» On Climate Change, Most Tea Partiers Get It - Big Government

The New York Times has just published another in a series of establishment press missives seeking to marginalize — from the perspective of establishment press-types — tea party activists and politicians who embrace or are embraced by them.

Inglis: Saying climate change is real was my biggest hurdle with GOP voters - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) said this weekend that his biggest stumbling block with conservatives was his insistence that climate change is real.

Inglis, the GOP lawmaker who was ousted by a conservative primary challenger earlier this year, said that his support for the Wall Street bailout paled in comparison to his insistence that Congress do something to address global warming.

Sea Ice Melting as Arctic Temperature Rises - WSJ.com

The annual mean Arctic temperature in 2008 was the fourth warmest since 1990, according to scientific studies reviewed by NOAA.
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Record-low sea ice in 2007 forced Pacific walruses to haul out in new locations in Alaska and Russia, where disturbances caused more trampling deaths as walruses stampeded, according to the report.

One Climate Skeptic Gives His Thoughts on the Future of Climate Skepticism « The Washington Independent

Skeptics today in their forties are not skeptics because they were in their teens. So the lack of teenage skeptics today is meaningless for whether there will be skeptics in 20 years.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : California Preening

One pressure group is blitzing the airwaves with shameful ads saying this is about (of course) childhood respiratory function. Not a word in the ad about global warming.

Postcards from the future | Grist

U.K. artists Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones kept hearing discussion and conjecture about how violent climatic changes would disrupt their world. But they couldn't envision what it would look like. So they started researching and created a set of "Postcards from the Future" portraying a future London transformed by floods, harsher winters (because of a Gulf Stream slow-down), and fiercer storms.

The illustrations also show human responses -- climate refugees encamped in Trafalgar Square and outside Buckingham Palace, wind turbines in Piccadilly Circus, and tidal turbines in the Thames River. They show rice paddies in Parliament Square and palm-oil production in Hyde Park as responses to drought and crop disruptions.

The New Norm in the Arctic: Change - NYTimes.com

Federal scientists have issued an Arctic “report card” driving home the reality that the frigid, untouchable Arctic etched in human history and lore is truly history, replaced by a region that is seeing long-term warming, reductions in sea ice and glaciers and shifts in ecosystems (not to mention intensifying economic activity).

You ask, I provide. November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt. | Watts Up With That?

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.

Oberstar: We need a “carbon regime” « Hot Air

Speaking of regimes, Oberstar also pined for the days of George H. W. Bush, when Republicans liked the imposition of “regimes” on American citizens, specifically a carbon regime as part of cap-and-trade

UA Gets 62 Times More Money From Alarmists Than ASU Got From Skeptics | Climate Skeptic

We can see that employing skeptics is very bad for business. After all, Exxon gave the ASU climate department $49,500, compared to 62 times this amount to UA from alarmists in Washington. Of course, we all know that the Exxon money was far more corrupting. ASU likely perverted science entirely for 49K, but UA would never do so for 3.1 million.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Environmental Coalition: Biofuels result in higher emissions than fossil fuels

A coalition of environmental organizations has warned that bioenergy is far from being carbon neutral and that related carbon accounting systems currently in place are deceptive.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Example of Why Climate Science is Becoming a Laughingstock

One way to go greener then is to avoid sending a bunch of short emails and instead build a longer message before you send it.

Climate Fools Day Latest | Climate Realists

When Piers Corbyn mentioned to me recently that several MP's were going to attend the second anniversary of the "Climate Fools Day" rally held at the Houses of Parliament on the 27th October, I had to pinch myself. Two years have nearly passed since the signing of the UK "Climate Change Bill" and wow have attitudes to "deniers" changed, all of a sudden we (flatearthers, and anything else the misinformed public want to call us) have become a group of people politicians want to take more seriously.

Warmists plot secretly to kill off the Medieval Warming Period. Again – Telegraph Blogs

The bit that interests me most is the size of their carbon footprint? And even more so, who actually grant-funded all these shysters to fly to Portugal for their weekend reality-denial fest? And even more, more so if it was us – which of course it was, via our governments, the UN and the EU – why we can’t have our money back NOW.

C3: Peer-Reviewed Studies: Documenting The Evidence That Disproves The IPCC Global Warming Science

to our amazement, we've referenced over 500 peer-reviewed studies that take issue with the IPCC science on climate change.

The Reference Frame: Wikipedia: William Connolley was just replaced by Tony Sidaway and Stephan Schulz

Have we hit those 'limits to growth'? | The Japan Times Online

[BILL McKIBBEN] In the Arctic, for instance, massive melt continues apace. And across the planet, a warmer atmosphere is harboring more moisture, so deluge and flood have become constant companions: The trauma along the Indus River in Pakistan this August is only the largest example of many.

Spending Review: Honesty is the best policy before the bigger fuel bills start to bite - Telegraph

In my admittedly untutored reading, it looks as if, by the Society's own account, only about a third of the science is settled.

It seems a small proportion on which to erect the next half-century of policy, nearly £1 trillion of costs and the claim that the end of the world is nigh. In this country and the whole of the West, a strange thing has happened. A fascinating scientific theory about a controversial subject has been falsely magicked by its supporters into a hard fact. I know this Government dislikes spending money on logos, but the next time "The Department of Energy and Climate Change" orders new stationery, it should delete those last three contentious words which Gordon Brown added to the masthead.

Water vapor mischief | Climate Etc.

Bottom line: it is challenging for an “outsider” to get a paper published that poses a major challenge to the status quo. Insiders are less likely to challenge the status quo, so outside challenges should be welcomed and considered carefully. Part of the challenge is for the outsider to spin up in the “culture” of the field and cite the relevant literature and use terminology and notation that is familiar to the target audience. And not to overstate the case. I think the present paper will have an easier time in the review process than its predecessor at ACPD, we shall see.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » CSIRO’s Dr David Post huge climate flip-flop

[19 January, 2010] The CSIRO has just released a report on drought in Tasmania, leading to an interview with Dr David Post with the Canberra Times newspaper.

For the first time a prominent CSIRO scientist, the hydrologist David Post has refused to link the issue of drought with climate change.

Dr Post says there is “no evidence” linking drought to climate change in eastern Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin.

“At this stage, we’d prefer to say we’re talking about natural variability. The science is not sufficiently advanced to say it’s climate change, one way or the other. The jury is still out on that.”

Dr Post has impressive academic credentials...

Climate Change Dispatch - Follow the money: Who's paying to defeat California's Prop. 23

According to maplight.org, below are the top contributors opposing California's Prop. 23, which would suspend the economically catastrophic Global Warming legislation. Most of the donations are coming from some of the biggest environmental hypocrites in Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

Meet the IPCC’s Youngest Lead Author « NoFrakkingConsensus

Klein served as an IPPC author four three times while he was still a graduate student.

The fact that he was comically young didn’t disqualify him. The fact that he’d recently worked for Greenpeace didn’t disqualify him. While still in his twenties, while still years away from completing his doctorate, those in charge of the IPCC decided Klein was one of the worlds top experts.

This tells us two things. First, the judgment of the IPCC leadership is impaired. Second, it has suffered from such impairment since the mid-1990s – or approximately three-quarters of the IPCC’s 22-year existence.

