If the leader of the free world can lie with such impunity we are doomed – Telegraph Blogs

Obama's war on climate change is a war against a chimera. He is enlarging the state, holding back the economic recovery, restricting freedoms, driving up the price of energy and killing jobs in order to deal with a problem which only exists in the discredited computer projections of a shameless cabal of grant-troughing activist scientists increasingly out of touch with real world data.

So why, outside the internet, has no one called him on it?

Twitter / ClimateOfGavin: NASA statement on scientific ...

NASA statement on scientific openness (from 2006) can be model for Canadian Govt. Agencies: http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/griffin_science.html … #setcanscifree

Twitter / tigerrrboy: Would pay through the nose ...

Would pay through the nose to sit down w/ @JamesDelingpole and cover his face in papier mache made from publications on #climatechange

The Fight Against Climate Change Needs a Retrofit – News Watch

From green roofs to a more robust system of bike lanes, the federal government can fund many different ways for cities to retrofit their infrastructure and reduce their climate impact.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: US in for alot of snow from ...

US in for alot of snow from coast to coast next 2-3 weeks Many places may have winters normal snow in that stretch

Twitter / ret_ward: If Pinocchio worked for ...

If Pinocchio worked for @HeartlandInst, he would be able to dip his nose in Lake Michigan without leaving the office.

Bob Park, who complained that too many people make it harder for him to find a place to park his fossil-fueled planet-killing personal vehicle: "In an increasingly industrialized society the only way to effectively reduce emissions is to reduce the population"

What's New by Bob Park - Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013

3. KYOTO: WHY DID THE EMISSIONS PROTOCOL END IN TOTAL FAILURE?
On 1 Jan 2013 the Kyoto Protocol came to its scheduled termination. It's a good thing; greenhouse gas emissions had only come up in response to Kyoto. Hmmm. Could the UN solve the obesity problem with an international agreement to limit food production? In an increasingly industrialized society the only way to effectively reduce emissions is to reduce the population.

What's New by Bob Park - Friday, April 17, 2009

Personally, I grow more aware of the needs of the elderly with each passing year: Finding a parking place, for example. Fewer people I could live with.

Global warming skepticism grows among scientists

It appears that a new consensus is forming that does not support the claims of the alarmists’ so-called consensus that the science is settled.

Twitter / TucsonPeck: + Clive Hamilton asserts Playing ...

+ Clive Hamilton asserts Playing God metaphor is good - geoengineering implies an effort to be master(s of the Earths climate & life itself  [Wait, so we're *not* masters of the Earth's climate?!]

Twitter / TucsonPeck: Interesting dilemma for ...

Interesting dilemma for conservatives - by advocating geoengi they admit CC is real and big gov solutions (& likely UN help) are needed.  [What percentage of conservatives is advocating geoengineering to prevent CO2-induced bad weather?]

Twitter / TucsonPeck: + ultimate goal: reduce new ...

+ ultimate goal: reduce new emissions to nil, plus remove existing anthropogenic component from atmosphere with carbon capture and storage

Twitter / TucsonPeck: + Singer - China's ...

+ [Peter] Singer - China's command-control gov might be best suited for fast action on CC. I worry this means seizing the next wave tech & jobs.

Twitter / Revkin: 3 climate-focused Andrews at ...

3 climate [hoax]-focused Andrews at #aaasmtg uncertainty session (Dessler, @AFreedma, Revkin): http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Session5841.html … pic.twitter.com/Z21mgPij

Basic countries oppose EU's carbon tax model

Feb 16, 2013 (Menafn - Hindustan Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --The Basic (India, China, Brazil and South Africa) would oppose European Union's bid to internationalise its emission regulations for civil aviation sector and is set to seek additional emission reductions by rich countries for short-lived climate change causing gases.

Huntsman Corp. CEO on the Carbon Tax Bill | Fox Business Video

[3-min video] Huntsman Corporation CEO Peter Huntsman on the carbon tax bill’s potential impact on U.S. businesses’ competitiveness.

Carbon Tax Hallucinations - Paul Driessen

And yet, average planetary temperatures show no trend up or down, and global hurricane activity stands at a near-record low. There’s no change in big tornadoes, droughts or rains averaged over the USA for the past century. Polar sea ice is down slightly in the Northern Hemisphere, but up in the Southern. And sea levels show no measurable deviation from trends over the last hundred years.

The only thing that will happen if carbon taxes are inflicted on the US economy is that American jobs, economic growth, living standards, health, dreams and lives will be sacrificed for nothing.

We need to stop basing laws and policies on hallucinations – and start basing them on reality.

Asteroids, Polar Bear Cannibalism Lead to Global Warming, or, uh, Something Bad - John Ransom

The sad part is that it’s not just ditzy news anchors who propagate bad science, it’s bad scientists who propagate ditzy news.

Germany And Spain Move To Curb Green-Energy Lobby

Renewable energy industry up in arms as governments are backing away from promises on their green investments.

Peer Review, Publication in Top Journals, Scientific Consensus, and So Forth: Newsroom: The Independent Institute

Personal vendettas, ideological conflicts, professional jealousies, methodological disagreements, sheer self-promotion, and a great deal of plain incompetence and irresponsibility are no strangers to the scientific world; indeed, that world is rife with these all-too-human attributes. In no event can peer review ensure that research is correct in its procedures or its conclusions. The history of every science is a chronicle of one mistake after another. In some sciences these mistakes are largely weeded out in the course of time; in others they persist for extended periods; and in some sciences, such as economics, actual scientific retrogression may continue for generations under the misguided (but self-serving) belief that it is really progress.

Twitter / Chris_C_Horner: Things we learned from 2d EPA ...

Things we learned from 2d EPA Richard Windsor doc dump Friday night: #1 The spin that false identity account was just for internal use FALSE

Keystone XL Pipeline Approval May Be Tied To Passage Of Carbon Tax - Investors.com

Taxes: The president may try to satisfy both environmentalists and pro-growth blocs by tying the shovel-ready project curiously left out of the State of the Union to just-introduced carbon-tax legislation.

World Bank chief suggests that CO2 caused natural disaster costs to more than triple over the last 30 years

Climate change real economic risk, World Bank tells G20

The president of the World Bank on Saturday warned the finance chiefs of the world's leading economic powers that global warming is a real risk to the planet and already affecting the world economy in unprecedented ways.
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He said failing to tackle the challenges of climate change risked having "serious consequences for the economic outlook".

"Damages and losses from natural disasters have more than tripled over the past 30 years," said Kim, giving as examples the $45 billion of losses from the 2011 floods in Thailand, whose effects "spread across borders disrupting international supply chains."

Flashback: Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: A Handy Bullshit Button on Disasters and Climate Change

With this post I am creating a handy bullshit button on this subject (pictured above). Anytime that you read claims that invoke disasters loss trends as an indication of human-caused climate change, including the currently popular "billion dollar disasters" meme, you can simply call "bullshit" and point to the IPCC SREX report.

My prediction for tomorrow's largest global warming rally in history: An embarrassingly large percentage of attendees will get cold and leave early

Hourly Weather Forecast for Sunday, Feb 17, 2013 - Washington, DC

[temperatures in the low 30s with winds close to 20 mph]

NWS Wind Chill Index

Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 2/17! - Sierra Club

What: The largest climate rally in U.S. history.
When: February 17, 2013, Noon - 5:00 p.m. (please arrive by 11:30 a.m.)
Where: The National Mall in Washington, D.C.
...On Sunday, February 17, thousands of Americans will head to Washington, D.C. to make Forward on Climate the largest climate rally in history.

