Disinformation and pseudo critical thinking | Climate Etc.
Lets talk about ‘disinformation,’ and how we have come to the point where my providing a forum for the discussion of two papers just published in the peer reviewed literature generates the accusation that I am a purveyor of disinformation.
Congress Attacks "Illegal" EU Carbon Tax on Americans
The governments of China, Australia, Canada, Japan, Russia, and dozens of other nations are standing up to the EU tax as well. Even the Obama administration is opposed to the plan.
Rick Perry campaign lashes out against ‘Manufactured Mitt’ on climate change | Iowa Caucuses
In a news release this afternoon entitled: “Manufactured Mitt: His carefully choreographed, rare Iowa appearances attempt to hide positions on carbon emissions,” the Texas governor’s aides lash out at Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and fellow Republican.
Articles: Green Energy: Damn the Facts, Full Speed Ahead!
Green energy alternatives may satisfy our energy needs one day, but this much is certain: today, green energy is little more than a way for President Obama to dole out federal dollars to his favorite firms at the expense of coal, oil, and natural gas producers. The science and technology do not exist in green energy areas to meet even a smidgen of our energy needs. That's what the facts tell us, and ignoring the facts is costing us jobs and tax revenue.
Here Comes Solar Energy - NYTimes.com
We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s right, solar power.
I wonder if the cost of shoveling snow from solar panels follows Moore's law.
MP calls for transparency over green taxes on energy bills | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The cost of green taxes should be included on home energy bills to ensure a "rational debate" on paying for new low-carbon energy infrastructure in the UK, according to the influential head of the commons energy and climate change select committee.
RUFFALO AND SON JOIN ANTI-PIPELINE PROTEST
In the caption, he added, "My dear sweet son Keen is here standing to defend his generation against Climate Change".
Health cost of 6 U.S. climate disasters: $14 billion - chicagotribune.com
The six case studies are examples of events related to climate change that are projected to worsen as the planet warms, the authors said.
Activist's records released after WH arrest | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner
The Obama administration stopped fighting a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request Friday and released documents showing that NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Chief James Hansen was paid $250 an hour by a Canadian law firm for advice and testimony against developing Alberta's oil sands, income which Hansen does not appear to have disclosed.
DiCaprio and Jolie Lead Celebs to Climate Change Conference | Haute Living Magazine
Haute 100 Los Angeles members Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie will be leading a star-studded crew of celebrities to Durban, South Africa in three weeks for the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) climate change conference, the single biggest event in the city’s history.
The renowned activists will be joined by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, Bono of U2, and others. The city’s hotels are completely booked through, including those in areas outside of Durban. The event is estimated to bring the area’s hospitality industry over R500 million (approximately $63.3 million).
In addition to the mentioned celebrities, other notables expected to attend include World Bank president Robert Zoellick, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, CNN founder Ted Turner, Richard Branson, and eight Nobel Laureates, including Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
Global warming could render some species homeless
"When temperatures rise, plants and animals that need a cooler environment move to new regions. The land is warming about three times faster than the ocean so you might simply expect species to move three times faster on land, but that's not the case," Burrows explained.
"If the land temperature becomes too hot for some species, they can move to higher ground where temperatures are generally cooler. That's not an option for many marine species which live at, or near, the surface of the ocean," he was quoted as saying in a Scottish Association statement.
During his afternoon radio talk show, Limbaugh said Friday that ideology is at the root of the global warming discussion:
"One of the things that the left attempts to do is to codify elements of their ideology as 'science.' That is what global warming is all about -- and many other things as well. Codify liberalism as science, therefore making it irrefutable, making it inarguable -- and, of course, they failed. Everybody knows that it's a hoax," said Limbaugh.
Global temperatures: Nonbelievers refuse to warm up to 'climate hysteria' | OregonLive.com
The philosopher Bertrand Russell, also a Nobel laureate, pointed out many years ago: "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence."
This "confirmation bias" is a problem that we all face, but especially those who worship global warming.
CBC.ca | Ideas | Climate Wars, Part 3 (Listen)
Around the 8:30 mark, John Holdren talks about the possibility of multi-meter sea level rise this century. Holdren: "I can't tell you that's probable, but nobody else can tell you that it's improbable".
