"Winter will roar in next week as a bitterly cold Arctic blast brings snow and freezing temperatures," says this article by Nathan Rao.
Cr Burnett was sceptical about the effectiveness of the tax.
"I see very very little evidence in reports that this will have any effect whatsoever on reducing of carbon dioxide.
"This is a revenue raising situation, it is not a revenue raising scheme, it is not something that I do not support and will not support."
"Holden" here is Holdren, who co-chaired the NCEP in 2005. This is the same John Holdren who wrote in favor of coercive government population-control policies in the 1970s, and who in 2007 suggested government-imposed redistribution as a cure for American exceptionalism. The other adviser mentioned in this paragraph comes from a group which has among its top five donors in 2009 a familiar name — the George Kaiser Foundation. Kaiser, one will recall, is a big Obama bundler — and the main investor in an outfit called Solyndra.
If we're looking for an alternative to the current administration's partnerships with people like Holdren and Kaiser, shouldn't we find a nominee that didn't partner with either on energy policy?
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne yesterday completed a dramatic personal U-turn and declared: 'We need nuclear.'
'Climate action' group 350.org have managed to book a front row seat on the Occupy London bandwagon, thanks in part to having Naomi Klein on their board of directors.
Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of INQUA, the International Commission on Sea Level Change, has studied real-world sea levels for nearly 40 years. Rather than relying mostly on computer models, as most climate scientists do, Dr. Morner has concentrated on using satellites, photographs and detailed measurement records to determine whether the oceans are rising, falling or remaining pretty much the same.
"The sea is not rising," he has told anyone who will listen. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." What's more, if it rises in the 21st Century, it will be by "not more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm." That's pretty much the same prediction as that derived by the other real-world measurers, Houston and Dean.
Revkin then updated his post to include a link to my response, originally with the comment:
"I think some, though by no means all, aspects of the map are spot on." [No link available - sadly]
There is a dishonourable mention this week, for Michael Mann who has contradicted his own work by claiming European settlement of North America led to the Little Ice Age (which MBH98 says never happened).
Flashback: Holdren 'desperately needs remedial climate science education!' Holdren ridiculed for claiming Arctic could be ICE FREE IN WINTER! This is who Romney seeks climate advice from?! Scientist Ridicules John Holdren: He 'appears to have less scientific competence than most 1st graders' -- John Holdren in 2009: 'If you lose the summer [Arcitc] sea ice,there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round,it's going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.'
"Blooming brilliant. Devastating" – Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist
"I think it quite likely that we are seeing the last of white bears.
"The only way we can prevent them from becoming extinct is to reduce the speed at which the Arctic is changing, and who knows if we can do that?
"There may not be any ice in the north in 20 years
In the following it is shown, that temperature stations from coasts / islands generally have significantly different temperature trends than near by non-coastal temperature stations.
Emails obtained by congressional investigators show that Prend was perhaps the first to push for Solyndra inside the administration, touting the company in a February 2009 meeting with Carol Browner, President Obama’s former global warming and energy czar. At the time, Prend’s firm held a 7.5 percent stake in Solyndra.Al Gore Now a Great Lakes Expert [Mackinac Center]
Prend also pushed for Solyndra to be included in a Navy contract as part of the administration’s plan to switch the military to green energy. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Navy effort came in the spring of this year, long after it was clear that the company was kaput. The Navy seemed to be on the cusp of including Solyndra in the $1 million pilot project, but had to drop the well-connected firm as bankruptcy approached in September.
Americans are rightly skeptical about the claim that the science of global warming is settled. Making such claim ignores the basic principal that science is a process of discovery and is never settled. Global warming rhetoric has become less about science and more about political ideology. Making energy policy on political ideology is a serious mistake, especially in a world teetering on the brink of economic collapse. Any discerning individual touring Detroit would quickly come to the conclusion that global warming is the least of the city’s problem.
Will a Rick Perry administration squelch climate science the same way the Bush administration did? That’s a question many in the climate science and policy communities are askingThe PJ Tatler » Deutsche Bank, Your Conscience is On Line One
So, Deutsche Bank reports that the increasing price of delivered electricity is prompting terrible consequences in “climate” policy leader the United Kingdom, such as moving one-quarter of households into fuel poverty (I have asked the author for a copy, which no story reporting on the report has provided).Solyndra Came Close to Landing Navy Deal - WSJ.com
They must be so proud. Keep reading.
