The Current Wisdom: The Lack of Recent Warming and the State of Peer Review | Patrick J. Michaels | Cato Institute: Commentary

There are two reasons why we think it is wrong for Kaufmann et al. to attribute a reduced rate of global warming to Chinese sulfates:

1) China's cooling sulfates do not readily make their way into the Southern Hemisphere, yet, from 1999-2010, temperatures actually fell there, while they rose in the Northern Hemisphere. This is exactly the opposite of what should have happened if sulfates are exerting a relative cooling primarily in the Northern Hemisphere

2) Chinese coal consumption increased in 2009 and 2010 (in fact, 2010 had the biggest year-over-year increase recorded) — yet, the global temperature rose sharply in 2009 and in 2010. Because Kaufmann's climate model responds instantaneously to sulfates (as opposed to a decades-long lag to adjust to carbon dioxide changes) this is contrary to his hypothesis.

Summer Warming Out Of Control | Real Science

From 1927 to 1936, summer temperatures in the US warmed at a rate of almost 40 degrees per century, even after USHCN chopped a couple of degrees off the 1930s!

Climate is linear, so we can expect summers over the boiling point in several generations.

Quadrant Online - Thank you, President Klaus

[Bob Carter] President Klaus is one of very few national leaders with the intellectual command and public courage to have spoken openly in public regarding the dangers to civil liberty of evangelical environmentalism; for this he commands worldwide respect.

Quadrant Online - Who are the 500 polluters?

It seems incredible that our parliamentarians are going to vote on a tax on which they haven’t been clearly or officially told as to who the targeted carbon-tax-payers will be. And they haven’t been clearly or officially told, how this tax will filter down to affect an added cost burden upon the entire population.

In a letter to the Shadow Minister for Climate, Greg Hunt, this week, Minister Combet confirmed that the list would remain secret.

I can’t imagine why — can you?

Political Science

A similar dynamic is at play now, concerning the issue of global warming. The science underlying much of the speculation is subject to question and peer review and much remains unsettled. Possibly the worst thing that could have happened for the establishment of subject matter credibility on the issue of whether anthrogenic global warming occurs or not was Al Gore making a movie about it. The sorts of people who didn’t like Al Gore very much — and bear in mind that in the United States, that was about half the population — recognized policy advocacy coming from the other tribe, and rejected it and everything it was based on out of hand. Actual scientific critique of the theories in An Inconvenient Truth were and still are offered as “proof” that the science described in the movie was bad. Defenders of global warming theory, in turn, view any criticism of what they have to say as “denialism” and reject other evidence out of hand.

Study Finds Solar Power Systems Add 3% To A Home's Value : Renewable Energy News :

The solar panels provide "existence value", with households recognising they are playing a part in the battle against climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.

Additionally, a home solar power system may contribute to status within a community. "Such households may be recognized by neighbors for their civic virtue," say the paper's authors.

Demand an end to alarmist reporting | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

In fact, sceptics are growing in number, not falling; predictions of sea level rises now seem to have been greatly exaggerated; ice loss in the Arctic has not worsened in four years; no one denies the climate changes; and this is not a “carbon tax” but a tax on carbon dioxide that will not change the temperature at all. And the climate models predicting regional effects of any warming have proved near useless, as a National Technical University of Athens study has demonstrated.

Let the Sunday Age know. Demand better journalism.

‪The Climate Change Con‬‏ - YouTube

[57-minute video] Lord Christopher Monckton interviewed on the CLIMATE CHANGE CON by Pauline Rose 8/2011

Warmist Ted Scambos: Arctic sea ice minimum this year could be 20,000 Manhattans bigger than 2007's minimum; this measurement may be the "best" evidence that trace amounts of CO2 are dangerous

Benchmark Arctic Melt Approaches 2007 Record | Business | The Moscow Times

After a recovery toward the end of the month, an all-time low is "an outside possibility," said Walt Meier, an NSIDC scientist.

"It will be another low year, very likely one of the five lowest," Meier said Friday in an e-mail. "One year doesn't say too much in and of itself, but the long-term downward trend and the series of very low years is indicative of a thinner ice cover and warming temperatures."

The Arctic ice typically melts until September, before freezing again through March. Scientists at the Boulder, Colorado-based center say the declining ice pack is a harbinger of global warming. By 2030 there may "consistently" be summers where little or no ice remains on the ocean, Meier said.

"Arctic sea-ice decline is perhaps the best evidence around that something truly unusual is happening to our climate," Ted Scambos, another NSIDC scientist, said in an e-mail. "Historical records and changes in high Arctic coastal areas that have been icebound for several thousand years indicate that this is not just 'a bad decade to be ice,' but something outside the normal range of climate."

The lowest ice extent recorded in data dating back to 1979 was the 4.1 million square kilometers posted on Sept. 16, 2007. This year's lowest point will probably be 4.3 million to 5.3 million square kilometers, according to Scambos, who said it was a "personal estimate."
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Antarctic sea ice, which is much more driven by the wind, is "slightly" below the average for this time of year, according to Scambos.
...In the Arctic, winds from the south can force ice northward and compress it, which was a "big factor" in 2007, Scambos said.

This year, "it would take a major shift of winds, or warming, to really break" the record since satellite measurements were first taken in 1979, Scambos said. Still, the trend remains downward because of warmer summers, he said. "As summers have warmed, old ice has melted, and less and less ice of more than a few years old has been retained. Old ice is thick ice and can survive one warm season."