Warmist Gwynne Dyer then builds on that by saying by saying we could be looking at five meters of sea level rise this century. If so, Dyer says: "Wall Street in New York will be underwater, Trafalgar Square in London will be underwater, and you'll need hip waders to get to the White House at low tide".
Almost Nothing We've Been Told About The IPCC Is Actually True | Fox News
We're told we should trust the judgment of the scientists who write IPCC reports. Yet in an organization in which hundreds of people knew the chairman was traveling the world uttering balderdash, no one apparently took him aside and corrected him.
I've done my share of investigative reporting. But I've never seen a story like this one. -- No matter what IPCC rock I turn over, I find something scandalous.
National Park Service still funding climate change hoax program
The National Park Service's Climate Change Response Program is pleased to announce the launch of the 2012 George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship Program. This program provides financial support for enrolled Masters and Doctoral students conducting research related to climate change in US National Parks, including transboundary issues and comparisons to Mexican and Canadian protected areas. All projects must be relevant to NPS resource management needs, and may be in the broad range of natural, cultural, and social science disciplines.
MU Scientists Detail Cause of 1911 Storm | KOMU.com | Columbia, MO |
COLUMBIA - Saturday, Nov. 11, 1911 saw what was probably the most sudden and dangerous cold blast in Midwest American history, the Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11. People who enjoyed a summer-like morning froze to death in heavy snowfall that evening. Blue skies changed to low clouds, driving rain, sleet, hail, thunderstorms, tornadoes and blizzards in half a day. Winds were so violent that they turned buildings into trapezoids.
The Southwest recent 9 months trend 2000 -2011 is exactly - 1.84 F degrees a decade.
The South recent 9 months trend 2000 -2011 is exactly - 0.19 F degrees a decade.
The East North Central recent 9 months trend 2000-2011 is exactly – 1.05 F degrees a decade.
So the “warming” trend is really accelerating wouldn’t you say.
Some more “rapid warming” like this and the freezer looks really comfortable and warm.
Bristlecone Pines Help Reconstruct a Long-Ago Drought - NYTimes.com
Analyzing tree rings and matching them with previous work, they found what they consider to be compelling evidence a long dry spell in the Southwest stretching through the first four centuries of the Christian era and punctuated by more acute dry stretches.
Scientists already knew the Southwest was prone to long, severe megadroughts far worse than anything that has happened there since European settlement of the region began. Some of the same scientists involved in this work helped document such a drought in the medieval era. And some previous research had already pointed toward the likelihood of a second-century megadrought. But with the fresh evidence, the Arizona scientists believe the case is nailed.
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Evidence of the causes is of course quite thin, but the scientists speculate that one factor may have been a broad pattern of warmth in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly caused by an uptick in the sun’s energy output. This warm spell is often called the “Roman Warm Period,” and while it has not been definitively proven to exist, evidence for the idea is growing.
For the first two days after thawing, the melting ice released the methane that had been trapped within, but then the rate of emissions dropped significantly. That seems to be due to the fact that while some microbes in the soil went onto produce more methane, other microorganisms actually consumed the gas
7 Reasons Why the Public Is Not Engaged on Climate | GreenBiz.com
4. The Opposition is Mighty. With major economic interests being challenged, opponents of addressing climate change are extremely well funded, well connected and willing to fight a fierce fight. The opposition has a knack for preying upon public fear and confusion; they realize that they don’t have to be right, just cause enough fuss to raise doubt.
Millennials are almost twice as likely as Silents to say that global warming is caused mostly by human activity (43% vs. 22%).
A message of solidarity to the Keystone XL protesters | Warmist Van Jones
And if he is even considering approving this monstrous, planet-killing proposal, President Obama is flat-out, absolutely, and 100 percent wrong..
...Let the message be clear: We, the People, cannot accept this. If the White House lets the proposal go forward, there should be nonviolent civil disobedience and mass arrests along every mile, foot, and inch of the construction route -- until it is impossible to complete. August was the beginning of the "people's veto" of this whole proposal; we will never give up until the very idea of Keystone XL is dead and buried.
