Earth Hour fans 'disappointed' to see so many lights still on - Brandon Sun

http://www.brandonsun.com/lifestyles/breaking-news/earth-hour-fans-disappointed-to-see-so-many-lights-still-on-118719589.html?thx=y

But early results suggested fewer people turned off the lights this year.

Lord Lawson's 'misleading' climate claims challenged by scientific adviser | Environment | The Observer

In response, Lawson wrote back to accuse Beddington of attempting to "trump" his arguments without evidence or quantification. He also confessed to being baffled by Beddington's criticisms, adding that the government adviser had committed a "gross misuse of language" in claiming that the Earth has warmed "dramatically" in the past 150 years.

37 skiers were stranded in Yosemite backcountry | Gadling.com

Earlier this week a late season blizzard hit Yosemite National Park, burying the region in snow and leaving 37 skiers stranded in the backcountry.
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Six feet of snow in one blast? Didn't someone send Yosemite the memo that it's spring now?

C3: Bad Shit Happens, Again & Again

Bad weather events, bad natural disasters, bad climate predictions, bad climate science, just plain bad ideas posing as solutions, awful mainstream science reporting, and of course, flat out stupid, inane statements from politicians just seem to happen with regular frequency. Over recent years, the world's populace has had to tolerate especially stupid comments that each new bad weather event is due to human CO2 and global warming. Unfortunately for the idiots who claim that, history is complete with terrible, extreme weather events that took place well before the temporary warming of the 1980's and 1990's.

The below list of linked articles of pertinent and associated interest, and mostly are supplied by Steve Goddard of Real Science.

Celebrate good times, climate realists: THIS is what winning looks like

Two three-minute official Earth Hour videos are below.  The 2010 video is all about the global warming hoax.  The 2011 video fails to even mention the global warming hoax.

Make no mistake: this is what winning looks like.  Of course, most alarmists are never going to come right out and admit that on The Most Important Issue of All Time, they were wrong and we were right.  What they're going to do is just gradually quit talking about it. 

YouTube - Earth Hour 2011 Official video

This Earth Hour 2011: 8.30pm, Saturday 26 March, celebrate your action for the planet with the people of world, and add more to your Earth Hour.

YouTube - Earth Hour 2010 Official video

Earth Hour 2010 is set to be the best yet

The drilling danger of releasing giant bubbles of methane gas - The National

The "burps of death" are what can ensue when drillers mess with the planet's least accessible stores of natural gas.

The trouble with gas hydrates, as those ice-like deposits in the Arctic and under ocean beds are known, is that they lock up high concentrations of methane in a notoriously unstable crystalline lattice.

Change the temperature and pressure just a bit, and the whole thing collapses, releasing giant bubbles of potentially explosive methane gas in a fit of geological indigestion.

Some scientists theorise that a global firestorm resulting from one such outburst may have barbecued the dinosaurs. Another ancient oceanic burp, which did not ignite, may have triggered an equally lethal spurt of global warming linked to mass extinctions.

Warmists Tim Flannery et al suggest that we can trust them as "honest brokers" when evaluating the global warming hoax

Separating myth from fact in a heated debate - National Comment - Mudgee Guardian

It doesn't need to be this way. In this confused and sometimes toxic environment, it's important for all Australians to have access to clear information on climate change that is independent of government and the political process. As members of the Australian Climate Commission, we want to help provide it.
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Professor Tim Flannery is chief commissioner of the Climate [Scam] Commission.

Bill Moyers thinks you're stupid: He suggests that carbon dioxide is a "deadly pollutant"

The "Value" of NPR - By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

That’s why our favorite new word is "agnotology." According to the website WordSpy, it means "the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt," a concept developed in recent years by two historians of science at Stanford University, Robert Proctor and his wife, Londa Schiebinger.

Believing that global climate change is a myth is one example of the kind of ignorance agnotologists investigate. Or the insistence by the tobacco industry that the harm caused by smoking is still in dispute. Or the conviction that Barack Obama is a closet Muslim, and a radical one at that, who may not even be from America.

Those first two illusions have been induced by big business in a cynical attempt to keep pumping profits from deadly pollutants, whether fossil fuels or nicotine.

The Reference Frame: Hide the decline II: 1400-1550 covered up

But as you can see, they have also hidden a 3 times longer period, 1402-1550, which was arguably even more inconvenient because the trees indicate a faster warming in the 15th century than in the 20th century. By this cosmetic surgery, they have eliminated pretty much 1/2 of their data - on both sides - because they were inconvenient and only picked the 1/2 that could be used as a part of the hockey stick.

I suspect that the whole alarmist paleoclimatological community has been well aware of this 15th century problem - data clearly disagreeing with any hockey stick. My reason for this broader statement is that the censorship seems to influence the same period as the aptly named "censored" directory by Mann that was ultimately erased from MBH98.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Physicists: 'In science truth is not determined by a majority vote. Words such as consensus and incontrovertible do not play a role.'

In a recent letter published in the American Physical Society (APS) Newspaper, two physicists state that the scientific organization should stick to scientific matters, and not allow an anonymous faction of members to use the organization for political advocacy on AGW.

WWF - "Use 60 minutes of darkness to help the world see the light," urges Ban Ki-moon

“Climate change is the greatest human induced crisis facing our world today. It is totally indiscriminate of race, culture, class, nationality or religious belief. It affects every living organism on the planet – including all of us,” Archbishop Emeritus Tutu said.

If the Earth is overheating, why does this 109-year record of sea surface temperatures show basically no trend?

Climate Observations: Miscellaneous Graphs

There’s basically no trend.

Arctic Ice March 2011 Update #2

I suggest that by mid April the sea ice will be in a similar condition to that of late August 2010. In plain terms, the 2011 melt season will soon continue more or less where the 2011 melt season left off.
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The melt season of 2010 is under way with less volume than former melt seasons.

Cold weather hinders Japan recovery efforts as leaders visit area

Tokyo: Snow was falling on northeastern Japan Saturday, as the cold weather held back the cleanup and reconstruction in the area devastated by the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago.

"It’s so cold that we can’t do anything," one survivor told Japanese broadcaster NHK as he returned with his wife to their home.

Tonight, LAX pylons will go green -- and then dark -- to mark Earth Hour - chicagotribune.com

http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/la-trb-earth-hour-airports-20110326,0,5556896.story

Earth Hour will come early to Los Angeles International Airport. The ring of 15 100-foot-tall towers near the airport's entrance will light up a solid green at 7:30 p.m. -- an hour before Earth Hour -- and remain illuminated for 60 minutes. Then the lights will go out from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., an airport news release says.

2007: Remember when Raffi and Suzuki sang "COOL IT"~ The Global Cooling Song?

Centre for Child Honouring: Educators

Raffi's song "COOL IT" is a musical call-to-action on Climate Change, urging the global community to come together to reduce CO2 emissions. It is also a toe-tapping rockabilly tune on global warming—the most pressing issue of the day, and perhaps our lifetimes.

Recorded at Vancouver’s Blue Wave studios with top session players, COOL IT gets backing vocals from chanteuse Laurel Murphy and the staff of David Suzuki Foundation, including Dr. Suzuki himself. It is the theme song for David Suzuki’s cross-Canada bus tour to inspire action on global warming.

""We did hesitate a bit (about calling for Earth Hour in Japan) because there are many without electricity in disaster-hit areas"

World switches off light as 'Earth Hour' begins

"We did hesitate a bit (about calling for Earth Hour in Japan) because there are many without electricity in disaster-hit areas," said Naoyuki Yamagishi, climate change programme leader for WWF in Japan.

