Canadian Contretemps | Watts Up With That?

PS — The climate models say that the maximum effect of the putative warming will be seen in the extra-tropical winter nights. Is this a problem? I mean, I don’t hear a lot of Canadians saying “Dang, it’s getting way too warm after midnight in February” …

PPS — my favorite argument is that the problem is not the absolute temperature change, it is the speed of the temperature change that is claimed will cause the problems. Yeah, at the much-hyped theoretical future rate of 0.03 degrees of warming per year, watch out when you step on board. If you’re not ready for it, the G forces from suddenly taking on that magnitude of high-speed warming can cause whiplash …

Getting Weirder At NSIDC | Real Science

Pixel counting their 2011/2010 maps shows closer to 40% increase. 23,000 pixels (2011) vs 16,600 pixels (2010.)

20% Gain In Autumn MYI Over Last Year | Real Science

According to NSIDC, summer 2011 started out with about 25% more MYI than Summer 2010.

Collection of Global Warming [Hoax] Art for the [Stupid]

Twitter / @Mattison: Idiocracy: GOP don't trust ...

Idiocracy: GOP don't trust 98% of Scientists on Climate Change, but as weather gets more erratic, we'll look to scientists to "fix it". #p2

Warning Signs: The EPA Gets Caught in a Big Fat Lie

The EPA has been short on the truth about all of its claims for four decades and needs to be shut down in order to let a truly science-based agency replace it with strict congressional oversight and limitations.

The time is long overdue to pull the plug on the Environmental Protection Agency.

Twitter / @piersmorgan: If global warming doesn't ...

If global warming doesn't exist, Governor Perry, can you explain why it's 85 degrees in Britain in October? #HotterThanMyTea

Ikea fits 2,700 solar panels to store roof

Walsall Friends of the Earth is pleased with the pounds 278,600 investment by the popular shop in Park Lane - known as Ikea Birmingham - which is expected to generate enough electricity to power 34 homes.
...Martin Normanton, climate change expert with Walsall Friends of the Earth said: "Sun is not up there with wind power in my book. It's a lot more expensive and it peaks in the summer, yet electricity demand peaks in the winter. A wind farm will provide 22 times as much electricity as solar. Having said that, it's got to be a good thing. It's a good solid first step."

Icy skepticism hits Slashdot | Watts Up With That?

Imagine my surprise though, when I discovered the majority of early commenters at Slashdot taking this article to task. Usually they eat this stuff up.

Government Now Spoon-Feeds Helpless, Incompetent Danes

Denmark has become the first country in the world to tax fat in foods. According to the law, a fat tax of €2.15 per kilogram is now being levied. The tax is designed to keep the people from eating too much unhealthy food (and to put more money into government coffers).

Thousands of jobs in the wind farm industry could be lost | This is Money

Opposition to onshore wind farms is hardening and becoming more effective. In 2005, only 29 per cent of onshore projects were refused planning permission, but this rose to 33 per cent in 2009 and 48 per cent last year.

Mr Norris said: ‘Wind farm developers could find that pursuing their applications becomes utterly impractical. For some developers, this could be the last straw.’

The EU dream has turned into a nightmare - Telegraph

So lost is Huhne in his green dreamworld that he somehow imagines that we can centre our future energy policy on building thousands of wind turbines. Faced with the discovery of vast reserves of cheap gas, any minister who knew his job would say: “Forget about those ludicrously expensive, inefficient and unreliable windmills, and go flat out for building enough gas-fired power stations to keep Britain’s lights on in the years ahead, when we will lose 14 coal-fired and nuclear power stations that currently supply 40 per cent of our average electricity needs.”

Of course, we are compelled to waste £140 billion on those wind turbines due to our commitment to the EU that by 2020 we will generate nearly a third of our electricity from “renewables”.

Solyndra, “the future of green energy” - RON HART - TheDestinLog.com

“An insane business model. The numbers just don’t work, and they never did.” — Peter Lynch, a solar industry analyst on Solyndra.
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Trumpeted by Obama as the future of green energy, Solyndra, with accumulated losses of $558 million in its five-year existence, filed bankruptcy. Solyndra went broke leaving us taxpayers with the bill, so I guess Obama was right — that is the future of his deals.

We learned that community organizing is not the best training to be a venture capitalist. Solyndra’s solar panels did not work well. Turns out Snooki from The Jersey Shore absorbs more sunlight. We could have created more energy by burning our $535 million in $1 bills in a power plant. That technically is greenback energy, so Obama can brag about that.

This is what happens with Chicago-style crony capitalism. The business fails, the taxpayers foot the bill and political friends rack up.
...Al Gore, a government employee for life, broke the code on getting rich on this green energy scam. CelebrityNetworth.com says Gore has more than $100 million. Shaking down opportunities for money and using the government as the heavy is a great gig for ex-Democrats with no real marketable business skills. It combines pretending you can harness the sun for energy with the salesmanship of Bernie Madoff. The cool thing is that you never really have to produce a product people want to buy, just say you will.
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Obama has long preached the green energy religion to his followers, but I wonder, is he the televangelist himself, smoothly snookering saps out of their money, or the mark who sends his paycheck in to the preachers on TV because they are convincing?/blockquote>

Old people who don't believe in the global warming hoax are allegedly senile and selfish; old believers are allegedly wise and experienced

Retired Republicans Quietly Try to Shift GOP Climate-Change Focus - Coral Davenport - NationalJournal.com

“They have a significant impact. They are voices of experience and thought leaders, which is a uniquely powerful combination. There is schism in the GOP on this issue. The recent concern over the Republican Party being labeled ‘anti-science’ has brought it to a head,” Bledsoe said. “Wise figures within the party realize that this has come about partly because of their inability to develop an effective policy approach to the issue. That is what the graybeards of a party do. They recognize a structural and philosophical problem in their party and try to work it through.”

How human folly prompted beetlemania

The ultimate message in Empire of the Beetle is that of human folly. Nikiforuk shows that many of the scientists who were originally contracted to study the bark beetle with the aim of controlling it eventually came around to seeing the beetle as a natural agent that manages forests. As Nikiforuk concludes: if you remove one agent of renewal in a forest (such as fire), another will take its place. And so, following centuries of forest management, the stage has been set for Empire of the Beetle.

The Nissan Leaf: Sort of like a real car, except it allegedly helps prevent hurricanes, it's often powered by coal, it may take 12+ hours to "refill", and it may not get you home if your return trip isn't all downhill

Mountain Wheels: Nissan's all-electric LEAF requires a mental readjustment | SummitDaily.com

But (and yes, there are a lot of buts with the LEAF), while the 75 mile range I had when I first received the full-charged car slowly disappeared during urban, low-speed driving, it drastically evaporated when I ran the car at 75 mpg down to Castle Rock.

More annoyingly, the car's extremely comprehensive navigation and interactivity system (your LEAF is a bit of a test vehicle and is sending data back to Nissan as you drive) sent me to an empty cul-de-sac as a listed recharging station, and I opted to take back roads and drive slowly to get back to the hotel to charge the car.

Alternately, you can use the supplied power cord to simply plug the LEAF into a household 110-volt outlet, but it takes 21 hours to fully charge. LEAF owners will have their garages wired for the same 240-volt charger I found at the hotel, and this will recharge the car in about seven hours. As mentioned, even three-plus hours on one of these chargers only got me about a quarter of a virtual tank extra.

