Pielke Jr on latest Muller attempt to make news: "Snore...the substance of Muller's "news" can be read in the first chapter of [The Climate Fix], and is really climate science circa 1977"

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: I have heard the "news" - ...

I have heard the "news" - Muller has a new study, op-eds saying clim chg is real, need to focus on pragmatic solutions. Snore.

Twitter / RyanMaue: @RogerPielkeJr @RichardTol ...

@RogerPielkeJr @RichardTol get your button ready Roger, NY Times will have heavy coverage of global warming starting Monday, last gasp.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: @RyanMaue @richardtol the ...

@RyanMaue @richardtol the substance of Muller's "news" can be read in the first chapter of TCF, and is really climate science circa 1977

Twitter / RyanMaue: @RogerPielkeJr @RichardTol ...

@RogerPielkeJr @RichardTol it's about how/when you sell it. Muller can walk over to George Lakoff's office to massage climate messaging.

The Government plans to break its own climate change law - Telegraph

Of course, the politicians will deny this, but they can only do so on the basis of wishful thinking. They are not going to get their “carbon capture” or their 32,000 wind turbines, let alone those “hundreds of thousands of green jobs”. In all directions they are screwed. And not the least telling feature of last week’s statement was that it made no reference to the shale gas revolution which has already halved US gas prices in five years, and which could solve our own energy problems by providing cheap gas for centuries.

One day we will have our shale gas and we will see the Climate Change Act repealed. These things will happen because the penny is finally dropping that the only alternative is economic suicide. But as yet, our politicians are unable to admit openly the enormity of the mess they have landed us in.

Walter Russell Mead: The New Energy Revolution & The End Of Green Arrogance

Back in those salad days of green arrogance, there was plenty of scoffing at the ‘peak oil deniers’ and shortage skeptics who disagreed with what greens told us all was settled, Malthusian science. “Reality based” green thinkers sighed and rolled their eyes at the illusions of those benighted techno-enthusiasts who said that unconventional sources like shale oil and gas and the oil sands of Canada would one day become available.

Environmentalists, you see, are science based, unlike those clueless, Gaia-defying technophiles with their infantile faith in the power of human creativity. Greens, with their awesome powers of Gaia-assisted intuition, know what the future holds.

But those glory days are over now, and the smarter environmentalists are bowing to the inevitable.

Twitter / CharlieDaniels: Banning guns will stop cri ...

Banning guns will stop crime just like buying carbon credits will stop global warming.

Cool Olympic night forces bikini cover-up | pennlive.com

LONDON (AP) — When temperatures dropped into the 60s for start of the first night session at Horse Guards Parade, the Olympic beach volleyball players said bye-bye to their bikinis.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Attn Richard Muller. Set u ...

Attn Richard Muller. Set up a debate where I can show you the actual weather and physical reasons for why your conclusion is nonsense

NASA Busted – Big Time | Real Science

Ole Heinrich sent this over. Temperatures at Summit Greenland get well over freezing on a regular basis.

Northeast Storm That Killed Two Was a Weak Derecho - Bloomberg

The storm, spawned by a larger cold front that stretched from Texas to the Northeast, “was certainly a low-end derecho,” said Stephen Corfidi, a meteorologist at the U.S. Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.

Twitter / AGW_Prof ["Super" Mandia]: As crop losses mount, wher ...

As crop losses mount, where r all those "CO2 is plant food" critics? CO2 is definitely increasing! http://bit.ly/Otx1xh #Happer #Heartland

Folks have asked... | Facebook

[Mann] ...It would seem to follow that if Anthony Watts has even a shred of honesty, he will have to accept BEST's reaffirmation of what the climate research community, the IPCC, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Academies of all other industrial nations, etc. have all already concluded: that human-caused climate change is a reality and a threat. There is room for a good faith debate over what to do about the problem. There is no longer room for a debate about whether the problem exists.

Spirited discussion: Climate change hits the liquor biz, big time | Grist

We sample some of Tuthilltown’s fine spirits and talk to Tourmaster Cordell Stahl about how climate change is affecting the Hudson Valley. “Everyone I run across is concerned about it,” he says, “and every, one to a man or woman, feels hopeless.”

Earth to Richard Muller: We know that your incessant "I was skeptical until recently" schtick is complete BS. If it's not, then explain your quotes from 2008, and 2006, and 2003

2012: The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic - NYTimes.com

[Richard Muller] CALL me a converted skeptic.

Popular Technology.net: The Truth about Richard Muller

"If Al Gore reaches more people and convinces the world that global warming is real, even if he does it through exaggeration and distortion - which he does, but he’s very effective at it - then let him fly any plane he wants." - Richard Muller, 2008

..."There is a consensus that global warming is real. ...it’s going to get much, much worse." - Richard Muller, 2006

..."Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate." - Richard Muller, 2003

Muller claims his 'statistical methods' prove man-made warming --'How definite is the attribution to humans? The CO2 curve gives a better match than anything else we've tried' ramuller@lbl.gov | Climate Depot

Climate Depot Response: 'Did your 'statistical methods' rule out the hundreds of factors that make up global temps? Did you rule out the Sun, volcanoes, tilt of Earth's axis, water vapor, methane, clouds, ocean cycles, plate tectonics, albedo, atmospheric dust, Atmospheric circulation, cosmic rays, carbon soot, forests & land use, etc.? Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, not just CO2, so please spare us your attempt at fingerprint modeling.'

Quark Soup by David Appell: Stoat, Caldiera: BEST Results Nothing New

Stoat finds these new BEST results "rubbish" (by which he means the data analysis is nothing new, and the attribution claims not very scientific), calls Muller a "prima donna," and quotes Ken Caldiera via Romm:

"I am glad that Muller et al have taken a look at the data and have come to essentially the same conclusion that nearly everyone else had come to more than a decade ago. The basic scientific results have been established for a long time now, so I do not see the results of Muller et al as being scientifically important. However, their result may be politically important."

A Tale Of Two Countries : The Richard Muller GIGO Story | Real Science

So how did Richard Muller come to the conclusion that the world is heating up due and it is due to man-made CO2?

Simple : he used crap data from GHCN to generate the trend. CO2 must be very powerful stuff, as it appears to have corrupted the GHCN database. Garbage in, garbage out.

The big money of environmentalism - CSMonitor.com

Climate change is a huge concern, but misguided attacks won't solve the issue, and the environmental movement is more financially motivated than some of its proponents would like us to think.

97 per cent of the world to be destroyed tomorrow! – Telegraph Blogs

So next time you hear the BBC (or similar) spouting some unutterable crap about some amazingly shocking new event/piece of research/paper showing that the glaciers or Greenland are melting faster than before, that polar bears or coral reefs are becoming more endangered, or that there's anything remotely worrying about the possibility that the planet has warmed by 1.5 degrees C since the Industrial Revolution, don't just take it with a huge pinch of salt. Treat it with about as much respect as you would a report from North Korea radio telling you that this year's bumper grain harvest has been more gloriously plentiful than ever before and that workers are now at severe risk of expiring due to an excess of nourishment, plenitude and joy.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run

Richard Muller, the head of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, will publish an op/ed next week in the New York Times summarizing his group's findings with regard to global temperature trends. From a copy of the op/ed, Converted Skeptic, circulating on the web:

CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified scientific issues that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Now, after organizing an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I’ve concluded that global warming is real, that the prior estimates of the rate were correct, and that cause is human.
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How definite is the attribution to humans? The carbon dioxide curve gives a better match than anything else we’ve tried.

The big money of environmentalism - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Consumer-Energy-Report/2012/0728/The-big-money-of-environmentalism/(page)/2

Climate change is a huge concern, but misguided attacks won't solve the issue, and the environmental movement is more financially motivated than some of its proponents would like us to think.

