Fastest-warming place on Earth update: "Chilliest spring month in 89 years" for Alaska's Interior

In Alaska, May showers bring snow flakes | Alaska Dispatch

Even the U.S. National Weather Service, Alaska, couldn't refrain from putting the depressing weather in context. “If you're keeping track, today's snow on May 4th makes nine consecutive months that the Anchorage area has seen accumulating snow,” it posted Saturday morning to its Facebook followers.

This follows the revelation a few days ago that April 2013 was one of the coldest Aprils in Alaska over the last 74 years. For those living in the state's Interior, it was the coldest since 1924 – or the chilliest spring month in 89 years.

Radical Premises in Sustainability Reform « Journal of Sustainability Education

Will strict laws be necessary to prevent us from getting fat, using energy as if it were limitless, and fomenting conflict with most anyone who does not believe in our god or practice free market economics?...We recognize that climate change has progressed at a far greater pace than models predicted 30 years ago  [Via MT]

Ed Driscoll » 21st Century Reactionary Religious Fanatics Photograph Themselves Burning Books

Oh, that liberal fascism: If your first thought when looking at the above image from François Truffaut’s 1966 film version of Bradbury’s seminal Fahrenheit 451 is: “Burning books? Capital idea, old sport!”, you might just be cut out for academia: “San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don’t agree with is better than reading them,” as spotted by Anthony Watts...

Goebbel Warming | National Review Online

[Mark Steyn] The climate crowd is very partial to Nazi analogies. Self-inducted Nobel Laureate Michael Mann (currently suing National Review and yours truly for mocking his hockey stick) likes to call his opponents “deniers“. Offset baron Al Gore talks of an ecological Kristallnacht.

Yet, when it comes to book burning, they’re happy to be the Nazis – and, like their libricidal predecessors, proud to be photographed in the act

InvestigateDaily – Panicking NZ climate scientists go for the doctor – predict nearly half-metre sea level rise PER DECADE!

Forget about the UN IPCC’s upcoming AR5 climate change report, their colleagues in New Zealand’s Antarctic Research Institute have gone the full Chicken-Little and are predicting sea level will rise 4cm per year, or a whacking great four metres per century.

In case you missed it, from Salon: "we are incinerating the planet and dooming future generations simply because too many of us like to eat cheeseburgers"

Would we give up burgers to stop climate change? - Salon.com

Is Climate Change Causing Unusually Mild Weather? | Power Line

What is an alarmist to do? I suppose they could tell us that increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are responsible for the extraordinary mildness of our current climate, but that probably wouldn’t be a successful fundraising technique.

Still snowing this morning in Missouri!

“Record-breaking,” says National Weather Service. “Very rare.”

Twitter / DrShepherd2013

1 of my litmus tests when I see an "expert" on a major network talking #climate, I go to google scholar to see if they have published on it

First time since records began in Arkansas that it snowed in May!

For the first time since written weather history began in Arkansas (1819), snow has fallen in the month of May.

Former Bolivian ambassador to the UN: "we need to strengthen the [CO2] compliance system with some kind of climate justice tribunal and sanctions...The main task to address poverty is not development but redistribution of wealth..."

Pablo Solon: everyone must accept binding climate commitments

Everybody has to adopt binding commitments. Some do much more, some do less, some can increase emission for some years but its clear when they will reduce and by how much.

And in order to guarantee these binding commitments we need to strengthen the compliance system with some kind of climate justice tribunal and sanctions.
...In the majority of countries, poverty is the result of concentration of wealth in very few hands. The main task to address poverty is not development but redistribution of wealth at national, regional and global level...
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Pablo Solon is Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, and a former ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations.  [Via MT]

Snow continues delay of spring planting - Maryville, MO

An already delayed corn planting season took another hit this week as a freak spring storm laden with wet snow muddied fields — some of them freshly planted — and sent temperatures plunging across northwest Missouri.

The Blackboard » Links to John Cook’s Survey.

[commenter Bob Koss] To me, this whole exercise will produce a lot of wasted efffort.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Wow, day 10 ECMWF 850 anomalies ...

Wow, day 10 ECMWF 850 anomalies pic.twitter.com/w5dtMdAHHo

Severe Weather Drought: Tornadoes drop to a new all time record low, major hurricane absence is setting a new record every day | Watts Up With That?

In a blow to those that want to link increased severe weather with global warming/climate change, a new record low has been set according to NOAA tornado data. At the same time, it has been 2750 days (7 years, 6 months, 11 days) since the last major Hurricane (Cat 3 or greater) hit the USA on October 24th 2005 when hurricane Wilma made landfall. Each new day is a new record in this major hurricane drought.

Funny thing happened on the way to global warming

A funny thing happened on the way to the global warming apocalypse. First, temperatures stopped rising, defying the projections of supposed environmental experts. Then, increased oil-and-gas drilling, opposed by climate change true believers, helped reduce U.S. production of carbon dioxide emissions.

Guess John Cook’s Title — Contest « the Air Vent

So here is what I am guessing will happen. Some skeptics will give low ratings for the papers because their obviously biased support of catastrophic warming and the pervasive poor level of science in climate change. Those who are advocates for climate catastrophe science (including the authors) will be biased toward giving 1′s (top ratings) for their endorsement but will slide on papers which are less extremist in the abstract. We already know that the Climate Science field is comprised nearly universally of politically left advocates, so the authors your answers are compared to will be biased in the same direction as the advocate blogging crowd.

WWF Takes Pre-Schooler’s Birthday Money | NoFrakkingConsensus

The world’s largest environmental organization celebrates 4-year-olds as a fundraising mechanism.

Acrimony Among Anthropocene Agitators | The Resilient Earth

When the Pleistocene Ice Age reasserts itself and global temperatures drop us into a new glacial period it will become clear that the Holocene was no more a true geologic epoch than the proposed Anthropocene.

If the CO2 that we emit really stays in the atmosphere for thousands of years, why did CO2 decline .43 ppm since last week?

Warmist Frustration: Atmospheric CO2 continues down — now only 399.29! | JunkScience.com

The Keeling Curve swerves: down 0.10 ppm since May 1 and 0.43 ppm since last week.

Top Energy Adviser Resigns Over Treasury’s Attempt To Block Green Agenda

The essential overhaul of Britain’s energy system has been thrown into disarray by the resignation of one of its architects – just as Energy Secretary Ed Davey prepares to escalate his drive to stamp out doubts about the existence of climate change.

Record low May temperature set this morning | Louisiana

A record low temperature for May in Monroe was set this morning with the National Weather Service recording 39 degrees.

That broke the previous May record of 43 set twice on May 1, 1998 and May 5, 1954.

Twitter / MichaelEMann: "Dr. #Watts Amazing White List ...

"Dr. #Watts Amazing White List of #GlobalWarming Hypotheses" via Russell Seitz "VVatts up w/ that" parody site. #WUWT pic.twitter.com/Slt27o5l1l

Veteran German Journalist/Author Michael Miersch: “Green Zeitgeist Is An Anti-Humanistic Ideology Down To Its Roots”

Rarely do I see a message delivered as powerfully as seen by Miersch here. Every young person in Germany should see this video.

