We (Greedy Capitalists) shall overcome | The City Wire

It was clear the Tilleys of Fort Smith couldn’t go to a museum to simply learn. We had to be preached to because, as noted above, we suck. Straight-forward science and information must now be filtered through the political lens of global warming/climate change to induce guilt for being Greedy Capitalist Uncaring Mother Earth-rapers.

Just getting into the Northwest Passage?--this doesn't look like thin first-year ice to me

YouTube - Ice field with audio

Sprague Theobald Northwest Passage Film

July in Gore's home town: Very cool, with *more* tick-borne diseases

“We’re on track for the fourth-coolest July on record,” National Weather Service meteorologist Bobby Boyd in Nashville said the day before the month ended.
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“This year seems to be a pretty buggy year,” said Dr. Frank Hale, an entomologist with the UT Agricultural Extension.
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Ticks are also more plentiful this summer, and Hale said there have been more cases of tick-borne diseases, including at least two deaths involving children.

Keep the champagne on ice regarding global warming

I am particularly concerned about long term trends regarding Arctic ice myself, and the melting of permafrost in the northern latitudes.

Are sunspots changing and will that take us to an Ice Age?

The big story here is not the characteristics of sunspots changing but rather the changing tenor of the professional scientific community to stand up for true scientific debate that has been suppressed for so long. Far too long, in my opinion.
Will you be able to tell your great-grandchildren that you remember liquid water on the surface of the Earth in winter and weren't dead set on cooling the planet?

Democrats have no place to hide from angry public

As the Democrats leave Washington on their August holiday, many are finding that there have no places to hide from people in their districts who are livid over the Stimulus program, Cap and Trade and what they are trying to do to health care in America.

Obamanomics equals disaster for America - VIEWPOINTS - The News Herald

Now we have another hoax on the horizon called the cap and trade bill. In my view this so-called energy bill will totally cripple American business to the point we will no longer be competitive in a global market. It’s obvious to me that we need to protect our environment. However, I do not believe we need to destroy our economy to do so.

Crew Log 51 - Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

At our last stop in Herschel Island, we met a fisherman who told us the ice was late receding this year, "perhaps later than the last five years." We'll be looking at ice reports with more than passing interest this weekend and early next week.

Ice pockets choking Northern Passage: officials

Despite predictions from a top U.S. polar institute that the Arctic Ocean’s overall ice cover is headed for another “extreme” meltdown by mid-September, the Environment Canada agency monitoring our northern waters says an unusual combination of factors is making navigation more difficult in the Northwest Passage this year after two straight summers of virtually clear sailing.
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“In the southern route,” Canadian Ice Service officials told Canwest News Service, the agency “has observed more ice coverage than normal. This is partly due to the fact that the ice in the Amundsen Gulf consolidated this past winter, which is something it didn’t do in 2007 and 2008.”

In the central part of the passage where the northern and southern routes merge amid narrowings around Prince of Wales Island, the CIS has observed “greater than normal concentrations of thicker, multi-year ice. This is the result of an increased flow of older ice from the Beaufort Sea into the Canadian Arctic archipelago last year.”

The result, the agency said, is that ice conditions “are delaying any potential navigability of the Northwest Passage this year. This is opposite to what Environment Canada observed in the last week of July in 2007 and 2008.”

Hey, let's improve the weather with an insane, expensive federal program that involves deliberately destroying perfectly good car engines!

Dealers Race to Get Their Clunkers Crushed - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

We spent a couple of days earlier this week following the whole complex program, from dealer to scrap heap, and found twists and turns in it that are making it a nightmare now for everyone involved.

The program requires that the clunkers be put out of service for good, so dealers must destroy the engines on cars that are traded in. We watched this process yesterday at the DCH Paramus Honda in Paramus, N.J. It is quite laborious and potentially dangerous. And it certainly is final.
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Michael Gerrard, director of Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law, said in a statement that the cash-for-clunker program is not a cost-effective way to reduce fuel use or greenhouse gas emissions. Any energy savings, he said, could take several years to realize, considering the time it takes the fuel savings from a new car to exceed the energy cost used to make

Michigan: RECORD COLD JULY

Not only was July 2009 the coldest July on record at Grand Rapids, but the highest temperature for the month was 84 degrees, setting a new record for the coldest July monthly maximum temperature. The old record was 85 degrees in 2000.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Resurging Republicans … in Minnesota?

What happened? The CBO began scoring ObamaCare, and the House shoved cap-and-tax down the throats of Republicans. Even after Porkulus, people clung to the belief that Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid represented a moderate middle rather than a radical Left, and that their leadership would focus on prosperity rather than socialism. After June and July, those pretenses disappeared, even in Minnesota.

The Mahablog » "Astroturf Mobs" Disrupting Town Hall Meetings

If this continues, sooner or later somebody is going to be hurt.  I say in the interest of public safety, town hall meetings could be held on the Web.

Americans for Prosperity "Hot Air Tour" To Fight Against Cap and Trade

The Hot Air Tour has the goal of building grassroots pressure against costly state, local, and federal climate change policies. AFP has pledged to mobilize citizens in order to fight off any attempts to pass a cap-and-trade regulatory scheme, traveling to 13 states in April and June of this year and hosting grassroots rallies with hundreds of citizen activists.

[We're saved!]: Mass. Audubon Society seeks 50-foot wind turbine

...the Audubon Society’s decision to explore increasing its green energy production (the center already uses solar panels) via a wind turbine is either a glowing endorsement of wind power, or a pragmatic choice between the danger to our avian friends and the fight against global warming. The turbine will be temporarily installed to study the potential benefits. It’s hoped that the 2.2 kilowatt turbine will provide 6 to 10% of the center’s power needs. The whole deal is dependent on local Planning Board, City Council and neighborhood approval.

[The ecochondriac-est place on Earth?]: World's First Eco Theme Park: Environmentaland : TreeHugger

They even claim they are effecting the wider theme park industry - rumor has it that Knott’s Berry Farm now features a bike rack.

Twitter / Larry The Cable Guy

Weather Channel. "coldest summer in a 100 yrs). Al Gore is officially an A$$hole!! When will people realize this is a f'n scam!

Weather records are a state secret - Christopher Booker - Telegraph

The idea that temperature records might be a state secret seems strange enough, but when the policies of governments across the world are based on that data it becomes odder still that no outsider should be allowed to see it. Weirdest of all, however, is the Met Office's claim that to release the data would "damage the trust that scientists have in those scientists who happen to be employed in the public sector".

Doesn't the Met Office realise that trust in it has already been damaged enough by its batty predictions of "barbecue summers"? If it wants to restore that trust, it should first come clean about its data, and then reprogramme its computer to give us forecasts that are not skewed by its obsession with global warming – which is not happening.

Naked Activists Respond To Lobbyists' Forged Anti-Climate Letters to Congress (PHOTOS)

Activists stood outside Bonner & Associates, the firm reportedly behind the hoax, sans pants, holding signs reading "The Fossil Fuel Lobby: Naked Fraud" and "Coal and Oil: Stealing Our Future."

"Apparently, the fossil fuel industry's tactics are as fraudulent as their arguments against climate action," said Ricken Patel, Executive Director of Avaaz.org, another progressive group. "I guess they couldn't find real people opposed to green-energy jobs."

[So how warm is it now, in the dog days of summer, hundreds of years after we started burning coal?]: Twitter / Minnesota Vikings

Windy and chilly @ practice today. Hope it warms up for the night practice tonight.

Give us your money, or the Sydney Opera House gets it

Climate warning | Herald Sun

THE Royal Exhibition Building, the Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef could be wiped off the map if runaway climate change is left unchecked, a new Federal Government report claims.

