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OPINION: Stop the madness | food, global, warming - Opinion - Colorado Springs Gazette, COThe global warming scare has mostly emanated from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), comprised mostly of non-scientific political appointees. The panel would like to see developed nations spend huge chunks of their wealth trying to control the climate.
"The basic methodology used by the IPCC cannot be supported by the actual data so the panel relies on the news media to filter the news that reaches the public," wrote Michael J. Wagner, in an article for Digital Journal about the 17,200 scientists on record disputing the IPCC theory.
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"Twenty-five billion dollars in government funding has been spent since 1990 to research global warming," Baliunas said, explaining that governments raise money by generating fear.
Human activity might be contributing to a rise in global temperatures, and that warming may cause harm. That's a theory. But here's a fact: Human activity, to address the cause of global warming, is taking food from the mouths of children.
Very few people actually believe in the climate scam enough to significantly inconvenience themselvesDespite ground-breaking agreements being signed, conferences convened and revolutionary ideas propounded ad nauseam, the highfalutin messages somehow fail to translate well into our daily lives, where it really matters.
Similarly, Earth Hour has come and gone (I was out for a meal so technically my lights were switched off). While the bandwagon was brimming with green groupies, after more than two weeks, where are we now?
The point is that grand gestures are easy to embrace – cool, too, when they come with enough do-gooder publicity. But how many of us are even thinking about switching off our electricity for an hour every day or every week after that? Thought so.
Muck and Mystery: Eco NuttersOrganic farming solves nothing. It is insufficient. It's a boutique activity that charms emo activists, but it's a cruel joke for the food insecure of the world. Nothing is sustainable except the struggle, and simple decency requires one to plainly state that the poverty, misery and hunger of developing nations is not something that ought to be sustained in any event.
But note that there's been no significant warming since 1995: "Poor" prognosis for our planet | smh.com.auWhen An Inconvenient Truth opened in 2006 it was generally supposed we had a window of two or three decades to deal with climate change. Last year that shrank to a decade. Last month Australia's chief scientist, Penny Sackett, told a Canberra gathering that we have six years to radically lower emissions, or face calamitous, unstoppable global warming.
Six years. Given that this problem is usually described as a process unfolding over centuries, how can it be that things have spun out of control in such a short time?
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John Collee practised medicine before turning full-time to writing. His screenplays include Master And Commander, The Far Side Of The World and Happy Feet.
Twitter / dancohen243Heard on BBC News: "Like David Beckham and Marmite, climate change divides our nation." Eeerrrmmm...
Washington Post continues to promote climate fraudThe 30-year decline is accelerating, new data show.
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Last month, Warwick Vincent, director of the Center for Northern Studies at Laval University in Quebec, told Reuters, "2013 is starting to look as though it is a lot more reasonable as a prediction."
That forecast, if proven true, would have dire consequences for the polar bear. A 2007 report from the U.S. Geological Survey revealed that a melting of Arctic ice caused by global warming would wipe out two-thirds of the world's polar bear population, estimated at 20,000 to 25,000, and all of Alaska's estimated 4,700 polar bears, by 2050. The polar bear is now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. But we're all threatened as long as the build-up of greenhouse gases renders climate studies and models seemingly obsolete the moment they're released.
NC Media Watch: The best in UC global warming science fictionSo, why did California Agriculture authors fail to show this divergence from the IPCC models in their reports? Divergence that started in 1998? I think because it weakened their argument for accelerate global warming in California. There has been no increase in warming since about 2003. This is not how good science is done, this is how a political agenda is promoted.
If you have an interest in agricultural science fiction, this report could be your cup of tea.
Stuck on stupid: TIME article on the alleged "menacing role" of cow fartsIndolent cows languidly chewing their cud while befuddled motorists honk and maneuver their vehicles around them are images as stereotypically Indian as saffron-clad holy men and the Taj Mahal. Now, however, India's ubiquitous cows — of which there are 283 million, more than anywhere else in the world — have assumed a more menacing role as they become part of the climate change debate.
By burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide — India's livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contribute more to global warming than the vehicles they obstruct. With new research suggesting that emission of methane by Indian livestock is higher than previously estimated, scientists are furiously working at designing diets to help bovines and other ruminants eat better, stay more energetic and secrete lesser amounts of the offensive gas.
Skeptic's Corner: Woe Unto theeI have the utmost faith in mankind's ability to adapt and advance, I have far less faith when it is being stymied and even led by false prophets of doom.
North Coast Voices: It seems that only The Greens are going to bat for the NSW North Coast on the matter of climate change impactsComing as it did on the heels of the Environmental Defenders Office's own public meeting on 3 February 2009, I have to wonder if the two Labor MPs were there more to counter considerable grass roots resistance to the proposed national emissions trading scheme than to exchange views with local residents.
After speaking with one individual who attended this forum, I am now almost certain of this.
Given that the Rudd Government is holding to the line that the states are responsible for land use and NSW Nationals MP Steve Cansdell appears to be hoping that climate change will just disappear as an issue, it seems that The Greens are the only party at both state and federal level which is able to make the connection between global warming science and potential effects on the ground.
Green hypocrites: example #726 | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogWhen you’re the president of the United States, only the best pizza will do - even if that means flying a chef 860 miles. Chris Sommers, 33, jetted into Washington from St Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with a suitcase of dough, cheese and pans to to prepare food for the Obamas and their staff.
CO2 - Love It: Finally Some Sanity? NDP Promises to Scrap BC Carbon TaxAn NDP promise to eliminate the Liberals' carbon tax on fossil fuel is the biggest single element in the party's fiscal plan, costing the government around $1.8 billion over three years.
The carbon tax, first imposed last July, stands at 2.4 cents a litre but is slated to rise steadily as a way of taxing greenhouse gas emissions.
Sunburned: Solar's Dirty Little Secrets | Mac|LifeGreen gadgets make our collective heart go pitter-patter. We feel good when we can be part of the solution. Solar-powered gadgets have become de rigueur in our attempts at shrinking our carbon footprint. And utilizing the power of the sun is the one bright shining beacon of the alternative-energy movement. But there is a dark side to solar energy.
Climate: Bull or Bear Trend? | JoNovaAwkwardly, the short and long terms correlations are distinctly poor while in the medium term the correlation is excellent but backwards: temperature rises or falls first, then carbon dioxide. The lag is not just a few weeks, but around 800 years. So carbon dioxide is not a leading indicator for temperature on this time scale either. (Oddly the lag is well known among climate scientists, but apparently not so among journalists and documentary movie makers).
So the fundamental basis on which the IPCC is making its predictions doesn’t seem as strong as their 800 page, six yearly reports suggest. Have they been talking up their own book, drawing fat fees based on nothing more than a bullish period that they didn’t really understand?
Energy secretary once again promotes the greatest scientific fraud in history"Being very bold and shooting for the moon is something we want to encourage," Chu said, adding that such a strategy could help us deal with the world's looming problems.
One of those problems, he said in his speech, is that computer models indicate that rising global temperatures and other climate problems could lead to a much more arid and desert-like Western United States.
"The economic consequences would be staggering," Chu said.
