‘Retroactive Looting’: Spain Plans To End All Pre-2004 Wind Subsidies

‘Retroactive Looting’: Spain Plans To End All Pre-2004 Wind Subsidies | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF): "The Spanish government said it plans to end all price subsidies for wind capacity online before end-2004, while slashing remuneration for younger capacity."

Pre-Industrial Farming Sprouted Global Warming | LiveScience

Pre-Industrial Farming Sprouted Global Warming | LiveScience: "Early farmers boosted Earth's temperature by 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) over a period of 8,000 years, a new study suggests.

"This is almost as large as the global warming in the past 150 years," said Feng He, lead study author and a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "That means early agricultural is as powerful as the whole Industrial Revolution."

However, the study concludes that the net warming caused by early humans was only 1.3 degrees F (0.73 degrees C), thanks to a slight cooling of 0.31 degrees F (0.17 degrees C) due to more sunlight reflecting from cleared land."

Could the Northlands Look Like the Prairie? - MN2020 Hindsight

Could the Northlands Look Like the Prairie? - MN2020 Hindsight: "If we continue emitting carbon at our current rates, the Boundary Waters will turn into an open prairie by the end of the 21st century, killing off and pushing away moose, lynx and some songbirds, according to a recent National Wildlife Federation report."

U.S. to launch 'climate hubs' to help farmers face climate change | Reuters

U.S. to launch 'climate hubs' to help farmers face climate change | Reuters: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the effects of climate change have led to a longer crop growing season in the Midwest, a fire season that is 60 days longer than it was three decades ago, and droughts that cost the United States $50 billion from 2011-2013."

CAMPAIGN 2014: GOP mounts broadened ad blitz to frame Rahall as 'no friend of coal'

CAMPAIGN 2014: GOP mounts broadened ad blitz to frame Rahall as 'no friend of coal' -- Tuesday, February 4, 2014 -- www.eenews.net: "For months, it's appeared as though every attack ad in West Virginia is a knock on Rep. Nick Rahall (D) over his vote for a carbon tax, but now the House Republicans' campaign arm is getting ready to expand its reach.

A document obtained by E&E Daily shows that the National Republican Congressional Committee plans to criticize Rahall in upcoming ads over old votes on cap and trade, the renewable portfolio standard and U.S. EPA regulations and funding, while also continuing to hammer its message on the carbon tax."

Hulme tries to throw all scientists under a bus

Hulme tries to throw all scientists under a bus. It’s just “the debate is over”. Cook, consensus take collateral hit « JoNova: "It’s another tiny marker on the road to reality. Mike Hulme has admitted that Cooks 97% study is “infamous” and “irrelevant”. He’s trying to wash himself of both the “Consensus” argument and Cook’s work which he can see are becoming a liability. But make no mistake Hulme is more alarmist than ever. He’s just trying to rebrand the gravy train."

"State of the Union climate rhetoric undermines rational decision making"

thebahamasweekly.com - "State of the Union climate rhetoric undermines rational decision making": "Obama’s error is not harmless. It is part of the way language has been distorted to bolster concerns about human-caused climate change. Calling CO2 carbon, or worse, carbon pollution, encourages people to think of it as something dirty and so important to restrict. Obama reinforces this misunderstanding by referring to power plants that have low CO2 emissions as clean. This mistake is so entrenched that even those who oppose fashionable beliefs about climate change make it often.

Calling CO2 by its proper name would help people remember that, regardless of its role in climate change (a point of intense debate among scientists), CO2 is really an invisible gas essential to plant photosynthesis, and so to all life. Recent studies demonstrate that worldwide crop yield has soared as CO2 levels have risen. So although CO2 is an ‘infrared absorbing gas’ blamed by governments for most of the past century’s modest warming, it is no more a pollutant than is the major ‘greenhouse gas’ in the atmosphere, water vapour."

Fight Global Warming: Approve the Pipeline! - Phil Kerpen

Fight Global Warming: Approve the Pipeline! - Phil Kerpen - Page full: "In its latest review, the State Department outlined the greenhouse gas impact of approving the pipeline against the backdrop of this reality. They analyzed three different potential “no action” scenarios and found they would all have significantly higher emissions than approving the pipeline. The all-rail scenario would have 41.8 percent higher emissions; a scenario in which rail is used for part of the route to reach existing pipelines would have 39.7 percent higher emissions, and a scenario in which rail is used to ship crude to reach tankers would increase emissions 27.8 percent."

