Matthew Yglesias » Climate Change Isolationism

Ron Brownstein has an excellent column on the globally unique position of the American conservative movement’s climate change denialism, a view that’s completely different from the posture outlined by mainstream conservative parties in the rest of the world.

ADVISORY-California climate poll story withdrawn | Energy & Oil | Reuters

Please be advised that the Oct. 5 story datelined SAN FRANCISCO and headlined "Californians see green in climate law - poll" is wrong and is withdrawn.

Glacier error to be looked at in next report: Pachauri

While re-acknowledging that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had erred in projecting the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers due to global warming, R K Pachauri, who chairs the panel, said the agency would unveil a strategy next week on correcting the mistake, besides strengthening the science of tracking climate change.

- Bishop Hill blog - The nature of the animal

Has it struck anyone else as amusing that Nature is straight into the groove of reporting the Copygate story (as I'm told we must call the allegations against Wegman)? I mean, they didn't think the original Wegman report was worth mentioning.

Just saying...

The scientific world is fracturing « JoNova

The rift between real science (in the pursuit of truth), and PR-science (for the sake of money and power) is growing. Associations like The Royal Society, the APS, and the American Chemical Society are beginning to fracture internally as eminent members reject the unscientific pronouncements made on their behalf by small “secret and stacked” committees.

The Hindu : Front Page : Amid China-U.S. climate debate, India goes missing

“The talks have looked like a show going on between China and the U.S., with everyone else hiding behind the drama,” Yang Ailun, Greenpeace China's head of climate and energy, told The Hindu. Ms. Yang, too, said India, along with Brazil and South Africa, had been “very quiet.” “It is natural that with the talks being held in China, attention would be on the home country, but the silence of India has been very strange.”

Lawrence Solomon: New Zealand’s Climategate –Act II | FP Comment | Financial Post

Next question: Should the New Zealand government base its official climate change policy on an informal, unofficial data set?

New Zealand – Where did that warming go? « JoNova

Think of this as a car crash, NIWA’s says: the car’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with it;

then — we can’t find the keys (actually we’ve lost the car);

later — we weren’t driving it, and finally,

“the car doesn’t exist”.

Plant 2 trees instead of 1 to offset carbon emission: Prof. Munasinghe

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/101010/BusinessTimes/bt29.html

He also suggested that, while there was a 50% chance of climate change being caused by emissions rather than it being a natural phenomenon, similar odds of 50% offered to anyone embarking on an airplane journey, which would allude to them possibly not arriving safely at their destination, would result in nobody wanting to fly.

Scientists Must Show Spine Against GOP Global Warming Skeptics - John A. Farrell (usnews.com)

http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/john-farrell/2010/10/09/scientists-must-show-spine-against-gop-global-warming-skeptics.html

But if the evidence is as strong as they say it is, and I think it is, American scientists should be out there in the glare of the television lights on the Hill, giving righteous battle to the skeptics, exposing them as ignorant and shaming them before a national audience.

Climate deal is closer, says UN envoy, despite China and US locking horns | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/09/climate-talks-china-america-clash

"This week has got us closer to a structured set of decisions that can be agreed in Cancun," said Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

"I understand there is disappointment with the multilateral process but this issue is not easy. This is the greatest societal and economic transformation that the world has ever seen."

Schellnhuber Admits: “Climate Science” Would Not Stand A Chance In A Public Debate

http://notrickszone.com/2010/10/09/schellnhuber-climate-science-would-not-stand-a-chance-in-a-public-debate/

That's the amazing thing warmist and alarmist Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has recently admitted, according to Der Spiegel here (read the last paragraph).

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Environmentalism Has Met the Enemy: Itself

Pictures are worth thousands of words, or even thousands of unread legislative pages.

So, perhaps a debt of gratitude is owed Franny Armstrong, et ilk for their unintentional failure to carefully toe environmentalism’s one party line. They have unwittingly provided powerful imagery to recall whenever self-anointed world savior politicians, judges, bureaucrats, or propagandists with their celebrity spokesmen advocate or attempt draconian legislation like “Cap & Trade/Tax”, EPA policies and regulations designed to kill American jobs and economy, or dangerously unscientific rulings that CO2 is a “pollutant.”

YouTube - Jack Conway Blames The Human Race For Global Warming

Jack Conway says he is not a denier. He believes mankind is destroying the planet!

Jack Conway (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John William “Jack” Conway (born July 5, 1969) is an American politician from Kentucky.
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Conway is the Democratic nominee in the 2010 U.S. Senate election, seeking the seat in the United States Senate currently held by retiring Republican Jim Bunning.

Soneva Fushi resort in the Maldives: luxury with a conscience - at a price - Telegraph

Guests pay two per cent on top of their already hefty bills – room rates normally range from $1,000 to $8,000 a night – in a carbon tax believed to be the only one of its kind in the world.

American Thinker: What Is Congress Establishing?

So is AGW simply a scientific theory, or is it a religion that is being legislated into existence by the Congress? Once again, if AGW is a scientific theory, it should be demonstrable and open to honest, open debate, discussion, and investigation. When phrases such as "the science is settled" are tossed about, the entire "debate, discuss, investigate" process is negated. When skeptics are labeled "deniers" as if they were questioning the Holocaust, the validity of claims that the "science" is settled have to be doubted.

Photo Gallery: More Early Snow Falls on U.S. Ski Slopes

Salt Lake City, UT - With Friday afternoon here, and more pre-season snowfall at U.S. ski resorts today we'll leave you for the weekend with the stuff ski dreams of the winter ahead are made of.

Record low temperature set in Orlando for second straight day

The temperature in Orlando has hit a new record low for the second straight morning.

Friday morning’s low at Orlando International Airport was 56 degrees, breaking the daily record of 57, set in 1979.

Misanthropic Warming | The Weekly Standard

In a saner world it would end the careers of all the professionals responsible for it.

Climate and Disease--Not Much of a Link Anymore

The prestigious journal Nature in May published a major report showing that climate change is not a significant cause of malaria--in apparent opposition to numerous alarmists who have been claiming that malaria growth has been caused by climate change. The Economist picked up on it as well.

The Last U.N. Climate Extravaganza? - NYTimes.com

Now many are wondering whether the process itself, under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is so flawed that it should be scrapped. Is it realistic to expect that 200 nations with vastly different interests, from China to Saudi Arabia to Bolivia to Micronesia, can come together to address a problem that will affect them in vastly different ways? Is there a better way to attack a global problem largely caused by a handful of large industrialized countries?

Should the next so-called “conference of the parties” be the last?

Deforestation deal offers rare hope in climate change fight - The Times of India

TIANJIN, China: An ambitious plan to fight climate change by paying states to preserve their forests could be a rare bright spot at next month's UN climate talks -- but many questions remain unresolved.

China calls U.S. a pig in the mirror on climate change | World | Reuters

TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - China hit back on Saturday at U.S. claims it was shirking in the fight against climate change, likening criticisms from the Obama administration's top climate envoy to a pig preening itself in a mirror.

PSC candidates clash on global warming | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota

Cramer said there’s a “growing opinion” of climatologists that question the validity of the theory — and the notion that humans are behind global warming.

