Clueless high-flying, mansion-dwelling left-winger Thomas Friedman suggests that carbon dioxide caused Arab Spring

The Other Arab Spring - NYTimes.com

The Arab awakening was driven not only by political and economic stresses, but, less visibly, by environmental, population and climate stresses as well...Well, you may not be interested in climate change, but climate change is interested in you.

Folks, this is not a hoax. We and the Arabs need to figure out — and fast — more ways to partner to mitigate the environmental threats where we can and to build greater resiliency against those where we can’t. Twenty years from now, this could be all that we’re talking about.

Warmists try unsuccessfully to spin nice spring weather as a harbinger of doom, with allegedly higher crime, more bike accidents, etc

Sunny Days Are Here Again But Is That Good? - NPR

Apr 7, 2012 (All Things Considered) — Throughout the month of March, you have probably heard stories on your local news about what seems like an early spring and unusually warm temperatures. While it might be time to lie on a blanket in the park, climate scientists are worried. They say all these sunny days are actually an extreme weather event, one with local and global implications.

...While it might be time to lie on a blanket in the park, climate scientists are worried. They say all these sunny days are actually an extreme weather event, one with local and global implications...You might also see higher crime, says Martin Flask, director of public safety in Cleveland.

Flask says people are out, it's light later in the day and there are more children playing. Even though, in the long term, crime is trending downward in Cleveland, homicides and burglaries are up compared to this time last year.

...Scientists say we'll probably see more mosquitoes, more Lyme disease and more accidents, since people are outside more biking, hiking and driving.

...Climatologist Heidi Cullen with the research organization Climate Central has been closely following the spring heat. She tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan that it's hard to get a sense of how big of a deal the so-called "warm wave" was, because it was so nice.

"We were breaking records by upwards of 40 degrees in some places," Cullen says, who is also the author of The Weather of the Future. "It was this really ironic, extreme weather event because it was like, 'I'm loving this,' but at the same time it was incredibly unusual."

...Though scientists are hesitant to link tornado outbreaks, like those that struck near Dallas, Texas this week, to climate change, Cullen says it is fair to say that warmer weather creates extreme weather.

8-story-deep avalanche buries 117 Pakistani soldiers

An avalanche up to 80 feet (21 meters) deep slammed into a Pakistani military camp burying at least 117 soldiers, the army said Saturday.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper: Extreme weather was as common during Medieval Warming Period & Little Ice Age

A paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds that, contrary to AGW predictions, the frequency and severity of weather extremes was similar to the present during the Medieval Warming Period and Little Ice Age.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: California declares war on single family, detached homes to 'save the planet'

Earth Day 2012 – A continual State of Denial - Rochester Environmental News | Examiner.com

Denial is the belief that the best way to handle Climate Change is to act on things you think might adapt to and mitigate Climate Change, like encouraging active transportation and changing your light bulbs, while remaining too timid to use the word.  (This is becoming a favorite tactic of environmental groups who think the public is becoming tired of Climate Change and using the phrase might turn their audiences off.)

Images From The Winter That Wasn’t | Real Science

Maple syrup part of [propaganda] on climate change | News | Chronicle

Ontario teachers are being invited to sweeten their instruction on the impacts of climate change with some new lessons created by a team of researchers at Laurier Brantford.

Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid? - IPS ipsnews.net

BANGKOK, Apr 7, 2012 (IPS) - With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.

''POLAR CITY RED'', the book, 'cli-fi' goes sci-fi, by JIM LAUGHTER

"Hello, my name is Jim Laughter. I'm the author of a new climate thrillerPOLAR CITY RED, set to release on April 22, 2012, in conjunction with Earth Day. POLAR CITY RED is the story of average people surviving in an extraordinary place:  a city carved out of the frozen northern tundra along the Arctic Circle after global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raising the sea level several feet and making most of the Earth's surface uninhabitable."

NASA Scientist: Climate Change Is a Moral Matter, Like Slavery - Erika Johnsen

It is truly amazing to me that conservatives are so often dismissively labeled as "extremists," "radicals," and plain old "crazy," while leftists constantly reward their own for tossing around intellectually cheap and practically deranged statements like this one. No, global warming does not share a moral basis with slavery: slavery is fundamentally, philosophically wrong, while climate change is based on the conflicting claims of a not-personally-disinterested scientific community -- and personally, I think our crushingly unsustainable rate of spending and debt accrual is a much larger travesty for future generations than our energy usage.

Greenland Ice Sheet Webcam Getting Buried In Snow | Real Science

Six Straight Months Below Freezing | Real Science

The last time Ojmjakon, Russia was above freezing during the winter that wasn’t was October 5, 2011.

It is currently -21C there and no indication of above freezing temperatures any time in the near future.

Little Ice Age Was The Coldest Period For 10000 Years « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

We regularly hear claims of “record breaking” and “unprecedented” temperatures in Arctic regions. However, as the records usually only go back to the 19th C, these statements are pretty meaningless.

There are in fact many scientific studies that show the Little Ice Age, which came to end in the late 19th C, was the coldest period in these regions for maybe 10000 years.

Extraordinary Hansen et al Paper | Planet3.0

Before getting into the meat of the matter I wanted to fire off a quick note about Hansen’s method of publication is. Getting a paper into arxiv is simply a matter of uploading it. Why not submit this to peer review? Well, having Hansen as first author confers a credibility comparable to publishing in a top flight journal. I think we can already consider this paper part of the scientific literature.

The Greatest Challenge of Our Species - NYTimes.com

In the United States, in particular (but not exclusively), far too much attention has been given to the non-issue of whether climate change is real or not. In the meantime the heating of the atmosphere proceeds inexorably, the Arctic ice has thinned and retreated at its summer low to a point that it might be tied to the exceptionally warm spring in Europe and North America. Spring bloom has erupted early in North America and Europe. Most people just say how nice the weather is with no sense of the march of climate change.

Twitter / @BigJoeBastardi: Nasa scientist: climate ch ...

Nasa scientist: climate change is a moral issue on a par with slavery gu.com/p/36y96/tw via @guardian This is lunacy of the 1st order

FCO splashes millions on Johnny Foreigner's energy 'awareness' • The Register

Something unpleasant emerges from reading the list. There's the assumption that Johnny Foreigner is really a bit thick, and needs constant chiding and chivvying to "raise" their "awareness". The idea that recipient nations might be well "aware" of climate change, but have decided to place it very low down on their political agenda - much as President Obama has done - does not seem to penetrate the mind of the climate change bureaucrat. This is deeply patronising, and strongly reminiscent of imperialism.

But in the face of complete indifference (and even contempt) from the rest of the world, the bureaucrats plough on. The FCO regards "climate change" as an issue that gives Britain world leadership. But nobody's following us; with the collapse of any prospect of global carbon reduction treaties, the purpose of the funding is moot. Climate change now exists as a cause whose sole purpose is to propagate itself - it's a money-go-round.

