GISS 2012 : Hansen’s Failure Is Now Complete | Real Science

Temperatures continue far below Hansen’s zero emissions Scenario C.

David Suzuki leaves foundation he helped create

Well-known Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki has stepped down from the foundation he helped create so that he can continue to speak out on issues without harming the foundation’s charitable status.

“I want to speak freely without fear that my words will be deemed too political, and harm the organization of which I am so proud,” he said in an open letter posted Friday on the foundation’s website.

In the eyes of Nature, warming can't be natural - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/9204223/In-the-eyes-of-Nature-warming-cant-be-natural.html

Since the fading belief that the world is in the grip of runaway man-made global warming still threatens us with the biggest bill in history, it is rather important to know how far we can trust the science which is said to support that belief. One of the most vociferous cheerleaders in the cause has been the Nature, which calls itself "the world's most prestigious weekly journal of science".

Whenever some landmark event in the story is approaching – such as a world climate conference or a new report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Nature can be relied on to come up with a new paper purporting to refute one of the more embarrassing objections to the orthodox theory. However thoroughly such a paper is then dismantled by expert critics, it will remain established as a pillar of the orthodoxy.

Eco Narcissists & Their Last Chances

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/04/14/eco-narcissists-their-last-chances
After the long list of faux 'last chances' that have come and gone why would I imagine that, suddenly, green activists know what they're talking about?

Soaking in money — a fake “independent” unscientific Conversation

http://joannenova.com.au/2012/04/soaking-in-money-a-fake-independent-unscientific-conversation/
This is another example of the self-growing-cycle of big-government. The site (at least on climate science) is dominated with stories that favor statist-big-government policies. They break laws of logic and reason, claim that experts are writing, but we non-experts working from home can point out the errors of those with professorships in our spare time, and with no PhD.

Global warming scientists foresee Sun-reflecting cities - Yahoo! OMG! Philippines

only 0.05 to one percent of the world's land surface would be covered, which meant it would lack effectiveness on a global scale, the prestigious academy said.

And it estimated the cost at "about $300 billion a year, making this one of the least effective and most expensive methods considered."

Japan Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 4.2% on Recovering Economy - Bloomberg

Japan committed to reduce production of gases blamed for global warming by 6 percent from 2008 through 2012 from 1990
levels under the Kyoto Protocol which limits releases by industrial nations. The country cut emissions by an average 11
percent annually under the first three years of the treaty, according to the ministry. Those figures include credits Japan
earned for emission offsets outside the country.

Redding.com Blogs: Doug Craig's blog

We often suggest that people who are in denial join a support group, if necessary and appropriate, to help them overcome their unhealthy denial. When it comes to climate change deniers, however, they already have a huge support group. Unfortunately, their "support group" consists of the Church of Scientific Distortion and Denial and its outlets include Fox News, conservative talk radio, and the Tea Party. If you are an alcoholic, you can avoid bars and go to AA meetings but it is difficult to quit denying the climate is changing if the media you consume and the people you interact with confirm your false beliefs.

Guest | 49 Cliff Clavins Walk into a Bar and Talk Climate Change

This is a guest post from Dr. John Abraham

The Reference Frame: Ozone hole and global warming: evolution of an alarm

In the last 25 years, we have seen the decline of the claims that the ozone depletion and global warming are the same thing. It's one of the rare examples of stupid scares that have actually largely disappeared. However, we're still drowning in the ocean of similar demagogy which is emitted by dishonest ideologues as well as hopeless morons. If one wanted to behave rationally, according to the best recommendations that science can give us, he would find out that none of the chemicals is really a "pure villain" or "pure victim", most of the effects that are hyped in the media are secondary and negligible, and even the sign of the conclusion "what we should try to achieve" according to science is often opposite relatively to what the media and not only media tell us. In particular, carbon dioxide is a big friend of ours.

The Illogic of EPA Carbon Regulations - On Energy (usnews.com)

If global warming is a problem that the EPA needs to address, then why are they working on imposing rules that the agency admits "will not have [a] direct impact of U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases?" It's tough to see how EPA regulation makes logical sense. Does the EPA not really care about global warming or are they working to end America's use of coal? Does the EPA only want to increase the price of energy by making it harder to build low-cost electricity generation? What explains the EPA's actions? And why are taxpayers paying for this nonsense?

How Green Are Electric Cars? Depends on Where You Plug In

In a worst-case situation, with electric power generated from a high proportion of coal — as it is in a wide swath of the country’s midsection — an electric car or a plug-in hybrid will generate slightly more full-cycle global-warming emissions, as the report calls the greenhouse gases, than the best gasoline-engine subcompact.

Cold Snap Damages NC Apple Crop - Winston-Salem News Story - WXII The Triad

Henderson County grower Kenny Barnwell said frost had ravaged his 10 acres of peach trees, and his apple crop also was affected.

Rapeseed in Northeast France Badly Damaged, Cetiom Says - Bloomberg

Rapeseed in the northeast of France was “seriously” damaged by frost in February, and estimates of the area to be plowed under have risen, oilseed researcher
Cetiom said.

Hide The Deaths From Cold Portugal | Musings from the Chiefio

Notice how during the summers (that are supposed to be horridly hot with people dropping like flies) the deaths are lower than during the winters. Notice how they do NOT go out of bounds compared to the 95% reference line? Now look at this last winter. See that giant spike during the extreme cold?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Warmist Hayhoe admits she wouldn't stop driving to allegedly 'save' polar bears

One of the hardest hills to climb in changing behaviors, she admitted, is many people, especially conservative Christians, have a mindset that there is not a problem.She asked the students how many would quit driving today if they were promised not one more polar bear would die due to global warming. [note to Hayhoe: polar bear populations are up 400%] She confessed she wouldn't either.

"I would want to, and I might make it a couple of weeks, but especially in West Texas, it just wouldn't work," she said.

Don't Kill the Electric Car - NYTimes.com

But even in places with the dirtiest electric power supply, driving an electric car can provide environmental benefits. For example, vehicle owners in Colorado, where the electric utilities burn primarily coal and generate a large quantity of greenhouse gases, can provide their own clean electricity with a rooftop solar array.

On a typical day, how far can a Colorado resident drive using only the power produced that day from their rooftop solar array?

A look back to 2008: Remember when Al Gore tried to recruit a 10 million-strong green army?

[March 31, 2008]:  Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army | Environment | The Guardian

Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.

During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders.

...Environmental activists yesterday described the plan as the most ambitious public campaign launched in the US.

"The resources are completely unprecedented in American politics," said Philip Clapp, of the Pew Environment Group. It is equally ambitious in targets.

