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Remember, this is Richard Muller (some history here): Next time he needs some publicity, don't be surprised if he comes out yet again as a strong AGW believer sometime soon.Bill Clinton's Hero: Former Climate Skeptic Dr. Richard Muller | Fresh Dialoguesvan Diggelen: What’s your message to climate change skeptics?
Muller: Most of your skepticism is still valid. When something extraordinary happens in weather, such as the accidental occurrence of Hurricane Sandy hitting New Jersey and New York City just at the peak of tides — many people attribute the event to “Climate Change.” That’s not a scientific conclusion, and it is almost certainly wrong. Hurricanes are not increasing due to human causes (actually, they have been decreasing over the past 250 years). Tornadoes are not increasing due to human causes. (They too have been decreasing.) So please continue to be skeptical about most of the exaggerations you will continue to hear! Proper skepticism is at the heart of science, and attempts to suppress such skepticism represent the true anti-science movement.
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van Diggelen: What are YOU doing to reduce your carbon footprint?
Muller: I am trying to get people to stop asking that question! It is very misleading.
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van Diggelen: What should others be doing? If you could have President Obama’s ear for 5 minutes, what would you say?
Muller: Double (or more) our efforts to help China become more energy efficient. And equally important: develop “clean fracking” standards. Work with China to expedite and accelerate their switch from coal to natural gas. Devise market-based approaches that will guarantee that the developing world will apply clean methods to their natural gas production.
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Muller: We need to act, but no need to panic. I see no tipping points that are scientifically valid...
Hurricane Sandy cannot be attributed to global warming. The rise over the oceans, in the last 50 years, has been about 0.5 degree C. That’s tiny! In those 50 years, sea level rose by 4 inches. So the high tide, if not for global warming, would not have been 14 feet but “only” 13 feet 8 inches. There was a similarly severe storm in 1938 (my parents lived through it out on Long Island). We should stop attributing all freak storms to climate change.
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Unfortunately, there will always be scientists with some credentials that will exaggerate, maybe even convincing themselves. I recall back in the 1950s, when I was a kid in New York City, that the freak storms and changes in climate were attributed by some eminent scientists to atmospheric nuclear testing. (Maybe the freak storms and changes in climate should now be attributed to the nuclear test ban.) It is not science to list the bad things that have happened lately and claim that they “may be linked” to climate change. Even scientists, such as those who were passionately afraid of thermonuclear war, tend to see connections in things that aren’t there.
Climate change is real, and we need to do something to stop it. But it is not strong enough (0.6 C in the last 50 years) to be noticeable by individuals.
Caribbean carbon neutral tourism programme endsBELMOPAN, Belize, Dec 15, CMC – The Belize –based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) says the three year Caribbean Carbon Neutral Tourism Programme (CCNTP) that sought to aid the region in responding to climate change ends later this month.
Steve Goreham on the ups and downs of modern environmentalism | Washington Times CommunitiesGoreham: I find that the scientific community is usually not very open to skeptical ideas about man-made climate change. Climate skeptics are labeled “deniers,” as in “holocaust deniers.” Most arguments against skeptical positions claim consensus, as in “97 percent of scientists agree with the theory of man-made warming,” or personally attack the skeptic as “a shill for energy companies,” rather than discuss the science.
My presentations at colleges attract strong student interest, but these presentations are usually sponsored by the economics departments. My requests for a debate on the science of global warming with science departments have been turned down by ten different universities in the Midwest.
Asking Steve Goreham: Why don't you believe humans cause climate change? | Washington Times CommunitiesIn 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted a global rise in temperatures of 0.3 degrees Celsius per decade. Twenty-two years later, global temperatures remain far below even the lowest IPCC estimate.
Twitter / ClimateOfGavin [Schmidt]: What do climate scientists ...What do climate scientists do on a Friday night? Watch 'Chasing Ice' - excellent, visceral, wow.
The Great Hurricane of 1938 - Weather History of the Hurricane
The hurricane hit Long Island around 3:30 PM which was just a few hours before astronomical high tide. At this time the eye was about 50 miles across and the hurricane was about 500 miles wide (Francis, 1998). High tide was even higher than usual because of the Autumnal Equinox and new moon. Combined with winds gusting over 180 mph, few on eastern Long Island's south shore had a chance when the storm surge hit. Waves between 30 and 50 feet pounded the coastline with millions of tons of sea water, sweeping entire homes and families into the sea. The impact of the storm surge was so powerful that it was actually recorded on the earthquake seismograph at Fordham University in New York City (Francis, 1998). Most people did not even realize that a hurricane was upon them even as the waters began flooding their coastal homes. The hurricane produced storm tides of 14 to 18 feet across most of the Long Island and Connecticut coast, with 18 to 25 foot tides from New London east to Cape Cod. The destructive power of the storm surge was felt throughout the coastal community. Downtown Providence, Rhode Island was submerged under a storm tide of nearly 20 feet while downtown Westhampton Beach, a mile inland, was under 8 feet of water! Sections of Falmouth and New Bedford, Massachusetts were also submerged under as much as 8 feet of water.
