Guest commentary: Climate change is no reason to tax energy » Naples Daily News

The money spent trumpeting “crisis” is huge, while the side of reason and analysis goes unfunded. Gore yells, “The debate is over. Save the planet now!” The flags wave, the politicians (both parties) think the people are speaking. The guy with the real science runs out of his lab to stop this parade and gets trampled.

This economy does not need this ruinous taxation. Don’t penalize bakeries. If there is climate change, we need an adaptive plan to cope with it and an energy plan to be self sufficient. Let’s stop this Cap and Trade madness.

Yellow Scene Magazine » Confessions of a Disgraced Driver

In the post-Inconvenient Truth world, there is a certain amount of guilt that comes with driving a car and taking a bath and turning on lights.
Guilt is the new ignorance. Playing dumb or indifferent is no longer the thing to do. We know too much.

Electric Vehicles: The Next Generation Of Transportation | Best Money Saving Articles Online

In the next year or two electric cars, or zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) as they are sometimes called, will be an everyday sight on streets right across the globe. The stuff of science fiction movies will have have become science fact.

RSS versus UAH: Battles over Tropical Land and Ocean « Climate Audit

Until I recently examined the underlying technical literature on the construction of the UAH and RSS satellite data sets, I had little appreciation of the complicated adjustment and estimation procedure involved in the satellite temperature indices.

Vocal Minority: To Hell and Back, a.k.a. Watching Rachel Maddow, Day 3

Looks like a liberal has found a flip-flop Maddow discusses Sarah Palin’s editorial “The Cap-and-Trade Dead End,” which appeared Tuesday in the Washington Post (kudos to WaPo for publishing it) Maddow describes the editorial as “decrying the cap-and-trade provision in the president’s energy plan, which would reduce the emissions that cause global warming.”

Let’s rephrase that last remark so it’s more accurate, shall we? “… decrying the cap-and-trade provision in the president’s energy plan, which would force the American people, individual property owner and business owner alike to reduce the emissions that radical eco-Marxists have been trying to trick the government and public into believing they cause global warming.”

Homemade Wind Powered Electric Vehicle Generates Almost 1 KW : Gas 2.0

Don’t laugh.

This started as just another ho-hum, run-of-the-mill, zero emissions, homemade solar powered EV.

But, sensibly, noting the enormous contribution of the wind turbine in the “snout” 400 watts at 28 MPH, night or day! Joe Rush, the inventor plans on adding a second wind turbine! This would bring the total on-board electricity supply to nearly 1 KW. Well, at least when it’s traveling at 28 mph, it would.

Animating GHCN Global Temperature Anomalies from NCDC « Watts Up With That?

I’m beginning to think that tracking anomalies may not be providing a complete picture.

White House creates climate job - Climate Change- msnbc.com

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A scientist from the University of Rhode Island who headed research expeditions in the Arctic and the Indian Ocean will soon join the White House in a new position that targets the worldwide issue of climate change.

Kate Moran, associate dean of URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, begins work Monday as a senior policy analyst for President Barack Obama's Office of Science & Technology Policy. In her new role, Moran will provide advice on issues relating to oceans, the Arctic and global warming.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: IF OBAMA GETS HIS WAY, THEN THERE'S A NEW BIG BROTHER COMING TO TOWN: THE "ENERGY INSPECTOR", AND HE CO-OWNS YOUR HOME

CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON CAP & TRADE!!

By Degrees - Tougher Home Building Rules to Save Energy for Decades - Series - NYTimes.com

Climate scientists and architects say that no single policy change could do more to save energy over the long run — and reduce the nation’s contribution to global warming — than building codes that make saving energy the law.

Fight against carbon could put shackles on global free trade - Carbon Offsets Daily

THERE is a serious danger the international adoption of cap-and-trade legislation to limit carbon-dioxide emissions will trigger a new round of protectionism.
While aimed at reducing long-term environmental damage, cap-and-trade policies could produce significant harmful economic effects in the near term that would continue into the future.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » 2009 SOI so far refuses tango with El Nino

It is is noteworthy that the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) which should be trending towards negative monthly values for an El Nino – still shows a positive 30 day average value of 8.56 as of the 18th July 09. SOI information.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: A Challenge to Climate Change Skeptics

The rules of the challenge are as follows:

1. For each day that the high temperature in your hometown is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit above average, as listed by Weather Underground, you owe me $25. For each day that it is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit below average, I owe you $25.

Climate for partying: UN in summit scam

But do you need a summit to build that trust -- particularly when most leaders would not even meet each other, inside or outside the UN building, except those participating in interactive sessions? However, even if they do, they would be more interested in bilateral issues than discuss the bigger agenda of climate change.

Since the Children's Summit in New York in 1990 and the mega Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, there have been dozens of similar gatherings around the globe: on human rights, population, social development, habitat, women, financing for development and the highly-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

But most of them have been glorified talk-fests and/or exercises in futility. When world leaders attending these international gatherings give their blessings to either a "political declaration" or "a plan of action," an overwhelming majority of these heads of state or heads of government have not even read the document.

Schools foster climate illiteracy - OregonLive.com

...And it's not only social studies texts that adopt a ho-hum attitude about global warming. In the widely used Pearson/Prentice Hall textbook "Physical Science: Concepts in Action," high school students don't meet the concept of climate change until Page 782. The few paragraphs on the human causes of climate change are littered with doubt. The section begins: "Human activities may also change climate over time." May? And then in boldface as the key to the section: "One possible climate change is caused by the addition of carbon dioxide and certain other gases into the atmosphere."

Possible climate change? The text is thick with a mealy language of "might," "could" and "may": "Carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles, power plants, and other sources may contribute to global warming."

Last year, NASA's Hansen said the CEOs of large fossil fuel companies should be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature for spreading disinformation about climate change. Hansen said these distortions would end up in school textbooks. He could pay a visit to schools in the USA's supposed "green capital" to find evidence for his indictment.

The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - News - Protesters say no to cap-and-trade 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than 400 people gathered at the Culture Center at the state Capitol Saturday to protest cap-and-trade legislation, now being considered by the U.S. Senate.
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People attending the rally carried signs stating: "Cap & Trade Will Cost Jobs," "Cap & Trade is Another Tax for West Virginia" and "Obama: Anti-Christ."
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Charles Wilfong, president of the West Virginia Farm Bureau, told the audience at the Culture Center that cap-and-trade legislation will "probably be the biggest tax increase in American history."

Wilfong rejected the "assumption that global warming is caused by humans ... a radical fringe is trying to implement this legislation."

He added, "A little under $1 trillion in new taxes over a 10-year period will be spent on social programs supported by the liberal leaders of Congress."

Human Trend » Obsession

Al Gore is the Aimee Semple McPherson of the climate change movement. He bangs one meaty paw on the pulpit, scaring the congregation with apocalyptic visions of a man-made hell, while with the other he coolly extracts their folding money in support of certain miraculous, planet-saving technologies in which he just happens to have a small private interest. All that’s needed to make the picture complete is for him to be discovered in a love-nest down in Mexico, shacked up in a hotel with the nubile daughter of a coal magnate.

Gore continues to write his own gospel, recently claiming in an interview on ABC Australia that a court ruling in the UK went in his favor, when it is well-known (even in the distant Antipodes) that the judge held that Gore’s Cli-Fi movie, An Inconvenient Truth, contained nine significant errors of scientific fact.

For some reason, monomania comes to mind...

Cool Days of Summer: Historic Low Temps Have Many Wondering What's Going On

Jul. 18--SALISBURY -- For most of us, the recent rainy and cool summer weather is a nuisance that has spoiled family cookouts and rained out summer vacation plans, and perhaps it's what some imagine is the dreaded sign that global warming is on the march.

