Memorial Day weekend, finally went up Wednesday so that hikers can summit the 8,800-foot granite rock face.

Coroner takes aim at snow-removal deaths

A coroner's report into the deaths of four pedestrians hit by snow-removal vehicles in the winter of 2009 is expected to recommend ways to monitor the number of hours worked by drivers in order to reduce fatigue.

Conrad Black: G20 summit puts Toronto in a new league | Full Comment | National Post

...The purposes of these endless proliferating meetings became steadily vaguer, the consequences less significant and it is quite likely that proximity leads to as much friction as camaraderie and trust between participants. Skeptics may well ask what good these economic meetings did in foreseeing and mitigating the current economic crisis. There is an element of farce about these occasions, which are conducted with absurd self-importance. Solemn sedans speed up to conference centres, screech to a stop and well-upholstered, striped-suited worthies emerge with bulging briefcases; in a phalanx of cellphone flaunting aides, they bustle within the portentous facades of the meeting places.

And the meetings keep growing larger. At the supremely misconceived Copenhagen Conference in December, China, the greatest carbon emitter of all, po-facedly denounced the whole concept of carbon emissions contributing to global warming, and then took the headship of the G77 of developing countries who were demanding, with cupped hands outstretched, that the economically advanced countries dole out huge compensation packages for their excessive emissions. If the conference movement (for it is no less than that), could survive this charade, it is unstoppable. 

News Sources Ignore EPA's 1 in 100 Odds of Livable Future Without the American Power Act: Scientific American

The EPA found there is only a 1% chance of avoiding the increasing incidence of climate-caused catastrophes like floods, droughts and sea level rise without passage of this year’s American Power Act (APA) to place a cap on carbon emissions and lower it each year.

Global warming? But Portland is freezing! | OregonLive.com

I know it's happening but when I'm still wearing sweaters and wool slippers in mid-June, it's easy to let thoughts about a warming planet subside a bit and secretly indulge in fantasies that all those scientists are somehow wrong

The real villain of the Gulf oil-spill disaster: not BP but PC – Telegraph Blogs

Had BP spent a fraction of the budget it has dedicated to greenwashing (its 2001 rebranding alone cost $200 million; it has squandered further millions on solar and wind power) on doing the job its supposed to do – ie drilling for oil as safely and efficiently as is reasonably possible in so risky business; definitely not cutting corners – the Gulf Oil disaster would almost certainly have never happened. Exxon gets a lot of stick from the green movement. But its safety procedures are much more stringent than BPs. (Hat tip: Tom Blanton)

And while we’re on the subject of the warped, self-destructive tactics of eco-zealots, lets not forget the disastrous role America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has played in all this. Thanks to the EPA’s bizarre sense of ecological priorities, the US government initially turned down an offer from the Dutch to provide 4 oil skimmers capable of scooping up 146,000 barrels of spilt oil per day.
...as I’ve argued before, for Obama and his eco-fascist chums in the global green movement, the more damage this disaster is allowed to do to the image of Big Oil and Big Carbon the better. For them this crisis isn’t a disaster at all. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime.

Dry season to come in July, weather agency says | The Jakarta Post

The BMKG said that the increase in sea temperature was strong proof of global warming due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

“This is proof of the impact of global warming in Indonesia. However, the issue of changing weather continues to be overshadowed by the issue of carbon trading at climate change talks,” she said.

Flashback to yesterday: Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Continue their Plunge « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

The rate at which the Nino34 SSTs are falling is particularly striking, as seen in this plot of the SST change rate for that region

The Greenroom » Rep. Giffords to Petraeus: You’re Fighting Two Wars? But What About Windmills?

He’s trying to win two wars. He’s concerned with actual threats to this country, not made up scams like “climate change” cured by magic windmills.

[Is it midsummer yet?] - Cold comfort for Teesside's England fans

viewer numbers were down on last time as the cold weather deterred many people from watching the game outside.

Lisa Timney, 32, along with daughter Natasha, 12, and mum Lynn, 55, were among the hardy Teessiders who braved the cold.

The Climate Sceptics Party Blog (AEC Registered)

Sceptic evicted from Vic Public servants meeting on Climate brainwashing techniques plus wild claims made by the CSIRO about sceptics

Two climate sceptics - Colin Ely and Alan Barron - attended a Vic public servants meeting on Climate Brainwashing techniques conducted by the CSIRO called "Dealing with Climate change Denialism".

They were denied access to the meeting which shows Australian governments are being subversive on the issue of Climate change and will not debate the facts.

Climate Common Sense: Spain Solar - From Poster Child to Bete Noir!

Spain is now paying the price of an idiotic rush to install billions of dollars worth of subsidised solar power plants without counting the economic cost. With the injection of financial reality caused by Greece's near-death experience Spain is trying to get it's books in order and reverse some of the foolish Green power decisions it has made.

John Browne’s 2007 Stanford University Speech: The "Beyond Petroleum’ Beginning (and beginning of the end of BP?) — MasterResource

Browne’s speech was and is a non sequitur. The basic fallacy is that anthropogenic global warming was assumed to be prima facie bad and was a call to action–corporate and government. In this make believe world, there was no such thing as analytic failure and government failure–just market failure.

Melik Kaylan: [If we don't stop the Al Gore gossip, we'll have to marry our cousins?]

...the tabloids are brutalizing a figure the world universally recognizes as a gold-standard American idealist with the entire earth's interests at heart, a noble, likable, altruistic American.
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Here's how it works -- one sees it in closed Islamic societies -- fear of gossip grows so disproportionate that families learn to enforce self-isolation. Cousins only marry cousins. Arranged marriages multiply...

The Rubber Duckies: For services to the climate coverup | FP Comment | Financial Post

Lord Oxburgh subsequently became chairman of a multinational wind-farm company, Falck Renewables, and also chairman of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association. Both these organizations obviously have a vested interest in claims of catastrophic climate change. Thus his Lordship was the very last person who should have been overseeing any “objective” inquiry into the cooking of climate science.

