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Carbon tax hit Virgin: Hockey | Business SpectatorShadow treasurer Joe Hockey used Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd's expected full-year loss as an example of why the coalition plans to repeal the carbon tax if it wins government.
The airline forecast a loss of between $95 million and $110 million in fiscal 2013 and told the stock exchange the carbon tax was hurting its business.
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Mr Hockey said the "cyclical downside of the carbon tax is coming into play".
"If you do not have profitable businesses, then a tax like the carbon tax - eventually those cost jobs."
Virgin Aust expects loss of up to $110m | The Courier-MailVirgin Australia had been unable to pass on the cost through higher ticket prices because the local economy was weak and competition was tough.
"It (the cost of the carbon tax) is simply not recoverable," Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti told reporters.
"For anybody to suggest that this is recoverable in the current economic climate is just not a realist."
He said the carbon tax especially hurt Virgin Australia because it was a domestic tax and 80 per cent of Virgin Australia's revenue was domestic.
May 2013: Branson open to total sale of Virgin Australia - Channel NewsAsiaBranson, who founded Virgin Australia as a rival to Qantas in 2000, sold a 10 per cent share to Singapore Airlines last month, leaving him with 13 per cent.
Couple told to grow hedge to block wind turbine - TelegraphA couple fighting plans for a wind farm close to their home have been advised to grow a 17ft-high hedge if they do not want to look out at the massive turbines.
Warmist Paul Douglas on Weather | StarTribune.comWe're stuck in a stubbornly persistent blocking pattern, with northwest winds aloft keeping us cooler than average the next 2 weeks.
A Year Without A (real) August? I think so.
Note to Broadcast Meteorologists pressured by News Directors or Forecast the FactsIn his 2012 BAMS article Keith decried the tactics of groups like Forecast the Facts. You may wish to copy that article if challenged by your station management based on letters from FTF or other environmental groups who have little knowledge of the actual facts but are strong believers in the so called consensus position because of their education or political leanings.
Underwater volcanic range discovered off coast of Norway2,200 F (1200° C) magma pouring into the seas from hundreds of submarine volcanoes – and we wonder why the seas are warming.
Articles: Let Them Eat WindNow with the arrogance of the Ancien Régime of France, whose members led luxurious and insulated lives built on the work and sweat of their countrymen, Obama is effectively telling the growing class of poor Americans whose drop from the middle class is the consequence of leftist elitism that instead of recharging the American economy by real means -- using our vast amounts of coal and also oil and gas to create employment, providing federal and state governments with income (royalties) which do not require taxes, and making reducing the flow of dollars out of our nation -- that they should be content with the panacea of windmills, solar energy, and other impractical schemes.
Marie Antoinette was reported as saying, "Let them eat cake" in response to reports that Frenchmen had no bread. Likewise, Obama tells Americans who have no jobs, "Let them eat wind." The mansions and salons of our capital, which comfortably provide out of tax dollars fantastic extravagance showing blithe indifference to the real hardships outside the cocoon of Washington, look remarkably like their predecessors in 1789 Paris.
Twitter / Climate_Sceptic: A richer but warmer world is ...A richer but warmer world is better for human welfare than a colder but poorer world would be. #renewunable
PIOMAS Shows 19% Gain In Arctic Ice Volume Since July 31, 2012 | Real SciencePIOMAS shows July 31 Arctic sea ice volume at 7,104 km³, up from 5.965 km³ last year.
Twitter / aDissentient: Proceeds of plastic bag levy ...Proceeds of plastic bag levy to be paid to green groups who campaigned for it.
Rise In Violence Linked To Poor Statistics. Or Climate Change | William M. BriggsThey mixed data from sources as disparate as the MSNBC and Fox News, they compared apples to roller blading, they contrasted black with semiotics. Data from last Tuesday was said to be equal in veracity to that culled from 8000 BC. They dumped into a computer a bunch of numbers lots of people found from all over the place, measuring God knows what, and produced lots of sharp graphics and one big quantitative result that hot, rainy weather is bad for you.
Big protest at Chevron Richmond refinery is latest example of climate activists stepping up rallies and marches - San Jose Mercury News"The solution is not to just shut down the fossil industry," Field said. "It is to transition the energy system to a sustainable one. It has to have as much building as closing down."