The politically correct James Delingpole | The Spectator

...the teacher says ok, fair enough, never mind – and then presses a red button and the recidivist kids explode, showering their class mates with gore. I saw the film and thought it quite funny, and nicely done and even self-deprecatingly ironic. And – here’s the point – if it had been George Monbiot and Lord Stern exploding I suspect James would have been howling with laughter, instead of foaming with indignation.

Is the Western Climate Establishment Corrupt? Part 9: The Heart of the Matter and the Coloring-In Trick « JoNova

They Neglect To Mention That Evidence For One Link of their Theory Is Missing

'Let them eat vegetables' says the Eton Grocer's eco-fascist quango – Telegraph Blogs

And how about the Food Standards Agency, which now seems to have decided that its remit is not merely to police food safety standards, but actually to inflict vegetarianism on us in the name of ‘combatting climate change.’ (H/T Dropstone)

EU Referendum: Apparently

... it's the earliest snowfall in Bergen, Norway, for 37 years or, as the Norwegians like to say: Tidligste snøfall på 37 år i Bergen.

Climate Common Sense: Ararat Wind Farm Gets Green Light!

Wind power without coupling to proper back-up such as hydro is a complete waste of money and the subsidies for wind and the various types of "green" power are going to impoverish our children in the future.I hope I am around to tell my grandchildren I was opposed to this ideological stupidity.

Space tourism to accelerate climate change : Nature News

Scientists predict that soot from commercial space flight will change global temperatures.

An Even Younger Senior Author « NoFrakkingConsensus

Tol earned his PhD in 1997 – around the time his report was released. In that respect, his case is less egregious than the others cited above. But this still means the IPCC assigned him the most senior of author roles when he was a 20-something grad student.

If climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity, why have kids filled key IPCC positions for the past 15 years?

To Get Rid Of Climate Change, Vote GOP : NPR

The more carbon that gets released into the atmosphere, the higher the average temperature rises.

That's a scientific fact.

Human activities, such as driving, flying, building and even turning on the lights, are the biggest contributor to the release of carbon.

That too, is a fact.

And yet the majority of Republicans running for House and Senate seats this year disagree.

Ken Buck, the GOP senate candidate in Colorado admits he's a climate change denier.
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Today's climate change denial trend isn't new.

Experts say that the Arctic as it was may never recover

The Earth's refrigerator is fast losing its cool, with disastrous consequences for the rest of the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its latest report on the Arctic.

Carbon Trading | The Sunday Leader

The typical Sri Lankan is worried about pollution, not global warming. The Kyoto protocol is something the average Sri Lankan is only dimly aware.

More wikifun : Stoat

While I'm here, it is interesting to watch some of the folk old and new crawling out of the woodwork, mislead by the denialist claims of triumph on wikipedia. Lumidek (Lubos Motl) had a go at writing trash, got immeadiately reverted for the obvious reasons (Lubos doesn't really understand wiki either, which is why BLP is a mystery to him). Lubos got the standard warning not to be naughty and responded in his usual charming fashion with risible claims of blackmail, spam and socking. But Lubos is not a real problem, because he has no patience. Lubos also needs to read [[WP:GIANTDICK]] if he wants to keep editing on GW related stuff.

They make a wasteland and call it peace : Stoat

there is no finding at all of whether the climate change pages are in any way biased (so, e.g. Watts is hopelessly wrong. But I told you no-one understands wikipedia from the outside).

Die Klimazwiebel: Rob Maris' survey among skeptics

Q.5 How did attendants get to skepticism?
As was expected, internet resources was the most ticked choice in this multiple-options question (63%). The hockey stick discussion also represents a major factor. Both of these are clearly less a factor for skeptical climate scientists (internet 27%); for these scientific publications are an important factor (up to 69%).
Interestingly, laymen are most impressed by Al Gore's “Inconvenient truth” – as a key driver for becoming a skeptic.

Figures show massive slump in UK sales of new electric cars | Environment | The Guardian

Campaigners say 90% drop in 2009 could be due to recession and premium prices – but government subsidy could reverse decline

Obama, Gates, and Gore come out against Prop 23 | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Grist: Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Al Gore have come out fighting against Prop 23, the ballot to rollback California's global warming law

Can the Endangered Species Act Compel America to De-Industrialize? | GlobalWarming.org

My point, though, is that the next Congress is expected to include many more members opposed to cap-and-trade and other stealth energy taxes. ESA regulation of GHGs is potentially much more costly than cap-and-trade proposals like Waxman-Markey. So in all likelihood, the next Congress will have even less patience than the current one with climate hysteria-inspired regulatory excess.

Kashmir Gets Snowfall Month Early | AHN

Kashmir, India (AHN) - An October snowfall is a rarity in Kashmir and that is what exactly happened there early Friday morning.

Heavy Snow In The Alps

In the Alps heavy snow has been reported down to low levels with falls of more than 60cm (two feet) which is obviously good news.

Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues: Scientific American

In a sense, the two competing storylines about Judith Curry—peacemaker or dupe?—are both true. Climate scientists feel embattled by a politically motivated witch hunt, and in that charged environment, what Curry has tried to do naturally feels like treason—especially since the skeptics have latched onto her as proof they have been right all along. But Curry and the skeptics have their own cause for grievance. They feel they have all been lumped together as crackpots, no matter how worthy their arguments. The whole thing has become a political potboiler, and what might be the normal insider debates over the minutiae of data, methodology and conclusions have gotten shrill. It is perhaps unreasonable to expect everyone to stop sniping at one another, but given the high stakes, it is crucial to focus on the science itself and not the noise.

Ron Arnold: Anti-oil Big Green wealth funds California's No on Prop 23 campaign | Washington Examiner

“Wealthy environmentalists” is not a word combination you usually see in reports of a ballot fight – it’s too revealing. But $2 million for the NO on 23 campaign came from venture capitalist John Doerr – Forbes net worth,$1.7 billion – and his wife Ann, a trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund (assets, $145.7 million).

Doerr’s contribution is chump change compared to the $5 million pumped into NO on 23 by campaign co-chair Thomas Steyer, founder of the San Francisco hedge fund Farallon Capital Management ($2.2 billion under management).

Freshwater Consumption Causing Oceans To Overflow

Drawing attention to potential groundwater depletion problems is legitimate. But claiming it is leading to sea level rise sounds absurd.

The Reference Frame: EMA: Hollywood hypocrites are saving the Earth

James Cameron apparently assumes that people won't be able to notice that he is using

3 houses in Malibu (24,000 sq ft in total - 10 times the average U.S. home), a 100-acre ranch in Santa Barbara, a JetRanger helicopter, three Harleys, a Corvette, a Ducati, a Ford GT, a collection of dirt bikes, a yacht, a Humvee firetruck, a fleet of submarines...

Breakthrough at the "Scientific American" by Vincent Gray | Climate Realists

I just received the issue for November 2010 and I almost fell off my chair at two of their articles. They now admit for the first time the sceptics might be right and they invite discussion on their website

Buck clarifies comments on global warming "hoax" - The Denver Post

Ken Buck's campaign scrambled Thursday to explain the Republican Senate hopeful's comments at a Larimer County gathering where he praised an Oklahoma senator who had called global warming "a hoax."
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About midday Thursday, after the comment was picked up by a handful of national news websites, Buck's campaign clarified that he does indeed believe that global warming exists, just that it is not caused by humans — consistent with comments he has made on the primary campaign trail.

