Data Show That Nature Is Adding Most CO2 To The Atmosphere, And Not Man

In the last post, The Carbon Cycle, Nature or Nurture, sea surface temperatures were shown to have a large influence on CO2 rise in the atmosphere. This influence is so large, that changes in fossil fuel burning cannot be seen. In this article, the sea surface temperature influence will be subtracted to examine what remains in a continued search for man’s impact.

Christopher Booker: Eco Madness | Tallbloke's Talkshop

As from next month, Drax will embark on a £700 million switch away from burning coal for which it was designed, in order to convert its six colossal boilers to burn millions of tons a year of wood chips instead.

Most of these chips will come from trees felled in forests covering a staggering 4,600 square miles in the USA, from where they will be shipped 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to Britain.

Twitter / tnewtondunn: Depressing reading. Guardian ...

Depressing reading. Guardian drop below 200k sales; Sun, Star, Express, FT, Gdn, Indy double digit % drops y on y. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/table/2013/mar/08/abcs-national-newspapers?CMP=twt_fd …

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Bastards http://t.co/frQ8PL7mM ...

Bastards http://www.exposethebastards.com/bastards 
Dang, my name is Bastardi and I didnt make the list. Hows that possible?

1929 : 80% Of Swiss Glaciers Receding | Real Science

05 Sep 1929 – GLACIERS OF SWITZERLAND SUBJECT TO TIMETABLE

Bloomberg Worried About Private Jet Owners Using New York City Homeless Shelters | The Weekly Standard

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed concern that private jet owners could clog up the city's homeless shelters.

“You can arrive in your private jet at Kennedy Airport, take a private limousine and go straight to the shelter system, walk in the door, and we’ve got to give you shelter,” Bloomberg said, speaking on the radio.

Twitter / mtobis: Berners lee explicitly mentions ...

Berners lee explicitly mentions climate change as a problem space needing new genres of read-write web spaces. #Sxsw

1931 : All Eastern Alps Glaciers Shrinking | Real Science

29 Sep 1931 – LOST HORSE OF THE GLACIER.

1921 : Heat, Prolonged Drought, Glaciers Melting, Snakes .. | Real Science

Before NOAA data tampering, 1921 was the hottest year in US history.

The US Used To Be Much Hotter | Real Science

There are 829 US HCN stations which have been continuously active since at least 1920. Fifty percent of their all time record maximums were set during the 1930s. Eighty percent of the records were set before 1960.

Another Hockey Stick Smoking Gun | Real Science

Jones says that most of the rise since 1860 was due to natural causes – which can mean only one of two things

Something radically changed in the climate system around 150 years ago.
The hockey stick temperature reconstruction is garbage

The first possibility is absurd, which leaves only #2 – the hockey stick is garbage. There is no reason to believe that the last third of the warming is any different than the first two thirds.

Twitter / Revkin

Closing half [@nytimes green] blogs [now] is sort of like firing half.its foreign correspondents in 1942 @ryanlcooper http://j.mp/Y0TsRa

Twitter / RichardTol

@Revkin that sort of silly if not offensive hyperbole is one of the reasons people stopped reading environmental "journalism" @ryanlcooper

Friedman prays for Co2 hoax tax debate - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/friedman-no-to-keystone-yes-to-crazy.html?smid=tw-NYTimesFriedman&seid=auto&_r=0
Nothing would do more to clean our air, drive clean-tech innovation, weaken petro-dictators and reduce the deficit than a carbon tax. One prays this will become part of the budget debate.

California town could require solar power on every new house | Grist

the mayor acknowledged the flack he might get from the building industry

Smash patriarchy, save the planet | Grist

International Women’s Day is a perfect time to remember that the systems that degrade the planet are also the ones that oppress women.

Guardian article: What if climate change hoax policy causes sharply lowered demand for oil, resulting in dramatically lower oil prices?

Climate change poses a far greater threat to Scotland's future oil revenues | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Some experts believe climate policy will have a dramatic effect on oil prices. It was a message underlined by the world's most influential climate scientist, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations' Intergovernmental panel on climate change, in Edinburgh last week.
...What if those prices fall? What if demand falls?

[Who said being green is no longer cool?]: Mr. Eco is our favorite environmental rap superhero | Grist

Consider his latest, “Recycle Robot,” in which he encourages his team of EcoHeroes to do the right thing

Twitter / LeoDiCaprio: Need more evidence of #climate ...

Need more evidence of #climate change? Check out @ChasingIce - http://bit.ly/wKqNN6 . Incredible, breathtaking documentary

Twitter / HayleyKnight

@LeoDiCaprio Leo stop smoking, ur f&cking up the climate with ur pollution, Lol @chasingice

Twitter / omnologos

Cannot believe people are again discussing Hockey Sticks wrt #climatechange - Barnum was obviously right.

Onshore wind sector receives high court setback | Environment | The Guardian

National Trust and heritage campaigners jubilant after proximity to listed buildings is decisive

Twitter / mirandadevine: Great to see Greens down 4 ...

Great to see Greens down 4 percent in WA!

While Europe Goes Green, Russia Muscles In On Mediterranean Gas Boom | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

A new deal by Russia’s Gazprom energy giant to market Israeli liquefied natural gas puts Moscow firmly in the burgeoning and contentious east Mediterranean energy sector, and shows that it’s again emerging as a player in the strategic region.

Warmist George Shultz claims that his electric car runs on "sunshine"

George Shultz pushes for carbon tax - SFGate

Shultz said the lesson is, "If you wait until things reach a boiling point, you might have missed your moment."
He said skeptics should look at the melting of the Arctic.
"An ocean is being created that wasn't there before," Shultz said. "Never mind the science; use your eyes. That's not science, that's plain observation."
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Shultz said he installed solar panels on his Palo Alto house five years ago and drives an all-electric car.
"I'm driving on sunshine, and it's free," Shultz said

Dreamer: Global warming hoax promoter Michael Mann suggests that the new hockey stick is a "Dagger in the heart" for climate realists

Twitter / MichaelEMann

Watching the pro #climatechange #denial smear artists spinning desperately in wake of new article (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/earth/global-temperatures-highest-in-4000-years-study-says.html?_r=1& …). Dagger in heart?

Van Halen - Dreams (Blue Angels) - YouTube

Chief of US Pacific forces: You know what's the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region? Trace amounts of carbon dioxide!

Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of Pacific forces, warns that climate change is top threat - Nation - The Boston Globe

CAMBRIDGE — America’s top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region: climate change.

Liberals half-pregnant on climate change waste

All of that colossal spending would made no difference to the climate anyway, even if man were heating the world - and even if that heating were bad for us.

