India earmarks least funds to save environment

The country is spending only 0.012 per cent of its GDP for addressing its primary green concerns including climate change, conservation of lakes and rivers, biodiversity, forests and wildlife, ensuring the welfare of animals and prevention and abatement of pollution.

'Cameron isn't green – he's yellow,' says man who fitted his solar panels - Green Living - Environment - The Independent

Mr Evans, 47, told The IoS that Mr Cameron's decision to install the solar panels – alongside a solar thermal system and a wind turbine – now appeared to be "tokenistic". He said: "Installing the three systems meant he could lay claim to his green credentials. It enabled him to say he had renewable energy on his property. It is the case that Cameron wanted his green credentials to be visible to the world. But I don't think he has any green credentials. I think he has yellow credentials – making decisions from a cowardly position. He and others in government got into government through lies. Even though they weren't lies at the time, they became lies because they don't have the strength to stick by the decisions in the first place.

"The guy obviously doesn't have green credentials – he has completely destroyed the industry."

Boston MA : The Global Warming Guessing Game

Less than a week after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged developing nations to commit billions of dollars to fight the effects of climate change, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) released a well-timed preliminary report that basically said its climate models were fairly useless at the moment. In the process, they also threw out basic scientific principles by stating that extreme weather events would become more common, and that its climate models didn't have practical predictability.

Obama priority: Global warming intelligence unit? - National Law Enforcement | Examiner.com

Regardless of the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) already possesses a multi-billion dollar intel center for global warming, a new report by a government watchdog group's blogger claims that the Obama administration believes the nation’s intelligence community needs yet another taxpayer-funded entity to better determine the impact of climate change on national security.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Speaking of Government Science…

If you want an explanation, my guess is that this is part of the Left’s war on bottled water. For some bizarre reason, bottled water has been singled out as one of the evils of modern technology that will drive us into a carbon dioxide-induced climate disaster. So I don’t think the EU would have approved any label claim for water. Since this is such an absurdly obvious claim that most consumers would just chuckle at (yes, consumers can be trusted to parse product claims), I almost wonder if some water company didn’t just float this to make the point that no claim could be approved in the EU system.

What Links a Sinking Boat and Rising CO2? - NYTimes.com

[Philip S. Wenz] It seems to me that “danger” is exactly what the science is telling us. “Big Danger!”

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Solyndra: Did Secretary Chu Lie Under Oath? - Guy Benson

Chu told the Examiner that Spinner had no role in the Solyndra loan process. That's simply not true, as the emails quoted above prove. The Energy Secretary also told the committee that he had zero contact with any Obama donors, which according to his response to Klein's questions, also seems to be false.

The BBC's hidden 'warmist' agenda is rapidly unravelling - Telegraph

Since 2006, the BBC has relentlessly promoted the global warming orthodoxy as
a pressure group in its own right.

Climate Clown James Hansen: on the Government Dole While Accepting $1.6 Million in Additional Income… and Counting « The Greenroom

These activities appear to violate the criminal code, 18 U.S.C. 209.

The great pipeline sellout - chicagotribune.com

Sure, the pipeline would have produced thousands of truly shovel-ready jobs. Sure, delay could forfeit to China a supremely important strategic asset — a nearby, highly reliable source of energy. But approval was calculated to be a political loss for the president. Easy choice.

It's hard to think of a more clear-cut case of putting politics over nation. This from a president whose central campaign theme is that Republicans put party over nation, sacrificing country to crass political ends.

Blog: How Newt Could Make Amends on AGW

But Democratic politicians cannot forever avoid a debate on this subject.　 There are doubtless any number of informed scientists on the skeptics side, beginning with Lord Christopher Monckton, who would coach Mr. Gingrich on facts and figures necessary for a good debate performance.　 Therefore, Newt Gingrich could make amends and provide a profound service -- and a clear choice -- to the nation by championing the anti-AGW position in debates against the stalwart support of the AGW hoax that permeates the Democratic Party's policy platforms. So let us see a "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate on the Anthropogenic Global Warming "crisis" with Newt as the champion of sensibility i.e. "climate serenity". 　　Inevitable media coverage, despite the bias of the MSM, will serve to spread the word about the failing hoax - a national and international delusion. We must return to sensible domestic energy, national security, and pro-growth employment policies in order to achieve economic progress and a return to prosperity based on secure energy supplies provided by shale gas and oil mined in North America.

Global warming a hoax for political gain, Larry Bell tells Round Table

Presenting the antithesis to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, college professor Larry Bell describes the global warming crisis as something that was manufactured for political gain.

“The climate issue is one of politics, not of science,” Bell said.

Author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax, Bell was the opening speaker Thursday for the Palm Beach Round Table’s 2011-12 season.

Climate Minister buys a castle with 16 bathrooms... and a massive carbon footprint | Mail Online

He is the climate change  minister who pledged to ‘lead by  example’ in the fight against global warming.

But Charles Hendry is facing accusations of hypocrisy after buying himself a 20-bedroom castle – with a potentially massive carbon footprint – as a second home.

Blair Castle in Ayrshire, which went on the market for £2.5million, has three storeys, 16 bathrooms and a heated outdoor swimming pool set in 260 acres of beautiful countryside.

Dr. James Hansen’s growing financial scandal, now over a million dollars of outside income | Watts Up With That?

It seems esteemed NASA astronomer turned climatologist turned paid activist Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has not been reporting some income that he is required by law to do. How long will NASA continue to look the other way? Chris Horner explains. – Anthony

Wyoming’s Carbon Sequestration Boondoggle | Wyoming Liberty Group

In fact, if carbon dioxide is a harmless natural gas we all routinely exhale, why does Wyoming need a pilot carbon sequestration program at all?

Warmist infographic blames global warming for cold California spring

Global warming, Thanksgiving and extreme weather | James Bruggers – Watchdog Earth

Look here for more on that.

Scientists line up to attack Prince Charles' 'fixation' with alternative medicines | Mail Online

 Mr Singh claimed Charles believed in climate change but did not understand it.

He said that whatever the evidence the Prince would be in favour of combating climate change, but if there wasn’t evidence he would not change his mind

He added: 'I’m sure he doesn’t understand the science behind it.’

Unchanging Science | The Weekly Standard

Perhaps the greatest reason for any of us to feel skepticism about climate change, however, is the unchanging politics of those who employed it to advance their agendas. Are we wrong to suspect that most global warming activists are merely using global warming as the latest in a long series of tools with which to demand fundamental changes in Western civilization?

