The first green president takes a fossil-fueled trip to a play

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Here is the pool report to the White House press corps from Dave Michaels of the Dallas Morning News:

"We touched down at JFK International Airport about 4:35 p.m. in the first plane of three. We held in helicopter for POTUS AND FLOTUS arrival at 4:43 p.m., which we witnessed through windows. We took off before Marine One and passed over the rooftops of Queens before turning south over the East River. Just after passing over the Brooklyn Bridge we landed at the downtown Manhattan Heliport, which I'm told is also called the Wall Street landing zone.

"The sky is clear and blue here, same weather as in Washington. No traffic on West Street as NYPD had cleared the road. Some observers watched for Marine One from a pier about 100 yards north. I could see ten or more NYPD motor jocks, a bunch of cruisers and a rather large RV-style van, perhaps a mobile command center.
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From an earlier report from Michaels as the presidential party took off from Washington: "Three presidential helicopters descended on Andrews Air Force Base about 3:42 p.m. A group of about 20 people, a few members of the military wearing camouflage and what must have been their families, watched from a distance of 50 to 75 yards.

Australian Climate Madness: Climate hypocrisy in Victoria

A BRUMBY Government department responsible for protecting the environment and combating climate change has accumulated enough air kilometres to send staff to the moon and back more than six times.
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Despite its website declaring the DSE [Department of Sustainability and Environment] to be "the driving force behind finding new ways of doing things so that Victorians can reduce their impact on the environment and live more sustainably", its staff were frequent flyers with 2,591,648km of air travel.

That is more than 1021km an employee.

So the loud and clear message from this kind of story is that it's only the rest of us that have to worry about saving the planet, not those safely aboard the climate change gravy train.

A special report on business in America: : A green revolution | The Economist

If politicians pretend they can save the planet at no cost, they risk a backlash when people realise they were fibbing.

Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Fear-Mongering 101

The excerpted article below Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC, written by Jennifer Peltz of the Associated Press, is a tutorial on how to create a groundless, baseless, fear-mongering hit piece. First, begin with a frightening opening paragraph just in case the reader wasn't paying attention to the headline:

Carbon credits: A huge scam layered on top of the greatest scientific fraud in history

The great carbon credit con: the 'eco' companies causing pollution | Mail Online

In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded UN ‘green reward points’, which are traded hungrily on the financial markets at huge profit?

Appeasing insane people doesn't always work?: Groups challenge lynx decision | greatfallstribune.com

HELENA (AP) — A twentyfold federal increase in land designated as critical habitat for the Canada lynx falls short partly by leaving the cat, which is protected under the Endangered Species Act, at too much risk from climate change, four environmental groups contend in a lawsuit.
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"For the lynx to survive in a changing climate, the Fish and Wildlife Service must provide appropriate habitat and create wildlife corridors that will allow for migration as temperatures rise," Bruce Hamilton of the Sierra Club said in a statement.

But of course: Cornell economist thinks carbon [fraud] offsets are "an excellent idea"

Economic View - Carbon Offsets - A Small Price to Pay for Efficiency - NYTimes.com

Dozens of companies, nonprofit and for-profit, sell carbon offsets, and some critics question how their work can be verified. But with various certification programs now in place — including the Gold Standard and Green-e Climate, to name two — there is no reason that fraud should be harder to curb in carbon-offset markets than in other domains.
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Carbon offsets, though much maligned, are an excellent idea. If you want to help reduce carbon emissions, consider buying some.

Robert H. Frank, a Cornell University economist, is a visiting faculty member at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

TPMDC Saturday Roundup | TPMDC

In this weekend's Republican address, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels blasted President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for supporting cap and trade:
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"It's become clear that the Pelosi bill has little to do with a cooler planet and everything to do with raising money for the out-of-control federal spending now underway in Washington," said Daniels. "Please excuse us Midwesterners for feeling a bit like the targets of an imperialistic policy, devised in places like California, New York, and Massachusetts for their benefit, at our expense."
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Barack and Michelle Obama Headed Out For New York Date Tonight [to hold down the very rising of the seas, they are traveling via foot or bicycle, am I right?]
President Obama and the First Lady are headed to New York for a date tonight to go to a Broadway play, the critically-acclaimed show "Joe Turner's Come and Gone."

Don't Believe the Climate Bill Doomsayers: [Remember, trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas ARE extremely dangerous, and it's SENSIBLE to cough up $45 trillion over the greatest scientific fraud of all time]

Aesop got it wrong. In "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," the townsfolk stopped believing repeated false alarms of danger. But in real life, we seem to jump time after time at the same shrill cries.

The alarmists, again, are entrenched industry and the well-heeled national Chamber of Commerce warning of the dangers of tougher energy and environmental regulations. Rather than join forward-thinking business leaders in meeting our challenges, these special interests fall back on their old refrain that tougher regulations will hurt business and thus the country.
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Mindy S. Lubber is president of Ceres, a leading coalition of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. For more information, visit www.ceres.org

African ministers take a stand on climate change: [Give us bags filled with cash]

African environment ministers on Friday demanded clear commitment from industrialised countries to fund projects to counter the effects of global warming.
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"Africa's environment ministers have today signalled their resolve to be part of the solution to the climate change challenge by forging a unified position," said Achim Steiner, the UN Environment Programme chief.

Energy Reality Wins at Exxon Mobil Annual Meeting (Atlas is not shrugging at this substance-over-form company) — MasterResource

Hays also mentioned this exchange on the global warming debate, which captured the views of much of the auditorium:

Rick Wilson, another shareholder, offered the view that climate change is “entirely natural, not man-made,” so humans can’t fix what they didn’t cause. His comments generated applause from many shareholders who attended the Dallas meeting.

Tillerson said simply, “It’s a complex area of scientific study.”

Still More on Diminished Solar Activity and Global Cooling

Global warming has also been observed on Mars and Jupiter and other planets in the solar system in recent years–planets where no SUVs, power plants or capitalists exist. Yet somehow we are expected to believe that it’s evil capitalist consumption that’s causing global warming on earth? Go pull my other leg now.

We really are overdue for telling Al Gore and his apostles to stuff it. They’ve been shining us on with propaganda about climate change that doesn’t even pass the smell test. And his buddies in congress and the White House itching to raise our electric bills 40% with a cap-and-trade global warming tax, there’s no time like the present for America to jump off this bandwagon.

It’s headed for an abyss and America doesn’t want to be on it when it goes over.

LAURIE'S VINEYARD VIOLATION- New York Post

SELF-proclaimed environmentalist Laurie David is once again paving over protected wetlands in Martha's Vineyard to make improvements to her Chilmark estate.

The Vineyard Gazette reports that David, ex-wife of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David and executive producer of the global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," was fined $900 Tuesday after receiving a citation from the Chilmark conservation commission.
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Maybe it wouldn't be such a major deal on the Vineyard if the supposed eco-obsessed celebrity hadn't been cited for the exact same violation four years ago. In 2005, David constructed a stone fire pit, a barbecue area and a children's theater stage in a wetlands area without a permit.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: The real starting point in the global warming debate

...about four years ago [hasn't it been much longer than that?] some people began to suggest that there is a time limit for effective action to combat global warming, which has introduced a note of urgency.

The Daily Star - Details News

The state minister said it is very vital to develop green belt and have green coverage to combat greenhouse gas emission. “There is no alternative to afforestation for survival in these days of global warming.”

The Heartland Institute - Followup to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change

“The ICCC was a great success, and I believe we're turning the tide--in public opinion, anyway. Politicians and media seem likely to be the last ones to get the memo that AGW is a dead issue.”

