Eco taxes are nonsense if the earth isn’t warming | Daily Express

Mysteriously, anything can be produced as evidence of global warming – hot weather, cold weather, wet weather and dry.

Climate change has become a religion and any diversion from the orthodox view is pounced on as evidence of heretical wickedness.

- Bishop Hill blog - The latest from Pat Swords

It is like Animal Farm, the pigs decide and all the animals have to toil building windmills.

Channel Islands snow ‘worst in 24 years’ | Australian Climate Madness

From the Weather Isn’t Climate Department. I have relatives on the picturesque island of Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and they have just experienced the worst snow in decades. Jersey is close to the Normandy coast, and the maritime influence of the Atlantic ocean keeps winters generally mild.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Burglars busy planning 2013 Earth Hour activities

De la Rosa reminded everyone on the danger of attracting thieves during the Earth Hour, citing previous cases of robbery, theft and burglary victimizing unattended houses where the inhabitants are all busy with their personal schedules.

Email 1944, Rob Wilson: "Interesting to note that many of the coral records utilised by Mike Mann also failed my screening procedure"

JunkScience.com

Commenter: Junior high class shown An Inconvenient Truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle, debate, then vote for TGGWS

Tom Nelson

[comment] My son's junior high school class was shown both, with the errata sheet for AIT distributed prior to the showing. The class debated them and voted for TGGWS.

It's not confusing, it's giving people opposing points of view to help them develop critical facilities.

Hottest year ever update: Snowfall, high winds close Interstate 94 in western Minnesota

StarTribune.com

With just a few days to go until spring, winter was preparing to hang on with the cold.

Power Line: "the publicly available evidence suggests that alarmist scientists have repeatedly committed fraud in research conducted and papers published that were paid for by United States taxpayers. It seems inconceivable that felonies have not been committed in connection with those frauds"

The Hockey Stick, Broken Again | Power Line

If this is not flat-out fraud–which, sadly, has come to typify the climate alarmism movement–then what is the justification for Marcott’s wholesale re-dating of samples? We are reminded of the NOAA/NCDC weather data on the U.S., which are routinely relied on by alarmists who claim that the last few years have been the warmest ever. In order to justify this assertion, NOAA has gone back and revised the data for prior decades. Instead of reporting temperatures for prior decades, like the 1930s, as it did at the time and for many years thereafter, NOAA has now changed those temperatures downward to support the politically-motivated claim that the last years of the 20th century were the warmest ever. If you look at NOAA data today for the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, etc., you will have no idea that the numbers NOAA now reports are not the ones that were measured by thermometers at the time.

In short, the global warming movement is corrupt to the core. Billions of dollars in government funding–I am too polite to say “bribes”–have bought not just the acquiescence but the eager collaboration of many scientists in a massive fraud. If Marcott wants to distinguish himself from fraudsters like Michael Mann, he has a great deal of explaining to do.

One more thought: the publicly available evidence suggests that alarmist scientists have repeatedly committed fraud in research conducted and papers published that were paid for by United States taxpayers. It seems inconceivable that felonies have not been committed in connection with those frauds. Are there not criminal statutes that prohibit the publication of fraudulent data in taxpayer-supported research? Eric Holder, obviously, will not pursue any such line of inquiry, but there must be state law enforcement authorities who could look into this question. Fraudsters like Bernie Madoff, for instance, have tried to hide the decline in the value of funds invested with them. But that is nothing compared to the fraud that the global warming alarmists have perpetrated.

Yet another blizzard for the Dakotas and Minnesota

http://iceagenow.info/2013/03/blizzard-dakotas-minnesota/

Intense cold and heavy snowfall in Himachal Pradesh, India

http://iceagenow.info/2013/03/intense-cold-heavy-snowfall-himachal-pradesh-india/

Global Warming Causing Sinkholes (Really??)

http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2013/03/global-warming-causing-sinkholes-really.html

Climate change cut from national curriculum for children up to 14

http://m.guardiannews.com/environment/2013/mar/17/climate-change-cut-national-curriculum

Hottest summer record in Australia? Not even close, says UAH satellite data

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/03/hottest-summer-record-in-australia-not-even-close-says-uah-satellite-data/
The satellite data shows that the summer of 2012-2013 was close to ordinary, compared with the entire satellite record going back to 1979. Not a record. Not even extreme?

