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A Stronger, More Resilient New York by Mayor Bloomberg-Climate Change - EarthSayers.tv New York is described by Dr. John Holdren, science and technology advisor to President Obama as being the "point of the spear in addressing climate change."
He Lifted His Sand Wedge And Healed The Planet | Real ScienceObama has had the fewest hurricane landfalls of any president, and the last two years have been the quietest on record for tornadoes. Global temperatures have declined since Obama took office, and the drought is over.
Five Holiday Gift Ideas for the Skeptic In Your Life, with Unlimited Gift Coupon!here is a selection of gifts as cathartic for you as they are improving for those very special people in your life, such as your lovable but crazy uncle who thinks the sea floor is littered with undetectable volcanoes.
The secret society of warmists - Telegraph[Booker] As one present put it, “it was like talking to members of a cult”. What particularly struck the GWPF team was their opposite numbers’ refusal to discuss the policy implications of their beliefs, even though Hoskins is a leading member of the “independent” committee which advises the Government on its increasingly disastrous and futile “low carbon” energy policy. In short, the meeting seemed perfectly to exemplify the real mess we are in, where the officially approved scientists who advise our politicians are so sure they are right that it is impossible to have any serious dialogue with them.
GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS GUILTY OF ATTACK ON SCIENCE | UTSanDiego.com In “The Inquisition of Climate Change” (2011), James Powell wrote, “I have come to believe that in the denial of global warming, we are witnessing the most vicious, and so far most successful, attack on science in history.”
I now have a firsthand appreciation of this entrenched hostility to science, especially that related to global climate change and future warming. What I do not understand is the reason for this hostility.
Bada is Distinguished Research Professor of Marine Chemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
Peter Willcox, American Greenpeace Activist Jailed In Russia For Climate Protest, Won't Back DownEven now, he said he'd do the Arctic protest again, knowing he'd spend two months in jail. "I mean, for me, I didn't like two months in jail," he said. "It was really tough. But for me, the alternative -- doing nothing, giving up the planet to the oil companies -- is not an option. If I have to go to jail for a couple of months, I'll do that. That's a price to pay. Ten to 15 years is another matter."
Western states want delay in wolverine listing - Laramie Boomerang Online"Climate change models are not a reason to list species under the Endangered Species Act," Bill Bates, a representative from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, told The Salt Lake Tribune.
Bates said the population of wolverines has actually increased since the time of European settlement, even though it's estimated fewer than 300 of the elusive, snow-loving carnivores roam the mountain ranges of the Lower 48 states.
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Federal officials say they aren't trying to use the wolverine as a means to regulate greenhouse gases
U.N. carbon offset market seen 'in a coma' for years after Warsaw | ReutersInvestment under the U.N.'s $315 billion Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has ground to a halt as the value of the credits they generate has plunged 95 percent in five years to around 0.30 euros, crushing profits that investors count on to set up carbon-cutting schemes in the developing world.
USDA: Corn harvest expected to be record 13.99 billion bushels; prices lowest since 2010 | Star Tribunethe U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday it expects 13.99 billion bushels of corn, more than the September forecast of 13.8 billion bushels. The previous record was 13.1 billion in 2009.
Blimey! Skeptical Science Admits Current Decade Running 0.053°C Cooler Than Last Decade!I suppose if the data for the current decade were running warmer, you would not be hearing any “just noise” talk from Rob.
Extreme weather events are increasing: yet another green propaganda myth – Telegraph Blogsclimate alarmists threw all moral compunction or intellectual integrity out of the window long ago. As we saw in the Climategate emails they smear; lie; twist data; temper with evidence; bully; exaggerate; abuse the scientific method… almost as a matter of routine. When you debate them in public, though, you imagine somehow that they'll rise to the occasion, that they'll behave a bit better when there are other people watching. They never do though.
Big Oil, Big-Gas lobby against coal. Shell leans on World Bank to nobble the competition « JoNovaWell, well, well. When Big-Oil fund skeptics, they’re evil polluters. When Big-Oil pay green lobbyists, they’re just being good citizens (see the ads, right?). Naturally Royal Dutch Shell are concerned about the environment, families, rare marsupials and what not. They wouldn’t just be green for the profit would they… oh, wait. Shell is one of the six gas “super majors” and all gas providers profit when coal is unfashionable. In terms of resources, Shell is now more of a gas company than an oil company.
Big-Gas loves wind turbines. Wind farms are fickle and coal power can’t ramp up and down quickly to fill in the gaps, but the more expensive gas can. No wonder Shell are lobbying actively against coal, and for wind.
