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Record snowfall socks New York, storm leaves 1.7M powerless - NYPOST.comA rare October snowstorm took the Northeast by surprise today, setting a snowfall record in New York City and leaving half a million people across the region without power.
By 2 p.m., New York City had broken an October snow record with 1.3 inches recorded in Central Park, the National Weather Service said. The previous October record was set on Oct. 30, 1925, with 0.8 inches.
Parts of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts were also expected to set October records after the Nor'easter blows through.
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Last year, the sanitation department paid out more than $75.5 million for snow cleanup following a string of blizzards and heavy snow storms. The city's snow removal budget was about $39 million.
According to the Weather Channel, snow usually arrives in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia in mid-December, while Boston does not usually see its first snowfall until late November.
Can Glaciers Melt In A Cooling World? | Real ScienceAccording to the logic of the EPA and other climate science geniuses, glaciers melting is an indication that the temperature is rising.
I guess that means that an ice cube will not melt at 90F, if earlier in the afternoon it was 100F.
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90% of the world’s glaciers have been melting for 15,000 years, when Chicago was under a mile of ice.
In kindergarten or preschool we were taught that ice melts at 0C. But now we know from our top climate scientists that the melting point is not dependent on T, but rather on the first derivative dT/dt.
Hansen Shows That It Is “Almost Dead Certain” He Has No Idea What He Is Talking About | Real ScienceSea level has been falling at a rate of 10mm per year since the start of 2010 (the hottest year ever) and is lower now than it was at the end of 2003.
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The press and the left love this guy, because he is completely unconstrained by reality when making up Apocalypse stories.
You Cannot Have It Both Ways The ocean-atmosphere system did not used to sit in benevolent stasis. Sea level did not used to remain ever stable. Droughts are not a product of modernity, and they are not increasing in number. And early-season snowstorms like the one unfolding in the Northeast were never proof of global warming. Not when they happened in the past, and not now.
To Mr. Gore, and his still passionate supporters, I say this: You cannot have it both ways. You cannot count the absence of snow as proof of your theories and the presence of snow as the proof of your theories.
We’re smarter than that. And you’re going have to do better, if you wish to win this debate.
Ryan Maue (ryanmaue) on TwitterThe current historic snowstorm wouldn't have occurred without man-made global warming. The record cold air is a result as well.
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Chilly! Almost entire USA has well-below normal temps TODAY, but watch next 8-days! 30F below normal or more!
Occupy Wall Street plans green Sunday | GristIf you've been wondering whether, and how, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests relate to the environment, events planned for Sunday may offer some answers.
As part of a Climate Justice Day event at New York City's Zuccotti Park, OWS's environmental working group is organizing activities, panels and teach-ins on topics ranging from fracking and nuclear energy to clean water and sustainable economics.
New York Expected to Get Two to Four Inches of Snow -- Daily IntelFall, we hardly knew ye: By daybreak tomorrow [Sunday], two to four inches of wet white stuff are expected to coat New York City. This storm will mark just the fourth time in 135 years of record-keeping that measurable October snowfall has accumulated in Central Park.
Homeless at unoccupied Occupy DC | Campaign 2012Conditions were miserable; 40 degrees, dark, windy, muddy, steady rain. The weather, predicted to deteriorate even more later, was enough to test the resolve of the most dedicated anti-capitalist.
The small park is filled with tents. At times there have seemed more tents than protesters, and indeed, a friend who has kept a close eye on Occupy DC suggested to me that many of the tents -- which convey the impression of a substantial, permanent protest -- are actually unoccupied. That's hard to prove, short of barging into randomly-selected tents. But even among the tents that are in use -- and I saw a total of four early-risers in the park Saturday morning -- there is the question of how many Occupy DC protesters are actually homeless people who have come to McPherson Square for shelter, a hot meal, and companionship.
Chris Huhne is not merely ignorant but positively dangerous - TelegraphThis confirmation of Huhne’s technical illiteracy, however, pales beside his suggestion earlier this month that, if motorway speed limits are raised to 80mph, it should only be for electric cars. (One might have thought Huhne would be wiser to steer away from any discussion of speed limits.)
The only electric model capable of such speeds, for a very short time before its batteries need recharging for several hours, is the Tesla, which retails at £87,000. Last quarter, electric car sales in Britain, despite a Government subsidy of £5,000 each, totalled 309. At this rate, to replace the UK’s existing car fleet, as Huhne wishes, would take nearly 23,000 years. And since the minister still hasn’t grasped that most of the electricity needed to charge their batteries comes from fossil fuels anyway, the savings in CO2 emissions, with transmission losses, would be zero. This man is not merely technically ignorant, he is positively dangerous.
Slate: Mitt Romney Flip Flops on Climate Change, Global WarmingMaybe Romney’s made his smartest flip flop yet.
BBC News - Today - US white-outSavage snow storms are battering the east coast of the United States causing massive disruption and the closure of the federal government in Washington. North America editor Mark Mardell reports from Washington.
Global warming sceptic number 4,447: - The NationA branch of the UN is bullying Thailand to plant more fuel crops.
This mania started with the conception that manmade global warming could be reduced by using fewer fossil fuels, which release CO2.
It appears that this worldwide exercise has led to starvation due to much higher food prices. It also appears that the concept of manmade global warming from increased CO2 levels has been thoroughly debunked.
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Thailand must get wise to these false pressures, as has China and India, and stop wasting funds on alternative energy projects.
Thomas Turk
Phuket
Chris Huhne's Green Economy Fiasco"Solar installation will be limited to a few rich people, and all the installation going on in solar housing will stop. Hundreds of companies will go bankrupt."
Editorial: Qantas disaster is PM's time to lead | thetelegraph.com.auTHE deep unpopularity of the carbon tax is caused by one simple fact. Everyday Australians believe it is a direct slug on their hip pockets.
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Ms Gillard has failed to sell the carbon tax to mainstream Australia, and has been unable to convince voters that her compensation packageswill make their lives easier.
It's a stunning failure.
Former Irish president Robinson: Climate change deniers should see what I’ve seen - Chicago Sun-TimesMary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, tells people things they don’t want to hear.
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Robinson brought a message for climate change deniers in the United States: Follow her to the third world and see the impact of climate change.
Told that all major Republican candidates for U.S. president save one – former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman – say they are not convinced that man-made carbon emissions are changing the climate, Robinson shook her head and said, “That does not do the United States any credit internationally.”
“I wish that some of the deniers from this country would actually go and spend a week in some of the communities that I’m in frequently, where the rains don’t come any more, or there’s prolonged drought and then flash-flooding,” Robinson said. “The climate shocks in poor communities are very, very significant. It does bother me when I hear people who have no perception of that denying that the climate is changing.”
