Our carbon tax just got more insane | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

We really do look ridiculous in our gold-plated global warming evangelism.

Booker: polar bears – warmist baiting

Any mention of polar bear populations not declining is bound to get the warmists riled, so today Booker is playing to the gallery, writing about … polar bear populations not declining.

Add a tilt at St David the Attenborough, the BBC, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and Al Gore, light blue touch paper and retire to a safe distance. Then watch the fun on the comments threat, as the warmists come storming out of their burrows, spitting and snarling with fury.

Pity the poor dears that their holy icon, the polar bear, is alive and well in the Arctic, the population currently greater in extent than at any time in 30 years. But such a vital part of the anthropogenic warming myths is the symbolism of polar bears under threat that the warmists can't afford to ignore the challenge.

McIntyre finds the Marcott ‘trick’ – How long before Science has to retract Marcott et al? | Watts Up With That?

It seems the uptick in the 20th century is not real, being nothing more than an artifact of shoddy procedures where the dates on the proxy samples were changed for some strange reason.

Climategate 3.0: Climategater to World Bank – Economic damage estimates from global warming should be ‘treated very skeptically’; ‘Our methodology is so flaky’ | JunkScience.com

not know the cost of global warming damage

Spain - Drivers rescued from the snow

In Baza between Pinarillo and Los Prados del Rey, five people were rescued after being trapped by heavy snowfall in their cars. They had no doubt that being in a 4×4 was guarantee enough of being able to cope, but they were wrong. They had to be dragged out of the snow drift by a heavy, fire-service vehicle sent from Baza to rescue them – even so it took three hours to achieve it.

C3: Keystone Pipeline CO2 Emissions Represent a Tiny Fraction of Historical Emissions - No Threat

The greens' Keystone Pipeline polemics are entirely based on emotions and hysteria versus objective facts and science - despite the vast left wing funding of climate change/global warming alarmists, the empirical evidence remains irrefutable and unequivocal...CO2 emissions from pipeline activities is figuratively a solitary speck of krill on the Southern Ocean's surface

Leading Glaciologist Finds That LIA Was Global | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Jean Grove was absolutely clear, both the MWP and LIA were global events.

The Harm-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named | Planet3.0

[Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.] Just this week a Republican Senator demanded that the following language be stricken from a noncontroversial Senate resolution. We pass resolutions here in the Senate all the time by unanimous consent. A Republican Senator said: No, I am going to withhold my consent. I am going to deny the ability of the resolution unless this offending language is removed. What was the offending language? I will quote:

“[W]omen in developing countries are disproportionately affected by changes in climate because of their need to secure water, food, and fuel for their livelihood.”

This body unanimously approved identical language in the last Congress, but today that mention of climate change in an otherwise noncontroversial resolution draws automatic Republican opposition.

Experts: Weather conditions that created 1913 flood are rare

Climate change takes weather to the extremes, but it’s unclear if rising temperatures raise the odds of a repeat of the 1913 flood, Ohio’s state climatologist said.

Global warming is responsible for periods of prolonged drought, but also the increase in intense bursts of rain, he said. In recent years, we’ve seen both of those in Ohio.

Richard Lindzen: Climate Science – is it currently designed to answer questions? | Tallbloke's Talkshop

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

The President’s Day Snowstorm of 1979 | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

While snowstorms now seem to get blamed on global warming, it is worth looking back at one of the greatest snowstorms of the 20thC, “The President’s Day Storm” of 1979.

Die Klimazwiebel: Interview with Julia Hargreaves

The Japanese approach to climate science is very different to that in the UK. I think this is because the Japanese are less questioning of authority, and therefore tend not to ask “why” so readily.

Bastardi: "coldest opening to spring since 1984 for US"

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Wow , snow down to I-40 corridor, ...

Wow , snow down to I-40 corridor, coldest opening to spring since 1984 for US Believe intensity of cold coming! pic.twitter.com/Z3DdLkKzTD

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: 2 Weeks from now, after ...

2 Weeks from now, after newsmaking cold and snow, I am sure global warming will be getting blamed same way it was blamed for heat last March

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: 18z CFSV2 has coldest end game ...

18z CFSV2 has coldest end game to March since 1996!
#arcticattack pic.twitter.com/TsfaxvVFVN

[But are those the only two possible hurricane causes?]: Pastor Blames Hurricane on Gays, Ignores Climate Change - YouTube

Another climate delay from the Obama admin? | Grist

Hey guys, keep in mind that Obama only has 1,406 days left in office …

- Bishop Hill blog - Tightening scientific belts

[Mike Kelly] Some points that you have not considered, which blunt the strength of your argument: The scientific enterprise is not immune from the peril of obesity. Periodic downturns in funding provide an opportunity to weed out the less than effective. Even you I think would agree that much of the ‘science around climate change’ is second rate – repeatedly drawing unwarranted conclusions from incomplete data and extrapolating from simulations of model climates that have not been robustly verified in terms than an engineer would regard as essential as the basis for future action. I could go round other subjects, you will have your own, where a bit belt-tightening would be positively beneficial. If much of the second-rate were squeezed out, US science would be in a better place. During Mrs Thatcher’s period as Prime Minister, UK science was squeezed hard, and I would argue came out of it better, leaner and fitter.

Twitter / RichardTol: The latest hockey stick is ...

The latest hockey stick is due to sample selection bias? http://climateaudit.org/2013/03/15/how-marcottian-upticks-arise/ … Palaeoclimatologists should take a stats class, 101 suffices

Greenpeace Inc.: The $336 Million-A-Year Multinational Behemoth

At $336 million in global revenue and $228 million in direct program spending, Greenpeace global revenue dwarfs that of most industry associations.

Joe Nocera: A Real Carbon Solution

Sometime this summer, in Odessa, Tex., the Summit Power Groupplans to break ground on a $2.5 billion coal gasification power plant. Summit has named this the Texas Clean Energy Project. With good reason.

Part of the promise of this power plant is its use of gasified coal; because the gasification process doesn’t burn the coal, it makes for far cleaner energy than a traditional coal-fired plant.

But another reason this plant — and a handful of similar plants — has such enormous potential is that it will capture some 90 percent of the facility’s already reduced carbon emissions. Some of those carbon emissions will be used to make fertilizer. The rest will be sold to the oil industry, which will push it into the ground, as part of a process called enhanced oil recovery.

Barely 2,000 Onshore Wind Farm Jobs In Scotland | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Onshore wind farms support barely 2,000 jobs in Scotland despite Alex Salmond’s claim they are a major source of employment, ministers have admitted.

White House: Keystone XL Pipeline Not A Climate Change Cure | TIME.com

White House aides are clearly uncomfortable with the current campaign from their left, a fact that quickly became clear on the flight to Chicago. “Thousands of miles of pipeline have been built since President Obama took office, and that hasn’t had a measurable impact on climate change,” said Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest, on board Air Force One. “The truth is what we need to do is take an all of the above approach.”

When I asked if he was saying that further green energy investment was more important to fighting climate change than stopping the new pipeline, he did not hesitate. “There is no question about that,” he said.

A&B seeks funding for climate change adaptation

Black-Layne co-chairs a finance committee charged with setting the performance criteria for the [UN Green Climate Hoax Fund].