I'd love to see a picture of the crowd at noon vs the crowd at 5pm.

The Reference Frame: Al Gore, president of Earth Inc, didn't mention climate for 1 minute

Needless to say, what I find most remarkable is that this 76-second video doesn't mention the climate, climate change, global warming, greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide, emissions, or anything of the sort.
...It seems to me that this top leader of the climate hysteria has largely abandoned it.

January U.S. Temperature trend/decade: – 9.4 F COOLER in 100 years « UD/RK Samhälls Debatt

The trend for 2000 to 2013 is - 0.94 F / Decade

More snow for Colorado

“And here they were screaming in your face 10 years ago that they would NEVER see snow again ?????”

- Bishop Hill blog - Nurse accuses Lawson of cherrypicking

Paul Nurse has used the occasion of a speech to the University of Melbourne to make an extraordinary attack on Nigel Lawson .

Two asteroids in one day but we spend 6000 times as much to change the climate « JoNova

Uh oh: Michael Mann proudly poses for a photograph with a guy who has "long been a hero" of his; socialist Noam Chomsky

Timeline Photos | Facebook

[Mann] Got to meet w/ a legend this morning, the great Noam Chomsky
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Michael E. Mann thanks folks. Noam was every bit as impressive in person as I expected. Every bit as sharp still...
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Cindy Baxter Are we going to see Noam focus on climate deniers? Now THAT would be something.
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Michael E. Mann Cindy: yes, we talked quite a bit about this. Noam has been commenting on climate change denialism quite a bit recently....

Flashback: Uh oh: Michael Mann: You know who has "long been a hero of mine"? Noam Chomsky (a self-described socialist who claims that George Bush's crimes vastly exceed Osama bin Laden's)

Hansen Arrested (Again)

For over a month now, much of the GISS website has been down due to technical problems.
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But apparently James Hansen has time to get himself arrested.
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It’s nice to see you’ve got your priorities sorted out, Jim.

Mother Nature to Keystone Pipeline Protesters: Chill Out! - Forbes

[Patrick Michaels]  With regard to Keystone, that’s climatic nonsense. It’s easy to come up with a ballpark estimate of the magnitude of the climate impact from the burning of the 830,000 barrels of oil that could be carried on a daily basis through the pipeline. The answer, with regard to the change in the global average temperature, lies somewhere between 0.01 and 0.001 degrees (C) of added warming per century, using the UN’s inflated estimates of future temperature. No one will ever be able to measure that.

So, Keystone XL’s oil will not lead to stronger hurricanes, more powerful winter storms, more intense droughts, flood, or heatwaves. It will not increase tornado outbreaks in the Southeast, crop failures in Midwest, or superstorms in the Northeast. It will not cause famines in Africa, floods in Bangladesh, or the submersion of Pacific islands. It will not lead to the death of coral reefs, the loss of rainforests, or the extinction of polar bears.

Keystone XL opponents are well aware of all of this. So, too, undoubtedly, is the President.

Former CNN Producer: Network's Obsession With Fox Hurting Environmental Coverage | Blog | Media Matters for America

Dykstra said the lack of coverage is almost worsened by the way CNN has handled climate change today. He cited the recent appearance on Piers Morgan's show of Marc Morano, who oversees the climate change denial site ClimateDepot.com.

"That means they are comfortable with allowing utterly discredited crackpots on the air like Marc Morano, who has been on there twice in the past six weeks," Dykstra said. "If you let Marc Morano have half of a show on climate change, someone who was utterly discredited, who was involved in the swift boat story, who worked for Rush Limbaugh... if you took that same standard that they used for this environment story and applied it to a medical story you would have to pair Sanjay Gupta up with a faith healer or a witch doctor every time he went on the air."

Global Warming Consensus Of Scientists Looking More Like A Myth - Investors.com

Environment: The global warming alarmists repeat the line endlessly. They claim that there is a consensus among scientists that man is causing climate change. Fact is, they're not even close.

The failed effort to enact cap and trade legislation to fight global warming | Harvard Magazine

...Democrats from states with fossil-fuel reserves reliably vote against measures to control carbon emissions.
...“The public” is seen as a kind of background chorus that, hopefully, will sing on key.
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Larry Schweiger of the National Wildlife Federation said that he knew in 2010 that the time wasn’t ripe for passing cap-and-trade legislation, but he also knew that the climate system was in urgent need of rescue.

The League of Conservation Voters’ Gene Karpinski noted that public support for addressing climate change is “there, but it is not at the top of the list.” He said that efforts should now be focused on the 2017 legislative session, after a new president takes office.
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Lee Wasserman of the Rockefeller Family Fund said that the environmental movement “doesn’t communicate enough with the general public” and that the communications that do exist are mostly intellectual and have “too little heart and gut.” He expressed astonishment that people were protesting in the streets over changes to life insurance, but not over the threatened climate system.
... What might move Americans in general, [warmist Skocpol] argued, is something that will actually benefit them: a cap with a dividend returned to citizens.  [I'd say it's an ominous sign that after trying to sway Americans for decades, you're concluding that you have to pay Americans to sort of believe in it.]
...Conservative Nebraska farmers know about climate change, and they don’t “get” cap and trade, [warmist Tidwell] explained. They do get cap and dividend, he said, calling that approach “the inevitable solution.”

Twitter / ret_ward: There is a lot of political ...

There is a lot of political correctness about which is preventing robust challenges to dogmatic right-wing denial of climate change science.

ITBP rescues 20 shepherds stranded in heavy Ladakh snow - The Times of India

When the ITBP team found them after a day-long trek in the snow clad area, the security personnel found 20 shepherds, including seven women and five children, with more than 200 dead sheep. All the shepherds were suffering from snow blindness, hypothermia, hypertension and cold injuries.
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"This year, Ladakh received unprecedented, record breaking snowfall in the month of February which perhaps led the riboos to miscalculate the weather. Due to the heavy snowfall, the rescue mission to evacuate these shepherds was a very difficult task. Our men had to plough themselves miles in the snow before they located these men, women and children," a senior Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) official said.

Model Feared She Would Freeze to Death in Iceland

“I had to lay across an iceberg in a bikini,” Miller was quoted on latimes.com. She described the experience as “the craziest shoot” she had ever participated in. “I thought I was going to die. We had to do five minutes on, then take time off so I could warm up.”

How a Few Wealthy Individuals Shape the Climate Agenda

The ability of a few wealthy individuals to fund a vast network of climate deniers is bad for our democracy and bad for our economy.

Flashback: Calif. billionaire might be the next big name in U.S. energy politics -- 01/09/2013 -- www.eenews.net

Steyer is worth $1.3 billion, according to Forbes. He ranks No. 347 on the magazine's list of wealthiest Americans.
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Steyer is a major financial backer of Democrats.
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The environment became the motivating factor for deeper political involvement in 2010. Oil companies Valero Services Inc., Tesoro Co. and refiner Flint Hill Resources funded Proposition 23, which would have blocked implementation of the state's climate law until unemployment fell to 5.5 percent for one full year.
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He called climate change "the overwhelming issue of our time."