Bush Believed That The US Controlled The Climate | Real Science

Kofi Annan : “global warming is causing 300,000 deaths annually” | Real Science

A 2009 study from a think tank headed by former U.N. Secretary-General KofiAnnan revealed that global warming is causing 300,000 deaths annually and affecting 300 million people. By 2030, the report warns, half a million individuals could die every year as a result of climate change.

CO2 Causes More Precipitation And Less Precipitation | Real Science

Jeff Masters has been telling us that more CO2 causes more precipitation – due to larger amounts of water vapor in the atmosphere. Now we find out that more CO2 also causes less precipitation due to a drier atmosphere.

Jennifer Marohasy » ‘Carbon Tax’ Hurt Labor Vote in NSW

According to Samantha Maiden writing in the Herald Sun: While the outcome was regarded as a foregone conclusion, Labor MPs at a state and federal level complained the Prime Minister’s decision to announce a carbon tax hurt the campaign.

NSIDC Jumps The Gun | Real Science

Not so fast … DMI shows ice extent increasing and above the two years with the highest summer minimums.

Setted science: The correct answer is allegedly either 20 years or 1,000 years, and if you question either one, you're worse than Hitler

Twenty years or 1000? One of these “experts” is hopelessly wrong | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Climate scientist and warmist Andy Pitman on Thursday:

If we could stop emissions tomorrow we would still have 20 to 30 years of warming ahead of us because of inertia of the system.

Warmist Romm on the First Green President: "perhaps Obama really doesn’t get it at all"

Why are Obama and Salazar pushing a massive expansion of coal production? « Climate Progress

Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from coal combustion lasts a long, long, long time (see Fossil CO2 impacts will outlast Stonehenge and nuclear waste).
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This decision certainly eviscerates Salazar’s green street cred that he had developed by aggressively pushing renewable energy on public lands. It fits into an emerging pattern with offshore drilling and the continued embrace of uber-expensive nuclear power and the abandonment of any effort to pass serious climate legislation that suggests perhaps Obama really doesn’t get it at all. If so, it’s time for people like science advisor John Holdren to contemplate resigning and moving on to a job where he can do more good — like leading a national effort of scientists to inform the public about the extreme dangers of burning all that coal.

Warmist claim: "more than one billion people turned off their lights in celebration of Earth Hour."

Leo Burnett Chicago Kicks Off the Next Generation of Earth Hour, Activates Global Social Media Campaign Reaching 128 Countries | NEWS.GNOM.ES

“Our goal for Earth Hour 2011 is to reach new, unprecedented heights of social engagement to fuel the single largest act of global participation the world has ever seen,” said Carey Isom, Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy at Arc Worldwide/Leo Burnett Worldwide. “As a HumanKind communications company dedicated to putting a brand’s purpose at the center of everything we do, we are honored to bring awareness and activation to this very special cause.”
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Earth Hour is the largest mass participation event in human history and was organized by WWF—an election between Earth and global warming, organized the largest mass participation event in human history.Created by Leo Burnett Sydney in 2007 and carried on by Leo Burnett Chicago, Earth Hour was the first time people of all nationalities, race, ace, gender and religion were able to vote on the future of our planet as one global democracy. Now, just five years later, more than one billion people turned off their lights in celebration of Earth Hour.

The Al Gore Surge | Story | MSNBC

This week the Gore surge continued with a nationwide fundraising appeal to activists and progressives on behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, writing that the new House Republican majority is reminiscent of what Gore called the dark days of the presidency of George W. Bush and condemning their attacks on efforts to protect the planet from environmental dangers and climate change.

Gore's methodology is similar to that of conservatives who turned their ideas into what became a de facto integrated conglomerate of think tanks, publishing, television, fundraising, and organization.

Australia: If climate realists don't knock off the extreme rhetoric, CO2 will cause our houses to flood, and we'll die!!!

Call to cool debate on carbon tax - Metro & Regional - National - General - Stock & Land

DEPUTY Prime Minister Wayne Swan has called for an end to ''extreme rhetoric'' after a week of intense mud-slinging from both sides of Parliament.

Mr Swan said the Liberal Party was part of an ''unholy alliance on climate change in this country'' which included the federal opposition, Pauline Hanson, One Nation affiliates and extremist political groups.

Despite calling for calm in parliamentary behaviour, Mr Swan took aim at Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as fanning a political climate of ''fear and intolerance''.

But Mr Abbott decried Mr Swan's comments as ''increasingly shrill and desperate'' in the climate change debate.

MPs told to warn of climate mayhem | The Australian

MPs are also urged to warn that extreme weather leads to associated additional deaths.

"Sea levels could rise by up to a metre and possibly even more by the end of the century," the document says. "Up to 250,000 existing homes are at risk of inundation.

The Nazi cult of the organic

Historically, German fascism was born out of a 19th century Romantic revolt against industrialization that philosophically mirrored aspects of Thoreau's transcendentalism. The distinction is that while Thoreau sought to separate himself from modernity, eco-fanatics like Al Gore and the Sierra Club seeks to translate their Romantic animosity against modernity into a totalizing government program that will control and dominate every aspect of our lives. Think: carbon credits, ethanol, micro cars and remote-controlled thermostats.

Liberal environmentalism is fascist to the core. The most tangible fascist aspects is that it is an invaluable "crisis mechanism." Recall the progressive motto, "Never allow a good crisis to go to waste." Al Gore constantly insists that global warming is the defining crisis of our time. Skeptics are called traitors, Holocaust deniers, tools of the "carbon interests."

Antarctic icebergs play key role in climate change: Study

The teams's research indicates that ordinary icebergs are likely to become more prevalent in the Southern Ocean, particularly as the Antarctic Peninsula continues a well-documented warming trend and ice shelves disintegrate.

FT.com / Asia-Pacific - Quarter of North Koreans starving, warns UN

The UN’s World Food Programme concluded in November that North Korea’s 2010-2011 harvest would be 3 per cent higher than 2009. But the WFP has revised its appraisal and offered a gloomier picture of North Korean food supplies, saying the bitter winter killed seeds for spring harvests of wheat and barley.

Council's 'lights out' weekend branded tokenism (From Oxford Mail)

THIS weekend Oxford City Council will turn off all “non-essential” lights in a bid to tackle global warming.

But Green campaigners say it begs the question: why are lights burning in the first place if they are not needed?

Especially as the authority employs a climate change officer at a cost of £44,000 a year.

El Paso: Utilities dispute cause of blackouts

Extreme cold starting Feb. 1 led to rolling blackouts, followed by a severe water shortage.

Critical facilities such as University Medical Center ran dangerously short of water, forcing such emergency measures as bringing in portable toilets and hauling water to toilets on the hospital's upper floors.

Residents were told not to take showers or wash dishes, clothes or cars. Schools were closed for the fourth day on Feb. 7 at the request of water officials.

NSIDC Moves Quebec To The Arctic | Real Science

Last year had the second highest maximum extent of the last 11 years, but that didn’t count.

The Climate Sceptics (TCS) Blog: Reputable Scientists and Flim Flam Men

In Dec 09, on ABC, Mr Flannery said: "“Trust is the issue ... Would you trust Andrew Bolt on climate change?” Well, would anyone trust Tim Flannery?

* In March 2008, Flannery warned that “the water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009”.
* In June 2007, he warned that Brisbane’s “water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months” It was because of predictions like this that Wivenhoe dam was overfull before the disastrous Queensland floods this year.
* In 2005, he predicted Sydney’s dams could be dry by 2007.
* In 2004, Flannery said global warming would cause such droughts that “there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis”.
* In 2008, Flannery warned that scientists feared “this may be the Arctic’s first ice-free year”.

