Australia - Global warming my backside with the coldest day in 100 years

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WIDESPREAD cloud and persistent rainfall has kept temperatures down right across Queensland.

Longreach, in the Central West, received persistent rain from Tuesday evening, dropping the temperatures by about four degrees. The temperature then barely moved yesterday, reaching a maximum of 11 degrees; 12 degrees below the long-term average and the coldest July day in 44 years of records.Isisford, further south, was even colder, getting to just 10 degrees. This was the town's chilliest day since before records began in 1913, almost a century ago.

What summer? Record cold at LAX as July gloom continues | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

Unusually cold temperatures in Southern California continued, with Los Angeles International Airport setting a record low on Friday.

LAX got to only 67 degrees, breaking a record set in 1926, according to the National Weather Service.

Climate Panel Struggles With Media Plan - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The 831 researchers who will contribute to the next round of assessments of climate science and policy options by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been sent a letter admonishing them to “keep a distance from the media” and send any press inquiries about the work of their author groups to supervisors.

Hot Air » Green Economics and the Void of Desire

Whatever “green jobs” are, it’s very clear America doesn’t want them.

Lawrence Solomon: Reopen Climategate hearings, says UK parliamentarian | Full Comment | National Post

The call to reopen the Select Committee hearing arises because the Russell report failed to answer fundamental questions. Among these, Stringer told The Register: “Why did they delete emails? The key question was what reason they had for doing this, but this was never addressed; not getting to the central motivation was a major failing both of our report and Muir Russell.”

Although the Select Committee had stressed to East Anglia the importance of having open and independent inquiries, the hearings failed to oblige. The Russell inquiry, the last straw for Stringer, was held behind closed doors and heard only one side of the story. It failed to interview any scientist critical of the Climategate scientists; it failed to call witnesses who were the subjects of the emails, it failed to publish all the depositions, and its panellists could hardly be viewed as independent. One panellist, Geoffrey Boulton, was a climate change advisor to the UK and the EU; another, Richard Horton, had deemed global warming “the biggest threat to our future health.”

Shocked angler catches giant turtle [CO2 blamed]

And [Bob Lawrence, director of wildlife at the safari park] said the problem is only likely to get worse with global warming.

Mango growers: Crops suffered because of cold weather » Naples Daily News

Experts Ignore Record High June Antarctic Ice « the Air Vent

After beginning my usual boring sea ice post, I ran across the NSIDC news story on sea ice. You know the unbiased scientific review of the conditions of sea ice globally. I’m pissed off now that they would post this kind of rubbish. Previously, I’ve been complimentary of the NSIDC, but this story is way over the top. It reads like a Joe Romm post more than a scientific one. It’s a prayer to the gods of AGW, a worship at the altar of funding and a blatant attempt to leave layman’s heads full of global warming cobwebs.
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It seems we have a record June in the Antarctic as well.

What is amazing is the story that the NSIDC told. I don’t know who writes for the NSIDC, but the bias is incredible. Not only do they fail to recognize the record HIGH ice in the Antarctic they do everything to cover it up from laymen. They don’t even mention the Antarctic except for three small paragraphs at the bottom of a long dry discussion of Arctic ice loss and weather.

Get drivers to slow down (and save fuel) by making it fun | Grist

From the people who brought you piano stairs comes an idea for getting more drivers to obey speed limits. "Fun theory award" winner Kevin Richardson suggests making it "fun" to drive the speed limit by entering lawful drivers in a lottery and awarding cash prizes to some. Money could come from fining speeders, although that stretches most definitions of fun.

It's silly, and a thousand problems would come up in execution, but it is, theoretically, a green idea, as speeding wastes fuel. Most car engines are most efficient around 50 mph and nearly as efficient between 30 and 55 mph, as Clark Williams-Derry explains. Since highway driving is generally much faster than 50, slowing down generally saves fuel.

In order to prevent slighter better weather from killing your grandchildren, why not eat food that other people have thrown in the garbage?

Money can’t buy me sustainability « Climate Progress

But an increasing number of people have turned to no-cost solutions when acquiring home furnishings, clothes, food, and other necessary items. In doing so, they’re keeping items out of landfills, cutting the carbon it takes to manufacture new products, and generally living a more sustainable lifestyle.
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Freeganism’s central practice is dumpster diving, which tends to draw mixed reactions. Grocery stores and restaurants toss plenty of perfectly edible, often unopened food on a daily basis, and freegans rummage through these establishments’ dumpsters for groceries. But people don’t just go dumpster diving for food. They also get furniture, clothes, home furnishings, and a myriad of other valuables from piles of other peoples’ refuse. Knowing when and where to go dumpster diving is a kind of art to these environmentalists.

[Australia: Record cold snap leads to surge in utility bills] | Perth Now

THOUSANDS of West Australians will be slugged up to $50 or more for winter power bills next month after another electricity price rise and a record cold snap.

The Marshall Institute - Clouding the Truth: A Critique of Merchants of Doubt

Full Text of "Clouding the Truth: A Critique of Merchants of Doubt" (PDF, 86 KB)

[Washington Post admits: Summers were really hot, even before I bought that iPhone charger] - In the heat wave, the case against air conditioning

Shorter summer business hours and month-long closings -- common in pre-air-conditioned America -- return.
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Best of all, Washington's biggest business -- government -- is transformed. In 1978, 50 years after air conditioning was installed in Congress, New York Times columnist Russell Baker noted that, pre-A.C., Congress was forced to adjourn to avoid Washington's torturous summers, and "the nation enjoyed a respite from the promulgation of more laws, the depredations of lobbyists, the hatching of new schemes for Federal expansion and, of course, the cost of maintaining a government running at full blast."

Flashback: Brrr…It’s Cold in Here! « On The Scene « FOXNews.com

It seemed like a straightforward assignment: Get over to the United Nations and check out their new “Cool U.N.” plan, part of the organization’s effort to lower energy costs and reduce carbon emissions.
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I mistakenly entered Ban’s conference room upon arrival – actually, so did a number of other reporters – only to find it as chilly as a meat locker. “COOL U.N.” indeed.

That led to some rather heated informal questioning of the U.N. boss after we were brought into the room where he was to discuss his ostensibly energy-saving initiative. Here’s how it went:

ME: Quick question, Secretary General. I notice this room is warm, but the room next door, the conference room, felt like an icebox. Why is the room next to this one so cold?

BAN: I have been feeling at times very warm in this room. So I had to move sometimes to my next door conference room.

ME: It’s like a meat locker in there.

BAN: Next door will be set at 77 degrees.

An interview with Yvo de Boer, the United Nations' former climate-change [scam] chief

It's hard to imagine how [Obama] could have gotten more curveballs in the first two years of his administration, with the economic crisis and the health-care issue. What gives me confidence is there's lots of people with their heart in the right place. I also think he has his brain in the right place.
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[Q] Where do you think the environmental movement is at this point?

At the end of the day, if the situation is that a significant portion of the people in the environmental movement believe the green [economic] growth story, but an even more significant number of people outside the environmental movement don't believe the green growth story, then it's just not going to happen. Very few governments are going to be willing to run their countries into the ground to save the planet.
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[Q] You got a send-off in Bonn in June from people in the nongovernmental organization community. They sang a song to the tune of "My Favorite Things" that included lines such as "Keeping Al Gore out of the Bella Center" -- where the Copenhagen talks took place. Is that really one of your favorite things?

I certainly never kept Al Gore out in the cold, and I put a lot of effort into getting him in. There are a lot of people who talk over your head [in the climate debate]. He talks right in your face.

June 2010 Almanac Numbers - [For the month, Cold Bay, Alaska was even colder than usual]

Cold Bay - In June saw 1.45'' of rain and had an average high of 49.1 degrees. In an average year Cold Bay has 2.89'' of rain and the average high is 50.8 degrees. Cold Bay lived up to it's name and set a new record low for June 3rd of 32 degrees. No record highs were set in June 2010.

