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Brookline Climate [Hoax] Week schedule - Brookline, MassachusettsSunday, Jan. 23 to 30 — “A Healthier You, A Healthier Planet,” at the Main Library, 361 Washington St. In conjunction with KooKoo’s Nest, the new library café, the departments of Public Health, Recreation and Schools’ Food Services will sponsor a contest and raffles to teach kids about the link between health and climate change.
Bay State hunkers down as a deep freeze approaches - The Boston GlobeIt’s snowed. And snowed. And snowed. Now, winter — as if it still has something to prove — is dealing weather-weary New Englanders a new blow: extreme cold.
Cold air from the Arctic Circle is descending on the region, with temperatures expected to bottom out overnight at perilously frigid lows predicted to reach about minus 5 degrees in Boston, with wind chill making it feel more like minus 22.
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The National Weather Service forecast predicted overnight lows of minus 21 degrees in Fitchburg, minus 18 in Amherst, and minus 19 in Greenfield.
Energy for the Economy - NYTimes.com FACING a public focused on economic revival, a hostile House and the lowest level of voter concern in a long while on human-driven climate change, President Obama could easily punt on energy this Tuesday.
March 2009: Climate Skeptics Gather In New York City : NPRMr. REVKIN: Basically it's a meeting of self-described climate skeptics. These are - you know, for 20 years, ever since the global warming concept has been evolving in a big way in the science community, there's been a very vocal, mixed array of people who either outright reject the science, who accept that humans are influencing the climate, but it's inconsequential, or in some cases who are paid to be there, to sort of oppose regulations on pollution or emissions, and so it's a mixture. And what I sense this year - there was a little of this last year too - is they're realizing they have such a varied array of scientific explanations for what's going on with climate that they felt the need to sort of sync things up, to square up their own stories in some sense, because otherwise they're in danger of losing credibility.
COHEN: And what do you think has caused this change?
Mr. REVKIN: They're not gaining traction, let's put it that way. They're still out there. There are people on the other side of the issue who have a very extreme view of, you know, the climate becoming unraveled in real time where the science also is maybe not there. If you're trying to make a case to the public in America, if you're not consistent, that's a sign of you may not have reality on your side.
Natural signs that show spring comes earlier | Environment | The ObserverSpring is sooner recognised by plants than by men, states the Chinese proverb – a point that has been backed by science. Researchers have found that the behaviour of plants and the animals that feed on them shows spring is arriving earlier every year. It also appears that this advance is accelerating, according to Dr Stephen Thackeray of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, in Lancaster.
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This is an enterprise in which the public can help, using tools on the website naturescalendar.org.uk, for example. According to a sighting registered there, a lesser celandine – which usually starts flowering in March – was spotted doing so on Friday last week.
Climate change fastest in S-E Asia
A re-insurance giant has released a study that says that South-East Asia will be feeling the effects of climate change faster than any other region.
This was due to the number of natural disasters that have struck the region over the past decade. Although South-East Asia had been feeling the full effects of flobal warming in the past century, the sharp increase of natural disasters from 100 to 300 annually was evidence of that.
Flashback: Settled science: Can everyplace really be warming much faster than everyplace else?
North Pole Heating Faster than anywhere else
Many Are Cold, And Many Are Frozen
In some parts of New York state, organizers are canceling winter festivals and meteorologists are warning residents to stay inside.
Meanwhile, a rare snow has been piling up on the North Carolina beaches.
Frostbite Falls « Musings from the ChiefioNow think about this for a minute. If you have ANY of: Convection, barometric driven mixing, clouds, water vapor, water droplets; then IR does not dominate. With them all removed, and with the CO2 left in place, we have the full “CO2 Forcing” in effect (but unobscured by other drivers).
And what did we get? A New All Time Record Low.
I’d like to turn this into a whole lot more, but to me it’s clear and done at this point and any “more” is “less” clear.
CO2 is completely swamped by ANY of [ convection, wind, water vapor, clouds / water drops ] and when seen acting on its own can do nothing to prevent record lows from IR radiation from the surface.
There are sidebars and sidelights, but the crux of it is just that. CO2 is a wimp, and can be ignored. Water kicks sand in its face and clouds pee in its beer while the wind gives it a wedgie.
More than 600 people in Louisville flock to shelter to escape bitter coldLOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE)- There is no denying it, it was cold all across Kentucky on Friday and Saturday. The impact of the frigid weather was felt across Louisville.
...Saturday morning, temperatures in some parts of the region were at or below zero degrees.
Nina Moseley, the Chief Operating Officer of the Wayside Christian Mission said, "This weather is definitely life threatening to anyone."
Republicans’ 2010 election triumph will fuel civilization’s demise, Chomsky says | Raw Story“You could almost interpret [the election] as a kind of a death knell for the species," Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a recent interview.
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Chomsky explained that the force behind the global warming deniers are the business and energy lobbies, both of whom have vested interests in selling cheap fossil fuels.
"The Chamber of Commerce, the main business lobby, the American petroleum industry and other business lobbies have publicly proclaimed in fact with enthusiasm that they are carrying out campaigns to try to convince the population that global warming is a liberal hoax," he said.
"It's succeeded unfortunately," he added, pointing to the US media's complicity.
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“If this was happening in some small country, in you know maybe Monaco or something, it wouldn’t matter much, but when it’s happening in the richest, most powerful country in the world – it’s a danger to the survival of the species,” he said.
Chomsky added, “Nobody else is going to do much if the United States doesn’t do a lot, not just some but take the lead. So we’re essentially saying, 'Let’s kiss each other goodbye.'”