Human role in climate change now virtually certain: leaked IPCC reportProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky, a researcher of climate change denial at the Cognitive Science Laboratories at the University of Western Australia, said the premature leak of the report was “dishonourable.”
“Science is one of the most transparent endeavours humans have ever developed. However, for the transparency to be effective, preliminary documents ought to remain confidential until they have been improved and checked through peer review,” he said in an emailed comment.
“The leak of a draft report by a reviewer who has signed a statement of confidentiality is therefore regrettable and dishonourable.”
“However, what is worse than the leak itself is the distortion of the content of the draft chapter by some deniers (no, they are not skeptics),” he said.
Prof Lewandowsky said that the report’s statement that humans have caused global warming was a “virtual certainty” meant it’s authors had 99% confidence in that view.
“That’s up from ‘very high confidence’ (90% certain) in the last report published in 2007,” he said. [Hey Stephan: How, specifically, were those 90% and 99% numbers calculated? What, specifically, changed between 2007 and now that accounts for the alleged 90% reduction in uncertainty?]
“In other words, the scientific case has become even stronger and has now reached a level of confidence that is parallelled only by our confidence in some very basic laws of physics, such as gravity or thermodynamics.”
To claim otherwise by cherry-picking part of a sentence out of context is absurd, he said.
“Although it illustrates the standard approach by which climate deniers seek to confuse the public. Climate denial lost intellectual respectability decades ago, and all that deniers have left now is to misrepresent, distort, or malign the science and the scientific process.”
Stephan LewandowskyFor the last few years, my new passion has been rock climbing...Most airlines [Wait, with the fate of my grandchildren allegedly hanging in the balance, this guy still takes unnecessary fuel-guzzling trips to climb on rocks?!] can handle that, whereas few take sailplanes as check-in luggage
Die Klimazwiebel: The end of climate summits as we knew them?Top climate researchers have had enough, though. Several leading experts at internationally renowned institutes in Germany are demanding an end to the climate summit charade. It is time to begin confronting the reality of a warmer future rather than meekly insisting that global warming can be slowed without taking action to make that happen, they say.
On the Cusp: Kyiv has not seen such heavy snowfall for 130 years | The Next Grand MinimumDuring the last two days, wet snow in Kyiv exceeded an index that had been recorded for 130 years of weather observations, the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration with reference to the Hydrometeorological Centre reports.
Our Chaotic Climate System « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.Over the last quarter century, mainstream climate science has changed dramatically, from a paradigm where climate changes naturally to one where climate forever remains the same unless humans meddle with it.
The reasons for this paradigm shift are clearly not based on science.
IPCC – Full Speed Ahead « the Air VentIt is really unfortunate that they have chosen to report the Orsi borehole mathmagic as though it were a thermometer, but this is the paleoscience chapter so they need to put something in. That paper claimed a 0.8C/decade warming in the last two decades. Readers will recall that this was the paper which Steig famously claimed “proved” O’Donnell was wrong. Besides the whole field of borehole thermometery being ridiculous, it seems to me that the 0.8C/decade value is completely outside the realm of any possibility. I write that because it is 13 times the continental average and were the trend real, nearby thermometers would have obviously detected it.
US already has an energy policy, and that’s the problem - Columns - The Boston GlobeNOW FOR some good news: Over the past four years, every high-profile energy policy championed by the Obama administration has failed. The “clean” coal promised during his first campaign? Sent back to the primordial swamps from whence it came. Five million green jobs? Never happened. Electric cars? Sales have faltered for the over-hyped and over-subsidized Chevy Volt, causing GM to shutter the plant for weeks at a time. And don’t get me started on the billions taxpayers lost on bankrupt firms like Solyndra, A123, and Evergreen Solar.
But back in the land of competitive markets, where honest investment and innovation still matter, something very interesting has happened. According to the US Energy Information Agency, America’s natural gas reserves logged their biggest gain ever last year, reaching record levels. Oil production increased in 2012 for the fourth straight year, and America became a net exporter of refined petroleum products, including gasoline. Last August, the agency projected that by 2020 the United States will surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas liquids.
Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: So what happens now to those ...So what happens now to those whose views on extremes run counter to IPCC? Are they now the new "deniers"? Somehow I doubt it ;-)
Twitter / RyanMaue: @RogerPielkeJr charming that ...@RogerPielkeJr charming that AR5 contains tables that compare it to AR4 w/ delta(confidence)/dt in trends/etc. --> we are less certain now.
Beijing on blue alert for blizzardNorthern China has been hit by blizzards for weeks. Nothing about this in the MSM.
The American Spectator : It Isn't Easy Being GreenDid you know you can no longer buy a traditional 100 watt light bulb? Did you know you can’t buy gasoline for your car without ethanol?
These are just two of the ways in which environmental laws and regulations are changing your life. Add to them the myriad regulations that will make it more expensive to heat your home this winter or cool it next summer. To hear the environmentalists tell it, these changes are creating jobs — green jobs. But all the evidence suggests that more jobs are being destroyed than created — all the while making the economy less productive and pushing up the prices of almost everything we buy.
Solar firms probed for ‘misrepresentations’ in getting public money - The Washington PostThree of the country’s most prolific installers of residential solar panels are under federal investigation to determine if they inflated the cost of their work to increase the payments they would receive from the government, according to government and industry officials familiar with the probe.
SolarCity, SunRun and Sungevity have received subpoenas from the Treasury Department’s office of inspector general for financial records to justify more than $500 million in federal grants and tax credits the firms tapped for performing work.
House GOP seeks info on alleged EPA internal email accounts | WashingtonExaminer.comThe Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson demanding information on an alleged secret “internal” email system the agency it uses in addition to the normal public one. The system is an alleged bid to escape federal transparency rules, including the Freedom of Information Act, regarding official communications.
Romm Polemics vs. Drought Science — MasterResourceRomm has a long track record of this type of behavior. And perhaps the most recent case involves Romm’s unwavering dedication to NASA’s James Hansen (outlier) view of the coming climate and human’s influence on it. Hansen has a lot of bad stuff to say, which is good for Joe Romm. But the problem is that Hansen is not usually right.
Leaked IPCC Climate Report Excites Skeptics, Annoys Authors And Raises Questions About Process[Mann] There is nothing in the new IPCC report about solar forcing that isn't already well known from the peer-reviewed literature. I myself have published work in the journal Science just a few years ago on the importance of solar forcing for understanding long-term natural variability. Despite what climate change deniers would like people to think, paleoclimate scientists such as myself have thoroughly investigated the role of solar impacts on climate for decades ...
But my work, and indeed all work that I'm familiar with in this area, shows that solar forcing cannot possibly explain the warming of the past half century. In fact, solar forcing has been flat over the past fifty years during which we've seen the greatest amount of warming. There is NOTHING in the new IPCC report that in any way calls that conclusion into question.
Life Expectancy Rises Around World, Study Finds - NYTimes.comA sharp decline in deaths from malnutrition and infectious diseases like measles and tuberculosis has caused a shift in global mortality patterns over the past 20 years, according to a report published on Thursday, with far more of the world’s population now living into old age and dying from diseases mostly associated with rich countries, like cancer and heart disease.
Deutsche Bank co-CEO drawn into C02 tax evasion probeAround 500 police and tax inspectors raided Deutsche Bank, arresting five staff in a probe linked to a tax scam involving the trading of carbon permits.
Tax inspectors clutching backpacks and suitcases were seen leaving the bank's twin-tower headquarters in Frankfurt. About 20 police mini buses and two coaches were parked outside.
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Eight policemen wearing dark blue overalls and armed with handguns were stationed in the bank's lobby and appeared to be coordinating a high-profile search of the glass towers which can house up to 3,000 staff.
Twitter / afneil: Natural gas $11 per million ...Natural gas $11 per million BTUs in UK, $3.50 in US. That's why Government going for shale.
A Contrarian Spin on the Next Big Climate Report - NYTimes.com[Warmist Justin Gillis] The backdrop is that, in their quest to prove that anything other than human-generated greenhouse emissions are the cause of global warming, climate contrarians have seized [It's rule: Bad people like skeptics always "seize" on things; good people like believers always "tackle" things] on a theory promulgated by a Danish scientist named Henrik Svensmark...For those who can’t get enough of this flap, go to the invaluable Skeptical Science Web site, where Dana Nuccitelli has further deconstructed Mr. Rawls’s argument.
Here’s the real kicker, as Mr. Nuccitelli points out: if the supposed cosmic ray mechanism were valid, and as strong as the climate contrarians want to believe, the earth should be cooling rather sharply right now. But it is doing nothing of the sort. [So what is it doing right now, Justin?]
Landmark climate change report leaked online The IPCC said in a statement: "The IPCC regrets this unauthorized posting which interferes with the process of assessment and review. We will continue not to comment on the contents of draft reports, as they are works in progress."
