Unusual and severe weather always raises questions about whether global warming, the slow rise in world temperatures, whether natural or caused by humans, is to blame.
"It would be irresponsible to say that," Patzert says. "Nobody knows."
A primer on the myth of global warming and the international forces behind it.EU Referendum: Watching them squirm
What we are now seeing is the cumulative effect of a disastrous energy policy, together with the green tyranny, which have been forcing up energy providers' costs, and dumping extra costs on retail bills – all adding extra stress on an already weak economy and a faltering economy.[It's a conspiracy!!]: Climate Scientists Face Death Threats In Australia
Christine Milne, Australian Greens deputy leader, said the emails were ''an orchestrated, extremist anti-science campaign attempting to threaten and intimidate people into silence.''Climate isn’t up for debate | FP Comment | Financial Post
Uncomfortable though it may be for geoscientists, society needs them to speak out forcefully now. Otherwise, the climate alarm, its science failing but the movement still heavily funded, will stagger on, leading society into wasting billions of dollars more and destroying millions of jobs worldwide.Environmentalists Criticizing NJ Gov. Chris Christie As He Presents Energy Master Plan For Garden State « CBS New York
TRENTON, NJ (CBSNewYork / AP) – Gov. Chris Christie is going green, unveiling an energy master plan that would reduce the Garden State’s energy carbon footprint by 22.5 percent in ten years.
The plan relies on solar, natural gas, wind and nuclear power. “Where we have lower cost, energy but also, are leading the way on renewable energy,” said Christie.
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“He’s cutting back on everything,” said Jeff Tittel with the Sierra Club. “It’s a scam. Basically he’s promoting a green scam today.”
When it comes to global warming promoters relying unsupported accusations to keep their issue alive rather than support their underlying science, this is perhaps better analogized by a Wall Street movie quote, where Charlie Sheen’s boss says, “Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”Bail Me Out . . . and I’ll Urge a Gas-Tax Hike for You - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Whether it’s a huge media news outlet or a small newspaper, the global warming issue is their abyss, and I’m just one of an ever-increasing number giving them this advice.
You hit up the taxpayers for an unpopular $50 billion loan, then tell them they’ll lose $14 billion on their investment. What do you do for an encore? Government Motors CEO Dan Akerson wants to hike your gas taxes.Australia isn't "catching up", it's going it alone | Australian Climate Madness
Someone gets this guy a PR department.
This is one of the biggest lies told by the government about a price on carbon, and there are plenty to choose from. We're being "left behind", the world is "rushing towards a low carbon economy" and if we don't price carbon tomorrow, we'll never catch up… blah blah. It's nonsense, naturally.Hell and High Water: As wildfires and floods ravage the country, Masters says, “We Have Never Seen a Year Like This Before” | ThinkProgress
US states are bailing out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as fast as they can, the federal US, Japan, Canada and Russia have announced they have no intention of forming part of a new Kyoto deal, China and India are full steam ahead for economic growth (with a few token gestures towards greening up thrown in, but their emissions will keep on rising), and the only countries to have an ETS are part of the EU scheme, mired in fraud and corruption, or tiny states like New Zealand, neither of which will make any significant difference to emissions.
[Global warming hoax promoter KATHARINE HAYHOE] some places can even experience increases in heavy rainfall events and droughts at the same time, because if a lot of the water vapor comes down in a few storms then you have a longer dry period in between before you get the next one.
The abstract for the thesis reads:
This research aims to gather scientific proofs and evidences against anthropogenic global warming hypothesis and to elucidate its meaning in the present. We argue that climate is in a permanent transformation, not resuming itself to a product of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration variations and that worries about climatic changes are not new but, despite this, our ignorance on the functioning of the climate system is still challenging. We conclude that anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is not consensual and exerts nowadays the function of late capitalism legitimating ideology, perpetuating social exclusion transvestiting itself as a commitment to future generations.
BONN, Germany — Developing countries have asked the U.N. climate conference to accept Palestine as a participant and give it access to funding to fight global warming.Sun Unleashes 'Spectacular' & Powerful Eruption
Jorge Arguello, who heads the group of 131 developing countries, suggested Palestinian “participation” in the 194-party negotiations on a climate change accord.
A temperature of 80,000 Kelvin is about 143,540 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly 79,727 degrees Celsius). The sun's corona typically has temperatures ranging from 900,000 degrees F (500,000 degrees C) to 10.8 million degrees F (6 million degrees C). It can reach tens of millions of degrees when a solar flare occurs.
Tim DeChristopher is a climate activist and cofounder of Peaceful Uprising. He has been beatified as a saint in the Church of Earthalujah by the Reverend Billy and convicted as a felon by the United States Government.NSF Invites Media to Apply for July Visit to Arctic Field Research Sites in Greenland - US National Science Foundation (NSF)
How to apply: Applicants must submit the equivalent of two printed pages detailing specifically what they intend to cover while in the field. NSF public affairs officers can help applicants to craft a proposed reporting plan that has the best chance of meeting minimum criteria....Expenses: NSF furnishes at no cost cold-weather clothing, solely for use in the field, as well as housing, transportation and food while in the field.
Hampered by the most late-season snow in 30 years, Rocky Mountain National Park crews finally opened Trail Ridge Road for the season this morning, more than a week after the traditional Memorial Day weekend opening.Making my first clean kilowatt | Grist
I have to tell you, it is an amazing feeling to know that all day, every day, I am making clean electricity on my own rooftop that does not blow up mountains, cause asthma and heart attacks, spew mercury into the air and water, or leave behind toxic waste. Sure, it lowers our energy bills and increases the resale value of our house. But at the end of the day, knowing that we have taken a big step to create a better world for our daughter is the only payback I need.[New planet-healing car accelerates very fast, and burns liquefied petroleum gas!!]
Details are sketchy, but the company claims that within six months, it will show off a vehicle that goes from zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds...it draws additional range from a tank that holds liquefied petroleum gas, a mix of propane and butane that is used to fuel vehicles in some countries but is rarely seen in the U.S.The New Nostradamus of the North: Chinese and US airlines not happy about joining the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
The main argument of the EU bureaucrats seems to be that backing down would mean that their climate change "flagship policy" will "lose international respect"! It is difficult to see how this bogus global warming project could lose any international respect, because it never had any respect in the real world. On must hope that the Chinese and the Americans will be able to postpone - or still better - to prevent this new climate madness from ever being introduced!
