Refugee Remedies Aid Climate Change Victims in New York | Green Prophet

We can debate the causes of climate change, but the increasingly damaging effect of extreme weather upon basic civil services is indisputable.

Steve Horn | Former Clinton and Bush Cabinet Members, Now Oil and Gas Lobbyists, Expect Keystone XL Green Light

The Tar Sands Blockade of TransCanada Corporation's "Keystone XL South" continues in Texas, but former members of the Clinton and George W. Bush cabinets believe the northern half will soon be green-lighted by President Barack Obama.

What Ice Caps? | Musings from the Chiefio

So let me get this straight: There were NO ice caps during a critical evolutionary part of human development. We had bears and penguins and all survive quite nicely then, too? OK…

Weepy Bill McKibben makes the "big ask"--asking people to stand up to pledge their support for the carbon dioxide cult

DoTheMath Calls for Climate Justice to be the Next Anti-Apartheid Movement | The Nation

McKibben eventually made his “big ask”, asking all students and alumnus in the room to stand up who were willing to march on their college campuses or occupy Dean’s offices demanding that their administrations divest from fossil fuels drawing attention to their institutions complacency in climate change. The majority of the audience stood up during the event to pledge their commitment to the task at hand. Finally, McKibben asked who from New York was willing to march on the Exxon building around the corner from Hammerstein Ballroom in coming months--and the entire room pushed back their chairs and stood up.

The loneliness of a young climate hoax believer: Friends don't want to hear about it; and this believer herself was "too embarrassed to tell some of her close friends" that she dressed up as a clown and laid on the ground to protest CO2-induced bad weather

Young Islington environmentalist heads out to UN climate summit

“When I talk about my climate change campaign with my friends,” she says, “they tend to switch off – and I end up having to change the subject.”
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People and Planet campaigns have included a “lie-in” outside a central branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland in protest against the bank’s funding of fossil fuel extraction. Dozens of protesters – including Sophia – dressed up as clowns.

However, she admits she was too embarrassed to tell some of her close friends: “It can be quite alienating when you have a passion your friends don’t share.”

Raving left-wing warmist Naomi Klein: Because CO2 allegedly caused Sandy, public transit should be free; she also suggests that if we had solar power, we wouldn't have storms threatening us

Naomi Klein Discusses Climate Change Challenges After Hurricane Sandy (VIDEO)

Klein cites increasing transit fare as proof that government is not really taking environmental issues seriously enough. "What should be happening in response to [Sandy]... is saying not only do you not want fare increases, but public transit in a moment like this should be free,” she insists. “We should be developing policy that encourages the maximum number of people not to use cars.”
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“People were bringing up climate change unsolicited with me again and again and again. They were saying things like, 'we don’t just want the lights on. Wouldn't it be nice if we had solar power, so we didn’t have storms threatening us next year and the years after?’"

Ehrlich 1971 : The Pope And Nixon To Destroy The Planet | Real Science

Ehlrich said that young people would stop purchasing cars and gasoline.
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Forty years later, this mental giant is still at it.

1938 Hurricane Could Have Caused $250 Billion In Damages | Real Science

Nobel Prize winners believe that your SUV caused the 1938 hurricane.

Guardian : American Fossil Fuels To Save The Planet | Real Science

The Guardian says that American fossil fuels will save the planet from terrorist supporting regimes.
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The Guardian also says that American fossil fuels have doomed the planet, and it is too late to do anything about it.

Twitter / LFFriedman: Sen. Barrasso:"There is a trade ...

Sen. Barrasso:"There is a trade off between climate change policies & competitiveness." Doesn't answer q abt a future treaty. #Halifax2012

Britain's mad biomass dash - Matt Ridley

And there is nothing carbon-saving about bio-energy. Take wood, a more carbon-rich fuel even than coal. As the environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel, of Rockefeller University in New York, has shown, when you burn wood more carbon dioxide is emitted than from coal for the same amount of energy.

Yet Britain is dashing to replace coal with wood.

Germany’s Massive Renewable Energy System Puts Out Only 7% Of It’s Rated Capacity in November!

http://notrickszone.com/2012/11/17/germanys-massive-renewable-energy-system-puts-out-only-7-of-its-rated-capacity-in-november/

Monckton on Al Gore's 'dirty weather report' : SunNews

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/search/climate/al-gores-dirty-weather-report/1969683551001

Remember, we should all trust this guy's judgment blindly, because he's a politically-disinterested Scientist with no axe to grind: Warmist Ehrlich describes Republicans as "a collection of morons, racists, woman-haters, and plutocrats"

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: Republican woes. How to find ...

Republican woes. How to find a good candidate among a collection of morons, racists, woman-haters, and plutocrats. http://nyti.ms/T7tsRF

"Gov. Jerry Brown told attendees at an environmental conference Friday that climate change must be prevented or humans might one day be forced to live on another planet"

Brown defends steps to fight climate change

"Autumn snow extent in Eurasia is the greatest recorded since the start of the modern satellite era in 1979"

Eurasian Autumn Snow Extent Highest In The Last Three Decades | Real Science

Former "bright-eyed intern in the Obama White House": "I’ve decided I’m done with U.N. conferences. Mostly, they’re too depressing."

Why President Obama should keep his promise to tackle climate change | Grist

A little less than four years ago, I was a bright-eyed intern in the Obama White House. The halls buzzed with hope, and optimistic predictions that we would tackle health care and then move on to the more challenging issues of climate change and immigration reform.

It wasn’t long, however, before the realities of the recession and extreme partisanship set in.
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I’ve traveled from Copenhagen to Rio de Janeiro and a lot of New York in between with SustainUS, a delegation of young Americans working towards sustainable development. But now, even as many of my friends prepare for the upcoming climate conference in Qatar, I’ve decided I’m done with U.N. conferences.

Mostly, they’re too depressing.

Met Office: "The science does not exist to make detailed forecasts for temperature and snowfall for the end of this month, let alone for December or even the winter as a whole"

Twitter / edyong209: Winter to be cold, say Met ...

Winter to be cold, say Met Office to press, with tremendous weariness RT @markpmcc: http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/responding-to-more-winter-weather-headlines/ …

Responding to more ‘winter weather’ headlines « Met Office News Blog

The science does not exist to make detailed forecasts for temperature and snowfall for the end of this month, let alone for December or even the winter as a whole with these types of forecasts only able to provide an indication of how our weather might change, or be different from normal, (i.e. warmer, colder, wetter, drier) across the whole UK or even Europe

Three minutes of stupidity: Al Gore unveils his "single most powerful bit of evidence about how the Earth is warming"--the fact that after a carefully chosen cool base period of 1951-1980, the Earth warmed

Finale with Al Gore | Climate Reality

At the 12:00 mark, Gore says "This is in my opinion the single most powerful bit of evidence about how the Earth is warming. There is no climate science involved."

Gore says "I wish I had a better command of it [statistics] honestly."

Global cooling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the 1970s, there was increasing awareness that estimates of global temperatures showed cooling since 1945.

Time Mag Flashback: 1974 Issue Warns of Man-Made 'Global Cooling' | NewsBusters.org

From the Jun 24, 1974, Time Magazine, entitled: "Another Ice Age?"