LANL has the most intricate ocean and climate computer model ever made, and continued evolution of that on supercomputers throughout the complex could help scientists better understand how to stop climate problems from becoming drastic, he said.
As far as climate change science evolving in the real world, "we can only do one experiment -- the one we're doing now," he said, adding with a laugh that if it goes awry, "that would be bad." Chu, who visited LANL on Thursday, compared public knowledge and a willingness to address climate change issues to being on the Titanic looking for icebergs.
"If we turn now, and work hard, we can get a glancing blow," Chu said of climate change impacts, adding that if nothing is done, the blow will be much worse.
‘Climate and Agriculture: We’re Not Dumb’ Follow-Up — MasterResourceFar from being “dumb farmers” who stand idly by and watch their crops fail, farmers and crop scientists continually work to bring more and better crops to market. This is how it has been in the past, is currently, and undoubtedly will be in the future. After all, it is in all of our best interests—we have to eat.
NDP's best bet: Tapping carbon-tax ire - SoundoffDrivers were mad as hell when Gordon Campbell's new carbon tax pushed the price of gas above $1.50 a litre, but the Liberals thought those political wounds had healed over when prices at the pump started to drop.
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » Guest Weblog By James E. HansenAs noted in those papers, we did not include irrigation, which can also have large regional effects, because of the absence of a good global data set for irrigation fluxes. Nevertheless, from the simulations that have been made, and from comparison of the climate forcings, these papers make it clear that the largest global climate forcings are changes of greenhouse gases and aerosols.
Montana: Renewable portfolio standards face changesThe latter two bills have come in for sharper criticism by some green-power advocates.
Dave Ryan, president of the Montana Renewable Energy Association, says SB257 rewards hydropower producers for plant upgrades they have already done.
‘The intent of the (law) is to be an incentive to help projects get going that are new,” he says. “These hydro projects are not new and they’ve already been paid for, so this (bill) is cutting a fat hog for these guys.”
Renewable energy 'green bank' idea takes root | Energy | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleA coalition of energy companies hopes to reinvigorate the market for funding renewable energy projects by creating a government-backed “green bank” to serve as a conduit for billions of dollars in federal loans.
From On High: Where's Paul Harvey When We Need Him?So, is global warming affecting only the Northern Hemisphere? It would have to be the case if that which the Washington Post is telling us is true. But then what is causing the ice levels in the Antarctic to be steadily building? Global cooling?
Skeptic's Corner: Falling DominoesI do not really blame the researchers at the University of California, they are just basing their projection on what the so called climate experts have told them will happen. This like countless studies through out the scientific community on a multitude of subjects is all predicated on the belief that the climate scientist, the modellers, know what they are talking about.
Like those giant lines of dominoes we watch with fascination, the climate modellers have set off a chain reaction of falling pieces which cascades through science knocking over ever more pieces. Now it has reached into the lives, livelihood and well being of all mankind. I hope they are happy, they may have no pistachios and wine to celebrate with though, the farmers will have prepared for the coming heat while the frost kills their crops.
Fact Checking the LA Times on Global Warming Alarmism - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineAttention Australian readers: what say you about this LA Times piece? The excerpt about the 4,000 flying foxes dropping dead on the same day strikes me as suspect.
Sherlock Holmes They Ain’t - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineVANCOUVER, Wash. — Washington state environmental regulators say they've finally found the source of pollution that has been fouling a creek near Vancouver Lake: the agency's own sewer pipes.
Climate change will allegedly set back ozone layer recovery: NASA | Newspost OnlineWashington, April 11 (IANS) Global warming will set back the recovery of the ozone layer of the earth’s atmosphere, warns a NASA study.
Previous studies have shown that while the build up of greenhouse gases makes it warmer in the troposphere, up to 10 km high from sea level, these gases actually cool the upper stratosphere, between 30 to 50 km high.
Scoop: Calls for Focus on Population Issues in ETS ReviewWellington, 9 April 2009: Gender, sexual and reproductive health, and other population issues need to be at the heart of addressing climate change, including the current Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Review Dr Jackie Blue, Chair, and Hon Steve Chadwick, Vice Chair, of the New Zealand Parliamentarians’ Group on Population and Development (NZPPD) will be briefing colleagues today as follow-up to their NZPPD written submission to the ETS Review Committee.
Climate [Swindle] "Justice" at the Intersections | RaceWireThere are so many incredible people doing activism these days about climate change. I’m especially excited about those acting at the intersections of racism, classism, health issues, and the environment, like Van Jones and Majora Carter. Check out this great video profile of Kari Fulton, Brower youth Award Winner and general badass.
How Fast is Arctic Sea Ice Declining? « The Air VentIn summary, the following major points are highlighted:
1. Reconstructions of sea ice extent show no obvious decline until the advent of the satellite.
2. The claim that Arctic sea ice extent has been declining since 1953 is unjustified since there was no significant decline until 1979 when it exceeded 1 standard deviation below the 1953 to 1978 mean.
3. The satellite sensors drift, and as has been aptly displayed by SSM/I recently, there is at least one failure mode that results in underestimation of the sea ice extent.
4. The proclaimed unprecedented Arctic sea ice melt of 2007 does not appear particularly unusual and a similar but much more severe episode occurred in 1995, although at that time the measurements showed a higher starting level.
5. Presently, based upon the reportedly “most accurate” satellite data from AMSR-E (IRAC JAXA), Arctic sea ice extent is increasing at an accelerating rate.
6. Significant differences in winter ice extent are observed between NASA team SSM/I and AMSR-E IRAC JAXA during the overlapping period that might be explained by differing algorithms.
7. NASA team SSM/I shows a decline in extent relative to AMSR-E IRAC JAXA that might account for a substantial proportion of the apparent Arctic sea ice loss since the start of the satellite surveys.
Jonathan Drake 16/3/2009
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Climate change: If we now have both SUVs and droughts, can we safely conclude that the SUVs CAUSED the droughts?I am in Australia visiting my sister and her family, and the effect of climate change is evident all around. In Bendigo, Victoria, where she lives, there has been a full-on drought for over a decade. When I first visited over 20 years ago, Victoria was as green as South East England. Now, it is mostly yellow, and some bits of the countryside are beginning to fade to greyness. And yet Australian employers are still holding out against firm action on climate change.
Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California - The New York TimesBEGINNING about 1,100 years ago, what is now California baked in two droughts, the first lasting 220 years and the second 140 years. Each was much more intense than the mere six-year dry spells that afflict modern California from time to time, new studies of past climates show. The findings suggest, in fact, that relatively wet periods like the 20th century have been the exception rather than the rule in California for at least the last 3,500 years, and that mega-droughts are likely to recur.
Can the Catlin Arctic Survey Team Cover 683 km in the Next 21 Days? « Watts Up With That?According to the people who rescued Pen Hadow from his earlier polar near-misadventure in 2003, the latest safe date for recovering people from the North Pole is April 30. The team is currently 683 km away from the pole, which means that they would need to cover 32km per day - an increase of 5X over their average rate so far. That might prove difficult with an exhausted, hypothermic, frostbitten team walking over broken ice and dragging heavy equipment at -34C.
