Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war' | World news | The Observer

At the end of the drive there's a fleet of black Suburbans, giant SUVs
with blacked-out windows: not too many junior accountants would have a
crack team of secret service agents on site, it's true
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He was mocked – three decades before global warming became a fashionable concern – for walking around the White House, turning down the thermostats.

Coral, we hardly knew ye: After only 200 million years of life, trace amounts of natural, harmless, invisible gas will allegedly kill 100% of the world's coral over the next 89 years

Coral reefs 'will be gone by end of the century' - Nature, Environment - The Independent

They will be the first entire ecosystem to be destroyed by human activity, says top UN scientist
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Coral reefs are on course to become the first ecosystem that human activity will eliminate entirely from the Earth, a leading United Nations scientist claims. He says this event will occur before the end of the present century, which means that there are children already born who will live to see a world without coral.

CO2 Science

In fact, the scleractinian corals, which are the major builders of the reefs of today, have been around some 200 million years, during most of which time both the atmosphere's CO2 concentration and its temperature were much greater than they are today, which should immediately raise a red flag about the proffered cause of the recent decline in reef growth.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon: "a political formula must be found to ensure that a robust, post-2012 climate regime is agreed upon"

Climate Change Shows Old Model Not Only Dated, but Dangerous, Secretary-General Says at University of Sydney, Warning: ‘We Cannot Burn Our Way to the Future’

We are running out of time. In the first 50 years of this century, the population will increase by 50 per cent and global emissions will need to decrease by 50 per cent. This is what I call the 50–50–50 challenge.
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Japan is aiming to create 1.4 million new green jobs. Denmark is moving to be free of fossil fuels by 2050....This is a global race to save the planet. But it is also a race to see which countries and economies will forge the path to creating green sustainable jobs....Moreover, given that the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires next year, a political formula must be found to ensure that a robust, post-2012 climate regime is agreed upon, and is not delayed by negotiating gamesmanship.

The Post dropped the ball on an environmental event - The Washington Post

Several decades ago, when the environmental movement was gaining widespread support in the United States, your editorial page editor, Meg Greenfield, wrote that we should act to make the most of the environment’s shining moment. Apparently, current Post editors have decided that shining moment has passed.

The two-week, peaceful protest in front of the White House, imploring President Obama to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline, passed without serious coverage by The Post.

Warmist William Snape III thinks we should maintain our current mix of chemical elements in the atmosphere

Climate labels can be misleading - The Washington Post

I believe that maintaining our current mix of chemical elements in the atmosphere, which our species and others have used for thousands of years, is a fundamental conservative tenet.
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William J. Snape III, Washington

The writer is senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity and a fellow at American University’s law school.

Tom Nelson: 350: The most brain-dead campaign of your life

If you see any reason to panic when CO2 is over 350 ppm, please let me know immediately...

If Al Gore helped convince some people in Pakistan that any bad weather they face is America's fault, does he deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for that?

And Hate Begat Hate - NYTimes.com

LAHORE, Pakistan
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Famine, hunger, poverty and economic failure have increased beyond measure, at least in this corner of the world, where the Sept. 11 plans were hatched, while climate change has set off enormous floods and drought brings untold misery to millions in unexpected places. The latter is not the fault of Sept. 11, but in the minds of many the catastrophes we face stem from America’s wars and the diversion of America’s attention from truly universal problems. In this, America, too, is a victim of its wars and the global changes it has not addressed.

Settled science: There's either more or less Arctic ice than there was four years ago

Arctic ice cover hits historic low: scientists - FOCUS Information Agency

"On September 8, the extent of the Arctic sea ice was 4.240 million square kilometres (1.637 million square miles). This is a new historic minimum," said Georg Heygster, head of the Physical Analysis of Remote Sensing Images unit at the University of Bremen's Institute of Environmental Physics.
The new mark is about half-a-percent under his team's measurements of the previous record, which occurred on September 16, 2007, he said.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the record set on that date was 4.1 million sq km (1.6 sq mi). The discrepancy, Heygster explained by phone, was due to slightly different data sets and algorithms.
"But the results are internally consistent in both cases," he said, adding that he expected the NSIDC to come to the same conclusion in the coming days.

IJIS Web Site

The latest value : 4,526,875 km2 (September 9, 2011)

Poor weather conditions hampers NZ triathletes - Newstalk ZB

Cold weather conditions have hampered the efforts of New Zealand male triathletes to book themselves spots at next year's Olympic games in the ITU World Championship final in Beijing.
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Docherty says it was much colder than normal in Beijing.

Obama: Restore the middle class

An estimated 12,000 people lined Detroit’s Riverfront, in unseasonably cold summer weather, to hear more than “hope” from the U.S. president

Oklahoma City Summers Getting Cooler | Real Science

Meeker, Oklahoma is the closest USHCN station to Oklahoma City. Measured summer maximum temperatures have been in steep decline since they started keeping records. Prior to 1950, they had five summers which averaged higher than 98F. Since 1950, there have only been two summers over 98F.

I doubt that you will see this information in any NOAA reports. It doesn’t fit the agenda.

1972 : South Dakota Flood Killed More Than 200 People | Real Science

At the time, the consensus was global cooling.

California Has Its Wettest Summer On Record | Real Science

Eight weeks ago, Joe Romm forecast a permanent drought for California.

Life in Future Acidic Seas - YouTube

Carbon dioxide is the principal greenhouse gas causing global warming, and as it accumulates in the atmosphere, it also moves into the ocean and increases its acidity.

Address will discuss ‘Global warming and bicycle adventure’ - Holland, MI - The Holland Sentinel

From 2005 to 2007, Kroodsma biked from his home in California to the tip of South America and used the journey to raise awareness of climate change.

David Kroodsma | OnEarth Magazine

David Kroodsma is a data journalist at Climate Central. Prior to coming to Climate Central, David worked as a climate researcher at the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science, and as a consultant for philanthropic organizations at California Environmental Associates.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Of Course Human Caused Climate Change Is Real

Humans, ants, and every other damn creature cause the climate to change.

The only question is how much?

Majority report: why consensus is all the rage | brisbanetimes.com.au

Simon James, a blogger from website Australian Climate Madness, wants to know why Fairfax Media - owner of The Age, The Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Australian Financial Review - does not pay more attention to these uncertainties.

Do clouds disappear? (4) « Calder's Updates

Warmer days and cooler nights when cosmic rays are scarce

Winter 2010-2011: More Indications Of A Cold Winter (Due To Global Warming!)

Cold winters “due to global warming”

Now for you AGW skeptics out there, don’t you dare go out saying that a cold Central European winter is a sign of cooling. To the contrary according to new models out of Potsdam, cold winters are a sure sign of global warming and man-made climate change, just as this is the case with hot weather. Yes the cold fits right in with the global warming picture – the models say so.

Huge Increase In Western Arctic Ice Over 2007 | Real Science

Western Arctic ice has increased by 9,000 Manhattans since 2007.

Could we sustainably prevent bad weather simply by encouraging the Earth's 7 billion people to drive 3.5 billion cooking-oil-fueled Mercedes school buses around the world?

Couple travel around the world on waste cooking oil

A couple has travelled around the world in a 22-year-old Mercedes school bus by using waste cooking oil for fuel.
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He converted the bus to run on waste cooking oil and installed a filtering system and a 1,200-litre tank under the bed before setting off in September 2009 determined to prove what can be achieved with people’s rubbish.
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And despite being arrested and facing jail time in India, Pag and Ammon say they had a fantastic time travelling around the globe.