Another discussion topic for your next townhall meeting: In an attempt to prevent tornadoes, should we take the advice of insane left-wing scientists and start eating bugs instead of hamburgers?

Earthrise - Six Legged Meat - YouTube

Methane from cattle farming is more noxious in terms of global warming than the CO2 produced by all the world's cars. A team of scientists in Netherlands is investigating the nutritional potential of insects to replace protein yielded by livestock.

How Inhofe turns balloon animals into ‘news’ | Grist

The professional deniers are at it again. Every chance they get, the people who are paid to spread doubt and confusion about climate change take some minor report or news event, fill it with hot air and twist it up like a balloon animal, then try to persuade everyone that it is alive and kicking -- that it "proves" that the planet isn't warming or human activities aren't the big reason why.

This time, the professional deniers are seizing on a report [PDF] from the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general (IG).
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Step three. Inhofe's former communications director, Marc Morano, who runs a climate denier website, trumpets the false charges, conservative outlets pick up the drum beat, and mainstream news organizations like The Washington Post and Politico quote Inhofe's specious charges. Headlines announce that EPA "cut corners" and "needed more data before ruling." Other journalists begin weighing in on the "wide-reaching political implications."
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Eric Pooley is the deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He has also served as managing editor of Fortune, editor of Time Europe, and national editor, chief political correspondent, and White House correspondent for Time.

By the way, warmists love to describe climate realists as "seizing" on things, as an evil pirate might do!  They themselves love to "tackle" things, as a heroic football player might do!

If all seven billion of us drove around in poop-powered toiletcycles, how much bad weather could we prevent?

This Poop-Powered Toiletcycle Is Touring Japan

The Toilet Bike Neo will be conducting its roughly 500 mile trip from Kyushu to Tokyo powered entirely by the on-board biogas digester. Biogas systems use an anaerobic bacteria system to convert dead organic matter into a usable fuel primarily made of methane. This system obtains its fuel from the rider—directly from the rider, if you get what I mean. It runs on the rider's poop—he just sits there, unloads, and rides off (hopefully with a step involving pants at some point as well). The system is reportedly efficient enough that it could run indefinitely were the rider sufficiently well fed.

The reason for the tour is to promote Toto's efforts to reduce its CO2 emissions by 50 percent in the next six years.

1917 : Low CO2 Drought Wiped Out The Texas Cattle Industry | Real Science

Romm/Gates Say That Global Warming Will Be The Demise Of Chocolate | Real Science

GISS shows no warming in that region over the last 130 years.

The EPA's Endangerment Finding Is Very Endangered - Pat Michaels - Forbes

The IG’s finding brings to light, yet again, the problems that occur when science is funded like Canadian health care, by a single provider. Until we somehow diversify the funding base for climate science, flapdoodles like the EPA’s peer-review problem will continue to repeat, and the erosion of the public’s faith in climate science will continue unabated.

Environment Canada Forecast A 30% Decline In The Polar Bear Population Over The Last Year | Real Science

There must be thousands of dead Polar Bear​ carcasses all over Canada right now.

Biofuels May Push 120 Million Into Hunger, Qatar’s Shah Says: “The era of low food prices … is over.” | ThinkProgress

Biofuel policies in countries from Australia to the U.S. may push 120 million people into hunger by 2050 while doing little to halt climate change, said Mahendra Shah, an advisor to Qatar’s food security program.

NPR : Publicly Funded Propaganda | Real Science

These so-called scientists are positive that “human action is causing the globe’s warming.” So what exactly were humans doing to cause the warming in the 19th century? Why are Michael Mann and the IPCC working to hide this information?

London's policy on climate change should begin in Beijing - Intelligence Squared

[Speaking against]: George Monbiot

Guardian columnist and author of Heat: how to stop the planet burning

Ice Volumegate | Real Science

PIPS2 is now offline and hidden, but I captured all of their imagery before the dirty deed was done. They showed a large increase in thick ice area between July 31 2008 and the same date in 2011. Mark Serreze bet on an ice-free pole in 2008 because the ice was so thin.

Why NSIDC seems to be now trying to claim that the ice is getting thinner, is beyond my comprehension.

Dud insulation scheme fix-it bill at $124m | Herald Sun

NEWS that the clean-up bill for the Government's failed home insulation scheme has blown out by another $100 million will come as yet another nasty surprise to weary taxpayers.

The bungled scheme, introduced by former prime minister Kevin Rudd, was a $2.4 billion plan to revive Australia's economy during the global financial crisis and tackle climate change by making houses more energy efficient.

It was a noble idea. But the management of the scheme by Canberra led to an unregulated and unsafe industry, as people rushed to cash in on the big handouts.

The scheme was eventually abandoned

Maybe they should have hired a fiscal genius like Steven Chu to oversee this bad-weather-preventing scheme.

Climate change gamers reach 'Tipping Point' - Times LIVE

The new-edition Fate of the World - Tipping Point, which was released on September 29, includes new scenarios, cards/policies, improvements to the User Interface (UI) and additions to the game play such as dealing with mass migration, trying to implement positive environmental policies in the face of skeptics and an 'easy game mode.' [Why isn't there a game about trying to power Grandma's iron lung in the face of brainwashed hippies?]
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Other games that deal with issues of climate change include CEO2 -- where users have to run a successful company while reducing emissions -- and Facebook game eMissions which also requires players to perform eco-friendly actions in the real world.

E Cigarette Strides Over Smoking Ban Once Again

http://www.wikipeers.com/news/7677-e-cigarette-strides-over-smoking-ban-once-again.html

the deadly carbon dioxide gas which emitted from tobacco cigarettes fueled poison in the atmosphere, thereby aggravating the already catastrophic situation of global warming.

Blah blah blah: The New York Times, evidently not aware that 2007 is over, publishes yet another very long story suggesting that CO2 is bad for trees

With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Crucial Climate Protectors - NYTimes.com

[caption] The Forest for the Trees: In Arizona, trees are cut down to save forests from massive fires and to combat climate change.

Flashback: Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil

A new study shows that as climate change enhances tree growth in tropical forests

Scotland - 'If there is no wind then there is no power' — fall in production prompts call for renewables debate

Figures released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change showed that the total amount of renewable energy produced from wind and hydro schemes was down.

Climate change: Will chocolate become a costly luxury? - The Week

The study, which consulted 19 climate-change models, indicates that a mere two degrees Celcius increase by 2050 will render areas like Ghana and the Ivory Coast too hot to grow cocoa, says The Washington Post.

Govt Pledges To Improve Upon Cocoa Yield - ModernGhana.com

On August 18, 2011, COCOBOD announced an increase in yield from 750,000 tonnes to more than 1,004,194 tonnes for the 2010/2011 cocoa season, the highest in the country’s history.

Billionaire destroys car to advocate green transportation

Chinese billionaire philanthropist Chen Guangbiao has never hesitated to put himself in the spotlight. On Sept. 16 the entrepreneur publicly smashed a Mercedes-Benz sedan to declare that oil prices should increase by 50%, while parking and license-registration fees should also be raised.

Feds charge Corn Plus ethanol co-op with a felony | StarTribune.com

Corn Plus, a major ethanol cooperative in southern Minnesota, was charged Friday with reporting that its pollution control equipment was working properly in late January when company officials knew it was not.