Michael Mann’s delusional fever | Climate SanityMann uses his mighty reasoning powers to discern a conspiracy. You can’t be too careful when even your friends are out to get you. He warns us that this is ultimately the work of the Koch brothers, just like every other vile conspiracy against the goodness and light of global warming alarmism and the left in general. (It used to be Dick Cheney and Halliburton, but I guess they must have passed the world control levers over to the Koch brothers.) You see, Richard Muller now controls the New York Times, and the Koch brothers control Richard Muller.
Mann wraps his tin foil a little tighter and lectures…
UN Climate Fanatics | NoFrakkingConsensusBan Ki-moon mentioned [the IPCC] in his speech. Indeed, he went so far as to assure the assembled crowd that while the UN had been “very much troubled by science skeptics” just “a couple of years ago,” the recent release of the new IPCC report had put an end to all that.
There is now, he said, “much more clarity.” It “is a scientific finding” that climate change is humanity’s fault.
When UN leaders get together, this is what they tell each other. This, apparently, is what they believe.
Expert Reviews by Skeptics | JunkScience.comMay I introduce a first team of climate experts that say nuts to the 5 th assessment working group’s report for the IPCC.
IPCC scientist wins prestigious environment prize » TckTckTck | The Global Call for Climate ActionDr Qin Dahe, a glaciologist from China, was awarded the prestigious prize for his research into how climate change leads to more extreme weather events.
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Dr Qin said he hopes that the scientific evidence of the fifth assessment report will be enough to create a breakthrough in global climate negotiations.
[Qin] There is an encouragingly fast development in climate models. We are now seeing much smaller discrepancies between prognoses and what we observe in the form of temperatures and carbon dioxide concentration. My hope is that the scientific evidence will prompt people all over the world to work together to reduce emissions.
Volvo Environment Prize - About the prizeThe Volvo Environment Prize consists of a diploma, a glass sculpture and a cash award for SEK 1.5 million (approximately EUR 167 000 or USD 209 000)
pressrelease20131021-en.pdfIn the words of the Jury, “the report demonstrated for the first time a clear link between climate change and many extreme events, an issue of immediate relevance for human
well-being in many parts of the world”.
PH commissioner: Where Warsaw conference succeeded, failedWarsaw Outcome: "It was not only disappointing but miserably disappointing," lamented Saño.
Data Comparison Shows GISS Arctic Winter Temperature Trend Grossly Overblown, Arctic Data Contaminated, Flawedfor some reason, the GISS winter temperature trend for the Arctic profoundly diverges from RSS satellite data.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper demonstrates inability to model cloudsA new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters demonstrates the pathetic state of climate modelling of clouds. According to the paper, the only way for the modellers to reproduce cloud effects on observed temperatures was to use microphysical properties of clouds that were the most divergent from satellite observations. In other words, to "tune" the model to reproduce one observation [temperature] results in detuning and non-reproduction of another observation [cloud microphysical properties]. The models thus remain in a state of infancy regarding clouds, one of the most important parameters required for climate projections. A mere 1 to 2% cloud modelling error can alone account for global warming or cooling, and these computer modelling games are nowhere close to achieving such a level of accuracy.
Polar Bear Blog – The Complicated World of Freeze-up This has been yet another year of early freezeup or, if you like, a return to the old ‘normal’.
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Once the heavy ice hits in December and January, the bears chances of a successful hunt really dry up. In fact, bears spend much of mid-winter in ‘walking hibernation’ just like they do in summer.
...For the most part, the bears were in good condition (Manitoba Conservation reported that many of their larger bears were around 150lbs heavier than last year).
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Still, these last two season have really put an exclamation mark on what all of the local polar bear guys believe up here: we have not reached a ‘tipping point’ with Churchill’s polar bears, they are not starving, the numbers are not crashing and it is not necessary to remove them from the wild and place them in captivity.
Heavy ice delays Antarctic icebreaker for second year in a rowThe Aurora Australis was due to return to Hobart more than a week ago after a resupply mission, but it is still navigating through heavy ice about 180 nautical miles off the Davis research station.
Warmists preach hunger, but crops grow and grow | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogHow often have warmists peddled the starvation scare?
Van Ypersele on BBC Radio 5 Live | The IPCC ReportA: Well, you know, I’m an optimistic person and I hope that at some point a sufficiently large number of countries and citizens in the world and business leaders and policy leaders will understand that we are on a single boat, we don’t have another one, and that the boat might be in deep trouble if we don’t change the way the energy is used and produced in the world, because the climate has been stable for the last 10,000 years
basically, plus or minus one degree if you look at the global average temperature, and during that 10,000 years agriculture and civilisations have developed now we are talking about gaining before the end of the century up to 5 degrees above the present temperature, even almost 6 above the pre-industrial temperature, three times the agreed target of Copenhagen and this will change radically the habitability of our only planet.
Arctic winds and heavy snowfall hitting ItalyOne-and-a-half meters of snow in some places.