Antarctic Ice Mission To Help Assess World’s Climate | Climate Change & Global Warming, IceBridge Mission & Glaciers | Our Amazing Planet

"Winds in Antarctica drive ocean currents to push warm water under the ice shelf – which causes thinning and melting and lets the ice on land flow into the ocean that much more quickly," Wagner said. "This is also why we are also going to fly way farther up into the middle of the continent to monitor how the changes on the edges of the glaciers telegraph into the interior and cause the ice to flow toward the ocean."

WWF-Canada Blog » The Dalai Lama on global warming

“These tragedies are not natural disasters, they are human disasters. They are man-made tragedies,” he said when explaining the impacts of climate change. “It is our own carelessness,” he concluded.

CarlSpackler.com: Caddyshack Verbatim

Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga...gunga -- gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

Climate Fools Day

The day was named by protestors outside the British House of Commons on 27th October 2008 when the house was debating the Climate Bill. As the first October snow in 70 years blanketed the House (and a big swathe of Europe), MP’s droned on about the need to fight global warming.

Climate Change Denial - Scrabble By Bill Henderson

A controlled access, peer reviewed climate change wiki could overcome both flatearth, ignorant denial and the insidious society wide denial where those that do recognize that climate change is happening deliberately maintain a level of ignorance so that they can claim they know less than they do : where climate change is only a gradual warming with maybe serious consequences a century hence, a climate change that we can mitigate gradually over the century without leaving the comforts and security of business as usual.

Global warming: 'Climate hawks' win the name game - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/geoffrey-lean/8081532/Global-warming-Climate-hawks-win-the-name-game.html

What's in a name-call? In the great global warming slanging match, those accepting man-made climate change probably win on politeness, usually calling their opponents "sceptics", though sometimes "deniers". Sceptics, on the other hand, retort with "warmists", when they're feeling generous, "eco-Nazis" when they're not.

Tea Party-backed Ken Buck steps up his game of denying global warming | MNN - Mother Nature Network

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/blogs/tea-party-backed-ken-buck-steps-up-his-game-of-denying-global-warming

Ken Buck is not shying away from controversy as election day nears. His latest move: Teaming up with Oklahoma's Jim Inhofe.

Preference Cascades | Climate Skeptic

http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2010/10/preference-cascades.html

In retrospect, what Climategate did was to give the media a story that it was socially OK to run with.  The social pressures against running an article about problems with alarmist science were enormous, but a scandal allowed them to make an end run around these social norms.  Scandals and meat and potatoes for the news media, and they could run with the scandal story without feeling like they were getting a huge social black mark from their peers.  And once the scandal story ran, it was the shock that allowed many silent doubters to see that in fact they were not alone and marginalized (as they have been told time and time again in the media) but actually a sizeable population.

To this end, the Hal Lewis letter may be even more important.

The Daily Bayonet » Blog Archive » Green genius: More wind farms in a less windy world

http://dailybayonet.com/?p=6624

The ClimateGate Secret Meeting

http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2010/10/climategate-secret-meeting_22.html

The Daily Bayonet » Blog Archive » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Oct. 21st 2010

http://dailybayonet.com/?p=6615

Ken Buck: Inhofe Was Right, Global Warming Is The Greatest Hoax That Has Been Perpetrated'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/21/ken-buck-inhofe-was-right_n_771811.html

The Global Warming Scam Hit by More Scandal

For the scientifically adept and honest people global warming is a huge embarrassment. Not only have the main base perpetrators been caught but also the institutions that house their activities have gone deep into the coverup. It’s just too much money to let integrity rule their actions. The global warming scheme has tens of thousands of people employed even though that seemingly high cost is miniscule compared to the harm to billions of people the stage two schemes of corrective measures would force on the innocent. A taxpaying family is out a few dollars each year now but the corrective measures could get to hundreds of dollars per month.

Microbes May Have Eaten Methane From BP Spill | Minnesota Public Radio News

Scientists have identified unusually hungry microbes living at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico that eat methane. Methane was a big part of the Gulf oil spill, and it's possible that these microbes ate some of it. The research also could help scientists understand climate change, since methane is a big contributor to warming.

Can carbon dioxide really cause AIDS?

the Namibian: Climate change is with us: Walvis mayor

Nambahu said some people mistakenly believe that climate change is not an African problem but an issue for the developed world.
“But it is our problem too because Africa is being hit the hardest by global warming, droughts, flooding, food shortages and diseases such as HIV-AIDS,” she said.

Chinese freezing during the "hottest year ever"

Chinese Freeze Before Gov't Turns on the Heat - World Watch - CBS News

Since the Communists came to power, November 15 has been circled in red on many Beijing calendars. It's not Mao Zedong's birthday. November 15 is the day when city officials dutifully flick the switch to turn on the capital's centrally-controlled heating system, supplying warmth to most of Beijing's 22 million residents.

In one of the last vestiges of collective living, Beijing's coal plants pump heat to city apartments on a strict schedule, from November 15 to March 15, every year. Since the 1950s, the schedule has rarely changed, even if temperatures plummet before the appointed day.

After enduring record heat-waves this summer, with the mercury soaring to its highest mark in 60 years, and thick pollution in the fall (which the government blamed on "fog"), Beijingers are now suffering through the early onset of bitter cold. China's state-run media reported October 18 as the city's coldest autumn day since 1986, with temperatures peaking at 48 degrees and then dropping to 44.

Many residents of the capital city are counting down the days to November 15 hunched over their computer keyboards, commiserating about the frigid weather and lack of government-provided relief.

Politico's Ben Smith on the idea that sunspots can cause climate change: He suggests it's a blooper/stupid/a stumble/extremely dumb

Who are you calling stupid? - POLITICO.com Print View

The 2010 election has devolved in its closing days into a battle – familiar in American history and high school alike – over who’s stupid, and who’s a snob.

Republican candidates have served up their share of bloopers — humanoid mice, sunspots causing climate change – and Democrats have taken the expected delight in their opponents’ stumbles. But they’ve taken their mockery one step further – contending as a part of their closing argument that the tea party movement, its champion Sarah Palin, and the left’s favorite Republican candidate, Christine O’Donnell, are, frankly, dumb.
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This is not to say that Republican candidates – and O’Donnell in particular – haven’t had their share of extremely dumb statements....Other Republican candidates have contributed to the fun: The frontrunner for Senate from Wisconsin blamed global warming on “sunspots,”...

New Impact For Polar Bears Years After Arctic Visit

"And we're seeing an incredible change in the sea ice, especially in the summertime," said Steger. "This summer alone we lost about 50 percent of the sea ice on the Arctic Ocean."

"The ice is a casualty of global warming and the other name for the polar bear is the ice bear," said Steger. "And if we lose the ice, we lose the bear along with many other species."

Those other species include caribou, wolves, owls on down through the food chain. Steger believes that, right now, 20 percent of the polar bear population is in danger.   [Do caribou really need summer sea ice to survive?]

YouTube - Alec Loorz at Bioneers 21

[Introduction by climate fraudster James Hansen!] Alec Loorz came to visit the Bioneers this year. Alec is 16 years old and, at 12 started Kids Vs. Global Warming. Now he has thousands of young people
activated around the country.

His presentation at Bioneers had the audience on their feet.

The now 16 founder of Kids vs Global Warming calls upon the "ruling generation" to consider the needs of his and future generations in their actions, urges youth to lead the way to a sustainable, just society, and tells us about the "million kid march".

Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » Kyoto Lives!