Carr to help fight emitters, Australia among them - National News - National - General - Moonee Valley Weekly

FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has volunteered Australia to give evidence on behalf of poor nations that want the United Nations to investigate if big emitters - potentially including Australia - have a legal responsibility to keep their greenhouse gases from hurting other countries.

Wintry blast chills on after record cold across Victoria | Herald Sun

Australia to ban scientific debate on climate change – report | JunkScience.com

Australian government endorses Report banning publication of all but government approved science; proof if it were needed that Australian politics and post-normal science is in crisis.

- Bishop Hill blog - The OK coral

Matt Ridley reports on a new paper in Current Biology, which finds that natural variations in pH along the Great Barrier Reef are larger than anything likely under global warming:

Aus: [Greens Leader] Bob Brown quits before carbon tax falls | JunkScience.com

ONE of the chief architects of the carbon tax, Greens Leader Bob Brown, will pull the pin on his political career just as the unpopular climate change policy he demanded begins slugging households across the country.

Error cascade: Blogger Dick Bernard is convinced that CO2 is dangerous because "world climate expert" John Abraham told him that "An Inconvenient Truth" was "probably 90% accurate"?

Election 2012: Close down the denial mechanism and educate yourself about climate change | Twin Cities Daily Planet

About a year ago I heard a well known climate scientist [John Abraham] say he’d give An Inconvenient Truth 90% for accuracy – a very high grade in anyone’s league, especially when it comes to complex science.

Thoughts Towards a Better World » 2011 » June » 19

In the context of Thursday, during the question time, I had written my question on a card for the Professor: “Was Al Gore correct in Inconvenient Truth?”

Doubtless, this is a common question to a Climate Scientist, and to my recollection, the Professor’s answer was brisk and with no hesitation: “Probably 90% accurate”, he said, relating a couple of areas where Mr. Gore’s analysis might have been a bit off target.

Thoughts Towards a Better World » 2011 » June » 17

The back story of my dream perhaps came a few hours earlier when I, along with perhaps 70 others, men and women, participated in a powerful one and a half hours with world climate expert Professor John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He started his talk with a satellite photo of the world, specifically Africa; he ended his presentation with photos of his two daughters, age four and five, who are, he said, the reason he’s devoting his professional life to the crisis of climate change. He is, after all, making their future, and that of their descendants. Africa in particular, and the coming generations will reap the consequences of human activity, especially during the period of the Industrial Revolution.

University of St. Thomas : School of Engineering : John P. Abraham, Ph.D.

Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Career

John has worked on a variety of problems in the thermal-fluid sciences area.  His research includes the design and development of medical devices and the assessment of their safety. He has also worked on developing clean power sources for the developing world.  Among his research projects are the construction of a solar-power lighting system in Uganda and the development of specialized wind turbines which can provide electrical power to cellular communication towers.  He has written approximately 70 journal publications, book chapters and patents and he has given more than 70 conference presentations.

Quote by Mark Twain

“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”

Did we just assume that planetary overheating was killing off the emperor penguins? Maybe they're doing fine, but it was just too freakin' cold down there to count them all from the ground

Twice as many emperor penguins as thought in Antarctica, first-ever penguin count from space shows

ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2012) — A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought. The results provide an important benchmark for monitoring the impact of environmental change on the population of this iconic bird, which breeds in remote areas that are very difficult to study because they often are inaccessible with temperatures as low as -58 degrees Fahrenheit.

‘Glacier surge, not avalanche, buried soldiers at Siachen’ - thenews.com.pk

Those claiming Siachen is melting due to global warming are advised to look into the report titled ‘Advancing Glaciers and Positive Mass Anomaly in the Karakoram Himalaya’ published by NASA. The report says of the glaciers in Karakoram, more than 65 percent are growing. They term abnormality as “Karakoram anomaly”. Therefore, it’s just a myth that Siachen is melting because of global warming, as it’s case of direct human interference, climate change.

The louder they scream, the more money we’ve wasted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The problem with governments subsidising anything - like green power - is that it creates a vast network of dependents who scream if the taxpayers’ teat is removed:

THE NSW government’s decision to withdraw support from clean energy schemes was criticised yesterday as a retrograde step that would threaten billions of investment dollars.

Psychological(?) effects of global warming | Climate Etc.

JC comment:  Well, I have identified one case where there has been adverse psychological impact of global warming:  Greg Craven.  Although in this particular instance the “peril” comes from alarmism itself.

On the need for cheap, reliable electricity: Urban heat amplifies death risk for elderly | JunkScience.com

Air conditioning is a survival tool and part of health care – so is cheap, abundant baseload electricity: During heat waves, elderly people living in city areas where night temperatures remain higher are more likely to succumb to the heat than those in nearby suburban areas where temperatures dip when the sun goes down.

NetRight Daily » Obama’s quixotic wind program

By Rebekah Rast — An integral part of President Obama’s renewable energy plan is wind power.

It paints a nice picture; towering fields of gigantic turbines on an open hillside or small residential windmills atop a house or barn all collecting power from the wind solving all your electricity needs.

Too bad it doesn’t really work all that well on a mass scale

What You Should Know About Exxon Mobil’s Latest Ad Campaign | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

If you were watching the Masters golf tournament last weekend, you would have noticed it was laced with ads from Exxon Mobil calling for….better science. That’s right. The very company that funded decades of science denial takes it back. Sort of. ExxonMobil ranks high in a short list of powerful institutions that has done this country an enormous disservice in undermining the overall credibility of the scientific method in general, and climate scientists specifically.

...Still, how about teeing up another campaign? ExxonMobil tells Americans that it was wrong to mislead people. That it was wrong to undermine credibility in the scientific method. That we have entered an era of manmade global warming, that it could lead to cascading catastrophe the likes of which we have never seen, that we are rolling the dice, way off the game board, in the risks we are taking in contributing further to greenhouse gas pollution—and that ExxonMobil is proud to announce that it is doing everything in its power to support the training of a new generation of scientists who will show us how we can adapt to this difficult new reality.

TC Line: Coaches leaving looks like a trend - Longmont Times-Call

The caller with global warming all figured out needs to know that the phenomenon is actually climate change. Not every one will be hotter. Think snow in Ireland. Weather events will continue to grow extreme, as the atmosphere energy budget is running at a significant surplus. What we are likely to observe won't only be along the coastlines, so there will be plenty of data, even for a skeptic.

