Tom Nelson

Ambitious UN Sustainability Conference in Rio to Avoid Climate Talk

2012-01-28T16:48:00.001-06:00

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/10692-ambitious-un-sustainability-conference-in-rio-to-avoid-climate-talk

According to chief Andre Correa do Lago of Brazil's delegation working on the outcome document for "Rio+20" — the upcoming UN conference is set for 20 years after the first Earth Summit was held in the Brazilian city — climate change and global warming have become too sensitive of an issue for many countries.

Sir John's emails

2012-01-28T13:15:00.001-06:00

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/28/sir-johns-emails.html

appears that Sir John has deleted historic records relating to his work on the Third Assessment Report - work that was funded by the UK taxpayer.

Drip, Drip, Drip: Yet Another Green Energy Stimulus Recipient Hits the Skids (the third this week!)

2012-01-28T13:10:00.000-06:00

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalwarmingorg/~3/z9blky-e-kM/

Earlier this week, Stimulus beneficiary Evergreen Energy bit the dust. Then, Ener1, a manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles and recipient of Stimulus largesse, filed for bankruptcy. And today, the Las Vegas Sun reports that Amonix, Inc., a manufacturer of solar panels that received $5.9 million from the Porkulus, will cut two-thirds of its workforce, about 200 employees, only seven months after opening a factory in Nevada.

Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government - Truthdig

2012-01-28T13:06:00.001-06:00

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page4/why_climate_change_will_make_you_love_big_government_20120128/

To adapt to climate change will mean coming together on a large scale and mobilizing society's full range of resources. In other words, Big Storms require Big Government. Who else will save stranded climate refugees, or protect and rebuild infrastructure, or coordinate rescue efforts and plan out the flow and allocation of resources?

It will be government that does these tasks or they will not be done at all.

How to Slow Climate Change? Stop Talking About It | OnEarth Magazine

2012-01-28T09:39:00.001-06:00

http://www.onearth.org/article/how-to-slow-climate-change-stop-talking-about-it

we need to buy as much time as we can to bear down on the ultimate problem of rallying the public, and the world, once and for all against CO₂. Attacking black carbon does that

Preventing bad weather, government-style; Home insulation safety inspectors cost us $3.4 million | Herald Sun

2012-01-28T07:41:00.001-06:00

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/home-insulation-safety-inspectors-cost-us-34-million/story-fn7x8me2-1226256240452

FLYING squads of safety inspectors charged with cleaning up the Federal Government's home insulation scheme have jetted around the country, lodging bills of up to $3000 to inspect a single home.

That's almost twice the original value of insulation installed under the scheme, which offered householders free insulation up to the value of $1600 as an economic stimulus measure.

The frequent-flying inspectors have travelled thousands of kilometres to check dodgy installations, even jetting from the Gold Coast to Melbourne, Perth to Adelaide and Brisbane to Perth.

Ivory-tower activists

2012-01-28T06:17:00.000-06:00

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/28/ivory-tower-activists.html

There is little doubt that many residents of the ivory tower are little more than publicly funded political activists - a form of corruption if ever there was one.

Mann lecture at Penn State

2012-01-28T06:16:00.000-06:00

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/1/28/mann-lecture-at-penn-state.html

A video of Mann's recent lecture at Penn State is available here.

I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, so feel free to point out any points of interest in the comments. The few seconds I have looked at suggest that there wasn't a big turnout for the great man.

Sorry about the error in my previous post

2012-01-28T06:12:00.001-06:00

The link is correct, but the Barton quote shouldn't be there.Blogger won't let me edit that post.

Alfred Wegener Institute Implies Cold Winters Caused By Global Warming

2012-01-28T05:41:00.001-06:00

http://notrickszone.com/2012/01/27/german-paper-claims-cold-winters-a-sign-of-global-warming/

I'm afraid the ocean will be dead long before we have to worry about the other implications of global warming," Barton says quietly.

Mailing Ourselves a Package

2012-01-28T05:40:00.001-06:00

http://planet3.org/2012/01/27/mailing-ourselves-a-package/

I'm afraid the ocean will be dead long before we have to worry about the other implications of global warming," Barton says quietly.

Other responses to the outrageous WSJ Op-Ed

2012-01-28T05:39:00.001-06:00

http://planet3.org/2012/01/27/other-responses-to-the-outrageous-wsj-op-ed/

In addition to ours:
http://planet3.org/2012/01/27/the-wall-street-journal-again/

there are at least:

Greg Laden:http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/01/two_incontrovertible_things_an.php

Peter Gleick:http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/01/27/remarkable-editorial-bias-on-climate-science-at-the-wall-street-journal

Peter Frumhoff for the Union of Concerned Scientists:http://blog.ucsusa.org/dismal-science-at-the-wall-street-journal

Others? Keith? Hello? Keith? Andy?

Parent of Obama-backed battery maker goes bankrupt

2012-01-28T05:37:00.000-06:00

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/9858-parent-of-obama-backed-battery-maker-goes-bankrupt

[h/t to Gator] The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.

Coldest Month In Fairbanks, Alaska For Over 40 Years

2012-01-28T05:36:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/fairbanks-alaska-averaging-31c-month

That's the coldest since 1971, when the January averaged minus 31.7

‘Transparency’ & the GWPF – Part 2

2012-01-28T05:34:00.001-06:00

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/climate-resistance/wCKX/~3/dsuBVHckYJo/transparency-the-gwpf-part-2.html

Okay. Let us agree, you shouldn't 'deny the links' between causes and their known effects. But what if people claim that if you have unprotected sex you will get HIV? What if people claim that, as soon as you have just one puff on a cigarette you will get lung cancer? And what if people started claiming that, the moment you took a sip of beer, wine or cider, your liver simply melted? What then?

Response From George Taylor On The Oregon Debate On Climate Science

2012-01-27T19:52:00.001-06:00

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/response-from-george-taylor-on-the-oregon-debate-on-climate-science/

[Pielke Sr] I have concluded that the global average of surface temperature, etc, is almost a worthless metric, as what really matters is the extent (and if) large scale regional circulation patterns are changed. If we [convince] the IPCC (and AMS and AGU leadership) that they are looking at the wrong metrics, we might be able to make some progress. :-)

EDITORIAL: Global warming's 'dirty laundry' - Washington Times

2012-01-27T19:48:00.001-06:00

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/27/global-warmings-dirty-laundry/

The American Tradition Institute (ATI) is going after 12,000 emails sent or received by Michael E. Mann while he was on the staff of the publicly-funded university

Santorum: Romney, Gingrich ‘bought into global warming hoax’ | JunkScience.com

2012-01-27T15:54:00.001-06:00

http://junkscience.com/2012/01/26/santorum-romney-gingrich-bought-into-global-warming-hoax/

In tonight's Florida GOP presidential debate, in his closing statement, Rick Santorum gestured over to Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney and said very matter of factly:

Cap-and-trade… both of them bought into the global warming hoax… cap-and-trade, top-down control of our energy and manufacturing policy…

NJ.com : What global warming? Barack Obama attends tree-hugger event in a 22-vehicle motorcade

2012-01-27T15:52:00.001-06:00

http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/pm_104375/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=jr9uqJYk

I'd suggest he use his time sitting in that motorcade to read up and realize that Americans are wising up to this scam. Scaring people about hyped-up threats of doom worked for a while, but Obama better get a new gimmick if he wants to win in November.

Parts of eastern, central Europe buried by snow

2012-01-27T14:02:00.001-06:00

http://iceagenow.info/2012/01/parts-eastern-central-europe-buried-snow/

As much as 10 feet of snow in some areas.