Greenwire’s Paul @voooos Voosen has fine story...Greenwire’s Paul @voooos Voosen has fine story exploring conflicting ideas on hiatus in global warming. Aerosols, sun, ocean heat sink.? Lots of disagreement among experts provides grist for those questioning greenhouse dominance.
Warm Weather Increases Hospital Infections, And What That Might Mean For Climate Change | Wired Science | Wired.comMoreover, for every 10-degree Fahrenheit rise in mean temperature, there was a rise in infections with those same Gram-negatives. The increase varied from 3.5 percent for E. coli to 10.8 percent for Acinetobacter, independent of any changes in the season, the humidity or amounts of precipitation. Changes in temperature also affected S. aureus and MRSA, but much less: Those infections rose 2.2 percent for every 10-degree change.
Why should this be? Since hospitals in the United States are climate-controlled, the authors say it most likely represents the influence of the environment outside the hospital. Warmer weather leads to more bacterial growth; the presence of more bacteria increases the likelihood that some of them will be carried into hospitals by staff or visitors.
Flashback: AFGHANISTAN: Severe winter causes more pneumonia child deathsHERAT, 6 March 2007 (IRIN) - Doctors in Afghanistan say that a particularly cold winter this year has increased the number of children dying of pneumonia. Thousands of children contract the respiratory illness every winter in Afghanistan, where difficult living conditions and inadequate medical care can make it a fatal illness.
Earth to CNN: It's Getting Warmer | Media Matters for AmericaToday NASA launched a new satellite that will collect information for climate research and weather forecasting. Reporting on the satellite, CNN meteorologist Chad Meyers said "They want to be able to know whether the earth is actually getting warmer or is it getting colder":
Polar Ice by Atsuhiro Hayashi | White Rabbit ExpressUse the pair of ice-cube trays to produce cubes in the shape of a polar bear or a pair of penguins standing on a glacier. The mini glacier gradually melts away in your drink reflecting and raising awareness of the world’s growing global-warming concerns.
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Al Fin Energy: An Infinite Supply of Hydrocarbons: Coal and Kerogen Beyond the StarsThe true story of the origin and extent of our world's hydrocarbons has not yet been written -- much less understood. It is far too early for humans to claim to know the limits of their planet's resources.
House Dems Call For Hearing On Climate Change Science Two influential House Democrats are urging the Energy and Commerce Committee to hold a hearing on climate change science after a prominent skeptic involved in a recent study changed his tune.
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“More than half the members of the Comminee reject the scientific finding that climate change is occurring,” the lawmakers say. “Such a hearing would help members understand the urgent need for action and the serious consequences of inaction.”
C3: The Tragic Befuddlement of IPCC Climate Alarmist Scientists: The Loss of 'Global Warming' Is InexplicableThe growth of infighting among the UN's favored climate scientists confirms the obvious - human CO2 emissions are not producing the alarmists' infamous "accelerating" warming, and CO2 is not the cause of whatever climate change that they believe is actually taking place.
The BEST is the Worst: Global Temperature Measures Redux; Not![Tim Ball] Anyone who knows anything about global climate knows the Earth has generally warmed since the 1680s. Politics has made that period, which covers the Industrial Revolution, of climatic interest as people wanted to prove that human production of CO2 was causing warming. The problem, ignored by proponents, is that it has warmed naturally since the nadir of the Little Ice Age in the 1680s. The issue isn’t the warming, but the cause.
Rahmstorf : “rapidly accelerating decline” in Arctic Ice | Real ScienceOver the last ten days the Arctic has gained almost 1.5 million km^2 of ice (250,000 Manhattans) which is almost two new Manhattans every minute. Extent is about where it has been every year since 2007, and is not showing any signs of accelerated melt, much less rapidly accelerated melt. Any liar who has a scary global warming story is automatically an expert in the eyes of the press.
Turns out, the Fisker Karma is a subcompact, says the EPALike with the low drained-battery mpg rating the Karma gets – just 20 mpg – the Karma's potential customers probably won't care what the EPA officially calls this plug-in hybrid. But just imagine if someone were to cross-shop all the cars in the subcompact class: "Let's see, hon, should we get the Karma, the Bentley Continental Supersports or the Mitsubishi i?" Looks like this class has something for everyone.
‘Green’ Steel Giveaway - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review OnlineBut there’s the larger question: When, asks Issa, did Obama’s Department of Green-Tech Winners and Losers start classifying steel as a green-auto component?
The Energy Department’s explanation — that steel production supports 260 jobs and 2,500 more in the construction industry — sounds more like a jobs program than “advanced technology research.”
Indeed, like the bailed-out GM and Chrysler, the White House seems to be motivated more by sustaining an industry with Big Labor ties (United Steelworkers Union represents Severstal workers).
Your tax dollars at work.
Joan Baez keeps the faith with Occupy Wall Street protests That dark feeling is all still present, but there has been a lot of anesthetizing. Global warming, terrorism, war. If we truly felt the extent of what’s going on, we’d lose our minds. Denial here is healthy, otherwise we’d keel over with the horror of it. But if you have awareness and are willing to feel it, now you’re dismissed as a “lefty” or “progressive.” You get dismissed for using your brain. People say I’m such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I’m a realist.
And you know that Joan wouldn't say things like this unless she'd personally vetted the science behind the global warming hoax.
Global warming: Middle East's vital wet winters are disappearing - CSMonitor.comThe team estimates that average precipitation from November through April in the region between 1971 and 2010 fell 6.8 percent below the average from 1902 to 1970.
The team began the hunt for causes.
...The team began using computer models to assess the effect of this ocean warming on the Mediterranean's winter precipitation.
The team found that warming all the oceans by a uniform 0.5 degrees Celsius (about 1 degree Fahrenheit) would dry out the eastern Mediterranean.
But the oceans haven't warmed uniformly. The greatest warming has come to tropical oceans. So the team focused next on warming the tropical oceans uniformly in their virtual world. The team got a Mediterranean-wide drying and a wetter northern Europe.
Still, neither of these experiments produced the strong positive North Atlantic Oscillation-like signal with enhanced drying to the south and heavier precipitation to the north.
But by adding another 0.5 degrees C to the Indian Ocean alone, model produced the strong north-south differences in precipitation associated with a positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation.
OverfittingWith four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
John von Neumann
Lack Of Hurricanes Caused By CO2 | Real ScienceFlorida hasn’t been hit by a hurricane in over six years, the longest period on record. Trenberth says that global warming is ubiquitous and therefore the cause of all weather events, so we can safely infer that increasing CO2 levels make the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts a safer place.
Occupy DC protesters brace for the cold as best they can - latimes.com“I’ve been going around tents today trying to weatherize them,” said Eric, 50, a carpenter who has been out of work since last year. “But we’ve been talking about maybe building a pavilion out of large tents with outdoor heaters in it so people can come in and get warm when they need to.”
