Blowing cold on wind | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A growing revolt in France against the hideous wind farms now despoiling the countryside...

Another Nigerian scam surfaces: NIGERIA CLIMATE CHANGE-Programme Officer

BUILDING NIGERIA's RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Environment NGO with interest in sustainable livelihoods, community development and policy research, seeks a suitably qualified candidate to fill the following position as soon as possible...

Grist Wants CAP-and-Trade, Not a "Poison Pill" Carbon Tax — MasterResource

A contributor to Grist, which advertises itself as "a blogful of leafy green goodness," is saying NO to a carbon tax and yes to a take-no-prisoners cap-and-trade program. Here is the blueprint...

Arctic Ice Polar Gridded Data « The Air Vent

While working on the half dozen other datasets, I’ve also been continuing my now famous work on sea ice. After some small battles and study, I am now able to process the gridded data from NSIDC. This allows me to calculate a reasonable ice area variation.

The Associated Press: Ice-battered Kentucky pleads for help from storm

At least 42 people have died in the icy arc of destruction that began in the Midwest. At least nine deaths were reported in Arkansas, six each in Texas and Missouri, three in Virginia, two each in Oklahoma, Indiana and West Virginia and one in Ohio. Most were blamed on hypothermia, traffic accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning from generators.

Westchester.com - NY Times Reporter To Speak On Global Warming

Purchase, NY - Andrew Revkin, New York Times Environmental Reporter, will speak on global warming as part of the "Science in the Modern World" lecture series at Purchase College.
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... In 2003, Andrew Revkin was the first Times reporter to print stories and photos from the floating sea ice around the North Pole, bringing discussion of the melting polar ice caps to the mainstream. He is also responsible for an expose on the White House’s attempts to keep NASA scientists from speaking on global warming that led to the resignation of two White House officials.

Andrew Revkin has been studying climate change since 1985, with a focus on human influence on climate.

Tear down the Amazon rainforest idol

Major media sources are finally beginning to acknowledge what WorldNetDaily has been reporting for years: The world's rainforests aren't the desperately endangered and depleted resources that the environmentalist mantra makes them out to be.

Eight years ago, WND reported on scientists, studies, Brazilian natives and even disillusioned environmental activists who testified that the Amazon rainforest, far from disappearing at human hands, is actually thriving and replenishing itself through the secondary growth that emerges after a section of older trees is eliminated.

Eric Steig Wears no Clothes: In quick succession, he actually plays the Exxon card, the "caring about kids" card, and the "buy a Hummer" card

[Steig] As for your not being able to tell “which side is right and which side is wrong” in the global warming debate, consider this: When you go to the dentist, and he tells you to put fluoride on your kids teeth, do you do it? If not, why not? The reason some people don’t is that they live in a world where dentists are part of a vast conspiracy to poison our kids minds, or at the very least are complete idiots. Me, I live on a planet where dentists actually want to help me and my kids have healthy teeth. Maybe I’m wrong, and the members of the National Academy of Sciences, the leadership of the American Geophysical Union, etc. are all deluded, and the people that publish papers in professional scientific journals are frauds, and I make up data and enter it into my computer in my sleep while preparing my work for publication. On the other hand, maybe the money groups like Heartland Institute and the folks they list as part of their personnel are influenced by the money they get from Exxon Mobil. If you care about your kids, you probably need to think this out, and then go and make your voice heard on the right solution (either buy a Hummer, or get involved in efforts to get the right solution (carbon taxes, carbon trading, whatever) to happen.–eric]

Chemicals, not climate led to superior Stradivari violins - Ars Technica

Some of the greatest instruments are said to have been made by Antonio Stradivari, who worked in northern Italy during the late 1600s and early 1700s. Many believe that the climate produced dense, even wood during this period, but a new paper suggests that chemicals added to the wood are the real reason.

Wasn't that you skulking to work in a ski mask? | Crain's

Bitter-cold weather has driven Chicago professionals to extreme methods to avoid being seen looking like schlubs.

En route from Metra to his office, Jeffrey Junkas keeps a low profile in the warm-up pants, bulky sweater and down coat layered over his workday wear: "I will cut through buildings if possible to avoid being noticed looking like the kid from 'A Christmas Story,' " he says.
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La Grange Park resident Ray Lauk shuns hats, gloves and even overcoats: "I hate, hate, hate bundling up," says Mr. Lauk, 49, a former education solutions manager seeking a job in sales and marketing or as a school superintendent.

He starts his car and "blasts the heat" 20 minutes before leaving his house, and brings a down coat in case of emergency. At his destination, he hustles from heated car to heated building.

The Ben Hawken Blog: Al Gore Reports: All Your Country are Belong to Us

And all this from a THEORY about sporadic temperature fluctuations -- a theory with which the best and brightest disagree.

Falling into California’s hole | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Now, as Kevin Rudd prepares to impose his cap-and-trade scheme to cut the emissions he claims are killing the earth, we have every reason to fear that we are indeed following California...

We need an open debate on climate change « An Honest Climate Debate

At the launch of Ray Evans’ Thank God for Carbon in Adelaide yesterday, Senator Cory Bernardi argued that there needs to be an open debate about the cause and effect of climate change...

Bravo, Steven Crowder

Go Green… NOT! Obama’s Policies and Global Warming.

Ah yes, the “Go Green” movement. One would expect it to be an aptly named title for a Kermit the Frog album. Unfortunately, the amphibian has pulled a Pontius Pilate and washed his hands clean of this entire situation. This latest video installment addresses the militant environmental activists and their effective manipulation tactics aimed squarely at today’s ignorant, fickle youth
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All the regular environmental fixtures are here. Barack Obama, SUV’s, polar bears and cow farts. Who could ask for anything more?

Václav Klaus, Straight-Up - Jay Nordlinger - The Corner on National Review Online

Klaus said, “Al Gore knows that I’m the most important ‘denier’ in the world. But he met with me here for two hours, and we had a normal, friendly discussion.
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Another journalist present said, “What freedom do you mean? What freedom is endangered?” Klaus pointed to her and said, “Yours, mine, [turning to the World Economic Forum representative] the moderator’s. The freedom of publications like National Review.”

A different journalist, with high-pitched indignation, said, “Are you saying that Al Gore is threatening freedom?” Klaus answered, “More or less. Global-warming alarmism is challenging our freedom, and Al Gore is a leader of that movement.
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I will have more Klaus in the Davos Journal next week. By the way, is there a national leader today whom you respect more?

The Reference Frame: Davos: Klaus met Gore for 2 hours

The Gore effect is working in Davos, too. The current temperature, -12 °C, matches the recent record cold reading from January 31st, 2003.

Watchdog Politics Examiner: Gore's global warming sideshow and recent polls

Obama has vowed to cut greenhouse gas emissions through the development of alternative energy. As the recession deepens, politicians running for election in 2010 will be watching polls such as Rasmussen to see which way the wind is blowing in regard to public opinion about the money allotted in the stimulus package. It could be that inspite of Gore's influence on Congress, it may be losing support among the American voting public.

Your tax dollars at work

Half of World's Population Could Face Climate-induced Food Crisis by 2100 - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

...The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of $6.06 billion.

Top staffers at the National Science Foundation accused of spending hours looking at pornography

Did top staffers at our nation's leading science foundation whittle away their days surfing the Web - for porn?!

A report claims that many of the top employees of the National Science Foundation spent long periods during their work day looking at Internet pornography, according to USA Today.

Maybe more top NSF folks should spend their work time staring at these graphs.

To show that they're serious about limiting CO2 emissions, couldn't Klobuchar and Obama just listen to the game on a small hand-cranked radio?

