Obama Delivers On His Campaign Pledge

http://www.Real-Science.com/obama-delivers-on-his-campaign-pledge
Obama promised skyrocketing energy prices, and he has delivered. Average gas price in California today is $4.35 for regular. It is for the good of poor people, whom he cares so much about.

January Madness In Louisville

http://www.Real-Science.com/january-madness-in-louisville
According to HadCRUT, January 1880 was 16.7 F (9.3C) above normal in Louisville, Kentucky. Jeff Masters says 'This Is Not The Atmosphere I Grew Up With' Perhaps not. It is more like the atmosphere his great-great grandfather grew up with.

Steffen : Greenland Ice Sheet Is Losing 50 Feet Of Ice Per Year!

http://www.Real-Science.com/steffen-greenland-ice-sheet-is-losing-50-feet-of-ice-per-year

"The Greenland ice sheet is lowering 10 to 15 meters  per year," Steffen said.

CEJournal

Actually, Steffen is losing 10-15 IQ points per year.

February Tornadoes Never Used To Happen

http://www.Real-Science.com/february-tornadoes-never-used-to-happen

Australia: "Climate change advocates will look back on the second half of the noughties the same way the cast of Friends remember the '90s - as a golden era."

Lachlan Harris on why Tony Abbott has missed the tide turning in favour of the mining tax | thetelegraph.com.au

On the other side of the tidal chart are two topics of debate where public support is most definitely falling. The first is Afghanistan, the second climate change.

...Which brings us to climate change. Of all the swings in public opinion we have seen in recent years, few have been as noticeable as the swing against climate change. If the mining tax is an idea whose time has come, climate change is an idea that has extremely tough times coming. Climate change advocates will look back on the second half of the noughties the same way the cast of Friends remember the '90s - as a golden era.

There is a whole raft of complex factors that contributed to this period of climate change dominance, but the main one was simple - in Australia it just stopped raining.

Many climate change activists seem shell-shocked by the current brutality and personal nature of the climate change debate. What they don't realise is the uncontested dialogue they enjoyed in 2006 and 2007 was the statistical bleep, now is just normal.

The slow unwinding of support since then is not a disastrous collapse in public support; it's just a return to normality. Climate change is a battle between the cost of acting (felt immediately), and the cost of not acting (felt in the decades ahead). In any public debate, and in most personal financial decisions, an immediate cost trumps a future cost, so this return to tit for tat political trench warfare is not surprising. That more than 50 per cent of people still support action on climate change is an impressive outcome, keeping it there is the challenge climate change bulls must meet.

Antartica Belongs To All Of Us, That's Why We Must Preserve It | Fox News

with the current ice studies there has been an unprecedented ice shelf loss. 

I have been traveling on this trip with Canadian geo-scientist and science journalist, Susan R. Eaton, who said,"the reason we go to Antarctica is to study climate change because it offers a hands on out door laboratory." She continued "The Western Antarctic Peninsula has warmed 2.8 Celsius degrees in the last fifty years, more than any place on earth. Antarctica is the climate change agent on the planet." 

Tree line movement may have been exaggerated by a factor of 20

Beware: Trees are on the move! « Tallbloke's Talkshop

“To generalize our results, the tree line is definitely moving north on average but we do not see any evidence for rates as big as 2 KILOMETERS per year anywhere along the Arctic rim,” he said in a release. “Where we have the most detailed information, our results suggest that a rate of around 100 METERS per year is more realistic. In some places, the tree line is actually moving south. The predictions of a loss of 40 percent of the tundra by the end of the century is probably far too alarming.”

Bjorn Lomborg: Gone With The Wind

Efforts to stem global warming have nurtured a strong urge worldwide to deploy renewable energy. As a result, the use of wind turbines has increased ten-fold over the past decade, with wind power often touted as the most cost-effective green opportunity. According to Connie Hedegaard, the European Union’s commissioner for climate action, “People should believe that [wind power] is very, very cheap.”

In fact, this is a highly problematic claim. While wind energy is cheaper than other, more ineffective renewables, such as solar, tidal, and ethanol, it is nowhere near competitive. If it were, we wouldn’t have to keep spending significant sums to subsidize it.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Steven Chu Walks To Work

not to Chu, who like many intelligent people, confuse their ability to know a lot about very little—Chu’s prize was for “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light”—into thinking they know a lot about everything. Even this would be okay, except that they conjoin this mistake with the additional belief that people who are not credentialed in knowing a lot about little, know nothing about anything.

More lies from Michael Mann

Reader Rebuttal (Michael E. Mann) - The Orange County Register

Despite what has been written, talked about over the airwaves and typed out in the blogosphere, I can assure you that I am not the all-powerful perpetrator of a carefully orchestrated multi-continent, multi-billion dollar, decades in the making, scientific hoax...I was thrust into the media spotlight in 2009, when my work emails and those of my colleagues were stolen and broadcast around the globe. The contents of our emails were cherry-picked and deliberately altered to completely change the actual meaning of our dialogue. The illegal theft of these emails was quickly manufactured into a media scandal by climate-change deniers and dubbed "Climategate." Deniers, backed by monied oil company and other fossil fuel interests, announced they had "proof positive" that climate change was a hoax.

What climate-change deniers conveniently forget is that in the years since Climategate, a dozen independent investigations have been conducted, including one by the National Science Foundation. Investigators have examined my emails and the emails of my colleagues. They have looked at our work product sideways, backwards, forwards, up and down. These dozen investigations all came to the same conclusion: There was no wrongdoing on the part of researchers. Despite unfair and unbalanced media coverage, our work met or exceeded scientific standards for excellence.

...•Scientific fact: The 10 warmest years in recorded history have all occurred in the past 12 years.

• Scientific fact: Most of the current warming trends we are recording are due to human activity—the burning of oil and other fossil fuels. The warming trends now being recorded are proceeding at a rapid and as of yet unseen rate.

BBC News - Climate 'tech fixes' urged for Arctic methane

An eminent UK engineer is suggesting building cloud-whitening towers in the Faroe Islands as a "technical fix" for warming across the Arctic.

Scientists told UK MPs this week that the possibility of a major methane release triggered by melting Arctic ice constitutes a "planetary emergency".

The Arctic could be sea-ice free each September within a few years.

...And last year, the cloud-whitening idea was also criticised by scientists who calculated that using the wrong droplet size could lead to warming - though Prof Salter says this can be eliminated through experimentation.

He has not so far embarked on a full costing of the land-based towers, but suggests £200,000 as a ballpark figure.

Depending on the size and location, Prof Salter said that in the order of 100 towers would be needed to counteract Arctic warming.

However, no funding is currently on the table for cloud-whitening. A proposal to build a prototype ship for about £20m found no takers, and currently development work is limited to the lab.

Donald Trump: Windmills Are 'Disgusting' | ThinkProgress

Trump told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto:

Wind is destroying the environment in many, many places. People are going crazy over the horrible, noisy, disgusting windmills. And they are horrible and a horrible intrusion, ruining communities, and solar is weak and has not been effective and is very, very expensive.

Britain's Anti-Green Rollback

Scores of environmental regulations are to be slashed under government plans to be announced on Monday, the Guardian has learned.