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

Figueres vs Pachauri: Nine days before critical bad-weather-prevention junket COP18, they can't seem to agree on whether Pachauri is invited to speak there

Twitter / CFigueres: @rjtklein @erbmba @Revkin Rumors ...

@rjtklein @erbmba @Revkin Rumors always make me wonder who has time to start them? Fact: IPCC Chair scheduled to address #COP18 plenary.

Yesterday: Breaking COP18 news from IPCC chief Pachauri: "For the first time in the 18 years of COP, the IPCC will not be attending, because we have not been invited”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will not be attending the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP18/CMP8) in Doha, chairman Dr Rajendra K Pachauri has said.
“For the first time in the 18 years of COP, the IPCC will not be attending, because we have not been invited,” he told Gulf Times in Doha.
COP18 is to be held from November 26 to December 7.

UK Energy Minister: Windfarms Are ‘Extremely Inefficient And Costly’ | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Windfarms are “extremely inefficient and costly” and will not be able to replace gas or nuclear power generation, according to a letter sent by the Conservative energy minister, John Hayes, which reveals the extent of his antipathy to the technology.

Has George Osborne Just Won The Carbon Battle? | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Plans to limit the carbon emissions of future power stations are on the brink of being delayed until next parliament, in what would be a blow to the climate and energy secretary, green campaigners and business chiefs.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Western Europe in the grip of the enviro-fundamentalist global warming lobby

The almost total failure of Europe’s leaders to face up to the reality of shale gas development, or to prepare for their energy crunch ahead is surprising. Germany is slated to shut down its nuclear plants by 2022, is opting instead for a politically-correct grid. The goal is to raise the share of renewables from 20% to 35% by 2020 at a cost of €200 bln, and march towards renewable dominance by mid-decade at an investment of another €600 bln. German industries are concerned about losing a competitive edge against U.S. rivals where the shale gas boom has led to a sharp drop in industrial energy costs.

Trenberth Locates The Missing Heat | Real Science

Kevin Trenberth says that 20% of Sandy was due to global warming – which raised ocean temperatures as seen in the red circle below.

It is truly remarkable how global warming selectively targeted 3% of the Earth’s surface, while leaving much of the ocean well below normal temperatures.

Unclear on the concept: Michael Mann's Penn State colleague Richard Alley blames global warming for predicted harsh, cold winter weather

Geoscientists speak on warming, harsh winter forecasts

In a lecture hosted by the Delaware Environmental Institute Thursday, Richard Alley, geosciences professor at Pennsylvania State University, discussed his research on ice cores and the population’s perception of climate change. He also discussed the possibility of severe weather throughout the coming season.

Alley views the severe winter forecast and recent storms like Hurricane Sandy as consequences of climate change. He attributes the cold weather predictions to melting glaciers.

Oregon Democrat Wyden: Carbon tax not likely

WASHINGTON — Congress probably won’t impose a carbon tax on fossil fuel consumption as a way of raising revenue to shrink the deficit, Sen. Ron Wyden said Thursday.

“Whether you are for a carbon tax or against it, you’d have to say this is going to be a big lift politically," the Oregon Democrat said during a panel discussion on America’s energy future.

Alaska: Record lows

Ketchikan's neighboring city, Craig located on Prince of Wales Island, set several record lows during the month of October. On the 27th Craig recorded a low of 28 degrees breaking the previous record low of 32 degrees set in 2004. On the 29th, Craig set a new record low temperature of 25 degrees, breaking the previous record low of 28 degrees set in 1991. The on October 30th, Craig again set a new record low temperature of 24 degrees breaking the old record low of 28 degrees set in 1950. On the 31st, Craig another new record was set when a low of 23 degrees was recorded breaking the old record of 28 degrees set in 2003.

Statewide, some of these records had stood for considerable amounts of time, as in the case on the 22nd in Ketchikan where the previous record had been in place since 1919.

Ketchikan reported an average temperature in October of 43.0°F which was 2.3°F below the long-term average of 45.3°F.

If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve [allegedly] never experienced a colder-than-average month | Grist

Qatari president of the UN climate talks joins the Oil & Money conference | Avaaz

With less than two weeks before the next round of UN climate negotiations in Doha, guess who the president of those crucial climate talks was having a party with? Yes, that's right, Big Oil chiefs at the Oil & Money 2012 conference in London – a gathering of over 450 senior executives from the fossil fuel industry.

Revkin: Is @IPCC_ch going to #unfccc #cop18 or not? @GLFT...

Is @IPCC_ch going to #unfccc #cop18 or not? @GLFT says no. An IPCC e-mail says yes

The New Nostradamus of the North: Great news: Greenpeace will be invisible at the COP18 in Doha

Hoda Baraka, Communications representative of the Arab World Project of Greenpeace Mediterranean, told The Peninsula that “due to practical challenges in a country where we have no local office, we have finally decided not to organise visual events in Doha in the way that we have had at many previous Conference of the Parties”.

[2010?]: Al Gore Purchases $9 Million Dollar Mansion – Consumes More Energy Than An Entire Working Class Neighborhood

If you look at the photos here, you’ll notice there are no solar panels on the roof – even though the region gets lots of sunshine. In fact the house indeed is a real energy pig and probably consumes more than an entire working class neighborhood.

Coldest winter in 100 years on way | UK News

James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said: “We are looking at some of the coldest and snowiest conditions in at least 100 years. This is most likely to occur in the December to January period with the potential for widespread major snowfall across the country.

Thank you for watching WUWT-TV | Watts Up With That?

At least 85% of [Al Gore's] total views were bots cycling every 10 seconds.

Twitter / RichardTol: @aDissentient @Roddy_Campbell ...

@aDissentient @Roddy_Campbell Silly alarmism by a rich white man [Jeremy Grantham]? @NatureMagazine loves that sort of stuff.

Renewable Power Mandate Is Punishing Missouri Economy, Study Finds | Heartlander Magazine

Renewable power mandates in Missouri are likely to cost state residents nearly $6 billion between now and the year 2021, economists at the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University report. Electricity costs by 2021 will be 15 percent higher than would be the case without the mandates, the Beacon Hill study finds.

“The mandate encourages inefficient energy,” said Paul Bachman, director of research for the Beacon Hill Institute and a co‐author of the report.

Report: Using IPCC assumptions, if the U.S. as a whole stopped emitting all CO2 immediately, the world would avoid a negligible .17 degrees C warming by 2100

Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions & Potential "Savings" in Future Global Temperature & Global Sea Level Rise | Originals

Using assumptions based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports, if the U.S. as a whole stopped emitting all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions immediately, the ultimate impact on projected global temperature rise would be a reduction, or a “savings,” of approximately 0.08°C by the year 2050 and 0.17°C by the year 2100—amounts that are, for all intents and purposes, negligible.

Hottest year ever update from the fastest warming place on Earth: "Temperatures could fall to minus 30 degrees tonight, with highs of 10 to 15 degrees below zero on Saturday"

Pollution levels at unhealthy levels in North Pole Fairbanks

FAIRBANKS — Cold weather is bringing another bout of unhealthy air to Fairbanks and North Pole.