Google Abandons Global Warming

2012-01-27T13:23:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/google-abandons-global-warming

Until today, Google News had a sidebar for global warming. It is gone this morning.

Chris Matthews: People Who Believe God As The Creator Are "Troglodytes" | RealClearPolitics

2012-01-27T09:18:00.001-06:00

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/26/chris_matthews_people_who_believe_god_as_the_creator_are_troglodytes.html

Chris Matthews: In other words, there is no manmade influence on climate change? Is that your belief, Ron Christie? I didn't know that. Are you out there with the full-mooners on this one?

Ron Christie, Republican strategist: Let me enlighten you on this one, Chris. I think global climate change is the biggest fraud that's been perpetrated in this country. The scientific evidence isn't there. This is something that Al Gore and his cronies have made millions of dollars of perpetuating a myth. That's what I think.

Email 1145, May 2005, Jonathan Overpeck to Briffa/Jansen: "We're hoping you guys can generate something compelling enough for the TS and SPM - something that will replace the hockey-stick with something even more compelling"

2012-01-27T06:57:00.000-06:00

Email 1145

We're hoping you guys can generate something compelling enough for the TS [Technical Summary] and SPM [Summary for Policy Makers] - something that will replace the hockey-stick with something even more compelling.

Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming - WSJ.com

2012-01-27T06:05:00.001-06:00

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwNjEyNDYyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email

Speaking for many scientists and engineers who have looked carefully and independently at the science of climate, we have a message to any candidate for public office: There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically.

Study of wolves will help scientists predict climate effects on endangered animals

2012-01-27T05:31:00.000-06:00

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_2-12-2011-10-7-57

We know that climate change is having an impact on the lives of animal species around the world. This is clear through the changes we've seen in their population sizes, as well as their body sizes

Travel less (unless you’re a politician, UN big-wig or bureaucrat)

2012-01-27T05:22:00.000-06:00

http://climatenonconformist.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/travel-less-unless-youre-a-politician-un-big-wig-or-bureaucrat/

The article then touts the benefits of internet broadband and video conferencing and lauds the fact that they don't have any greenhouse drawbacks. Yet, we have politicians, dignitaries, youth activists, actors, celebrities, scientists and bureaucrats jetting off to some luxury location every year to make a deal on reducing these same greenhouse gases. If only they would subscribe to the same anti-transport policy that their friends in the environmental movement want to subject the rest of us to.

First Estimate of Solar Cycle 25 Amplitude – end of Modern Warm Period?

2012-01-27T05:21:00.001-06:00

http://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/first-estimate-of-solar-cycle-25-amplitude-end-of-modern-warm-period

First Estimate of Solar Cycle 25 Amplitude – may be the smallest in over 300 years In a guest post by David Archibald at Watts Up With That he suggest based on the current data that we are about to see the end of the Modern Warm Period.

New Resources of Note

2012-01-27T05:20:00.001-06:00

http://planet3.org/2012/01/26/new-resources-of-note/

the new energy in defending and advancing science in general and climate science in particular is a welcome development.

How to be a Really Good Climate Change Alarmist

2012-01-27T05:19:00.001-06:00

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-be-really-good-climate-change.html

10: Don't worry about Cognitive dissonance.

Sixteen prominent scientists publish a letter in WSJ saying there’s “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”

2012-01-27T05:17:00.001-06:00

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/27/sixteen-prominent-scientists-publish-a-letter-in-wsj-saying-theres-no-need-to-panic-about-global-warming/

This is quite something. Sixteen scientists, including such names as Richard Lindzen, William Kininmonth, Wil Happer, and Nir Shaviv, plus engineer Burt Rutan, and Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Harrison Schmidt, among others, write what amounts to a heretical treatise to theWall Street Journal, expressing their view that the global warming is oversold, has stalled in the last decade, and that the search for meaningful warming has led to co-opting weather patterns in the blame game

Ocean Heat Content: Climate Models Continue To Fail Miserably At Predicting OHC

2012-01-27T05:16:00.001-06:00

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/01/ocean-heat-content-climate-models-continue-to-fail-miserably-at-predicting-ohc.html

The NASA climate model developed by James Hansen has been atrocious at predicting global warming over the last 15 years and the evidence mounts it is even worse at predicting ocean heat content

Shock News From HadCRUT – 2011 More Than 0.3 Degrees Warmer Than 1878

2012-01-27T05:15:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/shock-news-hadcrut-2011-0-3-degrees-warmer

I think the whole surface temperature record is complete crap, but 0.35 degrees is all Phil could come up with?

School Board Member Skeptical of Textbook - Hellertown-Lower Saucon, PA Patch

2012-01-27T05:14:00.001-06:00

http://hellertown.patch.com/articles/saucon-valley-school-board-member-concerned-about-textbook

"The book talks about global warming," Eichfeld said. "It is presented as fact. (Global warming) is a theory and not a fact."

Eichfeld said he does not believe global warming is a proven fact, and said the subject may become "obsolete in a few years."

Gavin Schmidt: Climate Homeopathy

2012-01-26T19:20:00.001-06:00

http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/gavin-schmidt-climate-homeopathy/

I was tickled last week when I was browsing on the realclimate website and came across an exchange between our old friend Vukcevic and Gavin Schmidt, who pooh-poohed Vuk's proposal for an effect on arctic circulation relating to changes in Earth's magnetic field, another vastly powerful force. Gavin didn't think the energy equivalent involved would be sufficient.
"Or do you have some magic mechanism?" he jibed "climate homeopathy perhaps?"

Another IPCC Demand for Secrecy

2012-01-26T19:17:00.001-06:00

http://climateaudit.org/2012/01/26/another-ipcc-demand-for-secrecy/

Unfortunately, IPCC seems far more concerned about secrecy than in requiring its contributors to archive data. I received another request to remove discussion of IPCC draft reports. On this issue, David Appell and I are in full agreement – see David Appell's collection of ZOD chaptershere.

Climate change: No. of people willing to 'go green' and change the way they live falls 10% | Mail Online

2012-01-26T18:46:00.000-06:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092375/Climate-change-No-people-willing-green-change-way-live-falls-10.html

Dr Benny Peiser, of the sceptical Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: 'Climate change is dropping off the political agenda. The person in the pub no longer cares. It is bottom of their list of priorities.'

Professor Knut Löschke: IPCC Representatives Do Not Shy Away From Fraud And Falsification

2012-01-26T15:59:00.001-06:00

http://notrickszone.com/2012/01/26/prof-knut-loschke-ipcc-representatives-do-not-shy-away-from-fraud-and-falsification/

Löschke thinks the whole climate issue is a dangerous political sham and called on the public: "Wehret den Anfängen!" This is a call to defend against a dangerous movement.

At the end of his speech Professor Löschke compared the "international climate regime" to the socialist regimes in Germany. According to Bärligea, up to 8 people walked out.

Dept. of Agriculture Gives $235 Million Loan to Ethanol Company

2012-01-26T15:55:00.001-06:00

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/289372/dept-agriculture-gives-235-million-loan-ethanol-company-greg-pollowitz

So, just how many federal agencies are going to play venture capitalist?

One-Third Of The US Shows Warming Daytime Temperatures Since 1895

2012-01-26T15:54:00.001-06:00

http://www.Real-Science.com/shows-warming-daytime-temperatures-1895

Before adjustments, 34% of the country shows warming since 1895.

Global Warming Weekly Round-Up, Jan. 26th 2012 « The Daily Bayonet

2012-01-26T15:32:00.001-06:00

http://dailybayonet.com/2012/01/global-warming-weekly-round-up-jan-26th-2012/

Presentation by global warming skeptics draws big crowd in Portland

2012-01-26T10:32:00.001-06:00

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/9848-presentation-by-global-warming-skeptics-draws-big-crowd-in-portland

More than 400 people jammed into a Portland hotel ballroom Wednesday night to hear a panel of global warming skeptics assert that manmade increases in greenhouse gases are not driving climate change.

