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Thanks Prof Salby | ScottishSceptic

I didn’t like Prof Murry Salby’s talk – not because it wasn’t thoroughly convincing that the rise in CO2 was unlikely to be man-made, but because it was so convincing.

97 per cent of warmists cite a 97 per cent that’s false | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Any time you hear someone babble on about “97 per cent of climate scientists” you should conclude the speaker has no idea what they are talking about.

- Bishop Hill blog - Speaking volumes

Mike Kelly has a letter in the Times today calling for an independent panel of statisticians and engineers to assess what the climatologists are telling us.

Wisconsin Summers Getting Much Cooler Over The Last 80 Years | Real Science

The frequency of 90ºF readings in Wisconsin has dropped 75% since the 1930′s.

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Solar activity not making large contribution to global warming

The researchers found a small correlation between cosmic rays and global temperatures occurring every 22 years.

CAPP Thinks Kids Are Stupid

Schools are public places, and therefore should be free of advertisements or promotions of companies, interest groups, and other for-profit institutions. Propaganda has no place in our schools. The content of your program appears to be highly focused on the oil and gas industry

The New Nostradamus of the North: Next UN global warming jamboree to begin in Warsaw amid signs of some real progress

Indeed, one can only hope that Australia sets an example here. Heads of state and government of the major countries have already long ago dropped the COPs from their agenda. Why should the ministers of environment waste their time on these completely useless gatherings? There are more than enough of real environmental problems to keep them busy for years.

Getting Colder In Arkansas | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Better jet to the Maldives or Tuvalu now: Cancer-causing air and snakes as long as buses are coming

10 reasons why you should care about the UN climate talks

The international climate change process is a hard one to sell.
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Every year countries gather for a lavish summit, bicker a little and agree to disagree for another 12 months.
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Cancer: For those who still think that climate change is something that happens to other people, consider this: the very air that we breathe causes cancer. This is due to the pollutants that are pumped into the air as a result of burning fuels like coal and oil.

Last month, the World Health Organisation classified the air itself as a carcinogen, rather than just the various toxic elements of which it is composed.
...According to the Daily Mail, a warming world could lead to “giant snakes as long as buses”.

Holiday destinations: Fancy a quick break to the Maldives? Keen to relax in Tuvalu? Or maybe you want to visit California’s lush vineyards? The best advice is go now. There’s no guarantee these gems will be with us forever.
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The world’s oceans are deteriorating so quickly scientists say there may not be any oysters left to eat in coming decades

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Record snowfall brings car crashes

Sioux Falls police responded to a car crash about every 17 minutes during and after the first snowstorm of the season.

Coffee sinks to 6-1/2 year low, rattled by Brazil crop

NEW YORK/ LONDON: Arabica coffee prices sank to 6-1/2 year lows and teetered on the brink of $1 per lb on Wednesday as investors continued to bet on lower prices due to expectations of record crops in top-growers in South America,

India may produce record wheat output this year: Agriculture Secretary - NDTVProfit.com

New Delhi: The country's wheat production this year is likely to surpass the previous record of 94.88 million tonnes on better coverage and good weather condition, Agriculture Secretary Ashish Bahuguna said today.

Twitter / KHayhoe: Apologies for annoying set ...

...Here's actual channel of my videos (updates now disabled): http://www.youtube.com/user/kathhayhoe

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SABC News.com - SA hopes for Kyoto Protocol implementation at COP 19:Tuesday 5 November 2013

It's all about sustainable living to ensure the world doesn't reach the dreaded 3 degree Celsius mark.

Twitter / KenCaldeira

@Revkin Rich countries should be paying a "carbon tax" on historical emissions. @FusEnLeague @nicoldesign2012

Twitter / borenbears: Physicist & meteor expert ...

Physicist & meteor expert @MarkBoslough on yearly asteroid death risk: 91; yearly #globalwarming death risk: 150,000; http://huff.to/XRNVZU

Wendy Bacon's Warmist Wonderland — Quadrant Online

Bacon’s paper makes 157 references to Andrew Bolt in its 222 pages, perhaps indicating a need for some counselling. In her worldview, Mr Bolt is a simulacrum of Austin Power’s Dr Evil, single-handedly destroying the planet with his super-weapon of…well, what? Bolt is just a commentator. If he’s influential, why would that be? Something to do with a large and existing body of sceptical opinion perhaps?

