Another massive black eye for the IPCC: WGII lead author Roger Jones' key role in profane, stupid video: "bitches be crying about a carbon tax...we were too busy suckin d*ck in Copenhagen"

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Roger Jones (Australia)

Flashback: Can the IPCC brand be damaged any further? Note that IPCC AR5 lead author Roger Jones seems proud of his part in a profane, stupid 2011 climate propaganda video

[video here] Here is a transcript of the lyrics:
...I'm a climate scientist..
Droppin facts all over this wax
While bitches be crying about a carbon tax
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We gotta move fast or we'll be forsaken,
Cause we were too busy suckin dick Copenhagen: (Politician)
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The Green house effect is just a theory sucker (Alan Jones)
Yeah so is gravity float away muther f**cker
...As Mr. Ilic wrote the first drafts of the lyric, he worked closely with Dr. Jones and Dr. Katrin Meissner (University of New South Wales) who fact checked the lyrics

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White House Will Focus on Climate Shifts While Trying to Cut Greenhouse Gases - NYTimes.com

The White House is expected to take new steps on Friday to help society adapt to global warming, an acknowledgment that worldwide efforts to control emissions will be inadequate to head off big climatic shifts.

The scramble for the Arctic and the dangers of Russia’s race for oil | Daily Maverick

Naidoo denies emphatically allegations that Greenpeace life rafts tried to ram the Russian coastguard boats.

“Absolutely not, the crews are fully trained and experienced. But manoeuvering in Arctic swells is hazardous. We have never endangered lives or property..."

Lewandowsky/Mann paper suggests that AGW is killing 150k annually

The Subterranean War on Science - Association for Psychological Science

By Stephan Lewandowsky, Michael E. Mann, Linda Bauld, Gerard Hastings, and Elizabeth F. Loftus
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Science denial kills...According to the World Health Organization, climate change is already claiming more than 150,000 lives annually (Patz, Campbell-Lendrum, Holloway, & Foley, 2005), and estimates of future migrations triggered by unmitigated global warming run as high as 187 million refugees (Nicholls et al., 2011).
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The conspiratorial element of denial explains why contrarians often perceive themselves as heroic dissenters who — in their imagination — are following Galileo’s footsteps by opposing a mainstream scientific “elite” that imposes its views not on the basis of overwhelming evidence but for political reasons.
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This article surveys some of the principal techniques by which the authors have been harassed; namely, cyber-bullying and public abuse; harassment by vexatious freedom-of-information (FOI) requests, complaints, and legal threats or actions; and perhaps most troubling, by the intimidation of journal editors who are acting on manuscripts that are considered inconvenient by deniers.

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Blame solar for sky-high Ontario power bills | Financial Post

By the end of 2014, solar will be costing Ontarians $1.25-billion per year – while generating a paltry 2% of Ontario’s total electricity requirement.

Why UN Climate Talks Must Deliver a Brighter Future for Us All | Paul Polman

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life. Climatic shifts on the scale suggested by our current emissions trajectory could wreak havoc with the global agricultural system. 2 degrees of average warming could still mean several times that in the world's temperate regions, where much of the world's food is grown.

Hamburg's answer to climate change | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

there's a European commercial hub that promotes bicycling as the main mode of transportation

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Hempleman-Adams: "the Arctic is the canary in the mine"

“This morning it took me three hours to go where I live in Chippenham to London. Three hours. I thought, ‘I’m wasting my time in a damn car.’”

Frost bites Victorian and New South Wales farms - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Severe and widespread frost has ruined hundred of thousands of hectares of crop across New South Wales and Victoria, costing producers millions of dollars.

Record grain harvest clogs west coast export terminals

"The situation this year is unprecedented," said Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Winnipeg-based Western Grain Elevators Association.

