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Greenpeace warns iron pollution from coal mining rising in Spreewald - UPI.com

Schinerl said Greenpeace's July measurements showed iron oxide content in the water to be more than 100 milligrams per liter -- 3 milligrams per liter are considered harmful to the environment.

Ocean Iron Fertilization (GeoEngineering)

Ocean iron fertilization uses a geoengineering approach to enhance a natural process. It is the intentional introduction of iron to the upper ocean to stimulate a phytoplankton bloom. Which is intended to enhance biological productivity that can benefit the marine food chain and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

More cowbell—or less? Climate strategies point opposite ways

At the intersection of cattle and climate change, two rival visions for the future have emerged: One with more cows, one with fewer.

Oregon man files $5 million suit over wind farm noise | OregonLive.com

A year ago, Dan Williams moved from his home near Ione's Willow Creek wind farm to Walterville, Ore. He said he couldn't take the noise of whipping turbine blades any longer.

"It's hard to explain it to people unless you experience it," Williams said. "There's the actual noise that wakes you, but there's also the infrasound you can't hear but your body feels. The best I can describe it is like a train or an airplane coming and going."

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Twitter / DrShepherd2013

many of us may see a cool snap this week. Be ready to remind some "weather is mood, climate is personality"

Twitter / KHayhoe: This blew my mind: marine species ...

This blew my mind: marine species moving poleward 10x faster than terr. species, ~7km/yr. Phytoplankton ~100x faster http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1958.html …

Twitter / KatrinaNation: How many Obamacare defunders-- ...

[retweeted by left-wing political hack Michael Mann] How many Obamacare defunders-- (the new birthers), immigrant bashers & climate change denialists on people's airwaves this morning?Too many.

Twitter / MichaelEMann

.@morgfair @BadAstronomer @thenation Thx to @lhfang for this. #Rohrabacher's antiscientific zealotry unbefitting of public office. #Disgrace

Defeated Republican Preaches Heresy Backing a Carbon Tax - Bloomberg

“It’s not going anywhere,” Texas Republican Joe Barton, the former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said, when asked about Inglis and the carbon tax. “We agree that carbon-dioxide levels are going up. What we don’t agree on is that carbon-dioxide levels are going up because of man.”

Climate change: the Inuit now have words for ‘bumblebee’ and ‘robin’ | The Vancouver Observer

No multi-year ice (the ice that stays frozen even through summer) means that all the phytoplankton, zooplankton and other microbial organisms that live just under the surface of the sea ice will be homeless

Flashback » The red, red Koyapigaktoruk comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along

...as it turns out, there are plenty of Eskimo words for robin that have existed for a long time and in languages that are spread among bands of Inuit all across the North American Arctic—and it is all plain to see with only a few clicks of the mouse along the information superhighway of the internet.

Thus, another cute (and ill-founded) global warming scare story bites the dust.

Energy Dept. to Underwrite 7 Wind Projects - NYTimes.com

The federal government is stepping up its efforts to kick-start the offshore wind industry by awarding $28 million in grants to seven projects that are developing varying kinds of power-generation technology.

Climate Depot | Fairdinkum Radio

13.12.12 Leon is joined by Marc Morano of Climate Depot as they discuss the wash up from the UN Climate Change talks at Doha. They discuss the aims of a desperate oligarchy of Scientific Elitist that aim to take control of all recourse's, energy and ultimately you. They look at some of the recent propaganda fro Mathew England, the ABC and the BBC. Your movements, your energy use, your life is to be a highly monitored, and controlled by the scientific bureaucratic elite.

Can “Global Warming’s Six Americas” become a melting pot for meaningful action? | Climate Science Watch

Maibach suggests mobilizing the roughly 1,300 local TV weather forecasters to lead on climate change messaging.