“I do question it; I’m not convinced of it,” he said.

But there’s a market that believes the theory, Cramer said, enough to make a demand for renewable and clean energy.

“If they’re willing to pay extra for it, all the more power to them,” he said.

Apple-picking in Illinois: Chicago-area pick-your-own apple farms close early this year - chicagotribune.com

U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasters cited frost in predicting a 38 percent drop in this year's apple production in the central states. The projected output of apple giant Michigan was cut by almost half from last year.

Democrat Manchin: Obama ‘dead wrong’ on climate - The Hill's E2-Wire

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D), who trails in recent polls in his Senate race, said Friday that President Obama is “dead wrong” for supporting cap-and-trade plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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“The bottom line is cap-and-trade is dead wrong and President Obama is dead wrong on cap-and-trade,” Manchin said, citing the state’s new lawsuit against the EPA.

Twitter / David Roberts

My new post: Telling the truth about climate change is good politics http://bit.ly/9CZTew Not sure I've convinced myself. You?

The 10:10 Climate Video: Are European Greens Engaging in Self-Carthasis or Trying to Connect with the Public? | Age of Engagement | Big Think

Sometimes you get the feeling that European climate advocates are producing media presentations intended for themselves--and that reinforce their own anxieties about climate change--rather than media that is intended to connect with the broader public. As was the case in last week's 10:10 exploding kids video, these presentations feature shock imagery and present worst case, catastrophic impacts.

Breaking: Illinois solar project to create four full-time jobs to prevent $1.50 in CO2 emissions

Illinois Governor’s Mansion Goes Solar | 350.org

“ Today, I am pleased to announce plans to take the Illinois Governor’s Mansion into the 21st century with a new set of solar panels”, said Governor Quinn. “We must do everything we can to increase our use of solar energy, which will help us protect natural resources and reduce our reliance on traditional energy sources. I challenge governors across the United States to join me in putting solar on their homes.”
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Charlie Shenk, Vice President of Design and Construction at WindFree, predicts that the new 1 kilowatt solar array will reduce green house gas emissions by 30 tons of CO2 over the next 25 years [that's "worth" as little as $1.50 at the Chicago Climate Hoax Exchange], which is the equivalent to approximately 100,000 car miles or the planting of 1,100 trees. All equipment for the solar array will be manufactured in the USA with many of the components manufactured in Illinois. This project will create 4 full time jobs during the manufacturing and installation process.

Climate change: Tropical heat | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian

New research suggests the relatively low rise in temperature in the tropics will still lead to devastating rates of extinction
...Since the tropical regions provide habitats for the greatest richness of species, the losses will be greater.

KELOLAND.com | Tourism's Harsh Winter Months

KEYSTONE, SD - Tourism is an integral part of the Black Hills economy. The only problem is the large crowds only come in the heat of summer. When the leaves blow away, so do the tourists. In fact, one community nearly shuts down for the winter.

Climate-friendly recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | Food | Life and style | The Guardian

Climate change affects us all. And we can all do something in the kitchen, however small, to make a cumulative difference

Q&A: Cancún COP16 climate talks | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Figueres believes a single, definitive and all-encompassing deal is unlikely to happen in her lifetime.

Civil society finds a voice at China climate talks | Jonathan Watts | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Perhaps unsurprisingly, another proposal to launch foam in the shape of CO2 into the air was flatly refused. The authorities warned that anything entering the space above the conference centre would be shot down by security forces.

As Arctic winter looms, council hands out 2,000 spades and tells residents 'dig yourselves out if it snows' | Mail Online

Council chiefs have sparked outrage after proposing residents dig themselves out of the snow as Britain braces itself for another winter of Arctic conditions.

As long-range forecasts suggest the country will be hit by blizzards and temperatures plummeting to -20c, bosses at Camden Council prepared to hand out spades.

Satellitegate US Agency Faces Courtroom Climate Showdown

The controversy over ‘Satellitegate’ heats up as NOAA faces a court appearance for refusing to release evidence that would show whether one or more US satellites exaggerated global warming temperatures.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a federal agency focused on reporting the condition of the oceans and the atmosphere. When the story first broke NOAA bizarrely announced it would withdraw satellite ‘images’ from its archives, but failed to state whether reams of cooked data had also been withdrawn.

Extinction Fiction « NoFrakkingConsensus

I’ve been asked to combine two posts from earlier this week – regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s dubious species extinction claim – into a single document. They have now, therefore, been transformed into a spiffy, 9-page PDF.

“350 is the most important number in the world” | Real Science

350 ppm is a number which Hansen pulled out of his nether regions. There is no scientific basis for it.

Telling the truth about climate change is good politics | Grist

No matter what derangements currently hold sway over American politics, eventually reality will out. The crazy weather will get worse, ice fields will melt, agriculture will suffer, food shortages will get more severe.

Climate change deniers: A path to power?

Why do we have an unsustainable, fossil fuel dependent energy policy? Why is the status quo subsidized here while China moves to world leadership in wind and solar power? Why is Amerca addicted to oil imports from unstable corners of the globe? What are the costs to the lungs of our children, to Gulf fishers, and to the Earth our children and grandchildren will inherit?

Courts to Have Growing Role in Climate-Change Debate - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON—The Obama administration's move to curb greenhouse gases using the Environmental Protection Agency has drawn legal challenges from more than 90 companies and trade associations, giving the courts another opening to shape U.S. climate policy in the absence of legislative action.

Forget the Tea Party. Join a Work Party. |  Bill McKibben - Grist

They're taking that frustration, and instead of bitching and moaning about it à la the Tea Party, they're hammering it into submission à la the Work Party.

Environmental Protection Agency climate doc held up over costs - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com

A contentious climate change policy is being held up at the White House as Obama administration officials spar over the costs of installing pollution controls, according to a source close to the negotiations.

The Environmental Protection Agency was expected to unveil long-anticipated guidance this week on how large polluters like power plants and refiners will be forced to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, but that release has been stalled amid an inter-agency brawl, said Bill Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies.

The “guidance document is being delayed indefinitely,” said Becker, who was informed about the White House negotiations. He said some officials are trying to set federal cost caps on pollution controls against the will of EPA, although it is unclear who is pushing the provision.

Robyn Greenspan: 2010 World Business Forum: Al Gore's Slides Can Save the Planet

Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, asked Gore why there was so much polarization around global warming in the U.S.

"There is a disinformation campaign going on. Large carbon polluters spend money to create false doubts on things that are real. The ship is bearing down, but large carbon polluters are in the boat saying it's not real."

University investigating prominent climate science critic - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com

Officials at George Mason University confirmed Thursday that they are investigating plagiarism and misconduct charges made against a noted climate science critic.

In 2006, GMU statistics professor, Edward Wegman, spearheaded a Congressional committee report critical of scientists' reconstructions of past climate conditions -- notably the 1999 "hockey stick" paper in Nature, which concluded that the 20th Century was the warmest one in a millennium.

NY Times Symposium: Will Electric Cars Succeed? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

One vote for success, fives votes for not so fast.