Terence Corcoran: Carbon pricing an idea that just won’t die | Financial Post

It’s an idea that just won’t die, even when it’s dead. Carbon pricing, sometimes called a carbon tax, is a price and tax mechanism beloved by economists, lip-synched by politicians, championed by environmentalists and abstractly endorsed by industry. One problem: Voters and taxpayers have so far demonstrated an unwillingness to support such taxes, making the concept more of a hot policy potato than a clearly defined platform item.

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Polar bear cannibalism and sea ice, the spring of 1976 | polarbearscience

I found a report of cannibalism in 1976 associated with heavy spring ice – in the Chukchi Sea, near Barrow, Alaska.

Halloween Thoughts from Obama’s Science Advisor — MasterResource

“Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the [twentieth] century.”

- John Holdren and Paul Ehrlich[1]

Heat and fires from when CO2 was “ideal”: Black Thursday, 1851 « JoNova

The year 1851 and CO2 is 287ppm in Law Dome Antarctica. The climate is perfect, but Australians are dealing with the worst fires in recorded history, scorching heat, drought, searing wind and by the sounds of it, an arabian dust storm. There are no skycranes, no mobile phones, and no helitankers. Temperatures in the shade hit 117F in Melbourne (that’s 47C), 115 in Warnambool, 114 in Geelong. But those are not BOM official records (the BOM didn’t exist until some 50 years later). The conditions were unprecedented in living memory even though, at the time, many people said fires and droughts were commonplace. Businesses stopped, and it was described as “wanton martyrdom” to go out in the streets. People fighting the fires realized they had to flee instead and took en masse onto galloping horses to head for bare hilltops or watercourses. One writer two weeks later suggests the fire consumed 150,000 pounds of life and property, “to the utter ruin of many families.” The population was around 80,000. Despite the devastation, no one suggests a carbon tax.

Shock News : There Has Always Been Bad Weather | Real Science

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Alberta grizzlies getting fatter, more fertile due to global warming, study says | National Post

EDMONTON — Research by the University of Alberta shows that grizzly bears in parts of the province are getting fatter and more fertile thanks to global warming.

Activists Feel Powerful Wrath as Russia Guards Its Arctic Claims - NYTimes.com

The vigorous legal response by the authorities, including the seizure of the ship itself, appears to have caught Greenpeace off guard and left the crew’s families and friends worried that the consequences of what the activists considered a peaceful protest could prove much graver than any expected when they set out.

Poll: Bushfires not caused by man-made global warming

In a Morgan poll conducted 29th and 30th October, a clear majority say the New South Wales bushfires were not caused by human-induced global warming and climate change.

Tesla carbon credits - an ongoing scandal

[Alberto Zaragoza Comendador] Tesla has been getting tens of millions thanks to a feature that nobody will ever use.

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New Tesla Fires, Old Volt Ones Explained, Not Absolved | National Legal and Policy Center

It’s become obvious that nothing riles the nerves of top executives in the electric vehicle industry as much as lithium ion battery fires do.

Can LED Bulbs Make Nuclear Plants Obsolete? - Forbes

If you want to increase functional capacity by 20 percent, you can build 21 nuclear reactors or reduce light power by 20 percent.

Michael Mann speaks at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe

Photo from AP Photo - caption

Climate scientist Michael Mann applauds as he listens to former President Bill Clinton during a rally for Democratic gubanatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, in Charlottesville, Va. , Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Mann is the former University of Virginia professor who was sued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Cuccinelli, a climate change skeptic, is seeking the documents for an investigation into whether Mann defrauded taxpayers by using manipulated data to obtain government grants.

Twitter / MichaelEMann: Me speaking before ...

Me speaking before @TerryMcAuliffe & Pres @BillClinton at today's #VAGov rally (better quality photos to follow).. pic.twitter.com/CxcEfBwkbC

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California: The Green Gentry’s Class Warfare | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Historically, progressives were seen as partisans for the people, eager to help the working and middle classes achieve upward mobility even at expense of the ultrarich. But in California, and much of the country, progressivism has morphed into a political movement that, more often than not, effectively squelches the aspirations of the majority, in large part to serve the interests of the wealthiest.