Steyer spent $5 million of his own money in the effort. But his work went beyond financial support, said Ann Notthoff, California advocacy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Flashback: 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

'Lincoln' Screenwriter Tony Kushner on our handling of trace amounts of CO2: "we have no hope for survival as a species if we continue down the path of this kind of psychotic individualism"

'Lincoln' Screenwriter Tony Kushner Criticizes Tea Party, George W. Bush on 'Charlie Rose' - The Hollywood Reporter

Before the interview ended, he had strong criticism for former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and warned of the dangers of global warming.

“Now that we’re facing challenges like climate change that absolutely demands a global, collective response … we have no hope for survival as a species if we continue down the path of this kind of psychotic individualism,” he said.

Al Jazeera, fresh off purchase of Al Gore’s cable channel, accused of increasing bias

an organization increasingly aligned to the political agenda of an all-powerful Qatari emir, and friend to Hamas, may find it difficult to muster much enthusiasm among a U.S. audience, even if it has a friend in Al Gore.

Bitter Cold Nights Follow Russian Meteorite Crash

Amid the damage caused by Friday's meteorite, residents around Chelyabinsk, Russia, are scrambling to find shelter from the impending bitter cold nights.

Temperatures in Chelyabinsk are expected to drop to 4 degrees F (16 below zero C) Friday night, then plummet to 1 below zero F (18 below zero C) Saturday night.

EU parliament struggles to find voice on CO2 market fix - News - Point Carbon

LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters Point Carbon) – EU parliamentary support for a carbon market rescue plan may require more than a simple majority in a crunch committee vote next week because of strong opposition elsewhere in the 754-strong assembly.

Wanted: Business leaders to aid President Obama on climate [scam] - Darren Goode - POLITICO.com

“The people who led last time are not there to lead now for a variety of reasons,” said David Crane, president and CEO of NRG Energy.

Gone or soon leaving are leading business members of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a now-defunct industry and environmental coalition that released recommendations for instituting a mandatory, market-based greenhouse gas reduction plan early in Obama’s presidency.
...Eric Smith, CEO of Swiss Re Americas, agreed.

“For those of us who are in the risk business, climate change is something that needs to be taken extremely seriously,” Smith said. ”Things need to change dramatically.”

Ancient asteroid strike in Australia "changed face of earth" - Yahoo! News Canada

"The greenhouse gases would stay in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years," Glikson told Reuters.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Van Jones on Obama/Keystone ...

Van Jones on Obama/Keystone XL: "floods..storms and..wildfires that are to come if he makes the wrong decision" http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2013/02/15/1 … ($)

Twitter / AlexSteffen: People in 100 years will see ...

People in 100 years will see the funding of the climate denialism astroturf movement as one of the most morally abhorrent acts of our time.

Group Photo: ‘Safe Climate Caucus’ | JunkScience.com

What a bunch of schmoes.

Stealing Valentine Candy from Babies « NoFrakkingConsensus

Conditioning kids to make meaningless sacrifices for Mother Earth isn’t the purpose of public education.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: A Case for Playing it Straight

What did Shepherd say in his briefing?

He said his spouse can see the impacts of recent extremes
Weather is now on steroids, like baseball players
Weather is like your mood, climate is like your personality
He cites two scientists quoted in The Guardian saying that all weather is affected by climate change
The impact of climate change can be seen in the price of Cheerios
The recent Northeast blizzard is related to climate change
Suggests that climate change is "loading the dice for extremes"

Obama Says He’ll Use ‘Bully Pulpit’ on Climate Issues | JunkScience.com

“My job, I think, is to use the bully pulpit help raise people’s awareness [of climate change] because if the public cares about it, Congress eventually acts,” Mr. Obama said.

Flashback: Obama Cranks Up White House Thermostat: "You Could Grow Orchids In There"

Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

"He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."

Global warming hoax promoter Joachim Schellnhuber: You know what might happen in 2033? After CO2 has caused no monsoons for three years in India, we'll see "the export of angry and hungry people to the industrialized countries"!

Climate Change’s Links to Conflict Draws UN Attention - Bloomberg

Imagine India in 2033. It has overtaken China as the most populous nation. Yet with 1.5 billion citizens to feed, it’s been three years since the last monsoon. Without rain, crops die and people starve.

The seeds of conflict take root.

This is one of the scenarios Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, will present today to members of the United Nations Security Council in New York to show the connection between climate change and global security challenges.

Either rich nations will find a way to supply needy nations suffering from damaging climate effects “or you will have all kinds of unrest and revolutions, with the export of angry and hungry people to the industrialized countries,” Schellnhuber said in an interview.

NRDC president Frances Beinecke suggests that in towns across the nation, CO2 has caused extreme heat that has driven people from their homes

Frances Beinecke: A Climate Rally at the Right Time

And I see it in the towns across the nation where floods or fires or extreme heat have driven people from their homes.

New York nurses suggest that trace amounts of CO2 resulted in them "carrying critically ill patients down dark stairwells"?

Climate change is drowning out 'jobs vs. environment' debate

The old argument that unions must choose between jobs and the environment is losing its grip, as climate change becomes more evident and more urgent.
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And the 185,000-member National Nurses Union came out against the pipeline in early February, joining the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Transport Workers Union.

"It's easy for us to take this position," said Jill Furillo of the 37,000-member New York State Nurses Association. "Our members are on the front lines of seeing the effects of the environmental crisis."

After Hurricane Sandy, New York nurses not only took care of those injured in the storm, they also evacuated patients from hospitals crippled by loss of electricity, carrying critically ill patients down dark stairwells when rising floodwaters wrecked elevators and backup generators.

"McKibben’s campaigns have received more than 100 grants since 2005 for a total of US$10-million from 50 charitable foundations"

Rockefellers behind ‘scruffy little outfit’ | FP Comment | Financial Post

350.org has the look and feel of an amateur, grassroots operation, but in reality, it is a multi-million dollar campaign run by staff earning six-digit salaries.

By my analysis of information from the U.S. Foundation Center and the tax filings of American charitable foundations, McKibben’s campaigns have received more than 100 grants since 2005 for a total of US$10-million from 50 charitable foundations. Six of those grants were for roughly US$1-million each.

Keeping global warming below 2C: 'a Kantian mega-project of peace' says Schellnhuber

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: All these climate people that ...

All these climate people that make up stories that contradict facts, must have an altar to John Lovitz "Liar" character in their offices

Twitter / Samantha_Lacey: @WorldBank at #UNSC #Arria ...

@WorldBank at #UNSC #Arria meeting: "We have significantly increased our #climate-related lending."

Twitter / tim_e_gore: Keeping global warming below ...

Keeping global warming below 2C: 'a Kantian mega-project of peace' says Schellnhuber, director of Potsdam Inst #UNSC #Arria #Climate

Twitter / keithkloor: Ug. My snarky tweet on the ...

Ug. My snarky tweet on the recent brain lock of CNN anchor who confused GW with the asteroid is being tweetily exploited by Morano & Milloy.

Twitter / keithkloor: As far as I'm concerned, ...

As far as I'm concerned, @ClimateDepot and @JunkScience have their own political agenda, which requires them to poison the climate debate.

Twitter / ClimateDepot: @keithkloor @JunkScience An ...

@keithkloor @JunkScience An agenda? You mean like the AMS, THE NAS, or the UN IPCC? Or James Hansen?

