Why What Happens To This Scottish Power Station Could Make Life Even Harder For This Farmer In Malawi (from Sunday Herald)

IN THREE days time the Scottish Parliament will take the most important decision of its life. Ministers and MSPs will vote on what the nation will do over the next few years to combat one of the greatest threats facing the world.

Most scientists now agree that without urgent action to cut the pollution that is warming the globe, disaster beckons.

Heatwaves, droughts, floods and storms will sweep across continents, killing millions and evicting millions more.

Climate [scam] think-tank 'vital' for Bahrain

BAHRAIN should set up a climate change think-tank to help shape its national environment policy, says a top government official. The mandate of the task force would be to explicitly set out the trade-off between environmental protection and economic development, said Foreign Ministry bilateral relations director Ambassador Dr Dhafer Alumran.

IPCC allegedly purchasing carbon offsets; are Hillary Clinton and Obama currently doing so?

Climate meets leave behind carbon footprints! - Ahmedabad - Cities - The Times of India

Ahmedabad : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) member and IIM-A professor Priyadarshi Shukla will be travelling to Geneva in July to attend an IPCC conference. On his air ticket, it is clearly mentioned that Shukla's flight with Air India and British Airways will be responsible for letting off 2,661 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere called carbon footprint that contributes towards global warming.

The IPCC will trade off the total carbon dioxide emitted because of all its members flying to Geneva and purchase carbon credit' certificates generated due to a variety of emission reduction projects available with the European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) the largest multi-national emissions trading scheme in the world. These credit certificates will be of equivalent value of technology implemented somewhere in the world, that wholly or partly decrease an equivalent amount of CO2 generated because of IPCC members' air travel.

April '07: Clinton campaign [allegedly] goes 'carbon neutral' - Climate Change- msnbc.com

NEW YORK - To observe Earth Day on Sunday, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign said it would become "carbon neutral" to help fight global warming.

"We all must act — and that includes our campaign," the Democratic front-runner said in a statement Friday.

The campaign said it would take several steps to conserve energy, such as buying 100 percent recycled paper products, installing motion-controlled lights and purchasing carbon offsets through Native Energy, a Vermont-based company that produces renewable energy.
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Like other presidential contenders, Clinton campaigns extensively in private planes — a much less energy-efficient mode of travel than flying on a commercial carrier.

Democrat John Edwards has also announced his campaign would go carbon neutral, and that he was purchasing carbon offsets for his new 28,000-square foot house in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Nov '08: Presidential Campaign Proves Environment a Hot Story | SEJ

During the primary both Clinton and Obama stressed that they were purchasing carbon offsets to compensate for the amount of air travel.

Maldives News

Vice-President Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik paid a courtesy call on Friday to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

The vice-president briefed Ban Ki-Moon on development challenges faced by the new government, its efforts to consolidate democracy and lessen the impact of graduation from Least Developed Country status.

The Secretary-General praised the Maldives for its leadership in the global climate change dialogue and its successful transition to democracy and expressed hope for the country’s active engagement in the forthcoming climate change summit at Copenhagen.

[We're saved! Canadians to pay a lot more money to encourage burning of a lot more food:] Feds give ethanol plant $117M -  Ontario, CA

The federal government is giving GreenField Ethanol's Johnstown facility a $117.5-million-dollar boost, arguing biofuels are the energy of the future.

At a media event held at the local plant yesterday morning, Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown said the facility will get up to $117.5 million over seven years to support biofuels development.

Brown told the crowd the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper is "taking a balanced approach to climate change" by stimulating the local economy now while working toward a greener future.

"Our government is one hundred per cent behind renewable fuels," Brown said following the press conference, adding the young Johnstown plant has already provided a steady market for local corn growers.

"It's working very well for our agricultural community right now."

Dave Mindeman: Climate Change: Who's Dispensing the "Bunk"?

Climate change happens over time and it can certainly occur naturally. But the current temperature averages are climbing at an unnatural rate... not in huge increments but larger increments than can be explained by natural phenomena. There is proof of that. If deniers would just take away the politics for a moment and look at the data realistically, they could help to work for solutions rather than frantically try to maintain a dangerous status quo.

Note to Dave Mindeman: Sorry, it's you who's "dispensing the bunk above"

Some information from a David Archibald paper (available here) puts the modest 20th century warming into perspective:

What is also interesting is the 2.2° temperature rise from 7.8° in 1696 to 10.0° in 1732. This is a 2.2° rise is 36 years [in Central England]. By comparison, the world has seen a 0.6° rise over the 100 years of the 20th century. That temperature rise in the early 18th century was four times as large and three times as fast as the rise in the 20th century.

The significance of this is that the world can experience very rapid temperature swings all due to natural causes. The temperature peak of 10° in 1732 wasn’t reached again until 1947.

The Greenroom » Forum Archive » A Republican Platform for 2010 Emerges

Neurotic liberal obsessions: America has wasted billions of dollars respecting the primitive liberal religion of our elites. We have no more money to fritter away on global-warming witch doctors and multi-cultural palm readers. We have no loose change to squander on “green” shell games or “carbon credit” lottery tickets. Republicans should pledge to develop America’s natural resources, and begin a rational policy for implementing nuclear power. We’ve had enough of cavemen pointing at pictures of the hydrogen atom, or absurdly inaccurate weather models, and hooting in fear. Our offshore oil reserves will eventually be exploited. It’s just a question of whether the oil rigs will be flying American flags.

Carroll: Skeptical of climate alarmists - The Denver Post

The precautionary principle extends both ways, after all. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide have been lifted out of poverty during the past decade alone, thanks to economic growth. Ambitious policies that slow or halt growth would jeopardize the health and welfare of billions.

BBC NEWS | Europe | [Global warming allegedly] changes Italian border

The border between Italy and Switzerland is being redrawn as glaciers along the frontier melt.

The Cap-n-Tax Maze

Source: Viv Forbes

Economics professor Garnaut claims Richard Lindzen is a "one off"

Professor Garnaut also took aim at new-found climate change sceptic Senator Steve Fielding saying he had also spoken to respected atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen, who Senator Fielding met with on a recent trip to the US, and discounted his opinion that the global warming effect of carbon dioxide is overestimated.

"I would have been delighted if there were 10 or 20 or better still 100 of Richard Lindzens around the world but unfortunately he's a one off," Professor Garnaut said. "It would be imprudent beyond the normal limits of irrationality to grab one dissenting view among the serious climate scientists and say 'I am going to believe that and not to believe the views of all of Australia's credentialed climate scientists'."

[Is this a paid position?]: [Climate fraudster] Pachauri to "help" Maharashtra combat climate change

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Friday announced the formation of a committee under the guidance of Nobel laureate Rajendra Pachauri to combat problems arising from climate change.

“This is one of many administrative decisions the government will take to celebrate 50 years of Maharashtra’s existence,” Mr. Chavan told journalists here. The State was formed on May 1, 1960.

Dr. Pachauri, director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, congratulated Mr. Chavan on addressing the grave issue of global warming at the policy level. “I don’t know of any other state that has made such a commitment.” The move would throw up business opportunities for the State if it came up with exportable technologies. The committee would ensure that climate change did not come in the way of economic welfare and output, thereby making the economy “climate proof,” Dr. Pachauri said.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » New JibJab: Barack Obama, superhero! [shown cooling the Earth]

[(at the 1:30 mark) "He'll stop the globe from getting warm; fuel your car with nuts and corn"]

Alaska polar bear propaganda: Heavy stress on the alarmism; little emphasis on the data that allegedly supports it

Report shows Alaska-area polar bear population [allegedly] declining | WORLD News

Polar bear populations in and around Alaska are declining due to continued melting of sea ice and Russian poaching, according to reports released Friday by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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There was an estimated 0.3% annual decline in the polar bear population in the southern Beaufort Sea between 2001 and 2007, with the total numbers likely hovering between 1,397 and 1,526 animals, according to the draft assessments.