Cold Winters, Hot News | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

[David Whitehouse] It may be no coincidence that estimates of the turn-around in solar activity from grand maximum to decline might have occurred between 1985 – 95, and that global annual average surface temperatures have been flat since 1997.

"Extreme weather" does not justify extreme political agenda (Opinion from Sen. Jeff Sessions) | AL.com

When it comes to understanding and predicting the Earth's climate, I believe we need to be more honest and humble.

- Bishop Hill blog - Keenan does AR5

Doug Keenan has written a critique of the IPCC's handling of statistics in AR5. Suffice it to say he is not impressed

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Frost bites New South Wales crops - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Severe and widespread frost has ruined hundred of thousands of hectares of crop across New South Wales and Victoria costing producers millions of dollars.

Rajendra Pachauri raises concerns over impact of climate change

He said disaster events like heat waves and high precipitation are also on the rise.

China’s anti-pollution drive risks running out of gas - Reuters News - Point Carbon

BEIJING, Oct 30 (Reuters) - A chronic shortage of natural gas is hurting China's plan to move away from burning coal to heat homes and offices, raising the prospect of more choking air pollution this winter and beyond.

Rapidly advancing US maize crop sends prices tumbling

Maize (corn) futures in the US have tumbled to their lowest level for three years in trading as the pace of the record high domestic harvest exceeded traders' expectations.

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The Deafening Silence Continues | Real Science

Last year was marked by hysterics about a record Arctic sea ice melt down, a completely fake record Greenland meltdown, and a fake record hot year in the US. We were told that this was all proof the Earth was doomed.

This year, we hear nothing about any of those topics, and they have moved on to bush fires in Australia.

One third of Australia's media coverage rejects climate science, study finds | Environment | theguardian.com

An academic study has found that 32% of articles dismissed or questioned the link between human activity and climate change

Tell the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Don’t promote climate change denial

Generally, the Strib allows Republicans to tell any old lie they want to on their editorial page. But it’s time to tell them to put an end to the anti-science malarkey the climate deniers want printed.

Taylor & Francis Online :: ‘Wise contrarians’: a keystone species in contemporary climate science, politics and policy - Celebrity Studies - Volume 4, Issue 3

In the 1980s, celebrity climate contrarians, which we might understand as a kind of ‘keystone species’ or ‘charismatic megafauna’, emerged through resistance to dominant interpretations of scientific evidence, and through divergent views regarding what are the best ways to respond to climate threats. Our research here examines the growth pathways of these beings...

What's policy-neutral IPCC chief Pachauri doing on a jury for an EU #worldulike campaign?

Live Q&A with EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard

With a jury made up of European Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundlandt and Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC, the #worldulike campaign is the first pan-European climate campaign after Copenhagen's COP15 of this scale.

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Implications for climate models of their disagreement with observations | Climate Etc.

The argument is then made that climate models were really designed as research tools, to explore and understand climate processes. Well, we have long reached the point of diminishing returns from climate models in terms of actually understanding how the climate system works; not just limited by the deficiencies of climate models themselves, but also by the fact that the models are very expensive computationally and not user friendly.
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If the discrepancy between climate model projections and observations continues to grow, will the gig be up in terms of the huge amounts of funding spent on general circulation/earth system models?

Higher emissions target in line with science: council | Business Spectator

International action, particularly from the US and China is moving faster than was expected just a few years ago

Arctic Sunrise: Inside Greenpeace Crew's Jail

Several of the group have said they are struggling with the cold in their cells and requested warm clothes.
But when confronted about conditions inside, the head of the detention centre told Sky News British prisons were "soft".
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They have already sent in portable water heaters so they can boil water in their cells.
"Cold is a problem for some of the people I know," he said.
"They were asking to have a hat so they can sleep with the hat on, and to have gloves so they can sleep in them."