MinnPost - Klobuchar plans to watch Super Bowl -- with Obama

WASHINGTON, D. C. -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) will be rooting for the Arizona Cardinals at the White House this Sunday where she and her family will join a select and politically diverse group of lawmakers invited to President Obama’s Super Bowl bash.

“I figure they’ll have a [fossil-fueled] big screen TV,” the senator joked on Friday afternoon.

State Weighs Tough TV Energy Standards - Global Warming News Story - KTVU San Francisco

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Visit any electronics store and it's clear that flat-screen TVs are among their best sellers -- and that they hope consumers continue a years-long tradition of upgrading their home entertainment systems for the Super Bowl.

Many large TVs are energy hogs, however, and California regulators want to get the biggest offenders off store shelves.

Spoof: Fast Forward 2019 | JoNova

By Andrew Revko - New York Times Environmental Reporter

As the Earth continues to cool, UN scientists now concede that CO2 was never the climate driver many made it out to be. The entire multi-trillion dollar global warming movement now appears to have been a result of massive funding, media hype and group think....
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Gavin Schmite maintains he and his colleagues at Wishful Climate never promoted man-made global warming fears. “This is simply the deniers inventing history,” Schmite said.

“First the deniers claimed that some
scientists hyped a coming ice age in the 1970’s and now they are
claiming we hyped warming in the latter part of 20th century and the
first decade of the 21th century. What the world needs to understand is
Wishful Climate has never and can never be wrong because all weather
and climate are perfectly consistent with all of our models. There has
never been a climatic event that was not predicted by our models,” a red-faced Schmite insisted.

A shady offer from the solar carpetbaggers | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

We have to “give” the “still-expensive” solar companies a price that makes them “competitive”? What kind of economics is that? Or, rather, what kind of word-tricks are being played here? What they want is not a “price” but a “subsidy”. What they offer are not “major investments” but a “big bills”. They why not say so?

WHERE’S FEMA?

WHERE’S FEMA? Nearly 1M without power 5 days after ice storm. “Local officials grew angrier at what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”

Gore’s core iced | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

So although the carbon dioxide levels stayed high after past warming periods, the temperatures nevertheless fell. So clearly the carbon dioxide effect was not the main driver of temperatures in the past, to judge by the ice cores that Al Gore used as proof.

Michelle Malkin » My housewarming gift for President Obama

After news of Barack Obama’s cranked-up thermostat eco-hypocrisy came to light this week, I got to thinking. What could we do to help our president? What could we do to show our patriotism, reach across the aisle, and help the White House save energy during these frigid 100 first days?

Did we say we're all going to fry because of global warming?  Sorry, we meant ocean acidification.   We're SUPER serious

It's a problem that got a passing mention in early versions of Al Gore's Inconvenient slide show. Later iterations added a few more slides dealing with the consequences for corals of a changing aquatic habitat. But compare that with more than a dozen slides addressing the threat of increased storm frequency and/or intensity, neither of which is based on science as nearly solid as the link between global warming and ocean acidification.

W. S. Jevons (1865) on Coal (Memo to Obama, Part III) — MasterResource

Each renewable energy, Jevons explained, was either too scarce or too unreliable for the new industrial era. The energy savior was coal, a concentrated, plentiful, storable, and transportable source of energy that was England’s bounty for the world.

Wind Watch: Does wind power really provide more jobs than coal?

Earlier this week, Fortune’s eco-blog, Green Wombat, ran a story under the headline, “Wind jobs outstrip the coal industry.”

Blogger Todd Woody cites new report from the American Wind Energy Association that about 85,000 people are now employed by the wind power industry, up from 50,000 a year ago. Mr. Woody then says that “the coal industry employs about 81,000 workers,” citing a 2007 report from the Department of Energy.

Electric Power Monthly: January '09 - if we're paying enormous numbers of people to work on wind power, shouldn't it provide an enormous amount of usable electricity?

Coal-fired plants contributed 48.2 percent of the Nation’s electric power, year-to-date. Nuclear plants contributed 19.3 percent, while 21.6 percent was generated at natural gas-fired plants. Of the 1.1 percent generated by petroleum-fired plants, petroleum liquids represented 0.8 percent, with the remainder from petroleum coke. Conventional hydroelectric power provided 6.5 percent of the total, while other renewables (primarily biomass, but also geothermal, solar, and wind) and other miscellaneous energy sources generated the remaining 3.4 percent of electric power (Figure 2).

Fraudster from US sends letter to people in Scotland

A leading climate change scientist from Nasa has called on First Minister Alex Salmond to put plans for new coal-fired power stations on hold.
Dr James Hansen says they should only be built if they are fitted with technology to capture and store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
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Dr Hansen states his concerns in a letter to the First Minister which has been published in the Scotsman newspaper.

BBC abandons 'impartiality' on warming - Telegraph

Londoners might have been startled last Monday to see a giant mock-up of a polar bear on an iceberg, floating on the Thames outside the Palace of Westminster. They might not have been so surprised to learn, first, that this was a global warming propaganda stunt and, second, that the television company behind it is part-owned by the BBC.
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One of the madder instances was the 15 hours of airtime it gave in 2007 to the dreary Live Earth pop concert at Wembley, which was no more than a commercial for the views of Al Gore. Another was last year's lavish Climate Wars series, designed by the BBC's science team as an answer to Channel Four's The Great Global Warming Swindle. Nothing was more laughable than the sequence showing a huge poster of the infamous "hockey stick" temperature graph being driven round London on the back of a lorry, without any mention of the expert studies which have made the "hockey stick" one of the most comprehensively discredited artefacts in the history of science.

Joseph D'Aleo's long-range forecast? Global cooling - Lowell Sun Online

Q: But isn't the Arctic melting beneath the polar bears' feet?

A: That's another Al Gore creation. Many people don't realize there's currently a record-high world population of polar bears. We've gone from 10,000 to 25,000 globally. In fact, there's a concern right now that the sun might be going into one of its very long-term (cooling) cycles. We're looking very much like the early 1800s, a very cold period when Charles Dickens was writing his novels about the icy streets of London. We're heading back into that kind of mode, I think, where the sun and the ocean cycles are about to give us a couple of decades of cooler temperatures.

Czech president attacks Al Gore's climate campaign

Czech President Vaclav Klaus took aim at climate change campaigner Al Gore on Saturday in Davos in a frontal attack on the science of global warming.

"I don't think that there is any global warming," said the 67-year-old liberal, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. "I don't see the statistical data for that."

Referring to the former US vice president, who attended Davos this year, he added: "I'm very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them.

"Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. Al Gore is an important person in this movement."

Strict regime of emission for developed world likely: Fraudster Pachauri

"Of course, the developing countries will be exempted from any such restrictions but the developed countries will certainly have to cut down on emission," Pachauri said, adding,"some strict regulations are going to be there."

Oxfam CEO Why climate change allegedly matters in the downturn - Times Online

Climate change is hitting poor people hardest and blocking their efforts to get out of poverty.

Australian Socialists Adopt 10 Point Action Plan to Stop Climate Change

The fate of advanced human civilisation — and perhaps of our species itself — hangs in the balance. Fuelled by human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, global warming is advancing at a pace inconceivable to scientists just a few years ago.

Turning a profit from carbon emissions | Top News

"You can lower costs, create jobs and reduce lethal overheating," said Baird, using his preferred term in place of climate change, "and put money back in the pockets of consumers."

Hopes were pinned on the new US administration taking the steps to make it happen.

