Another Inconvenient Truth
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Natives with no fear of CO2?
Friday, August 14, 2009
Global Warming Alarmists Have Your Best Interests At Heart
When Opponents Stop Trying -- By: Chris Horner
Calgary. U.S. climate change bill a worry for Alberta
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Evidence that Global Temperature Trends Have Been Overstated
So we believe that we have demonstrated compelling evidence for the presence of a warm bias in global temperature trends that may indeed be reflective of a human influence on the climate system, but is not due to the accumulation of heat in the system. The obvious conclusion from this result, should it be correct and hold up, is that the effects of carbon dioxide on global temperature trends may have been overstated in past assessments by some amount.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: 1,264 to 1
1,264 = the number of news stories covering Michael Mann and colleagues' new paper claiming that Atlantic hurricanes are at a 1,00o-year high.
1 = the number of news stories covering Chris Landsea and colleagues' new paper claiming that there is no trend in Atlantic hurricanes over a century.
Bias? You be the judge.
Comment: Australian carbon defeat is "bad" news for Copenhagen summit - Telegraph
The failure to pass new climate change legislation in Australia does not bode well for a global agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol at the end of the year in Copenhagen.Instapundit » Blog Archive » DEMOCRATIC CULTURE SHOCK
DEMOCRATIC CULTURE SHOCK: “The Democrats are understandably stunned. They and those sympathetic to them do control everything—the White House, Congress, the mainstream media, the popular culture, and elite education. And they still—despite all that power—can’t get the public to pipe down and go along quietly with their planned takeover of health care. What is wrong with everyone? You can sense the anger, the resentment. And the panic.”Nature Reports on CRU Stonewalling « Climate Audit
Nature reported today on the CRU data requests. I was interviewed at length last Thurs, followup Friday by Olive Heffernan of Nature. They even asked for a photograph. I haven't seen the article yet. More after I see the story.
Follow the money?
A Wind Boom in Missouri? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
But Tom Carnahan, the president and chief executive of the St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group, which has developed several wind farms in Missouri, said that the state’s long-term potential was substantial, though it had traditionally been overlooked.Saint Louis Beacon - Wind-energy developer Tom Carnahan, brother of pols, will join Biden in Jefferson City
Tom Carnahan is the youngest brother of Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, and among the few family members who has never run for office.ENERGY: Promoting alternative energy and energy independence
Congressman Russ Carnahan has become a leader in energy policy and believes that we must direct revenue to research and development programs in order to find and implement alternative and renewable fuels that do not lead to global warming and provide for a strong economy. Congressman Carnahan believes it is important to move away from an oil-dependent economy especially when most of that oil is imported from unstable regions of the world.
Open Passage Expedition
Silent Sound has spent the last few days dodging ice along the coast of Victoria Island. The Arctic may be warming up rapidly but there’s still enough ice to make the captain of fibreglass sail boat very nervous. We have spent a lot of time sailing through 20 to 30 percent ice cover since leaving Holman...We’re also seeing a lot of seals on the ice.Global warming 'crisis' may be all about power | CapeCodOnline.com
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The danger this ice represents to us cannot be underestimated. We just had our engine cover off to investigate the increased vibrations we were feeling in the boat. There’s a good chance we have hit some ice with our propeller, causing it to vibrate. We have a spare propeller along, thanks to a generous donor, but changing it would be an ordeal. We don’t think we’ve had a serious hit yet, but we have had a few hard bumps that have shook the boat, and perhaps some ice got to the prop without us hearing it. We’ll investigate it further in the next few days.
But the ice is on the losing end of its war with the sun.
So why the big push to get us to swallow this swill? It's the "crisis" that justifies wielding power to subvert capitalism, competition, free markets, individual freedoms and economic prosperity to government control and socialism, or worse.Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health : Climate and Capitalism
David A. Maczko
The looming threat of global warming is both ominous and vague in public discussion. Just what is the threat? Is it just drought and possible loss of the Great Barrier Reef? The public perception, shaped by too-brief media soundbites and disinformation from denialists has made it hard to paint a comprehensive and clear picture for the general public. Yet those who have studied the subject in detail are rightly scared by what they find. This book goes a long way to explaining why, and proposes radical solutions that attack the root cause of the crisis.event: Closing: Climate change exhibit at the AMNH - Science Life NY
Say Goodbye to Climate Change
Catch it while you can, because the informative and exciting exhibit Climate Change, the Threat to Life and our Energy Future is closing after this Sunday. The exhibit examines global warming, one of our biggest environmental concerns. This phenomenon could lead to drought, rising sea levels, heavy storms, and other more serious events that could have dire impacts on our world. The exhibit talks about the science and history of climate change, and it also gives us advice on the ways in which individuals, communities, and nations can reduce their own carbon footprints.
Scrap Cap-and-Trade: Emissions-Trading Inventors Now Leery - Environmental Capital - WSJ
You know cap-and-trade faces headwinds when the people who invented the idea speak out against it.Article - WSJ.com
"Shell believes CCS is a technology that will be vital to tackling climate change and we believe that at this stage it is essential that we 'learn by doing' in order to reduce costs, accelerate technology and ultimately make CCS commercially viable," said Shell vice president John Gallagher.And The Aussies Shall Lead Them
Lots of top-notch work coming from the Land Down Under lately.
Global warming [fraud] event lures dozens to Beechwood Farms
Attendees also were told that if global warming continues unchecked, Lake Erie will lose 15 percent of its surface area by century's end, and Pennsylvanians will enjoy their lemonade -- made with lemons they will be able to grow themselves -- in a near-tropical climate that will mirror that of Alabama.[Still more public money blown on the climate scam]: NOAA Chief: Focus Now On Global Warming
Jane Lubchenco says the new Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at the center will help people get a better understanding of global climate change. The institute will get $36 million in federal funding and will partner with organizations like the North Carolina Arboretum and the U.S. Forest Service's Southern Research Station.Twitter / Scott Laidig
A cool day in the Rockies. Global warming??? MT is expecting record cold temps this weekend... maybe because Obama is coming on Friday! :>)Shopfloor » Blog Archive » Realistic Assumptions About Energy Development
And remember, solar power and wind are not suitable for baseload power generation. You could quintuple the renewable energy supply estimated by the EIA for 2030 — and that would be a good thing — and it would be still be only a small contributor to the U.S. energy portfolio.
