Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released... and here is the chart to prove it | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html

Central Michigan University professor uses Facebook to track climate change

Rohrer said over the past 1,000 years, Michigan climate has remained relatively stable until recently.

Warning Signs: The Great Ethanol Scam

The rocketing costs of gasoline and the price of corn being paid worldwide are the result of U.S. government mandates requiring the inclusion of ethanol in the gasoline all Americans must use. The time has long since passed to eliminate ethanol from this primary fuel.

Tax on ferry causes splash Tasmania News - The Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania

The TT-Line's carbon tax surcharge meant passengers had to pay an extra $3 for every journey, plus $6 more for a vehicle.

UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013 | Global development | The Observer

• Extreme weather means climate 'is no longer reliable'

Sob: In his standard book-promotion speech, Michael Mann ends by suggesting that because of carbon dioxide, there may be no wild polar bears decades from now

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars - Michael Mann Speaks at SOS 2012 on Vimeo

Michael E. Mann- Director of the Earth System Science Center gives a very eye-opening presentation at the 2012 Sustainable Operations Summit.

Just after the 19:00 mark, Mann says "I'd hate to think that decades from now she [Mann's daughter] would return to the zoo with her children and talk about how, you know, these wonderful creatures [polar bears] used to exist in the wild but we melted their environment because of global warming".

Warmist web site Grist wisely cautioned groups of people intending to dress as The Atmosphere" for Halloween: "Do not be scientifically correct in proportioning the number of carbon equivalent costumes"

I suppose if your contingent of 2,500 people arrived at the party with only one dressed as carbon dioxide, some people might question whether atmospheric CO2 is really the most important issue in human history...

Ask Umbra on Halloween treats and costumes | Grist

[2009] The Atmosphere: Probably best as a group costume in which each member chooses an atmospheric component, with most going as carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, etc. Do not be scientifically correct in proportioning the number of carbon equivalent costumes. When individual members of the atmosphere are questioned, say something like, “I’m methane, part of the atmosphere [point to other group members]. I’m small but influential, and I can really mess those guys up.” If the questioner looks askance or seems doubtful, start muttering about extreme weather events coming to the party soon.

PHYS103: Module 015

Because Carbon Dioxide is only 1/2500 of the Earth's atmosphere, it is the greenhouse gas that is most sensitive to human activities.

NOW A WAVE OF WARMIST ALARM WASHES OVER THE BARRIER REEF - Telegraph

One puzzle is that no one has noticed such a scary loss of coral before. (Even the researchers admit that undamaged coral is still growing at nearly 3 per cent a year.) Another is that the evidence indicates cyclones being more frequent in the past than recently. Similarly, rises and falls in that starfish population are a natural phenomenon, nothing new.

As yet another scarelet bites the dust, part of the explanation may lie in the fact that researching into the world’s largest coral reef has become a £130 million a year industry. Governments are not going to pay out that kind of money just to be told that nature is doing what nature does.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Looking back at Earth In The Balance: The First Draft: Before there was Al …

In both cases [anthropogenic global cooling, then anthropogenic global warming], proponents of the theory-du-jour say that in order to stave off disaster, we must reverse the march of civilization, stop our profligate use of carbon-based fuels, cede power and money from the First World to the Third World, and wherever possible revert to a Luddite pre-industrial lifestyle.

Eduardo Zorita: "I really do not see how the IPCC can help policy makers"

Die Klimazwiebel: Interview with Eduardo Zorita

[Zorita] I really do not see how the IPCC can help policy makers. I guess that very few, if any, policy makers are reading the WG-I report. The Summary for Policy Makers is co-written by government officials and scientist, and thus it seems that it is the result of some type of obscure negotiations. This leads to all sorts of wrong incentives, also for scientists. In some countries, a criterion for promotion is whether your work has been cited by the IPCC, this gives already an idea about how the IPCC reports are misused for goals totally alien to the intended purpose. I think another type of IPCC would have been much more useful. For instance, the US government, when faced by the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, called Feynman to lead an investigation team. The IPCC could be something of this sort: a commission lead by independent scientists, who are not climate scientists themselves, but who are smart enough to gather the information they need from the sources they deem adequate.

Some scientist feel very motivated to influence policy directly, and I have the impression that in the end these scientists are being misused by the politicians themselves, which can then boast green credentials in the next elections.
...I personally would have advocated much more transparency, for instance making the IPCC author meetings public on the internet.
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I hope that in 50 years, with long series of satellite data, we will know how sensitive climate is to external perturbations, and probably we will know how large internal climate variability is. But, hopefully, at that time anthropogenic the carbon dioxide will have ceased to be an issue. My tentative prediction is that the main source of energy will be geothermal and that climate science will be focused on other fields...

ClimateGate Email 1335

I do not believe that this event will be constructive and amicable with Zorita's participation. If the recommendaitons of the organizers are not going to
be followed, I am unsure I can participate in or endorse this event. If  Zorita is in, I am out!

Mike

Twitter / PeterGleick: Thanks John for this 1978 photo

Thanks John for this 1978 photo. I always was on the cutting edge, here doing early research into personal wind power. pic.twitter.com/An9HrQnB

Danish Wind Turbine Company That Received Over $50 Million In Stimulus Lays Off 800 Workers

A Danish wind turbine company whose subsidiaries received over $50 million in U.S. stimulus dollars announced on Friday it has cut more than 800 jobs in the United States and Canada this year and may be forced to lay off another 800 employees in North America.

This is yet another green energy company that received wasteful stimulus funds and does not even have anything to show for it.

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: More scientists linking extremes ...

More scientists linking extremes to #climate disruption. Somebody read to Mittwit, Rush, and Imhofe. #greed http://lat.ms/W2Opjk 

But of course: You can't have a viable carbon dioxide hoax scam swindle rip-offset market without a fossil-fueled army of people constantly driving around measuring trees for $125 per hour

In California, a Grand Experiment to Rein in Climate Change - NYTimes.com

LEGGETT, Calif. — Braced against a steep slope, Robert Hrubes cinched his measuring tape around the trunk of one tree after another, barking out diameters like an auctioneer announcing bids. “Twelve point two!” “Fourteen point one!”

Mr. Hrubes’s task, a far cry from forestry of the past, was to calculate how much carbon could be stored within the tanoak, madrone and redwood trees in that plot. Every year or so, other foresters will return to make sure the trees are still standing and doing their job.
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That is why there is such a need for qualified verifiers. This summer, four foresters from around the country gathered in a Los Angeles suburb for a $2,900 test-preparation course to master the new system in advance of a required state test.
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There are several basic requirements for a forest offset. Credits cannot be granted for preserving trees that were going to be left standing anyway. The change must be long-lasting: trees must be left intact for a century. And owners must hire accredited verifiers to audit their claims.

The offset marketplace is already beginning to hum as companies gear up for California’s rollout.

Independent verifiers can make $800 to $1,200 a day, according to Mr. Bubser. Scientific Certification Systems, Mr. Hrubes’s employer, which verified 4.2 million tons of carbon offsets around the world last year, added two foresters this summer, for a total of six.

NCDC’s new USHCN hockey stick | Watts Up With That?

How can adjustments that affect only one decade like this be justified? The answer is that they can’t.

Global Warming Debate: I am a Science Teacher Who Teaches Both Sides of the Issue

As I have covered the issue of global warming, I have proven that I can do what global warming proponents refuse to do. That is, I can separate myself from my bias and argue from either side. My students are now well aware of both sides of the issue. While they know that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is based on the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, they also are now aware that their have been trends of heating and cooling throughout history.

