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Flagstaff sets record low high of 62 degrees for Aug. 6

The city of Flagstaff has broken or tied not one but two temperature records today – so far.

The National Weather Service at Bellemont reports that the low last night was just 57 degrees, tying the record set in 1981 for the highest low temperature.

Then today, the mercury got up to just 62 degrees, shattering the previous record low high of 70 by 8 degrees set in 2002.

One in three French don’t believe in climate change – The Connexion

ONE in three French do not believe in climate change, or that it is caused by human activity, according to a government study.

The poll by the Commissariat général au développement durable (CGDD) found 61% believed climate change existed and was caused by human activity.

Spin cycle: Copenhagen’s rise, fall, and rise again to cycling supremacy | Grist

And a whopping 75 percent of Copenhagen cyclists ride year-round, despite the fact that the weather in this city, which is at roughly the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska, was described by almost every local I spoke to as flat-out “shitty” (imagine Seattle, only darker in winter)...But the city has its own whips, first among them being the steady whittling away of car parking in the city center, combined with an increase in the cost of remaining parking spots. Narrowing or eliminating car lanes to make room for more bike tracks – a trend that seems to make Brøndom Bay especially proud – adds further disincentive for drivers. So does turning streets into bike parking lots outside of train stations.

Best Times to Visit Copenhagen | U.S. News Travel

The best time to visit Copenhagen is in the summer, despite it being generally overrun with visitors. Between May and September, the streets come alive as cafés spill to the sidewalks and festivals fill the air with music. Beginning in October, the city goes into hibernation for the winter to escape the biting cold

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After Delayed Vote, E.P.A. Gains a Tough Leader to Tackle Climate Change - NYTimes.com

Mr. Obama’s decision to nominate Ms. McCarthy, 59, was an act of defiance to Congressional and industry opponents of meaningful action on climate change. It was also a sign of his determination to at least begin to put in place rules to reduce carbon pollution.

A New Strategy | Real Science

Having fallen flat on their faces with any attempt at sane argument, alarmists have gone completely off the deep end with their desperate forecasts of doom. At this point they are far out of bounds of the IPCC and consensus science. For example, Josh Willis claiming this week that the best estimate for sea level rise is multi-metre.

The idea now is to use the IPCC report and consensus science against the scamsters.

On the 97 percenters: ‘You Must Admit, They Were Careful’ | Watts Up With That?

The important thing to realize is they did this very carefully. They intentionally used wording that could be easily misunderstood then promoted misunderstandings that arose from it. In other words, they laundered lies.

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‘Dozens’ demand Mass. coal power plant be closed | JunkScience.com

Really “dozens”? Wow. The plant employs more than 200. Is that more than “dozens”?

The New Nostradamus of the North: Greenpeace mega yacht visits Taiwan "in the name of tourism"

The Greenpeace mega yacht Rainbow Warrior III is continuing its around the world cruise in exotic waters.

Northwest Passage Completely Blocked With Ice Now | Real Science

According to the Navy, the Canadian and Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast is abutted by thick ice.

The intrepid rowers of course drove around that part in their truck...

What real Flat Earthers look like | JunkScience.com

From the conclusion of yesterday’s 350.org-organized climate walk.

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If There Was No CO2, How Much Would The Tropics Cool? | Real Science

In the tropics CO2 is only responsible for 1.5% of the greenhouse effect, and water vapor is responsible for almost all of the other 98.5%.

But it is worse than it seems. Almost all of CO2′s contribution is in the first 30 PPM. Additional man-made CO2 has essentially no effect on the energy balance in the tropics.

Satellite temperatures show that there has been almost no warming in the tropics.

