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Bitter Cold Taking It’s Toll On Building Pipes « CBS Denver

The cold is starting to take its toll on schools as three Denver metro area schools are closed because of broken pipes

Big corporations are getting ready for carbon taxes, even if we’re not | Grist

planning for a time when they would actually lose the battle over their climate sins.

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Current cold snap not enough to disrupt Colorado pine beetle threat - The Denver Post

The pine beetle infestation is on the wane in Colorado, primarily because the beetle has already feasted on most of the prime lodgepole pine in the northern mountains.

Montana's cold weather beats temperatures at the South Pole | KAJ18.com | Kalispell, Montana

On Friday, Great Falls dropped to -26° around 6 a.m., setting a new record low for December 6.

At the same time, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica was only at -20°.

Record Low Temperatures Hit Oklahoma Following Winter Storm

Oklahoma City's record low for tomorrow is 6 degrees set in 1950. We should break that record.

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Skeptic: Feds' latest global-warming report a 'shill' for funding - Climate Change Dispatch

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) examined warming that can occur over a period of years, not centuries, adding that the extinction of some species and melting ice in the Arctic Ocean is already occurring. Even so, Marc Morano of Climate Depot is skeptical.

"The organization [NAS] is virtually 100-percent dependent on government funding. So when they do a study like this – and they've done other studies in the past – you know the outcome of these studies before they do them," he argues. "When the president is advocating for a carbon tax, it's not too surprising that all the [government] reports are going to fall in line."

Morano says what shocks him the most about this report is that it "openly shills for more climate funding for its members."

Art Horn: Extortion Attempts Continue At Climate Doom Conference

To paraphrase Apollo Astronaut Walt Cunningham “You can’t reason with someone who believes in man made global warming because reason has nothing to do with how they arrived at their belief.” The real reason behind man made global warming is to extort money from the developed world. The extortionist is the United Nations. Its troops on the ground to achieve this is the IPCC

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Fresno: Freeze causes small farm concerns | abc30.com

Fong says the damage to his crops is estimated around $3,500, that's half of his entire crop for the year.

"It's Unbearable." Homeless Tucsonans brave bitter cold | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona

TUCSON- As many of us crank up our heaters this week, there are some Tucsonans sleeping outside on cold sidewalks.

"It's unbearable," says Gregory Williams.

Britain slashes carbon permit revenue forecast by 57 pct - Reuters News - Point Carbon

LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Britain expects to earn 300 million pounds ($490.29 million) in the next financial year from selling carbon permits, figures in the government's autumn statement showed on Thursday, 57 percent lower than previously forecast.

UK, France, Germany attack EU aircraft carbon plan - Reuters News - Point Carbon

BRUSSELS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Leading European Union states Britain, France and Germany propose scrapping a plan to make all aircraft pay a carbon charge for using EU airspace, documents seen by Reuters show.

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If-By-Warming

We are all of this Earth, and, save for an apocalyptic few, we all want to preserve it. Why, then, have the rational and pragmatic allowed the basic concept of caring for our planet to be hijacked by the functioning contradiction that is the Radical Opportunist?

One part hysteria, one part greed, with a liberal sprinkling of impracticality, the Radical Opportunist is a beast not to be underestimated. They are the crazy ex-girlfriend you don't remember dating. Anything they say can and will be used against you in their court of no appeals. Facts? No need. Opposing views? Who has the time? There is only enough space on their high horse for them to froth at the mouth and tell us all that we are all going to be under water in five...no, ten...wait...fifteen years!

The Great Green Lie: CCS Today Is Not Like Scrubbers in the 1970s (Part II) — MasterResource

The technology is so nascent and expensive that no utility would undertake it absent generous government subsidies. In fact, the only CCS project in the U.S. to close the necessary financing was aided by $270 million in Energy Department direct grants, and another $170 million in tax credits from the I.R.S. Without these taxpayer handouts, the project would never have broken ground.

Tracking polar bears in the Beaufort Sea: November map | polarbearscience

That’s three out of ten polar bears leaving the Southern Beaufort subpopulation region over a few months, which seems like a lot of cross-boundary movement for such a small subsample. It’s probably not that unusual but illustrates one of the reasons why counting polar bears accurately can be a bit difficult.

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UN $315 billion CDM carbon market comatose after Warsaw. It may last years « JoNova

Norway’s government is sending $30m of taxpayer funds to buy CDM credits. Lucky UK Taxpayers are tossing in 50 million pounds. Do I read this correctly — of the 50 million, only 33 is going to buy of the credits, the other 17million is going to train people on getting through UN red tape. Those compliance costs… really? And people call this a “free” market.