1. A population "hovering" in that tight range sounds pretty stable to me.
2. Can we see the actual data for each year?
3. What's the data for 2008 and 2009?
4. What's the margin of error for each year's population estimate?

Hansen’s at it again « Watts Up With That?

Your tax dollars at work. I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it: FIRE THIS GUY.

Oh there will be those who say “but he’s doing it as a private citizen”.

I preemptively call BS on that.

Why? Well it’s because the U.S. Taxpayer has been an “enabler” for this. Hansen wouldn’t be there if not for the publicly funded work via NASA.

As a private citizen, his opinion his worth nothing. As head of NASA GISS fancifully acting as a private citizen, his opinion and presence are worth boatloads of publicity.

You can’t separate GISS from his persona any more than you can expect Barack Obama to show up someplace “as a private citizen” and endorse something while he holds office.

The premise is absurd.

The struggle against global warming is really war on the poor

What is global warming supposed to solve? Two of the problems pointed at are rising sea levels and the increased spread of malaria. But both of these problems could be addressed directly by programs dedicated to the issues for a fraction of the cost of climate mitigation and adaptation schemes.
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I am not suggesting any type of organised conspiracy to make all this happen. This is just about organisations focusing on what is good for them in the short term and not looking at the wider picture. It's just as true for Greenpeace and other non-profits as it is for Exxon and Shell. Panic makes the non-profits stronger, so panic is pushed at us. 'Solving' the global warming 'problem' involves big iron and taxpayer money, so large companies agree to more regulation in exchange for a chance at the big contracts coming down the pipeline.

So, you may ask, who is fighting the good fight for the poor? Why is there any struggle at all? Who could resist the combined might of the non-profits, industry giants, politicians and the media? Well, so far the answer is just scientific inquiry--the scientists who may or may not care at all about the poor, but just won't quit asking inconvenient questions, checking the math on the calculations, and raising their hands and saying the numbers just don't add up. They are reviled as pawns of Big Oil, equated with Holocause Deniers, and are even insulted in their own home towns. They're not always right, but they just won't go away. They have my respect and admiration.

Cap-And-Trade: Why Lie If You Don’t Have To? « NEOAVATARA

The American people want honest answers. The honest truth is that scientists do NOT absolutely know what the repercussions of global warming are; the science is not that clear. That is fine. The public can understand that. They can’t understand people lying to them. This is especially discouraging from Obama, who had promised science above politics. In this case, he has not held to that statement.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Science back in its rightful place?

Pielke doesn’t necessarily refute global-warming concerns, but he notes that the administration is hardly taking a scientific approach to a scientific issue. Instead of focusing on peer-reviewed research, which has become increasingly inconclusive, the White House and Holdren have begun seizing on claims that are not scientifically derived, have not been tested, are out of date, and in many cases are simply false. That doesn’t give any credibility to the science of climate analysis, and instead gives critics the kind of ammunition that makes it look like phrenology.

Is that “restor[ing] science to its rightful place” in policymaking? Or is it the kind of political hackery that Obama promised to end?

Like, Totally Political, Dude!: Ultimate Fighting: solar cooling versus global warming

Nothing's funnier to me than an atheist follower of the Green Movement or Climate Change activism. "I think God is a cruel lie, but unproven theories and reasons to hate industry and people having jobs, and civil expansion, are AWESOME!" That said...

Twitter / Independent Tom

Why isn't ACLU suing to get Church of Global Warming cult out of government?

Daily Kos: What does Rep. Broun of Georgia have against a National Climate Service?

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is on a mission to de-fund climate change programs and defeat cap-and-trade legislation. This week he offered a House floor amendment to kill funding for a National Climate Service. Broun’s website includes this: “Broun Bashes Wacky-Marxist Cap and Tax Bill.” He’s among a small contingent in Congress who deny the science and a much larger group who act as if a sober response to global climate disruption were a partisan issue. The climate science and policy community must step up its efforts to emphasize that climate change affects everyone, has no political party affiliation, and is too urgent a matter to be used for political grandstanding.

[That's not a private jet, is it?]  [Gallant global warming fighter] Schwarzenegger tweets about jet's emergency landing - CNN.com

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A plane carrying California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an emergency landing Friday evening after the cockpit filled with smoke, his office said in a statement.
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Schwarzenegger confirmed the incident with a tweet on the social-networking Web site, Twitter. He also included a photo of the jet on the tarmac.

[Hmm--could small amounts of CO2 be plausibly blamed for a killer freeze in Iowa?] New forecast: ‘Mass starvation’

[Chicago-based Don Coxe, a leading agricultural industry expert] explained climate change will make growing seasons shorter, generating lower crop production, which would squeeze supplies.
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“During this decade, the annual increase in hectares of global cultivated farmland has been roughly 1.5 percent, at a time global demand for grains and soybeans has been growing at double that rate,” he told Commodities Online. “We will be dealing with mass starvation with the first serious crop failure. It could happen as early as this fall if for instance we have a killing freeze in Iowa in August.”

Baptist ministers urge passage of climate-change bill

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) -- A total of 140 moderate Baptist leaders signed a June 18 letter urging passage of a comprehensive energy bill that includes caps on emissions linked to global warming.

Historic parallels in our time: the killing of cattle -vs- carbon « Watts Up With That?

From our perspective as a modern society, the actions of the Xhosa would seem foolhardy, even insane. First let me say, I’m not at all against alternate energy, or improved or even different technology. Heck, I drive an electric car myself and have done two solar power projects. But Waxman-Markey, if enacted, will be the equivalent of killing all our cattle at once. It took us over 100 years to get where we are now, we can’t expect change overnight, it must be gradual.

HealthNewsDigest.com: Do Sunspots and Solar Wind Have an Impact on Climate Change?

Many climate scientists agree that sunspots and solar wind could be playing a role in climate change, but the vast majority view it as very minimal and attribute Earth’s warming primarily to emissions from industrial activity—and they have thousands of peer-reviewed studies available to back up that claim.
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Ironically, the only way to really find out if phenomena like sunspots and solar wind are playing a larger role in climate change than most scientists now believe would be to significantly reduce our carbon emissions. Only in the absence of that potential driver will researchers be able to tell for sure how much impact natural influences have on the Earth’s climate.

Jennifer Marohasy » Wheat Crops and Sunspots

IT is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. When the latter were few in number, he noted, the climate turned colder and drier, crop yields fell and wheat prices rose.

ABC News: Global Warming [Stupidity] From the Arctic

[Too cold to speak properly, teacher thinks it's your fault that the world is allegedly overheating] - ABC News

Our tiny helicopter swooped out over the wide and sunny Bering Sea, its springtime surface still frozen white. We were east of Nome, Alaska, just south of the Bering Strait, where Russia and America almost touch. After 20 minutes, our pilot found the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy -- first a tiny black speck in the far distance.
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More and more now, science expeditions are heading into the frozen north to study all the exotic life forms swarming in the icy waters before human-induced global warming melts the sea ice completely. Scientists expect that to happen in summer for the first time in tens of thousands -- if not millions -- of years within the next decade.
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When they go out on the ice, the scientists always take a "Bear Guard," a young Coast Guard officer who carries a large rifle in case a hungry polar bear, looking for seals, rambles by.
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In the belly of Icebreaker Healy, high-tech science labs serve a nonstop rotation of scientists from the U.S., Russia, China, Germany and several other countries, all joining in the scientific knowledge rush trying to discover what life forms have long lived in this remote place before the threat of extinction -- due to the vanishing ice they need to live on -- becomes reality and carries them away forever.
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We too had noticed how the extreme springtime cold at this high latitude -- immediately south of the Arctic circle where it was sunny but way way below zero -- sometimes had a dampening effect on your speech.