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Prof Piers Forster, Professor of Climate Change at the University of Leeds, said: "Although this may seem like a 'leak', the draft IPCC reports are not kept secret and the review process is open. The rationale in not disseminating the findings until the final version is complete, is to try and iron out all the errors and inconsistencies which might be inadvertently included. Personally, I would be happy if the whole IPCC process were even more open and public, and I think we as scientists need to explore how we can best match the development of measured critical arguments with those of the Twitter generation."
Worldwide reactions to the IPCC AR5 leak | Watts Up With That?Below is a collection of reactions today to the IPCC AR5 leak...
The IPCC Leak: This is What Transparency Looks Like « NoFrakkingConsensusThe IPCC describes itself as a completely transparent organization. If that is the case, the draft chapters of its upcoming report that were leaked on the Internet yesterday should be a non-issue.
Of Pure Weather Ignorance, Yaks on Faces, and Your Holiday Gift Shopping...While we’re basking in “terrifying” warmth, Canada is freezing its remote provinces off.
Meanwhile, last year, as the the headline writers were working themselves into a sweat over the death of winter here, people were dying of cold in droves in Europe and Asia, and Alaska was seeing records for both snowfall and cold. You read the headlines about all that, right? No? I am shocked!
How Good People Turn Into Scumbags | Real Science1998. We are saving the planet from global warming
2005. Global warming isn’t happening – but it will later. We must fudge the truth to keep the momentum going
2012. It just isn’t happening, but we have lost our integrity from incessantly lying over the last decade, and now it is all about protecting ourselves. Screw the rest of the world.
The Real Hockey Stick | Real ScienceThermometers show that 2012 is the third warmest year in US history, after 1934 and 1921. But that story just isn’t going to scare anyone into forking over their hard earned money, so NOAA has massively cooled the past and warmed the present.
USHCN literature claims that adjustments go flat after 1990, but their actual adjustments increase exponentially. They are adding on an additional 0.6 degrees since 1990, which has no justification, and is plain and simple fraud. The total adjustment since the early 20th century is almost two degrees.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: 8-16 day northern hemisphere ...8-16 day northern hemisphere freeze out!
Global warming "plateau?"Christy says that the warming in the last 34 years "is consistent with the low-end of global climate change predictions made by some climate models."
In an addendum almost sure to draw fire, he added, "It is also within the potential range of natural climate variability."
AP-GfK Poll: Belief in global warming rises with thermometers, even among science doubters - The Washington PostIn general, U.S. belief in global warming, according to AP-GfK and other polls, has fluctuated over the years but has stayed between about 70 and 85 percent...Overall, the 78 percent who think temperatures are rising is not the highest percentage of Americans who have believed in climate change, according to AP polling. In 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, 85 percent thought temperatures were rising.
What’s up with RGGI? Moving the cap down. | Watts Up With That?More importantly, what is the benefit? Chip Knappenberger’s recent post “A carbon tax is climatically useless” is can be used to address their claims. Chip noted that “No matter the level of domestic action that we take, it will pale in comparison to the rapid expansion of carbon dioxide emissions in other parts of the world.” If you adapt Chip’s methodology to the emission reductions proposed by RGGI you will find that global growth in emissions will subsume RGGI reductions in less than two days. The global warming “savings” for the reduction is 0.00005°C in 2050.
Draft IPCC report leaked (the evidence is so overwhelming it has to be kept secret!) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and taxWhat was the point of keeping the IPCC draft secret? The point is so the IPCC can control both the content and the PR. The IPCC wants a free kick, and they get one if the world doesn’t see how they arrive at the conclusion, and if critics can’t specifically point to errors or flaws until weeks after the giant press circus has done its megaphone production.
It’s how the media game works. First they release the “up and coming” scary headline. (Already done for AR5.) Critics can’t criticize what they can’t see.
Then they release the Summary with a three ring display of terrifying headlines. The black box that justifies it is shown off in all its mysterious glory: 4,000 experts labored for 5 years, produced 2,000 papers, 2 million emails, and rigorously, savagely dissected the science to give you this ominous, frightening message. Pay us your tithe! We will stop the Storms! The inner workings of the black box are held in the Sacred Vault. Those who question it are “deniers, nutters, conspiracy theorists, believe the moon landing was faked, are simultaneously paid by Exxon and suffer from ideological mental deficits — they wouldn’t accept any evidence anyway because they are old white male conservatives (that’s why we have to save the world by hiding the science — it simply is not a fair competition: the IPCC only has billions in funding, the support of the UN, most large banks, all western governments, most university money managers, the thought police in the press, the $176b carbon trading market, and the $257b renewables investment scene. Skeptics have wit, evidence, and the world wide web.)
