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[Another paper confuses correlation with causation?]: Google searches for ‘global warming’ go down when unemployment rises | Grist We find that an increase in a state's unemployment rate decreases Google searches for "global warming" and increases searches for "unemployment," and that the effect differs according to a state's political ideology.
From national surveys, we find that an increase in a state's unemployment rate is associated with a decrease in the probability that residents think global warming is happening and reduced support for the U.S to target policies intended to mitigate global warming.
NPR Asks If Conservative Christians Are Selling Out Their Savior to Rush Limbaugh and the Right Wing | NewsBusters.orgThe liberal Gross naturally, reflexively equated the “climate change” lobby with “science,” and wondered why Cizik has no “disagreements” with science
Dennis T. Avery | Is America's west doomed to drought?Burgman finds the earth has had much more severe droughts during its natural cycles than we've seen recently—including two century-long droughts in California between 900 and 1200 AD.
Will $8-a-gallon gasoline and quintupled electric bills stave off the droughts and crop failures? Probably not. The correlation between our thermometer record and CO2 is weak—only 22 percent. The correlation with the sunspot index is a powerful 79 percent. That says giving up fossil fuels will do no more to change the climate than did the Aztecs sacrificing thousands of human victims on the alters of their weather gods. This time, the human sacrifice might be in the millions.
PM kept cabinet in dark on climate - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock & LandJULIA Gillard failed to consult cabinet about her decision to hold a citizens' assembly on climate change – a fresh setback for Labor as it attempts to increase voter focus on Tony Abbott as new opinion polls suggest a Coalition victory.
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The revelations appear to contradict the pledge Ms Gillard made when she became Prime Minister that she would restore cabinet's position as the government's key policy decision-making body.
Masdar Update: The Green City in the Middle East Struggles With Dust and Departures : Greentech MediaShip sinking; band instructed to keep playing.
Recently, it has been tough sledding for Masdar, the green city under development in Abu Dhabi.
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Act 1: Wide-eyed optimism
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The vision: a modern-day Garden of Eden...
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Act 2: Cracks in the armor
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One of the concerns is sandstorms, and the resulting dust that would accumulate in the air and on the panels, thus hampering output. For example, in August 2009, when the amount of suspended dust in the air was between 1,500 and 2,000 parts per million (more than 10 times higher than normal), the Masdar solar plant was functioning at 40% below its capacity. Within a week, the panels were cleaned and back to normal output, but the concern remains, as frequent sandstorms would require more cleanings, which would in turn increase the operating and maintenance costs.
Dec '07: Al Gore lays blame for Bali stalemate on U.S. | ReutersAnd in low tones he added: "My own country the United States is principally responsible for obstructing progress in Bali," spurring rapturous applause and cheers.
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Rajendra Pachauri, who collected the Nobel Prize on behalf of a U.N. panel of climate scientists that shared the award with Gore, vaulted onto the podium to shake Gore's hand.
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Gore stole the show in Bali after two days of lengthy ministerial speeches which had waxed on familiar themes about the urgency of action to slow global warming and the need for cooperation.
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"There's no precedent in history, culture for the radically new relationship between humanity and the planet," he said, citing new evidence this week that the North Pole may be ice-free in summer as soon as 2012.
Gore counted one year and 40 days to the day the United States would have a new president to succeed George W. Bush. He predicted that a successor who would do more to act on global warming seriously.
Harry Reid's Latest Bill and the Death of Cap and Tax - WSJ.comHarry Reid's latest energy bill is designed not to pass.
More hysterical climate alarmism from the ABC | Australian Climate Madness...unless we take rapid action now, we may well be locking in irreversible climate change of catastrophic proportions for future generations [nonsense - there is no evidence whatsoever of irreversible climate change in our planet's history - it's been here for 4.5 billion years, for f***'s sake]; indeed we may have already done so.
