Organizers have canceled today’s Winter Fest and Olympics in Sheboygan due to cold weather.
Quantifying the Solar Cycle 24 Temperature Decline | Watts Up With That?
With the temperature falling 5.2°C, the Corn Belt will shift 750 km south to the Sun Belt
Montenegro almost cut off by heavy snow - CBS News
(AP) PODGORICA, Montenegro — The heaviest snowfall in Montenegro in 63 years has sealed off hundreds of villages, shutting down roads and railways and closing the main airport in the tiny Balkan state on Saturday.
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Snow also continued to fall in the country's north-central regions, accentuating problems in towns in the Apennine mountains and near the Adriatic still struggling with several snowfalls in two weeks. The capital Rome dug its way out of its second snowfall in a week. Before this winter, its last significant snowstorm was in 1986. Several Italian airports had delays or cancellations.
Code red for agriculture in Tuscany
Coldiretti Tuscany (info at www.toscana.coldiretti.it) says that some situations throughout the region are strongly critical where the production of seasonal vegetables grown in open fields (sprouts, cabbage, artichokes and in general, leafy vegetables like lettuce, radicchio, endive, borage, spinach, chicory) with loss rates of up to 50%.
“IPCC Ignored An Entire Field Of Science”, Die Welt Reports. Slams “Intergovernmental Panel On CO2″!
The online DIE WELT today has a leading commentary here on the fallout of Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s skeptic book that has delivered a body blow to the German global warming movement.
The DIE WELT piece, written by Ulli Kulke, is titled:
“Climate science is the new replacement religion”
Adelaide cold snap "not seen before since at least 1977" | Australian Climate Madness
Adelaide has remained at least seven degrees cooler than average for the past six days, which is a February feat not seen before since at least 1977.
Warning Signs: America's Green Enemies
The global warming hoax—now called climate change—is on its last legs. Nations around the world that have wasted billions on the claims made for “renewable” energy, solar and wind, are pulling back from further support. The “science” behind these claims has been totally and utterly refuted.
Even the United Nations, the source of the global warming hoax, is now switching its debased claims to a new hoax based on so-called endangered species.
The pink area shows where GISS had no coverage in May, 2010. They report global temperature with a precision of 0.01C, which is about two orders of magnitude better than their best possible accuracy.
F– for GISS scientists who publish this crap.
The Arctic’s Dirty Little Secret | Real Science
The Arctic lost most of its multi-year ice between 1988 and 1996. Most of this loss occurred during the winter, as it was pushed by wind from west to east out into the North Atlantic.
BBC News - Blue rings on London landmarks suggest 3012 sea levels
The rings erected 28m (91.9ft) above sea level show an extreme case scenario of the impact of global warming.
Many scientific studies predict sea levels will rise to a level far lower than this.
Sundance 2012: Chasing Ice – Movie Review
It delivers some ground-breaking evidence about the dire situation our planet is in
Far Too Much Weed Being Smoked In Boulder | Real Science
Heavy snow in Colorado? There is something really unusual. It normally only happens about a dozen times every winter. A few years ago the University of Colorado told us that skiing was doomed in Colorado due to global warming.
At least one million farm animals in danger of running out of food, says this report out of Italy.
More than ten thousand sparrows, finches and other birds along with deer have been victims of bad weather, and the tragedy on farms is continually updated between the dead cows, sheep, horses, rabbits and chickens, because of hundreds of barns collapsed.
Europe's carbon trading system has collapsed, just as Julia Gillard prepares our higher-priced own:
Snow depth reach 6 meters in eastern Turkey / PHOTO | General | World Bulletin
According to Turkish meteorological authorities snow drift reached 640 cm across the Bitlis. Daily life nearly stops in beautiful eastern Turkish city.
70% Of Financial Times Deutschland Readers Welcome Vahrenholt’s Skeptical Book
It’s been interesting reading some of the reactions from the green, warmist sites. Of course they are all seething in rage and resignation as their unclean movement collapses.
None of them up to now have presented any scientific arguments refuting the claims made by Lüning and Vahrenholt.
BOOK REVIEW: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars | Planet3.0
[Scott Mandia] As the book nears the finish Mike describes the value of the peer-review process in rooting out bad science but admits it is not perfect and it is much slower than the immediately available Internet pseudo-science that most in the public read. To show how peer review can allow bad papers to slip through he discusses papers from Craig Loehle (2007), David Douglass, John Christy, Ben Pearson, and S. Fred Singer (2007), and John McLean, Chris de Freitas, and Bob Carter (2009). Each of these were trumpeted as the final nail in the coffin for manmade warming but subsequent analysis has dismissed them because of their many errors. (Of course, Mother Nature does not read these journal articles and the planet keeps on warming.)
Newt At CPAC: 'Eliminate The Environmental Protection Agency' | ThinkProgress
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich repeated his call for the elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency, blaming it for killing jobs and lacking “common sense.” He later called for the elimination of the Department of Energy, which manages the nation’s nuclear power, weaponry, and waste, and is leading America’s investment in clean technology.
Ninth Coldest January In The Satellite Record | Real Science
Three of the ten coldest Januaries have occurred since 2000.
I won’t peddle the theories, if they don’t peddle the conspiracies | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Look, if global warmists don’t want sceptics to peddle conspiracy theories about a “one world government”, it would help a lot if they didn’t have something like it on the drawing board:
Real Climate : It Is Worse Than It Seems | Real Science
Gavin finally admits that models suck. But it is worse than it seems. Below is the same plot with HadCRUT monthly overlaid.Temperatures are currently below the lowest IPCC model, and almost a full degree below their highest.
