Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #680
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Google – To Try And Breathe New Life In To The Climate Change Scam « Tory Aardvark
The intent is to improve the way “global warming science” is communicated to the public. not to improve the corrupt junk science of Michael Mann, Al Gore, Phil Jones and the corrupt and disingenuous IPCC, not a chance of that. Just more of the same reselling of the fabricated fear stories of the IPCC 2007 report and all the time pushing the hidden agenda behind the AGW, wealth redistribution and personal power.
More than 500 snails were flourishing a month ago, but now they're dead; maybe your iPod charger is to blame
‘Poster child’ of Banff’s endangered species on brink
A month ago, more than 500 of the barely corn kernel-sized creatures flourished in the Kidney hot spring, located in the woods across the road from the Rimrock hotel. But this week the spring completely dried up, and hundreds of tiny snail cadavers now sit motionless in the cold, dry mountain air.
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Bow Valley Naturalists president Mike McIvor said if man-made climate change is killing the snails, humans should intervene to help the snails.
“It’s all very well to to say we’re letting nature take its course. But global warming is not exactly letting nature take it’s course,” McIvor said.
'Five minutes of metal hitting metal' as California snowstorms leave one dead and dozens injured in 40 vehicle pile-up | Mail Online
A huge 40 vehicle pile-up has left one man dead and several others injured, after heavy snowfalls battered the Sierra Nevada region of California.
The busy Interstate 80 was shut for several hours 70 miles north east of Sacramento while emergency services battled to clear the road after a big rig carrying highly explosive liquid Hydrogen jack-knifed.
Global warming, rising seas threaten New Jersey, expert says | The Asbury Park Press | APP.com
While the economy may be the most immediate issue, climate change is on our doorstep, said Melanie Reding, education coordinator for the Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center in Little Egg Harbor.
Reding spoke Saturday about sea level rise and what warming oceans mean for New Jersey's coast, to an audience at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences.
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"In the scientific community, there is no debate about climate change," she said.
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"From the media, you'd think there is a debate," she said. While public opinion remains divided, climatologists agree that climate change has accelerated, she said.
Jason Lewis: Climate change is natural, and we don't have the data to predict it | StarTribune.com
Here in Minnesota, electric bills are already starting to reflect a brave new world powered by wind turbines and solar panels (anything except nuclear -- especially after Japan).
Under "next-generation energy" legislation passed in 2007, the state's largest utility, Xcel Energy, is busy touting its green credentials as it struggles to comply with a 30 percent mandate for expensive renewable power by 2020.
All in the name of a global warming theory whose fundamental premise looks weaker every day.
Suquamish Teens Participate in Climate Change [Scam] Summit | Mother Earth Journal
A group of Suquamish Tribe teenagers recently tackled a complicated issue that natural resources managers are just starting to consider – ocean acidification.
The five teens presented their findings on the issue and its impact to their tribe and Puget Sound before nearly 100 of their peers from all over the country in Washington, D.C. in mid-February.
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“I knew there was a shortage in our seafood,” said Charissa Sigo, a senior. “I just didn’t know how bad it was. And we learned that other groups are dealing with similar climate issues all over the country.”
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The teens were encouraged to participate by Karen Matsumoto, the Seattle Aquarium’s marine science education coordinator.
Glacier Bay Ice Retreated 50 Miles – Between 1780 And 1892 | Real Science
Red shows massive ice loss – with CO2 below 300 ppm.
Many warmists believe that they can stop glacial retreat by reducing CO2 to 350 ppm, once again indicating problems with the legalization of medical marijuana.
Watertown Daily Times | Taking long, long view on climate change
PAUL SMITHS — Chalk one up for the humans: we staved off an ice age.
That's one conclusion ecologist and paleoclimatalogist Curt Stager makes in his book "Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth," released Tuesday by St. Martin's Press.
And we have it in our power to prevent another ice age, which, compared to global warming, would be much worse for humans. "An ice age is to global warming as thermonuclear war is to a bar brawl," Mr. Stager writes in "Deep Future.
First Green President praises Brazil's alleged leadership in fighting global warming; also says that the US wants to buy lots of Brazilian fossil fuel
Remarks by President Obama and President Rousseff of Brazil in Brasilia, Brazil | FavStocks
Brazil is a regional leader promoting greater cooperation across the Americas and, increasingly, Brazil is a global leader, a world leader, going from a recipient of foreign aid to a donor nation, pointing the way to a world without nuclear weapons and being in the forefront of global efforts to confront climate change.
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We’re creating a new strategic energy dialogue to make sure that the highest levels of our governments are working together to seize new opportunities. In particular, with the new oil finds off Brazil, President Rousseff has said that Brazil wants to be a major supplier of new stable sources of energy, and I’ve told her that the United States wants to be a major customer, which would be a win-win for both our countries.
An Overreaching Attorney General - Reason Magazine
Researchers need to retain the right to be wrong—even woefully wrong. (In fact, insisting that scientists get it right misunderstands the scientific enterprise, under which even established dogma remains only contingently true.) If Mann and other climate-change alarmists are badly off course, time will prove it without Cuccinelli’s help. But if politicians start interrogating scientists whose work is open to question, then scientists may decide to stick with the safest, most well-established lines of inquiry—perhaps impeding scientific progress.
Lake Tahoe snow report: More than 2 1/2 feet of fresh powder at several Tahoe resorts - San Francisco skiing | Examiner.com
Forget about spring skiing for a while. Lake Tahoe ski resorts are in full winter mode this weekend with storms pummeling the Sierra range with snow.Flashback: Energy Secretary: Climate change could wipe out Calif. farming - CSMonitor.com
Sugar Bowl, Alpine Meadows and Boreal si resorts are reporting more than 2½ feet of snow on Friday and all the Tahoe resorts receive at least a foot of snow.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned that, if climate change continues unabated, California's agriculture could vanish by the end of the century.
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Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who ran the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining the Obama administration, said that warming temperatures could eliminate up to 90 percent of the Sierra snowpack, which provides water to many of the state's 76,000 farms.
In India, Sarah Palin bashes President Obama - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com
Palin did raise some eyebrows, however, when she contended that green energy jobs weren’t providing a boost to the economy, arguing that more oil exploration would provide a better shot in the arm.Six dead, one missing in French avalanches
Palin pointed to a study showing that showed green energy reforms had eliminated more jobs than it created as evidence that green energy does not have a strong future. Palin recently attacked Barack Obama over rising oil prices, contending that his policies – rather than uprisings in the Middle East – are to blame for his prices at the pump.
Today the good weather and up to a meter of fresh snow brought skiers out in force in the Queyras. A group of four skiers from the Grenoble area were caught by an avalanche in the commune of Ceillac. The avalanche occurred shortly after 13h00. All four members of the group were buried by the slide.
Yes, it IS about the science « JoNova
The science is the whole official reason for the tax, and if we don’t force the crowds to notice the corruption, the cheating, and the way science is exploited, then we are asking to be bludgeoned with it again. We are letting the most outrageous scam-meisters leave the room with their reputations intact and asking to be victims of the next invented crisis.Skeptic's Corner: CYBER WAG Eating Maple Bars!
