ABC news crew in minus 40 weather gets a sob story from WWF about how Polar Bears now only have one cub, when the used to have two. Due to global warming, of course.
The next day the news crew finds a mother – with three cubs.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
German Green Parliamentarians Stuck On Stupid – Taxpayers Now Waiting 6 Months For A Reply
Yes, the Greens have to go back to the old worn out pages of its propaganda playbook and rehash all the old drivel about "climate change deniers", evil industry funding, Fred Singer and Big Oil conspiracies as being behind the skeptic movement.
They're stuck on stupid. If you don't have the science then you keep using the old stories.
Nobel Laureates Speak Out
On Wednesday, 17 Nobel laureates who gathered in Stockholm have published a remarkable memorandum, asking for "fundamental transformation and innovation in all spheres and at all scales in order to stop and reverse global environmental change". TheStockholm Memorandum concludes that we have entered a new geological era: the Anthropocene, where humanity has become the main driver of global change
Childish games from UEA
So, after the deadline passes, they ask for clarification. They claim in their letter that this allows them to restart the clock, but unfortunately they forgot to tell me that within the deadline, so they breached the law anyway - you know, the one they made a formal undertaking to comply with.
Maldives a ‘technology lab’ towards reducing carbon in the world
Nasheed, grappling with political issues and rising costs of consumer goods that triggered week-long protests, skipped the opening of the conference
Editorial Boards of Washington Post, LA Times, Pen Scathing Warnings on Climate : TreeHugger
We need more of this sort of attention from editorial pages and the news divisions. There is a chasm between the public's understanding of climate change and the speed of it, a gap that the news media and the White House need to close. The LA Times and the Washington Post should be applauded for sounding the alarm.
Oreskes and Dr Karl
BBC Radio Five Live had a propaganda piece on global warming last week, with Naomi Oreskes and an Australian called "Dr Karl" vigorously agreeing with each other on absolutely everything and knocking down the telephone callers like flies.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Inspiration from Kennedy's Moon speech - Quirks and Quarks
Take climate change, for example. Everyone agrees that carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels need to be reduced by significant amounts. This is a difficult global challenge that requires the development of new technologies at considerable cost. The United Nations has done a good job of rallying countries and establishing lofty goals in the Kennedy tradition, such as the Rio Summit, Kyoto Accord or the Copenhagen Agreement. But when it comes to taking action, many countries, especially Canada, have chosen to follow the easier, business-as-usual path. In fact, Canada's carbon emissions have gone up since signing Kyoto, not down.
Birtherism, the debt ceiling, climate change, evolution: Are Republicans losing their grip on reality? - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
Another series of Republican fictions relates to climate change. This starts, at one extreme, with the outright denial of Michele Bachmann, progressing through the various "not-man-made" and "the jury's-still-out" dodges offered by the likes of Sarah Palin and John Thune. Christie handled this issue in the same evasive way he did the evolution question, albeit with less aggression, shortly after being elected. "I'm skeptical—I'm skeptical," he said. "And you know, I think at the end of this, I think we're going to need more science to prove something one way or the other." The conservative press has gone after Newt Gingrich merely for saying the country must do something to address climate change. But if you're one of the conservatives who had the misfortune to accept science during the pre-Tea Party era, don't worry–you can still escape extinction by expressing doubt about any possible solution. This describes the position of Mitch Daniels; Mitt Romney; and Tim Pawlenty, who once supported cap-and-trade but has simply reversed himself, offering a self-flagellating apology and confession ("it was stupid").
Jon Huntsman's Climate Problem | Mother Jones
Jon Huntsman is gaining traction as the notably less-unelectable potential GOP presidential candidate. So far, he hasn't said or done anything (ahem, Gingrich) that hurts his prospects. Unless, that is, you count his remarkably sane comments on climate change.
Is Extreme Weather the New Normal? | Reuters
While none would blame climate change for any specific weather event, Hayhoe said a background of climate change had an impact on every rainstorm, heat wave or cold snap.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
"The head of the American Public Health Association says that blocking the EPA’s work to reduce carbon dioxide could mean the difference between a healthy life for many Americans or chronic debilitating illness"
Poll: Upton’s war against EPA climate rules unpopular at home - The Hill's E2-Wire
From the polling memo:
Some say Congress should step in and prevent the EPA from limiting carbon dioxide pollution. For example, the head of the America Petroleum Institute says Congress should decide when and how greenhouse gases should be regulated. But others say Congress should let EPA do its job. The head of the American Public Health Association says that blocking the EPA’s work to reduce carbon dioxide could mean the difference between a healthy life for many Americans or chronic debilitating illness. Which opinion do you support?
Government confirms end to core funding for Carbon Trust - 19 May 2011 - News from BusinessGreen
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today quietly announced that the Carbon Trust and the Energy Saving Trust will no longer receive core grant funding from next April.
AFP: Species loss far less severe than feared: study
PARIS — The pace at which humans are driving animal and plant species toward extinction through habitat destruction is at least twice as slow as previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday.Climate Study Congress Requested Falls on Deaf Ears in the Capitol | SolveClimate News
Whether it's paralysis, fatigue or an indication of the arrival of "post-climate times," a major National Research Council mid-May report warning about the severe dangers of accumulating greenhouse gas emissions seems to have barely registered as a blip on the Richter scale of environmental urgency.
£400k bill for carbon emissions - Dumfries and Galloway Standard
THE TAXPAYER is facing an £400,000 eco-tax over the council’s carbon emissions.
New laws mean public authorities will have to buy carbon credits at £12 for every tonne.
American Thinker: Kids 'Scared Straight' to Climate Activism
Children, on the other hand, typically lack perspective and discernment. Therefore, it is unfair, even unethical, for adult activists to target the young when the activists have been unable to convince more-informed, less-gullible adults of a coming global-warming catastrophe attributable to human activity.- Bishop Hill blog - Scrutinising the models
Put alongside the poor performance of the models against observations in recent years do we really have a watertight scientific case that demands a policy response?
