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Lawmaker blames GOP for energy policy's failure » Ventura County StarHELENA, Mont. — HELENA, Mont. (AP) - State lawmakers failed to come up with a proposed energy policy over the legislative interim because of the Republican committee members' denial of climate change, a Democratic senator said Friday.
Sen. Ron Erickson, of Missoula, told a group of industry leaders at Helena conference on Montana energy the science is clear, but that GOP resistance prevented the interim committee from forwarding a bill to the full Legislature.
"We had a really difficult time in the interim committee on energy. I will blame that on the fact that Republican members of that committee do not think that climate change is real, nor do they think that it is caused by man. And they are wrong," Erickson said.
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Republican Rep. Harry Klock of Harlowtown, chairman of the House Federal Relations Energy and Telecommunications Committee, addressed Erickson's charge directly.
"I believe in climate change. It changes every day out here. I just don't believe in global warming," he said.
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Rocky, Shadow-Boxing EPARepublicans, please don't be too gullible. This is to beg a deal. No deal. The Clean Air Act written and amended should merely be reinstated to its prior form before the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 opinion that EPA can regulate absolutely anything as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act -- including pure, clean oxygen -- if emitted into the atmosphere, if it grounds its claim in the Act which grants EPA judicial deference to "agency expertise".
Kill this. Kill the rules. Kill "This reading of the statute [which] defies common sense", in the words of Justice Scalia. And stop enabling this dangerous global warming industry.
Science Center tackles climate change in new exhibit• If scientists can't tell us when it will snow, how can they predict climate change? Our ability to predict weather beyond three, four days is limited. In a certain sense, predicting climate is easier. It's a matter of probability. On the other hand tomorrow's temperature can be anywhere between minus 10 and 70 degrees depending on all of the variable occurrences between now and then.
Ten Things You Can Do To Help Imperiled Wildlife Survive Climate Change1. Ride the subway, a bike or carpool to work. If everyone did this even once per week, it would make a significant difference in our country’s gasoline consumption. And by eliminating the threat of Arctic oil drilling, your grandchildren will live in a country that still have ringed, bearded and spotted seals. Drive a hybrid, electric or fuel efficient car, when you aren’t able to avoid using a car. Fuel efficiency of 30 MPG should be a minimum. Less oil, fewer fossil fuels mean more walruses.
Scientists hope gigantic 'trap' will tell tale of polar bear populationsPolar bears are a global symbol of the threat posed by climate change but, at the same time, many observers say there are more of them roaming around than there were 30 years ago.
"The population is booming," says Willy Aglukkaq, a guide and outfitter in the Inuit community of Gjoa Haven, who is seeing plenty of bears in the central Arctic.
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De Groot says it is too early to come up with a population estimate based on the findings to date. But he says the data suggest the number of bears in M'Clintock Channel has increased considerably from the 284 bears estimated to be in the channel by the government survey done a decade ago.
‘Ozone hole’ hoax was the preview for ‘Global Warming’James Lovelock’s reaction to first reading about the stolen CRU emails in late 2009 was one of a true scientist. “I was utterly disgusted. My second thought was that it was inevitable. It was bound to happen. Science, not so very long ago, pre-1960s, was largely vocational. Back when I was young, I didn’t want to do anything else other than be a scientist. They’re not like that nowadays. They don’t give a damn. They go to these massive, mass-produced universities and churn them out. They say: “Science is a good career. You can get a job for life doing government work.” That’s no way to do science.
I have seen this happen before, of course. We should have been warned by the CFC/ozone affair because the corruption of science in that was so bad that something like 80% of the measurements being made during that time were either faked, or incompetently done.
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I’m not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It’s the one thing you do not ever do. You’ve got to have standards.”
Driving US families into fuel poverty | CFACT...Britain’s “shiny new green” turbines were able to supply only “one-500th of the exceptionally large demand” for electricity during the frigid weather of early December, Sunday Times columnist Dominic Lawson ruefully observed.
That’s a tiny fraction of the wind turbines’ “rated capacity.” But it is a situation commonly faced with turbines on freezing Minnesota winter nights and sweltering Texas summer afternoons, when they average a measly 10% of the electricity output their subsidy-hungry backers say they are capable of.
Is this what Lisa Jackson would call “environmental justice”?
ABC News Watch: IPCC correct Table 10.2In August last year we notified the IPCC (see HERE and HERE) of a series of errors with Table 10.2 of its Assessment Report Four, Working Group 2 report. These errors (listed HERE) included missing and incorrect references, incorrect and misleading claims about warming in the Himalaya and the astounding claim that temperatures in Sri Lanka were warming at a rate of 2 degrees per year!
The IPCC have finally made corrections to the relevant section of Table 10.2.
New Mexico Drops Greenhouse Measures Incoming New Mexico Republican Governor Susana Martinez has canceled the planned publication in the state register of two rules: the New Energy Economy rule aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and a measure which would control pollution from the dairy industry. Without publication, the rules will not take effect.
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Martinez opposes New Mexico's participation in a regional cap-and-trade program, which began January 1.
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While she was at it, she also ousted all members of the Environmental Improvement Board who had supported action on climate change.
Cold weather could force sugar prices higherPALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (NBC) -- Food prices as a whole have been on the rise.
Experts are particularly watching the cost of sugar as freezing temperatures ravaged much of the Florida sugar cane crop last last year, and world markets continued to shift.
The crop, just now being cut in Florida, should be green, but it's brown, burned by three nights of freezing temperatures just last month.