Gagging on Green Garbage

The “East Anglia Event Horizon” occurred on Nov 19, 2009 and that day will live in infamy in the honest history of science. Yet in the nine months since the ‘Climate-Gate’ disclosure there has NOT BEEN ONE MENTION of this event or any conflicting viewpoints to the AGW orthodoxy presented in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics. Not a single letter to the editor in opposition, not a single mention of ANY other possible climate forcing factors.

This is not science, this is despicable political advocacy.

A green lawn, without the grass

TAMPA - Long summer days are area bringing back Bay Area landscapes from the dead. But, some yards still haven't recovered from the winter freeze.

Back in the shed, covered in dust, and never to be used again -- Rick and Nanette O'Hara gladly get rid of their lawnmower and reduce their carbon footprint. They've spent several weekends re-doing their yard after the harsh winter freeze nearly killed it all.

Farmers Concerned Over Frozen Crops - Local News Story - KIFI Idaho Falls

MADISON COUNTY, Idaho -- Crops are severely damaged Friday after a freezing wind swept through east Idaho during the early morning hours.
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The freezing wind set potato farmers back three weeks, which cuts the yield dramatically.

Gag me: Two Senators describe the alleged wonders of their climate swindle

Sens. Maria Cantwell and Susan Collins: Our energy bill pays dividends

There has been much talk recently about whether Republicans and Democrats in Washington can produce a bipartisan clean energy and jobs bill. The answer is: We already have. We are leading a bipartisan effort to put a lid on carbon pollution and in so doing unleash a massive investment in clean energy technology. If we can tackle this issue in a predictable, transparent and free-market way, we can create millions of high-paying jobs while limiting the worst effects of climate change and reducing both our dependence on foreign oil and the risk of another oil spill.

We have authored a bill that takes on this challenge, empowering America’s private sector to take the lead in the $6 trillion global energy market while shutting out Wall Street speculators and protecting low- and middle-income families from associated price increases for energy.

BikePortland.org » Deep Green Film Premiere

Local director Matt Briggs has received a city permit to allow for 40 feet of extra bike parking in front of the Bagdad for cyclists to attend the screenings.

"Deep Green" is an upbeat film all about renewable energy solutions to climate change. The film crew traveled to China, Europe, and around the world interviewing the top experts on this topic.

StreS'sNet: Most creative Global Warming awareness posters

[More from your mainstream media: Time calls Joe Barton a "denier"]

1. Barton is a long-time denier of global warming. He's called it "a triumph over good sense and science" and in 2007 hearings he told Al Gore , "You're not just off a little. You're totally wrong."

Lewis speaks out against global warming

Stephen Lewis, formerly Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party and UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, appeared at a breakfast with about 300 members of The Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
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Lewis asked public servants to make climate change a consideration in every decision and in every department to help foster a broader understand of the issue and how it can be addressed.

The self-describe "ideological fundamentalist" is now the head of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, a charitable group working to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. He said the issues of poverty and disease on that continent are directly connected to global warming, which will have the greatest effect on the world's most vulnerable populations.

[For one ten-minute speech, First Green President burns an enormous amount of fossil fuel] - CBS News.

Mr. Obama spoke for just ten minutes and was on the ground in Ohio for just over an hour.
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The trip Columbus probably cost taxpayers between $500,000 and $1 million.

Air Force One alone bills out at $100,000 per hour, and the round trip is nearly two hours. Adding to the cost are military aircraft to carry limos and secret service vehicles, Marine One on standby, Secret Service, local police and other factors.

EU Referendum: Economic sabotage

To hamper gas with CCS would have a devastating effect, massively increasing costs and complexity of electricty production.

Thus, Turner is either barking mad, or something much worse. This is something very much akin to economic sabotage – a deliberate ploy to impoverish the nation and many of its citizens. But with Huhne at the receiving end, and the greenie obsessed Boy, there is no certainty that this will be dismissed out of hand, as it should be.

The far left turns against Obama

[BILL O'REILLY] The global warming crew is furious that Obama expanded ocean drilling a few months ago, and they are crazed that the cap-and-trade bill is stalled in Congress. Along with expanded entitlements for the poor, combating global warming has become a fanatical issue for those who graze in pastures owned by George Soros.
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You might disagree with the president, but the speech certainly wasn’t a disaster.

Therefore, the hysteria displayed by far-left commentators is totally out of proportion until you factor in the climate-change angst. Very simply, his once-devoted supporters are now giving Barack Obama the cold shoulder over global warming.

Flashback: YouTube - Bill O'Reilly: Global warming is here

February 27, 2007 — O'Reilly knocks denialists

Should Obama be talking more about climate change? | Grist

In his new book The Climate War, Eric Pooley describes how the message of climate campaigners has evolved from one focused on, well, climate ("polar bears") to one dominated by national security, green jobs, and competitiveness. He calls this latter version the "Trojan Horse" message, one that tries to smuggle climate action inside economic development arguments.
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But climate adds crucial temporal pressure. It gets harder and harder to tackle climate change with each passing day, and we are approaching thresholds beyond which changes will be irreversible and catastrophic. We don't know the size and timing of the approaching dangers with much precision, but any sane risk analysis indicates the need to act, and quickly.
...The overwhelming priority in the short term is to get started, via whatever means of persuasion are most effective.

Excellent Summary Of The NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Forecast For A La Niña Later This Summer « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

As I have emphasized many time on my weblog and in research papers, it is the regional atmospheric-ocean circulations that are a dominate influence on climate variability and change. Until the IPCC multi-decadal global climate models can skillfully predict the variations and change in these circulations on a multi-decadal time scale, policymakers and others should be very skeptical in their use as definitive skillful forecasts.

C3: South China Sea Corals Document Huge 2°C Natural Temperature Change Post-Roman Warming

Why do we say "huge" for the post-Roman period? Climate alarmistas are in an existential panic about a global temperature change of 0.7°C since 1880, per the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) data. A fair amount of that increase in temperatures since 1880 is natural versus the small AGW increase since 1970; and, the total 0.7 temperature change is significantly less than the post-Roman 2.0 degree change - 2.0 is huge versus 0.7.

The fickle nature of a fake free market « JoNova

Meanwhile some NGOs are waking up to the scammability of permits for invisible unverifiable goods. CDMWatch was set up by a group of NGO’s and has found the firms that sell the carbon emission offsets are lying about how much they produce, so they can sell more offsets. Who would have guessed?