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Eric said he's slept at the site -- already muddy from frequent rain this fall -- all but two nights since Oct. 8. Then, he said, he was running a high fever after one of the rains. He doesn’t have health insurance and, though determined to stay occupied, is concerned about his health as the barometer drops.
“This cold weather has already gotten in my joints and made me half-way arthritic,” Eric said.
Instead of complaining about the cold-related ailments, shouldn't these people be rejoicing about being allegedly free of kidney stones and dengue fever?
A Reality Check on Ambitious Climate [Hoax] Targets - NYTimes.com[Jane] Long’s bottom line?
California can’t just spend or deploy its way to an 80-percent reduction or beyond — and neither can anywhere else.
[Long] Members of the administration have said that they can’t even go on the Hill and say the word climate anymore I think there are foundations out there that have been spending a lot of money on trying to get a climate agreement and not getting progress...It will be interesting to see if Texas can accept that sea level is rising, decide they have to adapt to that, and continue the cognitive dissonance of denying the cause...For fast-rising nations, if the entire world is brought to the point of using at least what China uses per capita — not a terribly high goal — what we do in the developed world will hardly matter...What can be done to manipulate weather patterns that result in droughts and floods?
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[Burton Richter] We assumed 90% CO2 capture and storage....If you read the fine print of the NREL study called Western Wind and Solar Integration, you will find that if you go as high as 35% wind and solar you have to have conventional backup equal to the total capacity of the wind and solar systems.
Bruised but unbowed: Lunch with Ross Garnaut - National News - National - General - Wyndham WeeklyHe recalls the pressure he and his staff came under during the climate change review. Whenever a scientist or an economist opened his or her mouth, they'd be bombarded by "tens of thousands" of emails. Other stakeholders, including MPs and Garnaut himself, were copied in.
"Some were abusive, some were life-threatening, of a crudity that's hard to imagine," he says. "I know lots of people involved in that debate who decided personally it wasn't worthwhile.
''So the threats were successful: they knocked some people out of the public policy debate."
Security precautions were required for his office and staff although Garnaut won't go into details. The deterioration in Australian political culture threatens to take a heavy toll.
Exploring Corn, Energy and Humanity's Growth Spurt - NYTimes.comI’ve been on the road, learning about damaging and sustainable agricultural methods (and a big corn-to-ethanol plant) in Iowa, meeting with hundreds of science-oriented high school students in Houston
Flashback: Revkin takes yet another long, unnecessary, fossil-fueled tripWednesday, February 2, 2011
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Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Tom Nelson: Warmist Revkin still hates my grandchildren: Treating the atmosphere like an open sewer, now he touches down in Miami[October 2011]
The Corsair : Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin to speak at SMCAndrew Revkin has been everywhere, from the tundra of the Arctic to the jungles of the Amazon, and even inside the historic halls of the White House.
On Thursday Oct. 27, environmental reporter Andrew Revkin will be visiting Santa Monica College.
1. Does Revkin buy CO2 rip-offsets to cover all of these flights?2. In his numerous trips to and from airports, does Revkin go out of his way to avoid traveling in any private fossil-fueled vehicles?
Occupy DC prepares to spend ‘thousands’ ahead of cold snap, possible snow - The Buzz - The Washington PostWith bitter cold weather’s impending arrival in D.C. and snow seen as increasingly likely for the surrounding area, the need for warmth is becoming a top priority for Occupy DC protesters in McPherson Square.
Romney’s Very Slow Flip-Flop On Climate Change | Election 2012So, it was more of a gradual refinement than a flop. Or, if you like, it was a very slow flop. Still, it doesn’t really matter when Romney decided to conform to the GOP party line on climate change. What does matter is that he has gone from being one of only two candidates in the GOP field to affirm that climate change is real and caused by human action to being just another climate skeptic.
Peter H. Gleick: Bad Science Leads to Bad Policy, No Matter Your Political BeliefsAnti-science mania is sweeping parts of the United States. This isn't new -- there is a long history of irrational, pseudoscientific, or downright anti-scientific thinking and political culture here -- ironic, given how much our founding fathers like Benjamin Franklin valued science. Examples include creationism, moon-landing denialism, claims linking vaccines to autism, denials that tobacco causes cancer long after the science was in, and especially the denial of climate change and global warming. This anti-science mentality is especially discouraging given how vital America's scientific and technological strengths are to our economic and political strengths.
For reasons that a political scientist or sociologist would have to explore, this is a problem especially of the Republican right.
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Dr. Peter Gleick considers himself a scientist, an environmentalist, and a liberal Democrat.
Michael E. Mann (michaelemann) on Twitteralexwitze Alexandra Witze
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Global warming is a hoax, just like this "round Earth" business. bsun.md/rvHvM3 #climate
[October snowstorm may hit Mann's Penn State] - chicagotribune.comPenn State is warning that a potential early-season snowstorm could force changes in parking lots around Beaver Stadium for Saturday's game against Illinois.
The Associated Press reports that a National Weather Service forecast called for 3 to 7 inches of snow possible Saturday with high temperatures in the mid-to-upper 30s.
NYC Seizes Generators From Wall Street Protesters | Fox BusinessAnti-Wall Street protesters' plans to camp in a New York park throughout the city's harsh winter were dealt a blow Friday when the fire department confiscated six generators and about a dozen cans of fuel.
With the first snow forecast to fall Saturday, the ''Occupy Wall Street'' movement against economic inequality lost the generators that had been powering heat, computers and a kitchen in the Lower Manhattan camp they set up six weeks ago.
``They think that taking the 'power' away will take the power away, and that's absolutely not true at all,'' said Occupy Wall Street spokesman Michael Booth.
Earliest New York City snow since Civil WarNortheast U.S. braces for October snowstorm with up to a FOOT predicted in areas.
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New York has received measurable snow before Halloween only three times since 1869 – and never more than one inch, which is what some experts are predicting.
It would be the earliest one-inch snowfall in the city since the Civil War.
The Anasazi Ask : “What Caused Climate Change?” | Real ScienceThe Anasazi of New Mexico were wiped out by a 70 year long drought in the 13th century. We now know that it was due to a 0.0001 ppm increase in CO2 from their bean farms. This drought was of course much less serious than the six month long drought New Mexico experienced this year.
Thing Of The Past Comes To DC | Real ScienceOctober snow hasn’t happened in DC since the ice age scare of the 1970s, which Muller tells us never actually happened.
Washington Post : Down Is Up | Real ScienceSince 1998, CO2 has continued to rise rapidly, but temperatures have not. Scratch that theory.