C3: The Wildly Delusional & Royal Hypocrite Prince Charles: More Evidence That Royal In-Breeding Should Be OutlawedThe UK's Prince Charles is one of those wealthy global elites who now believes he has been put on Earth to save it, from the rest of us - yikes! Over the years, like so many of the rich and merit-less, he has become extremely fearful of human CO2 emissions, and never tires from lecturing about how others should live their lives. Of course, this includes his advice that everyone else should live a low carbon, low energy lifestyle, with the exception of his truly.
- Bishop Hill blog - Reinhard BöhmWilliam of Baskerville: Everyone is talking about climate science. Only a few years ago climatology probably ranked, in terms of status, alongside an underwater basket-weaving course and the well educated lay person would only have heard of Dr. Hubert Lamb, the then doyen of climate science, by chance. From this condition of scientific understanding, hardly appreciable to the outside world, emerged the science of climatology at the very latest by the beginning of the 90s. The well known German climatologist Hans von Storch wrote:
Up until the 1980s the dynamics of climate were the main focus of climate research, but since the 1990s it has revolved around the threat of climate catastrophe and climate protection...
Von Storch attempts to capture this change of state - from a purely internal scientific dialogue, devoted to discerning the truth, to a new condition which appropriates and intermingles with extraneous political subject matter - with the term "postnormal".
Personally I see here the effects of the application of the postmodern body of thought ("panfitionalistish weltverschwindlerischem" - [refer to descartes - no idea what this is about]) to the scientific method. This "change in paradigm" can probably be viewed as being partly responsible for the well renowned and widely accepted phenomenon known as the medieval warm period, first described by Dr. Hubert Lamb in 1965 and confirmed a hundred times and even expanded upon by the IPCC, being expunged from our collective memories through a handful of studies (Mann et al. 1998, 1999). Deming said
Decades of work was overturned by one journal article. The MWP had been reinterpreted out of existence. (Deming, D.: Global Warming, the Politicization of Science, and Michael Crichton's State of Fear, in: Journal of Scientific Explorations, Vol. 19, No. 2, 249, 2005).
Today, more than 10 years afterwards, we see climatology split in to several camps. On the one side those who believe they recognize a looming apocalypse (Polar bears becoming extinct, coastal towns being flooded, melting poles etc.) and, on the other side, those who view any statements about the warming of the earth as being bereft of any scientific evidence. In the middle are those scientists, who however, because of the politically charged atmosphere, find hardly anyone who will listen to them.
Environmental media strategies for the 21st CenturyAfter a series of sharp setbacks involving the symbols they used to promote action against global warming (polar bears, Himalayan glaciers, sea level rise, hurricanes and floods, the Amazonian rainforest and African agriculture), the consensus team on climate change is flailing around, trying to find issues that will engage the public.
So far, their efforts are weak.
Global Warming Is Undeniable: Scientific American PodcastYet more scientific research highlights ongoing climate change--as the U.S. enjoys the hottest July on record. David Biello reports
Sea Ice News #16 | Watts Up With That?Summer is rapidly winding down in the Arctic, and (based on DMI graphs) the region north of 80N appears set to finish the summer as the coldest on record. So far, there have only been a small handful of days which made it up to normal temperatures. The Arctic is one of many places described by climate scientists as “the fastest warming place on earth.”
Ice melt during July was the slowest in the JAXA record.
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Meanwhile down south, Antarctic ice continues near record highs.
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Much of Russia, Siberia and the former Soviet Republics are already seeing well below normal temperatures, but this is (of course) not being reported by the press.
Experts: Inland area's below-average temperatures not lasting - Southern California NewsMost of Riverside and San Bernardino counties were 1 to 2 degrees cooler than normal in June, and highs in the local mountains were as much as 3 degrees below average. For April, May and June, temperatures across California were 2.5 degrees lower than average, he said.
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Temperatures have increased 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit in the past century -- most of it since 1970, said Schmidt, the NASA climatologist. That jump is not terribly problematic by itself, but continued releases of carbon dioxide will accelerate warming in the next 50 to 100 years by 4 to 9 degrees, he said.
"Translated to land temperatures, that's very, very large," Schmidt said.
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Since the 1980s, each decade has grown warmer by about .36 degrees per year [36 degrees per century!?], the NASA analysis found.