Kodiak - In June saw 4.22'' of rain and had an average high of 53.3 degrees. In an average year Kodiak has 5.38'' of rain and the average high is 54.5 degrees. Kodiak set a new record low for June 9th of 36 degrees. No record highs were set.

Stella McCartney’s Jumper Dress Of Joy | Very Blog | Very.co.uk

...the busy fashionista has just become one of the patrons of environmentally concious charity Meat Free Monday. As the name suggests, group members campaign to get everyone around the world to give up meat for one day a week.

However, it’s not a campaign to make everyone vegetarian but more of a bid to do something about climate change as livestock are responsible for 18% of Greenhouse gas emissions as opposed to vehicles 13%.

Stella revealed: “If everyone gave up meat on a Monday it would be more effective than everyone stopping driving their car on a Monday.”

Parliament misled over Climategate report, says MP • The Register

"I was surprised at Phil Jones' answers to the questions I asked him [in Parliament]. The work was never replicable," says Stringer.

In 2004 Jones had declined to give out data that would have permitted independent scrutiny of their work, explaining that "We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it."

This policy is confirmed several times in the emails, with Jones also advising colleagues to destroy evidence helpful to people wishing to reproduce the team's results.

"I think that's quite shocking," says Stringer.

Design Concept for Urban Environments and Rising Sea Levels | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

As rising sea levels become more inescapable every day, some designers are planning for the future and creating concepts for how we might ultimately be forced to live. Turkish architects Sinan Gunay and Mustafa Bulgur, who have accepted our watery fate, say forget trying to hold the seas back, and just build higher. City(e)scape, an eVolo entry, is their proposal for a new landscape built 70 meters above the water and attached to existing skyscrapers, creating a new ground plane.

The Bellingham Herald / Local News / WWU starts Climate [Hoax] Action Plan

• Look into moving the campus vehicle fleet to a combination of electric cars and bicycles.

• Research the possibility of powering the university's steam plant with biofuels.

NASA - Researchers Witness Overnight Breakup, Retreat of Greenland Glacier

While this week's breakup itself is not unusual, Howat noted, detecting it within hours and at such fine detail is a new phenomenon for scientists.

Quadrant Online - Our Australian tour

[David Archibald] Anthony Watts runs the world’s most popular science blog with three million hits per month. One of the reasons for its popularity is that it possibly the most cheerful science blog, which in turn is a reflection on the owner: positive, productive and thoroughly decent in a Midwestern American way.
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Brisbane was the most interesting presentation. A prominent consumer of grant money for coral reef “research” waited patiently through our presentations and then was one of the first to ask a question while being photographed by an acolyte he had brought along for that purpose. I amused the audience by using a question about Henry’s Law to make the observation, paraphrasing Samuel Johnson, that ocean acidification is the last refuge of the global warming scoundrel. We had two lots of protestors that night picketing the entrance. We got a standing ovation in Emerald. In Adelaide, one of the audience had driven eleven hours across South Australia, from west of Ceduna, to attend. A lady who had attended the evening lecture in Melbourne wanted to see it again, so she drove four hours across Victoria for the Hamilton lecture, getting home to Melbourne at 2.00 am.

Belmont Club » Whitewash versus Paint

Watts’ presentation at the hall consisted of seemingly unending stream of slides from his volunteers showing not just US, but foreign weather stations sited in the most laughable of ways: in the path of jet exhaust, air conditioning heat dumps, fermenting sewage plants, concrete heat sinks, in close proximity to machinery, motors, engines, incinerators and even atop tombstones. He then proceeded to flash a series of infrared images of the same sites showing the surrounds of the temperature stations all lit up. Then he piled Google Earth image upon Google Earth image of the temperature collection sites in winter showing the snow stretching far and away but for the little islands of heat in which the gauges were located.

It was a tour de force. He understood the power of irrefutable reptition. Following the old rule of “tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them and tell them what you told them”, Watts pitched his message to the denominator everyone could grasp. He had a weatherman’s instinct for making a complex subject concrete and in your face. But he could do this only because he had mobilized a legion of part time snoops, guys who would drive out to airports near them, walk around universities to snap photos of temperature stations, go down some dirt road to find an obscure little measuring device or spends hours on Google Earth zooming in on a known coordinate. He could do this because he had a dataset — a dataset not even the weather service had. His open source project gave him more information about the condition of their terrestrial network than the weather service had. He had power and they knew it. What happened next was extraordinary but entirely predictable. The bureaucracy fought back. The weather service pre-emptively used his data, over his objections they were incomplete, to refute him.

American Thinker: Blather in Kansas City

Perhaps the icing on the cake was not any of the words that the President uttered, but the location in which this speech was given. It was at the company headquarters for Smith Electric Vehicles, which received $32 million in government stimulus and produces electric moving trucks. The President proudly hailed that the company just hired its fiftieth worker -- but at quite a cost.

Obviously the company had some workers before the stimulus, but just to be kind, suppose they didn't. A little basic math tells us that each worker was produced with just over $600,000. Why would you brag about creating one worker for every $600,000? Again, this is being kind, as some of these individuals were already working for the company. If the stimulus actually only produced an additional twenty workers, then those workers were each added for about $1.5 million of taxpayers' money.

What it is is: Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull

Isn't that always the way with the most vocal proponents of environmentalism? Can anyone point me to just ONE high profile climate changer who has genuinely scaled down their own carbon footprint, who teleconferences instead of junkets, who eats local produce, who cycles or walks instead of drives, indeed who makes do with just the one house, because even this 'socialist' firebrand can't get by on less than two, uses a Jag instead of a Prius, flies all over the world and demands all the trappings of his role.

[Paging Tom Friedman] - Yahoo! News

AMSTERDAM – A leading climate change monitor says global carbon dioxide emissions held steady last year, as recession slowed industrial activities in rich countries while growth in China and India made up for the decline.

The Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency says last year was the first since 1992 that registered no growth in carbon emissions from fossil fuels, cement production and the chemical industry, the main sources of greenhouse gases.

It said emissions shrank in the leading industrial countries by 7 percent, or 800 million tons. That was compensated by a 9 percent increase in China and 6 percent in India.

[We're saved: Politicians allegedly prevent bad weather by riding their bikes to press conferences] - Grist

While oil continues to gush in the Gulf of Mexico and the future of federal climate and energy legislation looks dim, there remains one relatively easy solution: riding your bike. And it's nice to know we're not the only ones who think so.

Here are a few of our favorite elected officials who are walking -- nay, cycling! -- the talk when it comes to getting off oil, by taking their bikes right to the streets. Did we miss any notable politicians who commute by bike? We'd especially like tips on any who are female, racially diverse, and/or not a Democrat. Tell us in the comments!

THE UNSATISFACTORY NATURE OF INQUIRIES

...the very process of inquiry has made a big difference, with more openness being demanded. Some of the key figures in the climate change establishment have brought this on themselves by their high-handed and arrogant attitude to legitimate criticisms. By promoting a degree of certainty which exaggerates the real situation, they hoped to build momentum for radical policies which would reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » WATCH: ‘Inception’ Stars Trash Evil, Stupid Cheney & Palin — Preach Hypocritical Environmentalism

Leo may want to get in the head of BP’s CEO, but I’d like to get in Leo’s head and understand why someone who believes the planet is in peril would commit an act of genocide against the entire human race by flying around in private jets.

My vote, however, goes to Ellen Page, who just went from the lovable and spunky Juno to a shorter, joyless, less-likable version of Rachel Maddow.

ABC News Watch: [Intense heat in China during the early part of last century]

MANY DEATHS REPORTED.
LONDON, Aug. 15. (1909)
Intense heat is being experienced in Peking, the capital of China, Tientsin, and other places.
In Peking the thermometer has registered 115deg. in the shade. Many deaths have been reported.
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Intense Heat in Peking
PEKING, July 26 (1927).
Peking is sweltering in the fiercest heatwave for many years, the temperature reaching a maximum of 114 deg. Hundreds of native Chinese are succumbing.