"Having freezes in early December is devastating because we still have months and months of harvest to go and we can get additional freezes in January and February that can continue to impact the crop," says US Sugar's Judy Sanchez.
Who is standing against polluters and for clean air? | Grist# Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.): "There is a case to be made that, in the contest between corporate profits and children's lungs, someone should be standing up for children's lungs."
# Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.): "People on the other side can talk about costs [of EPA safeguards]. What's the cost of a life? What's the cost of a disability? ... We're not going to cower in a corner."
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Mann: From Transparency Champion to 'Bully' VictimSo what has changed for Mr. Transparency? We are now asking for different emails, from when he devised the hockey stick, which makes us all-the-more curious about what's in them.
Cold times means more death, war, rebellion, drought and flood in China « JoNovaIt seems a warmer climate might be bad, but a colder one is deadly.
Once upon a time, people thought that overpopulation triggered crashes, but in this study by Lee and Zhang the hard numbers suggest instead that it was climate, and of course, it’s not the warmer kind of climate that causes the problems but the colder kind.
Bill to repeal bulb ban introduced « Green Hell BlogRep. Joe Barton (R-TX) introduced a bill to repeal the 2007 law that bans incandescent bulbs starting in 2012.
Joe Bastardi: “Days Of Thinking Warm, Warm, Warm Are Over”I surmise, though, given what should be becoming obvious to watchers of these things, that the days of thinking warm, warm, warm are over, and quite the opposite will occur in the coming years and decades, and the populace should understand the honeymoon is over, the marriage of low solar and reversing oceanic cycles along with a third-party (let’s not go any further with non-weather implications… ha, ha), the volcanic activity, should raise eyebrows among the rational. Among others, short of being frozen out of ones abode, there is no getting attention.
USCAP to go into self-induced coma « Green Hell BlogThe US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), the business-environmentalist lobby group that almost made cap-and-trade happen in the 111th Congress, is going dark at least temporarily.
8 eco-superheroes that might surprise you | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkThese “eco-superheroes” have garnered plenty of attention for their good green works, whether supporting conservation issues or alerting the public to the effects of global warming. Among the ranks: Al Gore, Ed Begley Jr., Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Redford and, of course, Captain Planet.
And then there's a handful of not-so-obvious eco-superheroes ranging from a sustainable chef to a vegan starlet to British royalty who have flown under the mainstream radar but whose actions are no less important
Fraud investigation rocks Danish university : Nature NewsA high-profile neuroscientist in Denmark has resigned after facing allegations that she committed research misconduct and misspent grant money. Meanwhile, the administration at the university where she worked has been accused of ignoring her alleged misdeeds for the better part of a decade.
Climate Shifts Are Changing New Weather 'Normals' - NYTimes.comA third is to develop a "hinge" that would place the normals on a linear trend past 1975, which Arguez said was the year the temperatures started rising.
The Big Lies About Alaska | Real Science The period 1949 to 1975 was substantially colder than the period from 1977 to 2009, however since 1977 little additional warming has occurred in Alaska with the exception of Barrow and a few other locations. The stepwise shift appearing in the temperature data in 1976 corresponds to a phase shift of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from a negative phase to a positive phase.
What carbon cycle? College students lack scientific literacy, study findsScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2011) — Most college students in the United States do not grasp the scientific basis of the carbon cycle -- an essential skill in understanding the causes and consequences of climate change, according to research published in the January issue of BioScience.
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Most students also incorrectly believe plants obtain their mass from the soil rather than primarily from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. "When you see a tree growing," Anderson said, "it's a lot easier to believe that tree is somehow coming out of the soil rather than the scientific reality that it's coming out of the air."
Analysis: Asia's climate steps could delay global CO2 [swindle] | Reuters(Reuters) - Asia's powerhouse economies are turning cautious on national plans to price emissions and instead pursuing incremental steps that could delay a global carbon offset market.
Pressures from business and uncertainty over the shape of a U.N. climate pact mean the region will be reluctant to impose steep carbon costs while competitors such as the United States struggle to take action on emissions caps.
Don't the people of Asia realize that without a global CO2 swindle, all of our grandchildren will die of kidney stones during warm blizzards while being strangled by pythons?
Coldest Air of Winter 8-10 Days Away? | Minnesota Coldest air of the winter possible January 17-20, subzero highs possible for 2+ days, nighttime lows may dip to -20 in the suburbs. The good news: the latest guidance is hinting that this Arctic outbreak will be relatively brief.
A nation choking on endless laws - NYPOST.comNever mind that the "science" is far from settled, that the Climategate e-mails showed active collusion among researchers to misrepresent the facts about alleged "global warming," that some of the 1,700 British scientists who signed a declaration defending the researchers' professional integrity have said they felt pressured into doing it (or didn't work on "climate change" at all) and that Al Gore is a certified crackpot.
Never mind, as well, that the US Senate rejected the Kyoto Treaty by a vote of 95-0 -- during the Clinton administration. Never mind that the Waxman-Markey anti-warming "cap and trade" bill died in the Democratic-controlled 111th Congress. Jackson will simply "phase in" the regulations.
Estimated 40 Percent of Scientists Doubt Manmade Global Warming | TTKN NewsPRINCETON, NJ S. Fred Singer said in an interview with the National Association of Scholars (NAS) that “the number of skeptical qualified scientists has been growing steadily; I would guess it is about 40% now.”