'Unscientific' claims about global warming mar Marine Week advert

it got worse. The ad went on to blame global warming for upsetting the phytoplankton. At this point, the text of the ad floated off with Alice into Wonderland. It said: “The increase in surface temperature over Antarctica from climate change is having a catastrophic knock-on effect – depleting our phytoplankton stock, melting the Antarctic ice sheet and causing an alarming reduction in all marine life.”

This powerful ad speaks volumes about the climate-change deniers in the Republican Party - New Philadelphia, OH - The Times-Reporter

One almost (but not really) hopes that the homes of some of these idiots were among those laid waste by Hurricane Sandy or any of the other recent weather anomalies attributable to climate change.

European Parliament committee backs 30% emission cuts by 2020 | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change

Proposals for the EU to adopt a more ambitious emissions reduction target of 30% at the UN climate change talks have been backed by the European Parliament’s environmental committee.

Pachauri Wins The Nobel Prize For North Carolina State University | Real Science

2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner is ISE’s very own Dr. Rajendra Pachauri

Naomi Klein: Communism to save windmills | JunkScience.com

“[A truly populist agenda] also means not just more renewable power but democratic community control over those projects.”

Britain Shivers In October « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

UK mean temperature for the month was 8.2C, which was 1.3C colder than average, and makes it the coldest October since 1993 and the 7th coldest in the last 50 years.

C3: Global Warming? Not So Much, HadCRUT Confirms

The meme that global warming is producing extreme climate change and more severe weather events just does not hold up when the data evidence is scrutinized - over the last 15 years (180 months through August 31, 2012), the HadCRUT global temperature trend continues to be of global cooling (-0.12°C per century)

HADSST2 Southern Hemisphere Aug 2012 – Cooling For 15 Years | sunshine hours

Using data from the Climate Research Unit of the UEA , it appears sea surface temperatures may explain Antarctic Sea Ice at record levels.

SST in the southern hemisphere have a cooling trend of -0.068C / decade.over the last 15 years.

Who is ... Bjørn Lomborg? | The Copenhagen Post | The Danish News in English

His book was deemed to be scientifically dishonest, but Lomborg himself wasn’t in any trouble, as they figured he didn’t have enough expertise within that area to be deliberately falsifying facts.

What are blogs good for anyways? | Climate Etc.

JC comment: A few additional comments addressing what I think blogs are good for. Blogs allow for much more rapid discussion of breaking science than the conventional method of conference presentation, journal publication, and subsequent comments in the journal. Not only do blogs engage a wider range of scientists than the say a specialty conference, but they also engage the public on current research. There is also an increasing tendency to use climate blogs for propaganda. Propaganda is pretty much the mission for ClimateDepot, but stealth propaganda is becoming increasingly apparent on the ‘science’ blogs, as revealed by the recent SkS hack of their Forum.

A better explanation for the end of ice ages « Tallbloke's Talkshop

The standard explanation – increased co2, is a non starter.

NASA discovers “an Amazon (phytoplankton) rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert” – Must be caused by AGW! | Watts Up With That?

Maybe NASA should stick to Aeronautics and Space.

New Zealand dismissed climate change sceptics - Telegraph

New Zealand's High Court on Friday dismissed a challenge launched by climate change sceptics against a government research agency's finding that the temperature had risen in the past century.

Owen Paterson's climate change problem: cock-up or conspiracy? | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The new environment secretary's first statement fails to rebut accusations that he is a climate change sceptic

What do you do when climate change drops out of politics? Whatever you can | Grist

Like Rachel Hope. Hope is a 41-year-old member of Pissed-Off Polar Bears, an organization you’ve never heard of as she appears to constitute about 33 percent of the membership. She flew from Los Angeles to Tampa, where she began a hunger strike to raise awareness around climate change. Now in Charlotte, she’s on her eighth day without eating. For the strike to end, Hope issued a bunch of … optimistic demands — TV networks have to report on methane release and phytoplankton die-off, the New York Times has to fire Andy Revkin, and Obama has to call for climate action in his big convention speech.