Think of it this way: The premise of catastrophe produces the conclusion that the political and economic underpinnings of Western civilization must be discarded. Governments must take control of economies. Capitalism must give way. All decisions must be made by our scientific and political elite, for only they can save us from doom.

Insurance Industry Lobbying For £3 Billion Climate Fund

The UK would be better off creating a green insurance agency rather than a Green Investment Bank (GIB), according to a specialist in climate change risks.

Lawrence Solomon: Green Insurance Fraud

The insurance industry has been behind the global-warming-weather fraud since the 1970s

Your home insurance premiums — and the insurance industry’s profits — depend largely on the industry’s skill in making two types of investments: in the stock market and in marketing that scares the bejesus out of its customers.

Rajendra Pachauri – The Little Man Who Told Big Whoppers « NoFrakkingConsensus

Today I’m launching a series of posts in which I’ll compare Pachauri’s fictions to some cold, hard facts....

Pachauri is mistaken. Since at least 1994 the IPCC has been choosing personnel for reasons that have nothing to do with impressive track records or extensive publications.

It has been selecting people who aren’t remotely near the top of their profession.

It has been relying, therefore, on second and third-rate minds to decide some of the world’s most important questions.

Apply scientific rigour to climate change aid decisions, UBC academics argue

As the world prepares to unleash a $100-billiona-year tsunami of climate change aid on the developing world, three academics at the University of British Columbia have set the table for a rational discussion about how to spend the money.

IPCC Introduces New 'Climate Change' Definition

Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings, or to persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use.

Climate Change Weather Effects Unknown: IPCC Report

GREAT uncertainty remains about how much of an impact climate change will have on future extreme weather events, the world's leading climate scientists have found.

Bummer: CO2 may cause Carteret Islands to be completely submerged by the end of next month

Miss South Pacific: Beauty and the Sea Trailer (Miss South Pacific: Beauty and the Sea) - IMDb

Is it too late to turn back the tide? Watch Miss South Pacific and find out what these beautiful and intelligent women are saying about the issues.

Will President Obama Send Green Marines to Darwin? | DanJCass

[Labor Member for Wakefield Nick Champion] Make no mistake; if you’re a self-confessed climate sceptic then you’re as soft as butter on Australia’s defence.

Polar bears pay the price for greenhouse gases in Arctic

Post-lunch during the short interactive session with the WWF scientists, we were told that as a result of the climate change, the Arctic ice is shrinking at an alarming rate of about 11 per cent per annum.

Redford dogged by carbon capture plan

The government "remains fully committed" to carbon capture, say officials in the departments of energy and environment.

Though "trapped" might be a better word. The promise to spend $2 billion on experiments in carbon capture was made not by Alison Redford, but by her predecessor, Ed Stelmach, in the summer of 2008 when the world was a different place politically and economically.

Now, the Redford government is "committed" to carbon and capture in much the same way a prisoner is committed to his ball and chain. And a 15-year sentence. That's how long the government has committed to spend money on the industrial-scale experiments.

Slip leaves Edmonton mayor with broken, bruised ribs

The weather at the time was “brutal” with blowing snow and icy sidewalks, Loken said.

Amid dire warming warnings, Canada is MIA - The Globe and Mail

At Durban, once again, Canada will be excluded from any serious deliberations. Canada is widely considered a climate-change miscreant. Nobody who knows the climate-change file in Canada or abroad believes the federal government’s intention to reduce emissions by 17 per cent by 2020 from 2005 levels.

Calgary: Shelters filling as temperature drops

After a gloriously docile autumn, winter like weather has rolled in, trailing -20 C temperatures, wind, snow, darkness and misery.

At least one Calgary homeless shelter is at capacity.

"We're actually experiencing our busiest year in our 15-year history," said Yvette Rasmussen, executive director of Inn From the Cold. She said the shelter is housing 120 people, - including 39 children.

"That's our big concern, that's amplified by (a forecast) of one of the coldest winters in the history of Calgary. We want to be sure families know where to go immediately and are not wandering around looking for shelter and support in the city."

Climate Change Policies OK, So Long As It's Tax Free, Poll Says - Forbes

Once again, people want something for nothing.

According to a poll by The Economist, 79% of respondents say that they who would support political reforms combating climate change if those changes had no effect on their real income. But the number completely collapses when you ask if they have to take a 5% reduction in income through higher taxation in order to achieve that. When some sort of carbon tax is introduced to reduce carbon emissions, support for climate change policies goes from the vast majority saying yes, to the vast majority saying no. Only 26% say they would support reform if it led to a decline in their real income of more than 5%.

Regional Tensions Limit Bhutan Climate Summit Aims - From the Wires - Salon.com

Organizers have downplayed the fact that Pakistan, China and Afghanistan are not attending the Climate Summit for a Living Himalayas

Occupy Fairbanks Protesters in Alaska Battle Minus-36 Temperatures to Protest | Alaska Dispatch

Brent Baccala, a 41-year-old self-described preacher and software designer from Maryland, continued his vigil at Veterans Memorial Park sporting a donated Northern Outfitters blue suit and matching boots Friday. He slept in the nearby tent as overnight temperature dropped to minus 36, Thursday, three degrees cooler than the record low for that date, set in 1969.  It was the second time this week area temperatures set new daily lows, according to the National Weather Service. 

Global Warming Scientist, James Hansen says Kyoto Protocol Doesn't Work - Gainesville Conspiracy | Examiner.com

James E. Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and eminent climate scientist has been against the Kyoto Protocol since he boycotted the 2009 Climate Change Conference that advocated it.

He said; "The developed nations want to continue basically business as usual so they are expected to purchase indulgences to give some small amount of money to developing countries.  "They do that in the form of offsets and adaptation funds.”

IOL | News for South Africa and the world

Commenting on the report, Greenpeace Africa climate campaigner Melita Steele says that one of the “true tragedies of government and Eskom’s continued addiction to coal is the fact that notwithstanding the future risks, coal has failed to deliver electricity to many South Africans, with at least 2.5 million homes still denied access to electricity”.

Peele agrees. “A lot of South Africans don’t have power, that is because Eskom’s main central grid is not as sufficient as it says it is. But by introducing wind and solar, this can change. We can ultimately get more people on to the grid.”

Twitter / @NRDC: Cutting power plants' carb ...

Cutting power plants' carbon emissions and setting up clean car standards would cover 66% of America's global warming pollution.

Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather - Slashdot
[plenty of skeptical commenters at the link above]

IPCC Recycling 110 Year Old Climate Theories | Real Science

Here is what the geniuses at the IPCC forecast today.  Only this time it is due to CO2.

