The Greenhouse Gas Warming Number of 33 Degrees is a Fatal Error | johnosullivan

To this end many a (government) climatologist or Greenpeace activist will regale you with the glib assertion that the GHE makes our planet “33 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be.” But where does this “33 degrees” number come from and is it scientifically valid? Contrary to media hype this number is not “an observation” it is the product of a 30-year-old calculation from a team of researchers led by NASA’s Dr. James E. Hansen. It is a ubiquitous claim that the number “proves” the GHE is real.

Why Aren't Politicians Listening to This Guy on Climate? | Mother Jones

[Romm] now we've reached the point where the signal is distinguished from the noise...Extreme weather is very random, but it is on top of a climate signal that continues to grow. So over time, you get more and more extreme events that are way above the natural variation.

There's no question that the Obama team has gotten a misimpression that this is not a winning issue.

[Minister Questions UK Climate Change Targets] - 08 Oct 2012 - Opinion from BusinessGreen

The debate came after Owen Patterson, the new Environment Minister, spoke at a fringe event last night, where he showed himself more than capable of rhetoric.

He is apparently "delighted" that he may have shale gas in his constituency, as he told the audience. It had a "spectacular" effect on the American economy, where the locals only noticed it because of the improvements to their infrastructure, he said. It would help us reduce emissions as well, he believed. A role for gas beyond 2030? "Why limit anything?" he said.

When asked whether this view was in line with the legal requirements set out in the Climate Change Act, he said that the Act may have targets, but whether we can meet them is a different question.  [Via C.S.]

Global Malarkey

[Solway, speaking of the situation in Canada] the National Post is a lone voice crying in the newspaper wilderness.

The only TV station that honestly and reliably confronts the Climatocracy is Sun Media, Canada’s sturdier version of Fox, where commentators like Ezra Levant and Michael Coren can be depended on to speak the truth. As for the rest, forgedaboudit. The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), though Federally funded, is a franchise of the international left and in part a farm team for Al-Jazeera—both Avi Lewis, former host of a public affairs program (and the husband of leftist shill Naomi Klein) and Tony Burman, formerly editor in chief of CBC News, were recruited by Al-Jazeera. The Mother Corp’s Washington correspondent Neil Macdonald can be counted on to spout the usual load of anti-Republican and anti-Israeli claptrap, which he does with dinning regularity. CBC Radio’s As It Happens interview show has an indigestible pro-Islamic, pro-Democrat, pro-Liberal bias. That it emanates from Toronto rather than Moscow or Riyadh is an anomaly. The other major network, CTV, a division of Bell Media, is only marginally less rebarbative.
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Solway: ..You have Al Gore. We have David Suzuki. Who is the greater charlatan is a matter of conjecture. As I pointed out in my book, Suzuki has lectured by video feed to two hundred Canadian schools, praising China as a nation “committed to developing a green economy.” Can you believe it? Suzuki received a million dollar gift from Canada’s Power Corp, which operates in China, one of the world’s leading carbon emitters, which may explain this guru’s enthusiasm for a manifestly totalitarian polluter. Our kids are also being contaminated by climate doctrine.