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Argentina : Frost affects stonefruit in Mendoza

The October 2013 study indicates that, in the case of peaches (fresh and ) and fresh plum, 85% of the crops were lost, 35% of the plum, for processing, 75% of the cherry crops and 90% of the apricot crops were also lost.

Let's dampen the fires of global warming alarmists | thetelegraph.com.au

[John Howard] GLOBAL warming is a quintessential public policy issue. Under-standing the science is crucial. So is under-standing the economics. So is understanding that as public monies are involved, rent seekers are thick on the ground.

Climate Change Poll: Many Don't Know Canada Out Of Kyoto Agreement

55 per cent of poll respondents had not heard of cap-and-trade system for emissions reductions.

Expensive Green Energy Policies Are Making Life Difficult For The Poor | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Green policies are increasingly a luxury that only the rich can afford, yet seem to be living halcyon days in places like Europe and California.

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Howard's new tune on climate echoes a disturbing refrain

Australia needs an evidence-based debate that respects the overwhelming strength of climate change science and applies commonsense to events such as bushfires.

The Climate Mapping Tool You've Been Waiting For - John Metcalfe - The Atlantic Cities

One of the several simulations crammed into this Swiss Army climate tool has this prediction: It will be blastedly warm, despite our best attempts to stop burning fossil fuels.

Tesla Drops on Vehicle Deliveries, Outlook: Mover - Bloomberg

“This industry devours cash.”

UN climate chief Figueres just asked me this question: "How many SUVs does it take to intensify a drought?!"

Twitter / CFigueres: .@tan123 @BOMAProject Tell ...

.@tan123 @BOMAProject Tell me: How many SUVs does it take to intensify a drought?!

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China 'flexible' on climate talks but rich nation funding is key: top negotiator - Reuters News - Point Carbon

BEIJING, Nov 5 (Reuters) - China will be “flexible” in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.

Leaked UN global warming report written by environmentalists | The Daily Caller

Parts of the report’s summary for policymakers were written with the help of environmental activists, according to a climate skeptic Canadian journalist.

Webchat: Do Western lifestyles need to change in the face of the environmental crisis? - Telegraph

David de Rothschild and Sonu Shivdasani answer your questions about the compatibility of modern life and environmental sustainability. Do we all need to compromise and, if so, what should we give up?

Bonfire cancelled after 20 years because of health and safety fears - Telegraph

Families with young children saw their celebrations “ruined” after council bosses took a village's bonfire away because of fears over health and safety.

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Twitter / yebsano [Lead Philipppines climate hoax negotiator]

We must not lower expectations for UNFCCC #COP19! Pursue emergency climate pathway now!

UAH & RSS Sharply Down In October | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

After a temporary spike in September, both UAH and RSS figures are sharply down in October, and back below the 12-month average.

RSS : No Change In Peru Temperatures | Real Science

That old time religion: Warmist Elizabeth Kolbert on "a laundry list of the apocalypse...general weather-related mayhem will increase"

Is It Too Late to Prepare for Climate Change? : The New Yorker

[Elizabeth Kolbert on the most recent IPCC leak] the summary reads like a laundry list of the apocalypse—flood, drought, disease, starvation. Climate change, the group noted, will reduce yields of major crops by up to two per cent each decade for the remainder of this century.
...the incidence of flooding, drought, and general weather-related mayhem will increase
...As Grist put it in a summary of the findings, “Animal Planet will get really boring.”
...Certainly they will overwhelm the abilities of frogs and trees and birds to adapt.

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Editorial: Our Opinion - TimesDispatch.com

By making unsupportable claims that deniers and skeptics can easily knock down, the alarmists undermine their own case.

How colour changes our climate - Telegraph

differences between sombre and sparkling objects in sunlight are of real importance to [students'] future

Twitter / UN_ClimateTalks: The #UNFCCC Negotiator App ...