Bloody marvellous Aussies kill carbon emissions bill - Telegraph Blogs
Where Australia leads, we can but hope and pray, the rest of the world will follow - especially Obama’s would-be Socialist One World Government (formerly known as the USA). While it’s true that Nancy Pelosi managed to railroad the Waxman Markey cap’n'porkbarrel’n'trade bill through the US House of Representatives, it looks set to have a much tougher ride in the Senate. Especially given the growing strength of feeling among US voters that cap n trade is no more than a massive scam which will enrich one or two green vested interests - Al Gore’s, for example - while impoverishing ordinary Americans to no useful purpose whatsoever.Nineteen Minutes In a [Fossil-fueled] Car With Harry Reid
LAS VEGAS – Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, was having second thoughts – or was he? – about the way he had characterized people who are disrupting town halls with "lies, innuendo and rumor," and not letting others speak. They are, he said, "evil-mongers."
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In Washington, there's a sense that the Senate will be disinclined to dive in. Too much to ask after health? I asked Reid. "We're going to try. I think we can get it done," he said. Maybe parts of it? Maybe without cap-and-trade? Reid didn't answer directly. Instead he said that five committees are working on energy and compromises are inevitable. He is committed, he said, to "major energy legislation." Whatever that may be.
Steven Chu, A Political Scientist - TIME
Chu methodically explained that the science is clear, that we're boiling the planet — but also that science can save us, that we can innovate our way to sustainability. He acknowledged that the developed nations that made the mess can't tell the developing world not to develop, but he also warned that China is on track to emit more carbon in the next three decades than the U.S. has emitted in its history; that business as usual would intensify floods, droughts and heat waves in both countries; that greenhouse gases respect no borders. This earth, he concluded, is the only one we've got; it would be illogical and immoral to fry it. "Science has unambiguously shown that we're altering the destiny of our planet," he said. "Is this the legacy we want to leave our children and grandchildren?"
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Chu does have an inconvenient habit of speaking his mind. At Tsinghua, he told audience members they ought to limit their driving to the weekends, a nonstarter in U.S. politics if ever there was one. In our interview, he suggested that Americans should get over their need for gas-guzzling speed ("Believe me, 0 to 60 [m.p.h.] in 8.5 sec. is fine") and meat-heavy diets ("We really don't need 12-oz. steaks every day") before he realized he was making energy transformation sound like a bummer — and abruptly changed the subject. "I don't want to deliver too many messages," Chu said, more to himself than to me. "I need to focus on 'Let's not let this incredible opportunity slip away.'"
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In fact, GOP leaders have said that global warming is a hoax, that fears about carbon are "almost comical," that the earth is actually cooling. When I asked Chu about the earth-is-cooling argument, he rolled his eyes and whipped out a chart showing that the 10 hottest years on record have all been in the past 12 years — and that 1998 was the hottest. He mocked the skeptics who focus on that post-1998 blip while ignoring a century-long trend of rising temperatures: "See? It's gone down! The earth must be cooling!" But then he got serious, almost plaintive: "You know, it's totally irresponsible. You're not supposed to make up the facts."
[High school students to be taken on long fossil-fueled trip, then brainwashed about the greatest scientific fraud in history, then encouraged to recruit others to join the global warming cult]
The camp, run by Polar Bears International, will take two dozen high school students and teachers from around the world to Churchill on Canada's Hudson Bay during the animals' annual migration.Instapundit » Blog Archive » ANALYSIS: Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest. Gee, do you think?
They'll do a week of intensive field work before creating an action plan to help educate their peers, with the aim of creating a new mindset on conservation issues.
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Sea World Curator of Mammals, Mitchell Leroy, said polar bears have become the ambassadors for climate change.
Yes, I remember the Bush-assassination chic. But it was different. All in good fun, you know.Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™
In the Virginia Governor’s race, Republican Bob McDonnell has opened a nine-point advantage over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. In New Jersey’s race for Governor, incumbent Democratic Governor Jon Corzine trails by double digits. Republicans maintains a modest lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot.Senate Wants Goldman And JPMorgan Banned From Carbon [Scam] Markets (GS, JPM)
At the end of Matt Taibbi's populist rant on Goldman Sachs (GS) he predicted the next big bubble would come from the government-manufactured carbon market. The Senate is trying to prick the bubble before it forms.
A handful of Senators working on the climate bill are carving out provisions that would bar big banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan (JPM) from trading in the carbon market created from cap and trade legislation, Bloomberg reports.
American Thinker: Elites Speak, Masses Laugh: Frankie Valli Fights Back
The stranglehold the media and government elites have had on this country is beginning to break. And the proof comes not just in the pudding that is resistance to Obama health care, but at a Frankie Valli concert in Brooklyn just a few short weeks ago.Twitter / Mug Wump
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To the murmur of the waves gently rolling in from the Atlantic, he announces "We have a celebrity in the house!" He stops for dramatic effect -- and then introduces Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times.
Ten thousand people pause, and then look at each other. Silence. Then boos. Hundreds of boos, scattered at first, then thousands, reaching a crescendo and, finally, ending with laughter. And then the crowd settles down, ignoring the politician and the so-called celebrity because they are enjoying themselves, because the music to come would be a joyful mingling of past and present, and because Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is as relevant to them as the Donna Karan fall collection just introduced by Saks Fifth Avenue in the newspaper he inherited.
This is a herald of victory in the class war: The elites speak, the masses laugh.
The global warming religion is a modern doomsday story about mass superstition that "contains a grain of truth and a mountain of nonsense."How Big Are the Environmental Benefits of High-Speed Rail? - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
The environmental and mortality benefits of rail are real, but the magnitude of the social benefits from switching modes seems is quite small relative to the cost of the system.
Is Global Temperature a Random Walk? « Watts Up With That?