The Reference Frame: Mickey Man: AGW science depends on manipulation by politicians

We must be ready to fight against any attempts to verify any of our statements and all attempts to look at the big claims with a critical eye. Independently thinking people and the verification of essential tenets of our ideologies are clearly the last things we can afford. On the contrary, unthinking politicians who just parrot whatever we need are our greatest friends. They have always been helping us just like we have always been helping them. Please, do everything to save our sinking ship.

Move Over Carbon, Humans Are Jolting Nitrogen, Too - NYTimes.com

For anyone doubting whether a lowly hominid could be a planet-scale influence, a paper on the human domination of the global nitrogen cycle in the Oct. 8 edition of Science would be a useful read. It’s titled “The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle” and builds on earlier work showing how human activities have become a dominant influence on the global cycling of a variety of substances.

Did 'Whale Wars' Leader Sink Boat for Publicity? - NYTimes.com

News reports are probing whether Paul Watson, who has turned a longstanding anti-whaling campaign into popular television entertainment with “Whale Wars,” ordered the intentional sinking of a million-dollar protest boat after it was damaged in a collision with a Japanese vessel early this year.

What surface temperature is your model really predicting?

The surface temperature that we need for atmospheric radiative transfer calculations is the ground temperature. This means the temperature of the ground under our bare feet. The temperature used in the climate record is the meteorological surface air temperature (MSAT).

And Roy concludes "The energy transfer processes that set the ground surface temperature have been considered in detail. The increase in downward ‘clear sky’ LWIR flux from a 100 ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is 1.7 W.m-2. When this flux is added to a total surface flux that can vary from +1000 to –100 W.m-2 within a few hours, the CO2 flux can have no measurable effect on the ground temperature or the resulting MSAT."

EU Referendum: Dellers calls out Moonbat

So that leaves Moonbat working for a tawdry rag that has long since ceased to be a newspaper and is now the front for environmental campaigning groups. No wonder he is so silent, presumably hoping the "splattergate" controversy will die down so that he can creep out from under his stone and pretend it all never happened.

California, where the graft is greener « Green Hell Blog

But while the school district is “saving” millions in electricity bills (who knows how the “savings” were actually calculated), federal and state taxpayers will be paying for this scam, including a 22-cents-per-kilowatt-hour subsidy from the state-run California Solar Initiative. While it apparently is illegal for school districts to get federal funding for such projects directly, the project will evade the law by using PsomasFMG as the subsidy recipient. Try a scheme like that at home with, say, federal tax or election laws and see in which federal prison you land!

Another 10:10 parody « JoNova

The first 1 min:18 of this is jolly good fun, (watch that well informed class give the teacher a hard time) then, of course, you-know-what-happens. The Ten Ten Classroom Debate.

Michael E. Mann - Washington Post - Get the anti-science bent out of politics

The basic physics and chemistry of how carbon dioxide and other human-produced greenhouse gases trap heat in the lower atmosphere have been understood for nearly two centuries. Overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is heating the planet, shrinking the Arctic ice cap, melting glaciers and raising sea levels. It is leading to more widespread drought, more frequent heat waves and more powerful hurricanes. Even without my work, or that of the entire sub-field of studying past climates, scientists are in broad agreement on the reality of these changes and their near-certain link to human activity.
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My fellow scientists and I must be ready to stand up to blatant abuse from politicians who seek to mislead and distract the public. They are hurting American science. And their failure to accept the reality of climate change will hurt our children and grandchildren, too.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Willing Accomplices in the Hyper-Politicization of Climate Science

Do Mann and the climate science community actually think that directly linking battles over climate science to upcoming national elections will depoliticize climate science?!

Not only does the public get the politicians that it deserves, but it seems that climate scientists get the politics that they deserve as well. Until the scientific community shows some willingness to take actions that reduce rather than reinforce the political intensity of the climate debate, they are acting as willing accomplices in its hyper-politicization.

Warmer, wetter climate helping U.S. farmers grow more crops - USATODAY.com

DES MOINES (AP) — Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said.
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[USDA meteorologist Eric Luebenhusen] noted Nebraska and Illinois were especially wet this year, and he said Iowa has "almost become the tropical rain forest of Middle America."

For the most part, Luebenhusen said, that's good for farmers.

"With all the clouds and rain, you escape the extreme heat," he said.

Food prices may soar due to global warming - The Economic Times

LONDON: Large-scale crop failures are likely to become more common in the wake of climate change and lead to spiralling prices.

China Spurns Pledges in Cancun Climate-Change Accord, U.S.'s Stern Says - Bloomberg

China is ignoring pledges made under a global-warming accord reached last year after a face-to-face meeting between President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, the chief U.S. climate negotiator said.

Chinese officials have acted as though the agreement “never happened,” Todd Stern, U.S special envoy for climate change, said in remarks prepared for a speech today at the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor. China in December agreed to the Copenhagen Accord, a non-binding pact that aims to limit emissions blamed for global warming, he said.

BBC News - Rich nations 'failing to deliver climate cash'

Rich nations are failing to live up to their promise of giving US$30bn to poor countries to help them cope with climate change, according to a report.

U.S.-China energy trade could be win-win - CharlotteObserver.com

"Working together is the key to solving the climate change problem in the world," Rogers said. "If we work harmoniously, we will smooth out on a political level."

McKibben's Sermon: Climate = Danger - News - Litchfield County Times

WASHINGTON—The acceptable count of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 350 parts per million. Scientific consensus says that anything more than that will imperil the planet—the planet’s inhabitants really.
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“One thing’s become clear: This problem, this crisis, it’s coming a lot faster than we thought,” noted Mr. McKibben, who said the next century could see a five-degree rise if nothing is done. “A one-degree rise in temperature, 20 years ago we thought that would not be enough to cause widespread dislocation, but as it turns out it’s enough to cause every physical system to go out of kilter pretty profoundly.”

Tianjin trauma threatens to derail Cancun climate summit - 07 Oct 2010 - BusinessGreen.com

Relations between US and China hit new low as both accuse the other of stalling talks

Spending cuts 'to cost 60,000 green jobs' | Environment | The Guardian

Plans to build three new factories to make thousands of giant offshore wind turbines that would create an estimated 60,000 jobs are set to become the latest casualty of the spending review, it has emerged.

Climate change: fatal for Phuket

PHUKET: Phuket’s environment will be destroyed and the island “totally ruined” within 10 to 20 years, Senior Director of Thailand Environment Institutes (TEI) Chamniern Paul Vorratnchaiphan said yesterday.
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“Phuket is like the Titanic cruise ship, which tried to get to America too quickly and hit an iceberg instead before reaching its destination,” Mr Chamniern said.

Climate Change and the Age of Wisdom

There are various “open letters” available on the internet, urging the political powers and executive boards of learned societies to adopt less categorical stances with respect to “climate change” concerns and policies...

National Journal Magazine - GOP Gives Climate Science A Cold Shoulder

The GOP's stiffening rejection of climate science sets the stage for much heated argument but little action as the world inexorably warms -- and the dangers that Hague identified creep closer.

Watch Art Robinson Spar With Rachel Maddow, Call Global Warming A Hoax (Video) | Famecrawler

Father of six Art Robinson appeared on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” last night to discuss his campaign for Congress in Oregon, where he’s the Republican candidate.

