Britain is growing greener at the expense of the rest of the world | Tony Juniper | Comment is free | The Observer

The impending extinction of tigers, the melting icecaps and the ravaging of the rainforests are symptoms of an emerging global crisis. A new World Wildlife Fund report out maps its scale and concludes that if we don't change course by 2030, we will need a second Earth to meet our needs.

Prop. 23: Avatar's James Cameron kicks in $1 million | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

Cameron's donation comes as contributions from clean-tech executives, environmental groups and wealthy conservationists opposing Prop. 23 have surged to more than $20 million in the last month, outpacing the $9 million raised so far by the initiative's backers.

I AM Buddy, The BUDDHA From Mississippi ™: Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory Takes On New World Order

* The basic premise of the episode, via TruTV: “Whether global warming is real or not, some people may be using the issue to earn billions of dollars, start a one-world government and control people’s lives.”
* Even though he acknowledges that Al Gore could make billions from this ‘conspiracy,’ Ventura lets him off the hook over accusations that he’s “trying to control the world.” He’s too public, you see. Ventura: “I know Al Gore, I don’t think he’s out to do that. There’s got to be someone else behind this.”
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* Climategate, which happened after the episode was filmed, is shoehorned in: “only a theory? Within days of Jesse’s meeting and his words about Watergate, the global warming conspiracy would explode into a scandal called ‘Climategate’ … [scientists] obscured, massaged, or destroyed inconvenient temperature data. And the evidence showed that they did it for the money. More panic equaled more funding.”
* Ventura’s conclusion: “I’m no scientist. The conspiracy theory here is a scare tactic to control people, make billions, even trillions in profit. Al Gore, you’ve been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren’t out to save the world: they’re out to run it.” Note that he doesn’t rule out the possibility that man-made global warming is real.

Why climate change isn't much of a campaign issue - CSMonitor.com

When an economy is in the tank, it’s a lot tougher to sell what may be expensive environmental solutions whose benefits aren't seen for decades to people worried about their job today.

PlanetSKI | News | It's snowing in The Alps

Snow is falling in many ski resorts and people are getting rather excited.

UN chief uses climate hoax to promote global governance

UN Secretary-General Arrives in Morocco

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon touched down in Morocco today, where he will address an international policy conference on the theme of global governance.
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He will identify three main challenges for global governance: ensuring that the global economy works for all people; combating climate change; and addressing new challenges, such as migration and organized crime.

Gore takes aim at Baker over climate change - The Boston Globe

In a video being sent to tens of thousands of Patrick supporters, Gore highlights comments Baker made to the Globe in February, in which he dodged questions on his stance on climate change for days. Baker said he was not “smart enough’’ to understand the issue and declined to even issue an opinion.

“I’m not saying I believe in it. I’m not saying I don’t,’’ Baker said then.

“Well, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, Charlie Baker’s statement is nothing short of unacceptable in my view from a candidate seeking the highest office in Massachusetts,’’ Gore says in the video. “The climate crisis is just as real as the economic one that has touched every single family, business, and government in our country.’’

Rainfall in Bangladesh this year: Sometimes it fell, sometimes it didn't

[These fluctuations were "definitely" caused by CO2; we know this because of *cough...mumble*]

Leading climate and water expert professor Ainun Nishat said the country this year saw excessive pre-monsoon downpours particularly in northeastern region of Bangladesh causing flash floods.
But from June to August, he said, the country witnessed half than the usual rainfall, other than localised heavy downpours, affecting the Aman crops while again it witnessed heavy rainfall in October.
“This is not the normal behaviour of weather in our country and definitely it is linked to the climate change,” Nishat said.

Renewables will add £880 a year to bills - Telegraph

Trying to meet our EU renewable energy target would cost more than we currently spend on our entire electricity production, says Christopher Booker.
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Is there any subject on which more nonsense is talked and written than the mindblowing proposals being bandied about by the Government for meeting our EU target of generating, within 10 years, 30 per cent of our electricity from renewable sources? (That is roughly six times the current total, meaning that we have by far the most challenging target of any country in Europe.)

If it’s green, it’s sold on a lie | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It’s a green scheme and the Victorian Labor Government is behind the infrastructure.

So two things you can already assume: it won’t work half as well as advertised, but will cost around twice as much...

Climate Resistance » What Next for the Royal Society?

Rees and the Royal Society are seeking ever greater roles for science in the political sphere. Politicians, who are suffering from a historic inability to define their purpose, take the authority this lends them with ever more enthusiasm. But this has resulted in a qualitative shift in the character of science. Where once it provided the means to liberate human potential, it now exists to regulate it. Instead of ‘speaking truth to power’, science increasingly speaks official truth for official power. The result is bad politics and bad science.

- Bishop Hill blog - The reverse twinkle

Hat tip to Barry Woods for this excerpt from the website of Thames Valley Climate Action, which gives guidance on how the organisation runs its meetings. They have a thoroughly nifty set of hand signals to enable attendees to indicate how they feel about what is being said

Huhne drops Severn barrage to invest in wind power

Ambitious plans to harness the power of the Severn estuary to light up one in 20 of the UK's homes are to be abandoned as a result of the Government's attempt to address the nation's deficit.

Chris Huhne, the Secretary of State for Energy, will tomorrow jettison the world's largest tidal energy project, rather than make the taxpayer foot an estimated bill of £10bn to £30bn for the untested technology.

Google calls for bigger climate swindle

Businesses call for EU policy move to 30 per cent emissions cuts by 2020

Companies supporting the joint business declaration include Acciona, Alstom, Asda, Atkins, Barilla, BNP Paribas, BSkyB, Capgemini, Centrica plc, Climate Change Capital, Crédit Agricole, DHV Group, Elopak, Eneco, F&C Asset Management, GE Energy, Johnson Controls Inc, Kingfisher, Google, Marks and Spencer, Nike, Philips Lighting, SKAI Group of Companies, Sony Europe, Standard Life, Swiss Re, Tryg, Thames Water, Unilever and Vodafone.

[Flashback: On the hypocrisy of the Google guys]

Larry Page, Google’s billionaire co-founder, is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, on a tiny Caribbean island this weekend… The New York Post reported on Wednesday that 600 guests will be flown on private planes to the wedding on Branson’s Necker Island.
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A photo-op of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plugging-in a hybrid car was part of the search engine giant’s June announcement promising carbon neutrality by 2008. But how this PR-fluff squares with the so-called “Google party jet” — Page and Brin’s gargantuan personal Boeing 767, which burns about 1,550 gallons/hour — is any one’s guess.

Protesters block road to oil refinery | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Twelve female protesters today handcuffed themselves to lorries parked deliberately to block the main road to an oil refinery as part of a mass protest against climate change.
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One of the protesters, Terri Orchard, said: "We don't have a hope of tackling climate change if we don't find a way to start moving beyond oil.
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"We are here at the source of the problem, at the UK's busiest oil refinery, to stop the flow of oil to London.

"We're here to put a spanner in the works of the relentless flow of oil and to say no more. This place, this whole industry, must become a thing of the past."

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media » Researchers Point to ‘Moral Obligation,’ ‘Good Citizens’ in Urging Scientists to ‘Speak Up’ on Policy

“The notion that a scientist is either an advocate or does nothing at all to shape policy is a false dichotomy that has muddled the debate about science and advocacy,” Janet Rachlow, associate professor of wildlife ecology at The University of Idaho, wrote in an e-mail. She suggested scientists can be just as effective by conducting important research, then bringing it to the attention of the public, policymakers, and advocacy organizations who can use it to advocate for positions supported by the science.

