WWF : The Islands Are Drowning | Real Science

The average sea level rise rate on island locations is 1.22 mm/year, which is well below the low end of IPCC projections.

Even if there was no accretion of new material on these islands, it would take over 800 years for sea level to rise one metre, and 4,000 years to reach Hansen’s five metres.

Scientists Join Forces in Hostile Climate - NYTimes.com

In recent weeks I’d been in touch with two of the organizers, John Abraham of St. Thomas University, and Scott Mandia of Stonybrook University, as they pondered various responses to the rightward shift in politics and the intensifying challenges to the vast body of science pointing to a human-heated planet.
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Abraham is perhaps best known for posting a long rebuttal to the arguments of Christopher Monckton, a flamboyant critic of climate alarm whose pedigree, style and assertions would make him a great character for a climate-focused variant of the film “ Thank You for Smoking.”

LABOHM: Climate change no longer scares Europe - Washington Times

...skepticism about man-made climate disasters is gradually gaining ground.

In my own country, the Netherlands, for instance, that skepticism even has received some official recognition, thus dissolving the information monopoly of climate alarmists. The Lower House's Standing Committee on Environment recently organized a one-day hearing at which both climate-chaos adherents and disaster skeptics could freely discuss their different views before key parliamentarians who decide climate policy.

AFP: UN climate panel calls for carbon and transport taxes

Oxfam's climate change spokesperson, Tracy Carty, commented: "Money to tackle climate change and help poor communities adapt can be raised without dipping into taxpayers' pockets. The next step is for political leaders to lay out a clear roadmap for making this funding a reality."

Don't miss this stunning 2008 admission from warmist Andy Revkin

2008: A Starting Point for Productive Climate Discourse - Revkin - NYTimes.com

If everyone turned off all motors and power plants tomorrow, or jumped in Hummers and jacked up thermostats, the climate system wouldn’t measurably “notice” the difference for at least a few decades (IPCC fourth science assessment). [ADDED 1/14]

Why fighting global warming should be a conservative cause - Washington Post

But it's conservatives who should fear climate change the most. To put it simply, if you hate big government, try global warming on for size.

Many conservatives say they oppose clean-energy policies because they want to keep government off our backs. But they have it exactly backward. Doing nothing will set our country on a course toward narrower choices for businesses and individuals, along with an expanded role for government. When catastrophe strikes - and yes, the science is quite solid that it will - it will be the feds who are left conducting triage.

- Bishop Hill blog - Where's Mashey?

[Is Michael Mann repeating himself?]

Most US States Had Their Hottest Year Prior To 1970 | Real Science

According to NCDC, almost all of the US had their hottest year prior to Hansen’s period of modern global warming.

Another letter from Hal Lewis to the American Physical Society | Watts Up With That?

1.The 2007 statement should be simply withdrawn. No excuses, no caveats, no unnecessary embarrassment, no statement of principles, no references to future research, simply withdrawn. It was a mistake. This is the sine qua non for restoring the honor of APS.

2. The Council should promulgate a transparent confict-of-interest policy, comparable to those used by the government. Those offended by this might even serve under reasonable constraints. Others should not serve. Many know how to do this. It is insane to have people with millions of dollars at stake determining APS policy on such matters.

U.S. Department of Energy - Chu in Ireland: A Case Study in Wind Power | DOE Blog

Ireland has set an aggressive goal of obtaining 40 percent of its annual electricity needs from renewable energy by 2020, almost all of which will come from wind. In fact, at one point on April 4, 2010, Ireland was able to draw 50 percent of its electricity from wind. Of course, wind is a variable source of energy, and one of the challenges Ireland faces as wind becomes a greater share of the power mix is ensuring a stable, reliable flow of electricity even when the wind stops blowing.

Warning Signs: Greenwashing America

The EPA, created by Richard Nixon with an executive order in 1970, has to be downsized to its original mandate, ensuring clean air and clean water. When it began to define rain puddles as navigable waters and ordinary dust as a pollutant, you have to know just how crazed and dangerous it has become.

It will take a generation or two for Americans to shake loose of the insanity that is environmentalism. Long seen as a religion, it seeks total control over every aspect of your life.

Climate scientists planning to “aggressively engage the denialists” | CEJournal

Does anyone else think there’s a big risk of this ending badly?

Climate science: Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics - chicagotribune.com

The American Geophysical Union plans to announce Monday that 700 researchers have agreed to speak out on the issue. The effort is a pushback against congressional conservatives who have vowed to kill regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
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In the week that Abraham and others have been marshaling the rapid-response team, 39 scientists agreed to participate, including Richard Feely, senior scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Michael Oppenheimer professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University.

Climate Change Dispatch - Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 1 of 3)

In the not too distant future, it will likely be difficult to understand how so many educated people believed in and accepted uncritically for so long a scientifically unproven theory like the so-called Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).
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Geraldo Luís Lino is a Brazilian geologist and author of the book “The Global Warming Fraud: How a Natural Phenomenon was Converted into a False World Emergency” (published in 2009 in Portuguese, with over 5,000 copies sold so far, and soon to be published in Spanish)

Biofuel worse for climate than fossil fuel - study | Energy & Oil | Reuters

BRUSSELS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - European plans to promote biofuels will drive farmers to convert 69,000 square km of wild land into fields and plantations, depriving the poor of food and accelerating climate change, a report warned on Monday.

The impact equates to an area the size of the Republic of Ireland.

As a result, the extra biofuels that Europe will use over the next decade will generate between 81 and 167 percent more carbon dioxide than fossil fuels, says the report.

Australia’s High Quality Data: 12-year-sites used for “long term” trends « JoNova

http://joannenova.com.au/2010/11/australias-high-quality-data-12-year-sites-used-for-long-term-trends/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JoNova+%28JoNova%29

Taking reins of climate change coalition, NY Mayor Bloomberg vows to promote electric taxis - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-as-hong-kong-mayors-climate-conference,0,4034551.story

He suggested that cities could agree on common taxi designs and place orders for the vehicles together — although he acknowledged later in comments to reporters that there would be practical difficulties in introducing the same electric taxis, because of differences in economics, regulations and safety standards.

Time to Subpoena the D.O.E. over Solyndra

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/252616/time-subpoena-doe-over-solyndra-greg-pollowitz

Readers will remember that I've long been critical of this entire transaction and called for an investigation into the company back in August. This isn't going to be pretty for Team Obama once the details of this nonsense see the light of day.

Green Hell Blog-Death of CCX

Al Capone tried to use Prohibition to muscle in on a piece of all the action in Chicago. The CCX's backers wanted to use a new prohibition on carbon emissions to muscle in on a piece of, quite literally, all the action in the world.

The CCX was the brainchild of Northwestern University business professor Richard Sandor, who used $1.1 million in grants from the Chicago-based left-wing Joyce Foundation to launch the CCX. For his efforts, Time named Sandor as one of its Heroes of the Planet in 2002 and one of its Heroes of the Environment in 2007.

The CCX seemed to have a lock on success. Not only was a young Barack Obama a board member of the Joyce Foundation that funded the fledgling CCX, but over the years it attracted such big name climate investors as Goldman Sachs and Al Gore's Generation Investment Management.

