Whatever Happened To Climate Change Crisis?

In retrospect we have to ask why this mass illusion, the transition to “a new ecological society”  imploded and fell off the teleprompters, off the front pages, and out of the seemingly endless TV special reports on threatened polar bears and collapsing ice cliffs. How could this all disappear so fast?

DIDNT TURN ENOUGH BUCKS...By 2010 the IPCC was a ball and chain, needed reform, and its communication needed serious reconstructing. Its annual reports, once the meat of front page reviews in government friendly media, are now lower ranked than football industry and celebrity gossip.

Without the homely feeling of sure and certain catastrophe, the views and opinions of hand-on-heart doomsters like James Lovelock were constantly pushed down the list of daily newsfeeds, with an inevitable loss of earnings and turnover value for a now crippled business. Like a rudderless Titanic homing in on a broken off ice cliff in the north Atlantic, the industry was dying.

...Proving the global warming theme and meme was makeshift, the alternatives to catastrophe offered by the four-only 2009 leaders was typically confused. Supposedly, an ecological society totally dependent on green energy would arise by about 2035, but this magical transformation would just as magically not affect sales of BMW cars, Boeing airplanes or French nuclear reactors, in the meantime. Oil drilling in deepwater, and tarsand oil on land, would obligatorily have to continue, and increase. CO2 emissions trading, or at least carbon taxes would naturally have to vastly expand, but within 25 years or so there would be a bicycle-dependent eco-society, in an eyeblink of historical time. How would this happen? Byt some sort of Pol Pot revolution in the mindless consumer societies?

Dallas, Fort Worth hit the 100-degree mark - Houston Chronicle

[June 24, 2012] FORT WORTH — The Dallas-Fort Worth area has ushered in triple-digit temperatures for the first time this year.

...But the National Weather Service is predicting a typical summer with an average of 18 days with triple-digit temperatures in North Texas.

Last year the area had a record-breaking 71 days of sweltering 100-degree or higher days.

Climate change no clear culprit for weather extremes | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com

As Colorado Springs continued burning Wednesday, CSU emeritus atmospheric scientist William Gray was preaching to a choir of Larimer County Republican Club members that all the climate science currently being conducted at CSU and what it has to say about this year’s drought are little more than nonsense.

Gray, whose audience included Larimer County Clerk and Recorder Scott Doyle and other local GOP luminaries, is well known for his denial of mainstream climate science. His argument that people must adapt to a warming climate that is certain to one day begin cooling again earned him a standing ovation from the conservatives in the room.

“His presentation was excellent,” said Tammy Swanson, a Republican who attended the speech. “Very good scientific information. He made it fun.”

Gray claimed that global warming is really a manufactured idea that’s part of a conspiracy between the mainstream media, the U.S. government and scientists silenced by the threat of losing government grants. All of them, he said, are trying to frighten the public and sell them on the idea of a United Nations-led global government.

Gray said scientists receiving government grants are biased, and objective peer review on climate change is impossible because of inescapable government influence.

CLIMATE SPECTATOR: Rinehart and the denialists | Daniel Palmer | Commentary | Business Spectator

Gina Rinehart's attack on media reporting of climate change doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but with more players from the resources sector seeking to embrace media, a new level of scrutiny may be required.