Particulate pollution in North Pole and Fairbanks is exceeding EPA standards, and the unhealthy conditions are expected to continue over the weekend, according to the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

The cause of the poor air quality are fine particulate pollution and weather conditions that are preventing dispersion, according to the borough. Temperatures could fall to minus 30 degrees tonight, with highs of 10 to 15 degrees below zero on Saturday. Temperatures are expected to moderate somewhat Sunday, but lows will remain far below zero. Some wind is in the forecast, but mainly at higher elevations.

Solar Climate Change: Gigantic Explosion on the Sun Producing a Prominence so Big, it doesn't fit inside image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

The above story from SpaceWeather.com just shows how big the Solar flare was from our "R4" report earlier bySolarHam.net...

Climate Change at the National Academies: Misleading a Nation

It would take years to respond to all this material taking normal weather events occurring the past 50 years when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have steadily risen 25 percent and show the same events happened when carbon dioxide levels were not increasing. Past history shows very little, if any, linking of atmospheric carbon dioxide changes to weather, or climate, events.

The Carbon Tax Sideshow | Power Line

Hurricane Sandy had nothing to do with climate change—I’m not even going to bother with the links—and it would seem that President Obama wants nothing to do with a carbon tax either. He just proposes a “national conversation” about it, which, if it’s like our long-running “national conversation about race” will go on forever. Greens should be worried rather than thrilled.

Giant Pandas May Run Out Of Bamboo Due To Climate Change | Asian Scientist Magazine | Science, Technology and Medicine News Updates From Asia

Asian[Junk]Scientist (Nov. 15, 2012) – China’s endangered wild pandas may need new dinner options – and quickly – based on models that indicate climate change may kill off swaths of bamboo that pandas need to survive.

Are you on this Twitter list of (currently 57) deniers?

@rkmobius/deniers on Twitter

UK: "Green Deal" currently exactly 14 million registrants short of its goal of 14 million registrants?

Green Deal 'in tatters' as no-one registers - Telegraph

The launch of the Coalition’s flagship green energy project is “in tatters” after a Government minister admitted that not a single household has registered for the deal yet.
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Luciana Berger, the shadow climate change minister, described the Green Deal as a “shambles” and said its launch is “lying in tatters”. The Coalition hopes that owners of up to 14 million draughty homes will sign up to the scheme.

Greenpeace Film Will ‘Completely Destroy’ Confidence In Green Energy | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Apparent attempts by senior government figures to dismantle UK renewable energy commitments will prove “disastrous” to solar and other clean technologies, leading industry figures have warned.

Decarbonisation target 'could be postponed until next parliament' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Plans to limit the carbon emissions of future power stations are on the brink of being delayed until next parliament, in what would be a blow to the climate and energy secretary, green campaigners and business chiefs.

Tom Zeller Jr.: Amid Climate Change Inaction in Washington, Activist Urges Americans To 'Do The Math'

"We are running out of time," said Unity College president Stephen Mulkey in a statement explaining the decision last week. "While our public policy makers equivocate and avoid the topic of climate change, the window of opportunity for salvaging a livable planet for our children and grandchildren is rapidly closing.

"While there is much uncertainty about how climate change will play out with respect to specific regions and weather patterns, one thing is very clear: Our current emissions trajectory will carry us beyond 5 degrees Celsius average global warming by 2100," Mulkey added. "This will be a planet that is not consistent with our civilization, and science shows us that the impact will be largely irreversible for a millennium. I don't know how the stakes could get any higher."  [Can I see the math that allegedly shows trace amounts of CO2 making the planet uninhabitable?]

Phoenix carbon credit company wound up for using same old tricks - Business Credit News UK

The company claimed the market in carbon credits had grown by nearly 60 per cent in the past year and that the investment opportunity was a “no brainer” with “guaranteed returns”.

Susanne Torriente fights to keep ‘America’s Venice’ from slipping into the sea | Grist

Depending on what happens on worldwide climate action, 48 percent of South Florida could end up submerged.

Twitter / drgrist: "a carbon tax is a political ...

"a carbon tax is a political winner." http://bit.ly/ZJrPMP  Jeeeeezus.

Breaking COP18 news from IPCC chief Pachauri: "For the first time in the 18 years of COP, the IPCC will not be attending, because we have not been invited”

Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Qatar

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will not be attending the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP18/CMP8) in Doha, chairman Dr Rajendra K Pachauri has said.
“For the first time in the 18 years of COP, the IPCC will not be attending, because we have not been invited,” he told Gulf Times in Doha.
COP18 is to be held from November 26 to December 7.
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Later, he told Gulf Times he did not know why the IPCC has not been invited to COP18, something that has happened never before.
“I don’t know what it is. The executive secretary of the climate change secretariat has to decide. I have attended every COP and the chairman of the IPCC addresses the COP in the opening session,” he explained.
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Earlier, in his address at the FSDL conference, Dr Pachauri said a reduction of up to 50% in crop output could happen in rain fed areas by 2020.

Today's toughie: If America is going broke while giving away billions to poor countries for education, roads and HIV-AIDS clinics, is it a great idea for those countries to respond by suing us because their bad weather is allegedly our fault?

Nations: Island states mull risks and benefits of suing big emitters -- 11/16/2012 -- www.eenews.net

Tiny islands are getting some big-league help in their quest to haul major emitters into international court over global warming. But they're fearful the United States and China might punish them by cutting off foreign aid.

Germany, Ireland and Switzerland have vowed support for the Republic of Palau, which is leading a coalition of vulnerable nations in a landmark campaign to make climate change a matter of international law. The backing of wealthy European nations brings support for a resolution before the U.N. General Assembly to 33 countries and is considered a major boost to the case.

Behind the scenes, though, diplomats and attorneys say leaders of climate-vulnerable nations are putting on the brakes, terrified of jeopardizing billions in aid for education, roads, HIV-AIDS clinics and other projects if they pursue litigation.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Environmental scientist: "a warmer wetter world would [mean] a more benign climate"

In the article, Dr. Steve Running at the University of Montana comments on the new paper:

"If global drought is not increasing, if warmer temperatures are accompanied by more rainfall and lower evaporation rates, then a warmer wetter world would [mean] a more benign climate."

Keith Kloor >> The Climate Debate’s ‘New Normal’

We should expect every major storm to now be discussed in the context of global warming. That is the new rhetorical normal, correct or not. I just laid out how we got to this point. There’s probably no going back.

Members Question Use of Secret Email Accounts by Top Obama Administration Officials | Committee on Science - U.S. House of Representatives

Call for Release of Records and Independent Reviews Regarding Conduct of Official Business through Covert Means

Clean Weather In Florida | Real Science

Connect the dots.

Florida has gone for over seven years without a hurricane strike, the longest such period on record. During the 19th century, Florida averaged about one hurricane per year.

Nobel Prize winner Al Gore says that all weather is now caused by man-made CO2, so we can safely conclude that man-made CO2 is keeping Florida safe from hurricanes. Another hundred thousand miles on your SUV, and perhaps you can stop hurricanes in New Jersey as well.

Solar scheme shift stuns industry | Renewable energy

A rebate for rooftop solar panels will be halved six months earlier than planned in a move blasted by an industry group as "diabolical".

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet announced the solar credits scheme would end in January next year "due to continued strong demand for household solar''.