But the Coalition does not dare make the argument. So it remains half-pregnant, keeping other schemes that will cost billions we don’t have to make even less difference to global warming

Irony alert:  Michael Mann has a piece up on the "Greedy Lying Bastards" web site

Unfortunately, many of the people who call themselves climate skeptics and have attacked my work and the work of my colleagues are not really skeptics at all, but climate contrarians or climate deniers.

Why Climate Sensitivity is Not Policy-Relevant | Planet3.0

No plausible sensitivity-related argument is policy relevant.

No Warming In Colorado Since 1850 | Real Science

Reuters article: In the future, maybe we'll only need power utilities for those situations when our rooftop solar panels aren't providing enough energy?

Analysis: Renewables turn utilities into dinosaurs of the energy world | Reuters

(Reuters) - Every new solar panel installed on European rooftops chips away at power utilities' centralized production model. Unless they reinvent themselves soon, these giants risk becoming the dinosaurs of the energy market.
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"In a future electricity system, the electricity network company could essentially be an insurance company, providing insurance against not having sunshine when you need power," said International Energy Agency economist Laszlo Varro.

Say it's zero degrees F. here in St. Paul on a Friday evening next January, and I'm completely off-grid, relying on my solar panels for all of my home lighting and heating. How long will I need to plug in my Tesla before I can take a worry-free drive to Duluth?

Solid .@dotearth reader question on Holocene abrupt climate warming study

 ”[T]hey take these proxies that go back thousands of years and are smoothed to show an average and then tack on our recent temperatures. This is akin to showing our average temperature graphs for the year and then adding our daily temperatures for the last month to show the volatility of our recent climate.”

Fox And Friends: Polar Bears Prove Climate Change Is 'Not Really Real'

the real climate debate has shifted to how much climate scientists have actually underestimated global warming impacts...Polar bear ranges will only get more crowded by other animals

McKibben Suffers From NaN | Real Science

[McKibben: Temperature now changing 50x faster than in the rest of the history of civilization] ...
There has been zero temperature change over the last sixteen years. If you divide the temperature change by McKibben’s IQ, you get NaN.

Global Warming Tragedy USA: My beach house and Porsche | JunkScience.com

The NYTimes reviews the anti-skeptic “Greedy Lying Bastards” featuring a photo of this CO2-blamed tragedy

NOAA Long Range Forecasting Is Completely Useless | Real Science

NOAA got their winter forecast exactly backwards.
...
No doubt they can tell us what the temperature will be in 100 years.

Florida Man Chooses Jail – To Protect Himself From Global Warming | Real Science

It was so cold, it was criminal.
A 38-year-old homeless man got himself arrested for trespassing at a Home Depot in Pompano Beach on Monday so he could spend a few nights in a warm jail

1974 : Global Cooling Cyclone Destroyed Darwin, Australia | Real Science

In 1974, scientists blamed the extreme weather on global cooling.

No Warming In Darwin Since 1885 | Real Science

Hey, did we mention that global warming might be beneficial? And natural cycles were the main reason for the recent warming? And the next two decades might be cooler?

Global warming: benefits or problems?: Voice of Russia

Global warming could change the look of our planet beyond recognition. Will humanity benefit from it? Or will it face new problems?

Even though climate change can be attributed to human activity which ‘heats’ the atmosphere through an increase in production and construction, the main reason lies in the planet’s cooling and warming cycles. Alexei Kokorin runs the WWF’s climate program.

"Climate change follows oceanic cycles with a period of 60-70 years. The next two decades won’t necessarily be warmer – they could be colder. But the decades after could be much warmer. This change in temperature is a wave-like process."

It’s Always Something (the 1924 edition) | NoFrakkingConsensus

But getting back to 1924, don’t you just love the way the news story ended with this overwrought bit of purple prose?

Our progress is no less terrible and fraught with peril than that of an unlighted vessel through a moonless night and a sea covered with icebergs. Suddenly, before we shall have time to be aware of our danger, like a thief in the night, our fate, in the form of an unseen leviathan of the heavens, may overtake us – and there will be the end of all our hopes and sufferings as we explode in a single blaze of glory.

Big Social Costs Tallied in Regions With Scant Energy Access - NYTimes.com

In India, nearly half of all health facilities – serving an estimated 580 million people – lack electricity

Al's Journal : Climate Battleground: Virginia

The 2014 Virginia gubernatorial race will pit well-known Democrat Terry McAuliffe against unabashed GOP climate-denier Ken Cuccinelli. The race offers a fascinating test for climate deniers: will their continued denial of the scientific consensus on the climate crisis work in an increasingly “purple” state?

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Most Marches in the 1950s ...

Most Marches in the 1950s were BELOW NORMAL , but summers were hot. http://Weatherbell.com summer forecast public nxt week

British Antarctice Survey: There is much more ice in Antarctica than previously thought

The volume of ice in Antarctica is 4.6% greater than previously thought

Climate change is making animals shrink | Grist

Many species are already coping with rising temperatures by physically getting smaller

Setting the record straight in the Daily Mail | Met Office News Blog

James Delingpole’s views misrepresent the Met Office’s reputation for world-class weather and climate forecasting and research (Mail). The UK can be rightly proud that the Met Office is among the world’s top two national weather forecasting services.

Pete McMartin: Global warming’s new frightening deadline

“Yes, I use Meinshausen’s study,” wrote Prof. Mark Jaccard, environmental economist at Simon Fraser University, in an email. “But I also use about five others that basically say the same thing. The reason they all say the same thing is because the math is trivial — no independent analysts dispute it.

“This is not groupthink,” Jaccard wrote.

Obama Flying to Chicago to Promote His Energy Policies - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

What sequester cuts?

Al Gore Envisions 'The Future' : NPR

[Gore] the forces of denial, which are lavishly funded by the large carbon polluters and some ideological groups, have intimidated many in the news media into remaining silent and not speaking out...It's almost like a family with an alcoholic father who flies into a rage if alcohol is mentioned. And so the rest of the family decides to keep the peace by never discussing the elephant in the middle of the room. And that is what the deniers have attempted to accomplish...Australia just announced that wind electricity is now cheaper than that from any new coal or gas plant...
GORE: There's a voice far more powerful than mine or even - more powerful even than the voice of the president. And that is Mother Nature. And the year's events - I described them just a few minutes ago - they did get people's attention and the polling indicates a fairly dramatic shift.

Sorry global warming. We're just not that into you. – Telegraph Blogs

[Delingpole] In one geography class specifically dedicated to climate change, the first kid to stick up his hand said: "What's wrong with the world getting warmer anyway? It will mean we get nicer summers!"

Which is what the kids would no doubt refer to as an epic fail for all the official propaganda we've been fed these last few decades.

