Boeing: Cause of Dreamliner Fires 'Almost Doesn't Matter' | National Legal and Policy Center

Not only wasn’t the source discovered, but Boeing is now broadcasting its ignorance by announcing they narrowed the number of possible causes for the fires to 80 – and that they addressed them all in the new design!

A Peek Inside The Addled Brains Of Climate Alarmists | Real Science

If the weather is hot, that proves global warming.

If the weather is cold, that also proves global warming, because global warming creates more extremes. An ice age would therefore be the ultimate proof of global warming.

27:1 Ratio Of Record Lows To Record Highs | Real Science

HAMweather: Record Events for The Past 7 Days

Vikings Used To Farm This Place, During The Non-Existent MWP | Real Science

Farming in Greenland is a bit of a challenge these days, unless you are growing snow peas.

Coal up, gas down so far in 2013 | JunkScience.com

“Gas is getting beat by coal in the electric generation market in 2013 and beat soundly.”

43,000 carcasses found in snow - Ireland

Some rural parts of Co Down and Co Antrim were buried under 18ft snow drifts.

Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill revealed that 43,000 sheep and goat carcasses have been recovered as of Thursday.

The total includes 30,413 lambs, 12,553 ewes and rams and 34 goats. A further 1159 cattle have also been found.

Twitter / iowahawkblog: Corrupt, bankrupt Illinois ...

Corrupt, bankrupt Illinois now in charge of fed program to buy wind-powered invisible supertrains http://watchdog.org/77504/deadbeat-bankrupt-illinois-now-in-charge-of-high-speed-rail-buying-spree/ …

Poor Andy Revkin: After smearing Lord Monckton as the "iconic climate denier...he really is like a cartoon character, the climate bad guy", Revkin confesses that he believes Monckton's "end energy poverty" push is "as important as the climate challenge"

"An Inconvenient Mind: The Mental Barriers to Confronting Climate Change" - YouTube

Published on Apr 23, 2013

Starting at the 37:30 mark in the video above, Revkin refers to Lord Monckton as the "iconic climate denier, for those who like labels...he really is like a cartoon character, the climate bad guy".  Revkin says that Monckton was handing out little green ribbons that said "end energy poverty" at a booth for "coal-backed entity CFACT".  Revkin says that ending energy poverty is "as important as the climate challenge".

Why climate change is causing upset stomachs in Europe

Scientists are now suggesting that greater quantities of rainfall and bigger storms could be responsible for more unsettled stomachs in parts of Europe.

“Denialism” as rife among the warmists as it is among the extreme skeptics | Troy Media

Climate science and policy making is a multi-billion dollar industry with many vested interests. A lot depends on the “warmist” being right – lucrative contracts for wind and solar systems, the whole of the electric car industry, carbon capture and use/storage, the “clean coal” sector as well as the wood pellet business, not to mention CO2 offsets and emissions trading. The multi-million dollar annual gathering of policy makers and environmental NGO’s (Conference of the Parties – COP) also depends on the warmist view and related predictions. There is just too much at stake for the warmists, from a psychological perspective, to consider alternatives. Too much of their “self” is vested in their commitment to the anthropogenic view of climate change for them to consider alternatives.

So it is not illusory – it’s a defence mechanism. “Denialism” is as rife among the warmists as it is among the extreme skeptics – those who deny that any climate change is happening beyond natural climate cycles.

Cost of moving to 100 per cent renewable electricity would add $600 a year to household bills | News.com.au

THE price of a 100 per cent renewable energy system could be more than $330 billion, adding up to $600 a year to the typical household electricity bill.

Joe Romm Predicts “…All But Certain Ruin for Modern Civilization…” from a NOAA Fisheries Press Release | Watts Up With That?

I’m always amazed how chicken-little alarmists like Joe Romm can turn a simple press release into evidence of “certain ruin of civilization”.

Warmists call criticism of Hansen ‘inept’ | JunkScience.com

But Hansen is the one who’s been forced to concede error.

ALA and the Global Warming Issue -  [Should librarians try to prevent bad weather by urging people to take shorter showers?]

Encouraging shorter showers isn’t a library issue

Cold snap farm animals death toll tops 29,000 - ITV News

Almost 29,000 farm animals died following recent cold weather in Northern Ireland, it was revealed today.

Waiting to tee off; Regina golf courses delay opening | News Talk 980 CJME

Cameron said they’re dealing with snowpack that’s probably the worst they’ve seen in 100 years.