Explaining Muller vs. Muller: is BEST blissfully unaware of cosmic-ray-cloud theory? | Watts Up With That?Elizabeth Muller’s press statement in support of anti-CO2 alarmism is extreme:
Elizabeth Muller, co-founder and Executive Director of Berkeley Earth, said she hopes the Berkeley Earth findings will help “cool the debate over global warming by addressing many of the valid concerns of the skeptics in a clear and rigorous way.” This will be especially important in the run-up to the COP 17 meeting in Durban, South Africa, later this year, where participants will discuss targets for reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG)emissions for the next commitment period as well as issues such as financing, technology transfer and cooperative action.
She is strongly implying that BEST’s findings not only support the CO2 theory of late 20th century warming, but justify radical worldwide government action to reduce carbon emissions.
Not a “denier”, and nothing denied | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogProfessor Richard A. Muller made clear in 2008 that he was a warmist who was happy if some alarmists exaggerated in the right cause
The Africa Carbon Exchange: The Commodification of the Environment | Think Africa PressWith these flaws in mind, the Carbon Trade is what sociologist Nico Stehr and climate scientist Hans Von Storch would call a "technocratic mode" of climate change mitigation: that is, one assuming total knowledge and control of both human behaviour and the climate system. Legal loopholes, limited bureaucratic controls, online security failures, huge uncertainty in estimating emissions and the sheer impossibility of accounting for every carbon-emitting activity testify to the fiction of such notions of control and knowledge. Nevertheless, in 2010, the value of the global carbon market was an estimated $120.9 billion, and some in the Global South are looking to take an active role in the carbon trade through institutions like the ACX.
Occupy-ers: This is our "Valley Forge moment" - CBS NewsPROVIDENCE, R.I. - Anti-Wall Street protesters around the U.S. who are vowing to stand their ground against the police and politicians are also digging in against a different kind of adversary: cold weather.
...Some movements are scouting locations indoors, including vacant buildings or other unused properties, possibly even foreclosed homes, though some question the wisdom of holding a protest outside the public eye.
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The trick will be keeping morale up, Phelan said, "and not letting the climate get to us."
Freak October Snow Eyes Connecticut | NBC ConnecticutBy the time all is said and done, 6-to-12 inches is possible in interior Connecticut, 3-to-6 inches around New Haven, and 1-to-3 inches in southeastern Connecticut.
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Heavy snow accumulation in October is virtually unheard of in most of Connecticut. In the greater Hartford area, measurable snow has only occurred three times in the last 100 years. Along the shoreline measurable snow has only occurred once.
Mitt Romney remains cool to climate science - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.comMitt Romney is still trying to plant himself in the global warming skeptic camp.
"My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet," the GOP presidential front-runner said Thursday during a fundraiser in Pittsburgh. "And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us."
GOP Cops Raid the Green Casino - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review OnlineIn a shrewd political move, GOP candidate Mitt Romney has called for an investigation into federal loans to luxury carmakers Fisker and Tesla. While the investigation is unlikely to turn up anything illegal, what Romney’s investigation will keep reminding Americans is that the scandal is legal.
For two years, the Obama administration has been in the Green Casino betting taxpayer billions on its millionaire pals’ pie-in-the-sky schemes. From Al Gore’s Fisker to Jeffrey Immelt’s GE to Steve Westly’s Solyndra to Russian Alexei Mordashov’s Severstal, Obama has used the public piggy bank to finance “the fun stuff,” as Veep Biden put it to Time magazine.
Coke trades red for white to go green « The Daily BayonetThe WWF should hang its panda-bear head in shame at its cozy relationship with planet-killer Coca-Cola, which pumps 99,280,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year.
Unless of course CO2 is a harmless trace gas essential to life on Earth and global warming is just a huge scam. Big Coal should paint its product white and call the WWF, they’ll approve anything for a buck
Why Economic Models Are Always WrongBut climate models are right? Both types of model are of the same ilk. What the guy below says is what my son tells me: He builds mathematical models of flows in liquids so he can always test his models against reality. And what he tells me is that the tiniest inaccuracy in the parameter input can send the model output completely away from reality. And climate models are full of guesswork and unproven assumptions so are just as certainly wrong as are stockmarket models
Jennifer Marohasy » Cardinal Attacks Primitive Climate Change ReligionIF the saying ‘it takes one to know one’ has any truth then the extraordinary attack by Cardinal George Pell on the science of anthropogenic global warming in a recent lecture given in Westminster Cathedral Hall, London, has special significance. Not because the Cardinal is a scientist, but because he apparently recognizes a competing belief system when he sees one. Indeed the Cardinal is so blunt as to liken the language used by AGW proponents with that used in “primitive religious controversy” and compares the costs “true-believers” would impose on economies with “the sacrifices offered traditionally in religion, and the sale of carbon credits with the pre-Reformation practice of selling indulgences”.
Climate Common Sense: Anna Bligh puts $116 million down the Green Gurgler!SAYONARA, Premier. Anna Bligh's claims her bungled clean-coal dream would live on have collapsed, with the company at the centre put into liquidation at a loss to taxpayers of almost $160 million.
Graham Readfearn | Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation Mistaken On Actual FactsDuring his speech, posted on the GWPF website, Cardinal Pell claims global warming has "stopped", that CO2 is "not a pollutant, but part of the stuff of life" and that if CO2 in the atmosphere was doubled, then "plants would love it".
Cardinal Pell's statements put him at odds with the Vatican.
Fighting for Energy Freedom (my passion for a right, winning cause) — MasterResource[Marita Noon] Together we can keep the green movement on the defense. They’ve been trying to make us replace economical energy that works with electricity that is expensive, intermittent, and ineffective. But America noticed. We woke up. Now we need to continue to show up, stand up, and speak up.
Remember: if they take away your energy, they have taken your freedom.
As far as the bastards are goingDec.23, 1944 - "Battle of the Bulge"
An entire U.S. armored division is retreating from the Germans in the Ardennes forest when a sergeant in a tank destroyer spotted an American digging a foxhole. The GI, PFC Martin, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, looked up and asked, "Are you looking for a safe place?" "Yeah," answered the tanker. "Well, buddy," he drawled, "Just pull your vehicle behind me...
I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going."
Combatting climate change: Every little bit helps | The Science Friday BlogAnother way everyday folks can make difference is by becoming part of something bigger. Below is a list (by no means complete) of notable organizations that are doing some exciting things in the fight against climate change.
Environmental Defense Fund
National Resources Defense Council
Sierra Club
350
Al Gore has started several organizations
NPR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAccording to CPB, in 2009 11.3% of the aggregate revenues of all public radio broadcasting stations were funded from federal sources
Time to Cut off NPR - Page 1 - Brent Bozell - Townhall Conservative[comment] Federal funding of NPR is one thing. How about the money that comes from states, too? A bigger portion of the funding of NPR "news" programming is taxpayer money channeled through state universities, which operate the local stations. Each station is charged a "fee" of hundreds of thousands of $, and that money comes from the universities' general funds, which is taxpayer money.
