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Global Warming Update for November 2008 | / | Energy & Environment

Chameides' graph overleaf appears to have been tampered with to exclude the very rapid cooling that occurred between 2007 (the curve stops in January 2007, when a strong el Nino artificially but temporarily boosted temperatures) and 2008. The fall in temperatures between January 2007 and January 2008, carefully not shown on Chameides' graph, was the greatest January-January fall since records began in 1880.

Furthermore, Chameides's graph - instead of presenting a proper five-year running mean - merely cherry-picks certain points on the running-mean graph (which is not itself shown) so as to suggest, falsely, that global temperatures are still rising.

This appears a deliberate and less than honest technique, characteristic of the desperation of those who had staked their careers and reputations on their belief in a new religion whose principal tenet - worldwide warming - have been falsified by worldwide cooling.

Chameides' graph appears to have been truncated to exclude the very rapid global cooling from 2007 to 2008. Also, the 5-year running-mean curve has been deleted to allow the blogger to select points that appear - falsely - to show continuously-rising global temperature.

Mixed messages from National Geographic: CO2 emissions are evil, and also, why not get in your private fossil-fueled car and take a good long unnecessary Drive! this summer

Drive!

As heat and humidity soar, and air quality declines, our friends at National Geographic suggest we get in our cars and Drive!

2012: Warmist William Chameides sees CO2-induced "bad times" that "might parallel the period when the plague wiped out a third of the world's population"

The annual conference, presented by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic, is titled “Living in the New Normal” this year. The opening discussion carried the same name, but it soon became evident that there is no new normal.

“We're living in a new abnormal, perhaps,” said Dennis Dimick, National Geographic magazine's executive editor for the environment. He showed detailed graphic displays that demonstrate how global temperatures have increased 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1970s...Moderator and National Geographic magazine senior environment editor Rob Kunzig called Trenberth “the go-to guy” for journalists writing about extreme weather events...He gave a sobering assessment that humans are headed toward “bad times.” It might parallel the period when the plague wiped out a third of the world's population, [William Chameides] said

A Difference in Degree - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I see a New York Times headline that “Eco-Arsonist Sentenced to Nearly 22 Years: U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney referred to Ms. Mason’s acts as an ‘abandonment of the marketplace of ideas.’"

Well, yes, you could say that. But you could also say that about the entire Green Inc. enterprise—which, as I detail in Red Hot Lies, is premised upon fear, threats, fraud, and deception to get their way. The difference between arson and global-warmists’ tactics of issuing death threats, revising the historical record, and causing automobile accidents is a difference not in kind, but in degree.

FOXNews.com - The Futility of Hybrid Cars - Opinion

Could plug-in hybrid cars actually increase greenhouse gas emissions? Is energy efficiency being oversold as a greenhouse gas reduction measure? A new report from the research arm of Congress raises troubling questions about the direction in which President Obama is taking us.

ABC's Sam Champion Touts Living With Filth, Worm Composting | NewsBusters.org

Extreme environmentalist and "Good Morning America" weatherman Sam Champion on Thursday admiringly recounted the story of a Los Angeles resident, Dave Chameides, who has been living with his garbage for the last year. The liberal meteorologist also extoled the benefits of Chameides' unorthodox methods of disposing waste, including the worm composting program he has set up in the basement of his home.

Right-Wing & Right Minded (Official Home Of Wednesday Hero): Al Gore's Propaganda Machine

Every drug dealer knows, get them early and you have a client for life. So does Gore.

Warmist William Chameides sees CO2-induced "bad times" that "might parallel the period when the plague wiped out a third of the world's population"

Living in the new abnormal because of climate change | AspenTimes.com

A panel Saturday morning at the opening session of the Aspen Environment Forum painted an often bleak picture of how climate change is altering the world and how humans are dealing with the challenges.

The annual conference, presented by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic, is titled “Living in the New Normal” this year. The opening discussion carried the same name, but it soon became evident that there is no new normal.

“We're living in a new abnormal, perhaps,” said Dennis Dimick, National Geographic magazine's executive editor for the environment. He showed detailed graphic displays that demonstrate how global temperatures have increased 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1970s. Projections indicate that summers in 2040 to 2060 will be “warmer than the warmest on record,” he said.

Go ahead and throw weather records out the window, agreed Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The atmospheric conditions are changing to the point where “every weather event is different than it would have been,” Trenberth said. “We keep changing the climate so there is no new normal.”