Larry Gerston, a professor of political science at San Jose State University, said that although polls show many Americans concerned about climate change, the economy in recent years has taken precedence.
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"Every time we see a Hurricane Sandy or a Katrina or a tremendous drought, these protesters have to connect the dots for people," he said. "The only way the message gets out is when people are hit on the head again and again."
Study: Climate change makes people hotter and angrier — MSNBCThe Huffington Post’s Robin Wilkey said that a temperature spike of just two degrees could increase the likelihood of civil wars by 50%.
When was the last time this happened? | Climate SanityNotice that for the last 10 days there has been no drop in sea ice area. We would have expected a loss on the order of one million square kilometers! Either something extraordinary is happening, or there is a problem with the satellite data.
When was the last time this happened this time of year? This image shows the entire history of the arctic (which everyone knows really means back to 1979). This is “unprecedented!”
Climate Science – A Field of Dreams « the Air VentWe who read papers know that historic data is proxy based, and that for various physical reasons proxy based data has a very poor time and magnitude resolution. We also know that recent data is instrument based, and instrument based data has excellent time and magnitude resolution. Essentially, the scientists know full-well that instrument data captures a higher frequency component than the historic proxy data can. If today’s warming had happened and reversed at any time in the past 11,000 years, the event would be so short that it would look like a rounded imperceptibly small bump in the proxy based result instead of the clean high frequency response provided by modern instruments.
The “scientists” are fully aware of this, yet they make claims that are not just unsubstantiated, but they are known to be unsubstantiable with proxy data. The claims are as disingenuous as you can be. Now it is true that the equally activist media likes to exaggerate the claims further, but there sure isn’t a lot of correcting the record visible to those of us lowly CO2 producing readers.
Twitter / TucsonPeck: + #SWClimate - sad to see AGW ...+ #SWClimate - sad to see AGW hammering Northern NM region and its economy. NM snow-related industry & winter tourism also in trouble,,,
Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer going big in Virginia governor's race - POLITICO.com Print View“It’s no surprise Terry McAuliffe is depending on yet another rich, national Democrat — instead of grassroots support from Virginians — in his campaign for governor,” Cuccinelli press secretary Anna Nix said. “Radical environmentalist Tom Steyer will be a strong addition to McAuliffe’s War on Coal, which will raise electricity prices on every Virginian and destroy the economy of Southwest Virginia. Unlike Ken Cuccinelli who has a long history of defending the coal industry and putting the needs of Virginians first, Terry McAuliffe once again shows that his loyalties lie with advancing the agendas of his campaign donors instead of doing what’s best for the Commonwealth.”
Kentucky August Temperatures Declining Since 1895 | Real ScienceSPD Campaign Posters Ruined by Rain - SPIEGEL ONLINEAttempts by Germany's main opposition party, the center-left Social Democrats, to close the gap with their competitors were once again hampered on Thursday when 8,000 supposedly eco-friendly campaign posters turned to pulp in the rain.
CONCERNS OF A CLIMATE SCIENTIST | [Warmist Richard Somerville]The plain fact is that what mankind decides to do in the coming years and decades will largely determine the climate that our children and grandchildren will inherit.
22nd Daily Record of Year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent | sunshine hoursAugust 3 (Day 215) saw the 22nd Daily Record of the Year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent. This is the 11th daily record in a row.
The Three Rings of the Climate Circus | Power LineLate next month the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will begin releasing its massive Fifth Assessment Report (AR5 in the trade), starting with the report of Working Group I, on the science of climate change. The reports of Working Groups II and III will dribble out in 2014. In previous assessment reports, the entire report with the findings of all three working groups came out at once. I suspect this change may be an attempt to be sure there are three chances to make headlines, especially since the media is losing interest in the subject. Power Line will be all over the report when it comes out. As we’ve reported here before, this next IPCC report will have to do some fancy footwork to explain the increasing anomalies of recent temperature trends. I’m sure they’re up to the job.
