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- Bishop Hill blog - George Monbiot: scrubbing the record cleanIt was always faintly funny that the Monbiot should accuse Richard North of ‘smearing Pachauri’. We saw that Monbiot’s harmless IPCC-inspired pushing of the party line had shallow foundations that would one day be swept away by the growing awareness of the public. But we should revise that opinion. It is one thing to put forward one own points of view and cite half-truths as evidence; it is quite another to tamper with and remove facts from the public record to support an argument that does not stand up. To call for evidence and then hide is both hypocritical and paradoxical. Monbiot should be asking questions and releasing evidence, not covering it up to protect public figures like Pachauri. One wonders how long this charade will last.
MUST SEE: Incredible Heat in 1881! | Climate RealistsI am attaching a rather rare document, Washington DC weather records for the year 1881 taken at the Naval Observatory.
I have highlighted an incredible late summer, early autumn heat wave that got started on August 20th and did not really end until October 4th. There has never been anything remotely approaching the intensity and duration of this heat wave for so late in the year in modern times.
An unbelievable temperature of 108.5 was recorded on the very late date of September 7th!
Die Klimazwiebel: Climate & BicyclesMaybe I am completely wrong, but wouldn't a change to bicycles (and other non-emission vehicles) in big cities help to reduce urban heat, and, in the sense of Roger Pielke sr., maybe even contribute to help mitigate regional climate change phenomena? No, I don't say that riding a bicycle will stop global climate change - me not stupid! But wouldn't it contribute to a better environment for citizens?
Why the Antarctic Is Not Melting Anytime Soon « the Air VentYou can see from this that there are very very few measurements ever taken on the Antarctic continent that exceed zero degrees Celcius. These are month long averages of course but from the area weighted plot only 1.8 percent of all of the temperature measurements have ever exceeded zero C for a monthly average. Also from this data, the average temperature for the Antarctic (summer, spring, fall and winter) is a bone chilling minus 26.29 degrees C. Twenty six degrees below freezing — average.
Only 0.1 % have ever exceeded 2C for a month.
[Don't miss this]: Britain's energy policy is in crisis - TelegraphThe Government's policy on renewable energy is wasteful and counter-productive, says Christopher Booker.
UK Farmers to Benefit from Climate Change | TopNews United StatesEnvironment Secretary, Caroline Spelman has speculated that farmers in the UK could witness unexpected benefits in the coming ten years as a result of severe climate changes and global food shortages. Such a scenario would consequently render taxpayers at a lower stress of getting them subsidized.
Slanted inquiries | FP Comment | Financial PostRegardless of how the press views my report into the inquiries, it appears clear that Parliament is taking the concerns it raises very seriously. The science and technology committee has already reopened its inquiry, taking evidence from Oxburgh last week and with Russell and the vice-chancellor of the university expected in the coming weeks.
Perhaps now that the sham of the inquiries has been exposed to public view, Parliament will seize the day and save British science from itself.
British Cold Rather Early Too « Musings from the ChiefioColdest August for 17 years? Golly, bet they could do with a bit of “Global Warming” right about now… And “12 C below the seasonal average” is a bit more dramatic than the 1/2 C of hypothetical global warming too. And this is while it’s still “summer”…
AGW Today: Everybody Panic, Part Lots : Stop The ACLU...Because the Earth has never had flooding before. Ever. I believe they made the word “flooding” up around 1980 to account for this new phenomena.
Mercury News interview: Michael Woelk, president, CEO of Picarro - San Jose Mercury NewsPicarro is a small but fast-growing company that makes scientific instruments to measure specific greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in quantities as small as parts per billion. It's backed by Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners and DAG Ventures. And while cap-and-trade legislation that would have required vastly improved accounting of greenhouse gas emissions appears to be dead in Congress, Picarro CEO Michael Woelk says business is booming and he's hiring "like crazy."
Guardian: Ecofascism isn’t working, let’s execute corporations instead « The Daily BayonetThis Guardian piece details what greens think is a good alternative to ecofascism. No matter how hard they try to dress themselves up as campaigners for the planet, Greens are basically anti-capitalist radicals with a loathing of their fellow men and with a nasty streak of violence bubbling under the surface.
Next time you see a cuddly polar bear commercial for the WWF, Greenpeace or any of the Big Green outfits, remember what lies beneath the marketing. It might be labeled green, but it’s ugly.
DoH Warns on Global Warming Diseases | Manila BulletinMagturo said drought and ecosystem migration can result to food and water shortages that can eventually lead to malnutrition to low-income families, particularly affecting children and elderly.
“Climate change generally can cause mental health problems among the youth, displaced individuals, agricultural sectors and low-income families during extreme events,” she said.
Vatican, British government join in [support of the climate swindle]After a “working dinner” on September 17, leading officials of the Holy See and the British government issued a joint statement calling for more action to address world poverty and climate change.
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The communiqué also expressed a mutual conviction that there is an urgent need “to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” and switch to a "low-carbon [dioxide] economy," in response to the threat of climate change.
Open thread: recent challenges to the credibility of climate science | Climate Etc.Inappropriate topics to discuss are:
* Citations from the emails
Aussie Cold And Wet « Musings from the ChiefioNotice that two coldest ever records set inside 2 weeks… The next couple of weeks might well be interesting to watch.
Climate Lessons: Naive climatology: what chance have the teachers when the Government Science Advisor holds such views?Naive climatology in high places. Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office for Science, has produced some web pages to elaborate his position (http://www.bis.gov.uk/go-science/climatescience).
Bold Science Says Fewer North Atlantic Hurricances in 2100After every big winter storm, e.g. like Kyrill, we get here in northern Germany, we always hear the media crow about how it is due to global warming. Now the opposite is claimed. We’re a long way from settled science, aren’t we?
Last October Through March Was The Snowiest On Record In The Northern Hemisphere | Real ScienceWe are told by climate geniuses that extensive snow cover used to be caused by cold, but now is caused by heat.
CO2 Ordinances Will Cause Apartment Rentals To TripleThat means today a family of four in Berlin pays an affordable $600.00 per month for a modest 100 m² apartment (utilities not included). But in just a few years, that family may have to pay an exhorbitant $1800/month plus the also soon to be much more expensive utilities.
Being unable to afford such exorbitant costs, families and low wage earners will have only one option left: to move under the nearest bridge. Call it human rights – euro style.
And what would all this added burden and misery on society’s most defenseless result in? Answer: a theoretical global temperature drop of a few thousandths of a degree.
The biggest driver in all this madness is Europe’s and Germany’s obsession with the notion that by going radically green, they can somehow gain the global moral (thus authoritive) high ground. Eventually, they think, this will allow them to preach the rest of the world on how to live.