The alleged felony offense took place Jan. 27, less than a week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Corn Plus a grant of $128,658 from its Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels.

The alleged offense also took place while the company was on probation for a previous environmental law violation.

Climate change and corruption risks in Peru: The launch of TI’s Global Corruption Report on Climate Change in Lima : space for transparency

Pulgar Vidal outlined the links between the global context illustrated in the report and the situation in Peru, taking the case of forests as a prime example. “Corruption is rampant in the forestry sector. The huge volume of funds which will flow into the country to counteract deforestation might be at its mercy”.

Transparency and accountability are corruption’s best cures. According to a number of studies in Peru, levels of transparency surrounding the decisions and management of sectors related to climate change are low. A recent report shows that the websites of public institutions directly involved in forestry at national and sub-national levels fulfill only 46 per cent of obligations outlined in the Peruvian law on transparency –enacted almost a decade ago

My Oh Miocene | Watts Up With That?

So you’d think that the media headline from this study would be

“Climate Model Finds Extremely Low Climate Sensitivity”

Sadly, that might happen, but only in an alternate universe …

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia

Harold Hamm, discoverer of the Bakken fields of the northern Great Plains, on America's oil future and why OPEC's days are numbered.

78 Names « NoFrakkingConsensus

In a sensible universe, the list that appears below would be sufficient to vaporize the credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – now and forever, once and for all.
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The scientists whose names appear below have not only been examining one of the world’s most important questions for the IPCC. They have a documented, public relationship with professional lobbyists who have a strong interest in influencing this matter.

NYT : Higher Temperatures And A Longer Growing Season Would Hurt Agriculture In Canada | Real Science

Apparently crops do better growing in soil that is frozen seven months a year. It would be catastrophic to agriculture if the climate became as warm as Iowa.
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Where do they find these morons?

Uncertainty monster visits MIT: Part II | Climate Etc.

The students that the read the blogs were much more conversant with broad range of issues surrounding climate science than those that didn’t read the blogs.
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I had the opportunity for one-on-one meetings with six faculty members, each of which was very interesting in a different way.

Two of the younger faculty members frequently read the blogs, they were under the impression that the students were getting a lot of information from them (although this was not particularly the case of the students with whom I had lunch). Both tried to peruse a range of climate blogs (and frequently read Climate Etc). In terms of skeptical blogs, one faculty member mentioned that the main skeptical blog they visited was the Heartland Inst blog; was unaware of Climate Audit, Blackboard, WUWT, Bishop Hill, etc.
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One faculty member thought I wimped out a bit on my answer regarding the IPCC, and thought that the IPCC should just be disbanded. This started a discussion on the IPCC. Ron Prinn related a very interesting story. Ron was a lead author on AR4 Chapter 2. He is a big fan of the Morgan et al. (2006) expert elicitation study on aerosol radiative forcing (mentioned on slide 30 of my talk), and in fact recommended to Morgan that he conduct this study. Prinn tried to get the Ch 2 group to include this paper in their chapter but they refused to. The argument was that they decided on their consensus approach, and didn’t want to confuse things with a different methodology (that happened to include a result whereby aerosol indirect effects in the 20th century might be -2.1 W m-2 or more, which is a value that is larger than the direct CO2 forcing in the 20th century (1.7 Wm-2). He was unable to get this study even included in the references, although he was a lead author.

What was the little ice age? | [Strange bit of climate reality in the warmist Guardian] | guardian.co.uk

The "little ice age", evidence of which was first recorded around 1300, and which extended through to the mid 1800s, was the coldest interval over the Northern Hemisphere for one thousand or so years. Periodic plagues and famines ravaged Europe and glaciers descended from the Alps to engulf a number of villages.

One influence may have been a drop in solar energy.

[Model UN climate change hoax conference] - YouTube

In March 2011, the United Nations Association of Sweden in collaboration with UNA Norway and UNA Finland hosted a Model United Nations as a Climate Change Conference.

About 300 youths from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Lithuania participated.

Half of Earth’s animals may die due to climate change - National Paelenotology Science News | Examiner.com

The species examined in the study were amphibians (frogs, salamanders, and toads) because their present territories and means of coping with climate variation are well documented.

Of the 15 species studied, the researchers predict 4 will become extinct, 4 will become endangered, and 7 will survive.
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If a given species dies out the prey that that species consumed could multiply inordinately and potentially could destroy food crops or other vegetation man depends on at present for survival.

Rick Perry doubles down on climate skepticism - latimes.com

The man noted that Perry had ducked—twice--when asked at the Reagan Library debate this month to name the scientists he found most credible on the subject.

“Great,” replied Perry, strolling with a hand-held microphone in front of a crowd at the Adams Memorial Opera House in Derry, N.H. “I’m ready for you this time.”

Perry said that “just within the last couple of weeks, a renowned Nobel laureate” had said that it was “not correct” to say that there was “incontrovertible” evidence that global warming is man’s fault. “There are scientists all across this country who are saying that,” Perry said, adding to that his own conclusion that climate change science “frankly is not proven.”
...Perry told the town-hall questioner: “He said there is not incontrovertible evidence, and here’s my point. The climate has been changing … for thousands of years, and for us to take a snapshot in time and say…‘The climate change that is going on is man’s fault, and we need to jeopardize America’s economy [to fix it.]’ I’m a skeptic about that.”

When the questioner followed up, in that vein, by suggesting that the link between smoking and cancer is not incontrovertible, the governor shot back, “I would suggest to you that [it] is pretty settled.”

New woodland will to help reverse climate change in area - Environment - Horncastle News

A FARM in Hagworthingham has been awarded a grant towards the cost of planting around 15,000 trees.

Climate Common Sense: Power Station Valuations down the Toilet

The continued attack by ill-considered warmist policies on coal-fired power stations in Queensland has caused a billion dollar write-down in value for these energy companies which supply nearly all the electricity for our communities. These power generators are the cornerstone of our modern society and have been supplying cheap electricity for homes and industry. Because of the current hostile Government attitude it is unlikely we will see the building of any new power stations before the green blackouts start when people start relying on the fallacious alternative energy alternative.
Unfortunately this economic self-mutilation may not stop with the probable change of government next year!

DOE Pushing On With $5 Billion In Solar Energy Loans - CNBC

The U.S. Department of Energy said it plans to push ahead with as much as $5.3 billion in potential additional alternative energy loans by Friday, despite Republican complaints the money is going out too quickly to untested firms.
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The DOE has made seven conditional commitments for additional funding by the time the loan guarantee legally expires on Sept. 30. So far, it has made 23 loans totaling $11.2 billion, said a spokesman.

Panama talks part of attempt to end climate deadlock

"Countries seem to be looking for a package that comes out of Durban that will maintain the momentum, but I don't think the level of ambition is very high," said Tasneem Essop, head of climate strategy and advocacy at environmental group WWF.

"The fear is that we will miss the kind of time frames that the scientists have told us - that we need to peak our emissions by 2015," she said.

Which scientists told us that? Can we see the calculations?

Global warming protests are so 2008… In 2011 it’s Occupy Wall Street | motorcitytimes.com

Since the wheels are rapidly falling off the global warming / climate change hoax, where are you going to find your average liberal malcontent?

Occupying Wall Street.