TRIPLETT: Obama's war on energy is a war on jobs - Washington Times

Natural gas gives the economy much-needed boost

Two More Stimulus-Backed Solar Companies Announce Layoffs

A pair of foreign-owned solar companies that benefited from a combined $84 million in Energy Department tax credits have announced they will lay off employees.

Hooray!! I've been "Reality" dropped by fraudster Al Gore's organization!

Twitter / tan123: #DirtyWeather Settled science: ...

#DirtyWeather Settled science: Either 23 or 1100+ peer-reviewed papers support skeptic arguments against ACC/AG... http://bit.ly/ZC2p3H

Twitter / RealityDrop: .@tan123 Or 97% of the top ...

.@tan123 Or 97% of the top climate scientists/any national science academy in the world. http://realitydrop.org/myths/85  #dirtyweather

Reality Drop (RealityDrop) on Twitter

[7 Tweets so far!] Spread Truth. Destroy Denial. A project of @ClimateReality.

The new phonebook's here! - YouTube

[Navin Johnson: "I'm somebody now]

Jackson may leave EPA | JunkScience.com

Greenhouse gases regulated, air quality standards needlessly tightened, coal industry crippled, frackers scared, Army Corps of Engineers usurped, science/cost-benefit analysis mocked, humans turned into guinea pigs, Congress ignored — mission accomplished.

Climate roller coaster back on track : CJR

[Curtis Brainard] There is no dispute about the basics of climate science. Next year, the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report and the US National Climate Assessment, two of the strongest consensus statements in the field, will almost certainly express even greater confidence in the looming threat.

Annie Hall Moment For Jeff Masters | Real Science

CO2 was much higher during the Jurassic, when dinosaurs fed on lush, green, tall vegetation.

Obama on Climate Policy: Not Just Now, Thanks - NYTimes.com

This assertion [by Obama] – that the nation cannot address its climate and environmental challenges while also dealing with jobs and the economy – is at odds with the approach that Mr. Obama has taken since early in his presidency.

How cheap energy from shale will reshape America's role in the world | Environment | The Guardian

US self-sufficiency in energy is likely to end American reliance on despotic Gulf regimes but biggest loser of all may be Russia

Lawsuit Alleges “Corruption and Negligence” at Department of Energy

A lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday alleges mass favoritism in the Department of Energy’s decisions to award federal grants to major car companies to develop electric vehicles, according to a legal complaint obtained by Scribe.

House GOP leaders pledge to oppose climate change ‘tax’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

The entire House GOP leadership team has registered its opposition to climate legislation that raises revenue, underscoring the long odds that taxing carbon emissions has in negotiations on the fiscal cliff.

Climate Lessons: A 28Gate Climate Crusader Coaching Children for The Cause.

Please leave them alone, Elena. They have a childhood to enjoy and do not need to share your fears of the future, nor your ambitions to manipulate their parents. Adults have done a pretty impressive job of improving living standards, improving health, improving the environment, and making use of cost-effective ways of mass-producing electricity. They will continue to do so, and looking out for the wellbeing of their own and other people’s children will be an important part of it. Perhaps if people like Elena, no doubt as well-intentioned as anyone could be in wanting to 'protect the planet', would engage more with adults and try to persuade them directly of her concerns it would be better than trying to do so via their children.

Multiple mansion-owner fraudster Al Gore, who had a mysterious $300 million climate hoax ad budget and another $100 million in personal net worth, now wants YOU to pony up another $24 to finance more of his job-killing propaganda

Hey Al: Keep watching your mailbox; my check should arrive any day now.

Twitter / algore: Fight #DirtyWeather by making ...

Fight #DirtyWeather by making 24Hrs of #Reality possible in 2013. Donate $24 for 24 Hours: http://goo.gl/ieMxm

2008:  Gore Launches $300 Million Climate Change Initiative

Former Vice President Al Gore is set to unveil a three-year, $300 million climate change campaign Wednesday, one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history, the Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports

Al Gore Net Worth 2012 | Celebrity Net Worth

Net Worth: Stats $100 Million As of 2012

Depends Whose Gore Is Being Oxed | Power Line

Sure, his “10,000-square-foot colonial in Nashville” has “geothermal wells, buried beneath the driveway, [to] cool and heat its 20 rooms.” Isn’t that special! Of course, his “luxury apartment at the St. Regis tower” in San Francisco (2,800 square feet, the story informs us) doesn’t have geothermal, but apparently it has his girlfriend. Then there’s his new abode in Montecito; no word on geothermal here.

2010: Stunning Pictures of Al Gore's New $9 Million Mansion Media Totally Ignored | NewsBusters.org

Glaciergate post script – they’ll shrink anyway | Watts Up With That?

Himalayan glaciers will shrink even if temperatures hold steady

[But of course]: Less fortunate in U.S. hit hardest by extreme weather - report - Yahoo! News

In affected areas of U.S. states hit by five or more extreme weather events in the last two years, the median annual household income was a bit over $48,000, or 7 percent below the national median, according to the report by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the White House.

WBGU - World in Transition - L03E01 - Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf, Ph.D. - YouTube

[31-minute video from warmist Rahmstorf]

The Reference Frame: Music star Al Gore plans a virtual reality drop

So I would say that by this new project, Al Gore exposes a combination of his utter lack of morality, lack of care for the hard life of his own fans, ignorance about the climate, ignorance about the way how the Internet works, as well as lack of any managerial skills, especially when it comes to the communication industry. Yes, it is another irony for a guy who claims to be a boss of a TV. Thank God that America didn't have to go through the experiment of putting this man in charge of the White House and beyond.

US considers shifting climate negotiations away from UN track | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/16/us-considers-climate-negotiations-un

It would be considered a "provocation" if the US was to unilaterally leave the UNFCCC process itself, sources say, and could potentially split the world into rival climate blocks led by Washington and Beijing.

Warmist Keith Kloor >> New Drought Study Is Huge. Media Yawns. Why?

As reported in Science News, the researchers seem to have found that “the standard method of assessing drought has exaggerated drying trends over the past 60 years.” What is a surprise (to me, anyway) is that mainstream media has thus far ignored this major study. That’s perplexing, especially since there is a global warming context (see RPJ’s post).
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Come to think of it, maybe that’s why no environmental reporters have picked up on the story.  [Ya think?]

Prof. Pielke Jr. on new Nature drought study: 'Once again the lesson is that if you are looking for a signal of human-caused climate change, it is best not to look at such extremes' | Climate Depot

Pielke Jr. : 'There is very little evidence to support claims that the influence of such changes can be observed in the observational record of extreme events. Advocates who justify action on climate change by appeals to the latest extreme event go well beyond what science can support, and in the process undercut the very cause that they are advocating for'

Kyoto Protocol fails: get ready for a hotter world

The Protocol was in fact doomed from its birth in 1997 because it did not encompass the world’s largest and fastest growing economies

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Must read for reality about ...

Must read for reality about Jersey Coastal storms
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Storms-Jersey-Shore-Savadove/dp/094558251X …

http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-South-Cape-May-ebook/dp/B006L8L07W/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1 …

Green groups rip Obama for no-show on climate change | WashingtonExaminer.com

"Basically, the president punted," said Frank O'Donnell, president of the nonpartisan Clean Air Watch. "Environmental groups assumed that because many of them have access to administration officials, that would translate into action. They ought to be furious."