She is in Berlin this week where the board of the CGF is meeting.

“The fund is at its very early stages, so we are designing rules of procedure, voting, the selection of the seating of the secretariat, establishing the staffing of the secretariat and various things of operationalising it,” the chief environment officer explained.

Energy: Deep sigh of relief | The Economist

The shale gas and oil bonanza is transforming America’s energy outlook and boosting its economy

Cold Feet? Obama Likely To Delay Carbon Rules For New Power Plants | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The Obama administration is leaning toward revising its landmark proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, according to several individuals briefed on the matter, a move that would delay tougher restrictions and could anger many environmentalists.

EU Leaders Weigh Green Goals Against Growth | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

A leaked document shows that EU leaders are thinking about putting the brakes on their green ambitions in favor of growth-inducing policies. A 2008 EU law requires the bloc to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020. Wide-eyed green optimists hoped the EU would set 40 percent reduction goals for 2030. But as lawmakers prepare to draft those targets (a first draft is due by the end of this year), the Eurozone’s debt crisis and austerity budgets are tempering that outlook.

Large UK Wind Farms Are Net CO2 Emitters | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Large British wind farms will actually release as much carbon dioxide as fossil-fuel power plants, according to a study conducted by researchers from Aberdeen University and published in the journal Nature.

Could Republicans ever support a carbon tax? Bob Inglis thinks so.

So has he actually managed to sell any conservatives on this idea yet? That’s the tricky part.
...
It’s also worth reiterating that Inglis has lost this battle before, and badly. Back in 2010, while still in the House, Inglis told a town hall in South Carolina that he believed that humans were indeed warming the planet — a heretical position for many on the right. That fall, Inglis lost the GOP primary to a more conservative candidate, Trey Gowdy.

Snow and ice buildup caves in 2 Prince George roofs - British Columbia - CBC News

Seedlings in collapsed Canfor nursery are worth about $3 million

[Warmist "Boston Phoenix" to go silent] - James Fallows - The Atlantic

That tweet came yesterday afternoon from the Boston Phoenix, the storied but struggling alt-weekly, for which the current print issue will be its last. There will be an online-only issue next week, containing an important piece by my friend and fellow climate activist-journalist Bill McKibben. And then the rest is silence.
...
To put it simply and bluntly: Carly championed not only the climate issue but, equally important, the young and increasingly powerful grassroots climate movement, at a time when virtually no one else (outside of environmental blogs and magazines) could be bothered to give them a serious thought.

Internationally Renowned IPCC Scientist Prof. Mojib Latif Now Postpones Warm Winters By Up To 100 Years!

Latif: Recent cold winters are just weather

Wait, what?: Maple syrup season "getting a late start this year, by about a few weeks in some parts of Minnesota and western Wisconsin"

Success Of Maple Syrup Season In Limbo « CBS Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – If you’re getting tired of waiting for spring, so are the people who tap maple syrup.

The syrup season is getting a late start this year, by about a few weeks in some parts of Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

Flashback: Global Warming Threatens Maple Syrup Production: 2012 Ninth-Warmest Year Since 1880

Timothy D. Perkins, Ph.D., director of the University of Vermont’s Proctor Maple Research Center, testified before Congress in 2007, that maple syrup season starts approximately 8 days earlier than it did 40 years ago

CG3: The Gold Medalist « Climate Audit

[Phil Jones] In the email below, Mike seems to have won the gold medal for statistical abuse and I have the silver. I seemed to have tried too hard to explain my techniques. I tried really hard to get the gold medal – Mike has a degree in maths/stats ! I’ll have to redeem myself in AR4 and switch the places for the 2008 Olympiad – the AR4 coming out in 2007 should put me well in the lead.

Climategate 3.0: Mann (circa 1999) skeptical of Marcott (circa 2013) | JunkScience.com

Amid petty bickering over credit, Mann offers skepticism for paleo temps more than 1,000 years old

Climategate 3.0: UEA got $143K from World Wildlife Fund to prepare COP-5 propaganda brochures | JunkScience.com

That is, if WWF ever got around to paying them.

Marcott’s Zonal Reconstructions « Climate Audit

According to Marcott, NHX temperatures increased by 1.9 deg C between 1920 and 1940, a surprising result even for the most zealous activists. But for the rest of us, given the apparent resiliency of our species to this fantastic increase over a mere 20 years, it surely must provide a small measure of hope for resiliency in the future.

The Irish Famine Of 1741

The coldest year on the Central England Temperature record was 1740, which came in at an astonishing low of 6.8C. To put this into perspective, last year was 9.7C, and the previous occasion annual temperatures had dipped below 9.0C was 1725.

Make no mistake, it was a horrifically grim year, and not just in England. Much of NW Europe was similarly affected, but possibly Ireland was worst of all hit, where it led to the famine of 1740-41.

A Climate Catastrophe Hole | Real Science

I keep hearing that climate change is about to kill us all.

But for some reason – no matter where I am, the climate seems to be pretty much like it always was. I spend two to three hours a day outdoors riding my bike, playing soccer, taking hikes, etc. and I probably would have noticed if the climate was collapsing. Whatever that means.

Are these imbeciles simply incapable of enjoying life? Perhaps I live in some sort of climate catastrophe hole, and just don’t see it.

Climategate 3.0: Wolfgang Cramer wants to punish journal for publishing Pat Michaels | JunkScience.com

[Cramer] I was extremely frustrated when they recently decided to publish one of Pat Michaels’, in my mind, rather useless political sermons, against my
strong advice as a reviewer

Obama Anti-Global-Warming Order Is Another Boot On The Economy - Investors.com

Anti-Industry: The president reportedly will tell federal agencies they can't approve major projects until their impact on global warming has been weighed. Why halt commerce in an economy in dire need of more?

Cuccinelli blasted on climate change - The Washington Post

RICHMOND — U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse frequently takes to the Senate floor to warn against climate change, having done so, by his count, at least two dozen times in the past year. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before the Rhode Island Democrat got around to calling out Virginia’s most prominent global-warming skeptic by name.

Climategate 3.0: World Wildlife Fund pays Climategaters to develop list of warmist scientists for 1997 Kyoto meeting; ‘Disaster’ if skeptics build larger list | JunkScience.com

“Disaster is we only get 250 and they ended up getting 400.”

Climategate 3.0: WWF asks for ‘gaters help against skeptical questions at Alaska media event; ‘Anything to fend off the naysayers’ | JunkScience.com

Note that the World Wildlife Fund also tries to co-sponsor a meeting with the Dutch department of public health (RIVM) on climate change.

The Marcott Hockey-stick: smoothing the past and getting a spike from almost no data? « JoNova

There are two factors in the new Marcott paper that are major red flags. For one, there is hardly any data in the modern end of the graph. Ponder how researchers can find 5,000 year old foraminifera deposits, but not ones from 1940? Two: they’ve smoothed the heck out of longer periods. Marcott et al clearly say there is “…essentially no variability preserved at periods shorter than 300 years…” So if there were, say, occurrences of a warming rise exactly like the last century, this graph won’t show them.

SRES: A Big Discussion in1998 | Tallbloke's Talkshop

[Hugh Pitcher] I have concerns about GNP growth rates being much too high, leading to per capita incomes in 2100 that are a factor of two to
three too high–implying impacts wiol be less of a problem.