Please do remember however that according to this article temperatures in New England have already increased 3.8 degrees F since 1835, but also according to this article that temperatures were 4 degrees F warmer than today, just 4 to 5 thousand years ago. This means that during the time that the Pharaoh's of Egypt were building the pyramids, Stonehenge was built, the calender was invented by the Mesopotamians, glass was invented, the first library was built, the first civilization in India was established, paper was invented, and a host of other accomplishments occurred , temperature were considerably warmer than today. If in fact the temperatures were that much warmer 4 thousand years ago, how are today's temperatures unprecedented? And more importantly how is it we did not tip the all important tipping point?
Barry Rock: Trace amounts of CO2 may cause Boston to have a climate similar to Atlanta
Sugar maples and climate change - Bennington Banner
Barry Rock, Professor of Natural Resources at the University of New Hampshire in Durham predicts that, based on two climate models in a New England regional climate assessment study, "Within the next 100 years, Boston could have a climate similar to either Richmond, Virginia, or Atlanta, Georgia."
Climate Change Minister opens $10M Swinburne green tower | TTKN News
The Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Greg Combet, today joined Mike Symon, the Federal Member for Deakin, to open the federally-funded Swinburne TAFE Green Plumbing Trade school in Croydon, Melbourne.
Throwing a FiT « The Daily Bayonet
The eco-dream of renewable energy is turning into a nightmare as the true cost of subsidizing solar and wind generation becomes clear.
The UK is the latest government to slash solar subsidies for large-scale projects, from 30p per KWh to 8.5p. In USD at today’s currency rates that’s a reduction from $0.49 to $0.14. Already large-scale producers are complaining they will not be able to continue ‘investing’ in solar projects. And by investing they mean sucking the life from the economy and taxpayers.
It is time to dump Google
as of this morning , Microsoft Bing is my new home start up page, that is unless they do something as stupid as Google.
Oklahoma: Disaster assistance available for livestock producers
Francie Tolle, executive director of the Oklahoma Farm Service Agency, issued a reminder to livestock producers throughout the state that FSA programs may be available to assist them. Many are dealing with harsh winter weather, which is causing serious harm to livestock and forage due to heavy snow, ice and extremely cold temperatures.Prime Minister Julia Gillard floats tax cut trade-off | Herald Sun
The Government would have to offer low-income households about $600 a year in tax cuts or welfare increases to cover the cost of a carbon tax on current estimates.
UK government unveils plans to slash solar feed-in tariffs | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The move is expected to deal a death blow to large-scale low-carbon projects
C3: Al Gore's Google Goes 'Full Monty' On Global Warming; The Google Billionaires' Sanity Questioned
The fact that Google has decided to piss off some 50% of the American populace is a true revelation of how lame the pathetic UN/IPCC AGW science actually is.Flashback: google_guys
A photo-op of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plugging-in a hybrid car was part of the search engine giant’s June announcement promising carbon neutrality by 2008. But how this PR-fluff squares with the so-called “Google party jet” — Page and Brin’s gargantuan personal Boeing 767, which burns about 1,550 gallons/hour — is any one’s guess.
Climate Change Denial—pre-order! - Low Carbon Economy
Climate Change Denial: heads in the sand
By Haydn Washington and John Cook with a foreword by Professor Naomi Oreskes
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'This book is a must have for anyone trying to understand the climate change issue. Washington and Cook use impressive skill to peel back the lies and deceit associated with a well oiled machine, used for selling tobacco and now selling manufactured doubt about climate change.'
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of Global Change Institute, University of Queensland.
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This book costs £14.99. It is published in April 2011, and is available for pre-order until then. Please send an enquiry for more details.
Climate change denial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Climate change denial is a term used to describe organized attempts to downplay, deny or dismiss the scientific consensus on the extent of global warming, its significance, and its connection to human behavior, especially for commercial or ideological reasons.[1] Typically, these attempts take the rhetorical form of legitimate scientific debate, while not adhering to the actual principles of that debate.[2] Climate change denial has been associated with the energy lobby, industry advocates and free market think tanks, often in the United States.[3][4][5][6][7] Some commentators describe climate change denial as a particular form of denialism.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Peter Christoff, writing in The Age in 2007, said that climate change denial differs from skepticism, which is essential for good science. He went to say that "almost two decades after the issue became one of global concern, the 'big' debate over climate change is over. There are now no credible scientific sceptics challenging the underlying scientific theory, or the broad projections, of climate change."[12] The relationships between industry-funded denial and public climate change skepticism have at times been compared to earlier efforts by the tobacco industry to undermine what is now widely accepted scientific evidence relating to the dangers of secondhand smoke, or even linked as a direct continuation of these earlier financial relationships.[14] Aside from private industry groups, climate change denial has also been alleged regarding the statements of elected officials.[15]
Scientists (notably climatologists) have reached scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and is mainly due to human activity.[16]
Al Gore Advised Google About 'Search Quality' | NewsBusters.org
So, a few years ago, Gore raised some concerns about "search quality," and then sat in Google's office for three hours watching ten "search-quality researchers and specialists in charge of this part of the business" work on solving problems he shared with the company's owners.
What were these concerns? Were they personally or politically motivated?
The article didn't say.
Google to the Rescue? « It’s [Allegedly] Getting Hot In Here
The other initiative is very exciting to people who care about climate science and have watched horrified as climate deniers have abused public relations techniques and tricked the media in generating fake controversy, forestall action, and create a generational divide in the understanding of climate science.
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It is really exciting to Google come out swinging on climate science. Edmund Burke famously once said “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Google is starting to live up to their motto of “Don’t be Evil” by doing something. Now, it is time of us to step up and use these tools for good.
Australian Youth Climate Coalition: a paragon of naïve idealism | Australian Climate Madness
The fact that her inspiration was Flannery, he of the multiple failed climate predictions, shows that the AYCC has nothing to with climate, and all to do with social justice and urban environmentalist crusades. Young people are particularly susceptible to this kind of condition, since they have frequently never had to deal with the harsh realities of life, working for a living, paying taxes, making ends meet in difficult economic circumstances. Many continue to live with their parents for much of their twenties (and even thirties), and have no concept of managing a household or a budget. They believe that their aims and objectives have no costs - only what they perceive to be benefits.
Remarkable 2010 video: Bill Gates promotes the global warming hoax
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! | Video on TED.com
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.Flashback: Bill Gates and Andy Revkin think you're stupid: They both imagine that you're ready to be lectured on energy efficiency by a guy who lives in a 66,000 square foot mansion
Bill Gate's House2011: Annual Letter from Bill Gates silent on climate change
Not surprisingly, the typical monthly electric bill is also expensive — it averages $30000.
There is no mention of global warming or climate change at all
Climate Change Centre reaffirms commitment to Region : Kaieteur News
Climate Change is no longer seen as a future threat but as a reality that affects us all today, and while many argue about the causes and the nature of it, it is important to recognise that the world is experiencing dramatic changes which need to be addressed urgently.How not to change a climate sceptic's mind - environment - 18 March 2011 - New Scientist
For developing countries, every fraction of a degree of further global warming will multiply the massive problems which are already undermining their national development efforts and threatening their physical survival.