Workshop addresses polar bears' plight amid global warming - Environment - MiamiHerald.comANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The female polar bear swam 370 nautical miles for nine days through the open water in the Beaufort Sea. After that, she alternately swam and walked on sea ice for another 970 miles.
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Amstrup, who used to work for the U.S. Geological Survey and now works for Polar Bears International, a conservation group, said hunting for polar bears may need to be curtailed in areas where the population is now declining. That may not be necessary in areas where the population is holding steady, he said.
Signs Of Strengthening Global CoolingClimatic cyclic history repeats itself, even if you ignore it.
And it does so because it is so powerful that it neither allows itself to be suppressed nor appeased. Guest writer Matti Vooro presents here his latest work on why the future is looking cooler. This is also the view of a growing number of scientists. Expect cooling over the next 30 years.
A disastrous truth | Climate Etc.I wholeheartedly agree EXCEPT FOR THE CLAUSE ABOUT “BETTER IGNORE THE SKEPTICS”, and expressed this sentiment in my post “Pakistan on my mind.” The rationale for tying individual (or collective) extreme events to global warming was reinforced by Hurricane Katrina, which became a focusing event for global warming when for the first time the public seemed to understand that a 1 or 2 degree increase in sea surface temperature could be associated with more intense hurricanes (I posted an overview on the hurricane/global warming issue here). The rationale then becomes to use each new disaster as a “teachable opportunity” to build support support for climate change science and policies. The strategy is no longer working, and worse, it is based on the premise that we can actually attribute individual extreme events to global warming (see my previous post on this).
American Thinker Blog: What hath the greenies wrought?Al Gore -- now that he is wealthy and the winner of an Academy Award and Nobel Peace Prize -- has owned up to the "ethanol scam". He admitted politics was key to his support for ethanol, as it is now for Barack Obama as 2012 rapidly approaches.
When will our politicians and the fanatics and rent-seekers driving this policy be forced to come clean as well?
Climate initiative sets global goals for Scripps - SignOnSanDiego.com“We can’t yet answer the question, ‘What is the net emission for any country on the planet?’ ” said Rob Jackson, a climate change researcher at Duke University. “My hope would be that in 10 years or certainly in 20, all of these observational capabilities will help us resolve the carbon budget of a state like California or even a city like Los Angeles or San Diego.”
New Yorkers Ward Off Dangers Of Frostbite, Hypothermia - NY1.comAs the temperatures plunged into the single digits this weekend and the Department of Homeless Services declared a Code Blue Emergency, some New Yorkers braved the cold and most tried to stay warm.
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"It's bitter cold, it's like being in Antarctica," said local Gerard Altieri.
Taiwan seeing bigger temperature range - CNA ENGLISH NEWSTaipei, Jan. 22 (CNA) Taiwan has experienced a bigger range of temperatures in recent years and this trend is expected to continue due to the influence of global warming, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Saturday.
According to the CWB's latest statistics, the Danshui Weather Station in northern Taiwan recorded a difference in temperature of 32.7 degrees Celsius last year, compared to 31.9 degrees in 2009 and 29 degrees in 2008, respectively.
The costs of the EU's Galileo satellite system are still skyrocketing - TelegraphCriminal gangs have for some time been targeting the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which forces electricity firms and other large concerns to pay £80 billion a year for the right to continue emitting CO2. In 2009, Europol uncovered a massive VAT racket involving carbon permits which had robbed EU taxpayers of five billion euros in real money, one of the biggest frauds in history. In 2010 it exposed the theft of another half a billion euros in Italy alone, with police investigations still continuing in nine other countries, involving raids on hundreds of offices all over Europe.
What is new about the latest revelations, which have led to the suspension of the ETS for at least a week, is that the criminals have moved on to the electronic theft of millions of the permits themselves. Although the fraud has so far been detected only in five countries, the authorities have, as yet, no idea of the true scale of a crime which could threaten the survival of the world’s largest carbon market.
The Love Affair With the Fireplace Cools - NYTimes.com Hard as it may be to believe, the fireplace — long considered a trophy, particularly in a city like New York — is acquiring a social stigma. Among those who aspire to be environmentally responsible, it is joining the ranks of bottled water and big houses.
Rex Murphy: Seal hunt pieties die at the Chinese border | Full Comment | National PostWe see in the gesture on the seal hunt how China is indifferent to, or careless of, the inhibitions and moral delicacies of the European community — which has long been showily exercised by the “cruelty” of the seal hunt. Euro-salons and -legislatures also have been the epicenter of the “Stop the Seal Hunt” movement for decades. Whether China’s move saves or revives the ancient Newfoundland hunt, or turns out to provide just a small, token market is not the question here. Rather, it is that China, in this one particular instance, is showing it does not share, is a stranger to, the so-called values that rule in “our” part of the world.
China doesn’t care what Greenpeace, or the WWF, or aging sitcom starlets think about the seal hunt, or about anything else. Judging from its intentions in the matter of building coal-fired power stations, China is determinedly out of sync with some of the other infatuations of the West, the great pieties over global warming being the most illustrious example.
US carbon markets eye ETS theft falloutThe incidents raised concerns across the Atlantic, where state regulators are preparing to launch a multi-sector carbon market in the west and ensure the smooth operation of one in the east.
Wind farms cause far more damage than they fix | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogBring on that inquiry, and investigate the issue from the ground up. Is global warming really man-made? Is it actually a danger overall? What difference would our wind farms make anyway? Isn’t the visual pollution of wind farms more real and harmful than any warming they allegedly avert? And if we really must slash our gases, aren’t there far cheaper and less harmful ways to do it?