Gassy Alaskan Microbes Are Warming Up the Planet
A team of researchers from Berkeley took chunks of permafrost soil from Alaska, and shipped them back to the lab to thaw them out in controlled conditions. As they woke up, the gassy little microorganisms trapped in the melting ice spewed out more methane than the contestants in a bean-eating competition.
Mt. High Opens As First Resort In SoCal
Says Karl Kapuscinski, President and CEO, “We are very excited to lead Southern California into the 2011/12 season. This is one of our earliest openings ever and with more cold weather in the forecast we are looking forward to a fantastic start.”
Radio New Zealand : News : Rural : Hard frost sets Otago gapegrowers back weeks
Grapegrowers in Central Otago say a devastating weekend frost put them three weeks behind the start of the growing season.
Bitterly cold westerlies brought snow to the south on Saturday, making it too windy and too cold for farmers to use wind machines to protect crops.
Climate change gets left out in the cold
public awareness of climate change in Asia is limited. The Gallup World Poll, a survey carried out regularly in almost 150 countries since 2007, has found that nearly four in 10 people in east Asia and the Pacific are unaware of climate change and only 28 per cent think it is a serious threat.
In India, the world's biggest democracy, climate change has not registered in the mainstream political debate anything like it has in Australia and other Western nations.
Forthcoming Series on Science at The Conversation
Study after study shows not only are people more interested in science then they are in sport (yes, even in Australia), but they also don’t feel informed enough about it.
Greening Phoenix to Fight Global Warming « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change
winter temperatures in Arizona have been decreasing for the past decade
Michael Levi: Energy, Security, and Climate » Missing The Big Picture on Keystone XL
P.S.: A few people have asked me whether I plan to respond to the anti-Keystone post that went up at RealClimate last Friday. I probably won’t. The post is a mix of correct arithmetic concerning oil sands emissions and some pretty awful economic and political analysis. The bad economics assumes that Canadian production won’t affect what happens elsewhere in the world; the bad political science implies that the Keystone XL decision will determine what happens to the oil sands over the next thousand or so years. None of that has any support in reality, but adopting it makes the careful arithmetic irrelevant. I’ve gone through these arguments before, and don’t see much value in going through them again. I’m a bit worried, though, that by straying from good climate science into bad economics and politics, RealClimate – which I normally love – will hurt its brand and credibility.
Credibility Of EU Energy Modelling In Doubt
The credibility of a European energy review has been cast into doubt by experts who point out that long-term plans to cut carbon emissions are based on an economic model owned by a single Greek university that cannot be independently scrutinised.
Omaha.com : Obama may delay pipeline decision
The step might put off a decision until after the 2012 election and be a way for the White House to at least temporarily avoid antagonizing either the unions that support the pipeline or the environmental activists who oppose it as President Barack Obama gears up for his campaign.
Twitter / @Revkin: Susan Solomon at #iyc03 no ...
Susan Solomon at #iyc03 notes realtime impacts of #AGW still subtle & pale next to what may come. Engaging next-gen key iyc2011-us.org/?p=125
BEST Data “Quality” « Climate Audit
In a surprising number of records, the “seasonally adjusted” station data in the Berekely archive contains wildly incorrect data.
Confessions of an FOIA criminal | Christopher C. Horner | Op Eds | Washington Examiner
The current outrage of which Jackson is only the most recent purveyor is directed at just one in a long, un-protested series of similar FOI requests. On its face, this appears to be an effort to protect select individuals, a select cause and a nearly unprecedented revenue stream.
That is not legitimate grounds for policymaking. To bow to that is the abuse of the FOIA.
Burn the skeptics « The Daily Bayonet
You may be annoyed, or worse, at the video, but don’t be. If warmists were winning hearts and minds, they wouldn’t be churning out murderous videos on the Internet. It’s unpleasant to look at, but it’s a sign of warmist impotence in the face of reality, and it’s what winning looks like.
This is about what it adds up too: If the carbon tax costs us, say, $10 billion a year (anyone have a better number?) we not only have to pay that, but we might lose another $20 billion a year as well.