So who might be best placed to change Republicans' minds over the EPA bill? Maybe specialists from the insurance industry, which is factoring climate change into its calculations, the military, or religious environmentalists.WA power bills may soar by $200 a year with carbon tax | Perth Now
HOUSEHOLD electricity prices could skyrocket by as much as $200 a year if Julia Gillard's controversial carbon tax is introduced, the WA Treasury has warned.Bachmann/Dayton Differ On Climate Change- Jointly Deal With Consequences | The UpTake
The increase would mean that the average family's power bill, presently $1443 a year, would have gone up by $640, or a staggering 64 per cent in four years.
As Minnesota’s winter weather becomes wetter with climate change, epic spring flooding is becoming more regular. Minnesota’s state hydrologists are predicting a devastating flood season. Governor Mark Dayton has been holding flood preparedness meetings several times a week with local officials.
Today Representative Michele Bachmann joined Governor Dayton on the front lines of dealing with the results of increased carbon emissions by filling out sandbags to keep the rising St. Croix river within its banks.
Wildlife rehab center helps pelicans take wing | Ultimate Memorial
This group included pelicans found extremely emaciated and near death in various areas of Houston after the hard freeze in February, with one even suffering from frostbite.Storm spawns snow, tornado in Northern California - MontereyHerald.com :
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A powerful winter storm raked Northern California on Friday, unleashing a small tornado that tore the roof off a business and bringing heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada that was blamed for a fatal chain-reaction crash on Interstate 80.Obama declares 60 Ill. counties disaster areas | Daily Chronicle
The afternoon crash in the mountains 70 miles east of Sacramento involved at least six big rigs and 15 vehicles, California Highway Patrol Sgt. Curtis Fouyer said.
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for much of the Central Valley through Sunday and a winter storm warning through early today for the Sierra, where as much as 3 feet of snow was expected.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has declared 60 Illinois counties federal disaster areas because of February’s blizzard.High Fuel, Grain Prices Worsen N. Korea Food Shortage
Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports that because of a recent cold snap and the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, North Korean diplomats around the world have been asking other countries to provide food aid.
Warmist Bill McKibben: In an attempt to prevent bad weather, let's do a lot more manual farm labor, and let's try to power the country using rooftop solar panels
Japan's horror reveals how thin is the edge we live on | Bill McKibben | Comment is free | The Guardian
We might decide that the human enterprise (at least in the west) has got big enough, that our appetites need not to grow, but to shrink a little, in order to provide us more margin. What would that mean? Buses and bikes and trains, not SUVs. Local food, with more people on the farm so that muscles replace some of the oil.
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Imagine, for instance, a nation that got most of its power from rooftop solar panels knitted together in a vast distributed grid. It would take investment to get there – we'd have to divert money from other tasks, slowing some kinds of growth, because solar power is currently more expensive than coal power. We might not have constant access to unlimited power at every second of every day. In the end, though, you'd have not only less carbon in the atmosphere, but also a country far less failure-prone. The solar panels on my roof could break tonight – and I'd have a problem if they did – but it wouldn't ramify into rolling blackouts across the continent (and no one would need to stand in my driveway with a Geiger counter). Such changes wouldn't make the world safe: climatologists promise us we've already put enough carbon out there to raise our planet's temperature two degrees in the decades to come, which will make for a miserably difficult century. But they also promise that if we don't stop burning coal and oil, that number will double, and miserable will become impossible.
Google Invests in a Chips-to-Biofuels Venture - NYTimes.com
A Southern California start-up that is developing mobile refineries that turn wood chips and agricultural waste into biofuels has received a $20 million round of financing, Todd Woody reports at the DealBook blog. Google is a major participant, according to the company, CoolPlanetBiofuels.The Narrow Perspective On Climate Science Being Communicated To Physics Teachers | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
Students who are being taught climate science are being indoctrinated into a narrow viewpoint of climate science [thanks to Ben Herman and Phil Krider for alerting us to this article]. The article below published by the American Association of Physics Teachers documents this bias.Why does Congress have Clean Air Act phobia? | Grist
Letting polluters put their global warming wastes in the air today will harm our children and their children and their children's children. Global warming pollution just doesn't go away fast -- half the carbon pollution we put in the air when our great-grandfathers fought World War I is still in the air today. And 1,000 years from now, 15 percent of the pollution from those years will still be in the air.
Proof that cows are stupid: They enjoy the arrival of warm weather, without realizing that it'll give them kidney stones
Dairy cows frolic in meadow to celebrate spring [VIDEO] | Grist
Still trying to keep it positive! One thing that that makes it easier is that spring really has arrived up here in the North Carolina mountains -- it must be 70 degrees, and the arugula we planted a few weeks ago in cold frames is taking off. Evidently, it's spring-time in England, too. I dare you to watch this video and not share the delight of these dairy cows getting their first taste of fresh grass after a long winter being cooped up and eating hay.
Time to stop using GOOGLE and to sell their stock?
ICECAP offers to debate the Google 21 scientists using the 18 points in our letter to the EPA signed by 35 scientists who are in the skeptic camp. Our choice of format. Their choice of time or place. Perhaps their June conference would be ideal. I am especially distressed to see the AMS involved in the Google effort. The formerly great professional society has become nothing but a public ploicy advocacy group for the liberal agenda.Shock News : The Most Important Greenhouse Gas Varies Between 30,000 ppm And 1,000 ppm | Real Science
If there is no movement or change, I will use other search engines and sell my google stock. You should consider the same. They have no business working to push an agenda and affect public policy. I won’t cancel my AMS membership, where I worked hard to achieve a CCM and Fellow designation, but attempt to work from within to oust the leadership and make the society advocates for good science not a political green agenda or public policy.
How can we ever stabilize the climate with water vapor concentration varying by so much from day to day and place to place? We are trying to fine tune CO2 within a few hundred ppm, while H2O is all over the map.'Stop Calling It Global Warming' People aren't buying it anymore - Minnesotans For Global Warming
Can’t someone in government bring all that water vapor under control?
While we shiver through another -20°C day, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who feels at this stage of the year that a little planetary warming would be a bad thing. With the exception of those that really enjoy snowmobiling and ice-fishing, a shorter winter would probably be seen as a good thing by many.Shock News : Human Breath Contains 40,000 ppm CO2 | Real Science
That is over 100 times the safe limit of 350 ppm. Call in the EPA and get all that breathing extinguished.Way back when climate scientists were scientists: Chapter 8, FAR, circa 1990 « JoNova
The “Attribution” Chapter is the part where they try to figure out what “caused” the warming. Chapter 8 says, essentially, “we don’t know, we might never know, our models don’t work, and we can conclude it might all be natural, but then again, it might not.” Got it?
This is in the same era that Al Gore was saying “the science is settled” and “there is no debate”.