Did Global Warming Prevent a Record-Breaking D.C. Snowstorm? | Cato @ Liberty

The best approach is to stick to the null hypothesis—that all events fall within their natural characteristics.

The null hypothesis is a tough one to overturn.

Warmist bummed out by the results of the Lindzen debate: "The aim was to shame the sceptic, but we just gave him a stage"

Adding fuel to out-of-date scepticism. | Tara's Eco Science Blog

[Warmist on the Lindzen debate] Ward expressed his anger, via Twitter, that we were giving air time to a person who is now completely irrelevant to science and research in climate change...The aim was to shame the sceptic, but we just gave him a stage.

Climate Common Sense: Climate Change Clean-out is Coming!

There is little doubt that a new Coalition government in September will be disinclined to commit more than a token amount towards the climate scam and given the requirements for budget cutting the Climate Change bureaucracy should be quaking in their boots. Campbell Newman in Queensland has given a foretaste of the future by ruthlessly closing down the Queensland Office of Climate Change.
The Financial Review estimates that 20 billion dollars of cuts are likely with a new federal government.

- Bishop Hill blog - Lindzen at the Oxford Union

The Lindzen debate at the Oxford Union was, I think, a rather significant moment in the climate debate. One in which sceptic views got a fair hearing in an open debate. Lindzen was to be accompanied by a panel of invited experts consisting of David Rose, Mark Lynas and Myles Allen. Part 1 was an interview of Lindzen with interjections from the panel, while part 2 opened up the debate to the floor.
...
The star of the show, however, was David Rose, whose controlled aggression and moral outrage was combined with great lucidity and an ability to get complex points over in an accessible fashion. This was star in the making stuff. His opponents on the expert panel on the other hand were strangely muted and almost seemed as if they had no stomach for the fight. There was in fact a great deal of agreement on many aspects of the debate - for example, everyone agreed that Hasan's "97% of scientists" line was irrelevant (and as Barry Woods explained later isn't true anyway). Perhaps more importantly, everyone also seemed to agree that current policy choices are foolish, the main differences being over whether emissions reductions are required.

Early Spring In DC Proves Global Warming | Real Science

Fortunately the CO2 bubble over DC appears to have dissipated.
...
Next time you are playing golf in lovely 60F weather, remember that NOAA considers those conditions to be extreme – and doubly extreme if the nighttime temperatures are also pleasant. Seek shelter immediately.

Epic Cold Blast Hits Europe And Russia | Real Science

Thirty million km² of Europe and Russia are running far below normal temperatures.
...
This is a huge problem for alarmists, because ice in the Barents Sea has returned to “normal” – after last year’s large deficiency.

No Global Warming Footprint In New York Sea Level | Real Science

After Sandy came through and no respectable scientist was willing to blame it on global warming, Trenberth jumped in and said that global warming had raised sea levels in New York.
...
This is complete nonsense. Tide gauges show a constant rate of post glacial subsidence since 1850. Sea level there has nothing to do with “man made CO2″

Working On The Mystery Without Any Clue | Real Science

People who claim that they are fixing climate change, cite things like a hurricane or snowstorms or lack of snowstorms, or rain, or lack of rain as evidence of climate change.

These are just weather events which have plagued man since the dawn of history. Coming from an engineering world, climate change people appear to be complete nutcases – which is exactly what they are. Nutcases and criminals.

Don't miss this: Joe Romm's hockey stick

Bombshell: Recent Warming Is 'Amazing And Atypical' And Poised To Destroy Stable Climate That Enabled Civilization | ThinkProgress

Temperature change over past 11,300 years (in blue, via Science, 2013) plus projected warming this century on humanity’s current emissions path (in red, via recent literature).

Canada launches $2.6m climate change project for farmers in Northern Ghana

According to officials, the project will raise awareness of the negative impacts of climate change and how they can be reduced, and will improve the capacity of regional organizations, districts, communities and beneficiaries to address climate change and manage natural disasters.

Cliff Kincaid -- Al Gore’s Al Jazeera Deal Now a Major Scandal

While the lawsuit over the sale of Al Gore’s Current TV to Al Jazeera is making headlines, a close reading of the legal complaint provides additional evidence that a congressional investigation into the curious transaction is urgently needed and necessary.

The media executive who claims to have arranged the sale says the idea was to make the Terror TV channel “palatable to U.S. lawmakers,” a formulation that suggests foreign lobbying on Capitol Hill in order to protect the $500 million payoff to Gore and other owners and investors in Current TV.

Is Bill McKibben Really Serious About Climate Change? | The Energy Collective

It continues to frustrate me when people who claim to be almost solely focused on fighting climate change and the fossil fuels whose use is a huge contribution to the problem refuse to acknowledge that their fear of nuclear energy is hampering their ability to succeed in their self-assigned mission.

Gore on LI: Back anti-global warming laws

Gore called the National Rifle Association a "fraud," saying the organization is a "puppet" controlled by gunmakers.

Ice island floats off of northern Michigan coast

Good Hart General Store Owner Jim Sutherland says this sight is not a new one, but he says it has been many years since he has seen one this big.
"This year we have been fortunate enough to have cold weather, lots of wind, and combined it builds ice into ice caves, ice mountains," Sutherland said.

NASA warns 'something unexpected is happening to the Sun' in year that is supposed to be the peak the sunspot cycle | Mail Online

2013 was due to be year of the 'solar maximum'
As this picture shows, in fact the sun is incredibly calm - baffling experts

Wise Response » [New Zealand celebrities sign a statement saying that we really should do some unspecified smart stuff in response to a broad list of potential bad stuff]

in the name of all our children and grandchildren we, the undersigned, call on the New Zealand Parliament to face up to this situation now by dispassionately assessing risk levels in the following five areas. Then, if found necessary, and with public input, design coherent, robust cross-party strategies and policies to avert these risks and give future generations the very best chance of security, peace, social justice and opportunity for all.

1. Economic security: the risk of a sudden, deepening, or prolonged financial crisis...
2. Energy and climate security: the risk of continuing our heavy dependence on fossil fuels.
3. Business continuity: the risk exposure of all New Zealand business, including farming, to a lower carbon economy...
4. Ecological security: the risks associated with failing to genuinely protect both land-based and marine ecosystems and their natural processes...
5. Genuine well-being: the risk of persisting with a subsidised, debt-based economy, preoccupied with maximising consumption and GDP.

Ritter participated in climate change roundtable with Obama - The Denver Post

Ritter said the group agreed not to disclose much about the conversation

Obama's EPA chief pick known for dogged pursuit of anti-climate change policies

Inhofe recalls her response to his pointed question years ago, when he chaired the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He asked whether costly EPA air quality regulations would actually have any effect on reducing carbon dioxide levels worldwide.