Fight Global Warming: Approve the Pipeline! - Phil Kerpen

Fight Global Warming: Approve the Pipeline! - Phil Kerpen - Page full: "In its latest review, the State Department outlined the greenhouse gas impact of approving the pipeline against the backdrop of this reality. They analyzed three different potential “no action” scenarios and found they would all have significantly higher emissions than approving the pipeline. The all-rail scenario would have 41.8 percent higher emissions; a scenario in which rail is used for part of the route to reach existing pipelines would have 39.7 percent higher emissions, and a scenario in which rail is used to ship crude to reach tankers would increase emissions 27.8 percent."

Climate change threatens to cause trillions in damage to world's coastal regions

Climate change threatens to cause trillions in damage to world's coastal regions: "According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global average storm surge damages could increase from about $10-$40 billion per year today to up to $100,000 billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken."

Why a meteorologist took the bus for 28 hours instead of flying.

Why a meteorologist took the bus for 28 hours instead of flying.: "My world is much smaller now, and that’s both good and bad. I’ve found myself exploring more around where I live. One of the biggest downsides is giving up international travel, which I love. But I’d rather do my part now so the people who actually live in all those exotic places can continue to do so. Maybe, someday soon, there will be a low-carbon way to travel to those places again. Here’s hoping. But for now, for me, the climate is more important."

Auto Sales for January Held Down by Harsh Winter Weather - NYTimes.com

Auto Sales for January Held Down by Harsh Winter Weather - NYTimes.com: "Automakers reported on Monday sharp declines in United States sales in January as a harsh freeze and winter storms thwarted purchases across much of the country."

Ban Ki-moon selects Bloomberg as cities and climate change envoy

Ban Ki-moon selects Bloomberg as cities and climate change envoy: "“Cities are on the frontline because federal, national and international organisations aren’t doing anything,” he said.

“They either deny that the world is changing or they say that it’s not changing so fast that we should do anything about it but all of the scientific information that we have and the empirical evidence that we see … these are things that somebody’s got to worry about.”"

Polar bears have always had a varied diet

Polar Bear Blog – Polar Bear Diets and Sharing Seals | Polar Bear Alley – Guide to the Polar Bears of Churchill: "My one difficulty with the articles on this paper is that they make it out as if the polar bears are forced to forage because of a warming climate. In truth, polar bears have always had a varied diet. Yes, their primary focus is seal but they are opportunists and even the early whalers noticed them feeding on grasses and such, even comparing them to sheep grazing in herds. And then they slaughtered them, but that’s a different blog entry.

Anyway, there were many obersvations of summer foraging in the late 1960s near Churchill, as well as the early 1990s and all along. Bears will dive to feed on kelp and algae on the ocean floor. They have always scaled cliffs to raid nests and occasionally attacked walrus. Females emerging from the maternity dens will sometimes graze for a number of days before heading to the seal hunting grounds on the ice. They even make open water seal kills. Its such a shame that all of this creativity is simply lumped into ‘oh look what the poor bears have to do now’."

Stick Yourself Up :: SteynOnline

Stick Yourself Up :: SteynOnline: "Reluctant public figure" and shrinking Nobel violet Michael Mann writes more newspaper columns than I do these days, but his latest in The Guardian has one delightful moment of self-sabotaging omniscience, in which he does to the early typewriters what he did to the Medieval Warm Period. That's a good example of why he's careful never to expose himself to genuine debate, and why his cross-examination on the witness stand will be such a hoot. Seating limited. Book now.

The Price Of Green Dreams: Energy Woes Will Hobble Europe For 20 Years

The Price Of Green Dreams: Energy Woes Will Hobble Europe For 20 Years | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF): "One of biggest stories of this decade is the steady erosion of the global green movement, which has almost entirely been driven by the incoherence of green policy proposals and the serial failure of signature policies. Yet the response of the mainstream green movement to critics who point these facts out is “Shut up, you evil science deniers.”"