Gross Errors in the IPCC-AR4 Report Regarding Past & Future Changes in Global Tropical Cyclone Activity - A Noble Disgrace | Originals[William M. Gray] This paper brings forth observational and theoretical evidence to show that rising levels of CO2 have not had any observable association with increases in global tropical cyclone frequency and intensity. In fact, levels have been trending downward over the last 20 years. This paper discusses why we should not be able to measure any potential future CO2-TC association for many decades, and if any such potential future relationship should ever be able to be isolated, it would be quite small. It also dissects the many observational and theoretical errors of the IPCC-AR4 concerning its reported past and likely future increases of global TC activity.
This paper extends the list of IPCC-AR4’s many questionable conclusions and misrepresentation beyond those that have already been earlier pointed out such as the Himalayas becoming snow-free by 2035, the Arctic Ocean possibly becoming ice-free in coming decades, and the possible coming Amazon rainforest destruction. The issuance of these erroneous IPCC reports does much damage. They should be terminated.
Revkin’s ‘Knowosphere’: through communication, collaboration | SmartPlanetOn the compartmentalization of knowledge, a.k.a. reading online what supports your assumptions. “We’re still all dining on comfort food,” [Revkin] said. “But we’re at the world’s biggest buffet.”
Climate scientist - yes, we avoid debate | Australian Climate MadnessSorry, but I think the reason is much simpler. Scientists avoid debate because they hate having to answer questions about the politicisation of the scientific process, the corruption of scientific integrity at the IPCC, Climategate and the Big Green bandwagon of funding that keeps most climate scientists in work.
Given Sherwood has used a trial analogy, here’s a slightly different one to think about
California Governor Plans Year-End Climate Conference | KQED's Climate WatchFormer governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hosted a series of international climate “summits,” the first of which made the biggest splash. That’s when then-President-elect Barack Obama made a video appearance in which he promised aggressive climate action at the federal level. Most of that promised action has yet to materialize.
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- Warming temps and earlier mountain snow melts will set the stage for more wildfires: we’ve seen a four percent increase since 1985, according to Tony Haymet of Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
South Africa to showcase "indigenous technologies" during COP17 in DurbanMaybe Mrs Mashabane has an "indigenous technology" in store to solve the gas shortage that threatens the wellbeing of the more than 20 000 "delegates" and other participants attending the Durban climate jamboree? 1250 restaurants in SA have already had to close because of the shortage, according to newspaper reports
The Reference Frame: Climate alarmists as numerologistsOf course, any special importance attributed to the figure 350 ppm is nonsensical. A person could find out that this is the case if she tried to calculate the error margin with which the exceptional figure of 350 ppm is known. During such a calculation, she would be forced to discover that the arguments make no sense and that the error margin is at least thousands of ppm (in the upper direction). This is of course inconvenient for the climate communists. They want an "action" similar to the 1917 revolution and they want it "right now". They believe that random numbers that elevate the apparent "urgency" of the climate claims. However, the main thing that these numbers achieve is to prove that the climate alarmists are hopeless mental cripples in the eyes of the observers with IQ above 70.
Eco-summit cartoon: [Revkin]Eco-summit cartoon: What if it’s a big hoax & we create better world for nothing?
What if it's a big hoax and you create a worse world for $45 trillion?
How we know we’re warming the planet - The Washington PostBroadly speaking, here are two reasons why the Earth could be warming up. Either more heat is reaching the Earth’s surface, or else less heat is escaping out into space. On the first, there’s no evidence of a significant increase in heat reaching the earth. True, solar activity can shift from year to year. But satellite data shows that total solar irradiance has declined slightly in the past 30 years, even as the planet continues to warm. Scratch that theory.
So something’s keeping the heat in. Physicists have long known from lab experiments that greenhouse gases like carbon-dioxide can absorb certain frequencies of infrared radiation and scatter them back toward the Earth. We also know these gases are increasing in the atmosphere, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels (checking this involves some fairly straightforward chemistry). And, indeed, satellite data has shown that less and less infrared in the specific frequencies in question is escaping out into space, while more is bouncing back to the Earth’s surface. There's your culprit.
Now, it’s not entirely that simple (see here for the IPCC’s graphic of other, smaller factors influencing the climate), but that’s the basic story.
Subsidising the Argument » Climate ResistanceHowever, according to the IEA (PDF here), in 2008, the world produced fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas, peat) equivalent to 10,065 million tonnes of oil (Mtoe), but only 90.2Mtoe of energy from renewables (geothermal, solar, electricity and heat, wind). So although renewables only enjoyed a tenth (or so) of the subsides that fossil fuels received, fossil fuels accounted for 112 times as much energy. In other words, on a Mtoe basis, the renewable sector received nearly 13 times as much subsidisation as the fossil fuel sector.
Man-made global warming: Why many of us are skeptical [Part 1] | Dennis Prager | Jewish JournalIn the belief that there are people on the left who are more interested in understanding the right rather than in simply dismissing its decency, I would like to briefly explain why many thoughtful people are skeptical of the claims made on behalf of global warming. By “global warming” I am referring to the claims of Al Gore that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are causing dramatic increases in the Earth’s temperatures; increases that will devastate much of the Earth.
Countries must plan for climate refugees: report | Reuters(Reuters) - The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday.
Resettlement is already occurring at the rate of some 10 million people a year, said the report's lead author, Alex de Sherbinin.
McCloy to mount climate class action against council - Newcastle HeraldHUNTER businessman Jeff McCloy says he will mount a class action against Lake Macquarie City Council for devaluing waterfront properties with its climate change policy.
Mr McCloy, who owns a waterfront property at Belmont, said the council must explain what scientific evidence it had to back up its claims about rising sea levels and the effects of climate change.
‘‘My current view is they will have a class action against them for reducing the value of our properties,’’ Mr McCloy said. ‘‘I figure I’ll get a class action going and take the idiots to court, I’m serious.’’
Defending the Uncertainty Monster paper | Climate Etc.We clearly disagree with X et al., and we believe that our position is justified by our arguments. We are not the only people that are unconvinced by the IPCC’s attribution assessment. The existence of this disagreement is not surprising given the complexity of the issue. The existence of this disagreement implies, at the very least, one of two things: 1) the IPCC AR4 has done an inadequate job in articulating the evidence for their position; or 2) the uncertainty is much greater than acknowledged by the IPCC AR4.
Der Spiegel 1948: “America Will Become Less” – Sea Level Rise Of 6 Millimeters Per Year!As Der Spiegel was writing about melting polar caps and rising sea levels, it was only 26 years later in 1974 that they warned us of a new coming ice age.
The emergence of Indian coal barons - The Times of IndiaMUMBAI: What is common between Anil Ambani, Gautam Adani, Madhusudan Rao and G V K Reddy? In a race to secure coal assets to fuel their power plants, these billionaires are fast emerging as global coal barons. The companies that they run - Reliance Power, Adani Power, Lanco Infratech and GVK - will feature among the top 10 coal miners in the world, behind Peabody and Shenhua Energy, once they start coal production in coming years.