I’m in India this week for a series of meetings on energy, climate, and global governance, and I’ve been reminded, once again, of how wedded some major countries still are to the Kyoto protocol.

The balance of probabilities : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

The terms of reference for the review define science as “statements, research findings or other claims made by scientists”. In reality, perhaps the most common complaint from scientists about the corporation's coverage of global warming is the exposure handed to sceptical non-scientists, such as former UK chancellor Nigel Lawson. This is the source of the long-standing 'false balance' problem. The BBC Trust, which is running the review, should take a stricter line here. If BBC staff want to use non-experts to criticize widely accepted science, they must explain this lack of expertise to the audience, and why the BBC has invited them to participate. Too many of those responsible for news and current affairs at the BBC, and across other media, consider themselves primarily in the entertainment business. It is generally not a lack of scientific understanding by reporters that produces poor science content, as often alleged, but that straight news coverage of science is often thought to make for poor entertainment.

This is why the signal of the climate-science story, the steady accumulation of evidence that points in the same direction, is too easily drowned out by the noise — criticism and hype of individual papers, statements from high-profile individuals and spurious dissent. Against that background, the uncertainty of climate science becomes a story in itself, not a crucial footnote to the main narrative.

- Bishop Hill blog - Lord Marland shames Parliament

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, is the Minister aware that the chairman of the Government’s own Green Investment Bank commission has authoritatively stated that the cost of meeting our current carbon reduction commitments in this country is somewhere between £800 billion and £1 trillion? Does he not agree that, with the best will in the world, this mind-boggling cost cannot be justified except in the context of a binding global carbon reduction agreement? Therefore, in the absence of such an agreement being secured at Cancun, does he not agree that it is only commonsense to suspend the Climate Change Act until such time as a binding global agreement is secured?

Lord Marland: My Lords, when I bumped into my noble friend in the Corridor and he said that he was catching the train to York I was rather relieved. Sadly, he will be catching a slightly later train than I was hoping for. I have now forgotten entirely what his question was.

An Honest Poll | Real Science

The Puffington Host has released a legitimate poll about global warming, putting them far ahead of several top universities which have recently released blatantly manipulative poll results.

Polls show Climate Change is dead as a politically accepted man-made phenomenon in the USA. The American public just doesn’t care anymore.

Will GOP Go After EPA And Lisa Jackson? : Stop The ACLU

Climate alarmists will not like the coming hearings, as they will expose the junk science behind globull warming, and the true agenda of the alarmists, which is control.

Climate Change Denying: R.T. Jones

But as expected, I was inundated with inane comments and hateful emails. Some of which suggested that the movie was in fact advocating some kind of eco nazi-supported violence. Typical of the extremist denier movement that consists mostly of drooling Glenn Beck zombies who spend their spare time (of which they apparently have a lot), sniffing out climate change articles and leaving their asinine comments – often laced with venom and vitriol.

After the first 30 or so comments and emails came in, I was told by the management here that while they won't censor me, I might want to consider that when it comes to the climate change debate, I might want to be a little less hostile.

I was also told that if I want to take on the climate change issue, I should understand that not everyone believes that increases in greenhouse gases are a result of human activities. And therefor should spend more time explaining why I believe this is an issue of great importance – and less time trying to force my opinion by being over-the-top.

OK. I can do that.

Flashback: The Reference Frame: Why climate change deniers should be blown to bits

R.T. Jones has contributed an article called

Why Climate Change Deniers Should Be Blown To Bits!

The Canadian Press: US judge orders Obama administration to clarify polar bears' Bush-era 'endangered' status

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan wants the Interior Department to clarify a decision by the administration of former President George W. Bush that polar bears were merely threatened rather than in imminent danger of extinction.

Twitter / bradplumer

"Climate hawk" sounds like someone who'd nuke Iran to cool the planet (which, though nuts, would work): http://bit.ly/afDTsb

2010-2011 winter forecast released - UPI.com

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Forecasters say the 2010-2011 winter will be colder and snowier across the northern tier of U.S. states and abnormally warm elsewhere.

Australia’s NSW State Drought-Free After Nine Years - BusinessWeek

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Australia’s New South Wales state declared it was free of drought for the first time in nine years after above-average rainfall this year boosted wheat crops and provided water for cotton and rice planting.

Pop Went the Climate Bubble - HUMAN EVENTS

Climategate was the straw that broke the alarmists’ back. The rapid-fire succession of glacier-gate, Amazon-gate and Pachauri-gate left global warming alarmism reeling. It now seems that the deniers are those who insist that Climategate and its progeny have not smashed the public confidence in the 50-year-old climate alarmism hypothesis.

But there is one lesson in physical science that the New York Times and its fellow alarmists will learn when they wake up from their stupor of denial — it takes a lot less time to pop a bubble that it does to create one.

'10 deer hunt will be shorter to stabilize the herds | Deseret News

Utah deer herds have never fully recovered from the extremely harsh winter in the early 1990s.

UK's Carbon Tax Bombshell Takes Business by Surprise | Climate [Scam] | GreenBiz.com

LONDON, United Kingdom — Businesses are coming to terms with the full implications of government plans to keep revenue raised by the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme, rather than recycle it to participants in the scheme.

Chamber: Worry about energy regulations, kids - Josh Voorhees - POLITICO.com

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants middle school students to consider what would happen if government regulations shut down the coal industry or another domestic energy source.

The question is part of a teaching guide the group plans to distribute to roughly 100,000 classrooms across the country as part of its “Shedding Light on Energy” program with educational publisher Scholastic Inc.
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Dan Weiss, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, suggested the Chamber has ulterior motives. “It sounds like this may be one part education and one part fear-mongering,” Weiss said.

Weiss said he was concerned about a partnership between the Chamber, which is spending millions to defeat Democratic congressional candidates and has opposed federal and state efforts to deal with global warming, and Scholastic, which has a large presence in public schools around the country.

“They’re going to be carrying the message of a very opinionated special interest,” he said. “My guess is Scholastic will not be giving equal time to the Sierra Club.”

Livingstone warns travel industry of 'massive' climate change [hoax] impact

Speaking at the ABTA travel convention today (20 October), former London Mayor Ken Livingstone told the travel industry it needed to avoid being a "victim of climate change".

Livingston said he expects to see a "squeeze" on the industry, which he explained as "a constraint on growth in air traffic in the West", predicting an increase in high-end holidays at the expense of low-cost travel and "cheapo flights".

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Costing the Earth, Grapes of Wrath

Wine drinkers face an uncertain future. A decade of great vintages, plentiful supplies and cheap prices could be about to come to a shuddering halt.
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In the classic wine regions of Europe there are huge concerns over climate change and land use.

'Biodiversity': the new Big Lie – Telegraph Blogs

And so it begins. With all the shamelessness of a Goldman Sachser trading in his middle-aged wife for a hot, pouting twentysomething called Ivanka, the green movement is ditching “Climate Change”. The newer, younger, sexier model’s name? Biodiversity.

MUST SEE: Experts Debate Climate Change Science, Policy inc. Richard Lindzen | Climate Realists

Professors Andrew Dessler from Texas A&M and Richard Lindzen from MIT debate the scientific evidence of anthropogenic global warming, while University of Virginia Law School professors Jonathan Cannon and Jason Johnston discuss the policy implications

This is a 1:54 recording, Richard takes the chair at 31 minuets, who came out best?

Mr. CO2-fearing Transportation Secretary, tear down these highways!

We’re tearing this highway down, Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood says | Grist

It's one thing to talk about designing cities and towns for people instead of cars, as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has done.

It's another thing make good on that pledge by tearing tear down elevated highways that prevent foot traffic and isolate neighborhoods from each other.

Flashback: Transportation Department Embraces Bikes, and Business Groups Cry Foul - NYTimes.com

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced a “major policy revision” that aims to give bicycling and walking the same policy and economic consideration as driving.

“Today I want to announce a sea change,” he wrote on his blog last week. “This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of nonmotorized.”

Vaclav Klaus: An anti-human ideology | Full Comment | National Post

The global warming dispute starts with a doctrine which claims that the rough coexistence of climate changes, of growing temperatures and of man-made increments of CO2 in the atmosphere — and what is more, only in a relatively short period of time — is a proof of a causal relationship between these phenomena. To the best of my knowledge there is no such relationship between them. It is, nevertheless, this claim that forms the basis for the doctrine of environmentalism.

Spin Check: Perry's "Smartest Guy in the Room" Ad | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth

Here's the text of the ad:

Bill White.
The smartest guy in the room.
Even he thinks so.
Bill White's so smart, he advised Nobel Prize winners Al Gore and Barack Obama on energy policy.
(I've been on a lot of panels on climate change and it's various issues./For a period of 15 years.)
Bill White's so smart, he wants to bring California's energy standards to Texas.
He's so smart, he thinks Washington's Cap and Trade doesn't go far enough.
Bill White. Wrong for Texas.

The New York Times tries to understand the climate realism of those knuckle-dragging, cousin-marrying, Bible-banging hicks in flyover country

Skepticism on Climate Change Is Article of Faith for Tea Party - NYTimes.com

“Climate change is real, and man is causing it,” Mr. Hill said, echoing most climate scientists. “That is indisputable. And we have to do something about it.”

A rain of boos showered Mr. Hill, including a hearty growl from Norman Dennison, a 50-year-old electrician and founder of the Corydon Tea Party.

“It’s a flat-out lie,” Mr. Dennison said in an interview after the debate, adding that he had based his view on the preaching of Rush Limbaugh and the teaching of Scripture. “I read my Bible,” Mr. Dennison said. “He made this earth for us to utilize.”

More cash for climate fraud

Grijalva applauds UA on new $3 million climate science center - KGUN9 On Your Side, Tucson News, Weather & Sports

"This is a huge honor and a well-deserved recognition of the world-class talent we have at the University of Arizona," Grijalva said. "Climate research is some of the most important scientific work going on today, and this will be a huge economic and intellectual engine for the entire Southern Arizona community for years to come."

The DOI said additional funding will be increased significantly in the future in order to keep up with the research and scientific needs of Arizona and other Southwest states.

Dr. Jonathon Overpeck, the co-director of the University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment and an expert in climate change, will lead the center.

Flashback: Lack of Understanding Exploited to Perpetuate Climate Science Falsehoods

Perhaps the answer is in a separate boxed comment by Jonathan Overpeck of the University of Arizona. He sent the infamous email to Professor Deming telling him they had to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.

Snow falls in Yorkshire - In October! - Telegraph

Snow fell as far south as Yorkshire as drivers were stranded in cars following blizzards in Scotland as winter came early to Britain.

Hiding The Decline | Real Science

...aren’t you glad that engineers don’t throw away inconvenient data when they build bridges?

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Besmirched

Michael Mann, Paul Ehrlich and Sefan Rahmstorf have a silly letter in Nature in which they criticize Daniel Greenberg and Nature over his positive review of The Climate Fix.

Quadrant Online - Václav Klaus on liberty

In a major speech on climate change, given in London, President Václav Klaus referred to articles published in Quadrant by Gregory Melleuish, Bob Carter, John Dawson, Einar Vikingur, and Ray Evans:

The George W. Obama administration rolls on

Clinton seems poised to approve TransCanada pipeline - The Hill's E2-Wire

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears poised to approve a
 controversial TransCanada pipeline carrying tar-sands-based crude oil
 from Alberta, Canada, to Texas despite pushback from House Democrats 
and environmental groups.



Bill Gates contributes $700,000 to preserve California's climate change [hoax] law - Capitol and California - fresnobee.com

Bill Gates, the nation's wealthiest man, has donated $700,000 to the campaign opposing the rollback of the state's landmark climate change law, said Steve Maviglio, spokesman for the campaign against Proposition 23.

Gates, Microsoft Corp.'s co-founder, is the latest high-tech billionaire to back the state's four-year-old greenhouse gas reduction law.

Last week, Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin contributed $200,000 to the No on 23 committee while Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore contributed $1 million.

During the past year, the No on 23 commitee has raised more than $27 million, dwarfing the $9 million raised by the Yes on 23 committee.

Flashback: Bill Gates and Andy Revkin think you're stupid: They both imagine that you're ready to be lectured on energy efficiency by a guy who lives in a 66,000 square foot mansion

Earlier this month, Mr. Gates broke down and bought himself a $21 million private jet.

Rent Seeking Begets More Rent Seeking | GlobalWarming.org

The EPA recently approved a 50% increase in ethanol blends for cars manufactured after 2006, moving from E10 to E15. This means that gas stations are now free to offer E15 as well as E10 as options at the pump. It isn’t likely that many gas stations will be taking advantage of these new rules for a number of reasons.

A “Do Nothing Congress” on Ethanol Would Do a Lot of Good | GlobalWarming.org

Congress has a rare opportunity to shave $25-30 billion from the national debt, ease consumers’ pain at the pump, and scale back political manipulation of energy markets by literally doing nothing.

At the stroke of midnight on December 31 of this year, statutory authority for the 45¢ per gallon Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) and the 54¢ per gallon tariff on imported ethanol will expire.

The Chevy Volt Runs on Coal - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Proposition 23: Green Money Pounds Big Oil Money In Blue California - Los Angeles News - The Informer

The green energy industry is becoming just that -- an industry with just as many political interests as any other.

AGW’s Logical Impossibility: The ‘Argument Ad Providentiam’ « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

So in a sense, belief in AGW implies belief in a highly-improbable series of lucky discoveries and developments to happen just at the right time. That is called “Providence” and it is strong evidence for the existence of a Divine Being. But since such “evidence” is a contradiction in terms, then for catastrophic AGW to be happening right now, that’s a logical impossibility.

[Left-winger: Let's support laws championed by people who control lots of assets]: $415 billion in assets say NO on Prop 23 « Climate Progress

This week, a group of 68 investors with assets totaling $415 billion, held a press conference urging Californians to vote NO on Proposition 23 — the November ballot initiative that would halt implementation of the state’s landmark clean energy law AB 32.

Cold Weather Silences The Climate Media

A couple a days ago I reported on how the German media has hardly been reporting on global warming. Read here.

That should be no surprise because it’s been cold in Germany over the last 3 months, and so reporting on warming planet would only draw chuckles from the public. After all, August was cool and September in Germany was a 0.9″ C colder than normal – the 26th coldest September since 1900, according to the German Weather Service. Many have been heating their homes for 2 months already.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Physicist: Global Warming 1980-2008 caused by Sun, not Man

Dr. Borchert finds from satellite measurements that global warming between about 1980 to 2008 was "not anthropogenic but caused by natural activities of the Sun’s surface."

