Arctic Amplification? | Real Science

Blue represents days when the temperature was below normal.Red represents days when it was above normal. A numerical integration of these regions indicates that this summer/autumn has been a little below normal temperature in the high Arctic.

Remember, this is the hottest year ever, and the Arctic is the fastest warming place on the planet.

Oil Drilling Greenland - Cairn Energy Strikes Oil in Greenland - Popular Mechanics

Massive deposits could one day make Inuits the Saudis of the north.
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The territory is counting on oil and mineral development to fund a gradual move toward independence, and the discovery is being cheered in Nuuk, Greenland's capital.

Climate [hoax] activists close down world's largest coal port | World | Reuters

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian climate change activists on Sunday closed down operations at the world's largest coal port after entering its three terminals and attaching themselves to loaders, the terminal operator and the protesters said.

The action by climate change group Rising Tide in Newcastle stopped operations at all three terminals operated by Port Waratah Coal Services, which normally run continuously, a company spokesman said.
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Rising Tide said about 50 people in total were involved in the protest, some entering before dawn on Sunday morning, abseiling down machinery and attaching themselves to loaders. Others demonstrated with banners.

Spokeswoman Annika Dean said nine protesters attached themselves to infrastructure, calling it an "emergency" action to highlight climate change, which she blamed for recent fires in Russia and floods in Pakistan.

"We have stopped all operations in the coal port," Dean said.

"These weather events are consistent with the scientific predictions for climate change. We feel like Australia's coal exports are contributing to this problem."

Flashback: CCAN Blog » Al Gore, James Hansen, and Civil Disobedience

In a little-noticed op-ed in this past Thursday’s New York Times (“The Big Melt,” with a tip of the hat to Free Democracy for posting it) , Nicholas Kristoff reported on a conversation with Al Gore in which the former Vice-President said: “I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.” His comment was in response to the ever-quickening pace of polar ice meltoff, with all its deadly and catastrophic implications, and the role played by coal-fired power plants in advancing our demise.

The comment was also strikingly similar to a recent quote from Dr. James Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA: “It seems to me that young people, especially, should be doing whatever is necessary to block construction of dirty (no CCS) coal-fired power plants.”

Global Math Disruption : 2 + 2 + 2 = 0 | Real Science

GISS tells us that this is the hottest year ever, and that Arctic temperatures have been running well above normal.

Thinnest ice, hottest temperatures, and expert forecasts. Surely we must have shattered the record this year! It would be a miracle if there is any ice left.

But wait, ice extent is currently 30% higher than 2007. The numbers don’t add up.

Arctic Temperatures Coincide With AMO – And Not CO2

Obvious conclusion: Trace gas Co2 drives the Arctic climate about as much as a sea breeze drives a loaded freight train.

FOXNews.com - At UN, climate ministers remain deadlocked before next major summit in December

Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, who will preside over the December summit in Cancun, told 45 climate ministers and top negotiators that any agreement will require "close guidance from the highest levels of government."

Could global warming turn Canada into a superpower? - CTV News

By the year 2050 Canada could be enjoying newfound status as a global superpower blessed with a developed north, plenty of fresh water, a growing population and new shipping lanes through the Arctic.

International Survey of Climate Scientists | The SPPI Blog

* What does this mean? For two-thirds of the questions asked, scientific opinion is DEEPLY DIVIDED, and in half of those cases, most scientists DISAGREE with positions that are at the foundation of the alarmist case. There is certainly NO CONSENSUS on the science behind the global warming scare.

Mark Hertsgaard names Generation Hot: Living through the next fifty years on earth « Climate Progress

In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.

Summer snow: Pre-fall taste of winter makes gardens, farms, tourism shudder | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune

[Sept 18, 2010] Farmers aren't the only one wishing for a few warm days before season's end. Tourism-oriented businesses around Glacier National Park also are seeing a slow-down in traffic because of the early snow.

Ron Ivey, a store clerk at Thronson's General Store & Motel in Babb, said that Friday was the first day of the month that they didn't have any bookings yet.

New Statesman - The NS Interview: Bjørn Lomborg

[Q] What's not working?
The UN summits are PR vehicles for politicians so they can all get together and look like they're doing something.

[Q] What's your view of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
I would say 90 per cent of what the panel tells us is right, which is pretty good for a very complex subject. But the UN-led policy solutions are incredibly poor.
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[Q] Do you have religious faith of any kind?
I tentatively believe in a God. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff. But fundamentally, you have to do good in this life towards your fellow man, so I guess I'm a humanist with the potential of [believing in] a God.

More on Johnson's Milwaukee appearance - JSOnline

* He said he was opposed to cap and trade bills, saying they would impose huge penalties based on unproven science. He said that would be a trillion dollar tax that could be used for jobs.

The Reference Frame: Should journalists second guess the scientific truth?

For example, the average journalist's IQ is around 112, above the average person's IQ near 100.

However, the average reader's IQ is close to 112, too: less intelligent people can't read or don't read too much. So a journalist can't pretend that he is intellectually superior in comparison with the readers or viewers.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Windfall

A documentary which recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, Windfall, examines a small farming community in New York that "finds that wind energy may be nothing more than hot air" when the massive wind industry comes to town. The trailer below is a must see, and explains why Ted Kennedy didn't want offshore wind turbines obstructing his views on Cape Cod, but advocated for them near the "little people" such as in this documentary. Think about the 146,000,000 wind turbines required to allegedly solve global warming the next time you vote for a 'green' politician.

The Thanet wind farm will milk us of billions - Telegraph

A final claim for the Thanet wind farm (which Mr Huhne boasts is "only the beginning") is that it will create "green jobs" – although the developers say that only 21 of these will be permanent. These are thus costing, in "green subsidies" alone, £3 million per job per year, or £57 million for each job over the next 20 years. The Government gaily prattles about how it wants to create "400,000 green jobs", which on this basis would eventually cost us £22.8 trillion, or 17 times the entire annual output of the UK economy.

If all this sounds dizzyingly surreal, the fact remains that we must begin to grasp just what the green fantasies of Mr Huhne, the EU and the rest are costing us. Even the Queen, we learn, tried to claim a "fuel poverty" allowance for her soaring electricity bills, which have risen 50 per cent in the past year. But a crucial first step towards getting some grip on reality must be for those who report on these wind farms to stop hiding away the colossal price we are all now having to pay for one of the greatest scams of our age.

Second year journalism student weighs in: Radio stations should play less music and spend more time promoting the greatest scientific fraud in history

Pacific.scoop.co.nz » Fiji journalists call for critical, creative coverage of climate change [hoax]

Mai Life magazine editor Ricardo Morris, environmental journalist Alumeci Nakeke and second year University of the South Pacific journalism student Dawn Gibson were speaking at a panel discussion at this month’s Oceanic Conference on Creativity and Climate Change at the Laucala campus in Suva.
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Gibson said radio stations were playing too much music at the expense of highlighting issues that affect people’s lives.

Head of the USP regional journalism programme Shailendra Singh, who convened the panel, told Pacific Scoop that climate change was the “major public interest story of our time”.

I hate it when that happens: CO2 allegedly causes vampire bat attacks

Bats Kill More Children in Brazil | Seer Press

Another child, the fifth in a row of four children whose cause of death diagnosis according to the Peruvian health experts is rabies, is dead after being bitten by vampire bats.
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Records showed that the children who died belonged to the indigent groups inhabiting near the border of Ecuador. The attack is subsequently associated with climate change.

Breaking: Ice changes on Kilimanjaro not caused by cell phone chargers in Topeka?