Ophelia becomes major hurricane; update on Atlantic season - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

But in this season’s batch of 16 named storms, there have been only 4 hurricanes, three of which (including Ophelia) have reached major status (category 3 or higher). And Colorado State researcher Brian McNoldy notes this is a record low number of hurricanes for such a larger number of total storms.

“Looking back through the records, any season with 16+ named storms had at least 7 hurricanes,” he blogged.

Are Americans warming to the threat of climate change? – Telegraph Blogs

Professor Krosnik is predicting that global warming will be an important issue in next year's election.

Why Does The Global-Warming Debate Provoke So Much Anger? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

Things are really even more complicated. For what is claimed in (4) is not only that global warming is bad, but that it is terrible, that it threatening and frightening and terrifying. But do the facts about global warming entail that we ought to be terrified?

Reenact global warming in your cocktail | Grist

This Japanese site sells ice cube molds depicting penguins and polar bears sitting on ice floes. As the ice melts, both the floes and the critters are destroyed, making this a pretty good simulation of the effects of global warming. Finally, a product that combines climate education with all the drinking you need to do when you think about it!

Making Funny with Climate Change | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

some climate communicators see humor as their best chance to make climate issues resonate with the public at large, though the tact can be a double-edged sword

Jackson Hole Daily | Yellowstone warming up

Greater Yellowstone Coalition board chairwoman Marcia Kunstel likened Greater Yellowstone to Noah’s Ark.

Twitter / @bryanrwalsh: Americans! More climate ch ...

Americans! More climate change means more playoff rain delays!

Global warming spurs Swedish indoor ski park

Regardless of your own personal views on global warming our Swedish friends over at Danish megafirm C. F. Møller Architects seem to think it’s a big deal, enough to build a 750,000 square-foot winter wonderland.
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What’s the point of constructing a mammoth indoor ski park if by doing so will only add to the very phenomenon that necessitated it’s conception? Well, C. F. Møller is taking care to ensure that Skipark 360° is entirely self-sufficient, with renewable energy from geothermal wells, solar panels, wind turbines, and hyrdopower. Construction on the park is expected to begin sometime in 2013 or 2014.

2nd typhoon in week lashes rain-soaked Philippines - Forbes.com

Still, it is not clear that this is entirely because of climate change, especially in India, it said.

Make-believe schemes for a make-believe fix to a make-believe problem | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Gillard Government plans to cut our emissions by 160 million tonnes a year by 2020 actually involves paying foreigners for offsets for 100 million tonnes of that target.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu Gets White House Support - And Why That's Bad For Him

Chu is a manager at this point, he did not personally intervene for Solyndra, he listened to arguments and made a judgment call - but if he were not so anti-CO2 he looks at everything else through rose-colored-business-plan glasses, this would not have happened.

Socolow Re-Reaffirms 2004 ‘Wedges’ Paper, Urges ‘Monumental’ Levels of Clean Energy Deployment ASAP | ThinkProgress

The single biggest failure of messaging by climate scientists (until very recently) has been the failure to explain to the public, opinion makers, and the media that business-as-usual warming results in simultaneous, ever-worsening impacts that, individually, are each beyond catastrophic, but combined are unimaginablly horrific .

Monbiot bares all – Telegraph Blogs

What's more the documents show that in a period of five years, Hansen earned in outside income between $1.47 million and $2.67 million, in addition to his basic salary as a government employee of $180,000.

Under the terms of contract governing that salary, Hansen is forbidden from privately benefiting from public office and from taking money for activities related to his taxpayer funded employment.

Maybe Monbiot, for whom transparency is clearly such an issue, should investigate.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Indian expert on carbon credits: "We call it the corrupt development mechanism"

Hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits were awarded to Indian companies even though they did not reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate change consensus? Just ask the believers - The Lakeland Times - Minocqua, WI

Nobel winner, Obama supporter resigns from physics group over climate change as skeptics' ranks grow

How Central Park cools the entire planet | Grist

But while evaporation from parks does cause clouds, they’re the other kind -- the kind that helps cool the Earth. The clouds that green spaces give rise to are low-lying and white, and they reflect sunlight back into space, acting like a sun shade on a hot day. And, according to Ken Caldeira, the principle investigator on this study, the clouds reflect 3/4 as much heat as they remove from the city. In other words, parks help the planet almost as much as they help the city.

Global Warming Could Cost Canada Billions? - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Here are a few questions I have about this report

Wouldn't warmer weather expand Canada's now very short growing season?
Most Canadians live in southern Canada, wouldn't it getting warmer allow people to live in more of their own country?
Wouldn't it cause crops and trees to be grown further north into areas which are now under permafrost?
Couldn't you grow different crops like corn and soybeans which don't do well in Canada now?
Isn't most of Canada's coastal areas under ice most of the year?
Wouldn't warmer weather allow Canada to build ports where they can't now like in Hudson Bay?
If Canada becomes warmer wouldn't this create more tourism?
I'm not sure what health concerns they're talking about but wouldn't you have less people freezing to death in the winter?
Was this study paid for by Big Wind?

Corn Productivity Increasing, Along With CO2 | Real Science

I seem to remember something from primary school about CO2 being an important part of the photosynthesis process. Something about carbon …..

Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf | HeraldTribune.com

Floating icebergs that have broken free as a result pose a risk to offshore oil facilities and potentially to shipping lanes.
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These floating ice masses are typically 131 feet (40 meters) thick (equivalent to a 10-story building), but can be as much as 328 feet (100 meters) thick.

Russia - Surprise snowstorms - Two weeks of snow in two days (Video)

28 Sep 11 – In the Chita and Magadan regions, heavy snow and strong winds paralyzed road traffic and left entire districts without electricity.

GAO: 42% of USHCN Weather Stations Fail to Meet NOAA Standards

Washington, D.C.—Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today welcomed a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) entitled “NOAA Can Improve Their Management of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN).” This report quantifies lingering questions concerning proper siting of weather stations, finding about 42% of the active USHCN stations in 2010 did not meet one or more of NOAA’s siting standards. GAO says the two standards most commonly unmet are “distance to obstructions [such as buildings and trees] and distance to extensive concrete or paved surfaces.”

The Telegraph finally figures out where the North Magnetic Pole is was, issues microscopically sized correction | Watts Up With That?

1945 Shock News : Taxing Starving People Didn’t Stop The Drought | Real Science

This is weird. Our top socialist scientists tell us that taxation is the cure for all climate problems.

Is the US Republican Party a long-term problem for climate change? | Debating Europe

Are the Republican Party in the US the single biggest obstacle to reaching a global agreement on climate change? Or are developing countries like India and China (now the single biggest emitter of CO2 in the world) part of the problem?

New measures to tackle Lincoln’s CO2 levels

The debate on Lincoln’s carbon emissions has sparked renewed interest with climate change threatening the way we live.
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“I know there are other greenhouse gases, but the one people focus on is carbon,” Smith said.

Cold Revolution: The Snowsports Generation Looks for Meaning in Fighting Climate Change | ThinkProgress

One is hard pressed to find a single pro athlete who doesn’t want to mobilize on climate.

C3: Per Wikileaks Documents, The UN's Climate Change Programs Are Total Failure - Looks Like Fraud

The entire climate change endeavor sponsored by the United Nations is essentially a gigantic fraud, propelled by leftists and greens dedicated to no growth, no prosperity policies. The actual quotes from "elites" who support the UN's "green" policies confirms everything that Wikileaks is now discovering.