“Our expectation is by the second week of May that we’ll be playing golf.”

How Somali Pirates Are Holding Climate Science Hostage | Mother Jones

Pirates have made it too dangerous to put a boat anywhere near the ash that White needs. Somali buccaneers claimed more than 3,740 crew members from 125 countries as victims between 2005 and 2012, according to the World Bank. Globally, the economic cost of piracy comes to $18 billion per year. And now, scientific research appears to be another casualty of the marauding bandits.

Flashback: True Fact: The Lack of Pirates Is Causing Global Warming | JunkScience.com

“It’s true. This extremely scientific graph proves it:”

Record cold in Fairbanks; it’s almost a certainty that this will be the first April since 1972 that the temperature at the Fairbanks airport won’t hit 50 degrees; thickest that Nenana ice has been this late in decades

Interior shivers in record cold temps - Fairbanks

FAIRBANKS — The winter that won’t end continued Sunday with record-low temperatures around the Interior.

The low temperature at Fairbanks International Airport was 2 degrees above zero, which obliterated the old record of 8 above set in 1924. New records were set at Eagle (5 below), Eielson Air Force Base (1 above) and Delta Junction (3 above).
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The temperature of 2 above Sunday was the third-lowest temperature this late in the spring at the airport, the weather service said. The last time it was colder than that in the spring was May 9, 1964, when the temperature at the airport was 1 below zero.
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Based on the forecast, which calls for highs in the mid 30s the next few days before warming into the 40s Thursday, it’s almost a certainty that this will be the first April since 1972 that the temperature at the Fairbanks airport won’t hit 50 degrees, Keller said.

In addition to the record cold Sunday morning, many places tied or broke records for the coldest high temperature on Saturday. The temperature failed to climb out of the 20s across much of the Interior. The high temperature of 29 degrees at the Fairbanks airport tied the coldest high temperature for that day, which was set in 1935.
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Through Saturday, this April is the third-coldest on record in more than 100 years in Fairbanks and there’s a chance it could end up the second-coldest before the end of the month. The average monthly temperature of 17.0 degrees through Saturday is 14.6 degrees below normal.
...The Tanana River ice in Nenana was still 51 inches thick Thursday when officials with the Nenana Ice Classic measured it. That’s the thickest the ice has been this late in decades.

20 Years Ago: 4-29-93 — UN says even a $300/ton carbon tax won’t work; May have to limit emissions by force | JunkScience.com

No wonder this UN publication is out of print.

Twitter / BjornLomborg: Over the next 200 years, ...

Over the next 200 years, #GlobalWarming will constitute a loss of about 1.5% of global GDP. [Why wouldn't a little additional warmth and more airborne plant food lead to a gain in global GDP?] Not the end of the world: http://on.fb.me/ZK8pK5

Online Grocery Delivery Services Like FreshDirect Are Better for the Planet | TIME.com

A new study in the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum shows that ordering groceries for delivery online is actually much greener than driving to the store and buying them yourself.

Twitter / carbonbrief: North American weather "has ...

North American weather "has been lurching from one extreme to the next in a pattern that is consistent with global warming"...  [What pattern would not be consistent with global warming?  What pattern would be consistent with global cooling?]

Warmist John Abraham: What will James Hansen's retirement mean for the future of the Earth?

What's climate scientist James Hansen's legacy? | John Abraham | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Just a few weeks ago, one of the biggest names in climate science made one of the biggest announcements possible.
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What does this mean for climate science and the future of the Earth?

Negative Feedbacks: What They Are, and Why They Are Important | Power Line

The point here is that until all of the significant feedback effects have been identified and quantified, negative as well as positive, all estimates of the effect of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere are simply bogus. The fact that the alarmists’ models utterly fail to predict actual temperatures proves that they do not adequately take a great many feedback effects into account.

STEVE adds: There’s one seemingly small detail in this story that is likely to be missed by the mainstream media, etc: the role of IIASA in this study. IIASA is no fringe research group that can be marginalized by Al Gore; to the contrary, it has been at the center of much of the “consensus” climate science world. Among other things, IIASA produces the emissions forecasts used by the UN’s IPCC and most of the climate modelers. The fact that IIASA has joined this “skeptic” finding is yet another sign that the whole climate horror show is falling apart.

