The entire panel array on a Tesla Supercharger provides 180 miles per day.
These 180 miles have to be shared among who-knows-how-many-hundred cars.
Oooooops.
[caption] Children’s Champions have been stitching messages to show their MPs that they care about protecting children in our changing climate.More than 2,000 US cold and snowfall records set this week | The Daily Caller
In the past seven days there have been 606 record low temperatures, 1,234 low maximum temperatures and 285 record snowfalls across the country. This is compared to only “98 high temperature records and 141 high minimum temperature records” notes global warming skeptic blogger Anthony Watts.Mark Landsbaum: Climate alarmists' search for proof going cold
Climatologist Roger Pielke Sr., University of Colorado, Boulder, professor emeritus of Atmospheric Science, says, if correct, the ocean paper means, “the end of surface temperature trends as the icon of global warming.”
If so, that’s a game changer for the climate wars.
If surface temperatures lose their credibility (and we side with those who long have said that’s the case), where will alarmists point to prove their point?
As far as I am aware there is no accepted explanation for the 'pause' at the moment, not in the latest IPCC report (which is normally quoted as the 'highest quality' science), and not in climate science generallyGlobal Warming: Snow Hits Cairo for the First Time in 100 Years | FrontPage Magazine
Good news for those polar bears who are about to be wiped out by global warming. If the pole doesn’t work for them, they can always move to Cairo.Obama’s Global Warming Task Force Met as Snowstorm Shut Down Fed Gov | FrontPage Magazine
Ah but it’s not Global Warming anymore. After a few too many snowstorms, the Warmists learned their lesson. Now it’s Climate Change. And it’s responsible for all the weather. If weather happens… then climate change caused it.Do we have time to fix global warming? | rabble.ca
We could move to a system of social ownership where multiple democratic owning communities based on the appropriate level of government -- local, state/provincial, national, international -- replaced corporations. If we did these three things the system of greed that propels capitalists to earn profits, regardless of the consequences to our environment, would no longer exist.
David Cameron’s personal journey from promising to lead “the greenest government ever” to bewailing all the “green crap” in which his government is now mired, is an extraordinary demonstration of political failure at the highest level.
But can the blame for this really be laid at the feet of die-hard climate sceptics like Nigel Lawson and Peter Lilley? Or of his 100 or so redneck back-benchers?
... The kind of transition mapped out in “The World We Made” represents the most radical transformation of core beliefs and behaviours humankind has ever undertaken
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cold weather is expected to continue through at least the balance of the year in the U.S. Midwest which will keep many river shipping channels frozen and prevent normally smooth transfer of grain, an agricultural meteorologist said on Friday.Kaktovik polar bear photos, again no “starving” bears | polarbearscience
Have a look and see if you can spot any “starving” bears!Study shows it was warmer in Roman times than today « Hot Air
Anybody saying climate change is settled science is either lying, trying to redistribute income internationally, or has a financial interest in closing off the debate.
In the Devonian period, Waters explained, the world was experiencing super greenhouse climate conditions. This means that it was very warm, there probably were no ice caps, there was a lot carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (with estimates of 4,000 parts per million).
“As plant communities expanded onto land to form the first forests, they depleted the carbon dioxide (CO2) that was in the atmosphere,” Waters said. “CO2 levels dropped to 400 ppm toward the end of the Devonian. It got colder. There were glaciation events and the rapid change in the climate caused severe extinction in the tropics and the existing coral reefs became extinct.” By comparison, the world’s current CO2 level is very close to 400 ppm.
Louisiana growers harvested an estimated state-wide yield average of 7,200 pounds per acre, including ratoon-crop or second-crop rice. That would be up from the previous high of 6,600 pounds. Louisiana's long growing season often allows them to grow and harvest a second crop from their original crop planting.NASA: Ozone Holes Have Not Begun To Recover - The Green Optimistic
Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center established that the ozone layer has not begun to recover despite the ban on the use of ozone-depleting chemicals. With the help of satellite data, the team was able to monitor changes in size of the second largest ozone hole located over Antarctica, and found that meteorological conditions have created the false belief that the ozone hole has stopped growing.Israel Hit With Heaviest Snowstorm in 60 Years
Israel experienced its heaviest snowstorm in 60 years on Wednesday night and Thursday, closing down large swaths of Jerusalem.Global Coal Boom Accelerating | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)
This year, 75 000 MW of new coal-fired power generation came on stream and in the next five years another 450 000 MW of new coal-fired power generation is scheduled to come on stream.