Arctic Ice Continues Its Frightening Normalcy | Real Science

Crack experts from the Navy, as well as the US Secretary of State have forecast that the Arctic will be ice-free this summer. Currently the ice extent is almost exactly at the 1979-2000 mean.

Green Weenie of the Week: San Jose State University | Power Line

Curious: just what is the carbon footprint of burning a book they dislike? Did they get a permit from the local air pollution control district?

Still crazy after all these years: Al Gore still suggests that CO2-induced bad weather "is an existential threat to the future of civilization"

Al Gore isn’t overly pleased with Canada - The Globe and Mail

Bummer: Washington Post reports that trace amounts of CO2 might "create a world of people dying of thirst and hunger...[with] human tragedy on a scale the world has never seen"

‘Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change’ by Andrew Guzman - The Washington Post

With lines like “The changing climate will create a world of people dying of thirst and hunger,” “Overheated” can be a hard book to read. But its strength lies in its clear-eyed assessment of the costs involved in various policy responses to the issue. “There should be no mistaking the fact that this will involve some economic sacrifice,” he writes. “Our lives are easier because energy is plentiful and inexpensive, but we can no longer ignore the impact of our energy use on the climate.” Unless we impose a higher price on carbon, he warns, “we will trigger human tragedy on a scale the world has never seen.”
— Juliet Eilperin

Kent Brockman (Character) - Quotes

"The Simpsons: Kamp Krusty (#4.1)" (1992)
[Kent Brockman is covering a summer camp mutiny]
Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.

Children won't know what an ice-free Tanana river looks like

Nenana Ice Conditions

The Tanana river ice is 36.7 inches thick as May 2nd, 2013

The ice is still solid from bank to bank, no visable signs of water. The temperatures have been in the mid to lower 30's from Wednesday April 23rd thru Thursday May 2nd during the day, and dropping down to the mid 20's in the evenings. The temperatures are supposed to remain about the same for the next couple of days. The 5 day forecast for the Nenana area is to remain the same thru Tuesday May 7th, then warming up to the low 40's and the lower 50's by next Wednesday.

Nenana Ice Classic - Breakup log

20-Apr 1940

Flashback:  River ice in Alaska: “pretty good proxy for climate change in the 20th century” | Watts Up With That?

Rowers to Cross Northwest Passage for First time as a Result of Climate Change

The melting ice has enabled the adventurers to use their expedition as a platform to highlight the impact of climate change...Gleeson said, "We hope by making this traverse completely in a row boat, without sail or motor, in a single season we will be able to demonstrate first-hand the profound effects climate change is having on our world".

Twitter / Monkshatch

@JamesDelingpole just driving along A8 in Portugal. Dozens of wind turbines all stationary! Utter waste of money and despoiled views.

Twitter / DrShepherd2013: Share/RT if U have friend, ...

Share/RT if U have friend, viewers etc make error of refuting #climate warming because of today/week #weather pattern http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyXozNlrp88 …

Twitter / DrShepherd2013: And let me remind, "#Weather ...

And let me remind, "#Weather is your mood, #climate is your personality, your mood today or this week is not an indicator of personality"

Monckton asks IPCC for correction to AR4 | Watts Up With That?

The IPCC cannot be expected to be taken seriously if apparently criminal dishonesties of this magnitude are persisted in and widely cited both by senior IPCC officials and by third parties allied to or supportive of the IPCC even long after the dishonesties have been drawn to its attention.

James Inhofe: "When we experience temperatures not to our liking, it gets labeled as global warming in the summer and climate change in the winter"

New Inhofe: Global Warming Alarmists Should Send Some of Their Hot Air to Warm Up Oklahoma

[Inhofe] When we experience temperatures not to our liking, it gets labeled as global warming in the summer and climate change in the winter. Waking up to frost on my windshield in May made it a little confusing just what my climate alarmist friends would say we’re experiencing here in Oklahoma. Yesterday’s temperatures were 10-20 degrees below average across the state, and April brought some of the coldest days in our state’s history. Our farmers are suffering because of it with wheat output expected to drop by nearly 50 percent this year due to the late-season freezes. All the while, activists are relentless in their attempts to drum up global warming hysteria blaming our state’s successful energy sector for extreme heat temperatures. The activists will expect Oklahomans to forget about our cold spring the moment a hot summer day sets in, but Oklahomans won’t be fooled – not when our crops have been affected and our job-creating energy sector is being attacked.

But of course: Global warming caused Arctic sea ice decrease, while climate change caused Antarctic sea ice increase

Record low in Arctic sea ice caused by global warming, says UN - Telegraph

In contrast to the northern polar region, sea ice in the south pole is growing in extent. Antarctic sea-ice extent last March was the fourth largest on record.

There are a number of theories for this, including some that claim climate change could be causing sea ice to increase in the south pole.

Snow falls in May in NW Arkansas latest ever

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Northwest Arkansas residents woke up to as much as 5 inches of snow in places on the third day in May, the latest snowfall on record in the state.

Twitter / ClimateOfGavin: The climate of collaboration ...

The climate of collaboration by @cbilodeau1402 http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/issue/featuredstory.cfm?story=9&indexID=29 … How climate science and art can work together...

Twitter / Cartoonsbyjosh: @ClimateOfGavin I'm up for ...

@ClimateOfGavin I'm up for that! Sounds great ;-) @cbilodeau1402

American Theatre – May 2013

[From the link that warmist Gavin Schmidt tweeted above] If theatre can, in fact, have an impact on the global conversation about climate change, why aren’t we seeing more plays about this issue? For one thing, as Shevliakova points out, incorporating science into works of art is challenging. In addition, political theatre—if we see climate change as a political issue—doesn’t sit comfortably within the American theatre ecosystem. “It’s a noble endeavor to try to use the tools of an artist to be on the right side of an issue like this,” Jaffe remarks. “I’m reminded of how dangerous it is, though, because the reputation of politics and theatre—and politics and art in general—was so damaged by the ideology of the early 20th century. The Soviet Union and the fascists really understood the power of propaganda. They gave a very bad name to the integration of political ideas into theatre.”

Climate Chatter … in the House | Duke Dean's Blog: The Green Grok

...[Yes, but what if] … your house is worth $100 thousand but it costs $200 thousand for that insurance?

—Committee chair Stewart

Keystone Foes Seek Climate Measures in Case They Lose - Bloomberg

“I think it’s going to happen,” said Representative Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat and member of the House’s Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition. “The odds look pretty strong right now.”

Canada Considers Shipping Tar Sands Oil Across Arctic Ocean | Mother Jones

Canada is considering bypassing the beleaguered Keystone XL pipeline—which would carry oil from tar sands deposits in Alberta to the US and the Gulf of Mexico—by shipping across the Arctic Ocean instead...