Ending the war with skeptics - Curry

http://judithcurry.com/2010/11/06/ending-the-war-with-skeptics/

Carnac predicts: Two more years of Climategate!

http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/carnac-predicts-two-more-years-of-climategate/

Beginning with, "As a scientist, I shouldn't have a stake in the upcoming midterm elections, but unfortunately, it seems that I — and indeed all my fellow climate scientists — do. ", including references to "pseudo-science", "cigarettes", and "anti-science", and naming specific Republican legislatorsMann's editorial is ideally suited to amplify partisan sentiments vis-a-vis climate change.

The loaded language evokes an emotional response rather than an intellectual one. It seems to me this is a rather unwise choice for climate scientists – activists who would prefer the narrative of scientists as intellectual rather than scientists as high strung divas dominated by right brain thinking. But maybe it's understandable Mann wrote in this style "because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared".

Michael E. Mann: A scientist in the crosshairs of climate-change denial — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

http://bos.sagepub.com/content/66/6/1.full

MANN: While the attacks against climate science may have energized climate-change deniers, and those who derive their information from talk radio and the conservative media, polling suggests that the public has grown more convinced and more concerned about the reality of human-caused climate change in recent months. Undoubtedly, the dramatic heat this summer has probably re-captured the public's awareness of the changes that are taking place.

Michael E. Mann: A scientist in the crosshairs of climate-change denial — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

http://bos.sagepub.com/content/66/6/1.full

MANN: Unfortunately, there are powerful special interests in the fossil fuel industry for whom the prospect of climate change policy—a price on carbon emissions—would be extremely costly. They have invested millions of dollars in well-honed disinformation campaigns to convince the public and policy makers that human-caused climate change is either a hoax, or not nearly the threat that the scientific community has established it to be. In many respects, it comes straight from the same playbook used by the tobacco industry to cast doubt on the health threat of tobacco smoking. Indeed, many of the same players are involved.

The criminal theft, release, and misrepresentation of private emails from the University of East Anglia immediately prior to the Copenhagen Climate Summit last December was part of a carefully orchestrated smear campaign against the climate science community timed to thwart any binding international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Climate-change denial outfits collaborated closely with conservative media outlets to manufacture a fake scandal that would distract the public and policy makers at this crucial juncture. Historians will look back at this as a low point of intellectual dishonesty in the corporate-funded, climate-change denial campaign.

The Biofuels Scam

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/the_biofuels_scam.html

Since 2007 the price of food around the world has just about doubled. Bad harvests, inflation, or George Bush didn't cause this price increase. According to a secret report from the World Bank, reported in the UK'sGuardian, 75% of the increase in price has one source:  "Biofuels." This contrasts with US claims of only a 3% biofuels-caused increase. The World Bank also says that rising food prices have pushed 100 million people worldwide below the poverty line. Riots have been sparked from Bangladesh to Egypt.

Where is the outrage? Where are the MSNBC stories on food riots? Where is Sean Penn?

The Holy Grail of the Left in recent years is Climate Disruption (formerly known as  Global Warming and Climate Change). Much ink has been spilled and much airtime has been devoted to pushing the Green Agenda. Legislation has been passed in the US, Europe and other places to address this so-called crisis. Incandescent bulbs have been banned, and mercury laden CFLs required. Coal-fired power plants are shuttered, raising the price of energy. Vast oil fields are placed off limits. "Cap and Trade" rules threaten our already reeling economy. Among other measures, Congress mandates that gasoline contain 10% by volume of ethanol. As a result, the US is currently burning about 25% of its corn crop as fuel.  Government subsidies and mandates work quite well at converting food into fuel, thus reducing the amount of food. As anyone with more than a room temperature IQ knows, less of something results in higher prices. Hungry people? Pssh! Saving the planet takes precedence.

Don't Tread on American Growth, Energy Security

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/dont_tread_on_american_growth.html

Environmental groups must face reality; "green" energy is not something that will appear overnight. Experts predict that these technologies will not be available to handle a significant portion of U.S. energy demand for decades. Cutting off our access to local sources of traditional fuels will not spur a green revolution. Instead, it will simply raise our energy prices and threaten desired energy independence and security. 

The situation in Idaho and Montana is a clear instance of international groups flooding what should be a local issue with an outside agenda to the detriment of, and in blatant disregard to, the interests of the local citizens and the country. The New York Times has once again positioned itself as an advocate for misguided liberal policies being touted by these outside sources. But the fact is, the rabble rousers like the NRDC whose message they propagate would push us into a greater reliance on foreign oil and gas while destroying employment opportunities here at home. They seem to forget that oil and gas companies provide more than 9 million domestic jobs, and a steady, affordable supply of the energy we depend on to heat our houses, drive our cars, and light our schools. Citizens in Montana, Idaho, and across the country must stand up to these sorts of ideological invasions, declaring, "Go fight your battles in someone else's backyard."

The EPA's 'Climate Change' Tyranny

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/the_epas_climate_change_tyranny.html

Yet not a single howl has withstood scrutiny. Furthermore, humans have dealt with temperature swings larger than those of the last 150 years. For instance, the Medieval Warm Period (tenth to fourteenth centuries)enticed Vikings to populate Iceland and Greenland. The Vikes left the settlements by 1450 when the weather turned unbearably cold at the onset of the Little Ice Age (mid-fourteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries). Deciding that "cosmological disorder" causes frigid temperatures, the Vikings built churches. In contrast, the Inuit people adapted to the Little Ice Age and still live in the Artic today.

Viking climate theory has found fresh adherents -- warmists. The Vikes imagined spiritual chaos and built churches. Warmists imagine industrial diabolism and push the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming -- parent organization to the Church of the Green Dragon. Rather than adapt, the Vikings quit. Warmists wouldn't dream of adapting. They want to sacrifice capitalists. Warmist religious doctrine demands that humankind revert to simpler times, before evil technology.

Al's Journal - 2010 Has Been An "Exceptional Year"

http://blog.algore.com/2010/11/2010_has_been_an_exceptional_y.html

More evidence of our changing planet: "Catastrophic floods in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia, hurricanes in Mexico: 2010 has so far been an "exceptional" year for weather disasters, German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Thursday."

The Hindu : News / National : Young people much aware of environment issues, says Obama

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article872553.ece

Looking at the media, he said, "Trees a day, keeps global warming away, in case you missed it."

American Thinker Blog: Climate Alarmism at the New York Times

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/climate_alarmism_at_the_new_yo.html

The New York Timeseditorial page has been persistent in publishing alarmist editorials on climate change.  The latest one appearing shortly before the November elections accused politicians of being in "denial" about climate change.  What nonsense!  Climate is changing all the time; it has been doing it for millions of years -- without any human intervention.  And politicians are simply trying to stay in step with the public.

There is no credible evidence at all that human activities have had any appreciable influence on global climate changes during the last century.  While many scientists still believe in a major human contribution, the number of skeptical scientists has been growing steadily as the evidence against AGW [anthropogenic global warming] becomes ever more apparent.