Hiding the Decline: MD01-2421

http://climateaudit.org/2013/03/17/hiding-the-decline-the-md01-2421-splice
Since this series was strongly negative in the 20th century, its removal (together with the related removal of OCE326-GGC30 and the importation of medieval data) led to the closing uptick.

Coldest March In Iowa Since 1969

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/coldest-march-in-iowa-since-1969/

All Iowa Stations Set Their All-Time Record Maximum Prior To 1940

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/all-iowa-stations-set-their-all-time-record-maximum-prior-to-1940/

Climate Lottery- The Eighth Drawing- Lottery Numbers for Winter 2012/2013 | Weather Underground

I wonder if we will ever see in the future a “gotcha” set of three months when temperatures are below average for an entire season across the lower 48 states.

Partial roof collapse at Saskatoon strip mall | News Talk 650 CKOM

Heavy snow caused a partial roof collapse at a local strip mall Saturday afternoon.

$1 billion carbon tax bill behind bill hikes, says treasurer | Ipswich Queensland Times

A $1 billion carbon tax bill is behind rising electricity prices for homes and businesses in NSW, the State Government claims.

A treasury analysis for the financial year showed the bulk of carbon tax costs left NSW electricity customers facing an estimated $580 million bill through increased electricity prices.

Cold weather cancels Huskers' game - Omaha.com

The game did not reach the required minimum temperature to be played, according to Big Ten policy. The game will not be made up.

£1 Billion Green Tax For New Wind Farm Profits

The full extent of the profits to be made by wind farms in Britain can be spelt out for the first time.

India Ponders Tapping Massive Deposits Of Methane Hydrate

Tapping massive deposits of ‘fire ice’ methane hydrate can change India’s energy landscape

At climate change conference, Sanders leads call for action  : Rutland Herald Online

“Global warming is not only real, it is terribly real,” Sanders said. “It is the planetary crisis of our time. If we don’t get our act together, this planet will only get worse.”
...
Burlington native Steven Sahr moved to Vermont from New York two years ago. He attended the conference, he said, because climate change is “the issue of our time” and he is glad to live in a state that takes the issue so seriously.
“It’s so much larger than anything else,” he said. “Wars can be fought between one country and another, but this involves everyone (on the planet).”
...
McKay said snowfall has dramatically diminished since she was a kid and there are no more heavy snowstorms in March.

"Teach the Controversy" Comes to Climate Science: Scientific American

Multiple state legislatures are considering bills that would allow climate change denial to be taught in public schools
...
"We've heard stories of teachers showing a clip from 'An Inconvenient Truth' and a clip from 'The Great Global Warming Swindle,' and the students come away confused," McCaffrey said, referring to two documentary films that take completely opposite views on climate change. "That's not a good way to teach science."

Overheated planet update: Washington's cherry blossom peak may come two weeks later than last year

Cherry blossom peak bloom is hard to predict - WTOP.com

"I wouldn't be surprised if the peak bloom comes sometime between April 1 and April 7," [Meteorologist Mike Stinneford] says.

The average peak bloom date is April 4. The last time peak bloom came later than April 1, was 2005, when peak bloom was April 9.

Last year's peak bloom was March 20.

[Front-page story, March 2012]:  Could cherry blossoms one day be blooming in winter? - The Washington Post

According to the more dire global warming scenario the scientists used — one with unchecked global population growth — the District’s cherry trees could be blooming 29 days earlier by 2080 and 13 days earlier by 2050.

Record CO2 Increase Brings Fifty Degree Drop In Temperature | Real Science

Last year, experts told us that man-made CO2 made Midwestern March weather warm. They also tell us that the past year has seen a record increase in CO2. This explains the fifty degree drop in temperatures since last year.

Climate change significant challenge facing Libya | Toronto Star

If new government doesn’t address the issues related to climate change, Libya could see more turmoil, say Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell.