Do greenhouse gases warm the planet by 33°C? Jinan Cao checks the numbers. « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Jinan Cao has been dissecting the nature of the greenhouse effect and a key calculation that I normally just accept without questioning. This will set a few pigeons loose, but it will be interesting to see where they land. The claims analyzed here are the oft repeated ones that the Earth’s greenhouse effect already warms us by 33°C and that a doubling of CO2 directly causes a 1.1°C rise (that’s with no feedbacks taken into account).

Jinan points out that these numbers, repeated as “fact”, are merely a result of misuse of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation. If Earth is not a perfect black body, but has an emissivity of 0.7 (as satellites suggest), then the temperature of the planet’s surface without any greenhouse effect would not be -18°C, but more like 5°C. That would mean the entire warming due to the greenhouse effect is only around 10°C, not the more impressive 33°C that is usually claimed. It means the greenhouse effect is probably less important than implied.

Now it's Revkin vs "Pissed off polar bears"

“Pissed off polar bears” demand I stop covering...

[Revkin] “Pissed off polar bears”
demand I stop covering global warming because I’m “completely out of
step with the vast majority of climate scientists.” Higher on list than
Fox News even. Guess they should also demand that the AAAS and National Academy of Sciences seek the return of the four awards they’ve given for my climate reporting over the last three decades.
And then they might want to take a second look at the science that underpins their top two demands related to Arctic methane and ocean phytoplankton.

PolitiFact Ohio | Convention billboard touts John Kasich's view of climate change to GOP delegates

But for context, Nichols said there is a little more to Kasich thoughts on global warming.

"He has said this several times but what is usually omitted is what is on the back-end of what he has said," Nichols said. "Each time he says it he has added, ‘How big is this? I don’t know. Should we overreact to this? No.’"

Author of climate change report speaking at Ridgewood library - NorthJersey.com

According to a press release, “Trenberth will discuss the observations and science of climate change caused by human activity, and the link between extreme weather and climate change.”

Twitter / billmckibben: Climate activists start fast ...

Climate activists start fast to last thru DNC convention because nobody ever mentions the polar bear in the room http://www.pissedoffpolarbears.com

Pissed-Off Polar Bears Home

2— The same TV network news shows listed above must, during a weekday evening broadcast, report on the danger posed by the nearly 50% phytoplankton die-off in the world’s warming oceans, and must include that half of the Earth’s oxygen is produced by phytoplankton.
3—The New York Times must reassign Andrew Revkin off of its DotEarth column. He has a consistent record of casting doubt upon climate science, which is fine, he can write what he wants, but as the nation’s paper of record, the Times has irresponsibly given someone completely out of step with the vast majority of climate scientists a disproportionate voice and unmerited credibility in the nation’s climate dialogue.
4—The American people must recognize the toxic role Fox News is playing in keeping our country from having an honest dialogue about climate change. So, except for the few states wherein boycotts are illegal, people must boycott any business that displays Fox News to its patrons.

“Arctic Ice Hits Record Low!” shout global warming activists

How come they don’t mention that Antarctic ice is GROWING?

Arctic Sea Ice Above 2007 at National Ice Center « sunshine hours

My only concern is that the news only reports the microwave results, and ignores the equally valid NIC index. As of today NIC shows artic ice extent tracking slightly above 2007.

Dumping iron at sea can bury carbon for centuries, study shows | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Smetacek's team added seven tonnes of iron sulphate to the ocean near Antarctica, where iron levels are extremely low. The addition of the missing nutrient prompted a massive bloom of phytoplankton to begin growing within a week. As the phytoplankton, mostly species of diatom, began to die after three weeks, they sank towards the ocean floor, taking the carbon they had incorporated with them.
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Smetacek said ocean iron fertilisation could bury at most 1 gigatonne of CO2 per year compared to annual emissions of 8-9Gt, of which 4Gt accumulates in the atmosphere.