The hockey stick and the climatologist: An evening with Michael Mann | Mountain Xpress | Asheville, NC

A small security team escorted Mann.

Leyne: Liberals shift course on carbon tax

it's backed down on the contentious issue of requiring school districts to pay carbon offsets.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard pays out lump sum cash bonuses for families as carbon tax compo | thetelegraph.com.au

CASH bonuses for families of up to $100 per child and $250 for pensioners will be deposited in voters' bank accounts within weeks as the Gillard government fights a public backlash over the carbon tax.

But taxpayers will be forced to pick up the tab for a public education campaign with a multi-million dollar advertising blitz in the pipeline.

It's all so confusing: As the people of the Maldives allegedly face CO2-induced death, they're also building a huge new airport and spending $500 mllion on a complex that includes an 18-hole floating golf course?

Architects’ answer to rising seas: Floating homes

The Thai capital is also among the mega coastal cities projected by the end of this century to lie totally or partially under water as global warming boosts sea levels, according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Others include Tokyo, London, Jakarta, Sydney and Shanghai—an apocalyptic prospect of mass migrations and economic crises.

...In the Maldives, Waterstudio has designed a network of floating islands, the first to be put in place next year, to accommodate hotels, a convention center, yacht club and villas.

The “islands,” secured by steel cables, are made up of pontoons with a foam core encased in concrete that can be joined together like Lego blocks. An 18-hole golf course will also be set on such platforms, each with two to three holes, connected by underwater tunnels.

The $500-million project, paid for by the Maldivian government and private investors, is set for completion in 2015.

Mar. 2012:  Triumph, Tragedy And Climate Change: ‘The Island President’ | ThinkProgress

When asked by a reporter what was his plan B, should there be no action to slow global warming, Nasheed responds, “We will die.”

2010: Maldives Plans For Drowning By Building Huge New Airport Next To The Ocean | Real Science

They are obviously really worried about global warming and sea level rise and any other way to scam money out of stupid bankrupt western governments.

Scott signs Florida cape and trade law repeal | GoErie.com/Erie Times-News

Scott signed the bill (HB 4001) on Friday.

The law was never implemented since the Legislature passed it in 2008 at the urging of then-Gov. Charlie Crist.

Lib Logic: Global Warming Skeptics are Crazy Racists - Daniel J. Mitchell

IPCC 1990 : On Sea Level | Real Science

The average rate of rise over the last 100 years has been 1 0 - 2 0 mm yr  There is no firm evidence of accelerations in sea level rise during this century.

Did The IPCC Predict “freakish, violent weather” ? | Real Science

I must have missed the IPCC report which predicted global weirding. There were at least twice as many tornadoes in February 1971 (at the peak of the global cooling scare) as in February 2012.

NY Times disses climate models: "the climate changes in ways we can barely project"; people in wealthy countries allegedly have an "unsustainably high calorie intake"; CO2 allegedly requires "a new vision of how we farm and how we eat"

Sustainably Feeding a Changing World - NYTimes.com

One of the biggest challenges facing this planet isn’t simply feeding a growing population — perhaps as many as 10 billion by the year 2100. The challenge is feeding all those people as the climate changes in ways we can barely project. A new report called “Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change” illustrates the complexity of the problem and makes clear that action must be taken soon to address it.

Commissioned by Cgiar — a research alliance financed by the United Nations and the World Bank — it recommends essential changes in the way we think about farming, food and equitable access to it, and the way these things affect climate change.

It is tempting to assume that expanding agricultural acreage and using new technology, like genetically engineered crops, will somehow save the day. The report says that efficiency and sustainability will also require fundamental changes in how we grow and consume food: reducing waste in production and distribution and finding ways to farm that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and other “negative environmental impacts of agriculture,” like soil loss and water pollution. The report also calls for better dietary habits in wealthy countries, which have a disproportionately and unsustainably high calorie intake, and targeted aid to populations whose farming is most at risk.

These are complex goals that require a new vision of how we farm and how we eat, a vision of how to take better care of this planet’s biological resources and live equitably within our planetary means.

- Bishop Hill blog - The implications of Hansen's tax

By coincidence, the Guardian carries a preview of the speech James Hansen will give in Edinburgh next week (I will be in attendance). Hansen is going to use the platform to issue a call for a global carbon tax. It seems hard to envisage any way this would be brought about without some form of global government/governance. I imagine this would be something along the lines of the UN - a huge bureaucracy nominally answerable to national governments but in practice entirely unaccountable.

Jonah Goldberg: Obama energy policy: very few of the above | JunkScience.com

In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get re-elected.

MUST SEE YOUTUBE: Alex Jones: Marc Morano: YouTube Now Banning Videos Critical of Global Warming Alarmism | Climate Realists

Alex Jones gets an update from Marc Morano concerning their recent (4-2-12) Nightly News Interview that was banned by You Tube over some nebulous community guidelines violation. In this country you are not allowed to have a discussion about University Professors who call for your "treatment" if you don't worship on the alter of the now disproved theory of anthropogenic global warming and or climate change. Once they take our free speech tyranny is just around the corner.

Does It Matter If Electric Car Maker Fisker Fails? - Technology Review

Tesla and new fuel-economy standards have already jump-started battery-powered vehicles.

Global warming supplement in Monday’s Patriot Ledger - Quincy, MA - The Patriot Ledger

The 16-page supplement, “Save the Earth,” is a publication of GateHouse Media New England, The Patriot Ledger’s parent company, and is sponsored by National Grid.

The supplement will feature hands-on activities geared toward children, to teach the value of recycling and the ways human behavior can impact the environment. It is being published in recognition of Earth Day. The insert also provides topics for class discussion.

It's Holy Week in the Arctic Circle | News Virginian

The temperature there recently was 52 degrees—below zero.

A Change Of Definition | Real Science

During the 1930s, extreme weather might have been considered nine straight years of drought, crops drying up, massive dust storms, record heatwaves and record cold, and having to move your family to California to avoid starvation.

Now Dick Durbin defines a warm, pleasant March as being extreme weather.

Energy Department prepares to approve more green loans | JunkScience.com

The Energy Department said Thursday it expects to begin tentatively approving new taxpayer-backed loans for renewable energy projects in the coming months.

UN Cuts Emerging-Nation Carbon Out of EU, Sindicatum Says | JunkScience.com

United Nations regulators are probably cutting emission projects out of the European market by failing to reform processes fast enough and by changing existing rules, said Sindicatum Sustainable Resources Group Ltd.

Environmentalists feeling burned by rush to build solar projects | JunkScience.com

Local activists say national groups, focused on renewable energy, ignore projects’ threat to the Mojave.

Peter Foster: Onto the sustainable scrap heap | JunkScience.com

If any group has ‘sustainable’ in its name, Ottawa should end its funding

Articles: 'Fakegate': Climate Change Fanatics Wage War on Dissenters

Bast subsequently told me: "The Left has attacked our donors before, but never had a list, and never had a fake memo to use that made it sound like we were truly evil and deliberately misleading people about our program.  That's what Fakegate provided...and the wacky Left let loose the hounds at "Forecast the Facts."