But the monthly values will vary substantially around this basically flat trend, with individual monthly values saying little, if anything, about the long term direction of global temperature. In that sense, global temperature will be very much like a random walk.It should have been defeated because it’s insane | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
A terrific speech against Rudd’s scheme by Senator Nick Minchin, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, who truly does think it’s insane:It’s the Sun, silly by David Archibald | Solar Cycle 25Whatever the climatic role of human induced emissions of CO2, CO2 is not by any stretch of the imagination a pollutant. CO2 is, as we know, a clear, odourless, colourless gas vital to life on earth… Indeed the Rudd government knows it too. Its own environment department’s website has a link to the official Australian National Pollutant Inventory, which lists 93 pollutants. Surprise, surprise, carbon dioxide is not listed among them....
It is also typical of this deceitful and spin-driven government to so cynically misrepresent the nature of carbon dioxide.
The government’s intention to introduce an emissions trading system in Australia rests upon their belief that human carbon-dioxide emissions are a cause of dangerous global warming. That belief is incorrect. Though carbon dioxide is indeed a minor greenhouse gas, the major control on earth’s climate has always been, and remains, the Sun.Dropping the green ball | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
All up, I’d suggest that Demetriou actually has a carbon footprint far, far bigger than that of almost every fan he’s asked to cycle to the football this weekend. If he really thought our planet faced doom from our gases, you might expect he’d suit his actions to his catastrophic beliefs.
Climate change can crush the youth, says UN chief
'Climate change,' he said, 'continues to compromise economies and threaten tremendous upheaval, saddling young people everywhere with an unjust ecological debt.'The World According to Me: While Focused on Socialized Medicine,Al Gore Builds Grassroots Army for Cap-N-Trade
'This is a potentially crushing burden,' he stressed Wednesday.
We never know when that vote will get pushed in light of the health care issue--but the fact that GORE is this organized tells me they may try and push it through... you have a great grassroots networks so I wanted you to be aware ---[Organized, well-dressed Astroturfers funded by evil special interests?]: Al Gore's group for clean energy opens Nashville office | The Tennessean
Wouldn't it be just like Obama to push this while everyone else is focused on the Healthcare debate..."
The activist arm of former Vice President Al Gore's nonprofit Alliance for Climate Protection has opened a Nashville office as part of a growing ripple of volunteers nationwide advocating a limit on greenhouse gases.
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The group, under the wing of Repower America, has offices in Knoxville and Memphis also, as well as in 21 other states, he said.
U.N. Planning Massive Attack on the Truth. « Doctor Bulldog & Ronin
To be honest, I stopped reading this bullsh*t about a third of the way down. As much as it pains me to say this, [Ban Ki-moon] is a bigger idiot than obama. Oh, I am not dumb enough to believe he really thinks we have only four months to save the planet, I am mad because he thinks we believe it.'I wish environmentalism were as much a part of a woman's gender as shopping is' - Telegraph
Get ready folks. Every time politicians need something to distract us from their incompetence, we get another emergency. This is just the beginning.
Celia Walden talks to Tamsin Omond, the climate-activist grand-daughter of a baronet.The Reference Frame: Australian Senate rejects carbon regulation
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I point out that hers is a luxurious moral position to take, reading out a few caustic lines by Stephen Pollard, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, deriding Climate Rush "for not understanding the basic facts about climate change" and accusing her and her group of "blue blood, posh names and limited intelligence" but she merely shrugs.
What a nice opportunity for a glass of beer.Another inconvenient truth: 'Polar bears may live into their early to mid-twenties, a bit longer if in human care.' | GORE LIED
Today, Australia's Senate rejected Kevin Rudd's plans to copy the European fraudulent carbon indulgences industry to his continent.
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There are no doubts that Penny Wong and thousands of other careerist pigs will continue to push similar garbage through all conceivable institutions which is their only way to save their feed-trough which is the only thing they care about. But it is our task to make sure that these pigs will lose.
How could this be???
Why the highest mountains are near the equator - environment - 12 August 2009 - New Scientist
IS IT just a coincidence that all the world's tallest mountain ranges lie at low latitudes? Apparently not, as it seems warmer climates enhance mountain growth.Christopher Monckton - Senator Kerry Misfires about Global Warming and National Security
Senator John Kerry’s statement in early August 2009 about “global warming” before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he chairs, was false in every particular, leading him to draw the incorrect conclusion that “global warming” was a threat to national security. The Senator got every fact wrong –Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators - WSJ.com
Now legislation using cap-and-trade to limit greenhouse gases is working its way through Congress and could become the law of the land. But Mr. Crocker and other pioneers of the concept are doubtful about its chances of success. They aren't abandoning efforts to curb emissions. But they are tiptoeing away from an idea they devised decades ago, doubting it can work on the grand scale now envisioned.Fisherfolk can take advantage of climate change, says BFAR
“The rise of sea level resulting from climate change creates wider area for the culture of certain marine species like abalone, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and other varieties of shell and fin fishes that adapt well to extreme shifts in weather patterns,” Sarmiento said.
UN Chief’s warning – the end of the world is nigh! - Telegraph Blogs
In reality, the United Nations can’t even maintain its own headquarters, manage its own books and keep its tens of thousands of peacekeepers under control, let alone save the world. The UN is an extraordinarily badly run institution, rife with corruption and mismanagement, that shields some of the most odious tyrants on the face of the earth.McCaskill: “You don’t trust me?”
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The main threat to humanity at present is posed not by climate change but by dangerous madmen like Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, heading rogue regimes hell-bent on wiping their neighbours off the map. Not to mention the rise of militant Islam and a global terrorist network that seeks the destruction of the free world. As long as UN officials stick their head in the sand and ignore the world’s real problems the body will remain an irrelevance.
“I don’t know what else I can do.”Australian Senate Kills Emissions Trading Scheme Bill | Energy & Environment
Well, you could start by representing the state of Missouri to the federal government instead of representing the federal government to the state of Missouri. That seems to be the major issue at many of these town halls. Washington politicians come back to their home states with the idea that they have to sell this plan to the people, rather than let the people tell them how they should vote. They don’t push Washington on us, they push us on Washington.