RealClimate: Forbes’ rich list of nonsenseGuest commentary from Michael Tobis and Scott Mandia with input from Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, and Kevin Trenberth
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The top of the ice caps are growing slightly as expected, since warmer air contains more moisture which will fall in those places as snow.
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So yes, there are apparently parts of the Indian Ocean where sea level has declined. This just leaves more water to pile up elsewhere. In fact, it shows how powerful the forces of climate change already are, in order to be able to outweigh the generally rising ocean volume in a limited area.
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[Larry Bell] The Northwest Passage has certainly opened up before.
This is untrue in recorded history. The traversals prior to 2007 were in very specialized boats and often took years. In 2007 and 2010, genuine shipping lanes opened up for the first time. It was possibly open in the mid-Holocene about 6,000 to 8,000 years ago and was certainly open millions of years ago. But since the opening of the passage itself received far too little attention (in our opinion), it is hard to see what Bell is complaining about.
Tom Nelson: northwest_passage [Time Magazine, 1937] Last week this new, shorter Northwest Passage's navigability was dramatically demonstrated as Hudson Bay Company's Eastern Arctic Patrol Nascopie sounded her way through Bellot Strait.
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The Northwest Passage was successfully navigated in 1906, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1957, 1969, 1977, 1984, 1988, and 2000 (and probably in other years as well).
“Please Pay the Climate Change Tax On Your Children” – more from the IPCC’s green doctor. | hauntingthelibraryExpect more discussion of the idea of a carbon tax on children over the next year or two, following the failure of cap and trade.
Tell us what you really think « the Air VentNothing would be worse than surrendering personal decision making to the likes of Rajendra Pachauri. The people at the top of the AGW scandal are very corrupt, typically (not atypically) have multiple conflicts of interest and a great deal of money to gain from promoting the scam of extremist AGW – not to be confused with actual physics. Al Gore is abused enough but a perfect example. Unfortunately, there seems to be quite a few scientists caught up in the game themselves.
So when people see Libertarian resistance to the solutions of AGW, they shouldn’t be surprised. The UN stands for everything I despise about human politics, were it my choice, the UN would be the first funding cut the US government made – and I do know it is used as a coercion tool to force smaller governments to stay in line. It is a highly corrupt and IMO evil organization bent on ever expanding global governance and personal influence. It needs to be dismantled before it grows any more.
The Reference Frame: Climate sensitivity from a linear fitIn this text, I would like to settle the question what is the climate sensitivity - warming attributed to CO2 doubling - from the observed CO2 concentrations and global mean temperatures from 1850. At the very beginning, let me tell you that the result will be 1.66 °C if all observed warming were due to the CO2 growth.
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Clearly, even if you attribute everything to CO2, a warming by 1 °C per century would still represent no threat in any sense. After all, we have tried it in the 20th century, too.
Blood Shortfall in Chilly ChinaDespite repeated official pleas for donations, cold weather across China has triggered a shortage of blood in the capital and other major cities as fewer people are willing to brave the chilly temperatures.
Climate Change [Hoax Promoter] Calls Youth to Action - Westport, CT Patch“I want to hear questions from the young, not the old,” Hansen told the standing-room-only crowd of nearly 200 assembled in the Westport Public Library.
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“The climate system has tipping points,” he said. “Ten of 10 of the past summers have been warmer than during the period 1950-1980, and 3 of the past 10 winters.”
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“We will lose all the ice in the polar ice cap in a couple of decades,” he said, predicting the impact from rising sea levels will devastate coastal communities worldwide.
State braces for arctic air assault » OklahomaSome areas could experience consecutive days with the air temperature remaining below freezing and wind chill temperatures occasionally falling below zero.
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An estimated 700 Americans die every year from hypothermia, abnormally low body temperature which affects the brain, making the victim unable to think clearly or move well, O’Leary said.
More Data Refusal – Nothing Changes « Climate AuditPhil Jones and his coauthors in the recent multiproxy study (Neukom et al 2010, (Climate Dynamics) Multiproxy summer and winter surface air temperature field reconstructions for southern South America covering the past centuries) did not archive proxy data in the Supplementary Information. Many proxy series used in the study are not otherwise publicly archived.
Destroying the Credibility of ScienceBack in 1990 when I founded The National Anxiety Center as a clearinghouse for information about “scare campaigns” designed to influence public opinion and policy, I was mainly concerned about the torrent of lies about global warming.
Their beginning is usually dated to an appearance by James E. Hansen before a congressional committee in 1988 in which he claimed that global warming would destroy the earth. To this day Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and has held that position since 1981. There is no rational reason why he continues to be employed by the U.S. government.
Global warming has been widely discredited thanks to the November 2009 release of thousands of emails between UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “scientists” that revealed their collusion to rig the data that supported the fraud.
A Steady Dose of Atmospheric Detergent - NYTimes.comTo start the new year on a hopeful note, here is a piece of good news about the environment. A new study suggests that the level of a substance that acts as a kind of detergent in the atmosphere is a lot steadier than previously believed.
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Unfortunately, the most important greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, is not one of those broken down by the hydroxyl radical.
GOP Targets EPA Rules To Address Global Warming : NPROn their second day in power, Republican lawmakers introduced several bills that would hamstring the Environmental Protection Agency from moving forward with regulations to reduce heat-trapping pollution from factories and other sources that they say contributes to global warming.
Express.co.uk - Global warming quango racks up £36,000 flight billSTAFF from a quango set up to lecture Scots on global warming have taken more than 100 flights around the world in just three years.
Despite preaching about air travel’s carbon footprint, bureaucrats from the Scottish Government’s Climate Change Division take regular flights to London, Brussels and even Bali.