Emergency NHS help in big freeze - Health - Buxton Advertiser

Last year, High Peak’s expected death rate rose by 68 during the period of treacherous freezing conditions which left the most vulnerable cold, alone and more susceptible to heart problems, strokes, respiratory illness and falls.

"The Climate Reality Project" with James Sweitzer - YouTube

Astrophysicist James Sweitzer visited Columbia College on Nov. 17 to present a global warming update since the release of Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth."

IPCC Predicts Heat Wave: Environmentalists and Democrats Find New Ammunition - International Business Times

The report suggests that there is at least a two-thirds chance that humans can be held responsible for rising temperatures on earth and other extreme weather events.

Climate junk scientists make incredibly lame global warming hoax video: "We are climate scientists, Chicago style"

Revkin.net: Summer in Chicago’s more like New Orleans’ CO2...

Summer in Chicago’s more like New Orleans’ CO2 Blues Band (super-group: Pierrehumbert, Archer, Abbot).

- Bishop Hill blog - Attenborough on Earth Report

Some years ago, Sir David Attenborough wrote an article about his involvement in TVE's Earth Report series. There is much of interest, including the fact that programmes were sponsored by WWF at various times, and that he himself introduced each programme.

- Bishop Hill blog - TVE

Earth Report could at first glance be mistaken for the Earth Reporters series that was criticised by the BBC Trust in its report on illicit sponsorship. However, I think in fact this is another series entirely. TVE's website has disappeared from the internet, but its YouTube channel is extant and the Earth Report programmes can be seen there (for example this or this). I would urge readers to look at some of these films, which are amazing - pure propaganda.

RealClimate: The IPCC report on extreme climate and weather events

There is still a debate about the past trends (see previous discussions here, here, here, and here). Has the tropical cyclone activity or the number of cyclones increased? Note, the trends may not not necessarily linear, and if one tries to fit a straight line in time, it may not provide the best picture of the situation. As long as we have no reliable records on tropical cyclones for the past, I’d argue that we don’t know how well our models are able to capture long-term changes in tropical cyclones.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Questions for Chu

Accepting for a moment that the purpose of the loan program under which Solyndra received its money was truly reduction of CO2 output and fossil fuel use, what is the metric the DOE uses to score these investments against these goals (e.g. tons of CO2 output avoided over the next 10 years per dollar of government investment).

2.  How did Solyndra and other companies that were accepted for the program score on your metric?  How did companies that were turned down score?

Of course there was no such analysis — the government appears to have invested in whatever companies raised the most money for Obama or got Joe Biden’s heart palpitating or both.  Even if one pulls the obvious politics out of it, it appears they invested in stories they found appealing, the same mistake many novice investors make.

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Games People Play

Truth is, many of the saner folks on Romm’s side of the climate debate have grown weary of his antics. They tune out the rants. To them, he’s like the outlandish, bombastic uncle at Thanksgiving that everybody tolerates because he’s part of the family. But behind his back, they’re rolling their eyes at his unseemly outbursts.

Exhibit B is this post and thread from Michael Tobis at his new home, Planet 3.0: Beyond Sustainability. I have much higher expectations of Michael, and have previously expressed great hopes for the site he has created. But in the aforementioned post’s discussion on recent scholarship that has challenged Jared Diamond’s eco-collapse narrative for Easter Island, Michael made a startlingly biased and willfully ignorant argument. It’s so unbelievable that I’m going to excerpt the highlights. They occurred during an exchange with the two archaeologists who came by to discuss the findings of their book with Michael in the thread of his post.

Quake blamed for 451 later deaths : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

According to the Ishinomaki city government, 125 cases were recognized as deaths resulting from the disaster because the victims swallowed a lot of seawater when the tsunami swept in or because they remained in cold water for a long time before being rescued. Nearly half died of pneumonia or hypothermia.

Panchayat members to be trained as climate risk managers - India - DNA

A male and female member from each Panchayat in vulnerable states will be trained as climate risk managers (CRMs). “They will be trained in the science and art of managing climate aberrations.

Opinion: Another signal that now is the time to curb emissions — The Daily Climate

I helped author the report because I am deeply concerned about what happens to the least advantaged when extreme events hit.

...We can still avoid the worst calamities by changing our behavior.  In the end, we can't determine exactly who will be hit by what, but we all need to take action. The most recent survey of the science says that must happen today, not tomorrow.

Sabrina McCormick is a lead author of Chapter 5 of the IPCC's Special Assessment on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. She is also an assistant research professor at George Washington University. 

Sabrina B. McCormick, Ph.D., M.A.

Sabrina McCormick’s areas of expertise are in environmental and medical sociology, science and technology studies, social movements and development. She is primarily interested in the social contestation, politics and science that inform understandings of environmentally-induced illness....She completed her PhD in Sociology at Brown University in 2005 and has since been jointly appointed in the Department of Sociology and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University.

CO2 Density 14X Higher On Mars – Yet Temperatures Are Cold Enough To Form Dry Ice | Real Science

Mars is a spectacularly cold place, despite the fact that their atmosphere has 14 times as many CO2 molecules per cubic meter than earth’s atmosphere. A scientist with a functional brain might infer that the low atmospheric pressure on Mars causes the low temperatures.

Record Breaking SnowPack over Eurasia

Almost Top 10 for N. America

“Snow cover at week 45 (last week) reaches Record-Setting levels,” says reader Ralph Fato.

Extreme weather: We're gambling with lives at ever worsening odds | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Furthermore, with every step forward in understanding of the complexities of weather, climate and warming, the odds worsen. Studying extreme weather is hard as the events are by definition rare. But painstaking and labour-intensive studies of some events have revealed the smoking gun of global warming.

The European heatwave of 2003, that caused over 40,000 premature deaths, was made four to six times more likely by climate change.

New York as Venice, Minus the Romance - NYTimes.com

The report’s authors paint an evocative picture of what this might mean for our low-lying coastal regions: “The greater frequency of severe flooding events affecting the increasing number of waterfront residences may lead to abandonment of ground floors (as in Venice) or ultimately of entire buildings,” they write.

Lorne Gunter: Who needs to go to another useless global-warming confab? | Full Comment | National Post

United Nations climate summits may be the epitome of smug, hypocritical uselessness. Once a year, thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists and activists — mostly travelling on taxpayers’ tabs — descend on some resort or other. This year, the site is the South African seaside city of Durban, one of Africa’s favourite tropical destinations.