HFC-23 is 12,000 times as potent as CO2, making it an ultra powerful greenhouse gas, and a hot favourite for companies who want to “destroy greenhouse gases” and get paid for it. The obvious end point in this market being that the easiest most efficient greenhouse gas to destroy is the one you didn’t make in the first place.

HFC offsets account for more than half of the 420 million CERs issued to date by the U.N.’s climate change secretariat. No one is quite sure how many are bogus, but the head of an environmental group Noe21 said it is “millions”.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: China's Energy Supply Conundrum

China needs all the energy that it can get and more. The government policies have far more to do with prioritized rationing of energy supply than any serious effort to accelerate decarbonization of the Chinese economy.

Electric cars 'bad for environment'

ELECTRIC cars are unlikely ever to replace conventional cars and could even be worse for the environment, experts have warned.

For Gulf, Biofuels Are Worse Than Oil Spill - IBD - Investors.com

Environment: Our growing addiction to alternative energy was killing aquatic life in the Gulf long before the Deepwater Horizon spill. Abandoning oil will kill more and also release more carbon dioxide into the air.

Global warming agenda pursued without oversight - Opinion - Advisor & Source

Despite environmental alarmists' claims, not only is carbon dioxide a part of the natural cycle of life and no evidence exists that it or other gases contribute to the earth's climate in any meaningful way, there is also no evidence that regulations can impact emissions. Even EPA administrator Lisa Jackson admitted regulations will do little to reduce carbon emissions or influence the climate. Moreover, since last year's infamous ClimateGate fiasco where scientists admitted they were deliberately suppressing evidence that proved global warming is a myth, even fewer people are falling for the climate hoax. Yet the president doesn't fashion policy on fact or public opinion. Too much money and power are at stake.

Obama's Answer To Spill Comes Up Short - Investors.com

Obama is dreamer in chief: He wants to take us to this green future "even if we're unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don't yet precisely know how we're going to get there."

Here's the offer: Tax carbon, spend trillions and put government in control of the energy economy — and he will take you he knows not where, by way of a road he knows not which.

That's why Tuesday's speech was received with such consternation. It was so untethered from reality.

The Gulf is gushing, and the president is talking mystery roads to unknown destinations.

That passes for vision, and vision is Obama's thing. It sure beats cleaning up beaches.

Economics and Performance – The Primary Deficiencies of Wind Power — MasterResource

The investment is being wasted; with no hope of a reasonable return, and without large subsidies from government entities to offset the investment losses and artificial increases in the cost of electricity, a viable business case for implementation of wind turbine power generation cannot be made.

He Blinded Me with Science - Jonah Goldberg - National Review Online

“The recommendations contained in this report,” declared the document, “have been peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.”

Except that was untrue. In fact, it was such a glaring lie that the seven engineers who peer-reviewed an earlier version of the document felt obliged to come forward to clear the air.

Carbon Taxing - And Its Limits - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Free Exchange looks at the British example:

The latest target is a 34% cut [in emissions], compared to 1990 levels, by 2020.

When the good folk at Cambridge Econometrics fed this requirement into their model, it began spitting out prices of many hundreds of pounds per ton, far beyond anything that could be seen as politically plausible by even the most starry-eyed environmentalist. Indeed, the prices were so high that they were pushing up against the limits of the model, and any numbers generated would have to be taken with a big dollop of salt. The main reason, said the firm's analysts, was the time it takes to do things like building nuclear power stations and converting large chunks of Britain's transport to run on electricity. It just isn't possible to do enough in a decade, no matter how high you crank the carbon price.

Why Carbon [Scam] Pricing Matters - Business - The Atlantic

Carbon emissions have a cost, but carbon emitters don't pay the price. Economists call this a "market failure." You can call it, "a recipe for toasting the planet."
...an appropriate carbon price can achieve two goals. First, we nudge the private economy toward green tech in anticipation of rabid worldwide demand for clean energy in the next century. Second, government can use any profits from carbon prices to pay down the deficit and even reduce other taxes on Americans.

[Revkin continues to promote CO2 hysteria] - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

A reminder of the less glaring, but still momentous, changes that are under way in the seas is provided by a new paper in the journal Science, by researchers at the University of Queensland and University of North Carolina. The authors survey the oceanic impacts of rising greenhouse-gas concentrations and reinforce what has become ever clearer in recent years: The ongoing buildup of carbon dioxide, both by warming the planet and changing ocean chemistry, is having large impacts on marine life and ocean dynamics, with substantial repercussions for human food supplies and health.

Newfoundland - Frost wrecks strawberry crop

An overnight frost crunched the petals of a Newfoundland farmer's strawberry plants, robbing him of acres of crop he says is worth thousands of dollars.

Gerard Beautieu said 80 to 90 per cent of his strawberries at their flowering peak died when temperatures plunged below freezing Wednesday night in Reidville, on Newfoundland's west coast.

Rep. Inglis works to save his job ahead of runoff - The Hill's Ballot Box

Inglis represents one of the most conservative districts in the country. But he angered his constituents by voting for the Wall Street bailout and with the Democrats on a resolution condemning the Iraq war surge. He's also expressed concern about global warming, which prompted one of his previous opponents to dub him the "Al Gore of the Republican Party."

You’ve Got to Be Kidding, Mr. President | RedState

This president is going to try to use the lame-duck session to achieve his agenda–transformation of America into a big government juggernaut, in charge of every aspect of our lives. Passage of the cap-and-trade bill will be a blight and burden on this country. Instead of seeing economic recovery, we will sink into the morass that is Europe. Extreme green energy and climate change agendas can bankrupt nations. America does not want to go down this road; this a freight train that must be stopped.

Post Carbon: Will Obama meeting next week break climate bill logjam? - Juliet Eilperin

For energy and climate bill watchers, one upcoming session that might provide some insight into the legislation's future will be Wednesday's meeting with President Obama.

Among the expected attendees, according to a White House official who asked not to be identified, are Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), and John Kerry (D-Mass.).

Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Continue their Plunge

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2010/06/global-average-sea-surface-temperatures-continue-their-plunge/

At this pace of cooling, I suspect that the second half of 2010 could ruin the chances of getting a record high global temperature for this year. Oh, darn.

Tom Toles - Take your time

Well, the Gulf of Mexico is a pretty enormous bucket, and that little billowing brown cloud of oil is having PLENTY of impact. How long has it been? Weeks? Now how long have we been dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? And what would our plan be on capping THAT, again? How about if we let that gulf leak run for, say, a CENTURY or so? How would that be for you? Might that be a BAD thing? Oh, how "arrogant"!

Spill no justification for cap-and-trade scheme | oil, government, spill - Opinion - The Orange County Register

Firms participating in a worldwide carbon scheme already abuse it by artificially inflating their greenhouse gas emissions, which allows rich nations to boost emissions, Reuters reports. For example, chemical plants maximize production of a potent gas because of a financial incentive – getting paid via the offset scheme to destroy the same gas.

The U.S. needs cap and trade like it needs another oil spill.

CNSNews.com - Obama 'Green Energy Jobs’ Model--Communist China--Saw 5,983 Coal Miners Die in One Year, According to Greenpeace

In its October 2008 report, “The True Cost of Coal,” Greenpeace said: “China is the largest producer and consumer of coal. Production last year grew by 8.2 per cent to 2,520 megatons and coal sales grew 7.9 per cent to 2,580 megatons. Coal accounts for 70 per cent of primary energy consumption in China, a proportion 42 per cent higher than the world average.”

No Frakking Consensus: Scientists & Science Journalists - Please Grow Up

Never mind that geologists tell us polar ice has been present for less than 20 percent of Earth's history and that we live on a dynamic, ever-changing planet. Ice sheets and glaciers expand and contract. They've been behaving this way for millions of years. One could say it's what they do.

So why do so many scientists and science journalists - the very people who should know better - reject the dispassionate, sober perspective? Why do they remind us of emotionally volatile teenagers?

Wonk Room » Senate Democrats Doubt Obama Can Find Votes For Climate [Hoax]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): “I’d support it, but I don’t see 60 votes for it.” [Politico, 6/17/10]

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO): “I don’t see 60 votes for a price on carbon right now.” [E&E News, 6/18/10]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): “For a variety of reasons, with virtually no Republicans supporting us, it would mean that every Democrat has to step up to the plate. Do I think we have 60 votes to come up with strong global warming legislation? No. I think that’s a tragedy, but that’s the way it is.” [E&E News, 6/18/10]

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE): “There’s a better chance of having 60 votes with a straight energy bill.” [E&E News, 6/18/10]

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV): “What’s the point of doing anything without 60 votes?” [The Hill, 6/10/10]

Star positions matter « Calder's Updates

Why star positions matter for climate physics

But What About Positive Feedbacks? | Climate Skeptic

I found the trick. Apparently the model gets a 50% reduction in greenhouse gasses in the US with a trivial (e.g. 25-cent per gallon of gas, 3-cent per kwh of electricity) affect on prices....Wow, that must be a really high sensitivity of output to prices. Where have we heard issues about overly high sensitivity assumptions in computer models before?

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Now They Tell Us

...And everyone on the Left is credulously lining up to say that this sounds about right to them. Well, now you tell us. And if this is true, why have you been hammering on the oil companies for 40 years if oil price increases are virtually irrelevant to the economy.

Look, the is is utter BS. I have a wild optimism about the power of free minds to innovate and handle about anything if they are allowed, but even so there is no way that an energy price increase (or artificial shortage, take you pick of mechanisms) large enough to cut output by 50% in 20 years will have a negligible impact on the economy. No way.

The Coal Age Continues - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

It’s hard to see anything shifting these coal trends unless and until other energy choices become as cheap and convenient, or countries are kicked so hard by climate disruption that they realize the value of a global push to limit the human contribution to warming exceeds the economic value of abundant fossil energy.

Cuccinelli: Request for UVA climate docs does not affect academic freedom

In court documents filed this week, Cuccinelli argues that his demand for documents from Mann should be granted because it does not affect academic freedom, and the First Amendment is not a shield against fraud investigations.

The green hard-sell

PROFESSOR Hugh Possingham's idea is simple - it is called the endangered species lottery. First the federal government creams off $20 million from taxes on gambling revenue as a prize. Then the names of Australian endangered species are written on balls and put in a barrel.

On Melbourne Cup day the federal environment minister draws a ball from the barrel live on television just before the big race. Landholders who have populations of the winning species on their property are given a slice of the $20 million pie, with more money apportioned for larger populations.

World Cup Diary June 18: Freakish cold and freakish coincidences

I'd expected the temperature outside to be cold; what I hadn't anticipated was that it would be freezing inside as well. Apparently there's no Afrikaner word for insulation. Or central heating. I spent most of yesterday sitting six inches from the one small heater in the place, wearing T-shirt, shirt, two jumpers and a coat, wrapped in a blanket, with my laptop on my knees as much for warmth as because I had work to do. The locals insist this is an unusual cold snap.

Ghana are based about half an hour's drive away, near Sun City, and their training had to be postponed yesterday morning because of a frozen pitch. A couple of members from the New Zealand backroom staff were heard complaining that their early morning round of golf had been ruined by frost on the tees and greens. This isn't just a non-summer World Cup; this is a really, really cold World Cup.

Matt Ridley's Rational Optimist is telling the rich what they want to hear | George Monbiot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

When someone explains an inconvenient truth about politics that the business elite reviles, it is immediately taken up and echoed in hundreds of blogs and articles. When, as I have found many times before, you explain an inconvenient truth about neoliberal or anti-environmental ideas, it is met with silence. The media simply looks the other way. There is a massive rightwing echo chamber. Nothing comparable exists on the left.

Senate Democrats Getting More Pessimistic on Cap and Trade in Energy Bill - NYTimes.com

Senate Democrats may have emerged from their much-hyped caucus meeting without a clear plan for this summer's energy bill, but they appeared to agree on one point: Cap and trade doesn't have the votes.

