Bolivia Blasts Cancun Accord

http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1-/7564-bolivia-blasts-cancun-accord.html

Recent scientific reports show that 300,000 people already die each year from climate change-related disasters. This text threatens to increase the number of deaths annually to one million. This is something we can never accept.

Cold comfort: Dozens of dazed turtles wash up on beaches | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

"You can't just stick them next to a heater and warm them up fast. You have to do it slowly," Fitzgerald said, adding that it can cost between $300 and $400 to care for one turtle before it is released back into the water.

Last winter, nearly 70 cold-stunned turtles - a record number - were rescued by NEST volunteers, Fitzgerald said.

5 Awards For the World's Most Heinous Climate Villains | Environment | AlterNet

3. Credentials in the Wrong Field Award

Anthony Watts

Misdeeds: Overnight, went from local TV weatherman to a climate "expert," constantly attacking scientific reports for groupthink, grant-seeking greed, and phony data. Sent his minions to photograph those US temperature stations which he claimed were too close to heat sinks, skewing temperature readings.

NOAA decided to take him up on his claim and analyzed the station data from all 1223 sites, and found no evidence of bias or distortion. Anthony instantly dropped the project with no mention of his error and simply began shouting, "Climategate!" -- the oil company e-burglary and nontroversy, which ultimately offered no evidence of scientific wrongdoing.

Corporate Teats: People contribute to the "cookie jar" on his loony blog, but oil and coal companies support him through former pro-smoking "researchers" at the Heartland Institute.

Most Egregious Lie: "The Hockey Stick is Broken!" Really? The hockey stick has been duplicated in over 20 charts from climate scientists, and vindicated in an exhaustive study by the National Academy of Sciences.

Comeuppance: Cross checked by Al Roker.

Is my science journalism compromised by politics? | Warmist Tom Yulsman - CEJournal

SHOCKING BUT TRUE!… By way of full disclosure, and as Charlie suspected, I am indeed a Democrat.
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It is also probably true that I wound up in journalism, as opposed to business or finance, because my mom was a good Lefty who read the Sunday New York Times over bagels and lox every week.
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Well, nothing would please me more than to wake up tomorrow to learn that scientists had just discovered some huge, heretofore unknown natural factor nullifying any possibility of a human impact on global life support systems. Would that not be the science story of the century?

And wouldn’t it be fabulous if instead of being the first person to report that by NASA’s accounting the past meteorological year was the warmest on record, I was actually the first to report that global warming IS bunk? Like, for real? I can only imagine what THAT would do for my page views.

Cancun climate breakthrough: It’s not perfect, but it’s a deal | The Climate Desk | Grist

Most delegations, however, were eager to walk away with something they could declare a win...
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U.S. envoy Stern skirted the question of whether the new agreement is heading toward a legally binding form anytime soon. "The day will come when there is a legal agreement, but we're not going to hang everything up on that," Stern told reporters.

Bolivia's defiant leader sets radical tone at Cancún climate talks | Environment | The Observer

Despite the claims of deniers who say global warming is a myth, the climate is changing dramatically in Bolivia and other Andean countries, Morales insists. "The lakes are drying. There is drought. Millions of fish are dying in the Amazon basin of frost."

If the Science is So Persuasive, Why the Theatrics? « NoFrakkingConsensus

Why did Wirth (and, by implication, Al Gore) deliberately schedule the hearing for the hottest part of the year? Why did Wirth sneak into the hearing room the night before and open the windows so that the air conditioning system would be ineffective? If weather is not climate, why did Wirth go to such trouble to suggest the exact opposite to the media covering that event?

Snap Analysis: Climate talks win lifeline, but may sink in 2012

Saturday's deal put off the question of whether to extend the Kyoto Protocol by agreeing to put industrialized countries' pledges in a document separate to the pact, which allowed Japan to avoid commitment to a second round of Kyoto.

That document does not yet exist.

Student fee 'savings' will fund windmills in Africa - Telegraph

The £2.9 billion the Government will save by increasing tuition fees matches the amount earmarked for a global warming project, finds Christopher Booker.

Do you believe in magic … climate numbers? | The SPPI Blog

Magic is delightful when it’s Criss Angel or Harry Potter. Magic temperature numbers – pulled out of hats, computers and fertile imaginations – are a lousy, fraudulent, redistributionist way to set public policy.

The Steger effect: Hours after warmist Will Steger's first global warming hoax event of the weekend, Snowmageddon begins, wiping out his second event

School of Education | Trans-Antarctica Expedition

1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition Reunion Event

DATE: Saturday, December 11, 2010
TIME: 3:00 -5:00 p.m.
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*WEATHER UPDATE* Event is CANCELED due to the snowstorm.

6 men from 6 countries ~ US, Russia, China, Japan, UK, France
42 sled dogs ~ 3,741 miles traveled across Antactica ~ Seven months

AccuWeather.com - Weather News | Minneapolis Airport Closes, NY Giants Diverted to Kansas City

Saturday's blizzard conditions have forced the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport to close.

The Latest | StarTribune.com

With roughly one-third of its bus drivers stuck in the snow, Metro Transit pulled its buses off the streets of the Twin Citites Saturday afternoon.

However, the Hiawatha light-rail line and the Northstar commuter train continued to operate.

About 70 of the system's 220 buses got mired in the snow and system managers made the decision to send them back to the gararges, said spokesman Bob Gibbons.

Cold ‘may kill street sleepers’ says Trowbridge charity spokesman (From Wiltshire Times)

A charity spokesman said that “The harsh reality is that the cold weather will kill some of the people living on our streets this winter.

Mexican climate broker 'a goddess': Jairam Ramesh - The Economic Times

CANCUN: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh late Friday likened Mexican foreign secretary Patricia Espinosa to a "goddess" as she won rave reviews for brokering a deal on climate change.
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"The great Mexican revolutionary leader Porfirio Diaz had said the big challenge for Mexico is it is very close to its northern neighbor but very far away from God," Ramesh said. "But tonight, God has been very close to Mexico."

"If I may say so," he said, "since I come from a country which has more goddesses than gods, not only has God been present, but a goddess has been present today."

Climate change: the warmist demands heat up as 'green’ costs soar - Telegraph

Even the freezing weather failed to bring cold reality home to the global warming posse in Cancun, says Christopher Booker.

Remember when "Fraudster Al" was a rock star in Bali? So where was he during the Cancun climate hoax meetings?

2007: Al Gore tells Bali the inconvenient truth on US - New Scientist

Former US vice president Al Gore just walked into the room to a standing ovation. I am in one of the big halls in the Bali International Convention Centre in Indonesia and Gore has arrived to give delegates a final pep talk before negotiations conclude tomorrow.

He cuts an impressive silhouette as he makes his way to the front of the room surrounded by his bodyguards who are as solidly built as he is.
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If I were a sports reporter, this is where I would say something along the lines of "the crowd goes wild".

In the event, it's not quite the screaming, frenzied mess of a stadium full of victorious fans, but this, right now, right here, is as close to that as you will ever get to that in a high-level political summit. In fact, as it unfolds, Gore's speech has all the makings of the pep talk a coach might give his players during half-time.
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For the remaining 45 minutes, Gore moves his way from ovation to ovation...

Skeptics Have Their Say at COP16, Press Refuses to Report

Considering that the Cancun climate sumimit is dominated by so-called experts willing to sign petitions aimed at banning water — literally — it’s no surprise that the CFACT press conference did not receive the coverage it deserved. Plus, with dictators hoping to grab some climate loot, Western regimes hoping to impose carbon taxes and new suffocating regulations, and activists paid to promote the climate hysteria, most COP16 attendees probably weren’t interested in science or the truth anyway. Maybe that's why the movement has become a laughing stock around the world.