Fraunhofer Institute Director: “Energy Supply System Must Return Above Ground – Just Like 200 Years Ago”
Half of Germany covered by solar panelsFriday funny? Google to take on climate skeptics | Watts Up With That?
I’m not sure whether to laugh or not, but is this just one more reason to use Bing as a search engine without a climate agenda? Maybe we should make it the official search engine of climate skeptics worldwide?Twitter / CatlinArcticSurvey
Phil's cameras still fully functional in -39ºC (not sure same could be said for his fingers!)Earth to Scientists - NoFrakkingConsensus
Forty-four years later, little seems to have changed. Anyone who expresses concern over the behaviour (not to mention the judgment and conclusions) of climate scientists now gets dismissed as anti-science. Activist scientist Joe Romm, for example, makes a habit of this. And Chris Mooney – a journalist who’s supposed to be helping scientists hone their communication skills - isn’t much much better. (See also here, here, and here.)
Earth to scientists (and their cheerleaders): these are childish arguments. They are also ineffective. You’re supposed to be some of our finest minds. Isn’t it time to try a different approach?
First articles online at the new “Nature Climate Change” | Watts Up With That?
New IPCC lead author, one word: strange | Watts Up With That?
Well, at least they established a standard early on…Global Warming Stopped Earthquakes – Before It Caused Them | Real Science
New IPCC lead author, one word: strange | Watts Up With That?
Josh provides some comic relief:August 1922 – Sweltering Heat In The Arctic While A Typhoon Killed 100,000 People In China | Real Science
Horrific “climate change” with CO2 at very safe levels – well below 350 ppm.“Antarctica is the fastest winter warming place on Earth” | Real Science
Devastating warming going on in Antarctica, as seen in the graph below.
How much will a can of Coke cost if Gillard taxes carbon dioxide? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
An Open Letter to Google | Watts Up With That?
With Julia Gillard taxing the emissions caused by the packaging and gas in the drink itself, as well as on the petrol used to bring the Coke to you and the power to cool it, how much more will a can of Coke cost?YouTube - Climategate 'hide the decline' explained by Berkeley professor Richard A. Muller
An Open Letter to Google | Watts Up With That?
Recently, you have decided to take sides in a scientific debate. That in itself is very foolish. Why would Google want to take either side when there is a disagreement between scientists? I thought your motto was “Do No Evil.” For the 900-pound gorilla to take sides in any tempestuous politically charged scientific discussion is an extremely stupid thing to do, and in this case definitely verges on the E-word.The Carbon Sense Coalition » The Battle of our Times
This year will see the climax of the Climate War in Australia. Once the new Senators take their seats Gillard and the Greens will try to legislate their carbon dioxide tax followed by the carbon rationing scheme.GISS Busted | Real Science
GISS reports that the average temperatures in Tromo, Norway during July and August, 1922 – were a cool 14.8 and 11.9 C.
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But a newspaper report from the same summer shows extremely hot temperatures.
Solar 'gold rush' hopes hit by cash withdrawal
Ambitious plans to make the Westcountry a world leader in solar technology – which would have created hundreds of jobs and provided millions of pounds worth of investment – are in tatters after the Government proposed slashing the financial support available.NSW Election | Don't vote Greens, say Catholic bishops
CATHOLIC bishops have warned the faithful against voting for the Greens in the state election, saying some of their policies were of ''grave concern''.How partisan is Garnaut? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Hold your horses. Garnaut in the Senate Hansard, April 16, 2009:There is uncertainty in the science. The uncertainty is in both directions. On the whole, the uncertainty adds to the case for strong and early mitigation.
Column - Gillard’s hot air | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Judge for yourself. Can a Prime Minister who gets so much wrong really be trusted with your economy?YouTube - Professor Ian Plimer on the Climate Change Review
Friday, 11 March 2011 Chris Smith is joined by Professor Ian Plimer, who responds to the fifth update of Professor Ross Garnaut's Climate Change Review.The New Nostradamus of the North: Greenpeace activists sentenced in Belgium - other trials to come
It is about time that courts start getting tougher on Greenpeace activists. In many countries they have been allowed to break laws without having to face the consequences like other people.Appleyard: dare to make the climate change case « Shub Niggurath Climate
Think about this for a moment: in the world Appleyard lives in – all the events that he lists – the Russian heat wave, the Australian and the Brazilian floods and the cold winters in Britain were all caused by global warming, and they were all inadequately exploited for the climate change ‘case’.
Climate Change Snow slowly building on Mount Kilimanjaro - eTurboNews.com
TANZANIA, Africa (eTN) - Standing as the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro is slowly regaining its snow after several years of drought in East Africa and the effects of climate change in African continent.The Reference Frame: Are earthquakes caused by man-made carbon dioxide?
The main format of the argument is "A is caused by B which is caused by C which is caused by D ... which is caused by Z." Except that all these 25 causal relationships are weak or non-existent, some of them have a wrong sign, and by multiplying 25 similarly low correlation coefficients, you get a correlation coefficient that can't possibly be distinguished from zero.All must rise | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The bottom line must be that everything made with electricity or transported with petrol must be more expensive under Julia Gillard’s plans:
Friday, March 18, 2011
Google Recruits Scientists to Use New Media to Tackle Climate Skeptics : TreeHugger
I'm not sure what Google can do to help get better climate info out there -- maybe it'll get it's search engines to stop crawling Fox News and Watts Up With That. Kidding, of course. That said, I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with, and it is, of course, a worthy endeavor.
Shorter clothes, ecological fabrics for summer: Experts
Delphine Lonjou, another fashion expert from the same company, said global warming had forced fashion designers to work closely with nature and thus the emphasis on basic and natural fibres.
Extreme Weather: What Role Do Humans Play?
Tying weather extremes to global warming, or using them as "proof" that warming does not exist, is a popular rhetorical flourish by politicos of all stripes. But a string of soon-to-be-published papers in the scientific literature finds that despite all hue and cry about global warming and recent extreme weather events, natural climate variability is to blame, says Patrick J. Michaels, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute.
Google Takes on Climate Change Skeptics with New Technology Effort | SolveClimate News
"The uncertainty argument, that we really don't know what is going on and that climate scientists are corrupt, has been reasonably effective in the last few years," said Andrew Dessler, also a Google fellow and a climate scientist at Texas A&M University.
"We don't know everything about the climate from a scientific standpoint and there are uncertainties, but they are uncertainties over whether climate change is going to either be bad or really, really bad," he told SolveClimate News.
"People who are opposed to regulation ... [are] not trying to prove that climate change [science] is wrong. They're trying to prove that there is an argument going on," he said. "They're just trying to create noise."
"Lysenkoism" at OSU?
According to Simmons, the kind of unethical, politically motivated machinations Robinson charges against OSU "just don't happen" in academe, and definitely not at OSU. Tell that to Dr. George Taylor, former head of Oregon Climate Services at OSU. In 2008 Taylor was bounced from OSU (after a stellar 19-year career) for refusing to cave in to the Global Warming Lysenkoists.