Average Chinese person's carbon footprint now equals European's | Environment | guardian.co.uk

total Chinese CO2 emissions are now around 80% higher than those of America. This widening gap reflects a 9% increase in total emissions in China in 2011, driven mainly by rising coal use, compared with a 2% decline in the US.

Twitter / Amy_NJ: USDA Sec Vilsack on whethe ...

USDA Sec Vilsack on whether climate change is causing droughts: "I'm not a scientist so I'm not going to opine as to the cause of this."

Twitter / RyanMaue: Even climate scientists re ...

Even climate scientists recognize next 20-years, AGW signal won't emerge from noise...

How’s the weather, America? July 18 edition | Grist

It’s also hot in Alaska!

July 14, 2012: It is the coldest July on record, so far: Weather | Alaska news at adn.com

It's not in your head: The National Weather Service says that so far this is the coldest July on record in Anchorage.

Union of Concerned Scientists Admits It Was Wrong - Hit & Run : Reason.com

So the question remains: What about getting the UCS to stop its denialism with to the scientific consensus with regard to biotech crops?

US conservationist to tell his stories - Carbon News

American conservation biologist Guy McPherson is to visit New Zealand to talk about global warming and the world’s decline in energy resources.

McPherson is unequivocal on the issue of global warming and the role capitalism plays, saying “we are headed sooner than most believe to a planet that is uninhabitable by humans unless we almost immediately terminate the industrial economy."

Plankton Bloom in Arctic Signals Major Climate Change Impact

Phytoplankton form the base of the Arctic food web, affecting the health and numbers of wildlife from fish and birds to polar bears.

Feature: “ Climate change can be an opportunity for Africa ” | VibeGhana.com

[Q] What if negotiators fail to agree on a suitable successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to curb emissions of the “greenhouse gases” that harm the earth’s ozone layer?

Naidoo: The answer is simple: They then will be admitting that governments and political leaders are sleep walking us into a crisis of epic proportions, putting the future and lives of our children and grandchildren in jeopardy and great danger.

Making the poor feel cold is the big green idea | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Former Environment Minister Graham Richardson still doesn’t realise the whole point of Labor’s global warming policies is to produce exactly what disturbs him

Joe Bastardi Responds To CNN Hysterics | Real Science

HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY SAY THERE IS A TIPPING POINT, WHEN THE DATA IS GOING THE OTHER WAY!

The carbon crunch is only 21 days away | Herald Sun

The tax is expected to reap more than $24 billion over three years

NASA: Increase in CO2 could indirectly lessen effects of global warming | The Capitol Column

NASA researchers say microscopic plants could serve as a solution to increasingly high rates of CO2, one of the key contributors to global warming. The team of scientists suggest that the large quantities of phytoplankton, recently discovered growing under sea ice, could pull in large amounts of the greenhouse gas, possibly curtailing any potential consequences of global warming.

...While the results of the study are likely alarming for climate scientists, the team noted that the presence of the plants could ultimately lead to a thriving fishing industry and additional benefits. Various species of phytoplankton form the crucial diet for many marine organisms and some whales. They make up the base of the entire Arctic food chain, supporting fish, walrus, seabirds, which feed the sparse populations in the region.The startling findings, made last July during a cruise of the NASA-sponsored ICESCAPE research project, overturn biological expectations about what might be driving the frigid ecosystem that surrounds the disintegrating ice pack every spring, say researchers. The results of the study could further complicate the international response to the threat poised by global warming, which has divided both the scientific community and the policy makers worldwide.

The 10 big global warming lies « Brain Cramps

We're not sure if we are causing the planet to cool or warm, but it doesn't matter, either way we want a totalitarian world government to which all will offer carbon indulgences!

#1 Polar Bears (and Penguins)

Cowichan News Leader Pictorial - Busted carbon busters state peaceful protest got its point across

The 12 men and one woman handcuffed by White Rock Mounties were taken from the tracks at around 6 p.m.