Just look what the rotten things have done to one of my favorite views in Victoria, when you crest the hill at Kilcunda to finally see the great sweep of coast to Wonthaggi:
Grey Literature: IPCC Insiders Speak Candidly « NoFrakkingConsensusWe’re often told we should believe in dangerous human-caused global warming because science academies from around the world endorse the idea. So why have those same academies remained silent with regard to this matter?
Does no one care that the IPCC’s leadership has been dead wrong about something this simple and straightforward? I mean, IPCC reports are only among the world’s most important documents.
UNEP: Is This Their Dumbest Claim Yet? | hauntingthelibraryBut hang on just a minute – according to the graph, there were no natural disasters in 1900. None. And just hundreds in the late 20th century.
Does that sound plausible to you?
OpEdNews - Article: Downsize or Modify? A Conversation with Noam ChomskyAnd probably is also celebrating the fact that according to recent polls, barely a third of Americans now believe that human activities are a factor in climate change -" very likely the result of a major corporate propaganda offensive, openly announced [What, specifically, is Chomsky talking about here?!], to achieve this result. It's important to bear in mind that those who orchestrate the campaigns know as well as the rest of us that the "hoax" is real and ominous, but they are pursuing their institutional role: maximizing short-term profit and putting aside "externalities," in this case the fate of the species.
Three farmers in MP commit suicide due to crop failure - MSN IndiaChhatarpur (MP), Jan 22 (PTI) Three farmers allegedly committed suicide following damage to their crop due to frost and extreme cold wave conditions in Chhatarpur and Vidisha districts of Madhya Pradesh.
'Hot,' by Mark Hertsgaard: reviewHertsgaard warns that the world she and all her generation must confront as adults will be virtually unlivable unless the United States, China and the other major industrialized nations begin to deal with global warming with the extreme urgency most have rejected so far.
Hertsgaard has traveled far, from Western Europe to Bangladesh, to Africa and China, and he has found clear evidence that the effects of climate change are already pervasive everywhere. He has delved deeply into the most recent scientific evidence from the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change, and relies heavily on the conclusions of James Hansen at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who, however passionate he may be, is one of the finest climatologists in the world.
Right now, Hertsgaard notes, the consensus of climate scientists is that if the world's emissions of greenhouse gases persist unchecked, global temperatures will increase by 9 degrees Fahrenheit over the preindustrial era before 2100 - and "the Earth will be hotter than at any time in the past 50 million years."
Fremont roof collapse leads to evacuations, demolition plans | OhioFREMONT -- After standing in Fremont for more than a century and being home to a once-successful manufacturing business, the three-story brick building at 425 North Wood St. will soon be reduced to a pile of rubble by demolition crews.
The roof of the building, owned by Justin Terry, of Fremont, started collapsing Tuesday evening, likely under the weight of snow. Part of the southwest wall began to collapse.
East Coast snow storms lead to blood supply shortage | KDRVMEDFORD, Ore. - The harsh winter conditions have made it very difficult for blood banks on the East Coast to remain open, creating a shortage.
Wartime posters to fight climate change - TelegraphCaroline Lucas, the leader of the Green Party, said global warming will cause food shortages, high fuel costs and social upheaval, just as the threat of Nazi invasion forced the country to make cuts in the 1930s and 40s.
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The New Home Front Initiative will look to the war time generation for inspiration and advice on how to stop waste and make resources go further. For example by teaching grandchildren how to grow vegetables or repair clothes.
Artists and even the public are being asked to design a poster inspired by wartime propaganda, such as the campaign to reduce petrol use with the slogan ‘Don’t be Fuelish’.
- Bishop Hill blog - Conservation of worry This was sent to me by a reader. It compares discussion of climate change and nuclear war in books by date. Click here for source and a larger version of the graph.
- Bishop Hill blog - More BBC propaganda?Sure looks like it. It's been, what, months since the BBC last gave global warming enthusiasts free rein to spout their views, so why not? I mean, what is the BBC for if not for acting as the voice of the vested interest?
The latest addition to the BBC's impressive back-catalogue of one-sidedness is an hour of the new president of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse, looking at "attacks" on climate scientists.
Hockey Stick Found In The Arctic! | Real Science
For Many Species, No Escape as Temperature Rises | HeraldTribune.comOver the next 100 years, many scientists predict, 20 percent to 30 percent of species could be lost if the temperature rises 3.6 degrees to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit. If the most extreme warming predictions are realized, the loss could be over 50 percent, according to the United Nations climate change panel.
Jennifer Marohasy » Looking for AGW in a Sea of Natural Variability: Drought to Flood (Part 1): A Note from Luke WalkerSo is there any evidence for any AGW effect (or interaction) on Australia’s rainfall climate in a sea of natural variability and how would you even find it?
Part 2 will discuss any evidence for AGW influence.
Follow a family's effort to reduce their carbon emissions by six tonnes - Environment - The IndependentUsing existing technology, the companies created a purpose-built house and supplied specialist equipment, including solar panels and a Volvo C30 DRIVe Electric car to help the family achieve the "one tonne" goal.
The Lindell family from Hasselby, Sweden, includes father Nils, mother Alicja and teenagers Hannah and Jonathan.
Cold Weather, Frozen Hydrants Challenge Firefighters | WBNS-10TV, Central Ohio NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The cold temperatures are creating challenges for firefighters.
Columbus firefighters said that they were dealing with about 80 frozen hydrants across the city and the water department has been so busy dealing with other weather-related problems that many are still frozen, 10TV's Maureen Kocot reported on Friday.
Last week, firefighters had to stop battling a garage fire in the Linden area because of a frozen hydrant.