As the Climategate scandals at Penn State, Britain's University of East Anglia, and other universities have shown, Lysenkoism may have been officially repudiated in the Soviet Union, but it still thrives in the hallowed groves of academe.
As the Climategate scandals at Penn State, Britain's University of East Anglia, and other universities have shown, Lysenkoism may have been officially repudiated in the Soviet Union, but it still thrives in the hallowed groves of academe.
Skeptic's Corner: First they came for the Alfalfa, and I said nothing
Part of Yolo County’s strategy for slashing greenhouse gases is “dead wrong,” according to a UC Davis agriculture scientist.
On Wednesday afternoon, alfalfa expert Dan Putnam questioned the science underlying the county’s Climate Action Plan, which the Board of Supervisors passed at its Tuesday meeting on a 3-1 vote. Supervisor Don Saylor voted no. Supervisor Mike McGowan was not present.
Putnam, who works with farmers to implement academic research in the field, is skeptical of the county’s plan to cut emissions by 4,200 metric tons over the next decade by reducing the amount of fossil fuel-based fertilizer spread on alfalfa fields.
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Preparing the plan has cost the county $238,000 so far, said rural Supervisor Duane Chamberlain, and it’s “just a mass of errors.”
Ukraine Winter Grain May Worsen Amid Frost, UkrAgroConsult Says - Bloomberg
The condition of winter grain in Ukraine “may be a bit worse than official estimates” as cold weather increases the risk of crop losses, UkrAgroConsult said.
Some fields in the Sumy, Zaporyzhzhya, Vinnytsya, Kherson and Mykolayiv regions may show winter grain losses of as much as 15 percent after temperatures fell to below 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) in February, the researcher said in e-mailed statement today.
Yes, THE Verne Troyer
Verne Troyer: Turn your lights off for Earth Hour - USATODAY.com
Verne Troyer, known for his role as Mini Me in the Austin Powers movies, has become a global ambassador for Earth Hour, an initiative organized by WWF.
"Only the U.N. Secretariat building is fully lit throughout the night. The shining beacon of statist hypocrisy."
American Thinker Blog: Those Who Live in Glass Houses
The world headquarters of the United Nations, whose Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for their promulgation of the "global warming" fraud*, lights up the night sky in New York City with thousands of "evil" incandescent bulbs wasting precious energy resources, illuminating all 39 stories and casting a bright glow across the East River.
Note that all other city buildings are essentially dark at 6 a.m. - the time this photograph was taken. Only the U.N. Secretariat building is fully lit throughout the night. The shining beacon of statist hypocrisy.
Urban Warming in Jakarta, Indonesia
Results of the analysis indicate that (1) "the sea breeze developed at an earlier time of day in the present day than in the 1970s," (2) "in the present-day case, a converging flow developed over the old city in association with the low pressure which formed over the same location," (3) "the daytime average and maximum air temperature in the old city were higher in the present day than in the 1970s by 0.6 and 0.9°C , respectively, due to the advection of heat from the new area," and (4) "the amount of heat advected into the old city was estimated to be -0.7 Wm-2 in the 1970s and 77 Wm-2 in the 2000s."
In discussing their findings, Tokairin et al. report that there were only three megacities in Asia with a population greater than 10 million people in 1985, but that the United Nations (2005) has estimated there will be 13 such cities by 2015. For these megacities and their growing populations, expanding and intensifying urban heat islands will likely prove to be of more immediate significance than will any additional global warming that may develop concurrently.
Deadly heatwaves will be more frequent in coming decades, say scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk
'Mega-heatwaves' like the one estimated to have killed tens of thousands in western Europe in 2003 will become up to 10 times more likely over the next 40 years, a study suggestsThe S Word: Climategate controversy continues
[Warmist Bob Ward] the best economic analysis shows the costs of dealing with the impacts of unmitigated rises in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases would be far greater than cost-effective measures to reduce emissions.This is either a bribe or the fairest way to clean air | The Australian
Ross Garnaut believes he can win this argument for the Gillard government by dangling the bait of tax cuts.
He is trading tax reform for his pet tax on carbon. Garnaut is just an old-fashioned social engineer using taxation to engineer us all into his version of Utopia, ignoring the truth that any carbon tax imposed on polluters will be passed down until it finally hits the consumer in full in raised prices.
Does anyone think that the cost of paying road tolls and other government fees and charges is not wrapped up in the price of every loaf of bread sold in this country?
Apply for environmental media training, May 4-7 « Climate Progress
All costs for the training including materials and meals during the training plus all travel and hotel costs for participants coming from outside of the DC area will be paid for by Media Matters.Vanderbilt says ‘yes’ to Yes Men | InsideVandy
Bonanno also defended The Yes Men’s support for climate reform, asserting that there is no debate about global warming in the scientific community.EU climate change chief to block nuclear plants
The response from the audience was overwhelmingly positive.
This means that Mrs Hedegaard, who made her name at COP15 in her native Denmark, will use her position on the European Commission (EC) to refuse permission for the construction of new nuclear plants in Europe.
Mrs Hedegaard also told the conference in another speech that by 2050 Europe could be powered by 100% renewable energy.
The taxpayer-funded “save Gillard’s hide” campaign | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
How can you trust this lot with an $11 billion a year carbon dioxide tax when you can’t even trust them with $30 million?- Bishop Hill blog - How to get to the top
Donna Laframboise has uncovered the remarkable story of the IPCC lead author, Sari Kovats, who was appointed a lead author on the IPCC report before publication of her first scientific paper and years before she had completed her PhD. In the meantime she appears to occupy the position of senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, desite the fact she was only awarded a PhD last year.The “Missing” Ice In the Arctic | Real Science
It stinks.
NSIDC shows that Northern Hemisphere ice extent is about 1,000,000 km^2 below the 1979-2000 mean. Is this an Arctic death spiral?Hysteria, Dogma Risk Catapulting Germany Back To The Dark Ages
Ice extent was at a century peak around 1980, which skews the median upwards.
Progress is not achieved by abandoning development
Imagine if the Wright Brothers had abandoned flight after the first mishap, only listening to the voices of fear that heavy objects have no place in the air and that it isn’t possible to eliminate accidents? Imagine if society had abandoned the automobile after the first deadly accident? Imagine if early doctors had been prevented from attempting surgery on a seriously ill person. Of course, if humans had given up after every failure, we’d still be in the Stone Ages – if not extinct.
Coca-Cola Great Britain supports WWF’s Earth Hour 2011
Coca-Cola Great Britain today announces its support for WWF’s fifth annual Earth Hour, taking place from 8.30pm-9.30pm on Saturday 26 March 2011. WWF is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011, and will once again ask one billion people across the world to switch off their lights for one hour in support of action to tackle climate change and protect the natural world.Flashback: Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water
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In addition, Coca-Cola will once again turn off its iconic Piccadilly Circus sign for the full sixty minutes of Earth Hour at 8.30pm on Saturday 26, the fifth time the sign has been switched off since World War II.
LONDON - It made for great headlines, but the fact that the UK version of Coca-Cola's Dasani brand bottled water comes out of the London public supply should hardly have come as a surprise.