How can wind turbines generate so much lunacy? - Telegraph

To meet our peak demand of 56 gigawatts of electricity would require 112,000 turbines covering 11,000 square miles, or an eighth of Britain's entire land area, says Christopher Booker.

Environment » Blog Archive » Countering the contrarians on global warming | Reuters Blogs |

[Aaron Huertas, press secretary at the Union of Concerned Scientists]  sees this as a matter of science education, made more difficult when those who oppose acting to curb climate change choose their own facts. “You’re dealing with an opposition movement that literally doesn’t care what the research is, they can just make stuff up,” Huertas told me.

What A Real Global Warming Insurance Policy Would Look Like | Climate Skeptic

...I do buy insurance on my car. But I don’t pay $20,000 a year for a policy with a $10,000 deductible on a car worth $11,000. That is Waxman-Markey.

theblogprof: I blame global warming! Michigan sweet corn, tomato crop delayed because of cold

Unusually cold weather in Michigan these days. Smack dab in the middle of July, we are having to close the windows because it's too cold outside. I still haven't run the ac yet this year. These weather patterns have other consequences. Just a couple of weeks ago, I reported that the Northern Michigan Cherry Festival was without northern Michigan cherries! (I blame Global Warming! Northern Michigan Cherry festival to be without Northern Michigan cherries. Not ripe yet because of cold!) I kid you not! They had to import cherries from elsewhere! And before that, the strawberry crop had been delayed (I blame global warming! Cool weather delays Michigan strawberry season). Is no crop safe from global warming? Er, I mean - climate change? Not corn or tomatoes apparently!

Got A Problem? Blame Global Warming!! | PoliPundit.com

Yesterday, on the radio I was listening to someone talking about those giant squid along the California Coast and why they were showing up. Needless to say, I broke out laughing when I heard him add in “global warming.” Well sure enough, it is being reported that way

Views on the News - 7/18/2009 | The Voice

Barack Obama may redefine the term “flash in the pan” accomplishing the most in the shortest amount of time and become a lame duck President all in his first 100 days in office! Obama entered office with very high personal popularity ratings. He proceeded to scare the American public with doom and gloom predictions as a justification for a number of liberal spending programs to address apocalyptic crises. All of his programs “required immediate action” without sufficient time to even read the entire legislation, and asked the American people to “trust him” to fix the nation’s problems. Dick Morris suspects that the American public is already waking up to find that the “stimulus” program does not stimulate, the jobs program does not create long term private sector jobs, and only thing that grows is the size of government and our national debt.

Protect American Wildlife from Global Warming « Chrisy58’s Weblog

With long legs and big paws, the lynx is an efficient snow hunter, and the warmer winters brought on by global warming threaten to disrupt its ability to hunt.

Gimme Some of that Ole Time Global Warming « Alexandria

Every day temperatures are below average except for three average days. Two days 10 degrees below the averge, one day 9 below and anther 8 below. Brrr! These temperatures have made July quite pleasant for outdoor activities, but I’m beginning to worry about another Ice Age.

Packaging chiefs blast carbon transition plan - Carbon Offsets Daily

Packaging chiefs have hit out at the government’s carbon reduction plan for failing manufacturing at a time when unemployment levels have reached a 14-year high.

The government yesterday launched its ‘Low Carbon Transition Plan’ designed to cut carbon emissions, but British Glass and the Packaging Federation said energy prices could go up as a result, putting UK packaging at a competitive disadvantage.

Ontario: Hungry as bears, customers swarm new farmers' market

McKellar said bears in this area are getting hungrier than usual this year because unseasonably cold temperatures are delaying the berries and seeds they would normally be feeding.

Time for climate change deniers to recant | By Tim Moerman

Those who knew that climate change was real but pretended otherwise -- well, I don't know what you'd call them. 'Accessory to genocide' is such an ugly word.

Many of the erstwhile climate change deniers must know by now that they have done a terrible thing.

The public-relations flacks and junk scientists who so successfully confused the issue and delayed action should come out, publicly, and recant.
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 Tim Moerman, of Moncton, is an urban planner.

Richman Ramblings: Cap & Trade Scam

[Utah Senator Orrin Hatch] ...more than one half of a million years of observed data fail to support the very central IPCC assumption that CO2 is a primary driver of the climate.

Out of Africa: A new paper by Christy on surface temperature issues « Watts Up With That?

These are not GHCN stations as far as I can tell, but the siting was interesting nonetheless. This new paper by John Christy, who works with Dr. Roy Spencer on the UAH dataset, points out that Tmin seems to have a signal in Africa where Tmax does not. Land use changes and aersols that affect the boundary layer at night are theorized and possible reasons. – Anthony

Polls point to an edge for GOP - Columns - News & Observer

In this off-year election cycle, Republicans have an opportunity to make great gains in Congress. One only has to pay attention to what is transpiring at the "tea party" events -- a grass-roots tax revolt -- and town hall meetings in which many congressmen and senators have had some uncomfortable interactions with their constituents.

Anger over cap-and-trade climate change legislation and excessive government is beginning to manifest itself in congressional districts around this country. And Democratic governors or candidates for governor who are unwilling to make hard choices in regard to discretionary spending could pay a heavy price this fall and in 2010.

Will Small Be Beautiful for GM? - WSJ.com

...But a few weeks later, the company reversed course. GM now says it will retool Orion to make compact, gas-sipping cars. The change of heart says a lot about how GM's new owners -- the federal government owns 60% of the company and the United Auto Workers (UAW) owns 17% -- are making considerations other than profitability a top priority for the auto maker.

Something Changed

"I pledge, if asked, to perform non-violent civil disobedience and risk arrest in order to get our leaders to make the right climate-change choices."

— Climate change campaigning is getting intense at BeyondTalk.net. They also have an option for people who don’t want to get arrested where you can purchase “action offset” to help someone else receive civil-disobedience training or pay bail.

Michigan Democrats mindlessly voted for disastrous Cap and Trade Bill - Saginaw, Michigan

The entire Democrat delegation voted for this horrible bill, the one which no one read, and which was amended with a 300-page addition just before the vote. Our elected Democrats thought this was OK. Aside from the obvious deficiencies of the bill itself, they still agreed with the shady, underhanded method of forcing its passage. We apparently don't have a Michigan delegation, but a group of Nancy Pelosi automatons.

I can only hope that voters wake up in time to vote out this mindless group and install some people who think of Michigan first, and not their party leaders.

Protesters show up at Space office | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | Zanesville Times Recorder

Rich Miller, 76, of Zanesville, said he, too, is concerned about not just health care, but how the entire system is running.

"I'm sick to death of the whole deal," Miller said. "The government is taking everything they can out of the people's hands."

Miller said he wants to see values in the country returned to the way they were more than a year ago.

"It scares me to death what the people in Washington are doing to us," Miller said. "I voted for Space but when he voted for the Cap and Trade, that was it."

Mark Hicks drove from Athens to tell Space that he's never seen a more irresponsible government.

Zack Space: Information from Answers.com

Zachary T. "Zack" Space (born January 27, 1961) of Dover, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic Party and presently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio's 18th congressional district.

Compelling video: Angry voters confront Congressman who voted for cap and trade swindle

At the 4:12 mark, a speaker says that he hopes Castle loses his Congressional seat over his support of cap and trade, and the crowd cheers. Castle smiles briefly, then his face grows grim.

Around the 7:12 mark, Castle is booed after he says he believes in AGW.

YouTube - Mike Castle Cap and Traitor G-town 6-30-2009 2 of 2

The town hall listening tour on health care 3 days after his vote for Cap and Trade. June 30, 2009.

Michael Castle: Information from Answers.com

Michael Newbold "Mike" Castle (born July 2, 1939) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, and two terms as Governor of Delaware. He is currently the incumbent Republican U.S. Representative, serving his eighth term.