"If we turn climate change into an opportunity, it is the biggest opportunity since World War Two," said Josefsson, referring to the economic expansion that was brought about as a result of the war.

World War II casualties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

World War II casualty statistics vary greatly. Estimates of total dead range from 50 million to over 70 million.[36] The sources cited on this page document an estimated death toll in World War II of roughly 72 million, making it the deadliest ever. Civilians killed totaled around 47 million, including 20 million from war-related disease and famine. Total military dead: about 25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 4 million prisoners of war. Axis dead: approximately 11 million; Allied dead: about 61 million.

For the most part, this is how the CO2 hysteria will end: not with a bang, but a whimper: Lengthy article on (former?) CO2-hysteric Tony Blair devotes exactly two words to the global warming scam

Since leaving office 19 months ago, Tony Blair has rebuilt a life almost as frantic and globetrotting as the one he lived in Downing Street. Amid criticism of his role in the Middle East peace process, Ginny Dougary and photographer Nick Danziger join the former Prime Minister on the road to discuss Gaza, Catholicism, doubt, Iraq, money and Cherie

March '08: Blair paid to lead campaign on climate change

Act urgently or global warming will be irreversible, former PM warns
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"This is extremely urgent. A 50% cut by 2050 has to be a central component of this. We have to try this year to get that agreed, because the moment you do agree that, then you have something for everyone to focus upon. We need a true and proper global deal, and that needs to include America and China," Blair said.
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He is backed by the Climate Group, a not-for-profit organisation supported by business.

Having pounded the table to promote Gore's scam, Blair and many others are very unlikely to openly admit that it was a scam. Instead, I predict that the Blairs of the world will merely talk less and less about the issue until it disappears entirely from their public utterances.

Video: Climate realism in a Texas elementary school; "If there's global warming, there must have been global cooling...follow this logic..."

I'd really like to see Al Gore sitting down on that rug with those kids. He might learn something.

WHERE ARE THE “GREEN JOBS”??? « GANGBOX: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS NEWS SERVICE

Though the “win-win” perkiness of the phrase has inspired some media cynicism, “green jobs” is not just a campaign buzzword or a liberal fantasy. Environmentally sound job creation and training is happening right now, all over the country, fueled by the belief that it is possible to solve the climate crisis and put more people to work in better jobs all at the same time. In Sacramento, a costly nuclear plant has been shut down and turned over to solar energy, widely believed to be, among renewable energy industries, the most promising sector for job creation (both in number of jobs and in job quality). As the port in Duluth, Minnesota, has become busier unloading wind turbine parts, more than 100 additional workers have been hired for union jobs paying more than $30 an hour.
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Apollo Alliance activists, in conversation and on the group’s website, love to highlight a green jobs success story: a factory in Memphis that used to manufacture TVs, back when TVs were made in the United States. That factory now makes solar panels, providing hundreds of unionized jobs–just the sort of story, I thought, that would intrigue and inspire Nation readers. Yet when I tried to arrange to visit the plant for this story in late 2008, the company, Sharp Electronics, preferred I stay home; because of the housing bust, business was so slow that there would be no production to see.

Poll: Global warming a low priority | Charlottesville Daily Progress

However, according to a nationwide survey conducted earlier this month by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, “global warming” ranked last on a list of 20 priorities among 1,500 adults.
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Howard Epstein, an associate professor of environmental science at UVa, said issues ranking higher on the Pew list, such as the economy, energy and the environment, all tie to global warming.

“What they’re saying in other ways is that [global warming] is important,” Epstein said.

Why is The Most Important Issue Ever barely mentioned here?: Obama, Hu discuss trade imbalances in call | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told Chinese leader Hu Jintao in a phone call on Friday the two countries must work together to correct global trade imbalances and unclog credit markets to fight the world economic crisis, the White House said on Friday.
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The White House description of the Obama-Hu call indicated it covered a broad range of topics.

"The two presidents agreed to work together on global issues, specifically mentioning North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan-Pakistan, counterterrorism, proliferation, and climate change," the White House said.

Reduce, reuse, recycle?: Mexico's brisk appetite for alleged "climate change" clunkers

In 2005, Mexico's President Vicente Fox jumped the gun on his country's NAFTA commitments and eliminated trade restrictions on 10-15 year-old used cars and trucks. The results were dramatic. More than a million used cars a year flooded in from the United States. In March 2008, Mexico reversed the policy, responding to complaints of unfair competition from domestic auto-dealers who also declared that the country was being converted "into the world's biggest automotive garbage dump."

Still promoting the greatest scientific scam of all time: World Bank and its partners offering prize money for CO2-hysteric youth essays

What can you do, working together with your peers, to address the problem of climate change in your country, town or local community? Think specifically about the role of youth-led initiatives in the ‘green economy’.

Climate change has been identified as one of the biggest global threats of our time. Scientists agree that global warming and extreme climate phenomena can be increasingly attributed to human activity - in particular, heavy emission of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, resulting from industrial processes.

When we're talking governmental "solutions" for the global warming hoax, even the BOOKS are insanely expensive

Amazon.com: A Guide to Emissions Trading: Risk Management and Business Implications: Cyriel de Jong, Kasper Walet: Books

Price: $167.00

Amazon.com: The Finance of Climate Change: A Guide for Governments, Corporations and Investors: Kenny Tang: Books

Price: $167.00

Wind Watch: Giant turbines could drown out the call of the wild

Birdsong could be drowned out by the sound of giant wind turbines on a Northumberland moor say protesters, who have now organised a special event to highlight the diversity of species which flock there.

The Reference Frame: Secondary forest growth beats human consumption 50:1

That old environmental problem was arguably captivating but it has never gained the political power of the contemporary greenhouse religion, especially because of its local (and distant) character. People may be just revealing that even the old problem was based on a deep misunderstanding of the internal mechanisms of Nature and Her inherent strength.

I guess that the higher concentration of CO2, the gas we call life, is contributing to the fast expansion of the new forests, too.

Needless to say, those green people who will never give up the idea to regulate everything use trash-talk to deny the importance of secondary forests and their palms, lizards, and ants for the forest budget and the diversity budget of the Earth. But many other people are beginning to see the light: the number 50 simply can't be neglected relatively to the number 1. The environmental zeal is genuinely punishing the local economies in Latin America. It's time for rational people to take over and to use the term green bigots for the green bigots.

Right-Thinking from the Left Coast

In fact, I think Mike Steele would be the perfect person to execute an idea I’ve had simmering in my brain for a long time. I think the Republicans should set up a shadow government, much like the shadow government that exists in Britain. For every action that Obama takes, the Republicans could respond by articulating the action they would take if in power. We’d see a series of statements like so:

While we still question the theory of manmade global warming, we agree with the President that the nation needs to decrease its use of fossil fuels and gradually move to better, cleaner energies. However, we respectfully disagree with his plan to have the Federal government pick and choose technologies, to lavish subsidies on politically-connected interest and create a cap-and-trade system that we fear will become a mire of influence peddling. Instead, we propose a carbon tax—balanced in the budget by a cut in marginal rates and business taxes. This will make fossil fuels slightly less palatable and give the market a nudge toward finding better energy while still retaining the freedom the market needs to explore all possible solutions.

Report: Stimulus may include provision to crush 4 million newer-model pickups and SUVs that get less than 18 mpg

SEMA is opposing an effort by some Washington lawmakers to include a national car crushing program in the upcoming economic stimulus package. Vehicles targeted for the scrap pile will likely include Chevy Blazers, Silverados, S-10s and Tahoes; Dodge Dakotas and Rams; Ford Explorers and F-Series; Jeep Cherokees and Wranglers; and any other SUV or truck that obtains less than 18 mpg.