Officials squandered even more public cash on paying “carbon levy” charges in a bid to offset the emissions generated as they jetted off to global warming events.
[Because you're stupid]: Climate change deniers don't even understand the languageNative tribes in the Arctic have to move their historic villages as the Arctic ice shrinks and Pacific nations are preparing to evacuate as sea level rise submerges their homes. To continue to ignore the obvious is to put the future of our children at risk. The world as we know it will be vastly different for them unless we act. Perhaps we should start with more emphasis on science education so that everyone can understand what is happening.
Dr. Paige Mettler-Cherry
Biologist, Lindenwood University
Virginia Politics Blog - U-Va. receives new FOIA for global warming documentsThe group notes that FOIA law gives the university just one week to respond to the request. If the school legally resists, it says it is prepared for a court fight.
"We can then, finally, determine what it is that so many have gone to such great lengths to keep the public from knowing about that which the public has paid for," they said in a statement.
The group's senior director of litigation, Christopher Horner, has written two books on why he believes global warming is a hoax and gives frequently speeches on the subject. He is also a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
In a statement, Mann noted that the think tank receives funding from ExxonMobile and other corporate groups.
"Industry-funded lobbyists like Horner have been using precisely the same tactics for decades to intimidate scientists whose scientific findings proved inconvenient to the vested interests they represent such as the tobacco, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries," he said.
E.P.A. Faces First Volley From the House - NYTimes.com“So when the new chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee says E.P.A. cannot pass by regulation what Congress failed to pass by law, let me correct him – Congress passed our Clean Air laws, Republican Presidents signed them, and those are the laws the E.P.A. is following,” Ms. Boxer said.
When did Congress and Republican Presidents decide that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant?
Martinez picks former astronaut, global warming denier to head energy, natural resources department | New Mexico IndependentGov. Susana Martinez announced today that former astronaut and global warming denier Harrison Schmitt is her choice to run the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. A geologist and former senator, Schmitt would be in charge of the Mining and Minerals Division, State Parks Division, Oil Conservation Division and Energy Conservation Management Division if confirmed by the state Senate.
Pakistan: Severe cold kills six children in Multan MULTAN: Extreme cold has killed 6 children and 15 are in a serious condition hereon Thursday in Multan.
According to the local TV, 20 children of the nomads living in Zakaria Town, Multan, have suffered serious illness due to bitter cold. Six out of these 20 died in one week and due to lack of facilities 15 more are in a life-threatening condition. A team of Health Department would set up a medical camp in Zakaria Town.
Post Carbon - House Republicans seek to limit EPA climate [hoax] rulesThree Republican House members -- Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Shelley Moore Capito (W. Va.) and Ted Poe (Tex.) have each introduced separate bills aimed at blocking EPA from regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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Franz Matzner, climate and air legislative director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group, decried the move.
"It sure didn't take long for big polluters to show what money can buy," Matzner said in a statement. "Banning or delaying the EPA from issuing any health safeguards whatsoever against carbon dioxide pollution would be nothing less than a dream-come-true for industries that would put profits ahead of our health and too many House members seem willing to do just that. It would be irresponsible for lawmakers to abolish the EPA's ability to cut carbon pollution, leaving polluters free to dump into our air without limit."
Al Gore urges China & U.S. to build greener cities | GristBEIJING -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Thursday that China and the United States -- the world's biggest polluters -- should work on designing greener cities as part of their efforts to tackle climate change.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner told an urban development conference in Beijing that energy-efficient buildings, low-emission vehicles, renewable energy resources, and more trees in urban areas would help reduce pollution.
China's cold snap lingers - UPI.comBEIJING, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The cold snap that began New Year's Day in several central and southern Chinese provinces is likely to maintain its grip for another week, forecasters say.
Twitter / David Roberts [Denies reality on the ethanol scam].@JRMarlow Despite myth to the contrary, I don't think greens/progs were ever a significant force behind corn ethanol subsidies.
Food and Fuel America.com: Al Gore Saved The Ethanol[Al Gore, 1998] "I was also proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in the Congress -- at one point, supplying a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to save it. The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better-off our farmers and our environment will be."
A half million dollar coverup – and going « the Air VentSPPI sent me their press release on Cuccinelli’s efforts to make Michael Mann’s email public. I don’t for a minute believe that Cuccinelli is interested in protecting government money already spent – which is what the law is supposed to protect – he’s trying to make public Mann’s emails. This story is getting more interesting because anyone who has payed attention understands that Mann’s emails are probably so full of advocacy and underhanded dealings with the climate science community that it will make climategate look like a junior high love letter. It seems that the university is highly aware of the problems these emails will create as apparently they have spent over a half million making sure they don’t become public.
A Constructive Approach on Energy? - NYTimes.comBut I find it hard to reconcile the group’s financial support for Climate Depot with its rhetorical embrace of Richard Smalley’s vision of a sustainable energy future — which was premised on an inevitable transition away from carbon-rich fuels and included a modest tax on liquid fuels.
Smalley also was crystal clear about the need to speed the shift from energy choices that produce greenhouse gases for the sake of limiting risks of disruptive warming:
Most people who bother to read the literature about global warming agree that 750 [parts per million, or ppm, of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere] will produce a major change in the global climate. Even 550 ppm is probably high enough to kill all the coral reefs on the planet.
Gulf oil spill methane bloom disappears | GristTwo months after the BP oil spill, scientists discovered methane concentrations in the Gulf of Mexico were a million times greater than background levels.
