U.S. Won't Pass Carbon-Price Law for Power Generators This Year, Reid Says - Bloomberg

The U.S. won’t pass legislation this year that charges power plants a price for releasing carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists have linked to climate change, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.

“It’s a cinch we’re not going to get it done this year,” Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said of the carbon-pricing plan today at an energy conference in Las Vegas.

EPA Chief: Veto Coming If Congress Tries Blocking Carbon Pollution Clean-Up | David Doniger's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

“The president and the White House have been clear that they would veto any attempt to take away authority here,” Jackson said.

Sceptics meet warmist scientist | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

I don’t think the late Professor Stephen Schneider did all that well when confronted in an SBS studio with sceptics. [video]

Grist commenter incites violence against CEOs, corporations « Green Hell Blog

The radical green management can call for non-violence all it wants — the zombies it has created seem poised to achieve their ends by other means.

BTW Grist, incitement to violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment.

Your tax dollars at work: Obama administration pays interns to promote the climate hoax in schools

San Rafael nonprofit pits AmeriCorps interns against climate change - Marin Independent Journal

A San Rafael nonprofit is the manager of a new AmeriCorps program that will place 30 interns for one year in local governments, public agencies and nonprofits throughout the Bay Area to assist in implementing greenhouse gas emissions reduction programs.
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In Marin, some interns will assist with a climate change education program in Marin County schools. The program motivates students and their families to take voluntary energy efficiency actions to reduce their carbon footprint through educational activities such as school assemblies, school plays and the dissemination of coupons.

Gillard on climate change | Australian Climate Madness

As we would expect, the climate change "committee" that Julia Gillard will set up in agreement with the Greens will be stacked with warmists, and there won't be a sceptic within 20 miles.

Bill Gates - What I'm Learning - Recommended Reading on Climate Change - The Gates Notes

...I agree, especially because even moderate warming could cause mass starvation and have other very negative effects on the world’s poorest 2 billion people.

Professor Terrie Williams thinks you're stupid: CO2 is allegedly overheating the Arctic so much that narwhals can't find open water for breathing?!

BBC - Earth News - Climate change threatens slow swimming narwhals

In fact, Prof William's study reveals that narwhals swim so slowly that they can only cover a distance of around 1.4km in any direction before they run out of oxygen, despite their endurance capability.

So to survive, they need to be able to find a break in the ice at least every 1.4km.

"The big surprise is how little of the Arctic waters narwhals can use due to the limitation of breathing," says Prof Williams.

Worse, climate change will reduce the amount of suitable ocean, further endangering the species.

"Warmer temperatures are creating more icebergs and larger floes," says Prof Williams.

Greenpeace chief warns Erdoğan over climate change, price hikes

Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo has written a letter to Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, urging the leader to increase the Turkish public’s awareness of the dangers of climate change and cautioning that its repercussions may soon be severely felt.
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“Death, resource scarcity, increased food prices, unstable weather conditions, further global instability [resource wars] and international migrations [resulting from floods, drought and the like] will touch your country -- and all of us,” Naidoo’s letter read.

theblogprof: Awesome: LA school built on toxic soil named after Al Gore

It's not so much an irony as it is appropriate for the global warming huckster that flies around the planet on private jets and lives in a home that consumes 45 times the energy of the average American home while warning us of our energy usage and its ill effect on our planet for a school named after him to be built on a toxic dump. The school is devoted to environmental themes. It's not irony - it's poetic justice.

Catastrophe Tourism – See Sinking Tuvalu Yourself! Secretary Of State Admits: “We’re Sensationalising The Topic”

Anke Richter of Der Spiegel has a piece on tourism at the epicentre of climate change catastrophe: the islands of Tuvalu. According to Der Spiegel, the small group of islands is milking the catastrophe scenario for all it’s worth. Call it Tuvalu-gate.

The tiny islands may disappear under the rising oceans in just the matter of a few decades, so it is claimed. Book now and travel to Tuvalu and see a sinking island for yourself! Catastrophe tourists are now jetting in to the Tuvalu island of Funafuti.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

Average ice extent for August was 5.98 million square kilometers (2.31 million square miles), 1.69 million square kilometers (653,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average, but 620,000 square kilometers (240,000 square miles) above the average for August 2007...

Earl and Dean: Category “Much Ado About Nothing” Hurricanes | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

In the continuing (over)reaction to the failures of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) once again “leaned forward” in anticipation of a hurricane. For all of its activities in response to Hurricane Dean in 2009, FEMA spent north of $50 million for what amounted to a cloudy day in Houston, as Dean never got close to hitting Texas. Despite the fact that few expected Earl to actually hit the United States, FEMA issued disaster declarations to North Carolina and Massachusetts.

If plants are exposed to air containing trace amounts of CO2, will they wilt or go extinct?

Bees, flowers wilted by climate change: Study

"Scientists have raised the idea that one aspect of climate change would be this decoupling-in-time of species that interact," said James Thomson, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto.

"It could be predators getting decoupled from their prey, it could be plants getting decoupled from insects that attack them or insects that serve them, like pollinators. My interpretation is that it is probably that kind of phenomenon."
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While Thomson is careful to point out the findings apply to a specific set of circumstances, he said that the pattern is a concern to scientists. If found to repeat itself elsewhere, it could reduce fruit and seed production, and ultimately might cause plants to decline in number or even go extinct.

Low-Tech CO2 Enrichment for Greenhouse Vegetable Production

As best we can determine from Jin et al.'s graphs of hourly CO2 measurements made on specific days, as well as every-day or every-other-day measurements of CO2 made at one specific time of day, mean daylight CO2 concentrations in the CO2-enriched greenhouses were just a little over twice as great as those measured in the control greenhouses. As for the consequences of this slightly more than doubling of the air's CO2 content, they report that "the average percentage of yield increases of all three sites were 270%, 257%, 87%, 140% and 227% for celery, leaf lettuce, stem lettuce, oily sowthistle, and Chinese cabbage, respectively."

If Latinos are exposed to air containing trace amounts of CO2, will they get sick?

California’s Prop 23 is bad news for Latino families | Grist

The upcoming November election contains a ballot initiative that will threaten all Californians' health and safety. But the Latino community will suffer disproportionate harm...Repealing AB 32 will make it easier for the worst polluters to continue poisoning Latino communities, exacerbate unemployment in industries where Latinos are already suffering, and weaken opportunities for jobs and wealth building for Latinos in the green economy.

Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming and Human-Induced Changes at the North Pole

Global warming is occurring at least three but perhaps as fast at five times faster in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet. Sea ice is disappearing at a record rate. A couple years ago the Arctic was forecasted to be ice-free in 2060. Today, it is predicted to be ice-free by 2020. Less ice translates into more toxins in the Arctic Ocean.

The sea surrounding Alaska's Aleutian Island's have been laid to waste by global warming.

One hundred and fifteen thousand sea otters are missing. And it only took four orcas or killer whales less than a decade to finish them off.

Whales and Fish Reduce Global Warming | Care2 Healthy & Green Living

Large marine species like whales, sharks and other large fish store a significant amount of carbon in their bodies. A blue whale weighing 90 tons, for example, can store 9 tons of carbon. That whale can live for decades, and keeps that carbon away from the atmosphere. Even once the whale dies and its body sinks to the bottom of the ocean, the carbon is still kept out of the atmosphere.

Tiny 'Flying Saucers' Could Save Earth From Global Warming - ScienceNOW

Using a trick of sunlight itself, tiny metallic disks could be levitated to the stratosphere where they would shade Earth's surface and counteract the effects of global warming, a new paper proposes.