Articles: Mann vs. Steyn: Heresy Shall Be Crushed

For all the progressive outcry in defense of Mann, his defenders (including, apparently, Judge Combs Greene) seem to have no problem with the smear of all who question the climate change pseudo-orthodoxy as "flat-earthers," "anti-science," "extremists," and "lackeys of big oil." What about the thousands of legitimate, accredited scientists who believe anthropogenic global warming is untenable, including even some (well-buried) dissenters within the UN's IPCC itself? If a court can decide that Mann's research "and conclusions" have been sufficiently vindicated as to be judged provably "sound" -- that is, sound enough to be regarded as legally unassailable -- then what does this imply about the research and results of all those who believe they are proving Mann's conclusions false? The implication is clear enough: anthropogenic global warming is one area of truth-seeking that is no longer merely "settled science" (whatever that means), but is now settled law. It is now, apparently, legally dangerous to question this theory, unless one prefaces one's questions with the proviso that the research supporting the theory was conducted with the purest scientific heart, and that its conclusions are sound. Meanwhile, again, the same proviso need not be proffered when ripping up the research, opinions, and character of the "flat-earthers."

- Bishop Hill blog - The Lords do battle

After the House of Lords debate on the Energy Bill, Lord Deben wrote to a group of peers attacking the statements made by Matt Ridley in the debate. The letter and the ensuing correspondence was as follows

Attention, Omaha residents: Remaining warmists still include at least one of the former "Desperate Housewives", the "Guam tipping over guy", and the president of the Flat Earth Society

Twitter / ClimateReality: MT @iVolunteer: @climatereality ...

MT @iVolunteer: @climatereality really is the challenge of R time. TU @felicityhuffman for taking step 1 w/us http://bit.ly/164ZnIS

• The Climate Reality Project - Take the first step!

"I imagined the sigh of exasperation, or the muttered “oh God what has she sent me now." Maybe you will think this is a little extreme, or crazy? Maybe this seems like I am 1 email away from buying clothes made out of hemp and shoes made out of VEGAN leather (what is that anyway?), and eating a lot of garlic and grains, and wearing earrings that I made in my pottery studio. Next was feeling stupid that I am sending this at all! I mean who am I kidding - how can something as simple as emailing your friends and family make a dent in something as huge as “saving the world!" I don’t know, but I am going to follow the 10 steps and find out." - Felicity’s email to Stacy

Felicity Huffman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After high school she went on to New York University where she graduated in 1984 from Circle In The Square, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama

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Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Cant spin blocking or warm ...

Cant spin blocking or warm water for worst arctic attack into S Am since 1975.Antarctic oscillation strongly positive pic.twitter.com/31tgOyPrF8

Shepherds Flat developers took full advantage federal, state and local taxpayer subsidies to fund the $2 billion wind farm | OregonLive.com

For Shepherds Flat wind farm, the $30 million in tax credits that received final approval from Oregon Department of Energy last month were frosting on a multi-layered cake of federal, state and local subsidies. Its developers gorged themselves on hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers, and government officials were well aware it was over-subsidized.

At the White House, top advisors balked at the largesse for Shepherds Flat, warning President Obama of potential backlash as opportunistic developers "double dipped" on public money.

Electoral War Over Electricity Bills in Delhi - NYTimes.com

The story of exorbitant electricity charges is repeating itself throughout Delhi, feeding growing discontent among residents, especially of lower-income neighborhoods, over inadequate public services at higher costs.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: 45 day CFS paints a cool ...

45 day CFS paints a cool last 1/2 of summer for most of US east of Rockies. Texas/NE looks too cool to me here pic.twitter.com/3QiJ9jlMZM

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: The coming cold in Brazil not ...

The coming cold in Brazil not unprecedented but rare indeed. Great paper on it
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0493(1978)106%3C1545%3ASAOAPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2 …

Unsettled science: Warmists include Cher and the president of the Flat Earth Society, while climate realists include Freeman Dyson and Richard Lindzen

Twitter / cher: Insides r churning,I'm so upset ...

Insides r churning,I'm so upset about MASSIVE HEATWAVE affecting The Country.Is it 2 late 2 Acknowledge, Global Warming? Would it HELP ?

Twitter / cher: Everyone knows my thoughts ...