Secretary General Ban Boosts Boom In Green Energy :: The Market Oracle

Making it clear how dangerous is the approaching calamity, Ban told the respectful audience that he now turns lights off in his hotel room. He said: “I have been dutifully, faithfully turning off lights in my hotel", despite that being difficult. He added: "Sometimes it’s very difficult these days, all different hotels have a very different system of lighting. Normally I stay in a suite so there are many, many lights.". Only 5 bedrooms, but Ban is trying to turn off the light!

Obama Wants To Convert All Cars To Compressed Natural Gas | Real Science

I was listening to NPR yesterday. EPA has just drastically reduced their “greenhouse gas” numbers for natural gas. When the White House is altering scientific data, there is always a political objective. In this case they want to make it look like Methane does not “hurt the climate.”

92 vs 12 | Planet3.0

Twelve. That’s the combined number of segments that ABC, CBS and NBC’s nightly news programs devoted to climate change throughout all of 2012.

Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman « Climate Audit

Unfortunately, they did not also require that the use of the record be in the same orientation as the published literature and, in the case of Hvitavatn, the SI states that they used the record in a positive orientation i.e. opposite to the interpretation of Miller et al 2012.

C3: Reality Wake-Up Call: Climate "Experts" Sea Level Prediction Found To Be Wildly Wrong

The IPCC's climate models and multiple government climate "experts" have proven time and again that they are completely unable to make reliable predictions of global climate attributes - this time, the climate reality wake-up call finds Australian government scientists to be wildly wrong regarding their "accelerating" sea level predictions

- Bishop Hill blog - Oreskes and Conway do the end of the world

It's extraordinary how this "massive campaign" by fossil fuel interests has gone almost entirely undocumented. There is, to the best of my knowledge, virtually no evidence to support the claim at all. It is something of an indictment of the standards in academia that this kind of conspiracy theorising goes unremarked and entirely unchallenged.

Local produce no climate change panacea: study

"To have local produce as the cornerstone of your climate strategy doesn't go anywhere," researcher Stefan Åström told the TT news agency. [Ya think?]

A Modern Climatologist | Digging in the Clay

From climate models numerous, and data-sets adjusted,
And linear regressions, come forecasts to be trusted.
Mankind is doomed, I’m sad to say, of that there’s little doubt.
The earth will burn, though rising seas will put the fires out.
The media are all agog, and keep the airwaves humming,
For bad news sells, attention dwells, just keep the funding coming.
I’m smart and brash and canny, and not a whit apologist.
I am the very model of a modern climatologist.

Down To Minus 45: Freezing Spring Reignites Climate Debate

A freezing Russian spring has reignited the climate change debate

The Global Warmists’ Last Line Of Defense: The Warming Must Be In The Bermuda Triangle | Somewhat Reasonable

The global warming activists, of course, do their best to make their Bermuda Triangle defense sound scientific. The paper claims all this phantom global warming really can directly bypass the atmosphere and the upper ocean if winds start blowing strangely enough and strongly enough to bury the warming deep in the ocean. Thankfully, we can spare ourselves the dizzying asserted logic of such claims by examining recent global sea surface wind data. As Bermuda Triangle-busting science would have it, NASA satellite instruments show global sea surface wind speeds have declined rather than increased during the past decade.

So much for the Bermuda Triangle….

The Dark Side of Energy Independence - NYTimes.com

JUST as the world was writing off America as a declining power, the country now finds itself on the cusp of realizing one of its longstanding goals: energy independence.
...America’s oil and gas bonanza will drive down global energy prices, undercutting the foundations of petrostates everywhere. According to Francisco Blanch, the head of commodities research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, oil could fall to just $50 a barrel within the next two years, which could unleash unrest in regions crucial to American interests. Far from releasing the United States from the burden of global leadership, this process would force Washington to assume an even greater international role than it currently plays.

Latest Hurricane Stats From NOAA

Despite the busy seasons in 2004 and 2005, the 10 year trends show no increase since, and are not unusually high by historical standards. It is also perhaps significant that, despite these two years, current decadal averages for Cat 4 and Cat 5 storms are below average. This surely gives the lie to the claim that hurricanes are becoming more intense...The busy hurricane seasons of the 1940’s and 50’s clearly correlate with the warm phase of the AMO, just as the quieter years in the 1970’s and 80’s do with the cold phase.

Twitter / RyanMaue: North Dakota still a ways to ...