After travelling through Europe and Africa, the couple plan to tour schools and businesses across Britain early next year to give talks about the lessons they have learned about climate change and carbon reduction efforts.

Private sector must drive climate change - Figueres - Business LIVE

As a result of the application of pro-sustainability reforms the Costa Rican economy is now 99% powered by renewable power, the majority of it being hydropower.

Our climate-realist facts have backing

DiLoreto should have done what David Suzuki should have done before going public with his criticisms - simply ask us about whatever concerned him. Had Suzuki and DiLoreto done their homework, they would have had no reason to criticize us at all.

TOM HARRIS, executive director, International Climate Science Coalition, Ottawa

Uncertainty Monster paper in press | Climate Etc.

This paper is pretty much guaranteed to generate controversy.

The Reference Frame: What Al Gore has learned from No Pressure

Well, instead of a red button and explosives, they use a model of the Earth that is loosely attached to the ceiling and that kills the female naysayer mechanically, in the old-fashioned way. However, the result is the same: the climate skeptic "ends" on September 14th. The only difference is that "No Pressure" was released in 10/10 while Gore's movie is released in 09/11. The sum is the same in both cases.

Dessler: “People who discount the science of climate change don’t do it because they’ve read the science” | Watts Up With That?

dougsherman says:
September 10, 2011 at 9:25 am

I think Perry’s strong stance against CAGW is going to be very instrumental in bringing this delusion down. The liberal press will have to put more nuts on the screen or in print. The more these people talk, the worse the public opinionn gets. Plus there will be a few legitimately inquiring journalists that will feel more inclined to actually cover the sceptic science.

A politician couldn’t conceive of making these comments just a few years ago, now they its nearly mainstream opinion. Truth will win.

Al Fin: Peak Oil: Meet Sophisticated Coal and Biomass to Liquids

There is more than 250 billion tons of recoverable U.S. coal reserves – equivalent to an estimated 800 billion barrels of oil, compared to Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves of 260 billion barrels

How the green Queen will screw her subjects – Telegraph Blogs

The Queen has spent £1.8 million pounds on an Archimedes Screw, which will – in theory – provide lashings of environmentally friendly power to Windsor Castle by harnessing the mighty tidal power of the River Thames. Of course, in reality it will do nothing of the sort, which is why I was originally going to title this story "Elderly Lady Mugged By Climate Cowboys."

Wind farms: the monuments to lunacy that will be left to blot the landscape - Telegraph

If the Government really wishes to make a useful change to our planning laws, it should insist that every planning permission to build wind turbines should include a requirement that, after their 25-year life, they must be removed at their owners’ expense. Alas, by that time the companies will all have gone bankrupt, and we shall be left with a hideous legacy as a monument to one of the greatest lunacies of our time.

Exxon Makes Billion-Dollar Bet Climate Change is Real, Here Now and Going to Get Worse But Keeps Funding Deniers | ThinkProgress

According to reports, Exxon has just signed an extensive deal with Rosneft, the Russian state oil company, to develop promising offshore oil and gas deposits in the Arctic Ocean.

- Bishop Hill blog - New paper supports Svensmark hypothesis

The results look good for Svensmark's ideas.

The results [are] hard (impossible?) to explain by any mechanism except an influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation.

Pensioners terrified by Abbott, claims Combet | theage.com.au

http://m.theage.com.au/national/pensioners-terrified-by-abbott-claims-combet-20110910-1k39k.html

CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet has blasted Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's devastatingly effective campaign against the carbon tax, saying ''his so-called people's revolt is revolting'' because it has terrified vulnerable old people.

Obama´s "austerity" program: A new $21 million climate change "embassy" in Papua New Guinea

http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2011/09/obamas-austerity-program-new-21-million.html

Storm Namers Winning 14-2

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Real-Science/feed/~3/prKtFElhRfI/storm-namers-winning-14-2

NOAA storm namers are having a record season, naming 14 gusts of wind so far – two of which have managed to turn into hurricanes. The 7:1 ratio is a huge improvement over  2005

NOAA Says That Normal Is Unusual

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Real-Science/feed/~3/rxg3EXh8E6M/noaa-normal-unusual

Drought covered a third of the US! That has only happened about 100 times in the past century. In 1934, drought covered 80% of the country

Tea Party Ignorant on Global Warming; Poll...

the Tea Party is alone in denying the existence of global warming.

You see, what isn't understood by some people ( and as the poll indicates, Tea Party supporters), when global warming is mentioned it isn't always necessarily man-made global warming that is being discussed. Naturally, these rabidly ignorant types tend to disregard any form of education on the manner so giving them the means to learn about it is pointless. It's all about politics to them, at least what little they understand of politics; and these people attribute the concept of climate change to being "liberal" or "progressive."

Hopefully one of these days, people who share the mentality of the dwindling grassroots movement will come around to the reality that the Earth is in fact fluctuating in climate. Whether or not it's caused by humans is beside the point, and it's important to know about the changes of weather and climate to be able to determine how the human race can continue to survive. Caring about the environment isn't a hippie thing, or a liberal thing. It's a human thing, and it's sad that some humans are just too slow and stubborn to get that.
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©2011 Chelsea Hoffman is the Author of "Chloe and Louis," and the "Fear Chronicles," series of books.

9/11 effect on energy policy? Not much - POLITICO.com Print View

“Mideast oil funds terrorism,” said then-Alaska Sen. Frank Murkowski, a supporter of ANWR drilling, in a Sept. 17, 2001, article by Greenwire.
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A month after the attacks, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman drew a similar line between gas-guzzling Americans and the financing of Saudi schools that preach hostility to non-Muslims. Friedman went on to quote a Johns Hopkins foreign policy specialist as saying: “Either we get rid of our minivans or Saudi Arabia gets rid of its textbooks.”

Solar Shop shuts as subsidies evaporate

Australia's largest seller of solar panels, Solar Shop, has been placed in receivership and will be put up for sale.

Obama energy policy raises costs, limits jobs - CNN.com

Austin, Texas (CNN) -- For decades, political commentators have been lamenting America's lack of an energy policy. That's no longer true. Under Barack Obama, the U.S. has adopted a very clear energy policy: obstruct and even vilify the coal, oil and natural gas industries while lavishing subsidies on unreliable and expensive sources like solar, biofuels and wind energy.

New Cornell Global Labor Institute report shows that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not the path to economic security | Susan Casey-Lefkowitz's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

In fact the Cornell report notes that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project might kill more jobs than it creates. The loss of jobs is not something considered in TransCanada’s jobs estimates. But TransCanada itself had said that this pipeline project by diverting oil from the US Midwest to the Gulf Coast would cause oil prices to rise in the Midwest – and rising oil prices can be a job killer.

Flashback: $8 gas and the green agenda :: Jeff Jacoby

TESTIFYING BEFORE the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked about something he said in September. "Somehow," the Nobel laureate had told The Wall Street Journal, "we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." At the time, gasoline in Europe was going for around $8 a gallon. Did the secretary, Florida Representative Cliff Stearns inquired, still want to see US gas prices rise that high?

Michael Coffman -- Is a Carbon Currency the Endgame? Part 1

Carbon currency is a global monetary system that would not be based on money as we have historically known it, but on carbon credits. It is nothing less than a revolutionary new economic system based on energy consumption and production rather than price.