Polar Bear Quota IncreasedPolar bear hunting season has started on Baffin Island almost a month earlier than usual. This year, the Inuit will harvest up to 32 males and nine females up from the usual limit of 16 males and seven females. The Davis Strait population of polar bears is one of the few that all parties (NGOs, science and Inuit) agree is increasing.
The increase in the Davis Strait population is both on account of changing ice patterns/good ice seasons in the eastern Arctic but also from an explosion of seal populations. I have heard that since the seal harvest was reduced in Newfoundland/Labrador that Harp Seal populations have not only increased dramatically in that area but have spread north.
Polar Bear Blog – What Are Hudson Bay’s Polar Bears up to in the New Year?Either way, the best a polar bear can hope for right now is a mild winter – it is a bit of a fallacy that bears need the extreme cold. They seem to prefer mid-range temperatures (mid-range for us northerners being -20C). In fact, polar bears simply hunker down during blizzards (yes, they are adapted to exist in -40 blizzards but no one actually likes -40 blizzards… except for maybe ravens who on the surface do not appear to be adapted for it at all).
Polar Bear Blog – January 20 2011 – Minus Fifties For a BitWindchill in Churchill today is somewhere in the minus fifties. Of course, once you are in the minus fifties, it doesn’t matter much whether it is -53 or -57. They are calling for winds gusting up to 60km/hr (which is really still just moderate winds for the coast of Hudson Bay) but when your ambient temperature is already closing in on minus forty, it gets pretty intense.
California Declares Fiscal Emergency - CNBCJerry Brown, California’s governor, declared a state of fiscal emergency on Thursday for the government of the most populous US state to press lawmakers to tackle its $25.4 billion budget gap.
2009: California's 'Green Jobs' Experiment Isn't Going Well - WSJ.comGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was all smiles in 2006 when he signed into law the toughest anti-global-warming regulations of any state. Mr. Schwarzenegger and his green supporters boasted that the regulations would steer California into a prosperous era of green jobs, renewable energy, and technological leadership. Instead, since 2007 -- in anticipation of the new mandates -- California has led the nation in job losses.
Climate Change Ramped Up in 2010 | NBC Bay AreaThe planet's long warming trend continued in 2010, which was the hottest year on record. Over the past decade, almost every year set records for heat.
Last month, it was confirmed that the arctic ice cap had shrunk to its smallest recorded size, according to Grist. The arctic has been particularly vulnerable to warming, along with Africa and some Asian countries.
Greenland and Canada also faced higher than normal temperatures.
But climate change doesn't just mean that summers will be hotter. It also means an exaggeration of other extreme climate conditions, such as "abnormally cold" regions in Europe.
VIDEO: Meet the Dream Reborn Story Contest Winners — Green For AllWe are pleased to announce a group of Joseph's students, "The Climate Change Crew," as the winners of last year's Dream Reborn Story Contest. These remarkable young people are part of a program in the Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center, a youth development organization based out of the Science Museum of Minnesota.
The Climate Change Crew are working hard to raise awareness and engaging in the collective effort needed to make Dr. King's dream a reality.
A cynic might note that the day after this Minnesota global warming hoax video was promoted, Minnesota's "Icebox of the Nation" registered a temperature of -46 F, five degrees colder than the 1954 record.
Coral marches to the poles : Nature NewsCorals around Japan are fleeing northwards, according to a new study. One type has been spotted 'sprinting' at 14 kilometres a year, thanks to a lift from ocean currents.
Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland, Australia# The Great Barrier Reef is around 18 million years of age in the north and 2 million Years old in the south, with the existing reef system being between 10,000 and 6000 years old.
Global warming: worst advocacy campaign ever — Transition VoiceIf climate change were a product, it would’ve been pulled from the shelves during the Clinton Administration. If the green movement were a company, it would have gone bankrupt and its assets acquired by Procter and Gamble to market eco-Tide to Prius-drivers in Portland. Oregon or Maine, it doesn’t matter.
Today, there are almost as many books on Amazon arguing that climate change is a hoax or a blessing or an act of God as there are books based on actual science.
Now, you might complain that Exxon, Massey Energy and Koch Industries have poured massive amounts of cash into the American Enterprise Institute and skeptic loudmouths like Patrick Michaels and Richard Lindzen to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about climate change on Fox News.
2006: The problem with "global warming"Global is good.
Warm is good.
Even greenhouses are good places.
How can "global warming" be bad?
I'm not being facetious. If the problem were called "Atmosphere cancer" or "Pollution death" the entire conversation would be framed in a different way.
Update on healing the planet: Traders condemn EU's 'Mickey Mouse' carbon market after botched trading statement | Environment | The GuardianA city trader accused the European commission tonight of running a "Mickey Mouse" carbon-trading scheme after some traders lost heavily on the market owing to a botched trading statement.
The commission is already under fire over an entirely separate fraud inquiry that has closed parts of the EU's emissions trading scheme, which is seen by many as crucial to tackling climate change.
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"This is a significant mistake on the part of the European commission. Some traders have lost a lot of money today. If I want a Mickey Mouse market, I'll go to Disneyland," one trader told Reuters.
Vietnam Hit By Mass Cattle Deaths | The Daily Feed | Minyanville.comThanh Nien reports that Vietnam’s Department of Husbandry at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed that more 10,000 cows and buffalo have died due to extreme cold.
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The cattle deaths in Vietnam could be catastrophic for the nation’s mostly rural populations. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 74 percent of Vietnam’s population lives in rural areas, with 65 percent depending agriculture for their income.
And so, quite simply, the answer is yes. Yes, the apocalypse is here.