Kilimanjaro's vanishing ice due to tree-felling - environment - 25 September 2010 - New Scientist

Trees play an important role here by providing moisture through transpiration. Pepin suggests that extensive local deforestation in recent decades has likely reduced this flow of moisture, depleting the mountain's icy hood.

Wonk Room » Christiana Figueres: There Will Be No ‘Big Bang’ Climate Pact

[new UN climate chief Christiana Figueres] I think that one of the major mistakes that we all bought into, because all of us bought into, was the myth of the big bang theory in climate. Maybe the universe was created by a Big Bang. But what is clear is that this planet is not going to be saved by any big bang agreement. Not in Copenhagen, not this year, not next year. The fact is that it’s unreasonable to expect that there is going to be one large comprehensive agreement that will address all issues and will miraculously change the way that we’ve been doing things for a hundred years.

One fifth of Brits believe it 'never' rains in Africa

One fifth of Britons live under the impression that it never rains in Africa and funny but true, one in eight imagine that rainforests are in Greenland, says a new survey.

The Reference Frame: Red Redemption: Fate of the world

So this is what they plan if the 2010 climate talks will fail, and be sure that they will? Even if the creators of the game don't intend it, it's clear that some groups will worship the game as a computer model whose lessons justify "action". After all, the likes of the IPCC are already taking much less realistic computer games seriously today.

EU Referendum: Queenie – meet Charlie

The Queen asked ministers for money to heat Buckingham Palace from a fund reserved for low-income families, it has been revealed. Royal aides pleaded for the cash as they claimed gas and electricity bills had risen by more than 50 percent in a year - totalling more than £1million. They thus complained that the £15m government grant to cover the Queen's palaces was inadequate and her energy bills had become "untenable".

And now for the "money quote": The dosh would have come from £60million of energy-saving grants reserved for cash-strapped families, housing associations and hospitals.

What happens if the green quangos are axed? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

An examination of how the "bonfire of the quangos" could affect the environmental sector
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The list of 117 public bodies to be abolished under the government's spending review that was leaked today to the Telegraph contains a large number of green casualties, including well-known organisations and those that operate with a lower profile.

UN warned of major new food crisis at emergency meeting in Rome | Environment | The Guardian

"The emergency UN meeting in Rome is a clear warning sign that we could be on the brink of another food price crisis unless swift action is taken. Already, nearly a billion people go to bed hungry every night – another food crisis would be catastrophic for millions of poor people," said Alex Wijeratna, ActionAid's hunger campaigner.

2008: Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars - washingtonpost.com

Across the country, ethanol plants are swallowing more and more of the nation's corn crop. This year, about a quarter of U.S. corn will go to feeding ethanol plants instead of poultry or livestock.

Hot Air » Red flag on green-jobs numbers

Are you a financial adviser? You may not know it, but you’ve got a green job. Are you a wholesale buyer? You’ve got a green job, too. Or maybe you’re a newspaper reporter. You, too, have a green job — at least according to the Obama administration.

Lights Out: America’s Last Bulb Plant Closes - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Detroit – While the now infamous UAW hooch n’ weed break once again called attention to Obama’s Recovery of Auto Jobs Summer, it also overshadowed the Destruction of Bulb Jobs Summer. At midnight Friday, the last incandescent light bulb plant in America closed — a victim of government rules outlawing the traditional light bulb by 2012.

While Democrats crow over saving hundreds of auto jobs, they have been silent on sending hundreds of bulb industry jobs to China. One by one, GE light bulb plants have closed down across the country this year as the company moves to production of the more expensive compact fluorescents with cheap labor overseas.

US Republicans v EU Enviro-Nazis: this should be fun! – Telegraph Blogs

So, the battle lines are drawn.

On the one side, the US Republican party which – after years of despicable RINO-ism – appears finally to have understood that the only proper conservative position on “Man-Made Global Warming” is one of robust scepticism.

Hot Air » Rasmussen: [Climate realist] Emmer moves out to slight lead in MN gubernatorial race

While voters in Minnesota are angry at the federal government (run entirely by Democrats) 61/35, Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty has a 52/47 approval rating as he starts to exit after eight years at the helm. Those numbers suggest that the momentum Emmer has begun to see comes from harnessing the national movement to dump Democrats and go in a different direction.

Flashback: Rep. Emmer Introduces Bill to End Cap and Trade Law - Minnesotans For Global Warming

"With the economy slowly recovering and the state facing another budget shortfall, the last thing we need is an artificial tracking system that will be used to raise our energy rates," said Emmer. "We need to get Minnesota out of this cap and trade system before the federal government starts penalizing businesses and homeowners for using more energy."

If my grandchildren want to reside in Chicago, will they be forced to live under a mile-thick sheet of ice?

Rapid Arctic Ice Growth | Real Science

The blink comparator above shows how far the ice edge has expanded in the last two days.

American Thinker: Tom Friedman's Totalitarian Temptation

As an aside, China indeed has a pollution problem. The last time I was in Beijing, the air was so thick the streetlights came on at noon. The problem with Liu and Friedman's justifications is that they don't differentiate between industrial pollution and carbon dioxide; CO2 is not a pollutant that people see, eat, and breathe. Classifying carbon dioxide as pollution has done great harm; an unjustified fear of CO2 has corrupted our energy decisions, incentivizing investment in inferior non-carbon energy sources like wind and solar. Furthermore, when we spend public money to eliminate a harmless gas, we have less money to spend reducing real pollution.

The shocking thing about the above quote is that Friedman is not warning us of a potential threat to freedom. Instead, he admires China for its lack of debate and is enthusiastic that the Chinese government doesn't "waste time" with dissenters.

Thermometer Magic | Real Science

As you can see, essentially all of the “warming” which is shown in the graph since the 1930s, is due to adjustments made to the thermometer readings.

Enviro and Media Agenda on Extreme Weather - State Climatologist Invited, then Uninvited to Rally

It is clear these groups and their media messengers are uninterested in facts or the truth just in communicating the scare message that they think will bring their movement to success. This is just another example of the blatant hypocracy that the public must be made aware of.

David R. Legates, Ph.D., C.C.M

Maybe We Can’t Count, But GCD Will Still Kill You | Real Science

Global climate disruption is coming after you. Tornadoes are going push Grizzly Bears across mud flats into cities full of zombies. Death is now certain for all 7 billion people on the planet.

They used to call this “certifiable.” Now they call it “NASA.”

Der Spiegel: The Ocean’s Influence Greater Than Thought

Yes, there’s a quite a bit more to climate than a single trace gas in the atmosphere. Hooray – the warmists are finally beginning to realize it! (Maybe)

Research and Markets: The "Growth" of Carbon Investment Funds Report

With the commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol in place, interest in acquiring carbon credits is reaching a feverish pace. While governments and companies can use bilateral trades, brokers, or exchanges to acquire the credits needed to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets; the time, cost, and expertise required make this method prohibitive for many. In addition, the limited availability of credits in the market means that demand is chasing a limited supply.

CCX CFI End of Day Summary

CFI 2006 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.05

Haste needed on climate deals, U.N. warns - UPI.com

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- There is an urgent need to tackle key climate change issues as the next major summit is barely two months away, the U.N.'s chief environmental czar said.

U.K. Should Scrap Second Phase of `Complex' Carbon-Cap Plan, Adviser Says - Bloomberg

The U.K. should scrap a plan set to start in the second phase of its carbon-reduction program to cap and auction emissions for large companies and organizations, the government climate adviser said.

U.K. Solar Executives Criticize `Asinine' Treasury Review of Subsidies - Bloomberg

Cuts in the U.K.’s guaranteed prices for electricity from solar photovoltaic panels would threaten job creation just as the industry is taking off, executives at Sharp Corp. and Solarcentury Holdings Ltd. said.
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Newman said his company added 20 jobs since the tariffs came in.