C3: Russian Arctic Experts: The Arctic Has Entered Cooling Cycle & Climate Models Are Worthless

Utilizing 85 years of actual scientific data and analysis, scientists from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) published a book, Climate Change in Eurasian Arctic Shelf Seas, that explains how the Arctic temperature and sea ice conditions are driven by natural forces, not human CO2 emissions. The authors also mock the CO2-based climate models that the IPCC Climategate scientists solely rely on

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media » Wunderground.com’s Jeff Masters:From ‘Mad Scientist Club’ to Leading Internet Site

Masters reads plenty of other blogs, and is a fan in particular of John Cook’s blogs at skepticalscience.com/. He also frequents realclimate.org, climateprogress.org, and desmogblog.com, which he thinks does well at unveiling climate deniers’ public relations campaigns intended to counter climate change science.
...he is critical of what he sees as well orchestrated and well funded climate misinformation [Well orchestrated by who?  Well funded by who?  Specifically how much money is spent supporting climate realist blogs?] campaigns.
....While he respects the right of these people to voice their point of view, he doesn’t pull punches: “The ignorance and greed that human society is showing in this matter will be to our ultimate detriment and possible destruction,” he says.

He urges his 14-year-old daughter to educate herself on climate change. “It will be the defining issue of their generation,” he says, though he admits these pleas fall on unconcerned ears for now, as she still has “one foot in the world of childhood.”

Masters works two days a week from his rural home, a half hour [by walking? by bike? by fossil-fueled private car?] from his Ann Arbor office.

Breaking: IPCC may consider a conflict of interest policy in May 2011

Die Klimazwiebel: IPCC WG II informs its lead authors about Busan

The IPCC Panel agreed with the importance of establishing a conflict of interest policy. A task group that will begin working in the next few weeks on proposing a policy for consideration by the Panel at its next meeting, likely in May 2011. We are considering steps to implement in the meantime.

Climategate: the Fox connection – Telegraph Blogs

Fox, Campbell, King, Ward, Hansen, Gore, Monbiot, Porritt, Connolley….Not without reason do these names crop up again and again in this blog. They may not be sitting round the same table plotting. But they’re all part of the cabal, a surprisingly small cabal, given the vastness of its influence and the almost unimaginable immensity of the bill they are trying to impose on mankind in the name of their religion, Climatism.

[He gets around: Typical alarmist idiot burns much more fossil fuel than most non-believers]

Based in New York and Tokyo, he performs on Wednesday at the Berklee Performance Center as part of a North American tour marking the joint US release of two recent, strikingly disparate albums on Decca.
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“For these concerts my main focus is ‘Out of Noise,’ ’’ said Sakamoto, 58, in a recent phone conversation from Los Angeles.
...His dismay about global warming and environmental degradation is what led him to the Arctic Circle.

GetLiberty.org >> Scientific Audit of U.N. Climate Panel Concludes Alarmist Claims Lack Evidence

Over the past few months, the scientific establishment has persistently worked to exonerate researchers caught up in the “climategate” scandal with the assistance of a compliant news media.

However, a new audit into the procedures and methodologies used within the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has added further weight to the concerns and criticisms of global warming skeptics.

Blanche Lincoln in Lonely Uphill Race in Arkansas - NYTimes.com

“Look, as far as the Democratic caucus in the Senate goes, I’ve spent my share of time in the time-out chair over there,” Mrs. Lincoln said, noting her opposition to cap-and-trade energy measures and her support for lowering estate taxes, both of which put her at odds with most of her Democratic colleagues.

Sleet and snow - yes, it's springtime

Melbourne shivered through its coldest October morning in 15 years yesterday when temperatures dropped to 4.7 degrees at 12.44am.

Wikipedia Topic-Bans Global Warming Activist William Connolley, aka ‘Stoat’ « NCTimes.com Blogs

Since CAGW (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming) supposedly has so much evidence on its side, it’s remarkable how vehemently Connolley fought against letting Wikipedia readers read neutral articles that include the views of skeptics. His deceptive conduct was deeply unethical.
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Connolley’s pro CAGW campaign extended over years. I hope that Wikipedia speeds up its cumbersome bureaucratic process so that future offenders can be dealt with more swiftly.

Half of Americans Fail Climate Change Quiz « ACG|Blog

# 49 percent incorrectly believe the space program contributes to global warming

For a guy who claims to believe in the CO2 hoax, he sure does a lot of fossil-fueled traveling

Boulder explorer summits Everest, completes 'frozen places' tour - Boulder Daily Camera

A Boulder-based explorer who sought to raise awareness about the world's "last great frozen places" has reached the top of Mt. Everest, his team reported Friday.

The summit means that Eric Larsen achieved his goal of becoming the first person to visit both the North and South Poles and the top of the world's tallest mountain in a single year.
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Larsen, who divides his non-trekking time between Boulder and Grand Marais, Minn., launched the "Save the Poles" expedition to raise awareness about the impacts of global warming.

If all 6.7 billion of us traveled as much as this guy does, how long would our oil last?

African climate leader says Cancun talks `will flop` on Environmental Expert

Upcoming international climate talks will be 'a total flop', according to Africa's leading spokesperson on climate change.

Neither this year's talks in Cancun, Mexico, nor the ones in South Africa next year, will deliver a deal with set targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction, said Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia and coordinator of the Committee of Ten African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change.
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As a spokesperson for the African Union, Zenawi's comments were in bad taste and will further entrench those in the West who oppose a legally binding climate change deal, Dorothy Amwata, a researcher at South Eastern University College, Kenya, told SciDev.Net.

'If there are no chances of success in Cancun and South Africa then what is the point of holding consultative forums in Africa spending public and donor money?' said Amwata, who helped develop the Comprehensive Climate Change Programme for the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). 'It is strange that [Zenawi] is the one leading the process yet he is so negative.'

GOP Attacks on Stimulus Wind Power Money: Hot Air - TIME

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has borrowed a populist Democratic theme for its latest round of attack ads, featuring red flags, menacing-sounding songs, and Asian calligraphy fonts to accuse vulnerable House incumbents are outsourcing jobs to you-know-where.

"Tim Walz helped create jobs in China!" "Mike McIntyre: Jobs in China, not North Carolina." The brassiest spot ends with a cartoon image of Cultural Revolution-style upraised fists: "He's created massive debt here, while he created renewable energy jobs over there. Barron Hill: For Indiana, or China?"

Healthy-livin’ First Lady treats herself to burger and fries in Milwaukee « Hot Air

Seriously, though, her weakness for burgers and fries is well known by now. Who cares if she’s sneaking out of the White House to hit Five Guys every other day? She keeps a vegetable garden and supports cap and trade. Live and let live, wingnut!

WWF Caught In Another Big Lie : Polar Bears Doing Just Fine | Real Science

Despite findings by World Wildlife Fund and others that polar bears with triplet cubs have been declining in recent years, anecdotal sightings from guides this summer included surprisingly ”frequent sightings of polar bear mothers with triplets,”

The Reference Frame: Some climate insanity for the weekend

While most people with at least traces of rational thinking or common sense have largely seen through the nonsense of "climate disruption", the AGW crusaders reacted in a simple way: they began to write bigger insanities than ever before, hoping that the low-to-nonexistent quality of their arguments can be compensated by their "intensity".

