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A new (little?) ice age is beginning, but the public doesn’t know

“The MSM do not report this kind of news,” says reader Argiris Diamantis. “Cold waves in warm countries like Sudan, India and Cambodia are considered to be just local weather news.”

Thirteen Years Of NASA Data Tampering – In Six Seconds | Real Science

The animation above shows four versions of GISS 1930-1999 US temperatures – from 1999, 2001, 2012, and 2013. NASA has repeatedly tampered* with the data to hide the decline in US temperatures since the 1930′s. Each successive alteration makes the past cooler and the present warmer.

Yeb Saño in Nature's ‘10 people who mattered in science this year’ | SciTech | GMA News Online

Nature said that Saño is not sure what impact his speech had.

Cows’ Role in Global Warming Seen Overlooked in Climate Talks - Bloomberg

One of the most effective ways to cut the gas would be to reduce the global population of ruminant livestock, the university said.

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Heidi Central Continues To Slime Their Readers | Real Science

The Heidi slime team wanted a red map, so they picked the start as the 1970′s ice age scare – including three of the coldest winters on record in the US.

If we go back to the 1930′s, winter temperatures have declined 0.5C. The map would be almost solid blue. Three of the ten coldest winters have occurred since the year 2000.

When Political Stunts Go Wrong.. And Give You Pneumonia - NationalJournal.com

Two days into his three-day experience of living as a homeless person, sleeping on subways and visiting shelters, Queens City Council member Ruben Wills came down with a case of pneumonia.

The Climate Elusion | Omnologos

It was surface temps before it was heat hiding in the deep oceans. It was decreasing snow before it was increasing snow. It was ice extent before it was ice volume. Etc etc. Whatever happens, there is always a new story devised/concocted to “explain” that whatever is happening is wholly compatible with AGW and especially with the “it’s worse than we thought” meme.

After Suzanne Goldenberg makes a large, fraudulent claim about climate change spending, it gets very quietly "fixed" with the addition of weasel words "may" and "up to"

[Guardian story yesterday, from the Internet Archive] Conservative groups spend $1bn a year to fight action on climate change

Conservative groups have spent $1bn a year on the effort to deny science and oppose action on climate change

[Guardian story today] Conservative groups spend up to $1bn a year to fight action on climate change | Environment | theguardian.com

Conservative groups may have spent up to $1bn a year on the effort to deny science and oppose action on climate change
...This headline on this article was amended on 21 December 2013 to reflect that not all the $1bn referred to will have funded climate change work.

Twitter / kaleekreider: @DanJWeiss @pourmecoffee Bob ...

@DanJWeiss @pourmecoffee Bob Bruelle says headline misleading. $1billion is total avail not total spent on climate. I will forward email.

Update: Robert Brulle pushes back on Suzanne's fraud here.

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Lack of science literacy helps global warmists spread their gospel | WashingtonExaminer.com

IPCC scientists defend their gospel with envenomed fangs, for they have inserted into their computer models the long-sought Finagle’s variable constant, that number which, when added to, subtracted from, multiplied by or divided by the Wrong Answer, gives the Right Answer. That’s supernatural.

More Tax Breaks for Tesla | National Review Online

A car for the 1 percent gets another tax break in California

Green NGO – Public Bored And Disinterested By Climate Change Fear Stories | Tory Aardvark

In the final analysis it is difficult to see how the Greens can ever change their message from crying wolf and peddling fear, their scam is not based on having a better tomorrow, but rather on something really, really bad will happen if you don’t do as we say.

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John Podesta’s plan to bypass Congress on climate change

The ability of President Obama to accomplish important change through these powers should not be underestimated," he wrote. "Congressional gridlock does not mean the federal government stands still."

Seven global warming alarmist setbacks in 2013 | The Daily Caller

Hold your champagne glasses high this holiday season, because the end of 2013 marks the 17th year without global warming.

More Fire, More Subsidies for Tesla in California | National Legal and Policy Center

And with comparatively few Model S’s on the road, the number of fires that have occurred is a lot. “To have one instance of fire from road debris is a fluke,” said Clarence Ditlow, director of the Washington-based Center for Auto Safety, to Motoramic. “To have two road debris fires in a vehicle population that small is highly unusual.”