[The First Green President cares enough to take a phone call about The Most Important Issue in Human History!] | Reuters

The White House summarized a phone call between Obama and Calderon...

Bummer in Scotland: Winter storm leads to resignation of warmist Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change

Political chill: Scotland's transport minister quits after snow brings country to a halt :: International News Story

LONDON - [Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Stewart Stevenson] has resigned after winter storms paralyzed the transit system.

Airports were closed, trains halted and Scotland's busiest highway shut down earlier this week after a bout of heavy snow and ice. Motorists were stranded overnight in their cars on gridlocked roads.

Stewart Stevenson MSP - Working for You: Climate change targets

Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson said:

"Scotland has the most ambitious climate change legislation anywhere in the world and these annual targets set a clear framework for achieving our 2020 target. The targets go further than those recommended by the UK Climate Change Committee and reflect a number of meetings of the cross party group.

Stewart Stevenson addresses climate change summit

However much global emission reduce, Scotland’s climate will continue to change for decades to come and so we must adapt as well as mitigate, Climate Change minister Stewart Stevenson warned today.

Addressing delegates at Holyrood magazine’s Delivering on 2020 climate change conferences in Edinburgh today, Stevenson also spoke about the low-carbon economy that the Scottish Government hopes to realise in Scotland.

Stewart Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

During the December 2010 snowfall on 6 December, Stevenson, on Newsnight Scotland, called the response to people being trapped on the main Scottish Motorway Network for more than 10 hours, as first class, and refused to apologise, claiming the snow was un-forecast. He later back-tracked the next day, and apologised.[17] On 11 December Stevenson resigned following criticism of his handling of the issue.[18]

41% Now Say Global Warming is Caused By Human Activity, More Say Planetary Trends - Rasmussen Reports™

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters finds that 41% think global warming is caused primarily by human activity, while 47% say long-term planetary trends are to blame.

Record cold in Cancun? You can't make this stuff up | NJ.com

...That, boys and girls, is why this effort is ultimately doomed. Global warming was a fad for the boom times, like giants SUVs and McMansions. Such luxuries go out of fashion in a recession.

On a more serious note, here's a good piece on the effect of clouds on warming. That debate can get real complicated real fast, but here's what it boils down to: No scientist can predict what the temperatures will be 5, 10, 15 or 20 years from now. It's just too complicated.

Heck, these guys couldn't even figure out what the weather was going to be like on their Mexican vacation.

Cuncan Climate Change Conference Closes with Deal - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

The United Nation's climate change conference here in Cancun came to an end at around 4 a.m. this morning. It would be cynical to call it a bribe, but the Cancun agreements were largely reached because the rich countries continued their vague promises to hand over $100 billion in climate aid annually to poor countries beginning in 2020.

Basically the deal on emissions is that countries will agree to agree on cuts at the next climate change conference in Durban. Big developing country emitters like China and India still refused to agree to any legally binding limits on their emissions. Of course, neither did the developed countries.

No commitments in Cancun Agreement, India`s interests `protected`

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh declared that 'India's interests had been fully protected and enhanced' in the Cancun Agreement and pointed to paragraphs in the agreement that had been drafted by the ministry, as well as clauses that had been dropped at the Indian delegates' insistence.
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Ramesh had insisted that India's right to development had been safeguarded by the deletion of the clause which wanted global GHG emissions - which cause global warming - to be reduced by half by 2050.

The Risk of Ocean Death from CO2 | Climate

Cancun, Dec 10, 2010 – The new trump card in climate change will be ocean acidity, or what might be better called ocean death. This newly recognized threat makes drastically cutting CO2 astronomically more urgent

UK News :: Weather: 35,000 deaths fear in new Arctic blizzards

Studies show a drop in temperature of just one degree is followed by 200 heart attacks. People aged between 75 and 84 and those with a history of heart disease appear to be most vulnerable.

Last year the number of deaths linked to the cold weather reached nearly 28,000 in four months, sparking claims that the UK has the highest winter death rate in northern Europe.

Cancun climate con

We global warming scoffers have had a lot of fun over the past week mocking the disastrous United Nations conference on climate change in Cancun.

The optics surrounding this doomed summit meeting have been mind-boggling from the beginning:

Thousands of bureaucrats and do-gooders from around the world have jetted into a Mexican beach resort. Surrounded by palm trees and bikinis, they're trying to decide how best to fleece working people to pay for imaginary climate improvements.

Twitter / Kate Sheppard: Stern won't comment on whe ...

Stern won't comment on whether this is the end of the Kyoto Protocol or not. #COP16

Climate Talks End With Modest Deal on Emissions - NYTimes.com

The year was marked by extreme weather events, from a record-breaking heat wave in Russia in July to the dramatic floods in Pakistan. High sea temperatures were also blamed for a global bleaching of coral reefs.

A cold snap under way in Britain and northern Europe was unusual, but would do little to alter global average temperatures for the year, said James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute. “This regional cold spell has caused widespread commentary that global warming has ended,” Dr. Hansen said. “That is hardly the case.”

FUTURES FILE: Jack Frost sends markets skyward

The unseasonably cold weather damaged fruits, vegetables and livestock across the South. On the expectations of frost damage, orange juice futures made a three-year high at $1.70 a pound, up 14 percent in one week.

Dress warm, state urges, after 3 die with hypothermia | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

The Virginia Department of Health has issued a cold-weather alert after three people with hypothermia died in Hampton Roads this week.
In a news release, the state's chief medical examiner, Dr. Leah Bush, said hypothermia was a contributing factor in three local deaths, but did not provide further details.

Bolivian President Calls for Death of Capitalism, Climate Tribunal

Evo Morales Cancun summit speech reveals radical anti-capitalist intentions of warming movement.

UCS Challenges New Committee Chairs to Reverse Antagonistic Climate Science Positions | Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel noted that when politicians attack the science, they often try to unfairly tarnish the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and pass on misinformation about emails stolen from scientists last fall.
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“The federal government’s own scientists and experts say that climate change poses a dangerous threat to our health and our economy,” she said. “The verdict is in and has been in for a long time.”
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UCS challenges the incoming committee chairs to hold hearings on the latest policy-relevant science rather than wasting taxpayer dollars on baseless attacks on climate science and climate scientists.

Last Three Days : 297 Record Low Temperatures | Real Science

Record lows are outpacing record highs by more than ten to one. Using Rommulan logic, that proves global cooling.

Aggie Joke : Dessler’s Error Is Greater Than His Trend | Real Science

In other words, his study is a waste of paper.

A working life: The climate change [scam] consultant | Money | The Guardian

Lewis was on her way to Cancun for the latest round of climate change talks when we spoke.
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Highs "Feeling as if we're making a difference. The science we're doing is really important and we are communicating it to people who can take action. We don't feel what we're doing goes unnoticed."  [She's openly admitting that she has an agenda.]

Lows "The thought that there people with an agenda determined to trip you up"

“Record-Setting” Electric Car Refuses Independent Testing. Was It Just A Hoax?

Shall we call it electric-car gate? The “record”, which probably lead to hundreds of millions more being approved for research, could very well turn out to have been just a hoax. If so – fooled again!

The Reference Frame: Do GOP scientists need affirmative action?

It is not hard to see that the conservatives are much more underrepresented in the current Western scientific establishment than women - and even than blacks. Clearly, the reasons are mostly social in this case.

American Thinker: Death of the Global Warming Myth

But ultimately it comes down to this: given time, truth wins out. Eventually rational people realize that groupthink and demonizing your opponents as "deniers" doesn't count for evidence. They realize that a movement so freely changing names - from Global Cooling to Global Warming to Climate Change to Global Climate Disruption - might be more about a neo-Marxist pursuit of global governance than about saving polar bears.