Your circulation system was sending silent alarm signal signals all over your body trying to figure out how best to apportion the warming blood for whatever survival needs were at hand, and the unaccustomed brain of us greenhorns didn't always have quite the ready supply it needed.

[A mind is a terrible thing to waste: Top grad may study global warming in Los Angeles]

Jasperse, 18, is heading to the University of California, Los Angeles - a school he selected specifically because it offered a degree in atmospheric oceanographic and environmental sciences. Ultimately, he would like to work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration doing research.

"I would like to study global warming," he said. "I'm also considering neuroscience."

Don't miss this: "Buckden 7-year-old Selected to Join New Green Think Tank"

SkyandTelescope.com - News from Sky & Telescope - Solar Sleuths Tackle the "Quiet Sun"

For the past couple of years, our Sun has been at the minimum of its 11-year activity cycle. Its face has been virtually spotless for months on end, and there've been no dire alerts of titanic solar storms about to slam into Earth.

The problem is that this "quiet Sun" has continued far too long — two years ago, a special task force predicted that the transition from the just-ended Cycle 23 to the upcoming Cycle 24 would come around March 2008. It didn't. (To be fair, there was sharp disagreement within the group at that time.)

The Associated Press: THE INFLUENCE GAME: Excuse me! Lobby wins on burps

"I don't think livestock should be ignored. Every industry has to play their role," Mitloehner said. But laws designed to reduce emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes won't work with cattle, which can't be fitted with pollution control devices, Mitloehner said.

"The belching is very hard to collect," he said. "You cannot capture these gases."

Earth we have a problem

But when the subject comes up among the average grass roots conservative neighbor, you probably won’t hear much about legit science, data or empirical observations, from NASA or NOAA. It’s more likely going to be an incoherent jumble of self contradictory apologetics running the gamut from 1) there is no global warming, it’s a liberal hoax, 2) in fact the earth is actually cooling (Mars is cooling too!), 3) there is a slight increase in global temperatures but no one knows what’s causing it, 4) the earth naturally warms up and cools down on its own all the time, 5) the sun is causing it (Mars is warming up too!), 6) human activity may be causing some warming but no one knows for sure or by how much, 7) we’re causing it, but it would be too expensive to fix, and 8) humans are causing it and we could have fixed it, but now it’s too late. Those talking points are endlessly reinforced by a seamless, vertically integrated network of think-tanks, newspapers, talk radio, websites, and PR operations as slick and impartial as a Madison Ave advertising exec hired by Pepsi to take market share from Coca-Cola.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » David Archibald on – The State of the Sun – 16th June, 2009

The Sun has gone very quiet and several indicators of activity are still heading down. Solar Cycle 23 may end up being 14 years long. Solar activity modelling that I have recently become aware of suggests that the Sun will have very low activity until 2016.

Commentary » Blog Archive » Flotsam and Jetsam

David Broder makes the case that President Obama misses George W. Bush. Yes, running against an unpopular president was far easier than being president, it turns out.
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Climate change legislation seems also to be on the rocks. But it doesn’t appear anyone cares.

Twitter / mjrobbins

Grrrr! Problem when greenies sit around to talk about climate change: they keep preaching to the converted.

Vacancy: [UN climate fraud officer], Bonn

The incumbent:

1. Provides substantive and procedural support on issues relating to methodologies for baselines and monitoring thereby facilitating the implementation the modalities and procedures of the CDM, decisions by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP) and the Executive Board, inter alia:

The road to hell IS paved with good intentions (and greed, and stupidity): When a billion people are hungry, let's *burn* half of the US corn crop?

1. The Associated Press: UN: World hunger reaches 1 billion mark

ROME (AP) — The global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion, a grim milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, U.N. food officials said Friday.

Because of war, drought, political instability, high food prices and poverty, hunger now affects one in six people, by the United Nations' estimate.

The financial meltdown has compounded the crisis in what the head of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization called a "devastating combination for the world's most vulnerable."

2. June 9, '09: Ethanol Blend Hike May Require Half of U.S. Corn Crop (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

June 9 (Bloomberg) -- A proposed increase in ethanol use in gasoline would require planting as much as 111 million acres of corn and using almost half of the crop for the fuel by 2015, according to a study by the U.S. grocery industry.

Boosting the amount of biofuels allowed to be blended in gasoline could make last year’s record corn prices “look like a walk in the park,” Bill Lapp, an agricultural analyst who conducted the study commissioned by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, told reporters today in a teleconference.

The Environmental Protection Agency is considering raising the amount of ethanol that may be blended into standard gasoline from the current 10.2 percent to as much as 15 percent, a move opposed by some environmental groups, automakers and food companies. An increase is backed by trade groups representing biofuels producers including Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Poet LLC. The comment period on the proposal ends July 20.

3. Food and Fuel America.com: Al Gore Saved The Ethanol

Vice-President Al Gore
Third Annual Farm Journal Conference, December 1, 1998

"I was also proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in the Congress -- at one point, supplying a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to save it. The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better-off our farmers and our environment will be."

Without bungling government intervention, how much of the US corn crop would be burned?

Half Sigma: Another example of how global warming skeptics are kept silent

I came across an article in the National Post which demonstrates how global warming skeptics are silenced.

It is Zbigniew Jaworowski’s contention that ice core samples, used to measure past carbon dioxide, are inaccurate and systematically underestimate the amount of carbon dioxide and the extent of the fluctuations.

The American Spectator, Paul Chesser : AmSpecBlog : It's Only Words

What a farce. These clowns won Oscars and Grammys based on "global warming"; they pushed "cap-and-trade" because they said it promoted a "market-based" reduction plan; and they embraced "green" jobs because it implied the best of both worlds -- high employment and a clean energy economy.

Now that they've captured all the government power, the terms they used to win their trophies are -- as I wrote last month -- a giant boat anchor. They can't lie with the old terms any more so they have to make up new ones. And like the phony language they use, their cap-and-trade plan is also "worse than meaningless" -- it's destructive.

Iceland Is New Front in Whale Wars [Is it just me, or is Andy Revkin losing some of his enthusiasm for promoting climate fraud?]

With Japan’s whale hunt in stormy southern seas wrapped for the season, the battle over efforts by a handful of countries to expand whale hunts has shifted to Iceland.

W. S. Jevons and UK Coal Revisited (worth re-reading weekend) — MasterResource

In an earlier post at MasterResource, W. S. Jevons (1865) on Coal (Memo to Obama, Part III), the hall-of-fame-economist explained how coal was a godsend to Britain, powering the industrial revolution in a way that renewable energies could not.

Alaska researchers contribute to national climate [scam promotion]

"A key point from the study is that from everything we're seeing in terms of impacts, it's clear that we are committed to more warming," said McGuire, a landscape ecology professor and researcher with the UAF Institute of Arctic Biology.

Investor's Business Daily -- Why The Rush?

Leadership: A pattern is emerging for this new presidency. The more radical and far-reaching the plan, the less time the public gets to debate it. Is this due to ambition or fear of push-back?
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Obama may act supremely confident, but his haste here suggests insecurity. He acts as if he believes his political capital is dwindling so fast that it will be gone by the end of this year.

Big chill in Churchill - Winnipeg Free Press

Winter grips 90 per cent of north, migratory birds can't breed
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It is the winter that refuses to go away in northern Manitoba and most of the eastern Arctic.

Prolonged cold snowy conditions in the Hudson Bay area are expected to obliterate the breeding season for migratory birds and most other species of wildlife this year.

According to Environment Canada, the spring of 2009 is record-late in the eastern Arctic with virtually 100 per cent snow cover from James Bay north as of June 11.