VA Clinic roof collapse is winter's 14th: Anchorage | Alaska news at adn.com

It was the 14th roof collapse to which the department has responded this winter. With a total snowfall within 3 inches of the record for a single winter, roofs have come down on commercial buildings around town and a church auditorium.

Has science become an alternative religion? | Herald Sun

With the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report due next year, the hyperbole meter is set to screech.

Historian Geoffrey Blainey, speaking last week, suggests science has become an "alternative religion".

Research into his new book, A Short History of Christianity, leads him to think our attitude towards science in an era of technological advances is akin to religious faith, with gods to worship, a vehemence of belief, good and evil, heretics and saints.

InvestigateDaily – 90 year old climate change expert calls global warming scare ‘absurdity’

BY VINCENT GRAY

As I approach my 90th birthday next week I thought I would provide a more personal newsletter which summarized the state of play on Global Warming/Climate Change or whatever is the current euphemism to cover up the failure of the theory that the climate is exclusively controlled by human emissions of “greenhouse gases”

The pressure to accept this absurdity is slowly subsiding as it is becoming more and more evident to more and more people that the climate is not controlled in this way, and we must hand the whole subject back to traditional meteorology which has found that the climate is far too complicated to be decided by only one cause, and “greenhouse gases” becomes less prominent all the time.

Chinese Companies Forced to Falsify Data, Government Says - Bloomberg

China’s statistics bureau said local officials forced some hotels, coal miners and aluminum makers to report false numbers, highlighting flaws in data
tracking the world’s second-largest economy.

Alaska has its coldest January on record; near-record snowfall collapses buildings, piles up in city dumps where it may not melt entirely before next winter; global warming blamed

Alaska's largest city eyes snow record

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Even by Alaska standards, this winter is unusual for the hardy residents of the state's largest city.

Near-record snowfall buried Anchorage neighborhoods, turning streets into canyons with walls of snow on each side. The snow's weight collapsed the roofs of some buildings. Moose are fleeing into the city to get away from too-deep snow.

And the city dumps are close to overflowing with snow that may not melt entirely before next winter....Alaska had its coldest January on record.

Two different weather phenomenon - La Nina and its northern cousin the Arctic Oscillation - are mostly to blame, meteorologists say. Global warming could also be a factor because it is supposed to increase weather extremes, climate scientists say.

"When you start to see the extreme events become more common, that's when you can say that it is a consequence of global warming," University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver said.

...AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.

Bummer: Trace amounts of natural, harmless atmospheric gas will allegedly cost Caribbean countries five percent of 2004 GDP by 2025

Caribbean Mobilises Funds for Ten-Year Climate Plan - AlertNet

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar 16 (IPS) - Failure to adapt to climate change will derail the development aspirations of the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom), researchers warn, siphoning off an average of five percent of 2004 gross domestic product regionwide by 2025.The predicted costs could rise to as much as 75 percent by 2100 for smaller nations, says the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC).

1819 Northwest Passage | Real Science

The ice was no different 190 years ago than it is today.

Doctors Explain Why People Move From Arizona To Winnipeg When They Retire | Real Science

Warm weather is very difficult for the elderly, who often suffer breathing problems. That is why they are all moving to Winnipeg to experience the joy of cold air.

Hawaii Is The Healthiest State | Real Science

Doctors tell us that warm temperatures are unhealthy, which is why people are so healthy in the the cold climate of Hawaii.

U.N. aviation body hit by carbon emission dispute | JunkScience.com

The question of what role developing countries should play in reducing carbon emissions threatened to derail discussions at a top-level meeting of the United Nations body that oversees civil aviation, according to one official who attended Wednesday’s meeting.

Breaking News : Cook Admits That Surface Temperatures Have Stopped Warming | Real Science

This is classic. Cook tacitly admits that surface temperatures have stopped warming, and then finds the missing heat.

That 97% number seems to be an intrinsic number for alarmists, who pull it out every time they realize they are getting their ass kicked by reality.

Game Over For Arctic Alarmism | Real Science

In 1906, Peary sailed to 83N – at a location which now has 4 metre thick ice.

Diabolical CO2: It's allegedly killing off Minnesota moose, while on an island 15 miles away, the moose are thriving. By the way, there are lots of wolves in Minnesota, but few on the island

Decline in Moose Population Could End Hunt in Minnesota | Outdoor Life

DNR researcher Mark Lenarz told the Star Tribune that there are multiple factors affecting the mortality of Minnesota’s moose population, and it seems that climate change could play the largest role.

Isle Royale's wolves at risk of extinction | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com

Fewer wolves mean more moose — and an uncontrolled moose population could lead to starvation for the larger herbivores.

Isle Royale wolves may go extinct soon, scientists say | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

moose numbers rose from an estimated 515 last year to about 750.

Isle Royale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Isle Royale is within about 15 miles (24 km) of the Canadian and Minnesotan shores of the lake

Winter Weather Coming to L.A. County This Weekend « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

It looks like Los Angeles County might welcome a cold, wet St. Patrick’s Day weekend as forecasters are predicting unusually low temperatures, heavy rainfall and low snow levels in the mountains this weekend.

Idiotic Comment of the Day: Fairfax's Jessica Irvine | Australian Climate Madness

Funny how she conveniently forgets that its the warmists are the "merciless interrogators" that torture the data until it confesses - just ask Michael Mann, Phil Jones or James Hansen. It's the sceptics that have to release the battered and weary data from the dungeon so they can finally tell their true story.

Hansen : 80 Feet Of Sea Level Rise In The Next 40 Years | Real Science

If the proper actions aren’t taken, Hansen said, the sea level could rise as much as 80 feet by the time today’s children reach middle age.

Another Smoking Gun For The Hockey Team | Real Science

That is how you hide the decline. Alter the data, make conclusions based on the altered data, use your bogus conclusions to justify throwing out the original data, and then present the altered data as if it were the original data.

Can science get any more corrupt?

Moron Flashback 2008 : Iditarod Doomed By Global Warming | Real Science

This year the race was threatened by record snow and cold.

US: Fossil fuel production on federal lands at 9 year low | JunkScience.com

Doctors Expect Climate Change to Worsen Lung Diseases | State of Health Blog from KQED News

All of that is bad for asthmatics, children and the elderly, but also for poor people – as it turns out.

 “It was really an eye opener for us,” said Kent Pinkerton, a professor of pediatrics at UC Davis and the lead author on the report.

Flashback:  CNN.com - Transcripts

COREN [to warmist Julia Gillard]: You mention your family and the fact that you were born in Wales. At an early age, you were quite sick and almost died of a form of pneumonia. And doctors told your parents that, to improve your health, to move to a warmer climate.

Should Floridians worry about rising sea levels? | The Opinion Zone blog | The Palm Beach Post

So, here’s the good news from the folks at Climate Central:

If you don’t live in Broward or Miami-Dade counties, rising sea levels may not flood your home.

The bad news:

Rising seas will make life pretty bad for all of Florida.

According to Climate Change — a non-profit that receives money from foundations, NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Army Corps of Engineers, among others — global warming will increase the usual rise in sea levels here of 1.1 inches per decade.