Despite protestations to the contrary, from todays climate scientists, the ice age really was threatened by the scientists, politicans and the media in the 70′s and 80′s. Stephen Schneider in particular gets a mention. CO2 was to blame!!.Der Spiegel: World Climate Deal To Be Postponed Again!
The more that time runs out for the world to stop “dangerous climate change”, the more the world seems to drag its feet and postpone limiting so-called greenhouse gases. The disconnect between the supposedly imminent threat and the world reaction could not be more profound.Farron Cousins | Top Republican Wants To Weaken EPA, Fast Track Environmental Destruction
If anything, the world’s reaction confirms that global warming is nothing really but hot air.
The specific rule that Whitfield is working to repeal involves standards that would require utilities to install devices to capture as much CO2 as possible from industrial boilers and waste incinerators, a move the EPA estimates would prevent thousands of premature deaths from heart attacks and respiratory illnesses every year.
In classic doublespeak, the Department of Energy explains that outlawing incandescent bulbs will "empower consumers with lighting choices." Unless your choice is to buy the light bulb the government doesn't like. If Republicans can't understand the appeal of sparing Americans from the light bulb police, what are they good for?Column - A lecture on emissions from the lady on the jet | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
These aren’t just cheap gotchas.Green burials are gaining traction in the Washington area - The Washington Post
That the noisiest alarmists cannot live the carbon-neutral lives they demand of everyone else actually tells us one of two valuable things.
Either these people don’t believe their wild claims either, or they do not believe the pain of cutting emissions is worth the tiny gain.
There’s even a company that incorporates cremated remains into a “reef ball” that provides habitat for fish.How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?
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To make a reef ball, cremated remains are mixed with concrete and shaped into a basketball-size “pearl” that weighs about 60 pounds. The pearl is affixed to a beehive-shaped concrete reef that weighs 650 to 4,000 pounds.
Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct from the production of cement, one of concrete's principal components.
In its fifth Sustainability Report, corporate responsibility leader REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.) says carbon emissions grew by about half the pace of sales in 2010.
REI, a national outdoor gear and apparel retailer, reported sales grew 14% in 2010, but its net carbon impact was 7.3% after purchasing offsets.
The Chukchi is considerably less interesting without ice, and as the Arctic continues to warm, there will be longer ice-free periods. This reduction in sea ice lets more temperate species, like eastern gray whales, summer off Barrow. On my last day at the perch, there was a gray whale feeding just offshore for hours. How reduction in sea ice will affect the bowhead whale is uncertain, but the effect on species that rely on this ice to haul out, hunt and pup (walrus, polar bears and ice seals) is currently of great concern. In addition to loss of habitat through loss of sea ice cover, the opening of the Arctic to increased ship traffic and oil and gas exploration will increase ambient noise levels underwater and increase the real risk of a devastating oil spill in a fragile ecosystem.
We as scientists are trained to be dispassionate in our reporting of scientific facts, but this often belies the deep commitment we have to the study and conservation of the natural world. I would not spend months of my life aboard ships or watching from the ice in the bitter cold if I did not care about the entire ecosystem. It is not just bowhead whales that head to the Arctic in spring: Hundreds of thousands of eiders and long-tailed ducks migrate north, and black guillemots, snowy owls, snow buntings, polar bears, Arctic fox and thousands of beluga whales all begin to show themselves after a long, dark winter. Bearded seals begin their elaborate acoustic displays, and ringed seals crawl out of their ice dens to bask in the sun. It has been a privilege to be a part of the bowhead whale census this spring and to witness the Arctic waking up after a long, dark winter.
[Rush Limbaugh] Bye-bye nomination.
Another one down.
We're in the midst here of discovering that this is all a hoax. The last year has established that the whole premise of manmade global warming is a hoax, and we still have presidential candidates who want to buy into it! Why? 'Cause in New Hampshire they obviously care about it. So you go to Iowa say and you say, "Hey, by the way, I'm all for ethanol subsidies." Then you go to the Florida and say, "Hey, you seasoned citizens, I'm all for never-ending Social Security!" Wherever you go, whatever they care about there is what you're for. I saw this... I couldn't believe this when I saw it. People in New Hampshire for some cockamamie reason want to believe in global warming. There was snow on the summit of Hawaii's biggest mountain, Mauna Kea, after a thunderstorm dropped inches of ice this morning.
OGDEN -- A fringe benefit of abnormally cold weather and high precipitation seems to be that Skiing in Utah is still possible well into this year's summer.It makes me sob uncontrollably to think about the hordes of pikas that must crawling to the mountaintops as we speak, only to go extinct from CO2-induced heatstroke.
Snowbasin Ski Resort will re-open a large area of terrain for the weekends, starting on June 11.
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"Basically we have a mid-winter snow pack at mid-mountain," said Jason Dyer PR and marketing manager for Snowbasin.
Dyer said there was still 100 in. at mid mountain on June 7. The mid-winter average is 120-125 in.
And you could just picture Humes wagging his finger as he wrote:Today's Wal-Mart shoppers are not particularly motivated to buy green. But their kids are, and Wal-Mart is listening. Wal-Mart is betting that the most planet-friendly retailer will win the future. So if you don't want to spend your senior years trying to explain to your grandkids why you didn't do more to save the planet, it's time to get busy.As NLPC reported recently, with seven consecutive quarters (now eight) of same-store sales declines, Wal-Mart appears to be losing its “bet.” But when you’ve got a whitewater rafting naturalist, a former Al Gore aide (Leslie Dach), and a Paul Ehrlich population-bomb alarmist (Kistler) as three of your sustainability gurus, and a scolding book writer lecturing the public, why listen to your (former) customers?
The main responsible group for constructing this falsity is a well organized and powerful climate skeptics lobby...Through a well constructed and widely disseminated campaign targeted at the public and political debate, the climate skeptics' lobby has created confusion and doubt about the reality of global warming and climate change.
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The climate skeptics are thus allowed to exert extreme power over the fate of our civilization.
Farmers and officials in Russia may have exaggerated drought losses of grains last year by up to 6m tonnes to cash in on compensation packages, implying the country may have more of the crops to export than had been thought.With a record like this, you trust them with a green tax, too? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
That makes six out of eight green programs which turned out to be overpriced, underperforming or otherwise botched. And this from a Government now planning the most complicated, controversial and expensive green program of all - a carbon dioxide tax.IOM report warns "green" buildings can contribute to unhealthy indoor air - The Hill's Healthwatch
Good luck.