97 per cent of the world to be destroyed tomorrow! – Telegraph Blogs

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100173120/97-per-cent-of-the-world-to-be-destroyed-tomorrow/

So next time you hear the BBC (or similar) spouting some unutterable crap about some amazingly shocking new event/piece of research/paper showing that the glaciers or Greenland are melting faster than before, that polar bears or coral reefs are becoming more endangered, or that there's anything remotely worrying about the possibility that the planet has warmed by 1.5 degrees C since the Industrial Revolution, don't just take it with a huge pinch of salt. Treat it with about as much respect as you would a report from North Korea radio telling you that this year's bumper grain harvest has been more gloriously plentiful than ever before and that workers are now at severe risk of expiring due to an excess of nourishment, plenitude and joy.

Muller Op-Ed

http://m.reason.com/26821/show/846e66c21ae8dd5f51c60c2c0a698262/?

Richard Muller, the head of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, will publish an op/ed next week in the New York Times summarizing his group's findings with regard to global temperature trends. From a copy of the op/ed, Converted Skeptic, circulating on the web:

CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified scientific issues that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Now, after organizing an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I've concluded that global warming is real, that the prior estimates of the rate were correct, and that cause is human.

AllGov - News - Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet: Ecological Disaster or Tourism Opportunity?

Normally, about half of the ice sheet experiences melting during the summer. This year, from July 11 to 13, 97% of it thawed some amount. The news was concerning to some. Others, like those running travel agencies, view the impact of global warming as an opportunity to boost tourism.

Most of Greenland’s sightseers once came from Denmark and Germany. But more tourists are now coming from the U.S. and Canada, thanks to the tourism industry and its “see global warming for yourself” campaign. Helicopter rides are available.

Cold weather, heavy Amarnath rush leave 126 ponies dead - Hindustan Times

Heavy rush of pilgrims and severe weather conditions have taken a heavy toll on horses and mules. Around 126 horses and mules have already died.
However, unofficially it has already crossed the 1,000 mark. The state animal husbandry department has registered 126 deaths of horses and mules till July 26 from those registered with the Shri Amarnath shrine board.
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Ghulam Muhammad Saad lost a hybrid mule on July 18 at Sheshnag. "It was too cold this year. Tracks were covered with snow. My mule slipped into a deep gorge," said Saad.

Do We Want To Buy Canadian Oil From The Chinese? | JunkScience.com

Buoyed by White House inaction, China’s state-owned oil company has made a multibillion-dollar bid for a Canadian company with interests in Canada’s oil sands — North American oil for the lamps of China.

The Reference Frame: Olympic Czechs w/ wellies: climate in London hasn't changed

While many other athletes across the politically correct world believe that the climate is changing and England is becoming a paradise for orange growers, the Czech athletes – supervised by Czech President Klaus, a climate realist and a passionate athlete – think that the climate hasn't changed and London's weather is as rainy, cloudy, and sucking as it was several centuries ago.

Greenland Meltdownblizzard II Continues To Add To The Mass Of The Ice Sheet | Real Science

Several inches of snow have accumulated since unprecedented meltdown part deux began. No doubt NASA has a bright red map waiting in the wings to display this meltblizzard event.

GHCN – Just More Government Crap | Real Science

I started trying to look at at GHCN today, and immediately discovered nothing but deleted data.

“Veggie” diet blamed for poor performance of China’s women volleyball team | JunkScience.com

Fearing tainted meat, China’s women’s volleyball team has stuck to a strict vegetarian diet for the last three weeks, which the team’s coach is now blaming for his athletes’ abysmal performance.

Anthony’s Announcement « Climate Audit

[comment by Chip] So much for anthropogenic global warming:

[2011] London Olympics Drops Carbon-Offset Plan

Organizers of the London 2012 Olympic Games dropped a plan to cut carbon emissions during the sporting showcase, abandoning a pledge made when it defeated eight other cities to host the event.

Oh Danny Boyle - Miserable Lefty's Olympic Opening Ceremony | martindurkin.com

When it comes to blowing vast quantities of other people’s money, no-one can beat the Statist left. So it was entirely appropriate to entrust the Olympic opening jamboree to the miserable northern socialist Danny Boyle.

He kicked off with apple-cheeked villagers prancing round the May-pole and frolicking in their feudal rural idyll, but then came the sound of ominous drums. To everyone's horror, giant menacing, smoking factory chimneys started to rise up from the land. In the background, the moaning romantic Blake was doing his Dark Satanic stuff, while the BBC commentator laid it on thick about wicked industry disfiguring the landscape and cruelly up-rooting everyone. Platoons of dirty, sad workers trudged into the arena to remind us how awful industrial progress is.

I was still reeling from this extravagant display of dim-brained left-wing history, and looking in vain for any mention of Shakespeare, Newton, global trade and so on, when suddenly whole wards of hospital beds were wheeled on. My daughter asked me what the Day-Glo duvets were meant to represent. John Lewis? But then the stadium was flooded with light, and three giant flaming letters shouted out the answer … N H S.

Rumor: We're supposed to get all excited on Monday if Richard Muller claims that the planet has warmed 1.5 C. since 1750?

The Blackboard » ..until Sunday July 29th, around Noon PST, WUWT ..

[comment by Kip Hansen] “To be clear – as I understand it the increase is 1.5 degrees Celsius from about 1750. I again stress that it is a rumor – so my information may be garbled in its transmission to me.”

So, I stress — THIS IS A RUMOR.

Hot Rumor: BEST Analysis Next Week to Report - Globe's Temperature Up 1.5 Degrees Celsius - Hit & Run : Reason.com

[comment by Paul] I find myself not caring... almost at all... about the fact that the "earth" has warmed 1.5 celcius since a randomly chosen prior date.  [Via James Delingpole]

Audit exposes fake science of climate change | The National Business Review

[Rodney Hide] We now know the IPCC’s Assessments by its own lights can be tossed as fake science. No one would base any serious policy decisions on them. Oh, wait a minute…

Green energy boss: ‘I’m a political beast’ | WashingtonExaminer.com

Ecotality manufacturers electric-car recharging stations. They are, at heart, a political company. Lachlan Markay at the Heritage Foundation has an eye-opening story of the company’s politics:

On a July 2007 shareholder conference call, Ecotality CEO Jonathan Read put it bluntly: “I’m a political beast,” he told a shareholder, “and playing the political card is something that when the time is right we’re going to play very hard.”…

So much for that “clean energy future” | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Several Leftist stupidities collide to put at risk Victoria’s power supplies.

First stupidity is to give in to the religious green paranoia of carbon dioxide. Second is to put something as important as power supplies in the hands of an outfit such as the ideology-ridden Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Another Smoking Gun That GISS Is Complete Garbage | Real Science

GISS shows temperatures declining from 1880 to 1912, with 1912 being one of the coldest years on record.
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However, people who lived during that period reported the exact opposite. The polar ice cap was melting, glaciers were disappearing, winters were disappearing, birds were migrating north.

Climate change ministry Cell stops functioning as staff sent home | DAWN.COM

ISLAMABAD, July 27: Operations of the clean development mechanism cell of the Ministry of Climate Change have come to a standstill after services of its staff were terminated.

The cell, on the fifth floor of a government building, gives a deserted look with stacks and stacks of files but no technical staff to go through them.

On July 1, 2012, the ministry ended contracts of the eight specialists in the field of carbon credits working in the cell. The employees had gone nine months without salaries but were paid a few days before their services were ended.

The Week Ahead: U.S. to Host 15 Countries for Emissions Trading Scheme Meeting | Bloomberg BNA

The U.S. departments of State and Transportation will host a meeting July 31-Aug. 1 of about 15 countries that oppose the European Union's inclusion of aviation greenhouse gas emissions in its cap-and-trade system. The countries will discuss options for reaching a global solution for reducing aviation emissions through the International Civil Aviation Organization. The United States, China, India, Russia, and other countries have resisted inclusion of their operators in the EU Emissions Trading System, which went into effect Jan. 1. The meeting will be open to government participants only. The European Commission has not been invited.

Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor: "climate change boiling us"

Twitter / RBReich: A nation in denial: climat ...

A nation in denial: climate change boiling us, guns too easily-accessible, a shrinking middle class incapable of reviving the economy.

Robert Reich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Bernard Reich (play /ˈraɪʃ/;[2] born June 24, 1946) is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

Reich is currently Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Without Internet Democracy And Transparency, IPCC Climate Deception Succeeds

[Tim Ball] Now Internet technology combines all previous mediums and as a result the message is very different. It continues to expose IPCC climate science corruption to more people with more perspectives and expertise than ever before. Beware any attempt to limit the internet.

Impending News | Planet3.0

A heads up that on Monday there will be a release of information from Muller and Rohde’s BEST project.

That’s carbon | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The London Olympics opening ceremony celebrates the start of man-made emissions.

Waiting For That Greenland Tsunami | Real Science

According to NASA, Greenland experienced a massive ice melt last week which turned the entire country red hot and apparently melted all the ice.

...It is surprising that no one issued a tsunami warning, because our beaches must certainly have drowned by now.

Conception, Missouri Was Nine Degrees Hotter In July 1936 | Real Science

If you need any further evidence of just how dishonest Jeff Masters and NOAA are – check this out.

"Stubborn sea ice":   Shell scales back Arctic drilling plans

Shell is scaling back plans to drill up to five wells in Arctic waters this summer amid a series of setbacks, including stubborn sea ice still clinging to Alaska’s shores and delays in construction of an emergency oil spill containment barge.
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“Ice conditions will dictate how long the drilling season will last, with a slower start due to heavy ice conditions,” he said.

Unusually thick shorefast ice is keeping Shell from sending drillships into the Arctic waters and shortening an already brief window. Under federal regulations, Shell has to stop drilling in hydrocarbon zones by Oct. 31 in the Beaufort Sea; regulators are requiring that work to end 38 days earlier in the Chukchi Sea.

In the past five years, ice has encroached over the planned drill sites as early as Nov. 1, but this summer, the slow melt of multi-year ice at the season’s start means the water is colder and is a signal it could return even earlier.

Natural Gas Gets Green Light To Power Britain

Centrica is to create 4,000 jobs in Britain with the development of a huge North Sea gasfield after the Government signalled a new “dash for gas”. After weeks of delay, heated negotiations and only hours after a £500 million tax break for this type of field was unveiled, the owner of British Gas said that it would invest £1.4 billion with its French partner GDF Suez.

Cultural Cognition Blog - What do I think of Mooney's "Republican Brain"?

I don’t feel persuaded of the central thesis of The Republican Brain

Why Science Is a Non-Issue in the Election...Again

In the face of a massive drought and climbing sea levels, are the presidential candidates going to talk about climate change? Why is science always at the bottom of the list of campaign issues that resonate with the public? Ira Flatow and guests [all warmists] discuss what scientists can do to shape the national dialogue in an election year.

US to slap 73 percent duties on some planet-healing wind turbines?

U.S. Sets Duties on Chinese, Vietnamese Wind Towers - Bloomberg

The anti-dumping measures for Chinese wind-tower exporters include a 21 percent duty for Titan Wind Energy Suzhou Co., according to a Commerce Department fact sheet. CS Wind Corp., Sinovel Wind Group Co. and Guodian United Power Technology Baoding Co. will be subject to duties of 26 percent. Chengxi Shipyard Co. received duties of 31 percent, and all other Chinese producers and exporters will pay the 73 percent rate.

Warmist Brad Plumer on UHI in the Washington Post: "On a hot summer afternoon, a large city can easily run 5°F to 18°F hotter than surrounding rural areas"

Study: Many U.S. cities unprepared for future heat waves

Cities tend to run much hotter than nearby rural areas. This is due to what’s known as the urban heat island effect. There are fewer trees and plants in the city to enable evaporation. Buildings and pavements absorb more warmth from the sun. And factories and automobiles give off waste heat. That all adds up. On a hot summer afternoon, a large city can easily run 5°F to 18°F hotter than surrounding rural areas, enough to turn an unpleasant heat wave into a deadly calamity.

Bill Nye currently doing an "Ask Me Anything" on reddit

IAM Bill Nye the Science Guy, AMA : IAmA

I'll start with the few questions sent in a few days ago. Looking forward to reading what might be on your mind.

Bill Nye: Alleged temporary Greenland surface ice melt was "stunning" and "surprising" and shows that climate models are "true"

Again, why are warmists constantly claiming to be "stunned" by things that they see, while also claiming that they predicted those same things?

Bill Nye: Massive ice melt proves climate change - YouTube

Science educator Bill Nye discusses a massive ice melt in Greenland that surprised NASA researchers.

Hot Rumor: BEST Analysis Next Week to Report - Globe's Temperature Up 1.5 Degrees Celsius - Hit & Run : Reason.com

The rumors say that new BEST reanalysis will show that global average temperature has increased by 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times and will suggest that most of the warming since the 1950s is the result of increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

PETA Taking Bets On Grassley’s Death « SOYLENT GREEN

PETA has a dead pool for Sen. Charles Grassley because he doesn’t like the “Meatless Monday” idiocy promoted–briefly–by the USDA for congress.

Record low prices have lobstermen worried | The Coastal Journal

Some people blame climate change for the increase in lobster populations.

Energy From Waves, Tides May Bring 3 Billion Pounds to U.K. - Bloomberg

Wave and tidal energy has the potential to bring 3 billion pounds ($4.7 billion) a year to the U.K. economy, according to the Carbon Trust, a group set up to advise business and government on how to reduce emissions.

Flashback: Peak Energy: A setback for wave power technology

Projects for wind and wave energy beset by technical snags and dwindling investment

INHOFE UNCOVERS GREEN FLEET NOT JUST R&D AFTER ALL

Much has been made about the Navy’s recent Green Fleet exercise in the Pacific. During the event and since, officials have repeatedly made the case that the expenditure of Defense funds for this exercise was limited to Research and Development (R&D). Yet, in order to conduct this major public relations event, R&D funds were not used. Instead, under Sec. Mabus leadership, the Navy used Operations and Maintenance (O&M) funds for last week’s Great Green Fleet demonstration that cost $12 million just to purchase the R&D biofuel for the ships. Tapping into O&M funds for last week’s demonstration means less funding for training, supplies, equipment, repairs, and over all readiness putting at risk the lives of our sailors. This is why I have requested more information on why the Great Green Fleet demonstration was necessary in the first place. I have also asked for the full cost of the event, including the price to transport the fuel for the fleet, sell memorabilia t-shirts, temporarily paint parts of Navy ships and aircraft green, and conduct this publicity stunt sure to make President Obama’s environmentalist base smile. Other similar R&D programs have tested a limited number of engines and equipment to prove their concept. This event seems to be more about putting dollars in the hands of the biofuel industry.

Yale Environment 360: Unusual Number of Grizzly and Hybrid Bears Spotted in High Arctic

Polar bear experts said it is possible that the grizzly bears are leaving from the Arctic mainland and traveling roughly 400 miles north, crossing the sea ice as they pursue a caribou herd that annually migrates over the sea ice to Victoria Island. Unable to get back because of rapidly melting ice, some of these grizzly bears have evidently managed to adapt to life in the polar bear’s world, eating seals, hibernating, and mating with polar bears.
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“As I see it, the latest hybridizations are just more in a long history of such events,” [warmist Andrew Derocher] says.

Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could | Grist

[David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts] I’m a humanist — I care about the welfare of people! I care about people, so I don’t want climate change to harm them.