China seeks binding climate deal by 2011: Report - People's Daily Online

"The biggest obstacle comes from the United States," Li said. "Without any (climate change) legislation, it can't possibly join in a legally binding international document."
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Li said Beijing would keep pressing for certain principles, including that developing countries like China should not shoulder the same absolute caps on emissions that rich countries must take on.

Milk's effect on climate tallied - Agriculture - Modbee.com

How much does a cold glass of milk contribute to global warming?

It turns out that producing and consuming milk in the United States accounts for 2 percent of the nation's climate-changing emissions, according to a new report from the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.

Polar Bears Found Rock Climbing in the Arctic : Discovery News

When they expand their horizons, it is mostly to take advantage of opportunities afforded by the presence of other marine mammals: bearded seals, belugas or, more dangerously, walruses. When ashore, they will munch on algae, grasses, and carrion, and have been known to occasionally kill birds or even caribou - but such terrestrial predation has been widely considered purely opportunistic. There have been virtually no records of polar bears actively seeking out prey during their time on land.

Until now.

Has Touting Green Jobs Been A Mistake? : TreeHugger

It also opens the door to asking "where are all the green jobs"

Climate change and the expert who cried wolf

It is obvious that Dr Pachauri should resign and take the rest of his discredited panel with him. But there is a very good reason why those who first challenged his views need not bother to press the issue: while Dr Pachauri and his allies remain in place few people will believe future IPCC scare stories about the world drastically overheating.

Proposition 23 poll shows a dead heat among California voters | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

On the ballot measure itself, the survey showed that about one-fifth of likely voters had not yet taken a position. Forty percent favor the initiative and 38% oppose it, essentially a dead heat.

Interview - Rod Dixon: Theatre that still dares to be radical - Yorkshire Post

Over an hour-long interview the charismatic and engaging director talks about demonstrations he was involved in against power stations, why we need to be shaken out of our slumber and get angry at the banks and why our planet could be done for within eight years.

It is the last of these – global warming – that Dixon gets particularly passionate about; the company's latest production, Ugly, deals with the issue. In the Red Ladder offices, in the basement of the Yorkshire Dance building in Leeds's Cultural Quarter, a newspaper sits on a coffee table, the front page a picture of the floods in Pakistan.

"That's us in 20 years time," says Dixon. "If our atmosphere keeps warming in the way it is, we're talking about Hurricane Katrina, happening on a monthly basis. That might sound alarmist, but that's how dangerous it is."

When Pigs Fly: Halliburton Makes the Dow Jones Sustainability Index

There is a bit of an irony here, in that Halliburton’s addition to the index fills a vacancy that occurred when BP was removed based on an “extraordinary events” clause in the index guidelines.

Dump CRC carbon trading, says climate committee | Login

The government’s expert advisers on climate change have recommended radical simplification of the “very complex” Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme. A major overhaul now seems certain, just before it begins

Green party not welcome at Go Green eco-event on Paignton Green

A POLITICAL party was booted off a Torbay public open space by council officials as they tried encroach on a fun event to hand out leaflets.

MARK BENNETT: Bill Nye still rocking [junk] scienceOur home planet has some issues, such as climate change and global warming.

“When you compare Mars to Earth, and Venus to Earth, you can see the problem” earthlings face, Nye said. “We do not want to become Venus.” (The surface temperature there stays a sultry 900 degrees.)

“Everybody should keep in mind, when you travel to other parts of the world, people are concerned about it,” Nye said. “Here, it’s become political.”

Floods in Pak caused by Siachen militarisation: Envoy

In an unusual remark, Pakistan's Ambassador here Hussain Haqqani has said that one of the reasons for recent devastating floods in his country could be human activity on the heavily-militarised Siachen glacier.

Obama's science czar abandoning rational thought (OneNewsNow.com)

Climate Depot executive editor Marc Morano tells OneNewsNow that he believes President Obama's "science czar" John Holdren has recognized the collapse of the entire movement alleging manmade global warming. Holdren, says Morano, fears that the phrase "global warming" has been oversimplified and sounds less dangerous than what he believes it really is -- so Holdren is changing the terminology.

"And he is now calling [the phrase] 'global warming' a...'dangerous misnomer,' and he says it should be replaced with [the phrase] 'global climate disruption...,'" Morano explains -- evidence that Holdren "is willing to throw science out the window."

"Because he is now on the bandwagon [that claims] every bad thing that happens -- flood, drought, hurricane, blizzard, snowstorm, you name it -- [is] further proof of man-made global warming," the journalist continues. "This man, at this point, is making a mockery of his PhD."

C3: New Swiss Evidence Proves Modern Warming Cooler Than Medieval Warming Period, Study Finds

Brand new peer-reviewed study that analyzes subfossils from a Swiss lake confirms what hundreds of previous peer-research have found: that the Medieval Warming had temperatures significantly warmer than modern ones.

Questioning the Arctic Ice Melt and Temperature Scare | Hawaii Reporter

The Arctic shows no signs of warming, according to the latest data from the Danish Meteorological Institute’s Center for Ocean and Ice. During June 2010, in fact, virtually every single day saw temperatures below the mean experienced over the last half-century. The data which is taken daily casts doubt on climate models that had predicted a steady warming of the Arctic.

Environmental attorney honored for her work to save polar bears - National environmental policy | Examiner.com

“Kassie has been a tireless advocate for polar bears and other species facing extinction from climate change. These animals have a much better chance at survival with her on their side,” said Kieran Suckling, the Center’s executive director. “Under her leadership the Climate Law Institute has become a law powerhouse, rapidly setting the legal framework for how our nation deals with global warming. We’re happy to see her recognized among the best in California’s community of lawyers.”

Recycling sewage the key to life: researcher - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

He says phosphorus availability and price could be as damaging as climate change to some Australian farms.

Philadelphia 2010 So Far – Not Quite As Hot As 1828 | Real Science

We all know by now that 2010 is the hottest year in history. Particularly on the US East Coast where Philadelphia has been almost as hot as it was 182 years ago.

The hot weather this year is because of reckless human induced global climate disruption. In 1828 it was of course just weather.

The World’s Worst Flood – 1931 | Real Science

Flooding in China in 1931 killed as many as four million people, and left 80 million homeless. It was preceded by a three year drought and heavy snow/rain. Atmospheric CO2 levels were 310 ppm, well below Dr. Hansen’s “safe” level of 350 ppm.

Hopefully global climate disruption has made the climate more favorable, so that we don’t see any more natural disasters on this scale.

Business could be hit by new green tax - Telegraph

Thousands of Britain's businesses could be hit by a new green tax to help raise money for the Treasury, a leading advisory body to the Government has warned.

Desdemona Despair: Down the memory hole: Rolling Stone erases ‘Climate Killers’ story

I went looking for the January 2010 issue of Rolling Stone -- the cover was "You Idiots! Inside the battle over global warming”. Rolling Stone listed the 17 people whom it calls "climate killers."

It was powerful. It named, shamed and blamed. But I can no longer find those names listed anywhere on the Internet … at least not where it is supposed to be.

Correlating Snowfall With Atmospheric CO2 | Real Science

There is no trend, no change in snowfall behaviour, nothing interesting happening – and yet the usual crew of suspects have deluded themselves into believing that they are seeing the end of the world.

Global climate disruption appears to have knocked a few people on the head a few times too many.