EDITORIAL: Hedging on global warming - Washington TimesBest of all from the alarmists' point of view is that "disruption" is so broad a threat that they can propose a variety of new government controls, regulations, mandates, taxes and other impositions on individual freedoms to deal with it. Ideologues such as Mr. Holdren are never at a loss when coming up with methods for the state to expand its powers over the individual. They are swimming against the tide, however. Resorting to this new, more panicky terminology betrays their anxiousness. They had their shot at "cap and trade," carbon taxing and enslaving the economy to their arcane theories, but they came up short. Now they hope to win an argument through fear that they couldn't carry by reason. They don't have a snowball's chance.
Energy Tribune- Mafia ‘Hits’ EU Wind SubsidiesAccording to the US corporate security consultancy, Kroll, the Mafia and organized crime generally, have been skimming millions of Euros from the EU’s €6 billion ($8.7 billion) clean energy budget since 2007. Originally set up to fund green projects between 2000 and 2013, Kroll has detected increasing fraud and criminal activity, especially over wind subsidies in Italy, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, as well as other parts of central and eastern Europe.
The renewable industrial complex: Times Argus OnlineShumlin, Blittersdorf, VPIRG and their allies have promoted a remarkable combination of junk science, polar bear hysteria, nuclear phobia, business mandates, hidden taxes, price fixing, corporate welfare, government debt, and subsidy handouts to benefit — well, mainly themselves.
If you wonder why Vermont is so often viewed as a state afflicted with all sorts of government interventions to promote politically correct liberal enthusiasms — and thus unfriendly to the workings of a normal market economy — look no further.
[In case you missed it]: Scientists React to a Nobelist's Climate Thoughts - NYTimes.com Daniel Schrag, Harvard:
Yes, there can be natural climate changes over thousands or millions of years that are large compared to what we are experiencing now. But in fact, our actions have risen well above the level of any natural variations because of their pace. Without our use of fossil fuels, we should be descending into another glacial maximum – albeit slowly, over tens of thousands of years (the pace of natural global climate change in the Pleistocene). And instead our actions have interfered with this natural cycle and we are in the process of completely deglaciating the planet.
Flashback: From David ArchibaldWhat is also interesting is the 2.2° temperature rise from 7.8° in 1696 to 10.0° in 1732. This is a 2.2° rise is 36 years [in Central England]. By comparison, the world has seen a 0.6° rise over the 100 years of the 20th century. That temperature rise in the early 18th century was four times as large and three times as fast as the rise in the 20th century.
The significance of this is that the world can experience very rapid temperature swings all due to natural causes. The temperature peak of 10° in 1732 wasn’t reached again until 1947.
The Signs of Global Warming are in Darfur | Eco Green LivingMany people in the west are becoming convinced that Darfur is the first war triggered by climate change and global warming.
On June 16, 2007, U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon released a statement in which he proposed that the slaughter in Darfur was caused “at least in part from change”, and that it “derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming”.
Climate change falling off public radar, speakers sayA year after the Copenhagen conference on global warming that failed to produce a comprehensive international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, climate change has taken a back seat to issues such as the recession but continues to influence economic and government policy decisions, the Global Business Forum heard Friday.
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Gwyn Prins, a research professor at the London School of Economics, said public opinion polls since the Second World War have consistently shown that people are more concerned about jobs and overall economic conditions than climate.
Snow from storm collapses stadium, continues to cause havoc | New ZealandHeavy snow has severely damaged one of Invercargill's most important venues.
The weight of snow caused the roof on the main netball court to collapse at the multi-purpose and world-class Stadium Southland this morning.
Stadium Southland General Manager Nigel Skelt said it was lucky it did not happen during a busy time of week.
"We've never had a snow fall this big before, in our history. We've been going ten years and unfortunately in this instant it just hasn't been able to sustain it.
Health Dividend Seen in [Massive Carbon Dioxide Swindle] - NYTimes.comHealth advocates said Monday that adopting more ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gases could save health programs up to 30.5 billion euros ($38.7 billion) in expenditures each year in the European Union.
The study found that as greenhouse gases fall, so do other pollutants that set off respiratory diseases and other illnesses, which reduce in health care costs. Savings could also be achieved on health care costs associated with heat waves, floods, reduced food production and infectious diseases, the study said.
Indonesia's forest carbon [scam] negotiator named as corruption suspectWandojo Siswanto, one of the lead negotiators for Indonesia's climate delegation in Copenhagen and a key architect of its Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) program, has been named as a corruption suspect by the country's anti-corruption agency, KPK, reports Reuters.
Siswanto is accused of receiving a bribe of about $10,000 from Anggoro Widjojo, a director of PT Masaro Radiokom, to win favorable treatment in the forest ministry's budget for the telecommunications company. Siswanto has been named in at least two other corruption probes, including a 2008 case where he admitted to taking a Rp 50 million ($4,600) kickback from lawmaker Al-Amien Nasution.
The Czech Republic’s Green Economy - Planet Gore - National Review OnlineSo, once again, I’m with (the old) Obama on this. Let’s look to where his scheme has been tried to see what it would do here.
Tracking Sea Ice in the Arctic - NYTimes.comDeclining Arctic sea ice is one of the bellwether indicators of climate change. The sea-ice minimum has hit dramatic lows in recent years because of warmer temperatures in the Arctic, and as the ice melts, it causes temperatures to rise even further, because dark water absorbs more sunlight than white ice. The change in sea ice has upended the ecology of the region and the way of life of many Arctic peoples.
Hot Air » [Climate realist] Bachmann up nine in targeted House seatBachmann still has a handy lead among independents in this survey, leading 49/35.
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Democrats want to take Bachmann out of the national mix and curtail her activism by nationalizing her elections. Instead, she’s cruising to a convincing victory while helping other Republicans win in tough districts.
Lorne Gunter: Good news on polar ice melt you may have missed | Full Comment | National PostMy bigger point is that most environmentalists, reporters, politicians and a distressingly large number of scientists have abandon scientific inquiry and pronounced the science to be settled on global warming/climate change. There is to be no debate. We are all just supposed to acknowledge their position as the only true faith and bow down to the Green idol.
But as the Delft-JPL study shows, it’s too early for that lock-step behaviour.
Bill Chameides: A Whale of a Climate StoryPershing et al suggest that restoring populations of all whale species to pre-industrial levels could remove up to 160,000 tons of carbon annually.
[Junk] Scientists React to a Nobelist's Climate Thoughts - NYTimes.comMatthew Huber, Purdue University:
...His know-nothing approach hearkens back to the pre-scientific era of the flat earth, vapors and phlogiston.
Our understanding of the climate system is still rudimentary but ultimately we know what the big knobs are that turn up the heat and those are the same knobs we are cranking on right now. We know this absolutely and have known at least since Arrhenius and he got the Nobel (in 1903)!