Lawrence Solomon: Profitin’ in the wind - FP Comment

Billionaire energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens has a two-step plan to cash in on climate change. Today: step two

Scienceblogs.com Misses The Point On Climate Models

The amount of arrogance coming downwind from global warming zealots can be in itself quite breathtaking. Their arguments, often, are therefore only satisfying to people who already share their preconceptions and are quite lacking for those who do not.

Consider the incredible straw man “Coby” (a Grist fan) uses over at Scienceblogs.com to defend climate models.

Power Line - A Year Without A Summer?

Today, walking down the street in downtown Minneapolis at 5:30, en route from my office to my parking ramp, I saw something I've never seen before: a man wearing a winter coat in July. Well, maybe not quite a winter coat, but definitely a fall/winter semi-parka with an unzipped, faux-fur lined hood. He was carrying a briefcase and looked like a businessman who was tired of being cold every time he went outdoors. In the summer.

I personally don't think that we (all of humankind, let alone we Americans) can control the weather, but for those who do think we possess that Godlike power, here's a request: can we turn the thermostat up a little?  [Via Skeptic's Corner]

Solar Cycle and El Nino: New research points to stronger connection

The new paper does not analyze the weather impacts of the solar-driven events. But Meehl and his co-author, Julie Arblaster of both NCAR and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, found that the solar-driven La Nina tends to cause relatively warm and dry conditions across parts of western North America. More research will be needed to determine the additional impacts of these events on weather across the world.

More, less, whatever | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Indian Government isn’t sure at all that any warming is man-made or would even be bad, and definitely won’t agree to cuts in gases

Another cool summer day for Chicago -- chicagotribune.com

What a summer! Many Chicago-area residents are shaking their heads -- some pleased by the lack of heat, others disappointed at the failure of hot weather to gain a foothold here. And extremely rare midsummer lake-effect rains were pouring down on sections of La Porte County, Ind., and Berrien County, Mich., on Friday evening -- just the latest meteorological twist in a summer of topsy-turvy weather across the region.

July has slipped to the coolest to date here in 42 years -- its 68.7 degree average temperature running nearly 5 degrees behind the long-term (138-year) average. Friday's 70-degree high was the first time in 53 years a July 17 temperature failed to break above 70 -- but you'd have to travel back to the 64-degree high 85 years ago to find a July 17 that was cooler.

Wind Farms: the death of Britain - James Delingpole

“How the hell did we let that happen?” we often ask ourselves when we look at the brutalist monstrosity tower blocks which we allowed to blight our towns in the sixties. In a few decades’ time we’re going to be asking exactly the same question about the 300 foot wind turbines ruining what’s left of Britain’s wilderness.

My Green Element » Friday Blog Roundup

According to GreenBiz, there may soon be legal repercussions for ignoring, and not reporting on, environmental risks. The United Nations recently produced a report, which suggests “advisors to institutional investors may end up in court if they ignore environmental and social concerns.” In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission is contemplating whether to force public companies to inform their investors on the financial and physical risks they face from climate change.

Rudd’s blog: popular but pointless - Corporate Engagement

The blog will have a point if, and when, it seems to be actually influencing policy, otherwise it is just another ‘talkback meets the web’ play and god knows we’re reaching saturation point with those.

Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy » Oregon’s Energy-Inefficient “Green Revolution”

Summary: With huge subsidies coming from the federal and state governments to prop up inefficient forms of energy production, scientists and entrepreneurs are less likely to produce new, more efficient energy forms. In addition, the massive influx of regulations supported by environmentalists inhibits new energy forms from competing in the market. These factors prevent new sources of energy from coming onto the grid and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in increased energy costs.

Senator Boxer’s Racial Insensitivity Gets Called Out–How Sweet It Is! « Pronk Palisades

The American people think that man-made climate change is a scam and politicians who believe man is the primary cause of climate change as either clueless or crooks.

It is the sun–stupid!

"Scientific" Inquiry concludes; Inhofe List “Not credible …”

Well, today the Center for Inquiry (CFI), “an organization committed to defending scientific integrity,

has today dealt a body blow to global warming skeptics by releasing findings exposing the lack of credibility of dissenting scientists challenging man-made global warming

CFI’s Office of Public Policy undertook an assessment of the 687 people listed as “dissenting scientists” in the January 2009 version of the ‘Inhofe list’.

CapitalClimate: New York Breaks Summer Cool Streak Record

With a high on Friday of 86°, New York City broke its record spell of 46 consecutive days without reaching 85° since June 1. The last time the temperature failed to hit 85° in June was 1916. The only previous occurrences were 1903 and 1886. This June was tied for the 8th coolest, and it was the second wettest in history.

Australian Climate Madness: Krudd - King of Inanity

Starting my blog tomorrow on Climate Change. Like to hear your ideas on practical action. KRudd [Translation - I'm a guy who will take action on climate change, because I don't understand anything except what the IPCC and Penny Wong tell me]

The real reason I’ll fight in the Senate on climate change | Steve Fielding | The Punch

I briefly met Mr Gore at a breakfast in Melbourne attended by more than a thousand people. He was aware of the important role Family First plays in the senate and was keen to catch up.

After a series of phone calls I was met with a stonewall of resistance. I offered to meet Mr Gore at any place at any time but had no luck. Here we had the former Vice President of the United States, a self proclaimed climate change preacher running away from me over a few simple questions. I could hardly believe it.

I would have thought if Al Gore was really committed to the cause he would want to meet with all senators who had concerns about the science if it would help ensure that the CPRS legislation would pass. Obviously I was wrong.

Question: If we already have the technology, why are we still funding its development?

Asian Nations Could Outpace U.S. in Developing Clean Energy - washingtonpost.com

President Obama has often described his push to fund "clean" energy technology as key to America's drive for international competitiveness as well as a way to combat climate change.

March '08: Climate crisis getting short shrift in US president race: Gore

"We have to stop this, and the truth is we can," Gore said. "We have the technology..."

New, Highly Toxic Pesticide Is Greenhouse Gas 4,780 Times More Potent Than CO2 | ecoficial

Public health and environmental advocates Friday asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny a request from Dow AgroSciences for a permit allowing it to release large amounts of sulfuryl fluoride onto farm fields in four states. The chemical is a toxic pesticide whose global warming effects are thousands of times stronger than carbon dioxide.

“The hazards of using sulfuryl fluoride in agriculture have not been evaluated. It is also 4,780 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide,” said Dr. Brian Hill, a staff scientist at the Pesticide Action Network. “Either one of those facts makes permitting these tests a major mistake.”

U.S. seeks emissions data from China

Victor says the White House is most likely using trade tariffs as a threat to get China to reduce its emissions. But he says the problem with threats is that sometimes you have to act on them. And if that happens, he says the result would be an all-out trade war.

Gates’ patent claims pre-empted by my 2005 “Hurricane Stopper” post [Reader Post]

Massive expansion of dirty northern coal-fired electrical generation will kill several birds with one stone: it will rejuvenate the world economy; it will decrease wintertime albedo cooling feedbacks, significantly mitigating global cooling; the release of CO2 from coal-burning will give some relief from cold-driven crop shrinkage; and it will contribute very slightly to the earth’s blanket of greenhouse gases, mitigating global cooling itself by a very slight amount.

So that’s my freebie. Dig here. Back to the future. Return to dirty coal. Hard to patent the past, but I predict that at least a few hefty diamonds will be pulled from this ash heap.

More Energy Efficient Lighting to Save Over 3,500 Metric Tons of CO2 Annually - Carbon Offsets Daily

With a switch to the energy-efficient, long-life GE Tetra® LED lighting system — a product of ecomagination(SM) from Lumination, GE Consumer & Industrial’s LED business (NYSE: GE) — AT&T is expected to save more than 5.8 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year and eliminate 3,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. It’s the equivalent of planting more than 950 acres of trees.