The Climate Sceptics (TCS) Blog: NZ: Climate change ranks lowest among issues

The Coalition’s survey found:
• Only 23.4% of people agree that New Zealand should reduce its emissions if it means reducing our standard of living – a fall from 34.9% in 2009.

Symptoms Of Climate Change | Real Science

...If you see any of these going on in your neighborhood, please report them immediately to NRDC.

When I was studying geology, we called these mud cracks. Now they are called global climate disruption.

The Prox: Global Warming Exposed as B.S. during Debate

In our beloved Frist 307 this afternoon, former classroom of Albert Einstein, professor and internationally renowned global warming skeptic Fred Singer opened the debate. Professors Robert Socolow and Isaac Held took up the G.W.'s defense.

Youth who research Find Truth « Blowing Our Tax Dollars

First video is from a young Canadian exposing Gore and Global Warming
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Second video from young American exposing T Boone Pickens wind farms and politicians

Own Weather Records Contradict Germany’s Weather Service Director

While atmospheric CO2 concentrations climbed from 1750 to 1980, Berlin’s temperature did the opposite. But when one is hired to promote global warming alarmism, then 1881 is a good place to start.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Look out: Record Breaking La Niña Occurring?

From a discussion board at NOAA comes this graph showing the developing La Niña of 2010 might be a record breaker. La Niña causes multiple global climate disruptions including a drop in global temperatures and extreme weather events around the globe, which no doubt will still be conveniently blamed on mankind's evil ways. The last 2 times of record-contending La Ninas in 1954 and 1973 were during the global cooling scare:

Seven (Real) Questions for David Suzuki « NoFrakkingConsensus

Here, therefore, are my seven questions for David Suzuki (number 4 has two parts):

1. You think there are too many human beings, that our numbers over-burden planet Earth. Why, then, did you yourself father five children?

Canada’s Green Energy and Jobs Programs Butt Up Against WTO Rules, says Japan | GlobalWarming.org

Japan is complaining to the WTO that Canadian measures that mandate domestic content requirements for renewable energy generation equipment are inconsistent with WTO rules because they discriminate against equipment produced outside of Ontario and also represent a subsidy prohibited by the WTO.

Rajendra Pachauri must quit, says Britain's ex-minister

Yeo told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Thursday: 'I think Dr Pachauri should resign. It's vital that this body is led by someone whose academic and intellectual credentials are unquestioned.'

Energy Secretary Chu’s White Roof Fetish | FrontPage Magazine

The Sunday London Times also reported that Chu said building regulations “should insist that all flat roofs [be] painted white,” and visible tilted roofs could be painted with “cool-colored” paints which absorbed much less heat than conventional dark surfaces. He also recommended that roads could be lightened to a concrete color so they would not dazzle drivers in bright sunlight. “I think with flat-type roofs…yes, I think you should regulate.” Spoken like a true-blue patron of bureaucratic control.

Author Scrutinizes the Political Left’s Global Warming Legislation

In seven chapters, Faulkner shows global warming as perceived by consumers; explores different points of views on global warming; reveals myths and questions which alarmists cannot and will not answer; introduces who benefits from cap-and-trade legislation; and gives people an idea on what global warming legislation is going to cost them. Offering an alternative view, Coming Face to Face with the Neo-Warmer’s Agenda demands for greater debate on this imposed government regulation.

YouTube - Global Warming debunked in 55 seconds

Activist talks global warming - News

There was some skepticism among students about our effect on global warming, and to what extent humans have really contributed to the climate crisis.

To this Fulk responded that she compares this argument to playing Russian roulette. You have a 15 percent chance that you will pull the trigger and get a bullet, but the difference is that we have the capability to simply put the gun down and help curb global warming now.

MICHIGAN: U of M, MSU scientists to help Great Lakes communities understand climate change (2010-09-24)

The federal government is giving 4 million dollars to a joint climate change project run by the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.

'Year from hell' plagues farmers

Most areas of the province were hit by frost on Sept. 17 and Sept. 18, the crop report said.

While the extent of the damage is still being assessed, Weber said he believes it got cold enough to potentially cause significant harm to crops.

Hailstorm Destroys Olive Groves in Spain’s Monterrubio de la Serena | Olive Oil Times

In 2005, severe frosts killed 4% of Spain’s olive crops. Frost prevention is a constant concern for olive growers during the winter harvest as olives can be damaged at temperatures below just 29ºF while young olive trees and branches can be destroyed at temperatures below 22ºF[1].

[Wisconsin: Climate realist] Johnson leads Feingold in three new polls - JSOnline

Challenger ahead by 6 to 11 points for likely voters

Climate Change Could Spell Disaster for National Parks

In a strategic plan released this month, National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis calls climate change “the greatest threat to the integrity of our national parks that we have ever experienced.”

“We are unafraid to discuss the role of slavery in the Civil War or the imprisonment of American citizens of Japanese ethnicity during WWII,” he said. “We should not be afraid to talk about climate change. … How will we choose, as the sea rises, which cultural sites we save? How do we decide that the next site for the giant sequoias is hundreds of miles north?”
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The Park Service plan requires managers to draw up different scenarios for confronting the uncertainties ahead. In a trial run in 2007, scientists came up with a “summer soaker” scenario for Joshua Tree in which warmer temperatures and summer monsoons would likely wipe out the trees and bighorn sheep. Under a “dune” scenario, they said, drought and wildfire would destroy all the park’s vegetation.

For the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historic Park on Hawaii’s Big Island, scientists drew up a “sink or swim” scenario in which the park’s fishponds would be flooded, and a “water world” scenario in which everything, including the park’s petroglyphs and ancient burials, would be under water. In that case, they said, the park could become an “oceanic and climate change research learning center” to study the effects of sea level rise.

Rutgers University professor Alan Robock lectures Fidel Castro on nuclear peril

Alan Robock never expected a trip quite like the one he returned from Thursday.

The Wall resident and Rutgers University meteorology professor has spent his academic career researching nuclear winter — the global chilling effect that could be brought on by fires from nuclear explosions — and last week, he found himself presenting his findings to former Cuban president Fidel Castro in Havana.

House GOP’s ‘Pledge’ vows opposition to climate legislation - The Hill's E2-Wire

Republicans seeking to win back the House are vowing to block climate change legislation in the next Congress while expanding domestic energy development.

That’s part of the message in the broadly worded policy blueprint – called “A Pledge to America” – that House GOP leaders unveiled Thursday.
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EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged Thursday that broad climate legislation is not currently in the cards, and said the Obama administration is weighing next steps.

“[W]e have sort of lost the opportunity, at least for right now, on comprehensive legislation,” she said in an interview with The Hill.

OR-5: In which Scott Bruun gives me whiplash - BlueOregon

Scott Bruun needs to decide which side of his mouth he's going speak from and then stick with it. He's giving me a wicked case of whiplash.

Earlier this year at a candidate forum, Bruun parroted the climate change denying talking points that likely came down from Camp Boehner: the "jury's out" on global warming, "we have no way of knowing" whether humans actually impact climate change, etc. You know the drill. Then Bruun proceeds to beat up on cap and trade calling it "dangerous policy" that will "cause a major tax increase" and "export millions of jobs".
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This is quite a change from just two years ago, when Bruun filled out the 2008 Oregon League of Conservation endorsement questionnaire, bragging about all the awesome work he'd been doing in the Oregon Legislature with Rep. Ben Cannon to pass cap and trade for our state.

New Scientist permits the sun to join the climate club « The k2p blog

It does seem as if the AGW establishment are preparing the ground for admitting that the sun is perhaps critical for climate.

The New Scientist runs an editorial today grudgingly admitting that “The sun’s activity has a place in climate science”.