ESR | September 12, 2011 | The slow, certain death of the global warming theory

Universities across America, founded by foundations, have entire departments and units devoted to keeping the global warming fraud alive. The mainstream press is heavily invested in it. Schools continue to frighten children with its claims. All this and other efforts will fail because science -- real science -- does not support it.

Rick Perry Galileo: Climate-Change Deniers Are the Vatican, Not the Persecuted Scientists - International Business Times

But here is the reality: Galileo defended science in the face of an establishment that screamed heresy at the notion that the Earth revolved around the sun. Perry is rejecting science in the face of an establishment that recognizes that the facts support manmade climate change.

More fraud from warmist Dessler: "People who discount the science of climate change don't do it because they've read the science"

Drought, Wildfires Haven't Changed Perry's Climate-Change Views : It's All Politics : NPR

Last week, I drove to College Station to talk with Andy Dessler about the renewed firestorm over global warming. This was the week before actual firestorms roared across Central Texas, killing four people, burning 1,000 homes, and forcing thousands to evacuate. The punishing drought played a major role in the wildfire outbreak, the worst in Texas history, and Dessler says there's an unmistakable connection between the drought and climate change.

"We can't say climate change is causing the extreme weather Texas is having right now. On the other hand, we can say humans have increased the temperature of the base climate state pretty much everywhere. And what that means is it makes the heat more extreme and increases evaporation from the soil. We can be confident we've made this hellish summer worse than it would have been."
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Dessler is not surprised anymore by the vehemence of the emails he receives from people who believe he is perpetrating a fraud.

"People who discount the science of climate change don't do it because they've read the science," he says. "The science of climate change is a proxy for views on the role of government. From what I understand, Perry's position is that he doesn't want government to interfere in private lives or industry. That means climate change — which calls for a government solution; there's no way for the free market to address climate change by itself — that doesn't fit anywhere with his political values. So he shoots the messenger."

The messenger is Andy Dessler and the great majority of other climate scientists who believe human activity is warming the planet.

More Taxpayer Money for the Solar Industry - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

But why? 1366 is backed by GE Energy Financial Services and the VC firm VantagePoint. Those two firms couldn’t have arranged financing to build a factory?

'Free' corporate help accepted by energy department, Caroline Lucas reveals | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Forty eight people from fossil fuel companies, consultancies and academia have worked unpaid in the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc), Caroline Lucas revealed in her leader's speech here at the Green party conference in Sheffield on Friday.

"There are very few businesses who will lend their top employees to government for nothing," she told her party. "No, they expect something in return: influence, access and the inside track on the next fat contract."

Companies including EDF, Centrica, ConocoPhillips and the UK Petroleum Industry association all lent staff, as well as KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst and Young. Non-commercial organisations also donated staff time, such as the Carbon Trust and Cambridge University.

Top 10 Cities Where Weather Shuts Down Everyday Life | Farmers' Almanac

The D.C. area had seen more than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870, according to the National Weather Service. Again, that was before 2009–2010.

Twitter / @aownkaz [But aren't we supposed to believe that outside of the US, everybody believes in the global warming hoax?]

@Revkin having the #Climate debate in #Pakistan.... NOT easy. But then again is it easy anywhere?

Overheated Alaska update: Kivalina residents, allegedly terrified of being swept out to sea, don't want to move to an inland site because it would be "too cold, too windy, too removed from the coast"

As waves lap at their doorsteps, Alaskan islanders take on climate polluters | Grist

With the clock ticking, the cold Chukchi Sea seems to loom over every interaction, every conversation. Residents describe nightmares of being swept out to sea. Even more vivid are the details of actual events, such as the 2007 storm during which people struggled in pitch darkness to reassure crying children and move belongings as the sea grabbed chunks of land
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Even if Kivalina succeeds in financing its relocation, the future of the community is by no means assured. Shearer recounts how a contractor working on the relocation problem, URS Corporation, proposed an inland site that horrified residents -- too cold, too windy, too removed from the coast -- and has yet to consider their objections.

Carol Linnitt | Reliance on Unconventional Gas is No Good for Climate, Says Scientist Tom Wigley

Wigley’s findings mean yet another challenge for the gas industry and their continuous claim that unconventional gas can and should provide the pathway to a clean energy future. It will be interesting to see how the gas industry responds to this new important contribution to the evolving science surrounding unconventional gas.

Flashback: Pelosi on Natural Gas: Fossil Fuel or Not? - Washington Wire - WSJ

On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas – an energy source she favors – is not a fossil fuel.

“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another.

The speaker apparently was trying to contrast her support for expanded use of natural gas as a motor-vehicle fuel, and many Republicans’ preference for more domestic oil drilling — particularly through opening up more of the Outer Continental Shelf for exploration.

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[The good old days, back before CO2 started causing floods]: 1931 Flood Killed Millions in China, And Left 50,000,000 Homeless | Real Science

This followed three years of severe drought. Water levels rose 54 feet and flooded 16 provinces. The Guardian tells us that recent flooding is unprecedented.

Should a newspaper reporter actually search the news – before making spectacularly dishonest claims?

Is Gov. Perry ‘Anti-Science’?

How then should presidential contenders respond to such questions?

Here’s how I would answer Harris’s question

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Inconvenient truth: Antarctica sea ice extent growing 1.43% per year

A paper published today in the Journal of Climate examines the trend of sea ice extent along the East Antarctic coast from 2000 to 2008 and finds a significant increase of 1.43% per year.

September, 1900 – Galveston Destroyed By A Hurricane, Queensland Ravaged By Three Years Of Extreme Drought | Real Science

The Guardian tells us that current weather is unprecedented.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Dutch professor: "To assume we human beings have a golden key to keep the world at zero position, is arrogance"

Kroonenberg is spot on when he describes the arrogance of the warmist doomsday prophets. Fortunately, recent polls show that ordinary people are increasingly sharing his view. That´s why there is hope that decision makers and environmentalists before long will again begin to focus on fighting real pollution.

One blizzard from catastrophe - Winnipeg Free Press

"We got lucky on the Red. That was one of the saving graces," Steve Topping said. "But we sat down with the city and started planning for the possibility of even greater floods.

"We know we go from wet cycles to drought cycles and we know climate change is happening, partly due to global warming and partly due to changes to the landscape."

C3: The Indisputable Climate Facts For Jon Huntsman: Global Warming Is A Non-Issue

Hell, even Obama has smartened up about the bogus climate hysteria and is starting to avoid it like the plague. Huntsman is so stupid and desperate for liberal love he gets suckered by the MSM, thus revealing himself to be both politically correct and extremely vulnerable with his fringe AGW views.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: The 76 trillion dollar computer game

A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research in essence reveals climate models are not capable of reproducing the observed climate of the past century, much less the future. According to the paper, "few models reproduce the strong observed warming trend from 1918 to 1940," there are "large differences" in the forcings and feedbacks used in various models and that some of these are "unrealistic." In other words, the key inputs and assumptions of the models are not known with reasonable certainty - ergo GIGO. The paper also finds that predicting the range of "future climate change by weighting these models based on their 20th century [performance] is not possible." Translation: climate models are little more than very expensive computer fantasy games that cannot predict the future nor even replicate the past.

Global warming alarmism on steroids – some like it hot | Watts Up With That?

This is one of those Jeane Dixon style predictions, written in such general terms that it can be provable by just about any summer in the future. According to the Wikipedia article on her, John Allen Paulos, a mathematician at Temple University, coined the term “the Jeane Dixon effect,” which refers to a tendency to promote a few correct predictions while ignoring a larger number of incorrect predictions. Sound familiar?