My 1995 Resignation Letter From The IPCC | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

I recently again came across this letter and, in rereading, it still accurately expresses my 2011 views on the IPCC perspective.

Every Day In 2011 Has Been Cooler Than 2010 | Real Science

There must be less CO2 in the air this year.

Climate Common Sense: Today's Solar Dream to Become Tomorrow's Nightmare!

Queensland now has 107,000 homes getting a free solar ride on their neighbours with guaranteed feed-in tariffs mandated until 2028. The rest of the community will be paying for these "green" freeloaders for another 17 years unless a future government acts to protect the majority of consumers. The problems with solar panels apart from those above, are now becoming obvious even to people with the limited intellect of our Queensland politicians. Our electricity grid is sensibly not designed to have un-needed power fed back to the grid and transformer saturation has now become a major problem. To counter this no more than 30% of consumers in an area will be able to install panels which is small comfort to the other 70% footing the bill.
All these solar panels and the transfer of money from the solar panel have-nots to the solar panel haves will not reduce one iota the requirement for fossil-fueled power stations .

Ocean Acidification — a little bit less alkalinity could be a good thing « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

In Brief: The oceans are not acidic, and will not become acidic in the foreseeable future. Many of the fears and alarming scenarios are based on models. Many scary headlines are based on studies of extreme pH values beyond the range of anything realistic.

Incredibly, hundreds of studies show that for pH changes that we are likely to encounter in the next 100 years, there is arguably a net benefit to underwater life if the oceans became a little less alkaline.

Serreze : Arctic Ice Has Accelerated From First Place To Second Place Since 2007 | Real Science

I always go backwards when I accelerate.

The Reference Frame: Nature: carbon trading is a farce

In the real world, the CO2 level is dictated by the markets and by the laws of Nature and it has to be so. Any bureaucrats' attempt to prescribe Nature what its CO2 concentration should be in 2040 is both immoral as well as unrealistic. It's just a wishful thinking and all the money paid for such attempts will end up in the pockets of the speculators and crooks. At current prices, we are talking about more than half a trillion dollars a year that is thrown to the trash bin.

Of course, if we wanted prices that actually start to affect the behavior of some people who don't know how to reorganize their CO2 to pay nothing, the price of CO2 emissions would have to grow by an order of magnitude and dozens of percent of the world GDP would be thrown out of the window.

The Vindication of Alan Carlin | Power Line

Wait—what? You don’t remember all the outraged press coverage of the Carlin story? Come to think of it, neither do I. Here’s a refresher: in 2009, when the EPA announced its “endangerment” finding to justify its planned regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, Alan Carlin, a 35-year veteran EPA employee who ran the EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics, produced a 98-page critique of the climate science the EPA used in its finding. Carlin’s report concluded, “We believe our concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by the EPA.”

Getting ready for more global warming: Heathrow airport triples snow clearance fleet | Watts Up With That?

Heathrow airport has tripled the number of snow clearance vehicles to tackle severe winter weather.

Operator BAA also has three times as many staff ready to clear snow compared with last year.

Climate Common Sense: Green Jobs $16 Million each in the Obanana republic!

Having learnt nothing from the Solyandra debacle Obama's crew has rushed through a $737 million dollar loan guarantee to Solar Reserve which is constructing a 110 MW Nevada solar power facility which will create 45 permanent jobs - a snip at $16 million a pop. However Obama can be confident that this time everything will be fine as by an amazing co-incidence Nancy Pelosi's brother-in-law is executive director of Pacific Corporate Group , an investment partner in Solar Reserve.

Glaciergate’s Other WWF Connection « NoFrakkingConsensus

All seven of these people are members of the WWF’s panel. Which makes one feel ever-so-confident in the IPCC’s conclusions, doesn’t it?

Listen up, Prime Minister - drop the carbon tax to win back Australia | thetelegraph.com.au

PUBLIC support for the carbon tax has tanked, with one in three people now more likely to vote Labor if it dumped the policy.

For Want Of Climate Urgency | The Energy Collective

It’s so bad, in fact, that it’s become almost impossible to talk about it with any degree of frankness and at any appreciable depth and breadth without instantly sounding like a nut case standing on a street corner wearing a “THE END IS NEAR” sandwich board.

Al Gore: U.S. Democracy ‘Hacked’ by Anti-Warming Special Interests | PEOPLEUNLIKEUS

The BBC said Gore’s speech included “a strong attack on the effect of lobbying and money-raising on the U.S. Congress, and on carbon producers who he said employ four Washington lobbyists for every member of Congress.”
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“Although developments in this sector remain at an early stage, let me tell you that the whole world is rooting for you,” it quoted him as saying.

ABC News Commits Random Act of Journalism on Solyndra - The Rush Limbaugh Show

It's not about the green industry and it isn't about green jobs. It's about getting green into the Democrat coffers. I mean, come on, folks, 45 permanent jobs resulting from $1 billion in loans, start-up costs for solar industry firms? Forty-five permanent jobs at between 16 and $23 million a job? That's not what this is about. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who is really, really wrapped up deep in this, and if there needs to be a fall guy on this, that's who it's going to be. Mark my words.

Climate Skeptic Proves Conclusively That He Knows How To Waste Time, Money | Media Matters for America

That they didn't actually perform the experiment is moot

Climate change compounds global security threat, British admiral says – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs

Morisetti pointed out that existing stress points form a band around the globe, running from Central and South America, across Africa, the Middle East and south Asia. That band, he said, intersects with the regions of the globe most susceptible to climate change.

Vail Valley Voices: More hot air than science in global-warming theory | Dr. Martin Hertzberg

“Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth” — Robert Weston.

Since I am a long-time denier of human-caused global warming and have been described as an “inaccurate” and “irresponsible” “fool” by Scott Glasser's commentary in Monday's Vail Daily, I feel compelled to respond.

I am a research scientist who also served as a meteorologist for the U.S. Navy. I am also a lifelong progressive Democrat.

Rail commuters warned of major cold weather travel disruption | News

Commuters were warned today of major disruption this winter as breakdowns were expected across the south-east.

The boss of the UK's busiest commuter operator said snow and ice will pose a "significant challenge" as weather forecasters predicted a harsh winter.

Chu takes responsibility for a loan deal that put more taxpayer money at risk in Solyndra - The Washington Post

Energy Secretary Steven Chu acknowledged Thursday making the final decision to allow a struggling solar company to continue receiving taxpayer money after it had technically defaulted on a $535 million federal loan guaranteed by his agency.

Chu spokesman Damien La­Vera said in a statement that the secretary approved the restructuring agreement for Solyndra because it gave the company “the best possible chance to succeed in a very competitive marketplace and put the company in a better position to repay the loan.”

Government plans to raise speed limit to 80mph | UK news | guardian.co.uk

The government plans to raise the speed limit to 80mph from 70mph in a victory for the transport secretary, Philip Hammond.

Al Gore speaks and dines in Jyväskylä | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi

Nobel Prize winner and former US vice president Al Gore addressed a business seminar in the central Finnish town of Jyväskylä on Friday.

NASA’s Hansen: “If We Stay on With Business as Usual, the Southern U.S. Will Become Almost Uninhabitable.”

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/climateprogress/lCrX/~3/6TrbzQ06Ozs/

It will be the great repopulation of the North.