Not a correct prediction in any of his predictions.

Warning Signs: Obama, The Great Prevaricator

This is a President whose first State of the Union speech draw derisive laughter from the assembled Congress when he referred to climate change, the code words for global warming.

Column - Flannery admits no gain from this carbon tax pain | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If the bloke selling a ShamWow cloth refused to say what it actually did, saying the answer was ``not helpful’’, would you still hand over your cash or walk away?

Now, if you wouldn’t even buy a $29 kitchen wipe with answers like these, why buy a global warming scheme that would cost us billions of dollars - and possibly cost you your job?

- Bishop Hill blog - Zero Waste Scotland

Tim's prediction is that once the new scheme has demonstrated unequivocally that all this recycling we are doing has a higher carbon footprint than landfilling it will be quietly dropped.

California Snow « Musings from the Chiefio

California dried out during the later ’70s and ’80s. Now 30+ years later, we’re back to cold rain and by the bucket. With loads of snow.

The cycle has turned. It has nothing to do with CO2, nor with human activities.

What they are turning off are their brains | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Julie Novak is astonished by the Neo-Primitive movement, whose followers are tonight turning off their lights for Earth Hour:

CO2 causes unchecked wetdry | Watts Up With That?

“The direct effects of carbon dioxide on precipitation take place quickly,” said Cao. “If we could cut carbon dioxide concentrations now, we would see precipitation increase within the year, but it would take many decades for climate to cool.”

Pedal power lights room, grinds morning coffee beans

They couldn't crank out enough energy to power a pancake griddle, which wanted a piggish 1,600 watts...A 60-watt incandescent bulb's filament barely glows under the casual pedal power of one cyclist.

Guardian : Carbon Tax Can Stop Steam From Making Shadows | Real Science

A glimmer of hope seen in repressive new taxes.

Congress should defund the American Lung Association | David Freddoso | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

The clear implication here is that Upton's legislation would somehow make children get asthma or suffer some other pulmonary disease. That makes this one of the most dishonest advertising campaigns by a government-subsidized entity since...well, at least since President Obama promised that you could keep your health insurance if you liked it.
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If you were considering a donation to the American Lung Association, you might want to reconsider. Congress should also reconsider the many government subsidies they get, which includes $8 million from the EPA alone since 1999 and $900,000 in total government grants last year, according to the group's IRS form 990. That does not include the millions in taxpayer dollars that its local and state affilliates take in.

Dear taxpayer, the above is what you're paying for.

[In case you missed it]: MPs told to warn of climate mayhem | The Australian

"Sea levels could rise by up to a metre and possibly even more by the end of the century," the document says. "Up to 250,000 existing homes are at risk of inundation.

Do NOT miss this: Is this the most dishonest global warming hoax propaganda yet? New ad suggests that if you don't want to regulate harmless CO2, you're in favor of feeding arsenic to babies

New ad portrays GOP attack on EPA as assault on babies - The Plum Line - The Washington Post

With several key votes set for next week on the GOP’s ongoing assault on the Environmental Protection Agency, this new ad gives us a hint on how the left intends to respond — by portraying the GOP push as an assault on children.

The Senate is set to vote next week on a GOP proposal — strongly opposed by the White House — to revoke the E.P.A.’s authority to regulate greenhouse gasses. The new spot from American Family Voices, an organization that advocates for lower-income and middle-income families on economic, health care and consumer issues, goes directly for the heartstrings with images of babies and baby food jars, claiming the GOP initiative would endanger their lives

Where's the one labeled "carbon dioxide"?

The Cool Global Warming Warning Ice Bucket « Coolest Gadgets

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20110325/cool-global-warming-warning-ice-bucket/

The Polar Ice Bucket is a poignant reminder of the current effects of global warming. Just add your ice cubes to the top of the bucket and as they melt the arctic tundra below becomes submerged from the dripping above until the polar bear eventually also becomes submerged.

MPs told to warn of climate mayhem | The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/mps-told-to-warn-of-climate-mayhem/story-fn59niix-1226028368404

"Climate change will see the average snow season contract by between 85 per cent and 96 per cent by 2050, and disappear by the end of the century."

Again: Before writing your next check to the American Lung Association, check out their billboard suggesting that trace amounts of CO2 are causing this poor girl to wear an oxygen mask

Lung Association Faults Commerce Chairman in Ads - NYTimes.com

The American Lung Association has opened a billboard campaign against Fred Upton, the Republican chairman of the House Commerce and Energy Committee, taking him to task for his legislative attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency and clean air regulations.

Earth Hour may be losing steam as novelty wears off, expert says - Arts - Canada - World - The Telegram

TORONTO - More Canadian municipalities are pledging to power down Saturday for Earth Hour, but an expert says interest in the event may already be fizzling.

Earth Hour has "done a great job of capturing the imagination of an awful lot of people around the world" to raise awareness of climate change issues, said Mark Sarner, who specializes in marketing for non-profits.

But "just more of the same gets old fast," he said Friday, noting most marketing campaigns will fade after a few years without something new to draw the public's attention.
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Earth Hour shouldn't be judged based on how much energy it saves, said Sarner. Its real goal is to send a message to policy-makers that people care about climate change, he said.

Mt. Bachelor, Oregon: Powerful blanket of CO2 has prevented all but 514 inches of snow from falling this season

Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort - Current Conditions

Season Total Snowfall 514"

03-07-06 Global Warming Poses Risks to Pacific Northwest Snowpack, Ski Resorts

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Global warming in coming decades may cause the disappearance of large areas of the low-elevation snowpack in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, a new study concludes, with significant impacts on area ski resorts that will face warm winters far more often than they do now.

16 Months Ago : Arnie Predicted That California Will Drown | Real Science

There hasn’t been any significant sea level rise recorded in California for at least 150 years.

Declining Snow Cover – Snowiest Winter On Record In California | Real Science

Trains, Greens, Gasoline: The Wild Week That Was - Investors.com

"We have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," said Steven Chu, now Obama's energy secretary in 2008. We're getting there. It's just shy of 10 bucks per in Britain, but there's no reason a fuel policy for small, densely populated nations can't work for Wyoming, because we're investing in all those high-speed rail links.

So you'll be able to commute from your home in Rattlesnake, Nev., to your job in North Rattlesnake, Nev., via the Joseph Robinette Biden Delaware, Lackawanna, Atchison, Topeka, Sante Fe & Canadian Pacific High-Speed Interchange Facility & Federal Stimulus Mausoleum in Wilmington.

How will we power the trains? Nukes? Oh, perish the thought. Not after those whachamacallits in Japan failed to withstand the thingummy from the whoozis. Obviously, if something can't shrug off one of the five most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, then we shouldn't have anything to do with it at all, no way, no how.

Instead, we should "invest" in "green jobs," and then you'll be able to commute to your overnight shift at the KwikkiKrap because the high-speed trains will have giant wind turbines nailed to the roof of the caboose, at least until the next of kin of boxcar-riding hobos caught in the slipstream file a class-action suit.

Hey, Secretary Chu: Why didn't my iPhone charger prevent over 50 feet of snowfall at Squaw Valley USA this year?

Storm adds to monster Sierra snowpack

Squaw Valley USA ski resort reported nearly 4 feet of new snow overnight at an elevation of 8,200 feet and 2.5 feet of new snow at 6,200 feet.

The Tahoe-area resort has reported more than 50 feet of snowfall for the season, only the third time since 1970 that it has hit that mark.