GOP's Fiorina now leading Boxer in California Senate race - Washington Times

Carly Fiorina has pulled ahead of Barbara Boxer -- barely -- in the California Senate race, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday.

After trailing Mrs. Boxer since February, when Rasmussen began running hypothetical match-ups, Mrs. Fiorina now leads the Democratic incumbent by a margin of 47 to 42 percent among voters who have decided which candidate to support.

DOE [to blow another $575 million on climate hoax] - ABC News

Energy Secretary Chu announces $575 million in carbon capture grants to projects in 15 states

ANALYSIS-Climate change may add to disaster death tolls 00:10 Hours ago

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Natural disasters are tending to kill fewer people but climate change may add to the toll by unleashing more extreme weather and causing after-effects such as disease and malnutrition, experts say.

Military girds for [carbon dioxide] battles

A navy planner says the Canadian Forces must be ready to be called to the front lines in the battle against the effects of climate change.

Townhall - Street Theater "Education"

It’s been a rough few weeks for the “eco-progressive” fringe.

Static jet streams induced near-record high temperatures in parts of the United States and Russia, but extreme cold pummeled Seattle, England and much of the Southern Hemisphere. Perhaps Al Gore, Michael Mann and Rajendra Pachauri can turn this hodgepodge into “catastrophic climate change,” but most folks understand it as Mother Nature and weather.

Top climate activist calls focus on economy, security ineffective - The Hill's E2-Wire

Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, tells the National Journal in an interview that advocates should instead emphasize the “peril” facing the planet.

Are Humans Parasites? « NoFrakkingConsensus

James J. Lee was off his rocker. But my friends in the environmental movement need to explain how they can dismiss him as a madman and yet continue to revere a publication that expressed virtually identical views in its first editorial.

Scientist Smackdown: No Link Between Climate Change and War in Africa? | 80beats | Discover Magazine

The argument for a link between global warming and war came from UC-Berkeley economist Marshall Burke, who said that food shortages and drought brought on by climate change could cause 50 percent more armed conflict by 2030 under the scenarios that climate models predict. However, Norwegian political scientist Halvard Buhaug looked at sub-Saharan civil war over the last half century for this week’s study. When he compared the records of military conflict with the records of temperature and rainfall, did not see a correlation between the two.

It's The Sun, Not Your SUV

At last, FIVE PROOFS That CO2 WON'T Destroy The Earth, that it is the sun, not CO2 that is driving temperature change

C3: The Mafia Does "Green" Wind Power: You Know It's A Scam When It Attracts The Local 'Sopranos'

Just about everything associated with green energy initiatives turns into a scam, attracting both organized crime and the Gore/Soros leftist wealth. Unfortunately, the wind power "renewable" market is also incredibly vulnerable to these types of scam artists, as evidenced by the happenings in Sicily.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: 'Kiwigate' Update

Because there are very few long term temperature records in the Pacific Ocean, the NIWA record bears heavily disproportionate weight in determining multi-decadal trends in global average temperatures used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. However, the basis for the NIWA temperature adjustments is unknown, the data and calculations that underlie the adjustment method lost, and the originator of the technique of adjustment summarily dismissed from his position at NIWA.

9,25 - a factor that could close the global warming debate

The IPCC numbers where each doubling of CO2 represents 3 K it simply does not fit at all with the total warming effect of the atmosphere.

[I hate it when that happens: Ad shows Mt Rushmore partially submerged by global warming]

Mt. Rushmore National Memorial - EnchantedLearning.com

Elevation of Mt. Rushmore 5,725 feet

The Republican Journal: Coastal Senior College Offers Course on Global Warming

Have you ever wondered why it is that modern human enterprise has wrought such wreck and ruin on the planet?
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Instructor Fred Cichocki will help students understand the real “inconvenient truth” of why and how we fell from grace with the Earth, and what we can do to begin restoring the right ecological relationship before it’s too late. This course promises to be an eye-opener!
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“Falling From Grace With the Earth” will meet on Wednesdays 1 - 3PM September 22 - October 20, at Skidompha Library in Damariscotta.

Climate Change May Affect Plague Distribution and Incidence - PR Newswire - sacbee.com

DEERFIELD, Ill., Sept. 7 -- /PRNewswire/ -- While many climate experts and environmentalists explore the negative effects of global warming, a new study reveals a positive outcome of the warming of the planet: the potential elimination of the plague.

PressZoom.com - Global News Service - News and Press Release Distribution

Nairobi, 6 September 2010 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is today publishing an ambitious new strategy to reduce its carbon footprint and pave the way towards a zero emissions future.
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A key target area is work-related travel by UNEP employees. At present, air travel is responsible for over 85% of UNEP's carbon emissions. The new strategy aims to reduce employee travel by 3% each year from 2010 to 2012.
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UNEP has been climate neutral since 2008, but the new efficiency measures in the Climate Neutral Strategy will enable UNEP to lead by example in promoting sustainability.

Wind Power Deal Brings Fight To Utility Panel - News Story - WCVB Boston

"What's the Arctic ice cap worth?" Pawa asked. "Would you pay $1.50 a month to save the planet?"

Obama shouldn't use troops as props - USATODAY.com

Obama is not making a new argument here. Ever since the philosopher William James coined the term "the moral equivalent of war," liberals have wanted to find a way to organize American economic life as if we were at war. FDR was honest about this, unapologetically selling the New Deal as a war effort without a war and questioning the patriotism of those who criticized his economic policies. Today's liberals often use similar rhetoric, particularly on global warming, but they don't seem to think through what they're really calling for.

Warning Signs: Aren't Editorials Expected to be Factual?

It is hard to believe that any journalist could not know about Climategate or the subsequent failure of the IPCC’s Copenhagen climate conference that even the President attended as the entire hoax came unraveled.

Prince Charles Under Fire for $80,000 Train Ride - TIME NewsFeed

In July his annual budget report revealed that over the preceding year he nearly halved his travel budget to $1 million in a bid to reduce his emissions. And to prove he's got a touch of recessionista in him, he halved his entertainment expenses to $380,000, and made the Canadians pay for his state visit there in Nov. 2009.

American-bashing misses the point when climate talks fail | Colin Beavan | Environment | guardian.co.uk

...it is not the American people who have stopped worthwhile climate legislation from passing through the United States legislature. It is corporations. The corporations – multi-national corporations – whose bottom lines would be affected by a higher price put on fossil fuels.

Charles Manson: Global Warming Prophet

The fact that Manson, considered by many to be evil incarnate and the leader of one of the most creepy and bloodthirsty cults ever recorded, is now a prophet for the religion of global warming and climate change, proves that the real agenda behind global warming, neo-eugenics, has its roots in the darkest and most abhorrent recesses of the human mind.

Belief in Evidence or Evidence of Belief « the Air Vent

All of these things revolve around a common core belief that humans are changing the planet, and that is always assumed bad. It gives a person a warm fuzzy feeling in their heart that they are doing the right thing. It gives them hope that they can make the world a better place. They are generally good people with good hearts and strong belief in the fact that what they are doing is a hundred percent right. It IS a very understandable position, when you are standing on an untouched mountain or an Antarctic plane and take a deep breath of the cold clear air.

But that is not science.

When (MMH 2010) demonstrates that models overshoot warming by 2 to 4 times measured evidence, climate science must take notice. They MUST come off the cold mountain, walk to the energy eating computer and face the even colder evidence.