PhysOrg Mobile: New findings could sway thought on climate change

Scientists look to that period because the magnitude of warming seen then, about 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit, is similar to the warming expected across the globe over the next century or two. Scientists are trying to better understand the consequences of this ancient warming in hopes of being able to better predict the consequences of future warming.

The ancient period of global warming was marked by dramatic changes, Secord said. The composition of forests changed as plant species moved northward in North America by as much as 900 miles and some microorganisms in the oceans went extinct. Never-before-seen mammals like the first true primates and the ancestors of horses also began arriving in North America as high-latitude land bridges warmed and became hospitable.
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"Many scientists have thought that warming was the direct result of the release of this light carbon, but we found evidence from stable isotopes that warming actually preceded the release of this light carbon," Secord said. "This implies that there were two sources of warming."

YouTube - Aahan's play on Global Warming

Global Warming’s Corrupt Science - By Patrick J. Michaels - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Climate science has painted itself into a corner, seriously damaging the public’s faith in the field — as precious a commodity as there is in civil society. Like lab rats that will do anything to keep the cocaine flowing, climate scientists, universities, and federal laboratories are addicted to the public’s money.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Calling Young Climate Skeptics in the DC Area

If you are young (I suppose 20′s or younger) and have been actively involved in some way as a climate skeptic in the Washington DC area, reporter Andrew Restuccia of the Washington Independent would like to talk to you. He is writing an article on young climate skeptics, I think. Drop him a note, he seems to be developing a hypothesis that skeptics are all crusty old dudes and showing him some fresh faces would help: arestuccia –at– washingtonindependent.com

Climate Skepticism: Europe vs. America - By Sterling Burnett - Planet Gore - National Review Online

In the light of Harold Lewis’s resignation from the American Physical Society after nearly 70 years of membership and service, I began to ponder why Americans were generally more skeptical of climate-change-disaster claims than Europeans were.

Al Fin: Do You Trust the Media to Tell the Truth About Climate Doom?

Human science is barely learning the truth behind various overlapping natural drivers of climate change -- and the vastly complex terrestrial mechanism for converting the driving forces into climate. The overly-simplified, over-hyped crusade of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming orthodoxy, is an empty shell of pseudo-scientific blather. The deeper you look into politicised science, the nastier and more destructive it looks.

Statewide high school competition takes on climate change

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Oct. 19, 2010 - Today the Air Resources Board and the British Council announced the start of California’s first annual Climate Generation Program, a high school competition challenging students to connect environmental school work with their daily lives.

The competition creates an opportunity for students to gain real-world experience in project-management and leadership by requiring them to design and set in place programs that reduce their school’s carbon footprint.

David Arquette gets 'silly' over climate change - Eleven - The Celebrity Channel

. It turns out that David has gone bonkers for a good cause. He pitched up at a political news conference in the aforementioned attire in order to protest a proposed suspension of California climate change law aimed at reducing state wide carbon emissions.

David explained: "I like being silly, I like karate, I like Elvis. I like doing what's right for the future."

Bark beetle die-off found in Helena, Butte areas | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune

HELENA (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials say the population of mountain pine beetles seems to be declining in the Helena and Butte areas.

Al Gore Urges California to Vote No on Climate Initiative - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

With some polls showing voters in California split over the issue, former Vice President Al Gore released a video today explaining his opposition.

More Fun In Nuuk | Real Science

The next graph shows how they made the past cooler through the magic of homogenization. The 1940s retroactively dropped a full degree!

A computer program which automatically rewrites history. How cool is that?

Ban presses EU for climate leadership - UPI.com

BRUSSELS, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- European member states can lead the way in tackling the delicate issues of climate change, the U.N. secretary-general told the European legislature.

U.S. Gulf Faces $350 Billion in Climate Harm by 2030, Study Says

Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Gulf Coast may face $350 billion in economic damage by 2030 as extreme weather fueled by climate change wreaks havoc on the region, according to a study released today by Entergy Corp.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Shock! Green-Posing Hollywood Hypocrite

Film director and environmental poseur extraordinaire James Cameron insists that we "have to live with less". "Have to" generally implies, and specifically in Cameron's case is intended to mean, something enforceable. Like, say, a law. Consistent with these beliefs, or at least this pose-slash-talking point, he has just given $1 million to the campaign working to defeat California's Proposition 23.

Al gore - The Perfection of Al Gore

Vegans and vegetarians are known for their scorn of Al Gore. They say he is nothing but a pseudo-environmentalist, citing his reluctance to discuss how meatism is injuring our planet. What does Jeff Popick, The Vegan Sage, have to say about Al Gore, global warming and going green? You might be surprised to find out.

David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts prefers to be called a "climate hawk" rather than a "hippie with an irrational fear of trace amounts of invisible, natural, harmless atmospheric gas"

Introducing ‘climate hawks’ | Grist

On Monday I asked, "What should we call people who care about climate change and clean energy?"
...Climate hawks (see, I'm getting used to using it) need to reclaim patriotism as their own instead of leaving it behind because crass nationalists burdened it with all sorts of unpleasant baggage. There's a tradition of patriotism, responsibility, and resolve in America that is both potent and noble. Those who want to defend America's children and grandchildren from [CO2-induced] suffering should make no apologies about the fact that they, not the reactionaries, understand what is best about America and love her the most.

Why not "clean energy hawk"? For one thing, two words are snappier than three and easier to write. For another, it's important to keep the threat of climate change at the center of the conversation; clean energy is one way of fighting back against that threat, but there are many others. A climate hawk leans forward, wants to attack on as many fronts as possible.

YouTube - Bird vs Wind Turbine

Enviro Group Sues Wind Farm to Stop Bird Deaths - by James M. Taylor - Environment & Climate News

Giant wind turbines at Altamont Pass, California, are illegally killing more than 1,000 birds of prey each year, according to a lawsuit filed January 12 by the Center for Biological Diversity. The suit demands an injunction halting operation of the turbines until and unless protective measures are taken and highlights increasing concerns regarding a power source long hailed as environmentally friendly by environmental activist groups.

Report: In Obama's Chicago, stimulus weatherization money buys shoddy work, widespread fraud | Washington Examiner

Projects to weatherize homes are a key part of the Obama administration's fusion of stimulus spending and the green agenda. But a new report by the Department of Energy has found serious problems in stimulus-funded weatherization work -- problems so severe that they have resulted in homes that are not only not more energy efficient but are actually dangerous for people to live in.

Arthritis can lead to a painful life - Arab News

Humid and cold weather increases the pain in many patients,” Dr. Qazi says.

3rd UPDATE: UK Osborne Pledges Support For Low-CO2 Technologies - WSJ.com

LONDON (Dow Jones)--U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said Wednesday the government would provide up to GBP1 billion for a commercial-scale carbon capture and storage demonstration project in a move to create economic growth through the development of low-carbon technologies while also meeting climate change targets.
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"The aim for all of these investments is for Britain to be a leader of a new green economy--creating jobs, saving energy costs, reducing carbon emissions," Osborne told parliament as he laid out sweeping spending cuts to tackle the country's GBP155 billion budget deficit.

Carbon dioxide allegedly causes Liberian caterpillar infestation

Liberia: The Country Launches Climate Change War

He said developed countries have been held liable for the widespread effects of climate change and have agreed to pay the cost of arresting the phenomena in poor and developing countries including Liberia.
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The Vice President said current erratic weather patterns in Liberia make it difficult for farmers to carry out normal agricultural activities. "Last year, we declared a national disaster due to the caterpillar infestation, which affected several counties. Although with less severity this year, the pest has returned. What we have now is a climate-induced crisis with far reaching implications for food security."