Oops: Three years after Buzz Aldrin declared he was skeptical of man-made climate fears, fraudster Michael Mann still believes that Aldrin is on his side

NASA Climate Change Letter Belongs To Long Tradition Of Fake Expertise

WASHINGTON -- When former NASA administrators, astronauts and engineers released a letter earlier this week attacking the science of climate change, its veneer of legitimacy kicked off a media blitz. Yet none of the letter's 49 signatories are climate scientists, and with more than 18,000 people currently working for NASA, to say nothing of the tens of thousands more who are retired, the letter seems more than anything like a empty publicity stunt -- for which there's considerable precedent.
"This is an old stunt," explained Michael Mann, a well-known climate scientist and Penn State professor. "When you have an area of the science where there is a consensus like in climate change, where the problem is real and the scientific implications are on a collision course with vested interests like the fossil fuel industry, you often see this."  [What other areas of science is Mann talking about?]
..."They can't discredit the science in the legitimate sphere of scientific debate, which is to say, the peer-reviewed literature, the various assessment reports published by various governments ... so what they try to do is create the illusion that the science is being hotly contested by finding the small group, often of curmudgeonly individuals, who might feel left out," said Mann, who documents this recurrent phenomenon in his newly released book, "The Hockey Stick And The Climate Wars: Dispatches From The Front Lines."
Author John Cook similarly considers such public announcements as one of the five most easily identifiable characteristics of science denialism, wherein deniers use fake experts to undermine established science.
...Of course, two can play at enlisting the support of false experts.
Mann -- who, having survived the phony Climategate scandal, has as much experience as anyone in fighting off the political attacks of climate deniers -- offered a bit of media bait of his own.
"What's really telling is that they couldn't get people like Buzz Aldrin -- or for that matter John Glenn -- to sign this petition," Mann said. "I think it speaks volumes that the most prominent astronauts were completely uninterested in having any part in this ploy, and I was proud of them for that."

Flashback: Another Moonwalker Defies Gore: NASA Astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin rejects global warming fears: 'Climate has been changing for billions of years' | Climate Depot

NASA's Dr. Aldrin -- who earned a Doctorate of Science in Astronautics at MIT -- declared he was skeptical of man-made climate fears in a July 3, 2009 UK Telegraph interview.

"I think the climate has been changing for billions of years," Aldrin, the second person to walk on the Moon, said. On July 20, 1969, Aldrin and astronaut Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on the Moon. According to his bio, "Aldrin has received three U.S. patents for his schematics of a modular space station, Starbooster reusable rockets, and multi-crew modules for space flight." Aldrin was also decorated with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest American peacetime award and he has received numerous distinguished awards and medals from 23 other countries.

"If it's warming now, it may cool off later. I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today," Aldrin explained.

"I'm not necessarily of the school that we are causing it all, I think the world is causing it," Aldrin added.

Warmist David Biello tweets about "generation hot"

Twitter / @dbiello: generation hot: the 2+ bil ...

generation hot: the 2+ billion young people born since hansen's global warming testimony in 1988 per @markhertsgaard #foodfuture (1/2)

Twitter / @KidBrightwillow: @dbiello @markhertsgaard ...

@dbiello @markhertsgaard A .2 degree increase in temperature (given all factors that influence measurement) is not very hot to me.

Healing the planet with other people's money: St. Paul spends $35,000 per unit for solar car-charging stations that will bring in $1 per hour if anyone uses them

St. Paul adds 2 electric-car charging stations and 3 electric vehicles - TwinCities.com

Coleman on Thursday, April 12, unveiled two new electric-car charging stations within Como Regional Park. The stations, at North Lexington Parkway by Lake Como and at McMurray Fields, capture solar power and can charge two vehicles at a time. They're the first city-owned solar-powered charging stations in Minnesota.

"The systems not only perform great, but they look great, as well," Coleman told a crowd of onlookers.

The charging stations will charge $1 per hour, allowing drivers to quickly "top off" the batteries that power a car's electric motor.

...Innovation, however, isn't exactly free. The solar charging stations at Como Park cost $35,000 per unit

Clouds on Solar’s Horizon - NYTimes.com

Andrew Beebe, chief commercial officer of Suntech, one of the largest Chinese suppliers of solar panels, said that at current natural gas prices, “we’re really not competitive.”

Eat less meat to prevent climate disaster, study warns | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Meat eaters in developed countries will have to eat a lot less meat, cutting consumption by 50%, to avoid the worst consequences of future climate change, new research warns.

How Did Duck Billed Dinosaurs Get Through Dark, Polar Winters? - Science News - redOrbit

Researchers from the University of Cape-Town, the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, and Temple University have discovered that duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters. These dinosaurs lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago, and rather than migrating south for the harsh winters, they simply stayed put.

How do we know how cold it was at a given location 70 million years ago?

Twitter / @Astra543: Only half? Sheesh! :( @ ...

Only half? Sheesh! :( @Marleybonez: About Half of Americans Fear Global Warming (Infographic) bit.ly/HOHUsD

Climatologist Dr. Pielke comments on Attribution of the Warm Winter To Global Warming – An Example Of The Mistatement Of Reality By Some Climate Scientists | Climate Depot

'[Hansen] has, as with Andrew Weaver, failed to quantify his statement with real world observations. This figure shows that much of the planet, in terms of areal extent, was cooler than average'

Twitter / @BigJoeBastardi: Yale : Global Warming Caus ...

Yale : Global Warming Causes AIDS: Real-Science.com/yale-global-wa…
These are the shrieks of desperation. Global temps are falling

Builders Bash Green Deal: Impractical, Unpopular And Counterproductive

The UK’s building trade body has bashed laws which could mean homeowners have to spend thousands of pounds extra on green home improvements when they extend their homes.

Efforts to Curb Climate Change | NewsPoint South Africa

[Policy-neutral IPCC chief] Dr. RK Pachauri, who is Director General, TERI, was of the view that reaching to the desired level will not be an easy task. A lot many challenges will come in the way, but they have scientific options available to them, which will help them to understand the challenges and attain success.

He further affirmed that it is very important that efforts should be made within the country first and then an international action can be taken.

Deutsche Bank Says C02 Set-Aside Won’t Spur Clean Investment - Bloomberg

Structural changes to the trading system are needed to restore “price tension” and direct investment into cleaner
energy production, rather than allow funds to be directed toward natural-gas generation that may impede long-term carbon
reduction targets, Deutsche Bank said. The bank said a tighter 2020 emissions target and setting a reserve price for permits
sold by auction may also help in recalibrating the market.

Carbon tax clawback in sight | The Australian

TONY Abbott is on track to be able to repeal the carbon tax in the Senate after the next election, with Labor figures backing predictions the Greens will lose the balance of power in the upper house.

Carbon compensation woe for families | Herald Sun

PARENTS who claim the family tax benefit when they lodge their tax return at the end of the financial year will have to wait a year for their carbon tax compensation.