A major investor in Solyndra LLC was instrumental in helping the troubled solar-power firm compete for a potentially lucrative U.S. Navy deal, a previously unreported connection that will likely fuel controversy surrounding the company.BBC News - Greenpeace Rainbow sails again
[it] features a helicopter landing deck for the first time.
I think that it's good that politicians are already working on future rules of business that will apply once Julia Gillard et al. is sent away from the system and her fraudulent policies are abolished. The message is that whoever actively bets on the success of this Ponzi scheme will lose his money.
I added an update a day later describing a chart of the “climate alarmism machine” created in response by an Australian blogger.
...My description of the “alarmism” chart as “an overdrawn, overblown caricature of reality” was insufficiently critical.
I had issues with the sociologists’ analysis, but it was part of a serious effort at scholarship. Nearly all of the assertions by the Australian blogger in the second chart were inflammatory and untrue, with only thin threads leading to legitimate issues
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Setting aside the word propaganda, I will readily assert that there has been a longstanding and well-financed effort to raise public concern by downplaying substantial, persistent and legitimate uncertainty about the worst-case outcomes from greenhouse-driven warming and over-attributing the link between such warming and climate-related disasters and other events. Much of this is organized.
But it should be pointed out that there is a climate-style amplifying feedback process, in which a funding agency, a university and researchers highlight the most newsworthy aspect of a new study — even if it’s tentative — and that baton is passed to journalists eagerly sifting for “the front-page thought.” Kind of looks like a hype machine, in some ways.
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Get started with demonstrable steps on energy efficiency and intensified research, for example, that have wide support even among Republicans. What better way to marginalize true obstructionists at the conservative fringe?
Tip o' the hat to Lord Beaverbrook and Oxbridge Prat in Unthreaded, who note that Michael Mann has written his own take on the Hockey Stick wars. It's turning into a crowded field, what with me and Bradley covering the same ground.Debunking The Phony Beliefs Of The Modern Green Movement - Forbes
Publication date is March 2012
Since our halcyon times in Oregon I’ve been waiting for the definitive tome on the systematic errors of organoism, and I have finally found it in Todd Myers’ new book Eco-fads.The Blackboard » Stupid Climate Betting Games: Death & Bankruptcy
Don’t you love it when a climate scientists thinks he can “clarify” by introducing a methaphor involving dice?Fight Global Warming: ‘Get a Horse and Sterilize Yourself’ | Godfather Politics
Are these people nuts? Do they have any idea what life was like when the mode of transportation was by horse-drawn carriage?
Depopulation of Americas may have cooled climateAbbott warns business not to waste money on carbon permits | Climate Nonconformist
Tony’s getting set to take down the carbon tax.Don’t bank on this tax | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Tony Abbott gives fair warning - which might help to limit the compensation claims afterwards:Farmers given right to farm carbon on state land | Sunshine Coast Queensland
Queensland farmers and lessees of state land will now have the opportunity to earn money from tradable carbon credits for planting trees or managing regrowth on cleared land.
"We're still acting as if it's perfectly OK to use this thin-shelled atmosphere as an open sewer. It's not OK," Gore said. "We need to listen to the scientists. We need to use the tried and true method of using the best evidence, debating and discussing it, but not pretending that facts are not facts."They call this a consensus?
"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."
So said Al Gore ... in 1992.
Reading tree rings is time-tested and well-understood. There’s been plenty of opportunity to match tree rings to modern, well-documented weather conditions.
Two editions of my IPCC exposé are now available. [I just bought the iPad version].Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Lending to Enron
Had Obama been around 10 years earlier with his green jobs program, Enron might never have gone bust – it could have just gotten DOE loansMachiavelli Applied to Lopsided Climate [Scam]-Energy Fight
On @dotearth: In regard to the lopsidedness of the climate-related energy policy fight, a quote from Machiavelli sums it up well:Strassel: The GOP's Solyndra Problem - WSJ.com
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.”
unfortunately for Mr. Perry, drilling isn't the energy topic du jour. The buzz is the bankrupt Solyndra, which is why the only energy question that came to Mr. Perry at Tuesday's New Hampshire debate was this: How, exactly, is his state's vaunted "Emerging Technology Fund"—which has dumped some 200 million taxpayer dollars into private companies—any different from Obama programs that subsidized the likes of Solyndra?