Obama pitches clean-fuel car plan in Chicago but signals retreat on Keystone | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Barack Obama's grand vision of action on climate change shrank to $200m a year to fund research into clean fuel cars, with signs of retreat on the big environmental issues of the day.

Rep. Steve Scalise Claims Obama Wearing Coat at Inauguration Disproves Climate Change (Video)

According to atmospheric physics, global warming also includes instances of global cooling.

Quadrant Online - Peers review Oreskes and find her wanting

People with books to flog buzz regularly through Australia, those with the correct ideological orientation getting guernseys via the ABC and other sympathetic media outlets. Naomi Oreskes enjoyed that microphone-at-the-ready treatment last year, when she touched down to push her book, Merchants of Doubt, which re-stitches the hoary meme that shadowy string-pullers are underwriting climate-change sceptics.

Climategate 3.0 … Of saints, sanity and premature pronouncements | The View From Here

So maybe what we should be doing – instead of expending hours complaining (and/or trying to guess The Saint’s identity) and arguing while the “translated” documents are being compiled into a useful database – is taking the time to revisit the material we already have at our virtual fingertips to see what we might have missed.

The new Mini Ice Age is upon us! | Ice Age Now

“MIA (Mini Ice Age ) fingerprint now overwhelming,” says astrophysicist Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction.com.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The rise and fall of the solar power industry: Even the Chinese solar panel industry is beginning to crumble

Even China's government supported solar panel industry is beginning to crumble. The collapse of Suntech Power, one of the world's largest manufacturers, is just the beginning:

Climategate 3.0: Worries about public learning that WWF funded the list of scientists; ‘It will be perceived to be biased’ | JunkScience.com

So maybe the Union of Concerned Scientists could do the distribution instead?

When will this green madness cease? – Telegraph Blogs

It's not just in Britain where these double standards apply. In the US when a fossil fuel company is responsible for bird deaths, it faces near-certain prosecution. But when it's a wind energy company doing the killing, it gets a free pass...

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: NG up another 10 cents.. ...

NG up another 10 cents.. The cold hard facts are the market was caught thinking winter was over.. along with rest of country

Twitter / RogerAPielkeSr: M.Cunningham at ...

M.Cunningham at http://www.livingontherealworld.org/?p=849  - anti-AGW measures may have been misguided - due to negative returns and muted human caused warming.

Paul Krugman’s Old Time Climate Religion | NoFrakkingConsensus

Anyone who deviates from my religious beliefs deserves to burn in hell.

This is the climate debate in the 21st century. This is the quality of analysis exhibited by a Nobel laureate.

How the White House thinks about climate change, in 7 charts

If the world doesn’t tackle global warming soon, the United States will get uncomfortably hot.  [I'm not a climate scientist, but since when would slight warming from 55.3 degrees F. equal "uncomfortably hot"?]

Flashback: At 55.3 Degrees, 2012 Was the Hottest Year in American History - J.K. Trotter - The Atlantic Wire

Data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 114 weather stations established an average temperature of 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, a whole degree higher than the previous record in 1998. The NOAA summed up our sweltering, sweaty condition

Hungary sends tanks to rescue thousands of snowbound motorists

Transport chaos across eastern Europe.

T-72 battle tanks trundled along icy roads, while thousands of people waited in cars on the M1 motorway from Budapest to Vienna as the snow built up around them.

Twitter / enviroblack: Obama's energy plan ...

Obama's energy plan http://goo.gl/z0XQJ  a curate's egg - bottom line is max fossil burning for 10 years means 2C is prob out of sight

Yale scientist tells Bill Moyers we need to end the silence on climate change | The Raw Story

“I have a nine-year-old son — he’s going to be my age in the year 2050,” Leiserowitz said. “I don’t want him to live in the world that we’re currently hurtling towards.”

Climate Denier at CPAC: Trust Me, I'm an Astronaut | Mother Jones

Afterwards, I caught up with Cunningham, who was autographing his 17-page pamphlet, "Facts vs. Faith." Why, I asked, did he think so few climate scientists were willing to come on board with his arguments? He rejected the premise. "I don't think there's few climate scientists," Cunningham said. "I think only a few climate scientists have bought into this nonsense."

From yet another scoff-worthy Washington Post climate hoax editorial: "Mr. Revkin points out that perhaps the biggest unknown that will affect the future of the climate is human behavior"

Global warming detailed in new temperature records - The Washington Post

The most dramatic implication of the study is not the magnitude of the current warming but its extremely rapid pace.
...Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, suggested to the New York Times’s Andrew Revkin that the temperature estimates match more robust records of recent temperatures so well that their conclusions should be taken seriously. They should also spur more research.
...
...Mr. Revkin points out that perhaps the biggest unknown that will affect the future of the climate is human behavior.

So I asked the Vatican about global warming... Special Report - Green - Catholic Online

http://www.catholic.org/green/story.php?id=50128
I trust the Holy Church and the wisdom of the scientists it employs.

Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz: 'Climate Change Is Urgent, Solvable, Human-Caused, and Real'

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/14/brian-schatz-interview-climate-change-hawaii-senator
Some economists believe that the social cost of carbon is closer to $900 per ton than $15 per ton. Schatz wants to find the sweet spot of a price that is sufficiently meaningful to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy.

Gov. Brown Rejects 'Ideological Bandwagon' on Hydraulic Fracturing

http://www.energyindepth.org/gov-jerry-brown-rejects-activists-ideological-bandwagon/

Leading German climatologist: "Climate research was hijacked by politicians"

http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2013/03/leading-german-climatologist-climate.html

"Climate research was hijacked by politicians, in order to make their decisions look scientifically given and without any alternative". That is the key message in German climatologist, IPCClead writer Hans von Storch's new book

Paul Krugman, climate, and inconceivable sins

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/KoEOkL36KzA/paul-krugman-climate-and-inconceivable.html
it's preposterous to suggest that it is a sin to be a climate skeptic – to realize that the climate change panic is an irrational and immoral social construct that is driven by ideology and petty personal interests of those who promote this garbage.

Climategate 3.0: Mann to Jones (circa 1998) — ‘Happy to make my [codes, data, etc.] available’; Mann to McIntyre (circa 2005) — Get lost

http://junkscience.com/2013/03/15/climategate-3-0-mann-to-jones-circa-1998-happy-to-make-my-codes-data-etc-available-mann-to-mcintyre-circa-2005-get-lost/

Photo of the week: Kyoto wind turbine hits the deck

http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/photo-of-the-week-kyoto-wind-turbine-hits-the-deck/ A 38-ton wind turbine crashed 50 meters to the ground in Kyoto Prefecture after the steel column supporting it snapped, according to officials. The massive Dutch-made turbine, which sat atop a Japanese-made steel column, was part of a mountain wind farm. It was put up in 2001 with an expected life of at least 17 years.

Climategate 3.0: Greenpeace solicits Climategater to ghostwrite fact sheet; Willing to ‘pay standard rates’ | JunkScience.com

http://junkscience.com/2013/03/15/climategate-3-0-greenpeace-solicits-climategater-to-ghostwrite-fact-sheet-willing-to-pay-standard-rates/

Could global warming change tornado season, too? - WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather & Sports

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/21653912/could-global-warming-change-tornado-season-too

"We've had a dramatic increase in the variability of tornado occurrence," Brooks said.