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In a paper to be published today in Science Xpress, Kessler and his colleagues report that when they returned to the Gulf in September to take further measurements, they discovered that the methane had all but disappeared.
Opinion: Victor Davis Hanson: On climate and economy, the 'experts' are great at blather - San Jose Mercury NewsIn classical sophistic fashion, rhetoric is never far from personal profit. Multimillionaire Al Gore convinced the governments of the Western world that they were facing a global-warming Armageddon, then hired out his services to address the hysteria that he helped create.
How many climate Cassandras have well-funded research positions predicated on grants and subsidies that depend on convincing the public and government of impending disasters that they then can be hired to monitor and address? Are there no green antitrust laws? In contrast, how many of our climate theorists run irrigated farms and energy-intensive businesses at the mercy of new regulations that emanate from distant theorizing?
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Are we to wonder why an angry, grass roots tea party spread -- or why it was instantly derided by our experts and technocrats as ill-informed or worse?
Barbara Boxer takes shot at GOP agenda - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.comThe Environment and Public Works Committee chairwoman joined the chorus of Senate Democrats who have quickly criticized the House GOP majority as it targets rules covering everything from health care to the environment....
Boxer said she’d use press conferences and other public forums to highlight the potential political peril for Republicans who go after the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules that are directly tied to protecting public health.
“I want to tell him that I will use every single tool to me as chairman of this committee and as a senator from California to oppose any legislative effort that threatens the health or safety of the well being of the people of this great nation,” she said.
2007: Senator Inhofe finds out 'elections have consequences' - Democratic Underground"That isn't the rule," Boxer said. "You're not making the rules - you used to when you did this. (NOTE: CHAIRMAN BOXER HELD UP HER GAVEL.) You don't do this any more."
"Elections have consequences," she added, referencing the Democratic victories in November that propelled her party into the Senate majority.
What's New by Bob Park - Friday, December 17, 20102. CANCUN: LOOKING FOR PROGRESS IN THE SECOND DERIVATIVE.
China pledged to reduce the rate at which its emissions are increasing. Well, at least they're talking, but emission rate is a second-order problem. First we should worry about the worlds uncontrolled fertility rate. Reduce the population and emissions will be reduced proportionately. It is the only emissions-control policy that is guaranteed to work. Chinas leaders know more about the population problem than anybody, having undertaken the courageous one-child policy to avert an inevitable catastrophe from Maos wacky economic theories. The mere mention of population inevitably draws comments that the industrialized nations have already achieved zero population growth and warnings by futurists such as Fred Pearce about a "population crash." The bitter truth is that Earth's population must be reduced.
Famed global-warming critic speaks in O.C. - The Orange County RegisterDavid Therox, the founder and president of institute where Singer is a research fellow, said Singer is helping his group show that the science surrounding climate change is unreliable, the consensus is questionable and that climate science has been elevated to undeserved prominence because of a desire for grant money -- all assertions rejected by mainstream climate scientists.
New Science Panel Chairman to Probe 'Quality' of Climate Science - NYTimes.com"There are doubts about the quality of the climate science," Hall said yesterday. "I think those really ought to be wiped aside or confirmed. ... I think the American people are entitled to have some testimony."
Hall said his vice chairman, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), an outspoken climate skeptic who served as ranking member on the recently disbanded Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, will take the lead on the issue.
Inhofe, Snowe question EPA on access to non-ethanol fuel Two rural-state senators yesterday questioned U.S. EPA over the long-term availability of conventional gasoline for use in engines not designed to handle ethanol blends, expressing concern that retailers in some areas are simply not offering ethanol-free fuel.
Boxer: EPA climate [swindle] delay bill could pass, but would be rejected by Obama - The Hill's E2-WireOne of the Senate’s most liberal lawmakers signaled Wednesday that there may be enough support there to pass legislation delaying the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
But Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), one of the strongest advocates in the upper chamber for reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, warned that such legislation, if passed, would likely be rejected by President Obama. She also said attempts to delay EPA’s climate change authority would be met with legal challenges.
11 deaths in UP, Jharkhand toll 45 as winter onslaught continues | TwoCircles.netNew Delhi: The piercing winter continued its assault over north and central India Thursday with 11 more deaths in Uttar Pradesh, the minimum temperature touching new lows in Agra and Jaipur, and Haryana and Punjab getting paralysed in dense fog and Jharkhand reporting 45 deaths so far.
As many as 11 deaths were reported from eastern Uttar Pradesh, taking this winter's toll in the state to 59.
Globe not warming - Arab NewsWe really had to laugh at some of the letters about climate change appearing in these columns. We agree that there seems to be some sort of climate change but not in the direction of global warming.
Al Gore Coming to Jakarta For Climate Change [Scam] Seminar | The Jakarta GlobeAl Gore, the 2007 Nobel Peace laureate and former US vice president, is scheduled to hold a seminar on climate change this weekend in Jakarta for 300 people from a variety of backgrounds.
Gore, who was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” has already held similar seminars in Melbourne, Beijing and New Delhi, using the same slide show he employed in the seminal documentary.
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Amanda said those attending the seminar, to be held from Saturday to Monday, would earn the monicker “Climate Project Presenters” and would be committed to undertaking at least 10 activities within a year as part of their training.
