Thursday, November 14, 2013

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Report: Lecture by Prof Salby 7th Nov 2013 | ScottishSceptic
What Salby proposes is in principle very simple: that ice-cores do not correspond to actual levels of CO2 at the time the snow was formed.
Swat Delegation at U.N. Climate Change Conference: Day of Departure | Daily Gazette
Human lives are being sacrificed while negotiations stall.
Australia’s Politics of Global Warming - NYTimes.com
The jellyfish, though, are a painful new development.
Grand Strand, Pee Dee record lows shattered - WMBFNews.com, Myrtle Beach/Florence SC, Weather
The low in Myrtle Beach hit 27 degrees, shattering the record low for November 14. The previous record was set in 2003, at 33 degrees.

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Canada reveals climate stance with praise for Australian carbon tax repeal - 14 Nov 2013 - News from BusinessGreen
Canada has dropped any remaining pretences of supporting global action on climate change by urging other countries to follow Australia's example in gutting its climate plan.
If It Weighs The Same As A Duck ….. | Real Science
The most important thing is to have your mind made up about the results – before you choose the best combination of data sources to use, in order to achieve them.
Uncertainty in SST measurements and data sets | Climate Etc.
I don’t think Cowtan and Wray’s analysis adds anything to our understanding of the global surface temperature field and the ‘pause.’

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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What George Clooney Can Teach Us About Climate Change - Forbes
Clooney is not acting as some free-thinking radical but a simple cipher for what he has picked up in our media and educational system.
Twitter / MichaelEMann: .@Hudsonweather Paul: If ...
.@Hudsonweather Paul: If #climatechange critics R right, next few yrs should C lowest glob ave temps of entire (~160 yr) historical record.
Canadian Praise For Tony Abbott A Game Changer For Climate Negotiations | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)
Canada’s public praise yesterday for Australia’s decision to scrap the carbon tax underscores a dramatic shift that could sweep through international climate negotiations.

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Report: Climate Change Leaving America’s Big Game Nowhere to Run - National Wildlife Federation
Wildfire, floods and extreme weather events like heat waves, droughts and heavy rainfall, are becoming more frequent and more severe.
Deconstructing the hype on Super Typhoon Haiyan – Yolanda | Watts Up With That?
The sensationalist and over-hyped reporting of much of the media immediately after the tragedy was, in my view, utterly disgraceful. Perhaps in future, they might care to check the facts first.
Brrrrr! Record-breaking cold hits western Mass. | WWLP.com
The official reading at Westover Air Reserve Base was 19 degrees this morning, which breaks the record low of 20 degrees set back in 1950.

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Top climate scientists call for fracking ban in letter to Gov. Jerry Brown - San Jose Mercury News
"If what we're trying to do is stop using the sky as a waste dump for our carbon pollution, and if we're trying to transform our energy system, the way to do that is not by expanding our fossil fuel infrastructure," said Ken Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University.
The Super Storm Meme | The Resilient Earth
Careful indeed. The next time the natural disaster du jour is pronounced “Super” or “the worst ever” step back and take a deep breath. Odds are it is nothing of the sort. And when your friend or coworker blames the latest drought, heatwave, flood, blizzard or cold snap on global warming realize that they are just mindlessly repeating a meme, implanted into their minds like a disease by other witless carriers of global warming syndrome. Sadly, the only cure is to wait for the madness to fade in the fullness of time.
Tesla Is Planning To Make An Electric Pickup Truck | ThinkProgress
“If you’re trying to replace the most gasoline miles driven, you have to look at what people are buying,” Musk told CNN Money on Tuesday. “That’s the best selling car in America. If people are voting that’s their car, then that’s the car we have to deliver.”
Column - Greens feed on fears … and on Typhoon Haiyan’s dead | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
once again almost everything they say about this disaster is false or misleading.