- Sprint Nextel calls on suppliers to reduce emissions
As a result, according to Reuters, Sprint Nextel will begin a conversation with its manufacturing suppliers and ask that they do three things: track and publicly report their emissions if they haven't already done so; set a public emissions reduction goal; turn to their own suppliers and begin the same kind of dialogue.
Sprint Nextel has committed to reducing its own absolute emissions by 15% by 2017. The company also wants 90% of its suppliers to meet its social and environmental criteria by the same year.
Growth Of Thick Ice Since 2008 | Real Science
The animation above shows March 17 US Navy PIPS 2 ice, greater than 2.5 metres thick – since 2008. Looks like a recovery to me.
VOVNEWS.VN | Vietnam, int’l community join efforts to protect climate
(VOV) - Policy makers, managers and international experts attended a seminar in Hanoi on March 18 to discuss insights into the UK’s Climate Change Act and Vietnam’s climate change strategy.March 17, 2011: Unseasonal Snow Gives Backpackers a Shock in Vietnam
The Sapa region of North Vietnam, a hugely popular tourist destination in the Southeast Asian country woke up to snowfall this morning as temperatures across the region plummeted to the lowest levels recorded in over a decade.
Local people were rushing to the area in their droves to experience this once in a lifetime phenomenon, and saw snow of 2. 5cm thick sprinkled across the town, which lies just inside the tropics.
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These freak weather conditions are totally unexpected in a region that is supposed to be embracing the hot season at this time of year, with average temperatures for March normally hovering around the 30s.
Attack on Climate Studies Would Shutter Entire DOE Biology Program - ScienceMag
The new Republican House majority has pledged to trim the federal deficit by cutting spending—and to be sure, House leaders are not fans of government-funded climate change research. But researchers also say the assault on BER—one of several agencies that support climate research—reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the office's role in generating data for the global climate models that many Republicans love to hate.The Hindu : News / National : Women’s voices should be heard in climate change debate, says Sonia
Branding climate change as the most difficult challenge facing the humankind, Ms. Gandhi said the climate debate had so far been gender-blind, ignoring the role played by women in raising environmental consciousness.More Mega Earthquakes in a Climate Changed World Say Scientists – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views
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Ms. Gandhi said that she sometimes wondered whether women’s greater empathy with nature and concern for their children’s future might not help the world to find a new, more sustainable, less consumerist path of development.
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“Perhaps it is time for a fresh initiative to help the world bridge this gap. Such an initiative could suggest ways to bring women’s participation and perspectives more squarely into the global negotiations. We need climate justice not only between countries, but also between genders,” she said.
As early as 2009, scientists were beginning to develop a theory connecting climate change to earthquakes.2009: People should give up eating meat to halt climate change | NaturallyHealthyNews.co
People should give up eating meat to halt climate change, according to Lord Stern of Brentford, a leading authority on global warming.
Lord Stern, author of the 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, predicts that eating meat could in the future become as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
Freezing Thailand
A sudden drop in temperature to as low as 17C yesterday morning has prompted many people to don their cold-weather clothes. According to the Meteorological Department, the unseasonable cold snap will last until next Wednesday after which summer will set in. The chill has nothing to do with the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the weather bureau said.‘Merchants of doubt' cloud climate change debate | AspenTimes.com
Oreskes, a science historian, said “merchants of doubt” have out-hustled scientists and environmentalists to steer the perception of climate change.The American Spectator : The Overrated Five
Those merchants are a handful of accomplished, well-connected scientists who have teamed with conservative think tanks and big corporations with money at stake in the debate. Combined, they have effectively clouded issues surrounding climate change and planted seeds of doubt among the public, she said.
...They are a loose-knit handful of scientists who served their country during the Cold War. They are famous for work in such areas as nuclear weapons.
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Oreskes has performed research that concludes there is vast scientific consensus on the reality of climate change. It's essentially 1 percent of the scientists who reside in the “dark corner” that discount it, according to her website. Nevertheless, the doubt mongers have effectively coerced journalists into providing equal time.
4. The Debating Skills of Al Gore. Like Orson Welles' cardboard characterization of Charles Foster Kane, this myth is stiff, boring and unconvincing. As I wrote some years ago, "In the run-up to the 2000 election, pundit after pundit warned that the veep's ace in the hole would be his utter domination of the tongue-tied cowboy when they squared off in the debate arena. Many on the right agreed, fretting fearfully that all would be lost once the candidates toed the rostrum rubber..."The American Spectator : Michael Mann Goes to the Zoo
It looks like Penn State and Mann only got a small fraction of this grant, but clearly the opportunity to create future alarmists was not to be passed up. The plan is to spend three years blanketing zoos across America to try and understand the psyches of visitors, preach climate propaganda, and convert them to the cause.
How the Koch Brothers Fund the Climate Change Denial Machine
Greenpeace released a report last year about the Koch foundations supporting organizations that oppose “progressive clean energy and climate policy.” Koch gave $24.9 million from 2005 to 2008 to “organizations of the climate denial machine,” the report states.Flashback: $99 Billion Spent By Feds On Global Warming Hoax Forest, Wildlife, and Climate News
From 1998 through 2009, appropriations for agencies’ work related to climate change totaled about $99 billion (in 2009 dollars); more than a third of that sum–$35.7 billion by CBO’s estimation–was provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (see the figure below).
- Bishop Hill blog - Quote of the day
The anonymous peer review process is the enemy of scientific creativity…peer reviewers go for orthodoxy.North Dakota economy booms, population soars - USATODAY.com
Professor James Black
North Dakota is enjoying an oil boom in the western part of the state, drawing workers from across the country. Williston, in oil country, grew 17.6% to 14,716. The oil windfall has created a $1 billion state budget surplus.Wanna green your ride? Ditch the Prius, hop on a train | Grist
Here's one to piss off the yuppies: Driving your hybrid car from your Energy Star home to the food co-op is not as green as hopping on the subway from your apartment. A new EPA study says that moving from a car-oriented to a transit-oriented community has the biggest impact on your energy usage -- more than green buildings or green cars.Your iPod is polluting China and L.A.—and Wyoming might be next | Grist
Thus far, then, your iPod has contributed to glacial melting in the Himalayas, the dirty air in Guangzhou, and the increasing incidence of respiratory disease in China.An amazing Republican vote | Michael Tomasky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
But liberals should remember that Barack Obama isn't the reason common-sense reforms can't happen in this country. We have a situation in which 95% of the scientific community thinks A, and roughly two-thirds of Americans agree about A. Then we have a small but tenacious faction that has disproportionate power in Washington and that insists A is a socialistic plot. It's that last bunch that is the real problem.