Northstar-at-Tahoe is reporting its snowiest winter in 25 years, with more than 42 feet of snow

Flashback: California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns - Los Angeles Times

In a worst case, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture.

Real Climate Promotes Anti-American Socialist Rant | Real Science

Gillard is the mother of scare campaigns | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Actually, Julia, somewho who tells us to back her campaign or die seems a pretty strong believer in scare campaigns herself.

PG&E to let customers disable their smart meters—for a price | Grist

All in all, it would cost about $600 for the average customer to disable their smart meter.

Giving clean energy developers cash works better than tax credits, stupid US policy notwithstanding | Grist

simply handing cash to clean energy developers is twice -- yes, twice -- as effective as supporting them through tax credits.

Michele Bachmann wants to kick the planet in the nuts, and she’s running for president | Grist

On carbon dioxide: "[T]here isn't even one study that can be produced that shows carbon dioxide is a harmful gas. There isn't one such study because carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas, it is a harmless gas. Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. "

If you donate your hard-earned dollars to the American Lung Association, do you want the money spent on billboards promoting the greatest scientific fraud in human history?

Project 21 Fellow Criticizes Misleading American Lung Association Billboards

The billboards say, “Rep. Fred Upton, protect our kids’ health. Don’t weaken the Clean Air Act.” The billboards feature a photo of a girl wearing a mask to assist her breathing.

Upton’s legislation would not weaken the pollution-control elements of the Clean Air Act, but prevent the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide, which is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide regulations have nothing to do with our childrens’ ability to breathe.

“It’s outrageous that a charity purportedly dedicated to health issues is exploiting children to protect the EPA’s power grab,” said Project 21 full-time fellow Deneen Borelli. “The American Lung Association of Michigan’s action against Congressman Upton puts the group’s reputation at risk of becoming known as just another liberal front group trying to manipulate public opinion through fear and deception.”

The Reference Frame: Human Achievement Hour 2011

The Reference Frame also encourages the people to turn on their lights and most of the electric devices, and temporarily increase the consumption of electricity by an order of magnitude. Just to be sure, it will only cost you much less than a dollar - but it can make a difference.

Why? Because many deluded people will be turning off their lights and electrical devices, in order to express their desire to return the Earth back to the Dark Ages and to permanently establish a flat Earth's climate without any climate change. Help to fight these obscurantists! Graphs of the electricity consumption in your area may tell us the story who has won this battle of kilowatthours.

So what's the cost of this change, and what's the measurable benefit in terms of bad weather avoided?

Cooling with Less Warming: EPA Starts Refrigerant Changeover for Car Air Conditioners | David Doniger's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a pair of decisions that begin a changeover of the refrigerants that do the cooling in car air conditioners. Over the next few years, it will be out with the old (HFC-134a) and in with the new (HFO-1234yf). We’ll be able to cool our cars with less global warming.

Both chemicals are hydrofluorocarbons, but the 134a in your car today is a “super greenhouse gas” with 1,430 times the global warming kick, pound for pound, of carbon dioxide. The new refrigerant, 1234yf, has just 4 times the global warming potency of CO2 and will cut the climate damage from car air conditioning by more than 300-fold. Despite its geeky name, changing over to 1234yf will be a big step forward, because car air conditioning is one of the biggest, leakiest, and fastest growing uses of HFCs worldwide. And if HFC growth is left unchecked, these chemicals will be responsible for a major share of future climate change.

On Global Warming, No Clear Skies For Most 2012 GOP Contenders - Swampland - TIME.com

When news broke of Jon Huntsman's serious consideration of a run for president last month, several conservative pundits, including the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, dismissed the former Utah governor's chances by pointing to his moderate record on global warming, which they predicted would play poorly among the GOP's conservative base.

Indeed, Huntsman was a vocal booster of the Western Climate [Hoax] Initiative, which promoted the possibility of a carbon cap-and-trade program.

The Earth Hour of Power « The Daily Bayonet

Even the WWF admits saving energy isn’t the point. The point is to make a statement about global warming and ‘raise awareness‘. There is apparently a lone guy somewhere out there who hasn’t heard that Gaia has a fevah and the only cure is more cowbell, or something. While the chances of this sole soul appearing at the very moment people sit in the dark to raise his awareness may be slim, but you never know.

Frozen Gore, 2011

He's back with a vengeance in 2010,
this time blowin' more smoke than before!

Natural Remedies for Asthma

The Buteyko Breathing Technique is based on the premise that raising blood levels of carbon dioxide through shallow breathing can help people with asthma. Carbon dioxide is believed to dilate the smooth muscles of the airways.

Obama shellacks generic Republican - The Hill's Pundits Blog

My advice to Republicans: Get off the extremist wing and get with the program with mainstream America.
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Why do so many extreme Republicans deny science, deny reason and deny climate change while they wage political holy wars against National Public Radio, which is supported by many mainstream Republicans along with Democrats?

EU climate chief sees green fuel debate in months | Environment | STV News

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments may begin talks in the coming months on a proposal to promote greener fuels, potentially black-listing fuels whose production is more polluting, according to Europe's climate [scam] chief.
EU Climate Change Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said default emission values for fuel derived from tar sands and oil shale -- widespread in Canada and Estonia -- will be peer reviewed and included in the proposal.

Old men in Midlands are the biggest climate sceptics - mirror.co.uk

A poll for this week’s Climate Week also found 45% of the younger generation think climate change is man-made but only 26% of people close to retiring age agree.

Farming's carbon fears - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Farm Weekly

The National Farmers Federation is vehemently opposed to Professor Garnaut's suggestion that agriculture should eventually be included within any future carbon tax or Emissions Trading Scheme, and Wednesday's rally in canberra demonstrated the full wiehgt of opinion against the tax.

Attention Muggers, Thieves, Rapists And Hooligans! Tomorrow Evening Is Earth-Hour – Cities Switching Off Lights

And get a load of this craziness: A bunch of moron officials at the Budapest Hungary International Airport are going to turn off the tarmac lights! Talk about making the world a safer place to live.

Plug-in Prius not worth it, economically | Grist

Bengt Halvorson of Green Car Reports did the math on whether or not it's worth it to buy the forthcoming plug-in version of the Toyota Prius, and the math is ugly:
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The Prius has a small battery that holds only enough charge to take the vehicle 14 miles

Haven't we had 'global cooling' lately? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The planet did cool slightly from the 1940s to the 1970s, mainly in the northern hemisphere and most likely a result of the post-war boom in industrial aerosol pollutants that bounce sunlight away from the Earth.

Will climate change cause wars? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It's not hard to imagine international tensions bubbling over as the planet heats up

List of Wars and casualties of the 20th Century

[Looking at this data, do you notice a clear correlation between war deaths and atmospheric CO2 levels?]

The 8,000-year-old climate puzzle : Nature News

Proposed by palaeoclimatologist William Ruddiman in 2003, the theory says that human influences offset the imminent plunge into another ice age and helped create the relatively stable climate that we are familiar with today. ..."I'm of course hopelessly biased, but this year is going to be a good year for the early anthropogenic influence hypothesis," Ruddiman said as he presented his overview study.

Only 33% Think Most Americans Blame Humans for Global Warming

In fact, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters mistakenly think most Americans agree that global warming is caused primarily by human activity. Forty-six percent (46%) recognize that the view is held primarily by liberals

American Thinker: The Energy Myth That Won't Die

Any rational American energy policy must begin with carbon-based energy.

Making light of the phony Earth Hour | Joe Warmington | Columnists | News | Toronto Sun

“While everybody else has their lights off I will have every light in my house on,” said Menzies, as he prepared for his second installment in mocking the “phony” Earth Hour movement.