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October in the USA Since 1998 | sunshine hours
According to the NOAA, October 2013 was the 37th coldest since 1895.
US Forest Fires Down 77% Since 1938 | Real Science
There were 42,538 wild fires in the US this year – the lowest total since 1984.
Warsaw talks to thrash out UN climate roadmap : Nature News & Comment
“Warsaw will bring some clarification on the structure of the new agreement,” Villagrasa says. “That’s not sexy for the media, but it’s important.”
SOI alumni attend COP19 in Poland | Students on Ice Blog
Ultimately as a seventeen year old I could not physically attend COP19. But the Policy paper that I have helped write will help influence the same politics which have changed our world, time and time again.

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The Coming Revelation Of The 'Global Warming' Fraud Resembles The Obamacare Lie - Forbes
The second shoe is preparing to drop to shatter the world view of so-called Progressives. Coming, global revelations will demonstrate the fraud behind the theory of man-caused, catastrophic, global warming, just like the real world has shattered the falsehoods behind Obamacare.

That is because the underlying reason for both frauds was the same: to expand government power.
Global Warming Blamed for Earlier Bird Migrations
...She says this may also explain why changes in migration pattern are not occurring among those bird species who migrate over long distances. These birds arrive so late to the breeding grounds that they do not have the opportunity to nest earlier in response to warmer temperatures.
Unreliable research: Trouble at the lab | The Economist
Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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Facing the Facts: Climate Change Is Bad For Business | DeSmogBlog
51% of the businesses contacted for the study said that climate change, specifically heavy rains and droughts, has already had a very large impact on operations, always in a negative way.
Veteran ice expert talks climate change at OUVeteran ice expert talks climate change at OU
[Lonnie Thompson] In a very real sense, we sink or swim together on this planet
We have to be the carbon tax | SocialistWorker.org
We're at a point where every single fossil fuel development should be fought--every pipeline, every bit of infrastructure.
Two opposing views on climate change » Around the world » In the U.S. » Workers World
The only conclusion that can be had from this is that the environmental movement must become consciously and militantly anti-capitalist.

Monday, November 11, 2013

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Global Warming and Health Correlate
The World Health Organization confirms health risks such as diarrheal diseases. Malnutrition, malaria and dengue fever are climate induced and are presumed to become worse as the temperatures continue to rise.
Twitter / UN_ClimateTalks: .@Figueres: We will need one ...
.@Figueres: We will need one trillion dollars a year to completely transform the energery sector towards low-carbon
Why Does the Global Warming Hoax Persist? | Power Line
Note that not a single one of those dollars, ostensibly spent to combat “climate change,” had an iota of impact on the climate. Nearly $2.5 billion went to fund the alarmist campaign; no wonder alarmist scientists don’t want the gravy train to end. The symbiosis is obvious: the government pays alarmists billions to spread myths about the climate, and the point of the mythology is to persuade voters to confer more power on government. And the $165 billion that the U.S. government has spent since 1993 is only a fraction of total global spending to grease the “green” machine. Lots of money to allies of big government; that is what global warming alarmism is all about.
From Prirazlomnaya to Warsaw: The Arctic 30, coal and the future of our children | Greenpeace International
we do know that extreme weather events are becoming more extreme and frequent because of climate change.
...Help us, in whatever you can, to take the struggle for our children's future to the fossil fuel industry. It's either them, or our children, who will live well.

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Open Letter to the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC: Conditional Invitation to Attend Powershift Central and Eastern Europe
we would like to respectfully invite you to attend our conference – but only if you do not attend the coal summit
Philippines envoy says UN climate talks are "fight for country's future"
Sano acknowledges it is currently hard to attribute single events to climate change. IPCC climate scientists currently have ‘low confidence’ that the intensity of tropical cyclones has increased since the 1950s, although they believe it is ‘likely’ they will increase in the late 21st century.
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“Climate change means we face a future where super typhoons will no longer be one-in-one hundred year events… and we refuse to accept a process that will allow a future where Super Typhoons would happen every year, and that’s what happening.”

Friday, November 08, 2013

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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

Thursday, November 07, 2013

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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):

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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 on yearly asteroid death risk: 91; yearly death risk: 150,000;
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?

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

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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

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

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 Negotiator App for is now available. Check it out:
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.’’

Monday, November 04, 2013

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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
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.

Sunday, November 03, 2013

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.