Why not just buy some bogus carbon offsets for about $10k annually?

Twitter / Dixie Flatline

@Tokyo_Tom Who denies climate change? People deny AGW, and some like me wonder why we haven't had the ice age they promised 40 years ago.

Worldchanging: Bright Green: President Obama, Lead Us to Copenhagen

Mr. President, one measure of how good ancestor you will be -- how good a set of ancestors we Americans will all be -- waits to be taken on the floor of the Senate. But your administration's -- and our generation's -- epitaph will not be decided there, but in Copenhagen, and what the COP-15 Summit makes possible in the critical years that follow. If we fail to move much more boldly, that epitaph will be simply "They risked too little, acted too late, and threw away our hope."

Twitter / Mike Kelly

Maybe if the left wasn't so busy trying to damn this country by prying open the gates of Hell we wouldn't have to worry about global warming

Video: Earth's temperature for the last 10,000 years

Most "polluting" postcodes in Britain identified in heart of middle England - Telegraph

Ms Kirby said the middle classes will need to give up "gas guzzling" cars and start buying more low carbon goods such as locally sourced food rather than expensive fruit and vegetables flown from abroad in order to cut their carbon footprint.

"There is definitely a shift among the chattering classes to be more aware of the environmental situation," she said. "But it is still not enough.

"To get down to the two tonnes per person recommended by the IPCC we need to radically change our lifestyles as well as seeing a change in the technologies we use such as renewables to produce energy, low carbon cars and more efficient appliances."

This Quiet Sun » Blog Post » Solar Science

All of this can be seen to be normal behaviour for the Sun, except that this hiatus between Solar Cycle 23 finally winding down and the next cycle is unprecedented in nearly a hundred years. (By the way, the overuse of “unprecedented” by climate alarmists has me wincing at using it as a cliché)

Letter to Royal Society from Rupert Wyndham | Climate Realists

An equally inept and disreputable UK Met Office remains in stubborn but increasingly risible denial. Although it was foreseen by others (for example, unlike the politically inspired Nature, the scientifically rigorous journal, Energy & Environment) this trend, of course, was totally missed by the GCMs so beloved of global warming propagandists. In short, this seems an opportune moment for a brief review of what the RS persists in maintaining is authoritative climate change science. A few examples follow:

The Migrant Mind: Cooling at Carnarvon

So, what do we see at Carnarvon, Airport? Well, from 1949 until 1988, the temperature warmed. In 1949 there were 8098 degree-days. But in 1988 it was 8500 degree-days, clearly a warming trend. But, past 1988 Carnarvon cooled. By 2008, the degree-days were down to 8037, less than in 1949. Where in the hell is the global warming? We have almost 80 ppm more CO2 in the atmosphere in 2008 than we had in 1949, but the number of degree-days is less. Does this make any sense?

Weather News - Record cold hits the tropics

Temperatures have plummeted across Queensland during the past three days causing frost to spread well north into the tropics.

Clermont in the Central Highlands plummeted to minus three degrees on Saturday morning, 10 degrees below their July average and the towns coldest night on record. Sub zero temperatures even spread as far north as Mt Isa, their coldest night in seven years. Even mild coastal areas have dropped to single figures over the past few nights with Rockhampton recording a minimum of just three on Saturday morning, colder than any night in central Sydney for more than 20 years.

Catholic church 'a climate change sinner' | National Breaking News | News.com.au

THE Catholic Church has confessed it is one of the biggest carbon emission sinners in Australia.

Catholic Earthcare, the organisation set up in 2002 by bishops to advise the church on environmental issues, admitted the Australian Catholic church has a carbon footprint dwarfing other major organisations.

An Energy Obituary — MasterResource

A death announcement last week in the Houston Chronicle caught my eye. I never met the late Stephen Simon, but what I read made me realize that the quiet heroes and heroines of free-market capitalism need to be saluted now and then. For they are the wealth creators and real philanthropists versus the political system’s wealth redistributionists and wealth destroyers.

Here is the essence of this man. An engineer. More than 40 years with a major energy company in a variety of advancing positions at home and abroad. Successful. Private sector philanthropist with his time and money.

Save the planet! Crash into people | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The surprising result: Hybrid drivers typically drive farther, get more tickets, and have significantly more expensive insurance claims.

The Associated Press: [Hillary Clinton promotes the greatest scientific fraud in history]

MUMBAI, India — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton opened a three-day visit to India on Saturday by urging India not to make the same mistakes the U.S. has on climate change and emphasizing the nations' mutual interest in fighting global terrorism.

"We acknowledge now with President Obama that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem that we face with climate change," she said. "We are hoping a great country like India will not make the same mistakes."

Whom Can We Trust in War on Climate Change? - washingtonpost.com

What makes us think that the analysis accomplished by the climatologists is providing the right guidance for handling the global warming "crisis"?

FREDERICK S. HOLMES JR.

Is climate change cooking Delmarva hunters' goose? [Ed Perry promotes gigantic fraud]

For hunters and fishermen who are starting to wonder where all the ducks and fish have gone, Perry has an answer.

"The level of emissions that we are using today is skyrocketing, and it's something that affects every natural system," he said. "Every state has gone up at least one hardiness zone, and some have gone up two. For example, southern Pennsylvania's hardiness zone now is what North Carolina's was 15 years ago."
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So what can be done to bring more ducks and the fish back to Delmarva?

"We must lower our emissions by at least 2 percent every year," Perry said.

Vitter: Global warming bill will fall short in Senate vote — Baton Rouge, LA

U.S. Sen. David Vitter denounced a U.S. House-passed global warming bill Friday and predicted it will fail in the Senate.

“I don’t think there is anything salvageable in this bill,” said Vitter, R-La.

The Republican spoke to about 180 ExxonMobil Chemical Co. employees and fielded several questions, mostly on energy policies.

Vitter spent most of his time blasting “cap and trade” legislation that won narrow House approval last month with heavy backing from President Barack Obama.

Don't miss this piece by James Lewis

Pajamas Media » It Is the Best of Times and the Worst of Times for Science

The sciences are now like Russia after Glastnost: Everybody can see a massive disaster ahead, but nobody wants to say it out loud. We are in that moment of shocked silence just before the bare-naked emperor becomes a target of universal laughter and ridicule. Well, this emperor is buck naked, just like the fairy tale.

As I’ve talked with scientific colleagues in private, they are quietly nodding, yes, yes, of course it’s all BS. Pure model-driven fantasy. Really lousy, deceptive, and fraudulent selection of the data. A gigantic slap in the face for NASA. A thousand greedy grant swingers all over the world. The media chasing scare stories, and fake “scientists” chasing the media. They fed each other lie after lie after lie. It was a very profitable partnership.
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...the media are full of phony superstitions and the worst kind of pseudo-science. If this is the best of times, it is also the worst of times — with a fetid plague of fraud whipped up by the likes of Al Gore, who helped to put fanatics like James Hansen into power. Hansen is not a scientist. He is a zealot who uses math models to push his personal crusade.
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As Professor Fred Singer and others have shown, none of the climate models can “retrodict” the solid data of the past. How could any decent scientist therefore claim to predict global temps in the distant future? Global warming was always a flaming fraud, and at some level a lot of scientists knew it. They just kept their heads down — to their everlasting shame.

Everybody outside the climate game just assumed the frauds must be telling the truth. All that modeling seemed to be somebody’s specialty, and you don’t arrogantly invade somebody’s specialty, do you? So the mounting fraud went unpunished for years and years, while politicians like Al Gore made sure the money went to feed the fraud.
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My question is, what shall we do with the science frauds once everybody gets it? The rules are very clear. Science organizations and universities have strict regulations against fraud. Proven liars are fired, and if they have stolen money by deception, they should be held legally responsible to pay it back or go to jail.