The Reference Frame: Pen Hadow's scientific expedition disintegrating: Poll about their fate includedBut I personally don't expect Hadow to care about the safety of the airplanes much: he has already been evacuated from the North Pole in late May of 2003.
Thirty-five kilometers per day wouldn't be that hard for OK athletes. But these people may be exhausted, mostly due to their terrible planning. I wish them good luck - but not necessarily miraculously great luck! ;-)
Climate Observations: Revisiting Bratcher and Giese (2002)Will these natural variations overwhelm any anthropogenic sources of warming and drive global temperatures down, as opposed to only flattening the curve as it has recently and as it had from the 1940s to the late 1970s? Only time will tell.
Alarmist Yulsman: James Hansen: Reduce CO2 in atmosphere or face catastrophe | CEJournalWith his characteristic under-stated manner, Hansen made a compelling case. But after speaking with two NOAA scientists today, I think Hansen put himself in a familiar position: out on a scientific limb. And after sifting through my many pages of notes from two days of immersion in climate issues, I’m as convinced as ever that journalists must be exceedingly careful not to overstate what we know for sure and what is still up for scientific debate.
Crawling out on the limb, Hansen argued that global warming has already caused the levels of water in Lake Powell and Lake Mead — the two giant reservoirs on the Colorado River than insure water supplies for tens of millions of Westerners — to fall to 50 percent of capacity. The reservoirs “probably will not be full again unless we decrease CO2 in the atmosphere,” he asserted.
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In my conversation with Tans and Hoerling today, I saw a tension between what they believe and what they think they can demonstrate scientifically.
“I like to frame the issue differently,” Tans said. “Sure, we cannot predict what the climate is going to look like in a couple of dcades. There are feedbacks in the system we don’t understand. In fact, we don’t even know all the feedbacks . . . To pick all this apart is extremely difficult — until things really happen. So I’m pessimistic.”
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Hoerling says we are living like the Easter Islanders, who were faced with collapse from over consumption of resources but didn’t see it coming. Like them, he says, we are living in denial.
“I think we are in that type of risk,” Tans said. “But is that moving people? It moves me. But I was already convinced in 1972.”
Australia: Victorian Governor wants to use CO2 scam "to change people's lifestyle"Professor de Kretser said Australians should recognise that the emissions caused by the personal actions of most of India's 1 billion people "can be considered as 'survival' emissions, rather than ours, which can be considered 'lifestyle' emissions".
He called on individual Australians to reduce their "environmental footprint", and on governments to legislate "to change people's lifestyle".
Governor forgets his duty, too | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogHow is it that a Governor General and a Victorian Governor can simultaneously forget their most fundamental obligation to stay out of politics? Is it that both are of the Left, and therefore have too little respect for the institutions they seek to exploit and too much respect for their right to do as they please? Is it that being green planet-savers they can indulge in the conceit that their cause licences them to do as they feel they must to “save” the world?
Exurban League: Obama Reaches Out to 'Moderate' Pirate CommunityI assure his friends and family that I will not stop until this man-made disaster is resolved in a peaceful, tolerant and ecologically-sound manner.
Obama, Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change, Turns More Cautious - NYTimes.comWASHINGTON — President Obama came to office promising swift and comprehensive action to combat global climate change, and the topic remains a surefire applause line in his speeches here and abroad.
Yet the administration has taken a cautious and rather passive role on the issue, proclaiming broad goals while remaining aloof from details of climate legislation now in Congress.
The president’s budget initially included roughly $650 billion in revenue over 10 years from a cap-and-trade emissions plan that he wants adopted. But the administration, while insisting that its health care initiative be protected, did not fight to keep cap-and-trade in the budget resolutions that Congress passed last week, and it wound up in neither the House’s version nor the Senate’s.
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The administration’s caution leaves many environmental advocates frustrated, although most are reluctant to speak on the record for fear of alienating their allies inside government.
Auden Schendler: Still guzzling the global warming Kool-Aid like it's 2007Taking on climate change is like climbing in the ring with Muhammad Ali in his prime, Schendler said. "You have this unbelievably scary adversary that you have to engage."
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Another positive is that confronting climate change gives people something larger than ourselves, he said. "It's the biggest shot at meaning humanity's ever had since religion was created."
Error Theory: NASA’s acknowledgement of “deep solar minimum” is still deeply dishonestPhillips even quotes NASA solar scientist David Hathaway’s acknowledgment that, "five of the ten most intense solar cycles on record have occurred in the last 50 years,” yet they STILL fail to acknowledge the elephant in the room: that this period of high solar activity coincides with the period of global warming that the IPCC attributes to CO2.
These are supposed to be our experts, the one’s who make sure that what is known about solar science is properly taken into account by the IPCC and by our domestic policy-makers. Instead, they are providing as much cover as they can for the IPCC’s outright refusal to account the most well known facts about the correspondence between solar activity and global temperature.
EU Referendum: The appliance of science?The Reuters exercise, incidentally, was carried out as officials from 175 nations were meeting in Bonn for 11 days of negotiations lasting until 8 April in an attempt to stitch up a deal for the Kyoto treaty replacement, due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December.
But, hilariously (not), the agency sent five questions to 35 IPCC authors and got 11 replies. Thus, its real tally is not nine out of 11 but nine out of 35. Nevertheless, this was good enough for a shock headline, repeated by newspapers and broadcast media throughout the world.
And upon this rock of fatuity founders the last vestiges of rationality in our society. Science we have no longer – just belief systems. But, as the sun continues to show an unusual quiescence, these people are on increasingly thin ice.
Is JR Killing the Polar Bears? — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate OrthodoxyPrecarious situation indeed. And not only for the reasons that Meier had in mind. It’s not just Arctic sea ice that’s on the line, but the reputation of a scientific discipline that has got distracted by the need to save us all from our sins. Tune in for the next episode. There might be a crucifixion.
The White House - Weekly Address: Only one direct reference to the climate scam this week?This idea – that we are all bound up, as Martin Luther King once said, in "a single garment of destiny"– is a lesson of all the world’s great religions. And never has it been more important for us to reaffirm that lesson than it is today – at a time when we face tests and trials unlike any we have seen in our time. An economic crisis that recognizes no borders. Violent extremism that’s claimed the lives of innocent men, women, and children from Manhattan to Mumbai. An unsustainable dependence on foreign oil and other sources of energy that pollute our air and water and threaten our planet. The proliferation of the world’s most dangerous weapons, the persistence of deadly disease, and the recurrence of age-old conflicts.
These are challenges that no single nation, no matter how powerful, can confront alone. The United States must lead the way. But our best chance to solve these unprecedented problems comes from acting in concert with other nations. That is why I met with leaders of the G-20 nations to ensure that the world’s largest economies take strong and unified action in the face of the global economic crisis. Together, we’ve taken steps to stimulate growth, restore the flow of credit, open markets, and dramatically reform our financial regulatory system to prevent such crises from occurring again – steps that will lead to job creation at home.