Al's Journal : A victory

Ozone depletion has stopped
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In 1987 we came together, regulated the use of CFCs, solving this problem -- and it worked. Now we can do the same thing with CO2 and twenty years from now look back on the climate crisis as a thing of the past.

U OF O WATCH: Court-ordered released document shows University of Ottawa suppressing critical global climate research

Whitman opposes measure delaying Calif climate law - BusinessWeek

Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford said Thursday that Whitman's position is confusing to voters.

"In the same press release where she claims to oppose repealing AB32, she calls for a suspension of AB32," Clifford said. "The bottom-line is no one knows what Meg Whitman's position really is."

FSU Scientist Joins Global Study of Decomposing Permafrost

It is all part of an ominous feedback loop, Chanton says.
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“There are 1,672 gigatons of carbon stored in the permafrost as soil and peat organic matter,” Chanton said. “To put that quantity in perspective, it is three times the amount of carbon found in our atmosphere, which contains 550 gigatons in the form of carbon dioxide. What will happen if all the permafrost thaws, releasing its gigantic store of carbon into the atmosphere? Will the respiration of that decomposing organic matter by bacteria produce not only carbon dioxide but also methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent?
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A three-year, $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will fund the collaborative investigation, to be undertaken by researchers from five universities on three continents.

U.S. Education Secretary Vows to Make American Children 'Good Environmental Citizens' | CNSnews.com

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan vowed on Tuesday that his department would work to make American children into "good environmental citizens" through federally subsidized school programs beginning as early as kindergarten that teach children about climate change and prepare them "to contribute to the workforce through green jobs."
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“Educators have a central role in this. A well educated citizen knows that we must not act in this generation in ways that endanger the next,” said Duncan. “They teach students about how the climate is changing. They explain the science behind climate change and how we can change our daily practices to help save the planet. They have a role in preparing students for jobs in the green economy.”

“Historically," Duncan said, "the Department of Education hasn’t been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society."

Weather warning to oil protesters - News - Worthing Herald

Environmental campaigners who suspended themselves from the anchor of an oil drill ship have been warned to remove themselves amid fears about the worsening weather.
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But the campaigners insisted they were "in this for the long haul". They attached solar panels to the 8ft (2.4m) diameter survival pod to ensure they have power to sustain their occupation for as long as a month.

The Associated Press: Text of Obama's remarks to the UN

As we combat the spread of deadly weapons, we're also confronting the specter of climate change. After making historic investments in clean energy and efficiency at home, we helped forge an accord in Copenhagen that — for the first time — commits all major economies to reduce their emissions. We are keenly aware this is just a first step. And going forward, we will support a process in which all major economies meet our responsibilities to protect the planet while unleashing the power of clean energy to serve as an engine of growth and development.

The Hottest February Ever | Real Science

A large percentage of the humans on the planet were freezing in near record cold, yet it was the hottest February ever.

No doubt the Polar Bears were sweating though in that -30ºC weather in the Canadian Arctic.

Cold and damp take their toll on Fort Peck fish hatchery production | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune

Northeast Montana's cold wet spring cut into production at the Fish, Wildlife & Parks Multi-species Fish Hatchery, causing the hatchery to produce about 600,000 fewer fish than anticipated.

"I was hoping we would produce more," said Charlie Bridgham, hatchery manager, "but when it rains and stays cold and cloudy for five or six days at a time, it is just not conducive to good pond productivity. When we needed the sun and warm weather we just didn't get it."

Investments in climate change [scam] can break the global logjam - The Hill's Congress Blog

Conservative calculations estimate that the developing world will need at least $150 billion annually through 2020 in order to meet this challenge. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who urges us to address the energy security and climate change crises together, has pledged to help generate $100 billion annually through 2020 with both public and private investments. That would be an important start.

Collins blames Obama for inaction on energy, climate - The Hill's E2-Wire

Obama did convene a couple of high-profile meetings at the White House with senators from both parties this year during efforts to piece together a climate and energy strategy. Collins attended both.

“But there was no follow-up, there was no attempt to identify consensus provisions,” Collins said. “There was no attempt to explain to the American people what the goal was, why it mattered, how it was linked to jobs and the economy and specifically how we could get there.”

Issa calls for 'relook' at climate science - The Hill's E2-Wire

House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is promising to give a “careful relook” at climate change science in the wake of last year’s “Climategate” scandal if Republicans take over the House.

“That doesn’t mean that global warming isn’t happening,” Issa told The Hill on Wednesday. “It means that we have to make sure that when we recalibrate what’s happening, why it’s happening, how much it’s happening, we need to ensure that we get a careful relook at the figures so that we’re accurate.

“It could be happening faster or slower,” he added, “but it’s very clear that those people played fast and loose with both the truth and our money.”
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“I won’t accept anything as settled science because in the 1970s remember you had Jim Hansen talking about global cooling,” Issa said, referring to the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and outspoken advocate of efforts to mandate reduction in man-made greenhouse gas emissions. “So I think science should always be filled with skeptics, and I want to make sure the skeptics are heard.”

Lisa Jackson: If you don't stop scaring people about massive new taxes, trace amounts of CO2 will cause your grandchildren to die of kidney stones in the midst of a fiery flood during a plague of locusts

EPA chief: ‘All the scare tactics are on the side of industry lobbyists’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is adopting a populist stance as she pushes ahead with first-time greenhouse gas rules, charging that oil and coal lobbyists are using “scare tactics” to protect their financial interests at the public’s expense.
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Jackson lambasted “doomsday” claims about the economic costs of curbing emissions, and efforts to “confuse people” on climate science.

“There are people who would like to defend the status quo because they make money that way. I don’t think it is anyone in Congress. I think it is lobbying groups who represent big interests and the move to clean energy is something that they would prefer not to see this country undertake,” Jackson said.

Jackson, in the interview and an op-ed in The Hill, is also stressing that climate rules would join a long list of Clean Air Act programs that have provided gains that far outweigh the costs. She noted that Clean Air Act programs have led to massive health benefits and show $40 in total benefits for every $1 invested.

“Industry lobbyists have a long and storied history of doomsday scenarios about what EPA actions would mean across the countryside. They have never proven true,” Jackson said, later adding, “All the history and the facts are on the side that this can be done. All the scare tactics are on the side of industry lobbyists.”

Congressman Calls For Schools To ‘Promote The Agenda’ Of Climate Change, Population Limitation | CNSnews.com

“I mean, for example, the National Audubon Society has an initiative now where they are highlighting the fact that state birds all across the county are actually migrating out of the states that they’re the state bird of because the climate is changing," said Sarbanes. "Well, a young person’s going to understand that if they are engaged in environmental education. So, it’s going to raise that awareness of climate change that, in turn, I think, can make them stewards, stakeholders in policy changes we have to make to try to address climate change going forward and so, another wonderful result that you can yield if you do this environmental education.”

France24 - Disasters mirror climate models: US environment chief

AFP - The flurry of exceptional weather disasters in recent years is completely consistent with scenarios about an aspect of climate change, the head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Tuesday.

Weather delays Oregon wine grape harvest by 2 weeks to a month - latimes.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A cool spring followed by a summer with only a scattering of hot days has delayed the Oregon wine grape harvest by at least two weeks and possibly up to a month.

Growers are trying different ways to speed up ripening before fall rains arrive, including pulling leaves to expose grapes to the sun.

Skeptics doing it right - National environmental policy | Examiner.com

Until climate science as a body has answers to Jeff's questions, there will continue to be issues with The Issue Formerly Known As Global Warming. (It's now climate disruption, haven't you heard?)