I care about the welfare of people at least as much as Roberts does.   One major difference between me and David Roberts is that I scoff at the notion that measurable amounts of bad weather can be prevented by tweaking carbon dioxide emissions.

Visualizing The Magnitude Of The NCDC July 2012 Fraud | Real Science

I painted in the July 1936 temperature anomaly map with the same color scale as the July 2012 map, with pink added for +12 anomaly. As you can see, July 1936 was much hotter than July 2012 over 70% of the US – but that isn’t going to stop NOAA from claiming that 2012 was the hottest.

Jeff Masters Continues To Lie About The Heatwave | Real Science

July 1936 was much hotter in St. Louis than July 2012.

Rev. Jim Ball: Hope on Climate Change: Young Evangelicals for Climate Action

We believe that God is calling us to take action towards overcoming the climate crisis.

CNN Video: Bill Nye "Disappointed" In Media For Not Questioning Politicians About Climate Change | Media Matters for America

Anthony Watts update: "my announcement has nothing to do with FOIA issues or other sorts of political or social theories being bandied about on other blogs"

WUWT publishing suspended – major announcement coming | Watts Up With That?

UPDATE: I’ve been advised by concerned friends that speculation on the nature of this announcement has gotten out of hand in the blogosphere, and that was not my intent. My intent was to give me time to work on something very important without the distraction of this blog, emails/twitter/facebook, etc.

As many of you know, running WUWT is a monumental task which I could not do without the help of many people. Even so, it still requires my constant attention.

First, I am well. This isn’t a health issue for me or my family.

Second, my announcement has nothing to do with FOIA issues or other sorts of political or social theories being bandied about on other blogs.

It does however have something to do with one of my many projects, and it has important implications that I’m sure everyone will want to know about.

NY Times John M. Broder, now hearing voices?: "the planet itself is speaking loudly"

Readers Jump Into the Climate Fray - NYTimes.com

While the presidential contenders have so far had little to say about climate change, as I noted here on Thursday, the planet itself is speaking loudly.

Flashback: "My Neighbor's Dog Told Me To"

David Berkowitz, the confessed "Son of Sam" killer who terrorized NYC in 1976 and 1977, told police at the time of his arrest that the reason he killed his victims was because "his neighbor's dog told him to."

Carbon capture’s days may be numbered | JunkScience.com

it is a singularly stupid thing to do. Not only does it waste a tremendous amount of energy but it wastes a magnificent environmental resource as well. Its motivation? Dioxycarbophobia and weather superstition.

The New Nostradamus of the North: US heatwave: Wind energy powered 4000 blow dryers in Illinois when the demand was greatest!

Pachauri Proves He Is Scientifically Incompetent Again | Real Science

Mindless drivel. The Greenland ice sheet is a 3 km thick chunk of ice spread across a 1000 km wide island. You could visualize it as being a thick piece of paper. Can you imagine a piece of paper lying flat on a table, collapsing?

But it is worse than it seems. The land under the ice sheet is depressed due to the weight of the ice above it, and is bowl shaped. Furthermore, the island is full of mountain ranges buried under the ice – which prevent lateral movement.

Perhaps Pachauri thinks that ice cream can spontaneously jump out of a bowl? What a maroon.

- Bishop Hill blog - Cryptic

[Speculation on Anthony's upcoming Sunday announcement is in the comment section here]

The New Nostradamus of the North: Czech President: Eight measures that could save Europe

4. Europe should interrupt the creeping, but constantly expanding green legislation.The Greens must be stopped from taking over much of our economy under the banner of such flawed ideas as the global warming doctrine.

Twitter / keithkloor: Modern-day droughts are ki ...

Modern-day droughts are kids play compared to the mega-droughts of the past millennium . Can we endure one of those? http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2012/07/26/could-we-survive-a-30-year-drought/ …

Don't call it global warming, one educator says » Local News » Effingham Daily News, Effingham, IL

Bowman said farmers have been paying attention to climate for centuries. In 1820, he said, an observer at Fort Armstrong near the site of present-day Quad Cities in northwest Illinois reported bad news for his crops that year.

“Our corn did not even reproduce its seed this year,” said the diarist, known only as McMillan.

Arctic glaciers can expand in a 'geologic instant'

Policy-neutral IPCC chief: "I have not done anything wrong...We made one stupid error...we really have to create a level of ambition"

Climate adapted!: Climate Change and IPCC: Interviewing Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chair, IPCC at ISAP2012

in 2050 let’s assume the world will be very very different. I don’t know what human beings would be doing, perhaps we won’t be punching into computers and whatever we want to do would be read directly through neural activity that takes place in the brain. If we ask somebody to write a letter, in his or her handwriting, I think that will be impossible in 2050; nobody will be writing by hand ...I have been the subject of all kinds of slander and insult but I suppose that is part of the responsibility that I carry and I don’t have a choice and I don’t intend running away from it. I am talking candidly to all of you, who said that I should step down as a chairman of IPCC, I said NO, I mean I am standing on firm grounds. Why should I step down? I have not done anything wrong. I could easily have said that the error that took place about the Himalayan glaciers was not an error by me, there is a process, there are co-chairs of working groups who are responsible for that product, I am not responsible for that product. NO, as a Chairman of IPCC, the buck stops here and I take the responsibility for everything that happens and therefore not once did I raised a finger to say somebody else is responsible and I am innocent. So, you know, there was that error. There were 3000 pages of printed material in the IPCC 4th assessment report. There are thousands of findings that are solid, that are backed by best scientists in the world, backed by all the published literature that has been reviewed. We made one stupid error and I am certainly not going to step down for that reason. Why should I?...the point I would like to make is that you know we really have to create a level of ambition which to my mind is missing at this point of time and this is where knowledge has to be the driver of that ambition. I am afraid and I have said publicly, each of COP that takes place spends two weeks, what are they talking about? They are talking about narrow short term political issues. I would wish that they would spend 3 days just talking about scientific facts. If they were to do that, I am reasonably sure that people would come up with far better solutions than what we have today....So I am prepared to have a detailed economic debate on this, nothing to do with climate change, what is required to revive the economy of the world. It seems to me that the financial crisis shouldn’t come in the way of bringing about desired change. I think we are clever enough, and we have resources enough to bring about shift in the direction we have set ourselves if we set ourselves in that direction.

Raging debate at Businessweek: CO2 is allegedly causing food scarcity; also, the biggest food related-threat to humanity is too much food

The Age of Scarcity - Businessweek

climate change is lowering yields

The Global Obesity Bomb - Businessweek

The U.S. is a heavyweight champion in fat. It has the most obese population of any industrialized nation. About two-thirds of all adults in the country are overweight and one-third are fully obese, according to the World Health Organization.

This, however, is yet another area where U.S. leadership is being challenged by upstart contenders from the developing world. Already, a larger proportion of people in Panama, Saudi Arabia, and six different Pacific Island nations are obese than in America. Growing obesity in poorer countries is a sign of a historic global tipping point: After millennia when the biggest food-related threat to humanity was the risk of having too little, the 21st century is one where the fear is having too much...
It may seem strange to be worried about too much food when the United Nations suggests that, as the planet’s population continues to expand, about 1 billion people may still be undernourished. Although there are good reasons to think the 1 billion estimate might be exaggerated, it is clear that hundreds of millions do still regularly go to sleep hungry. The issue isn’t so much that we can’t grow enough.

More Than [or less than] 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World - By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo | Foreign Policy

Indian surveys bear this out: The percentage of people who say they do not have enough food has dropped dramatically over time, from 17 percent in 1983 to 2 percent in 2004. So, perhaps people eat less because they are less hungry.