Everyone knows my thoughts on THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING ! U might say"this is no time 4 politics, ppl r Dying!This is exactly the Time

Flashback: Proud moment for warmists: President of real Flat Earth Society believes in the global warming hoax

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Unusual News - Global Warming in Alaska Reveals Remains of 1952 Air Force Crash - AllGov - News

The C-124 Globemaster II cargo aircraft slammed into Mount Gannett on November 22, 1952, during wintery conditions. Between bad weather and the remote location, the Air Force was unable to reach the site at the time of the accident. The wreckage was eventually buried under snow and disappeared from sight.

Pachauri’s Latest Award: Can You Say Conflict-of-Interest? | NoFrakkingConsensus

An organization headed by a senior IPCC official (Working Group 3 Vice-Chair, Carlo Carraro) has ranked TERI, an organization headed by the IPCC’s chairman, first in the world.

Obama a flat-earther on Keystone XL — denies detailed 8-volume report from own State Dept. | JunkScience.com

Jay Ambrose writes:

Obama himself is a flat-earther. How else would you describe someone who ceremoniously overlooks three years’ worth of scientific study watched over by a goodly portion of the federal government and summed up in eight volumes of precise, explicit, verifiable detail?

Twitter / RichardTol: I particularly like the bit ...

I particularly like the bit where @EdwardDaveyMP claims that they're putting up energy prices to combat energy poverty. @afneil

Think Of The Children | Real Science

The US Gubermint says that we are having a drought here in Fort Collins.

I wanted to share with you some terrifying pictures I took of the drought while riding my bike this morning. Avert your eyes if you are easily upset by these things.

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Droughts could hit food production in England in 2020s, report warns | Environment | The Guardian

Droughts could devastate food production in the England by the 2020s, according to a report from the government's official climate change advisers. Without action, increasingly hot and dry summers may mean farmers will face shortfalls of 50% of the water they currently use to grow crops. The report, from the climate change committee (CCC), also warns that current farming practices may be allowing the country's richest soils to be washed or blown away.

June 18, 2013: Met Office meeting: UK's spell of awful summers is set to continue | UK news | The Guardian

Forecast that Britain could be in middle of 10-20 year 'cycle' of wet summers delivered following gathering at Met Office

Fishermen call for change to carbon tax - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The co-op's general manager, Dale Sumner, says the tax adds $1,200 a month to its power bill.

Twitter / Revkin: Charles Krauthammer's ...

Charles Krauthammer's flat-earther global warming folly http://gu.com/p/3h5hb/tw  @dana1981 via @guardian

The Age of Foolishness

Another reason you will never again see a day without a meteorological disaster of some kind on the network news is that the United States is physically enormous, with startling geographic and meteorological diversity. As has been the case for hundreds of thousands of years (at a minimum), the big five of tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires and droughts can be depended upon to be occurring somewhere in our nation at all times. Presenting these as news is a shell game, with the pea being a normal number of disasters in a country with all the microclimates of the United States, and hundreds of empty shells on the table being all the places in the country on any given day that had favorable, or at the very least unremarkable, weather. You don’t need increases in any negative phenomena in order to have enough with which to lead the nightly news.

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Australian University Dumps Bob Carter, Advisor To Multiple Global Climate Science Denial Groups | DeSmogBlog

Dr Carter told radio host Smith that JCU had given him two reasons for their decision to allow his status there to lapse. The first, he told Smith, was that senior executives at the university were having to spend too much time defending Dr Carter's contrarian position. Second, Dr Carter said his former colleagues had decided his views were "not a good fit" for the School of Earth Sciences.

A statement provided to me by JCU gives a different reason. In short, the university says Dr Carter just wasn't contributing enough to warrant his position.

'Climate change' needs to be carefully considered - Cherokee Co. News-Advocate: Commentary

...It makes us even more suspicious when they tell us the “science is settled” and refuse to even debate their positions. Keep in mind here that the “science” was once “settled” that the Earth was flat and the center of the universe.

Someone who truly believes in their position is unafraid to debate it. That Al Gore (PBUH) and his ilk not only refuse to debate, but go out of their way to ridicule and destroy anyone who disagrees with them only shows the weakness of their beliefs.