See, it’s the title of “representative” that so many politicians forget when they arrive in Washington, D.C. They see themselves as “Senator” or “Congressman,” not the voice of the people.
Australia's carbon trading laws were defeated in parliament's upper house Senate on Thursday, leaving the government's plan to curb greenhouse-gas emissions in disarray and raising speculation of an early snap election.
--Reuters, 13 August 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Newsmax.com - Gov. George Allen: Climate Bill Will Hurt U.S.
"For example, there are now more than 130 scientists in Germany who are calling this a pseudo-religion. What they're asking for, and a lot of us are asking for, is that these decisions be based on science, not political ideology. And the whole issue of so-called global warming being caused by man is scientifically debatable.Turnbull accuses Wong of "pedantic bloody-mindedness"
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has accused Climate Change Minister Penny Wong of "pedantic bloody-mindedness" and refusing to negotiate with the coalition on an emissions trading scheme.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Oh my: New Gallup poll shows town hall protests winning over independents?
Either indies have suddenly developed a taste for Nazi mobs of political terrorists or the Democrats’ message war on ObamaCare opponents is a rather epic fail.Hot Air » Blog Archive » Specter: “I don’t have any requirement to be here”
How many of his constituents have that kind of job? How many do you think will be impressed that Specter deigned to receive his subjects without getting a bonus payment to do it? What a great example of Beltway arrogance — and what a great opportunity for Pat Toomey.Global Warming: The Senate Battle
It’s awfully funny that environmentalists claim to care about global climate but only jobs in the United States matter when it’s crunch time.Global warming hystericists want to sequester plant food
The bottom line: carbon capture and sequestration devices are enormously expensive and utterly unnecessary. They will only drive up the cost of energy for every American family and make us less competitive in global markets. Other than that, there's a lot to like.
[Ice reports: One reason why getting through the Northwest Passage should be much easier in modern times--maybe even a bigger reason than the "your cell phone charger melted the ice" argument]
Ice reports show a promising lead into the Dolphin and Union Strait opening up near Cape Baring, on the southwestern corner of Victoria Island. In a perfect world, a lead along the mainland on the southern side of Amundsen Gulf would've been ideal, but instead we're bound on a slight detour of about a hundred miles to the north.The Migrant Mind: Can we trust them to tell us what to do?
But, of course, the AGW true beleivers will continue to believe that the world is warming, even as it cools. And if these control freaks actually do geoengineer the world to cool down just as the world goes into a natural cooling cycle, they will freeze us all and make our crops fail.Save the GOP » Blog Archive » Stabenow Makes Boxer Look Ingenious
How does someone like this get elected to the U.S. Senate?Hot Air » Blog Archive » AMA to Obama: Stop accusing us of wanting to hack off people’s body parts, champ
Translation: The guy who wants to run American health care was off here by a factor of 100 on cost. Although who knows? If the public’s fears about exploding health-care expenses under ObamaCare prove justified, maybe someday soon an amputation will run you $30-50K.Investor's Business Daily -- Markets Bet ObamaCare Won't Survive
It's still tough to know whether this behemoth government takeover of heath care will actually pass. But two key markets are betting against it.
First, over at the Intrade pay-to-play online-betting parlor, the bid for the U.S. government health-plan contract is only 38 cents. That's down from 50 cents in late July. Second, the share prices of big private health insurers have rallied in recent weeks.
UnitedHealthcare is up 13%, Humana is up 12.4% and Aetna is up almost 10%. These firms will be decimated if the government insurance plan passes. But investors are now predicting it won't.
Political Groups Prepare for Obama
BILLINGS - Several grassroot political organizations prepare for the president's arrival in Bozeman later on this week.[Insane argument from Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D.: In order to protect families from high gas prices, let's put our money into a climate control system that is designed to make fossil fuels more expensive]
The conservative group Montana Shrugged plans on sending a bus full of people to Bozeman. Leaders expect several thousand people to turn out rally against Obama's healthcare and cap and trade policies. Organizers say events like this gives grassroot groups a boost to promote their beliefs.
Now some will throw their hands up and say we just can’t do this now or they will try to cite worst case scenarios and cost projections far beyond what the non-partisan groups have told us clean energy incentives will actually cost. These scare tactics just present a status quo approach that leaves us all vulnerable to oil spikes in a global market and high gas prices that crush family budgets like we saw last summer.Gore’s group targets swing senators in new climate [fraud] ads | Grist
ACP would not say how much it’s spending on the ad campaign, other than to acknowledge that the investment is “substantial.” The ads will run through Labor Day, right up until senators return to Washington following their August recess.[Al Gore thinks you're stupid] - YouTube - Repower America TV Ad - Family Values
[This guy suggests that if you buy into Gore's climate scam, there will be "no more getting jerked around on gas prices"]
Australian Senate Rejects Rudd’s Cap and Trade Emissions Plan - Bloomberg.com
“Australia going it alone before Copenhagen will not make a jot of difference,” Liberal Senator Eric Abetz said. “It is a dog of a plan and we will not support it in its current form.”Environmental movies have a green problem: money -- latimes.com
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“Climate has slipped down the list of priorities for Australians and they won’t like going to an early poll on it,” [Andrew Macintosh, an analyst from Australian National University’s Center of Law and Climate Policy] said. “Climate has gone on the backburner because of the economic climate we have found ourselves in.”
Despite 'Food, Inc.'s' success, few new ecological documentaries are enjoying robust box-office takes. Chalk it up to audiences preferring escapist tales rather than disturbing reality.Hot Air » Blog Archive » Another disgrace: In Nigeria, Hillary hints that 2000 U.S. election was rigged
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(In a classic Hollywood twist, "No Impact Man," about a New York family struggling to live without refrigeration, electricity and even toilet paper, is being reworked as a possible drama for Will Smith.)
That is a tasty combo of the Obama administration’s “America sucks” foreign policy, coated in some rich, gooey Bush Deragement Syndrome.YouTube - Carbo Madness - Al Gore's Crusade to Eradicate Plant Food - Global Warming
Cure Global Warming - Simple do your self tests that demonstrate how CO2 is actually the fuel for earth's natural cooling system.