A funny/pathetic link from alarmist Kate Sheppard

An Inhospitable Climate | Mother Jones

Of course, this fails to mention that multiple investigations now have found no evidence of of wrongdoing when it came to the emails, or that a vast body of scientific literature [note that Sheppard actually links to the notorious Oreskes essay from 2004 (below) here!] affirms that the climate is changing, regardless of whether a few scientists sent some mean emails.

If Republicans do in fact take the majority in November, welcome to the next few years, folks!

BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change -- Oreskes 306 (5702): 1686 -- Science

The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Sep. 23rd 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

Journalists writing green stories assume that readers are unable to recall recent stories or have no access to Google.

BRITAIN’S CLIMATE CHANGE DEPARTMENT MAY BE CUT « 21st Century Wire

History will demonstrate that no matter how popular an ideology might be at any one time, it cannot survive very long if it is divorced from the reality outside of bureaucratic rooms. In this case, the focus is on real science and cost vs benefit economics. If the UK falls out of love with AGW, expect more climate change bureaucracies around the globe to find themselves thin ice too.

Post Carbon - Lawmakers trade quips at energy conference

Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who chairs the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and co-authored last year's House climate bill, had a straightforward analysis of why his bill stalled in the Senate: "Their agenda is being held hostage by Kentucky coal and Oklahoma oil."

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was quick to shoot back that the audience had "just heard, with all due respect, what is wrong with Washington. We don't need a thousand-page, complex bill with special deals in it in order to make progress on energy." She added for good measure, "We should avoid casting aspersions on individual senators or individual parts of the country."

More laughable climate propaganda from Juliet Eilperin at the Washington Post

Signs of climate change fail to shift political landscape

The evidence for climate change grows: The first eight months of 2010 put this year on track to tie 1998 as the hottest year on record, global bleaching is devastating coral reefs and Arctic summer sea ice is reaching new lows.

But for all the visible signs of global warming, weakened political support for curbing the emissions that drive it means that the United States is unlikely to impose national limits on greenhouse gases before 2013, at the earliest.
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Rafe Pomerance, a senior fellow at the group Clean Air-Cool Planet, said he and other experts are stunned to see so many examples of global warming materializing at once: "It is breathtaking to watch several indicators demonstrate simultaneously climate impacts from the poles to the equator."
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"If many of the climate science deniers get elected to Congress, it is difficult to imagine the next Congress limiting global warming pollution," said Daniel J. Weiss, who directs climate [scam] strategy for the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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Despite the political impasse in Washington, several recent readings now suggest that climate change is accelerating.
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Robert Bindschadler, NASA's emeritus chief scientist, said researchers are just beginning to grasp how warmer ocean waters are helping erode ice sheets, and that this will lead to more rapid sea-level rise by the end of the century.

Flashback: Recidivist of the day: Juliet Eilperin « Green Hell Blog

When the paper’s ombudsman gave her a polite spanking for biased climate reporting last fall, he concluded by saying:

    It’s a close call, but I think she should stay on the beat. With her work now getting special scrutiny, it will become clear if the conflict is real.
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In addition to her own personal slants, keep in mind that Eilperin’s husband is a global warming activist with the way-left-of-center Center for American Progress.

Obama could face a green primary challenge in 2012 | Washington Examiner

Is this for real, or merely a wily tactical move to give Obama more room to his left, thus allowing him to pose more credibly as a moderate?

San Diegans support lead role in climate change - SignOnSanDiego.com

"Voters believe that we can have a clean environment and strong economy without having to choose one over the other," said the research firm. "In fact, nearly one-half (47%) believe that addressing global warming will create more jobs for people living in San Diego County."

t r u t h o u t | Joe Brewer | Responding to Climate Skeptics "Change Argument"

etween terms like 'global warming' and 'climate change' the opposition deflects them easily with the Change Argument. The Change Argument is the claim that climate has always changed, so why bother worrying that it is changing now. This is the "Duh, don't be an idiot" position that makes a lot of sense to everyday people who don't understand complexity (which is most of us, by the way).

Of course, this argument ignores the inconvenient truth that human activities have disturbed natural weather patterns and made regional climate less predictable all over the world. It fails to acknowledge that the specific changes we see now are unprecedented in the historical record. But it is very persuasive nonetheless.

Bummer for caribou: Carbon dioxide is allegedly making the Arctic snowier and icier (except it's allegedly less icy in places where ice is desirable)

A Troubling Decline in the Caribou Herds of the Arctic by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360

Peary caribou have been particularly hard hit by weather-related events. Back in 1961, when the first aerial survey of the Arctic islands was done, biologists estimated Peary caribou numbers to be 24,000. Since then, at least two catastrophic freeze-ups that were caused by early fall ice storms and rains and early, short-lived spring thaws resulted in more than 90 percent of the animals starving to death because they could not punch through the ice to get to food. Peary caribou populations have fallen today to about 2,000 animals. Scientists in the far-northern Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard told me earlier this spring that they are seeing the same kind of icing take a toll on reindeer in that region.

While there is evidence to suggest that these severe icings have happened in the past, there are also signs that they are likely to occur more often in the future. In recent decades, the Arctic has been heating up twice as fast as the rest of the northern hemisphere — with temperatures routinely rising by 4 to 5 degrees F — making fall rains, early thaws, and severe icing events increasingly common.

Both caribou and reindeer are better adapted to cold than they are to warmer, moister weather. In cold, dry winters there is less snow to slow them down and sap their energy while they’re on the move or being chased by wolves. Less snow, especially if it is not icy and hard-packed, also makes it easier for them to dig down to the vegetation they need in order to get them through to the summer months.
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Komi reindeer herders along the Kola Peninsula in Arctic Russia are already complaining that their animals are losing 20 percent of their weight by the time they take them to slaughter. Not only is heavy snow making it more difficult to move the animals, warmer temperatures are delaying the winter round-up by up to two months because the lakes the herders need to cross are not freezing over as fast as they once did.

EU Referendum: The scam spreads

Over term for the 20 years these turbines are suppose to last, we are looking at a public subsidy of £1.2 billion – enough to build a 1GW nuclear power station – a plant with a deliverable capacity more than 13 times this wind array. That is the extent of the rip-off to which we are being subjected.

And for that, it appears, we get 21 full-time green jobs. But if we gave them a million each and told them to get lost, that is not even a rounding error on the amount we are dealing with. We would get to "save" (i.e., not spend) £1.2 billion, less £0.021 billion. Instead, we pay - effectively - nearly £60m per job for the 20 years. These must be the most expensive jobs on the planet - we could even have 20 David Camerons for the price of each worker.

The Bioethanol Binge - Reason Magazine

uces carbon emissions is still a hotly contested scientific question. Some researchers argue that land clearing to grow additional corn releases more carbon dioxide than bioethanol displaces by reducing the consumption of gasoline. Let's not forget the issue of how turning one-third of America’s corn crop into fuel impacts food prices, especially the prices of corn-fed beef and pork.

It’s past time for the ethanol industry (and all other energy supply industries) to stand on their own. Although this is probably a pipe dream, all energy subsidies should be ended and the market allowed to determine which fuels win. The ethanol tax credit expires at the end of this year. Congress should let it die.

What psychology can teach us about our response to climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Calls to 'save the planet' or 'do it for our grandchildren' do not engage people, says psychology professor

Glacial retreat: Ecuador's environmental timebomb | John Vidal | Global development | guardian.co.uk

The Cayambe volcano lies dead on the equator line in Ecuador and is the third-highest mountain in all the Americas at 17,159 ft (5,230m). It is really only climbed by serious "Andenistas" - as opposed to Alpinists - because of its crevasses and icecap, so the great Guardian/Oxfam climate expedition stopped at a modest 4,675m (14,250ft), which is nearly the height of Mont Blanc.