Another Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Record – Still On Track To Break All-time Highest Minimum « sunshine hours

Day 44, so far, is the lowest value for the year and still higher than the all-time highest minimum of 3.69176 which occurred on day 51 in 2008.

Byron York: Obama caught between friends in fight over Keystone XL pipeline | WashingtonExaminer.com

Environmentalists seem deeply afraid that Obama will rule against them...The other problem for the protesters is public opinion. Polls have consistently shown that most Americans support building the pipeline. In a Rasmussen poll released in January, 59 percent of those surveyed were in favor. On Wednesday, the petroleum institute released its own poll putting the number at 69 percent.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: What is it about appearing ...

What is it about appearing before Congress that makes many climate scientists utterly lose their sensibilities? #playitstraight

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: @DrShepherd2013 Leaders in ...

@DrShepherd2013 Leaders in the climate science community have a horrible record in presenting accurate testimony/briefings to US Congress.

Twitter / WaxmanClimate: NOW: Joining w/ Congressional ...

NOW: Joining w/ Congressional colleagues to announce the creation of the Safe #Climate Caucus. We are committed to addressing #ClimateChange

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: @DrShepherd2013 Thx..but here's ...

@DrShepherd2013 Thx..but here's the problem: none of those papers/grey lit support your claims about extreme events and disaster costs.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: @DrShepherd2013 Sorry, but ...

@DrShepherd2013 Sorry, but no. There are no studies of historical contrib of SLR to disaster costs. And US drought has declined sez IPCC.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: @DrShepherd2013 AMS Prez gets ...

@DrShepherd2013 AMS Prez gets science of extremes/disasters 100% wrong before US Congress. I think it matters, so hardly a quibble ;-)

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: @DrShepherd2013 You lost me. ...

@DrShepherd2013 You lost me. You avoided IPCC because of preconceptions, so you instead cited The Guardian and EarthZine?? Come on ;-)

UK and Singapore and New York and Abu Dhabi, oh my: "Super" Mandia points out some of warmist Peter Gleick's recent unnecessary fuel-guzzling long-haul trips

Peter Gleick vs Heartland Institute – Scorecard One Year Later. And the Winner Is? « Global Warming: Man or Myth?

April 16: Keynote Lecture at the Oxford University, United Kingdom Conference on Water Security, Risk, and Society
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May 10: Calgary, Canada. Conference “Water in a World of Seven Billion.”
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July 2-6: International Water Week, Singapore. Chair of discussion group at the Water Leaders Summit.
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September 25: Presentation at the United Nations, New York Expert Panel Session on Water Security: “Water: Implications for Security”
October 1: EcoSummit Conference, Columbus, Ohio. Lecture “Soft Paths for Water: New Constraints, New Solutions.”
October 10: Host and speaker for the Chicago Ideas Festival Session on Water.
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January 15-17, 2013: Three presentations on water, energy, climate, and sustainability at the International Water Summit, Abu Dhabi.

Obama insists he runs the most transparent administration in history

Obama said firmly, “This is the most transparent administration in history, and I can document that is the case.”

Twitter / aDissentient: BH commenter: "I live in spain. ...

BH commenter: "I live in spain. My electricity bill ... states that 48% is the cost of supply, and 52% is taxes and subsidies.

Twitter / billmckibben: Sunday looks chilly but dry ...

Sunday looks chilly but dry in DC. Everyone knows about layers, right?

Twitter / davidharsanyi: @billmckibben and why do we ...

@billmckibben and why do we need layers? because the climate keeps changing all the time, that's why.

Twitter / iowahawkblog: @billmckibben While you and ...

@billmckibben While you and 300 Gaia-worshippers are freezing in DC, 500,000 people will be at Daytona Speed Week & NHRA Winternationals.

Twitter / CharlieShield: @billmckibben Feet could get ...

@billmckibben Feet could get cold. Shoes and socks, everyone know about shoes and socks?

Twitter / CharlieShield: @billmckibben Also, stay out ...

@billmckibben Also, stay out of the Reflecting Pool on the Mall. You'll get wet. Everyone know not to get wet?

The Value of Climate Amenities: Evidence from US Migration Decisions by Paramita Sinha, Maureen Cropper :: SSRN

At median temperatures for 1970 to 2000, a 1°F increase in winter temperature is worth less than a 1° decrease in summer temperature; however, the reverse is true at winter temperatures below 25°F.   [I'm undecided at which to do first when skimming this abstract:   Scoff or snicker?]

Twitter / mark_lynas: 'Green bubble' bursts in Spain ...

'Green bubble' bursts in Spain with $37bn electricity system debts: Reuters http://planetark.org/wen/67930

Twitter / Revkin: Looking forward to exploring ...

Looking forward to exploring communication of climate knowledge, including uncertainty, at #AAAS13 #AAAS2013 3pm http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Session5841.html … #AGW

Session: Understanding and Communicating Uncertainty in Climate Change Science (2013 AAAS Annual Meeting (14-18 February 2013))

A wide consensus of climate scientists agrees on the many underlying facts around climate science, but these facts are not widely accepted by policy-makers or the general public.

Twitter / Revkin: @PeterGleick @GlobalEcoGuy ...

@PeterGleick @GlobalEcoGuy @cgiller No KXL+ $100 oil still = drilling deeper (Gulf) farther (Arctic) worse (Nigeria) http://nyti.ms/XBtekd

Missing Arctic Ice Causes Normal Arctic Ice | Real Science

Missing Arctic ice has caused disruptive weather patterns to set up, which have led to normal Arctic ice.

Scientific American – Without The Science, Or The American | Real Science

It is easy to see why Hayhoe and Dessler ignore the record prior to 1970.

Six Consecutive Years Of Above Normal January Snow Cover | Real Science

Leading climate experts keep telling us that skiing is doomed.

The Big Picture Of USHCN Adjustment Fraud | Real Science

The whole NCDC US temperature record is a complete fraud. The thermometer data shows no temperature increase since 1900.

Kenya’s climate change exercise – Shub Niggurath Climate

Incidentally, why does Kenya want a climate bill, one wonders. It turns out, that it wants to ‘reduce’ greenhouse gas ‘emissions’. The aborted law had a provision to throw you in jail, for five years, if you flouted it. Not kidding.

It's almost like they don't actually believe that if we emit CO2 now, our grandchildren will die: After returning from two trips to Hawaii, eco-hero Barack Obama will vacation in Florida while his wife vacations in Colorado

Michelle Vacationing Separately From President Obama

First Lady Michelle Obama plans to vacation in Aspen, Colorado this Presidents’ Day weekend, separately from her husband, who will land this evening in West Palm Beach for his own down time with the boys.
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Michelle’s separate excursion from the president means that, even as the government prepares to slash spending as the March 1 sequester approaches, taxpayers will be footing the bill for two separate Obama vacations, paying for items like travel and the expensive security and staff entourages that accompany them everywhere.

What’s more, the Obamas just completed an exorbitant vacation to Hawaii, from which they returned January 6. The president billed taxpayers for two roundtrip tickets on Air Force One – which costs approximately $180,000 an hour to use – after he returned to Washington mid-vacation to deal with the Fiscal Cliff.

Xtreme Weather: The Dangerous Delusion | The Lukewarmer's Way

the point I want to make now is that, if Trenberth is wrong–if he’s advising scientists to tell people that any bad storm, drought or flood is caused in part or in whole by global warming–then he is giving a terrible hostage to fortune.