It isn't, of course, and that's a problem for Mr. Perry.
Hansen found the region north of 80N pretty darn hot during September, even though he doesn’t have any thermometers there. DMI does have thermometers there, and they found that September was normal or below normal. Whatever Hansen is doing bears no resemblance to science.Climate Liars Hurting Real People | Real Science
A SELF-FUNDED retiree has been told he cannot develop his land at Marks Point because rising sea levels will inundate his property by 2100.“As usual with your scientific men they’ve more brass than brains” « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
From Jules Verne’s “Around the Moon“, published in 1870.Economics Stunner: "Oil and Coal-Fired Power Plants Have Air Pollution Damages Larger Than Their Value Added." | ThinkProgress
We assume that the central estimate of the social cost of carbon is $27 per ton of carbonC3: Another Stupendous IPCC Prediction Failure: Global Warming Will Cause Crop Failure & Starvation
Unfortunately for the left/liberal alarmists, this 2011 growing season's bumper crops are again proving how wrong the United Nation's IPCC and climate alarmist predictions are - their constant prediction failure is simply a systemic characteristic of the embarrassingly feeble AGW-CO2 hypothesis.
She explains that in all but three grid regions in China, electric vehicles produce more CO2 per mile because of the coal source for the power than the equivalent gasoline-powered carClimate Common Sense: Romm's Renewable Ravings
The latest article in Joe Romm's Climate Progress reaches a new intellectual low which is difficult with all the competition on that site for the title. The claim is made that if the US was foolish enough to install solar at the same rate as the Germans then it would be a 100% solar utopia by 2026 with everyone's home completely powered by renewables except on cloudy days and at night and in the mornings and late afternoons. We could all pretend that the new fossil fueled power stations running 24/7 as backup don't exist in this Rommantic Green wonderland of the future. We could also pretend that the crippling cost of this part-time energy is OK because it is "green" and anyway US can borrow heaps more dollars from China for such a good cause and avoid using all that cheap coal like the silly Chinese are doing. .Ya gotta laugh!
There is in Physics Today an article by Steven Sherwood, a professor of climate change, no less, an article under the title "Science controversies past and present" which endeavours to deal with the sad fact (for him) that public belief in global warming is steadily receding.The Reference Frame: Physics Today: quantum mechanical wars
...His article supporting global warming mentions not one scientific fact that supports global warming.
A Steven Sherwood claims that the global warming fearmongers are revolutionaries just like Galileo or Copernicus and the skeptical scientific community and the skeptical public just isn't able to appreciate their revolutionary findings.
Just imagine how incredible such a statement is in combination with the proclamations we used to hear just a few years ago when it was fashionable to parrot nonsense about a looming climate cataclysm. We would be hearing that the main argument for the climate alarmism is nothing else than the scientific consensus: the climate scientists were as certain and as unified as the Catholic Church defending the geocentric system.
Starbucks sustainability chief Jim Hanna says the coffee giant has been pushing the Obama administration to little resultClimate change: off the boil | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
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Forget about super-sizing into the trenta a few years from now: Starbucks is warning of a threat to world coffee supply because of climate change.
In a telephone interview with the Guardian, Jim Hanna, the company's sustainability director, said its farmers were already seeing the effects of a changing climate, with severe hurricanes and more resistant bugs reducing crop yields.
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It was the second warning in less than a month of a threat to a food item many people can't live without.
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Hanna is to travel to Washington on Friday to brief members of Congress on climate change and coffee at an event sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
by keeping up the price of carbon, it could drive up the retail price of electricity – something which may be unavoidable, but which is bound to be controversial when every 1% on fuel bills pushes another 60,000 households into fuel poverty.Why is the government drifting so far from its green pledges? | Tony Juniper | Environment | guardian.co.uk
In recent months there has been a distinct 1980s feel to ministerial pronouncements on environmental goals, especially from George Osborne. His narrative that green policies are a drag on business and an alternative to economic recovery portrays a deep misunderstanding of where the debate is now at, including among business leaders.Detroit Gets Gored - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Ignoring the urban battlefield around him, Gore has more ideas how the Left might destroy the rest of Michigan.