Climate on Cable: The Nature and Impact of Global Warming Coverage on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC
the views of Republicans are strongly linked with the news outlet they watch, regardless of how well that outlet aligns with their political
predispositions. In contrast, Democrats don’t vary much in their beliefs as a function of cable news use. This asymmetry suggests
that some Republicans, who as a group tend to be predisposed toward global warming skepticism, are less skeptical when exposed
to information on the reality and urgency of climate change.
Twitter / @suzyji: Browner - if people want # ...
Twitter / @suzyji: 1/2 Wish #nokxl organisers ...
1/2 Wish #nokxl organisers wd be a little more realistic. Big turnout yes but NOT NOT 5-10 deep length of WH
Obama's Green Obsession: The Democrats' Blue-Collar Blues
Obama governing philosophy has consistently put green priorities ahead of blue-collar workers. That is now one of the biggest threats to his re-election.
Saving Britain's Economy: Ditch Expensive Wind Farms
The government could save each member of the population almost £550 by 2020 if it scraps expensive wind energy plans in favour of cheaper nuclear and gas-fired power plants.
climategate.tv » Prosperity or Suicide: A tale of two climate policies
The UN climate conference has descended into self-parodying farce and country after country is turning away from economically disastrous climate policies in the name of crackpot science claiming that humans can prevent the global thermostat from going up 2°C. Perhaps the nations of the world have finally realized that all of these numbers, the 350 ppm of carbon dioxide and the 2°C warming and the 50% emission cuts are all completely arbitrary. Or perhaps they realized that climate science increasingly relies on computer models instead of actual science. Maybe it’s because recent studies disprove the carbon dioxide/temperature link at the very heart of the scare? Or it could be that the globe has signally failed to warm over the past decade despite the biggest spikes in carbon emissions yet.
CPI finds that at least USD 97 billion is already being provided annually to finance low-carbon, climate-resilient development activities
Climate Politics Grow Curiouser and Curiouser - The Huffington Post
In my view, allowing global temperature to rise to a level at which we may not survive, with the poorest and most vulnerable communities as the first casualties, would be the greatest climate injustice of all.
[Left-wing English major Chris Mooney] Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding to threats and persecution with courage and resolve every step of the way. Anyone who cares about the climate issue must read his fascinating--and enraging--story.
Richard Branson on Climate Change: ‘If We Don’t Change, Mother Nature Will Force Us To’ – News Watch
“We do need to keep broadening the debate,” he said. “As arguments continue to rage around the weather patterns and reality of climate change, we are missing the bigger picture that there is no scientific debate about that every single one of our natural eco-systems is in decline. Part of this shift must be a new perspective on how we value our natural assets and how we change our consumption patterns. If we don’t move on this, Mother Nature will force us to.”...To that end, in 2007 he had announced the Virgin Earth Challenge, an idea he credited to his wife, which offered a $25 million prize to whomever — inventor, scientist or entrepreneur — could come up with the best way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. The original deadline was 2010; to-date they’ve received 2,500 entries but have not yet chosen a “grand prize winner.” Instead, he said, the panel — which includes James Lovelock, Tim Flannery, Al Gore and James Hansen — had decided to choose a handful of promising entries and give them grants to help develop some experimental technologies.
Coca-Cola starts $4M campaign for its iconic polar bears - Environment - MiamiHerald.com
With the change, the company is hoping to spark a fund-raising campaign that will add $4 million to a World Wildlife Fund effort to give the animals, which some scientists predict may be the first major species to go extinct because of climate change, a hedge against warming temperatures and melting ice.
I mentioned this to a friend the other night, and she snorted in derision. "What do they think they can do about melting ice?" she demanded. "What good will $4 million do?"
In other words, a mere drop in the can?
Not so, says the WWF's Katherine Neebe, who leads the non-profit organization's partnership with Coca-Cola.
The WWF is working on "Last Ice Area" - which might sound romantic if not for the tragedy of the situation. Actually it might be a matrix of areas in Greenland and Canada, where scientists expect the ice to last the longest.
The area would be about twice the size of Texas, in total, and would protect the habitat not only for the bears, but also for the native Inuit people. The WWF is also funding research on the biology of the bears and their needs and is promoting sustainable hunting practices. (Yes, the Inuit hunt polar bears as part of a cultural tradition, but that's not the major threat to the polar bear, scientists say.)