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In Southern California, much of the warming is due to the heat island effect from fast-paced development, especially inland, [Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena] said. When buildings, roads and other infrastructure replace agriculture and open areas, the surfaces hold in heat -- making it as much as 22 degrees hotter at night in big cities, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Urban development has increased Inland temperatures by 5 to 6 degrees, Patzert said.
... [Patzert] "The march of global warming is not only steady, it's actually accelerating."
Energy Update - Rasmussen Reports™Forty-five percent (45%) say global warming is primarily caused by long-term planetary trends. Thirty-four percent (34%) feel human activity is the main contributor. Eight percent (8%) think some other reason is chiefly to blame. Voters have been shifting away for well over a year from the idea that human activity is the primary cause of global warming.
Outlook gloomy as climate [swindle] talks resume in Germany - The National NewspaperTalks that start in the German city of Bonn today were originally supposed to serve as the final dress rehearsal before writing a treaty in December but most participants have now set their sights much lower, hoping for a simple improvement in the level of trust between rich and poor countries.
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Most basically, negotiators have to decide whether rich countries will be bound to cut emissions by 2020 by as much as 50 per cent or as little as 25 per cent.
Hot Air » The Value of a VoltThe Volt would not exist at all, if the government had not performed an elaborate voodoo ritual which involved burning $50 billion in taxpayer cash and sprinkling the ashes over the United Auto Workers union. This raised General Motors from its free-market grave, and placed it at the service of those who killed it. How much of this fifty billion should be divided among the Volt production run to calculate its true, final value?
...By government decree, there will be up to 55,000 of them gathering dust in the far corners of three-car garages by 2012. The government didn’t subsidize this boondoggle. The “government” doesn’t subsidize anything. You do.Imagine what the taxpayers of America might have done with the billions taken away from them to produce those cars, divide that lost value by 55,000, and you will begin to comprehend the true cost of a Chevy Volt.
The Hockey Schtick: The 97% "Consensus" is only 76 Self-Selected Climatologists...close examination of the source of the claimed 97% consensus reveals that it comes from a non-peer reviewed article describing an online poll in which a total of only 79 climate scientists chose to participate. Of the 79 self-selected climate scientists, 76 agreed with the notion of AGW. Thus, we find climate scientists once again using dubious statistical techniques to deceive the public that there is a 97% scientific consensus on man-made global warming, but fortunately they clearly aren't buying it.
Climate [hoax] artistes leave positive vibe in Mocho - JamaicaThe Voices for Climate Change Education project -- a national communication and education strategy -- is using the voices of popular artistes to spread the message of climate change and how it affects the environment. The project was implemented by lead agencies Panos Caribbean and the National Environmental Education Committee. It is funded by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica, Christian Aid, the Bureau of Standards, the Meteorological Office of Jamaica and other critical sponsors.
Got baseless smears and innuendo? Perfect for the ABC. « JoNovaKellie Tranter attacks imaginary deniers who she doesn’t name, cite, or reference. All her inferences and innuendo are backed up by assertive confidence, a pile of convenient guesses, and nothing else. Everything she accuses the Deniers of is something that those on the Big Scare Campaign do–and if the Deniers do it at all, those who sell-the-scare do it 100 times more.
Amazon.com: The Magic School Bus And The Climate Challenge A note from Joanna Cole:
While I was writing The Magic School Bus and the Climate Change Challenge, all I could think about was the kids who will read it. I wanted to give them hope. More than that, I wanted to tell them how their own actions as children can help solve the crisis of global warming. You will see a real blueprint for this in the book.
Our young readers will be voters before we know it, and educating them today will influence their actions as they grow older. Wouldn't it be wonderful if The Magic School Bus could help change the climate for the better?
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[reviewer] My 11 year daughter and my 5 1/2 year old son both enjoyed this book. My son was even able to spout back some facts to me when I asked him what he had learned from the book -- a couple of days later, even! He said, "Our electrical stuff gives off CO2, and that's bad for the earth."