This will get Steven Chu’s attention.Global warming and pathological science. « Pointman's
House Republicans today introduced legislation to sell the Department of Energy’s HQ building by Jan. 1, 2013.
“Pathological science is a psychological process in which a scientist, originally conforming to the scientific method, unconsciously veers from that method, and begins a pathological process of wishful data interpretation.”Drill, Baby, Drill Says Greenest Government Ever
David Cameron backed BP’s plans for a £4.5 billion extraction project near Shetland yesterday — and signalled his support for future deep-water drilling operations off the UK coast.Poland Considers Disempowering Environment Ministry
Junior coalition partner in Poland demands merging the Ministry of Environment into his Ministry of Economy.
I like the way the insurance thing works. It's sort of like, "Oh, please, yes, do get rid of your environmental agency, and go right ahead and borrow tons of money to create more flooding and cancer. But for all of your business insurance, life insurance, medical insurance and property insurance, we're going to have to triple your rates. Possibly quadruple. Please don't be late with the payments, and we prefer cash."Global warming to bring back Black Death? | JunkScience.com
We take this to mean that any change in precipitation levels could prompt a plague breakout. So expect the take-home message for alarmists to be: climate change, as accelerated by man, could bring back the Black Death. You heard it here first.Hayden: All you need is elementary algebra | JunkScience.com
The discussions about whether—and how much—increases of CO2 concentration cause increases in temperature come down to such a cause-effect relationship. A reasonable approach would be to plot temperature rise (effect) on the vertical axis versus CO2 forcing on the horizontal axis. The reason I say “would be” is that climate alarmists have never done it. A pharmaceutical company that approached the FDA for a license to manufacture and distribute a drug for which they failed to produce dose-response curves would be laughed out of the hearing room.SEAL team in Afghanistan to go green | JunkScience.com
It’s apparently not enough that Navy SEALs have to hope that their equipment works and that their commanders are prudent; now they’ll have to pray for sunny days, too.
Reacting to a cool-off in concern over global warming, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore was unbowed and unrepentant in blaming recent storms, droughts and wildfires on climate change.Editorial: Gillard shows courage on climate bill - Opinion - NZ Herald News
Gore, speaking Thursday in Detroit, reeled off statistics about huge downpours in Pakistan and Colombia, wildfires in Australia and drought in Texas the past year that he said are clear evidence of the looming climate crisis.
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Gore said 98% of scientists actively researching climate agree that the science is sound.
The tax also delivers a strong verdict on the perils of global warming to the public. In so doing, it heightens the prospect of informed debate.Al Gore Talks Climate Issues in Detroit
DETROIT (WJBK) - Former vice president and Noble Peace Prize winner Al Gore sees a global climate crisis.
"I know that it's been made to seem like it's controversial. Really, it's kind of not where the scientists are concerned," he said.
Durban, where the conference will take place between November 28 and December 9, is expected to host about 20,000 delegates from 194 countries.Flashback: Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges - Telegraph
Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.Twitter / @glennbeck
Al Gore Says He‘s ’Cheering on the Occupy Wall Street Movement’ bit.ly/qLNiEx …while relaxing in his 19 million dollar mansion? SJ
The genius behind the Wal-Mart “green” makeover was former Al Gore communications director Leslie Dach. He brought in environmentalists, ecologists and liberal economists. They convinced the company to sell according to their preconceived ideas of justice, not to market needs.
The result was a disaster . But last April Wal-Mart changed course and inaugurated a “Back to Basics” campaign. They informed poor and middle class consumers that the affordable stuff like cheap jeans and food were back.
Yesterday Wal-Mart executives told financial analysts the company will break eight consecutive quarters of loss and finally see a rise in same store sales. And this during a recession.
Some worry that society will have to suffer total collapse and rebuild itself in the face of climate change. But does it really have to be that drastic?