Responding to a Denialist Doctor | Sarah Lynn Cunningham

My amazing, brilliant doctor is a climate skeptic

FSA warning over carbon credit trading schemes | Money | The Guardian

Carbon credit trading schemes are set to take over from landbanking as a major scam hitting unwary investors. This week the Financial Services Authority issued its first consumer alert on the schemes following an unprecedented 10-fold surge in complaints and queries in July. The watchdog warns that the schemes are unregulated, so anyone can sell them, and UK authorities have no way of controlling their quality or validity.

How Can You Tell The Difference Between A Climate Denier & An Environmentalist? : TreeHugger

Short answer: there is little difference between the thought patterns of deniers & environmentalists.

Bard Center for Environmental Policy - National Climate [Change Hoax] Seminar

Listen in real time to climate and clean energy specialists talk about the latest science, policy, law, and economics of climate change. Assign these half-hour calls to your students for a chance to hear top scientists, analysts and political leaders discuss climate and clean energy solutions.
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Fall 2011
Date Presenter Conversation
Sep. 7 Mike Tidwell, Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network The Tea Party and Climate Strategy
Sep. 21 Dave Roberts, Editor, Grist Global Warming, Politics and the Media
Oct. 5 Hunter Lovins, President, Natural Capitalism Solutions Climate Capitalism
Oct. 19 Sharon Nunes, VP, Big Green Innovations, IBM Smarter Planet? IBM's Climate Solutions
Nov. 2 Richard Alley*, Penn State University The Carbon Control Knob
Nov. 16 Tim Flannery*, Macquarie University Politics Down Under: Does Catastrophe Drive Change?
Dec. 7 Mark Hertsgaard*, Author and Journalist Generation Hot

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - ‘Deathwatch’ for fast melting Yakutat Glacier

Since 1903, the glacier has receded more than eight miles from where its tongue once pointed defiantly at the Gulf of Alaska.

Arctic Sea Ice 50 Percent Lower In Past - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Interesting. Very interesting.

Global warming facts may not hold water | global, shows, hold - Our view - Portales News-Tribune

Spencer’s team found that data show more heat escaping into space than the IPCC has predicted, which means less is getting trapped to overheat Earth. Reports say the new findings confirm previous heat-loss data recorded by other satellites. Forbes reports that NASA has a 25-year record of real data that contradict IPCC’s dire predictions of an atmosphere that won’t let enough heat escape.

Global warming fundamentalists refuse to believe these inconvenient truths. One critic said we should not blindly accept two decades of “imperfect satellite data.” Yet we are supposed to embrace the IPCC’s predictions as facts.

CO2 blamed for fatal polar bear attack: More details

Arctic Adventure 2011 Expedition Blog

Sea Ice and Polar Bears!
July 27th, 2011 bsesadmin...
After arriving in Longyearbyen to see our first midnight sun we were all so relived to see our tents set up and waiting. I think we must of all dreamt of Polar bears because the next day was eagerly waiting for the ice flows to break up so we could move on to base camp. There was a P.bear sighting across the fjord about a mile away. Unfortunately a Westerly wind and freak climatic events have led to an unprecedented amount of ice in the fjord meaning we are marooned here for the time being. Despite this everyone was in good spirits because we encountered another P.bear floating on the ice, this time we were lucky enough to borrow an kind Norwegian guides telescope to see it properly. After that experience I can say for sure that everyone dreamt of P.bears that night. The ice flows are still dominating the fjord and our movements.
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The image below is a recent webcam capture showing the Sea Ice currently in Adventfjorden (office)
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Webcam -Sea Ice

26.07.11 Update
July 26th, 2011 bsesadmin No comments

The remaining fires are still stuck in Longyearbyen due to the sea ice.

Polar bear camp was 'perilous' place to put up camp, says wildlife film-maker - mirror.co.uk

A POLAR bear expert who spent months filming the animals on the glacier where the Britons were attacked says he is astonished they camped there.

Award-winning TV producer Phil Dalton, who spent two summers and a hazardous winter in remote Svalbard, said: “Their camp was pitched in a bear ‘hot spot’, one of the animals’ regular stomping grounds and one in which previous incidents had been reported.Locals would definitely say it was unwise to put up tents in such a place.”

Norway polar bear attack: hikers need to be 'armed to the teeth' - Telegraph

Mr Rouse argued that the effects of climate change was driving hungry bears into more populated areas.

He claimed the world's largest land carnivore would always be a danger to humans but that that was no excuse to seek control of its dwindling numbers.

He added: "It is climate change that has driven away the pack ice early, leaving the bears a much longer period in which to survive until it returns.

"As we lose more ice then the chance of encounters with humans is only going to increase as desperate polar bears are forced into human areas in search of food.

Huffington Post: What if CO2 kills all polar bears overnight?

Gernot Wagner: All Polar Bears Gone, Overnight

We are literally slowing down the rotation of the globe and doing so at an increasingly faster rate.*

All are clearly linked to global warming, yet none of them are quite strong enough to spur us into action. What will it take to make that happen?
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But perhaps a dramatic yet not quite catastrophic event could act as a wake-up call? I'm at a loss to come up with examples that fit into that category.
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One possible candidate: a mass die-off of most polar bears.