Search results for polar bear hunting
About 500 bears are killed per year by humans across Canada
News from The Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Tempers are snapping as fast as the snow-laden branches that brought down power wires across the Northeast last weekend, with close to 300,000 Connecticut customers still in the dark and the state's biggest utility warning them not to threaten or harass repair crews.
Angry residents left without heat as temperatures drop to near freezing overnight have been lashing out at Connecticut Light & Power: accosting repair crews, making profane criticisms online and suing. In Simsbury, a hard-hit suburban town of about 25,000 residents, National Guard troops deployed to clear debris have been providing security outside a utility office building.
Cleopatra the climate change denying ostrich - YouTube
Pete MacDowell of Climate Reality Check and Abe Allen of Protecting Our Waters show off Cleopatra, Queen of Denial, the climate change denying ostrich who prefers to bury her head in the sand rather than face reality about the impacts of the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline on our planet's climate. November 6, 2011 in front of the White House.
Shakespeare, Global Warming, Sunset, and You - ABC News
According to all the apparently competent experts this reporter has found on the matter after more than seven years following the story across the United States and around the world, manmade global warming is well under way, already extremely destructive, and on track to grow steadily worse for at least the next three decades, even if humanity does manage to drastically cut carbon emissions.
...Virtually all the world’s roughly 3,000 professional climate scientists paint a psychologically daunting picture of the world in which today’s toddlers are growing up.Estimates of people now dying who would not if there were no manmade warming are in the hundreds of thousands. The United Nations now estimates hundreds of millions of disruptive “climate refugees” in less than 40 years.
Real climate change: from green to brown » Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Count my grass as another victim of global warming.
Hard-up UK puts climate change on back burner | Climate Change
Report finds Britons more concerned with keeping warm than worrying about the environment
William M. Briggs, Statistician » Two New Papers vs. BEST: Guest Post by Lüdecke, Link, and Ewert
LL demonstrates that the 20th century’s global warming was predominantly a natural 100-year fluctuation. The leftovers are caused by UHI, the warming effect by increasing station elevation, changes to the screens and their environments in the 1970s, variations in the sun’s magnetic field that could influence the amount of clouds, warming caused by increasing anthropogenic CO2, and further unknown effects.
Greenpeace stages protest at South African coal power station | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Melita Steele, a Greenpeace climate change expert, said the protest started at dawn Monday at the Kusile power station with activists chaining themselves to the gates of the construction site. Security guards later cut the chain. Steele said six activists climbed a crane at the site and were dangling there from ropes with a banner declaring: "Kusile – climate killer."
Eskom, the state-owned power company, says it needs Kusile because of rising electricity demand.
Deer, antelope harvest down in northeast Montana due to tough winter, disease | The Republic
The agency cut antelope hunting licenses after heavy snows over the winter prevented antelope from reaching forage and many starved to death. Game check stations this fall show harvest down 71 percent from last year, and a 79 percent reduction in the long-term average.
Straight Talk on Rising Seas in a Warming World - NYTimes.com
Among other things, he speaks about the recent study that, using patterns in layered salt marsh sediment, found a sharp recent uptick in the rate of sea-level rise after 2,000 years of fairly stable conditions — a pattern Willis refers to as a “sea-level hockey stick” — an allusion to the suite of studies finding a similar pattern for global surface temperatures (albeit a hockey stick with a warped shaft).
When the going gets tough on Keystone XL, Obama goes … golfing | Canada.com
Obama, for his part, took the opportunity presented by Sunday’s great weather to bolt the White House via motorcade – well in advance of the protest – for a golf game at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.
PJ Media » Wasted ‘Climate Change’ Cash Could Save Lives Instead
When it comes to climate change, our leaders would do well to follow Buddhist advice: when struck by an arrow, first remove it before seeking out your assailant. Otherwise, you will die.
But most governments and charitable foundations today do exactly the opposite. They try so hard to appease climate activists — who seem more concerned about the possible plight of people yet to be born than those suffering today — that millions of people have been abandoned to misery and early death in the poorest parts of the world.