Carbon Council - Will Cop16 Fail Like Cop15? - CNBC

Last month, Bjørn Lomborg, the self-proclaimed skeptical environmentalist shocked those watching the climate change debate by performing what was widely described as a u-turn.
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This announcement was probably the biggest news within the climate-change debate since the collapse of Cop15 talks in Copenhagen late last year, despite numerous studies on the impact of climate change.
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Yvo Der Boer, the former head of the UNPCCC and having overseen the Cop15 talks, has taken a slightly less stressful job as an advisor at KPMG.

UK Government urges City of London to invest in low carbon | Policy

UK Climate Change Minister Greg Barker will today urge the City of London to become a global centre for low-carbon investment.
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The Capital Markets Climate Initiative (CMCI), which is launched today at the London Stock Exchange, aims to unlock private investment to meet the estimated $100 billion needed annually to tackle climate change in developing countries.

Climate Science’s Troubles With The Physical World « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Has any climate scientist actually read the WG2 Report?

First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Peru's Amazon : TreeHugger

You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru's Amazon.

The Brown Daily Herald - Dominic Mhiripiri ’12: Climategate was no fluke

To make those critical of the questionable practices of authoritative scientists appear repulsive by tagging them as “anti-scientific” borders on some sort of censorship. It is no wonder bigger climate change fundamentalists are quick to address anyone skeptical of their sensation-seeking rhetoric as a heretic, or in the words of Bill Nye, “almost unpatriotic”.

I'm funny: official – Telegraph Blogs

...objectivity or fairness was never the point of Harrabin’s comment, any more than it was the point of his programme. In the guise of taking a bold, irreverent, controversial, unexpected sideways look at the Climate Change debate, Harrabin mainly used his two documentaries to warm up the same tired old smears and inaccuracies. Sceptics are funded by Big Oil; they’re a weird, swivel-eyed minority; Climategate was “a storm in a tea cup” which did nothing to shake the underlying science; etc.

A call for direct action in the climate movement: we need your ideas | Grist

* We need large actions, with many members of the general public. Think hundreds and thousands. So don't concentrate on the kind of tactics that only a few hardy specialists can carry out; we're not going to have hundreds of people rappelling or scuba diving.
* We don't think for a minute that we can actually physically shut down the fossil-fuel economy for any meaningful period; it's too big. We need to aim for effective symbolic targets -- say, dirty, old coal-fired power plants -- and use them to make clear the need and opportunity to cut carbon fast.
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We've set up a special email address for ideas: climate.ideas@gmail.com.

China's corn area expects cold weather; sales weak

The temperature in Jilin, in the northeast, may fall as much as 9 degrees celsius (48.20F), and the sharp loss of heat could delay grain fill, said China's weather bureau on its website (www.cnan.gov.cn).

Gillard, from 'Ten Pound Pom' to Australia's first woman PM | My Sinchew

She was just four when she sailed into Australia, clutching a toy koala, in 1966, after her parents took up a cheap 10-pound migration scheme hoping warmer air would cure chronic lung problems.

"(The doctor said Julia) will not be able to grow up in the very cold weather," Moira Gillard said in 2006. "He said, 'Take her to a warmer climate.' So we came to Australia."

One scientist vs 52 climate change sceptics | COSMOS magazine

In an Insight special recorded just weeks before his unexpected death, Steve Schneider faces a tough audience of 52 climate sceptics and fence-sitters in an attempt to convince them that society needs to take urgent action against climate change.
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The sceptics pose some tough questions, and some of the comments are even more harsh – one sceptic claims that man-made climate change is simply being used to build hysteria in order to ensure grant money for climate scientists.

 ASEM climate-change forum attracts 150 to Ha Long City

The two-day ASEM forum, organised by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), has attracted more than 150 delegates from Australia, Denmark, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and host Viet Nam.

German Wind Capacity Revisited: High Cost versus Least Cost — MasterResource

My post last week evaluated the claim that wind generation can save money for power pool customers. It was found that the supposed savings could be realized only if the elephant in the room – the above-market feed-in tariff – was ignored. In other words, consumer payments for electricity from a power pool was half of the story; the real price had to include the consumer-qua-taxpayer funding of the feed-in-tariff (FIT).

L.A. Names Environmental Science School After Al Gore, Builds It on 'Toxic Soil'

Oh, and also, "an oil well operates across the street," but, again, "officials said they've found no associated risks." Except for the risk that students will grow up with a highly-developed sense of irony!

We live in an era of unusual climate stability!

That is what I have been pointing out for some years (though I was referring mainly to the 20th century) -- so it is interesting to see the same conclusion in reference to a much longer period in the chart below of Greenie origin. They are not content with the facts, though, so have tacked a crazy extrapolation onto the end of it. In terms of the geological time period that the chart covers, a severe downswing would be much more logical

Cold Snap Hurts Crops - ABC 4.com - Salt Lake City, Utah News

SANDY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Monday night's temperatures got down right frosty, some temperatures even reached record lows. And one farmer says that's a little too cool, too quickly. "Every farmer knows we're at the mercy of mother nature," Farmer Leo J. Farnsworth told ABC on Monday.

The Farnsworth farm in Sandy temperatures reached 45 degrees and for a farm that grows a wide range of vegetables and fruit, some produce was harmed by the cold weather, "we'll be impacted economically by the melons, they're the most endanger and perhaps the tomatoes too, " Farnsworth continued. Turns out, cold weather harms the growth of produce and can even kill it.

Rana Sugars Sells Carbon [Swindle] Credits

(RTTNews) - Rana Sugars on Tuesday informed that it has sold 149230 carbon credits as granted by United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (UNFCC) for period up to 2008-09. The company has sold aforesaid carbon credits for Rs. 11.24 crore. It is for the first time in the history of the company that it has earned such huge amount after selling carbon credits.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks based PolarTrec program brings teachers to the Arctic

The seventh-grade science teacher spent three weeks in Barrow last summer through PolarTrec, a program run by the Fairbanks-based Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. PolarTrec, funded by the National Science Foundation, has sent about 50 mostly middle and high school teachers from across the United States on research trips in the Arctic and Antarctic in its three- year life.

“The polar regions are one of the regions that are changing the quickest in the world,” Wilkening said. “The desert southwest is being affected by climate change too, and people don’t really make that connection. I wanted to help my students make that connection.”

The Climber Dan Goodwin Scales Millennium Tower in San Francisco - NYTimes.com

The spectacle echoed the dramatic climbs of Alain Robert, a Frenchman known for scaling tall buildings. He ascended The New York Times building in June 2008 and displayed a banner reading “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week” near the top.

Ice caps melting at half the speed that had been predicted | Mail Online

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted, it has been announced.

[Bill Nye still promoting the global warming hoax]

Bill Nye: Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. And we don't have to look too far away to see why. Last week I attended NASA's Venus Exploration Group in Madison, WI, the data presented there was alarming.

There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean. It's the closest planet to earth and we can't even say for sure if there are giant active volcanoes on it, because that intense heat and thick air smother everything. Venus is a big science experiment, a real-life demonstration, of what happens when the greenhouse effect spirals out of control globally. So when I meet people who are skeptical of climate change, I have to ask them why? Whose interests do they think that serves? Certainly not ours. Certainly not earth's.

Letter of the day: Preserve forests' future by acting now on global warming | StarTribune.com

Ironically, our state's rich forests are on the front lines in fighting climate change because their trees absorb and store some of the carbon that otherwise would be changing the climate even faster. These forests, thanks to their size, also offer wildlife some flexibility to move as creatures try to adapt to such changes. Now is the time for Congress and the American people to get serious about global warming. We shouldn't wait until our tall, boreal forests become dry savannahs and the Boundary Waters becomes the Boundary Potholes.