Then finally they release the long paper with a few more headlines, but the circus has moved on. The people “know” the message. The press is bored, and the critics will need weeks to study the massive document in any case.
Leak of IPCC Drafts Speaks to Need for New Process - NYTimes.comA WikiLeaks-style Web dump of drafts of the 2013 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides fresh evidence that the organization’s policies and procedures are a terrible fit for an era in which transparency will increasingly be enforced on organizations working on consequential energy and environmental issues.
Bait and Switch in the Climate Debate - ForbesBy the way, if you were to investigate, you would find the same lack of trend for US hurricane landfalls, total Northern Hemisphere hurricane strength (ACE), total US forest fires, US snow pack, US droughts, US tornado counts, US wet weather, US storm damage when adjusted for population and property value increases, etc. etc. As I have written many times in the past, when someone posits a trend, don’t accept it on one data point (ie Sandy). Demand a trend line.
Signs of a ‘Magical Moment’ Bullishness … But Will It Last? | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The MediaIt’s easy to feel sky-high after an experience like the 2012 AGU fall meeting — actually, it’s a vast array of experiences: energized by the enthusiasm of the sessions and those around you, and bullish about the prospects for moving forward aggressively on climate matters.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper by Scafetta finds the 'most convincing evidence for a sun-climate connection'A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics by Dr. Nicola Scafetta finds the "Most convincing evidence for a sun-climate connection during the Holocene." Professor Scafetta finds "The Equator-to-Pole Temperature Gradient [EPTG] is linked to Total Solar Irradiance [TSI]," noting, "This newly discovered relationship between TSI and the EPTG represents the 'missing link' that was implicit in the empirical relationship that Soon (2009) recently demonstrated to exist between multi-decadal TSI and Arctic and North Atlantic climatic change."
Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Anybody seen the IPCC on the road to Damascus ? Maybe the IPCC might cotton on to the additional reality that our current very weak solar cycle 24 is not exactly portending warmer times.
C3: Chinese Scientists Unequivocally Establish That Medieval Warming Was UnprecedentedThe IPCC-favored fabricators of the widely discredited and statistically lame 'Hockey Stick' purposefully claimed that the Medieval Warming was strictly a European phenomenon and its temperatures were below the modern warming - in contrast, yet another study, this one based on research out of China, confirms that the Medieval Warming was unequivocal and unprecedented
New Report: Man-made Global Warming is a FarceMark Morano of Climate Depot, who compiled the CFACT report, summed up the nature of popular climate science on Fox News (see video below): "Mayor Bloomberg said we need to take immediate action to prevent bad weather. This has now reached the level of the Mayan Calendar and Nostradamus. The New York Times has a picture of the Statue of Liberty under water and warning of the end times. This is not science! This is doomsday stuff of the Mayan calendar, and we have no business masquerading it as science."
'Chasing Ice' Creators Talk Global Warming | Santa Monica Mirror[Balog] We need to have regulations on how we burn fossil fuel...There’s lots of positives that come from addressing the excess burning of fossil fuels and treating that beautiful cerulean air supply out there as a garbage dump where for free, we can throw our refuse. We’ve been doing that for four million years and we can’t afford to do that anymore.
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[Q] Can you cite historic morality references?
Balog: Back in the early 19th Century, right up until 1861, people were saying we can’t stop the industry of slavery. Slaves were machines for manufacturing goods. That’s how it worked and there was a big sector of the country that was saying we can’t stop, you’re going to destroy us and they were willing to go to war over that. But, stopping slavery was the ethical and moral position and I don’t think any rational person would see it otherwise.
Opinion: Is America Ready to Listen? | The Scientist Magazine®the single most important fact that America’s climate scientists can share with the American people is that they have reached near-unanimous agreement—the climate is changing and human activity is the main cause. News events including extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy, create an opportunity for every climate scientist to make this important point during news media interviews, letters to the editor of their local newspaper, and calls to local TV and radio news and talk shows.
US Energy Boom Deals Blow to OPEC | Via MeadiaIt will take time for the full effects of the shale boom to fully manifest themselves, but even at this very early stage OPEC can feel its power slipping away. The rest of the world will do its best to contain its sorrow.
Tuvalu’s Gruesome Animal Friends « NoFrakkingConsensusDoes the IPCC think Tuvalu will be the first island nation to disappear due to climate change – or has a gruesome art exhibit manufactured that claim?
