1914-1915 Australian Drought Led To Complete Crop Failure | Real Science

1914-1915 Australian Drought Led To Complete Crop Failure | Real Science: "complete crop failure in some districts, and easily the lowest Western Australian wheat yield of the century."

It’s Really, Really Cold. It Must Be Global Warming | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

It’s Really, Really Cold. It Must Be Global Warming | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF): "Between the record low temperatures and the need to rescue researchers whose ship was trapped in a thicker-than-expected Antarctic ice field, the past few weeks have tested the faith of even the most devout global-warming disciples. Their orthodoxy seems to have survived. The same cannot be said for their credibility."

DIDN’T OUR MEDIA TELL US THAT SNOW WAS A THING OF THE PAST?

DIDN’T OUR MEDIA TELL US THAT SNOW WAS A THING OF THE PAST?: "Al Gore repeatedly said, in print, “the Arctic will be ice free by 2013”. Gore made this claim in print in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
And it didn’t happen. In fact the Arctic ice cap’s surface area increased by more than 25% in 2012-2013. The much-larger Antarctic ice cap also increased, by about 5% using NASA data. NASA, which is a fully warmist institution peddling the “CO2 hypothesis”, has been forced to admit the Antarctic ice sheet is now at its largest since it started regular satellite monitoring in 1979."

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Researchers Alarmed at Rise in German Brown Coal Power Output - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Germany plans to wean itself off CO2-belching coal-fired power stations. But new figures show that coal power output in 2013 reached its highest level in more than 20 years. Researchers blame cheap CO2 emissions permits, and demand urgent reforms.

A reality check on the Northwest Passage 'boom' - The Globe and Mail

The geography and wind currents also mean the passage remains ice covered far longer than other parts of the Arctic.

Sun Editorial: Blast Of Hot Air | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The Met Office says: “There is currently no evidence that links our current storms to climate change.”

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Articles: It's Colder? Hotter? Blame Climate Change

Any propagandist worth his salt will tell you: if the old narrative fails, create a new one.

Time Mag's Climate Deception — The Patriot Post

Here's what Time magazine had to say about the now infamous “polar vortex” during the great ice age scare in June 1974: “Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds – the so-called circumpolar vortex – that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.” Four decades later, they're using the same argument as evidence of global warming. On Monday Time claimed, “[I]t may well be that global warming could be making the occasional bout of extreme cold weather in the U.S. even more likely. Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles.” Whatever fits the narrative.

“Clean Energy Economy in Three Charts:” U.S. DOE Misleads Again — MasterResource

“Cost, even if it were accurately calculated, is much different than true ’value’, especially in the case of the intermittent, unreliable electricity from wind. This elementary fact cannot be unknown to energy specialists at the U.S. Department of Energy, or their political leaders. The fact that DOE issued such misleading material is sad. The fact that it is done at taxpayer expense is despicable.”

Record Detroit snowfall - Times three

Record lows follow record snows.

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Extreme cold causes numerous water problems around northeast Ohio, freezing Lake Erie - Story

Freezing on Lake Erie caused valves to close, blocking water intake for communities connected to Avon Lake's water system: Medina, Avon, Avon Lake, Sheffield, Sheffield Lake, North Ridgeville, and parts of rural Lorain County.

Can you isolate a volcanic temperature signal in the temperature data? | Hypothesis Testing

The answer appears to be yes, with difficulty.

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A slow and bumpy climb | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

the most notable aspect of 2013 was the much higher September ice extent relative to the record low for 2012

Video: CEI’s Chris Horner Debates Cause of Big Chill on Hannity

My colleague Chris Horner appeared on Fox News’s Hannity last night to discuss the cause of the big chill that’s gripped much of the nation.

Balog discusses climate change in lecture | The Daily

He also believes glacial melting negatively impacts agriculture on a global scale.

