Going green to the extreme « - Blogs from CNN.com

How much would you sacrifice to save the planet? Would you consider not having a child?

[In case you missed it]: The Associated Press: Analysis: To-do list largely undone

Many of them felt stung by their politically scorching votes to tackle global warming by raising people's electric bills, despite mounting evidence the Senate probably won't vote on it this year.

The House Appropriations Committee chairman, Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., acknowledged recently the early vote on global warming made it more difficult to keep pace on health care.

Twitter / Robert Ford

There's no doubt humans have had an impact on global warming. Also, global warming means more severe weather, not necessarily warmer weather

Twitter / Melissa Hennessy

i don't really believe in the whole global warming issue. My bf was a enviormental science major but dropped it due to all of the bias teachings

No excuse left to not fight this | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Which also means that the emissions trading turkey is not something that the Liberals can wave through the Senate and then hope to “move on”

Confident It’s A Mild Minimum Earth Faces? « Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax

Of the 10 most sunspot free years in the past 110 years, 2008, 2007, and 2009 are now included; all of them. But we are only 2/3 of the way through 2009. And, the next sunspot could be a cycle 23 spot, just as easily as a cycle 24 spot, apparently. The older cycle 23 becomes, the fewer sunspots will occur in cycle 24, experience shows. How confident are you that it’s a Dalton Minimum or less severe minimum and cold period Earth faces, and not a more serious Maunder-like event; or worse? Scientists are not concerned; government is not concerned; energy sources are being idled and new sources are not being built or opened.

Carbon Dioxide from Cars: Scientific American Podcast

Cars in California offer a new kind of sticker shock this year: carbon. In addition to the familiar smog ratings, labels on new Cali cars rank them 1 to 10 based on greenhouse gas emissions.

We picket Joan Ruddock, Climate Change Minister, on Vestas eviction day

Q: Why not nationalise the plant? You have stepped in to nationalise the banks because there was a need to shore up the financial system. The government has set very high targets for expanding renewable energy, and very high targets for cutting carbon emissions. Is that not a similar emergency that would justify the government stepping in?
JR: It’s not up for sale! We can’t just nationalise a whole company.

The Problem With Ice Cores - Minnesotans For Global Warming

You should never assume anything, especially if you're a scientist. Kent Hovind shoots holes in the idea that ice rings are an annual occurrence. Just because tree rings are annual doesn't mean that ice core rings are.

Despite Cost, Global Warming Legislation Won’t Reduce CO2 « Aftermath News

“Europe is coming apart at the seams” as their carbon-trading system has “melted down.” China has become the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter and the climate has stopped warming and started cooling.

Australia: Cold air brings a bone chilling morning « Where’s my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

Mildura hit minus one, their coldest August night in 10 years. Tatura’s minus three, their coldest in 12 years for August, was remarkable after an unusually warm 11 degrees the previous night.

C3: WSJ Says Obama Buying-Off Big Business For Health Care Support; This Type of Payoff Started With 'Cap & Trade' - Consumers Being Sacrificed

...Below is list of large corporations that have been compromised by Obama on 'Cap & Trade' legislation.

Why killing jobs won’t save the planet | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Dr David Evans (former Australian Greenhouse Office consultant):

How long before the alarmists start fudging the temperature records, because there is so much money, political control, and science funding riding on the outcome? Bad news—it’s already started.

The Boys Who Cried “Racist” | Cato @ Liberty

...Paul Krugman can’t understand why people would oppose government control of health care — or skyrocketing deficits, or a federal takeover of education, energy, and finance along with health care — unless they’re driven by racism.

[We're saved! Arizona] couple vows to live full year with no AC

I'm doing this for the environment. It's simple: Much of our energy comes from burning coal and other processes that produce greenhouse gases and other dangerous pollutants, not to mention that they use huge amounts of water.

[Still more climate scam BS]: "Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security" - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say.

Reality Tempers Once High Hopes for U.S. Corn-Based Ethanol | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

Cost and carbon have chopped down the high hopes America's Midwest had for growing the nation off climate-changing foreign oil.

[Heartwarming]: Doubts In The Midst Of Greens

Another attendee, a college professor, confided to me in private conversation that, “I’m not sure climate change is real.” She said that, though she’s not a scientist herself, she gathers that there is a great deal of controversy and disagreement among scientists about whether climate change is actually happening. She also speculated that the measurements of rising global temperature might be due to the “urban heat island effect”, with temperatures measured only in cities with increasing amounts of hot pavement. (Actually, where temperatures are measured as warming the most is in the polar regions, where there are no cities at all.)

It’s a testament to the effectiveness of corporate-funded misinformation campaigns that these ideas are coming up even amongst a gathering of Green Party activists.

EU extradition treaty means British law no longer protects us - Telegraph

Mr Naughtie has, of course, long since succumbed to the BBC’s in-house brainwashing on this subject, and part of the game is to ascribe almost every unusual natural phenomenon to global warming, from heatwaves to heavy snow, from drought to floods, from a decline in the numbers of Painted Lady butterflies to the fact that this year there are millions of them.

Has The Environment Got Lost In Carbon Issues

With the current focus on carbon emission trading and greenhouse gas reporting, unfortunately "green business" has become all about emissions and emission trading for a high proportion of our business population. There is a decreased awareness of the need to care for other aspects of the environment and many businesses that were considering an environmental management system or EMS are opting instead for carbon management alone.

Economic View - A Missed Opportunity on Climate [Fraud] - NYTimes.com

DURING the presidential campaign of 2008, Barack Obama distinguished himself on the economics of climate change, speaking far more sensibly about the issue than most of his rivals. Unfortunately, now that he is president, Mr. Obama may sign a climate bill that falls far short of his aspirations. Indeed, the legislation making its way to his desk could well be worse than nothing at all.

Richard Branson: I’m in a dirty old business but I try - Times Online

He started with coconut oil — flying a Boeing 747 from London to Amsterdam last year with one engine running on the stuff — but gave up when he realised there weren’t enough coconuts to fuel an airline. It didn’t help that a recent holiday in India was ruined by people trying to sell him coconuts everywhere he went. He moved on to ethanol but dumped that when it became clear that it freezes at 15,000ft.
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As he headed back to Shanghai airport, he said: “The curious thing is, if this city and the rest of China had not got this haze, the world would, in fact, heat up by about an extra two and a half degrees. So, let’s keep the haze until we can come up with a solution to global warming. Maybe we should put a little extra sulphur in our fuel to create more?”

Joyce - "I will not be supporting the ETS"

So let us just cut to the chase, there is only one ETS and that’s the one being put forward by Minister Wong and Mr Rudd, it’s an economic suicide note for so many areas in Australia and I will not be voting for it.

Ezra Klein - Is There a Deal to be Made on Health Care? An Interview WIth Sen. Lindsey Graham.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/08/is_there_a_deal_to_be_made_on.html?hpid=topnews

Climate change is more of a theoretical problem.

I Accuse!

http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-accuse.html

I accuse the United Nations environmental program in general and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in particular of creating a huge hoax, "global warming", in order to reduce energy use and to create a phony market for so-called "carbon credits," based on the lie that carbon dioxide plays a role in the alleged warming process.