For nearly two weeks, delegates to these gatherings drink fine wine and eat fine food, much of it flown in from thousands of miles away. At Bali in 2007, there was great concern among chefs that the waters around the Indonesian island could not produce enough jumbo shrimp to satisfy all the noshing attendees, so emergency orders were flown in from as far away as Australia and the vast shrimp farms of India.

Lomborg pays for not following the alarmist script | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

You must play the global warming game - or pay.

Can the U.S. and Australia Slake China's Coal Thirst and Still Claim CO2 Progress? - NYTimes.com

To me, choosing a number — 350, 450 or 550 parts per million, 2 or 3 degrees (F. or C.!) — is essentially meaningless for our generation, especially given the trajectories for emissions in China and India.

Sierra Club Leader Will Step Down - NYTimes.com

Carl Pope, who has led the Sierra Club for much of the last two decades, is planning to leave the organization next year as it struggles to redefine its mission in a tough economy, the organization said Friday.

CFACT to Debunk Climate Propaganda and Provide Balanced Perspective at UN's COP17 in Durban, South Africa; CFACT Delegation to Include Lord Monckton, Marc Morano, Dr. Kelvin Kemm, Dr. Leon Louw and Craig Rucker | SYS-CON MEDIA

From The Archives: Biden, Chu, and Schwarzenegger at the Solyndra Groundbreaking - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

A classic from 2009, especially Biden’s rosy predictions:

Climate panel says prepare for weird weather : Nature News & Comment

It is “virtually certain” — meaning 99–100% probability in IPCC terminology — that the twenty-first century will see an increase in the frequency and magnitude of warm temperature extremes and a decrease in cold extremes. 

New focus on opening up markets for carbon trade | smh.com.au

Linking with the Californian scheme due to start in January was also ''feasible'' and representatives from California had been in Australia to talk about it, Mr Combet said.

Make 29% On Your Money, Guaranteed! | Watts Up With That?

Here is the problem with Energy Secretary Chu. His failures are bad enough. But his successes are lethal.

From the Archives: Obama at Solyndra May 26, 2010 - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Here’s the timeline:

April: Solyndra audit shows deep trouble

May: Obama talks up Solyndra

June: Solyndra pulls their IPO

From my vantage point, it looks like Team Obama was trying to put a little “lipstick on a pig.” 

EU Officials: No Proof Water Prevents Dehydration - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Global warming is an undisputable fact. But hey, let’s not get crazy with these wacko theories that tie lack of water to dehydration.  

Washington Post Fact Checks Secretary Chu - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

I’ve written it before and I’ll write it again: Chu needs to be fired and the rest of the DOE loan program needs to undergo a forensic audit to find out exactly how much money was wasted.

Washington Post Editors Slam DOE Loan Program - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Really? “Welcome to the party, pals,” is all I can say. Anybody can call what went wrong after the fact, but where were the Washington Post editors when these loans were being made?

IPCC Report: Global Warming—and Changing Population—Will Worsen the Toll of Extreme Weather - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Maybe we should retire the term "global warming," which makes climate change sound like a nice, pleasant bath.

PJ Media » Secretary Chu’s ‘Clean Energy Race’ Blather

China does not cap carbon. China is fueling its development chiefly with coal, oil, and hydro-power, not wind and solar. Almost 80% of China’s electricity comes from coal, and China is investing billions in Canadian tar sands oil production. If China is both threat and model, won’t America fall further behind in the “economic growth race” if we wage political warfare on coal and block the Keystone XL Pipeline?

Discredited UN IPCC Receives Little Attention for Latest Global Warming Report

"The discredited United Nations IPCC is back with another global warming report, only this time it faces an increasingly skeptical public," Senator Inhofe said. "The lack of attention on this latest report is a symptom of the crisis of confidence in the IPCC, which is ongoing." 

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wow

As an aside, remember this chart when global warming alarmists argue the the warming trend of the last 50 years is reducing crop yields

Think and Think Again – String Of Electric Car Failures Continues Unabated

About a week ago the English-language Norwegian online newspaper thelocal.no told us the story of how the hip “Think” electric cars has turned into a complete flop, at least in Norway.

PJ Media » A Brief Summary of James E. Hansen’s NASA Ethics File

NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American Tradition Institute reveal that astronomer and global warming activist Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer, received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in the past five years for work related to — and, according to his benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global warming activist within NASA. This does not include six-figure income over that period in travel expenses to fly around the world to receive money from outside interests.

Also troubling, and specifically detailed below, is that he failed to report tens of thousands of dollars in global travel provided to him by outside parties –  including to London, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Tokyo, the Austrian Alps, Bilbao, California, Australia and elsewhere, often business or first-class and also often paying for his wife as well — to receive honoraria to speak about the topic of his taxpayer-funded employment, or get cash awards for his activism and even his testimony and other work for NASA.

Six US states leave the Western Climate Initiative - Electric Power | Platts News Article & Story

Six states have withdrawn from the Western Climate Initiative, leaving California and four Canadian provinces as the remaining members of the regional greenhouse gas reduction organization, Patrick Cummins, WCI's project manager, said Friday.

The Saturday interview: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary | From the Guardian | The Guardian

O'Leary must be worried about the emissions trading scheme due to be introduced by the government in January, to encourage airlines to reduce their environmental impact. "The whole pandering to the idiotic environmental lobby, which has been trying to persuade us wrongly that global warming is a fact of life, is stupid. It's not that I say there isn't global warming: I say that there isn't evidence to support it. And even if there is, and it warmed by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing, and the Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella."

When should we blame climate change for natural disasters? - The Washington Post

In a phone interview, Hoerling explained the challenges of sorting out just how much blame to assign global warming for any given disaster: “Imagine you have a lot of historical data and you’ve decided that a heat wave can never get bigger than 9°C,” he says. “That’s the biggest heat wave possible from natural factors. So then you find that, because of human influences, temperatures have warmed 1°C. And now along comes a 10°C heat wave. You can say that this never would have happened without human influence. But you could also say that 90 percent of it was due to natural variability.”

Climate Panel Charts Extreme Weather in a Warming World - NYTimes.com

the report finds only “medium confidence” (a 50/50 chance) in a link between human activities and intensification of extreme rainfall on a global scale.

The Deletion Of NOAA’s Climate Service As A Separate Group Within NOAA In The Federal Budget | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Congress zeros out a request for 346.2 million dollars for a Climate Service from NOAA;

...Since the National Weather Service already provides a framework to provide essential weather and climate information, this Climate Service is a redundancy and is just another example of those who accept the IPCC perspective seeking to implement its advocacy mission.

