More Proof That NY Times Reporters Are Activists in Disguise | NewsBusters.org

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/dan-gainor/2012/07/07/more-proof-ny-times-reporters-are-activists-disguise

Here's the full Gillis quote from his original e-mail:

"On a similar front, I'm about to fly off to Paris to see Dick Lindzen. It's unavoidable in a story confronting the cloud-feedback question. So I need a really good bibliography of all the published science that says the cloud feedback is neutral to positive ... that is, anything that stands as evidence against Lindzen's claim that the feedback has to be strongly negative. I'm aware of various stuff already, including all the papers that were direct answers to his iris paper, but are you aware of a complete bibliography on this question?"

In a subsequent e-mail, Gillis told one climate activist that Lindzen was 'quite slippery and prone to change the subject whenever a line of questioning became aggressive." He then added, "I trust you're treating these e-mails in strictest confidence, as I will." I guess he forgot FOIA was a two-way street.

Hockey stick found?: "The most striking result is the increase in the proportion of Americans who express strong doubt or rejection of the reality of global warming through their free associations"

Daily Disruption – More Americans Associate Global Warming With Naysayer Imagery

The most striking result is the increase in the proportion of Americans who express strong doubt or rejection of the reality of global warming through their free associations.  In 2003, only 7% of Americans provided ‘naysayer’ images (e.g., ‘hoax,’ or ‘no such thing’) when asked what thought or image first came to mind when they heard the term ‘global warming.’

By 2010, however, 23% of Americans provided ‘naysayer’ images...

...As a policy priority, however, global warming has always been lower than other economic and social issues.

For example, in 2009 the Pew Research Center found that only 30% of Americans said that global warming should be a top priority for the new president, compared to 85% who said strengthening the economy should be a top priority. 

Sunday Reflection: The collusion of the climate crowd | WashingtonExaminer.com

[Chris Horner] Remember, this was a reporter for the New York Times writing this. In the released emails, Gillis comes off as an activist posing as a journalist, sneering at Lindzen. Of another prominent skeptic, Gillis wrote, "I sense you've got him in a trap here ... can't wait to see it sprung." (Ellipses in original.)

Our transparency campaign caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth among academia and its affiliated societies, the Washington Post, and the American Constitution Society. They joined UCS to attest that these sacrosanct exchanges of ideas would be fatally chilled if not granted an unlegislated exemption from freedom of information laws.

So you might be surprised to learn that the Texas A&M email production shows the academics actually forwarding their email discussions outside their circle. To New York Times reporters, for example. They even often copy reporters on the very exchanges they otherwise insist represent an intellectual circle that must remain free from violation by prying, nonacademic eyes. Awkward.

I'm confused: When floods and storms happen, are we being punished by God for immorality and greed, or are we being punished by Gaia for Exxon's CO2-related immorality and greed?

2007:  Floods are judgment on society, say bishops - Telegraph

The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God's judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society,  according to senior Church of  England bishops.

One diocesan bishop has even claimed that laws that have  undermined marriage, including the introduction of pro-gay  legislation, have provoked God to act  by sending the storms that have left thousands of people homeless.

Shock: LA Times and NY Times suggest that natural variability caused current US heat wave; admit it was just as hot or hotter in the 1930s; fail to even mention the global warming hoax

Heat wave: Midwest plain 'out of whack' as records shatter - latimes.com

The current heat wave -- which is spurring comparisons to the catastrophic heat of 1936 --  is "out of whack," meteorologist Jim Keeney said Friday in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. 
...
Take St. Louis, for example. The last time the city was this hot for this long was in 1936, said Keeney, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Central Region Headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. Then, the city recorded 13 days in a row of temperatures 100 degrees Fahrenheit or over.  That  devastating heat wave of the mid-'30s killed thousands of people and destroyed many crops.

The culprit in the current wave is a dome of high pressure that has been hovering over the eastern part of the U.S., said NWS spokesman Pat Slattery in an interview with The Times on Friday.

Temperatures Soar as Heat Wave Continues - NYTimes.com

In the Midwest, some residents were drawing comparisons between the current heat wave and the severe heat and drought of the 1930s...

The prolonged heat has been the result of a high pressure system that has set up over the central and Eastern parts of the country, said Katie Garrett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Another sign of the (heat) times: thousands of dead fish - U.S. News

In lakes and rivers across parched areas of the U.S., heat and lower water levels are reducing oxygen levels -- and killing fish populations by the thousands. 

Flashback: Deep freeze kills millions of fish in Florida

Protesters take 16-metre wind turbine blade to Tate Modern | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

The one and a half tonne blade, taken from a decommissioned wind turbine in Wales, was presented to Tate staff along with an official request for it to be made part of the gallery's permanent collection.

Liberate Tate spokeswoman Sharon Palmer said that "in a time of climate crisis" visitors to the gallery "should not be made to feel that they're legitimising" oil firms such as BP.

...BP's sponsorship of British arts institutions, including the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, is worth more than £1m a year. It first attracted protests after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

Two months later, five gallons of molasses were poured down Tate Britain's stairs at its summer party. Demonstrators also released helium balloons with dead fish attached in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Gallery staff shot the balloons down with air rifles.

Cue the violins: During 4.5 days without electricity, West Virginia woman "personally had to wait in line for gas"; had to take showers with no hot water; almost ran out of food

After the Storm: The Haves and the Have-Nots | Mother Jones

Here's part of the 1,009-word missive that Bush tapped out on her cell phone:

Over the last 4 and a half days, I've seen families struggle over what to eat when most of the food has spoiled. I've personally had to wait in line for gas, praying they wouldn't run out before I got my fill. I've taken cold showers because there is no hot water. I've gone hunting for elusive ice that has become worth more than gold, and not found any. I've seen fights break out over basic necessaries, because nerves are becoming frayed from the stress of the heat and lack of water.

...We pray for rain to come relieve the heat, then when it finally comes, we pray it won't leave us worse off than we already are. We pick at our food during the day because it's too hot to eat, then gorge at night and suffer for it because our bodies aren't used to food, or worse: because the food has turned and we ate it anyway because that's all we have and we're hungry.

Birth of a climate change meme: Inadequate reporting followed by inept blogging

A friend sent a link to a Yahoo news blog post about remarks by Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, regarding Americans’ perceptions of climate change.

The post, written by one Conor Skelding, whose LinkedIn profile identifies him as a Yahoo intern, carries this hed: Just step outside: More Americans convinced of climate change after extreme weather

The hed provides no support for “convinced”; it is sheer opinion. It is a meme emerging from the womb, a virgin birth with no fathering fact.