May temperatures in northern Manitoba were almost four degrees C below the long-term average of -0.7, and in early June, temperatures averaged three degrees below normal.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration images confirm snow and ice blanket all of northern Manitoba, part of northern Ontario and almost all of the eastern Arctic as of June 12. U.S. arieal flight surveys confirm the eastern Arctic has no sign of spring so far.

"I have lived in Churchill since the 1950s, and this the latest spring I have ever seen here," said local resident Pat Penwarden. "The spring of 1962 was almost this bad."

Six-foot snowdrifts blocked Churchill-area roads. A thick blanket of snow, in places three- and four-feet deep, coated 90 per cent of the local taiga in northern Manitoba. Ecotourists, who normally flock to northern Manitoba every June to see birds and other wildlife, cancelled their plans this June "in droves," according to local ecotourist specialists. Snowy conditions are largely to blame.

"It is like a winter landscape," said Ruth Baker, a Michigan tourist who spent June 9 to 12 at Churchill. "I couldn't believe the snowdrifts, like mountains of snow".

Researchers confirm that the lateness of the spring of 2009 dooms local birds to a virtually complete reproductive failure.
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Recent late springs in the Hudson Bay area have been more frequent than normal: 2004, 2002, 2000 and 1997.

According to NOAA scientists, although the Arctic is warming, more frequent annual oscillations in temperature are likely to occur, often resulting in late springs.

"Such major oscillations are part of a bumpy ride toward global warming," said Thomas Karl of the National Climate Center. "For awhile at least this will be the shape of things to come." [Via Global Freeze]

Australia government to seek vote-trigger on carbon laws | Green Business | Reuters

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's government, facing Senate defeat of key emission trading laws, vowed on Friday to bring its climate-fighting regime to the upper house a second time, opening the door for a possible snap election.

The opposition-dominated Senate aims to scuttle Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan for emissions trade from 2011 and conservatives wielding the largest voting bloc plan a four-day filibuster next week that could see the bills defeated.

"We want a vote, we want the bill passed, and we have been clear that if the bill is not passed, we will bring the bill back, because we believe that action on climate change is important," Climate Minister Penny Wong told local radio.

Video: U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change [Fraud]: "We Can't Rewrite the Last Eight Years"

In an interview with the ThinkProgress Wonk Room, U.S. special envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern says the Waxman-Markey clean energy and climate legislation is what is needed and sufficient in meeting the challenge of building an international climate treaty and mitigating the most catastrophic consequences of global warming. Realizing that the U.S. has had to play "catch up," he says that we simply must move forward despite a wasted eight years of inaction and delay. "We're starting later!" he says, "It's unfortunate, but it's just the reality. We can't rewrite the last eight years, so we're starting later

Remember all the "successful" global warming policy of the eight Clinton/Gore years? Neither do I.

UK: Designing for climate change « Robert Kyriakides’s Weblog

Buildings designed for the elderly will probably need smaller windows than at present to keep the hotter heat out.

Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: Chuck Schumer's Hypocrisies

Schumer has been co-sponsoring climate legislation that would have immense negative economic effects on the American public, supposedly in the interest of preventing global warming. So now he wants to hit up the taxpayers because its too cold?

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Glenn Beck: The Letter

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Et Tu, Big Business? The coup de grâce of capitalism’s murder is at the hands of its most successful child « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian

Once-proud companies like GE have become seduced by global-warming schemes because they recognize that there’s more money to be made selling white elephants to Uncle Sam than there is selling competitive products consumers want. Indeed, cap-and-trade taxes promise to deliver precisely the protectionist industrial policies the Left has dreamed of for decades, only under a “progressive” label.

ClearysNoteBook: GRANT PROGRAM HELPS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS [pretend that they're improving the world's weather]

(09/P15) TRENTON - The Department of Environmental Protection has launched a new grant program to help local government agencies and schools identify and implement plans to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in their communities, marking a milestone in the Garden State's fight against climate change.

The DEP is now accepting pre-applications from municipal and county governments, public school districts, county colleges and other local government agencies such as municipal utilities authorities for $2.5 million available in the first round of funding under the Local Government Greenhouse Gas Reduction Grant program.

Democrats urged to play down 'global warming' - Washington Times

Daniel Kish, senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-energy think tank, said the memo amounted to an acknowledgment from Democrats that their plans will raise energy costs, and that their strategy is to shift the focus.

"I've been around this town for a long time -- this is an amazingly cynical document," Mr. Kish said. "This is basically how to lie your way to victory."

Global Warming: Where’s The Smoking Gun? - Tim Long

A little while ago I blogged that I was concerned about the missing evidence linking global warming to the activity of humankind. There are plenty of people who will show you all sorts of evidence that the Earth's climate is changing – and with that I agree. However, what then generally happens is that they make a massive unsupported leap of reasoning and conclude that “it must be all our fault”. That’s just a massive conceit. There are forces in play that are far greater than human influence – literally astronomical – and which we have absolutely no hope of controlling. The configuration of the solar system; the output of The Sun; the position of Earth’s tectonic plates, volcanism and life itself.

Australian Climate Madness: The Age (of alarmism)

Where do they get all this from? The ocean heat content is falling, sea-surface temperatures are also falling, and the network of buoys measuring sea level show it stable or falling as a result. The article (and the report) is nothing but pure alarmist fantasy, most likely from selective, cherry-picked data.

But hey, who cares about the facts? We're Fairytale-Facts™!

Mt Ruapehu’s Turoa skifield opens its season on Saturday with a record base for this time of the year « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

However, the freezing conditions are good news for Mt Ruapehu’s Turoa skifield, which opens its season on Saturday with a record base for this time of the year.

"Weedy' Bird Species May Win As Temperatures Rise"

...the numbers of species counted at each site grew as temperature climbed.

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Now Do Something About Climate Change. | Green Business | Reuters

The current amelioration mechanism on the table -- Waxman-Markey -- seems to be in trouble. First, the bill has not been very effectively communicated or sold to the American public. Second, it seems to be subsumed beneath the health care media juggernaut. Finally, agrobusiness interests have been successfully gaining a foothold in tying up the process.

We need to get on with it. Cap-and-trade or carbon tax, regulation of GHG under the Clean Air Act, green building market and regulatory programs. Either that, or be prepared to host a giant tropical cockroach at your next seder.

Shari Shapiro, J.D., LEED AP, is an associate with Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP in Philadelphia. She heads the company's green building initiative...

Begich to lead climate change [fraud] tour - KTUU.com | Alaska's news and information source |

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- U.S. Sen. Mark Begich is planning to bring some senators to Alaska in August for a climate change tour.

The Alaska Democrat is organizing the trip with California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

The tentative schedule includes visits to eroding villages in western Alaska, the Kenai Peninsula and its forests damaged by spruce bark beetles and receding glaciers.

Also on the tentative schedule are meetings with climate change experts.

Climate Change Bill Stalls Over Agriculture Concerns - Political News - FOXNews.com

A key Democrat said Friday that he doesn't see any way party leaders could bring a controversial, energy and climate change bill to the floor for debate next week because of concerns coming from the agriculture industry.

"I don't see how we do that," said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson D-Minn.

Peterson's comments came after a negotiating session "blew up" Thursday night as he and other key players tried to forge a deal.

"I'm tired of going around in circles," an exasperated Peterson said. "I'm trying to translate for people who speak Urdu and French. And I don't speak either."

As Moderate Democrats kill health care reform so goes Climate Change

As moderate Democrats kills health care reform, so goes Climate Change. Moderate Democrats have sided with Republicans in the House looking to hoot down health care reform. The White house unveiled a plan yesterday that contained no mention of costs. Unfortunately, it looks like the stimulus bill sapped all interest in other major government initiatives.
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...Another outcome awaited is the lawsuit between Indec, a New York state utility with high cost energy supply contracts that will go out of business with the RGGI program. Indec says that only the Congress and the EPA has the right to regulate carbon emissions and that a regional program violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution by unfairly taxing one region of the country while other areas are not discriminated against. Indec will win but the time the RGGI is shut down, the national program will be up and running.