In the end, that is what has hastened the demise of Warmerism. This makes the climate changers' prayer to Ixchel the jaguar goddess so very appropriate...one myth perpetuated on humanity deserves another.

High hopes as world moves towards new climate change deal - Telegraph

The ‘Cancun Package’, which the British took a key role in drawing up, suggests that all countries agree to cut emissions as part of a legally binding deal to be drawn up in the future.
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In extraordinary scenes the President of the talks was hailed as a ‘goddess’ and even the United States, usually the villain at climate change talks, was cheered.

Fraudster Andrew Dessler thinks you're stupid; he suggests that he's disinterested in the global warming hoax policy debate

New Theory of Climate Effects of Clouds Triggers a Thunderstorm Among Skeptics in Cancun - NYTimes.com

He added: "And as far as my interest in influencing the policy debate goes, I'll just say that I'm in College Station this week, while Dr. Spencer is in Cancun."

Andrew Dessler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

His research subject areas are climate systems research and climate change policy.
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Dessler spent the year 2000 as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. While there, he became aware of that policymakers and the general public often lack an understanding of how science works and how to interpret the conflicting claims in policy debates. Dessler’s focus is on understanding the Earth’s climate; he has also researched stratospheric chemistry.
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Dessler's principal policy monograph, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: a Guide to the Debate, conveys the complexity of the current global climate change.

U.N. climate [scam] talks agree modest package | Reuters

The deal was unlocked after delegates simply put off until 2011 and 2012 a dispute between rich and poor nations over the future of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, which obliges almost 40 rich nations to cut emissions in a first period until end-2012.
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"It's really pretty historic," said Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat.

Ethanol Subsidies: $10 A Gallon And $14 Million Per Job Created - Investors.com

Center director Bruce Babcock said in an e-mail that each 100 million gallons of ethanol creates 70 jobs. Thus, 600 million gallons would result in 420 jobs, or about $14 million per job.

Feinstein and Kyl highlighted this finding in their letter. They also note that ethanol may be the only product that benefits from all three forms of government support: subsidies, tariffs to protect it from competition, and mandates that require its use.

Stern: China can be urban low carbon model - China.org.cn

Stern, who led the 2006 groundbreaking report on climate-change economics for the British government, still has hope for China to become a leader in green lifestyles.

Flashback: Twitter gaffe: US embassy announces 'crazy bad' Beijing air pollution | Jonathan Watts | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Unexpected phrase in US embassy's hourly pollution tweet gives its followers cause for amusement and concern

Climate draft text signals breakthroughs - The Globe and Mail

In an informal session aimed at giving countries the opportunity to object and spark further talks, Ms. Espinosa received a 75-second standing ovation and no objections...The proposed agreements would endorse the view that “climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time” and requires “long-term co-operative action” in order to prevent catastrophic impacts across the planet. And they pledged that countries would consider strengthening the long-term goal to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees, something demanded by small island states who fear the 2-degree target would leave their countries literally under water as a result of rising sea levels.

UPDATE 1-Climate draft proposes $100 bln financing | Energy & Oil | Reuters

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN1015284120101211

The text drops a demand from developing countries that rich countries offer 1.5 percent of their gross domestic product in financing.

Missouri: Body Found; Victim May Have Frozen to Death - KTVI

VALLEY PARK, MO (KTVI - FOX2now.com) — St. Louis County police are investigating the discovery of a body in Valley Park, MO. Details are still unclear, but the man may have frozen to death. Officials believe the older man fell near 150 Crescent in Valley Park. A cell phone found near his body lead authorities to believe he was trying to call someone but did not get through.

Officials think he laid there all night and may have died from hypothermia.

Montana: Columbia Falls Man Freezes To Death - News Story - NBCMontana NBC Montana

COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. -- A Columbia Falls man froze to death in his car Sunday night.

56 year old Jeffery Tolson lost his job as a truck driver a couple of weeks ago. Police say he turned down offers to help him find a warm place to sleep. Tolson reportedly plugged an electric blanket into his cigarette lighter to keep warm. On Monday morning, Tolson's battery apparently ran down as he slept. He was found by a police officer cold to the touch, and incoherent. An ambulance rushed Tolson to the hospital, but he died a few hours later, from hypothermia.

Iowa: Cedar Rapids man died of exposure - chicagotribune.com

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Authorities say a Cedar Rapids man found dead along a street wearing only boxer shorts in subzero temperatures died of hypothermia due to exposure.

Maryland Weather: Three Marylanders dead from hypothermia so far

This week's unusually cold weather has contributed to the death of an elderly Anne Arundel County resident, according to state health officials. The death was the third this fall attributed in part to hypothermia. All were 65 or older and all had underlying illnesses that contributed to their deaths.
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Last year, 42 Marylanders died in circumstances in which hypothermia played a role, state health officials said.

Climate-change giveaway pledges looking pretty iffy these days « Hot Air

Ethanol subsidies should have ended long ago. But if the solar and wind producers are still only existing on the grace of federal subsidies, then perhaps those should end as well. The US has been underwriting wind and solar for decades in the hope that they would eventually transform into profitable and high-production industries. Even the progressives that back them in principle and insist on subsidizing them wind up opposing construction of sites like the wind farm off of Cape Cod (the Cape Wind project) and solar farms like Ridgway and Teanaway. The use of these technologies in practice for mass production creates eyesore sites, eats up tons of land, and has their own impacts on the local environment.

It’s time to stop wasting money, and certainly time to stop the push for redistribution of wealth using “global warming” as the excuse du jour.

Icy winds sweep across north-west India | NetIndian | India News

Icy winds swept across northwest India which shivered under severe cold conditions and witnessing foggy mornings and low mercury levels today.

Across many areas in the region, the night temperature was at a record low.

Science Criticized in Cancún for Timing of Paper on Cloud Feedback - ScienceInsider

A climate skeptic has suggested that Science tried to influence the climate change talks ending today in Cancún, Mexico, by publishing a paper that supports the idea that clouds tend to, at least in the short term, enhance global warming. An editor at the journal says that's not the case.

Cancun climate talks hit crunch time | Grist

In a gesture that startled observers in Cancun and at home, India on Thursday broke with China and said it would consider binding action, although not in the foreseeable future.

BBC News - Pupils in Newcastle forced to move after roof collapse

Pupils from a Newcastle primary school are being forced to move to another building after snow made their main hall roof collapse.

Twitter / Andy Revkin: Mike Shanahan of IIED on ' ...

Mike Shanahan of IIED on 'The Nazi threat and climate-change denial': http://t.co/DCGN61m

Meet the youth climate [hoax] leaders | Environment | guardian.co.uk

"You once super-glued what to Gordon Brown?" I ask, unable to hear clearly on the fuzzy telephone line. "Myself!" says Dan Glass, "I once super-glued myself to Gordon Brown. Google it – I've got to go back into the courtroom."

Like many leading young activists, Dan's trying to stop climate change by whatever means possible.
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Niel Bowerman, 23, climate scientist

"Most of the carbon we emit today will still be in the atmosphere heating the planet in 2050, but most of today's decision-makers won't be here. "
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Tom Youngman, 17, eco-schools advocate

"I'm pretty damn terrified right now"
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Dan Glass, 27, activist

"Whenever anybody sticks their head above the parapet they're seen as a lunatic, but we need to show the inadequacies of the legal system for protecting the earth."

Youth climate activists blog : Dan Glass

Dan was recently named one of Attitude Magazine's 66 new role models for his work on bridging the gay rights and environmental justice movements.

Hypocrisy alive and well at Cancun climate conference | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

The unbearable spectacle of it all is what prompted one climate scholar to stop attending the conferences all together. Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of the newly-released “Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America,” told The Daily Caller he hasn’t been to the annual U.N. climate change conference since it was held in Montreal in 2005.