Ice in Bering Sea threatens crab fishery: Commerical Fishing | Alaska news at adn.com

2012-01-26T09:21:00.001-06:00

http://www.adn.com/2012/01/25/2283664/ice-in-central-bering-sea-is-threatening.html

EARLY: Southward extension is farthest over the past 20 years.

Scientists Discover That Frequency of Super Hurricanes Has Declined Significantly Over Last 600 Years

2012-01-26T00:30:00.001-06:00

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/01/scientists-discover-that-frequency-of-super-hurricanes-has-declined-significantly-over-last-600-year.html

Super hurricane frequency was greater thousands of years ago when CO2 levels were low - new evidence shows modern global warming has not caused an increase

Email 1104, March 2005: Heinz Wanner says he was highly critical of the hockey stick as an official IPCC reviewer in 2001, but "My review was classified "unsignificant" even I inquired several times"

2012-01-25T22:32:00.000-06:00

Email 1104

I had to give several interviews (TV, radio, newspapers) but tried just to explain science. Now an old story is warmed up. I was a reviewer of the IPCC-TAR report 2001. In my review which I can not find again in its precise wording I critcized the fact that the whole Mann hockeytick is being printed in its full length in the IPCC-TAR report. In 1999 I made the following comments:
The spatial, temporal (tree-ring data in the midlatitudes mainly contain "summer information") and spectral coverage and behaviour of the data is questionable, mainly before 1500-1600 AD. 2. It is in my opinion not appropriate already to make statements for the southern hemisphere and for the period prior to 1500 AD.
My review was classified "unsignificant" even I inquired several times. Now the internationally well known newspaper SPIEGEL got the information about these early statements because I expressed my opinion in several talks, mainly in Germany, in 2002 and 2003. I just refused to give an exclusive interview to SPIEGEL because I will not cause damage for climate science. I just told a woman from SPIEGEL that I do carefully follow the activities and the forthcoming of the next IPCC report and I will then take position concerning the paleoclimate chapter there. I thought it is meaningful to infomr you about this fact./blockquote>

A really inconvenient truth is Earth not melting after all | Matt Patterson | Op Eds | Washington Examiner

2012-01-25T19:20:00.001-06:00

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2012/01/really-inconvenient-truth-earth-not-melting-after-all/2134091

Only a generation as narcissistic as the baby boomers would assume that the temperature they were accustomed to as they came of age in the mid-20th century is the "correct" or "average" global temperature, which must be maintained in perpetuity no matter the costs.

Again, from NASA: "Global temperature in 2011 was lower than in 1998." Now there's an inconvenient truth for you.

Glaciers are growing on Kilimanjaro, guide insists

2012-01-25T18:47:00.001-06:00

http://iceagenow.info/2012/01/glaciers-growing-kilimanjaro-guide-insists/

"From 2010 to now, we have been seeing new glaciers," says guide.

Athumani Juma, a guide who's been hiking Mount Kilimanjaro for the past seven years, laughed when asked about the likelihood that Kilimanjaro's snowcap would soon disappear.

The glaciers are no longer are shrinking, but growing, Juma replied.

Killing FOI

2012-01-25T18:45:00.001-06:00

http://omniclimate.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/killing-foi

Andy – I'm very surprised by the phrasing of your FOI question. So what if there is "fishing" involved? The important bit about FOI is that it applies no matter what the intentions of the requester are.

Bradley: Global Warming Repackages Old Fears

2012-01-25T18:20:00.001-06:00

http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/25/bradley-global-warming-repackages-old-fears/

The worry of the 1970s was anthropogenic global cooling, a phenomenon linked to increasing sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions from coal and oil combustion. Mankind's energy emissions were culpable in either direction.

2012-01-25T13:52:00.001-06:00

How GISS Has Totally Corrupted Reykjavik’s Temperatures « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Now that GHCN have created a false warming trend in Iceland and Greenland , and GISS have amended every single temperature record on their database for Reykjavik going back to 1901 (except for 2010 and 2011), we should have a look at the overall effect.

Energy Expert: Germany’s Renewable Energy Transition “Will Fail Spectacularly – Heavily Damaging The Economy”

As the report shows, Germany’s transition to green energy is turning into a real horror story.

Greens to sceptics: show us the money! | Ben Pile | spiked

The campaign to get a tiny charity to reveal its backers is driven by a desire to stamp out any eco-criticism.

Dr. G Dedrick Robinson's New Book Looks at Global Warming and Climate Change from a Geological Perspective

Professor Robert M. Carter, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, says “Writing in an easily accessible style for all readers, and using Socratic dialogue, Robinson leads us systematically through the simple science information that is needed to answer the question, 'Are human carbon dioxide emissions causing dangerous global warming?' And the more surprised you are that the answer to this question is 'no,' then the more you need to read this excellent book.”

Better Understanding and Improving Climate Communications

2012-01-25T10:46:00.001-06:00

http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2012/01/better-understanding-improving-climate-communications/

give people "a reason to become heroes in a climate protection culture."

Email 1162, June 2007: Eugene Wahl says the Ammann-Wahl paper can be freely shared among warmists before it comes out in hardcopy, but it should be kept away from McIntyre

2012-01-25T09:34:00.001-06:00

Email 1162

Here is the Ammann-Wahl paper as promised. We received letter of final acceptance and movement to "in press" status yesterday from Stephen Schneider. We would ask that distribution be kept limited until it actually comes out in hard copy (scheduled for the November 2007 issue of Climatic Change) so that its chances of getting to McIntyre (et al.) are reduced, and thus the the probability is decreased that he/they will have chance to attack it before it is fully available to the public--as they almost certainly would if the opportunity arises. Weird to need to consider such things, but that is the state of our science re: this particular paper.
However, you should certainly feel free to share it within your research groups.
Peace, Gene Dr. Eugene R. Wahl

Email 1150, Dec 2004, Chris Landsea to Pachauri: "Dr. Trenberth in representing the IPCC has successfully promulgated into the media his own opinion that the 2004 hurricane season was caused by global warming, which is in direct opposition to research written in the field and is counter to conclusions in the TAR"

2012-01-25T09:16:00.001-06:00

Email 1150

Dr. Pachauri, you mentioned earlier that "individual scientists can do what they wish in their own rights", which is certainly true. Differing conclusions and robust debates are crucial to progress in climate science. However, what we have here is not in this case an honest scientific discussion. Instead, Dr. Trenberth in representing the IPCC has successfully promulgated into the media his own opinion that the 2004 hurricane season was caused by global warming, which is in direct opposition to research written in the field and is counter to conclusions in the TAR. Yet, I have been asked to provide the writeup about observed hurricane activity variations for the FAR with, ironically, Dr. Trenberth as Lead Author. Because of Dr. Trenberth's pronouncements, the IPCC process on our assessment of these crucial extreme events in our climate system is compromised and its objectivity lost. While no one can "tell" scientists what to say or not say (nor am I suggesting that), the IPCC did select Dr. Trenberth as a Lead Author and entrusted to him to carry out this duty in a non-biased, objective point of view. To this, he has failed. I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as not being scientifically sound. As long as this structure remains, I will no longer participate in the IPCC FAR. Sincerely, Chris Landsea

2012-01-25T08:54:00.001-06:00

Al's Journal : Living on thin ice

Even though Antarctica is thousands of miles distant from the rest of the world, the melting ice on this continent should be of paramount concern to all of us. As our planet’s ice melts, sea levels are rising steadily. This increases the risk of storm surges, coastal floods, diminished supplies of drinking water for billions of people, and hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

ForestEthics “an enemy of the people of Canada” « The Daily Bayonet

Canada bashing was easy for greens in the past, but now we’ve got a government unafraid to take the fight to them.

2012-01-25T07:48:00.001-06:00

Inhofe Comments on State of the Union Address

“President Obama has clearly received the message that his global warming agenda is gone, dead, done with the American people – that’s why he was touting oil and natural gas so much in his State of the Union address tonight,” Senator Inhofe said.

In the Eye of the $torm - Kerry Emmanuel - The Non Political Scientist | Originals

Dr Kerry Emanuel of MIT caused a storm recently, when he said in a Mother Jones video that, as a Republican scientist, he is almost ashamed to be an American, because not all Republican candidates have embraced Global Warming. An LA Times Op-Ed from January 5th 2012, portrayed him as the conservative scientist out to save the world.
In February last year, Dr Emanuel was playing the same “Republican scientist who believes in global warming” message in a radio interview for NPR. He brought in the usual mantras about the tobacco industry and a campaign of disinformation funded by vested interests, but failed to mention his own vested interest in the disaster insurance business.

Indian Ocean Heating – More Evidence Of The Dominate Role Of Regional Circulation Patterns | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

In any case, warming that has occurred in this region can be explained by regional circulation changes...

Why isn't Lord Lawson dead yet? – Telegraph Blogs

This isn't me asking, you understand. I'm merely repeating a question someone posted on the internet after Lord Lawson had the temerity to appear on BBC Radio 4's Today programme speaking out in defence of shale gas in a debate with Friends of the Earth's Tony Juniper.

Global warming skeptics to take center stage in Portland Wednesday (poll) | OregonLive.com

Steve Pierce, president of the Oregon chapter, says many of the chapter's roughly 150 members, ranging from amateur weather enthusiasts to professional meteorologists, are eager to hear the Oregon-based skeptics.

"I suspect the Oregon AMS is pretty much 50-50 on their views of human-caused versus non-human-caused climate change," Pierce says.

2012-01-25T07:07:00.001-06:00

- Bishop Hill blog - Climate scientists want no oversight

"...seeking to criminalize the peer review process by obtaining internal editorial comments of reviewers as a means to impeach or impugn scientists"? Huh?
It can't be said often enough. If you want public money you have to accept public oversight.

A Legal Defense Fund for Climate Scientists - NYTimes.com

Knowledge Bank: The Climate Science Defense Fund will serve as a clearinghouse for information related to legal actions taken against scientists. Our goal is to provide lawyers representing scientists with information about past cases and strategies.

The Reference Frame: Sustainable conference in Rio finds AGW panic unsustainable

Reuters: Environmentalists throwing global warming under the bus

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans Press Release :: SAY WHAT???? President Obama Still Singing the Same Tune on Solyndra, Refuses to Accept Responsibility

If the Obama administration had listened to its own experts who predicted Solyndra’s woes, taxpayers would not be on the hook for over half a billion dollars

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Sense of Scale — Keystone XL vs. Wind

this one single pipeline, out of many, is several times larger than the entire wind power sector.

2012-01-25T06:54:00.001-06:00

NASA Satellite Temperatures Approaching A Record Low | Real Science

Factoring in the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions at El Chichón and Mt. Pinatubo in the 1980s and 1990s, January 2012 will come close to being the coldest month in the last 30 years. This despite a weakening La Nina and a solar maximum in progress.
NASA’s James Hansen says that people who intentionally mislead about the climate are criminals. He is currently running around the world telling people that Earth is heating out of control.

1932 : Antarctic Ice Shelves Had Retreated 30 Miles – “going on for centuries” | Real Science

Now NASA gets hysterical every time a crack appears in an ice shelf.

NYT : Ice Free Arctic By 1970 | Real Science

More News From The “IPCC Has Absolutely No Idea What They Are Talking About Department” | Real Science

Over the past year Northern Hemisphere snow cover has been well above normal. The graph shows 3,700 pixels above the mean and 2,700 below the mean.

2012-01-25T03:23:00.001-06:00

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: Snow in Sahara desert; UAE under Cold Wave; Igloo village in Davos; Leh minus 22 deg C; Arctic Oscillation turns strongly negative

It’s all happening. The Arctic Oscillation (AO) has finally flipped to its strongly negative mode and if it stays that way, a deep freeze is on its way that would plunge global temperatures to lows, last seen during the 1945-77 global cooling cycle the very least. A foretaste of winter to come during February is already indicated by some of these very recent events:

Full transcript: Obama's 2012 State of the Union Address | The Asbury Park Press NJ | APP.com

The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a comprehensive plan to fight climate change. But there's no reason why Congress shouldn't at least set a clean energy standard that creates a market for innovation. So far, you haven't acted

Grand Harmonic Climate Model

2012-01-24T18:53:00.001-06:00

http://landscheidt.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/grand-harmonic-climate-model/

The links between solar activity and climate remain controversial, but headway is being made to oppose the IPCC rhetoric and dogma. Similarly the planetary links to solar and PDO drivers are also making headway as more research comes to hand. Nicola Scafetta has already proposed a Harmonic Climate Model which deals with the level 3 oscillations. Nicola is very aware of the higher levels that need to be fully incorporated, which perhaps may happen in print in the not too distant future.

Texas Anti-Science News Director Complains That Climate-Denying Weathermen Are Being Outed | ThinkProgress

2012-01-24T18:46:00.001-06:00

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/01/24/410625/ketk-east-texas-anti-science-news-director-complains-that-climate-denying-weathermen-are-being-outed/?mobile=wp

Of course, the reality of man-made climate change isn't "far-left thinking." It's a scientific fact recognized by the American Meteorological Society, along with essentially every other scientific society in the world.

Effects of climate change fuels up sex trade in Cambodia | GreenAnswers

2012-01-24T17:32:00.001-06:00

http://greenanswers.com/news/274241/effects-climate-change-fuels-sex-trade-cambodia

2012-01-24T17:06:00.001-06:00

Review & Outlook: Germany's Solar Crack-Up - WSJ.com

Berlin backs down on trying to 'grow pineapples in Alaska.' [Hat tip: Rex]

GISS Make The Past Colder In Reykjavik « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

I have contacted the Iceland Met Office to get their view on the GHCN adjustments. Their reply could not be clearer :-
a) They were not aware these adjustments were being made.
b) They do not know why they have been made, but are asking!
c) They do not accept the “corrections” and have no intention of amending their own records.

Dr David Evans: The Skeptic’s Case « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

We check the main predictions of the climate models against the best and latest data. Fortunately the climate models got all their major predictions wrong. Why? Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message — here it is, put simply enough for any lay reader willing to pay attention.

UN attempts to re-brand climate change

The “sustainable” branding for this year’s summit, rather than climate, is by design, said Ambassador Andre Correa do Lago, who headed Brazil’s delegation to the U.N. climate talks in Durban and will be a chief negotiator for Brazil in Rio.

2012-01-24T16:48:00.001-06:00

Bitter Cold Closes Roads in Bulgaria - Standart

It is expected that thermometers will measure below -15 C, roads will turn slippery and code “yellow” will be declared for ten regions of Bulgaria. Road Police has issued a warning about icy and snowy roads and advised drivers against traveling if not necessary.

Shan Wells [and global warming hoax promoter Peter Gleick]: Climate Change: Sifting Truth From Lies in a Complex World

Scientists agree that climate change is happening faster than humans have ever experienced before.

Obama Stance on Fossil Fuel Angers Industry - Bloomberg

President Barack Obama is taking credit for higher U.S. oil and gas production and lower imports, angering industry groups and Republicans who say he is working
against domestic energy production.

Evergreen Energy Files for Bankruptcy, Cites Lack of Financing - Bloomberg

Evergreen’s bankruptcy follows the failure of at least two
U.S. government-backed renewable energy companies. Solar panel
maker Solyndra LLC and energy storage company Beacon Power Corp (BCONQ).
filed for bankruptcy last year after receiving government loan
guarantees.

Severe frost hits tea growers in Kenya; climate change blamed

2012-01-24T16:41:00.001-06:00

Cover against frost targets tea growers after losses - Politics and policy |businessdailyafrica.com

“Parts of Kiambu, Murang’a and Nyeri regions have also been severely affected, with the damage in some factories’ catchment recorded at between 15 and 20 per cent of area under tea,” said Mr Kimathi...
Frost is a condition that withers leaves and leads to loss of crop. Agriculturalists say it is an aspect of climate change common in Central Kenya between December and February and before the short rains.

Unusual, prolonged cold in India; global warming blamed

2012-01-24T16:38:00.001-06:00

Frost hits Nilgiris tea

“This belt is used to record minus temperature in December, but prolonged minus ruling in mid-January is unusual. We recognise this as fallout of global warming phenomenon,” Mr D. Hegde, President, the United Planters' Association of Southern India, told Business Line.

Blah, blah, blah: Time global warming hoax promoter Bryan Walsh is still trying to sell the idea that a little extra warmth and plant food would be devastating for the world's farmers

2012-01-24T15:24:00.001-06:00

Climate Change and Farming: How Not to Go Hungry in a Warmer World - TIME

While additional carbon in the air may help some plants, warmer temperatures can also retard growth, so extreme heat could lead to greater crop loss.

Washington Post admits the obvious: "countries that are cold right now could see very real benefits from a few extra degrees"

2012-01-24T14:55:00.001-06:00

Global warming would harm the Earth, but some areas might find it beneficial - The Washington Post

You don’t hear much talk about it, but countries that are cold right now could see very real benefits from a few extra degrees. Consider the Northern Sea shipping route, which runs through the Arctic waters north of Europe and Asia. It’s a faster and cheaper way to ship oil from Russia and Norway to markets around the world, but it’s currently too icy to navigate for much of the year. Climate change could open the route earlier and keep it clear later. It may also allow companies to extract new oil and mineral wealth from beneath the sea.
Immigration patterns may shift as different areas become more comfortable. In his book “The World in 2050,” UCLA professor Laurence C. Smith notes that cold-weather Canada has the look of a future superpower. Over the next four decades, the country’s population growth rate will be among the highest in the developed world.
There’s also a potential farming benefit. According to the International Panel on Climate Change, global warming could improve agricultural productivity in northern Europe.
The region might see as much as a 30 percent increase in wheat production, for example, by 2080. Some countries will become hospitable to foods they can’t grow in 2012. There may be a 50 percent increase in the areas of Sweden and Finland that are suitable for growing corn.

2012-01-24T13:13:00.001-06:00

UN Abuse of Precautionary Principle Lets Them Ignore Corrupt Climate Science

Climate change is usual, but IPCC climate science falsely ‘proves’ it isn’t, which allows them to misuse a sound principle.

NASA: 2011 was ninth warmest year, forecasts temperature increase - National World News | Examiner.com

Though the five year running mean also declined slightly, scientists say that this is mainly due to three strong La Niñas during that time period, including one in 2011, and a particularly low solar minimum over the past six years.

Deroy Murdock - Romney runs hot and cold on global warming - The Crescent News

...Furthermore, the experts with whom Romney consulted "include John Holden (sic) ... at Harvard University."
John Holdren now is Obama's science adviser. S. Fred Singer, a University of Virginia professor emeritus of physics and environmental science, and founding father of America's weather satellite system, calls him "a rabid environmentalist and collaborator of the notorious Paul Ehrlich." Singer says Holdren misled Romney or his staff: "They consider CO2 a pollutant and mention it along with sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury -- all real pollutants, injurious to human health. Clearly, they had no clue about the science."
"No one would choose such a green course, enlist such advisers, and then suddenly reverse himself," says Cato Institute environmental scholar Patrick Michaels. "As president, Romney will revert to his more familiar green self."

Breaking through to climate change skeptics | Michigan Radio

“When I [Bob Inglis] got back to Congress, I had the opportunity to be on the Science Committee and I went to Antarctica twice actually, and in those visits, saw the evidence. That evidence persuaded me and so the result is I decided I really needed to act and I needed to be involved.”

Global warming fades away « The Daily Bayonet

Candidates and debate moderators aren’t talking about global warming because in an era troubled by real economic and geopolitical problems,the worry that a harmless trace gas essential to life on Earth may contribute to slightly milder weather fades to insignificance.

Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Education: It's Important

We believe it is important to convey to students the consensus of the world's scientific community, not the dissenting views of a very small minority. Students will benefit from a basic understanding of what we believe will be the greatest challenge their generation will ever face.

Breaking: Bob Lutz still doesn't believe in the global warming hoax: "I don’t pursue the electrification of the automobile out of any fear I might have of planetary meltdown...The whole thing [blaming cars for global warming] is outrageous"

2012-01-24T09:23:00.001-06:00

Bob Lutz: The Green Car Guy Who Says Global Warming Is @#$%&* | Car Talk

Car Talk: A lot of people seeing your involvement in the Chevrolet Volt and Via Motors might conclude that your views on the environment had evolved since you said that global warming was “a crock of *$%*#@.”

I don’t pursue the electrification of the automobile out of any fear I might have of planetary meltdown. First of all, you have to realize that carbon dioxide is a trace gas, one of most minimal gases in atmosphere. If you believe in the greenhouse effect, you should realize that methane, also known as bovine flatulence, has more than 20 times the power of CO2, and yet nobody talks about it. More than 98 percent of CO2 is from natural causes—just two percent is from humans, and mostly from stationary sources. And just a fifth of the human-caused emissions are from the global automotive sector. You could plug up the spark plug holes of every car and truck on the planet with cement and it would be a rounding error as far as CO2 production is concerned.

The whole thing [blaming cars for global warming] is outrageous, and the purpose is to create an artificial scarcity of fossil fuel to raise prices and get alternative fuels, which cost way more, to start paying off.

2012-01-24T08:16:00.001-06:00

More Peer Reviewed Papers Showing “It’s The Sun, Stupid!”

A reader brings our attention to some recent papers showing that the sun plays a major role on climate, not that the IPCC will be the least bit interested. Here are a few in case you may have missed any.

Think Progress kicks brainless advocacy efforts into high gear - claiming warmth leaves Alaska

Hadley and the UAH/RSS arctic make no estimates for the arcttic where there are no reporting stations. Hansen, estimates based on readings taken from 1200 km or more away.

2011 was 51st warmest year in Australia! « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

2011 was the 52nd coldest year on record in Australia, colder than 1912, 1914, 1915 & 1919

Why Don’t They Talk About Moscow Any More? | Real Science

For a few weeks in 2010, Joe Romm determined that a high pressure system over Moscow was representative of the state of the world’s climate. For some reason, he has lost interest there.

Why Don’t The Three Stooges Go To Alaska? | Real Science

If they were actually interested in polar winter temperatures, they would head to Alaska – where temperatures have been running below -30.

NASA Satellite Shows That Global Temperatures Continue Their Plunge Into Record Cold | Real Science

Strange that NASA’s Hansen isn’t talking about this remarkable event. It would be easy to get the impression that he has an agenda which has nothing to do with science.

The unofficial end to global warming? | ScottishSceptic

My first thought at the image of three whales hopelessly trapped in the ice pack was that global warming must is now be passé in Hollywood.

Email 1075, May 2004: Phil Jones wants to use his IPCC involvement to get a pay raise

2012-01-24T07:00:00.001-06:00

Email 1075

date: Tue May 4 15:42:51 2004 from: Phil Jones
subject: Confidential - at least for a few weeks to: "T Davies"
Trevor,
Just had Susan Solomon on the phone. Asked (and I agreed) if I would be a convening lead-author on the Atmospheric Observations chapter of the next WGI IPCC report. Means a big commitment for the next 2.5 years. Doing it with Kevin Trenberth. If you've not already sent off your recommendation re professorial pay rise, this might be some useful information. If yes, I can keep it to use next year.

2012-01-24T06:58:00.001-06:00

[Nice roundup of quotes from weathermen who refuse to drink the global warming hoax Kool-Aid] | ThinkProgress

Forecast the Facts has identified dozens more zombie weathermen (yes, they’re all male) from around the country. These climate denier meteorologists are betraying the public’s trust and distorting America’s airwaves with ideological science denial:

ClimateGate quotes - Selected Emails

Here are some email excerpts from the the world’s leading climate scientists who
control much of the UN’s IPCC climate reports.

[Actor from M*A*S*H still believes in the global warming hoax] | 89.3 KPCC

The Minnesota-born, Hollywood-raised Farrell appeared on M*A*S*H, produced films, and beyond his career as an actor has extensive experience as an activist. He compares global warming response to the death penalty; both, he says, are self-destructive acts.

C-Ville: UVA - Michael Mann touts skeptics, targets "deniers"

Multiple investigations cleared Mann of any allegations of wrongdoing.
...the University planned for dissent. Two uniformed police officers watched the door to the Clark Hall auditorium where Mann spoke to a capacity crowd. Inside, one plain-clothes police officer kept watch during Mann’s hour-long discussion...
Malfi, a doctoral candidate in ecology whose work concerns bumble bee populations, said in an interview that Mann is an “important spokesman” for the separation of science and politics. She also spoke about her exposure to climate change deniers.

Email 1057, June 2009, "Tom": "[Hansen] warms the trend in 42 percent of the urban stations indicating that nearly half have an urban cold bias"

2012-01-24T05:28:00.001-06:00

Email 1057

Jim Hansen adjusts his urban stations (based on night-lights) to nearby rural stations, but if I recall correctly (I'll send that paper shortly), he warms the trend in 42 percent of the urban stations indicating that nearly half have an urban cold bias.

Email 1046, Nov 2009, Phil Jones and Tom Wigley don't know what caused the early 20th century warming, but a "possible explanation" is changes in ocean circulation

2012-01-24T05:14:00.001-06:00

Email 2038

So, what caused the early 20th century warming? A possible explanation is that it is the result of a major increase in the rate of formation of NADW (Wigley and Raper, 1987), an idea that is supported by the pattern of warming which is a maximum in the North Atlantic (Schlesinger and Ramankutty, 1995). We noted earlier that the fact that this warming is similar for the land and the ocean (in fact, the 1910 to 1940 trend over the ocean is greater than over the land) suggests that it is not externally forced (since this would normally lead to warming over the land that was greater than over the ocean), and that it originates in the ocean. This also helps to explain why the land/ocean warming differential that one would expect as a consequence of external forcing has only become evident over the past three decades." [It looks like Wigley wrote this paragraph, and Jones responded "Sounds fine!"]

North Atlantic Deep Water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) is a water mass that forms in the North Atlantic Ocean.

2012-01-24T04:07:00.001-06:00

- Bishop Hill blog - Green Alliance on AGW and Russell

So CO2 is up. Temperatures are up. Therefore with a "high level of certainty", mankind is to blame.
Forgive me, but this is embarrassingly bad. Risible really. And this paper is being recommended by Brian Hoskins, knight of the realm and fellow of the Royal Society? Sheesh.

President Obama’s Very Dishonest Campaign Ad Regarding Energy | Watts Up With That?

This campaign ad is nothing but a collection of falsehoods.

Some Chevy dealers spurn Volt allocation

DETROIT -- Some Chevrolet dealers are turning down Volts that General Motors wants to ship to them, a potential stumbling block as GM looks to accelerate sales of the plug-in hybrid.

U.S. CO2 emissions to stay below 2005 levels as coal use shrinks | Reuters

the share of electricity generation from renewable fuels is expected to grow from 10 percent in 2010 to 16 percent by 2035, according to the EIA.

Polar bear centre turns up heat on climate change - Manitoba - CBC News

The $4.5-million centre will provide a home for orphaned, injured or problem polar bears, as well as host a research facility.
But its indoor exhibition space, open to the public, may draw the most attention. Interactive computer screens explain why a warming climate is melting the sea ice that polar bears need to hunt seals.
The message is also unequivocal: humans are to blame.
"OK, so why is burning fossil fuels so bad?" asks an animated cartoon scientist on one of the exhibition panels.

2012-01-24T04:05:00.001-06:00

Helping Plug-in Cars Handle Harsh Winters | CleanTechnica

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2006 found nickel metal hydride and lithium ion batteries used in electric cars could see a drop of more than 80 percent in capacity(PDF) at temperatures around zero degrees Fahrenheit, compared to 73 degrees.

Twitter / @WorldBank: Win $15k to fight climate ...

Win $15k to fight climate change! Apply to the #apps4climate competition. bit.ly/climatehack

Michael E. Mann - Forum Speaker Series

He has received the outstanding publication award from NOAA and in
2002 was selected as one of the 50 leading visionaries in science and
technology by Scientific American.

IPCC Models Close To Being Refuted By New Research

The IPCC models are close to being refuted with respect to the magnitude of global warming even with the large Loeb et al values.

The Blackboard » ZOD’s new location.

They are now hosted at: David Appell.com

Hayhoe plays the gender card: "as a woman, most of the attacks that I'm receiving are from men, and so that has a very different dynamic to it that honestly can feel very threatening and intimidating sometimes"

2012-01-24T03:43:00.001-06:00

Katharine Hayhoe: "..Much of This is Intended to Intimidate." - YouTube

I had the privilege to interview Dr. Hayhoe this past weekend at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
was conducting a workshop and Town Hall meeting entitled "Cures for Climate Confusion".

At the 4:10 mark she says "as a woman, most of the attacks that I'm receiving are from men, and so that has a very different dynamic to it that honestly can feel very threatening and intimidating sometimes".
At the 9:00 mark, she suggests that the current period of drought in the Southwest was initiated by La Nina. She then compares CO2 emissions to poor diet and/or lack of exercise.

Revkin: "Of course the science on the relationship of greenhouse warming to wildfires, flooding (as distinct from heavy downpours) and winter storms remains equivocal and tentative. "

2012-01-24T03:35:00.001-06:00

Would like to hear what attendees of #AMS2012...

Of course the science on the relationship of greenhouse warming to wildfires, flooding (as distinct from heavy downpours) and winter storms remains equivocal and tentative.
Some denial in every corner, perhaps?

2012-01-24T03:34:00.001-06:00

Deep snow buries lifts at Mt Bachelor Oregon

“More than 8 feet (almost three meters) of snow fell during a six day period between Monday, January 16th, and Saturday, January 21st.”

Alaska woman, 85, fends off moose attack on husband

...It might just have been stressed from an especially harsh winter, with extreme cold temperatures and heavy snow.
"They don't actually have a heckuva lot to eat," Murphy said.

New battle to keep elderly warm in winter - Jobs - Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Statistics show that an average of 86 people in Peterborough die annually during winter due to cold weather.