Gore lies again: "consensus within the scientific community that increasing the global temperature by more than 2°C will likely cause devastating and irreversible damage to the planet"

Al Gore and David Blood: The Coming Carbon Asset Bubble - WSJ.com

There is consensus within the scientific community that increasing the global temperature by more than 2°C will likely cause devastating and irreversible damage to the planet.
...Renewable technologies are already economically competitive with fossil fuels in a number of countries without subsidies.

Aug 2011: [Warmist] Jeremy Grantham Foresees Oil Decline and Increases Oil Holdings: OIL, XOM, PRB, PRB.A, SU, CNQ, BP - GuruFocus.com

Recently, Grantham has become a fan of the oil & gas companies. The sector weighting history of his portfolio shows that he has been increasing his oil & gas holdings since the third quarter of 2010. He also added more of these companies than any others in the most recent quarter. They now comprise 8.7% of his portfolio.

Motley Fool, Oct 20, 2013: 3 Reasons You Shouldn't Take Investing Tips From Al Gore

My advice to Al Gore, if he is confident that a carbon bubble will bring down big oil, is to put his money where his mouth is and start taking some short positions. My advice to investors, on the other hand, is to look elsewhere for guidance. The global energy mix is without a doubt evolving, but these are gradual changes that will reflect supply, demand, and pricing rather than the arbitrary predictions of politicians.

I'm confused again: We're told that we need to discourage economic growth in order to stop climate change, and we also need to stop climate change in order to encourage economic growth

Report: Climate change may pose threat to economic growth - CNN.com

[James Allan] Framing the risks in economic terms makes the issue harder to ignore

Flashback: Unhinged warmist Naomi Klein writes about sabotage and “radical and immediate de-growth strategies" as methods to prevent CO2-induced bad weather

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Twitter / Sustainable2050

.@kuminaidoo at VU Amsterdam: Science is clear: we have to leave at least 3/4 of known fossil fuels in the ground.

Why is Antarctic sea ice expanding? | Grist

as continental ice and icebergs melt, they may be lowering ocean temperatures, helping the layer of ice form on the sea’s frigid surface.

Willians also points out that it actually isn’t even clear whether the total amount of Antarctic sea ice is expanding. Researchers don’t know how think the layer of ice is or how much volume it holds. At least for now, scientists can only reliably measure its surface area.

Gore, Browner, Van Jones, and Tom Steyer Speak on Climate Policy at Center for American Progress Conference

Finally, Gore claimed that at least two billion people now have access to electricity produced by renewable sources at rates below the grid average. If true, then why are so few people buying it?

Yipes: Unhinged warmist Naomi Klein writes about sabotage and “radical and immediate de-growth strategies" as methods to prevent CO2-induced bad weather

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt

According to the abstract for [Brad Werner's] presentation, this includes “environmental direct action, resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in protests, blockades and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups”.

Serious scientific gatherings don’t usually feature calls for mass political resistance, much less direct action and sabotage. But then again, Werner wasn’t exactly calling for those things.
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If we are to avoid that kind of carnage while meeting our science-based emissions targets, carbon reduction must be managed carefully through what Anderson and Bows describe as “radical and immediate de-growth strategies in the US, EU and other wealthy nations”.

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Fox Business Marks Sandy Anniversary With Climate Denial

...Brad Johnson is the campaign manager of Forecast the Facts, the climate accountability organization.

Climate experts agree with each other more than they think - environmentalresearchweb

More than half (59%) of the respondents in Vision Prize’s most recently completed poll of experts believe that a 1 metre sea-level rise will happen by the year 2100 if governmental policies do not change.

The Alternative Reality of the Heartland Institute’s “NIPCC” Report | NCSE

Did you know that “CO2 is a vital nutrient” that “‘greens’ the planet and helps feed the growing human population”?
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None of these claims are true, of course

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Danger From Climate Change and Storms a Year After Superstorm Sandy | TIME.com

“There’s been just remarkable development along the coast,” says Scott Knowles, a professor at Drexel University and author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America. “It’s not that the storms are necessarily worse in any objective way. It’s that we have put more people and property in harm’s way.”