Warmists return from the Arctic, still complaining about how cold it was up there
Q&A: Polar explorer Adrian McCallum (Wired UK)
Everything took a long time because you were constantly having to take your hands out from your mitts to write things down or attach or adjust instruments so it really was a continual balance between getting the science done and keeping your fingers. An additional issue we faced was that because the ADCP was deployed for over an hour the hole in the sea ice we'd drilled would start to freeze-in so we often had to retrieve the ADCP then clear the hole then redeploy the ADCP making it a longer and more tedious process. It was always a relief to crawl into the warm tent at the end of a day.Twitter / @Pen Hadow
Martin H & I agree re frustration that snow doesn't change colour with temperature eg white>lilac>purple> black so one can 'see' deep cold!
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Jennifer Aniston’s Green Streak Continues… With a New $5 Million Penthouse
Well, it’s good to know that Aniston has been consuming less water than the rest of us climate change deniers… in a $42 million Beverly Hills mansion. No cognitive dissonance there!Global Warming Poses No Controversy, Just Facts - Diamond Bar, CA Patch
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It’s been almost half a decade since An Inconvenient Truth came out. I’m no scientist, but the fact that I can count the number of true climate change alarmists who have actually scaled down their standard of living (even though they still work in one of the most unnecessary wasteful industries in the country) on one hand is all I need to know about that documentary’s warnings. Note to Jenn: since neither you nor your peers are exemplifying a real solution for global climate catastrophe, does it really make sense to move to a city that will become the Ground Zero of rising ocean levels?
Controversy rages in the Los Alamitos Unified School District over teaching "both sides" of the global warming "debate," but the scientific foundation for climate change is undeniable.
allAfrica.com: Nigeria: 'Lagos Set to Rake Millions From Carbon'
At a stakeholders meeting in Lagos, Nigeria, experts said the country could rake millions from various initiatives that curb the expulsion of environmentally harmful substances into the air.May off to unusually cold start with record low temperatures - morningjournal.com
The experts from the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) and other organisations, however, pointed out that such initiatives, especially those targeted at carbon emission reduction, must be captured to enable the country benefit of carbon credit.
If you thought if was an unusually cold mid-May, you would be correct.Milloy’s latest climate op-ed riddled with errors | Scholars and Rogues
Cleveland and other cities across Ohio saw some of the lowest maximum temperatures on record this week, according to the National Weather Service. The mercury at Hopkins International Airport never crept higher than 47 degrees on Monday.
“That’s the worst day on record,” meteorologist Tom King said.
Errors
“Al Gore and his enviros duck debating so-called ‘climate skeptics.’” – So debates like Dessler vs. Lindzen or Lambert vs. Monckton don’t count? It’s true that debates like these are rare, but that’s because debating a climate disruption denier is about as effective as debating evolution with a young-earth creationist or a proponent of “intelligent design.”
For Scott, global warming is just hot air - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com
Last week, [Florida Gov. Rick Scott ] made it clear he thinks climate scientists must be lying. “I’ve not been convinced that there’s any man-made climate change. Nothing’s convinced me that there is.”
Overheated planet update, late May edition: Up to 2 feet of fresh snow may fall on top of Wyoming's record snowpack
Spring storm boosts Wyoming flooding threat
CASPER, Wyo. — It’s late May, but snow keeps falling in the Rockies, adding to record snowpack that could mean major flooding come spring melt.
“These are historic levels of snow,” said Don Day, meteorologist with Cheyenne-based Day Weather Inc. “It’s amazing, and we’re just adding to it, not getting rid of it.”
A strong spring storm system was expected to bring up to 2 feet of fresh snow by the end of this week to Wyoming’s mountains, along with up to 3 inches of rainfall at lower elevations.
Crops: drying a slow death - Telegraph
The drought has come just as the nation has been putting the memories of the big Christmas freeze behind it, although – to add insult to injury – my hosts in Derbyshire experienced frost earlier this week.Species-area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Estimates of extinction rates based on this method are almost always much higher than those actually observedRevkin.net - More on Climate, Mind & Behavior
The Symposium opened with Dr. Dan Siegel who discussedthe neurological basis of behavior, the mind, the brain and human relationships and how to use these concepts to affect pro-environmental behavior change.
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Matthew Lewis explained how stories can be used to influence behavior and offered strategic climate communications advice, and Rachel Gutter shared her story of building a green schools movement. During the final evening’s conversations, Dan Siegel asked Paul Hawken, David Orr and Bill McKibben to comment on the inner dimensions of dealing with climate impacts, raising the question of how to create a culture of hope when scientific projections are bleak. By the end of the three day Symposium the Institute was buzzing with big ideas, new partnerships, and a prevailing eagerness to translate the thinking into action.
Is climate sanity the kiss of death for Republican presidential candidates? | Grist
Unlike most of the clowns in the GOP lineup, the Obama team fears that Huntsman would be a formidable opponent: moderate, smart, well-spoken, handsome, charming, and cool as a cucumber. In short, a Republican Obama.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: When the Hurricane Drought Ends
As of June 1st, the start of the 2011 hurricane season that streak will have reached 2,046 days the third longest on record, surpassed only by the 2,136 days between landfalls of October 11,1909 and August 17,1915 and the 2,231 days between September 8,1900 and October 18, 1906.
Katharine Hayhoe Back In The News | Real Science
“It’s a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we’re seeing,” climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University told reporters.
Brown strained | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
GREENS Leader Bob Brown has admitted he has decided to attack the media as a political tactic to shore up support for the carbon tax....
“I think it’s very essential to take that on at the moment because I think the Murdoch media is doing a great disservice to this nation in perhaps the most important debate of the century so far, which is how we tackle climate change,” he said.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Mideast, energy policies should be similar - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee
A useful analogy for this moment comes from climate science, where a popular motto says: Given how much climate change is already baked into our future, the best we can do now is manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable.