Example in 2012: Hey, there was a new record July temperature in North Podunk Saskatchewan (apologies to Kate), See, we were right! Worse, while citing an NCDC report that agrees with their prediction, the author conveniently avoids the conclusion made by NOAA last year related to the Russian heat wave of 2010 which has no linkage to “global warming” bust was the same sort of block high pressure setup that caused the US heat wave this year.

1917 Flood Killed 3,000,000 People In China | Real Science

The Guardian tells us that recent flooding is unprecedented.

Climate Fool of the Week #10 | Climate Nonconformist

The ABC told us that skeptics are waging a war on science and that anyone who dares to oppose the carbon tax is an extremist. Given their horrid propaganda piece on Catalyst, that whole organisation is fully deserved of the Climate Fool award. Our tax dollars pay these people, yet they use them to vilify a growing minority (skeptics) and a large majority (people against the carbon tax). It’s unacceptable from the national broadcaster.

- Bishop Hill blog - Bradley on the Hockey Stick 2

Time after time when reading Bradley's defence of the Hockey Stick, I was struck by how he avoided the criticisms that were actually made of the paper, preferring instead to knock down a series of strawmen. There are also parts that are grossly misleading.

Hide the decline - Historic La Nina eminent?

The NCEP/CFS has predicted a still stronger second La Nina dip for months now. All other models seems not to agree. How come so many models cannot see massive cold just around the corner if NCEP/CFS is correct?

Washington Post warmist Ezra Klein: "I have always felt embarrassed that I know so little about energy and climate change"

The end of this blog. The beginning of Wonkblog. - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

I have always felt embarrassed that I know so little about energy and climate change, which are arguably the most consequential issues facing our economy, and even our planet.

Climate Change Archive for Ezra Klein - Economic and Domestic Policy, and Lots of It

Washingon Post reporter: "I think a lot of Americans, quite frankly, doubt some of this climate change science"

Clueless Media Analysis | National Catholic Reporter

Last night, Chris Matthews had Nia Malika-Henderson, national political reporter for the Washington Post on to discuss the previous night's GOP debate. At one point, the subject of Gov. Rick Perry's denual of the science surrounding climate change came up. Here is what Ms. Malika-Henderson said:

No, I think, when the Tea Party, when folks from the right hear climate change, they actually hear climate tax. And so one of the things they do is they just try to undermine the science of it. So that`s what you saw him doing last night. But I think this puts him obviously in the mainstream of the Tea Party. And I think a lot of Americans, quite frankly, doubt some of this climate change science.

Rick Perry: He's no Galileo - latimes.com

Not all Republicans are stuck in the Middle Ages when it comes to attitudes about science. At the party's presidential debate Wednesday night in Simi Valley, Jon Huntsman Jr. showed that at least some of the candidates have advanced past the Enlightenment era.

Shock News : Humans Can Survive 28F Higher Temperatures Than Where I Live | Real Science

This place in the Pacific Ocean averages 78F during the year, yet people seem to be able to manage. Fort Collins averages a much more livable 50F. Difficult to imagine that anyone could survive the harsh conditions shown above.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: My Initial Comments on the New Dessler 2011 Study « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

UPDATE: I have been contacted by Andy Dessler, who is now examining my calculations, and we are working to resolve a remaining difference there. Also, apparently his paper has not been officially published, and so he says he will change the galley proofs as a result of my blog post

Vancouver festival | Greenpeace Canada

The Action Zone will give a taste of how we take part in civil disobedience and how we bring attention to environmental crimes. Action zone activities will include:

Climb training
Civil disobedience workshop
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Kids Zone
The festival will incorporate a kids zone to entertain Greenpeace's youngest supporters with:
Story Telling
Face Painting

Tzeporah Berman gives pointers to young would-be environmental activists | The Vancouver Observer

Berman’s anecdotes touch on the terrible facts of climate change. Her seat mate on her flight to Copenhagen was the chief climate negotiator for Liberia. After she described the state of the debates over renewable energy in Canada, he told her:

“It’s nice that you still have time for those discussions. In my home today, people are dying and more people will die tomorrow and so far nothing we’ve done will help them.”

The G77 spokesperson from Sudan compared the Copenhagen Accord to a suicide pact that condemns Africa to becoming a furnace. Grain yields in Africa are expected to decrease by 50 per cent over the next ten years. Millions are already starving in Sudan.

RGGI update: It wasn’t supposed to be like this | Watts Up With That?

Too long title: New Hampshire stays in, NJ probably gets out, 3rd quarter auction sells less than 18% of allowances, secondary market moribund, RGGI soldiers on.

ATI Release: Kansas Gov., Former Sen. Brownback Incorrect on Promise, Economics of Renewable Energy

“Unfortunately Gov. Brownback and his advisers have not done their due diligence in investigating the serious problems with renewables mandates and wind power,” Chesser said. “All they need to do to discover that truth is to remove the mandates and massive government subsidies these alternative energy schemes enjoy, and let them stand or fall on their own.”

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Don’t Think This is Settled

I won’t get into the depths of this, except to show two charts. The first is from Dessler in the alarmist camp, the second is the same chart but using a different data series. I won’t explain the axes, just trust the relationship between these two variables is key to diagnosing the size and direction of feedback.

Al Gore reflects on Rick Perry

Gore plans a 24-hour "Climate Reality Project" event in cities worldwide next week, and he lamented that only Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China, has embraced climate science among the GOP presidential candidates.

"Evidently it requires courage, because he has been pummeled for it," Gore said. "It won't help him for me to say it, of course.

Which word was missing from Obama’s speech last night? « Hot Air

Taxpayers just lost over a half-billion dollars on way-below-market-rate loans to Solyndra, which turns out to be connected to an Obama donor who spent a lot of time at the White House, and who will get his money out of Solyndra before taxpayers do thanks to a curious structure to those taxpayer-funded loan guarantees. Hint: when the FBI raids a company that the President heralded as the vanguard of the new green-energy revolution, it’s not exactly a rousing validation of that administration’s policies.

Comparing the SOTU Speech to Yesterday’s - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

From January’s State of the Union — Green jobs will save us!

Bummer: Burning natural gas is "just too damned clean"; when you burn it, you don't emit enough of the planet-healing sulfates and other particles you get from burning coal

Natural Gas Climate War Heats Up - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Hooray! Natural gas could be the bridge fuel to the no-carbon energy future. Not so fast. Natural gas is just too damned clean, says a new study based on climate computer simulations by researcher Tom Wigley at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.

“Whatever the methane leakage rate, you can’t get away from the additional warming that will occur initially because, by not burning coal, you’re not having the cooling effect of sulfates and other particles,” Wigley says. “This particle effect is a double-edged sword because reducing them is a good thing in terms of lessening air pollution and acid rain. But the paradox is when we clean up these particles, it slows down efforts to reduce global warming.”

Not to be too cynical, as usual the solution (solar and wind) remains what activists wanted all along.

Althouse: James Fallows says it was "flat-out moronic" for Rick Perry to bring up Galileo.

...In this context, Perry's invocation of Galileo makes perfect sense, and if anybody's a flat-out moron here, it's Fallows.