Chu, Walz to look at renewable energy: Rochester, MN

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will appear with U.S. Rep. Tim Walz at 11 a.m. at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 343, 9 80th St. S.E.

Chu and Walz will examine three renewable energy projects championed by southern Minnesota residents: a mobile self-contained ethanol plant, cars created and adapted by students at Minnesota State University-Mankato that run on solar and electrical technology, and the IBEW Wind Turbine Training Facility, where electrical workers train to service the turbines delivering clean energy to southern Minnesota.

[Alarmists in the Arctic]

"In fact, since guillemots require at least an 80-day snow-free summer in which to copulate, ovulate, hatch and fledge their chicks - and there were rarely 80 snow-free days in northern Alaska until the 1960's - they wouldn't even be this far north were it not for warmer temperatures. Expanding their range, playing with the edge of a changing climate, his guillemots, he realized, were tracking the region's snowmelt on an annual basis.
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But for the scientist and his subjects, the biggest new problems, literally and figuratively, are the polar bears.

"From 1975 to 2002, I saw one bear on this island," he said. "Since 2002, they've been here every year. And last year, they were here every day for my last week on the island, a different bear."

The reason is simple. The pack ice that for all those stated years was within sight of Cooper - and the big, fat, abundant, blubber-coated seals on which they dined and feasted - is now nowhere in view. The bears are hungry. They're swimming to Cooper Island in search of chow.

Ok, so he hardly ever saw polar bears for decades; now he sees them all the time, and from this we're supposed to conclude that carbon dioxide is killing them off?

If they were really starving in 2002, why aren't they dead by now?

YouTube - Findlay protest against Cap and Trade

'Cap and Trade' is a very popular phrase in Washington DC these days. It was also a hot topic in Findlay Thursday night.

YouTube - Tucson Tea Party Protest July 17, 2009 At Gabby Gifford's office

400+ People came out to protest against Cap and Trade and Government health care at Gabby Gifford's office in Tucson, AZ. Only about 50 people came out to counter protest.

YouTube - Protest Webb Richmond Office TEA party, C4L, Liberty.

July 17th 2009 Cap and trade energy tax protest, govt monopoly wait care.

YouTube - Obama Cap and Trade protest 2009

Grand Junction, Colorado protesters point out folly of Cap and Trade.

YouTube - Cap and Trade Bill Tea Party Protest Eureka Ca. Jun 27th 2009

Video of the Tea Party Patriot protest against the despicable eight Republican Congressmen who voted to pass the Cap Waxman - Markey Cap and Trade bill.

YouTube - Cap & Trade Protest June 27, 2009

On June 26, 2009 Tea Party Patriots across the country were called late into the night. They answered the call and on June 27, at 12:00 noon they took to the streets. These are but just a few who want their country back. I am thankful for each and every one.

YouTube - Cap and Trade Protest

On Saturday, June 27, 2009, Georgians gathered at the State Capitol to voice their disapproval of the Cap and Trade Legislation that passed in the U.S. House of Representatives the previous day.

YouTube - McArthur's Bakery Cap and Tax Protest Sign

McArthur's Bakery in south Saint Louis, protested Russ Carnahan's vote in support of Cap and Tax bill by altering their road side sign on Lemay Ferry Road.

YouTube - Modern Day Patriots protest "Cap and Trade" at Johnson County (KS) Courthouse

On a hot, 97-degree afternoon, almost 50 Modern Day Patriots from the Kansas City Tea Party met to protest the increased taxes and increased regulations in the "Cap and Trade" bill passed by the U.S. House on Friday.

YouTube - Career Suicide for Cap and Trade "Yes" Votes?

It comes down to this: Each "representative" that voted to pass Cap and Trade has violated their Congressional Oath of Office to "well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office." How on earth can you--in good faith--fulfill the duties of the office by voting to pass 1500 pages of legislation YOU HAVEN'T READ?!

YouTube - Cap & Trade protest

Protestors outside of Bob Etheridges office in Raleigh NC letting the Representative know they disagree with his vote on the Cap & Trade Bill.

YouTube - Tea Party Richmond, VA - Mark Warner, July 17, 2009 - Cap Trade Healthcare

Tea Time at the Richmond Offices of Senator Mark Warner, July 17, 2009

The Awakening Giant is Pissed Off

There are few things as satisfying as the look of shock, dismay and ultimately panic on the face of a Congressman (mostly Democrat with a smattering of RINOs) when they realize the constituents they once considered stupid, passive sheep turn what was supposed to be a quiet session of condescending bullshit into the storming of the Bastille.

And it is happening with increasing frequency and intensifying hostility.
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These people have taken the time to study the administration’s agenda; in many cases they are more familiar with the details of the Stimulus Package, the Cap & Trade bill and the Obamacare proposal than most members of Congress and a great many of them took the time and effort to communicate to you in excruciating detail why each of these things is utterly toxic to this nation.

Town halls gone wild - Yahoo! News

Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.

On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far out of control.

YouTube - Allen Boyd Protest - Panama City 6-30-09

Hundreds of angry Bay County residence came together to protest Allen Boyd's vote on the "Cap and Trade" Bill.

YouTube - CONGRESSMAN ALLEN BOYD ON ENERGY: [If we blow your money on climate fraud now, we'll somehow end up with magical free energy beans!]

Representative Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) spoke at the Southern Peanut Grower Conference in Panama City on July 13th and commented on the energy crisis and what needs to be done about it.

How Californians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Global Warming : TreeHugger

...This last figure might make some of us more liberally-disposed bemoan the Right’s groupthink, but the fact is the numbers universally show decreased concern; this amongst a population already more aware of global warming's imminent danger. It seems to indicate that global warming and the imperative to make drastic societal changes are far from entrenched in the national consciousness.

India On Board With Climate Pact - Science News - redOrbit

Despite India’s opposition to binding carbon emission cuts and difficulty accepting scientific evidence about global warming, it claimed to be committed to coming to an agreement on battling climate change during the upcoming UN summit in Copenhagen.

Dan Morgan -- Farm-State Democrats Are on the Rise in Congress - washingtonpost.com

Climate change legislation was moving along in the House in June when it ran into a tractorcade. Dozens of farm-state lawmakers, led by the blunt-talking Minnesotan who chairs the House Agriculture Committee, blocked the way.

Climate change? Not so fast say Scientists

Thankfully real scientists are now fighting back. Successfully!

UK professor: July 2009

At last real scientists are beginning to show some guts and are standing up to the bullies.

[Lots of well-known climate realists here]: 2009 Annual Meeting | Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

Global Warming: Consensus in Freefall, and the Morality of Energy Rationing. Marc Morano
Now with ClimateDepot.com, Morano is former communications director of Sen. Committee on Environment & Public Works.

July in Minnesota: The big chill

...today marks a farewell to the third coolest July in state history, a month that saw no readings of 90 degrees or higher anywhere in the state, leading to slowly ripening crops, but fewer mosquitoes and better sleeping.
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...Colder yet was International Falls, "the Nation's Ice Box," which recorded its coldest July on record with an average temperate of 59 degrees, the National Weather Service said.

[Current "featured comment" on above story]

sunspot activity is at the lowest in 150 yrs

the media is still yacking about global warming but the reality is we could be faced with 20 years of really cold weather until the sun gets more active again. google sunspot activity for more info

Funding Dries Up in ‘Cash for Incumbents’ Program

The so-called ‘Cash for Incumbents’ program provided up to $4,500,000 for each politician who voters replaced with a modern public servant that burns less IRS revenue, and emits fewer vitriolic toxins into the atmosphere. The measure contained a provision requiring voters to ‘junk’ the old politician, to ensure he doesn’t return to Capitol Hill as a lobbyist.