EDITORIAL: Ending the global-warming argument - Washington Times
Lawmakers sense this skepticism in their constituents and can no longer get away with pursuing policies that sacrifice jobs and economic prosperity on the pagan altar of warmism. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 34-19 on Tuesday to adopt the “Energy Tax Prevention Act” which denies the EPA any authority to regulate water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and other naturally occurring gases as if they were actual pollutants. On Tuesday, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, promised a vote on the Senate version of the bill introduced by Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican, and his 43 co-sponsors, only to retreat the next day when it became apparent Mr. Inhofe had more support than expected.- Bishop Hill blog - No opposition
It’s time for the Supreme Court to put the states’ bogus argument on ice.
Peter Gill emailed me a couple of days ago. Some of you may remember Peter as the man who famously didn't write the Institute of Physics submission to the House of Commons inquiry into Climategate. Peter wanted to tell me about a recent invitation he'd had to take part in a global warming debate at one of the bits of the University of London. After several months of to-ing and fro-ing, the who event has now been cancelled because nobody was willing stand up to represent the other side of the argument.CapitalClimate: European Summer of 2010: Hottest in 500 Years
This is a rather familiar story, isn't it?
A statistical study of the extreme European heat wave in the summer of 2010, published in today's issue of Science, indicates that it was the hottest European summer in at least 500 years.THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Remarkable new fossil-fuel engine design is 5 times more efficient and reduces emissions 90%
MSU’s shock wave combustion generator is the size of a cooking pot and generates electricity very efficiently. This revolutionary generator replaces today’s 1,000 pounds of engine, transmission, cooling system, emissions, and fluids resulting in a lighter, more fuel-efficient electric vehicle. This technology provides 500-mile-plus driving range, is 30% lighter, and 30% less expensive than current, new plug-in hybrid vehicles. It overcomes the cost, weight, and driving range challenges of battery-powered electric vehicles.
American Thinker: The Warmist Cult
The IPCC, 1990: “Detection of the Greenhouse Effect in Observations” – at odds with the 1988 Senate testimony of Dr. James Hansen? | Watts Up With That?
In a similar manner, the global warmist cult has its false prophets as well. George Soros-sponsored climatologist James Hansen leads with the prediction that we only have two more years before it will be too late to save the world from a fiery fate. I would be more inclined to take him seriously if he hadn't previously made a number of erroneous apocalyptic pronouncements. In the mid-1980's he confidently proclaimed that the Earth would be 2 to 4 degrees warmer by 2010 and New York City highways would be under water.2007: Is Global Warming Alarmist James Hansen a Shill for George Soros? | NewsBusters.org
Leading global warming proponent and climate scientist Phil Jones (co-creator of the infamous "hockey stick" graph used by Al Gore in his infamous fiction film "An Inconvenient Truth") revealed that he destroyed the original raw data that supported the global warming hypothesis, making it impossible to review or verify his findings.
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It's becoming apparent as the facts are revealed that this is a cult with a suicide pact. And all of us are expected to drink the Kool-aid with them. We need to end this dangerous farce now.
The claims against anthropogenic global warming skeptics are often the same: they're all shills for big oil or other industry wishing to poke holes in the 'consensus theory' of global warming (which isn't a consensus at all). Under the so-called "politicization of science" program, George Soros' (the favorite fundraiser of many democrats) has reportedly given as much as $720,000 to Hansen to help package his alarmist claims and get them pushed by the mainstream media‘Green Jobs’: Another Broken Window Fallacy (Henry Hazlitt speaks to us today) — MasterResource
The IPCC, 1990: “Detection of the Greenhouse Effect in Observations” – at odds with the 1988 Senate testimony of Dr. James Hansen? | Watts Up With That?
Mind you, this is only 10 years after the fiercely cold North American Winter of 77-78 in which ideas of another ice age were being bandied about in scientific and media circles.
Maybe, giving the benefit of the doubt, they are talking about different things, but there seems to be asignificantprofound confidence gap between Dr. Hansen’s testimony and that of the IPCC working group 1 on the ability to discern “global warming” in the surface temperature record. The disparity is striking due to the similarity of wording.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Germany: Environmentalism gone mad
Why a “Revenue Neutral” Energy Tax Isn’t | Watts Up With That?
[Der Spiegel] That's the worst aspect: some major environmental policies aren't just ineffective -- they are counterproductive."2000 : NYT Declares 1962 To Be “50 Million Years Ago” | Real Science1962 : Nuclear Subs Almost Collided At The North Pole | Real Science
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In the fight to protect the environment, it may be time to pause and ask oneself: what is really helping, and what isn't? And to admit at times: sorry, we were wrong. But it doesn't work like that. Environmentalism knows no doubt. The idea is never wrong, the problem is always in the implementation.
And so it will continue.
Why a “Revenue Neutral” Energy Tax Isn’t | Watts Up With That?
Why will the economy slow? If we have the same amount of goods at higher prices, demand will fall and the economy will slow. It’s basic economics.
And that’s why a “revenue-neutral” energy tax isn’t neutral at all … and more to the point, it’s one reason why taxing energy in any form is a really dumb idea. Even when it’s revenue-neutral it slows the economic cycle, and when it’s not revenue-neutral, it slows it even more.
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PS - In addition, an energy tax is a very regressive tax. An extra $10 energy tax for the energy used to commute to work means little to the CEO, but may break the bank of the janitor. Taxing energy is a bad plan for a host of reasons.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Former WVU Tech chief talks climate change - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports -
Bayless said a recent analysis showed that every one of 928 recent scientific studies documented global warming, while 53 percent of articles in the "popular press" questioned its existence.
Garnaut Explains How A New Tax Will Stimulate The Economy | Real Science
What a deal, they will tax you $1000 and give someone else $500 back! Who could turn that down?
Turning every paper into a Green Guide | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Queensland University’s Global Change Institute - lead by the repeatedly-thwarted alarmist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg - announces a new project to apparently turn journalism into green propoganda:Apply for the [Climate Hoax] Institute August 11-12, 2011!
We invite all Grades 3-12 Educators to join the Will Steger Foundation on an Exploration of Minnesota’s Changing Climate at the Summer Institute August 11- 12, 2011.
The Summer Institute will be held August 11-12, 2011 at the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley, MN. This year's Institute will focus on the Will Steger Foundation’s new Environmental and Natural Resources Trust Fund project: Minnesota's Changing Climate; Engaging Students in Environmental Stewardship Through Adventure Learning. Participants in this year's Summer Institute are expected to use at least a portion of Minnesota's Changing Climate curriculum in their classroom. Participants will also be eligible for additional classroom support and resources. There is no cost for this year’s Institute and travel and accommodations may be available to those that apply.
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Participating grades 6-8 classrooms from the the metro area are eligible for $500 grants due to a unique partnership with the National Park Foundation, Mississippi National River and Recreational Area (National Park Service) and Mississippi River Fund.