The ugly battle between rural residents and alternative energy mandates in California | Watts Up With That?

Seems the Mojave evictions WERE to make way for solar and wind projects

Uttered in 2008, still haunting Obama - POLITICO.com Print View

The White House denies that Obama’s aim is to deliver the death blow to coal.

When ExxonMobil embraced the job-killing carbon tax | Edmonton Journal

ExxonMobil lobbyists even created a Powerpoint presentation they would tote around congressional offices arguing in favour of the carbon tax.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Gore's Current TV now claims its former anchor 'specialized in pounding the table' without facts on his side

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Sea levels rose 15 times faster 14,600 years ago

According to a paper just published in Nature, global sea levels rose between 14 to 18 meters over a period of not more than 340 years during the last deglaciation from 14,650 to 14,310 years ago. This equates to ~0.47 m/yr or 47 mm/yr, an entirely natural change more than 15 times faster than the 3.1 mm/yr rate of global sea level rise  reported since 1993. 

Smoking Gun : EPA Busted For Glacier Fraud | Real Science

Now here is the real kicker.

...For nearly two centuries before 1941, Muir Glacier had been retreating.

Some Ecosystems More Resilient To Global Warming Than Previously Believed

Study suggests global warming may have less of an impact on runoff and stream flows in drier areas than previously believed

EU Lawmakers Divided On Approach To Take On Shale Gas

"Domestic production of shale gas will contribute to security of supply, bearing in mind member states' dependence on natural gas imports from third countries," the parliament's energy committee's draft report read. "Developing shale gas in the EU will help achieve the EU's goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions" in the long term, it added.

Do Global Warming Skeptics Have a Case?

After reading this piece over at Mises.org, by David M.W. Evans, I’d have to say yes. The climate change models proposed by global warming alarmists aren’t holding up well.

Twitter / @Jeff_d_corbin: @MichaelEMann we had a sma ...

@MichaelEMann we had a small-scale dust up with Climate Deniers at #unioncollege : #ClimateChange j.mp/HX6HwC

Maligned 'Hockey Stick' Climatologist Strikes Back

Now Mann is in effect taking the hockey stick and striking back at his critics.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: Sudden ramp-up in abusive, ...

Sudden ramp-up in abusive, drive-by "one star" shootings at my book "The Hockey Stick & The Climate Wars" #HSCW fb.me/19m9zHx0E

Europe sees heavy strain on electric distribution system through harsh winter

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, or ENTSO-E, noted that this past winter saw the lowest temperatures and highest levels of snowfall for decades throughout many parts of the European Union.

Political activist James Hansen wants to take critical power out of the hands of anyone who might vote for politicians who oppose Hansen's favored policies

Nasa [junk] scientist: climate change is a moral issue on a par with slavery | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Under the global carbon tax proposal, the mechanisms for controlling fossil fuel use would be taken out of the hands of individual states influenced by energy companies, and politicians anxious about winning elections.

Healing the planet: Obama Defense Secretary Panetta suggests that CO2 emissions "can create chaos" and "threaten American's national security"; also "negotiated his right to commute home to California nearly every weekend using a military equivalent of a Gulfstream jet"

Panetta paid $17K for $860K commute to California - Washington Times

Amid fallout over a lavish General Services Administration conference that cost top officials at the agency their jobs, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta late Thursday admitted to paying just $17,000 for his commuting costs for 27 trips back to his Monterey, Calif., home on a military aircraft.

Before accepting the job as defense secretary, Mr. Panetta negotiated his right to commute home to California nearly every weekend using a military equivalent of a Gulfstream jet, as his job as Pentagon chief requires him to do.

The trips cost the government as much as $860,000, and Mr. Panetta paid about $630 per trip for a roundtrip flight that costs the Pentagon about $32,000, defense officials told the Associated Press.

March 5, 2012:  U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Climate Change and National Security « The Center for Climate & Security

[Panetta] For example, when we incur greater droughts, when we incur areas that in fact have less rain and are incurring unusual climate impacts, it creates obviously an impact in terms of the population.  It’s something we have to be aware of because that can create chaos.  We’ve seen that happen in Africa.  We’ve seen that happen in other parts of the world.  So we need to have that kind of intelligence.

...So from an intelligence point of view, it’s important for us to keep track of those trends.  You know, this isn’t about the battle of climate change and the issues related to that.  This is about what we are seeing happen and the intelligence that flows from that.  And that is important for us to consider as we look at issues that can threaten America’s national security.  (Applause.)

Climate change could give you rabies | Grist

If rabid environmental activists don’t get their way, the rest of us might end up rabid too. This year’s drought is leading to a huge jump in rabies rates in stricken states, and climate change will only make it worse.

Veterinary Public Health - Rabies Control Manual Introduction - Los Angeles County

the incidence of human cases in the US has declined markedly over several decades

Twitter / @keithkloor: Lots of feisty push-back f ...

Lots of feisty push-back from climate skeptics on claim they are ideologically/politically driven. See here: bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2012/4/6/…

“100 metres” Williams: out by 97m and several centuries | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Still, I should be grateful. It’s alarmists such as Williams who, I believe, not only created the panic but by their wild claims sowed the seeds for the inevitable scepticism to follow

Obama: GOP would ‘poison’ kids with pollution | JunkScience.com

President Obama suggested this evening that the Republican governing agenda will lead to “poisoning our kids” with pollution.

The Dessler Effect | Real Science

Warmist Mike Lanza hates your grandchildren: Convinced that CO2 emissions are going to destroy our national parks, he embarks on an intensely selfish program of completely unnecessary fossil-fueled travel

Hot on the trail: Exploring parks threatened by climate change | Grist

When writer and outdoorsman Mike Lanza realized climate change was staking a full-scale assault on our most beloved national parks, he didn’t just lament about how his kids wouldn’t get to experience them the way he did. Instead, he saddled up his entire family — wife Penny, son Nate, 10, and daughter Alex, 7 — with packs, kayaks, and climbing gear and embarked on a year-long mission to visit them all. His new book Before They’re Gone: A Family’s Year-Long Quest to explore America’s Most Endangered National Parks chronicles the adventure....(some trips involved flights and lodging)

...Q. Getting to all these places obviously required a lot of carbon. Did that ever trouble you?

A. Yes. I’m kind of a nut about energy consumption...We’re planning a family climbing trip to the City of Rocks in June, a nine-day hut trek in Norway in July, and a four-day backpacking trip in the Wind River Range in August.

Australia's trees may die in 35 years, 100% more CO2 to blame

The warnings of Dr. Seuss' iconic character the Lorax may have come too late: reports out of Australia suggest that the country's native trees may not be able to survive climate change.

According to an article published by the Sydney Morning Herald, experts say that the levels of CO2 could nearly double over the next 35 years. Such a major change in CO2 levels may simply be too much for trees to process effectively.