Matthew Nisbet and Dietram Scheufele: "scientists’ political ideologies significantly influence their preferences for potential regulatory policies"

Opinion: Scientists’ Intuitive Failures | The Scientist

5. [Myth] Political views don’t influence the judgments of scientists. In debating science-related policy matters, we tend to assume that scientists are not influenced by their own political views. Yet in a recent study co-authored by one of us (Scheufele), we find that even after controlling for their scientific judgments, scientists’ political ideologies significantly influence their preferences for potential regulatory policies. As one of us (Nisbet) concluded in a second study, when turning to questions outside of their area of specialty, the role of ideology in shaping the views of scientists is likely to be magnified, especially when they try to make sense of the polarized politics surrounding issues like climate change.

"Scientific" American's David Biello still all-in on the climate hoax: "the people of 2100, or even 2500, will have us to blame if they don’t like the weather"

Twitter / dbiello: i concur MT @great dismal ...

i concur MT @great dismal I assume we live in 1st era against which all posterity will have reason to hold a grudge http://bit.ly/NyqF3a

Deny This: Contested Himalayan Glaciers Really Are Melting, and Doing So at a Rapid Pace–Kind of Like Climate Change | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

That “small change” has also been enough for weird weather to play havoc around the world, whether it be the epic drought currently over-baking Midwestern corn crops or the torrents of rain unleashed this year on Beijing, killing at least 77 people, according to the Xinhua news agency. The list of weather-related disasters continues to get longer with each passing year and, while no single weather event can be tied directly to climate change, our continuing fossil-fuel burning loads the climate dice in favor of more and more snake-eye rolls such as deadly floods or searing droughts. It’s all unfolding pretty much as predicted by climate scientists in the 1980s.
...In the U.S. about the only leader [who voted for McKibben as a "leader"?] still advocating for action to halt climate change is Bill McKibben, who has become somewhat of a climate Quixote, tilting for windmills and against the fossil fuel industry....Cheap natural gas will also likely slow the race to develop and deploy alternative energy as well as the sprint (in geologic terms) to a global warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius. We’re on track to achieve that over the next 40 years or so, with natural gas or without it.

That means that the people of 2100, or even 2500, will have us to blame if they don’t like the weather. In the shorter term, we’ll all have to learn to adapt to more sea level rise, weird weather, acidified oceans and other climate change impacts.

WUWT publishing suspended – major announcement coming | Watts Up With That?

Something’s happened. From now until Sunday July 29th, around Noon PST, WUWT will be suspending publishing. At that time, there will be a major announcement that I’m sure will attract a broad global interest due to its controversial and unprecedented nature.

Then Again, Who Needs AC in London? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Highs expected in the 60′s, lows in the 50′s. With rain. Enjoy the global warming!

Twitter / keithkloor: I don't see many upsides t ...

I don't see many upsides to global warming [Does Keith see many upsides to global cooling?  Has Keith determined that 59 F is the optimum Earth temperature, and everything pretty much goes to hell if you stray very much on either side of that magic number?], but this one can be filed in that winners & losers category. http://phys.org/news/2012-07-climate-opportunities-vulnerable-nations.html …

Climate change could open trade opportunities for some vulnerable nations

Tanzania is one developing country that could actually benefit from climate change by increasing exports of corn to the U.S. and other nations, according to a study by researchers at Stanford University, the World Bank and Purdue University.

Coal's future is undimmed - latimes.com

We may not like coal, but given the insatiable demand for electricity, it will be powering the global economy for decades to come.

Zoologist Susan J. Crockford on warmist polar bear misinformation: "what both of these accounts fail to mention is that these well documented mortality events were associated with especially cold winters and heavier than usual sea ice"

Cooling the polar bear spin | polarbearscience

[Susan J. Crockford] I’ll deal with some of the specific claims made in the Struzik article in subsequent posts. What really irked me, however, was seeing that this new academic paper by Stirling and Derocher makes a similar statements to one I took serious exception to in Stirling’s book — both misrepresent the facts regarding ringed seal and polar bear mortality events that occurred in the early 1970s in the southern Beaufort Sea. As I pointed out in my review of Stirling’s book, what both of these accounts fail to mention is that these well documented mortality events were associated with especially cold winters and heavier than usual sea ice.

Bio | polarbearscience

Dr. Susan J. Crockford is a zoologist with more than 35 years experience, including work on the Holocene history of Arctic animals. Like Ian Stirling, Susan Crockford earned her undergraduate degree in zoology at the University of British Columbia. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, B.C. Polar bear evolution is one of Dr. Crockford’s professional interests, which she discusses in her book, Rhythms of Life: Thyroid Hormone and the Origin of Species. She blogs at PolarBearScience.com

Pachauri on Greenland ice: "it's possible that part of this huge body of ice could collapse, and fall into the ocean which would lead to several meters of sea level rise"

Raj Pachauri: Climate Change Causes Huge Species Loss - YouTube

Pachauri on Greenland ice: "it's possible that part of this huge body of ice could collapse, and fall into the ocean which would lead to several meters of sea level rise. The same possibility exists with the West Antarctic ice sheet as well."

Guardian on map of Greenland ice sheet colored red: "This is the most frightening picture you will ever see. The information expressed visually here can be summed up in three words: change or die"

Greenland's ice sheet melt: a sensational picture of a blunt fact | Jonathan Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

This is the most frightening picture you will ever see. The information expressed visually here can be summed up in three words: change or die. So let's take a closer look.
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Let's also be clear about what "surface melting" means. The Greenland icecsheet has not vanished. Parts of it are two miles deep

Guardian claim: People who don't believe in the global warming hoax are also more likely to believe that 9/11 was an inside job

Are climate sceptics more likely to be conspiracy theorists? | Adam Corner | Environment | guardian.co.uk

What they found was remarkable. People who endorsed conspiracy theories such as "9/11 was an inside job" and "the moon landings were faked", were also more likely to reject established scientific facts about climate change

Twitter / RichardTol [I agree with Tol on this one:  What percentage of alarmists believe that 9/11 was an inside job?]

you'd wonder what a survey of climate alarmists would reveal about their associations with peculiar beliefs http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/jul/27/climate-sceptics-conspiracy-theorists?CMP=twt_fd …

People fell for the Montreal Protocol so, try tying warming to people’s cancer fears – that’ll get ‘em | JunkScience.com

The great “ozone depletion” scam was always complete and utter rubbish and this seems to be following in that great tradition.

NASA’s Jay Zwally Does The Dirty Cherry Picking Deed | Real Science

Why did he pick the last 20 years? Because twenty years ago was the coldest period on record in Greenland.

...Top scientist Zwally forgot to mention that current temperatures are cooler than the 1930s and that the long term trend since the 1920s is downward.

In 2007 he predicted an ice-free Arctic in 2012

How Green Was My Bankruptcy? “Roadmap for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands” Edition | Watts Up With That?

It really is ironic that President Obama thinks that, “Even if we drilled every square inch of this country right now, we’d still have to rely disproportionately on other countries for their oil,” while his administration crows about setting aside 285,000 acres of public land for solar power development that can’t even match our average incremental generation capacity growth for two years.

Tom Wagner of NASA “…the Arctic has shifted in State.” « Climate Denial Crock of the Week

Bluff means never having to say you're sorry :: SteynOnline

Since Dr Michael Mann announced his intention to sue over my Corner post, I've had a few queries on this and that aspect of the case:

1) Several readers have asked if there's a legal defense fund to which they can contribute. No, but, if you want to help out, you could always send a few bucks National Review's way. Since Dr Mann's lawyer, John "I don't bluff" Williams, has assured us he doesn't bluff, it seems prudent to budget for a full-length trial.You can donate to NR here. Or better yet, subscribe to the magazine, and enjoy a fortnightly frolic with yours truly plus Rob Long, Jay Nordlinger, Jonah Goldberg and the rest of the gang.

Twitter / RyanMaue: Just look around & see ...

Just look around & see what 1/100th of °C can do when added to annual average temp of 15°C. Quadrillions of $ in potential damage per °C!