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Daniel Schrag, Harvard:
Indeed, if one takes David Archer’s calculations seriously (and we should), roughly 20 percent of the CO2 that comes from burning fossil fuel will be there tens of thousands of years from now, and so if we end up well above 400 parts per million for tens of thousands of years, there is much less doubt that Greenland will melt in its entirety and that Antarctica may well deglaciate as well. The idea that the climate system is so powerful that it is beyond human influence is simply incorrect….
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Martin Hoffert, New York University:
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If we fail, I can imagine a thousand years from now a small fragment of humankind barely surviving the new planetary climate huddled round a fire in some remote northern latitude observing the night sky, subsisting perhaps as hunter-gatherers on a vastly different and biologically depleted planet listening to a tale vaguely recalled in ancestral memory by the local shaman.
U.S. Department of Energy - Making Progress | DOE BlogUltimately, however, decoupling Department of Energy’s efforts from politics requires a broad consensus about investing in a clean energy economy. That issue should not be partisan - the economic and environmental drivers for action are simple and compelling. And we ought to be clear-eyed about the need for aggressive action to keep America competitive in a globalized and rapidly developing world. [This is a pretty long post. Why doesn't it even mention the global warming hoax?]
The Guardian Comes Clean – The Goal Is Fascism | Real ScienceThese people are getting very scary. Same creeps, different revolution. If they can’t win an argument rationally, they resort to violence.
Cold Fronts Must Be Really Hot | Real ScienceIf the Arctic warms, we should expect to see fewer storms, not more storms. Like on hot, hot Venus – where they have essentially no storms.
Ed Miliband Still Peddling Climate Change Snake Oil « Tory AardvarkThe wealth redistribution scheme surfaces again, we should take care of our own first, we have homeless ex-service people and as a result of the last Labour government more children in poverty than 20 years ago, these should be our first priority, not stuffing the Swiss bank accounts of third world dictators.
Thirdly, the government should be pushing the EU to commit to a second period of the Kyoto protocol, which enshrines developed countries’ responsibility to cut their emissions first and fastest. This would send an important signal to developing countries The Guardian
This last statement demonstrates just how dangerous, or is it stupid, that Ed Miliband the Climate Change Nut is, Miliband is making statements like this in the same week that the EU backed away from the Kyoto stupidity.
Al's Journal : The Bigger PictureDavid Roberts at Grist wrote an excellent post about the true nature of climate denialism.
Warming could turn Interior into prairie, UAF scientist says: Climate change | adn.comRich Boone, an ecosystem ecologist at the College of Natural Science and Mathematics, used the climate around Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, as an example of what might be in store for Alaska's Interior, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.
Fairbanks faces a roughly 11-degree temperature increase by 2100 if moderate climate-change models are used, Boone said during a talk Wednesday.
If that happens, the Interior no longer will be characterized by permafrost and boreal forests, he said.
"That's very realistic," Boone said. "We'd be in a zone that would potentially be prairie."
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"The fact is, the stuff we've pumped into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution is going to continue to have a warming effect for thousands of years," Boone said.
Twitter / Fred ThompsonWH rejects "global warming", favors term "global climate disruption". Ya know, I remember back when we used to call it "weather" #ftrs #tcot
Sen. Inhofe Confident He'll Be EPW Chairman After Midterm Elections - NYTimes.comHis top priority, he says, is to stop "wasting time" on global warming hearings and get down to business on issues he says have been neglected, like overseeing U.S. EPA and passing major transportation and water infrastructure bills.
"We haven't really been doing anything because they've been wasting all of our time on all that silly stuff, all the hearings on global warming and all that," Inhofe said.
Hot airIs carbon dioxide really the monster driving climate change? If not, maybe we should prepare for a colder world
What's the Environmental Impact of Lady Gaga's Meat Dress? | Ecouterregiven that livestock production generates almost a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases—more so than transportation—according to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, we have to ask: How large of a carbon footprint does the “Bad Romance” singer’s costumey stunt have compared to other types of high-protein nosh?
Expectations Scaled Back for Cancún Climate Summit"Some countries are setting their sights on South Africa next year. Our view is that it will take longer than that," said Eliot Diringer, vice president for international strategies at the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change, which hosted de Alba’s briefing. "Generally I think we're seeing a greater sense of pragmatism within the negotiations and a recognition that we won't have a binding outcome this year."
The jolly green giant? Governor Schwarzenegger could teach other Republicans a thing or two about protecting the environment. That is, if he doesn't self-destruct first.[2005] After making the dignitaries and press rabble wait for an hour, the governor arrived and proceeded to announce a groundbreaking global-warming initiative. "I say, the debate is over," he boomed, explicitly dismissing the Bush administration's contrary position. "We know the science, we see the threat, and we know the time for action is now." The targets he set were impressive, going beyond what even the Kyoto treaty would mandate: By 2010 California's per capita greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced to 2000 levels; by 2020 reduced to 1990 levels; and by 2050 reduced to 80 percent below 1990 levels. Then the governor sat down at a Lilliputian desk and signed an executive order. The crowd erupted in a standing ovation.
Schwarzenegger's Crusade - Newsweek[2007](For the record, Schwarzenegger says he's deeply impressed with Gore's work: he even popped into a Beverly Hills book-signing not long ago with his teenage daughter to tell the former vice president so in person.)
...Schwarzenegger and Blair are both eager to position their respective economies as "green tech" hubs, where new jobs will be created in fields such as alternative fuels, new materials and green construction. "If you think this is the direction the world will take and it's only a matter of time, there are great commercial opportunities to be had," says Blair. In Britain, he says, more than 500,000 "clean tech" jobs have been created since the country began complying with the Kyoto treaty. Schwarzenegger predicts the job growth will be even more impressive in California. And he says that U.S. businesses, led by tech-savvy California firms, can reap immense profits by developing low-carbon manufacturing methods and fuel sources, and then exporting them to the rest of the world. California, he boasts, will dominate the global clean-tech sector, just as it does the world's entertainment and high-tech industries.
California unemployment: California unemployment rate rises to 12.4% - latimes.com[Today] California's deeply troubled labor market took another hit in August as the unemployment rate rose and employers laid off more workers than expected, renewing fears about a double-dip recession.
The state's jobless rate increased to 12.4%, up from 12.3% in July. Employers shed 33,500 jobs in August, marking the third straight month of payroll job losses.