Bernie Madoff is a small operator compared to James Hansen. Madoff just got 150 years. Hansen is still ranting against the plain evidence.

There are honest mistakes in science. On the frontiers of science everything looks vague and debatable for a while. But you don’t drop your standards so low that any con artist can get away with fraud. That’s what’s happened in climate modeling. It is therefore crucial to re-establish the credibility of science. That means firing the guilty, and if necessary, prosecuting them.

We’ll know that the sciences are on the road to health again when the biggest crooks are exposed and fired. Don’t expect it soon. But honest scientists should speak out, as many of them are beginning to do. Climate modeling has become a rubble-strewn disaster area, and historically, tainted fields are simply choked off and allowed to lie fallow for a generation or so before the first green shoots can grow again. Choke off the money, and the climate game will wither. All that accumulated expertise can be put to do something useful — like predicting the stock market or trying to beat the house in Vegas.

RIP Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite, 2004: Global warming needs a serious look right now | www.azstarnet.com ®

The contempt of the Bush administration for environmentalists and their concerns certainly is well enough known by now.

While the evidence of man-made environmental damage continues to mount, the Bush team stubbornly resists its implications like a defeated army whose rear guard fights off its pursuers as it retreats.

That has been especially true of its handling of the most serious of all the environmental issues - global warming.
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...This theory also starts with the melting of glaciers and sea ice but involves the dilution of seawater's salinity - or salt content - that results.

That salt content is a key element in an ocean current that takes heat from the tropics northward and cold water southward and in the process moderates temperatures in the Eastern United States and much of Europe. The collapse of this so-called conveyor could, in the worst case, produce a new ice age.

The best case would give us severe winters, increasingly violent storms, flooding, drought and high winds around the globe, disrupting food production and energy supplies and raising sea levels high enough to flood coastal cities and make them unlivable.

Walter Cronkite, 2005: Global Warming: Why I Am Marching

...The governments of the world have tarried long enough, and the United States is scarcely without doubt the greatest culprit among them.

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

I want to be in that parade and if there is a place up front I'd wish to lead the band or at least be assigned a big bass drum to help pound out the rhythm of glorious success.

YouTube - There is NO Scientific Evidence for Man-Made Global Warming and some Explanation

The Skeptic's Handbook

YouTube - Bravo, Devin Nunes - Global Stealing

Global Warming or Global Stealing?

Project Vote Smart - Representative Devin G. Nunes - 6/26/09 - American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

Mr. NUNES. Madam Speaker, don't be deceived by the comments of the Democratic Party. This bill is a tax increase. This bill is the largest tax increase in American history.

I ask my Democratic friends, Is this really what you have come to? Do you want to throw away the economic prosperity for nothing, because that's what this bill does. And for what, to satisfy the twisted desires of radical environmentalists.

I would ask my colleagues one more question. How will you force China, India, and anyone else to accept this economic suicide pact? The dirty little secret is that you can't.

While you congratulate each other today, I remind my colleagues the State of California is out of water. We have communities with 40 percent unemployment. And in the meantime, Democrats bring up fairy-tale legislation to the floor, phantom green job legislation.

However, we agree on one thing. We should try to reduce our carbon emissions. Republicans have a plan, an all-the-above plan where we drill for American resources, we drill for oil in America. We take the revenue and we put it into solar, wind, nuclear technologies. That's a real plan, Madam Speaker. This bill is a scam.

Devin Nunes: Information from Answers.com

Devin Nunes (born October 1, 1973), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing California's 21st congressional district

Cap and Trade raises controversy | newschannel, 0in, raises - Top Stories - WWMT NEWSCHANNEL 3

The bill has caused quite a stir with critics, and Newschannel 3 went out to find out how local reaction to the plan has been.

AccuWeather.com News & Blogs: Not Quite 1816

Many comparisons have been made to this summer and the infamous 'Year Without A Summer' back in 1816. And now that the record lows are coming in this morning from the latest arctic invasion from the north, the comparisons are likely to be brought up again.

Where's the heat? July temps fail to hit 90

No city in Iowa has cracked the 90-degree mark for an official high temperature in July, according to State Climatologist Harry Hillaker. Sioux City has come closest, at 89.

Since Iowa weather recordkeeping began in 1872, the state hasn't made it through a July without breaking 90. The lowest July high temperature on record is 92 set in 1915, which was the coolest year on record.

Rainy, cool weather makes tough summer - Brockville Recorder and Times - Ontario, CA

Former U.S. vice-president and 2000 presidential candidate Al Gore has spoken loudly and often this decade about global warming. Perhaps it wasn't those court proceedings over Florida ballots that cost him the 2000 election but rather losing his home state of Tennessee. The good folks there probably thought then, as many of us do now, that global warming wasn't all that Al Gore said it was. Certainly not with our summers.

Climate change a global scam | BlueRidgeNow.com | Times-News Online | Hendersonville, NC

In science, truth does not lie with he who speaks the loudest or draws the biggest crowd. Truth will out. Earth has been cooling for ten years. NASA concludes the sun causes climate change. The Polish Academy denies human effects; the Czechs agree. French and Australian proponents reverse themselves saying, "Beware of ideology subverting evidence." Australia scrapped its carbon tax. New Zealand repealed theirs.

Charles MacKay, "The Extraordinary Delusions and Madness of Crowds" says, "Men go mad in herds and recover slowly, one by one." The world is recovering. It's no accident that our government still pursues the madness, raising energy costs (which affect everything) and hobbling the economy. It is not about controlling climate; it's about controlling the people.

Boyd Peyton

The Blackboard » Suggest Climate Links Interface.

You can already enter links. So feel free to do so.

Sarkozy calls for global organization to combat climate change - Monsters and Critics

New York - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday stressed the need for a global organization on the environment so that countries could fight climate change.

Investors.com - GEORGE ALLEN - China Knows Climate Deals Are Ruinous

Developing countries, like China and India, are too smart to fall prey to such schemes that will lessen one's competitive edge in the global market, force more jobs and investment overseas and worsen economic outlooks.

Look at what is emanating from Washington in the form of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax scheme and job-killing EPA regulations. It is not surprising that China's economy is on track to overtake the U.S. by 2035, if not sooner.

Nebraska Young Farmers and Ranchers tell their stories in D.C. Farm and Ranch Guide: Regional News

Thorpe and Shelly Thompson of Whitney said slim margins in their cattle operation, because of increasing costs for inputs such as energy, would get worse under the cap and trade proposal in the climate change bill, which Farm Bureau opposes.

Noah Hodgetts of Newton plans to attend climate change conference - Newton - Your Town - Boston.com

With just a two-degree change in Celsius say scientists, Europeans will be dying of heatstroke and forests ravaged by fire. Stressed plants would begin to emit carbon rather than absorbing it.

Largest Green-Power Program Stumbles - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The nation’s largest green-power program has seen enrollment fall far short of expectations as its wind power prices have soared.

Austin Energy, which offers homeowners and businesses the chance to power their homes with renewable energy (mainly wind) through its GreenChoice program, has signed up only 1 percent of its hoped-for customers for its latest wind power offering, according to The Austin American Statesman.

I Love CO2: You Love CO2: Peak hydrocarbon is 1,000 years away. Relax the planet is fine...

I am quoting Troward because the current political climate of junk science zeitgeist is madness, or at least crazy making.

Bottled Water Makers in the Hot Seat - [If we banned bottled water worldwide tomorrow, would the weather improve?]

Joseph Doss, the president of the International Bottled Water Association, told members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that “Bottled water companies, like other food industry companies, are trying to do whatever they can to reduce their environmental footprint,” he said.