Soot is second leading cause of climate change: studyHe concluded that soot is currently the No. 2 driver of climate change — behind CO2 but ahead of methane — and that curbing emissions of black carbon would produce the fastest, most effective and affordable international response to climate change and the shrinking of the Arctic sea ice.
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As of mid-July, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center showed Arctic sea ice is retreating at about the same pace it did in 2007, when an unprecedented summer meltdown sparked alarm among scientists and governments.
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Jacobson estimates that eliminating soot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels alone could reduce Arctic temperatures by up to 1.7 C in the next 15 years — though other factors, without mitigation measures, could continue to drive overall temperatures upward.
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One of the co-authors, University of California researcher Charlie Zender, said in 2007 that fallen soot had the effect of “placing tiny toaster ovens into the snow pack."
[How many milk cartons must be recycled to cool the Earth by one degree?]RUPERT Murdoch's News Limited champions its Right to Know campaign, except when censoring comments of livid Melbourne Storm fans on the club's website. Rupe's behemoth also flies the green flag in its One Degree climate change initiative, the website showing editor Simon Pristel ''making One Degree of difference'' by recycling a milk carton at a green bin.
[They can't stress this enough: Cold weather is natural variation; warm weather means CO2 might kill us all]In Peru, meanwhile, a cold snap has killed almost 50 people. Scientists say at least some of this extreme weather is being driven by an ocean cooling trend called La Nina, the flip said of the El Nino effect which brought warm, wet weather to much of the world last winter. Greenpeace is calling Russia's fires a clear consequence of global warming.
Victoria's winter of content | Herald SunThe cold weather left snow bunnies celebrating, as Victoria's alpine region enjoyed one of the best snowfalls of the season.
Weather bureau forecaster Michael Halfpenny said about 20cm of snow fell in the alps.
"It could certainly be the best snowfall of the year and we're expecting another 20cm before Tuesday," Mr Halfpenny said.
Falls Creek lodge owner Graham Parker said the snowfalls had boosted spirits.
"We could get well over half a metre of snow if the predicted cold fronts drop even more snow than what's already fallen today," Mr Parker said.
The Environment Loses a Spokesman: U.S. Vice President Al Gore Faces Public Relations Problem - DailyFinance"I certainly don't revel in someone else's travails," says James Taylor, a senior fellow at the libertarian Heartland Institute, who disagrees with Gore on climate change, in an interview. "[This scandal] has taken a little of the veneer off the illusion of his moral superiority."
Gore, whose office couldn't be reached for comment, will have to tell his side of the story to explain to the public why his private actions do not square with his public persona, says Michael Robinson, senior vice president of Levick Strategic Communications and an expert on crisis communications. That won't be easy given Gore's reputation for hubris. His lawyers are also probably advising him to keep his mouth shut.
"Those who live in eco-friendly glass houses should not throw rocks," Robinson says. "He is forever changed or tainted by this. It needs to be addressed."
Which media outlet should Gore speak with? He probably should avoid the harder news shows such as "60 Minutes" and opt for a more sympathetic audience from a talk show such as "Oprah," Robinson says.
Warmist Rehab FailureThis author’s educational background included Thermodynamics, thermos big brother Transport Phenomenon, Soils Mechanics and Indeterminate Structural Analysis. This author is not bothered by the complex science surrounding a minute quantity, of a benign three atom gas, that is essential to all life on Earth. Carbon dioxide is neither a toxin nor a climate change player.
In the interest of ‘fairness’ which far exceeds that practiced by the monopolist controlled mass media, we will take some of the monopoly play pieces and play a different game. Today we’ll do play-by-play of the World Warmist Fraud (WWF) World Series. Representing the Peer Pressure Review Division is the New Scientist Non Sense team (NSNS or NS). Pitching for New Scientist is star arm, Catherine Brahic.
[Why a retreating glacier is NOT proof that carbon dioxide is harmful]: A brief prehistory of Lake Michigan : The Bay View CompassThe glaciers melted and retreated from the area during a natural global warming phase, and by approximately 10,000 years ago they had retreated permanently to the north. Once the ice was gone, all that weight was no longer pressing down on the earth—the underlying bedrock began to rebound like a trampoline bouncing back after you jump on it. This “isostatic rebounding” continues today, with areas of Lake Michigan rebounding between 30 and 50 centimeters per century, as estimated using Global Positioning System satellite data.