Inhofe Urges EPW Oversight Hearings of Ethanol Policy"EPA's latest action continues to push too much ethanol too fast," Senator Inhofe said. "Unfortunately, Congress has done little to exercise appropriate oversight of such decisions, despite growing bipartisan concerns over ethanol's mechanical problems and its economic and environmental impacts. Therefore, I am calling on Senator Boxer today to hold hearings on the nation's corn ethanol policies as soon as possible.
Meet the Climate Fockers: Why family fights over climate are a good sign « Climate ProgressUnfortunately his mom then piled on the denial train. And my colleague, who has been retrofitting boilers and lights as part of his work in finance, and reading dense climate science I hand him (Hansen on paleoclimatology, Stephen Schneider on the credibility of the scientists denying climate change) went ballistic. So much so that his wife left the house to make phone calls from the car.
The argument ruined my friend’s family visit, and likely put strains on his already tenuous familial relationships.
- Bishop Hill blog - A copy of that cold winter forecastToday, rather later than I expected, the Quarmby team have responded and have helpfully provided a copy of the forecast:
Why Warmists Think Genghis Khan Was Cool | hauntingthelibraryA study from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology to be published in The Holocene online journal outlines an unexpected benefit of rampaging Mongolian hordes – they’re great for helping remove Co2 from the atmosphere.
How did Genghis and his hordes manage to have such an effect? Simple – massive depopulation led to reforestation. Less people = more trees.
T.J. Rodgers: Just Say No to Subsidies and Global Warming : Greentech MediaHe warns investors, “Run like hell when you hear ‘green jobs, green economy, double bottom line or carbon tax.’ “
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Palm Springs, California -- T.J. Rogers is the Founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductors, a force in Silicon Valley, an early equity investor in SunPower and a vintner. He spoke on Thursday morning at the CleanEdge/IBF cleantech investor forum and was introduced as "an unabashed free-market capitalist."
Rodgers is a wry, in-your-face speaker. He walked into the lions' den of green investors and environmentalists at this event to debunk the "religion of climate change" and warn the crowd to not get too reliant on government subsidy programs.
He does not accept the widely accepted dogma of human-induced global warming nor the data of global warming adherents.
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Rodger's cited surveys that indicate that the average consumer does not care about global warming. He railed against environmentalists converging on the climate talks in private jets and limousines, calling environmentalism "a secular religion, a non-god-based religion." He also chastised the press, saying, "The press is uncritically on their side."
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Mr. Rodgers' incendiary talk was ill-received by many in the large, green-leaning crowd -- there was some less than complimentary post-speech chatter.
Freezing Winters In Europe Could Be The NormColder winters could become the norm in Europe over the next 20 to 40 years, US-based forecaster Weather Services International said Tuesday.
“We have recently noticed a change in [weather] patterns back to what we had in the 1950s and 1960s in Europe... We’ve had three cold winters in a row in the UK,” WSI’s chief meteorologist Todd Crawford told Platts.
“We believe there is a strong likelihood that it’s going to hang around for the next 20 to 30 years.”
Editorial: Put up or shut up on global warming | data, temperature, global - Opinion - The Orange County RegisterIt is time for an independent investigation of whether or to what degree human activities are creating catastrophic global warming. It should be conducted by scientists untainted by advocacy and uncompromised through receiving taxes or private funding to advance or debunk the theory.
Midwest storm cause at least 6 traffic deathsST. LOUIS — A winter storm that blew across the Midwest on Thursday was blamed for at least six traffic deaths in the region, as it dumped more than a foot of snow in some parts and was expected to leave sub-zero temperatures in its wake.
domain-b.com : New paper suggests greenhouse gases not primary cause of global warmingIndia has once again challenged the UN's climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with a new scientific paper that suggests human-induced global warming is much less than what the R K Pachauri-led IPCC claims.
U R Rao, former chairman of Indian Space Research OrganisationThe paper identifies the reduced impact of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) on the formation of low clouds over earth in the last 150 years as the main cause for global warming. The paper is authored by U R Rao, former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, and was released by environment minister Jairam Ramesh.
Closed « the Air Vent I may continue someday in coming years but at this point… I’m done.
EU Energy Orwellianism: Ignorance Is Strength — MasterResourceI am not sure whether Eurostat, or the EU Commission, are intentionally hiding pieces of information, or they just do not think those pieces of information is really relevant. I am not even sure whether it is better to be governed by evil people who do not want to be challenged, or by stupid people who do not realize that data availability is a critical part of a well-functioning decision-making process. I am sure, however, that policies that are built upon data which either do not exist, or are not accessible, deserve no public trust.
Standing of IPCC Authors Declining In Every Report | hauntingthelibraryDonna Laframboise has a must-read article which details how the standing (research papers published, academic titles, etc) is declining with every IPCC report.
It seems the smarter ones are realising that it’s a sinking ship and are getting off it as soon as they can.
IPCC Nobel Laureates Lack Scientific Credibility « NoFrakkingConsensusIPCC insiders say many of those who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize have weak scientific credentials. They were chosen because they are of the right gender or come from the right country.
“If you still think voters will willingly check the YES box for a politician promising colder weather and lowering the seas by taxing the air, WELL, YOU are the new denier.” | Real Science
Daniel Firger: What Hu's Washington Visit Says About Climate ChangeClimate change is not high on the list of issues for negotiation when President Hu sits down with President Obama at the White House on Wednesday.
10 GOP presidential contenders, 10 different ways to screw the climate | GristWe've checked out the leading (or at least famous) hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination and found that all of them vociferously oppose cap-and-trade systems -- including a few who had to flip-flop to get there. On climate science, there's more variety, ranging from loud denial to muddled semi-denial. Get the dirt on the 10 possible candidates here.