- Bishop Hill blog - Pursuit of Fox

Given that the report was so embarrassingly short, for the SMC to put forward a series of people who were willing to describe the investigation as thorough suggests strongly that they are a propaganda outfit rather than a body that helps journalists get at the truth. One commenter at CA suggests that SMC is the "public relations arm of establishment science" in the UK. That may well be right and journalists might do well to consider that possibility when they are fed stories by Fiona Fox and her chums.

As mercury falls, fire threat rises | The Columbus Dispatch

As cold weather comes to Ohio, fire departments across the state expect an increase in fire fatalities, said Shane Cartmill, spokesman for the State Fire Marshal.

Copenhagenize.com - Building Better Bicycle Cultures: Carbon Trust: Don't Ride a Bicycle

If you choose to cycle FOR work (e.g. attending an external meeting) again your safety is your responsibility. However, the Carbon Trust has a duty of care for all of us, and for this reason, the company does not advocate cycling to and from meetings on company business and an alternative method of travel should always be considered.

Climate change and agricultural development need to be tackled in tandem | Olivier De Schutter | Global development | guardian.co.uk

This change also requires that we adapt our modes of governance. We won't shift to a carbon-free agriculture if we remain hostages to the short termism of markets and of electoral politics.

Third harsh winter predicted as cold snap looms for the UK

Last winter was the coldest in more than 30 years, bringing widespread and heavy snowfalls. Even as late as Easter, farmers across Northern Ireland faced major losses, as thousands of animals were buried under the snow and drivers had to be rescued from the Glenshane Pass after blizzards swamped their cars in snowdrifts metres deep.

Forecaster The Weather Outlook predicted that the last two winters would bring below-average temperatures and they are now forecasting a third.

"History shows that in Britain cold winters tend to come in clusters," a spokesman said

Coast Guard drops ice buoys near Barrow - ktuu.com

The University of Washington says the setback is extremely disappointing, but oceanographers vow to fix the problem and try again -- because the Arctic environment is changing rapidly, and scientists still don't fully understand why.

Maryland Weather: Cool-weather record tied

The high temperature at BWI-Marshall Airport on Oct. 4 was a chilly 54 degrees. That tied the record-low maximum temperature for the date, set in 1998.

Bill Scher: Top 10 Crazy Things Conservatives Say: Global Warming Edition

6.  "[CO2] gets sucked down by trees and helps the trees grow" - Wisconsin Senate candidate Ron Johnson.

[If it's getting too hot in Canada, why is this happening?]: Canadians lead wave of buyers in Arizona

Combine a strong Canadian dollar with a weak housing market, toss in the warm winters and its easy to see why Canadians are now outnumbering Californians as the top out-of-state homebuyers in Arizona.

New climate denialism: Who promotes it, and how to answer it | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

The truth, of course, is that to discuss climate change honestly is indeed to delegitimise the prevailing system of property relations. And for the great majority of human beings, who have no stake in oil sands or coal loaders, that is precisely what needs to be undertaken.

American Thinker: How to Really Reform the U.N.

The UNFPA should be the first body to be scuttled, followed by the Inter-Governmental Climate Panel (IPCC), which has become nothing more than Al Gore's sandbox. The IPCC recently had to backtrack on its environmental doomsday predictions.

Confronting the cold reality of climate change | Bemidji Pioneer | Bemidji, Minnesota

I think anything we do is going to be too little, too late.

It’s time to get the band on stage and have them strike up “Nearer My God to Thee.” It’s comforting.

Climate scientist to speak at UO on global warming

One of the country’s most prominent climate scientists and one of the first to sound an alarm about human-caused global warming will give a talk today at the University of Oregon.

James Hansen, an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will discuss “Global Warming Time Bomb: How To Avert Disaster.”

Climate change v capitalism: the feast is almost over | Music | guardian.co.uk

[caption] Either capitalism lives or Mother Earth lives' ... delegates wave flags at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, near Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 20 April 2010. Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

Highlights from our chat with reporter Ryan Lizza on Senate climate politics | Grist

As you can see, Ryan was a regular barrel of laughs! These are grim days for climate watchers, to be sure, but I appreciate him dropping by and telling it straight.

YouTube - COOL IT - Official US Theatrical Trailer in HD

IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 12th! Controversial environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg and award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner team up to separate fact from fiction in the global warming debate and find the best methods to safeguard the future of our planet.

Living in Peru » Features : Al Gore inspires and informs audience in Peru

This week Al Gore spoke in Lima, Peru in a speech that was as inspirational as it was informative. Gore called upon Peru to act in this time of environmental crisis, relating it specifically to Peru and globally.
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The impacts of the climate crisis are distributed globally, Gore said. Many are seeing weather patterns and rains that occur “once in a thousand years,” but these are happening all around the globe. Gore referenced past and current environmentally related problems in Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Australia, the U.S. and China.
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We have everything we need, he said, except the political will. “Political will is a renewable resource.”

Early Snow at Snowshoe

[West Virginia] This year’s third snowfall comes three days before last year’s first snowfall of the year (October 18), a snowfall that kicked off a nearly record year for the resort, with more than 230 inches of snow falling throughout winter.

An Englishman's Castle: Climate change skeptics often ask for evidence and proof, - The Bastards

Climate change skeptics often ask for evidence and proof, and point to conflicting modeling as a means of discounting theories. This may be a valid argument in other sciences, but perhaps not when attempting to determine future climate changes.

BBC News - IPCC aims for clarity and relevance in new report

The IAC recommended that the next assessment must deal much more carefully and consistently with uncertainties - and Chris Field, co-chair of the IPCC working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, indicated the message had been taken on board.

"The fact of the matter is that climate change impacts are very poorly known," he told BBC News.

"We only have mature scientific studies for a small number of topics and a small number of places, so we need to recognise that and figure out how, in an environment where the information is limited, we can still provide valuable information.

Krugman's Angst

Krugman reaches for exponential absurdity when he claims that "scientists willing to deny the existence of man-made climate change" have essentially been bought-off by a handful of ultra-wealthy families operating through "a network of organizations that may seem independent on the surface... ." What rubbish – not least because the global-warming-alarmists have been thoroughly debunked by credible scientists, especially those connected intimately with the United Nations (IPCC, CRU)! Not only has their science been faulty but – even worse – they've been exposed – or, rather, exposed themselves – as outright frauds through e-mails understood as cover-up attempts.

Republican Global Warming Deniers Funded By Energy Industry

"This is just the latest example of Congressman Toomey's refusal to hear perspectives that don't fit into his own narrow mindset, even if those perspectives are backed by a large volume of credible evidence," said Sestak campaign spokesman Jonathon Dworkin. "But try as he might, Toomey can't escape from the facts. Pennsylvania needs a public servant dedicated to finding practical solutions to the problems we face, not another closed-minded ideologue bent on insisting that the 'world is flat.'"

Climate Science Corruption: Practiced And Perpetuated By Scientific Societies

Lewis said the APS went along with the corruption accepting it as the norm. The AAAS goes further by providing methods and mechanisms for perpetuating “the most successful pseudoscientific fraud.” If you remain a member of AAAS or any other association and don’t speak out against such falsity and corruption then you condone the actions and activities. Speak out or watch science self-destruct.