Your Opinion: Liberals just want to tax, regulate | battlecreekenquirer.com | The Enquirer

Liberals hate oil supposedly because of global warming. As is usual, they lie. Like some giant lizard with a brain too small to tell the body it's dead, climate alarmists mechanically yammer on in an endless loop, often behaving cockroach-like, darting about, pretending to care about foreign oil, green jobs, windmills, solar panels. It's mindless crap, brainwashing for the ignorant. All they really want is to completely control the economy. The goal all along has been to tax and regulate every human activity.

We are carbon-based life forms. We exhale carbon. Plants absorb it. All organic matter is carbon. Millions of years ago it was warmer. There were more plants, more animals, more potential places to grow food. Thousands of years ago ice ages came and went. Carbon had nothing to do with any of it. Naturally, liberals would have us believe carbon is pollution.

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Addressing Climate Change: Connect It to the Daily News, and Heat

Is the US Congress a fracas of frogs? So far, they're acting like it, even as one of their beloved and venerated members, Robert Byrd, was pushed into the arms of the grim reaper by the extra heat recently.

What to do? This is a duh moment. Stop acting like a frog. Boycott fossil fuels. Write letters to the editors. Complain to your news outlets when they fail to mention the "C-C" phrase in the news, whether it's the unusual droughts, floods, blizzards, insect epidemics destroying our forests, wildfires, dying coral reefs, storms, spread of tropical diseases, acidifying oceans, or whatever scenario that is predicted to worsen under climate change. Climate change is bad for the economy, and a transition to clean energy is good for the economy. It's that simple.

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte

Prof. John Harte of the University of California at Berkeley has won numerous awards and honors as an ecologist and an established environmental scientist and author.
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Mary Ellen (Mel) Harte Ph. D. is a biologist who has worked with him on various environmental projects.

[Global warming blamed for long, cold winter, late spring, and frost damage?] - Dairy farmers facing winter silage shortages

The long, cold winter and late spring meant that some crops were completely destroyed by frost and farmers were not able to plant on time.

She said with extreme weather conditions likely to become more frequent in the future due to global warming, it is likely the same difficulties for farmers will return.

Africa: Climate Change 'Not Relevant' to Most People

Johannesburg — CLIMATE change has no special relevance to SA in the eyes of many South Africans, and it is perceived as an issue only the wealthy can afford to worry about, according to research conducted by the BBC World Service Trust and the British Council.
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The survey, Africa Talks Climate, was conducted among more than 1000 citizens from 10 African countries, including SA.
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Climate change is also used as an umbrella term for environmental destruction, and is viewed by many South Africans as a remote threat which has yet to have a dramatic effect on livelihoods.

Ted Turner [opposes cap and trade]

He also said he's opposed to the controversial concept called "cap and trade" as a way to reduce carbon emissions and steer industry to greener energy.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Begich No cap and trade for carbon

FAIRBANKS — Cap and trade legislation will not happen at the national level, Sen. Mark Begich said Friday.

The Democratic junior senator made that statement while speaking at an Interior Democratic Party luncheon and in a meeting with the News-Miner editorial board.

“The president may want that, but the votes aren’t there,” he said.

YouTube - GREEN GONE WILD (Global Warming Hoax)

Lawrence Solomon: It’s official, there’s no consensus on climate change | FP Comment | Financial Post

The report, in other words, dissects the nature of the scientific debate over global warming — the word “debate” appears more than 50 times in the report. “In its successive assessment reports, the IPCC has sought to achieve a scientific consensus, but many continue to challenge the basis of its work and its conclusions, it states. The IPCC’s failure to establish a consensus led to a debate that “became highly polarized in websites, journals and conferences across the world. As a result, the work conducted by CRU became the focus of intense scrutiny and challenge, with multiple demands from both fellow scientists and laymen for background information and data.”

The global warming debate, the report makes clear, is real and legitimate, conducted by respectable parties who have every right to challenge the science and to hold the climate science establishment accountable.

Bonnie Erbé promotes the most massive scientific fraud in human history

While We Debate Climate Change, the Rest of the Planet Prepares for Mass Migration

[Bonnie Erbé] While we here in the good old U.S. of A. are still debating climate change (whether it exists, whether it is man-made) the rest of the planet not only agrees it is real, but is planning for its impact on mankind. One such change has generated a term hardly ever heard in the U.S. but well known to the rest of the globe: environmental refugee.

We let ourselves be held back by those who refuse to admit sea temperatures are rising due to human activity. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is busily planning how to handle the fallout when larger portions of the globe become uninhabitable. Millions of people have already been forced from their homes due to climate change. Millions more will soon be forced out by floods, cyclones, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, droughts, increased storm cycles and other environmental catastrophes.

Bonnie Erbé - Politics News, Analysis, and Opinion for the U.S. and the World

Bonnie Erbé is host and Executive-In-Charge of the PBS program, To the Contrary. This award-winning news analysis program airs nationally on 260 PBS stations each week.

Yet another costly green plan hits the wall | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Count up the Government’s green scams and failures:

The $2.5 billion free insulation fiasco - wildly rorted and responsible for nearly 200 housefires and four deaths
The solar hot water scheme - wildly rorted
Green loans debacle - scrapped after rorting and cost blow-out
The emissions trading scheme - shelved after concerns it will blow the Budget
The “green car” scheme - cars meeting buyer resistance, despite big subsidies

The Botched Examination of the Back-Up Server « Climate Audit

The more one reads the documents of the Muir “Holyrood” Russell, the more it is a litany of incompetence, already evidenced by the failure of Muir Russell and other panelists to even attend the Jones and Briffa interview. The botched “efforts” to examine the balance of the emails in the back-up server is another sorry episode.
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Sommer reported on May 17. UEA elected not to authorize the analysis. Muir Russell’s ineptitude and inertia resulted in no attempt being made to even begin an examination of the other emails until late April, and by mid-May, they decided it was already too late to bother.

allAfrica.com: President Kaberuka Will Attend Second High Level Advisory Group On Climate Change [Swindle] Financing

The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, will join other distinguished personalities at the second meeting of the High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing scheduled to take place from 12-13 July 2010 in New York.

The event will be the second meeting of the High Level Group and it will consider reports from Working Groups which examined a range of potential public and private sources of finance The Copenhagen Accord sets out the objective of mobilizing $100 billion per year in additional resources by 2020.

Pacific Crest Trail Thru-Hike Journal

Snow! That's the word that will be associated with the Pacific Crest Trail for the thru-hikers of 2010. I have been running into snow for over 500 miles. Yesterday, for example, (summer in the mountains of California) I walked for miles in snow that completely covered the trail so it was a matter of navigating over the terrain to where the trail might be visible again. At times there were a good six feet plus of granular snow. On the other hand, probably 15 miles of the 23 mile day were snow free, or nearly so.

» Toxic Environmental Regulations Poison the Job Market - Big Government

Consider three job-killing measures imposed by this administration in a single area: environmental regulation...

Colorado Summer Trends | Watts Up With That?

Looking at the long term summer trends, NCDC shows no trend in Colorado summer temperatures over the last 80 years. Last summer was the 14th coldest since 1930.

But it gets worse. The NCDC data above showing no trend has been tortured upwards to get to that point.

Twitter / Lake On

Hamilton builds expressway on river, then blames *climate change* when it floods: http://bit.ly/cLE98L

Climate Common Sense: Reduce Carbon Footprint - Flush Granny Down the Sewer

Of course you have to look on the bright side because the green bureaucrats have not yet started calculating carbon footprints of Nursing homes or the benefits to Gaia of premature liquefication of the feeble Grannies of this world.