The House Committee report appropriately recognizes this when they write

The recommendation does not include the establishment of a climate service as proposed in the budget request. Instead, the recommendation funds NOAA programs in accordance with the current NOAA organizational structure.

This  decision by the House of Representatives and the Conference Committee (which reconciles House and Senate bills)  is a good one.

- Bishop Hill blog - GuardianEco loses the plot

Guardian Eco publishes an interview with Raj Pachauri, which very surprisingly returns to the subject of the melting of Himalayan glaciers.
...Now, my understanding is that even on the inflated IPCC estimates, the correct figure is 2350, not 2040 or 2050. If so, then the Guardian's decision to publish this is...astonishing.

Daily Climate : Lies As Big As Texas | Real Science

The very cold water in the Pacific due to La Nina is the result of absorbed heat? They are getting bolder and more shameless with their lies every day. Temperatures in the Pacific west of the Americas are 1-4C below normal.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » There Are Too Many Fat People: What To Do About It

I care about these people. Dammit, I really do. My (unclogged by plaque) heart bleeds. I am sincere. This is what counts. I live in Manhattan and I have a PhD from an Ivy League university. In science. Now only does this equip me with the knowledge of right and wrong, it gives me license to dictate to others what is best.

I shouldn’t say this, because it’s sensitive. But these fat people, especially those fatties with fat kids, just don’t know what is best for them. I do. I’ve studied the subject. I’ve read scientific papers by earnest people. They agree with me. Something has to be done.

Revkin vs Romm

Joe Romm @climateprogress sees “confusionist”...

[Revkin] Joe Romm @climateprogress sees “confusionist” influence in IPCC extremes report. I respond. His head explodes. Here’s my reply:

Joe, it sure looks like it’s you who’s conflating scientific judgment with personal judgment. Roger Pielke Jr.’s involvement as a reviewer of an IPCC report is all about his scientific judgment and long track record of peer-reviewed work. IPCC isn’t a popularity contest.

And I have to note that after months of attacking Richard Muller’s personal passions (which I, too, criticized), you were quick to embrace his peer-reviewed science when it fit your template.

Your complaints are with Pielke’s policy comments and blog posts. If you want to imply he’s been a poisonous force in IPCC, then find the holes in his peer-reviewed work.

Appropriations Bill Funding the Government Zeroes Out High Speed Rail | FDL News Desk

An office on climate change in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was also nixed.

Three million Afghans face hunger as winter looms: aid groups | Reuters

"Time is running out to be able to provide communities with the help they most desperately need before a harsh winter makes many areas inaccessible. Snow is already falling and many mountainous areas are likely to be cut off within weeks."

 Afghanistan's harsh winter which lasts from November to March often results in heavy snowfall of up to 13 feet deep, blocking remote mountain passes and leaving hundreds of thousands of villagers isolated for months.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Record Fairbanks cold continues air quality warnings issued

Thursday’s record low of 41 below marked the sixth earliest 40-below temperature recorded by the National Weather Service in Fairbanks since 1904. The earliest it’s ever hit 40 below in Fairbanks was Nov. 5, 1907, when it hit 41 below.

The last time Fairbanksans saw 40-below temperatures in November was in 1994, when temperatures of 45, 43 and 45 below were recorded on Nov. 24, 25 and 30, respectively.

Green Campaigns & The BBC's Conflicts Of Interest

t does seem to me that the BBC is just up to its eyeballs in inappropriate relationships with environmentalists.

New Report: Carbon Floor Price Threatens UK Industry

New research by the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) finds that, as well as increasing domestic energy prices, the carbon floor price threatens energy intensive industries whose costs will rise in Britain while their competitors' costs in the rest of Europe fall, and tens of thousands of jobs are at stake. Some companies have made it clear that the rise in costs threatens billions in new investment, or even the ability to keep major plants open.

Unbelievable Record Cold | WOODTV.com Blogs

Thursday’s high temperature of -30F at Fairbanks, Alaska was 39 degrees colder than average!!  Wow!  Many record low temperatures were set in Alaska.  Here’s a list.  The coldest spot I could find was Manley Hot Springs at 54 below zero!  North Pole, Alaska dipped to -49,  Fort Yukon sank to -46 and Eielson AFB bottomed out at -43.  An Air Quality Warning was issued for Fairbanks, where the cold air settles near the ground and doesn’t mix out during the short day.  Oymyakon, Siberia has had three consecutive mornings of -50 or colder.  The last day they had that was warmer than average was October 11th.

World's worst die-off was hell on Earth - [Global warming hoax promoter Seth Borenstein]

During the world's biggest mass extinction, Earth seemed pretty close to a description of hell - fiery, smoky and explosive - created by massive volcanic eruptions, according to research dug up in China.

In geologic terms, it was surprisingly quick, and it may provide a scary lesson about climate change for our future, authors of the new study say.

...Shen theorised that environmental stress was building and then hit a tipping point and "collapsed in a very rapid way".

"This is also a lesson for the modern times," Shen said. "We don't know what will happen or when it will happen."

This climate change "happened naturally, and it killed everything," Erwin said. But he said that if critics of global warming science think it shows that climate change is nothing to worry about because it has happened naturally in the past, that's the wrong conclusion.

"I think the lesson you take away from this is that you don't want to get anywhere close to a mass extinction," Erwin said. "It took 5 million years before life got better again."

Twitter / @Revkin: As an agnostic, I'll be as ...

As an agnostic, I'll be asking questions when I speak on climate at NYC Atheists meeting tonight: nyc-atheists.org/drupal5/?q=nod… What would you ask?

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 17th Annual Heinz Foundation Awards - YouTube

Always reminding us that environmental issues are personal, Dr. Steingraber has just published Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, which explores how chemical trespass and climate change prevent parents from carrying out their two most fundamental duties: to protect children from harm and to provide for their future.

Gingrich Defends Shifting Statements on Climate Change - ABC News

In a 2007 on PBS’s “Frontline,” Gingrich said the cap-and-trade program was something he “would strongly support.”

As the COP 17 clock counts down, few signs of global consensus emerge

Some scientists are warning that development progress in the world’s poorest countries could be halted or even reversed by midcentury unless bold steps are taken to slow climate change, prevent further environmental damage, and reduce deep inequalities within and among nations.

For Transit Agencies, Climate Change Could Cost Billions | Transportation Nation

Chidester says he’s no climate scientist. After trying to keep the line running through the worst snow season on record last year, and this October’s early storm, Chidester says he’s not sure about global warming. But the MTA is.