2001 : “Experts see global warming disaster” | Real Science
Author: Seth Borenstein Date: Feb 19, 2001
Effects of global warming are here and are likely to get far worse than previously expected, killing millions of people
California freeze kills 20% of orange crop
In the coldest locations of northern Fresno County and Madera County, crop losses may reach as much as a 40 percent to 100 percent.
More than 2,000 roads blocked in Turkey by heavy snows
Frigid temperatures stretch as far south as north Africa.
Meteorologist Mike Lewis said: “The county has woken to the coldest February morning since 1986 and the second coldest since 1917. A low of -13.0C was recorded at Pitsford with freezing fog and rime creating a classical winter landscape.
Man-made climate change "began 3,500 years ago" | Australian Climate Madness
From The Science is Settled Department comes news that man may have been affecting the climate for far longer than the last 40 years or so. From Scientific American, so you’ll have to wade through the alarmist phraseology:
This week the whole global warming debate changed. Or not | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Did anyone else miss this moment? I must say, Readfearn, whose attempt to debate Monckton is still fondly remembered by sceptics, isn’t the person I’d expect to revolutionise the global warming debate:
Greenland Glacier Cycle Found | The Resilient Earth
Now a new study in Nature Geoscience confirms that ice loss from the Helheim Glacier between 2003 and 2005 was the worst recorded—at least since the last period of rapid ice loss during the late 1930s.
Ice core data shows Greenland warmer in the past | Australian Climate Madness
It appears that in Greenland at least, the current warming cannot be said to be “unprecedented”, since similar magnitudes and rates of warming are present in several previous eras. Man certainly didn’t cause those warming periods, so natural climate change obviously had a significant effect on Greenland temperatures over the past 4000 years.
Tesla Shows Gull-Wing Electric SUV Ahead of Model S Sales - Bloomberg
The debut was attended by California Governor Jerry Brown and celebrities such as director Jon Favreau, who gave Musk a
cameo role playing himself in the movie “Iron Man 2.” Favreau said yesterday he’s on the waiting list for a Model S.
The Perfect Time To Heart A Climate Scientist · OPB News
With Valentine's Day coming up next week, and climate scientists continuing to come under relentless attacks by climate skeptic groups, a new campaign has sprung up to show some love for the scientists. The brainchild of Climate Nexus, a climate change strategic communications organization, the "I Heart Climate Scientists" campaign has a Facebook page where people are submitting photos of themselves and/or their pets with signs supporting climate scientists. Supporters are also being urged to use the Twitter hashtag #iheartclimatescientists.
...An email from Climate Nexus said: "Climate change deniers are sending hate mail and threats to dedicated climate scientists working to protect our families, finances and future. Show these hardworking experts some love — even digital hugs count this Valentine’s Day. Remind them their work is valuable, their opinions respected, and that they are not alone."
The Facebook page was closing in on 500 "likes" on Friday, and it showcased researchers Michael Mann of Penn State, Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech, and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research as experts who need the group's support. Each of these researchers — along with many others — have received intimidating emails and phone calls from climate skeptics due to their outspokenness on climate science.
A common tactic used by some online provacateurs, such as Marc Morano of Climate Depot, has been to provide the email addresses of climate scientists, thereby encouraging readers to send them harassing messages. The I Heart Climate Scientists campaign has turned that around, posting the email addresses for a supportive audience, hoping the scientists receive positive emails instead.
His work has also appeared in the Washington Post and online at The Weather Channel Interactive and washingtonpost.com, where he writes a weekly climate science column for the "Capital Weather Gang" blog. He holds a Masters in Climate and Society from Columbia University and a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.
A new way of measuring carbon emissions that doesn’t let rich people cheat | Grist
this is all a bit in the nerdy weeds, but the task of giving local leaders reliable, shared metrics to track GHGs is vital
Twitter / @Revkin: Nice reading/watching list ...
Nice reading/watching list for American U. course on climate/environment communication from M Nisbet @ageofengagement climateshiftproject.org/2012/02/10/rea…
Twitter / @ClimateReality: Climate change is like a t ...
Climate change is like a train: it starts slowly, but it’s awfully hard to stop once it gains a bit of momentum ow.ly/8Ydkg
BBC: Met Office Global Forecasts Too Warm In 11 Out Of Last 12 Years
2011 is the 11th year out of the last 12 when the Met Office global temperature forecast has been too warm. Whatever the reason for this ongoing 'warm bias,' the Met Office forecast for the first half of this decade, published in early 2010, that half the years between 2010 and 2015 would be hotter than the hottest year on record is already looking in doubt.
Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure.
Peter Foster: Political Science At The Academies
The perversion of science by the Royal Society and its Canadian counterpart
When Lord Robert May — a distinguished British population biologist — told a journalist: “I am the president of the Royal Society, and I am telling you the debate on climate change is over,” he was risking the reputation of the venerable institution he headed.
Presidents of national science academies are not meant to engage in ex cathedra statements, but to promote objective research.
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Europe/World
Hungary closed the Danube to river traffic yesterday because of thick ice, bringing shipping to a near standstill on Europe’s busiest waterway, as the continent’s cold snap death toll reached past 540.
