Adults in the grip of environmental alarmism have a lot to answer for. Whether intentionally or not -- and I suspect in many cases it's deliberate -- they've made a point of filling young lives with the threat of looming eco-catastrophe.[Eco-heroes jet to South Africa in order to watch people kick a ball?]
Innumerable children's books now sell a terrifying future to children as young as 4.
No wonder a star-studded crowd was on hand at Green Point Stadium, with German chancellor Angela Merkel, Mick Jagger, Leonardo DiCaprio and South Africa's own Charlize Theron were all spotted in the VIP seats.Flashback: German Chancellor Merkel urges U.S. to act on climate change - washingtonpost.com
Speaking at a joint meeting of Congress, Merkel described climate change as one of the "great tests" of the 21st century. She took pains to compliment lawmakers and the administration for viewing "the protection of our climate to be a very important task," even as she suggested that they move faster.Flashback - DiCaprio to Produce Documentary on Global Warming
"We all know we have no time to lose," she said.
"Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity," DiCaprio said in a statement.
...Where does this leave Oreskes? Looking a bit silly, and a bit shoddy too I think. Whilst the "Ivory Tower" paper was valid, and decent work, the "Chicken Itza" paper seems to have been written around pre-arranged conclusions, or perhaps even around its absurd title. As NN writes on his blog I was quite shocked to discover that much of the material [in Oreskes] had been paraphrased in ways that changed the meaning, or which misrepresented the original document. I can only assume that the authors didn't think anyone would get access to the original material. Still, on the plus side, it is unlikely that anyone outside the incestuous field of climate history scholarship will notice or care.Flashback: Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor - FP Comment
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.
Al Gore, the hypocritical, sanctimonious, global warming hoax-peddling inventor of the Internet might be in all sort of trouble, including the legal kind following accusations that he tried to release his second chakra with a masseuse. The scandal has already cost Al his place at America’s social gathering of the year.NC Media Watch: Red Ink and Green Jobs
If you’re playing catch-up on the story, fear not, everything you need to know about the littlest prophet and the masseuse is here.
Ronald Bailey writes in the July issue of Reason magazine.Citizens of the Golden State get nervous about carbon rationing plans made in flusher times.
When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law mandating a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gases, California’s economy was in a very different place.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina appeared on a national cable news show Wednesday asserting that California’s law to fight global warming is killing jobs, but a review shows its economic effects remain uncertain.Lily Allen on her plight to help the world's rainforests: I'm a celebrity and I want to save the planet | Mail Online
In an interview on CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Fiorina said she is trying to unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in part because of the lawmaker’s push for federal greenhouse gas legislation inspired by California’s 2006 climate law, called the Global Warming Solutions Act but commonly referred to as AB32.
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“For Fiorina, it just shows me how out-of-touch she is and that she’s just playing dirty politics with dirty oil,” said Warren Smith, the Republican chief executive of Clean World Partners, a Sacramento-based startup that is developing a system to convert organic waste into clean energy.
‘The thing about green issues, like global warming, is that you can’t always see them,’ says Lily, explaining her support for the cause on our minibus journey into the forest. ‘I mean, it’s not pulling at your heartstrings like watching news pictures from Haiti, or Comic Relief…there are no starving babies that we can cry about, knowing that if we donate money they might get fed. But the crisis faced is just as huge, which is why I’ve come over here. To give it attention.’How many Carbon Taxes are Enough?
Firstly, coal companies pay the same federal profit-based corporate tax that every other company pays, at the same rate.
Secondly, every coal miner must pay “Coal Royalties” to state governments who own the mineral resources. Coal royalties are payable even if the mine makes a loss. All mining companies pay royalties.
Thirdly, if the current federal proposals become law, coal, iron and gas companies will pay an additional profit-based “resource rent tax” to the Federal Government.
Yet global warming alarmists are calling for still more carbon taxes.
Bottom Line: Environmental doc takes disaster-scenario predictions a bit too far.
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Nash deploys an impressive lineup of expert talking heads, including politicians (John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and even Newt Gingrich), scientists, aid workers and activists.
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The footage he gathers, however, is often surprisingly mundane, since the crew never seems to experience any catastrophic climate events. ...Despite the film's chorus of expert opinion, in the end the reality of climate-induced refugee migration still seems regrettably abstract.
Moral of the story: no one has ever been able to predict the future. Not even highly educated, highly regarded government advisors.Global warming's Michael Mann: Cleared of the charges that nobody made
I have been very critical of Michael Mann since even before the release of the Climategate emails. None of the investigations held so far have answered my criticisms, nor the more thoroughly documented versions of the same criticisms leveled by Steve McIntyre.Al Fin: Who Is Really Killing the Birds?
That's because none of the investigations so far have examined the actual science in question. The closest this recent investigation came was interrogating a few witnesses about data handling procedures.
We know that wind turbines kill more birds than BP. As more large wind turbines are built, the number of bird (and bat) kills will rise into the millions a year. Green mulch-for-brains faux environmentalists promote the building of huge numbers of giant bird-killing wind turbines, while clamouring for the shutdown of oil drilling, coal mining, and nuclear power plants.OregonLive : If you want the full answers, and the right ones, patience is required
Why don't they just come out and admit that they hate birds almost as much as they hate people? It seems as if the "great human dieoff" being promoted by faux environmentalists is not just for humans, after all. What other species do Greenpeace, Sierra Club, World Wildlife Federation and the rest of the poseurs have a planetary sized grudge against?
...Hagerty's accounts contain enough detail to make me suspect he was at least less than a complete gentlemanObama's deliberate Katrina | Energy & Environment
The 2010 oil spill is defined by yeoman's efforts by Gulf Coast governors - and an Obama administration response that is leagues beyond inept. It is proactively incompetent and obstructionist, as though it is determined not to let this crisis go to waste - but to prolong and intensify the environmental and economic calamity, to advance its political objectives: shutting down offshore leasing and drilling, bringing the US oil industry into the automotive-banking-housing-healthcare sphere of federal control, forcing a massive shift to costly renewable energy, and ramming cap-tax-and-trade through Congress.
The National Weather Service says the unofficial low at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was 56 degrees. That breaks the mark of 58 degrees, set in 1982.Parts of Wyoming still getting frost, but crops progressing
The northeastern corner of Weston County in Wyoming reported frost in the middle of June. They had temperatures reach as low as 29 degrees, yet Big Piney had the low temperature for the state at 25 degrees.[I blame JoNova]: Exclusive: Obama admin unable to resolve shutdown of PACE clean-energy program | Grist
Obama administration officials have failed to resolve a dispute with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that has shut down Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), according to an email obtained by Grist. The impasse will likely kill the promising clean-energy financing tool until Congress passes legislation addressing it, according to Cisco DeVries, who first created the PACE system three years ago.'I'm SO sorry! How will you ever be able to take me seriously again?' sobs remorse-stricken Monbiot – Telegraph Blogs
Department of Energy officials have been unable to convince the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates Fannie and Freddie, to end the corporations' prohibition on using PACE, DeVries told PACE advocates in an email Friday evening.
Moral victories like the one we Realists have just won here are vital – especially since the great AGW conflict has now reached its Battle of The Bulge stage, where the Warmists are striking back with a vicious counter-attack of lies, denial, rank-closing and whitewashes.
It's time to encourage a new generation of minutemen and -women to deploy solar, wind, and geothermal power, stamping this renewable revolution with the words "made in the USA."July 2008: - Global Warming Led to ‘Black Hawk Down,’ Congressman Says
On the Spot (CNSNews.com) – A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the “black hawk down” battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels.
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the drive for global warming legislation with the drive for women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The story of Al Gore’s alleged unwanted sexual advances toward a Portland, Ore., masseuse, which had been simmering since the National Enquirer first published the allegations last week, broke into the mainstream news cycle Friday after the Portland police announced they would reopen their investigation.[Here's an idea: Let's blow more on the climate hoax than we spend on education]: Bob Wigley says green funding 'can be much better spent' - Telegraph
Anderson Cooper did a segment on the story on CNN Thursday night. By Friday, it was all over network television newscasts, while while the Oregonian had a front-page mea culpa by the Portland police chief saying his department had mishandled the investigation when it first surfaced in 2006.
His report proposes the abolition of nine low-carbon quangos and the creation of a green investment bank to help promote financing for renewable energy projects.Washington state: Cool weather keeps this year’s cherry crop estimates lower than last
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But he says he's become passionate about what needs to be done to green up Britain, saying that the £50bn a year the nation needs to spend if it is to meet its carbon reduction targets is 25pc more than its annual education budget and 25pc more than the yearly NHS wage bill.
"The total estimated cost of meeting our current climate change carbon reduction targets is between £800bn and £1 trillion," he says. "There's really been nothing like this since the post-World War Two reconstruction programme."
WENATCHEE — Cool weather and a light set mean this year’s cherry crop isn’t likely to mirror last year’s record — and bank-breaking — crop.'Climategate', 'Amazongate': when will the truth be told? - Telegraph
In fact, early estimates of a 18 million-box crop have been readjusted to 13 million, according to Roger Pepperl, marketing director at Stemilt Growers.
Critical evidence from climate change sceptics continues to be ignored by the political and scientific establishments, says Christopher Booker
...The most obvious feature of the four official inquiries into the "Climategate" emails (a fifth report is due this week from Sir Muir Russell), is that not one has engaged with the central point at issue. This is the evidence from the emails and other documents confirming that the key IPCC scientists involved had been manipulating data to show temperatures having lately shot up to levels unknown in the past 1,000 years.
So you may see that the "temperature increase per CO2 increase" - a linearized version of climate sensitivity - was only overestimated by the factor of 13/1.8 = 7.2, i.e. by 620%, less than 1200% for the temperature increase itself.
And the sea level rise per temperature increase was only overestimated by a factor of 30.5/13 = 2.35 i.e. by 135%, well below 2950% of the sea level itself.
Veli Albert Kallio, described by the UK Independent as a “leading ice expert”, has informed me (see his comment here) that at the current melt rate all Arctic sea ice “would melt away by 8th August.”MUST LISTEN: Solar Scientists Say Sun Behaving Strangely: NPR Radio Interview with David Hathaway and Ira Flatow | Solar Cycle 25
The sun has cycles -- periods of high activity, when it has a lot of sunspots, and low activity, when things on the surface seem calm. NASA astronomer David Hathaway says activity is unusually low right now. A new solar observatory may shine light on the mystery.Snow. In July. In New Hampshire « Musings from the Chiefio
Not entirely unusual, but also not in alignment with an unusual warming…
The simple facts on the ground (cold white facts) are that the world is either:
a) Normal. Nothing out of the ordinary going on.
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b) Getting colder at a rather surprising rate.
The facts are not consistent with the notion of a warmest ever anything …
There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a September 1969 memo.
"This could increase the average temperature near the earth's surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit," he wrote. "This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter."
With carbon dioxide in the atmosphere approaching alarming levels, even halting emissions altogether may not be enough to avert catastrophic climate change.Vietnam | Climate change to be taught in schools, universities
In high schools, climate change issues will be taught as part of such subjects as geography, physics, chemistry, biology, and history, the experts said, suggesting the organisation of contests for pupils to enable them to gain more understanding on the issue.
At colleges and universities, students will be provided with climate change lessons so that they can join hands in coping with climate change impacts and protecting the environment, the experts noted.
Now, other tales are emerging. There are rumours of further extra-marital liaisons and wild parties at Gore's San Francisco bachelor pad, with bikini-clad girls cavorting in his hot-tub. His reputation has sunk so fast that some are, erroneously, reporting that he had an affair with film star Bo Derek, which has been strongly denied.
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But once it became clear he would never be president, he started to live an increasingly single life. It appears he had a mid-life crisis, buying a bachelor pad in San Francisco.
Gore paid £2.6 million for the apartment atop the grand St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco in 2006. There is a swimming pool, health spa and roof deck and even a butler available to bring room service meals.
One source told us: 'It's a swanky apartment with a hot tub on the terrace. There have been suggestions of wild parties with bikini-clad girls.'
Gore has been widely criticised for double standards: enjoying an opulent personal lifestyle while lecturing the public on green morality.
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'He started to change once Hollywood came calling. It was a totally different world. Al wants to be a rock star and hang out with Bono.'
While making An Inconvenient Truth, there were rumours on set that he was having an affair with eco-activist Laurie David, then married to the creator of the legendary sitcom 'Seinfeld', Larry David.
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Chris Downey has known Gore's wife since they were young senator's wives and says Tipper broke down when she heard of Hagerty's claims.
The political class has been grossly incompetent for decades. Each new generation of political leaders seems to be far worse. And the newest generation of the political elite occupying Washington embrace the perpetual strategy of wild misrepresentation and big lies on all the major policies, including global warming and energy.Egregious Polluting Agency « Green Hell Blog
Jon Stewart effectively nails Obama and his predecessors for the never ceasing bogosity and the ludicrous, laughable predictions of the political class at the federal level.
Ronald Reagan’s 10 most dangerous words were, “Hi, I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
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In 1982, the EPA infamously purchased and evacuated the town of Times Beach, Miss., amid the era’s unwarranted hysteria over dioxin. More than 2,000 people were involuntarily displaced from their homes, and the community was permanently bulldozed at a total cost of about $150 million.
The EPA is overseeing the “cleanup” of PCBs in Hudson River sediments – contaminants that had been safely entombed there for more than 30 years. As predicted by many, the cleanup stirred up PCBs last summer, causing water contamination at unsafe levels.
Pisano said the exhibit can be summarized in six words: continents move, climate changes, mammals evolve.
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The exhibit doesn’t just look back in time to tell the story of mammals. It ends with a mounted polar bear, an animal that is endangered by climate change and could become extinct.
“We end with a look at the future of mammals, and that’s something too that’s very new about the presentation of our collection,” Pisano said. “We’re not only looking at the past, we’re also looking to the future.”
We all love to see high fuel prices, right? Well, some of us might, but the majority of us would rather not pay through the roof for a gallon of gas. There's definitely a consensus that high gas prices are good for the environment in many ways, but few of us are willing to foot the bill to help out Mother Nature's cause.EU Referendum: Amazongate: the smoking gun
But what if you had no choice on the matter and the government imposed some sort of system to ensure that gas prices remain high forever? You'd probably buy a more fuel-efficient vehicle or something of the electric-powered variety, right? Well, that's exactly the thought process behind the suggestions put forth by the UK's Committee on Climate Change.
More than five months after the IPCC was accused of making assertions on the fate of the Amazon forest on the basis of a non-peer reviewed WWF report, it now appears that the original source of the IPPC's claim is a Brazilian educational website which was taken down in 2003...
Furthermore, it appears that this is the only source of the IPCC's claim that made up the basis of "Amazongate" – that the IPCC was, once again, using unsubstantiated material which exaggerated the threat. This website, therefore, is the "smoking gun", the latest evidence to suggest that the IPCC is breaking its own rules.
G20 leaders in Toronto tried to avoid the fate of colleagues felled by warming advocacyCDM Panel Calls for Investigation Over Carbon Market Scandal - PRNewswire - Wire - BradentonHerald.com
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Last week’s G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto and its environs confirmed that the world’s leaders accept the demise of global-warming alarmism.
One year ago, the G8 talked tough about cutting global temperatures by two degrees. In Toronto, they neutered that tough talk, replacing it with a nebulous commitment to do their best on climate change — and not to try to outdo each other. The global-warming commitments of the G20 — which now carries more clout than the G8 — went from nebulous to non-existent: The G20’s draft promise going into the meetings of investing in green technologies faded into a mere commitment to “a green economy and to sustainable global growth.”
These leaders’ collective decisions in Toronto reflect their individual experiences at home, and a desire to avoid the fate that met their true-believing colleagues, all of whom have been hurt by the economic and political consequences of their global-warming advocacy.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Certified Emissions Reduction Units (CERs) for the destruction of HFC-23 represent over 1/2 of the CDM credits issued to date. The CDM's HFC-23 projects pay 65-75 times more for HFC-23 destruction than the manufacturers pay. A revision request submitted by CDM Watch to the CDM Executive Board provides overwhelming evidence that manufacturers are gaming the CDM system and undermining carbon markets by producing potent greenhouse gases (GHGs) just so they can get paid to destroy them. The revision request called for an immediate overhaul in the rules governing the number of credits being issued and removal of the perverse financial incentives that currently exist.
It is a very short paper ( 3 pages, with graphs…) that purports to show the degree of movement to be expected in crop zones from the coming cold cycle. Interesting to note is that it is date stamped with December 2008. Some people are just a little quicker than others…Al's Journal : Oil Industry Fights Climate [Scam]
Ok, so David Archibald takes the crop hardiness zone map and shows where some folks have said it moved warm zones north based on degrees of heating, then compares it with expanded crop production during those years, allows some for better growing methods, and turns it around the other way. How much will be lost and how far will zones move if we head back to cold?
The answer is basically we in the USA lose about 19% of production (about what we export today) and the degree of zone movement depends on the latitude.
[Yet another false choice from Fraudster Al] Voters in California will be presented with a choice in November, oil companies or clean energy
Reporter Justin Gillis dismissed the accusations of deception and research fraud on the part of pro-global warming scientists (popularly known as Climategate) to be of “little substance” in his slanted Friday story “Penn State Panel Clears Scientist Over 'Climategate.'”Local author offsets her carbon emissions close to home - The Whidbey Examiner - Whidbey Island, Washington
Robin attempted to mitigate the effect that her travels had on the planet by conducting an “airplane fast” one year, but found it unsustainable. “If I were a purist, I wouldn’t fly,” she says. “But there are people I love that I’d never see again if I did that..."Alberta buys ad after Washington Post rejects oilsands pitch
EDMONTON — It turns out a letter from Alberta's premier defending Canada's oilsands didn't quite make the cut to appear in the Washington Post.Cake Singer John McCrea Melts Down at Global Warming Concert - San Francisco Music - All Shook Down
On Friday, a pro-oilsands message from Ed Stelmach was delivered to the high-profile newspaper's readers, but through a $58,000 half-page ad, instead of an opinion piece as originally intended.
Climate change is for real. The world as we know it is on its way out. As Cake singer John McCrea proselytized from his soapbox at ClimatePalooza: "There are two kinds of people. Those who work hard, and those who complain." Curiously, last night's headlining band was a mix of both. But before we get to that, check out One Atmosphere, the event organizers.
Environmental issues dominated the last portion of the questioning, with Feinstein asking about the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency and the ability of citizens to sue companies for contributing to pollution and global warming. Normally, citizens can only bring cases if they have been personally "injured," but environmental injury is a gray area.Nature Magazine Covers Video Controversy - Minnesotans For Global Warming
"Do you believe it's possible for citizens to demonstrate that environmental harms have injured them for constitutional purposes?" Feinstein asked.
"The answer is yes, much depending on what Congress does," Kagan replied.
We weren't quoted but they did include an image form our second video "Hide the Decline II". The thing that I found interesting from this article is now "Global Warming" Scientists seem to be more interested in the polls about what people believe than what the temperature is doing.The All-American Light Bulb Dims as Freedom Flickers - Deroy Murdock - National Review Online
Instead of graphs tracking global temperature these charts are tracking if people "believe" in Global Warming or not and what kind of support there is for carbon taxes.
The article says nothing about what the scientist were caught saying in their emails and if they were fraudulent or not, but rather about how to do damage control. They want to "humanize climate scientists" to regain the public's trust. Here's an idea stop lying to us
In one of his most shameful moments, former president George W. Bush foolishly signed the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. EISA establishes performance criteria that Edisonian bulbs cannot meet. As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) explains: “These standards, which begin in 2012, will eliminate low efficiency incandescent light bulbs from the market.”The trouble with Al | Jeff Fecke, Blog Of The Moderate Left
having read the complaint, I have to say that my gut tells me that it's more likely Gore is guilty of sexual assault than not guilty. He may not be convicted. Indeed, he likely won't be charged. But my gut tells me that Al Gore did something illegal and immoral in a Portland hotel room in 2006, and that is something that should not be taken lightly, and should not be minimized.Sorting Out Climate ‘Camps’ - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
Humans are rarely all evil or all good. Al Gore's actions in Portland in 2006 don't eliminate the good he's done on global warming. But the good he's done on global warming doesn't eliminate his actions in Portland in 2006. I will never look at Al Gore the same way again. And if his actions lead to civil or criminal penalties against him, he has nobody to blame but himself.
While I now write for the opinion section of The New York Times, I readily admit I was never neutral in covering global warming. In fact, I’ve always been a passionate advocate — for reality.
@omnologos I have woken up to brutish, divisive tone. Just doesn't much undercut body of science pointing to rising risk with rising CO2. [OK, so are we safest with atmospheric CO2 at zero parts per million? If not, what CO2 level is "safest"?]Sherwood 2008: Where you can find a hot spot at zero degrees « JoNova
The Big-Scare-Campaign needed an answer to the missing hot-spot question. They needed to find the “hot spot”, or failing that, at the very least provide a “hot spot” type graph that would answer the critics; something that passed for a scientific answer that might fool journalists and bloggers. The failure to find the projected hot spot is so damning, and so obviously not what the models predicted, that there is a veritable industry of people working hard to find a reason why the weather balloon results must be wrong. Steven Sherwood creatively even resorted to throwing out the thermometer readings entirely and using wind shear instead. (If only we’d known! All those years and we didn’t need the thermometers?)Why I Won’t Back Down on [the Climate Change swindle] - By John Kerry | Foreign Policy
A carbon-pricing plan will decrease our dependence on foreign oil, create American jobs, lower energy bills, and protect our environment. [note that the old "protect our grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire" argument is minimized here] This will be the measure of a real bill, and I'm prepared to fight to get this done, following the strategy Winston Churchill laid out at the outbreak of World War II: "Never give in, never give in -- never, never, never, never."
Despite all of the attention the former vice-president’s been getting for his role in the National Enquirer’s Al Gore Sex Attack scandal, Gore–or his spokespeople–have made only a couple of statements to the press. Taken together, the two statements prompt more questions about Gore’s behavior than they answer.A New Lineup of Climate Bill Players - Politics - The Atlantic
Kerry and Lieberman's bill now has no chance of nabbing 60 votes, so a different bipartisan team may step up to the plate: Jeff Bingaman and Lisa Murkowski.Liberal groups growing frustrated over Obama role in climate debate - The Hill's E2-Wire
Nine members of the Clean Energy Works coalition — including the Al Gore-led Alliance for Climate Protection, the environmental and labor BlueGreen Alliance and the Center for American Progress — sent a letter to Obama Friday asking his administration “to take the next essential steps” in getting a bill through a very divided Senate.
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But Bingaman himself — in a C-SPAN interview scheduled to air Sunday — placed doubts on even that type of scaled-back [utilities-only] climate plan winning 60 votes in the Senate this year.
Michael Mann, the author of a notorious scientific study that is a tent pole of global warming public policy, has been found innocent of charges of improper conduct.
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Overstating the importance of Mann's climate data seems to be an ongoing problem.
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North noted that any overstatement of the results wasn't Mann's fault: “The community probably took the results to be more definitive than Mann and colleagues intended.”
Panel member Curt Cuffey had a similar story, remembers Mann. At the time Cuffey had said, “it was really the first analysis of its type -- so it's not surprising that they could have probably done some detailed aspects of it better. But it was a really remarkable contribution, and basically gave birth to a debate that's ongoing that's really teaching us a lot about how climate has changed.”
Ongoing debate or settled science? With regard to climate change, only one thing seems certain: the debate will continue.
The results drew praise from the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Project on Climate Science.Sherwood Boehlert: Information from Answers.com
"The attacks on scientists were a manufactured distraction, and today's report is a welcome return to common sense," said Sherwood Boehlert, a former New York congressman and Republican chair of the House Science Committee who is an adviser for the climate science group.
Since 2007, Boehlert has remained active promoting environmental and scientific causes. He serves currently on the Board of the bipartisan Alliance for Climate Protection chaired by former Vice President Al Gore.
Underneath all this, however, there's a suspicious undercurrent of class issues. Environmentalists have coined the term "binge-flying" to describe the rapid increase in air travel that is being driven in part by the growth of budget flights...The skies have become democratized and globalized—and that's bad news for carbon emissions.
But there's something hypocritical about environmentalists criticizing binge-flying because the truth is nearly all of them fly as well. Take me for example—in 2009, I probably flew around 50,000 miles, going to climate change conferences in Copenhagen and Abu Dhabi, vacations in Vancouver and San Francisco, reporting trips to New Delhi and London...Does that make me a binge flyer? Or would I get a pass because I was often using those flights to report on environmental issues? (Not that the climate system cares one bit why I was burning all that carbon.) It seems classist, to say the least, to look at tourists on a Ryanair flight and call them binge flyers, and give a pass to someone like Al Gore, who clocks tens of thousands of miles in the air each year.
'At the height of his financial career, similar sentiments could have been said about Bernie Madoff'Twitter / Ramy Trawlets
Now I know why Al Gore flunked out of divinity school. Too much focus on 2nd Chakra instead of 7th. That and he is an idiot.Flashback: American Thinker: Al Gore Goes Elmer Gantry
Albert Gore, Jr. has finally found his calling. After flunking out of Vanderbilt* Divinity School, following Dad into the family business (a US Senate seat from Tennessee), finally discovering a Woman's Right to Choose and becoming the Clintons' Veep; after refusing for weeks to concede Florida to George W. Bush in 2000, thereby envenoming the Bush presidency from day one; after sulking and bulking up for years and accusing Mr. Bush of "playing on our fears," an ever more corpulent Mr. Gore has discovered his vocation in life as the Prophet of Planetary Doom, jetting high over our heads predicting hell and damnation for billions of sinners enjoying their simple lives below.
I think the study was pathetic. It basically says, "Those of us who agree with each other like to cite the work of our friends and not the other guys." Duh. (One of my fellow scientists calls this "tribalism" - an appropriately primitive description.) I think the more sinister motive was evident in that the paper chided the media, such at the SF Chronicle, to stop investigative-reporting and just "trust us" (the guys on the "good guys" list) when it comes to climate change. It really was an attempt to make a blacklist.Penn State University panel clears global-warming scholar - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
But Richard S. Lindzen, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of meteorology who disagrees with Mann's work, called the school's investigation a "whitewash." Lindzen was interviewed by the Penn State panel during its investigation.The Downside to the Recovery of the Ozone Hole - Yahoo! News
"Penn State has clearly demonstrated that it is incapable of monitoring violations of scientific standards of behavior internally," Lindzen said in an e-mail from France.
While the hole in the Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly healing, its recovery might have a downside, scientists say: Climate change could change wind patterns and send ozone from high in the atmosphere down to the surface, where it is a major component of smog.
...leaders in the developing world have made it abundantly clear that economic growth and energy security trump climate as a priority.
“All these efforts are vital if we are successfully to limit climate change, but current developments are still fragmented and fragile, and the rate of progress is still far too low to prevent dangerous increases in global temperatures,” says IEA executive director Nobuo Tanaka
The document, published June 28, reveals disturbing scenarios. According to researchers in the next 20 years wheat and rice yields in China and India will drop by 50% because of more frequent droughts, while the food demand of the population will increase by 20%.[So why are wheat yields so much higher than they were five or six decades ago?]: wheat_yields_in_selected_countries,_1951-2004.png
[4 climate hoax presentations]The Climate Project [July 2009]
[36 climate hoax presentations]
Rosie Sizer was chief when the alleged assault occurred and when Hagerty gave her detailed statement but police did no follow-up, interviews or examination of potential evidence.May 2010: Sam Adams fires police Chief Rosie Sizer, names Mike Reese to the job | OregonLive.com
Contacted Thursday, Sizer said she had been aware that a statement had been given to police but she thought the victim didn't want to prosecute. She said, though, she doesn't recall when she learned about the complaint or that there was a two-year interval between the complaints.
"I was aware there was an allegation, and, at some point, a statement. I didn't read it, but it was my understanding the victim didn't desire prosecution," Sizer said. "When there's an allegation of this nature involving a prominent individual, typically that information is brought up the chain of command."
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The woman had told investigators she informed two of her friends and held onto the clothes she wore that night, including her black pants with stains on them. But Portland police didn't contact any of the woman's friends, obtain the potential evidence or interview anyone at the hotel, records show.
Two days after police Chief Rosie Sizer blasted the mayor's proposed police budget, Mayor Sam Adams fired her and replaced her with Mike Reese, who recently served as East Precinct commander.
Manufacturers would likely be hit by increasing electricity costs because the bill would constrain greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. "We'd be looking for some means by which to offset those cost increases in the bill," O'Hare said, but that could create political problems because the manufacturing sector won't be capping its emissions.Why The Face Of Climate Change Should Not Be Al Gore's | Environment | Change.org
For the climate wonky among us there are plenty of other climate heroes to look to who have worked to sound the alarm and affect change: James Hansen, Bill McKibben, Reps. Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, Rajendra Pachauri, to name a few. But, who does the average U.S. citizen look to as the face of climate change advocacy? Al Gore. No one else.Colleges Removed From Climate [Scam] Commitment List
The American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment -- which has more than 650 colleges committed to various environmental goals -- has removed 15 institutions from its list. The 15 colleges removed "had missed the first three initial reporting requirements: (1) an Implementation Profile due within two months of their start date; (2) a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory due within one year of their start date; and (3) a Climate Action Plan due within two years of their start-date," said a statement from the group.
LASSEN PARK — Late snow storms have extended opening dates for large parts of Lassen Volcanic National Park.This July 4th Weeken, be alert for manatees on the move
Coming into the July Fourth weekend, the main park road is open as far as the Lassen Peak parking area from the south, and the Devastated Area from the north. Complete opening isn't anticipated until July 9.
This past winter, cold stress took its toll on the manatee population – 574 manatees (greater than 10% of the known population) died from January 1st through June 18th from all causes with the majority most likely due to cold stress.The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media » A Tale of Two Climate Change Stories;The Times, the Globe and the ‘Front-Page Thought’
“We get shouted down in a really, really harsh way,” Daley said, when reporters deviate from saying there is a scientific consensus on climate change.SRF, Navin Flourine May See Carbon [Swindle] Credits Fall - BusinessWeek
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- India’s top earners of United Nations carbon credits, including tire-maker SRF Ltd., may see revenue fall after a panel recommended a probe that could bring them fewer tradable permits than expected, analysts said.
SRF, Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd., Navin Fluorine International Ltd. and Chemplast Sanmar Ltd. earn credits for projects limiting emissions of gases called hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs used in refrigerators and air-conditioners.
The facility would produce electricity from a solar field by day and burn biomass collected from area farms by night.Predicting Wars Based On [trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas] – Really? « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
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At a public hearing in April 2009, a Martifer representative said the company expected to pick up 450,000 tons a year of prunings, clippings and other agricultural waste within 70 miles of the power plant.
But from the start, some residents objected to the project’s need to truck in daily supplies of biomass and the resulting pollution in a region with some of the worst air quality in the nation.
“This easily comes to 60, 70, 80 trucks per day delivering biomass to this site, and that’s going to contribute significantly to our air pollution problem,” Tom Frantz, an almond farmer, said at the 2009 hearing. “We can’t afford to have any added pollution in this valley.”
There is a remarkable recently NSF funded study that claims to be able predict the liklihood of wars based in part on multi-decadal climate change. Readers can assess from their own perspectives if this is appropriate as a scientifically testable study.[Pure insanity]: Britain Curbing Airport Growth to Aid Climate - NYTimes.com
In my view, a significant portion of NSF funding is going to projects that involve predictions decades into the future, and this is just one example.
In a bold if lonely environmental stand, Britain’s coalition government has set out to curb the growth of what has been called “binge flying” by refusing to build new runways around London to accommodate more planes.
As common sense science would surmise, the Antarctic region follows a natural cycle of cooling and warming. As the scientists have now found, new peer-research confirms these type of dominant Antarctic warming/cooling cycles - and human CO2 emissions are found not to be the relevant driving force.Climate Common Sense: Lomborg- Billions of Pounds for Tiny Results!
Lomborg believes in Global Warming but is a realist and a humanitarian believing that there are much more pressing needs for the resources diverted so-called carbon pollution. The loud promises of funds for global warming iniatives have,where they have been fulfilled, been accomplished by diverting funds from humanitarian aid projects.Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Wrist slashing ETS in New Zealand
The major powers thumb their noses at a price on emissions and it is not really New Zealand’s place to lead the world in this issue when the science of AGW is in dispute and a long way from being “settled”.The Pearce “Inquiry” « Climate Audit
It is an outrage that NZ households should be forced to pay, and pay dearly, where so obviously it will harm our standard of living and will not help us in our endeavour to be good global citizens.
It’s amazing that Penn State and Oxburgh see nothing when Pearce sees “evidence of scientists cutting corners, playing down uncertainties in their calculations and then covering their tracks by being secretive with data and suppressing dissent suggests a systemic problem of scientific sloppiness, collusion and endemic conflicts of interest.”
Makes one wonder a little about a university “inquiry” which asked the following “hard-hitting” question:Do you believe that the perceived hostility and perceived ulterior motives of some critics of global climate science influenced your actions with regard to the peer review process, particularly in relation to the papers discussed in the stolen emails?
This story really and truly could bring both Gore and his cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming crashing down.American Thinker: Al's Masseuse and the Feminists
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With the Tiger Woods scandal priming the pump for this sort of thing, watch there be a cavalcade of accusers step forward in the months ahead to take their turn in the spotlight…and more likely than not start lining up for civil suits to get their piece of all the millions, if not BILLION, Gore made off his Cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
It sure makes a lot more sense in light of all this that Tipper Gore is divorcing her husband, probably in California where they own property, so she gets half of his money before he has to give it all away to his victims.
Based on indifferent reaction from feminist circles it appears as long as naughty boys are liberal, women on the left are not offended by raunchy male conduct. Could it be that liberal ladies find it easy to overlook attempted rape and sexual harassment charges if the male aggressor is pro-choice and promises to save the planet?The Reference Frame: PSU officially joins Michael Mann's scam
Penn State University is among top ten largest U.S. public schools. July 1st, 2010 will be remembered as a black day in its history.
An official committee has unanimously "cleared" Michael Mann of research misconduct even though explicit proofs of his misconduct are available to the whole world...
“Everything I’m doing now in terms of talking about climate, talking about immigration, talking about Gitmo is completely opposite of where the Tea Party movement’s at,” Graham said as Cato drove him to the city of Greenwood, where he was to give a commencement address at Lander University later that morning.Brace yourselves for even more alarmism | Australian Climate Madness
No matter what happens to the climate between now and the publication of the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report, we can be sure that the alarmism will be ratcheted up to ever more preposterous heights to keep the research funds flooding in. Everything will be bigger, faster, badder, worse than we thought, quicker than we thought etc, etc. The IPCC, and thousands of climate scientists, are too dependent on the "global warming" scare to let it go without a fight. And it's started already. The IPCC's AR4 predictions for sea level rise were exaggerated enough, but AR5 will be worseClimate Science Hits New Desperate Low « An Honest Climate Debate
Polls show people are no longer concerned by claims humans are causing global warming or climate change. They consistently place very low or are not even listed. Most still don’t understand the science, but a couple of cold winters raised doubts. Ironically, the fact the issue became political was frustrating for skeptical scientists, but is a blessing in disguise.Instapundit » Blog Archive
People’s distrust of politics and politicians automatically reinforces the cold winters skepticism. Public distrust is reinforced by the realization that politicians see the exploitation of global warming as a chance for control, for increased taxes, or both.
BYRON YORK: Portland police: We messed up the Gore sex investigation.
Gore’s biggest bit of bad news: The story is being reported in the entertainment media. You know, the ones most people actually pay attention to . . . .
One workshop, however, sparked particular controversy. Its title: “How to professionally deal with climate skepticism” – or as its German title translates: how to deal with “skeptics.” As the description of the workshop makes clear, “deal with” here is a euphemism. “Let both sides make their point and let the audience sort out what is true” is the traditional “mantra” of journalism, the organizers admit. “But with climate change, things are not so easy,” the text continues. “Falling back on a ‘neutral’ journalistic position can mean playing into the hands of the skeptics at the expense of the basis of life.”» ‘War Hero’ John Kerry Not Exactly a Profile In Courage About ‘Climate Change’ - Big Journalism
The absurd, offending sentence is “Which brings us back to Kerry, who in a talk with me made no apologies for his eagerness to get an energy bill.” Well. Yes. He’s eager to tell you how his cap-and-trade global warming bill is an energy bill, rebranding it after pollster Stanley Greenberg instructed Democrats that “cap-and-trade” and “global warming” weren’t selling, and they had to rebrand it as “energy”.Instapundit » Blog Archive
Which calls into question the breathtaking courage, passion, etc. This is Kerry’s second cap-and-trade global warming bill just this Congress. After the first floundered, he came out muttering about how mean it is to describe the bill as cap-and-trade — the central component of both is cap-and-trade, of course — on the grounds that “I don’t know what cap-and-trade means” (he said that, incidentally, just after the Greenberg memo urging such abandonment).
NOT MUCH LOVE IN THE COMMENTS for this [idiotic Popular Science] piece on “climate villains.”
...it's the skeptics who seem to be pushing the facts too far, not the other way around.
If our goal is carbon reduction, a cap-and-trade or carbon-pricing bill, with its likely compromises, would be worse right now than no regulation.
Tree data showing global temps going down didn't mesh with actual recorded temperatures, so pains were taken, (most of the time disclosed, but sometimes not) to use actual temp recordings and "hide the decline" from trees. Sometimes, on the so called hockey stick charts that show global temps as a flat line and then a sharp upward spike are indeed mixing tree ring data and actual temps. Earlier this year the Penn State investigators, like most mainstream scientists, dismissed this part of the fraud charge, finding no "fraud' in the use of actual temp data -- the spiking part of the hockey stick -- which on its own is not in dispute.
A problem as immense as climate change stretches beyond the obvious. Did you know, for instance, that your TV weather man (or woman) likely doesn’t believe in climate change? Were you aware that the sirloin steak at your favorite chop house is a bigger contributor to global warming than your car?In today’s weather forecast, we’ll be seeing high-pressure areas of climate skepticism | Grist
Sure, we’ve made great strides in environmental protection since the days of burning rivers and the Crying Indian commercial. But it’s a heck of a lot warmer now. Most Americans still believe humans are to blame for this, but there are plenty of climate villains who are working to shift public opinion the other way.
It's too bad, then, that three-quarters of all weatherfolk don't buy human-caused climate change, because they are the most visible, perceived "experts" on the issue.Democrats may waste last chance for clean energy win | Grist
Obama and Senate Democrats now face a clear choice between two options...
They can waste precious time assuring green supporters they haven't abandoned cap-and-trade, and meanwhile come up empty-handed by squandering the political opportunity presented by the oil catastrophe in the Gulf, appearing weak and inept before a public demanding energy reform, and handing another political victory to a GOP all too eager to enter the midterms having denied Obama and the Democrats one of their key policy priorities.
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If instead, Democrats insist on wasting these last few seconds on the obviously failing and increasingly desperate cap-and-trade agenda, Americans are likely to wind up without any substantive energy progress this year, and Democrats are likely to fare even worse at the polls. The ball is in their court.
MM: I think there’s a concerted, well-organized, and very well-funded campaign to attack climate scientists – not just the science but the scientists themselves. This campaign has been funded by industry special interests who don’t want to see action taken to combat the problem of climate change.
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I think that what this indicates is that those who continue to deny that climate change is a problem do not have science on their side. They’re not engaged in any good faith discourse on the reality of the problem. They know the science isn’t on their side and they’ll lose that argument. So instead they’ve turned to smear campaigns. They’ve turned to character assassination. I think that over time it’s become increasingly clear – at least I hope it has – to the public that this is the nature of the campaign of climate change denial. It’s intellectually dishonest and uses whatever means available to it to try to discredit the science behind the basic facts that climate change is a reality and it’s something we need to deal with.
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Now, of course, having been seen in the light of greater scrutiny over the past several months, it’s become clear that all of the claims that they had made originally, about the stolen CRU emails, are incorrect, do not stand up to scrutiny. There is no evidence of any impropriety on the part of the scientists. There’s no indication of the fudging of data. There’s no indication of any of the things they claim that these emails showed. And every investigation that’s been done thus far has concluded that.
The unauthorized release of folders of e-mail messages and other documents from the University of East Anglia, which is still being investigated as a possible crime (but with no final conclusion yet), intensified scrutiny of his work. But months of sifting of those files by an army of passionate critics have revealed little more than signs he is a prickly, competitive, defensive scientist — hardly a rare species.
...Fine, if that’s what you want for yourself. But, please, before you vote to inflict this on the rest of us, first try living as the Greens prescribe and see if it truly suits even high-minded you.Global warming: Interview with John Christy--Models, sensitivity, the PNAS paper and more
Lights out. Heating, too. Starve and shiver for your faith. At least live as miserably as you plan to vote.
Examiner: What are your beliefs about what is happening to the Earth's climate?Light-bulb goose chase - Washington Times
J.C. Natural variability is still the major driver of the climate changes that create challenges for society. The one confident conclusion we can make about added CO2 is that the biosphere has clearly been invigorated - plants love what we do with carbon-based energy because its by-product is CO2 - plant food. (I can hear the shrieks of horror all the way here in Alabama from California, my home state.)
...I climbed up my ladder, took it out, took it back and drove out of my way to a small-business electrical shop. There, I found a knowledgeable clerk who told me about the government takeover of light bulbs. He had no 100-watt spots, either. We both surmised that this probably was part of the Al Gore plan to save the planet and fill some pockets with billions of dollars. Yes, it's good advice to follow the money when you see yourself getting the shaft.Talk becomes heated over climate change
"In the early 1990s I was a climate activist -saving trees and telling people about the value of planting trees to offset CO2," Mr Watts said.
"But in 1996 something changed my way of thinking."
That something was a survey of the USA's climate stations, which revealed that just 10 per cent met quality standards and that many of the results that were recorded were compromised.
Mr Watts said that since this had been discovered and remedied the results revealed that temperature changes over the last 100 years had been minimal.
As global warming threatens many animal species with extinction, the cane toad is set to flourish with increasing temperature. This is a major cause for concern as the cane toad, once introduced to Australia as agricultural pest-control of the cane beetle, is an already highly invasive species and considered a pest in Australia. The researchers present their new findings at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Prague on Friday, July 2, 2010.
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"Warmer temperatures are advantageous and there is no indication that high temperatures limit oxygen delivery", explained Professor Seebacher.
The scientists say this positive effect may also apply to other anurans (the class of amphibians that includes frogs and toads), but more research needs to be done to find out.
"The impact of global warming doesn't have to be negative. Global average temperatures at present may in fact be cooler than many animals would like", explained Professor Seebacher.
A hot idea circulating in Washington is that congressional Democrats might try to pass climate-change legislation in the lame-duck session after the November elections. The idea has gained currency as the Senate’s calendar has grown crowded.
But a leading Senate Democrat said the approach won’t work.
If an energy bill is to reach President Barack Obama’s desk this year, the Senate will have to pass a substantial bill before the August recess, said Sen. Jeff Bingaman in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.”
Bad enough our eco-insensitive ancestors started global warming by oppressing the noble mammoths when they could have eaten alfalfa sprouts and tofu instead. What's worse is that they also started global cooling the same way...TV weathercasters and news directors are distorting climate coverage | Grist
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The usual conclusion can be drawn: the clueless "experts" on climate change don't know much of anything except that they don't like human beings. But according to our rulers, that's no reason not to surrender our standard of living and the last of our liberties in the name of combating the imaginary menace.
...a new survey reveals that 21 percent of TV news directors don't think climate change is real, and 26 percent are unsure.
Bottom line: Almost half of the people determining what you hear -- or don't hear -- about climate change on local TV news don't actually believe climate change is happening.
Investigators typically interview potential corroborating witnesses and anyone accused, veteran law enforcement officers say, and also consult with prosecutors. In this case, officers interviewed the woman, Molly Hagerty, producing 53-page account, and then dropped the case without doing any additional investigation or interviews, concluding there was insufficient evidence to proceed. They did not seek Gore's account or consult with the county district attorney's office before closing the case, they confirmed, which a Portland Police Bureau representative said they should have done.Hot Air » Video: Who’s up for another freaky deaky “Al Gore massage incident” animation?
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"I can confirm that the Portland bureau has reached out to us and we welcome it," said Gore family spokeswoman Kalee Kreider.
The eagerly-awaited sequel to the “Citizen Kane” of Al Gore sex animations. The bad news? Thanks to a graphic rendering of the alleged evidence, this one’s firmly in the NC-17 category.
Myron Ebell, a global warming skeptic who directs Energy and Global Warming Policy for the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, noted that the Penn State ethics review only interviewed one of Mann's critics, MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen.Flashback: Juliet Eilperin and the ‘Saudia Arabia of bias’ « Green Hell Blog
"It has been designed as a whitewash," Ebell wrote in an e-mail. "To admit that Dr. Mann is a conman now would be extremely embarrassing for Penn State. But the scandal will not be contained no matter how many whitewash reports are issued. The evidence of manipulation of data is too obvious and too strong."
...consider this: Juliet Eilperin’s husband works on climate issues for the Center for American Progress, a global warming-alarmist activist group.Lindsey Graham: The Tea Party Movement 'Will Die Out' | TPMDC
Wouldn’t it be nice if every activist group owned its own Washington Post reporter?
Graham better hope the Tea Party movement dies out in time for 2014, the next time he is up for re-election. A Public Policy Polling (D) survey from May found that among South Carolina Republican primary voters, only 40% approved of Graham, with 45% disapproving. And when asked whether they would support Graham or a conservative primary challenger, 57% would go for the challenger to only 32% for Graham.
If the Tea Partiers are still around in 2014, they'll remember these new quotes.
The recent epic deluges this spring and early summer and blizzards last winter are emblematic of weather that is confidently foreseen as more common in a warming world, but it will long remain the case that no single superstorm can be attributed to the buildup of greenhouse gases.
That’s precisely why Republicans need to remain vigilant regarding energy policy. Any deal conducted in the Senate between the GOP and Reid will get undone in conference. Waxman’s practically putting that on a billboard in Washington, and Republican leadership had better pay attention.Obama Running Out of Green-Economy Exemplars - Planet Gore - National Review Online
So the Brits and Kiwis aren’t having any more luck than the Spaniards, Danes, or Germans — but that didn’t stop Obama from at least trying to claim green-economy successes in those three countries, so why should it in these two new cases? We’ve also seen Italy’s carbon scheme exposed as a debacle, and a Labor government teeter and then fall in Australia after the mere threat of imposing such a scheme.
It’s possible, then, that our president has simply run out of countries to point to. Which means that soon enough we’ll be back to that “we have to be the world leader” bit — which translates into “the plot failed everywhere else.”
Reporters staked out Hagerty's Southeast Portland apartment house earlier today, hoping to get an interview. A neighbor said he had not seen her since last week. No one answered multiple knocks at the door.
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A minivan in the parking lot, identified by neighbors as owned by Hagerty, had been egged and smeared with viscous white substance.
Carbon dioxide emissions per person in China reached the same level as those in France last year, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said Thursday.
The Dutch agency said that per capita emissions were 6.1 tons in China in 2009, up from only 2.2 tons in 1990. Among the French, emissions were 6 tons per person last year, said Jos Olivier, a senior scientist at the Dutch agency.
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But the hefty increase in emissions from fast-developing parts of the world like China and India had the effect of canceling out the sharp decline in emissions elsewhere. Emissions from China and India “completely nullified CO2 emission reductions in the industrialized world,” the report said.
Al Gore might have a pending appointment with the po-po, the hills are alive with the sound of painting and global warming Armageddon is delayed again until the weather cooperates with some bad computer models.Hottest June in almost 60 years ends with a treat - Augusta, Georgia | Local News
A record low temperature of 59 is forecast for July 4th. This would break the record low of 60 set just last year.
June's record heat felled Robert Byrd, 18 other Americans. Will we wake up to the fossil fuel #climate threat? http://bit.ly/ccENk0Byrd's condition was closely guarded - POLITICO.com Print View
Byrd had fallen in February 2008 while at home in McLean, Va., which resulted in a lengthy hospital stay. In May 2009, Byrd was again in the hospital, this time with an infection. And in September, Byrd was rushed to the emergency room after collapsing in his home. In that incident, Byrd’s aides said he likely “stood up too quickly” and then fainted.
On current trends, in 77 months time, by the end of 2016, it will no longer be likely that we will be able to stay on the right side of the risks that surround destabilising our climate system.3rd Ring Out | Theatre review | Stage | The Guardian
It's 2033. Climate change is affecting everyday life. In London the Thames flood barrier is inadequate and food shortages and high supermarket prices cause civil unrest. The Olympic park has long been abandoned and the Millennium Dome is a holding centre for climate refugees. In a container on Greenwich observatory hill, 12 of us are trying to save our world. In front of us is a map of east London and a voting console. As the scenario unfolds, via a mixture of performance and video, we are asked to vote on a number of options, and our decisions have consequences on budgets and outcomes. Altruism (spending billions to improve the sea defences of the whole of the UK, not just London) quickly gives way to self-interest (refusing to accept Bangladeshi climate change refugees) as harsh reality sets in.Snow keeps trail to Lassen Peak summit closed » Redding Record Searchlight
Too much snow will keep the trail to the Lassen Peak summit closed this holiday weekend.Snow in July atop Mount Washington - Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010
It may be July 1, but its no day at the beach on the summit of Mount Washington today.Mongolia: Winter Disaster Spurring Urban Migration | EurasiaNet.org
"It's snowing," said Stacey Kawecki, on duty this morning at the Mount Washington Observatory.
The disastrously long and cold winter, known in Mongolia as a dzud, killed eight million animals - 18 percent of the nation’s livestock - in a country where a third of the population depends on herding for a living, according to the United Nations.Ski on July 4 Weekend. Seriously. - In Transit Blog - NYTimes.com
But this year, a couple of ski resorts that don’t require a passport are taking advantage of the buckets of snow that fell this winter to extend their seasons through July 4 weekend.
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A similar package is available farther north at Kirkwood near Lake Tahoe, which is ending what it says is its latest ski season by offering a choice of skiing, snowboarding and mountain biking on Saturday for $32 and skiing and snowboarding on Sunday for the same price.
[Steve Everley] On global warming, it's clear that Americans do not support a policy that will kill jobs and raise their taxes so they might put an insignificant dent in temperatures many decades from now.[Prepare for worse weather: UK to blow less money on crappy cars?]: UK government blocking green car take-up, say electric vehicle makers | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Cap-and-trade is an attempt to redistribute wealth, kill jobs, and let the government define what opportunities are permissible, all of which represent a fundamental rejection of the American freedom culture.
Vince Cable fails to confirm green car subsidy status as climate advisers say electric vehicles are key to hitting carbon targetsWhat's the carbon footprint of … a banana? | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Bananas are a great example of a climate-friendly food – despite being grown thousands of miles from where they are consumedFlashback: No Tangerines For You? (Elizabeth Edwards Will Give Up Tangerines to Fight Global Warming)
"We've been moving back to 'buy local,'" Mrs. Edwards said, outlining a trade policy that "acknowledges the carbon footprint" of transporting fruit.
"I live in North Carolina. I'll probably never eat a tangerine again," she said, speaking of a time when the fruit is reaches the price that it "needs" to be.
This morning, I received the following remarkable response:Climate, Obesity and the Aflac Duck - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comDear Dr Mcintyre,
Thank you for your message. What you report may or may not be the case. But as I have pointed out to you previously the science was not the subject of our study.
Yours sincerly,
Ron Oxburgh
[Randy Olson] I constantly point to the Aflac story showing the unbounded power of mass media — a company that doubled its business in 4 years simply by building an ad campaign around a duck. There could be a duck campaign out there for global warming — we’ll never know if all the communication efforts continue to be so conservative and dull.Are Climate Alarmists Losing the BBC? - Planet Gore - National Review Online
What was striking about it was that the BBC, which has tended to be gung-ho in its presentation of the dangers of global warming, actually presented those who are sceptical of the orthodoxy in a reasonably fair way. In doing so, it accepted that there is a genuine debate – and not some Big Oil-funded attempt to pervert the course of environmental justice, as some earlier BBC programmes have suggested. That debate is about what has caused the moderate rise in temperature over the past 150 years, how much warmer things will get, and what the best policy is to deal with a changing world. In turn, this reflects (hopefully) a more rational turn in the politics of climate change.
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