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GISS Busted Again In Antarctica | Real ScienceIn 1958, the head US weather researcher said that Antarctic temperatures had risen five degrees in first half of the 20th century.
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GISS shows zero warming in Antarctica during that period of five degree warming.
Truth Finds A Way | Real ScienceThe Guardian censored my comment, but through the magic of Twitter and Climate Depot – it made it there anyway.
Germany’s New Generation Of Coal Power Stations | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THATThe new plant at Lunen follows the opening last month of another hard coal power plant in Dortmund, the first of ten new hard-coal power stations, amounting to 7,985 MW, that are scheduled to start producing electricity in the next two years, according to information from German grid regulator Bundesnetzagentur and operators.
The Big Freeze that became an unforgettable Frost Fair - TelegraphTwo hundred years ago, a dense fog heralded the onset of bitter weather that would see Londoners dancing and frolicking on the frozen Thames
Heavy snowfall may cause problems for Sochi Winter Olympics | Ice Age NowThere will be enough snow, that issue doesn’t disturb us,” said Alexander Frolov, head of the Russian Weather Service (Rosgidromet).
Time to recognize approaching Southern Hemisphere disaster | Climate SanityIt is now the warm season in the Southern Hemisphere. Sea ice is making its seasonal retreat, yet the Russian cruise ship, Akademik Shokalskiy, is trapped in the sea ice with “52 tourists, scientists and explorers” and a crew of 22. You would think the combined brains of all those scientists on board would have kept them out of the zone of freezing water. While the ship’s brochure points out that “Views are excellent from the large, open decks and the Navigation Bridge’” maybe they couldn’t see the ice coming from the vantage point of the “Lounge and bar, open late afternoon and evening with a wide selection of wines and spirits” (an essential feature of all scientific research vessels). Our prayers go out to the scientists and others on this harrowing adventure as ice breakers race to free them the frozen grip of the sea. I hope the sauna stays warm and the booze holds out until they get there.
Original Temperatures: Czech Republic and SlovakiaFor sure, yet again, the BEST project is not presenting reality.
Climate-Science Boatpeople, In Search Of Global Warming Signs, Trapped In Thousands Of Kilometers Of Sea Ice!The metaphor just couldn’t be more fitting: desperate true believers of global warming and accelerating polar ice melt now find themselves trapped by thousands of square kilometers of summertime sea ice that wasn’t supposed to be there.
No picture could better symbolize and communicate the intellectual bankruptcy and disillusionment of a faithful group who refuse to believe they have been led astray. This has to be deeply embarrassing, if not outright humiliating.
Unions must defend climate | Vancouver Observerif corporations were people they would be diagnosed as psychopaths. They are ruthless in the single-minded pursuit of profit. Psychopaths feel no empathy for their victims. They do not care if the consequences of their actions could soon be the overheating of our planet to the degree that our grandchildren no longer have a habitable environment...Without the basics of life, being able to buy more things is meaningless.
Liberal run Ontario a ‘green energy laboratory’ : Prime time : SunNews Video GalleryEzra Levant discusses the total failure of the Ontario Liberal government’s green energy policies with PC MPP and shadow Energy Minister Lisa MacLeod.
Cold weather sends vegetable prices soaring - GlobesOne of the results of the winter storms that struck Israel two weeks ago is being felt in the price of vegetables. Prices of some vegetables have soared by several hundred percent, and there is a shortage of some vegetables in stores and markets.
How to land a green job in 2014 | Gristthe vast majority of environmental professionals work within the existing infrastructure of compliance with regulations for clean air, health and safety, clean water, solid waste, and hazardous waste, as well as with zoning laws and building codes.
Enchanted Ad Outpaces FedEx’s Adoption of Eco-Friendly Vehicles - BloombergFedEx drew widespread praise a decade ago when it unveiled a hybrid electric delivery truck and said it could replace its 30,000 diesel-burning vehicles in 10 years. In its most recent annual report, the delivery giant said its fleet includes 360 hybrid-electric and 165 full-electric trucks, or less than 1 percent of the now-54,100 ground vehicles in its FedEx Express division.
Other major fleet operators, from UPS to Verizon, have slowed their hybrid-vehicle deployments as well
Bay Area Spare The Air Alert On Christmas Eve, Wood Burning Banned « CBS San FranciscoIt sounds Scrooge-like to tell residents they can’t gather around the fire during the holidays, but air quality officials are asking people to keep in mind the reasons for the ban and realize that it’s not just the air district saying, “Bah, humbug!”
“We’re not picking these days for the fun of it or anything, it completely has to do with the science behind air pollution,” he said.
“Indisputable” That Jim And Phil Are Cheating | Real ScienceIn 1979, it was “indisputable” that there had been 1ºF cooling since WWII, and that global cooling was causing extreme weather, drought, famine ……
1977 : Meteorologists Said That Climate Scientists Aren’t Real Scientists | Real Science
How a Talking Point Is Born: $1 Billion Against Action on Climate Change | The Volokh Conspiracyhis is ridiculous, as many of the organizations listed, such as the American Enterprise Institute, Hoover Institution, and Heritage Foundation, spend only a tiny fraction of their budget on climate policy.
To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production - The Washington PostDE KALB, Miss. — America’s newest and cleanest coal-fired power plant comes with a catch: The heat-trapping carbon dioxide removed from its smokestack pollution will help force more oil out of the ground.
Global Warming On Ice | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)Five years after Mr. Gore’s statement, the North Pole is still around and, in fact, thriving. BBC News reported earlier this month that ice is up by a resounding 50 percent this year from 2012 levels. So things are still nice and frigid for all those at Santa’s workshop. The polar bear population is thriving, as well.