Climate change disaster map predicts bleak future for mammals Lead author of the paper, ZSL’s Eric Ameca y Juárez says: “Approximately a third of the species assessed have at least a quarter of their range exposed to cyclones, droughts or a combination of both. If these species are found to be highly susceptible to these conditions, it will lead to a substantial increase in the number of mammals classified as threatened by the IUCN under the category ‘climate change and severe weather’.”
NYT, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and David Crane have no clue about how grid tied solar power actually works with the grid | Watts Up With That?Hopefully people following their lead won’t try to hack their solar power system inverter safety features in time of crisis. The first person to try defeating this safety feature after a storm may get themselves or others killed or injured, either by electrocution or fire. Hopefully the solar power industry will join me in condemning this foolishness propagated by Kennedy and Crane.
3 Gifts For Casual Climate Change Preppers Sure, climate change might cause crop-threatening droughts and leave us with skyrocketing food prices, but you know what might grow really well in our warming world? Mushrooms! Embrace the trend with a Back to the Roots mushroom kit, which can grow up to 1-1/2 pounds of pearl oyster mushrooms. The indoor kit just requires that growers mist the mushroom twice a day to get full-fledged mushrooms in as little as 10 days. All soil included is made of recycled coffee grounds. If you want to make sure that your friends are equipped with tasty mushrooms when the apocalypse hits, buy the $19.95 kit here.
Misguided PBS Spreads Acid Ocean Alarm | Watts Up With That?However, evidence shows that a high rate of change in ocean alkalinity is natural. A 2011 study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography found large variations in ocean pH by day, week, and month. Changes in some locations were as high as 0.35 units over the course of a day, higher than computer models are predicting for the next century.
Scuba divers know that reef creatures already experience acidic conditions near CO2 vents in the ocean floor. These vents bubble CO2 gas amidst coral reefs and grassy ocean pastures in millions of locations. Fish and reefs appear to be doing quite well near these CO2 vents.
More Global Warming Devastation In New Mexico | Real Science-8F (-22C) and a winter storm warning.
New York Times Spouts Mindless Drivel About Skiing | Real ScienceNo fact checking permitted at the New York Times. New Hampshire winter temperatures have been declining since 1895. The past winter was the eighth warmest on record, after 1912-1913, 1927-1928, 1932-1933, 1936-1937, 1948-1949, 1952-1953, and 2001-2002
The previous winter had record snowfall. CO2 turned the NYT into a newt.
Climate Conferences | ICCC-7[Lots of video and audio of the May 2012 conference in Chicago is here]
Al Gore Asks Hollywood for More Climate Change Storylines - The Hollywood ReporterSources tell The Hollywood Reporter about 75 guests including Lawrence Bender, Leonard Nimoy and Lynn Lear gathered to hear Gore's impassioned plea for the entertainment industry to renew its focus on climate change.
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At a dinner for the Children's Defense Fund, the documentarian bemoaned global warming slipping off the public agenda.
"Do you think it still matters to people?" he wondered.
Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick[Warmist Rudy Baum] He [Mann] believes that many scientists are now fully engaged in what they recognize is a war
Election over, administration unleashes new rules - Yahoo! NewsObama has spent the past year "punting" on a slew of job-killing regulations that will be unleashed in a second term, said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. With the election over, it's now "full speed ahead" for federal rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions, requiring cleaner gasoline and putting controls on drilling for oil and natural gas, said Inhofe, the senior Republican on the Senate Environment Committee.
We must act now to save our country from the scourge of wind turbines » The SpectatorAs any rural estate agent will privately tell you, nothing devastates property values quite like a wind farm. Though the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors still spews its nonsense that the issue is moot, the hard evidence suggests that a nearby turbine will render your home almost impossible to sell — except at the most enormous, fire-sale discount.
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No more would I trade in blood diamonds or child pornography than I would accept money in any shape or form from Big Wind. The time is long since past when anyone complicit in this vile, corrupt, mendacious industry — not the lawyers, not the engineers, not the land agents, not the investors — could be unaware of the damage it does: to the landscape, to rural communities, to wildlife, to people’s health, to the economy generally.
Twitter / cwhope: Mean #carbon price from PAGE09 ...Mean #carbon price from PAGE09 model is $260/ t #CO2 in 2050; CCC 's £500/ t CO2 is about 3 times this.
Defeated Republican Preaches Heresy Backing a Carbon Tax - Bloomberg“It’s not going anywhere,” Texas Republican Joe Barton, the former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said, when asked about Inglis and the carbon tax. “We agree that carbon-dioxide levels are going up. What we don’t agree on is that carbon-dioxide levels are going up because of man.”