Windfarms do not cause long-term damage to bird populations, study finds | Environment | guardian.co.uk

James Pearce-Higgins, the lead author and principal ecologist with the BTO, said: "It was a bit of a surprise that the impact on windfarms seemed to be happening during construction rather than operation."

Flashback: GOLDEN EAGLES FACE EXTINCTION IN U.S. AS NUMBERS PLUMMET, NEW STUDIES REVEAL «

At Altamont alone, 116 golden eagles have been reported killed by the turbine blades each year. That’s 2,900 dead golden eagles over the wind farm’s 25 year history.

Croatia: Children won't know what apples, mandarins, pears, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and strawberries look like

April frost causes 120 million Euros damage to fruit - General News - Croatian Times Online News - English Newspaper

Frost and unseasonably low temperatures in early April has caused around 900 million kuna (120 million Euros) damage to apples, mandarins, pears, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and strawberries in Croatia.

Colorado - Could see snow accumulations measured in feet

Winter hasn't loosened grip for Alaska moose

[caption] Record snowfall in the Anchorage area has caused more moose to come down to town, congregating in trails, roadways and rail lines. That has resulted in the most ever traffic and moose collisions, with 455 moose being killed in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough just north of Anchorage alone.

Shawn Lawrence Otto: From a Boy Who Loved NASA: How 49 Heroes Lost the Right Stuff and Sullied Their Names

How could guys that once put their very lives in the hands of science be so dumb about it as they get old?

Shawn Lawrence Otto

Shawn Lawrence Otto is a science advocate, filmmaker, author and humanitarian who works for smarter politics on a global scale.

Oysters Develop Human Neuroses | Real Science

Oysters evolved with CO2 at 20X current levels, but close proximity to humans has made them very sensitive and neurotic.

Aus: Greens leader Bob Brown cuts and runs | JunkScience.com

16 years too late, unfortunately. Obstructive nutcase has created development havoc for a couple of decades. His timing is good though – he’s deserting the stinking ship while the Greens have some sway and before the Green/Left government gets its thoroughly deserved political thrashing at the next election.

Bering Sea Reminds CSM That they Should Stick To … Umm … Whatever It Is They Are Good At | Real Science

Last year, the geniuses at the Unchristian Antiscience Monitor told us that global warming was making Bering Sea ice disappear. Right before it broke its all time record by 10%.

Texas Farmers Who Didn’t Listen To Dessler, Hit The Jackpot | Real Science

It pays to not listen to clueless academics.

Aus: Scheme’s cost estimated at $1.8bn a year | JunkScience.com

LABOR faces growing business pressure to scale back its renewable energy target when it is reviewed this year, with BHP chief executive Marius Kloppers urging the Gillard government to “take a cold, hard look” at how it will interact with the carbon tax.

Blizzard warning for Wyoming

“SNOWFALL AMOUNTS  UP TO A FOOT OVER AND NEAR THE SNOWY AND SIERRA MADRE RANGES  SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEN BETWEEN 6 AND 14 INCHES OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE CWA LATE SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Dr Phil Jones back in drivers seat with CRUTem4 updated land only global temperature data – warms more than the UKMO CRUTem3 and with remarkable early outliers from Rio

Note that the Jones team already have some extra warmth built in for the CRUTem5 version – whenever that appears. They only have to adjust out the warm early years from Rio – and presto – there is a little more warming in the trend.

Even Warmist "scientists" don't mention any scientific facts in defense of their beliefs

Warmists normally defend their beliefs by saying "The experts tell us" and speak of "The science" but never mention any actual scientific facts. But surely "The experts" themselves have some facts to put forward? Nope. I reproduce below the full screed put out by none other than "hockeystick" Mann in defense of his position. It too is full of accusations and complaints but references not one scientific fact. He claims that the globe is warming etc. but gives no evidence for that assertion. He can't, of course -- because it isn't. So it's no surprise that he doesn't even give a link to any report that would support his assertions

Hansen Has Been Making The Same Mistakes For Over 20 Years | Real Science

In February 1991, Hansen was blaming record warmth in Washington on global warming. Meteorologists were saying he was wrong. Same story repeats itself in 2012, only now he is joined by other idiots at NOAA.

NASA 1986 : All Life Extinct In A Few Decades | Real Science

If you are reading this, you are already dead.

Science so settled we need to throw more money at “climate research” | JunkScience.com

Met Office hails £60m fund to boost UK climate change research

The free frontier | Climate Nonconformist

One need look no further to find evidence of skeptic domination of the internet than the results of this years Bloggies. Skeptics blogs that either won a category or were nominated included Jo Nova, Australian Climate Madness, Watts Up With That, Tallbloke’s Talkshop and Climate Audit, with The Reference Frame being a previous winner. It’s an arena where the warmists have simply been left behind, with Real Climate and Skeptical Science overwhelmed by the phenomenon of WUWT. It is blogs like these that make up what is otherwise a substantial media deficit for skeptics, with the mainstream media in most parts of the western world reluctant to consider a non-alarmist, unexciting point of view.

It was the issue of climategate in particular that the internet was of critical importance. While most media outlets refused to touch the story, hoping it would blow over, bloggers like Anthony Watts, James Delingpole and Andrew Bolt had exposed the shady goings-on at the CRU. Actually, late 2009 was rather important for internet-based skeptics in two ways. The other was a video of Lord Monckton explaining to a Minnesota think tank the contents of a draft Copenhagen agreement that went viral. Both events, which reached a broad audience through the magic of the internet, were of the utmost importance in determining the failure of the Copenhagen summit.

How airports like BWI help set outlier high temperature records | Watts Up With That?

For a brief 10 minutes, the steady NW wind that persisted all day at BWI shifted to a westerly direction. That allowed the  HEAT from the nearby runway to provide a quick 3 degree warm-up between hourly obs. Once the winds shifted back to a NW direction, the temperature fell back to 59 degrees.

The NWS employee concurred that the extra warmth came from the runway.

Global Warming is real (thanks to poorly-sighted thermometers)! This is the second time Justin observed a false high temperature reading this week at BWI.

The New Nostradamus of the North: 10.0000 wind turbine enthusiasts take high carbon footprint flights to Copenhagen

Over 10.000 wind power subsidy beneficiaries enthusiasts from all over the world are taking high carbon footprint flights to Copenhagen this weekend for the European Wind Energy Association´s annual celebration of this costly and ineffective form of energy production:

Mikey Mann believes warmists will inevitably lose | JunkScience.com

As he said “ … the truth about global warming will inevitably gain wide acceptance” Amen to that, Mikey! Unfortunately that’s about the rational item in this piece in e360:

Saskatchewan fires back against Suzuki Foundation climate change report - Brandon Sun

Coal-fired power plants are the primary source of energy in Saskatchewan and Duncan said there's no plan to get rid of them.

