The Reference Frame: Himalayan glaciers grew in 1999-2008: surprise?

But I still want to say one more serious thing: the surprise that one can find big glaciers that are advancing in a decade is just stupid. The people who are familiar with the basic data concerning the trends know that thirty percent of weather stations have recorded a cooling trend (via linear regression) in their whole history which is 80 years long in average.

So the "warming" isn't global. As all people who haven't been brainwashed by lies about "climate change" know very well, we only observe a slight asymmetry between the places that have warmed in the last 80 years and places that have cooled during the last 80 years. Most of the temperature changes are just noise. The very weak signal can only be extracted if we average over a long period of time and a large number of station. If any of these two conditions fails to be met, we observe noise again.

Global warming hurts oysters; the carbon cost of reading on newsprint | MinnPost

nobody really disputes that the ocean is absorbing an awful lot of CO₂ from the atmosphere. Indeed, the global-warming deniers have seized on this “buffering” effect as another reason we don’t need to worry about how our fundamental reformulation of earth’s atmosphere is changing everything else, too. Some think oysters have the evolutionary capability to adapt to the new conditions.

...How much baking soda would be needed to keep the Chesapeake and other U.S. estuaries habitable for oysters is a statistic I’ve not been able to find.

The carbon cost of newsprint

Two more interesting numbers from last week’s news stream: subscribing to a home-delivered daily newspaper adds 208 pounds, on average, to a person’s annual greenhouse-gas contributions. Reading the paper online adds only 54.

Lecturing About Third World 'Murder' by Climate Change | NewsBusters.org

In Sunday’s Washington Post, film critic Ann Hornaday laid out a red carpet for a lecture on “climate change” courtesy of Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives, a string of islands southwest of India. The piggish Western world is out to murder the people of the Maldives, apparently.

“We’re just so small,” Nasheed said in Toronto, Hornaday touting his voice rising to a “mouselike” squeal. “You can’t bully. It’s not right to bully. And we’re not angry. Whatever happens, even if we all die, we should not be angry with the people who murdered us. We can’t run climate change campaigns fueled by anger. I can’t tell the people [of the Maldives] that there are other countries trying to murder you. They’re trying to do good by their people according to their understanding. We just have to try to find an amicable position and keep talking.”

Yes, that’s certainly an “amicable position,” implying that people are trying to “murder you” with a flood caused by global warming. Hornaday lauded this man as an “unlikely star” of the documentary “The Island President,” which was greeted with “rapturous ovations” at the Toronto Film Festival by all the socialist cineastes.