US Elections Could Kill Climate Legislation | The Resilient Earth

...The Obama administration has never left reality intrude on ideology and is now facing the wrath of the electorate. Sadly, global warming will be pushed off the public stage, not because of incomplete and poorly done science, but because of changing political fortunes. The influence of the climate change cabal will be greatly reduced, but they will remain in the shadows, plotting and scheming their return to prominence. We must all remain vigilant.

Elephant Seals To Play Key Role In Climate Change Research - Science News - redOrbit

Fogarty also reports that the elephant seals will play a key role in the research. Thanks to a recent funding increase, the Reuters reporter notes that approximately 100 of the creature will be fitted with small antennas on their heads, which will be used to measure temperature, salinity, and water pressure while the seals are diving in search of food.

POLITICO's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers - The Arena | POLITICO.COM

To advocate that Congress should drop cap-and-trade is rather like advising that we should stop worrying about Y2K. In his amusing campaign ad (one of the best of 2010), Gov. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) shoots a copy of the Waxman-Markey bill, but the fact is he’s shooting a critter that’s been dead for some time.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Global Warming Meets Campaign Ad

...this ad produced by my friends at the Western Tradition Partnership, which attacks Hickenlooper's advocacy to spend heavily to fight global warming, might have some effect:

NASA: We can't go back to the moon, but we *can* blow your tax dollars to promote a gigantic scientific fraud to schoolkids

UMass Lowell Awarded a $614K Climate Change Education Grant from NASA | Lowell.com

LOWELL, Mass. – UMass Lowell has received a $614,691 grant from NASA to create unique methods of educating K-12 and college students about the science of global climate change. The award was announced today at a climate change “Teach-In” at UMass Lowell.

The Reference Frame: Andrew Revkin shocked that science is evolving

...a self-evident idiot is found appropriate by Andrew Revkin to teach a veteran nuclear physicist about technology, technological risk, and the climate science.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri to stay on at IPCC - Telegraph

But Dr Benny Peiser, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said there have been calls from inside the scientific community for Dr Pachauri to go.

“As long as he stays the IPCC will not restore credibility,” he said. “ Everybody knows that so there is a risk that the next report will not be taken that seriously.”

Quangos working on renewable energy no longer a 'priority' | Politics | The Guardian

Campaigners reacted with horror at the suggestion that renewable energy was no longer a government priority, but the Department of Energy and Climate Change said its advisory function had already been taken up by Ored.

Professor Hal Lewis is not an irrelevant, senile, old fool – Telegraph Blogs

In fact, this has been a good news week generally for us goodies in the great climate wars. Best of all, of course, are the glorious tidings that cricketlovingjetsettingbeardgrowingrailwayengineeringsoftpornwritingtrollimpersonating Dr Rajendra Pachauri is to stay on as chairman of the IPCC.

Rub Asbestos on Your Face, Why Don’t Cha « NoFrakkingConsensus

While he earns full marks for being colourful, this man wouldn’t last two days as the CEO of a Fortune 100 company.

Der Wettermann – Leading German Meteorologist Blasts “Climate Science”

There are many sceptics in Germany. The problem is that the mainstream media and well-funded post-normal climate science establishment marginalise them. But they won’t be able to keep this up for much longer.

Global warming not worth the fight - The Tech

It is tempting to play the crusader, to make some moral, if futile stand in defense of our current thermostat setting. But we must be realistic. There is little hope of creating an enforceable global carbon constraint, and without the existence of such a regime, there is little point in surrendering our national economy to green adventures.

Comment On The Science Paper “Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature” By Lacis Et Al 2010 « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

My conclusion is that their paper does not present new scientific insight but is actually an op-ed presented in the guise of a research paper by Science magazine.

Bogus global warming data hurts real scientific efforts | detnews.com | The Detroit News

The revelations of bogus evidence in the manmade climate change hoax have become so routine as to go almost unnoticed, but continued revelations now pose a danger to the reputation of the real scientific community — that made up of dedicated researchers — which must be addressed before all lines of intellectual inquiry become tainted.

Climate change apocalypse NOW • The Register

Ofcom says alarmism OK, long as it's 'practical'

A Physicist's Climate Complaints - NYTimes.com

I’ll update this post when Lewis offers an explanation of why his views on global warming research and risk have so starkly changed.

Dominique Browning's Personal Nature Column » Time is Running Out

"What we need more than anything else is a mass movement of young people," Peter Goldmark, director of EDF's Climate and Air Program, who recently announced his retirement at the end of the year.
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What Goldmark—along with all leading authorities on climate change—fears most is that we still do not understand the urgency of the problem. "When I think about how I would address a group of young people, my message is not a gentle one," he says. "This is the hardest, most terrible, thing to say to a young person, but we have no choice: it is five minutes before midnight. Time is running out."

That means we no longer have the luxury of polite, time-consuming public debate on the issue. "We have to be much more aggressive about pinpointing our enemies, and doing it early—showing how and where they are spending their money to undermine our efforts," he says. "We need to learn how to inflict pain on the opposition."

Poll still open: Global warming, global weirding, or what? - Capital Weather Gang

What’s the best term for describing the changes happening to the Earth’s climate?
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* Natural climate cycles 27%
* Other 3%
* Don't care 26%

Interview with Robert Bradley, Jr. » Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship

During Enron’s heyday you had academics from the University of Virginia and other places who were using Enron as a case study of a progressive, successful, entrepreneurial company. Other academics were looking at Enron as a sort of example of what capitalism should be: Enron is “green” investing in wind power, solar power, energy efficiency, and air-emissions trading. The company overtly emphasized corporate social responsibility too.

Chilean miners leave BBC too broke for live coverage of Cancún climate talks | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The rescue is a vivid story but a leaked memo reveals the dent it has made in the BBC's capacity to report from the Cancún climate talks

Royal Society Humiliated by Global Warming Basic Math Error

Top international experts prove British numbers on carbon dioxide are wrong. Royal Society blunder grossly exaggerates climate impact.

Leif Ericson – With A GPS, Internet, Satellite, Phone, Airplanes, Power Bars …. | Real Science

We also know that in 1922, an expedition sailed to 81º 29′ in ice free water – closer to the pole than was possible in 2010.

The IPCC’s Confused Chairman « NoFrakkingConsensus

Journalists beware. Nothing this man says should be taken at face value.

Suckered by Wind? - By Matthew Shaffer - Planet Gore - National Review Online

it’s doubtful that this is really about green energy. Some PR officer put some impressive spin into those turbines . . .

Why did the Bureau remove the rain? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

In the last two years some 900 mm of rainfall have been removed from the rainfall record of the Murray-Darling Basin.

EU Referendum: Pachy stays

It's a win-win for us, with the climate guru staying in place as head of the IPCC. The discredited charlatan can lead his failed institution to its ultimate nemesis with the production of its next climate change report. With him in charge, its credibility is already fatally damaged.

The sad anti-intellectualism of even moderate Green/Leftists

Below is the first third of a recent cover story in TNR -- a Leftist organ that tries to present itself as moderate or even centrist. It is another alleged attempt to "understand" skeptics.

But throughout the article he mentions not one scientific or historical fact. In the usual Leftist way, he is uninterested in looking at the evidence and just assumes that the current Leftist consensus must be true. He voices some hope that he might persuade some conservatives to the Warmist cause. How he thinks he can do that without arguing the evidence for his beliefs is a mystery.