Climate change to cost Canada nearly two percent of GDP by 2080

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/243405

The national roundtable is a federally appointed agency that conducts research and provides policy advice.

 

It predicted that climate change would result in flooding of low-lying coastal regions, threaten timber supply, and lead to health problems due to worsening air quality.

Physicists consider their own carbon footprint

ScienceDaily (Sep. 29, 2011) — In October's issue of Physics World, Phil Marshall, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, calls on physicists to pull their weight when it comes to climate change, drawing on his own research showing that astronomers average 23,000 air miles per year flying to observatories, conferences and meetings, and use 130 KWh more energy per day than the average US citizen.

Marshall says that physicists must not only act as "trusted voices" in climate-change debates, but also do all they can to reduce their own carbon footprints.

Warmist Revkin appears to admit that "individual molecules of CO2 leave the atmosphere within a few years"

A Closer Look at CO2's Long Goodbye - NYTimes.com

The assertion is that because individual molecules of CO2 leave the atmosphere within a few years, claims of a building threat from the heat-trapping properties of this trace gas (amplified by feedbacks) are overblown.

Deniers: Namibia isn't ready to try powering their country using solar and wind "power"

TRADE: Climate Change Will Impede North-South Trade

"Namibia with its long coastline and many days of sunshine is excellently positioned to reap the benefits of wind and solar energy," Braby said.

However, some think that Namibia is not ready for this.

"We are not ready for renewable energy," countered the ruling South West Africa People's Organization member of parliament, Ben Amathila. "We need to make laws that are futuristic in order to exploit wind and solar technology, but decision makers have far too little knowledge of these issues."

The Gauntlet® Opinions - Joubert on climate change science

I do not believe it right to create unnecessary fear. To contend that there is a scientific consensus on global warming is outright deception.

Goldman Sachs To Buy Majority Stake in ReNew Wind Power - HispanicBusiness.com

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to buy a majority stake in ReNew Wind Power Pvt. Ltd for '1,000 crore, extending the U.S. investment bank's bets on renewable power projects.

Still Waiting On The Rapid Response Team | Real Science

I sent them this question over ten months ago.

Climate change predicted to spread malaria

Durban - The geographic range of malaria could more than double in the next 50 years, putting almost eight million people at risk - five million of whom did not previously live in areas at risk from malaria in Southern Africa.

Dec 2010: WHO report shows 50% decrease in confirmed cases of malaria

LAGOS — A total of 11 African countries showed a greater than 50 per cent reduction in either confirmed malaria cases or malaria admissions and deaths over the past decade, a new World Malaria Report has revealed .

A new policy to save the bandwagon: Don’t mention Global warming. | ScottishSceptic

Just look at the Goreathon. Every time one of these warmist jerks opens their month another million people ask: “where is this impending doom? Where is the sea rising? Where are the famines? Where are the heat waves? I look around me at my home, my neighbourhood and really I can’t see anything has changed”.

$737 million in green-tech loan to company connected to Pelosi family? « Hot Air

As both Gateway Pundit and American Glob discover, one of SolarReserve’s “investment partners” is Pacific Corporate Group, through its Clean Energy and Technology Fund. And PCG’s executive director is Ron Pelosi — brother of Nancy Pelosi’s husband. Suddenly, this deal makes a lot more sense than spending $737 million for forty-five jobs.

This surely is just a coincidence … in the same way that the push by the Obama administration to approve a loan to a failing Solyndra backed by one of his big campaign bundlers was just a coincidence.

Solar Energy Companies | Democratic Donors | Loan Guarantees | The Daily Caller

A Daily Caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company Solyndra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in loan guarantees from the Obama administration employ executives or board members who have donated large sums of money to Democratic campaigns.

Today's Climate Change | A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change | US EPA

Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas, into the atmosphere, which is the main reason why the climate is changing.

Global Warming Hysteria: Now It’s the “Denier Industrial Complex!” » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

People who get the most attention in the world, such as Al Gore, Prince Charles, Thomas Friedman, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Big Time Hollywood and Rock and Roll, push the warming meme at every chance. Entire movies have been made pushing global warming. Television shows. It never ends.

And yet, global warming hysterics think they are somehow outgunned in the debate by the “Denier Industrial Complex.”

Shanghai Struggles to Save Itself From the Sea - NYTimes.com

Climate change is pushing up the sea level globally. While in Shanghai, such rise is roughly the length of a rice grain in each of recent years

Rice in human nutrition - Grain structure, composition and consumers' criteria for quality

IRRI uses the following scale for size: extra long, >7.50 mm; long, 6.61 to 7.50 mm; medium, 5.51 to 6.60 mm; and short, <5.50 mm.

Variations in Sea Level

Tide gauges around the Chesapeake Bay indicate that the relative sea level in the Bay is rising at twice the average global rate of 1.8 mm per year [Douglas, 1991]

EPA Inspector General Report on Climate Health Finding - The Daily Green

Blogging on the issue, David Doniger, policy director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, described the EPA's findings as perched atop an "enormous, multi-layered pyramid" of scientific [crap] developed over decades.

At the base, he wrote, are "tens of thousands" of peer-reviewed studies.

Green disturber | Montreal Mirror

M: Do you think the climate change deniers honestly believe the positions they’re putting forth? I mean, these people have children too.

TB: The people most opposed to moving to more sustainable, cleaner, safer energy systems are usually the ones with the fattest pocketbooks. That’s the bottom line. Most of the climate denial indus­try is funded by major fossil fuel companies. It’s a manufactured debate. We’ve proven that over and over again.

Carbon schemes a Mafia 'honeypot' | thetelegraph.com.au

THE carbon tax will be a "honeypot" for criminals and a massive fraud opportunity that could be manipulated by the mafia to make and launder money, a major fraud conference was warned yesterday.

German Economics Professor Concludes: “Solar Subsidies Are Senseless”

And so how many more studies do we need to tell us the obvious? There are so many studies out there that conclude renewable energy subsidies are a failure, yet you can be sure they will all be ignored by the next IPCC report, which instead will focus on some oddball quack paper by Ottmar Edenhofer.

Plants gobbling up CO2 – 45% more than thought | Watts Up With That?

From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres a clear indication for those “CO2 is plant food” scoffers that they plants don’t care what they think.

Productivity of land plants may be greater than previously thought

Economists: Every $1 of electricity from coal does $2 in damage to U.S. | Grist

All told, coal plants cause $53 billion in damage every year. And none of that even takes climate impacts into account.

Heathrow campaigners hit US as battle with the airline industry goes global | Environment | guardian.co.uk

This Saturday, transport campaigner John Stewart and I will be heading, through video-conferencing and in person, to New York, to mark the start of a US-wide Aviation Justice Express tour, in which we will tell the story how activists triumphed at Heathrow.

Crandall Who? | The New Republic

[Bob Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy] is deeply skeptical of the scientific consensus that global warming is being caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, preferring to lend credence to outsider theories for climate change, such as sunspot activity or a shift of Earth's magnetic north redirecting ocean currents. He has withering criticism for fellow energy executives who are looking for ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, saying they are in it for their own gain and will harm the economy.

Bummer of a consensus: Burning fossil fuels allegedly causes monsoons to both drop 10% and increase 10%

Fifty-Year Drop in Asian Monsoons May Be Linked to Fossil Fuels - Businessweek

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The reduction in seasonal rains in south Asia over the last 50 years may be a result of tiny chemicals emitted into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, U.S. scientists said.