- Bishop Hill blog - Black's Whitewash

BBC watchers might be interested in a new blog called Black's Whitewash, focusing on the activities of BH favourite, Richard Black.

Atmospheric CO2 set to SOAR from 0.0004 to 0.0007 - OECD • The Register

Pesky poor folk will be wanting some energy

Breaking News: The Earth Is Still Warming. A Lot | ThinkProgress

So think about this the next time you look at a picture of Sydney Harbour. Or any other harbour of your choice.

As it boils dry in your minds eye, ask ‘Why?’. The possible answers to your question are very limited. Very limited indeed.

Study: 17,500 NW homes may sink under rising seas | KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest

Thousands of homes in Washington and Oregon could be inundated by rising seas caused by global warming over the next century, according to research by the non-profit Climate Central and the University of Arizona.

Rachel Maddow caught in heat of moment

Referring to a section of “The Greatest Hoax” in which Inhofe takes Maddow to task for having attacked his positions on climate change, Maddow claimed last night that the 2009 show in question was actually about Inhofe’s supposed efforts in support of anti-homosexual policies in Uganda.

However, in her enthusiasm to nail Inhofe over the Uganda segment, which mentioned Inhofe among other officials, Maddow completely neglected a separate, lengthy segment on that same day’s show that attacked Inhofe over his positions on climate change.

That was the segment Inhofe clearly cited in “The Greatest Hoax,” which Maddow claimed to have read, even excerpting the exact dialogue from that night’s show. A video and a transcript of the 2009 show are still available.

Climate Change Sends Beetles Into Overdrive - ScienceNOW

Climate change could be throwing common tree killers called mountain pine beetles into a reproductive frenzy.

2018 – Mark Your Calendars | Musings from the Chiefio

Putting all that together, it looks to me like we can do some Calendar Marking.

2012 – Maya say “I told you so!” as it rains a lot.

2014 – Our present “flat, no warming” turns to “Drop, cold happening”.

2018 – The Sun Goes Blank.

2020 – It gets very cold.

2020 – 2040 the effects propagate toward the poles in the Pacific Ocean, slow continued deepening of cold.

2041 – Onward we have slow warming as the solar cycle kicks in again.

2060 – The warmth makes it up to Alaska and the Arctic.

Bioengineering people to fight global warming: Been there, done that. - Slate Magazine

For most of our existence, humans have reacted to the climate roller coaster by enjoying the good [warm] weather while it's around and otherwise hiding in the warm tropics. When the climate warmed by several degrees around 8,000 B.C., it must have seemed at first like a wonderful dream. The glaciers melted. The human population grew and grew. There were more people than ever before, using a broader range of resources and eating a broader range of foods, and they invented beautiful and complex cultures.

...Population growth was the subject of Jonathan Swift’s original, trolling call for legalized cannibalism. It seems like bioengineering won’t be of much use unless we dare to adopt a truly Swiftian approach. Don’t breed meat-hating children; breed children with a taste for human flesh.

What Causes the Large Swings in Global Satellite Temperatures? « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

These temperature swings are mostly the result of variations in rainfall activity.

Warming trend in sceptics' machinations | smh.com.au

Can we prove economic uncertainty causes greater climate scepticism? No, not definitively.

But it certainly seems plausible.

gulfnews : Battery-powered bus to beat climate change

Dubbed "Victory Against Climate Change," the programme aims to promote the eBus as a viable alternative to conventional internal combustion-engined buses.

Warm currents heating up shark libidos say researchers | news10.net

AUSTRALIA - Researchers say sharks are having sex at an unusually high rate and speculate the weather may be to blame.

Unseasonably warm ocean currents may be a factor in increased shark breeding patterns as they try to survive climate change, said researchers from the University of Queensland.

Los Angeles TV station pans California’s AB32 climate bill

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/16/los-angeles-tv-station-pans-californias-ab32-climate-bill/
This is a surprise, a major TV station in Los Angeles pushes back against the California Air Resources Board AB32 bill aka California's Global Warming Solutions Act. I urge readers to drop him a letter of support

Warm here, cold elsewhere « Don Surber

Everyone talks about the weather. Only a foolish liberal would try to do something about it.

It’s Deja Vu All Over Again As RGGI Fails To Get Override Numbers | njtoday.net – Everything New Jersey

TRENTON – It is deja vu all over again for legislation that would require New Jersey to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a controversial carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program.

RGGI auction clears at minimum price of $1.93 per CO2 allowance - Electric Power | Platts News Article & Story

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative sold 62% of the carbon dioxide allowances being offered at Wednesday's quarterly auction at the reserve price
of $1.93/st, the cap-and-trade program's administrator said Friday.

It was the seventh straight auction where buyers bought fewer CO2 allowances than were offered.

The Tyee – Whither the Yellow Cedar?

New research is showing that Yellow Cedar, one of the characteristic tree species found in the Great Bear Rainforest of B.C., is disappearing in many areas because of the impacts of global warming. Ironically, they're freezing to death.

Rep. Don Young: Obama’s EPA as an Employment Prevention Agency | JunkScience.com

“We all want our air and oceans to be clean. But the deluge of EPA-required studies and reports does nothing to get Americans back to work or secure our energy future. If Obama is serious about change, it should start at the EPA.”

Mackowski: Weather isn’t climate, but let’s confuse the two anyway | JunkScience.com

Writing at Scholars & Rogues, Chris Mackowski admits that weather isn’t climate, but nevertheless advocates that alarmists exploit the mild winter of the Eastern U.S. to advance alarmism.

More Erratic Weather To Be Expected With Global Climate Change | Interlochen Public Radio

This weather certainly feels more erratic than usual, and Weatherman and Climate Activist Dave Barrons says that bears out in the statistics too. He says we can expect more erratic weather in coming decades as the planet gradually warms.

Corn crop could be 'huge' on warm weather, economist says | 2012-03-16 | Indianapolis Business Journal | IBJ.com

Corn production in the United States, the world’s biggest shipper of the grain, will be “huge” as warm
weather encourages farmers to plant early to avoid the risk of late-season frost damage, economist Dennis Gartman said.

...“Early planting favors higher yields given that the crop likely shall pollinate earlier, long before the heat of the
summer and thus allowing the plant to mature before any threats of early autumn frost,” Gartman said. “This year’s
corn crop then, all things being otherwise equal, is going to be huge.”

Flashback: In case you missed it: Warmist IPCC lead author Noah Diffenbaugh cites studies showing that carbon dioxide could reduce Midwestern corn yields by more than 30 percent

Agenda 21: Science mag calls for steps toward global governance | JunkScience.com

During the Enlightment, science was liberating. During the Environment, Science is oppressive.

[Yeah, right]: Growing Grassroots Political Support for a Price on Carbon | ThinkProgress

Regular folks from Tallahassee, Florida to Kansas City, Missouri are spending evenings and weekends and taking time off work to visit their representatives and senators, write letters to their town newspapers and build support for climate legislation at the local level.