That'll look great on the ol' resume: "Scientific" American's David Biello to moderate a panel at "Feeding the World While the Earth Cooks" event on April 12

Feeding the World While the Earth Cooks | NewAmerica.net

When today’s toddlers are parents themselves, they will face an agricultural crisis. The world population will reach 9 billion. A growing global middle class will demand more food. And climate change will leave farmers holding seeds that won’t sprout.  By 2050, will our global appetite outgrow our agricultural capacity?
              Moderator:
              David Biello - @dbiello
              Associate Editor for environment and energy, Scientific American

You Could Not Make It Up: Hilton awards film about fight against climate change by Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY | Climate Realists

http://m.climaterealists.com/?id=9409
Nasheed had committed to making the Maldives a carbon-neutral country by 2020. Now that is up in the air.

Soylent Green, climate change, and overpopulation. [VIDEO]

http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/04/06/soylent_green_climate_change_and_overpopulation_video_.html
Most reading those predictions now will scoff. That's the danger in of the direst warnings about climate change or other challenges just over the horizon: If predictions don't come to pass, people can end up dismissing very real problems. Climate-change denialists, in particular, can seize on failed predictions as proof that the phenomenon isn't real. Scare-mongering that is meant to inspire may end up doing the very opposite.

Surber: Too many polar bears

http://junkscience.com/2012/04/06/surber-too-many-polar-bears/

That means that Al Gore is wrong. James Hansen is wrong. Michael Mann is wrong. Phil Jones is wrong. Andrew Revkin is wrong. All those smarmy, self-righteous, sanctimonious and insufferable jerks who use pseudo-science to push their stealth socialism to save the planet are dead wrong.

Global warming is not killing off polar bears…

Lawrence Solomon: Dare to question establishment science

http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/fp-comment/blog.html?b=opinion.financialpost.com/2012/04/06/lawrence-solomon-dare-to-question-establishment-science

Well-informed conservatives realize that much of what passes for science today is deeply compromised

CHINA TO DROP SOLAR ENERGY TO FOCUS ON NUCLEAR POWER

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China will accelerate the use of new-energy sources such as nuclear energy and put an end to blind expansion in industries such as solar energy and wind power in 2012, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says in a government report published on March 5.

Environmental groups throw weight behind new clean air rules with ads in VA - Richmond Progressive | Examiner.com

have opponents of the new federal limits become so brazen as to suggest that coal-fired power plants do not play a significant role in wrecking human lives with debilitating and deadly illnesses?

France Calls For Retreat On EU Carbon Tax | JunkScience.com

EUROPE’s attempt to cut aviation [emissions] was faltering yesterday as France called on Brussels to surrender in the face of protests around the world.

Hudson Bay polar bear numbers increase - North - CBC News

A recent aerial survey of Western Hudson Bay polar bears shows the population has increased slightly to about 1,000 animals, according to the Government of Nunavut.

Are We On the Cusp of Global Cooling and Growing Ice | The Next Grand Minimum

Annual ice growing is how ice ages get started.  We need to see how much ice melts this summer and the ice growth in the winter of 2013. Stay Tuned!

Blizzard warning for Montana

Hard freeze for California

“This sounds like mid winter !” says reader Kenneth Lund

climate change vs. Easter bunnies - latimes.com

The culprit is climate change, and the folks at Climate Nexus found that rising temperatures are having adverse effects on at least five species of rabbit in the U.S.

The Self-Regulation Of The Boreal Forest Tree Line – Another Climate Issue That Was Inadequately Examined In The 2007 IPCC Reports | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The observed limited movement of the boreal tree line is yet another example of the failure of the IPCC and other such climate assessments to recognize important climate feedbacks in the dynamics of the climate system.

The Reference Frame: Hansen: AGW global tax as important as slavery

The comparison with slavery is particularly ironic because Hansen's plan to introduce a global tax is nothing else than a form of slavery, a method for a self-appointed groups of alarmists to steal money from those who actually work, from those who are creating the values for mankind which often if not usually requires to emit CO2, the gas we call life, along the way, and to force them to work even more intensely in order to compensate for the money lost through the tax.

2008 : Three Stooges Arctic Expedition | Real Science

Mark Serreze (Larry) predicted that the North Pole would be ice free in 2008. This prompted Lewis Pugh (Moe) to try to kayak there.

Jo Nova: Satellites show a warmer Earth is releasing extra energy to space | JunkScience.com

(I’m revisiting older important papers and setting up resource pages, largely thanks to Tony Cox’s prodding. In this post I found it interesting that Lindzen’s work, which was so controversial because it proved the IPCC is wrong, was in many ways merely confirming earlier results. — Jo)

Eye-roller: Global Warming May Boost Britain’s Economy, Northern Europe | JunkScience.com

The UK in particular is set to benefit from an influx of skilled migrants, relocating from the countries hit hardest by global warming.

Darjeeling witnesses unusual 'white Easter' - Hindustan Times

Aftermath of Snowpocalypse crushes elementary school play area - The Cordova Times

EU says airline CO2 tax 'less than a coffee' - MSN Malaysia News | Top Stories, Breaking Headlines, Photos and Videos

The EU's climate commissioner played down the impact of the controversial carbon tax being imposed by the bloc on airlines, saying Friday it would cost less than a cup of coffee per passenger.

ACT to get first taste of carbon tax

ACT residents will be among the first to feel the impact of the carbon tax with a proposed 17.22 per cent increase in regulated electricity prices.

Poll: Many conservatives doubt global warming | global, warming, among - News - The Orange County Register

Among Orange County Republicans polled, 69 percent say man does not contribute to global warming or that there is no global warming. Among Democrats here, 98 percent say man does contribute to global warming.

The Commentator - Follow the money. The morality of green funding

Jonathan Bracey-Gibbon undertakes a comprehensive takedown of warmists, alarmists and the false flag paper trails they cite. But where does the money really go?

Global Warming Hysteria: Indigenous People Are Poor, Not Good Examples » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Some global warming hysterics seek to make us all poor to save the planet. How else explain a National Geographic blogger named Stephen Leahy telling us that we should let indigenous people teach us how to live a low carbon lifestyle.

bizjournals mobile: Nashville: Savings come slowly for hybrid, electric car owners

Buyers who choose Nissan's all-electric Leaf ($28,421) over its approximate gas-powered equivalent, Nissan's Versa ($18,640), will likely wait nearly 9 years until they break even, according to a new report by The New York Times that examines the cost of fuel efficiency.

For drivers of the Chevrolet Volt ($31,767), the wait is even longer— 26.6 years.

The New Nostradamus of the North: NASA´s Hansen wants Al Gore to change his lifestyle?

Will we soon see Hansen´s pupil Al Gore - a member of the group of "the very rich and most profligate energy users, people with several homes, or private jets and fuel-hungry cars" - "dramatically" change his lifestyle and energy use?