Rachael Leigh Cook Talks Green With Coco Eco Magazine // ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

http://www.ecorazzi.com/2009/08/08/rachael-leigh-cook-talks-green-with-coco-eco-magazine/

The actress sported eco-friendly fashions for the cover and is looking forward to her new compost heap at home.

About being green she says "It's the right thing to do. I'm consistently surprised to see people who want to tempt fate with their beliefs about the myth of global warming. That's really terrifying to me. So I think I have to overcompensate for some people who aren't with the program."

The Associated Press: Analysis: To-do list largely undone

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjo1f4e2HDTVBvFWmUZa4NnDtmxAD99UR0FG0

_His global warming initiative squeaked through the House — though it opened major rifts in the party — but arrived in the Senate as a dead letter.

How is America going to end? The apocalypse you chose. - By Josh Levin and Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/id/2224425/

[global warming fails to crack the top 10]

Cash crisis at Newport's West Wales Eco Centre (From Western Telegraph)

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/4535370.Funding_shortfall_threatens_future_of_Eco_Centre/

Eco Centre director Jake Hollyfield said: "We have had a funding shortfall for some time and have been trying to ensure that the impact is minimal.

"We have been unable to raise additional funds, we have to be cautious and take a decision about how to weather the storm. All the departments are underfunded.

"It's frustrating because climate change is at the top of everyone's agenda at the moment."

Mr Hollyfield confirmed that three people had been given notice of redundancy.

NOAA: HadCRU3 data not "influential"

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=6767

A CA reader recently wrote to NOAA (which distributes HADCRU3 gridded data) asking them whether the data and methods had been reviewed pursuant to NOAA Quality of Information guidelines. (It is nice to see a reader complete such an exercise himself rather than writing on a thread that I should do it.) NOAA replied that they had not done so because the data came from a third party and that HADCRU3 data "do not meet the definition of influential". One wonders what sort of data NOAA regards as "influential". Here's the correspondence...

Florida Flip-Flop

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalwarmingorg/~3/ZY9R4lDN9sw/

Global warming is a boat anchor for Crist's campaign now...

CQ Politics | Lobbyists Turn Up Heat on Climate Change

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003189417&parm1=1&cpage=1

Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who is skeptical about climate change legislation, said that so far he has been pressured in the opposite direction. "My mail is running about 99-to-1 against that," he said at a recent hearing.

Climate Shifts » Blog Archive » Climate change and coral reefs: Trojan horse or false prophecy?

http://www.climateshifts.org/?p=2505

CQ Politics | New Jersey’s Lance Readies for 2010 Joust

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000003189415

New Jersey is a very pro-environment state," Lance said. "I indicated in my campaign that I opposed a carbon tax and was favorably disposed to a cap-and-trade proposal, and I am well known for being a strong environmentalist. In New Jersey, we already have a strict capping of carbon emissions, and it is unacceptable that we have to breathe the dirty air from Ohio and Pennsylvania."

TheHill.com - Virginia's McDonnell enlisted to hit at Dem agenda

“We must do everything we can to keep and grow jobs in Virginia, and every state in the Union. That’s why we strongly oppose cap-and-trade, a job-killing energy tax that would put American companies at a tremendous competitive disadvantage with employers in other countries,” McDonnell said

Quadrant Online - Emissions Trading Scheme Forum

In other words, the introduction of emissions trading in Australia will have no measurable effect on future climate at all. You might as well stand under the shower and tear up billion dollar notes for all the good that emissions trading legislation will do.

This issue is now of such public importance that Quadrant Online has invited a group of respected and well qualified Australian commentators to share with you their views about it. Their essays are linked below, and I commend them for reading.

Biodiversity boomed during global warming - UPI.com

DENVER, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A global warming span from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced the biodiversity of western North America, geologists said.

The warming spurred a biodiversity boom of plants and animals, the researchers reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Twitter / Marc Freed

It is difficult to do scientific research for a boss who thinks climate change studies are just a plot to raise his taxes.

Peggy Noonan: ‘You Are Terrifying Us’ - WSJ.com

And so the shock on the faces of Congressmen who’ve faced the grillings back home. And really, their shock is the first thing you see in the videos. They had no idea how people were feeling. Their 2008 win left them thinking an election that had been shaped by anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and pro-change feeling was really a mandate without context; they thought that in the middle of a historic recession featuring horrific deficits, they could assume support for the invention of a huge new entitlement carrying huge new costs.

[Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on]: Premiers sidestep climate change, disappoint green groups

REGINA — The "Showdown in Regina" that environmental groups had hoped for failed to materialize Friday, as Canada's premiers ended three days of meetings by sidestepping contentious aspects of the climate change debate.

[Maybe because windmills aren't very valuable?]: No one ever went to war over a windmill - Telegraph Blogs

If it came to a choice, surely most people would rather have a few turbines littering the Scottish highlands, solar panels on public buildings and nuclear stations along the coasts than scrap with China or Russia for fuel.

ExxonMobil: Green Company of the Year - Forbes.com

Oil from algae? Just a sideshow, Exxon's real thrust into green energy is a big bet on natural gas.

Unseasonable temperatures have hot weather lovers just chilling out -- GazetteXtra

Attendance in July at Rockport Pool, Lions Beach and both of the city's wading pools "was down quite a bit—at least 30 percent—because of the cool, rainy weather," said Bonnie Davis, recreation director.

So far, the summer of 2009 has been one of the chilliest in memory, but that's expected to change this weekend.

Janesville in June and July had only 25 days when the mercury climbed to 80 or higher—the fewest such days since at least 1948, according to Gazette weather records.

Not so Hot August Nights: Temperatures cool through out the region | rgj.com | Reno Gazette-Journal

On Thursday Reno tied the record for lowest high temperature. The 68 degrees also matches maximum temperatures in 1891 and 1999.

Emissions trading is a tax, no matter the name | The Australian

THE first and most important thing to note about Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme is that it is a tax.

It's not called a tax, but if it waddles like one, quacks like one, and most pointedly raises money like one, it's a tax. And not just any old tax -- it's a huge and continually growing tax.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Did EPA Stack its Ethanol Life-Cycle Analysis Peer Review?

So 4 of 5 peer reviewers are employed by advocacy groups with established positions on the topic under review, and these position support that of the Obama Administration's EPA. At a minimum this situation creates a whale of an appearance problem, regardless of the scientific qualifications of the peer reviewers (which I am not at all discussing in this post).

Deadly blades; death toll mounts as wind farms massacre birds of prey

“Eagles don’t avoid wind turbines : they are attracted to them. In California, Dr Smallwood has observed that golden eagles fly twice as often near wind turbines than they would by chance. This explains why so many collide with the blades, which travel at up to 300 km/h at the tip. Two thousand three hundred golden eagles have been killed that way in California, and you know that : an official report confirms it.”

All Seeing Eye: Global Warming Will Change Our Accents

Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2009 « San Oo Aung’s Weblog

As seen in the anti-personnel landmine ban, liberation from poverty through the Grameen Bank, the prevention of global warming and other such movements, global democracy that respects the majority will of the world and solves problems through the power of the people has truly begun to grow.