Temperatures in citrus-growing areas in California’s San Joaquin Valley once again dipped to potentially damaging levels the night of Dec. 10 and early morning of Dec. 11. That made seven nights out of eight that temperatures were low enough to cause concern, and the cumulative effect, in spite of frost-protection measures, could now mean that there is some fairly extensive damage.Frost takes financial financial toll - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Two months on since frost hit farms in the Riverina and Northern Victoria and some farmers are contemplating life off the land.Al Gore urges Senate Democrats to act boldly on global warming
[Warmist Eilperin/Ed O'Keefe] Gore's talk came at a time when climate policy appears to be gathering momentum in WashingtonBitter cold in Michigan, big pileup near Muskegon - WNEM TV 5
Cold, snowy weather gripping Michigan is being blamed for a 40-vehicle pileup on a western Michigan expressway, injuring a sheriff's deputy.
Record-Setting Cold Christmas Week? It's still early, and I think the GFS is seriously over-doing the cold. At least I pray that's the case. But subzero temperatures are possible, even likely Christmas Week, within striking distance of setting a few record low temperatures. Highs may be at or just below zero, nighttime lows dipping down colder than -10 to -15F. A real winter this year? You bet'cha.
German coal imports are this year to hit record levels, 51 million tonnes, a 6.5% increase compared with last year. The share of coal in the total electricity production is 45%.The Australian Climate Sceptics Blog: IPCC Expert Reviewer Vincent Gray's Christmas message.
am trying to get together another book called “The Greenhouse Debacle” to celebrate the inevitable decline of this persistent fraud.Jennifer Marohasy » Costly Climate Model Just a Big Boy’s Toy
A toy is a game, a gadget, a gizmo that may have no real practical value. But of course it is fun to play with.Gavin Schmidt … Speaking up and speaking out | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
They have a lot of fun at the BOM playing with General Circulation Models. These models, run on supercomputers, are essentially about attempting to forecast future and past climate including cyclones, droughts and ice sheets crashing into the Southern Ocean. The super computers are worth tens of millions of dollars and there are over 130, mostly big boys, playing with them from 9am until 5pm Monday to Friday at the BOM in Melbourne.
It all happens at considerable expense to the Australian taxpayer and I say they do little more than play, because the output from their favorite model generates mostly nonsense at least when it comes to that most important of all climate variable for Australians – rainfall.
Schmidt offered some encouragement. More and more scientists are “sticking their heads above the parapet,” and the people taking potshots at them are not as numerous as scientists might think.
The plan seems to have other agendas, also, even as it skirts the issue of costs and benefits. A top action item champions green jobs, which “represent an opportunity for workers to organize into unions in high-growth industries … .” One chapter focuses on “social equity” and the harm global warming causes poor people and minorities.A Groundswell of Climate Activists | Rev. Michael Dowd
The group is The Great March for Climate Action. From March through early November 2014, two hundred or more intrepid activists will march from Santa Monica California through the desert southwest, then up the Colorado Rockies and across the Great Plains, skirting the south side of the Great Lakes, aiming to arrive in Washington D.C. just before the elections.5 million Euros for Sierra Leone to become REDD + ready | Sierra Express Media
The Minster revealed that the project has received five million Euros which according to him will go a long way to help Sierra Leone become REDD + ready, as it will be able to utilize the stated amount and solve the hazards of climate change.Stop global warming now! Venice, Hong Kong, St. Petersburg to sink by end of century
By the end of the 21st century the water is sure to rise by 1 meter. There is nothing to do about it.
CO2 has not been, and will not be, the driver of temperature. Clearly ocean and solar radiance cycles drive temperature, and then temperature (short term) and fossil carbon use (longer term) drives CO2.UMD professor says global warming will destroy the northwoods
He says the northwoods will turn into a prairie.Police identify UMD student found unconscious in subzero temps
She is said to be in critical but stable condition.President Obama Will Sacrifice Bald Eagles To Fight Global Warming - Forbes
Well, hard times demand dramatic action. Unless we act now, major hurricanes will soon become a thing of the past. So will large-scale tornado outbreaks. Wildfires will become mere folklore. Farmers will grow so much food and tobacco that obesity and chain smoking will reach epidemic proportions. Deserts will be unable to fend off the onslaught of global greening.