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All these standards would then be reinforced with a price on carbon. That is how you get higher energy prices but lower energy bills, because efficiency improvements mean everyone uses less.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Pell not of Vatican faith on climate
A DIRE warning about the need to mitigate man-made global warning from a Vatican-appointed panel of scientists has not yet convinced Australia's highest-ranking Catholic, who said the causes of climate change were "unclear".
Malaysia unveils plan to build “green economy” | Eco-Business
Malaysia is launching an ambitious plan to build a “green economy” with the help of an advisory council that includes economist Jeffrey Sachs and the UN climate change [scam] chief.Julia Gillard says carbon trading will be rort-proof | The Australian
JULIA Gillard has guaranteed carbon trading in Australia will be "shyster" proof, amid warnings the carbon offsets system could be rorted by organised crime gangs.
Coalition's climate policy [hoax] a con - Govt | National | BigPond News
The federal government says former Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull has exposed the coalition's climate action policy as a con.
Rejection of carbon tax is renege on international obligation-Greg Combet | Eco-Business
Setting out a national interest case for pricing carbon, Mr. Combet said Australia would break its word on international obligations and discourage innovation if it failed to put a price on carbon.
Dozens of records tied or broken during mid May cool snap in Mississippi - Jackson Weather | Examiner.com
An unseasonably cool May airmass that swept into the region in the wake of a cold front last Friday has tied and broken dozens of records across Mississippi.Doug Craig on Bill Gates: [Because Gates is rich, we're supposed to believe his judgment on the global warming hoax?]
But what do the deniers think? Do they have to add the richest man on Earth to their "stupid" list?Sun News : European carbon tax to clip Canadian airlines’ wings
OTTAWA - Europe's fight against global warming could soon mean Canadian flights across the Atlantic will get more expensive or disappear altogether.
Warm, Warm Warm? Hooey «
we have 6 wet events. 5 or 6 dry ( wash) but FIVE cold events to one warmState Department Sued For Not Disclosing Clinton Correspondence With Oil Lobbyist | Earthjustice
Environmental and ethics groups sued the State Department today to gain access to possible communications between a lobbyist for a Canadian oil pipeline company and the State Department, headed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In 2012, vote for climate courage « Climate Progress
Here is a trick question: Now that the 2012 election campaign has begun, should you vote Republican or Democrat?
The correct answer: Neither of the above.
...It’s not just Republicans who flop and flip-flop on climate change, or who simply don’t want to talk about it. Congressional staff in both parties acknowledge that “climate change” is not something their bosses want to discuss right now.
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– Bill Becker, Executive Director, the Presidential Climate Action Project
Energy: America's top climate [hoax] cop : Nature News
The United States has abandoned comprehensive greenhouse-gas curbs, but California is pressing ahead. Mary Nichols is leading the fight against emissions.
Tom Toles: Republican carbon dioxide lies "will almost certainly result in massive destruction and death"
Own facts - Tom Toles - The Washington Post
The main thing is [Republicans] are in absolute, abject and catastrophic denial about a straightforward set of facts that is probably the most important set of facts we face as a nation, and as human beings on planet earth. They have turned their faces away from climate change in a way that is simply and utterly unforgivable. They now apparently DO feel entitled to their own facts, and they live, campaign and purportedly do their jobs in a zone of outright lies. Lies they have every reason to understand are lies, and lies that will almost certainly result in massive destruction and death. Exactly how would you be “fair” to these people?Tom Toles - Election digest
[August 2010] This will be my last rant about the climate.
Huntsman's Trust In Global-Warming Science Leaves Conservatives Cold : It's All Politics : NPR
Judging from the comments on conservative site FreeRepublic.com, it would be an understatement to say this will be unhelpful to Huntsman in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.Chris Mooney | The Fox News "Effect": A Few References
they do not prove that watching Fox makes people believe incorrect things.Schellnhuber: Carrying Capacity Of The Planet Is Less Than A Billion – Earth Will Explode With 9.4 Billion in 2050
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, German architect of the masterplan, dubbed the Great Transformation, warned back in 2009 that unless the world heeds his message, 6 billion people would perish.In 'Earth v. Humanity,' Nobelists Issue Verdict - NYTimes.com
Now here’s a new way to get the public to heed a warning: Hold a trial in Stockholm in which planet Earth is the plaintiff, humanity the defendant and a panel of Nobel Prize winners the jury, then issue a verdict centered on a to-do list including fundamentally unachievable goals (stabilizing global emissions of carbon dioxide by 2015, for starters).
The New Nostradamus of the North: UN chief propagandists already hyping next year´s Rio sustainability carneval
Professor Stott could have written the same article 10 years later, ahead of the "Rio+20". The global UN sustainability show seems to be a perpetuum mobile, impossible to stop, even if the previous meetings have failed to produce anything else than empty phrases. Still one must hope that some sane future political leaders will have the courage to stop this madness, the sooner, the better.WendyMcElroy.com: Carbon in the Sky
Carbon in the Sky
(to the tune of "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum...)
Back when I was in graduate school
My advisor taught me this one rule
To get funds that won't go dry
Blame it on the carbon in the sky
Killing Kyoto | The Resilient Earth
By its creators' own admission, Kyoto has been a failure. Surely the best thing we could do is to kill Kyoto altogether. Yet hope springs eternal in the breast of bureaucratic climate regulators everywhere.Greenpeace blocks Europe business summit to climate laggards | Scoop News
They got the science wrong and in many cases their regulations have been counter productive. The only thing Kyoto helped to create is a gigantic international bureaucracy that tries to insinuate itself into every government, every agency on the planet. Not satisfied with wasting billions of dollars that could be put to far better use, the IPCC and its green fellow travelers wish to dictate how we live our daily lives. If it is zero CO2 emissions they desire let them lead by example—stop jetting around the world, attending international conclaves in fancy hotels, shuttling about in limousines. In fact, since they demand zero human carbon dioxide output, let's insist they all stop exhaling. The whole world would breath much easier.
