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Scientific Cleansing: Interior Secretary says ‘I hope there are no climate change deniers in the Department of Interior’ | JunkScience.com“I hope there are no climate change deniers in the Department of Interior,” she said.
If there are any, she invited them to visit public lands managed by the agency — be it the melting permafrost in Alaska or shrinking snowpacks in the Sierra Mountains — as proof. “If you don’t believe in it, come out into the resources,” she said. [If you see melting permafrost, you're supposed to believe that CO2 caused the melting?]
Twitter / Sofinita: It's effing cold! People ...It's effing cold! People sneezing, w/hick ups, and shivering. How about reducing our GHG emissions? #TurnDownTheAC @ClimateReality #CRinCHI
Twitter / RyderDioxide: Why is climate reality supplying ...Why is climate reality supplying hundreds if not thousands of bananas for snacks if we are fighting carbon....? #confused #CRinCHI #Reality
Twitter / mtobis [Politicians shouldn't talk about science, but scientists should talk about politics?]The idea that competent "honest broker" twixt science and policy can be a non-scientist is madness. So we must fill both roles. @flimsin
Twitter / mtobis: Um, @dougmcneall I for one ...Um, @dougmcneall I for one am not in a position to consider defeating Hitler a bad idea. @flimsin Similarly avoiding 10M sea level rise etc
Twitter / Chris_C_Horner: Oh, dear. DoJ: EPA chief McCarthy ...Oh, dear. DoJ: EPA chief McCarthy requested no texts on EPA phone be preserved, as they would all be personal. Get some popcorn. No rush.
Twitter / howiechong: “Challenge climate deniers ...“Challenge climate deniers and you *will* win. I guaran-damn-tee it!” — @algore #CRinCHI
Will Earth's Ocean Boil Away?Respected as Hansen is, the argument hasn't convinced climate scientists who specialize in the evolution of planetary atmospheres..."I think you can say we're still safe against the Venus syndrome," says Raymond Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago. "If we were going to run away, we'd probably have done it during the PETM."
The PJ Tatler » National Geographic: You Know, James Hansen Just Might be a Bit of a Chicken LittleMaybe Hansen shouldn’t be so respected. I know from my years at NASA that among the staff who worked nearest him at the Goddard Space Flight Center and had to deal directly with him, he wasn’t.
Exclusive: Frost damaged 18 percent of Brazil sugar cane crop - analyst | ReutersDatagro President Plinio Nastari told Reuters that severe frost on July 24 and 25 in southern cane growing regions may have killed entire fields, which would likely need to be replanted.
Rush Holt's 'Geek Out' Brings Scientists To Talk Social Policy - State News - Red Bank-Shrewsbury, NJ PatchFormer U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who joined the event by video feed from California, said the backlash against climate change science was akin to obfuscation efforts in the 1960s and 1970s on the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
"If you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, a doctor will never tell you that you’re going to get lung cancer," Chu said. "But your odds will be 85 percent higher."
Twitter / cakf00: @ClimateReality- minor mishap ...@ClimateReality- minor mishap at lunch = no recycling. Pls have recycling at reception tonite. #CRinCHI
Twitter / hayburns: I must say, it's impressive ...I must say, it's impressive how many of us DON'T know how to show up on time for AL GORE (among others) #Rude #CRinCHI
Twitter / NoPlanetaB [Planet-healers eat lunch out of planet-killing plastic boxes]": @cllimatereality told us 2 speak up: Why r 1250+ ppl having lunch w Plastic Box?
I was a climate change denier - Salon.comNaomi Klein has argued that resisting climate change is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win the world we’ve wanted all along; the proponents of climate change are the same enemies that the Occupy movement and its counterparts around the world have already marked.
Midwest Fishing Report: Lakes around Chicago fishingVoices | VoicesThings stabilize slowly after the impact of the record and near-record cold over the weekend
New EPA chief: Can everybody please “stop talking about environmental regulations killing jobs?” « Hot AirFor these guys, there is no good environmental problem or dilemma that could possibly deserve a private-sector, private-property, free-market, or local-government solution — the federal government always does it better (which is strange, because the inefficiencies and unintended consequences of big-government oversight apply just as easily to environmental degradation as they do to everything else). They really don’t care about the onerous costs of compliance for businesses and individuals, nor the accompanying transaction costs, nor the overall costs to our economy, because the only costs that matter to them are what they’ve pre-decided are the environmental ones. Regulation is a noble means to their inarguably glorious ends, and the Obama administration has used bizarre rules and tactics to prosecute everyone from major companies to private individuals. What’s more, they’re increasingly getting in the way of state sovereignty, because they know better, of course:
Notes on a Scandal[From a new blog by Jaime Jessop] So you tell me, who are the mischief-makers, the cons, the liars, the cheats, the misanthropists hell bent on causing human misery? Is it us, the climate contrarians, voicing scepticism at the increasingly bizarre and scientifically suspect claims of climate alarmists, or is it the climate alarmists themselves, the generously funded research climate scientists, the politicians hanging on their every word and the greens piggy-backing on the loaded debate having long sensed a golden opportunity to push forward their ideological dream of decarbonising industry in favour of 'clean, green' wind and solar energy?