Don't repeat mistakes on energy, health care

Several European countries have had policies similar to the Democrats' cap and trade proposal. What's the result? Spain admits that energy costs have risen rather than fallen. In addition, the number of jobs lost as a consequence exceed the number of green energy jobs created.

Obama continues to claim that cap and trade will reduce energy costs, create net job growth and ensure energy independence. Where's the evidence?
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Emulating policies that are proven failures is stupid at best and disastrous at worst.

Apparently politics trump the facts.

S. Korea: Weird Weather Keeps Holiday Crowds off Beaches (Global Warming AWOL)

Korea is experiencing atypical cool weather in the middle of summer, which coupled with the summer rainy season has translated into fewer vacationers visiting the country's beaches.
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In Busan, where Korea's most popular beaches are located, temperatures did not rise above 30 degrees for a single day in July, as against seven days in July last year. From July 1 until Wednesday, 4.38 million people visited the seven beaches in downtown Busan, less than half the numbers seen during the same period last year. Vendors at the beaches have been hit with an unprecedented slump in sales during peak season. Haeundae Beach, which opened on July 1, saw 1.72 million visitors this month, just 48 percent of the number seen during the same period last year. A total of 1.24 million people visited Gwangalli Beach, just 47 percent of last July's visitors.

India [looks to cash in on global warming swindle]

NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said that India would spend 200 million dollars to protect its forests and will announce how much carbon emission is being captured by its green cover.
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The valuable carbon offsets they earn could be sold to rich nations to help them meet their emissions goals under the scheme that is likely to be part of a broader climate pact from 2013.

Produce more oil and gas | INFORUM | Fargo, ND

It is hard to imagine that the people of North Dakota, Minnesota and the United States are willing to just stand aside and watch the implementation of these arbitrary and capricious restrictions of their freedom and economic well-being. Are you ready to chance waiting 10 or 20 years to learn whether or not “man-made global warming” is fiction? Tell your congressional delegation to stop cap and trade-type legislation before it becomes the basis for our economic demise. Ask them for definitive proof of the relationship between carbon and warming; they will not be able to offer the proof.

Price rise for ‘green’ power is under fire : thewest.com.au

Environmentalists are angry at a move by Synergy to lift “green” power prices about 35 per cent from today.

But Synergy says the change, more than a recent 23 per cent increase in standard electricity charges, reflects the higher cost of sourcing limited renewable energy supplies to satisfy increasing demand for the clean energy option.
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“I would be very interested to see the data which Synergy has that suggests the cost of energy generated by sun or wind has increased,” he said. “As far as I know, the sun is still charging us the same for its energy.”

Comment on: It's still going to be a barbecue climate - Telegraph

Utter, utter rubbish here - the vast majority of sensible people see this AGW scam for what it is ; a deliberate policy of Left Wing Govts to attempt justification for extracting vast amounts of extra taxation from their electorates on the baseless claim of 'protecting the Planet'..

Grow up please - the climate has ALWAYS changed and will always do so with or without assistance from mankind.

Falkland Islands: Antarctic air flow brings record snow fall — MercoPress

ALTHOUGH the Falklands can expect cold weather at this time of year, heavy snow which fell over the past week was a record for recent years.

Where’d the summer go?

William Wiebold, University of Missouri Extension crop specialist, said the cool weather is cause for alarm to many corn farmers in Missouri. Since corn needs heat to grow, cool summer temperatures can slow down growth and development, meaning it can take longer for corn to mature properly.
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Mr. Cutter said cool temperatures are the trend right now. Looking at the Climate Prediction Center’s monthly and seasonal lookout maps, he said it also looks like temperatures will remain below average for Missouri until October.

North Dakota: Eighth month below normal temps

The average temperature this month was 64 degrees, which was 4.5 degrees below average for the month of July, said Jim Tarasenko, research specialist with the North Central Research Extension Center south of Minot.

This is also the eighth straight month of below normal temperatures for Minot, Tarasenko said.

In July, the Living's Easy: Temperatures Hit Near-Record Low.

It's an unusually cool summer, said Tony Lupo, an atmospheric science professor at the University of Missouri. But he doesn't think weather patterns are any less predictable than before. "What we are seeing is advances in climatology and its understanding," he said. "We're even getting a little better at predicting those things."

Well, mostly. Predictions earlier this year that this summer would be on the warmer side were completely wrong, Lupo added.

Coldest July on record for C-K - Chatham Daily News - Ontario, CA

This year had the coldest July on record, with 1891 being the next lowest, according to Environment Canada.

[An alarmist references a "trans-gender vampire" to explain the refusal of climate hucksters to engage in scientific debate]

G) If you ever refuse to debate with me, that is proof that your position is untenable, you’re frightened of the truth and you don’t have the evidence. And, by the way, when will Burt Newton respond publicly to the claims that he’s a trans-gender vampire who was regenerated in a vat from a single hair of Vlad the Impaler? His silence on this issue is telling…

Bismarck Tribune - Bismarck News - Farmers not getting carbon credit payments

Farmers enrolled in a program that rewards them for storing greenhouse gasses have not gotten payments this year due to a depressed carbon credits market.

The National Farmers Union says carbon dioxide credits are fetching about 60 cents a metric ton, down from a high of about $7 a year ago.

Farmers Trying to Cash In On Global Warming Scam Get Stiffed! | Say Anything: North Dakota's Most Popular Political Blog

Go figure. You hang out with con men, don’t be surprised when they try to con you.

Aside from Algore, who is making a lot of money in this fraud?

Jan '09: Rachel Maddow thinks snow in Dubai caused by global warming

Rachel Maddow is out of her mind. It snowed in Dubai this week and the queen of MSNBC blamed it on global warming.

[We're saved!]

Took a SPEEDY shower today to fight climate change.

By the way, I flossed my teeth today to cure cancer.

American Thinker: Congressman Admits: Congress Stupid

And so a leading legislator confesses that he is too lazy to read, and too stupid to understand, the legislation that he will pass judgment on and which he will expect Americans to live under.  Either that, or the bill as crafted is so opaque as to be effectively incomprehensible.
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If we were half the men our ancestors were, there would be outrage, if not revolt, over such open ineptitude and corruption in our government.

Wisconsin: Coldest July on record

MADISON (WKOW) -- We're told it's the coldest July on record.

According to the National Weather Service, the average July temperature was 75 so far this month. That's nine degrees cooler than normal.

Rochester: Coldest July since the Chester A. Arthur administration

Forecasters confirmed today that this month has been the second-coldest July on record in the Rochester region.

The coldest July was in 1884, when global temperatures dropped due to emissions from the catastrophic Krakatoa volcano eruptions in 1883. The average temperature in Rochester that month was 65.4 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Buffalo.

Family planning may help reduce “carbon footprint” of people

WASHINGTON - A study by statisticians at Oregon State University (OSU) in the US has determined that family planning is important to reduce the “carbon footprint” of people.

According to the study, some people who are serious about wanting to reduce their “carbon footprint” on the Earth have one choice available to them that may yield a large long-term benefit - have one less child.

Huddersfield Examiner - Views and Blogs - Reader Letters - Where’s summer?

It really throws doubt on the theory about global warming, and the technology that predicts this? Is the earth really warming up? Are the ice caps really melting which will cause the sea levels to rise and are we all going to be marooned on a small atoll that once used to be called the Pennines?

It makes me think the weather forecast and global warming are based on assumptions because it seems no one really knows.