North Dakota still a ways to go to melt snowpack. Much of Canada still buried. Snow chart: pic.twitter.com/q3kVlnvmQc

Saudi city covered with snow following unrelenting weather

Saudi Arabia's northwestern city of Hael was covered with snow Sunday after almost three days of unrelenting weather conditions, according to Al Arabiya correspondents.

Bike sharing goes global | Grist

Urban transport adviser Peter Midgley notes that “bike sharing has experienced the fastest growth of any mode of transport in the history of the planet.”

Russian Scientists: ‘We Could Face Cooling Period For 200-250 Years’ | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

‘We could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years. The period of low solar activity could start in 2030-2040.’

Secret Climate Meetings | NoFrakkingConsensus

...Stone is a chemist by training. But he has not been awarded a Nobel in chemistry. Or in physics. Or in medicine, economics, or literature. It is therefore utterly and outrageously wrong for a reporter to describe him as a Nobel-winning scientist.

If the MPs attending these meetings are being told that they should listen to what this career bureaucrat thinks because he’s a Nobel prize winner, they are being profoundly misled.

Which is exactly why there should be a public record of what is being said and done at these meetings.

Scotland - Prolonged cold decimates lobster supplies

Lobster landings have fallen by as much as 90% off the east coast of Scotland, forcing a sharp rise in wholesale prices, reports the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation.

Prolonged cold weather has caused a shortage of Scottish lobster supplies, the Federation reported. Langoustine catches were also reported to be as much as 70% down in the Clyde fisheries area.

Secretary Of State – Arctic To Be Ice-Free This Summer | Real Science

August 31, 2009
John Kerry
Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.

What To Expect When CO2 Hits 400 PPM | Real Science

The climate doesn’t care about human neuroses or political agendas. Corals evolved with CO2 levels above 4,000 PPM CO2.
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400 PPM CO2 means nothing – other than another meaningless number for clueless people to get hysterical about. CO2 is at historically low levels in the geological record.

Ex-Obama climate czar Browner credits skeptics with stopping climate alarmism | JunkScience.com

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers…” (Henry V, Act 4)

The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory - Forbes

Lysenkoism was “politically correct” (a term invented by Lenin) because it was consistent with certain broader Marxist doctrines. Marxists wanted to believe that heredity had a limited role even among humans, and that human characteristics changed by living under socialism would be inherited by subsequent generations of humans. Thus would be created the selfless new Soviet man.
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Lysenko was consequently embraced and lionized by the Soviet media propaganda machine. Scientists who promoted Lysenkoism with faked data and destroyed counterevidence were favored with government funding and official recognition and award. Lysenko and his followers and media acolytes responded to critics by impugning their motives, and denouncing them as bourgeois fascists resisting the advance of the new modern Marxism.

The V.I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences announced on August 7, 1948 that thenceforth Lysenkoism would be taught as the only correct theory. All Soviet scientists were required to denounce any work that contradicted Lysenkoism. Ultimately, Soviet geneticists resisting Lysenkoism were imprisoned and even executed. Lysenkoism was abandoned for the correct modern science of Mendelian genetics only as late as 1964.

Peter Kent’s Earth Day gift to Canadians: 24 hours without the climate scare

Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent gave us an unexpected gift on April 22: his Earth Day speech focused on real environmental protection and included nothing at all about climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide.

Climate change and dead fish: Think global, act local | Sun Journal

Last summer, hundreds of economically valuable, fun-to-catch trout died at Lake Auburn...Certainly any action that helps curb global warming is worthwhile, such as reducing use of fossil fuels by setting the thermostat a few degrees lower or making fewer trips in your car.

DNR Says Fish Kills Common in Spring - Chelsea, MI Patch

The Department of Natural Resources reminds everyone that after the ice melts on Michigan's lakes, it is not uncommon to discover dead fish or other aquatic creatures. Typical Michigan winters with heavy snow and ice cover create conditions that cause fish and other creatures such as soft-shell turtles, frogs, toads and crayfish to die.

"Winterkill is the most common type of fish kill," said DNR Fisheries Division Production Manager Gary Whelan.

Warmist Jon Clark: CO2 is allegedly causing atmospheric moisture to increase 4%, which allegedly causes less frequent rain. Also the number of non-warmist scientists in the world allegedly wouldn't fill a bus

Wanted: Republican leaders on climate change: As I See It | PennLive.com

“The new normal in the coming decades is going to be more and more extreme flood-drought-flood cycles like we are seeing now in the Midwest, and this sort of weather whiplash is going to be an increasingly severe pain in the neck for society," according to meteorologist Jeff Masters.