Why Do People Believe Scientifically Untrue Things? | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

While acknowledging that a substantial percentage of Democrats don’t believe in human evolution or man-made global warming either, Mooney took comfort in the fact that “considerably fewer Democrats than Republicans get the science wrong on these issues.”

Local Councils Hire ‘Eco’ Snoopers | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Councils across the UK are spending millions and employing hundreds of ‘low carbon’ officers to fight global warming – which now appears not to pose an imminent threat – at the same time as making sweeping cuts to children’s services, the arts and the elderly.

The councils have increased their spending on salaries of climate change staff by 34 per cent since the 2008 crash, almost three times the rate of inflation, while grants from central government were slashed by 12 per cent.

Don't miss this Steve McIntyre comment on the Marcott hockey stick: "Imagine what Gavin Schmidt would have written if Loehle had redated a core by 1000 years. He’d have run Loehle out of town"

The Marcott-Shakun Dating Service « Climate Audit

[Steve McIntyre comment] Richard Telford’s comments are always interesting, but in this case, I’m 99.99% sure that he’s holding ranks while privately gnashing his teeth. There’s no possible way that he would endorse Marcott et al’s wholesale redating of specialist cores.

Using CALIB 6.0.1 consistently is one thing, but Marcott et al have done something much different. Richard’s very mild disapproval of the redating of MD95-2011 should speak volumes. But it’s foolish to expect more than that in public discussion. Privately, I’m sure that he would ream Marcott et al out if he had a chance.

Imagine if Craig Loehle or I had produced a reconstruction making a similar re-dating of cores dated by specialists. We’d have had our heads handed to us by the specialist community. Imagine what Gavin Schmidt would have written if Loehle had redated a core by 1000 years. He’d have run Loehle out of town.   [Via Popular Technology]

Bummer: Planet-healing hydropower allegedly does "incredible damage to the ecosystem"

Climate emerges as hot issue in Columbia River Treaty talks with Canada

Rachael Paschal Osborn, an attorney with the Center for Environmental Law and Policy in Spokane, Wash., said historical records made it clear that planners knew the dams would hurt salmon but decided to proceed anyway.

“It has done incredible damage to the ecosystem,” she said...

Henry Waxman: Threat of CO2-induced bad weather more important than dealing with our 16,718 billion dollar deficit

Energy policy: Waxman fights for mic to question Obama on climate; president promises pipeline decision this year

Waxman acknowledged that House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra, a fellow Californian, had admonished him because other members were unable to speak. But he said he felt that climate change needed to be brought up and that the president was receptive because Waxman made more of a statement than asked a question.

"Sometimes this issue gets pushed aside," he said. "And I think it is more important an issue, and will be looked at years from now as more important an issue, than budget sequestration, how to deal with the deficit, and other things that occupy our time."

UK farmers face disaster as 'perfect storm' strikes

Farming faces a perfect storm. Appalling weather – 2012 was the second wettest year on record in England – has coincided with disease in livestock, including bovine TB and Schmallenberg in sheep, which causes birth defects.

"Fears of British Super-Drought After Record Low Rainfall in Winter," UK Guardian Reports | ThinkProgress

[Joe Romm, Feb. 15, 2012] Heat and aridity together make for increasingly brutal global-warming-type droughts

Climate Change Advocacy Officer, CARE International

The Climate Change Advocacy Officer is responsible for supporting and coordinating climate change related advocacy and policy activities in CARE that are active under the priority programming themes of CARE and those of the new CARE climate change strategy (CCCS) and PECCN.
...It is essential that the post is based in a region with good international travel access...The post must be willing to travel up to 30% of the time.

Chesapeake bay: Skeptics abound as Md. promotes poultry waste-to-energy scheme -- 03/15/2013 -- www.eenews.net

Some see the plan creating new headaches. Farmers are fretting about what it might do to the fertilizer market, and environmentalists see it turning a water pollution problem into air pollution.

"It's another avoidance technique," said Scott Edwards, co-director of Food & Water Watch's justice project. "It's not clean energy. Anytime you're burning waste, to call that part of our renewable clean energy portfolio is a huge mistake."