The jet stream, a major player in tornado formation, has been in a state of flux, varying wildly in recent years, said Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann.

A Quarter Century Of Arctic Devastation

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/a-quarter-century-of-arctic-devastation
Arctic ice area is almost identical to the same date in 1989

UN report: human progress may be reversed by climate change | Greenpeace International

http://m.greenpeace.org/international/en/high/news/Blogs/makingwaves/un-report-human-progress-may-be-reversed-by-c/blog/44364/
So the global South got a raw deal from industrialisation and now it's happening again from industrialisation's monster child, climate change.

Global Warming Has Peaked…Set To Switch To Cooling. “If You Look At History, This Is Easy To See”

http://notrickszone.com/2013/03/15/global-warming-has-peaked-set-to-switch-to-cooling-if-you-look-at-history-this-is-easy-to-see/

Krugman: "You can deny global warming (and may you be punished in the afterlife for doing so — this kind of denial for petty personal or political reasons is an almost inconceivable sin)."

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/everyday-externalities/?smid=tw-share

Hockey Stick Redux | Power Line

There are two fundamental problems with Marcott’s claims. First, thermometers have been in existence for only a very small portion of the last 11,000 years. It is hard enough–some say impossible–to calculate even the current average temperature of the Earth. To compare 100 years of contemporary records against reconstructions of thousands of years based on proxies like tree rings and ice cores is, at best, matching an apple against millenia of oranges. Second, the Marcott reconstruction is contradicted by just about everything we know about the temperature history of the last 11,000 years.

Climate: Time to Shift Verb Tenses | Power Line

For a long time I and others have argued that the climate campaign’s crusade for carbon constraints (how’s that for alliteration?*) is failing. Between the total farce of the Kyoto protocol (the climate diplomacy equivalent to the Kellogg-Briand Pact) and the collapse of cap and trade in the last Congress (the climate policy equivalent of wage and price controls), I think it is time to change verb tenses on this subject, from “is failing” to “has failed.”

Man Made CO2 Is The Planet’s Thermostat | Real Science

Leading experts say that CO2 controls the planet’s temperature. That is why there was an ice age 450 million years ago, with CO2 more than ten times as abundant as at present.

Early Spring Arrives In Minnesota | Real Science

Climate experts tell us that global warming has made spring arrive earlier. That is why it is -21C in Minnesota this week.

Overpopulation Update : Only Nine Manhattans Of Ice Per Polar Bear In The Ice-Free Arctic | Real Science

So I'm in a lobby this morning with The Weather Channel on.  The programming seems to be a loop of climate change sob stories, some mentions of how great the warm March weather last year was, a story about the lack of tornadoes this year, and information about unseasonably cold weather in many parts of the U.S.

Settled junk science: Although natural reasons for variations in East African rains are "poorly understood", CO2 may account for 99% of the risk of long rains failure

Humanitarian disaster blamed on climate change - environment - 01 March 2013 - New Scientist

[March 1, 2013] Natural mechanisms probably also played a role in the rain failure. Sea surface temperatures over the Indian Ocean vary, and this seems to affect rain patterns over sub-Saharan Africa. The problem is that the natural mechanism – and the extent of its control over the rains – is poorly understood.

The team calculate that climate change is responsible for between 24 per cent and 99 per cent of the risk of long rains failure.

This old ClimateGate email deserves much more attention: Tom Melvin privately shares a laughably long list of specific reasons why trees aren't reliable thermometers

This is previously-released email number 2881.   

I think Mr. FOIA did a very good job of selecting material for past ClimateGate email releases.  That said, I would be surprised if there isn't more un-outed "good stuff" lurking somewhere in the 220,000-email release.

FOIA – Select UV and Tree Rings | Musings from the Chiefio

date: Wed Oct 14 13:51:06 2009
from: Tom Melvin
...
By June we are unlikely to have the long Eurasian paper ready to discuss.
Would it be better for you to present on Divergence e.g.

CHALLENGES POSED BY DIVERGENCE
1. Problem with curve-fitting e.g. Hugershoff (Briffa 1998) and trend distortion – part solution Signal free.
2. Problem with mixing sloping and horizontal curve fitting in Arstan (e.g. D’Arrigo 2004) – part solution RCS.
3. End effect problems with RCS (Briffa – Hughes book) – e.g. sample bias
4. Problem with updating chronologies (TTHH and Grudd 2008, Tornetrask)
5. Potential problem with Crown dieback (e.g. responders / non responders)
6. Potential MXD in sapwood problem ????
7. Potential competition problem – tree density changes RCS shape (Helama 2006)
8. Problem with non-linear response / skewed index distribution (Barber, Wilmking etc)
9. Remove all these and residual is real divergence – problem with identifying cause:
CO2 change / Nitrogen fertilisation / Global dimming / UV light / Drought stress/

Conclusion – Lots of work to do to clarify situation.
I would present on PBS//GUESS work.
We need to prepare abstracts in next week or so.
Tom

WaPo Blames Failed Snowquester On Global Warming | Real Science

Ahead of Snowquester, they pre-emptively blamed the heavy snow they were predicting on global warming.

Then the storm didn’t materialize, and now they blame the lack of snow on global warming – despite the fact that the temperature was ten degrees below normal.

Moscow - Biggest March snowfall in 50 years - Video

Up to 25 cm (10 inches) of snow expected.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: State College, PA - If Caesar ...

State College, PA - If Caesar Had Been a Climatologist: Mark Antony's New Speech http://shar.es/ecZOk  via @sharethis Ides of Mar special

Twitter / Old_Holborn: Comic Relief Climate Change ...

Comic Relief Climate Change Officer £45K http://bit.ly/10VXPAs

Adam Greenberg: "Funeral for Our Future" Results in More Arrests...

We will resist in tree-sits along the pipeline route--even inside the pipe itself. We will resist on the streets. We will resist in the offices of the companies building and investing in this pipeline. We will resist in campaign headquarters of politicians supporting the pipeline. We shall not be moved. We won't let anybody wreck our future, and that starts with us stopping this pipeline. So we will.

Twitter / LittleIceAge: Global warming stopped in Spain ...

Global warming stopped in Spain because of all the green windpower http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/21792809 …

Coldest Start To The Year In Two Decades | Real Science

US temperatures have been running below normal for most of the country in 2013, and so far are the coldest in 20 years for the first three months of the year.
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Alarmists made huge news out of last year’s warmth, and forgot to mention that five out of the last six years started out with below normal temperatures. (The 2013 numbers will probably rise a little before the month is over.)

A must watch – Greening the Planet – Dr. Matt Ridley | Watts Up With That?

While environmentalists often talk about how bad stuff like CO2 causes bad things to happen like global warming, it turns out that the plants aren’t complaining.

Responding to the CJR’s ‘Attack of the Climate Denial Books’

How does it follow that such books are labeled “climate-denials” when they go to great length citing material, including peer-reviewed science journal-published papers, in telling how skeptic climate scientists claim the IPCC has not conclusively made its case that human-induced greenhouse gases are the primary driver of global warming? Why does that not merit the label “plausible skepticism”?