Lax Danish rules prolonged CO2 trading fraud, auditors say | JunkScience.com

“For four and a half years it was possible to use false identities to trade CO2 allowances from the Danish registry because the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Energy Agency did not require documentation of the account owners’ identity, even though this was against EU rules.”

Mr. Worthing: Kilimanjaro's massive tree planting campaign

Kilimanjaro region plans a massive tree planting campaign to recover the diminishing ice cap on top of Mt Kilimanjaro - Africa’s highest peak.

C3: Climate Change Hoax: Key U.S Congressman Caught Spreading Democrat Lies & Rumors - Same Old, Same Old

The Fakegate scandal provides opportunity for U.S. congressman to push common Democrat lies and the climate change hoax - the Heartland Institute challenges congressman about falsehoods

Romney: Forget alternative energy, we need an ‘alternative President’ | JunkScience.com

Mitt Romney: “People in this county are hurting and all this president can do is talk about a flat earth?”

- Bishop Hill blog - Irony fail

Throughout their paper, Souder and Qureshi refer to anyone who questions any aspect of the AGW hypothesis as "deniers". Perhaps irony hasn't made its way to the top of the ivory tower yet.

SMH’s Irvine: Sceptics cherry-pick and redraw graphs | JunkScience.com

Correlation-is-causation in climate because of undescribed “multiple lines of evidence”?

Propaganda Backfires: Young Americans less interested in the environment than previous generations | JunkScience.com

“It’s not so much that they don’t think it’s important. They’re just worn out.”

Misleading Headline

Above is a screenshot from Wednesday’s Bloomberg News. The headline suggests that green energy is a white knight poised to save the U.K. from rolling blackouts. However, the body of the article states nothing of the sort.

“IF THE IPCC WAS SELLING MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING AS A PRODUCT…” Now Available in Kindle and pdf Editions | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations
New Mexico to repeal carbon [dioxide] cap | JunkScience.com

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night.

Sound of Music - So Long... Farewell

Update from Russia: So overheated that cold weather only damaged more than 30 percent of winter crops in Krasnodar; spring sowing only delayed 10-14 days by cold weather

Russia's Krasnodar May Harvest Lower Grain Crop This Year - Bloomberg

Russia’s southern Krasnodar region may harvest less grain this year following a prolonged cold spell, according to Alexander Tkachev, regional governor.

...Cold weather damaged more than 30 percent of winter crops, mostly barley and rapeseed, in Krasnodar, Yevgeny Gromyko, Tkachev’s deputy, said this week, according to Interfax.

Spring sowing is being delayed by 10 to 14 days across Russia because of low temperatures, Shamil Vakhitov, Russia’s deputy agriculture minister, said today, according to the
region’s website.

I guess when they were trying to fill the EU chief scientific advisor position, no sane people were available: Anne Glover imagines a CO2-induced "absolutely horrible period of conflict and migration, until the world’s population started diminishing very rapidly"

Europe’s chief scientist warns against climate delays

BRUSSELS - The European Union cannot use the economic slowdown as an excuse to delay action on fighting climate change, the bloc’s first-ever chief scientific adviser has warned.
Molecular biologist Anne Glover took on the newly created role reporting to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the start of this year, having previously served as chief scientific adviser to Scotland’s devolved government.
...“It has been extremely disappointing to see many member states cut back on their emission reduction efforts because they say ‘we’re going through a recession’,” she said.
“Make no mistake, if we had unabated man-made climate change, we would go through an absolutely horrible period of conflict and migration, until the world’s population started diminishing very rapidly.”

British Airways, climate change and a load of rubbish | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

British Airways is pushing ahead with a plant that aims to turn half a million tonnes of Londoner's household rubbish into 50,000 tonnes a year of jet fuel. I'll let you decide if this is greenwash or not: here's some of the details.

The plant will based in east London and 80 lorries a day will pour garbage into a plasma chamber, which reaches 5,000C. The resulting gas is turned into jet fuel, Jonathon Counsell, BA's head of environment, told me at the World Biofuels Markets conference in Rotterdam. The plant, due to being pumping fuel from 2015, will have enough energy left over to generate 33MW of electricity, he says.

Self-regulation is not working to keep British media factual about climate change | British Politics and Policy at LSE

Bob Ward is Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Britain's Green Madness: Fuel Poverty To Rise Sharply

The number English households struggling to pay their fuel bills could more than double to almost 10 million by 2016 due to rising energy prices and costly green taxes, a Government-commissioned report has found.

Why are environmentalists missing a mild-weather opportunity? | Scholars and Rogues

Climate change deniers can deny facts all they want, but let them deny the weather outside right now.

Antarctica: Your iPhone charger is making the snow disappear so quickly that only four Halley bases have been buried by snow accumulation and crushed until they were uninhabitable

Explorer draws on endurance to follow Shackleton

As an environmental scientist and senior associate in sustainability at Arup, a professional services firm for the built environment, another of his goals is to highlight scientific concerns about climate change.

''I've been four times to the Antarctic and three times to the Arctic. The warming is very evident,'' he said.

''Shackleton was trying to save his men from Antarctica and now we're trying to save Antarctica from man.''

Halley Research Station - British Antarctic Survey

Approximately 1.2 metres of snow accumulate each year on the Brunt Ice Shelf and buildings on the surface become covered and eventually crushed by snow, necessitating periodic rebuilding of the station. This part of the ice shelf is also moving westward by approx. 700m per year.

There have been five Halley bases built so far. The first four were all buried by snow accumulation and crushed until they were uninhabitable. Various construction methods were tried, from unprotected wooden huts to steel tunnels.

Sign of the times: Big Green members write a letter to David Cameron demanding alternative energy handouts; forget to even mention "global warming" or "climate change"

Richard Branson letter to David Cameron on renewable energy | Environment | guardian.co.uk

New dataset provides 40-year record of carbon dioxide accumulation in the surface ocean | JunkScience.com

Net CO2 absorption by the world’s oceans is known to benefit human-kind [how do we know that this is a benefit?] by reducing the concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere

Germany’s Green Führism: We Have To Destroy It In Order To Rescue It. Green Infallibility Shows Its Ugly Side

Now mountain and hill tops are being deforested to clear the way for 200 meter tall monster industrial wind turbines. As the ZDF shows, greens are aghast.

Scientists who trade in doubt | The Australian

No doubt the views of Carter and some other contrarians are sincerely held. The motives of others are not so clear.

Harsh winter causes £600m road damage | This is Somerset

The AIA report also showed that damage caused by the harsh winter of 2010/11 cost £600 million, with two-thirds of councils unable to make good this damage.

OpEdNews - Article: Climate Change Denial is About Maintaining Control of the Wealth

"So, given that the Waxman-Markey bill would curb emissions over the next 40 years, it's a pretty simple job to tally up the potential benefits: about $1.5 trillion on the middle-of-the-road estimate. The benefits could be as low as $382 billion or as high as $5.2 trillion, depending on how you fiddle with the numbers.

"Since Waxman-Markey is meant to cost about $660 billion, that means the bill provides $2.27 in benefits for every dollar spent, the brief concludes.