Clear skies, cold waters await at Glacier National Park - Pulse | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri...in answer to a curious visitor, Firebaugh explained, “I’ve learned not to say anything about global warming. It’s not worth the fights.”
Peru freezes « Don SurberCold temperatures like this obviously are a cyclical thing.
Can our friends at the IPCC simply admit there is no global warming?
I wish there were.
The world would have more living creatures and a wider array of species if it were only a few degrees warmer.
But there is nothing man can do to warm up this globe. Nothing. And pretending we can control the Earth’s temperature is silly. And fudging data and claiming that cold proves warm is unethical and undermines all of science.
So I was right about the BP oil spill… – Telegraph BlogsWhether it’s BSE or Sars or Swine Flu or the Millennium Bug or the Exxon Valdez or Deepwater Horizon or – the biggest con of the lot – “Man Made Global Warming”, the trajectory followed by these scares is exactly the same: a vaguely plausible threat gets exaggerated by journalists, publicity- and funding-hungry “experts” and activists to the point where it seems very real and captures the public imagination; in steps the government keen to be seen to doing something to address this urgent new public concern; vast sums of money are squandered to deal with this non-existent threat; the story moves on to a new scare (repeat ad infinitum); afterwards it emerges that the supposed threat wasn’t nearly as great as had been supposed but – yesterday’s Telegraph piece being an honourable exception – this is rarely reported because the story has moved on.
...It will be the same, one day, with “Man Made Global Warming.”
Unfortunately, by the time that happens, the money will have been spent and the country ruined with wind farms. And all for the simple reason that our political class – and the majority of those who vote for them, unfortunately – have no grasp of history.
C3: Why Is The Best Polar Climate Research Being Done Outside The U.S. and UK? The Problem With 'Fat & Happy' ScientistsAmerican and UK climate scientists working for Nasa/GISS, NOAA/NCDC, NCAR, CRU/Met are primarily computer jocks who prefer the security of their cubicles and the speculative, virtual, computer climate models.
In contrast, climate scientists from other countries actually pursue scientific truth by venturing outside, experiencing the weather and hardships, taking real-world climate observations and conducting physical experiments/measurements. The U.S./UK generous government funding of our climate researchers has made them 'fat & happy' leading to reduced intellectual curiosity and extreme mental/physical laziness.
Phytoplankton in big decline | statesmanjournal.com | Statesman JournalWASHINGTON — Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world's oxygen and suck up harmful carbon dioxide.
And they are declining sharply.
Worldwide phytoplankton levels are down 40 percent since the 1950s, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The likely cause is global warming, which makes it hard for the plant plankton to get vital nutrients, researchers say.
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry - Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionPhytoplankton at warm temperatures can divide and grow maybe 2 times a day in very warm temperatures. In cold temperatures in Antarctica, phytoplankton will divide about only once every 2 days.
Plankton Paradise | The Why FilesAs this satellite image of the South American coast shows, warm southern waters are a haven for phytoplankton. The tiny marine plants grow like mad during long, warm summer days.
Rising Temperatures [Allegedly] Harm Ocean Plant Life - WSJ.comScientists, many of whom believe the increase to be linked to global climate change, estimate the oceans have warmed by roughly half a degree Celsius on average over the past 100 years.
Phytoplankton has flourished in many coastal areas because increased runoff from rivers brings nutrients that the algae gorge on. But no one has properly assessed whether the global oceans are losing or gaining phytoplankton, which forms the base of the marine food chain, from crustaceans to fish and ultimately to humans.
Consistent satellite-based measurements of the algae exist only from 1997. Scientists at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, instead used data obtained with a simple oceanography device used since the late 1800s known as a Secchi—a disk lowered into the water to measure phytoplankton abundance.
Minnesota air pollution? It's not as bad as you think - TwinCities.comYou might believe air pollution is on the rise. You would be wrong. 40 years after the Clean Air Act, the U.S. and Minnesota have drastically cut emissions. So why doesn't anyone know about it?