AFP: Waste pickers [want a cut of climate change hoax loot]

GAIA and a small group of other NGOs are calling on the UN to support waste pickers by providing them with support through a planned climate fund that is being discussed during the Tianjin talks.

Jordet says harsh winters have hit pheasant numbers

With four, consecutive winters with 30-plus inches of snowfall, pheasant numbers have taken a hit throughout Iowa, Estherville Rotarians heard Thursday.

C3: First It Was Global Warming Alarmists Becoming Unhinged, And Now It's Climate Models Unraveling

In summary, the Left-Green violent activists should really take a chill pill because neither the climate scientists, nor the climate models, have a clue as to what is really happening to the world's climate.These latest studies affirm the growing recogniton that climate models do not reflect reality and are entirely worthless as climate prediction/forecast tools.

There is one outcome from these studies that is certainly assured, though: send more money! In reality, the purpose of all peer-reviewed studies is to manufacture a reason why more climate research funds are needed for the given author's work.

Obama’s Sunshine Scam - HUMAN EVENTS

It’s hard to sufficiently mock President Obama’s decision to install solar panels on the White House. But I’ll try.
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Since the annual savings of the system is estimated to be only $2,300, you could also safely bet that the system will never actually pay for itself—no matter how many decades (centuries?) the system is used.

Cap-and-trade plans meet up with greenhouse gas skeptics

Governorships and state legislatures currently in the hands of political leaders who support the regional agreements will belong to newcomers, some with dramatically different ideas, and opponents of the whole scheme see the upcoming election as a watershed.

“I think the gubernatorial elections will change the political landscape in a lot of these states, with new governors coming from a free-market perspective,” says Clint Woods, of the right-leaning American Legislative Exchange Council. “New governors tend to have a longer-term perspective, and they’ll see that the upcoming deadlines for reducing greenhouse gases will cause economic hardship and stall the recovery. So I think they’ll take a real hard look at their states’ involvement.”

Do You Affect The Climate Of Lesotho? | Real Science

The leaders of a bloc of small countries have figured out a way to con millions of dollars of borrowed money out of stupid leaders of bankrupt western countries.

They are sending us a message to throw the idiots out next month.

Major Cooling In Both Hemispheres | Real Science

Over the past month, we have seen a sharp drop in SST anomalies in both hemispheres. Most notable is the very cold water north of Russia, in the upper left corner.

This is one reason why forecasters in Russia are predicting the coldest winter in a thousand years.

Energy-efficiency weather data 30 years old | The Australian

THE weather data used by the federal government to determine how billions of dollars are spent to make buildings more energy-efficient is 30 years out of date.

How air-conditioning is baking our world | Environment | guardian.co.uk

We build up these big Sun Belt cities on the assumption of air-conditioning, so there's limited green space. The heat island effect becomes pretty overwhelming -- all the asphalt, concrete, and steel are trapping heat that's then released throughout the night. In Phoenix you can easily have a lot of nights where the temperature never drops below 90, while in the normal desert climate you get a big drop in temperature.

Dr. Ryan N. Maue’s 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update | The SPPI Blog

Update: Current Year-to-Date analysis of Northern Hemisphere and Global Tropical Cyclone Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) AND Power Dissipation Index (PDI) has fallen even further than during the previous 3-years. The global activity is at 33-year lows and at a historical record low where Typhoons form in the Western Pacific.

Faulty science behind California’s landmark diesel law | The SPPI Blog

California grossly miscalculated pollution levels in a scientific analysis used to toughen the state’s clean air standards, and scientists have spent the past several months revising data and planning a significant weakening of the landmark regulation, The Chronicle has found.

The pollution estimate in question was too high – by 340 percent, according to the California Air Resources Board, the state agency charged with researching and adopting air quality standards.

Northwest Passage Frozen Shut | Real Science

As usual, Romm has no idea what he is talking about.

Update On John Holdren’s Ice Free Winter | Real Science

John Holdren holds the highest position of scientific authority in the country. He was hand chosen by President Obama. He also appears to have less scientific competence than most first graders.

The Carbon Footprint Of Climate Change Delegates : NPR

After Copenhagen, there was Bonn. Now there's Tianjin, China. Next month, there will be Cancun, Mexico. It seems the United Nations is continually holding climate change meetings that require thousands of delegates to fly all over the world in an effort to reduce the world's greenhouse gas emissions. But it's a big question whether any of these talks will produce a concrete result.

The Gauntlet® News - Filmmaker hopes to raise awareness for global warming

According to the film and other experts, if the ice that covers the fifth largest landmass continues to melt ocean levels will rise considerably.

The Enthusiasm Chasm – Why Voters Don’t Care About Climate Change | The Seminal

What has happened to make 3 out of 4 voters and even 2 out of 3 Democrats believe that climate change is not a critical issue?

The False Charges Aimed at Climate Skeptics | Opinion | Epoch Times

Without learning the basic science, the only rational response anyone can give to the question “Is humanity causing a climate crisis?” is simply, “I don’t know.” “Bill Nye, The Science Guy” was right when he said, “Climate change is not rocket science.” It is much harder. If rocket science were as hard as climate science, we’d still be trying to get off the ground.

Freeze Warning Issued For Northern Arizona - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix

Chilly air in the wake of our recent storm system has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a Freeze Warning for parts of Northern Arizona tonight until 8 a.m. Friday morning.

CBS 5 Chief Meteorologist Chris Dunn said, "While freezing temperatures are common later in the fall and winter seasons, this is the first forecast of widespread freezing temperatures in Northern Arizona."

Sun cools? How daft! « Calder's Updates

You may doubt it, yet the doughty Richard Black of the BBC, who has made a career of rubbishing the solar contribution to climate change, uses the flimsy Haigh report to try to put the knife in once again: “The view that the Sun may be driving modern-day climate change has clouded policy discussions.”

What climate activists could learn from the anti-slavery movement | Mark Hertsgaard - Grist

Consider the striking parallels between the eighteenth-century campaign to end slavery in the British Empire and today's climate fight: just as the slave trade was central to Britain's prosperity, so the fossil fuel industry and its allies are the most powerful sector of the modern global economy. And just as the victims of slavery were distant unknowns to most Englishmen and -women, so the victims of climate change mostly live in strange, far-off lands (including the future) and thus have no vote.

Eric Felten: It's Better for Whose Environment? - WSJ.com

Ms. Sheppard may be a bit overwrought, but she has one thing right: You can add the Sun Chip bags to the pile of eco-virtuous products that consumers found less desirable than the traditional products they replaced. Compact fluorescent bulbs are so unloved and so widely unadopted that Congress had to resort to conventional-bulb prohibition, with incandescent bulbs getting Volsteaded come 2014. Low-flush toilets and low-flow shower heads failed to lure consumers from their water-guzzling predecessors, so the new devices were propped up by federal regulations—though resourceful end-users removed the flow-limiting gaskets to make their showers less stingy. Congress, it should be noted, has yet to mandate deafening snack-food packaging.

Why do today's environmentally conscious alternatives so often seem such sad substitutes?

Strassel: The Cap-and-Trade Crackup - WSJ.com

Mr. Boucher appears to still lead, but with a GOP wave building, no Democrat with an anti-job vote against his own constituents is safe. Virginia's ninth has already delivered one of the lessons of 2010: Cap-and-trade policy is terrible. Cap-and-trade politics is deadly.