"She said, no, it wouldn't because this isn't where the problem is. It's in China, it's in India," Inhofe said. "Well, that took a lot of courage to be that honest."

Twitter / dbiello: to combat climate change, every ...

to combat climate change, every CO2 molecule counts http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=tar-sands-and-keystone-xl-pipeline-impact-on-global-warming … we're going to need help http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=arpa-e-still-in-search-of-energy-unknown …

Climate change reforms would save $20bn: Coalition | News | Business Spectator

The Coalition has said it will produce $20 billion in budget savings by cutting from the climate change bureaucracy and industry carbon assistance if elected in September's federal vote, according to The Australian Financial Review.

The Guilfordian : Talking about a queer Quaker response to climate change

studies show that gay and lesbian people are much more interested in climate issues than straight people, to the point of 55 percent compared to 30 percent of straight people.

Meteorologist On Climate Change: Viewers Are Less Skeptical, Forecasts Getting Fuzzier

Dan Satterfield recently recalled the angry emails that used to flood his inbox whenever he brought up climate change on the air.

"I don't get very many at all now," Satterfield, the chief meteorologist at WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Md., said this week. "The number of climate skeptics has really dropped. I think we are basically left with the conspiracy theory types."

"Climate change" cools off | RedState

The heck of it all is that global cooling always was the more plausible, scientifically sound threat. Those solar energy variations really might presage a significant drop in planetary temperature. But global cooling wasn’t politically useful – it was too difficult to pin on human activity, and too hard to hype with voodoo fearmongering about wild weather patterns. The people could not easily be convinced that their machines were making the world colder. When they noticed it wasn’t getting consistently warmer, “global warming” became “climate change.” Then they noticed that the “climate change” elite wasn’t wasting any time acting as if their extravagant lifestyles were killing the Earth, descending upon million-dollar eco-conferences in mighty fleets of carbon-spewing jets. Now that Al Gore, the Pope of Global Warming, has lined his pockets with oil money, the game is pretty much over… and we’re left hoping that maybe his propaganda was just a little bit right, because Winter Is Coming, and man-made greenhouse-gas warming might be our best hope against it.

A Later Peak Cherry Blossom Date – Is DC’s Global Warming Indicator Broken?

The National Park Service has announced that the peak bloom for Washington’s Global Warming Canary will be March 26 to March 30 — about one week later than last year.  [If that trend continues, in 52 years the peak date will come an entire year later than it does now!!]

Global warming is epic, long-term study says - CNN.com

It's supposed to be cold
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Marcott is concerned about people's ability to adapt to a perhaps drastically changed climate.
"As civilization has grown, we're kind of set up for things not to change too much," he said.

Vitter: EPA Lied about Region 8 Administrator’s Email Use

U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today found the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lied about former Region 8 Administrator James Martin's use of a non-official email account to conduct official business.

"EPA should start owning up to the facts piling up before them. Their blatant disregard for proper procedure and transparency is now being regularly exposed, and EPA's leadership must be held accountable," Vitter said.

FUELED: The fight for the future of energy

According to Shelby DeMars, a spokesperson for COCM, people often forget about the tax revenue coal brings to the state through exports.
“One train car of coal equals $20,000 in taxes for education,” DeMars said.
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[Steve Running, one of the leading climatologists at UM] has been at UM since 1979. He won a Nobel Peace prize in 2007 as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He claims his interest piqued for climate change and renewable energy with Al Gore winning an Oscar for his movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” He has no love for coal.

Obama meets on energy, climate change, immigration

Obama met Thursday night with "business and thought leaders" on clean energy and climate change and met Friday morning with "faith leaders" about immigration, the White House announced today.

The energy discussion included new sources of natural gas, increased efficiency of energy use and development of renewables such as wind and solar power, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

Portland: Regional climate change experts gather at PSU to review new national report

More than 100 climate change experts from academia, government and other groups will gather Tuesday, March 12 at 8 p.m. to discuss the regional implications of the newly released draft National Climate Assessment Report.

The report was produced by a 60-person advisory committee empaneled by the U.S. Commerce Department, with the help of more than 240 authors.

The event, open to the public, takes place at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Student Union

Scientists: Severity Of Recent Storms More Proof Of Climate Change « CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) – Scientists in the Chicago area said Friday the kind of tumultuous weather we’ve been having is just more evidence of global warming, and a reason to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

Bill Gates says nuclear power is the key to solving climate change

“The only way to solve the climate challenge is have some source of energy that’s economic,” Gates was quoted as saying in Reuters. Gates, a primary investor in the nuclear reactor development company Terra Power, dismissed wind and solar power as unproven without the necessary large-scale energy storage systems required to make them viable.

Carbon neutral winery to be a world first

An Australian winery is aiming to be the first in the world to produce enough carbon credits to cover its emissions.

Sustainability Marxism

“What is occurring here, not just in Doha, but in the whole climate change process, is the complete transformation of the economic structure of the world.” — Christiana Figueres (Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, November, 2012)

Twitter / dana1981

Just got word, new climate science blog to be established on The Guardian for the team of me + John Abraham!

‘Greedy Lying Bastards,’ by Craig Scott Rosebraugh:  "A Blunt Instrument in the Climate War" - NYTimes.com

...how many would vote for an increased gas tax as one step toward a solution?

Twitter / clim8resistance: PR firm hired by green energy ...

PR firm hired by green energy company in UK is the one Oreskes blames for 'tobacco strategy' AGW denial - http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1173480/dong-energy-switches-public-affairs-pr-account/ …

Past Century's Global Temperature Change Is Fastest On Record : NPR

They read ice cores from polar regions that show what temperatures were like over hundreds of thousands of years...Essentially, it's warming up superfast.
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"The climate changes to come are going to be larger than anything that human civilization and agriculture has seen in its entire existence," says Gavin Schmidt, a climate researcher at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "And that is quite a sobering thought."

To End Violence Against Women, We Must Also Confront Climate Change | Frances Beinecke's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Research shows that women are 14 times more likely to die as a result of storms and other extreme weather as men. Fourteen times!

Has there been any research in this area done by people who weren't on crack?

Levin’s Last Stand - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Carl Levin’s retirement announcement today was delicious.

The millionaire Michigan senator who gifted himself a $7,500 tax break to buy his $40,000 2012 Chevy Volt said his Number One priority in his last two years in office is cleaning up fat-cat tax breaks.

Met Office Issue Advanced "Severe Cold Weather" Amber Warning for the UK | Climate Realists

There is an 80% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 1200 on Saturday and 0800 on Tuesday in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services.

David Whitehouse: Earth Cooler Today than 28% of the past 11,300 Years | Climate Realists

NSIDC : Arctic Was Ice Free In The Past | Real Science

The latest hockey stick shows that current warming is unprecedented. Dr. Walt Meier from NSIDC says something different.

