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Reddit gives up on debate, bans “deniers” and repositions as low traffic propaganda unit « JoNovaHere’s a wild idea, perhaps this debate is the hottest battleground in science because a religious theory about the climate has usurped real science, and thousands of scientists are rising up in protest? (If I’m right, the number of skeptics will be increasing and the tenor of the discussions will get more and more acrimonious. Oh look… UK poll suggests there are nearly five times as many skeptics as there were in 2005. Australian poll showed same trend. * I’m just sayin’…)
Canada’s new emissions rules on hold again, Harper says - The Globe and MailThe long-promised federal regulations, most recently due this year, now need to be done “in concert with” the United States, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Global News in an interview. “So that’s what I’m hoping we’ll be able to do over the next couple of years,” he said.
How Cool Was That? - Climate AbyssTry not to read too much about climate change into this, because these are mostly urban stations for which the urban heat island effect would have helped raise temperatures over time, or they are from stations that have moved around over time.
Watch OFA End Global Warming with a Single Tweet | National Review OnlineAmazing. November was the warmest on record, but December is so cold you need a lumberjack onesie and cocoa.
2014 Climate Change CalendarKey dates for your diary in 2014, a year where the scale and ambition of a UN global warming treaty will be determined
- Bishop Hill blog - The eagle has crash landedI few days back I was pressing Harry Huyton, the RSPB's climate change bod, about the society's weak opposition to wind farms. His position is that the RSPB opposes windfarms when inappropriately sited. I pointed out that windfarms tend to be in upland areas, where raptors - particularly prone to wind turbine collisions - tend to be found in large numbers.
Children of the corn subsidies - SFGateSen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., are about as opposite politically as two people can be. Nonetheless, last week they joined forces to introduce a bill to repeal the federal requirement to blend corn ethanol into gasoline.
Why Tornadoes Are Stronger In Cool Years | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THATWe already know that stronger tornadoes were more common in the period up to the mid 1970’s, but Roy comes up with the reasons why this should be so.
Do views of global-warming critics deserve to be heard? | Fox Business VideoFBN's Dennis Kneale sounds off on the demonization of climate-change critics.
Unveil the Truth About Global Warming | Commentary : Roll Call OpinionSince CO2 is not a pollutant, what impact does it have? As we learned in the third grade, CO2 is what plants eat. The more of it they eat, the faster and larger they grow, including the food crops. It is also a mild greenhouse gas that helps warm the Earth somewhat. Most plants and trees also respond favorably to a modest warming. With more moisture in reasonably warm air than in cold, dry air, all three key ingredients are present: food, water and warmth.
This knowledge should start opening the eyes of Americans who have been deluged with propaganda from global warming fanatics and alarmist organizations that are trying to scare us that our planet is under attack by CO2.
Prime-time's global warming omission : Columbia Journalism ReviewThe nuanced particulars of climate change are a difficult message to convey, especially in breaking news updates. But if we’re going to understand the real fallout of global warming, journalists are going to have to rise to the occasion to make it fit.
Articles: Global Warming Gone AWOLProtecting the world's population from climate change, protecting them from "greedy capitalists," protecting them from "systemic risk" -- it doesn't matter what the excuse is. Most modern-day environmentalists are leftists, and the central belief of the left, going back to Karl Marx, is that all power must be transferred to a political elite that will rule, and rule forever, in the name of the people. That "vanguard" of the proletariat now gathers daily at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, plotting its next assault on the American people. And it has found environmental causes a convenient pretext for the expansion of its power.
- Bishop Hill blog - AR5 inquiry - written evidenceFrom the establishment side of the debate there are submissions from the Met Office, the Grantham Institute, the Royal Society, the Royal Meteorological Society and DECC. These are what you might call "brazen", a shameless chorus of claims that the science is "even more certain than before". The models can fail completely, study after study can show that climate sensitivity is lower than previously thought, the long-predicted increase in extreme weather can fail to materialise and yet scientists are are more confident than ever that they are right.
How to kill the scientific method the reddit way - Boston environmental policy | Examiner.comAllen has now bestowed upon himself judge and jury of what is antiscientific, willing to forget that science is littered with the skeletons of what was once considered anti-establishment, only to be disproved later by facts and observations. From washing hands before surgery to tectonic plate movements to landing on the moon and so forth.
He makes the ridiculous claim that global warming, a.k.a. climate change, is settled science and that, "as a site, reddit is passionately dedicated to free speech…"
Podesta Will Peddle Green Agenda | National Review OnlineThe relationship between Tom Steyer and John Podesta is longstanding.
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In my imaginary world the Washington press corps would find it provocative and worthy of investigation that an adviser, colleague, intellectual guru, and fixer for one of the country’s most powerful men had landed a job within earshot of the president of the United States. But one has to face the reality that John Podesta has transcended the day-to-day understanding of the phrase “conflict of interest,” and so embodies the contradictions and self-dealing and ambition of the nation’s capital that the normal journalistic reflexes of curiosity and skepticism are rather sublimated. His position at the apex of the D.C. nonprofit heap insulates him from scrutiny because the knee-jerk literalism of political enthusiasts often equates “nonprofit” with a lack of profit motive or avarice. Not so.
Rocky Barker: The wildfire journey from Yellowstone, 1988 | Environment | Idahostatesman.comIt was the signal fire of climate change, only we couldn’t really see it until we looked back.
Australia ‘To Be An Energy Superpower’ By Mid 2017 | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)Morgan Stanley report predicts that gas exports will help country eliminate its current account deficit for the first time in four decades
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