Climate change: the Inuit now have words for ‘bumblebee’ and ‘robin’ | The Vancouver ObserverNo multi-year ice (the ice that stays frozen even through summer) means that all the phytoplankton, zooplankton and other microbial organisms that live just under the surface of the sea ice will be homeless
Flashback » The red, red Koyapigaktoruk comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along...as it turns out, there are plenty of Eskimo words for robin that have existed for a long time and in languages that are spread among bands of Inuit all across the North American Arctic—and it is all plain to see with only a few clicks of the mouse along the information superhighway of the internet.
Thus, another cute (and ill-founded) global warming scare story bites the dust.
Energy Dept. to Underwrite 7 Wind Projects - NYTimes.comThe federal government is stepping up its efforts to kick-start the offshore wind industry by awarding $28 million in grants to seven projects that are developing varying kinds of power-generation technology.
Climate Depot | Fairdinkum Radio13.12.12 Leon is joined by Marc Morano of Climate Depot as they discuss the wash up from the UN Climate Change talks at Doha. They discuss the aims of a desperate oligarchy of Scientific Elitist that aim to take control of all recourse's, energy and ultimately you. They look at some of the recent propaganda fro Mathew England, the ABC and the BBC. Your movements, your energy use, your life is to be a highly monitored, and controlled by the scientific bureaucratic elite.
Can “Global Warming’s Six Americas” become a melting pot for meaningful action? | Climate Science WatchMaibach suggests mobilizing the roughly 1,300 local TV weather forecasters to lead on climate change messaging.
'I'd rather fight like hell': Naomi Klein's fierce new resolve to fight for climate justice"The climate crisis," Klein told me, "is the ultimate indictment of capitalism, certainly the model of capitalism that we have, and the solutions to the climate crisis are the same as the solutions to the economic crisis."..."And when I said 'Move the center,' you know what I was always saying is, let's nationalize the oil companies."
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She got quiet. "For a long time," she told me, "I just couldn't see a future for a child that wasn't some, like, Mad Max climate-warrior thing."
...She now believes that denying her desire to have a child, because of the mess being made by those willing to destroy the planet for profit, would be a form of surrender.
"I guess what I want to say is, I don't want to give them that power," she told me. "I'd rather fight like hell than give these evil motherfuckers the power to extinguish the desire to create life."
Lowering Your Carbon Impact -- What's Your Handprint?If you start tracking your carbon footprint, the data can be downright depressing. When Gregory Norris, the industrial ecologist who invented Handprinter, has his students at the Harvard School of Public Health measure their footprint, many tell him, "The planet would be better off if I never had been born."
Instead of tracking all the bad news about our carbon footprint, Handprinter puts a positive spin on our environmental impacts, tracking all the good we do. With Handprinter you measure every action you take that lowers your carbon footprint, and keep growing that number.
...A smart way to help keep the planet a bit cooler.
New paper finds a decrease in extreme weather in China from 1956-2000A recent paper published in the Hydrological Sciences Journal examines precipitation in southern China from 1956-2000 and finds precipitation has become both less extreme and less variable. Contrary to claims of climate alarmists, the paper adds to many others demonstrating that global warming decreases extreme weather including extreme precipitation, floods, droughts, and cyclone activity.
Furthermore, the authors find that the primary determinant of precipitation variability is the Sun, stating, "the annual precipitation in every sub-region in Guangdong province correlates with Sunspot Number with a 3-year lag."
Honeybee deaths: Climate-change explanation floated by study.scientists believe climate change may be causing all honeybee larvae to turn into workers instead of queen bees
People aren’t connecting extreme weather to climate change — at least, not on Google | GristGoogle is as close as we can get to gauging the public’s thinking. What we learn, then, is that extreme weather events don’t prompt an immediate, online connection to climate change; or, at least, no connection to the desire to learn more about the issue.
Neil Wagner: Climate Change Consensus Is Virtually UnanimousYour odds of knowing someone who believes aliens walk amongst us disguised as humans are twenty times greater than finding a climate skeptic in a group of climate scientists. Seriously.
UN Emission Reduction Units Fall to Record on EU Vote Wagers - BusinessweekUnited Nations Emission Reduction Units erased losses after falling to a record on speculation that the European Commission may vote to ban the carbon credits at a meeting of national climate experts tomorrow.
ERUs for December fell as much as 40 percent before closing unchanged. The European Union’s regulator postponed its vote on a revision of the bloc’s carbon registry rules from the next meeting of the Climate Change Committee, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Commission confirmed the delay in a statement published after the close of trading.
ERUs for December fell as low as 15 euro cents ($0.20) a metric ton on London’s ICE Futures Europe exchange, its biggest- ever fall and the lowest price for any carbon credit or permit since the second phase of the market started in 2008. The contract later closed at 25 cents.