Climate change: playing the health card

Launched upon the unsuspecting world today is a report headed "The Unpaid Health Bill - How coal power plants make us sick". Aimed at coal-fired electricity generation, this is a naked attempt to play the "health card", bolstered by faux economics, as a means of promoting the climate change agenda.

Translated into journalese by AFP, this becomes a tale about how Emissions from coal-fired power plants in the European Union contribute to over 18,000 premature deaths a year and cost an annual €42.8 billion.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: No Superpowers for the EU Science Adviser

When important decisions are being made the science adviser is asked to leave the room.

Global warming to influence influenza transmission? | JunkScience.com

“There is little data to confirm this, however, and it’s an interesting area for future research.”

World to Polar Bears: Drop Dead! - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

If the U.S. can’t get a ban on the trade of “polar bear parts,” how can U.S. enviros expect anything on climate change?

National Trust Declares War On 25 Wind Farms | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The National Trust has set out its battle plan for rural “warfare” with a list of 25 wind farm projects it is challenging.

Leading “Energy Expert” Frustrated That Germans Are More Scared Of Renewable Energy Than Climate Change

As Germany suffers through a record fifth colder-than-normal winter in a row and global mean temperature stalling for 15 years, Germans are having serious doubts about catastrophic warming.

1969 : Ehrlich Wanted To Poison The Food And Water Supply | Real Science

Congressmen demand investigation of EPA selectively blocking FOIAs | WashingtonExaminer.com

An internal email that appears to counsel Environmental Protection Agency officials on delaying or obstructing inconvenient Freedom of Information Act requests has sparked congressional demands for an investigation.

Senators David Vitter, R-LA, and Charles Grassley, R-IA, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, said in a letter today to Attorney General Eric Holder that the investigation should seek to determine if EPA officials stonewall FOIA requests.

New Study claiming global temps highest in 4000 years, contradicted by previous studies -- Media touted study based on 'reconstructed data' from only 73 data sites | Climate Depot

The new study is also counter to a preponderance of existing peer-reviewed studies showing the Medieval Warm Period and the Roman Warming were both as warm or warmer than today without benefit of modern emissions or SUVs.

Twitter / PeterGleick: "@LeoHickman New Scientist ...

"@LeoHickman New Scientist is calling it the "new hockey stick graph". More like Ski Jump Graph. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23247-true-face-of-climates-hockey-stick-graph-revealed.html …" With a wall at end.

Twitter / ClimateHotNews: Hear a #ReaganRepublican speak ...

Hear a #ReaganRepublican speak on #climatechange & Nat. Security. Frmr Sec. State Geo. Shultz LiveStream Noon today. http://ow.ly/iyOOH

North Dakota Senate Mulls Climate Change Study

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Taxpayer money would be better spent buying snow removal equipment in wintry North Dakota than studying what impact global warming may be having on the state, a construction worker told lawmakers Thursday.

The Senate Natural Resources Committee is mulling a resolution that would direct the committee of North Dakota legislative leaders, called Legislative Management, to study the effects of climate change. But Jeff Magrum of Hazelton told lawmakers enough studies have been done and a lot of money already has been spent worldwide looking into the issue.

Magrum, who also is an Emmons County commissioner, said if the state wants to spend money, it should buy more plows to help clear North Dakota's snow-filled roads. The snowplows could be fitted with enhanced devices to capture carbon dioxide emissions that are blamed for global warming, "if climate change is a concern," he said.
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Magrum, who owns an excavating business south central North Dakota, said he has to work outside during the state's notoriously brutal winters. He said global warming isn't a bad thing for him.
"A little bit warmer weather wouldn't matter to me," Magrum said. "I'm in the construction business."

[Did someone say ice-free by 2012?  We meant that Arctic summers could be nearly ice free by 2050]

A new analysis of the most commonly-used methods suggests Arctic sea ice extent could drop below one million square kilometres before 2050.

Could Mars flooding have caused climate change? New maps suggest the red planet has not always been dry | Mail Online

As Carbon Dioxide Levels Continue To Rise, Global Temperatures Are Not Following Suit - Forbes

New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are continuing to rise but global temperatures are not following suit. The new data undercut assertions that atmospheric carbon dioxide is causing a global warming crisis.

Large rise in CO2 emissions sounds climate change alarm | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Extreme weather, which is predicted by climate scientists to occur more frequently as the atmosphere warms and CO2 levels rise, has already been seen widely in 2013.

China and India have experienced their coldest winter in decades and Australia has seen a four-month long heat wave with 123 weather records broken during what scientists are calling its 'angry summer'.

Charlie Rose Talks to ExxonMobil's Rex Tillerson - Businessweek

Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption. If we look at our energy outlook, at things like renewable wind, solar, biofuels, we have those sources over the next 30 years growing 700 to 800 percent. But in the year 2040, they’ll supply just 1 percent.

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

Scientists: We were headed for an ice age, but greenhouse gases will almost certainly prevent that, and that's allegedly bad

Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years, Study Says - NYTimes.com

Michael E. Mann, a researcher at Pennsylvania State University who is an expert in the relevant techniques but was not involved in the new research, said the authors had made conservative data choices in their analysis.
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Scientists say that if natural factors were still governing the climate, the Northern Hemisphere would probably be destined to freeze over again in several thousand years. “We were on this downward slope, presumably going back toward another ice age,” Dr. Marcott said.

Instead, scientists believe the enormous increase in greenhouse gases caused by industrialization will almost certainly prevent that.
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Dr. Mann pointed out that the early Holocene temperature increase was almost certainly slow, giving plants and creatures time to adjust. But he said the modern spike would probably threaten the survival of many species, in addition to putting severe stresses on human civilization.

“We and other living things can adapt to slower changes,” Dr. Mann said. “It’s the unprecedented speed with which we’re changing the climate that is so worrisome.”

Polar Bear Blog – My Mistake

it is pretty apparent now that UpHere Magazine is going to ‘edit’ my article about Brian Ladoon and change its meaning and, well, the facts.

- Bishop Hill blog - Air quality

As reader Ron (to whom a tip of the hat is due) points out there is a certain irony in environmentalists doing this. In dutiful obedience to their wishes, wood-pellet boilers and other biomass heating devices have been made exempt from the provisions of the Clean Air Act.

So the greens demand actions that make the air dirtier and then sue the government for allowing this to happen. This is what is called joined-up environmentalism.

The Delusion of Independent Government Appointed Inquiries.

[Tim Ball] If you want to see commissions of inquiry designed to whitewash and divert through inadequate terms of reference, affiliations of appointees, or access to outcomes, then look at those appointed to investigate the University of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit (CRU) email leaks and scientific misbehavior. One is known as the Muir Russell Inquiry, the other the Lord Oxburgh Inquiry. The cover-up was so blatant it was easily detectable. Clive Crook, Senior editor of The Atlantic wrote a searing indictment of the whitewash.

