Quote of the Week – blaming Nature for poor model performance | Watts Up With That?

[Joel Achenbach] Still, I blame the storm more than I blame the computer models. The models are pretty good. It’s Nature that messed this up.

Wind Jobs at PTC Risk: Not 37,000 per AWEA but 2,525 (these million-dollar jobs displace real jobs, too) — MasterResource

“The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, for example, has estimated that the cost of a one-year PTC extension is $12.1 billion. Thus, even accepting the Report’s grossly inflated number of 37,000 wind jobs, the cost to the American taxpayers would be $12.1 billion divided by 37,000, or about $327,000 per job. [But] … the cost for a one-year PTC extension could be as much as a staggering $4,792,079 per direct up-front job added ($12.1 billion ÷ 2,525 jobs).”

A Billion Tons of Coal a Year for 3000 years in Norway. | Musings from the Chiefio

The bottom line is that we’re drowning in energy resources. We don’t run out for thousands of years, or never; depending on coal or uranium as the item of interest.

C3: Local Climate Change: Scientists Discover Cows Can Turn Desert Into Pasture

Special note: Prior to this man finally developing his intelligent land-use/livestock policies, he had 40,000 elephants shot in a failed effort to implement policies based on the experts' "consensus" science of the time. Now add to that carnage the millions of African deaths due to the scientific consensus-stupidity regarding DDT, one can then safely surmise that scientists from around the world turned Africa into the proverbial 'killing fields' for both man and beast.

A new, longer, hockey stick | Planet3.0

we know with a lot of certainty that our current warming trend is not just a blip

C3: Climate Change Disasters: List of 1958-1959 Destructive, Extreme Weather Events Prior To 350 PPM

Extreme weather disasters have plagued humans over recorded time, well before atmospheric CO2 levels of 350ppm had been reached...the years 1958 and 1959 saw multiple disasters that would easily rival any of those that took place during 2011-2012...per the current alarmists' hysterical style of analysis, these '58-59 events most certainly would qualify as examples of extreme climate change