Getting Down To The Root Of Hansen’s Climate Sensitivity Problem | Real Science

He starts with a WAG (Wild Ass Guess) of atmospheric infrared opacity – 100 times greater than Earth. Then he assumes that he can calculate the surface temperature based on the average atmospheric opacity? That is ridiculous.

Global warming confuses Americans

Though the majority of Americans believe that global warming is actually occurring, many do not understand the reasons behind it, suggests new research released Thursday.

According to a study by Yale University researchers, 63 per cent of U.S. citizens believe that global warming exists. However, only 57 per cent know what the greenhouse effect is and only 45 per cent recognize the impact of carbon dioxide in trapping the earth's heat.

Finally, common sense on global warming

Britain's Royal Society, one of the most venerable science academies, has amended its idiots' guide to global warming. Officially titled Climate Change, A Summary of the Science, the 19-page layman's document is a refreshing departure from the strident doom-and-gloom message that has characterized most scientific statements on global warming, which have been parroted by the Al Gores of the world thusly: Humans are to blame, sea levels will rise and the end of the world is fast approaching.
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With the society now on record that human activity is a "potential" cause of global warming, we wonder if the Alberta government's $2-billion investment in the unproven technology of carbon capture needs a rethink.

Denying the Catstrophe: The Science of the Climate Skeptic’s Position - Warren Meyer - Coyote Den - Forbes

This week I want to give a necessarily brief summary of the skeptic’s case.

Lawrence Solomon: Global warming propagandist slapped down

His career as a global warming propagandist has now been stopped, following a unanimous verdict that came down today through an arbitration proceeding conducted by Wikipedia. In the decision, a slap-down for the once-powerful Connolley by his peers, he has been barred from participating in any article, discussion or forum dealing with global warming. In addition, because he rewrote biographies of scientists and others he disagreed with, to either belittle their accomplishments or make them appear to be frauds, Wikipedia barred him — again unanimously — from editing biographies of those in the climate change field.

WWF Votes For Sex Slavery Over CO2 | Real Science

Executing schoolchildren is just the tip of the iceberg. The Guardian reports that Italy wants to cut down a small patch of forest (69 acres) where sex slaves have been forced to work as prostitutes. WWF predictably jumped in with their support of trees over human life, freedom and dignity.

Will climate skeptics be resoundingly defeated at the polls on Nov 2?

Hot times for climate change science rhetoric - Capital Weather Gang

Journalists & scientists slam skeptic politicians: Republican doubters of climate change science have been taking a beating in the press the last couple of weeks.

Audio: The Vatican goes green | Need to Know

The Holy See has embarked on a new mission: the fight against climate change. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI announced that Vatican City would strive to become the first carbon-neutral state. Although the Vatican’s plan to purchase carbon offset credits fell through, the sovereign city-state has harnessed the power of the sun with solar panels and a solar generator, and has also made progress with energy conservation efforts. Pope Benedict has added a religious element to the climate change debate by framing the issue as a moral imperative.

Study: CO2 is 'thermostat' for Earth - UPI.com

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Water vapor and clouds are major factors in Earth's greenhouse effect but carbon dioxide will always be the ultimate culprit, a U.S. study found.

The study, conducted by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, examined the nature of Earth's greenhouse effect, which traps and holds outgoing infrared radiation, a NASA release said Thursday.
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The study, lead author Andrew Lacis says, demonstrates "the direct relationship that exists between rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising global temperature."

"The bottom line is that atmospheric carbon dioxide acts as a thermostat in regulating the temperature of Earth," Lacis said. "It is not surprising then that global warming can be linked directly to the observed increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and to human industrial activity in general."

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Oct. 14th 2010

http://dailybayonet.com/?p=6587

California is doomed, nervous warmists are prepping their excuses ahead of the Democrats electoral asteroid impact and the Maldive's government is guilty of participating in a scam, but which one?

Libs know nothing about branding? « Don Surber

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/22847

Indeed, liberals-socialists-progressives are great at marketing. Global cooling became global warming became climate change. That is brilliance. You put forth a crackpot theory, have it shot down twice and you still make it look as if you have science on your side and the people who prove you wrong are the dolts.

What on earth is Bob Ward? – Telegraph Blogs

...Which is why it came as rather a surprise to many ABC listeners to hear the Grantham Institute’s angry baldie attack dog Bob Ward being feted like the ultimate arbiter of neutral authority.

Warning Signs: From Desperate Housewives to Desperate Climate Liars

The entire global warming fraud has tainted groups like the American Physical Society and the American Meteorological Society among others that lent their prestige and support to it.

Snow to hit Britain - Telegraph

Winter will come early to Britain next week as snow is forecast for the north while the south will shiver in frosty sub-zero nights.

Let the climate changers first tell us what difference their plans will make | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If Denmark were indeed to become 100 per cent fossil-free by 2050, and remain so for the rest of the century, the effect, by 2100, would be to delay the rise in average global temperature by just two weeks.

MU’s biomass boiler isn’t carbon-neutral

Editor, the Tribune: Now that the University of Missouri has begun its march toward saving the planet from global warming by building a biomass boiler that will burn anything from “waste” wood to switch grass to municipal solid waste, the people of Columbia must know that this is a scam.

Biomass burning is dirtier than coal per unit of energy produced. It is not carbon-neutral, no matter how you slice it. Burning tons of wood per hour that take decades, if not centuries, to replace is not carbon-neutral. Only 25 percent of what is burned will actually produce electricity.

EPHS student spending week with polar bears, learning climate change effects | Eden Prairie News

The majority of the costs for each camper are covered by donations to Polar Bears International. Each participant must return with an action plan to educate the public on the effects of global warming. Ravey plans to focus on cutting down the use of plastic bags.

David Suzuki’s Five Kids « NoFrakkingConsensus

Readers of this blog have expressed surprise that eco icon David Suzuki has himself fathered five children. This reaction is understandable.

Meg Whitman wants to "fix" California's global warming law | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

But in Tuesday's debate with Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, at Dominican University in San Rafael, she also said something else: She wants not only to delay the law, known as AB 32, but to "fix" it. She told the audience that only 3% of California jobs are "green jobs" and that the law "is going to do real damage to the rest of the jobs in the economy."

EPA's ethanol decision sparks controversy | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

But there are many out there who don't see much "green" in ethanol that comes from corn. They note that burning E-15, as the new mix is called, can increase emission of some pollutants. And it can convert land better used for carbon absorption into industrialized agriculture, which consumes fossil fuels.
Among the first to blast EPA was a coalition of agricultural interests, including the American Meat Institute; the Grocery Manufacturers Assn.; the National Council of Chain Restaurants; the National Chicken Council; the American Frozen Food Institute; the American Bakers Assn.; the National Meat Assn. and the National Turkey Federation

Beheadings, hangings plague Tijuana amid festival

Former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to give a speech about the environment as part of the festival Thursday.

BP, Arco, Best Buy to install fast chargers for electric cars | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

It's no coincidence that the fast charger unveiled Wednesday is called Blink. The 480-volt electric-vehicle charger from the San Francisco firm ECOtality is capable of fully recharging a vehicle in 15 to 28 minutes.

Twitter / Dana Rohrabacher: If you've ever had a doubt ...

If you've ever had a doubt that the man-made Global Warming theory is a fraud, read this: http://bit.ly/bN2Cpj

Is climate change activism dead? - Telegraph

A year ago climate change activists were storming Parliament. This year they are holding meetings with cupcakes and copious amounts of tea. So is climate activism dead or has it just been sleeping?