Twitter / DeSmogBlog

You deserve a movie date this wknd with #GreedyLyingBastards http://ht.ly/iXaVI  Take action http://ht.ly/iXblq  #climate #film

Check out Climate Depot's coverage of Climategate 3.0 page | Climate Depot

It's all so confusing: Replacing grasslands with trees allegedly prevents hot weather, or maybe it's replacing trees with grasslands that does that, or something

Hot days cooled by growth in grasslands

Our changing use of the land may have been taking the edge off hot days, scientists say.

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the global pattern of replacing trees with grasslands could have been affecting extreme temperatures.

'We find that replacing tree cover with grasslands leads to a weak cooling effect, in the opposite direction of climate change caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide,' says Dr Nikos Christidis from the Met Office, who led the study.

Global warming outside your window: After an 81-degree Minneapolis St. Patrick's Day last year, a 27-degree high is forecast for this year

St. Patrick's Day parades set for Saturday in Minneapolis and St. Paul | StarTribune.com

The high temperature last year for St. Patrick’s Day was 80 degrees, a Twin Cities record. Temperatures this weekend are expected to be considerably cooler, with highs possibly reaching into the 30s.

History : Weather Underground

[Forecast for St Patrick's Day 2013--Max Temperature 27 °F, Record high 81 °F (2012)]

What do climate policies mean for social justice? | Carbon Brief

A new report claims the government has significantly overestimated the benefits lower-income households will reap from its blend of climate policies. It says the price impact of placing the additional costs of energy efficiency schemes and other policies on consumer bills is disproportionate for the poorest 10 per cent in society. So does the government need to pay more attention to social justice when making climate policy?

Car manufacturers manipulating fuel efficiency tests, says report | Environment | guardian.co.uk

A new report reveals that carmakers routinely manipulate official UN-backed miles/gallons tests, with a series of tricks including stripping the car down to weigh as little as possible, overinflating the tyres and testing in the thin air at high-altitude tracks.

The tricks of the trade are listed in a report by the Transport & Environment campaign group (T&E), which suggests the official fuel consumption cited by car manufacturers is on average almost 25% lower than that achieved in reality, and in some cases 50% lower.

Climategate 3.0: In 2009, Schneider touts spike in warming by 2014 | JunkScience.com

As we enter an El Nino year and as soon, as the sunspots get over their temporary–presumed–vacation worth a few tenths of a Watt per meter squared reduced forcing, there will likely be another dramatic upward spike like 1992-2000. I heard someone–Mike Schlesinger maybe??–was willing to bet alot of money on it happening in next 5 years??

The above email had been previously released, but I think that "dramatic upward spike" phrase never got much attention.

Obama: "If we move aggressively on an issue like climate change – that’s not an easy issue for a lot of folks, because the benefits may be out in the future"

Obama to supporters: Give lawmakers political cover for climate action - The Hill's E2-Wire

President Obama is urging Organizing for Action (OFA), the nonprofit advocacy group born from his election campaign, to give vulnerable lawmakers the political support needed to back aggressive action on climate change.
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“If we move aggressively on an issue like climate change – that’s not an easy issue for a lot of folks, because the benefits may be out in the future. And I want to make sure that a congressman, senator feels as if they've got the information and the grassroots network that’s going to support them in that effort,” he said at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington.

Major climate change legislation faces extremely grim political prospects on Capitol Hill, but some liberal Democrats have nonetheless begun floating new proposals to impose fees on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

Studies Show Land-Based Wind Turbines Cause Property Values to Plummet; Health, Economic, and Environmental Factors are Cited as Major Issues

FALMOUTH, Mass., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Land-based wind turbines can cause property values within two miles of the 30 to 50 story high structures to plummet by 15 percent to 40 percent, according to comprehensive appraisal studies.

Snow parking zone: Warden gives ticket to car made of ice | The Sun |News

A GERMAN traffic warden got a very frosty reception from his bosses after giving a ticket to a car made of SNOW.

Nobel Prize winners urge Obama to back carbon pricing | Reuters

EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard in a Twitter message said she hoped Obama would take the Nobel Prize winners' advice. "Nobel Prize winners are normally wise persons," she said.

Lufthansa says 2012 CO2 bill hit 52 mln euros - News - Point Carbon

Chinese dead pig update: "an unnamed official associated with the Agricultural Department in Zhejiang province, a likely source for the pigs, was quoted in Caijing, a financial news publication, saying that 3000 pigs had frozen to death"

Panic as pig deaths mount

Local authorities near the pig farms explained it differently. On March 12, an unnamed official associated with the Agricultural Department in Zhejiang province, a likely source for the pigs, was quoted in Caijing, a financial news publication, saying that 3000 pigs had frozen to death. ''Pig cold resistance is low,'' the unnamed official said. ''And an increase in the number of deaths is normal.''

Monarch butterflies drop ominously in Mexico - SFGate

For butterflies that reach adulthood, unusual cold, lack of water or tree cover in Mexico can mean they're less likely to survive the winter.

Carbon Price Drops To Second-Lowest After Permit Sale Fails | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

European Union carbon permits dropped to their second-lowest close ever, after the bloc canceled an auction of permits for the first time as bids failed to reach a secret reserve price.

The Cold Hard Truth About Solar Energy | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Germany’s “green energy surcharge” applied to electricity bills across the nation is moving up rapidly. This will translate into on average a 200 euro ($260) per year additional expense for each household on their energy bills.

Taylor & Francis Online :: An investigation of middle school students’ alternative conceptions of global warming - International Journal of Science Education - Volume 19, Issue 5

Students completed interviews on global’ warming approximately two weeks after instruction from a Science‐Technology‐Society (STS) global warming unit. The majority of students introduced ‘ozone layer’ or ‘ultraviolet radiation’ in response to the question, ‘When you think about global warming, what comes to mind?’ Approximately one‐half of the students held the alternative conceptions that ozone layer depletion is a major cause of global warming and that carbon dioxide destroys the ozone layer.

Remember last March, when CO2 allegedly caused a lot of tornadoes? Now something else evidently caused March tornadoes to get off to "a very slow start"

March 2013's Slow Tornado Pace Could Change Soon - weather.com

March tornadoes are getting off to a very slow start this year, according to The Weather Channel's severe weather expert Dr. Greg Forbes. But it could all change soon.
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An EF-1 tornado hit in Glascock County, Ga. on March 5. Three homes and and a church were damaged. That tornado is the only confirmed tornado anywhere in the U.S. this month, making it the slowest start to tornado season since 2002.
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This year's March lull is dramatically different from the weather pattern one year ago. In 2012, a two-day severe weather outbreak March 2 and 3 produced 69 tornadoes, setting a dramatic pace that would end with more than 150 twisters for the month.

Not everybody agrees with the Bureau of Meteorology claim that Australia has just had its “hottest summer on record”

While 2013 was the hottest summer in the BoM heavily adjusted ACORN SAT data – the CPC GHCN/CAMS t2m analysis finds that 1983 was a clear winner for the hottest summer and 1973 missed out by only 0.00135°C.

Fred Pearce: Fracking – The Monster We Greens Must Embrace | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Despite the doubts, shale gas can play a vital bridging role in reducing carbon emissions by ousting filthier coal

- Bishop Hill blog - Marcott in freefall

What does it say about Science that it would publish such a paper?

