Twitter / Elizabeth F Quilter

Is it harder to be against global warming on gorgeous, sunny days in April when the temperature is 20 degrees over normal? uh...yep

Twitter / Box of Gifts

people keep talking about climate change like its a disease but this has been happening for millions of years it is part of a natural cycle

AdelaideNow... Professor Ian Plimer's climate change book sparks debate

[Plimer] "What I've done is I've written this book as a compendium of the science so that the average punter can read it and validate the intuitive gut feelings that they've had because the punters out there are not stupid, they know when they've been fed rubbish."

Journalist Christopher Pearson from The Australian said he was honoured to serve as the master of ceremonies at the launch.

He says Dr Plimer has given sceptics a "campaign document" that contains all the ammunition they could want, packed into 493 eloquent pages.

"Heartened by it, perhaps some timid politicians in both main parties will at last feel at liberty to own up to their private reservations about warmist catastrophe," he says.

Michael Franti: Time for Passion and [Stupidity] on Climate Change

One of the most important issues of our time surely has to be climate change. In case you haven't noticed wherever you are in the world, the weather is changing. In some places, summers are hotter and longer. In other places winters are longer and colder.

Op-Ed Contributors - Obama’s Power Plays - NYTimes.com

Third and most important, President Obama can slash emissions from power plants and cars. For power plants, this will mean demanding more efficiency and, in many places, switching from coal to natural gas. The Clean Air Act authorizes the president to order that the 100 new coal-fired power plants on the drawing board be built to operate with cleaner natural gas. He can also order existing coal plants to switch to high-efficiency natural gas technology — and thus cut their emissions by as much as two-thirds. As for cars, the administration can stand up to automakers by following California’s example and requiring a 30 percent reduction in tailpipe emissions by 2016.

By taking these steps as soon as possible, President Obama can show the largest polluters — the auto industry and utility companies — that he is serious, and let scientists and engineers know that their work is urgent. Why wait for Congress?

Daniel F. Becker is the director of the safe climate campaign of the Center for Auto Safety. James Gerstenzang is a former reporter for The Los Angeles Times.

Examining SORCE data shows the Sun continues its slide toward somnolence « Watts Up With That?

If cycle 24 has started, there are no signs of it in these data.

Fear of the truth - Blogger News Network

The strategy of censorship is contemptible enough in the universities but it even extends to Congress itself. With the Democrats in charge there now, great efforts are made to see that speeches against Global Warmism are not made or not heard. Warmism is a huge opportunity to shackle the country with a myriad of new and impoverishing rules and regulations so the Democrat leadership just love Warmism and don’t want people to know the full facts about climate.

And they showed that vividly very recently. Last Friday there was a Congressional hearing on global warming scheduled for the House Energy and Commerce committee. The Democrats had invited a “special guest” to appear so the GOP did the same. The Donk guest was Al Gore and the GOP invited Britain’s Lord Monckton, an extremely knowledgeable man about climate, right down to the tiniest scientific details. He would of course have wiped the floor with Big Al. He would be able to follow up each and every one of Gore’s misrepresentations with the actual scientific facts. So what did the Donks do? They refused to let Monckton appear. They were afraid of the facts that he would put before them. The truth is poison to them.

New Zeal: "Air Con" Hits Shops Tomorrow

Ian Wishart's new book on the "Climate Change" scam hits NZ bookshops tomorrow.
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The book will also be available overseas. Track it down. Buy it. Read it. Promote it. Get googling.

Fallout from Declaring CO2 a Pollutant | / | Editorial

Support for higher exhalation taxes and/or more stringent cap-and-trade limitations is indicated by the reported brisk sale of bumper stickers urging "polluters" to stop exhaling altogether. The stickers say, "Stop Exhaling, You God-Damned Polluting Bastards." It is unclear whether the drivers of the vehicles which carry the stickers count themselves as polluters too.

In contrast to the extremist position expressed in such bumper stickers, key Obama Administration officials and Congressional leaders are reportedly prepared to guarantee that "no American will ever be allowed to be in a position in which he cannot afford to pay for all of his reasonably necessary exhalations." The Federal Government, they say, will provide whatever financial subsidies as may be necessary to assure everyone's right to exhale on terms that he can afford.

Bring it on: CO2-fearing Tom Friedman fantasizes about a completely ridiculous Obama speech

“My proposal is that today we fix a durable price on carbon-based fossil fuels, but set it to begin only in 2011, after we’re out of this recession. Every home builder, air-conditioning manufacturer, gasoline refiner, carmaker will know that it’s coming and will, I believe, immediately look for ways to profit from and invest in more energy efficient systems. Yes, the cost of gasoline or kilowatt hours will rise in the short term. But in the long term, your actual bills and expenses will go down because your car, appliances and factory will become steadily more productive and give you more power for less energy.

“I call it the ‘Carbon Tax Cut.’ You won’t receive the dividend in the first week or month, but you will get it soon, and it will be a permanent tax cut, a gift that will keep on giving.

“So those are our choices, folks — an escalating ‘More Tax’ forever, premised on immediate gratification and short-term thinking, or a ‘Carbon Tax Cut’ forever, which is exactly what you’ll get from establishing a carbon price signal that shapes the market in favor of American interests and not those of our adversaries and competitors. If you’re with me, write your member of Congress and senator today.”

Rug up, the cold change is here | Australia

PUT away the sunblock. The first icy blast of cold weather for the year arrives today, heralding the coming winter months.

Today's maximum will be about 14 degrees — six degrees below average for April — while a dump of 20 or 30 millimetres of rain will wet the parched state.

Lord Stern, 'Scaremonger in chief', exposed by simple blunders - Telegraph

Unsurprisingly, there is no one for whom Lord Stern has more contempt than those he calls the "deniers" of man-made global warming. He told The Daily Telegraph last week that they "look more and more like those who denied the association between HIV and Aids, or smoking and cancer". In his book, he criticises the media for giving any space at all to such people, when "the balance of logic and evidence is 99 per cent or more to one".

But for a man whose whole case rests on the damage supposedly being done to the planet by carbon dioxide, it was somewhat disconcerting to see him quoted as saying that CO2 levels [but maybe he's talking CO2-equivalent?] in the atmosphere have now reached "430 parts per million [ppm]". He said exactly the same last year in an interview with Prospect. The actual level is 388.97 ppm. It may seem a tiny point, but one might have expected "the world's leading expert on climate change" to have a rather surer grasp of a fact so central to his case.

Similarly, one would not expect a man whose institute is claimed to be "a world-leader in low carbon technologies" to claim, as he does in his book, that by next year wind energy "is set to account for 8 per cent of electricity generation in the UK", when the current figure is scarcely 1 per cent; or that "wind accounted for 35 per cent of total installed power capacity in the US in 2007", when two minutes on the internet could have shown him that wind power that year generated less electricity in the US than a single large coal-fired power station.

Children's books [promote greatest scientific fraud of all time]

Global warming is cogently explored in Mission Planet Earth: Our World and Its Climate - And How Humans Are Changing Them, by Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy (Roaring Brook; 80 pages; $19.95; ages 9-14). Astronaut Ride establishes a sense of wonder right off with her observations from orbit. "When I looked toward the horizon," she writes, "I could see a thin, fuzzy blue line outlining the planet. ... It was Earth's atmosphere. It looked so thin and so fragile, like a strong gust of interplanetary wind could blow it all away."

Ride and O'Shaughnessy take up how recent disruptions in the Earth's oxygen and carbon cycles threaten that thin and fragile atmosphere and the whole of life on Earth. Human activity is the likely cause. Packed with information and ideas, the science writing is highly readable and mostly clear. (Ditto for the polished visuals.)

Obama wants to make America more like Europe - Times Online

Top of the president’s change list is the way we consume energy. He believes our use of carbon-based fuels is causing the globe to heat up, with all the dire consequences conjured up by Al Gore as he sits in the library of his home, probably the largest single consumer of energy of any private residence in America. By one means or another, the president will make the use of oil, natural gas and especially coal so expensive that consumers will be forced to use less energy, and rely more for the energy we do use on costly wind and solar power, paid for with tax-funded subsidies or higher utility bills.