What the “Skeptics” of Climate Catastrophe are Skeptical Of: Nordhaus Reconsidered — MasterResource

The object of our skepticism, catastrophic global warming, means warming caused by greenhouse gasses that would so dramatically heat up the earth that despite the proven climate adaptability of hydrocarbon-powered civilization (see “How Capitalism Makes Catastrophes Non-Catastrophic”), populations the world over would experience impoverishment, mass suffering, and death.

Why are we skeptical of this claim? Because there is radically insufficient evidence for it.

USA Today gets one right: Far-away climate patterns fuel warm-up | JunkScience.com

As office workers from Chicago to New York City enjoy lunches outdoors this week, let’s all give a hearty thank you, in part, to … the Madden-Julian Oscillation.

Andrew Bolt: One dry year is worth more than two wet | JunkScience.com

One dry year was evidence enough of man-made warming for David Karoly in 2003:

The End of the Enlightenment | Planet3.0

The first of our current challenges is to admit that we will not stop climate change. Prevention is no longer an option.

Clean Your Plate, Save The World? | JunkScience.com

Cue the screaming of the anti-obesity lobby: three; two…

Meltdown In Barrow At -24F | Real Science

Warm weather in DC unequivocally proves global warming.

Minneapolis Heatwaves Were Much More Severe Below 350 ppm | Real Science

Minneapolis five worst heatwaves took place in the 1930s and 1940s. Hansen says this is impossible.

U.K. ‘Wasted’ 4 Years on Failed $1.6 Billion Carbon-Capture Plan | JunkScience.com

And just to prove they are completely stupid, they’re going to do it again

China halts 10 more Airbus orders-sources | JunkScience.com

Move reinforces opposition to EU emissions scheme

- Bishop Hill blog - MSNBC on Climategate and the inquiries

- Bishop Hill blog - World government

Some time ago a journalist told me that many of his colleagues were so keen on environmentalism because they wanted to see a world government. I thought it was a bit kooky at the time and didn't really give it too much thought.

Interesting therefore to see Richard Black's article today, in which we see environmentalism being used to push just such a world government agenda. The idea appears to be that poor countries should be able to vote to transfer money from rich countries to themselves.

I expect our politicians to be fully in favour.

Roger Andrews: How the Sun Caused All The Recent Global Warming « Tallbloke's Talkshop

My thanks to Roger Andrews who has patiently waited to get this work published for the last fortnight while I have been swanning around in Spain and dealing with the backlog on my return. This paper explores more rigorously the ideas I voiced here and previously at WUWT over the last few years that the timing of ENSO and the solar cycle masks the true magnitude of the effect of the solar cycle on Earth’s energy flows.

Global Warming and National Suicide | JunkScience.com

Beginning in 1856, the Xhosa tribe in today’s South Africa destroyed its own economy.

Japan: Unusually Cold weather delays blooming of early cherry blossoms « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

As Japan’s pink-hued harbingers of spring, the Kawazu cherry blossoms are famous for blooming earlier than other varieties.

This year, however, winter’s unusually cold weather has pushed back the blooming of the Kawazu cherry blossoms by about three weeks compared to the average year.

North American Pacific tree frog identified as carrier of deadly amphibian disease | JunkScience.com

Not “climate change” or weed killers after all

Soggy summer dampens the Global Warming BBQ | ScottishSceptic

I couldn’t help note the irony that Aussies have had a “BBQ summer”** and belief in global warming non-science is getting washed down the gutter:-

David Wiegand: More than one-third of the planet is actually frozen; many penguins freezing to death; planet allegedly overheating

'Frozen planet' review: Beauty, and sad irony

We hear so much about global warming these days that it's easy to forget that more than one-third of the planet is actually frozen. Granted, the ice is melting faster than is healthy either for the wildlife of the polar regions or all of humanity, no matter where we live. But that's just the most urgent of the reasons "Frozen Planet," a gorgeous new documentary series on the Discovery Channel, makes for such compelling television....There are places in the Antarctic, for example, where the katabatic winds are colder than anywhere else on the planet. Because it is heavier than warmer air, cold air descends and rushes across the coastal regions of Antarctica in the early spring just as thousands of male penguins arrive for mating season. The males stand at attention, trying to attract females by raising their beaks skyward and puffing out their chests. But many of the birds literally die for love, frozen in place by the onrushing wind....And yet, as beautiful, complex and magnificent as the frozen world may be, the underlying message of the Discovery Channel series is the sad irony of its title. Frozen though it may be, the frozen third of this planet is in peril. Much of the ice may melt every spring and return in the winter. But there is less and less of it. Because the area is so removed from civilization, it is easier to see the real effects of global warming, and harder to ignore them.

Arctic Ice Extent Has Increased 10% Since 2007 | Real Science

Arctic ice extent is the highest in the DMI record for the date, and is about 10% higher than 2007.

Snow Cover Continues To Increase | Real Science

Since the UK Met office told us that snow is a thing of the past, Northern Hemisphere winter snow cover has been above average for nine out of ten years – including the last five years.

Climate Central Abandons Any Pretense Of Honesty | Real Science

Climate Central has a report out saying that San Francisco may flood in the next 18 years due to global warming induced sea level rise. Besides the fact that San Francisco is built on steep hills and that almost none of the city is vulnerable to flooding, the Climate Central claims are blatantly fraudulent.

Sea level in California has scarcely changed.

Kerry Emanuel’s Understanding Of Hurricanes | Real Science

In 2005, Kerry Emanuel of MIT forecast that hurricanes would become more intense and damaging.

Almost immediately after he made that forecast, global accumulated cyclone energy dropped to near a record low. The years since 2005 have also been the longest period on record without a major hurricane strike on the US.

July 1936 : Hottest Month On Record In Eight States | Real Science

Hansen says that record heatwaves were impossible before a few years ago, because there wasn’t enough CO2.

Canadian Senator Promotes Climate Realism in Major Speech | Climate Realists

March 14, 2012: Sensible, no regrets approach to climate change promoted by British Columbia Senator Nancy Greene-Raine in her speech before the Canadian Senate (13th march)

"Unlike a decade ago, when few scientists dared express doubt that humanity's CO2 emissions are causing dangerous global warming, it seems now that not a week goes by without some leading expert condemning the hypothesis. On January 27, The Wall Street Journal published an open letter from 16 leading scientists in which they told politicians that they must, and I quote:

“. . . understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true. In fact, a large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed.”

Michael Mann's cosy chat on ABC's Lateline | Australian Climate Madness

UPDATE: Baldrick in the comments reminds ACM of Tony Jones' hostile and patronising interrogation of Ian Plimer on Lateline in April 2009. What a contrast to the kid gloves employed here with Mann. Biased much, ABC?

Berwyn Worried About Butterflies Today | Real Science

According to NCDC, April temperatures in Colorado have been dropping at a rate of 42 degrees per century since the start of the millennium. Last spring had the largest snowpack on record in Colorado

Sen. Inhofe tells MSNBC’s Maddow she's one of his ‘three favorite liberals’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

“Lisa [Jackson], she even has a picture of my 20 kids and grandkids hanging on her wall. She and I get along fine,” Inhofe said on MSNBC. (An EPA spokeswoman confirmed his comment about the picture.)
...
A small minority of scientists argue that data on warming trends and the human contribution is inaccurate or inconclusive.