Okay, we went nearly all the way by Toyota pickup on a perilous track, but the wind was bitter and the snow lay deep on the glaciers.

UK shipping emissions 'up to six times higher than calculated' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Britain has incorrectly calculated its sea freight emissions by only including fuel sold at UK ports, report warns

Climate Fraud By Dr. Vincent Gray | Climate Realists

Since the end (saving the planet) justifies any means, they had no alternative but fraud.

It consists of a large number of fraudulent devices...

Now Aliens Are Getting Into The Act - Minnesotans For Global Warming

A newly-published book by a retired NORAD officer predicts October 13, 2010 as the tentative date for a fleet of extraterrestrial vehicles to hover for hours over the earth's principal cities. Author says the event to be the first in a series intended to avert a planetary catastrophe resulting from increasing levels of carbon-dioxide in the earth's atmosphere dangerously approaching a "critical mass."

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Job Security for Partisan Climate Bloggers

E&E Daily reports that Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) has said that should the Republicans take over the House, they will open up investigations into the release of the East Anglia emails

Bennet seeks distance from cap and trade in Colo. Senate race

Colorado's freshman senator is trying to distance himself from cap and trade in the midst of a tough re-election fight.

Democrat Michael Bennet -- who is being challenged by tea party-backed Republican Ken Buck -- appeared to walk back his support for the House-passed climate bill at a Sept. 11 debate in Grand Junction, Colo. A video of the debate was posted today by the National Review.

Coffee Rises to One-Month High on Crop Concern; Sugar Advances

Coffee crops in Brazil, the world's largest producer, may be hurt by hailstorms next week as a cold weather front approaches major producing regions, Expedito Rebello, head of research at the government's Meteorology Institute, said yesterday.

"The combination of high temperature and a cold front may cause a thermal shock and raise chances of hailstorms," Rebello said.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: 'Warmist' attack smacks of 'sceptical' intolerance

...this is, at least in my experience, the first time that "warmers" - those who, like Dr Romm, believe climate change is taking us to hell in a handcart and who lobby for more urgent action on the issue - have resorted to the internet equivalent of taking banners onto the street in an attempt to influence reporting of the issue.

'Climate Change': even Porritt knows the game's up – Telegraph Blogs

Obviously this is all most excellent news. But what I don’t want any of you doing is going round cracking open the bubbly, crowding outside Buckingham Palace and enjoying frenzied knee tremblers in side alleys, like it was VE Day or something. As I said the other day when reporting on Oberstgruppenfuhrer Monbiot’s surrender on Luneberg Heath, we have an awful lot of blood, sweat, toil and tears ahead of us before this one is over.

The 'Hockey Stick' Lives - NYTimes.com

Yet while the attacks continue, the “hockey stick” graph’s basic premise — that the planet’s recent warming is unprecedented over at least the last millennium — continues to draw support from a growing number of independent studies.

Climate Change: The 40 Year Delay Between Cause and Effect

The estimate of 40 years for climate lag, the time between the cause (increased greenhouse gas emissions) and the effect (increased temperatures), has profound negative consequences for humanity. However, if governments can find the will to act, there are positive consequences as well.

With 40 years between cause and effect, it means that average temperatures of the last decade are a result of what we were thoughtlessly putting into the air in the 1960’s. It also means that the true impact of our emissions over the last decade will not be felt until the 2040’s. This thought should send a chill down your spine!

Summer's Officially Over: What Did It Show Us About Climate Change? - Adam Werbach - Business - The Atlantic

Even if you don't believe that changes in the weather signal global warming, or that global warming is a real threat, you should know that those who do believe that global warming is real threat -- along with those who at least act on the assumption that global warming is a real threat -- are the ones setting the agenda for tomorrow's economy.

Farmers feel bite of frost in high-yield year for grain

Only about eight per cent of the province's harvest is complete as persistent rain has saturated soils and made it impossible to get equipment into many fields.

And a hard frost that hit most areas except the south last weekend will affect the quality of late-seeded crops. Temperatures below -2.2 C can kill plants, and some central and northwest areas reached -7 C last weekend.

NYC's CoolRoofs Initiative Gets a Boost During Climate Week | Reuters

Accompanied by former Vice President Al Gore, who helped daub a toof, Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched NYCº CoolRoofs last fall as part of the PlaNYC initiative to cut city greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

The CoolRoofs program is closing in on its self-imposed deadline to coat 1 million square feet of roofs by next month. As of early today, the program had covered 778,775 square feet of roofs with cool coatings.

NC Media Watch: President Bill Clinton, please tell me you have got to be kidding?

He said the gulf region had been hit by "everything but a plague of locusts" and said climate change had made events like hurricanes and flooding more frequent and deadly.

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So, President Clinton, where did you get the idea that hurricanes were more frequent and deadly? Did you just make it up like Al Gore does, or did you call Al and get his fake numbers?

Collapsing Ice Sheet? | Real Science

What they apparently don’t realize is that Antarctica is 3,000 miles long, and only three miles high. Scaled down, the ice sheet is as flat and thin and horizontal as a piece of paper sitting on a desk.

It can’t “collapse.” That idea comes from people with an active imagination and an extremely poor understanding of engineering. It would take thousands of years for a piece of ice to move from the interior of Antarctica to the coast, and during that time, the ice is being replenished in the interior.

Letters: George Monbiot's despairing requiem for the planet | Environment | The Guardian

Most people have third, fourth or fifth cousins who are climate victims, or will be soon.
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Joe Ravetz
Centre for Urban Regional Ecology, Manchester University

China's great green wall grows in climate fight | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The government is increasingly using the Great Green Wall as a propaganda tool to trumpet its efforts combating climate change. Every spring, about three million Communist Party members, civil servants and model workers head to the countryside to plant trees in a massive propaganda event.

By George! Is the Lib Dem leadership not interested in the environment, after all? – Telegraph Blogs

All of which suggests that Clegg has little interest in helping David Cameron fulfill his promise to make this the “greenest government ever”...

Last Winter Was The Snowiest On Record In North America | Real Science

The long term trend is also upwards. Note the two peaks in the late 1970s and at present.

Phil Jones tells us that the 1970s snow was due to cold weather caused by a rapid cooling of the oceans. Joe Romm tells us that recent snow is due to hot weather caused by global climate disruption.

So we have to define two different types of snow – cold snow, and hot snow. The peaks in 1978 and 2010 appeared very similar, but the experts tell us that a tiny increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration has changed the fundamental behaviour of physics and chemistry.

CO2 may well be the most powerful substance in the universe.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper: Current Arctic Sea Ice is More Extensive than Most of the past 9000 Years

A peer-reviewed paper published in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences finds that Arctic sea ice extent at the end of the 20th century was more extensive than most of the past 9000 years. The paper also finds that Arctic sea ice extent was on a declining trend over the past 9000 years, but recovered beginning sometime over the past 1000 years and has been relatively stable and extensive since.

“Why They Go Green” (WSJ editorial says much in few words) — MasterResource

When will Democrats and true environmentalists wake up to windpower, or what Robert Bryce calls the ethanol of electricity? Industrial wind is a scam when seen in all of its dimensions–economic, environmental, and esthetic. Bryce has identified five myths of green energy–and post after post at MasterResource by Kent Hawkins, Jon Boone, and John Droz Jr. have shown that meaningful CO2 reductions from windpower are highly debatable.