AGW Concern 'Voters Guide' — The Patriot Post

As you prepare to vote this election season, if it's the disasters from CO2 induced global warming -- I mean climate change... oops, climate disruption (all of the above) -- that are of most concern, some things to consider:

1.) CO2 vs Global Temps

2.) Hurricane Hits vs CO2 in ppm

3.) Number of Strong to Violent Tornadoes

4.) The U.S. temperature 1960-2011 vs the last 30 years average

So if the AGW issue is your number one concern, these are just some facts to help you make up your mind. If disaster is imminent based on all this, then I have some beach front property at the base of the Rockies I would like to sell you.

USHCN 2.5 New Temperature Cheat | Real Science

Even after UHI effects, the US is cooling since 1895.

Arctic Gaining 1.3 Manhattans Of Ice Per Minute | Real Science

Scientists have been all over the press corpse with stories of Arctic ice melt and doom, while the actual Arctic has gained 750,000 km² of ice during the past week. That is more new ice than the area of France.

Ice growth will likely accelerate even more during the next week.

The Safety Of 320 PPM CO2 | Real Science

Bill McKitten wants us to sacrifice our freedom and money, in a mindless attempt to restore the weather back to his psychotic fantasy.

Cold Front Pushes Ducks Farther Down the Flyway | Field & Stream

Record low temperatures could strike much of the Atlantic Flyway this weekend, with widespread freeze potential extending from Maine down to parts of Northern Virginia and the Midwest.

Record cold in parts of Conn. | WTNH.com Connecticut

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (WTNH) -- Record low temperatures for the date were set at Bradley International Airport and Sikorsky Airport Saturday morning.

The temperature fell to 27 degrees in Windsor Locks at 6 a.m. Saturday, breaking the previous record of 28, set back in 1981 and other years.

Record breaking cold starts the weekend | WWLP.com

At the Westover Air Reserve Base, temperatures dropped to 23 degrees which was the coldest morning since April 6th. This temperature also broke the record low of 25 degrees set back in 1963.

Winter in October: Newark sees record-low temperature as cold hits N.J. | NJ.com

Newark dealt with a record-setting cold: The low of 34 was two degrees below the previous mark of 36 set in 1934, according to the National Weather Service.

Oct. 8 freeze damages South Plains’ grain sorghum crop. | Grains content from Southwest Farm Press

Grain sorghum producers south of Interstate 40 and around Lubbock might received damaging injury to their crops from the Oct. 8 frost and freeze, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agronomist in Lubbock.

Dr. Calvin Trostle said Lubbock recorded the second earliest freeze on record – the average freeze is Oct. 31.

It's all so confusing: As farmers in Peru "continue to burn manure to produce smoke to protect the crops from freezing", global warming is blamed

IPS – Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”

LIMA, Oct 12 2012 (IPS) - When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from starving to death.

It’s been two years since the 2010 freeze left her and dozens of families without corn, potatoes or beans to cover their needs, and without pasture to graze their animals in the rural town of Chare, more than 3,500 metres above sea level in the Andean department of Cuzco.

“There was no food, so the women went with the leaders of the community to the civil defence institute and the agriculture ministry. We got new seeds that are still producing our food today, and we continue to burn manure to produce smoke to protect the crops from freezing,” she told IPS.
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The efforts of Felícitas Quispe in Cuzco and Ricardina Bedoya in Puno are an illustration of the initiatives led by women who are taking an active role in the face of complex situations that experts attribute to climate change.

Biofuels benefit billionaires « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

[Inderscience] Biofuels will serve the interests of large industrial groups rather than helping to cut carbon emissions and ward off climate change, according to research to be published in the International Journal of Environment and Health this month.

Daryl Hannah’s hyperbole and James Cameron’s hypocrisy: Rick George | Energy | News | Financial Post

Cameron owns a JetRanger helicopter. He also owns a fleet of cars, motorcycles and submarines, a Humvee fire truck and, of course, a yacht.
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[Q] “What did you say to the Los Angeles Times in 2010 regarding how the world must deal with energy in future years?”

This one I know. He replied, “We’re going to have to live with less.” James Cameron can live in any style he chooses. But I think he should assess his own values and their impact on the world before he proposes that others “live with less” and attacks an industry affecting 33 million Canadians, including the 100,000 or so who rely on the oil sands, directly and indirectly, for their livelihood. I have the greatest respect for people who give a lot of thought to aspects of life that concern them, and whose actions reflect the values and concerns they express. I find it more difficult to admire someone who lectures the world about living with less while maintaining an extravagant lifestyle. Such hypocrisy weakens not only Cameron’s position on the oil sands but also his status as a credible commentator.

GHCN Adjustments In Iceland « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

How significant is all this? GHCN state that the latest set of adjustments have added 0.13C/century to global land temperatures, and of course this is on top of adjustments arising from earlier versions. This is a quarter of the reported warming across the globe since 1980.

But if the adjustments made in Iceland are patently false, can there be any confidence that adjustments made elsewhere are not also fatally flawed?

Europe’s Emissions Trading Crisis Deepening | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

“There is strong resistance in Brussels to anything related to climate policy at the moment.”

Germany’s Renewable Energy Unicorn Hunt Stumbles, Again | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

On Monday, Germany announced that it is about to be hit by a huge hike in electricity prices. Under the new rates, German consumers can expect to pay nearly $26 billion in surcharges on their electric bills next year in order to promote renewable energy. The program wasn’t supposed to increase costs for the average consumer, but now green energy surcharges have gone up by fifty percent.

China’s Greenhouse Of Cards Faces Disaster | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

China’s green energy sector faces economic disaster. It may bring down the rest of the house of cards.

Some climate scientists, in a shift, link weather to global warming - latimes.com

Still, most climatologists say science can draw no clear link between climate change and specific weather events like hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts or heat waves.

"We're living in a warmer world," said William Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. "But to say that the hurricanes are more intense, that the tornadoes are more frequent, that the droughts are longer, that the floods are more serious, the forest fires are larger and more frequent — I'm not there."

"Sometimes it's hotter, sometimes it's colder, sometimes it's drier, sometimes it's wetter," added Tapio Schneider, an environmental engineering professor at Caltech. "Not all of that is climate change."

Vestas Cuts U.S. Jobs by 20 Percent Awaiting Tax Credit Decision - Bloomberg

Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS), the world’s biggest maker of wind turbines, has cut about a fifth of its U.S. jobs as it waits for lawmakers to decide whether to extend a tax credit for the industry.

Climate group pushes Obama campaign to pull pro-coal ad - The Hill's E2-Wire

A climate group is petitioning the Obama campaign to remove a pro-coal TV advertisement it says does not reflect the president’s record on the fossil fuel.

Bob Kerrey changes stance on cap and trade - Omaha.com

Democrat Bob Kerrey, who once argued that lawmakers had a “moral” duty to support an anti-pollution proposal known as cap and trade, says he's had a change of heart.

Kerrey says he came to realize over the past several months — after talking with Nebraska businesses and reading about Europe's troubled cap-and-trade program — that the controversial plan to limit carbon emissions was “not the answer.”

"According to [warmist Lisa] Goddard, at regional scales there are many areas that have not warmed appreciably in recent decades, which influences people's perceptions of climate change"

Extreme weather adds urgency for action on climate change – panel | Environment | guardian.co.uk

"We're already past the point of dangerous [manmade] interference with the climate system — not approaching it — past it," said Jeffrey Sachs, an economist who directs Columbia's Earth Institute.
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Lisa Goddard, the new director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), said that the large role played by natural climate variability creates a communication challenge for climate scientists and the media.

