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Polar bears cavorting with ABC brown bears not supported by geological and fossil evidence | polarbearscienceI still think, as I suggested in an earlier post here, that it is more plausible that both brown bears and polar bears retain some genetic material from their common ancestor, which makes it look like the two species have hybridized. In other words, hybridization may not be required to explain the genetic similarity of ABC-type brown bears and polar bears.
Scene - Blogs - Inhofe fires back at Greedy climatechange filmmaker | Tulsa World"Ever since my first speech on this topic, I have found it astonishing how organizations have credited me capable of singlehandedly bringing about the end of the world," Inhofe said in his statement addressing his placement in Rosebraugh's film.
"I have constantly defended credible, objective science. What I've sought to expose is the corrupting influences that subvert science for political purposes. Good policy must be based on good science free from bias, whatever its conclusion."
Wait, What? Save Arctic Wildlife: By Shooting it? | hauntingthelibraryBut if these brilliant schemes don’t work (duh . . . you think?) then there’s always the option to save the polar bears from global warming by killing them. That’s right. We could always put a bullet in the head of those polar bears befre the global warming gets to them. At least that way when sceptics argue that polar bear populations are increasing not declining you could make SURE that you could prove them wrong by killing more bears.
Global warming helps farmers in Greenland Arctic valleys | Oman ObserverSome Inuit hunters are finding reindeer fatter than ever thanks to more grazing on this frozen tundra, and for some, there is no longer a need to trek hours to find wild herbs.
Welcome to climate change in Greenland, where locals say longer and warmer summers mean the country can grow the kind of crops unheard of years ago.
Buzzkill? How Climate Change Could Eventually End Coffee - US News and World Report"Coffee is the canary in the coal mine for climate change," says Ric Rhinehart, executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. "If you can't think about the long term risk for planetary impacts, think about the short term risk for your coffee. Know that a day without coffee is potentially around the corner."
Dec 2012: It's all so confusing: A day after Smithsonian.com told us that CO2 might wipe out our coffee supply, Bloomberg News tells us about record coffee harvests, "abundant supply", and a "global glut"The descent of Mann’s legal standing | Watts Up With That?I think with his public figure admission, combined with the recognized first amendment right to satire and parody of public figures, he just took his two legal cases out back and shot them dead.
Is there an actual tipping point for global warming? - Salon.comA new paper published recently in Trends in Ecology & Evolution by Barry Brook of the University of Adelaide in Australia and colleagues argues that there is no real grounding to the idea that the world could display true tipping-point characteristics. The only way such a massive shift could occur, Brook says, is if ecosystems around the world respond to human forcings in essentially identical ways.
To Paris, with the warmists’ thanks for your contribution | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogReader Enough is Enough sees more of your money being burned at the altar of global warming - money spent most on bureaucrats enjoying lots of lovely international travel:
China’s Longyuan nets $120 mln from carbon trading in 2012 - News - Point CarbonBEIJING, March 27 (Reuters Point Carbon) - China’s Hong Kong-listed power company Longyuan earned 742 million RMB ($120 million) from selling carbon credits in 2012, a slight drop year-on-year despite a big increase in projects that produce the credits as market prices plunged.
Farmers fight cow farts to protect the climate | EnvironmentThe UN has called for a tax on cattle emissions in order to reduce the environmental impact of cattle breeding.
...across [France], participating farmers are already seeing results. So far, The national scheme has managed to prevent 8,365 tonnes of carbon from entering the earth's atmosphere.
A Hot Topic: Climate Change Coming To Classrooms : NPRBy the time today's K-12 students grow up, the challenges posed by climate change are expected to be severe and sweeping. Now, for the first time, new nationwide science standards due out soon will recommend that U.S. public school students learn about the climatic shift taking place.
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"We've heard stories of students who learn about climate change," he says. "Then they go home and tell their parents, and everybody's upset because the parents are driving their kids to the soccer game, and the kids are feeling guilty about being in the car and contributing to this global problem."
Confidence In Green Investment Crumbles [WSJ] Given all the interest in protecting the environment from mankind’s rapid advance, you’d think this might be the best time ever to invest in renewable energy and the Next Big Green Thing. Large parts of green-tech investment look like the torched and salted fields left behind by Roman conquerors: barren, lifeless—and bereft of a return on capital. Put another way: In some areas, if you aren’t already investor road kill, you’re likely the hedgehog in the headlights about to join your maker.