Under the plan, the federal government would pay a premium for '99 and newer cars...

Lawrence Solomon: Climate change’s Antarctic ruffle - News and Opinion Blog of blogs

Michael Mann and Nature are not new to political controversy, or dubious science. The two collaborated before — in publishing what became known as the hockey-stick graph. This graph — which showed the 1990s to be the hottest decade of the hottest century of the last thousand years — became one of the most publicized facts of the year when it was published. Then the hockey stick became slapstick as it became an object of ridicule: Mann’s statistical techniques were shown to be entirely invalid and Mann was shown to have lacked the statistical knowledge demanded by the study. Mann and Nature refused to make public the data used to produce the graph, Nature refused to publish a response rebutting the hockey stick graph and Nature’s peer review process was shown to be a sham.

It took years, and a U.S. Congressional committee, to finally resolve the dispute, to Mann’s and Nature’s shame. Mercifully, the verdict over the latest offering from these two is seeing a speedier resolution.

Obama is facing a great test within his own party over stimulus package

Most shocking is a $400 million giveaway to study what a growing number of scientists regard as a hoax - the great global warming scam - at the very time the nation is chilled to the bone and probably verging on a new ice age, little or big. To make matters worse there is $2.4 billion for another scam for demonstration projects called “carbon capture,” a process that has yet to be invented.

Welsh health chief warning about coming cold snap - WalesOnline

The NHS bore the brunt of the cold snap at the start of year as hundreds of people were treated for broken bones and sprains following falls in icy conditions.

Dr Jewell said: “For many people, particularly older people, the cold weather can have severe impact on their health and quality of life.
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“Cold temperatures lead to stress on the vascular system. After a fall in temperature, for example, heart attacks increase after two days and strokes after five days.

“Deaths due to respiratory disease increase 12 days after a fall in temperature.”

Provisional figures for 2007-08 reveal there was an increase in the number of excess winter deaths in Wales. There were around 1,500 excess winter deaths during winter 2007-08, 7% more than in the previous winter. Over 80% of these deaths involved people aged 75 or older.

The Met Office said that this winter had, so far, been the coldest for more than a decade.

Bid to curb emissions under fire - Albany NY

Indeck's lawsuit claims the state illegally joined RGGI without approval from the state Legislature.

"We support the intent of the RGGI program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to mitigate the effects of global warming," said Indeck president Gerald F. DeNotto. "We simply believe the program is flawed."

And the Shameless Hucksters Shall Lead Them: Emeril and His “Green” Knives « Media and Mayhem

This morning on the Martha Stewart show, which was playing on a TV at my gym, I saw Chef Emeril Lagasse selling what he described as a set of “green knives.” I perked up to listen: What would an environmentally-sound knife look like, assuming he wasn’t simply suggesting it was sharp enough to injure a polluter?

The answer? Emeril claimed the knives are “green” because no trees had to die to make them.

Translation: The handles are plastic.

Is recycling a waste of time? - Telegraph

For many households, 'Thou Shalt Recycle' has become the 11th Commandment. But some have claimed that we are worshipping a false idol.

Oceanside Man Perches High in Encinitas Tree - San Diego 6

An Oceanside man is prepared to live in a tree, until the city of Encinitas promises it won't chop it down.

"We don't have enough trees as it is," said the man, who wished to be identified as "Jru."

"We're in global warming and this isn't as much for me as it is for my kids, and the one's to come. We need to save the Earth. That's why I am up here."

Opposing Views: OPINION: Anti-Meat Crusaders Exposed for Spreading Myths, Distortions

As the vast global warming hoax begins its inexorable death, an equally enormous campaign against the raising of livestock and the consumption of meat continues. It is led by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and supported by the propaganda machinery of the United Nations through its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Absurd Anti-Meat Claims

The assertion that the raising of livestock worldwide is contributing to global warming is so obviously absurd one might easily and quickly dismiss it, but it continues to be the cornerstone of a campaign to end the consumption of beef by more than six billion people around the world.

California's 'Green Jobs' Experiment Isn't Going Well - WSJ.com

The green lobby has lectured us for years that global warming is all about the sanctity of science. Those who question the "scientific consensus" on catastrophic atmospheric changes are belittled as "deniers." Now, in assessing the costs, the greens readily cook the books and throw good science out the window. "To most of the most strident supporters of this legislation," says Mr. Niello, "the economic costs don't really matter anyway, because we are supposedly facing an environmental apocalypse."

Living on Earth: Green Beginnings

GELLERMAN: Let me change gears a little bit here, Jeff. Former Vice President Al Gore was also in DC this past week and he was delivering some inconvenient truths.

YOUNG: Yes, the return of the Goracle we call it here. He spoke to the Senate's foreign relations committee about the next big international climate change talks. They're coming at the end of the year in Copenhagen.

GELLERMAN: But the Bush administration refused to sign on to the last international agreement, the Kyoto accords. What does Mr. Gore think it will take to get us on board with a new climate agreement?

YOUNG: Like a lot of people who work on this issue Gore says, the US first needs its own domestic controls on greenhouse gas emissions - a cap and trade system to limit CO2. That's still very tough, politically - even with the new president...

People who don't believe in global warming are selfish

They don't want to admit that what they do has an impact on the planet. They're usually the same people who drive hummers, would like to refuse women the right to choose, refuse to recycle and would like to stop all programs that benefit the poor.

Brainwashed government employee speaks: Is Minnesota slowly turning into Nebraska?

[Dean] Beck, who is the Glenwood Area’s Fisheries manager for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), was the guest speaker.

“Global climate change does appear to be happening,” Beck told the small group.
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He noted that it would be interesting to see what the landscape of Minnesota would look like 100 years from now. His prediction, based on changes that have already occurred, is that Minnesota will eventually take on the same climate as Nebraska.
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“Climate change is happening. It’s not a hoax,” said Beck. “People need to be aware and learn what we can do about it. We can make a change.”

Sign of the times: In the comment section for articles like the one above, well-informed climate realists typically far outnumber the alarmists

As you can see, Co2 levels rise BECAUSE of the temperature change and are NOT the cause of it, as it trails warming by about 800 years. The ocean cannot retain as much CO2 as it warms so the CO2 ends up in the atmosphere. The earth As you can also see, we are coming to the end of the 12,000 year warming cycle and our temperature is going to drop and we are going to enter another ice age. It will probably not happen for generations yet, but it is a sharp drop once it changes. This is just another attempt by Al Gore and the environmental wacko's to usurp out economy with a willing media that worships at their feet.

‘No Holds Barred’ in California Climate Negotiations? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

...More likely is that the rules that the air regulators have to develop going forward — namely, apportioning out the right to emit greenhouse-gases among various industries, and then slowly lowering the emissions ceiling on all industries — will have to be justified not just within the air agency, but to outside economists who may or may not know about the technical details of controlling air pollution.

“So,” said Tina Andolina legislative director of the Planning and Conservation League, “there’s another agency that has no air quality expertise looking over your shoulder and delaying every needed air-quality and global-warming measure.”

Investor's Business Daily -- About that super-duper smart grid

Among the many claims made for the "economic stimulus" package in front of Congress is that it will "jump-start" a "bigger, better, smarter" electric grid, letting Americans use energy more efficiently.

The package commits $4.5 billion to this, which (says the White House) will help finance 3,000 miles of transmission lines and 40 million "smart meters."

Sounds great.

But it may be mostly hype. For starters, the $4.5 billion is a pittance. An industry study in 2004 — surely outdated — put the price tag of modernizing the grid at $165 billion.