Also, the day of spacious, safe cars is to end, with the exception of the limousines favoured by congressional leaders and White House appointees. Given the financial dependence of GM and Chrysler on government handouts, and regulations setting fuel-efficiency standards, these companies will be forced to produce and attempt to sell the small, preferably battery-powered vehicles beloved of environmentalists and congressmen from urban areas who rarely take to the open road. This will encourage more Americans to migrate to public transport because fewer will want to endure cramped, no-longer comfortable car rides to and from work.

Twitter / Auke Aukema

climate change due to increased sun activity ; more than CO2 in the atmosphere; but you cannot tax the sun, so ...

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Divide by three

To understand what will probably happen to Earth's climate over the next century, you only need to look at the estimates of global warming alarmists and divide by three. Shh. Don't tell them or they will just multiply their current figures to compensate.

Radanovich Vocal In Opposition Of Climate Change Bill- MyMotherLode.com

Washington, DC -- Former Vice President Al Gore spoke before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Friday about a proposed climate change bill, and 19th District Congressman George Radanovich proved to be one of the most vocal critics.

“Current debate over global warming and ‘cap and trade’ is another result of environmental alarmism,” Radanovich told the Committee. “You’re setting up a scheme, frankly, that’s causing us to leave fossil fuels for an identified replacement.”

He says Gore’s claim that the U.S. can immediately transition to wind and solar power, spur the economy and reduce dependence on foreign oil is, “The biggest fraud that is being perpetrated in this country right now.”

Radanovich told his fellow House members that it is “disingenuous” to think that technology is currently available to make a transition in a responsible manner.

Murky View » Blog Archive » Hey BC NDP’ers: Al Gore wants Cap and Trade…. plus Carbon Tax

To this, Al Gore said… a Carbon Tax is a tax, and Cap and Trade is expensive, but he actually supports HAVING BOTH… first the Cap and Trade, to encourage a global market and get more countries into the system… and then a revenue neutral Carbon Tax to further encourage reductions.

Debunking "myths" about the B.C. carbon tax

Climate “skeptics” — people who doubt, despite the mounds of evidence, that climate change is a problem worth addressing — are less prevalent today, but they been replaced by purveyors of a new myth: people who tell voters that we can solve the climate change problem without the need for any change in how we live our lives.

The simple but elusive truth is, of course, that climate change is our collective responsibility, and we all have to find ways to transform the energy systems on our planet and to change the way we live. There is no solution to climate change that does not involve changes in consumption and production patterns.
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John Robinson is a Professor in the UBC Institute of Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, and was a lead author of the last three reports of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. Shi-Ling Hsu and David Duff are Associate Professors in the UBC Faculty of Law. Nancy Olewiler is Director and Professor of the Public Policy Program at Simon Fraser University.

GOP senators stall McCarthy's confirmation to EPA post - The Connecticut Post Online

Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso voted against her confirmation at the committee meeting and complained that she had not fully answered his questions over the impact of an administration proposal to label carbon dioxide and five other gases as public health threats because they contribute to global warming.

Gore and Gingrich Debate Cap and Trade - Associated Content

Chairman Henry Waxman accused Gingrich of trying to scare people. But then, cap and trade is pretty scary, as Congressman John Dingall, a Democrat, suggested. Dingall not only agreed that cap and trade is a big tax on energy, but would not work without the participation of other countries, such as China.

Cap and trade would also the kind of tax that Democrats pretend to oppose, one that takes from the working class and gives to the wealthy. According to a recent article in US News:

"The cap-and-trade system being touted on Capitol Hill would create a multibillion-dollar playground that would, once again, create a group of wealthy traders benefiting at the expense of millions of average families—middle to low-income households that would end up paying more for food, energy, and almost everything else they buy."
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Ironically cap and trade looks like it is a solution in search of a problem. The Earth has actually been undergoing a cooling trend since 1998. Cap and trade looks like an economically disastrous policy that would cause corruption in order to not fix a problem that really doesn't exist anyway. Pretty good for government work.

Alarmist Begley seems to approve: How Green Activists Work the System | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com

...As CEO Thomas Falk began a speech to an executive-education program at his alma mater, the Wisconsin School of Business, two Greenpeace activists switched his PowerPoint for theirs. Instead of a primer on Kimberly-Clark's success, the audience saw photos of the Canadian boreal forests that supply the company's wood, with before (lush trees) and after (a clear-cut moonscape) shots followed by a smiling Falk declaring, "It's all business as usual." After panicked organizers ordered everyone out ("There are activists in the building!"), the attendees trooped into a cafeteria where Greenpeace had placed menus for such delicacies as "songbird stir-fry," noting that half the songbird species in North America migrate to the boreal forests that supply Kimberly-Clark. (A company spokesman notes that although it purchases wood fiber from boreal forests, its suppliers are certified by groups that require sustainable practices.) "It's a little like 'Animal House,' but in grad school," says Scott Paul, who directs Greenpeace's Forest Campaign.

The Greenpeace the public doesn't know operates somewhat differently...
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Greenpeace can't say for sure that the possibility of smokestack climbing (and worse) makes companies more willing to cave to the group's demands, but "what we hear over and over again, especially after a few drinks, is company people telling us, 'We wouldn't be talking to you if we weren't scared of you'," says Greenpeace research director Kert Davies. Even if the threat is merely implicit, pairing hard-core activism with opportunistic cooperation may be exactly what the environmental community needs right now. The world has been backsliding on climate change for decades...

Imperial Valley News - Governor Schwarzenegger Discusses Earth Day 2009 in Weekly Radio Address

[Schwarzenegger] Did you know that air-drying your clothes for 6 months saves 700 pounds of carbon dioxide? [Saving you the expense of offsetting the emissions via about a buck in bogus carbon offsets?]

Taipei: Trust Nick's Stern's judgment?

Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, has said that global warming is not a natural occurrence: It is a man-made disaster and the most serious and urgent challenge humanity faces.

If we continue to let the government turn farmland that people rely on for their livelihoods into concrete deserts to develop high carbon-emission industries, if we continue to remain silent as the government allows power plants to expand their facilities year after year based on inflated power usage statistics, and if we continue to accept excessive logging and over-reliance on petrochemical products, Taiwan will not escape censure and international sanctions for its high pollution and carbon emissions, just as it will not escape the consequences of global warming.

Waxman Week-Long Cap-and-Trade Carnival Comes to an End

WASHINGTON – Institute for Energy Research (IER) president Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement today as the Waxman cap-and-trade parade reached its final turn today, wrapping up the proceedings with testimony from former vice president Al Gore and former House speaker Newt Gingrich:

“The rest of the U.S. House may have today off, but the coordinated campaign to restrict, ration and raise the price of affordable energy observes no vacation. Today we’ll see the full pageantry of that effort on display, culminating in the testimony of Vice President Gore and former Sen. John Warner, co-author of a bill last year that, by some estimates, would’ve bled $5 trillion from the American economy, and imposed a tax of more than $6,700 each year on every American family..."

first annual 'Save the Frogs' day

...pesticides and global warming weaken frogs' immune systems, making them more susceptible to infectious diseases.

If you think that Gore is cashing in on a scam, does it follow that ALL of us can get wealthy by cashing in on the scam?

Here's what I would have said to that whore masquerading as a public servant:

"You're asking me if I stand to make money from changing public policy regarding global warming?

"That's interesting, because it infers that I am greedy. That I have other than the purest of intentions. And more importantly, it infers that there's money to be made from this issue.

Antarctica’s Bipolar Disorder « Watts Up With That?