Large Snowstorm Headed For Russia And Northern Europe | Real Science

Followed by a cold blast across all of Europe

NASA’s Antic-arctica | Real Science

Meanwhile back in the real world, UAH shows that Antarctica is cooling at a rate of almost 1C / century.

Romm : Black Death Lowered Northern Hemisphere Temperature By 0.17C | Real Science

Now we know what Al Gore meant by “The Earth Has a Fever.”

The Green Behind ‘Green’ - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

My eye-opening experience with Enron revealed the sort of interests that really drive Big Green and that too often make otherwise inconceivable policy into reality. It also left me wondering why the obvious isn’t quite so clear to those who never had a similar experience. The deep pockets now scrambling to protect their bets on poor investments and other rent-seeking schemes — by defeating Proposition 23 in California — offer another object lesson: The “green economy” — as we were reminded again with the president’s examples of Spain, Denmark, and Germany — amounts to nothing more than robbing Peter to pay Paul to cheerlead the latest version of central planning.

As for funding the campaign, the question “Cui bono?” is readily answered by taking a gander at who is digging deep to battle Prop 23, in order to make sure the gravy train isn’t derailed (regardless of the fairly obvious economic consequences if they are successful).

New Zealand government abandons datasets that showed warming: 'Raw temp data were showing no temperature change in 20th century...' | Climate Depot

'...However, some "official" climatologists have 'homogenized' the data in such a way that a significant warming by 1 °C suddenly appeared as a result'

Daily Kos: Cuccinelli goes teabagging

If your child is sick and you want to check for fever, you use a thermometer. You don't care what Rush Limbaugh says, or what Al Gore says, you care what that thermometer says. And if you want to be super careful, you might use more than one thermometer, or different kinds of thermometers, just in case that kid is dipping it in hot chocolate.

That's what two climatologists did when they wanted to check on the earth's past temperature. Just to be safe they used several different kinds of thermometers. Doesn't matter what Rush says, doesn't matter what Gore says, all that matters is what those thermometers say. And guess what they said? The earth has a fever, that fever is rising, and it's approaching delirium.

The work was so exquisitely done, and it's been so well supported by independent studies, that in any other nation the researchers involved would be up for major recognition. But not in teabagger America, where corporate rent-boys bought and paid for by fossil fuel johns drop to their knees on command to kiss some Koch. Which brings us to the latest gigolo, Ken Cuccineli...

Sun's global warming role exaggerated, says study - Environment - NZ Herald News

Although there is an 11-year solar cycle, the overall activity of the sun has risen slightly over the past century, leading some climate "sceptics" to suggest the sun rather then carbon dioxide is causing global warming.

The authors of the study, published in Nature, said solar activity could account for at most about 10 per cent of the extra warming.

The heresy of denial | The Spectator

This is a sociological problem more than a problem of physics; in truth, they all know so very little, and yet are splenetic with fury when anyone from outside the discipline attempts to challenge their assumptions. They become shrill with rage, like George Monbiot, and hurl all manner of abuse around. And yet they are frequently, almost daily, discovered to be wrong.

The latest research certainly doesn’t disprove AGW, which I still suspect to be more likely than not. But you fear for the future of what has become one of our biggest industries – climate change – when research like this is allowed to be published.

Climate-change witchcraft - The Hill's Pundits Blog

Republican Senate candidates may or may not agree on the science behind witchcraft, but they are united in disbelief in the overwhelming science that demonstrates manmade causes to global climate change. Increasingly, these candidates are doing their best to boil a witch’s stew of doubt by attacking the veracity of science and scientists.
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Yet, inexplicably, Republican leaders — and many Democrats in Washington — continue to block action on clean energy and climate legislation. Their excuse is that the American people don’t want action. Nothing could be further from the truth.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper: Sun affects Climate much more than thought

Adding the the recent spate of papers showing that - surprise - the Sun has much, much more to do with climate change than previously thought, the respected German Physics Journal Annalyn der Physik recently published a paper analyzing solar irradiance data from 1905 to 2008 which finds cosmic rays modulated by solar activity cause a large portion of atmospheric aerosols (clouds) with profound effects on climate [see the cosmic ray theory of Svensmark et al]. The paper concludes, "The contribution of the active sun, indirectly via cosmic rays, to global warming appears to be much stronger than the presently accepted [IPCC] upper limit of 1/3."

Crop Failures to Increase on Climate Change, Researchers Say - BusinessWeek

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Crop failures such as this year in Russia are likely to become more common as climate change causes more extreme weather with heat and drought stress, according to a study led by the U.K.’s University of Leeds.

A simulation of climate change’s effect on spring wheat in northeast China showed that in the worst case, more than 35 percent of crops may fail through 2099, compared with a baseline rate of about 13 percent, the study showed.

Another James takes a peek at oilsands

Hansen has never made a billion-dollar-grossing movie. So, there was lukewarm interest in his visit to testify at the Energy Resources Conservation Board hearing into a new oilsands project by the Frenchbased energy company, Total.

Where Cameron had 60 journalists signed up for a news conference last week, Hansen had maybe a half-dozen reporters and cameras drop by for a brief scrum in a Sherwood Park hotel hallway on Tuesday.

Which was too bad.

In the world of climate-change science, Hansen is a rock star. Think Mick Jagger in a tweed jacket. You half expect scientists to have his poster pinned up on their bedroom walls -- and you wouldn't be surprised if oil company executives had his picture pinned to dart boards on the back of their office doors.

Why Blowing Up Kids Seemed Like a Good Idea - Warren Meyer - Coyote Den - Forbes

Rather than an isolated aberration, then, the 10:10 video can be seen as the end result of years of ad hominem attacks meant to marginalize skeptics and make it unnecessary to actually address their concerns about the science. Perhaps this video will mark a turning point where we can finally start talking about the science rather than attacking motivations.

C3: U.S. Cooling Continues At -8.3F/Century Rate: IPCC/NASA's Climate Model Warming Predictions Still Wrong

The 12-month period ending September 2010 was the 2nd coldest September-ending period since 1998. Of course, this U.S. cooling trend will eventually revert to a warming trend, but the current decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated. This has been a major surprise for all global warming alarmists. This trend has persisted since the super 1997-98 El Niño event.

Let There be Lightbulbs - WSJ.com

The perfect symbol of the Pelosi Congress.
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The frequently invoked, less frequently consulted American public hasn't responded as the planners, well, planned. Some 89% of the residential market continues to be dominated by normal bulbs, according to the Energy Department. One reason may be that consumers prefer the incandescent style of lighting. Another may be that fluorescents cost at retail 10 times more than the ordinary bulbs that continue to work perfectly well.

Obama Flips While Germany Flops on Solar Panels - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

So the lesson from the past few days’ pander, after looking at the facts, is that President Obama is seeking to fundamentally transform America, using failed, expensive policies of Europe’s social democracies as his models. Toward his political end, he is rebranding central planning as the ‘green economy,’ and he and his doppelgangers make claims that simply do not survive scrutiny. They’re not only unsupportable, but what he and his enablers claim has time and again proven to be the opposite of reality.