Here, Here Mayor Diaz. You Did Us Proud. | Transit Miami

Speaker after speaker stressed the importance of sustainability, climate change, walkability, pedestrian-friendly streets, bicycling, historic preservation, open spaces, health, obesity, etc.

Barack Obama: From icon to mortal - Americas, World - The Independent

Abroad, optimism is still the order of the day. The style, and in some ways the substance, of US foreign policy has been transformed. America's image in the world is vastly improved. This administration, unlike its predecessor, is serious about climate change.

Twitter / Derek Ahlswede

The concurrence of global warming & Mayan lore is a little strange. must see "2012"

Mitchell Anderson | Big Coal Impersonating Charities?

The most sinister PR campaign in history just hit a new ethical low when it was revealed that forged letters appearing to be from charities were sent to lawmakers urging them to vote against the Waxman Markey climate bill.

Nazi propaganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933 to 1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power as well as for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.

Our Opposition Party Sucks | Coyote Blog

OK, we will give in to your ridiculous use of government power if you will accept our ridiculous use of government power. Lots more on the complete waste of money and time that is corn-based ethanol here.

American Thinker: Predator

And how better to get campaign funds than subsidizing the production of a politically correct sports car for rich Leftist donors? Mr. Obama has given Tesla Motors $465M -- almost a million dollars for every car they've delivered. Decades from now, taxpayers will have to work two jobs to finance the luxury sports car that some wealthy Hollywood actor got in 2009.

Thomas Edison to Henry Ford: Forget Electric Cars (Revisited) — MasterResource

The wisdom of the ages applies to energy. The smartest-guys-in-the-room approach to energy transformation by DOE secretary Stephen Chu, based on a false premise of the unsustainability of hydrocarbon energy, should note such history. The silver bullets that he is looking for have a long, failed history for good reason.

Franken Studied Economics with Obama

…and apparently failed out as well.

Ten Democrats, including our own embarrassment, Al Franken, are flirting with the idea of turning a near global economic collapse into a full economic collapse. In the name of what? An ever-evolving political land-grab called Global Warming Cooling Climate Change.

Paging Frédéric Bastiat | Coyote Blog

Beyond the nuttiness of building a multi-million dollar visitor center, then closing it only a few years after it was built, and then spending a million dollars on its abandoned carcass, no one was available to explain how energy efficient windows will save money in a building that shouldn’t be using any energy any more.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » SHUT UP, HE EXPLAINED

Thug-in-chief? What would the reaction be if a Republican President said this?

Hooray the grand gesture | The Australian

The Rudd government's problem is that it has promised so much of its revenue in over-generous compensation for business and households -- in the case of the former, covering up to 94.5 per cent of their increased costs -- that there is nothing left for low emissions technology in Australia, let alone overseas. Promising to cut Australian emissions by 25 per cent is a grand gesture, but nothing more if not backed by funding commitments that can deliver real agreement at Copenhagen.

Should “Charismatic Megafauna” be the “Face” of Climate Change : Sustainablog

The “faces” we should be thinking about are those of starving people in poor nations.

Heliogenic Climate Change: More CO2 please -- 20% crop yield growth

We are constantly bombarded by alarmist stories about how "global warming" (even though the planet is cooling) will cause crop failures and famine. Now the truth -- CO2 is plant food, the biosphere craves it, the more the better

wildsingapore news: Climate fixes 'pose drought risk'

Methods put forward include reflecting solar radiation back into space using giant mirrors or aerosol particles.

But the authors warn that such attempts to control the climate could also cause major changes in precipitation.

Duh! U.S. forecasters finally get around to predicting mild Atlantic hurricane season

As we’ve been reporting every Monday morning, this is the quietest Atlantic hurricane season in years. So far we haven’t had a single tropical depression, storm nor hurricane.

So three months after issuing its last hurricane prediction, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finally accepted reality and updated its 2009 forecast. Its new prediction is for a below-normal to near-normal season with seven to 11 named tropical storms. That’s down from a range of nine to 14 in the May forecast.

Lawmakers flew half way around the world to study global warming - price tag over half a million bucks! | The Lonely Conservative

They could have saved a ton of dough by visiting Climate Depot. Ever hear of sun spots ?

Hundreds of organic farmers meeting in Mass. for annual conference to talk tips, trends

"More and more people are understanding the energy issues, the nutrition issues, the farmland preservation issues, and more people are realizing that organic agriculture is one of the best things we have to fight climate change, to fight diseases, to fight obesity," said Bill Duesing, executive director of the Connecticut chapter of the organic farming association. He grows garlic, potatoes, salad greens, tomatoes and squash on his one-acre plot in Oxford, Conn.

Questions to ask at town hall meetings by Paul Driessen | Climate Realists

Rising voter concern about nationalized healthcare has made recent town hall meetings challenging affairs for many members of Congress.

This article could help spark serious discussion on an equally vital topic that will come up at many town hall meetings this month: energy and global warming

The folly of considering CO2 alone when considering global warming

The IPCC is charged by the UN to focus on manmade contributions to global warming. This would obviously include our emissions of greenhouse gases, but would also (it seems to me) include impacts from deforestation, changes in land use, depletion of ground water--even the effects of jet contrails. Sadly, it seems that the IPCC went after greenhouse gases and has more or less ignored the rest of what man does.

Salmon and Sea-Level « Climate Sanity

There may be a lot of man made obstacles to Salmon survival, such as dams, over-fishing, etc., but sea-level rise is not one of them.

Twitter / Cameron Dueck [From a Northwest Passage attempt sponsored by WWF and the Discovery Channel]

Light snow as we leave Sachs Harbour with a fridge full of muskox, goose and caribou. Thank you John Jr, John Sr, Joey!

[Weekly address watch: For the fourth week in a row, planet savior Obama fails to even mention the alleged global warming crisis]

There are those who are focused on the so-called politics of health care; who are trying to exploit differences or concerns for political gain. That’s to be expected. That’s Washington. But let’s never forget that this isn’t about politics. This is about people’s lives. This is about people’s businesses. This is about America’s future. That’s what is at stake. That’s why health insurance reform is so important. And that’s why we must get this done – and why we will get this done – by the end of this year.

How You Know You Are Winning An Argument | Coyote Blog

Remember that charges of faulty motivations, being funded by evil scheming organizations, or even of racism are effectively admissions of weakness. People who make such arguments are basically admitting that they cannot argue the issue on its merits, and so must resort to tarring the other side so that they can say the people raising the issue don’t deserve a response.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Where do sharp-dressed people congregate?

In this montage sent to the perfect piece of music, Frank shows clips from an Obama rally in support of his health-care reform just two days later, and discovers the sartorial splendor of the Left’s own supposed grassroots. And don’t forget to check the parking lot

Sassy the Sustainable Sasquatch Paddles to Help Out 350.org | Wend Blog

Nothing’s more entertaining than watching a sasquatch and a salmon kayak.