"Our road rehabilitation is slowed due to unpredictable rainfall, leaving contractors with less time to complete projects," he said, adding, "The prolonged rainfall is giving rise to an increase in water-borne diseases, especially malaria, typhoid fever, and cholera.

Scientists vs engineers: this time it's financial : Nature News

With money so tight, research priorities in Britain and the United States face re-examination. It is axiomatic that scientists won't do this: their central operating principle is not to upset the next person's rice bowl.

Upcoming Yale Survey : Is Climochondria A Communicable Or Hereditary Disease? | Real Science

In the coming months, Leiserowitz’s team will publish data regarding the effect children and parents have on one another in transmitting climate change knowledge.

Volt Fraud At Government Motors - IBD - Investors.com

Green Technology: Government Motors' all-electric car isn't all-electric and doesn't get near the touted hundreds of miles per gallon. Like "shovel-ready" jobs, maybe there's no such thing as "plug-ready" cars either.

The Chevy Volt, hailed by the Obama administration as the electric savior of the auto industry and the planet, makes its debut in showrooms next month, but it's already being rolled out for test drives by journalists. It appears we're all being taken for a ride.

When President Obama visited a GM plant in Hamtramck near Detroit a few months ago to drive a Chevy Volt 10 feet off an assembly line, we called the car an "electric Edsel." Now that it's about to hit the road, nothing revealed has changed our mind.

More Grad Student Expertise « NoFrakkingConsensus

So, in the 15 years prior to earning her PhD, Kovats served once as a contributing author and twice as a lead author for the IPCC.

Which means governments around the world have been relying on the expertise of grad students when they make multi-billion-dollar climate change decisions.

Governor Granholm To [Take Unnecessary Fossil-fueled Trip To] Sweden | Gov Monitor

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm on Thursday will be recognized by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf with Sweden’s Insignia of First Commander, Order of the Polar Star for her work in fostering relations between Michigan and Sweden to promote a clean energy economy.

The honor will be bestowed on the governor at the Royal Palace in Stockholm during an afternoon ceremony.

A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack – review | Science | guardian.co.uk

Pollack is not one to brush awkward issues under the carpet. There is serious discussion about uncertainties in climate science, and in particular, the computer models used to forecast future warming. For its forensic analysis and robust destruction of climate sceptic arguments alone, A World Without Ice is worth keeping on a nearby shelf.
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Thoughtful throughout, Pollack occasionally delivers paragraphs that stay with you long after closing the book. On the subject of the book itself, he writes: "Nature's best thermometer, perhaps its most sensitive and unambiguous indicator of climate change, is ice. When ice gets sufficiently warm, it melts. Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no polictiucial baggage as it crosses the threshold from solid to liquid. It just melts."

Solar take-up to drive up power bills | The Australian

DRAMATIC growth in households installing rooftop solar panels is driving energy retailers to demand higher electricity prices.

Consumers have rushed to install photovoltaic panels to take advantage of the government's incentives - worth about $6200 for a typical household - and state government subsidies.

SPENDING REVIEW 2010: Osborne slashes 490,000 jobs, cuts welfare by £7bn and forces us all to work longer-but there's even MORE money for overseas aid and global warming | Mail Online

...in a controversial move, Mr Osborne revealed even more money will be poured into tackling climate change and international aid with health and schools spending also ring-fenced.

EU summit to use Kyoto extension as climate "bait", drafts show - Monsters and Critics

Brussels - A European Union summit later this month will use a conditional offer to extend the Kyoto Protocol on CO2 emissions after 2012 as bait to attract other states to accept emissions cuts, internal documents show.

Feeling the pain in Spain | GABRIEL CALZADA - Opinion - The Orange County Register

Barring voter intervention, Californians will soon suffer under full-blown European-style energy policies. These include mandated greenhouse gas emission reductions of a sort achieved to date only through economic collapse, and fantastic mandates for renewable energy that so far have caused economic hardship elsewhere.

HARRIS: Time to get real about climate change - Washington Times

10/10/10 and 350.org based on urban legend, not science
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Sadly for the environmental movement, which has committed vast resources to this activism, 10/10/10, 350.org and similar campaigns are dangerously off-track. When the public finally comes to realize how it has been so seriously misled on what has become a central theme of modern environmentalism, efforts to address real environmental problems may very well be set back decades.

In the meantime, billions of dollars are wasted and thousands of jobs threatened, all for an unproven hypothesis that never made any sense in the first place.

Archaeologists Prove That There Was Less Ice In Alaska 2,800 Years Ago | Real Science

Russian Heat Wave : -18 F In Siberia | Real Science

The press claims to be worried about Russian heat. This seems to have somehow escaped their attention.

Study shows global warming not so hot with America | Yale Daily News

Kenneth Arrow, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972 and is a professor of economics and operations research at Stanford, said he attributes the public’s lack of knowledge regarding climate change to the complexity of the mechanisms involved. He said that the evidence for global warming, while significant to a scientist, is far less accessible to the average American.

Warning Signs: Standing Firm Against a Hurricane of Lies

It is climate policy that is driving the Obama administration’s effort to pass the Cap-and-Trade Act, a huge tax on all energy use. It is climate policy that is driving the Environmental Protection Agency’s crude, thuggish effort to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) and when the President speaks of climate change as related to human activity he is lying.

I trust Dr. Gray’s half century of research and analysis. You should, too.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian :: Climate talk refocuses debate

Professor Scott Denning of CSU’s Atmospheric Science department faced the shouting of a peeved audience member in the Lory Student Center last year as he lectured about CO2 and climate change.
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The problem with the current debate, he said, is that climate change deniers fall prey to common misconceptions of global warming, like the idea that the scientific community’s concern is based on recent warming or computer models. He later added that the majority of Americans apparently do not subscribe to a wholesale dismissal of the issue.

“A small but vocal minority has been able to manipulate the media through blogs and other mediums,” he said.
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Calderazzo does not organize events on behalf of Gray. According to Calderazzo, more than 95 percent of scientists accept basic facts of CO2 and global warming, which makes it unreasonable to provide minority views equal representation.

“That’s like 98 hands versus one hand,” he said.

Overconfidence in IPCC’s detection and attribution. Part II | Climate Etc.

Given that the IPCC argues that multidecadal natural internal variability is not an important factor and that external forcing can explain the 20th century variability, confidence in the attribution for the latter half of the 20th century is diminished by the lack of a robust attribution for the earlier warming between 1910-1940 (which is of the same magnitude as the warming from 1970-2000) and the mid century cooling.

C3: A Scottish Loch's Evidence Substantiates Two Significant Medieval Warming Intervals, Study Shows

Numerous temperature reconstructions indicate that during the Medieval centuries, two distinct warming intervals happened. New research from a Scottish loch's sediment core analysis identified the two separate, extended warming periods between 900 and 1600AD.

Solar Cheaper than Grid Nuclear? Think Again! — MasterResource

But nuclear power is less, not more, expensive than solar power. It is also reliable, or in industry terms, dispatchable, which adds value that is not reflected in simple cost comparisons.