The Heartland Institute: Seven Theories of Climate Change“At least seven theories of climate change enjoy some support in the scientific community. With the anthropogenic global warming theory now in disrepute, it is a good time to review the other six …”
Wimp & Sellout Watch — No. 2 « Green Hell BlogSo Graham is trying to use the current rise in gasoline prices as a reason for his coming “clean energy standard” bill which would put a cap on carbon emissions. But the primary sources of energy that would be affected by such legislation — i.e., coal, solar & wind — have nothing to do with the price of gasoline. A carbon cap, moreover, would make gasoline even more expensive. Keep in mind that USCAP member General Electric has a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Greenville, SC.
Climate change should be addressed at grassroot level: NobelistNobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom today said countries like India, China and the US should address the issue of climate change at grassroot level by encouraging participation of local people.
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Ostrom, aged 77 years, shared the Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences with Oliver E Williamson in 2009.
China [allegedly] improves energy efficiency 20 pct in 5 yearsBEIJING -- China met a five-year target to improve energy efficiency by cutting power to industry and imposing rolling blackouts, even though a massive economic stimulus increased energy use.
Energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product was reduced by 20 percent from 2005 levels by the end of 2010
Arctic Melting Is Good « Musings from the ChiefioThe things that are most desired by the Warmistas, growing winter ice shelves in Antarctica and stable multiyear ice in the Arctic Ice Cap are “exactly wrong”. They are the harbingers of doom in an icy grave, the signs of the Next Ice Age Glaciation underway.
Cold weather stunts bangus growth - PhilippinesDAGUPAN CITY, Philippines — If vegetables in the Mountain Province are damaged by frost during the current cold season, bangus (milkfish) best produced in Pangasinan and other fish species are also suffering from loss of appetite that consequently stunts their growth at this time of the year.
Dr. Westly Rosario, center chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), told The STAR yesterday that it is also during the cold season that fishes become prone to diseases and are sluggish
“If it is cold, it’s stressful and abnormal condition to them,” he said.
As a general rule, if it is stressful, they are prone to diseases like humans, Rosario said.
Media Reports on Climate Crisis at a 5 Year Low2010 marks the least number of mass media stories about climate change since 2005. So great is the crisis, and so inadequate is media coverage, that Climate Progress dubs it "The Silence of the Lambs":
Dallas-Fort Worth wind chills could hit single digits next week If you think it's cold now ... just wait.
LA Times Thinks CO2 Is Toxic | Real ScienceThe Four Corners Power Plant in Fruitland, N.M., spews tons of invisible toxic pollutants from burning coal into the air, including nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and mercury.
IPCC Fraud : “claims were made for which there was no evidence; in some cases the ‘evidence’ was clearly manufactured.” | Real Science[Singer] “Many would place the beginning of the global warming hoax on the Senate testimony delivered by James Hansen of NASA [director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies] during the summer of 1988. More than anything else, this exhibition of hyped alarm triggered my active skepticism about the man-made global warming scare. This skepticism was amplified when I acted as reviewer of the first three IPCC reports, in 1990, 1996, and 2001. Increasingly claims were made for which there was no evidence; in some cases the ‘evidence’ was clearly manufactured. For example, the 1966 report used selective data and doctored graphs. It also featured changes in the text that were made after the scientists had approved it and before it was printed.”
Antarctic Sea Ice Continues To Grow | Real ScienceHansen forecast a dramatic decline.
EU Referendum: The Okhotsk crisis deepensFinally, very latest report of this series emphasises, "Third icebreaker hurries to ice-trapped ships' rescue", which sets the seal on the story so far. They are in serious trouble here. It was always going to be difficult getting the 32,000-ton Sodruzhetsvo out, and the bland optimism we have been getting has always sounded unrealistic.
There is a very real chance here that things could go seriously belly-up, with the Sodruzhetsvo being sunk or seriously damaged. In the 1983 ice crisis, the Soviets lost a freighter and others were damaged. This could happen again.
And in the storm condition forecast, with high winds, blizzards and zero visibility, there is no guarantee that a helicopter rescue could be effected. If they could get these trapped ships out now, they would. That they are not doing so, and waiting for the Krasin says they can't. And that tells its own story.
The Green Paradise | Real ScienceGreens long for the days when most people died before age thirty.
Chu : Snow A Thing Of The Past In California | Real ScienceSnowpack is 200% of normal in California.
Did UK Government Keep Cold Winter Warning Secret In Run-Up To UN Climate Conference?In recent days, the Met Office has stated that it apparently warned the Cabinet Office in late October that the start of the winter would be exceptionally cold. It would appear that the extreme weather warning was kept secret from the public.
According to media reports, the Cabinet Office has been unwilling to confirm whether or not it failed to pass on the Met Office warning to local and road authorities, airports and water companies.
"Not only is the lack of Government preparedness a cause for concern, but we wonder whether there may be another reason for keeping the cold warning under wraps, a motive that the Met Office and the Cabinet Office may have shared: Not to undermine the then forthcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun," said Dr Benny Peiser, the GWPF director.
Newest member of Obama’s National Economic Council is an ardent supporter of cap and trade | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and EntertainmentOn Monday, the Obama administration announced it had hired an environmental economist from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to join the National Economic Council. Replacing member Joe Aldy, Nat Keohane, a long-time advocate of cap and trade, will now be advising President Obama on the economics of energy and environmental issues.
California’s Green Godfathers « CIV FIIt is an article of faith among environmentalists, conventional wisdom in the media and academia, and a massive delusion afflicting California’s voters, that the climate skeptic community receives massive backing from oil companies and other corporate “polluters.” But when you start to look at who stands to gain from climate “mitigation” policies, and really examine the money trail behind legislative lobbying and political campaigns, the notion that the money is on the side of the deniers doesn’t hold up.