Parsing Emails « the Air Vent

So I spent several hours today writing scripts which parse the emails. I was hoping for continuations of some of the more interesting conversations we are familiar with but so far have found little more than a group of advocates for catastrophic climate change, doing what they do. They fully believe that the fact that proxy data doesn’t match temperature, in no way calls into question the randomly selected proxy data. Some question whether it is it ok to paste data on the end of a series. Still there are others who advocates of more study, stating that the “act-now” advocates are not honest scientists. Again, I’m reminded of the organized and funded attacks against anyone who notices the problems with their work. It is really shocking to read how they followed through with attacks against those who don’t fall in line. Mann in particular, is thin skinned and his angry attacks on other advocates not pushing his version of history, pressure those with little backbone to play both sides of the fence.

Arctic Ice Above Normal This Week? | Real Science

The US Navy is forecasting an increase in ice around Newfoundland and the Barents Sea this week, which would likely push Arctic ice area above the 30 year mean.

Carbon Tax Fight Looms - Phil Kerpen - [page]

So the bills have been introduced and Obama is readying his grassroots army. This is looking increasingly real, and the economic stakes are enormous.

Let’s start with the pain at the pump. The Boxer-Sanders bill taxes carbon dioxide at $20 per metric ton, which works out to 17.8 cents a gallon of gasoline. So it basically would double the existing federal gas tax. (Which of course begs the question – don’t we already tax carbon enough?) It gets much worse; Boxer-Sanders automatically raises the tax 5.6 percent per year for 10 years, enough to double the tax to 30 cents. And the tax would also hit your electric bill, of course, and industrial energy users would be hit hard.

Is Global Warming Causing More Snow and Less Snow at the Same Time? — The Patriot Post

In the Woody Allen comedy classic, "Bananas," there is a scene where the CIA is sending US troops to fight on both sides of a revolution because they're afraid of being on the wrong side.

While many of us laughed at such things then because of the absurdity of it, we find that the same kind of strategy is being used by AGW propagandists that seek to claim every idea they have as the correct one.

Twitter / billmckibben: In Namibia, simultaneous drought ...

In Namibia, simultaneous drought and flood provides 'a litmus test' for dealing with climate change http://www.newera.com.na/articles/50874/A-test-of-how-we-are-dealing-with-climate-change …

Another Climate Science Scandal Brewing? | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Marcott, Shakun, Clark and Mix did not use the published dates for ocean cores, instead substituting their own dates.

Climategate 3.0 bombshell: MetOffice rebukes UEA for claiming global warming causes extreme weather

JunkScience.com

[1999] ...on the real crazy waether stuff (gales, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes etc) there seems to be little robust evidence either of any change to date, or of a significant change in the future.
I hope I’m not being too precious about this! but I think we need to give the public the right message – even if its a load of unsexy boring uncertainties.
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Geoff Jenkins

Head, Climate Prediction Programme

Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

Met. Office

CFACT's new billboard takes on polar bear propaganda!

The global warming left would like us to think that polar bear numbers are declining. The exact opposite is true. The polar bear population has multiplied by five during the last half century. Polar bears are thriving and multiplying. Time to put this bit of propaganda to bed. Want to drive a warmist bonkers? SHARE the real facts about polar bears!

The great green con no. 1: The hard proof that finally shows global warming forecasts that are costing you billions were WRONG all along | Mail Online

No, the world ISN'T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that's making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade with your money? Well... what do YOU think?

The Mail on Sunday today presents irrefutable evidence that official predictions of global climate warming have been catastrophically flawed.

- Bishop Hill blog - Rose in the Mail

David Rose, writing in the Mail on Sunday, has penned a long feature on the temperature slowdown and what this implies about UK energy policy. I don't know about you, but the Mail on Sunday's willingness to publish science-heavy articles of this kind really should be celebrated.

There are plenty of scientific big-hitters in there too: the article features quotes by Judy Curry, Myles Allen, James Annan and Piers Forster, so one would think that it would be hard for anyone to dispute that Rose is presenting a legitimate view of the science...