YouTube - Saudis and Shale Oil Vol. 1, Mike Stopa

Mike Stopa is running for Congress in the 3rd district of Massachusetts against incumbent James McGovern.

In this video he discusses the availability of Shale Oil and how this and other resources sit waiting.

Mike Stopa has a PhD in physics and is currently at Harvard specializing in nano technology and computational physics.

The Hockey Schtick: Look Away Warmists: 2 New Papers to Ignore

Two new peer-reviewed papers just published in Energy and Environment continue to bring the AGW hypothesis crumbling to its knees. The first agrees with the Gerlich and Tscheuschner papers that changes in the trace [currently 0.0389%] CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has not shown any measurable influence upon climate.

BBC News - How methane is measured with a 'burp gun'

Scientists in Liverpool have been testing how much methane cows produce when they burp.

It's part of a research project to find out how much methane cattle produce after feeding and whether anything can be done to reduce it.

Richard Westcott spoke to Doctor Rob Smith from the University of Liverpool about the device they use.

Flashback: BBC News - Whitehall farce of culling the cows to prevent global warming

A bid to cull a third of the UK's cows and sheep to fight global warming and reduce methane emissions - was planned as it allegedly could have led to fewer burgers and lamb chops being eaten.

Health Secretary Andy Burnham was said to think was a marvellous idea but BBC Deputy Political Editor James Landale explains how the plan was killed off.

Cool weather pattern hanging over the Southland dubbed `July no sky' - Pasadena Star-News

July continued to masquerade as January as weather officials said Thursday the first week of 2010 was warmer than third week of summer.
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[Harold Knowles, 73] I would prefer it a bit warmer, like in the 90s, because I have health issues."
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Seto rated the chance of above-average temperatures for August, September and October at just better than 30 percent.

The strange early July pattern coupled with cooler than normal waters near the Equator could be an indicator that a dry and cool winter is in store for California, Patzert said.

"A La Niña is developing right now," he said.

Everybody panic: CO2 allegedly has caused the surface of Lake Superior to "warm" to 59 degrees, only 9 degrees cooler than its peak in 1998

CTV Toronto - Frigid Lake Superior "warms" up, could set record - CTV News

"We would normally just be getting to turnover, to 39 degrees, about this time in July," Austin said. "But it happened so early this year that we're already at 59 degrees (15 degrees C; at a western Lake Superior buoy near the Apostle Islands). That's 20 degrees (11 degrees C) warmer than we should be right now."

The surface temperature of Lake Superior could reach record highs by mid-August, the typical peak for water temperature, they said.

In 1998, a warm year, the lake peaked at 68 degrees F (20 degrees C), "and we're well on our way to that, or higher," Austin said. That compares with a high of just 54 degrees F (12 degrees C) in August 1996, a cool year.

Climate change is responsible for the warming effect, the researchers said.

Swimming Pool Water Temperatures

The American Red Cross suggests that 78° F is appropriate for swimming. But, this temperature is ideal for competitive swimming and is quite chilly for regular swimming. Water at 78° F is ideal for competitive swimming as the cold water promotes heavier breathing and faster heartbeat in order to keep warm. Even for the most adventurous swimmers, 65° F is unbearably cold.

All we did was welcome Al Gore to his new home. Why are people so upset? | Liberal Media Bias Exposed by IHateTheMedia.com

When we heard Al Gore was moving into a new beachside Montecito mansion just a couple hours down the road from IHateTheMedia.com’s international headquarters, we did the neighborly thing and tried to deliver a welcome basket filled with central coast wines. Unfortunately, the security guards weren’t as neighborly as we were.

So we did the next best thing and ran an ad in the Montecito Journal, Al’s new hometown newspaper, welcoming the Goracle to the neighborhood.

Bafflegab and BS in the climate debate

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, it was shown that the supposed consensus in the climate science community that our CO2 emissions are causing dangerous global warming is not substantiated. Here we examine the contents of a typical open letter to government in support of the CO2/climate crisis hypothesis to see if it is provides meaningful guidance to public policy formulation.

Munich Re CEO Nikolaus von Bomhard: 'Hardly a Catastrophe in the World We Aren't Involved In' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

SPIEGEL: Your corporation was one of the first to issue warnings about the effects of climate change. Recently, however, several climate-change researchers have been discredited. Do you still personally believe in global warming?

Bomhard: It's not a question of belief but of fact. We can substantiate this warming and its effects. For example, there has been a measurable increase in both the intensity of storms and the extent of flooding. Granted, in the recent past, some researchers have made mistakes when it comes to individual cases of presentation. But the data we have sends us a clear message.

SPIEGEL: Do you pay any attention to the findings of studies published by avowed opponents of the climate-change theory?

Bomhard: Of course. We consider it important to do so because we in no way want to expose ourselves to accusations of being one-sided or close-minded.

SPIEGEL: The whole issue seems to have evolved into a religious war of sorts.

Bomhard: We just don't have any more time for these discussions. If we are looking to have 100 percent certainty about each and every detail, it'll be too late to find solutions. As a company, we see ourselves as the voice of reason on this matter.
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SPIEGEL: Critics have accused you of using your Cassandra-like prophecies of doom to bump up premium prices.

Bomhard: That's absurd. On the contrary, we want to make sure that the risks are lower and remain insurable -- and that our premiums remain affordable.

Flashback: Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Catastrophes Wanted: Climate Change and the Soft Market in Reinsurance

Climate change is indeed real -- with a significant human component
-- but to date, there
has been no signal of human caused climate change in the disaster
record. Don't just take my word for it, you can see that result in the
peer reviewed research conducted by . . . Munich Re.

Ethics and the Greenhouse - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

[Donald A. Brown, an associate professor of environmental ethics, science, and law at Pennsylvania State University] There is a small but rapidly growing academic interest in climate change ethics. For instance, there have been about four or five very good books this year and a growing number of conferences. Both I.P.C.C. this year and Unesco have now recognized the importance of thinking about climate change from an ethical perspective. The I.P.C.C. will have a new chapter on ethics in the 5th assessment. Unesco has created a new global program on climate change ethics. There are, however, only a few ethicists who can do this work well because it is an inherently nondisciplinary challenge and the ethicists must be willing to dig into the scientific and economic controversies entailed by climate change as they unfold.

We like to say if we get the science and economics wrong, we will likely get the ethics wrong.

California Yanks Prius Perks: No More Hybrid HOV-Lane Access - Green Car Reports

You may remember that in California, 85,000 lucky owners of three hybrid vehicles were granted special stickers giving them access to High-Occupancy Vehicle lanes, even with only a single occupant in the car.

Well, their luck runs out on December 31, the last day those stickers are valid. While Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill yesterday that extends certain HOV-Lane Access stickers for four more years, the ones for hybrids aren't included.

Ardent About the Tap, but Still on the Bottle - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

...That same year, Mr. Bloomberg was a sponsor of a resolution passed by the United States Conference of Mayors urging cities to stop buying bottled water and the city’s Department of Environmental Protection began a $700,000 marketing campaign urging New Yorkers to drink tap water.

So why in the fiscal year that ended June 30 did the city spend more than $1,198,000 buying bottled water?

Friday night reading: the eloquent take-downs « JoNova

“Not Journalists, State Propagandists” – Rupert Wyndham on the BBC

Looser CO2 [swindle] caps for eco-product makers?

Jul. 9, 2010 (The Yomiuri Shimbun) -- The Environment Ministry on Friday said it was considering giving preferential treatment to manufacturers of eco-friendly products in an emission credit trading system by setting their emissions cap higher than other industries.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : CEI's Myron Ebell Says "Professional Whitewash" of Climategate Will Not Succeed

The Muir Russell report is thus a classic example of the establishment circling its wagons to defend itself. As was pointed out when the committee was appointed, the members are part of the old boys' network and have several obvious conflicts of interest.