Now I Know How Al Gore Feels | Green Guru | Fast CompanyIn 1984, Al Gore held a hearing in Congress about global warming and urged his colleagues to do something about it. As we now know, he was ridiculed and largely ignored for the best part of two decades before being vindicated with a Nobel Prize and an Oscar (oh yeah, and another Congressional hearing, at which he was taken far more seriously).
Current TV Pulls Its IPOThe only real surprise here is that it's taken this long. Al Gore's TV network, Current TV, has withdrawn its $100 million IPO. The network is siting "current market conditions."
The company first filed an S-1 back in January 2008, when things weren't looking so gloomy. Though even then, the company was losing money badly, and failing to generate traction.
A global warming WOW moment - Orange Punch - OCRegister.comIt’s a leftist’s Utopia. Computer models that can be tweaked to show anything (that’s been amply demonstrated so far, huh?) and unbridled government control over virtually everything will now be married with the ability to soak the government and the private sector if you feel slighted. Finally, global warming not only is caused by everything and causes everything, but now will pay for everything. Wow.
Skeptic's Corner: Inquisition of Don Easterbrook"The announcement by NASA that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) had shifted to its cool phase is right on schedule as predicted by past climate and PDO changes (Easterbrook, 2001, 2006, 2007) and coincides with recent solar variations. The PDO typically lasts 25–30 years, virtually assuring several decades of global cooling. The IPCC predictions of global temperatures 1° F warmer by 2011, 2° F warmer by 2038, and 10° F by 2100 stand little chance of being correct. “Global warming” (i.e., the warming since 1977) is over.”
TWO SCAMS YOU CAN'T REPORT - Fox 4 KC Community Blog post - Working For YouScam #1 Manmade Global Warming - It doesn't exist folks. We are in a natural cycle. The earth has been around for 4 1/2 billion years and it has gone through lots of these cycles - everything from freezing cold Ice Ages when the US was mostly covered with glaciers a mile thick to steamy tropical climate here in Missouri and Kansas when most of the land was either covered with tropical vegetation or warm tropical seas and dinosaurs roamed the countryside.
Global warming [allegedly] threatens Joshua Tree National ParkWhatever the case, it's a survivor. Living through the Ice Age, some live to be a thousand years old. However, in Joshua Tree National Park, the Joshua tree may have finally met its match: global warming.
The Gee family was visiting the park Friday when they were told what many environmentalists now say, that because of rising temperatures, between 50 and 100 years from now, Joshua trees here may cease to exist.
Anti-Global-Warming Activist Marc Morano Gets Cold ShoulderThe Times tries to discredit anti-global-warming activist Marc Morano by linking him to some of their favorite villains: Exxon, the Swift Boat Veterans, and Richard Mellon Scaife.
Twitter / Amanda Montgomeryfor those of you who don't believe in Global warming, just turn on the news to hear the multiple tornado warnings.
Farmer stranded by Manitoba floods refuses to fleeThe last two weeks have been unseasonably cold, causing ice jams throughout the Red River Valley and leading to evacuations in the towns that dot the fertile plain through which it flows.
"I've never seen the spring so cold," said Sabourin. And with the Red River expected to crest between Thursday and the weekend, it could still be days before he's able to set foot outside his house.
Josh Dorner, Deputy Press Secretary for the Sierra Club, Huffington Post: April's Climate "Fool": Marc MoranoThe most denying-est denier of all, Marc Morano, former flak to Senator James Inhofe launched a new denialist website this week called Climate Depot (and no, I won't link to it).
Review of Al Gore's Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit - BrothersJudd.com...the Unabomber is known to have owned a well thumbed copy of Earth in the Balance. Indeed, parts of the book are indistinguishable from his manifesto. Lest I be accused of engaging in the same type of insidious comparison that I just accused the President of, let me make it clear that I don't believe that Al Gore caused the Unabomber. But I would note that the two men display a similar kind of dysfunctional animus towards technology and human innovation that smacks of a modern day Luddism.
Alachua County, Florida: March frost takes out peach cropA 17-degree frost in March destroyed Franklin’s 250-peach-tree crop, costing her business thousands of dollars in sales and delaying her and her husband, Chuck, from opening the orchard to the U-Pick crowd that the farm thrives on.
“That frost killed every peach I had,” Franklin said. “Once they are frozen, the budding fruits turn black in a couple days, and then there goes my harvest.”
Dr. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council promotes the greatest scientific fraud of all timeFinally, I asked Dr. Hershkowitz to share his thoughts about those who still insist that global climate change is some sort of hoax. His answer left little room for doubt.
"There is no validated, peer-reviewed scientific article that says global warming is a myth. Not one. More than 200 countries committed 2,000 scientists to a research endeavor overseen by the United Nations to investigate the issue of climate change. They've issued a consensus that global warming is real and humans are the primary cause. For that they won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago. There are questions about the relative contributions from different causes. It's clear that the dominant causes are human activities. There's an uncertainly about the consequences because climate is a difficult thing to predict. There's a lot of discussion about remedies, but as for the reality of global warming and the fact that we have to act, there's no scientists telling you that it's not happening. If they are, they haven't published their work in any peer-reviewed study that I know of. Even Exxon-Mobile has withdrawn support for global warming deniers. They were behind some of the mis-information under the previous administration, but even Exxon has backed away from that now. Even Exxon is looking for solutions."
HOOPSWORLD would like to thank Dr. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council for his time and contributions to our own participation in the NBA's Green Week initiative.
YouTube - Global Warming Rally: Remember, the Obama administration claims to AGREE with these peopleCategory: Comedy
Heliogenic Climate Change: Cap-and-tax = wealth redistribution, no emissions reductionMaryland will take $70 million it receives by charging utilities for carbon emissions to help low- income residents pay power bills, breaking with neighboring states that [claim they] will use the revenue to lower energy use.
Kicking the Tires: Obama’s $285 Million Car-Buying Spree - Environmental Capital - WSJIn terms of savings, though, the plan is on shakier ground. For $285 million, the government will save only about $2.6 million per year in gasoline bills. On fuel-economy alone, the purchase will take a while to pay for itself.
The environmental benefits aren’t cyrstal-clear, either. The White House says it’ll save 13,000 tons of carbon-dioxide emissions. That has a dollar value, just not a big one—about $182,000 at projected prices for emissions under the Obama administration’s cap-and-trade plan.
From the Arctic: Odd stuff from a guy who's trying to convince us that the world is overheating"Sun, I love you like never before. Sweat, you are my sworn enemy. I will do everything in my power to stop you. Sun, glorious orb in the South and now the North as well, you brighten up the tent so that we don't need headlamps anymore. Sun, you highlight the ice chunks on the horizon like a beacon and make navigation so easy. You warm up the tent so nice. You relax my muscles. You make breaks enjoyable for 10 minutes. You give me energy when you shine 24 hours straight. Sun, you dry my sleeping bag a little bit. And sun, you melt the icy, frosty bits from my facial hair..."
CO2 limits Steamboat Springs snowfall to barely over 33 feet this winterSteamboat Springs — Skiers and snowboarders here are carving up the last frosting this weekend on a season that has seen more than 400 inches of snow — just the seventh time that has happened at the Steamboat Ski Area since 1980.