Climate scientists have long been telling us that a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture. Scientists at climatecommunication.org explain our wild flood-drought swings: “A 4% increase in atmospheric moisture has been observed and that is consistent with a warming climate… The increased moisture in the atmosphere is driving the shift to heavier but less frequent rains.

While an atmosphere that holds more moisture has greater potential to produce heavier precipitation, precipitation events also become less frequent and shorter, as it takes longer to recharge the atmosphere with moisture. By analogy, a larger bucket holds and dumps more water, but takes longer to refill.”

Even with worsening extreme weather, some Republicans remain “skeptical” on the issue of climate change. To those individuals I would ask them to consider the following. A study by James Powell, who was a member of the National Science Board for 12 years, found that of the 13,950 peer-reviewed articles on climate change from 1991-2012, a total of 24 papers “reject human-caused global warming or endorse a cause other than CO2 emissions for observed warming.”

These 13,950 articles had a total of 33,690 authors while the number of authors of “skeptics” papers had a total of 34. This is the extent of the “debate” about the science. The number of scientists who say that we are causing climate change by burning fossil fuels would fill Harrisburg’s Metro Bank Park five times over; the number of scientists who disagree wouldn’t fill a bus to get to the game.

Endless winter in the fastest warming place on Earth: Cold weather continues for much of Alaska

Alaska Dispatch

“In some cases, daytime highs are running close to 10-20ºF below normal.” NWS writes.

And that’s not all … The NWS’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting continued chilly temperatures well below normal temperatures for the next 8 to 14 days. The prolonged cold is due to high pressure over the Bering Sea that is preventing the weather pattern from shifting, NWS writes.

China [allegedly] 'taking lead' to combat warming

"China is accelerating action," said Tim Flannery, the co-author and a key figure at the Climate Commission, which brings together internationally-renowned scientists, as well as policy and business leaders. "China has halved its growth in electricity demand, dramatically increased its renewable energy capacity, and decelerated its emissions growth more quickly than expected.

- Bishop Hill blog - Paul and the pug dog

Under Paul Nurse's stewardship, the Royal Society has taken some, ahem, interesting decisions. Its latest though is quite extraordinary. The society has hilariously decided to award the lucrative Wolfson Research Merit award to Stephan Lewandowsky! Jo Nova has the story.
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It's hard to imagine anything funnier. If Manchester United signed up a three-legged pug dog to play centre forward you wouldn't laugh any less.

First Erlich, now Lewandowsky. What next? Homeopaths? A fellowship for Kim Jong Il? A cabbage patch doll?

I wonder what the fellows make of it?

Blogging a Better Planet

[Revkin] I’m thrilled with the launch of EarthDesk. My move from full-time journalism to Pace University in 2010 was largely aimed at testing and teaching new ways to use communication tools to foster progress on a finite planet. My title, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, conveys some of what I’m after...Here’s a great list of 150 green hashtags.

The Ultimate Green Twitter Hashtag List: Build Your Online Green Twitter Following

[From what Revkin calls a "great" list of green hashtags] #climatezombies - This hashtag is used in tweets referring climate change deniers who repeat over and over again the sponsored and often paid for lies promoted by the oil companies that promote the idea that climate change is not happening or that it is not caused by the activities of man, no matter how many times legitimate science proves them wrong – they just keep rising from the dead, like zombies!!

Spindle Time: Winnies, Poohs, and Climate Neener-Neeners | Power Line

you can’t escape the conclusion that the anti-hydrocarbon crusade of environmentalists is over. They’ve lost.

Another negative climate feedback: more CO2 = more plants = more aerosols = cooling | Watts Up With That?

The study also showed that the effect was much larger on a regional scale, counteracting possibly up to 30% of warming in more rural, forested areas where anthropogenic emissions of aerosols were much lower in comparison to the natural aerosols. That means that especially in places like Finland, Siberia, and Canada this feedback loop may reduce warming substantially.

‘Ecosocialist’ conference: ‘Capitalism is trying to kill the planet, but the people are rising up’ | JunkScience.com

Au contraire, mon camarade: if anything, capitalism has saved the planet.