Twitter / Laurie_David: "we have had more than 10 billion ...

"we have had more than 10 billion $ disasters in the last year and the only explanation is global warming" #dirtyweather @algore

Is the carbon tax great? Just ask the banker at your table | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

What a curious way for Julia Gillard to sell a tax - even to businessmen - which we were originally told was needed simply to save the world from disastrous overheating:

International carbon markets will cover billions of consumers this decade.  Ask the bankers at your table whether they want Australia to clip that ticket.  We’re going to help them get their share.

Hmm. That explains why so many bankers are global warming preachers, too. Think of those billions! Those tickets to clip! That share of the dosh!

Finale with Al Gore | Climate Reality

[45-minute video]

Quadrant Online - Land of the Long White Hockey Stick?

Te Papa, the eyes of the climate science world are now upon you! May you examine and adjudicate on the Hockey Stick with scientific rigor, not forgetting to read Andrew Montford’s magisterial analysis, The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science. Keep in mind that Mann, a self-proclaimed “Nobel Prize recipient”, has launched a defamation lawsuit over slights to his reputation. Science is exciting, isn’t it!

Thirty Five Years Of No Warming In Alaska | Real Science

Alaska is supposed to be the canary in the coal mine, but it didn’t get the memo.

Nobel Prize Winner Caught Lying Again | Real Science

The graph below plots the number of daily all-time record maximum temperatures set or tied, at the 595 GHCN HCN US stations which have been continuously active since the year 1900.

The ten hottest years all occurred before 1960, and the five hottest years all occurred during the 1930s. Recent decades have seen much less hot weather than the 1920s through the 1950s. As usual, Al Gore is lying.

Governors Demand Wind PTC to Cover State Costs — MasterResource

The United States is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. If Congress and the White House are unable to reach agreement on spending by January 1, crushing tax increases and draconian budget cuts will go into effect sending the country’s already weakened economy into another destructive recession.

Against this backdrop, the 23-member Governor’s Wind Energy Coalition put aside their own states’ $2+ trillion deficits[1] to deliver a message to Congress — extend the wind production tax credit (PTC).

The staged media event on Capitol Hill was a modern-day equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

Up to 1 meter of snow in Happo, Japan

“Although Happo is situated in the mountains, one meter of snow before even the winter has begun, is not a thing to be very glad about,” says Argiris Diamantis.

Enlightened Thinking From Al Gore | Real Science

Al Gore believes that sacrifice is needed to control the climate. The Mayans believed the same thing.

A compliment from Al Gore?

 "climate change deniers continue to stand in the way".
That is cheering. We deniers have stopped the Warmists! Al Gore says so. Perhaps we should have a few victory celebrations.

PJ Media » Global Cooling: A Far More Dangerous Fate

Far more people die due to excessive cold than due to excessive warmth. Cold weather is obviously much harder on our bodies than is warm weather. That is why people retire to Florida or Arizona, and not Alaska.

History demonstrates that warming has been good, and cooling bad, for civilization. That is why geologists named past warm periods “optimums” and cold times “dark ages.”

It was during the warmest period since the end of the last ice age, a time called the Holocene Optimum between 9,000 and 5,000 years ago, that the first civilizations flourished in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East. Other warm periods, climate optimums during Minoan, Roman, and Medieval times, and of course, the modern warm period, have all resulted in increased food productivity, lower death rates, and greater all-around prosperity.

In contrast, cold periods have been very rough on societies. The Dark Ages Cold Period between about 600 and 900 AD was a time of great retreat of agriculture and depression of human activity. There were plagues and starvation in many regions and people were forced to migrate away from farms in central Europe and Scandinavia.

The Little Ice Age (LIA) from about 1350 to 1850 was even worse; there was great misery for people around the world.

Warmist Jeff Orlowski: "Greenland in the winter time was brutal. It was just unnecessarily cold"

Chasing Ice director Jeff Orlowski: climate change is “pretty damn definitive”

GS: What was the worst location, and why?

JO: Greenland in the winter time was brutal. It was just unnecessarily cold. It was also one of the riskiest trips because of the danger associated with the cold.
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[Q] there are still plenty of people, wittingly or otherwise, trying to sow enough doubt to keep the “debate” alive. How frustrating is that?

JO: It’s massively frustrating, for sure. It’s called the FUD campaign—fear, uncertainty, and doubt—and it is in fact the same exact people that were doing it for the cigarette industry in the ‘70s.

First sign that Al Gore was lying when he said this--his lips were moving: "Extreme heat events used to occur less than 1/10 of 1% of the time. Now they occur 10% of the time. This is #reality"

Twitter / ClimateReality: "Extreme heat events used to ...

"Extreme heat events used to occur less than 1/10 of 1% of the time. Now they occur 10% of the time. This is #reality" @AlGore #DirtyWeather

Restoring The Climate Of 1974: 'CO2 was at very safe levels in 1974. The worst tornado outbreak in US history. A hurricane which killed 8,000 people' | Climate Depot

'Hurricane Fifi was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that killed between 3,000 & 10,000 people in Honduras...Thirty four inches of rain in January at Brisbane...Not to mention record drought, floods, famine, cold and a global cooling scare'

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: President Obama's spokesman ...

President Obama's spokesman today: "We would never propose a carbon tax, and have no intention of proposing one" http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/15/press-gaggle-press-secretary-jay-carney-en-route-new-york-ny-11152012 …

Confirmation Bias On Steroids | Real Science

Jason Samenow demonstrates how not to think like a scientist. Bottom line is that he wants to believe something, and has no evidence to back up any of his claims.
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Past storms were more powerful than Sandy before “climate change” Therefore Sandy was made more powerful by climate change. Brilliant thinking.
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Sea level has been rising for 20,000 years, and tide gauges show no acceleration over the last century. How could this possibly be man made? He is making a statement of fact which has zero evidence to back it up.

1821 Hurricane Struck New York At Low Tide | Real Science

In 1821, stunned colonial New Yorkers recorded sea levels rising as fast as 13 feet in a single hour at the Battery. The East River and Hudson Rivers merged over Lower Manhattan all the way to Canal Street. According to Coch, the fact that the 1821 storm struck at low tide “is the only thing that saved the city.”...

By contrast, Sandy struck at a full moon high tide. The 1821 storm surge would have been at least five feet higher than Sandy – had the tide conditions been the same.

Nissan CEO abandons '12 electric vehicle sales target | The Detroit News

Washington — Nissan Motor CEO Carlos Ghosn finally admitted the automaker will not meet its sales target for its all-electric Leaf — in another sign of the broad struggle of the electric vehicle industry.

"The forecast we have given ourselves for the year will not be reached," Ghosn told Bloomberg Television in Mexico City on Thursday.

Presidential Press Conference: Obama's Global Warming Gospel

What jumped out at me most as lacking integrity was Obama’s adamant statement that the world is getting warmer, as if there could be no denying it. It jumped out at me because even though I knew the claim to be patently false, Obama said it with such conviction that I had to conclude he actually believed it. And that’s when I realized that the President was making a statement of faith.

At first, I cheered his response. (Not, like, out loud. I’m not that geeky.) The reporter’s silly and leading question implied a connection between global warming/climate change and Hurricane Sandy. The questioner suggested that the storm might provide political impetus for pushing through a carbon tax that would — somehow — end such storms. Obama responded by pointing out that there was no reason to see a causal connection between that storm and global warming. Correct. We agree on something, Mr. President. It’s a place to start.