Google Trends: "global warming","climate change"
Scale is based on the average traffic of "global warming" from United States in all years.
Problems cast shadows of doubt on solar project - latimes.com
The unexpected deaths of kit foxes and discovery of ancient human settlements threaten to delay or even cancel a $1-billion, 250-megawatt installation on federal land in the desert near Blythe.
Mann gets police protection; Hides behind own child | JunkScience.com
I’ve gone to probably a dozen Penn State Forum lunches in the past five years, and Thursday’s event at the Penn Stater Hotel was the first in which I’d seen a police presence. Three armed campus police officers—one from a K-9 unit—stood outside the packed conference room in which Mann spoke.
Valentine's Day destroyed by climate change? - chicagotribune.com
A new mini-report from the environmental group Climate Nexus points out that climate change is poised to wreck Valentine’s Day, or at least change it significantly, by threatening chocolate production.
Researchers have found that empowering women to reduce unplanned pregnancies is one of the most cost-effective ways to combat greenhouse pollution, as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson discussed at the Durban climate conference last December:RealClearPolitics - The Galileo of Global Warming
In addressing climate resilience, Robinson stressed the importance of focusing on health and burden impacts of climate change. One of the keys is access to reproductive health for women.
That man is the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark, who seems to have discovered the most important factor that actually regulates Earth's climate, and who is quietly in the process of proving it.Nicola Scafetta Comments on “Solar Trends And Global Warming” by Benestad and Schmidt | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
There are several other gratuitous claims and errors in Benestad and Schmidt’s paper. However, the above is sufficient for this fast reply. I just wonder why the referees of that paper did not check Benestad and Schmidt’s numerous misleading statements and errors. It would be sad if the reason is because somebody is mistaking a scientific theory such as the “anthropogenic global warming theory” for an ideology that should be defended at all costs.Guest lecturer says global warming probably not human-caused - Campus - The Horn
Fred Singer, a world famous and controversial figure in the realm of climate change science, said Tuesday at a campus lecture he does not believe the rising level of CO2 in the atmosphere is causing global warming, a point of view that raised many skeptical questions.
Singer’s hour-long lecture was followed with about a half hour of questions, many which questioned his conclusion that CO2 is not a major global warming player and that the temperature has been increasing in recent years. Stavana Strutz, a PhD candidate in ecology, evolution and behavior at UT, took the most confrontational manner with Singer and accused him of leaving out data that conflict with his conclusion.
“How do you justify leaving out data in your analysis after 2000? How do you justify not including the trends from 1850 up to 1978 in your warming analysis trend?” she asked Singer.
Strutz, who crunched global temperature readings to see the warming trend for herself, said she came to the lecture to represent an alternative voice to Singer’s point of view.
Europe so cold, driver adds wood stove to Volvo
Europe is being hit by severe cold weather that started two weeks ago, and the Continent’s deep freeze expected to continue until mid-February.
Still, that hasn’t stopped one enterprising man in Switzerland from venturing outside in his slightly modified Volvo. And by “slightly modified,” we mean he took a whole wood-burning stove and put it in his car.
Inhofe blasts climate science, EPA at CPAC | JunkScience.com
Sen. Jim Inhofe warns of looming EPA cap-and-trade regulations.
Twitter / @Revkin: Update from @realclimate c ...
Update from @realclimate comparing climate models to observations. realclimate.org/index.php?p=10… Warming continues. Hints co2 sensitivity a tad high.
Most winter grain destroyed in southern and eastern Ukraine
Turkish quake survivors brave cold weather, snow in tents | CTV News
ANKARA, Turkey — The harshest winter in decades has added to the woes of more than 140,000 quake survivors who are braving record low temperatures and heavy snowfall in tents or temporary homes in eastern Turkey.
Anyone with an ability to do some routine arithmetic should realize that we’re facing a looming international emergency.
You need look no further than the monstrously large forest fires have scorched Russia, Greece, Spain, and Australia.
Twitter / @PeterGleick: "@MTUTD_blog: @PeterGleick ...
Full data? Clear human impact. [Starting when? How, specifically, is it "clear"?]
Young people expect the future to look like Thunderdome
The image above is, increasingly, how young people view the future, even as their elders seem oblivious to the triple threat of climate change, resource scarcity, and growing inequality.
There's plenty to celebrate about a future that could be significantly more livable than the present, and we try to talk about those solutions here on Grist. Sometimes they’re even easy. And yet this view of the future persists. Why is that?
The Royal Society’s Joyride « NoFrakkingConsensus
The fact that a contingent within the Society is now attempting to set things right is encouraging. But that does not erase the harm that has been done. In Montford’s view, the Society’s tarnished reputation will not be restored – nor trust rebuilt – until this organization openly acknowledges what has transpired.
For the past 13 years those in charge of this venerated institution have taken it on a reckless and costly detour.
Congressman Says Defunding Climate Science is a Priority for GOP | ThinkProgress
QUESTIONER: Since climate science is now all settled, Republicans and Democrats can agree that it’s all settled” the DOE budget is going to roll out, can we stop spending taxpayer’s money on climate science and ways and means of limiting carbon emissions.
GARDNER: Those amendments were all added to the Republican past budgets and appropriations bills, stripped out of course by the Senate, so I think there have been attempts to get that money out of research that’s feeding the industry.