Finland: A scientist gets rapped for speaking the truth

Mr. Jalkanen explains, that there's no evidence at all which proves that the climate in Lapland (or in Russian's Siberia) is warming. The spring has come somewhat earlier during the last 300 years as indicated by the Ice-melt in River Tornio (you've blogged that earlier, if you remember). Mr Jalkanen also states, that it is impossible to get the controversial study results into IPCC.

Immediately after the piece of news of Mr Jalkanen was announced, both his supervisor and the chief of Finnish Meteorological Institute urged him to deny his study as well as the results. Jalkanen followed the concept and said "he's not denying the role of CO2 but just says that studies do not show any warming in northern Finland".

"carbon dioxide" "the gas of life" - Google Search [I get almost 300,000 hits]

Strange Weather: Is unusual pattern just bad luck or a sign of climate change? - Opinion Blog

Temperatures here in Syracuse during July were about three degrees cooler than usual. Temperatures never reached 90, with April 27 still highlighted as the day of our most recent 90 degree high.
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I wonder just how much this cool summer will affect the thinking of our Washington-based decision makers as they make their way to the summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are left again with the question. Is this recent spate of strange weather just a bit of bad luck or another major oscillation on the way to a global warm-up? This weather watcher is still firmly on the climate change fence.
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Tom Hauf is a local meteorologist working in energy efficiency sales with the Comfort Home Improvement Co. in Liverpool.

FROM OUR READERS: Congressmen don't read bills, and they don't care - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com

If "Obamacare" passes, your only option if you're too old will be to hop the next chunk of ice that breaks off of a glacier due to global warming, and float away to die.

Council in green driving bid - News - Manchester Evening News

COUNCIL workers in Salford will be trained to drive carefully in a bid to save fuel - and the planet.
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The measure is on a list of projects which make up of Salford's 'carbon management plan' which bosses say could save the authority £5m a year.

Called 'eco-driving', it entails 'training all drivers to drive in a conservative manner to save on fuel'. Devices will be fitted to all council vehicles to maximise fuel efficiency.
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Coun Karen Garrido, Tory opposition leader, said: "Why do our drivers need to be retrained? They just need to be told not to crunch gears and drive madly - they don't need retraining. This is loony."

New York Congressman Bishop suspends town hall meetings

When he arrived at the June 22 meeting in Setauket, Mr. Bishop was greeted by nearly 200 boisterous protesters shouting criticisms on a wide array of topics, from global warming to health care reform to financial bailouts of automobile manufacturers.
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[Schneider] “When the congressman said he believes in climate change, that brought a vast howl from the crowd..."

YouTube - TIM BISHOP ARROGANCE ON CAP AND TRADE TAX [about 3 min.]

Tim Bishop defies angry constituents on CAP and TRADE. Silent No More.

In the video above, watch Bishop smirk when his constituents reject his promotion of the greatest scientific fraud in history.

YouTube - Congressman Tim Bishop Encounters Angry Citizens chanting "No cap and trade] [about 4 min]

Congressman Tim Bishop has been a Rubber Stamp for Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and the rest of the Washington elitists who want to tax and spend this nation to death. The Conservative Society for Action and other angry taxpayers had a little surprise for him at one of his "Town Hall" meetings on June 22, 2009.

Longer [10 min] video - YouTube - TIM BISHOP PROTEST, SETAUKET, NY (part one)

Constituents protest before his arrival and speak out in frustration at the meeting. Silent no more.

Note that many of the protesters are grown-ups [the kind that have had real jobs and paid real taxes], rather than your standard-issue college-age protesters.

Obama's phony partnership with China - Washington Times

...the president used the event to advance his most naive foreign policy plank -- the belief that the two powers share a common view about climate change.
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On the basis of this empty rhetoric, Mr. Obama thinks he has formed a partnership with China that will overshadow the traditional geopolitical conflicts that divide the two nations. Beijing is quite willing to let him think so while pursuing its own interests unimpeded.

The Barack backlash: How Obama's presidency has gone from deity to doubtful | Mail Online

It is all spectacularly batty. Right-wing Americans have embraced conspiracy theories since the Cold War days when they professed that adding fluoride to the nation's water supply was a communist plot to poison the free.

Modern doom-mongers are warning nervous hicks that measures to tackle climate change threaten their sacred hamburgers: greens advocate cutting meat consumption because livestock generates so much methane gas, and Obama is seen as a green.

Wayne Brandt: Actually: Use a tree, save a planet

The wood table at which you may now be sitting to read this article, surrounded by the wood that's framing your home, are all storing carbon dioxide. And they'll continue storing it for the life of the table and house.
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Wayne Brandt is executive vice president of Minnesota Forest Industries.

If the carbon dioxide in all wooden tables was added to the atmosphere tomorrow, would the weather change measurably?

Perth max temps coldest in 11 years « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

Maximum temperatures across Perth have been below normal this month, averaging just 18 degrees, the coldest in 11 years.

Climate Neutrality with Honours: Universities Join UN-led Initiative to [Promote Climate Fraud]

Nairobi, 23 July 2009 - Six universities from the US, UK, Spain and China have become the first academic institutions to come on board the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) - an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action to de-carbonize our economies and societies.

Democrats Show Strain of Heated Battles - WSJ.com

Similar unhappiness surrounds the president's energy initiative, which was meant to reduce carbon emissions in the hope of slowing global warming. Mr. Obama chose not to spend political capital stumping for the House measure, while Republicans have been savaging moderate Democrats for supporting what they call a "cap-and-tax" bill.

Critics Blast ‘Cash for Clunkers’ $2 Billion Lifeline | The Washington Independent

“A billion dollars has been spent on a program that could conceivably be a disaster for the environment, and without even waiting to see where that money went, they’re throwing more money into the pot,” said Daniel Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, which advocates for better fuel efficiency. “This whole thing is a blind experiment. Congress is making fact-free decisions.”

Herseth Sandlin Votes NO to More Cash for Clunkers

Cash for Clunkers, or the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), is intended to blow taxpayer money to bribe owners of cars that don’t match liberal fuel standards to trade in those cars for more fuel efficient ones. This will ostensibly help save the planet from the evil menace of global warming caused by those diabolical SUVs and other gas-guzzlers. The bribe involves $3,500-$4,500 of taxpayer cash to trade in your vehicle which will be scrapped.

Jennifer Marohasy » What will an ETS do for Australia’s Environment?

In short, is an ETS likely to be beneficial for Australia’s natural environment, not because it will reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide, but because it will result in the closure of many Australian primary industries and extractive industries?

Climate Change Timeline – 1895-2009 « But Now You Know

For at least 114 years, climate “scientists” have been claiming that the climate was going to kill us…but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age, or global warming.

Climate change poised to feed on itself | smh.com.au

Around the world, thousands of scientists have devoted their professional lives to studying the climate. Not centrally organised, they sometimes build temporary affiliations but they remain scientists throughout – that is, they are independent, constantly challenge each other and are committed to searching for truth through objective, independently verifiable evidence.

Twitter / dianalambert

Middle and high school teachers to learn to incorporate topic of global climate change into curriculumn at Sac State conference Aug. 3-4.

YouTube - NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt on Alex Jones Tv 2/4:Man-Made Global Warming Hoax!

Alex welcomes to the show former NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt, the first and only civilian to walk on the Moon. Schmitt served as a Republican to the United States Senate representing New Mexico and was the ranking Republican member of the Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee. Schmitt is an outspoken critic of the man-made global warming theory.

Tribune » Blog Archive » Putting the spin in to global warming

The sceptics’ arguments are flimsy, but that’s no reason to try to emulate them. To put it bluntly, so what if climate scientists and their supporters are held to a higher standard of evidence and ethics than the coalition of crooks and nutters who choose to deny global warming? We’re right and they are wrong and we have nothing to fear from the truth.