But then he started spouting this false gospel about global warming. I call it a gospel because it claims to be good news that requires repentance, it promises salvation for mankind through sacrifice, and it requires far more faith than the gospel according to any Biblical writers.

Fisker's Big Fundraiser is Going Out of Business | National Legal and Policy Center

The venture finance operation that raised money for crony capitalist investors Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, and their green tech firms like electric car company Fisker Automotive ($193 million paid in stimulus loan guarantees) and fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy, is shutting down, according to a Fortune report.

Polar Bear Blog – Hudson Bay Ice | Polar Bear Alley – Guide to the Polar Bears of Churchill

places like the western edge of Cape Churchill and the northern coast of Ontario have a lot more ice than usual...The ice from the Ontario border to James Bay is far ahead of schedule

Errors In GISS Classification Of Urban & Rural Stations « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

It appears from the work Peter has done that many stations that GISS classify as rural are, in fact, urban. The errors are arising because of incorrect latitude/longitude data held within the GHCN metadata.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Little Change in Drought Over 60 Years

[comment] The relative paucity of news coverage of this paper makes an interesting climate journalism case study, which is left as an exercise for the reader.

Mike Smith Enterprises Blog: Hurricane Sandy NWS Assessment Terminated

Well, that was fast.

The entire National Weather Service's "Service Assessment" for the "Hurricane Sandy Event" (as the assessment team named the study, hereinafter SA) has been terminated.

Munich Blacks Out! Welcome To The Future Of Germany’s Energy Transition! Harbinger Of What Green Energy Holds?

Energy experts have been warning for months that Germany will be dangerously vulnerable to power outages more than ever, especially if this winter turns out to be a hard one. The instability of the green energy supply has led power companies to intervene hundreds of times to keep the grid up. It’s only a question of time before the big blackout hits.

Blast of winter for Canadian Prairie provinces

Winter-like storm brings major snowfall

Earth Hour Continues In New York | Real Science

New Yorkers have had the opportunity to experience the green nirvana of an extended Earth Hour, well below normal temperatures, and a very low carbon footprint. But for some reason they aren’t happy about living in the dark ages.

Inhofe vows to stay top climate skeptic, despite committee shuffle

Sen. James Inhofe said last night in a Web-based interview that he would still be "in charge" of climate skepticism on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, despite ceding his ranking membership to Sen. David Vitter (R-La.).

"Senator Vitter has said publicly that I will still be in charge on this issue," the Oklahoma Republican said in an interview hosted by climate skeptic Anthony Watts. Inhofe noted that he has spent 10 years as the most vocal man-made climate change disbeliever in the Senate and said he would remain so as a senior member of the EPW Committee.

Heartland Institute Hosts Eighth International Conference on Climate Change in Germany - Press Release - Digital Journal

“This conference is more proof, if any were needed, that important issues surrounding the causes, extent, and consequences of climate change remain unresolved in the scientific community,” said Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast. “We are honored to partner with the European Institute for Climate and Energy to showcase sound science and economics on the most important environmental debate of our age.”

“I am looking forward to bringing The Heartland Institute’s International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) to European soil this month,” said James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute. “It will mark the eighth ICCC, with events held on three continents. The scientific evidence grows stronger each day that we are not facing a global warming crisis, and I look forward to presenting another conference where the scientists themselves will explain the evidence.”

May 2012: Brendan DeMelle | Joe Bast Announces the Death of Denial-a-Palooza at Final Heartland ICCC Conference

The Triumph (and Challenge) of Climate Math - Andrew Winston - Harvard Business Review

$2.2 trillion: The size of the "climate [hoax] economy" by 2020 according to the bank HSBC

A statement from the BBC – at last » Harmless Sky

The accusation is that the BBC has made a false claim that editorial policy on climate change was informed, and presumably underpinned, by a ‘seminar with the best scientific experts’ when it is now clear from Maurizio Morabito’s research (omnologos blog) that nothing could be much further from the truth. They are also being accused in the blogosphere, and now in the MSM too, of expending a lot of time and money on trying to cover up this fact.

Twitter / ToryAardvark: "Climate change is factor in ...

"Climate change is factor in Israeli-Palestinian conflict." http://ow.ly/fiHzT  says #algore Priceless

Twitter / CFigueres: Looking forward to participating ...

Looking forward to participating today in 24 HRS #Reality @ClimateReality @algore

The whole truth about Superstorm Sandy and climate change - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

The historical record shows numerous examples of the Northeast being hit by hurricanes. In the 1950s- a flurry of strong storms afflicted the region.

We will lead on climate change  - NY Daily News

[NY Governor Andrew Cuomo] Extreme weather is the new normal.

Wait, what?!: Revkin wrote in Aug. 2000 that James Hansen fingered other emissions, NOT CO2, for the warming seen in recent decades

Study Proposes New Strategy to Stem Global Warming - New York Times

An influential expert on global warming who for nearly 20 years has pressed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases now says the emphasis on carbon dioxide may be misplaced. Instead, he and a team of scientists have concluded that the quickest way to slow warming is to cut other such greenhouse gases first.
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The expert, Dr. James E. Hansen, and his colleagues conclude in a new analysis that the warming seen in recent decades has been caused mainly by other heat-trapping emissions -- methane, chlorofluorocarbons, black particles of diesel and coal soot and compounds that create the ozone in smog -- which are easier to control than carbon dioxide, with many of them already on the decline.
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''The prospects for having a modest climate impact instead of a disastrous one are quite good, I think,'' Dr. Hansen said in an interview.

Settled science: Either 23 or 1100+ peer-reviewed papers support skeptic arguments against ACC/AGW Alarm

Guest | Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility - In One Pie Chart

By my definition, 23 of the 13,950 articles, 0.16% or 1 in 607, clearly reject global warming or endorse a cause other than CO2 emissions for observed warming.
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Scientists do not disagree about human-caused global warming.

Popular Technology.net: 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarm

WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without first reading the rebuttals or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) com

Don't miss this: Al Gore's current "Climate Reality Pledge" is a vague, sad, watered-down version of his grand Live Earth Pledge from his glory days back in 2007

The Climate Reality Pledge | Climate Reality

“I pledge my name in support of a better tomorrow, one fueled by clean energy. I demand action from the world’s leaders to work toward developing clean energy solutions. I pledge to demand action from our leaders. And I pledge to share this global promise. By uniting our voices, we have the power to change the world.“

2007:  REID, PELOSI SIGN LIVE EARTH PLEDGE | Live Earth

The pledge as signed by Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi is below. I PLEDGE: 1. To demand that my country join an international treaty within the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth; 2. To take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by reducing my own CO2 pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become "carbon neutral;" 3. To fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store the CO2; 4. To work for a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation; 5. To fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal; 6. To plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and protecting forests; and, 7. To buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crisis and building a sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century.

Will President Obama Seize Moment on Climate Change? by William Becker: Yale Environment 360

In a dream scenario, the monster storm and its terrible destruction along the East Coast would end the influence of climate deniers in Washington.