Britons use three times the planet's resources - Telegraph

People in the UK consume almost three times as much of the planet’s resources than they should do, making it 31st in the table of ecological footprints.

syracuse.com : Dan Maffei, Ann Marie Buerkle disagree on almost everything in debate

East Syracuse, NY -- U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei and Republican challenger Ann Marie Buerkle turned up their attacks Wednesday — each trying to define the other as out of touch with Central New York — in the second of four scheduled debates in the 25th Congressional District race.
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In the end there were few surprises, with one exception occurring when Buerkle called global warming “a myth” as she explained why she opposed a climate bill that would set up a “cap and trade” system to limit harmful emissions. “This cap and trade bill is a tax on energy — that’s all it is,” Buerkle said. “Whether or not there is real global warming has not yet been determined.”

Bummer: CO2 will allegedly cause Russian weather-related disasters to quadruple in 30 years

Number of weather-related disasters to double in next 15 years - WWF Russia | Environment | RIA Novosti

Climate change will make weather-related disasters more frequent and deadlier in the next 15 years, the head of WWF Russia Climate and Energy Program said.
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The number of dangerous weather events in Russia has doubled in the past 15 years.

Political calculations influenced Obama’s stance on offshore drilling | The Upshot Yahoo! News - Yahoo! News

Leahy and Eilperin also report that Capitol Hill politicking helped shape the administration's priorities on drilling policy. At the time, passing a climate-change bill was a main Obama objective and the White House believed that the expansion of drilling would provide the basis for a "grand bargain" that would help them pick up Republican support for the climate bill. In the words of Leahy and Eilperin, "a climate-change bill was the holy grail" for Obama.

Schwarzenegger endorses candidate in Senate race... in Florida | 89.3 KPCC

The two governors have similar views on climate issues and even raised campaign funds for each other.

Rubio's campaign quickly responded to the tweet endorsement, saying "when it comes to inflicting 'Collateral Damage' on the economy, Charlie Crist and Arnold Schwarzenegger are definitely 'Twins.'"

Rival blasts Barney Frank’s swanky free jet ride - BostonHerald.com

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, immersed in one of the toughest political fights of his career, took a free private jet to the Virgin Islands courtesy of a Maine congresswoman’s billionaire fiance — whose company received a $200 million federal bailout, the Herald has learned.

Frank, who’s facing feisty Republican challenger Sean Bielat, flew to the tropical paradise for a vacation in 2009 on a $25 million jet owned by Paloma Partners honcho S. Donald Sussman...

Flashback: Global Warming Champ Congressman Barney Frank applauds MASSPIRG Students - MASSPIRG Student Chapters

“I am grateful to the MASSPIRG students at UMASS Dartmouth and Bristol Community College for the energy they are putting into this important issue. If other student groups throughout the country show this same dedication, I am confident that we will get the support that we need in congress to pass a strong climate control bill.” – Congressman Barney Frank

'Strong evidence' climate change caused devastating Pakistan floods - Scotsman.com News

Industrial activity in Eastern Pakistan had increased surface temperatures, preventing water in the atmosphere falling as rain.

"Warming in eastern parts has moved the moisture west," he said.

Students Protest Cuccinelli At UVA - NBC29

Protestors argued it is a scientific fact and that Cuccinelli should focus his efforts elsewhere.

"What irks me the most is that science is facts," said UVA graduate student Luke Cole. "He's making it opinion because it does not suit his opinion, we think it is just not the right application of the data that we're collecting."

EPA allows E15 ethanol fuel in cars made after 2007 | BrighterEnergy.org

Ms Jackson said: “Wherever sound science and the law support steps to allow more home-grown fuels in America’s vehicles, this administration takes those steps.”

Actress experiences hail; blames carbon dioxide

Gloria Reuben: A Night in New York

It hailed last night.
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There is no question at all anymore that the weather is changing. Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

We can choose to believe the scientists when they confirm this very thing, and warn us about the pending ramifications that climate change will bring upon our society and upon our planet. Or we can choose to deny the facts, or snicker at these warnings. Either way it doesn't really matter anymore what we believe.

All we need to do is look out the window. We can see the changes happening right in front of us.

US midterm elections: A chilly season for climate crusaders : Nature News

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101013/full/467762a.html

Open scepticism of global warming could rule next Congress.

Old People: The Cure for Climate Change? | Fast Company

Ultimately, the fact that your grandparents may not even believe in Al Gore's inconvenient truth is heavily outweighed by the fact that, by no longer participating in the labor force, they are slowing economic growth and thereby powering down the economic engine that spews billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.

Physicist mocks climate 'scam' | The Australian

Australian climate sceptic Ian Plimer, from the University of Adelaide, said he was not surprised by Professor Lewis's resignation.

"Only younger people with careers in front of them are afraid to rock the boat," Professor Plimer said.

"Older scientists, near the end of their career, can expose the fools and frauds and blow the whistle that major bodies of information are not appearing in publications," he said.

Vigorous climate debate a plus | The Australian

ON a subject as important as our climate, reasoned, informed public debate is the key to finding the consensus that must underpin an effective policy response.

The Cap-and-Trade Blame Game - NYTimes.com

How much blame do President Obama and his staff deserve for the failure to pass climate legislation this year?

No consensus among climate scientists after all | The Australian

THE Royal Society's report coincides with dissidence at the American Physical Society.

THE Royal Society's September report, Climate Change: A Summary of the Science, has brought into the open the widening difference of views about how the science of climate change should be assessed. It comes after a prominent resignation from the American Physical Society (the top body of US physicists) for the refusal of the society's executive to undertake a similar review despite requests from a large number of members.

Tesco's pledge to carbon-label all products set to take centuries | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Tesco will take centuries to meet its pledge to label all of its 70,000 products with their carbon footprints at its current slow rate of progress.

Why Don't Republicans Believe in Climate Change? - NYTimes.com

There’s a reasonably large Western European constituency, in other words, for some sort of climate change skepticism. (And probably a growing one: In Britain, at least, as in the United States, the economic slump has dampened public enthusiasm for anti-emissions regulation.) But the politicians haven’t been responding. Instead, Europe’s political class, left and right alike, has worked to marginalize a position that it considers intellectually disreputable, even as the American G.O.P. has exploited that same position to win votes.

The debate over climate change isn’t unusual in this regard. On issues ranging from the death penalty to (at least until recently) immigration, America’s major political parties generally tend to be more responsive to public opinion, and less constrained by elite sentiment, than their counterparts in Europe. Overall, I much prefer the American approach, populist excesses and all. (It helps in this case, of course, that I’m deeply skeptical about the efficacy of climate change legislation anyway.) But there’s no denying that its left the G.O.P. on the wrong side — and increasingly so — of a pretty sturdy scientific consensus.

- Bishop Hill blog - Wonky code

Nature has an article up about wonky computer code, with particular reference made to the Harry Readme file and Nick Barnes' efforts to get climatologists to do better on the coding front.

Loss Of Old Ice In The Early 1990s – Due To El Niño? | Real Science

According to NSIDC, most of the loss of older ice occurred in the early 1990s.