"Climate change . . . is happening now, but it is only part of what we're experiencing, especially at a local setting," she said. According to Goddard, at regional scales there are many areas that have not warmed appreciably in recent decades, which influences people's perceptions of climate change. "We need to have some sympathy with local experience," she said of scientists who are trying to communicate climate science findings.

Is Global Warming contributing to the spread of Malaria and West Nile Virus Worldwide? | The Guardian Express

Could the melting Ancient ice be releasing mosquitoes and fleas from another century, insects carrying parasites and viruses from another time and place in world history?

The answer is yes and it may be happening even as we speak.

Dec. 2010:  WHO claims gains in global fight against malaria

Funding for the U.N.'s anti-malaria program reached $1.8 billion this year, helping buy insecticide, drugs and bed nets for millions affected by the mosquito-borne disease.

This contributed to a drop of over 50 percent in malaria cases in 11 African countries, and in two-thirds of the 56 malaria-endemic countries outside Africa, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told reporters in Geneva.

Number of Mentions of Climate Change in Yesterday’s Ryan-Biden Debate? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Zero.

Medieval Warm Period Was Not “Just A Local Phenomenon” – Study Also Finds It In South America

Nice timing, Al: After the "colossal failure" of Spain's "green economy", Gore heads to Spain to sell them a green economy

Al Gore set to lay out ‘green business’ plan in Spain

“In addition to IT-millionaires, there could quite easily be a crop of eco-millionaires,” he suggested.

Dec. 2011:  Spain's Green Disaster a Lesson for America - Finance - CBN News

President Obama may like Spain's green technology program, but the Spanish -- not so much. One study has declared it a colossal failure.

The Spanish recently threw out their socialist government over their terrible economy and a 22 percent unemployment rate.

Green technology was supposed to be Spain's path to more jobs and a cleaner more prosperous future. It wasn't.

2010: Spain Admits “Green Jobs” Program A Disaster

La Gaceta boldly exposes the failure of the Spanish renewable policy and how Obama has been following it. The headline screams: “Spain admits that the green economy as sold to Obama is a disaster.”

Pebble Beach Real Estate Collapses | Real Science

Sea level has been rising at 0.0 mm per year in California, leading to the complete collapse of the real estate market.

Gibraltar Chronicle - Public should be told Al Gore costs, says GSD

GSD spokesman for the Environment, Selwyn Figueras, has called on the Government to publish immediately and with priority the anticipated costs and details of funding for the Thinking Green conference, which is being held next weekend.
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Mr Figueras also said that he finds it odd that according to reports Mr Gore will not be giving the press any time at all during his visit, a curiosity he believes is shared by many and that the GSD considers it important that the press community understand why this is the case.

Twitter / LittleIceAge: The Gore Effect with snow is ...

The Gore Effect with snow is hitting New Zealand on schedule. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10840157 …

U.S. lawmakers press DOE about Abound Solar tech problems | Reuters

Oct 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican lawmakers on Wednesday pressed the Obama administration for more information about its decision to back, and then stop funding, a now-bankrupt solar company, with a report now saying the company may have been selling a faulty product.

Green Electricity Is For Morons | Real Science

Fossil fuel powered energy is cheaper, more efficient, reliable and much better for the environment. James Hansen and his band of fellow imbeciles should be held accountable for the mass stupidity they have wrought.

Is The Obama Administration The Stupidest People To Ever Walk The Planet? | Real Science

10,000 megawatts on 19 million acres? That works out to 500 watts (peak) unreliable energy per acre of environmental destruction, millions of birds chopped up, habitat destroyed, power lines everywhere, and a massive legacy of stupidity and environmental destruction from the moron in chief.

You can get that much energy from a few tiny fossil fuel powered plants.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » A month is a long time in carbon farming – QANTAS with egg on their face

The odour of wasted taxpayers money just gets stronger.

We Should Forfeit the “Great” Green Race with China

On Wednesday, the Commerce Department levied tariffs from 18 percent to 240 percent on solar panels imported from China. At best, this silly policy will increase the price of electricity in America; at worst, it could be the first salvo in a harmful trade war.

1923 Shock News : Arctic Melting Has Nothing To Do With Your SUV | Real Science

Sixteen Degrees Of Arctic Warming Between 1910 And 1939 | Real Science

Hansen says Arctic warming is your fault, and requires massive taxation to stop.

1954: Arctic To Be Ice-Free By 1979 | Real Science

State Department Too Busy Spending Money On “Green Programs And Chevy Volts” Then To Bother With Security!

They were more concerned with providing a fictional security fix against the fantasy threat of climate change than they were against the real threat of terrorism.

UpStarts: How Promises Of Ice Cream Can Reduce Energy Consumption | ThinkProgress

if you told me I could get some free ice cream at the end of the month in exchange for unplugging my appliances… well I’d probably do it.

Die Klimazwiebel: Is climate change the number one threat to humanity?

There is a new paper out under this title, to be published in WIRES Climate Change.

Here is the abstract:
This paper challenges claims that global warming outranks other threats facing humanity through the foreseeable future (assumed to be 2085–2100).

Vague Accusations of Alarmism | Planet3.0

[Tobis] It is not entirely implausible that “leading scientists and scientific organizations …contribute to a campaign of misinformation” but Pielke has shown no evidence that this is the case. I have been following this debate closely for decades do not know of any examples that would fit that bill.

Up to a foot of snow - or more - for Wyoming

TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS…6 TO 12 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.

* WINDS/VISIBILITIES…WINDS GUSTING TO 55 MPH LIKELY LEADING TO NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS

Unpreceden​ted widespread snow in Eastern Australia

“Much more of this Global Warming, we’ll have an Ice Age.”

Twitter / enviroblack: Price of saving nature set ...

Price of saving nature set at $76bn yearly @mcgram10 http://bbc.in/SVRYky  - add $100-200bn yearly for climate change, should be a doddle :)

Nobel Peace Committee Still Can't Get It Right, Gives EU The Prize - Investors.com

Sadly, the five-member Nobel Peace Prize Committee, based in Oslo, has itself become a joke. Maybe it's time to give the Nobel Peace Prize responsibilities to a less frivolous group.

Big Bird vs. Coal | RedState

while Obama attempts to eke out a win by spotlighting a muppet, Mitt Romney is focusing on more substantive issues including American energy independence and affordability.

That was quick: Remember a month ago, when we were encouraged to give up our wealth and our freedom because Arctic sea ice extent was lower than it was in 2007? Now it's higher than it was in 2007

Arctic Sea Ice Extent is climbing like a rocket « sunshine hours

Sane people know that the August Arctic Cyclone contributed heavily to this years record low of Arctic Ice. And many of us suspected that when the refreeze happened, it would be quick.

It looks like that is true. Full graph from arctic-roos.org is here.

Antarctica Sea Ice Extent Set Another Daily Record « sunshine hours

October 11 2012 (day 285) was another daily record for Antarctica Sea Ice Extent. The previous record holder for day 285 was in 2010.

How a Green Fuel Turned Slimy - NYTimes.com

How did the oil industry and the Environmental Protection Agency end up with a system for tracking the production of biodiesel that was vulnerable to fraud?

As I report in The Times, the agency is working on new rules to rescue the program after a yet-to-be-determined number of swindlers manufactured more than 100 million credits tied to the manufacture of biodiesel that did not actually exist.

Teenager died in 1996 government-funded air pollution experiment at Univ. Rochester; University now using diabetics as air pollution guinea pigs | JunkScience.com

We can now say that government-sponsored air pollution experiments have killed more people than any recent air pollution.