- Bishop Hill blog - Behind the curtain

Another economist was rather put out at the suggestion that Kyoto had been a failure and claimed, somewhat implausibly, that nobody had been linking extreme weather to climate change.

- Bishop Hill blog - Coming to a courthouse near you

The Spanish Parliament approved a law on Thursday that cuts subsidies for alternative energy technologies, backtracking on its push for green power.

Scientists outline danger of warming | News | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, LA

No Republican on the committee, including Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who is the ranking GOP leader on the panel, attended the briefing that featured scientists discussing global warming.
...“I’d call it a shocking wake-up call,” Boxer said of the science briefing. “We heard certain parts of our country will be gone.”
...“The science is clear,” said Shepherd, of the American Meteorological Society. He said that there are a few dissenters amongst a strong consensus. “The literature is overwhelming.”
...
“It’s like putting the Earth’s climate on steroids,” Shepherd said, likening climate change to the surge of home runs in Major League Baseball during the so-called steroids era.

We’re going to have to do something about peer review. « Pointman's

When people are prevented from publishing in the mainstream science journals, they’ll publish on the internet. When sensible commentary on dubious science is heavily censored, that commentary moves out to the freedom of the internet. Once moved onto the internet, it won’t be coming back anytime soon, which is one of the reasons why circulations of what used to be the popular science journals, are plunging.

This change in how new ideas in science are debuted and debated is happening and it is the future, whether you’re comfortable with it or not. Novy mir.

MSNBC Interviews Sex And The City Climate Expert | Real Science

Noth said that the weather is “not acting very nice”

Energy policy must be about bringing down bills, not green preaching, says Cameron - Telegraph

The Coalition's energy policies must focus on bringing down household bills as voters do not like politicians "preaching" about the green agenda, David Cameron has said.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: A cold weekend in Fla with ...

A cold weekend in Fla with freeze threat to Orlando. with wind, Sat night, without Sunday night. Different kind of tropical "depression"

Reasoning with climate deniers "pointless" says author

Debating climate change with steadfast contrarians is pointless, because their underlying beliefs are based less on scientific data and more on their life experiences.

Arctic sea ice could vanish within four years. : news

[comment] GhostOfJulesVerne
No one gives a shit about global warming anymore. That is so 2005.

Richardson is right: more ministers should argue with sceptics | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Well, Graham, one reason warmists - particularly in Government - hate arguing the science is that it contradicts them.

Wyo. coal company strikes export deal; Enviros aim to kill project, jobs | JunkScience.com

The enviros will now try to block it.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Latest Obama green energy scandal wastes $142 million from taxpayers

WSJ.COM 2/14/13: WASHINGTON—The Obama administration's electric car efforts took another hit on Wednesday after a federal inspection found a South Korean advanced battery maker never scaled up U.S. production despite receiving $142 million in federal grants.

That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn't - NYTimes.com

About three hours into the trip, I placed the first of about a dozen calls to Tesla personnel expressing concern about the car’s declining range

Al Gore hits free market groups for tobacco industry ties — like his own? | JunkScience.com

Al Gore’s family was part of the same tobacco industry (even 20 years after the Surgeon General’s 1964 report) and he accepted tobacco industry contributions (even after his chain-smoking sister’s lung cancer death).

500 Blog Posts and Counting « NoFrakkingConsensus

Lots of things need fixing. Many issues deserve my attention. I can’t tell you how resentful I’ve become that one cause in particular gets shoved down my throat every single day.

Al's Journal : False Spontaneity of the Tea Party

The future of our planet demands that we put the sustainability of our planet before corporate profit.

TNJN - Princeton scholar speaks about climate change

Markowitz, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, presented the Darwin Day audience with a lecture entitled: Communicating Climate Change to an Uncertain Public. He has recently been researching the psychological factors that go into a persons answer about climate change.

According to Markowitz, 99 percent of Americans have heard about climate change, but only about 50 percent actually believe that climate change is really happening.

TNJN - Nobel Prize winning evolutionist discusses climate change

Most scientists are noticing that localized evolution in many species is allowing them to adapt to the warming climate.

NOAA Deception Over Record Temperatures « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

If NOAA really wanted to present an objective and informative analysis of record temperatures, they would do what I have done with Kansas, on a national basis. Analyse all USHCN stations, with data back to at least 1930, and compare the proportion of records set in recent years, with those in earlier decades.

They won’t do this because the results won’t give the message they wish to promote.

AAAS, AGU, Others are MIAs in Climate Letter to President …Why? | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Some of the largest and most well-known science organizations are not signers of a letter to the President calling for a ‘national summit’ on climate change. Conspicuous omissions … but why?

Bloomberg To Propose More Electric Car Parking, Styrofoam Ban « CBS New York

Hizzoner Wants 20 Percent Of All New Parking Dedicated To 'Plugging In'

How a Carbon Tax Can Save America

Yes, it may sound counterintuitive, but a tax can ultimately lead to prosperity

Twitter / Ben_Geman: Curious to see how Reid handles ...

Curious to see how Reid handles new liberal Dem hope for climate floor vote, given how many conservative-state Ds face reelection in 2014.

Twitter / grist: You're so hot, you should climate ...

You're so hot, you should climate model #climatechangevalentines

Twitter / grist: My love for you is like the ...

My love for you is like the climate, it keeps getting hotter and hotter #climatechangevalentines

Twitter / feelingsunicorn: Here's... an inconvenient truth. ...

Here's... an inconvenient truth. My body temp rises a few degrees every day I'm with you. #climatechangevalentines

House GOP introduce bill to ban EPA from cap-and-trade, GHGs rules for stationary sources | JunkScience.com

Today, Congressman Ted Poe (TX-02) introduced the Ensuring Affordable Energy Act. This bill will prohibit federal funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be used to implement or enforce a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases. Rep. Poe was joined by 25 original cosponsors.

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: Tea Party Was Created by Big ...

Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers http://huff.to/12nfJr7  #murder incorporated -- same as arms and deniers

Twitter / cgiller: (All panelists at this debate ...

(All panelists at this debate of enviros have paper cups and plastic bottles of water. No judgment; just sayin'!) #skocpol

Twitter / cgiller: LCV head Gene Karpinski says ...

LCV head Gene Karpinski says no way we have fed climate bill till 2017 at the very earliest #skocpol

Twitter / cgiller: Funder Lee Wasserman says other ...

Funder Lee Wasserman says other probs include: enviros too close to Dems and can't talk to normal people in normal ways. Ahem. #skocpol

Twitter / cgiller: At fancy symposium at Haavard ...

At fancy symposium at Haavard to discuss why climate politics has failed at fed level. Debate is on paper by Theda #skocpol

USHCN – Busted! | Real Science

Looks like they nearly doubled their adjustments, by not understanding the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius. Either that or they were hoping to slip a huge cheat in under the radar.

All released NCDC US temperature data is severely tainted by this, including their claims of “hottest year ever”

Secret Funding Helped Build Vast Network of Climate Denial Thinktanks! - By Corey Dean Hall - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Oh no, $120 million dollars over nine years split over 100 organizations! Those evil Koch bros.

Twitter / grist: A third of North Dakota natural ...

A third of North Dakota natural gas never makes it to market — which may be a good thing http://bit.ly/YaO21V

Twitter / nature_press: What's more romantic than talking ...