Carbon farming: it's a nice theory, but don't get your hopes up | World news | theguardian.com

Depressingly, Kirkegaard and his colleagues found there was more carbon in the soil plots where the straw was burnt rather than incorporated into the soil.

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Britain Cuts Environment Staff As BBC Comes Under Fire For Giving Airtime To Climate Deniers | ThinkProgress

The [Environment Agency], which enforces environmental regulations and also manages Britain’s flood risk, will reduce its 11,400-member staff to around 9,700 by October 2014 due to budget cuts

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper says biofuels will cause high food price inflation, but don't worry, you'll eat less as a result

A paper published today in Global Environmental Change finds biofuel production will cause a significant increase in future food prices, especially in the US. The authors predict that high food price inflation due to producing biofuels in the US will lead to fewer calories consumed [aka more people starving], but says nonetheless CO2 "emissions per calorie [will increase] slightly in all three countries [US, China, Brazil]." This begs the question, why do we burn our food?

Greenland parliament right to repeal ban on uranium mining as independence nears | Alaska Dispatch

several projections show Greenland amongst the world's top 5 uranium exporters by 2030

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How global warming could boost green energy in an unexpected way (+video) - CSMonitor.com

"Water's a bigger problem than temperature,” [Mort Webster, an associate professor of engineering systems at MIT] says.

US Chamber President Tom Donohue Pushes Deceitful Dirty Energy Talking Points

The U.S. Chamber is in the tank for the dirty energy industry, and Donohue’s insistence that the United States government is hindering our quest for unnecessary oil is clear proof of that.

Bill McKibben says wind is cheap as coal. Jo Nova says “so who needs a carbon tax then?” « JoNova

To which I say, fantastic. If wind power is as cheap as coal, we don’t need a carbon tax, emissions trading schemes, renewable targets, or other subsidies … people will use wind simply because it is cheaper. Alternatively, Bill is talking out of his hat.

Kill the schemes, cut the subsidies. Bring it on. I say!

The New Renewables Narrative: Buyer Beware — MasterResource

If supporters of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, said it was heavily subsidized on both the state and federal level, had an artificial market created by government mandates, would help mitigate global warming, was the recipient of taxpayer dollars through Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill that funded projects like Solyndra, and was marred by cronyism, the right would run.

Instead the wily tactics have won over a few Republicans with strong conservative résumés (or given cover for those who really know better). Those sell-outs are working hard to bring their peers into the fold.

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Science Taking Back Seat to Political Correctness | Heartlander Magazine

[Dr. Irvin H. Forbing] Carbon dioxide is not a dangerous pollutant, as increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit increasing populations by increasing agricultural productivity. Many greenhouses inject as much as 1,000 ppm or more into the air, to grow better plants and vegetables. In past geologic history, atmospheric concentrations were as much as 3,000-7,000 ppm. The world was much greener then, though not much warmer. This is happening—to our benefit—once again. Satellite data show the earth is now increasing in greenery as a result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

On Keystone XL, will Obama stand up to big oil? | Bill McKibben | Comment is free | theguardian.com

There are days, in fact, when it's hard to muster much fire for the fight (though whenever I find my enthusiasm flagging, I think of the indigenous communities that have to live amid the Mordor that is now northern Alberta).

I'm confused again: If the Arctic is at its warmest in 120k years, why the suggestion that 120 meters of Antarctic ice has built up over the last 1,000 years?

Antarctic drilling project to get to core issues of climate change

The team will drill three ice cores, one 400-metre core with data between 2000 and 3000 years old, and two 120-metre cores, which will cover atmospheric conditions over the past 1000 years.

New research shows the Arctic is practically baking under anthropogenic global warming, hottest in 120,000 years

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A new study shows that Arctic temperatures are the highest they have been in the past 44,000 years and possibly even the hottest in the past 120,000 years.