New Data Tampering Record : Disappearing The Ice Age! | Real Science

It is trivial to demonstrate that this new hockey stick is complete, utter crap.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The truth about Craig Scott Rosebraugh, director of the alarmist "Greedy Lying Bastard" "documentary"

Before you plan to watch Rosebraugh's "documentary", it might also be useful to read what he thinks about the use of violence:

In reference of the legitimacy of political violence, often times, in the minds of those arguing for and/or committing the acts themselves, there is a belief that the decision to resort to violence comes from sound reasoning. Additionally, political violence has a long documented history globally, as a practice which has and continues to play a role in political activity. For these reasons alone, it is safe to proclaim there is a legitimacy to political violence. This is not an effort to condone or condemn it at this point, rather to create a realistic analysis of the controversial subject.

Lawrence Solomon: Bears like it hot | FP Comment | Financial Post

Over the last few decades, as the Arctic basked in warm weather, you’ve seen various polar bear communities fluctuate wildly in size, but on the whole they’ve flourished: Where once the global population hovered at levels so precariously low that some predicted extinction, it now boasts a robust 20,000 to 25,000.

If you’re a mama bear who likes to raise her cubs on land or on the ice abutting the shore — that’s wha t you do this time of year — you know that your enemy is too much cold, not too little. To feed yourself and your cubs during this arduous denning season, you cleverly catch seals as they pop up through the breathing holes for air — could Nature have made any arrangement more elegant for your survival? But when it’s too cold and the ice becomes too thick, those breathing holes close up and the seals — your main source of food — head out to sea, beyond your reach. You will not only lose your litter to starvation but you, yourself, will become so emaciated that it may take a year or two before you can put on enough weight to be able to again give birth

The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: NSW Climate Change Council "Impartial?"

Greg Bourne is Former Chief Executive of the World Wildlife Fund, Australia
John O'Connor is Chief Executive of the advocacy group, the Climate Institute.
Sam Mostyn - Director, Institute for Sustainable Solutions, University of Sydney
Andy Pitman -Co-Director, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Adam Spencer -Broadcaster with "we have our position on Climate Change" -ABC Radio

All the above are AGW propagandists - several other members of the "impartial" committee may be impartial.

Kert Davies: Legacy of Denial - Greedy Lying Bastards

What can be done to hold these individuals and corporations accountable for their actions? What court of law will find them guilty of obstruction and deception? The film shows the similarity to the tobacco industry, who fought on for years after knowing full well that cigarettes caused health problems and nicotine is addictive – straight up denial. There will be hearings, trials, cases, whistle blowers. The truth will be known.

And real people are craving answers as extreme floods and hurricanes sweep away everything they own, as “extraordinary” drought knocks farms off the map one by one, as heat waves make life unbearable. The weather is out of whack and people are waking up one by one and want to know who to blame for their misfortune.

Jim Hoggan: Clearing the PR Pollution That Clouds Climate Science - Greedy Lying Bastards

there is no debate in peer reviewed science journals

Al's Journal : "A generational shift" in oil imports

December 2012 saw the intersection of two global energy trends: the increasingly voracious energy appetite of China and the rapid surge of domestic energy production in the US. The result—for the first time ever, China overtook the US as the world’s leading oil importer.

Monckton on tour — slick oil funded operation ;-) « JoNova

What was also especially obvious at the Dalkeith-community-Hilton was the generous support of the Oil Moguls (not).

Quadrant Online - Changing sun, changing climate

[Bob Carter, Willie Soon & William Briggs] Scientists have been studying solar influences on the climate for more than 5000 years.Chinese imperial astronomers kept detailed sunspot records, and noticed that more sunspots meant warmer weather. In 1801, celebrated astronomer William Herschel, the first to observe Uranus, noted that when there were fewer spots the price of wheat soared. He surmised that less “light and heat” from the sun resulted in reduced harvests.

A species facing extinction. | Pointman's

This slow demise of so-called environmental journalism is actually an act of euthanasia, a mercy killing. To my mind, it always embodied the very worst aspects of journalism. All the grubby professional sins were there; advocacy dressed up as balanced reportage, an intolerant moral arrogance, totally one-sided reporting, knee-jerk churnalism, absolutely no distinction between opinion and factual pieces, suppression of stories that didn’t square with an approved set of viewpoints, selective misinformation, hit pieces dressed up as respectable journalism directed at their pet hate figures, a crusading willingness to sacrifice truth, by both omission and commission, in the name of a higher cause and a basic dishonesty to both the reader and their profession.
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People have by now gone through the stage of tiredly shrugging off your latest efforts to continue scaring them and are just plain ignoring you at this stage, which is why all the cuts. You’re being culled, because the bean counters are perceptive enough to know there won’t be any blowback these days from any significant quarter.

Like all species who are no longer fit for purpose, the environmental journalist is facing extinction.

Warming fastest since dawn of civilization, study shows - Science

As the fossil fuel-burning ratcheted up, the global temperatures rose 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit. That rise, Marcott said, "Is unprecedented compared to what we are showing in our reconstruction."

The reconstruction paints a picture of Earth gradually warming during the first half of the Holocene, and then, about 5,000 years ago, temperatures steadily dip to the coldest period of the Little Ice Age, about 200 years ago. Over these 5,000 years, the planet cooled 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit...

Flashback: Where did IPCC 1990 Figure 7c Come From? « Climate Audit

Hayhoe: "We have, through human emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, indefinitely delayed the onset of the next ice age and are now heading into an unknown future where humans control the thermostat of the planet"

Seth Borenstein:  Recent heat spike unlike anything in 11,000 years

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
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Marcott's data indicates that it took 4,000 years for the world to warm about 1.25 degrees from the end of the ice age to about 7,000 years ago. The same fossil-based data suggest a similar level of warming occurring in just one generation: from the 1920s to the 1940s. Actual thermometer records don't show the rise from the 1920s to the 1940s was quite that big and Marcott said for such recent time periods it is better to use actual thermometer readings than his proxies.
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The study shows the recent heat spike "has no precedent as far back as we can go with any confidence, 11,000 years arguably," said Pennsylvania State University professor Michael Mann, who wrote the original hockey stick study but wasn't part of this research. He said scientists may have to go back 125,000 years to find warmer temperatures potentially rivaling today's.