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Inhale. Exhale.
That lungful of clean air was brought to you by the reformed polluters of Minnesota.
They have slashed pollution by more than 50 percent since 1970. Smokestack industries have cut emissions by almost two-thirds. The biggest polluters — drivers — have cut pollution by 77 percent.
Put another way, air pollution per capita in America has dropped almost two-thirds.
"This is like the bald eagle coming back," said Bob Moffitt, spokesman for the American Lung Association in Minnesota. "I think we should be celebrating."
Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods - space - 31 July 2010 - New ScientistIF YOU want to see Venice while keeping your feet dry, don't go when the sun has lots of spots. Peaks in solar activity cause the city to flood more often, apparently by changing the paths of storms over Europe.
For one global-warming alarmist it's time to leave science behind | GJSentinel.comFoley’s palpably contemptuous approach is that homo-Americanus is simply incapable of comprehending the subtle thinking required to grasp the science of climate change.
One would almost think that the infamous hockey-stick dogma on which so much of the thermo-industrial complex is underpinned had never been retracted, one would think that overblown forecasts that the Maldive Islands would be inundated by rising oceans had never been retracted, one would think that the high priests of the cult had never been publicly stripped down to their epistemological unmentionables when their e-mails were made public, one would never think that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change weasel-worded findings were based on poorly researched, misleading and sometimes just plain erroneous data.
The Reference Frame: Guardian: Devil is driving climate deniersThe deniers are wrong because 2,000 mostly drunk people around Moscow drowned in the rivers and lakes and because it was a warm weather in Moscow. Why were they drunk? Because you're deniers, dear TRF readers!
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Fortunately, a vast majority of the readers don't buy these articles and would-be arguments anymore: check the discussion in the Guardian. The AGW movement is returning to the status it deserves - and it surely deserves to be on par with the fringe nationalist or Marxist groups.
Has the IPCC got it wrong over aerosols? | Laboratory NewsAerosols help cool the atmosphere by encouraging cloud droplets to form icy particles which reflect sunlight, but new research suggests they could also have the opposite effect and warm the atmosphere too.
[Scotland: How many of these people can be convinced to eat bugs in an attempt to make it colder outside?]Last winter’s cold weather prompted 13 million households to cut down on heating to save cash, affecting their health and quality of life, according to research by uSwitch.com.
Robinson says: “Let us be clear this is not about people becoming more energy efficient – this is about people going cold. Some 69% of people cut down or rationed their energy during the freezing winter last year, and this was all due to the high cost of their bills.”
AG(data)W Begins In 1990 « Musings from the ChiefioAs the thermometer count drops, we have a sudden rise in the trend to a spectacular warming. One Small Problem. The Industrial Revolution had been under way since “The Late 18th Century” (or sometime in the late 1700s). So we’ve had burgeoning CO2 production for over 200 years by then. And a Big Fat Nothing. Then suddenly, right when “Global Warming” becomes a popular point (and when NOAA / NCDC, Hadley CRU, and NASA / GISS get buckets of money and True Believers at the helm) we suddenly have a ‘hockey blade” form in the data. As someone recently said in another posting: “Hmmmm”…
Either CO2 has a 200 year lag in effect, or it’s not CO2 causing the data to change.
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That the post 1990 range is so non-physical is, in my professional opinion, evidence of data tampering. Perhaps deliberate, perhaps out of error. But the data are now very non-physical. It has clear onset in time. That time matches a recognized change in the processing at NOAA / NCDC (when many / most stations increment the “Duplicate Number”) and match a date when new “Quality Control” procedures were introduced for the USHCN data set that will preferentially suppress cold going anomalies in that data set. Could something similar have happened to GHCN?
New German/Russian Temperature Reconstruction Shows No Correlation With CO2 « P Gosselin – NoTricksZoneA new temperature reconstruction carried out by a team of German/Russian scientists has yielded interesting results. It finds no correlation over the last 400 years between atmospheric CO2 and the temperature in the Arctic regions studied.