Texas Farm Bureau: Obama climate change plan scarier than climate change | JunkScience.com

This administration plans to punish U.S. energy and food producers even more. I’m not seeing how unilateral surrender of our own economic fortune does any good whatsoever in the climate change grand scheme of things.
I’m not a “denier,” but I am a “skeptic” on the whole global warming thing. From where I sit, climate change regulation is much more terrifying than climate change itself.

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It's Time To Sequester Green Energy Subsidies, Not Mythical Oil And Gas Tax Breaks - Forbes

Then-Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) wrote a letter to Obama stating, in part: “We simply cannot afford to cut LIHEAP funding during one of the most brutal winters in history. Families across Massachusetts, and the country, depend upon these monies to heat their homes and survive the season.”

Incidentally, wasn’t all that global warming that Kerry has been alarmed about supposed to remove that brutal winter peril?

David Rose and the deep ocean PCC complaint – Shub Niggurath Climate

It has to dawn on its owners, that explaining the flat trend by ‘deep ocean heating’ involves accepting the flatness to be real.

In 50 Years Our Children Won’t Know What Cold Loving Microbes Are | Tory Aardvark

The mean global temperature for 2012 was 14C, in the planets long history the mean global temperature has been far higher in the past, for example at the start of the Triassic period, about 248 million years ago the mean global temperature was about 24C, and the cold loving microbes obviously survived or we would not be here right now.

Twitter / RogerAPielkeSr: The IPCC has failed to ...

The IPCC has failed to communicate that the “projections” are only providing, at best, what is possible - see http://www.climatedialogue.org/are-regional-models-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-642 …

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Our lights will stay on – but it will cost us a fortune - Telegraph

[Booker] In other words, just when we are already facing a doubling of our electricity bills through “carbon taxes”, subsidies to renewables and the “strike price” demanded by energy companies as their price for building new nuclear power stations, we are now looking at another huge spike in our bills to pay for the electricity the Government plans to call on to cover that fast-looming gap in our energy supplies — created by the way its policy has been so disastrously skewed by our politicians’ obsession with global warming, and their fond belief that the earth’s climate could somehow be affected by Britain reducing its “carbon emissions” by four-fifths. The final irony, of course, is that we not only pay for their dreams through a further hike in our energy bills, but also those diesel generators emit almost as much CO2 as the coal-fired power stations the politicians would like to see eliminated. Not only will we be bankrupted by their idiocy. It won’t even help to “save the planet”, either.

New York Times Forecasts 15 Feet Of Sea Level Rise This Century | Real Science

The danger can be clearly seen at Monterey, California where sea level has been flat for the past 30 years.

NASA Forgets About The Greenland Ice Sheet | Real Science

Temperatures peak on the Greenland ice sheet this week, and for some reason NASA forgot to make a press release about how cold it is this summer.

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HBO's Global Warmed 'Vice': A Classic Case Of Climate Denial - Forbes

Climate change denial reached new heights recently in the HBO series “Vice.” For uninformed viewers of the Bill Maher series, Season One, Episode Eight paints a picture of a static-climate earth, straight from the annals of the Flat Earth Society. Climate change, the episode argues, does not naturally happen. Shut down carbon dioxide emissions, the episode argues, and we can stop climate change.

Fuel Regulations Throw Md., Va. Carnival Cruise Jobs Overboard | National Legal and Policy Center

The Environmental Protection Agency acts as if every new burdensome demand makes a huge difference for the health and wellbeing of humans, in addition to claims that its costly, excessive regulations upon private business are actual net job creators.

The data and facts easily debunk the agency’s junk science and alien economics, but unfortunately reality has failed to penetrate the Twilight Zone-ish bubble where EPA resides. So color the Beltway enviro-crats shocked every time a private sector industry decides it won’t play ball any more and cuts jobs and moves productivity elsewhere.