The biggest news story of our dystopian future | Grist

Ruben Bolling’s latest “Tom the Dancing Bug” strip envisions the newsreel of a climate-changed future.

David Beckham flies from London to America...then back again... all in 48 hours | Mail Online

Combining his football commitments and his role as ambassador for London 2012 mean Beckham has been at the making the most of his private jet.

2011: David Beckham more likely than Leonardo DiCaprio to make us act on climate change

According to new research released to mark the launch of the Climate Week Awards, David Beckham is more likely to inspire us to save the planet than green god Leonardo DiCaprio.

2011: How David Beckham caused global warming: the Man U climate model - Monash University

The results are remarkable. Each Manchester United FA Cup appearance in an 11-year period raised global temperatures by 0.1º Celsius.

A plot of global temperatures and the Manchester United Climate Model (see top graph at right) reveals that half of global warming is the result of Manchester United.

Is this soccer-climate relationship due to random chance? By randomising Manchester United’s FA Cup appearances, I find the probability of getting such a good relationship by chance is less than 1 in 10,000!

NCDC Setting Up the Big July Lie | Real Science

July, 1936 was much hotter, but they now upwards adjust more than 1.5 degrees on to the monthly temperature relative to 1936.

Compare the huge region of +10 and +12 degrees in 1936 to the tiny region of +8 in 2012. The area of +10 was probably two hundred times larger in 1936. There is no +12 in 2012. Every band +2 or above was much larger in 1936.

This July isn’t even close to 1936, but by tampering with the data they get the political result they are looking for. I doubt that July 2012 is even in the top five without their tampering.

Meth-heads seek Arctic farts | JunkScience.com

“Detection of methane in the Arctic“

It’d be impressive if they were seeking something useful, like major hydrocarbon resources for extraction but no, this is not about development at all, just more global warming hand-wringing.

More Airports Hotter Than ‘nearby’ Stations | Musings from the Chiefio

To me, with this added group of charts, it’s pretty darned clear that these large airports are not at all representative of their locations and are consistently on the hot side. This data was gathered in the dead of night, so while not an absolute “coldest” are from what ought to be a ‘cold and cooling’ time for that station and nearby stations. It looks to me like Airports just don’t cool down very fast and have a couple of degrees lag.

Investors react to climate change risk | JunkScience.com

Another drag on the economy. Anti-capitalists have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams with this ridiculous assault on affordable energy. To think that the only really functional economic system can be so severely harmed by dioxycarbophobia and weather superstition… a system which survived radical Islamic terrorism could be felled by eco-terrorism.

More of that science we must listen to | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Listen to the science, we’re told. Well, OK:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, a global warming skeptic, told about 70 Sandia researchers in June that too much is being made of climate change by researchers seeking government funding. He said their data and their methods did not support their claims.

If I Only Had A Brain …. The Joe Romm Story | Real Science

Joe has declared war on Andy Revkin, and science. Joe is apparently also really pissed off at the author of the NASA Greenland melt study – who said that this has happened every 150 years for the last 10,000 years.

Suppose for a minute that Joe is right, and everyone else is wrong. Look at his graph below – had it not been for evil humans interfering in the climate system, we would be having an ice age. Sometime around the war of 1812 humans started doing something really bad to warm the climate up – and saved us all from freezing to death.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Concise reminder of IPCC failings

New Zealand politician Rodney Hide discusses the IPCC.

Greens: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh | Climate Nonconformist

The Greens are a big fan of information; other people’s information. When it comes to their own, however…

GREENS leader Christine Milne is sweet with the government’s refusal to release Treasury costings of Greens policies.

That is quite a turn-around from a party that perennially demands all be revealed by government and has stated that the so-called right to know trumps even national security concerns – though not surprising from one which keeps even its leadership contests as secret as the Cold War Kremlin’s.

Quadrant Online - Climate Commission in Melbourne

Years ago Private Eye defined an environmental disaster as a man with a beard on television and an environmental catastrophe as a number of men with beards on television. After attending the “Conversation” that is as good a piece of evidence for climate catastrophe as anything that was said in the meeting.

Oops: Michael Mann poses with a hockey stick, blade pointed down

Wall Photos | Facebook


Wall Photos | Facebook

...Michael E. Mann thanks folks--was great to meet him, and talk w/ him briefly. He remembered that he'd mention my findings in his 2000 State of the Union Address (as mentioned in my book), and even managed to incorporate it into his speech--a speech which was wide-ranging and quite inspiring. All in all, a good day!

James Lovelock: "We should have been warned by the CFC/ozone affair because the corruption of science in that was so bad that something like 80% of the measurements being made during that time were either faked, or incompetently done"

James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[2010] I have seen this happen before, of course. We should have been warned by the CFC/ozone affair because the corruption of science in that was so bad that something like 80% of the measurements being made during that time were either faked, or incompetently done.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.   [Via Mark T]

Flashback: No Cap And Trade Coalition Unveils "Hide The Decline II" - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Makin' up data the old hard way
Fudgin the numbers day by day
Ignoring the snow and the cold and a downward line
Hide the decline (hide the decline)

How summer thunderstorms could be punching new holes in the ozone layer - CSMonitor.com

When people talk about global warming, "most people would have their backyard warmer than it is now," he says. But global warming "is not about that," he adds. "It's about these feedbacks that couple the system into irreversible paths forward. That's the primary concern."
...
"To our huge surprise, we discovered that those convective storms were not simply distributing water in the upper troposphere," he says. Rather, they were lofting water vapor three to four miles into the stratosphere. Plumes often reached altitudes exceeding 60,000 feet.

So how high were those plumes reaching 1,000 years ago?

IPCC SREX Regional Outreach meetings: For an allegedly policy-neutral body, they seem to be pretty eager to push climate-related policy action, and they don't seem to be all that neutral about policy that ignores the alleged climate threat

FAPESP :: IPCC SREX Regional Outreach Meeting - São Paulo, 16-17 August 2012

A global series of outreach events explore the possible impacts of weather and climate extremes and disasters by region, featuring findings contained in the IPCC Special Report for Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The events are designed for policymakers, business leaders, academics, and civil society organizations whose policies and programs are or may be affected, and are open to the media. Previous events took place in Dakar (Senegal), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Bangkok (Thailand), Delhi (India), Beijing (China) and Havana (Cuba), between April and June 2012.

More on IPCC SREX Outreach Events IPCC SREX Regional Outreach Meeting Opening Highlights - YouTube
In the video above, IPCC's Chris Field talks about "framing [climate] issues in the context of managing risks", which "makes it more actionable...opens doors to being more effective with climate policy".

Note that plenty of planet-killing bottles of water are on display.

Reddit as a Science Outreach Tool | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Barnston worried also about what headlines could look like on climate “skeptic” websites. Given that his affiliation with Columbia was presented up front and used to lend credibility to his responses, he realized his answers could also reflect on the university and on the climate research going on there. In other words, his words, no matter how well-intended and carefully stated, might somehow be used to disparage his credibility and that of the university. (In this respect, the long-lasting ripple effects from the stolen climate scientist e-mails at the University of East Anglia in 2009 are never far from one’s mind.)

Twitter / RyanMaue: .@JoanneNova JoNova was ta ...

.@JoanneNova JoNova was talking "tree rings" on the Laura Ingraham program today. Climate change, tree bark, & dendro topics on talk radio!

Summer Storms to Create New Ozone Holes as Earth Warms?

Cancer Risk May Spur People to Action

What’s an Iceberg if not Sized Relative to Manhattan? (Not a Volkswagen) | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

“Why use Manhattan as the measure of size? Because it suggests something is huge that is not, in fact, as huge as we’re led to believe. We think of Manhattan as big because of the size of the buildings there and the number of people there. The iceberg actually would’ve fit nicely into the Bronx. But people don’t think of the Bronx as huge.”