The professional whitewash attempted by the Muir Russell report will not succeed, however. That is because the evidence that data was manipulated by some of the scientists involved, for example to make the 1930s appear cooler in twentieth century temperature records, is simply too obvious and too strong to cover up."

Al's Journal : The Politicization of Science

This past spring, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed a civil investigative demand (essentially a subpoena) requiring the University of Virginia to produce 10 years worth of documents related to the research of climate scientist Michael Mann.

This assault on academic freedom was an affront to the scientific process and I was pleased to read last week that UVA is fighting the request.
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Coincidentally, this week the University of Pennsylvania cleared Mann of any wrongdoing. It is time for Cuccinelli to end his witch-hunt.

Mann blames heat wave on manmade warming « Green Hell Blog

In this LOL-interview with CleanSkiesTV, hockey stick inventor Michael Mann blames the current East Coast heat wave on manmade warming!

The interview is 10+ minutes. Blaming the heat wave on manmade warming occurs at about 6:45 into the interview.

Flashback: Britain's cold snap does not prove climate science wrong | Leo Hickman and George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate sceptics are failing to understand the most basic meteorology - that weather is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends
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This is called weather, and, believe it or not, it is not always predictable and it changes quite often. It is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends. Is this really so hard to understand?

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness - Home - 2010 Petr Beckmann Award Given to Marc Morano

The Petr Beckmann award is given by DDP to individuals who demonstrate courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom. Marc Morano of www.climatedepot.com received the award in June of 2010.

Pajamas Media » The Greenhouse Protection Racket

Climate policymaking in our nation’s capital is best explained in the lingo of Hollywood mobsters and banditos.

Comment/Reply On the PNAS Paper On “Warming Increases The Risk Of Civil War In Africa” By Burke Et Al 2010 « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Greenthink « the Air Vent

First there is no such thing as renewable energy, it’s kind of fitting that the very word greenies have coined is itself a lie. I say that because there are so many lies and exaggerations in the world of green energy that it makes ‘renewable’ a perfectly fitting term. The second law of thermodynamics makes sure that the energy we convert is extremely difficult to recover, in a perfectly efficient system you could convert your CO2 back into gasoline but of course it would take as much ‘work’ as you just got out of it. In reality, the energy you used to drive your car is already turned completely into heat within a two minutes of being turned into velocity (think how long it would take to coast to a stop if you shut off the engine).

Alright, renewable is an intentional misnomer, so what.

Climate Lessons: "Throughout my school life we have had talks on climate change, and what we can do to prevent it. People my age are terrified of what might happen to our planet" Quote from a 15-year old.

The least forgiveable harm produced by the political success of the IPCC is, in my opinion, the harm it has done, and will still do, to children.

Adults discussing theories about climate and speculating about disasters is one thing.

But pushing speculations as facts, 'facts' that will scare children, is quite another.

Muir Russell Skipped Jones’ Interviews « Climate Audit

If website documents are accurate (and they are supposed to be comprehensive), Muir Russell did not meet with Jones, Briffa or Osborn on any occasion subsequent to the press conference on Feb 11, 2010 unveiling the Muir Russell panel – other than perhaps crossing paths at the March 1 Parliamentary hearings.

Belgium considers proposals to dissolve bodies and flush them into sewage systems | Mail Online

The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse.

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media » Oreskes/Conway’s Merchants of DoubtDraws Extensive Climate Denier Connections

In their climate science history book Merchants of Doubt, authors Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway leave little doubt about their disdain for what they regard as the misuse and abuse of science by a small cabal of scientists they see as largely lacking in requisite climate science expertise.

Union of Concerned Scientists continues to promote climate fraud

Climate Change Means More Heatwaves, Premature Deaths, Scientists Warn

"Climate change is a quintessential public health problem," said Michael McGeehin, director of the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency of the federal government.

"Heat waves are a public health disaster. They kill, and they kill the most vulnerable members of our society," McGeehin warned. "The fact that climate change is going to increase the number and intensity of heat waves is something we need to prepare for."
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Climate change could even make regions of the Earth uninhabitable, according to Matthew Huber, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University. His research on the effects of heat stress, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calculated the highest temperature-humidity combination that humans can withstand.

Huber's findings show that if emissions from burning fossil fuels continue unabated, extremely high temperature and humidity levels could make much of the world essentially uninhabitable for human beings.

CNN admits: In warming cities, urban heat island effect more important than greenhouse effect

Heat waves on the rise in big cities - CNN.com

There are two reasons for the increase in urban areas. First, temperatures in cities are rising because of the global greenhouse effect, which is intensifying as the vehicles we drive and the energy we consume emit more and more greenhouse gases.

Second, and more important, cities are warming because of the loss of trees and other natural land cover to make way for buildings, streets, and parking lots, which are composed of materials that absorb far more thermal radiation than the natural landscape.

Because of these two effects -- one global, the other local -- most large American cities are warming at more than twice the rate of their outlying rural areas and the planet as a whole, and this accelerated pace is at the root of the increasing frequency of heat waves.

Arctic magazine's swimsuit issue highlights climate change [hoax] - Green House - USATODAY.com

"It wasn't long ago that you'd never see a bikini up North," the magazine [based in Yellowknife] says in introducing its swimsuit spread. "But if our territories keep warming a degree per decade, swimsuits will one day replace parkas. What may be jarring now won't be jarring soon."

Questions:
1. Is she even a climatologist?
2. If she likes wearing bikinis outdoors, why should she be sad that in winter, daily high temperatures might go above -10 F?
3. If she likes wearing bikinis outdoors, why is she in the Arctic?
4. Did CO2 kill those animals in the background?
Yellowknife weather, July 9, 2010

[Forecast high: 66 F.  Average high for this date: 68 F]

Yellowknife weather, January 10, 2010

Max Temperature -14 °F; Average high temperature -8 °F

The Heat Wave and the Climate Divide - [More global warming propaganda from The Gray Lady]  - NYTimes.com

Continually adding tens of billions of tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere every year is not expected to cause a smooth increase in temperature but a rise in extreme weather of all kinds, many scientists say.

Instapundit » Blog Archive

BILL CLINTON DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT AL GORE:

Given I was surrounded by five armed Secret Service agents who eyed me suspiciously, I didn’t have the nerve to bring up Al Gore’s name, but another Aspen pal did so. ”Even though it was about a global warming issue and had nothing to do with that masseuse sex scandal, the mere mention of Gore’s name made Clinton shoot me a very ugly look,” said the source, who realized the former president was mentally connecting the dots to his own well-documented challenges to marital fidelity.

[Does this guy even know that trace amounts of CO2 are colorless, natural, invisible, and harmless?]: Breathing the filth: Hydrocarbons in the air are more toxic than oil in the gulf - KansasCity.com

Once the spill stops, oil will resume flowing as it always has, to be burned in engines, released to the sky and breathed deep into our bodies. We know now that these emissions contribute to a longer-term and perhaps ultimately more dangerous form of pollution - climate change.
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Gary Polakovic is a former environment writer for the Los Angeles Times who now runs an environmental consulting business and is on the board of directors of Coalition for Clean Air.

The American Spectator : Environmentalist Hypocrisy

That Big Oil (or whatever fossil fuel industry) funds free-market, limited government organizations and candidates (who also tend to fit into the global warming realism camp) is a familiar attempt to discredit them by watermelon groups and by the formerly mainstream media. Meanwhile those very same green socialist groups escape scrutiny of their own lobbying and relationships, because their bedmates give them no reason to suspect anything!

Into the "Hot" Zone | Alarmist Ed Struzik - UpHere.ca

Despite their conviction that climate change is occurring, many Inuit hunters don’t believe polar bears are threatened.
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In amongst the rocks, gravel and peat, they found fossil fragments of alligators, giant tortoises, snakes, lizards, tapirs, hippos and rhino-like animals that had lived 55 million years ago. A decade later, Canadian scientist James Basinger and his colleagues added another dimension to this picture when they excavated extraordinarily well-preserved evidence of a Dawn Redwood forest that flourished downstream of an upland environment dotted by pine, spruce and walnut trees 10 million later.