Twitter / ShawnOtto: heading in to talk climate

heading in to talk climate change denial at CONvergence sci fi fest

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: DC scorecard. Normally th

DC scorecard. Normally through July 8th it should have hit 90 10 times, it will be 16. Thru end of July,21. Lets score it this year

Insane claim in a blurb for a Union of Concerned [Junk] Scientists book: "When it comes to climate change, each individual’s everyday decisions have tremendous impact"

The Union of Concerned Scientists - Cooler Smarter | Politics & Prose Bookstore

California Goes Completely Insane | Real Science

California is bankrupt, so they are going to spend billions of dollars building a useless train line. If you want to get from the Bay Area to LA, you hop on a Southwest Airlines flight in San Jose, Oakland or San Francisco and you are in LA an hour later. It is cheap, easy and fast. Why would anyone want to take a high speed train which takes three times as long, goes a couple hundred miles out of the way through the Central Valley, and crosses the Hayward fault and the San Andreas fault?

Glacier the backdrop for climate lessons - Daily Inter Lake: Local/Montana

The activity may be part of a unit Samuel formulated titled “How big is my [carbon] footprint?” In this age group, Samuel said students already are learning the difference between climate and weather. One of her service learning project ideas was to have students walk to school and wear buttons with the questions, “Ask me why I walked to school today” or “Ask me how big my footprint is.”

“This would be an opportunity for them to talk to others about how they want to help the planet,” Haider said.

...The National Park Foundation, Glacier Institute and Glacier National Park organized the Climate Change Teacher Workshop through grants from the National Park Foundation.

Can’t see the Climate Forest For the Trees

3. Deliberately ignoring contradictory evidence. Every record of any duration for any time period has temperature increase preceding CO2 increase. Nobody has responded to my call for a contrary example.

Department Of Stupid Statistics | Real Science

Statistics that must never be used are things like :

• The total number of hot days
• The trend in the number of hot days
• The number of days over 100 degrees
• The average high for the summer
• The decadal trend for hot days
• The hottest days of the summer

Most importantly – pick only very isolated one shot statistics to support the non-existent trend you are trying to prove.

Extreme weather: Preview or feature, no one wants to see the full climate change show | Susan Casey-Lefkowitz's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

We see the fossil fuel industry wasting taxpayer money in challenging efforts to curb climate change pollution.

Green Weenie of the Week: Think Kangaroos | Power Line

And so this week’s Green Weenie goes to (drum roll please) the government of Australia, which launched a carbon tax on July 1.  Australia’s carbon tax, a key demand of the Green Party entering the coalition that enabled the Labour Party to form a government after the last election, is Australia’s answer to Obamacare: it is deeply unpopular, and the Liberal Party promises to repeal it if they win the next election.  If the current polls are any guide, the Liberal Party will win in a landslide.  One lesson here is that we should be thankful we don’t have the awful proportional parliamentary system here in the U.S. that enables marginal extremist parties to hijack entire nations.  Here, Democrats can mostly ignore environmentalists (the battered spouses of American politics, as I argued once before) when the green weenies scream for carbon taxes.

Climate activists scuttle plans for ice-melting protest on Capitol Hill - The Hill's E2-Wire

Update: It appears the Capitol ice-melting plans had drawn the particular ire of Bob Kincaid, a prominent West Virginia activist who battles mountaintop removal coal-mining.

Kincaid, on his Twitter feed, bashed the ice plan in a stream of tweets directed at 350.org Friday. For instance, he called it “nasty and elitist” when people need ice and water in West Virginia, and wrote that it amounted to “slapping suffering, struggling ppl in the face.”

Record heat, derecho storm: Does global warming get blame? – USATODAY.com

Derechos don't happen very often but with heat waves more common under climate projections, they would most likely increase in frequency and severity, says forest ecologist Chris Peterson of the University of Georgia in Athens.

Great skiing at Mt. Baker Ski Area

Quote: “There was plenty of snow and there is great skiing to be done.” 

Look at these spectacular photos atop Mt. Baker on the 4th of July, 2012.

Britain facing its “worst ever” summer

New Little Ice Age’ extreme weather is taking over.”

A “nightmare.” “The weather has affected crops immensely.”

The folly of blaming the Eastern U.S. heat wave on global warming | Watts Up With That?

It isn’t global.

June 2012 U.S. Temperatures: Not That Remarkable « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

“But, Roy, the heat wave is consistent with climate model predictions!”. Yeah, well, it’s also consistent with natural weather variability. So, take your pick.

For the whole U.S. in June, average temperatures were not that remarkable.

What Is Causing The Climate To Unravel? | ThinkProgress

by Jeremy Symons, via  the National Wildlife Federation

Answer: One trillion tons of carbon pollution....we need to face up to the fact that our weather has turned dangerous because our climate is breaking down

Scummy Alarmist Reporters Continue To Defile History | Real Science

These reporters are genuine pigs, defiling the memories of the past.

One of the worst flood disasters in US history occurred southwest of Fort Collins in 1976.

Global-warming ice sculpture protest canceled in embarrassment for green group « » Print The Daily Caller

Former meteorologist and climate change skeptic Anthony Watts pointed out that the stunt would have backfired, given the slow rate at which the ice was likely to melt.

According to 350.org, the melting rate of ice sculptures did not factor into its decision to cancel Saturday’s planned protest.

“We are not experts in the physical properties of water but are confident that ice melts quickly when it’s 106!” Kessler wrote in an email to TheDC.

Southwest Permanent Drought Update | Real Science

You can locate the High Park fire by looking for 4+ inches of rain on the map.

Michelle Malkin’s diatribe on “global warming...

[Revkin] I got into a Twitter spat with the climate scientist Michael Mann and others over climate-centric depictions of the fire losses.

It’s only “fair and balanced” to challenge Malkin’s antigreen-centrism.

GoebbelsGate?: Now crazed climate hoax scientist Michael Mann links to a piece that says: "When I see pictures of [Mann's political opponent Cuccinelli] with all his innocent children, I am reminded of the pictures of the propagandist Joseph Goebbels with his innocent children who were all destroyed by poison and their father's mendacity"

Twitter / MichaelEMann: "Will Attorney General Ken

"Will Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Learn Anything from Super Derecho Event of Jun 29?" via Legend of Pine Ridge blog bit.ly/NucIze 

The Legend of Pine Ridge: Will Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Learn Anything from the Super Derecho Event of June 29, 2012?

Cuccinelli lives in Virginia, so his family was endangered by the derecho. This man even endangers his own children’s futures with his climate change denialism. When I see pictures of him with all his innocent children, I am reminded of the pictures of the propagandist Joseph Goebbels with his innocent children who were all destroyed by poison and their father's mendacity.
If Mr. Cuccinelli would listen to the scientist Michael Mann and tell Virginians the truth about the dangers of climate change, all our children would have a safer future.

Goebbels children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following day, on May 1, 1945, the Goebbels' six children were injected with morphine (likely by an SS dentist, Helmut Kunz) and then, when they were unconscious, killed by having a crushed ampoule of cyanide placed in their mouths. Accounts differ over how involved Magda was with the killing of her children. According to Kunz, he administered the morphine but it was Magda Goebbels and Ludwig Stumpfegger (Hitler's personal doctor) who administered the cyanide tablets.