More Cash for Clunkers, Less Cash for Solar - Environmental Capital - WSJ

When it comes to juicing America’s clean-energy future, is it a good idea to rob Peter to pay Paul?

That is, the $2 billion extension for the cash-for-clunkers car scrappage program comes straight out of the renewable-energy piggy bank.

Lawmakers' Global-Warming [Scam] Trip Hit Tourist Hot Spots - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON -- When 10 members of Congress wanted to study climate change, they did more than just dip their toes into the subject: They went diving and snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. They also rode a cable car through the Australian rain forest, visited a penguin rookery and flew to the South Pole.

The 11-day trip -- with six spouses traveling along as well -- took place over New Year's 2008.

Other legislators agree it wasn't all fun and games. "There are a lot more glamorous things to do than hang out on the South Pole," said Rep. Frank Lucas, an Oklahoma Republican who traveled as well. "I never want to wear that many clothes again."
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For Mr. Baird, the trip was one of two such excursions in six months. Last summer, he went to the Galapagos Islands with several lawmakers, also to gain expertise in climate change.
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On the last night of their 11-day trip, the lawmakers stayed at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki. The spokesman for Mr. Baird said he would have been "every bit as happy camping as staying in a hotel."

Flying Blind: Dems Private Plane Hubris | NBC Washington

...the jet fiasco is a perfect example of how Democrats have become their own worst enemies. There's no more perfect a symbol of an out-of-touch politician than one using the public purse to gain even greater social distance from the people that they purport to represent. Appropos of Leona Helmsley who famously said that, "Only the little people pay taxes," House Democrats now must believe that commercial air travel is also only for "the little people."

Another mission for Obama: Corral the members of his own party before they help drive him over a cliff -- or fly him directly into the sun.

Crew Log 57 - [Northwest Passage]

Considering that Franklin and the 128 chaps with him were never seen or heard from again, and that we're currently, you know, more or less encircled by ice in the Arctic, some might question the choice of Resolute for comforting bedtime reading...even though we try hard not to judge at Casa Herb.)
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It's cold, a brisk 33-degrees, and after the deck is tidied up the crew happily retreats to the confines of our enclosed cockpit.

At last, man-made climate change is a threat - engineered by the global-warming fanatics themselves - Telegraph Blogs

As always, scientific lunacy marches hand-in-hand with entrepreneurial opportunism: people are already making vast fortunes out of the climate change hysteria and the environmental wideboys and complicit scientists have realised this is a dripping roast of billions, even trillions, of dollars and pounds to be extracted from gullible taxpayers. Global warming will not kill us, but the fanatics and know-all scientists could well do so.

Let's hold a few town hall meetings to see if American voters like this idea

UN climate change deal needs more sacrifices by West, John Prescott warns | Environment | The Guardian

Vital UN climate change talks in Copenhagen are likely to collapse unless rich nations agree a "social justice deal" built around equalising emissions per head in each country, according to the former deputy prime minister John Prescott.
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Prescott will also stage an international conference from 28 September on the principles of a deal for Copenhagen, to be opened by Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and addressed by Al Gore. The conference, organised by the Council of Europe, will have 65 states present.

Prescott is also going to lead a Gore-style campaign in schools in October showing the film The Age of Stupid, starring Pete Postlethwaite, portraying a devastated planet in 2050 owing to world leaders' failure to act on climate change.

Schools Expand Green Courses and Majors | Newsweek Kaplan College Guide | Newsweek.com

Pfirman, for example, has taught a climate-change class at Barnard for 15 years. She says more students than ever are coming to her department and they arrive more informed, having heard about global warming throughout their childhood. "It's a basic science class but more and more, students are asking for the policy applications," she says. "They see the problems and they want to figure out the answers."

Internews - Press Release - Nobel Prize Winner on Climate Change to Co-Host Internews Earth Journalism Awards in Copenhagen

Dr. Pachauri is recognized as one of the world’s greatest authorities on climate change.

Divvying up the booty | GlobalWarming.org

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on how to divvy up the booty (that is, allocate the ration coupons) under a cap-and-trade system. John Stephenson, testifying on behalf of the U. S. Government Accountability Office, noted the obvious: cap-and-trade works by increasing energy prices and that poor people feel the most pain because they spend a higher proportion of their incomes on energy than wealthier people.

Warning Signs: Seasoned Protesters

Crazy schemes to sell carbon credits in order to limit carbon dioxide seem like the most absurd notions to the elderly, many of whom moved to warmer climates in Florida and Arizona to get away from the cold winters of the northern states. Global warming? They’re for it!

With Friends Like This… Midwestern Democrats Fight Climate Policy | The New York Observer

This is a key issue, and if not addressed it has the potential to split the Democratic Party in two and to eliminate the possibility of climate regulation both here and throughout the world.

Wind Promises Blackouts as Obama Strains Grid With Renewables 

Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s push for wind and solar energy to wean the U.S. from foreign oil carries a hidden cost: overburdening the nation’s electrical grid and increasing the threat of blackouts.

The Real BS09 « the Air Vent

Today I received another form letter from Deborah Halvorson, my non-representative in Congress. I promised her that I would call attention to her shenanigans if she voted for the criminally corrupt cap and trade scam which has been in the works between Obama and his Soros funded friends since well before he was even an IL senator.

North Carolina Moves to Limit Wind Projects - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The North Carolina State Senate has voted overwhelmingly to ban large wind turbines from the state’s scenic western ridgelines.

The 42-1 vote on Thursday represents the strongest stand against wind turbines taken by lawmakers in any state.

Meet the Mob «

You’ve heard a lot about this crazy, scary, vicious mob on some shadowy GOP payroll. By the way the DNC, Rachel Maddow, and President Obama talk, you’d think it was a motley crue of Hell’s Angels.

Let me introduce you to the mob

[This almost looks orchestrated to me, what with the coordinated clothes and the identical professionally-looking signs]: Protesters turn up heat on climate change issue

About 20 protesters sprawled across the sidewalk outside of Government House as premiers arrived for the Council of the Federation meeting.

Dressed in black with their hands painted blood red, the group lay down beside a banner declaring that the country is "dying for climate leadership."

Cap-and-trade bill should not be passed

The convoluted scheme is backed by environmental zealots, big-government statists and favor-seeking businesses. The environmental lobby is motivated by antagonism toward conventional economic development as much as by misplaced yearnings for a green utopia.

NY Times Wants a Gas Tax - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I wonder, however: Can the New York Times can stay in business under this plan? Higher fuel prices would drastically increase the cost of producing and distributing the Times and hit almost every aspect of the Times' business. Lower-margin smaller cars would mean less advertising money from the auto industry, as well.

Time for a new paradigm on climate change?

So, climate science, heavily influenced by global warming politics, continues to adhere to a central paradigm as described by Kuhn. Contrary evidence is clearly not going to be accepted as falsification. It will be fascinating to see what trends there actually are in climate over coming years and, if the predictions of renewed (and faster) global warming come to nothing, then what else will be necessary to cause the crisis which will lead to a paradigm shift. In the meantime, we have to hope that politicians do not take us too far down the road of trying to control the climate based on the current paradigm.