He’s also gone a step further.

“I have rented four rotating Hollywood movie lights which will light up the sky for miles,” he said.

“I don’t need to give you my address because all you need to do is look to the sky.”

1947 : Greenland Melting – Sea Level Rising At A Dizzying Rate – Seashores To Be Inundated – Speedy International Intervention Needed | Real Science

Endangered? “U.S. Death Rate Falls for 10th Straight Year” – CDC

Regulatory climate policies, by making energy scarcer and less affordable, could hold back the economic growth responsible for much of the ongoing improvement in public health and life expectancy. Michaels and Knappenberger conclude by asking: ”Is our health and welfare more endangered by U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, or by attempts to reduce them?”

David Evans, Carbon Accounting Modeler, Says It’s a Scam « JoNova

The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic. Watching this issue unfold has been amusing but, lately, worrying. This issue is tearing society apart, making fools and liars out of our politicians.

Arctic Ice Thickness Makes A Huge Gain – Global Warming Freezes More Ice

Note the huge difference in just three years. Today practically the entire Arctic cap is green…meaning an average thickness of over 3 meters. In 2008 the average thickness down about to 2m. This is all further confirmed by the current Catlin Arctic Survey

The New Nostradamus of the North: Why hotels are showing such a great interest in the "Earth Hour"

Yes, I believe Paul Brown, President of Global Brands & Commercial Services, when he says that "Hilton Worldwide is always looking for ways to reduce energy consumption” - everybody wants to cut costs. But he - and others in the hotel business - should cut out the dishonest crap about "sustainability". And Hilton Worldwide seems to take pride in announcing that they are "Shutting down business center equipment" during the earth hour. This is, of course, an outrage. Busy business executives paying a lot of money for staying at Hilton hotels are prevented from using the business centers because some stupid President of Global Brands & Commercial Services has decided to close the "equipment" during "Earth Hour".

Demise Of California Skiing – Seen Live | Real Science

As (not) predicted by the climate models, California ski areas are having difficulty staying open because of too much snow. Alpine Meadows has 16-25 feet of snow on the ground.

C3: Climate Models Fail Stupendously At Predicting Ocean Warming, New Data Shows

One of the grand failures has been Nasa's James Hansen's climate model predictions of ocean heat content growth. The model has ocean heat dramatically increasing as the red line in the chart below demonstrates. The actual heat content increase (decrease) is the blue line, which is literally flat.

Survey: Religious blame climate change - not sin - for natural disasters - The Denver Post

More than half of Americans believe in a personal God who controls everything, yet a survey released today finds that most see natural disasters as increasing in severity because of climate change rather than God's wrath.

In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the Public Religion Research Institute surveyed a random sample of 1,008 adults March 17-20. It found that few believe that God punishes nations for its sins or that earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters are a sign from God.
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The severity of recent natural evidence is evidence of global climate change, said 58 percent of those surveyed. And 44 percent said it is evidence of biblically prophesied "end times" or apocalypse.

Chris Mooney | Truth and the Oped Pages

Lewis’s column should, at minimum, be officially corrected—and across the board, oped pages should put in place mechanisms to rigorously fact check pieces making contrarian scientific claims in politically contested areas, like the climate debate. 

"Global warmers make the Monty Python witch burning crowd look like Mensa."

Greens Wonder If Melting Arctic Ice At -42C Triggered A 5km Deep New Zealand Earthquake 7,000 Miles Away | Real Science

Global warmers make the Monty Python witch burning crowd look like Mensa.

YouTube - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Burn the Witch!!!!!

The IPCC Insider’s Club « NoFrakkingConsensus

Looking at the multiple roles played by Rosenzweig, Karoly, Vaughan, Hegerl, Kovats, Menne, Hare, and Meinshausen it’s clear that Pielke and Christy are not imagining things.

Huge Increase In Thick Ice Over The Last Three Years | Real Science

The amount of Arctic ice greater than 2.5 metres thick has more than doubled since the same date in 2008.

Arctic Basin Full Of Thick Ice In 2011 | Real Science

Lots of hysterical nonsense being reported this month about record low levels of “Arctic” ice. Note that northern hemisphere ice extent (black line above) is greater than 2005 and 2006 – the two years with the highest summer minimums in the DMI record.

In the third dimension, average ice thickness has increased by 25% in the region shown below since 2008.

Romm Wants High Gas Prices And Low Gas Prices At The Same Time | Real Science

Romm supports government taxes leading to high gas prices, but abhors having free markets accomplish the same thing.

Because an alarmist Ph.D dissertation feebly argues that Siberia may get slightly less miserably cold, NASA coughs up nearly another million dollars of your money?

Russian boreal forests undergoing vegetation change, study shows

"What we're seeing is a system kicking into overdrive," said co-author Hank Shugart, a U.Va. professor of environmental sciences. "Warming creates more warming."

The researchers used a climate model to assess what would happen if evergreens continued to expand their range farther north and larch species declined. The "positive feedback" cycle of warming promoting warming showed an increase of absorbed surface warming.
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"This is not the scenario one would want to see," Shugart said. "It potentially would increase warming on a global scale."

The study is derived from Shuman's Ph.D. dissertation. Shugart served as her adviser. Their paper is co-authored by Thomas Liam O'Halloran, previously a doctoral student in environmental sciences at U.Va. and now a post-doctoral research associate at Oregon State University.

Shuman and Shugart recently received a $987,000, three-year grant from NASA to continue their studies.

Al Gore to Deliver Keynote to 10,000 Young Environmental Leaders at Power Shift 2011 - Press Release - Digital Journal

Massive Summit to Convene in Washington April 15-18 to Take Action and Begin the Next Phase of the Movement to Solve the Climate Crisis
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Sponsored by the Energy Action Coalition, Power Shift 2011 will feature a range of prominent voices. In addition to Al Gore, leaders such as Van Jones and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will join the conference.

[Global warming hoax promoter] to speak at EKU

RICHMOND — Graciela Chichilnisky, recognized by Time Magazine in 2009 as one of the “Heroes of the Environment,” will speak at Eastern Kentucky University Thursday, March 31.

Her presentation titled “Avoiding Extinction” will begin at 7:30 p.m...

A world-renowned economist and mathematician, Chichilnisky, is the author of the carbon market of the UN Kyoto Protocol that became international law in 2005. She created the concept of “Basic Needs,” voted by 153 nations at the 1993 United Nations Earth Summit and in 1996 she created the formal theory of sustainable development that is used worldwide.

Called an “A-List Star” by the Washington Post, Chichilnisky acted as a U.S. lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the 2007 Nobel Prize. A special adviser to several U.N. organizations, heads of state and U.S. Congress, her work uses market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Energy Tribune- U.S. Has Earth’s Largest Energy Resources

In case anyone missed it, let me repeat something that is of a magnitude of 10 on the scale of news-quakes for Joe Public USA: America’s combined energy resources are, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CSR), the largest on earth. They eclipse Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th) and Canada (6th) combined – and that’s without including America’s shale oil deposits and, in the future, the potentially astronomic impact of methane hydrates.

The energy facts in the CRS report should be making front page news all over America. Mostly it isn’t. Given the devastating news from Japan and New Zealand, it may be right to postpone dancing in the streets. But something else is going on. Even though they are going to dominate global energy supply for decades to come the insidious war on vital fossil fuels continues apace.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Another reason not to buy a Nissan Leaf: Resale value zip because batteries die within 6-8 years

If the unpredictable limited range, lack of charging stations, and painfully long (minimum 8 hours) recharging time wasn't enough to convince you not to buy the all-electric Nissan Leaf, the Wall Street Journal reveals today another blow that resale values will be hard to come by since the $20,000 battery pack dies within 6-8 years.