Five Million Missing Jobs Haunt Obama’s State of the Union Address

In his upcoming State of the Union Address, President Obama will push for more green-jobs subsidies at taxpayer expense in the name of job creation: “With a Solyndra-scandal-be-damned attitude, President Obama is expected to revive his push for new green fuel sources in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, claiming that they will boost jobs.” But these impractical proposals are haunted by the utter failure of Obama’s existing green-energy programs to produce economically-viable jobs or fuel.

Email 1028, April 2008, Phil Jones on adjusting SST data for the mid-20th century: "Explaining the cooling with sulphates won't be quite as necessary"

2012-01-23T20:06:00.001-06:00

Email 1028

The skeptics will make a meal of this when it comes out, but if they did their job properly (I know this is impossible!) they would have found it. It relates to a problem with SST data in the late 1940s. The problem will get corrected for at some point. SSTs need adjusting as there must be from buckets for the period from Aug45 by about 0.3 gradually reducing to a zero adjustment by about the mid-1960s. The assumption was that after WW2 they were all intake measurements and didn't need adjusting. This will reduce the 1940-1970 cooling in NH temps. Explaining the cooling with sulphates won't be quite as necessary.

Email 1996, Jan 2008, Tim Osborn reveals that Tom Karl's IPCC review editor letter was one sentence long

2012-01-23T19:08:00.001-06:00

Email 1996

cc: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:33:26 -0000 (GMT) from: "Tim Osborn" subject: Re: Climate Audit to: P.Jones@uea.ac.uk
Sounds like David Holland is now asking, under the Freedom of Information act, for the review editors' reports/letters for all WG1 chapters (apparently they're already available for WG2 chapters). So they will probably find out that Tom Karl sent only 1 sentence!

Pew Poll: Global warming finishes 22nd of 22 "top policy priorities of 2012"

2012-01-23T17:43:00.001-06:00

Poll: Economy remains Americans' top concern - The Hill's On The Money

The Pew poll also found that some issues – especially illegal immigration and climate change – did not resonate nearly as much with Americans as they did before Obama took office.
A quarter of Americans now find climate change a top concern, down from almost four in 10 in 2007.

2012-01-23T17:20:00.001-06:00

Forecastthefacts.org – Political Activists Gagging Our TV Meteorologists on Climate Issues | Watts Up With That?

UPDATE: 1/23/12 11AMPST Exposed – Forecastthefacts.org is a George Soros funded activist website. See details below.

Blizzard in northern Israel shuts down Hermon ski resort

Army Radio reported over a meter of snow.

What did you do when you were 14? [This girl was brainwashed into believing that small amounts of CO2 cause bad weather]

“No matter what part of the world you’re from, little things you do affect the Antarctic, and what affects the Antarctic today will affect the world tomorrow,” says the budding explorer.
“Global warming and melting glaciers will have damaging effects on the planet without exception to any individual or country,” she adds. Her proud father, Mac, now feels that that more children should be encouraged to participate in such expeditions.

2012-01-23T16:14:00.001-06:00

The scientist: Jim Hansen risks handcuffs to make his research clear — The Daily Climate

if we're hoping to maintain a planet that looks like the one that humanity has known, we're out of time right now

2012-01-23T14:56:00.001-06:00

Weaker sun will not delay global warming | Reuters

(Reuters) - A weaker sun over the next 90 years is not likely to significantly delay a rise in global temperature caused by greenhouse gases, a report said Monday.
The study, by Britain's Meteorological Office and the university of Reading, found that the Sun's output would decrease up until 2100 but this would only lead to a fall in global temperatures of 0.08 degrees Celsius.

Twitter / @BBCRBlack: A dip in solar output down ...

A dip in solar output down to Maunder Minimum levels would curb temps by only 0.13C, says Met Office study bit.ly/y9bqjt

Twitter / @BBCRBlack: Oceans becoming acid alarm ...

Oceans becoming acid alarmingly quickly, a study shows... so where's the policy response? bbc.in/zIccyD

Fastest warming place on Earth: Cold weather kills three with dozens hospitalized

2012-01-23T14:54:00.001-06:00

Breaking: Mike MacCracken tweets to Michael Mann: "I've not learned to tweet yet"

2012-01-23T14:49:00.001-06:00

Twitter / @mcmaccracken: @MichaelEMann I've not lea ...

@MichaelEMann I've not learned to tweet yet--so not much to follow, but I will try to follow you. Mike M

2012-01-23T14:48:00.001-06:00

New Security Beat: From the Wilson Center: New Research on Climate and Conflict Links Shows Challenges for the Field

“We know that there will be more conflicts in the future as a result of climate change than there would have been in a hypothetic world without climate change,” said Marc Levy, deputy director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, although existing data and methodologies cannot predict how many additional conflicts there will be, or which causal factors will matter most.

Climate CoLab: Harnessing The Hive Mind To Alleviate Climate Change | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

It certainly doesn’t seem like anyone in charge has any ideas about how to stop climate change, so let’s open it up to everyone. A crowdsourcing project from MIT has found the best solutions from the rest of us--like personal rapid transit or convincing us all to eat less meat.

2012-01-23T14:24:00.001-06:00

MIT contestants to present climate-change [hoax] economy ideas to UN, Congress - Mass High Tech Business News

MIT Sloan School of Management’s 2011 Climate CoLab contest winners will present their proposals on how the 21st century economy should evolve in light of climate-change risks to the United Nations and U.S. Congress.
Starting tomorrow, the winning teams will present their proposals to Brice Lalonde and Elizabeth Thompson, executive coordinators for the upcoming United Nations Rio+20 Conference. On Jan. 25, they will then visit Capitol Hill, where they will be part of a briefing sponsored by the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee.

Amazon May Become Greenhouse Gas Emitter - Science News

In the struggle against global warming, the Amazon rain forest may be about to switch sides.

Global warming activists launch misguided campaign against skeptical TV weathercasters - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

the “Forecast the Facts”campaign makes no initiative to engage with weathercasters and enhance their education.

UPDATE 1-RWE cancels membership with carbon bourse Bluenext | Reuters

Jan 23 (Reuters) - RWE, a leading European power generator, has cancelled its membership for carbon trading with Paris-based carbon bourse Bluenext, a sales
director at the exchange said on Monday

Ford Motor withdraws from climate change [hoax] group

2012-01-23T14:03:00.001-06:00

Ford Motor withdraws from climate change group | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

The National Center for Public Policy Research is claiming a scalp today after Ford Motor Co. formally withdrew from the liberal U.S. Climate Action Partnership. The conservative non-profit announces today that Ford has withdrawn from the organization, which uses corporate support form management to work against shareholders' interests by promoting a cap-and-trade framework for carbon emissions.

2012-01-23T12:51:00.001-06:00

gulfnews : Cold snap curbs leisure activities in UAE

With some more remote quarters of the country dipping below zero Celsius, the cold snap is discouraging people from pursuing evening leisure activities — most parks and gardens present were deserted after sunset.

C3: "Science" By Lubchenco's NOAA: Fake Global Warming, Part III

The NOAA under Lubchenco's control continues to make a mockery of empirical-based science as global warming fabrication continues unchecked

Winter bug "MAY" offer climate clues - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Saw this article in the Startribune I thought it would be a good exercise to highlight all the times WOULD and MAY were used in this article. Plus, I highlighted a few other words as well.

Study Projects Depletion of Rangeland for Cattle - NYTimes.com

To see how thoroughly the concept of ecosystem services — the economic analysis of the natural world’s intersection with human endeavors — is embedded in climate change research, check out this forecast from a group led by researchers at Duke University and the Environmental Defense Fund.
It examines the future of cattle ranching, an industry that is bound up with America’s self-image, thanks to Hollywood, pulp novels and Cormac McCarthy, through the lens of a climate-changed California landscape. It concludes that, whether the state’s climate becomes warmer and wetter or warmer and drier, it will be more expensive to raise cattle because there will be less forage to sustain the animals.