For liberals, income inequality is the new global warming « The Enterprise BlogIn a way, Chait is correct that income inequality really resembled global warming. Both are issues that, to the extent they are even problems, could be be fixed though faster economic growth. And both serve as handy excuses for the Left to raise taxes and expand government.
Science, Ridicule and Redemption | The Resilient EarthLook to the advocates of anthropogenic global warming—they are not open-minded and they certainly are not humble. Time after time, new observations have shown current climate theory to be inadequate. Instead of empirical evidence, climate scientists produce computer models. So, the next time someone tries to claim global warming is settled science because it is the “consensus view,” just remember the impossible quasicrystals. And when those brave scientists who dissent from climate change doctrine are called deniers and worse than criminals by alarmist blatherskites, recall the travails of Daniel Shechtman and his eventual triumph.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Germany's Energy Transition: Carbon-Free to Carbon-FullDer Speigel asks whether Germany's ambitious energy transition is going according to plan. From the graph above, which is for Bavaria, it looks like Germany had better stock up on carbon offsets, because something looks to give and I suspect that it won't be the lights going out.
Editors’ personal opinions « Calder's UpdatesWhat the new editorial means, in my opinion, is that the politicisation of science has now penetrated right through to the workaday rituals of publication. On no account must you publicise your new work prematurely, unless you do it to bash the climate sceptics or the Republican Party or supporters of Special Relativity or anyone else the editors happen to dislike today. In that case they’ll forgive you.
Longmont weather: Record low of 3 degrees - ColoradoData collected at Longmont's airport shortly after 6 a.m. revealed that today's low temperature was 3 degrees, a record for the date. Earlier reports had noted that the temperature had dropped to 7 degrees around 3 a.m., according to Times-Call weather consultant Dave Larison, but 3 degrees will go in the record books. The previous record was 9 above zero set in 1997.
Twitter / @SMEasterbrookSteffen: AR5 likely to report estimated sea level rises for 2100 in the upper range towards 2 meters #WCRP11
Revkin: NOAA study finds Human-caused climate change major...NOAA study finds Human-caused climate change major factor in more frequent Mediterranean droughts. This is important work, finding a significant greenhouse signal amid plentiful natural variability.
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Climate change from greenhouse gases explained roughly half the increased dryness of 1902-2010, the team found. This means that other processes, none specifically identified in the new investigation, also have contributed to increasing drought frequency in the region.
Candid comments from global warming scientists | Climate Etc.JC question for Kevin Trenberth: Please remind me of when you first thought there would be a hiatus in the warming.
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JC message to Susan Solomon: maybe you should have been listening to what the skeptics have been saying for the last several decades.
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JC summary: Well thank you IPCC authors for letting us know what is really behind that “very likely” assessment of attribution 20th century warming. A lot of overbloated over confidence that cannot survive a few years of cooling. The light bulbs seem to be just turning on in your heads over the last two years. Think about all the wasted energy fighting the “deniers” when they could have been listening, trying to understand their arguments, and making progress to increase our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change.
Why experts refuse to debate climate science | The AustralianThe scientists who work day in and day out to understand our climate system have debated the great and small ideas for decades. They've debated in journals, at conferences, by the water coolers, by email.
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More than 95 per cent of those scientists present at every step of the climate debate for significant portions of their careers agree on at least the basic point that by-products of fossil fuel burning can significantly affect climate.
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But what we are seeing in climate change is that the matters of science continue to be questioned in "debates" long after the climate change trial has ended and the verdict reached. Scientists find themselves in the absurd situation where commentators and politicians are calling on Australians to discard the scientific consensus and decide between mainstream and contrarian views through 10-minute public debates and sound bites.
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Steve Sherwood is co-director of the University of NSW's Climate Change Research Centre and a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.
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Susan Solomon: Every year of climate change due to CO2 will be with us for 1000 years. The longer we pollute, the worse the impacts. #WCRP11
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RT @AtmosNews: Stott: Extreme events counterintuitive w/ #climate: snow blanketing UK in Dec 2010=coldest Dec. nationwide since 1910
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Susan Solomon: Oceans will remember what humans do to the climate for many centuries. #WCRP11
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Soloman: idea that CO2 has 150-year lifetime is just wrong. A large fraction is around for 100K+ years. #WCRP11
Kick the Xcel habitWhat would Boulder look like if voters opt to municipalize energy and worked to take the entire town off the grid by putting solar panels on every home and building that could benefit from them, by erecting solar parks across the city, by taking advantage of wind energy where possible and using waste from our public lands for biomass energy?
Environmental consultancy market shrinks for second consecutive yearThe UK environmental consultancy market is continuing to decline as new research shows the sector contracted by 8.4% in 2010, losing £113m in value to now stand at £1,230m.
This is the market's second consecutive decline after more than two decades of unbroken growth, according to a report from Environment Analyst. The decline was chiefly due to government austerity and the curtailing of local authority expenditure.
As a result of this, the top 32 firms in the sector have collectively shedded just under 1,000 jobs - and the prospect of future growth looks uncertain as the market is predicted to flatline
Occupy Denver Says Some Protesters Suffer Hypothermia - Denver News Story - KMGH DenverDENVER -- As the first major snowstorm of the season hit Denver overnight, Occupy Denver protesters said several people suffering from hypothermia had to be removed from Lincoln Park.
Activists said on Twitter that two protestors were treated at the hospital for hypothermia overnight.
With rain falling Tuesday night and temperatures dropping into the 30s, a Denver police officer warned activists that they had to take down tents and tarp structures in the park because they were violating local ordinances, according to a YouTube video titled, "People will die in the cold," posted by activists.
Flashback: Modifed Gore effect hits Denver[Warmists on parade include: Trenberth! California's Peter Gleick, who's so smart that he can review books he hasn't even read! Solomon! Serreze!]
How to get the message across on climate changeFor many scientists working in the field of climate research, one of the most alarming trends has nothing to do with the climate itself: It’s the poll numbers showing that even as scientific projections of global climate change get ever more certain, public perceptions about climate change are getting ever more skeptical.
Why is there such a huge — and growing — disconnect? John Sterman, the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, says there are specific characteristics of climate change that make it unusually difficult for people to grasp. But the good news, he says, is that there are approaches that can help bridge that gap in understanding.
For example, Sterman’s group has developed climate simulators to help policymakers, business leaders, the media and the public learn about the dynamics of climate change and the consequences of the choices we must make.
Truth in advertising does not work with politicians | Tulsa BeaconThe claims of Al Gore and his global warming terrorists are just that and are intended to scare us into accepting massive controls on our way of life that would vastly lower our standard of living. The claim that carbon dioxide is a “greenhouse gas” is likewise totally false. The removal of this gas from the air would result in the reduction of plant life and thus the reduction of the oxygen that all animal life, including humans, must have to exist.