November 14, 2012 - Segment 1 | The Marc Steiner Show & The Center for Emerging Media

We share an interview with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and Evangelical Christian who studies climate change.

This Saturday evening from 6-9pm, she will speak at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland about religious environmental action in Baltimore at the launch of Interfaith Power & Light's work in central Maryland.

Understanding Heidi Speak | Real Science

What Heidi means by this is that October temperatures have been flat for the past fourteen years, and that there is no evidence of recent global warming.

Josh on “28Gate” | Watts Up With That?

A new cartoon from Josh below on the BBC “28 Gate” scandal.

Al Gore does a 30-minute Reddit Ask Me Anything: "There are at least 15 deeply researched separate lines of evidence that all confirm man-made global warming...There is as strong a consensus as you will find in science, with the possible exception of the existence of gravity"

I am Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project – AMA : IAmA

There are at least 15 deeply researched separate lines of evidence that all confirm man-made global warming. They are all consistent, each with the others. Every National Academy of Science on the planet agrees with the consensus. The Academies describe the evidence as "indisputable". Every professional scientific society in every field related to climate science and earth science also agree. And 97-98% of climate scientists worldwide most actively publishing also agree. Animals and plants also agree -- in that they are moving their ranges by latitude and altitude to find climate niches similar to the ones in which they evolved. Even if you leave climate science completely out of it and just measure extreme temperatures, the statistical record of global temperatures shows that three-standard deviation events have increased from 0.25% of the time (from 1951-1980) to 10% of the time now. There is as strong a consensus as you will find in science, with the possible exception of the existence of gravity.

Lots of questioners are asking about ManBearPig.

Man has insane plan to prevent hurricanes by covering all 4 million miles of US roads with solar panels; Obama administration says OK, hands him $750,000

Strombo | Driving On Glass: Could Solar Roadways One Day Save The Planet From Climate Change? This Guy Thinks So

If you're a smart driver, you no doubt avoid driving on glass. But if Scott Brusaw has his way, every road will eventually be covered in it.
...Brusaw believes we wouldn't need fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) or nuclear powered electricity.
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Brusaw figures each mile would cost $4.4 million. But he says it would eventually pay for itself, with all the energy it would produce.
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Brusaw says the panels would produce enough electricity to keep highways heated all winter long. Snow would melt right away.
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Brusaw's design includes LED bulbs under the glass. The idea is to light the road at night and provide messages and warning signs to drivers.
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The U.S. government has given him $750,000 for the project.

Cool The Earth: Our Programs

Cool The Earth is a free, ready-to-run climate change assembly program that educates K-8 students and their families about climate change and inspires them to take simple actions to reduce their carbon emissions.

Twitter / omnologos: Remember all - I would NOT ...

Remember all - I would NOT have looked so damned hard had the #BBC not fielded six lawyers against a pensioner. Remember. #28Gate

Twitter / ToryAardvark: Great Green job ...

Great Green job http://lochgelly.org.uk/2012/11/if-you-go-down-to-the-woods/ … Bird Surveyor looking twice a day for dead birds at a wind farm #eg #agw

South Asia - South Asia & Climate Change

[World Bank propaganda] Crop yields could decrease up to 30% in South Asia by the mid-21st century.
Mortality due to diarrhea primarily associated with floods and droughts will rise in South Asia.

Fiscal Cliff Threatens Environmental Protections that Voters Supported | Frances Beinecke's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Imagine if the sewage treatment plant in your community didn’t pay for repairs and had to start dumping raw sewage into nearby beaches.

Deutsche AM closes high-profile climate change [hoax] unit

Environmental Finance | News | Deutsche AM closes high-profile climate change unit

Deutsche Asset Management has shuttered DB Climate Change Advisors (DB CCA), its New York-based climate change investment research division.

2009: Times Square Billboard Counts Carbon Build Up - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

As reporters and dignitaries huddled under leaky tents just outside New York's Madison Square Garden on Thursday, Deutsche Bank switched on its mammoth Carbon Counter billboard. The counter, towering 70 feet above busy Seventh Avenue and dramatically visible to hundreds of thousands of commuters who take the train to and from Penn Station, displays a real-time count of heat-trapping greenhouse gases

The Carbon Counter

We are seeking to raise public awareness of climate change.

2011: Deutsche Bank to push greatest scientific fraud in history in New York City schools

Sage bad-weather-preventing advice from UN Climate Hoax Chief Christiana Figueres: Carpool

So I turned on Al Gore's latest Climate Hoax marathon and the first thing I saw was Christiana Figueres advising us little people to carpool in order to prevent hurricanes.  

My question to Christiana:  How much carpooling do you do?  How about warmists like Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri, Richard Branson, James Cameron, Thomas Friedman, and Nancy Pelosi?   How much time do these individuals spend each year in contacting neighbors to synch up their trips downtown or to the grocery store?   Can we safely assume that they are all heavy users of Park and Ride car-sharing lots?

Peer-reviewed: man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warming

Ole Humlum, Professor of Geosciences at the University of Oslo has an important new paper published in Global and Planetary Change which finds that changes in CO2 follow rather than lead global air surface temperature and that "CO2 released from use of fossil fuels have little influence on the observed changes in the amount of atmospheric CO2"

Finally, Al Gore Gets The Televised Debate He's Been Avoiding For Years - Forbes

Call it the televised debate Al Gore has been avoiding for years. Tonight, as Gore hosts another 24-hour televised snooze-fest, meteorologist Anthony Watts launches WUWT-TV (Watt’s Up With That TV). At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.

Twitter / suzyji: Interesting. NYT reporter who ...

Interesting. NYT reporter who asked Obama abt #climate leads on fiscal cliff & Libya http://nyti.ms/UpgxY7

Pennsylvania Voters Mixed On Global Warming [Hoax]

These same voters say 51 - 43 percent, however, that Hurricane Sandy and the snowstorm one week later were not caused by climate change, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. .

Women say 50 - 44 percent that these storms were caused by climate change, while men say 58 - 35 percent that they were not.

Why Osborne Is Killing The Green Agenda: Big UK Companies May Move Abroad For Cheap Energy | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Some of Britain’s biggest companies may be forced to move to the US or Eastern Europe, where energy costs are dramatically lower, the Energy Intensive Users Group is warning this weekend.

An American Oil Find That Holds More Than All Of OPEC | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Drillers in Utah and Colorado are poking into a massive shale deposit trying to find a way to unlock oil reserves that are so vast they would swamp OPEC. The amount of oil recoverable is estimated to be 3 trillion barrels – three times more that the whole world has consumed in the past 100 years.

Climate Change Will Bring World Without Coffee Or Chocolate | Crooks and Liars

About face: U.S. tornado activity near low point in modern record - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

“[W]e are approaching a theoretical minimum in the annual tornado count for the modern era,” said Greg Carbin, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Ok.

What’s especially remarkable about the year’s depressed numbers is that tornado activity got off to a red-hot start. Through mid-April, tornado counts were highest on record. But then, an extended tornado drought struck and the count ranking plummeted.

Doha conference: carbon cuts talks must wait, says key negotiator | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The debate on whether the world needs stronger greenhouse gas cuts to keep the planet from warming by 2C should be deferred until next year, according to Brazil's lead negotiator at the upcoming talks in Doha.