"The Suzuki Foundation has taken a position, and it's fair enough for them to take it, but they seemingly have taken a position that we need to move away from the coal industry," said Duncan.

"And that's a position that we just fundamentally disagree with as a government.

Yet Another Smoking Gun For Hansen | Real Science

In 1989, NOAA and Phil Jones said there had been no warming in the US.

...Hansen has since rewritten history, and now says that there was more than 1C US warming during the century before 1989. He corrupted the trend by more than one degree.

Rising Pacific seas linked to climate change: study | JunkScience.com

Uh-huh… total 8″ in 200 years or 4″/Century. Run! Save yourselves!

Hansen Shocks – Adjusts Antarctica Rothera Station Record…Changes Warming Trend To Cooling!

During the last year, each of those Rothera Station locations has been “homogenized”, and the warming trend has now largely disappeared. The ESA needs to review their findings of 2.5° C warming. Perhaps those 49 NASA ex-employees have already made a difference. With each GHCN and GISS update, the warming on the Antarctic Peninsula seems to be disappearing. Now we need to watch for further “corrections”.

Another Spectacular US Government Global Warming Forecast Fail | Real Science

In 1989, global warming was going to kill off the last Kirtland Warbler

...Since they made this forecast in 1989, the population has increased by 800%.

Obama Hammered for 'Jetting Around,' Taking Vacations While Americans Suffer | The Weekly Standard

President Obama, during an interview with St. Louis's KMOV, was hammered for "jetting around, [taking] different vacations and so forth, sometimes ... under the color of state business." The interviewer, Larry Conners, suggested even that folks "get frustrated, even angered" seeing the president take these trips, and told Obama that these Americans think he's "out of touch, that [Obama doesn't] really know what they're experiencing right now."

...Obama: “But the fact of the matter is, I think if you look at my track record, I’m raising a family here. When we travel, we got to travel through Secret Service, and Air Force One, that's not my choice. I think most folks understand how hard I work and how hard this administration is working on behalf of the American people.”

Flashback: Obama family jet off to Hawaii separately at a cost of $100,000 to the taxpayer | Mail Online

...last night, Michelle Obama and her two daughters flew to Hawaii for a 17-day holiday - days before the president joins them.

The separate flights will incur costs of more than $100,000 to the taxpayer.

thestar.com iPhone : Environment minister trumpets Canada’s success in climate change battle

British Columbia was adjusting to its new carbon tax in 2010. Now drivers are used to it. Many have returned to their old habits.

Philosophy, climate change scepticism and the avant-garde intelligentsia - On Line Opinion - 13/4/2012

This little excursion into intellectual history is important because it goes to the heart of a rarely discussed feature of the climate change debate. The conservative sceptics of climate change science adopt the same underlying argument about climatology that left wing academics have been making for decades about science in toto.

Only the left wing academics are shamefully silent about this as they poo-poo their supposedly simpleton conservative cousins.

Climate change scepticism has rested on a number of claims about the science of climate change. These range from the claim that the atmosphere has not been warming, that the amount of warming, to the extent that it has occurred, has been insignificant, or that warming is due to natural variation rather than induced by the activities of man.

Given all this it is only right and proper to adopt a typically sceptical stance about the knowledge claims made by established Earth science; there is not sufficient evidence to assert that we know that global temperatures have been rising due to human action.

It is important that we realise that this scepticism is empirically based. It does not adopt a sceptical stance toward science as such, although unsophisticated sceptics tend to unwittingly flirt with it when engaged in disputation.

Bad, wicked, naughty CO2! It decided to cause record drought one year in Southeast Asia, then it alleged opted to cause flooding in the same region the very next year

Rapid climate change threatens Asia’s Rice Bowl

Southeast Asia recently has experienced dramatic meteorological swings, as last year’s horrendous flooding in Thailand was preceded by a record drought across the region in 2010.

Matt's Monty Python Repository - HolyGrailScene15

DINGO: Bad, wicked, naughty Zoot! She has been setting fire to our beacon, which I have just remembered - is grail-shaped ... It is not the first time we've had this problem.

Dronning Maud Meets the Little Ice Age | Watts Up With That?

I’m sorry, but I just don’t see the evidence that volcanoes had anything to do with the changes in the Baffin Island ice cap. And their whole sea/ice feedback claim? I note that the claim is supported by … well … I fear all it is supported by is models all the way down.

Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record • The Register

The amount of floating ice in the Arctic's Bering Sea - which had long been expected to retreat disastrously by climate-Cassandra organisations such as Greenpeace - reached all-time record high levels last month, according to US researchers monitoring the area using satellites.

Keeping score of mounting global green failures | Washington Examiner

many know Peiser only as the pesky director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation who routinely embarrasses man-made climate change diehards with his weekly compilation of green policy flops -- washouts such as Solon, Q-Cells, Solar Millennium and Solarhybrid. These are all once-thriving German solar energy firms that recently filed for bankruptcy, like America's Solyndra.

Canadian professor lobbies for roofing changes to fight climate change

Scientists sketched a vision this week of converting the world's cities into giant sunlight reflectors to help fight global warming, but met with skepticism from fellow academics.

Bookends and Separations « the Air Vent

[Tom Fuller] Everything that the climate consensus team has done in the past 20 years has contained elements of the same fundamental errors in thinking and strategy–from GreenPeace telling us they knew where we lived to No Pressure videos blowing up school children. There are thousands of examples that could be brought forth to show that their strategy had no human heart and no mechanism for enlisting participation–their goal was forcing opponents into silent submission instead. This 20-year war was fought at a soulless, corporate level, with campaigns designed and implemented by the media masters and mistresses of large environmental NGOs and it showed. From fighting World Bank loans for a South African coal plant to wilder statements of how few people the planet could sustainably carry, these people showed an appalling lack of humanity and an amazing excess of energy.

 For me, the campaign ends with Peter Gleick. His actions were the signature at the end of the book. Coming as they did after Climategate, after Copenhagen, after five years (at least) of meditating on how to more effectively communicate on the issue, Gleick’s actions–and the lack of condemnation they received from the climate community–effectively removed anthropogenic climate change from the top tier of political issues to be considered at a global, or even national, level. Peter Gleick is still president of the Pacific Institute and will be speaking soon at Oxford. There is evidently no level of misconduct that will not be tolerated as long as the miscreant stays on message.

But people have pretty much stopped listening. They’ve even stopped writing. Joe Romm has folded his Climate Progress blog into the rubric of Think Progress’ larger efforts and now interns do much of his writing for him. Deltoid is down to one post a month, and it’s an open thread. Michael Tobis has fled Only In It For The Gold and is now writing at Planet 3–and complaining about a lack of traffic.