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This will be a petty (but insightful) blog post about another author thinking about how will adapt to climate change. Paul Gilding (ex-Greenpeace thinker) anticipates that climate change and resource depletion will force us to cast away our old consumption based "American Dream" conception of the "good life" and embrace a more Berkeley lifestyle. Apparently, he believes that a silver lining of mass destruction caused by climate change is that a new culture will emerge that will drop "shopping" cold turkey.
Fifteen billion gallons of jet fuel could come from the waste gas from the steel industry each year, according to Sir Richard Branson, the president of Virgin Atlantic.Solar and Wind Could Power the West Right Now, All of America in 2026 | ThinkProgress
Think of the carbon here like hand-me-down clothes. Steel companies buy shiny new carbon in the form of fossil fuels, and gets all the use they can out of it. They then hand off the used carbon to the airline industry, which gives it a second wear. Although the carbon still enters the atmosphere in the end, the total amount of carbon that humanity has used to go about its business decreases.
The Germans have installed over 10,000 megawatts of solar panels in the past two years, enough to power 2 million American homes (or most of Los Angeles, CA). If Americans installed local solar at the same torrid pace, we could already power most of the Mountain West, could have a 100 percent solar nation by 2026, while enriching thousands of local communities with new development and jobs.Metro and State | Al Gore in Detroit connects 'climate crisis' to health of Great Lakes | The Detroit News
Welcomed with a standing ovation, Gore wasted no time making himself at home.
I asked Krosnick by email about the implications of his research for the president, who has all but dropped "climate change" from his vocabulary. Krosnick answered:Vital Details of Global Warming Are Eluding Forecasters- "Science" MagOur research suggests that it would be wise for the president, and for all other elected officials who believe that climate change is a problem and merits government attention, to say this publicly and vigorously, because most Americans share these views. Expressing and pursuing green goals on climate change will gain votes on election day and seem likely to increase the president's and the congress' approval ratings.I've talked to senior officials from the administration as well as journalists who cover them -- and both groups report that team Obama has bought into the nonsensical and ultimately self-destructive view that climate change is not a winning issue politically.
Climate researchers are quite comfortable with their projections for the world under a strengthening greenhouse, at least on the broadest scales. But ask researchers what's in store for the Seattle area, the Pacific Northwest, or even the western half of the United States, and they'll often demur.William M. Briggs, Statistician » Those Darn Skeptics And Their Communications Professionals
“What’s the bottom line, boss?”
“It’s obvious! We must address the glaring discrepancy in media access, which weighs so heavily in the favor of our enemies. We must pass a law banning the use of communications professionals!”
Being a concerned scientist can be a dog’s life, a muppet says climate scientists are losing the battle and even Kraken science is better than climate science.
Stratospheric changes can lead to nasty cold snapsChicken Little jumps the shark – Telegraph Blogs
THOSE unconvinced—and those seeking to unconvince others—of the reality of man-made global warming often point to the changeable behaviour of the sun as an alternative hypothesis. A new study showing how the severity of winters in Europe, and warming in the Arctic, might be linked to changes in solar activity might seem to add to this case. In itself, it does not, for the heat (or, rather, the cold) in question is being redistributed, not retained. But it does point to two other lessons about climate change: that hard data on the factors which affect it are sometimes difficult to come by; and that computer models of the climate can be quite impressive tools for working out what is going on.
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But though global warming has made people look to models as predictors of the future, that is not their strongest suit. Something they can do much better is look at what happens when a variable such as UV is altered, compare that with the data, and thus gain insight into the mechanisms by which climate works. This new research provides a good example of what such an approach can achieve.
When I heard Chris Huhne's proposal that the new 80mph speed limit should apply to electric cars only, I knew it could only be a joke. No one, not even an alleged economics "expert" who had argued so wholeheartedly for the Euro a few years back, could be quite that wilfully perverse, surely?4x4 prices on the rise as UK braces for winter
Apparently, though it's true.
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This really has gone on long enough. Having Huhne in charge of Britain's energy policy is like having Homer Simpson run the Springfield Nuclear power plant in the middle of a meltdown. The fact that Cameron can't see this speaks volumes about his lack of judgement.