Unemployment Rate in California (Graph)
Pitiful Little Protest Leads to Reporter's FiringAs you see, McKelway was tasked with reporting on a miniscule protest. If it had been pro-life activists or some other conservative cause, he would have been given another assignment. So he made it newsworthy by introducing relevant information such as:
* How few demonstrators there were, which in order to be worth reporting, would require the speculation he delivered about "where the movement is headed right now"
Future CO2 Fiction | The Resilient EarthEven if you believe the IPCC's model predictions, and I most assuredly do not, they are based on a future that will likely never arrive. In fact, the entire warmist cause is based on fabricated predictions, generated by inaccurate models, based on a fictitious future. It is time for the climate catastrophists to learn that future CO2 fiction is less believable than science fiction, mainly because there is so little real science in it.
State hammers EPA on science of global warmingEssentially putting global warming science on trial, Texas officials on Thursday expanded their arguments in a lawsuit meant to prevent the federal regulation of greenhouse gases.
Aviation chiefs seek global emission cutting scheme | ReutersGENEVA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The aviation sector called on governments on Friday to agree on a global set of rules on tackling the industry's carbon emissions to avoid chaos from a range of competing systems.
Officials from airlines, airports, air traffic bodies and major manufacturers such as Airbus (EAD.PA) and Boeing (BA.N) also asked for more cooperation from states and energy firms for their drive to meet their own green targets.
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They argued that a European Union emissions trading scheme in operation for some five years, and hotly contested by the industry and most governments outside Europe, showed the danger of unilaterally imposed measures.
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Aviation, responsible for some 2 percent of the world carbon emissions blamed for global warming and climate change, has been assigned a special status for the Cancun meeting, allowing it to stand separately in a world climate pact.
Efforts to Save Coal Could End Up Destroying It...investors are reluctant to bet on new coal plants until it is clear whether and how many reductions in global warming pollution are required. Delaying EPA health standards on global warming pollution would only prolong uncertainty and further delay investments in new coal plants.
FOXNews.com - Imperiled Democratic Candidate Urges Pelosi to Step Aside as SpeakerFor the good of the country -- and his campaign -- a Democratic congressional candidate is calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to leave her post next year.
Imperiled candidate Brett Carter, who's running for Congress in a conservative district in Tennessee, sent a letter to the California Democrat Thursday urging her to publicly announce that she will not seek the speakership next year.
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Carter is running for the open seat left by outgoing Democratic Rep. Bart Gordon -- it's also the seat formerly held by Al Gore. But Republican Diane Black is widely favored to win in the general election; it's one of dozens of House seats Republicans are eyeing to flip in November.
Newsom Attends Santa Clara Forum, Touts Global Warming [Scam]: News: SFAppealOn the environment panel, Newsom touted California's AB32, known as the Global Warming Act, as a "Godsend."
The law requires the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, Newsom said.
"We need stretch goals and we need to jumpstart this economy," he said. "AB32 is essential in doing that." [Where's the part about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire?]
Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » The UN Doesn’t Understand Climate ChangeThe big question facing the UN, though, when it comes to climate, is how to divide the task of dealing with climate change with other institutions. It is pretty clear to most observers that the UN can’t come close to handling the task by itself. But where, precisely, is its value-added? In mobilizing high-level gatherings? In coordinating adaptation efforts? In facilitating measurement, reporting, and verification? In hammering out the rules for climate funds?
New England Hurricane – 1938 | Real ScienceClear evidence of global climate disruption in 1938, when CO2 levels were 315 ppm. But what caused the 1869 major hurricane?
Which Term Do You Prefer: Global Warming or Global Climate Disruption?Since many of us had back-to-back snowstorms last winter, “global warming” became the prayer of choice for those digging their cars out of five feet of snow. Meanwhile, “climate change” was getting ridiculed, only because the climate is constantly changing.
MediaGlobal: America, a burden on global environmental policy17 September 2010 [MediaGlobal]: Nowhere in the world is the bar set lower for environmental standards than here in the Unites States. As mega-oil companies like Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries funnel millions of dollars into debunking scientifically proven climate theory, US policies continue to slow down global environmental progress.
American economist Jeffrey Sachs told MediaGlobal, “The US has proven to be an obstacle [to successful environmental policy] time and again.”
Sachs added, “The US Senate has done nothing for 18 years, since ratifying the UN climate change treaty. The US will eventually have to participate as the rest of the world comes together around an effective strategy. But Americans are subjected to an unending stream of corporate-financed propaganda against climate-change science, and this is part of the problem.”
When analyzing why the US has failed to step forward as an environmental leader, it’s not hard to see that the US governments’ constituents have been thoroughly manipulated by mega-corporations like Koch Industries and Exxon Mobile. Together the two oil giants have contributed more than $70 million to climate-denial organizations. These organizations exist with the sole purpose of debunking scientific evidence in order to convince the public, without any substantial scientific backing, that climate change is a myth.
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Marx added, “Unfortunately, information presented by climate deniers is on a very superficial level that most people latch onto easily, which just adds to entire communication problem.”
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Will the US assume its position of leadership in the realm of climate policy? It’s hard to say, but experts like Jeffrey Sachs aren’t holding their breath: “The world will have to adjust to the collapse of US leadership. If we wait for the US to lead, the planet will boil over.”
Wheat Rises as Cold Weather Threatens Crops in Canada, ChinaSept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Wheat rose for the first time in four days as cold weather threatened crops in Canada, the world's second-biggest exporter, and in China.
An overnight freeze damaged wheat, canola and barley in Alberta and Saskatchewan, said Drew Lerner, the president of World Weather Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas. In China, the cold may hurt corn in the biggest growing region, according to a National Grain & Oils Information Center website. That may boost demand for wheat for use in livestock feed.
KPK: Corruption Jeopardizes Lucrative Climate-Change [Hoax] Deals | The Jakarta GlobeJakarta. The billions of dollars that Indonesia stands to earn every year in climate-change deals could be at risk if it fails to stamp out corruption in its forestry sector, antigraft authorities warn.
Norway is preparing to pay the first $30 million of the $1 billion it agreed to give Indonesia as part of a UN scheme in which rich nations will pay developing countries not to clear woodlands.
Going the snip to aid a crowded planetI anticipate that one day we will want children of our own and that it will hurt like hell that we can't, but then again I am also cross that I can't have a V8 car, a 20-minute shower or a 70-inch plasma, so perhaps the ''Peter Pan'' generation is growing up after all.
LaJollaLight.com | USD gets $1 million to improve climate change [hoax propaganda]The University of San Diego received a nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a program to increase awareness about climate change, it was announced today.
The grant, through the NSF's Climate Change Education Partnership, will be used to develop a climate change communication program that promotes education, awareness, innovation and action.
The two-year program includes an assessment of key opinion, community and business leaders to determine their level of climate science awareness and preferred policies and actions for addressing the impacts of climate change, according to USD.
The project team will include scientists from USD's Marine Science and Environmental Studies Department and Energy Policy Initiative Center and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, alonn with a behavioral psychologist from Cal State San Marcos and community planners from The San Diego Foundation.