Record Cold Grips New South Wales, Australia…Canberra Sees Coldest October In 40 Years!

To our friends down under, especially those in New South Wales, I ask how do you like global warming now? Are you all frying to death from the cold?

Lincoln Center Now [Allegedly] 100% Wind Powered : TreeHugger

100% of Lincoln Center's 21.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity used each year are now supplied via RECs purchased from Green Mountain Energy Company.

Twitter / keithkloor: Joe Romm says climate message ...

Joe Romm says climate message not only doom & gloom: "nobody really does that--nobody I know does that." Priceless. http://theatln.tc/TxhCSt

Twitter / mtobis: If we don't do better welcoming ...

If we don't do better welcoming amateur scientists into climate science, we'll get more recruitment into ill-informed opponents' community.

Twitter / LittleIceAge: More from the current Little ...

More from the current Little Ice Age precursor in Australia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGwor4BAwNI …

Twitter / RyanMaue: That pattern means brutal cold ...

That pattern means brutal cold for Pac NW & into SoCal. Anomalies of temperature: 40-50°F below normal in Montana pic.twitter.com/aoj20qV0

Big Data Not Required: The Benefits Of A Less Complex Model Of Climate Change - Forbes

When we think about climate change, we think big. Big problem, big impasse, big data. What could be more complex than the climate of the entire world and how it changes chaotically?

Al Gore Worth 50 Times More Than He Was As Vice President

In fact, nine of 11 companies that Gore endorsed during a 2008 presentation on fighting climate change received government investment, WaPo reports.

CO2 & the Environment: A “Not Guilty”

According to the German Maritime Institute (DMI), “The dominating role at the long lasting climate change is taken over by the solar influence. The anthropogenic greenhouse/CO2-influence on the long-lasting climate evolution will be afar overestimated. Its contribution is able to explain 20% of the long-lasting temperature behavior. The anthropogenic green-house effect physically cannot explain thereby the cooling-off periods.” Recently it became clear that ”Soot particle increase considerably the climate warming. The soot particles are responsible for almost the half of the ugly ice melt in the Arctic zone.”
This is not a new perception, because Arctic, and by some estimates soot is responsible for up to half of the ice melt.

Heathrow third runway would treble air pollution deaths, study warns | Environment | guardian.co.uk

If Heathrow is expanded with a third runway to allow for unconstrained growth, the airport would be responsible for 150 early deaths; UK-wide deaths would be 260.

China now eats twice as much meat as the United States - Telegraph

China now eats twice as much meat as the United States and must rein in its appetite or face a food crisis, one of the country's leading farm experts has warned.

Fuel Fix » Shale gas by the numbers

Add another report to the growing number that say shale gas is an economic boon to the United States.

A paper by a group of economic graduates from Yale University, published this month in Oil & Gas Investor, estimated that consumers saved $100 billion a year in 2011.
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Overall, they conclude, the economic benefit of shale gas drilling exceeds cost to the community by 400-to-1.

Gore warns NZ not immune to climate change - World - NZ Herald News

Mr Gore was speaking ahead of a private engagement at the Pacific Events Centre in Manukau for which the Herald understands he will be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Event company Duco flew Mr Gore to New Zealand because the American election is nigh and because he is what they term a "thought-leader."

Mr Gore told the Herald global warming could actually be the answer to a world struggling to escape the effects of the global recession because we need to create millions of jobs.

"How can we do that? By building solar and wind and retro buildings - 30 per cent of global warming pollution comes from buildings that have little or no insulation, that have inefficient energy systems. We can put millions of people to work fixing that.

"This is the answer to our economic problems as well as the environmental changes."

Hoo boy: Global warming hoax promoter Jennifer Francis "said that scientists anticipate the sea levels to rise another six feet [by 2100]"

Marion scientist Jennifer Francis talks climate change - By Jennifer Heshion

Marion — Despite what the skeptics say, Marion resident Dr. Jennifer Francis says that no one can ignore science – climate change is a reality.

“The extreme weather conditions show how climate change is real,” Francis said. “It used to be a question and it is not a question anymore.”
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The change in the system can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution, Francis said. This is when fossil fuels became an increasingly important part of human life...Today, the ice is 80 percent smaller than it has ever been.

...By 2100, Francis said that scientists anticipate the sea levels to rise another six feet.

U.S. Department of Energy to blow another $50 million on global warming hoax project

Northeastern Minnesota Experiment to Study Effects of Climate Change

Construction is underway on the $50 million project, called SPRUCE (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Climatic and Environmental Change). The project is located in the Marcell Experimental Forest, north of Grand Rapids.
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Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the project is a collaborative effort between the USDA Forest Service and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is located in Tennessee.

Once up and running, the experiment will slowly heat 12 to 16 transparent chambers, which will be about 30 feet tall and 40 feet in diameter. The scientists will slowly heat the chambers to various temperatures, measuring how the entire ecosystem, from soil to treetops, responds to elevated temperatures and carbon dioxide levels.
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Temperatures in the experiment's warming chambers will be increased by as much as 18 degrees. While an 18-degree temperature increase in the earth's atmosphere is unlikely, the dramatic temperature shift in the experiment will allow the researchers to find the ecosystem's "tipping point."

Fish Feces Fights Climate Change : Discovery News

Millions of tiny fish pooping out even tinier turds may have a big impact on climate change. The fish, such as anchovies, feed on single-celled algae that live on the ocean’s surface. A study in Scientific Reports found that the fish feces sink rapidly to the bottom of the ocean, carrying with it the carbon from those algae.

"Yesterday, South Australia witnessed a once-in-a-century October snowfall"

Snow blankets the greater Sydney region - ABC Sydney - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Yesterday, South Australia witnessed a once-in-a-century October snowfall.   [Via Real Science]

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Op-Ed on Climate Change and Disasters in The Denver Post

After Munich Re announced earlier this week for the eleventy-third time that it had found the elusive "footprint" of climate change is disaster loss data (it had apparently been hiding in the tail section of Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane, who knew?), I was invited by The Denver Post to write an op-ed.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Over 2000 record lows ( ...

Over 2000 record lows ( low mins/ low maxes together) so far in month of October. 3rd month in a row of record cold outbreak into US

Trenberth’s Cluelessness Very Unlikely To Be Due To Natural Variability | Real Science

Trenberth made this brilliant claim 15 years ago.

The recent evolution of ENSO, with a major new El Niño event underway in 1997, reinforces the evidence that the tendency for more El Niño and fewer La Niña events since the late 1970s is highly unusual and very unlikely to be accounted for solely by natural variability.
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And now we are facing an unprecedented third straight La Nina

The New Nostradamus of the North: The smile of a Nobel laureate

A bunch of Norwegian socialists, led by former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland, has awarded the once highly regarded Nobel Peace Prize to the EUSSR, also know as the European Union. What a joke!
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The prize money will probably be used to printing new business cards for thousands of Brussels bureaucrats, who now will be able to call themselves "Nobel laureates".

EU politics: peace in our time? - EU Referendum

One feels almost (forget the almost) physically sick at the news that the European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for having "over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe".
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How the Nobel Committee could possibly applaud this inherently anti-democratic construct for its "advancement of … democracy" is quite beyond me, but then, for a committee that awarded the peace prize to the IPCC in 2007, anything is possible.

But make no mistake. These people have set back the cause of peace and democracy by decades. The one hope we have of avoiding turmoil and civil war in Europe is of dismantling peacefully, the EU construct, and replacing it with something closer to democracies in the nation states of Europe.