Journalist Mike Steketee weighs in: Climate contrarians | The Australian

THE evidence of global warming keeps piling up but that seems only to embolden the climate contrarians and sceptics to press their case harder.

Why shouldn't they, as they are having some success in raising doubts among politicians?
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Fielding is venturing on to well-trampled ground. Based on measurements by the World Meteorological Organisation and others, since 1998 there has been a downward trend in global temperatures. But 1998 was the warmest year since such records were first kept in 1850. In the intervening 158 years, there has been a long-term upward trend, though not without variations: there was a period of cooling from the 1940s to the 70s, as there has been in the last 10 years. That proves only that there are many influences on the weather, including the strong global El Nino, associated with droughts, in 1998. Despite 2008 being the third year in a row of falling global temperatures, it still was the 10th hottest year since 1850.

These statistics are hard to refute, unless meteorological organisations are included in the worldwide conspiracy. It is possible for other factors to have a stronger influence on the climate than greenhouse gases. But there is no evidence that this has been the case during this century.

Contrary to Fielding's memory, solar activity and its contribution to the earth's climate have been studied and debated since the time of Galileo in the 1600s. Few scientists today believe it is the main factor in global warming. University of Chicago professor of geophysical sciences David Archer writes in his recent book The Long Thaw that, measured in watts per square metre, solar variations typically account for a change of 0.1, compared to about 3.0 for greenhouse gases.

Mike Steketee Blog | The Australian

Mike Steketee is The Australian's national affairs editor and a former political correspondent and Washington correspondent. He won a Walkley award for journalism leadership in 2000.

Blogs @ The Charleston Gazette - » Blankenship challenges Hansen to global warming debate

Massey Energy President Don Blankenship has challenged one of the world’s top climate scientists to a debate on global warming.

[You had me at "blew up"]: Peterson: Democrats Back to Square One on Climate Bill - Roll Call

House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) on Friday said climate change bill negotiators are heading back to the drawing board after discussions between Democrats “blew up last night.”

A meeting between chairmen drafting the climate bill and Democrats on the Agriculture Committee “by and large blew up last night” over the issue of offsets, Peterson said.

H1N1 Cases Could Surge in the Fall

State Epidemiologist Dr. Craig Humbaugh says officials are bracing for a surge in the numbers later this year.

“Even though we’re still seeing transmission now, there could be an increase,” says Humbaugh, “even more so in the fall because influenza viruses tend to have a predilection toward cold weather.”

Russia offers climate goal with no real bite | Environment | STV News

"We will not cut off our development potential," Medvedev said.

Pomona: Windy and cold spring was tough on blueberries

Carolyn and her husband, Former New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture, Art Brown have owned the farm since 1981, and say the current weather isn't the problem for the crops, but the windy and cold weather in late April early May.

"That's when the bees are pollinating and because of the weather and rain we didn't get good pollination, so I would say our crops is off by 30 percent because of that," said Mrs. Brown.

Al Gore texts me about his finances | Cult of Green

I am co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, I am a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins, I have invested significant sums with both partnerships.

Casaubon’s Book » Blog Archive » Waxman-Markey: Disastrous, Destructive, and the Only Game in Town

If you actually care about limiting the worst of climate change, it is a disastrous bill. It enriches the powerful at the expense of the poor world and ordinary Americans. It fails to do anything useful, or to even address the science. We are clearly using our whole asses here, to get the worst possible climate bill. And it is the only shot we’ve got, at least for a while, at getting one passed. I hate it. I support it.

Lies We Can Believe In?

To be fair, Pielke is not a global warming denier nor does he dispute the aspects of the report that don’t touch on his work. I’m not a global warming denier, either, which is why this sort of stuff infuriates me so much. You do not do the nation—or science—a favor by lying, misrepresenting research and exaggerating like hell. You serve them by telling the truth—even the inconvenient parts. Everything has trade-offs—even global warming.

Interestingly, there is a thunderous silence from the blogs that were constantly bashing Bush for distorting science. HuffPo? Not a peep. Bad Astronomy? Nada. Daily Kos? Are you kidding me?

So come on, defenders of science. When your Messiah has a hand in misrepresenting peer-reviewed published scientific research, you need to speak up. Or did you only give a shit about politics messing with science when it was the evil George Bush?

Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - U.S. Government's Climate Con-job

Written by Paul Driessen, TownHall

Suppose a company doctored data, misrepresented study findings, replaced observations with computer simulations and hired PR flacks to promote its new “wonder drug.” News stories, congressional hearings and subpoenas would be in overdrive. Fines and jail sentences would follow. And rightly so.

But the standards change when “climate catastrophe” is involved.

This is your Honolulu Temperature. This is your Honolulu Temperature on ASOS. Any questions? « Watts Up With That?

It is rather hot over asphalt. It’s even warmer when the temperature sensor malfunctions and creates a string of new record highs that the NWS does not see fit to remove from the records.

Forecast for Satire Worse Than Previously Thought — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

But governments have been quite open for a while now about the fact that they look to climate protesters for political direction.
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While the European Union goes as far as paying environmental groups to lobby them.

GCCI #8: A Sense of Scale | Climate Skeptic

The other issue is that the Y-axis covers a very, very small range, such that small changes are magnified visually. The scale runs from 0% of the atmosphere up to 0.09% of the atmosphere. If one were to run the scale to cover a more reasonable range, he would get this (with orange being the high emissions case and blue being the lower case):

TRX delivers carbon tracking solutions to booking tools

Companies looking for reliable insight into air travel-related carbon emissions now have full access to TRX’s new Carbon Emissions Developer Toolkit – a robust set of calculations required to accurately assess the carbon footprint of air travel by corporations and individuals.

Rasmussen Reports™: [58% of US voters don't believe that human activity is the primary cause of global warming]

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% of U.S. voters now believe human activity is the cause of global warming, while 40% say it is caused by long-term planetary trends.

While the numbers are close, this is the first time more voters see human activity as the primary cause of global warming since January. In May, voters blamed planetary trends by a 44% to 39% margin.

Rasmussen Reports™: More detail

4* Is there a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection?

45% Yes

34% No

21% Not sure

5* Should more nuclear power plants be built in the United States?

47% Yes

35% No

18% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence

Psst! . . . Non-Green Jobs Grow in Detroit - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Meanwhile, just a stone’s throw away — or on the other side of the galaxy, depending on your perspective — GM headquarters was announcing that 900 idled Michigan workers were being brought back to meet rising demand for . . . SUVs.

That’s right. Sales of the high-profit vehicles that Obama routinely ridicules Detroit for builindg are once again hot. The Buick Enclave (18 mpg), Saturn Outlook (19 mpg) and GMC Acadia (19 mpg) have all seen sales rise by 15 percent since April. Adding a second shift at GM’s Delta Township plant is welcome news in a state where the unemployment rate rose to 14.1 percent last month. The SUV sales rebound has also reversed the shutdown of the automaker's Spring Hill, Tenn., plant because of an increase in demand for the Chevy Traverse SUV, introduced last year to the chagrin of green Washington.

Sandalow, Granholm, and Locke were not present for GM’s jobs announcement. That’s no surprise. They’re not “green” jobs. They’re just real jobs.

Emissions Control, Myths, and Realities — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

The United States is having better luck at controlling its emissions than most other countries, without the multi-billion-dollar mandates of Kyoto.

GCCI #9: Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory | Climate Skeptic

Frankly, the statement by these folks that weather balloon data and satellites have large uncertainties is hilarious. While this is probably true, these uncertainties and inherent biases are DWARFED by the biases, issues, uncertainties and outright errors in the surface temperature record. Of course, the report uses this surface temperature record absolutely uncritically, ignoring a myriad of problems such as these and these. Why the difference? Because observations from the flawed surface temperature record better fit their theories and models. Sometimes I think these guys should have put a picture of Ptolemy on their cover.