Chumps for Clunkers - Jerry Taylor and Peter VanDoren - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Sure, you think, it’s obvious why people like Ted love it when you give them money.And it’s obvious why autoworkers love it when you pay people to buy the cars that they make. But you’re not sure why anyone else should love this idea.

Mr. President, Americans are not an 'angry mob' | Washington Examiner

During his campaign last year, the president famously told his supporters to "get in the faces" of those who disagreed with his vision for America. One of his Chicago mentors recalled in a 2007 New Republic profile that Obama, as a community organizer, was "the best student he ever had, a natural, the undisputed master of agitation" to gain political power. Sadly, now that he has it, he is turning it against those who oppose him.

The Reality Check » Blog Archive » Your carbons and your life: A look at the death dealers for a better tomorrow

The man-made global warming policies of the Barack Obama administration, such as Cap and Trade, are starting to receive sharper scrutiny as more focus is being placed on the tremendous cost of implementing Obama’s quest for a carbon reduced, “better tomorrow.”

Oh the Times, It’s Still A-Changin’ - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

It’s all good, though. The issue of whether President Obama asks the Senate to ratify Kyoto II may never rear its head. We know from the Guardian and domestic trade press that the Obama administration is telling the Europeans that he likes the advice some transationalist-types are giving him, and that they should prepare to extend the Kyoto II timetable in the event the president needs to ready his domestic case for declaring Kyoto II “not a treaty” — to get around that pesky constitutional requirement he’s skirted on so many other occasions (hint: “more Czars than a Romanov portrait gallery”).

Climate Change: Harry Reid Will Determine Carbon-Permit Allocations - Environmental Capital - WSJ

One of the most important issues in drafting climate-change legislation is figuring out who gets free carbon-emissions permits worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

The House already did that, by committee. In the Senate, majority leader Harry Reid will be calling all the shots.

June '08: YouTube - Harry Reid Says "Coal Makes Us Sick"

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) proclaims that the hidden cost of coal and oil is that they make us sick.

Congress Gets an Upgrade - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON -- Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have criticized the use of corporate jets by companies receiving taxpayer funds.

The purchases will help accommodate growing travel demand by congressional officials. The planes augment a fleet of about two dozen passenger jets maintained by the Air Force for lawmakers, administration officials and military chiefs to fly on government trips in the U.S. and abroad.

Reality check: Trucks win in Cash for Clunkers game - Aug. 7, 2009

Because of distorted sales figures, Ford's Escape cross-over SUV, not the Focus small car, tops the list for most popular 'clunker' buy.

Frost on the sweet corn? Not quite, but July was chilly in Minnesota - TwinCities.com

July saw the Midwest's lowest average temperatures on record, according to the Midwestern Regional Climate Center, which covers nine states. From Ohio to Missouri, temperatures averaged 68 degrees, or 4.7 degrees below normal.

For Minnesota, the mean statewide temperature for July was the third-lowest on record, coming in at 64.1 degrees — about 4.8 degrees below the average temperature dating back to the 1890s. The record was 62.2 degrees, set in 1992.

[Intrade: Another record low (11)] - A cap and trade system for emissions trading to be established before midnight ET on 31 Dec 2009

Minnesota: Can crops catch up to beat the first killing frost?

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota's crops are running eight to 11 days behind schedule and Mark Seeley doesn't know when they'll make up that time.

The latest forecast from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center calls for continued cooler than normal temperatures through October with equal chances for above, below or normal precipitation.

Seeley, University of Minnesota professor in the Department of Soil, Water and Climate and Extension climatologist, said this is only the third or fourth time in his 32 years at the university that farmers are worried about the corn crop maturing before the first freeze.

John Kerry to coal: Surrender or face destruction « Green Hell Blog

Translation: If the coal industry stops fighting the green mob, it will get taxpayer welfare for the rest of its days. If it doesn’t, the green enforcer (EPA) will rub it out.

Polar Bear Bath Plug

The Polar Bear Bath Plug floats on top of your bath water, meanwhile the plug on the other end should keep the water in your bath. This Polar Bear might be a perfect reminder that the ice caps are melting and we should take some action to save energy and stop global warming. $28.

Libs ready to lock horns on emissions | The Australian

Senator Joyce said he would vote against the government's scheme next week and again in November, "even if it means losing my Senate leadership".

“Debunking Climate Change Myths”

August 13, 2009
Ramada Oasis Hotel and Convention Center
Springfield, Missouri

List of scheduled speakers at the event above

Climatologist Dissents: 'I am ashamed of what climate science has become today' [PDF]

Are climate skeptics psychologically maladjusted? : Stop The ACLU

Psychologists are overwhelmingly Leftist. I know. I have a doctorate in psychology and used to teach it and have had many articles published in the academic journals of psychology. And psychologists have been trying to prove that conservatives are mentally inadequate in some way since at least 1950 — with a singular lack of success if you insist on normal scientific standards of proof. See here, for instance. So it was only a matter of time before they attempted to tar climate skeptics with the same brush. The article below seems to be an attempt in that direction

Screaming Deniers are Getting What They Deserve: Victory

I hope we can organize to defeat the Deniers.

ORGANIZING THE 'WRONG' COMMUNITY - New York Post

Get this: The party of "community organizers" is now whining that President Obama's critics are organizing communities -- against his health-care scheme.

The nerve of 'em, huh?

[And don't even get them started on those potential CO2-spewing grandchildren]: Having Children Brings High Carbon Impact - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“Clearly, the potential savings from reduced reproduction are huge compared to the savings that can be achieved by changes in lifestyle,” the report states.

[From people who think they're taking the high road, while promoting the greatest scientific fraud in history] « It’s Getting Hot In Here

There’s a lot of negative energy out there, with tea-baggers disrupting town halls, lobbyists forging fake letters, and a the growing frenzy that seems to be engulfing politics in this country. If this is how the fight for clean energy and health care reform is going to be won, and we feel like we have the people and resources to make our case strongly, than we need to step up to this challenge today.

But lets keep something in mind: we will never win by being more ass-holish than the ass-holes. We’ll never be more sleazy, and we’ll never be as good at saying ‘No’. Even those of us that oppose the violent and dangerous coal industry are committed to offering peaceful and prosperous solutions. We, as a movement for clean energy, are positive, constructive force for change.

First Thoughts — A First Things Blog

Who would have guessed that psychology could help cool the planet? Seriously, is there anything our scientific overlords can’t do? And why didn’t we think to ask the psychologists for policy advice on climatology sooner?

All American Blogger » Two Rules From the Dem Playbook: Get In Their Faces and Punch Them Twice As Hard

[Obama] “I want you to argue with them and get in their face…”

Is Cash for Clunkers a "Threat" to the Environment and the Economy? | cleanskies.com

Clean Skies News monitors the Cash for Clunkers vote as the Senate may or may not invest an additional $2 billion dollars into the program. But Marc Morano of Climate Depot tells Clean Skies News this program has already caused job loss and will "steal from economic growth".

Climate Bill Success = Treaty Failure? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Is there a way to for Mr. Obama to move forward on both the domestic and international climate and energy fronts without one effort scuttling the other?