[video]: Rachel Maddow: Senator James Inhofe talks with Rachel Maddow, part 1

Fulbright Scholars to Study Climate Change | TopNews United States

In the current Fulbright scholar program there are 26 students. Out of the 26 students, nine students would be extensively taking part in the study of global climate change.

Local Attorney Recognized In Climate Change Debate - Local News Story - KJCT Grand Junction

“Its not settled science. There is another perspective and other evidence out there to show that there are other reasons for the climate change that's occurring right now,” Pugliese said. “All I’ve ever asked for is to have kids look at both sides of the issues, and I don’t think that’s too much to ask.”

Nutritional McCarthyism: Red Meat To Blame for Death, Global Warming, Tsunamis, Mine Collapses, and Terrorist Attacks « LewRockwell.com Blog

Red meat is probably the cause behind the Congo train derailment and the Yangtze River dolphin extinction, too.

Climate Models Predicted A Cold Winter In The Upper Midwest

http://www.Real-Science.com/climate-models-predicted-cold-winter-upper

"A new model suggests that prehistoric sea-level rise long thought to have been caused by the [East Antarctic] ice sheet melting was actually the result of local subsidence"

Instapundit

HMM: Sinking land shows East Antarctic ice sheet is stable.

The East Antarctic ice sheet looks unlikely to release its frozen grip any time soon. A new model suggests that prehistoric sea-level rise long thought to have been caused by the ice sheet melting was actually the result of local subsidence.

The science appears to remain unsettled.

Fraudster Al Gore on his imaginary CO2-induced climate crisis: "a lot of holders of carbon assets have been giving money to liars-for-hire to put out pseudoscientific reports that assert reality is not reality"

Al Gore on Climate Change Risk - Businessweek

You’ve compared climate change risk to subprime mortgages?
“Subprime carbon assets” have an asserted value based on the assumption that it’s perfectly OK to put 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours. Actually it’s not. But just as with subprime mortgages, when the rating agencies [showed] clouded judgment and put AAA ratings on the securities, a lot of holders of carbon assets have been giving money to liars-for-hire to put out pseudoscientific reports that assert reality is not reality.

Palmer might be right and the carbon tax wrong | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Clive Palmer might be onto something, after all, in threatening to challenge the carbon dioxide tax in the High Court:

Politicians fiddle while the earth burns - chicagotribune.com

Here in Washington, people are walking around in shorts and T-shirts fit for summer...

It's the most serious problem facing the planet

DC's Cherry Blossoms as Climate Change Canary... - The Huffington Post

[Robert DeFeo, Park Service horticulturist and chief cherry tree forecaster] said there's no way to prove the future warming impact right or wrong. He added in an e-mail: "We'll see in 2080."

Daily Kos expects new NPR ethics guidelines to silence skeptics | JunkScience.com

Because “climate change deniers are treated seriously by the media.”

Obama Likens Doubters of His Failed Green Energy Scams to Flat Earthers | Jammie Wearing Fools

So what if he’s blowing billions of our tax dollars on failed green energy scams?

Instapundit » Blog Archive  It…

...On the other hand, even Talking Points Memo is busting Obama for this one. “President Obama got a laugh out of a Maryland audience on Thursday when he mocked the Republican Party in a speech, comparing their skepticism of alternative energy to the ‘Flat Earth Society’ in Christopher Columbus’ day and President Rutherford B. Hayes’ apparent dismissal of the telephone. But while Obama thinks the GOP is in need of a science lesson, he may need to bone up on history himself. . . . Obama’s hardly the first presidential candidate to screw things up on the trail. But for an address specifically going after his opponents for their ignorance, it’s probably not great to have a ‘citation needed’ banner on top of his speech.”

Science is based on evidence. The evidence here is that Obama’s green programs are about funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to cronies and supporters.

When Wall Street Makes Crap Loans, It's a Crisis; When DOE's Steven Chu Does It, It's Green Energy. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

NOAA refers to the "notion that the climate is changing towards warmer"

Heat Wave Sweeps US; NOAA Says Spring Flood Risk Low - ABC News

NOAA managers said they cannot say for certain if the rising heat index is connected to global climate change.

“Extreme events like the ones that we’re seeing are consistent with the notion that the climate is changing towards warmer, and obviously when records are broken that’s an unprecedented event, but without a lot of research and study it’s impossible to connect any single event with climate change,” said Ed O’Lenic, chief of the operations branch at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.

Heartland Institute Responds to Rep. Markey Letter on ‘Fakegate’ | JunkScience.com

“Your letter repeats several false statements that appeared in the fake memo and have been circulated widely in the press.”

NBC Alarmism: Global Warming 'Could Cause a Whole Lot of Damage Much Sooner' | NewsBusters.org

Seizing on warmer than usual temperatures across the country on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams ominously warned viewers: "Much warmer weather can have a dark side, of course. And tonight there is a new projection that rising seas due to climate change could cause a whole lot of damage much sooner than anyone had previously thought."

Correspondent Anne Thompson used recent weather events to drive the point home: "The ferocious surge of the Atlantic powered by Hurricane Irene last August moved a lifeguard tower...broke through a sea wall, and sent water rushing into the streets of New York's Long Beach. A scene that will become more commonplace, a new study says, because of rising sea levels caused by global warming."

Aussie scientist warns we've entered sharp cooling period due to lower solar activity

‘Global cooling may well jeopardize grain production and threaten potential famines,’ warns Australian scientist David Archibald.

And there we’d be. Fighting in the streets for food.

‘All the warming of last 150 years will be reversed,’ says Archibald. The ‘world has entered a sharp cooling period due to lower solar activity.’

Germany’s Per Kilowatt-Hour CO2 Emissions Jump 4%! Transformation To Renewables Flops

Obama the Great Uniter: Republicans who diss solar/wind/biofuels are like Flat Earthers

Obama hammers GOP on gas prices rhetoric - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com

“Lately, we’ve heard a lot of professional politicians — a lot of the folks who, you know, are running for a certain office, who shall go unnamed — they’ve been talking down new sources of energy. They dismiss wind power. They dismiss solar power. They make jokes about biofuels,” Obama said. “They were against raising fuel standards because apparently they like gas guzzling cars better. We’re trying to move towards the future, and they want to be stuck in the past.”

Those same people, Obama said, would’ve thought the Earth was flat, that television wouldn’t last, that the automobile was only a passing fad.

“If some of these folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the Flat Earth Society,” he said. “They would not have believed that the world was round.”

Flashback: Obama Says He Can Unite U.S. 'More Effectively' Than Clinton

MANCHESTER, N.H., Aug. 14 -- Drawing a sharp contrast with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his main rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama said in an interview that he has the capacity she may lack to unify the country and move it out of what he called "ideological gridlock."

Mt. Baker update: Children won't know what the first nine feet of 10-foot poles look like

March Storms Bring Record Snowfall for Seattle Area Skiers | The SunBreak

We’ll let the folks at Mount Baker tell you in their own words:

With this continuous parade of storms, we have received an amazing 110 INCHES OF SNOWFALL in the JUST THE PAST 6 DAYS. March snowfall this month has already surpassed the amount of snowfall we received in the entire MONTH of March back in our World Record year of 98-99 so this has been quite a month so far!