GCCI #10: Extreme Example of Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory | Climate Skeptic

A quick glance at this chart, and what do we see? A line historically rising surprisingly in parallel with global temperature history, and then increasing in the future.

But let’s look at that chart legend carefully. The green “historic” data is actually nothing of the sort - it is simulation! The authors have created their own history. This entire chart is the output of some computer model programmed to deliver the result that temperature drives heavy precipitation, and so it does.

GCCI #11: Changing Wet and Dry Weather | Climate Skeptic

Maybe my Mark I eyeball is off, but it sure doesn’t look like any trend here, or that there we are currently at any particularly unprecedented levels today.

Climate Change Cash Chase

Starting this week near Madison Square Garden in New York, a 70-foot-high, red digital display sign will indicate projected tons of greenhouse gases that we’re putting into the atmosphere. This giant counter is both green guilt baiting and an advertising stunt by a European climate consultants business venture that expects Obama’s cap-and-trade climate regulations to make them very rich.
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The counter is powered from the city’s electric power grid. But, representatives did not have information on the signs total power consumption or its carbon footprint.

The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » About That Major Global Warming Study …

A good question from Roger Pielke, Jr. (via John Tierney):

[Why] is a report characterized by [White House] Science Advisor John Holdren as being the “most up-to-date, authoritative, and comprehensive” analysis relying on a secondary, non-peer source citing another non-peer reviewed source from 2000 to support a claim that a large amount of uncited and more recent peer-reviewed literature says the opposite about?

Turning Human Organic Waste Into Energy - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

With an eye firmly trained on a job-rich clean-tech future, San Jose city officials this week unveiled a $20-million deal that will see three private partners producing 900,000 gallons of biogas using German technology and 150,000 tonnes of organic waste generated by San Jose residents.
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The city estimates that the project will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 1,800 vehicles per year. The project is a partnership between GreenWaste Recovery, Zanker Road Resource Management and Harvest Power Inc., a clean tech firm with backing Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the clean-tech venture capital fund.

Creepy WWF: Buy into our scam, kids, and you might get a new bike!

Kids’ solutions to climate change

Have a look at this terrific slideshow illustrating kids’ postcards to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) asked kids to send in their postcards with an illustration about climate change and a letter advocating for solutions, as part of the My Future, My Climate Postcard Contest. The WWF received over 800 entries; their three selected winners each gets a bicycle of his or her choice, to “to support their carbon friendly lifestyle.”

Nathanael Greene: Will the biofuels industry hang itself in the climate bill?

Now the biofuels industry is pushing to gut both the biomass sourcing safeguards and requirement for full accounting of the GHG emissions from biofuels. This means that while we force American's to buy three and a half times more biofuels than they do today, we'll have no ability to protect our most sensitive forests or wildlife habitat and no ability to know if we're getting something that's actually better than gasoline or diesel. Basically the biofuels industry wants to put the market in overdrive, take the safety railings off and then blind EPA.

UN IPCC Scientist [Richard Courtney] Rejects Romm's Claims as 'nonsense on all counts...NASA's predictions of next solar cycle have all been wrong' | Climate Depot

Courtney's Guest Post: The Joe Romm of Climate Progress article is nonsense on all counts.

Firstly, it is plain wrong when it asserts:

"The deniers have been rooting for a Maunder Minimum to stifle global warming."

I know of nobody who has been "rooting" for cooling, but I know of several so-called "deniers" who assert that slight warming (as could be expected if the AGW-hypothesis is right) would provide net benefits.

Secondly, article shows a degree of confidence that cannot be justified when it says;

"The sunspot cycle is about to come out of its depression, if a newly discovered mechanism for predicting solar cycles — a migrating jet stream deep inside the sun — proves accurate."

NASA's predictions of the next solar cycle have all been wrong...

[Bravo,] Stephen Moore: Climate Change Is ‘Climate Improvement’

Last month, Moore proudly waved his denier credentials before an audience of conservatives in New Jersey, telling them to “roaring applause”:

I happen to believe that global warming is the biggest scam of the last two decades.

Carbon price falls in RGGI’s 4th auction [climate fraud nets another $104 million in cold hard cash]

NEW YORK – The price of a permit to emit one ton of carbon in the Northeast states’ regional cap-and-trade program fell by 8 percent in the program’s third auction, which was held earlier this week, administrators said today.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) said it sold all of the nearly 31 million permits for carbon emitted in 2009-2011 that were up for auction at a clearing price of $3.23 per permit. The electronic auction was held on Wednesday.

That was down from the price of $3.51 each that the permits fetched in the previous auction last March, but the number of separate entities placing bids rose to 54, compared with 50 in March.

The auction raised $104.2 million for energy efficiency, renewable energy and other programs in the 10 participating states, which include Rhode Island, according to RGGI Inc., which administers the program on the states’ behalf.

Christopher Sands (sandsathudson) on Twitter

Butterfield [D-NC, defending Waxman-Markey] gave few arguments on provisions of the bill; instead, he harangued us that we must adjust to his views on climate change...

Critical Biomass - washingtonpost.com

Can Congress avoid a renewable-energy boondoggle?
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Nevertheless, Congress must ensure that it does not give biomass suppliers incentives to produce a fuel that is barely better -- or that is perhaps worse -- than fossil fuels.

Tortured "logic": Maybe we should spend $45 trillion to stop runaway warming that will somehow cause Michigan cherries to freeze?

Great Lakes Echo» Blog Archive » Foggy future of Great Lakes climate puts pressure on Michigan cherry growers

There’s less ice on the Great Lakes, allowing for more evaporation and more lake-effect snow in cherry country. Farther north, Lake Superior has warmed five degrees since 1979.

More importantly for growers, cherry blossoms now appear seven to ten days earlier than they did three decades ago, leaving them susceptible to potentially devastating spring frosts.
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...Spring frosts are the biggest threat to cherries, and the simulations suggest “the impact of frost is going to be a little worse, but not humongously so,” said Black.
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While it’s far from certain that spring frosts will become more common in cherry country, even a hint that they might occur more frequently is worrisome for growers like James Nugent, who has worked on the project as an MSU horticulturist.

In 2002, after unseasonably warm April weather teased out cherry buds, an Alberta Clipper came howling across Lake Michigan, sending temperatures into the 20s and killing more than 99 percent of the crop.

“We couldn’t have made a cherry pie,” Nugent said.
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The 2002 die-off “may have had nothing to do with climate change,” Black said, “but nonetheless, the growers were pretty anxious.” If the Pileus team could say with any certainty that a frostier future lies ahead, growers might invest in wind machines or other frost protection, or plant a hardier variety of cherry. They might switch to a different crop, or get out of farming altogether.

Flashback: Yet another failed model: Gore's climate fraud volunteers are falling way short

2,600 presenters giving their minimum of 10 presentations per year adds up to 26,000 presentations per year, or nearly 2,200 per month.

Now: With July closing in, here is the entire worldwide list of July '09 Climate [Fraud] Project presentations

07/02/09 - Worcester, Massachusetts
07/11/09 - Munich, Germany
07/11/09 - Los Altos, California
07/18/09 - San Jose, California
07/22/09 - avon, edwards or Vail, Colorado

Why are Gore's 2,600 presenters producing such a tiny number of presentations (only 29 or so are listed for June '09)?  I think the link below provides some clues.

I would guess that most presenters come out of Gore's climate fraud training as firm believers, ready to evangelize.  Then, inevitably, they start to encounter climate realists, and face questions that they can't answer. 

They don't handle this by publicly proclaiming "Oops, I was wrong--AGW is a fraud".   I think they just become "too busy" to ever again give another Climate Project presentation.