Weather, other factors add up to bad growing year - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA

The slow start to summer and lack of heat has already shortened the growing period for crops like corn and tomatoes, Vanderwindt said yesterday.

Heart attacks more likely for people in cold weather

"A peak in (heart attack) onset in this population was observed at the passage of a cold front, but not a warm one," the study found.

Michelle Malkin » Roll call vote: Senate rejects Cash-for-Clunkers aid to charities and poor

Thought you be interested in this roll call vote on Sen. Tom Coburn’s proposal to allow traded-in Cash-for-Clunkers cars to be used to assist charities and poor families.

Twitter / bicyclism

It seems that (anthropogenic) climate change denial is now one of the world's few growth industries...

Investor's Business Daily -- Getting In Their Faces For A Change

Public Discourse: The candidate who told his supporters "to argue with them and get in their face" now finds the shoe on the other foot. So they're taking names and encouraging you to turn in your neighbors.

Investor's Business Daily -- Can Cap-And-Trade Save Planet For Just 'Postage Stamp A Day'?

Still, at the end of the day, would either cap-and-trade or the Plan B of Clean Air Act regulations really save the planet for pennies a day? Or are such claims too good to be true for both strategies?

Real Climate Enemies of Global Warming

It's almost too much to hear that the scientist who did this comes from the same 'tribe' of climate scientists that run Real Climate, a weblog devoted to climate issues. Started by a PR flack of Al Gore's, it is now a branch of the mysterious Fenton Communications, listed as a non-profit that doesn't disclose its sources of funding or its directors. Real Climate started out by providing a valuable primer or tutorial on the basic science of climate change, but has since spent much of its time defending the sloppy science of its contributors. It is this group, you may recall, that produced the infamous Hockey Stick, and several other flawed studies. In addition to defending themselves, they also find time to badmouth everyone who doesn't agree with them--which apparently keeps them too busy to thank a fellow scientist who was actually trying to help them.

American Thinker: Doing the Obama Hustle

Cap and trade, which sounds more like sports lingo, now only enjoys a half-life. If it's stymied in the Senate, it's one stillbirth that won't be lamented.

Democrats want to cap industrial emissions, drive up the cost of energy, and with higher costs, cap energy consumption. The "trade" part falls squarely on the shoulders of most every American not considered elite.

Americans are expected to trade prosperity and their standards of living for the satisfaction of helping 1) restore the Garden of Eden; or 2) return to the Dark Ages, or some approximation thereof. Democrats aren't very choosy, but they are quite nostalgic.

American Thinker: Two Hundred Days of Hope and Change

The president convenes federal legislators, as if they were his employees and not our protectors from executive abuses and tell them to come up with plans to submit to him. His floor leaders present unreadable and unread bills and twist arms to get congressmen and senators to vote for the bills -- how this is intended to mimic a legislative process is not clear: Why not just ask for a vote on Obama's Four Year Plan, details to come later?

Appeasing the Corn God - John Stossel's Take

So if we do get ObamaCare, don't worry. The Corn God will still be appeased.

Obama Campaigns With Candidate for Virginia Governor - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

The event marked the first public meeting of the men since Mr. Deeds came from behind to clinch the nomination in June. Mr. Deeds’s choice not to appear with the president during two visits to the state by Mr. Obama in July fueled speculation that he wanted to distance himself from the president’s controversial health care and climate change proposals.

EPA DENIES SENATE REQUEST FOR COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF WAXMAN-MARKEY

Sen. Inhofe: “In effect, EPA has refused to provide members of Congress, as they prepare for meetings and events with their constituents over the August recess, with critical information on the Waxman-Markey energy tax and how it will affect jobs in the Midwest, South, and Great Plains, as well as food, gasoline, and electricity prices for all American consumers.

American Thinker: The Real Climate Agenda

For the first time since America's incarnation, it will then be the official, codified policy of the federal government that the present generation must have its liberty and prosperity diminished without limits; and for the next generation, the American Dream will become criminalized. All in the name of a non-existent climate crisis.

War is upon us whether we will it or not. It is time to become angry. It is time to engage. As President Reagan said of winning the Cold War: "If not now, when? If not us, who?"

Homely Costs of Energy Conservation - WSJ.com

Banana Farm 2.0, as Mr. Lovins calls his updated digs, was renovated largely with equipment donated by individuals and companies eager to be associated with the project. Mr. Lovins says he doesn't know what the two-year renovation would have cost had he had to pay the full tab. But just a few of the major items would put the retail cost of the project well beyond $150,000.

Roger Pielke Jr. Challenges Joe Romm: Looking for Intellectual Improvement — MasterResource

This is an instance where bad behavior by Romm is backfiring on him and his sponsor, the Center for American Progress (CAP).

iowahawk: Know Your Town Hall Mob Agitators!

Behold the face of infiltrators and saboteurs, citizen! Look at the surly anti-American anger and carefully practiced dishevelment. Note that their signs are scrawled, fiendishly tricking cameramen into closeups. All are expertly handmade, an expensive graphic design luxury only affordable to their puppet masters in the drug and insurance cartels. Note these mobs are so well paid for their agitation that they actually arrived in their own cars and expensive non-matching t-shirts. Fishy? You bet! Report them at once!

Kausfiles : Keep Off the Astroturf!

If an "astroturfing" campaign gets real people to show up at events stating their real views, isn't it ... community organizing?

Real World Libertarian: Concern on Carbon Costs of Camel Cull.

[Viv Forbes] “At a carbon emission price of say $40 per tonne of carbon dioxide, the carbon tax on one million rotting camels would be about $28 million.

“If we add to that the actual cull costs of about $19 million and the carbon tax due on helicopter emissions and other activities, the total cost of the cull is about $50 million.

Tcktcktck? Tsk tsk tsk

Sigh. Welcome to NGO campaigning in 2009 - where it doesn’t matter whether you have anything to say, as long as you’re getting the donations, attention, members and airtime.

Climate Change Chocolate: Change Observer: Design Observer

...you can buy Climate Change Chocolate, a 3.5-ounce confection that, for $4.95, offsets 133 pounds of carbon dioxide — the average American’s daily carbon impact on the planet. “It’s a great way to treat yourself while washing away your sins,” says John Edson, president of Lunar Design, which created the chocolate bar for San Francisco–based TerraPass, a company that develops carbon-reduction products.

Pajamas Media » Humans and Their CO2 Save the Planet! » Print

Those who want to reduce the use of fossil fuels are the mortal enemies of the biosphere. They must be stopped at all costs! Write your senator at once!

'Cloud ship' scheme to deflect the sun's rays is favourite to cut global warming - Telegraph

Ships with giant funnels which travel the world's seas creating more clouds to deflect the sun's rays could help cut global warming, say scientists.

Crist may cancel summit on climate change - Political Currents - MiamiHerald.com

TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Charlie Crist is cooling to global warming.

Under mounting criticism from fellow Republicans, Crist looks ready to cancel his climate-change summit and is backing away from advocating a ``cap-and-trade'' energy policy.
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But Crist's plans were shredded by the Republican Legislature and his cap-and-trade proposal has been bashed as a ``tax'' by his Republican U.S. Senate opponent, Marco Rubio, who has been ardently courting the GOP's conservative wing.