Europe’s carbon trading suspended after fraudsters hit - again | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogThe trade in hot air is an open invitation to a fraudster:
The Migrant Mind: Where is the rejoicing?Where is the rejoicing??? We have heard years of whines and complaints about the Arctic ice melting and (wipe my eyes free of the tears) how this is killing the (wipe them again, sob, sniff) pretty polar bears.
But when the Arctic Ice is, as it is now, ABOVE the long term average, there is SILENCE, not cheering from those most vocal about saving the (gotta wipe a few more tears here, sigh, wait a minute while I compose myself).....polar bear who can't fend for himself if we don't (loud crying here) stop using fossil fuels. Today the Arctic ice is above the long term (1979-2008) average. Where is the cheering?
Could it be that the lack of cheering is because polar bears are really only a pawn in their political gamesmanship? The polar bear isn't what they are worried about, it is political control.
VietNamNet - Cold front brings misery to north, central regions VietNamNet Bridge – The prolonged and damaging cold spell has attacked the northern and central regions, deeply disrupting the daily life of the local people.
As many as seven deaths were reported due to cold weather or carbon monoxide poisoning from coal braziers in the central provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Tri and Phu Yen.
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Health experts have advised people of the risks of carbon monoxide exposure and have also warned parents not carry their children by motorbike in the cold weather. Statistics from the Livestock Breeding Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development show that the prolonged cold weather has killed over 17,000 cows and buffaloes mainly in the northern provinces of Son La, Lao Cai, Lai Chau and Cao Bang.
Project Thirty Days (mostly) Car-Free: Halfway There! - BikeRadarTrading my trusty Subaru for a Trek Transport+ and committing to go car-free for all in-town trips for at least 30 days during a Colorado winter sounded much easier in theory back when it was all sunny and warm.
Green Energy’s Big Challenge: The Daunting Task of Scaling Up by David Biello: Yale Environment 360One thing is certain: If the global economy does succeed in making the transition to renewable energy, the face of the planet will be significantly changed, with solar energy farms and wind turbines a common feature of many landscapes and seascapes.
“If 10 percent of the U.S. electricity generated in 2009... were to be produced by large wind farms, their area would have to cover at least 22,500 square kilometers, roughly the size of New Hampshire,” writes environmental scientist Vaclav Smil of the University of Manitoba in his book, Energy at the Crossroads. “These new energy infrastructures would have to be spread over areas ten to a thousand times larger than today’s infrastructure of fossil fuel extraction, combustion and electricity generation…. This is not an impossible feat, but one posing many regulatory, technical and logistic challenges.”
Romm/Cook Prosecute Themselves | Real ScienceNote that temperatures rose as fast from 1910 to 1940 as they did from 1970 to 2000.
This is solid evidence that the warming is not due to CO2, which only rose 10 ppm from 1910 to 1940. If you use the latest climate science 30 year lag rule, their problem gets even worse – because the 1910-1940 rise was due to the tiny rise in CO2 from before the automobile was invented.
The Reference Frame: AGW vs phishers: a thief robbed another thiefRichard Black of BBC brought us an amusing report about one group of scammers that decided to rob another group of scammers.
Some climate "scientists" have already been robbed by their colleagues who are smaller fish, however: the phishers.
Noble War Prize[Ever wanted ice cubes in the shape of Al Gore's head?]
YouTube - Marc Morano on FNC 1/19/10Marc Morano on FNC's 'Your World with Neil Cavuto' 1/19/10
Greenpeace Founder Questions Man-Made Global Warming | The BlazePatrick Moore, co-founder of the environmental organization Greenpeace, isn’t too hot about global warming. Appearing on Fox Business Network with Stuart Varney on Thursday, he said global warming is a “natural phenomenon,” there’s no proof of man-made global warming, and suggested that “alarmism” is driving politicians to create bad environmental policies. He also said he’s not the only environmentalist that believes like him:
- Bishop Hill blog - Drivel ahoyYou always know when the Guardian knows it's publishing drivel. They switch the comments off. Today's contribution from Leo Hickman is one of these, and my goodness you can see why they wouldn't want anyone airing an opinion on it.
It turns out that GWPF has published its first set of accounts and that most of its income comes from donations rather than membership fees. Leo seems to have a problem with this, but I would have thought that the vast majority of charities working in the area of the environment are funded by donations from trusts and wealthy individuals. Or more likely different bits of government.
But more by way of donations than membership fees is all there is to this story, ladies and gentlemen. The rest is just innuendo, in a Guardian-y sort of way.
Only In It For The Gold: Fuller tries to cheer me upThe evidence is piling up that our circumstances are beyond our cognitive or managerial abilities. I'm more scared of that than of hundred degree oceans right now. I think at the present rate we will not manage to maintain what we are pleased to call civilization long enough to get to 5xCO2. I suppose you could say that may be more good news than bad news; at least a few vertebrates will straggle through.
Calif. Plants Put a Wrinkle In Climate Change Plans : NPRScott Loarie, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution of Science on the Stanford University campus, says most of the research into this topic has been focused on temperature trends, "because we know the most about temperature. Pretty much all our evidence shows the earth will get hotter, and there's very little dispute about that. We don't know very much about precipitation."
Loarie says the new study underlines just how important precipitation can be. Unfortunately in many parts of the world, scientists simply can't say whether climate change in the long run will bring more moisture or more drought. Loarie says California is a case in point —the various climate forecasts disagree.