Climate change costs | The Australian

HAVING recently returned from overseas where the effects of climate change means global warming deniers are regarded as the village idiots of society, it is amusing to see that Maurice Newman can still get published with his ridiculous statement about "dire warnings of extreme weather events without evidence"

Hitch climate tax to the ACTUAL CLIMATE, says top economist • The Register

McKitrick’s plan replaces the piecemeal regulation and taxes, which are arbitrary and random (ranging from patio heater bans to a “carbon floor price”) with a tax linked to the temperature of the troposphere. According to IPCC scientists this is the “fingerprint” of greenhouse gas-induced global warming and the most rapid indicator of climate change. If temperatures go up, then so does the tax.

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From Andy Revkin

.@TR_Foundation finds #RFS (Renewable Fuel Standard) boosting ethanol CO2 through nutty US-Brazil biofuel back-and-forthing...

Fastest Cooling Decade On Record | Real Science

RSS global satellite temperatures show that the current decade (2011-2013) has cooled 0.086 degrees since the previous decade (2001-2010) This makes the current decade the fastest cooling decade in the satellite record.

Arrogant Obama Insults Skeptics: “We Don’t Have Time For A Meeting Of The Flat-Earth Society” | The SPPI Blog

You’re in estimable and well-educated company if you don’t believe in the myth of global warming. However, according to Obama, those who doubt the climate change propaganda are members of the “Flat Earth Society” – basically, superstitious fools.

Ironically, Obama is the one using junk science and emotion in order to further an agenda, because man-made climate change is a myth that has been disproved.

More on Stephen Emmott, Author of ‘Ten Billion’ | NoFrakkingConsensus

A new book appears to be a rehash of 40-year-old environmental scaremongering endorsed by that era’s men of science.

US News and World Report opinion: "The GOP Fiddles While the Planet Burns"

The GOP Fiddles While the Planet Burns - Brad Bannon (usnews.com)

Las Vegas and Phoenix are broiling and much of the southwest is aflame. But global warming is not to blame if you believe the Flat Earth's Society claims. Last winter, Hurricane Sandy left some of Manhattan and much of the Jersey Shore underwater. The Arctic ice is melting, which will raise ocean levels to heights that will put larger areas of coastland under the sea.

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[Insurance company hypes CO2 risk?]: Firm funds €1 million climate impact research chair | News | Times Higher Education

AXA says that through its fund it will in particular increase its efforts to help scientists to further share their knowledge with a broader audience in order to “actively nurture public debate on risks”.

“Dead Aim” Joe Manchin Keeps His Promises…Obama Steps Into The Battle We’ve All Been Waiting For

In the US, the Democrats have Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is now speaking up strongly against Obama’s flat-earth-science-based energy policies, which in the end are nothing more than pure pandering to fringe environmentalists. It’s pure stupidity to think that the fate of the planet hinges on a few dozen US coal power plants. China is putting 50 on line each year.

Obama’s Climate Obsession | Somewhat Reasonable

The fundamental flaw in the president’s thinking is shown by the 21 instances in his plan of the term “carbon pollution,” trying to confuse carbon dioxide, also known as plant food, with real pollutants and poisons such as mercury, arsenic, and lead — each of which the plan mentions as analogous to carbon in a hyperbole so obvious that nobody who doesn’t work for the Sierra Club could possibly buy it.

One wonders what planet Obama lives on when he says “climate change is no longer a distant threat — we are already feeling its impacts across the country and the world.”

Name one, Mr. President, at least one that is well supported by peer-reviewed science.

The Reference Frame: Bob Carter's academic job "not renewed"

Climate alarmists' dirty hands were very likely behind the scenes

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Newly licensed pilot aims to cross the Atlantic in an electric airplane | Grist

That flight — from New York to Paris — is more than three times as long as the longest flight any electric airplane has taken, according to Wired. The electric plane, which Yates is still building, would have to go 3,500 miles, even though it only has a 700-mile range.

How’s that going to work? The plan right now is to have flying battery packs meets the plane at intervals and refuel it in midair. Crazy? Totally. Brilliant? Yeah.

"Obama spouts brazen lies," says astrophysicist

Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn on Obama’s latest Climate Change speech:

“WE ARE ALL FLAT-EARTHERS NOW!” says Corbyn.   [Far be it from me to be critical, but I don't think that going all-caps is a good way to increase writing effectiveness.]