Twitter / Matt Vigil

Eat and Beat! Words from John Huston, guide @ArcticSurvey on how to keep warm. Wave arms and legs like a madman/circulation warmth increases

Al Fin: The US is #1 in Hydrocarbon Resources Worldwide: Why Is the Obama Administration Pursuing a Policy of Energy Starvation?

A new report from the Congressional Research Service points out that in terms of total hydrocarbon resource, the US possesses the largest inventory of any nation on Earth. But under the Obama regime, an unstated but unrelenting program of "energy starvation" is being carried out -- from the DOE to the Department of Interior to the EPA, even including the NRC. It is one thing to be energy-poor because you lack the resources. It is quite another to intentionally cripple your own economy using half-baked policies of carbon hysteria, nuclear fear, and faux environmental crisis fabrication.

Reasoning About Climate Uncertainty – Draft | Climate Etc.

In this paper I have argued that the problem of communicating climate uncertainty is fundamentally a problem of how we have framed the climate change problem, how we have characterized uncertainty, how we reason about uncertainty, and the consensus building process itself. As a result of these problems, the IPCC has not produced a thorough portrayal of the complexities of the problem and the associated uncertainties in our understanding.

We order you to be global warming believers | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Our soldiers, sailors and airmen have been summonsed by an email from HQ to fight the real war. So park those gassy tanks, dock those oil-burning ships and ground those avgas-guzzling planes, if you really want to make a diffrerence, guys:

BBC Interviewer Trashes Greenpeace Leader Over Arctic Lies | Real Science

Alarmists suggest that CO2 caused extreme waves off the coast of south-west Australia to be over a meter higher than in 1985

Scientists find waves are getting bigger - National News - National - Environment - Camden Haven Courier

It shows the extreme wave height off the coast of south-west Australia today is six metres on average, more than a metre higher than in 1985.
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To date scientists have largely focused on temperature as an indicator of climate change. But climate is about much more than temperature, as winds and waves control the flux of energy from the atmosphere to the ocean.

AFP: UNEP chief praises Rwanda for plastic bag ban

NAIROBI — The head of the UN environment agency Achim Steiner praised the Rwandan authorities Thursday for their success in banning plastic bags.

The fact that the tiny central African nation has succeeded in becoming plastic-bag free boils down to "leadership, determination and a willingness to address issues," Steiner told a press conference here.

Incas loved global warming

...And between 1150 and 1300, the Inca around Cusco began to capitalize on a major warming trend in the Andes.

As temperatures climbed, Inca farmers moved up the slopes by 800 to 1,000 feet, building tiers of agricultural terraces, irrigating their fields, and reaping record corn harvests. "These surpluses," says Alex Chepstow-Lusty, a paleoecologist at the French Institute for Andean Studies in Lima who has been studying the region's ancient climate, allowed the Inca to "free up many people for other roles, whether building roads or maintaining a large army." In time Inca rulers could call up more conscripts and supply a larger army than any neighboring chief.

Stealth-And-Trade - Investors.com

Green Corruption: The Environmental Protection Agency is giving funds to charitable organizations to attack GOP members of Congress. Did you know telling the truth about climate change causes childhood asthma?

Warmist Flannery: "If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years"

MTR today, March 25 | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Flannery: Just let me finish and say this. If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years because the system is overburdened with CO2 that has to be absorbed and that only happens slowly.

California going to sh*t—for green electricity | Grist

In a gift to headline writers everywhere, the California Energy Commission on Wednesday handed out nearly $1 million to fund an experimental project to convert what it politely refers to as "biosolids" into electricity. In other words, sh*t.

Congress is making ignoring science a habit | Grist

Just one example: in another Energy and Commerce Committee hearing last week, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) disparaged the link between greenhouse gases and increased asthma rates due to higher temperatures, saying this about what causes his own flare ups: "It's horses, it's dogs, it's cats ... but it's not carbon dioxide. It never has been; it never will be. I exhale carbon dioxide every time I take a breath."

Obama administration can’t wait to sell China all the coal it can burn | Grist

This process is called carbon offshoring, and it's the nastiest, planet-killingest scheme of which you've probably never heard.

Why Don't You Believe In Global Warming? Making Greener Minds

Writing from the Climate, Mind and Behavior conference at the Garrison Institute in New York, which sounds as goofy as 'a conference for environmentalists, psychologists and sociologists to sell global warming better' but is a lot shorter to write, TIME's Bryan Walsh says it all comes down to making more fun of Republicans and 'framing' the debate - the two things which got environmentalists and climate scientists into credibility trouble.

Quadrant Online - Wind policy failures

There is no escaping the fact that wind power is little more than a mechanism to transfer wealth from electricity consumers to multi-national energy companies, falsely disguised as environmental benefit.  Worse, as the Hepburn project demonstrates, is the imposition on the community of a set of unwanted beliefs unsupported by fact, the cost of which is bankrolled unknowingly by the wider community through hidden subsidies.

Traffic Pollution Doubles Lung Transplant Death Rate, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

The researchers concluded that nearly 30 percent of deaths in lung transplant recipients could be attributed to living near a main thoroughfare.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Geophysicist explains how the Sun controls climate, not CO2

Dr. Vincent Courtillot is a professor of geophysics at the University Paris-Diderot and Chair of paleomagnetism and geodynamics of the Institut Universitaire de France. In the recent lecture below he explains how solar cycles control the climate by influence on cloud formation (the cosmic ray theory of Svensmark et al). Dr. Courtillot notes that IPCC climate computer models do not correlate with observations and that temperature trends vary substantially between North America and Europe (which is contrary to IPCC computer model predictions). He also notes that while the total solar irradiance (TSI) only varies by about .1% over a solar cycle, the solar UV varies by about 10% and that secondary effects on cloud formation may vary up to 30% over solar cycles. The IPCC computer models dismiss the role of the sun by only considering the small variations of the TSI and ignore the large changes in the most energetic and influential part of the solar spectrum - the ultraviolet.

The Greening of the American Brain - TIME

As it turns out, Inslee might well be right, because facts and authority alone may not shift people's opinions on climate science or many other topics. That was the conclusion I took from the Climate, Mind and Behavior conference, a meeting of environmentalists, neuroscientists, psychologists and sociologists that I attended last week at the Garrison Institute in New York's Hudson Valley. We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures who select from the choices presented to us for maximum individual utility — indeed, that's the essential principle behind most modern economics. But when you do assume rationality, the politics of climate change get confusing. Why would so many supposedly rational human beings choose to ignore overwhelming scientific authority?

Maybe because we're not actually so rational after all, as research is increasingly showing. ... Politicians never debate the physics of space travel after all, even if they argue fiercely over the costs and priorities associated with it. That, however, is the power of group thinking; for most conservative Americans, the very idea of climate science has been poisoned by ideologues who seek to advance their economic arguments by denying scientific fact. No additional data — new findings about CO2 feedback loops or better modeling of ice sheet loss — is likely to change their mind.
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The bright side of all this irrationality is that it means human beings can act in ways that sometimes go against their immediate utility, sacrificing their own interests for the benefit of the group. (Indeed, every day over the past month and a half in the cities of the Middle East we have seen human beings irrationally risking their lives for their values.)