BEST Reports -60C In Longmont, Colorado | Real Science
It appears that BEST is just another example of the incredibly lazy and incompetent “work” which typifies climate science.
Paint the decline yellow | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
So what do you do if the European Space Agency’s sophisticated new Envisat satellite system for measuring sea level rises shows no rising over the past seven years, against all warmist predictions?Simple: plot the results in a color hard to see, like yellow:
My Take On The Herman Cain/Newt Gingrich Debate In Texas | TexasSparkle | a Chron.com blog
I got to ask Newt the last question in the video about his infamous commercial with Nancy Pelosi on global warming (at the 4.44 mark). I think he answered it pretty well. Tell me what you think.
Gingrich says "It was a mistake...I do believe that conservatives have to have a concern for the environment...I don't care how conservative you are, it's not good if you have a river on fire...I was trying find a way to be in the environmental space debating the left".
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Real Climate Walks Back
3. Walk Back - Ultimately, Stefan takes a big step back from their original strong statement about attribution and how it impeached earlier research, now writing:
"Our statistical approach nevertheless is not in itself an attribution study"
Admiral David Titley, Chief Oceanographer of the US Navy, on Climate Skeptics
At the 1:25 mark: When skeptics mention that CO2 is a trace gas, he says "Well, hey, alcohol is a trace, and we sure care about that".
Upset by the lack of scientific skepticism that first greeted the claims of climate change, Muller re-examined the evidence and concluded that what mainstream scientists have been saying for decades is fundamentally correct.
Equally important, he added that as a result of his work, “we have confidence that the temperature rise that had been previously reported had been done without bias.”
In other words, scientists can be trusted.
It’s warming? That should shut them up! | Climate Nonconformist
Just as warming doesn’t necessitate an anthropogenic component, the presence of a greenhouse effect doesn’t imply that it is significant. The empirical evidence Pell is claiming doesn’t exists lies around the net positive feedback mechanisms that are meant to turn 1.2°C of warming into dangerous warming.
Organisers initially claimed a turnout of 6,000, later doubling the number to 12,000. They included the actor Mark Ruffalo, climate scientist James Hansen, and the Nobel peace prize winner Jody Williams.
Police said about 5,000 had come to the gathering.
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"What these millionaire actors and professional activists don't seem to understand is that saying no to Keystone means saying yes to more conflict oil from the Middle East and Venezuela filling American gas tanks," James Millar, a spokesman for TransCanada said in an email. "After the Washington protestors fly back home, they will forget about the millions of Americans who can't find work."
At heart, being in favour of the consensus position doesn't inherently mean you're right. More importantly here, saying you're on the side of consensus is not going to convince anyone opposed who feels they have rationalism and logic supporting their case.
But by the same token, being against the consensus doesn't mean you're right either. It probably just means you're a lonely fool.
Dr Will J Grant is a lecturer and researcher at the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science at the ANU.
IPCC partisans refuse to see the long, long list of warning signs that something is seriously amiss. No matter how badly that organization misbehaves, nothing ever fazes them.
When faced with allegations that it kicked the neighbour's dog, broke into the neighbour's house, set the neighbour's sofa on fire, and sent grandma scrambling for her heart medication they don't feel ashamed. Rather, they insist the real issue is that the police say all this happened at 2:54 pm when, really, it was 3:03.
THE carbon tax will have a vastly bigger impact on productivity, wages and the cost of living than "highly optimistic" Treasury calculations indicate, claims the Minerals Council of Australia.
Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore joined a growing crowd at the "Occupy" Denver protest Thursday evening, but his encounter with CBS4 left him fuming when he was asked about whether he represented the "99 percent" that the protesters stand for, or the "1 percent" they claim to be rallying against....
Moore said a few words to the crowd and then was escorted by two security guards in an SUV ...
Global warming (i.e, the warming since 1977) is over. The minute increase of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere (0.008%) was not the cause of the warming—it was a continuation of natural cycles that occurred over the past 500 years.
The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling, perhaps much deeper than the global cooling from about 1945 to 1977. Just how much cooler the global climate will be during this cool cycle is uncertain. Recent solar changes suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if that is likely.