"This is simply natural variability," said National Snow and Ice Data Center director Mark Serreze, who wasn't part of the NOAA report but praised it. "There is nothing about the year 2013 that provides any evidence that the Arctic is starting a path toward recovery."Why Climate Change Could Create a Mental Health Crisis | Care2 Causes
At 6 am on Tuesday, my phone rang and an automated voice announced that my son’s autism school was closed all day due to “inclement weather.” It’s not unusual for it to snow in December in New Jersey but, as a result of climate change, the past few winters have been for the most part mild with only a snowstorm or two. We, and quite a few New Jerseyans, have gotten out of the habit of numerous snow days. For Charlie, who (like many autistic individuals) struggles with change, an unexpected day off from school is an anxiety-creating disruption.The dark side of the West’s oil and gas boom
Oil production in North Dakota has now jumped eight-fold since 2006, to a level undreamed of in the 1980sJames Hansen Calls for the Light That Only Science Can Provide | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
Perhaps no one in the world speaks with more authority about climate change than Hansen
In 2012, more than 5,600 acres burned in 18 wildfires, six of which were human-caused.The Yellowstone fires of 1988, 22 years ago | Wildfire Today
In the summer of 1988 numerous fires burned 793,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park
Professor Mark Serreze from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado tells us he doesn't see the remainder of Arctic sea ice being lost so soon. He says:Twitter / kellyrigg: MT @cindybax: Worst #climate ...
"Seeing an essentially ice free Arctic Ocean in summer by 2016 is extremely unlikely. While we have certainly seen a rapid loss of summer ice in recent decades (compared to the late 1970s, we've lost about 40 per cent of the summer ice cover), losing the remainder over the next few years would be very hard to do."
MTSpain Alters Environmental Laws To Speed Up Industrial Development | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)@cindybax: Worst#climate nightmare:@johnkeypm@TonyAbbottMHR@pmharper in SA, plotting destruction of the planet pic.twitter.com/T7pH8LvZet
Spain changed environmental rules to speed approvals on industrial projects from pig farms to oil rigs and for the first time will regulate shale drilling.UK Carbon Emission Targets ‘May Have To Be Jettisoned’ | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)
Britain may have to abandon its climate change targets if other countries failed to cut emissions, the chairman of the government’s advisory body has said.Changing the science climate: How one Charlottesville foundation has altered the conversation about researchC-Ville Weekly
“We’re probably far more interested in making sure the scientific message gets out to the public than we are in our personal publication records,” Mann said of the team of scientists that makes up the climate panel. “We’re all folks who are really focused on the bigger picture. Our own independent research efforts pale in comparison to the importance of the larger scientific conversation.”
Paris was put on an air-pollution alert today as cold weather entrapped diesel fumes, leading to the most severe smog in the French capital since 2007.Merkel Embraces Coal as Rookie Lawmaker Makes Mark on Policy - Bloomberg
“This isn’t just about the environment, this is about the money” Germans pay for electricity, Freese, 62, said in an interview on Dec. 2. “We’ve got the most modern coal plants in the world. Brown coal lets us produce comparatively cheap and climate-friendly electricity.”2nd man dies from hypothermia, police say | ksl.com
SALT LAKE CITY — Police say a man whose body was found in Memory Grove died of hypothermia.Babies freeze to death in Syria | Middle East | World Bulletin
Two infants in Syria died of harsh weather conditions as the Middle East nation braves the wintry cold for a third time in the grip of civil war.
Eva Malvich spearheaded the project after at least three people died of exposure last winter. Some were found dead in unheated buildings in the community of 6,000St. George breaks long-held winter weather records | | STGnews.com
ST. GEORGE – Since Saturday morning, St. George has experienced the most severe winter weather the region has seen in living memory. Record snowfalls and record low temperatures have driven residents indoors and area stores can’t keep up with the sudden demand for sleds, snow shovels, and ice-melt. Just how unusual has the weather been for Southern Utah? Meteorologists say that you’d have to go back around 100 years to see anything quite like it.Record-breaking cold parks buses, bursts pipes; Fuel won’t flow in La Pine buses; water soaks Tumalo classroom
Denice Blake, director of transportation for the district, said the cold caused biodiesel mixed in with the diesel in many of the buses at the La Pine bus barn to turn to a gel, clogging fuel lines and filters.Warning Signs: Environmentalism's Endless Lies
A recent FOE mailing stating that “Devastation from climate change has become all too frequent.”
This is simply an outright lie
The White House and DOE insiders helped Reid secure green-energy stimulus funds for his home state of Nevada—which he touted in his 2010 campaign. He is tied to more than $3 billion of taxpayer money—currency that created just over 200 permanent jobs.A New View of Warming from the Globe’s ‘Third Pole’ | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
SAN FRANCISCO, CA., DEC. 11, 2013 — Carbon dioxide is the major culprit everyone talks about when it comes to the globe’s warming climate. But water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas too. In fact, the climate in the tropics is largely mediated by water vapor.ekathimerini.com | Cold weather, strong winds hamper travel
Several parts of Greece were covered in snow on WednesdayFarmers burn hay to keep frost from damaging crops | The Desert Sun | mydesert.com
With temperatures dropping to a record low of 21 degrees in Thermal early Tuesday and a still-freezing 27 early Wednesday — the third straight night of sub-30 temperatures to hit the east valley — farmers are in full battle mode against the freeze.