Catastrophic? For Arctic fauna, yes; for the planet, debatable. Dramatic? Here's hoping.

* Think ice skater, whose spinning speed increases as she pulls her arms closer and slows down as she extends her arms. The same happens to the planet: As polar ice melts, water distributes to the equator, expanding the planet's bulge and slowing its rotation -- by fractions of a second, but amazingly it is already measurable. And we know it's happening at an increasing rate.

Gernot Wagner

Gernot Wagner is an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund and author of 'But Will the Planet Notice?' coming out in October 2011.

Gernot teaches at Columbia, graduated from both Harvard and Stanford, and blogs at www.gwagner.com. He doesn’t eat meat, doesn’t drive, and knows full well the futility of his personal choices.

Shock News : Warm Weather Is Good Weather – Glacial Advance Occurs During Bad Weather | Real Science

The extraordinary collapse of Jatropha as a biofuel | Watts Up With That?

The current American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science & Technology has a most amazing story demonstrating the foolish, indeed outright dangerous, application of the “precautionary principle” to AGW mitigation.

Must-Read Drew Westen Op-Ed Spells Out Obama’s Catastrophic Failure of Messaging | ThinkProgress

I agree 100% that Obama has set back the progressive arc of history by a generation — and in the case of action on global warming, that lost generation will likely prove devastating for billions

We can stop drought by tugging an iceberg to the Third World, claims scientist (but that's not going to stop global warming) | Mail Online

A bizarre plan to tow giant icebergs thousands of miles from the polar ice caps to drought-ridden hotspots in the Third World could soon become a reality.

Year-To-Date In Texas | Real Science

Almost as warm as 1927, 1925 and 1953. Only a degree cooler than 1911.

Summers In Texas Have Warmed By A Blistering 0.0 Degrees Over The Last Century | Real Science

Arctic Driftwood Re-Visited « Climate Audit

[temperatures] during the HTM [Holocene Thermal Maximum] in north Greenland were 2° to 4°C warmer than now, as elsewhere in this part of the Arctic (17)

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Professor inadvertently explains why greenhouse theory is wrong

Professor David Archer of the University of Chicago has posted You-tube videos of his 10 week lecture series for non-science majors on climate change. In lecture 5, The Greenhouse Effect, Archer uses the Stefan-Boltzmann equation to calculate the supposed temperatures of Venus, Earth, and Mars with and without a greenhouse effect. Archer's calculations show the greenhouse effect on Venus is wildly underestimated by 415C (a factor of 36) and wildly overestimated on both Earth (by 23C) and on Mars (by 19C) in comparison to actual observed temperatures. This is despite the fact that CO2 levels are very high and virtually the same on Venus and Mars (around 96%) and only trace (0.039%) on Earth. Archer says in the lecture that one would have to assume the Venus atmosphere behaves like multiple panes of glass in order to obtain an answer near the observed temperature, yet on both Earth and Mars one would have to assume the atmospheres behave like much less than one pane of glass. Leaving aside the fact that no atmosphere behaves like a pane of glass, climate scientists cannot claim that the greenhouse theory comes close to a unified explanation of temperature on any of these 3 planets. The simple fact is the adiabatic lapse rate (effect of pressure with altitude) fully explains the temperature profiles on all 3 planets without any need to invoke a supposed 'greenhouse effect.' See Shattering the Greenhouse Effect and Venus: No Greenhouse Effect.

Is Gore’s Missing Heat Really Hiding in the Deep Ocean? « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

It’s time for climate modelers to face up to the explanation they have been avoiding at all cost: the climate system is simply not nearly as sensitive as they claim it is.

If they ever have to admit the climate system is insensitive, it is the end of the IPCC and the policy changes that institution was originally formed to advance.

Mohr Cartoon Humor: ‘Thinking’ Like a Climate Skeptic | ThinkProgress

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New doubled cost estimate to replace battery on Nissan Leaf: $31,731

Nissan has admitted that owners of a Leaf, which costs £26,000 after the government grant, may need to replace the battery after a few years, depending on how it has been treated, The Times reported.
The battery’s capacity can decrease significantly if the owner repeatedly uses a fast-charge point.
In the latest episode of Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson was shown running out of power and having to be pushed into the centre of Lincoln, which has no public charging points.

Svante Arrhenius on perfect children

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/V8AgavAys-8/svante-arrhenius-on-perfect-children.html

I think that this "electricity grows children" paradigm is complete pseudoscience and it seems amazing why this kind of stuff was believed as recently as in 1912 but if you tell me that there's something about it, I will happily listen. 

Uh Oh, Fox News Doesn’t Like SpongeBob – Heated Debate Over Global Warming Causes | Nickelodeon News

http://www.nickutopia.com/2011/08/07/fox-news-spongebob/

the Fox broadcasters blamed Nickelodeon of picking sides in an unimportant debate

Greenland then and now

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/greenland-then-and-now/

Animal bones and other materials collected from archaeological sites reveal Icelandic Vikings had large farmsteads with dairy cattle (a source of meat), pigs, and sheep and goats (for wool, hair, milk, and meat.) Farmsteads also had ample pastures and fields of barley used for the making of beer and these farms were located near bird cliffs (providing meat, eggs, and eiderdown) and inshore fishing grounds. Fishing was primarily done with hand lines or from small boats that did not venture across the horizon

"the idea of AGW may soon be a cheap throw-away joke on late-night TV"

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2011/08/dakota-voice-week-in-review-ending-aug-6-2011/

Nearly Three Quarters Believe Global Warming Data Falsified – I've been watching the number of people who believe in anthropogenic global warming (AGW) fall for several years now. At first, many if not most people were willing to give scientists the benefit of the doubt. But after mountains of evidence to the contrary, embarrassing gaffes by High Priest Al Gore, ClimateGate, and IPCC goofs, the idea of AGW may soon be a cheap throw-away joke on late-night TV. This new poll finds a huge majority believe scientists have falsified the data to support their own theories and beliefs.