No one knows why it was warm for so long. What we do know is that in relatively rapid-fire fashion, the cold wiped out the Arctic forests, the miniature beavers and the three-toed horses. Even the more hearty woolly mammoths, mastodons and giant beavers that took over were unable to withstand the climatic cycles that waxed and waned and ended up glaciating 30 per cent of the Earth’s surface at one end of the extreme and nourishing vast savannahs at the other.

Struzik is all over the place in the article above.  He admits that the Arctic has warmed and cooled naturally, and he doesn't say why the changes today aren't natural.  He blames CO2 for a male polar bear eating a cub; he blames CO2 for narwhals getting stuck in ice; he blames CO2 for natural mercury washing into the water.

YouTube - Ed Struzik [didn't let his fear of CO2 prevent him from taking eleven fossil-fueled trips to the Arctic]

The Big Thaw is a product of the eleven trips taken by veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik throughout the north. This book takes a close look at global warming's wide-ranging impact on the Arctic.

News Media Complicity With Climate Science Deniers | Pete Altman's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Just 25 years ago, more than half of Americans (55 percent) thought that reporters generally got their facts right, according to the Pew Research Center. As of last fall, that view was shared by less than one in three Americans (29 percent). When Pew does the same survey next year, it wouldn’t surprise me to see that number on the perceived accuracy of the news media to slide even lower.

Look at recent climate change coverage and you will see why Americans are so down on reporters and editors.

Twitter / Candice Jackson, Esq

At FreedomFest2010: Orson Scott Card saying CO2 is tiny source of possible global warming, scientists ignore main source, water vapor #tcot

Green jobs just muddy the climate-change waters | smh.com.au

...as the Australia Institute warns in a policy brief to be released today, there's a lot of woolly thinking about green jobs. It seems to be little more than a propaganda tool.

At Last! A 'Climate Change' [Hoax] Swimsuit Magazine

It's also one of the the greatest hoaxes of all time, but we already knew that.

Knock, knock. It’s Gillard’s green police | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This Green Nanny State toughness won’t stop the world from warming, of course, but a lot of busybodies will have fun pushing you around and making you spend more.
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Why do so many green programs fail, delivering less than promised for more than allocated? It’s because, first, they are government-run, and, second, the air of holiness about them stops people from asking the most basic questions about delivery. And so it will prove with Gillard’s latest scheme, not least the extra help she’ll give to wind, solar and tidal power.

Climategate probe proves nothing

Dr. Lamb was a pure scientist who went to his grave believing that climate change was natural and not caused by mankind. It's a shame the independent panel of investigators did not pick apart the Climategate e-mails in a manner befitting Lamb's legacy.

Global Cooling Is The New Global Warming | motorcitytimes.com

It’s like the 70′s all over again. Remember the TV Show In Search Of… hosted by Leonard Nimoy?

YouTube - In Search Of The Coming Ice Age Part 1 of 3

The Coming Ice Age: An inquiry into whether the dramatic weather changes in America's northern states mean that a new ice age is approaching. Original broadcast: May 1978.

Skepticblog » Martin Gardner’s Signs of a Crank

* Cranks tend to work in isolation from their colleagues. This is conducive to drifting far afield. If you want to stay abreast of the latest developments, you usually want to be part of the community. If you’re not, you proceed unchecked, and you lack the checks and balances and corrections of peer review. Isolation is rarely or never the best way to insure that your work is on track.

I'm sorry for what he imagined I said - JSOnline

“If 97% of mechanics told me that I need new brakes, I'm going to get new brakes,” my e-mailer writes. “You would choose to listen to the 3% and keep your old brakes.”

Yes, except it’s not 97%, about all they agree on is that your brakes are wearing at some unknown rate, maybe dangerously but maybe not, and the proposal isn’t for new brakes at all – but to throw out your car and get around by donkey instead. It makes the trade-off a little less open-and-shut and the case against tarted-up data a lot more than just a game.

In the past decade — extreme weather deaths outnumbered war casualties

Okay, first off: the “weather” is not the “climate.”  [So how many people were killed by "climate"?]
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Our climate is changing. And yes, weather is also something which warrants worry: In the last ten years, there have been more Americans who died from extreme weather than U.S. soldiers who died in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined. According to the National Weather Service, during the last decade 5,754 people have died due to weather events such as extreme temperatures, flooding and hurricanes. Compare that death toll with the 5,521 soldiers killed in the two wars we’ve waged since 2001.

Bay area could see more cases of mosquito-borne diseases

The cold winter, especially in North Florida, may be responsible for the southern shift of the virus, Day said.

Cold weather – 80 days when the temperature didn't reach 60 degrees – kept mosquitoes from flying, and winter migrating birds that carry the disease from Caribbean islands and Central and South America spent more time in southern Florida, Day said.

So now we can't ever enjoy Peep Show again. Thanks, David 'No but seriously, folks' Mitchell – Telegraph Blogs

I once met Thom Yorke. I’ve never been able to enjoy Radiohead albums quite as much since.

After this video on the theme of “Why climate change is serious and important, and I should know because I’m a leftie comedian and all my friends are Guardian readers” I fear something similar is now going to happen to the entire oeuvre of David Mitchell. (Hat tip: Guy Walters)

NC Media Watch: Mother Natures is turning down the global thermostat

Joe Bastardi writing on his European Blog:

"Think the markets are in the tank? Wait till you global temperature watchers get a load of what is coming."

Using NOAA own data Joe points to some significant cooling. In the graphic below the blue represents cold and the tannish to orange colors warm... "

Feedbacks, feedbacks, feedbacks: A new hole in the IPCC climate models

The whole Warmist scare is based on feedbacks that supposedly will AMPLIFY the trivial warming we saw in the 20th century. The feedbacks proposed are little better than guesswork and are in any case just a cherrypick of possible feedbacks. The research below looks at an unmentioned feedback: A vegetation-climate feedback. And guess what? Including that feedback REDUCES the predicted temperature rise

Heatwave In Philadelphia | Watts Up With That?

July, 2010 has been very hot in Philadelphia so far. Just as hot as it was 180 years ago – during the Little Ice Age when CO2 levels were 280 ppm.

Remember that panic-inducing IPCC global warming report? Well, forget it. | Liberal Media Bias Exposed by IHateTheMedia.com

Have at it, global warming lunatics. Remind us again how your cause is just and how you’re doing it for the children.

A significant admission from alarmist Andy Revkin

Hot Weather in a Warming Climate - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The recent stretch of days topping 100 degrees in Washington was horrific, but hardly notable. I asked Andrew Freedman, of the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang blog and Climate Central, if he could round up 100-degree data for the city. In that roasting inaugural year of global warming news, 1988, there were 7 such days. In 1930, there were 11 (and far less air conditioning!).

Looking at the data in various ways, there is no real trend. I asked Claudia Tebaldi, a climate scientist at Cimate Central, to muse on the numbers in the context of long-term warming:

I agree that the data we looked at this morning does not support any claim of a trend...

Meet the new IPCC, just like the old IPCC

News - Environment: City scientists to work on UN climate [fraud] report

The assessment, to be completed between 2013 and 2014, would build on the findings of its predecessor, which [Bruce Hewitson, of UCT's Climate Systems Analysis Group] said included:

# It is unequivocal that Earth's atmosphere is warming.
# It is clear that most of this warming is a direct consequence of greenhouse gas emissions.
# Rainfall is intensifying, although total rainfall is not increasing.
# There has been an increase in extreme climatic events such as flooding and drought.
# Arctic ice is melting, as is land-based ice. Glaciers are retreating.
# There has been a migration of crop diseases.
# Environmental "envelopes" - where different types of environments occur - are changing. This is already effecting the Cape apple industry, for example.
# There has been an increase in ocean acidification.