Greenpeace activists locked themselves to the summit doors and refused to let climate laggards - who hold back political and economic progress - such as Microsoft, BP and Volkswagen into the conference.Torn Turnbull reopens climate change wounds - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Mr Turnbull told Lateline the chief advantage of the Opposition's direct action policy is it is easy to stop if you do not believe in preventing climate change.
"If you believe there is not going to be any global action and that the rest of the world will just say, 'It's all too hard and we'll just let the planet get hotter and hotter,' and, heaven help our future generations if you take that rather grim, fatalistic view of the future and you want to abandon all activity, a scheme like that is easier to stop."
Natives Decry Polar Bear Habitat Designation
Courthouse News Service
"The service concluded that the designation of critical habitat for polar bears will provide no conservation benefit to the polar bear species," the lawsuit states.
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Native companies and communities claim the service did not consult them or properly balance their needs in the declaration.
Forecast on the Future Expert on the future gets questioned at WTTC summit - eTurboNews.com
LAS VEGAS (eTN)- Dr. Ian Goldin is the director of Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford...
GOLDIN:...What I believe is the pace of climate change. Climate has always changed in long cycles. But what is happening is that long cycles are being compressed into very, very short cycles that will happen within our lifetimes—within the next 50 to 100 years. It’s the speed at which climate is changing and its implications that’s different.
Defunct Climate Leaders Program Lives On in NGO Awards | Climate | GreenBiz.com
Many Climate Leaders members felt burned when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced, in September 2010, that it would shutter the popular program, which provided technical assistance and public recognition for companies that sought to reduce their carbon emissions.
Health in A Changing Planet
There will very likely be surprises that have unexpectedly positive results as well, and the overall balance between positive and negative is highly uncertain. My (Jim) one criticism is that I would like to have seen this this point made
Fifty Dollar Light Bulbs
This week Philips Co. showcases its newest success at capturing rents produced by government mandates: it has produced a 17-watt LED bulb that functions as equivalent to a 75-watt incandescent bulb. The catch: they will initially cost around $50.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Socolow: Wedges Were a Mistake
It is hard to imagine that Socolow's comments can be in reference to anyone other than Romm, who has probably done more to confuse issues of mitigation policy than anyone.IPCC: Screw the Rules « NoFrakkingConsensus
The IPCC is a bureaucracy. Which means it is governed, to a large degree, by people with a bureaucratic mindset. Rather than being responsive to the outside world, these people actually run the show. If there’s a rule they disagree with, their first response is to simply disregard it. When they’re called on this, they then arrange for the rule to disappear.USA Today: Climate science deniers now like birthers « Climate Progress
Transparency? Accountability? No better process on the planet? Yeah, right.
GOP's "rejectionist stance is unrivaled among major political parties, including conservative ones, around the warming planet"
Climate scientists unveil new communications tool: Hip hop | MNN - Mother Nature Network
Maybe what we need is more young, passionate scientists goofing around on camera, rapping awkwardly as only white-coated, paleskinned lab rats can.» Climate Alarmism, Journalism in their Death Embrace - Big Government
the point is that all of the tired name-calling and hyperventilation gets no more compelling the fifth or fiftieth time it is trotted out. These people demand a terrible imposition on society for no detectable climate impact. Let alone the subjective idea of ‘gain’ (as warming has historically been beneficial, indeed called a ‘climate optimum’.The American Spectator : An Inconvenient Truth: A Fifth Anniversary Tribute
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) co-signed a letter to the Bush White House demanding a reduction of oil use in the U.S. even though he jets around in a $48-million Gulfstream G-V jet that burns 750 gallons of fuel an hour.
Another record low set in Alexandria | The Town Talk | thetowntalk.com
A record low temperature for the date was set in Alexandria for the third day in a row Tuesday.Thermometer hits record low in Memphis » The Commercial Appeal
The temperature in Memphis hit a record low of 46 degrees early today, breaking the previous low temperature mark for this date of 47 set in 1895, according to the National Weather Service.
Cold weather sets record for lowest daily highs | The Columbus Dispatch
It has been colder than normal in central Ohio the past two days - in fact, historically so.Strawberries stunted by cold weather
For both Monday and yesterday, the high temperature was the lowest it's ever been for that date.
Local farmers say the long, cold spring has delayed strawberry growth and Islanders may have to wait several extra weeks before biting into a juicy red one.
NU Benefits From Harsh Winter - Zacks.com
The harsh winter on the East Coast may have frustrated New Englanders, but shareholders of Northeast Utilities (NU - Analyst Report) aren’t complaining. On May 5, NU reported better than expected first quarter results due in large part to much colder weather.
Back from Texas, A close look at Sea Ice «
the southern hemisphere ice is taking off like a rocket and at this pace, will be heading toward a record high in their mid winter after lagging a bit in the summer
American Thinker: Environmentalist Schizophrenia
Malaria is an ancient disease, one that is responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of children (mainly African) and rendering tens of millions of others impaired. The U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) has long opposed DDT, viewing it as a horrible pollutant that destroys the ecosystem. The UNEP (with pressure from various environmentalist groups, which are mainly composed of relatively wealthy people in developed countries where malaria doesn't exist) is pushing to completely eliminate DDT within a decade. Not regulate it, mind you -- say, by confining its use to malaria vector control, as opposed to widespread routine use in agriculture -- but to ban it completely. However, DDT has proven uniquely valuable in fighting malaria by acting as a powerful repellent to mosquitoes, even those that have developed immunity to it.
Labor ministers prefer horsepower over hybrids | News.com.au
THE Federal Government is proving to be full of hot air when it comes to slashing greenhouse gases, with just two out of 20 Cabinet ministers choosing fuel-efficient "hybrid" cars.