I think where these people are living is what was meant by “Planet Gore.”

The Reference Frame: Does increased solar activity lead to cooling?

So in our scenario, effects different both from CO2 and from the solar activity had to warm the Earth (or Central England) up by +1.86 °C per century - which is three times the warming we have observed during the 20th century. Clearly, if that's the case, the man-made warming caused by the recent level of industrial activity is even more negligible than previously thought, relatively to these extra natural effects even when you integrate it over a century.

I don't personally believe the new paper's claim that a higher solar activity leads to a cooling on Earth.

The global warming witch hunt continues | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Cuccinelli was essentially riding on the coattails of the now totally-discredited Climategate fiasco. You may remember how lots of people got very upset that scientists were sending emails to each other that, when taken grossly out of context and misinterpreted, made it look like those scientists were engaged in cooking the data. Once people looked a little more carefully, it became clear that no shenanigans were going on. Interestingly, although it was hugely covered in the media and by the usual antiscience mob in politics, you hardly hear about Climategate anymore.

Inevitable: Hitler Learns of the Climate 10:10 Video - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Best moment: “Oh wait–I AM a vegetarian environmentalist”.

Obama vs. West Virginia Coal - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

How’s this for “the most transparent administration in history”?

Some weeks ago, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). I asked for 8,000 pages of “climate”-related documents (think Hockey Stick, Michael Mann, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). I still haven’t received a single page. I’m not sure what the holdup is — maybe it has something to do with some “climate” litigation, early November, or a lame-duck push on related issues.

At first, they first told me they were sorting through the documents to determine “which are agency records and which are IPCC records.” Yes, you read that correctly; and you are right as well that there are no such thing as “IPCC records” sitting on taxpayer-funded computers produced by taxpayer servants in their official time in officially assigned roles. It should come as no surprise that three days after I confirmed this statement in writing, they wrote back to say they never said that, presumably after speaking with their lawyers.

Environmental Skeptic Offers Fresh Perspective on Global Warming Debate | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

But the federal government has already decided for us that global warming is a pressing issue, and its solution, is once again, more taxes. If individuals decide for themselves that global warming is a serious threat, the solution would mean voluntary, private funding for the things that made America great in the first place: ingenuity, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Oct. 7th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

An explosion of outrage was triggered by the detonation of children by alarmists at 10:10, Bill Gates wants fewer customers and the Maldives installed solar panels and blondes.

There’s only three days left before the green day of action on 10/10/10, but I hesitate to start a countdown in case hippies gets the wrong idea.

EU could profit from slashing emissions further: MEPs

The EU would be acting in its own economic interest if it raised its 2020 CO2 emissions reduction target from 20% to 30%, agreed the European Parliament's Environment Committee this week.

The Committee on Tuesday approved a report, with 35 votes in favour, 20 against and one abstention, which argues that the EU should not only raise its emissions target to 30%, but should also aim to restrict global warming to a 1.5°C temperature rise - and not the 2°C increase which is the limit of current ambitions.

James Cameron [on the oilsands] | Mother Jones

JC: I don't think banning it outright is practical. I don't think anybody's going to go for that. But I'm not even sure that that's the right answer, because energy security is an issue for North America, and right now any war that we're in in the Middle East, we're funding both sides of it by buying our oil there. So the geopolitics of it suggest that having an onshore North American secure supply that is bigger or as big as Saudi Arabia is an important driver. Set aside the greed aspect of it, and there are political aspects of this that are huge.

Global warming’s latest offense « Don Surber

So far they are not acting upon these fantasies. I mean who would send homemade bombs to universities and airlines protesting what he saw as destruction of the environment.

I mean besides Ted Kaczynski. Wasn’t he brilliant, Harvard trained, and teaching at the University of California at Berkeley by age 25?

Of course, one terrorist cannot tar an entire movement.

For that, you need idiots making films of blowing up non-believers (or as Taranto pointed out in the case of the blow-them-up video, people simply are not all that enthusiastic) or the hanging of children.

New record low temperature set in Orlando breaks 31-year mark

Temperatures Thursday morning bottomed out at a “chilly” 57 degrees, breaking a 31-year-old record of 58, set in 1979.

KyleSmithOnline.com » Blog Archive » Hate, Actually: Richard Curtis vs. Climate Change

Moreover, the sort of ingratiating, I’m-just-getting-a-show-of-hands-here do-gooder niceness that blends smugly into savage violence strikes a very creepy note. How many of us have dealt with smiling clean-cut activists and sensed a streak of contempt or even cold hatred underneath?

Curtis is a funny guy and it would be easy to forgive him if this film were funny. Is it? It’s the same joke repeated about four times. Its message is coarse and obvious, not wickedly satirical. The movie is really beneath him. And it does set back Curtis’s cause substantially. It’s just one more clue that fabulously wealthy Hollywood types are living in a completely different world from the rest of us, for whom the hazy specter of supposedly catastrophic climate change is much less worrisome than immediate economic hardship, either real or potential.

Indiana still awaits Obama's promised green recovery | World news | guardian.co.uk

More than a year after the president visited to announce a new era of green jobs, the grant he promised has not materialised and unemployment is high
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Fourteen months on, fewer than a dozen of the 700 promised jobs have appeared – and there is no sign of the promised $39m grant. An additional $44m in government loan guarantees has also failed to materialise.

The recovery funds that did flow in, such as the $4m for a 1,800m (6,000ft) runway for a local airport that gets no commercial traffic and is only open to private jets, have come under attack from conservatives.
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The spotlight produced by Obama's presidential visits also attracted a number of clean energy scam artists – willing to set up shop to Elkhart, but only if they got stimulus funding first.

Can true planet healing be accomplished via age-old tools like lies, fraud and accounting gimmicks?

Rich nations 'slow to start climate aid flow' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

"The US says it is doubling or tripling climate finance, but there is very little clarity and very little sense that it is new and additional from existing aid flows. A lot of countries are doing this," said Steve Herz of Greenpeace. "They look at what they are doing in other parts of their aid budget, such as on food security, and double count it."

More confusing settled science: Global warming affects the tropics much more than the Arctic, which, in turn, is affected much more than the tropics

CBC News - Technology & Science - Tropics more affected by global warming: study

"The expectation was that physiological changes would also be greatest in the north temperate-Arctic region, but when we ran the numbers that expectation was flipped on its head," said lead author Michael Dillon, an assistant professor of zoology and physiology at the University of Wyoming, in a release.

The researchers believe that increases in temperature are raising animals' temperatures and metabolic rates, stressing their bodies by requiring them to seek more food and oxygen, rather than focusing on reproduction. Organisms in the Arctic are more adaptable to temperature fluctuations because of the seasonal changes in temperature, other research has shown.

Flashback: Arctic Is the Canary in the Coalmine

QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Dec 12, 2008 (IPS) - Nearly 1,000 scientists and representatives of indigenous peoples from 16 countries have braved a major winter storm to share their findings and concerns about the rapidly warming Arctic region at the International Arctic Change conference in Quebec City.

The Arctic is "ground zero" for climate change, with temperatures rising far faster than anywhere else on the planet. Some predict an ice-free summer Arctic in less than five to 10 years - the first time the Arctic Ocean will be exposed to the sun in many hundreds of thousands of years.