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What California’s Green Godfathers represent are interest groups – big finance, big technology, and the entertainment/media complex, who have the financial wherewithal to control the debate over climate change. These interest groups include individuals and coporations (from PG&E to GE) who can spend as much as they wish to advance the agenda of CO2 mitigation, and who in most cases stand to make billions, if not trillions, as a result of CO2 mitigation policies. The idea that the “deniers” hold a financial advantage, or have a hidden financial agenda that eclipses the agenda of the climate alarm interests is absolutely false. The defeat of California’s Prop. 23 is just one recent example of this reality.
Soaring Food Prices and Global Warming - NYTimes.comSome environmental groups are attributing this partly to an increase in extreme weather events that many scientists say are probably associated with global warming.
The coming hunger: Record food prices put world 'in danger', says UN - World Politics, World - The IndependentMr Abbassian said the UN agency is concerned by the unpredictability of weather activity, which many experts link to climate change. He said: "There is still room for prices to go up much higher, if for example the dry conditions in Argentina tend to become a drought, and if we start having problems with winterkill in the northern hemisphere for the wheat crops."
One concern, especially in Ukraine and Russia, is that the cold winter, following disastrous droughts and summer fires, will have damaged the seeds for next year's crops, leading to an even more acute crisis than seen last year.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Official: Trial Lawyers Manufactured the Vaccine Autism ScareWhy anyone took a study seriously based on a population of 12 whole people always amazed me.
EU Referendum: Falling off the mapThe real reason, of course, is that you can only offer messages of impending doom for so long before they lose their effect, so you keep having to up the ante. In time, the messages become so dire and so extreme that they lose all vestiges of credibility, and people simple switch off.
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The sheer volume of introspective and pessimistic coverage from the warmists points to a failing movement that has lost confidence in itself and its message, becoming strident and aggressive to boot. They cannot even agree amongst themselves as to the way forward.
But another failing of the warmists is their focus on the traditional media. While the MSM coverage may be falling, the internet has "exploded" – on the blogosphere and on forums and article comments. That is where the debate is being fought and, by and large, lost by the warmists. This very modern scare fails to understand the dynamics of the modern media.
Yes, Virginia, you do have to produce those 'Global Warming' documents | Washington ExaminerToday, Virginia taxpayers, a state lawmaker and a public interest law firm are asking the University of Virginia to produce important "global warming" records under that state's Freedom of Information Act. These are records the school no longer denies possessing but nonetheless refuses to release, even to Commonwealth Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. They address one of the most high-profile claims used to advance massive economic-intervention policies in the name of "global warming."
In response to a previous FOIA request, U.Va. denied these records existed. However, during Cuccinelli's pre-investigation under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act ("FATA"), a 2007 law passed unanimously by Virginia's legislature, which clearly covers the work of taxpayer-funded academics, U.Va. stunningly dropped this stance. For this reversal, the taxpayers of Virginia owe Cuccinelli a debt of gratitude.
Still, the school has spent upward of half a million dollars to date fighting Cuccinelli's pursuit, now before the Virginia Supreme Court. However, Virginia's transparency statute FOIA gives the school one week to produce the documents, and offers no exemption for claims U.Va. is using to block Cuccinelli's inquiry.
Why we need a law on ecocide | Polly Higgins | Environment | guardian.co.ukUntil we have a law to prosecute those who destroy the planet, corporations will never be called to account for their crimes
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Sophie Scholl, a Munich University student, was executed for revealing the truth about the activities of the Nazi authorities; today 20 brave Ratcliffe whistleblowers have been sentenced at Nottingham crown court for plotting to draw attention to the truth of the activities of another German entity. This time, replace the tyranny of the Nazis with the tyranny of the energy giant E.ON.
The climate movement is in desperate need of renewal | Bradley Day | Environment | guardian.co.ukDespite hearing terrifying evidence from some of world's leading climate change experts; learning of the millions of pounds spent in their local area as a result of extreme weather conditions; listening to gut-wrenching testimonies from flood victims across the globe; and observing senior politicians explain our crippling democratic deficit, the jury went on to deliver a unanimous guilty verdict.
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Two years later, climate change already appears to be an issue of the past. Our bike-loving prime minister chose to travel to the World Cup bid rather than participate in the UN climate conference in Cancún. Climate change gets a fraction of the attention it enjoyed not so long ago.
So what happened to the climate movement?
Wildlife Sanctuary treats about 3,000 animals annually The most popular animals the sanctuary treats are birds of prey. Contrary to popular belief, most injuries are not from the oil spill but from cold weather and collision.
Cold wave kills 12 in Uttar Pradesh, toll reaches 48 Lucknow, Jan 5 (IANS) With a dozen deaths reported Wednesday, the biting chilly winds blowing across the plains of Uttar Pradesh have claimed 48 lives this winter.
Ratcliffe coal protesters spared jail sentences | Environment | guardian.co.ukJudge says activists who planned to shut down a coal-fired power station near Nottingham acted with 'highest possible motives'
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[Judge] Teare said the protest had been "well-considered and well-prepared". "You had come from every corner of the country. Transport, food, clothing, climbing and safety equipment had been organised, costing several thousand pounds."
"Mobile phones, walkie-talkies, gas detectors, hard helmets, sleeping bags and sanitary facilities had all been provided. You had been organised into teams and briefed on your actions."