Italian villages trapped in more than 9 feet of snow
With the death toll from the cold snap already at 43, another blast of freezing weather is forecast for Italy, even as soldiers work to free villages trapped in more than 9 feet (3 meters) of snow.
We are winning eh? Part 4 (or so) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
The collapse of the Man-Made Myth continues apace. You may not read headlines as such (at least not in major dailies) but all the signs are there.
People who we never would have imagined speaking against the Big Scare Campaign are now doing so. Key glaciers are not melting and corals are happy. Governments won’t tell you it’s over, but they are behaving that way (the Australian one excepted, due to an election fluke that gave the Greens the balance of power). The Catholic Herald headlined it: Is the ‘anthropogenic global warming’ consensus on the point of collapse?
Climate Lessons: First you scare ‘em, then you snare ‘em – how the UEA treats 13 and 14 year olds
That epicentre of scarequakes on climate and carbon dioxide, the University of East Anglia (UEA) has been lowering its sights recently to target more than 60 early teenagers in their neighbourhood. (hat-tip: Dave W). Power Engineering carries the story, as does the print edition of the Norwich Evening News on 9th February (see below). The impression it gives me is that they want them to be receptive to renewables as a source of energy, and at the same time get them involved in a scary scenario about a planetary emergency to get them on side.Why would a university stoop to such a thing?
Villages buried under 4-5 meters of snow - Videos
“23.000 people are isolated, how many people and animals have died we don’t know since nobody can reach there.”
Snow above the roof tops. All you see are the chimneys.
People have to climb down through trenches to get into their homes.
More than 100 vessels trapped in icy waters of the Sea of Azov
A fierce cold snap with temperatures of about -25C (-13 F) caused large parts of the Azov Sea to freeze.
Santorum Froths At CPAC About 'Facade Of Man-Made Global Warming' | ThinkProgress
[Santorum] One of the favorite things of the left is to use your sentimentality, and your proper understanding and belief that we are stewards of this earth and we have a responsibility to hand off a beautiful earth to the next generation. They use that and they have used it in the past to try to scare you into supporting radical ideas on the environment. They tried it with this idea, this politicization of science called man-made global warming. President Obama, you may remember, tried to pass cap-and-trade and tried to get control not only of the health care system but of the energy industry, the manufacturing industry, another two big sectors of this economy, and using this facade of man-made global warming. I stood up and fought against those things. Why? because they will destroy the very foundation of prosperity in our country.
You evidently had to submit questions in writing, after which they were screened in some undisclosed way. I attended a James Hansen appearance in Minnesota where he ducked tough questions in the same way.
Mann discusses climate change and critics - The Daily Collegian Online
Penn State professor Michael Mann addressed climate change and global warming at the Penn State Forum Speaker Series.
The event was held at The Penn Stater and included lunch for more than 300 attendees before the program — which , said was modeled after the National Press Club — commenced.
Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Robert Pangborn introduced Mann, noting many of Mann’s accomplishments and credentials. Some of the credentials included winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize that Mann shared with other authors of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 . Pangborn also emphasized how there is a significant amount of climate researching at Penn State.
“Mann is at the front,” he said.
...“I find it chilling that science is now a political football in an increasingly rancorous public discourse,” Mann said.
A Q-and-A session followed Mann’s speech. While most of the questions centered on Mann’s research and the criticism surrounding it, a few asked Mann to address the political aspects of the climate wars.
...Mann called himself a “reluctant warrior in the climate wars,” but embraces his role, and said he could think of no greater purpose than to assist in public outreach on the issue.[Patty Satalia, senior producer for Penn State University Outreach], who had been reading the questions submitted by the audience to Mann, closed the program by reading a comment: “Thank you for a great lecture and thank you to the coal industry for free advertising.”
Mann details intricacies, ethics surrounding climate change | Penn State | CentreDaily.com
Mann said there have been many different reconstructions of temperature changes over time, and every one comes to the same conclusion. And, he said, that work is just one of many pieces of evidence, and not the most important one...He said capitalism isn’t the problem, and that it can help solve the problem
“The problem is we’ve got the rules rigged right now,” Mann said. “We’ve got them rigged in favor of destructive approaches to meeting our energy needs.”
That includes subsidizing fossil fuels and not accounting for the cost of emitting carbon on the economy and quality of life.
On the question of what can be done to address climate change, Mann said a good faith debate needs to take place on what policies should be adopted, and difficult decisions will have to be made.
What Mann means by a "good faith debate" is a debate where no one disagrees with anything he says.
Penn State Live - Heard on Campus: Michael Mann at the Forum
What can we do about the problem (of climate change)? Of course there are things that we can do, personally, in our lives to decrease our own carbon footprints, and we should all do those things as a matter of course. But that's probably not going to be enough.
Amazon.com: Michael E. Mann: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
Feb 13, 2012
12:15 PM Los Angeles, CA UCLA School of LawSee details Feb 15, 2012
7:00 PM Long Beach, California Aquarium of the Pacific
See details Feb 19, 2012
6:00 PM Vancouver, BC Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS)See details Mar 8, 2012
10:30 PM Milwaukee, WI Frontier Airlines CenterLecture & Book Signing, 2012 Green Energy Summit
‘The environmental movement has lost its way’ | Energy | News | Financial Post
Q: NASA scientist James Hansen says developing oil sands is “game over” for the climate. Do you agree with his assessment?