Icecap: cooling will accelerate as the Atlantic joins the Pacific and as the German and Russian scientists predict, the sun continues its dive into a Maunder or at least Dalton like Minimum

Icecap Note: The United States has cooled for what will be 18 years this winter. Every one of the 9 climate regions has a downtrend. We have broken all snow records. See the story on how this decade is already the snowiest ever for high impact east coast snows. The cooling will accelerate as the Atlantic joins the Pacific and as the German and Russian scientists predict, the sun continues its dive into a Maunder or at least Dalton like Minimum. This cooling is related entirely to the cooling Pacific and occurring despite the fact we have not had major volcanic activity since Pinatubo in 1991.As the other dominos fall and if a major volcano occurs, the cold we saw this past week will be commonplace and even more severe. The government’s energy policy threatens to create great pain as we found in the EU where the renewable energy push has ben much greater and energy prices skyrocketed. They have had more severe winters the past 5 years with many pushed into energy poverty and a heavy death toll. The elderly living on a fixed budget and the poor will suffer the most.  Seth, you and Jeff Masters, Andrew Dessler, Katharine Hayhoe and Jennifer Francis can take the blame when that happens.

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David Gelernter: The Closing Of The Scientific Mind | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

That science should face crises in the early 21st century is inevitable. Power corrupts, and science today is the Catholic Church around the start of the 16th century: used to having its own way and dealing with heretics by excommunication, not argument.

1999 Version Of GISS Global Temperatures Showed That All Global Warming Occurred After 1977 PDO Shift | Real Science

The 1999 version of GISS global station data, showed that there was no long term warming prior to the 1977 PDO shift, and that all global warming occurred between 1976 and 1998.

- Bishop Hill blog - There must be some misunderstanding

Today, the Sunday Times (£) carries a long opinion piece from Adam Boulton on the rise of the sceptics within the Conservative party.

- Bishop Hill blog - Fish's water

With UK climatologists now generally on their best behaviour on the subject of a possible link between extreme weather and global warming, Channel Four news seems to have struggled to find someone credible to push the green line. They seem eventually to have persuaded the weather forecaster Michael Fish to give the sermon and you can see the results below. The line taken by the great man was, in essence, that although all the science has been unable to identify a link (unsurprising since there appears to be no actual evidence of adverse changes in weather extremes to explain), he could feel the causation in his water.

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THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Fossil Fuels to the Rescue in Antarctica

Thanks to modern technology, those stranded researchers didn't meet a fate that has befallen others.

Snow Trolling by Drudge? Or Journalistic Equal Time? « Roy Spencer, PhD

Clearly, interest in weather has been going up; interest in climate has been going down. I wonder why?

If heat waves and droughts really were getting worse, wouldn’t internet search traffic on climate issues be going up? Hmmm? Or was the climate change issue oversold, and now climate fatigue has set in?

Who is behind the ship of fools? » Spectator Blogs

Another question that needs to be asked about Turney’s expedition is how come the only journalists aboard are from the Guardian, which has sent two reporters, the BBC and Radio New Zealand – all eager mouthpieces of the global warming lobby. I would be fascinated to know if anyone else was invited.

The timing of the publication of a paper by Turney’s current employer, the University of New South Wales, is also fascinating. That appeared in Nature on 1 January, claiming that current climate models under-estimate the level of warming, which could reach 4C by 2100.

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Power station on fire in Newfoundland caused by cold weather - 190,000 customers lose power

The province had already been grappling with rolling blackouts implemented Thursday evening by the utility as it tried to cope with increased demand because of bitterly cold temperatures. The utility said the rotating outages would continue overnight Saturday and into Sunday.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: UK Climate Commission submission: IPCC AR5 Report 'definitely weakens the case for action' on climate

A submission to the UK Energy and Climate Change Committee inquiry into the IPCC AR5 Report points out how the IPCC has deliberately obscured recent evidence that the climate is significantly less sensitive to CO2 than previously claimed, and how the IPCC models significantly exaggerate warming from CO2.

Ice and Cold: Global Warming Believers are Today's Climate Deniers

Who is anti-science now?