Climate change could turn polar bears brown, research suggests

How polar bears got their white coat remains a scientific mystery, but newly published research suggests a way they could turn brown again.

One of the study's authors says that's what might eventually happen to some groups of modern bears as climate change alters their habitat.

Coalition Opposed to Carbon Taxes Meets in Washington, D.C.

American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle spoke today at a press conference in Washington, D.C. declaring his opposition to a national carbon tax. Pyle was backed by a coalition of representatives from numerous free-market organizations, business groups, and elected officials.

More Fraud From The Team | Real Science

Steve McIntyre dug up Marcot’s thesis, and it had no hockey stick.
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But a hockey stick magically appeared in his Science article, out of the same data.
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Just another piece of world class fraud from the same gang of climate criminals.

Twitter / RyanMaue: Extremely confident in 54.96°F ...

Extremely confident in 54.96°F as Earth's 2-meter temp for Feb, but compared to what? Uncertainty in "climo" going back 30yrs increases +++

Twitter / RichardTol: Heading for Barcelona. About ...

Heading for Barcelona. About to experience 5 times the UN- and EU-agreed safe dose of climate change. Will I survive?

Big Wind & Avian Mortality (Part II: Hiding the Problem) — MasterResource

“The cold reality is that honest, scientific, accurate mortality studies in the Altamont Pass area would result in death tolls that would shock Americans. They would also raise serious questions about wind turbines throughout the United States, especially in major bird habitats like Oregon’s Shepherds Flat wind facility and the whooping cranes’ migratory corridor from Alberta, Canada to Texas.”

Gwynne Dyer tackles global warming with Abbotsford secondary students

Dyer said the younger generation does not debate the existence of global warning.

"It's because young people understand that climate change is a severe problem and it needs to be addressed," he said.

Biologist offers warning about global warming - News

If we don't soon make substantial reductions in the amount of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere, the world's scientists expect to see large numbers of species go extinct around the world in the next 80 to 90 years, Perry said.

"There's no shuttle service to get off this planet. We need to get off of fossil fuels. Coal is killing our country. It's killing the planet. We need to move fast."
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There will be, he projected, mass migrations and wars.

Spring training attendance sags after early start, cold weather | Texas Rangers

Watts Interview – Denial and Reality Mix like Oil and Water

["Skeptical" "Science"] as Richard Alley has explained, in reality climate scientists are the reasonable skeptics in the middle, with denialists at one extreme and doomsayers at the other.
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only about 2% of global warming goes into heating the atmosphere. About 90% of global warming goes into heating the oceans, and when we account for all of the data, it's clear that global warming continues unabated. Only considering the convenient bit of data is just another cherrypick.

Twitter / Ben_Geman

Rep. Clyburn, the #3 House Dem, said Keystone pipeline didn't surface at Obama's meeting with House Dems in Capitol.

Blumenauer takes Congressional carbon tax helm | Sustainable Business Oregon

Blumenauer, who’s one of two Portland U.S. representatives, also plans to track the four state-level efforts to impose taxes on pollutants emitted by manufacturers.

Skeptical Environmentalist opposes propping up EU carbon credits | Reuters

"Propping the price of carbon permits is wrong," said Bjorn Lomborg, director of Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School. He said higher carbon prices would damage the EU economy and would not help to achieve any significant climate goals.

Stunning frozen waves of Lake Michigan show brutal forces of nature | Perth Now

Battling not only temperatures of around minus 20 degrees these lighthouses withstand pummeling by waves of up to 6 metres created by strong winter storms.

Japan's 'frozen gas' reserves are worthless if we take climate change seriously | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Japan is adding to the mountain of fossil fuels we cannot responsibly burn. The brave new technology it has developed, now lauded in the media, would be worthless in a world that took climate change seriously.

Environmental threats could push billions into extreme poverty, warns UN | Global development | guardian.co.uk

The number of people living in extreme poverty could increase by up to 3 billion by 2050 unless urgent action is taken to tackle environmental challenges, a major UN report warned on Thursday.

Wind power is poised to kick nuclear’s ass | Grist

Wind power is becoming so cheap and so commonplace that it appears poised to help blow up the country’s nuclear power sector

Nasty ending to House Dems meeting with Obama - POLITICO.com

While most complied, Rep. Henry Waxman, a 38-year House veteran from Los Angeles, stood his ground and began to ask a question about the president's commitment to climate change legislation. Becerra tried to cut him off, but Waxman kept going.

Energy and Commerce Members Press EPA for Answers on Climate Change Agenda for Obama’s Second Term | Energy & Commerce Committee

WASHINGTON, DC – Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are requesting that EPA provide further information regarding the President’s climate change agenda for his second term. Members today wrote to EPA Acting Administrator Robert Perciasepe expressing concern over the impacts of EPA’s recently issued greenhouse gas regulations and the agency’s plans for additional rules that will raise energy prices and impede job creation and economic growth.

C3: Analysis of The Marcott et al. Hockey Stick: "We’re deep into the GIGO range here"..."Bad proxies, bad scientists"

Another green-sharia alarmist study about global warming is found to be without much empirical merit - the Marcott et al. "hockey stick" study is proving to be essentially garbage in/out (GIGO)...it's so bad that experts in the field of statistics are "baffled" with some concluding that the study is a product of "Bad proxies, bad scientists" - Bozo, anyone?

Quark Soup by David Appell: Marcott Reax

At the same time, while I don't think this kind of raw denialism will ever go away completely, I get the sense their [climate realists] heart isn't in it anymore.  [Hey David:  While you have absolutely no idea where my heart is, I am completely confident that I know where your head is.]

Germany's Green Energy Disaster: A Cautionary Tale For World Leaders - Forbes

command economists have failed spectacularly in their bid to force a national transition to renewable energy.

Minnesotans For Global Warming

In Prof. Zink’s column in the Aug 31 2012 Outdoor News he shows a plot (unreferenced) that purports to link the cause of Global Warming (GW) to CO2. He goes on to say he believes human created CO2 is the cause. There are 2 problems with this position. First, the plot says it shows CO2 emissions over the past century. Emissions does not equal atmospheric CO2 concentration, it ignores the carbon sinks that sequester CO2. Second, correlation is not causation, one could draw a similar graph showing the correlation of ice cream cone sales with lawn mowing injuries.

How dare the Climate Commission complain at being caught out | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Professor Roger Pielke Jr catches out the Climate Commission again spreading baseless propaganda - and then attacking those who dare point it out

U.S. Military Shouldn't Worry About Climate Change As A Security Risk - Investors.com

If climate change is the top security risk in the Pacific region, then the U.S. has no enemies left. Conventional military threats exist no longer. Washington can deplete the armed forces and hire Greenpeace and Sierra Club staffers to fight this new enemy.

Ezra Miller is Skiing to North Pole to Support Arctic Climate Change - Shalom Life Canada

"What happens in the Arctic does affect people in the far south. Our representative from Seychelles, which is an area in Madagascar, was saying that now they're getting heavy hurricane seasons because of the way climate change is shifting," Kolson explains.

Obama Will Use Nixon-Era Law to Fight Climate Change - Businessweek

President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they have to consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipelines to highways.