"So it's really a crapshoot in California whether we're facing a drier or a wetter future," he says.
AM - 2010 one of the hottest on record 21/01/2011BOB CARTER: The question is not whether it causes warming, the question is how much warming? Since 1998 we've had three warm years - 1998, 2005 and 2010 - and each of those years is associated with an El Nino event which causes or is related to the warming. Okay, but there's no trend, 2010 is not significantly warmer in any way than 1998.
So we have a warm period over a period of 12 years. Over those same 12 years we have a five per cent increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is supposed to cause more warming. Well this data that we've just discussed tells you that human carbon dioxide emissions are not causing dangerous global warming, indeed they're not causing any warming at all at the moment.
MEREDITH GRIFFITHS: Professor Carter says the last 150 years have been among the coolest in the past 10,000 years of the Earth's history.
Extreme Cold Cancellations, Complications in MinnesotaDaytime temperatures may not make it above zero in northern Minnesota, and Friday morning lows could drop to minus-30 and colder from the Iron Range and north.
The North America Pond Hockey Championship in Excelsior, Minn. was canceled for the weekend.
NASA Targets Children with ‘Climate Kids’ Website « ClimateQuotes.comThere is an obvious questions to be asked here. Why do we need federal agencies to create programs which educate children about climate change? Even if we ignore that question and accept the role of federal agencies as educators, we still are left with a completely one-sided presentation. There is no mention in the NASA site of uncertainties. There is practically no timescale presented to give context. The site urges children to pick certain 'green' careers over others. The positives of renewable energy are praised, with no mention of the drawbacks. Whether or not you believe this site should even exist (with taxpayer funding), certainly we can all agree the issues presented need to be balanced. There is no balance on the NASA Climate Kids website. I'd wager that if all references to NASA were removed, the site would be indistinguishable from an environmentalist site.
NASA, can't you find something better to do with our money?
Confronting the Climate Cranks | The NationOur initiative, Confront the Climate Cranks, will do just that: confront the cranks on camera and accompanied by some of the children they have put in danger. We will video all of our confrontations and then quickly make them available to the public—by posting them on YouTube and sharing them with mainstream and alternative media and the social networks of our partner organizations. (In the run-up to these confrontations, we will invite the participation of the members or readers of The Nation, Grist, Kids vs Global Warming and the other partnering organizations, polling them on which cranks to target, what questions to ask and so on. Thus we hope to build momentum before arriving in Washington, as well as generate continuing attention and activism after the confrontations.)
Investors Abandon Green Energy in Wake of Huge New Gas and Oil FindHuge new recent discoveries in gas, oil and rare mineral deposits see major investors and governments bail out of a collapsing green energy market.
European History: Cooling Bad, Warming Good, Study Confirms, Despite Gratuitous Political Correctness | GlobalWarming.orgDuring the past two millennia and more, Europe suffered during cooler, drier periods and flourished during warmer, wetter periods. That’s what any attentive reader will infer from “2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility,” a study published in ScienceExpress by Swiss researcher Ulf Büntgen and 11 U.S. and European colleagues.
Josh Tetrick: Tough Times? Do Some Good.Today, like every other day, global-warming pollution is dumped by the 70 million ton truckloads into the sewer formerly known as our atmosphere.
242 Sea Turtles Released into the Gulf of Mexico“Sea turtles can tolerate water temperatures down to about 50 degrees, but when it drops below that, they’re in trouble,” Foley said.
Ramesh-backed paper questions another IPCC claim - Hindustan TimesIndia has once again challenged the UN’s climate science body — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — through a new scientific paper. The environment ministry- sponsored paper says human- induced global warming is much lesser than what the RK Pachauri-headed IPCC had said. The reason for this is reduced impact of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) on formulation of low clouds over earth in the last 150 years, says a paper by UR Rao, former chairman of ISRO, released by environment minister Jairam Ramesh.
Discover and Deliver: The Big Picture on Energy | Warmist Steven Chu - DOE Blog From a car battery with a 500 mile range to producing gasoline from sunlight, wehave unleashed bold new research efforts that – if successful – could fundamentally change the way we use and produce energy. This includes the world’s largest, most comprehensive effort to develop, test and deploy carbon capture and sequestration technologies that are crucial to avoiding the worst effects of climate change.
Global Warming Policy Foundation donor funding levels revealed | Environment | The GuardianIts total income for the period up to 31 July 2010 was £503,302, of which only £8,168 came from membership contributions...The accounts include a statement from Lawson in which he justifies why the foundation, which has called for increased transparency and scrutiny of climate scientists, refuses to reveal the identity of its donors: "The soil we till is highly controversial, and anyone who puts their head above the parapet has to be prepared to endure a degree of public vilification. For that reason we offer all our donors the protection of anonymity."
That reminds me: Is Andy Revkin still working tirelessly to find out who, specifically, funded Al Gore's $300 million climate hoax propaganda campaign?
Tough Climate [Hoax] Math in the Face of CO2 and Energy Forecasts - NYTimes.comIn both cases, if you really care about cutting risks of the kind of human-driven warming that could last centuries, if not millennia, you also would do well to support research in technologies or practices that could suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere
EU Referendum: Rescue on holdThis has to be extremely fraught as the ice is clearly building up faster than they can break thought it. The reality is that they are deeper into the ice now that when the ships were first trapped on 31 December, now three weeks ago. And now, it seems, they are temporarily defeated, as the weather worsens.