Al Gore's former foreign affairs spokesman suggests that derechos are something new; criticizes Gore for partisanship and tendency to "lay down the law like an Old Testament prophet"

ROSSHIRT: The Tricky Politics of Climate Change - Sahuarita Sun: Columns

A "derecho," according to the news coverage, is "a fast-moving, long-lived, large, violent thunderstorm complex."

 

When climate events force a new word into the common vocabulary, it's another sign that the weather is getting weirder.

...At the same time, Gore also tends to think in biblical terms. As he was writing the 1998 speech he gave at the Chernobyl Museum in Ukraine, he was trying to capture the meaning of the exclusion zone created around the radioactive power plant. A few hours before the speech, he came up with this: "As from Eden, we have been banished."

So Gore, with faith in science and certitude in his faith, tends to lay down the law like an Old Testament prophet. "Change your ways or perish" is a message he delivers with conviction and perhaps sometimes some unseemly relish....Making climate change a partisan issue delays action as much as denial does. Being nonpartisan in this case is not only noble but also the only way to get what we need.

Tom Rosshirt was a national security speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and a foreign affairs spokesman for Vice President Al Gore.

Derecho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The word was first used in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888 by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in a paper describing the phenomenon and based on a significant derecho event that crossed Iowa on 31 July 1877

Cynthia Tucker: Global warming skeptics rule GOP

climate change is the issue that worries me most when I think about my child's future...The Republican Party has become, among other things, an assemblage of flat-earthers, rejecting science, spreading climate illiteracy and bashing environmentalists.

Cynthia Tucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

She attended Auburn University, where she majored in English and journalism and wrote for the student newspaper... She is regarded as politically liberal

Buffett's Charlie Munger Says Cap And Trade Is "Monstrously Stupid" (CLIP) - Business Insider

[Munger on AGW, 2007] I don't think it's an utter calamity for mankind though. You'd have to be a pot-smoking journalism student to think that.

Heavy Rain Forecast For Southwest And The Corn Belt | Real Science

Another sad day for alarmists, who are always hoping for misery and death.

The 1930s Was Hotter In Laurel, Maryland | Real Science

Laurel is in between Baltimore and Washington, close to where I spent the winter in Columbia. During the 1930s, they averaged 7.8 days per year over 95 degrees. By contrast, since the year 2000 they have only averaged 5.7 days per year over 95 degrees.

...Jason Samenow at the Washington Post came up with all kinds of meaningless statistics to prove global warming in DC, but he hid the only ones which really matter.

Filmmaker, Expert Arthur C. Smith III: “Polar Bear Extinction Is Not A Climate Issue”

Energy Socialism: EU Commission Hands Out More Free CO2 Allowances

Cold snap freezes Queenstown tourism - Story - Business - 3 News

It has been looking like a scene from Antarctica, but it is Queenstown's Shotover River, and even in the middle of the day it’s absolutely freezing.

PR Event Ends In A Bust For Bill McKibben | Real Science

Then the eastern half of the US turned cool and wet.

Because we’ve been asked – the nonsense thousand-year enhanced greenhouse effect | JunkScience.com

Each and every year the planet warms and cools almost 4°C, peaking in July at near 16°C and cooling to 12°C in January, according to NCDC.

Unless that is response from years gone by then the planet actually responds to changes in forcing in half a year.

- Bishop Hill blog - Redwood writes

Senior Conservative MP John Redwood has written an open letter to the new director general of the BBC, discussing its institutional bias. Coverage of global warming is mentioned.

Winter off to freezing start Tasmania News - The Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania

TASMANIA shivered through a cold first month of winter, with lower-than-usual night-time temperatures recorded in the South and Liawenee posting its coldest June day in almost 30 years.

Cold Front Leaves 14 Dead in Chile

SANTIAGO– At least 14 people have died in Chile, mainly in Santiago, due to the cold front that has swept the country throughout the past few days.

Indy sweats: Extreme temperatures may be the new normal | Indianapolis Star | indystar.com

Holly Wanzer remembers well the Fourth of July in 2009. She went to the Brownsburg parade that day, dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt. Yep, a sweatshirt.

Made sense. The high that day was 70 degrees -- the coldest Independence Day in Indianapolis since, well, since anyone started keeping track.

This year? 102 degrees -- the hottest July 4 in recorded history...
When scientists first sounded the alarm about global warming, they predicted that a result of it would be more dramatic weather, in all directions.

Mohamed Nasheed, Former Maldives President, Calls For U.S. To Embrace Climate Change Reality

As president, Nasheed worked to make the Maldives carbon-neutral. With a population of 300,000-plus, he said his country needs to complete around 200 projects to reach that goal, a process he believes would take about 10 years...To those who question the evidence of global warming, Nasheed said, "The science is sorted. And not to believe in it, I think is very foolhardy."

Matt Ridley: Getting Crops Ready For A Warmer Tomorrow

Rising carbon-dioxide levels are slightly helping crops compete against weeds.

Worries about drowning come with heat in US as more people may be flocking to water - The Washington Post

Colorado Burning Update | Real Science

Heavy rains swamp burn area

Heat wave, fires have climate change activists going on the offensive - The Hill's E2-Wire

For the green movement, the wild weather is a chance to show that oppressive heat and dangerous storms — and maybe even big winter snowstorms — are what experts believe nature has in store.

“This is another sad chapter in connecting the dots, and there will be more chapters, unfortunately, and hopefully the story won't get too much worse before we finally do something,” said Bill Snape of the Center for Biological Diversity.

“We have to talk about it. This is, unfortunately, an opportunity to do that,” said Snape, the group’s senior counsel.
...
But the extent to which the green movement overall crafts its message around the dangers of extreme weather remains to be seen, a senior official with the Sierra Club said.

Labor 'gives up' on its carbon tax case | SBS World News

Labor has already given up trying to justify its carbon tax to the Australian people, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.

Mr Abbott says a week after the national tax on carbon emissions was introduced, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has essentially "given up the fight".

Twitter / omnologos: Pontificating about CO2 em

Pontificating about CO2 emissions after every heatwave is just a form of scavenging @Revkin @ebertchicago @juddapatow ‪#agw

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: http://t.co/BULyOwJy Not

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-bet- …

Not knowing about Derecho's is the tip of the Dunning Krueger Iceberg of Ignorance on weather/climate with this bunch

Overheated planet update: Don't miss this picture tweeted by Joe Bastardi

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: climate clowns, willing sh

climate clowns, willing sheep in MSM wont show reality . US hot spot outweighed by cold other area.. GLOBALLY) pic.twitter.com/1jWDrGNn

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON AUSSIE PM’S ANSWERS TO THE PUBLIC ON CLIMATE CHANGE

July 6, 2012: Australia's Herald Sun newspaper just hosted an online question and answer session between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the public about that country's new "carbon" tax (which came into force on July 1, 2012).