Flashback - Obama: I intend to find the votes on climate 'in the coming months' - The Hill's E2-Wire

[June 2, 2010] “The votes may not be there right now, but I intend to find them in the coming months. I will make the case for a clean energy future wherever I can, and I will work with anyone from either party to get this done,” Obama plans to say in speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania Wednesday afternoon.

Andrew Klavan video: Leaving Al Gore « Public Secrets

Andrew Klavan, noting that the mainstream media nobly refuses to engage in baseless and sensationalistic speculations about the breakup of Al and Tipper Gore’s marriage*, bravely steps into the breach

Government Efficiency As Explained by the Changing of a Lightbulb » All American Blogger - Stopping America's March Across the Bridge to Dependence

Finally, the newly created Department of Lighting, Illumination and Office Security dispatches a crew of union contractors (all of them undocumented workers from Mexico) to replace the bulb. As mandated by federal law, the six man crew is guaranteed a minimum six hours of pay at $43 per hour each.

The bulb costs $15,000 and is powered by a combination of wind power and renewable ethanol.

Two weeks later the new bulb burns out.

Guess who holds patent for carbon trading plan

Disgraced Fannie Mae CEO set to cash in for millions

[More ridiculous propaganda]: Australian-US study finds oceans 'choking' on greenhouse gases

The ten-year study found warmer oceans and an increase in carbon dioxide is directly impacting marine ecosystems from polar bears to coral reefs.

The lead Australian author, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg says the changing conditions have the potential to impact millions of people around the world who rely on oceans as a food source.

"So these things are adding up to a rather frigthening picture where if we continuie along the pathway that we are continuing today, the ocean will be a very dfferent place with very different characterists and a lot less able to support humans."

Gumbo Limbo releases last 'cold-stunned' sea turtle

Thousands of sea turtles perished in South Florida and across the southern United States in January when an atypically frigid winter sent many of the cold-blooded sea turtles into a prolonged, temperature-induced stupor.

The New Republic: Time For House Democrats To Act : NPR

Democrats must face the fact that much of the legislation that seems both necessary and proper to them looks quite different to the portion of the electorate that holds the balance of political power. And they must face a choice as well — between (to be blunt) the politics of conviction and the politics of self-preservation. They can continue on as they have been going since January 2009, or they can adopt a concerted strategy designed to take the edge off public anger and reduce their losses. They can spend the summer arguing about matters like immigration, climate change, and the war in Afghanistan, all of which are valid and important but way down on the public's list of the most urgent problems — or they can refocus on jobs and the economy, reinforcing the "Recovery Summer" theme the White House unveiled on Thursday.

Leading experts rapidly endorsing ‘Climate Scientists’ Register’

Ottawa, Canada, June 18, 2010—The Climate Scientists’ Register, started one month ago by International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), has just passed its first 100 expert endorsers—see climatescienceinternational.org . By allowing their names to be added to the signatory list, these scientists are endorsing the following physical science statement:

“We, the undersigned, having assessed the relevant scientific evidence, do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming.”...

Welsh Most Concerned In The Race Against Climate Change

30% of respondents in Wales state that they are very concerned about climate change, compared to the West Midlands where that figure falls to just 12%. However it's in London where people are most actively working towards a greener lifestyle – 85% of Londoners surveyed have already made changes to their lifestyle, compared to the East Midlands where 11% of people haven’t made any changes to their habits and don’t believe they need to.

'Sheep's Chill' weather pattern to create dreary weekend - The Local

The name “Sheep’s Chill” comes from the fact that sheep have usually already been shorn by June, making the cold weather a threat to their health.

Rain, cold mean late melon season for Hungary

Heavy rain and unseasonably cold temperatures in May have pushed Hungary's melon season back about three weeks compared to last year, Hungarian Melon Association head György Simonka said when asked by MTI on Friday.

$7-a-gallon gas? - NYPOST.com

President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.

That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon price of the president's global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess.

So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill?

Flashback: Energy Sec. now admits he was 'Silly' to call for $8 per gallon gas in U.S. | Climate Depot

Key Excerpt: REP. STEARNS: No. But somehow, your statement, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the ($8 a gallon) levels in Europe,” doesn't that sound a little bit silly in retrospect for you to say that?
SEC. STEVEN CHU: Yes.

Agrimoney.com | Cold winter lifts EU orange imports, and prices

Prices of oranges in Spain have jumped by 30% thanks to a production slump caused by a harsh winter, and which is set to cause a rise in European Union imports.

Rain, cold stretching spring out - Spokesman.com - June 18, 2010

The weather record book confirms what everyone with a rain jacket or umbrella already knows: late spring in the Inland Northwest has been unusually wet and cool.
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High temperatures since May 1 have been the third coolest on record.
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Thursday’s temperatures were on track for breaking the day’s record-low maximum of 52.

This comes after two records for lows fell in May, including the second-latest frost ever, on May 24.

» John Christy: IPCC authors are gatekeepers - Climategate.nl

In February of this year, Nature magazine asked me for a brief discussion about the IPCC and a way forward (Appendix D, last page). My main concern there was to define a process that would let the world know that our ignorance of much of the climate system is simply enormous and we have much to do. Mother Nature has a tremendous number of degrees of freedom up her sleeves, many of which we don’t even know about or account for.

So, I suggested a living, carefully-managed, wikipedia-style process. Important questions, most of which are already laid out in the IPCC manifest, would be addressed by teams of Lead Authors who would be far less constrained by the word-count rules, and so would allow fuller expression of uncertainty and disagreement – expressions contributed by the specific people who perform whatever research is being discussed. The Lead Authors main task would be to organize and summarize the information on each question, acting strictly as Brokers, not Gatekeepers.

With web-based links to actual text (and data) the Lead Authors would be far less tempted to be biased. Lead Authors need to know they do not have to agree with the findings they report. I believe such transparency would spur the Lead Authors to be fairer and more humble in their summary comments.

A reply to some Warmist rubbish

The George C. Marshall Institute has published a reply to the book, "Merchants of Doubt", which is just another vehicle for the usual "ad hominem" accusations from Warmists. Such accusations are of no scholarly or scientific worth but non-scholars sometimes are influenced by them so some reply is needed. Below is a summary of the full reply which the Institute has circulated by email.