They were arrested for contempt of court, but charged at White Rock's detachment with railway trespassing, fined $115, then released.

Climate Change Threatens Crucial Marine Algae - AlertNet

UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 8 (IPS) - Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, sunlight is to kill an unknown number of ocean phytoplankton, the planet's most important organism, a new study reports this week.Not only are phytoplankton, also known as marine algae, a vital component in the ocean's food chain, they generate at least half of the oxygen we breathe.

In the not so distant future, sunlight, the very source of life for phytoplankton, will likely begin to kill them because of the ocean's increasing acidity, researchers from China and Germany have learned.

How to Scrub Carbon From 40,000 Products at Once - Bloomberg

We have one supplier, APS Salads, which has a very clever anaerobic digestion plant. It takes the tomato leaves, which was a cost in the past, and it crunches them up and puts them into this anaerobic digester and it produces a whole series of things of value. It produces natural gas, which it then uses to power its fleet of lorries. It produces electricity, which is used in the plant. It produces heat and CO2, which goes into the greenhouse to help grow the tomatoes.

Settled science: Coal plants are the cause of, and the solution to, global warming

Do Aerosols Only Add to Global Warming? 2 Views - NYTimes.com

Yet there is a third factor, not widely recognized, said Natalie Mahowald, a climate researcher at Cornell University and author of the article in Science. Some artificial aerosols containing iron, nitrogen and phosphorus are fertilizers that settle on the planet and stimulate plant growth on land and phytoplankton in the ocean. Those plants take up more carbon dioxide and can thereby possibly mitigate global warming.

It is not the first time that Catch-22 questions have been raised about climate science and the atmosphere. Some people argue, for example, that eliminating coal-fired power as an energy source could have drawbacks because the pollutants emitted would no longer be there to block sunlight and slow warming.

To Alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems. - YouTube

[Homer Simpson]

Global warming blamed for smaller species - Warmist Seth Borenstein

Stanford biologist Terry Root, an expert in climate change, said the study's conclusions "seem kind of far-fetched".

Climate change is shrinking our food: study - News - Mail & Guardian Online

Some of the most worrying changes are at the bottom of the food chain, especially in the ocean, where tiny phytoplankton and calcium-building creatures are dwindling in size due to acidification and the reduced capacity of warmer water to hold oxygen and nutrients.

The 10 Biggest Dinosaurs - The Largest Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs and Plesiosaurs

Better known as "SuperCroc," the 40-foot-long Sarcosuchus weighed about 8 tons--about twice as long, and ten times as heavy, as the biggest crocodiles alive today.

Cholera outbreaks 'not caused' by warmer seas - AlertNet

[SANTIAGO] The conclusion that cholera outbreaks are linked to global warming has been challenged by a study that has found that warmer sea temperatures that correlate with the outbreaks do not cause them.

Outbreaks follow the blooming of phytoplankton which is associated with warmer seas in the Bay of Bengal — but these blooms are driven by river discharges rather than warmer seas, say authors of the study, published last week (3 August) in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Previous studies have suggested that periods of warmer sea temperature could be one of the conditions for promoting the disease, such as in the recent outbreak in Haiti, and that such knowledge could help set up an early warning system.

But it was not clear why this happens, as phytoplankton, microscopic plants that feed tiny crustaceans to which Vibrio cholerae bacteria attach, thrive in cold, not warm, water.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Remember the scary "single most-important finding in climate science last year": "a sharp decline" in phytoplankton? Nevermind

The MSM was awash with alarmist reports last year that global warming had caused "a sharp drop" in ocean phytoplankton since the 1950's, with one newspaper stating "the single most-important finding in climate science last year was a 40 percent decline in the ocean's phytoplankton caused by global warming." A new paper published in Nature finds that multiple data sets instead show an increase in ocean phytoplankton over the past eight decades. Don't hold your breath for any retractions of the alarmist claims in the MSM, nor any stories reporting the good news.