The malign, stupid fools of the Nobel Peace committee have just made that task immeasurably harder.

Pielke Jr: "After adjusting for patterns of development, over the long-term there is no climate change signal — no "footprint" — of increasing damage from extreme events either globally or in particular regions"

Guest Commentary: Climate spin is rampant - The Denver Post

[Pielke Jr] Along with colleagues around the world, I've been studying climate change and disasters for almost 20 years, and we just had a scientific paper accepted for publication this week on damage from U.S. tornadoes since 1950. What we found may surprise you: Over the past six decades, tornado damage has declined after accounting for development that has put more property into harm's way.

Researchers have similar conclusions for other phenomena around the world, ranging from typhoons in China, bushfires in Australia, and windstorms in Europe. After adjusting for patterns of development, over the long-term there is no climate change signal — no "footprint" — of increasing damage from extreme events either globally or in particular regions.

What about the United States? Flooding has not increased over the past century, nor have landfalling hurricanes. Remarkably, the U.S. is currently experiencing the longest-ever recorded period with no strikes of a Category 3 or stronger hurricane. The major 2012 drought obscures the fact that the U.S. has seen a decline in drought over the past century.

Such scientific findings are so robust that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded earlier this year that over the long-term, damage from extreme events has not been attributed to climate change, whether from natural or human causes.

So if the science is so clear on this subject, why then are companies and campaigners, abetted by a willing media, engaged in spreading misinformation?

Panel: Extreme Weather Adds Urgency on Climate Policy | Climate Central

The recent rash of extreme weather and climate events — droughts, heat waves, extreme precipitation — has provided a greater impetus for taking action to reduce planet warming greenhouse gas emissions. But a lack of political will and the complexities of the climate system pose enormous obstacles, according to international development and climate scientists who spoke at a Columbia University forum on Thursday.

Weather News - Snow causes havoc across eastern Australia

Earlier today 300 people were stranded in their cars in the Blue Mountains after snow falls across parts of eastern Australia, despite it being over a month into spring.

Deja Vu All Over again…1991′s ‘World on Fire’ « NoFrakkingConsensus

So what were politicians saying about the environment 21 years ago? Pretty much the same things they say today. The planet was “under siege.” An environmental “Holocaust” was underway.

Acid rain, ozone layer damage, rainforest depletion, and global warming were the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (I kid you not) that were “killing our water, our air, our plants, our animals” and were on course to smite us, too.

Antarctic Ice Causing DishonestyTo Expand | Real Science

If the behavior of the poles was reversed, the junk climate scientists would blame it on global warming, and would simply come up with a different ad hoc explanation.

1892 Shock News : Climate Change Caused By The Sun | Real Science

Northern B.C. has no love for the carbon tax

It seems the farther you get away from Vancouver, the more hated the carbon tax becomes.
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At the same meeting, Janet Ban-man of the B.C. Grain Producers Association said an average farmer pays $4,300 a year in carbon tax. "A farmer has to grow approximately 15 acres of food crop just for that carbon tax," she pointed out.
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The carbon tax isn't reducing our fuel purchases - Statistics Canada shows provincial gas and diesel sales for vehicles went up more than nine per cent from 2008 to 2011.

UK Government To Sidestep Climate Targets | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Ministers are planning to build dozens of gas power stations in an attempt to reduce energy bills, in defiance of green campaigners.

Britain To Build Dozens Of New Gas Power Plants | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Energy Secretary Ed Davey told The Times he will propose a loophole to get around costly climate change targets to stem the ever-soaring price of electricity.

Power Game: How A Climate Change Loophole May Put Britain’s Foot On The Gas | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Environmental groups thought they had won a key victory on new emissions targets. But now energy companies could be allowed to sidestep these restrictions.

Roll-Back: EU Commission Waters Down CO2 Targets For Cars | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger has written to Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn, reassuring him that proposed EU regulations to cut vehicle CO2 emissions will not harm the German automobile giant because of relaxed rules for “supercredits”. EurActiv reveals the content of the leaked letter.

Tit-For-Tat: Green Trade Wars ‘Could Spiral Out Of Control’ | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

A spate of climate and clean energy-related trade squabbles is heightening fears that as recession advances, the world could be entering a period of tit-for-tat conflicts, many involving China.

NY Times: US corn production down 13% from 2011. LA Times: "drought has destroyed more than half the nation's corn crop"

Agriculture Dept. Revises Estimates for Soybean Production Higher - NYTimes.com

The Agriculture Department on Thursday cut its domestic corn production forecast to 10.706 billion bushels, down less than 1 percent from the 10.727 billion estimated in September and down 13 percent from 2011. This represents the lowest corn production in the United States since 2006.

As feed costs soar, Zacky Farms files for bankruptcy - latimes.com

Since the dry spell set in this summer, the drought has destroyed more than half the nation's corn crop.

‘Green’ Europe: Coal To Displace Gas, Says IEA | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Coal has been displacing gas generation in Europe since 2009 and the International Energy Agency expects this trend to continue, Ms Anne Sophie Corbeau, senior gas analyst for the International Energy Agency said that “We will have a Golden Age of Coal in Europe, at least over the next 5 years.”

Study: The economic value of forests will decline between 14 % and 50 % due to climate change

A new pan-European study suggests that the economic value of forests will decline between 14 % and 50 % due to climate change.

Nobel Peace Prize goes to the EU. Does the committee exist just to troll Right-wingers? – Telegraph Blogs

[Tom Chivers] The Nobel Peace Prize this year has been awarded to the European Union. Without wanting to go into whether or not that's a good idea (it seems a bit strange, even to me), does this confirm at last that the prize's organisers have stopped worrying so much about whether the recipients are actually deserving, and instead decided simply to pick people who will annoy Right-wingers?

I mean, come on. In 2009, Barack Obama while the ink was still wet on his inauguration documents. In 2002, Jimmy Carter ("History's greatest monster!"). Now the EU, even while the Greek public are burning Nazi flags for Angela Merkel's visit. In 2007, Al bloody Gore (thanks ArtificialIntelligence in the comments for reminding me of that one). Next year, will it be George Monbiot? Or possibly me? Do I need to start getting a speech together? "I'd like to thank Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School…"

Twitter / HeartlandInst: RT @EnviroClimate: Two debates ...

RT @EnviroClimate: Two debates now, and nothing on #globalwarming. I guess it's no big deal afterall. #realityintrudes

U.S. Struggles to Rescue Green Program Hit by Fraud - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — A Maryland man is awaiting sentencing for what may seem an unusual crime: selling bogus renewable energy credits and using the $9.3 million in illicit proceeds to buy jewelry and a fleet of luxury cars.

In a similar case in Texas, a man has been indicted for selling a whopping $42 million in counterfeit credits. He bought real estate, a Bentley and a Gulfstream jet.

As a result of such cases, the Environmental Protection Agency is scrambling to retool a program that relies on such credits to encourage the use of cleaner diesel fuel in engines. The refining industry has meanwhile seized on the schemes to argue that government fuel mandates don’t work and the rules should be relaxed or scrapped.

Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Firms Subpoenaed By U.S. Watchdog | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

The Treasury Department’s top watchdog has opened an investigation into a popular grant program that helped finance a host of green energy projects, according to a recent SEC filing by one of the companies under investigation.

Nick Grealy: Europe’s Golden Age Of Coal And Dark Ages of Gas | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

In one for future textbook definitions of unintended consequences, the example of increased coal use in Europe provides a spectacular own goal for green shale gas opponents

Criminal Investigation Into Solar Subsidy Company | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

A bankrupt Longmont-based company that received $68 million in stimulus money is under investigation by the Weld County district attorney’s office. 7NEWS has confirmed Abound Solar is under investigation.