Big Apple’s Cold Summer - Many Other Cities Ranking Among Coldest Ever

Also Boston is coming in with the third coldest June/July period since records began in 1872. It averaged 69.15 in June/July ranking it behind only 1881 and 1902. Notice all the other years were in the 1800s and early 1900s.

[I wonder who said this?] - Congressional Insiders Poll

"For too long, American subsidies, unlike in Europe, have masked the real cost of gasoline, making it difficult for any clean-energy alternatives to surface. Petrol prices at the pump should reflect the true costs to America's climate-change commitment, energy independence, and energy security."

Congress just buying people cars now | Free exchange | Economist.com

It's a waste. Environmentally speaking, the money would have been far better spent closing budget shortfalls for mass transit systems or capitalising programmes to weatherise homes. Socially speaking, automobiles produce a lot of unpleasant side effects—including congestion and accidents—and really ought not be subsidised by government (particularly since the policy is doing such a rotten job addressing the one negative externality it's supposed to help with—emissions).

Move To Washington, D.C. - Money Grows On Trees And Other Stuff : Black Bear Blog

Well, fools! Who is going to have to pay back the $4,500? We either have to pay it back in higher taxes or print more money to cover the give away putting us that much closer to hyper-inflation. Either way it’s a piss poor deal and you and I are being screwed.

Australian Climate Madness: Climate alarmists' desperate misrepresentations

So what do they do? Resort to even more desperate misrepresentations, which, let's face it, are bordering on outright lies. Let's pick them apart.

Don Blankenship (DonBlankenship) on Twitter

# If you support democracy in developing countries, you must support coal. It gives them economic freedom. Denying coal keeps them in poverty10:50 AM Jul 29th from web

# Californian's talk of legalizing pot while Los Angeles plans to ban energy from coal plants. No wonder that state has a $26 B deficit9:58 AM Jul 28th from web

# Cap&Trade is a ponzi scheme that rations energy in vain attempt to change earth’s temp. Don’t invest in it.3:40 PM Jul 27th from web

Nimbys versus Dimbys! Jonathan Dimbleby is putting a windfarm in his garden

Within a couple of months, this delicate and elegant device will start to provide my family with all the electricity we need - and more. Not only the lights but the cooker, kettle, fridge, freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, TVs, computers and all the rest.
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What led me to this volte-face? In two words: climate change. Or another two: global warming.

I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.

The 10 Most-Respected Global Warming Skeptics

Myron Ebell may be enemy #1 to the current climate change community.

Ebell writes:

Plus Dyson, Lomborg, Itoh, Giaever, Happer, Plimer, Crichton (the influence of his books lives on), Carlin, and Michaels.

But not Klaus, Inhofe, Lindzen, Singer, Christy, Spencer, Lawson, Monckton, Peiser, that great Australian Ray Evans, Carter, Milloy, Horner, Marlo Lewis, Helmer, the Idsos, Ball, or quite a few other likely suspects...

[Right-winger mentions God, which allegedly means he's an idiot!]

[Dick Armey] Let me say I take it as an article of faith if the lord God almighty made the heavens and the Earth, and he made them to his satisfaction and it is quite pretentious of we little weaklings here on earth to think that we are going to destroy God’s creation.

[2007: So what does it mean when a left-winger mentions God?]: Radio Iowa: On a rainy Sunday, Obama focuses on God's creation

[Obama] "The Bible tells us that when God created the Earth....(God issued a call to stewardship)...but in recent years science has made it undeniably clear our generation is not living up to our obligation....The polar ice caps are now melting faster than anyone could have predicted....250 million people (could be forced from their homes due to famine)....We are not living up to the resonsibility God entrusted to us if we allow 250 million of God's children go hungry....We're not acting as good stewards of God's earth (when profit motive prevails)...(Crowd applauds)

March 2007: Pelosi: "Moral Issue to Preserve God's Creation"

Speaker Nancy Pelosi described the imperative for the new global warming legislation as coming not only from national security, health and economic concerns, but in terms of the "moral issue to preserve God's creation" without hurting the poor.

Google Maps Don’t Lie. Sweden And Canada Among Worst Greenhouse Gas Emitters.

So who are the worst offenders? Topping the list is Sweden! The country has managed to increase its emissions by 110 percent over that time period. So much for Nordic purity.

Rajendra Pachauri: Can this man cool the planet?

The IPCC’s choice to hold the talks in Venice was significant. The ancient city is slowly sinking into the sea, a process that will only speed up if sea levels rise from climate change, as the IPCC predicts. And Italy is home to one of the world’s largest and most vocal groups of climate change skeptics.

Brendan O’Neill- The American Conservative -- Green-Industrial Complex

Gore and other members of the Copenhagen Climate Council, including the world’s largest producer of wind turbines, Vestas, present their demands for carbon-trading schemes as altruistic efforts to clean up the planet. In truth, these green-leaning profit-making machines stand to gain significantly if the activities of their less green competitors are hampered by government demands.

The American Spectator : Chris Horner : Fey-ned Outrage

Surely you remember Markey's outrage over those falsehoods, frauds and far, far worse underlying his legislation's express premise. Like the "Hockey Stick" swindle? His fulmination over Gore's phony claims which were outed by the UK High Court? The fraud at University of Albany relating to a key, apparently fabricated data set relied upon by the IPCC for its claims? NASA repeatedly being caught in funny business with data, only to have the gremlins get back into the system and re-monkey the numbers after they've been corrected? Over taxpayer-funded surface temperature stations being moved from fields to parking lots, over air conditioning units and even barbeque grilles (and the data being used by NASA for it's sexed up claims)? About EPA claiming that CO2 poses an "endangerment" to human health and the environment, demurring on the idea that it would perform its own research of the matter saying it outsourced that function to the IPCC (seriously), which, uh, says right there on its website that it conducts no research? You shrieked to the heavens over Team Gore smearing Roger Revelle in his grave, chasing Will Happer and Sherwood Idso out of government jobs, and their Doppelgangers' current assault on EPA whistleblower Alan Carlin, didn't you? And about torturing children so that they report nightmares, refuse water and even get committed after melting down from being told they're contributing to an ongoing ecological crisis? About physical attacks and death threats against skeptic scientists for the crime of speaking out about science?

A Government Bonanza Run Like A Clunker | The Moderate Voice

One stipulation in CARS legislation is that scrap shops must destroy the engine and drive train in the clunker vehicle as part of an effort to remove gas guzzlers from the road. The used engines sell for about $700 to $800 compared to a replacement engine for $4,000 from the dealer manufacturer agency, according to Angela Ingram who owns with her husband B & A Auto Parts, in Staunton, Virginia.

Ingram says the consumer will have less used parts available. She’s not sure how the program will effect business in the long run. Ingram and her husband fear this program may put them out of business.

Just what you suspected: This July was coolest on record [breaking the record set in 1891]

Preliminary statistics show Iowa has just experienced its coolest July on record.

Utah: Ideal Weather Could Mean a Few More Deer

A harsh winter in 2008 killed many of the fawns that were born in 2007.

Steele: ‘I am not afraid to go into battle’ « - Blogs from CNN.com

At the meeting, the RNC also passed several resolutions, including several that condemn Obama's approach to health care reform, cap and trade and use of "czars" to oversee critical issues.

Congress fears voters; meetings in home districts cancelled

Now that it is clear we have gotten their attention with our sheer outrage over their planned government takeover of healthcare, their cockeyed scheme to ruin the American economy with 'cap and trade,' and their asinine trillion-dollar bailouts of fat cats on Wall Street, the Congress vermin seem to wish to crawl back back behind the walls rather than face their constituents who put them in office.