Global Warming Hysteria: It’s Not “Radical” to be Skeptical– » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Bottom line: America is recovering from the hysteria, a virus they never fully caught in any event. Most of us, rightly in my view, believe it is more politics than science. We believe it seeks to undermine our sovereignty and turn over the economy to UN technocrats and politicized scientists. We believe the proposed cures–cap and trade, carbon tax, massive international income redistribution, forcing impoverished countries to remain poor, etc.–are far worse than whatever the disease might be.

And that isn’t going to change no matter how often activists like McKibben, Gore, and Hollywood types seeking to help their careers, stomp their feet in frustration. It seems that the common sense of the American people is once again going to prevail.

Obama's EPA a Growing Menace to Economy - James Inhofe

As President Obama continues to search in vain for policies to create jobs, the prospects for a robust economic recovery remain bleak. One reason for this is the regulatory uncertainty created by the Obama Administration. Perhaps the agency contributing most to the uncertainty is Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

As I explain in a new report, titled “EPA’s Anti-Industrial Policy: Threatening Jobs and America’s Manufacturing Base,” EPA’s regulations are unrivaled in the harm they pose to America’s economy. The report focuses on four of EPA’s most egregiously anti-business proposals and how they will cost jobs and undermine America’s global competitiveness with China.

First do the research, then make deep carbon cuts | Lomborg - The Australian

The change in message after the disaster of the Copenhagen summit was probably inevitable. But the real change that is needed is the realisation that drastic, early carbon cuts are a poor response to global warming no matter how they are packaged.

Publish your computer code: it is good enough : Nature News

Freely provided working code — whatever its quality — improves programming and enables others to engage with your research, says Nick Barnes.
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...you scientists generally think the code you write is poor.

Journalist Chris Mooney suggests that if you "understood the science" like he allegedly does, you'd believe in an obvious scientific fraud

Bill McKibben on the New Denialist GOP | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

Republicans were always pretty bad on global warming–but at least there used to be moderates one could point to who understood the science, even if they weren’t running the show. Nowadays, though, it seems even that is vanishing.
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It’s really incredible to think we’ve reached this point. McKibben chalks it up not to fossil fuel money, but to deep seated conspiratorial thinking, driven of course by ideology and resentment of intellectual elites.

Chris Mooney (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20, 1977) is a U.S. journalist who focuses on science in politics.

Minnesota Gets A Grant To Study Global Warming | Real Science

Imagine the chaos which would ensue if winter temperatures rose from -20 to -19!
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Using this logic, Iowa (to the south) must already be a hotbed of disease. Missouri (even further south) must be littered with dead bodies.

One minor problem though. Summers have been getting cooler in Minnesota for the last 80 years. Proving once again that this scam is all about the money.

Tropical species decline by 60 per cent - Telegraph

However wildlife in temperate climates has actually increased by 30 per cent in the last 40 years, as countries like Britain seek to protect species.

Climate Change, Deforestation and Corruption Combine to Drown a Region - NYTimes.com

"Unfortunately, there is very little attention towards the accumulating environmental problems," Yousafzai said. He blames global warming for roughly a third of the flooding this summer. [Which portion of that third was caused by SUVs, and how are these numbers calculated?] The rest was caused by deforestation, poor infrastructure development in the north, and engineering problems in irrigation systems in the south from mismanagement and neglect, he contends.

The U.N. Climate Negotiations' Last Breath | The Energy Collective

The upcoming climate negotiations may be the last under the direction of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), according to some negotiators. The mood at the run-up to the negotiations, which are set to take place in Cancun, Mexico at the end of November, is largely austere as even negotiators recognize the increasing futility of the U.N. emissions reduction framework.

How Does Ice Form? | Real Science

So when you see a record fast freeze like this year, you can infer several things.

* The air is very cold
* The water is very cold
* Very little energy was absorbed by the water this summer
* 2010 is not the hottest year ever.

Interview Transcript - President Obama - Text - NYTimes.com

We haven’t been able to deal with climate change so far, but we did make the largest investment in clean energy in our history over the last two years. And we’ve seen entire industries in advanced battery manufacturing or in solar power or wind power develop all across the country.

Obama's Haste On Resumed Offshore Drilling - NYTimes.com

In the face of America’s oil addiction two things seem to fade fast — the wallet shock of $4-a-gallon gasoline and the political impact of an oil spill, once it’s stanched.

Reuters Summit-Japan sees China, India backsliding on climate | Energy & Oil | Reuters

TOKYO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - China and India are deviating from an accord they took part in last December to fight global warming, slowing the progress of U.N. climate talks, a key delegate from the Japanese government said on Wednesday.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Climate body seeks new wardrobe

And while designers and seamstresses make last-minute adjustments to their creations in one part of the centre, in another, climate scientists and government delegates are deciding reforms aimed at re-clothing the IPCC in some of lustre that it flaunted at the time of its last assessment report in 2007, but which in some people's eyes has largely rubbed off over the last year.

Climate change: time to face facts - Letters - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Sadly for the environmental movement, which has committed vast resources to this activism, 10-10-10 and similar climate campaigns are dangerously off track. When members of the public finally come to realize how they have been so seriously misled on what has become a central theme of modern environmentalism, efforts to address the real environment problems we face may very well be set back decades.

Carbon tax bad for airlines: Qantas boss

Australia should not go it alone on a carbon tax that will negatively affect airlines and instead invest in sustainable fuels to help beat emissions, says Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce.

"Hottest year ever": An update

£150,000 technology to help battle Denbighshire potholes - Your Vale

Roads across North Wales suffered major damage during cold weather at the beginning of the year – widely accepted as being the worst recorded winter in 30 years.

The cost of repairs across the region is expected to run into the millions.

CMA dismisses predictions of extreme weather - GlobalTimes

...an official surnamed Liu with the CMA told the Global Times that - though the prediction for Europe is unreasonable - China would likely experience abnormally low temperatures this winter. ''We need to take precautions to avoid the damage that the cold weather will bring this winter.'' Liu said.

HEALTH chiefs insist hospital staff in Derby are coping with an increase in patients caused by the colder weather – despite a report of people waiting for treatment being left on trolleys.

Fears had been raised about how the hospital would cope as weather got colder and more people were admitted due to winter illnesses.

In the cold weather early this year, up to 380 people visited casualty each day, compared to an average of 270, dozens of extra beds were opened and 50 operations were cancelled in five days to make room for the sickest patients.

Canada: 'Tremendous yield' for farmers tempered by frost damage

"We had frost on our wheat, it'll be graded feed. We'll go from $7 plus a bushel down to about $4."

The Associated Press: Kazakhstan flies in ND cows to boost beef industry

A delegation of Kazakhstan officials were invited to North Dakota in frigid January to look over cattle herds. The bitter conditions proved to be a big selling point.

"The winter in northern Kazakhstan gets hard like in North Dakota," Yerubayev said. "That's why we chose North Dakota cattle."

Heartland grows new crop of anti-climate governor candidates | Grist

Today, the Wonk Room highlights four gubernatorial races which could shut down the clean energy revolution in the Midwest.
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The heartland of America is under extreme threat from the destructive power of global warming, including increasingly frequent catastrophic storms, heat waves, and drought. Furthermore, by denying the opportunity of clean energy jobs, these potential governors risk turning their states into economic wastelands.

Farmer's Almanac calls for cold white stuff, and plenty of it | Local A & E | St. Albert Gazette

Due to “the prolonged low level of sunspot and space weather activity in the early stages of Solar Cycle 24,” the upshot of it is that the Prairies can expect to see colder than normal temperatures and heavier than average snowfall. And next summer won’t get any better. It will be cool and dry.