E. Calvin Beisner
National Spokesman
The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation

Seems odd, since the world is allegedly overheating and all: Record Cold Weather Payment payout for Age Concern customers

Following the coldest winter for over a decade, almost 200,000 gas customers on the Age Concern Energy Services tariff, developed in conjunction with E.ON, are set to receive the highest ever Cold Weather Payment payout between May and July this year, the total sum of which will exceed £4 million - a record amount for Age Concern Energy Services and paid for by E.ON. This figure is more than double the payment issued last year and is sure to be welcomed by many older people across the UK.

Carbon [credit fraud means] cash

There's a relatively new income potential available for Kansas farmers, ranchers and landowners. It's called carbon credits and can be earned primarily through conservation practices implemented on farms and ranches.

A carbon credit is not something you can taste, smell or see, says Steve Swaffar, Kansas Farm Bureau Natural Resources director.

"You can't reach in the grain bin and grab a handful of carbon credits, and you can't feed a carbon credit to a steer to fatten it for market."

But producers can sell carbon credits like any other farm commodity or product. Farmers and ranchers can be paid for storing carbon in the soil through continuous no-till or strip-till farming, planting of new grasses, specific rangeland management practices, forestry management and methane capture utilizing ag methane digesters.

Groundhog Day: Climate talks to begin grappling with treaty text - Taiwan News Online

Climate negotiators reconvene this week to work on the text of a new global warming treaty, now a draft riddled with conflicting options that demonstrate deep divisions on how to tackle climate change.

Delegates from 174 countries and 230 nongovernment interest groups meet from Monday through June 12 in Bonn, Germany, in the second of five negotiating conferences to culminate with a final agreement being adopted in December in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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With so many holes in the agreement remaining to be closed, doubts have been raised that the deal can be done by December in Denmark.

"There's going to have to be a lot of work after Copenhagen, no matter what," said Alden Meyer, of the Washington-based Union of Concerned Scientists. "But the question is whether we can lay out the aggressive, ambitious and equitable elements that we need to get a political agreement _ and then fill in the details afterward."

Groundhog Day 1993: Movie and film review from Answers.com

...he wakes up the next morning with the strangest sense of déjà vu: he seems to be living the same day over again. The next morning it happens again, and then again. Soon, no matter what he does, he's stuck in February 2, 1992; not imprisonment nor attempted suicide nor kidnapping the groundhog gets him out of the loop.

KeithHennessey.com » The Smoot-Krugman carbon import tariff

I have tremendous respect for Dr. Krugman’s past work as an international economist. I am surprised that he is willing to risk a global trade war, and that he would apparently fire the first shot when the global economy is so weak.

Climate Crisis: What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine? « Chrisy58’s Weblog

Obama needs to call on all of us, at every level. Our new president has more innate ability to inspire than perhaps any leader we’ve witnessed in decades. We’ve seen him call us to our best. It’s time for him to do it again.

The most important thing Obama can do is unite us in a common mission: to do everything we can imagine to fight climate change.

KLF ONLINE » Green bomb Brooklyn for the Danger Global Warming Project Music Video (John and Jay St.)

Sunday May 31st at 12 p.m. at John and Jay St.. (4 Blocks from the York Street F Train Station). Bring a green plant to donate to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy as statement to build more rooftop gardens to offset carbon output.

The Danger Global Warming Project is revving up! The project will be the largest global climate change awareness campaign, inviting people to ‘get stuck in’ to the issue through art, music and film. Actors, filmmakers, musicians and artists contributing to the multi-media campaign include: Casey Affleck (actor), Gillian Anderson (actor), Jill Greenberg (artist), Andy Goldsworty (artist), Goldfrapp (musician), Roger Sanchez (DJ), Andrew WK (musician) and many others. All the artists involved have contributed their work for free.

Green Baby Guide | Green By Any Other Name (Eco-burnout?)

As we mentioned in this post, our publisher wanted us to think of a new name for our book, which was previously titled the Green Baby Guide: Down-to-Earth Ways to Save Money and the Planet. The reason? Green fatigue. In just a few years, “green” got played out. What does this mean for the “green movement” in general?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Aw: Obama takes NBC News out for burgers [You know, the ones containing the meat that #1 climate alarmist Hansen says we must avoid]

And like any good gentleman out on a date with someone who loves him, he paid. Just a spur-of-the-moment thing, mind you, befitting the regular guy that he is; the fact that this happened on the very day NBC is following him around for its “day in the life of the president” documentary is a complete coincidence.

Dec '08: Climate fraudster Dr. James Hansen suggests avoiding meat to prevent climate disasters

Dr. Hansen (M): There are many things that people can do to reduce their carbon emissions, but changing your light bulb and many of the things are much less effective than changing your diet, because if you eat further down on the food chain rather than animals, which have produced many greenhouse gases, and used much energy in the process of growing that meat, you can actually make a bigger contribution in that way than just about anything. So, that, in terms of individual action, is perhaps the best thing you can do.

Senators Attempt to Bring Climate [Fraud] Legislation to Floor

About 25 Democratic Senators have begun the process of moving the climate change legislation approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week through the Senate chamber. The group, led by Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., is trying to come up with a strategy to bring the climate bill to the Senate floor. Moving a climate change bill is a priority for President Obama and Democratic leaders but is facing challenges because regulating carbon dioxide emissions could affect the entire U.S. economy and raise prices.

Jus' Sayin': Why Cap and Trade

The greenies love an ETS because it acknowledges their end is nigh, doom laden paradigm as the truth. Only problem is that the whole concept of carbon reduction in the name of climate control is starting to look like utter hogwash when viewed from a disinterested scientific perspective. So in the end, all pain, no gain... and us poor consumers get to pay the bill for all this folly.

MaxRedline: Democrats, Biofoolishness, and Global Warming

What do you suppose all of these factors have on the relative volume of "dangerous" carbon dioxide emissions? If you guess that they actually increase the volume, you get a gold star.

Longrider » Climate Alarmists and Lies

Never mind that natural disasters and disease predate AGW by several millenia, let’s run a completely made up story and dress it up as a report. With Kofi Annan’s name in the frame, I can’t say I am over surprised by the alarmist tone backed up by f*ck-all evidence.

What is disturbing, as BH points out, is that news agencies trot this stuff out without bothering to challenge the reliability of the claims being made.

YouTube Cannes Young Lions Ad Contest: “Nah Nah Nah”: Sorry, I'm STILL not convinced that we should hand trillions of dollars to hucksters

Twitter / AmusingU

Just like on a resume you should use WoW words-instead of Global Warming call it Global Inferno.

Georgia State wins NASA grant to [promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time]

The FINANCIAL -- Georgia State University will use a recently awarded $499,950 grant from NASA to help improve learning about global climate change for high schoolers, undergraduates and teachers in training, in addition to purchasing a unique urban carbon dioxide monitor to further research and teaching in the field.

Piers Corbyn calculator upgrade to coincide with New Met Office Super Computer | Climate Realists

The cost of the upgrade is likely to hit the £50 mark but Piers Corbyn said he felt the trusty calculator had done enough work and that it needed to be replaced with a modern day version that had some extra function keys. Although the cost will be a lot less then the Met Office new super computer, Piers is very confident that his investment will be money well spent, but not so sure the Met Office can say the same.

Image AttachmentHe also went onto say, although the Met Office had spend so much money on their Super Computer they will not be able to forecast further then the same time span of 5 to 9 days as our climate changes from solar activity from the Sun and NOT "Man Made CO2".

The Met Office do not have the knowhow to program the Solar variable into their new computer, in short, they could spend 300 billion on a new computer and it would not make the slightest difference to their forecast.

On CH4, Poverty and CO2 - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

It is also becoming ever clearer that the world has vast untapped stores of natural gas, everywhere from the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico to a wide swath of the Arctic.