Values on used 4x4s are already starting to rise in reaction to reports that the UK will face another harsh winter.A Case Against Climate-Change Alarmism - Forbes
For many scientists, this distinction between theory and real-world conditions is what typifies the differences between so-called “alarmists” and “skeptics.” As Colorado State University emeritus professor and hurricane expert William Gray frequently explains, alarmists base their climate alarmism on speculative computer models programmed and run within the confines of cubicles and drywall. Skeptics, on the other hand, base their skepticism on real-world data and observations.
The Sandia paper may present an interesting theory that global warming may produce an imminent climate catastrophe within a chaotic global atmosphere, but the theory is strongly contradicted by thousands of years of real-world data and real-world climate observations. The Scientific Method dictates that real-world observations trump speculative theory, not the other way around.
On Wednesday Night’s Countdown on Current, Keith Olbermann named Florida Representative Brad Drake as one of his “Worst Persons In The World” for sponsoring legislation to replace lethal injection as a execution method with electrocution or by firing squad. Drake had said if it was up to him, he would “throw them off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and be done with it.” Olbermann responded, “You first, asshole!”Al Gore: What Keith Olbermann Will Do for Current TV | TheWrap TV
Olbermann finished his segment by saying “There it is, America 2011, laws written by sociopaths like Brad Drake inspired by bloodthirsty goobers he met at the Waffle House!”
Olbermann’s obscenity aired uncensored. The lefty political commentator may have been making a legitimate point that Drake was foolish to base capital punishment laws on conversations he’s had at breakfast fast-food chains, but gratuitously hurling invective at the politician debases our political discourse and makes his entire network look bad.
Olbermann also will become the network's chief news officer, providing input on all its coverage.
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But if Olbermann is getting paid in praise from the former vice president, he's a very rich man.
[Warmist Greg Laden] The bottom line is this: Our ability to see climate change has increased over time due to several different factors: Better instrumentation for observing the climate now (including satellites), proxies for looking at past climate, and simple time … we know much more about the late 20th century now than we did in 1965 because, well, it hadn’t happened yet in 1965!F&C raises €30m into climate [hoax] fund
F&C Investments has reached the first close of a private equity fund-of-funds that focuses on climate change investment, attracting a total of €30 million ($41 million) from three unnamed institutional investors.
"There are several reasons for the current economic crisis we're facing in the United States and globally, but a major contributor has been the suppression of energy production and economic activity by overbearing new regulations, taxes and carbon trading resulting from the misguided belief that anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are causing extraordinary warming of the planet," said Minnesota Majority president Jeff Davis. "We feel Dr. Mann's work has contributed to tremendous economic and societal harm," he said.Twitter / @MichaelEMann
"Where did the medieval warming period go? What decline did he hide? What's the Nature trick?" are the questions Minnesota Free Market Institute president Kim Crockett wants answers to.
Mann wasn't available with answers.
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"His 'poor me' routine would be laughable in the face of the trillions of public dollars being poured into the green global warming toilet, if it weren't for the part about trillions of public dollars being poured into the toilet," said Davis. "These demonstrators aren't being paid. In truth, they're paying people like Mann and they're turning our tax dollars against us, trying to get even more of our money."
Trenberth@GSA (bit.ly/r4rxHG) on '10/'11 xtrm weather: "Its as clear a warning as we are going to get about prospects for the future"The Battle Over Climate Change Policies | SPP Currents
Dr. Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines will speak at George Mason University’s Arlington campus next week.
A couple of years after the academic and statistical skullduggery of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other promoters of the global warming scare, and the shabby attempt at a comeback by the eco-centimillionaire, Nobel laureate and Oscar-winner, Al "Settled Science" Gore, it should be possible to develop a consensus for a less hair-raising (and harebrained) notion of climatic developments.
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The whole cap-and-trade, tax-and-limit movement has collapsed, just four years after the now thoroughly discredited IPCC announced that "most" of the world's average temperature increase in the last 60 years was "very likely due" to "anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions." The increase in that time is one centigrade degree, and the evidence of the last decade, which is the period when the connection to such emissions has been sought, debunks the notions that there is any increase and that there is any relationship to human-generated carbon emissions.