Walrus Desperatus By Medius Doofus – The Latest Media HoaxHow deranged must the media be to take normal behavior of wildlife, and to spin it into a phony tragedy in order to maliciously spread anxiety through the public? When are they going to learn that there are other alternative sources of information out there that are waiting to expose their shenanigans?
Why Did They Name It “Global Warming?” | Real ScienceGiven that the climate is a huge, chaotic, poorly understood, constantly changing concept – there is absolutely no way to prove that it is either disrupted or not disrupted.
Every weather event can now be blamed on “global climate disruption.”
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I have been documenting here that hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, etc. are not increasing in frequency. The big lie marches on relentlessly. It is about power and control – not science.
You're 'So Coal': Angling o Shame Facebook - NYTimes.comit says it wants Facebook to take its enormous purchasing power to a place that allows it to use energy from renewable sources like the wind or the sun. It praises another IT super-giant, Google, for doing that. [What percentage of Google's electricity comes from wind or sun?]
Global warming is dead. Long live, er, 'Global climate disruption'! – Telegraph BlogsCan this be for real? Here the government is being advised by one of its own think tanks how to railroad through its climate policies by encouraging mobs of activists to stage ’spontaneous’ protests demanding action which the majority of the electorate don’t actually want. I know this sort of thing happens all the time in Pyongyang, Teheran and Caracas. But in Britain?
This is how they treat their friends? - Environment - MiamiHerald.comThey also refused to accept the Carter panel, or even pose for a picture with the students. Asked to do something easy and symbolic to rekindle a little of the joy that had turned out so many of us as volunteers for Obama in 2008, they point-blank said no.
If you want to know about the much-discussed enthusiasm gap between Democratic and Republican bases, this was it in action. As Altomare told the New York Times: "We went in without any doubt about the importance of this. They handed us a pamphlet." Nelson added: "It was really shocking to me to find out that they really didn't seem to care."
...As far as I can tell, the right has a far better understanding of the power of symbols. Witness the furor they've kicked up over "the mosque at ground zero." My feeling is that we should use the symbols we've got, and few are better than a solar panel.
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We've run out of spare decades to deal with climate change - the summer's events in the Arctic, in Russia, in Pakistan proved that with great clarity. We know what we need to do, and we must do it. Enthusiastically.
Norwegians "lose" ice artifacts to climate change / News / The Foreigner — Norwegian News in English.The front edge of Jotunheimen’s Jovfonna ice sheet has retreated about 18 meters, uncovering objects from the Dark and Viking Ages dating as far back as 1,500 years.
Recently, the archeologists have uncovered no less than 600 important preserved hunting artifacts.
1. Aren't they "gaining" artifacts?
2. Are we supposed to believe that the cooling that covered the hunting grounds is preferable to the warming that uncovered these grounds? If so, are we hoping for the mile-thick ice to re-form over Chicago?:When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago--an enormous weight that depressed the land beneath. Later as the ice retreated and the glacier's weight was released
The Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1961 | Real ScienceFrom 1958 to 1961, fifteen million people died in China due to a horrific drought, floods, and government stupidity. We can only hope that ‘Global Climate Disruption’ prevents this from happening again.
Australia Is Small – But Moscow Is Huge | Real ScienceWe know that Australia is quite small compared to Moscow, and yet the entire continent is running well below normal temperatures. Pay no attention to those dark blue areas on the map below. Compared to Moscow, they are insignificant.
Corn prices - corn surges above $5-a-bushel landmark...poor weather on the way, with Meteorlogix forecasting that "colder weather is expected to arrive this weekend or early next week, likely ending the growing season in some areas".
The official China National Grain and Oils Information Centre crop bureau said that "the sharp temperature fall is not conducive to the maturity of crops in later stage of the grain filling period".
CBC News - Saskatchewan - Frost warnings worry Sask. farmersEnvironment Canada has issued overnight frost warnings for parts of Saskatchewan, adding to a basketful of woes for prairie farmers.
While frost is not an entirely unexpected weather event for mid-September, the 2010 harvest is lagging and there is concern about damage to crops from sub-zero temperatures.
Sky News: ACCI report says no carbon taxThe Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry have released reports stating that 75 per cent of business owners don't support a carbon tax.
Most opposed was starting an ETS or carbon tax in advance of other major emitting nations.
The survey also found energy costs were the most significant infrastructure concern.
Carbon tax is economic self-harm: AbbottOpposition Leader Tony Abbott is sticking to his guns that he will "never" endorse Australia going it alone by putting a price on carbon, a stance supported by a new business survey.
New leaders feel the heat on a costly climate conundrumLast time round, the attempt to price carbon was central to the fall of three leaders, one of them a prime minister. Even if it doesn't take a scalp this time, there is going to be a great deal of pain again, and still no guarantee of a satisfactory outcome.
A Global-Warming PrimerClimategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam, by Brian Sussman, Washington, D.C.: World Net Daily, 2010, 224 pages, hardcover.
Gideons International should obtain rights to this title and place a copy in every hotel room in the United States. It is a veritable bible arming readers with information they need to refute the claims of environmentalists that humans can adversely influence climate.
How Can We De-Politicize Climate Change? : TreeHuggerAt the moment, much of this has to do with the fact that the hard-right Tea Party -- the group that is currently galvanizing conservative voters to head to the polls -- is deeply skeptical of climate change, and is forcing conservative politics to adapt accordingly. Not all of those in this group believes climate change is a hoax (though some certainly do), but just about all agree that governmental regulation is not the answer. It was a recurring phenomenon this primary season: If a conservative hoped to appeal to the base, he or she would have to attack climate policy. But even before the Tea Party became a national political force to be reckoned with, conservatives were generally uneasy (to put it lightly) with climate change -- due largely to the solutions government was able to come up with to address it.
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Nobody -- not individuals, not car-owners, not fossil fuel execs, nobody
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obfuscated scientific theory. I, for one, don't.
Coal Challenge Looms in India and China - NYTimes.comEconomic growth in China is now powered largely by coal. If current trends continue, coal use will decrease in Europe by 2050 but will more than double in China and in India, according to projections by the International Energy Agency. Even if there is a significant shift to cleaner forms of power by that date, the growth of each country will spawn enormous emissions along the way.
That is why Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency, who spoke on Wednesday at Columbia University, said that when it comes to climate change, the “single most important issue is how to get China to deploy carbon capture and storage into its coal sector.”
California’s Job TerminatorWhat state ranks third in unemployment, second in foreclosures, has the nation’s worst credit rating, is running a $19 billion deficit—yet insists on spending billions on a greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan that can’t possibly impact global warming?