Moderator and National Geographic magazine senior environment editor Rob Kunzig called Trenberth “the go-to guy” for journalists writing about extreme weather events...
He gave a sobering assessment that humans are headed toward “bad times.” It might parallel the period when the plague wiped out a third of the world's population, [William Chameides] said....Humans across the planet burn a million years' worth of “ancient plant goo” in the form of fossil fuels every year, Dimick said.

If the carbon production grows unchecked, that spells trouble for the planet. By the time the general public realizes that something must be done because of direct consequences on the way they live, it will be “too late,” Trenberth said. “Fifty years from now, ecosystems won't be viable where they are now.”

David Orr, chairman of the environmental studies program at Oberlin College, said, “We're talking about the end of what we love and value,” yet too few people grasp it. The problems revolving around climate change won't be dealt with until people start waking up at 2 a.m. and realities are slapping them in the face, he said.
[David Orr] sees the potential to create a “green tea party movement.”

Alarmist tapped as climate panel vice chair - News

Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, was named vice chair of a new national study on climate change last week.

The study-America's Climate Choices-was created at the request of Congress to examine issues and problems related to global climate change. It will be conducted by the National Academies with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Much more on Chameides is here.

Climate hoax promoter Bill Chameides: Continuing to add trace amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere may cause the climate to "snap"

Bill Chameides: Global Warming: Fox News Separates Fact From Fiction

And there's another important aspect of this. If you keep on stretching that rubber band, it will eventually break. And if that happens, the rubber band will never return to its original shape.

Could the same snap happen to the climate if we keep adding CO2? Probably. When will it snap? We're not sure; we'll have to wait and see. But there's one loud snap that has already been heard: Joe Bastardi has stretched his scientific credibility beyond the breaking point.

Lord Monckton Email to Bill Chameides

CO2sceptics News Blog | Solar Variations: Too Tiny to Matter?

I have seen your commentary on the influence of solar variations on climate. It is counter-consensual, for most solar physicists ascribe more than a minuscule influence to solar forcing. Your argument concentrates on the last two or three solar cycles: however, that is not a sufficient period to show the whole picture. During the Maunder minimum, between 1645 and 1715, there were no sunspots, and both the Hudson and Thames rivers were prone to freeze over during the winter months. Between the end of the 70-year Maunder Minimum and the end of the 70-year solar Grand Maximum that ended in 1998, there had been an inexorable and near-monotonic increase in solar activity between the peak of one 11-year cycle and the peak of the next (see the graph illustrating this point in Hathaway et al., 2004)...

Update 1: See the comment section for this post for a reply from Bill Chameides.

Update 2: And now Lord Monckton has posted a comment in reply...

Warmist Bill Chameides on Obama's second-term bad-weather-prevention policy: "I predict more of the same, perhaps with a bit more gusto"

Climate Change Change Gonna Come? | Duke Dean's Blog: The Green Grok

[Warmist Bill Chameides] Rhetoric aside, when it comes to U.S. climate change policy and the next four years, I predict more of the same, perhaps with a bit more gusto. No sweeping federal legislation, no putting a price on carbon — given the current make-up of Congress, it’s just not in the cards.

Warmist Bill Chameides: "Could be that we either lower our global warming emissions or the climate will force us to do it anyway — and that forcing may be unpleasant, to say the least"

Climate Change: The Human Factor Factored In — A blog on Environmental Happenings by Dean Bill Chameides

...Their conclusions are daunting. Using the value of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) to avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference, they estimate that “society will have to become ~ 50 times more responsive to global mean temperature change than it has been since 1990.” (The responsiveness from 1990 to the present was estimated on the basis of the global proliferation of renewable energy sources over that period.)...

We live in the natural world and in some respects are at the mercy of the weather and therefore the climate. And so the climate-human system can have some pretty serious “self-corrections” built into it. Could be that we either lower our global warming emissions or the climate will force us to do it anyway — and that forcing may be unpleasant, to say the least. When it comes to global warming and greenhouse gas emissions, it may turn out to be a pay-me-now-or-pay-me-later kind of thing.

Very bad day for warmist Bill Chameides: Only two Congressmen (Waxman and Markey) show up for their global warming hoax hearing; he also discovers that Muller is a skeptic on the role of humans in global warming

A Changing Climate About Climate Change in D.C.?

[Warmist Bill Chameides] During the Q&A session that followed the presentations, talk turned to the role of humans in global warming, and it became pretty clear that Muller remains a skeptic on that front. Here again I was somewhat rankled when he brought forth red herrings like sunspots even though data clearly show that they cannot have been the cause. This time the rankling got the better of me and I challenged his red herrings, perhaps sounding a short, discordant note in the scientific trio.