GOP Widens Solyndra Probe, May Subpoena White House | The Energy Collective

U.S. Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL), chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, recently told energyNOW! that he may expand the initial investigation into loan guarantees Solyndra received from the U.S. Department of Energy to cover other clean energy companies. “We’re trying to understand how this stimulus package of $60 billion dollars is going to work,” said Stearns. “Is most of the money going to companies like Solyndra, or is it actually going into companies that will succeed in manufacturing and create jobs for this country?”

SA to host adequate COP 17, despite possible funding shortfall – Minister

In 2010, the Department of Environmental Affairs officials estimated that South Africa would require at least R320-million [44 million US dollars?] to host a ‘lean and mean’ COP. The National Treasury has allocated R200-million towards the cost of hosting the conference. The balance would likely be made up through donor funding.

Why not hold this entire climate hoax event on the Internet, without any closed-door meetings, saving most of the money and all of the flying?

Oregon: Associate professor of political science still wonders why so few people really believe in the global warming hoax

Hurricanes, floods and wildfires – but Washington won't talk global warming | Jules Boykoff | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

America is seeing record-breaking extreme weather, yet the US political class is paralysed in climate change negligence
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In 2007, then New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin pondered the possibility that thanks to the vast geographical expanse of the United States, "there is almost never a shared sense of meteorological misery." This, he noted cautiously, might help explain why global warming had not become a front-burner political issue, unlike geographically tighter places like Europe where elected leaders were tackling the problem with more vim.

But recent record-breaking "meteorological misery" from coast to coast is making it clear that severe weather may well be the new normal.
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Same goes for Obama. How many deaths and billions in economic damage from extreme weather would it take for him to take action to mitigate climate change and, for example, put the kibosh on the Keystone XL pipeline? If New York were transmogrified into the Okefenokee swamp, would that be enough? How about if southern California were turned into a desertified deadzone?

We're living in unconventional political times in the United States, so it's time to dispense with conventional political thinking. Climate scientists are telling us with increasing confidence that the impacts of climate change are already playing out, and not just in the Antarctic where photogenic ice shelves are clattering into the sea. Climate change is already expressing itself as wild weather. It's blowing in the wind.

Jules Boykoff | guardian.co.uk

Jules Boykoff is an associate professor of political science at Pacific University in Oregon. He writes on activism, climate change, and the politics of sports

In an effort to prevent bad weather, the Obama administration is using your tax dollars to help people buy coal-powered Mitsubishi cars

And if you ask any questions, you're anti-science, stupid, racist, religious, old, male, and worse than Hitler.

Mitsubishi boosts starting prices of electric car - CNBC

CYPRESS, Calif. - Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc. said Friday that due to unforeseen circumstances, it's raising the price of its new electric vehicle.
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The Japanese automaker did not give a specific reason for the price increase, just citing "unforeseen changes in market conditions." Buyers of the cars will still qualify for a $7,500 federal tax credit.

Google: Cloud Services like Gmail Are 80 Times More Efficient Than Localized Email Services | ThinkProgress

Previously, Climate Progress outlined four good reasons why cloud computing is better for the climate

What counts as “the end” of the global warming scam? | ScottishSceptic

...one group stands out: that is the weather forecasters. At some point they are going to have to start using solar activity in forecasts. As the Met Office and BBC have been so vehemently opposed to solar activity and so pro-CO2 as a cause of “climate/weather”, the clearest indication of “victory” must surely be when either of these two finally admit the solar link and that they are now using solar activity in their forecasts.

On that basis, I’m now going to make a forecast: that one or other of the above will by the end of 2012 or at latest 2013, make a statement or comment to that effect.

Cape Town tries to reduce Carbon Emissions | Compare Away

There are 23 partner organisations working together on the project
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Water: Save water. Or climate change could mean we have none.
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Transport: Take the bus now. Or take the heat later.

RealClimate: The unnoticed melt

“Well, it’s not really good timing to write about global warming when the summer feels cold and rainy”, a journalist told me last week. Hence, at least here in Germany, there hasn’t been much reporting about the recent evolution of Arctic sea ice

Low level of ambition in climate talks a ‘serious concern’ − Zuma

The low level of ambition in climate change negotiations is a “serious concern”, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday, addressing 21 environmental ministers accompanied by negotiators and delegates from 43 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) member states gathered in Pretoria.

Colorado prairie dog study to examine whether warmer winters prompt more activity, erosion - KDVR

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Is global warming causing prairie dogs to damage the soil?

Lower Temperatures May Send Heating Demand Up in Mid-September

Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Temperatures may be low enough in the Midwest and New England by mid-September to send residents turning up the thermostats in their homes and businesses, said Matt Rogers, president of Commodity Weather Group LLC.

University of Leipzig Suppressed Climate-Critical Seminar

The fundamental human right of scientific freedom gets trampled on in Germany. European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) Vice President Michael Limburg was denied making a climate science-critical speech at the University of Leipzig. Are we slipping back into the science Dark Ages in Europe?

Al Gored in Edinburgh | ScottishSceptic

I see we have the “pleasure” of hosting Al Gored, in Edinburgh on 27-28Sept at the EICC.

And as far as I can see the Scottish & UK government are footing some of the bill through Scottish “Enterprise” and the RBS (government owned)

So-Called “Climate-Sensitivity” – A Dance On The Head Of A Pin | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The bottom line conclusion is that the assessment of risks to key resources, including threats from climate variability and climate change, based on the magnitude of a so-called “climate sensitivity“, is a fatally flawed framework for developing effective adaptation and mitigation policies to reduce those risks.

Southern California gets some unscheduled Earth Hours; not everyone enjoyed it

SDG&E: Power Restored To All Customers - San Diego

During the outage, schools and businesses -- including gas stations -- closed; commuters jammed roadways; the medically fragile packed hospitals; and at least two sewage pumps failed, contaminating a lagoon and a river that feeds into San Diego Bay.

Flashback: What Makes Earth Hour Fun? | Real Science

They know the lights will be back on in less than an hour. If they tried Earth Month instead, that would be the end of the global warming religion.

The Reference Frame: RSS AMSU, Jan-Aug: 2011 second coldest in this century

It's more likely than not at during 2012 or at the beginning of 2013, we will actually see an RSS climate record that will display a cooling trend during the most recent 15 years – partly because of the expected 2011/2012 La Niña, partly because the warm 1998 year will emerge at the beginning of the 15-year interval. Recent years increasingly paint the story that the "global warming" stopped more than a decade ago.

The first 11 years of this century surely display a cooling trend.

More hard evidence that trace amounts of CO2 are lethal for moose: Since the mid-1980s, the moose population in western Michigan has only grown from 59 to 430

Moose Hunt Opposed - Michigan

DNR biologists believe about 430 moose are scattered among portions of Marquette, Baraga and Iron counties in the western U.P., while fewer than 100 range across parts of Alger, Schoolcraft, Luce, and Chippewa counties in the eastern U.P. The western population grew from a group of 59 moose transported to Marquette County from Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, in the mid-1980s.
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Scientists say a number of factors probably have limited their growth, including an increase in numbers of whitetail deer, which carry a brainworm parasite fatal to moose. The warming climate also may be a problem. Moose are cold-weather animals and the Upper Peninsula is on the southern fringe of their comfort zone.

Carbon Market Set To Go Up In Smoke

The real question with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is asked in this podcast: How did it go so wrong?

The Northeastern US carbon dioxide trading system was proposed in 2003, less than a decade ago but a lifecycle ago in climate change politics. At the time, dealing with global warming was a top priority, and Republicans were seeking market solutions to what was perceived as a huge threat.