Since nearly the entire continent is both cooling and heating simultaneously, it makes perfect sense (using AGW logic) that the ice would be rapidly expanding and rapidly retreating simultaneously. In 2004, NASA thought that Antarctica was cooling by as much as 15 degrees C per century. But after three more years of cooling, they changed the map to show a warming trend in 2007.
The hot red warming trend seen in the second map has a stated uncertainty of “between 2-3 degrees Celsius” which means that it might actually represent a rapid cooling trend, rather than a warming trend. Vostok is averaging -96F this week. Does that make anyone think of hot, red colors?

ecoEnquirer: Antarctic Ice Increasing AND Decreasing - Parody by Dr. John Christy

Seemingly contradictory research results, such as recent reports of both decreasing and increasing Antarctic ice, can be explained with a new metaphysical theory.

What’s your interest in this, Mr Gore? | As usual, see the post for links

At last green tycoon Al Gore gets asked the question so often asked of much poorer sceptics rather than the rich carpetbaggers of global warming. But of course it’s not asked by a journalist, heaven forbid. Yet wouldn’t you think people should know Gore is a partner in a company that has invested $1 billion of clients’ money in 40 companies set to benefit from the global warming policies he’s urging on the US?

Some background on how Gore has grown rich on climate alarmism here.

Earth Week Juggle Tips: Living a “Greener” Life - The Juggle - WSJ

In recent years, my family has been trying to live a bit greener, but I can’t say we’ve made much of a concerted effort. Like many people, unfortunately, we really only go green when it’s convenient or affordable for us.

Dobbs Mocks Gore for Likening Global Warming Alarmism to Civil Rights Legislation of the 1960s | NewsBusters.org

..."The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face," Monckton told the online magazine Climate Depot," CNN correspondent Lisa Sylvester said.

And as Climate Depot's Marc Morano explained - most Gore's doom-and-gloom forecasts are to occur in the distant future.

"If you look at Gore's testimony today, he was talking about what could, might and may happen 50 to 100 years from now," Morano said to CNN. "He was not talking about reality."

Prometheus » Blog Archive » President Obama to Address National Academy of Sciences

As part of its annual meeting, President Obama will address the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, April 27.

Climate or Potholes? | GlobalWarming.org

In North Carolina legislators and environmental regulators have redirected gas tax revenues from road maintenance and repair to politically-motivated efforts such as propping up The Climate Registry and Attorney General Roy Cooper’s case against the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Gore urges lawmakers to act on global warming despite questions - Digital Journal: Your News Network

The planet has been in a state of warming that began roughly 18,000 years ago, long before the advent of the combustible engine. Gore's more cerebral critics have asked him to address this scientific reality to no avail.

Gore, Gingrich Clash Over Climate Bill in Rematch (Update3) - Bloomberg.com

Republican Gingrich said the proposal to establish a cap-and- trade system of pollution credits was an example of “environmental extremism.”
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Gingrich said the legislation was “wrong” for the U.S. economy and national security.

Gingrich, who has appeared in a commercial with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, on narrowing the political divide over climate change, called the emission- reduction target in the bill “a fantasy.”

The former speaker said Gore made some “startling” and “misleading” assertions about the effects of climate change.

“There is a sufficient debate over facts that would be very useful to have,” Gingrich said. “There is no evidence that we need to rush to a massive energy tax.”

Anorak News » Blog Archive » Obama Declares War On Air

OBAMA declares war on air. First they came for the carbon dioxide:

The US Environmental Protection Agency has shifted course and deemed carbon dioxide a health risk, in a turnabout important to global warming-related regulation.

We need to wipe our carbon dioxide.

“After a thorough scientific review ordered in 2007 by the US Supreme Court, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed finding … that greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare,” an EPA statement posted on the agency website said.

It’s Obama’s first war.

Ridiculous BS:  Small warming would make it too warm for corn in Wisconsin?!

A new report says global warming could impact Wisconsin's corn crop, to the tune of some $41 million a year. The report, Hotter Fields, Lower Yields, examined the impact rising temperatures will have on the nation's number one crop. Dan Kohler with Wisconsin Environment says corn, America's largest crop, is particularly vulnerable to productivity losses from higher temperatures.

"Corn likes it cool, but global warming is raising temperatures in Wisconsin and across the nation," said Kohler. "Global warming is raising temperatures in Wisconsin and across the nation. Global warming will mean lower yields for corn, and eventually the rest of agriculture."

Gore, Gingrich Clash Over Climate Bill in Rematch (Update3) - Bloomberg.com

Republican Gingrich said the proposal to establish a cap-and- trade system of pollution credits was an example of “environmental extremism.”
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Gingrich said the legislation was “wrong” for the U.S. economy and national security.

Gingrich, who has appeared in a commercial with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, on narrowing the political divide over climate change, called the emission- reduction target in the bill “a fantasy.”

The former speaker said Gore made some “startling” and “misleading” assertions about the effects of climate change.

“There is a sufficient debate over facts that would be very useful to have,” Gingrich said. “There is no evidence that we need to rush to a massive energy tax.”

Gore: Let's save money by blowing trillions of dollars on the greatest scientific fraud of all time!

Gore pleads for unity on climate, despite divide

"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy," said Gore, who predicted economic costs would be much greater if global warming is not reined in by a shift from the use of fossil fuels.

Cheaper gas goes against the agenda - Jeff Jacoby - The Boston Globe

"I hope gas prices go as high as they have to go to get the rest of these morons off the road in these big Hummers," CNN's Jack Cafferty has said, while "Freakonomics" author Steven Levitt wrote in 2007 - in an essay headlined "Hurray for High Gas Prices!" - that "rather than bemoaning the high price of gas, we should be celebrating it." Last year, The New York Times's Thomas Friedman sang the praises of $4-a-gallon gasoline, and wished "Washington would declare that it would never let the price fall below that level." Even Barack Obama, asked on the campaign trail whether sky-high gas prices might actually be a good thing, objected only to the speed with which they had climbed. "I think I would have preferred a gradual adjustment," he told CNBC.

Those are minority opinions, of course. Most Americans don't regard automobiles as a blight and don't blame human activity for global warming, so it goes without saying that most of them don't want fuel prices to rise. For those who do believe that cars are a curse and climate change is caused by people, however, it makes perfect sense to call for more expensive gasoline.

Ottawa: Peddling the climate scam in schools

Beginning in the fall of 2009, environmental education will be added to the school curriculum at all levels which will help to make young people even more aware of the issue of global warming and what can be done about it.

We're saved!: U.S. seeks reins in new set of climate [scam] talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States hopes to take the reins of international efforts to battle global warming next week with a meeting of major economies aimed at facilitating a U.N. pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

President Barack Obama, a Democrat who took office in January, called the meeting last month to relaunch a process that began under his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, whose commitment to curbing climate change was viewed with skepticism by much of the world.
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"Nobody took [Bush] seriously because he spent eight years pretending climate change didn't exist," said David Bookbinder, chief climate counsel for environmental group Sierra Club, referring to Bush.

"Obama, on the other hand, obviously is taking climate change very, very seriously and wants, reasonably enough, to talk to everyone about what to do ahead of Copenhagen."
...James Connaughton, a former top environmental adviser to Bush, said the former president's motives were also focused on facilitating a U.N. pact.

"The point of this was to be able to inform and help accelerate progress in the UN," he told Reuters.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV - Cap and trade will cripple economy

Our electric bills will more than double or triple, natural gas, and gasoline prices will soar and everything that uses electricity to produce or oil products to transport food and other products to market will certainly skyrocket. All because congress has bought into Al Gore’s global warming hoax at a time when the earth has actually cooled for the past seven years.

Finally, as a very well known coal expert said, cap and trade will only serve to cap our economy and trade your job to China or India. Thankfully Senator Byrd opposes cap and trade.

Bob Raines
Princeton

Townhall.com Blog : Greg Hengler : Gingrich Battles A Hostile Henry Waxman (D) On Global Warming

Henry Waxman spends no time mincing words. Right out of the gate he tells Newt that there needs to be no debating because he only has two options: "Work with us" to solve the man-made global warming problem or don't bother coming to us with any solutions. So you are either with Democrats, or against them. Didn't the Dems have a problem with that kind of language in the past?

It pays to be prepared while hunting | hattiesburgamerican.com | Hattiesburg American

I've been hunting turkeys each spring in southeastern Oklahoma since 1984 when I traveled there with the legendary Ben Rogers Lee for a story. And I've gotta tell ya', if this global warming thing folks keep harping on gets any worse, I'll probably freeze to death on my annual trip next spring.

To wit, last year, out of the seven-day hunt, it snowed on me at least five days. Never before had this happened until global warming came along. And it's not because I was there any earlier than ever before, like during the winter or anything like that. That's why they call it "spring turkey season," because it comes around the same date each spring.

We didn't get any snow this spring, but the temperatures were just as cold as last year, if not colder. It got down into the 20s some nights. Add to that 30-40 mile an hour sustained winds a couple of days, and you'll maybe understand why I think this global "warming" stuff is a bunch of hogwash. Not in 25 years has it been as cold in Oklahoma (at least where I hunt) as it has been the last two.

House Dems discuss [slightly reducing the size of their climate scam legislation]

Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are negotiating among themselves on whether to scale back legislation that would impose a mandatory limit on greenhouse gases, with some conservatives and moderates calling for electric utilities to be given pollution allowances for free and for more modest cuts in the targets for cutting emissions.

National Ledger - Global Warming's Real Danger – Taxation

Not all students of climate favor legislation and some point out dangers of over-regulation. Here are a few points by Arthur Robinson from the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: (1) Man-made carbon dioxide is an insignificant greenhouse gas; water vapor is the major. (2) The sun’s cosmic rays have the most significant influence over global temperature and weather. (3) If all nations’ carbon dioxide emissions were halted the impact would not be significantly measureable. (4) The imposition of control would be catastrophic, adversely affecting the emerging nations of the world. (5) Climate alarmists are motivated by politics and finances, and if the controversy would end, thousands would be unemployed.

Americans may find the reality of taxation more painful than the questionable threat of global warming.

Understanding global warming - thehullabaloo.com

The fallacies of Gore and the data of NASA prove questionable

Pro-con on whether human activity affects global warming | WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs

Most scientists agree that climate change indeed is occurring — they just differ on the reason why it is occurring. As for myself, I’m no scientist (or a Nobel Prize-winning former vice president), but I think that if you’re trying to find out why things are heating up, the sun would be a good place to start, especially since there’s plenty of scientific data showing that the Earth has been running hot and cold for thousands of years. — Carleton Bryant, GlobalClimateScam.com

Denver Weather Examiner: Al Gore heads to the Hill to push climate change bill

In one of the more amusing exchanges, Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise questioned the science of the theory. Frustrated, Mr. Gore retorted, “There are people who still believe that the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.” Scalise shot back saying, “I know you like those cutesy anecdotes but this is not a cutesy issue.”

Carbon Cap and Trade Inconvenient Truths | Culture11

The smartest guys in the room at Enron were big believers in Cap and Trade because it would "do more to promote Enron's business than almost any other regulatory initiative.?

Carbon Cap and Trade is a huge economic burden on ordinary Americans, and in the end it will not achieve the noble goal Congress intends.

At least, that's how it looks when you consider the inconvenient truths.

Well-informed voters must not allow laws for cap-and-trade | News-Leader.com | Springfield News-Leader

Global warming alarmists and politicians with socialistic leanings are hell bent on quelling further scientific debate on global warming. The scientific community, with support from well-informed voters, must not allow that to happen.

Editor's note: Ron Boyer is helping to organize "Debunking Climate Change Myths," sponsored by Scientists for Truth, which is planned at the Ra mada Oasis Hotel and Convention Center in Springfield on Aug. 13.

Pence warns against expense | pal-item.com | Palladium-Item

"I really believe Democratic climate change legislation will cap growth-and-trade jobs," said Pence, a Columbus Republican who represents Wayne County.
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"You're going to see a major Republican push for a return to nuclear-generated electricity," Pence said. "There are no CO2 emissions there. And in terms of safety, that's why places like Japan and France draw over 75 percent of their electricity on average from nuclear."

Eco-chic - The Sudbury Star - Ontario, CA

Organic Crush is the brainchild of Andria Coppa and Alison Fiorini, two moms and business partners who hope to raise awareness of environmental issues through their clothing.

"We could never find baby clothing that was truly organic, yet still hip and playful, so we decided to make a collection that spoke about serious environmental issues, such as global warming and the need to recycle, in a fun and friendly way through eco slogans such as "warm my bottle, not the planet", says Fiorini.

The line, made without chemicals and chemical dyes, holds the promise of being wearer-friendly, as well as planet-friendly and contributes funds to the David Suzuki Foundation.

Al Gore shows his disdain for global warming doubters on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON - Al Gore took his famous sigh out of mothballs Friday to show disdain for global warming doubters and other critics on Capitol Hill.

The former vice president unleashed the mightiest of several sighs when GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn, from Gore's homestate of Tennessee, wondered whether he was making big bucks as a planet savior.

"Every penny I have made, I've put in a nonprofit" for ecological causes, Gore said.

Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover - Current TV

Financial disclosure documents released before the 2000 election put the Gore family's net worth at $1 million to $2 million. After years of public service--and four kids needing high-priced educations--Al and Tipper used to fret occasionally about money. Not anymore. They have a new multimillion-dollar home in a tony section of Nashville and a family home in Virginia, and have recently bought a multimillion-dollar condo at the St. Regis condo/hotel in San Francisco. Available data indicate a net worth well in excess of $100 million.

Democrats Protecting Gore’s Global Warming Lies « Bob’s Bites

Al Gore refuses to debate anyone on the facts of global warming. He refuses to answer questions at his sermons about global warming. The mainstream media will not publish or air any opposing facts about global warming. Now, the Democrat lead Congress itself is protecting the lies spewed by Al Gore. Follow The Money!!

Behavioural climate change policy : Core Economics

...So don’t install smart meters in a hidden manner, install them near front doors so that everyone who comes by the house can see what your consumption levels are (maybe via a series of lights).

Let the first one be on Gore's mansion, visible from the street.

The Last Experiment § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Ben Ho is an economist. His doctoral work at Stanford consisted of a “statistical examination of the role apologies play in medical malpractice lawsuits.” He also did some work on how fads and fashion are used to signal identity — there was nary a kilowatt- hour nor a molecule of carbon dioxide in sight. Nevertheless, Ho claimed at a conference last November that it was social scientists like himself who held the key to saving the world from climate change.

His claim might seem audacious, but let’s step back a moment to examine our situation. We know that climate change is caused by human activity. We know seas will rise by at least 17 centimeters in the next century. We know we can expect stronger hurricanes; we know we will face more droughts and heat waves; we know deadly diseases will spread to new regions. We know the climate demands action. We know all these things, and yet we do not act. Why? We don’t exactly know. And that makes climate change a question for social scientists like Ben Ho.

Weather Cooling Off This Year's Asparagus Crop - KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA |

SUNNYSIDE--The asparagus business is cooling off. Unseasonably cold temperatures have pushed back harvesting in the Lower Valley. While growers aren't concerned just yet, it's already digging into workers' pockets.

Johnson Foods' asparagus harvesting kicked off this week, about ten days behind schedule.

"The cold weather's kind of put a damper on growth," Gary Johnson said. "We're just waiting for it to warm up consistently."

Johnson's not too concerned by the cold weather, but people who normally work in his fields and warehouses are.

"They're really nervous," Head Supervisor Gloria Prieto, who's been with Johnson Foods for 15 years, said. "We just don't have jobs for them right now."

Al Gore Gets Grilled by Marsha Blackburn | Crystal Clear Conservative

It was smackdown on Capitol Hill today with Al Gore testifying before Congress on climate change. Al Gore received quite a few contentious questions from several Congressmen about a possible kickback that he will be receiving from one of his clients. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was one of the Congressmen who questioned Gore on the kickback, and here is the video...
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Blackburn was right to grill Gore for where this money will be headed. Gore does not care about the well being of American people, especially since he is a big supporter of cap and trade policy. With cap and trade proposals, there is no doubt that more regulations will be placed on businesses, in addition to posing an economic threat for both low and middle income families. American families will be spending more on gas, food, and heating fuel. The Wall Street Journal reports about the damaging effects this policy will have on many families and businesses in America...

earth day = global warming propaganda - the daily plunge

So instead of actually doing something positive for the environment, we've gone down this utterly pointless Global Warming rabbit trail. Carbon emissions are the least of our environmental problems, yet that's all anyone can talk about on Earth Day, making it a complete farce and an indoctrination tool for the "social justice" crowd. If we continue on this ridiculous Global Warming path, America will turn into nothing more than another polluted banana republic.

Alarmists in disarray: Drilling drives a wedge at climate change summit

After hours of debate, a consensus of sorts was reached on a declaration to be presented to the Conference of Parties at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December.

The document says indigenous people are "deeply alarmed by the accelerating climate devastation brought about by unsustainable development."

"Mother Earth is no longer in a period of climate change, but in climate crisis," the declaration says.

The hang-up was whether to call for a moratorium on new oil and gas drilling and a phase-out of fossil fuels.
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Youth caucus member Andrea Sanders of Bethel said some of the delegates representing areas dependent on oil for revenue and jobs were afraid to support a moratorium because of the criticism they would face when returning home.

"People think that is going to ruin all the jobs but people working in the oil field on the (North) Slope can be working on new renewable energy projects," she said.

Jennifer Marohasy » More Worst AGW Papers: A Note from Cohenite

SINCE Copenhagen the intensity of doom and gloom [D&G] has been ratcheted up with such anthropogenic global warming luminaries as Will Steffan and David Karoly declaring their previous predictions not dire enough and so have been superseded by much worse predictions.

Jay Leno has a good response to this;
“According to a new U.N. report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.”

The question is, is there any evidence to support the worsening D&G?
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In Conclusion: There is no evidence in the PR literature that AGW is worsening, or exists for that matter.

Pat Williams: Dear Al Gore - What Global Warming?

I was having a hard time believing your global warming theory before this winter, but now I’m certain you are using it to scare people and make yourself a multi-millionaire.
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The winters around here are long enough when they are “mild.” This year, we may have more snow than we have had in a while, but believe all of us jack pine savages when we tell you there is no such thing as global warming in Minnesota.

Record-cold temperatures in Saskatchewan

In the Battlefords, the overnight low of -11.7 C was cold enough to break the previous record of -10.6 C set more than a century ago, in 1880.

Stony Rapids, only 65 kilometres south of the border with the Northwest Territories, was the coldest place in the province Thursday with a low of -23.9 C.

McMurtry said the cold weather is expected to persist for at least another five days.

“There’s quite a few locations that could break record lows,” he said. [Via Global Freeze]

C3: U.S. CO2 Reduction Is A Worthless & Futile Gesture Even If You Believe In AGW - Why?

GREG NELSON: Latest theory is ridiculous - The Morning Sun Opinion

As I’ve stated here before, I think global warming is a crock of crap (and I don’t mean the kind left behind by all those cows and fat people). It’s nothing more than propaganda put forth by overzealous scientists looking to make a name for themselves, not to mention pocket millions of dollars in government grants and subsidies to perform all those studies based on nothing more than theories.

There are just as many climate experts who debunk the notion of global warming as support it.

Heck, it wasn’t that long ago they were warning us about the coming of the next Ice Age. Whatever happened to that prediction?

Mark Steyn: Who will lead the 'post-American era'?

According to an Earth Day survey, one-third of schoolchildren between the ages of 6 and 11 think the Earth will have been destroyed by the time they grow up. That's great news, isn't it? Not for the Earth, I mean, but for "environmental awareness." Congratulations to Al Gore, the Sierra Club and the eco-propagandists of the public education system in doing such a terrific job of traumatizing America's moppets. Traditionally, most of the folks you see wandering the streets proclaiming the end of the world is nigh tend to be getting up there in years. It's quite something to have persuaded millions of first-graders that their best days are behind them.

Call me crazy, but I'll bet that in 15-20 years the planet will still be here, along with most of the "environment" – your flora and fauna, your polar bears and three-toed tree sloths and whatnot.

Lawrence Solomon: Australia becoming a Denier Nation - FP Comment

A break from faith in Australia! The continent down under, which until recently adhered to a strict form of global warming dogma, is experiencing an enlightenment.
“Beware the climate of conformity,” warns the headline for a column on global warming in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Thanks to Pilmer, the press and politicians, Australia is likely to become the developed world’s third Denier Nation, after the Czech Republic, where only 11% of the public blame humans for global warming, and the United States, where only 34% blame humans.

Ian Plimer: A question of faith - Local News - News - General - The Independent Weekly

The story of climate change is the story of the earth itself, of life beginning and often ending, of asteroids and comets smacking into planets and wiping out up to 96 per cent of all marine genera. Were it not for climate change, we might still be shrews scurrying in the night to hide from carnivorous reptiles. Climate change, argues Plimer, is driven by the sun, by eccentricities in the earth’s orbit and rotation, by geological and astronomical forces so strong that humans’ influence is relatively puny.

But Plimer’s latest book, its kindest critic will acknowledge, stays away from sweeping adventures in geology. Desperate to avoid generalities, eager to explain every scientific nuance, it’s packed with 2311 footnotes, almost all of them scientific. Al Gore’s film is Muzak compared with Plimer’s symphony. [Via Skeptics Corner]

Jennifer Marohasy » Climate-Related Policy Should be Evolutionary Not Presumptive

From this assessment I draw a straightforward conclusion for policy. In a subject area where so much remains uncertain or unknown, today’s confident and far-reaching policy settings should not be taken as given. Policy should be evolutionary, not presumptive; and its evolution should be linked to a process of inquiry, review and advice which is more open, more balanced and more professionally watertight than is now the case. Rather than asserting like Mr Miliband that ‘the science’ is ‘settled’, and building costly, radical and supposedly permanent action programmes on that unwarranted presumption, governments should take steps to ensure that they and their citizens are more fully and more objectively informed and advised.

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David Henderson was the chief economist at the OECD from 1984 to 1992.

To Capture a Polar Bear | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

It is difficult to study what may be the most mobile mammal on earth; in some areas polar bears have home ranges over 500,000 sq km. Because bears move over such a large area and because they travel on variable sea ice, they are difficult to trap. Instead, finding and darting bears from a low-flying helicopter is the most common capture method.

We are using this helicopter this spring as a platform from which to dart bears. The pilot maneuvers the helicopter low and close to the bear, then a gunner leans out the window on the far side and uses a specialized firearm to shoot a dart into the bear. The dart contains a drug that immobilizes the animal and puts them under anesthesia. Here, the helicopter is parked in front of the lab with covers over the engine and the base of the rotors; space heaters beneath the covers keep critical components warm enough to start in the morning.

We are using this helicopter to aid in spotting bears, and to carry personnel and gear. It is smaller than the darting helicopter. The white tank attached to the belly is an extra fuel tank, giving us an additional 30 minutes or so of flight time.

The sea ice at this time of year is very interesting. Almost the entire Arctic Ocean is frozen over, creating vast ice sheets. Ocean currents and wind push these sheets against each other and they break and crumple into jumbled ridges where they meet. This leaves a totally flat landscape punctuated by randomly-strewn ice chunks, some bigger than houses. It is an otherworldly place to fly over, and to walk through.

More than a numbers game | The Daily Telegraph

...Yet the environmental movement is seemingly inextricably bound up in the sort of misanthropy of which Kanck is only an extreme example.

Years of dreary campaigns that turn every human achievement from powered flight to the incandescent light globe into nothing more than a carbon footprint that must be cut and eliminated show a real lack of imagination.

And they suggest a subconscious desire to return to some green Garden of Eden that never was - and when life was a whole lot harder and a whole lot shorter for the lack of technology.

Gore demands obedience | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

“Partisan differences” could easily be overcome, Al, if you suddenly announced you’d checked the science and realised the world wasn’t warming in a way consistent with theories that man’s gases are causing the planet to cook. Debate would all but end overnight. Bi-partisanship achieved.

Twitter / Garland Davis

Just got dome watching KNOWING at the movies with my wife. What's with all the global warming propaganda these days?

IInvestor's Business Daily -- Bogus Models Used To Justify Anti-CO2 Push

Few things are more appealing in politics than something for nothing.

As Congress begins considering anti-global-warming legislation, environmentalists hold out precisely that tantalizing prospect: We can conquer global warming at virtually no cost.

Here's a typical claim from the Environmental Defense Fund: "For about a dime a day (per person), we can solve climate change, invest in a clean energy future and save billions in imported oil."

This sounds too good to be true, because it is.

Ducking the Point | Climate Skeptic

The argument is not that the greenhouse gas effect of CO2 doesn’t exist. The argument is that the climate models built on the rickety foundation of substantial positive feedbacks are overestimating future warming by a factor of 3 or more. The difference matters substantially to public policy. Based on neutral to negative feedback, warming over the next century will be 1-1.5C. According to Joe Romm, it will be as much as 8C (15F). There is a pretty big difference in the magnitude of the effort justified by one degree vs. eight.

Gore Mouthing-Off About Make-Belive Madoffs — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

This is climate politics. It pretends to be about saving the planet. But in reality, it is crass, petty, and self-interested.

Climate sceptics ought to take two messages from this.

First, it is clear that environmentalists are clutching at straws to make their case.

Second, that climate politics of this kind has achieved this level of prominence therefore cannot be blamed solely on climate activists. It cannot be argued that environmentalism has risen under its own steam. It’s momentum has been generated by a vacuum of ideas that all political parties suffer from. This is the issue that needs addressing.

Australian Climate Madness: Comment - the left-wing intelligentsia don't have a clue

So a previous solar minimum was enough to cause a mini-Ice Age, but this one will only drop temperatures a tenth of a degree? The logic is baffling.

Gore, Gingrich debate the Earth's future - Taiwan News Online

"I have read all 648 pages of this bill," Gore bragged, a boast that would surprise no one who caught his teacher's-pet performance in the 2000 presidential race. "It took me two transcontinental flights on United Airlines to finish it."
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He lectured the panel on "the reality of the world today," pointing out that, "I gave my slide show to the Indian Parliament."
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Ever the history teacher, he told a story about the Viking King Canute _ Gingrich's namesake, he said _ who tried and failed to push back the ocean in an attempt to show his supporters that he was not, alas, all-powerful.

"This is a hint," Gingrich said. The bill, he added, shows "failure to learn the lesson" of King Canute _ if in fact the authors, or anyone else present, had ever before heard of Canute. (The all-knowing Gore had already left.)

The prospect of actually reducing carbon as outlined by Democrats and President Barack Obama?

"A fantasy," Gingrich declared.

AFP: New momentum for global climate pact despite 'gaps'

Brazil proposed a 10 percent tax on oil industry profits to help poor countries join the fight against global warming, he said.

The development aid charity Oxfam complained of a "first step syndrome" in climate change talks, saying the Syracuse meeting was no different.

"Lots of declarations of principle, but no clear and measurable commmitment," Oxfam said in a statement.
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US delegate Lisa Jackson said Thursday she brought a "message of hope" from US President Barack Obama, who already boasts of having made more progress on US energy policy in his first three months in office than the United States has seen in 30 years.

"It's a good feeling to know that the world is waiting to welcome the US to the table and is not too frustrated by the lack of leadership in the past," Jackson said.

The EPA chief on Friday urged stronger action to avert environmental "exposures (that) uniquely affect children."

She told the delegates: "We must work in earnest to ensure that their bright future is not overcast by the clouds of pollution, climate change and other environmental degradation."

Should we try to prevent children from breathing any air that contains greenhouse gases?

Think Progress » Gingrich uses climate change hearing to personally slam Gore.

As ThinkProgress has noted, Gingrich appeared last year in ads for Gore's "We" campaign, promoting the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Republican members present at the hearing appeared to mimic Gingrich's strategy, spending their time hurling personal attacks at Gore and his credibility, rather than discussing the legislation or the science underpinning climate change.

Victims of record snowfall begin to re-open

SPOKANE -- Nearly five months after record snow fall crumbled roofs and halted area businesses, some are preparing to re-open.

We're saved!: U.S. gets leeway on U.N. climate [scam] deadline | Reuters

OSLO (Reuters) - Countries such as the United States can come up with ideas for a U.N. climate pact beyond an April 24 deadline, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Friday.
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"There is a bit of leeway for parties to submit documents in coming days if they have good reason," said John Hay, spokesman for the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, saying it was not too late for Washington and others to submit ideas.

Cameron Scott weighs in: Blowing "toxic" "smoke"

I've been a little bit obsessed with climate change denial this week. My fascination is whether those who generate the talking points repeated, sometimes ad nauseum, by citizen denialists, believe what they are saying or are engaged in a deeply, deeply cynical activity.

According to two major articles this week, signs point to deep cynicism.

About Cameron Scott

A former fellow and web editor at Mother Jones and communications manager at Rainforest Action Network, Cameron is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the S.F. Chronicle, the Texas Observer, AlterNet and Mother Jones

Wonk Room » Stumped By Science: Michele Bachmann Calls CO2 ‘Harmless,’ ‘Negligible,’ ‘Necessary,’ ‘Natural’

[Alarmist] BLUMENAUER: My good friend, the gentlelady from Minnesota, doesn’t think there are any problems with the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It’s interesting to listen to her say that something that was naturally occurring simply couldn’t be harmful, ignoring the fact that we have the highest concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for 2/3 of a million years.

The consensus of the scientific community — not people making things up on the floor of the House — is that this has been profoundly influenced by human activity, starting with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, where we started consuming huge quantities of coal, burning fossil fuels, accelerating that over time. The consensus of the scientific community is that this is in fact a serious problem.

Morning Bell: A Jobs Killing Bill » The Foundry

We live in a fiercely competitive global marketplace. If carbon taxes were a sound way of creating jobs and economic growth our global competitors would be jumping at the chance to adopt them. Instead we see the opposite: China has said they will never sacrifice their economic growth to reduce carbon emissions and India has called the trade off between carbon caps and economic growth “morally wrong.” The smarter way to insure against the possible risks of global warming is to enact policies that will ensure robust economic growth. History shows that richer is greener.

Ukraine: sowings of some crops damaged by frost

Many farmers declared about perishing of mustard sowings, which should be completely reseeded. We also received reports about damages of winter rapeseed (by 30-40%) and spring barley (nearly 50%) sowings. In single cases, sprouts of maize and spring wheat also received damages.

The Associated Press: Gore pleads for unity on climate, despite divide

"When American people hear the statements you have made today, they get scared, which I think is exactly what is intended," a visibly angry Waxman told Gingrich, a potential presidential contender in 2012 and a leading voice of the GOP.
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While Republicans were critical, some Democrats expressed concern as well.

"How do we protect our people?" asked Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., whose state is reeling from the economic recession and is home to many energy-intensive industries, including the ailing auto industry. Dingell said he's not convinced the bill will protect U.S. jobs, especially if China isn't forced to take similar actions.

John Kerry: Warner vs. Gingrich On Climate Change

...Newt's rhetoric completely ignores the whole point under discussion: the awful climate disruption from global climate change. Oil drilled here has the same carbon footprint as oil drilled anywhere else.

This is an incredibly urgent situation. The science of climate change is accelerating as more evidence comes in, and the change is consistently in the same direction: the problem is even more acute than we thought just a few years ago. The Arctic ice is disappearing faster, ocean acidification is progressing, and global temperatures are rising faster than previous models suggested. Climate scientists previously recommended a ceiling of 550ppm in the atmosphere, but now we're told that the limit is 450ppm. Jim Hansen and other top scientists are now warning that we need to limit atmospheric concentrations to 350ppm.

Gateway Pundit: Al Gore Compares Global Warming Skeptics to Madoff Scandal (Video)

The Scam Gore is running make Madoff look like a saint.

US Rep Waxman: 'Legitimate Concerns' On Climate-Change Bill

"They're trying to give free allowances to perhaps get votes," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas.

Democrats have been loathe to break ranks in public, and have sought to work out differences behind the scenes. But some of the divisions have begun spilling out into the open, with Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., saying at the hearing he was "not satisfied that the bill has adequate protections for our workers."

House of Pain - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I was comforted by how the Democrats were reduced to relying upon a thoroughly exposed effort by an MIT professor that seems to require at least one of the following assumptions: either a) the Obama administration is lying when it admits to just a fraction of the billions it plans to take in energy taxes (their advertised $650 billion over ten years from selling cap-and-trade ration coupons might actually total in the several trillions); or b) that every dollar taken from the taxpayer is actually a dollar in benefit to the taxpayer — which is the more likely assumption, and patently absurd.

With such great lead arguments, I can hardly wait to hear the rest.

Climate Research News » Quiet Sun: Who Saw it Coming?

[Landscheidt T. (2003):] Outlook:

“We need not wait until 2030 to see whether the forecast of the next deep Gleissberg minimum is correct. A declining trend in solar activity and global temperature should become manifest long before the deepest point in the development. The current 11-year sunspot cycle 23 with its considerably weaker activity seems to be a first indication of the new trend, especially as it was predicted on the basis of solar motion cycles two decades ago. As to temperature, only El Nino periods should interrupt the downward trend, but even El Ninos should become less frequent and strong. The outcome of this further long-range climate forecast solely based on solar activity may be considered to be a touchstone of the IPCC’s hypothesis of man-made global warming.”

The Pits - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

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What’s In It For Roger Harrabin? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

...We are hearing what Harrabin himself thinks of a subject.

On what basis are we supposed to put trust on his thoughts? Is Roger Harrabin a recognised expert in the field of carbon capture? Or any other field for that matters?

Perhaps he is. But then we should be told.

Al Gore, You’ve Truly Outdone Yourself » The Foundry

Al Gore’s ‘sincere’ desire to save the planet without nuclear is like implementing the Marshal Plan without giving aid to the UK or France (the two countries receiving most U.S. assistance) or having the civil rights movement without Brown vs. Board of Education.

It’s this imperialistic and hypocritical nature of politicians underscoring the entire global warming debate that makes the whole process disingenuous.

DeSmogBlog | CO2 Speaker's Corner Makes Atmospheric CO2 Data Accessible

The first video log features Maeve Gauthier, a graduate student in Marine Biology at the University of Victoria, speaking from Danko Island in Antarctica where she is participating in a program called Students on Ice

A lot of this sounds oddly familiar

The Declaration of Cumaná: Capitalism 'threatens life on the planet' | rabble.ca

We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons:
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1. Capitalism is leading humanity and the planet to extinction. What we are experiencing is a global economic crisis of a systemic and structural nature, not another cyclic crisis. Those who think that with a taxpayer money injection and some regulatory measures this crisis will end are wrong. The financial system is in crisis because it trades bonds with six times the real value of the assets and services produced and rendered in the world, this is not a “system regulation failure”, but a integrating part of the capitalist system that speculates with all assets and values with a view to obtain the maximum profit possible. Until now, the economic crisis has generated over 100 million additional hungry persons and has slashed over 50 million jobs, and these figures show an upward trend.

2. Capitalism has caused the environmental crisis, by submitting the necessary conditions for life in the planet, to the predominance of market and profit. Each year we consume one third more of what the planet is able to regenerate. With this squandering binge of the capitalist system, we are going to need two planets Earth by the year 2030.

3. The global economic crisis, climate change, the food crisis and the energy crisis are the result of the decay of capitalism, which threatens to end life and the planet. To avert this outcome, it is necessary to develop and model an alternative to the capitalist system. A system based on:
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7. As for climate change, developed countries are in an environmental debt to the world because they are responsible for 70% of historical carbon emissions into the atmosphere since 1750. Developed countries should pay off their debt to humankind and the planet; they should provide significant resources to a fund so that developing countries can embark upon a growth model which does not repeat the serious impacts of the capitalist industrialization.

8. Solutions to the energy, food and climate change crises should be comprehensive and interdependent. We cannot solve a problem by creating new ones in fundamental areas for life. For instance, the widespread use of agricultural fuels has an adverse effect on food prices and the use of essential resources, such as water, land and forests.

Fraudster Gore equates global warming skeptics with Bernie Madoff  « FOXNews.com

Gore also took aim Global Climate Coalition, which represents the oil and coal industry, calling the group the “Bernie Madoff’s of global warming.”

The NY Times reports today that the group ignored it’s own scientific advice in trying to keep alive doubts about the science behind climate change.

“They have committed a fraud larger than Madoff’s fraud….they lied to people who trusted them in order to make money,” Gore said.

C-SPAN misleads America about Al Gore « Green Hell Blog

C-SPAN is right now (11am ET) broadcasting the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the Waxman-Markey Bill. When Al Gore is on screen, C-SPAN describes him only as the “Founder and Chairman” of the Alliance for Climate Protection — conveniently ignoring his role as a partner in the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins and Generation Investment Management, both of which stand to profit handsomely from global warming legislation.

YouTube - Rep. Blackburn Questions Al Gore on [his cashing in on the climate scam]

Rep. Marsha Blackburn challenged Former Vice President Al Gore's contribution to environmental charities during an exchange at a subcommittee hearing on global climate change legislation.

Newt: Climate Bill ‘Huge Mistake,’ Let’s Go For ‘Green Coal’ - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The draft Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill is a “huge mistake” and a big “energy tax” that will “increase the cost of living and maybe kill jobs,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich told the House committee behind the bill.

Sparks started to fly—it is day four of the hearings, after all—as Mr. Gingrich laid into plans to change America’s energy mix and put a price on carbon emissions.

Mr. Gingrich said he stopped reading the 646-page bill when it charged the government with regulating the energy use of jacuzzis. (Rep. Inslee of Washington offered him an efficient hot spa that “won’t offend you.”) Mr. Gingrich also said he favored carrots over sticks to change America’s energy use: “We didn’t build the trans-continental railroad by punishing stage coaches.”

“Well I am glad you’re not in charge of foreign policy,” chairman Henry Waxman of California retorted, since punitive options are crucial leverage.

“I don’t think of the American people in the same terms as foreign dictators,” Mr. Gingrich replied.

Al Gore: Skeptics like Bernie Madoff « Green Hell Blog

Al Gore told Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) today that the climate skeptics are like Bernie Madoff in that they are “perpetrating a fraud” on the public.

Al Gore says the skeptics are the “Bernie Madoffs of global warming” and that they are “lying to make money.”

Al Gore: ‘No time’ to talk about nuke power « Green Hell Blog

Al Gore ducked talking about talking about nuclear power as a solution to carbon emissions by saying something to the effect that, “I don’t want to take up the Committee’s time by talking about nuclear power.”

This wasn’t exactly true as Gore then said he supported nuclear power but then went on to scare the Committee about nuclear proliferation (i.e., Iran and North Korea).

What the FERC Is He Talking About? - William Tucker - Planet Gore on National Review Online

What Wellinghoff has said is identical to what Jerry Brown — “Governor Moonbeam” — announced when he decided to put California on the “soft energy path” in 1980. The Golden State didn’t build any new base-load power plants for 20 years. It practiced draconian conservation, subsidized every conceivable form of so-called “renewable” energy from wind farms to solar collectors to burning old tires for electricity — and by 2000 it didn’t have enough electricity to run its traffic lights.

That’s the road we’re now going down as a nation. This isn’t some wild-eyed pamphleteer from Greenpeace talking. This is the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. FERC has to give its permission before any new power plant in the country can be built.

Start laying in diesel generators. It’s going to be a rough ride.

Al Gore howler: IPCC ‘represents global scientific community’ « Green Hell Blog

Al Gore said today that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “represents the global scientific community.”

How about the 31,000-plus scientists who signed a petition calling global warming junk science?

Skeptic's Corner: Skeptics From Around the Globe

Tom Victor Segalstad, Associate Professor of Resource- and Environmental Geology; and. Head, Geological Museum of. Natural History Museum, University of Oslo

"It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere,"

Gore lies to Congress about personal finances « Green Hell Blog

When Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn confronted Al Gore with his profiteering from global warming legislation at today’s House Energy and Commerce hearing on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Al Gore said that every penny he ever made from his business activities went into non-profit efforts.

That is a flat-out lie, according to this March 6, 2008 Bloomberg report that indicates that Al Gore invested $35 million of his own money in various for-profit endeavors.

Sen. Warner admits granchildren concerns caused his alarmism « Green Hell Blog

Sen. John Warner admitted today at the hearing that his concern about global warming arose from his granchildren’s worries.

Rumor has it that Sen. Warner will next support legislation to eliminate toe monsters from child bedrooms.

Al Gore feigns ignorance on Goldman Sachs link « Green Hell Blog

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) pressed Al Gore about his connections to Goldman Sachs. Gore responded with a quizzical look in denying the charge.

But Gore’s partner in Generation Investment Management is David Blood, a former Goldman Sachs partner. Goldman Sachs is lobbying for global climate change. You draw the lines.

Gore then tried to defend himself by accusing Rep Scalise of engaging in “guilt by association.” Yeah, Gore never does that.

Al Gore: Skeptics are ‘paid quacks’ « Green Hell Blog

Al Gore suggested that future generations will ask: What were they [us[ thinking? Why did they listen to “outlier quacks who got money from carbon polluters?”

Useful idiot of the day: John Warner « Green Hell Blog

Although former Virginia Sen. John Warner is testifying alongside Al Gore today in favor of the Waxman-Markey climate bill, he admitted that he hadn’t read the bill — earning him the Green Hell ‘Useful Idiot of the Day’ Award.

Barton Exposes Cap and Trade as a Job-Killing Tax on Energy

WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, appeared on Fox News' America's Newsroom to discuss the Waxman-Markey global warming bill.

To view the clip, click here.

Carbon Caps Already Killing Californian Jobs » The Foundry

This week the House of Representatives held hearings on a sweeping new law that would impose a cap on carbon emissions and regulate energy and manufacturing in this country. Moderate Democrats in Congress are less than thrilled about telling their constituents they are about to swell the ranks of the unemployed by making it even more difficult for companies in the energy and manufacturing sector to stay in business.

William LaJeunesse reports live from a cement plant in California that will likely shutter due to the new “low carbon” emissions rule just passed by state regulators.

More Gore: Wrenching transformation of society only costs 30 cents per day

On the cost of the bill for American families, Mr. Gore said: “The best estimate I’ve seen is about 30 cents a day,” referring to the EPA’s cost analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill.

Irreproducible Results in PNAS « Climate Audit

Until Thompson either corrects the TCZ series or provides corrected ice core data that is consistent with it, no credence can be placed in this supposedly improved version of "Dr. Thompson's Thermometer". And until PNAS insists that he post consistent and complete data, it can have no more credibility than that famous science humor publication, The Journal of Irreproducible Results.

Gingrich testimony

Gingrich testimony is here.

Michelle Malkin » The Thrilla in Vanilla: Gore vs. Gingrich in Global Warming ‘Showdown’?

The Hill is reporting the meeting of these two as a “global warming showdown.” It isn’t. Not unless you consider “humans are definitely causing global warming so we must act” and “humans are probably causing global warming so we must act” to be drastically opposing views.

Twitter / David Lee Berkowitz

Al Gore just said that there would be massive job losses if CONGRESS does not impose cap and trade!

Twitter / carino1986

Former Sen. John Warner just said the views of the oppo. on Climate Change must be resp'td- UMM, not when U deny scientific fact!

Warming predictions preferred to cold facts | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But even in conceding that inconvenient truth, the ABC trotted out two difference blame-man excuses within just three paragraphs...

Appeal to a closet sceptic #1 | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Resources Minister Martin Ferguson,

You have been identified by colleagues and friends as a sceptic - someone who accepts there is no proof man is warming the world dangerously.

It is your public duty to now say so, before the global warming fearmongering costs Australia more jobs, dollars and sense.

Al Gore's Journal : [Fraudulent] Testimony

...As a direct consequence, some of the vast amounts of frozen carbon in the permafrost surrounding the Arctic Ocean are beginning to be released as methane as the frozen tundra thaws, threatening a doubling of global warming pollution in the atmosphere.

-Melting of the Greenland ice sheet has reached a new record, which was a staggering 60 percent above the previous high in 1998. The most recent 11 summers have all experienced melting greater than the average of the past thirty-five year time series (1973-2007). Glacial earthquakes have been increasing as the meltwater tunnels down through the ice to the bedrock below. Were the Greenland ice sheet to melt, crack up and slip into the North Atlantic, sea level would rise almost 20 feet.
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...To bring an example of this home, 2009 saw the eighth “ten year flood” of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

Dingell: Cap-and-Trade is Toast - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Remember what MoveOn said last week:

“If Republicans convince voters that clean energy legislation amounts to a new tax, Obama’s plan is toast.”

So, it seems that Mr. Dingell is convinced, and his party's cap-and-trade rationing taxes are now toast.

The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » Waxman-Markey: What’s it Gonna Cost Your State?

IER has a very useful chart that demonstrates the percentages of carbon-based fuels by state and subsequent percentage of the price tag under Waxman-Markey. Click map to find state-specific percentages.

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YouTube - Rep. Dingell (D-MI): Cap And Trade Is A Big Tax

At today's hearing on cap-and-trade, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) bluntly admitted what most Democrats won't and that is that cap-and-trade is a big tax.

Gingrich: climate bill will punish Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says a Democratic proposal to limit global warming pollution will "punish the American people" with higher energy costs and lost jobs.

Gingrich appeared before a House subcommittee writing a broad energy and climate bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases by 80 percent by mid-century.

Gingrich, a leading Republican voice who has indicated he may seek the presidency in 2012, criticized the Democrats' cap-and-trade climate proposal. He called it "an energy tax" that will increase Americans' cost of living and kill jobs.

EPW POLICY BEAT: OBAMA’S ENERGY POLICY CONUNDRUM

Clearly, not everyone in the Administration is on the same page. Depending on the day and depending on the Administration official, the coal and nuclear industries are stuck plucking petals off a daisy and asking themselves, “He loves us? He loves us not?” Not exactly the best political climate in which to make 40-year, multi-billion dollar investments about how to keep our lights on and power our economy.

Report: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing | Climate Depot

[ Update: 1:55 PM EST: A GOP House source told Climate Depot that the Democrats on the Committee said “absolutely not” to allowing Monckton to appear during today's Gore hearing. The GOP committee “pushed at multiple levels” to bring Monckton in to testify but the Democrats “refused,” according to the GOP source. Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich was called in to testify after Monckton was rejected by the committee Democrats, according to the Congressional source.]

Know Your Times — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

New York Times journalist, Andrew Revkin, generally writes thoughtfully in the paper, and on his Dot Earth blog, even if we generally disagree with him.

However, writing for the paper yesterday, he lowers himself to the level of debate we’re used to seeing from the likes of George Monbiot, who we frequently mention.

Gore pushes for U.S. climate [scam] law this year | Motoring | Reuters

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Global warming activist Al Gore on Friday urged passage this year of a U.S. law to slash greenhouse emissions, saying failure to pass legislation could cause the collapse of world climate negotiations.

Gore, the former U.S. vice president and star of the Oscar-winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth," told members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that passing a climate law is a "moral imperative" that will affect U.S. standing in the world community.

"Once we find the moral courage to take on this issue, the rest of the world will come along," Gore said. "Now is the time to act before the world gathers in Copenhagen this December to solve the crisis. Not next year, this year."

He said that the passage of this bill would be met with "a sigh of relief" at the Copenhagen meeting aimed at crafting a follow-up agreement to the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol.

If it fails to pass, Gore said, "I think that would be awful to contemplate ...

"If the administration went to this global negotiation without this legislation, then I think we might well see a slow-motion collapse of the (climate change) negotiations."