“The ritual teary-eyed Europeans declaring a never-ending series of ‘historic agreements,’ which were no such thing, became too farcical to continue attending,” said Horner. “The enterprise is pompously and risibly dedicated in equal parts to wealth redistribution and self-perpetuation, as a platform for, and along the way, engaging in visceral anti-Americanism.”
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The Telegraph article also pointed out that although recycling bins were located throughout the lavish Moon Palace hotel, the closest actual recycling facility was hundreds of miles away.

White House Brags That They Stole $900 From Each Taxpayer To Solve A Non-Existent Problem | Real Science

Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, told delegates at Cancun that Washington spent more than $90 billion to tackle domestic environmental issues meant to reduce overall emissions of greenhouse gases.

Major Shift: Germany Now Views Climate Change As Positive!

For those of you out there still worried that leaders might do something really stupid, and actually sign something – stop worrying. Merkel hasn’t jumped on any jet to Cancun, and she isn’t going to. Cancun was pronounced dead before it even got started.

Parading the dead body that is Cancun through the conference may make it look like it’s alive, but it’s still dead. Time to bury it.

C3: Russian Mega Heat Waves & Mega Forest Fires Documented To Be Of Frequent Occurence

The 2010 summer Russian heat wave and resulting forest fires have been claimed to be the result of global warming and climate change. Unfortunately for the AGW alarmists and activist scientists, NASA found these claims to be of little merit.

Cancun: What will our climate legacy be? « Climate Progress

Kiribati President: "Whoever thinks they are more vulnerable than we are, they can swap countries."

Bastardi Forecast: “Severe Event” For Europe

Joe Bastardi’s latest video Europe Gets Hit by Extreme Cold is not good news. By Tuesday night the cold will spread over Central and Western Europe. Bastardi:

By the time we get to the latter part of next week and on into the Christmas week, this is a severe event, no question about it.

We’re looking at a top 5 or 10 cold December.

I feel we should warn you, things are going to be real nasty in the next 2 weeks, and perhaps 3 weeks.”

“Gore Effect” on Steroids: Six straight days of record low temperatures during COP16 in Cancun Mexico – more coming | Watts Up With That?

The irony, it burns. Do you think maybe Gaia is trying to send the U.N. and the delegates a message? One record low was funny, three in a row was hilarious, a new record low for the month of December was ROFL, but now six straight days of record lows during the U.N. COP16 Global Warming conference? That’s galactically inconvenient.

Revkin on the Cancun climate hoax fest: "the extravagance of some of the parties was beyond parody..."

Climate and Energy Beyond Cancún - NYTimes.com

My departure does not mean I think the talks are a waste of time. (Mind you, I do think they waste a lot of resources and money; much of the first week of jockeying and events could have been done virtually, for instance, and the extravagance of some of the parties was beyond parody considering the poverty outside the hotel zone.)*

BBC iPlayer - Kate Silverton: President Nasheed of The Maldives on the heroes and villains in the fight against climate change. - 05/12/2010

[Start at the 37 minute mark]

Does Rain Call GISS Liars? « Musings from the Chiefio

So what do you think? Does that GISS temperature data look kind of ‘odd’ or ‘cooked’? Or can CO2 have an opposite sign in different halves of a century?

Deadlock over Kyoto means Cancún talks have little to show after two weeks | World news | The Guardian

After two weeks of talks, despite an all-night bargaining session, ministers had managed by mid-morning on the final day to agree on just one paragraph of text.

Cancun climate change summit: protests in pictures - Telegraph

Members of delegations from the Philippines share a table in the sea in Cancun with Australian Ody Kamal and Dominican Vanesa Taveras, both members of the NGO 350.org, representing a negotiation table regarding the islands in danger of disappearing due to the rising ocean levels caused by global warming

Cancun climate change summit: protests in pictures - Telegraph

People walk past an activist in a polar bear costume lying on the floor at the Moon Palace Hotel during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun

Cancun climate change summit: protests in pictures - Telegraph

An environmental activist dressed as Christ demonstrates in front of riot police outside the Pitaya Cancun Messe where climate talks are taking place in Cancun

Cancun climate change summit: Viscount Monckton admits that global warming is happening - Telegraph

Earlier this month Nasa confirmed that the last decade will be the hottest on record and a new analysis of peer-reviewed science by the Met Office warned the consequences of global warming could be worse than ever because of ‘feed backs’ [note the single quotes and the space in the middle] like melting sea ice and die back of the Amazon rainforest.

The American Spectator : Wasting Away in Margaritaville

What a difference a year makes.

At this time last year, the lunatics were in full command of the asylum. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and a supporting cast of thousands were jetting off to Copenhagen to swear their undying allegiance to the idea that it is necessary to save the planet from the scourge of human life. That would be human life, most particularly, as it is lived here in the United States and other parts of the world that have not yet gotten around to pulling the plug on capitalism and moving on to a more enlightened way of organizing production and redistributing material wealth.

"Climate change is a religion for them, so there was no way they were going to miss this," said one GOP aide of the huge contingent of Democratic representatives and senators who boarded Air Force and commercial jets for Copenhagen. "This is their Hajj."

Cold weather causes stubble turnip feed risk - 12/10/2010 - Farmers Weekly

Stubble turnips being fed this winter could have seriously deteriorated following the recent cold weather, with frosted crops also potentially toxic, experts warn.

Developing countries hint at Cancun compromise - 10 Dec 2010 - News from BusinessGreen

However, fears remain that Bolivia could oppose any deal reach in Cancun after president Evo Morales gave a impassioned defence of the country's calls for industrialised nations to sign up to far more ambitious emission reduction targets.

He said that deaths resulting from climate change were effectively "genocide" caused by capitalism and reiterated his view that the entire world order would have to change to cut emissions.

Movie enthusiasts enjoy Kathmandu Int'l Film Festival

"In 2008, the theme was Global Warming; in 2009, Climate Change and this year is cultural and bio-diversity and migration," Thapa said.

Wikileaks is just the new Climategate

Dr. William Gray, emeritus professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University (and one of the well-credentialled climate skeptics that are claimed not to exist) suggested that the Climategate revelations "are but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well-organized international climate-warming conspiracy that has been gathering momentum for the last 25 years. This conspiracy would become much more manifest if all the emails of the publicly funded climate research groups of the U.S. and of foreign governments were ever made public."

Wikileaks' next project?

Unprecedented number manatees die from cold this year

TAMPA - An unprecedented number of manatees have died in 2010 according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. The Commission says cold weather is to blame for many of these deaths.

668 manatees have died this year to date and 244 of those deaths were attributed to cold stress. 65 manatees were killed by watercraft according to the same FWC statistics. These numbers account for all Florida counties.

Bill McKibben: Climate Talks So Weakened by U.S., Major Polluters that Walkout Could Be Good News for Planet

NSIDC Records Start At Peak Ice | Real Science

Satellite records started in 1978, when ice was at the highest level of the century. That was also when the PDO shift occurred. Of course Arctic ice has declined. Blaming the decline on CO2 is both clueless and intellectually lazy.

1975 Bangladesh Flood Blamed On Global Cooling | Real Science

Now they blame them on global warming.

American Thinker: Small Complicated Climate Building Codes

A century and a half ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson preached self-reliance in Massachusetts. Today's legislators treat citizens like dependent children who have to be told how many lights they need in their kitchens. De Tocqueville noted that we entrust the people with the awesome responsibility of electing our leaders, but "to manage those minor affairs in which good sense is all that is wanted, the people are held to be unequal to the task." It is not the role, nor the right, of our government to mandate energy efficiency solutions in private homes.

Twitter / Brad Johnson: Ala @BarackObama, the US d ...