The sensitivity of the Earth system to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be twice as great as scientists had thought2014 World Cup to nearly double carbon emissions over 2010 | Grist
FIFA estimates that offsetting the 2.72 million tons of carbon will cost about $2.5 millionExtreme weather worries insurers, farmers
Miller estimated that Iowa has experienced one weather anomaly every four years — such as an unusually dry spring or wet summer — since 1980. That compares with a previous rate of one weather anomaly every 20 years.Nov. 2012: Iowa scientists: Drought a sign of climate change
"There's no doubt that we have a wetter (climate) that we're dealing with," he said.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- This year's drought is consistent with predictions that global climate change would bring about weather extremes including more frequent droughts, said a report released Monday.
There were some intriguing exceptions to this. For instance, as a component of the all-round-fascinating Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning Program and a huge, multi-donor transport infrastructure development program, some risk management specialists are developing manuals and guidelines to help the Solomon Islands Ministry of Infrastructure Development consider climate change projections. Some civil engineers proclaim that their engineering approach and systems can easily incorporate future climate change impacts – for them, it’s really no big deal. Yet, ‘mainstreaming’ in one instance led to some wharves being vastly over-specified, to the extent that even at high tide, they are inoperable.
It’s obvious: The alarmists have run out of arguments and lost the debate. North America shivers in a nasty cold snap, global sea ice is approaching the highest levels in decades, and global temperatures haven’t risen in over 15 years. Nothing is going right for them.A Short History of Climate Hysteria — Quadrant Online
As the pumped-up spectre of climatic catastrophe continues to deflate, Ruper Darwall's new book makes a handy guide to the conceits, careerism, delusions and blatant misrepresentations that debased the good name of science and set the stage for economic ruinBBC News - Enormous earthquakes ‘are missing’ from records
The Earth could have been struck by many more huge earthquakes in its recent history than was previously thought, scientists say.Local businesses 'dragging heels over global warming' | South China Morning Post
Research suggests that half of all quakes measuring more than 8.5 in magnitude that hit in the 19th Century are missing from records.
"Fewer than 1 per cent of local companies reported carbon emissions in accordance with international guidelines such as the Global Reporting Initiative," Lai said, referring to the Netherlands-based non-profit initiative that sets out guidelines and standards for sustainability and ecological reporting.
The lowest temperature in eastern Turkey registered at -29 degrees Celsius overnight in the province of Ağrı, the highest elevated province in Turkey.Hearing: A Factual Look at the Relationship Between Climate and Weather | Climate Etc.
[Curry] Attempting to [reduce] the damages associated with extreme weather in the 21st century by reducing greenhouse gas emissions is very misguided IMOWant to Save The Ice in the Arctic? | Coyote Blog
I am convinced we would see at least a partial sea ice recovery in the Arctic if China could get their particulate emissions under control.In The Midst Of Its Worst Drought In 50 Years, Brazil Hit By Deadly Flooding | ThinkProgress
It’s a scenario that’s likely to become more common as the climate warms — scientists have long predicted that the likeliness of drought as well extreme precipitation will increase along with climate change.
@conservatarist @tan123 Yeah, I'm on my 6th year in academia, I work for NASA JPL, I know what valid sources are.Twitter / conservatarist: @iantimberlake @tan123 Gee ...
@iantimberlake @tan123 Gee i'm impressed there Drs Motl and Pielke Sr & Jr will be happy to know that in your opinion their blogs worthlessTwitter / iantimberlake: @conservatarist @tan123 ...
@conservatarist @tan123 Academically speaking, their blogs are worthless.About | To Live Deliberately
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Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap and shocking way to address climate change: What if we inject a huge cloud of sulfur into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and heat?No Warming In The Arctic In The Last 10 Years | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
There is no evidence here that suggests a 7C increase by 2100.Why Aquariums Are Obsessed With Climate Change | ThinkProgress
[Sarah-Mae Nelson, Climate Change Interpretive Specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium] “I could walk to any exhibit in the building and tell you a story about climate change and what you can do to make a positive impact,”Why COP 19 rocked | Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and I were able to briefly give our sore feet a break by getting on bamboo bicycles
SAN FRANCISCO — Seafloor-dwelling bacteria may hitch a ride on methane bubbles seeping from deep-sea vents, preventing the methane from reaching the atmosphere by eating it up, new research suggests.Live blogging - the AGU bloggers forum - The Landslide Blog - AGU Blogosphere
Real Climate has an open threat to deal with off topic stuff and an other thread (called the borehole) into which the real drivel is put.
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