Open-mindedness is the wrong(?) approach | Climate Etc.

JC comment: So am I to infer from this that the only way to support the IPCC consensus is to close your mind? And trust the ‘experts’? (like those we saw in the CRU emails)? This is a big step worse than reversing the null hypothesis.

2012-01-23T10:56:00.001-06:00

Bjorn Lomborg's climate sceptic thinktank to close | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Copenhagen Consensus Centre, directed by the high profile opponent of tackling global warming, is to close in July after the Danish government cut its funding

Email 1899, Aug 2009, Harold Ambler schools Phil Jones: "If you wanted to "defeat" [McIntyre] in intellectual battle, as you naturally would, the best way to do so is not to hide data and maintain that you are not hiding data."

2012-01-23T09:14:00.001-06:00

Email 1899

I do not share the view that the days when amateurs contributed meaningfully to the development of science have come to an end. If you have studied the history of science, particularly that of your own great country, then you already know that non-academic, frequently self-taught individuals have changed the scientific debate permanently in a given field because of their own (frequently scoffed-at) work. Your somewhat condescending position toward "non-scientists" is in keeping with Royal Society snobbery of the 19th century, and I would ask you to consider the possibility that, like those of the society, your efforts to keep the barbarians at the gate will be shown in the end to be a waste of time.
3. You write, "Our ftp site has had some data deleted from it. It is a site we use when working with other scientists around the world. The datasets were not explained.It seemed easier to stop people wasting their time trying to determine what it was."
I admit that this does not seem as straightforward as, again, one might expect from a public servant. The decision to delete data was made during a white-hot dispute with a little-liked and extremely dogged and intelligent statistician by the name of Steve McIntyre. Whether or not you view Mr. McIntyre as the kind of figure whom the Royal Society fought to keep on the margins of scientific inquiry (or farther out than that), he is exactly such a figure.
If you wanted to "defeat" him in intellectual battle, as you naturally would, the best way to do so is not to hide data and maintain that you are not hiding data.
The data should be restored to the website, ASAP. Mr. McIntyre should be allowed to "audit" your methodology. If your intellectual position is truly superior to his, then the "schooling" that you give to him in response will be of note to many.

Email 1897, Dec 2008: After Phil Jones admits deleting material, UEA's FOI officer David Palmer writes: "Phil, you must be very careful about deleting material, more particularly when you delete it"

2012-01-23T09:08:00.001-06:00

Email 1897

Phil, you must be very careful about deleting material, more particularly when you delete it. Section 77 of the FOIA state as follows:
...(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
If information is deleted as part of an ongoing records management retention schedule, then it can and should proceed. Deleting information in response to a request is an offence as noted above.

Email 1887, Nov 2001, Geoff Jenkins of the Met Office: "...The increase in heavy rain days is much less (<50%) than it was in 98 (200%)...I am concerned we have enough time to explain these differences, and their implications for confidence in UKCIP02, properly"

2012-01-23T08:52:00.001-06:00

The main important changes from UKCIP98 are: (a) all UK dries in summer, summer S UK drying is twice as bad, and annual change is drying not wetting. (b) The increase in heavy rain days is much less (<50%) than it was in 98 (200%). I think the latter change is one we are going to have to manage properly, as water bodies and EA have pretty much accepted the x3 story (which was also borne out from HadRM2, ie the interim scenarios). I am concerned we have enough time to explain these differences, and their implications for confidence in UKCIP02, properly.

Email 1885, Phil Jones, Dec 2007: "I'm not adept enough (totally inept) with excel to do this now as no-one who knows how to is here"

2012-01-23T08:44:00.001-06:00

Email 1885

If I tried to publish this I would be told by my peers it was obvious and banal. I will try and hide it in a paper at some point. I could put it on the CRU web site. I'll see how I feel after the Christmas Pud. I would have thought that this writer would have know better! I keep on seeing people saying this same stupid thing. I'm not adept enough (totally inept) with excel to do this now as no-one who knows how to is here.

Email 1837, Feb 2005, Phil Jones: "The coldest two centuries were the 17th and 19th for the last 2000 years"

2012-01-23T06:12:00.001-06:00

Email 1837

If you want to say something the 10th and 11th centuries were likely the warmest of the last 3000 years (up to and including the 19th century). The coldest two centuries were the 17th and 19th for the last 2000 years. The 6th may also have been as cold, but there is much less evidence.

Email 1823, Sept 2008, Håkan Grudd to Briffa: "[Climate realist Craig Loehle] puts in print some worries I have had since first starting off with the tree rings: The non-linear growth response, which we all know is there but which we do not really account for in making reconstructions"

2012-01-23T05:43:00.001-06:00

Email 1823

By the way, what is your opinion of the paper by Craig Loehle recently published online in Climatic Change? I note that he has published several papers in Energy & Environment, which I guess makes him some sort of "sceptic". He has a point though. He puts in print some worries I have had since first starting off with the tree rings: The non-linear growth response, which we all know is there but which we do not really account for in making reconstructions. Cheers, Håkan -- ________________________ Håkan Grudd, PhD Department of Physical Geography & Quaternary Geology

My tax dollars at work: Minnesota legislature blows another $300k on climate hoax

2012-01-23T05:12:00.001-06:00

Winter bug may offer climate clues | StarTribune.com

Lori Krider, another graduate assistant in the Water Resources Science program, has found that the water temperature in groundwater-fed streams rises an average of .38 degrees for every 1 degree rise in air temperature. An average air temperature increase of 7.9 degrees by the end of the century, predicted by one Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change model, could produce a stream temperature increase of about 3 degrees, which would be beyond midges' threshold. That could alter food sources and habitat for trout, the researchers said.
...Researchers on the project, funded by a $300,000 grant from the Legislature, work in a rugged laboratory.

Romney's economic adviser Mankiw: tax gasoline $2/gallon to address global climate change

2012-01-23T04:35:00.001-06:00

Twitter / @RL_Miller: Romney's economic adviser ...

Romney's economic adviser Mankiw: tax gasoline $2/gallon to address global #climate change. nyti.ms/AF8XxK

Four Keys to a Better Tax System — Economic View - NYTimes.com

Consider the tax on gasoline. Driving your car is associated with various adverse side effects, which economists call externalities. These include traffic congestion, accidents, local pollution and global climate change. If the tax on gasoline were higher, people would alter their behavior to drive less. They would be more likely to take public transportation, use car pools or live closer to work. The incentives they face when deciding how much to drive would more closely match the true social costs and benefits.
Economists who have added up all the externalities associated with driving conclude that a tax exceeding $2 a gallon makes sense. That would provide substantial revenue that could be used to reduce other taxes. By taxing bad things more, we could tax good things less.
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N. Gregory Mankiw is a professor of economics at Harvard. He is advising Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, in the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Left-wing "scientist" PZ Myers weighs in: Climate realist TV weathermen are allegedly "conspiracy nuts"

2012-01-23T04:26:00.001-06:00

Good hair turns out to be a poor science educator : Pharyngula

So I guess it's not surprising that the "scientists" leading the charge against global warming are climate-denier TV weathermen. That link takes you to a long list of quotes from various television weather personalities — including a couple from Minneapolis — who all deny reality and use their position as frontmen pretending to be scientists to delude the public. Take a look and see if your local television station has a conspiracy nut doing the weather.
Another interesting aside in that article is that all of the current Republican candidates for president are climate change deniers. Every single one...
I think we can safely say that no Republican should be allowed anywhere near the reins of government. They're anti-science through and through.