Pressure mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as IPCC head - Telegraph

Pressure is mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as head of the UN climate change panel over fears that his increasingly troubled tenure is hampering efforts to halt global warming.
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Climate sceptics have long been vocal cricitcs of Dr Pachauri, but environmentalists and politicians have now joined a chorus of voices calling for his resignation after eight years in the job following an independent report last month that recommended chairmen of the IPCC should serve for no longer than six years.
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Questions have been raised about "conflicts of interest", with some arguing that Dr Pachauri had a vested interest in proving climate change by business dealings with carbon trading companies. However he was cleared on any financial wrongdoing recently by an independent review.

- Bishop Hill blog - Yeo wants Patchy to go

Tim Yeo, the deep-green chairman of the UK House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee has called for Rajendra Pachauri to resign.
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Apparently Sir Brian Hoskins has also called for Pachauri to step down.

The Reference Frame: Schmidt, Mann, Rutherford: just clueless

It's clear that Schmidt, Mann, and Rutherford haven't really addressed the main point raised by MW - and others - that the methodology is just guaranteed produce the same result regardless of the actual reality (in this case, of the past climate). They seem completely deaf. It must be annoying for a sensible climate scientist to be a part of a community where a clique of arrogant, combative, and completely deluded zealots who shouldn't be there is clearly and systematically unable or unwilling to listen to rational arguments even if they're presented in the most transparent way.

Another Global Warming Fable Bites The Dust | Real Science

The next big step for the hockey team will be to admit that the rapid warming from 1880 to 1945 could not have been caused by CO2.

The Real China - By Jonah Goldberg - The Corner - National Review Online

Yeah, when Friedman talks about the glittering, space age stuff it reminded me of Henry Wallace (FDR’s VP, former editor of The New Republic) and his visit to the Soviet Union, where he found one penal camp after another to be idyllic and often so much more impressive than the way we did things back in the U.S.

Global Warming- [Junk] Science - The New York Times

[Did Revkin write this?] In the meantime, recent fluctuations in temperature have intensified the public debate over how urgently to respond. A string of large snowstorms in the Washington area and freezing weather in Florida in the winter of 2009-2010 were seized on by climate change skeptics. But the combination of flooding, heat waves and droughts in the summer were taken by most researchers trained in climate analysis as evidence to show that weather extremes are getting worse.
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A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that since 1950, the world's climate has been warming, primarily as a result of emissions from unfettered burning of fossil fuels and the razing of tropical forests. Such activity adds to the atmosphere's invisible blanket of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases. Recent research has shown that methane, which flows from landfills, livestock and oil and gas facilities, is a close second to carbon dioxide in impact on the atmosphere.

That conclusion has emerged through a broad body of analysis in fields as disparate as glaciology, the study of glacial formations, and palynology, the study of the distribution of pollen grains in lake mud. It is based on a host of assessments by the world's leading organizations of climate and earth scientists.  [How, exactly, can you look at glaciers or pollen grains and conclude that CO2 is dangerously heating the planet?]

In the last several years, the scientific case that the rising human influence on climate could become disruptive has become particularly robust.

Marin's cool summer gives way to warming fall - Marin Independent Journal

"The summer was very, very cold," said Austin Cross, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "Now it looks like our Indian summer is coming."

Just how cold was the summer?

San Rafael chalked up an average summer temperature of 64.5 degrees, the coldest for the period since record-keeping began in 1947, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center.

Last Harvest for Ethanol Looming as Republicans Target Subsidy - Bloomberg

“People are worried about deficits, debt and special- interest handouts,” Sensenbrenner, 67, said in an interview. “Ethanol is all three.”

Rugby star kicks off Global Climate [Scam] Working Bee | Scoop News

The flagship day on 10th October 2010, the Global Climate Working Bee, will see thousands of volunteers from 180 countries planting trees, organising bike rides and insulating homes in a bid to get to work on climate change and do something positive for the environment.
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The global campaign has recently been endorsed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. “It’s time for us to roll up our sleeves and get to work on building the clean energy future that will generate economic opportunity and provide a better, safer, healthier world for our children,” said Secretary Moon. “On October 10, I encourage everyone to do his or her part to be part of the solution to the climate challenge.”

John Holdren’s Ice Age – 1971 | Real Science

So now we know that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is going to collapse either from global cooling or from global warming. These clowns just want that sucker to collapse, one way or another. And no matter which way it goes ->>>>> it is going to be your fault.

C3: Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. XII: Early Winter Breaking Out In Northern Hemisphere [Roundup]

After much of the Southern Hemisphere was hammered by extremely cold weather during their winter, the northern part of the globe appears to be headed for the same misery...

VIDEO: Living a Global Warming [Hoax] Nightmare | Valerie Jaffee's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

It sounds like something out of a horror film: men and women gasping for clean air while toxic smog blankets the skyline. Hundreds of wildfires raging out of control, swallowing up more than 2,000 homes and turning Russia’s cropland into blackened dust. A suffocating heat wave – the worst ever recorded in Russia – doubling the death rate in Moscow and causing city morgues to overflow.

It may sound like the plot of the next Hollywood blockbuster, but this time it’s real. The catastrophic heat wave and wildfires that paralyzed Russia this past summer are a daunting glimpse into the future. This is what global warming looks like.

BIG FREEZE: WAS THE EVIDENCE OF A COMET-IMPACT JUST BUG SHIT?

2. BIG FREEZE: WAS THE EVIDENCE OF A COMET-IMPACT JUST BUG SHIT?
Earth went through a relatively brief cold spell about 13,000 years ago called the Younger Dryas climate episode. It coincided with the disappearance of the North American Clovis culture, and killed the mammoths and other Ice Age mega fauna. The accepted explanation was that ocean currents in the North Atlantic had been disrupted by a large body of freshwater emptying into the ocean. Three years ago, however, a story in Nature by Rex Dalton, reported an alternative explanation involving the impact of a comet. The key comet evidence was micro-diamonds found in sedimentary layers from that period. Now comes another group that goes to the same site but what they find is not diamonds but carbonized arthropod feces. The first group disputes this evidence and is preparing another paper. It's not pretty, but it's science.

NSIDC director: “The volume of ice left in the Arctic likely reached the lowest ever level this month.” « Climate Progress

NSIDC director Mark Serreze was more direct in an email interview: “The volume of ice left in the Arctic likely reached the lowest ever level this month.”

Evidence of Solar Scientists Raise Fears of Imminent Ice Age

New study by American solar experts discover a sharp fall in sunspot activity since 2007 that shows the hallmarks of a soon arriving ice age.

Obama's Remarks Before UN Development Summit | NBC Miami

And with financial and technical assistance, we'll help developing countries embrace the clean energy technologies they need to adapt to climate change and pursue low-carbon growth.

Monster lake is slowly swallowing up everything around it - North Dakota

Climate studies based on tree rings and lake sediment indicate that similar wet periods occurred in the Devils Lake Basin many times during the past 2,000 years, the agency said. The last time the lake overflowed was sometime prior to statehood in 1889.

Shilling for ‘Green Energy,’ the New York Times Keeps Up Its Relentless, Partisan and Ignorant Assault on the Koch Brothers - Big Journalism

On the latter point, the Times declares that if AB-32 is defeated: “…he biggest winners will be the Chinese, who are already moving briskly ahead in the clean technology race.” Really? The Chinese are only winning on if one defines “moving briskly ahead” as building a new coal-fired power plant each week, failing to operate the environmental controls installed in the power plants they’ve already built, damming up ever river they can find and producing mounds of solar panels to sell to gullible Americans.

If the Kochs and other free market defenders are not successful and AB-32 remains in place, California’s economy won’t look much like China’s, but you can be assured will look an awful lot like Spain’s.