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- Bishop Hill blog - Guardian: is totalitarianism the way forward?

Guardian Eco is, yet again, trying to set out its stall as the new home for totalitarianism in the international media, in an article questioning whether things would be a whole lot better if we didn't have freedom of the press any longer

Muzaffarnagar Muslims Freeze In Camps

With Rashida's death, the death toll in the relief camps reached 35.

Yakima Herald Republic | 16 dead as snow, severe cold pummel Midwest, East

BOSTON — Homeowners and motorists dug out across the white-blanketed Northeast on Friday as extreme cold ushered in by the storm threatened fingers and toes but kept the snow powdery and mercifully easy to shovel. At least 16 deaths were linked to the storm as it swept across the nation’s eastern half.

India - More deaths caused by the cold

31 Dec 2013 Dhaka (AsiaNews) – With the arrival of the first cold snap, at least 15 children have died in the northern districts of Bangladesh.

Three people killed by extreme cold in Pakistan

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Lack of accountability clouding the climate change debate

The world's so-called authority on climate change engages in exaggerated science and has become a political tool.

Do What I Say, Not as I Do: MSNBC Global Warming Edition - Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog - A Conservative Blog

Hayes has linked CAGW to various droughts and high temperature readings in selected locations and even the lack of snow at the 2013 Iditarod

The Solar Swindle | Somewhat Reasonable

Solar electricity is expensive and impractical. If it weren’t for government subsidies, some explicit and some disguised, the solar industry would collapse. The many claims of competitiveness are always based on ignoring subsidies provided to politically correct renewable power, ignoring the costs associated with unreliability, and ignoring the cost of backup fossil fuel plants.

Maryland’s Greens Following In Germany’s Footsteps - The American Interest

Why would a US state want to pick up with similar policies just at the moment that Europe is trying to retreat from them, especially when the US has capitalized so much more effectively on the shale revolution than Europe has? Maryland ought to learn from the European experience, and stop trying to prop up nascent technologies before it does even more harm to its most vulnerable citizens.

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Blog: The Global Warming Tipping Point is Near

Now the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has quietly downgraded their prediction for global warming for the next 30 years in the final draft of their landmark "Fifth Assessment Report." The effect of this is that they are tacitly admitting that the computer models they have religiously relied-upon for decades as "proof" of AGW theory are dead wrong.

The tipping point is near. I can smell it.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Stats For 2013 | sunshine hours

2013 was ranked 30th out of 36 years for average anomaly above the 1981-2010 mean – just below 2009, but 530,000 sq km above 2012.

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- Bishop Hill blog - The bureaucracy's media defenders

The news this morning is that the Environment Agency is going to cut 1500 jobs in a bid to cut costs.

I’m Retiring from Full-Time Climate Change Blogging | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations

as we well know, skeptics are not on the receiving end of billions of dollars in funding, so it may be a few years before I can afford to go back to blogging full time again.

Hydro- Québec running out of electricity for the province

MONTREAL, Jan. 2, 2014 – Hydro-Québec is anticipating high power consumption due to the extremely cold weather conditions prevailing now and forecast for the next few days. System demand is expected to be close to 38,000 MW. The last historical peak was 38,797 MW and occurred on January 23, 2013.

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At least there’s one positive thing happening because of climate change | Grist

The high-altitude Indian region of Ladakh, a chunk of the state of Kashmir that is home to many refugees from neighboring Tibet, is experiencing an agricultural boom as warmer weather sweeps up the mountainsides.

Bill Nye Wants To Wage War on Anti-Science Politics, Make a Movie—And Save the Planet From Asteroids | Mother Jones

When I ask Nye about what he considers his current top-three political passions, he responds: "Climate change, raise the standard of women around the world through education, asteroids."

Global Warming Model Estimates Major Reductions In Seafloor Marine Life By 2100

An international team of scientists predicts that seafloor dwelling marine life will decline by up to 38 percent in the North Atlantic and over five percent globally over the next century, due to global warming.