5 Images To Battle Climate Change? | UA Magazine

1. The Hockey Stick: Graphs
Braasch finds that most people that have to communicate data about climate change, have learned to stay away from graphs. Usually, no matter how dramatic the curve, the complex data behind graphs raise more questions than can be answered.

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Reality Drop: Spread Science about Climate Change, Global Warming

Is it too hard to go to the moon, eradicate smallpox or end apartheid? Is it too hard to build a computer that fits in your pocket? No? Then it's not too hard to build a clean energy future, either.

UK lawmakers reject energy bill amendment on old coal plants - Reuters News - Point Carbon

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - British lawmakers blocked an amendment to the government’s Energy Bill on Wednesday which sought to force old and inefficient coal power stations to comply with new regulations to reduce carbon emissions.

Canadian Farmers Have Record Year | AgWired

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Government and Arctic scientist part ways | Alaska Dispatch

When scientist Dr. Charles Monnett saw dead polar bears floating in the Arctic waters off of Alaska in 2004, he could not have foreseen that it would lead, a decade later, to a career-ending inquiry into his credibility and the trustworthiness of his work.

Gov. Heineman Cancels Duplicative Study on Climate Change - Nebraska

Heineman sent a letter to members of the Legislature Tuesday, noting that eliminating the study will remove $44,000 from the budget that was appropriated for the study.

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Study Rebuts IPCC, Calls For More Severe Emissions Cuts | Climate Central

Jeffrey Sachs, an economist, study co-author, and the director of the Earth Institute, told reporters that the world is currently on course for at least a 6°F increase in global average temperatures by the end of the century, a scenario he called “completely reckless.”
...The more philosophical aspects of the paper caused it to be rejected by one scientific journal, Hansen said.

Climate Alarmists Wrong Again: Science Disproves Claim Typhoon Haiyan Was Caused by Humans | NewsBusters

Claiming that global warming is causing more typhoons and hurricanes is in line with a new strategy by climate alarmists. Since the actual global temperatures have not matched their wild predictions at all, they've now shifted to claiming that global warming will somehow cause more extreme weather events. Earlier this year, the alarmists and their media followers erroneously tried to claim that the tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, was somehow related to global warming

IPCC planet-healer Pachauri "was on the board of Toyota"

3 out of 4 top IPCC chairs linked to fossil fuel industry | Informative Stats

And finally, there is Chairman Rajendra K. Pachauri, who holds degrees in economics and engineering. Pachauri has been a Director of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Director of Gail India Ltd (largest state-owned natural gas processing and distribution company), Independent Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd, and Independent Director of National Thermal Power Corp (who’ll burn 17 million tons of coal this year). He also founded Glori Energy, a company financed by KPCB (i.e. Al Gore & John Doerr) that recovers oil by injecting CO2 into reservoirs.

So what’s my point? That this is a conspiracy? No – although if I was so inclined, the fact that Pachauri was on the board of Toyota and Lee on the board of Hyundai, the two automotive firms with big investments in Sudan, would set my tin foil hat tingling before I’d even got to Pachauri’s Rockefeller connections.

More information about Pachauri (IPCC website) here

Check out this list of "18 of the world’s leading climate experts"

350 Or Bust: Scientists Warn Even 2°C Warming Leads To 'Disastrous Consequences' And Must Be Avoided | ThinkProgress

Humanity is choosing to destroy a livable climate, warn 18 of the world’s leading climate experts in a new study.

pone.0081648 1..26 - pone-8-12-hansen.pdf

James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Makiko Sato, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Frank Ackerman, David J. Beerling, Paul J. Hearty, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Shi-Ling Hsu,Camille Parmesan, Johan Rockstrom, Eelco J. Rohling, Jeffrey Sachs, Pete Smith, Konrad Steffen, Lise Van Susteren, Karina von Schuckmann, James C. Zachos

Warmist Richard Alley blames CO2 for Katrina damage and Arab Spring

An Update on Risks of Abrupt Jolts from Global Warming - NYTimes.com

But, Katrina’s high waters just made it over the levee, and the difference between “just over” and “not quite over” proved to be a lot of billions of dollars and human disruption. The Arab Spring surprised many people, including some who had expertise, and while attribution of such an event to a particular cause is probably impossible, there are people (as written up in The Economist, for example) who link at least some of the causation to food prices, and there in turn people who link at least some of the food-price swings to climate change. It is easy to see such linkages occurring, and strengthening, in a greatly warmed future climate when many of our crops are already grown at temperatures above their optimum.

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Firms suffer as carbon credit market collapses

KENYA: A number of firms especially those in energy consuming activities such as cement manufacturing, sugar production, tea farming and electricity generation are sitting on huge but worthless carbon credits.