What gives with RealClimate?: Since May 7, the hockey team has managed to put up exactly ONE post

Guest commentary by Ron Miller, NASA GISS

Lawmaker Outlines 4 Key Changes In Climate Change Bill | TriCities

ABINGDON, Va. – Federal climate change legislation recently approved in committee has a softer impact on the coal industry and electric rate-payers, U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., said Friday.

“My goal is to make sure the CO2 control law does not affect us at all and preserves the coal jobs, keeps the coal industry prosperous and allows it to continue,” Boucher said, adding that carefully timed schedules, offset provisions and technology subsidies will mean coal can be used in the future without carbon dioxide emissions.

Courier-Journal - GOP attacks Democrats for climate proposal

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Saturday attacked the climate change proposal crafted by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama as doing little to reduce global warming while saddling Americans with high energy costs.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, in the GOP's weekly radio and Internet address, called the House climate bill "a classic example of unwise government." The address culminated a week of coordinated Republican attacks on the Democratic proposal which would require the first nationwide reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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The proposal to cap greenhouse emissions "will cost us dearly in jobs and income and it stands no chance of achieving its objective of a cooler earth [be careful what you wish for]" because other nation's such as China and India will not have to follow, argues Daniels, according to a transcript of the Saturday address.

A trio of kite skiers is heading to Greenland to attempt an unsupported crossing of its ice cap just for the adventure and to raise awareness of global warming. | GORE LIED

Speaking of “raising awareness for global warming” - is it really possible that there are any souls in the civilized world who aren’t aware of the alarmist’s message? Hasn’t just about everyone been proselytized to through the mainstream media’s regurgitating Al Gore’s message of the coming CO2-induced apocalypse?

I think deep down these grown men know kite skiing across the Greenland icecap is just a juvenile stunt that has no productive value, so they wrap their “adventure” in a cloak of righteousness to convince themselves that that what they are doing has some shred of importance.

How not to measure temperature, part 87: Grilling in the cornhusker state « Watts Up With That?

One of the common themes seen with the surfacestations.org project has been the proximity of BBQ grills to official NOAA thermometers used in the United States Historical Climate Network (USHCN). Despite now having surveyed over 77% of the 1221 station network, some truths continue to be self evident.

UPDATE: Burger King Corp says Global Warming is Only Baloney in Memphis | Sing All Kinds | Memphis Flyer

Long story short: Burger King Corp. has no official point of view regarding global warming and climate science, but somebody connected to MIC, a large local franchisee, thinks it's all baloney and wants to say so in a very public way. That same somebody has most likely received a tersely worded message all about franchise agreements and contentious brand associations. But BKC still may not have grasped the full scope of the messaging.

Climate change [fraud] bill transcends party lines | Rep. Mary Bono Mack | The Desert Sun

Regardless of one's thoughts on the politics of climate change, it is evident that federal regulation of greenhouse gases will be adopted, whether it's by the Environmental Protection Agency or Congress.

Recognizing this, I have been working with Chairman Henry Waxman and my colleagues on the committee to improve this bill to better protect our economy, consumers and businesses.

Intrade Prediction Markets: Note that the high bid is currently a nickel for a contract that will pay $1.00 if a US cap and trade system is established in 2009

Links via Benny Peiser

EXORCISING KYOTO, JAPANESE NOW WANT EMISSIONS TO RISE

TOKYO, May 29 (Reuters) - The high costs Japan would incur if Tokyo promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020 would be hard for the public to accept during the recession, Prime Minister Taro Aso said on Friday.
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Aso also told the same committee that he would take into account that the plus 4 percent option attracted the largest number of comments from the public in the past month.

CHINESE REALISM: COPENHAGEN UNLIKELY TO AGREE NEW CLIMATE TREATY

BEIJING (Reuters) - Global negotiations late this year need not specify greenhouse gas cuts for the United States and other rich countries, as long as they set the right note for later talks, a Chinese climate policy official said on Tuesday.

Gao Guangsheng, a leading official in China's National Coordination Committee for Climate Change, told Reuters the negotiators in Copenhagen in December may not be able to agree on a full-fledged climate change pact, and may instead open the way for more specific negotiations as policy options mature.
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Experts widely agree that China has passed the United States as the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels that is trapping dangerous levels of solar heat in the atmosphere.
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But Beijing says developing nations should not accept mandatory emissions caps to solve a global warming problem caused over centuries by wealthy countries, which still have much higher per capita emissions than poorer nations like China.

LOWERING EXPECTATIONS FOR COPENHAGEN - Times Online

Achieving a workable international deal to tackle climate change successfully is being threatened by overambitious targets set for the world conference on global warming this year, experts said yesterday.

Anxieties over whether a viable and effective agreement to combat global warming can be secured in Copenhagen in December will be fuelled by the concerns voiced yesterday at the annual Munich Economic Summit, supported by The Times.

Carlo Carraro, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Venice, led warnings that overly demanding goals set by governments worldwide for the Copenhagen gathering could doom to failure any deal struck there.

GERMANY QUIETLY KILLS EU EMISSIONS TRADING PLANS FOR AIRLINES

According to Germany's Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD), there is no chance of the emissions trading scheme being introduced for the EU airlines industry anytime soon. [Transl BJP]

NASA: SUN IS BEHAVING IN AN UNEXPECTED WAY

The latest forecast revises an earlier prediction issued in 2007. At that time, a sharply divided panel believed solar minimum would come in March 2008 followed by either a strong solar maximum in 2011 or a weak solar maximum in 2012. Competing models gave different answers, and researchers were eager for the sun to reveal which was correct.

"It turns out that none of our models were totally correct," says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's lead representative on the panel. "The sun is behaving in an unexpected and very interesting way."

HERE'S A GOOD QUESTION: HOW MANY IPCC SCIENTISTS FABRICATE AND FALSIFY RESEARCH?

It's a long-standing and crucial question that, as yet, remains unanswered: just how common is scientific misconduct? In the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh reports the first meta-analysis of surveys questioning scientists about their misbehaviours. The results suggest that altering or making up data is more frequent than previously estimated and might be particularly high in medical research.

JIM MANZI: WAXMAN-MARKEY CLIMATE BILL CANNOT SURVIVE COST-BENFIT ANALYSIS

I’ve had to rely on informal studies and back-of-envelope calculations to do this cost/benefit analysis. Why haven’t advocates and sponsors of the proposal done their own? Why are they urging Congress to make an incredible commitment of resources without even cursory analysis of the economic consequences? The answer should be obvious: This is a terrible deal for American taxpayers.

Lawrence Solomon: Enron's other secret - FP Comment

In the climate-change debate, the companies on the ‘environmental’ side have the most to gain.
First in a series.
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The climate-change industry — the scientists, lawyers, consultants, lobbyists and, most importantly, the multinationals that work behind the scenes to cash in on the riches at stake — has emerged as the world’s largest industry.
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Most of all, the skeptics are treated with suspicion, and accused of having been in the pay of the energy industry. The public in good part has accepted these accusations, its underlying assumption being that the fossil-fuel industry has the most at stake in climate-change policy. But if the public is to be skeptical of the influence that big money has over global-warming science, it should take the temperature anew, and recognize that the biggest money interest of all in the climate change debate lies with those poised to cash in on the climate-change policies of Kyoto and its successors.

Climate change toll is crucial evidence | [Pure climate fraud from] Mark Lynas

With the deadly effect of global warming quantified, international law can be invoked and the perpetrators punished

It's a tsunami every year. According to a report released today, a third of a million people die annually because of climate change – mostly because of malaria and malnutrition, although weather-related disasters are also taking a rising toll. The number of deaths is equivalent to the lives lost in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster of 2004.
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But the numbers are increasingly clear, and responsibilities cannot be evaded for ever. The legal implications are analogous to those faced by the tobacco industry once evidence solidified about the links between smoking and cancer. Shareholders and investors in fossil fuels need to be aware that they now face a liability that will amount to hundreds of billions of dollars – their products are killing people, and it is only a matter of time before the wheels of international justice begin to turn.