ICSC is asking for readers' comments about the Prime Minister's climate (science and politics) statements. We will select the most interesting remarks that we receive and share them with the public via our Website. ICSC will also send the most important comments directly to Prime Minister Gillard's office.

Watch Now: Morano on FOX News: UN urges countries to tax rich to help fight climate change | Video | Fox News

Capitalism’s crises, our solutions: time to change the system | Green Left Weekly

Baba Jan and four comrades — all members of the Labour Party Pakistan — imprisoned along with him are among the growing number of those who could be termed “political prisoners of the global climate crisis”.

...This horror of this crisis is now — not in the future — for millions of people, especially in the Third World where there is even less capacity to cope with these unnatural disasters....Capitalism will not resolve the climate change crisis. It will not because it cannot. It cannot because of its structured social and ecological irrationality....

As the capitalist system takes the world to the brink with its increasingly combined economic and ecological global crises, there is a heavy responsibility on all who see the need to resist and break from this system’s deadly grip to find the ways to work together and, where possible, unite politically.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: 2012 off to furious start

2012 off to furious start in tornadoes – http://USATODAY.com  http://usat.ly/wlUSVg  via @USATODAY Heh geniuses, explain what happened

Pentagon plays part in climate change - Baltimore Sun

Instead of global warming, use climate chaos. What I witnessed in Baltimore on the Friday night of the storm was climate chaos. Only a head-in-the-sand politician would deny that human activity is causing climate chaos....TheU.S. military's environmental record is, to say the least, dismal. I argue that the Pentagon is greatly responsible for the assault on Mother Earth, as it is the world's number one consumer of fossil fuels. There are some 1,000 military outposts, thousands of flights per year, gas-guzzling Hummers, depleted uranium, nuclear weapons, toxic military sites and environmental ecocide in war zones.

If we are to save this planet, war is not the answer. We the people must rise up and demand severe cutbacks in Pentagon spending. These tax dollars then can be use to develop the green economy. Let's do it before the next mega-storm hits Baltimore.

How events change our perception of climate - IOL SciTech | IOL.co.za

[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco] told a university forum in Australia on Friday that perceptions are changing as the US sees “more and more examples of extreme weather and extreme climate-related events.”

Among them, she noted record-breaking wildfires in the West in the past two years, including in Colorado, where blazes have recently damaged or destroyed nearly 350 homes and killed two people.

Other examples she mentioned are a record warm spring and preseason hurricanes.

Twitter / Sustainable2050: Big difference: 1.5C globa

Big difference: 1.5C global warming scenario stabilizes sea level rise (1.5m) in long term, but a 2C scenario does not! http://goo.gl/ty2Wr

Video clips of debate between Morano vs. Warmist Mike Tidwell heatwaves and agw on DC Ch. 9

Sudden desert: Midwest drought is bad news for farmers and eaters | Grist

This year’s growing season has been consistently dry and warm, leading to stunted stalk growth, and many of the corn-growing states are now sweltering through record-breaking heat during a critical stage of kernel development with nary a storm in sight...

Paul Bertels, an Illinois corn grower and vice president at the National Corn Growers Association, was downbeat on Monday when discussing this year’s expected harvest. But he characterized the hot dry spell as a “normal event” and said he is not convinced that the weather will change as much as Diffenbaugh and others predict it will.

Not that Bertels wants to downplay the reality of drought. “We’ve had bad droughts here before,” he says. “Eighty-eight was probably the last really significant drought that was Midwest-wide. My grandma will talk about 1934 and 1936 being really bad summers. So it’s not unprecedented, but people’s memories tend to be shorter.”

We’re leading the world in useless gestures | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Greg Sheridan on one of the great carbon tax lies:

ONE of the main reasons the Gillard government is so unsuccessful in selling its carbon tax is that its overall narrative is so utterly dishonest.

Here is the key example. The government and its countless, mostly paid, carbon tax spruikers would have you believe that the Australian carbon tax is in line with most international practice

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: It will rain 'til September

BRITAIN is facing its “worst ever” summer with cold wet weather ruining family holidays and blighting the Olympics, forecasters warned last night.

44,000 Record Low Ice Extents | Real Science

A Google search for “nsidc record low ice extent” turns up 44,800 results. It is like that scene from The Holy Grail, where the horseman is galloping towards you – but never gets any closer.

Nearly every month NSIDC tells us that ice is at a “record low” – yet Arctic ice extent and age continues to increase since the 2007-20o8 minimum. That is what happens when people use confirmation bias ladders to do their cherry picking.

NBC Cites ‘Global Warming’ As Possible Cause of Colorado Wildfires | NewsBusters.org

Thompson quoted two professors who live outside Colorado when she chould have interviewed Colorado state climatologist Nolan Doesken, who pointed out that, “you can’t say it’s climate change just because it’s an extreme condition.”  Doesken also noted that spring of 2012 looked much like the spring of 1910, when warm temperatures hit early and that year was a bad year for fires.

Instead of reporting a fair story, Thompson continued the liberal global warming line and tied it to Colorado wildfires, using sources who support her position and failing to bring on any skeptics who challenge the myth that Colorado wildfires are related to "global warming."

When Scientists Talk Like Lawyers . . .We Should Be Skeptical

The good news is that, whatever effect global warming may have on weather patterns, death and death rates related to extreme weather declined by 93% and 98%, respectively, since 1900.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: The bill comes due for California's climate change law: $447 billion over next 8 years

Farron Cousins | Hot Enough For Ya? Extreme Weather Events Consistent With Climate Change Science

This year has been like none we’ve ever seen. It began in the winter, when snowfall dropped to near-record lows, whereas the previous year had given us record amounts of snowfall.

Rahmstorf (2011): Robust or Just Busted (Part 2) – Quadratic Fits of Laughter « Climate Sanity

When Rahmstorf is faced with old data and new data from the same authors, he has a special method for deciding which data set is better.  The version that points to higher sea level rise in the 21st century is always considered to be better.

C3: Real Mainstream Scientists Get Duped By A Planned Science Hoax - Willingly Accept Bogus Facts Without Questioning

Good News: Real scientists are gullible, dumb-asses just like the rest of us
Bad News: Real scientists are gullible, dumb-asses just like the rest of us

I bet Bastardi loves this quote by Gavin Schmidt: "I don't think anybody in the climate change community had even heard the word 'derecho' before last week"

Atmosphere of Distortion - By Joshua E. Keating | Foreign Policy

Although the science may be on the side of climate change, blaming one particular weather incident on global warming is just as misleading as saying that a cold winter disproves it. "I don't think anybody in the climate change community had even heard the word 'derecho' before last week," says Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeler at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies...
"Most people don't assimilate global statistics or long-term trends -- you feel what's going on by the weather," says NASA's Schmidt. "When weird weather happens, a lot of people just instinctively think its climate change."

Flashback: Did Michael Mann just learn the word "derecho", then quickly decide that the most recent one was caused by trace amounts of carbon dioxide?