This must be true, because it's in the New York Times, and they've got those layers and layers of fact-checking: “Global warming will itself almost certainly directly cause mass killing"

Clinton and Other Experts Discuss Ways to Avert Genocide - NYTimes.com

Climate change acts as a “multiplier of other resource crises,” according to Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, causing uncertainty about resources, leading to “the ecological panic that I’m afraid will lead to mass killings in the decades to come,” Mr. Snyder told the symposium.

“We’ve entered into this moment of ecological panic,” he said. “Global warming will itself almost certainly directly cause mass killing, but it will likely indirectly cause it” as major states like China and the United States seek to feed their citizens, possibly touching off shortages elsewhere, in places that would then be at risk. China has already begun to act and, in a potential harbinger of future problems, has been investing in farmland in Ukraine and in parts of Africa for a few years.

Winter that wasn't update, British Columbia edition: Snowmelt came so early that Mount Washington Bike Park should finally be able to open on July 28!

Comox Valley Record - Snow's gone and the bikes are coming out at Mount Washington Alpine Resort

The final remnants of the winter white stuff were shovelled out of the way last week by Mount Washington's trail crew and the snow is now gone.

Dirt has reclaimed the mountain and as a result, the Bike Park opens this Saturday.

“Due to the deep snow last winter we waited a bit longer to open our park and we're proud to be opening it in amazing shape,” explains bike park manager Mike Manara. “It was well worth the wait.”

The Venomous Climate of Climate Change Denialism - Blog

If a firefighter told you that your house was on fire, you wouldn't get mad at the firefighter.   [Actually I would, if my house wasn't on fire and the firefighter kept trying to convince me that the "fire" would go out if I wrote a large annual check to Al Gore].

Quadrant Online - Praise be! The Climate Commission in Melbourne

On Tuesday, 24 July, Melbourne was treated to Brother Tim's Travelling Salvation Show, aka the Climate Commissioners, calling on the faithful to force carbon sinners to repent.

It was a revivalist meeting, complete with pictures and snake oil.

This Is What Global Warming Looks Like | Real Science

Australia is of course not as big as Washington DC, and definitely not part of the globe.

World Climate Report » Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears

Basically, the authors contend that even though polar bears have been a separate “species “ for some 4 to 5 million years and have survived repeated interglacial warm periods, it is vulnerable to warming. It survived during a a period of 2 million years (from 3 million to 5 million years ago) with an average temperature about was as warm as today. Somehow this evolutionary history has made polar bears of today “even more vulnerable to future climatic…disturbances.”

Right. PNAS yet again has fallen victim to it’s “pal review” process.

Scientists: Remember when we convinced you to spend at least billions of dollars on that CFC/Ozone scare? We just decided that water vapor and temperature are far more important than CFCs

Strong Storms Threaten Ozone Layer Over U.S., Study Says - NYTimes.com

...climate scientists say one effect of global warming is an increase in the intensity and frequency of storms, it is not yet clear whether the number of such injection events will rise.

“Nobody understands why this convection can penetrate as deeply as it does,” said Dr. Anderson, who has studied the atmosphere for four decades.
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If CFCs had not been banned, the ozone layer would be in far worse shape than it is. But by showing that CFC-related ozone destruction can occur in conditions other than the cold ones at the poles, the study suggests that the full recovery of the ozone layer may be further off than previously considered.

“The world said, ‘Oh, we’ve controlled the source of CFCs; we can move on to something else,’ ” Dr. Anderson said. “But the destruction of ozone is far more sensitive to water vapor and temperature.”

Ozone Layer: A Closer Look at the Fraud « The AntiSlave

[2006] Does everyone remember the Montreal protocol that required developed countries like United States, Canada and the UK being required to phase out CFCs in 1995 with the rest of the world, like China, India and Mexico coming on board by 2010?

We were told that man-made CFCs would last in the atmosphere for some 20 to 80 years and continue to break down the ozone layer?

Now we must remember how “lucky” it was that Dupont had developed the right replacement chemicals and had warehouses full of the stuff on hand to cater to our need to cut out the use of CFCs.

The Montreal Protocol cost Billions, if not Trillions of consumer dollars. Old air conditioning, freezers and fridges could not be repaired. they had to be replaced replaced (with all the environmental implications of having to produce more steel, use energy to manufacture more units,…). CFCs were so valuable that criminals made a very good living out of smuggling 20 lb tanks of CFCs from mexico into Canada at $600 per tank.

Some very expensive protocols were put into place requiring that all technicians hold a licence (think of it as a tax) to handle and store CFCs. Every ounce was recovered and recycled – only to be cleaned and pumped into some other refrigerating device that ultimately leaked it to the environment.

2011: IPCC climate hoax chief Pachauri is remarkably relaxed about his own contribution to the Most Important Problem in Human History: "I can believe in my next reincarnation, I'll try to do something about my carbon footprint"

Rajendra Pachauri: Climate change - YouTube

Pachauri jokes about his own "terrible carbon footprint"; he also says that since he was born a Hindu "I can believe in my next reincarnation, I'll try to do something about my carbon footprint".

Farmers May Gain Amid Drought With U.S.-Backed Insurance - Bloomberg

Farmers “are laughing all the way to the bank,” Bruce Babcock, an Iowa State University economist and critic of the insurance program, said at a presentation in Washington July 19.

Carbon Rush makes a game of global tragedy

The message, hammered home with video snippets of comment from real people throughout the game play, is that ordinary citizens have become the casualties in the world’s carbon offset market.

Warmist Michael Mann: Real-world data is allegedly "showing exactly what the models predicted"; the "smoking gun" on AGW is a statement that the IPCC made 20 years ago; we can "literally" see climate change out our windows

Planet S Magazine

PS: What’s the state of climate science today?

MM:...More important than that, the data is coming in. It’s showing exactly what the models predicted: increases in certain types of weather extremes, warming of the globe, warming of the oceans, warming of the land, the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice, a loss of ice from the major ice sheets, increase in sea levels.
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PS: Okay, that shows the globe is warming. But it doesn’t necessarily prove humans are causing it. Do you have the smoking gun on that yet?

MM: Yeah. We’ve had it for 20 years. When the IPCC [the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] in 1995 in the second assessment report concluded that there is a discernible human influence on the climate, they weren’t just making that up. And the IPCC is a very conservative organization. So when they make a statement like that, you better believe there’s a whole lot of science to back it up.

That was the juncture at which the scientific community could collectively say that not only is the globe and the climate changing, but we can see the hand of humans in the changes we’re seeing. And again that’s back in 1995. With everything that’s happened since, the scientific community has come to much stronger conclusions.

...Frankly, [climate realists are] on the ropes right now with the events that are unfolding. They appear very shrill and completely without credibility when they’re denying the reality of climate change when we’re literally seeing it out our windows and on our TV screens. What you’re seeing now is climate change deniers on the defensive. Rather than being on the offense and attacking the science, they’re crying out in their shrill voices, “No, there’s no relationship at all between what you’re seeing; don’t believe those extreme weather events. Listen to the talking head denying climate change rather than your lying eyes.”

7-minute video: Because of his belief in the global warming hoax, Chris Matthews accuses non-believers of "Planet of the Apes attitude" toward science

LCV's Navin Nayak talks 'Flat Earth Five' on Hardball - YouTube

LCV Senior Vice President for Campaigns Navin Nayak appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews to discuss LCV's new campaign to defeat five climate-denying House incumbents.

Bummer: Through an alleged causal chain longer than your arm, trace amounts of CO2 may have "a dramatic impact on public health": More skin cancer!

Climate concerns | Science Codex

For decades, scientists have known that the effects of global climate change could have a potentially devastating impact across the globe, but Harvard researchers say there is now evidence that it may also have a dramatic impact on public health.

As reported in a paper published in the July 27 issue of Science, a team of researchers led by James G. Anderson, the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, are warning that a newly-discovered connection between climate change and depletion of the ozone layer over the U.S. could allow more damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach the Earth's surface, leading to increased incidence of skin cancer.