More important, says a report from JPMorgan, the "smart grid" isn't mainly a matter of building new transmission lines or installing new meters. It's more "communications and information processing technology" that allows for more efficient transportation and use of power.

"The smart grid, while a great idea, is basically a software project," says economist Marc Levinson of JPMorgan. "The reason utilities aren't pushing it faster is not lack of money or will, but because there are lots of technical issues and also important compatibility problems so that the various companies' grids can communicate freely with one another."

Cartoon: How to make an AGW alarmist? | CO2sceptics

Just show them only part of the data!

Carbon Dioxide a "Pollutant"?

The suggested cure for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) is to cut our use of fossil fuels back to levels of 1990. That this will totally disrupt not just our industrial capacity but our personal activities is a given. And what do the global-warming alarmist say we will get in return? Perhaps a decrease in the temperature rise they are forecasting by as much as one-tenth of one degree Celsius by the year 2100. Whoop-de-do. What's going on here?

Carbon dioxide is neither a pollutant nor is it causing global warming. In fact, the increase in carbon dioxide is known to have driven the rise in agricultural efficiency worldwide and accelerate the growth of forests. The carbon dioxide "enemy" is a convenient lie to give control of energy to governments at all levels, including a world government. With control of energy comes control of the entire economy and control of our personal activities. What more could a dictatorship want.

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Trade Offs: When Climate Policy Clashes With Trade Policy

Sooner or later, even if Al Gore’s left town, Congress will get around to drafting a climate bill. The problem is that the kind of measures that might make a climate bill pass muster at home could end up sinking it internationally.

Friedkin departs 'Inconvenient' opera: How many people will still believe in Gore's scam by May 2011?

The production, backed by Participant Media, which financed the Oscar-winning Al Gore doc, is still aiming to debut May 11, 2011. Battistelli charged in Milan's Corriere Della Sera that Friedkin bailed "for personal, not artistic reasons." The miffed maestro also claimed Friedkin intended to spotlight flashy special effects over the green message in "Truth."

George F. Will | Newsweek Voices

Within the lifetimes of most Americans now living, today's media-manufactured alarm about man-made global warming might be an embarrassing memory. The nation will then be better off because Bush—during whose administration the embarrassing planet warmed not at all—refused to be stampeded toward costly "solutions" to a supposed crisis that might be chimerical, and that, if real, could be adapted for considerably less cost than will be sunk in efforts at prevention.

Michigan: Bitter-cold January one for the record books | Leelanau County News

It was so cold, in fact, that Jon Smith of Jon’s Barber Shop declared that Suttons Bay had frozen over late Monday and early Tuesday, more than three weeks before normal.

I'm seeing this "even if" phrasing more and more these days

Even if you count yourself among the category of folks who shake their heads and roll their eyeballs at the concept of human-triggered global warming, studies of past climate regimes in the Southwest show the region is prone to very long-term droughts that would make the Dust Bowl look like a cool spell.

Human Sewage to Power Buses in Norway

What’s more, aside from the initial set-up costs, we expect to see an average saving of €0.40 per litre of fuel (based on an average diesel price of €0.67 per litre compared with biomethane at €0.27 per litre)”.

The city’s diesel public buses will only require minor modifications to their engines to run on methane, which is stored on tanks on top of the vehicles. The only noticeable difference will be how quietly they drive.

Voting Withdrawal Blues? A carbon cap video fix

The ‘deniers’/’skeptics’ still have a large voice and are confusing the discussion.

Strategy Note – Dress to Impress at the Capitol Climate Action « It’s Allegedly Getting Hot In Here

Nothing less than the survival of our species hangs in the balance, and we’re taking ourselves seriously enough to convey that with clarity.
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People often draw parallels between the emerging climate movement and the civil rights movement in the United States. While the climate movement still has a long way to go to earn that comparison, we are right to be inspired by it. Throughout history people have taken bold and confrontational action, often breaking laws to bear witness to an evil and reshape society. We understand that we are the inheritors of this spirit and its tone of seriousness and respectability. Throughout the labor movement and various currents for racial justice people have chosen to wear suits as part of their message they send through these bold actions.

Wind Watch: Wind farms cost more as NZ dollar falls

...chief executive Keith Tempest says most components for wind turbines are imported.

He says the New Zealand dollar has fallen from more than 80 US cents to the US dollar to a little over 50 US cents.

This makes building a windfarm around 50% more expensive than it would have been a year ago.

Gore continues his increasingly hysterical squealing

"The oceans are being choked off of oxygen. They are dying as a result of this process we are seeing before our eyes the melting of the polar ice cap," Gore said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "The assumption that we can continue on this path is an assumption that is collapsing."
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The onus is not only on Obama. Climate negotiators are looking anxiously at developing giants and heavy emitters China and India. And Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin disappointed some activists with his non-committal stance on climate change in his keynote address at the Davos forum.

US coal company sees production rebound next year

Leer anticipated intense debate over carbon capture and climate change, but with Obama's priority the economy, doubted there would be any change this year.

"The reality is that 50 percent of the nation's electricity is generated by coal," he said. Renewable energy sources were needed, too, "but the priority has to be rebuilding the grid system.

"That's a long-term deal, over the next four or eight, or 15 years, coal will continue to do the heavy lifting in generating electricity."

JIM PEDEN/RICHARD COURTNEY emails

[Courtney] The only argument for AGW is the so-called 'precautionary principle' (PP). But if PP is a reason why protection against AGW should disrupt the economies of the entire world then it is equally valid to say that PP is a reason to provide everybody with tin hats in case the Moon falls to bits and starts falling from the sky.

Middle Class Task Force: Obama, Biden Launch Plans For Working Families

The Obama administration announced the creation of a White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families on Friday during a ceremony demonstrating its commitment to the labor community and working class Americans.

The task force, to be chaired by Vice President Joe Biden, will be asked to help raise the living standards for working and middle income Americans. Representatives of labor, business, and advocacy communities will play consulting and advisory roles. In addition, Obama signed three executive orders on Friday, reversing directives issued during the Bush years that made it harder for employees of federal contractors to unionize.
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The Middle Class Task Force's first official meeting will be on February 27, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The topic of the first meeting will be: "Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class."

EarthTalk: How to stay warm and solvent this winter | csmonitor.com

Whether global warming is somehow to blame or not, much of the United States is getting walloped this winter. Earlier this month, the Seattle area had its most significant and lingering snowfall – and lower-than-average winter temperatures – in decades. Even Los Angeles is getting a taste of winter, with several days topping out at the freezing mark on the thermometer. Other parts of the country more used to challenging winter weather have been getting an extra dose of wind, snow, and ice this year as well.

Burying Crop Residues at Sea May Help Reduce Global Warming

Imagine a massive international effort to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide - build up in the atmosphere.

It involves gathering billions of tons of cornstalks, wheat straw, and other crop residue from farm fields, bailing it, shipping the material to seaports, and then burying it in the deep ocean.

GOP refusing to back Obama's stimulus plan

GOP leaders said one of their primary concerns is that large chunks of the stimulus package are being allotted to "pork" projects that will do nothing to create jobs.

As examples, they've cited funding for arts groups and global climate change studies.

January cold nearly a record in Oshkosh

This month is the ninth coldest January on record in Oshkosh since records were kept starting in 1893, according to the National Weather Service in Green Bay. The average temperature in the city this month was 9.1 degrees, which is calculated by adding the high and low and dividing by two.