Can Index-Linked Bonds Save the Carbon [Swindle] Market?The UK government claims it is serious about meeting its carbon emission targets, serious about moving to a low carbon economy. The UK government is likely to issue a large number of gilts over the next few years due to the credit crunch. By issuing carbon bonds linked to independent, auditable index metrics such as emission targets, the price of fossil fuel and the future carbon price, the UK government would remove private investors' objections that their biggest uncertainty is government commitment. Likewise, given that failure to perform will cost, government would have a real incentive to meet its emission targets.
So come on, UK government. Put your money where your mouth is and make a real commitment, issue index-linked gilts and remove the biggest risk stymieing low-carbon project developers, you.
A farmer’s view on carbon credits : Bravo, "farmer Steve"Let’s be honest, we feel compelled to take this money because of the need to be competitive, however we also need to hold true to our values and lead by example that means placing our principals ahead of money.
No good citizen is opposed to using the earth’s resources wisely, however, wisdom means a person who has both intelligence and humility. In my view many of the proponents of man made global warming have the first and lack the second. We are able to exercise our freedom in this country because we have abundant, reliable and affordable power. It is ironic that we sat in front of the flag in that fire hall and considered trading our liberty for money.
Letter: Stop global warming scam - Cyril Cernohous, town of Troy, River Falls JournalI want to commend Beata Kalies from the State Electric Coop Association for her stand on global warming now being called “climate change.”
Whatever you call it, it is a money-making scam started by Al Gore with the intention to make millions of dollars with carbon credits.
TerraPass Joins Business Council on Climate ChangeFighting climate change is our day job, but that doesn’t stop us from doing it in our free time too.
Step right up and buy your TerraPass carbon offsets, then sit back and watch the Earth's climate improve!4-person family annual carbon offset - $369.00
Driving, flying and home energy offsets for the average 4-person family
Moonbattery: Global Warming Looters' Bonanza"Victims" will be entitled to collect up to $1.5 million apiece. Since global warming is a fantasy, anything can be blamed on it. Too bad for lawyers they didn't think of looting the public treasury over the misdeeds of demons during the Middle Ages.
The "green jobs" we've been promised are likely to consist of mowing the expansive lawns of trial lawyers, who as parasites are among the few that actually benefit from moonbattery.
That's not a scam, it's a "growth opportunity": Mexico Plans Carbon Market for Pemex, Power, Cement Companies - Carbon Offsets Daily“We want companies to see climate change as a growth opportunity and a way to improve competitiveness,” Godinez Rosales said in an interview in Bonn, Germany, where he was attending United Nations climate treaty negotiations. “Cap-and- trade is in its design phase at the moment.”
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Warning Signs: A Dangerous New Global Warming LawSo, when House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman, Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat, and Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, conjure up an energy/climate bill designed to curb carbon dioxide emissions alleged to be causing “global warming”, they are perpetrating a massive fraud on Americans.
When that bill includes a provision that would permit anyone, absolutely anyone, to sue the government as victims of global warming and in anticipation of suffering as the result of global warming, Waxman-Markey have opened the door wide to a deluge of lawsuits that have no merit whatever in scientific fact or truth.
The SUV is dead — long live the SUV - Autos- msnbc.com“While the perception coming from the mainstream media is that there is a hatred of SUVs, the numbers don’t show that,” observed Rebecca Lindland, director of auto industry research for IHS Global Insight. “Consumers want a mixture of utility, fuel economy, safety and practicality.” [Via Heliogenic Climate Change]
SUNY Institute of Technology--Global warming education [propaganda] day April 910 a.m. Film: Global Warming: The Signs and the Science
Noon Film: Warnings from a Warming Planet
1 p.m. Presentation: Environmental Action Club panel discussion
2 p.m. Film: Predictions for a Warming Planet
4 p.m. Film: Six Degrees Could Change the World
Global warming will allegedly hit corn yields, costing the US over a billion dollars annually“Corn likes it cool, but global warming is raising temperatures across the nation,” said Environment America Global Warming Advocate Timothy Telleen-Lawton. “Hotter fields will mean lower yields for corn, and eventually, the rest of agriculture.”
HowStuffWorks "Growing Corn"Corn can be grown in any region, but the time it will take to mature depends on the amount of heat it gets. Corn doesn't really hit its stride until the weather warms up.
Lesson 1b: Corn Growing Degree and Applications(1) That 86o F is the highest temperature considered. Why 86o F? The crop has its ideal growth at 93 [degrees] F. Why not 93o F? Seldom do we have ideal conditions for aeration, for fertility, and for water availability to the crop. As the temperatures get higher, the crop's demand for water may become higher. At a higher demand for water, the crop may come under water stress. In the Midwest, on the average, water stress begins at about 86o F. So we do not consider 93o F optimum unless everything is perfect. We consider 86o F the optimum temperature for crop growth.
Michelle Malkin » Environmentally-friendly restaurant delivers pizza 800 miles for ‘green’ presidentIt’s good to know that a pizza place claims to be trying to meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations, because the people they’re delivering pizza to aren’t.
Now let’s all go plant some trees so the Obamas and their staff can enjoy the environmentally-friendly meal free from the carbon footprint guilt that a 1,600 mile round-trip pizza delivery might normally bring.
Dalton Minimum Returns: Sunspot impact on our climateStormx has some very interesting graphics on the impact sunspots, or the lack of sunspots, has on global temperatures.
California Hypocrisy - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineCalifornia supports environmental regulation, just not the kind that affect them personally. Like taking shorter showers or watering your lawn...
American Thinker Blog: Obama Science Chief: Shoot at Global Warming, not ICBMsIt would appear that in Holdren’s world, the wholly hypothetical dangers of melting sea-ice and inches of sea-level rise merit “last resort” response while all-too-real nuclear-armed ICBMs headed for America do not.
Madness, indeed.
Marc Morano Statement on NYT Profile: 'Mainstream media appears to be realizing that climate skepticism has gone mainstream!' | Climate DepotOverall, not a bad article by the New York Times reporter Leslie Kaufman. The fact that the NYT has done this profile of a skeptic in such a balanced way, simply reveals that [the] tide is turning. An article like this would not have been possible just two years ago. The mainstream media appears to be realizing that climate skepticism has gone mainstream!
The Times reports "Mr. Gore’s office said Mr. Gore had no memory of the encounter" with me in 2007 during a flight in which Gore rebuffed me. Yet, according to Joe Romm of Climate Progress, Gore appears to remember the incident after all.
Romm reports in an April 10 post: "I happened to be speaking to Gore today and he remarked on this Morano fable and said he just doesn’t remember it happening the way Morano describes."
Hmm. Gore tells NYT that he has "no memory of the encounter" yet Romm says Gore "doesn't remember it happening the way Morano describes."
Smug Vanity Fair green again | The Daily TelegraphAccording to cultural change observer David Chalke, our disinterest in enviro issues began accelerating even before the planet's financial systems went China Syndrome.
