Bummer: Illegal logging allegedly causing monarch butterflies to freeze to death

Living on Earth: Messed Up Migrations

WILCOVE: The Monarchs face a number of problems. The one that’s gotten the most attention over the years has been illegal logging of the forests on that mountain in Mexico where they winter. So if you imagine the trees as providing a kind of thermal blanket for the butterflies, the illegal logging essentially means that we’re cutting holes in the blanket, and so when the cold weather hits, many of the Monarchs freeze to death.

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Wind turbines policy is all at sea - Telegraph

[Booker] The wear and tear on offshore wind farms means that within a decade we will have to pay tens of billions of pounds to replace them

Labor’s $6 billion carbon tax made no difference | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The real question should be: what difference to the world temperature has our carbon tax made so far?

The answer? Indistinguishable from zero. All pain, no gain.

The fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes is nothing in comparison to this colossal exercise in collective self-deception.

So Cold (NotSo) Accuweather Runs Out Of Colors

Accuweather for some reason only has one color for anything below zero

1894-1902 Drought Killed Half Of The Livestock In Queensland | Real Science

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[IPCC's Chris Field] in the US, for example, in the western part, we know that there's, in many areas, a 100-500% increase in the area burned on an annual basis, for each one degree of warming...The science is really clear on climate change...it's a complicated problem

The Effects Of Environmentalist and Climate Alarmist Crying Wolf Begin To Appear | Watts Up With That?

The cover story of the November 25, 2013 Canadian weekly magazine Macleans pictures self-appointed Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki.

The caption reads, “Environmentalism Has Failed”“David Suzuki loses faith in the cause of his lifetime.”

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Chronicle Probably Won't Ban Climate Change Deniers, Despite Petition

It will not, however, issue a fatwa against those climate change skeptics.

This marginal but pernicious group has become a White Whale for Berkeley author Steve Olson, who has launched an aggressive campaign to persuade mainstream newspapers to stop "reporting both sides." His new online petition, which garnered more than 1,700 signatures in about two weeks, urges the Chronicle to stop validating these "misguided conspiracy theorists" by allowing them to traipse through its letters section.
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And according to Chron editorial page editor John Diaz, San Francisco's hometown paper is unlikely to follow suit.
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"I don't think you can in any way suggest we're giving aid and comfort to the deniers," Diaz says.

UK Parliament Votes To Keep Old Coal Alive | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

MPs have voted to reject an amendment to the Energy Bill introduced by the Lords to limit emissions from old coal-fired power stations.

Poland Proposes Delay Of EU 2030 Climate Package | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Former COP19 president Marcin Korolec says that EU should wait till 2015 to decide on climate package to align with UN

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Global Warming Alarmist Trashes His Own Poll Of Meteorologists Showing No Climate Crisis - Forbes

Now that Stenhouse doesn’t like the survey results, he trashes AMS meteorologists’ ability to hold informed opinions on global warming, even as Stenhouse publishes the results of his study in an AMS-administered journal.

Texas: Roof collapses at Sherman bowling Alley

It appears to be a result of the snow and ice build up, Brown said.

Justice giant: Remembering Mandela and his fight for climate justice | Grist

He was fully aware of how global warming had already been causing havoc on his continent, destroying through oppressive heat what Europeans hadn’t already decimated through the oppressive regimes of slavery, colonization, and apartheid.

Turns out community gardens are basically Fight Club | Grist

the point is, community gardens are fertile beds of strife. As Julie Beals of the LACGC put it to ModFarm: “People have this idea, because it’s a ‘community’ garden, you’ll have a bunch of people sitting around holding hands, singing ‘Kumbaya.’ Have you seen an actual community?”

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The PJ Tatler » About That ‘Global Warming’

Easier to see all the time why the Climate Church elders switched to the fluid “climate change” nonsense. It’s going to be difficult for the dire predictions of polar bears floating by 12th floor Manhattan windows to come true with all of this freezing going on.

Amid cold snap, Californians fight to save crops - Omaha.com

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — After the orange harvesting and nightfall, the toughest part of John S. Gless’ day is just beginning: a desperate fight to stave off a cold spell threatening to destroy his citrus crop.

'Everything hurts' for those without shelter amid bitter cold | Reno Gazette-Journal | rgj.com

Eric Powers, 49, sat outside the Volunteers of America family shelter in downtown Reno with food and a cup of hot chocolate Friday night.

“I’m freezing right now,” Powers said with tears. “Everything hurts.”

Outright fraud in trailer for James Cameron's "Years of Living Dangerously": "Hurricanes are twice as bad as they ever were"

Years of Living Dangerously Trailer - YouTube

[At the 1:10 mark, producer Jerry Weintraub says "Hurricanes are twice as bad as they ever were"]

WaPo: "fantasy" that any global climate deal will be legally binding; large-scale climate reparations unlikely; future of the climate decided in part by "off-the-record bilateral meetings"

How to make a global climate change deal - The Washington Post

negotiators need to drop the fantasy that whatever treaty they come up with will be legally binding.
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Developing nations must also get real about the amount and type of climate-related money that they will get from the West. Europe and the United States are not going to fund an expensive system to compensate poor nations for effects they might ascribe to global warming. That’s because putting a price on the particular effects of climate change in one country or another is scientifically dubious. More important, Western nations are cash-strapped and their people won’t pay, anyway. Public and private financing should be mobilized for such things as stopping deforestation. But large-scale reparations are unlikely.
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The future of the climate is not going to be decided at one big meeting, or by an ailing Europe and a weary United States ponying up massive sums of money. Barring some technological revolution that makes green energy extremely economical, it’s going to be decided piece by piece in national legislatures and committee meetings, in off-the-record bilateral meetings and Group of 20 summits, and by politicians pushed at home and abroad to act.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation spins the facts giving a false impression of the time the Antarctic ship “Aurora Australis” was delayed by sea ice

The ABC article – Aurora Australis returns – says, “The Antarctic ship, Aurora Australis, has sailed into Hobart after spending days stuck in ice.” Days ? – try 21 days.

Similar to Australia in 2005-06 – large grid box in southern Africa shows huge warming departure in UAH lower tropsphere satellite temperature anomalies compared to RSS | Errors in IPCC climate science

Warming departure in UAH lower troposphere satellite temperatures compared to RSS over the period 2005-2006 | Errors in IPCC climate science

I have heard from UAH that the differences are due to a combination of diurnal corrections, the changing satellite mix and natural differences between surface and lower troposphere.

Thank goodness we don't have to worry about all this stuff when calculating global temperature for 1013 by trying to use tree rings as thermometers.

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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.

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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.