The Arctic Ocean scenarios would also include a pipeline—north from Alberta's tar sands through (sparsely settled, presumably uncontested) regions along the Mackenzie River Valley and on to the Arctic coastal town of Tuktoyaktuk, from there to be shipped on tankers to Asia or Europe.  [Via MT]

How conspiracists think - Salon.com

...belief in multiple conspiracy theories significantly predicted the rejection of important scientific conclusions, such as climate science  [Via MT]

Climate talks in Bonn conclude but no deal in sight | Down To Earth

As the five-day climate talks at Bonn concluded on May 3, countries showed little sign of having made any headway. Developed and developing countries continue to remain divided, as they have been for the past two decades.
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Clearly, discussions have not moved ahead, they have been merely transferred to another meeting.  [In order to avoid serious repetitive stress injury, I hope that all environmental journalists have a keyboard macro for that last sentence.]

Canada April 2013 – Really, Really Cold in the Middle | sunshine hours

The mean of all the “Normals” was -1.83C colder than 1971-2000 average.

20 Years Ago: 5-4-93 — Senate votes 79-15 to elevate EPA to cabinet level on condition of mandatory comparative risk analysis | JunkScience.com

The Senate voted overwhelmingly to make EPA a cabinet-level department on the proviso that the agency conduct comparative risk analysis (i.e., likening environmental risks to commonly encountered risks). This proviso would be the bill’s death in the Democrat-controlled House.

Still waiting for warming | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

When there’s been slow (largely natural) warming overall for a century and half, I’d expect some modest warming to resume one day. But I’m not a scientist

Twitter / AndrewOrlowski: Useful rule: the more somebody ...

Useful rule: the more somebody talks about "the importance of evidence", they less evidence they have.

Stunning stupidity by senior economists: They hope Americans will be galvanized into climate hoax action by the "threat" that China will develop bad-weather-prevention technology quicker than we do

Twitter / RichardTol

Climate change diminishes the intellect of economists [Mattoo and Subramanian] http://www.voxeu.org/article/four-changes-trade-rules-facilitate-climate-change-action#.UYSf3ErNuZM.twitter …

Four changes to trade rules to facilitate climate change action | vox

One development may galvanise action in the US: the threat that green-technology leadership will be captured by China. In other words, the US needs a Sputnik moment of collective alarm at the loss of US economic and technological ascendancy.

Research - Author Profile

AADITYA MATTOO is Research Manager, Trade and Integration, at the World Bank.

Biography: Arvind Subramanian

Arvind Subramanian is senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development.

Probably just a complete coincidence, am I right? After Obama funnels an enormous amount of taxpayer money into Government Motors, Government Motors endorses Obama's climate hoax agenda

General Motors signs call for climate change action - CSMonitor.com

it does raise a few questions:

A. Where are the other automakers associated with eco-friendliness -- automakers like Subaru,Toyota, and even Tesla?

Dec. 2012:  It's Official: Taxpayers Will Lose Big on the GM Bailout - Rick Newman (usnews.com)

Treasury has finalized a plan to sell its remaining stake in the nation's biggest automaker over the next 15 months, beginning with GM buying back 200 million shares from the Treasury by the end of this year. That will leave the government holding about 19 percent of GM's shares, which it plans to sell throughout 2013 and perhaps into 2014.

The government's final exit from GM will mark the start of a new era for the carmaker, which has struggled to overcome its "Government Motors" image and chafed under rules that limit executive pay and perks.
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But once the government sells its shares, GM will still be tainted by the fact that it failed to pay back all the taxpayer money used to save it back in 2009. GM initially got $49.5 billion from the U.S. government, and it paid back $23.1 billion of that after its stock went public in 2010. That left $26.4 billion GM still owed the government.

Twitter / enviroblack [Warmist Richard Black, formerly of the BBC]

General Motors urges faster action on #climate change http://goo.gl/vWWKK  - pesky treehugging lefties!

1937 : FDR Blamed Floods And Droughts On Evil Humans | Real Science

The Pittsburgh Press – Google News Archive Search

Wintry blast to hit New Zealand

“While it is still very cold on the Northern Hemisphere, an early “cold outbreak” will hit the other hemisphere,” says reader. “That’s how ice ages start.”

Twitter / [Warmist Paul Douglas]

Snow Rage. I sympathize with Roger Fritz, who has had enough - decided to mow his lawn today: http://bit.ly/Yt49Pa  pic.twitter.com/z184OWNJAn

Historic cold expected tonight - SE Texas

Tonight and Saturday Morning may be the coldest ever in May in 112 years!

Yesterday's snow triples the total of 127 years worth of May snow

Add up the 10 other May days since 1886 where accum snow fell in Rochester, MN and you get 4.9″. The 14.0″ yesterday nearly triples that.

Weird but true: Shedding of clothes by men can reduce global warming - The Economic Times

NEW DELHI: Sartorial inequality between the genders is a cause for climate change. When it comes to formal dressing, women tend to cover themselves lightly, if not minimally, while men feel obliged to wear a jacket and a tie, even in the summer warmth of tropical India.

Set the Canadian Geese Free

ROCHESTER MN: A record breaking 14″ of snow from a rare May snowstorm in Rochester Minnesota wasn’t enough to make this Canadian Goose leave the nest.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another non-hockey-stick in Tibet

A paper published today in Global and Planetary Change reconstructs temperatures in Tibet over the past 501 years and finds temperatures in the 1940's through 1980's were warmer than at the end of the record in the year 2000. In addition, the authors reconstruct precipitation and show that there is nothing unprecedented, unusual, or unnatural regarding present levels of precipitation, with the end of the record not being particularly wet or dry, that "dry periods were reconstructed for 1718-1725, 1766-1770 and 1920-1933, whereas 1782-1788 and 1979-1985 were wet periods."

1735 : New Orleans Was Flooded For Six Months | Real Science

Salon Says Record Cold Is Caused By A Rapidly Overheating Atmosphere | Real Science

Blizzards in May. Wild fires. Is this global warming? – Salon.com

Katherine Hayhoe Forecasts 100 Feet Of Sea Level Rise In Texas | Real Science

NASA Projects Carbon [sic] Pollution [sic] Impact: 'Some Regions Outside The Tropics May Have No Rainfall At All' | ThinkProgress

Twitter / Foxgoose: UK Govt #climate officials ...

UK Govt #climate officials run for the hills! Tar & feathers If the townsfolk catch 'em! - The green rout begins. http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/5/3/decc-in-chaos.html#comments …

Can lightning strike twice in Massachusetts?

Communications director Bray Dayspring made the case to me that “Ed Markey constantly inflates the importance of his liberal pet issues, like global warming and campaign-finance reform.” By contrast, actual voters are concerned primarily about the economy. That gap between Markey’s left-wing agenda and the concerns of middle- and working-voters is going to be front and center in the race.

Should it? Warmist Michael Levi suggests that trying to prevent CO2-induced bad weather "should be pretty central to how we think about our future"

Media Conference Call: Michael Levi and Peter Orszag on America's Energy Future - Council on Foreign Relations

[Michael Levi] The last time we thought really seriously about energy as a country, climate change wasn't such a big issue. Today, it should be pretty central to how we think about our future.

Despite sequester, DOD signs contract for $59/gallon green jet fuel | WashingtonExaminer.com

the Pentagon has continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon.