Green Energy Levy Rocks German Electricity Prices | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Germany’s surcharge for renewable energy will rise by almost half next year, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday, intensifying the burden for consumers from the country’s shift away from nuclear power.

Terence Corcoran: Global ­Coalification | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Far from coming to an end or a peak, global coalification seems to be well underway.

While on an unnecessary long-haul fossil-fueled flight, warmist Jonathon Porritt ponders the alleged "horror" of CO2-induced climate change

Why do we play down the horror of climate change? | Jonathon Porritt | Environment | guardian.co.uk

So here I am, writing this on a flight out to join Forum for the Future colleagues in New York (I know, I know…), pondering, as always, how to manage the advocacy challenge that lies ahead.

Environmentalist Air Pollution | Watts Up With That?

Environmentalists have promoted the theory that human civilization is the main cause of global warming. They argue that Governments worldwide must take immediate drastic action to prevent a catastrophe. The chain of proof in their human-caused climate catastrophe theory is broken in at least six places:

Political fallout: Cap and trade capsized : Politics

As recently as four years ago, Nebraska and the nation had the beginnings of a flourishing cap-and-trade system in which farmers were paid as much as $7.40 per metric ton to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Since then, the U.S. Senate has balked at the idea of capping CO2 levels and allowing industries to buy the carbon credits that farmers earned to avoid federal pollution penalties.

The Chicago Climate Exchange, the crossroads for cap and trade, is defunct. And John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, is left shaking his head over the demise of a climate solution his organization strongly endorsed and helped run from the national level.

The failure of the U.S. Senate to back cap and trade sent everything into a tailspin, Hansen said.

In Nebraska, what was lost included more than 3 million acres enrolled in carbon sequestration and millions of dollars per year paid to farmers who kept soil tillage to a minimum and trapped greenhouse gases under the surface.

“At that point, we released all our climate [hoax fraud swindle scam] folks from their contracts,” Hansen said. “And we said, ‘Geez, we’re really sorry. This was a good effort.’”

Nebraska and North Dakota were the two most active states in Farmers Union ranks, he said. “And then it all just collapsed.”

DECC denies policy change | City A.M.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change last night insisted it was still committed to meeting climate change targets despite reports the government was plotting to build new gas stations. The Times said this morning that the government would introduce a legal loophole to allow new fossil fuel plants to be built. Last night DECC tweeted that the story was “inaccurate”, saying there was “no change” in its targets policy.

This seems odd: CO2 will allegedly lead to our starvation, but our rising obesity is also causing higher CO2 emissions

Chicago Tribune - Allstate: Obese hurting fuel efficiency

more gas is likely to get guzzled as people are getting heavier. Currently, more than a third of adults are obese, but the obesity rate is expected to reach 44 percent by 2030, according to a study last month by the Trust for America's Health & the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Obama Says That Giving More Money To Solyndra Will Prevent The Hurricanes We Aren’t Having | Real Science

The US is experiencing the quietest hurricane period in 150 years, and the fewest fires in a decade, and Obama says we can fix it by giving more money to Solyndra.
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He healed the planet, but just doesn’t recognize it.

Snowfalls in New South Wales - in October… | Australian Climate Madness

What did we do before climate change came along? All those extreme weather events happening for millions of years - for no reason at all! Must be the gods. Thank goodness for AGW - now we can blame everything on that. Phew.

NOAA September 2012 – States by Ranking « sunshine hours

No State broke the record for its warmest September.

As an example, Indiana had the 30th warmest September, meaning 88 were warmer. The warmest September for Indiana was 1925 — 8.1F warmer than 2012!

Minnesota and North Dakotas record for September is 1897! Arizona’s is 1899.

Personal Climate Disruption | Real Science

Over the past week I have experienced repeated changes of warm and cold weather, with swings of 40-50 degrees from day to day. According to top scientists, this should have killed all life within hundreds of miles – except for possibly cockroaches.

The Conversation We Ought to be Having – A Report from SXSW Eco 2012 | Planet3.0

Mike [Mann] says he is accused of having “an agenda”, but insists that he has no agenda beyond “making sure that the necessary information reaches the public so we can have the conversation we ought to be having” about climate. This is commendable. It’s is the right way for most prominent scientists to construe their roles.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Mark Serreze from @NSIDC gave ...

Mark Serreze from @NSIDC gave a nice talk today at our Center on challenges of communicating Arctic science in politicized context - Thanks!

The Tides They Are A-Changin’ - The Equation

The letter notes that the eight-inch rise in sea level over the twentienth century “is now resulting in the flooding of city streets and parking areas at seasonal high tides, the abandonment of drinking water wells in coastal communities due to salt water intrusion, and the failure of flood control structures to operate during high tides.”

By 2020, Indonesian Palm Oil Plantations Will Release More CO2 Than Canada | ThinkProgress

Palm oil plantation expansion in Indonesia is set to release more than 558 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, according to a report published Sunday in Nature Climate Change. That’s more than Canada’s yearly CO2 emissions.

First snow in October in Australia in more than 100 years

An unusually cold storm in southern Australia has dumped a blanket of snow on Mt Lofty near Adelaide, the first October snowfall in more than a century.

Huh? USA Today Hypes Insurance Company's Claims: Global Warming 'Targeting' America | NewsBusters.org

Rice didn't explain the credentials of Munich Re or its scientific background. For a study dealing with climate change, the company is hardly objective. Their website declares: "It is one of the greatest risks facing mankind. In recent years, Munich Re has actively supported and advanced climate protection and adaptation to global warming."

How can an organization both investigate climate change and, at the same time, advocate for legislation?

Antarctic ice map may hold clues to global warming | Reuters

"The ice thickness is regarded amongst climate scientists as the holy grail of determining changes in the system," Antarctic marine glaciologist Jan Lieser told Reuters.

"If we can determine the change in the thickness of the sea ice we can estimate the rate of change that is due to global warming."

How’s that big carbon-capture push going? Slowly. Too slowly.

no one has yet figured out how to effectively capture and bury emissions from coal-fired power plants — a tantalizing idea that could have a huge impact around the world. If it could ever work.

Tim Profeta: The Climate Post: Experts Debate Link Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather

"Thirty years is not an appropriate length of time for a climate analysis, much less finding causal factors like climate change," said Roger Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado.

I hate it when it does that: Obama claims that "carbon pollution ... is eating our planet"

Obama: Carbon ‘Eating Our Planet,’ ‘A Threat to Our Children’s Future’ | CNSNews.com

(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama warned his supporters about the threat of global warming and vowed that more money to subsidize green energy firms would prevent it.

“By the way, yes, my plan will reduce the carbon pollution that is eating our planet because climate change is not a hoax,” Obama said at a campaign rally at the Bank United Arena at the University of Miami. “More droughts and hurricanes and wildfires, that’s not a joke. That’s a threat to our children’s future, and we can do something about it.”

Hmm, this seems odd, if CO2 really does cause increased violence: "Violence is 1/500th of what it used to be"

The Breakthrough Institute - The Long Peace

“Nothing can be more gentle than man in his primitive state,” declared Rousseau in the 18th century. A century earlier, Thomas Hobbes wrote, “In the state of nature the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” The evidence shows that Rousseau was wrong and Hobbes was right, said Steven Pinker. Forensic archaeology (“CSI Paleolithic”) reveals that 15 percent of prehistoric skeletons show signs of violent trauma. Ethnographic vital statistics of surviving non-state societies and pockets of anarchy show, on average, 524 war deaths per 100,000 people per year.