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UPDATE! The German press release now has the following graphic. The dataset ended 2001! The press spokesman just told me on the phone. So there was warming from 1990 until 2001! As you see, the graphic iteself is misleading. It almost looks as if the curve goes until 2010.
Quadrant Online - Closing out dissentTo my certain knowledge, the brotherhood of silence tactic has been applied routinely for many years against all well known, qualified sceptical scientists, both in Australia and overseas. It is a code that IPCC-related scientists dare not break, for they understand better than most that they will lose any science debate that is allowed to take place on equal terms under a neutral chairperson.
76 months and counting ... | Andrew Simms | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukWhy is the 'greenest government ever' slashing environmental bodies instead of pursuing tax avoiders to raise funds?
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DECC alone has had to find cuts of £85m from the budgets of the Carbon Trust, Energy Saving Trust, and offshore wind and geothermal energy projects.
Checking the geologic time clock on climate changeThe retreat of the ice was not started by fossil-fuel emissions. True, they contribute to the speed of the present great thaw, but they were not and are not its cause. It's been going on for a few million years and I suggest that before you sell the car and virtuously cancel all future travel involving the use of fossil fuel, you grab a copy of the summer edition of The American Scholar magazine and read professor Robert B. Laughlin's take on global warming, fossil fuels and the geologic time clock. A voice to respect, Laughlin comes well qualified on matters geologic. A professor of physics at Stanford University, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize for physics.
Quadrant Online - Least-worst climate policy?[Dr Jennifer Marohasy] In summary, as we approach this important 2010 Australian federal election, neither of our major political parties have any serious policies to address the threat that they perceive from human-caused global warming – at least not any tangible policies likely to ever be implemented – and this could perhaps turn out to be a very good thing.
YouTube - State Oracle of Tibet Talk On Global Warming Part OneParts One-Five: In Summer 2007, the State Oracle of Tibet traveled to the United States for the first time in ten years to deliver a pressing message regarding individual responsibility in the age of global warming. Sponsored by Non-Profit Organization Partnerships for Change and also Philip Stein Teslar, creator of electromagnetic technologies, the Tibetan Oracle offers spiritual guidance and helpful advice for humanity's struggle ahead.
Sudarsan Pattnaik's sand sculpture on global warming wins Berlin contestThe theme of this year's festival, running June 6-August 29, was 'Head in Sand'. Pattnaik said he created a 'crying' three trunk and three monkeys saying that climate change is an inconvenient truth.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Higher temperatures are causing Alaskas growing season to become longerThese changes have stretched the growing season from 85 to 123 days in the past century.
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And while warming might produce more potatoes and pumpkins in cold-climate regions, it could eradicate tree populations.
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“The thing about agriculture is we can have really high temperatures or long seasons, but if you have a hard frost in the middle of August that wipes out everything, you can have another month that’s really good but you can’t take advantage of it because the crops are dead,” said Meriam Karlsson, professor of horticulture at UAF who has observed 20 years of growing seasons in Fairbanks.
Karlsson said the growing season has increased in the past couple of decades from 100 to about 105 days. Though summers typically contain more frost-free days, it’s still risky to plant before June.
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In the past 100 years, temperatures climbed the most in winter but rose in every season except fall.
[Carbon dioxide blamed for record cold in Argentina, Peru, Brazil, and Chile] - People's Daily OnlineWhile people in the northern hemisphere are suffering from sweltering heat, folks in southern hemisphere are shivering in freezing cold and extremely heavy snows.
According to Argentina's National Weather Service, Buenos Aires dropped to minus 1.5 degrees Celsius on July 16, the coldest the city has ever seen. The cold snap led to extremely low temperatures and widespread snowfalls across the country.
On Monday, four more people were reportedly died of cold, taking the hypothermia toll to 16. The other 12 deaths were due to carbon monoxide poisoning caused by heating.
Besides, Peru, Brazil and Chile, also witnessed record cold. The temperature in Peru has even plummeted to minus 20 degrees.
Meteorological experts blame global warming for this year's extreme weather, the persistent heat and cold waves are expected to continue.
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