The Well-Intentioned, Misguided Eco-Doomers - Collide-a-Scape | DiscoverMagazine.com

The problem with doomsday prophets like Ahmed isn’t so much their incessant warnings about imminent eco-collapse, but more the solutions they proffer, which, if carried out in the developing world, really would lead to societal catastrophe.

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Polar bear habitat update, December – still like 2009 | polarbearscience

there was ice where polar bears needed it in all decades

November 2013 Russian “Hotspot” – Alarmists Are Overlooking Something | Watts Up With That?

NOAA failed to present something that’s blatantly obvious in the data. In 1988, surface air temperature anomalies for much of Russia shifted upwards by more than 1 deg C.

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Special Report: Cold snap kills in Thailand’s North

The government has so far declared 65 provinces as disaster zones. The Government is now handing out free warm clothing and winter blankets to chilly residents

Can Global Warming Be Contained? [Infographic] - Living Green Magazine : Living Green Magazine

In 2004, it was reported that Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, is losing about 4 inches annually because of global warming.

What is the highest and lowest temperature at mt everest peak? and what the average temp there?

In July, the warmest month, the average summit temperature is -19° C (-2° F). At no time of the year does the temperature on the summit rise above freezing.

NGOs And Facebook: How To Become More Effective Climate Messengers | ThinkProgress

while some people share around news stories, more tend to share some of the professional comics that we post. Surprisingly, sometimes our in-house creations are even more popular — and those are basically just cute animal pictures with some mildy-punny text!

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First Round Knockout At Madison Square Gardens | Real Science

Change in Manhattan sea level shows essentially no correlation with change in global temperature, but correlates almost perfectly with time (i.e. linear glacial rebound.)

C3: Those Stubborn Facts: 35-Year Cooling of South Pole Confirmed By NASA - Antarctica Ice Sheets Safe

he IPCC's climate science has long claimed that human CO2 emissions are producing an accelerated global warming, with a "runaway" warming trend, which is then being amplified in the north and south polar extremes.

Hundreds of businesses to be paid to switch off to prevent blackouts - Telegraph

Businesses could be paid to shut down from 4pm and 8pm on winter weekdays, under plans approved by regulator Ofgem

Closures of coal power plants escalating - The Green Blog - A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston

Defenders of the coal industry insist we will regret this. They warn that a lopsided dependence on natural gas puts us at the mercy of price rises. The argument has a smudge of merit. Natural gas prices probably will rise, especially as states begin to get serious about enforcing safety standards to curb methane-leaky pipes and groundwater contamination. There also are questions of whether the pipelines bringing natural gas to New England can provide enough during the peak winter heating months, a shortage that may prompt more pipelines.

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Reddit gives up on debate, bans “deniers” and repositions as low traffic propaganda unit « JoNova

Here’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 Mail

The 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 Abyss

Try 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 Online

Amazing. November was the warmest on record, but December is so cold you need a lumberjack onesie and cocoa.

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2014 Climate Change Calendar

Key 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 landed

I 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 - SFGate

Sen. 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 THAT

We 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.

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Do views of global-warming critics deserve to be heard? | Fox Business Video

FBN's Dennis Kneale sounds off on the demonization of climate-change critics.

Unveil the Truth About Global Warming | Commentary : Roll Call Opinion

Since 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 Review

The 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 AWOL

Protecting 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.

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Oil nears US$99; cold weather pushes natural gas to 29-month high

natural gas soared nearly five per cent to close at US$4.46 per thousand cubic feet – the highest price since July of 2011 – after the government reported a huge draw in supplies, the result of cold temperatures across the U.S. in recent weeks.

Doubting is thinking: What California says about zero-emission vehicles, and why Tesla is committing fraud

And for industry outsiders, well, the idea that the whole battery swap thing could be a fake is just surreal. How could Tesla sink that low?

The Tesla battery swap is the hoax of the year.

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North Korea’s Green Energy Enthusiasm Is Exactly What The UN, Climate Activists Would Love To See – No Dissent!

This is precisely the kind of enthusiasm the whole world would see – were it not for those damn dissenters and flat-earth deniers ruining everything!