``Well, it may be [a tax]. That may be accurate,'' Crist, who recently signed an anti-tax pledge, said Thursday.

Global Warming In Minnesota - For Real?

July was the third coldest on record for Minnesota.

Climate change advocates are having a hard time keeping people on board with their cause with the lack of 90 degree days this year.

Climate Change and Conservatives | Bill McKibben | Orion Magazine

I think the syllogism in many minds went like this: markets solve all problems; markets aren’t solving global warming; Q.E.D., global warming isn’t a problem.

The Age of Stupid

Please help by either investing (in which case you might get some money back in the future) or donating (in which case you definitely won't). Either way you'll be making a positive contribution to fighting climate change in the last few months we have left to prevent catastrophe.

[Lack of global warming and North Dakota flooding]: Report

The report also pinpoints the reasons the Red River Valley flooded: High soil moisture at freeze-up in late 2008, and a heavy snowpack in the United States was made worse by cold weather and thick, stubborn ice on the river and in culverts and ditches.

Flashback: Obama: North Dakota Flooding Is Because Of Global Warming

He said, “I actually think the science around climate change is real. It is potentially devastating. ... If you look at the flooding that’s going on right now in North Dakota, and you say to yourself, ‘If you see an increase of 2 degrees, what does that do, in terms of the situation there,’ that indicates the degree to which we have to take this seriously.”

Fervor evident at N.Y. health town hall - Victoria McGrane - POLITICO.com

Health care, at least here in this Republican-leaning upstate New York district, is proving far more contentious than the late June climate change vote. Massa voted against the cap-and-trade bill, telling POLITICO that calls to his office split 80-20 against it.

Idaho: Valley to break record low high Friday

Friday's high is expected to top out at only 67 degrees. That will obliterate the record low high for the date kept in Boise of 74 degrees set in 1976.

"It's very rare to get anything that cold for a high temperature in early August," Colin said. Earlier this week the area's low temperatures were warmer than Friday's expected high.

The American Spectator : Clinton's Hard Labor

Al Gore was not sufficiently glamorous for the role, Kim Jong-Il felt, according to the Washington Post: "The administration had wanted to send former vice president Al Gore to North Korea instead of Clinton; Gore is a co-founder of Current TV, which employs the journalists who were detained. But North Korea officials hinted that they wanted an envoy of Clinton's stature, sources said."

Long Debate Ended Over Cause, Demise Of Ice Ages? Research Into Earth's Wobble

ScienceDaily (Aug. 7, 2009) — Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years – they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth's rotation and axis.
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The melting was first caused by more solar radiation, not changes in carbon dioxide levels or ocean temperatures, as some scientists have suggested in recent years.

Paterson says New York will reduce ghg emissions 80%

Governor David Paterson signed an executive order today that establishes a goal to reduce 80 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in the state by 2050. The executive order also creates a climate change council.

Congressman Markey Defends Climate Change Bill

“Yes, you can find deficiencies in the bill,” Markey conceded. “But this won’t be the last time we visit this. And we’ll be able to return to this in five or six years, and then in 10 years, and then in 15 years, to accelerate this revolution so that we’re the global leader.”

The so-called Waxman-Markey bill passed the U.S. House in June and is now pending in the Senate. Markey said he expects the legislation to become law by the end of the year.

Twitter / Tom Asiseeitnow

If Senate action on Cap and Trade is pushed to 2010 then there is time to fully expose the junk science behind the Waxman-Markey bill.

Foundation Center - Focus on [the climate swindle]

Large U.S. foundations invested $436 million to address climate change in 2007

[And it's only $14.99!: Buy this bag and reduce the chance of natural disasters!] | Project GreenBag™ Eco Friendly Organic Cotton Shopping Bag

A Project GreenBag comes to the rescue, letting you grab some last -minute wine and cheese, knowing you'll leave nothing behind but the bottle (which you could always make into a candle holder for the next impromptu picnic!).

Swerve Left: Robert Entman on global warming coverage

As is true of traditional national security issues, pure democracy here is neither desirable nor possible.

Farmers' Summer Frustrations Continue | News Talk 650 CKOM

It's been one problem after another for Saskatchewan farmers this summer.

The mercury dipping dangerously close to freezing is creating more headaches. A handful of communities, including Saskatoon, set new records for overnight lows earlier this week.

Grant McLean with Saskatchewan Agriculture says there haven't been any reports of frost, but it remains a big concern.

Climate Baptists and Carbon Bootleggers « The Enterprise Blog

...this is a sterling example of what economist Bruce Yandle calls the “Baptist and bootlegger” phenomenon. As Yandle explains, both Baptists and bootleggers favor closing liquor stores on Sunday. The Baptists reduce the risk of their parishioners (or clergy) showing up for services drunk, while the bootleggers get to charge higher prices when they sell hooch in a black market. Meanwhile, honest business store owners get the shaft.

In Waxman-Markey, NRDC is the climate Baptist, true believers who want greenhouse gases controlled no matter what they have to do, or whom they have to work with. Edison Electric is cast in the role of the bootlegger, who’ll be happy to use regulation to cripple their competitor and increase their bottom line.

Let Freedom Ring » Blog Archive » Peterson Changes Tune, Walz Spins Cap & Tax

If you take Rep. Peterson’s statement literally, which you shouldn’t do, it’ll give you intellectual whiplash. If Speaker Pelosi gave Rep. Peterson “everything I wanted in agriculture”, why does the bill “still needs some more work”?

This is Peterson doublespeak. He initially said that he wouldn’t support the bill because of the damaging effects it would have on farmers. Then it becamse a close vote and Speaker Pelosi required his vote. At that point, they threw a few trivial provisions to him to get him to roll over and play dead. This Peterson did like a good puppies should do.

Climate Research News » Enjoy Outgoing Greenpeace Head’s Interview Struggle

It’s not often that a well informed interviewer asks challenging questions about climate alarmism and energy policy reality, especially on the BBC. All too often the likes of Greenpeace are allowed to make absurd statements on science and policy unchallenged. Enjoy some ‘global squirming’ from the outgoing Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Dr Gerd Leipold, whilst being interviewed on BBC News HARDtalk by a clued up Stephen Sackur. Possibly my favourite part was where Leipold was forced to admit that Greenland’s ice wouldn’t melt by 2030, depite a Greenpeace PR claiming that it could. His “I don’t read all the PRs” line had me rolling with laughter. Of course, CRN knows that it would take millennia to melt Greenland, even if warming continues. As expected, Leipold attacked lifestyle, economic growth and energy use, which is what climate alarmism is really a shield for.

They Don’t Think Much of You, Part II - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Rep. Collin Peterson Tells Minnesota Farmers That “He Wouldn’t Want the [Cap-and-Raid] Bill That Passed the House to Become Law” — You Know, The One He Teamed Up With Waxman to Pass.