Computer models incorporating the effect of so-called aerosols emitted from car exhaust pipes, power plants and cooking stoves could explain the 10 percent drop in the seasonal monsoon rains in parts of India over the last five decades, the researchers wrote today in Sciencexpress, the online version of the journal Science.

Flashback: 'Phenomenal' temperature rises threaten India - SciDev.Net

The global model predicts a 10 per cent increase in monsoon rainfall over the next century

Breaking: Trace amounts of CO2 could make Canada so hot that damages per year could reach eighty-five eleventy kazillion dollars annually!

Karma News: As Nobel Laureates Call to Halt Tar Sands, Govt Panel Finds Warming Could Cost Canada $500 B/yr by 2075 | ThinkProgress

Note that the study finds, “A small but not impossible chance of costs reaching over $150 billion per year in 2050 exists.“ In 2075, “there would be a 5% chance of costs exceeding $546 billion and a 1% chance of costs exceeding $820 billion.”

Forest carbon projects rake in $178 million in 2010

Investors funneled $178 million into forest carbon projects intended to mitigate global climate change last year, according to a new report by Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace. By trading a record 30.1 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtC02e), the market saw a 48 percent rise over 2009
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In total the global forest carbon market is now estimated at $432 million with projects impacting 7.9 million hectares worldwide.

Obama Central Planning - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

the real scandal here is how much U.S. industrial policy under Obama now mirrors Communist China central planning.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Sept. 29th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

The round-up returns this week and finds nine Nobels nobbled, a handy guide to talking to the tea party about climate and victory for the denier industrial complex, or something.

Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies May Be the Way to Jumpstart Climate Finance

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released what may be its final International Energy Outlook, a report it has published annually, but that was canceled after the EIA's budget was slashed 14 percent this year.

Some of its highlights include the projection in its reference scenario that global energy use will rise about 50 percent over the coming quarter-century, with half the increase coming from China and India.

The reference scenario also projects renewables (including hydroelectricity) will be the fastest-growing energy source, growing close to 3 percent a year and more than doubling in production over 25 years.

The Solyndra - Walmart Connection | National Legal and Policy Center

Walmart can no longer be portrayed as a "conservative" or "Republican" company. Beginning under former CEO Lee Scott, and accelerating under present CEO Mike Duke, Walmart has become a powerful backer of a host of left-wing causes.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Selective Importance of Science Integrity Guidelines

What has been interesting to observe various statements by observers about the significance of the IG report. I'd speculate that these observers would have had different reactions had this report been requested by Henry Waxman in 2006 about the last administration's EPA.
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Of course, during the Bush Administration concern about processes to ensure scientific integrity were all the rage. At that time it was generally understood that process matters, not simply because it helps to improve the quality of scientific assessments, but also because it helps to establish their legitimacy in the political process.  One sneers at process at some risk.

Reuters: Climate fund could surpass lending by the World Bank, but there's one problem: the fund has no money

COLUMN-Climate aid progress may end Kyoto rancour -Gerard Wynn - AlertNet

LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks resume in Panama next week but expect more action in Cape Town 10 days later, where an informal panel will quietly agree the outlines of a climate fund which could surpass lending by the World Bank.

Climate investors are taking an interest in the fund, which has no money, reflecting the fate of a shrinking market in carbon offsets which is now a rump of its size four years ago.

"The team’s finding suggests plants absorb 16 to 19 times mankind’s total CO2 emissions"

Plants take in more CO2 than thought, study finds | Sci-tech | DAWN.COM

The team’s finding suggests plants absorb 16 to 19 times mankind’s total CO2 emissions, underscoring the powerful role they can play in regulating the climate.

Carbon scheme 'open to fraud' | The Australian

TONY Abbott has seized on warnings about fraud in international emissions trading schemes as a reason to dump Labor's planned carbon tax.

Amid concerns from the Australian Crime Commission and international fraud agencies, the Opposition Leader yesterday said there was "a lot of scope for scamming" within carbon trading schemes and strong enforcement would be required to police it.

"I think that we are going to have to have a very intrusive carbon cop if an emissions trading scheme carbon tax goes ahead," he said, speaking at Digga manufacturers on the Gold Coast yesterday. "It's one of the many reasons why I'm against it because I don't think we need the kind of intrusive regulation, the kind of intrusive supervision and enforcement that inevitably an effective carbon tax would need."

“Climastrologist” James Hansen versus reality - Wry Heat

Given the antics of “our leading climate scientist,” one wonders if climate science as practiced today is really a science. Maybe it should be called “climastrology.”

From Jim Hansen's latest rant:

I drove off to a tar sands rally at the White House...IPCC WGII (2007) estimates that, if business-as-usual (BAU) CO2 emissions continue this century, between 21% and 52% of all species will be committed to extinction...Well-oiled Governors and Senators in Texas and Oklahoma bear a responsibility. Asserting that global warming is a hoax, they take actions that help BAU CO2 emissions continue, even if it requires spoiling pristine places to extract the dirtiest fuels on the planet.1 How can they get away with this? When will they finally be smoked out? Do the current drought and fires in Texas provide a legitimate basis for exposing the reprehensible behavior of these mountebanks, a chance to pull the curtain aside revealing the charlatans behind? 1 Our fossil fuel-government oligarchy will not tolerate even peaceful citizen objection to actions that could leave young people with a planet spiraling toward a desolate state. ...The media are partly responsible for the silent summer, as they have mainly chosen not to examine connections between climate anomalies and human-made causes. A cynic may ask whether their silent summer is related to increasing right-wing control of media and large advertising revenues from fossil fuel companies...A different sort of criticism, including an element of character assassination, has developed since then and has been leveled most heavily against scientists Ben Santer, Michael Mann and Phil Jones. The approach has included acquiring and digging into personal correspondences of scientists in search of any inappropriate or questionable statements, as well as fine-toothed scrutiny of their scientific analyses in search of any element, however minor, that could be criticized. The ultimate target of the critics in Santer's case was a specific sentence that Santer was responsible for as a lead author in the 1995 IPCC report: "Taken together, these results point towards a human influence on climate." The target in Mann's case was the temperature record of the past millennium, which Mann had shown to resemble a "hockey stick", bending upward into rapid warming in the past century. The target in Jones' case was his analysis of observations showing the rapid warming of the past century. The important point I wish to note is that each of these three targets, the scientific conclusions that provoked the critics and which they aimed to destroy or discredit, have been shown in subsequent analyses to have been correct, indeed, dead-on-the-mark...An epitome of the Washington syndrome is the cap-and-trade-with-offsets scheme that was hatched as a 'solution' to global warming. It assures big roles and a continuing stream of big money for big banks, big coal, big oil, and utilities. Who is left screwed and tattooed? You guessed it. John Q. Public. Every single cent in expanded corporation 'profits' and the compensation for multi-million-dollar executive salaries, including salaries for a new class of bankers, 'carbon traders', is extracted via increased energy costs paid by John Q. Public. Most proponents of cap-and-trade must admit that it is inferior to a simple honest rising price on carbon emissions (a fee collected from fossil fuel companies). Their defense of capand- trade is reduced to a fatuous "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good". In fact capand- trade is not 'good' – it is designed to allow business-as-usual, leading to certain mining of all fossil fuels on the planet and a debacle for young people...It is time for all of us to get Tea-Party-angry about what our political system has become and about the intergenerational injustice being perpetrated on young people.