TG Daily - Study: Most people could not care less about global warming

Chicago (IL) - Though I have already gathered this due to the increasing number and types of comments appearing on TG Daily, a recent Pew Center Report indicates there are not many things individuals care less about right now than global warming.

"Green" chef for Obama

Dinners at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue might be a little greener these days: the new White House assistant chef, Sam Kass, is an environmentally conscious University of Chicago graduate who founded a home cooking service that focuses on ingredients from local farms.

Kass, 28, the Obama family's personal chef in Chicago, will assist White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford, a holdover from the Bush White House.
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Celeb chef Todd English - Olives is among his many restaurants here - says the appointment of Kass could be a a boost to the economy.

"The new administration's goal is to stimulate the economy, and a big part of it is the green initiative," English says. "Industries are dying and you need to create new ones. The benefits of having a chef in the White House who cares about local food and local farms are very obvious. Using local farmers is a great way of stimulating the economy and creating new jobs."

Serious or spoof: Purdue alumnus nominated for White House Farmer position

The White House is looking for a new staff member and one Purdue graduate could fill the position – House Farmer.

The President has always had his own chef, but for the first time the chef wants to focus on locally grown foods; thus the need for a resident farmer. The farmer will transform a five-acre patch of land into an organic garden to grow vegetables for the First Family.

Who wants electric cars? Rich people! - Autoblog Green

Sporting six-figure price tags, many of the electric cars that are available today are only affordable for the wealthy. If these eco-chariots are to find homes, the question becomes, "Do rich people even want electric cars?" The answer, according to recent polling conducted by Bain & Co is a resounding "Yes!" In fact, the survey found that demand is actually highest among those who already have a luxury car in their garage.

Cold-Weather Shelters Open In Palm Beach County - News- msnbc.com

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - Palm Beach County opened two cold-weather shelters Friday in anticipation of declining temperatures.

Gulfnews: Chill in the sea spells trouble for turtles

As reptiles, turtles slow down as their body temperatures drop. Currently, with the sea temperature in the Arabian Gulf dropping to 13 degrees Celsius, the younger, juvenile Hawksbills are struggling.

"This is not a man-made problem - it is natural, but it is a tough one for juveniles. They can come in covered in their own weight in barnacles. They get weak with the cold weather and the barnacles multiply and grow bigger, which makes it difficult for a turtle to get around or come to the surface for air," said Baverstock.

Cap’n Bob & the Damsel » Sage Quotations

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci

Will Carbon Trading End Up like the Subprime Mortgage Crisis? » The Foundry

Do we really want to enter into our own version of carbon trading, which could result in a rendition of environmental subprime mortgages? Look at where subprime lending got us. Now imagine adopting a carbon trading system on a global level. Carbon trading undoubtedly fails the cost-benefit litmus test: Very high cost, very little (if any) benefit.

There’s also the possibility that carbon trading will be fraught with corruption, manipulation, noncompliance and mismanagement, especially if the government is running the show. In fact, the more I think of it, the more it does remind me of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Energy, economy create balancing act for Obama - CNN.com

Opponents of Obama's proposals say renewable energy would be expensive, take up large amounts of land, and might not even be able to generate sufficient energy given the aging infrastructure of the nation's electric grid.

"If the private sector will not invest in these technologies, it will not be efficient," said Alan Reynolds, senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

"Creating jobs by switching from one form of energy to another is a bad idea," he added. "You don't need subsidies for anything that is free. Getting a $7,000 rebate on a $100,000 plug-in electrical hybrid that gets its power from a coal plant doesn't make a lot of sense."

Davos Participants Observations - International Business News

Peter Thiel, president of Clarium Capital Management
One of the most stunning changes from the last year involves the strange disappearance of global warming. One must wonder at how a scientific fact changed into an outmoded fashion.

Kickstarting Solar-Hybrid Power Plants: Couple the PR of solar with the actual power of coal?

Could hybrids provide a way out of the energy and environmental dilemma?

Not hybrid cars—but hybrid power plants that tack on renewable enery like solar power to existing fossil-fuel power plants. The “hybrid solar” idea got fresh legs this week, when the Electric Power Research Institute announced two new pilot projects to fuse solar power with coal-fired plants in New Mexico and North Carolina.The idea is to use solar thermal to generate steam that offsets some of the power plant’s need for traditional fuels.

Richard Littlemore | A Tardy Canadian Tackles An Inconvenient Truth

The neo-con Frontier Centre for Public Policy, long a promoter of oil-sponsored deniers of climate change, has produced a new "background paper" that challenges the showing of An Inconvenient Truth in Canadian schools on the basis of a 15-month-old UK Court decision.

Jeremy Jacquot | New EU President to Address the Faithful at International "Skeptic" Conference

The new face of the European Union also happens to be the old face of global warming skepticism. Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic and, since January 1, the rotating president of the European Union, will give a keynote speech at the second annual International Conference on Climate Change in New York.

The widely ridiculed skeptic gathering, which last year drew only a few hundred attendees (and no actual climate scientists), will address the “question” of whether global warming “was ever really a crisis,” according to its lead sponsor, The Heartland Institute.

Climate realist mugs, bumper stickers, etc available here

CO2 is not pollution

The 400 Million Dollar Question! - Minnesotans For Global Warming

My question is, will this money only go to researchers trying to prove Global warming or will groups who are skeptical also get some money?

It seems to me that if you really want to stimulate the economy you would want to prove once and for all the Global Warming is dead, which would turn lose this economic sleeping giant. Unfortunately, I have a feeling they are spending this money because their current lies aren't working anymore and they need to find some new lies to plug the holes in the global warming fear mongering dam.

I think I'll apply for some of this just to see what happens.

M4GW: More climate realist merchandise

Snow Shovels Into Lawnchairs Sweat Shirts

UK: Eco-slogan sought - Harborough Today

Daventry District Council has teamed up with young person's counselling service Time2Talk to launch a climate change slogan contest for 13 to 19-year-olds.

The winners will get their slogan printed on Time 2Talk items.

Al Gore’s Climate of Extremes - Patrick J. Michaels - Planet Gore on National Review Online

People notice these exaggerations. They see that food is still on the table (despite the government’s attempt to burn it up as ethanol). They know the country isn’t particularly dry, nor particularly wet. They can go to the beach and see that the ocean isn’t notably higher than it was before.

In other words, Gore’s lack of penetration is a result his own exaggerations. He’s created a climate of extremes that people are simply tired of, which is why his issue ranks dead last. He’s right. He’s failed.

Jetting Their Way to a Better Understanding of Global Warming: Scientific American

"If we expect to make treaties," said Steven Wofsy, a Harvard University professor of atmospheric and environmental science and another principal investigator, "those treaties have to be based on sound science. This slice of the atmosphere is going to help us understand that."

YouTube - David Bellamy Late Late Show Global Warming

Famous environmentalist Doctor David Bellamy on the Late Late Show speaking about global warming. Fair play to Pat Kenny for having him on, he has not been seen on television for over 10 years since he refused to toe the line

April '08: Pure insanity from John Holdren on David Letterman

Dr. John P. Holdren, The President of the Woods Hole Research Center discusses global warming with Dave.

Holdren uses the indefensible term "accelerating" several times; twice, around the 5:30 mark, he actually says "the Earth has a fever"; he also claims that we're already "suffering" from global warming. Note that he talks about the skeptics starting at the 4:30 mark.

Remember, Holdren isn't just any nut; he's the nut that Obama has chosen as his science advisor.

CO2, Temperatures and ice ages « Watts Up With That?

When a few decades of low sunspot number is accompanied by Dalton minimum and 50 years of missing sunspots is accompanied by the Maunder minimum, what can for example thousands of years of missing sunspots accomplish? We don’t know.