Enviros Unfriended: Zuckerberg’s advocacy group in favor of Keystone XL, opening ANWR | JunkScience.com

Two years ago, Zuckerberg touted Facebook’s “clean energy” efforts. Looks like he’s matured since then.

Settled science: 350 ppm or maybe 450ppm or maybe some far larger number would be too much CO2 in our atmosphere

Greenhouse gas levels highest in 3m years

The 450 ppm level is considered to be the point at which the world has a 50 per cent chance of avoiding dangerous climate change. Any higher and the odds of avoiding searing temperature rises of 4 or 5 degrees by the end of the century become prohibitively risky.

The Science: 350 ppm - Solutions to climate crisis by James Hansen from his book, Storms of My Grandchildren

over the past several years through his research he has come to the conclusion that we must reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere to 350 ppm in order to avoid disaster for coming generations.

Tom Nelson: 350: The most brain-dead campaign of your life

Take a careful look at the black line in this graph:

Big brother to switch off your fridge: Power giants to make millions - but you must pay for 'sinister' technology | Mail Online

Fridges and freezers in millions of British homes will automatically be switched off without the owner’s consent under a ‘Big Brother’ regime to reduce the strain on power stations.

Green Crusade a Threat to Economic Growth | Somewhat Reasonable

One last EPA-generated boondoggle that may soon result in higher prices for gasoline is the agency’s requirement for ethanol blending. The EPA sets quotas for gasoline pool blending by domestic refiners every year. Unfortunately, if the quota is too high and above the 10 percent “blend wall” beyond which refiners are reluctant to add ethanol to their gasoline pool (for fear of lawsuits due to engine damage from ethanol blending greater than 10 percent), they are required to buy credits, or in industry parlance, RINs (renewable identification numbers).
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All these areas of EPA involvement are likely to continue to threaten the vibrancy of the U.S. economy should it be allowed to continue on its green crusade. We are fighting a battle against scientific ignorance and environmental nihilism that we cannot afford to lose. And as is the case in dealing with gangrene, the only solution here may be a partial “amputation” of the powers of an increasingly toxic EPA that have grown well beyond those its creators originally intended.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Latest GFS Plains Pounder.. ...

Latest GFS Plains Pounder.. unheard of this strong this late in season that for south pic.twitter.com/JkXF3L0JGJ

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Notice how much more snow covers ...

Notice how much more snow covers N America and into Asia vs 2007 pic.twitter.com/lNeefw5g9V

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Almost every extreme event ...

Almost every extreme event this month goes agains the AGW mantra ( lack of tornadoes now considered "extreme" event by TWC)

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: The lack of tornadoes is cause ...

The lack of tornadoes is cause its been TOO DARN COLD which is not a sign of what was being spouted by same people a few years ago

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Here's objective coverage: ...

Here's objective coverage: The severe cold and lack of spring tornadoes is very much different than what we lead to believe would happen

When too little water is followed by too much water, Al Gore immediately blames CO2-induced "dirty weather"

Twitter / algore: Last year, US drought slowed ...

Last year, US drought slowed Mississippi to a trickle in some parts. Now? Torrential flooding. #dirtyweather http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/22/us-usa-flood-rivers-idUSBRE93L1C520130422 …

Twitter / m4gw: @algore We will never see just ...

@algore We will never see just the right amount of rain again. Either too much or too little. #FloodDrought

Climate Conversation Group » Is the game nearly over

I think the game is up for the pro-AGW crowd due to the lack of temperature rises over the last 16-23 years.

It looks like Gavin Schmidt might be jumping from the sinking ship now as well. To me, Gavin looks like he’s positioning himself for a back-down on his AGW position – why would he point out the flaws with Nuccitelli’s post otherwise, it’s no concern to him? I think Hansen, even though he admitted the lack of a temp rise over the last 16 years, was given the boot from NASA (or shall we say, given the opportunity to retire to pursue his hobbies) because he refused to change his stance on AGW in the face of very strong evidence that he’s wrong.

Schmidt on the other hand can keep his NASA position if he backs down and follows where the empirical evidence leads him, regardless of whether it proves his previous beliefs incorrect. If he doesn’t back down at some stage he’s going to look a fool and his career is going to go down the toilet. I think he’s laying the foundation for a back-down in the future and attacking the propaganda from those who support his current position (i.e., SkS) is the first step. Does he have a choice other than recanting in the near future? I don’t think so.