The incontestable need for increased energy production has overwhelmed the brief and delusional consensus behind the deranged boondoggle of cardigan-clad builders of windmills and solar panels. (Both business administration and psychiatry faculties of the future will want to know what possessed T. Boone Pickens to bet $1 billion on windmills.)
By 2100, according to the report, “Winters in the Northeast U.S. may be 5 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit warmer and summers 3 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, giving Boston a climate similar to that of Baltimore, Maryland, or Charleston (S.C.).”
Both of these papers are insightful and hard hitting. The field of climate science needs to look in the mirror, I’m afraid that many would see what Rice and Avery are warning against.Global Warming Brings An Avalanche Of Bitter Cold Winter Forecasts
In other words, when cold events occur, it’s because of natural factors. But when warm events happen, then it’s man-made global warming. And what about Britain’s coming cold weather? You guessed it -also caused by natural factors (UV radiation!). And should cold extremes befall us, then of course it’ll be due toNissan Unveils 10 Minute Electric Vehicle Charger | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the Worldglobal warming, er, man-made climate change – which scientists say “leads to weather extremes”. If you are getting confused, don’t worry – so am I! (And so are the scientists).
the only problem is they’ll have to wait about a decade for Nissan to get this thing into dealerships.Arizona: Apparent freezing victim identified
"It looks like it's going to be our first exposure case of the year," said Sgt. James Jackson of the Flagstaff Police Department.
The National Weather Service Station in Bellemont had issued a freeze warning for last Friday night into Saturday morning. The recorded low at the airport overnight was 27 degrees.
"Tuvalu is drowning!" is the alarm that the island's officials have been sounding for years.If big countries want to help Tuvalu, they must curb their CO2 emissions | guardian.co.uk
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Global warming, produced by emissions of gases that cause the greenhouse effect in the Earth's atmosphere, is making sea levels rise as polar ice melts, as well as intensifying storms and hurricanes, with stronger winds and heavier rains, taking a heavy toll on humans and the natural environment.
Experts say the past 12 months have been the second driest since records began in Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu, 78 years ago.
A Perry Hall, Md., man was charged with selling $9 million worth of credits for nonexistent renewable fuel.
[2007] "Citizens across the country are grappling with the impact of global warming, the nation's reliance on foreign oil, the rising costs of fuel, and the impact those things have on both our environment and our economy," said Granholm. "Working to reduce global warming can both put people to work and protect our environment."Governor Granholm tells Ann Arbor audience that alternative energy push is about jobs | MLive.com
[2009] "In Michigan, we don't even use the words global warming or climate change," Granholm told an audience at an environmental summit in Ann Arbor on Thursday. "This is all about jobs. I just want to be really pragmatic about it."Jennifer Granholm: Information from Answers.com
On May 13, 2009, the Associated Press reported that President Obama was considering Granholm, among others, for possible appointment to the United States Supreme Court.Ex-Michigan Gov. Granholm quits Dow Chemical board | Reuters
Oct 12 (Reuters) - Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has quit Dow Chemical's board of directors to host a political TV show on Al Gore's cable TV channel.
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The five-night-per-week show will be something Democrats will love, but "the far right will hate it," Granholm said in a Current TV statement.
Granholm is also stepping down from her position as a senior adviser to the Pew Charitable Trust.
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The former governor will continue to teach at the University of California, Berkeley.
This is the first reported instance of an online scam targeting the clean development mechanism (CDM) registry, which is operated by the UN. However, cyber criminals have repeatedly targeted carbon registries run by European states and in several instances stolen allowances (see EDCM 29 November 2010).NStar and Northeast Utilities argue that they shouldn't have to buy power from Cape Wind | masslive.com
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The registry is due to go off line for maintenance on 4-14 November this year, the secretariat said earlier this month.
They also said while the state's anti-global warming law could be used to support a DPU decision to approve a proposed long-term contract for wind power it "does not provide the Department with the authority that would be needed to require an electric distribution company to enter into a long-term contract for off-shore wind."If this wind energy is so cheap and reliable, why should anyone be forced to buy it?
The Energy Department says on its website that the $1.2 billion loan to help build the California Valley Solar Ranch in San Luis Obispo County, a project that will help create 15 permanent jobs, which adds up to the equivalent of $80 million in taxpayer money for each job.Fuel Fix » Oxford Climate Book Contradicts IPCC Findings
But the Energy Department stands by the project.