Letter to NASA is Common Ploy in Climate Change Denial

“NASA has always been about looking out to the skies and beyond, not burying our heads in the sand,” climate scientist Michael Mann told Universe Today in an email “This is an old ploy, trying to cobble together a small group of individuals and make it sound like they speak with authority on a matter that they have really not studied closely. In this case, the effort was led by a fossil fuel industry-funded (climate change) denier who works for the Heartland Institute, and sadly he managed to manipulate this group of former NASA employees into signing on to this misguided statement.”
 
Mann added that 49 people out of tens of thousands of former and current NASA employees is just a tiny fraction, and that “NASA’s official stance, which represents the full current 16,000 NASA scientists and employees, is clear if you go to their website or look at their official publications: human-caused climate change is real, and it represents a challenge we must confront.”

'Green' consumer attitudes questioned - UPI.com

LONDON, April 12 (UPI) -- [Less than half of] Young Chinese adults say they would pay extra for products that display green credentials, but consumer behavior researchers say they are skeptical.

The Carbon Trust in London quizzed 2,800 18 to 25-year-olds from six countries on their attitudes to climate change and carbon footprints, NewScientist.com reported Thursday.

While most participants said they would buy products labeled with carbon footprints only if they cost the same as conventional products, in China 42 percent of respondents said they would be willing to pay more.

Computer Models Wrong Again, Says Former Environment Minister Sammy Wilson MP

East Antrim MP and former Northern Ireland Environment Minister Sammy Wilson MP, has said that computer models and their predictions about global warming are proving, once more, to be wrong.

Sammy Wilson was speaking following the publication of an article by Professor William Happer, a professor of physics at Princeton University, in which he states that computer models from organisations such as the IPCC assume that CO2 is responsible for warming and this is causing their inaccuracy.

Sammy Wilson said, "If we actually look at the facts we can see that there has been very little change in global temperatures in the last ten years. There has been no statistically significant warming in over a decade.

CO2 has been demonised as a pollutant but in reality it has had little to no effect on our climate. Computer models assume that CO2 is responsible for warming and this is why they have been so inaccurate.

New polling method reveals surprising agreement among scientists about climate risk - environmentalresearchweb

"What makes our new poll unique is that it identifies 'surprisingly common' points of agreement among climate scientists," says Kriss. It does this by asking expert participants to give not only their own beliefs, but also to predict the views of their scientific colleagues.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @NatureClimate @YaleE360 A ...

@NatureClimate @YaleE360 And ironically, as if to simply reinforce the piece, I'm now besieged by #climatechange #deniers in the comments!

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Twitter / @Sustainable2050: Mexico's House votes 280-1 ...

Mexico's House votes 280-10 in favor of ambitious climate change law: 50% emissions reduction by 2050, in an emerging economy!

Twitter / @Revkin: More CO2 > warming worl ...

More CO2 > warming world. Easy. How warm, hard. Warming world > rising seas. Easy. How fast? Hard. Graphic explainer: slideshare.net/Revkin/warmsha…

Mark Twain quotes

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

What with all of his book-selling, op-ed writing, "outreach projects" and other political activist activities, when does Michael Mann have time to do all that allegedly wonderful hard science that I'm allegedly trying to distract him from doing?

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @guardianscience NASA has ...

@guardianscience NASA has always been about looking out to the skies & beyond not burying heads in sand as this misguided crew advocates...

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: Story about Zoos & Aquaria ...

Story about Zoos & Aquaria climate change educational outreach project I'm involved in. fb.me/1D1qoyF52

Shock: Carbon dioxide hoax scam swindle permit price "has plunged 69 percent in the past year"

Premium for 2013 Carbon Credits Narrows to Least in Four Months - Bloomberg

Trading in 2012 futures jumped to 6.4 million tons yesterday, the highest since Feb. 1. That contract has plunged 69 percent in the past year and was at 3.87 euros a ton today.
It dropped to a record 3.27 euros on April 4.

Blah, blah, blah: Climate hoax promoter Michael Mann continues to promote the climate hoax

Besieged by Climate Deniers, A Scientist Decides to Fight Back by Michael E. Mann: Yale Environment 360

Since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports in 2007, new scientific findings have indicated that global warming is generally worse than we thought. Carbon emissions are higher than the IPCC projected, Arctic sea ice is melting at a faster-than-expected clip, and observed and projected sea levels are increasing. At the same time, advances in climate science have more definitively linked climate change to an increasing likelihood of many types of extreme weather events.
...Widespread, bad-faith assaults on science have no place in a functioning democracy...In the wake of the manufactured East Anglia scandal, I was on vacation with my family in the Florida Keys. My four-year-old daughter was entranced by the mangrove forests, the dolphins, and the coral reefs, with their exotic and colorful fish. I couldn’t bear to tell her that climate change and an increasingly acidic ocean are slowly killing the reefs, that increasingly destructive hurricanes would subject them to further insult, and that projected sea level rise over the next century and beyond could submerge vast regions of the Florida Keys.

Brief spell of sanity in New Zealand?: They may wait until 2018 before charging farmers for bad weather allegedly caused by cow farts

Row over farmers and emissions

The government is giving itself the option of setting back agriculture's entry to the ETS to 2018 if an independent survey in 2014 finds other countries are not keeping pace with New Zealand.
At present the entry date is 2015, and when they are under the ETS farmers will have to pay for greenhouse gas emissions like methane from cattle.
Climate Change Minister Tim Groser says no other country is proposing bringing agriculture into a "polluter pays" regime and New Zealand is not going to go it alone.
Federated Farmers is welcoming the move but it's been condemned by the Green Party and Greenpeace.

"Scientific" American interviews a cartoonist who says "You can't be a sentient person in the beginning of the 21st century and not want to address climate change"

The Funny Side of Climate Change: Scientific American

Kate Evans majored in English during college in 1990s Britain while she perfected the art of getting arrested for trying to prevent the U.K. government and industry from cutting down too many trees. A fan of science, she gradually turned her artistic talents and environmental passions to crafting comics about climate change. I

[Q] Your online bio explains your interest in cartooning, but why did you take on climate change?

[Evans] Well it's the elephant in the room, isn't it? You can't be a sentient person in the beginning of the 21st century and not want to address climate change. If you do not, you must be in denial. I'm just so cross right now, too. I just saw a BBC documentary about the weirding of weather, and they never mentioned the words "greenhouse gases" or "carbon dioxide." And they kept saying, "scientists believe" this, "scientists believe" that. No, scientists have proved it. They're not some kind of church. There is scientific consensus. I feel very strongly about that.