Cold snap will put more farmers in distress, says charityTHE Prince’s Countryside Fund has warned that the current cold snap and late arrival of spring will add to the economic woes of farmers already under pressure from a year of bad weather.
The charity has authorised £219,000 from its emergency relief fund to go to farming help organisations during the Easter period.
Snow and cold weather is contributing to a shortage of forage and forcing farmers to buy in expensive feed to see their livestock through.
EU energy chief calls for no new taxes as talks begin on 2030 climate targets | Environment | guardian.co.ukThere should be no new taxes on energy within the EU, and current taxes should not be raised, if prices are to be kept competitive with rivals fuelled by cheap shale gas in the US, the EU's energy chief has told the Guardian.
Climate Crisis Apocalypse - But Not Quite Yet :: The Market OracleThe global warming circus act, by early 2013, in one of the northern hemisphere's coldest winters for 50 years is drifting like a lost ship ever further towards its inevitable fate of simply being dumped in the memory hole of Fake Crises. Global warming? What was that?
Weather Forecast: Record lows set in Orlando and Daytona BeachORLANDO -- Winter-like conditions have set new record low temperatures in Orlando and Daytona Beach and tied Melbourne's record low.
In Orlando an overnight low of 40 degrees was set, breaking the 1979 low of 42 degrees. In Melbourne it got down to a record low 39 degrees. The previous record low was 43 degrees in 2006. Daytona Beach got down to 39 degrees, tying a 2006 record low.
Wall Street Journal’s Crony Capitalist Conference Turns SourTimes have changed since the Wall Street Journal held its first “ECO:nomics—Creating Environmental Capital” conference at the super-swanky Bacara Resort in Santa Barbara. I was there in 2008 (but, alas, stayed at the Best Western in downtown Santa Barbara) when several hundred investors and corporate CEOs listened to leading crony capitalists, including Jeff Immelt of GE, James Rogers of Duke Energy, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical, and John Doerr of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers (where Al Gore was also a partner), smugly explain how they were going to strike it rich off the backs of consumers and taxpayers with green energy subsidies and mandates, federal loan guarantees, and the higher energy prices that would make renewable energy competitive with coal, oil, and natural gas once cap-and-trade was enacted.
This year’s sixth annual conference, which I didn’t attend, was also held at the Bacara Resort, but the mood was apparently different
Wind Industry: Killing 200,000 birds per year is ‘most benign’ | JunkScience.comIf held accountable like the oil industry, wind would be fined at least $7.3 billion annually for bird kills.
Why Environmentalism Looks Goofy and Awkward | Planet3.0The turnout to the [anti-Keystone] demonstrations is smallish and uncompelling.
The Climate Science Caricatures…Jyllands-Posten Features Massive 4 Full Pages Of Climate Science Skepticism!Huge doubt over claims made by alarmist climate scientists is now spreading to leading Scandinavian publications, the Jyllands-Posten in Denmark for example
Stossel Show: Schmidt, Spencer, & Ridley on Global Warming « Roy Spencer, PhDJohn Stossel interviewed me and Gavin Schmidt yesterday at the FoxNews studios in Manhattan, and I’m told he will interview Matt Ridley today, for tomorrow nights Stossel Show (9 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 28, Fox Business Channel) entitled “Green Tyranny”. As is often the case, the show might air on FoxNews Channel once or twice this weekend.
Looking for a global warming debate, Stossel said they asked 10 natural climate change deniers (sorry, my term, I couldn’t help myself), and only Gavin took them up on it. Scott Denning was also willing, but unavailable.
Points Leading Conservative Voices Most Often Make on Climate Change | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Mediamost experts agree that the weight of the scientific evidence seems squarely in the liberals’ corner.
A cold spring is tough on crops - Dealer Update Articles - Ag ProfessionalA cold spring is not an enjoyable experience for farmers who pride themselves on being first to plant wheat in the fall and corn in the spring. During the past few years these courageous planters have been fortunate to get warmer than normal spring weather, but this year it seems that the tables may have turned.
Polar Bear Blog – Fox Versus FoxAdult polar bears tend to only eat the fat of young seals, essentially peeling them like bananas and scooping out the best parts.
Gaia [hearts] Fracking: Lovelock a supporter | JunkScience.com“More recently he has come out in support of fracking, not as a solution to our energy problems but as a way of buying time. Lovelock favours these technologies on pragmatic grounds, but there are deeper reasons why his view of them is at odds with that of most contemporary greens.”