Despite insisting Australia must reduce carbon emissions, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Climate Change Minister Greg Combet are among scores of Labor MPs driving gas-guzzlers.
And former PM Kevin Rudd's campaign to roll out the eco-friendly Toyota Prius as part of the Commonwealth car fleet has also been dumped - with just one such vehicle still operating.
Skeptics And Alarmists Clash At Climate Conference – German Scientists Call PIK Scientific Position “Weak”
It is obvious that the participants were for the most part in agreement with the perception of the facts – the absence of increased weather extremes being unchallenged by PIK speaks volumes.
EBACE: Britain's bureaucrats make a fortune out of the ETS
Everywhere in the EU the bureaucratic and administrative cost of participating in the ETS is far greater than the revenues it will yield, said Humphries. He gave an example of one mainland European large business aviation operator that has estimated that it will pay €35,000 ($50,000) for carbon credits a year from 2012, but in addition to that its total administrative cost of compliance will be €70,000 a year.
Sir David Attenborough: CGI confuses fact and fiction - TV & Radio, Media - The Independent
Sir David gave evidence alongside Professor Brian Cox, the BBC science presenter, who said the corporation should have a bias towards the "scientific consensus" on issues like climate change. Professor Cox urged the BBC to get "more on the front foot" and "not be afraid to make mistakes".
EDITORIAL: Tax dollars perpetuate global-warming fiction - Washington Times
With public faith in the global-warming myth on the wane, leftist zealots are desperate to spin a new tale - and they’re spending your tax money to do it. Three years ago, Congress appropriated $5,856,600 for the National Academy of Sciences to complete a climate-change study. This bureaucratic attempt to cook the books, which was completed last week, may be too late to save this dying religion.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Will climate change hoax action become "the poisoned chalice of Australian politics for the next decade"?
National Nine News
Mr Combet said by not addressing climate change now, through putting a price on carbon, the issue would becomeCarbon pricing is Labor's call: Combet.
Schwarzenegger Was Good on Climate Change | Rolling Stone Politics
he was the one politician in America who most clearly understood that dealing with climate change is the greatest challenge we face as a civilization. And he had no patience for anti-scientific morons and Tea Bagger denialsim. During a recent talk, Schwarzenegger compared the current debate on whether or not humans are causing global climate change to the old debate about the merits of bodybuilding: "People literally believed that bodybuilding would make you musclebound, stupid, narcissistic, and gay."
Climate Skeptic's Debunked Report Exposes How the Denial Industry Works : TreeHugger
For those who lob around the allegation that climate scientists are engaged in groupthink, just consider the degree of conformity demanded by the parties who oppose those scientists -- and the lengths they go to uphold it. There's only one important attribute you've got to have to join the club: You've got to be willing to say climate change isn't real.
The denial industry, by its nature, begets this conformity, as it is ultimately fed by corporate interests pursuing a single goal: ensuring they never have to pay for their carbon pollution. So, we get plagiarism, manipulation, even borderline coercion from various parties involved -- all in an effort to achieve that goal. That's not just groupthink -- that's corporate-sponsored, balls-to-the-wall, greed-driven groupthink right there. When such synchronized efforts are exposed in major media outlets as being baseless attacks on the scientific process, the public will hopefully begin to see through the workings of the climate change-denying industry.
Wegman scandal rocks cornerstone of climate denial « Climate Progress
Climate denial can't withstand the mildest scrutiny.
Lowe's results fall on cold weather in U.S. - The Sudbury Star - Ontario, CA
Colder-than-usual weather hurt demand for seasonal goods and kept shoppers away in many parts of the U.S.
Schwarzenegger acknowledges fathering child with longtime member of household staff - The Washington Post
Since his term as California governor ended in early January, Schwarzenegger, 63, has hopscotched around the world, his wife nowhere in sight. While the “Terminator” star appeared confident about the future since exiting politics, cutting movie deals and fashioning himself as a global spokesman for green energy, Shriver, known for her confidence, seemed unsettled.
Australia says carbon tax will be set by July far below price recommended for greener power - The Washington Post
CANBERRA, Australia — A planned tax on carbon gas emitting industries in Australia would be far below a recommended price that might have forced polluters to switch to greener technology, the government said Tuesday.
Cold Contributing To Cardinal's Record Low Attendance - KTVI
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI - FOX2now.com)—May 2011 running much cooler than normal for Dallas-Fort Worth - Dallas Weather | Examiner.com
Once again, it was not a night for the boys of summer at Busch Stadium Monday night.
The weather chill has been putting quite a chill on attendance at the ballpark.
Fans are noticing it. The team is feeling it.
The first half of May 2011 in Dallas was much cooler than average, according to National Weather Service (NWS) data for DFW Airport.Cool snap ties Birmingham record for chilliest high temperature two days in a row | al.com
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama --- As a weather system pumped in cold air and low clouds, the thermometer today struggled to reach 63 degrees.
That tied the record 'lowest high' seen for a May 16 in Birmingham since 1900
Cool weather definitely not normal | Palm Springs, CA
It's May in the desert, and many are looking longingly at the swimming pool.
Instead of swimming, they're digging out sweaters.
National corn crop behind schedule | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
While Iowa's corn crop is ahead of five-year averages, corn planting nationally still lags behind schedule because of cold, wet weather in the eastern Corn Belt and because of flooding in the lower Mississippi River valley, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
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The national crop is now 63 percent planted, the USDA said, compared with 87 percent planted last year and 75 percent planted over a five-year average.
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Most of Iowa was hit with another cold snap Friday and through the weekend, with some frost reported in northern counties.
Mississippi flood causes billions in damage, while local representatives deny climate threat | Grist
This is precisely what scientists have warned would come about as greenhouse pollution warms the air and oceans, and industrial agriculture worsens runoffA Way to Win the Climate Fight?
climate negotiators are operating under the influence of a series of myths and misunderstandings that doom their strategy to perpetual failure.