Australia: Global Warming and CPRS Polling - Pollytics
The largest change in opinion however, has been in the proportion of the population that believe global warming “concerns are exaggerated” - having roughly doubled over the last 3 years.Forecasting Kitsap » Blog Archive » Interesting “Forecasting Kitsap” Global Warming Poll Discovery
My latest poll asks the question: “Do You Believe Global Warming is a Big Concern?” And so far, with 98 votes and counting, my above statements ring true: everyone is pretty evenly divided.Some context on the defeat of Australia’s climate plan | Grist
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31% (30 votes) believe in global warming and that it is indeed a big concern and we need to do more about it. This will obviously be called the “Global Warming Group”. To be honest, I expected the numbers for this group to be higher!
It may be tempting to view the Australian Senate’s defeat Wednesday of climate change legislation as a portent of things to come as the U.S. Senate prepares to take up a cap-and-trade bill.Senate rejects emission trading legislation, Shares rise
But Wong told the ABC that the Government will remain defiant about its plans, but gave no details as to how it intends to pass the legislation.
"It's not smart to pretend this won't leave us isolated from the rest of the world, and it's not smart to undermine our transition to a low-carbon economy," she said. "This bill may be going down today, but this is not the end."
Australia Rejects Greenhouse Gas Curbs - WSJ.com
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's Senate has voted down government legislation that would have curbed the amount of greenhouse gas pollution that the country emits.
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said Thursday that the government would try again to push the bills through the opposition-controlled Senate later this year. The bills were defeated Thursday by 42 votes to 30.
Scoop: Vegetable prices rise as temperatures fall
Food prices increased 0.6 percent in the July 2009 month, Statistics New Zealand said today. Higher prices for vegetables accounted for nearly all of the increase in the food price index (FPI), with cold weather hampering growing conditions.Wong talks tough on 'day of reckoning' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has accused the Coalition of acting against the national interest as it prepares to vote down the Government's emissions trading legislation today.
The importance of being informed - On Line Opinion - 13/8/2009
You are probably saying to yourself “But why would governments go along with this if it wasn’t necessarily correct?” And for that matter why would corporations or scientific bodies either?Watch Out - Your Industry May Be Gutted Like A Trout Next | Coyote Blog
What do you call a man who thinks a 3.3% profit margin is too high? How about “Marxist.”
Update: Argentinean blues frost impact
The frost which hit Argentina’s north-western blueberry-producing region of Tucumán on 23 July is estimated to have cut the national export crop by 5 per cent this season, according to local sources.Chris Barton : Climate debate adrift on rising tide of lunacy - Technology - NZ Herald News
Deepclimate.org scrutinises organisations that "propagate climate science disinformation" and follows the money. It recently took the scalp of our own Chris de Freitas, one of the authors of a recent paper in the peer-reviewed periodical Journal of Geophysical Research.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s Green Incoherence - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Washington greens, incoherence is thy master.Gateway Pundit: Bus--ted... Obama Bussed In Supporters For New Hampshire Town Hall (Video)
The hundreds of anti-Obamacare protesters waited out in the rain.Flashback: U.N. Warning of 10-Year 'Climate Tipping Point' Began in 1989
According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.” (LINK) & (LINK)
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Rasmussen on Obama: 52% disapprove
That lack of confidence in Obama will have major repercussions in policy debates. It already infects the ObamaCare debate, but it will also be a problem when it comes to cap-and-trade. And as Obama tries to regain the spotlight this week on health-care reform, expect the numbers on the passion index to worsen yet again.The Climate [Scam] Debate: [It's a jobs scam now] - Environmental Capital - WSJ
The big debate over climate legislation seems to be boiling down not to polar bears, ice sheets or light-switch taxes, but simply to jobs.Start counting the UN’s scary millions | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Take Repower America, the group that aims to put into practice former vice president Al Gore’s renewable-energy dreams. It has another national ad out now—not featuring that gruffy, jeans-wearing farmer who railed against foreign oil, but a regular Joe in his kitchen just itching for one of those 1.7 million green jobs we keep hearing about.
At least 25 million - and as many as 50 million - global warming refugees within the next 16 months? From zero to at least a million a month until December next year? Is the UN really pinning its reputation on this prediction?All American Blogger » Global Warming Fear Mongers Give Us Four Months, Then Game Over
I’m predicting that by the end of next year the number of global warming refugees will be closer to one - Ms Koko Warner, to be specific, who will deserve the boot from her UN University position for such ludicrous scare-mongering.
That wasn’t the only ridiculous statement made in the speech. This one caught my eye as well:The world is looking to Korea for leadership.Wha…? Who? Who is looking to Korea for leadership?
Interest in tying farming to carbon dioxide credits waning
A once popular program to pay farmers for battling air pollution is waning as industries pass on carbon credits and Congress looks at other options.
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Credits are currently selling for about 40 cents a metric ton, a price that isn't attracting new farmers. Credits created last year aren't selling, according to the National Farmers Union, which a year ago touted a program enrolment of 2.8 million acres-enough to offset the pollution of more than 300,000 cars.
Now just a few days away, this year's deadline for enrolling land in the credit program will go unnoticed by many.
"This is just a guess, but I'm going to say we did around 100 acres of carbon credits last year," said Scott Kulbeck of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation. "There's no interest now."
UN Tells Us How We Can “Seal the Deal” in Copenhagen « It’s Getting Hot In Here
Today, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlined the four principles the United Nations is hoping will guide the discussions this December in Copenhagen when world leaders come together for the international climate summit. He noted “What is needed is the political will. We have the capacity. We have finance. We have the technology. The largest lacking is political will.”NFU President Talks Climate Change In Iceland - Cattle Network
WASHINGTON (Aug. 12, 2009) - National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson provided the keynote address entitled "Food and Climate Change in a Global Economy," at the conference of the Association of Farmers Organizations in Scandinavia in Reykjavik, Iceland today.[Another $180k blown on climate fraud]
Guelph - Three University of Guelph researchers will spend the next year studying the impacts of climate change on health in an Inuit community in northern Newfoundland and Labrador. They'll rely on storytelling and digital technology to gather data and create educational materials.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: We Lost the Original Data
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The research team, led by Dan Michelin, Rigolet’s mayor, and Sarah Blake, the town manager, received a grant worth almost $180,000 from Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch as part of the federal government’s new Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program.