Should We Be Bullish on Solar? - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic

I'd close by restating Tyler's question in a slightly different way: if the price of solar is really likely to keep falling until it's cheaper than coal, why don't we see this revealed in the behavior of global warming activists?  Where are Greens saying "We've decided to move on to more pressing issues, because clearly, the carbon emissions problem is just about solved."

If solar panels really become cheap enough to replace most electric generation, that will be extraordinarily disruptive, in ways that will be both good and bad for the environment.  But I'm not seeing a shift away from climate change in order to focus more on, say, sustainable water-use or species conservation.  Everyone seems just as worried about climate change as they've ever been, even though such cheap solar panels would render the issue mostly moot.

The Energy Department’s loan guarantee program is the real Solyndra scandal - The Washington Post

You can call it crony capitalism or venture socialism — but by whatever name, the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program privatizes profits and socializes losses.

Articles: White House Involved in Warmist Smear Campaign

 If there is one example of how far-left ideology can't defend itself, it is the entire idea of man-caused global warming.  Just look at what its promoters must do to keep it alive in the face of withering criticism.  The disturbing thing about it is how long they've kept up this juvenile tactic, thanks to a complicit mainstream media.

Warmism as the new "Protocols"

As I read the account below it struck me that the “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” have a lot in common with Warmism -- the contradictions, the irrefutability, the absence of any proof, the hate etc. Greenies hate people in general so I suppose it should be no surprise that the products of hate are similar in different eras.

I have long pointed out on my sidebar that, just as "The Jews" were once blamed for every ill, so Global Warming is nowadays blamed for every ill. I will not try to spell out the similarities in any further detail but I think readers will see for themselves areas of similarity well enough. Even the first sentence could well apply to Warmism.

C3: Climategate's Ben Santer's 17-Year Global Warming Trend: It Indicates Only A +0.95°C Increase By 2100

A couple of month's ago we provided several charts using the new Ben Santer 17-year rule of global warming. Those charts clearly indicated that Ben's hysterical, runaway global warming fears (and the IPCC's) were not related to any empirical climate reality.

- Bishop Hill blog - The Myles and Mike show

Having decided it is not going to permit sceptics on the airwaves. the BBC is going to struggle to generate any fizz in its climate change output. I guess the environmentalist sponsors of BBC shows must be the first to want to fund dull, uninteresting television. \sarc

Fix This, Julia | Real Science

Currently, 0% of Australia is experiencing drought. Like the US, Australian drought peaked from the 1920s through the 1960s.

In 1982, when CO2 was below 350 ppm, 100% of Victoria experienced drought.

IPCC scientists test the Exit doors « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

UPDATED: The Australian reports the leaked IPCC review, AND a radio station just announced it as “IPCC says we don’t know if there is a reason for the carbon tax”.

...Translated: The natural climate forces are stronger than we thought, and we give up, we can’t say whether it will get warmer or colder in the next twenty years.

Review fails to support climate change link | The Australian

WIDELY-HELD assumptions that climate change is responsible for an upsurge in extreme drought, flood and storm events are not supported by a landmark review of the science.

Guardian premeditates IPCC report and gets it wrong | Climate Nonconformist

When the notoriously alarmist IPCC is saying that the link with natural disasters is less clear, even left-wing publications such as The Guardian should take notice.

The Venus Brain Fly Trap | Real Science

A mind is a terrible thing to waste on CO2.

Climate Common Sense: Draft IPCC Report Blow to Warmists

The Global warming hydra has many heads and as fast as one is lopped another appears in it's place. We have seen  Global Warming ,after warming ceased morph into the all encompassing Climate Change, and now, as that lost it's punch the new and more terrifying Climate Extremes rears it's head. Warmists, politicians and the rest of the AGW menagerie have decided to scare the knickers off all and sundry with the climate extremes scare.

The new draft IPCC report has , however, done a bit of lopping itself and has stated that the view that extreme events are caused by Climate Change is not supported by the evidence.

The interesting thing will be the final composition of the report after "editing " by the Mannian clones before publication as I guess the current conclusions ,however true ,will be  unacceptable to those manipulating this scam.

Climate Change Dispatch - Because the debate is not over

Happy Feet 2 is getting a big, rotten splat at Rotten Tomatoes, which collates critics' reviews and tells you if a movie is, on their Tomatometer, fresh or rotten. As a movie targeted to children, it shows non-indigenous polar bears clinging to icebergs and implying global warming is causing ice cracks in Antarctica.

Pity the poor science teacher explaining to kids that polar bears don't live in Antarctica, average ice thickness is about a mile, and that the continent has actually gotten colder since record-keeping began. Any statistically insignificant warming is from natural variability from ocean currents shifting on its western side.

The politics of 'Happy Feet 2'

it doubles down on the political propaganda.

..."Happy Feet Two" has a broad, lefty political agenda. It briefly brings up global warming (though, tellingly, only for a minute--Hollywood's interest in stoking global warming fears seems to have peaked, which is convenient because the public has, after some frightened moments, decisively rejected the alarmist viewpoint) in a scene in which polar bears are shown clinging to shrinking icebergs.

Annual Snow Cover Above Normal For The Last Five Years | Real Science

UBC researchers provide recommendations for $100 billion in annual climate change aid « UBC Public Affairs

The climate change funding, which amounts to more than twice the annual lending by the World Bank, is expected to flow through various channels, including a new Green Climate Fund (GCF) being discussed at the upcoming Durban climate summit.

The Empty Chamber | Watts Up With That?

Of a total of 48 members, only Ranking Member Edward Markey attended, along with Representative Harry Waxman (who is not a member of the Committee). Two years ago, both were powerful congressmen who were well known for their environmental advocacy. That day, the other 19 Democrats (there is a vacancy) and all of the 27 Republican members of the Committee had other business. There were no announced regrets.
...After a few minutes into the Chameides talk, I decided to leave to beat the traffic, almost feeling sorry for the staffers who had to sit through the remainder of briefing – a rehash of dubious science from a bygone era presented on the behalf of two once powerful Congressmen in the empty chamber.

Crossing the Ice - Day 18 is hell frozen over for Aussie adventurers James Castrission and Justin Jones | thetelegraph.com.au

Meteorologists monitoring Antarctic conditions say it is the highest snowfall in the region in years.

IPCC Extreme Weather Report Is Another Blown Chance to Explain the Catastrophes Coming If We Keep Doing Nothing | ThinkProgress

UPDATE: Andy Revkin’s comment (here) may be the single most head-exploding and revisionist thing he has ever written. I reply.

Gingrich Renounces Pelosi Global Warming Ad

Gingrich’s love affair with government funding for climate control is far from over, notes Paul Mulshine, who reminded readers that the candidate advocated for flex-fuel cars (that run on a combination of petrol and alternative fuels like ethanol) during a speech at the CPAC convention earlier this year.