Keeping Watch on the Redoubt Volcano « Digital Diatribes

My issue will be - as I predict will happen - that this will be a psychologically welcome event by AGW supporters so they have a convenient scapegoat for ALL cooling that ensues for the next year after this eruption.

World Climate Report » Antarctica Again

Clearly, not much as changed in the past 14 years—it still makes headlines that “Antarctica is warming!” when in fact, the temperature averaged over the entire continent (using whichever methodology you prefer) hasn’t changed much in more than three decades.

Wind Watch: Budget lands blow on our wind farms

The federal budget blew some bad news on Manitoba’s future wind farms, but a plan to build new and improved transmission lines into Saskatchewan and remote communities might be resuscitated.

In Tuesday’s blockbuster budget, Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty quietly cancelled the green energy subsidy that helps wind farms — including the new one planned for St. Joseph — stay viable.

Redecorating Time in Foggy Bottom

Jody Freeman, a Harvard Law School professor, is the counselor for energy and climate change in the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change, which is what they call Energy and Environment Empress Carol M. Browner's shop.

April '07: Greenhouse-gas law could still face hurdles - Los Angeles Times

“I think it’s a very tough call right now,” Harvard University environmental law professor Jody Freeman said when asked whether the state’s mandate to have cleaner cars on the road by 2009 would be met. “I don’t think the chances are great, because I think there’s reason to believe Congress will act before EPA.” Freeman filed a brief supporting greenhouse-gas regulation in the case decided Monday by the Supreme Court.

Jody Freeman, 2008:  In the Obama administration, yet another person who seriously believes  CO2 caused Katrina

[Jody Freeman] It’s hard to describe these serious environmental issues as fun, because it can sound perverse—I mean, sea levels are rising, hurricanes are intensifying, national security is being compromised by climate change, and it’s all sort of bad news. But in fact these issues are exhilarating to me because there is such opportunity for innovation and creativity, both by government and nongovernment actors. There is so much good academic scholarship to write, and so much to do to train students for the future. Strangely, my optimism just deepens at the darkest, bleakest moments. When Hurricane Katrina happened, like many people who care about climate change, I actually thought, Finally, a catastrophic event that will make people realize that something serious and strange is going on in the natural world! If anything will bring this home and force government to act, it’s going to be the terrible impact of Katrina.

You are not safe anywhere | Eye test promotes global warming scam

Reader Andrew R. went to OPSM for new glasses this week and was asked to read this chart to check his eyesight

Newsmax.com - Gore's Global Warming Tax Is Chillingly Flawed

Former Vice President Al Gore is turning up the heat in his fight against global warming, and his latest proposal should send shivers down the spine of every American taxpayer.

The Stimulus for Global Warming doesn't go far enough!

I’ve seen a lot of negative feedback towards the proposed 400 million dollar global warming research stimulus. I for one applaud the efforts to address issues that will come to a head 200+ years from now. If we do not address global warming today, President Robotron (the first African America robot president {Celente called it!}) will be in for a tough second term (Robotron/Gore 2190!)

Not on Internet time: IPCC finally gets around to releasing report from Aug/Sept session

29 January 2009: The Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has prepared a draft report of the Panel’s 29th session, which took place from 31 August to 4 September 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland.

There's some snicker-worthy material in the report (PDF). Example:

[Mr Moritz Leuenberger]...the IPCC is the driving force of climate policy. Thanks to the work of their experts the UN Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol were born. The reports of the IPCC are in this sense the motor for the fight against global warming. Today, motors still mostly run on oil and emit carbon. The motor of the IPCC, on the other hand, is driven by reason, emitting figures and diagrams instead...
...we live in a society in which some think tanks cast doubt on man’s responsibility for global warming. This strategy is not new. Think of the permanent questioning of the link between smoking and lung cancer. Such strategies are financed to a large degree by the economic sectors with a particular interest. And they are run by professional marketing specialists. All of these glossy magazines and slick words make me think of Carmen, Bizet‘s seductive gypsy girl: she is beautiful, she is bewitching, but her promises are often false...

I'll be honest: I've never thought of Richard Lindzen/Fred Singer/John Coleman/Freeman Dyson/etc in that way.

(Especially Freeman Dyson.)

Another Horrible Week for Global Warming Industry | Hennessy's View

The GDP might have contracted 5.4 percent annualized in 4Q08, but the AGW industry contracted about 50 percent in one week...
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Don’t be afraid to challenge your friends and co-workers to repeat the lies they hear from James Hansen and Al Gore and Michael Mann. Your friends might not have the educational advantages you’ve had—perhaps advanced degrees in prestigious universities destroyed their critical thinking skills. It’s up to us to help them.

'Cash for Clunkers' Plan Is Considered - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON -- Auto-industry officials are in advanced talks with Capitol Hill lawmakers on a proposal that would aim to revive vehicle sales by giving federal tax credits of as much as $4,500 to consumers who replace older gas guzzlers with new, fuel-efficient cars.
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The version of the legislation that passed the House on Wednesday included measures targeted to help home-state concerns, including the yacht industry in Florida, subway riders in New York City and uniform manufacturers in the Carolinas.
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The Florida tourism industry wants a new government office to encourage foreigners to travel to the U.S.

If we're concerned about the environment, are we sure it's always best to scrap older cars in favor of newly-manufactured ones?

Carbon trading may be the new sub-prime, says energy boss | Environment | The Guardian

The row over the working of the European Union's emissions trading scheme intensified last night when EDF Energy warned that speculators risked turning carbon into a new category of sub-prime investment.

Maybe they don't teach "Google" until second year: Professor says starvation could be widespread by 2100 - The Daily of the University of Washington

Bryce Harrop, a first-year atmospheric sciences graduate student, said there is always reason to doubt the results of any scientific study. However, he added that this potential shift in global climate can change every aspect of life and should be studied further.

Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture

Gains in productivity have been a driving force for growth in U.S. agriculture. The effects of these
changes over the second half of the 20th century were dramatic: between 1950 and 2000, the average amount of milk produced per cow increased from 5,314 pounds to 18,201 pounds per year, the average yield of corn rose from 39 bushels to 153 bushels per acre, and each farmer in 2000 produced on average 12 times as much farm output per hour worked as a farmer did in 1950. The development of new technology was a primary factor in these improvements.

The Goracle speaks about global warming to our leaders

This story by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post will be the turning point on the greatest hoax of the last 100 years.

Wind farm developer drops oil-spill appeal - The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA

The company building the wind plant on Wolfe Island has withdrawn an appeal it had launched to avoid being held responsible for a diesel spill that occurred last fall.

The Case Against Global Governance : WesternFront America

I rather like being an American. I can’t stomach the idea of being forced to give that up to satisfy some centralized one-world government which couldn’t find it’s rear-end with both hands and a hound dog!
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(What do you think the “Global Warming/Climate Change” movement is all about? It has always been, and remains, all about Global Governance!)

BBC NEWS | Will US follow Maryland's green lead?

When Court Stevenson looks out on the Chesapeake Bay, he sees far more water and far less land than he used to.

"We've lost 30,000 acres right here," says Mr Stevenson, an environmental scientist who has been studying the bay since the early 1970s.

The impact of global warming is hard to ignore - rising sea levels are contributing to massive erosion, threatening Maryland's 3,000 miles of coastline.
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"Americans have to change their energy consumption habits," he concludes.
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Part of the reason for these dramatic scenes on the bay lies two hours north, where smokestacks spewing toxic emissions dot the coastline around Baltimore, Maryland, the state's industrial capital.