Yes, it’s California, land of the Governator, who signed a bill that may say “Hasta la vista, baby!” to perhaps a million jobs. Yet there’s hope the prosperity terminator can be stopped.
Global Warming Hoax Update | Blogs For VictoryIt is a very typical thing among liberals – terminology changes as a means of ever confusing issues to make it hard to attack them. Global warming is falling in to disrepute as the lies used to bolster it are exposed…so, rather than just admit error, our liberals will simply pour the old wine in to a new bottle.
Climate Change Study Says 37 States Had Record High Temperatures This Summer - News Story - theNewsChannel The News ChannelDr. Anna Klene teaches climate change courses at the University of Montana. She worries about the battle over the issue.
"In the climate change community, we've really shifted in the last 10 years," Klene said. "And, we aren't talking about whether or not it's happening anymore. We're really talking about how do we respond? How do we make it so we don't have 24 million people homeless in Pakistan because of a flood that's going to happen more often?"
Others think the entire climate change theory is flawed. The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank. One Heritage researcher says the latest study only shows trends on the east and west coasts of the U.S. He argues that real global warming would increase temperatures everywhere.
Every time there's some anomaly that fits their pattern, they say, 'see? Here it is.' What we want to do is look at long term changes, and see, can we explain those with things other than green house gases," Dr. David Kreutzer said. "And you can explain a majority of the temperature increase with natural cycles."
Americans of both parties support the EPA | GristI just got back from a trip to China, and anyone who has seen or heard about the pollution there would never agree to limit the power of the EPA. The smog was so thick, I couldn't see the sun for a week, never mind the skyscrapers a mile away, and my eyes and throat burned most of the time. Americans know that but for the grace of the Clean Air Act, we would be breathing in the same toxic clouds.
Flashback: YouTube - Obama/Joe Biden "No Coal Plants Here in America"Obama VP Joe Biden speaking with an activist in Ohio. Tells her he doesn't support clean coal here in the US and that he only wants coal plants built in China.
50 Blogs About Global Warming | Environmental Science DegreesBoth sides present compelling points, as evidenced by the 50 blogs listed below.
The Reference Frame: Global climate disruption: Holdren orders new terminologyWe will see the fate of this new order. My guess is that Johnny Desperate, as Anthony Watts called him, will fail. When he does, he may try an even better term: a "lethal man-made decay of the Universe". ;-)
- Bishop Hill blog - Beddington: "We need error bars!"This appears to be an admission that we don't as yet have error bars on "the knowledge we have". An important statement, I would say.
Climate Observations: The Declines In Global Temperatures From El Niño To La NiñaIt’s quite obvious that 2010 global temperature anomalies are near to record levels. And if we refer to Figure 11, for the years included in this post, we can see that the January 2010 NINO3.4 SST anomalies were third highest since 1979; that is, the strength of the 2009/10 El Niño was a distant third compared to the 1982/83 and 1997/98 El Niño events. Some might take the elevated 2010 global anomalies as proof of the continued impact of anthropogenic global warming.
In reality, much of this rise in global temperature is, of course, caused by the fact that the East Indian and West Pacific Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies can rise in response to El Niño AND La Niña events and the fact that these warmings can be cumulative when El Niño and La Niña events occur in sequence.
Now Its Called Global Huh? - Minnesotans For Global Warming
FOXNews.com - White House: Global Warming Out, 'Global Climate Disruption' InBut Republicans predicted that re-branding the issue would have limited effect on the legislative effort. GOP strategist Pete Snyder said he doubts the term is going to change hearts and minds.
"Are they going to change the name of weathermen to disruption analysts?" he quipped. GOP lawmakers already exploited a terminology change of their own by re-branding the "cap-and-trade" bill as "cap-and-tax."
Holdren's "global climate disruption" isn't the most convoluted term to grace the climate debate, however.
According to the NASA article, early studies on the impact humans had on global climate referred to the relationship as "inadvertent climate modification."
The Global Warming DebateJeff Wiita: Nobody is denying that the Earth has warmed up in the past 150 years. The question here is, is it a natural cycle or is it something that is manmade. If you’re going to talk about extreme weather you have to look back at climate history, and we have written history that goes back to the medieval warm period. During the medieval warm period, the Earth was much warmer than it is today. The English grew wine and had vineyards 300 miles further north than today’s limits. The medieval Vikings grew wheat and barley in Greenland -- that is currently land that is currently frozen – obviously you can’t grow wheat and barley on permafrost. There are archaeological grave sites in Greenland where the medieval Vikings buried their dead, and they’re in permafrost. If you look at it, the medieval warm period was obviously warmer than it is today, and any climate scientist or historian will agree with you.
[Q] The polls are showing that more and more Americans are growing skeptical of global warming. Your response?
Ken Bradley: There’s been a lot of money spent by people who have an interest in keeping the fossil fuel industry moving
Renewable Energy Goal Stalls in Senate Despite Lobbying PushA powerful lobbying coalition is campaigning to require more electricity to come from renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and geothermal. But the effort hasn't gotten any traction in the Senate this year, despite the push by environmental groups, renewable energy providers, more than half the nation's governors and even some utilities.
Carbon-absorbent foam triumphs at 2010 Earth Awards | Environment | guardian.co.ukAn artificial foam inspired by the meringue-like nest of a South American frog has won the 2010 Earth Awards. The foam, which could help to tackle climate change, soaks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and generates sugars that can be converted into biofuel.
The Earth Awards were set up in 2007 to bring together green start-ups strapped for cash with investors. Between March and May, over 500 designs were submitted to a panel of judges that included Richard Branson, Jane Goodall, David de Rothschild and Diane von Furstenberg.
Don’t like the climate? Move to Fargo, says author of ‘Climatopolis’ | GristKahn came by the Grist office for a chat during a book-tour stop in Seattle.
Five Coldest US Cities | Farmers' AlmanacFreezing Fargo averaged 11.7ºF from December through March and fell to -31ºF in January 2008.
Fargo, North Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn 2009, its population was estimated at 95,556,[3] and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 200,102.
Hottest Cities in United States - Current ResultsOut of the 40 largest US cities, Phoenix Arizona has the hottest weather. It consistently ranks number one for highest maximum temperature, warmest annual mean temperature and most days in the year above 89 °F.
Phoenix, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPhoenix is home to 1,601,587 people according to the 2009 estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, and is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area (also known as the Valley of the Sun), the 12th largest metro area by population in the United States with more than 4.3 million people.
Arctic sea ice reaches historic summer low | Greenspace | Los Angeles TimesScientists have recorded the third-lowest level of summer Arctic sea ice since data collection began more than 30 years ago.