2005 : Obama Was The Key Player Pushing For Corn Ethanol | Real Science
World Climate Report » U.S. Life Expectancy at All-Time High
World Climate Report » U.S. Life Expectancy at All-Time High
Perhaps the most persuasive argument that we made, in our minds anyway, was that the most direct measure of human health and welfare that there is—life expectancy—has increased by about 2/3rds over the past 100 years (Figure 1), while surface temperatures rose about 0.7°C.North Atlantic oceanic currents play a greater role in the absorption of carbon [dioxide] than previously thought
The ocean traps around 30% of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere through human activity and represents, with the terrestrial biosphere, the main carbon sink.Australian Anti-Carbon Tax Protests « JoNova
We can act now or pay the cost for years to come. Each time we let them get away with an untruth they grow stronger. Each time we ignore the Orwellian perversion of our language (Is it carbon (sic) pollution (sic)?), we feed the parasites who want our freedom and our money, and that hurts us, our children and the environment.
The New Nostradamus of the North: EU climate commissioner dreams about 100% renewables
It is always so tempting for EU politicians and bureaucrats to speak about how things will be forty or fifty years from now, because they know that they will not be around to face the facts then. Presumably Ms. Hedegaard has also figured out where the electricity comes from when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine. Or maybe there will not be such days in 2050?Wind power cheaper than nuclear, says EU climate chief | News | eco-business.com
Connie Hedegaard, the EU climate change commissioner, said: “Some people tend to believe that nuclear is very, very cheap, but offshore wind is cheaper than nuclear. People should believe that this is very, very cheap.”Garnaut fools us about China | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Gillard Government warming adviser Ross Garnaut’s tricksy answer is likely to mislead people - and casts further doubt on his impartiality:Brown is right: why has Gillard joined the extremists? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
THE Greens have questioned why the government is pursuing their policy on climate change if it considers the minor party to be extreme....Chevy Volt: The Car From Atlas Shrugged Motors
Recently, President Obama selected General Electric ( GE - news - people ) CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair his Economic Advisory Board. GE is awash in windmills waiting to be subsidized so they can provide unreliable, expensive power.
Consequently, and soon after his appointment, Immelt announced that GE will buy 50,000 Volts in the next two years, or half the total produced. Assuming the corporation qualifies for the same tax credit, we (you and me) just shelled out $375,000,000 to a company to buy cars that no one else wants so that GM will not tank and produce even more cars that no one wants. And this guy is the chair of Obama's Economic Advisory Board?
Govt weighs up carbon [dioxide hoax] ad campaign - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Federal Government is preparing to dust off its contentious $30 million climate change fund as part of a planned advertising blitz targeted around climate change.Climate Change Dispatch - Exposing the fraud in the so-called consensus
Interesting Similarities Between Ancient And AGW BeliefsThe Left’s War on Science Continues | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
There is no limit to the amount of distortion the enviro-left is willing to deploy to accomplish their policy goals. Last month, the Obama Commerce Department issued a report finding that the “scientists at the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration did not manipulate data or otherwise engage in wrongdoing.” But as University of California at Berkeley Professor of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Faculty Senior Scientist Richard A. Muller explains in the accompanying video, this does not mean that what these scientists produced on global warming can be considered scienceWhat Makes A Legend?: Owsley Stanley AKA Bear
Born Augustus Owsley Stanley III, grandson of a Kentucky senator and known to all as Bear, ”The Artisan of Acid” died last Sunday in Queensland, Australia. He’d been living as a naturalized citizen there since 1996 as part of an effort to escape the ill effects of global warming on the Northern Hemisphere.
Los Angeles CA : Gore's inconvenient new book
Gore is not only a climate campaigner and partisan political operative, but he also tried to position himself and his investors to capitalize on government climate regulations such as cap-and-trade carbon tax systems and fanciful renewable energy programs. Rather than being prescient on the global political acceptance and markets' embrace of pricing carbon, Gore has been flamboyantly wrong on both accounts. Gore's rabid advocacy for government climate controls and his millions invested in speculative carbon trading businesses have failed in the realities of global economic recession. The imperious and debate-denying Mr. Gore has been "late and wrong" rather than "early and right" in anticipating recent global trends.
Global warming as 'cargo cult science'
Pagan priests would explain dissonance in terms of inadequate devotion; planes fail to come because we are not living correctly. The global-warming cargo cult is also almost magical in its ability to explain how almost every environmental calamity – too much, or too little, snow – is caused by humanity's insensitivity toward our mother planet.
The Daily Bayonet » Blog Archive » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Mar.17th 2011
The new color of eco is blue, the hippie of the week is red-faced and the Koch Brother's green is evil.
Lateline - 17/03/2011: Garnaut: Overwhelming evidence for warming
TONY JONES: Now, you said today, "There's no point in covering up the truth. We're living through an awful contest between knowledge and ignorance."
With Rising Gas Prices, is E85 a Better Deal?
For consumers to be better off financially purchasing E85, the price of gasoline would have to be approximately $4.37 with the E85 price holding at $2.87. Pure ethanol gets roughly 66% of the mileage that pure gasoline is capable of reaching, as a result, you must buy a lot more gasoline to drive the same number of miles.
- Bishop Hill blog - Scottish Sceptic
A new blog for your attention - Scottish Sceptic is the site of Mike Haseler, a former Green party candidate, who has now seen the error of his ways...
Sam Kazman: How Washington Ruined Your Washing Machine - WSJ.com
In 1996, top-loaders were pretty much the only type of washer around, and they were uniformly high quality. When Consumer Reports tested 18 models, 13 were "excellent" and five were "very good." By 2007, though, not one was excellent and seven out of 21 were "fair" or "poor." This month came the death knell: Consumer Reports simply dismissed all conventional top-loaders as "often mediocre or worse."
How's that for progress?
The culprit is the federal government's obsession with energy efficiency. Efficiency standards for washing machines aren't as well-known as those for light bulbs, which will effectively prohibit 100-watt incandescent bulbs next year. Nor are they the butt of jokes as low-flow toilets are. But in their quiet destruction of a highly affordable, perfectly satisfactory appliance, washer standards demonstrate the harmfulness of the ever-growing body of efficiency mandates.
Ozone! Global warming affects us mentally too | Deccan Chronicle
It now seems that climate change is not only detrimental for the planet and ultimately, to our physical well being, it affects our mental health too. Experts say that depressed and maniac people become worse with seasonal changes, while extreme climatic conditions affect people’s behaviour, making them either “low” or aggressive. Scientists also point out that micro-level mutation in our genetic constitution is possible with changes in temperature, which will manifest itself over a period of time.
Colder weather in Thailand is caused by global warming
Weather Department on Thursday said that the global warming is the major cause of dropping of temperature in Thailand.
Angela Merkel Reveals Climate Hoax, Putting Her Political Survival Ahead Of “The Survival Of The Human Race”
If saving the human race from the imminent climate disaster is so imperative, then why did Chancellor Angela Merkel request the immediate shut-down of CO2-saving, technically sound nuclear power plants in an area free of earthquakes or tsunamis?
Merkel suddenly decided that coal power plants emitting 4% more CO2 is no longer a problem.
Terence Corcoran: The new impossible energy no-fly zone | FP Comment | Financial Post
All our energy options appear to be politically off-limits
Editorial: Time to come clean on the carbon issue | Adelaide Now
He has advocated a direct revenue replacement by using the gushing rivers of new revenue from the carbon tax to reduce the tax take via personal income tax.
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