Caroline Flint MP: Ministers cooking the books on energy bills | Tallbloke's TalkshopMinisters have been accused of cooking the books on household energy bills, after figures obtained by Labour revealed that the Government’s claim that energy bills will be £166 lower in 2020 is only true if people splash out thousands of pounds on a new appliances such as TVs, fridge-freezers, washing machines, dishwashers and gas-combi boilers.
As freezing Britain faces a grave energy crisis, ministers unveil more green gimmicks and eco taxes | Mail Online[Christopher Booker] So, how did we come to such a terrifying pass?
There is one reason above all why our energy policy has gone so disastrously off the rails - and it lies in the conviction shared by politicians of all major parties that we must do all we can to save the planet by reducing CO² emissions.
UK Suffers Deepest Snow Since……………..1979! While varied alarmists, from rent seeking “scientists” to marxist environmental charities, have been attempting to blame the latest cold weather on global warming, Paul Hudson offers a bit of perspective.
U. of Washington Course: Science Students Learning ‘to Tell Stories’ | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The MediaDoughton’s article also reports a science writing teacher, Deborah Illman, offering a word of caution to scientists: “A mistake many scientists make is to view the public as empty vessels, waiting to be filled with the knowledge that will inspire them to line up behind the same agendas as scientists,” Doughton wrote in paraphrasing Illman. And that’s the case even if it’s only to support funding for scientific research.
In reality, “people make decisions based on many factors, including emotions and values. Scientists who approach public outreach with a strident agenda can turn people off,” Doughton wrote.
Hey Katharine: You can run, but you can't hide.
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ClimateBites - "A Climate For Change" Katharine Hayhoe
She's also a gifted communicator, with a calm clear voice and a knack for stripping things down to the nub and saying it in language everybody can understand.
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With her husband, a minister, Hayhoe co-authored a book for evangelical Christians. Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions is a must read for anybody addressing this important community or looking for clear explanations in plain language. Particularly revealing is the beginning, where the authors bridge the cultural divide and address the stereotypes that block communication between evangelicals and the science community.
Testimony of global warming skeptic irks some senators | Q13 FOX News
Easterbrook argued that the planet’s temperature has fluctuated up and down over several hundred years and that for the last decade the Earth has actually been cooling.
“There’s no correlation between CO2 going up and global warming,” he said.
State Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Island County, who helped sponsor the recent climate bill, was clearly frustrated by Easterbrook’s testimony.
“Ninety-five percent of the peer-reviewed data very clearly states [?!] climate change is real, it’s happening, it’s human caused,” Ranker said. “To have a bold discussion about the facts is ridiculous.”
Real Pragmatism for Real Climate Change: Interview with Dr. John AbrahamMr. Watts, on the other hand, dismisses evidence that is counter to his viewpoint. That is not scepticism--that is plain denial.
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He didn’t tell you that recently a Koch-funded study looked at this issue and concluded that the real climate scientists were right: locations of temperature sensors didn’t matter.
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He didn’t tell you that the vast majority of glaciers are losing ice, as are Greenland and Antarctica.
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Finally, it is likely that Sandy took an unusual turn westward because of pressure zones caused by the loss of Arctic ice. So, were it not for humans, Sandy may never have hit the US at all! It isn’t just me saying this, it is experts in the field. There are many articles that clearly show human emissions are increasing extreme weather events.
...Many people, Mr. Watts included, are committed to an ideology that precludes the ability to objectively view the science...scientists have ruled out the possibility that natural causes can explain what we are observing worldwide.
This Apex Predator Is Now a Cannibal—Thanks to Climate ChangeCrockford called polar bears a “conservation success story,” because hunting restrictions that began in 1973 helped increase the total population “from around 10,000 to between 20,000 and 25,000” today.
Sun News : Gov't-owned bank paid at least $30Gs to Al Gore's climate change charityOTTAWA - The Conservative government is in league with American climate change crusader Al Gore and the David Suzuki Foundation, QMI Agency has learned.
The government-owned Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has contributed at least $30,000 to Gore's Climate Reality Project Canada, which has its headquarters inside the Suzuki Foundation's Montreal office space...The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says BDC has its priorities mixed up.
"Somebody needs to give BDC's managers a lesson in financial reality," CTF federal director Gregory Thomas said. "They say they put entrepreneur success at the heart of everything they do, but by funding U.S.-based eco-warriors they're really trying to put a good chunk of Canadian small business out of business."
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