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Declining seasonal sea ice sheets have had a deadly effect on the polar bear, which was given federal endangered species protection in 2008 -- the first species to be listed explicitly as a victim of climate change.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans Press Release :: Barton, Burgess and Blackburn Introduce Bill to Repeal Light Bulb Ban“The unanticipated consequence of the ’07 act – Washington-mandated layoffs in the middle of a desperate recession – is one of many examples of what happens when politicians and activists think they know better than consumers and workers,” Barton said. “From the health insurance you’re allowed to have, to the car you can drive, to the light bulbs you can buy, Washington is making too many decisions that are better left to people who work for their own paychecks and earn their own living.”
Eco-Fascists Call For Tyranny To Enforce Draconian AgendaWith the global elite in a race against time to enforce their draconian eco-fascist agenda before more of the public realize that the entire climate change con is a rigged game, alarmists are getting increasingly desperate and transparently thuggish in their rhetoric.
Three Hurricanes At The Same Time | Real ScienceWith Karl becoming a hurricane, we have three hurricanes at the same time. This is a pretty rare occurrence. The only other years that this has occurred are 1893, 1926, 1950, 1961, 1967, 1980, 1995, and 1998. 1998 even had four hurricanes at the same time!
[More anti-CO2 propaganda from Fraudster Al Gore]: Repower America | Protect the Clean Air ActThis new video is a declaration that we won't stay quiet and lose our last, best line of defense against big polluters.
Move Along Folks « the Air VentGawd this is funny, it turns out that Trevor Davies was picked to choose the papers which might clear up any conceivable problems in the UEA emails AKA climategate. The boys set up a ‘review committee’ on UEA honesty and asked the ex UEA team to provide the data for the review while simultaneously ignoring any information from critics.
At the time of “hide the decline” Davies, was none other than the Dean of the School of Environmental Sciences of the UEA. The big dog, the man in charge.
The Reference Frame: Sicilian Mafia goes green: police seizes $2 billionThe green business has opened such an enormous business with price imbalances and hot air that it would be unthinkable if the existing criminal organizations didn't join the likes of Al Gore in getting the big money in the easiest ways.
Senate advances 2011 budget including fast-start climate finance | Heather Allen's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDCThis summer the Senate Appropriations Committee released budget recommendations for 2011 which include over 1.2 billion to combat the impacts of global warming pollution and shift to a clean energy future.
BofA commits $8.4B to climate [scam] - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad AreaBank of America Corp. says it is ahead of schedule on its 10-year, $20 billion plan on addressing climate change.
The Charlotte-based bank, which launched the plan in 2007, says it has already invested $8.4 billion in the program through lending, capital markets and philanthropic activities.
The six great early American climate myths - Capital Weather GangThe Changing Climate Myth
Today, of course, hardly a day goes by when we don't hear something about the degree to which human activity is responsible for the global warming that we've experienced since the start of the industrial revolution. Therefore, it may seem surprising that in 19th century America, many people also believed, but for different reasons, that the climate was warming.
In the mid-to-late 1800s, although Ludlum documented many severely cold winters, it was clear that the "Little Ice Age," which had locked much of (at least) the northern hemisphere in its icy grip for hundreds of years, was waning. At the time, however, it was probably not widely recognized that, rather than just a milder interlude, as was thought, there was a waning cold epoch and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide caused primarily by the start of the industrial revolution, and reduced carbon dioxide absorption caused by the deforestation needed to build homes and factories.
Instead, the prevailing theory at the time was that so much land had been cleared that solar radiation had a much greater opportunity to warm the soil, and thus the air above the soil.
Was this a credible idea? What do you think?
[Rick Boucher]: YOU HAVE WON A NEW CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!A tip from southwest Virginia encouraged me to check out his finance reports from last year. On it is a $29,352 expense for a new car from a Ford Dealership in Southwest Virginia. This is for a new Ford Edge (pictured) that he now drives around according to the tipster.
Seriously? The $174,000 Congressional salary isn't enough- Rick also needs to make his campaign donors pay for his new car? Even worse is if you look at his donors from various special interests that most Congressman get. The Congressional gift ban doesn't allow any contribution over $50- and even then it must be unsolicited. But I guess it is perfectly legal for a Congressman to hit up special interests to max out to their campaign account and then buy themselves a brand new car with that (untaxed) money? Unbelievable.
If you didn't understand the populist revolt going on against Washington this year before- you should now.
Ford Edge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Ford Edge is a mid-size crossover SUV (CUV) manufactured by Ford
Flashback: Key Dem backs Waxman climate [swindle] bill - POLITICO.com Print ViewThe first meeting between Democratic Reps. Ed Markey, Henry Waxman and Rick Boucher lasted five hours, well beyond the two hours the lawmakers scheduled to work on a landmark climate and energy bill.
But Waxman and Markey eventually got what they wanted: an emphatic yes from Boucher, a coal country Virginian whose backing is critical for the ambitious global warming measure.
USF grant to get people thinking about [climate hoax]TAMPA - The Al Gore approach to climate-change education didn't work, says University of South Florida geologist Jeffrey Ryan. Too many charts.
He wants people to see the evidence around them – wells turning salty, beaches and mangrove islands disappearing, signs that billions of dollars worth of waterfront property could be underwater in the next several decades.
Sea levels are rising, "and that means there are adjustments we have to make," Ryan said.
He received a grant this week from the National Science Foundation to persuade Floridians to start considering those adjustments.
Ryan, a USF professor and geology department chairman, is one of 15 researchers across the country to get a piece of the science foundation's $20 million Climate Change Education Partnership.
He and partners from the USF colleges of business and marine science have nearly $500,000 to spend over the next two years planning the project.
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[Jill Karsten, a National Science Foundation program director] "Although there are ongoing discussions on some details of how the climate is evolving, there is a huge consensus that the climate is changing," she said.
"The evidence has become much more concrete. Research groups aren't taking about whether it is happening. It's now a question of what to do."
Carbon capturing technology doomed in Europe-study | ReutersThe complex computer modelling exercise, commissioned by European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, factors in all of the EU's latest climate and energy legislation, most importantly the 2008 renewable energy directive.
EPA clean air regulations might dim green luster of biomass plants in Oregon and nationwide | OregonLive.comFreres Lumber fired up its biomass plant in 2007 as part of the green power rush, banking on tax breaks to generate steam and electricity at its Lyons mill by burning forest slash and mill waste.
But proposed rules from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- including new regulations on boiler pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the plants -- could force the company to sample emissions more and put "pollution controls on top of pollution controls," Freres executives say.
Arctic Shipping Gets Boring - NYTimes.comWith nearly all forecasts for Arctic sea ice showing a progression in coming decades toward vast stretches of open water and thin ice elsewhere, you can expect ever more such trade.
In many conversations in the last few years, the environmental sociologist Robert Brulle has pointed me to research showing how changes that seem jarring to one generation — signs that the human-heated climate is transforming frozen places — become normal to the next.