Spreading Some Holiday Cheer: Global Warming Not Always 'Worse Than We Thought' | Cato @ LibertyFight back! Before things escalate to the level of food assaults, trot out some of the facts in this, our annual guide for holiday parties.
Unusually bitter cold snap even hard on Santas | INFORUM | Fargo, NDIndeed, December will likely go down in the record books as one of the area’s coldest, WDAY meteorologist John Wheeler said. So far, temperatures this month are about 12 degrees below average, he said.
Jerry Jackson: Climate injustice - Opinion - The Sun-Times - Heber Springs, AR - Heber Springs, AR If this is man-made because of industrial pollution, how do you explain the terrible drought of the thirties, the hurricane decades ago that ravished Galveston and other coastal cities killing thousands? And the floods that demolished entire sections of cities like Kansas City in the twenties. More and more thoughtful scientists are rebelling against the hysterics of Al Gore and his cult.
As livestock eat, so they emit: highly variable diets drive highly variable climate change ‘hoofprints’ - environmentalresearchwebThe most detailed livestock analysis to date, published yesterday, shows vast differences in animal diets and emissions.
Minnesota: Bitter cold sends more to Salvation Army sheltersMiller said instead of 450 people a night, they're sheltering and average of 800.
"We have people sitting in chairs rather than being out in the cold. We have people lying in spots where they may not be the best, but it's the best that we can provide," he said,
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds Antarctica had much less sea ice during the last interglacialA paper published today in Climate of the Past finds Antarctic sea ice extent was much less than the present during the last interglacial period ~120,000 years ago. According to the authors, "During the last interglacial, the [sea ice proxy at 2 sites in Antarctica] are only half of the Holocene levels, in line with higher temperatures during that period, indicating much reduced sea ice extent in the Atlantic as well as the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean."
Thanks To Congress, 2014 Will Bring Uncertainty For The Wind Industry | ThinkProgressthe one-year extension of the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) will expire on January 1, 2014.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: California planning to run on battery power due to unreliable wind & solar energyThus, in total, new renewable sources and the battery capacity necessary to provide reliable electricity may cost $10 billion by 2020, representing about a 66% increase in electricity rates.
1986 : Leading Experts – 6 Degrees Warming By 2010, Eight Degrees By 2030, With 4.5 Feet Of Sea Level Rise | Real Science
Defining CO2 As A Pollutant Is The Worst Kind Of Lie…We Really Don’t Have Much In The AtmosphereWhy the continuous negativity? Rejoice! Abundance surrounds us! More CO2 in the atmosphere fertilizes our crops, as those crops labor to use it up. On a warm, windless afternoon in a cornfield, photosynthesis slows because all the available CO2 gets consumed. If there is more of it in the beginning, this doesn’t happen. In a closed greenhouse, CO2 must be added to the air or growth slows as it is used up. If extra CO2 is added, growth is faster than in an open field, a lot faster. Defining CO2 as a pollutant is the worst kind of lie.
GISS 1997 : 80% Of Northern Hemisphere Warming Occurred Prior To 1940 | Real ScienceIn 1997, GISS showed 0.8ºC warming in the Northern Hemisphere from 1885 to 1940 – when CO2 was 310 PPM. Over the next 45 years, only 0.2ºC additional warming has occurred.
99% Certainty Update | Real ScienceIn 1997, GISS showed that the Southern Hemisphere warmed from 1882 to 1910. Now they show the exact opposite.
A Spectacular Pile Of BS From Hansen In 1986 | Real ScienceIf he meant to say 90 degree days, they have dropped dramatically since 1895 and are now below 30/year for the first time. Hansen has absolutely no clue what he is talking about.
James Hansen In Spiegel Interview: Environmental Groups Against Nuclear Power “For Fear Of Losing Funding”Environmentalists have put themselves in a catch 22 situation. By overblowing the consequences of fossil fuels, they have only succeeded in strengthening the arguments for a source of power that they regard as being about as evil.
Warmists now in the super-activist phase of false prophecyWarmists have now recovered from the fact that there is no warming going on and that all their predictions were wrong. And they have recovered just as Mrs Martin did: By finding a convenient but invisible explanation for why the world has been spared disaster. In the Warmist case they say that the warming is still going on but the extra heat is somehow magically slipping past both the ocean and terrestrial surfaces and burying itself in the ocean deeps. The fact that heat tends to rise rather than sink doesn't seem to worry them. And the fact that the ocean deeps are known mainly for the extreme stability of their temperature doesn't bother them either.
And now that they have that "explanation' for their prophecy failure, they are going on to the next phase recorded by Festinger: They are becoming more fanatical than ever and are proselytizing frantically -- as you will see below.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Dan Hannan on the Green Jobs Fallacy In just one minute Conservative MEP Dan Hannan manages to destroy the myth of green jobs
Global Warming Scientist Warns Florida Will Be Under WaterProfessor Wanless has expressed his frustration with current engineering plots to remedy the problems that could arise from future flooding, and insists that the best solution at this point is simply to move inland and stop all further development along the coastline.
1983 : Snow Was A Thing Of The Past In New York | Real ScienceCO2 is a powerful and sneaky substance. Thirty years ago it caused floods in Arizona and snow-free winters in New York. Now it causes droughts in Arizona and heavy snow in New York.
Rethinking climate advocacy | Climate Etc.Even if you believe that CO2 is the dominant control knob on climate change on timescales of decades to centuries, how is it a ‘fact’ to state that this must be dealt with by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (rather than by adaption, carbon sequestration or geoengineering)? And there is a missing element in this argument that warming is ‘bad’, which is a value judgment and has nothing to do with science.
This belief that CO2 mitigation follows logically from the science is part of what I have called the UNFCCC/IPCC ideology.
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