Bad weather or global warming? - Joshua Keating

Observations over time show that heat waves are getting more frequent and longer, while severe rainstorms are becoming more intense, but that's not the same thing as saying that the recent heat is the result of global warming.

"That kind of statement doesn't make any sense at all," says Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeler at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Similarly, when it comes to Colorado's wildfires, it's true that a warmer winter led to earlier snow melt, lower precipitation and an infestation of pine beetles, creating conditions conducive to severe fire. But, of course, wildfires took place long before the planet began warming, and most scientists are cautious about stating an unambiguous causal link.

Twitter / MichaelEMann: @gilliantweet @FP_Magazine

@gilliantweet @FP_Magazine @AGW_Prof Gavin wasn't on his best game here. Relationship, like w/ tobacco & lung cancer, is *statistical*.

Making Trolleys Out of Trucks: ‘Green’ Transport Idea Is Expensive Folly | JunkScience.com

The German engineering giant Siemens is researching the idea of using overhead electricity lines to power truck traffic. But the state-supported project makes no sense. It would cost billions to implement — and only lead to higher fuel consumption and more pollution.

High cost and nil effect: that's our carbon tax | The Australian

ONE of the main reasons the Gillard government is so unsuccessful in selling its carbon tax is that its overall narrative is so utterly dishonest.

World Bank blocks recast of trading emissions contracts | Eco-Business.com

The World Bank’s carbon-finance unit boosted the value of its funds’ ERPAs by 9.4 percent last year as it signed 23 new deals, even as prices plunged by more than two-thirds.

Prensa Latina News Agency - Chile: Second Death in Freezing Week

In the country 14 people have died so far this year as a result of low temperatures, with minimum temperatures of minus three degrees Celsius and maximum of nine degrees in Santiago this week.

Twitter / Barrowice: In 1974 excess Arctic ice

In 1974 excess Arctic ice was blamed for droughts and floods. In 2012 missing ice is blamed for droughts and floods!! http://wp.me/pPrQ9-cIA

Journalists and climate disclaimers | Grist

It’s also an illustration of how well conservatives (and concern trolls) have been able to work the refs. Those journalists brave enough to mention climate change in the context of any actual event in the world are almost never confident enough to simply treat it as a distal cause among other distal causes, to take it for granted. Climate change ought to be, not some novelty to be hemmed and hawed over, but simply a background condition to be noted. “Climate changes’s effects were in evidence again this week as a series of wildfires ravaged the West.” There’s your lede.

Journalists won’t develop that confidence on their own, no matter what “the science says.” Someone’s got to model that confidence for them. And I’m not sure the climate community is doing a great job on that score. I’m sorry, but “this is what we expect climate change to look like” just isn’t as confident as “this is climate change.” The fact that defensive, hedged language is now being rolled out as the official rhetoric of climate hawks is testament to the fact that scientists are driving the process.

Weather damages Bitterroot Valley apple crop | KPAX.com | Missoula, Montana

A cold snap struck the Bitterroot Valley in May, taking temperatures down to 24 degrees overnight. It was an instant death for nearly each budding piece of fruit on Al Pernichele's 10-acre Frost Top Orchard.

The orchard produces 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of cider in a good year, but this time around there won't be any.

43 deaths tied to heat wave over last 2 weeks - U.S. News

Dean Hines, the owner of Hines Ranch Inc. in the western Wisconsin town of Ellsworth, said he found one of his 80 dairy cows dead Thursday, an apparent victim of the heat.

Flashback: 1.7 million livestock die in Mongolia freeze - Weather - msnbc.com

Temps as low as minus 58 F raise fears that toll could reach 4 million

Triana GoreSat climate change: Once-derided climate-change satellite to be launched with a new purpose - Orlando Sentinel

Slated for inclusion on the spacecraft are instruments that can measure aerosols in the atmosphere and changes in atmospheric temperature and radiation. These are key, Valero said, to settling the question of global warming and humanity's contribution to it.

July 4th Used To Be Much Hotter In Virginia | Real Science

The hottest July 4th was 105F at Woodstock, Virginia in 1898. Half of the 100 degree days were more than a century ago, and all but one occurred with CO2 below 350 ppm.

Journalists Fired Up About Global Warming |

The Earth was on fire before you were born, and it will be on fire long after you’re gone.

The entire Mountain West of the United States burned before you were born, many times. The entire Mountain West of the United States will burn again, many times, after you’re gone. Before CNN, the Mountain West was burning. After CNN, the Mountain West will be burning still. Forests burn.

Why Climate Change, Our Biggest Moral Challenge, Doesn’t Act Like One | ThinkProgress

climate disruption seems to lack the fear-focusing power (though certainly not the destructive potential) of the Third Reich.  [Ya think?]

Brumby’s bakery boss forced to resign over “carbon tax memo” « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

350.org follows the Mooney directive, but will anyone care? | Watts Up With That?

Giant Ice Sculpture On National Mall to Symbolize the Melting Away of Climate Denialism

Flashback: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - ‘Frozen Gore’ sculpture returns in Fairbanks to fuel climate change debate

Local businessmen Craig Compeau and Rudy Gavora contracted the piece from award-winning sculptor Steve Dean and say they’ll keep erecting one each winter until Gore accepts an invitation to discuss the global warming issue in Fairbanks.

Ravaged Reefs Bounce Back | The Resilient Earth

Do human activities have an impact on the world's reefs? Undoubtedly. But it is not an irreversible, unprecedented or even abnormal impact in most cases. So despite the obligatory verbal genuflecting by study's authors, paying obeisance to the gods of Political Correctness, there is precocious little difference between natural and man-made change—in either its form or impact. So remember the next time some ecological blatherskite starts going on about the death of the ocean reefs—the reefs, like Earth itself, are more resilient than we know.

Even the deserts can't get to their normal highs

“It hasn’t been this cold on July 4th since records began. Let’s not get brainwashed out there.”

The New Nostradamus of the North: Cold British summer: Shoppers stocking up on warming and comfort foods

In Britain the cold and rainy summer has led to some unusual behavior: 

C3: More Climate Science-Lies: University of Nebraska Claims "Record" Drought In 2012

Honestly, climate-liars must be an 'affirmative action' position at most colleges and universities - producing climate science-lies must get one tenure

Letters: On the Arctic... | The Economist

[Ridley/Montford/Peiser] According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates, polar bear numbers are at least twice as high as in the 1960s. Of the eight populations said to be decreasing, the official data table and map produced by the Polar Bear Specialist Group shows that two are only “thought” or “believed” to be declining entirely due to hunting; four are in decline only according to computer models, despite some claims by “traditional ecological knowledge” (ie, locals) that they are thriving; one has more than doubled but is now said to be “currently declining” because of crowding; and one showed a real decline that has recently been reversed. Meanwhile, the four populations you described as unknown include the huge Barents Sea population, which has seen dramatic increase in sightings, damage to huts and devastation of barnacle goose colonies on the west coast of Svalbard, all prima facie evidence of “thriving”. There is a strong smell of “policy-based evidence making” here.

