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Eat Kangaroo Meat To Boost Health And Environment, Aussies ToldResearchers in South Australia recently announced exciting new work confirming the Tamar wallaby has special bacteria in its digestive system which causes it to emit negligible levels of methane. Cattle and sheep on the other hand belch methane by the tonne, making them a significant source of greenhouse gas pollution.
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Seriously, though, rather than playing God with the stomachs of cattle and sheep, why don’t we celebrate the fact we have an extraordinary resource already which offers an immediate part of the solution to global warming?
Australian company proposes killing 'farting camels' due to global warming fearsThe kill-a-camel suggestion is floated in a paper distributed by Australia's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, as part of consultations for reducing the country's carbon footprint.
Green group claims: "triple demand for print" to halt climate change A UK-based group that works to promote print and paper wants large tracts of Australian forestry for its "unpopular" theory that increasing printing can actually save the planet.
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However, FOPAP has claimed that because forestry captures CO2 out of the atmosphere, increasing tree planting, paper manufacturing and printing would trap carbon and reduce climate change.
According to FOPAP, "if the demand for print were to treble over the next 100 years, global warming could be brought to a halt".
2007: [Warmist] Soros buys Halliburton | FP PassportNormally, I'm willing to overlook the hypocrisy of the liberal elite. If Al Gore and his Hollywood cronies want to fly around on gas-guzzling, atmosphere-polluting private jets while railing against global climate change, I'm willing to overlook it.
But the latest move by globe trotting, hyper-liberal billionaire George Soros borders on being too much. According to papers filed with the SEC, in the fourth quarter of 2006 Soros purchased nearly 2 million shares of ... hold your breath ... Halliburton.
Halliburton: Information from Answers.comHalliburton (pronounced /ˈhælɨbɜrtən/; NYSE: HAL) is the world's second largest[6] oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries.
Joe Romm Says Joisey Shore Could Disappear! Everybody Panic! » Pirate's CoveHave you had the occasion to visit Joe Romm’s Climate Progress blog lately? Would it surprise you that it is now a formal part of the far left Think Progress, which is itself a part of the far left George Soros funded Center for American Progress? But, don’t worry, it’s really all about “science,” having nothing to do with far left progressive politics
Carbon tax won't cut power use: Barnett"I don't think it will work. I just don't think it will affect consumer behaviour," he told Sydney radio jock Alan Jones in a program broadcast from Perth.
"Electricity prices will go up, again that will affect the cost of living but will people use electricity less? No, I don't think so."
Why are natural disasters linked to climate change? Answers from a public relations convention « Shub Niggurath ClimateThe only solution, the report concludes is to have a “SWAT team” of public relations personnel who will “ready to go into action immediately” as a disaster occurs, and immediately link the disaster to ‘climate change’ across a wide variety of media platforms. This would serve the twin purposes of swiftly capturing the sphere of information, and gaining mileage afforded by reaching minds in a vulnerable state.
Record highs? – NOAA staffers are beginning to doubt the accuracy of the measurement system | Watts Up With That?While Joe Romm squawks about record highs being “obscenely hot” over at Think-Climate Progress, there’s a quiet bit of questioning going on within NOAA about the veracity of the surface temperature measurements, particularly related to ASOS stations at airports, which have made up a significant number of recent record high temperatures in the USA in June.
Below is an extraordinary interchange between Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., and Greg Carbin, of the NOAA Storm Prediction Center.
Milne confirms: the tax won’t push us to renewables | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogDeputy Greens leader Christine Milne is just the latest to confirm that this carbon dioxde tax won’t change the climate.
Carbon chaos in Canberra | Climate SpectatorThere is good reason why the government did not release the details of its carbon pricing package before the weekend. Broad agreement with the Greens and the independents may well have been reached on the key parameters, but an absolute bun-fight was continuing on the details.
Some accounts paint a picture of chaos in the corridors, as lobbyists and MPs and company folk suddenly realised, when Prime Minister Julia Gillard set down this Sunday as Carbon Day, that “OMG! They are going to do it,” and dived into the scrum to eke out an exemption or an extra dollar in compensation.
Return of “The Plug” | Climate SkepticI don’t think there is anything we could do with a bigger bang for the buck than to reduce particulate emissions from Asian coal. This is FAR easier than CO2 emissions reductions — its something we have done in the US for nearly 40 years.
Chris Landsea and the Moral Midgets « NoFrakkingConsensusKevin Trenberth, who is not a hurricane expert, had participated in a press conference in which the media and the public were led to believe that a link exists between global warming and more intense hurricanes. When Landsea protested to the IPCC that this was improper, especially given the fact that Trenberth was in charge of the hurricane section of the climate bible then being prepared, he was blown off
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds temperatures and precipitation were higher 1000 years agoA paper published last week in the journal Climate of the Past examines the climate of central China over the past 1800 years using two different types of proxies. The paper finds higher temperatures and precipitation were present during the Medieval Warming Period (960-1100 AD) than at the end of the 20th century. This paper adds to the published work of 986 scientists who have documented that the Medieval Warming Period was as hot or hotter than the present and was a global phenomenon. This study also shows both the rate and magnitude of the rise in temperature from the year ~ 700- 880 AD was much greater than over a comparable period including the 20th century.
Car Wars: The Empire Strikes Luxurymakers - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review OnlineElectrics are simply inferior to high-performance gas engines. Take Tesla’s $120,000 Roadster sports car. Though impressive in performance, it is less capable than the similar Lotus Elise — which costs half as much. That’s one reason the Roadster is going out of production this year.
These Exercise Machines Turn Your Sweat Into Electricity - IEEE SpectrumStill, might this be a reasonable way for a gym to offset at least some of its electricity use? Let's assume that the average piece of exercise equipment is in use 5 hours a day, 365 days a year. If each patron generates 100 watts while using it, that machine creates some 183 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. Commercial power costs about 10 cents per kilowatt-hour on average in the United States, so the electricity produced in a year from one machine is worth about US $18 dollars.
NASA Scientist to Guarantee Global Warming in July 12 Talk at Cal PolyGlobal warming is all but guaranteed, judging by data being gathered now about Earth’s ocean temperatures, according to Vasquez. Per cubic centimeter, oceans store 1,000 times more heat than air, and ocean temperature is a major indicator of climate change.
Obama admin funds $200K poll to psych-out Republicans on climate | JunkScience.comThe poll was funded by a September 2010 grant from the Obama administration’s National Science Foundation in the amount of $200,000.