[Feb '09]: My Confrontation with a [Climate Project] Activist

“Thank you for your presentation. Doing this often, you’re probably used to every crowd having at least one climate change skeptic.”

“Yeah.”

“I’m that person. And if you came and saw the house I lived in you’d know I wasn’t being paid by Big Oil to have my position.” (That drew a laugh or two.)
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What followed my monologue, however, was something that took me truly by surprise. Quite a number of kids in the audience were giving me the thumbs up and silent-clapping. Some parents were too.

Flashback to April '08: [By the way, what ever happened to Gore's imagined 10 million-strong green army?]

[caption] Gore is to spend $300m in a bid to force politicians to act on climate change.
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Gore's masterplan is that anyone who feels inspired to act by these ads will join his Alliance for Climate Protection which, he says, aims to mobilise 10m volunteers who will unite in their call for meaningful political action.

American Thinker Blog: 'Goode' is Excellent

In short, the Goodes are so indisputably right that one dare not make fun of them. This is the quintessence of bigotry: the idea that anyone who opposes what you believe in must be insane or evil.

BNA: "Climate [Scam] Bill Offers Construction Opportunities, Raises Concerns" : Best Practices Construction Law

Fewer, Bigger, Green Projects

As building shifts to more carbon-friendly facilities, there will be fewer, but bigger projects “because of the higher capital costs of green construction,” Cathy Lilford Altman, an attorney with Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P in Dallas, said.

[But doesn't cold weather cause more shipping delays than warm weather?] | Green Business | Reuters

For the business community, this could mean shipping delays, more insured losses, constrained energy supplies and a decline in some tourism-based activities.

LITTLEJOHN: Plagues of rats. Little Hitlers terrorising old ladies. The Great Wheelie Bin Revolt is long overdue | Mail Online

It is the fault of the byzantine system of rules and regulations spewed out of the hysteria over 'climate change'.
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 It beggars belief that councils are employing people to tear open plastic sacks in search of something they have deemed shouldn't be there - and then using anti-terrorist legislation to persecute innocent old ladies who mistakenly place a cornflakes packet in a box intended for newspapers.

A man in Blackburn called the police after two shadowy figures climbed into his garden using a stepladder in the dead of night.

He thought he was being burgled. It turned out they were officials from the council checking for non-regulation dustbins.

I'm sent stories like this all the time...

Why can't Johnny? - Washington Times

If Johnny had a solid elementary and secondary education in the fundamentals of the "Three Rs", he might today be more skilled at the fourth R, reasoning. And we might not now be asking, "Why can't Johnny think for himself about the magnitude of human contributions to global warming?" Or better yet, "Why does Johnny believe that the very gas he exhales is going to destroy his world? How can he be so easily duped?"
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Regardless, a rapidly growing body of knowledgeable atmospheric and environmental scientists and engineers are becoming man-made global warming skeptics. These scientists and engineers, who typically are not beneficiaries of the bloated bag of government cash available for climate studies or are simply retired from the field, are discovering the substantial alternative explanations to "human-released CO2 = man-made global warming formula. Such alternative explanations include the overarching long-term balance in nature between what is exhaled by people and their industrial activities and what is "inhaled" by vegetation and the oceans, along with variability in incoming solar radiation, the disproportionate impact of cosmic rays on cloud condensation nuclei formation at different altitudes in the troposphere, and the combined contributions from naturally occurring El Nino, Pacific decadal and North Atlantic oscillation events, to name a few.

Why can't Johnny even consider these alternative views. The problem is that Johnny has not been instructed in how to think - how to evaluate a proposed cause and effect, how to weigh alternatives, how to distinguish between hypothesis and reality, or simply how to put things into perspective. Instead, Johnny has been hobbled in his assessment skills by a woefully inadequate early education. And higher education generally does little to remedy his situation. At graduation, Johnny has been largely indoctrinated, not educated. Thus, his cap and gown do little to cover his understanding of "cap and trade."

Breaking: Indian cows produce almost as much methane in a day as a Danish cow can produce in a year

Pointing out that the livestock population in India is very large, Mr. Srivastava said the challenge is to increase the milk production and reduce the number of animals, including 280-290 million cattle as they emit maximum methane gas.

He said 80-100 kg of methane emission, considered one of the reasons for global warming, takes place per day from each cow or buffalo.

Danish Project to Reduce Emissions from Cows

If you use available figures to calculate the emission from Danish agriculture, the methane production from livestock digestive systems is 133,000 t per year, with cattle contributing 114,000 t in burps and farts! This corresponds to 118 kg per dairy cow per year – which is half a litre of fuel oil per day.

White House and enviros amp up efforts to pass climate bill in House | Grist

Meanwhile, greens and other progressive groups are going at full tilt. On Wednesday, a coalition of environmental, labor, Hispanic, and veterans groups announced that they’re spending about $5 million on an “ad blitz” aimed at getting the climate bill passed. They’re running print ads [PDF] in the major Capitol Hill publications, plus online ads targeted at decision makers.

Here's the main text of the PDF above:

Instead of importing clean energy technologies manufactured overseas and allowing other countries to get further ahead, we can make the U.S. a global leader in the clean energy economy. Shifting U.S. energy production toward cleaner, cheaper sources will reduce our dangerous dependence on oil, protect our natural resources and create millions of new clean energy jobs — made right here in America.

Is this a sign that the Sierra Club et al are abandoning the "carbon dioxide will kill your grandchildren" line of argument?

Earth warming gradually, not rapidly (OneNewsNow.com)

An energy policy expert says the Obama administration is "upping" global-warming hysteria with the release of a 190-page report.
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According to the report, global warming has and will continue to lead to stronger and more dangerous heat waves, longer periods of drought, higher sea levels, and stronger hurricanes, resulting in more personal property damage.

"And the peer-reviewed research pretty much says, 'no.' The increase in damage comes from the increase in building on the shore line, the increase in wealth that we have. So if you run a hurricane across an empty place, you don't get much damage; you run it across Miami, you get a lot of damage," says David Kreutzer, senior policy analyst in Energy and Economics and Climate Change with The Heritage Foundation.

PETE DU PONT: The Big Chill - WSJ.com

Congress shouldn't fight global warming by freezing the economy.
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Energy development and creation have been essential to America's success over the past several centuries, and they are important for America's future. But the Obama-Waxman-Markey legislation has it backwards: By reducing energy availability, their proposals would kill jobs, reduce purchasing power, shrink the economy, and raise the cost of every fuel we use.

All of which would have almost zero impact on global warming. America cannot go forward successfully with this kind of thinking. We need nuclear power, more oil and gas to support our increasing energy needs, and a clear understanding that depriving us of energy, as this bill would do, would be a very substantial mistake.

Climate [Bribes] Ease Concern in Farm Belt - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats are on the verge of a deal with rebelling Farm Belt legislators on a climate-change bill, a move that could pave the way for a full House vote on legislation as soon as next week.

Dozens of Democrats -- mostly from Midwest agricultural states -- are concerned that the bill, which aims to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, could disproportionately raise energy prices for residents and businesses in their states.

Lawmakers and industry officials close to the negotiations said the two sides could reach an agreement within days, under which rural utilities could receive a small share of free emission credits -- less than 1% of the total that would be handed out. The credits allow the holder to emit a certain amount of greenhouse gases.

Obama’s voice absent from release of big climate [hoax] report | Grist

On a day when the executive branch released a major report on the effects of climate change already underway in the United States, where was President Obama?
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According to the daily schedule released to the press, Obama spent much of the day in public and private events with Korean President Lee Myung-bak. He received regular daily briefings in the morning and met with advisers in the afternoon, but apparently did nothing to use his bully pulpit to draw attention to the climate report.
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The White House promised a live stream of the report’s release, so I watched the whitehouse.gov streaming channel while the daily press briefing ran over schedule while Robert Gibbs answered—what else—health care questions.