The report warns that the push to improve buildings' energy efficiency to counter climate change has spurred a shift to untested new materials and building retrofits that could limit and alter the air flow inside buildings and may concentrate indoor pollutants such as chemical emissions and tobacco smoke. Indoor dampness, poor ventilation, excessive temperatures, and emissions from building materials and equipment such as back-up power generators all can contribute to health problems, the report says.
One wonders whether GM has taken the lead on higher gas taxes because its bailout ties to the feds have created a more government-oriented corporate culture. But regardless of that; when carmakers push to raise to raise the cost of the very substance that fuels their products, we have a serious problem. They’re serving the government rather than the public, and that does not bode well either for the vehicles they’ll be producing or for the policies they’ll be pushing.Kevin Williamson: ‘Disinherit the Wind’ - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Mr. Pickens is trying to sell Congress something called the Pickens Plan, a madcap, Rube Goldberg political contraption designed to appeal to the worst elements of American politics — corporate self-dealing, xenophobia, economic illiteracy — while directing billions of dollars of subsidies into businesses in which Mr. Pickens has a financial interest.C3: The Left/Liberal Bizarro, Anti-Science Hyperbole Continues: Lefty Blogger Romm Calls CO2 Growth "Super-Exponential"
Willis does an excellent job of explaining real, empirical science to Romm in regards to CO2, and below we add a few more charts that further expose the lunacy of typical left/liberal/progressive/Democrat anti-science, which Romm exemplifies.Don’t know and don’t care if it will actually lower the temperature | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Senator JOYCE: Just out of curiosity, Dr Nigel Ray calls it ‘climate change modelling’. So, of all the other things, did you model how much the climate was going to change; and, if so, how much will it change?
Now the drive for renewable power sources, such as wind and the sun, being promoted by President Obama and state Governor Jerry Brown has raised fears that the number of newborn golden eagles may not be able to keep pace with the number of turbine fatalities.
The death count along the ridgelines of the Bay Area’s Altamount Pass Wind Resource Area has averaged 67 a year for three decades.
The 200ft high turbines, which have been operating since the 1980s, lie in the heart of the grassy canyons that are home to one of the highest densities of nesting golden eagles in the US.
‘It would take 167 pairs of local nesting golden eagles to produce enough young to compensate for their mortality rate related to wind energy production,’ field biologist Doug Bell, manager of East Bay Regional Park District's wildlife programme, told the Los Angeles Times. ‘We only have 60 pairs,’ he added.
It began on May 29, and authorities believe it was ignited by human activity....A better question to ask, said Westerling, is whether fire-ravaged systems will be able to sustain themselves if climate change continues.Cain to join rally against climate pact - seattlepi.com
"We do know that Mother Nature is now playing with loaded dice," he said.
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain will headline a Wednesday rally in downtown New York to protest a regional global warming compact.
iCivics (formerly Our Courts) is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. iCivics is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support.[Note that the GE Foundation is listed under "supporters"] | iCivics
SHEEPMEAT producers will be slugged with thousands of dollars of extra costs should a carbon tax be passed, new research states.Ban to Run for Second Term as UN Chief Backed by Asia, U.S. - Businessweek
Data released today by the Sheepmeat Council of Australia and the National Farmers Federation shows the average sheepmeat producer would have to fork out more than $6000 in extra costs in the five years after a carbon tax was introduced.
Asked about his unmet first-term goals of ending the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan and completing an international agreement to combat climate change, Ban said he was “sorry to tell you that all these major challenges are in process that we will try to accelerate.”
He took credit for drawing attention to climate change...
The intervenors also allege that Attorney General Steve Bullock will not vigorously defend the state or represent their interests because Bullock "is himself an advocate for the very relief sought by petitioners," states the motion to intervene.[Wow, great job, scientists!!] - Scientists Discover Hidden Value of Nature
It cites Bullock's 2008 campaign material that boasted of him purchasing carbon credits to offset emissions he accrued during his campaign travels.
The true value of nature can be shown for the very first time thanks to groundbreaking research by hundreds of UK scientists.[Hooray!! In the future, every country, state, city, and company will get way more than their share of mythical green jobs!!] S. Korea aims to grab 18 pct of global green energy market by 2030
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The amenity benefits of living close to rivers, coasts and other wetlands is worth up to £1.3billion per year to the UK
[What's the per-minute cash value of the laughter of children?]
South Korea will seek to grab 18 percent of the global green energy market by 2030 by developing key technologies and creating a favorable domestic environment, the government said Tuesday.
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The ministry added that the growth could create 1.5 million new jobs in the green energy field by the target year from 13,380 engaged in related jobs as of last year.
When Australian Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett appeared in a television campaign last week calling for action on climate change and urging the public to support the carbon tax, she came under savage verbal attack from Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and the Murdoch tabloids. The papers dubbed her "Climate Cate" and accused her of being rich and well able to afford to meet the costs of a tax, leaving the "poor workers to suffer".Cate Blanchett TV ad angers climate change sceptics
The conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, attacked the advert in parliamentary question time. “People who are worth $53 million (£34 million) have a right to be heard but their voice should not be heard ahead of the ordinary working people of this country,” he said.
In 2005, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) issued an alarming warning that global warming would displace 50 million people, so-called “climate refugees,” by 2010. Last April, the UNEP was humiliated when the Asian Correspondent published an article, “What Happened to the Climate Refugees?,” noting how, from 2005-2010, populations increased in the very areas of the world that the UNEP had claimed would suffer the largest losses of people due to climate change. Shortly thereafter, the UNEP removed mention of “50 million climate refugees” from its website, and told the German periodical der Spiegel that it wasn’t responsible for the statistic.Where are the "death threats"? | Australian Climate Madness
You’d have thought the United Nations would have learned its lesson, but it’s back for more.
The vast majority of it is good old fashioned abuse (and we've all had our fair share of that - solution: you hit the delete button), but there are no death threatsDoes Cate really believe what she preaches? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
But won’t rising seas drown the island? Won’t flying there cause planet-choking emissions? Isn’t owning so many properties a crime against the fragile planet?Slash your emissions, they yelled from the jet | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Or does Cate Blanchett not believe her own eco-alarmism?
Corinne Grant then steps on a polluting plane and tweets fans she’s off:Right. I’m buggering off to France for ten weeks. (Or, as the French say, ‘Je suis boogerrang erff’. Au revoir!GetUp boss Simon Sheikh did the same. In the morning of the rallies, he told crowds we had to slash our emissions. By nightfall, he was on a jet to the US.