Climate scientist calls for Hazelwood immediate closure | Indymedia Australia

http://indymedia.org.au/2010/11/07/climate-scientist-calls-for-hazelwood-immediate-closure

"One hundred million people will be flooded due to sea level rise before the end of the century, and that is not 100 million people in total but 100 million people every year subject to annual flooding from sea level rise for the very lowest estimate of sea level rise for any emission scenario." said David Karoly.

Hazelwood's share of that climate impact, Professor Karoly estimated as ten thousand people having to leave their homes every year. "What is Hazelwood's share? It is only small, only.01 per cent. That is a small number. That means that 10,000 people, the typical size of many country towns in Victoria, will be flooded annually; will have to leave their homes. "

NationalJournal.com - Green Groups Will Fight Smaller Battles - Saturday, November 6, 2010

http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/energy/green-groups-will-fight-smaller-battles-20101104

For the past three years, the nation's most influential green groups – among them the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club, and Natural Resources Defense Council – joined forces in an estimated $300 million campaign to push the most ambitious environmental policy ever: enacting a cap-and-trade emissions law that would fundamentally transform the nation's energy economy.

New York's Bloomberg Urges Cities to Take Lead on Tackling Climate Change - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-06/new-york-s-bloomberg-urges-cities-to-take-lead-on-tackling-climate-change.html

Bloomberg is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.

AFP: World mayors vow to fight climate change

"We need a variety of policies, programmes and projects with, and between, cities to succeed," Toronto mayor David Miller, the outgoing C40 chair, told the conference.
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Several Greenpeace activists unfurled a huge banner down the front of the convention centre hosting the meeting which said "nuclear is not the solution".

VOA | UN Panel Urges Measures to Raise Billions for Climate Change Mitigation | Environment | English

The U.N. Secretary-General's High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing has released its recommendations for how the international community can raise $100 billion a year by 2020 to offset the impact of global warming on developing countries. Among the recommendations, the panel is urging increasing the price of carbon emissions.

A message for global-warming alarmists (OneNewsNow.com)

An environmental expert at a national research and education organization says politicians received a strong message from voters in Tuesday's elections regarding global-warming alarmism and environmental extremism.

James Taylor, senior fellow at The Heartland Institute, explains that "the mandate that the voters did give congressmen was to oppose overreaching government, particularly regarding the global-warming issue, because the candidates who were most out in front of global-warming alarmism were the ones who were beaten back severely."

Clinging to his religion: Warmist scientist goes to the Arctic, finds that it's damn cold up there, but still claims that it's too warm

Scientist lives with endangered tribe to save disappearing language - CNN.com

London, England (CNN) -- As inhospitable environments go, it doesn't get much trickier than living near the Arctic Circle where the temperature can plummet to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the permanent winter darkness and the diet consists of walrus and whale blubber.
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Now, having spent almost 12 weeks adjusting to the freezing conditions and the language barriers, Leonard talks about his experiences there.

The cold has already taken its toll on the Apple Mac laptop he took out there. It has frozen and refuses to "boot up," but Leonard has managed to find an "ancient," PC that he is using to send emails.
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But Leonard says that apart from political pressure, the tribe faces a new and unprecedented threat to their culture from global warming.

"It is widely understood how global warming is threatening the natural environment but the Inughuit represent a bona fide example of how climate change impacts on local cultures.

"The threat of global warming to their traditional hunting life has left the Inughuit believing that their current settlements will not be here in 15 years' time, that people will relocate southwards, and will assimilate into a broader Inuit culture," wrote Leonard.

If we all spend a lot more time cursing a solar-powered TV remote now, will we have less kidney stones in 2050?

Philips Launches Econova LED TV With Solar-Powered Remote

What’s interesting is its remote control. The bundled remote is actually solar-powered. It requires no battery replacement. You will have to charge the remote by placing it on a sunlit area in your entertainment or living room. For instance, you can set it near a window, so you can get the most out of the sunlight. The remote is simple enough for basic use, although it doesn’t come with multi-device control.

Murkowski Takes Issue With Obama Over Emissions Policy - News - Talk Radio News Service: News, Politics, Media

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (I-Alaska) today criticized President Obama’s steady support for allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions in 2011.

Murkowski, a Republican-turned-Independent who will likely serve a second term after launching a write-in campaign against Joe Miller, the man who defeated her in the GOP primary, said Obama should ask the Senate to vote on a bill she helped pass out of the Committee on Energy last year aimed at giving the U.S. energy independence without placing restrictions on emissions.

“There are a great number of things we can do to responsibly reduce our carbon emissions without burdening our economy with an unworkable cap-and-trade scheme or command-and-control regulation by the EPA,” Murkowski said. “If the president wants to start with the work the Energy Committee has already done, I would be happy to work with him. But I also believe we must first preempt the EPA from meddling in the work of Congress when it comes to setting climate policies.”

More USHCN Comedy in D.C. | Real Science

How cool is that? They were able to take the manufactured Lincoln rise in temperatures, and “fix” the record of a second station using the same data! They took a downwards temperature trend at Lincoln, flipped it upwards, and got a double global warming bonus from one roll of the dice.

And who would have thought that the weather is more than three degrees warmer just 70 km to the south of Lincoln? We are so lucky to have such clever scientists fixing the data for us.

Otherwise, we would have just assumed that Washington D.C. was getting cooler – like the thermometers say.

The Virginia Triangle | Real Science

These two stations are 120 miles apart. How is it that they both needed to be changed from a cooling trend to a steep warming trend after 1990?

- Bishop Hill blog - Sir John Beddington on FOI

The emphasis, which was added by me, is to point readers to the part of Sir John's evidence that was, ahem, questionable. As I'm sure many readers here know, UEA have been unable to come up with any agreements that would prevent them releasing data to other researchers. They were repeatedly able to release the data to their pals. So where did this idea come from that release was prevented by confidentiality concerns?

What is the Message of the Midterm Election? How About Dirty Money Well Spent? | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

As just one example, the energy industry spent $69.5 million on TV advertising attacking clean energy and climate change. That’s ten times the amount raised by environmental groups, much of it filled with distortions and outright lies.

[If you have $31 million, is that more than 1/10 of $70 million?]: Pollution debate outlasts Proposition 23 - MarketWatch

By the time the smoke cleared, however, the opponents to the measure raised more than $31 million, compared to about $11 million by the proponents, according to public campaign finance disclosures compiled by Maplight.org.

It's Not The Heat, It's The Humidity - How Global Warming Will Kill

A relatively small increase in average temperature will kill most of the human race just from the heat, not considering any of the theoretical changes to crops or sea level.

Washington Disconnect: SUV Sales Well Over 50 Percent of Market - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

As if to put a punctuation mark on how out-of-touch Washington is with the electorate, October vehicle sales released today reveal that SUV sales have now almost fully rebounded from their pre-recession numbers and now make up 53 percent of the market, with cars at just 47 percent. The numbers have flipped since last October as the economy recovers and customers return to bigger, more fuel-thirsty vehicles.
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At GM, the marked SUV sales rise spelled good news as the profitable vehicles will help the Detroit giant pay off its massive government loans. GM’s “hot vehicles include the Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Cadillac SRX followed by the larger Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia and Chevrolet Traverse,” reported the News. “On the pickup side, the Chevrolet Silverado, Avalanche and GMC Sierra saw sales rise 9 percent for the month.” All are low-mileage SUVs.