The result could be significant delays for natural gas- export facilities, ports for coal sales to Asia, and even new forest roads, industry lobbyists warn.

“It’s got us very freaked out,” said Ross Eisenberg, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers

Jennifer Marohasy » Climategate 3: Thank you Mr FOIA

Indeed I have always held the hacker in high esteem. He is one of my heroes. Along with Thomas Huxley (1825-1895) and Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996), he is a great champion of science.

Climate Cast: History illuminates future climate change; Investors embrace CC for profits | Updraft | Minnesota Public Radio

[As this winter drags on in Minnesota] Spring blooms come earlier...Winters are trending shorter and noticeably, measurably milder.

Ron Arnold: Eco-terror advocate bashes climate 'deniers' on film | WashingtonExaminer.com

There's no need to pay to sit in a nearly empty theater to see "Greedy Lying Bastards." You only need to watch the three-minute online trailer to get the message. The rest is wretched excess.

The conservative view of climate change, wind farms and cyclones. : Renew Economy

“We have six months to turn around the view that a massive investment in renewable energy would be bad for WA.” – Western Australia Greens Senator Scott Ludlam

“Simply, Australians want jobs and they want a balance with the environmental issues. The Greens’ days are numbered.” – Nationals MP Darren Chester speaking about the results of the WA election

Henrik Fisker Quits as Chairman of His Own Company | National Legal and Policy Center

http://nlpc.org/stories/2013/03/14/henrik-fisker-quits-chairman-his-own-company

Maryland’s “Wind Powered Welfare” | Watts Up With That?

The $1.7 billion subsidy will be paid out over 20 years… $85 million per year… $100,000 per year per green job created ($2 million per green job)…

And this is just the cost of the SUBSIDY!!!

Fresh snow in Himachal Pradesh, cold wave revives | NDTV.com

Shimla: After days of pleasant weather, the cold wave again tightened its grip over Himachal Pradesh on Thursday as the state's higher reaches had a fresh spell of snow.

Environmentalists cheer on another carbon tax push | The Daily Caller

a study by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) argued that a revenue-neutral carbon tax could be a “cure worse than the disease.”

U.S. Carbon Output to Fall to 1970s Levels by 2040: Exxon - Bloomberg

The U.S. will reduce carbon-dioxide emissions in 2040 to levels last seen in the 1970s as the use of natural gas and renewables increases and efficiency measures cut demand, Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) said.

China carbon tax unlikely before 2020: analysts - News - Point Carbon

BEIJING, March 14 (Reuters Point Carbon) - China is unlikely to implement a tax on greenhouse gas emissions this decade, choosing instead to expand its domestic carbon market, analysts at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon said in a report on Wednesday.

Natural Gas Gains as Cold Snap Boosts U.S. Heating Usage - Businessweek

Natural gas futures climbed in New York for the fourth time in five days, reaching a three-month high, on speculation that unusually cold weather heading into spring will spur heating demand.

One Million Brits Dead In Winter Scandal

WINTER weather has killed a million Brits since the 1980s and will kill a million more by 2050, experts have warned.

EDF Energy Reaches Settlement with UK Activists | Fox Business

EDF said it planned to invite representatives of environmental organizations and other concerned parties to discuss how the company could address issues relating to its role in power generation.

"We share the protesters' commitment to tackling climate change..."

Joe Bastardi challenges the conventional wisdom on climate change. - YouTube

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi thinks the conventional wisdom on climate change is all wrong. He joined AgriTalk to share how we have seen these weather patterns before and what that tells us about global warming.

Twitter / afreedma: Any science reporters out there ...

Any science reporters out there looking for a great gig? @ClimateCentral is looking for a climate reporter http://bit.ly/XvIWE5  #jobs

Greedy Lying Bastards needs a shot of Michael Moore: review | Toronto Star

Greedy Lying Bastards by filmmaker/activist Craig Rosebraugh fails to stir outrage in his expose of climate change foes.

City has no climate change plan— 10 years after calling for one | Metro

The City of Ottawa has no climate change adaptation plan nearly a decade after municipal staff recommended developing one.

Ghost of Kyoto Protocol haunts Russia's energy plans | RTCC - Climate change news

The Russian government has recently endorsed a draft state program for energy efficiency and energy sector development that lists part of the Kyoto Protocol as a major source of funding, months after leaving the UN emissions cutting process.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: The first 13 days of March ...

The first 13 days of March in the UK are colder than the month of Jan, which was below normal!

Twitter / mark_lynas: Wow - Norway's electric car ...

Wow - Norway's electric car subsidies cost $13,600 per tonne CO2 avoided. Cost on ETS currently $4. (Reuters) http://planetark.org/wen/68152

Twitter / ClimSciDefense: Register for @theAGU tomorrow's ...

Register for @theAGU tomorrow's climate science legal webinar http://bit.ly/155qzFu  It is free and informative.

Hooray! Planet-healing mayors to attend a climate hoax junket in Johannesburg next winter!

Bloomberg Announces Mayors’ Summit To Fight Climate Change « CBS New York

Besides New York, the C40 cities in North America include Austin, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C. The C40 group also includes four cities in Africa, 15 in Asia, two in Australia, 18 in Europe, and eight in South America.

The conference in Johannesburg is scheduled for Feb. 4-6, 2014.

Advice For The Woman Who Wrote Salon Worried She Can't Protect Her Children From Global Warming | ThinkProgress

I’ll end with an edited version of “Climate Trauma Survival Tips From Dr. Lise Van Susteren,”

Slate Writer: Global Warming Moving Fast, Despite Global Temperatures Remaining Stagnant for Sixteen Years | NewsBusters

Well, 1,000 scientists have questioned manmade global warming, and they’re made up of ex-NASA personnel and Nobel laureates. But to folks like Plait, they are just some massive conspiracy fraught with “corporate-sponsored crap.” Slate readers deserve better than this weak sauce. It should also be noted that Andrew Revkin, writer for the NYT's now defunct Dot Earth blog, admitted that "if the current pause persists through 2015 or beyond, questions will build."

Twitter / Revkin: It takes several lifetimes ...

It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can’t speed things along @vaclavsmil on @mzjacobson

Twitter / TheScienceGuy: Thanks to the good people of ...

Thanks to the good people of Today's Limo Service for the fantastic h2o...

Ontario energy: Cold feet on green mania | FP Comment | Financial Post

Ontario has quietly slowed its green juggernaut

LA Times - Phoenix's too hot future

A few decades hence, after the climate screws have tightened with excruciating force, don't be surprised if the drivers steering U-Hauls out of town are spurred along as much by discord as by drought.

Warmer climate boosts northern crops but the bad soon outweighs the good

Within a couple of decades, the benefits of warmer growing conditions and increased carbon dioxide concentrations would be quickly outweighed by declining rainfall and heat stress on grain quality, he said.

Twitter / clim8resistance: There's an irony, isn't there, ...

There's an irony, isn't there, in blowing $1.5m on a film about how some rich people distort the climate debate.