24 Hours of Reality: the Dirty Weather Report

8.44pm: Gore says CO2 should be treated like sewerage, other pollutants - even though it's odourless and colourless.

Folly of new carbon tax | Chris Horner - The Orange County Register

Such a levy can't be justified on basis of altering climate; real goal is a revenue stream to fund European-style government.

A Response to the President's Comments on Global Warming — Bastardi

Before we adopt carbon policy that can hurt our already struggling economy, there needs to be an unbiased debate about what is actually driving our climate. A leader truly interested in the good of his nation would allow the lifeblood of the economy, which is still fossil fuel energy sources, to flow freely while cultivating the alternative energy sources in a way where someday they can compete and drive down prices further. If the president is serious about doing what is in the best interest of the nation, then he will acknowledge the reality of the AGW situation: It has paused, and in the coming years will be proven to be cyclical in nature as cooling becomes more established.

Weepy Bill McKibben: "I think that the standard scientific assessment, at least for the last seven or eight years, is someplace between 40 and 70 percent of species would go extinct in a rapid warming scenario like the one we're entering"

Bill McKibben talks about the fight against climate change

I think that the standard scientific assessment, at least for the last seven or eight years, is someplace between 40 and 70 percent of species would go extinct in a rapid warming scenario like the one we're entering.
...I mean, you know, this is a country where 40 percent of people think Elvis is still alive...One oceanographer last month at the close of the big conference on ocean acidification in California said that by century's end, at this pace, the oceans of the world will be "hot, sour and breathless." ...we'll see a huge increase in severe weather, to the point where my guess would be that civilization will just be a series of emergency responses to things.

[Interviewer] It's been described that in a few hundred years people might be huddled near the poles, hoping that nothing further bad happens to them.

I really do think it's probably best not to indulge our worst fears.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: 1933 hit at va beach, with hurricane winds to Long Island

1933 hit at va beach, with hurricane winds to Long Island. If you know your hurricane history,Sandy type storms are a matter of why hasnt it

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Sandy, btw cant hold a candle ...

Sandy, btw cant hold a candle to 1938, 1944, or Donna as far as overall power. Monster storms. 1944 had 400 mile wide hurricane winds!

Twitter / davidtcdavies: Greenpeace hypocrisy 3: ...

Greenpeace hypocrisy 3: pretending to be on householder side over energy prices while demanding subsidies for renewables which go onto bills

Twitter / aDissentient: We should remember that the ...

We should remember that the early BBC seminars were sponsored by WWF. #28gate

German Energy Expert Argues Against Subsidies for Solar Power - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Kohler: According to the generally accepted opinion, the transition to renewable energy sources means that we will give up nuclear power and rely on wind and solar instead. The reality is that we'll need conventional power plants until at least 2050, even if we do create massive renewable energy sources. Many people dispute this. They say that we could replace power plants operated with fossil fuels by adding more renewable energy sources. My response to them is: It won't work.

2008: Gore urges US to try for 100% renewable energy within a decade | Environment | The Guardian

Barack Obama should set drastic targets to force the US to switch to renewable energy in an effort to slow down climate change, according to the former vice president Al Gore. Gore said that one of Obama's first acts as US president should be to demand a move to 100% renewable energy within 10 years.

Look For 5000 mm Of Sea Level Rise This Century | Real Science

Tide gauges show that sea level has been rising an average of about 0.7 mm per year and the rate has been declining, but NASA’s top expert tells us that the average for the century will be 50 mm per year.

This makes perfect sense if you have the IQ of a turnip and/or your job depends on scaring people into giving up their money and freedom.

Twitter / TheEllenShow: My friend @AlGore knows a thing ...

My friend @AlGore knows a thing or two about climate change. Find out about his new project & our @ClimateReality here http://say.ly/tGc4AjB

Priceless tweet from left-wing warmist Suzanne Goldenberg: "Obama vows to take personal charge of #climate in 2nd term..."

Twitter / suzyji: Obama vows to take personal ...

Obama vows to take personal charge of #climate in 2nd term, but is it enough #dirtyweather #climatereality http://gu.com/p/3bpxx/tw

But what happens if Obama and Gaia disagree on the date, location and severity of a given upcoming weather event. Who breaks the tie?

Should we send penguins to the Arctic as food for the polar bears? | From the Guardian | The Guardian

The polar bear population would increase as a result of this

There’s a bit more to “student” Eleni Andreadis | Omnologos

The trouble of having BBC News sponsor a Masters student to work at CMEP to lobby the BBC, it’ll be for another day to understand.

California Carbon Futures Slip as State Sells Allowances - Bloomberg

Futures contracts based on carbon permits for 2013, the first year of compliance under the program, fell 25 cents to $12.15 a metric ton yesterday, according to data compiled by CME Group Inc. (CME)’s Green Exchange in New York. Permits are down 40 percent from this year’s high of $20.25 on July 24.

Carbon Fee From Obama Seen Viable With Backing From Exxon - Bloomberg

“Conservatives are utterly naive to believe that they will get trade-offs in response to a carbon tax,” Kenneth Green, a resident scholar at AEI, said in an interview. “We’ve had some robust discussions over the lunch table about our differences.”

Time For Action (1927): 700,000 Climate Victims In Just Eleven Months! | Real Science

Kevin Grandia | Is Obama Already Waffling on his Climate Change Commitment?

It sure didn't take the President long to water down the passionate commitment he made to the electorate just a week ago when he stated in his acceptance speech that:

"We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."  [Wow, he cared so much that he spent almost the last half of one entire sentence talking about it!!  What passion!!]
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Time will tell whether Obama stays true to his word, but it sure as heck isn't a good sign that the President already appears to be waffling on an issue that just eight days ago he spoke so passionately about.

The sea ice is back and polar bears are heading out | polarbearscience

It appears from the ice maps that most of the polar bears throughout the world that have chosen to remain on land during the late summer and fall (about July/August through October/November) can now return to the ice.  [But the situation in the Arctic this year was supposed to be so dire for the polar bears!   Where are all the photos and documentation of the CO2-induced death of polar bears?  We've got this video from Greenpeace from the peak of the melt this summer, but the polar bears shown are clearly not dead, and in fact, they look perfectly healthy]

Mistakes galore in first 1/2 hour of Gore’s climate change marathon | Frontier Centre

Gore and his guests connected Hurricane Sandy and other tropical cyclones with global warming caused by human-induced greenhouse gas emissions (“carbon pollution”, they wrongly called carbon dioxide). Besides the fact that such a connection is impossible since there has been no overall global warming in 16 years, the concept is also wrong in principle.

- Bishop Hill blog - State of upheaval

Michael Mann's boss at Penn State, Bill Brune, has suddenly announced that he is standing down as head of department. Brune, as readers of Hiding the Decline will know, was a consultant to the Penn State inquiry into Mann's conduct. He also spoke about the inquiry a year or so ago.

The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: Is Al Gore world's first carbon billionaire?

Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.

The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

Nobel Prize Winner Takes The Earth’s Temperature | Real Science

The 2007 Nobel Prize winner (aka the inventor of the Internet) says that Earth’s temperature is several million degrees.
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I was working on geothermal energy at Los Alamos in the mid-1970s, thirty years before Gore discovered this new technology. Los Alamos gave up on it because it is environmentally destructive and a waste of time.