Hearing set on Cuccinelli's quest for climate records | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

Cuccinelli is investigating whether Michael Mann defrauded state taxpayers by using manipulated data to obtain government grants.

» ‘Science!’: Beyond the Pose, Mr. Huntsman, What Would you DO? - Big Government

Mr. Huntsman, please move beyond the “Science!” pose and tell us: On ‘climate’, what would you do?

Flashback: Huntsman: Did I say that CO2 might kill us all? I meant I'm a big fan of oil sands, coal, oil drilling, and fracking

George W. Obama: Speech last night contained no mention of the global warming hoax, but he did come out in favor of airport construction, highway construction, and building fossil-fueled vehicles to be proudly sold all over the planet

Text Of President Obama's Jobs Speech

...Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us an economic superpower. And now we're going to sit back and watch China build newer airports and faster railroads? At a time when millions of unemployed construction workers could build them right here in America?
...If Americans can buy Kias and Hyundais, I want to see folks in South Korea driving Fords and Chevys and Chryslers. I want to see more products sold around the world stamped with three proud words: "Made in America."
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 Ask yourselves - where would we be right now if the people who sat here before us decided not to build our highways and our bridges; our dams and our airports?
...Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

Doha trade round a greater priority than climate change | Scoop News

[Federated Farmers President, Bruce Wills] “I would actually say right now, Doha is of more significance to developing countries than international climate change negotiations.

'24 Hours Of Reality' Project: The Fat Lady Has Sung About Climate Change (VIDEO)

The quick, quirky videos below were produced by "M ss ing P eces" in conjunction with the Glover Park Group and Alex Bogusky at Fearless Cottage. The project describes the ads, stating, "The message is simple: The climate crisis is not a debate. It’s a Reality. And the time to take action is not the future – it’s right now. Because the fat lady has sung and the *#!? is hitting the fan."

Ban Ki-moon: clueless on climate | Australian Climate Madness

Nothing but mawkish emotional blackmail. Sea levels have not accelerated due to industrialisation. They have risen at virtually the same rate for thousands of years. And anyway, Kiribati is growing – the BBC told us so it must be true.

Radicals, climate change, WMD remain top national security threats: Experts

The three biggest threats to national security that Canada has overlooked, [Wesley Wark, a leading expert on national security who teaches at the University of Ottawa] added, include the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by countries like Iran as well as non-state actors, the impact of failed states and climate change which could lead to forced migration, resource conflicts and war.

"Some countries like the U.K. have embraced this and said this is the No. 1 national security threat of the future," he said of climate change.

"We don't talk about this at all in Canada."

The Reference Frame: Are all climate skeptics theocratic?

Christianity and global warming alarmism are two different religions. Some people think that these two religions are "similar" which may be good for some of them and bad for others; other people think that these two religions are "negatively correlated" and they prefer to like one of them or the other. To summarize, all four combinations exist (atheist or believing × skeptics or alarmists) and none of them is negligible.

Death Threats? Respect the science? Start with some evidence. « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

The death threats scare that was widely publicized in June 2011 turned out to be opportunistic hyperbole based on a five year old letter, one unverified remark at an event a year ago, and recycled old boorish emails. Yet the shameless propaganda machine continues to repeat the baseless claim without admitting that it was a transparent attempt to score sympathy points.

Why can they get away with it? Because media outlets like The Canberra Times won’t apologize for printing such vacuous unsubstantiated claims, and they won’t correct the record. And Catalyst (which soaked in the one-sided hyperbole with Science Under Seige last night) won’t do enough “investigation” to get the story straight.

Temperatures Were Near The Boiling Point During The Cambrian | Real Science

Climate models tell us that a rise of 160 PPM from 390 to 550 PPM will increase temperatures by up to 10C. During the Cambrian, CO2 levels were above 4,000 PPM – so it is safe to extrapolate that the corals which evolved during the Cambrian must have been able to survive concentrated seaacid near or above the boiling point.

Sadly, corals are now very sensitive creatures, and a rise of just 1C will kill them all.

My Prairie Dog Research | Real Science

I did some research of the local prairie dogs today. They still live in holes and make a lot of noise when you ride your bicycle nearby. This is the same behaviour which they engaged in 50 years ago.

I would like a million dollars to study this over the next three years, and see if prairie dogs continue to live in holes in the ground – or if they move into ponds or trees.

Slow Federal Permitting Could Spur 20 Drilling Rigs to Leave Gulf

“Rather than being political, the [Gulf of Mexico] permitting drag is more reflective of the increased work required to issue each permit and the limited bureaucratic resources available,” the BER report stated. “As a result, we continue to expect continued slow recovery of the deepwater permitting rate.”

Damn! U.S. has just had only the SECOND warmest summer in 75 years

Those pesky 1930s, when industrial activity was at a minimum (remember the great Depression?), spoil the story again

Articles: Obama's Crony Capitalism

Barack Obama has his own stable of Enrons, companies benefiting from close ties to the president, seemingly able to leverage campaign donations, receiving taxpayer dollars to boost their prospects. They may be unviable on their own (as Solyndra was) or just get an added boost from us to help them against competitors whose investors and executives do not play the game.

C3: The IPCC's Ben Santer 17-Year Rule: Human-Caused Global Warming Is Not Happening

And, to add even more misery to global warming alarmists, such as Santer et al., the light blue Excel fitted (polynomial) curve for each chart suggests that temperature increases are definitely decelerating over the most recent 17-year span, in spite of the growing CO2 levels. In terms of visual interpretation, each chart does appear to point to a possible cooling phase in the near future.

ABC bashes skeptics | Climate Nonconformist

“Science under siege”. That is how the ABC described the anti-carbon tax rallies on their so-called science program, Catalyst last night.

Appearing on this episode was Ian Chubb, who described the anti-carbon tax movement as a broadside on science, not just climate science but science generally. He compared protesters to those who persecuted Galileo, claiming we are still in the middle ages.

Set #4 Of The Photographs Of Surface Climate Observing Sites | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Some of these sites are reasonably well-sited while others are not.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Latest incoherent babbling from Gore: More water vapor causes more and less drought

No wonder Al Gore got a "D" in natural sciences... in his latest rant to the unquestioning Discovery Magazine he falsely claims atmospheric water vapor has increased due to global warming over the past 30 years [satellite data proves the opposite], and that said alleged increase in water vapor leads to both more and less drought. Note to Gore: more water vapor leads to more precipitation, not drought

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: More settled science: Earth's climate has been abruptly changing over past 800,000 years with 'safe' levels of CO2

800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability: Earth's Climate Is Capable of Very Rapid Transitions

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Natural gas is better and worse for Gaia than coal

Latest drivel from climategate star Tom Wigley:

The New Nostradamus of the North: Another environmental lecture from Prince Charles

My free advice to the prince: Why not begin by changing your own lavish lifestyle? It might increase your credibility as an environmentalist.

The Solar Dole - Investors.com

Corruption: In the same week a green energy firm that wasted hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars said it was bankrupt, the White House made a multimillion-dollar loan to another solar power project. Madness reigns.

Dutch geologist Salomon Kroonenberg challenges the alleged consensus

Climate relativist challenges the new orthodoxy

But more importantly, he insists that reducing carbon footprints would not necessarily make a difference to the future of the world.