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New Year Storm to Dump Foot of Snow From NYC to Boston - Bloomberg

The European forecast models are “suggesting cold intensities in the Midwest to East Coast not seen for several years,” Matt Rogers, president of Commodity Weather Group in Bethesda, Maryland, said in a note to clients yesterday.

Questions Policymakers Should Be Asking Climate Scientists Who Receive Government Funding | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations

Apparently, the climate science community, with their much-trumpeted numerical models, is no closer than they were decades ago at being able to detect any human fingerprint in global warming or climate change.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Ice trapped alarmist Australian climate change professor and his followers rescued - Australian taxpayers likely to foot the bill

as so often, the bill for the huge rescue operation, probably running up to several million dollars, is likely to be footed by the Australian taxpayers - money that could be used for some more meaningful purposes.

Among the rescued climate change tourists, one was the BBC's Andrew Luck-Baker (Senior Producer, BBC Radio Science Unit, Brighton, UK). Why on earth does the BBC waste money on this kind of useless global warming tourism?

New polar bear population status documents completed but have been withheld | polarbearscience

If the population estimate had gone down, you can bet your last dollar we’d have heard about it from every available media outlet immediately after the meeting — so it must have gone up

Remember when we were supposed to change our behavior so Green Bay Packers playoff games would be cold enough? High of 4F, low of -15F for game day Sunday

Bitter cold coming to Green Bay on Sunday | ProFootballTalk

The Weather Channel’s forecast for Sunday in Green Bay calls for a high of four degrees and a low of 15 below.

2008: Has Global Warming Hurt the Green Bay Packers? | The Deets

As if we needed another reason to tackle global warming, now even the Green Bay Packers could be affected, said LuCinda Hohmann, Field Organizer with Wisconsin Environment. Congress and the state legislature must get serious about global warming before rising temperatures fumble away the Packers home field advantage.

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Articles: A Few Easy Tests to Debunk Global Warming Hysteria

Man may have some influence over the climate, but the effect is likely to be very small. There is no cause for economy-disrupting control of carbon dioxide. Be very suspicious of those who advocate, and carry out, such a policy. They have something most unpleasant in mind.

Global Warming Researchers Ice-Bound; 96 Percent of Network Stories Censor Why Ship Is There | NewsBusters

Antarctic ice trapped a ship full of scientists on a climate change expedition. Yet, 96 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers ignored climate change entirely. The ship has been stuck since Christmas morning.

Ship of Fools | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But the embarrassment is so acute that the expedition organisers are pretending they were never that interested in global warming really

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Snow causes collapse of several P.E.I. roofs - Prince Edward Island - CBC News

Well over a metre of snow has fallen on P.E.I. this month.

The Global Warming Prophecy | NoFrakkingConsensus

At the heart of the climate change movement is the belief that we will be punished for our sins.

Plastic made from pollution hits U.S. market

"You'll be able to hold carbon in your hand," Herrema says of the products, which an independent lab says remove more carbon from the atmosphere than their manufacturing emits. By replacing oil-based plastics, he says he wants to help reduce global warming: "We actually want to change the world."

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Crowds go cold on climate cost

[Maurice Newman] From the UN down, the climate change delusion is a gigantic money tree. It is a tyranny that, despite its pretensions, favours the rich and politically powerful at the expense of the poor and powerless. But the madness of the crowds is waning and, as Mackay writes of the perpetrators: "Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later." We can only hope it comes before most of us descend into serfdom.

Two women die of exposure in Anchorage - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Alaska News

At least five other people have died outside in Anchorage this year.

An oily and murky environment in India

Ironically, this time it is Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Veerappa Moily who has been offered the additional ‘role’ of handling the Environment portfolio. In certain quarters, the exit of his predecessor, Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, is being viewed as a punishment to her for taking a hard stand on green clearances for big infrastructure projects.

Before her, Mr Jairam Ramesh was also similarly shunted out of the Environment Ministry. The latter is often credited with having single-handedly put green issues on top of the Government’s agenda. No sooner than he had done that, he was booted out.