Clunkers Is ‘The More Urgent Priority’ - Henry Payne - The Corner on National Review Online

Ironic, then, that Congress’s rush to replenish the popular Clunkers program with more money involved raiding the stimulus bill’s Title XVII energy-loan-guarantee program.
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“Clunkers is a more urgent priority,” House majority leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said today. Funny, and we thought fighting the global-warming planetary emergency by the careful husbandry of our dwindling resources was the most urgent priority.

The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room » Bennett: Senate lacks the votes to pass ‘cap and trade’

The Senate lacks the votes to pass "cap and trade" climate change legislation as a standalone bill or as an amendment to an energy bill after recess, Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) claimed Friday.
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Bennett asserted that Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.) hoped deadline to pass a preliminary climate change bill by this fall could "easily slip" until the winter.

House Votes to Extend 'Clunkers' Program - WSJ.com

The House voted Friday to transfer $2 billion in emergency funding from the economic stimulus plan to the "cash for clunkers" program, but the extension faces a tougher path in the Senate.

2007: List your flights! (Alarmist Jonathon Porritt)

As you’ll see, I fly a lot. 21 times in the last year, in fact, or 42 flights in total.

Flashback to April '09: Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army | Environment | The Guardian

Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.

During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders.

Gore's Climate [Fraud] Project: Extremely sparse schedule for August '09

08/01/09 - Wheatland, Iowa
08/02/09 - Gualala, California
08/05/09 - Gualala, California
08/06/09 - Pleasant Hill, California
08/08/09 - Sharon, Vermont
08/25/09 - Colorado Springs, Colorado
08/26/09 - St. Louis, Missouri

John Kerry on China's Emissions - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

In a country as corrupt as China, it's impossible to know who's making what and how on the construction of these alternative energy assets. With that in mind, I'm not sure China is the "constructive" player John Kerry thinks it will be.

China: The Saudi Arabia of Alternative Energy - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

“The problem is we have so many stupid enterprises,” said Li Junfeng, who is the deputy director general for energy research at China’s top economic planning agency and the secretary general of the government-run Renewable Energy Industries Association.

Energy Tribune - Great Leap Forward for China’s Wind Energy

According to recent data from the China Power Union, only 72% (8.94 GW) of China’s total wind power capacity was connected to the grid. The result: a lot of wind turbines have been “sun bathing” -- as the Chinese call it.

Waxman-Markey [scam]: $9 Trillion GDP Hit | GlobalWarming.org

“Overall, Waxman-Markey reduces gross domestic product by an average of $393 billion dollars annually between 2012 and 2035, and cumulatively by $9.4 trillion dollars. In other words, the nation will be $9.4 trillion dollars poorer with Waxman-Markey than without it.”

Stop Global Warming - Change.org: We Want Zero Emission 100% Electric Cars NOW!

Think About It: Global warming can be halted with the zero emission 100% Electric Vehicles (EVs) that are made with NiMH batteries whose use is currently being suppressed by Chevron Oil Corporation.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Please Read Climate Progress

To give Joe a bit of a break, he has a role to play for CAP as a bulldog cheerleader for the Waxman-Markey bill. His salary depends upon playing this role which of course explains his about-face on Waxman-Markey and its genesis in the USCAP proposal.

Cold summer in Toronto: Treehugger founder Graham Hill's vegetable garden is complaining

[Graham] The symptoms of the Earth, as a patient, are not looking good. Carbon dioxide is increasing rapidly as though the green movement never even happened, so we need to get people to understand the scale of their behaviours and make actual changes.
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Graham: The reality is, the vast majority of people like to blame suburbia, blame the red states and so on. But I can’t even tell you the number of panels I’ve been on about the water crisis where everybody has plastic water bottles sitting in front of them. I mean, if we can’t even get these little symbolic things right, it’s pretty bad.
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Well, unfortunately, it’s been pretty darn cold and rainy in Toronto all summer; on the one hand, this means no need for air conditioning, but it also means that even my vegetable garden is starting to complain.

The Sietch Blog » Waxman-Markey Bill: A Suicidal Move For Humanity

If you still support Waxman-Markey after this, then I can only assume you have a death wish.

Stupidly Is as Stupidly Does - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Considering we have no idea how to measure GHG emissions accurately, it's a good thing that the administration is not going to act so "stupidly" as to pay these countries billions to "lower" their emissions in 2020 and thereafter (on the basis of their own self-reporting) by not increasing them to some imaginary business-as-usual scenario that we lack the capacity to establish with any certainty — just so President Obama can run around claiming "Look at me, I'm not George W. Bush, and I got a deal!"

Oh, wait. I forgot. That's exactly what he's planning to do.

Life Is Unfair - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Ahem. All I get is hippies stealing my trash and sending camera crews around to stage confrontations with me?

And what about Lindzen, Christy, and Spencer? Alas. At least in the photo of Myron he is displaying a copy of my Red Hot Lies — surely the alarmists' subliminal love note telling me I'm still in their thoughts, but they just can't provide me with any more ammo after the Greenpeace-stealing-my-trash business. Who knows what other groups' presidents will, um, decide to spend more time with their family once their behavior along these lines is so outed? (Sorry, John P!)

‘Cash for Clunkers’: One Dealer’s Tale - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“Having said that,” Mr. Lee continued, “it is having an incredible impact on business. I love the program, but they are so out of their league. They should have had someone else administer the program.”

In a follow-up telephone interview, Mr. Lee also said that the environmental benefits — a driving force behind the creation of the program — were for many customers merely a side benefit. Most people, he said, just wanted to get a good deal when they exchanged an old car for a new one.

The Limbaugh Wire for 07/31/2009

LIMBAUGH: In the meantime, if you have any sense yourself, you realize you're dealing with a bunch of frigging idiots! And then you realize it's the same bunch of frigging idiots that wants to administer your medical treatment. Not just your insurance, your medical treatment. And then you'll realize it's the same bunch of frigging idiots that claims global warming is being caused by you and that you gotta pay even more taxes to be punished for that. And then you gotta realize that these are the same frigging idiots that say they're going to rebuild the economy with green jobs in this new environmental technology sector, but you haven't seen an ad for one of those jobs because not one of them's been created.

Army Starts Solar Plant; Next Step: Care About Climate Change | Danger Room | Wired.com

The solar plant at Ft. Irwin will require at least 1.5 billion dollars total, and should be ready to crank electrons by 2022.

This will be a big break from the military past, said Geiss. “We have clear examples, at least in the past 100 years, where the lack of fuel has hindered military operations. What held Patton back in Germany was that Eisenhower was turning the fuel over to Montgomery.”

How'd you like to go into battle in a solar-powered tank?

In New York, It’s the Summer That Isn’t - NYTimes.com

Not one 99-degree day in Central Park. Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping , the temperature will have failed to reach 90 in either June or July.
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In the end, this will have been the coolest June and July since either 1903 or 1881, when sweltering New Yorkers grumbled about a sudden early August heat wave.

Bravo, Dick Armey

DICK ARMEY: What I’m suggesting is we have a sort of an eco-evangelical hysteria going on and it leads me to almost wonder if we are becoming a nation of environmental hypochondriacs that are willing to use the power of the state to impose enormous restrictions on the rights and the comforts of, and incomes of individuals who serve essentially a paranoia, a phobia, that has very little fact evidence in fact. Now these are observations that are popular to make because right now its almost taken as an article of faith that this crisis is real. [Video here]

Cycling throng gives bicyclists a bad name

Stand-up comedian George Carlin, who died last year, said it best when he focused on the arrogance of these "bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths."