‘Global Warming’ Is Now Officially Down the Memory Hole | NewsBusters.org[Marc Morano] The website Real Science pointed out that pleasant sunny days in the Spring are now being defined as “extreme weather.”...
The promoters of man-made climate fears have essentially declared that man-made climate change will cause many bad weather events to happen. And since bad weather events always happen, there is no shortage of “proof' of their predictions. They can always claim every bad weather event as evidence of their correctness.
There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming claims now because any weather event that happens “proves” their case, despite the fact that the current weather is neither historically unprecedented, nor unusual.
Action call on global warming is rejected | Cambridge News Tories in charge at Shire Hall have rebuffed calls for them to commit to tackling global warming – claiming the science is “contested”.
Climate Science Rule #1 : Never Look At Actual data | Real ScienceHad these geniuses bothered to look at actual data, they would know that winter snow extent is increasing
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One might also remember that Texas had their snowiest winter on record last year. as did Alaska and much of Europe. Being a successful climate scientist requires that you don’t understand the limitations of computer hardware or software. A computer model is not an excuse for being a moron.
Multi-Year Stupidity | Real ScienceThe reason why Arctic sea ice summer minimums have been low recently is because there is a lot less thick multi-year ice than there was 20 years ago.
Experts say that this confirms global warming, but it has little to do with it. Most multi-year ice is lost during the winter, not the summer. The ice gets blown by strong winter winds out into the North Atlantic, where it melts. During the winters from 1988-1996, most of the multi-year ice was lost.
People who get hysterical about the location of the ice edge in September, are complete morons.
$227M state investment in alternative energy has led to less than 500 jobs | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.comJACKSON — Mississippi has disbursed nearly $227 million in aid to six alternative-energy companies since 2010, but so far has fewer than 500 jobs to show for it.
Climate Craziness of the Week – Mark Hertsgaard embarrasses himself with ‘The End of Pasta’ | Watts Up With That?Clearly, US wheat production is healthy, increasing, and shows no sign of the 5.5% decrease, and if anything it seems to indicate there is a positive effect from temperature on wheat yield. Improved farming practices and improved wheat seed stocks have helped too. If I really wanted to embarrass these two guys I could add the Keeling curve for CO2 also, and point out that crop yields increase with increases in CO2 as well.
How do people like this get a broad voice to such opinions that don’t stand up under the simplest of tests? I don’t know, but you can write them here to ask them...
Jane Lubchenco to Leave NOAA Helm - ScienceInsiderin today's message, Lubchenco hinted that the decision to leave was influenced in part by the strain of trying to maintain a bicoastal family life [I'll bet all that cross-country bicycle riding got old after a while]; her husband, marine scientist Bruce Menge, remained at Oregon State University after Lubchenco took the job in 2009.
Baltimore TV meteorologists weigh in against global warming - baltimoresun.comSpurred by a recent article in Rolling Stone, some Baltimore television meteorologists are weighing in against global climate change -- and are drawing some criticism for it.
WBAL-TV's Tony Pann shared the article, which calls some TV meteorologists "climate crackpots", on his Facebook page. He, along with others like WMAR-TV's Mike Masco and former WMAR meteorologist Justin Berk, argue climate change is an unproven theory.
UN climate summits 'more about exotic locales than anything else': Climate Depot's Morano: 'The United Nations knows how to throw a party'Morano: 'I've been to Bali, I've been to Cancun, I've been to Kenya, S. Africa twice, to Rio, South America -- exotic locations, very nice places. I've stayed at five-star resorts on the ocean. The UN picks exotic locales in order to attract people to come because not many people would want to go to one in Trenton, NJ' -- 'Morano notes that while he worked for the U.S. Senate, his round-trip, business-class airline ticket (paid for by U.S. taxpayers) was $16,000 in 2006'
Campaigning at a diesel engine factory, Obama made no mention 'green energy' or 'green jobs' | WashingtonExaminer.comWhat happened to the green President?
Climate Change Threatens Ski Industry’s Livelihood - NYTimes.comIn the Rockies, where early conditions have also been spotty, average winter temperatures are expected to rise as much as 7 degrees by the end of the century. Park City, Utah, could lose all of its snowpack by then.
In changing climate, ski industry should take action, report says | GreenBiz.com"The bitter irony is that the response to climate change is to use a lot of energy and further cannibalize the climate. Surely there is a better approach than that,” said Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability for Aspen Ski Company, about contemporary snowmaking.
Severe Storms, Record Snow Cripple Parts of US - US - CBN NewsMonster storms and heavy snowfall has wreaked havoc across the Northern Plains, upper Midwest, and parts of the South.
Snow fell in Minnesota at such a heavy rate that the region met its monthly record in just one day
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