In the system described by Anderson and his team, water vapor injected into the stratosphere by powerful thunderstorms converts stable forms of chlorine and bromine into free radicals capable of transforming ozone molecules into oxygen. Recent studies have suggested that the number and intensity of such storms are linked to climate changes, Anderson said, which could in turn lead to increased ozone loss and greater levels of harmful UV radiation reaching the Earth's surface, and potentially higher rates of skin cancer.

"If you were to ask me where this fits into the spectrum of things I worry about, right now it's at the top of the list," Anderson said. "What this research does is connect, for the first time, climate change with ozone depletion, and ozone loss is directly tied to increases in skin cancer incidence, because more ultraviolet radiation is penetrating the atmosphere."

Perth on track for coldest month on record

“July proving one of the coldest,” reads the headline on glenninnesexaminer.com.

Local weather affects about 1% of people in polls on Global Warming « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

For every three degrees F warmer (or cooler), about 1 % of respondents in surveys think there is more (or less) evidence that the Earth has been getting warmer (3 F = 1.6 C).

Alarmists will use this survey to tell us how dumb the punters are, but remember that even if temperatures are 10 degrees C hotter or colder than normal that still means 94% of people answering the survey have not changed their position, and that the question itself largely misses the point. The important factor is whether human emissions caused the warming, and if so, what percentage of the increase was due to man-made effects.

A Climate and Energy Stalemate - NYTimes.com

As Mr. Obama seeks re-election, a warming climate and its related challenges — more frequent droughts and wildfires, rising seas and more violent storms — are near the bottom of the national agenda.

Sea levels have been rising for maybe 20,000 years, well before the invention of the SUV.  Does the New York Times have any evidence to back up the suggestion that CO2 causes more frequent droughts and wildfires and more violent storms?

ICYMI: Report: Energy Department scrambled to justify letting Solyndra’s private backers recoup losses before taxpayers

Why did the administration go to such lengths to help these private investors recoup their loses first? Administration officials have argued it was necessary to attract private capital to support the company. But they may have had another motivation. Argonaut is the investment vehicle The George Kaiser Family Foundation. Through it GKFF owned a 35% stake in Solyndra. Despite being called a foundation, GKFF is not a nonprofit in the conventional understanding of the term, but an exotic variation that allows the wealthy to park their assets tax-free. The foundation’s namesake is a major fundraiser of President Obama’s. He was often a guest in the White House and even discussed Solyndra with officials there.

Salt Lake City Airport | Musings from the Chiefio

If, on the other hand, airports tend to be located in broad lower valley areas where it is warmer than the surroundings, have large vertical mixing from the air traffic (that is warming on cold still nights) and has acres (hectares) of tarmac and concrete that are not as cooling as plants with transpiration; one would expect them to be a bit warmer than representative.

Man Made Hurricane Seasons | Real Science

By naming more clouds, NOAA can declare a record hurricane season every year – even if there weren’t any hurricanes.

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Amazing Antarctic cold next 16 days! pic.twitter.com/ZmugN85x

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DO not be fooled by climate clowns when hurricanes come a calling near the east coast like in the 1950s again

Science fiction writer William Gibson on the alleged threat of future CO2-induced bad weather: "I assume that we live in the first era in human history against which all posterity will have reason to hold a sad and bitter grudge"

William Gibson explains why global warming will make your grandkids hate you | Grist

Science fiction author William Gibson, who knows from the future (he’s the guy who invented the word “cyberspace,” in 1982 mind you), explained yesterday on Twitter that he’s concerned our descendants will hate us...It’s clear that climate change isn’t one of Gibson’s usual talking points (he got a bit of a shaky start, fishing for the word “anthropogenic”). He’s concerned not because he’s a soapboxer, but because he’s a thoughtful, intelligent person with an interest in how humanity will think and act in years to come.

Twitter / GreatDismal [Gibson]: I assume that we live in t ...

I assume that we live in the first era in human history against which all posterity will have reason to hold a sad and bitter grudge.

Twitter / GreatDismal: The horrors of the Dark Ag ...

The horrors of the Dark Ages don't irreversibly diminish and constrain the daily possibilities of all of our lives.

William Gibson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After his mother's death when he was eighteen,[23] Gibson left school without graduating and became very isolated for a long time, traveling to California and Europe and immersing himself in the counterculture.[18][21][26] In 1967, he elected to move to Canada in order "to avoid the Vietnam war draft".[20][26] At his draft hearing, he honestly informed interviewers that his intention in life was to sample every mind-altering substance in existence.[29]
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After weeks of nominal homelessness, Gibson was hired as the manager of Toronto's first head shop, a retailer of drug paraphernalia

NASA-funded study: Chinese practice of banning 50 percent of privately owned vehicles on any single day "could greatly reduce the threat of climate change"?

Reducing traffic at 2008 Olympics yielded large cut in CO2 | UCAR

BOULDER—China’s Olympian attempt to improve air quality during the 2008 summer games did more than provide a healthier atmosphere for the athletes. It also demonstrated that widespread changes in transportation patterns could greatly reduce the threat of climate change.

New research by an international team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) indicates that China’s restrictions on motor vehicles had the side benefit of dramatically cutting emissions of carbon dioxide by 24,000 to 96,000 metric tons (about 26,500 to 106,000 U.S. tons) per day during the event.

To put this in perspective, the authors note that this reduction by a single city represents more than one-quarter of 1 percent of the emissions cut that would be necessary worldwide, on a sustained basis, to prevent the planet from heating up by more than about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century. That is the amount of heating generally considered to lead to major societal impacts.
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“The Beijing Olympics allowed us to actually measure what happens when people drive much less, and it turns out that it makes quite a substantial difference to our climate,” says NCAR scientist Helen Worden, the lead author. “People may think their choice of how to commute to work doesn’t make a difference, whether driving their cars or riding their bikes. But on a large scale, it really does.”

Funded primarily by NASA, the study was published in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. It was co-authored by researchers at the University of Iowa, the University of Tsinghua in Beijing, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

As China has industrialized in recent decades, residents of Beijing and other major cities have been subjected frequently to unhealthy levels of air pollutants. To provide better air quality during the 2008 Olympics, Chinese officials imposed stringent limits on motor vehicle use, including banning 50 percent of privately owned vehicles on any single day because of alternate-day driving requirements. They also imposed limits on industry and temporarily suspended construction activity.

A Drought Of U.S. Leadership - Investors.com

Leadership: As drought destroys the U.S. corn crop and drives prices skyward, the U.S. now buys corn from Brazil and faces the end of its prized role as the world's top food supplier. It's time to scrap the ethanol mandate.

Smoking Gun That Hansen’s Adjustments And The Hockey Stick Are Garbage | Real Science

This is an amazing story. Hansen made incorrect adjustments to the data. Mann looked at the incorrect adjustments and decided to throw out the tree ring data – because they didn’t match the incorrect adjustments. Then Mann replaced the correct tree ring data with the incorrect adjusted data - based on the belief that a rise from 318 to 319 PPM CO2 had somehow corrupted the trees ability to function properly.

Western Australia - Big freeze continues as Jandakot hits -4C

The big chill follows the coldest night for two years when Perth dropped to 0.4C and Jandakot recorded -1.6C.

Little Ice Age began with a bang | The Next Grand Minimum

I have alway had this nagging suspicion that when sun spots are lowest the volcanic activity is higher, but have not found the data to confirm my suspicions.This paper reported on in Science News may prompt me to redouble my effort.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Good news: A sharp downturn in global wind turbine orders

Global orders for wind turbines are down by 30% during the first half of this year. The largest wind turbines companies are fighting for survival, as governments have begun to cut the generous subsidies on which the manufacturers are totally dependent: