Saturday Silliness – Josh’s wind energy fact sheet – global wind power ‘to the nearest whole number’ | Watts Up With That?

Following this week’s Twitter exchange between Matt Ridley and Mark Lynas I thought a helpful fact sheet about Wind Energy would be useful. People can print it out, send to their relatives, MPs, Senators etc etc.

U.S. News - Great Lakes ice coverage falls 71 percent over 40 years, researcher says

The amount of decline varies year to year and lake to lake, according to the report's lead researcher, Jia Wang, an ice research climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich.

..."We are seeing the impact of global warming here in the Great Lakes -- but the natural variability is at least as large a factor," Wang said.

Keystone kibosh : Prime time : SunNews Video Gallery

Marc Morano responds to Obama’s latest Keystone kibosh calling it a war on carbon based energy and says it’s gonna be a huge campaign issue for him this fall.

The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: Paul Howes and THAT promise

THE Gillard government has been warned that union support will be withdrawn from Labor's campaign to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions if it looks like "one job" will be lost because of the proposed carbon tax.

Ukrainian Grain Exports Fall Due to Cold Weather, Official Says - Businessweek

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Ukrainian grain exports for February will fall below January’s 1.92 million metric tons due to freezing weather, researcher ProAgro said, citing the Agriculture Ministry.

Bulgaria’s freezing weather sends electricity, heating, snow-clearing bills soaring - Bulgaria - The Sofia Echo

Bulgaria’s record-low temperatures and heavy snowfalls of recent weeks have sent electricity, heating and snow-removal costs soaring by about 1.2 billion leva (about 600 million euro), not counting the costs after some parts of the country were hit by floods.

Think tank’s talking points deepen the divide over climate change

Using a combination of Discourse Analysis and Fantasy Theme Analysis, the study identified nine discrete anti-climate-science fantasy themes developed by the IPA and published in the Australian news media.

New Statesman - Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future

Reviewed by Mark Lynas - 16 February 2012

Email 939: Monbiot, Lynas, and Gelbspan allegedly approved of a letter claiming that by 2050, because of CO2, "more than the total amount the world produces that year could be destroyed and life as we know it could collapse"

Email 939

...By 2050, annual losses could theoretically amount to anywhere between 12 per cent and 130 per cent of the gross world product. In other words, more than the total amount the world produces that year could be destroyed and life as we know it could collapse....Yours sincerely

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George Monbiot - Journalist UK
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Mark Lynas - Co-ordinator, Corporate Watch, UK
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Ross Gelbspan - Author 'The Heat Is On' and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Durban climate talks: day eight diary | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Libya is wildly ambitious and clearly already trying to revolutionise thinking on climate change and science. It plans a monster geoengineering project that would not just cool the Earth by 6C and cut carbon dioxide emissions to zero by 2021, it says, but would reverse global warming, provide power for 2 billion people, lower sea levels and restore the climate of 1750
...Saturday's march of around 20,000 people through the streets of Durban was remarkable for its humour and diversity...I spotted waste pickers, farmers, refugees, indigenous peoples from around Africa and Latin America, unions, people fighting airports, clowns, evictees, landless peasants, NGOs like WWF, Friend of the Earth International and Greenpeace, schools, political parties, students, squatters, slum and shack-dwellers, priests and faith groups, academics, Ogonis from the Niger delta, UN delegates and ambassadors as well as UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres. Best slogans? "Keep the oil in the soil and the coal in the hole" and "Never trust a cop".

...The denialists have not yet been seen in the COP17 halls but the formidable team of Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, Marc Morano, Kelvin Kemm, Leon Louw and Craig Rucker from the Washington-based Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) are threatening to turn up.

Durban climate talks: we still have a chance to talk about success | Caroline Lucas | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The latest science from the respected Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research suggests that 2C is no longer the threshold between "acceptable" and "dangerous" risks – but between "dangerous" and "very dangerous" climate change. Scientists there are now looking towards 1.5C as a safer and more accurate target.

Climategate 2.0: Jones says 2-degree C limit ‘plucked out of thin air’ | JunkScience.com

If you’ve been wondering where the official 2^o C ceiling on temperture increase came from, Phil Jones enlightens us.

Mark Lynas » COP17: Why the ‘Kyoto or bust’ positions much change

Perhaps the worst outcome of continued Kyoto deadlock is not that the UNFCCC process shatters in a dramatic big bang, but that it continues to slip gradually into irrelevance.

A meaningful Durban treaty would be a triumph of weak over strong | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[Pie-throwing warmist Mark Lynas] Tough, legally binding targets are the only way to tackle climate change – but powerful, high emitting nations will be stubborn...The stakes could not be higher.  [The accompanying photo encourages us to believe that the haze in Calcutta is carbon dioxide.]

Al Fin: ClimateGate 2: Another Round of Defections Coming Up?

The spotlight is on, and the heat is being turned up on the warmist conspiracy of scam artists. And this is only Act II. Just wait until after the intermission, when the action really begins to pick up.

Record snowfall - Local - The Telegram

Meeting the predictions of forecasters and then tacking on a bit more of the white stuff for good measure, almost 30 centimetres of snow dropped on St. John’s by midday Thursday.

It was a new single-day record for November in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Russia’s South Hit by Record Low Temperatures, Center Says - Bloomberg

Today’s temperatures of minus 19.1 degrees Celsius in Volgograd in the Southern federal district, and minus 16 degrees
Celsius in Vladikavkaz in the North-Caucasus federal district are the lowest for this date since 1993, the weather center said
on its website. In Makhachkala, which is in the North-Caucasus district, the minus 13.6 degrees Celsius temperature is the
coldest registered since 1889, it said.

...Winter crops are “not in a very good shape” in southern Russia because of the weather conditions, Alexander Korbut, the Grain Union’s vice president, said yesterday.

An Island Adviser Sees Promise in Durban Climate Talks - NYTimes.com

[Pie-throwing warmist Mark Lynas] At the Cartagena meeting it was acknowledged by most that Kyoto is really only a political issue – it makes no great difference to the climate what happens with it.

EPA: By 2025, Pigs Will Fly - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Washington’s press corps this afternoon dutifully parroted the White House announcement that by 2025, cars must get 54.5 mpg. And we’ll put humans on Neptune.

World Climate Report » Atlantic Hurricanes: Fewer, Worse…Less Menacing?

As we noted up front, the level of natural variability manifest through the interactions of many different processes ultimately overwhelms the pure signal from anthropogenic “global warming” and so detecting an influence like that identified by Wang and colleagues, much less assigning global warming as the cause (even partially) becomes virtually impossible. But at least this work helps dispel notions that landfalling hurricanes in the U.S. are “consistent” with expectations from “global warming.”

From Global Warming To Spot Heating – UN Scientists Scale Back, Roll Out Latest Scare Story (Again)

Der Spiegel reports today how the UN has just come out with a new report that now claims the big threat is local heat waves and freak storms.

That’s quite a change from global-wide warming and sea level rise.

On the Alert for Misleading Ads - NYTimes.com

When the F.T.C. issues the new green marketing guidelines in the United States, he said, fines could be warranted for companies making false or misleading green claims — just as the commission recently fined Reebok $25 million over an ad campaign claiming that its toning shoes could strengthen a wearer’s buttocks, legs and thighs. The penalty went toward consumer refunds.

C3: BEST Confirms Hansen's GISS Temperature Reporting To Be The Worst --- BEST To Replace GISS (Worst)?

Why doesn't the GISS dataset comport with climate reality as documented by other sources and experts? Hmmm...one thinks global warming fame and fortune is not likely to visit those who report modest or little warming.

WWF in denial over Donna Laframboise’s new book | Watts Up With That?

So upset they issued a press release. That’ll show ‘em. Funny how they couldn’t delineate the title of the book in the text.

Twitter / @mark_lynas

This has to be silliest article yet on climate - wrong from start to finish: realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/… 'Cult of global warming losing influence'

Maybe Barone should respond by smashing a pie into Lynas' face.

Pie-throwing warmist Mark Lynas on Greenpeace anti-nuclear activists: "These people are nuts"

How Mark Lynas riled the green movement | Environment | guardian.co.uk

e360: You attribute much of this fear to scaremongering by environmentalists.

Lynas: After the accident, Greenpeace was running around giving press conferences in their white biohazard suits. There were anti-nuclear activists planning to go and sell chalk pills to supposedly save the children of Fukushima. They believe in what they're doing, but these people are nuts. And they're doing real harm by spreading fear. What we know from Chernobyl is that the psychological impacts of fear of radiation are worse — in terms of health outcomes — than the actual damage of the radiation itself. We need to learn the lessons of this and that nothing is without consequences, nuclear scare-mongering included.
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e360: You seem to have undergone quite a personal and professional transformation. Ten years ago, when you were a frontline activist, you walked into a bookstore and threw a pie in the face of [Danish author] Bjorn Lomborg, who had just published The Skeptical Environmentalist.
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e360: Have you talked to Lomborg since that incident?

Lynas: Yes, I have made an abject apology to him on a couple of occasions and he's been gentlemanly enough to accept it in very good grace. And in an odd sort of way, we've become quite friendly. I actually have found that I have a high regard for the work he does, even though I still don't agree with a lot of his conclusions. I think what Lomborg does is genuine, and no one should have a pie thrown in his face because he challenges conventional wisdom.

Speculation Over Chris Huhne's 'Fingerprint' Tweet

Chris Huhne wrote that he wanted to keep his “fingerprints” off a story, which must appear as if it had come from “someone else”.

UN Carbon Market May End After Kyoto Targets Lapse

China and the European Union are at odds over the future of the United Nations carbon market and the Kyoto Protocol, a rift that threatens agreement at next month’s ministerial climate-change conference in South Africa.

Heatwaves and Blizzards — Which is the Best Evidence for Global Warming? – Warmist Mark Lynas

In winter everyone notices a blizzard – if your car is buried in snow, the highways are in chaos, and no-one can get to work, this creates a sense of crisis and lasting memories.

Twitter / @gogreen18

I'm on the shuttle to the airport with a van full of Amish people talking about how global warming is a scam. Too bad my voice is out...

Glacial Melting Put Animals on the Run - ScienceNOW

So, shrews and pikas, lace up those tennis shoes.

Warmists take long-haul fossil-fueled flights to a nice warm place to discuss the importance of not taking long-haul fossil-fueled flights

HaveeruOnline - Virgin boss in Maldives for Six Senses symposium

Richard will be joined by President Mohamed Nasheed's Climate Change Advisor Mark Lynas and Founder of zero2infinity Jose Mariano to explore the breakthroughs being made to a low carbon future in the transport sector.
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Other notable speakers at the symposium include President Mohamed Nasheed, Co-Founder of BLUE Marine Foundation Chris Gorell Barnes, Co-Founder of FairKlima Capital Daniel Foa, Actor and Environmental Activist Daryl Hannah, American filmmaker Edward Norton, Founder of Plant A Fish Fabien Cousteau, Co-Founder of FairKlima Capital Hiu Ng and World Future Council (WFC) Founder Jakob von Uexkull.

Mark Lynas » The myth of Easter Island’s ecocide

[Benny Peiser] “The real mystery of Easter Island, however, is not its collapse. It is why distinguished scientists feel compelled to concoct a story of ecological suicide when the actual perpetrators of the civilisation’s deliberate destruction are well known and were identified long ago…

Twitter / @WR_Record

Negative murmurs in crowd as PC Dave MacDonald, former weatherman, says he's not convinced climate change is man-made at #kitcen forum.

Committee Investigators Seek Answers from Solyndra Investors

Obama Administration Put the Venture Capitalists First in Line Ahead of American Taxpayers in Upcoming Bankruptcy Proceedings, in Violation of the Law

Final Comments On My Interaction With Skeptical Science | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

With the negative tone of their weblog, only those who are committed to the perspective promoted on their weblog will likely regularly read it. Its an opportunty lost, unfortunately.

Do Climate Forcings Exist? Map And Territory In Climate Science « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Some interesting ideas that are surfacing at Judith Curry’s “Cloud wars” blog post, leading to the conclusion that there might as well be no such a thing as a “pure” climate forcing.

Peter Foster: Deep-sixing global warming

Claims that the deep oceans absorb the missing heat are an admission that temperatures have stalled

[Healing the planet]: Obama's envoy for climate change casts doubt on Kyoto protocol | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Todd Stern hints progress at climate talks in South Africa may stall with insistence on limits on greenhouse gas emissions
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Todd Stern, the US president's envoy for climate change, said the European Union was the only remaining "major player" that would potentially support a continuation of the protocol after its provisions expire in 2012. The lack of support from other countries bodes ill for the forthcoming talks at Durban.
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Stern warned that the US would not countenance a new climate regime that contained "escape hatches" for some countries, and hinted that countries now labelled as "developing" should be drawn into taking on obligations on emissions.

Hans Schreuder: Letter to the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Climate Change | Climate Realists

you appear unaware of two issues:

1. There has never been any proof positive that human activities have influenced the climate and

2. Reducing "emissions" [of carbon dioxide] will lead to wholesale job losses and widespread poverty.

Torpedoing Of The Use Of The Global Average Surface Temperature Trend As The Diagnostic For Global Warming | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

A final comment on this paper, if heat really is deposited deep into the ocean (i.e. Joules of heat) it will dispersed through the ocean at these depths and unlikely to be transferred back to the surface on short time periods, but only leak back upwards if at all. The deep ocean would be a long-term damper of global warming, that has not been adequately discussed in the climate science community.

Times Atlas To Print New World Map Without Tuvalu, Maldives, Manhattan etc – Telegraph Blogs

"All right, it may not be strictly geographically accurate to say the Maldives and Tuvalu will definitely have disappeared in about ten years time when our next edition appears," said Times Atlas spokesman David Rose. "But did you see that picture of the Maldives cabinet holding a meeting underwater? If the Maldives government says the Maldives are drowning, they must be drowning. And frankly I think it's despicable, all those deniers who are saying it was just a publicity stunt, cooked up by green activist Mark Lynas, to blackmail the international community into giving the Maldives more aid money while simultaneously trying to lure green Trustafarians to come and spend £1500 a night in houses on stilts with gold-plated organic recyclable eco-toilets made of rare earth minerals from China. Why would a government lie about something as serious as climate change?"

Science finds little love among GOP presidential candidates | NJ.com

This week, Jon Huntsman, trying to stake mainstream middle ground, wondered whether the GOP was pandering to a new segment of voters: those who had cut science class.
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We wonder: How long before a GOP candidate insists we could feed all of the nation’s hungry children with the moon’s green cheese?
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“All I know is 90 percent of the scientists say climate change is occurring,” Huntsman told Time. But if, like Perry, you don’t believe in global warming, then you don’t believe it exacerbates droughts.

Rick Perry’s assertions on global warming reveal reporting challenges when science, politics collide | Poynter.

“In some issues in science, there’s really just one answer,” said Tom Yulsman, the co-director of the University of Colorado Center for Environmental Journalism. “That makes science a lot different from our binary world of politics.”
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“Part of the context is stating – even in a political story — that there’s very little scientific debate,” said Yulsman, who developed a Poynter Webinar on covering climate change.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram told readers in Perry’s home state, “While most climate scientists believe that climate change is real and that fossil fuel combustion is helping warm the Earth, a core group of dissenters, coupled with some conservative groups and activists, has challenged that view.”

“I worked on that sentence for about 10 minutes,” Star-Telegram political reporter Aman Batheja told me in a phone interview. “That was an important part of the story, that Perry was saying something that’s different from what most experts in the field feel.”

EU 'may propose Kyoto Protocol extension' | EurActiv

"To ratify [a second Kyoto period] will take countries years," said Mark Lynas, climate advisor to the president of the Maldives, which is vulnerable to rising sea levels, a by-product of global warming.

So the leaders of the Maldives were sitting around one day, trying to figure out who should be the climate advisor to the president, and someone said "Hey, how about that idiot who threw that pie at Bjorn Lomborg"?!

Bjørn Lomborg cream pied by Mark Lynas - YouTube

A pie was thrown in his face at Borders Bookshop in Oxford just after 7pm Sept 4 2001

Study Says Drudge Report Drives More Traffic Than Facebook & Twitter Combined

News aggregator Drudge Report, which employs two people in addition to founder Matt Drudge, continues to be one of the largest traffic drivers to content sites, according to a study released Wednesday by Outbrain.
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It’s an impressive number for a site made up of a handful of pages plastered with text links. By comparison, it’s driving more than double the traffic to content sites than Facebook and Twitter combined.

The Breakthrough Institute: Book Review: The God Species

I differed with Lynas in two of his main points. One was his regular insistence that 350 ppm is the necessary atmospheric goal for climate stabilization, which seems increasingly impossible. Second was his claim that, contrary to the traditional Green demands for cultural and behavioral changes, decarbonization will be "easier" since it is primarily a technical challenge with technical solutions.

Lord Monckton On How To Fight Back Against NZ's Climate Change Swindlers - YouTube

Following Lord Christopher Monckton's talk of August the 6th, 2011, about Climate Change Swindling to an audience in Whangarei, Dr Muriel Newman, the former politician who runs the http://www.nzcpr.com website, posed an very important question. Referring to the point that the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires at the end of 2012 and there will be no second period, yet there are indicators the New Zealand Government intends to continue with the scheme, she asked Lord Monckton: HOW DO WE FIGHT BACK?
This video includes his full reply to Dr Newman.

Marc Morano & Alex Jones: Al Gore's Green Nazi Movement Have Lost The Global Warming War! 1/2 - YouTube

Marc Morano, who runs the climate website ClimateDepot.com for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, talks with Alex about Al Gore losing it and cursing out skeptics of the climate scam at the globalist Aspen Institute in Colorado earlier this month.

BBC News - Southern Chile emergency after heavy snowstorms

Chile declared eight municipalities a disaster zone after a massive snowstorm hit the South of the country.

More than 12,000 people are isolated and facing food shortages. The snow has also affected electricity and communications.

Climate Change Mission Creep: Will the UN Security Council Establish a ‘Green Helmets’ Peacekeeping Force?

The Security Council is a relic from the Cold War. Clearly, these folks don’t have enough to do. The Security Council, of course, would not be the first UN body to turn fear of climate change into a lifetime meal ticket.

sp!ked review of books preview | Admit it: environmentalism was an ugly experiment

Mark Lynas has converted from eco-alarmist to pro-growth rationalist. But he still doesn’t get the problem with green thinking.

In other news... | The Spectator

If a tabloid used a single spell of cold weather to try to pooh-pooh the theory of global warming, it would rightly be accused of unscientific nonsense. Yet Sir John Beddington, the government’s scientific adviser, has proposed that the government do the same in reverse. In a report entitled ‘International Dimensions of Climate Change’, he calls upon the government to use weather-related disasters as ‘policy windows’ to push through unpopular policies to cut carbon emissions.Every time there is a flood in Bangladesh, in other words, we can expect another couple of pence of duty on a litre of unleaded.

Sir John Beddington’s job is to advise on science. Instead, he appears to have appointed himself minister for propaganda. Even the Met Office accepts that individual meteorological events cannot be attributed to climate change. Drought and tempest were with us before industrial civilisation — though to read Sir John’s report it might be easy to imagine they were not. On half a dozen occasions he brings up the subject of Hurricane Katrina as supposed evidence of climate change. He must know that Katrina was far from the strongest storm to hit the US coast — it was only category three out of five by the time it landed, and there have been 15 stronger ones in the past 100 years, the strongest back in 1935 — but it struck a particularly vulnerable city.

Life After Land - NYTimes.com

The United Nations should affirm that if an island nation loses its permanent population and territory to rising seawater, the world will continue to recognize its sovereignty as a nation.

An Environmentalist Joins the Reality-Based Community - Reason Magazine

Let’s set aside the fact that Lynas fully accepts the most catastrophic interpretations of climate change, extinction rates, and nitrogen loading. What’s truly refreshing is that, for the most part, Lynas now strongly rejects the Green ideology that demands the dismantling of the human economy as the “solution” to these alleged crises.
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With regard to the problem climate change, Lynas correctly dismisses the calls of Green ideologues for a “worldwide change in values, a program of mass education to reduce people’s desires to consume, a more equitable distribution of global wealth, smashing the power of transnational corporations, or even the abolition of capitalism itself.”

NRB Airs 'Resisting the Green Dragon' - Health & Science - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com

A DVD documentary meant to counter global warming claims and other environmental extremism will head to television starting this week.

"Resisting the Green Dragon" is a 12-part series now airing on the National Religious Broadcasters network, Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.

Gillard failing to sell carbon tax, poll finds - National News - National - General - Boorowa News

A MAJORITY of Australians believe they will be worse off under the carbon price and almost half see Bob Brown and the Greens as mainly responsible for the package's design, an Age/Nielsen poll has found.

In results showing that people have not felt at all reassured after seeing the compensation details, only 6 per cent say they will be better off, while 53 per cent believe they will be worse off and 37 per cent say it will make no difference to them personally.

Danish Queen Blasphemes The CO2 High Priests | Real Science

Queen Margrethe’s statement that ‘you can not change the climate’ gets a cold shoulder from several environmental organizations.

The Reference Frame: CERN boss: I forbade employees to interpret our climate experiment

I am pretty much sure that Mr Heuer has heard about some people who are claiming that CO2 is important in the climate and he must know that they're allowed - and, indeed, encouraged - to "interpret" those wild speculations that are, relatively to the CLOUD experiment, supported by nothing. But he still finds it appropriate to suppress the broader findings that may follow from the research done by his very lab. This is an utterly dishonest behavior reminding us of science in the 20th century totalitarian societies and Mr Heuer should be ashamed.

We Don’t Know What Caused Past Climate Change, But We Do Know It Isn’t Responsible For Current Climate Change | Real Science

This is trivial to prove. CO2 has increased, so all previous climate change mechanisms are now defunct. CO2 is now lord and master of the universe.

Mark Lynas: Home » ocean acidification » Debate with Matt Ridley on ocean acidification

Ridley: Next, to your discussion of ocean acidification. I resent the implication that I am a “denier”. What precisely am I denying? I don’t deny that oceans are being made lower in pH by human emissions. I don’t deny that man-made emissions are affecting climate; (I question the evidence for any large effects through net positive feedbacks). And why use a word deliberately intended to draw a parallel with the offensive lie of holocaust denial? I don’t call people like you “climate change liars” when I think you exaggerate the probability of severe harm.

Lynas: Again, fair enough, and although I have used the term in the book elsewhere, I accept that the term ‘denier’ is problematic. In principle a person could call anyone he or she disagrees with a ‘denier’. In fact, due to my stance on nuclear power, I have been called a ‘Chernobyl death denier’. So the charge cuts both ways. Were I writing the book now I would perhaps be more careful about any use this term

Mark Lynas: Home » Uncategorized » The God Species withdrawn from Amazon – censorship?

Although I cannot prove it, I now believe that this is a malicious attempt at censorship by individuals or organisations who find the content of The God Species threatening.

Europe’s Temperatures Show No Evidence Of Warming Since 1998

European winters seem to have gone through an alternating warm-cool –warm- cool cycle since the 1940s and now appear headed for a cooler cycle like the 1962-1987 period.