Revkin.net - Hansen et al. on Past and Future Heat
The principal conclusion in the “Paleoclimate” paper is that prior warmer inter-glacial periods were only slightly (less than 1C) warmer than today. Targets for limiting human-made global warming that governments are talking about would be disastrous within the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren.
US school board teaches 'the controversy' on global warming | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk
You could probably count on one hand the serious, respected scientists who hold an alternative view on this.
Flagship German Political Daily: “A Green Tyranny Is Growing In Germany – Losing Patience With Democracy”
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Germany’s flagship political daily, has a stinging commentary on the “growing green tyranny” in Germany. Its piece titled The Affectionate Ecological Dictatorship takes aim at the Potsdam Institute For Climate Impact Research (PIK), headed by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, NASA’s James Hansen, and German policymakers. The usually staid and measured FAZ uses a tone that is uncharacteristically harsh.Hysterical About Records | Real Science
Suppose you broke the Earth’s surface up into a grid of 100 km^2 squares. there would be more than 5 million squares. Now, suppose that the temperature record was 100 years long. On each square, on any given day, the odds of breaking a high temperature record are 100 to 1. So how many high temperature records would we expect in a year if the climate was completely stable?
5,000,000 * 365 / 100 = 18,250,000
Bargain of the day: Six-acre solar field to save GM $15,000 annually | JunkScience.com
Obviously, GM and taxpayers will never come close to recouping their investment in the farm.National Academy of Sciences slams climate disinformation campaign, flawed media coverage « Climate Progress
[NAS] Most people rely on secondary sources for information, especially the mass media; and some of these sources are affected by concerted campaigns against policies to limit CO2 emissions, which promote beliefs about climate change that are not well-supported by scientific evidence. U.S. media coverage sometimes presents aspects of climate change that are uncontroversial among the research community as being matters of serious scientific debate. Such factors likely play a role in the increasing polarization of public beliefs about climate change, along lines of political ideology, that has been observed in the United States.School Board Stung by Science Class Outrage - Los Alamitos-Seal Beach, CA Patch
Los Alamitos Unified's plan to include a skeptical view of global warming prompts a national backlash.
The 2012 GOP guide to the climate debate | JunkScience.com
The central point of the science debate is whether manmade CO2 emissions are causing harm. There is no evidence that they are.
People often ask, “What if you’re wrong about the science?” or “Shouldn’t we err on the side of better-safe-than-sorry?” But of course it’s the alarmists who need to be second-guessing themselves. They’ve been repeatedly wrong and never right since they started forecasting climate doom almost 25 years ago. Give them no quarter.
“There is no longer any serious debate” | Real Science
Flood plains never used to flood! Australia never used to have droughts! Harvard doctor never used to pay attention! Any scientist who disagrees is not a scientist!Announcing the Galileo Movement « JoNova
Case Smit and John Smeed brought Christopher Monckton to Australia in a brave defiant move last year. This year they have put together the Galileo Movement which was launched today by none other than Alan Jones.- Bishop Hill blog - Comets, climate and admitting you are wrong
They live by the creed: “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”.
This is another form of the grassroots uprising against serfdom and misinformation.
The Miller-McClune site (H/T Paddy, via GWPF) carries an interesting story of how a theory of comet-caused climate change turned out to be wrong and how hard it was to get the truth out.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Summer of disaster 'not climate change': Rajendra Pachauri | The Australian
"Frankly, it is difficult to take a season or two and come up with any conclusions on those on a scientific basis," Dr Pachauri said.
"What we can say very clearly is the aggregate impact of climate change on all these events, which are taking place at much higher frequency and intensity all over the world.
"On that there is very little doubt; the scientific evidence is very, very strong. But what happens in Queensland or what happens in Russia or for that matter the floods in the Mississippi River right now, whether there is a link between those and climate change is very difficult to establish. So I don't think anyone can make a categorical statement on that."
Back-To-Back Storms Bringing Unseasonably Cold Weather To Southwest Riverside - Lake Elsinore-Wildomar, CA Patch
Snow levels in local mountains will fall to between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, with 4 to 8 inches of new snow possible over the highest peaks.
South-eastern Australia wakes to a deep freeze
[Darwin] Temperatures are gradually returning to normal, rising a little each day after the coldest two consecutive mornings on record this early in the year.
Economist and futurist Jeremy Rifkin straps on his tinfoil hat: He sees trace amounts of natural, harmless atmospheric gas causing "mass extinction of 70 per cent (of the biological diversity) in your kid’s lifetime"
Planet Earth is on the verge of disaster, economist warns
EDMONTON - There is no doubt Earth is on the verge of disaster, as our fossil-fuelled civilization pushes the planet toward one of the greatest extinctions of the past 450 million years.
Humans have the tools to lessen the damage and transform society within the next 30 years, but we are already too late to prevent some of the damage as a warming atmosphere creates more unstable weather, and more species go extinct, economist and futurist Jeremy Rifkin told the Emissions Reduction Summit Monday.
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“We are monsters, we are devouring this special experiment in the universe, and this is not sustainable.”
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“That climate will put us back to the climate of 3 million years ago, when there was a much different ecosystem. For every one degree of temperature rise on this planet, the atmosphere absorbs about seven per cent more precipitation from the ground, with more floods, wild fires, droughts … and mass extinction of 70 per cent (of the biological diversity) in your kid’s lifetime,” said Rifkin.
NPR.org » Top U.S. Scientists To Nation: Global Warming. Really. We Are Not Kidding.
What really set this report apart was the addition of business and political leaders in the author list. The report was commisioned by congress a couple of years ago and, reading through it, one senses a kind of growing desperation in the nation's scientific establishment as they watch their best efforts and best understanding swept out to sea under the currents of anything and everything but the science. [Copyright 2011 National Public Radio]
Every good socialist deserves a $3000 a night suite | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Sociallsts tend to believe in redistributing the income of everyone except themselves. Take Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund chief...