I'm skeptical that the briefing lived up to its name -- "An End of Climate Change Skepticism" -- but I'd have to say in the end the event was rather anticlimactic. Perhaps the writing was on the wall from the outset. As we filed into the Longworth House Office Building, we entered a meeting room that looks like what you've seen on TV -- seats for members of Congress arranged in a U-shape around the elevated dais, the lowly speakers' table facing our representatives, and behind us ample seating for the 40 or so attendees who watched, including legislative aides, people from non-governmental organizations, and members of the media with cameras a-flashing.

Yes, all the trappings of a high-powered Congressional event with one glaring exception: Seated in the 25 or so chairs along the dais dedicated for our esteemed leaders in Congress were just two representatives, Waxman and Markey. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a Congressional resolution marking the end of climate skepticism -- or the beginning of major climate legislation -- any time soon.

Bill Clinton's glamorous fundraiser called "worst party ever" by angry guests - Telegraph

Glamorous photographs of the event document Clinton’s short speech addressing the issue of climate change

Twitter / ClimateReality: Hey @HeartlandInst maybe i

Hey @HeartlandInst maybe if you switch to more efficient light bulbs you can keep your lights on http://s.tt/1cC5H

Flashback: Has Al Gore already blown his mysteriously-obtained $300 million climate fraud promotion slush fund?

Death By A Thousand Regulations: The New Energy Bill

An earlier Oxford Energy Comment (Electricity Liberalisation in the UK – the end is nigh from February 2009) forecast that the liberalised UK electricity industry was likely to die not with a bang (renationalisation) but with a whimper, suffocated by an increasingly complex network of regulation. With the government’s new Energy Bill, which was published as a consultation draft on 22 May, we seem already to have reached that point.

Twitter / @sarapeach: This is not a joke: N.C. l ...

This is not a joke: N.C. legislators try to outlaw sea-level rise. #climate #obx huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides…

Alarmist Bill Chameides: Pronouncement of Global Warming’s Demise Allegedly On Thin Ice | Popular Science

It’s easy to see why one might conclude that temperatures have been going down over the past 10 years.

Wind Watch: Ill winds: HSBC expects wind power market to decline in 2009

If clean energy is the big winner in the U.S. government’s stimulus package, why is the outlook for wind power so bleak?

Despite lots of government goodies for renewable energy, HSBC sees stormy weather for the wind sector, the biggest and most mature part of the clean-energy universe. The investment bank, in a report released Friday, changed its outlook for the global wind market in 2009 from flat growth to a 20% decline in installations, and downgraded all the big wind-power stocks.

Czar Bazaar: Van Jones to Run Green Jobs? - Environmental Capital

Kate Shepard at Grist points out that green jobs evangelist and best-selling author Van Jones might be tapped as the “green jobs” czar. She picks up on a weekend post at Greendig citing “texts from two people close to Van Jones” reporting that he was confirmed in the position Friday.

According to Greendig, the latest czar position would control the green-jobs related cash in the stimulus bill.

ECO:nomics - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

[Google CEO Eric Schmidt] Now, one answer to that is that you have a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system. I am skeptical as to whether those are going to happen simply because they have the wrong words in them — taxes and prices and so forth.

Professor Pielke Jr. Challenges Climate Depot's Morano to Climate Policy and 'Carbon Tax' Debate | Climate Depot

Morano Accepts: 'I would be happy to debate you.... you could not be more wrong in advocating a carbon tax. It would quickly become a slush fund for politicians'

[This just in: Energy rationing, in conjunction with massive fraud and new bureacracy, will allegedly generate incredible amounts of new wealth!]:  Waxman-Markey Creates $1.5 Trillion In Benefits

Our guest bloggers is Daniel J. Weiss, a Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Other Side of the CoinA new analysis of clean energy legislation finds that it will produce likely economic benefits of $1.5 trillion.

Robot Moves Across Sea Floor Monitoring Impact Of Climate Change On The Deep Sea

The Benthic Rover, and its possible successors, will help researchers understand how deep-sea communities are changing over time.

Bill Chameides: On the Climate Bill Fence: Senator Dick Lugar

[some time ago] "I'm impressed with the fact the Chicago Climate Exchange maybe as a prelude to some type of cap-and-trade or carbon pricing system in our country has at least established a price for carbon. ...Our farmers have become a member of this exchange. We are a potential seller of carbon. It is sequestered in our hardwood trees which has been measured as we planted them... Carbon is now $2.05 [now only 25 cents] in Chicago as of yesterday. This is a very small beginning, but it's an important one.