Fact Sheet 1998 - The Chesapeake Bay: Geologic Product of Rising Sea Level

Between 6,000 and 7,000 years ago, the rate of submergence began to slow, and the Chesapeake Bay took on its characteristic "drowned river valley" shoreline pattern. Sea level at that time stood approximately 9 meters lower than the present level. Since then, the rate of sea-level rise over much of the last 6,000 years has been an almost-imperceptible 1.4 millimeters per year (about 6 inches per century). The present general shoreline configuration was attained by the time the first European and colonial maps were prepared (fig. 5), but as tide gauges and the continued inundation of low-lying areas indicate, relative sea level in the bay is still rising.

Davos Day Two: More talk, more action

Kleiner Perkins reception. KPCB are responsible for many successful VC projects, including its iFund collaboration with Apple and numerous greentech initiatives. We do a lot of search work for them. Al Gore makes an impromptu and passionate speech. Nice way to end Day Two.

Ban Water Bottles to Reduce Pollution? Come On! - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

A friend at another university tells me that his school is banning the sale of bottled water on campus, as the university administration is bothered by the pollution produced by plastic water bottles.
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University bureaucrats clearly don’t think about substitution by consumers, or about unintended consequences of quantity restrictions. Even by well-known standards of bureaucratic shortsightedness, this one is a real achievement.

New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests - NYTimes.com

Here, and in other tropical countries around the world, small holdings like Ms. Ortega de Wing’s — and much larger swaths of farmland — are reverting back to nature, as people abandon their land and move to the cities in search of better livings.

These new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace that the trend has set off a serious debate about whether saving primeval rain forest — an iconic environmental cause — may be less urgent than once thought. By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster.

“There is far more forest here than there was 30 years ago,” said Ms. Ortega de Wing, 64, who remembers fields of mango trees and banana plants.

Prince Charles: Help me save the rainforests - Telegraph

In a little less than my lifetime, we have lost 50 per cent of the world's rainforests. Every year, 32 million acres - an area the size of England - is destroyed or degraded. The message is clear: our world is in grave danger of losing its life-support system.

Davos Day Two: More talk, more action

Kleiner Perkins reception. KPCB are responsible for many successful VC projects, including its iFund collaboration with Apple and numerous greentech initiatives. We do a lot of search work for them. Al Gore makes an impromptu and passionate speech. Nice way to end Day Two.

Ban Water Bottles to Reduce Pollution? Come On! - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

A friend at another university tells me that his school is banning the sale of bottled water on campus, as the university administration is bothered by the pollution produced by plastic water bottles.
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University bureaucrats clearly don’t think about substitution by consumers, or about unintended consequences of quantity restrictions. Even by well-known standards of bureaucratic shortsightedness, this one is a real achievement.

New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests - NYTimes.com

Here, and in other tropical countries around the world, small holdings like Ms. Ortega de Wing’s — and much larger swaths of farmland — are reverting back to nature, as people abandon their land and move to the cities in search of better livings.

These new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace that the trend has set off a serious debate about whether saving primeval rain forest — an iconic environmental cause — may be less urgent than once thought. By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster.

“There is far more forest here than there was 30 years ago,” said Ms. Ortega de Wing, 64, who remembers fields of mango trees and banana plants.

Child abuse: "I'm afraid to go out in the sun now...I'm afraid to breathe the air"

David Suzuki's daughter gives alarmist UN speech in 1992 - Not a word about global warming or greenhouse gases

Raised in Vancouver and Toronto, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been camping and hiking all her life. When she was 9 she started the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They were successful in many projects before 1992, when they raised enough money to go to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Their aim was to remind the decision-makers of who their actions or inactions would ultimately affect. The goal was reached when 12 yr old Severn closed a Plenary Session with a powerful speech that received a standing ovation.

Opposing Views: OPINION: Public Allegedly Confused About Global Warming, Google Can Help

What if you could express a preference for specific kinds of scientific information? Like Google’s wiki function, where you can elevate certain kinds of information. Or, like Google’s “SafeSearch” function, except this would keep your searches -– and your children –- safe from climate skeptics. Or from climate scientists. It could be like the Kinsey Scale of Climate Conviction. I’m joking here –- but only slightly.

Bismarck Tribune - Global warming is really a hoax

Al Gore's climate model shows the Earth's temperature rising in 1997 and continuing to rise as sun spot activity increased. The Earth's temperature began to drop around 2007 just as NASA's model shows that sun spot activity began to hit its 11-year low. NASA's model and the Earth's temperature dipped at about the same time, while Gore's model continues to climb along with man's ever-increasing CO2 emissions. The sun controls the Earth's climate, not CO2 or capitalism.

Gore has had "delusions" like actually believing that he is a scientist and that we may burn up in 2016. The inconvenient truth is that he doesn't have a degree in a science-related field, we won't roast in 2016, and global warming was another delusion or simply a hoax.

YouTube - Head of Greenpeace attempts to sell the global warming hoax

Gerd Leipold heads up Greenpeace and he says that if you don't believe in Global Warming you aren't a "real scientist."

More than 100 villagers protest against wind turbines (From Evesham Journal)

VILLAGERS from the Lenches staged a peaceful protest outside a farming conference on the theme of renewables at Pershore last night (29).

Upwards of 100 of them stood for over an hour in the bitter cold carrying “No Wind Turbines” placards as delegates arrived at Pershore College for the annual event organised by Pershore and Upton-on-Severn branch of the NFU.

Cattle Sales Rising | KXNet.com North Dakota News

Typically late fall and beginning of a year - livestock sale rings are buzzing with activity but by now the rush of cattle sales tends to slow down. But not during a winter like this.

A short hay crop last year, and heavy snow and bitter cold is causing long lines at Northern Livestock Auction in Minot.

Livestock producers are selling off cattle at record rates. Some who would normally hold their animals for 2 to 3 years are selling out now.

The deep snow means difficulty in getting to livestock, and food is hard to get to, while corrals are filling up with snow. The price of cattle is also having an impact on sales.

After freezing death of 93-year-old, Michigan city suspends electricity shutoffs

Amidst widening public outrage over the freezing death of 93-year-old Marvin Schur. which took place some time between January 13 and 17, municipal authorities in Bay City, Michigan have announced plans to temporarily suspend electricity shutoffs and the use of “limiters,” devices that restrict and potentially block energy to households delinquent on electricity bills.

Schur died after the city put a limiter on his house as punishment for accruing just under $1,100 in outstanding bills to the municipally owned electric company.
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It is now clear that city officials in Bay City had hoped to cover up Schur’s death. An initial obituary, published on Sunday, January 25, approximately 10 days after Schur’s death, referred to the man dying “unexpectedly …at his residence.” Angry neighbors called the Bay City Times, which confirmed the manner in which Schur died with Dr. Kanu Virani, the coroner who performed the autopsy on Schur’s body on January 19. Then on January 26 the Bay City Times ran an article revealing the use of the limiter and its connection to Schur’s death, which was quickly picked up by national and international news media.
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Schur’s freezing death is also an indictment of how US society treats its elderly. Since January 17, four people over the age of 80 have been found frozen in Michigan. Doubtless there are many other such incidents across the country that never come to light. Many of these elderly people fall down near their homes, their bodies only discovered hours, or even days later.
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In recent days, the bitter cold has taken more lives in Michigan.

On Tuesday, the body 67-year-old Daniel Hayes was found in his truck—where he lived because he had no heat, electricity or running water in his house. Hayes lived in a semi-rural area of Wayne County, not far from Detroit.