“Subsidymagination:” GE’s regulatory robbery Opinion Articles - Timothy Carney | Editorials on Top News Stories | Washington Examiner

Imagine a salesman comes to your door peddling composting barrels. You tell him that while composting would offer some benefits—good for the environment, free topsoil—you don’t think it’s worth the cost.

He replies, “Oh, sir, but I’m afraid you don’t really have a choice. You see, the county government just passed a law requiring everyone to use a composting barrel. I should know—I’m also a lobbyist, and I helped write the law.”
You’d call that a racket. On a far larger scale—peddling “greenhouse gas credits” and windmills instead of composting barrels—General Electric calls it “Ecomagination.” Author Steve Milloy has come up with another apt name for much of GE’s business “Subsidymagination.”

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Inventorying Pelosi

Make no mistake about it. The climate-change activists want state control of energy production and use, which will allow the government control over every aspect of our lives. It’s the lifelong dream of utopian elitists. This only counts as a gaffe under the definition of the term as “the accidental telling of an embarrassing truth by a politician”.

Gag me: Check out this marmot propaganda from Dec. '07

Waking up early | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Rising temperatures are nudging animals out of hibernation and into peril.
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So far the early wake-up call probably hasn’t hurt yellow-bellied marmots. “Our population is exploding,” says Blumstein. “Everybody is fat and happy,” because vegetation starts growing rapidly after snow melts.

Alarmist Florida journalist Steve Hart fantasizes about an ol' couple, droppin' their g's and believin' in Oxfam's climate fraud

We better keep watch on the coastline : Down Yonder : Marco News

[ol' woman] Your kids and your grandchillins is gonna be here, and if the climate changes like most of the scientists think it will, they’s gonna have a heckuva mess on their hands if we don’t — right now — stop burnin’ so much fossil fuels and puttin’ too much of that carbon dioxide up in the atmosphere. We’ve pumped so much extra carbon dioxide into the air over the past 100 years that our natural system can’t absorb it all and it’s about to turn the planet into one big greenhouse and it don’t function very well that way.”
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“Exactly right,” said the ol’ woman. “If I add more ice, the glass will overflow and if too much ice that’s now on land melts into the seas, the seas will overflow and you’ll be sitting here in a SCUBA suit.”

“Okay, so what?” asked the ol’ man. “I’ll just buy beachfront property in Sebring.”

“That ain’t the point, either,” said the ol’ woman. “Climate change could lead to all kinds of disasters around the world. Oxfam, a bunch that knows sumpthin’ ‘bout disasters, says there could be as many as 400 million people sufferin’ from natural disasters – all climate related – by 2015.”

YouTube - If Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi ran the world

Nancy Pelosi recently commented that we should all be subject to an inventory of carbon emission responsibilities. Big Brother move over! If Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi are able to push through their cap and trade scheme the future impact on all of us may be very chilling indeed. [Via The Chilling Effect]

Bravo, Missouri Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer

That “human emissions of carbon are causing our climate to change has been proven very doubtful at the most by the sound science that’s being promoted at the present time,” Luetkemeyer said in an interview. “So therefore the whole basis of this cap-and-trade policy is based on bad science and incorrect assumptions. So as a result, I see that we are headed down a path that we don’t need to go down.”

If you honestly believed that carbon dioxide was dangerous, why in the world would you give the answer in bold below?

"The crass political answer is that you're either at the table, or on the menu," said Peter Molinaro, a spokesman for Dow, explaining why Liveris chose to work with Democratic representatives Edward Markey and Henry Waxman on the climate change bill.

But Molinaro also said that by taking a seat at the table, Dow was able to get some satisfaction: The proposed new rules, while costly to the chemical industry as a whole, will also help companies create less waste and be more energy-efficient, he said, saving them money in the long run.

"It became natural for us to not just acknowledge the problem [of global warming], but in being part of the solution for it," Molinaro said. "It's for real. It's not just about image."

Sheer madness: US Foreign Relations chairman fears natural atmospheric gas as much as he fears nuclear armageddon?!

Calling climate change as pressing an issue as nuclear proliferation, Kerry said breakthroughs in renewable energy held the potential to "transform the economy" more than the Internet.

John Kerry: Biography from Answers.com

Senator Kerry is currently the Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Lots of climate realist comments on Star Tribune climate lunacy story: Climate-change diasters kill 300,000 people a year, cause $125 billion in losses

Hahahahaha!

Is this serious or am I reading the Onion? 300,000 deaths from mother nature, tornados, hurricanes, floods and all of the sudden my car is to blame. You people are nuts! Lefty loons!

The Trib's "eco-chic lifestyle expert" Kim Carlson seems befuddled by the comments above

But why do green stories elicit such a angry response from a handful of the same readers each time?
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I believe that the root of these negative sentiments is that some people can’t cope with change. Our world is changing and some simply can’t deal with it. They are part of a dwindling group of people who are on the brown end of the green behavior spectrum and they are very vocal because they have to be. They are dwindling in numbers and have lost support as people have been waking up to the serious environmental pickle that we have gotten ourselves in.

Snow gets extended run : City & Region : The Buffalo News

After failing to make money by redeveloping the Wintergarden, Joseph Anderson is giving winter in Niagara Falls another try.

Anderson, the Tuscarora cigarette and gasoline magnate, is building a 49-foot snow tubing hill on Main Street in the Falls. Scheduled to open next month, it would operate year-round.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » SCHWARZENEGGER: We’re Broke, But We’ll Keep Supporting Hydrogen….

SCHWARZENEGGER: We’re Broke, But We’ll Keep Supporting Hydrogen.

Again, prepare now for better-than-expected weather: Rendell Announces $76 Million to Create Green Jobs, Sustainable Communities

“Investments in smart transportation and creating safe routes to schools offer travel options that help reduce reliance on fossil fuels. By building more rational connections within communities we can reduce vehicle use and attract pedestrians and bicyclists. These small steps will help Pennsylvania and the nation combat climate change and reduce reliance on imported fuels,” the governor said.

Once-frosty pelicans take wing thanks to rescue effort

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) - The Wildlife Center of the North Coast recently released 14 California brown pelicans that were stranded in this winter's snowstorms and taken in for treatment.

In December and January, the Olney wildlife center received 35 ailing, emaciated and frostbitten pelicans that didn't make it to California before the bitter cold hit Oregon. The birds were part of a major stranding event that affected an estimated 300 to 400 pelicans in the region.
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Some of the birds needed surgery on their feet because the frostbite had killed part of their bones. The center is making sure all the birds had at least half their foot web back before releasing them.

Will hurricanes skip state for a fourth season?

TAMPA - For Florida residents, the big question is whether the state can make it through the fourth storm season in a row without a hurricane crossing its shoreline.

Global-warming doubters - Jessica's Well

I was resistant to all of these things because I smelled them being sold as a religion. I've no problem with a supernatural religion, as long as its adherents don't blow themselves and others up--for you cannot disprove their tenets. You can't prove them, either, but then who knows? They might be true and if they promote good and generous behavior I'm all for them. But the secular religions cause in me severe distress and even more of a curled lip of disdain because we are told that we must believe something and therefore verifiable facts simply don't enter into it. A fact? The very cheek! Bring out the modern Iron Maiden! Cut his funding!

How refreshing to find, and on the Senate website, not something that I'd normally refer to as authoritative about anything other than Senators' self-importance, some Global Warming Doubters.

And it is also refreshing to think that it is just possible that the Holy Gore will become even more preposterous as he continues his well-paid jeremiad and hypocritical hair-shirt environmentalism. I long for the day when he cannot draw a crowd at a run-down shopping mall and the only people who are not laughing at him are those remaining on the environmental tit.

Climate change [fraud] information overload?