MSM Loves Bipartisanship…Unless the Issue Is Environmental Policy
In this era of hyper-partisanship, the mainstream media thinks that bi-partisanship is beautiful…unless both parties agree on an environmental policy, in which case the media invariably recasts the story such that it’s the Green Democrats versus the Dirty Republicans.
On cap-and-trade policy, I’ve noted in a previous post how the media willfully ignores that both parties oppose energy rationing. Instead, you’ll read or hear about the “Republican War on Science,” whenever Congressional climate policy gets rejected by a bipartisan, bicameral vote.
Carbon tax “cancer” eating away at Labor, Switzer says | Australian Conservative
The carbon tax continues to be the “cancer” that is eating away at the Labor Party, Tom Switzer, editor of The Spectator Australia, said today on ABC radio.
US Winter Temperatures Plummeting | Real Science
Over the last decade, winter temperatures in the US have been falling at a rate of 41 degrees per century.In Massachusetts, Greens’ Slimy Tactics Get Zapped
A cursory internet search suggests that these advertisements are dishonest. The League of Women Voters/Move On’s accusation is based on a supposed link between increased temperatures and asthma attacks. I googled “asthma+attacks+U.S.+peak+months” and, at the top of my search results, was this 2008 report from the Minnesota Department of Health, from which the first sentence reads,
“In Minnesota, asthma hospitalization rates follow seasonal patterns. The greatest number of hospitalizations is seen in the fall months, usually September, with a smaller peak in the spring. The lowest rates are generally seen in July.”
Climate change denial becomes harder to justify - The Washington Post
Every candidate for political office in the next cycle, including for president, should be asked whether they disagree with the scientific consensus of America’s premier scientific advisory group, as reflected in this report; and if so, on what basis they disagree; and if not, what they propose to do about the rising seas, spreading deserts and intensifying storms that, absent a change in policy, loom on America’s horizon.Heavy Snow Is Associated With Cold | Real Science
One of the big global warming lies for 2011 is that the heavy snow of recent years is due to unusual warmth. In fact, it is exactly the opposite.
Washington Post climate hoax promoter Juliet Eilperin: In Nuuk, Greenland "the sea ice is vanishing like dew on a July morning"
Warming Arctic opens way to competition for resources - The Washington Post
NUUK, Greenland — Here, just south of the Arctic Circle, where the sea ice is vanishing like dew on a July morning, the temperature isn’t the only thing that’s heating up.Mittarfik Nuuk, Greenland : Weather Underground
28 °FFlashback: Wash. Post's Juliet Eilperin Rejects Journalistic Balance -- Touts 'Political' UN Climate Scare Report | Climate Depot
Eilperin clearly needs to broaden her climate research and retool her journalism skills. (Hopefully, any influence of Eilperin's husband Andrew Light -- who bills himself as a climate "specialist" at the man-made global warming fear promoting Center for American Progress -- will wane as she realizes that the quality of her reporting is slipping way behind her colleagues. The Center for American Progress is also home to the comical figure Joe Romm) [Update: October 16, 2009: Quin Hillyer, Senior editorial writer at The Washington Times, questions Eilperin's potential conflict of interest. "I also seriously question the Post leaving her on a beat on which her own husband has such a direct professional interest," Hillyer wrote. "Eilperin has an obvious APPARENT conflict of interest on it even if she is scrupulously objective. If I were a Post editor, I would move her somewhere else -- with a promotion," Hillyer explained.]
The Carbon Sense Coalition » David Archibald on the Carbon Tax
“The heating effect of carbon dioxide is minuscule. It is lost in the noise of the climate system. That is why the temperature of the planet today is exactly the same as it was 30 years ago. On top of all that, the carbon dioxide level of the atmosphere is dangerously low. All living things would be better off if we had more of it in the atmosphere.”
“In a few short years, Sydney will start having blackouts because nobody will build a new power station while the carbon tax stalks the land.”
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: James Hansen admits man-made global warming has been greatly exaggerated by climate models
As just pointed out by an astute and disillusioned young climate scientist, James Hansen, the high priest of the global warming religion and defender of creation has recently produced a non-peer-reviewed paper finding that the net man-made effects on climate have been greatly exaggerated by computer models. Hansen claims most climate models have underestimated the cooling effect of man-made aerosols via cloud changes, although the fine print in the paper admits they really have no idea what is causing the cloud changes and resulting cooling effect. Hmmm, possibly the cosmic ray theory of Svensmark et al? Hansen also references estimates for climate sensitivity pulled out of the air by his brainwashed grandchildren in the amusing paper (p. 3).A new anti-carbon tax movement is launched | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
It’s called the ”Galilieo Movement”.
Julia Gillard’s Carbon Tax to spawn low investor’s confidence and also cut on jobs - International Business Times
The Minerals Council of Australia and the Energy Supply Association of Australia have both warned Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard saying that the carbon tax could possibly cut more than 23,500 jobs this decade and could cost consumers more than an emissions trading scheme and fails to give investors the confidence to commit.Seven chairman hits out at carbon tax: report | News | Business Spectator
"Personally I think it's (the carbon tax) a great way for redistributing wealth for the country," Mr Stokes said in the report.
"But for actually curbing carbon use - it's not going change power generation (or the use of) coal, which we'll be using in this country for at least 25 years."
Sierra: "little sign of real warmth anywhere for the next week at least."
Weather will stay wintery in Sierra, valley floor most of the week | Reno Gazette-Journal | rgj.com
Middle of May. Middle of winter.
There was no telling the difference today across the Sierra as an unseasonably cold storm shook persistent snow showers over the region, slowing traffic and canceling Stage 1 of the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race around Lake Tahoe.
Lest you think it was a one-day thing, there’s more snow on the way tonight into Tuesday morning for the Sierra with little sign of real warmth anywhere for the next week at least.