The team removed the effect that global warming has on water temperatures, and found that blocking events occurred up to 30 percent more often from the 1930s to the 1960s and during a period that started in the late 1990s to the present, all times when the North Atlantic Ocean was warmer than usual.
Global warming is fueling social injustice and presenting generational crisis because limited or no resources would be transferred to the youth for socio-economic development says climate change expert, Dr Julius Atlhopheng.Biased BBC Advice Based On Sloppy Statistics
This is a dismaying standard of scientific literacy from a BBC correspondent. Following Black’s presentation the BBC audience went away with the opposite impression of what is the case. Given the severe cutbacks the BBC is experiencing at the moment it would be like saying there will be more jobs, not fewer. I do hope that when those cuts are explained to the staff that a somewhat more sophisticated use of statistics is used.
Almost nine hundred years ago, in the mid-12th century, the southwestern U.S. was in the middle of a multi-decade megadrought. It was the most recent extended period of severe drought known for this region. But it was not the first.
A cross section of wood shows the annual growth rings trees add with each growing season. Dark bands of latewood form the boundary between each ring and the next. Counting backwards from the bark reveals a tree's age. Credit: Daniel Griffin/Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
The second century A.D. saw an extended dry period of more than 100 years characterized by a multi-decade drought lasting nearly 50 years, says a new study from scientists at the University of Arizona.
So let me get this straight. The IPCC makes an error and Betts says I’m the one who should check more carefully? If the IPCC’s own website can’t be trusted, where should I have looked for the correct list of Chapter 3 authors?
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday let off some steam about the Republican presidential field, complaining that some candidates are skeptical of the science surrounding issues like global warming.Flashback: RyanAir CEO: "Global Warming Is Bull$#it" - Business Insider
"We have presidential candidates who don't believe in science," Bloomberg said at a Columbia University economic forum, the New York Daily News reports. "I mean, just think about it, can you imagine a company of any size in the world where the CEO said 'oh I don't believe in science' and that person surviving to the end of that day? Are you kidding me? It's mind-boggling!"
The CEO of Europe's largest airline Ryanair has called global warming "bullshit" and "horseshit" in an interview with the Irish Independent.
According to Australia‘s BOM, as of the end of October no place in Australia is experiencing drought.Peatland carbon storage is stabilized against catastrophic release of carbon
That has never happened in the US. where 80% of the country experienced drought in 1934.
Concerns that global warming may have a domino effect -unleashing 600 billion tons of carbon in vast expanses of peat in the Northern hemisphere and accelerating warming to disastrous proportions - may be less justified than previously thought.An earthquake under Britain’s energy supply | Rob Lyons | spiked
The policies put forward to deal with possible global warming have been myopically obsessed with reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, even at the expense of inflated fuel bills and lower economic growth. A compromise solution like gas that reduces emissions while providing cheap energy would avoid some of the harm such policies might otherwise cause. It would also buy us some valuable time to see if this climate change fuss is really all it’s cracked up to be, and it would reduce the cost of importing energy into the UK.
No wonder greens are quaking in their boots.
Environmentalists were calling Norwegian Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe “a public relations agent” for Statoil on Friday, while industrial firm Aker reportedly may shut down its Aker Clean Carbon unit. Concerns are rising that Norway’s government and industry are backsliding on lofty promises to hinder climate change by cutting carbon emissions.Antarctic crack could cause city-sized iceberg - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
When the ice breaks apart, it will produce an iceberg more than 880 square kilometres, said Mr Studinger, who is part of the US space agency's IceBridge project.Thrill-seeking for Gaia « The Daily Bayonet
But the process is not a result of global warming, he said.
"We expect that later this year or early next year there will be a pretty large iceberg forming as part of a natural cycle," he said.
"These are cyclical events that occur every few years. The last big carving event occurred in 2001, so in general people have been expecting something to happen like that very soon.