USGS Release: Uncertain Future for Joshua Trees Projected with Climate Change (3/24/2011 11:43:48 AM)

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Temperature increases resulting from climate change in the Southwest will likely eliminate Joshua trees from 90 percent of their current range in 60 to 90 years, according to a new study led by U.S. Geological Survey ecologist Ken Cole.
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By using fossil sloth dung found in desert caves and packrat middens — basically, the garbage piles of aptly named packrats — scientists were able to reconstruct how Joshua trees responded to a sudden climate warming around 12,000 years ago that was similar to warming projections for this century.
...The limited ability of rodents to disperse Joshua tree seeds in combination with other factors would likely slow migration to only about 6 feet per year, not enough to keep pace with the warming climate, Cole and his colleagues concluded.

Al Gore: House GOP majority mirrors 'dark days' of Bush administration - The Hill's Ballot Box

"Not since the dark days of the Bush administration have we seen a Republican-controlled Congress that is so intent on pushing their agenda in Washington — protecting tax breaks for oil companies making record profits, attempting to roll back environmental regulations, and not only refusing to pass climate change legislation in any form but refusing to acknowledge that climate change even exists," Gore wrote in a fundraising pitch for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
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"Republicans rely on massive contributions from corporate special interests. But Democrats rely on your grassroots strength," Gore wrote, noting a "group of House Democrats" would match the grassroots contributions 2 to 1.

Study finds wind speeds rose over world's oceans :: WRAL.com

Just two years ago, Takle and colleagues published a study of wind speeds over land showing a decrease, rather than the increase Young's team found in its measurements from satellites and buoys.

Piers Challenges CO2-Warmist "Religion” to come up with evidence at ‘Climate Week’ meeting held in Imperial College | Climate Realists

"The fact is that there is no evidence in thousands or millions of years of data that CO2 changes drive any changes in climate and therefore it seems this is more like a religious meeting..."

We are being deceived « JoNova

My speech at the Anti-tax Carbon rally, Wednesday March 23rd.

Global Warming Is Creating Perfect Crop Conditions - James Taylor - Endpoint Analysis - Forbes

The news media are flush with stories this week claiming global warming is crushing global crop production. According to the media, global warming is putting the hurt on two of our favorite indulgences – coffee and beer. For the more globally conscious (or less caffeinated/less inebriated) among us, the media are also focusing attention on an alleged African corn crisis. A look at facts rather than alarmist speculation, however, shows global warming is strongly benefiting nearly all global crops, including coffee, beer barley, and African corn.

Al Fin: The Ghost Country that Poisons the World

The amount of toxins that China dumps into its water, soil, and air, is astounding. If China were only poisoning herself -- in the frantic attempt to over-build its ghost infrastructure to nowhere -- the rest of the world could only look on in horror. But since the effects of Ghost China's poisonous activity oozes out to affect many other nations, we need to take a closer look.

Hiding The Evidence : Met Office 2009 Winter Forecast | Real Science

The Met Office has deleted their failed winter 2009/2010 forecast from their web site.

Disappeared : Met Office 2007 Summer Forecast | Real Science

2007 was the wettest, most miserable summer on record in the UK.

Cook : 97% Of Scientists Believe That Climate Change Does Not Happen Naturally | Real Science

If Cook’s statement were correct, the implication would be that the climate does not normally change.

Climate scientists can’t forecast the Sun, volcanoes, oceanic cycles, clouds, rain, snow, ice, soil moisture – or anything else which affects the climate long term, but they claim that they can predict the future based on a single variable.

This is witchcraft, not science.

NC Media Watch: Record breaking snow fall in the Sierra, more on the way (Update)

With some record snow fall on the books, another big storm is rolling in that may push more historical records over the top. The sequence of storms that started on the 18th of March has all ready dropped 5-to-8 feet of snow from Mammoth Mountain to Lake Tahoe. Forecasters are predicting another 60 inches today.

Painful Lessons for Wind Power - HUMAN EVENTS

Painful to the ears, and especially painful to the birds, the painful lesson environmentalists need to learn is that the answer to America’s growing energy needs is not blowing in the wind.

People’s Daily Touts Daley, High-Speed Rail - By Lou Dolinar - Planet Gore - National Review Online

China’s scandal-plagued high-speed rail promoters are hooking up with Chicago pols. What could possibly go wrong?

RealClearPolitics - Energy Fantasyland

There are lots of ironies to these Alice-in-Wonderland energy fantasies. As the public become outraged over gas prices, a panicked Obama pivots to brag that we are pumping more oil than ever before -- but only for a time, and only because his predecessors approved the type of drilling he has stopped.

The entire climate-change movement, fairly or not, is now in shambles, thanks to serial scandals about faked research, consecutive record cold and wet winters in much of Europe and the United States, and the conflict-of-interest, get-rich schemes of prominent global-warming preachers such as Al Gore.

Climate Lessons: Under the Cloak of ‘Climate Change’: childhoods sacrificed for political gain

'When asked to choose the 3 biggest threats to the world from a list of 9, the most common answer is terrorism, chosen by more than half (59%), followed by climate change (49%).'

- Bishop Hill blog - School brainwashing works

I guess the relentless propaganda pumped out by schools and the BBC has had some effect.

John Abraham: Jason Lewis [allegedly] misled readers on global warming | StarTribune.com

Jason Lewis's recent article on global warming ("Getting warm. Or cool. Let's make policy!" March 20) contained so much misleading and inaccurate information that it requires a response.

Someone reading this article might believe that Lewis knows more about climate science than the 97 percent of scientists who agree that humans are causing the Earth to warm.
...He claims that NASA has "erroneously reported that readings over the last decade were warmer than the 1930s, when in fact the opposite was true." This statement is inaccurate, as is his claim that NASA recanted 1998 as being the hottest year in U.S. history.
...The fact that increasing greenhouse gases cause the earth to warm is known from data that go back 800,000 years. Is that a long enough record?
...Lewis knows very little about climate issues, and much of what he knows is provided by think tanks, not scientists.
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If we act wisely, our solutions to global warming will give us many benefits, including more jobs, energy diversity and improved national security. Who can be against that?

John Abraham is an engineering professor at the University of St. Thomas.

Now, Starter Homes Boast Solar Arrays - NYTimes.com

KB Home estimates that the standard 1.4-kilowatt solar array will supply about 30 percent of the electricity for an 1,800-foot to 2,000-foot square home. Of course, that all depends on how much a homeowner runs their air conditioning, for instance.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Mar. 24th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

Bill McKibben is concerned, of course. Weepy Bill only has two settings, ‘alarmed’ and ‘ohmygodweregonnadie’

Most Senators Support EPA Rollback, But Not Same Bill - Investors.com

At the very least, Republicans hope to make this an issue in the 2012 elections.

A majority of 51 senators — all but four Republicans, plus eight Democrats — back bills to stymie the EPA's climate rules push. At least three GOP moderates are expected to end up supporting the effort, while a dozen or so Democrats are on the fence.

Heads I win, tails it's a tie: IJIS Arctic sea ice extent data shows 2011 sea ice maximum over 1,700 Manhattans greater than 2006 maximum

Arctic sea ice tied for smallest ever - The Hill's E2-Wire

The maximum reach of Arctic sea ice isn’t what it used to be, and global warming appears to be a culprit.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic sea ice probably reached its maximum extent for the year on March 7, which was 5.65 million square miles.

“The maximum extent was 1.2 million square kilometers (463,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average of 15.86 million square kilometers (6.12 million square miles), and equal (within 0.1 percent) to 2006 for the lowest maximum extent in the satellite record,” the center, which is part of the University of Colorado-Boulder, reported Wednesday.

IJIS sea extent data

03,11,2006,13782344
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03,08,2011,13887188

The ice age cometh?! The 2011 maximum is over 1700 Manhattans bigger than the 2006 maximum!