Sierra Club Sets Record For Unprecedented Human Stupidity In 2013 | Real ScienceMar 23, 2013
For the record—I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer.
1972 Shock News : Arctic To Be Ice-Free By The Year 2000 – Northern States To Warm 25 Degrees | Real ScienceClimate scientists must not advocate particular policies | Tamsin Edwards | Science | theguardian.comAs a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate. This comes mainly from environmentalists. Dan Cass, wind-farm director and solar advocate, preferred me not to waste my time debating "denialist morons" but to use political advocacy to "prevent climate catastrophe".
Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist, urged climate scientists to sound a "more desperate note … Be arrested if necessary."
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I believe advocacy by climate scientists has damaged trust in the science. We risk our credibility, our reputation for objectivity, if we are not absolutely neutral. At the very least, it leaves us open to criticism.
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I became a climate scientist because I've always cared about the environment, since a vivid school talk about the ozone layer (here, page 4) and the influence of my brother, who was green long before it was cool.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Chicago may have top 5 coolest ...Chicago may have top 5 coolest front 10 days of August EVER. This after top 5 coolest last week of July, ever
Articles: Why Environmental Professionals Hate All of the AboveWhat's behind this change of heart? Maybe it's the need to continue the struggle. Admitting that natural gas is clean and that America has enough of it to power the country for a century -- where would that leave the leaders of environmental groups that now raise hundreds of millions in donations? It might leave them having to make a living like everyone else.
Maybe the environmental pros are more interested in their own survival than that of the planet. To maintain their constituency's support and the generous donations that go with it, environmental groups must always protest something.
Jennifer Marohasy » Peer Review Falters at the Altar of ConvictionThe implications of prejudicial editing and refereeing in climate science are significant, because ultimately our best protection against the hazards of weather and climate will come from a more robust theory of climate than that offered by naïve belief in the power of human-related greenhouse forcing.
Will the Cost of the Climate Wars be the BBC’s Integrity? | Watts Up With That?[Jim Steele] So why has the BBC published this story filled with references to zombie data and half-truths? The region’s temperatures are cooling, sea level is dropping and sea ice is above average. The story about Kivalina has been published many times before and residents sued Exxon six years ago. Are they trying to rekindle global fear in a time of paused global warming? Are they now tools of the IPCC? Climategate emails revealed Michael Mann’s distress at a BBC’s story that the PDO could delay global warming, and he told his fellow advocates he would have a talk with their “science” writers. Did Michael Mann and the fellow IPCC warming advocates successfully pressure the BBC to present such a biased and unsupported story that does not educate the public about the complexities of climate change but instead attempts to instill gloom and climate fear? I once saw the BBC as a trusted source, but count me as a climate war casualty. I will never again trust another BBC climate article.
PIK Scientist Gerstengarbe: “A Single Heat Wave Is Absolutely No Sign Of Clmate Change”How often have we heard the alarmists say “one cold winter is not climate” but then claim that a single tornado or a few days of hot weather are ominous signs of global warming?
Twitter / willdigravio: "Climate change is a lot like ..."Climate change is a lot like alcoholism except the world is drunk on oil." - Grammy winner Jon Vezner. #CRinCHI @ClimateReality @algore
Jon VeznerBorn in Minnesota, Jon Vezner began his musical career as lead singer and bassist in high school, going on to earn a B.A. degree in music education and music theory at Minnesota Southwest State University in the mid 70′s
Global Warming: it’s Happening Again - Capitol Hill Outsider[Dennis Avery on warmist Heidi Cullen] Her science career was looking good; but, she chose to become a TV star and author of a book entitled The Weather of the Future. The book, unfortunately, abandons everything she learned about the documented 1,500-year climate cycle. If Dr. Cullen had remained true to her scientific training and experience, she would have told us that the global climate is constantly cycling, but within natural parameters.
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In the short term, the weather will obey the dictates of the Pacific Ocean, our biggest heat sink. The Pacific’s 60-year warm/cool cycle, superimposed on the 1,500-year cycle, currently predicts continued global cooling—until long after the current crop of politicians has retired or been defeated.
Dr. Cullen tried becoming famous with honest science, and hardly anyone noticed her. Now, her current celebrity is likely to fade with the declining temperatures.
Shocker: Global Warming Kneejerker Admits It | Daily PunditWhat? Global warming true believers making knee-jerk assumptions? Perish the thought.
Kudos for owning up, though.
More Carbon Emissions = Less Global Warming? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Networkindeed, prior IPCC temperature projections have held up.
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In his own assessment of the numbers, Dana Nuccitelli, a physicist who writes at the Skeptical Science blog—known for deep analysis of these matters—notes that the 1.5 degrees C case would only be possible if the world stopped increasing emissions by 2020 and then began reducing them by 3.5 percent a year.
Iceland: Spring Awakening | Pulitzer CenterYves Eudes, for the Pulitzer Center
Whenever the farmers from the northeast corner of Iceland discuss global warming, a topic frequently covered by the media, they scornfully roll their eyes because, after all, they have just experienced an exceptionally harsh winter: 2013 was markedly colder here than in preceding years, with copious amounts of snow and ferocious storms.
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