We Aint No Fortunate SonsThe GOP Establisment is hardly better than the condescending millionaire elitists on the Democrats side, Hollywood, James Cameron, Wall Street, Al Gore, media etc. – all preaching us to sacrifice, while they themselves live high on the hog.
Climate [hoax] fund rules by next week | Bangladesh | bdnews24.comDhaka, Sep 16 (bdnews24.com)—Regulations for disbursing money from the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) will be finalised within the next week.
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Environment ministry sources revealed that the UK will donate $75 million, European Union (EU) will chip in $8.5 million and Denmark will give $10 million. Sweden will also contribute to the fund.
'Selling unicorns to the Chinese will double our GDP by at least yesterday' announces Minister for Energy, Climate Change and Comically Implausible Propaganda Chris Huhne – Telegraph BlogsI’ve joked before about the Government’s plans for growth through green jobs being about as futile and economically illiterate as The Daily Mash’s spoof scheme to raise money by farming unicorns and exporting them to the Chinese. But when I last did it, New Labour were in charge. Now it’s this thing they call the Coalition. I know some of you claim to be able to discern a huge difference. I can’t.
U.S., Canada Carbon [Swindle] Markets Hinge on California, Barclays Says - BusinessWeekSept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The future of cap-and-trade markets for carbon dioxide pollution rights in the U.S. and parts of Canada may depend on the outcome of a political battle in California, analysts at Barclays Plc said.
Global warming could cut number of Arctic hurricanes, study finds | Environment | guardian.co.ukGlobal warming could halve the frequency of Arctic hurricanes – extreme storms that strike the north Atlantic during winter – by 2100, according to a new study, potentially encouraging exploitation of the region's oil reserves.
"Our results provide a rare example of climate change driving a decline in extreme weather, rather than an increase," says Matthias Zahn at the University of Reading.
An alternative to the new wave of ecofascism | Micah White | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukBy liberating humanity from the compulsion to consume, climate catastrophe can be averted without recourse to authoritarianism
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Authoritarian environmentalists fail to imagine a world without advertising, so they dream of putting democracy "on hold". In Linkola's dystopian vision, the resources of the state are mobilised to clamp down on individual liberty. But there is no need to suspend democracy if it is returned to the people. Democratic, anti-fascist environmentalism means marshalling the strength of humanity to suppress corporations. Only by silencing the consumerist forces will both climate catastrophe and ecological tyranny be averted. Yes, western consumption will be substantially reduced. But it will be done voluntarily and joyously.
Britain needs positive leadership on climate change [scam] | Ed Miliband | Environment | guardian.co.ukFinally, it is people demanding change that has, throughout history, changed the world. The global campaign at Copenhagen achieved a lot. We would never have had targets from so many countries and the agreement on finance without this sort of mobilisation. Now we need to reinvigorate the campaign for Cancún and beyond.
But government also has a duty to lead. Sadly, there is no sense of urgency.
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We must seize the moment to inspire people with a positive vision. The mission to create green jobs through clean energy and low-carbon manufacturing will be at the heart of my plans for the economy.
The 25 Most Intense Hurricanes To Make Landfall In The US | Real ScienceThe peaks occurred in the 1930s and 1960s.
Snowfall in Garhwal Himalayas nearly a month ahead of schedule - The Economic TimesGOPESHWAR: Nearly a month ahead of schedule, the higher reaches of Garhwal Himalayas today received snowfall, sending the mercury plummeting in Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts.
POLITICO Morning Energy - POLITICO.comINHOFE REDUX: Environment and Public Works would certainly be an interesting place under Republican control. Jim Inhofe was in charge from 2002-2006, chairing hearings that investigated climate science and the journalists who cover the issue. If he gets the gavel back, Inhofe said he is planning some oversight of the Obama administration.
“As fond as I am of Lisa Jackson, and I am, still I always have this feeling she’s not calling the shots,” Inhofe said. “It's Carol Browner. And we don’t have that good relationship…. I think we’d want to investigate, for example, we can go back and look, what specifically [Jackson's] told us in public meetings on the endangerment finding.”
The GOP is now a party of know-nothing flat-earthers | Cynthia TuckerOne of the greatest crises of our time is climate change, which threatens to create food shortages (as the Russians learned this summer), change geography, eradicate entire eco-systems and even wipe out cities and towns in coastal areas. (NOTE: If you are an anti-science know-nothing, don’t bother to comment. The clear scientific consensus indicates a warming climate caused by human activity.)
But we’ve reached the odd and depressing point in American politics where not a single Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate supports aggressive action to mitigate climate change. The last science literate, Delaware Congressman Mike Castle, was defeated by tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell.
'Cap-And-Trade,' Linda McMahon and Christine O'Donnell - Rick Green | CT ConfidentialNowhere in Linda's voluminous literature does she mention the point behind cap-and-trade, which is to control deadly carbon emissions -- and address global warming -- by creating economic incentives to reduce pollution. That means we let the free market make the choice instead controlling emissions with taxes.
For the fringe, this is all about denying climate change and the connection between greenhouse gases and climate change.
Western Canada avoids killing frost overnight | Canada | ReutersWINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Western Canada escaped killing frost overnight into Thursday morning, but temperatures cold enough to end crop growth were on the way for Thursday night, an Environment Canada meteorologist said.
Frost is an acute concern for Western Canadian farmers this year because many crops are one to two weeks behind normal growth, leaving them vulnerable to damage that reduces quality.
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Environment Canada expects crop-killing temperatures on Thursday night in parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta, said meteorologist Sandy Massey. The Edmonton, Alberta, area could get as cold as minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 Fahrenheit), she said.
UN Climate [Hoax] Chief Figueres Favors `Transformational' [Climate Hoax] Projects as HFCs Ebb - BloombergUnited Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres vowed to expand the world’s second-biggest carbon market by favoring “transformational” energy and transport projects over industrial-gas credits.
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“The potential perverse incentive was recognized very early in the development of the methodology and it was already addressed in the first revision of the methodology,” Figueres said. “So what the board is doing now is it’s looking at all these safeguards and trying to determine whether that set is enough or whether they need to introduce any other safeguards.”
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The confidence of the carbon market in the CDM is at a “very low ebb,” the International Emissions Trading Association said last month. Climate campaigners including CDM Watch have criticized the UN market for lack of transparency in decision-making and poor environmental integrity.
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“There’s an undeniable low in the market right now,” she said. “However, let’s not forget what is there,” she said. “We do have almost 2,400 projects in almost 70 countries and these projects are up and running.”
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“The natural anomalies that we have seen again this year - - floods in Pakistan or heat waves and fires in Russia -- are very clear reminders to governments that time is running out,” Figueres said.
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