Greenland icebergs may have triggered 'Big Freeze' - Tehran TimesIn a warming world, what could cause temperatures to suddenly plummet across the Northern Hemisphere? Scientists have tried to answer this question for decades, ever since they discovered geological and biological evidence for the "Big Freeze."
Now, a new study points to an armada of icebergs or meltwater from Greenland as a possible cause for the sudden climate change called the Younger Dryas, or the Big Freeze.
The findings were published online July 10 in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Starting roughly 12,900 years ago, the Big Freeze halted the Northern Hemisphere's transition from an Ice Age to today's relatively warm, interglacial period.
In just a decade, glacial cold returned to the northern latitudes. The tropics shifted more slowly, with changes in monsoon intensity and the amount of rainfall they received. Only Antarctica went untouched.
▶ STOSSEL Is Global Warming Causing Extreme Weather - YouTube[6-minute video with Pat Michaels; at the 2:30 mark, John Englander claims that "after 6000 years of stability, sea level is going up"]
1926: "the climatic optimum about 1500 BC is marked in almost all parts of the world by beaches about 10 ft. above the present beaches"Amazon.com: High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis (9780615637952): John Englander: BooksFor 6,000 years sea level has changed little. Now it it has started rising again, moving the shoreline too. In clear, easy-to-understand language, this book explains: * The science behind sea level rise, plus the myths and partial truths used to confuse the issue. * The surprising forces that will cause sea level to rise for 1,000 years, as well as the possibility of catastrophic rise this century. * Why the devastating economic effects will not be limited to the coasts. * Why coastal property values will go “underwater” long before the land does, perhaps as early as this decade.
Flashback: Roman amphitheatre unearthed at ancient port | Mail OnlineThe ancient gateway to the Mediterranean was twice the size of the port of Southampton and supplied the centre of the Roman Empire with food, slaves, wild animals, luxury goods and building materials for hundreds of years. It is now two miles inland.
BlindsidedFrom observations on beaches in numerous places all over the world, Daly concluded that there was a change in the ocean level, which dropped sixteen to twenty feet 3,500 years ago. Kuenen and others confirmed Daly’s findings with evidence derived from Europe.
Reader View: Climate change — the affects are real and local - My View - Santa Fe New MexicanLike most downtown businesses, Collected Works relies heavily on the tourists [don't the vast majority arrive via fossil-fueled transportation?] who come here for the many things our city offers
...Many of those who “return year after year” aren’t returning, and the impact on our economy is immediate.
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Forest fires, persistent drought and record temperatures are now more of a threat to my business than Amazon.com or e-readers. And it’s not just local weather extremes that affect us. We’ve lost sales because of delivery delays caused by climate change: planes grounded in Phoenix due to extreme temperatures, devastating tornadoes across the South and Midwest, crippling floods and snowstorms on the East Coast.
For businesses such as Collected Works that survive by offering superior customer service, superstorms are now a bigger concern than superstores.
Twitter / WarrenPearce: Commenter implies I am part ...Commenter implies I am part of "a new generation of denialists dog-whistling and trying to position themselves for corporate funding"
▶ Light-Rail to Nowhere: Honolulu, Hawaii's Train Boondoggle - YouTube"This rail project is our bridge to nowhere", says University of Hawaii law professor Randall Roth. "We are convinced that it will be billions of dollars over budget and we think they will try to get the federal government to bail them out."
Mother Nature is cooling Earth; we don’t need Obama’s plan - The Santa Fe New Mexican: My ViewIf Obama’s plans are put into effect, he should get no credit for cooling the Earth; very likely, somebody else — Mother Nature — has beat him to it.
Climate Change This Week: Burn, Baby, Burn, Sea Rise Lock-in, and More! | Mary Ellen Harte It's the biggest BBQ in history, folks, and we're on the grill!
▶ The Junk Science Behind Global Warming with James Delingpole - YouTube[39-minute audio]
Race for record wheat crop in low-lying Lincolnshire David Hoyles broke the British wheat yield record in 2011 on his deep silt soils and is making an attempt to top that this season...His deep silt soils were under the sea some 350 years ago before reclamation and close to the site where King John reputedly lost the Crown Jewels in 1216 crossing the marshy lands on the edge of the sea.
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