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Graham Holdings Co : One difference between climate change fears 90 years ago

The only difference being that, then, they did not destroy the countryside with useless wind turbines. Perhaps their politicians had more common sense in those days.

Canadian Cities May Set All-Time Record Low Temperatures This Week | Real Science

Mann-made global warming strikes again.

Skeptical view makes Australian front page: climate madness, dishonesty, fraud, deception, lies and exploitation says Maurice Newman « JoNova

The giant boondoggle is coming undone.

What makes this article remarkable is the strong language coming from a credible source on the front page of a major national daily. We have crossed another line in the decline and fall of the Great Global Warming Scare. Maurice Newman is chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council , was Chairman of the ABC, and of the board of the Australian Stock Exchange. He was Chancellor of Macquarie University until 2008. The Op-Ed and news article today sums up the worst of the last five years of climate, and is the first time I can recall seeing a well respected commentator use such unequivocal and damning language and so prominently. There is no hedging here, no pandering. Newman obviously reads skeptical blogs and is very aware of what is going on. Ponder that he was Chairman of their ABC, and if someone of his sensible insight could not clean it up, we need far more drastic action (that’s another topic we will explore soon).

"New" ClimateGate III email 923489557: UEA's Mike Hulme, April '99: "I'm dubious about forcing climate to be the main driver of environmental change...IPCC might like to have us think climate change is that important, but I don't believe it"

At 17:39 01/04/99 +0100, [Mike Hulme] wrote to UEA's Trevor Davies:

I'm dubious about forcing climate to be the main driver of environmental change. I think this smacks of convenience to us rather than intellectually defendable. IPCC might like to have us think climate change is that important, but I don't believe it. The main driver of environmental change is socio-economic-technological development. Changing climates provide an envelope within which the environment has to adapt to the human drivers of change - in some sectors and regions it is a very loose-fitting envelope and in other it is a little tighter....

Mike Hulme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate and Culture in the Department of Geography at King's College London. He was formerly professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). In 1988, after four years lecturing in geography at the University of Salford, he became for 12 years a senior researcher in the Climatic Research Unit, part of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. In October 2000 he founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a distributed virtual network organisation headquartered at UEA, which he directed until July 2007

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Prepare for better weather: Sweden to hand out 29 mln free carbon allowances in January - Reuters News - Point Carbon

LONDON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Sweden will hand out its 2013 allocation of almost 29 million free EU carbon allowances (EUAs) to big-emitting companies in early January, an analyst with the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) said on Monday.

Bumper Apple Crop Causes Problems

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — This year’s expected record-breaking apple crop left many New York growers with fruit still on the trees and not enough storage space after the harvest.

Sun ‘Flips Upside Down’ As New Magnetic Cycle Begins | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The sun has “flipped upside down”, with its north and south poles reversed to reach the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24, Nasa has said.

Climate policies helped kill manufacturing, says Maurice Newman | The Australian

THE unprecedented cost of energy driven by the renewable energy target and the carbon tax had destroyed the nation's competitiveness, Tony Abbott's chief business adviser has declared. Maurice Newman also says climate change policies driven by "scientific delusion" have been a major factor in the collapse of Australia's manufacturing sector.

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IPCC “science” on sea-levels dumped by an Australian State Government « JoNova

It’s just another day on the road back to reality.

The New South Wales state government in Australia has announced it will tell its local councils that not only are they not bound by the IPCC sea-level predictions, they must do their own research on their own beaches. It’s the polite way of saying that no one believes the IPCC predictions anymore, worse, that they are so sure the IPCC is wrong that councils have to get different advice. For the IPCC it’s just one more signpost on the path to oblivion.

Greenpeace and Arctic oil: Both becoming irrelevant.

The success of the shale oil revolution in the US is causing such rapid changes in the world oil industry that few people outside of the industry are aware of them. Essentially, the stunning success of US shale oil makes the Arctic irrelevant.