A: This is advocacy and has no basis in science, yet is stated by a leading scientist in the ranks of the global warming community. With or without the oil sands, humans will continue to burn fossil fuels. The oil sands are one of many sources of oil and gas.
Q: You also mentioned Al Gore in your testimony. How do you rate his work and do you think An Inconvenient Truth painted an accurate picture of the environmental issues facing the earth.
A: Mr. Al Gore is a politician, and an opportunist who gains much from the business of global warming alarmism. An Inconvenient Truth is a pack of lies and misrepresentations. It has done much to damage science. It states that CO2 is implicated in the increases in temperature in the ice ages when we know that it lags temperature by almost a millennium. His team has written and distributed a children’s book on global warming that has the audacity to switch the CO2 and temperature curves for the ice ages to show CO2 increasing first, followed by temperature. A scientist to deliberately misrepresent facts would lose his job.
Frozen River Danube costing shippers millions - seattlepi.com
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Shippers say they are losing millions in trade because a lengthy stretch of the River Danube in Europe is stuck in the longest freeze in its recent history.
Close to 100 die from cold in Poland - National
Five more people died of hypothermia, last night, reports the Interior Ministry, bringing the death toll from the deep freeze in Poland to 97.
Me against the world: The trouble with travel and the climate | Grist
My personal carbon offset plan has bogged down with a serious case of the Couldas.
What does new glacier data mean for the climate debate? | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk
All too often in the past, media reports have presented a 'black and white' view of glacier response to climate change.
More big news! IPCC models are obselete if the 2 scientists in this story are correct.
If there’s a growing consensus about anything, it is that the man-made climate catastrophe is not going to happen, and that the scientists who believe to the contrary are becoming an ever increasingly obscure, fringe minority. Call them the natural-cause denialists.
Maybe many scientists are starting to feel that blaming everything on CO2 and neglecting the powerful sun, oceans and soot, among other factors, was a pretty stupid thing to do after all.
Climate 'urban myths' have plagued policymakers and the public for years - fortunately Michael Mann's "unprecedented" modern global warming myth is finally dying an empirical-death
Global Weirding In 1900 | Real Science
America’s worst hurricane and Australia’s worst drought – at the same time.
Antarctic Peninsula Sea Ice Almost Double Normal | Real Science
Hansen, Trenberth and Gore went to the Antarctic Peninsula to highlight melting ice. The ice there is close to 200% of normal. Will they tell the truth, be silent, or flat out lie about it?
1927 : Sunbathing Near The North Pole | Real Science
Scottish renewable energy industry dismisses Donald Trump attack | Environment | The Guardian
Alex Salmond rejects billionaire's claim that wind energy plans will 'destroy Scotland's coastline'
The Royal Society is a joke – Telegraph Blogs
the punchline is this: for all his inadequacies, Delingpole is a lot more trustworthy on "Climate Change" and "global warming" than the Royal Society.
The reason for this is very simple: under its most recent three presidents, the Royal Society has abandoned its traditions of scrupulous scientific neutrality in order to immerse itself in political activism.
Warning Over 'Dead' EU Carbon Market
Europe’s largest employers’ group has warned against meddling in the carbon market to prop up sagging prices, just a day after one of the continent’s top energy executives declared the market “dead” and demanded urgent intervention to save it.
For the EDM-2011 baseline simulation, and using costs derived for the Federal Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (DRET, 2011b), the costs are estimated to be: $568 billion capital cost, $336/MWh cost of electricity and $290/tonne CO2 abatement cost. That is, the wholesale cost of electricity for the simulated system would be SEVEN times more than now, with an abatement cost that is THIRTEEN times the starting price of the Australian carbon tax and THIRTY times the European carbon price. (This cost of electricity does not include costs for the existing electricity network)
PressTV - Over 500 die in Europe's persistent big freeze
Many of the dead were homeless people, who literally froze to death as he temperatures dropped to minus 50 degrees in some parts of the continent. Their bodies were found in the streets buried under snow, in rivers, and in doorways. Dozens of people were also killed in weather-related accidents.
The record low temperatures across the continent have also paralyzed transportation and shipping and are threatening power sources. Nearly all the rivers in the Balkans have frozen over.
Comparing the number of times the word "energy" was mentioned compared to "climate" during the Obama presidency, she found an average ratio of 7.6:1, meaning for every seven times energy was referred to, climate was mentioned once. The ratio has doubled in magnitude between 2009 and 2011, according to Kincaid's study....
Kincaid said she is disappointed that Obama has never used the bully pulpit when it comes to climate change. But as she spoke with White House staffers during the course of her research, she said she was pleasantly surprised to find that climate change is a personal issue for the president.
"That made me feel good and like I wasn't just being really idealistic in hoping that my president cared about climate change," Kincaid said.
Flashback: Newsweek On McCain In The Dark, Obama Threats, And More
[Obama] So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."
Flashback: The Age of Obama: Heat for me, but not for thee « Hot Air
The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Delhi shivers at 4C, lowest so far in 2012 | Climate Realists
the minimum recorded at the city's main weather station was 4 degrees Celsius - the second lowest temperature recorded in February in at least the past 10 years.
- Bishop Hill blog - Is Tom Chivers serious?
In fact, when V.K Raina challenged the 2035 date in his report on Himalayan glaciers for the Indian government, the IPCC accused him of mischief and defended 2035 as a good estimate of when the glaciers would be gone.
Now let's look at how Tom Chivers reports the strange case of the 2035 date.