“Anyone who knows anything about this knows that in the free market there would be no flex-fuel cars. They – and ethanol – are on the market solely because of government mandates,” Mulshine writes.

The Press Association: Study reveals global warming 'hell'

Hell on Earth would have resulted from the sudden and extreme global warming that wiped out almost all life on the planet 250 million years ago, research has shown.

Solyndra Has a Cousin in the Poorhouse - NYTimes.com

At a hearing on Thursday that lasted all of five and half hours, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee grilled the energy secretary, Steven Chu, on the bankruptcy of the solar manufacturer Solyndra and asked what other loan recipients might be in financial trouble. Dr. Chu named only one other company, Beacon Power, which borrowed $39 million and entered bankruptcy late last month.

Brazil - Colder November this year than last year

Night temperature is 2 to 3°C lower than normal in parts of the Southeast, Midwest and South BA.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning junk scientist on the threat of trace amounts of CO2: "The end-point of that path looks something like Venus"

Global warming speaker gets cool reception at energy summit - Bakersfield.com

The keynote speaker was Mark Jaccard, who teaches in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Jaccard -- with former vice president Al Gore and colleagues on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for helping to raise awareness of global warming.

...Still, at the end of his address, Jaccard faced questions from audience members who clearly were dubious.

One person asked what made Jaccard so sure that global warming was man-made and not a result of natural warming and cooling cycles.

"One hundred and fifty years ago, people were predicting that if we continued to dump these gases into the atmosphere, temperatures would rise, and the increase would be dramatically different from the natural 10,000-year cycles that you're talking about," Jaccard replied. "And that's exactly what's happening.".

...It's not that the earth will warm up, then flatten out and everyone will adapt to that new reality, Jaccard insisted. "The end-point of that path looks something like Venus. It's really hot. At some point, we're going to panic and say we need to do something about that."

Temperature of Venus

Where the Earth has an average surface temperature of 14 degrees Celsius, the average temperature of Venus is 460 degrees Celsius. That is 410 degrees hotter than the hottest deserts on our planet.

...The temperature of Venus is not the only extreme on the planet. The atmosphere is constantly churned by hurricane force winds reaching 360 kph.

Climate Common Sense: Nut-cases in Ivory Towers

Energy is, after food and water the most basic necessity of a modern society and is by it's very nature a vital strategic resource. This is why the continued promotion of Desertec by the sinister Club of Rome and various other European academic and bureaucratic bodies borders on the bizarre because it involves siting a major part of Europe's planned power generation in Africa. Aside from the fact that solar power at this level is unproven, the sites for this stupid grandiose scheme is bristling with AK47's wielded by anti-west tribesmen who would like nothing better than to blow up a solar generator or powerline or anything else the infidels have constructed on their turf. The engineering problems with operating the remaining undestroyed reflective solar focussing systems in areas of sand and dust-storms reliably would be insurmountable and incredibly expensive. The recent example of Russia turning off power to re-calcitrant neighbouring states is a lesson these ideologically-driven dodos seem not to have learnt. With the advent of coal seam gas the whole energy equation has changed and many countries now have enormous energy reserves under their feet to the chagrin of the hair-shirted greens trying to destroy our energy-based society and return us to living in ecologically sustainable caves! CSG undercuts even the feeble justification for this monumental waste of public funds.This project is promoted by the same bunch of whackos behind the waste of billions of dollars un-successfully trying to store a harmless,beneficial gas underground which even non-technical observers intuitively understood was not going to work!

Kassie Siegel: One Critical Reason to Cut Global Warming Pollution Now: The Amazing Polar Bear

Increasingly, individual bears are starving as the Arctic rapidly warms.....it just so happens that the deep and rapid emission reductions needed to save the bears are the same reductions necessary to avoid the most catastrophic outcomes for the rest of the world too.

Science and the Dangerous Climate Question - NYTimes.com

Richard Betts, the head of the climate impacts section of Britain’s Met Office, recently left a comment on the “skeptic”* blog Bishop Hill stating that thresholds for climate danger, such as the much ballyhooed 2-degree limit enshrined in recent climate pledges, were not determined by science:

“Dangerous” is a value judgement, and the relationship between any particular level of global mean temperature rise and impacts on society are fraught with uncertainties, including the nature of regional climate responses and the vulnerability/resilience of society.

That’s a point I’ve made for a long time, and has been echoed by, among others, Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution and Stanford (read his reference to the philosopher David Hume). Gavin Schmidt wrote a valuable Realclimate post back in 2006 noting a variety of issues with “runaway tipping points of no return.”

...* The word skeptic above is in quotation marks because it’s a term that has been co-opted by those challenging science pointing to disruptive human-driven global warming, implying that those with different views are not seriously appraising evidence.

Mt Rainier - Up to six feet (almost 2 meters) of snow during next two days

Remember those words, “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”? Four feet of snow (122 cm) on Thursday, perhaps another two feet (61 cm) on Friday.

When the BEST Ain’t Good Enough, Make Stuff Up » Climate Resistance

...BEST says nothing about any of these things, of course. Sceptics weren’t ‘denying’ that the world had warmed. The debate wasn’t divided between climate science and its critics. And ‘Climategate’ remains an embarrassment to those who refused to release data (or concealed it) and its methodology, as Muller explained. Science cannot end the climate debate, because the climate debate has very little to do with science.

Warmists say 10 years of non-warming proves nothing. Give them another seven years | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Frustrated by a decade of non-warming, warmists set a date. In 2018 we’ll know if the climate models are right and man really is heating the world as they claimed

Your tax dollars at work: NASA entices people to global warming hoax fair with free hot dogs, snow cones, and cotton candy!

Media-Newswire.com - Press Release Distribution - PR Agency

(Media-Newswire.com) - RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The rain did not dampen the success of the first community climate fair held today ( Nov. 12 ) at the University of California, Riverside. The free parking, free food, and easy access to information about climate change and its impact ensured that by noon more than 450 fairgoers had taken advantage of the games and activities the “Refresh Riverside! A Community Climate Fair” offered.
...
The Carbon Dioxide booth appealed most to Jaime Holz of Riverside, who brought her son Joshua, soon to be 12, to the fair.
...
Free food at the fair provided consisted of hot dogs, snow cones, and cotton candy to represent the roles that heat, cold and clouds, respectively, play in our lives.