TONY HETHERINGTON: Burnt for £20,000 in carbon credit con

T.D. writes: I invested in carbon credits with Select Global Limited. I bought 3,500 credits last May at $9 each and was told that in February a trading exchange would open with a minimum price of $11, set by the state of California. In August, I bought more. In January, I was told the trading exchange had opened early. My 3,500 credits had fetched $18 each and my remaining 7,200 credits stood at $16 each. However, in February I received an email saying Select Global was ‘working on exit strategies’. Now it does not return my calls.

The Secret Climate Change Meetings In Canada | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

An all-party committee of federal politicians interested in learning about climate change science is continuing to meet behind the scenes on Parliament Hill, with discreet participation from a few backbench Conservative MPs.

The Keeling Curve | What Does This Number Mean?

Although the Mauna Loa record extends back only 55 years, a record extending 800,000 years has been obtained from samples of old air preserved as bubbles in the Antarctic ice sheet.  [Are we all convinced that an allegedly 800,000-year-old air bubble still contains exactly the same amount of CO2 that it did on Day 1?]

Sounds like fraud to me: In St. Louis, trace amounts of CO2 are allegedly causing "elevated rates of respiratory disorders"

Officials, Environmentalists Say Climate Change Is Hitting Home | St. Louis Public Radio

From elevated rates of respiratory disorders to wild weather patterns, climate change is taking a toll on St. Louis and the rest of the nation.
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“Greenhouse gases and climate change can raise the incident rates of asthma,” said Karl Brooks, regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. “Asthma is a serious public health problem in St. Louis."
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Executive director of the St. Louis Coalition for Inclusion and Equity, Romona Williams, said events like the one held on Saturday represent a shift in the environmental movement. Moving forward, she said, the focus should broaden to look at the larger social and economic impacts of climate change.

“Climate change is everything to us,” Williams said. “Low income and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change.”

Bummer: EDF staff scientist argues that within his son's lifetime, trace amounts of CO2 will turn the Amazon rainforest into an arid savanna

A First-Time Father Sees Global Warming in a New Light | Environmental Defense Fund

The Brazilian Amazon, where we studied the rainforest as graduate students, may vanish after droughts trigger catastrophic dieback. All that will remain of the world’s greatest forest is arid savanna.

Jason Funk | Environmental Defense Fund

Jason is a staff scientist, specializing in land use and climate science, at Environmental Defense Fund.

Royal Society calls Lewandowsky “outstanding”, gives him money, loses more scientific credibility « JoNova

Over Easter, psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky moved from Perth to Bristol (lucky UK). He’s the psychologist who is expert in an imaginary group of humans called “Climate deniers”. Neither he, nor anyone else has ever met one but he discovered their imaginary motivations by surveying the confused groups who hate them. As you would, right?

Articles: The Snows of Rainier

Since 2006, Paradise has averaged a very snowy 205 inches of snowpack each year, compared to only 168 inches between 1976-1996. Even more incredible, on June 1st 2011, Paradise still had a snowpack of 201 inches -- it is off the charts to have so much snow on the ground so late in the year. Since 1996-97, Paradise has averaged 196 inches of snow pack each year, which is actually a very high number because such consistency spans almost two decades. The snows of Rainier have thus been perfectly consistent with Easterbrook's contention that 1940-75 represented a cooling trend, and that the warming trend of 1976-1997 was halted by the present cooling trend that began in 1998.

Berkeley Student Gets a “Fail” for her Global Warming Essay. | hauntingthelibrary

In summary, then, this is the result of allowing activism into academia and the classroom, of allowing organisations to push simplistic messages of environmental catastrophe to trusting children. Dunitz’s essays shows no critical thinking at all. There’s no questioning of what she’s obviously been told, or imbibed from pamphlets and websites of climate change groups, no grappling with the issues. Instead, there’s a loose handful of vague suggestions such as buying fair-trade bananas (from the Carribean or Africa one assumes, both thousands of miles away) and not tomatoes from Mexico, literally just across the border from California. More critical thinking needed, less unquestioning acceptance of what lobby groups and well-funded organisations spoon-feed you.

[Climate expert James Brey suggests that floods and droughts are evidence that CO2 causes bad weather]

Brey pointed to warming temperatures, glacial ice melt, flooding and droughts, a rise in sea levels and more violent weather conditions, including Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, as recent evidence of climate change.