Say what?! CRU has lost track of the original data that it uses to create its global temperature record!? Can this be serious?
[Alarmist Seattle Mayor Nickels admits that warming might be beneficial for cold cities]
Nickels said Seattle has more hills than Montreal, which could be a challenge. "But we've got one advantage -- we don't have six months of freezing cold weather outside," he said.Wong’s seas aren’t so scary, either | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Again we must ask Wong: what is your evidence that man’s gases are warming the planet, when the evidence now is that the planet has been cooling for the past eight years, even when our gases are increasing?No sceptics at The Age | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Hugh Morgan launches climatologist Dr Garth Paltridge’s new book, The Climate Caper, and wonders why some reporters are suddenly struck deaf, dumb and blindBLACK VELVET BRUCE LI : Question Of The Day
When Creigh Deeds got nailed for doing 76 mph in a 65 mph zone on July 4th, was it a case of:Waxman-Markey Will Kneecap U.S. Manufacturing, Manufacturers Say - Environmental Capital - WSJ
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C) evidence that Deeds hasn’t bought into the human-induced global warming hysteria sufficiently to own one of those matchbox cars that can’t get above 75 without adding many more gerbils under the hood, and thus is inadequately concerned about how humans are wrecking the environment and endangering all the polar bears?
Boy, the skirmish lines in the climate fight keep shaping up.
Today, industrial interests released their take on the costs of the Waxman-Markey climate bill. Not surprisingly, the National Assocation of Manufacturers found the bill would whack U.S. industry, kill about 2 million jobs, and knock about 2% of U.S. GDP by 2030.
Rudd web chatter remains sceptical | The Australian
ONE of the 19 participants in the Prime Minister's much publicised web chat on climate change believes his comments were censored because he is a sceptic.
Crist averts GOP heat, tables climate summit
"The political circumstances have changed," said former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, who is challenging Crist in the GOP Senate primary. "I guarantee you he won't be touting the work he did with Sheryl Crow as part of his primary platform."UN IPCC Scientist Rips Romm's understanding of climate science; calls Romm 'a blatant liar' | Climate Depot
The apology I owe you is that I failed to recognize you are a CAD and, therefore, I thought you were are a cad who is a blatant liar.
Richard [Courtney]
Copenhagen climate deal would be no fairytale | spiked
But the obsession with emissions reduction simply puts the cart before the horse. To try to cut GHG emissions now before the means to do so are in place is a panicky response. The problem of climate change is one that will unfold over decades, so we have time on our side if we put the research effort in now. Another Kyoto-style deal is likely to be an expensive mistake.It's an emergency and politicians are failing us | theage.com.au
In Copenhagen, the city of Hans Christian Andersen, a global deal that arbitrarily seeks to cut emissions at the expense of future living standards would be an ugly duckling that will never become a swan.
While our climate scientists scream from the rooftops that there is already too much carbon in the atmosphere to avoid runaway climate change, the Rudd Government and the Opposition have a bidding war over who can give away the most taxpayer money to the big polluters. They are refusing to take the urgent, significant action necessary to avoid catastrophe.
UMNews: Tuning out
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The ugly side of global warming: Romm knows how to spell hubris...
But families are also oblivious to much national and world news — news that is or may become relevant to their lives. Global warming shines as a prime example. "What global warming is predicting is a sea rise that will make parts of this country unlivable," Rosenblatt says.Get the Popcorn, listen now: Climate Depot's Morano on The Mike Rosen Show for full hour -- takes calls!
"There'll be more flooding inland as well as the coasts, so if you're living on low land, you're in trouble. And it's striking to me that when we talk about global warming, it's kind of an abstract issue. As far as I know we don't have people moving in from the coasts, and we don't have a fire sale or a flood sale on coastal property."
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The ugly side of global warming: Romm knows how to spell hubris...
By way of closing, you'll note that Romm saves his bitterest bile for those of us who actually do believe global warming is real and should be addressed, not the real skeptics. That's because for idiots trapped in one old religious paradigm, dissenters are far worse than non-believers. He would have cheerfully been slaughtering Huguenots in medieval France had he been born then and there. Maybe we both wish he had been.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promotes the greatest scientific fraud in history
We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet.
Any agreement must be fair, effective, equitable and comprehensive, and based on science. And it must help vulnerable nations adapt to climate change.
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The science is clear. We know what to do and we know how to do it. Songdo shows us the way.
Epoch Times - Making the Case for Climate Realism
The summary below provides an overview of the seven issues discussed at the conference: the definition of the problem, and the three scientific and three economic objections to climate alarmism.This Year's July Was the Coldest on Record in Illinois
Historically, a cool July is most often followed by a cool August. The specific odds on August temperatures after a cool July are 45% cooler-than-normal, 34% near-normal, and 21% above-normal. The NOAA Climate Prediction Center indicates that cooler than normal temperatures are likely to prevail for August across Illinois, and for the northern two-thirds of Illinois for the August-October period.Climate "expert" slams Fielding - Crikey
Steffen points out that there is no peer-reviewed material that refutes the main findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and invites Fielding to visit ANU to discuss climate change.James Boyce: Climate Change Heroes And Villains
Indeed, an overwhelming majority of Americans - 71 percent to be exact, support the bill passed in the House, but Washington's allegiance to the energy lobby is so strong that a bill with 71 percent of public support passed narrowly.