2006: Lack Of Snow Cancels Big Mt. Baker Ski Race

"Hopefully we'll have a lot more snow next year. Hopefully it's not going to be a trend of global warming that's regular," said skier, Clark Fessenden.

Is it likely that CO2 will cause a Chagas disease epidemic in the U.S.? There have been seven cases identified so far, and only four of those cases occurred before Ronald Reagan left office

With climate change, US could face risk from Chagas disease

Only seven cases of Chagas disease transmitted by kissing bugs have been documented in the United States.

"We think the actual transmission is higher than the seven cases we have identified," says Patricia Dorn, an expert on Chagas disease at Loyola University and co-author on the new study, "but, even with these findings, we think the transmission of Chagas — of the T. cruzi parasite — is still very low in the US."

...But could those more-dangerous kissing bug species move north as the climate warms?

"Absolutely," says Dorn.

"We know the bugs are already across the bottom two-thirds of the U.S., so the bugs are here, the parasites are here. Very likely with climate change they will shift further north and the range of some species will extend," she says.

Chagas in the U.S.A.

In the summer of 2006, we discovered the first human case of insect-transmitted Chagas parasite in Louisiana and the sixth ever in the United States. Of the previous five cases, three occurred in Texas in infants, two in 1955 and the other in 1983. The fourth case occurred in a 56-year-old California woman in 1982. The fifth case occurred in rural Tennessee in 1998 in an 18-month-old child. The bug was found in the child's crib, and the infection was detected by PCR and treated during the acute stage. Another case of an infant in Texas is currently under investigation.

Obama: "Do Not Tell Me That We're Not Drilling. We're Drilling All Over This Country" | RealClearPolitics

"So do not tell me that we're not drilling. We're drilling all over this country. There are a few spots we're not drilling. We're not drilling in the national mall. We're not drilling at your house. "

Flashback: President Obama Knocks “Drill, Baby, Drill” in Energy Policy Speech | Conservatives4Palin

Exclusive: U.S., Britain to agree emergency oil stocks release | Reuters

(Reuters) - Britain has decided to cooperate with the United States in a bilateral agreement to release strategic oil stocks, two British sources said, in an effort to prevent high fuel prices derailing economic growth in a U.S. election year.

Lower Heating Bills: A Positive Benefit to Global Warming?

the bad rap pinned on global warming is being tempered by the fact that millions of Americans are saving hundreds of dollars this winter on home heating costs

10 Reasons Why Fisker May Be Worse Than Solyndra | National Legal and Policy Center

It doesn’t stop there – other undeserving, failed companies like Abound Solar, Ener1, and Beacon Power have received taxpayer grants or backing from DOE under Secretary Chu. The administration of stimulus funds on his watch has been inept at best and corrupt at worst. With his bungling on the gas prices issue, he is both a political and practical liability.

He is, however, the perfect representation of the administration’s priorities and practices. He truly needs to leave, but he’s not the only one.

Chu’s Performance Review: Way Below Expectations

The real question is why Chu and his DOE allowed for such shoddy and irresponsible lending.  The green-tech stimulus plan was a major component in President Obama’s jobs-stimulus bill, and that created considerable pressure to produce winners, even perhaps where none exists.  Political connections existed with Solyndra specifically, but the DOE may have felt political pressure to sign off on loans quickly in order to get Obama’s stimulus started.

Regardless of the reason, the DOE under Chu has been anything but a careful steward of taxpayer money.  Rather than give himself an A-minus, Chu should offer his resignation instead, and Congress should probe exactly why the Obama administration conducted its own irresponsible lending and left taxpayers holding the bag yet again.

Spring Comes Early to Minnesota and Everybody Loves It! - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Painting with Time: Climate Change iPad App Released | JunkScience.com

The perfect ap for our times: climate whiner Katharine Hayhoe was the “content consultant” and the ap features “Painting Time and Slicing Time manipulation modes.”

Obama’s Aspiration for America: Better Gas Mileage | JunkScience.com

Wind, solar and biofuels, too, oh boy!

Big Green Wants To Repeal the Industrial Revolution

An in-depth study of environmental groups’ energy-related goals as posted on their websites’ shows that there is not an energy project they like. In short, they want to “kill,” “block,” and “deny.” The only thing they want to expand is moratoriums.

I wonder if climate hoax promoter Michael Mann is "encouraged" by this Daily Kos polling?

The Hockey Stick Chronicles: An Insider's Look at the 'Climate Wars' | Michael Mann | LiveScience

I'm encouraged by some of the public polling I've seen recently that suggests that the public is increasingly accepting the reality of human-caused climate change.

Daily Kos: Michael Mann is a Modern Hero and we need to acknowledge that!

Michael Mann

	did not choose to became a symbol
0%	10 votes
	has been attacked in many of the same ways that the President and John Kerry were
0%	6 votes
	Is an outstanding scientist and human being
0%	8 votes
	all of the above
1%	36 votes
	is distorting evidence to prove his point
72%	2427 votes
	should be fired from the university
26%	880 votes

Bioengineer humans to tackle climate change, say philosophers | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

What do you say to those who are claiming you and your fellow authors are "eco Nazis", "eugenicists" etc, for publishing this paper?

Sandberg: Well, none of us are deep greens or totalitarian. We are fairly typical liberal academics thinking about the world. In fact, in my normal work with global catastrophic risks at the Future of Humanity Institute, climate change is at the lower end of concern. Certainly a problem, but unlikely to wipe out humanity. That probably disqualifies me from being an eco Nazi.
Certainly one can imagine nasty governments imposing various green policies on the population, forcing them to act in ways that benefit the environment. But our paper doesn't give them any particular ethical support: if you are willing to infringe on people's reproductory liberty, why not just prevent them from consuming as much as they want?  [Via Climate Depot]

NSF propaganda: In the Rocky Mountains, slight warmth is allegedly bad for flowers and butterflies

nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Early Spring Drives Butterfly Population Declines - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Early snowmelt caused by climate change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains snowballs into two chains of events: a decrease in the number of flowers, which, in turn, decreases available nectar. The result is decline in a population of the Mormon Fritillary butterfly, Speyeria mormonia.

Michael Mann suggests that he's "devoted his life to" the climate hoax; he also imagines a CO2-induced "nightmare scenario" which is "not all that different, in the worst-case scenarios, of the visions presented by Hollywood of a dystopian future Earth"

The Hockey Stick Chronicles: An Insider's Look at the 'Climate Wars' | Michael Mann | LiveScience

I was sort of an accidental and reluctant public figure in this debate, but through the experiences I've had along the way, I've found myself in a position where I can help inform the larger public discourse over human-caused climate change and what to do about it. I guess I feel fortunate to be in a position to inform that critical discussion. Being in the position to help ensure that we make the right choices so that our children and grandchildren inherit a healthy Earth, I couldn't imagine a more important issue to devote my life to.
...LiveScience: Do you have a nightmare scenario that you worry about if we let climate change go unchecked?
Mann: I do, and frankly it's that nightmare scenario encapsulated in my colleague James Hansen's characterization that if we proceed with business as usual we'll be leaving our children and grandchildren 'a different planet'. When you read some of the reports of national security experts about matters of food security, energy security, water security and the conflicts those issues could engender, it's not all that different, in the worst-case scenarios, of the visions presented by Hollywood of a dystopian future Earth.