UBC researchers provide recommendations for $100 billion in annual climate change aid « UBC Public Affairs

The climate change funding, which amounts to more than twice the annual lending by the World Bank, is expected to flow through various channels, including a new Green Climate Fund (GCF) being discussed at the upcoming Durban climate summit.

The Empty Chamber | Watts Up With That?

Of a total of 48 members, only Ranking Member Edward Markey attended, along with Representative Harry Waxman (who is not a member of the Committee). Two years ago, both were powerful congressmen who were well known for their environmental advocacy. That day, the other 19 Democrats (there is a vacancy) and all of the 27 Republican members of the Committee had other business. There were no announced regrets.
...After a few minutes into the Chameides talk, I decided to leave to beat the traffic, almost feeling sorry for the staffers who had to sit through the remainder of briefing – a rehash of dubious science from a bygone era presented on the behalf of two once powerful Congressmen in the empty chamber.

Crossing the Ice - Day 18 is hell frozen over for Aussie adventurers James Castrission and Justin Jones | thetelegraph.com.au

Meteorologists monitoring Antarctic conditions say it is the highest snowfall in the region in years.

IPCC Extreme Weather Report Is Another Blown Chance to Explain the Catastrophes Coming If We Keep Doing Nothing | ThinkProgress

UPDATE: Andy Revkin’s comment (here) may be the single most head-exploding and revisionist thing he has ever written. I reply.

Bill Chameides: Global Warming and Predictions of an Impending Ice Age – Part 2 — Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University

Sunspots and cosmic rays are not the cause of the recent warming. How do we know? It’s all in the data.

Solar variations can have and have had a huge effect on our climate — that’s obvious. But have they been the cause of climate change over the past 30 years or so, when we have seen an accelerated rate of warming? (I will address the issue of the past ten years of warming or lack thereof in a subsequent post, so please hold your comments on that one.)

At Least He Didn’t Take a Private Jet - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Massa had driven the Equinox from his hometown, Corning, down to Washington without using a drop of gasoline or producing any emissions — at least that was supposed to be the message....But was the trip as green as the photo suggests?

Not really. The range of the Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle is about 200 miles, according to G.M., and the distance from Corning to Washington is roughly 280 miles, which means Mr. Massa would have had to refill the tank with hydrogen somewhere along the way — but there are no hydrogen stations on the most direct route from Corning to Washington.

The solution: two Equinoxes.

Carolyn Markey, a G.M. spokeswoman, said Mr. Massa drove one Equinox from Corning to Harrisburg, Pa., where a second Equinox was waiting for him. He then drove it to Washington, where the above photo was snapped.

In order to deliver and retrieve the Equinox Fuel Cell vehicles, Ms. Markey said, two Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid S.U.V.’s were used as tow vehicles: one to tow the first Equinox back up to Honeoye Falls, and another to tow the second Equinox, which originated in Washington, up to Harrisburg for the trip back down. So essentially, the entire 280-mile trip was also made by a Tahoe Hybrid, which gets about 20 miles a gallon on the highway. Towing another S.U.V. lowers that gas mileage.

Now that it's really cold, Bill Chameides has suddenly developed a strong interest in natural cycles

So where are we headed? Well, the emerging picture indicates chill. Remember how last winter was particularly cold? It turns out that ENSO probably had something to do with that, as a strong La Niña paid a visit in late 2007 and 2008. The La Niña ended around May of 2007 and we have been in so-called ENSO-neutral conditions since. I thought that perhaps we could now expect an El Niño. But maybe not.

Self-taught forecaster wants warmer world - Local News - Taranaki Daily News

Global warming is not happening but we have a moral responsibility to make sure it does.

"Garbage-in-the-basement" guy glosses over global warming

Dave Chameides swears he’s not insane, but he’s not surprised some people think otherwise.

For the past nine months (since Jan. 1), the lanky Hollywood cameraman has been filling his basement with every single thing he would ordinarily recycle or toss into the trash.
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Interestingly, he glossed over global warming. Saying the topic is politicized and scary, he told his audience he would provide them with helpful tips that make sense no matter where they fall on the polarizing issue.

UN chief urges world leaders to start climate fund | Sci-tech | DAWN.COM

DHAKA: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging world leaders to create a multibillion-dollar fund to fight the effects of climate change.