He also argued that bottled water represents only one-third of 1 percent of the United States’ waste stream. As such, “Any efforts to reduce the environmental impact of packaging,” Mr. Doss said, “has to focus more broadly on all consumer goods.”

Renewable Energy Credits & Carbon Offsets Liability Insurance - Carbon Offsets Daily

The insurance industry is being pushed to step-up and look at developing insurance products that will support and encourage further investment in renewable energy projects. An example of this is a specially tailored cover called Carbon Offsets Liability.

Could Global Warming Models Be Wrong? » The Foundry

Emphasis added. For all this incessant talk about scientific consensus from proponents of cap and trade legislation, there sure are a lot of dissenting scientists. What does it take to reach a scientific consensus? How many dissenters does there need to be before the phrase “scientific consensus” is taken off the table? More than 650, apparently.

Pay to Play (So You Can Pay and Pay) - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

With the current outrage over apparent "pay-to-play" by some conservatives, it seemed timely to remind everyone about who invented cap-and-trade — which is the biggest pay-to-play scam in history — and how they pursued it, as detailed in a memo (excerpted below) that Ken Lay aide John Palmissano wrote to his boss at Enron, expressing the fact that their hard work had just paid off in Kyoto and that it was time to set the green groups they'd cultivated off on a well-financed campaign to now assign value to Enron's windmill, solar panel, and credit-trading (with Goldman-Sachs) schemes

TH!NK2 Climate Change - I'm going to Copenhagen! | Federico Pistono - Blog

I am delighted to announce that I was selected as one of the 81 bloggers in the world that will take part to the 2009 TH!NK2 Climate Change blogging competition.

C3: Recent Research Finds Climate Alarmist Fear About Peat Bogs Is Without Merit: Surprised?

Read here. How many billions of dollars have climate alarmists caused to be wasted because of non-factual, speculative scaremongering?

Oxfam News Blog » [Trace amounts of carbon dioxide allegedly force woman to move to a whole bunch of new homes]

“Eight months ago I was living where the river is now,” Hasina tells me. “Since I got married I have moved to a new home six times because of the river erosion. Before, we used to stay for three or four years in one place, but during the last five years we have been forced to move every year.”

Hasina’s story is typical of women the world over as climate change hits hard.

G8 outcome falls short of needs - IPCC chief

Pachauri was interviewed by phone in Venice, where the IPCC met to sketch the parameters of the Fifth Assessment Report, which will be issued in several volumes from 2013.
He fended off criticism that the six-year gap between the fourth and fifth reports was too long.
Some commentators have said climate change is happening faster than thought and the IPCC process is too ponderous. As a result, policymakers are not being kept up to speed with scientific analysis of the threat, according to this view.
Everything that we said in the Fourth Assessment Report still holds valid, Pachauri contended.
You've got to take a balanced and comprehensive view of all the literature that comes out. There's always a danger if the IPCC is going to base assessment on just a year or two of observations, or a year or two of research outputs, we could actually be playing into the hands of the (climate) skeptics.

Lots of video here: Rep. McClintock and “California’s Meltdown” | OpenMarket.org

The event continued with a panel discussion moderated by CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. and featuring commentary by Tom Tanton of the Pacific Research Institute, Jason Peltier of the Westlands Water District and Anthony Randazzo of the Reason Foundation:

Scientists back away from 'global warming' - Paradise Post

Anyone watching the growing environmental fear mongering on "global warming" knows the so-called "mainstream press" is losing its grip. The scientific community, at one time was thought to be " overwhelmingly convinced the earth is warming."

Now it's backing away. It seems the so-called growing group of scientists in the environmental movement that the media claimed was unified in the belief the Earth is warming, does not exist.

The skeptics, some of whom have been quoted in this column in an effort to let you know there were two sides to this story, is a group that is growing. Many government officials are ignoring the science that is diminishing the global warming theory be-cause it shatters their programs to use this excuse to raise taxes

See all the Last-Minute Changes to the Climate [Fraud] Bill ... OpenCongress

We may never get the details of the back-room negotiating that took place leading up to the bill’s passage in the House on Friday, but with OpenCongress’s legislative versioning tool we can see exactly what was changed in the bill in the process and then start to figure out why. Just go to the text of the bill as passed by the House and select “Show Changes.” You can scan the entire bill and see, with color-coded text, exactly what was changed – red, stuck-out text denoting changed or removed sections in the bill, and green text denoting sections that were inserted or modified.

I just spent 30 minutes scanning through the bill and its changes, here are a few things that stood out to me.

Trip Van Noppen: It's Time To Defend Climate Change [Fraud]

But, President Obama also must act. He must use his bully pulpit to bring the nation and this planet into the debate. Now is the time for the strongest possible support from the White House and the strongest message from all of us. Nothing less is likely to offset the steady drumbeat of fossil fuel interests fighting to keep the status quo.

Midwest Pols Sell Out - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Peters supports “using fuel that’s free and won’t run out,” preaches the ad’s narrator. And all this “free” wind power will create 53,000 jobs in the state while cutting consumers’ utility bills by “$110 a year.”

This is poppycock and Peters knows it. Never mind that windmills can’t power 80-acre auto plants...

‘India [allegedly] serious about climate change issues’

NEW DELHI, 17 JULY: Mr Shyam Saran, Special Envoy to the Prime Minister on Climate Change, feels those who think India is not serious about the issue of climate change are “completely off the mark”.
Delivering a lecture organised by OneWorld India Foundation which held a day-long consultative dialogue on “India’s Climate Responsive Roadmap for Development” here yesterday, Mr Saran underlined the fact that India had already been doing a great deal on the issue of climate change.

W.Va. groups rally to oppose 'cap-and-trade' - Forbes.com

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As far as political rallying cries go, "no cap-and-trade" might initially sound obscure.

The planners of Saturday rallies in Charleston and Beckley, though, think it should be on the lips of all West Virginians. The planned demonstrations could draw more attention to a global warming bill, and test the strength of a grass roots movement born out of anti-tax protests earlier this year.

Chicago Temperatures For July Second-Coldest Ever In Chicago - cbs2chicago.com

CHICAGO (CBS) ―Summer has been elusive in Chicago--and July is so far the second coldest in history.

The average temperature so far this month has been 77.8 degrees--far off the average of mid-80s for this time of year. The coldest July ever was in 1967 when the average temperature was 76.5 degrees.

Another rarity for July in Chicago: We have failed to reach 90 degrees at any time. Two days have had highs only in the mid-60s.

patrickmead.net » Cowering in Fear As the Climate Changes

Michigan is about to face the brunt of global warming. We are taking precautions, stocking up on batteries, bread, milk, dehydrated foods, and full seasons of 24 and LOST. Today it got up to 72 but tomorrow the temperature is supposed to soar to… 69! Nights will be in the 50s. The low 50s.

This is to be expected. It is, after all, midsummer during a global warming crisis so dire that we must raise taxes, fees, and costs to every major business and, through them, to every single customer. Cap and Trade was rushed through without a single legislator reading the bill because the earth is warming so rapidly, polar bears are crying as they watch their little ice floe melt, and Miami disappears under the waves.

Except none of that has happened.

EarthNews » Archive » “Black Carbon” Chokes Chilean Towns

E&E News: On winter nights, Carmen Ahumada is unable to see across the street to her neighbor’s house. Visibility in Temuco, Chile, can be as low as five meters at times, she said.

Temuco, with a population of 300,000, has the fourth most polluted air in the country, according to local media. The burning of firewood for heating, cooking, and other uses is the main source of soot particulates, known as “black carbon,” that enter the air at levels 150 percent higher than the national standard and more than four times the World Health Organization’s recommended limit.

Obama Green Jobs Czar Communist? Van Jones Green Jobs Czar » Right Pundits

Is Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar a Communist? If you take him at his word he is. His official title is Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Equality. That’s a fancy way of saying Green Jobs Czar that only answers to President Obama.