The Reference Frame: Antarctica 4 °C warmer 130,000 years ago

Unless you are a young Earth creationist, it should be obvious to you that the paper shows that comments that 4 °C or even 2 °C of warming would be threatening for life don't seem compatible with the reconstructions of the climate. Pretty much all important organisms were the same 130,000 years ago as what they are today.

Climate change threatens food supply of 60 million people in Asia

The size and discharge of Himalayan glaciers are experiencing significant decline due to climate change. "However, observed glacial decline varies greatly from region to region, and there is a high degree of uncertainty regarding the speed of decline," says Marc Bierkens, hydrology professor at Utrecht University. "However, the trends identified in the river discharge forecast do not take this uncertainty into account." The researchers based their results on a combination of hydrologic models, climate forecasts from five different climate scenarios, and satellite images depicting snow and ice, rainfall, and changes in the Earth's gravitational field.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » ABC Catalyst TV show warped view of SW West Australian rainfall

Quote from Catalyst: Mark Horstman
“Since the 1970s, the south-western corner of Western Australia has suffered a dramatic decline in their winter rainfall, so rapid and so extreme that it’s like, somewhere, a giant tap is being turned off.”
What utter exaggerated twaddle.
Once again the Australian media spins normal climate variations as something caused by IPCC climate change.

Opinion: Fannie and Freddie delinquent on climate change [swindle] and clean energy - San Jose Mercury News

Mortgage insurers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have thrown a wrench into one of the most promising programs to finance climate change solutions and promote clean energy. The program, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), helps homeowners pay for the upfront costs of environmentally friendly upgrades, from energy efficiency retrofits to solar panels.

Global warming threatens whales: reports

A record number of whales is expected to be spotted passing Sydney this winter, but scientists warn that global warming could put their future at risk.

Sunny Spain suspends solar subsidy scam • The Register

Dead broke Spain can't afford to prop up renewables anymore. The Spanish government is cutting the numbers of hours in a day it's prepared to pay for "clean" energy.

Estimates put the investment in solar energy in Spain at €18bn - but the investment was predicated, as it is with all flakey renewables, on taxpayer subsidies. With the country's finances in ruins, making sacrifices for the Earth Goddess Gaia is an option Spain can no longer afford. Incredibly, Spain pays more in subsidies for renewables than the total cost of energy production for the country. It leaves industry with bills 17 per cent higher than the EU average.

Bill Gates: Energy Visionary? (energy Manhattan project, yet again) — MasterResource

Subsidies? The U.S. Energy Information Administration defines them and finds that in 2007 coal got $932 million and gas and petroleum liquids got $2.1 billion. Even if your Congressman votes to kill them totally, that’s still only $3 billion. But before even hoping for any of this recall that your Congressman is the person who put the subsidies in place. Since $3 billion is rock bottom in Bill’s wish book, we are probably talking taxes or bonds for the rest.
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Got it? A group of executives who have helped destroy billions of shareholder wealth (even relative to the market decline) have decided they know how to save America and the world. Oh, and it has to be done with your money rather than theirs. Note that the AEIC contains no one remotely related to the production of real energy, not even some exhibitionist CEO of a regulated utility wailing his concern for the planet as long as his carbon allowances come for free.

Exxon's 2007 Tax Bill: $30 Billion -- Seeking Alpha

Conclusion: In other words, just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people!

Plus we'll all probably get a free pony, and we can sell each other the rides for $200 a day!!

Fixing Global Warming For 40 Cents a Day | Mother Jones

...[Obama] very deliberately didn't mention climate change, didn't mention cap-and-trade, and didn't mention carbon pricing even in passing. He just punted.

Would talking about a carbon policy have made any immediate difference? Probably not. The politics of the energy bill currently in Congress look pretty dismal right now, and no amount of presidential oratory is likely to change that. Still, changing public opinion takes time and repetition, and when you have a big audience primed to hear about energy policy, it's foolish to let the chance pass without even giving it a mention.

- Bishop Hill blog - Sea-ice modellers open up?

An article in Wired magazine recounts how sea-ice modellers are sharing data and methods and are learning from each other in the process. It's not obvious whether the sea-ice community have actually made their data and code open to the world or whether this is just a case of sharing within the community, but it's a step forwards at least.

It's also nice to see Mark Serreze apologising for his role in stirring up scare stories in 2007:

"In hindsight, probably too much was read into 2007, and I would take some blame for that,” Serreze said. “There were so many of us that were astounded by what happened, and maybe we read too much into it.”

If climatologists are now going to eschew scaremongering then that is certainly welcome.

Flashback: Scientists: 'Arctic Is Screaming,' Global Warming May Have Passed Tipping Point

"The Arctic is screaming," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo.

Flashback: New NSIDC director Serreze explains the “death spiral” of Arctic ice, brushes off the “breathtaking ignorance” of blogs like WattsUpWithThat « Climate Progress

Serreze: I have yet to lose any sleep over what is talked about in WattsUpWithThat or any other similar blog that insists on arguing from a viewpoint of breathtaking ignorance.

Is China Winning the Energy Race? - Business - The Atlantic

Well they don't exactly have a national carbon pricing policy yet, but they are actively exploring it.

Pajamas Media » Dept. of Energy’s Cathy Zoi: Still Flouting the Law, Still Stonewalling the Investigation (PJM Exclusive)

Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Cathy Zoi, ex-CEO of Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, maintains major investments in "green" companies that benefit directly from her decisions.

Are butterflies the silent harbingers of global warming? | Meet the "minds" behind all that climate change [scam] data | Grist

"The latest research shows clearly that we face the threat of mass extinctions in coming years," [Camille] Parmesan says. "My hope is that we will be able to reduce [greenhouse gas] emissions enough so that assisted colonization efforts can be successful, because at the higher ranges of scientists' projections of warming trends, frankly, we're sunk."

Kerry, Lieberman tap corporate execs to push their climate [fraud] bill - TheHill.com

Nearly 20 senators attended the meeting with the CEOs of General Electric, Dow Corning and Honeywell International.

Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.) was the only Republican to attend the meeting.