He says governments must create a $100 billion ”Green Climate Fund” at UN-sponsored climate change talks that start November 28 in Durban, South Africa.

2009: Hillary Clinton Pledges $100B for Developing Countries - NYTimes.com

COPENHAGEN -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has promised the United States will help raise $100 billion annually by 2020 to assist poor countries in coping with climate change as long as America's demands for a global warming pledge are met.

When things don't add up: statistics, maths and scientific fraud

From time to time, the scientific community is rocked by cases of scientific fraud. Needless to say, such incidents do little to instill confidence in a public that’s already predisposed to be skeptical of inconvenient scientific findings, including biological evolution and human-induced global warming.

Snow doesn't keep Occupy Missoula protesters down | KAJ18.com | Kalispell, Montana

Protesters said the weather presents challenges and they're using heaters and wind barriers to block out the cold.

The Reference Frame: Best case yet for the end of climate skepticism

Two U.S. lawmakers, Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), have invited three people to the U.S. Congress to terminate the global warming skepticism tomorrow, on Monday. The three people are Dr Richard Muller who wasn't a skeptic before he decided he was a former skeptic but he had never been a former skeptic, Dr Ben Santer who will beat crap out of a climate skeptic during the next conference according to his most famous publication, namely a ClimateGate e-mail, and Dr William Chameides, a relatively unknown career alarmist affiliated with several institutions.

House Hears About Climate | Bill Chameides

My argument with Judy is less of substance than of emphasis. We agree on this as I think almost any climate scientist would: there is still a lot to learn about the climate system and our ability to predict the future course of the climate is limited.

Fourier Analysis reveals six natural cycles driving temperatures, no man-made effect: predicts cooling « JoNova

Lüdecke, Hempelmann, and Weiss found that the temperature variation can be explained with six superimposed natural cycles. With only six cycles they can closely recreate the 240 year central European thermometer record. There is little “non-cyclical” signal left, suggesting that CO2 has a minor or insignificant effect.

April 2013 In Germany Comes In At 0.1°C Colder Than The 1981 – 2010 Longterm Mean

because March was far below normal, the 2013 MAM spring period so far is much cooler than normal.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another amplification mechanism by which the Sun controls climate

A paper published today in the Journal of Climate finds tiny variations in solar activity over 11-year solar cycles have greatly amplified effects upon climate via changes in the Arctic Oscillation, North Pacific sea surface temperatures & sea level pressure, and via changes in stratospheric ozone from solar UV. The authors find the Arctic Oscillation evolves from a negative mode a few years before solar maximums to a positive mode at and following solar maximums. The IPCC claims the tiny variations in solar activity during solar cycles cannot affect climate, but this paper and many others demonstrate solar activity has greatly amplified effects upon climate via ocean oscillations, atmospheric oscillations such as the Madden-Julian oscillation and Quasi-biennial oscillation, stratospheric ozone, and sunshine hours/clouds.

Native American Tribal Judge: ‘Keystone XL = Death’; Certain rupture to cause children, grandchildren to die of thirst | JunkScience.com

Written in ignorance or disregard of all the existing pipelines over the Ogallala aquifer.

$4,000 solar trash cans to save Philadelphia… « Green Hell Blog

… $875,000 per year amid a a $1.4 billion five year deficit, reports USA Today.

Heliogenic Climate Change: We have ways to make you behave

LaHood argued at the press club that columnist George Will was the only person who didn't really like the idea of using government policies to encourage [coerce!] people to not use their cars.

[What's the carbon footprint of this place?] : Bill Clinton's House (Bing Maps)

House of Bill Clinton (42nd President of the United States of America) and his wife Hillary Clinton.

Bill Chameides: Global Warming Trash Talk or Cherry-Pickin' Time

Don't be fooled by arguments about climate that don't consider long-term trends and/or global phenomena. So I am going to end here and get some real cherries from fridge. I don't know about you, but I think it's been a great year for cherries.

Michigan cherry farmer battles lack of global warming with artificial "greenhouse" tunnels

Chilly springs such as the '09 season slow the harvest and undercut sales and profits.

So Hoxsie found a way to tweak Mother Nature's confines. He installed a set of three 600-foot long tunnels at his farm that cover an acre of 500-plus dwarf sweet cherry trees imported from the West Coast.

Because the tunnels create a greenhouse effect that can speed up a crop's development, Hoxsie said heading into National Cherry Festival week without fresh local sweets soon will be a thing of the past.