Palin vs. the Planet - Edward Markey

The future ex-Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, decided to dip her toe in the water on the national debate over energy and climate legislation in an op-ed in the Washington Post recently. Hailing from Alaska, one would assume the Governor might have noticed the water around her is indeed rising.
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The governor does not understand that Waxman-Markey is not a tax bill—as we explicitly rejected the carbon tax option in favor of a smart cap on pollution with price protections for consumers and businesses that will grow our economy and create jobs.

July '08:  Global Warming Led to ‘Black Hawk Down,’ [Ed Markey] Says

On the Spot (CNSNews.com) – A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the “black hawk down” battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels.

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the drive for global warming legislation with the drive for women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Black goop afloat off Arctic coast identified as algae: Alaska News | adn.com

But asked if the blob's surprise appearance could be connected to global warming, Whitledge hesitated to draw a link.

"The water's actually very cold this year compared to other years," he said.

Comforting the child who fears global warming - PDX Green

Think of Londoners when Germans were bombing the city during World War II. Think of children in Iraq. Think of people leading robust lives in the face of terminal illness. Overloading on distressing information, whatever it is, can lead to despair, and that just leads to inaction.

The American Spectator : Granting Environmental Indulgences

Is Cap-and-Trade just another politically indulgent Indulgence?

The comparison is not without merit.

Twitter / James W Reynolds Sr: Wal-Mart, once a shining ...

Wal-Mart, once a shinning example of the great American free enterprise system, has sold out to the Obama/Al Gore Lie. God help us

Have Changes In Ocean Heat Falsified The Global Warming Hypothesis? by William DiPuccio | Climate Realists

A hypothesis that cannot be falsified by empirical observations, is not science. The current hypothesis on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), presented by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is no exception to this principle. Indeed, it is the job of scientists to expose the weaknesses of this hypothesis as it undergoes peer review. This paper will examine one key criterion for falsification: ocean heat.

Black Chamber of Commerce CEO calls Barbara Boxer a racist — when she’s trying to stop future Katrinas and he wants dozens more « Climate Progress

If any proof were needed how hard extreme weather hits the disadvantaged, including poor African-Americans, one need look no further than Hurricane Katrina. While no individual storm can be directly linked to global warming, energy and moisture picked up from warmer Gulf waters produce more intense winds and rain. And in the case of Katrina, that extra punch may be what destroyed the levees protecting New Orleans–the “straw that breaks the camel’s back,” in the words of Dr. Kevin Trenberth, head of Climate Analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

First 'climate friendly' labels appear on foods - environment - 16 July 2009 - New Scientist

SWEDEN is to become the first country to slap "climate-friendly" labels on food products. The hope is that the labels will prompt consumers to buy greener products, but there are worries that some companies may use the scheme to "greenwash".

A small milk producer north of Stockholm is expected to be the first company to sport the "climate-certified" tag. One way it cut its use of energy and nutrients was by switching from chemical-based fertilisers to manure.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Democrats put their Representatives up for sale

When Democratic leadership has been whipping the vote for weeks and suddenly shows up with bags of money for the waverers, calling that “routine” may be more indicting than Pelosi understands.

MinnPost - Paul Douglas: July wind chill -- record chill likely

* Minnesota waking up to rare July wind chill - feels like 40s out there this morning.

Wonk Room » O’Reilly ‘Would Be Stunned’ If The Senate Passes ‘Cap And Con’

On Fox & Friends Thursday morning, hate-radio and right-wing television personality Bill O’Reilly argued that clean energy legislation is a “cap and con” on behalf of “fat cat corporations.” He singled out General Electric — parent of MSNBC — and Goldman Sachs for his outrage against the carbon cap-and-trade market that is part of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act. O’Reilly continued to question the science of climate change, claiming only “the deity” knows why the planet is getting hotter:

Did House Democrats Buy Moderate Votes on Global Warming Bill? - Peter Roff (usnews.com)

On Friday Politico's Mike Thrush reported on what the publication called a "Big Dem cash dump on eve of climate vote." In his piece, Thrush wrote that, "Three House Democratic leaders who were whipping members on the climate change bill gave tens of thousands in campaign cash to party moderates around the time of the 219-212 vote on June 26, according to Federal Election Commission records."

And one of those leaders doling out money was, don't get ahead of me, Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Thrush does allow that not all those Democrats who got money voted to pass the Waxman-Markey legislation but the timing of the contributions is suspicious.

The real energy crisis… « Green Hell Blog

We’re not running out of energy. The crisis is being caused by the government and greens who have choke-holds on the ability of businesses to produce energy.

Our Saviour - The Hydrological Cycle by Stephen Wilde | Climate Realists

AGW is thus falsified because the air cannot warm the oceans and the air circulation systems always adjust to bring surface air temperatures back towards sea surface temperatures.

Glaciers Not Melting As Fast As Once Thought - Science News - redOrbit

The world’s glaciers are indeed melting, but a monumental study released Thursday in the journal Science discovered that it might not happen as quickly as once thought.

Smart Democrat of the day: Sen. Byron Dorgan « Green Hell Blog

Dorgan should be congratulated — at least so far — for his courageous stand in favor of taxpayers and consumers and against the likes of the morally bankrupt Al Gore, Goldman Sachs and others who would sell our country down the river in order to profit from cap-and-charade.

Minnesota: Chilly "hottest day of the year"

KSTP TV - Minneapolis and St. Paul - Chill Could Produce Weather Records

July 17 is historically the hottest day of the year, according to Minneapolis city officials. But this July 17, the daytime highs will remain low.

Due to cloudy skies and breezes, temperatures won't climb out of the 60s in areas from Brainerd to the Twin Cities. In northern Minnesota, Friday's highs will be in the 50s.

The chill in the air could produce weather records in Minnesota--that is record low daytime highs.
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Regardless of possible records, the cool weather could affect your plans. For example, St. Louis Park community pool closed Friday due to the cold weather.

Vadnais Heights, Minnesota (55127) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground [1:06pm Central Time]

3985 Clover Ave., Vadnais Heights, Minnesota (PWS)
Updated: 8 min 2 sec ago
Overcast
57.4 °F

RealClimate's Gavin Schmidt: Sea ice minimum forecasts

What was unexpected was not the long term decline of summer ice (this has long been a robust prediction), but the size of 2007 and 2008 decreases which were much larger than any model had hinted at.
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Exceptional patterns of winds are always going to be the proximate cause of any extreme ice extent, but the regime provides a background upon which those patterns act.

Gavin Schmidt: Information from Answers.com

He was educated at Corsham Comprehensive School, earned a BA (Hons) in Mathematics at Jesus College, Oxford University, and was granted a PhD in Applied Mathematics at University College London.

[In retrospect, it was probably a good idea not to bulldoze all of our oil refineries back in 2007]: BP Gives up on Jatropha for Biofuel - Environmental Capital - WSJ

BP has indeed given up on jatropha, the shrub once touted [in the WSJ, less than two years ago] as the great hope for biofuels, and walked away from its jatropha joint venture for less than $1 million.

[But at least it'll make the weather better]: All Austinites may soon shoulder extra green energy costs

Austin's electric utility could soon reverse a long-standing practice of selling wind, solar and other renewable energy only to customers who choose to buy it, four Austin City Council members and a mayoral aide said this week.

The council's ambitious goal of getting 30 percent of the city's electricity from renewable sources by 2020 could be in jeopardy if Austin Energy relies exclusively on its landmark GreenChoice program, which offers wind-generated power at a cost that recently spiked to more than 50 percent higher than that of the standard electricity generated by fossil fuels.