What your warm beer says about climate change - The Week

How does the condensational heating of a beer can relate to global warming? Well, that's where the research gets interesting: Essentially, it means that as the planet warms, we can expect more moisture in the environment. That, in turn, will result in more condensational heating, which could lead to volatile weather phenomena like hurricanes and tornadoes.

Poll axed: Coalition's likely to get the numbers to ditch carbon tax, say analysts | Blayney Chronicle

...If those results occur, regardless of what happens in NSW Mr Abbott will have the power to remove the carbon tax from the day the new Senate comes into effect: July 1, next year.

4 reasons why Obama should push for a carbon tax - Salon.com

Finally, the environment [Why 'finally'?]...And the math [which math, specifically?] keeps suggesting that the earth’s sensitivity to extreme events is increasing more rapidly than global warming. So the future may be less hot but more dangerous.

NASA predicts rainfall for next 140 years — meanwhile NOAA failing with warmer-than-average spring forecast | Climate Depot

I hate it when that happens: Trace amounts of CO2 might doom painted turtles to "a brief, all-female future"

Turtles turn female as habitats heat up | MNN - Mother Nature Network

The sex of unborn painted turtles is dictated by ambient temperature. A new study suggests climate change could doom the species to a brief, all-female future.

Crystal Aiken, the new Climate Change Fellow: "today’s 100-year flood could be our twice-daily high tide in 2100"

TBHA Gets a New Climate Change Fellow | The Boston Harbor Association

If there’s one thing we all should keep in mind, it is that today’s 100-year flood could be our twice-daily high tide in 2100. I am excited to be helping Boston prepare for the rising tides.

Algore Goes on Global Warming Rant in Midst of Coldest Spring Since 1975 - The Rush Limbaugh Show

By the way, this spring, 2013, has been the second coldest spring in the entire history of the United States, second only to 1975. And interestingly, 1975 was the beginning of the global cooling panic, by the way. As recently as 1979 Newsweek had a cover story on the coming ice age. Second coldest spring in the entire history of the United States. It only stands to reason that two days ago Algore, with a major speech at the Milken global conference, on global warming.

Weird wintry weather and the climate-change link | Grist

The notion that global warming could trigger cold weather is enough to make a conservative pundit’s head explode. Science is hard!  [So can we blame global cooling every time the weather gets hot?]

The biomass industry should come clean about its environmental impact | Harry Huyton | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Burning wood from whole trees – the main source of UK biomass – results in higher greenhouse gas emissions than coal

James Hansen: We Are Only Beginning to Feel Climate Change's Impact - YouTube

[7-minute video] Accepting the 2013 Ridenhour Courage Prize, James Hansen warns of the dire environmental impacts of our growing carbon emissions.

NYT’s Andrew Revkin angers warmists with inconvenient tornado questions: ‘Note to those saying ‘It’s irresponsible not to mention climate change’ in ’11; same for ongoing tornado drought now?’ | Climate Depot

Warmist Katharine Hayhoe: "Would you sell your car to save a polar bear? I wouldn't..."

Climate Change: Values, National Security, and Free Enterprise - YouTube

(2:45)  "Would you sell your car to save a polar bear? I wouldn't. Why I care about climate change and you should, too."
Katharine Hayhoe, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, and author of "A Climate for Change, Global Warming Facts for Faith‐Based Decisions"

Sign of the times: Carbon Credits International shares sell for .0081 dollars each

Trend Analysis Report - Carbon Credits International Inc (OTCMKTS:CARN)

Carbon Credits International Inc (OTCMKTS:CARN) ended low -6.90 % and complete the day at 0.0081. The total number of shares changed hands during the day was 1.89 million. After opening at $0.01, the stock hit as high as $0.01.

Record-setting May snowstorm still hammering Plains, Upper Midwest

This is the latest that we have ever put plows on this time of the year,” said Brian Wagstrom, director of public works in Minnetonka, Minn.

John Cook’s new survey – lots of questions, no answers | Watts Up With That?

I asked Cook a series of questions about it, because given his behavior with Lewandowsky, I have serious doubts about the veracity of this survey. I asked to see the ethics approval application and approval from the University, and he declined to do so, saying that it it would compromise the survey by revealing the internal workings. I also asked why each of the 50 emails sent out had a different tracking code on it, and he also declined to explain that for the same reason. I asked to see the list of 12,000 papers, so that I could see if the database had a true representation of the peer reviewed landscape, and he also declined, but said the list would be posted “very soon”.
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He stated that he had an expectation (based on past experience) that no skeptic bloggers would post the survey anyway. So why send it then?

The Blackboard » The papers: I think I have all titles.

[comment] Need to add categories:
“does not pass the smell test” and
“you got to be kidding”!

Twitter / Revkin

Are you saying there's more reviewed work pointing to AGW role in F1+ outbreaks than tornado droughts? My point is it was nonsense in '11.

Nations seek flexible climate approach, but no breakthrough in Bonn - Firstpost

“There’s been quite a lot of common ground appearing,” said Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat. But she said no nation was doing enough to combat global warming.
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Chinese chief negotiator Su Wei also said China could not impose caps on its rising emissions because it needed time to focus on economic growth, despite U.S. calls for tougher action by Beijing.

Round-up of recent quotes from hockey stick co-author Ray Bradley

Hockey Stick Co-Author [Ray Bradley] wants to talk to Pope on global warming: ‘He’s a guy that would really get it’

Possibly the Pope is the “kinda guy” that can smell BS a mile away.

Hockey Stick Co-Author Gives Financial Advice: Attacks ExxonMobil, Shell, BP as overvalued because reserves are ‘unusable’ | JunkScience.com

When tree-ring reader Ray Bradley speaks…

Hockey Stick Co-Author on Tar Sands: ‘Takes almost as much energy to extract the material as you get out of it.’ | JunkScience.com

Stick to reading tree-rings, Ray.

Hockey Stick Co-Author: “You can’t ‘save’ the climate… it has changed in the past and it will change in the future as climate skeptics point out’ | JunkScience.com

A moment of clarity for Ray Bradley.

Hockey Stick Co-Author Insults Skeptics: “Many don’t believe in evolution… probably haven’t evolved very much themselves. That’s part of the problem.” | JunkScience.com

What does the theory of evolution have to do with the hypothesis of catastrophic manmade global warming?

Hockey Stick Co-Author Goes Marxist: ‘Must build a sustainable, more equitable society’ | JunkScience.com

Sustainable = Central control over means of production. Equitable = Redistribution. Add in all Ray Bradley’s attacks on the “right wing” in his talk and => Case = closed.

Warmist Ray Bradley: ‘Energy industries and right wing allies are winning’ climate policy debate | JunkScience.com

While eating my lunch during a May 3 Minnesota snowstorm, I was just treated to this NBC public service announcement telling me how to heat up my love life AND cool down the planet!

Tiffani Thiessen Video - 15 second - TheMoreYouKnow.com

Transcript:  "The next time you have date night, set the mood by going green. Decorate with flowers from your garden, have dinner by candlelight, and go for a stroll, not a drive. You can heat up your love life and cool down the planet."

Tiffani Thiessen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tiffani Amber Thiessen (born January 23, 1974) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Kelly Kapowski in Saved by the Bell and as Valerie Malone in Beverly Hills, 90210.

Tornado spike in 2011 attributed to climate change. So what to make of this year’s tornado drought? | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog

In a NOAA blog post tornado expert Harold Brooks notes that during the 12-month period from May 2012-April 2013 there were just 197 tornadoes rated EF1 or stronger. This is, Brooks says, apparently a record low for U.S. tornadoes in a 12-month period.

Twitter / Revkin: Note to those saying "It's ...

Note to those saying "It's irresponsible not to mention climate change" in '11; same for ongoing tornado drought now? http://www.norman.noaa.gov/2013/05/low-tornado-numbers-and-low-tornado-deaths-may-2012-april-2013/?utm_source=Email+Created+2013%2F05%2F03%2C+9%3A12+AM&utm_campaign=5.3.13+Low+tornado+count&utm_medium=email …

Twitter / ClimateDepot: Saudi America: ‘The US for ...

Saudi America: ‘The US for the third month is the world’s largest oil producer’ http://bit.ly/YsB0Ug 

Twitter / RichardTol: I submitted results twice. ...

[regarding the John Cook "survey"]  I submitted results twice. The papers were all about "if warming, then..." rather "warming because ..." or "warming or not".

This strikes at the heart of the whole global warming "consensus" argument.  A very large percentage of "consensus" scientists haven't actually done any independent work to prove that CO2 causes bad weather; they're just trusting others to do their thinking for them.

- Bishop Hill blog - DECC in chaos

One could be forgiven for thinking that the ship is sinking and that all manner of livestock is heading for safer ground.

Midland, Texas smashes record for latest freeze | Facebook

Midland has reached 32. Breaking the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded in May. Also, this smashes the record for the latest freeze, which was set on April 20, 1933.  [Via DB]

UAH Global Temperature Update for April, 2013: +0.10 deg. C « Roy Spencer, PhD

Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2013 is +0.10 deg. C, down from +0.18 deg. C in March

BREAKING: DHS to create “Green Police” to Protect Minorities from Climate Change | hauntingthelibrary

The DHS is to form an “Environmental Justice Unit” with a remit to protect minorities and welfare recipients from climate change.

Climate Sceptics Win Rocks Britain’s Political Landscape - Climate Change Dispatch

Westminster observers are convinced that the growing popularity of UKIP is one of the main reasons some Conservative MPs have become more openly hostile to environmental policies.

Record-breaking snowfall in the Ozarks

“Portions of Arkansas also saw snow this morning, making it the latest snowfall in recorded history in the Natural State.”

Warmist Jeff Masters: You know why sometimes there's too much water and sometimes too little? "Weather whiplash" caused by CO2

Climate change creates maddening 'weather whiplash' - Science

The term "weather whiplash" is being invoked to describe the drought-flood cycles beginning to take over the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

The cause of the maddening weather extremes and their huge and varied consequences is none other than climate change, according to a new report by the climate science communication organization Climate Nexus, and backed by climate researchers.
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The term "weather whiplash" was first invoked to describe this effect by science writer Andrew Freedman in 2009. But now climate scientists are using the term, and pointing to the current floods, in the Midwest as the classic case.

"I'm using it now to describe the longer term kind of flooding-drying cycles," said meteorologist Jeff Masters, co-founder and director meteorology at the Weather Underground. "It's pretty amazing. It used to be only one in three years were flood years. Now it's almost every year."
...The physical reason for the extremes is that as the atmosphere gets hotter, it holds more water and so is capable of generating more extreme rainfall events, Masters explained. On the other hand, it’s harder to separate water from warmer air, which means drier seasons get drier.

I Smell A Rat at NSIDC – Earliest satellite maps of Antarctic and Arctic sea ice | sunshine hours

Why so ambiguous about the years in the Arctic? What are they hiding?

Record cold in Dallas — Flashback: NOAA predicts warmer than average spring | JunkScience.com

Quick, Dallas needs more CO2.

It’s Never Been This Cold This Late in the Spring! « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

This will be the coldest night we have ever seen this late in the Spring Season here in DFW. I expect a low tonight at DFW to be 39 degrees. This will be the latest date in the Spring season for us to ever see temperatures in the 30s. The previous record is 34 degrees on May 1, 1903.

Record May Snowfall in Minnesota

May 2 update from the fastest-warming place on Earth: Alaska's "endless winter" continues; Porcupine River ice still more than 6 feet thick; even some dog mushers are complaining

More than persistent, Alaska's endless winter may signal global cooling | Alaska Dispatch

The ice on the Porcupine River, which joins the Yukon River about 145 miles northeast of the Interior city of Fairbanks, still has ice more than 6-feet thick. It's the state's shiver leader, but then there's a lot of ice everywhere.

The Kuskokwim River at Bethel in comparatively balmy Southwest Alaska still has more than three feet of ice. Nobody will be traveling that waterway by boat anytime soon.

The state has so much May snow and ice that even some dog mushers are complaining.

'May 2 and with several feet of snow still on the ground," Helen Lundberg of Willow lamented on her Facebook page. " I do not like the forecast -- snow and "much cooler" for tomorrow -- feels like this winter refuses to give up on us."  [Via SC]

Another lawsuit filed for EPA official’s private emails | WashingtonExaminer.com

Yet another Environmental Protection Agency official used his private email account to conduct government business, according to a lawsuit from the watchdog that has recently exposed similar transparency violations at the agency.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit to see emails sent or received by EPA regional administrator Jared Blumenfeld at his private account about government business. “Apparently, it is merely the latest in a long and growing series of unrelated isolated incidents,” CEI senior fellow Christopher Horner said in a statement on the lawsuit.

Twitter / Jonathan__Leake: #Decc's head of strategy quits. ...

#Decc's head of strategy quits. Ravi Gurumurthy's departure follows that of Jonathan Brearley, Head of Energy Markets and Networks, last wk

Warmists try blocking former New Mexico Guv from university presidency because of skepticism, sound science advocacy | JunkScience.com

“Four Las Cruces state representatives have ‘serious reservations’ about New Mexico State University presidential candidate Garrey Carruthers due to his work for a tobacco-backed group and his climate change views.”

World’s Top Climate Experts – “Snow cover is retreating earlier in the spring” | Real Science

Many of these experts live in Boulder, Colorado.

Does CO2 Steer Hurricanes? | Real Science

Suppose for a minute that CO2 does steer hurricanes. Florida is experiencing their longest hurricane free period on record, so apparently they are being protected by CO2′s magical hurricane steering powers.

Perhaps CO2 should be named the patron saint of Florida?

Kyoto Futility: Only covers 14% of global emissions — and Australia may drop out; Treaty extension still unratified | JunkScience.com

“While a signed climate deal at the 2015 Paris summit may be widely celebrated at the time, the true test will come as the 195 parties attempt to push legislation through their domestic Parliaments.”

Ocean Heat Content (0 to 2000 Meters) – Why Aren’t Northern Hemisphere Oceans Warming During the ARGO Era? | Bob Tisdale

With their continuing failed attempts, the alarmist wing of the climate science community still has a lot of work to do to explain the warming of the global oceans, or lack thereof.

Wind-borne dust linked to rapid climate change

Dust plumes that fertilise the ocean with iron, enhancing a biological process that sucks carbon from the atmosphere, are closely linked to rapid climate change in the past, according to new research.

Why you should be angry, and why anger isn’t enough | RTCC - Climate change news

Last week the UK’s former chief climate diplomat John Ashton addressed students from Bedford School Sixth Form in a TEDx talk.

The speech was called Climate Change: why you should be angry, and why anger isn’t enough.

Blowing carbon bubbles

[Richard Tol] In sum, there is no carbon bubble. If there were a carbon bubble, it would not be about to burst. If it would burst, the economic impact would be minimal.

Twitter / A_Liberty_Rebel

I love the smell of napalm - sorry I mean council “climate change” officers clearing their desks - in the morning #UKIPCouncils

Twitter / RichardTol: Just reviewed stats paper for ...

Just reviewed stats paper for J Climate. Climatologists are clowns among statisticians.

Twitter / RichardTol: @SMEasterbrook 2 authors, 2 ...

@SMEasterbrook 2 authors, 2 referees and 1 editor do not know the difference between a moment and a central moment. In a paper on moments.

Schellnhuber Rejected! Why The German Government Is Moving To Overhaul Its Climate Advisory Board

Reaction to the news of Schellnhuber’s blocked appointment was met by jubilation on the skeptic side, and outrage on the warmist side. Some called the block the move “outrageous“, with one former green minister describing it as a ”mass mobbing“. But one Dutch scientist, a longtime critic of the IPCC and the PIK, sent me an e-mail and called the news “sensational”.

Whether Schellnhuber ends up staying or not, expect new faces to join the WBGU, and thus the end of the advisory board as we know it.

Sunspot Cycle and the Global Temperature Change Anomaly | Watts Up With That?

[R.J. Salvador] I have made an 82% correlation between the sunspot cycle and the Global Temperature Anomaly. The correlation is obtained through a non linear time series summation of NASA monthly sunspot data to the NOAA monthly Global Temperature Anomaly.

"I've been here at this resort for 60 years and never seen anything like this": Wisconsin facing frozen fishing opener

Wisconsin facing frozen fishing opener

BALSAM LAKE, Wis. - It will be the fishing opener that's frozen shut. Lakes in the northern third of Wisconsin remain ice-covered and Thursday's snowfall is a late-Spring punch to the gut.

"My son was supposed to come up, but he's cancelled the trip," said John Boniface from Cottage Grove. "I think a lot of people are changing their plans."

On Balsam Lake, an hour from the Twin Cities, 12 to 18 inches of ice cover the lake. It's a sad realization for surrounding business relying on fishing tourism.

"I've been here at this resort for 60 years and never seen anything like this," says Ron Ward, owner of Ward's Resort.

Global warming caused super storms, ice thaw, UN organization warns

Global warming was to blame for super storms that killed hundreds of people last year, and record levels of ice thaw in the Arctic, the United Nations has warned.

The Climate's Right for Whining by Steven F. Hayward - City Journal

In sum, the real world of viticulture bears little relation to the published findings of scientists relying almost entirely on computer models. The latest PNAS study surely won’t be the last episode of the great wine scare. In the meantime, don’t be surprised if premium winemakers “adapt” by using the climate-change craze as an excuse to raise their prices further.

An Era of Endless Energy Is At Hand | Power Line

...And experts say the current estimate is still conservative. So if your great-uncle was a Norwegian bachelor farmer in North Dakota, you have won the lottery.

Really, though, we have all won the lottery, if perhaps not the Powerball grand prize. The cost of energy is one of the key determinants of economic growth, and the United States is poised to become the world’s great energy superpower for the foreseeable future. Cheap energy is like an across the board tax cut: it lifts all the boats. If the U.S. only had a competent government, there would be no stopping us.

Upper Midwest schoolchildren get rare May snow day

"It’s not cool," Emma said, adding that she was tired of winter and would rather be at school. "I don’t like the snow right now."

Nancy Keller of Owatonna said her three kids were getting fed up with the endless winter, too. She said several of their tennis, soccer matches and field trips already have been postponed.

"They’re getting tired of having things canceled," Keller said.

Fisker: Free to Make Flashy Cars in Finland | Somewhat Reasonable

Now, we all know that Fisker never made one car in Delaware—or anywhere in the US. The Delaware plant is “absolutely empty.” We know that Fisker lost $557,000 on each flashy sports car it sold and has laid off most of its employees. And we know that Fisker will likely be the next taxpayer-funded green-energy project to go bankrupt.

While we do not know all the political connections that got Fisker a free ride to make flashy cars in Finland, we do know there is crony-corruption. As the WSJ reports: “The Obama Energy Department is keeping tight rein on documents, so we don’t know.” We just don’t know.

Green Energy Investors Shift Focus To Fossil Fuels | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Clean technology investment funds are no longer trying to replace the fossil fuel industry, they’re trying to help it by financing companies that can make mining and drilling less dirty.

Minnesota: Livestock die in building collapse caused by May snowstorm

KAALtv.com - Snow Causes Building Collapse, Kills Livestock

(ABC 6 News) -- When Hayfield farmer Gene Leckness awoke with a sore tooth Thursday morning, he had no idea he would soon have to deal with a much bigger headache.

He returned from a dentist appointment around 10 o’clock Thursday morning to find his 180-foot cattle shed almost completely collapsed under the weight of the heavy snow that had accumulated on its roof.

"I worry about snow but I never thought the whole thing would go at one time,” Leckness said.

Roof Collapses in North Omaha Building; Snow and Ice Likely to B - FOX 42

The Amazing Texas Energy Turnaround

The south Texas Eagle Ford field is now the largest oil and gas production field in the world. 6 years ago it was barely a blip.

This massive growth in energy production has helped fuel job growth. In the prior 12 months through March payrolls grew in Texas by 329,500 jobs (17% of all US jobs).

Black gold. Texas tea.

San Jose State Professors Would Rather Burn Climate Skeptic Book Than Read It | Somewhat Reasonable

No doubt bellies were jiggling aplenty among the faculty … until the pic got shared around. The post and photo were taken down Thursday, but the Internet is forever. Heartland friend Anthony Watts has thwarted this Soviet-style attempt at “disappearing” an inconvenient photo, saving a classic from “the Fahrenheit 451 department” for posterity.

A carbon market milestone worth cheering | Business Spectator

Early dry season savanna burning is being conducted on Fish River to reduce greenhouse emissions that would otherwise be generated from late dry season wild fires.

Biofuel Pioneer Forsakes Renewables to Make Gas-Fed Fuels - Bloomberg

Alan Shaw, the chemist and executive who led a six-year effort to turn inedible crops into fuels to displace gasoline, has renounced the industry he helped pioneer and decided the future instead lies with natural gas.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Great read on Iowa Snow by ...

Great read on Iowa Snow by Jim Lee http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/May_Snow.pdf …

Beijing to curb coal consumption - News - Point Carbon

BEIJING, May 3 (Reuters Point Carbon) - China’s capital will cap coal consumption this year at 6 percent below business-as-usual levels in a bid to ease the city’s environmental problems, such as its toxic air, a government website said Friday, a move that would also cut greenhouse gas emissions.  [In a related note, I'm planning to curb my pie consumption by only eating four of the six extra pies that I was going to eat today.]

The Five Circles of Carbon Tax Hell — MasterResource

“The tax will not be implemented in the politically aseptic world of academic modelers, but in the real world of intense political pressures. Its assumed purity will not survive the onslaught [as demonstrated by] … Sanders-Boxer [where] the carbon tax is treated as a huge honeypot for allocating money to powerful groups, including overseas interests.”

20 Years Ago: 5-3-93 — VP Al Gore fires Will Happer from Energy Dept. for ozone, climate skepticism | JunkScience.com

“I think there has been an exaggeration of the dangers of ozone depletion and climate change,” Happer told the House subcommittee, making clear the distinction between his opinions and official administration policy.”

Return of the Arctic Death Spiral! (again). | hauntingthelibrary

You can see how this works: the alarmists come up with an arresting image that short-circuits rational thinking by frightening people with some dire image of a catastrophic event that’s happening somewhere far, far away which they can’t see themselves (it’s always far away, notice, the top of the world, the bottom of the ocean, etc). Then, using the time-honoured methods of propaganda, they keep relentlessly hammering the image home over and over and over again until the facts are no longer the main issue. So deeply has the image become ingrained in the public consciousness that believe will believe the lie of the Arctic death spiral over all other evidence.

Climate Alarmists Upset By Competition From Traditional Religions | Real Science

Climate alarmists believe that their “earth is doomed” message is being drowned out by more traditional “earth is doomed” messages.

The Reference Frame: Will you help John Cook "quantify the consensus"?

...I have rated my abstracts. The grades were 3,3,4,3,4,5,3,6,3,5: the average is exactly 4 which means neutral. As far as my ensemble goes, even the highly biased and sometimes low-quality literature – with lots of social sciences and other pseudosciences just blindly looking for a problem, taking the natural scientific claims about AGW for granted – is undecided when it comes to the question whether CO2 is dominant.

Some papers in my list discussed a variety of external forcings. The last paper showed a significant contribution of cosmic rays on the climate. At any rate, the idea of a pro-AGW consensus in the literature seems preposterous to me.

What would ‘wartime mobilization’ to fight climate change look like? | Grist

what’s required in wartime mobilization is an enormous amount of centralized federal executive authority, an enormous amount of borrowing and taxing, and an enormous amount of labor displacement and retraining. At least temporarily, the economy will be more government-directed than market-based.

Report: Ill. coal enjoyed record exports in 2012 - SFGate

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Illinois' abundant high-sulfur coal once shunned as a pollution source by U.S. utilities saw record demand oversees last year even as domestic coal providers broadly curtailed production as cheaper, competing natural gas crimped their sales, according to new report Wednesday.

Is China really a climate change leader? | Jennifer Duggan | Environment | guardian.co.uk

"China's five northwestern provinces plan to increase coal production by 620 million tonnes by 2015, generating an additional 1,400 million tonnes of CO2 a year, almost equal to Russia's emissions in 2010".

European Green Movement on Verge of Collapse Due to Failed Climate Change and Global Warming Policies

Europe’s stringent climate policies with high targets for carbon reduction, once touted as a means of saving the planet, have been revealed to be economic suicide, according to Dr. Peiser’s research.

“Emissions trading schemes in Europe have already cost EU taxpayers between 300 to 400 billion Euros yet there’s been no emissions reduction,” reported Peiser. “Lots of investments that were projected based on high carbon price are no longer feasible.”

This week's latest spring snowstorm to hit Wyoming brought record cold, snow to Cheyenne

Cheyenne also set a record low temperature of 9 degrees Thursday morning.
...
Laramie set an all-time record low of 5 degrees Thursday morning for the month of May.

How Oil Made Working-Class North Dakota a Whole Lot Richer - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic

Employment in the drilling region jumped by 35 percent, and average pay leaped by half.

Twitter / Eco_melon: #Climate change and political ...

#Climate change and political intimidation- Raymond S. Bradley (Talk is in English) http://youtu.be/-Ij-dl0ppng  @MichaelEMann

Record low temps expected South Texas

Including record lows for the entire month of May

- Bishop Hill blog - More evidence that nobody believes in climate policy

The Economist notes that far from pulling back from the oil and gas business, governments - allegedly concerned with climate targets - are actually expanding their fossil fuel businesses and that exploration activity is expanding across the board

The Tragedy of Climatism: Resource Misuse on a Global Scale | Watts Up With That?

The tragedy of Climatism is a misuse of resources on a vast scale. Over $250 billion is spent each year in a futile effort to decarbonize―twice global foreign aid. The world spent over $1 trillion in the last ten years and is on track to spend another trillion in the next four years in a fight against a climate change phantom.

At the same time, real life-and-death problems need to be addressed.

Twitter / billmckibben [After taking yet another completely unnecessary long-haul fuel-guzzling flight]

Here's the power source for today's fossil fuel free day rally in San francisco! pic.twitter.com/WfupJNvTEf

Warmist on NPR: Freak May snowstorm is weather, not climate — but global warming is to blame anyway | JunkScience.com

Warmist Paul Huttner can’t go three sentences without contradicting himself.

Hottest year ever update: May snowstorm in Minnesota causes building collapse

Building collapses in southeast MN; snow likely factor | kare11.com

Law enforcement officials say the collapse was almost certainly caused by the unseasonable spring storm.

We're saved!: Students at Cornell University hosted a die-in to symbolize the human cost of climate change

Fossil Free #FossilFreedom Day of Action Kicks off Across the Country - Fossil Free

Salon: Skipping every fourth burger or fourth glass of milk might save the Earth from CO2-induced emergency

Would we give up burgers to stop climate change? - Salon.com

essentially, if every fourth time someone craved, say, beef, chicken or cow milk they instead opted for a veggie burger, a bean burrito or water, we have a chance to halt the emergency.
...we will never be able to combat the crisis until everyone is willing to sacrifice just a little bit

Antarctic Sea Ice Day 121 Update | sunshine hours

Why, if Antarctic Sea Ice has been growing for 30 years, has it taken them so damned long to even admit it, let alone come up with such a weak-ass explanation that all sane people laugh at?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds tiny changes in solar activity affect ENSO & East Asian climate change

A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres finds tiny changes in solar activity during 11-year solar cycles have large, amplified effects on the winter climate of East Asia by modulating the impact of the El Nino Southern Oscillation [ENSO].

May 1 - Snowfall totals for MN,WI, IA, SD and NE

Some areas received 10, 12 even 15 inches of snow! …… On May 1!

Record low in Laramie, Wyoming

Shatters previous record for May 1.

Book burning at San Jose State University?: The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism

Book Burning | The SPPI Blog

Again, one picture worth a thousand words.

Amazon link to the book being burned.

The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism is the first book on climate change that is fun to read. Using figures, cartoons, and whimsical sidebars, Steve Goreham describes our crazy world, which is far down the primrose path of global warming fantasy.