▶ Last Hours - YouTube

[10-min video] "Last Hours" is the first in a series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race, and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
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"Last Hours" is presented and narrated by Thom Hartmann and directed by Leila Conners

National Press Club: Doctor Bjorn Lomborg - National Press Club - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[1 hour video] Doctor Bjorn Lomborg from Copenhagen Business School addresses the National Press Club on finding the smartest solutions to improve the environment and the world.

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More than 1000 cold snowy records set in US, one small media outlet covers it « JoNova

Remember, it’s just weather.

As Record Cold Moves In To Colorado, NOAA Pea Brained Numb Nuts Warn of Warming | Real Science

We had our snowiest spring on record in Fort Collins and Boulder this year. Where do these morons come from?

Massive Gain In Thick Western Arctic Sea Ice | Real Science

Last year at this time, there was almost no one metre thick ice in the western Arctic sea ice. Now it dominates the region.

Not much of Chinese energy is from wind or solar. | Climate Sanity

That 6.2% of installed capacity in the form of wind and solar yields less than 1.5% of the actual energy.

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Downton Abbey's Jim Carter dresses up as Father Christmas for global warming advert | Mail Online

John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: 'Everyone loves Santa and nobody wants him to lose his home.

Dana’s Dirty Little Secret | Real Science

Dana works for an oil and gas company, and writes articles for The Guardian implicitly attacking coal.

Leading Climate Policy Advisor On Warsaw: “A Failure Even When Measured By Lowest Expectations…2°C Target Failed”

Geden believes the winners of the conference were the USA, India, and China “because they have succeeded in anchoring a system where every state can decide itself what it is ready to contribute“. Sovereignty sure sucks.

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Climate Science Legal Defense Fund – AGU 2013

Facing Legal Attack: Scientists Tell Their Stories
12 December 2013, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Moscone North Rooms 130-131

Join us for a brown-bag lunch with a panel of scientists who have experienced legal repercussions for their scientific work. Andy Dessler, Katherine Hayhoe, Michael Mann, Naomi Oreskes, Ben Santer, and Kevin Trenberth will all share their stories regarding legal issues and answer your questions.

Coal industry accuses UN climate chief of 'ignoring reality' | Environment | theguardian.com

[World Coal chief executive Milton Catelin on UN climate scam chief Figueres] “She comes from a perspective where the only challenge in the world today is global warming,” he said. “I think what we say is there’s more than one challenge – other things are almost as important or equally important, such as global poverty and the need to maintain economic development.”
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Catelin argues the role of coal in offering a cheaper solution to national requirements cannot be ignored, deriding UN efforts to double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix as “the politics of the warm inner glow”.

“The west feels good about itself by saying we’ll give you five hours [of energy] a day but it won’t solve your poverty problem – it’ll just make us feel good that we’re doing something about it,” he added.

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Record Finland Snowfall

On Tuesday, the village of Kilpisjärvi had in excess of 80 cm (31½ inches) of snow cover.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute says this breaks the previous record for November set at Sodankylä more than 50 years ago. Statistical records show that Sodankyla was covered by a relatively shallow 72 cm of snow in November 1961.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper predicts Dalton-like minimum in solar activity around 2050

A paper published today in Advances in Space Research predicts that if the current lull in solar activity "endures in the 21st century the Sun shall enter a Dalton-like grand minimum. It was a period of global cooling."

Arctic Ice Returns To 2003 Levels | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

extent is 11,000 sq km higher than the average in the last decade.

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David Viner Gets It Wrong Again | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

[2006] Dr Viner added that Britain could experience more dramatic and unpredictable weather in the future, including tornados.

Ugly Americanism At NASA | Real Science

GISS has cooled the past at a rate of 1.7ºC per century, in support of their junk CO2 theory.

History falsifies climate alarmist sea level claims | Watts Up With That?

The facts of history are clear. Sea level was 400 feet lower at the end of the Wisconsin Ice Age, 18,000 years ago. Sea levels rose rapidly until 8,000 years ago. As recently as 1066, when the Normans conquered England, sea levels were quite a bit higher than today.

During the Little Ice Age, 1300 to 1850 – when temperatures were the coldest during any time in the past 10,000 years – snow and ice accumulated in Greenland, Antarctica, Europe and glaciers worldwide. As a consequence, sea levels fell so much that important Roman Era and Medieval port cities (like Ephesus, Ostia Antica and Pisa) were left miles from the Mediterranean.

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The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: Cook Responds: badly

Just like the consensus, which is false science in any event, all of Cook’s so-called “fingerprints” and “attribution study after attribution study” are non-existent.