Democrats lack consensus on climate bill - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada dedicated an hourlong session to a “full, frank discussion” of three competing proposals for overhauling the nation’s energy policies and trimming greenhouse gas emissions. But senators spoke for so long that they had to bump back a more detailed question-and-answer session for another meeting that’s tentatively scheduled for next week.

Why Energy Security Might Not Be a Good Idea - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Right now Canada is the biggest exporter of oil to the U.S. From an energy security perspective, that seems pretty good—I don't think anyone's worried about Canadian oil money going to terrorists or hostile Canadian government cutting off exports for political reasons.

NunatsiaqOnline 2010-06-17: NEWS: Polar bear scientists unhappy with Nunavut reversal

Dan Shewchuk, Nunavut’s environment minister, announced May 28 that Nunavut will no longer Enviroment Canada’s attempt to list polar bears as threatened.

“We live in polar bear country.”We understand the polar bears, and we do actually think our polar bear population is very very healthy, with the exception of a couple of populations that we are taking action on,” he said.

Global warming book withdrawn - Omaha.com

Millard Public Schools will stop using a children's book about global warming -- but only until the district can obtain copies with a factual error corrected.

A review committee, convened after parents complained, concluded that author Laurie David's book, "The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming," contained "a major factual error" in a graphic about rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels.

US Senate leader noncommittal on carbon price bill 05:55 Hours ago

WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday emerged from a meeting with fellow Democrats refusing to embrace energy and environment legislation that would put a price on carbon dioxide pollution as a way of reducing greenhouse gases.

British-Run Climate [Hoax] Projects Take Root in Chinese Schools - NYTimes.com

...Chinese colleges were ordered in February to sever all ties with Oxfam, which was accused by the education ministry of having a hidden political agenda.
...the British Council has been operating its "Climate Cool, Green Your School" teacher training program for three years now.

Collection of Late-Night Jokes About Global Warming from Warmal Globing

[undated] “According to a survey in this week’s Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House.” –Jay Leno

Hot Times in Antarctica - Ecocentric - TIME.com

The world's polar regions are warming up faster than the global average, but the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula is especially steamy.

Gas power stations 'should have carbon [dioxide] capture' | Environment | The Guardian

There was a much warmer welcome from John Sauven, executive director of the vociferous anti-coal campaign group Greenpeace: "In the last decade it was coal that posed the great threat to our CO2 emissions targets. In the coming years it will be gas that drops into the cross-hairs of campaigners and politicians determined to fight climate change. New gas-fired power stations should only be built if they, like coal, can be zero-carbon by 2030."

Corn Corps: KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER

...the entire Top Ten enemies of ethanol according to Tom Waterman.

#10: Business Week/Ed Wallace (Bloomberg)
#9: GRIST
#8: “Big Oil”
#7: Grocery Manufacturers Association
#6: David Pimentel
#5: Robert Rapier
#4: Tim Searchinger
#3: Wall Street Journal (editorial board)
#2: California Air Resources Board
#1: Time Magazine (Michael Grunwald)

Bryce’s Must-Read Book on Energy - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Robert Bryce is an energy realist. So reading him is refreshing. First, because most people when discussing matters of energy are either ill- or misinformed, naive, liars, or have a personal stake in the policy outcomes. Second, because everytime I read something by Bryce, I learn something new — and I usually learn a new, persuasive, way to make points that I’ve tried to make previously.

Column - The boring end of the world | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

WE humans are about to be wiped out in a few decades. The grandchildren of many of us will not live to old age.

Hear it from Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University and the man who helped eradicate smallpox.

“Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years,” he told The Australian this week.

“It’s an irreversible situation.” Blame global warming.

First 4,400 Volt buyers to get "free" chargers | Green Tech - CNET News

The 240-volt charging stations will be free to Volt buyers; the cost will be covered by a grant from the Department of Energy under the Transportation Electrification Initiative funds inside the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Amazon.com: With Speed and Violence: Why [Junk] Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change…

Even President Bush's chief climate modeler notes that the glaciers and ice sheets at the poles are disintegrating at alarming rates and warns that we may be only a decade and one degree of warming away from global catastrophe. The science behind climate studies is complex, but [Fred] Pearce makes it accessible enough to terrify even the most uninitiated layperson.

We're doomed: Because CO2 is allegedly forcing polar bears to eat Svalbard barnacle goose eggs, that population has only grown from 300 to 30,000

Polar bears threatening geese as diet ravaged by climate shift - Scotsman.com News

Researchers, who have photographed bears in the nests and found evidence of "egg raids", say more polar bears are gathering around Spitsbergen and preying on the eggs because a reduction in Arctic ice is making it harder for them to hunt seals.
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The bears could threaten the fortunes of the Svalbard barnacle geese population; there were just 300 birds in the 1940s, but now up to 30,000 visit Scotland each winter. The turnaround was the result of a ban on hunting, work on monitoring and the provision of a safe habitat for the geese at Caerlaverock, the WWT said.

Senate Democrats struggle with climate change legislation - CNN.com

"Do we have 60 votes to come up with strong global warming legislation? No. I think that's a tragedy," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont. "And why they are rejecting the scientific views of virtually the entire world's community and playing politics with this when the future of the planet is at stake, I just don't understand."

Senate liberals threaten rebellion on energy bill - TheHill.com

“It’s hard to imagine that I would support it,” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), after Democrats met Thursday to discuss energy legislation.
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Lautenberg argued that China has become a major exporter of solar panels and there is not sufficient incentive for American industry to invest heavily in their production.

Here come the carbon monkeys | Keith Orchison | Commentary | Business Spectator

...How else to react to the survey by research agency Colmar Brunton showing that the majority of 3,500 Queenslanders polled “are more interested in their own comfort, entertainment and lifestyle” than environmental issues?

According to the survey, 98 per cent of respondents say climate change and environmental affects “are not a primary motivator to change energy use”.

Professor: Only Global Governance Can Save Us From A Century Of Chaos | Before It's News

A major event that takes place in 2014 will plunge the world into a crisis that will characterize the rest of the century, according to Cambridge professor Nicholas Boyle, and only the introduction of global governance can save humanity from an era of poverty and violence.