Department of Meteorology and Climate Science | Department of Meteorology and Climate Science | San Jose State University

[Source of the photo above] This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland Institute {this or this }. The book is entitled "The Mad, Mad, Made World of Climatism". SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the book.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Warmists head to the Arctic, then complain endlessly about the cold

April 17, 2013 - Arctic Circle Traverse 2013 - It's all about melting snow

Being a group of six scientists we'll head off to Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland, on April 19. Our team aims at recording and studying the traces that the recent warm summers left on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. One year ago we found indicators of changes due to increasing summer-melt at one particular location; this year we are going back to perform more detailed measurements over a much larger area.

April 18, 2013: Cold cold cold

Can't say it will be a pleasant experience at 25 C below freezing!

April 23, 2013: Dirty Cold

We wake up on put-in morning and check the Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) real-time weather feed from our initial destination on the ice sheet (Dye-2)...it's almost -39 C. That's pretty much the point where the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales are equal. Ugh...

April 24, 2013: Camped here. Really cold.

Really cold. dunno temp or chill factor.

April 30, 2013: Weather colder than last year and everything takes longer than planned

May 2, 2013: "lots of blowing snow so we are stuck in the tent"

Today we had 70+ km/h winds, lots of blowing snow so we are stuck in the tent still at KAN_U. Dirk"

The map below illustrates how temperatures have been ~10 C below normal (brrrr) the past 10 days while our campers are trying to work.

The Tyee – Solar Dreams, Spanish Realities

"We had a lot of hopes and now we're more skeptical."

That's how Pedro Prieto, a 62-year-old global telecom engineer and solar entrepreneur, sums up Spain's famous solar revolution.

Energy secretary urges Michael Gove to reinstate climate change on curriculum | Politics | guardian.co.uk

A Department for Education spokeswoman has previously said the proposed changes "will in fact give pupils a deeper understanding of all climate issues".

Twitter / RyanMaue: Unless globe starts warming ...

Unless globe starts warming again after 17-yrs, expect much more spring and summer snow. Yes, September snow is still summer.

Low-key US plan for each nation to set climate goals wins ground - Reuters News - Point Carbon

BONN, Germany, May 2 (Reuters) - A U.S.-led plan to let all countries set their own goals for fighting climate change is gaining grudging support at U.N. talks, even though the current level of pledges is far too low to limit rising temperatures substantially.

Ice pack reveals Romans' air pollution - UK - News - The Independent

'What we see from the ice record of the Greenland cores is that we have been poisoning the Earth's atmosphere with lead for 2,000 years.'

To Heat Or Eat: Europe’s Failed Climate Policies | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Dr. Peiser will be the guest luncheon speaker May 14, 2013 at the Met Centre in downtown Calgary, Alberta at the 10th Annual Friends of Science Luncheon – “To Heat or Eat: Europe’s Failed Climate Policies.”

UK Scientist Jailed For Falsifying Research Data | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

A scientist who faked research data for experimental anti-cancer drugs has been jailed for three months for falsifying test results.

Europe’s Green Agenda Goes Up In Smoke | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Environmentalists, businesses and carbon market investors were watching last week’s conclave of environment and energy ministers in Dublin closely, hoping to see a plume of white smoke emerging to signal that the ministers had agreed to step in with bold support for the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). But no such signal of support came.

Told You So: Britain’s Green Energy Policy Faces Disaster | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The U.K.’s 376 billion-pound ($582 billion) program to switch from fossil fuel to renewable and nuclear power is headed for crisis because of looming energy shortages and spiraling costs, Liberum Capital Ltd. said.

Heartland Urges NACDC to Reconsider Conclusions on Climate Change | Somewhat Reasonable

The full commentary cites more than 400 pages of scientific evidence, and can be downloaded here.

UN agency: Arctic ice loss ‘disturbing’ sign of climate change - The Hill's E2-Wire

The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday issued a warning about the loss of Arctic sea ice and extreme weather that’s “increasingly shaped by climate change.”

Historic Snowstorm From Texas to Michigan

Omaha, Neb., Mason City, Iowa, and Rochester, Minn., are but only several cities that have been clobbered by their biggest May snowfall on record. In many cases in the major cities in the Plains, those records date back to the 1800s.

South Africa on carbon tax dodgers: They ‘will feel the heat’ | JunkScience.com

“The primary aim of carbon taxation was changing behaviour, not revenue collection.”

UN Weather Chief: ‘Meteorologists must work harder to find out what is causing global warming’ | JunkScience.com

You mean, the science isn’t settled? The debate isn’t over? Al Gore was wrong?

Parts of Ireland experienced coldest April in 24-years as cold snap continues | Irish News | IrishCentral

Mullingar in Co Westmeath and Sherkin Island in Co Cork recorded their coldest April since 1989

Bummer: "danger of an ice-free Arctic in the summer within two years"

White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Senior US government officials are to be briefed at the White House this week on the danger of an ice-free Arctic in the summer within two years.

ScienceShot: Global Warming at Your Doorstep - ScienceNOW

the amount of carbon rising from the soil of residential lawns is significantly greater than that from the soil of agricultural land—in this case, irrigated fields of corn

Katharine Hayhoe: Preaching climate to the unconverted

Today, I get probably 10 times more hate mail from Christians than I get from atheists...[Hey Katharine:  What's your sample size?  When people allegedly send you hate mail, what percent of them identify themselves as either Christians or atheists?] When I was working with the city of Chicago in 2007 and 2008, the city asked us—the climate scientists—to meet with representatives from each city department to figure out how climate change would affect Chicago. It was only through talking to each other that we realized that climate change could affect the city in all these ways that none of us had ever imagined.

How a public school in Queens went vegetarian | Grist

We salute the genius who managed to get 400 kids into tofu and spinach wraps.

Big freeze livestock death toll hits 100,000 - 5/2/2013 - UK

The death toll for stock killed during the freezing winter and early spring weather has hit 100,000 and is still rising, the National Fallen Stock Company (NFSCo) has said.

Historic snow and cold strike Rockies and Upper Midwest

Even though it is now May, the brutal, never-ending winter of 2012-13 obstinately refuses to relent, and has dumped heaps of snow from Denver to southern Minnesota. Single-day record May snowfalls have likely fallen in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

The late spring blast of winter has also produced record cold in the region.

Uh oh: Warmist Kevin Trenberth's Boulder breaks its lowest-ever May temperature record by three degrees

Boulder weather: After a foot of snow and record cold, sunny skies to return today - Boulder Daily Camera

Boulder saw a total of 12.1 inches of snow for the May 1 snowstorm according to local meteorologist Matt Kelsch. The total nearly doubled the previous May 1 record of 6.2 inches and has Boulder way ahead of the average snowfall for the month of May, which is only an inch. Weather spotters reported 14.5 inches in both Ward and Nederland Monday night.

Kelsch also said this morning's low of 17 was the coldest temperature ever recorded in May, breaking the previous record of 20 set on May 3, 1907.  [Via DB]

Boulder weighs in on May snowstorm: 'It sucks!' - Boulder Daily Camera