The more reports produced on climate change, the better for creating awareness, argued Michael Rubinstein, head of media relations at the US-based think-tank, International Food Policy Research Institute. "Each report reinforces the message that there is a progressive drumbeat on the issue; that there is now a global consensus on the extent of the impact of climate change."

He said this was particularly important because until recently there had been "false equivalency": reports tended to produce views from both sides of the climate change debate, from people who believed in it and those who did not.

Investment Greats: Charlie Munger - 29/05/2009

He is vehemently against the ethanol initiatives, which he regards as pricing food out of the range of poor families, and also opposes cap-and-trade carbon policies as insane.

WHY ARE SIMPLE ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS ALWAYS CONTROVERSIAL?

People were mocking Chu for his prosaic-but-effective idea, which recalls the fracas around Obama's campaign suggestion that Americans check their tire pressure to make sure their cars were running as efficiently as possible. The RNC and Rush Limbaugh had a field day with that suggestion, even though it was true that it would be a helpful move. I have a hard time figuring out why these kinds of ideas are considered laughable -- anything to score a political point, I suppose. You'd think people who oppose big-government plans like cap-and-trade would want to encourage relatively simple measures to solve the problems of global warming and our unsustainable energy regime. Oh, but they don't believe that global warming and sustainability are actually problems. Sigh.

And the "simple" solution here involves mandating that 30 billion or so square feet of commercial roof space be painted white, because our Energy Secretary thinks that might improve the world's weather?

The power of deep frozen fiction - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au

Stories of the battle to survive extreme cold have great appeal, writes Jane Sullivan.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Global warming and Antarctic ice

The objects of fear keep changing for global warming. It seems like only yesterday that we were all so worried about the North Pole being ice free. Now that the ice is back to normal, those concerned with global warming want us to turn our attention to the South Pole, and their fears that Antarctica is warming.

A recent study was conducted by lead scientist Eric Steig and others that seemed to show that Antarctica was warming. This is strange, because prior data said it was cooling, and in fact the cooling was said to be predicted by earlier climate models.

SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Global warming will hit the poor hardest--but it's poverty, not the heat that will kill

Back in 2003, the Milan conference on global warming estimated that 150,000 people died a year from global warming. But they didn't include heat deaths. Why? Because then they would have had to include deaths from cold. As warming would reduce deaths from cold by so much, it would have turned the whole number negative, so they just focused on deaths from malaria, diarrhea and such like. But those are diseases of poverty, not of climate. If the victims of those diseases in the developing world had access to clean water, electricity, micronutrients and education, those 150,000 people would not die.

It is not the climate. It is the poverty.

ONE | Decisions, decisions: Should I sign this petition?

Dear Yvo de Boer , In the negotiations for the Copenhagen Climate Conference, please advocate for sufficient adaptation funding for countries currently suffering from the effects of climate change.

As the climate swindle fizzles, is HSBC bummed out?

HSBC: Down on Waxman-Markey Climate Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJ

HSBC, the big investment bank, is gloomy about the “watered-down” bill that made it out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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With Democrats controlling the White House, House, and Senate, HSBC notes, this really is as good as it gets for aggressive action on energy and climate change. Is the current Waxman-Markey bill the high-water mark for “greening” U.S. energy policy?

Oct '07: Barclays and HSBC: making the case for climate action by big banks - ClimateChangeCorp.com

The opportunities for banks from climate change are huge, according to HSBC, one of the world’s biggest banks.

“We can finance a wholesale shift to a low carbon economy”, Jon Williams, head of sustainable development for the bank, told the summit. “Climate change can be tackled at minimal economic cost if we do it today”.

LewRockwell.com Blog: CNN's "Climate Change" Dishonesty

CNN's dishonesty continues as it published photos of the alleged "devastation" being caused by human-oriented "global warming." Notice that Ted Turner's organization does not tell us that glaciers have been melting for a long time, and that there were huge storms around the globe long before the "global warming" nannies came on the scene.

Island sheep focus of climate-change [swindle] study - UPI.com

HERMOSILLO, Mexico, May 29 (UPI) -- Scientists say they're studying bighorn sheep on an island off the coast of Mexico to determine the effects of climate change on endangered species.

The sheep, brought to Tiburon Island in 1975, are not at risk from disease or predators, said Barry Brook, a researcher with Faculty of 1000, a London-based cooperative of international scientists.

Climate change is the only variable threat to the sheep, making them good subjects for a mathematical model aimed at predicting the effects of such change, Brook and fellow researchers from Germany, the United States and Mexico said. One part of the model simulates the effect of increased drought on the sheep's population, drought being a side-effect of climate change.

Can human rights be the climate [fraud] movement’s moral guide? | Grist

I’m spending this Thursday and Friday at the Three Degrees conference on climate change and human rights, hosted by the University of Washington School of Law. Some 40 speakers—mostly legal scholars, but also public health experts, NGO leaders, trial lawyers, and political organizers—are gathered to debate the future of the law as it applies to victims of climate change. The first day was though-provoking, sobering, and occasionally bewildering. Oddly enough, the biggest moment of clarity for me was a story one of the speakers told about another conference.
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* Finally, on a completely different note, my biggest mistake of the day might have been arriving too late to hear the morning performance of Climbing Poetree, a spoken-word/artists-of-many-stripes duo. They were listed as “conference inspiration,” which I figured was an oxymoron. But I’m told they floored the 200 or so attendees. You just don’t hear many stories of people moved to tears at law school conferences.

united states weather 1950-2009 - Wolfram|Alpha

Report that 315,000 deaths per year from effects of CO2 concentrations "deeply flawed". Meantime, 800,000 really do die each year from H20. | GORE LIED

So, the Global Humanitarian Forum report “is a lie”, but the fact that more than 800,000 die from H20 every year is very, very true:

"Warming" [Fraud] and Death - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

There are significant questions about the robustness of the numbers at the heart of the new report estimating more than 300,000 deaths are already being caused each year by global warming, with nearly twice that number possible by 2030. The report was commissioned by the Global Humanitarian Forum, created in 2007 by the former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, and reviews reams of data and earlier analysis by other researchers and groups. More on the questions is below.

Here’s a video news release, with nary a caveat...

Durant Daily Democrat - Pageant board hosts sendoff party for [alarmist] Miss Southeastern Oklahoma

Legg’s platform is “Go Green: Environmental Awareness for All Ages.” She wants others to be aware of the impact they make on the environment.

Legg, who is double majoring in mechanical engineering and geology at the University of Oklahoma, said she has reached approximately 200 children so far with her “go green” message.

Many of the children want to know a lot about her, including if she rides in a limo and gets free stuff, Legg said, smiling.

“They’re excited to help the planet,” she said. “They want to do anything to help.”

Legg told a group of women at the First Texoma National Bank Tuesday night that Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” was the inspiration for her platform.

COPENHAGEN DRAFT TEXT: PUTTING OFF CLIMATE DEAL UNTIL 2011?

With time running short ahead of Copenhagen, analysts say many details of the new deal to succeed the existing Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012 may be left vague.

"Everyone agrees that there is going to be a lot of work to be done after Copenhagen, no matter what," said Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Options in some of the draft texts -- for instance whether to allow credits for investments in capturing and storing emissions from coal-fired power plants in developing nations -- include simply putting off decisions until 2010 or even 2011. [Via Benny Peiser]

More complete insanity: Author envisions trace amounts of CO2 making US so dry that we attack Canadians for their water?!

Author speaking on global warming and conflict - Niagara Falls Review - Ontario, CA

Americans could "kick the door in" if they get desperate for water and Canada holds out, says author Gwynne Dyer, an expert on what causes nations to go to war.

"The Americans are almost already desperate for water almost everywhere west of the Mississippi. And it's only going to get worse. They suffer really seriously from climate change," the Canadian writer said in a phone interview from his London, England home.