There is ample proof that many, if not most, of the wild claims made in his movie are totally false and the examples he used were carefully and falsely crafted to attain the maximum scare value.
Podcast: Anthropocene and HeardWhat’s in a name? “Holocene” defines the geologic epoch we’re in. Or were in? Goodbye to “Holocene” and hello “Anthropocene!” Yes, scientists may actually re-name our geologic era as the “Age of Man” due to the profound impact we’ve had on the planet.
We’ll examine why we’ve earned this new moniker and who votes on such a thing. Plus, discover the strongest evidence for human-caused climate change.
Jonathon Porritt: Over-population: the global crisis that dare not speak its name - Commentators, Opinion - The IndependentThe simple truth is that continuing population growth is a multiplier of every one of today's converging sustainability pressures, including climate change. We roughly know how many billions of tonnes of CO2 and other greenhouse gases we can afford to put into the atmosphere and still manage to avoid runaway climate change.
C3: IPCC Climate Physicist Verifies Climate Model Predictions Are Worthless For Periods Longer Than A DecadeIn a state-of-the-art analysis, peer reviewed research by an IPCC climate expert has now confirmed that climate models are essentially worthless for predictions that stretch out a decade, which makes the models even worse than worthless for century-scale predictions.
- Bishop Hill blog - My letter in the BMJThe timing of your call for action on climate change (Editorial, 19 October 2011) could hardly have been worse. Rather than dwelling on the theoretical dangers of climate change, you would perhaps have done better to note the BBC's report the same day that 2700 people die each year in the UK because of conditions linked to fuel poverty. For you to call for "governments to enact legislative and regulatory change to stop the building of new unabated coal-fired power stations" - actions that would undoubtedly increase the death toll still further -- therefore seems needlessly insensitive.
[Fracking]: The Energy Revolution That Keeps Carbon on Top: Nathan Myhrvold- BloombergSome of the best venture capitalists in the business, including my friends Bill Joy and Vinod Khosla, detached from their computing roots and focused on energy startups. The result was a staggering surge of capital into clean-energy technologies. Worldwide, from 2006 to 2010, about $535 billion in venture capital, private equity and initial public offerings as well as mergers and acquisitions flowed into 4,236 clean-tech businesses, according to a recent analysis by GlobalData.
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What is worrying is that almost a decade of energy investing hasn’t produced any home runs -- no green-energy equivalents of eBay, Amazon, Google or Facebook. The modest, incremental advances we have seen don’t perceptibly move the needle on the energy problem.
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In the meantime, however, a real revolution has happened in traditional energy -- one that poses a serious challenge to companies and investors betting on alternative energy. This breakthrough is arguably one of the greatest advances in energy production since the 1960s. And it came not from a Silicon Valley company, or from MIT or Stanford, but from the son of a Greek goatherd who immigrated to the U.S.
Climate sceptics 'sell UK short' | This is Cornwalln a speech to the renewable energy industry, Mr Huhne said: "I want to take aim at the faultfinders and curmudgeons who hold forth on the impossibility of renewables – the unholy alliance of climate sceptics and armchair engineers who are selling Britain's ingenuity short."
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In his speech, Mr Huhne said the over-whelming majority of people would welcome a wind turbine in their back yard.
RealClearPolitics - Global Warming -- RIPNow the issue is deader than a doornail -- despite the efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency to enact new regulations that would never pass Congress.
So what happened to the global warming craze?
Corruption within the climate-change industry explains some of the sudden turnoff. "Climategate" -- the unauthorized 2009 release of private emails from the Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom -- revealed that many of the world's top climate scientists were knee-deep in manipulating scientific evidence to support preconceived conclusions and personal agendas. Shrill warnings about everything from melting Himalayan glaciers to shrinking polar bear populations turned out not always to be supported by scientific facts.
AGU Blogosphere | Climate hoax promoter Dan Satterfield | Climate Skeptics Find The Truth Is Getting Ever More Inconvenientthis is a story about climate change and the dwindling number of skeptics.
It seems that Dr. Muller made some comments that seemed a bit skeptical about climate change a few years back and he rapidly became the darling of those who do not believe the mountain of scientific evidence that the planet is warming. The skeptic numbers have continued to diminish and among those with a background in atmospheric physics, only about 2% are in disagreement with the consensus. The overwhelming majority of those who think that the planet is not getting warmer, or that the warming is a natural fluctuation, have little scientific background.
So what fuels their anger and mistrust?
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News ReleasesPOLAR BEAR PROBE CAREENS IN NEW DIRECTIONS
Climate Common Sense: Green Capitalists hijack Carbon Agenda!Gary Johns a former Labor minister delivers a withering attack on the green carpetbaggers and green capitalists who are ripping off society in the name of environmentalism. The green lobby wants more funds from our capitalist society while at the same time attacking energy production - the very means of generating that capital.
Lamenting The Loss Of Glacial Ice | Real Science15,000 years ago, Chicago was under a mile of ice. Then people started driven Oxen, and it all melted. Too bad Bob Berwyn wasn’t there to warn them. Chicagoans could have saved their precious ice and year round cold.
The New York Times Abandons the Story of the Century and Joins the Energy and Climate Ignorati | ThinkProgressI think it is safe to cancel your subscriptions to the one-time paper of record. While there are 1 or 2 reporters at the New York Times who get climate and energy, it’s obvious that most don’t and, more importantly, the editorial staff simply don’t know what they’re doing.
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Seriously NY Times editors and reporters, if you’re going to publish self-contradictory attacks on some energy technology, couldn’t you at least pick on one your size, one that also happens to threaten civilization? Or wait a few years, until the solar industry surprises you and actually is your size.
Flooding Ravages Tuscany and Liguria in Italy - NYTimes.comPresident Giorgio Napolitano said on television that climate change was the cause of the disaster.
There’s a reason they won’t copy, which makes us even crazier | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogCHRIS UHLMANN:
Will there ever be an economy-wide carbon price or carbon tax in Canada?
JOHN BAIRD:
No…
CHRIS UHLMANN:
We are repeatedly told that carbon markets are expanding around the world. Is that your view of it?
JOHN BAIRD:
Certainly not in Canada or the United States.
Do Polar Bears Need Coca Cola To Survive? | Real ScienceCoca Cola is producing billions of white cans full of CO2, sugar, acid, and other toxic substances in order to save the Polar Bears from CO2 and ocean acidification. According to Coca Cola UK, each can has a carbon footprint of 170 grams of CO2. They sell about 1.6 billion servings a day, which works out to 99,280,000,000,000 grams of CO2 being generated by Coca Cola every year.