Tulane University geologists chronicle acceleration in sea-level rise | JunkScience.com

This is their story and they’re sticking to it: “Sea-level rise along the Gulf Coast, including Louisiana, occurred at a much faster rate in the past 100 years than in the 1,000 years prior to the nation’s industrialization, according to a new study by Tulane University geologists.”

Alaska Has The Most Ice Ever Recorded | Real Science

Alaska has blown away all records for sea ice this winter. Four of the five iciest years around Alaska have been since 2007.  Look for the MSM to respond by publishing stories about drowning Polar Bears who can’t find any ice.

Climate Cult Of Morons In Illinois | Real Science

Floods have happened every few years in Illinois, for as long as people have been keeping records. Environment Illinois is just another superstitious global warming cult.

Judge dismisses two girls’ lawsuit about climate change | The girls and their mothers wanted Oregon to take more steps to protect the state from global warming

Lane County Circuit Judge Karsten Rasmussen ruled that the court lacks authority to order the actions sought by 11-year-old Olivia Chernaik and 15-year-old Kelsey Juliana, and their mothers, Lisa Chernaik and Catia Juliana.

Rasmussen also ruled that the matter is a political question, and that he would violate the Oregon Constitution’s separation of powers if he ordered the state to carry out a more aggressive plan to reduce carbon emissions than one adopted by the Legislature in 2007.

Today’s Green #NarrativeFail | Power Line

So in today’s #GreenFail news, it turns out a much-touted survey of college sustainability programs has proven to be, like, unsustainable, dude.  This is really going to harsh some mellows.  From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Althouse: "Keith Olbermann was disheartened to discover Al Gore, Joel Hyatt and the management of Current are no more than dilettantes portraying entertainment industry executives."

How could Keith have anticipated that Al Gore would turn out to be a big old fraud?!

Energy Department | Mobile Apps | Already Exist | The Daily Caller

The Department of Energy announced Thursday a $100,000 prize for software developers to come up with mobile applications to tell consumers how much energy they are using.

But there’s already an app for that.

A quick scan of the iTunes and Android markets shows nearly two dozen existing applications that accomplish the same purpose — helping users keep track of their energy consumption at home.

Derail this gravy train - The Washington Post

If the casino moguls want a train, let them build it with their own money; taxpayers shouldn’t have to go along for the ride.

U.S. News - Activists cry foul as Tenn. science education bill hits governor's desk

The bill says the goal of science education is to help students "develop critical thinking skills." It says the General Assembly has found "the teaching of some scientific subjects, including, but not limited to, biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning, can cause controversy" and says instructors should feel free to explore the "scientific weaknesses" in these theories.

.."As a science teacher I would say there is no controversy over evolution or climate change in the scientific literature," said DeSantis.

"Sure, we argue about the details. But these are core ideas … that are not controversial."

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper: Temperature records show 'predominantly natural fluctuations'

Update: Polar bear-gate investigation goes interagency | JunkScience.com

April snowstorm hits Moscow

Muscovites have already endured an unusually cold and long winter lasting five months. Russians consider that spring begins on March 1.

Quark Soup by David Appell: Kevin Trenberth on NPR

Kevin Trenberth was on NPR's Talk of the Nation today, talking about relationships between global warming and tornadoes (and a few other things). He didn't say anything too surprising. When asked he said he thinks the best way to keep a tab on global warming is by watching sea level, since it incorporates both ocean heat changes and the melting of land ice, and is less subject to short term variations. You can listen to him here (though it hasn't been posted yet as I write this).

[Where's the part about global warming giving us kidney stones?]:  Oil Scare Turns FedEx On To Energy Efficiency : NPR

Smith says he believes that six years from now, electric vehicles will be in wide commercial use, transporting everything from FedEx packages to plumbers and pizza.

...Smith says the discovery and unlocking of the vast amounts of natural gas in shale formations is a game changer.

"For the United States, it's been near providential," he says. "I think it offers us an opportunity to deal with a lot of issues that have been very difficult."

Gardeners should end their love affair with peat | Craig Sams | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Peat use emits 400,000 tonnes of carbon every year.

Lord Nicholas Stern, the economist, author of the Stern Review and government adviser on climate change, put a cost of £150 per tonne in the future for every tonne of carbon we emit today. So peat's contribution is £60m – every year. That's the price our grandchildren will pay just so that we can garden on the cheap today.

Olbermann sues Current TV for $50M, cites glitches - Business - msnbc.com

"Current's dysfunction permeated all levels of the organization," the lawsuit states. "After being on the air for nearly eight months — long after all 'growing pains' should have ceased — Current still couldn't manage to, literally, keep the lights on."  [Do we all still trust Al Gore to keep the world's lights on using generators powered by unicorn farts?]

The complaint describes a litany of technical issues, including shoddy equipment that wouldn't work if it rained, "terrible sound and filming" of the show, guests who were abruptly dropped from the air, busted teleprompters and an earpiece that malfunctioned.

Michael Mann presents at Warren Wilson College - YouTube

Polar Bears Hate Al Gore | Wizbang

The lesson is of course that you shouldn’t add a species to the endangered species on a gut feeling, or to push a political agenda, or because you believe they have to be in danger because these horrible things have to be happening.  The world is a complex place.  It’s easy to draw a box with a couple of arrows and say if A goes up, then B goes down.  But such simple relationships rarely hold in the real world.

Why The Hunger Games is no climate parable: A science fiction pro explains | Grist

The environmental community is starved for decent fiction parables for the fears that we have, but it still feels like I have a lot of territory to myself when I’m writing about these topics. It’s interesting to me that there isn’t a whole spate of global warming books.

Twitter / @RyanMaue: Spring really stinks in Mo ...

Spring really stinks in Monterey -- another trough probably on way for next weekend. Highs in 50s is no way to live. policlimate.com/weather/curren…

Twitter / @grist: If everyone used as much e ...

If everyone used as much energy as Americans, we’d run out of oil in 9 years bit.ly/HkUjTC

How long would it last if we all used energy like Barack Obama's immediate family?

Must Read: The Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature | JunkScience.com

President Obama is not the first would-be or actual dictator to fight climate change — only the latest.

POWERING THE FUTURE: ICYMI: Killing Coal

But great news: The EPA estimates that the total cost of this rule will be $0. It will have no major effect on the economy. Not a single job will be lost.

How can that be? In its cost estimates, the EPA assumes the U.S. will never complete another coal-fired project. Ever. The agency is conceding that coal development has been shut down as a result of its many new regulations, such as the recent mercury rule and the illegal permitting delays that a federal appeals court slapped down last week.

New U.S. Population-Adjusted Temperature Dataset (PDAT), 1973-2012 « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

Significant, the population adjustment erases essentially all of the U.S. warming over the last 40 years.

Warning Signs: The Utter Desperation of Global Warmists

The warmists are increasingly desperate as their dreams of global domination are falling apart.

In Europe and here in America all their schemes to replace the real production of electricity with solar panels and wind turbines are being rejected. Their plans for herding populations into cities and onto mass transit meet with resistance. Parents are objecting to their eco-curricula in schools. Al Gore has become a joke.