Since the 1970s the population of white whales around Svalbard has increased, as have walrus and barnacle geese numbers. Protection from hunting has had, and is likely to have, a much bigger impact on Arctic wildlife than climate trends.

Twitter / ret_ward: Excellent set of new paper

Excellent set of new papers on climate change risk perception and communication: http://bit.ly/Mp6XAb

The ABC of groupthink | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Gerard Henderson on yet another mutual omm session on the groupthink ABC:

Last Monday, the ABC Radio PM program addressed the issue of human induced climate change. It was the day after the introduction of the carbon tax/ETS, and PM interviewed only carbon tax advocates who either support the Gillard Government’s scheme or who believe that Labor should be doing more.

Labor’s hopeless retreat from its global warming Moscow | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The collapse of the global warming cause is instructive.

Here is another cause which the Left adopted with a moral fervor which once again licensed its inner totalitarian.  Labor felt entitled to lie, deceive, exaggerate and impose for the greater good, but when that good turned to trash, Labor was left looking merely sneaky, arrogant and extremely stupid.

Lights go dim on another energy project - Washington Times

A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration for an alternative energy project in Nevada — which received hearty endorsements from Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — faces financial problems, and the company’s auditors have questioned whether it can stay in business.

Western Sydney responds to climate emergency | Green Left Weekly

Greens NSW MLC John Kaye and Socialist Alliance national co-convener Peter Boyle opened the day by examining the systemic character of the climate and social crises now confronting humanity, and the need for a people-power driven response.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Both Chicago and Denver ma

[July 5] Both Chicago and Denver may have maxes over 30 degrees lower than today over the weekend

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: If I may remind you, there

If I may remind you, there have been some major hot summers in other areas and the winter that followed was brutal. Keep that in mind

Crossing the Arctic in a rowboat: They plan to be the first - latimes.com

scientists predict "that we will hit conditions where the Arctic Ocean may be virtually ice-free during summer by the middle to end of this century."

What Happened To Texas? What Happened To Tornadoes? | Real Science

One year ago Andrew Dessler from Texas A&M University wrote an editorial in the Houston Chronicle declaring Texas to be in a permanent drought. No one is talking about Texas any more because they have had above normal rainfall this year.

Similarly, back in February, our friends got hysterical about some early tornadoes. The rest of the tornado season turned out slow and they quit talking about it. Same story for Moscow, Europe 2003, snow is a thing of the past, global cooling ……

The Colorado icon only lasted couple of weeks, though the MSM is still trying to get mileage out of it. It is a pathetic three-ring circus.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Natural climate change drove coral reefs to 'total ecosystem collapse' when CO2 was 'safe'

According to a paper published this week in Science, natural climate change 4,000 years ago drove coral reefs to "total ecosystem collapse lasting 2,500 years" for "40 percent of their total history" over the past 6,000 years. The authors believe "an intensified ENSO regime" was responsible, but then erroneously assume AGW will lead to a similar reef collapse, despite extensive peer-reviewed literature showing that changes in greenhouse gases have not and will not affect ENSO intensity

Rapid sea ice retreat in June | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Prior to the onset of melt, the ice was thicker than observed in recent years – around 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) as compared to typical conditions of around 1.4 meters (4.6 feet).

Congress Continues Wasting Our Time With Worthless Witch Hunts | ThinkProgress

Meanwhile, the real waste of taxpayer money is being ignored. Darrell Issa’s Oversight Committee seems to have no interest in a Congressional Budget Office report noting the  waste of carbon capture & storage money (a kind of “clean coal”) – to date, $6.9 billion, or nearly 100 Abounds or 14 Solyndras.

Climate Common Sense: Carbon Sunday the beginning of the end.

Julia Gillard is losing the propaganda battle and is on a slippery slide to the next election. The handouts are seen by voters as bribes and create questions about financial competence when they are funded by debt.

Turning up the heat on climate change - latimes.com

I am a political scientist who studies climate policy and adaptation, and the intersection between climate science and politics. My father is also a scientist — a nuclear engineer. But he's always been a bit skeptical about climate change. Though he's not a full-on doubter, he also hasn't fully embraced the idea that the planet is warming in ways that could be devastating, and that this change is the result of human activity. Events like the Waldo Canyon fire may make him and other climate skeptics easier to convince.

Young Men and Fire - Norman MacLean - Google Books

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned.

Did global warming intensify the derecho?

Meteorologist and blogger Anthony Watts, cringed at the mere question of a global warming link. Watts argued derechos are nothing new. He pointed out these storms were occurring in the late 1800s when the term derecho was coined. Further, he noted, NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has an entire website devoted to derecho history.

...But Watts’ argument is incomplete and unconvincing.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Current Heat Wave Could Lead to a Food Crisis, and More

Bill Allen: Tipper Gore’s Secretive New Beau - The Daily Beast

(Tipper now resides in a plush $8 million manse in Montecito)

Global Warming Blame-ologists Play with Fire - Michelle Malkin - [page]

Stoking global warming alarms may make for titillating headlines and posh Al Gore confabs. But it's a human blame avoidance strategy rooted in ideological extremism and flaming idiocy.

DC Was Much Hotter During The 1930s | Real Science

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/dc-was-much-hotter-during-the-1930s/
Very hot days were three to seven times more common during the 1930s, than they have been since the start of the year 2000.

The Fires This Time - NYTimes.com

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/the-fires-this-time/
we should get used to intimacy with a ferocious new face of nature.

Stupid often: a political motto | The Australian

http://m.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/stupid-often-a-political-motto/story-e6frgd0x-1226419244034

Aggressive goats force closure of Olympic National Forest trail

http://iceagenow.info/2012/07/aggressive-goats-force-closure-olympic-national-forest-trail/

Deep snowpack may be driving them to lower elevations

State farm bureau gets OK to sue over solar project | JunkScience.com

http://junkscience.com/2012/07/06/state-farm-bureau-gets-ok-to-sue-over-solar-project-read-more-here-httpwww-fresnobee-com201207042898824state-farm-bureau-gets-ok-to-sue-htmlstorylinkcpy/

The case is the first legal showdown between the agricultural community and the solar industry since a flood of new energy proposals left many in the heavily farmed San Joaquin Valley fearful of a land grab.

ScientificAmerican Headline: Warming Oceans Means Seafood Menu Changes

http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/scientificamerican-headline-warming-oceans-means-seafood-menu-changes/
Hmm. Let's see. So far we've seen that the North Sea sea surface temperatures have increased, but the trends are not "six times faster than pretty much any marine area around the world." We've seen that the recent warming has actually been tied to a shift in sea level pressure represented by the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the impacts of the naturally caused warming on sea life have also been studied for years. That raises a very basic question: why is this news?