Experts from UCR and NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory answered questions about greenhouse gases and their role in warming the planet, why temperature is predicted to go up in some places and down in others, and how impactful clouds are in raising or lowering the Earth’s temperature.

The NASA scientists demonstrated with videos how scientists track Earth’s climate from space. Along with UCR scientists, they explained how the melting of land ice leads to sea level rise, how extreme weather is connected to global warming, how global climate change affects ecosystems, and how people can live more sustainably.

The community climate fair is being sponsored in large part by NASA; UCR’s Office of the Chancellor, the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and the Department of Earth Sciences; the Riverside Unified School District; and the Moscarello Family Foundation.

Irrefutable evidence that CO2 causes bad weather: "In the Philippines, children spoke of heavier rainy periods"

Children most vulnerable to climate change–Unicef | Inquirer Global Nation

The leading killers of children worldwide are highly sensitive to climate change, the report says. Higher temperatures have been linked to increased rates of malnutrition, cholera, diarrhea and vector-borne diseases like dengue and malaria, while children’s underdeveloped immune systems put them at far greater risk of contracting these diseases and succumbing to complications.

The report presents an analysis of the climate change trends and potential impacts on children in East Asia and the Pacific, drawing on findings from five Unicef-commissioned country studies in Indonesia, Kiribati, Mongolia, the Philippines and Vanuatu, as well as children’s own perspectives on climate change and other research.

...In the Philippines, children spoke of heavier rainy periods.

My Favorite Moment So Far in Chu’s Testimony - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

He just told Rep. Brian Bilbray from California that the only solar power he uses personally is for a solar-powered flashlight.

Blame China! - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Another theme I’m hearing as I watch the Chu hearing live is that Solyndra going bankrupt is China’s fault because China was able to make similar solar panels cheaper than Solyndra could.

Well, duh. That’s kind of what China does. It’s why, when making a VC investment, you look to see if the company you want to invest in has a competitive advantage that would keep a competitor, in say China, from stealing what you do and doing it cheaper. Solyndra had no such competitive advantage and the loan never should have been made.

Michelle Malkin Sums Up Chu Testimony - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Under the Ice: Research Diving in Antarctica - Boing Boing

Antarctica is different. Averaged out, sea ice around the Frozen Continent has grown by a little less than 1% per decade.

As IPCC Links Extreme Weather to Climate, Its Controversial Chief Braces for Storms of Denial | OnEarth Magazine

So most of the glaciers are very likely to be gone by 2040 to 2050, rather than all the glaciers are very likely to be gone by 2035.

Richard Smith: peer review still useless

New Paper “Will There Be A Signifcant Change To El Niño In The 21st Century” By Stevenson Et Al 2011 | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

ENSO variability weakens slightly with CO2; however, various significance tests reveal that changes are insignificant at all but the highest CO2 levels.

A Conversation With Jim Nelson, President and CEO of Solar3D - Nicholas Jackson - Life - The Atlantic

 It is economics, not fashion, global warming, or public policy, which will drive the widespread, enthusiastic adoption of green energy.

11-16: BIZ: Sun going solar | Conway Daily Sun

“I don't play the global warming card when I speak with potential customers. I go strictly on economics,” said Gerry

Al's Journal : How Do We Know Humans Are Causing Climate Change?

“Broadly, this question requires a two-part explanation:”

"1. We know that carbon dioxide is the reason the Earth is warming."

"2. We know that humans are sending huge amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere."

German Govt Plans To ‘Starve’ Solar Boondoggle

A German plan backed by Economy Minister Philipp Roesler to reduce solar power installations in the world’s biggest market to 1 gigawatt a year would “starve” the renewable industry, an opposition lawmaker said.

Rising bay water could drown marshlands - San Jose Mercury News

In the worst case -- the sea rising 5½ feet in 100 years and sediment continuing to decline -- 93 percent of remaining tidal marshes would be destroyed.

New e-mails: Solyndra execs thought Obama’s Energy Dep’t cared more about appearances than sound business decisions « Hot Air

In other words, so deep was the cronyism here that not only did Solyndra enjoy the “halo effect” of an Energy Department loan, they actually had the secretary himself acting as some sort of spokesman to help them drum up investments. And even that wasn’t enough for Chu: He ended up, in essence, negotiating against his own team by treating the loan as a fait accompli. Supposedly he’s going to accept full responsibility for this debacle when he testifies before Congress tomorrow, but that’s not good enough — especially now that we know about the extreme sleaze of DOE asking the company to time its layoffs to the midterm elections so that it wouldn’t hurt Obama. This guy has to go. Immediately.

Scientific consensus?: *Governments* fighting over IPCC climate hoax details

IPCC expected to confirm link between climate change and extreme weather | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The final details are being fought over by governments, as the "summary for policymakers" of the report has to be agreed in full by every nation that chooses to be involved. But the conclusions are expected to be that emissions from human activities are increasing the frequency of extreme weather events. In particular, there are likely to be many more heatwaves, droughts and changes in rainfall patterns.

Jake Schmidt of the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council said: "This report should be a wake-up call to those that believe that climate change is some distant issue that might impact someone else. The report documents that extreme weather is happening now and that global warming will bring very dangerous events in the future. From the report you can see that extreme weather will impact everyone in one way or another. This is a window into the future if our political response doesn't change quickly."

...Mike Hulme at the Tyndall Centre said it would be dangerous for governments to use this report in order to justify directing overseas aid only to those countries that could be proved to be suffering from climate change, rather than other problems. In that scenario, he said: "Funding will no longer go to those who are most at risk from climate-impacts and with low adaptive capacity, but will go to those who are lucky enough to live in regions of the world where weather extremes happen to be most attributable by climate models to human agency. These regions tend to be in mid-to-high latitudes, with lots of good weather data and well calibrated models. So, goodbye Africa."

Cornell climate hoax scientist: Clearly, CO2 will make areas of New York City uninhabitable

Climate Change Threatens To Submerge NYC In Next Decade [Headlines] @PSFK

“The risks and the impacts are huge,” said Art deGaetano, a climate scientist at Cornell University and lead author of the ClimAID study. “Clearly areas of the city that are currently inhabited will be uninhabitable with the rising of the sea.”

14000 Abandoned Wind Turbines In The USA « Tory Aardvark

The US experience with wind farms has left over 14,000 wind turbines abandoned and slowly decaying, in most instances the turbines are just left as symbols of a dying Climate Religion, nowhere have the Green Environmentalists appeared to clear up their mess or even complain about the abandoned wind farms.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov. 17th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

The IPCC embraces caution, a green think tank takes Big Oil money, and Big Soda got rolled by Big Green.