What's more romantic than talking #climate w/ @Orion_Magazine @kate_sheppard @billmckibben & other brilliant folks? http://bit.ly/YRGJml

Everything?

January hottest year ever update: Contiguous U.S. so blistering hot at 0 degrees C. that only 38 Januarys were warmer; ties January temperature of 1958, when Eisenhower was president

NOAA: Average temperature of the USA in January at freezing | Watts Up With That?

The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during January was 32.0°F, 1.6°F above the 20th century average, tying with 1958 as the 39th warmest January on record.

More barking madness from UN chief Ban Ki-moon: Now he's worried about a CO2-induced "downward global spiral of extreme weather and disaster"

United Nations News Centre - ‘Huge consequences’ of climate change, Syrian crisis must be faced, Ban tells think tank

Turning next to what he called “the gathering threat of climate change,” he noted that scientists have long sounded the alarm on what he called the gathering threat,” stressing that the potential consequences were well known, including “a downward global spiral of extreme weather and disaster,” along with development reversals, increased displacement, aggravated tensions over resources and destabilization of fragile states.

Despite the dire possibilities, he said, however that, “Too many leaders seem content to keep climate change at arm’s length, and in its policy silo. Too few grasp the need to bring the threat to the centre of global security, economic and financial management.”

Experts seek tricks "to persuade the public to accept the inconvenience and expense of many environmental policies"

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Experts seek tricks "to persuade ...

Experts seek tricks "to persuade the public to accept the inconvenience and expense of many environmental policies" http://www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/130211_scientists_should_advance_management_of_behavioral_norms.html …

WashTimes: Green power to the people

“Energy is the key to America’s economic future. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama promised to fundamentally transform the nation into one increasingly dependent on sunshine and breezes to power the economy. As a result, his lofty vision of U.S. prosperity will likely be clouded by the reality of another four years of stagnation.”

Driessen: No good reason to say ‘no’ to Keystone | JunkScience.com

“Approval should be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, radical environmental groups are determined to sabotage the pipeline. Their assertions underscore how desperate, ideologically driven, intellectually bankrupt and indifferent to the jobs and welfare of average Americans they have become.”

Left Wing Conspiracy Theorists Back At It | Real Science

Even if Goldenberg’s idiotic conspiracy theory were true, that would mean that alarmists have a greater than 2000:1 money advantage over skeptics.

Why doesn’t she print these billionaire’s names, so that I can get some money from them?

President Obama's Energy Security Fund Is Job-Killing Cap-And-Tax Plan - Investors.com

A nonexistent crisis is a terrible thing to waste, and in justifying his proposal for a cap-and-tax scheme, President Obama claimed in his State Of The Union that "the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15." He was lying.

The Geological Perspective On Global Warming: A Debate

[Bob Carter] Gathering these various thoughts together, we conclude that the risk of occurrence of damaging human-caused global warming is but a small one within the much greater and proven risks of dangerous natural climate-related events (not to mention earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides, since we are dealing here with geological topics).

Twitter / Pvincell: @MichaelEMann Pondering climate ...

@MichaelEMann Pondering climate projections, I realize Corn Belt in 2100 may not be in USA. Sobering thought for an agricultural scientist.

allAfrica.com: Ghana: Ex-U.S Don Bemoans Ghana's Attitude

Professor David Millar, former Pro-Vice Chancellor of University for Development Studies (UDS), says in the face of the devastating effects of climate change, Ghana is yet to develop a national policy direction to fight the menace.

God and climate change: Column

Today, new prophets tell us that our modern sins will lead to rising seas, stronger hurricanes and longer droughts. If we don't reform our sinful ways, global catastrophe on a biblical scale looms. Billy Graham could hardly have said it better.
...Obama has brought God back into the environmental conversation

Twitter / bryanrwalsh: Going to take awhile to sort ...

Going to take awhile to sort through the Tesla affair, but if a driver needs to follow that many rules, car may not be ready for road trips

Forecast high for Sunday's largest-ever U.S. global warming protest in DC: 34 F, which is 14 F below average and 45 F colder than the 1976 record

History : Weather Underground

Max Temperature [Forecast 34 °F, Average 48 °F Record 79 °F (1976)]

Largest climate-change protest in U.S. history planned for Presidents Day | rabble.ca

Former Clinton White House Chief of Staff: Hey, you know what the "central problem" is for Obama's second term? CO2-induced bad weather!!

Obama plans to bypass Congress to combat climate change – Telegraph Blogs

“He understands that this is the central problem his administration has to deal with in the second term” John Podesta,- a former Clinton White House Chief of Staff, who led Obama's transition team four years ago – told Rolling Stone magazine. “He knows the judgment of history is riding on this.”

Warmist Donald Wuebbles, according to "Scientific" American: The Texas heat wave of 2011 was 20 times more likely to be tied to human-induced warming than to natural causes

Scientists Detail Severe Future Impacts of Climate Change: Scientific American

In a probable scenario for climate change, New Orleans will no longer exist. Neither will Atlantic City, N.J. Boston will look much like it did in the 17th century, before the city was dredged up to build a port. And Florida will no longer keep its distinct appendage shape.
...The Texas heat wave of 2011 was 20 times more likely to be tied to human-induced warming than to natural causes, said Wuebbles.
...
The worst-case scenarios predict a 14- to 15-degree-Fahrenheit increase by the end of the century, said Wuebbles. Chicago would feel like Birmingham, Ala.
...
With projected sea level rise of 3 to 6 feet, some cities will simply drown. "New Orleans is gone. Atlantic City is gone," [James McCarthy] said.
...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) asked the panel whether the United States should go forward on the construction and operation of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring crude from Canada's bitumen-rich oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico.

The way the extraction of oil sands is being conducted right now, it is "the dirtiest possible source of fossil fuel," McCarthy said. "Simply to burn it is a ridiculous, ridiculous exercise."

Climate Change Tops List of Govt. Programs Vulnerable to Waste: GAO

The Government Accountability Office has added two big government operations to its latest "high risk list" for being vulnerable for waste, fraud, abuse, inefficiency and mismanagement.

The first is the government's overall management of programs that deal with possible climate change problems, such as the federal flood and crop insurance programs and direct damage to federal property. It also is concerned about disaster relief programs, which spent more than $100 billion in recent years including FEMA ($80 billion 2004-2011) and emergency spending, such as the $50 Sandy relief bill. Add in Katrina relief and you get billions more.

- Bishop Hill blog - Warm letters

I was amused by Weintrobe's accusation about GWPF's nefarious intent...

GWPF’s aim is primarily to sew doubt on the findings of mainstream climate science.

...which conjures up lovely illusions of Lawson and Peiser stitching away furiously with blankets over their knees and cups of tea by their sides. It's not exactly how I imagined the great oil-funded conspiracy though.

Ehrlich Joins the Headshrinkers » Climate Resistance

Whether or not climate change is a real problem, the compact between politics and the academy as is proposed by the article plainly aims to position science as a remedy to extant political problems. No good can possibly come of it.

Looking for love as the climate heats up — The Daily Climate

Cross-breeding wildlife is not new. But human-induced changes such as global warming, development and the introduction of non-native creatures are bringing together previously separated species. While there are no baseline studies to show there are more hybrids than nature intended, anecdotal evidence is mounting.
...
"Management-wise, it certainly causes a problem," said Charlotte Lindqvist, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York, Buffalo. "What should we do with these hybrids? Should we shoot them? Should we preserve them? We need to know more about their impact."