Ancient Evidence That CO2 Does Not Control Climate | The Resilient Earth

The importance of CO2 has been constantly overestimated and all evidence of its impotence ignored by mainstream climate scientists. And despite assertions to the contrary, until the real causes for climate change are found we will not be able to predict future climate change.

RSS global temperature anomaly takes a dive | Watts Up With That?

The drop from July is significant, and very steep, losing more than half of the temperature anomaly since then.

Desperation: Robotic Twitter Bot spoofs “Climate Change Deniers” | Watts Up With That?

From Technology Review, a case of desperation. “Let the robot handle it”. I have to chuckle though, since the article cites John Cook’s “Skeptical Science” as an “appropriate scientific source”. Also amusing is “the rejoinders are culled from a university source whom Leck says he isn’t at liberty to divulge.” Well since he is in New South Wales, I’m thinking this just might be another Tim Lambert aka Deltoid production.

Canada environment minister resigns, to join CIBC - Yahoo! News

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced his resignation on Thursday, saying he will leave the high-profile government post for a senior position at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
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Prentice's resignation also comes after this week's Republican victories in U.S. midterm elections, which will likely stall any efforts by the White House to push through tighter climate change legislation.

Acid oceans and acid rain | The Rational Optimist…

Before I started looking into this, I assumed the evidence for damage from ocean acidification must be strong because that is what the media kept saying. I am amazed by what I have found. Make no mistake: there are lots of threats to the ecosystems of the ocean, from over-fishing to nutrient run-off, but acidification is way down the list. The attention is deflecting funds and action from greater threats. It is time scientists had the courage to admit this.

Are Polar Bears More than 'Threatened'? - NYTimes.com

As a longtime observer of a wide range of efforts to limit global warming, I see this as one of the least likely to succeed — and a bad match of tool and task — if the goal is, in fact, to limit warming, which would require global cuts in emissions.
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Coincidentally, newly published research on changing dietary habits of polar bears around the southern shores of Canada’s Hudson Bay reveals the species’ adaptability in the face of shifting climate patterns. The bears there have had to leave the sea ice behind, along with their normal diet of ringed seal pups, earlier in the year because of warming. But now they find themselves onshore just as vast flocks of snow geese are nesting, providing an abundant supply of eggs and birds.

Diminishing Returns From Multi-Decadal Global Climate Model Simulations « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Hopefully, the NSF (and other agencies) will soon realize that most of this funding is a waste of taxpayers money and could be better spent on other research uses in climate and elsewhere.

What Kids Should Really Learn in Science Class - Sharon Begley

For one thing, the brain stinks at distinguishing patterns from randomness (no wonder people can’t tell that the climate change now underway is not just another turn in the weather cycle).

Sharon Begley - Newsweek

Sharon Begley, widely known for her ability to break down complex scientific theories and write about them in simple prose, returned to Newsweek in March 2007 from the Wall Street Journal, where she wrote the "Science Journal" column for five years.
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Begley earned a B.A. from Yale University.

The failed presidency of Barack Obama, post-election edition | Angry, rabid warmist Joe Romm

And so the chances have dropped sharply of averting multiple catastrophes post-2040 -- widespread Dust-Bowlification; multi-feet sea level rise followed by a rise of 6 to 12+ inches a decade until the planet is ice free; massive species loss; the ocean turning into large, hot acidified dead zones; and ever-strengthening superstorms that bring devastation to country after country that equals or surpasses what happened to Moscow and Pakistan and Nashville and New Orleans.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper ...

EPA policy chief [throws in the towel] - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com

One of the Obama administration’s most aggressive officials on global warming regulations is stepping down from her post at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Heinzerling gained fame in the environmental community for her role in helping to win a landmark 2007 U.S. Supreme Court case that gave EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. At EPA, she’s played a leading role in crafting the agency’s controversial climate policies as Jackson’s senior climate policy attorney and then as the associate administrator of EPA’s Office of Policy.

“I think she’s probably the farthest left and most committed of anyone on the team, with the exception of Carol Browner,” on climate change, said an industry attorney familiar with the agency, referring to the former agency administrator and President Barack Obama’s energy and climate adviser.

Why being Green means never having to say you're sorry – Telegraph Blogs

And there you have it: the true voice of the Green movement – red in tooth and ideology. It’s not about easy fixes. It’s not about making things better. It’s about advancing the Marxist war on capitalism by other means. Thanks George, for reminding us where you stand.

Efforts to Rebrand “Global Warming” Continue Apace | The American Culture

Evidently the United Nations regards humanity as a threat to the Earth and its ecosystems, and the best way to handle any “threat” is to, well, “reduce” it—or, better still, “eliminate” it altogether.

One-eyed Clima-clops Just Won’t Stop

For two decades now, traditional science has been menaced by an overfunded, myopic monster named Climatology. This most recent member of the science club has never bothered to learn the club ‘rules’ and when confronted with puzzling data has chosen to create their own rules.

Bloomberg on Climate Change: “Most People Unfortunately Don’t Care” - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Bloomberg shared the stage at the Hong Kong Convention Center in a brief roundtable with (freshly ousted) Toronto mayor David Miller, Johannesburg major Amos Masondo, and Edward Yau, Hong Kong's Secretary for the Environment, to talk about how their respective cities have stepped up to the challenge of greening themselves. In his remarks, Bloomberg talked about how cities that got built up several decades ago — like New York and Hong Kong — share a unique dilemma that newer cities don't. In most places, the bulk of carbon emissions comes from transportation, and a lesser percentage comes from buildings. In New York and Hong Kong, it's just the opposite, so both cities are faced with challenge how retrofitting old buildings.

Figuring out how to get people involved, he said, was the task at hand. Bloomberg, who has made environmental issues a central theme of his office, has made slow but steady progress on his green initiative PlaNYC. When you talk about what emissions are going to do to the earth in 50 years, "most people unfortunately don't care," he said. He went on to say that it's more effective to frame the argument for improving policy in terms of how people's lives are affected today — and that goes as much for the air they're breathing as for the money in their pockets." Capitalism works," Bloomberg said. "When you build parks, they enhance property values. When you plant trees, they enhance property values."

Ice Not Disappearing At Mendenhall Glacier | Real Science

James Balog from The University Of Colorado set up a camera to capture ice loss at Mendenhall Glacier Alaska, and seems to have shown the opposite.

Australia’s Global Warming Efforts Have Been Successful | Real Science

Congratulations to the Australian government for having reversed global warming. Nature couldn’t have done it without the neurotic energy of clueless government officials.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Scam Targets Anti-Apartheid Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change

The headline boomed “CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS FUND ($900.000.00)”. Even better, it was sent from the Nelson Mandela Foundation (nmf.unfccc12@att.net). Subject: Climate Change Awareness Fund.

It’s Official! There Will Not Be Any Climate Apocalypse! (For At Least Five Years) « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

In other words, the most pro-AGW politicians on Earth are pretty much convinced we are not facing the last chance to save the world, it’s not 99 months to the apocalypse, the 350ppm threshold in CO2 concentration can be crossed for several years in a row without any cause for panic. Etc etc.