Obama tries to make global warming an issue for voters | JunkScience.com

Ask Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi how that worked out.

A Better Fellow | Digging in the Clay

I liked a ditty in a comment by Gunga Din at WUWT which sums up the hockey stick history:

Stopping by Yamal One Snowing Evening
(by Michael Mann)

What tree this is, I think I know.
It grew in Yamal some time ago.
Yamal 06 I’m placing here
In hopes a hockey stick will grow.
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I changed a line into a hill!
I can’t say how I was thrilled!
Then Climategate. I’m feeling ill.
Then Climategate. I’m feeling ill.

USA Today: "...the big applause line in Obama's speech was his comparison of climate change naysayers to "a meeting of the Flat Earth Society"

USA Today: Storytelling science illuminates climate views

What's the moral of the story? A hero you like seems to shape our understanding of news stories, shows a scientific experiment with climate science news stories.
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Fans of communication experiments might note that the big applause line in Obama's speech was his comparison of climate change naysayers to "a meeting of the Flat Earth Society," The joke seems to have struck home with Obama's political foes

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Paying The True Cost Of CO2 Emissions | Real Science

Climate experts say that CO2 is the cause of all weather events.

Tornadoes have been at a record low for the last two years, and US hurricanes are close to a record low. This has greatly reduced disaster costs.

Given the huge savings in disaster costs due to CO2 generation, it is only fair that the government pays dividends to all CO2 polluters.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Roundup on President of the Flat Earth Society Mr. Barack Obama

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Doldrums in U.S. electric car sales could linger indefinitely; sales are a scant 0.5%

DETROIT (Reuters) - A 'green' showroom, free charging stations and several acres of solar panels are all part of the pitch by Galpin Ford dealership to environmentally minded car buyers in southern California.

So how many plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles has the Los Angeles dealership actually sold?

"Very, very few," said Beau Boeckmann, whose family owns Galpin Ford, the automaker's largest U.S. dealership. Only 2 percent of the vehicles Galpin sold last month were plug-ins.

German Media Reaction To Obama’s Plan: “Hollow Words…Bruising And Potentially Costly Political Battle”

In general, the media in Germany overwhelmingly welcome Obama’s plan to tackle CO2 emissions. But for many, Obama’s plan does not go far enough, or is just a front for something more sinister, like fracking. Others are skeptical whether action will actually follow his lofty rhetoric.

Cooling Europe…Germany Preliminary June Mean Temperature Comes In Way Below Model Projections

As for mean temperature for June, it was normal, which means it was way below model projections. Things aren’t supposed to be normal.

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Twitter / Parispective: .@kuminaidoo and @cfigueres ...

.@kuminaidoo and @cfigueres speak at #GlobalPowerShift Inspiring to see them speak emotionally and intensely about #Climate.

Twitter / 350gps: 'Every cent invested in coal ...

'Every cent invested in coal oil and gas is an investment in the deaths of our future generations' @kuminaidoo

Twitter / ShawnOtto: In weird weather, climate change ...

In weird weather, climate change and the media panel at wcsj in Helsinki with seth borenstein #wcsj2013

The Reference Frame: The IPCC and the Flat Earth Society may merge now

I think that many climate alarmists must know that phrases such as "remarkable coincidences" or "dramatic changes" are lies. But they have almost no problem to emit these lies because these words are "qualitative" and not "quantitative" so it's not really possible to rigorously prove that they're lies.

Twitter / ShawnOtto: Seth Borenstein: deniers not ...

Seth Borenstein: deniers not living on planet reality #wcsj2013

Twitter / ShawnOtto: Seth Borenstein: The jet stream ...

Seth Borenstein: The jet stream is the big extreme weather story. Slowing, meandering becs of polar warming: more extreme weather #wcsj2013

Twitter / ShawnOtto: Alister Doyle, Thompson Reuters: ...

Alister Doyle, Thompson Reuters: some extremes so far off the chart scientists now saying yes there is a human fingerprint here #wcsj2013