Warmist Bob Inglis: You know why I started believing in the global warming hoax? Because my kids and my wife believed in it

Bob Inglis: the Republican who believes in climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[Inglis] Coal-fired electricity causes 23,600 premature deaths each year in the United States. There are over 3 million lost workdays. Those are real and quantifiable costs that aren't attributed to the cost of electricity at my meter. And so I'm blissfully unaware of the true cost of my electricity. And since it appears so cheap, I don't innovate because there's no reason to innovate. I live in South Carolina – I could have a solar hot water heater for example, but I don't have one. Anyone altruistic would put one on their roof. I would like to be altruistic, but I've got two kids in college, and I can't afford to be altruistic. But if the meter started reflecting the real cost of electricity, I would look at things differently.

[Q] Can you describe your own evolution from being a denier of climate change to someone who is deeply concerned about it?

Inglis: My first time in Congress [1993-1999], I was very dismissive of climate change and said, "Oh, well, this is imagination." I had a very successful press conference pillorying the vice president [Al Gore]. And I was in Congress for six years, and then I was out for six years and in those six years, my children started to grow up. My son, my oldest of five kids, was voting for the first time in 2004 when I was running again, and he said, "You know, dad, I'll vote for you, but you have to clean up your act on the environment." I had this new constituency, an important constituency, because they could change the locks on the doors. My son and his four sisters all felt the same, and his mother did too.
...
Inglis: It was in 2006. Amazingly, I got to go to Antarctica twice. I went to Antarctica and saw the evidence.

Hottest year ever update: Sea ice is still well above average in the Bering Sea this year – as it has been for 7 of the last 10 years

Goldilocks in the Bering Sea: Less sea ice is bad and more ice is bad | polarbearscience

This article from yesterday about sea ice in the Bering Sea is priceless: while we are still being told that below average ice coverage (common 10-20 years ago) is a sign of global warming that means the end of polar bears sometime in the future, it turns out that too much ice is bad, less ice is friendlier and lots of ice is hopefully something that we’ll never see again.
...
Sea ice is still well above average in the Bering Sea this year – as it has been for 7 of the last 10 years.

In the red thanks to white stuff | Boston Herald

MassDOT has blown through its $45 million snow removal budget for the year, after working 12 winter storms this season prior to the weekend’s historic blizzard.

“We were pretty close to exceeding it before the snow came,” said Secretary of Transportation Richard A. Davey. “We’ve had a fair number of snow events in central and western Massachusetts.”

Boston Globe Worries That Global Warming Is Killing The Ski Industry In New England | Real Science

Climate change threat looms over ski industry – Business – The Boston Globe

New York Times Says That Droughts Used To Be Rare | Real Science

Complete bullshit. Hansen said the exact opposite in 1999

2012 Was Not The Hottest Year In The US | Real Science

NOAA has finally gotten their 2012 data set (almost) complete, and it turns out that 2012 was the second warmest year in the US after 1921 – and was slightly warmer than 1931 and 1934

Keystone Pipeline Protests Resume, But None Against Oil Imports from Nigeria? - NYTimes.com

[Revkin] ...And I would rather have the oil that we do use coming increasingly from responsibly managed and regulated sources here than the ends of the Earth and countries where oil wealth benefits few and the costs of extraction are borne by many.

Climate Change is Remaking Winter | ThinkProgress

The planet is getting warmer. I can feel it, you can feel it, and the winter tourism industry can definitely feel it. At 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, last year marked the hottest year on record in the United States, edging out the previous record by one degree. Climate change is causing shorter winters and less snow...
Climate change deniers argue that the recession is the reason Americans aren’t hitting the slopes. Truth is there just isn’t enough snow

Twitter / Chris_C_Horner: Senate Ds introduce carbon ...

Senate Ds introduce carbon tax. Worked out great in '94 ('93 Btu) & '10 ('09 capntrade). Slow learners are fun.

RFKJr Bloviates: Keystone XL a ‘criminal enterprise’; Attorney has a ‘duty to break the law’ | JunkScience.com

Someone is also “stealing the air” from his son’s lungs. Deniers are “biostitutes.”

Boston Globe Worries That Global Warming Is Killing The Ski Industry In New England | Real Science

Germany’s Green Nightmare

Marketed in Germany like a beach dream, renewable energy rather looks set to become a financial nightmare.

President Obama Pledges an All of the Above Energy Strategy at the State of the Union | TIME.com

there are big players on both sides—environmentalists like Brune and Bill McKibben on one, the powerful oil industry and most Republicans on the other—who will be very unhappy if the President doesn’t come down on their side.   [Is warmist Bryan Walsh implying that in a fair world, Brune and McKibben combined would have about as much political power as "the powerful oil industry and most Republicans" combined?]

Twitter / billmckibben: Still hearing @RevYearwood ...

Still hearing @RevYearwood at yesterday's rally: 'KXL is the Birmingham of our generation, our lunch-counter moment for the 21st cent.'

Twitter / clim8resistance: At @guardianeco, Suzanne ...

At @guardianeco, Suzanne Goldenberg offers another conspiracy theory. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network?CMP=twt_fd …

Twitter / suzyji: Want to know what held up Obama ...

Want to know what held up Obama 1st term #climate agenda? Secret funding to climate denial thinktanks http://gu.com/p/3dnyn/tw

Twitter / clim8resistance: Is @suzyji just not very bright, ...

Is @suzyji just not very bright, or does she really beleive £9m/year is enough to sustain "100 groups casting doubt about AGW"?

Twitter / clim8resistance: Someone should tell @suzyji ...

Someone should tell @suzyji that £9m/year between "100 groups" is £96,250 per group. Contrast with green NGOs & NSPBs etc.

[Lomborg on the real cost of wind power]

This graph shows the problem with wind power: the wind doesn't blow when we need it most.

This is why the cost estimates for wind in cent/kWh need to take into account the price of energy storage and/or backup. That easily doubles the real price.

Why Isn’t Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick in Jail?

“The Heartland Institute, a nonprofit organization, retained legal counsel to formally request that the U.S. Attorney prosecute Peter Gleick for the federal crimes of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Today, one year after the crime was revealed and nearly one year after Gleick’s confession, the U.S. Attorney still has not filed charges against Gleick.

Recruiting Boomers to Protest Climate Change - NYTimes.com

Mr. MacDonald is the founder of Fifty Over Fifty, a new group that hopes to recruit baby boomers to engage in civil disobedience to promote action on climate change.

Peru and Venezuela compete to host COP20 in 2014 | Intercambio Climático

Venezuela is a critical voice at the climate talks demanding climate justice and ambitious emission reductions from developed countries. But at the national and international levels, Venezuela’s vehement discourse on climate justice is not backed up by strong action at home or high ambition for all countries at the UN talks, which undermine its bid to host COP20.

Warmist Suzanne Goldenberg claims that there is "a vast network of thinktanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarising "wedge issue" for hardcore conservatives"

Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change, the Guardian has learned.

The funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of thinktanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarising "wedge issue" for hardcore conservatives.

Barbara Boxer: Hey, who's up for a $1,200 billion carbon dioxide hoax bad-weather-prevention tax?