The #UNFCCC Negotiator App for #COP19 is now available. Check it out: http://bit.ly/Tho7YZ

Harvard-Smithsonian global warming skeptic helps feed strategy of doubt, gridlock in Congress - Politics - The Boston Globe

Published in two separate peer-reviewed journals, the [Soon/Baliunas] paper contained an acknowledgment: part of the research funding came from the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s lobbying arm in Washington.

Michael Mann, a prominent climate researcher who performed crucial temperature studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 1990s and is now a professor at Pennsylvania State University, said he was surprised when he read the paper.

“Every self-respecting climate scientist that I knew that read it agreed, this was appalling,’’ Mann said. “It wasn’t legitimate. It was simply a politically motivated attack on a body of work masquerading as science.’’

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Kyoto Veterans Say Global Warming Goal Slipping Away - Bloomberg

The only three living diplomats who have led the United Nations global warming talks said there’s little chance the next climate treaty will prevent the world from overheating.
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Figueres, 57, who succeeded de Boer, 59, in 2010, said then that she doubted a final agreement on climate change will happen in her lifetime.

Twitter / ClimateReality: Get out the marshmallows, because ...

Get out the marshmallows, because Alaska is roasting...in October http://bit.ly/Hzon1Z  #CostOfCarbon

The New Nostradamus of the North: WWF: "world is warming more quickly" - despite the fact that warming has stopped even according to IPCC

WWF, the "world's largest independent conservation organization" is clearly not telling the truth when it says that "the world is warming more quickly". Regrettably mainstream media allow WWF (and other eco-fundamentalist organisations) to get away with their untruthful and misleading scaremongering.

1000% Increase In Thick Western Arctic Sea Ice | Real Science

The big Arctic story this year is the increase in thick ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

Ultra-rich Al Gore warns about income inequality; also, he already flies to China at least twice a year and plans to start doing that more often

Al Gore Tells Silicon Valley What's at Stake - Business - Cupertino, CA Patch

As former vice president, a Nobel-winning environmental activist and an Apple board member, Al Gore spoke to Silicon Valley business leaders Saturday not only about global warming but also about income inequality.

"The 400 wealthiest people in the US have a larger combined net worth than 50 percent of the country," he said.
...thousands of audience members gave Gore a rapturous standing ovation when he first appeared on stage.
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Later, during his post-speech Q & A session with Andrew Chiu, CEO of Verliant, Gore named carbon as a major problem that puts the future of the earth at stake. He used the 62-million-dollar cost of Hurricane Sandy as an example.
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Gore said he noticed more and more environmental awareness in China, including the increasing popularity of Tesla over there, during his at-least-twice-a-year visits. He added that he plans to go to China even more often.

Flashback: Oil Funded Al Jazeera Makes Al Gore Richer Than Mitt Romney - Katie Pavlich

His recent sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera for a cool $500 million, which makes him worth $300 million. Gore received a $100 million cut of the deal last week

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Scientists increasingly moving to global cooling consensus - Finance Post

Evidence of solar activity affecting climate appeared on Mars, when a probe revealed that the planet’s icepack was also experiencing global warming and receding.

Global warming 'pause' may last for 20 more years and Arctic sea ice has already started to recover | Mail Online

[David Rose] Study says warmer temperatures are largely due to natural 300-year cycles

Fox's Tucker Carlson Responds To Obama’s Climate Change Order With Denialism (Video)

“The truth is the climate hasn’t risen, temperatures have not risen in the past several years, they have gone down," said Carlson. He said "an emerging scientific consensus that we may be in for a period of global cooling caused not by greenhouse gases but by fluctuations in solar energy -- sun spots."

Understanding Snow Storms | Real Science

During years when there is little snow, experts tell us that global warming is the cause – and they lament the good old days when there used to be big snow storms.
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During years when there are big snow storms like the ones they remember from their childhood, they are due to man-made climate disruption.

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"

Microsoft Word - WGIIAR5-SPM_Pre-FGDtext_FINAL.docx - wgiiar5-spm_fgdall.pdf

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

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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