Critics blast Reddit over climate-change skeptic ban | Fox News

“The greenies -- and their many useful idiots in the liberal media -- are terrified of open debate on climate-change because the real world evidence long ago parted company with their scientifically threadbare theory,” Delingpole told FoxNews.com, arguing that Allen’s tactic is part of a “classic liberal defense mechanism: If the facts don't support you, then close down the argument.”

Eleven Key Sustainability Questions | Planet3.0

Do we have to give up on fossil fuels entirely

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Observations show IPCC exaggerates anthropogenic global warming by a factor of 7

A compilation of at least 13 studies based upon satellite and ocean observations demonstrate climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 levels after all climate feedbacks is only about 0.4 C, 7.5 times less than the 3C claimed by the IPCC.

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Environmental concern disappears with economic stability | Watts Up With That?

From University of Southern California another lesson from the economic train wreck that is Greece; people stop worrying about the environment when you make cleaner fuels too expensive to use.

Econocide by Carbon | William S. Becker

Coal consumption in Bangladesh grew more than 47% from 2010 to 2011 and nearly tenfold since 1980.

New Zealand winegrowers report bumper crop, but don’t expect wine bargains | The Raw Story

Deloitte reported winegrowers produced a grape harvest of 345,000 tons in 2013, the biggest on record and a 28 percent increase on the previous year.

7 Homeless People Freeze to Death in Wealthiest Area of the Country | Alternet

Bay area deaths highlight gap between haves and have-nothings . . . again.

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Ask Umbra: Is my artisanal whipped cream a climate menace? | Grist

I just realized: The cartridges I use are CO2! So I’m using a greenhouse gas just to make whipped cream! I’m feeling ridiculously guilty. Is it really all that much? How much CO2 would be released generating the electricity to power a mixer to do the same thing?

▶ Global Warming: Skeptic or Believer - YouTube

[1 min video features meteorologists and Chris Landsea. All agree that CO2 has a warming effect, but they don't seem very worked up about it]

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Two people killed by cold weather in Uttaradit

UTTARADIT, 19 December 2013 (NNT) - Uttaradit provincial authorities have reported that two people have been killed by the cold weather so far.

Summer heatwave at South Pole sets records | Summit County Citizens Voice

In August, for example, the average temperature for the month was more than 11 degrees Fahrenheit above average, at minus 63.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The interior Antarctic heatwave are likely linked with weaker westerly winds

Al Gore Forgot To Add ‘To Seven’ About A Thing So Climate Change A Hoax Haw Haw

(Presumably we’ll be telling our grandchildren this story while huddled around a sun lamp deep within the abandoned salt mine we retreated to when global climate change made the planet’s surface an inhospitable hellscape with an atmosphere made up mostly of carbon dioxide and solar radiation.)

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This is /R/Science, No Debating Here Please | FrontPage Magazine

Banning debate does not move science forward. It kills it. But that’s the whole objective of the Global Warming scam. Kill the scientific method, replace it with ideology backed by bogus numbers that you won’t release until someone leaks them, and lies upon lies, covered up by bans.

This is what’s left of science. There’s no debating allowed.

The Reference Frame: Reddit: a major "share a random URL" server bans climate skeptics

Mr Allen recommends the whole Internet to follow the reddit.com "role model" and ban climate skeptics. It's a pretty tall order for a bunch of a few dozens of fanatical nuts like himself to cut something like five billion people from the Internet.

Hunger Games and Climate Games

The children are being indoctrinated in a scientifically meaningless ritual of minding their tiny carbon footprints. I

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- Bishop Hill blog - AR5 inquiry - written evidence

From 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.com

Allen 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…"

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- Bishop Hill blog - Tax-funded recessionmongers

when we are in danger of the lights going out, it seems almost criminal for the government to be paying for a bunch of unreconstructed teen revolutionaries to fly from all corners of the globe to talk about how to make things worse.

And I'm not being sarcastic here. These people want permanent recession.

EPA, Climatology And The Courts: The Issue is Corrupted, Not Poor Science. | Watts Up With That?