Policy Based Evidence Making At Hansen U | Real Science

The Greenland ice sheet depresses the ground underneath it by thousands of feet, and thus sits in a deep depression. It can’t “collapse” or slide off into the sea. There are exposed fine grained sediment beaches all over the world, and some sit thousands of metres above sea level. Darwin observed this on his voyage. They have nothing to do with “collapsing” ice sheets, and don’t require scientists to rewrite history.

Hansen is training an army of nutjobs at Columbia to follow in his footsteps..

Romney: Outlaw regulatory agencies, like EPA, to be reined in | JunkScience.com

[Romney] From its takeover of the auto industry to its NLRB lawsuit against Boeing to its attempt to impose cap-and-trade against the will of Congress, the Administration too often treats our Constitution and our laws as inconveniences standing in the way of their agenda

C3: Global Warming Scam: Arctic Experts Determine That Total of 72 Decades Had Polar Warming Greater Than Modern Era

With infamous science scandals like Fakegate and Climategate making constant headlines, the credence of the global warming scam is bolstered - and now, hysterical claims, such as of the modern polar warming "death spiral," are being exposed

Examining the lifecycle of a bike – and its green credentials | Kat Austen | Environment | guardian.co.uk

When it comes to emissions from cycling, the carbon dioxide that comes out of your average pair of lungs is far less than that of a car or bus.

...Emissions from producing steel should not be ignored – the World Steel Association states that approximately 1.9 tonnes of carbon dioxide is produced for every tonne of steel, so a fairly light frame is still going to be responsible for over 5kg of CO2, even before it is manufactured into tubes, welded into shape or shipped.

Why not hold your breath while pedaling a wooden bike?

Romney: Coal ‘not a four-letter word’ in Romney administration — Oil & gas exploration to be ‘dramatically accelerated’ | JunkScience.com

Romney: All Obama-era regulations to be reviewed — EPA Utility MACT ‘perfect example of a rule that makes no sense’ | JunkScience.com

Romney: Would impose a ‘regulatory cap of zero dollars’ — No additional regulatory costs at this time | JunkScience.com

Romney responded:

The federal government has become a sprawling and largely unaccountable bureaucracy. To rein it back in, I believe we need both strong presidential leadership and sensible reform. As President, I will appoint cabinet heads and regulators who understand the needs of the American people and who see their own role as to get Washington out of the way wherever possible. I will also return the power to makes law back to Congress, where it belongs. I will ensure that every major new regulation faces an up-or-down vote in Congress. And I will impose a regulatory cap of zero dollars: if an agency wants to impose a new rule that imposes new costs on the economy, it will need to find other regulations of equivalent cost to remove. Our economy simply cannot afford any additional regulatory costs at this time.

600% Of Normal Permanent Drought Coming To Arizona, California, Texas And Oklahoma | Real Science

Romney: ‘CO2 not a pollutant’ — Will seek to amend Clean Air Act to clarify | JunkScience.com

Climate change week: can Attenborough jnr's 24-hour climate change play make a difference? - Telegraph

Global warming and climate change were hot topics about three or four years
ago and they seem to have been replaced, among other things, by the
recession, unemployment and university fees. I think that Climate Week as a
whole will reawaken the debate.

Lateline - 15/03/2012: Climate scientist slams orchestrated assault on science

Mann says he's the central object of attack in what some have characterised as the best funded, most carefully orchestrated assault on science the world has known.

The denier: A Montana mechanic throws a wrench into the climate consensus — The Daily Climate

Poetry is perhaps the last thing you'd expect from a denier website, even more so when you learn the author is a mechanic turning wrenches in Helena, Mont. 
But poetry is what you find on Bruce A. Kershaw's attack on established climate science, CO2u.info. 
It's the denier canon, in verse. 

Europe Won’t Back Down on Aviation Carbon Trading, Eneco Says | JunkScience.com

The colossal arrogance – “Ultimately, airlines are not suffering that much” Well stuff you Goldilocks – why should they suffer extrasovereign taxation at all?

Further Evidence Of The Failure Of Multi-Decadal Regional Climate Predictions To By Of Value To The Impacts Communities | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Those who present multi-decadal regional climate model results to the impact (stakeholder) community without also communicating that they have no predictive skill (or provide evidence to the contrary) are quilty of climate science malpractice.

D.C. Climate Trauma: Too-early cherry blossoms | JunkScience.com

he District’s cherry trees could be blooming 29 days earlier by 2080

Screenshot of 1990's United States Department of Energy Report with ratio of Man Made and Natural CO2 sources. | Climate Realists

Climate Lessons: Teaching Point on Climate Data Analysis: for rigour and thoroughness, look to the outsiders, not the ‘authorities’.

Obama Was For Skyrocketing Energy Prices Before He Was Against Them Before He Was For Them Before He Was Against Them | Real Science

1952 Droughtflood In Texas | Real Science

Record rain after record drought. A sure sign of low CO2 global weirding. We must never let CO2 get that low again.

Articles: Solar Energy: Popular but Corrupt

California venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is one of Fisker's larger investors.  Al Gore is a Kleiner Perkins senior partner.  Top Kleiner Perkins executives have given more than a million dollars to federal candidates and parties since 1991, most of it going to Democrats.  Obama himself has received $19,000 from Kleiner Perkins employees.  John Doerr, a Kleiner Perkins partner, currently sits on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and he hosted Obama at his home for a dinner with top Silicon Valley executives...

Are we connecting the dots yet?  Crony capitalism and political payback in the form of green energy company subsidies (spelled "bailouts at taxpayer expense") continue.  And Obama wants four more years to route taxpayer-funded subsidies to people who donate to his re-election campaign.

Science Educators Troubled by Heartland's Climate Curriculum and Author's Credentials | InsideClimate News

McCaffrey said the problem is that the curriculum creates debate where there isn't one.

ADVISORY-Shell climate change litigation story withdrawn - AlertNet

LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - Please be advised that the story headlined "Shell says being sued for causing climate change" is wrong. The reference made by the company in its annual report referred to lawsuits that are already in the public domain.

NASA on the snow and the mild winter – AGW not mentioned | Watts Up With That?

Despite the wailings at various blogs and news outlets about this mild winter in the USA being the result of global warming, NASA says otherwise. Not a mention of AGW, CO2, or any of that blame game can be found in their summary, just AO patterns and La Niña.

WashTimes: Global warming greed | JunkScience.com

How funny was Sen. Al Franken this week in trying to justify “clean energy.”

SIGN OF THE TIMES | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

Take a look at Sydney’s Warragamba Dam in 2005, complete with an ominous Greenpeace banner: “This is what climate change looks like.”

Strangely, we haven’t seen that particular banner for a few years now. Possibly it is now concealed by millions of tonnes of water.