Isn’t it nice that the Obama administration is trying to help Republicans get elected? Very post-partisan.
Climate is on coffee agenda | Worcester StandardAtmosFear is the latest Cafechurch event being held at Costa Coffee on the High Street at 7.30pm and will look at some of the key issues surrounding climate change.
Heartland Institute's Climate Contrarians Enjoy Media Platform | Media Matters for AmericaIn his closing remarks, Bast said: "I am absolutely convinced that if you open the hood and look at the science on climate change, you're going to come away convinced that the science is very sketchy, very uncertain, and as a result it doesn't justify the kind of public policies that are being advanced."
2009: U.S. Court Rules Yellowstone Grizzlies Are 'Threatened' - NYTimes.comIn a 46-page decision issued in Montana District Court, Judge Donald W. Molloy ruled that existing regulatory mechanisms outside the E.S.A. were inadequate to protect the bears, and that the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately consider the impacts of global warming and other factors on food sources for the grizzly.
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Judge Molloy also pointed to the decline of whitebark pine nuts, a key source of nutrition for the Yellowstone populations of grizzly bears, concluding that the science relied on by the Fish and Wildlife Service “does not support its conclusion that declines in the availability of whitebark pine will not negatively affect grizzly bears.”
Although the decision can be appealed by the Fish and Wildlife Service, Doug Honnold, an attorney with Earthjustice, an environmental law firm representing the plaintiffs, was optimistic.
“Now that Yellowstone grizzlies are again listed as a threatened species, the federal government can develop a new recovery plan for their protection that takes into account the ravages of global warming,” Mr. Honnold said.
[October 2010]: Yellowstone grizzly population is at its highest in decades - latimes.comBOZEMAN, Mont. — Grizzly bear numbers in and around Yellowstone National Park have hit their highest level in decades, driving increased conflicts with humans as some bears push out of deep wilderness and into populated areas.
Scientists from a multi-agency research team announced Wednesday that at least 603 grizzlies now roam the Yellowstone area of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. That's more than three times the number in 1975, when hunting was outlawed and the species placed on the endangered list.
But more bears also means more run-ins with humans -- although bear biologists are quick to point out that visitors to the region are more likely to die in a vehicle crash than a grizzly mauling.
Two people have been killed by grizzlies in the Yellowstone region this year: one west of Cody, Wyo., and another near Cooke City, Mont.
[July 7, 2011] Griz sow kills man in Yellowstone Park | Great Falls Tribune | greatfallstribune.comYellowstone and nearby surrounding areas are home at least 600 grizzlies and some say more than 1,000. Once rare to behold, grizzlies have become an almost routine cause of curious tourists lining up at Yellowstone's roadsides at the height of summer season.
One good result of a mad tax | thetelegraph.com.auNow Windsor is supporting a carbon tax which will impose intolerable burdens for zero environmental gain.
In fact, the irony is that sulphur dioxide pollution from China's ever-expanding dirty coal-fired power stations is said to have stopped global warming by creating an insulating blanket which blocks the sun's rays and helps keep the Earth cool, scientists revealed this week. Now, sulphur particles are real pollution which cause acid rain, provoke asthma and make people sick, as opposed to "carbon" - the trick name for carbon dioxide emissions, which are not actually pollution at all.
But we are in for the scam of a low-carbon future, thanks to Windsor and Oakeshott.
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But people will wake up. There will be a generation of voters allergic to Greens and independents.
Packaging Europe - Bottle deposits would deliver thousands of Green JobsThe Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) today (Wednesday) launches new research demonstrating how well over 4,000 full time equivalent green jobs could be created by a UK deposit refund system (DRS) for drinks containers.
Today In History: It's now been four years since the peak of global warming hysteriaIn 2007, more than 150 musical artists rocked the world in the global environmental awareness concert dubbed Live Earth. Former Vice President Al Gore was among the organizers of the 24-hour, seven-continent global event which delivered music and messages designed to raise awareness about global warming. Featuring performers like Madonna, the Police, Shakira, Linkin Park, Kanye West, Bon Jovi and Alicia Keys, the concerts were held in New Jersey, London, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, Washington, D.C., Sydney, Rio de Janeiro. The little-known band Nunatak even played a short set from Antarctica before 17 researchers to fulfilll Gore's promise to hold concerts on all seven continents on the date 7-7-07.
Greens' hot air blows a hole in their credibility | thetelegraph.com.au1. Among a sea of stupidity from Canberra comes Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Young wanting to abandon the steel industry in Whyalla and replace it with wind turbines. The 400 people required for the project would leave the 3600 working in steel looking for work. Whyalla's other 20,000 residents could start basket-weaving to sustain the town. Or maybe ride exercise bikes to generate power when the wind stops blowing.
» Utility Acknowledges Millions in Ratepayer Charges to Pay for Green Gestures - Big GovernmentYou want to fund some ‘green’ scheme, or build a bunch of windmills with their extraordinarily expensive transmission schemes on top and then an otherwise redundant gas plant for (chuckle) ‘backup’?
Great. But you can only pass through to the ratepayer what it would have cost to build something that works. The waste and folly all comes out of your and your shareholders’ hide.
Mother of all polar bears from Ireland: study - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)The Arctic's dwindling population of polar bears all descend from a single mama brown bear which lived 20,000 to 50,000 years ago in present-day Ireland, according to a new study.
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The analysis of genetic material inherited only through females also showed that brown and polar bears mated periodically over the last 100,000 years.
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There are currently 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears left in the wild, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Bear Hunting Caught in Global Warming Debate - New York Times [2006] They note that there are more than 20,000 polar bears roaming the Arctic, compared to as few as 5,000 40 years ago, before Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed to strong restrictions on trophy hunting in the 1970's.
WaPo : Global Temperatures Are A Proxy For Pollution | Real ScienceThe EPA no longer needs to track air pollution – they can just look at Hansen’s temperature graphs.
RealClimate: How Soon is now?[Willie Soon] was a recent speaker (from 37.20) at the 2011 Heartland Institute conference, and can be counted on to produce a contrarian take on any particular issue that anyone might care about – ranging from climate, to mercury in fish and polar bear population dynamics.
This is Lincolnshire | Scientists back prediction of colder winters by amateur astronomerTOP scientists are supporting a North Hykeham man's prediction of colder winters to come.
As reported in the Echo, amateur astronomer Philip Norton forecast last December's harsh winter way back in the 1980s.
The development engineer bases his predictions on sunspot activity.
Aussie skiiers are loving this cold, cold winter | thetelegraph.com.auIT has been a bumper start to the ski season this year with a 1.2m dump burrying buildings and lodges. Perisher CEO Peter Brulisauer walked out of his second floor office in the Perisher Centre on Thursday and skied off the roof.
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It’s now the deepest snow for this time of year since 1990, with 158.9cm of natural snow measured at Spencers Creek, between Charlotte Pass and Perisher Valley, on Thursday.
Unfair and balanced: Is U.S. reporting too soft on climate skeptics? | GristFor Peter Vandermeersch, editor-in-chief at the traditionally conservative daily NRC Handelsblad in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, there is no debate about climate change.
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"There's almost no discussion about it," agreed Wouter Verschelden, editor-in-chief at the progressive daily De Morgen in Brussels, Belgium. "The nonbelievers have been marginalized, and they aren't taken seriously anymore. We don't have to convince our readers anymore of the fact that there is climate change, and that it's caused by humans."
"He said, she said" journalism
According to Vandermeersch and Verschelden, who are both alumni of Columbia University's vaunted School of Journalism in New York, American news media still make the mistake of giving climate skeptics a disproportionate voice, and perpetuating a debate that has long been settled among scientists.
"In a sense, you're lying to your readers," says Verschelden. "You're creating a 'he said, she said' story, and looking for an argument that just doesn't always exist."
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"I think the objectivity standard that U.S. newspapers apply has probably outlived its usefulness on this particular issue," said Mark Neuzil, a professor of environmental communication at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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The tipping point came in 2005, said Boykoff, with Hurricane Katrina, and the release of former Vice President Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
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[Cristi Kempf] Ice is melting, animals are dying -- that kind of thing.
University of St. Thomas : Mark Neuzilmrneuzil@stthomas.edu
The Reference Frame: Chris Mooney defends growth, becomes a hereticChris Mooney has always been a kind of opportunist who figured out that it was possible to make profit out of spreading the environmentalist delusions - but he has arguably never believed them. If he were a politician, he would be the ultimate insider in Washington D.C.
Such a position has worked for years but it no longer works. Environemtalism and its most radical reincarnation, global warming alarmism, is gradually regaining the status of a fringe movement promoted by the lunatics. Mooney has clearly not noticed the difference yet.
Quote of the week – CRU is now a candidate for publication in the Journal of Irreproducible Results | Watts Up With That?In Parliament’s enquiries into the Climategate Affair, Graham Stringer MP was surprised to learn that the CRU team couldn’t produce the same result twice.
“When I asked Oxburgh if [Keith] Briffa [CRU academic] could reproduce his own results, he said in lots of cases he couldn’t,” Stringer told us. “That just isn’t science. It’s literature. If somebody can’t reproduce their own results, and nobody else can, then what is that work doing in the scientific journals?”
UN reveals its master plan for destruction of global economy – Telegraph BlogsRationing and limits to growth are not the answer. The UN is a menace and we listen to its eco-fascist ravings at our peril.
E.P.A. Chief Stands Firm as Tough Rules Loom - NYTimes.com No other cabinet officer is in as lonely or uncomfortable a position as Ms. Jackson, who has been left, as one adviser put it, behind enemy lines with only [junk] science, the law and a small band of loyal lieutenants to support her.
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“Any E.P.A. director sits at the intersection of some very important issues — air pollution, clean water, and whether businesses can survive,” said Ms. Jackson, a chemical engineer trained at Tulane and Princeton Universities and a former director of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. “No one knows this job unless they’ve sat in the seat.”
Kilez The Climate Science Rapper Mobilizes Youth To Think For ThemselvesMore about More. Below is a short interview with Austrian rapper Kilez More.
More, 22, recently released a rap song/video called Climate Change (Climate Lies, Climate Swindle…), which features the IPCC, CRU and the hockey stick. Now how does a young rap artist know so much about such a complex issue, let alone write a skeptic rap song about it for the youth?
The song indeed is mobilizing the youth, not in masses, but it is a budding challenge. For that Kilez is becoming a sort of enfant terrible, persona non grata in Europe – who dares speak truth to power. I’ve since translated the German text to English, and Kilez has added the English subtitles to his Youtube video
Driest place on Earth: Atacama desert in Chile buried under feet of snow | Watts Up With That?The Atacama desert in Chile described as the driest place on Earth just got walloped by an extreme cold front (climate change) and was buried in snow.
The EPA’s Ethanol Boondoggle - By James Sensenbrenner - Planet Gore - National Review OnlineCongress may have finally recognized the absurdity of subsidizing the ethanol industry, but, unfortunately for America, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has its own agenda.
Cartoon world of Global Warming — watch the message unfold « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and taxWhat a great video. Enjoy. Skill and talent meet a roomful of science.
The Romans Had No Word For Glacier | Real ScienceI wonder why?
Widespread flood threat to continue through summer Many factors set the stage for this year’s ongoing flood threat, including persistent rainfall last summer and fall, a large winter snowpack across much of the upper Midwest, an unusually cool and wet spring adding additional snowpack in the higher elevations of the Rockies and further saturated soil in lower elevations and in the northern Plains, and above-normal to record river levels for this time of year in the at-risk areas.
Thick Ice Area Has More Than Doubled Since 2008 | Real ScienceAccording to US Navy PIPS2 data, the area of ice greater than 2.5 metres has more than doubled since the same date in 2008.
Cryosat 2 recently confirmed the accuracy of PIPS2.
C3: May, 1926: Explorers Find Open Water At North Pole --- July, 2011: North Pole Solid IceExplorers floating over the North Pole during May 1926 "saw much open water at the North Pole" from the dirigible Norge.
In contrast, the July 6, 2011 view from a satellite that reveals no open water at North Pole
Lord Monckton hung up on in heated interview with ABC Radio | Herald SunABC radio presenter Adam Spencer has been told to "shut up" and stop being childish during a heated on-air exchange with climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton.
In what was more a debate than an interview, Spencer hung up on his guest before calling back to resume the interview.
The tension began when Spencer asked Lord Monckton about his claims that he is a Nobel Laureate.
Peter Foster: Snoopy and the Green Baron | FP Comment | Financial PostThe airlines’ opposition to buying allowances marks yet another blow to the ETS, which has been the cornerstone of the EU’s “market-oriented” solution to the threat of man-made climate catastrophe. However, as Nigel Lawson, former British chancellor of the exchequer and founder of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, has pointed out, the ETS is not a market mechanism at all but a “government-controlled, administrative rationing system,” which is subject to horse trading and prone to corruption.
The ETS is already reeling under the burden of cyberscandals and wild swings in prices. Its putative U.S. equivalent, which was staunchly promoted by the Obama administration, has been killed stone dead, leading to the shutdown last year of the Chicago Climate Exchange. Indeed, outside the EU, emissions trading is virtually non-existent.
The ETS was rigged from the start since European countries all sought to set their own caps as high as possible so as not to cripple their domestic industries. This meant way too many credits and an initial price collapse. The market has since been beset by fraud.
Airport expansion - 'The prospects are exciting for holidaymakers' - Edinburgh Evening NewsJUST when it seemed that no- one in Edinburgh was ready to predict dramatic progress anymore, up pops Edinburgh Airport with forecasts of a startling increase in air services.
An extra three million passengers flying in and out of the Capital before the end of the decade thanks to an extra 25,000 flights a year is the prediction – and a doubling of both within 30 years.
Media-driven decision making - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Media companies are not supposed to operate as public relations or lobbying firms. Rather, they should be focussing on the business of getting and reporting the news. Recently, however, the lines have been blurred with some media organisations playing a more active role in campaign journalism advocating strongly in support of issues ranging from climate change to gambling.
A quarter of Brits are living in fuel poverty as energy bills rocket - mirror.co.ukConsumer Focus warned as many as 6 million could be forced to choose between a hot meal or heating their homes this winter.
Fuel poverty hits middle classesAnn Robinson, director of consumer policy at uSwitch.com, says: “Rocketing energy prices mean that the middle classes are no longer immune to social ills such as fuel poverty. The fact is that we can now find the fuel poor amongst all walks of life and in all types of households. Start to factor in housing costs such as mortgage and rental payments and we are left with the shocking image of a third of all British households living in fuel poverty.
“The sad truth is that consumers are paying a heavy price for this country’s disjointed, incoherent and unaffordable energy policy.
The 'green tax' ruse that punishes us all | Mail OnlineLast year the Government raised an astonishing £40billion from so-called ‘green taxes’ — with motorists alone paying a record £27billion in fuel duty.
These punitive charges were justified by ministers on the grounds the country needs to do its part to ‘save the environment’ and change the polluting behaviour of drivers and big business.
Yet, as a committee of MPs reveals today, the money was simply swallowed up by the Treasury like any other tax rather than being spent on better public transport or reducing carbon emissions.
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Meanwhile, somewhat inconveniently for the green lobby, scientists have just concluded that we are headed for a global temperature drop.
For all our sakes, ministers must drop their dogma about climate change — the science of which remains shrouded in doubt — and, wherever possible, give the country a break from green taxation.
[Mooney, don’t you even know the dogmas of your own religion?] | The Intersection | Discover Magazine31. DirkH Says:
July 6th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Too amusing. Mooney says no, we’re not communists, and various warmists tell him he should put his growth where the sun don’t shine. Mooney, don’t you even know the dogmas of your own religion. Go get him boys. He’s befouling Gaia. ;-)
Love warmists fightin’ each other.
32. Chris Mooney Says:
July 6th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
@31 yes. i guess my side loses this round, thanks to this thread. depressing
Jellyfish shut down another power station amid claims climate change has caused population surge | Mail Online The influx was thought to be down to onshore winds bringing more jellyfish into contact with bathers.
Shelving of energy bill shows government is not serious about its green agenda | Meg Hillier | Environment | guardian.co.ukDelay means that the 'green deal' – the centrepiece of David Cameron's climate change policy – has been sidelined
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The reality is that the government is not serious about its green agenda. In recent weeks they have scrapped the zero-carbon homes scheme, abandoned plans for a network of electric car charging stations, and now delayed the green deal. A recent survey of readers of the ConservativeHome website named the green deal as one of their most disappointing policies. Only Decc ministers within government ever talk about climate change. As we see from this turn of events, that is just hot air.
• Meg Hillier MP is the shadow energy secretary
Mantria Corporation: The biggest green Ponzi scheme ever? | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkIt probably seemed too good to be true: A corporation promising to build a carbon-negative residential community powered by a groundbreaking new type of alternative energy, all of which would yield investors returns of anywhere from 17 to "infinite" percent.
It turns out it was too good to be true, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which on Nov. 17, 2009, charged Philadelphia-based Mantria Corporation with securities fraud, calling it a "green investment Ponzi scheme." But by that time, Mantria investors — most of them from the Denver area — had already been bilked out of a reported $54 million.
Writer James Carlson outlines the rise and fall of Mantria in the July issue of Denver-based 5280 magazine.
According to Carlson, most of the blame for Mantria's Ponzi scheme lies with employee Wayde McKelvy, the company's Colorado-born lead investment broker who told the reporter he was in it for "the game," not the money — although the money went into McKelvy's extravagant lifestyle, heavy drinking and a steady stream of prostitutes.
Think It's Getting Hotter? Think Again - Investors.comGlobal warm-ongers have been on shaky ground for some time, and these recent findings don't help their cause. True believers such as Al Gore and agenda-driven scientists will continue to talk about the "warmest year ever." But most of the hot air can be traced to activists yammering to a tuned-out public.
If meteorologist Anthony Watts is right and 2011 ends up being cooler than any year of the last decade, the alarmists' grip on the public's attention, and their ability to raise money, will slip even further. This is one way movements die, especially those that had no substance to begin with.
Coal Stops Global Warming? - Investors.comBefore we jump off an economic cliff through regulation and energy deprivation, we need a clear and scientific answer to the question: Where the heck is global warming?
Climate change: Montana's flooding, oil spill spotlight fossil fuel dangers - Warmist Naomi Klein - latimes.comAnd we do know that Montana's flooding was caused by record rainfall and by runoff from heavy snowfall. Though climate deniers (some of them funded by Exxon) love to point to freak snowstorms as "proof" that the planet isn't warming, the opposite is often true: In some places, the warmer the air, the more water vapor accumulates in the atmosphere and the more moisture comes down in the form of rain or snow.
The Packer - Cold snap in Chile puts summer citrus outlook in question - NewsDavid Mixon, chief marketing officer for Seald Sweet LLC, Vero Beach, Fla., said Chile’s citrus-growing areas had an unseasonable cold snap over the July Fourth weekend. Until the industry can measure the damage done to its crop, which can take a week or even 10 days, the forecast of exports to the U.S. is clouded.
Mixon said the temperatures recorded there indicate an “extremely high” likelihood of damage to the citrus, but “it’s hard to predict how the fruit will react, and there’s a lot of variables.”
Dissecting the Carbon Tax | EnergyBizCarbon taxes might be "better" than cap-and-trade or regulations, but then, in a train-wreck, losing a hand is better than losing a forearm, which is better than losing an entire arm. Most would rather skip the wreck. Even in flush economic times, carbon taxes would be bad policy. When economies are already laboring under too much spending, and are at diminishing-return levels of taxation, implementing a carbon tax would be a mistake.
Carbon tax advertising blitz to start next week, Julia Gillard says | Herald SunA TAXPAYER-funded $12 million advertising campaign to sell the carbon tax will begin before the legislation is introduced into Parliament.
Climate change will increase threat of war, Chris Huhne to warn | Environment | guardian.co.ukUK climate secretary to tell defence experts that conflict caused by climate change risks reversing the progress of civilisation
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Climate change will lead to an increased threat of wars, violence and military action against the UK, and risks reversing the progress of civilisation, the energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne will say on Thursday, in his strongest warning yet that the lack of progress on greenhouse gas emission cuts would damage the UK's national interests.
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He will warn that climate change risks reversing the progress made in prosperity and democracy since the industrial revolution, arguing that the results of global warming could lead to a return to a "Hobbesian" world in which life is "nasty, brutish and short".
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : How I Learned to Stop Considering Evidence and Love the Warming AgendaThis is done in the name of what, again?
The temperature
Will the temperature be any different after your plan?
No
So, what's it about?
The temperature.
Woe Unto Evil Ones Who Doubt The One True Faith | Real ScienceWhat would we do without the true believers of the one true CO2 faith? Man has sinned by producing unsanctioned CO2 – and the wrath of the trace gas gods is now upon us. Unless we repent and make sacrifices of money and feral camels, we will feel the full wrath of climate change.
Same lunatics, different religion.
Odd Man Out | Real Sciencewhere the heck is global warming? …. The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.
- Trenberth
2002-2010 The trend is negative (-0.12C per decade),
- Jones
A study has shown .. levelling of global average surface temperatures between 1998 and 2009
- Kaufmann
“We conclude that there has been no reduction in the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20°C/decade (~ .3 F/decade) that began in the late 1970s.”
- Hansen
$23 carbon price, but fewer payTHE government has dramatically slashed the number of companies hit by its carbon tax from 1000 to about 500, in a scheme expected to have a $23 a tonne starting carbon price.
But the cost of the plan, which was to be broadly revenue neutral, has blown out to about $4 billion over four years from its start on July 1 next year. Most of the extra costs come upfront, from implementing the scheme.
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Companies that will be excluded include fuel suppliers and distributors. Firms emitting synthetic greenhouse gases, such as the refrigeration and air conditioning industries, will also be excluded under a special arrangement.
Overall, only 0.02 per cent of businesses will be directly liable to pay the carbon tax.
Australia's Carbon Emissions.Australia's net Greenhouse emissions totalled 576 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, or about 1.5 percent of world emissions.
Global Warming: A closer look at the numbersJust how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?
It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.
Science By Artillery Shell, Or Science By Cooperation? - James Taylor - Endpoint Analysis - Forbes“Are you cowards?!” Scott Denning, an atmospheric science professor at Colorado State University who believes humans are causing dangerous climate change, challenged an audience of skeptics at the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change last week. Then, with an edge to his voice, Denning scolded the audience for contesting the precise degree of predicted future warming. “You are wasting your time,” said Denning.
Earth Has "Spare Tire"—And Ice Melt's Keeping It That WayEarth isn't losing its "spare tire" as fast as it should be, according to new research
The Federally Mandated Dark Age - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review OnlineI have to show ID to throw away a light bulb but not to vote?
Fuel-Economy? Make It So! - By Charlie Cooke - Planet Gore - National Review Online Jenkins puts his finger adroitly on the key problem, that the administration seems perpetually to mistake itself for Jean-Luc Picard. In Hollywood, one can simply raise one’s hand and say ‘make it so’ — physics, cost, real-world consequences be damned. Back in reality there are often good, complex reasons for the status quo. Reasons which tend not magically to disappear upon the arrival of a mandate.
Arctic Sea Ice News & AnalysisAverage ice extent for June 2011 was 11.01 million square kilometers (4.25 million square miles). This is 140,000 square kilometers (54,000 square miles) above the previous record low for the month, set in June 2010
Gray whales likely survived the Ice Ages by changing their diets(PhysOrg.com) -- Gray whales survived many cycles of global cooling and warming over the past few million years, likely by exploiting a more varied diet than they do today, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, and Smithsonian Institution paleontologists.
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They concluded that populations would have had to have alternative feeding modes sufficient to support a population of around 70,000 during warm periods so that population drops during glacial periods wouldn't be below 5,000-10,000 whales.
Even U.N. Admits That Going Green Will Cost $76 Trillion - FoxNews.comEighteen months later, the price of our “one last chance to save the world” has increased $13 trillion – and that’s just over the next decade.
Why Insurance Companies Hype Climate Change Environmental extremists dismiss virtually all science that is skeptical of catastrophic climate change as being “industry funded,” so it is interesting that they are quick to embrace “evidence” produced by insurance companies, for which there is a clear profit motive at stake. After all, insurance is the business of pricing risk. Swiss Re and Munich Re therefore have an incentive to incorporate into their assessments an allegedly significant, yet amorphous, source of risk like global warming. By doing so, they can jack up premiums and make a mint.
E.P.A. Chief Ready To Unveil Sweeping New Regulations - By Charlie Cooke - Planet Gore - National Review Online It is, of course, obvious to everyone that what the U.S. economy needs right now is a host of new regulations passed extra-legislatively by an unelected zealot. In the article, “Ms. Jackson describes the job as draining.” This is presumably a contraction of, ”Ms. Jackson describes the job as draining what little life there is left in the American economy.”
Philadelphia Attorney to Speak on Climate Change at American Chemical Society National Meeting | Benzinga.comWilliam F. Stewart, a partner at Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst, will be a featured speaker on climate change related issues at the American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in August.
Chris Mooney | Climate Skeptics Misunderstand Us, TooIf there’s anything I don't like, it’s extremes
A Climate Change Dissenter [Richard Lindzen] Who Has Left His Mark on U.S. Policy - NYTimes.com Richard Goody, 90, who taught meteorology to Lindzen at Harvard, says the critics of his former pupil are "focusing on his propensity to debate. He [Lindzen] loves debating. He absorbs an enormous amount of information, and he loves arguing with you about it. Since he's so well-informed and so smart, he usually wins. This doesn't endear you to a lot of people."
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If the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles, which many scientists predict that it will by the end of this century, that will increase global mean temperatures by a little more than 1 degree, he thinks.
"A hundred years from now, I don't really know, but I don't think it [the climate] will be radically different. The climate is always changing. It's natural variability," he said in an interview.
GE, Fujitsu Back Australia Carbon Plan Amid Gillard CampaignJuly 6 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. and Fujitsu Ltd. backed Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's bid to initiate carbon trading to cut emissions in the developed world's biggest polluter per capita.
The companies are two of 55 who signed a letter sent to Gillard last night from the Carbon Markets & Investor Association supporting her plan for an emissions trading system to start in 2012.
CA climate: inland warmer; coast cooler and wetter The analysis, by meteorologist Jan Null, showed that average temperatures have increased since 1981 in only eight California cities surveyed compared with the 30 years starting in 1971. The information, compiled using National Climatic Data Center statistics, shows more annual rain has also fallen everywhere except in Southern California.
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Eureka, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego all cooled down slightly. Yearly temperatures in San Francisco dropped the most, by 1 degree Fahrenheit.
Conservatives add modest clause to non-binding climate change resolution, green NGOs explode – Telegraph BlogsEven the most passionate advocates of the new target didn’t try to claim that it would have had any meaningful environmental impact. Their argument, rather, was that the EU ought to “send a message”, to “show courage”, to “take a lead”. In other words, they saw the legislation as being essentially declamatory: a way to advertise the purity of your motives rather than a proportionate response to an identified problem.
If the cut itself would have been symbolic, the vote in the European Parliament was doubly so, since it was not a legislative proposal. To listen to some green pressure groups, you’d think Conservative MEPs had just voted to wipe all living creatures from the face of the Earth. In fact, all we did was to support an amendment to a non-binding motion to the effect that carbon reductions in the EU should be linked to equivalent cuts elsewhere.
Have Chinese Coal Plants Been Keeping Global Warming in Check? | OnEarth MagazineThe fact that they disagree about what went on in the 2000’s doesn’t take away even a little from this underlying agreement
PM - Govt says coal industry has bright future but cuts compensation 06/07/2011RALPH HILLMAN: Eighteen mines will be at risk of premature closure in New South Wales and Queensland by 2020. About 4,000 jobs could go and $22 billion in revenue could be lost.
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RALPH HILLMAN: In summary, an $18 billion tax, with less than $1.5 billion transitional assistance to address coal industry competitiveness, just doesn't add up.
Branson weighs in on carbon tax debate - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has weighed into the debate over the carbon tax, saying it should be adopted simultaneously worldwide to avoid disadvantaging countries and companies.
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"But if it disadvantages Australian companies and Australian people... that's a question that Australians are going to have to ask themselves."
New Paper “Built For Stability” By Paul Valdes – Further Evidence Of The Failure Of The IPCC Models As Skillful Multi-Decadal Climate Forecasting Tools | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.There is a new paper which raises questions about the ability of the IPCC global climate model to skillfuly predict paleoclimate. The IPCC has claimed such skill as evidence of its skill to predict climate decades into the future. Based on this new paper, such a claim is unwarranted.
Science Corruption at the National Academies of Science | Hawaii ReporterBY MICHAEL R. FOX PHD – Since the proponents of global warming are being caught without providing supporting evidence, the theory of man-made global warming is being destroyed before our very eyes. With no hardnosed physical evidence, measurable, observable, replicable evidence, the fiction has been sustained by non-science methods. These include appeals to authority, existence of an elitist scientific consensus, computer models none of which produce physical evidence.
Crippling national energy policies, environmental policies, economic policies are being seriously considered. Such suicidal policies did not originate in the recent fictions of climate change, but from the leaders of the UN and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their friends within the American leadership.
Brazil June coffee frost hits up to 40% of Parana farmsFROST that hit coffee areas in Brazil's Parana state late last month reached 30 to 40% of farms, the agriculture secretariat said yesterday, but few sustained damage serious enough to put a major dent in output.
A fat tale | The Rational Optimist…NIc has found that the IPCC did much the same to most of the other estimates of climate sensitivity, which rely mostly on models. This mistake is central to the IPCC's case, not peripheral. It undermines the credibility of the case for urgent action against climate change and strongly supports the argument that, other things being equal, CO2 doubling will not cause more than a mild and net beneficial warming.
There has been no global warming since 1998 – Telegraph BlogsWhy then am I mentioning it now? W-e-l-l, because just as ze war is to the Germans, Chappaquiddick is to the Kennedy family and that Portland masseuse incident to Al Gore, so the recent lack of warming is to the, er, Warmists. They hate it. It’s an affront to everything they believe in. Damn it, if the world isn’t warming with the alacrity they’d prefer, how are they going to keep the funding gravy train going, and how are they going to persuade an increasingly sceptical populace that the “science” is “settled”, the debate over and the time for action is now? That’s why they can’t reminded of the truth often enough. It’s like salting the slugs that are ruining your garden: necessary, but also kind of fun too.
Connection: 'Climate change scam' has nothing to do with scienceAn author and speaker on environmentalism is exposing what he refers to as the "dark side" of the movement, linking it to ancient pagan religions.
A phony New Age environmentalism religion has been foisted upon the American people, claims Rob Roselli, a civil engineer and student of religion and environmentalism. He tells OneNewsNow this movement has everything to do with worshipping the earth. The roots of modern environmentalism, he argues, can be found in Greek mythology's goddess, Gaia, and the assumption that people need to be curtailed.
MILLOY: Last chance for GOP to stop EPA train wreck - Washington TimesRepublicans should use both opportunities to stop the EPA. There should be no money for an agency that has no consideration for jobs in its cost-benefit analyses - a shocking admission made by an EPA official during a congressional hearing in April.
Is Al Gore Bad for Big Environmentalism? (A shriller gone sour) — MasterResource“‘I think Al Gore’s done more to hurt this cause than he has to help it…. There are a lot of Democrats who don’t want to get within 10 miles of Al Gore on climate policy, because he’s seen by a lot of Americans as being on a crusade, and he doesn’t mind turning the economy upside-down because of sort of a religious zeal he has.”
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
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And didn’t Gore himself drop climate alarmism when the political heat was on, and doesn’t Gore know that repeated shrillness doesn’t sell to the large majority of Americans?
Back in the summer of 2000, with high gasoline prices an issue, presidential candidate Al Gore went Republican. “I think we need to bring gasoline prices down,” he intoned.
Global warming or new ice age: YOU'RE paying for our politicians' hysteria | Mail OnlineWe are also committed to meet an EU target that, within a mere nine years, we must generate a third of our electricity from 'renewables' — mainly by spending £200 billion on building thousands more windmills so useless that, last weekend, they could produce only half a per cent of the power we actually needed.
As our politicians continually impose on us ever higher taxes and other costs supposedly in the cause of 'fighting climate change' — costs that have already helped to increase every family's energy bills by an average £200 a year — they have been carried away by a collective fantasy that has no parallel in history.
And all this is happening in the name of a theory so fraudulent that the same people who told us the world is about to fry unless we close down all those power stations are now telling us the same power stations may be heading us into a new ice age.
Truly, the lunatics have taken over the asylum. And short of some massive injection of common sense from the British people, it seems the rest of us are condemned to live in it.
Now China’s pollution being blamed for lack of predicted warming | ScottishSceptic For years I’ve been saying that one likely reason for the apparent rise in temperatures after the 1970s was the introduction of anti-pollution measures in the 1970s.
The Reference Frame: Did Chinese coal cause the cooling since 1998?Even if this explanation were qualitatively OK, it still shows how incredibly shaky the contemporary would-be "mainstream" opinions about the climate drivers are. Suddenly, an old Gentleman who watches Fox News is the primary cause of a paper that explains away a whole decade of warming by a previously neglected mechanism.
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I am talking about these things jokingly because the idea that the warming predictions failed because of the Chinese coal is just a random guess, one among hundreds of possible explanations. A much more reasonable explanation is that no warming should have been expected in the first place. And there are dozens of other major possible causes of warming and cooling episodes, from various ocean cycles to the solar activity as well as random weather fluctuations, that may be responsible for the dynamics of temperatures in the last 10 years - or any other 10 years.
Why don't those people honestly admit that they simply have no clue what was happening since 1998 and what will be happening before 2020, 2030, or 2100? Even if they don't admit it, the constantly changing explanations are enough for everyone else to see that they don't have a clue and they're often deliberately lying.
China commentary slams EU airline CO2 scheme | Eco-Business“In the name of dealing with climate change, the EU’s approach will generate enormous financial benefits at the expense of the rest of the world, including developing countries,” it said in an English-language commentary .
“Studies show that the extra costs of the EU’s plan will amount to $1.6 billion dollars in the first year alone. The direction of the cash flow is contrary to the spirit of the agreements reached at the UN Cancun climate change conference last year.”
[We're saved!]: David Cameron to cut business class flights for ministers and civil servants | Environment | The GuardianPrime minister decrees that all air travel should be in economy seats as he tries to rescue government's green credentials
Impartiality in Science Cast Aside – Political Activism and Attacks on Sceptics Now Called For. | hauntingthelibraryIn a move which once and for all removes any doubt any reasonable person may have had on the impartial nature of climate science, the head of the Royal Society, Paul Nurse, has issued a statement calling for climate scientists to get get involved in activism and political agitation. An interview with the left-wing magazine, The New Statesman, quotes Nurse calling for climate scientists to drop any pretense of impartiality, and start agitating for political change:
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The farce of the great global warming scare will, sadly, continue for some time to come. What is now very clear for all to see, though, is that now it is no longer a question of disinterested scientists interpreting the data, but outright activism with a clearly political agenda. It is now out in the open.
Fatherhood Confronts Climate Change | Sightline DailyClimate change has arrived a century earlier than predicted. We can’t avoid it. Still, anger and despair, while appropriate, aren’t going to get us far. Taking action to avoid the worst, Hertsgaard argues, has now become “part of a parent’s job description, no less vital than tending to your child’s diet, health, or education.
Bachmann: Energy is ‘the most easy problem for America to solve’ | GristThe problem with the left's message on energy is that the left has no message on energy. It has a bunch of messages, mostly muddled and half-ass messages, many of which contradict one another. Lacking any clear alternative, most Americans still draw their understanding of the green message from the collective cultural unconscious: it promises difficulty and sacrifice. The problem is hard. The solution is hard. It's going to cost more. It's probably going to involve giving up light bulbs and SUVs and living in tiny houses. It might not even work.
Debate heats up, the ice keeps melting - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Until recently, the conventional wisdom was that once the sea-ice disappears in summer - possibly as early as 2030 - it stays gone, but a study came out recently challenging that view. It concluded that the ice may come and go in somewhat dramatic fits and starts, until it eventually peters out in the second half of this century.
In other words, whichever way you look at it, the canary is dying.
The director of the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, Mark Serreze, and his team have studied the Arctic for over 20 years. He explains: "We're now committed to an ice-free Arctic in the summer - there's just too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the planet's getting too warm. We've crossed a tipping point."
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Beyond Zero Emissions and the University of Melbourne Energy Institute have teamed up to write a courageous plan to transform our energy sector and propel it into the 21st Century.
The plan, which has wind and solar thermal power at its heart, weans us off fossil fuels within just 10 years, with a cost of about $8 per week for households.
Quadrant Online - Silence of the godsWhen freedom of speech in Australia was abused, Sydney PEN was silent.
Sydney PEN is a fashionable Left-wing dining and chat group whose reason for being is the defence of freedom of speech.
Quadrant Online - "Wait and see""Wait and see" makes perfect sense. See what happens in the real world rather than the fantasy world of flawed climate models.
‘Terminator’ actor to talk environment in Oslo Mr Schwarzenegger will join European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard and British sociologist Baron Anthony Giddens at this year’s confernce, which will be simultaneously translated for English-speakers during the Norwegian-only parts of the programme.
The event, said to be the “largest of its kind in Scandinavia”, will be held at the Clarion Hotel Oslo Airport between November 21 and 22.
Say it's 2011, and half of 2010's human CO2 emissions have already been absorbed. When the ocean or a flower is about to absorb another CO2 molecule emitted by humans back in 2010, does Gaia blow a whistle and ensure that a 2011 molecule is absorbed instead? Does each CO2 molecule have a unique serial number issued by Gaia?
If half of the human CO2 emissions are absorbed in year one, why isn't half of the remainder absorbed in year 2?
Lukewarmers, Denialists, and Other Climate Change Skeptics - Reason MagazineRomm characterized the ICCC6 as part of “a dwindling number of increasingly vocal people who spread disinformation on climate science and who attack and harass climate scientists.”
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Denning reprised the arguments for man-made global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. He noted that the atmosphere contains around 800 million tons of carbon dioxide and that humans are emitting 8 billion tons per year. Of that amount, two tons are being absorbed by the oceans and two tons are being absorbed by plants, leaving four tons per year in the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide emitted now will stay in the atmosphere for centuries as the oceans slowly absorb it
How China accidentally geoengineered the climate | Grist the carbon dioxide from all that coal we burned has a half life of centuries.
Al Gore: Climate of Denial | Rolling Stone PoliticsTwenty percent of the global-warming pollution we spew into the sky each day will still be there 20,000 years from now!
YouTube - CO2 Experiment VideoThis video shows that a candle floating on water, burning in the air inside a glass, converts the oxygen in the air to CO2. The water rises in the glass because the CO2, which replaced the oxygen, is quickly dissolved in the water. The water contains calcium ions Ca++, because we initially dissolved calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 in the water. The CO2 produced during oxygen burning reacts with the calcium ions to produce solid calcium carbonate CaCO3, which is easily visible as a whitening of the water when we switch on a flashlight. This little kitchen experiment demonstrates the inorganic carbon cycle in nature. The oceans take out our anthropogenic CO2 gas by quickly dissolving it as bicarbonate HCO3-, which in turn forms solid calcium carbonate either organically in calcareous organisms or precipitates inorganically. The CaCO3 is precipitating and not dissolving during this process, because buffering in the ocean maintains a stable pH around 8. We also see that CO2 reacts very fast with the water, contrary to the claim by the IPCC that it takes 50 - 200 years for this to happen. Try this for yourself in your kitchen!
AAAS’s Selective OutrageThe Science and Environmental Policy Project had an interesting take on the AAAS board’s statement in the July 2nd edition of its weekly newsletter, The Week That Was:
The AAAS board expresses laudable goals: to bring civility, transparency, and open discussion on scientific issues. The question is, will it enforce such goals on its signature publication Science? This would require a major change in editorial policy. If so, we should expect a public statement that the magazine is accepting competent articles from researchers who question the IPCC. The new policy would announce that those submitting articles must submit their data and computer source code so that other researchers can replicate the results. Any truncation of data must be carefully explained; otherwise, the article will not be published, or, if published, publicly retracted. The fawning review of the recent book by Oreskes and Conway who smeared distinguished scientists without presenting evidence would be publicly retracted with apologies. The rebuttal by Fred Singer, the only one of the scientists still alive, which was rejected due to claimed lack of space, would be published.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Study says it takes 8 years to break-even on electric car ownershipThis study noted in the Wall Street Journal finds the time period to break-even on costs for an electric vehicle compared to a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle is 8 years. Add to this the cost of a new $10,000 battery pack, which requires replacement every 8-10 years, and the break-even point becomes infinity. What is the resale value of an 8 year old electric vehicle that needs a new battery?
Landsea, the IPCC & the Union of Concerned Scientists « NoFrakkingConsensus Let me just repeat those two last points: At the same time that he was leading the American Association for the Advancement of Science, McCarthy became the head of a notoriously activist body.
Wow. When I began researching the global warming debate two years ago I had no idea how far my opinion of scientists was going to plummet.
Sierra Club: Gov. Christie's scale back on solar energy is 'fossil foolish' The Sierra Club complained that Christie eliminated the Office of Climate Change from the Department of Environmental Protection and recently pulled out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Researchers push the boundary with high carbon emission scenariosBy 2100, the AllCoal and CurrentMix scenarios would produce a warming of over 12 Kelvin (K) in the Arctic regions, with global sea levels rising by 33 cm and 27 cm respectively due to the thermal expansion of the oceans.
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Lead author Dr Ben Sanderson said, "Our study considered a future in which fossil fuel availability is completely unrestricted and climate change is unmitigated, resulting in significant additional warming above the entire range of scenarios considered in the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC."
"This study showed us that the model behaves on a global scale largely as we would expect."
Michael Mann And The ClimateGate Whitewash, Part II - Larry Bell - The Bell Tells for You - ForbesSoon after the inquiry was announced, Phil Willis made an announcement that raised questions about his objectivity regarding the merits of CRU criticism: “There are a significant number of climate deniers who are using the UEA e-mails to support the case that this is poor science. We do not believe this is healthy, and therefore we want to call in UEA so that the public can see what they are saying.” The term “denier” is broadly seen as an analogous and pejorative reference to those who deny the historical fact of the Holocaust, implying that UEA/CRU scientific methods and integrity should be beyond question.
Subhankar Banerjee's Arctic photo project continues to resonate, even as he tackles other subjects - Books - Macon.com On Aug. 26, 2010, he founded climatestorytellers.org, dubbed a "gathering place for stories on all things global warming." Most of the articles posted on the site are written by him.
Patrick Hunsberger, missing Fairbanks man, presumed dead after cold water immersion | Alaska DispatchThis happens with sad regularity in frigid waters all across North America. People fall in; the shock of the cold water overcomes them; they inhale fluid, go under and drown.
DOE Gives Taxpayer Money to GE - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online Forget the fact that President Obama’s job czar is the head of GE and focus on the more obvious fact that the U.S. is giving taxpayer money to one of the most profitable companies in the world. I have one question: why?
Scientists finally get angry about indifference to climate change | Science | The GuardianFor decades, scientists have been seen as meek, dispassionate souls. But now, faced with widespread indifference to global warming, a small band of science radicals are getting angry. Will more follow suit?
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While most scientists have learned keep their heads down, a few are beginning to argue that what a scientist knows must inform his or her personal opinions and values. That's why a group of young Australian climate scientists released an expletive-filled music video earlier this year. It was an angry rap aimed at those who question climate science while holding no qualifications in the field. They used the rather unscientific word "motherf*cker" and poured scorn on "bitches" opposing a carbon tax.
Hearteningly, there may be more of this to come.
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