Pelosi, Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Holds Press Conference in Beijing

[Congressman Sensenbrenner] Since Speaker Gingrich named me Chair of the Congressional Delegation to the Kyoto negotiations 11 1/2 years ago, I have followed this issue very closely. I am very discouraged at the conversations that we have had with all of our Chinese counterparts during this visit.

It's business as usual for China. The message that I received was that China was going to do it their way regardless of what the rest of the world negotiates in Copenhagen.

I point out that in 1997 the United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution that that would not ratify a climate change treaty that was not global in application. And while President Clinton signed the Kyoto Protocol, he never submitted it to the Senate for ratification because he knew it would be rejected there. I fear that we are on the same road and if Copenhagen is the son of Kyoto, the same thing is going to happen.

What the Chinese have told us is very interesting math. They have said that they are reducing their carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 20 percent over the five year period from 2005- 2010. Since the Chinese GDP is going up rather dramatically, that will still result in a significant increase in emissions in China -- while the Chinese are calling for the rest of the world to reduce their emissions below current levels. That is frankly unacceptable.

Also, last December, China tabled a proposal at the United Nations that called for each nation to put 1 percent of their GDP into the clean development fund. For the United States that's $140 billion dollars a year. That money will be borrowed and we will be borrowing it from China as well as other donor nations. And to borrow this amount of money, to turn around and give it back makes no sense whatsoever and I think the Congress will reject it overwhelmingly if it is submitted.

Nancy Pelosi: Haute-ing up the planet « Green Hell Blog

Generously assuming that the average American family of four has a net worth of $100,000, then the impact on the planet of Nancy Pelosi and her family would be at least 437 times greater, according to I+PAT — and that does not take into account her family’s energy use which is undoubtedly much greater than that of the average American family.

Prepare for better-than-expected weather: Obama Administration Orders Year-Long Ban On Roadless Forest Activities

"Our roadless forests safeguard clean drinking water for millions of Americans, provide recreational opportunities, protect habitat for wildlife, and provide a defense against the increasing threats of global warming," TWS President William Meadows said.

[Climate Fraud] Forum Says Climate Shift Brings Deaths - NYTimes.com

Roger A. Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the forum’s report was “a methodological embarrassment” because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable regions. Dr. Pielke said that “climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost attention.” But the report, he said, “will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed.”

More from Pielke Jr:

It will give ammunition to those opposed to action and divert attention away from the people who actually need help in the face of disasters, yet through this report have been reduced to a bloodless statistic for use in the promotional battle over climate policies. The report is worse than fiction, it is a lie. These are strong words I know.

More climate lunacy from our Vice President

May 18, 2009: Wake Forest Commencement Address by Vice President Joseph Biden

We're either going to revive and reverse climate change, or literally drown in our indifference.

More pure climate fraud from IPCC head Pachauri

This silent suffering | Rajendra Pachauri | The Guardian

Few doubt the science of climate change – but its impact on the world's poor is largely ignored

Science is now unequivocal as to the reality of climate change. However, one facet - its human face - has been dangerously neglected. Until now. Given what the science tells us about global warming, how many ­people around the world will be affected, in what way, and at what cost?

These are the questions that a major new report attempts to answer for the first time. Its findings indicate that hundreds of millions of people are already permanently or temporarily affected, and half a billion are at extreme risk now. Because of climate change, each year hundreds of thousands lose their lives. All these figures are set to increase rapidly in as little as 10-20 years.
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Next week a series of UN talks will take place in Bonn – one of the last stepping stones in the effort to reach international agreement on how the world should tackle climate change, at the Copenhagen summit in December. Any post-Kyoto agreement must take into account the tremendous scale of suffering already being caused today.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » More on ‘The Goode Family’ - Lighten Up, Libs!

I guess Ginia didn’t read about the increasing numbers of Americans who believe that the global warming hype is exaggerated. And regardless of whether they believe it’s true, global warming is currently at the bottom of the list of Americans’ priorities. Poor Al Gore - time for another documentary to hype the masses.

That statement also made me think of the now famous quote by elite Manhattanite and New Yorker columnist Pauline Kael after Richard Nixon’s sweeping presidential victory in 1972: “I don’t know how Richard Nixon could have won. I don’t know anybody who voted for him.” Maybe like Pauline, Ginia needs to get out a little more.

Obama vs. The Beach Boys - WSJ.com

To put a stop to the new sin of spending too much time out on Highway 9, we are getting the mark-up hearings this week in Washington for the Waxman-Markey climate bill. It's 900 pages long, dripping with thousands of Mickey-Mouse rules to reorder how we live. A Senate Finance Committee document last week on the Obama health-care plan proposes "lifestyle related revenue raisers." Lifestyles like drinking beer. This is the "taxing bad behavior" movement. They get to define what's bad.

I think many alarmists are not hucksters, but do suffer from delusions of grandeur or megalomania

All female youth team at United Nation climate change talks

Three young women are on their way to Bonn to take part in climate change negotiations that will shape the future of the planet. They will be joining other young people from across the world to demand tough action from world leaders.
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We will be there to make sure that the survival of thousands of vulnerable people is being considered by world leaders who decide on the future of our climate".

Megalomania: Information from Answers.com

Whereas it is possible, in the case of megalomania, for an actually important man/woman to be preoccupied with his/her own actual importance, a person suffering from delusions of grandeur would stubbornly entertain patently false, generally fantastic and often highly complex ideas of his/her own importance, often with a supernatural or science-fictional bent.

Alberta: Courageous forecast demonstrates why weathermen make the big bucks 

"What we see in Alberta typically are stretches of heat for a few days and then things cool down," said meteorologist Chris Scott. "So expect those days where it's going to be hot and you're going to wish you had a pool, but also expect those chilly nights you get in the Prairies when the sun goes down.With the ups and downs, we'll average out to normal."

Songbirds take a Northwest vacation - Outdoors - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

After struggling with one of the coldest springs on record, the sight of these colorful birds from tropical regions to the south of us was the best spring tonic. Let’s hope they have brought the sun and warm weather to stay.

Watt-Cloutier to give LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture in Iqaluit

This year's symposium, which will include Friday's lecture and a town hall discussion on Saturday, will focus on Arctic sovereignty, environment and natural resources, Watt-Cloutier told CBC News.

A couple of years ago, during the height of global warming hysteria, I can't imagine alarmist Watt-Cloutier giving this talk without "global warming" listed as a focus.

It's not just a stupid, expensive way to generate small amounts of unreliable power--it's a symbol, like a cross on top of a church

Move over, Prius.

Your position as the ultimate 'green' status symbol is being challenged — by backyard wind turbines.
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Metro cities are in a race to be green, and Woodbury is close to the lead. It's a race in which image is as important as conservation.

"Our turbine is going to be very visible. It says, 'Buffalo is pro-active,' " said Joe Steffel, utilities director of Buffalo, which plans to start work Monday on a turbine at Buffalo High School.

More and more people are recognizing that urban wind turbines actually say "we weren't smart enough to reject the global warming scam".

When you don't really understand how the climate works, just keep tweaking your models: Scientists Tackle Climate Model Mystery | LiveScience

With these modifications, they found they were able to simulate global temperature and precipitation patterns in line with observations. Their black box inputs and outputs finally added up.

"Complexity doesn’t always get you a better large-scale simulation. If you aren't correctly representing complex interactions, you can be much better off keeping it simple," said Lawrence.

Obama: It's necessary to reduce dependence on oil | National Politics | Idaho Statesman

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the U.S. and Saudi Arabia must take steps to reduce dependence on oil to boost their economies and reduce threats to the planet from climate change.

That's the message Obama says he'll deliver to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia when they meet next Wednesday in Riyadh.

If Obama actually believes that global warming is the Biggest Threat of All Time, why in the world would "boost their economies" be listed first?!

Utility to Plant 1 Million Trees in Arkansas for Carbon [Scam] Offsets - ArkansasBusiness.com

Duke Energy has announced plans to plant 1 million trees on about 1,700 acres in Arkansas to help the electric power company generate carbon offsets.

The tree planting is part of the "GreenTrees" program, which seeks to reforest 1 million acres in seven states, most of them in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Duke Energy, based in Charlotte, N.C., is the lead investor in the program.

"The program is expected to generate high-quality, verifiable carbon offsets that Duke Energy believes will help reduce the overall cost of compliance with federal climate change legislation," a company press release said.

sp!ked review of books | What’s behind today’s epidemic of epidemics?

Yet if any topic illustrates the need to separate the dry, cautious and complex study of empirical reality from a moralised public debate being used to further the social power of a variety of interest groups – the very distinction which is at the heart of Alcabes’ book – it is the panic about global warming. From the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the reinvention of political loser Al Gore to the distortion of research funding and the downplaying of human welfare in the name of the planet, the climate crusade epitomises everything that Alcabes writes about. Contrary to what Alcabes suggests, for many climate change warriors there is, indeed, a single element responsible for screwing up the planet: humanity. Separating environmental problems, of which there are many of varying degrees of importance, from the misanthropic mindset of environmentalism is just the kind of thing that the method that informs Dread could help us to achieve.

The Climate Post: Climate scam failure in Copenhagen foreshadowed

Expectations for a conclusive deal have diminished over the last several months.
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Reuters interviews Gao Guangsheng, a top official in the National Coordination Committee for Climate Change, who acknowledges flexibility in the Chinese position. “I think Copenhagen may not be the final negotiation. It may set policy intentions so that we can keep negotiating,” he said.

American Thinker Blog: Alarmist Scientists Compare Climate Change to Thermonuclear Warfare

A London meeting of 60 scientists, including 20 Nobel Laureates, has issued a global warming manifesto which actually compares itself to the Einstein-Russell manifesto on the worldwide threat of H-bombs. And they’re quite serious.

A Masters Degree in Conservation Makes Your Green Cred Legit : TreeHugger

So, you want to test your green IQ? According to Rare, an environmental non-profit, the world's first Masters degree in Communication for Conservationists has been launched. It is in conjunction with University of Texas, El Paso, and will be set up in four schools across the world. Your requirement to graduate: change the world. No, seriously...you have to change the world in some way, and prove it in order to get your degree.

Or maybe many of us just realize that it's warmer near the Weber grill » The Psychology of Denial of Climate Change Danger

I believe that Mr. Goodall would agree that people will demand that something be done about climate change, after it is too late. When severe consequences occur, after the passing of several tipping points and momentum well underway for destruction of life on the planet as we know it, then there will be such a hue and cry.

Twitter / Yep, those are the two choices?

Making a bumper sticker: "If you think solar power is expensive, try climate change armageddon"

Exxon Mobil CEO Tells Shareholders That Fossil Fuels Have Long Future | CommonDreams.org

...Environmental proposals fared even worse. Proposals to adopt goals for limiting greenhouse-gas emissions, craft a policy for renewable energy research and development, and establish a task force to report on the likely consequences of climate change drew 29, 27 and 10 percent of shares voted, respectively.

The Associated Press: African officials ask for climate change [swindle] funding

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa contributes little to global warming but suffers disproportionately from its effects, the continent's environment ministers said Friday, calling for more money and support from rich nations ahead of a landmark climate conference.
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Experts project that within 11 years some African countries may see farm harvests drop by up to 50 percent because water will be scarce and the continent relies on rain for its agricultural production.

He works hard for the money: David Yarnold promotes climate fraud

By DAVID YARNOLD
Environmental Defense Fund

What if you needed a heart transplant, but you put off surgery until you became so weak an ambulance had to deliver you to the emergency room? By that time, you would be in immediate danger.

That's a lot like what's happening with global warming. Unless you're a scientist studying atmospheric chemistry, or you're paying very close attention to the global warming debate, the earth doesn't appear to be in immediate danger. But when scientists go looking for telltale warnings, they find them everywhere.

Make no mistake, climate change is an imminent danger, and that unpleasant fact will become increasingly clear over the coming decades. The best experts tell us we need to get the planet to the hospital, right now.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Climate politics scoop and question of the week

Okay, I don’t know if it is a scoop, heck, I don’t know for certain it is true, but very reliable source tells me that speaker Pelosi wants the climate bill on the House floor the last week in June.

Investor's Business Daily -- Big Oil Bites Back

Companies: After an all-out war on oil companies from the left in recent years, it bodes well for the future to see Big Oil now recognizing the attack it's under and its duty to fight back. Witness Chevron and Exxon Mobil.

Bill Clinton continues to promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time

The third challenge Clinton commented on is the current "unstable economic model" which he linked to the way people produce and use energy.

He said there will be a need for oil well into the future, but that doesn't mean we can't reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

"The real question is, can we find ... an economically positive way to combat climate change so that we can save the planet for our grandchildren?"

WWF sponsors Climate Fraud Postcard Promotion for Children!

Around the time of Earth Hour, we launched the My Future, My Climate Postcard Contest in an effort to engage young Canadians in the climate change issue and to give them an opportunity to shape decisions that will impact them now and in the future. After all, their voice matters because the planet is theirs to inherit.

The task was simple. We asked kids between the ages of 6 and 14 to create a postcard. The front was artwork showing their climate change solution. The other side was a message to the Prime Minister about why they participated in Earth Hour and some ideas about what he can do to fight climate change. Following the contest, we will deliver each and every postcard to the House of Commons in Ottawa.

Name 10 of the people global warmed to death | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

For $40 billion, even I might be tempted to peddle such despicable nonsense.

American Thinker: Study Finds Even Climate 'Alarmed' Americans Don't Want Cap-and-Trade

Eighteen percent of Americans have been so “alarmed” by climate alarmists that they’d strongly support any and all policies that would reduce carbon emissions. Any, that is, except cap-and-trade. In fact, while the group as a whole truly believes that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions will trigger apocalyptic climate change of biblical destructive proportions – more among them strongly oppose than strongly support a national carbon trading scheme.

Australian Climate Madness: Climate change "to kill 600,000 a year"

How about the start of a new cooling phase, do you think Kofi Annan would be happier with that? With temperatures dropping at the same time as taxes on fossil fuels are going up? Do you think might be a bit more likely to lead to mass starvation, mass migration and mass sickness? There are simply no words to describe the lunacy ...

Claim: [Trace amounts of CO2] hitting poor in U.S. hardest. — The Daily Climate

"Climate change does not affect everyone equally in the United States," said Rachel Morello-Frosch, associate professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley and lead author of The Climate Gap. "People of color and the poor will be hurt the most – unless elected officials and other policymakers intervene."

Watching this unfold is akin to watching a movie where disparate and seemingly unrelated storylines converge to denouement that is "decidedly tragic,” the researchers wrote.

For instance, the report finds that African Americans living in Los Angeles are almost twice as likely to die as other Los Angelenos during a heat wave. Segregated in the inner city, they're more susceptible to the "heat island" effect, where temperatures are magnified by concrete and asphalt. Yet they're less likely to have access to air conditioning or cars.

Todd Wilkinson: Does Sen. Barrasso of Wyoming Really Want Science to Guide Him?

The report puts to rest the gobbledygook claims that climate change is caused by the sun, volcanoes, or hot air rising out of Washington.

Colorado groups rally for climate change proposal | VailDaily.com

It will be important to ensure that climate change policy doesn't hurt poor people through higher energy prices, said Nelson Bock of Colorado Interfaith Power and Light, which promotes energy conservation and efficiency. Bock said the group also wants to make sure "green" jobs are spread around.

"Climate change is not just an environmental issue," Bock said. "It's also profoundly spiritual."

"The Earth, our home, is a gift," he added.

Video: IPCC Chief Pachauri: Climate Change will be ‘Major Drag’ on all of life

Global warming forum slated | Fond du Lac Reporter

State Rep. Jim Ott, R-Mequon, will be in Fond du Lac Monday, June 1, for a free global warming forum at the Ramada Plaza Hotel titled "How Much of Global Warming is Hot Air?"
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The forum will focus on the myths of global warming and the facts to debunk those myths, according to a Republican Party press release.

Ott is knowledgeable on this subject because he is a former broadcast meteorologist and instructor at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He is also a member of the American Meteorological Society and the Wisconsin State Bar.

Wisconsin State Representative Jim Ott

Hot Air Report #1: Legislator Announces Establishment of the Weekly Hot Air Report (2/24/2009)

The Heartland Institute - Program for the Third International Conference on Climate Change

The Third International Conference on Climate Change will take place in Washington, DC on Tuesday, June 2, at the Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC.

The tentative schedule is as follows...

I plan to be at this conference.

Australia - Cold spells grips outback

Ernabella in northern SA reached a high of just 10 degrees on Thursday, their coldest day in two years and coldest May day in over 10 years. Tourists visiting Ulura may have been ill prepared for a high of just 13 degrees, the Rock's coldest day in two years and coldest May day in 24 years. [Via Global Freeze]

Climate change: Go on, guess | The Economist

Seat-of-the-pants estimates won’t be enough to cool the world

SitNews: Cooler decades ahead, researcher says By NED ROZELL

"This is why glaciers have been melting since about 1800," he said. "Because the planet is still warming up from the Little Ice Age (a cold period from about 1400 to 1800).

"The IPCC paid attention to only the latest temperature rise, from 1975 to 2000," Akasofu said. "This is what I call 'instant climatology.' They didn't look at the Little Ice Age. There's no excuse for that."
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In trying to reconstruct the broader story, Akasofu has extended his straight line through temperature ups and downs from the year 1800 to the year 2100. Based on this, and including the roller-coaster ups and downs in world temperature trends some scientists call "multi-decadal oscillation,"

Akasofu said that we have just crested the top of one of the warm peaks. He predicts that the average global temperature will continue to drop until about 2030.

"In fact, world temperatures have already stopped rising, since 1998, which annoys the IPCC," he said. He also pointed out that a similar change happened in 1940, when the Earth cooled until about 1975, a time when some scientists predicted a coming ice age.

Breaking: Oregon Legislature attempting to put a carbon tax on the ballot | GORE LIED

If the Oregon Dems are successful, I believe this would be the first carbon tax put up to the voters in the US.

Climate Change, Part I: A Contested Point You Need to Understand | GCCapitalIdeas.com

Skepticism may be cast on research results and methodology, but although the debate on climate change is nowhere near a resolution, the potential risk to (re)insurers is real enough to be calculated.

Climate Change, Part V: (Re)insurers [may cash in on the greatest scientific fraud in history]

Still, there remains the potential for profit as well. The seemingly inevitable trend toward products, businesses, and services that aim to address climate change offers the opportunity for (re)insurance industry growth.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Purists Who Demand that Facts be “Correct”

Over at Seed Magazine in a collection of views on “framing,” Penn State climatologist Michael Mann explains why it was necessary to misrepresent what the IPCC does on the cover of his co-authored book titled “Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming”...

Why can’t we just get along? | CEJournal

A couple of days ago, I noticed a steep spike in page views here at CEJournal, and it has kept up. This was puzzling because I hadn’t begun to do anything particularly new or novel.

When I investigated I discovered that Marc Morano is driving traffic my way because he had included CEJournal on the blogroll of his Climate Depot Web site. For those of you who don’t know who Marc is, many progressives consider him to be the evil leader of the climate denialist empire.

Jan '09: Drop in U.S. Air Pollution Linked to Longer Lifespans - Health News - Health.com

(Health.com) — Americans are living longer because the air they breathe is getting cleaner, a new study suggests. The average drop in air pollution seen across 51 metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000 appears to have added nearly five more months to people’s lives, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Pure climate fraud from Kofi Annan

Climate change to claim 600,000 lives a year | The Australian

"Climate change is the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time, causing suffering to hundreds of millions of people worldwide," Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general and GHF president, said.
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"Copenhagen needs to be the most ambitious international agreement ever negotiated," he wrote in an introduction to the report.

"The alternative is mass starvation, mass migration and mass sickness."

The study warns that the true human impact of global warming is likely to be far more severe than it predicts, because it uses conservative UN scenarios.

New scientific evidence points to greater and more rapid climate change.
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To avoid the worst outcomes, the report says efforts to adapt to the effects of climate change must be scaled up 100 times in developing countries.

Law.com - Questions About Long Delay by Sotomayor-Led Panel in Climate Case

A major climate change lawsuit brought by eight states against five utilities has been pending decision for nearly three years before an appellate panel on which Sotomayor is the presiding judge.

"No one knows why the case has never been decided," said David Doniger, policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate Center.

Sounds like typical modeling baloney to me: Global warming may hike respiratory ills - UPI.com

NEW YORK, May 28 (UPI) -- U.S. health researchers say projected global warming will result in more children with respiratory ills.

In one scenario, researchers Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City project respiratory hospitalizations for children under age 2 will rise between 4 percent and 7 percent by 2020 because of increased air pollution.

New Zealand: Queen's Birthday Weekend chill forecast - Newstalk ZB

A Queen's Birthday Weekend polar blast is set to end autumn on a wintry note.

Weatherwatch.co.nz analyst Philip Duncan says it will be even colder than the bitter Antarctic blast that swept through last week.
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"We haven't seen snow this deep at the ski area since probably about 1995. So if May's snow is anything to go by, we're setting up for a real record breaker."

UK: £1bn green power station two years behind schedule - Building

Government plans to build a fleet of eco-friendly coal-fired power plants are in doubt after it emerged that arrangements for a £1bn pilot scheme are two years behind schedule.

Maine takes aim at dangers of 'green' lightbulbs -The Green Blog - A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston

It can seem a green contradiction: Compact fluorescent lights, those spiral energy-efficient bulbs used to fight global warming, contain mercury, a toxic metal. If the bulb breaks, mercury vapor can harm infants, pregnant women and young children. If tossed in landfill or incinerator, discarded bulbs can pollute the environment.

Now, as sales balloon, Maine legislators have voted overwhelmingly for first-in-the-nation legislation requiring manufacturers to reduce the mercury in all fluorescent lights, and pay for recycling each bulb safely. That cost is estimated to be 50 cents to $1 per bulb.

Smackdown: [A couple of years after the green fad peaked] GE, Siemens Duel Over Who’s Greener

As companies jockey for access to hundreds of billions of dollars in government stimulus money and look for the few positive stories to tell shareholders and customers during a recession, expect to see more and more corporate cage matches and advertising wars over who was greener first and who’s greener now.

It's Official: Jennifer Granholm Has Lost It (Wizbang)

Really? Perfecting the battery is the key challenge? What is the color of the sky in this woman's world? GM and Chrysler are shells of their former selves. Note how she conveniently leaves out the US government's role in two of three auto makers. With the government and UAW running GM and Chrysler, their best days are behind them, yet Granholm expects us to believe that UAW/Government motors will produce cars people will want to buy? When was the last time the government - any government - designed and manufactured a product that was high tech, efficient, reliable, and affordable?

Climate idiocy from Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor of Michigan: Michigan Will Lead the Green Industrial Revolution

The battle against global climate change was kicked into a new gear this month, and Michigan is leading the charge.
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It's Motown that is making a more significant impact on global climate change than any other place in America.