La Cosa Climate: Commerce Sec. Warns: Americans Need 'To Pay' Or Face Mother Nature's Wrath -- Pay up or face 'floods, droughts and rising sea levels' | Climate Depot

[Climate Depot Editor's Note: Obama's Commerce Sec. Gary Locke would have us believe that Mother Nature is running a mob-like operation. Americans need to pay up or else! Pay hard-earned dollars to the government or face “floods, droughts and rising sea levels.”

Big Dem cash dump on eve of climate vote - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

Three House Democratic leaders who were whipping members on the climate change bill gave tens of thousands in campaign cash to party moderates around the time of the 219-212 vote on June 26, according to Federal Election Commission records.

It's impossible to tell if that torrent of cash was an attempt to schmear wavering Democrats -- or just part of the usual cash dump made by leaders on the eve of the June 30 quarterly fundraising deadline.
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Ken Spain, communications director of the National Republican Congressional Committee emails this response:

“If this was a concerted effort by the Democratic leadership to purchase votes for Nancy Pelosi’s national energy tax at the eleventh hour, then it is unconscionable at best and corrupt at worst. The sad fact for those Democrats who were seemingly bought and paid for, is that it will take a lot more money than they received to defend such an atrocious vote.”

Capitalism Becomes Sick, Turns Green - Watching the Watchers

To call the Waxman-Morley climate bill the next government abomination would be an understatement. This American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) was supposedly introduced to “create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution, and transition to a clean energy economy.” The bill in its current language will not accomplish any of these four goals.

Instead, the ACESA enables corporations to pollute and still reap massive windfall earnings by charging customers more for energy. In addition, the bill creates the next Wall Street bubble through the endorsement of carbon trading derivatives speculation. Within a decade, carbon dioxide may become the world’s largest commodity market. The Financial Times reported last week that the carbon market could reach $3 trillion by 2020.

The carbon emissions trading market will be heavily regulated by government officials and will be derivatized and speculated by the same Wall Street traders who inflated the mortgage-backed securities bubble in recent years. However, this market is far more dangerous than the mortgage-markets since there is really no physical commodity actually being traded; at the end of the day the Al Gores and Goldman Sachses of the world will be trading credits for producers of any good or service to actually create ‘air’.

Mark Kirk Steps Up Attack on Science with “Cap-and-Trade” Energy Tax | Chicago Daily Observer

Bast’s Comments: Rep. Kirk deserves credit if he was a global warming “skeptic” in the late 1990s, but he ought to recognize that the science has advanced considerably since then, and most of it points away from the alarmist position. We now know the warming of the twentieth century doesn’t carry the “fingerprint” of greenhouse-gas warming, that the warming trend effectively stopped around 1998, and that the severe weather, droughts, floods, extinctions, etc. widely predicted to happen in the late 1990s in fact did not occur.

Mercury on the rise -- honest | Toronto

So far this summer, Toronto's average afternoon temperature has been about 3 C colder than it should be, Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips said.

"Add that to a cold, late spring and a particularly harsh winter that we're coming off and you'll find many people craving patio weather," he said.

The city has only seen one day above 30 C this year -- and that was on June 24.

Jordan: Cap-and-trade bill is 'terrible' law - Fostoria, Ohio: Friday, July 17, 2009

Jordan (R-Urbana) is speaking to the Fostoria Rotary Club Monday to discuss the recent passage of the "cap-and-trade" bill, or the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES).
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Jordan called the bill "one of the most destructive pieces of legislation he has seen in his two-and-a-half years in Congress," according to a press release from his office.

U.S., China Cooperating On Climate Change : NPR

Daniel Ellis is president of Climate Master, an Oklahoma-based company that made the Future House's geothermal heat pumps. He said U.S.-China cooperation could help the Obama administration overcome opposition from climate change skeptics.

"To get the U.S. Congress to pass climate change legislation, they have to see that there's international cooperation going to happen," he said. "Because if we adopt this on our own, and other major burgeoning economies like China don't come along for the ride, they're going to be really reluctant to have the U.S. adopt it on their own."

At a Thursday press conference Locke emphasized that China's leadership is committed to reducing its carbon footprint.

"The Chinese are taking unprecedented measures," he said. "They are a model for developing countries around the world, and should be applauded."

U.S. and China Agree to Study Ways to Make Buildings More Energy-Efficient - NYTimes.com

By emphasizing that China is taking action, even as it continues to build a large coal-fired plant each week, Mr. Chu and Mr. Locke might make it more palatable for Congress to consider an agreement from Copenhagen that includes fewer limits on the emissions of developing countries than have been sought.

Too wet, chilly to seed - Winnipeg Free Press

Springtime flooding and cool, wet weather at planting time caused 420,000 acres of Manitoba farmland to go unseeded this year, triggering $21.5 million in insurance payments to farmers.
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A cold spring and summer has meant that crop development throughout the Prairies is 10 days to two weeks behind normal, the wheat board's Bruce Burnett said.

That has increased the chances of a late harvest and possible frost damage for some crops. Meanwhile, crops that thrive on heat, such as corn, will find their yield potential affected by the cool temperatures, said Burnett, the CWB's director of weather and market analysis.

Minnesota: No lie about July; we're about to take the high out of high

A strong northerly wind is prompting the National Weather Service to call for a high today of 64. If that proves out, that would be 2 degrees below the record cold high of 66 set in 1939.

"This [typically] is about our warmest time of the year," said Weather Service meteorologist Matt Friedlein. "It is very uncommon to have northern wind three days in a row this time of year."

Eco-boat attempts perilous Arctic voyage - CNN.com

The voyage, which is projected to take about six months, started in the South of France in April and, if they make it through the route successfully, will end in Japan.

The crew's other ecological concessions include relying on solar panels for electricity and warm water, using only long-lasting LED light bulbs eating only organic products during their journey.

On-board are seven adults and two children, including a painter, two writers, a scientist and a historian.
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"The most difficult challenge seems to be convincing hardened tug boat captains to partially switch to wind power," said Judith Puzzuoli, who is in charge of communication and press for "Le Mangier." "But change doesn't happen in a day."

Catholic carbon audit with Gore's blessing

Climate change believers in the church are seeking earthly salvation, writes Ben Cubby.

GOD puts down a mighty carbon footprint in Australia, but the Catholic Church is doing its best to lighten His tread.

With the support of the former US vice-president Al Gore, the church is starting a carbon audit of thousands of churches and parish buildings, about 1500 schools and more than 300 hospitals and aged-care facilities.

Severn tidal power scheme should not go ahead, warns Environment Agency | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The contentious Weston barrage would be the largest renewable energy project in Europe but comes with a huge ecological cost

[Insanity from Obama's] Commerce Secretary: Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions - Environmental Capital - WSJ

With the U.S. secretaries of energy and commerce in China this week, much of the attention focused on the standoff over emissions reductions or small breakthroughs in clean-tech cooperation.

But yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. From Reuters:

“It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

GE [at the public trough]: Energy Business Again the Star Performer - Environmental Capital - WSJ

GE hopes there will be more where that came from—especially in markets outside the U.S. In a statement, chief executive Jeff Immelt said “we are targeting 400 global stimulus projects in areas where there are appropriations for nearly $200 billion.” Last quarter, GE talked up global stimulus opportunities of only $100 billion.

Sunny Forecast for Climate [Fraud] Exchange Stock - WSJ.com

Assuming federal cap-and-trade legislation passes the Senate, exchanges could reap $200 million or more in annual revenue from the market, brokerage Raymond James & Associates estimates. The winner-take-all nature of futures markets bodes well for a first mover like Climate Exchange. Last year, its total revenue was £22.8 million ($37.4 million).

Ed Driscoll » “Never Have I Heard Such A Racial Slant Directed Towards Me In All These Years”

Breitbart.tv’s daily B-Cast show scores an exclusive interview with National Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford, who expands upon his confrontation with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA):