The analysis finds that if the partners in the initiative are successful in reducing emissions to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2010 the savings will be achieved over the period of 2012 and 2020.
Among the tied or broken record low maximums recorded in southern California on Tuesday were:FT.com / UK - Gloom lifts for embattled scientists
* Escondido - 69 degrees (old record 78 set in 1987)
* Laguna Beach - 62 degrees (old record 68 set in 1968)
* Newport Beach - 66 degrees (tied record of 66 last set in 1995)
* Oceanside Harbor - 62 degrees (old record 65 set in 2002)
* Riverside - 79 degrees (old record 80 set in 1969)
* San Diego - 65 degrees (tied record of 65 last set in 1912)
On Wednesday, both the northeastern United States and southern California may see those record-setting temperature trends continue.
Denver also stands a chance to see a record setting low maximum today. The forecast for Denver International Airport where Denver’s official temperature measurements are now taken is for a high of 63 degrees today. The current record low maximum is 65 degrees last set in 1952.
Ross McKitrick, professor at the University of Guelph, said the committee “seemed unduly concerned to downplay the problems they found and to offer justifications”.Limbaugh: Scientists "circling the wagons" to protect climate change "hoaxsters" | Media Matters for America
Myron Ebell, director of global warming policy at the US Competitive Enterprise Institute, said: “The [committee] did not consider the most serious charges and relied almost entirely on the testimony of people with . . . an interest in defending the establishment view of global warming.”
Some top-line findings in the attached report show that 70 percent of Americans oppose a new tax to address global warming. While consistent with historical trends, this number is somewhat surprising based given the president’s recent investment of time and political capital in support of “pricing carbon” in the wake of the BP oil spill. The same percentage of respondents (70%) said that such a tax would also have no discernable effect on global warming.
Some times there are things you look at and just go: “Wha?” …Scientists hid doubts over global warming
And some times there are people who find more of them than most anyone else.
IMHO, Vukcevic is one of those people. He’s already found a great little predictor formula for how the sun will cycle. Now he’s got this correlation of magnetic field strength and the Arctic temperature anomaly. Who knew?
...critics described the report as “inadequate” after failing to establish why scientists deleted the emails.Fannie and Freddie won’t let this teacher green her home | Grist
MP Graham Stringer, who sat on the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee which also carried out an inquiry into the row, criticised Sir Muir’s report.
He said it fell short because it was unable to access thousands of other emails to establish whether there was a conspiracy among climate scientists at the CRU.
Mr Stringer said: “To make sense of whether there was a conspiracy, whether they really tried to subvert the peer review process, you would have had to look at these emails. It’s an inadequate report that doesn’t do the job. It’s not going to allay anybody’s fears.
“I certainly believe the matter should return to the House of Commons to be debated because this is the basis of spending billions of dollars worldwide.”
"I was looking forward to a warm winter," she said.
Several western Queensland centres are expected to break July weather records, with towns 10 and 12 degrees Celsius below average yesterday.World Climate Report » Bird News
The weather bureau says until 3pm (AEST), towns including Winton, Blackall, Tambo, Cloncurry, Injune, Isisford and Springsure all had recorded their coldest July day.
Charleville, on just 8 degrees Celsius, had its coldest day since records began in 1939.
All of these studies remind us that the birds have been around a very long time, they have experience massive changes in climate over the eons of their existence, they have learned how to adapt to warmer and colder conditions - they are not going to sit idly by and become victims of the global warming.[Obama administration blows more money on the climate hoax]
Washington, D.C. — Ten projects aimed at developing advanced technologies for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal combustion have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under its Innovations for Existing Plants (IEP) Program.C3: Newest Research Confirms Greenland Region Roasted With Medieval Winter/Summer Temps 3°C Hotter Than Modern Era
Valued at approximately $67 million ($15 million in non-federal cost sharing) over three years, the projects are focused on reducing the "energy and efficiency penalties" associated with applying currently available carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to existing and new power plants.
Using sediment cores and two different techniques of analysis, scientists confirm in a peer-reviewed study that Medieval Warming peak sea surface temperatures adjacent to Greenland were some 3°C higher than modern temperatures, both in the winter and summer. No wonder Erik the Red found Greenland so agreeable and attractive.
One of the most famous emails was Jones’ request to Mann, Briffa, Wahl and Ammann to delete AR4 emails (including the surreptitious Wahl-Briffa exchange) a day after David Holland’s FOI request for AR4 emails. It read:Flashback: Denying Email Deletion « Climate Audit29th May 2008: ―Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.This is the email that the ICO said to offer the most cogent prima facie evidence imaginable.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new
email address. We will be getting Caspar to do likewise”.
Muir Russell says that they “have seen no evidence of any attempt to delete information in respect of a request already made”, noting two emails relating to deletion including the famous one cited above...
Phil Jones, Dec 3, 2008:About 2 months ago I deleted loads of emails, so have very little – if anything at all.Phil Jones, Nov 24, 2009 GuardianWe’ve not deleted any emails or data here at CRU.
At age 8, Michelle heard a story about polar bears facing extinction because of global warming. After crying herself to sleep that night, she resolved to help them as best she could.
She began holding lemonade stands to raise money for Polar Bears International & Feline Rescue, a local no-kill cat rescue organization.
Climategate report 'contains many gaffes and errors'
In its report Wednesday, the CBO said the energy bill would increase federal revenues by about $751 billion from 2011 to 2020, mostly though the sale of carbon credits in so-called a cap-and-trade plan to be applied to utilities and other sectors of the economy.
The measure would increase spending by about nearly $732 billion, mostly from refunds to utility bills and tax credits, as well as investment in various energy provisions including research and development, the report said.
Global shipping company UPS has announced the extension of its carbon neutral service to 35 countries and territories.Flashback: Forests break green ground by selling offsets
Companies in the US, Asia and Europe, including the UK, will now be able to chose to pay a small fee to offset the carbon emissions produced by their shipment.
The cost of the service will varying depending on the country, however in the US the price ranges from .05 for a ground delivery to .20 for an air package to .75 for an international shipment. [Note that 75 cents would buy 7.5 tons of carbon offsets at the Chicago Climate Exchange] Emissions are calculated using current and historic operational data.
When the project was initially launched in the US in 2009, UPS purchased its offsets from the Garcia River Forest Climate Action Project. The company has now said it will be looking to expand the projects it works with in the future.
The Garcia River forest was purchased four years ago by the Conservation Fund and the Nature Conservancy, with some financial help from the state. The Van Eck forest, meanwhile, is privately owned but managed by the Pacific Forest Trust.If the Nature Conservancy is selling these fuzzy offsets, aren't they basically saying "See that curtain over there? Pay us some money, and trust us, we'll do something back there that will prevent bad weather"?
Both Garcia River and Van Eck are working forests - meaning that, unlike a state or national park, they are being logged on a regular basis.
Queen's University professor Harry McCaughey, who studies climate change, says there will be more frequent extreme heat waves and cold snaps in the future and the province should expect energy consumption to rise when the weather changes.Tabloid Cheat Sheet
# Al Gore‘s massage scandal is mounting. Sources say that Tipper Gore might have the opportunity to get revenge as police believe that she probably knows what went down. “Tipper certainly knows a lot of secrets about her husband and is in such a state right now that she’s mulling what she wants to say,” a source says. The masseuse, Molly Hagerty, says that since she’s revealed herself, someone has vandalized her car but she’s glad that the police have re-opened her case since after her initial charges police didn’t contact anyone at the hotel nor did they take her stained pants as evidence.[Check your ethics at the door: Help promote the climate scam, get a free trip to Cancun?]
IJNet is reporting that applications are being accepted through July 11 for 9-month fellowships from the Climate Change Media Partnership.
Aimed at journalists from developing countries who cover the environment, the fellowships will culminate in attendance of the United Nations' Conference on Climate Change in Cancún, México at the end of this year.
As with other inquiries into the affair, the Russell review states that they did not examine the science and that the science is correct.Lord Russell of Holyrood « Climate Audit
They adopted a unique inquiry process in which they interviewed only one side – CRU. As a result, the report is heavily weighted towards CRU apologia – a not unexpected result given that the writing team came from Geoffrey Boulton’s Royal Society of Edinburgh.Climategate report: 'Campaign to win hearts and minds' needed • The Register
What Climategate is largely about, then, is whether the academics were justified in making that Medieval Warm Period disappear.[I doubt it]: Germany will only use renewable energy for electricity production in 2050
Unfortunately, none of the three 'independent' reviews have grappled with this.
The chairman of the Federal Environmental Agency of Germany has said it clearly: "A full conversion to renewable energy by 2050 is possible from a technical and ecological." "It's a very realistic goal based on technology that already exist..."
The human brain is set up to believe things it cannot prove. Beliefs can be either religious or secular. The religious term for this phenomenon is "faith", but the coldly logical term is "delusion." Looking at the belief in climate catastrophe, it is clear that such a belief is an act of quasi-religious faith, and a delusion.The Hockey Schtick: Paper: Change in Concentration of Any Trace Gas Won't Affect Climate
Well known and respected French scientist and engineer, Christian Gerondeau, takes a closer look at this particular delusional belief in "Climate, the Great Delusion."
German theoretical physicists Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner, authors of the 2009 paper "Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects within the Frame of Physics", have responded to critics with 2 recent papers which reaffirm their conclusion that "we cannot expect that a change in concentration of any trace gas will have any measurable effect" upon climate (i.e. CO2 and all other trace IR active "greenhouse" gases).'Climategate' report clears Professor Jones of dishonesty but that is not the key issue – Telegraph Blogs
now it is plain for all to see: science, for all its splendid contributions to modern life, is as subject to human antipathy, rivalry and downright nastiness as anything else. It survives through a competitive race for grant-funding, academic favour and professional advancement which is as susceptible to corrupt ambition, group-think and peer pressure as any other human endeavour. The general public is unlikely to forget this disillusioning little tale in a hurry.David Holland: A Ruling More Significant Than Russell Review
At the request of the University of East Anglia the Information Commissioner has this morning issued his Decision Notice, FER0238017, on my complaint that UEA did not deal with his 2008 requests for information in accordance with the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIRs).
Like other Decision Notices it formulaic and low key. However its 15 pages may turn out to be more significant for the assessment of Climate Change than the 160 page report from Sir Muir Russell’s team that has followed it.
Paragraphs 34 onwards of the Notice make clear beyond argument that information on climate change and its assessment by the IPCC is subject to the EIRs, and that UEA broke them.
ELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, July 7 (UPI) -- A northern Canadian magazine said the release of its first ever swimsuit issue is meant to spark discussion about arctic climate change.[Arctic researchers: Are they even *trying* to "eat local"?]: Toolik Field Station: Remote research camp or exclusive resort?
The creators of the magazine Up Here, based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, said the latest issue, which came out this week, features 10 pictures of women in swimsuits posing in northern locations including melting icescapes and burnt-out forests, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.
Toolik has the best cafeteria-style food I've ever eaten. It is healthy and varied—the same thing never served twice. My favorite meal might have been Thai shrimp and scallop curry, which tasted just like I used to get it in New York. For people passionate about bacon (not me, but most of you out there), Toolik serves it every morning. There's a fully stocked candy shelf, including childhood favorites like Starburst and Nerds. There's never-ending coffee.Putting Wind Power into Perspective - Planet Gore - National Review Online
So, all New York City needs to run on wind is A) wind (it’s not particularly breezy in the current hot spell); and B) a wind farm about the size of Delaware. Good luck with that.More on that Smithsonian Poll: The Rise of Denial | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
I’ve looked a bit more closely at the Smithsonian/Pew Poll that I blogged recently, and I realized I overlooked one of the most important (and dismal) findings.
Once again, this poll shows that global warming denial is on the rise:In an exception to the pessimism about the environment, the poll found a ten-point drop in the percentage of respondents who say the earth will get warmer: from 76 percent in 1999 to 66 percent in 2010....
Yup–the issue has gotten more partisan, more polarized, and so people have made up their minds [but how does Mooney know how I made up my mind?] based on ideology first, and data second.
It is my hope that we can now put this bogus, manufactured scandal behind us, and move on to a more constructive conversation about climate change.Lower Temperatures Cool Activity At Beaches - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego
It seems particularly ironic that climate change deniers continue to harp over their now discredited claims regarding decade-old emails while we're experiencing almost daily reminders of the reality of global warming and climate change. We're currently witnessing the warmest temperatures ever globally, and are in the midst of a record-setting heat wave in the U.S. associated with the warmest early summer temperatures ever. Meanwhile, the warmest-ever tropical Atlantic ocean temperatures ever are likely to lead to a hyperactive Atlantic hurricane season this summer, and Arctic sea ice is on course to plummet to its lowest levels ever this summer/fall. Human-caused climate change is a reality, and its about time we get on to a meaningful discussion about what to do about it.
SAN DIEGO -- During what is supposed to be the height of the tourist season, the cool weather is affecting everyone from tourists to business owners to lifeguards.
With June gloom carrying over into July, San Diego could soon set a record for the coolest July.
Their appearance is being coordinated with the Sierra Club, which has forged alliances with organized religion since its former director, Carl Pope, acknowledged in a 1997 speech the environmental movement had erred by shunning such ties.Going Green or just faking it? | Washington Examiner
The fact is, I suspect most people who will repeat the "green" dogma are very skilled at remembering and repeating what they've been told, even able to construct their own arguments based on learned information, but they deep down do not actually believe what they are saying. There is a curious disconnect between what they argue and think, and what they deep down believe.
This disconnect is a curious one, because it requires the person in question to be able to repeat what they have been told they should without actually believing a word of it. How can this be possible? Have we become a culture of hypocrites and deceivers, of people who don't believe a word we say?
The new figure our glorious Coalition intends to squander – every single year for the next 40 years – is £50 billion, all in order to deal with a problem that doesn’t actually exist.Heat wave in New York and several other eastern US states - Telegraph
We learned this horror in questions posed in the Lords earlier this week by Lord Lawson of Blaby in response to something called the Green Investment Bank Commission on “Unlocking investment to deliver Britain’s low carbon future” – aka the Wigley Report.
Stephanie Smith of Greenpoint, Brooklyn relaxes in the East River State Park [I see no sign that she's suffering from kidney stones]How Unusual the Triple Digit Heat in the Big Apple
Last winter, Joe Romm and others in the alarmist media angrily argued that the long time or all time record cold and snows in many locations around the Northern Hemisphere was “weather and not climate” and should be ignored. They especially took exception to the cooling might be a sign of things to come. In his typical duplicitous fashion, he on his latest Climate Progress posts is claiming this northeast heat is proof of global warming and signs of things to come. He was joined in this comment by Dr Tom Peterson, the environmental extremist at NCDC who is largely responsible for engineering and justification of the manipulation of NOAA data to enhance apparent warming. Attempts to contact Hansen and Schmidt at NASA GISS for comment were unsuccessful (busy taking language courses in Arabic?).Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The Muir Russell Review
It is not the job of the IPCC authors to serve as selective arbiters of the peer reviewed literature and judge which peer reviewed science they agree with and disagree with. This only invites extra-scientific considerations into the assessment process and a cherrypicking of the literature, rather than a considered assessment. The job of the IPCC should be exactly as it says it is -- to produce a comprehensive, balanced and complete review of the relevant literature. If the IPCC finds itself in a situation where its author team reflects a perspective represented by only a subset of the literature, then the IPCC has a problem.
Further debunking all the speculation of a contentious breakup to their marriage, the friend points out that Al and Tipper were together on a weeklong family vacation last month, just two weeks after going public with their split.Canada: Cold weather causes low raspberry yields
"They were on a lake in Tennessee, with all the kids and grandkids. Doing lake stuff – waterskiing [using a fossil-fueled boat?!], cooking [meat?!] out," says the friend close to the Gores. "They continue to be a tight family. That's not going to change."
The recent chilly weather has not been good news for the raspberry growers of British Columbia. The growing season got off to a difficult start because the honey bees which pollinate the raspberry flowers don't like the cold.Climategate: No whitewash, but CRU scientists are far from squeaky clean | Fred Pearce | Environment | The Guardian
Many will find the report indulgent of reprehensible behaviour, particularly in peer review, where CRU researchers have been accused of misusing their seniority in climate science to block criticism. Brutal exchanges in which researchers boasted of "going to town" to prevent publication of papers critical of their work, and in which they conspired to blacklist journals that published hostile papers, were dismissed by Russell as "robust" and "typical of the debate that can go on in peer review".ABC News Watch: Cargo Croc Science - Crocodiles dive less in warmer waters
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The report is far from being a whitewash. And nor does it justify the claim of university vice-chancellor Sir Edward Action that it is a "complete exoneration". In particular it backs critics who see in the emails a widespread effort to suppress public knowledge about their activities and to sideline bloggers who want to access their data and do their own analysis.
Most seriously, it finds "evidence that emails might have been deleted in order to make them unavailable should a subsequent request be made for them [under Freedom of information law]". Yet, extraordinarily, it emerged during questioning that Russell and his team never asked Jones or his colleagues whether they had actually done this.
Secrecy was the order of the day at CRU.
Crocodylus johnstoni has thrived despite massive changes in temperatures for 100s of 1000 years. It has survived at least 4 ice ages over the past million years and the associated major swings in temperature and precipitation and changes in prey species. It has survived warmer and colder conditions. Its biggest enemy at present is the cane toad, yet ABC help promote "Summer" as its major threat.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she will not revive the Government's emissions trading scheme until at least 2013.Climategate Report Likely to Exonerate Scientists that Manipulated Data
But the most important element of the fraud that is manmade climate change, the panel will not review the accuracy of the science put out by the CRU. The reports from these 'independent' investigations are simply a dog and pony show. Evidence is meaningless when it's counter to an enviro-Nazi's agenda. But one thing remains true, climategate was the best thing that has ever happened to the green movement.Smoke and Mirrors in the Climate Science Game
Remember, green is the new Red.
By Tom Harris Wednesday, July 7, 2010[But she's not even a climatologist!]: Queen Points to Climate Change Risk in U.N. Visit
[Part 1 of a 5 part series examining the so-called “consensus” in the climate science community, the scientists who dare dissent from political correctness and a new, less partisan way to promote rational climate policy]
The Queen of England addressed the United Nations General Assembly today, her first speech to the U.N. since 1957. Her brief statement was largely unremarkable but for the fact that she called out climate change, placing it on a par with terrorism in terms of today's challenges.
Halfway through the registration period only one tenth of the country's big energy users have registered for carbon permits.
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Although reducing energy use is presented as a way to prevent global warming, there is a much more immediate need for it, said [CRC consultant Andrew Jones of ITM Communications]: a lack of electricity generation capacity in the UK means power simply may not be available for servers. “Our rising demand at a time of falling generation capacity is the real problem,” he said. “From 2015 we will have more demand than capacity.”
It's a safe wager cap-and-trade won't make it over the finish line.
The one significant issue found in the latest review, led by a longtime British civil servant, Sir Muir Russell, concerned insufficient openness. But the committee made it clear that nearly all of the attacks on the scientists and the university were unsubstantiated.
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For months, the stasist blogosphere has been aflame with ‘Gates of various kinds — attempts to spin one or two errors or overstatements on particular issues, along with various comments in the East Anglia e-mail messages, into the unraveling of the many lines of science [like what, specifically?] pointing to a rising, and risky, human influence on the climate system.
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Another change, of course, is the rise of the blogosphere as an independent, and speed-of-light, distributor and dissector of information.
The business of government is using NASA for political operations, and the manufacture of global warming propaganda, while making the public think any swing of the budget-cutting axe will fall on the faceplate of an astronaut’s helmet.Hacked climate emails: Timeline of events | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The record-breaking cities and other dense, built-up areas are getting hit with the heat in a way their counterparts in suburbs and rural areas aren't. Cities absorb more solar energy during the day and are slower to release it at night.
Scientists have known for years about these so-called heat islands, urban areas that are hotter than the less-developed areas around them. They say cities, with their numerous building surfaces and paved roads and lack of vegetation, just aren't well designed to release summertime heat.
However sceptics claimed the report was a whitewash and questioned the reinstatement of Prof Jones.Hard winter sees 'fall' in park deer numbers - Strathspey and Badenoch Herald
David Holland, one of the leading sceptics on the blogosphere, pointed out that Prof Jones referred to deleting emails in one of his communications.
"Would you trust a man who has asked to delete evidence?" he said.
DEER numbers in the Cairngorms National Park are believed to have fallen following one of the toughest winters on record.The ways and means of the climate change lobby
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The climate change lobby has, from the beginning, acted with a sort of regal authoritarianism toward the world, casting itself as a transnational progressive effort to undo the harm man has done to his planet by means of globally enforced sin taxes on energy consumption.C3: Key Finding of New CO2 Peer-Reviewed Study: Climate Models Absolutely Wrong On Positive Feedback
The revenue generated from these punitive taxes on the energy that undergirds our way of life would then be used, we’re told, to fund development of “green” alternatives. And since, as we’re also neatly informed, “the science is settled,” the conversation quickly ends and a political dogma is crystallized.
As C3 readers have discovered, the multiple prediction failures of IPCC climate models are a result of many factors. A recent peer-reviewed study now adds a new one to the ever growing list.[Complete insanity documented]: The Climate Game and the World’s Poor: Documentary film from inside the COP15 climate-change summit
The film provides a revealing insight into the way international diplomacy can become an intricate game played by competing nations, a game that for millions of the world's poorest people is really a question of life and death.
CROCODILES could find it harder to locate food and take refuge from predators as global warming bites.Lawrence Solomon: Global cooling underway | FP Comment | Financial Post
Long-term global cooling began in 2002, according to a just-released study in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed publication produced at Harvard-Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics. Man-made global warming was real and dangerous, the study finds, but the danger has passed.Lawrence Solomon: Arctic chills down | FP Comment | Financial Post
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According to Dr. Lu, the phase-out of CFCs will be reversing the global warming effect by ushering in a 50 to 70-year period of global cooling.
The Arctic shows no signs of warming, according to the latest data from the Danish Meteorological Institute’s Centre for Ocean and Ice. Last month, in fact, virtually every single day saw temperatures below the mean experienced over the last half-century. The Danish data – taken daily – casts doubt on climate models that had predicted a steady warming of the Arctic. Earlier this year, Arctic temperatures had been warming, giving hope to those who back the global warming hypothesis that their long expected Arctic warming had begun.Warning Signs: Cap-and-Trade is a Nation Killer
There are many reasons why the Cap-and-Trade Act will harm the future of the nation, but among the worst is that it is entirely based on a lie. The very worst, however, is that it is a nation killer.
One account of a dinner at New York Times columnist Tom Friedman's house last winter described Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, as telling a mix of lawmakers and utility executives that the Senate should focus its attention on regulating the electricity sector -- not on an economywide approach.What is Thomas Friedman's Ecological Footprint? - Go Green - SustainLane
"It has been clear to us for a long time that a comprehensive bill was not likely to make it through the Senate this year," Claussen said in an interview.
Scientists involved in the 'Climategate' email affair were 'unhelpful' and not sufficiently open about their studies, an independent review said today.
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Today's review found that the graph referred to in this now infamous email from the centre's head, Professor Phil Jones, was 'misleading' because it did not make plain what the scientists had done.
The graph which showed global temperature rises, and which was used in a report published in 1999 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), did not show temperature data from tree-rings once they diverged from actual measurements in the 1960s, falling while real temperatures rose.
The review said it was not misleading to omit part of the tree ring temperature series but the process should have been made plain in the graph, caption or text.
'Rigour and honesty' of scientists not in doubt but Sir Muir Russell says UEA's Climatic Research Unit was not sufficiently open
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The climate scientists at the centre of a media storm were today cleared of accusations that they fudged their results and silenced critics to bolster the case for man-made global warming.
Sir Muir Russell, the senior civil servant who led a six-month inquiry into the affair, said the "rigour and honesty" of the scientists at the world-leading Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are not in doubt. They did not subvert the peer review process to censor criticism as alleged, the panel found, while key data needed to reproduce their findings was freely available to any "competent" researcher.
THE EFFECTS of earlier frost damage to soil have become very evident in some winter barley crops over the past few weeks of drought.Tesla Shares Fall Below Ipo Price - Daily Brief - Portfolio.com
A lot of winter barley crops suffered from heave during the frost and this damaged their secondary roots, the roots used for drinking.
The damage is very obvious as the crops that suffered from heave are now ripening prematurely.
Tesla Motors has lost $290.2 million since it was founded in 2003. Until now, it has been supported by venture capital firms, as well as by Musk's own personal fortune. He was a founder of PayPal and has run through most of his money betting on the electric-car company.Tesla Motors shares drop below initial sale price - Yahoo! Finance
But Tesla isn’t the only player in what will soon be a crowded electric-car field. It will include startups like rival Fisker Automotive, backed by former Vice President Al Gore, which is unveiling its Karma high-powered, high-priced, plug-in hybrid sedan this summer.
"The euphoria has worn off," Scott Sweet, senior managing partner of IPO research firm IPO Boutique, noted Tuesday. "In this market environment, people are not buying $109,000 cars."Doesn't that mean that to date, Tesla has lost $290,000 per car sold?
Tesla has not turned a profit since it was founded in 2003, and so far the company has sold only about 1,000 of its high-end electric cars.
Howard Hayden, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Connecticut. submitted this comment on the draft of the U.S. State Department's Climate Action Report. He notes,A very strange Warmist wriggle
nary a word in the report even pretends to
* establish a link between CO2 and putative global warming
* show that the increase in CO2 concentration is due to human activity instead of natural causes (such as natural warming of the oceans)
* show that either an increase in CO2 concentration or an increase in temperature is, on balance, bad (or worse than laws restricting CO2 emissions) or
* do any science whatsoever.
The fact that low solar activity has long been associated with colder weather in both Europe and the USA is finally getting a grudging admission from Warmists. But, as with their "explanation" of the Medieval warm period as being "local", they are now saying that solar effects are local too!New Temperature Record at BWI: atmospheric or asphaltic? | Watts Up With That?
It's hard to believe but the paper below actually argues that a quiet sun makes it particularly cold in England only! Though some "leakage" to nearby Europe is apparently allowed. The fact that unusually cold weather in England is closely correlated with unusually cold weather across the entire Eurasian continent is blithely ignored.
The ILS waste heat, combined with the asphalt proximity of the accessway, as well as the runway and taxiway on three sides contributed to the new high temperature record, in my opinion.Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » How Can You Argue with Logic Like This?
There used to be a joke in Texas during the 80’s oil bust — “How do you make a million dollars in oil? Start with $10 million.” The same likely applies here — “How do you create 42,000 green jobs? Start with 100,000.”Austerity Green: EU Fatigue Towards Renewables (excepting the UK) — MasterResource
“Many European countries are waking up to the disaster of extravagant subsidies to renewable energy. But Britain isn’t. The lesson for Americans is simply that throwing money at renewable energy is a huge economic mistake, but politicians can keep the racket going regardless. It will take robust opposition to stop the United States repeating Europe’s mistakes.”
While the eastern U.S. suffers through a nasty heat wave, Southern Californians are under the cooling spell of a late and lingering "Catalina eddy," better known as June gloom.Record low temperatures in San Diego County - SignOnSanDiego.com
Angelenos will be reaching for hoodies - at least until the weekend, when things are expected to warm up.
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"This is the June gloom on steroids," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Ca ada-Flintridge.
"June gloom is late and lingering, and not everybody is bummed out," Patzert said. "The people that don't like it are people that are selling suntan lotion and boogie boards at the beach - and, of course, the dermatologists who are putting their kids through college."
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"We've seen this in the past. This is not global warming, or the end of civilization," Patzert said.
This is July?
It didn't feel that way as high temperatures were at record lows in San Diego County today, says the National Weather Service.
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The temperature only reached 62 degrees in Oceanside Harbor. The record "low high" for this date is 65. That record was set in 2002. The harbor averages a high of 74 degrees this time of year.
Escondido posted a high of 69, which was nine degrees below the record low-high, set in 1987. The city averages 87 degrees in early June.
At Lindbergh Field in San Diego, the temperature reached 65, tying the low-high for this date, set in 1912. The normal temperature for this time of year in 75. And in El Cajon, the temperature hit 78, trying the record low-high, set in 2002. El Cajon's average high is 86.
Wednesday could be another day for the record books.
The paper adds: "These estimates are based on immediate threat, and do not consider further development of destructive factors - including climate disruption."New approach on climate change urged
Prof McKibbin's paper, published by the Lowy Institute think-tank, sets out a roadmap which does not rely on the UN or on targets.Snow removal cost up 400 percent last winter - The Franklin News Post
Instead, heavy-polluting countries like Australia, the US and China would agree to set a similar carbon price, to rise over time.
The cost of snow removal in Rocky Mount this past winter was nearly 400 percent higher than anticipated.Heat wave evidence of climate change?
And the heat in the East ― what should that tell us? Not a lot. Weather in a given time and place says very little about overall climate trends, as even the alarmists remind us when we have a particularly cold winter.
While a Time magazine writer is obviously correct that warming overall should give us more instances of very hot weather and fewer instances of very cold weather, it also happens to be the case that the hottest recorded year in U.S. history does not fit into human-caused warming theory. It was in 1934.
Live coverage as Muir Russell review into University of East Anglia's hacked climate change emails delivers findings. With Damian CarringtonBBC News - Today - '200 years of evidence' proves climate change
Science writer Fred Pearce and Lord Stern discuss details of the inquiry into the affair.Q&A: 'Climategate' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
In November 2009, over 1,000 private emails between climate change scientists were stolen and published online. The uproar that followed briefly shook the public's faith in global warming science, and prompted investigations that debunked sceptics' allegations that the mails showed the planet wasn't warming. Yet still the scientists have questions to answerThe five key leaked emails from UEA's Climatic Research Unit | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The five most controversial emails leaked from UEA's Climatic Research Unit with expert commentary from Fred Pearce on what they do – and don't – reveal
The sudden death of two elderly people overnight has come amid a spike in calls to a Perth charity by the elderly and families needing heating assistance this winter.
A 79-year-old Morley man and a Bayswater woman aged in her 80s died during a night when the temperature dipped down to 0.8 degrees just before 7.30am.
While the cause of death remains undetermined, St Vincent de Paul says they are concerned that a growing number of pensioners and struggling families are not turning on their heaters because of financial constraints and running the risk of health problems due to the cold.
Perth has shivered into its 14th straight day of sub-five degree days, with tomorrow's forecast showers expected to thaw the cold spell. It's the longest running cold snap in 66 years.
[video] “Here is a picture if you want of the polar ice caps melting, Santa Claus is about to drown. You should tell your children uh that uh these people in your state that oppose taking steps in your state on global warming, they are trying to kill Santa Claus. Once you have the kids you know another 14 years and they are going to vote.” Joel Rogers.Meet Joel Rogers - Mastermind behind Cap & Trade? And more of the agenda?
GLENN: Okay. So here's Joel Rogers. This is one of the main architects of just about everything that is going on in Washington, all of these organizations. Listen to what he's saying now about cap and trade and energy. Listen.
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ROGERS: I sort of think of carbon at this point would invite you all to think of carbon not just as another commodity that's we'll be willing to let people bribe us to spend but think of it more like a neurological poison like mercury. And in the same way that you wouldn't say, "Okay, if you give us the money, we'll let you expend more mercury into the atmosphere." I wouldn't get too excited about the money aspect of the carbon. You can do everything in the U.S. to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and it won't make much of a dent actually. I hope you all realize that you could eliminate every power plant in America today and you can stop every car in America. Take out these higher powered generation sector, take out all of the transportation sector and you still wouldn't be anywhere near 80% below 1990 levels. You would be closer to 60%, around 68%. And that's bringing the economy to a complete halt basically.
SOME people fear death the way the homeless fear the cold.
With Sydney's minimum temperatures dipping towards record lows, cold and death can be pretty much the same thing for many of the thousand or so people estimated to be sleeping rough each night.
The director of the St Vincent's Hospital Emergency Department, Gordian Fulde, said the cold snap was cutting through the homeless like a silent disease.
The Bryce Canyon Airport dipped to a record low of 31 degrees on Monday. That broke the old record of 32 degrees for July 5, set in 1978.BBC News - Climate e-mail inquiry prepares to report
Bullfrog also shivered with a 56-degree low that day, while the Cedar City Airport set a new low temperature record of 43 degrees.
Bryce Canyon was even colder on the morning of July 4, with a 27-degree reading, three degrees below the previous all-time mark for Independence Day, set back in 1956.
The Canadian blogger Stephen McIntyre, who runs the influential website climateaudit, called the independence of panel members into question - an issue that Sir Muir rejects.'Runaway climate change' theory 'unrealistic', say scientists | News & Politics | News & Comment | The First Post
On CRU itself, his submission to the inquiry said the unit had manipulated and withheld data in such a way as to distort temperature records.
"The manipulation includes (but is not limited to) arbitrary adjustment ('bodging'), cherry picking and deletion of adverse data.
"The problem is deeply rooted in the sense that some forms of data manipulation and withholding are so embedded that the practitioners and peer reviewers in the specialty seem either to no longer notice or are unoffended by the practices."
As the scientific community seeks to put a lid on the outpouring of climate change scepticism unleashed in the wake of Climategate and the publicising of flaws in a UN climate report, a new study has suggested that the theory of 'runaway climate change' is "unrealistic".Antarctic winds carry record lows to Port Stephens - Local News - News - General - Port Stephens Examiner
WINTER has officially descended on Port Stephens with temperatures plummeting to record lows.
An extra icy morning on Wednesday, June 30 saw the mercury fall well below zero, with record lows at Williamtown and Raymond Terrace.
It was the coldest morning ever recorded at Williamtown with temperatures dropping to -1.8 degrees.
While at Raymond Terrace the mercury bottomed out at 0.3 degrees making it the coldest morning on record for the area.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), a senior member of Congress and chair of the powerful Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce has penned a public letter to the Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton, in which he states strong opposition to a planned oil pipeline that would transport Canada's controversial tar sands oil to the US Gulf Coast.[No, Nemo, No!]: Ocean Acidification May Make Fish Foolhardy - Science News
In the current study, published online July 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team tested clown fish and damselfish larvae’s sense of smell using a range of carbon dioxide concentrations similar to those projected in scenarios for the end of this century by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.Twitter / David Wessel
An 11-year-old clean-energy candidate for gov of VT: "Don't you want me to be able to ski when I'm 50?" http://youtu.be/zrL3UGKZfzE
[Joe Bastardi]...in the circle of competitive forecasters I am in, the vast majority of the long-range private sector meteorologists can see what is coming down the road and agree with me. Many of these people have masters and Ph.D.s, but they are involved in work that requires them to prove enough merit, that they are restrained. It's very competitive.AccuWeather.com - Joe Bastardi European Weather Blog
We all understand the same thing: The Pacific is cooling. The Atlantic will start doing so in 10-15 years. Then the global temperature come down and we have the satellites to measure it without data readjustment.
So it comes down to a forecast, and my attitude with my detractors is this: Let's see who is right the next 20-30 years. Global temperatures go up and down, and have been generally going up, while the oceans have been warm, but will dive over the next 18 months. Even the almighty climate models see it, as you see temperatures, relative to normal, cooling dramatically around the globe over the next nine months! (See the attached charts for more information.)
...for the ministers of propaganda on this matter that don't understand how this works, you will see NEXT SUMMER has the highest amount of sea ice since the early part of last decade. Sad to say the ice will rebuild... two steps forward one step back.BREAKING: Attorney General Cuccinelli Under Investigation for Climate Probe—By Greenpeace | Climate Realists
But I have observed the cackling of delight at the demise of the ice cap this summer with amusement. Because 1) The THICKNESS OF THE ICE is greater and 2) The Polar temps, courtesy of the cooling that is starting are lower than normal this summer.
Smelling a politically motivated witch hunt, Greenpeace has stepped into the fray with its own investigation into the Attorney General and possible relationships with global warming deniers.A Blow to Home Retrofits - Green Blog - NYTimes.com
The federal agency that oversees two government-chartered mortgage finance companies imposed new restrictions Tuesday on homeowners’ ability to take advantage of a program that allows them to repay the cost of installing solar panels and other energy improvements through an annual surcharge on their property taxes.
This temperature is suspicious, like a bank thermometer not precisely calibrated. Nearby weatherbug stations, which are considered to be fairly accurate, were all lower:B.C. fishers expecting bumper salmon run
* Columbia hit 102F at Clemens Crossing ES.
* Ellicott City hit 100F at Veterans ES.
* Owings Mills hit 100F at The Harbour School.
To be sure, the management of the river’s sockeye draws emotional debate, whether from First Nations bands who think recreational fishers should be banned when sockeye numbers are low, or biologists who believe salmon farms are spreading disease into the wild population, or climate-change activists who tote warm waters as a chief culprit for the weak returns.FALSE ALARM: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong » Book launch for False Alarm: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Phil Eidsvik, spokesman for the B.C. Fisheries Survival Coalition, said he does not buy the latter assessment.
“We’ve gone through high water temperatures, low flows, and all sorts of environmental conditions that weren’t favourable, and despite all that, we’ve managed to rebuild our run in the past,” he said.
Regardless, water temperatures may not even make waves this summer: The federal Pacific Salmon Commission reported that the Fraser River is nearly on par with the average temperature for this time of year, and in a June 29 news release said “migration conditions for sockeye entering the Fraser River are presently satisfactory.”
False Alarm is finally out, under a new title: False Alarm: Global Warming—Facts Versus Fears. The previous subtitle was “Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Just Plain Wrong,” but that’s a bit unwieldy.Welcome to David Archibald.info
[Lots of good stuff here]Hot Air » Too Much Air Conditioning Makes Salon Boil Over
Scroll over to the punch line of the Salon article, which is a triumph of hairshirt enviro-hypocrisy.
Incidentally, this isn’t the first time that Salon has used their bandwidth, not to mentioned their air conditioned Internet servers to make this argument.
At the end of June, Southern Hemisphere mid-winter, the sea ice surrounding Antarctica was more than two standard deviations greater than normal. On June 30, Antarctic sea ice extent was15.88 million square kilometers (6.13 million square miles), compared to the 1979 to 2000 average of 14.64 million square kilometers (5.65 million square miles) for that day.
While recent studies have shown that wintertime Antarctic sea ice has a weak upward trend, and substantial variability both within a year and from year to year, the differences between Arctic and Antarctic sea ice trends are not unexpected. Climate models consistently project that the Arctic will warm more quickly than the Antarctic, largely due to the strong climate feedbacks in the Arctic. Warming is amplified by the loss of ice cover in the Arctic Ocean in areas that had been ice-covered for decades, and by the warming of Arctic lands as snow cover is lost earlier and returns later than in recent decades.
Moreover, rising levels of greenhouse gases and the loss of stratospheric ozone appear to be affecting wind patterns around Antarctica. Shifts in this circulation are referred to as the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO). As greenhouse gases have increased, and especially when ozone is lost in spring, there is a tendency for these winds to strengthen (a positive AAO index). The net effect is to push sea ice eastward, and northward, increasing the ice extent.
Instead of daytime highs approaching the mid-80s, downtown L.A. has been getting temperatures in the mid to high 70s, said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist for the National Weather Service in Oxnard. Seto said that from June 1 to July 5, the daytime and nighttime temperatures have averaged a relatively cool 69.8 degrees.
The Northeastern states have made some of the greatest advances figuring out how to make this transition in a smart way. In January, 2009 they launched RGGI, a “cap-and-invest” program whereby the states auction a limited number of global warming pollution permits quarterly and use the proceeds to promote energy efficiency. The states’ analysis shows that this innovative pairing of a pollution cap and stepped up efficiency will actually reduce energy bills for the average household by over $100 per year.Flashback: You know that money that we urgently needed to save your grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire?
Lately, however, a few of the cash-strapped states have had other designs on the money. The same day as the most recent auction, June 9, New Hampshire lawmakers voted to take all of the state's expected $3.1 million share of the proceeds and use it to help plug a $295 million budget hole. That move came after New York and New Jersey had staged even bigger raids on cap-and-trade funds. New York transferred $90 million out of a fund of auction proceeds and into its general fund.
In the broad realm of empirical evidence for Medieval Warming, there is one unique indicator that does not require a Phd to appreciate and understand - that would be tree lines. In general, if the climate is warmer, the tree line will move farther north and/or to higher elevations. As scientists discovered in the Ural Mountains, the modern tree line is at a much lower elevation than the Medieval tree line.Climate spruiker finds debate has wind taken out of its sails | Herald Sun
True, weather is not climate - but can someone tell that to McKeon?The Reference Frame: La Niña conditions getting started
Two years ago he told The Age what had helped to convince him of man-made warming was that a rainy wind across Waratah Bay, next to Wilson's Promontory, had all but gone. He knew this because he'd been relying on it to fill the sails of his yacht as it tried to break the world speed-sailing record.
SHOCKED by his limp sails, he's since become a business community ambassador for Earth Hour, spruiking the value of tackling global warming by switching off lights for a single hour on one Saturday each year.
As klimaskeptik.cz has pointed out, the new Czech environment minister, Pavel Drobil (ODS, Civic Democrats), has called the subsidies for photovoltaics an economic crime.All Opinions Are Local - How much will Cuccinelli's legal forays cost?
Cuccinelli spokesman Brian Gottstein says that filing the lawsuit against the feds cost $350 and that no lawyers in the office are being taken away from other work.
Electric cars must be taxed to pay for more power stations or they could drain the National Grid and even contribute to power cuts, an energy firm has warned.MediaPost Raw » Blog Archive » Lexus Expands Global Warming Debate To Promote Hybrids
The first debate in the new series, to be moderated by Andy Samberg, will be in Los Angeles on July 8. Emmy Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi and journalist, skeptic, and filmmaker Phelim McAleer will face off.Porsche slapped for misleading Cayenne S Hybrid ad - Autoblog Green
Comedian Jamie Kennedy will host the next one on July 20 in Miami. The third one, moderated by Tracey Morgan, will be on July 27 in New York between Eric Bates, editor of Rolling Stone, and The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, a former policy advisor to U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The last one will be on August 5 in Chicago and will be moderated by singer Mark McGrath.
Porsche's recent ad for the Cayenne S Hybrid makes a claim that hasn't gone over well with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK. As the ad states, "More performance, less fuel... The new Cayenne S Hybrid can even travel to a speed of 37mph without using its V6 petrol engine." We see nothing wrong with Porsche's ad, but the powers that govern potentially misleading advertisements don't like it one bit.Solar Influences by Dr. David Whitehouse | Solar Cycle 25
The ASA isn't thrilled about the portion of Porsche's ad that discusses traveling without using any fuel.
It is certainly striking that since the later part of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century there has been a general increase in the Earth’s global average temperature at the same time that the strength of the solar cycle was increasing in intensity as measured by the number of sunspots.
...evidence is piling up quickly that extreme heat -- like the blistering temperatures now descended across the eastern United States this week -- can indeed be attributed to human-induced global warming. And it's making scientists' natural penchant for caution increasingly untenable. Herewith, Tom Peterson's recent comments to The Project on Climate Science:Melanie Phillips: Lynch-Mob Justice - WSJ.com“We’re getting a dramatic taste of the kind of weather we are on course to bequeath to our grandchildren,” says Tom Peterson, Chief Scientist for NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center.
In both Britain and America, ideological prejudices are coming to undermine the rule of law. In a number of incidents, people who have committed criminal acts have been acquitted or had their cases dismissed purely because they represent a politically correct cause or belong to a "powerless" victim group.Watch Now: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News discussing UK's attempt to stop 'Binge Flying' by stopping airport runway contruction | Climate Depot
An English jury decided in September 2008 that causing more than £35,000 of damage to a coal-fired power station was justified as a protest against man-made global warming. The jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage after they argued that they had a '"lawful excuse" to trash property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater harm caused by climate change.
The jurors arrived at this decision having sat through a propaganda barrage by prominent advocates of the man-made global warming theory, including the pioneer green evangelist James Hansen and the environmental campaigner and newly elected Tory MP Zac Goldsmith. The court case was thus effectively turned into a platform for tendentious ideological propaganda, which appears not only to have been endorsed by the jurors but to have persuaded them that it even justified destroying someone's property.
Morano: 'This at a time when the science has been exposed as sub-prime science'Meteorologist D'Aleo calls warmists scientists 'meteorological Madoffs'
These clowns have been criticizing and demeaning publically anyone who stood in their way or challenged their religion. The alarmists create lies about our motivation, our funding (in reality non-existent), our expertise and our well supported findings. They refuse to debate the skeptics for fear that the alternative thinking would be exposed and our scientific credibility elevated. Wait to see what happens when their theory finally collapses. No one advocates harm, but they should pay the financial price for their meteorological Madoff impersonation.
And so it will come to pass that long after the rest of America became a skeptical nation Climate Change skepticism is being brought into the heart of Hollywood.Hulu - Saturday Night Live: SNL Digital Short: Lazy Sunday [featuring Andy Samberg]
On Thursday I am debating Climate Change with alarmist author and broadcaster Simran Sethi at a debate in the Palihouse, West Hollywood.
The Palihouse discussion is a follow up to the Sarah Silverman hosted event in New York in April. The Los Angeles debate is also being sponsored by Lexus, and will be moderated by Andy Samberg (Saturday Night Live).
A study published in Science projected that diminishing snow melt will impact up to 60 million people, significantly fewer than the hundreds of millions the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected would be impacted in a 2007 report. The Science study suggests that decreasing meltwater from glaciers will be offset by increased rainfall in certain river basins. According to the study, the Indus and Brahmaputra basins are highly dependent upon snowmelt and would be severely adversely affected, while the Ganges and Yangtze would only be modestly impacted. The study estimated the Yellow River would actually be able to support a larger population in the future as a result of climate change.Ezra Klein - The case for being careful with the climate
That's why, when faced with the choice between being risk averse about a tax or about the planet, I tend to choose the planet.Watford Grammar School for Boys hosts climate change [hoaxonference (From Watford Observer)
Among the guests taking part were members of action group Plane Crazy, Oxfam, Renewable Energy Systems, and Lord Teverson, the House of Lords' spokesman for energy and climate change.
Sydney - Australia's Alice Springs recorded its coldest day on record Tuesday with the temperature in the tourist capital of the Outback barely edging above 6 degrees Celsius.Dr Martin Hertzberg in Explosive Attack on Global Warming Theory
The previous low point of 7 degrees Celsius, set 44 years ago, is the latest in a series of records to tumble in a week-long cold snap that has employers complaining that staff are taking days off just to stay warm in bed.
Meteorologists said the temperatures were at least 10 degrees below average for the season.
In Sydney unofficial records were set for absenteeism - and for cars conking out because of dead batteries.
Keenly aware of ad hominems, Hertzberg mocks the assertion that climate skeptics are right-wing advocates for the oil lobby by declaring, “I am a lifelong liberal Democrat, but I am also a scientist.”Amazon.com: Far North: A Novel
In response to allegations that he a tool of the coal barons, Hertzberg responded that such a claim “would come as a great surprise to them, since I spent most of my career advocating for more stringent safety regulations in their mines.”
Global warming has decimated civilization, and narrator Makepeace Hatfield is the sole survivor of her Siberian settlement.Twitter / georgesdyer: 25 questions for fostering ...
25 questions for fostering #climate change fluency on #campus : http://ht.ly/27BmMThe Hockey Schtick: Why the AGW "Hot Spot" Won't Happen
The AGW "hotspot" would require an unphysical, unstable process in violation of the 2nd law requirement of increasing entropy, and that is why it doesn't exist and won't happen.Warning Signs: Refusing to Report the Truth
Guess how many from the “mainstream media” covered the Fourth Conference? None!
This was and is literally a conspiracy of silence and, as Bast points out, “It is unethical for a reporter to refuse to report that so many prominent scientists and policy experts believe the fear of global warming is overblown. It is unethical to boycott an important event with major public policy importance.”
"He probably wishes that the emails were never invented," said Phil Willis MP, the committee chair, who had earlier questioned Jones in person during a committee hearing. "But apart from that, we do believe that Professor Jones has in many ways been scapegoated as a result of what really was a frustration on his part that people were asking for information purely to undermine his research."[While claiming that he isn't confusing climate and weather, alarmist Andrew Freedman does just that] - TIME.com
Al Gore seems a lot more reasonable when you're sweltering in a 99 degree DC office building.Will blazing days like this one become the norm if we fail to curb carbon emissions?[While claiming that he isn't confusing climate and weather, alarmist Bryan Walsh does just that] - Capital Weather Gang
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Warmer winters won't do us much good if we can't feed ourselves while enjoying a balmy February. Something to think about during summer on Planet Earth.
The heat wave that we are now in the grips of may topple some records, but as CWG's Kevin Ambrose wrote last week, it is not likely to go down in history as the worst heat wave on record, which occurred in the Dust Bowl era during the 1930s. However, it is interesting that it is occurring early in the summer, compared to late July or August, when most of our intense heat waves tend to occur.[Flashback to July 4, 1850: Extreme heat in Washington, DC]
On July 4, 1850, Taylor engaged in celebrations at the Washington Monument, but fell ill after standing in the extreme heat all day. He died five days later on July 9, 1850 with the cause of death described as "acute indigestion".So it's been warm out East lately. What proportion of people, plants and animals have failed to survive? Any notable outbreaks of malaria, kidney stones, or dengue fever yet?
Palaeoclimatologist Joel Pedro was among 14 top young Australian scientists, working in fields ranging from medicine, through nanotechnology to astronomy, invited to the meeting. A PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania and the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, Pedro was nominated by the Australian Academy of Sciences.
He is studying Antarctic ice cores to gauge the impact on climate of changes in the energy output of the sun.
"There is some evidence that changes in solar activity triggered climatic changes in the past, perhaps including the little ice age in the northern hemisphere between the 17th and 18th centuries," Pedro says.
Sarah Palin is replacing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the face of a media campaign pushing the Senate to enact sweeping climate change legislation.Heat wave has chilling effect on violent crime - Crime & Punishment blog - Boston.com
The former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is part of a three-stage advertising campaign sponsored by the American Values Network that seek to sway momentum inside the beltway. Palin's face, along with the "drill baby drill" mantra and an image of an oil-soaked bird, will be used on bus advertisements within the Beltway as well as in an online campaign. “It’s time for a smarter approach,” the banner proclaims, calling for support of clean energy and climate policies.
Crime levels are highest when the temperature reaches the mid-80s; but especially uncomfortable conditions with the mercury over 90 degrees result in less violent crime.
Can artists save the world? CO2morrow, a spectacular, eight metre wide, interactive sculpture by Marcos Lutyens and Alessandro Marianantoni, will be installed close to the entrance of the National Trust property Seaton Delaval Hall this week.[New Jersey solar: This looks like a fiasco to me] Millstone part of $515M solar project
The sculpture is designed to raise awareness about climate change and uses pulsating lights to show the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through colour animations. It changes shade from blue, meaning low levels of greenhouse gases, to violet, which indicates severe pollution.
MILLSTONE — Starting in late July, PSE&G contractor Riggs Distler & Company Inc. will be installing solar panels throughout Millstone.
The units will be placed on utility poles and street lights along main streets near area businesses and in residential neighborhoods, according to a PSE&G press release.
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In July 2009, PSE&G received regulatory approval from the N.J. Board of Public Utilities to invest $515 million in solar projects. In addition to the 40- megawatt, pole-attached segment of the project, a second segment will provide centralized solar, with PSE&G developing solar gardens and roof-top installations on facilities it owns and also at third-party-owned sites. The utility expects to complete the installations by the end of 2013.
THE installation of solar panels at a Forestry Commission lodge new Peterborough has saved more than a tonne of carbon. [what happens to the "savings" here if you include the CO2 emitted in manufacturing, transporting, installing, and maintaining the solar panels?][But note: in the big scheme of things, one ton isn't quite enough to get all worked up about]
The atmosphere contains some 760 billion tonnes of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide. Living land plants store about 500 billion tonnes of carbon in the materials they manufacture from water and carbon dioxide as they grow. The total store of fossil fuels is estimated at 3,000 billion tonnes of coal and 300 billion tonnes of oil and gas deposits. Earth’s complement of soil stores about 2,000 billion tonnes of carbon in materials produced by once living things. Another 40,000 billion tonnes is dissolved in earth’s oceans. Some 100 million billion tonnes is incorporated in sedimentary rocks such as limestone. These massive deposits of carbon bearing materials are all considered to be products of earth’s life over eons.
Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist & Social Reformer: “It is how I on behalf of my organization contributed my service to the big cause. There was another reason for NIA’s name to change, since in India, they created an Investigation Agency by this name : National Investigation Agency (NIA), founded in 2009 as a new federal agency approved by the Indian Govt. to combat terror in India, and to avoid and mingle the name of peace body of NIA with the Investigation Agency, I decided to drop the NIA and merged it into God Believers Association (GBA), which covers NIA’s main mission of World Peace apart from other aims including fighting global warming to save the Earth planet.”William M. Briggs, Statistician » Consensus Members Agree To Agree: Breaking Story
Now, what would you think of a study which examined members of the consensus, and which asked those members, “Do you agree with the consensus?”, and then reported that members of the consensus agree with the consensus as news?Senate Energy Bills Spell Disaster for What Yet Remains of 'Wild Nature'
We humans, as stewards of the earth, have got to get our priorities straight. We have got to do all that we can to preserve nature by helping to feed humanity; and to do so successfully, we must let the air's CO2 content rise. Any policies that stand in the way of that objective -- such as those included in the proposed Senate Energy Bills -- are truly obscene.European Heat Waves of the Future May Not Be as Bad as Previously Predicted
Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso
Although Jeong et al.'s findings by no means constitute the final word on the subject of the ultimate climatic consequences of a doubling of the air's CO2 content, they indicate just how easily the incorporation of a new suite of knowledge, in even the best climate models of the day, can dramatically alter what the IPCC and other climate-alarmist organizations and individuals purport to be reality. The world of nature is so extremely complex that it is the height of arrogance -- or depth of ignorance -- to believe that the world's climate modelers are anywhere near being able to mathematically represent all that needs to be mathematically represented in a model of sufficient complexity to faithfully reproduce what actually happens in the real world of nature, and over the many orders of magnitude that they are reluctant to acknowledge are absolutely essential to obtain the answers we all seek, which are, of course, the correct answers, which are obviously still a long ways off.
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