Surprising admissions from the BBC: Wild and sharp climatic oscillations happen

BBC News - Climate and humans: the long view

The 40-odd thousand years leading up to the last Ice Age included countless wild and sharp climatic oscillations that would have provided the most sensational of world headlines had our Neanderthal cousins had satellite television, mobile phones or internet.

The regularity of drastic climate change would soon have offered little by way of breaking news.

So, in terms of the well-being of our planet, little of what is coming will scare it. It has seen extreme global warming, as when tropical forests covered the poles, and extreme deep freezes, as when icebergs reached the latitude of Lisbon, Portugal - with strays drifting into the Mediterranean.
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The Neanderthals, who had been so successful in Europe for much longer than we have been around, vanished because of too much global cooling. [Via Steven Goddard]

- Bishop Hill blog - Jones in Times top 100 scientists

Apparently Phil Jones appears in the Times top 100 people in British science (not online).

10:10's 'No Pressure' exploding kids campaign: why it was such a success – Telegraph Blogs

There’s press intern Josefine Thieme, for example, whose job description includes “Keeping a record of 10:10 press coverage”. My, you’ll have been busy lately then, Josefine.

Then there’s Robin Houston, technical director, who admits to “Laughing too loudly at inopportune moments.” Robin, you must be in very heaven!

C3: Why Climate Scientist Michael Mann Should Be Forced To Have His Day In Court - A Clear, Rational Explanation

Michael Mann is suspected of defrauding taxpayers due to his work in climate science. Science fraud is not unusual, yet Michael Mann refuses to cooperate with various individuals and organizations seeking information about his taxpayer funded scientific work that could actually exonerate him. Michael Mann seeks to be placed above the law, namely the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FOIA is designed to establish essential expectations of transparency of the government funded bureaucracy and its minions, which categorically applies to both the University of Virginia and Michael Mann. Both UofV and Mann have refused to comply with the FOIA thus putting themselves in harm's way of the law.

The Savoy hotel's green ambassador - Telegraph

We’re considering a beehive on the roof but I have a dilemma. We currently get our honey from a little Shropshire company, and I want to keep supporting them.

Maldives President Installs Solar Roof - NYTimes.com

According to the president’s office and Sungevity, the American company that designed the installation, the panels, from LG Electronics, will save $300,000 in avoided conventional electricity costs and avoid 195 tons [Over many years, "worth" a total of 10-20 dollars at the Chicago Climate Hoax Exchange!] of carbon dioxide emissions over the life of the system.

AFP: UN climate [scam] chief urges grassroots movement

TIANJIN, China — The United Nations' climate change chief on Thursday urged people around the world to join in a "global work party" this weekend that is part of a growing grassroots movement to curb greenhouse gases.

More than 7,000 events to fight climate change will be held in at least 180 countries around the world on Sunday, with the day gaining massive support largely through 350.org, tcktcktck.org and other Internet-based groups.

"I congratulate you on your work and I want to offer my personal support to the... Global Work Party," UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said in a video message posted on tcktcktck.
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Figueres said the Global Work Party could help push governments into making compromises in their efforts to forge a treaty.

"That is exactly what governments need to rally around urgently," she said of the grassroots campaign.

Breaking News – The Sun Influences Temperatures On Earth | Real Science

Turns out that the Maunder minimum must have been hot. Throw all the historical records out, we have a new three year study.

- Bishop Hill blog - Victory for Kiwi sceptics

As the story makes clear, there are interesting parallels to Climategate, with government scientists resisting requests for data and then claiming the data was lost. With the raw data apparently showing no warming trend, something that only appears once these scientists have homogenised and adjusted the figures, it does look suspiciously as if books may have been cooked.

March Of The Computer Models | Real Science

But wait, there is just one minor problem with the computer model.

Antarctic sea ice is increasing, not decreasing.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Hollywood: Stop Making Movies And Lower Your Carbon Footprint

If all the actors and technicians who traipse about spewing CO2 in their efforts to make these superfluous movies would instead sit quietly in their homes, we would all be saved.

I thus call on Hollywood, and the British equivalent, to cease producing new movies until this crisis passes.

No caviling! This is for the People. Your sacrifices will be duly noted by future historians.

China digs in on rich-poor climate pact divide | Energy & Oil | Reuters

TIANJIN, China, Oct 7 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it will not bow to pressure to rethink a key climate change treaty and was preparing to cope with a "gap" in the pact after 2012 if rich nations fail to add new greenhouse gas goals in time.

Enemies Among Us: Environmental Terrorists Release Disturbing TV Ads - FoxNews.com

Mr. Curtis and the 10:10 campaign have done psychological injury to anyone young who sees these ads, because it will be hard for that child to dismiss the association between speaking his or her mind and being butchered. If this man makes a film, I will not see it. If there is a campaign to shut down the organization with which he works, I will donate my money and time. If there's one thing we should have learned in our long history of defending liberty, it is to not doubt the presence of its enemies among us.

Peter Foster: The U.K.’s climate killers | FP Comment | Financial Post

Side-splitting! Literally.

When I first saw it, I thought it had to be a spoof of the insanities of environmental extremism. Who would believe that any green organization would cast themselves as potentially murderous eco fascists? What message could one take from the movie but “Those who fail to agree with us will die,” even if we’ll just kill them tongue in exploding cheek. But the video, which was written by Richard Curtis, who penned Four Weddings and a Funeral, was comedically dead serious.

Global warming theory in chaos: Increased solar activity may COOL Earth | Mail Online

Professor Joanna Haigh, from Imperial College London, who led the study, said: 'These results are challenging what we thought we knew about the Sun's effect on our climate.
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Speaking at a news briefing in London, she denied that it would fuel scepticism about climate change research.

'I think it doesn't give comfort to the climate sceptics at all,' she said.

'It may suggest that we don't know that much about the Sun. It casts no aspersions at all upon the climate models.'

Behind the meltdown of the climate-change bill

Gore has warned that global warming will cause the sea to rise 20 feet and that the next generation could live a decade without winter. Yet Gore and his co-believers don't act as if they believe their own schtick.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus and author Bjorn Lomborg have challenged Gore to a debate. He won't bite. If the health of the planet really were at stake, you would think Gore could give up an hour or two to argue his case.

After all, Gore found time to fly to the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen last year so that he and other true believers could talk to each other about the evils of greenhouse gases. Then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Prince Charles arrived in separate private planes.

Montana's melting glaciers: The poster-child for climate change - CNN

[Daniel Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ecologist] says mountains are the "water towers of the world" with 70 percent of the world's fresh water frozen in glaciers.
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There is a general consensus that man is contributing to the planet's changing climate. Some skeptics remain, but Dan Fagre isn't one of them.

"I think on a global scale when you look at all the ice disappearing all around the world, there is no other explanation for that then climate change that is driven by people," he said.

Dr. Daniel B. Fagre | Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK)

Postdoctoral Fellow. Wildlife Biology. 1981-83. University of California, Davis

Ph.D. Animal Ecology. 1981. University of California, Davis

The new Dark Ages: If enough brainwashed college students make jewelry from recycled beads, can we prevent floods?