"The fourth assessment put to bed questions of how much man is impacting on global change," said Hewitson.
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"In the fourth report, which was the size of three telephone directories, there were about 10 mistakes, which is remarkably few," said Hewitson. "None of these mistakes change our material understanding of climate change."

He said they were overemphasised by climate change denialists - "well funded and well organised" - "leaping on anything they could find".

Wait, what?: If it's "totally doable" for me to live in a 90 F. degree house right now, how exactly would a 63 F. world be too hot for my grandchildren?

Americans urged to end their reliance on air conditioning as heat wave endures - Winnipeg Free Press

And it's a vicious circle: the reliance on A.C. is contributing to global warming, Cox says, which in turn creates more of a demand for it.

Americans have to wean themselves off a modern-day phenomenon that Cox says has not only affected population and electoral maps in the U.S. — more people have moved south knowing they can stay cool 24/7— but is also contributing to obesity rates by keeping them indoors and inactive.
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"I am indeed surviving without A.C.," said [Meredith Modzelewski] who works for an organization that helps large school districts serve healthier, sustainably produced food to students.

"I think it's totally doable for many people. I like having a climate-controlled environment while I am at work. But at home, I enjoy feeling the real temperature, and it makes the heat easier to deal with overall when you allow your body to be used to it and to truly feel it," she said.

Eugene Robinson: Yes, folks, climate change is real | APP.com | Asbury Park Press

It's odd how little we've heard lately from the skeptics who deny that climate change is real. What's the matter, people? Heat stroke?

The Venus-like heat that much of the country has been suffering this summer is almost enough to make anybody a believer in global warming.

Almost, but not quite...

4th straight day of record cool weather in San Diego - SignOnSanDiego.com

Thursday was the fourth straight day in which the maximum temperature in San Diego tied or set a new low for the day.

Maine hopes to sell carbon [swindle] credits to finance energy projects - Bangor Daily News

McCormick estimated that between MaineHousing and Efficiency Maine Trust programs, the state could sell 8,000 carbon credits a year [currently worth a total of $800 on the Chicago Climate Exchange]. Exactly how much revenue that would produce is impossible to say, however, because the price of carbon credits fluctuates so much.

Scoop: NZ Loses As Aussie Confirms No ETS Before 2012

The announcement by new Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard that Australia will not have an ETS before 2012, shows what a huge mistake the National Government has made by pushing ahead with our scheme in New Zealand, ACT New Zealand Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen said today.

"We are now guaranteed to be at a competitive disadvantage with our closest major trading partner for at least another two years, if not more. How many jobs are we going to lose overseas and what damage will be done to our economy, before Australia, the US, Japan and China get on board – if ever?” Mr Boscawen said.

Department of Energy turns out to be the Energy Hog | Grist

That's right, according to a rather embarrassing audit [PDF] of the department's own energy use, its offices have been leaking $2.2 million in electricity that could be powering 3,200 homes a year just because the DOE hasn't been willing to change the light bulbs. Nobody's perfect, of course, but really? Seriously? They got caught red-light-handed installing incandescent bulbs at all seven of the DOE sites audited.

C3: Last 12 Mths Ending June Is Coldest Since 1998; US Temps Cooling At -8.1°F Rate per Century

Despite June 2010 being one of the warmest U.S. Junes since 1895, the twelve-month period ending June 30 was tied (with 2001) as the coldest since 1998. Of course, the U.S. cooling trend will eventually revert to a warming trend, but the current decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated, which has been a major surprise for all global warming alarmists. This trend has persisted since the super 1997-98 El Niño event.

Popular Technology.net: Rebuttal to "Flogging the Scientists"

Peter Sinclair AKA "Greenman" a cartoonist and Al Gore disciple has been hard at work creating YouTube videos that smear skeptics and their arguments. The following is a complete rebuttal to his "Flogging the Scientists" video.

Chamber of Commerce urges Senate to derail climate bill

OTTAWA — Canada's largest and most influential business organization has launched a lobbying campaign urging Canadian senators to kill legislation requiring the government to deliver a science-based plan to fight global warming and provide regular reports on its progress.

More Californian insanity: Should it be illegal to produce devices that emit CO2?

Streetsblog San Francisco » Jack Fleck on Market Street, Muni, Global Warming and Traffic

[San Francisco's retired top traffic engineer, Jack Fleck] I guess the main point I drive home is that the atmosphere can only absorb about 8 billion tons of CO2. In about 15 years there'll be about 8 billion people, so really our goal should be no more than one ton per person, whereas our current level is about 20 tones. So I think what I try to drive home is, how big the reduction has to be and we really just have to get off of fossil fuels, and there was a good quote from Ken Caldeira, do you know who he is? He was a speaker at SPUR, and I was curious about him. He's from Stanford, he said 'I think we need to more or less make it illegal to produce devices that emit CO2 into the atmosphere. Our target should be zero emissions.'

An Energy Bill Wrapped in an Enigma | Mother Jones

The new package is supposed to be finalized next week. So why doesn’t anyone know anything about it?
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Environmental advocates, who have now watched a host of climate bills emerge and then quickly fade in the past year, are beginning to wonder why Obama isn't stepping in to help.
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Without some direction from Democratic leadership—most importantly, the guy over on Pennsylvania Avenue—the path ahead for energy and climate remains unclear. "Let's be honest, we're adrift," said Brune. "There is no plan. There is no clear author or director or coordinator of a plan."

[We're doomed!: Assistant professor surprises himself with bogus climate model projections]

"In the next 30 years, we could see an increase in heat waves like the one now occurring in the eastern United States or the kind that swept across Europe in 2003 that caused tens of thousands of fatalities," Noah Diffenbaugh, an assistant professor of environmental Earth system science at Stanford, said in a statement.
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"Occurrence of the longest historical heat wave further intensifies in the 2030-2039 period, including greater than five occurrences per decade over much of the western U.S. and greater than three exceedences per decade over much of the eastern U.S.," the researchers reported.

"I did not expect to see anything this large within the next three decades. This was definitely a surprise," Diffenbaugh said.

The research was funded by the Energy Department and the National Science Foundation. The climate model simulations were generated and analyzed at Purdue University.

Tobacco and heatwaves and everybody's out to get me, oh my: Climate fraud promoter Michael Mann speaks - 10 minute video

Exonerated Climategate Professor Speaks Out | Clean Skies

Michael Mann, Penn State professor and climate scientists talks with Susan McGinnis about the investigations that have cleared his name in the "Climategate" scandal. The latest U.K. investigation says Mann's science is good, and the U.N. global warming report is sound.

Mann says things like "professional climate change deniers" and "malicious" a lot; the way he returns to the same talking points over and over, he sounds like he's been prepped by a lawyer or PR person.

FT.com / Comment / Editorial - Climate [swindle] politics

...the need for countries to repair towering fiscal deficits is an opening for the movement. As treasuries look for ways to raise more revenues, climate change activists should make the case for green taxes.

Cap-and-trade goes lame duck? « Green Hell Blog

So what can be done to stop a kamikaze cap-and-trade attack in the lame-duck Congress?

Republican Senate and House candidates need to make the lame-duck possibility a campaign issue. They should pressure incumbent Democratic Senate candidates to pledge they will not take action on cap-and-trade in a lame-duck session. House Democratic candidates should be pressured to express a similar sentiment in hopes that Senate Democrats who are up for election in 2012 will get the message that a lame-duck vote for cap-and-trade will be held against them next time.

There may be a reason that President Obama was silent on how he planned to press for cap-and-trade during his Oval Office address — he didn’t want to let the lame duck out of the bag.