The Reference Frame: Willis Eschenbach and Argo on warmest oceans
The reality is that no matter how much solar radiation you would like to get to construct your flawed arguments, you always get those 1342 Watts per square meter. This is the maximum amount of energy reaching a transverse plane and measured in empty space.
January 1950 – 23C Anomaly Gradient Across 1200 km | Real Science
Want to see how bad Hansen’s 1200 km extrapolations are? According to HadCRUT – January, 1950 varied from -15C to +8C temperature anomaly across a 1200km traverse of the US. Hansen reports temperature anomalies within 0.01C, even though he sometimes has an error as large as 23C when doing extrapolations.
Week 5 Eurasia Snow Cover Third Highest On Record | Real Science
Week 6 may end up being be the greatest snow extent ever recorded in Eurasia.
I highly recommend this book. Written by a former believer, it does a good job of putting current climate and weather fluctuations into perspective.
The Kindle edition is a dollar cheaper than Michael Mann's new book, but it contains orders of magnitude more truth.
I plan to post a few excerpts when I get a chance...
"Attack" is in there no fewer than 209 times. "Disagree" is in there nine times. "tree ring" appears 121 times; "hockey" 248 times.
"Smear" appears 19 times; "swiftboat" appears 9 times; the string "politic" yields 115 hits.
"Elmer" [of Minnesotans for Global Warming fame] appears four times.
"Making up data the old hard way, fudging the numbers day by day" only appears once.
European death toll rises to 480 - and counting
150 cattle killed when roofs collapse under the weight of the snow. “It seems more like a war in Europe,” says Italian geologist Mirco Poletto.
EXCLUSIVE: UN Chief, Aides Plot 'green Economy' Agenda At Upcoming Summit | Fox News
At a closed-door retreat in a Long Island mansion late last October, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his topmost aides brainstormed about how the global organization could benefit from a "unique opportunity" to reshape the world, starting with the Rio + 20 Summit on Sustainable Development, which takes place in Brazil in June.
A copy of the confidential minutes of the meeting was obtained by Fox News. According to that document, the 29-member group, known as the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), discussed bold ambitions that stretch for years beyond the Rio conclave to consolidate a radical new global green economy, promote a spectrum of sweeping new social policies and build an even more important role for U.N. institutions “ to manage the process of globalization better.”
At the same time, the gathering acknowledged that their ambitions were on extremely shaky ground, starting with the fact that, as Ban’s chief organizer for the Rio gathering put it, “there was still no agreement on the definition of the green economy, the main theme of the [Rio] conference.”
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National Sweater Day - Feb 9th
On Feb 9th, put on your favourite sweater and turn the heat down a few degrees to help WWF
take action against climate change, and work toward a sustainable future.
Edmonton, Alberta : Weather Underground
[Current temp] 14 °F (heading for -11F tonight)
Michael's Little Helper - WendyMcElroy.com
What a drag it is getting cold
Temps are different today
I hear scientists all say
But our warming theories need better proof;
So we'll use a graphic trick
To create a hockey stick
We'll go plotting the world's swelter, thanks to Michael's little helper
And the IPCC raves, for the world's theirs to save...
Breaking the ice in order to deliver coal to power plants - Video
“They have six boats working to break the ice between Mannheim and Heilbronn on the Neckar river,” says reader Robert van DeLeur.
Daryl Hannah, new executive producer on 'Greedy Lying Bastards'
Oil companies he said, "will stop at nothing to maximize profits for shareholders, whether its cutting corners on safety, employing highly paid lobbyists to impact the political process [...or...] giving huge amounts to climate change denialists to ensure that no legislation is passed." Rosebraugh even accuses companies of "complicity in the murder of individuals who speak up against environmental degradation."
Santorum takes on ‘environmental terror’ – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
Perhaps sensing he was preaching to the choir, Santorum expounded upon his position that manmade global warming is a myth and a plot by the left to take freedoms away from the American people.
"This was a politicization of science," Santorum said, of the science behind global warming. "You hear all the time, the left – 'Oh, the conservatives are the anti-science party.' No we're not. We're the truth party. The absurdity and the politicization and the manipulation of data, why? Because the left is always looking for a way to control you. They're always trying to make you feel guilty so you'll give them power so they can lord it over you."
Inhofe Doubles Down | Planet3.0
I am opposed to resolving our disagreements through litigation but coming from a sitting senator this is too much. I hope that if it’s really the case that “Inhofe says politicians worked with the scientific community to make the data fit their message” that it will actually get challenged in the courts, “public figures” or no. Inhofe’s claim flies in the face of readily available evidence.
UPDATE 1-Cold spell kills grains in east, south Ukraine | Reuters
KIEV, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A fierce cold spell has killed most of the winter barley and winter rapeseed crops and seriously damaged wheat in Ukraine's eastern and southern regions, while threatening winter crops and slowing exports in Russia.
BBC News - Ice leads to rise in Lancashire hospital visits
Icy conditions in Lancashire have led to a large increase in the number of people needing hospital treatment.
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Detractors try to make it sound like climate science is some kind of love fest. It's not, it's a street fight - @MichaelEMann #eg
Twitter / @suzyji: [If Michael Mann isn't an activist, why is he making public pleas for action?]