Peter Foster: Deranged science, perverse policy | FP Comment | Financial Post

Canadians play a significant, if not always noble, part in Mr. Darwall’s story, although there is no doubting the heroic stature of Stephen McIntyre, the semi-retired mathematical wiz whose dogged investigations, along with those of academic Ross McKitrick, led to the exposure of the iconic “hockey stick” temperature graph, which was embraced for its political usefulness rather than its scientific accuracy. Mr. Darwall does a thorough job of explaining the massive, but still largely unrecognized, scandal of the related Climategate emails.

Climategate hero speaks; releases email cache | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This may lead to more revelations of the groupthinking, bullying and manipulation of evidence than were exposed by the original leaking of emails of the scientists most involved in devising the great warming scare

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Author admits the blade of the new bogus hockey-stick is not statistically significant

In an email to Steve McIntyre, the author of the new bogus hockey stick admits the primary finding of the paper, the alleged rapid rise of temperature from 1890-1950 is "probably not robust." Translation: it is not statistically significant and the hyped press releases from the authors are not scientifically nor statistically valid.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New bogus hockey stick paper shows linear greenhouse forcing over past 7000 years

The new Marcott et al bogus hockey stick paper contains a graph showing that alleged radiative forcing from greenhouse gases has been increasing at a linear rate for more than 7,000 years, more than 98% of which was before the invention of the automobile. Human emissions cannot possibly be responsible for a linear increase in greenhouse gas 'forcing' over the past 7,000+ years. In addition, the paper shows that solar activity at the end of the 20th century was near the highest levels of the past 9,000 years.

Snow Bombards Moscow - Drivers Urged to Use Public Transportation

Such heavy snowfall occurs in March only once every 50 years.

I offer @ClimateOfGavin help understanding events -vs- trends | Watts Up With That?

The interest in climate has cooled, losing more than half its value since 2004.

Of course, as Real Climate Scientists™ always tell us, it is the trend that matters, not any single event or datapoint.

Quadrant Online - The Children's Crusade

This is how it works.

First, a Labor/Greens front group begins agitating for a "worthy" cause -- in the case of the Youth Climate Coalition latest's campaign, a much greater investment by superanuation funds in clean, green renewable energy.

A note on "ClimateGate 3.0"

I've taken a quick look at hundreds of these text files, and I agree with others that that vast majority are mundane.  Over the last day, many of us have already had the experience of "finding" an email that shows massive weakness in the warmist case, only to discover that that particular email had already been previously released.

I think over time, even the skeptics have forgotten just how much damage the ClimateGate 1 and 2 files did to the warmist case.  I plan to review my own list of outed emails here to refresh my memory.  If anyone has a similar list that I should review, please let me know.

I strongly agree with others that we need some search tools etc to handle 220,000+ files.  It would be very nice indeed if we could filter out the spam files and the files that had already been previously released.  I don't plan to spend much time on these new files until some tools are available.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The world's most powerful navy fighting a non-existent "threat" with useless biofuel powered "Great Green Fleet"

It appears that the U.S. Navy has become one of the last strongholds for the global warming religion. The latest testimony to that is an interview in which admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, speaks about "the disappearance of whole countries", "hundreds of thousands or millions of people displaced" and climate change as the greatest threat in the region

Climategate 3.0: Tom Wigley says Naomi Oreskes’ work is ‘useless’? | JunkScience.com

[Wigley] Analyses like these by people who don’t know the field are useless.
A good example is Naomi Oreskes work.

Climategate 3 coming up?

The person who released the first two batches of Warmist emails has now made a third lot available. The problem is that most of them are mundane and there are 200,000 of them. So it will be a huge sifting process to get anything out of them. It needs someone with a LOT of spare time -- which rules out most bloggers. Anthony Watts has a record of co-ordinating volunteer efforts so maybe he will do so this time too.

Weighing the toll of our ‘angry summer’ against climate change

http://theconversation.edu.au/weighing-the-toll-of-our-angry-summer-against-climate-change-12793

So has property damage during 2012-2013 been higher than normal?

The answer, in terms of insured losses from weather-related disasters, is no.

Climategate: FOIA – The Man Who Saved The World – Telegraph Blogs

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100206888/climategate-foia-the-man-who-saved-the-world/
I hope one day that FOIA's true identity can be revealed so that he can be properly applauded and rewarded for his signal service to mankind. He is a true hero, who deserves to go on the same roll of honour as Norman Borlaug, Julian Simon and Steve McIntyre: people who put truth, integrity and the human race first and ideology second. Unlike the misanthropic greenies who do exactly the opposite.

Climategate, a crisis of conscience.

http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/climategate-a-crisis-of-conscience/

You Sir, have given great service and you've done it uncommonly well. Look after yourself, time to rest now.

E.ON chief attacks ‘ineffective’ carbon tax | The Times

The boss of one of the UK’s largest energy companies has attacked a new green tax that will add an estimated £10 to annual electricity bills from April 1 as “completely ineffective”.

Tony Cocker, chief executive of German-owned E.ON UK, said that the carbon tax — originally intended to promote the construction of new nuclear reactors — will only result in a windfall for the Treasury and the operator of the UK’s existing nuclear fleet, EDF Energy.

Second US carbon tax plan mooted | RTCC - Climate change news

Robert Frank, professor of economics and management at Cornell University, argues that any remaining doubt on climate change science should be set aside and climate legislation progressed.

“Opponents of carbon taxation often argue that the policy isn’t warranted because climate change estimates are highly uncertain,” said Frank.

“No one would argue that a country doesn’t need an army just because there’s uncertainty about whether an invasion will occur,” he added.

USA NOAA Feb 2013 – Colder Than 1896 and 1898 and 1907 and 45 Other February’s | sunshine hours

Not much sign of warming this February. The following list are the February’s warmer than 2013:

1896 1898 1907 1909 1915 1921 1924 1925 1926 1927 1930 1931 1932 1935 1938 1943 1945 1946 1950 1952 1953 1954 1957 1961 1962 1970 1974 1976 1977 1981 1983 1984 1986 1987 1990 1991 1992 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2002 2005 2006 2009 2012

A new board game where kids rescue polar bears from real, melting ice | Grist

A German science magazine has invented a game wherein tiny polar bear game pieces sit on melting blocks of ice — real, melting ice that comes from the game’s own special ice tray – and players try to rescue the polar bears before the ice melts.

Deaths up by 30,000 in big freeze | UK | News | Daily Express

The brutal Arctic blast has seen temperatures plummet to -13C (9F) amid what could be the coldest March for almost three decades.

Pensioner groups warned the death rate among Britain’s elderly has already soared this winter with fears it could hit 30,000 - 6,000 more than last year.

Vicky Pope - Climate Change and the Media - YouTube

[12-minute video]

Matt Ridley: We Should Be Listening To Susan Crockford | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Many scientists have grown frustrated with the domination of the polar bear story by dogmatic propagandists and have begun to speak out. Susan Crockford is one of them: a zoologist who is independent of the alarm industry and therefore free to make up her own mind. In this valuable paper, she has done a fine job of documenting the actual facts of the case as far as they are known.

German Renewable Energy Policy Takes Toll on Nature Conservation - SPIEGEL ONLINE

The German government is carrying out a rapid expansion of renewable energies like wind, solar and biogas, yet the process is taking a toll on nature conservation. The issue is causing a rift in the environmental movement, pitting "green energy" supporters against ecologists.