There’s no doubt that this alarmism is going to fade in the next few years, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t all flare up again.How do we know when we have won the “climate wars”? | ScottishSceptic
o, could e.g. “the end of WUWT” mark the end of the scam?University World News - AUSTRALIA: Death threats for climate researchers
UA chair Professor Glyn Davis said recent revelations of "systematic [What, specifically, is the evidence that these alleged threats are "systematic"?] and sustained threats to many climate change scientists were a fundamental attack upon intellectual inquiry"...Former ANU vice-chancellor and now Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, said the threats were intended to intimidate academics, "to scare them off and stop them from participating in public discussions on climate change.British industry asks government to rethink climate policy | Watts Up With That?
Some newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at the GWPFI Know Why Some Scientists Can’t Tolerate FOI Requests « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
It’s because those e-mails will make them look and sound petty and manipulative, with all those white and not-so-white lies peppered around, the fence-sitting dominating their writings, the brown-nosing, the bullying, the cult of their personality, the disdain of outsiders.
And so FOI requests can destroy a lot of the veneer of hypocritical respectability, professionalism, “cool” image of the fearless purveyor of what reality is about.
Media Matters analyzed television news guests who discussed the Environmental Protection Agency's role in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from December 2009 through April 2011. Driven largely by Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, results show that in 76 percent of those appearances, the guest was opposed to EPA regulations while 18 percent were in favor.Africa: Children rise against global warming
“We understand the changes taking place in our environment and the effects of global warming/climate change. Hence, we decided to put up five days of learning which is oriented towards instilling the right environmental habits in children. To achieve this, we drew out an outline of activities that will both educate and entertain the children”, he said.Twitter / @Andy Revkin: @drgrist Why next light bu ...
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Aside the various programmes on global warming and entertainment packages, Unilever Plc also utilized the opportunity to educate children on the need for oral hygiene.
@drgrist Why next light bulb'll last 22 yrs http://is.gd/ypm3sw (Reliability better outdo CFLs. I now mark them with date cuz die so often.Emissions rise at UK universities puts 2020 targets in doubt | Education | The Guardian
Elite Russell Group institutions among worst performers despite new link between funding and CO2 reduction
There’s a trend for radical greens to publicly threaten their opponents, to wish the power of state upon them, or to execute them for their beliefs. Clive Hamilton would have you believe only climate scientists are threatened, but the inconvenient truth is that much of the violent rhetoric comes from his own camp.Solano supervisors to begin planning for global warming - San Francisco Solano County Buzz | Examiner.com
Whether global warming is a strictly natural phenomenon or at least partially the result of human activities may still be debatable, but damage expected from rising sea levels is not.Radio Australia:Asia Pacific:Story:Aust Treasurer sells carbon tax
But the Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey is sceptical. He wants to see the full Treasury modelling.Coal Rises on Speculation Demand May Build as Reservoirs Fall - Bloomberg
HOCKEY: And here he is, going to the Press Club, talking about a carbon tax modelling and he doesn't reveal model! He doesn't release any model. He doesn't release any assumptions in the modelling, he doesn't release any detail that would be held up to scrutiny. This just adds to the confusion and uncertainty about the carbon tax, and I think Australians will just look at him and wonder, how they ended up with him as Treasurer.
European coal derivatives rose on speculation demand may strengthen in the region as countries cut nuclear output and reservoir levels fall.
At any rate, it's obvious that in the long run, and maybe even in the medium run, people should think about the ways how to make and keep the CO2 in the atmosphere elevated - as high as possible. This is a real long-term survival goal that researchers should investigate. The virtues of a higher CO2 are completely indisputable.Big push from ethanol rent seekers | JunkScience Sidebar
They found that for most of the Holocene Epoch, dating from the end of the last ice age about 11,500 years ago to the present, the Rhone Glacier has been smaller than it is today.Deception from NASA: Satellites are true cause of sea level rise « Climate Sanity
As you can see, the instant the satellite goes on line in ’93, the sea level rise rate doubles. Coincidence? I think not!Stop checking the facts: “Your Internet search has just helped kill the planet” | Watts Up With That?
This could explain a few things. Greens are against searching for information. To save the planet, only follow safe links from Joe Romm, Andrew Revkin, John Cook and RealClimate. Searching bad. Vewwy vewwy badThe Repairman: I’m here to fix your climate « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
John: The downward cycles were simply the earth’s natural variation.
Bryan: But the upward cycles are global warming?
John: Absolutely.
Bryan: No chance that the upward cycles aren’t natural variation as well?
John: Of course not! They wouldn’t be man-made then, would they?
While ancient Greek soothsayers believed they could foretell the future by reading the patterns in sprinkled salt, today's scientists have learned that they can indeed harness this invaluable mineral to foresee the future -- of Earth's climate.YouTube - Stopping the Coming Ice Age (Part 1)
In the 1970s there was increasing awareness that estimates of global temperatures showed cooling since 1945. [Via Bishop Hill]Dear Sierra Club (Canada): I Resign Over Your Anti-Environmental Wind Support — MasterResource
Editor Note: This post is indicative of growing grassroot opposition to industrial wind development from traditional left-of-center environmentalists. Note how economics and affordability is part of the argument; indeed, protecting the wallet of the little guy and gal was once a core principle of those who would otherwise call themselves traditional environmentalists.Articles: Naomi Oreskes, Conspiracy Queen
The global warming scare is rapidly collapsing. Scientists outside of the global warming bubble are pointing out the flaws in the science and a coterie of well-informed bloggers is getting out the message by bypassing the establishment media where critics' voices are generally blocked. Nature is helping because the earth and the oceans are failing to warm according to script.
That a conspiracist like Naomi Oreskes would be welcomed by the global warming scientific establishment and invited to speak at the December 2010 American Geophysical Union meeting is a symptom of increasing desperation. The global warming advocates have dug themselves into a deep hole and they can't seem to stop digging. Ironically Oreskes spoke at a meeting where Exxon-Mobil was the biggest financial contributor[ii]. Apparently it's not a conspiracy if Exxon-Mobil gives its money to the right people.
“Just do your science or you will end up collateral damage in the war, GET IT,” reads one email.Emails reveal nature of attacks on climate scientists « Graham Readfearn
“If we see you continue, we will get extremely organised and precise against you,” reads another.
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a marine scientist at the University of Queensland and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said he had agreed to the publication of some of the emails so people understand the abuse scientists face in their work.