The EPA chose the results of the IPCC for a political agenda. If they knew the results were wrong then their action was a deliberate deception. They can’t argue, like the Courts, that they don’t understand the science – it is their job to understand. If they didn’t know they are incompetent. What a wonderful irony to have the EPA political agenda defeated by the corrupt practices used to advance the IPCC political agenda.

Greenpeace vows incarceration will not stop Arctic oil campaign | Environment | The Guardian

We haven't thought through whether we should confront Gazprom or Russia again

The Fatal Lure of Assumed Linearity | Watts Up With That?

Bottom line? The climate isn’t linear, never was … and succumbing to the fatal lure of assumed linearity has set the field of climate science back by decades.

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THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper suggests land-use changes played a big role in global warming

what role is left for CO2 as a cause of 20th century warming?

The Current State Of Climate Science | Real Science

...Why do you hate future children?
It is settled science, we need to focus on solutions
Every storm this year was the worst ever
If 99 doctors told you smoking was bad

One Hundred Years Ago, Climate Change Was Drying Up The Earth | Real Science

Papers Past — Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle — 10 March 1914 — IS THE EARTH DRYING UP ?

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NOAA And NPR Making Goebbels Proud | Real Science

I just heard this on NPR

    If you thought November was hot, you were right. NOAA says it was the hottest November ever.

It was actually the 96th warmest since 1895 in the US, with 70% of the country below normal temperature.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows climate models have exaggerated ocean warming by 66,590 Hiroshima bombs per day

An erratum published today in Climate Dynamics shows that climate models have exaggerated heat accumulation of the oceans by about 66,590 Hiroshima bombs per day vs. observations over the past ~50 years. That's indeed a travesty of a lot of "missing heat."

Four days of heavy snowfall leaves Amman paralyzed - Video

Thousands of homes in Jordan’s capital Amman without power, and hundreds of vehicles stranded, covered by snow.

Most British People Are 'Climate Ignorers' and 'Stealth Deniers,' Study Finds | ThinkProgress

Most people in Britain acknowledge the reality of human-caused climate change but are “unmoved” to do anything about it, according to a survey and report released by Britain’s Royal Society of Arts (RSA) on Tuesday.

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Renewable energy: Tony Abbott signals he could wind back or scrap targets | Environment | theguardian.com

PM says while Coalition supports 'sensible use' of renewable energy, scheme is 'causing pretty significant price pressure'

Republicans file brief against EPA rules | TheHill

Congressional Republicans are filing a brief in opposition to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations requiring permits for some greenhouse gas emissions.

The agency’s action, the lawmakers said in a "friend of the court" brief filed on Monday, amounts to a power grab from the executive branch.

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Doubting is Thinking – a Blog from Spain | NoFrakkingConsensus

Going green sounds so wonderful. But critical thinking, intellectual rigour, and empathy for the average Joe are frequently absent among people who insist they’re saving the planet. The result is one boondoggle after another.

Dr. R.K. Pachauri's remarkable achievement of 600 wickets for TERI is a milestone few can aspire to match in the foreseeable future

Several International, national and indeed corporate cricketers enjoy visiting and playing at Patchy Greens. [If CO2 might kill my grandchildren, shouldn't all cricket-related flying and driving be banned?]

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Heavy snowfall damages crops in Lao Cai (Vietnam)

“There are some people who haven’t seen anything like this.”

How far should we trust models? | Climate Etc.

Reto Knutti, from the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science in Zurich, says that does not mean the models are not telling us anything: ‘For some variable and scales, model projections are remarkably robust and unlikely to be entirely wrong.’

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The Coldest Days Ever In Chicago « CBS Chicago

[Dec 10, 2013] CHICAGO (CBS) — Tuesday morning’s temperatures were the coldest for December in nearly 20 years

‘Global warming’ iced by ‘coldest days ever’

global warming – “climate change” – is really all about redistribution of wealth and power, according to critics like Monckton and Robinson.

Heavy snowfall cut off dozens of villages in Georgia

Military and police may be used to restore power to several hundred thousand customers.

China - More than 8,000 Stranded at Kunming Airport Due to Heavy Snow and Rain

Early winter snowstorms of “rare intensity” blanketed Yunnan province on Monday.
It is the biggest snowfall in 18 years, according to local residents.