I wonder if all of that will go in the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC AR5?

American Thinker: The Green Bubble is about to Burst

The White House claims that the federal cash subsidy will create three hundred permanent jobs (at about $3 million per job!). The nature of the jobs is not specified, but one may assume that there will be much need for sweepers to remove dust and dirt from about 7,000 acres of solar mirrors. Not exactly "high-tech," is it?

An Election-Night Win For Domestic Energy Jobs | GlobalWarming.org

Draw up a map of the U.S. and shade in the regions that rely on energy jobs – places like Appalachia, the Rockies, western Gulf states, Alaska – and that’s where we saw some of the strongest anti-Obama sentiment succeeding on election day.
With few exceptions, the only Democratic congressional candidates who won in these areas were those able to distance themselves from President Obama’s energy policies – or to be more accurate, his anti-energy policies. In its first two years, the Obama administration has tried to slam the door shut on domestic production of coal, oil, and natural gas.
But now, many of the administration’s Congressional allies in this effort have gotten a pink slip from their constituents. Obama will soon have to contend with a Congress that sees increased supplies of affordable domestic energy - and the increased jobs that go with it - as things worth fighting for rather than against.
Most notably, costly global warming legislation proved to be political poison.

Global Warming Hysteria: Bobby Kennedy, Jr. Epitomizes the Term » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Kennedy rants and raves about how the answer is democracy, but refuses to understand that democracy has rejected his brand of radical environmentalism. We’re all just stupid and misinformed by the propaganda of the fat cats, unlike wise progressives like him.

Kennedy clearly would impose his policy desires if he could, regardless of what the people actually think. And of course, he was notoriously (and typically, see Al Gore, James Cameron, etc.) hypocritical opposing a wind farm that would be visible from the family’s Cape Cod compound.

Other than being the son of a great man, I don’t think Kenedy brings very much to the party. But he does provide a pretty good illustration of what I mean by “global warming hysteria.”

Don't miss this - I'm a Denier - Minnesotans For Global Warming

It's a parody of "I'm a Believer" written by Neil Diamond and performed by the Monkees. This version was written by Elmer Beauregard and Brian D. Smith and performed by Elmer and the M4GW players.

This song is in honor of all the new Republican Freshman entering Congress and the Senate most of whom are Deniers and proud of it.

I think this is song may be our "Tour de Farce"

BBC Panorama production "What's Up With The Weather" (Part) | Climate Realists

If they conducted the experiment with a normal Atmosphere and added an increase of 1/625 CO2 there would be NO CHANGE! And yet we are investing billions into the "green" industry on the basis that an increase of "Man Made" CO2 changes the Atmosphere.

The Reference Frame: Tamino and man-made Arctic odds

Tamino's article is another flagrant example of the pseudoscientific nature of the climate disruption ideology.
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But one can't show - at any confidence level that would be OK from a scientific viewpoint - that there is an actual "climate disruption" going on. The climate is doing its business-as-usual, and so should the industrial societies. Meanwhile, the AGW crooks are likely to continue with their business-as-usual, too. For Tamino, it means to keep on writing demagogic articles about ill-defined concepts, using cherry-picked facts about the observed climate and employing all logical fallacies that can be useful to achieve an outcome with a particular sign.

The Great Beyond: Ocean pH dropping faster than expected

High latitude waters in the Arctic and Antarctic are particularly sensitive to pH changes, as cold waters absorb more gas than warm waters.

Why aren't any actual pH levels provided in this article?

Yet another predictable Obama administration green jobs fiasco: If we blow $535 million on a troubled solar company, how much bad weather will be prevented?

Fremont solar panel maker Solyndra scales back expansion plans - Inside Bay Area

Solyndra Inc., the high-flying solar panel maker once touted by President Barack Obama as a model for a green energy future, said Wednesday it has scuttled its factory expansion in Fremont, a move that will stop the company's plans to hire 1,000 workers.

Solyndra said it will also close an existing factory in the East Bay. That will leave the company with one Fremont factory, a new plant visible from Interstate 880.

The moves mean that instead of having 2,000 workers in Fremont, Solyndra will cap its work force at 1,000, which is about the current level. Solyndra also will, over the next several weeks, eliminate 155 to 175 jobs in Fremont. That includes 135 contract employees and 20 to 40 full-time workers, said David Miller, a Solyndra spokesman.

The company seeks to slash production costs amid fierce competition from rival manufacturers in China and the United States.
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The company's fortunes sparkled in September 2009, when the Obama administration announced $535 million in taxpayer loans to finance
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In December 2009, the company filed for an initial public offering of its stock expected to raise $300 million. In May, Obama toured the Solyndra facilities in Fremont.

The company's fortunes dimmed soon after. In June, Solyndra canceled its IPO, and the following month its chief executive officer, Chris Gronet, quit. Brian Harrison, a former Intel executive, took over as CEO.

"The company's problems raise questions about the federal government's wisdom in giving $535 million to a company with an unproven technology," Mehta said.

Laughable new peer-reviewed study typifies climate hoax junk science: After a bunch of completely unconvincing guessing and hand-waving, CO2 is annointed as the primary driver of warming

The Heat Was On: Atmospheric CO 2 Triggered a Global Warming Event 40 Million Years Ago: Scientific American

In a new study scientists used "paleothermometers" to gauge CO2 and temperatures that prevailed during a long-lived primordial global warming event, and found CO2 to be the culprit
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Atmospheric CO2 was the primary driver of a 400,000-year global warming event, known as the middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO), according to a new study. The finding, which could help climatologists better understand the precise relationship between CO2 concentration and climate change today, is described in the November 5 issue of Science.
...In order to investigate the role of CO2 during this warming episode, researchers analyzed sediment taken from deep beneath the ocean floor off the eastern coast of Tasmania. The core contained a record of fossils that spanned the relevant time interval.

The researchers relied on two separate organic proxies, also called paleothermometers, to reconstruct changes in sea-surface temperature during the MECO. Both are based on variation—due to temperature change—in structural characteristics of the molecular remains of specific microorganisms. In other words, the team analyzed specific molecules in which certain variations are known to be reflective of temperature change.
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To figure out how much atmospheric CO2 increased during the MECO, the researchers reconstructed the changes in its concentration by determining the ratio of stable carbon isotopes in organic molecules called alkenones. Variation in the composition of these molecules, produced by algae, can serve as an indicator of atmospheric CO2. Isotopic proportions are also influenced by the growth rate of the algae, which is proportional to the available food and nutrients in the water. So the authors considered multiple scenarios to account for variations in nutrient availability, concluding that CO2 concentration increased by a factor of two to three during the MECO.

James Zachos, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who specializes in the time period and methodology used the study, said in an e-mail to Scientific American that apart from what may be an overestimation of the mean partial pressure of CO2, and the magnitude of its rise, "the data look reasonable."
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Currently, climatologists have a much better understanding of the role short-term feedbacks, such as changes in water vapor or sea ice. Incidentally, there were no glaciers at the time of the MECO, so Hoeben's group could look exclusively at the relationship between CO2 and temperature without having to account for the fact that changes in the amount of sea ice can increase temperature, too. "We've shown that if you include those long-term factors, then CO2 might very well be the leading factor for temperature increase, especially in a world without a major ice sheet," Houben says.
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The study does leave one big question outstanding: Where did all the MECO CO2 come from? This remains an area of speculation, Houben says, although scientists are fairly sure the source was not organic. However the CO2 got there, the takeaway from this study is simple: "In the past," Zachos says, "whenever atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, the climate warms."