@MichaelEMann winds up talk with plea for action on climate change to preserve planet for future generations. Now questions #eg
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@MichaelEMann talking about dangers of politicisation of science, disinformation campaign by 'usual suspects' in rightwing media #eg
Climate Science Goes Megalomaniacal » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
The Guardian report is important, because it inadvertently shines a light on how the intersection of money and groupthink among insular cohesive groups sharing a common interest is discrediting climate science in particular, but also science in general.
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This just makes me feel all warm & fuzzy--early valentine's day wishes from the "I heart #climate scientists" fb page: on.fb.me/yfwVI6
Rick Santorum slams 'reign of environmental terror' - Alex Guillen and Juana Summers - POLITICO.com
Liberal politicians and green groups are exaggerating the dangers of hydraulic fracturing to scare people and raise money, Rick Santorum said Thursday in a wide-ranging rant against environmental activists.
The failure of cap-and-trade legislation in 2009 was the “politicization of science,” Santorum said.
In fact, he added, the Republican Party is “the truth party.”
“You hear all the time, the left: ‘Oh, the conservatives are the anti-science party.’ No we’re not. We’re the truth party,” the former Pennsylvania senator said at a campaign event in Oklahoma City. “Because the left is always looking for a way to control you. They’re always trying to make you feel guilty so you’ll give them power so they can lord it over you. They do it on the environment all the time.”
Environmentalists use universal desires for clean water, clean air and conservation to “distort the truth in order to get you to give them authority.”
India Says 27 Nations to Discuss Retaliation on EU Airline Levy - Bloomberg
India, China and the U.S. will be among at least 27 nations that will discuss retaliatory steps following the European Union’s extension of its emissions market
to aviation, according to an Indian aviation ministry official.
Alcoa seeks extra funds to offset carbon price hit | The Australian
THE Gillard government will be pressured by global aluminium giant Alcoa and Victoria to cut a better deal under the carbon tax for its struggling Point Henry aluminium smelter in Geelong as part of a broader assistance package to save 600 jobs at the plant.
"Humorous" Video Shows Coal and Nuclear Towers Fighting for Their Lives | ThinkProgress
I’m a bit confused as to how this will make people want to move away from coal and nuclear?
The Poisoned Politics of Keystone XL - NYTimes.com
Environmental concerns notwithstanding, America will be using oil — and lots of it — for the foreseeable future. It is the fundamental means by which we transport ourselves, whether by air, car or truck. Where do we get that oil? Mostly from countries that don’t like us, like Venezuela, which has the world’s second-largest oil reserves.
And here is Canada, a staunch American ally that has historically sold us virtually all of its crude exports.
The Greener Side of Guantánamo - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
I hear they even use recycled water while waterboarding nowadays.
Rainfall Trends In England And Wales « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
the long term trend is remarkably stable, meandering up and down with no discernible direction.
struggling Hungarians literally burn money to heat homes
How's that global climate change conspiracy going, again? – Telegraph Blogs
As always, when we learn something unexpected about climate change, it's because the much-derided climate scientists have found it, and published it in an open forum, as scientists do
Late in his new book, he talks about taking a completely unnecessary fossil-fueled vacation to the Florida Keys in early 2010, just as Key West was "experiencing its most severe cold snap in decades."
Mann said "it was all a bit dispiriting, as if Mother Nature herself had decided to kick me while I was down."
Perhaps “climategate” was the moment when the climate change denial movement conceded the legitimate debate, choosing instead to double down on smear and disinformation, a tacit acceptance that an honest, science-based case for denying the reality of human-caused climate change and the threat it presents could no longer be made.
The episode began with a crime committed by highly skilled computer hackers, followed by a massive public relations campaign conducted by major players in the climate change denial movement
Mann goes on to write that "Digital forensics reported by the Guardian indicated that the hacker was based in eastern North America..."
In any case, there is no evidence that Jones actually deleted any e-mails. Nor is there any evidence of any impropriety in his e-mails
Climategate 2: Hacked emails released - environment - 22 November 2011 - New Scientist
One of the climate scientists affected by the email releases has spoken out today. Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia has been repeatedly hassled over claims that he deleted emails relating to freedom of information requests from climate sceptics. This morning, he again admitted deleting many emails, but said – as he has said many times before – that this was part of routine clear-outs of his inbox.
With the earlier FOI requests re David Holland, I wasted a part of a day deleting numerous emails and exchanges with almost all the skeptics. So I have
virtually nothing. I even deleted the email that I inadvertently sent. There might be some bits of pieces of paper, but I’m not wasting my time
going through these.
Hill Post TERI to open centre in Himachal | Hill Post
Shimla : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) will open its centre in Himachal Pradesh to help the state adopt measures on climate change .
“The state would be providing land and other assistance for setting up TERI’s regional centre, which will provide technical guidance in climate change and environment protection,”chief minister P.K. Dhumal said at the foundation stone laying ceremony of a centre of climate change.
The function had Nobel laureate and environmentalist R.K. Pachauri in attendance.
Pachauri favoured setting up of a “global union” of mountain states to check emission of greenhouse gases and preserve climate....
Different parameters were required to be adopted for speedy development of the hill states whereas all the states were being governed under same parameters, said Pachauri.
Supporting the initiatives taken by the state in protecting environment, Pachauri said the state has checked global warming by banning use of plastic carry bags, cups and plates.
“The state is poised to emerge a carbon neutral state in the country by 2020 ,” added Pachauri.