Ala @BarackObama, the US delegation does as few press conferences and briefings as possible, dribbling info out on background #cop16

Kate Sheppard (kate_sheppard) on Twitter

# Russia's Alexander Bedritsky: "would be neither scientifically, economically nor politically effective" to enter 2nd Kyoto period #COP16
# suzyji U know ur summit not going well when host starts talking abt airplane disaster scenarios http://bit.ly/i81vZs #Cancun #cop16 #eg

3 dead as cold conditions intensify in Punjab, Haryana - The Times of India

CHANDIGARH: With one more person dying, the toll in the cold wave sweeping Punjab and Haryana this season rose to three even as the mercury dropped by upto three degrees Celsius below normal in several places of the region.

Why you should eat insects instead of meat [VIDEO] | Grist

Marcel Dicke (it's French or something, you perv) gave a TED talk on why insects are a savory, eco-friendly alternative to meat. Apparently this is not a joke.

Cancún climate change conference: Russia will not renew Kyoto protocol | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Summit cast into doubt as Russia says it will not sign extension to treaty that has governed climate negotiations for more than a decade

“I Have A Nightmare!” Activists Searching For A Climate Martin Luther King

So what do you do to revitalise a dud issue? You repackage the product and re-market it. Der Spiegel piece presents the ideas that activists want to use to get the issue back into the headlines and in people’s minds.

According to the report, some activists want to use emotion, sex, critical debate, improved communication and a new scientific language to better communicate with the public. These are some of the less spectacular methods. Others are calling for more controversial methods, such as advocacy journalism.

Congress's New Science Chairman to Fight "Global Freezing" : TreeHugger

Is it too much to ask that the Science Chairman in the United States Congress have a basic understanding of one of the preeminent scientific topics of the day? I mean, not even the wildest, most asinine climate skeptic on the planet -- not even Lord Monckton or Rush Limbaugh -- would suggest that there's something called "global freezing" going on (okay, maybe Glenn Beck would).

Sigh.

CHESSER: All lights on Upton - Washington Times

About the light bulb ban, Mr. Upton said, "We have heard the grassroots loud and clear, and will have a hearing early next Congress. The last thing we wanted to do was infringe upon personal liberties - and this has been a good lesson that Congress does not always know best."

A promise to hear testimony is hardly a strong signal that Mr. Upton intends to pursue a repeal of the ban. Even more telling is that there was nothing in his personal constitution - much less in the U.S. Constitution - that told him a light bulb ban curbed basic freedoms. He needed a lesson for this?

Wet Cold and Hot Dry Cycles « Musings from the Chiefio

It also looks like we are not only at a cold inflection of the 60 year PDO cycle, but also a cold inflection of the 600 year quasi cycle AND a cold inflection of the 1500 year cycle. If that’s in fact the case, we’ve got a big problem. It would explain the high peak in 1998 as all three reached a high roughly together, but it also implies a big plunge right after it. Very “Not Good”.

Die Klimazwiebel: Climate science & Politics

Democrats see themselves "as keepers of enlightenment" (remember the Bush era!), while Republicans "have come to believe that mainstream science is corrupted by ideology." This is a problem, indeed. There are not enough Republicans in science.

Why California Should Adopt a Global Warming Gas Emission Fee | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

The carbon dioxide emissions fee would not be popular with anyone except the green power producers and the environmental organizations; but like mom’s spoonful of cod-liver oil when we were sick, a little ick can make good medicine. I would suggest $20 ton in 2011, rising at $5 a year. Once revenues are balanced with expenditures all future increases in CO2 fees would be used to offset personal income and business tax.

The climate stampede has started | Stuff.co.nz

Absent from the talks is the climate-science elephant.

All 192 governments are unanimous that climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and the costs of action are a fraction of the costs of doing nothing. The national science academies of every major country agree, as do the 259 major investment companies who signed a statement last week calling for urgent action - they manage assets of US$20 trillion internationally.

YouTube - Felipe Calderon: 'As We're Squabbling, The Plane Is Going Down'

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Dec 9th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

Al Gore gets religion, everything the weather does proves global warming is real and the WWF gives the world a document format that won’t print. On purpose.

CLIMATE [HOAX] SPECTATOR: Cancun calling – Night of the long knives | Giles Parkinson | Commentary | Business Spectator

There were reports of numerous walk-outs. US negotiator Jonathon Pershing was said to have stormed out of a crucial meeting on transparency, threatening to reconsider his country’s Copenhagen pledges if India did not offer more on monitoring and verification. Bolivia was also said to have stormed out of talks on forestry (they don’t like market mechanisms) and the UN and the US both cancelled scheduled press conferences at the last minute.

One exhausted negotiator, back from a near all-night session on adaptation blamed all sides and complained: “They are just seeking to provoke each other. There is a complete lack of trust. There are blockages everywhere and I don’t know how they're going to produce a document at the end of this.”

“A typical Thursday,” noted Artur Runge Metzger, adding that the landmark Kyoto Protocol was concluded after a similar 48 hours of apparent mayhem. Although he conceded, “No one is quite sure how it’s going to fit together.” One optimistic negotiator from the Alliance of Small Island States observed that the spate of extreme weather events across the globe – fires, cold and floods – were making some negotiators realise that it was not simply about numbers.
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In the appropriately named Desierto press conference room, the good Lord and Dr Roy Spencer told a small audience of 12 people and a man dressed in a polar bear suit that man-made activities had contributed to global warming, they just didn’t know how much, but suspected it was small. Monckton then changed his mind and declared there had been no global warming at all, at least for the last 15 years, that the recent cold weather in the UK showed there was a greater threat from global cooling, and that we should burn as much fossil fuel as we possibly could to alleviate energy poverty.
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“We know climate change is real, we know it is significant, and we need to deal with the uncertainty of its impacts,” Rear Admiral David Titley said. Brigadier General Juan Ayala pointed to mass migration, natural disasters and the threat to democratically elected government as particular threats of climate change. They’ve even got solar – providing up to 20 per cent of energy on some of their bases.

Twitter / Karl Ritter: Wacky press conf at #COP16 ...

Wacky press conf at #COP16: 'His Holiness Shri Shri 1008 Soham Babaji,' an Indian 'spirtual leader,' calls for climate change 'inside us'

The Climate Post: Some progress in Cancun climate talks, but mostly a morass of competing interests | Grist

Is the U.S. going to pay for the damage it did to the climate?

Cancún climate talks risk becoming a 'car crash', says Chris Huhne | Environment | The Guardian

About 50 negotiators, recruited by the Mexican hosts, worked into the early hours to try to avoid a last-minute confrontation that would destroy even the incremental progress of the two weeks of talks.
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Huhne said he feared that if there was no outcome by tomorrow night, the danger was that the UN climate talks would become a "zombie conference", where decisions were endlessly deferred.

"Next year people will say, well, we're not going to make any progress and we end up with a zombie conference where there won't be anybody at a senior enough level to take any serious decisions at all."
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But the more immediate focus today was to try to find a resolution to the dispute over Kyoto – perhaps by getting leaders to agree to defer to the climate summit in South Africa next year. Ministers and negotiators were said today to be working on the diplomatic language to support such an outcome.

Don't miss this: University of East Anglia's Hubert Lamb in 1972: "[Temperatures] are on a definite downhill course for the next two centuries"

The Windsor Star - Google News Archive Search

We're saved!: Before taking ski trips around the planet, warmist Alison Gannett pees

Meet the extreme skier environmentalist

Actually, the 45-year-old extreme freeskier from Colorado has given up heli-skiing and her snowmobile. She also photo documents glacier change on her ski trips around the planet. ...the woman Outside Magazine named as one of its 'Green All-Stars' this year offers practical eco-living ideas without sounding holier than thou.