Germany in the 20th century, wracked by two world wars, had 144 war deaths per 100,000 per year. Russia had 135. Japan had 27. The US in the 20th century had 5.7. In this 21st century the whole world has a war death rate of 0.3 per 100,000 people per year. In primitive societies 15 percent of people died violently; now 0.03 percent do. Violence is 1/500th of what it used to be.

Russian warmist: There will be no polar bears anywhere in the wild within 20 to 25 years

No polar bears within few decades, Russian expert predicts | canada.com

There will be no polar bears anywhere in the wild within 20 to 25 years, Ovsyannikov predicted.

However, it is wrong to think that their “extermination” is only happening because of global warming, he said. Another key factor is that warmer air and sea temperatures have forced polar bears to spend more time on land where “too many of them were being shot and poached.”

What is the average life span of a polar bear?

Life span: 25 to 30 years in the wild, up to 45 years in zoos.

April 2012: Healthy polar bear count confounds doomsayers - The Globe and Mail

The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear subpopulations, stands at 1,013 and could be even higher, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut. That’s 66 per cent higher than estimates by other researchers who forecasted the numbers would fall to as low as 610 because of warming temperatures that melt ice faster and ruin bears’ ability to hunt. The Hudson Bay region, which straddles Nunavut and Manitoba, is critical because it’s considered a bellwether for how polar bears are doing elsewhere in the Arctic.

Hansen on the global warming hoax: "the realities can be made clear to educated, intelligent people"

Climate Solution: Pay True Cost of Fossil Fuels, NASA Scientist Says - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK — Prominent climate scientist James Hansen has been warning that humans have brought the planet to a tipping point, after which changes, such as melting ice, can pick up momentum with potentially devastating effects.

At a discussion today (Oct. 11), Hansen suggested society has reached its own tipping point.

"We are at a fork in the road. We can either continue with business as usual and addiction to fossil fuels, or we can put an honest price on carbon that makes fossil fuels pay their cost to society," Hansen told an audience at the State of the Planet Conference held here at Columbia University.
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Hansen, too, expressed frustration. Obama should have had a Franklin Roosevelt-style fireside chat with the nation shortly after his election, when his popularity was high, and explained the need to put a price on carbon, the primary ingredient in greenhouse gases, Hansen said.
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When asked the implications of a victory for Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Hansen noted that he found the sway held by climate-change deniers over Republican candidates discouraging. "Nevertheless, the realities can be made clear to educated, intelligent people," he said.

Not All Roses in the Garden of Science | Planet3.0

When confronted with ridiculous criticisms, often the impulse is to blindly defend science. But science cannot proceed without vigorous criticism. There certainly are pervasive forces that tend to dilute its effectiveness and corrupt its participants. Denying that just makes us more, well, deniers.

IUPUI to host world premiere of award-winning opera on climate change : Newscenter : IUPUI

Musicians gathered at venues around the world and connected via high bandwidth Internet will simultaneously perform an award-winning telematic opera created by composer Matthew Burtner of the University of Virginia and producer Scott Deal, professor of music and arts technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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Appropriately bearing the Inupiat word for “melting snow/ice” as its title, the opera provides an in-depth journey into the rapidly changing arctic regions of Alaska and Canada.

Senior Republican knocks aid to Al Gore-backed green companies - The Hill's E2-Wire

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) is questioning Obama administration financial support for green energy companies in former Vice President Al Gore’s portfolio, calling it part of a “disturbing pattern.”
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Upton, a frequent critic of federal green energy support, calls the aid “reflective of a disturbing pattern that those closest to the president have been rewarded with billions of taxpayer dollars . . . and benefited from the administration’s green bonanza in the rush to spend stimulus cash.”

Horner Book: Obama Administration Least Transparent in 50 Years | MRCTV

[18-minute video] MRCTV sat down to talk to The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Christopher Horner to talk about his latest bestseller The Liberal War on Transparency. Among other revelations, Horner told us that the Obama administration's response to Freedom of Information Act requests, often depends on the personal views of the individual making the request. He also pointed out that both liberal and conservative groups agree that the Obama Administration is the least transparent in modern history.

A few vague quotes from Bill Clinton on how to save us all from CO2-induced bad weather: "saving the planet is better economics than burning it up"

How President Clinton, ‘Explainer-in-Chief,’ Frames Climate Change | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

“Those of us in this green energy field, we ought to have a tattoo test. The more people with visible, impressive tattoos who advocate green energy and understand what it does for a country’s economy, what it does for its country’s independence and what it does in the fight against climate change, the more we’re going to have success in Washington, D.C…. Think about the tattoos. You win the tattoo vote, we’ll have the damnedest environmental policy you ever saw.”
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“Our diversity is important. Differences of opinion are important. You know things I don’t. Nobody is right all of the time..."
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“My strategy on [engaging deniers] is very simple. Some people who are climate skeptics are climate skeptics because it’s in their interest to be. They just want to preserve the old energy economy, and there’s not much I can do about that. But what I am trying to do, literally all the time, is to prove that saving the planet is better economics than burning it up. Not 10 or 20 or 50 years from now — [but] now. There are a lot of climate skeptics but their reasons are being chipped away….
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“If you’re an American, the best thing you can do is to make it politically unacceptable for people to engage in denial. I mean, it makes us — we look like a joke, right? You can’t win the nomination of one of the major parties in our country if you admit that the scientists are right?

World Bank president Jim Yong Kim: "As a scientist, I feel a moral responsibility to be very clear in communicating the dangers of climate change"

New World Bank Head Wants to Address Climate Change - ScienceInsider

Jim Yong Kim, the new president of the World Bank, said in Tokyo today that dealing with climate change will be one of his priorities. "Since becoming president of the World Bank, I have looked deeply into the data on climate change, and I have to say I was surprised that even in last 6 months to a year, the data has become ever more frightening," he said. "As a scientist, I feel a moral responsibility to be very clear in communicating the dangers of climate change."

Jim Yong Kim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He was awarded an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991, and a PhD from Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, in 1993

Biden, Dems enlisted by energy company to win billion-dollar loan deal, emails show - Washington Times

The White House contends that all energy loan guarantees, including the more than $500 million given to now-bankrupt solar firm Solyndra, are awarded solely on the merits of the project, with no political influence from President Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden or other administration officials.

But a series of emails from solar power giant BrightSource Energy Inc. show how the company applied political pressure and used behind-the-scenes cajoling to win a $1.6 billion loan guarantee in April 2011.

‘Tabloid climatology’ may be the real reason for the Marcel Leroux – William Connolley Wikipedia dustup | Watts Up With That?

As WUWT readers know, a climatologist who bucked the consensus trend had his profile summarily deleted at Wikipedia thanks to the William Connolley effect as outlined in “Death by Stoat” It appears that Connolley had to justify his own guilty feelings on the issue by posting an explanation titled “Death of a Salesman”. I’m only a bystander in all this, but the deletion did pique my interest and I went looking for some references about Leroux simply out of curiosity over “what do this guy do/not do to merit this”? I think I found the answer; Connolley and his friends simply didn’t like the stinging criticisms Leroux made and sought ways to diminish them. I think WMC and friends have now invoked the Streisand effect instead.

Does Accuweather Issue Corrections?

Now, these are two instances of inaccurate depictions of weather and climate on Accuweather, one regarding tornadoes (which Anderson suggested are up but are really down) and one regarding drought in the Pacific Northwest (which Anderson said is unusual but is anything but). Anderson is good enough to interact with commenters on Accuweather, defending his insistent dependence on alarmist climate news items politely and with good cheer. Will he now issue a correction of the errors in his discussion of climate? Or will the video simply be taken down? Or will Anderson and Myers and Accuweather itself simply allow the mistakes to stand? Only time will tell.