Shock News : The MWP And LIA Were Real

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/shock-news-the-mwp-and-lia-were-real/

Historians made the horrific mistake of consulting written records, rather than three trees in Siberia. 

1950 Shock News : Global warming – Glaciers Disappearing – Fish Migrating North – Spitzbergen Ice Free

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/1950-shock-news-global-warming-glaciers-disappearing-fish-migrating-north-spitzbergen-ice-free/

1922 : Seven Foot Tall Viking Found Frozen In The Ice

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/1922-seven-foot-tall-viking-found-frozen-in-the-ice/

Greenland must have frozen very quickly at the end of the non-existent MWP

Fact Check: White House staff got pay raises, but there's more to the story | Jacksonville.com Mobile Edition

http://m.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-08-07/story/fact-check-white-house-staff-got-pay-raises-theres-more-story

Heather Zichal has been the deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate change since 2009. In 2009 and 2010, her annual salary was $100,000 and, in 2011, it went to $140,000. 

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In Zichal's case, the daily political content provider Politico reported that she took over the responsibilities of her former boss, ex-energy czar Carol Browner.

Studying the climate? Then get out of the lab | The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/studying-the-climate-then-get-out-of-the-lab/story-fn59niix-1226110506742

Professor Finkl does not believe global warming and sea-level rises are caused by human activity but publishes the peer-reviewed work of researchers who do. He said the debate - and implications for coastal planning laws - was not whether sea levels were rising, but how quickly. "The real problem with the models is they show an exponential rise in the rate of sea-level rise, the so-called hockey stick approach," he said.

Will CO2 prevent you from exercising today?

http://www.malaya.com.ph/aug08/liv2.html

And with the erratic weather brought about by climate change, the best time [to exercise] is any day the weather permits.

State gas emissions programs cut | theage.com.au

http://m.theage.com.au/victoria/state-gas-emissions-programs-cut-20110807-1iho7.html

THE Baillieu government has been accused of scrapping a $106 million program designed to help communities cut greenhouse gas emissions, prompting fresh claims it is walking away from climate change commitments.

Carbon tax set to cost dairy farmers $7000 a year in extra energy costs, loss of 8pc income | Courier Mail

http://www.couriermail.com.au/business/carbon-tax-set-to-cost-dairy-farmers-7000-a-year-in-extra-energy-costs-loss-of-8pc-income/story-e6freqmx-1226110439285

A degree of uncertainty about how much the planet is warming | The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-degree-of-uncertainty-about-how-much-the-planet-is-warming/story-e6frg6zo-1226110445328

While there is much room for debate, challenging the complex science or its conclusions from any one dimension is unacceptable, whether by focusing on one variable, a limited time window, or via anecdotes, or limited personal observation. I, for one, accept the peer-reviewed science but would not be surprised if forecasts shift a great deal in the years ahead. In view of all of the above, policy makers need to be careful.

Ziggy Switkowski is chancellor of RMIT University.

Clear air for Gillard, but Abbott will be back to fill it | smh.com.au

http://m.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/clear-air-for-gillard-but-abbott-will-be-back-to-fill-it-20110807-1ihgn.html

When Hockey appeared on Lateline on Wednesday and said the opposition was considering axing the Department of Climate Change, it was no thought bubble. The idea had been accepted in principle at a meeting on Monday.

The climate change spokesman, Greg Hunt, was in the middle of a charity walk around his electorate, so the submission was put forward by Hunt's proxy, Simon Birmingham.

The idea is that axing the department and folding it back in with the Environment Department would save money and the Coalition's own direct-action policy could be administered by Treasury and Environment.

Arctic update

http://judithcurry.com/2011/08/07/arctic-update/

Our studies show that there are great natural variations in the amount of Arctic sea ice. The bad news is that there is a clear connection between temperature and the amount of sea ice. And there is no doubt that continued global warming will lead to a reduction in the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The good news is that even with a reduction to less than 50% of the current amount of sea ice the ice will not reach a point of no return: a level where the ice no longer can regenerate itself even if the climate was to return to cooler temperatures. Finally, our studies show that the changes to a large degree are caused by the effect that temperature has on the prevailing wind systems. This has not been sufficiently taken into account when forecasting the imminent disappearance of the ice, as often portrayed in the media," Funder says.

Federal officials investigate eagle deaths at DWP wind farm - latimes.com

http://www.minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2011/08/federal-officials-investigate-eagle-deaths-at-dwp-wind-farm---latimescom.html

By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times

Pine Tree facility in the Tehachapi Mountains faces scrutiny over the deaths of at least six golden eagles, which are protected under federal law. Prosecution would be a major blow to the booming industry.

Solar flare-up over inspections | PressDemocrat.com

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110807/ARTICLES/110809600/1033/sitemaps05

City of Santa Rosa, alternative-energy contractors at odds over rules aimed at firefighter safety

Battle over coal for China highlights global economic change

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2011/08/07/1685364/battle-over-coal-for-china-highlights.html

Kathleen Ridihalgh, of the Sierra Club's Washington state chapter, said Millennium and SSA "thought they were getting in quickly and quietly," but instead ran into resistance from communities near the proposed ports.

"Maybe this is a West Coast kind of thing, but global warming is still one of their top concerns," Ridihalgh said. "It's something people want to take action on, and take action on it locally."

BT pension fund goes green - FT.com

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b8c40c12-bebe-11e0-a36b-00144feabdc0.html

The £36bn BT pension fund has become one of the first in the UK to address the risk of climate change in its investments.

In June it made an initial £100m investment in a climate change-weighted version of the FTSE All Share index, with a view to placing most of the fund's £3.7bn allocation to UK equities into this strategy, if the fund's trustees believe it has proved successful.

Rajendra Pachauri: Friend of the Environment?

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/08/07/rajendra-pachauri-friend-of-the-environment

Matters have apparently become uncomfortable for Rajendra Pachauri, the controversial chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on  Climate Change (IPCC). But this time, according to an article in India Today, climate change is the least of his worries (backup link here).

Father Of Global Warming : Electrify Children To Create A Master Race

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/father-of-global-warming-electrify-children-to-create-a-master-race/

Unlike Roy Spencer, Arrhenius believed in playing God

Dog-Sized Dinosaurs Once Roamed The Antarctic - Irish Weather Online

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/nature/dog-sized-dinosaurs-once-roamed-the-antarctic/30102.html

Research into dog-sized dinosaurs that once lived in the Antarctic could help explain how dinosaurs managed to overcome dramatic climate change and dominate the planet for more than 160 million years.

The dinosaurs that lived near the South Pole, sometimes in the dark for months at a time, had bone tissue very similar to dinosaurs that lived everywhere on the planet, according to a doctoral candidate at Montana State University, USA.

Fungi Accelerated Demise Of World’s Forests In The Past - Irish Weather Online

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/nature/fungi-accelerated-demise-of-worlds-forests-in-the-past/30060.html

The so-called Permian extinction likely was triggered by immense volcanic eruptions in what is now Siberia. The huge amounts of gas and dust thrown into the atmosphere altered global climate, and some 95 percent of marine organisms and 70 percent of land organisms eventually went extinct.

A green lining to climate change | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com

http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110807/NEWS01/108070361/A-green-lining-climate-change?odyssey=nav%7Chead

Researcher uncovers potential increase in water efficiency along High Plains

The East African: - News |Let’s seize the benefits of climate change

http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Let+seize+the+benefits+of+climate+change/-/2558/1214820/-/3nf5fuz/-/

The debate on climate change has been confusing, with experts giving different views on whether the world should actually care about the phenomenon. 

Al Gore acknowledges failure

http://antigreen.blogspot.com/2011/08/al-gore-acknowledges-failure-al-gore-is.html

[Notes to Al regarding his pseudo-scientific 'Bullshit!': 
1) Nothing in the universe can 'trap heat' radiation, other than a black hole
2) Your buddies Hansen and Mann claim the Little Ice Age was a result of volcanic eruptions, and have also claimed a "delayed" effect of the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption resulted in a recent lack of warming
3) Solar activity has been shown in many peer-reviewed papers to have multiple direct and secondary amplified effects upon climate
4) Even your fellow warmists admit the globe has not warmed since 1998]

Climate cuttings 57

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/8/7/climate-cuttings-57.html

It's all a bit quiet on the climate front at the moment

Raging At The Dying Of Their Light

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/raging_at_the_dying_of_their_light.html

This scenario with slight differences, occurred more recently this year, when a fellow dinner guest, a professor of public policy  at a major university who had just completed a federal appointment by Obama, asked me what I thought of  Sarah Palin  ( whom I said I liked) and anthropogenic global warming (about which I indicated extreme skepticism), he, like my Maine host, exploded in a fury.  " I can't believe a nice, educated  Jewish woman like you would hold such views," he said.  "I suppose you don't believe in natural selection either," he sneered.

Evidence warmth produces more CO2, rather than vice versa

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/08/evidence-warmth-produces-more-co2.html

Following the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991, change in CO2 dropped dramatically. Conversely, following the natural warming of the 1998 El Nino, change in CO2 increased dramatically. 

Marc Morano: Global Warming Alarm Spread By Al Gore And The United Nations Is In Utter Collapse

http://notrickszone.com/2011/08/07/march-morano-global-warming-alarm-spread-by-al-gore-and-the-united-nations-is-in-utter-collapse/

…real world data are showing that the global warming alarm spread by Al Gore and the United Nations is in utter collapse…across the board what we thought we knew about climate just 4 or 5 years ago is now in utter collapse – we call it sub-prime science…UN scientists were trying to act as gatekeepers of peer review, they were trying to shut out people like Roy Spencer…peer review is still a corrupted process…It's always been a political movement…akin to Nostradamus…"

SpongeBob SquarePants Makes An Enemy | Media Matters for America

http://mediamatters.org/iphone/research/201108030029

Fox's Dave Briggs: Global Warming Is "Unproven Science.