“It’s a very small group of organised people behind these emails,” he said.
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“Whether these individuals are in the pay of special interests or not is an interesting question – it is certainly suspicious that this type of activity is ramping up as we near the conclusion of the political process regarding the carbon tax.”
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Blogger Graham Readfern said he published the emails to show how unacceptable some of the language of the debate had become.
You could consider that threats like this are heard in playgrounds every lunch time across the world and this might be so.To a climate scientist, *swearing* equals a Death Threat (no wonder these guys can’t predict the weather) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
This is sheer beef-it-up spin, making a mountain out of a molehill, clutching at straws in desperation to eek out a PR victory from the dregs of a fading scam.Climate scientists receive death threats: News24: Sci-Tech: News
There must have been more to the “death threats” than these surely?
If not, I take back any suggestion that these emails might have been purposefully done by people wanting to discredit skeptics. No organized campaign would be so pathetic.
Sydney - Climate researchers at one of Australia's top universities have been rushed to a secure location after receiving death threats, an official said on Saturday, as debate rages over plans for a carbon pollution tax.
No matter how much journalists and commentators protest that they do not support threats and violence, if what they write repeatedly incites those kinds of attack then they have to take responsibility.
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When Morano singles out a climate scientist for attack on his website he includes their email addresses and invites his followers to “get in touch”. Many of them do, with death threats.
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Like those whose opinions they value – shock jocks and television demagogues – climate deniers are disproportionately older, white, male and conservative; those who feel their cultural identity most threatened by the implications of climate change.
While the debate is superficially about the science, in truth it is about deep-rooted feelings of cultural identity. This makes deniers immune to argument. Their influence will wane only as they grow old and die.
Climate change will be “the predominant moral issue of the 21st century”, declared NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen, “comparable to Nazism faced by Churchill in the 20th century and slavery faced by Lincoln in the 19th century.”Apocalyptic alarmists usually have self interests at heart - COLE - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO
Excuse me for laughing.
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But the impression I get from this apparent lack of interest by mainstream news media is that they are finally waking up to the fact that no one cares or believes it anymore. Nearly every public opinion poll indicates widespread scepticism where the alarmists are heavily outnumbered by the sceptics.
That just leaves the truly dedicated high-flyers like Hansen, Flannery, Gore and their mates, plus a few politicians and prominent scientists who have either stuck their necks out on the issue and fear having to admit they’ve backed the wrong horse, or whose income depends on perpetuating the myth. No one else gives a damn. They have trapped themselves in a mythical world of their own making. But one thing is for sure, these guys would be great as stand-up comedians.
When a general is asked if the army should play a smaller role on the world stage, it’s hardly surprising when he demurs. A similar analysis applies to climate change experts. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called global warming “unequivocal” and human activity “very likely” its main cause. Observers reacted as if modernity’s high priest had uttered some unassailably objective truth, but climate scientists are actually the most biased players in the game. “You thought climate studies were dull,” I can hear them saying. “Well guess what? Not only is our academic discipline super cool, it’s central to the future not only of mankind, but of Planet Earth.”
As with Oxfam and Bush’s generals, I’m not accusing anybody of dishonesty, or even of being wrong. I’m simply observing that, given certain assumptions about human behavior, such “impartial” claims are predictable, and therefore suspect.
Usually reticent and soft-spoken, Mr Apa's voice erupted as he discussed the effects of climate change and pollution on Everest.Flashback: Apa Sherpa on Everest for 20th time - fighting against climate change
"The melting glaciers and the decline in snow on the summit is making the climb to the peak even more difficult," he said.
Kathmandu, Nepal – WWF Climate Ambassador and world-record holding mountaineer Apa Sherpa took his climate crusade to the top of the world yet again by unfurling a Climate Change message as he reached the Everest summit for a record 20th time this morning at 8:34 am local time.Fresnan's climb of Everest dampened by father's death - Outdoors - fresnobee.com
Unlike some years, 2011 has been remarkably safe on Mount Everest. At least 428 people have reached the summit during the spring climbing season compared to four deaths, according to EverestNews.com. In 1996, the deadliest year in the mountain's history, 15 people died.
Fossil-fuel companies have spent millions funding anti-global-warming think tanks, purposely creating a climate of doubt around the science. DeSmogBlog is the antidote to that obfuscation.Unimpressed with Willard - By Michael Walsh - The Corner - National Review Online
Then Mitt made an unforced error over “global warming,” as if he hasn’t read a thing on the subject since the Climategate e-mail scandals broke.Rep. Anthony Weiner: “Climate Change Action Will Mean Jobs, Jobs, Jobs for NYC”
[Dec. '09] “The Time For Debate is Over”
The way to bring down a modern state is to attack its energy, manufacturing and transport systems, hence the dam busters and the bombing of German railways and factories during the Second World War. Nowadays, however, developed nations are under attack from the Enemy Within, the neo-Marxist Greenies. Greenpeace, which in its inchoate form was a fairly straight environmental campaigning group, was soon taken over by political extremists and after its conversion to an apocalyptic vision lost original members such as Patrick Moore; but over time this has also happened to other mainstream parties.Mont. AG seeks rejection of climate change lawsuit - Times Union
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The attorney general's office asked the Montana Supreme Court on Monday to reject a climate lawsuit that seeks to force regulation of greenhouse gases, as a group of conservative state lawmakers said they want to intervene in the case.SoCal May See 'Worst Fire Season Ever' in 2011 - Los Angeles News - The Informer
This time, unusually cold weather throughout the Southland has allowed "a lot more vegetation" to build up without being wiped out by fires.Recent Cooling of Northern Hemisphere Mid-Latitudes Viewed from Aqua « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
For now, though, I think the tropospheric (AMSU ch. 5) data are pretty clear: there are no signs of warming in the last nine years in those regions where the strongest warming in the last 30 to 40 years has occurred, that is, in the Northern Hemisphere mid- and high-latitudes. And, there might even be signs of recent cooling over the last few years in the mid-latitudes, but whether this will persist is anyone’s guess.
Whatever changes are now occurring on a planet whose climate never stays the same must have something to do with us. How could we not be the reason?Warming 101 primer | Watts Up With That?
We’re so certain of this we’ve spent billions of dollars investigating pretty much only this explanation. Curious, isn’t it?
This article went viral when it was first published. Well worth reading:Climate Change & Violent Fantasies « NoFrakkingConsensus
Call me old-fashioned, but I think setting a good example starts with civilized, respectful debate that doesn’t involve wishing death on your opponents.Carbon tax now : Stoat
Conclusion: carbon tax good. Carbon permits bad.Solar Statistics
This work is in its infancy but it shows that there are other ways to look at solar activity that just smoothing the sunspot number count with a running mean and comparing it to the global temperature. These new results will take some time to digest. But they do throw new light on the changing behaviour of the sun and its possible link to the Earth’s temperature.
I see Karoly as less of an impartial and knowledgeable scientist and more of an advocate who carefully selects his data in order to present a certain view and seemingly has no empirical evidence to support his fundamental claim. That's a very disquieting thought given his involvement with the IPCC and his role of government advisor.Romney-directional Mitt says it’s “important” to reduce greenhouse gases and “We’re going to use our coal resources” | ThinkProgress
So we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but were going to use all of our coal, oil, and natural gas. Something for everyone.Carbon Cate buys beachfront property… in Vanuatu | Australian Climate Madness
Buying beachfront property?Michigan in EPA’s Carbon Vise - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Now if you were really concerned about climate change, as she clearly is, having badgered us all to pay more tax for no reason, why would you buy a beachfront property on an island that all the alarmists agree is one of the first in line to be swamped by the alleged sea level rises resulting from, er, climate change? And why stop at Vanuatu, go the whole hog and buy something on Tuvalu?
Detroit -- Despite voter rejection of Democrats’ radical cap-and-trade legislation at the polls last November, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hungrily eyeing the U.S. coal industry with backdoor carbon regulation.
And Michigan is first on the menu.
TREES won't blanket the rural landscape, and farmers won't initially make a killing from soil carbon - but the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) could be the platform that encourages innovation in pulling carbon from the atmosphere into land ecosystems, a new report says.
Produced by global consultancy firm AECOM for The Climate Institute, the report looked at assessments of carbon sequestration potential in the Australian landscape and concluded that the most conservative forecast was likely the best one.
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"You won't see the Murray-Darling Basin coated in trees, for many reasons, among them the fact that food production will tend to be more profitable than carbon plantings.
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The Institute is calling for the CFI to be supported by "at least" a $200 million, four-year investment in research and extension.
Snow on the summit of Mauna Kea: it’s not exactly a rare sight during a Hawaiian winter.[Owls allegedly believe in the global warming hoax]
But how about in June?
With just a few days removed from the official start of summer, the summit of the Big Island’s biggest mountain was covered by white after a passing thunderstorm dropped inches of ice at the 13,000 foot level.
owls are charismatic ambassadors that warn the world about the problems caused by climate change, writes Jim Robbins
He has a weird knack for reaching into the icebox to pull out the conventional wisdom when it’s five years past its sell-by date.
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Now he’s come out in favor of global warming not when it was actually happening (over a decade ago) but two years after the peer-review hit the fan in East Anglia, Copenhagen, and at the IPCC.
This is like watching your parents do the Macarena: It’s embarrassing and it’s dated.
Mitt had a lot going for him last time round, but he seems determined not to learn from experience. And the least that voters are entitled to in a time of crisis is a presidential candidate who’s one step ahead of the conventional pieties, not someone so out of it that he orders his political positions from the remainder bin.
Barrasso had initially signaled a pragmatic approach to climate change. Soon after he had been appointed to the Senate — in an October 2007 speech in Jackson at a climate and energy summit co-sponsored by the University of Wyoming’s Energy Resources — Barrasso warned energy producers of the inevitability of legislation to curb greenhouse gases linked to global warming, and urged them to get on board.
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But Barrasso soon changed his tune. He strongly opposed the so-called cap-and-trade bill, which would have established market mechanisms for limiting carbon emissions....In a July 2009 interview with Environment & Energy Daily, he described himself as “legislatively … on the same page” as Sen. James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who has called climate-change science “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
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Barrasso was undeterred by the NAS report. On January 31, he introduced a far-reaching bill that would block federal agencies from regulating greenhouse gases and preempt lawsuits aimed at doing the same. “This legislation puts the brakes on Washington’s efforts to institute job-crushing regulations,” he said in an op-ed (published at WyoFile and USA Today) at the time. “It is a rebuke that unelected bureaucrats badly need.” The language of the bill played down the human contribution to climate change, asserting that “the climate of the Earth is dynamic, and changes in climate are caused by a complex combination of factors.”
What do Newt Gingrich, Gov. Christie, Mr. Huntsman, and former Gov. Romney all have in common?Climate change focus of DCC adviser | Otago Daily Times Online News Keep Up to Date Local, National New Zealand & International News
Answer: They are all dead wrong in their views of climate change/global warming. Each has given credibility to the claims that human activity is significantly altering climate and creating global warming. Yet there is no observational evidence to support such a claim.
The Dunedin City Council's newest employee, sustainability adviser Michelle Hayward, took some time to gather her thoughts when asked to explain why the city should start planning for climate change.FTAdviser.com - IFAs warn over carbon credit 'boiler room'
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Dunedin's Dr Jock Allison gave his views on climate change at annual plan hearings recently, calling the science "a scam".
IFAs have raised concerns over a carbon credits brokerage based in Poland, which has been accused of pressuring vulnerable clients into making large investments and acting as a 'boiler room' by using aggressive cold calling practices.Greens view attacks as badge of honour - Politics - NZ Herald News
Jon Hill, a financial advisers with Somerset based solicitors Milford and Domor, said that an elderly client was called by CarbonTrace Solutions and that she agreed to purchase €4,000 worth of carbon credits.
Attacks on the Greens' crusade against climate change are "a badge of honour" and put them in the same company as the suffragettes and the anti-slavery movement, says Australian Greens leader Bob Brown.
An unusually cold winter that decimated native shrimp has robbed the Carolinas of a spring delicacy.Gore: Systems Define Our World
Below-normal water temperatures killed virtually all the white shrimp that overwinter in South Carolina's estuaries, and N.C. officials also report dead crustaceans.
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S.C. fishermen who caught 1.3 million pounds of white shrimp last fall are now hauling up only handfuls, said Larry DeLancey, who oversees crustacean monitoring for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.
He noted that a warming atmosphere can carry more water vapour and may leader to fewer but more destructive storms. AIR Worldwide noted Monday, for instance, that the storms and tornadoes that swept the United States in the single week of May 20 to 27 caused somewhere between $4 billion and $7 billion of insured losses to automobiles, buildings and their contents.Climate scientist warns that Keystone XL pipeline will lead to tar sands monster | The American Independent
“The destructive impact of wind increases with the cube,’’ Gore said.