Antarctica Gains Ice From The Bottom Up | The Resilient Earth

These new findings indicate that water from areas of basal melting actually migrate to areas of basal freezing, something not accounted for by current ice sheet models. To scientists' surprise, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is getting thicker from the bottom up.

Salt Lake City man among skiers found dead after weeklong search | The Salt Lake Tribune

Walker Pannell Kuhl, of Salt Lake, and Gregory Seftick, of Columbia Falls, Mont., were buried under 13 feet of snow in Garnet Canyon, said park spokeswoman Jackie Skaggs.
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An April 16 storm brought heavy, wet snow to an area that had already seen record snowfall, officials said. Search efforts had to be suspended last Thursday and Friday because of a storm that brought 3 feet of new snow and reduced visibility to almost none.

Global warming `affecting food chain, carbon cycling in Arctic Ocean`

http://www.sify.com/news/global-warming-affecting-food-chain-carbon-cycling-in-arctic-ocean-news-international-lddqaijiiji.html

Phytoplankton blooms stimulate production of zooplankton, microscopic marine animals, which become a food source for fish.

Global warming climate change science: The world is warming and waiting for science - OrlandoSentinel.com

Perhaps the single most-important finding in climate science last year was a 40 percent decline in the ocean's phytoplankton caused by global warming.

No so worried about warming that they’ll pay to stop it | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Of course Australians still believe man is heating the world. It’s just that half of them now don’t want to lift a finger to stop it
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This is a huge fall from three years ago, when a massive 77 per cent of people polled told Newspoll they’d love to pay more, and only 18 per cent said no.

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: Cancun Speeds up the end of Climate Hysteria

For NGOs, the end of the scam for many is an end of their number one revenue spinner. Christopher Booker sums it rather nicely “The global warming scare may have been fun for the children while it lasted. But the time has come for the joke to be declared well and truly over.” NGOs are however not expected to make a formal admission that their role in this scam is over. But it is only a matter of time their climate staff are given the pink slips, if at all it hasn’t happen already. Most of these redundant staff is unlikely to be re-assigned responsibilities as the scam taint has made them unemployable within the industry, as they become an embarrassment for both the organization and the entire sector.
It is apparent that for a long, long time, NGO advocacy on any issue is not going to have a cutting edge as questions are expected to be frequently raised on their judgement of issues and competence in engaging in issues that based on science or technology.

Climbing Out Of The Dark: Cancun, Who Are The Deniers Now?

Someone has to pull the plug on the climate scam. Funding needs to be rerouted to REAL pollution problems. Send those Sierra kids to Africa to dig water wells, at least then they will make up for all the pollution that exists because money has been diverted to third world despots.

Video: Arctic elegy: a lament for the disappearing ice - Telegraph

At a micro level, a warming Arctic Ocean has begun to recalibrate the planet’s carbon exchange by heating billions of lifeforms in the microbial soup at the bottom of the food web. These processes are improperly understood, and outcomes can be good as well as bad. A shifting phytoplankton population in an ice-free ocean may result in an abundance of fish, solving, at a stroke, the planetary protein deficit.

Global Warming FOIA Suit Against NASA Heats Up Again - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times

In court documents filed last night, the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues that NASA has gone out of its way to avoid turning over records that show the agency reverse-engineered temperature data to better make the case that the planet is becoming warmer.

Could you give up washing? | Environment | The Guardian

commentator Matthew Parris admitting he hadn't shampooed his hair for a decade

View Online - News

New research has found that the glaciers in Antarctica may contain nanoparticles of iron oxide which may be able to slow global warming.

Through the warming process causing glaciers and icebergs to melt, the iron oxide will be leached into the ocean and boost the growth of phytoplankton and as they photosynthesise they will remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which could slow global warming.