Meat is murder? More like suicide, argues Planeat film | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk
...meat has a very heavy impact on the planet, both directly and via greenhouse gases. So if we all want to sit down to eat without killing ourselves or the planet, we in the west will need to eat less meat and dairy.
I find it hard to fault the logic in that, and I am not alone, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chair Rajendra Pachauri, economist Nick Stern and the United Nations Environment Programme agreeing. I'm not going to become a strict vegetarian, at least not yet, but I have given up meat at lunch.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Climate scientists convene on Gold Coast | The Australian
A GROUP of leading climate scientists will experience some personal warming of their own this week at a Gold Coast conference to finalise a landmark paper on extreme weather events and disasters.
The three-day symposium will be attended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman R.K. Pachauri, and scientists from more than 50 nations.
It will be the fourth meeting of the authors of the upcoming publication, Special Report: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.
PR-USA.net - Ford Commits to Reconsidering USCAP Membership
Following pressure from the National Center for Public Policy Research, Caterpillar, John Deere, ConocoPhillips, BP and GM have all withdrawn from USCAP.
The Vatican says to take climate [junk] science seriously « Climate Progress
[Marta Cook] The church’s strong moral voice shows the urgency of the issue and should persuade conservatives who oppose action to protect God’s creation that if they listen to one of the leading lights of the Christian faith on other issues, they should pay attention on this one as well.Markey slams “oil-above-all” approach: “Renewable energy has been an invisible issue” for Republicans « Climate Progress
As Markey explained: “You don’t need a blowout preventer on a solar field.”Clean power's share drops
THE proportion of Australia's electricity that comes from clean sources has fallen sharply over the past 50 years despite a decade of federal and state climate change programs.April cold if not cruel - the third chilliest on record
"The perception of a cold spring in Vancouver is totally true," said Martin Belanger, meteorologist for The Weather Network. "The numbers are there to back up the feeling people have."
The mean temperature for April was two degrees colder than normal -- 7.3 degrees Celsius instead of 9.2, according to Environment Canada.
April was actually the third coldest on record, said Jones. "It's been consistently cold."
Climate change [hoax] unit fears for jobs (From Oxford Mail)
CLIMATE change experts working in Oxford fear their jobs could be lost after funding was cut by the Government.
The UK Climate Impact Programme, set up in Oxford 13 years ago, currently receives £1m a year from the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
The programme, part of the university’s Environmental Change Institute, has been told that there will be no more Government support from September.
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The programme employs 18 people at its South Parks Road offices, 14 of whom are funded by Defra, with the other four employed on other research projects.
America's Climate Choices Are Narrowing: Scientific American Podcast
...this latest report suggests that if the U.S. reduces its emissions, we're in a better position to influence others, such as China, to do the same. One thing remains clear—the time for waiting is over.
Thousands join NSW anti-carbon rally | Top Stories | BigPond News
Thousands of anti-carbon tax protesters have marched outside the office of Independent MP Rob Oakeshott, voicing anger over his support of the tax, the rally organisers say.
British response to the climate hoax "will require sweeping changes to domestic life, transport and business"
Historic climate change deal with legal powers agreed by Cabinet | Environment | The Observer
Cabinet ministers have agreed a far-reaching, legally binding "green deal" that will commit the UK to two decades of drastic cuts in carbon emissions. The package will require sweeping changes to domestic life, transport and business and will place Britain at the forefront of the global battle against climate change.
- Bishop Hill blog - Climate cuttings 52
Hilary Ostrov noted the IPCC apparently approving their recent report on renewables before they actually reviewed it. Some deft rewriting of history by the IPCC appears to have ensued.NC Media Watch: Snowy Amgen?
A late winter storm will strike the Sierra just as organizers are kicking off the Amgen bike tour of California at 10:00 on Sunday morning. The National Weather Service is predicting 3-5 inches of snow at lake level in the Tahoe basin by Sunday evening, while higher elevations could see 12 inches of snow.The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Waiting for a 'Green' Leader: Huntsman Slippery, Gingrich and Romney Go Defiant
None of these folks has not tried in some way to still straddle the 'green jobs' fence. We've already had too many ethanols -- and wind now outpaces ethanol by billions, while Republicans are cooking up yet another, thank you very little.
So we've seen some what-not-to-dos.
"another cold winter is looming for much of the civilized northern hemisphere"
Energy Shortage looming globally this winter if this is right.( More no no to el nino) «
As we continue to wallow in the mire of an agenda driven policy of deny deny deny the fact that the major natural drivers of climate are the main reasons for the antics of the atmosphere, just like before last winter the models from the far east are the star rising to warn those that understand such things that another cold winter is looming for much of the civilized northern hemisphere.
Elitist Power – And Submission To Will
Clearly there is a pattern. We’ve seen it with Bill Clinton, allegedly with Al Gore, and now we have the IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the Socialist Party of France (PS).Avoid like the plague: ABC's "The Science Show" | Australian Climate Madness
They are all proponents of a powerful, domineering state that demands citizens bend to its will. Submit to the state and all shall be well, the statists tell us.
Don't go there. Really. You will not believe how Robyn Williams, John Cook and a couple of other hysterics lay into "deniers". If you don't sign up to the religion, you're a fruitcake. Still attacking the Petition Project (that's the best target they can come up with), if you had cancer, would you trust the quack, links between smoking and cancer, and you're mentally deranged and suffering a delusion. And, the best bit of all, we're LIARS! Yes, we're LYING. It's almost too funny for words.Climate science – establishment versus sceptic
...the fact remains that a situation has developed which is reminiscent in many ways of religion in the Middle Ages.
The priests of that time opposed translation of the scriptures from Latin into the local languages. Only people fully trained in the theology of the time were capable of interpreting the scriptures correctly, they said. It would, they said, be highly dangerous to allow non-trained people to have direct access to the Word of God because the chances were high that they would get it wrong.
And the priests of the time were not exactly backward in applying their peculiarly nasty forms of denigration on those who thought otherwise about the matter.
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