Dr. James Hansen, a former NASA climatologist and one of the foremost experts on global warming, is speaking out against the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, arguing that if it isn’t rejected there will be no stopping the “tar sands monster.”Climate-change film should get critics hot under the collar
''I hope the film can sketch out a third, middle road between the denialists and the alarmists,'' [Lomborg] says. ''[Climate change] is real but it is not the end of the world and we have to fix it smartly but the real point is that today we are not willing to spend the money.
If you drew up the specs for a commerce secretary, John Bryson would seem to fit the bill...he looks like the right businessman-environmentalist for the job.Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Gasland Fraud
Just as Erin Brokovitch didn’t want to hear about scientific studies disproving her so-called cancer clusters, the director actually knew about this history and ignored it. Specifically, he said the historic information about methane in the water was “not relevant.”Healing the planet: Rock climbers travel via fossil-fueled jet to maintain wind turbines
Crayton said. He soon became accustomed to a transient lifestyle that shipped him across the country to various wind farms for weeks at a time.Congo rainforest summit stops short of commitments : Nature News
“It’s difficult work,” he said. “You receive an itinerary, jump on flight and travel to the spot. Assuming all of your materials and bags make it with you, you’ll start work the next day.”
The parties settled for a declaration of goodwill about the biodiversity, climate, economic and social importance of their regions.
The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase, according to a new climate study by Stanford University scientists.Flashback: Settled science: Can everyplace really be warming much faster than everyplace else?
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According to both the climate model analysis and the historical weather data, the tropics are heating up the fastest.
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Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most thoughtful climate [fraud] journalists, whose terrific 2006 book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, famously ends, “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”May 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations
And we’re still doing it — but now even faster than before and with a progressive President!
The SST anomalies of the East Pacific Ocean, or approximately 33% of the surface area of the global oceans, have risen very little since 1982 based on the linear trend. And between upward shifts, the SST anomalies for the rest of the world (67% of the global ocean surface area) remain relatively flat. Anthropogenic forcings are said to be responsible for most of the rise in global surface temperatures over this period, but the SST anomaly graphs of those two areas prompt a two-part question: Since 1982, what anthropogenic global warming processes would overlook the sea surface temperatures of 33% of the global oceans and have an impact on the other 67% but only in response to the significant El Niño events of 1986/87/88, 1997/98 and 2009/10?Chris Mooney | Will Republicans Attack Climate Preparedness Even at the Cost of National Security?
But honestly, if climate change is a potential threat to our homeland security, do Republicans really want to prevent the department of Homeland Security from assessing that risk?Wouldn't it be prudent to also spend a few hundred billion dollars to assess the risk of atmospheric argon?
Australian climate change advisers have warned that nothing short of securing an effective global agreement to tackle climate change can save the [Great Barrier] reefGreat Barrier Reef, North Queensland, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is around 18 million years of age in the north and 2 million Years old in the south, with the existing reef system being between 10,000 and 6000 years old.
The challenge faced by the IPCC is significant. Under the adopted policy it is inconceivable that its current chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, could continue to serve.Consumerism trumps the gains of green products - Baltimore Sun
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What will the IPCC do? There is no easy choice. But at this point, does anyone really care?
What if "green" cars made pollution worse, not better? What if they increased greenhouse gas emissions instead of decreasing them? Preposterous, you say? Well, consider what's happened in Sweden.Chevy Dealers Scamming Taxpayers on Volt Sales - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Through generous subsidies, Sweden aggressively pushed its citizens to trade in their old cars for energy-efficient replacements (hybrids, clean diesel vehicles, cars that run on ethanol). Sweden has been so successful in this initiative that it leads the world in per-capita sales of "green" cars. To everyone's surprise, however, greenhouse gas emissions from Sweden's transportation sector are up.
Question, however. Who are the idiots paying up to $60,000 for a Volt? Any chance the buyers are government agencies?
Automobile magazine ranks the Cruze 5th out of the 6 cars they tested in the class.Run, Sarah, Run: Why a Palin Candidacy Would be Apocalypse Now for the GOP, but Good News for Climate [Bedwetters] | ThinkProgress
First if Palin ran for the nomination and won, Obama would be free to actually talk about the energy and climate issue in an intelligent fashion. [Obama isn't free to do that now?] He could even travel to Alaska to talk about the devastating climate change that is hitting her home state.2011 Still Cool
This shows that 2011 has had an exceptionally cold start to the year – possibly the coldest for over a decade. January is the 15th coldest, February the 13th, March, the 14th and April the 9th.
More than 3,000 participants from 183 countries are attending the Bonn talks in preparation for the UN climate conference to be held in Durban, South Africa, starting on 28 November.
The Australian Federal police said that it was aware of the threats but had yet to receive a complaint.
Prof David Koroly [sic], of the University of Melbourne's school of Earth science, told the ABC that he receives threats whenever he is interviewed by the media.
"It is clear that there is a campaign in terms of either organised or disorganised threats to discourage scientists from presenting the best available climate science on television or radio," he said.
UN scientists have said that unless CO2 emissions are hugely reduced, average global temperatures could climb 7.2 to 9.0 F by 2100, effectively compressing the PETM spike onto a scale of hundreds, rather than thousands of years.
If the PETM was a climate change "squeeze," while the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 10 million years earlier was a "punch," we are "probably closer to the punch than the squeeze," Kump said.
Romney is just saying what every serious GOP contender will have to say, and what the best voice conservatives have on the subjectWhy Americans Don’t Buy Global Warming (Part I of II) · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader
few Americans understand that the melting polar ice caps are actually causing our winters to be colder.
Rare black grouse are fighting back this year after numbers tumbled to an all-time low in 2010, the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has said.Eyewitness News: Heavy rains to hit parts of Johannesburg
Numbers of male black grouse in northern England had climbed to 1,200 in 2007, but cold and rainy summers in 2007 and 2008, followed by the extremely harsh winter in 2009/10, saw the population decline to just 500 last year.
The SA Weather Service has warned of unseasonal heavy rains in parts of Gauteng this week as well as bitter cold temperatures.Wayne Swan says income will grow after carbon tax | Herald Sun
Johannesburg Emergency Services Nana Radebe said it is also concerned that the bitter cold may cause fires.