Urging his audience to see things in terms of geological time, (10,000 years at a stretch), the geologist contends that we are, in fact, living at the peak of summer between ice ages, and, if the cyclical rhythm of climate change is anything to go by, we should be preparing for a "little ice age" like the one experienced between 1350 and 1800.

Often labeled a "climate skeptic" by the anti-CO2-emissions lobby, and criticized for his indifference to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, in which parliaments of 55 countries decided to cut down on greenhouse emissions, Kroonenberg prefers to call himself a climate relativist. He doesn't consider CO2 emissions "an insurmountable problem" in the context of nature changing and adjusting itself as a continuous process.

"I don't deny climate has been warming and I also do not deny that humankind has emitted large quantities of CO2. I only challenge the importance of that for climate change.

"To assume we human beings have a golden key to keep the world at zero position, is arrogance," he adds.

Governor, oil baron had private meeting | Courier-Post | courierpostonline.com

Now environmentalists and liberals are holding up that meeting and a closed-door seminar in June hosted by brothers David and Charles Koch, in which Christie was the keynote speaker, as evidence of their claims that Christie is influenced by big oil.

Flashback: Solyndra officials made numerous trips to the White House, logs show

According to White House visitor logs, between March 12, 2009, and April 14, 2011, Solyndra officials and investors made no fewer than 20 trips to the West Wing. In the week before the administration awarded Solyndra with the first-ever alternative energy loan guarantee on March 20, four separate visits were logged.

Tesco, Pepsico in Race for $2.4 Billion in U.K. Energy Subsidies - Bloomberg

Companies including Tesco Plc (TSCO) and PepsiCo Inc. are racing for about 1.7 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) in power-generation subsidies being offered by the U.K. through March 2015, according to a report by the Carbon Trust.

Low-carbon investments could make average returns of about 12 percent, rising potentially above 15 percent because of subsidies including the Renewable Heat Incentive and the Feed in Tariff, the London-based adviser to business said in a report published today.

Forecasters promise another harsh winter - Sweden

According to experts, the last two winters have been the coldest for the last few decades and statistics from the institute all point to cold winters coming in threes.

”I don't know why this happens. My personal belief is that it is coincidence,” Frost told the paper.

‘A conference call with the world’…at the Rock Cut? | The Nelson Daily

The Climate Reality Project, a 24-hour worldwide event spearheaded by Al Gore to combat misinformation spread by "big oil and big coal," is on its way to Rossland.
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Gore is taking direct aim at the "naysayers," Thuot explained. Despite a gargantuan effort to discredit climate science, the scientific community is unified: "This isn't about opinions," Thuot said. "There's no discussion anymore. There is climate change, it is happening, and it is impacting places." The one hour event will help clarify "the reality," and "move us towards understanding and action."

The project has faced off with the big money behind the campaign to present climate change as a hoax. Gore promises to "remove the doubt, reveal the deniers, and catalyze urgency around an issue that affects every one of us."

"Across the globe, cataclysmic weather events are happening with such regularity that it's being called a new normal, but there's nothing normal about it," he says. He wants to "focus the world's attention on the full truth, scope, scale, and impact" of climate change.

Coun. Kathy Moore plugged the event at council on Tuesday evening, beginning by notin that, "One thing that is very interesting, and Mr. Mayor, you'll appreciate this …" but Mayor Greg Granstrom promptly interjected, "I probably won't."
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For many, it seems obvious that human industry has the power, through its impacts and outputs, to cause noticeable shifts in the climate. Others have found comfort in big industry's insistent message that the whole idea of climate change is a boondoggle to raise money for radical environmental groups. For the latter, Gore intends to use Sept. 14 in order to administer a global dose of scientifically-irrefutable reality.

Andrew Revkin: Confronting the Anthropocene - YouTube

[13-minute video] It's a new era...at least that's what some geologists are now arguing. What is the Anthropocene and why do experts think that framing the climate change debate with this label will give us the wake up call we need?

BBC News - A White House 'sceptic': Would it matter?

Given the politics yet to unfold, it may be a bit premature to assume that a climate change sceptic or denier will be running the White House when the dust settles.

But the rest of the world has to recognise that whatever transpires, the US is unlikely to be pushing a radical green line any time soon.

Then again, it has been this way since the hanging chads of Florida carried Mr Bush to the White House in 2001.

Why Does Congress Hate Pheasants? : TreeHugger

Congress began by significantly upping corn ethanol incentives, encouraging farmers to plow fence row to fence row...Add to that the extraordinary snow depth and the intense, cold spring rains of Minnesota, Iowa, and the Dakotas in 2010-11- all of these are hallmarks of climate change ignored - nesting failed and pheasant numbers plummeted.

Climate conspiracy hoax revealed! | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Dr. Pawn: But there’s honestly not a single government official in all of Germany or Spain or Denmark or Britain willing to break ranks?

Dr. Molotov: In on it.

Flashback: Peer-Reviewed Papers support climate sceptics « Roger Helmer MEP

Even the impeccably correct New York Times admits that the earth is well within natural climate variability. All the promoters of climate alarmism have to go on are unproven computer model predictions of doom.

A PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE CHANGE, a primer for politicians - Wry Heat

THE CURRENT WARM PERIOD IS NOT UNUSUAL

The Citizen Online | SA’s mines struggling in ‘perfect storm’ of cost pressures - Business News

Commenting on the woes facing the minerals and beneficiation industry, Stuart Elliot, CEO of Merafe, said last week that “the introduction of carbon tax in its current form will make many energy-intensive industries uncompetitive, leading to job losses, which is counterproductive seeing that the single most important priority in SA is job creation.”

- Bishop Hill blog - Paul Nurse on geoengineering

...if we demand that putative medical treatments are thoroughly tested to see if they actually do what they claim, should we not demand the same from the climate models that Sir Paul and so many others believe justify us redesigning our economies on neanderthal lines.

The Mann behind climate change | The Cavalier Daily

Mann is best known for his “hockey stick” graph, a visual representation published in 1998 of climate warming since the industrial revolution. The data show an upturn in global temperature, and provide a scientific basis for theories of global warming.

Keene characterizes the graph as “a visceral description” of the phenomenon.

“People thought climate change was happening in the future, but it’s happening now,” he said. “That graph really captured a lot of people’s imagination.”

Keene added this graph does not sit well with conservative ideologues. Mann has forcefully responded to their attacks and proudly accepts his role in the fight against those who do not believe that human activity affects climate change.

“A personal hero of mine, Steve Schneider … once told me to wear the attacks by climate change deniers as a badge of honor; that they were simply an indication of the importance of my work, and the threat that the significance of my research findings held for those doing the bidding of vested interests,” Mann said in an email.

Despite evidence for climate change, denial continues | TheUnion.com

Here are some possibilities for climate change denial:

1) You have major petroleum holdings and you are afraid that some day you will be held financially and morally accountable for all of the pollution you have created and the problems that pollution has caused. If you deny climate change is true then you can sleep better at night because the millions or billions of dollars you made poisoning the planet won't seem quite so sleazy.

Nasa warns of fresh risk from £468m satellite falling from space - Telegraph

The volume of abandoned rockets, shattered satellites and missile shrapnel in the Earth’s orbit is reaching a “tipping point” and is now threatening the $250 billion (£174bn) space services industry, according to the US Defense Department's interim Space Posture Review.

Meanwhile in a report earlier this month, the National Academy of Sciences admitted that scientists had “lost control” of the space environment.

Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers - NYTimes.com

Up to now, the company has kept statistics about its energy use secret. Industry analysts speculate it was because the information was embarrassing and would also give competitors a clue to how Google runs its operations.