Intrigued by her eco-cred - Gannett graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico and founded her first business to battle climate change back in 1991 ... My plug-in-hybrid solar-panelled SUV actually increased my carbon footprint by 100 tons in one year ...
"As a climate change solutions consultant I travel the globe working with individuals, companies, events, schools, communities and governments
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"Heli-skiing is about 75 US gallons of gas an hour
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Q: What is your favourite non-skiing hobby?

"Surfing in warm water, eating my high-carbon footprint chocolate." she says with a laugh.
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Q: People might laugh at the idea of peeing before you fly to reduce jet fuel emissions. But how much difference does it make when every passenger urinates before they get on the plane?

"For every 2.2 pounds of weight reduction, airlines save 9,000 pounds of fuel per year..."

Most scientists in this country are Democrats. That's a problem. - By Daniel Sarewitz - Slate Magazine

A Pew Research Center Poll from July 2009 showed that only around 6 percent of U.S. scientists are Republicans; 55 percent are Democrats, 32 percent are independent, and the rest "don't know" their affiliation.
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Or could it be that disagreements over climate change are essentially political—and that science is just carried along for the ride? For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of things that most Democrats welcome, and most Republicans hate. No wonder the Republicans are suspicious of the science.

Think about it: The results of climate science, delivered by scientists who are overwhelmingly Democratic, are used over a period of decades to advance a political agenda that happens to align precisely with the ideological preferences of Democrats. Coincidence—or causation? Now this would be a good case for Mythbusters.

“Gore Effect” strikes again: new coldest ever December record low temperature in Cancun | Watts Up With That?

Either way, 50°F is a new record for December low temperature, and it couldn’t happen at a more inconvenient time for the Cancun COP16 climate conference.

Japan Adviser Proposes $6.3 Trillion Carbon [Swindle] - BusinessWeek

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, Japan’s chief climate-protection negotiator during the three years through 2008, proposed a $6.3 trillion carbon market to advance talks that have stalled since 1997.

Warmist Will Steger on the Antarctic cold: "It's almost as if Antarctica didn't want us there and was continually trying to kill us in the process"

Will Steger Views Global Warming from the Coldest Places on Earth (Podcast) : TreeHugger

Steger: It's like another planet. It's cold like you've never experienced. I love the cold weather, but Antarctica was a little extreme. The rest of the globe, it has a sense of place and feeling and spirit and wildlife and culture. But this has none of it. It's almost like Mars. For seven months, we were in a total void of life. Extreme weather, wind chills 100 below were very common. It's almost as if Antarctica didn't want us there and was continually trying to kill us in the process.
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But if you look at the North Pole area, it's actually a deep ocean, 14, 000 feet deep. It's the size of Mexico and the United States put together, and up until three years ago, that was covered by a very thin layer of sea ice in the summertime. 95 percent of that was sea ice in the summer.
... right now I almost like to put climate change on the shelf and talk about the economy.

Global Warming Hysteria: Obama and Bush–Kyoto Twins Separated at Birth » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

That was the very reasoning behind Bush pulling the USA out of Kyoto.

So, where’s the outrage? If Bush was CAUSING THE END OF THE WORLD! by rejecting Kyoto, why isn’t Obama? Isn’t it amazing how the hatred disappears over the same policy when the political party of the presidency changes from R to D?

Climate Lessons: Heroic teachers can get classroom cheers by telling the truth about climate

I’ve had a similar experience Jenn. I’m a maths teacher in a London secondary school (11-18 years). During one of my lessons a child mentioned AGW, so I decide to explain to the class why I thought the theory was complete rubbish and showed them some graphs (eg graphs that show MWP, logarithmic effect of CO2, etc) to explain why. I’m not exaggerating when I say the kids actually cheered!
Anyway, the next day the Head of Science came to see me in the staff room and told me to stop telling the kids about my ‘conspiracy theories’.

Number of climate refugees overstated

From an advocacy perspective, one can appreciate that alarmist lobbying - extending to pressure for multinational approaches such as a ''climate refugee'' treaty - may generate attention and mobilise civil society.

Nevertheless, it is imperative that advocacy is well-informed, because if there is an absence of rigorous analysis and empirical evidence to support claims being made, it will not achieve its ends. Indeed, messy work may lead to a backlash and attempts to discredit the phenomenon of climate change-related human movement altogether.

Twitter / Kate Sheppard: Meet the new chair of the ...

Meet the new chair of the House Sci & Tech Comm. Ralph Hall: "We have some real challenges; we have the global warming or global freezing."

Twitter / Democracy Now!: Evo morales in Cancun: "Ei ...

Evo morales in Cancun: "Either capitalism dies or Mother Earth dies" #COP16

Cancún forests deal is 'wrapped up and ready to move' – or is it? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It hadn't been entirely without political risks for Norway either, Stoltenberg said. He said it had been hard to persuade Norwegian voters in the depths of a recession that forest projects were in their interest. "It's hard to win elections on a message of high taxation," he said. "We won election last year but you never know, elections are uncertain things."

Cancun Crap Out | The Resilient Earth

And so the Cancun Conference closes, not with a bang but a whimper. No new agreements—in fact, at the beginning of the conference Japan repudiated the Kyoto protocol. The brief statement made by Jun Arima, an official in the government's economics trade and industry department, was the strongest yet made against the 1997 agreement. “Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances,” Arima said.

There is little doubt that this conference has been an even bigger a failure than Copenhagen. Once again, the world's collected climate change fanatics threw the dice and lost. In gambling parlance, Cancun crapped out. No progress to show and embarrassment all around—I love it when a plan falls apart.

Guest Blogger Roger Helmer MEP: Climate Conference Set to Crash and Burn? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

At the end of the day, despite small nuggets of agreement, Cancun looks likely to end in disappointment just as Copenhagen did. But a successful, legally-binding emissions treaty would be a disaster for the world economy and would do huge damage to America’s interests (and to Europe’s, though they don’t seem to have noticed). So let me make an appeal to America’s climate realists and conservatives: if against all expectation a deal is agreed in Cancun, use any means you can to pressure Congress to reject it. That may not be too tough a task.

At climate summit, the real action is behind the scenes

"We have no economic power, so all we have is a moral authority, which we use to plead with humanity: 'Please, help us," said Tuvalu's lone negotiator, Ian Fry, who lives in Australia

[Warmist Paul Douglas: Try not to get frostbite this weekend] - Potential for Saturday Blizzard (6-12"+) - Subzero Sunday For MSP | StarTribune.com

Waking up to -12 Sunday morning, possibly as cold as -16 to -20 F (air temperature!) Monday morning.

* I realize this is Minnesota - the locals know how to dress/adapt for bitter cold, but it's worth repeating: the risk of frostbite and hypothermia (gradual drop in body temperature) will be very high from late Saturday into midday Monday.

Al Gore Made A Private Visit To Facebook Last Week - Oliver Chiang - SelectStart - Forbes

It appears as though he was interviewed by Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook vice president of technical operations, and that he spoke at least part of the time about climate change (One slide shown during his talk appears to read, “12 Separate and Different Lines of Scientific Evidence Show Significant, Human-caused Warming”.)

Martina Navratilova battles blizzard, slogs up Kilimanjaro for charity | Real Aspen | Aspen & Roaring Fork Valley News, Guides, and Information

“Well, no one prepared me for this,” Navratilova wrote. “As we headed for Mawenzi Tarn, we have had to fight our way through blizzards and cope with unexpected bitter cold. The snow is not settling on the ground, thank goodness, but still the conditions are very difficult and unpleasant. The guides tell me this is most unusual, but that is not much consolation. I brought my sun-block with me, but clearly that’s not going to be needed. We have sent a message down to out base camp to bring up thicker gloves, hand warmers and more heavy clothing. I was expecting

Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Tom Steyer On Al Gore's Ethanol Flip-Flop: DUH!

Steyer says:

"I saw in the paper the other day that Al Gore was saying that maybe he shouldn't have been for ethanol. It's kind of like duh! Did you ever take out your calculator on that one?"