Why doesn't this article ever tell us what CO2 levels were back then? According to this graph, they were about 3,000 ppm.

Why didn't positive feedbacks turn the Earth into a permanently uninhabitable fireball?

How do we know that the elevated CO2 levels weren't an effect of warmth driven by other factors, rather than the cause of the warmth?

How Republican Victories Might Start a Science War | The Atlantic Wire

...how about that extra divisive field of climate science? There, things could really change. Climate change activists are alarmed.

ThinkProgress » Karl Rove: ‘Climate Is Gone’

“Climate is gone,” said Rove, the keynote speaker on the opening day of a two-day shale-gas conference sponsored by Hart Energy Publishing L.L.P. And Rove told the trade show, “I don’t think you need to worry” the new Congress will consider proposed legislation to put the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing under federal rather than state regulation. The procedure, known as “fracking,” is responsible for the dramatic growth of shale-gas drilling in formations such as Pennsylvania’s vast Marcellus Shale.

NSF admits that the science isn't settled

NSF Releases Online, Multimedia Package Titled, "Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change" - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

As discussions about climate change continue, one critical factor about this phenomenon has remained largely unknown to the public: the important but enigmatic role of clouds in climate change. The role of clouds is important because at any given time about 70 percent of the Earth is covered by clouds. The role of clouds is enigmatic because clouds can exert opposing forces: Some types of clouds help cool the Earth and some types of clouds help warm it. Which effect will win out as our climate continues to change? So far, no one is certain.

Still Clueless in Australia « NoFrakkingConsensus

While majorities in several countries doubt that climate change is caused by human beings, and while roughly half the population tends to be right-of-center, in most newsrooms the climate skeptic perspective – and the conservative perspective – remains significantly underrepresented.

Climate Resistance » What? The Green Movement Got Something Wrong?!

For Chandrasekaran, subsistence existences are the expression of pure eco-virtue. And this is what the environmental movement gets terribly, terribly wrong.

UN Report ignores Earth Risk factor of rising CO2: GBA | Earth Saving Mission

God Believers Association (GBA), an NGO, which serves as a social platform for world peace apart from serving as awareness medium for removing violation of Global Climate Disorder to save the earth planet under the spirit of the Copenhagen Accord, has appreciated the UN annual flagship report on the state of the world.

Cosmo Theorist, Dr. Raj Baldev, who is also a Social Reformer and the Lead Man of GBA, said, that the UN has rightly pointed out the world against their constant failure to check the climate change in their annual Human Development Report (HDR), that there should be a proper balance between the two.

The science is settled: If you want to suppress Ontario crop yields, adding a little CO2 to the atmosphere is a truly lousy idea

Record yields for Ontario farmers | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

It could turn out to be the best harvest in history, both in yield per acre and total production, said Peter Johnson, a crop specialist with the Ontario Agriculture Ministry.

"Farmers with big crops will make money, this year, no question," he said.

While the final numbers aren't in, Johnson said the average soybean yield could hit a record 47 bushels an acre, well above the 40 bushels per acre long-term average.

Corn could top 160 bushels an acre -- another record.

Johnson said the only "problem" that producers have is running out of storage space.

Even warmist Bob Park is starting to sound less certain these days

What's New by Bob Park - Friday, October 15, 2010

Hal couldnt resist pissing on the APS Global Warming Statement, which he thinks is a scam. The APS statement uses the word "incontrovertible" to describe the evidence for or against global warming. Incontrovertible should be unacceptable to physicists. What sets physics apart from other ways of knowing is openness to revision if better information becomes available. Openness to new knowledge is the most important concept science can offer the world.

The UN thinks you're stupid: They suggest that a little extra warmth and some more atmospheric plant food may cause the price of wheat to more than double

Climate change is main barrier to development - United Nations - Telegraph

Climate change and destruction of the environment are the biggest threats to improving wealth and happiness around the world, according to a major United Nations report.
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The UN said that on one estimate, the adverse effects of climate change on grain yields would push prices up, more than doubling the price of wheat.

[Does this mean that the global warming scare is over?]: Obama Lets GM Execs Fly Private Jets Again - GM - Fox Nation

General Motors executives have been cleared for takeoff again.

The automaker has been given the go-ahead by the federal government to use chartered aircraft as early as Thursday to ferry managers on a "road show" promoting G.M.'s public stock offering, according to government and company officials who declined to be identified.

House Global Warming Committee Faces Uncertain Future Under Republicans | ecopolitology

House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming to be terminated or led by a climate skeptic.

Gibbs plugs renewable electricity standard - The Hill's E2-Wire

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said a renewable electricity standard could be an area of bipartisan energy cooperation now that President Obama has backed away from politically moribund bills to cap greenhouse-gas emissions.

Scientists hope to improve public communication on climate change - Purdue's Student Newspaper

Curry added a last posing thought by referring to the lack of willingness in the climate change community to steer away from groupthink.

“They are setting themselves up as second-rate scientists by not engaging,” Curry said. “By being so circular, there are missing the opportunity for input of other expertise in other scientific areas which are similar in some respects to (climate change).”

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Not the Last You Will See of "Climate" Oversight

Specifically, CEI's FOIA suit seeks documents and emails relating to NASA's temperature record, which NASA was forced to correct in response to criticism from a leading climate watchdog, Steve McIntyre. Those corrections destroyed NASA's stance that U.S. temperatures have been steadily rising in recent years and returned 1934, not 1998, to being the warmest year on record. NASA refuses to give CEI the computer file they used to make these changes, whose title includes "Steve" and "alternate cleaning."

CEI also seeks emails from NASA scientists using Real Climate.org on official time using official resources, often to advance what NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (its climate activist office) has decided is appropriate public advocacy.
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* NASA admits that it discovered 3,500 emails on Dr. Schmidt's NASA computer related to his work on RealClimate but won't produce them.

Hottest year ever update: More record cold in Australia

North-west Qld experiences record low temperatures - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Two north-west Queensland towns have recorded their coolest temperatures on record.

Croydon and Julia Creek both reached 25 degrees Celsius yesterday, 13 degrees below the November average, and breaking a 49-year-old record.

California's Climate Law Still in Jeopardy | Mother Jones

Environmentalists were quite relieved when California voters soundly rejected a ballot measure that would have delayed implementation of the state's landmark climate law—but perhaps they shouldn't be. While that ballot measure was shot down, another initiative, Proposition 26, snuck in—and it could very well undermine the climate law that citizens voted to protect.

The measure expands the definition of a "tax," and would require a two-thirds majority of the California's legislature to approve any new fee on companies or taxpayers instead of a simple majority. This, of course, would make it considerably harder to levy fees on things like pollution, alcohol, or tobacco.