Consider this, if they were in charge, anyone who voiced dissent from their global warming-climate change lies would be in concentration camps, undergoing “re-education”, being “treated” with mind-altering drugs, or dead.

Arguing That Republicans Aren't Science Deniers, S.E. Cupp Says Climate Change Is 'Phony Studies' | ThinkProgress

Arguing that Republicans don’t reflexively deny scientific facts, conservative MSNBC commentator S.E. Cupp repeated Climategate smears against climate science. Cupp was attacking the premise of author and Science Progress contributor Chris Mooney’s new book, The Republican Brain, which looks at how conservative propaganda and ideological tendencies have led to increasing distrust in science among the American right.

Some Climate Scientists Make Overtures to Their Critics | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

“Almost everyone that dismisses climate change as a problem does it for ideological or political reasons, not for scientific reasons,” [warmist Scott Denning] said. “We scientists need to recognize that.”

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: European carbon prices tumble to record low

The fall in prices has created incentives for burning more coal for electricity generation in Europe. According to the U.K.'s natural gas and power network operator, National Grid PLC, coal accounted for 46% of generation in the first quarter of this year compared with 26% for natural gas. That is a higher percentage for coal compared with previous quarters.

Review & Outlook: Solar Flare-out - WSJ.com

The Administration's recovery.gov website lists five pages of other solar projects, with current and future loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Even after the $535 million Solyndra debacle, cheerleaders in Washington still insist these projects are the key to America's economic and energy future. As with so much else these days, Europe is showing what that unhappy future looks like.

Keep scrolling: Check out some of these 50+ Michael Mann ClimateGate emails

• Priceless ClimateGate email 682: Tom Wigley tells Michael Mann that his son did a tree ring science fair project (using trees behind NCAR) that invalidated the centerpiece of Mann's work
• ClimateGate scientists on Michael Mann and his work: "probable flaws" and "clearly deficient", and "crap" and "way too defensive", oh my!
• 2002 Briffa email mentions Mann's "diminishing support" and the "questionable nature of much of Mann's verbiage"; says "Mike could be a lot more open about the real uncertainty of his early temperature estimates"
• Walking the walk: Warmist Mann to Warmist Jones: "looking forward to seeing you in Tahiti, we can enjoy some nice tropical drinks w/ umbrellas in them"
• Email 2743, Sept 2009, Michael "Robust Debate" Mann: "So far, we've simply deleted all of the attempts by McIntyre and his minions to draw attention to this at RealClimate."
• Email 3874: Mann sends email trashing McKitrick and McIntyre to his "Friends and Colleagues" at the New York Times, Environmental Defense Fund, EPA, and Senator Lieberman's office among others
• For Michael Mann, oh, what a tangled web: In a 2003 ClimateGate email, he claims that "the proxy reconstructions show the post-1980 warming"
• Email 3499: Michael Mann provides some code, cautions "don't pass it along where it may get into the hands of the wrong people"; admits something "a bit odd" that "increases the amplitude of the reconstruction everywhere by the factor 1.29"
• In case you missed it: Hockey stick co-author: "it may be that Mann et al simply don't have the long-term trend right"; "I hedge my bets on whether there were any periods in Medieval times that might have been "warm", to the irritation of my co-authors!"
• Michael Mann, 2006: "we certainly don’t know the GLOBAL mean temperature anomaly very well, and nobody has ever claimed we do"
• Environmental Defense Fund aids Mann in rebutting McKitrick / McIntyre
• Phil Jones to Mann: "both of us think that you're on very dodgy ground...What the real world has done over the last 6000 years and what it ought to have done given our understandding of Milankovic forcing are two very different things"
• Michael "robust debate" Mann: "I never acknowledge emails from people I don't know, about topics that are in any way sensitive. this is a perfect example of something that goes right to the trash bin"
• 2005:Mann already lawyered up
• 2003, Mann: "NSF policy in no way legally requires funded scientists to provided their data (let alone computer codes!) for public access"
• Michael "robust debate" Mann on the opportunity to robustly debate Steve McIntyre: "Phil, I would immediately delete anything you receive from this fraud...I would NOT RESPOND to this guy. As you know, only bad things can come of that"
•  Email 1103, Sept 1999, Michael Mann on the use of questionable data: "I'm happy to do it and let the reviewers tell us if they see any problem"
• Email 717, Sept 1998, Michael Mann disses climate modelers: "there are a few individuals in the modeling community who could benefit from slowing down on the stone throwing from their fragile glass tower"
• Email 1619, Nov 2003, Michael Mann offers a cover story in an attempt to explain why "the full data set could not be made available until a few years after the '98 study"
• Email 1045, May 1999, Michael Mann already more of an activist than a scientist?: "...I do presentations on capitol hill for USGCRP...Mostly, though, I've been trying to help Mike McCracken and company behind the scenes"
• Email 112, Feb 2007: Michael Mann lashes out at Curtis Covey, who dared to write things like "...the science is not yet settled" in an email to unbelievers Singer and Monckton
• Email 137, Sept 2006, warmist Jerry North asks Mann et al to share their data with McIntyre: "McIntyre does have a point in that most of our research has been supported by US Taxpayers...as scientists we all owe it to each other to share information to the maximum extent possible."
• Email 297, August 2004, Phil Jones and Michael Mann: This peer review process looks completely corrupt, with warmist Jones rejecting a paper by realists McKitrick and Michaels, and Mann somehow in the loop, wanting to use this "to help bolster the case against MM??"
• Email 239, Oct 2003, John Holdren defends Michael Mann's alarmism by stressing Mann's careful weasel wording
• Email 384, July 2004, Michael Mann to Pielke Sr.: "I would think it obvious that peer-review alone is *not* a sufficient to establish what is "good science""
• Email 1335, Nov 2005, Michael "Robust Debate" Mann on the prospect of attending a workshop also attended by a guy who disagrees with him: "If Zorita is in, I am out!'
• Email 1705, April 2002, what "settled" science looks like: After Michael Mann writes "There are some substantial scientific differences here, lets let them play out the way they are supposed to, objectively, and in the peer reviewed literature", Raymond Bradley writes to Briffa "excuse me while I VOMIT!!"
• Email 1544, Oct 2000, Phil Jones: "...warmer conditions than today during many summers from 1750 to 1850...Central England also shows little change in summer since the 18th century. Autumns for CET in the 1730s were clearly warmer than today. All somewhat perplexing"
• Email 2519, Oct 2003, Michael Mann on McIntyre and McKitrick: "If *others* want to say that their actions represent scientific fraud, intellectual dishonesty, etc. (as I think we all suspect they do), lets let *them* make these charges for us! Lets let our supporters in higher places use our scientific response to push the broader case against MM"
• Mail 3880, Mar 2000: Michael Mann agrees to let the CRU folks print T-shirts/polo shirts with Mann's hockey stick on the back
• Email 3115: Michael Mann again on refusing to communicate with the "idiots" and "losers" who dare to question Mann's work
• Michael Mann vs Michael Mann: Did I say that the hockey stick might qualify to be the "truth" as portrayed in the IPCC Policy Makers Summary? I meant it was an "obscure graph" that unnamed other people have made "appear more definitive than it was ever intended"
• Email 3046, July 2000, Michael Mann: "Our method, as you know, doesn't include any "splicing of two different datasets"-this is a myth perptuated by Singer and his band of hired guns"
• Email 3045, Michael Mann to Andy Revkin, Feb 2005: "The McIntyre and McKitrick paper is pure scientific fraud. I think you'll find this reinforced by just about any legitimate scientist in our field you discuss this with"
• Email 4936, Michael Mann in January 2007 claims that Caspar Ammann has "independently investigated the claims of our critics and shown them to be either incorrect, inconsequential, or both."
• Email 4911, Michael Mann, July 2007: "What McIntyre and his ilk are trying to do is to make doing science as unpleasant as possible for us. I suppose they think that discouraging the scientists is the best way to prevent the science from moving forward"
• Email 4907, Aug 2005: Michael Mann comes out against unprofessional email exchanges, and "inflammatory and ad hominem public commentary. There is no room for that on any side of the debate."
• Email 4768, Oct 2003, Michael Mann's psychological projection: He rants about the alleged "extremely dishonest", "really scandalous" things that McIntyre and McKitrick allegedly did
• Email 4763, June 2008: Michael Mann wants to highlight "how critical [Phil Jones'] efforts have been to developments in areas such as [Detection and Attribution]"
• Email 4749, July 2003, Michael Mann to WSJ reporter: Back when dinosaurs were wandering around near the poles, it was "almost" certainly warmer; this was allegedly "due to the influence of plate motion on the production of co2 by geological sources (e.g. volcanic outgassing)"
• Email 4657, Oct 2000, It's a small world after all: Editor of Journal of Climate, Michael Mann, gets Phil Jones to review a paper by Tom Wigley and Ben Santer
• Self-promotion of Mann to Warmist PR Machine
• Michael Mann on keeping up with the scientific literature: "I don't read E&E, gives me indigestion"
• Teamwork: Tight little group of warmists write letters to support Michael Mann's drive to make Phil Jones an AGU fellow
• I scratched your back, you scratch mine: After helping Phil Jones become an AGU fellow, Mike Mann asks Jones if he's interested in "returning the favor"
• Email 679: Michael Mann says that he knows Henry Waxman's staffers well; Phil Jones declines an offer to be interviewed for "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
• Email 4927: Michael Mann and Phil Jones conspiring to get a Nature paper in advance?
• 2003: Michael Mann on questions from McIntyre and McKitrick: A "highly organized industry PR firm...is behind this effort"
• 2003: Michael Mann on what "the community" should do to punish a journal that dared to print dissenting views on the climate hoax
• 2001: Before excusing himself to shovel snow, Michael Mann writes: "My own perception is that the climate community, modelers as well as observationalists, simply don't take seriously anymore the idea that the history of climate change over the past 1000 years is part of an internal oscillation"
• Someone get this man a thesaurus: As his global warming scam crumbled in Sept '09, overwrought warmist Michael Mann used the word "attack" three times in one hysterical sentence
• Mann: "it would be nice to try to "contain" the putative "MWP""; Jones: "I would hope that AGU/EOS 'publicity machine' will shout the message from rooftops everywhere"
• Briffa gives Mann a positive? reference, but includes phrases like "not sufficiently aware of the characteristics of some of the data with which he worked"; "overconfidence in his work which bordered on seeming arrogance"
• Planet-healer Michael Mann to Jones and Briffa et al in 1999, the year after he got his PhD: "I trust that history will give us all proper credit for what we're doing here."
• That was quick: Michael Mann on the just-released 5,000 ClimateGate 2.0 emails: "they look like mine but I hardly see anything that appears damning at all"

Remember the good old days, back in 2009, when trace amounts of carbon dioxide allegedly only killed 315,000 people per year?

Did you know that climate change is bad for your health? - AlertNet

But if you're looking for hard statistics, the trouble is there aren't many around and they're pretty old.

Around 10 years ago, the World Health Organisation  published research saying that the impacts of climate change since the mid-1970s may have caused over 150,000 deaths in 2000, and that a further 5.5 million healthy years of life were lost worldwide due to debilitating diseases caused by climate change. It warned that the death toll could double again in the next 30 years if trends were not reversed.

Since then, there has not been an official update.

A 2009 report from the now-defunct Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF) calculated that climate change already kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030 - but its methodology was widely questioned.

Sign of the times: "Planet Green" to become "Destination America"

Cable's Planet Green to change name, program focus - CBS News

NEW YORK — Planet Green is changing course.

Its corporate parent, Discovery Communications, announced Wednesday that the cable channel will change its emphasis on nature and ecology and focus instead on the country's spirit and culture under the new name of Destination America.

...Destination America will tackle subjects including American cuisine — from Tex-Mex to barbeque — and American mysteries from Jesse James' lost fortune to Area 51. Other shows will visit amusement park thrill rides and Western ghost towns.

Stopping Climate Change Is Much Cheaper Than You Think - Climate Desk - Technology - The Atlantic

A report confirms that the cost of preventing climate change would be just pennies a day for the average citizen.

William M. Briggs » Do Conservatives Distrust Science More Than Liberals?

The “science” on everybody’s mind when you ask them if they are “for” or “against” science is global warming. But that, except for cogitations on the equations of motion and thermodynamics, isn’t a science at all; instead, it is a roiling political matter. Further, everybody knows this. We are told, are we not?, that the science is settled, that the sky is reaching a tipping point, and that the only thing which will stave off this calumny is massive injections of money into the atmosphere.

I belabor this argument to make the obvious point that if you were to ask somebody their innermost feelings (for what counts more than that?) about science, you might have thought you were inquiring about model parameterizations, but you are instead getting answers about the growing suspicion of the motivations of politicians.

Chris Mooney, for example, never understood this distinction.

Titanic: Unusual Climate, Extreme Ice Conditions; Result Tragic Accident

All this confirms that a very deep northerly flow of cold arctic air persisted over eastern North America. This would drive cold Labrador Current water further south carrying the icebergs with it. The cold air reduced above water ablation of the icebergs. Confluence of the cold arctic water and warm tropical water make the region south of Newfoundland the foggiest region in the world. Conditions in 1912 enhanced the fog forming potential that further hampered the lookouts. This was the final event in a sequence of weather conditions that resulted in a terrible maritime disaster.

More nice timing: With Arctic sea ice at its highest extent in nearly a decade, NRC releases a report claiming that "global warming is changing the face of Antarctica and the Arctic faster than expected"

New NRC report on the state of the polar regions | Bits of Science

The U.S. National Research Council has just released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, the first in over 50 years to offer a benchmark for environmental conditions and new discoveries in the polar regions.

University of Massachusetts Amherst geosciences researcher and expert in the paleoclimate of the Arctic, Julie Brigham-Grette, co-chaired the NRC report, “Lessons and Legacies of the IPY 2007-08” with leading Antarctic climate scientist Robert Bindschadler of NASA.

Among the major findings is that global warming is changing the face of Antarctica and the Arctic faster than expected. For example, in 2007 scientists documented a 27 percent loss of sea ice in a single year, Brigham-Grette says. Also, ice sheets around the poles are now showing evidence of serious retreat, expected to continue and perhaps accelerate over coming centuries as warm ocean currents melt the ice front faster than anyone had grasped before. Sea level rise from melting polar ice sheets is today slowly affecting every shoreline on the planet.

Flashback to yesterday:  Arctic Shatters More Records | Real Science

Arctic ice extent is the highest in nearly a decade, and has again set the record for both the latest peak and the longest winter. Normally it has been melting for almost a month already.

No Trend In Alaska Snow Melt Dates | Real Science

Climate experts tell us that Alaska is the fastest warming place on Earth, which is why the snow melts slightly later now than it did 80 years ago.

Monckton responds to alarmist attack on Lindzen | JunkScience.com

Monckton comments at Carbon Brief:

I have long been impressed by Professor Lindzen’s willingness to confine his presentations to the science and to avoid making policy statements. The various scientific campaigners in the UK on the climate issue who have challenged his presentation in a rather bad-tempered and unscientific manner have not really understood his central objection to the high-climate-sensitivity case, which is that the temperature feedbacks which the IPCC and its adherents assume must be strongly net-positive cannot in fact be strongly net-positive, for otherwise violent oscillations either side of the singularity in the feedback-amplification equation would have occurred at some time in the past 50 million years, but the paleoclimate evidence is that such violent oscillations have not occurred…

Northeast Passage Made In 1879 | Real Science

Both the Northeast and Northwest Passages had been navigated by 1879.

You know what would suck? A 100-year coastal flood following a CO2-induced 4.6 foot rise in sea level

California: Leading the Fight Against Climate Change | Michelle Mehta's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

A 100-year coastal flood event following a 4.6 feet rise in sea level would jeopardize nearly half a million people, $100 billion of property, and nearly 4,000 miles of roads and railways. 

Year that winter forgot, Mongolia edition: "Coldest winter in local memory" killed as much as 40 percent of many families' livestock

Nina Wegner: Last of the Nomads: How Mongolian Culture May Change Drastically Within a Generation

Erdenemunkh has many reasons to leave the ancient lifestyle behind. This year, his Central Mongolian home region of Azraga was hit with a "dzud," a devastatingly harsh winter that killed as much as 40 percent of many families' livestock. For a nomadic family, the loss of livestock translates into a direct loss of household income. And that's not even the worst-case scenario --Erdenemunkh had a neighbor who lost all but one of his 80 cows in the unrelenting cold.

Herders distinguish among three different types of dzud. This year's was considered a "glass dzud," where the ground froze solid under a thick layer of snow, prohibiting animals from grazing. With temperatures reaching -40 to -60 degrees Fahrenheit throughout January, it was the coldest winter in local memory, and animals both froze and starved to death. Most families in Azraga said this year was even worse for them than the notorious dzud of 2010, in which almost 8 million head of livestock, or 17 percent of the entire country's animals, died and the government of Mongolia declared disaster status.

Huffing and puffing - Tom Toles - The Washington Post

I’ll keep this simple. Climate change deniers used to ask, “Where’s the evidence of change?” This was the trump card in their thin deck. “Where’s the evidence of change? If the climate were warming, we’d see evidence of it by now. Where’s the evidence?” This is what they said [is it?]. Go back and look [where?]. They represented the question as telling.

Now the evidence is in. And everywhere. And ferocious. And what do the deniers say now? “Climate changes all the time, all by itself!”

Winter storm warnings cover all of SW Montana | KBZK.com | Z7 | Bozeman, Montana

Snow accumulations: in general valleys 5"-9" and mountain passes 10"-20". A few mountain ranges could see over 20" with this system.

A hard look at Everest's Base Camp | Film | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA

Climate change is causing the glaciers on Mount Everest to recede, unearthing corpses left behind on the mountain from past expeditions.

Question: If human CO2 emissions have been overheating the planet since 1800, and if people have been trying to climb Everest since maybe 1921, how did these corpses get covered by glaciers?

Another Taxpayer-Funded Solar Company Looks Like a Failure | National Legal and Policy Center

An Ohio-based solar company received millions of dollars in state and federal subsidies despite government officials’ knowledge that the company was in financial trouble, and now a local newspaper reports little activity at the manufacturer’s Perrysburg plant.

Coal-fired power = racism? | JunkScience.com

Enviros attempt to smear coal-fired power plants as a cause of asthma among black children.

Read Dave Roberts’ “Black people get asthma so everybody else can get cheap power.”

Extreme Drought Down 90% Since 1934 | Real Science

US government climate experts tell us that increased CO2 causes more extreme droughts, which is why they have declined 90% since 1934 in the US.

Climate Scientists And Nature Magazine Reach Hitherto Unknown Levels Of Stupidity | Real Science

Temperatures in Antarctica at the end of the last ice age were 8C cooler than the ridiculously cold temperatures they have now. Antarctic warming/melting couldn’t possibly have been a climate forcing. It took several thousand years of warming just to bring Antarctic ice up to current temperatures.

...Not to mention the fact that CO2 lagged the temperature increase by 800 years. Peer review means smoking weed with your BFFs.

Former Max Planck Institute Director Hartmut Grassl: Doomsday Teller With Ties To The Re-Insurance Industry

Today Hartmut Grassl, who was once director of the UN World Climate Program in Geneva from 1994 to 1999, is also a foundation board member of reinsurer Munich Re – a major beneficiary of the climate catastrophe scare. Although Grassl’s fortune telling and predictions of doom are paying huge dividends for the insurance industry, they are turning out to be completely wrong.

Grassl predicted temperature would increase up to 2°C in 30 years.

Better not go outside: Carbon dioxide could allegedly cause much warmer weather, which could allegedly create stronger winds, which could allegedly spread more anthrax

Warming climate reveals links to infectious disease — The Daily Climate

Not CO2, Michael?: Mann: "anthro aerosols drive long-term trop Atl temp trnds"

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: New @Nature study http://t ...

New @Nature study n.pr/HaXFHX backs Mann & Emanuel (2005) anthro aerosols drive long-term trop Atl temp trnds bit.ly/HoEjAD

Pollution Playing A Major Role In Sea Temperatures : NPR

Aerosols are fine particles like soot or sulfur compounds, mostly from burning fuel. They seed a kind of cloud that's especially good at reflecting solar radiation back into space. Even on their own, without clouds, these aerosols act like sunblock.

Volcanoes create aerosols, too, but air pollution appears to produce more, and then the aerosols sweep across the Atlantic sky.