Hockey Schtick: New paper finds warmer temperatures increase crop yields and lead to lower prices

http://junkscience.com/2012/07/06/hockey-schtick-new-paper-finds-warmer-temperatures-increase-crop-yields-and-lead-to-lower-prices/

Hockey Schtick: New paper finds clouds act as a negative feedback and cause significant cooling

http://junkscience.com/2012/07/06/hockey-schtick-new-paper-finds-clouds-act-as-a-negative-feedback-and-cause-significant-cooling/

- Bishop Hill blog - Testing scientific gullibility

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/7/6/testing-scientific-gullibility.html
Could we make scientists believe a hoax TV news story because it (a) employed familiar TV conventions and (b) it presented a flattering narrative of a lone scientist battling corrupt authority?

A Research Paper “C4 Grasses Prosper As Carbon Dioxide Eliminates Desiccation In Warmed Semi-Arid Grassland” By Morgan Et Al 2011

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/a-research-paper-c4-grasses-prosper-as-carbon-dioxide-eliminates-desiccation-in-warmed-semi-arid-grassland-by-morgan-et-al-2011

Obama official: U.S. climate views shifting amid wild weather - The Hill's E2-Wire

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/236407-obama-official-us-climate-views-shifting-amid-wild-weather

Excellent set of new papers on climate change risk perception and communication

https://mobile.twitter.com/ret_ward/status/221215782514860033

Excellent set of new papers on climate change risk perception and communication: bit.ly/Mp6XAb

Washington’s Hell Week puts climate change back on the radar - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washingtons-hell-week-puts-climate-change-back-on-the-radar/2012/07/05/gJQAQxtTRW_story.html

EDITORIAL: Court decrees global warming - Washington Times

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/5/court-decrees-global-warming/
Fossil fuels have done more to provide power, mobility, health and well-being than any other advance aside from, perhaps, the wheel and the discovery of fire. It's not something that should be thrown away based on the mythical, anti-scientific proclamations of a cadre of politically motivated bureaucrats. Americans shouldn't be content to give the EPA the last word on climate science.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Sweltering in the dark: a glimpse into America's future if the greens have their way

[WSJ] On Saturday night we all sat on the couch with flickering candle light, sweating and talking. What did people do before the age of electricity?" my 11-year-old asks. "I would have killed myself," he moans.
Electrical power is the central nervous system of our modern economy and our 21st-century lifestyles, and living without it for a few days reminds us how vulnerable we are to being sent back to a pre-Industrial Age. Yet every initiative by green groups is focused on reducing our access to electrical power—although they never admit that explicitly.
This power outage was caused by a severe thunderstorm from Mother Nature, but I'm convinced that rolling brown outs are coming, thanks to the radical environmental movement that has taken hold of our body politic. Green groups, for example, have declared war on coal, which still produces about 40% of our electricity. The Obama administration is listening and slamming the brakes on coal production. This cheap and domestically abundant energy source is getting cleaner all the time, thanks to technological progress. But that doesn't stop a global-warming alarmists like James Hansen, a lead scientist at NASA, from likening trains carrying coal to the German "death trains" that transported the Jews to Nazi concentration camps.
...There's one more teachable moment from our three days in the dark. So many Americans—spoon-fed by a "go green" education system and media—live under the delusion that things were better in the past than they are now. Sure the economy is bad, but all we had to do is live for 72 hours without AC, TV, a dishwasher, a hair dryer and Google to appreciate how much progress has been made in the past 20, 30, and 50 years. Today a larger percentage of poor people have access to air conditioning than the average middle-class family did in 1960.

More forehead-slapping warmist insanity: If some fish died in the area of an underwater volcanic eruption, does that mean that the fish will also die if we keep emitting trace amounts of CO2?

Underwater eruption, dead fish may give clues to climate change - CBS News

Over the crater, the water heated up by as much as 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18.8 degrees Celsius), the researchers found. Dissolved oxygen in the water all but disappeared, decreasing by 90 percent to 100 percent in places. Meanwhile, carbon and carbon dioxide values shot up, and the pH of the water went down by 2.8, meaning it became more acidic.

Fish died or disappeared in the wake of the underwater eruption, which also killed a massive amount of plankton in deep waters...Increase in temperature, decrease in oxygen and a more acidic pH is exactly what scientists would expect to be the result of global warming for the ocean, Fraile-Nuez said. As the oceans take up more and more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, scientists predict they'll respond much as the area around El Hierro has to the volcanic eruption -- though not necessarily on the same scale.

Bloomberg article: Because of CO2, it's allegedly "time for a second set of Founding Fathers to step forward, or a first set of Founding Mothers"

Can the U.S. Economy Be Sustained for Another 236 Years? - Bloomberg

The question on this Fourth of July, with the nation's capital recovering from an unprecedented wind and lightning storm, an unprecedented heat wave, and mass electrical outages, is this: How can scrappy, upbeat Americans look forward to a future as bright as the past unless we grapple with our own “zone of extraordinary opportunity or misery,” a phrase that appears in Royal Dutch Shell’s 2011 report Signals and Signposts? It’s time for a second set of Founding Fathers to step forward, or a first set of Founding Mothers...

The atmosphere, henceforth and anon, is a joint venture between nature and human industry. “All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be,” Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research wrote earlier this year. It’s no longer accurate to call extreme meteorological events natural disasters because our atmosphere is no longer entirely natural.

We need daily reminders of this. Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors raised in midtown Manhattan in 2009 the climate-change equivalent of the famous National Debt Clock: A three-story-tall running estimate of the metric tons of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The so-called Carbon Counter was developed in conjunction with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the George Institute of Technology, and still lives at the advisory’s website, where it publishes its investment research. Unfortunately, the group’s three- year contract recently ended and the counter billboard came down in June. The company would not disclose the cost of running it.

...This isn’t an endorsement of the U.S. CAP members’ old proposals; it’s encouragement for them to spend several million dollars a year in advertising money on clearly branded electronic signs all over the United States that tastefully suggest every day that our way of life is creating self-destructive long-term risks for our way of life.

Independent Commission Releases Report on Fukushima Meltdown, Blames Japanese Culture | Ecocentric | TIME.com

“What must be admitted, very painfully, is that this was a disaster ‘Made in Japan.' Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to ‘sticking with the program;’ our groupism; and our insularity.”

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Record Heat central and ea

Record Heat central and eastern US vs record cool sw,tornadoes less than 25% normal,NO activity in tropics. Global Norming, not warming

Germany's €300 Billion Green Energy Disaster

A new study by Berlin's Technical University estimates that renewable energy subsidies between now and 2030, including an expansion of the power grid, will saddle German energy consumers with costs well over €300 billion ($377 billion).

Coral Rebounded From Hostile Climate Millenniums Ago, Study Suggests - NYTimes.com

“Even conservative models of climate change predict a return to extreme weather conditions,” said the lead author, Richard B. Aronson, a professor of biology at the Florida Institute of Technology. “This means that reefs could shut down. The hopeful part is that these reefs did prove to be resilient 1,500 years ago. Reefs today could recover, but only if we get a handle on the greenhouse gases causing climate change.”