"Environmentalism has been in decline among the Australian public for the last five or six years," he reports. "The notion that we're all becoming more environmentally concerned is not true." The same shift is under way in the US, where sales of Toyota's once-fashionable hybrid Prius are in decline and journalists are becoming bored with end-of-the-world green stories.
In the first quarter of 2008, for example, US research firm TNS Media Intelligence recorded 3866 articles mentioning various green issues. By the last quarter, that number had fallen by 27 per cent to just 2811 articles.
When even journalists are edging away from green hysteria, the great climate war is nearing an end. Let's all go play cricket.
Climate Progess's Romm Bashes NYT For Writing About Morano | NewsBusters.orgJoe Romm's debate defeat tour hysterically continued Thursday when he went against his own decree forbidding further references to Marc Morano at his Climate Progress blog by eviscerating the New York Times for having the nerve to write about -- wait for it! -- Marc Morano.
Oh the humanity!
In a tirade that would most certainly make Tonya Harding proud, Romm scolded Times author Leslie Kaufman...
[Scammer/Scammee] Divide Still Stalls Climate Accord - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comYvo de Boer, the manager of climate talks for the United Nations, did his best to find good news, but the reality in the halls was very different.
Call for carbon tax to fight warming | theage.com.au"Unlike war-time approaches, where people have tangible evidence of life-threatening issues, climate change is insidious and slow to demonstrate its effects," Professor de Kretser said. "We have, therefore, been slow to take up the challenge."
Canada Post selects Image from Alaska Stock to [promote global warming scam] | About the ImageAlaska Stock Images, a specialty agency featuring photos from from Alaska and Antarctica, has announced that a polar bear image from its archive has been selected by Canada Post to be used as part of an international postal awareness campaign on the effects of global warming. The image of the lone polar bear swimming in melting sea ice in Bellot Strait near Resolute Bay, Alaska was created by Alaska Stock photographer Amanda Byrd. “I am truly honored that my image of the polar bear has been chosen to be part of Canada Post’s commitment of global warming awareness, and I am excited that this stamp will be viewed in some 30 other countries,” remarked Amanda.
MPR: Bachmann says Obama plan is an 'energy tax'While most of the several hundred audience members applauded Horner's and Bachmann's comments, several dozen college students came to the event to protest. Jared Smith, a student at St. John's University, said he was disappointed that only one side of the issue was presented. Smith said much of the information Horner presented was inaccurate.
"They pull out little snippets of time and when you're looking at geological times, you need to look at thousands, even millions, of years to show trends," Smith said. "He would look at 100 years and show 'This trend doesn't exist,' well you need to zoom out a little bit and look at things bigger."
Smith was also disappointed that Horner questioned the credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, which is considered the world's leading authority on climate change. The IPCC says there is overwhelming evidence that the Earth is warming due to human activity.
Using the climate scam to sell more Tupperware!THERE'S an unlikely new weapon in the campaign against climate change. The Tupperware party, where people gather to hear the virtues of the plastic food containers (and buy them), is being used to communicate a message about the environmental cost of wasting food.
Global Warming Is ‘No Longer An Abstraction,’ Warns Environmental ActivistNew Haven, Conn. — We may be too late to save the world from meltdown, but we have to try anyway, so said writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben to the audience that had gathered in Marquand Chapel to hear his lecture on global warming.
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A Methodist Sunday school teacher, with self-described "pulpit envy" McKibben put the matter in biblical terms, referring to the book of Job "as the first great piece of nature writing"
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McKibben, who has written widely about the perils facing the planet, then described the dire situation in stark terms: After spending many years and research dollars trying to "bring down" the theory of global warming, he said, scientists "woke up to the truth" in the late 1990s when the polar ice caps proved to be melting much faster than they had predicted.
Get real about global warming - The ReporterThere are many things that President Barack Obama is doing now that upset me greatly, but I wish to address the issue of "man-made global warming" and his stated intentions to take actions that will supposedly ameliorate the situation through carbon off-sets, re-tooling the automobile industry to produce cars that no one will want to buy (all in the name of fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions), so-called "smart electrical grids," and whatever else he and his misguided advisers are dreaming up. These and other such measures will further cripple the American economy and put our country in grave danger.
Man-made global warming is a gigantic hoax, and the president knows it. Since he is not an ignorant man, I must assume that he has chosen to embrace this global warming hoax on purpose. Which begs the question: To what purpose?
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WORLD Magazine | Weather vain? | Mark Bergin | Apr 25, 09Geddes of FREE says the geoengineering debate carries the potential of separating out such environmental extremists from those solely interested in avoiding climate-change harms: "Let's say we came up with a way to scrub carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere that works and is cheap. That would mean we could go on emitting carbon. The environmentalists' reaction, I think, would be, 'No, that's unacceptable, because what we really have to be doing is reducing our fossil fuels and use of energy.' That's just ridiculous. People would lose all sorts of faith in environmentalism."
Indeed, if geoengineering can produce plausible and tested ideas for cooling climate in the coming years, politicians still bent on capping emission alone may face a similar credibility crisis.
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MONCKTON: The private sector is imploding under the waste and cost of regulatory intrusiveness of government. Climate change, if you believe in it, on any view is not going to cause economic recovery. If it's all true, then it's going to be terrible and we're going to get storms and plagues of locusts and boils and pustules and all the other 10 plagues of Egypt.
There is a sort of apocalypticism on the left in politics worldwide at the moment, where they like to say, like some sort of itinerant preacher of old, oh it's all going to be terrible, fire and brimstone raining down upon you. Um, it isn't.
Newsmax.com - Global Warming Alarmists Off the MarkA recent publication by Collegians for a Conservative Tomorrow (CFACT) compares warm and cold periods of the past:
"If we look at the historic record — let's say the last 3,000 years — we see that people really suffered during the cold periods. During the ‘Little Ice Age,’ from around 1400 to 1850, things were really cold in Europe. Harvests failed. Food became scarce. People starved. There was much disease.
"Before that, however, we had a 'medieval warm period' around 1100 A.D. Temperatures then were at least as hot as they are now, maybe hotter. During this time the Vikings were able to discover and settle Greenland (they actually grew crops in Greenland). Life was good in Europe. Cathedrals were built. Wars and violence decreased. People prospered. There was plenty of food, even a surplus."
Residents rank climate change concernsThe NEP chose Punta Gorda because the city has been progressive in planning for climate change, said Jim Beever, a planner for the Southwest Regional Planning Council, who is working on the report.
Water supply is particularly vulnerable, he said. That's because, as the planet warms, the weather will experience more extremes.
"There'll be hotter hots, colder colds, drier dries and wetter wets," he said.
Projections for sea level rise by 2050 range from 5 inches to 16 inches, he said.
"The one thing that's clear is that the projections are highly variable," Beever quipped.
YouTube - First Lady: White House Garden Will Feed "Many"
First lady Michelle Obama planted the first fruit and vegetable seedlings in the new White House garden Thursday, assisted by a group of eager fifth-graders who tend to a similar garden at their school. (April 9)
Feeding the multitude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe canonical Gospels all report that, upon investigating the provisions of the crowd, the disciples were only able to find 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, and the Gospel of John adds that these came from a single boy in the crowd. The Gospels state that Jesus blessed the food, broke it, and gave it to the disciples, who distributed it to the people present - 5000 not counting women and children - all of them being fed.
Waxman-Markey litigation shell game | GlobalWarming.org...maybe they knew all along that Mass v. EPA created a Pandora’s Box, pretending otherwise gave them another stick to beat Bush with, but now that Obama is in the hot seat, they have to sober up and avoid a politically-damaging regulatory debacle.
OpEdNews » NY Times Climate Change Article: Careless or Deceptive?The article, "Dissenter on Climate Change Takes Fight to the Web" is careless at best and willfully deceptive at worst for several reasons. First, it keeps open the possibility that its star, a wacko-conservative named Marc Morano (who believes climate change is a myth), actually has a legitimate point. Second it frames his supporters as people like you and I.
Obama's energy policies just nonsense | NewsChief.com | News Chief | Winter Haven, FLBecause Democrats abandoned a plan to use a Senate squelch-the-minority maneuver to pass a disastrous cap-and-trade carbon tax, the idea may be done for this year. But don't give thanks too quickly.
It's far from dead and buried and other disastrous energy policies are being readied for public infliction. Before the Obama administration and its congressional allies are done, we could be reeling from one of the most extraordinary spectacles in American political history - a wholly misguided war against our own self-interests as a people.
globeandmail.com: Blue Dog Democrats growling at climate-change planAll of this bodes ill for the fortunes of draft climate-change legislation drawn up by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey. The 600-page bill would impose a cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing emissions 20 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020.
As it now stands, its chances of making it through the House, let alone getting the Senate to pass matching legislation, are not encouraging.
Let Freedom Ring » Blog Archive » Correcting Mr. SchumacherProfessor Weisman’s quote explicitly says that Cap and Trade isn’t about the saving the planet. It isn’t a stretch to say Cap and Trade is about increasing taxes.
Let Freedom Ring » Blog Archive » Cap & Trade NotesYesterday’s Cap and Trade event on the SCSU campus had a huge attendance, with both sides of the issue well-represented. Chris Horner made a number of statements that elicited jeers from those that think MMGW is a serious threat to our planet.
Climate on THE ENVIRONMENTALIST: Unsung Heroes of Sustainability: The Melty Awardso, I invite others to broaden this pool of nominees with the unsung heroes of their acquaintance. Let’s pat them on the back. Let’s give them some cash. Let’s present them with small ice sculptures that melt at current atmospheric temperatures and call them the “Melty Awards”. However we do it, let’s make sure the unsung heroes know we’re grateful for the incredible work they do.
Deepest Solar Minimum in Nearly a Century: Goodbye Global Warming | LaRouchePACApril 9, 2009 (LPAC) – A continued low in solar activity, as measured by the appearance of irregularities on the Sun’s surface known as sunspots, may be responsible for the recent phase of cooling experienced in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. In the opinion of many specialists, the downturn in solar activity likely marks the beginning of a prolonged cooling period.
The expected cooling will produce many hardships for a human population already stressed by a prolonged downturn in global physical economic productive capability. But the bright side may be that such bloated windbags as Al Gore and his leaner companion James Hansen, who have led His Royal Consort Prince Philip’s genocidal global warming promotion, will finally be silenced.
I Have a Dream — Please Report It | GlobalWarming.orgWatch this CNN news report about a ranch somewhere in Florida that reporter Grant Boxleitner touts as “a future city of 49,000″ — as though they had contractual agreements with that many people to show up (and/or procreate to that number) — to be entirely powered by solar energy. You’ll quickly see it’s just more “green” propaganda: a very nice computer mock-up of what the city would look like; Florida Power & Light saying they’ll build a $300-million dollar, 75-megawatt power plant on a 400-acre sod farm to power the city; and FP&L saying the plant will cost customers about 31 cents per month(?!).
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Arctic team: 'London, we have a problem'After enduring ferocious weather, it has emerged that British explorers studying the Arctic are struggling with a series of technical problems.
A portable radar device, known as Sprite, designed to make millions of measurements of the ice thickness, has been dogged by breakdowns and uncertainties.
Another instrument, SeaCat, meant to measure the temperature and salinity of the water beneath the ice-cap, has malfunctioned as well.
Catlin Arctic Survey website recycles biotelemetry data? « Watts Up With That?UPDATES WE HAVE UPDATES: 8 updates to this story have been posted - see below the “read the rest of this entry” line. It appears most if not all of the technology in the expedition has failed early on and the Catlin website never made any mention of this fact until a BBC article appeared today.
American Thinker Blog: The Gore Effect: Catlin Arctic Expedition Hampered by ColdThe Catlin Expedition, which is trekking to the North Pole to highlight effects of global warming on Arctic sea ice, has had equipment malfunctions due to extremely cold weather.
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What is not surprising is that the Catlin group withheld information about the equipment malfunction story. The Global Warming lobby does not like to highlight information that does not fit the story line.
taxmanblog: Branch Gorevidians get frozen in....Another day, another dose of the Gore Effect.....
Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com“My vision has always been for Oregonians to be able to drive from Astoria to Ontario and from Portland to Ashland emission free,” Mr. Kulongoski said. “Families could be making that drive in an emission-free vehicle manufactured in Oregon by Oregonians.”
Some countries allegedly not getting enough climate scam moneyFour former chairs of the least developed countries group said 48 of these countries, identified as particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change, would need at least $2 billion over the next five years from the LDCF to help them implement their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA).
In the eight years since the LDCF's inception in 2001, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), which manages the fund, has been able to raise $172 million. GEF said its target in the next four years was to reach $500 million, the amount the UNFCCC estimates it will take to finance NAPA implementation, but which most experts say is too low.
Twitter / David SimmerSo you wanna hold a public global-warming-denial get-together? At least call it what it is. Labeling it a "forum" is disgusting / dishonest.
August '08: I personally attended one of these alarmist "forums"; there were no climate realist speakers Dr. James Hansen and Will Steger headline education forums at the Science Museum of Minnesota
ST. PAUL – NASA Scientist Dr. James Hansen has teamed up with the Science Museum of Minnesota, Will Steger Foundation, Aveda, Fresh Energy, 1Sky, and a panel of experts to educate key individuals on solutions to global warming.
Henry Waxman's Climate [Scam] Bill Imposes Environmental Regulations on the Entire Economy - WSJ.comHenry Waxman Has a Plan… for your living room, showerhead, jacuzzi…
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On that score, as early as next week the EPA will classify carbon as a dangerous pollutant under current clear-air laws, prompting a separate avalanche of new regulations. Mr. Waxman must be jealous, considering that the EPA staff wants to regulate -- among literally everything that produces CO2 -- "lawn and garden equipment" and "enteric fermentation" in livestock, otherwise known as flatulence.
The Obama Administration claims it is flirting with this "endangerment finding" and the economic havoc it would wreak only to force Congress into falling in line with its climate agenda. But if Democrats ever do get around to passing an anticarbon bill, Waxman-Markey is the going favorite, and so Americans should begin to understand the micromanagement over their daily lives that Congress has in store. All you have to do is read Mr. Waxman's plan.
Breaking: Alarmists not unified!Tom Friedman has been doing great work on green issues for a while now, certainly given them a higher profile than any mere green blogger could. So I guess he’s owed some latitude. But his recent column is just an outright nuclear disaster: head-slappingly wrong on the merits, politically naive and tone deaf, and timed so poorly as to be malicious. Just about every single sentence is a train wreck.
Beware utilities seeking free pollution permits | GristWhat’s most disturbing about the utilities’ campaign isn’t that they’re waging it—that’s what you’d expect them to do—but that the opposition has been so feeble. Barack Obama during the presidential campaign came out for auctioning 100% of pollution permits, and recently his budget director, Peter Orszag, declared, “If you don’t auction the permits it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States.” Obama’s budget calls for auctioning 100% of permits and returning most of the revenue to consumers through tax credits. But now the White House seems to be waffling on auctions, and the silence on Capitol Hill has been stunning.
So we may be heading for yet another giveaway of public wealth to private corporations—first banks, then auto companies, now utilities. The irony is that utilities aren’t failing and won’t be hurt by a carbon cap with auctions—they’ll surely pass permit costs through to customers. What we’re seeing here is simply a well-organized interest group trying to draw cash from the public till, and almost no one in Washington minding the store.
State Proposals to Raise Gas Taxes Sputter - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comOne by one, the state-level proposals to boost the gas tax — which I wrote about in January — are, well, running out of gas.
Only 27% See the U.N. As America's AllyJust 27% of U.S. voters regard the United Nations as an ally of the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Seventeen percent (17%) say the U.N. is an enemy of the United States, and 49% see it as somewhere in between an ally and an enemy.
Should we spend 7 million work-years on something that has no environmental benefit?Along with the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the unions recently released a study showing that using advanced clean coal technologies that capture and safely store carbon dioxide will create millions of high-skilled, high-wage jobs for U.S. workers. Using this “clean coal” technology will reduce carbon dioxide emissions, generate $1 trillion of economic output and create up to 7 million work-years of employment, according to the study.
BP Looks Outside for Solar Cells in Bid to Drive Down Its Costs - WSJ.comIn a bid to drive down costs, BP Solar, a subsidiary of oil giant BP PLC, says it will increasingly rely on third-party suppliers to build solar cells and modules.
The decision last month to close a manufacturing facility outside Madrid and partially close another near Baltimore was "designed to get us out of manufacturing that is not competitive," says Rayed Fezzani, chief executive of BP Solar.
Now banned on campus: bottled water | CEIThere is a new “sin” industry on college campuses. It’s not beer, fast food or tobacco. It’s water! Universities around the nation have begun to deny students the option to drink bottled water, removing it from vending machines and campus stores.
Why? They are following the advice of environmental activist groups that say students should “drink responsibly” — which to them means tap water. Drinking bottled water is supposedly wasteful because you get basically the same thing from a tap. Yet their claims don’t hold water, and surely don’t warrant this silly prohibition.
Romm's unhappy again: "In a stunning journalistic lapse, the NY Times gives credulous coverage to Swift Boat smearer Marc Morano, the Jayson Blair of global warming"Apparently the NYT felt a Magazine cover story pushing the pseudoscience of Freeman Dyson was not enough free publicity for the dwindling minority desperately trying to persuade humanity not to act in time to save itself from catastrophic climate impacts.
Was 2007 Arctic ice really a historic minimum? « Watts Up With That?Looking at timelines of arctic exploration, we find that virtually nobody went there during the 30s and early 40s, despite that correlating with the warmest temperatures on record (great Depression, WW II, go figure). Attached is an account of an arctic naval expedition (Operation Nanook) that took place the summer of 1946, just after WWII. Vinther, et al (1) reports the merged JJA monthly temps were in the 7.3 to 7.4 deg C range in Greenland between 1931 and 1950. In the 1990s, it was a full degree C lower. The “norm” for Thule in JJA runs somewhere around 4 - 5 deg C (1961 to current data).
Residual Forces » Blog Archive » Bachmann Cap & Trade Townhall At SCSU - VideoHere’s the video of the Q&A with Chris Horner from Congresswoman Bachmann’s SCSU Cap & Trade - Climate Change Townhall today. My liveblog/post can be found here.
Investor's Business Daily -- Put Cap-And-Trade In The Trunk, Where It Can't Cause Any TroubleThat being the case, it's important to ask: Where will the needed reductions come from?
If the White House and Congress are unable to provide a clear and convincing answer, the policy simply is not ready to pass.
The current economic pain that we are experiencing and the good intentions that contributed to it should be a lesson to tread more carefully and — every so often — to take a good look under the hood.
Planet saved. Greens get coffee | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogGreen blogger Graham Readfearn solves the ghastly dilemma that keeps fashionable greens awake at night - how to have your barrista serve you a takeaway coffee without killing the planet stone dead.
US to ‘facilitate’ Indian technology proposal in climate [scam] deal | Newspost OnlineBonn, April 10 (IANS) The United States is “very interested” in an Indian proposal to create a global network of climate technology centres and thinks it deserves to make it to a UN climate change agreement scheduled for later this year.
She ScribesThe Green Crusaders consist of three super heroes. They are Recycle Mycle, Hydro Hannah and Kilowatt Karlos. They even have a side kick dog name Plastic Mastiff.
The Green Crusaders were given their special powers by Mother Nature after natural disasters fueled by global warming destroyed their homes. Mother Nature gave them their special powers to help educate others to live "Green" to help save our planet.
Climate [Realism] from the Right | FUTURISM NOWBecause the science in the presentation was nearly entirely wrong or misrepresented, and everything Chris Horner said about global warming was wrong, the event was 100% political. Bachmann got her points from the GOP and so did Horner. There were no useful facts of any type presented at this event. Zero. I wonder how many other events are being held around the country this week and next that are similar to this disgraceful display that the people of St. Cloud Minnesota heard and saw today.
We left without learning anything other than how getting any climate legislation passed this year is going to be very difficult up against an aggressive misinformation campaign with a complete bastardization of the science of climate change and direct attacks on everyone presenting real science on this issue, including scientists, politicians and environmental groups.
The audience attending this event gave both Bachmann and Horner a standing ovation, and cheered more than once. It is going to be very tough to change these peoples minds. They have been so filled with misinformation that there might not be a way to change what they already think. I could tell from the reactions of the crowd — sneers, boos, laughter, etc., that many of these people had their minds well made up on global warming before they attended this propaganda presentation.
Bachmann's forum on energy emissions draws cheers, jeersAfterward, Alfred Pekarek, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at St. Cloud State and global warming skeptic who moderated the event, said he thought the event helped energize people over "what government is trying to do to us."
Some students disappointed in forum | sctimes.com | St. Cloud TimesMaddy Dragich, a sophomore peace studies major at St. Ben’s, said she was worried people would listen to Horner without thinking critically.
“His main point is we’re not responsible for climate change, that it’s a natural process, and I don’t agree with that,” she said. “Because so many of our actions are influencing the climate more than we realize every single day, whether it’s driving a car or whatever.”
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