'Worst storm in 150 years'

[South Dakota/Wyoming a couple of months ago] “Trapped in the mud, 30,000 cattle suffocated and froze to death. They were buried in 20ft (6m) snow drifts, entombed in ice…"

Shock News : Glaciers Were Receding During Hansen’s Coldest Year Ever | Real Science

This global retreat of glaciers was occurring during NASA’s coldest year on record. Anyone with an IQ over 30 should be able to figure out that we can’t stop glacial retreat, but sadly that doesn’t include the president or the IPCC.

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Climate Change Plans of Britain are 'staggeringly costly and excessive': Study | French Tribune

Benny Peiser, the foundation's director, who compiled the report, said, "The public has absolutely no idea how staggeringly costly and excessive the Government's climate initiatives are. Even we were shocked when we discovered the astronomical funding streams and added them up".

Approximately, £135,000 every year is spent by local authorities on climate-change officers

AVERY: Dreading the inevitable global cooling - Washington Times

The darkest chapter for Iberia occurred during the Little Ice Age, after 1300 A.D. Crops again failed repeatedly, people burned “witches” who had supposedly cursed their farms, and the Spanish Inquisition arose to persecute “heretics,” many of them Jews or Muslims who had publicly converted to Christianity. The bubonic plague spread and became known as the Black Death. Ultimately, Christian armies finally conquered Cordoba and the last of the Moors in 1614.

Fortunately, we’ve had no “little ice age” since 1850. Inevitably, however, another one will test our mettle sometime during the coming centuries. We should be happy to be living in a period of relative warmth, and we should not fear the continuation and mild increase of that warmth.

Global warming at work: how climate change affects the economy and labour | Toronto Star

Alex White, a board member of Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Wilderness Society (Victoria), says emergency workers such as firefighters, police officers and paramedics face genuine dangers in a warming climate.

In New Jersey Pines, Trouble Arrives on Six Legs - NYTimes.com

[Another pine beetle sob story from Justin Gillis] Scientists say it is a striking example of the way seemingly small climatic changes are disturbing the balance of nature.

Political correspondent James Cusick disses climate realist Matt Ridley

Owen Paterson, his sceptic brother-in-law, and how Defra went cold on climate change - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

arch-sceptic Matt Ridley...The Right Honourable Viscount Matthew White Ridley, to give him full title, was recently described in the Wall Street Journal as a “confusionist” science writer regularly engaged in “epic blunder-fests of disinformation”.
...A history of denial: Paterson’s opinions

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Green Jobs Myth | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The subsidy per job is therefore £115077 pa.

Principia Scientific Intl | Principia Scientific Intl - Principia Scientific Intl

When putting it all together, i.e., the purchase price plus the costs associated with depreciation, battery deterioration and operation of any EV are still much higher than that of any car with a combustion engine. Combined with the range and temperature limitations, EVs are more like expensive toys.

When you count in the time (your time) and frequency of recharging and limited range to go just a couple of hundred miles, even in warm California, it ought to be clear that EVs are not a wise investment, certainly not in colder climes or at this time and, more likely, if ever. Perhaps Tesla’s recent stock price action reflects such recognition.

Record Cold Forecast For Colorado | Real Science

These forecast temperatures would obliterate all cold records for early December.

Warming alarmists serve up more tripe | Herald Sun

why do the UN warmists keep telling us of a climate change hunger that the UN agronomists keep seeing hasn't actually happened?

U.N.'s own population studies soundly repudiate its own so-called global warming studies

Blog: U.N. Repudiates Global Warming

Even the infamous Indian Ocean islands that include the Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives, and Comoros, whose very existence was said to be threatened by global warming according to 2007 Nobel Peace Prize co-winners Al Gore and Rolph Poyet, are predicted in the 2012 Revision to increase in population by a robust +75.1 percent throughout the 21st century (by contrast, the global population growth rate during the same time period is +56.9 percent, while ex-Africa it is only +13.3 percent). Thus, it is closer to the truth to state that AOSIS thrives during the period of so-called global warming, the exact opposite of what is predicted by the liberal warmist catechism. Thus, the U.N.'s own population studies soundly repudiate its own so-called global warming studies.

NYT: Fred Andrews claims "established science that global warming is real and ominous"

‘Climate Casino’ - An Overview of Global Warming - NYTimes.com

[William Nordhaus]  “But it is also a reminder that we will be leaving our grandchildren a more productive economy alongside a degraded climate.”
...he warns that Mother Nature may play her hand in a way that upends logical forecasts and leads to global disaster.
...he has no patience with the few “contrarian” scientists and numerous political figures who contest the established science that global warming is real and ominous.

Off the deep end with former IPCC co-chair John Houghton: Check out his "Joseph, Pharaoh and a Climate Crisis"

Brief 18 Joseph - JRI_18_Joseph.pdf

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