The Importance Of Land Use/Land Cover As A First Order Climate Forcing | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

“Nobody experiences the effect of a half a degree increase in global mean temperature,” Bonan says. “What we experience are the changes in the climate in the place where we live, and those changes might be large. Land cover change is as big an influence on regional and local climate and weather as doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide—perhaps even bigger.” That’s the idea Pielke says he has been trying to get across for years.

Warmist Keith Kloor >> The Greenhouse Effect

in a few years, we may look back at the 2008-2012 period (in terms of climate politics) as an anomaly, owing largely to a confluence of circumstances stemming from the global financial meltdown and the rightward shift of the GOP.

If the economy continues to rebound and severe weather continues to be associated with global warming, I bet the politics of climate change will soon return to what they were in 2008, when both major parties in the U.S. agreed that reducing greenhouse gases was an imperative.

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Lubos Motl: "A group of hardcore alarmists whom we know from the Climategate is irritated because they apparently couldn't keep a complete control over the IPCC"

The Reference Frame: Kevin Trenberth: too bureaucratic IPCC sucks

Well, within a smaller group of activists and corrupt scientists who really created the shameful body, it was easy to reach a consensus with Greenpeace, WWF, and other whackos and scum (that constituted most of those "2,500 experts") and claim that their crackpot claims about the climate represent the "consensus".

But when a more representative sample of climate scientists apparently got the green card to join the process – after some scandals that forced the formerly hardcore Stalinist organization to open a little bit – it's suddenly hard to prove that 97 percent of the climate scientists back the crackpot IPCC claims, isn't it, Mr Trenberth? A group of hardcore alarmists whom we know from the Climategate is irritated because they apparently couldn't keep a complete control over the IPCC. Why don't you use the right words?

Wash. Post Omits Crucial Context For Gore's Green Investments | Blog | Media Matters for America

Gore said he donated "every penny" he made on green investments to his nonprofit organization

DOE Hiding Truth About Bankrupt Abound Solar's Defective Panels | National Legal and Policy Center

As the now-bankrupt stimulus loan recipient Abound Solar filed for Chapter 7 (liquidation) bankruptcy in early July thanks largely to its defective modules, the Department of Energy still praised the company’s work as “innovative” and cost competitive, all while it blamed Abound’s failure on China for dumping underpriced panels on the market.

And now, despite the fact that Abound no longer exists, DOE is still withholding public information about the company because it claims it would harm the inactive business’s competitive edge by disclosing trade secrets

Warmist AMS president-elect Marshall Shepherd: "Beware of alarmism on #climate, aspects of science not conclusive, well intentioned people propagate bad info. (e.g. tornado-climate links)"

Twitter / AMSPresElect: Beware of alarmism on #climate, ...

Beware of alarmism on #climate, aspects of science not conclusive, well intentioned people propagate bad info. (e.g. tornado-climate links)

Twitter / AMSPresElect: what is the #climate Katrina ...

what is the #climate Katrina or European heat wave that prompts action. Policy makers respond to emergencies not perceived creeping problems

Twitter / AMSPresElect: don't trust the science, studies ...

don't trust the science, studies flawed--Things heard from tobacco industry when smoking deemed addictive, cancer causing. Any parallels?

Twitter / AMSPresElect: Consume peer-reviewed info. ...

Consume peer-reviewed info. on #climate, would you drink my 5 year old son's potion for headaches? No, peer review is #science FDA approval

Twitter / AMSPresElect: #Climate changes naturally. ...

#Climate changes naturally. Changes that took 10-100s of thousands of yrs, taking decades-100 years. Derivative (rate of change) important

Twitter / AMSPresElect: Tweeting a series of key points ...

Tweeting a series of key points from my #climate lecture at UF yesterday: US military usually doesn't waste resources planning for hoaxes

Marshall Shepherd: Drifting Continents, Greedy Motives, Party-Animal Meteorologists, and Snowstorm Arissa: Musings on Weather and Climate

I tell them that ice ages will happen again due to periodic changes in Earth’s orbit or tilt.
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Greedy Motives: I continue to be amazed that some people still think that climate scientists talk up climate change for grant money. This is one of the latest “zombie” theories (i.e., theory that is not true or that has been refuted but continues to live on) making the rounds. While it is not true, I had a guy (an accountant) at the Atlanta Braves game throw this out to me when I made the point that there are some industries that have a strong interest in spreading confusion about climate change in the same manner that the tobacco industry did with studies about the dangers of smoking. It lines up nicely with Upton Sinclair’s statement that “it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.” This “zombie theory” is very counter-intuitive because it would actually seem more likely that if scientists wanted more research funding, they would say that things are very uncertain or unclear and that we need more study (and funding). Additionally, those who throw out this “zombie theory” clearly demonstrate a lack of knowledge of how grants are acquired and the peer-review process. Oh by the way, none of my grants is for studying greenhouse gas warming processes.

Flashback: Warmist AMS president-elect Marshall Shepherd: "My response when asked why #climate change always framed negatively: "i suspect one could find 1 or 2 positives of having flu but really?..""

Thinking Green: Monckton seeks access to Gore

Lord Monckton has stated that either with a formal press pass, he is a journalist by profession, or as a paying guest, he will be listening to Mr Gore’s speech, taking notes and then challenging him with questions.

Mr Gore will be reportedly paid an estimated $100,000 for a 45 minute key-note speech at the seminar.

Pumpkin farmers have smashing crop despite drought - WSJ.com

John Ackerman said most of the pumpkins he planted fared "fantastic" for a simple, single reason: Pumpkins dig dry weather.

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Maximum Extent : NASA

The map above shows sea ice extent around Antarctica on September 26, 2012, when ice covered more of the Southern Ocean than at any other time in the satellite record.

Iceland: Sheep Found After One Month under Snow

Around 3,000 sheep are thought to have died in Skagafjörður, Þingeyjar and Eyjafjörður counties, North Iceland, as a result of the mid-September blizzard.

Solar Makes Up 83% of Clean Energy Projects Approved by Japan - Bloomberg

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan approved clean energy projects totaling 1,780 megawatts of capacity, with solar accounting for 83 percent, as of the end of September under a government incentive program.

Investment in UN's carbon scheme to 'dry up' as prices plunge - 11 Oct 2012 - News from BusinessGreen

UN carbon credits could be worth just 50 euro cents by the end of the decade due to a huge oversupply of allowances, hitting investment in its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), analysts Thomson Reuters Point Carbon warned yesterday.

Gore's green investments - The Washington Post

Al Gore has become a prominent green technology investor since losing his bid for the White House. Here are some companies he has invested in that have received or benefited from more than $2.5 billion in stimulus money and other financial support from the Obama administration.

Al Gore has thrived as green-tech investor - The Washington Post

Gore declined to be interviewed, but spokeswoman Betsy McManus said he had not asked the administration for support for any companies in which he had invested. “For almost 40 years, he has consistently advocated for the rapid deployment of renewable energy and other sustainability technologies,” she said. “His investments are consistent with his beliefs.”

White House officials have rejected charges of favoritism.

“These are merit-based decisions made by professionals with the relevant policy expertise,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.

Flashback: Gore firm loses a bundle on solar, now invested in "the natural gas pipeline game -- heavily dependent on the environmentally suspect fracking"

Al Gore Walks Away From Green Energy - TheStreet