When the climate report press event finally came online, it was half over. And at the daily briefing, not one reporter asked about climate or energy.

Global warming not new | dailyrecord.com | Daily Record

A new report issued by President Barack Obama's White House indicates that the earth's climate is changing, and that man's activities are the main cause. I have no doubt that the Earth's climate is changing -- after all, it has done so for millions of years. But man is not the main cause. There is abundant evidence for this. To cite but one of countless examples, New-Jersey-Leisure-Guide.com notes that the 77-foot high Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson "emerged approximately 13,000 years ago at the end of the ice age," due to glacial retreat. Some enterprising journalist ought to ask the "High Priest of the Warming Globe," Al Gore, and Obama how many SUVs and factories were around then.

MARK KALINOWSKI
Clifton

The American Spectator - Paul Chesser : Commandeered by Climate Alarmists

Did the chief executives of a few Western states hijack the staff and resources of their regional coalition, against the will of most of their fellow governors, all to promote their vision for a regional cap-and-trade agreement?

It sure looks that way...

Extremists strain credibility of environmentalism - The Post and Courier

Since the 1960s, beginning with the book "Silent Spring," the enviro-alarmists have insisted that by the year 2000, humanity — at least those who survived the ecological doomsday — would be gasping for air in a feeble attempt to carry on the human race. It didn't happen.

Global warming has become the cause du jour of those who would "save" humanity. We have ancient trees and fossilized remains of plants that clearly indicate that the Earth goes through cycles of changing temperatures. Since the beginning, the Earth has heated up and cooled off in cyclic fashion.

We must solve the problems of fossil-based energy dependence and other environmental challenges, but we must do it rationally.

Scientists: Obama document is 'scare' tactic

The forecast from a new report by the Obama administration on global warming warns North Carolina's beaches could be swallowed up by the sea, New England's long winters could last two weeks and Chicago? Watch out for deadly heat waves.

But scientists who have evaluated the warnings and forecasts says it is a "scare" report that has little relation to reality.

"This is not a work of science but an embarrassing episode for the authors and NOAA," said meteorologist Joe D'Aleo, the former chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting.

UK: Age Concern Energy Services customers share £16,000 cold weather payout

Mr Hemingway said the organisation was happy to help those who may otherwise have struggled to pay bills and keep warm

He said: "As this winter was a particularly harsh one with a record amount of snow falling and temperatures dropping below freezing on 52 days out of a possible 90 days across the UK, we are delighted to be able to help out older people in North Lincolnshire who might be struggling with bills in the current economic climate."

Rural Electric Co-ops Threaten Climate [Scam] Deal - NYTimes.com

Some say Glenn English, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, could play a role in killing climate legislation. Others call him just a blip in the current political radar.

English, for his part, says he may not be able to support the federal global warming legislation now pending in the House until it reaches the Senate -- or as he calls it, "the fourth inning."

BBC NEWS |  Will British crops go thirsty?

"It's been ideal growing weather recently," Duncan says, "sunshine and the right amount of rain."

But for how much longer?

Morning Bell: Stop Enviro-Crony Capitalism…Stop the EPA » The Foundry

...But don’t worry, says Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. She told the New York Times earlier this year, “We are poised to be specific on what we regulate and on what schedule.” In other words, just as the Obama Treasury Department played political favorites when bailing out General Motors and Chrysler, rewarding big labor allies while punishing average investors and secured creditors, the Obama EPA is poised to play the exact same games while enforcing the Clean Air Act.

There is something you can do to help stop this regulatory enviro-crony capitalism nightmare. Any regulatory framework created by the Obama EPA can be fought in court. And one factor that courts must consider when a regulation is challenged is how the government addressed citizen comments on the proposed regulation.

Lack of global warming may cause grizzly attacks? - Ontario, CA

Officials in Banff are warning anyone headed to the mountains to use caution after a female grizzly with two cubs acted aggressively toward a kayaker recently.

"It was a bluff charge," said Banff National Park spokeswoman Michelle Macullo.

Unseasonably cold temperatures earlier this year have made food scarce for the bears, pushing them closer to towns to find more.

"We've had a really cool, late spring so what that means is when Mother Nature is uncooperative like that, the snow sticks around and there's nothing for them to eat up high," said Macullo.

The Sietch Blog » Travel Woes

In all honesty I ran the numbers for turning down the heat, for insulating my home, and for a lot of other things and it is going to take me YEARS to offset this amount of co2. I think most carbon offset programs are scams, and many of them are shady at best. I have slimmed down my carbon footprint to a pretty small level, and when I do something silly like fly across the entire country it really inflates it. I guess I should go out and plant a couple hundred trees, and or perhaps work to reduce someone else’s carbon footprint to make up for my own foolishness.

If you have any suggestions please do let me know.

Here's my suggestion: Take a look at the graphs here, and stop being tormented by the hucksters who successfully convinced you that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.

The Migrant Mind: Being Colder Makes the Ice Melt

How in the hell can NASA say that there is no evidence of the southern hemisphere being warmer when the Amery Ice Shelf was melted by 80 km during that period?

A question for NASA, if it was colder then than now, was it the cold that melted this ice cap? Utter illogic. The guy who wrote the NASA website ignored this evidence or didn't do sufficient research to know of it.

Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California - NYTimes.com

As California moves to license dozens of huge solar power plants to meet the state’s renewable energy goals, some developers contend they are being pressured to sign agreements pledging to use union labor. If they refuse, they say, they can count on the union group to demand costly environmental studies and deliver hostile testimony at public hearings.

If they commit at the outset to use union labor, they say, the environmental objections never materialize.

“This does stress the limits of credibility to some extent,” the California energy commissioner, Jeffrey Byron, said at one contentious hearing, “when an attorney representing a labor union is so focused on the potential impact of a solar power plant on birds.”

Cascade Policy Institute - Todd Wynn - Oregon Public Policy » Global Warming? No! It Is Now Called Climate Change

It is hard to advocate for overbearing regulations that attempt to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions when global temperatures have been stable or declining. In fact, in at least the last seven years, global temperatures have declined, despite increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. As it turns out, the term “global warming” is a little inconvenient for doomsayers predicting runaway global temperatures. Using the term “climate change” supports the modern-day witch hunt that allows any weather anomaly to be blamed on human activity.

The truth is that climate always changes. Every year, decade, and century is different from the last. If climate policies are honestly aimed at reducing global temperatures, then governments should stick to the term “global warming,” instead of using the ambiguous term “climate change” to regulate every sector of the economy, regardless of the actual temperature of earth.

OVER THE TOP WITH ACID OCEANS

An email from Mark Lawson..., Journalist/Reports Editor, The Australian Financial Review
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Ian Plimer, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide and author of the book Heaven+Earth debunking greenhouse science points out that the ocean's acid-alkaline balance varies considerably, depending on, say, whether the measurement is taken near the coast or near a volcanic vent. He also says that CO2 levels have been much higher in the geological past with no noticeable gap of shelly creatures, so he regards the whole issues as "a complete furphy" (a furphy is a wild tale).

Besides nothing dramatic really showing in the fossil record there is, as yet, no measurable affect on fish population stocks or on marine production. In any case, over fishing is a major problem the world over. Changes in human activity can greatly affect stocks in a given fishing ground, and those variations may completely overshadow any changes these researchers are talking about. Cray and abalone fishing in Australia, for example, are strictly controlled.

Arizona State University » Blog Archive » ASU researcher among authors of climate change [scam] report

Grimm, who is the lead principal investigator and co-director of the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research project (CAP LTER), also is an affiliate faculty member of ASU’s School of Sustainability. Her research concerns the effects of human activity on nitrogen cycling and retention in deserts, cities and streams.