Envisat Saves Tuvalu! | Real Science

Envisat now shows sea level in Tuvalu falling nearly half an inch a year. Soon they will have  lots of extra land for farming, and can stop demanding global warming extortion money from western countries.

Zoo and Aquarium Visitors More Concerned About Climate Change than General Public - Press Release - Digital Journal

For example, 64 percent of zoo and aquarium visitors say they are concerned or alarmed about global warming, compared to only 39 percent of the general public.

On Astronauts, NASA, and Climate Concerns - NYTimes.com

(I’ve haven’t weighed in until now because I’ve been working overtime helping students edit this year’s Pace University documentary, “Battle Behind the Bottle,” which is about the link between the stopper in your wine bottle and cork forests in Portugal.)

...My view is that NASA’s past and current personnel likely reflect the cultural and academic backgrounds of the nation’s educated elite in other arenas associated with engineering, government and science.

So it’s utterly unremarkable to find 49 people, including astronauts and engineers, who would publicly reject James Hansen’s view of the dangers posed by unabated emissions of carbon dioxide

Australia here I come – Telegraph Blogs

Those who are sceptical of AGW alarmism, though, are going to like me a lot. The first reason for this is that, in common with many Australians, I have a rare gift for tact and diplomacy. Not for one second in any of my speeches will I dream of being rude about Australia's much-loved A$180,000 a year (for a three-day week) "Climate Commissioner" Tim Flannery...

Time To Evacuate Tuvalu? | Real Science

There is one active tide gauge on Tuvalu, and it shows no change in sea level between 1999.625 and the most recent date of 2011.625. No wonder our leading experts are hysterical.

NOAA Tide Gauge Sea Level Trend : 1.04 mm/year | Real Science

NOAA has 59 global tide gauges with data through 2010. The average rise rate of those gauges is 1.04 mm/year, or about 1/3 of what satellites have been adjusted to.

tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/MSL_global_trendtable.html

A commenter earlier told us that satellites are in close agreement with tide gauges. Apparently 300% is considered “close” in the sea level world.

If we include all stations with data through 2008, the global trend drops to 0.54 mm/year.

If you still believe that the ClimateGate emails don't cast a lot of doubt on Michael Mann and his work, check these out

Tom Nelson: 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"

[More available here]

Climate Depot Exclusive: Climategate professor Michael Mann may be moving back to the University of Virginia -- Reportedly offered 'chaired professorship' at UVA | Climate Depot

Climate Depot has learned that Climategate professor Michael Mann, who has been at the center of a legal firestorm, may be moving back to the University of Virginia.

Climate Depot has heard that the UVA Environmental Sciences department has just offered Mann a "chaired professorship".

Sources tell Climate Depot that this type of offer would not have been made to Mann unless he already indicated he would accept.

Aug. 2011:  Embattled Mann on sabbatical from Penn State

Mann, a professor of meteorology and director of Penn State's Earth System Science Center, is on sabbatical from Penn State. He is spending half his year writing a book and the other half advising Environmental Health Sciences, publisher of the DailyClimate.org and EHN.org, on climate science.

Warmist Amy Goodman: Because of trace amounts of harmless, invisible, natural atmospheric gas, "governments may be overthrown"

Climate change, politics and coup d'etats | rabble.ca

The Pentagon knows it. The world's largest insurers know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of it. It is climate change, and it is real. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, last month was the hottest March on record for the United States since 1895, when records were first kept, with average temperatures of 8.6 degrees F above average. More than 15,000 March high-temperature records were broken nationally. Drought, wildfires, tornadoes and other extreme weather events are already plaguing the country.

...This election season will likely be marked by more extreme weather events, more massive loss of life, and billions of dollars in damages.

President Nasheed is working to run again for his lost presidency, as President Obama tries to hold on to his. The climate may hang in the balance.

NASA Abdalati’s Response To 50 Esteemed Professionals Is Managerial Negligence – An Embarrassment

Sheesh – no wonder the Challenger blew up!

Instead of sweeping serious issues under the carpet, how about contacting those with the grievance and looking into it to see if there is something behind it? Did you even bother to call them?

IBD: While We Dither On Oil, It’s Drill, Beijing, Drill | JunkScience.com

A Chinese oil company is now the world’s top producer. While we sleep and watch pump prices rise, China, India and even Cuba seek supplies the world over, including drilling off the Florida coast.

Simcoe Article: Motorcycle built to zoom past gas stations

He explained colder temperatures are problematic because the air-cooled engine requires a certain temperature to get the desired viscosity from the vegetable oil.

William Yeatman: How EPA Uses “Sue and Settle” Agreements To Steal Power from the States (and what the Congress is doing to stop it) | JunkScience.com

In late March, the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 3862, the Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2012, by a 20-10 vote. If enacted, the bill would make it more difficult for the Environmental Protection Agency to negotiate “sue and settle” agreements that effectively exclude States from environmental policymaking, in seeming contravention of the Clean Air Act.

It’s The Claim “Antarctica Is Warming” That Is Disintegrating – And Not Much Else

The topic of this article ought to handled in short order. When you take a look at the data from Antarctica, it is plainly visible that the ice around the 7th continent has been more or less growing since satellite measurements began in 1979.

Peter Kareiva, the lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy: "environmentalists have tended to have an appetite for bad news and doom-and-gloom messages at the expense of balance"

Another Round: Conservation on a Human-Shaped Planet - NYTimes.com

1) environmentalists have tended to have an appetite for bad news and doom-and-gloom messages at the expense of balance 2) nature is more resilient than is generally assumed and this has implications for conservation and 3) working with and partnering with corporations is a promising conservation strategy.

Did Arctic Warming Sink Titanic?

Here is an excerpt from a New York Times report published on May 5, 1912, a few weeks after Titanic went down:

“An unprecedentedly warm Winter in the entire arctic is believed to be the cause of the vast number of icebergs adrift in the North Atlantic Ocean during the present season and for the low latitudes which many of them have reached. Navigators and scientists of the Hydrographic Office and the Revenue Cutter Service in Washington have theories tending to prove that an unusually heavy snowfall in Greenland, where all icebergs are formed, in the Winter of 1910-11 was followed by an unusually hot Summer, and by a very mild Winter in 1911-12, these conditions resulting in the creation of an enormously large crop of icebergs from the West Greenland glaciers, and of floe, or field ice. Unusual northerly and northwesterly winds have blown these bergs far to the southward.”

The article describes summer weather that brought temperatures as high as 94 degrees Fahrenheit to Greenland the previous year.

Twitter / @dbiello: african farmers can teach ...