Obama lukewarm on using EPA authority to rein in carbon emissions | Grist

Ahead of last December's Copenhagen summit, the Obama administration warned that if Congress did not act, the Environmental Protection Agency may regulate carbon.

Obama was non-committal on the idea Wednesday, saying that federal authorities were not "protective of their powers" but wanted to "make sure that the issue's being dealt with."

Putting the midterm elections in the context of the latest climate science (and life as we know it) | Grist

A series of "climate change Pearl Harbors" could trigger a political tipping point that convinces U.S. (and world) leaders to make mitigation efforts their top priority.

What the Election Means for Greens - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Cap-and-trade is now dead, having proven — as we predicted — to be the 1993 BTU tax redux. Members in the House voted on both measures on the assurance that the Senate would not leave them hanging, only to see their trust misplaced. As opposition grew more intense from the people — who were not at the table when their wealth was redistributed to various interests — the senators realized that they wanted to save jobs. Theirs, that is.

Combine these and we see that cap-and-trade’s ugly cousin, “green jobs,” is sure to be an obsession very soon. It also is sure to meet an unhappy fate.

California Climate Vote More about Protecting Investments | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

This process, known as rent-seeking (because it causes businesses to lobby for rules in their favor at the expense of others), is bad economics, bad for the consumer, and bad for the state of California.

Hiding The Decline In Washington DC | Real Science

The closest USHCN station to Washington is at Lincoln, Virginia. Since the mid-1990s, the thermometers say that Lincoln has cooled about three degrees (blue below) – while USHCN carefully adjusts the temperatures in the opposite direction.

Climate Research News » Ross McKitrick: The Case Against the Case Against Conventional Energy

The presentation is based on Canada, but many of the findings are universal. He makes the following points about the ‘green’ economy:

“The only people who want to push wind energy for its own sake are those who expect to profit from it.”

“Windmills don’t run on wind, they run on [government] subsidies.”

“Solar panels are not powered by sunlight, they are powered by taxpayers.”

“In other words, the green energy sector takes $2 worth of inputs and produces $1 worth of energy.”

“This is not wealth-creation, it is wealth destruction.”

“It is not job creation, since even more jobs have to be destroyed to fund the subsidies.”

And concludes:

Expose ulterior motives by asking: what are you really interested in?

Global Warming FOIA Suit Against NASA Heats Up Again - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times

In court documents filed last night, the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues that NASA has gone out of its way to avoid turning over records that show the agency reverse-engineered temperature data to better make the case that the planet is becoming warmer.

Could you give up washing? | Environment | The Guardian

commentator Matthew Parris admitting he hadn't shampooed his hair for a decade

View Online - News

New research has found that the glaciers in Antarctica may contain nanoparticles of iron oxide which may be able to slow global warming.

Through the warming process causing glaciers and icebergs to melt, the iron oxide will be leached into the ocean and boost the growth of phytoplankton and as they photosynthesise they will remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which could slow global warming.

Eco-nut Michael Bloomberg suggests that trace amounts of CO2 damage the drinking water and air

Mayor Michael Bloomberg Heads to Hong Kong For Climate Change [Hoax] Summit - DNAinfo.com

MANHATTAN — With the election over, Mayor Michael Bloomberg packed his bags and boarded a plan to Asia to lead an international summit on climate change.

Bloomberg left Wednesday night for Hong Kong, where he will gather with other members of the C40 Climate Leadership Group, an association of cities aimed at finding ways to reduce waste and carbon emissions, he said.
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"We've got to make sure that we all focus on the damage that we’re doing to the, drinking water and the air and the long-term climate change," Bloomberg told reporters before he left.

Flashback: Mayor Bloomberg Doesn’t Always Live by His Health Rules - NYTimes.com

But Mr. Bloomberg, 67, likes his popcorn so salty that it burns others’ lips. (At Gracie Mansion, the cooks deliver it to him with a salt shaker.) He sprinkles so much salt on his morning bagel “that it’s like a pretzel,” said the manager at Viand, a Greek diner near Mr. Bloomberg’s Upper East Side town house.

Not even pizza is spared a coat of sodium. When the mayor sat down to eat a slice at Denino’s Pizzeria Tavern on Staten Island recently, this reporter spotted him applying six dashes of salt to it.

A health tip sheet from the mayor’s office tells New Yorkers to “drink smart” by choosing water, even though Mr. Bloomberg has a three- to four-cup-a-day coffee habit.

“I can count on two hands the number of times I have seen him drink water,” said one dining companion,

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov. 4th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

The week has been dominated with news of the US mid-term elections, but that doesn’t mean it’s been all quiet on the warming front. California rejected dope and abandoned hope, Al Gore was busted for being an idle idol and the green version of George Orwell’s Youth League is alive and well in England.

EU Referendum: We knew this

The climate scare is gradually falling apart. And with no US "cap and trade", there will be no money to sustain it. The scaremongers will move on to find more profitable causes.

The big problem now is to get through to the idiot politicians, to undo some of the damage they and their predecessors have done. That is going to be difficult. We still have legislation on the stocks, introduced on the assumption that BSE was going to cause a large-scale epidemic in humans. Getting legislators to claw back on legislation is one of the hardest tasks known to man.

The next hardest thing is to get those who supported the scare to admit to their stupidity. But the world does not work that way. The old scares are forgotten, and new ones forged. Nobody ever admits they are wrong. That way, we never learn the lessons and are always prey to the scaremongers, failing to recognise them as they employ the tools of their trade until it is too late.

Second order « the Air Vent

The most destructive enemy of humanity is not weather, it is poverty.

Climate Change Dispatch - End of the World as You KNOW It

The Nov 2, 2010 elections are the beginning of the end to the world as a lot of people KNOW it. The new Representative majority will appoint committee chairmen with a more balanced view on climate and real hearings will produce real evidence of this criminal fraud. House originated spending bills will slash funding of Executive Czars and run-away department heads, including the EPA.

More lunacy from eco-nut James Cameron: "Coral reefs can be killed off in the next 20 years"; "we are the comet"

Building a smarter planet? Look at James Cameron’s Avatar | VentureBeat

During the 12 years it took to make Avatar, Cameron wondered deeply about the environmental impact of his film. Humans, Cameron said, have to evolve into “techno indigenous people, not of the state, not of the nation, but of the planet.”

He added, “That hasn’t been done before and I don’t know how to do it. Maybe it’s one of the tipping point things in a good way. You notice now that solar energy is slowly starting to accelerate. I have to think that people of good conscience will prevail. Education is important. We have to challenge our leaders to be leaders, getting the public to buy into it. Right now, they are in denial mode because of the economy. That is natural. People have to pay mortgages.”
...he also intends to bring to light problems such as the fact that the coral reefs can be killed off in the next 20 years, simply by a 2-degree increase in the temperature of the ocean on a global level.

People have to realize that everything is connected, he said. People in Minnesota might actually like it if the temperature of the planet rises five degrees. But they won’t like it if they have to send their children to fight wars that arise because the temperature rise elsewhere causes droughts, mass migrations, dislocations and conflict. Cameron said that humans have to acknowledge a debt to the natural and that we are on a precipice.