Arctic Ocean may be polluted soup by 2070 - environment - 06 August 2009 - New Scientist

WITHIN 60 years the Arctic Ocean could be a stagnant, polluted soup. Without drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic's most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming.

Al Fin: Peak Oil: Meet North Dakota Oil

Peak oil catastrophe and climate catastrophe are two useful facades to facilitate the agenda. North Dakota is an awkward counterpoint to the talking points. There will be more -- many more. This is a time for those persons who have escaped the academic and media camps with their intellectual curiosity intact, to start paying attention. Things are soon to become interesting.

Walking the Green talk — Hot Topic

To label this alarmism is wrong. I’ve not felt Greenpeace is pushing the boundaries in its warnings. It doesn’t need to. Leipold made it clear in the interview that the science has continued to move in the directions that Greenpeace has drawn attention to. Catastrophe is not an inappropriate word to use when pointing to the result of carrying on with business as usual. There is nothing to retract.

Open Passage Expedition

The first ice I’ve seen on the trip announced itself with an angry growl when an unseen chunk grinded against the ship’s bow.
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Of course, those were much colder times and we’re expecting to stay at Banks Island for days, not years. Although, if all this passing ice is any indication, we may be in for an unwelcome surprise.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Common Decency Goes a Long Way

Here is another tone-deaf incident involving the activist wing of the climate science community that has the effect of making the entire enterprise look corrupt. The short story is that a professor from Ohio State found an error in a paper on Antarctic temperature trends in Nature. He published his analysis of the error on the blog Climate Audit and sent a gracious note to the authors letting them know of his discovery.

What did the authors do? They turned around and submitted the correction to Nature as their own work, and then had it published under their own names without so much as an acknowledgment to the Ohio State professor who actually did the work and made the discovery of the error. In academia this sort of behavior is called plagiarism, pure and simple.

Twitter / Cameron Dueck [Northwest Passage expedition]

blowing from the north, forecast calls for snow...oh where oh where shall we overwinter?

BUST Magazine

The Bitches on Bikes are saving the world, one issue at a time. They’ve joined the Wind Power Pedalers Climate Ride Team to help raise awareness on climate change and renewable energy.

Liberal Congressional Leaders Buy Luxury Jets, Trash the Environment | GlobalWarming.org

Congress plans to spend $200 million on luxury jets for liberal House leaders, even though it earlier denounced the automakers for having corporate jets, and even though the luxury jets the House plans to buy emit vast amounts of pollution and greenhouse gases. Now they’ll be able to go on foreign junkets and hob-nob with wealthy lobbyists in style.

Victor Davis Hanson » Prairie-Fire Anger

The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives—cap-and-trade, health care overhaul, government take over of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus—are already less than half of polled voters. Obama’s own popularity has fallen dramatically and hovers near fifty percent. A number of well-publicized town meetings have erupted in shouting, as administration and congressional representatives try, often in condescending fashion, to explain the Obama agenda. The Republicans—written off just a few weeks ago as an obsolete party headed for oblivion—are now often polling higher in generic surveys than are Democrats.
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In other words,  a great number of people are scared of these new versions of Al Gores and John Edwardses who live one way, and quite shamelessly preach another. I don’t think anyone in this green administration is going to be chauffeured to work in a Civic. Few will put their kids in the DC school system as they oppose vouchers. None would be happy in an environmentally-correct 1200 square foot home, with an ideal carbon-footprint, as they preach cap-and-trade taxes on energy for apartment dwellers.

Cap and Trade: Ten Democratic Senators Call for Carbon Tariffs - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Today, ten Democratic senators sent President Obama a letter demanding a “level playing field” for U.S. manufacturing in any climate plan. In plain English: If you want your climate bill, you better include “carbon tariffs” to make sure U.S. jobs don’t scurry off to unregulated China.

The list of senators includes some heavyweights, but all are swing votes for the bill—Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin of Michigan; Robert Byrd of West Virginia; Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania; Evan Bayh of Indiana; and Al Franken of Minnesota. Without the support of these lawmakers, you can stick a fork in the climate bill—it’s done.

Economy Mimics Global Climate Change

And this is exactly what you would expect from the strange disappearance of spots on the sun that has made me crazy with fear in the last year or so as it developed, which is admittedly not the only thing that has made me crazy in the last year or years or decades, but the sun is the source of the earth’s energy, and when something happens to the sun, it is Important Freaking Stuff (IFS) in that all-important weather way that, Chaos Theory-wise, affects everything.

SpaceWeather.com -- Quiet sun

Indeed, the sun is being remarkably quiet. After a promising eruption of sunspots in early July raised hopes that Solar Cycle 24 was gaining strength, the sun reversed course and retreated to peaceful slumber. Only four weeks after behemoth sunspot 1024 amazed onlookers, solar minimum has never seemed deeper. The sun's 77% rate of spotlessness in 2009 confirms the ongoing minimum as a century class event.

Guess What 'Cash for Clunkers' Is Costing You - FOXNews.com

Add up all the various government costs of administrating the program and it will likely come to several hundred million dollars, which makes the true taxpayer cost of each clunker approximately $6,000.

In addition to the high costs comes tremendous execution risk in the Clunker program and the likelihood of fraud. Perhaps, one of the most disturbing parts of the Clunker program is that the recipient of the $4,500 doesn't need to provide a Social Security number. So, it is possible for illegal immigrants, as well as resourceful folks from Canada and Mexico, to cross our borders, trade in their clunkers, and get American taxpayer dollars. But don't expect anyone in Congress to admit that taxpayers are paying around $6,000 to provide a $4,500 rebate for a foreigner or illegal immigrant to buy a new car.

Climate Bill Dead: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind

The death of this bill gives us a chance to get it right: transition to renewable energy.

Obama wants tort lawsuits over CO2 « Green Hell Blog

President Obama apparently intends for the proposed EPA endangerment finding on CO2 to spur tort claims against emitters.

'Serious' climate talks hinge on U.S. bill: lawmaker | Reuters

One of the challenges facing the climate bill is the crowded legislative agenda. U.S. President Barack Obama has also made health care reform a top priority -- leaving Congress to take on a thorny and emotional issue that Americans have been debating for decades.

"These are the top two priorities of the President and the Congress and so they're going to be moving along simultaneously this fall within the legislative process," Markey told reporters after his speech. "Each of them will require, to some extent, success on the other. It's important for us to move forward on these together because the opponents of them are using both bills as reasons why President Obama is taking us in the wrong direction and we have to make the counter-argument that it's why he's taking us in the right direction."

GeorgeAllen.com » Blog Archive » ‘Consensus’ Takes Another Hit…

Respected scientists in Germany will disseminate their views with the modern day Gutenberg press, the internet. Maybe they will start a present day Reformation.

-George Allen

The Ugly Numbers for Global Warming Legislation

Once again, class: Everyone wants to ensure our kids grow up in a clean environment. Some just want to bankrupt us while doing it, and some of us would prefer a more logical route.

Herbert may keep four-day workweek - Salt Lake Tribune

This summer, state workers also got serious about reducing personal energy use on the job -- by unplugging phone chargers and microwaves at night, and turning off computers and printers at the end of the work day, for example.