If this issue was truly “settled,” activists could effortlessly answer questions raised by skeptics. They haven’tDemocracy is failing the planet
[Warmist Clive Hamilton] Murdoch’s climate deniers now find it necessary to destroy the world in order to save it from environmentalism.Barnaby Joyce: Carbon tax is mad - Opinion - Editorial - General - The Canberra Times
It is a frightening thought that our nation is about to recalibrate its economy on a colourless, odourless gas at a time when the global economy is on the edge of a precipice.
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The final lunacy is that Australia signs up to send up to $57.9 billion a year to the very dubious carbon credit market overseas. Your loss of lifestyle will support the most lucrative scam market in the history of the planet.
South Korea and China are looking to introduce emissions-trading schemesAustralia's move viewed as 'game-changer"™ - Iowa
The debate about climate change is over in Australia.Kyoto Protocol set to end in Durban - Times LIVE
Durban is set to be the deathbed of the Kyoto Protocol as climate change negotiators are unlikely to renew it when they descend on South Africa next month for a meeting on its future.Pop goes the bubble of Obama's phantom green jobs
Before the Senate failed to pass his American Jobs Act Tuesday, President Obama made a last-ditch speech to talk up his troubled bill. But not once did Obama mention "green jobs" - his erstwhile jobs of the future.
Smart move. Obama's $787 billion 2009 stimulus package included $500 million for green-jobs training programs that were supposed to create new middle-class jobs for thousands of Americans. Last month, however, the Department of Labor's inspector general conducted an audit that found, as of June 30 with one-third of the funds spent and more than 50,000 participants, that only 10 percent of trainees were placed in jobs. And only 1,336 participants (or 2 percent) had held jobs for six months or longer.
The audit reported that grant recipients "expressed concerns that green jobs had not materialized and job placements into subsidized employment had been much less than expected." The inspector general recommended that the Labor Department cut its losses and run.
The climate change scam is nothing more than another excuse to grow the federal government, impinge upon your freedom with more control of your behavior, extract more cash from your wallet and redistribute it to the government's green industry cronies. It is another convenient way for the progressive/socialist elite to feel self-righteous and superior (the word "hubris" comes to mind) for "saving the Earth" for us skeptical, Neanderthal types. This scam can be summed up in one word, "Solyndra!"SAY WHAT??? Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Dodges Solyndra Questions in Testy Exchange
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel claims he does not recall the doomed $535 million loan guarantee to now-bankrupt Solyndra. When asked about Solyndra in mid-September, Mayor Emanuel replied, “I don’t actually remember that or know about it.”Redrawing the Arctic map: The new north : Nature News
However, emails recently released by the White House tell a different story.
With temperatures rising at twice the global rate, the region's summer sea ice is shrinking rapidlyWe can feed 10 billion of us, study finds—but it won’t be easy | 7 billion: What to expect when you’re expanding—a special series | Grist
Organics make up less than 1 percent of the world's food supply right now. So, organic broccoli is not going to solve the problem of feeding the world and saving the planet's natural resources.
You can thank Al Gore and his global warming acolytes for getting people to accept, lemming-like, the notion that we must create a "green" economy under the leadership of the federal government. President Obama may end up being the first lemming to dash into the ocean.EU Referendum: A last hurrah?
But for this, and for the global warming religion in general, one senses that this winter is going to be make or break. And although the Australians are committing economic suicide, this may be its last hurrah, as the hype is buried in the expected avalanche of snow and reality bites back.C3: EU Research Projects Less Than 3 Inch Increase of Sea Levels By 2100 - Coastal Areas Not In Jeopardy
Despite the predictions by the professional climate alarmists at the IPCC, the hypothesized "accelerating" global warming has not caused the hypothesized "unequivocal" increase in mean sea levels, as the chart clearly indicates. In fact, mean sea levels have actually decreased, counter to all IPCC expert and climate model predictions - literally, a stupendous scientific fail.The Earth continues to build up heat
This new research combines measurements of ocean heat, land and atmosphere warming and ice melting to find that our climate system continued to accumulate heat through to 2008.
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