Dr R K Pachauri
Director-General
Mann still scheduled to talk despite controversy - The Daily Collegian Online
Aaron Huertas, press secretary for the Union of Concerned Scientists said he was surprised to see attempts to stop Mann from speaking at Penn State, especially because attacks by the fossil fuel industry are a topic of Mann’s new book, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.”
Mike Mann has faced down these threats from powerful people (and more from the not-as-powerful) and lived to tell the tale. Even better, he's become a strong advocate for the necessary role science plays in society.
Union of Concerned Scientists: Information from Answers.com
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is an environmental organization
Ice traps 126 boats in Kerch Strait: Ukraine - Emirates 24/7
The Kerch Strait is a narrow but busy artery that connects the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea, and separates Russia from Ukraine.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Guide to the Global Warming Debate
My new column at Forbes is a post I have been thinking about and working on for quite a while, trying to refine over time a simple explanation of what is and is not understood in climate science.
The First Ever Climate Change Reporter (And Skeptic) « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
Note how little has changed, with Authorities convinced the climate is changing, and the unconvinced agriculture expert…
Americans Gaining Energy Independence With U.S. as Top Producer - Bloomberg
The U.S. has reversed a two-decade-long decline in energy independence, increasing the proportion of demand met
from domestic sources over the last six years to an estimated 81 percent through the first 10 months of 2011, according to data
compiled by Bloomberg from the U.S. Department of Energy. That would be the highest level since 1992.
Gas will help undoubtedly, but also I think the states very hooked on the use of the $900 million that they collected in the past few years from selling CO2 allowances. And I think it would be hard for them to actually give that up.
Daily Kos: Scientists confirm Earth’s climatologists getting hotter
A new study released this week validated what scientists have been saying all along; the Earth’s climatologists are getting increasingly hotter and may be responsible for melting hearts at record levels.
Andy Revkin (revkin) on Twitter
Ala @nbcSNL & @theOnion a satirical skewering of @WattsupWithThat by a fun-loving physicist vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com Russell, do @dotearth next.
VVatts Up With That ?: VVivat !
Having lost his place as a TV weatherman, one Anthony Watts has for some years maintained an unrelated blog that has become a sort of stupor mundi, a haven of serial crackpottery where the thermodynamically challenged congregate in the service of commercial disinformation and political self-deceit.
Its name, half pun and half-plagiarised from SNL's least funny skit, has become a byword for petty censorship and sustained hypocrisy of Vice Presidential amperage.
This website aspires to its antithesis, a venue for the ventilation of the enormities perpetrated by bad climate blogs that have not yet sunk low enough to qualify as scientific comedy of manners.
What Up with That - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What Up With That is a recurring sketch on the NBC television series Saturday Night Live which first aired in 2009.
Watts Up With That? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Watts Up With That? (WUWT for short) is a popular science blog, created in 2006
Serbia was struggling to keep its power system going, officials warned Thursday, after weeks of record low temperatures in Europe that have snarled traffic, frozen rivers and challenged officials to step up outreach to the vulnerable homeless.
The Wall Street Journal and Climate Change Denial
Clearly there is a link - make it a big tie - between climate change denial and the big carbon polluters like Exxon. Ironically, even Exxon now acknowledges climate change, and its website highlights what the company is doing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Cold spell leaves at least 29 dead in Algeria
ALGIERS — A cold weather spell that has killed dozens of people in Algeria has sparked strong press criticism of what it sees as the government’s poor response to the emergency situation.
Al Fin: Rethinking Climate Doom in Germany: Chaos in Climate Camp
We are supposed to be willing to relinquish control of our economies and our lives to a cabal of fudgy computer modelers and their kleptocratic bureaucracies. We are supposed to risk the backbone of industry -- energy and power -- on green schemes of big wind and big solar, which are clearly unable to reliably and affordably support modern power grid demands. We are supposed to be willing to hand over hundreds of billions of dollars for "climate reparations" to the third world on the basis of little more than hand-waving and bombastic claims of doom. And we are supposed to do all that based on faith in people who consistently refuse to provide transparency into their methods and data.
More people are waking up. In the end, it is likely that there will be a reckoning.
Missing Heat 3 – Implications For Policymaking « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
If models are not useful in a decadal timescale, such as they can predict a strong warming for a period of minimal or even no warning, then what use is there for models? What government (apart from North Korea…) would make it difficult for people to heat up their homes in the next decade with the explanation that is going to be warm in 2070 anyway?
People do not average-out their lives across decades or centuries: each and every one of us have to go through each and every day first.
If I freeze to death today at -10C, I will not enjoy the warmth of July at +30C even if the average is +10C, perfectly compatible with human life. The same can be said of plants and animals. If I plant an olive tree in my London garden, it will die of cold in February even if the yearly average is in theory just enough to make olive trees survive in the open.
Inhofe: Only one candidate addresses the four major issues « Hot Air
Yesterday I had the chance to spend some time with Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the conservative stalwart who has spent the last several years trying to fight off attempts from members of both parties to impose a ruinous cap-and-trade system to control energy production and usage in the US. He now has a book coming out at the end of the month, The Great Hoax, in which he discusses his fight against global-warming alarmists and the real motivation behind the UN’s IPCC efforts — to gain control of an independent revenue stream that would make Turtle Bay completely unaccountable to its member nations. With more and more climate-change scientists abandoning the so-called “consensus,” Inhofe’s book comes at a perfect time to put AGW on ice, and in the full interview, he gives us an advance look at the book.
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