Jennifer Marohasy » Agroforestry out of Carbon Tax Smells like Snake Oil

Investing in soil carbon makes good sense, but investing in agroforestry… Such schemes were pushed hard a decade or so ago with lots of promise and lots of subsidises but many have already ended with financial ruin.

Have jellyfish come to rule the waves? | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Until 2010, mackerel were the one reliable catch in Cardigan Bay in west Wales.
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Last year it all changed.

Monbiot: Global Warming Jellyfish Apocalypse – End of Vertebrate Life Is Nigh. | hauntingthelibrary

Well, of course, it’s nothing new – this has all happened before. Like in the Phillipines in 1999, where an “enormous concentration” of jellyfish was blamed for crippling the new power station. In Miami in 1984, where a “huge crowd of jellyfish” shut down the nuclear reactor at the St Lucie power station and again in 1993. In Tampa Bay in 1971, where massive “swarms” of jellyfish shut down the power plant. In Tokyo in 1972, where they closed a power plant, in the Persian gulf in 1958 where they shut down an oil refinery – the list goes on.

Having backtracked on his “2012 Meat Apocalypse” prediction, Monbiot’s latest is even better – the end of vertebrate life and the imposition of “a system dominated by jellyfish” who apparently are starting by shutting down power stations. Run for the hills!

The Reference Frame: Mark Lynas: how far the new wisdom of ex-green fanatics may go?

However, despite some assorted rational proclamations that Mark Lynas will be saying about nuclear energy or GM crops, he is still a green activist and I am afraid that he will remain one. So don't expect his future book, The God Species that will come out in November 2011, to be about anything else than Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans. After all, this megalomaniac sequence of words that can identify every green zealot is the subtitle of his new book. :-)

So don't believe the lies of the green zealots, not even those who have clashed with other green zealots.

Climate plan won't be instant success: PM | News | Business Spectator

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has warned Labor colleagues not to expect an immediate turnaround in public opposition to pricing carbon, as the coalition accused her of avoiding the scrutiny of parliament.
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But Mr Abbott was accused of being a climate sceptic after he used the term "so-called carbon pollution" in parliament today.

NWV News - Obama's EPA Scam Hurts Taxpayers' and U.S. Farmers, Say Critics

In a transaction by the Obama White House that's sure to anger Americans -- if the news media ever bothered to tell them -- the People's Republic of China gets millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help with their so-called green projects. The outrageous part of the story is that the U.S. is indebted to China for almost a trillion dollars.

He's still a warmist, but Mark Lynas has lost some of his Green religion

You mustn't believe the lies of the Green zealots. And I should know - I was one | Mail Online

Surprisingly, nuclear power may be more environmentally friendly than many types of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power. Wind turbines can kill birds and bats, while solar power, if employed on a grand scale, will take up a lot of land space.

Also, as much as Greens are enthusiastic about solar electricity, in cloudy countries such as ours it is extremely inefficient and expensive. Nuclear power, on the other hand, is one of the cheapest ways of producing electricity, and it is much safer than many environmentalists would have us believe.
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Through research, I found that much of what I believed about environmental issues had little, if any, basis in science.
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One of the reasons the Green movement is failing to attract support is that it has too much cultural baggage and is too ideologically rigid. Any reconsideration of the orthodox position — even for the sake of the environment — is seen as a betrayal.

Politically speaking, the Green Party is trapped in the irrelevance of the Far Left. Trendy lifestyle choices such as shopping at farmers’ markets don’t address the issues of climate change and diminishing biodiversity.

The Green demands that we should drive less, holiday at home, subsist on root vegetables and shiver in colder houses in order to use less energy are counter-productive as well as unnecessary. What we need to do is find a source of clean, green energy, which will provide the energy we need without radically altering the way we live.

YouTube - ‪Bjørn Lomborg cream pied by Mark Lynas‬‏

Pie-man Mark Lynas said he was unable to ignore Lomborg's comments on climate change. "I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face," said Lynas, "in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska who are reporting rising temperatures, shrinking sea ice and worsening effects on animal and bird life."