Environmentalist pioneer offers views during OSU-M lecture | mansfieldnewsjournal.com | Mansfield News Journal

MANSFIELD -- Nicole and Ashley Thoerner do their part to help the environment. The sisters make jewelry from recycled beads.

"If everyone can do little things to help the environment, it can change a lot," Ashley Thoerner said.

The Ohio State University-Mansfield freshmen attended a lecture Wednesday. Colin Beavan talked about his book, "No Impact Man," and how everyone can do their part to protect the environment.

Donna Hight, director of student life at OSU-Mansfield, said students are taking a one-credit class in which they read the book along with the professor and participate in discussions. Students at the main campus in Columbus also are reading the book.
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"If you reduce the negative impact you have on the environment with an increased positive impact, you can add that together and get no impact," he said.

The Silence Of Embarassment

So with Germany so deep in Green, with everything at stake, it risks losing its very purpose, its mission, the imagined moral high ground that green promises to deliver, it’s entire bank-rolled future. Germany, like many other European countries, has put itself in a position where it simply cannot afford seeing the green movement collapse. Therefore it is doing everything possible to sustain it, and to bury anything that could threaten it.

No, 1010 must never reach public awareness. People could start thinking that the movement is run by zealots. That must never happen.

The deafening silence speaks volumes.

PM - Citizens assembly idea buried 07/10/2010

MARK COLVIN: The Prime Minister has formally killed off her plan for a citizens' assembly on climate change.

Mr Gore goes to Trinidad and Tobago

The Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association (TTMA) has for some years been pushing for a cleaner environment, by insisting on changes in the country’s waste disposal systems and establishing modern recycling plants.

Taking the initiative one step further the association has organised “An Evening with Al Gore ,” one of the world’s foremost advocates for climate change and a cleaner environment. It takes place at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) on November 4.
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“An Evening with Al Gore” is a once in a lifetime event during which Gore will show manufacturers and businesses how they can make choices to save earth’s climate, while also creating jobs and stimulating sustainable economic progress. His presentation will specifically examine issue relevant to this country.

Nottingham Prepares For Harsh Winter With New £1.4m Salt Barn - 07 October 2010 - Guide2Nottingham News

Nottinghamshire County Council has said a new £1.4m salt storage barn will mean it is prepared for extreme conditions this winter.

The Least-Desired Climate Policy: EPA Regulation of GHG Gases | Reuters

there is no scientific agreement on the maximum concentration value that should be allowed for GHG in the atmosphere.

[You mean it wasn't my cell phone or even my cell phone charger?!]: Honeybee Killer Found by Army and Entomologists - NYTimes.com

A fungus tag-teaming with a virus have apparently interacted to cause the problem, according to a paper by Army scientists in Maryland and bee experts in Montana in the online science journal PLoS One.

Prepare for onslaught of snow and ice, businesses warned | BigHospitality.co.uk

Small hospitality businesses are being warned to prepare now for an onslaught of snow and ice later this year, as forecasters predict yet another freezing winter ahead.

Farmers, grape growers warned of cold snap | New Zealand

Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson said yesterday he estimated farmers lost $50 million due to snow, icy rain and chilling winds last month.

North Carolina: Record low tied

ASHEVILLE — Fall — and a taste of winter — were definitely in the air Tuesday night. The low of 33 tied a 36-year-old record low temperature.

Bjorn Lomborg agrees with Al Gore, sort of - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com

“I believe he's a closet skeptic who doesn't have the courage to admit it,” said Marc Morano, former communications director of the climate skeptic website "Climate Depot" and a former spokesman for the Senate’s lead climate skeptic, James Inhofe (R-Okla.).

“He likes to essentially portray himself as the man in the middle when he's clearly attacked both the United Nation's and Al Gore’s extreme claims,” Morano added.

World Business Forum Day 2: Al Gore Comes Out Swinging for Sustainable Capitalism | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

In response to those recently exposed purveyors of disinformation and others like them, who claim that it is unfathomable that mankind could actually have that much impact on the planet, he offered the following three observations that differentiate our present era from times past

1- The world population has quadrupled in the past 100 years

2- The amount of power available to humans has increased 1 million-fold

3-Changes in both capitalism & democracy
...“It's important to change the light bulbs,” says Gore, “but it's more important to change the laws."
...Citing an African proverb, he said, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

Then, after a beat, he added, "We need to go far, fast."

Quadrant Online - Opening closed minds

The end of scientific consensus

The Royal Society, which is Britain’s top dog in science (indeed many scientists would say the world), has just published a report signalling the end of claims of a consensus by some climate scientists and some governments that the world faces dangerous warming unless governments act quickly to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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In the latter category, for example, the acknowledgment that the uptake of CO2 by the land and oceans is “very poorly understood” is tantamount to saying that it is not possible to predict with any confidence the future concentration levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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However, perhaps the most devastating statement for alarmists is that “It is not possible to determine exactly how much the Earth will warm or exactly how the climate will change in the future”. This leaves in doubt what policy should be adopted, and when, to reduce emissions. The report’s acceptance that uncertainty exists about the effect clouds have on temperatures is one important reason for delaying action. Another is the acknowledgement of poor scientific understanding in various other areas, such as the likely extent of reductions in ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica from any further temperature increases. Yet another is the admission that “there is little confidence” in projections by models of climate change in regions, including Western Europe. This also suggests that predictions of worsening drought conditions in the Murray Darling Basin have no scientific basis.

What's the carbon footprint of ... a volcano? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Over time, however, the cooling effect fades faster than the greenhouse warming caused by the CO2 (which stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years) so whether the warming effect or the cooling effect is greater depends on the time scale you consider – a bit like the difference between planes and cars.

[But why doesn't this CO2 stay in the atmosphere for "hundreds of years"?]

The vertical distribution of carbon dioxide in the air around a group of trees fluctuates with the time of the day. Photosynthesis is shut off at night and as a consequence the respiration from the soil can raise the concentration of carbon dioxide at ground level to as much as 400 ppm, while the CO2 concentration at treetop level can drop to 305 ppm at noon owing to photosynthetic uptake

Another IPCC Train Wreck: Species Extinction (Part 2) « NoFrakkingConsensus

5 of 10 lead authors have links to the World Wildlife Fund (WG2-Chapter4)

Is The Ocean Getting More Acidic? | Real Science

Monterey Bay Aquarium has been sampling ocean pH for almost 15 years. They show no trend during the period.

Romm Labels The Chamber Of Commerce As A “Criminal Foreign Funded Extremist” Group | Real Science

Joe wants a lot of people to push the red button.

NHC Defines A New Type Of Hurricane | Real Science

After more than 750 days of no hurricanes making landfall in the US, the National Hurricane Center has defined a new type of storm, known as the “narrow escape.”

Break Out The Prozac | Real Science

Normally they get hysterical about running out of fresh water, but today the hysteria du jour is that freshwater availability is increasing.

Arctic Amplification In Autumn | Real Science

2010 seems to have broken the pattern, with much less warming this autumn – despite the rapid freeze. October temperatures (so far) have been the lowest since 2004.
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Whatever caused the rapid decline in ice from 2005-2007 may have reversed.