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Global Warming Causes Death

It had to happen. Global warming has been proved, in the same manner as this new paper proves its dread effect, to cause every other horrific kind of premature death, from swarming insect attacks, to rampant prostitution and its natural aftermaths, to unstoppable epidemics of this bacteria and that virus.

But nobody thought to put the Big C on the list until Donald Cooper of the United Nations Environment Programme. His mental efforts deserve some kind of prize or award, surely.

[Remember When Conservatives Loved WikiLeaks for its Stellar Work on ClimateGate?  Neither Do I]

Remember that? It was only a year ago that Assange was a hero to conservatives, who used those emails -- and continue to use them -- to claim that global warming is a giant hoax.

Maldives disputes allegations of US “climate bribe” to support Copenhagen Accord | Minivan News

The Maldivian government has hit back at allegations of “climate bribery” in international media this week, disputing claims that it pushed for US$50 million assistance from the US government in exchange for uneqivocally backing the Copenhagen Accord.

Climate Change Not a Political Issue Anymore Except For Mainstream Media

The mainstream media continues to cry wolf about climate issues. But just as the village people stopped listening to the shepherd boy so people will stop listening or reading. That appears to be happening now as they lose customers monthly. By the time they realize the bigger story is the level of deception it will be too late for them to report, but that will be far from a catastrophe.

Letter from D.J. Keenan to the Science and Technology Committee (UK Commons) [2010-12-01]

From this summary account, two main conclusions emerge. First, there is good evidence to support the allegation that Jones committed fraud in some of his research—including research which influenced a chapter of the principal report upon which governments rely for a scientific assessment of global warming. Second, the evidence for the allegation was not considered by either the Oxburgh panel or the Russell panel; indeed, it has not been properly investigated by any competent and authorized body.

Canadians talk about climate change, don't consider it that important

Canadians only rank climate change as the eighth most serious global issue. And the number who think it's very serious has fallen by 11 percentage points in the past year.

Warmist Heather Mills vows to trump McDonald’s with vegan food - The Globe and Mail

Her ex-husband’s band may have been more popular than Jesus, but can Heather Mills’ vegan enterprise rival McDonald’s?

The former Mrs. Paul McCartney seems to think so. Ms. Mills launched her VBites restaurant in Britain in July 2009, and although the sole eatery is currently closed for the winter, she told The Daily Express this week she has bold plans to expand the business.

“In 10 years there will be more VBites restaurants than McDonald’s,” Ms. Mills said. “It’s the future.”

Among the items found on the eatery’s meatless menu are $8 “Beef style Soya Burgers,” $12 pizzas made with soy “cheese,” and $11 Greek salads. Not exactly McDonald’s Extra Value Meal prices. And with only one partially open restaurant in her portfolio, Ms. Mills has a long way to go before she can even begin to compete with Ronald.

Irony alert: The unusually chilly global-warming summit - The Week

The irony: As negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F.

Bolivian says climate talks may commit 'ecocide' - Connecticut Post

Citing families deprived of water because of warming and drought, and islanders facing the loss of homes from seas rising from global warming, Morales said that if governments move away from strong, mandatory emissions reductions, "then we will be responsible for 'ecocide,' which is equivalent to genocide because this would be an affront to mankind as a whole."

If you were really trying to kill everyone on Earth, would warming it from 60 degrees F to 61 degrees F be the best approach?

New low for fraudster Kassie Siegel: She touts video of polar bear cub allegedly suffering CO2-induced convulsions

Cancun climate change summit: climate change killing polar bears - Telegraph

Polar bear cubs are starving as a result of climate change, according to experts, because global warming is causing the sea ice to melt.
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New video footage shows a mother bear and two cubs in Hudson Bay, Canada, desperately searching for food.

One of the cubs experiences seizures in the video, and both cubs died within two days of the filming.

Kassie Siegel, director of US research group Center for Biological Diversity, said the bears are dying as a result of climate change.
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“Although it’s difficult to watch, this video is an important document of the terrible cost of climate change denial and inaction,” she said. “Global warming isn’t a crisis that’s decades away. It’s here now. The sad truth is that polar bears are already starving as global warming melts the Arctic.”
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The footage was released to coincide with key climate change talks in Cancun, Mexcio. [This video (© 2010 Daniel J. Cox/NaturalExposures.com) was taken as part of The Arctic Documentary Project spearheaded by Daniel J. Cox under the umbrella of Polar Bears International. ]

Some questions:

1. If warming is killing this bear, why is there so much snow around, why is the temperature "well below zero degrees Fahrenheit", and why is the cub described as "shaking and cold"?

2. If the people documenting this situation actually cared about polar bears, and if the bears are really starving, why didn't they try to feed the bears?

3. When another bear shows up, why doesn't that one look like it's starving?

4. The mother and cubs are shown laying around in one spot. How does that qualify as "desperately searching for food"?




Flashback: Stupid Hudson Bay polar bears: Off the ice since July 15 and still fat, they refuse to cooperate with the warmists

Many of the mostly single, adult males were relatively fat, with "wide rear ends" and a belly "with a dish to it," Hedman said. Cubs were also considered to be doing well, based on how their fat rippled when they ran.

Even inside Jairam Ramesh's own head, there's no consensus?

India willing to accept legally binding pact at Cancun - The Times of India

CANCUN: In a dramatic move that will alter India's climate change policy irrevocably and have potentially very deep impact on the economy, the Government of India on Wednesday told the world that it was willing to commit to legally binding commitments as part of an international climate deal.

India makes major move to save climate talks -  International News – News – MSN India

Asked to explain his position after his speech, Ramesh told journalists: 'India is not against (the agreement having a) legal form. It is against a legally binding agreement. That is the red line.' At the same time, he wondered why so many countries were 'discussing the form (of the agreement) without knowing the content. It is putting the cart before the horse.'

How gullible is warmist Kate Sheppard? She appears to swallow the idea that the Maldives will be powered by rainbows and unicorn farts sometime real soon

"We Don't Have to Wait for Everybody Else to Do This" | Mother Jones

In October, Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed installed solar panels on the roof of his home. The president himself, decked out in a hard hat, participated in the solar panel installation as part of the day of action organized by the group 350.org. It was more than a token gesture—in 2009, the country committed to going carbon neutral by 2020, which it says will be the world's most ambitious climate change mitigation target for a single nation.
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Aslam notes that adopting renewable energy is in the Malidives' favor economically and environmentally; right now the country relies heavily on diesel fuel for much of its energy needs. The government has already conducted an audit of their emissions, much of which comes from the shipping sector, a fact of life in island nations. But Aslam envisions solar, wind, tidal power, and renewable transportation fuels driving the nation in the near future—even if islanders don't have all the solutions now. "The available options and possibilities will be far greater two, three years down the line," he said. "We believe this is the only path we can choose to save ourselves and the entire global community."
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All that water surrrounding the islands also means that there's an enormous potential to harvest power from the sea. On Wednesday, Aslam and Scottish Minister of Energy Jim Mather signed an agreement at the Cancun talks to work together on a tidal energy assessment off the coast of the Maldives. The Scottish government agreed to fund a $75,800 scoping study of both the potential for tidal development and the electricity infrastructure need. It's not a huge dollar figure, but the Scottish government has been paving the way on tidal energy. Earlier this year, the country announced plans for the first commercial scale wave and tidal project off the northern coast of the mainland. The country hosts the European Marine Energy Center, and is positioning itself to lead the world in new technologies for harvesting tidal power. Mather laid claim on Wednesday that they are the "Saudi Arabia of tidal power."

Flashback: Exclusive designs for new airport unveiled | MaldivesTraveller.mv

The four-year construction will further include the addition of a large seaplane port to house 42 sea aircraft. In addition, there will be the establishment of a new local company to manage the airport which will be operated by Malaysia Airlines Holdings. The entire project, when all told, is estimated to cost US$373m, with the State Bank of India providing the main bulk of the financing. The agreement sees GMR holding a 77 percent in the project, with Malaysia Airline Holdings taking the remaining 23 percent.

How many years will it be before all planes at the Maldives airport are 100% powered by wind or sun?

Cancún climate change summit: Leaked documents reveal alternative deal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Europe and a group of small island Pacific states have jointly proposed a new international treaty at the UN climate talks in Cancún, Mexico, to commit developing and developed countries to reducing their climate emissions, according to leaked documents seen by the Guardian and the Times of India.

The move has outraged many developing countries, including China, Brazil and India, who fear that rich countries will use the proposal to lay the foundations to ditch the Kyoto protocol and replace it with a much weaker alternative.

Wikileaks climate change cables: the unanswered questions | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Saudi Arabia's audacious appeal for US help in "economic diversification"

Has Saudi Arabia received or been promised financial help from the US to assist with the kingdom's economic diversification?

Reference: The world's second biggest oil producer and one of the 25 richest countries in the world asked for US help which in return would "take the pressure off climate change negotiations"

Environment Analyst | US climate change industry growth slows to 2%

There was a significant reduction in the rate of growth of the American climate change-related goods and services industry during 2009, with similar low growth likely to be recorded for 2010. The American climate change industry expanded by just 2% in 2009, according to research published by Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ), which adds that this year's rate of growth will probably prove to have been the same.

March to keep World Bank out of climate finance - Climate Justice Now!

Campaigners are also angry that they are not being allowed to campaign against the World Bank inside the UN talks. They have been told that permission will not be granted for any protest that mentions the World Bank, so they are being forced to march and protest away from the conference centre.

Muhammad Reza, from KRUHA (People’s Coalition for the Right to Water)-Indonesia said: “We are not allowed to even whisper the World Bank’s name in a negative context within the UN. This is silencing civil society in a space where civil society’s voice must be heard and must be listened to.”

The UK government is believed to be playing a key role in pushing for the World Bank to take the role of climate finance manager...

India makes major move to save climate talks -  International News – News – MSN India

Asked to explain his position after his speech, Ramesh told journalists: 'India is not against (the agreement having a) legal form. It is against a legally binding agreement. That is the red line.' At the same time, he wondered why so many countries were 'discussing the form (of the agreement) without knowing the content. It is putting the cart before the horse.'

Canada is hot on climate: Worthington - Toronto Sun

The whole greenhouse gas issue reeks of fraud anyway.

Many view Kyoto as a camouflaged income distribution ploy developed countries purchasing emission credits from poor countries, thus maintaining high emissions.

In part, greenhouse gases are blamed for global warming. Questionable. Wrongly assumed to be a pollutant, carbon dioxide (a key part of greenhouse gas), is not a pollutant but critical for agriculture. Without CO2, there is no life.

Climate Scientists – Making The Whole World Scientifically Illiterate | Real Science

Sea level has been rising for 15,000 years, because we are no longer having an ice age. When we do have an ice age again, sea level will fall. It has nothing to do with CO2.

EnvironMENTALists Protest in Cancun Climate Conference | The SPPI Blog

“Crazy people are everywhere, but seem to be driven toward environmental groups like twisters to a trailer park. Believe me, it’s no coincidence that we’re called environMENTALists…It reminds me of a book I read recently about Mafia hitman Sammy ‘the Bull’ Gravano. There’s a story from his childhood in which Sammy’s father says of the wise guys in the neighborhood. ‘They’re bad people. But at least they’re OUR bad people.’ So that’s how I think of it. They’re crazy people, but a least they’re OUR crazy people.” — John Hoskinson, communications director of the Surfrider Foundation. [1999]

HARRIS & LEYLAND: Global warming ideology still on top - Washington Times

There simply is too much money and political capital, and too many reputations are at stake for alarmists to back down. After their late first-period letdown, environmental activists have stepped up their campaign to keep governments and media from falling off the climate-change bandwagon. Literally hundreds of millions of dollars are still being funneled into promoting alarm and futile solutions. In the third quarter of this year, the McKnight Foundation alone donated $26 million to the Climate Works Foundation, a group originated in 2008 with roughly a half-billion dollars in start-up funding.

Earliest Sunset | WOODTV.com Blogs

Already 37.7% (as of 12/8) of the country has a snow cover. That’s about 3 weeks ahead of schedule. About 1/3rd of Hudson Bay is frozen over. Much of the Northern Hemisphere is shivering. Sixty-six people have frozen to death in Poland alone. Heavy snow has shut down the airport, the Eiffel Tower and bus lines in Paris, France. Cancun, Mexico (where they just had the U.N. global warming…er, I mean climate change…er, I mean climate disruption…er, I mean wealth redistribution conference) has had four record low temperatures in the past week with morning lows in the low-mid 50s. Read on to see some amazing temperature departures from normal for the first 7 (Europe-Asia) or 8 (N. America) days of November:

Radio Australia:Connect Asia:Story:Hope fading at Cancun climate talks

SNOWDON: Meaning perhaps the best result might be an agreement for another meeting after Cancun.

BBC News - Day temperatures in Carlisle hit all-time, all-date record low

Carlisle has experienced its lowest daytime temperature, as the cold spell continues to affect Cumbria.

According to the Met Office observing station, it dropped to -7.9 (17.8F) on Wednesday.

This beats the previous daytime record low of -6.8C (19.7F), which was only set in January.

The average daytime temperature in Carlisle in December is 7.3C (45F), so it represents a 15 degree negative departure from the mean.

A Met Office spokesman described it as a "notable statistic".

Seeing Redd in Cancún | Simon Counsell | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

So, why are rich countries falling for this flawed and potentially planet-wrecking scam?

Industrialised countries, especially the US, have found it politically impossible to introduce domestic emissions-reduction measures that interfere in the slightest with our high-carbon lifestyles. Consequently, with the UN's efforts to forge binding global commitments having now run into the ground, and with the Cancún talks degenerating into acrimony, agreement on Redd is possibly the one face-saver left to them. Because rich countries politically now need Redd much more than tropical ones do, it is the latter that are dictating the terms of the debate – and it is why they will probably get their Redd payments, for a few years anyway, even if they use them to destroy forests rather than protect them.

A Postcard from CanCun: The COP16 Update | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

1. The number of seminars and workshops is bewildering. The official daily programme is 18 pages long (92 events today). Plus there are associated conferences going on across hotels up to 20kms apart, for groups like IETA, WBCSD, REEEP, ICC, EWEA, World Climate Summit, Green Solutions, IISD, WRI. Worldwatch, IIGCC. And if you recognize ALL those acronyms you qualify as a member of the climate change illuminati!

2. According to a study done by their Federal Environment Agency, Germany’s electricity supply could make a complete switch to renewable energies by 2050. That’s right, 100%. They say that technology already available on the market could make this possible even today; the secret is that it requires that “electricity be used and produced very efficiently”.
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8. Cars that run on batteries will soon be competitive with ones that burn petroleum fuels, according to US Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Speaking in Cancun, he said “It’ll be about five years and it could be sooner. Meanwhile the batteries we have today are soon going to get better by a factor of two.”

Evidence of fraud by Phil Jones and his Warmist colleagues

Excerpts from Doug Keenan. There is a lot in it but Doug is to be congratulated for making it easy to read. A mathematician with a talent for writing!

UK big freeze: Army on standby in coldest December for 100 years | Mail Online

The Army was called in today to help clear away ice and snow as Britain headed towards its coldest December for 100 years.

As temperatures plunged to -15c (5f) David Cameron ordered the military to step in and help the UK's beleaguered local councils.