Maddow Can’t Take Criticism During Interview with Republican Candidate - Big Journalism

On October 7th, Art Robinson, challenger to Representative DeFazio in Oregon’s 4th district appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show in what is sure to be one of the most memorable interviews in this election. Maddow prefaces the interview by describing the supposed lack of documentation on a PAC that is being used to fund a specific ad campaign against Rep. DeFazio. Maddow then brings on Art Robinson and asks him about this funding. Mr. Robinson doesn’t even give an inch of space before going on the attack. He immediately questions Maddow on whether or not she gave Rep. DeFazio the same treatment about his finances. Art Robinson in less than two minutes into the interview catches something that Media Matters has been ignoring since its inception.

The grueling, cringe-fest, and riveting 18-minute interview has Maddow on constant defense. Her only defense, by the way, is deflection. By the end of the interview, Maddow completely loses her pseudo-intellectual pseudo-investigative composure. She drops her passive aggressive façade and fills the gaps with wildly condescending comments to Mr. Robinson...

Susan Solomon On The Scientific Method | Real Science

We see a consistent pattern of censorship from the global warming community. They do this because their beliefs don’t stand up under scrutiny. They know they can’t debate and win.

No Refuge On Gliese 581 | Real Science

The first exoplanet discovered in the habitable zone could be a mirage, according to reports from an exoplanet meeting yesterday. A second team of astronomers couldn’t find the planet in their data.

» Dangerous Carbon Pollution: Propaganda from Climatism - Big Government

As Joanne Nova, Australian author, points out: “Everything on your dinner table—the meat, cheese, salad, bread, and soft drink—requires carbon dioxide to be there. For those of you who believe carbon dioxide is a pollutant, we have a special diet: water and salt.” So the next time you drink a beer or eat a meal, beware of that “dangerous carbon pollution.”

- Bishop Hill blog - BBC will stop being biased

I feel certain that the head of factual programming will be telephoning to commission a miniseries based on The Hockey Stick Illusion, so I'll wait by the phone today...

BBC told to ensure balance on climate change - Telegraph

Climate change sceptics are likely to be given greater prominence in BBC documentaries and news bulletins following new editorial guidelines that call for impartiality in the corporation’s science coverage.

Cigarettes: A Secondary Cause Of Global Warming | StarCityNews.com

Smoking produces two green house gasses that are altering our atmosphere and are directly related to climate change; it is just one more challenge for the world to over come.

Bingaman’s Renewable Energy Standard: Another Proposed Energy Tax — MasterResource

If the RES becomes law, the resulting higher energy taxes will have a detrimental impact across the economy. If electricity customers, including businesses, are forced to pay more for electricity, they will be hurt financially.

Failure to impose CCS levy on energy bills would be 'disastrous', MPs told | Environment | The Guardian

Experts fear the government will not impose the levy needed to raise £4bn for demonstration carbon capture and storage plants

Ontario’s eco-fees canceled « The Daily Bayonet

Ontario announced today that the unpopular eco-fees that were sprung onto an unsuspecting public last July 1st have been canceled.

The Great Climate Clash! | Climate Clash

Dr. Eric Grimsrud and Dr. Ed Berry both live in Flathead County, Montana. As a result of their Letters to the Editor in the Daily Inter Lake, they agreed to conduct an online debate open to the general public. While they live where many consider a remote part of America, their Climate Clash debate is relevant to all of America even into the Halls of Congress.

Obama Administration Gave General Electric—Parent Company of NBC — $24.9 Million in ‘Stimulus’ Grants | The SPPI Blog

The Obama administration gave corporate giant General Electric—the parent company of NBC–$24.9 million in grants from the $787-billion economic “stimulus” law President Barack Obama signed in February 2009, according to records posted by the administration at Recovery.gov.

Despite getting $24.9 million from U.S. taxpayers, GE decreased its U.S.-based employees by 18,000 in 2009, according to the company’s 2009 annual report.

Economic Scene - Climate Proposal That Looks Beyond Cap and Trade - NYTimes.com

These proposals reflect the political reality that raising the cost of dirty energy is unpopular, especially when the economy is so weak. Finding the money to make clean energy cheaper, even when government budgets are tight, will probably be an easier sell.
...when will Congress take another shot at cap and trade? Given the gains that Republicans are likely to make in next month’s elections, 2013 seems the soonest that is remotely fathomable.

Your Navigator Drowns Bangladeshis « ClimateQuotes.com

McKibben makes quite a few errors in his article, but the most egregious occurs when he mentions that CO2 is everybody's problem. He says:

But here’s the thing: Carbon dioxide mixes easily and freely in the atmosphere. If the climate change you caused followed you around like Pigpen’s cloud, then no problem. But it doesn’t—your Navigator drowns Bangladeshis.

The Bellows » America’s Shame

No GOP leader of consequence is able to make and sustain the argument that climate change is occurring as the scientists say it is. That’s remarkable! Imagine the world’s major powers sitting down in the early 20th century to negotiate a treaty on the law of the sea, only to have one of America’s major political parties vow to defeat any settlement, on the grounds that the world is in fact flat.

This is an immense tragedy, for America, but especially for the rest of the world.
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We are sowing the seeds of catastrophe. I keep thinking that at some point, a conservative of conscience will take a stand and force the GOP to do some soul searching on this issue. There are hundreds of millions of lives depending on the decisions the American government makes. Surely some Republican of some importance values those lives over short-term political gain!

Excerpt from a bulk email sent by Fraudster Al Gore today

We've accomplished so much this year. We've fought off all attempts to gut the Clean Air Act, and I am so proud of the work we've done. But in a year of record temperatures and catastrophic environmental disasters, both you and I know what comes next. We have to roll up our sleeves and continue this fight, with more commitment than ever before.

The attacks on the Clean Air Act aren't over and the oil lobby's reach is spreading. As we speak, Texas oil companies are waging a war against clean energy in California. Paid for by the same corporate polluters who funded the climate denial movement, industry giants like Valero, Tesoro and the Koch brothers are working to overturn California's clean energy law with a ballot initiative called Proposition 23.

I am going to do everything I can to fight to keep our nation on the path to a future with clean energy jobs and safe air to breathe.

Robin Williams shreds the tenets of science « JoNova

As I keep repeating, there’s only ONE thing that makes science different to religion, and that’s evidence. Robyn Williams is the most lorded commentator on science in Australian (read the rave here, he was the first and only journalist to be elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science; a professor at two universities, and received 5 honorary doctorates) yet despite the accolades he mistakenly hails the opinions of paid PR hacks above evidence and reason, and hallows the Blacklist of Approved Climate Sorcerers, sorry, Scientists as if it holds the key to the question of climate sensitivity of a trace gas. (How many “scientists” do you need to warm a planet? Answer: Whatever $79 billion can buy.)

Anatomy of a Senate climate bill death « Climate Progress

Lizza gives short shrift, however, to the real reasons Senate passage of climate legislation was impossible in 2010: the deep recession, unified and uncompromising opposition in the Senate, and big spending by oil, coal, and other energy interests. Let’s take a close look at these factors.

Green Light Bulbs Lead to Plant Closure, Jobs Exported to China

Don’t you just love those “green jobs” the environmentalists dream up? They are so good for…well, for someone. Just not most Americans.