DeCarteret is a member of ICECAAP, the ‘International Consortium of Explorers Concerned for the Arctic, Antarctic and Poles‘. In fact, ICECAAP is so concerned about it that the Latest News on their site is from March 2007. Someone should tell the concerned explorers that they need to keep their greenwash current if they don’t want pesky bloggers calling them thrill-seeking climate dilettantes, or something.NBC Nightly News Regarding The Recent October Snowstorm And A Quote From John Nielsen-Gammon | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
One of the quotes in there, from my colleague John Nielsen-Gammon, does not appear to conform, regarding the October snow news report at NBC, to what he had written earlier on the drought in Texas.1925, 1930 October Blizzards Buried New England | Real Science
Nearly two-thirds of Iowa farmers believe climate change is real and more than 60 percent say farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased rainfall.
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Still, only 10 percent of farmers said they believe climate change is caused mostly by human activities, even though that is the consensus in the scientific community.
The theory that CO2 rise causes temperature rise is no longer a theory to Warmists. It is an axiom: An unquestionable truth. That it is false is impossible for them to see. Their minds just cannot handle the equation being wrong, even when it obviously is. They have a sort of short circuit in their brains that skips over all evidence on the question -- JRMichael Mann - Speakers | TEDxPSU
The graph has received acclaim and criticism since its publishing. He has received many awards and honors including, but not limited to, the Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by NOAA in 2002 and also was named one of the 50 Leading Visionaries in Science and Technology by Scientific American. Michael is also one of the founders of RealClimate.org, a highly acclaimed climate science website that was chosen in 2005 as one of the top 25 “Science and Technology” websites by Scientific American and as one of the top 15 “green” websites by Time Magazine in 2008.Fox Scraping The Barrel For Attacks On UN Climate Panel | Media Matters for America
Fox identified only one graduate student who worked on the 2007 report. 1 out of over 1250 authors.The human cause of climate change: Where does the burden of proof lie?
Curry also suggested that the desire to reverse the null hypothesis may have the goal of seeking to marginalise the climate sceptic movement, a vocal group who have challenged the scientific orthodoxy on climate change.
"The proponents of reversing the null hypothesis should be careful of what they wish for," concluded Curry. "One consequence may be that the scientific focus, and therefore funding, would also reverse to attempting to disprove dangerous anthropogenic climate change, which has been a position of many sceptics."
In overall summary, it is clear that increased solar insolation, caused by a combination of decreased clouds and decreased anthropogenic aerosols (and I argue particularly black carbon), is the primary cause of increasing minimum and increasing maximum temperatures, and hence the increase in the land surface 'global average temperature' calculated from these values.Temperatures Plunge As CO2 Soars | Real Science
CO2 is rising much faster than expected to record levels, and temperatures have dropped 0.37C since last year - with every single day in 2011 cooler than the same day last year.Coldest Year In Western Greenland Since 1993 | Real Science
Using GISS data, with Weather Underground filling in the missing holes that Hansen can’t find – Nuuk, Greenland is averaging -1.1C for the year to date. The last year which was colder was 1993.Global Weirding Out Of Control | Real Science
So far, November is the coldest on record – going back to 1885.
A generation of children in the southeastern US are growing up with snow, but no hurricanes.
Superb letter to Laframboise (who will ignore it, though her climate denying supporters will flame it). wp.me/p1VaMF-3JTom Nelson: Worse and worse: Warmists Mann and Mandia tweet their approval as a grad student defends grad school "experts" becoming IPCC lead authors
Early said 59-year-old Willis Hall called 911 when he found his mother sitting wrapped in a blanket in a living room chair. Hall told police the house had been without power since late Saturday afternoon, and his mother had complained of the cold Wednesday night. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of a medical condition and possible hypothermia.Twitter / @PeterGleick: What's scarier? This story ...
What's scarier? This story, or the stunningly ignorant/stupid comments? Biggest jump ever in global warming gases - news.yahoo.com/biggest-jump-e…Arctic Sea Ice Remains Near-Record Low Despite Fast Freeze | Alaska Dispatch
Summer sea ice also provides habitat necessary to maintain healthy populations of polar bears, walruses and seals. When this hunting and denning platform disappears, marine mammals must swim farther or spend time on shore, making it hard to find enough to eat or avoid predators.Question: What predators, other than polar bears, are walruses and seals trying to avoid when they're on shore?
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