American Thinker: Climatism: That Climate Change Chameleon

The latest initiative from the climate change chameleon is to frame global warming as detrimental to the health of U.S. citizens. On September 28, a joint letter from 120 of America's health organizations was delivered to President Obama, supporting efforts by the Environmental Regulatory Agency to regulate greenhouse gases. The letter claims that man-made global warming is now a U.S. public health issue especially for "older adults." Yet senior citizens continue to retire to Florida, Texas, and Arizona rather than North Dakota and Minnesota. Don't they know that warmer temperatures are a serious health risk?

President Václav Klaus: Inaugural Annual GWPF Lecture

The untenable argument that there exists a simple causal nexus, a simple functional relationship, between temperature and man-made CO2 is only one part of the whole story and only one tenet of environmentalism.[23] The other, not less important aspect of this doctrine is the claim that there is a very strong and exclusively damaging relationship between temperature and its impact upon Nature, upon the Earth and upon the Planet.

The Flaw Of Averages by David Whitehouse | Climate Realists

The thing about averages that many people forget is that they often cover up more than they illuminate. Describing a system that has a range of values with just one number, the average, is more likely to give a wrong than a right answer. That is why those people who run their business by only considering averages usually end up not running them for very long. There is a trail of averages leading to the 240 Watts / sq m figure, each one of them mathematically sound, but divorced from physical reality.

Brit Psychiatrists Are Right: Here’s A Benefit Of A Low-Carbon Lifestyle « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

I wonder what Prof Bhugra will do when low-carbon-lifestylers will turn up to be ever more depressed, having found out what kind of un-necessarily harsh living a low-carbon lifestyle is…

Spain fried by solar power | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Spain shows Australia’s Greens the consequences of the mad green power policies they recommend:

EU Plan to Expand CO2 Market by 2015 Infeasible, Climate Strategies Says - Bloomberg

The European Union’s ambition to create a carbon market embracing 33 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development within five years is infeasible, according to Climate Strategies.

“By 2015 an OECD-wide carbon market is not going to happen,” said Richard Folland, managing director at Climate Strategies, a group of climate policy specialists based at Cambridge University in the U.K. “But progress can be made toward harmonization over the longer term.”

Lancashire set for early wintry blast (From Lancashire Telegraph)

The first migrating Siberian swans have arrived three weeks early in some parts of the country.

E.ON scraps plans to build Kingsnorth coal plant | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The energy firm has withdrawn from competition for the first CCS plant, saying the station would have been uneconomic to build

New Study Says Young People Want Apartments, Not Houses; iPhones, Not Cars : TreeHugger

Workers value the ability to discuss ideas over coffee at a hip café or lunch at a sushi bar.

HowStuffWorks "How Global Warming Works"

Over the course of a single century, an increase of even 0.4 degrees Celsius would be significant.

Climate change forum to be held in NH - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-

Speakers include Professors Barry Rock and John Halstead of the University of New Hampshire; David Anderson of New Hampshire Coastal Protection in Portsmouth; and Antonius Block, chairman of the New Hampshire Wind Energy Association in Littleton.

E2 Morning Roundup

Sierra Club spending big

Sierra Club is spending close to double in this election cycle what the group spent in independent expenditures in 2006, Duval said. She declined to detail the exact figure. It includes about $400,000 to help Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), smaller help to Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Kentucky Senate Democratic candidate Jack Conway, and upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars in seven House races. Overall, the group has endorsed more than 170 candidates and has 34 staff helping in 30 races.
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Kerry slams Kirk, says he “turned his back” on climate bill

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is apparently making lemonade out of lemons. In a stump speech in Chicago Tuesday for Illinois Senate Democratic nominee Alexi Giannoulias, Kerry went after his Republican challenger Rep. Mark Kirk, who actually was one of only eight Republicans who voted for a House-passed cap-and-trade bill last year. But Kerry said Kirk has since “turned his back on it and moved in the opposite direction.” Kirk has noted on the campaign trail that he would not vote for the bill again if given the chance. Kerry in his speech touted an energy and climate plan he and Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) worked on for months before it died.

YouTube - Ian Wishart: "AIR CON, the seriously inconvenient truth about global warming"

Part 1 of Wishart's film. It was of course produced before CLIMATEGATE and GLACIERGATE. Those scandals were the last pieces that were needed to totally debunk the fraud that is man-made global warming science. Right now, man-made global warming is a pseudo-scientific belief that can only stand through religious fervor. Exactly like eugenics and nazi race science (from which the modern environmental movement stems from, ironically enough...or not).

Bear attacks surge in Japan, climate change blamed - Yahoo! News UK

Bear attacks have shot up in Japan this year and sightings of the animals have spiked, a trend blamed on climatic changes and shifting land use patterns, officials and media reports said on Wednesday.

Henry Waxman blasts Chamber of Commerce - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

Waxman also took aim at the Chamber for its opposition during his bid over the last two years to pass global warming and energy legislation. The cap-and-trade bill narrowly passed the House in June 2009 but didn't get a vote in the Senate.

"For too long, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been on the opposite side of this issue," Waxman said. "The Chamber pulled no punches in attacking my legislation. But wrestling each other into a stalemate is not a solution.”

Waxman said he hoped that Congress and the Chamber can find common ground next year on legislation “puts a price on carbon and harnesses market forces.”

Crowd gets raucous at Oberstar-Cravaack debate | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

On cap-and-trade legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions, which Oberstar voted for before the bill failed to advance, Cravaack said the nation can’t afford higher energy costs. He claimed increased costs for electricity from the carbon-cutting effort could kill Minnesota’s taconite industry.

Oberstar countered that taconite and steel industries are afforded a credit in the version of legislation he voted for, saying the nation needed to make some progress in stemming carbon emissions widely blamed for spurring global climate change.

“It’s changing our way of life. We have to deal with this issue’’ of climate change, Oberstar said to boos and cat calls from Cravaack supporters. Oberstar said the claims carbon cutting legislation will put “our industry of work is fundamentally wrong."

When the heckling on climate change grew louder, Oberstar accused the Cravaack supporters of being in the “flat earth society.’’ When he tried to rattle off statistics on warming trends, he was shouted down again with calls of “liar."

FoxNews.com - Climate Change No Threat, Says Czech President

LONDON – Climate change is not a threat and the consequences of global warming will not be catastrophic, the President of the Czech Republic said on Tuesday.
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He denounced scientific institutions such as the UK's Royal Society which published a layman's guide to the science of climate change in September in the hope of clarifying confusion around the issue.

"I am not impressed by heavily biased British scientific institutions," he said.

Quadrant Online - Heartland in Sydney: Part 2

At the Heartland Climate Conference in Sydney, David Evans and Jo Nova blasted the ‘cheating culture’ which permeates the field of climate science world-wide.

David Evans denounced instances of blatant deception by Government scientists responsible for temperature records.

Official thermometers sit near refrigeration and air-conditioning outlets, walls, effluent grates, jet exhausts, etc. 89% of USA sites breach NOAA standards, and are too close to an artificial heating source. NOAA has an annual budget of over $4 billion.

President Vaclav Klaus At The GWPF Inaugural Annual Lecture: Quasi-live Blogging « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Klaus`; Times journo asked if other leading politicians are against AGW? Many have similar views but are afraid to say it openly. Anecdote. Some nonsense is very evident. Solar energy during the night. Wind farm generation by electrical motors.

Lawson concludes. Mentions Klaus’ bravery as he is still in office.