[but they're not even climatologists!]: african farmers can teach us how to adapt ag to climate change says @markhertsgaard. how? plant trees bit.ly/hFrLeJ #foodfuture

Twitter / @suzyji: ICYMI

ICYMI - Heartland leaker Peter Gleick to deliver Oxford Amnesty lecture, Heartland protesting gu.com/p/36zac/tw

Shift in perception noted at climate change event | | The Bulletin

About 300 people gathered in a Portland State University ballroom Tuesday night to hear three Oregon climate scientists make their case that increases in manmade greenhouse gases are driving climate change.

The event hosted by the Oregon chapter of the American Meteorological Society, was open to the public. It came in response to a January panel of global warming skeptics hosted by the chapter that event organizers estimated drew about 500 people.

The audience flip-flopped from January, when mostly skeptics attended. Chapter President Steve Pierce asked for a show of hands beforehand Tuesday evening, then estimated that at least 90 percent of the crowd favored the statement that human activities are the main cause of global warming.

Twitter / @NatureClimate: Why you should disregard l ...

Why you should disregard letter from former NASA employees re: climate change denial @guardian bit.ly/Iqhgsa

Twitter / @etzpcm: Who, or what, is @NatureCl ...

Who, or what, is @NatureClimate ? Scientists or political activists?

Twitter / @BarryJWoods: I guess that is another 49 ...

I guess that is another 49 people for Desmogblogs denier database - shameful..  @etzpcm @NatureClimate

Richard Lindzen: Response To The Critique Of My House Of Commons Lecture

For over thirty years, the ‘evidence’ for positive feedback has essentially been that models display it.  However, numerous attempts to evaluate feedbacks independent of models have arrived at the conclusion that these feedbacks are small or even negative. 

New Physics Today Article “The Triggering And Persistence Of The Little Ice Age” By Bertram M. Schwarzschild | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

There is also an interesting observation in figure 2 of the Schwarzschild 2012 article. I reproduced this figure 2 at the begining of this weblog post. In this figure, cool temperature anomalies are higher on the left hand axis. It clearly shows the little ice age effect that is discussed in the Schwarzschild and Miller et al articles (with the coldest actually ~1850-1900!). However it also shows that the warmest period was in the mid 20th century and it has actually cooled since then. 

Paradise nearly lost: EU to help drowning Pacific islands | New Europe

Piebalgs added that "Pacific Islands are the first victims of climate change, which hampers their development and threatens peoples' lives”. He stressed that “the EU will continue to express its solidarity with the poor and vulnerable citizens of these small islands”.

 

Commission will allocate additional €19 million to help Pacific islands to adapt to the challenges of global warming. Current EU development and climate change assistance to Pacific countries increased substantially to some €785 million for the period 2008-2013.

Flashback: Today's question: Should we transfer billions of your hard-earned dollars to the Maldives as CO2 reparations, so that they can use the money to finance a huge new airport and underwater golf course in an attempt to increase fossil-fueled tourism that will allegedly kill every person in the Maldives?

More from Obama's clueless Energy Secretary Chu: "Electric cars are just at the beginning of their development"

Dr. Chu on Profits, Horse Manure and Other Forces of Technological Change - NYTimes.com

“The clean tech industry is making great strides,” he said on Wednesday at the New York Times Energy for Tomorrow conference in New York. Technologies like battery storage have vastly improved, solar efficiency is improving and electric cars are just at the beginning of their development...Dr. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning academic before he joined the Obama administration, noted that a century ago, automobiles replaced horses and horse-drawn carriages within the space of about 25 years. “It was accelerated by the fact that there was an environmental imperative,” he said.

What kind of imperative? Well, New York City alone had about 160,000 horses hauling people and goods around at that time. “There was a very visible environmental impact that was piling up on corners all over the place,” Dr. Chu said. “So it hastened the shift remarkably.”

Affordable, desirable electric cars: They've been just around the corner for over 100 years

Recently reports have been current in certain newspapers that Mr. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has at last perfected the storage battery, and that within a few months electrically propelled vehicles, costing little to buy and next to nothing to maintain, will be on the market. The same story has appeared regularly for years and yet matters do not appear to have advanced much. –International Herald Tribune, November 1, 1907

Note that Chu does get something right above when he says that there was an environmental imperative to switch to fossil-fueled cars from horse-drawn vehicles.

European carbon markets sagging | Marketplace from American Public Media

David Brancaccio: One thing Europe does not need is another quote "sickly" market. This time, it's the market for carbon credits. Prices have collapsed for the right to spew carbon dioxide into the environment. And today at a big European Union energy conference in Brussels, some policy makers are working to change that.

Renewable Sources of Power Survive, but in a Patchwork | JunkScience.com

JUST a few years ago, the future of renewable energy looked as bright and shiny as a white turbine blade coming out of the mold.

The federal government was handing out money under the stimulus package, states were approving clean energy mandates, young companies were racing ahead with promising new technologies and big global developers were planting stakes for ambitious, utility-scale projects.

Now that picture has dimmed. The low price of natural gas has made renewable power less appealing to utilities and energy companies.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Where Did Those First Solar Subsidies Go? $32 Million went to their Failed CEO

Yep, they can’t scrape up $16.3 million of their own money for a factory but they can find $30 million to give to an unproven CEO they eventually had to ride out on a rail.

Tim Worstall, why did you impose the carbon tax? “I assumed that …” « Shub Niggurath Climate

I’ve looked quite hard – though I haven’t read Worstall’s book – there is absolutely nowhere that he examines why we need to put a tax on ‘carbon’. It is just layers of assumptions and belief in experts.

Please mind – Worstall actually gives very clever reasons to why a carbon tax would be a good thing, even if the climate thing were not true. But that would mean he’s using the climate as an excuse to push things he happens to like, wont it? There is the odd mumbling about solar power, and titanium dioxide, and fuel cells, and “billions “of people dying from climate change.  But why would you operate a battery-powered car when you have a tankful of gas? And why would one listen to Worstall when he is busy deferring to experts other than himself ?

Dimwitted Leftists Think They Can Steal $15 Billion And No One Will be Affected | Real Science

Windfall of cash could come to California because of global warming?

Articles: Poisoning the Kids

As a measure of the quality of air in our country, the U.S. EPA maintains data and statistics that quantify air quality from 1980 to the present.  Based on the U.S. EPA's own data, the national ambient air quality standards for certain target pollutants have all steadily and dramatically reduced.  As a national average:

• Carbon monoxide has been reduced 82%
• Ozone was reduced 28%
• Lead has been reduced 89%
• Nitrogen oxides have been reduced 52%
• Particulate matter as PM10 was reduced 38%, and fine particulate matter as PM 2.5 has been reduced 27%
• Sulfur dioxide has been reduced 83%

Regardless, according the Obama administration and its supporters, the quality of the air in our country is literally killing our kids.