Global Warming: A 98% Consensus Of Nothing - Forbes

Forgetting for the moment that only shameless activists or the most statistically and scientifically ignorant of persons would claim that a survey sample of only 77 scientists volunteering to participate in a survey is indicative of what the entire climate science community believes, the questions and answers themselves tell us nothing.

Al Gore’s credibility wanes – just 24% now consider him to be an “expert” on global warming | Watts Up With That?

60% of likely U.S. Voters think it’s at least somewhat likely that the level of activity on the sun, including solar flares and sunspots, has an impact on the long-term heating and cooling of the earth’s atmosphere. Just 22% feel that it’s unlikely solar activity influences the atmosphere’s long-term temperature.

Industry could add 1.4M U.S. jobs: group

The United States could create more than one million jobs by 2030 by expanding offshore drilling, limiting federal regulation of shale gas development and quickly approving the Keystone XL pipeline, which faced new opposition Wednesday, according to a study commissioned by an oil industry group.

Going Green but Getting Nowhere - NYTimes.com

sadly, individual action does not work.
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Never mind that markets are truly free only when everyone pays the full price for his or her actions. Anything else is socialism. The reality is that we cannot overcome the global threats posed by greenhouse gases without speaking the ultimate inconvenient truth: getting people excited about making individual environmental sacrifices is doomed to fail.

High school science tells us that global warming is real.

GOP contenders embrace the Keystone pipeline - War Room - Salon.com

The Obama State Department last month released a report finding the project would have no significant environmental impact

Howard Fineman Smears Climate Skeptics and Their 'New Ten Commandments' | NewsBusters.org

Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman appeared on Hardball, Thursday, to attack Rick Perry's climate change skepticism as a "war of the worlds between science and faith." Dismissing anyone who isn't sold on global warming as not logical, Fineman scoffed, "It's part of their new Ten Commandments."

Both Matthews and the Huffington Post contributor offered condescending takes on the Tea Party movement. Comparing Perry to a student, Fineman derided, "And he's not just the kid who didn't read the assignment. He's questioning the right of the teacher to make the assignment in the first place."

He added, "It's an article of faith with the Tea Party people and Perry is going right at every Tea Party voter he can."

Matthews argued that only those who accept climate change could have reasoned beliefs: "Why is [global warming skepticism] so theocratic? Why is it so close to their religious beliefs?"

Fineman, who was the senior editor at Newsweek until October of 2010, has previously attacked Perry.

‘We save trips to the library’ – Google • The Register

Greenwashing the Chocolate Factory’s vast power bill

American public opinion and climate change: No green Tea | The Economist

  [Tea Partiers] also distinguish themselves in their assessment of their knowledgeability, with 30% considering themselves very well informed on the issue and a majority happy that it needs no more information on the subject. Where this certainty comes from the poll does not really reveal; when asked about possible sources of information on the subject, from television weathermen to scientists to the government, Tea Partiers were much more likely to react with strong distrust than any other group. However, they were not asked about blogs, and it is interesting that they were far more likely to say they knew about "Climategate", a massive release of e-mails by climate scientists that has been a staple of the blogosphere, than any other group

UN chief enjoys some nice planet-killing bottled water before heading off on another planet-killing fossil-fueled long-haul flight

Ban Ki-moon makes climate change plea - YouTube

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Pacific leaders at the regional conference in New Zealand to act on combating climate change.

From the end of the above video:

It’s The ATMOsphere, Stupid « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

CO2 warming does not directly happen in the troposphere. There is no such a thing as a CO2 blanket around us, and no increase in temperature underneath a CO2 cloud. And no, you can’t build a CO2 oven.

A True Inquiry Into Climate & Weather Pt 2 (1/16) - YouTube

The plot really does thicken as we continue our inquiry into climate and weather. The verifiable data offered in this interview is both fascinating and disturbing. Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and climatologist Dr. David Legates (University of Delaware) brief us on key scientific data that cannot be overlooked or dismissed.

CO2 Dementia | Real Science

CO2 levels were 10-20X higher for most of the last 600 million years.

Based on the expert testimony of our top climate morons scientists, we can be certain that all life forms were destroyed as quickly as they were created – because the weather was so extreme that no life could possibly survive. Sea levels must have been hundreds or thousands of feet higher than they are now, and hurricanes and tornadoes must have roared continuously across a drought and flood covered hot/cold landscape.

A climate change dynamic « Climate Change

The presumption that ‘the science is settled’ is incorrect.

This post aims to give readers an understanding of the dynamics of the coupled circulation of the stratosphere and the troposphere at the poles that drives surface pressure, the temperature of the troposphere, cloud cover and surface temperature. It recently appeared at Watts Up With That. Here, in the interests of clarity, it appears in slightly expanded form.

ABC News Watch: Backward briefing: a case of foot in mouth UPDATE

In July ABC's Wendy Carlisle made a number of factual errors in a report on Lord Christopher Monckton. We raised a complaint with the ABC over these. We also suggested that Ms Carlisle's objectivity was severely compromised due to her emotional entanglement with her subject, and as a result the report lacked balance. The following is a summary of our complaint and ABC's reply. Oddly it seems ABC's managing director has become directly involved and has chosen to employ "director's privilege" to avoid dealing with the factual errors in the broadcast. We are somewhat mystified that this matter required his attention, and it seems ABC have taken unusual steps to avoid admitting they are wrong.

C3: NOAA Says U.S. Cooling Over Last 15 Years: -3.2°F/Century Rate, As of August 2011

For the 10-year period ending August 2011 (September 1, 2001 thru August 31, 2011 - 120 months), the cooling trend accelerates to a very significant minus 10.9°F per century rate - again, per the updated NOAA/NCDC temperature records.

More on Tar, Oil, Pipelines and Presidents - NYTimes.com

[Bill McKibben]—Global warming is not some far off problem we’re going to have to get around to dealing with eventually. It is wrecking our lives now. Come visit Vermont if you don’t believe me, or take a trip to Texas. Not to mention Pakistan, Queensland, any coral reef you might want to name, the dwindling ice floes of the Arctic, and—you know, I could go on a while.

Redskins Owner Dan Snyder on Being a Marked Man - NYTimes.com

[Q] You’ve started a green program to install solar panels atop FedEx Field and provide stations where fans can plug in their electric cars. You’re a Republican. Does this mean that, unlike most of the presidential field, you believe in global warming and the danger of greenhouse gases?
[A] This has nothing to do with politics. It’s about the future. And if you look at what we’ve done, I mean, it is mind-boggling to me, No. 1, how beautiful it is. And just think, if you’re driving here with your Chevy Volt, we have pumps so we can pump you right there. That is too cool.

Warning Signs: The Green Jobs, Clean Energy Scam

There will probably never be a definitive calculation of how much money the United States (and other nations) has wasted on Green programs, litigation, grants, research, and projects such as those involving “renewable” or "clean" energy. It will surely add up to several trillion because it has been going on for a very long time through administrations reaching back to Jimmy Carter’s and Richard Nixon’s.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Ban Ki-moon thinks Kiribati is sinking - Study says it is growing!

So, no need to make flight reservations to exotic Kiribati - although it would be nice to visit the island state and other Pacific islands now, when summer is over in Europe and the US (as the Secretary General is doing now). A little bit of reading, instead of the constant traveling could do good for Ki-moon. That would also reduce his huge carbon footprint!