1860 : Discussion Of The MWP – Arctic Cooling – Antarctic Warming

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/1860-discussion-of-the-mwp-arctic-cooling-antarctic-warming/

Erase this, Mikey. http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Gore Unhinged! Loses it on skeptical claims: 'It may be volcanoes.' Bullshit! 'It may be sun spots.' Bullshit! 'It's not getting warmer.' Bullshit!' -- Climate Depot Responds! | Climate Depot

http://climatedepot.com/a/12210/Gore-Unhinged-Loses-it-on-skeptical-claims-It-may-be-volcanoes-Bullshit-It-may-be-sun-spots-Bullshit-Its-not-getting-warmer-Bullshit--Climate-Depot-Responds

Climate Depot's Point-By-Point Rebuttal to Gore's Highbrow Scientific Arguments

Morano on ‘the death of a thousand cuts of the manmade global warming movement’ | The Daily Caller

http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/07/morano-on-the-death-of-a-thousand-cuts-of-the-manmade-global-warming-movement/

Gore losing it in Colorado speech, bewails state of climate change debate | Mark Tapscott | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/08/gore-losing-it-colorado-speech-bewails-state-climate-change-debat

It may be volcanoes. Bullshit! It may be sun spots. Bullshit! It's not getting warmer. Bullshit!' Gore exclaimed

The dysfunction that lies at the very heart of American politics | Michael A Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/07/michael-cohen-us-political-dysfunction

the existential threat of climate change is off the political radar screen

allAfrica.com: Zambia: UNICEF to Host Children Climate Conference

http://allafrica.com/stories/201108060047.html

Ndola — UNICEF will host the Zambian Children's Climate Conference III (ZCCC3) in Lusaka from August 15 to 19, 2011.

The national conference would be the third held in the country since the Children's Climate Forum convened in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where Zambian children were represented by four UNICEF child ambassadors.

Arctic melting brings benefit - UPI.com

http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-54551312675434/

Ice in the arctic has been declining more each summer, and even the oldest ice in the arctic, which is the thickest and most resistant to melting, has begun to dwindle.

"This is man-made; there seems to be little doubt in that," Serreze said. "It would be reversible if we were to do something about our carbon dioxide emissions, [but] I don't see much of a fat chance in hell we're going to see any change here. We're going to have to adapt."

Climate change in the area will cause rising sea levels, loss of habitat for Arctic fauna, drinking water shortages, territorial disputes over newly open waters and more, Serreze said.

However, he added, a benefit of the climate change in the arctic is that warmer winters and springs will lengthen growing seasons and perhaps allow for farming in areas where it previously was impractical.

The Sunday Age launches "The Climate Agenda"

http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2011/08/the-sunday-age-launches-the-climate-agenda/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-sunday-age-launches-the-climate-agenda

This could be interesting. The Sunday Age (part of the Fairfax press, and one of the true believers in man-made global warming) has launched a new initiative entitled "The Climate Agenda": What are you confused about in the climate debate? What do you want investigated? Are you furious about the proposed carbon tax, or curious

Brit Horatio Chapple, 17, killed in polar bear attack | The Sun |News

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3735639/Brit-Horatio-Chapple-17-killed-in-polar-bear-attack.html

The Norwegian Polar Institute says that some bears based in Svalbard will follow the sea ice as it retreats north during the summer melting period to continue hunting, while others will remain on land waiting several months for the ice to return.

While the seals are their main source of prey, they are opportunistic hunters who will scavenge from whale carcasses, feed on nesting seabirds and their eggs, and even kill reindeer.

Al Gore admits defeat

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoNova/~3/QboEaYfwzrM/

The end of the Great Global Warming Scam is just that much closer

Man who cut his throat: I will go nuts because of the heat wave

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/u2ingyCGmHk/man-who-cut-his-throat-i-will-go-nuts.html

August 2nd and 3rd, 1911: While the contemporaries are "driven up the wall" because of the rainy Summer, one hundred years ago people were dying because of genuine seizures caused by the neverending heat waves.

Gavin : Paleo Data Trumps Observations – Except When They Give The Wrong Answer

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/gavin-paleo-data-trumps-observations-except-when-they-give-the-wrong-answer/

Reader "Independent" raises a good point. Gavin complains that he prefers paleo data over satellite observations, yet the hockey stick was created by throwing out the inconvenient paleo data and replacing it with observations

Gore FAIL – Gore starts cussing in climate talk

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/06/gore-fail-gore-starts-cussing-in-climate-talk/

The fact that he has started cussing while addressing audiences(even supportive ones) clearly shows that he has lost the battle

More on phone hackers

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/8/6/more-on-phone-hackers.html

another odd connection between Climategate and illegal accessing of voicemails has recently emerged.

Flannery fears "Norway-style attack"

http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2011/08/flannery-fears-norway-style-attack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flannery-fears-norway-style-attack

Because as we all know, anybody who dares question the ridiculous predictions of the Official Government Climate Prophet is only a whisker away from buying a machine gun and killing dozens of innocent people. 

Howard doubts the warmists and their “alternative religion”

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/howard_doubts_the_warmists_and_their_alternative_religion#87793

Former Prime Minister John Howard has swung back to scepticism

NZ tried to censor me, says climate change sceptic by Isaac Davison

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog/~3/XfpM0TfjdxE/index.php

Viscount Monckton was not disappointed but was disturbed by what he felt were attempts at censorship.

He said : "I don't demand that anyone should agree with me, or should listen, but that they should demand that I shouldn't be heard, that seems a bit too much like what used to go on in Germany before World War II. 

Flannery admits: “no chance” of that flooding he claimed, after all

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/flannery_admits_no_chance_of_that_flooding_he_claimed_after_all#87795

Bear witness

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/08/bear-witness.html

While there, the party was attacked by the bear and then shot. Had there been no climate change, the party would not have been there, and the polar bear would not have been shot. Ergo, climate change killed the bear. Actually, though, the reality is even more ironic. Norwegian polar experts are apparently saying that there are more polar bears because there is an unexpected (to some) increase in sea ice, which has enabled them to travel more easily.

In fact, it has been so unseasonably cold up there that some of the party had already been airlifted out because of frostbite - oh and "sunburn" ... actually burn from snow glare. Furthermore, we are informed, the camp's protective tripwires did not work because they were frozen solid.

What Could Our Economy Possibly Need More Than Subsidies for Failing Farmer’s Markets

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoyoteBlog/~3/-DAlCNZFRnI/what-could-our-economy-possibly-need-more-than-subsidies-for-failing-farmers-markets.html

As is typical, this has nothing to do with helping the poor.  This is about government subsidy of a particular set of lifestyle choices of aging middle class hipsters.

Believe it or Not….

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoyoteBlog/~3/nD2ogh-PZB0/believe-it-or-not.html

… there are actually folks who think that Obama's farcical and unreachable 54.5 mpg standards for cars are too low.

Since cars are redesigned every 5 years, the 2025 date is basically 3 car revisions from now.  It also is far enough in the future the auto makers can cynically sign on now fully expecting to ignore or change the regulation in the future.

More priceless quotes from Al Gore: 'It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company...to use the goddamn word climate'

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/08/more-priceless-quotes-from-al-gore-its.html

"When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again," he continued. "There's no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. People have no idea! And yet our ability to actually come to a shared reality that emphasizes the best evidence. It's no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the goddamn word climate. It is not acceptable. They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it." Gore lamented the diminished role that reason and fact-based analysis play in modern U.S. politics.

Cooling The Past In Lincoln, Virginia

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/cooling-the-past-in-lincoln-virginia/

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ Measured maximum temperatures in Lincoln, Virginia have been declining since 1930 (blue line.) But through the magic of subtracting almost four degrees from 1930 temperatures, USHCN has been able to turn a strong downwards trend into an upwards trend.

A Global Warming Annie Hall Moment

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/a-global-warming-annie-hall-moment/

'Liar Dude' Says It's Been 10,000 Years Since Arctic Tundra Burned: 1977, Half-Million Acres of Tundra Burns

http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/08/liar-dude-says-its-been-10000-years-since-arctic-tundra-burned-1977-half-million-acres-of-tundra-bur.html

Growing unpopularity of GreenLabor Canberra Government corresponds exactly with post April weakness in the ASX

http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=1094

Cleaning Two Billion Solar Panels

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/cleaning-two-billion-solar-panels/

A tiny layer of dust can drastically affect the light-harvesting ability of solar cells – just a few grams per square metre can cut the efficiency in half

Update on a Polar Mystery

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/08/update-on-polar-mystery.html

Also in the very odd department, consider how AAAS Science Insiderresponds to this news:

"Polarbeargate" may not be the gold mine that climate change denialists had hoped for.

AAAS, Climate change denialists?Really?  And people wonder why leading institutions of science have been diminished in the eyes of many people (the most fervent partisans excepted).

Arctic ice loss has been much worse historically: Study

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/9271-arctic-ice-loss-has-been-much-worse-historically-study

The meltdown underway in the Arctic is remarkable, but an international team of beachcombers has uncovered evidence it's been much worse before.

Professor George Taylor: Man-made Climate Change Skeptics Aren't a Fringe Group [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/15516

CC. There are those who describe climatologists who don't believe in man-made climate change as being on the fringe. Is that true?

"Absolutely not. It's very much in the mainstream now. There are many, many climatologists who are skeptical about it (man-made climate change). I don't know if it's more than 50 percent or not. But in science that really doesn't matter. Science has nothing to do with who has a consensus or a majority.

Evidence of Granholm’s Mysterious Climate Pact With Britain Missing From State Records [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/15495

Pew, A Partisan Big Green Group Does "Payola" To Assure Loyal PhD's Advocacy

http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/08/pew-a-partisan-big-green-group-does-payola-phds-to-assure-loyal-advocacy.html

Left/liberal/progressive/Democrat oriented groups just can't leave the proven scientific process and methodologies alone. They literally have to "buy" their "science" by financially contributing to scientists who will then likely perform the left's advocacy work...

Coffee Jumps on Brazil Frost Concern; Cotton, Orange Juice Fall

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/05/bloomberg1376-LPGIJI0D9L3501-72VJLBB3L4CUE2HBLV5I751IK1.DTL

An overnight cold spell may have caused frost to develop in some growing areas in Brazil's Parana state, possibly hurting yield potential for next year's crop, state agricultural analyst Adriano Nunomura said by telephone.

Your Hamburger: The Newest Cause of Global Warming - Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog - A Conservative Blog

http://www.conservativeblog.org/amyridenour/2011/8/5/your-hamburger-the-newest-cause-of-global-warming.html

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), the Washington special interest outfit that pioneered such advancements as the "cell phones cause cancer" hysteria, is back and now they're going after beef. The EWG hasreleased a report calculating the carbon footprint of beef products and their findings are very sobering. Er, maybe not

Arctic Expedition Goes Terribly Awry – One Youth Killed By Polar Bear

http://notrickszone.com/2011/08/05/arctic-expedition-goes-terribly-awry-one-youth-killed-by-polar-bear/

According to Der Spiegel, the island is inhabited by about 2500 people and 3000 polar bears.

The BSES is a non-profit UK-based youth development charity. Founded in 1932 by the late Surgeon Commander G Murray Levick, a member of Scott's final Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13, BSES is one of the longest running organisations of its type.

Polar bear kills are treated like potential murders

Expeditions are normally provided with firearms for protection. But as Der Spiegel reports, shooting a polar bear is legally risky – no joke:

If a polar bear is killed on the archipelago, then it automatically leads to a trial. In this case the authorities assume the role of defence attorney for the dead bear."

Bill McKibben: Why Cleantech Should Join the Fight Against Tar Sands

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/08/05/289367/bill-mckibben-why-cleantech-should-join-the-fight-against-tar-sands/

developing the tar sands without accounting for CO2 is about idiocy and influence, not, surely, about facts.

Fuels They Don't Want-Fraudster Al

http://blog.algore.com/2011/08/fuels_they_dont_want.html

David Robert's at Grist reports on anincredible story: "One recent bit of Republican brazenness deserves to be called out, though. The military has said that it does not want to consider high-carbon fuels among its future options. Congressional conservatives and fossil-state Democrats are attempting to tell the Pentagon, no, you must consider high-carbon fuels." "In short, conservatives are disagreeing with the considered judgment of the military on the national security implications of fossil fuels. One might even accuse them of hating our troops." Source: Grist

Green McCartney's Gas Guzzler - National Review Online

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/273830/green-mccartneys-gas-guzzler-henry-payne

"Some people don't believe in climate warning — like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust," he told London's Sun newspaper.

So what was McCartney doing tooling around Detroit in that notorious death-camp vehicle, the 17 mpg Chevy Suburban last month?

Taxpayers Get Hosed on Duke Energy's Wind Farm Buying Spree | National Legal and Policy Center

http://nlpc.org/stories/2011/08/03/duke-energys-lucrative-wind-farm-buying-spree

Schleede also explains how Duke Energy and Rogers's fellow rent seekers benefit from the Federal Production Tax Credit, Investment Tax Credits or Production Tax Credits, additional state subsidies for utilities, and Department of Energy subsidies such as research and development grants and contracts. This, Schleede says, transfers "hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the pockets of ordinary taxpayers and electric customers to a few large corporations that own wind farms…." 

Those deadly cute polar bears

http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2011/08/those-deadly-cute-polar-bears.html

After arriving in Longyearbyen to see our first midnight sun we were all so relived to see our tents set up and waiting. I think we must of all dreamt of Polar bears because the next day was eagerly waiting for the ice flows to break up so we could move on to base camp. There was a P.bear sighting across the fjord about a mile away. Unfortunately a Westerly wind and freak climatic events have led to an unprecedented amount of ice in the fjord meaning we are marooned here for the time being

Naming Names: Marine Experts Tainted by Activist Cash

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/08/05/naming-names-marine-experts-tainted-by-activist-cash/

Is it really in the public interest for the line between advocacy and science to become blurred in this manner?

Below is the complete list of marine experts (Pew's term) who accepted this activist cash. Take a minute to scan it. It contains an awful lot of people whom the public is likely to regard as neutral, objective experts. There's a PhD attached to their name, after all.

But please also note that these people are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with full-blown political activists.

German Scientists Compute CO2 Climate Sensitivity At Only 1.1°C – “Alarmist Prognoses Fully Inappropriate”

http://notrickszone.com/2011/08/05/german-scientists-compute-co2-climate-sensitivity-at-only-1-1%c2%b0c-alarmist-prognoses-fully-inappropriate/

The effect is harmless (to the contrary, CO2-increases and slight global warming are beneficial for man and thus desirable) and show that the overly alarmist prognoses for future climate developments as fully inappropriate."

A Waste Of Money By NSF and NCAR? Are They Studying The Predictability Of Climate On Decadal Time Scales, Or Are They Just Providing Unverified Predictions To The Impacts Community?

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/a-waste-of-money-by-nsf-and-ncar-are-they-studying-the-predictability-of-climate-on-decadal-time-scales-or-are-they-just-providing-unverified-predictions-to-the-impacts-community/

No Wind In Texas

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/no-wind-in-texas/

Texas has been cutting back on building gas and coal power capacity, because of their heavy reliance on wind. During this summer's heatwave, there has been almost no wind – and they are almost out of electricity...

Scientists Will Find Whatever They Expect To Find

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/scientists-will-find-whatever-they-expect-to-find

In April, 1888 a massive flood on Mars inundated an area the size of France, cut the polar ice cap in half, and joined the two Martian seas. Global warming was rapidly destroying the martian ice caps. The consensus of leading astronomers around the world agreed.