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: 50/50 split cold/warm acr

50/50 split cold/warm across N America against normals. One would never know it though given headlines pic.twitter.com/NcD91Nz5

Another “warm better than cold” item: Seagulls feel the benefits of climate change | JunkScience.com

It may be a wet summer, but seagulls are benefiting from climate change.

Interview with John Christy at Cretaquarium’s Climate Change exhibition | JunkScience.com

Professor John R. Christy speaks about the climate change effect at the “Climate Change” exhibition. The exhibition is hosted by Cretaquarium.

District by District, Climate Change in Los Angeles - NYTimes.com

The biggest surprise from the more detailed modeling, he said, is that the coasts and mountains are warming a lot faster than anyone suspected.

Is catastrophic global warming, like the Millennium Bug, a mistake? | The SPPI Blog

However, the reliability and explanatory power of climate models was satirised convincingly [by Lindzen]. And I found myself believing – or accepting the possibility – that warming would reduce rather than increase tropical storms.

Aus: Are the Greens really back-pedalling on carbon? | JunkScience.com

A scheme with a too-high starting price ($23/tonne), and a too-high floor price from 2015 ($15/tonne) will leave both Labor and Greens stranded on a tiny atoll of electoral support, at risk of disappearing under a rising sea of conservative votes.

Climate change suspended reef growth for 2 millennia

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Climate change drove coral reefs to a total ecosystem collapse lasting thousands of years, according to a paper published this week in Science. The paper shows how natural climatic shifts stopped reef growth in the eastern Pacific for 2,500 years. The reef shutdown, which began 4,000 years ago, corresponds to a period of dramatic swings in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). "As humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the climate is once again on the threshold of a new regime, with dire consequences for reef ecosystems unless we get control of climate change," said coauthor Richard Aronson, a biology professor at Florida Institute of Technology.

Climate Change Buoying Wildfires Across Country : NPR

TRENBERTH: Well, there's a tremendous amount of natural variability - the day-to-day stuff we call weather. There is also a natural variability in climate system - the dominant phenomenon there is the El Nino phenomenon. And over the last couple of years, we've been under the other phase, the cold phase, of that called La Nina. And so there is this natural variability. But when the natural variability from both the weather and the climate system are going in the same direction as the global warming from human influences, that's when we really break records. And the breaking of records is a clear symptom of this. And it's apt to have very large impacts, and we've seen that a lot this summer.

Too funny: Political hack/English major Chris Mooney bemoans the fact that Obama isn't seizing on temporary hot DC weather to push the global warming hoax

Chris Mooney | The Politics of Ice and Fire

The time to act on global warming is clearly now—right now. In a sane world, Congress would immediately take up carbon cap legislation, and President Obama would be giving a big speech on the issue—and pressing Mitt Romney to explain why he flip-flopped into climate skeptic land, moving in precisely the wrong direction on one of the most important issues to afflict humanity.

Moreover, President Obama would recognize this as a smart political move, because the hard-core deniers notwithstanding, public opinion on global warming follows the weather. It always does. Now, with the whole country wondering about the sweltering heat, about the wildfires and the derecho and the destruction, people are more than ready to hear that, yes, this is global warming, and yes, something has to be done about it.

And yet still, it is not happening.

I cannot overemphasize how dramatic a missed opportunity this is—because we know that even against the backdrop of an overall warming trend, the weather is extremely fickle, and so is public opinion. In late 2009, the year of ClimateGate, and then in early 2010 (of “Snowmageddon” fame), public doubts about climate change increased in association with winter weather—and that could happen once again as soon as the end of this year.

Biofuel Fraud Case Shows Weak Spots in Energy Credit Program - NYTimes.com

Mr. Hailey and at least two other companies discovered that they could sell credits without making any fuel.

Obama Working To Make The Power Blackouts Permanent | Real Science

A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration for an alternative energy project in Nevada — which received hearty endorsements from Energy Secretary Steven Chuand Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — faces financial problems, and the company’s auditors have questioned whether it can stay in business.

“The Weather Never Used To Be Like This” | Real Science

13 Jul 1936 – 900 DEAD. HEAT WAVE In North America. RECORD TEM…

The weather man says today's global warming is 30% hotter than a year ago | Full Comment | National Post

So the power is out in Washington. Big Deal. I lived in Washington for a time, and I’ve never resided anywhere that experienced so many power outages. The U.S. capital must have the least reliable electricity grid in the country (and loves to panic about it as well).

Taranto notes that concern about global warming is the lowest it’s been in five years, and suggests a reason: “The average man, it would seem, knows enough to be skeptical of overheated rhetoric and fallacious arguments. Why are so many journalists by contrast so credulous?”

Michael Liebreich, head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, on Solyndra: "it was always a Hail Mary bet...frankly it never should have been debt-funded"

The future of solar | Grist

I don’t want to mock Solyndra too much — good people came up with the idea and good people backed it — but it was always a Hail Mary bet. It was new technology, new form factor, new distribution channel — it was a multi-miracle business. And frankly it never should have been debt-funded. That was just a distortion of loan guarantees for early-stage technology companies. There were lots of mistakes made, but it’s not right to force it into the paradigm of the anti-dumping response.

Overheated planet update: On the fourth of July, Anchorage snow pile only 80 feet high; maybe it'll be gone by October or November

Christmas in July for Alaska | wcsh6.com

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Bulldozer crews were on the clock on Independence Day, trying to break down mountains of snow, which still tower over some parts of Anchorage, Alaska after a winter of record snowfall.

At American Landscaping crews "roll" the surface of their pile every day or so, scraping off a top layer of gravel, which can insulate the snow, slowing its melt.

"I don't know how high it is now, looks like about 80 feet," said Glenn Ball, owner of American Landscaping, as he looked up at what he estimated to be about 280,000 cubic yards of leftovers.

Ball made good money off the snow dump after Anchorage broke its annual snowfall record of 132.6 inches.

...Cloudy skies and temperatures in the 50s mean it could be at least a few more months before the pile disappears.

"We'll be lucky if it's gone by October or November," he said.

Ball is paying three bulldozer operators to work on his snow pile.

Today's question: If the CEO of Unilever asks you to take a colder shower in order to prevent CO2-induced hurricanes, what is your reply?

Unilever Wants Short, Soapy Showers and Long-Term Investors - Bloomberg

General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, meanwhile, regretted stepping out in front. "If I had one thing to do over again I would not have talked so much about green," Immelt said in May 2011.

How is Unilever doing? It has made great progress in reducing waste, water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions at its factories. But most of the company’s carbon footprint comes from heating water for the showers where customers use its soaps and shampoos.

Persuading people to take shorter or colder showers is difficult. “This is by far our biggest challenge and as yet we do not have a viable solution,” the company said in its April progress report.