"As Treasurer, I refuse to let this country become an old-world, high-polluting technological backwater," Mr Swan said.
the festival-goers' journeys to the 500 gigs that take place each summer remains the toughest issue. The 5 million ticket holders overwhelmingly choose car travel, except in city centres, and this makes up 68% of the festival industry's footprint.PAPER: Activist calls for forcibly tattooing ‘climate change’ deniers… » The Florida Cracker
What’s funny is his tattoo would say “Global Warming” but now since that hoax has been exposed, he wants to be know for “global climate change”The amazing melting bear
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Global Climate Change — the new mantra of the envo-fascists and government grants.
If he were old enough.. his forehead would say.
ICE AGE
another lasted three months in wintry TorontoSo what will you do Monday? - Achenblog - The Washington Post
I should note that I did not personally contribute to a low-carbon future this weekend. I had a road trip. I was a consumer-culture person. I made huge batches of food. It is possible I personally caused about a one-inch rise in sea level. Maybe a couple of extinctions. (Because of me, andouille sausage is now listed under the Endangered Species Act as “Threatened.”)
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I’m told by well-placed sources that college liberals don’t like the cap-and-trade idea because it still allows carbon emissions. It’s not a ban. But you have to work with legislative reality. For some reason, urgency on climate change legislation has diminished. Somewhere along the line, the debate shifted, and now even cap-and-trade seems to be moribund in Congress. Lawmakers aren’t doing anything as far as I can tell (correct me if I’m wrong). The planet continues to heat up — but somehow, fake controversies like “Climategate” suck up all the oxygen in the room.
The bottom line is that this is the same song and dance that has been played for decades now – we are being played like a rented violin… abusively. Nothing will be able to replace oil for fuels and byproducts. To ration oil and other fuels when there is more than abundant supplies available, is anything but logical. It is all about eco-guilt and manipulating the fuel markets for a hundred reasons. The sooner America wakes up to the game being played, the quicker we will come out of the ongoing global depression. Additional taxes and regulations will only exacerbate the problem.Australian climate change scientists receive death threats as debate heats up - Telegraph
The threats, which included sexual assault, sexual attacks on family members and public smear campaigns, were so serious and so explicit that the Australian Federal Police have been called in to investigate.Death threats sent to top climate scientists - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
[June 4] The Australian Federal Police says it is aware of the issue, but there is no investigation underway.
Average ice extent for May 2011 was 12.79 million square kilometers (4.94 million square miles). This is 210,000 square kilometers (81,000 square miles) above the previous record low for the month, set in May 2004
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Arctic weather in the next few months will be a critical factor in how much ice remains at the end of the melt season. New research led by James Screen at the University of Melbourne shows that the storms that move northwards into the Arctic from the lower latitudes during summer strongly influence sea ice extent at the end of summer. Years with dramatic ice loss, such as 2007, have been associated with comparatively warm, calm, and clear conditions in summer that have encouraged ice melt. Summers with slow melt rates are opposite and tend to be stormier than average. The number of storms influences how warm, windy and cloudy the Arctic summer is.
Other examples of the Shut Up, they explained prefer censorship over debate.
Al Gore himself opined the global warming debate was over (audio at link).
The Union of Concerned Scientists want Sean Hannity fired, because having his voice silenced is easier than proving your case.
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Students in journalism at American University determined that if you must debate global warming, things will go easier if skeptics aren’t included.
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The University of Virginia has spent $500,000 to prevent Michael Mann’s work being released.Not complying with FOIA requests is par for the course for warmist scientists. Recall what Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit at UEA said:The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyoneCensorship and left-leaning causes are no strangers because it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
BONN, Germany (Reuters) - U.N. talks have run out of time to meet a December 2012 deadline to put in place a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, the U.N.'s top climate official said on Monday.Natural Disasters Displace Millions Last Year
To decide new targets with equal legal force to Kyoto, countries would have to ratify them in national parliaments, said Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s climate secretariat.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres called the issue of climate-related displacement "the defining challenge of our times" and criticized the international community for lacking the political will to reduce to pace of climate change.C3: Newest Peer-Reviewed Study: Experts Find That IPCC Climate Models Are Basically Worthless
"There is increasing evidence to suggest that natural disasters are growing in frequency and intensity and that this is linked to the longer-term process of climate change," Guterres said.
A new study by experts confirms what the majority of scientists are now reluctantly admitting: the IPCC climate models are worthless when used for future climate prognostications.
...the over-all trend toward more extreme weather follows from the heating of the earth. ...Since the midterm elections, Obama has barely mentioned climate change, and just about every decision that his Administration has made on energy and the environment has been wrong....It may be beyond our power to control the climate, but we can determine it.Revkin.net - Elizabeth Kolbert of New Yorker uses Obama’s...
Join a live chat with Elizabeth Kolbert about extreme weather on Monday, June 6, at 3 P.M. E.T.: http://j.mp/KolbLive
We were open for skiing this past weekend in Aspen, the huge snowpack providing an opportunity for true fanatics to shorten the gap between spring and winter.
As an executive at a ski resort concerned about climate change, this is bittersweet to me. At the same time that skiers in T-shirts ecstatically carve slush turns, downstream communities like Basalt and Carbondale are bracing for record flooding, something most climatologists have long predicted as a result of warming.
As a skier, what worries me most about climate change isn't the loss of snow — indeed, it's possible that a warmer, wetter atmosphere will produce bigger winter storms.
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The science tells us that one of the consequences of climate disruption is a world like Cormac McCarthy described in his novel "The Road," a pure survival society, stripped of discretionary pursuits, stripped even of schools and hospitals. The fear is that emergent challenges — floods, droughts, storms, threats to food and water supply, damage to infrastructure — will trump all else.
But flourishing societies have always emphasized "superfluous" aspects, like arts, culture and sports, which represent the leading edge of human thought and are catalysts for creative change in all arenas.
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In a world beset by problems like debt and poverty, war and disease, the ski industry can be criticized as unnecessary and wasteful. And skiing seems a likely candidate for the family budget's chopping block when climate constraints bear down on economies and individuals, as droughts, fires and floods tend to do.
Coastal areas aren't the only places that will feel the effects. As people get pushed out of their homes, they will move elsewhere, putting extra burdens on the communities that receive them.
"These places that are impacted are not social or demographic islands," Curtis said. There are "potential ripple effects throughout the United States."
Studies like this one should help communities decide where and how to build homes, schools, roads and other structures, said Deborah Balk, a demographer at the City University of New York's Institute of Demographic Research.
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