And I agree with him. I used to be a keen cyclist. But the current crop of bike snobs, vanity-filled vegans and global-warming true believers sickens me so much I'm tempted to spend one Friday a month roaring up and down the new Burrard Bridge bike lane in a Hummer.

[Even though they don't believe in the climate scam] John Kerry for climate [scam] partnership with India

“Some even suggest it wouldn’t have to build another power plant for a decade,” he claimed.

July 25, '09 » India Rejects Climate Alarmism

India rejected key scientific findings on global warming, while the European Union called for more action by developing states on greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Denialists Grasp for Straws and Come Up...

So, why mention Dr. Evans? Well, because in their desperation to cite anyone else besides the usual crew of skeptic scientists who are all associated with free market groups, they have latched on to the Australian version of a free market skeptic. In other words, Dr. Evans has no real expertise (or even experience) studying climate science, but he does have a free market ideology (and a penchant for resume padding).

[Man fired for forging letters opposing a massive government swindle based on the greatest scientific fraud in history?] - Environmental Capital - WSJ

UPDATE: Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of the House committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said today in a statement: ““This is an appalling abuse…my Select Committee will immediately begin an investigation of the extent and scope of this act.”

Update: Scientist Accuses American Chemical Society Editor of 'censoring of articles and letters' that reject man-made global warming claims! | Climate Depot

[Environmental Chemist Steven J. Welcenbach] Thank you for getting the word out with what is going on in American Chemical Society (ACS). A vast number of members are very upset with the lack of complete and balanced coverage of the AGW issue and the continued censoring of articles and letters by Rudy Baum that do not support the theory of catastrophic global warming caused by CO2 emissions from man's use of petroleum and coal. Many of the members I have spoken with have not only expressed their disgust but either have left ACS or are contemplating leaving the group. Lots of us, however, have decided that we should take action to return the group back to the scientific method and the initial purpose for which this group was formed and why we joined.

National Geographic, James Owen: Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change?

Desertification, drought, and despair—that's what global warming has in store for much of Africa. Or so we hear.

Emerging evidence is painting a very different scenario, one in which rising temperatures could benefit millions of Africans in the driest parts of the continent.

Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.

If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities.

New England Aquarium Turns to Climate Change [Fraud] with Mobile Tours : TreeHugger

Now when you walk through the New England Aquarium (a past pick for a great staycation), you're encouraged to keep your cell phones and MP3 players up and running so that the aquarium can infuse your brain with climate change information.

The aquarium's new Blue Impact Tour gives visitors a broader perspective on global climate change’s impact on Boston Harbor, sea turtles, North Atlantic right whales, sea jellies, shore birds, lobsters, and coral reefs. Not only does it cover how global warming is changing sea levels and food supplies, but also uses animations to illustrate what the impacts look like, both locally and globally.

Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Those Pesky Freshmen

Of 35 first-term Democrats, Mr. Maffei, who represents the Syracuse area, and 25 others occupy suburban, small-town and rural seats they took out of Republican hands, seats Republicans are eager to take back. As a result, junior Democrats want to be sure the emerging health care plan is one they can embrace, particularly after they have already had to cast a difficult vote on climate-change legislation.

Traders call for EU response to carbon [scam] tax fraud | Green Business | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's exemption of carbon emissions credits from value-added tax (VAT) is just a temporary fix for a tax fraud that will just resurface in other European Union countries, traders said, calling for an EU-wide response.

The Ice Warrior Has a Detailed Plan | Sterling Performance | BNET

McNeill has already attempted to reach the centre of the Arctic Ocean in 2006. This attempt ended after, due to unseasonal conditions, he slipped into the water, which is so cold it would only take around 20 minutes to kill him. He pulled himself out of the water, but it was plain the conditions, brought on by climate change, were too dangerous to continue.

[If SUVs caused the open leads in 2006, what caused the open leads in 1909?]

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

Rudd does an Arbib: not jobs, not new | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Fact is, Arbib was asked to sell a dead dog [green jobs--you know, jobs that improve the weather]. These are not real jobs. And now Rudd - swallowing nervously - admits they are not new “jobs”, either.

Morning Bell: Cash for Clunkers, A Case Study in Why Obamanomics Is Failing » The Foundry

As one auto dealer told CBS News: “If they can’t administer a program like this, I’d be a little concerned about my health insurance.”

Instapundit [Here's what a clunker looks like.  If we pay people to destroy this car, how much will the weather improve?]

OUCH: My Mazda RX-8 is on the “cash for clunkers” list!

Army [to blow $2 billion on ridiculous solar project?] - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The solar deal won’t be cheap—the developers figure the initial project could cost $2 billion. Since solar power isn’t as reliable as baseload power such as nuclear plants, that’s a pretty steep price per megawatt.

US Dept of Defense - Navy Task Force Assesses Changing Climate

“I like to say that we are operating in nature’s casino; I intend to count the cards,” he quipped.

Weather no friend to farmers this summer - Community Press - Ontario, CA

“The growing degree day has, generally speaking, been down about 10 to 15 per cent less than the norm during the day,” Phillips said. In general "farmers are seeing between 10 and 20 per cent less heat for growing food stocks.”
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Crews said people talk about global warming but really it is climate change and both the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and the national organization are lobbying for research to keep crop varieties ahead of what’s happening with the weather.

PETA Asks President Obama To Join Meat-Free Mondays

It’s one-seventh of where we should be, but it’s a great start.

Costs of Your Own, Personal Green Space | GlobalWarming.org

“The green, rich, and famous never worry about costs; discussion of money is so tawdry,” Michael writes. Same goes when they try to impose their extreme environmentalist values on the rest of us.

With August looming, the Northwest Passage is still blocked by ice

Geo Quiz | PRI's The World

Cameron Dueck wants to see how climate change is affecting Arctic communities. So he set sail in June from Vancouver with a crew of three others… headed all the way for Halifax, Nova Scotia. [Interview MP3]

Around the 5:50 mark, Dueck admits there is "a little bit more ice than last year" and says he's talked to people who say "certainly you're going to be running into more ice than you would have last year".

[On this map, the Northwest Passage still appears to be blocked by ice]

The interviewer above incorrectly claims that the Northwest Passage opened up "for the first time" a couple of years ago

Since 1905, according to the BBC, about 110 boats have been through the Northwest Passage (four of them in 2007). Thirty of the 110 were recreational boats.

The Northwest Passage was successfully navigated in 1906, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1957, 1969, 1977, 1984, 1988, and 2000 (and probably in other years as well).

Now plastic waste is MORE alarming than that alleged problem that might end human civilization?

Laurie David: [Did we say carbon dioxide?  We meant plastic]

[Charles Moore] This insidious invasion of the biosphere by our plastic waste is in some ways more alarming for us humans than global warming. Our bodies have evolved to handle carbon dioxide, the nemesis of global warming, indeed, we exhale it with every breath.

"Unprecedented" Data Purge At CRU « Climate Audit

On July 31, 2009, the data purge at CRU reached levels "unprecedented" in its recorded history. Climate Audit reader Super-Grover said that the data purge was "worse" than we expected.

Bob Giloth: Chicago Bullying

Standing in the Belltown Labor Temple in early June at a mayoral candidate forum, Seattle City Council member Jan Drago used the "c" word. The incumbent's style... was "the Chicago way." The "Chicago" epithet has been dogging Mayor Greg Nickels almost since the day he took office. A 2006 story claimed Nickels had "belied his big-softy reputation by instituting a regime of Chicago-style hardball politics that has left a timid city council cowed."
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Oddly, Nickels and the current Daley do share another likeness -- being tagged as two of the leading mayors for climate change and green cities. Think of that!