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Although Teare said that his main aim was to recoup the "hundreds of thousands of pounds" the police operation and criminal trial was said to have cost, only two defendants - Sheppard and Whitney – were judged to have sufficient means to incur fines, receiving penalties of £500 and £1,000 respectively.
40,000 crabs join slew of animal-death mysteries - thestar.comNow, more than 40,000 Velvet swimming crabs have wound up dead on England beaches. The possible reason? Hypothermia.
The Thanet shoreline is littered with the crabs, along with dead starfish, lobsters, sponges and anemones.
The crabs benefit from warm seas, but when winter hits and snow covers the beaches, they just can’t handle the freezing temperatures, Tony Child, Thanet Coast Project manager, told the Star.
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Meanwhile, about 50 jackdaw birds were found dead Wednesday on a street in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Along with shock from the fireworks, the vet listed cold weather and difficulty finding food as possible reasons for the deaths.
AccuWeather.com - Bastardi - The Emperor of the North Gets Ready to March SouthA look at the latest global temperature and the New York Times 2000 assertion that global warming was causing less snow... and recent claims it's causing more snow.
Warmists said the drought would last forever | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog Last year was Australia’s third-wettest year on record as a 14-year “long dry” was broken by the rapid transition from El Nino to La Nina conditions. The second half of the year (July to December) was the wettest on record for Australia.
Electric Cars May Accelerate Global Warming - William Pentland - Clean Beta - Forbes for countries with dirty power supplies – like India and China – widespread adoption of electric vehicles could lead to more – not less – CO2 emissions compared to widespread adoption of gasoline based vehicles, unless dramatically less CO2 intensive.
Greenpeace: Corporate Stocks & Noah’s Arks « NoFrakkingConsensusIt appears Greenpeace is happy to receive donations of any stock, from any corporation – no matter how environmentally destructive it considers that corporation to be. Nor does Greenpeace tell potential donors what it does with these stocks once it acquires them.
Does Greenpeace collect dividends from the same corporations it publicly trashes? Can an organization that claims to be independent of corporations nevertheless own a significant stock portfolio? Hmm.
As to how Greenpeace spends the multi-millions it raises, so glad you asked. It builds arks. As in Noah. As in plural. One was on a Turkish mountain. Another was unveiled in downtown Brussels.
Big Storms Yes, Global Warming No - Rasmussen Reports™A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds, in fact, that just 32% of Adults think global warming is causing the increase in the number of major storms like the recent blizzards. A plurality (45%) says global warming is not the reason for the recent storms, and another 23% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
However, 41% do think it's more likely that the Earth is going through global warming than that the planet is about to enter a new mini-Ice Age. Seventeen percent (17%) say it's more likely that we're entering a new Ice Age. Twenty-nine percent (29%) see no major climate change coming, and 13% are undecided.
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Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats believe global warming is causing an increase in major storms, but 70% of Republicans and 47% of unaffiliated adults feel otherwise.
African-Americans and adults of other ethnicities are much more likely than whites to think global warming is to blame for the storms.
Bird deaths: Epidemic of mass animal deaths baffles scientists across the globe | Mail OnlineThey are the latest in a spate of incidents which are being blamed on New Year fireworks, thunderstorms, cold weather, parasites and even poisoning.
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Thousands of Brazilian fishermen are struggling to make ends meet after the sale of seafood was temporarily suspended when masses of fish were discovered dead in Paranaguá, Antonina and Guaraqueçaba Pontal do Paraná.
Experts have speculated that cold weather or chemical leaks could be behind the deaths.
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And the cold weather in Britain has been blamed for the deaths of 40,000 Velvet swimming crabs - also known as 'devil' crabs - found littering beaches in Thanet.
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It comes after 100,000 drum fish were discovered in the Arkansas River, just 100 miles from Beebe.
Officials said the deaths were not related to the birds, and they had likely been affected by illness as it was one species.
They blame the deaths - affecting menhaden, spots and croakers - on the stress of cold water.
Tens of thousands of small fish have also been discovered dead in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. [which was blamed on cold weather]
Study: No-Till Farming Reduces Greenhouse GasPurdue agronomist Tony Vyn says he was stunned by the large amounts of nitrous oxide his team detected in the air above the plowed fields compared with no-till fields. He says the results are worrisome because the gas packs 310 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for climate change.
IowaPolitics.com: Gov. Culver: Applauds climate committee's workDES MOINES – Governor Chet Culver today commended the work of the Iowa Climate Change Impacts committee.
The committee, consisting of nearly a dozen experts from the state’s regent universities, was released this week. The committee was mandated by the Legislature in April 2009, and the report was due to the governor and Legislature this month.
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Executive Summary:
Since 1970, daily minimum temperatures have increased in summer and winter; daily maximum temperatures have risen in winter, but declined substantially in summer.
Iowa (and the central US) has been experiencing fewer extreme high summer temperatures in the last 40 years, which seems counter to global and continental trends.
International Socialism: Why we should be sceptical of climate sceptics Those of us fighting for change should ensure that we mount a political battle against the climate sceptics, not simply a scientific one. We need to ensure that those waging that battle recognise that the real enemy is the capitalist system, which puts profit before the lives of billions of humans and the planet.
Cold weather hits banana, lemon prices in TurkeyDue to the cold weather bananas started to split open, forcing the producers to harvest early to avoid further damage. Known as the “food of rich men,” banana prices have dropped to as low as TL 1 per kilogram due to damage and early harvesting.
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Separately, lemon prices in Turkey also dropped due to the cold weather's effects on quality of the produc
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