Calling the Climate-Change BluffThe facts are more than a wee bit different from the proclamations, computer models, dire predictions, and related assertions by much of the green-blinkered media.”
IPCC’s AR5 “The Movie”: No comments or ratings allowed | The View From HereTurns out that, apparently, the powers that be at the IPCC are still dancing as though it is 2007, when from their cloistered view of the world, communication was only a one-way street. This was back in the good old days, when inconvenient comments of “expert reviewers” could be haughtily ignored except when the number thereof were being paraded as “evidence” of the “thoroughness” “inclusiveness” and “transparency” of their “process”.
International polar bear forum Moscow, Dec. 3-6 | polarbearscienceIf you’ve wondered why there’s been so much polar bear hype circulating over the last couple of weeks, the reason is almost certainly this upcoming meeting.
[British singer] Morrissey Attacks 'Thankskilling,' Says Eating Turkey Spurs Global Warmingthe meat industry is responsible for 51% of human-caused greenhouse-gas emission
For these we give thanks? - George F. WillHealthCare.gov performed the public service of defeating Barack Obama's ascription of every disagreeable effect to one of two causes -- George W. Bush or global warming. Concerning the latter, a CNN anchor wondered if an asteroid that passed by Earth on Feb. 15 was "an effect of, perhaps, global warming." The Los Angeles Times announced that it had stopped publishing letters questioning global warming caused by human activity.
Which makes sense, if you agree with The New Yorker's resident expert, who called the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on warming "the last word on climate change." It evidently is the first science to reach the end of its subject, all questions answered. Therefore it is puzzling that dramatic predictions of an unusually high number of 2013 hurricanes were dramatically wrong.
Why climate change is (still) far too important to be left to scientists – Telegraph BlogsThis essay is gold, I tell you, gold. What makes it so is the way it combines close textual analysis with a broader appreciation of the overarching narrative; the way it employs witty analogies, tropes, digressions, asides, high and low cultural references, complex structure, colourful turns of phrase to lure the reader in and make the argument more attractive, readable, comprehensible, enjoyable, worth pursuing right to the end…
Maybe – contra some of our more rabid trolls – non-scientists do have something to contribute to our understanding of the climate debate after all….
Warsaw Climate Change Conference Inconclusively Concludes - Reason.comWarsaw-"For the third year in a row the (member) countries have found a new way to say absolutely nothing," asserted Oxfam director Winnie Byanyima, as the U.N.’s annual climate change conference limped inconsequentially to its end on Saturday in Warsaw.
Twitter / PeterGleick: If aliens were adding these ...If aliens were adding these greenhouse gases into our atmosphere and changing our #climate, we'd declare war & let Ender Wiggins loose.
Carleton students call for action against the trend of devistation caused by climate change - Northfield MN: News“We need to start changing the public dialogue so when people react to [natural disasters] they don’t say ‘Oh a typhoon,’ but ‘Oh, climate change,’” said Sam Neubauer, a freshman at Carleton College and member of the Climate Justice Coalition.
Faith-Based IPCC Turns Science into Sin | Somewhat ReasonableIn just about any realm of human study, being this dramatically wrong would cause the authors of the errors to be dismissed as unreliable, and perhaps as quacks. But in the world of environmental fearmongering, a spectacularly false prediction is no obstacle. There is no “wrong” in climate activism, there is only the message, which must be pushed continuously without regard for contrary evidence or honest scientific skepticism. Unsettling facts must not get in the way of “settled science.”
Climate Skepticism in Norway | NoFrakkingConsensusKlimarealistene hosted, organized, and publicized an event in which I was the guest speaker. In the neighbourhood of 100 people attended – including a politician or two, a couple of journalists, and an individual linked to that country’s Academy of Sciences.
UN Talks in Warsaw End with a Whimper | National Review OnlineThe next one of these things — COP20 — will be held December 1-12, 2014, in Lima, Peru. Note that it will be the middle of summer in Peru and the perfect warm-weather holiday for all the European-based climate alarmists. Have fun and bring me back a T-shirt!
Global Warming Threatens Pacific Economies, Report Says - Real Time Economics - WSJDamage to coral reefs prized by divers and snorkelers, rapid erosion of sandy beaches and more frequent weather events like tropical storms could shave one-third off tourism revenue in the Pacific region by the end of the century, the ADB said.
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The region will need US$447 million every year until 2050 to prepare for worst-case scenarios caused by climate change, the bank calculates. Most of the money would go toward planning and making preparations
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But tourism is too important to the region to ignore: In Palau and the Cook Islands it accounts for more than half of GDP
Cook Islands sustained growth [2012] THE Cook Islands has achieved double-digit monthly growth from the Australian market for the past two years with visitor numbers up 40%, according to Cook Island Tourism officials.
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