[Ok, so how much fossil fuel did it burn?]: Chevy Volt completes 1776-mile Freedom Drive in just 3 days; EVs can't match that — Autoblog Green

Hadley climate scientist thinks you're stupid: Warming *in northern Russia* would allegedly be bad for the people there

Four degrees" rising enough to cause global catastrophe - British scientist: Voice of Russia

Dr. Rutger Dankers, a climate impact scientist from the Hadley Centre in the UK, speaks about the problem of global warming.
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Dr. Dankers speaks about specific measures in this field: "The Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia in cooperation with the Hadley Centre carried out research in some northern Russian regions. Scientists are concerned about the future of permafrost regions, the fast melting of ice there and the effect of these processes on the economy and on people’s lives..."

Flashback: Life Is a Chilling Challenge in Subzero Siberia - National Geographic

Sadly, a little girl died from pneumonia while we were visiting. To dig a grave, the townspeople lit a long bonfire for about an hour, which allowed the ground to thaw a little, then dug a couple of inches and repeated the process for a couple of days before they were able to bury the coffin.

[q] Transportation can't be easy in those temperatures. How do people get around?

Cars and trucks housed in heated garages are fine. But diesel freezes at -58 Fahrenheit [-50 degrees Celsius]. It's a pretty common practice to light a bonfire beneath the fuel tank to keep it from freezing. Axle grease also freezes and is warmed with a blowtorch.

[q] What effects did the cold have on your expedition? Did you run into any problems?

Pen ink freezes. Batteries lose power faster. Metal sticks to skin. The first time I tried to take some stills with my camera the metal stuck to my nose.

What it is is: Carbon emissions by local authority

Another thing that makes me chuckle is that these figures are released with a straight face. I suppose in some respects they totalled up their power and fuel consumption bills and so on, but at some point in the exercise there simply has to be a figure tossed in that is simply plucked from thin air.

There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics, and after statistics there are climate change statistics I suppose.

Angle Threatens To Sue Democrats Over Re-Published Website | AHN

Angle has also scrubbed from her new website previous campaign statements on the United Nations that said, "The U.N. continually threatens U.S. sovereignty, with endless rhetoric and treaties and it has now become the 'umpire' on fraudulent science, such as global warming."

The Climate Bill Endgame | David Goldstein's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

The idea that a carbon cap, which results in polluters paying for the right to emit greenhouse gases, is a tax is ridiculous.

Flashback - YouTube - Democrat Dingell: Cap-and-trade a tax, and a great big one

The Public is Ready for Clean Energy Legislation, Is the Senate? at EnviroKnow

The American people are ready for clean energy legislation. It is the politicians, specifically 45-50 painfully out-of-touch Senators, who are not.

Complacent About The Planet. Or Not. | The New Republic

The premise of my argument was what I was hearing from staff on Capitol Hill, many of them supporters of climate change.

In the wake of the oil spill, I had asked them, were their switchboards lighting up? Were they getting inundated with emails? With letters? The answer was no, no, and no.

Poll: 70 Percent Oppose Energy "Tax" Hikes - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

The pollsters also found that 70 percent don't believe that higher energy taxes will reduce global warming and that 65 percent say that they would be less likely to vote for congresscritters that support higher energy taxes.

"Climategate" Researchers Cleared—But Don't Expect the Controversy to End

Will skeptics lay down their arms? Since this is an English affair, let's put it in their terms: not bloody likely. For years, climate researchers and activists who were convinced of the danger of global warming believed that the public would wake up if they just had access to the right information, the right studies, that showed how frightening climate change really was. The reason the public wasn't clamoring for a carbon cap was because fossil fuel interests—aided and abetted by a lazy media—were blocking that information, obscuring the picture, as Joe Romm of ClimateProgress wrote in a recent post.

Chile's Daiy News Brief: July 8th

Due to the heavy frost and cold weather expected in the next days, the Victor Jara Stadium will reopen as a place of shelter for those without homes. The city council of Santiago said these extraordinary measures will apply on the nights of Wednesday, July 7 and Thursday, July 8.

Record cold snap puts pressure on growers - inMyCommunity - Perth, Western Australia

Technical officer at WA Climate Service, Michelle Dalpozzo, said that the bureau considered anything below 5C a cold night and Perth was experiencing its coldest winter on record.

“We’ve definitely set a record with 14 consecutive nights,” she said. “The last time it was this cold in Perth was in July 1997 for nine days.”

[What's the all-in cost of providing this useless data?]: Carbon emissions by local authority. Full data visualised | Environment | guardian.co.uk

For the first time the carbon emissions of every local authority have been released. Find out how yours does

CBO Plays “Let’s Pretend” on Kerry–Lieberman Scoring | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Here’s a principles-of-economics question: Suppose the U.S. gross domestic product (national income) is currently $14 trillion. Then suppose the U.S. raised all tariff, income tax, and sales tax rates to 100 percent. How much money would the government collect? If you realized that nobody would generate taxable income under such a regime and answered “zero,” congratulations.

If, instead, you answered $14 trillion, you may have a future at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), because that is how they analyze (score) the fiscal impacts of the Kerry–Lieberman climate change bill.

Sea otters worth $700 million in carbon credits - environment - 07 July 2010 - New Scientist

Want to slow global warming? Save a sea otter. So says Chris Wilmers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose team has calculated that the animals remove at least 0.18 kilograms of carbon from the atmosphere for every square metre of occupied coastal waters.

That means that if sea otters were restored to healthy populations along the coasts of North America they could collectively lock up a mammoth 1010 kg of carbon – currently worth more than $700 million on the European carbon-trading market. Wilmers explained this at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology in Edmonton, Canada, this month.

Hot Air » Field poll shows Boxer in trouble in CA

Has California’s Sweetheart, Senator Ma’am, suddenly fallen out of favor on the Left Coast? A new Field Poll suggests that the upcoming Senate election has California voters reassessing their incumbent — and that doesn’t bode well at all for Barbara Boxer. Even before the campaign gets into high gear, Boxer finds herself underwater in both job approval and favorability

BP slated to claim $600 million in ethanol tax credits this year « Climate Progress

Nov 2008: Greenie criticizes Tom Friedman, who heroically saved property from developers, then built his own massive fossil-fueled mansion there

A very long review of Friedman’s latest book | Grist

He bid against developers to buy the last large piece of property in his (suburban) Maryland neighborhood to keep it from being turned into another subdivision. I was expecting to hear him describe how they then placed it into a conservation easement to preserve a piece of nature into perpetuity. Friedman mentions twice in the book that his wife on the board of Conservation International (Conservation International is also mentioned 30 times in the book). Instead he tells us they then built their own house on it and "turned the rest into a parklike green space."

They incorporated a geothermal heating and cooling system in their new home of (suspiciously) unspecified size and have enough solar panels to provide a whopping 7 percent of their electricity use -- leaving 93 percent still coming from Maryland's grid. Scouring the internet, I find that 85 percent of Maryland's electricity comes from coal, and other fossil fuels.
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A little more sleuthing and I find the reason he forgot to mention how big this 11,400-square-foot, $10 million house is. Although Hummers are held up throughout the book as symbols of unpatriotic conspicuous consumption, references to the house equivalent (the McMansion) is entirely missing. A McMansion is to a Hummer as Friedman's house is to an M1 Abrams tank.
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...Friedman on the other hand (thanks to the internet) could have skipped the travelogue filler material and written a shorter more concise book without leaving his basement:

Anyone who has visited Moscow regularly over the years ... I've visited China regularly since 1990 ... I visited McDonough in his office near the University of Virginia ... He gestures from the window of his 26th floor Cairo office ... during an interview in his office in Sydney ... From an office in Casablanca ... when I visited him in his lab at Harvard ... I visited Australia in May 2007 ... In late 2007, I went to Atlanta ... In June 2006, I visited Peru ... in Richland, Washington, gave me a ... I visited him in his office in Shanghai ... I visited Beijing in the middle of ... I visited the MIT campus ... I was visiting London ... I went to Moscow ... we went to Brazil ... went by riverboat up Peru's Rio Tanibopata ... I was visiting The Hague