Dick Durbin and Jan Schakowsky top most-traveled list among Illinoisans in Congress - latimes.com

WASHINGTON—— Last Memorial Day, Sen. Dick Durbin traveled to a conference at a luxury beach resort on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast.

The Democratic senator and his wife, Loretta, stayed at The Residence Tunis, which is part of the exclusive "Leading Hotels of the World" group and has a spa and Robert Trent Jones II golf course.

The trip lasted a week, when the tab for transportation, lodging and meals for the Durbins climbed to $22,113.
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Durbin's stops included Svalbard, a pristine Arctic wilderness roughly halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. He went with several lawmakers after international meetings in Oslo. One aim was to drop off seeds from the U.S. Agriculture Department at a global seed vault intended to withstand wars and natural disasters. He said the stop let him see the effects of global warming.

Pawlenty can't outrun climate past - POLITICO.com Print View

"So have I changed by position? Yes," Pawlenty added at CPAC. "But I'm not going to be cute about it, hem and haw, be dippy and dancy about it. Just saying yeah, it was a mistake, it was stupid. It was wrong."

Ed Morrissey, a St. Paul-based talk show host who posted the cellphone video of Pawlenty's cap-and-trade remarks at the CPAC conference, said the former Minnesota governor hasn’t put the issue to rest.

Flannery holds first climate [hoax] community meeting - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Federal Government's Climate Change Commission has held its first community meeting last night in Geelong.

The Government set up the Commission to help build community consensus for taking action on climate change.

The Chief Commissioner, Professor Tim Flannery, says he hopes last night's forum will dispell some of the myths about climate science.
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But he says it is possible that people opposed to a carbon tax could try to hijack the the Commission's public meetings.

"In my experience where we've had disruptive elements who've tried to shut down a genuine debate, they've been shouted down from the floor," he said.

EPA pays American Lung Association to attack GOP? | JunkScience.com

The EPA-ALA relationship works something like this: EPA pays the ALA and, in return, the ALA agitates for more stringent EPA air quality regulation, including by lawsuit. Now the ALA is attacking a politician who is aiming to rein in the out-of-control agency.

In addition to defunding National Public Radio, the House GOP should look at the EPA’s funding of American Lung Association. This abuse of taxpayer money is also a good subject for watchdog Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA).

Abbott caught out by party base at carbon tax rally | Crikey

What was interesting about the crowd wasn’t so much its average age — 60, at least, meaning most of them would likely 1. be over-compensated for a carbon price and 2. never live to see the really serious effects of climate change — but its colour. If you didn’t know that climate denialism was primarily a feature of the over-55 demographic, you could explain the age thing away by saying it was a weekday rally and lots of other supporters would have been at work.

Green Bay buried in record 17.8 inches of snow | Green Bay Press Gazette | greenbaypressgazette.com

A record-setting two-day spring storm — the biggest in more than a century — left Green Bay with 17.8 inches of snow by late Wednesday evening.
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“We’re in a cold pattern, so we’re not going to see our temperatures rise into the mid 30s or anything too soon,” said Teri Egger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Ashwaubenon. “This snow will be sticking around probably for the next five to six days.”

The 17.8 inches of snow over two days make it the third-largest snowstorm in Green Bay’s history. It only trails snowstorms in 1888 and 1889.

Budget 2011: Carbon tax is only green from a distance | Dominic Maxwell | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The government's new carbon tax may seem a glimmer of hope for green campaigners, but the policy fails three vital tests

Again I ask:
1. Has this picture been altered?
2. Are we supposed to think that that black stuff is carbon dioxide?

Left-wing attempt at humor: Poking fun at those idiots who are skeptical that trace amounts of CO2 are overheating the planet

Paul Abrams: Republican Surprise: Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Global Warming

The bill, authored by freshman Tea Party Member Ben Quayle -- whose Vice-President father, Dan, once promoted a manned-mission to the sun, proposing to avoid its extreme heat by going at night -- is called the "Reverse [Non-Existent] Global Warming With a Stroke of the Pen" Act. It outlaws Fahrenheit, substituting Celsius for all temperature readings, reports and thermometers, and thereby instantaneously reduces all temperatures.

"Fahrenheit, like fluoridation of water before it, is a socialist plot. It is designed to make people believe the temperature is hotter than it is," said Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). "They want you to believe, for example, that it is 68° in Tulsa, whereas we can now say it is only 20°. That is more than a 3-fold difference. In my part of the country we don't call that hoax, we call it a lie".

Snow in Spring? Why a Cold March Doesn't Disprove Global Warming (LiveScience.com)

"People make the mistake of equating weather in their location with global warming or climate change," said David Easterling, chief of the Scientific Services Division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center.

Twitter / La Trobe News: Professor David Karoly of ...

Professor David Karoly of @uommedia lecturing on minimising climate change denial on La Trobe on iTunes U http://bit.ly/gbqUJZ

The American Spectator : Whose Clean Energy Standards?

as we know from years of observation of political discourse, one man's "standard" is another's moral abhorrence.

Put them together in a "Clean Energy Standard" (CES) and you ask for real trouble.

Regional Pool of Gender and Climate Change Expert For UNDP | Jobs Corner: Career and Employment Opportunities

The Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) is a global network of organizations working to ensure that climate change policies, decision-making, and initiatives at the national, regional and global levels incorporate gender dimensions.

Abbott defends show of anger at Gillard | Top Stories | BigPond News

Mr Abbott shot back that the crowd was 'a representative snapshot of middle Australia' and people were entitled to express their anger at the government.

'I want the protest to be civil ... but let's not get too precious about these things,' Mr Abbott said.

He accused the 'delusional' prime minister of labelling everyone who disagreed with her an extremist, and again challenged her to call a fresh election to test public support for a carbon tax.

Steve Janke: Make Greens earn their way in Election 2011 | Full Comment | National Post

The 2008 election was remarkable for the good fortune of the Green Party. The global warming scare was in full force — no one seriously expected the hysteria would melt away as quickly as it did in 2010. Stephane Dion was the Liberal leader, and chose to campaign green, stealing the name “Green Shift” from a private company and pilfering the idea of a carbon tax from Michael Ignatieff.
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In 2011, the situation is different in many ways. Global warming? A non-issue for most Canadians, judging by the polls. Carbon tax? With gas prices topping $1.20 a litre and the aftershocks of the recession still being felt, the carbon tax is a dead letter. Environmentalism in general? I’m willing to bet most Canadians folding and re-folding their reusable grocery bags are satisfied they are doing enough and don’t want to ensure any further berating by holier-than-thou busybodies. Environmentalists have no one to blame but themselves for that. No one forced them to put all their eggs in the global warming basket, and with the collapse of the global warming scam, their credibility has been undermined on issues (some of them legitimate concerns) far removed from global warming.

Good News – California Can Still Save Our Planet From All This Heat | Real Science

But can the government keep Americans from freezing to death?

The Heathrow snow chaos report is out: Rare rate of snowfall since records began (6 years!)? | Real Climategate

I thought this was quite funny, the hourly rate of snowfall was considered rare, Rare since records began (6 years!)

[Remember, if scientists say anything, don't ask any questions]: Science may start tracking the Yeti (Wired UK)

Officials in coal-mining region of Kemerovo Oblast announced plans today to open a Yeti Institute at the Kemerovo State University, a 38-year-old higher education entity in western Siberia. KSU boasts 31,000 students and is best known for reviving regional languages, like Shor. Yeti researcher Igor Burtsev reportedly claimed that 30 Russian scientists are currently studying yetis, or Abominable Snowmen, and the Institute could allow them to better collaborate.