On thin ice — the politics of snow removal

On thin ice — the politics of snow removal: "New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were in hot water after a snowstorm slammed the East Coast while both were out of their home states vacationing in warmer climates.
Bloomberg was in Bermuda and Christie was with his family at Disney World."

Godly Denialists Won't Be Raptured from Climate Hell | OpEdNews

Article: Godly Denialists Won't Be Raptured from Climate Hell | OpEdNews: "Just as certain biblically oriented minds perceive in Sherman's March God's horrifying punishment for slavery's inhuman sin, I hope they'll come to see in potentially cataclysmic weather God's equally frightful punishment for the arrogant, heedless sin of climate-change denial. For in global warming, the prophecy of the world ending by fire may strangely be fulfilled. But on the way to humanity-ending climate Armageddon, the suffering and death toll from chaotic, unanticipated extreme weather (as previewed in miniature in Atlanta) will prove almost unthinkable. And who among climate-change deniers--or among any of us--is so righteous as to arrogantly presume we'll be raptured away from the rapidly approaching armies of climate Apocalypse? Now marching our roads in double-time. "

Waxman poetic: Climate hawk leaves an impressive ‘stache of green achievements | Grist

Waxman poetic: Climate hawk leaves an impressive ‘stache of green achievements | Grist: "Like a mustachioed white knight from a fairy tale, Waxman rode in and rescued Mother Earth from the clutch of Dingell’s gnarled, choking fingers."

Europe To Lose A Third Of Its Global Market Share Of Manufacturing Exports, IEA Warns | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Europe To Lose A Third Of Its Global Market Share Of Manufacturing Exports, IEA Warns | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF): "High gas and electricity prices will continue to plague Europe for at least 20 years, damaging the competitiveness of industries that employ almost 30m people, the world’s leading energy forecaster has warned."

EU climate targets under fire : Nature News & Comment

EU climate targets under fire : Nature News & Comment: "“The science shows that a renewable energy target would go a long way in creating jobs and economic growth in Europe without increasing the costs of the energy system,” says Jacopo Moccia, a policy director at the European Wind Energy Association in Brussels...“Back in 2008, climate change was a top-priority issue among world leaders,” says Harms. “Six years on, it feels as if political elites are suffering the climate debate rather than engaging in it.”"

Propane Shortage Is A Side Effect Of Obstructing Energy Infrastructure Like Keystone Pipeline | Say Anything

Propane Shortage Is A Side Effect Of Obstructing Energy Infrastructure Like Keystone Pipeline | Say Anything: "The Keystone XL pipeline alone could take 100,000 barrels of oil per day out of the North Dakota oil fields, a little more than 10% of current production. That’s a lot of trucks off the highways, and rail cars off the tracks. The Keystone pipeline, along with other infrastructure projects like the Sandpiper line (which is facing political opposition in Minnesota) could take pressure off of rails and roads which, in turn, would help alleviate the region’s propane shortage and passenger rail service delays.

But it’s not happening. Because President Obama would rather cater to a small but vocal minority of environmental activists."

Tax funded namecallers? Clive Hamilton, The Conversation are the same: beyond reason « JoNova

Tax funded namecallers? Clive Hamilton, The Conversation are the same: beyond reason « JoNova: "What we need is a mature national discussion. But what The Conversation (and the Business Spectator) gives us is logic-according-to-Clive, which is a black and white world where complex debates are reduced to yes or no answers and there are no shades of gray. How much will our climate warm? Clive says “Yes”.

Clive Hamilton is an Australian “intellectual” a Professor of Public Ethics and holds the Vice-Chancellor’s Chair at Charles Sturt University, and is a former candidate for The Australian Greens."

US Vs. Europe: The New Energy Battle Heats Up | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

US Vs. Europe: The New Energy Battle Heats Up | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF): "A senior European official has warned that without a change in energy policies at both the European and national levels, “we will lose our energy intensive industries — and we will lose our economy long term.”"

Procrastinating About The Global Warming ‘Pause’ | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Procrastinating About The Global Warming ‘Pause’ | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF): "The world is entering the 17th year of the greatest climate science embarrassment in modern history — the pause in global warming. “Because intellectuals are densely networked in self-selecting groups whose members’ prestige is linked, we incubate endless, self-serving elite superstitions, with baleful effects.”"