Boxer's push is a twist on carbon tax - SFGate

"We now all recognize the overwhelming consensus of scientists on climate change," said Adele Morris, policy director of the Climate and Energy Economics Project at the center-left Brookings Institution think tank. "It's time to do the same thing with the consensus of economists on what to do about it."
...
The Sanders-Boxer bill would impose a $20 per ton tax on carbon or methane equivalent, rising 5.6 percent each year for 10 years, on the nation's largest fossil fuel producers. Imported fossil fuels from countries that do not impose a similar tax would also pay.

The tax would raise an estimated $1.2 trillion over a decade and reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from 2005 levels. Three-fifths of the tax would be rebated to "every legal U.S. resident," which might make it more politically feasible than if it went to the government.

Valentine's tips: How to woo a scientist

When attempting to talk to a scientist, be sure you don't say anything that might be interpreted as a claim unless you are certain it has been peer-reviewed or subjected to rigorous statistical assessment.

Connecticut Governor Thinks Average Is Extreme | Real Science

The governor of Connecticut is convinced that his state is seeing unprecedented weather because of a snowstorm.

Snow conditions there are typical for February,

All Connecticut Major Hurricanes Occurred Below 350 PPM CO2 | Real Science

The governor of Connecticut thinks that he can protect his state from hurricanes by magically reducing atmospheric CO2.

Connecticut has been hit by three major hurricanes since 1850, all of which occurred with CO2 below 350 ppm. The last one was hurricane Carol – one of two hurricanes which hit New England during the disastrous hurricane season of 1954.

Uh oh: IPCC AR5 co-ordinating lead author blames global warming for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis

Climate change is real, experts say | News24

"No doubt, Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate variability and change because of multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity. Environmental and climatic stress also raises existing inequalities between rich and poor," Professor Oliver C Ruppel told News24.

He is professor of Law at Stellenbosch University, specialising in Public International Law and Diplomacy, World Trade Law, Regional Integration Policy, Sustainable Development Law and International Environmental Law.
...
"If you look at the trend then I think that's pretty unmistakable and any proper analysis would tell you that we are heading in that direction," said IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri recently in Australia as the body discussed the heat waves that affected the country.
...
"There is wide scientific consensus that the increased number and intensity of climate change induced natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis and hurricanes, is of alarming concern," said Ruppel, though adding that not all climate events lead to disasters.
...
According to Ruppel, who serves as AR5 co-ordinating lead author for the Chapter on Africa of the UN IPCC, Working Group II, policies need to be in place to recover from disasters related to climate change.

WWF: EU budget a bad deal for the climate | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change

EU Commissioner for climate action Connie Hedegaard stressed the importance of the assignment of 20% of all funding to climate action.

Twitter / HaroldAmbler: Global warming fears spring ...

Global warming fears spring in large part from the public's increasing distance from nature. Easy to sell ideas via screens. #gooutside

Shale oil 'could add £50bn to UK economy' - Telegraph

A shale oil revolution could add up to £800 to each person’s economic output in the UK, according to a report from accountants PwC.

Arctic Ice Almost Identical To 1984 | Real Science

Warning!!!! David Appell and Tamino say that lay people are not allowed to look at this image.

New Guidelines From The Climate Vatican | Real Science

Cardinals Tamino and Appell have determined that climate laypeople may only open the Arctic ice extent scripture for six weeks between August 15 and September 30.

Seeing this data during the other 46 weeks of the year will lead to sin, make your hair fall out – and cause blindness.

Shock: Centerpiece of Europe's bad-weather-preventing efforts transfers a lot of wealth, but doesn't actually prevent bad weather

Carbon fat cats are killing the emissions trading mouse | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

just
10 German companies are €1.2bn better off thanks to the windfall
brought by the spare "hot air" permits. Germany's manufacturing sector
as a whole has accrued spare carbon allowances equivalent to the annual
emissions of Austria.
...
The sums involved are staggering.
Steelmakers are the cream of the carbon fat cat crop, with ArcelorMittal
potentially having raked in €314m for free between 2008-2011, according
to the report. ThyssenKrupp is in second, with €190m, and Salzgitter in
third, with €175m. ArcelorMittal had over double the number of permits
it actually needed.
...
Sandbag's Damien Morris says the EU ETS is now carrying 2bn spare allowances:
"The policy that was supposed to be the centerpiece of Europe's climate
efforts now promises to achieve nothing for most of the next decade."

Environment Canada's senior climatologist: "This thaw did not come out of our chimneys and exhaust pipes. It came out of Colorado"

The New Nostradamus of the North: Environment Canada's senior climatologist: "The swings in temperature have had nothing to do with climate"

“There’s a difference between climate and temperature,” explained David Phillips in an interview.
“The wild swings in temperature have had nothing to do with climate. It’s about where the winds come from.”
The recent warming trend, for example, was caused by breezes blowing in from the southern United States.
“This thaw did not come out of our chimneys and exhaust pipes,” said Mr. Phillips. “It came out of Colorado.”

- Bishop Hill blog - GCSA can't tell weather from climate

Sir John Beddington is heading for retirement and has taken the opportunity of an an interview with Civil Service World to remind everyone how shaky his grasp of climate science has been

The Most Influential Climate Science Paper Today Remains Unknown to Most People | InsideClimate News

Meinshausen said it's common for non-scientists to misuse or exaggerate scientific results, so there's always concern among researchers when their findings are used for advocacy. But, he said, he and his colleagues have been pleased with how McKibben and 350.org have used the numbers to incite action.

Chris Noth on climate change: "Rhetoric isn't enough … we've got to be acting, radically, now" – Piers Morgan - CNN.com Blogs

Calling the current environmental situation a "planetary emergency," the 58-year-old Golden Globe nominee calls for less talking, more doing

Carbon Positive Campaign! | Climate of Sophistry

Within 50 years, in the time of our children and grand-children, we will have improved the environment and created a lush, green, productive, life-filled planet Earth with all of the beneficial green plant food carbon dioxide we are re-adding and giving back to the environment.

Flashback: Mainstream media reporter sings "Liberated Carbon"

"We yearned to burn more than dung and sticks.
Then Satan came along and said, 'Hey, try lighting this.'

He opened up the ground and showed us coal and oil.
He said, 'Come liberate some carbon. It'll make your blood boil.'

The Reference Frame: Engineers, geoscientists: only 36% believe in CAGW

You see that only 36% agree with the positions that are often presented as inseparable parts of the "consensus". In other words, one may pretty much say that there is a consensus among the experts – except that the consensus says the opposite than what is often being said.

A year ago, similar views were found among meteorologists.

Twitter / BjornLomborg: Senate: carbon fee2fund ...

Senate: carbon fee2fund investment in green energy. Please, please, please: use for R&D (smart), not subsidies (dumb) http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=e20c6477-23dc-4a63-8fe9-e5b0c92d395b …

Obama’s Agenda Seen as Dead in the Water by Republicans - Bloomberg

“Minimum wage won’t pass the House, climate-change won’t pass the House,” Thune said. “Those are things he would probably have a hard time getting a lot of Democrats to vote for.”

Ex-IPCC head: Prepare for 5°C warmer world — The Daily Climate

More species would be facing extinction (10 percent of species are thought to be at risk for every 1°C of warming), there would be more (and more intense) extreme weather, and a growing risk of abrupt and major irreversible changes in the climate system.

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