Settled science: If you don't believe in the global warming hoax, you probably have lousy teeth

America’s oral hygiene and political divides largely match | The Washington Independent

The shorthand summary for political junkies is that if you don’t believe in climate change or in the benefit of health care reform and are leaning toward casting a ballot for Texas Governor Rick Perry sometime in your future, chances are you have lousy teeth.

On Solyndra, the buck stops with Chu - POLITICO.com

REPUBLICANS DECRY DOE ‘RUSH’: Reps. Cliff Stearns and Michael Burgess are reiterating concerns that DOE is pushing loan guarantee applications, like the one given to Solyndra, out the door ahead of the Friday deadline. “Solyndra was the product of a bad bet rushed out the door and taxpayers are now on the hook. We cannot afford DOE rushing out more Solyndras in these final hours,” Stearns said in a statement. “If you’ve got the end of the fiscal year breathing down your neck, if you’ve got another $6-8 billion to push out the door, are you at risk for making the same kind of mistakes? And honestly that’s what’s keeping me awake at night now,” Burgess said on Fox News on Wednesday evening. “We’re putting our best effort into making sure no more Solyndra money is going out the door in the last minute.”

Twitter / @v_kyriakakis

Gvt source tells us #Baillieu Gvt has instructed them not to refer to 'climate change' anymore. Have 2 call it 'evolving climate'. WTF???

2011 Much Cooler Than 2010 So Far

It is very unlikely that 2011 will be anywhere near a record year

Poland Vows To Veto Any EU Anti-Shale Legislation

POLAND would veto any EU legislation that threatened its sovereignty in energy policy, Maciej Olex-Szczytowski, an adviser to the Polish foreign minister on economics and business, said yesterday.

Guardian: Gore said that "nearly every climate scientist actively publishing on the subject now agreed there was a causal link between carbon emissions and the sharp increase in intense and extreme weather events seen across the globe"

Al Gore: clear proof that climate change causes extreme weather | Environment | The Guardian

Former US vice president tells Scottish green conference that evidence from floods in Pakistan and China is compelling
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Al Gore has warned that there is now clear proof that climate change is directly responsible for the extreme and devastating floods, storms and droughts that displaced millions of people this year.
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The former vice president and climate campaigner said that US democracy had been undermined. "In the language of computer culture, our democracy has been hacked," he said.
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He added that nearly every climate scientist actively publishing on the subject now agreed there was a causal link between carbon emissions and the sharp increase in intense and extreme weather events seen across the globe.

"Every single national academy of science of every major country on earth agrees with the consensus and the one's that don't agree with it do not exist. This is what they say to governments: 'The need for urgent action is now indisputable'.

Warmist sob story contains admission that some Arctic sea ice is still 130 feet thick

Huge ice shelf breaks loose in Canada - US news - Environment - Climate Change [hoax] - msnbc.com

TORONTO — A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.
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"The Markham Ice Shelf was a big surprise because it suddenly disappeared. We went under cloud for a bit during our research and when the weather cleared up, all of a sudden there was no more ice shelf. It was a shocking event that underscores the rapidity of changes taking place in the Arctic," said Mueller.

Mueller also said that two large sections of ice detached from the Serson Ice Shelf, shrinking that ice feature by 47 square miles — or 60 percent — and that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has also continued to break up, losing an additional eight square miles.

Mueller reported last month that seven square miles of the 170-square-mile and 130-feet-thick Ward Hunt shelf had broken off.

Flashback:  2007 Record Low Date Arrives – 9000 Manhattans Of Recovery | Real Science

JAXA shows that there are 9,000 more Manhattans of ice than there was on this date in 2007.

Photosynthesis occurs 25% faster: study

CANBERRA (Xinhua) -- The global rate of photosynthesis, the chemical process governing the way ocean and land plants absorb and release CO2, occurs 25 percent faster than previously thought, a team of U.S., Netherlands and Australian scientists said on Thursday.

The Island President - YouTube

Filmmaker Jon Shenk and the President of the sinking Maldives, Mohamed "Anni" Nasheed, talk about how saving the world from climate change will save his country.

C3: Arctic Sea Ice Model Affirms Current Sea Ice Extent Not Unusual - Means Ice Change Is Natural

IPCC Climategate scientists and professional global warming alarmists have long dedicated themselves to provoking hysteria in politicians and the public. A favorite tactic has been their pushing the propaganda that current Arctic temperatures and sea ice extent are "unprecedented".

The skeptics have long surmised that today's Arctic temperatures and sea ice extent are not unusual, and are likely not the result of humans. Now comes a sea ice model that confirms the skeptics' hypothesis, while devastating the alarmists' position.

These people think you're stupid, New York Times edition: Photos of waves on Long Island are supposed to make the point that trace amounts of CO2 are dangerous

Climate Equation: Coal + Ice = ? - NYTimes.com

The final part of the exhibition is dominated by photos taken by Clifford Ross that show violent waves crashing to shore during hurricane season on Long Island, making the point that extreme weather is expected to become more frequent because of climate change.

Warmist doctor Paul Epstein: You know what we need? Another $500 billion carbon dioxide swindle

Solving Climate Change: We Need a Tax on Currency Transactions - Paul Epstein - Life - The Atlantic

A tax of just 0.075 percent on only currency transactions in dealer markets would yield the $500 billion needed to rebuild our systems

Paul Epstein - Authors - The Atlantic

Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., is associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and is a medical doctor trained in tropical public health.

Junk scientists predict that CO2-induced unpredictable cooling and warming will be "too extreme for amphibians to deal with"

As Temps Rise, Amphibians May Vanish : Discovery News

The biggest obstacles facing the amphibians are not mountain ranges and other physical barriers, the study found. Instead, it's the unpredictable nature of projected climate changes that threatens them most. Instead of getting gradually and consistently warmer, temperatures will roller coaster in ways "too extreme for amphibians to deal with".

"Every time it gets warmer, they can move, but when it gets cooler again, they can’t move far enough and they get stuck," Early said. "It's like taking two steps forward and one step back."

Canada: Federal advisory panel suggests that lack of global climate swindle could cost Canadians $43 billion per year

Climate change could cost Canada billions: report

Canada can expect to pay between $21 billion and $43 billion each year by 2050 if it fails to come up with a domestic plan within a global agreement to tackle climate change, says a groundbreaking assessment released Thursday by a federal advisory panel.

Maybe the Canadians should get the Solyndra plant blueprints and put up about 40 of those every year?

Solyndra: Largest VC loss ever? - Boston Business Journal

Solyndra said Wednesday it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after reportedly taking $1.1 billion in VC.

Wind turbines: annoying, sure, but probably not actually unhealthy | Grist

with the exception of some self-reported cases of sleep disturbance, there is no scientific or empirical basis to conclude that wind turbine noise causes health problems.

Weatherwatch: Deadly heat | News | The Guardian

the UK has had the coolest summer for some years...heat itself may turn out to be a major killer.

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@KeithKloor slams @KennethPGreen for wielding Socialist cudgel in Politics-Sience pissing match with @ChrisMooney_ shar.es/b14b0

Flashback: Chavez Tells Copenhagen Summit "Capitalism Is the Road to Hell" – Gets Standing Ovation | The Gateway Pundit

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.