A Better Yardstick for Measuring Solar Cycles - NYTimes.comWith 2010 tying 2005 for the warmest year on record, and 10 of the last 13 years ranking as the 10 warmest ever, it becomes ever more difficult to sustain an argument that global warming is not occurring. So the question becomes more of a whodunit. Is it man, or nature, or both, and in what measure? In making their argument for natural causes, many climate skeptics tend to focus attention on the sun.
Dominic Lawson: The population timebomb is a myth - Dominic Lawson, Commentators - The IndependentThe doom-sayers are becoming more fashionable just as experts are coming to the view it has all been one giant false alarm.
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The human appetite for bad news knows no bounds. That is why gossip is usually malicious and why, on a grander scale, prophets of doom are always guaranteed a credulous audience. Conversely, good news – however well attested – is generally squeezed in the margins of newspapers.
Florida's non-citrus crop losses from cold could total $370MThose losses translate into more than $150 million on lost cash sales so far, according to agriculture department spokesman Sterling Ivey. In an e-mail on Thursday morning, Ivey also said that the total losses between December and March will likely top $150 million in cash sales losses, which will result in total economic losses of $370 million. The total estimated losses include expenses for items like labor and fuel that are needed to grow a crop.
SA should realistically manage Durban climate [swindle] meeting expectations “It’s important that we are very real about what is possible” at the seventeenth conference of the parties (COP17), said Department of Environmental Affairs deputy director-general Joanne Yawitch, who forms part of the South African negotiation team.
“At the same time,” Yawitch continued, “there is a sense that you can’t dump the big political questions anymore. We are going to need to engage with some of the issues that the Mexicans [at COP16 in Cancun] didn’t. So, it puts us in a situation where one must not build expectations too high, but at the same time one must not dumb them down too much either.”
NASA’s Climate Guru James Hansen Says China Should Lead Economic Boycott of US | NewsReal BlogKnowing that he cannot prove his global warming hoax, Hansen has a new model, he believes that “climate protection” laws should be imposed on Americans the same way things are imposed in his new favorite kind of government, a Chinese-Style Dictatorship. And even worse this government employee suggests that China impose an economic boycott on the United States because we don’t have a plan to reduce our carbon consumption.
Factbox: How trading in the EU carbon market works | ReutersThe Commission suspended spot trade on Wednesday in its 72 billion euro ($124.1 billion) carbon market but allowed derivatives trade to continue. The theft of 475,000 permits, which was reported on Wednesday, follows a number of scandals to hit the market in the past two years including VAT fraud, a phishing scam and the re-sale of used carbon credits.
American Thinker Blog: Newt Gingrich and his chameleon nature in the political realmAnd, of course, there's "Green Newt." At the peak of hysteria on global warming, when Cap-and-Trade seemed a certainty, Gingrich embraced what was then "settled science." In fact, he made a video with Nancy Pelosi, urging the U.S. to "act fast." The author of To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine said that "Everyone agrees, we must address climate change," though failed to point out that it's Marxist at its core.
All of which points to Gingrich, the actor. True conservatism doesn't test the wind. It doesn't re-do itself. And it's not a chameleon. Gingrich's talent is his eloquent tongue, but the more it flutters, the greater the confusion, and the harder it is to believe in its noise.
GM Says Chevy Volt Passes Winter Test | PersonalFinanceBulletin.comChevy is suggesting that to minimize the drain on the lithium ion battery, during cold weather conditions; a “smart-phone” would allow remote starting of the car, while still plugged in. This would enable the Chevy Volt to draw power from the grid, while the inside is heated. The battery would then stay fully charged.
...Another energy saving feature is that the heated seats in the Volt, do not use as much power as heating the air, which will benefit the driver and passengers.
The Chevy Volt is designed to travel for about 35 miles, from one charge of its 16Kwh battery. However, in cold conditions, that figure will be reduced. The vehicle comes with a 1.4 liter, 84 horsepower engine, able to provide 344 miles on one tank of gas and give extra heat.
The maximum speed of the Volt listed at 100 miles per hour, has battery weighing 435 pounds, which powers an electric-drive unit.
IEA lauds unconventional gas reserves - UPI.comPARIS, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and European economies follow the U.S. unconventional reserves, the IEA said.
Discoveries fuel China's resource securityBEIJING - Chinese geologists have detected "super-thick" oil and gas-bearing stratums in the northern part of the South China Sea and identified 38 offshore oil and gas-bearing basins, a senior official said on Saturday.
The outskirts of Songliao Basin in Northeast China, Yin'e Basin in North China and Qiangtang Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have also been found to have rich oil and gas resources, Wang Min, vice-minister of land and resources, said at a national conference in Beijing.
In addition, 192.7 billion tons of coal resources have been found in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, and four 10,000-ton sandstone-type uranium mines have been located in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, he said.
Wang said these latest discoveries, particularly those at sea, have given direction for China's future resource exploration.
Al Fin Energy: Bill Gates Jumps Into Oil Exploration; Brazil's Reserves to Double?Bill Gates has read the tea leaves, and thinks that there is money in advanced oil exploration technologies.
Improved Measurements of Sun to Advance Understanding of Climate Change - US News and World ReportWASHINGTON—Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate change.
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The new findings give confidence, the researchers say, that other, newer satellites expected to launch starting early this year will measure total solar irradiance with adequate repeatability—and with little enough uncertainty—to help resolve the long-standing question of how significant a contributor solar fluctuations are to the rising average global temperature of the planet.
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The new work will help advance scientists' ability to understand the contribution of natural versus anthropogenic causes of climate change, the scientists said. That's because the research improves the accuracy of the continuous, 32-year record of total solar irradiance, or TSI. Energy from the sun is the primary energy input driving Earth's climate, which scientific consensus indicates has been warming since the Industrial Revolution.
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