Rockefeller: Abandon climate legislation for now - The Hill's E2-Wire

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/104005-rockefeller-abandon-far-reaching-climate-plans-for-now

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) on Thursday said the Senate should abandon efforts – at least for now – to pass a sweeping climate change bill and also urged adoption of his plan that would block some EPA greenhouse gas regulations for two years.

Climate change legislation teetering after setbacks from Oval Office and Congress - TheHill.com

Climate change legislation appears dead after two setbacks in quick succession — first from the Oval Office and then from Congress.

Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.), a crucial Republican swing vote, met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday and told him he would not support a cap-and-trade plan or carbon fee to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

The Magic of Persistence

Some people think that the global warming scam is finished, that the Ration-N-Tax Scheme is dead, and that there is no further threat to our jobs, our economy and our energy supplies. Unfortunately there is no reason to relax. Public opinion has changed but the politicians have not.

Freeze Warning Issued for Snake River Valley - KPVI News 6

The National Weather Service in Pocatello has issued a Freeze Warning for early Friday morning.
...Temperatures between 30 and 36 degrees are forcecast for much of the Snake River Valley. Sensitive plants could be damaged or killed as a result.

[Maybe the reason is that mean old people hate their grandchildren?]: On Green Issues, Generation Gap Is Wide - Congressional Connection Poll

On almost every major question examined in the latest weekly Society for Human Resource Management/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, young people lean much more heavily than older adults toward green-tilting positions favored by environmentalists and President Obama.

Dems Remain Skeptical on Climate Bill | Before It's News

The Hill reports, “[O]ther lawmakers said a nationwide cap on emissions is now substantially less likely. ‘It’s going to be difficult,’ said Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.).” Further, The Hill notes, “A senior Democratic senator said Obama knows the chances of passing climate change legislation are slim and wants to avoid a public failure.”

And Roll Call points out skeptical comments from Sens. Mark Pryor (D-AR) and Ben Nelson (D-NE): “‘I don’t think it moved the discussion that much,’ said Sen. Mark Pryor, who predicted the administration will quickly back off the idea of a comprehensive climate bill. ‘At the end of the day, my guess is they won’t push it that hard,’ the Arkansas Democrat said. ‘I think the president wants it. … I just don’t think there’s 60 votes to do that, even with the oil spill.’ . . . ‘His call to action may not have been about any specific piece of legislation. … I accepted it more in the spirit of, “We have to do something,”’ said Nelson, who called anything resembling cap-and-trade, which he opposes, ‘implausible’ in the current political environment.”

Democrats weren’t very enthusiastic about the prospects of cap-and-trade yesterday, either. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) told Bloomberg News, “There’s not a great call for it in the Democratic caucus . . . .” And Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said, sensibly, “The climate bill isn’t going to stop the oil leak. . . . The first thing you have to do is stop the oil leak.”

Video: An Energy-Independent Future | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

The last eight presidents have gone on television and promised to move America towards an energy-independent future.

Experts Warn Climate Change Is Beginning to Disrupt Agriculture: Scientific American

With the added environmental stresses of climate change, prices of staple crops could double

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Single gulf gusher = volume of spills every year or 2 in Nigeria: http://nyti.ms/9pxd1A #oilspill

Pachauri: we need deniers « JoNova

How are the politically-correct science-corrupting spinners with spent ambitions for world-government going to back flip or segue out of this, and will they ever be held responsible for a scam that wasted billions?

Update on the Role of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in Global Warming « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

This source of uncertainty — and bias — regarding the magnitude of future anthropogenic global warming (arghh! I mean climate change) is something that most climate scientists (let alone policymakers) do not yet understand.

Boulder's National Center for Atmospheric Research about to get shiny new [coal-powered?] supercomputers - Denver News

Although NCAR's headquarters will stay in Boulder, that site had run out of room, so the new center is in Cheyenne [Wyoming]. "These systems, as they've gotten more and more powerful, they require a lot of energy to run and keep cool," explains Krista Laursen, NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center project manager. "We were really at the point where the infrastructure at the Mesa site was maxed out." And because the Mesa lab is in an "environmentally sensitive" area, NCAR was simply not able to get enough power to meet its needs without new construction. The existing infrastructure at the Mesa lab will still be used, she says -- just for different purposes.
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In most supercomputing centers, that heat would get whisked away essentially by giant air-conditioners; in Wyoming, NCAR plans to use Wyoming's wind and cold to do the air-conditioning job. The center will also capture the heat generated by the computers to warm user-occupied areas.

Wyoming and coal - SourceWatch

Coal-fired power plants produce almost 95% of the electricity generated in Wyoming. The state's average retail price of electricity is 5.27 cents per kilowatt hour, the 2nd lowest rate in the nation

Obama Attempt to Push Climate Bill with Oil Spill Outrage Appears to Fail | Oil Price.com

Even those supportive of climate legislation saw little connection between the oil spill crisis and emission controls.

“It’s unrelated,” said Sen. Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska, in remarks reported by Bloomberg. “Obviously the emissions that we are talking about are primarily coal-fired electricity generation from Nebraska. That doesn’t have much to do with the Gulf.”

small dead animals: Global Warming Droughts

... on the Canadian prairies, have intesified ... right on schedule:

The wettest spring on record is getting wetter.

[We're saved!]: EPA Awards Half a Million Dollars to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Pollution in New York

During each of the next three years, the planning board will select three communities within Central New York to participate in its project, called the Central New York Climate Change Innovation program. The winning local communities will receive sub-grants from the Central New York Planning and Development Board to develop plans to retrofit vehicles, buildings and other equipment to make them energy efficient; introduce alternative-fuel vehicles and fueling systems; reduce the miles their fleets travel; and conduct feasibility studies for renewable energy projects.

Poll: Obama remains popular abroad - UPI.com

European countries also gave Obama high marks on handling two issues of importance to Europe -- climate change and the economic crisis.

Record cool temperature logged at Spokane airport - Spokesman.com - June 17, 2010

Wednesday’s high of 52 degrees at Spokane International Airport was the coldest June 16 on record since 1881, breaking the old mark of 54 set in 1949.