Do Polar Bears Need Summer Ice To Survive? | Real ScienceEvery schoolchild in the world has been taught that Polar Bears need ice all year round to survive. This isn’t true, but the scientific community seems perfectly happy to allow this misinformation to continue to propagate.
According to Walt Meier at NSIDC, the image below shows how much summer ice there was in the Arctic sometime 5,000-10,000 years ago. My understanding is that Polar Bears did not go extinct during that time, because if they did, scientists would not be able to lie about seeing dead ones now.
Thank God! BEST project rescues us from thousands of lying global thermometers « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and taxLucky the BEST project is here to save us from the lying thermometers of the past. Apparently people in the 1960′s and 1970′s were clever enough to get man on the moon, but too stupid to measure the temperature. Millions of people were fooled into thinking the world was cooling for three decades by erroneous thermometer readings. Who would have guessed?
The Travesty Of Millions Of Broken Tree Limbs | Real ScienceI am told that Fort Collins is a wood pile today. 90% of the trees have broken limbs from the early, heavy snow. Two weeks ago, Wolf Creek Ski Area set the record for the earliest ever Colorado opening. Two years ago, the first ever snowed out baseball playoff game happened in Denver, as reported by Kevin Trenberth to the rest of the hockey team.
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Climate models predicted the demise of snow in Colorado. The real travesty is that these people simply don’t have the integrity to admit that they were wrong.
The Death Of Global Warming Skepticism, Or The Birth Of Straw Men? - ForbesThe mainstream media has been spiking the football in the proverbial end zone ever since a paper released last Friday claimed two-thirds of global temperature stations show some warming occurred during the past century. The media have been claiming the new paper delivers a death blow to skepticism, but the paper itself brings almost nothing new to the global warming debate and instead shows how far global warming advocates are from presenting credible evidence of a crisis. Rather than delivering a death blow to skepticism, the media has merely invented and shredded an insignificant straw man.
Why does Hollywood hate the English? | Mail Online[Roland Emmerich] other films have tried to raise public awareness about global warming, when he is not spewing out his own carbon emissions by jetting back and forth between his three homes in Germany, New York and Los Angeles.
Roland Emmerich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEmmerich owns homes in Los Angeles, Manhattan, London and Stuttgart
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - IMDbA climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age.
Director:
Roland Emmerich
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Roland Emmerich (story), Roland Emmerich (screenplay)
Namibia: Police Expose Jobs ScamONE man has been arrested and charged with fraud at Otjiwarongo after he was allegedly part of a scam taking money from a number of people and promising them jobs in return.
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It is alleged that Kemaandora, and two others, tricked about 20 people into believing that they would get jobs at a non-governmental organisation called Vision Formulation for Science and Climate Change, only to find out that the company never existed.
Review & Outlook: This Air Is Your Air - WSJ.comU.S. airlines may soon have to choose between violating European or American law.
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The EU will say that its directive demonstrates its willingness to take a stand against global warming, never mind that airline CO2, accounts for roughly 3% of industrial emissions globally. The likelier motive is that the EU would like the money, and won't let a few quibbles over sovereignty, efficacy or economy stand in its way. If the message sent this week by the House isn't getting through to Brussels, perhaps the Senate should introduce a companion bill to underline American seriousness.
Brave Souls Introduce Carbon Tax Legislation9 House Democrats introduced a bill which would create a carbon tax, the Save Our Climate Act (HR 3242).
For some South Florida cities, rising seas will mean rising sewage - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.comTwo more feet, said Hollywood City Commissioner Dick Blattner, and his city’s water plant no longer functions. Hollywood’s waste water treatment plant, he said, has 20, maybe 25 years before the projected sea level changes render it useless.
...The warming ocean’s expanding. South Florida, built to 20th Century sea level specifications, can’t simply ignore the water lapping at its infrastructure.
Scientific climate : Nature : Nature Publishing GroupResults confirming climate change are welcome, even when released before peer review.
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Fred Singer said:
Dear Editors of Nature:
What a curious editorial [p.428, Oct.26} ? and how revealing of yr bias!
?Results confirming climate change are welcome, even when released before peer review.?
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You imply that contrary results are not welcomed by Nature. But this has been obvious for many years.
Why are you so jubilant about the findings of the Berkeley Climate Project that you can hardly contain yourself? What do you think they proved? They certainly added little to the ongoing debate on human causes of climate change.
- Bishop Hill blog - Extracting emails from UVAChris Horner is interviewed on WINA-Charlottesville radio about his struggle to get Mann's emails from the University of Virginia. It's a struggle, by the sounds of it.
Volt drains power from economy, Obama’s 2012 campaignThe White House’s green technology revolution is sitting in an auto lot in Butler, Pa., and nobody is buying.
“Nobody comes in to ask, nobody comes in to look … The American people are smarter than the government — they’re not buying that car,” said Republican Rep. Mike Kelly, who owns the auto lot where one of General Motors’ combined electric-and-gasoline powered Volt autos sits unwanted, unsold and unused.
Surprisingly, Hurricanes Offer Relief to Damaged CoralsThe swirling storms can bring up cooler waters from the depths of the sea that bring relief to coral reefs under assault from warming waters and other threats.
Poll: Many boomers expect to retire where they are - KWQC-TV6 News and Weather For The Quad Cities -About 4 in 10 of those who say it's likely they'll buy a new home would prefer a smaller one. Other important considerations include a different, and perhaps warmer, climate (30 percent); a more affordable home (25 percent); and being closer to family (15 percent).
NASA to launch climate change satellite - dailypress.comHoping to turn the page on what has been a disappointing year for earth science, NASA will launch a $1.5 billion satellite that aims to improve scientists' knowledge of Earth's climate.
Climate Control | The American ProspectScott Mandia, Professor of Physical Sciences at Suffolk County Community College, cautions: “As we saw with the stolen e-mails from the climate research unit, all these guys have to do is find a couple of sentences taken out of context, and they can try to create another one of these so called ‘Climategates.’ There was nothing there, but if you make enough smoke people assume there is a fire.”
Not only do events like Climategate injure the credibility of global warming science, they are also disruptive to the individual scientists. “[Opponents] use FOIA to access information that is freely available, mostly because by law you have to respond to it," says Mandia, "One of the tactics is to bury them with paper.” Mandia felt the weight of this attention in 2010 when he was threatened with a lawsuit from Christopher Mongton, who works with Heartland Institute, a conservative non-profit that denies global warming (and who have worked with tobacco giant Philip Morris in the past). “I’ve got two small children, I teach classes," thought Mandia, when confronted by the suit, "now I understand why these guys are doing this. If they keep you busy, you can’t do your research. If you can’t do your research, you can’t advance the science.”
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“The trend will continue until there are serious repercussions," says Mann, who is preparing to return to court on November 1, "be they in the financial or public relations realm, for the organizations and front groups that fund these ongoing attacks.”
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