Cattlemen’s Capitol Concerns: [Climate fraud could force farmers and ranchers out of business]

Jim Magagna, Executive Vice President, Wyoming Stock Growers Association testified on behalf of producers.

Magagna talked about the negative impacts that H.R. 2454 (the "Climate Change Bill") would have on America's farmers and ranchers. Specifically, Magagna expressed concerns about the bill's effect on energy costs. Considering the fact that approximately 45% of agriculture production costs are energy related, these increased costs could push many operations over the edge, forcing ranchers to sell off their land to developers.

"There is nothing green about a rural sub-division as compared to livestock roaming the range," Magagna said.

Just how stupid do these people think we are?

Senate Democrats Tie Climate [Fraud] Effort to National Security - NYTimes.com

"There's a building base of evidence that global warming is contributing to much of the instability of the world today," Warner said. "If we do nothing, we can be sure nothing else is going to be done of any consequence."
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"Most things I agree with him," said EPW Committee ranking member James Inhofe (R-Okla.), before ticking through a list of reasons why he says climate science is eroding.

Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) went after the House-passed climate bill drafted by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) that Senate Democrats plan to base their own efforts on.

Bond, who will retire in January 2011, argued that the House legislation won't have any effect on global temperatures and therefore undercuts any connection to national security.

"Waxman-Markey will do nothing to avoid adding tension to stable regions, nothing to prevent terrorism from worsening and nothing to avoid dragging the United States into conflicts over water and other critical resource shortages," Bond said.

India's spending priorities: $4 billion annually for warships, $0.2 billion for forests

India to assess climate gain; pump millions in forests | Top News | Reuters

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will spend some $200 million to protect its forests and will announce how much carbon emission is being captured by its green cover, the environment minister said on Friday.

FT.com / UK - India plans to build 100 warships

Admiral Sureesh Mehta, chief of naval staff, said the navy would spend more than Rupees 200bn ($4bn, €3bn, £2.5bn) a year on new capabilities, with about 60 per cent devoted to acquisitions of naval hardware.

[Stacked on top of climate fraud]: Carbon credits hit by carousel fraud

Carousel fraud has found its way to the carbon market. The particularly European type of fraud entails setting up complicated import and export schemes between EU member countries, charging buyers for value-added tax in the country of destination, and then absconding with the tax rather than handing it over to the governments.

[How many Pennsylvania solar panels would it take to power a race car for 500 miles?]:  Nascar Track Has Big Plans to Go Solar - NYTimes.com

Track officials said they would announce the project with a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, two days before the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at the track in Long Pond, Pa.
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The solar farm is expected to generate three megawatts once it is completed, in spring 2010, making it Pennsylvania’s largest such facility, Igdalsky said. The project is expected to cost $15 million to $17 million but more than pay for itself over time.

China Shuts Small Plants - WSJ.com

China's economy has grown so fast that it has added on average an additional 70 gigawatts of power -- roughly equal to the power-generating capacity of France -- each year for the past few years.

[Is this really the measure of great ideas?] - WSJ

Cash-for-clunkers was such a great idea, it’s apparently running out of cash.

David Suzuki Foundation calls on premiers to take strong leadership to address climate change

Why interview someone from the David Suzuki Foundation?

The David Suzuki Foundation has a longstanding track record as a credible source of analysis on science-based policy measures to address climate change.

Environmentalist, author Bill McKibben calls for concerted action on environment

Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author, evirnonmentalist and founder of 350.org, took the stage at the American Center yesterday and stated in measured but forceful words that strong, powerful action needs to be taken very, very quickly if we want to maintain the climate we are accustomed to.
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McKibben noted that, each summer in the Arctic, an area of ice, the size of California melts away, due to global warming. He added that there is now 25 per cent less ice in the Arctic than at any time in human history or even during pre-historic times.
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He cited the 200 per cent increase in dengue fever in Asia since 2000 as an example of how problems associated with warm, wet environments are increasing. He himself had contracted dengue fever in Bangladesh several years ago, he said.

[Two full years after CO2 hysteria peaked]: Fujitsu Joins Japan Climate [Scam] Leaders’ Partnership

30 Jul 2009 , Tokyo : Fujitsu today announced its participation in the Japan Climate Leaders’ Partnership (Japan-CLP). Japan-CLP is Japan’s first corporate network to look at climate change from a business perspective and be proactive at bringing about a sustainable, low-carbon society.

Let's Put an End to Sarah Palin-Style Capitalism - Naomi Klein

I almost feel like we've been given a last chance, some kind of a reprieve. I try not to be apocalyptic, but the global warming science I read is scary. This economic crisis, as awful as it is, pulled us back from that ecological precipice that we were about to drive over with Sarah Palin and gave us a tiny bit of time and space to change course.

89.3 KPCC | Cap and Farmers

Republican Congressman Wally Herger’s district at the north end of the San Joaquin Valley is one of the richest specialty crop areas in the world, with prunes, nuts and rice.
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Felde: Herger says “cap and trade” in his district would give growers in India and China an unfair advantage. They aren't bound by energy regulations.

Ambrose: Where is Obama's transparency? | ScrippsNews

Take a glance, for instance, at the Environmental Protection Agency. According to a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, Alan Carlin, a senior analyst with EPA's National Center for Economics, had the temerity along with a colleague to produce a paper casting doubt on global warming theory and especially on the reliability of computer models predicting catastrophe down the pike. His boss made it clear that the thesis was contrary to policy and the paper would not be allowed out the door.

I missed the liberal outcry on this, as opposed, say, to what we heard when NASA's global warming alarmist James Hansen whined that his press releases might be reviewed before being released during the Bush administration. No such reviews ever took place, which hardly stopped one outraged commentator from complaining that we were now in an era reminiscent of Josef Stalin's viciously controlling discourse in the Soviet Union. Hansen, the Journal piece reminds us, had given hundreds of speeches on the terror of warming, many of them during the Bush years.

Look next at what's been happening in Congress, votes on nation-altering legislation roughly as transparent as a stonewall is transparent, last-minute concoctions of 1,000 pages and more that not a single member of Congress could conceivably have had time to read. For that matter, few if any members could have had a grasp of any number of important elements in these bills even through the second-hand summaries, which is to say, the democratic process was rendered meaningless.

Melanie Phillips: The Spectator

When the worm finally turns, it really gets itself into a flat-out spin. More and more scientists have just about had it up to here with the rubbish being put out as the ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming.

Enough with this carp | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

When this hysteria has finally passed there will be an accounting. Those who sold out science for fame, fortune and flim-flam will be made to pay.

Policy Peril Segment 3 - Hurricanes | OpenMarket.org

To wrap up, no consensus has been reached about the possible influence of global warming on hurricanes.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cash for clunkers runs out of money … after one week; Update: Feds scramble to save program

Unlike pretty much every other Hopenchange economic policy, not only did this one work, it worked better than expected. And yet, I can’t help thinking there’s a lesson in the fact that a centrally planned program budgeted to run through the end of October went bust in, er, seven days. That’s some miscalculation — not unlike the miscalculation that promised unemployment no higher than eight percent once we pinched that $787 billion loaf known as the stimulus. And naturally, the program came buried in so much bureaucracy and paperwork that some dealers gave up on it despite the amazing business it drummed up.

Rudd’s tick-tick-tick deceit | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The truth is not only that the scheme will kill jobs, will fail to halt our growth in emissions and won’t make a blind bit of difference to world temperatures anyway. Fact is, even some of the world’s leading warming hysterics admit there’s no urgency at all to the vote, whatever Kevin Rudd so dishonestly claims