Scenarios for Congress

In the House, Pelosi would face pressure from moderate Democrats to ditch liberal priorities like climate change that nearly sunk the party at the ballot box, and to cut deals with the Senate.

Welcome to the wacky world of green power - The Globe and Mail

Welcome to the wacky world of green power, where misguided governments have sparked a massive corporate feeding frenzy (at taxpayers’ expense) to achieve little or nothing of any social benefit. This week, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced $8-billion more in green investments, on top of the $7-billion he announced a short while ago. He’s determined to outspend B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, who also wants to be the king of green. The heart of their strategy is to pay massive subsidies to wind, solar and other renewable energy producers – many of them large multinational corporations – for the next 20 years.
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“The solar panel is the ideal modern status symbol, which signifies both wealth and superiority, even if it’s perfectly useless,” writes Mr. Monbiot. “Seldom has there been a bigger public rip-off.”

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Climate Scientist: 'Skeptical Science' misleading and fails to understand physics

Climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr. skewers the [un]-'Skeptical Science' blog today for posting "misleading" information about the lack of ocean warming since 2004, and a failure to understand the physics.

[Settled science update]: Theory suggests comet didn't trigger ice age

The theory that a giant comet crashed into earth around 13,000 years ago, causing the planet to freeze over and animals to die off is now being called into question as another theory is being put forth to explain the cause of the ice age.

The Telegraph reports that scientists now argue instead that water from melting glaciers disturbed ocean currents and caused worldwide temperatures to drop, resulting in a mass extinction that almost wiped out the human race.

Breaking: When people kill each other in Africa, it's not your phone charger's fault

BBC News - Climate shifts 'not to blame' for African civil wars

Climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, a study suggests.

It challenges previous assumptions that environmental disasters, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, had played a part in triggering unrest.

Instead, it says, traditional factors - such as poverty and social tensions - were often the main factors behind the outbreak of conflicts.

The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the United States.

Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable

...scientists now believe that instead of stone-age tribes, like the groups that occasionally emerge from the forest today, the Indians who inhabited the Amazon centuries ago numbered as many as 20 million, far more people than live here today.

"There is a gigantic footprint in the forest," said Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, 49, a Colombian-born professor at the University of Florida who is working this swath in northeast Peru.

[James Hansen admits that Al Gore's "consensus" is bogus?] | Mind Matters | Big Think

As James Hansen put it last spring, when I heard him comment on the effective communications of Al Gore. Gore, he told us, "said in 'An Inconvenient Truth' that there are 930 papers that agreed on human-made climate change and zero that disagreed with it. Well, that's just not normal for science. Scientists are always attracted to the possibility that everybody else might be wrong, so they love to try to come up with ideas for how maybe the consensus is wrong. So it's not 930 to zero."

For Global Warming, Blame Men More than Women | Mind Matters | Big Think

...differences between the genders are a factor in global warming.

Climate Observations: August 2010 SST Anomaly Update

Weekly NINO3.4 SST anomalies are now lower than the values for the same week during the previous transitions to major satellite-era La Niña events.

Von Storch On The IAC and IPCC. And Lead Author Edenhofer Is Lying, Says Richard Tol

The IPCC has at least taken the first step in an attempt to reform, says the ZDF clip. It has invited von Storch to be a lead author for the next IPCC report.

Hans von Storch is a luke-warmer to warmist scientist, but we can expect him to be, as his website claims, an “honest broker”.

Prince Charles embarks on lavish train trip to spread green message | UK news | The Guardian

Eight carriages for a core party of 14 people to preach a message of sustainability on week-long tour of Britain
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"I'm not sure he'll get that many people jumping on his bandwagon," said Nicky Coles, 38, a child carer who watched Charles roll up to the launch in a cavalcade of petrol-guzzling cars. "He's a royal. He has the money to go green while Joe Bloggs hasn't. He can get his gardener to grow organic vegetables while the rest of us go to the supermarket and pay more."

Physicist questions notions on climate change, IBN Live News

Austria-born Siegfried Fred Singer, on a visit of Kerala now, said "there is no clear evidence to prove that global warming is attributable to human-caused increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide." "It is a matter of scientific dispute," Singer said during an interaction with reporters here.

Beware of Greens Bearing Gifts « Green Hell Blog

In the end, West Virginia will likely be stuck with coal-killing policies even as carbon capture and storage goes the way of the Jimmy Carter-era synfuels boondoggle.

Wind Falters while Nuclear Surges | The Resilient Earth

the public's infatuation with “green” energy has faded, the resurgent nuclear power industry has been quietly ramping up its efforts to provide the energy the world will need in the future. Even ecological activists have come to realize that nuclear is the only viable option to fossil fuels. As a result, a nuclear surge is underway, with 52 new reactors under construction around the world and more in the planning stages. This about face in energy policy amounts to nothing less than a nuclear renaissance.

Prince of Wales spreads eco-loon gospel on his amazing, biofuel-powered crazy train – Telegraph Blogs

[Alan Wesson] How much does his train weigh?

The pictures I have seen in the media today show eight carriages including the power car.

They weigh between 36 and 51 tons each.

Being generous and taking an average of 40 tons, that makes a total of 320 tons, or about the same as 320 family cars.

To carry 9 people.

If he thinks he is exemplifying a ’sustainable’ lifestyle, this guy needs putting somewhere where he can’t do any harm to himself or any (more) harm to the rest of us.

When It Comes to Car Batteries, Moore's Law Does Not Compute - NYTimes.com

Silicon Valley may be an epicenter of the nascent electric car industry, but don’t expect the battery revolution to mimic the computer revolution, one of I.B.M.’s top energy storage scientists advises.

“Forget Moore’s Law — it’s nothing like that,” said Winfried Wilcke, senior manager for I.B.M.’s Battery 500 project, referring to the maxim put forward by Gordon Moore, an Intel founder, that computer processing power doubles roughly every two years.

“Lithium ion, which clearly is the best battery technology today, is flat, completely flat since 2003,” Mr. Wilcke said last week at a gathering in San Francisco attended by executives from I.B.M. and Better Place, a Silicon Valley electric car infrastructure company.
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“The dream that we have today to have exactly the same car charge up in minutes and drive off hundreds of miles cannot happen,” Mr. Wilcke said. “Or at least not for 50 years.”
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“It’s physically possible to have a fast-charge mechanism and a fast-charge outlet, but can the grid support it?” Mr. Seeff said. “And what do we define by fast-charging? Is it 20 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes? Because if you have two people waiting to fast-charge, you could be waiting an hour.”

HSBC predicts bigger growth for low-carbon cars than renewables sector | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Low-carbon vehicles, such as electric cars, will be a bigger global market by 2020 than renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, according to a report by HSBC bank.

The report predicts that 8.65m electric vehicles and 9.23m plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles will be sold globally in 2020, up from around 5,000 and 657,000 respectively in 2009.

A penguin species faces extinction

“Think of it like your freezer,’’ Trivelpiece said. “If your freezer is at 30 degrees, you have ice cubes. If your freezer is at 33, you have water in your trays. What’s happening to the penguins is one of the great examples of how a little bit of warmth is so dramatic.’’
...Suddenly, the penguin needs our love, before we make it too warm for them to survive.

While the news for penguins is troubling, record numbers of Atlantic puffins continue to breed in Audubon’s Project Puffin in Maine. It was also a good year for loons in New Hampshire, according to the Loon Preservation Committee.

Time for Rajendra Pachauri to go - opinion - 01 September 2010 - New Scientist

When the IPCC's governing body meets in South Korea next month, it should seek a new chair - preferably a scientist of stature from outside the climate research establishment. That will give it the best chance of re-establishing the credibility it must have.

School Named After Al Gore and Rachel 'DDT' Carson Built on Toxic Soil | NewsBusters.org

After all, Carson has the blood of millions nay billions of malaria deaths on her hands as a result of her paranoid book "Silent Spring" leading to the ban of DDT many years ago.

As for Gore, if he ever gets his way, and nations around the world adopt cap-and-trade programs to limit carbon dioxide emissions, millions will likely die as a result of being kept from modern forms of energy creation.

As such, it's quite fitting a school be named after these two radical environmentalists that could end up harming the very students that attend it.

Naming a school after Al Gore and Rachel Carson is a mistake | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

To name your school after one controversial figure might be judged careless by some. But to name it after two just seems positively reckless. Al Gore, the former US vice-president and force behind An Inconvenient Truth, and Rachel Carson, the author of the seminal environmental text Silent Spring, are deemed by many to be giants of the modern environmental movement. But they are also among its most divisive figures.

Nations rethink Copenhagen commitment on climate funding

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh told FE, “We certainly hope that this meeting will go a long way in reducing trust deficit between countries. But, I doubt whether the Copenhagen logjam is broken. The single most important trigger for success at Cancun is the funding.”

He, however, said that when it comes to funding, the issues are very complex, and the continued financial crisis is making public funding difficult. “It is making countries now rethink their commitments in Copenhagen. Countries are instead talking more about private financing and carbon credits and less about public funding. Conscious efforts are being made to devalue the concept of public funding.

No noises ahead of Cancun

Around this time last year, there was frenetic activity in the climate change circuits in the lead up to the widely anticipated summit meeting in Copenhagen, even though it had become sufficiently clear that a comprehensive and global agreement — that was the stated objective of the conference — was not going to be realised in the Danish capital.
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This year has been in stark contrast. With just three months to go for the next annual climate conference — this time scheduled at the Mexican beach city of Cancun in November-December — there has been absolutely no excitement, and very little activity. It is almost as if the climate negotiations came to an end with the failure of the Copenhagen conference.

Negotiators have been going through the motions and almost as many meetings have been organised since January as last year. The latest one, involving environment ministers from more than 40 countries, came to an end in Switzerland over the last weekend. But as has been the case with every other meeting this year, there has been absolutely no progress made at any of these discussions.

Prince [heroically allows someone else to wear a pair of his pants, after he no longer wants to wear them] - Telegraph

The Royal Train, introduced by Queen Victoria in 1842, has attracted controversy in recent years because of its £800,000-a-year cost, leading to calls for it to be scrapped by some MPs.
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The Prince began the tour by donating a pair of his old corduroy trousers to be auctioned at the garden party to raise money for Oxfam. His cast-offs also served to highlight clothes recycling, one of the many themes of Start.

As he boarded the train – which runs on environmentally-friendly fuel made from old cooking oil – the Prince said: "What I hope to get across, to as many people as possible, is that however awful a predicament we face with climate change and the unsustainable use of the natural resources that keep us all alive, we aren't going to get anywhere by telling everyone what they need to stop doing.

Climabiz: Piraeus Bank`s new climate change project on Environmental Expert

Piraeus Bank has embarked on a new innovative European project, titled 'climabiz' which aims at preparing the Greek market to timely adapt to the new conditions arising from climate change.

Mozambique bread riots may be warning sign on African food security - CSMonitor.com

I have a supreme conviction that global food markets are but the perturbation of a butterflys's wing away from a serious tipping point. In fact, I would venture that the best way to play the narrative fallacy that is the "Global Climate Change Denial Camp" is via buying a basket of breakfast commodities and grains. There are more of us, our average calorific intake is a multiple of what it was, and we have toasted the planet -- capping global agricultural output. Narrowing that perception gap and converting it into real action is going to be like herding cats.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is fond of saying that the food markets have ample inventory and that there is absolutely nothing to worry our little heads about.

Government Will Announce Decision Not to Back Tidal Energy Project

http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/20100906/government-will-announce-decision-not-back-tidal-energy-project.htm

The Coalition Government has reportedly decided not to back the Severn barrage, the world's biggest tidal energy project.

According to The Guardian, the Government will announce this month its decision not to back the £15 billion to £20 billion tidal energy project, which would represent the UK's biggest single source of green energy, generating five per cent of the country's electricity. The newspaper said, instead, ministers are set to recommend further feasibility studies for one of four much smaller tidal projects.

Los Angeles school named after Al Gore - latimes.com

The $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences will open Sept. 13 for about 675 students. As he was with Bill Clinton (who has an L.A. middle school named after him), Gore is second on the ticket to Rachel Carson, the late author credited with helping launch the modern environmental movement.

"Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is an affront to the great work that these individuals have done to protect the public's health from harm," an environmental coalition wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Making sure the school is safe "would be an even better way to honor their contribution to society."
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Gore is on vacation and unreachable, said spokesman Mike Feldman.

Flashback: Suffering in Silence - Reason Magazine

Partly as a result of Carson's work, the U.S. banned DDT in 1972, around the same time as most of the developed world. In 2001, the Stockholm Convention, a global treaty, banned DDT as part of a "dirty dozen" of agricultural chemicals.
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To what effect? The World Health Organization now estimates that there are between 300 and 500 million cases of malaria annually, causing approximately one million deaths. About 80% of those are young children, millions of whom could have been saved over the years with the regular application of DDT to their environments.

Obama $50B Roads Stimulus Saves Jobs, Planet - Scrappleface

“This stimulus initiative,” the president said, “will put hundreds of collective-bargaining units back on the public payroll, while taking thousands of cars off of the road, due to construction road closings and the higher price of fuel. The end result: more jobs, less global warming. It’s a win-win.”

Due to the anticipated public reception of the Obama roads stimulus, the White House will reportedly announce next week a plan to increase taxes on airline tickets to fund a massive project to ‘re-fluff the clouds’, employing tens of thousands of unionized fluffers.

Warning Signs: Nazi Dreams were Green Dreams

Few know of the connection, but it is spelled out in “Nazi Oaks” by R. Mark Musser ($12.75, Advantage Books, softcover, via Amazon.com). Thanks to his research we learn that “the highway to modern environmentalism passed through Nazi Germany. By 1935, the Third Reich was the greenest regime on the planet.”

“It is no coincidence that sweeping Nazi environmental legislation preceded the racially charged anti-Semitic Nuremburg Laws.”

In the decades during which I have seen the rise of the environmental movement in America I have also seen its inherent totalitarian drive to not merely alter society, but to completely control the lives of all Americans. It is fundamentally an attack on the American credo of individual freedom and it has become commonplace to suggest that environmentalism has become a pseudo-religion.
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The Nazi regime was made up of animal rights advocates, environmentalists, and vegetarians, of which Hitler was all three.

And it led ultimately to mass murder.

2010 Phoenix summer one of hottest ever due to overnight lows

Phoenix's hot nights are largely the result of the urban heat island, scientists believe. The concrete, asphalt and buildings absorb heat all day and trap it, releasing it far more slowly than the open desert, where nights cool quickly.

C3: Obama's Real Legacy? Ethanol - Burning Food To Make Fuel Is Not Only Immensely Stupid, It's Flat Out Immoral

It's fairly obvious that the only reason Obama supports the ethanol program, which burns food to make fuel, is due to wealthy supporters. These individuals and businesses that are heavily invested in the profit-making potential of bio-fuels, require government subsides and mandates (e.g. 15% of gas supply has to be ethanol based) to enrich themselves. And they give a lot of money to Obama and Democrats in order to procure those subsidies and mandates.

There is no other rational reason to support any ethanol production, as its many environmental and economic/consumer shortcomings have been well documented. Add these shortcomings to the fact that by making major reductions in the world's food supply in order to feed cars, thus causing more malnourishment and starvation, is simply immoral.

Reconstructing The IPCC

The year-long and massive PR campaign on Climate Change and Anthropogenic Global Warming, ending in farce and chaos at the December 2009 Copenhagen "climate summit", was in political leadership terms a minority endeavour. Only four world leaders, albeit from 4 major countries of the "Old World" OECD, continued an unstinting campaign on CC and AGW, using every emotive trick in the book in their "landmark" speeches on these subjects, right up to the end. Until December 2009, the four leaders Obama, Merkel, Sarkozy and the soon-voted-out Brown gave regular interviews where PR of the type "catastrophe", "saving the planet", "our last chance" was regularly utilised. The alternatives offered by these four-only leaders was typically confused - supposedly an "ecological" society using "green energy" would arise, but this would magically not affect sales of BMW cars, Boeing airplanes or French nuclear reactors.

Since their failure at Copenhagen to vendre la meche and obtain worldwide support for a supposed global transition to an ecological society depending on green energy, the 4 leaders have predictably "walked away" from the issue: which was especially easy for Gordon Brown.

Google and Galaxy zoo could aid global climate project | Science | The Observer

However, meteorologists are limited by the lack of data they receive from monitoring stations around the globe. Although there are more than 6,000 such stations providing data about temperatures, wind, precipitation and other variables, these only generate monthly averages for a particular locality.

"We need to get daily temperature readings if we are going to make accurate forecasts," said Peter Thorne, of the Co-operative Institute for Climate and Satellites in North Carolina. At the same time, swaths of Africa and Antarctica and much of the Amazon have no stations at all.

A climate warning from the deep | Environment | The Observer

Bryozoans found in the Ross and Weddell seas should have been fairly different in structure if the sheet had been stable and ancient. The two populations would have slowly evolved in different manners, if the sheet was millions of years old.

But Dr David Barnes and his team discovered that the two populations were almost identical, indicating the two seas must have been connected by a major sea passage in the recent past, around 125,000 years ago.

Low-carbon market to treble by 2020 - HSBC | Reuters

(Reuters) - The world's low-carbon energy market is likely to treble by 2020, HSBC analysts forecast on Monday, saying that rising concerns about resource scarcity would support broad consensus on the threat of climate change.

The electric vehicle market would benefit most, growing more than 20 times by 2020 to reach $473 billion (307 billion pounds), said HSBC's "Sizing the climate economy" report.

Carbon Market Won’t Have U.S. Cap and Trade This Decade: HSBC - Bloomberg

The global market for low-carbon energy and efficiency projects probably won’t benefit from a U.S. cap-and-trade program this decade, HSBC Holdings Plc said.

A U.S. greenhouse-gas trading program may not encourage low-emitting technology until after 2020, Nick Robins, an HSBC analyst, said today in an interview in London. That’s according to a “conviction scenario” for global new energy investment set out today in an e-mailed research note from the London bank.

The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review – July 2010 - University of East Anglia (UEA)

University of East Anglia’s Response
1. The University is indebted to Sir Muir Russell and his team for conducting a comprehensive, thoughtful and challenging Review into the allegations which have been made against the University’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) following the publication of a large number of emails and other material, which are believed to have been obtained illegally from a back-up server in CRU.

How Davis Guggenheim's Documentary 'Waiting for “Superman”' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate -- New York Magazine

The Harlem-based educator and activist Geoffrey Canada first met the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim in 2008, when Canada was in Los Angeles raising money for the Children’s Defense Fund, which he chairs.
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Then Guggenheim mentioned another film he’d made—An Inconvenient Truth—and Canada snapped to attention. “I had absolutely seen it,” Canada recalls, “and I was stunned because it was so powerful that my wife told me we couldn’t burn incandescent bulbs anymore. She didn’t become a zealot; she just realized that [climate change] was serious and we have to do something.”

World Environment News - Paris Metro Body Heat To Help Warm Building - Planet Ark

The calories emitted by passengers, around 100 watts per person, combined with the heat from trains moving along tracks and the underground location of the metro mean that corridor temperatures are 14-20 degrees Celsius all year around.

Green Ideals Melt In Heat Of Summer | EarthTechling

A small survey conducted in August by Honeywell, a diversified technology and manufacturing company, found that “nearly two thirds of American consumers chose comfort over cost savings and conserving energy when temperatures spiked.”

Climate Change and Precipitation – Another IPCC And Climate Science Failure.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Focus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is almost exclusively on temperature, particularly on warming. That alone should condemn their work because different weather has different implications for different activities and in most cases temperature is of little concern.

New Reason behind Global Warming Presented in Breakthrough Work Published by Outskirts Press

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 05, 2010 – Author Dr. Elsar Amos Orkan announced today the release of The Mystery of the Great Flood Confirmed: The Catastrophic Aftermath of the Mars/Earth Collision 10,000 Years Ago: Can Mankind Survive the Consequences of Global Warming due to the Shortening of Distance between the Earth and the Sun?, published by Outskirts Press.

World facing mass extinction: Australian scientist

CANBERRA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Climate change, over-fishing and other human impacts have pushed the oceans to the brink of a mass extinction, which means tens of millions of years before a full recovery, an Australian scientist told media on Monday.

Die Klimazwiebel: IAC Report: Statements on TV

Controversial statements concerning the IAC report on German TV by Hans von Storch and Ottmar Edenhofer (4min, in German). Including a fine differentiation by Hans von Storch: The task of the IPCC is not to declare the truth about climate change, but the truth about the knowledge on climate change.

Sexing Up Dr Pachauri’s Qualifications « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Somehow, I doubt that joint PhDs were invented to allow people’s qualifications to double overnight. But as usual I might be wrong on this, so perhaps we will get very soon yet another confirmation of Dr Pachauri’s genius.

Government looks at lower speed limits to cut emissions - Press & Journal

road-pricing and higher parking charges also among suggestions in leaked report
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The Association of British Drivers’ Scottish co-ordinator, Peter Swinney, said the plans would provoke widespread anger.

Prince Charles spreads the green gospel with a £50k 5-day Royal Train trip! | Mail Online

The gap between what he preaches and puts into practice has often appeared cavernous. And now Prince Charles looks like he's fallen straight into it.

Today he sets out on a tour of the country to promote sustainable living including the importance of walking and cycling – in a £50,000 trip aboard his own nine-carriage Royal Train.

Green groups have attacked the taxpayer-funded journey for double standards and unnecessary extravagance.

Tony Blair warns world leaders of heavy price over failure to deal with global warming

According to the BBC, he said it had always been a struggle to explain the uncertainties in climate science and urged the world leaders to deal with the problem before any chaotic situation occurs.

"It's very hard to say this is the precise warming there's going to be, this is the maximum amount you can allow this (emissions) to continue," he said.

"The risks of not cutting emissions, given the potentially massive consequences, was enough to justify action," he added.
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During his tenure as the Prime Minister, he reportedly took advice from the government chief scientist at the time, Professor David King and the President of the Royal Society, who insisted that this is a serious problem that needs global action to be dealt with.

David King: Hot Girls and Cold Continents « Climate Audit

“Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King said last week. He said the Earth was entering the ‘first hot period’ for 60 million years when there was no ice on the plane and “the rest of the globe could not sustain human life”.
(The Independent on Sunday, 2 May 2004)

Professor James Thomson thinks you're stupid: He suggests that carbon dioxide may have caused pollination levels to drop by 50%

Bee decline already having dramatic effect on pollination of plants - Telegraph

"This serves as a warning to other countries," said Professor James Thomson at the University of Toronto, who carried out the research.
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"I believe that this is the first real demonstration that pollination levels are getting worse. I believe it is a significant decline. I believe the pollination levels have dropped by as much as 50 per cent.

"Bee numbers may have declined at our research site, but we suspect that a climate-driven mismatch between the times when flowers open and when bees emerge from hibernation is a more important factor."
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Prof Thomson began his long-term studies in the late 1980s after purchasing a remote plot of land and building a log cabin in the middle of a meadow full of glacier lilies.

Climate Change affecting Bees

"If these factors are changing, subtle dislocations of bees and flowers seem plausible," said Prof Thomson.

"Further research is needed to see whether the trend continues, and what might be driving it."

The Number of the Week is 800

John Brignell has been compiling a list of things caused by global warming which passed 800 on August 19, 2010. "The honour of being number 800 goes to the story that truffles are increasing. You can find it just after truffle shortage and truffles down; which just about says it all."

Cate Blanchett and hubby put environmental conservation as first priority

The couple has reportedly spent more than 1.5 million dollars installing water- and energy-saving technology at their Hunters Hill home. [How much were they spending monthly on water and energy before spending this money; how much are they spending now, and how many months will it take for them to save 1.5 million dollars?]

Blunt, Carnahan differ on stimulus, bank bailout | News-Leader.com | Springfield News-Leader

Blunt said Congress should back tax policies that encourage small businesses to expand and should support all forms of U.S.-based energy development. He wants to reject "cap and trade" legislation that would tax carbon dioxide emissions from Missouri's many coal-fired power plants as a way to reduce pollution blamed for global warming.

Election 2010: Missouri Senate - Rasmussen Reports™

Republican Congressman Roy Blunt for the first time holds a double-digit lead over Democrat Robin Carnahan in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Missouri Voters shows Blunt earning 51% of the vote. Carnahan, Missouri’s secretary of state, picks up 40% support, her poorest showing to date.

Chris Huhne Wants to Cut Subsidies for Green Electricity | Electric.co.uk News

This move was sparked by comments from the Department of Energy and Climate Change minister, Charles Hendry, who said that he was about to closely review the £27 billion renewable heat incentive scheme due to start up next April to encourage the take up of green heating.

Hendry went on to say that they have inherited a situation where they could see who was about to benefit commercially. However they could not really see who it was going to be paid for and that it would create pretty substantial bills.

Norway wonders what to do with its oil wealth | RFI

rope’s poorest countries when oil was discovered off its coast 40 years ago. Now its citizens are considered the wealthiest in the world according to the UN Human Development Index.

Steve Goreham: Wind energy's house of cards

The house of cards is a global industry based entirely on subsidies, price guarantees, and mandates. Wind generation systems are not deployed anywhere in the world without extensive government financial or mandated support.

Global warming's silver lining? Northern countries will thrive and grow, researcher predicts

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2010) — Move over, Sunbelt. The New North is coming through, a UCLA geographer predicts in a new book.
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As worldwide population increases by 40 percent over the next 40 years, sparsely populated Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and the northern United States will become formidable economic powers and migration magnets, Laurence C. Smith writes in "The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future" (Dutton Books), scheduled for publication Sept. 23.

While wreaking havoc on the environment, global warming will liberate a treasure trove of oil, gas, water and other natural resources previously locked in the frozen north, enriching residents and attracting newcomers, according to Smith. And these resources will pour from northern rim countries -- or NORCs, as Smith calls them -- precisely at a time when natural resources elsewhere are becoming critically depleted, making them all the more valuable.
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* NORCs will be among the few place on Earth where crop production will likely increase due to climate change.
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According to Smith, in the best-case scenario, climate change can be expected to raise temperatures an average of 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit by century's end, a large number greater than the difference between a record cold and a record hot year in New York. At worst, temperatures will rise twice as much.  [How does Smith, a geographer, know what the Earth will be at least 4.5 degrees F. warmer in 90 years?]

Why We Blink In Face Of Eco-Terror - IBD - Investors.com

As scary as this sounds, it is scarier to consider that this sentiment can be found in various forms in the bibliography of what is considered mainstream environmentalism.

In a recently rediscovered book, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," co-authored with Malthus fans Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Holdren, who holds the post of presidential assistant for science technology, revealed his similar pessimistic and apocalyptic views on all three topics. They are disturbing.

Like Lee, Holdren hates people and views them as the root of all planetary evil. Big families are a target of Holdren and the Ehrlichs, who write that they "contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children" and "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility."

UN Raises the Alarm over Rising Food Prices - Planet Gore - National Review Online

If the U.S. didn’t have a policy of growing food for oil, might that help lower the cost of food?

MUST SEE: Monckton Refutes Abraham: Twenty One (yes 21) Part YouTube by CFACT | Climate Realists

It must be true. The BBC's own boss says it's biased | Mail Online

Two of its own prominent journalists, Jonathan Charles (on the EU) and Roger Harrabin (on global warming), last week broadcast extraordinary programmes on Radio 4.
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And Mr Harrabin mused, faintly hilariously: ‘I’ve never considered myself a climate-change sceptic.’ No, nor has anyone else. But he conceded: ‘I’ve always had questions that weren’t fully settled, particularly about our ability to model future climate given our poor knowledge of some elements of the current climate system.’

Interview with Roger A. Pielke Sr By Hans Von Storch In The Atmospheric Science Section Of The AGU Newsletter « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

[Q] Is there a politicization of atmospheric science?

Roger A. Pielke Sr. Reply

Very definitely. There is a clear intent, for example, in the climate assessment report process to exclude scientists who disagree with the IPCC perspective from research papers and from funding. This was exemplified in the CRU e-mails, but it is a much wider problem as I have documented on my weblog, testimony to the U.S. Congress and in Public Comments.

What to do with the IPCC : Stoat

Some people still seem to hold the belief that the *next* IPCC report - which will be even more unequivocal on the-temperature-is-going-up-and-it-is-our-fault - will change peoples mind. I'm very dubious about that. For that kind of thing, we have all the evidence that is required (disclaimers: I'm only really speaking about WGI stuff, because it is the only thing i have a clue about, and I'm not saying we should shut down all the physical climate change research. There are plenty of exciting and interesting things to discover. But they won't change the big picture). This is, I think (but can't be bothered to look up) the RP Jr viewpoint: that doing something about GW is a political problem, not a scientific one (in a way that it wasn't in, say, 1990, when the scientific field was far more open).

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Is The Sun Causing Global Warming?

Remarkable essay by a climate scientist for an environmental organization specializing in carbon offsets!

Going off their offsets | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

[less people buying carbon rip-offsets] Another measure of the decline of global warming alarmism

The rise of the greenshirts

Oh, how eagerly does the eco-warrior fall for the old fascist lure, a communal goal so glitteringly noble that puny individuals who oppose it may be treated as evil and deserving of their fate

Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Who is responsible for Warmabomber's violent agenda? | Washington Examiner

The environmental movement needs to bring its hate-filled rhetoric under control, before it’s too late. There are too many potential James Lees out there, and some of them may be more competent than Lee was. Don’t encourage them through over the top rhetoric.

New record low temperatures set across parts of the state; other locations near record lows - Mississippi

New record low temperatures were set Sunday morning in several locations as an unseasonably cool and much drier air mass settled across the state behind a cold frontal passage.

The cities of Meridian, Greenwood, Greenville and Vicksburg all set new record lows with Crystal Springs tying its record low after temperatures dropped well down into the 50s with mid and upper 40s in some locations.
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Greenville's low temperature of 50 degrees broke a record low that has stood for over 85 years (1924).

Why the IPCC 's romance novelist must resign

An independent review group supported by the academies of science from 100 countries has demanded that the UN-sanctioned IPCC stick to the facts, avoid policy advocacy, and come up with a conflict-of-interest policy to ensure IPCC members are not moonlighting for agenda-driven companies or organizations. With global warming advocates criticizing skeptics for being in the pockets of Big Oil, it only stands to reason that the IPCC be held to the same standard.

Power of persuasion creates critical mass for climate action

Climate change is not just a theory, it is a scientific fact, like gravity or the orbit of Earth around the sun. The consequences of global warming are so severe that avoiding climate change is not just a policy, it must become the overriding context of policy: economic policy, social policy, infrastructure policy and foreign policy, including policy on immigration and refugees.
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Consider the following thought experiment on mutual persuasion. Suppose we date the start of public persuasion at 1990, the date of publication of the first report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change.

Let us suppose that each year one person who accepts that climate change is real and requires strong action persuades one other person to think the same way. At the end of 1991 there are two people who are persuaded.

In the following year, those two people each now persuade one other person, so at the end of 1992 there are four people. Thus each year the number of people who think action on climate change is needed doubles.

Strong storms, winter weather for north central Montana | KRTV.com | Great Falls, Montana

...a Winter Weather Advisory for snow elevations above 6500 feet remains in effect until 6 am on Monday for areas along the northern Rocky Mountain Front.

Periods of light snow can be expected at times over the northern Rocky Mountain front for elevations above 6500 feet through tonight. The snow will affect travel across Going To The Sun Road at Logans Pass, along with any outdoor recreational activities at elevations above 6500 feet.

Total snow accumulations around an inch can be expected at Logans Pass, and 3 to 5 inches for elevations above 7000 feet.

Lars Larson: He was an eco-terrorist - The Oregon Catalyst

Do you suppose, just this one time, the main stream media could call this guy what he really is — a domestic eco-terrorist?

It was an ugly situation, a hostage taking, and in a very strange place, the headquarters of the Discovery Channel. The bad guy was an eco-terrorist. Why do I call him that? He had a gun. He had bombs. He took hostages. He threatened to hurt people and he did it all to push a political point of view.

- Bishop Hill blog - Nice work if you can get it...

And [Sir Muir Russell] didn't even attend the interview with Phil Jones.

Mongolian Prime Minister blames carbon dioxide for Mongolia's harshest winter in decades

FOXNews.com - Mongolian Cabinet holds meeting in Gobi desert to draw attention to climate change

GASHUUNII KHOOLOI, Mongolia (AP) — Top Mongolian officials donned dark green baseball caps reading "Save our planet" and set up chairs and tables in the sands of the Gobi desert for a Cabinet meeting aimed at drawing attention to climate change.
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The ministers, dressed in suits and ties, arrived in the desert in jeeps after a 15-hour journey. Officials planted a Mongolian flag in the ground, set up long tables and chairs in the fine, golden sand and discussed climate change against the backdrop of a vast expanse of desert and a bright blue sky.
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"Mongolia is feeling the impact of global climate change," Prime Minister Batbold Sukhbaatar said at the one-hour meeting.

Batbold pointed to the recent winter as an example of problems Mongolia faces. The winter was the harshest in decades and a fifth of the country's livestock died.

Flashback: 20 Million Mongolian Cattle Could Be Dead by Spring Due to Dzud (UPDATED) : TreeHugger

This is the worst winter Mongolia has experienced in 30 years. Some 2 million domestic animals have been killed so far.

Flashback - Mongolia winter kills herds, devastating the poorest

BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) - A severe winter has left 4.5 million dead animals in stockyards across the Mongolian steppes, and many poor herders face the loss of all their property just before the important breeding season.

Butterfield Faces Ethics Probe Over Foreign Travel

RALEIGH — North Carolina Congressman G.K. Butterfield is one of a half-dozen federal lawmakers facing an ethics probe for allegedly pocketing portions of his taxpayer-funded travel stipend.
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In January, Butterfield faced criticism for spending $4,406 for food and lodging at a five-star hotel while attending climate-change talks in Denmark. Butterfield said that lawmakers weren’t aware of the costs prior to the trip and that House leaders made the travel arrangements.

After committing crimes in Greenland, fossil-fuel protesters enjoy fossil-fueled flights home

Arctic defenders deported from Greenland | Greenpeace International

Jens, Sim, Timo and Matt are flying home to Germany, USA, Finland and Poland respectively.

Holyrood fiasco peer’s £40k for chairing Climategate review - Herald Scotland | News | Politics

A freedom of information request has revealed that the university paid Russell a £40,000 fee for his chairmanship.

He also benefited from £2908 in travel and £976 for accommodation.

The Review website notes that the team met on 15 occasions, which works out as the equivalent of Russell receiving £2666 per meeting.

Gillibrand's Journey: New York's junior senator discusses her work nearly 20 months after her appointment by Gov. David Paterson | syracuse.com

[Q] Concerning climate change, do you support cap-and-trade?

Yes, absolutely, I think it creates so much job opportunity for New York state. [Where's the part about saving our grandchildren from fiery floods?] We lead in production of renewable energies in many areas. We have companies that are leading in wind, solar, geothermal, fuel cell. Hydropower we do throughout the state; we always have. We are cutting edge on battery technology.

If you have cap-and-trade you are putting a price on carbon, which is important, but you’re also investing in conservation technologies, which means those are investments in our businesses in New York and in job growth. So I think it’s a huge opportunity for our country, for national security and for job creation.

ENERGY: Clean energy summit lacks big names this year - Business - ReviewJournal.com

Tuesday will bring the third annual installment of the summit, a creation of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. And when the curtain rises on the event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, it will show considerably less star power than 2009's version, which featured former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, among others.
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"People have learned more about the consequences of clean-energy solutions," Spencer said. "The American public wants clean, affordable, abundant sources of energy, but we've been told we need wind, solar and other sources the government chooses for us. As we started to take on some of those policies, it became clear that clean energy was going to increase the cost of energy for everyday Americans, for the benefit of a few who are participating in politically correct activities. Clean energy is fine in theory, until you get to understanding what is involved."

Thanks to that dose of reality, the "sheen" has worn off the whole green-energy push, Spencer said. Throw in a struggling economy and revelations earlier this year of questionable research tactics among some global-warming scientists, and people "are just sort of fed up with it," Spencer added.

What Color Is Your Hypocrisy? | Amy Alkon on MND

It's a diverse group, the global high priests of being green. You'll so often find them jetting -- yes, jetting -- around the world, on private jets, to preach about how saintly it is to save energy by CFL-lighting your house so it looks like a mental ward.

The latest in preacher of green to get caught talking green while guzzling black gold is Jesse Jackson.

ABC The Drum Unleashed - Clive Hamilton - Balance-bias battle of climate science coverage

While uncertainties remain and the evidence will evolve, the level of consensus on the main tenets of climate science is unusually high.
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The fact that climate denialists, invariably linked to right-wing think tanks with an axe to grind, have succeeded in their explicit and widely-known strategy of confusing the public by casting doubt on the science should not be a reason for providing greater coverage to anti-scientific opinions.
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Rather than being rebuked by Maurice Newman for 'group-think', those in the organisation who understand how science works should be invited to explain to senior managers like Kim Dalton and Mark Scott that when the hard evidence [like what, specifically?] is overwhelming, insisting on 'balance' can only contribute to public ignorance.