“If we don’t take control of our role and stewardship of the planet,” he said. “Then the world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren is not going to be a livable place.”
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Cameron said he was also concerned that 70 percent of all species could be wiped out by global warming and other environmental impacts of mankind by the end of the century. He said that is as bad as the loss of species that occurred when the comet wiped out the dinosaurs.

“This time, we are the comet,” he said.

Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland, Australia

The Great Barrier Reef is around 18 million years of age in the north and 2 million Years old in the south

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Scientific American Poll: 81% think the IPCC is Corrupt, with Group-think & Political Agenda

'Scientific' American may regret taking their recent opinion poll on the state of Climate Science given the eye-opening results cast by their "scientifically literate" readership. With a total of 5190 respondents, a consensus of 81.3% think the IPCC is "a corrupt organization, prone to group-think, with a political agenda" and 75% think climate change is caused by solar variation or natural processes vs. 21% who think it is due to greenhouse gases from human activity. 65% think we should do nothing about climate change since "we are powerless to stop it," and the same percentage think science should stay out of the political process. When asked "How much would you be willing to pay to forestall the risk of catastrophic climate change?" 76.7% said "nothing."

Obama tries to pick up the pieces on climate and energy | Grist

Barack Obama is officially thinking small. After tossing the last shovelful of dirt on cap-and-trade yesterday as "just one way of skinning the cat," he ran through a list of what his energy options are now that Republicans have taken over the House: Electric vehicles, converting heavy trucks to natural gas, more energy efficient buildings, and maybe, just maybe, a renewable electricity standard.

More exceedingly stupid stuff from the UN: As growth in fossil fuel use has improved the human condition, they argue that more growth in fossil fuel use will harm the human condition

UN report warns of threat to human progress from climate change | Global development | The Guardian

"For human development to become truly sustainable, the close link between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions needs to be severed," the UN said in its annual human development report (HDR).

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the HDR said the past two decades had seen "substantial progress" in human development despite the impact of the financial crisis, which had resulted in 34 million people losing their jobs and an additional 64 million people dropping below the $1.25 a day income poverty threshold.

"Most people are healthier, live longer, are more educated and have more access to goods and services. Even in countries facing adverse economic conditions, people's health and education have greatly improved."

$9 billion described as "peanuts": I wonder if this will inspire the new US House to cough up $100 billion annually in climate swindle money

Rich nations urged to develop climate [hoax] aid plan for Cancún | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Brazilian environment minister Izabella Teixeira says negotiators must show they can produce agreements to restore faith in climate talks
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But as Cancún approaches, even that fund has failed to take shape, India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, complained.

"The promised $30bn is nowhere in the sight. At best we can hope to get $8bn or $9bn which is just peanuts," Ramesh told reporters before leaving for Cancún.

Greens desperate to avoid blame - POLITICO.com Print View

Environmentalists are trying to stomp out the suggestion that they had anything to do with the tidal wave that washed away House Democrats in Tuesday's midterm elections.
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"It's very dangerous branding for them," said Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute and a skeptic on global warming science. "There will never be another vote on a Btu tax in my lifetime for the reason of 1993. I suggest if cap and trade is similarly thought of, there will also never be a vote on cap and trade."

Indeed, directly after the cap-and-trade vote — which itself was delayed for an hour while Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) held the floor to decry the bill — House Republicans taunted Democrats with chants of "Btu, Btu."

President Barack Obama is already trying to distance himself from the Democrats' unsuccessful climate bill (a measure the White House celebrated at the time).

New Republican House Promises Investigation Of Global Warming Fraud

One of the first tasks of the new Republican-controlled House of Congress will be to launch a full investigation into the man-made global warming fraud, as the climate change con that threatens to tax and regulate the American middle class out of existence is exposed to what could prove terminal scrutiny.

Election Results Likely to Proliferate Climate-Related Lawsuits -- Study - NYTimes.com

According to figures from the law firm Arnold & Porter LLP cited in the report, as of October, there were 290 separate climate-linked lawsuits working their way through courts, many of them on appeal after having been dismissed earlier. The majority of the cases, 91, are direct challenges by companies and state governments to EPA efforts at regulating greenhouse gases.

Selling out their craft to the global warming cause | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Should journalists report the views of global warming sceptics - even just for balance?

A panel of “top” journalists and journalism academics, as chosen by the University of Technology Sydney’s far Left Centre of “Independent Journalism” and broadcast by the ABC, agree that on the whole the answer is ... no, or rarely.

Naturally, in accord with their commitment to debate, not one person on the panel is a sceptic, or challenges this group think.
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Warmist academic Anne Henderson-Sellers, who says she sets her students the homework of watching the propagandist An Inconvenient Truth and The Age of Stupid to inform themselves, demands to know why journalists didn’t describe Lord Monckton as a “fruitcake” so her hairdresser wouldn’t be so impressed. Chubb calls him a “clown”.

The real reason (climate) scientists don't want to release their code | John Graham-Cumming

1. When the scientist's results are invalidated later by others because the code was blatantly wrong (and they are retracting papers) (see story in the Nature article) they are going to look like much more of a fool. And, frankly, if they think their code is that bad one has to wonder how they can think their paper is worth publishing.
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It's tragic that there's a conflict between science and scientific careers. But I think you can put aside the high-minded arguments about the integrity of the scientific method, and see the real reason (climate) scientists don't want to release their code: management of a scientific career and fear of looking foolish.

Climate expert helps ease guilt | Noosa News | Local News in Noosa | Noosa News

Noosa-bound Professor Bob Carter has written a book on climate for all those feeling giddy and guilty after being “bashed about the head for the past 10 years” by the doomsayers of global warning.

Prof Carter will launch his book ‘Climate: The Counter Consensus’ at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Centre off Eumundi Road, Noosaville, at 3pm tomorrow.

Global Warming Denier Shimkus Hoping For Top Spot On Energy Committee | Progress Illinois

Perhaps the biggest ramification of the U.S. House switching to Republican control is the change in leadership of committee posts. Politico is reporting that following his re-election, U.S. Rep. John Shimkus is making a play for chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This is the same Illinois congressman who called the cap-and-trade legislation that passed the House last year "the largest assault on democracy and freedom in this country that I’ve ever experienced," so the development is a disturbing one.

GCMs Unable To Accurately Model 70% Of The Earth’s Surface | Real Science

But the IPCC still claims 98% confidence in their future outcomes.

We've been conned. The deal to save the natural world never happened | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

The so-called summit in Japan won't stop anyone trashing the planet. Only economic risks seem to make governments act

Almost One Million km2 Of New Arctic Ice In The Past Four Days | Real Science

A new Manhattan of ice forms about every minute, in Holdren’s ice free winter.

To offset Obama's trip to India, how long must I leave my iPhone unplugged?

34 warships sent from US for Obama visit

He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea.
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Obama is expected to fly by a helicopter -- Marine One -- from the city airport to the Indian Navy's helibase INS Shikra at Colaba in south Mumbai.

From there, he will drive down in Lincoln Continental -- the Presidential limousine -- to the nearby the Taj Hotel.

Two jets, armed with advanced communication and security systems, and a fleet of over 40 cars will be part of Obamas convoy.

Around 800 rooms have been booked for the President and his entourage in Taj Hotel and Hyatt.