However, another outside scientist, Jeff Severinghaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography thinks temperatures may have been notably warmer just 12,000 years ago, at least in Greenland based on research by some of his colleagues.
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Marcott said the general downward trend of temperatures that reversed 100 years ago seemed to indicate the Earth was heading either toward another ice age or little ice age from about 1550 to 1850. Or it was continuing to cool naturally until greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels changed everything.
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"We have, through human emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, indefinitely delayed the onset of the next ice age and are now heading into an unknown future where humans control the thermostat of the planet," said Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, responding in an email.

Movie Review: Documentary about climate change is strictly partisan

Writer-director-producer-narrator Craig Scott Rosebraugh minces no words in this hard-hitting study of so many things going wrong with our environment. He feels that climate change denialists are morons, and he backs that up with thoughtful words from people he believes in, people who offer proof that we’re in trouble and are headed for a lot more.

Dr. Michael Mann, from the Penn State Earth System Science Center, explains how climate change is playing out in real time and is affecting our weather. Dr. Pieter Tans, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, wonders how, with our changing climate, we’ll be able to grow enough food in the future. Rosebraugh’s parade of scientists goes on and on, each one focusing on different imminent disasters if something isn’t done.

Then he lets out the loonies.

Lecture addresses political identities of climate change - News - The Lamron

On Wednesday March 6, Aaron McCright, associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University, delivered a lecture titled, “Climate Change Denial and Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States.”

The lecture was sponsored by the department of political science and international relations and was organized by Department Chair and professor Jeffrey Koch, who introduced McCright.

McCright began by defining the term “organized climate change denial,” which he described as “rejecting the reality of climate change and/or challenging its status as a problem deserving a solution.”

We Are Hot-Boxing Ourselves With Dangerous Gases at a Furious Pace | Mother Jones

That puts us at 395 parts per million, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—which is already well past the 350 ppm that some scientists say is ideal for keeping the planet livable.

He is the wind beneath our wings: Greenpeace chief Kumi Naidoo cares so much about the environment that he's going to pick 5 green ideas and try to live by them for an entire week

Twitter / kuminaidoo: Tomorrow I will pick 5 ideas ...

Tomorrow I will pick 5 ideas out of my green ideas list and promise to live by them the week leading up to @earthhour on March 23rd #IWIYW

‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ film has a truther and ELF member

‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ film uses a fake cover photo, recycled PR from 2005, cites opinion of a ‘truther’, is directed by a former ELF spokeman, and uses a big dose of hate to make its point | Watts Up With That?

Pieter Tans, keeper of the CO2 records for Mauna Loa, is a self-declared 911 Truther.
...[Paul Driessen] In case you don’t recall the name, GLB director Craig Rosebraugh used to be the mouthpiece for Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front anarchists and terrorists, who liked to brag about their firebombing of homes, cars and research labs. Nick Nichols and I discussed him and his exploits in some depth in Nick’s Rules for Corporate Warriors, pages 46, 47, 50, 217 and 306. He was investigated, and his computer hard drive was searched, but I don’t think the authorities were ever able to link him directly to the terrorists he assisted, and don’t believe he was ever successfully prosecuted.

When called to testify before a congressional committee that was investigating eco-terrorism, he took the Fifth on every question he was asked.

Do NOT miss this: Warmist web site lists names and provides photos of global warming hoax "heroes" and "bastards"

The Heroes - Greedy Lying Bastards

[includes Hansen, Hoggan, Hedegaard, Mann, Waxman, Monbiot, Ban Ki-Moon]

Bastards - Greedy Lying Bastards

[includes the Koch brothers, Monckton, Bush, Cheney, Clarence Thomas, Morano, Inhofe]

Kevin Trenberth, writing on the "exposethebastards.com" website: "The huge denial machine exposed by the documentary “Greedy Lying Bastards” is very well funded by vested interests"

Kevin Trenberth: So What Should Be Done About Climate Change and the Vested Interests? - Greedy Lying Bastards

China now emits more carbon dioxide per year than any other country. They are changing our atmosphere, and by doing so they are changing our climate. We ought to be outraged!

But by the same token, the United States has cumulatively emitted more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other country, and because carbon dioxide has a long lifetime, the US is more responsible for global warming than any other country.
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The huge denial machine exposed by the documentary “Greedy Lying Bastards” is very well funded by vested interests.

Developed Nations Must Cut Emissions In Half By 2020, Says New Study | ThinkProgress

WRI has outlined how “international clubs” could make a difference.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows next IPCC report may project ~35% more global warming

Despite evidence that the IPCC models have greatly exaggerated global warming in comparison to observations showing no warming over the past 17 years, a paper published today in the Journal of Climate indicates that the latest generation of models for the next IPCC report will project more warming and sea ice loss than those of the last IPCC report.

Twitter / clim8resistance: The most remarkable thing is ...

The most remarkable thing is how well humans are doing compared to 12K years ago in spite of this heat. @richardabetts @aDissentient @nmrqip

Worker Slowdown in Global Warming World | Duke Dean's Blog: The Green Grok

So bottom line: labor productivity is on a downward spiral.  [Is it?  In Minneapolis, if the average temperature warms from 45 degrees F to 47 degrees F, will that cause  productivity to go down?]

Twitter / eilperin: And if you care about the ...

And if you care about the climate, consider backing the Extreme Realities film project via Kickstarter: http://kck.st/ZDEShx

Sally Jewell, REI Chief Executive, Appears Before Senate Panel - NYTimes.com

“Leaning into oil and gas development is an important part of the mission of the Bureau of Land Management and also of the Department of Interior,” Ms. Jewell said
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She also said that climate change was real, but dodged questions about whether she supported a carbon tax to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases responsible for the warming planet.

“A carbon tax is not something that would come before me, and the president has made it clear he is not pursuing a carbon tax at this point,” Ms. Jewell said.

40×35: A Zero-Carbon Energy Target for the World’s Largest Economies | ThinkProgress

While the U.N. climate process works through the difficult task of creating a new comprehensive climate treaty by 2015 — and then works five more years to ratify it by 2020 — the people of the world are growing more and more impatient.  [Really?]

US proposal to ban polar bear trade FAILS | polarbearscience

A proposal by the US to ban cross-border trade in polar bears and their parts was defeated on Thursday at an international meeting.

UN Climate Chief: ‘Climate change vulnerability has a woman’s face’ | JunkScience.com

“Women are likely to be worse affected by natural disasters.”

Greens: With Chavez dead, Venezuela should go low-carbon for climate | JunkScience.com

“The death of the Venezuelan president opens the door for a policy debate on a critical issue for Venezuela and the world’s security: climate change.” How about a policy debate on freedom?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper predicts fewer cyclones in North Atlantic & Europe due to climate change

A paper published today in the Journal of Climate projects a decrease in extratropical cyclones in the North Atlantic & Europe in response to climate change.

Vahrenholt & Lüning: “Today’s IPCC Is Clueless…IPCC Models Unable To Reproduce Documented Climate Of The Past”

The geological factual basis is clear: Fluctuations in solar activity significantly influenced the development of the climate throughout the history of the Earth.

BP officially quits the solar business | Grist

“We have thrown in the towel on solar,” [BP CEO] Bob Dudley said after delivering a wide-ranging speech Wednesday.

“Not that solar energy isn’t a viable energy source, but we worked at it for 35 years, and we really never made money,” he added.

Atmospheric electricity affects cloud height - physicsworld.com

For decades, scientists have argued over whether there is a link between cosmic rays and cloud cover, which in turn could affect climate. Now two atmospheric physicists in the UK have discovered that global atmospheric electricity – which itself is altered by cosmic rays, space weather and El Niño – affects the base height of certain types of clouds. [Via DB]

The UN's climate-change hypocrisy | The Daily Caller

A recent United Nations report admonished the world for not becoming “climate neutral” fast enough to avoid the “catastrophic consequences” of climate change. It’s an odd complaint for the U.N. to make, considering that the international body has failed to reduce its own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The average human generates 4.637 metric tons of GHGs each year, not including the air he exhales. U.N. workers emit an average of over 8.2 metric tons of GHGs each year — just in the course of their professional lives.

There are over 215,000 workers at 54 U.N. agencies scattered in 530 duty stations around the globe. In 2008, these U.N. workers emitted 1.741 million metric tons of GHGs. Air travel contributed 4.02 metric tons per worker, 48% of the total. By 2010, emissions had risen to 1.766 million metric tons, with air travel accounting for 51% of emissions.

Settled science: Human CO2 emissions made the temperature shoot up starting in the late 19th century, or maybe the late 20th century, or something

- Bishop Hill blog - Marcott et al

New Scientist covers the paper here. Interestingly they reckon the temperature rise began in the late 19th century.

Then, in the late 19th century, the graph shows temperatures shooting up, driven by humanity's greenhouse gas emissions.

This seems odd, because it is generally understood that carbon dioxide emissions were too small to affect the climate before the 1950s.

The Global Warming Desk Reference - Bruce Elliot Johansen - Google Books

[1989: Stephen Schneider wrote, "I strongly suspect that by the year 2000 increasing numbers of people will point to the 1980s as the time the global warming signal emerged from the natural background of climatic noise"]

Settled science: We know what the Earth's temperature was at a point in time thousands of years ago, based on shell and pollen evidence with a median sampling interval of 120 years?

Scientists Find an Abrupt Warm Jog After a Very Long Cooling - NYTimes.com

[Mann] I’m relatively convinced that they have the resolution to capture a century-long warming trend in the past were there one comparable to the recent trend.
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[Robert Rohde] They rely on proxy data that is widely spaced in time (median sampling interval 120 years) and in many cases may also be subject to significant dating uncertainty.

Scoff-worthy claim from new hockey stick promoter Shaun Marcott: "we can be dead certain [the shells] are recording the temperature we think they're recording"

A Bigger, Badder Climate "Hockey Stick" | Mother Jones

Today, it's getting a makeover: A study published in Science reconstructs global temperatures further back than ever before—a full 11,300 years. The new analysis finds that the only problem with Mann's hockey stick was that its handle was about 9,000 years too short...the key, said lead author Shaun Marcott of Oregon State University, is that temperatures are shooting through the roof faster than we've ever seen.
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"There's been a lot of work that's gone into the calibrations, so we can be dead certain [the shells] are recording the temperature we think they're recording," he said.
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Mann himself, who literally wrote the book on attacks on climate scientists, said in an email to Climate Desk that he was "certain that professional climate change deniers will attack the study and the authors, in an effort to discredit this important work," especially given the close ties between the two scientists' research. "It will therefore be looked at as a threat to vested interests who continue to deny that human-changed climate change is a reality."

Marcott admitted he was apprehensive about charging into the fully-mobilized troll army, but said he was grateful scientists like Mann had "gone through hell" before him to build a support network for harassed climate scientists.

"When Michael came along there was a lot more skepticism about global warming, but the public has come a long way," he said. "I'm curious to see how the skeptics are going to take this paper."

We're saved!: Planet-healer Al Gore takes a fossil-fueled trip to an LA environmental fundraiser, where one of the prizes was a week in a private villa at a Thailand resort

Al Gore and UCLA institute champion climate fixes together at fundraiser / UCLA Newsroom

Celebrities attending included Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Courtney Cox, Jeff Goldblum, Zach Braff, Sarah Silverman and Lawrence Bender, an IoES board member and producer of "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Pulp Fiction."
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The crowd raised an extra $56,500 for UCLA's environmental institute with a live auction featuring prizes such as a week in a private villa at a Thailand resort, donated by the Pritzkers, and a custom full-home solar-power package, donated by Verengo Solar.

Report: Most Insurers not prepared for climate change | JunkScience.com

“Prepared” apparently means “politically correct.”

Investors Seek Ways to Profit From Global Warming - Businessweek

When investors think about global warming, “there is an overemphasis of its negative impacts,” says Michael Richardson, head of business development at Land Commodities, which advises rich individuals and sovereign wealth funds on purchases of Australian farmland. The company’s pitch: The gloomy prospect of hotter temperatures, scarce arable land, and rapidly rising populations will make inland cropland Down Under—far from rising seas yet close to Asia’s hungry customers—more valuable.

Kansas Global Warming Denying Bill Dies By Default.

[Warmist Phil Plait] reality doesn’t care what you think. The planet’s still warming up [or not] whether you know it is or not.

Melting Arctic ice will make way for more ships and more species invasions : Nature News & Comment

Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, says that once introduced, a new species can outcompete everything that has evolved over millennia...“Invasives use up the lion’s share of resources, and whatever biodiversity that was there falls apart,” Ziska says.
...“It’s basically opening up the entire Arctic region as a huge playground for invasive species..."

Twitter / BjornLomborg: Here's my testimony to #Congress ...

Here's my testimony to #Congress about "Policy Relevant #Climate Issues in Context": http://lomborg.com/sites/default/files/Congress%20testimony%20March%202013.pdf …

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Want to understand the climate ...

Want to understand the climate debate? Then you must read this paper by @MCNisbet on @billmckibben politics + history http://shorensteincenter.org/2013/03/natures-prophet-bill-mckibben-as-journalist-public-intellectual-and-activist/ …

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: From @MCNisbet "McKibben’s ...

From @MCNisbet "McKibben’s goal has been to generate a mass consciousness in support of limiting economic growth and consumption"

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: My take on @MCNisbet analysis ...

My take on @MCNisbet analysis of Bill McKibben: a brilliant, effective, passionate man, who also is elitist, anti-growth, anti-tech, wrong