The Global Warming [Fraud] Science Machine: $79 Billion and Counting
Over the last two decades, US taxpayers have subsidized the American climate change industry to the tune of $79 billion. That’s the headline from Climate Money, a report published last month by the Science and Public Policy Institute.Subject: Un-American - Rich Lowry - The Corner on National Review Online
[Email] What if opponents of ObamaCare threw shoes at congressional backers of same? The left seemed to think that was an OK form of protest earlier this year!Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com » Aussie Meteorologist: ‘The ‘dangerous’ global warming predictions of UN IPCC have proved to be a chimera’
The coming Senate vote on the badly misnamed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is the culmination of intense propaganda spanning more than three decades. The Senate Bill aims at restricting emissions of carbon dioxide, a colourless, odourless gas essential to life, and has nought to do with smokestack carbon particles and other pollutants that have been regulated since the 1950s. The basis of the Bill is an unsustainable hypothesis that dangerous global warming will be an outcome of continued burning of fossil fuels and the rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.Death rates among Swiss wildlife increased sharply in the harsh winter of 2008/9. - swissinfo
The long and harsh winter of 2008/2009 caused the highest number of deaths in wild animal populations seen in Switzerland for decades.
Because the ground was covered in snow for a longer period than normal, the animals could not forage for food and their fat reserves were insufficient to make up for the deficiency, according to the Federal Environment Office which released its annual hunting statistics on Wednesday.
JustOneMinute on Obama: Who Is This Guy?
Interesting. Still, Bill Clinton also whiffed on health care, yet no list of his failings included a non-understanding of the Great Unwashed (We were his people!).[Let's all enjoy the better weather we've purchased with our billions of dollars] - A Clunker of a Program? - NYTimes.com
“What we ended up with,” said one senior Obama administration official, who would not speak on the record because he was being critical of his own administration’s environmental bona fides, “is a program in which you trade in old clunkers for new clunkers.” Less discussed is the second critique of the program: It rewards drivers who chose to buy gas guzzlers a few years back, but not those who spent more to buy fuel-sippers (although in recent years those who purchased efficient new hybrids got generous tax credits).John Fund: Congress’s Gulfstream Jet Scandal Is Just the Beginning - WSJ.com
But the White House argues that there is no contradiction here — older cars contribute disproportionately to global warming, so any stimulus program that gets them off the road is a win for everyone.
Frequent flying by Congress is a growth industry. As the Journal’s Brody Mullins reported this month, House members last year spent some 3,000 days overseas on taxpayer-funded trips, up from about 550 in 1995. This month, 11 separate congressional delegations will visit Germany.May '09: Pelosi Graduation Remarks at Johns Hopkins University Commencement
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The House’s official handbook requires that lawmakers use regular U.S. airlines “whenever possible, unless such service is not reasonably available.” But congressional records show members routinely take military planes to London, Paris and other well-served locales. Members can fly for free with their spouses on military aircraft.
You’d think House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would be wise to the poor symbolism of a jet-setting Congress. But she’s part of the problem. No one objects to her ability to fly on a government jet from time to time. But last March the watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained embarrassing internal Pentagon correspondence: “Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi’s team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?” one such email read. “[T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case.’”
Other emails show intermediaries for Mrs. Pelosi frustrated when told transportation demands couldn’t be met. “It is my understanding there are no [Gulfstream] 5’s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable . . . The speaker will want to know where the planes are,” wrote aide Kay King. In a separate email, when told a certain type of aircraft wouldn’t be available, Ms. King wrote, “This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset Speaker.” A Pelosi spokesman said the Judicial Watch report seemed to be based on “a few emails.”
I believe that the greatest challenge of our day is the global climate crisis and have made it the flagship issue of my Speakership.
Change We Can Believe In? (Guest Voice) | The Moderate Voice
In any event, the promises were so grand, the moment so inspiring, that the aftermath had to disappoint.New Zealand: Climate sanity from a 'humble sheep farmer': "Misguided emissions policies, priorities and people"
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Clear positions yield to political realities. Having Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices gives way to the need to get drug companies on board. The campaign climate-change plan to auction off all emissions permits morphs, without a presidential peep, into a House-passed measure that would hand out 85 percent of the permits as political candy to mollify lawmakers in districts that would be hard hit by strict emissions limits.
[Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers] Farmers are dumbfounded that the world's best brains believe ETS-like policies will suddenly turn climate variations around.
Get the ETS today and suddenly tomorrow glaciers will cease retreating and the polar ice caps will stop melting.
I have news for them. They won't.
Ocean heat content and Earth’s radiation imbalance « Watts Up With That?
Earth’s radiation imbalance is determined from ocean heat content data and compared with results of direct measurements. Distinct time intervals of alternating positive and negative values are found: 1960–mid-1970s (−0.15), mid-1970s–2000 (+0.15), 2001–present (−0.2 W/m2), and are consistent with prior reports. These climate shifts limit climate predictability.GUEST COLUMN 'Global weirdness' a weird way to argue with the weather facts | thestarpress.com | The Star Press
The whole premise of the Obama administration's cap-and-trade bill lies on the dubious claims of the dangers of global warming. If you're not sure what to think about global warming, don't take my word for it. Do the research and uncover the facts for yourself. Plenty of anti-global warming scientists are speaking out, and you rarely hear their critics use the dismissive terms "denier" or "outlier" any longer.Gallup: Public Support for Health Care Drops 21 Points in Four Weeks (UPDATED) - Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot on National Review Online
Pessimism and deadlock dominate as Bonn climate [scam] talks kick off - 11 Aug 2009 - BusinessGreen.com
The latest round of UN climate change talks kicked off in Bonn, Germany today, as UN officials voiced growing pessimism that the negotiations to agree a meaningful successor to the Kyoto Treaty at a meeting in Copenhagen later this year are falling dangerously behind schedule.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Signs that the Mainstream Climate Debate has Lost Touch with Reality
...Moreover, US negotiators said they will not sign up to any deal unless all large emitters, including China and India, are on board.
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His comments come as UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon warned yesterday that the world was risking catastrophe if it failed to deliver a robust deal in Copenhagen.
"If we fail to act, climate change will intensify droughts, floods and other natural disasters," he said at an environmental forum near Seoul, South Korea. "Water shortages will affect hundreds of millions of people. Malnutrition will engulf large parts of the developing world. Tensions will worsen. Social unrest – even violence – could follow."
Speaking in Korea at the World Environment Forum 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has given a speech that is remarkable for its over-the-top rhetoric and also its disconnect from anything resembling reality. He starts with an apocalyptic warning...NEW STUDY: NO EVIDENCE THAT GLOBAL WARMING HAS INCREASED TROPICAL STORMS, HURRICANES
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If Moon's rhetoric is even noted in the mainstream climate debate it will be applauded, and certainly not critiqued. Is it any wonder that climate policy is such an utter mess?
A NOAA-led team of scientists has found that the apparent increase in the number of tropical storms and hurricanes since the late 19th and early 20th centuries is likely attributable to improvements in observational tools and analysis techniques that better detect short-lived storms. [Via Benny Peiser]
Maybe the UN and Obama should get their climate scam stories straight?
De Boer: Fighting climate change will cost a "phenomenal amount of money"
300 billion dollars a year from 2020. That is the cost for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to impacts from the changing climate, estimates the UN climate chief Yvo de Boer.YouTube - Obama: Waxman-Markey to cost Americans only "a postage stamp per day"
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The world will need a “phenomenal amount of money” to change its energy supply from fossil fuels to cleaner sources and to adapt to climate change, states Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat.
Footage of Obama from a June 25, 2009 press conference addressing the Waxman-Markey energy tax.
The Wong Fielding Meeting on Global Warming — Documents « JoNova
These are the documents arising from the meeting between Senator Fielding and the Minister for the Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, on 15 June 2009.July in Norfolk was the coldest on record - Simcoe Reformer - Ontario, CA
Senator Fielding was accompanied by four independent scientists: Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks, and William Kininmonth. Minister Wong was accompanied by the Chief Scientist Penny Sackett and by Professor Will Steffen.
A July that saw many people trading sweaters for swimsuits will go down as the coldest on record.The climate and the science fiction
The average temperature for the month, as recorded at the Delhi weather station (the most complete data recorder in the area), was 18 Celsius. That is almost three degrees off the normal of 20.9C for the month and the coolest July since records started in 1934. The previous record was 18.3C, which was set in 1965.
We are not even certain whether what is going on with the climate is the result of our activity. It is inevitable in this case that we should think how small we are in terms of the planet. Even worse is to think how weak we are to do anything to save our, for now, only home.Ok, we're weak, yet American cell phone chargers can change the weather in Africa?
GOP at War With Itself in Florida Senate Race - TIME
Rubio is not a chest-thumper or a fist-banger, but in talks in June to a chamber of commerce in Palm Bay and the Christian Coalition in Miami, he electrified his crowds with eloquent arguments for tea-party principles. He attacked deficits in general and the stimulus in particular as Euro-socialist assaults on his kids. He clamored for term limits, state's rights, and the abolition of the estate tax. He attacked government-run health care, warned that cap-and-trade would leave us a "Third World economy," and noted that the words "separation of church and state" were nowhere in our founding documents.The Vegetarian Myth | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Before I get into a discussion of the absolutely phenomenal book you see pictured at the right, I’ve got a few disclosures to make. First, I’m not much of a believer in the notion of man-made global warming or climate change (as they now call it since temperatures have been constantly falling instead of rising). I’m a denier, in the pejorative term used by those who are believers.Ian Plimer - ETS Forum - It’s all in the rocks
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Dr. Michael R. Eades is the best selling author of Protein Power, and health care expert in nutritional science, low carb diets, and other health issues.
Australia’s emissions constitute only 1.4% of global CO2 emissions, so anything that Australia does to limit its emissions will be an exercise in complete futility regarding the prevention of global warming. On the other hand, if Australian emissions are reduced, then it is certain that the economy will contract, tens of thousands of persons will lose their jobs, and the price of power will ultimately double.
All emissions trading systems are based on the invalid hypothesis that human emissions of CO2 drive global warming, and the Rudd government’s CPRS is no exception. Senators from all parties must vote it down. [Via Climate Realists]
Recycled alarmism from Ben Santer
Human-induced global warming increases water vapor in atmosphere
YouTube cartoon - Global warming fraud promotion for children, with an introduction from alarmist Ben Santer
“Climate model quality didn’t make much of a difference,” said Benjamin Santer, lead author from LLNL’s Program for Climate Modeling and Intercomparison.Sept '07: Greenhouse Gases And Water Vapor: When 'Positive Feedback' Is A Bad Thing
“Even with the computer models that performed relatively poorly, we could still identify a human effect on climate. It was a bit surprising. The physics that drive changes in water vapor are very simple and are reasonably well portrayed in all climate models, bad or good,” he added.
The atmosphere’s water vapor content has increased by about 0.4 kilograms per cubic meter [should be "per square meter"?]... per decade since 1988, and natural variability alone can’t explain this moisture change, according to Santer.
“The most plausible explanation is that it’s due to human-caused increases in greenhouse gases,” he said.
“When you heat the planet, you increase the ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture,” said Benjamin Santer, lead author from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Program for Climate Modeling and Intercomparison. “The atmosphere’s water vapor content has increased by about 0.41 kilograms per cubic meter (kg/m²) per decade since 1988, and natural variability in climate just can’t explain this moisture change. The most plausible explanation is that it’s due to the human-caused increase in greenhouse gases.”With a lot more water vapor in the air, why would we get more droughts?
YouTube cartoon - Global warming fraud promotion for children, with an introduction from alarmist Ben Santer
Part 1 of Hippo Works' Stop Global Warming Video with an introduction from Climate Scientist Ben Santer
AGW is a thermometer count artifact « Musings from the Chiefio
...The result is that almost all of the AGW “signal” goes away. The conclusion is that the AGW “signal” is an artifact of the arrival and departure of thermometers from the scribal record. The addition of more thermometers in the Southern Hemisphere followed by the loss of Siberian thermometers with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The thermometer count rises from 1 in 1701 to over 9000, then drops back to under 3k today. That has an impact…Oz women more active than men in [performing token rituals that will allegedly improve the world's weather]
Melbourne, Aug 12 - ANI: Women are more active in fighting climate change, and plan to do more in the future, than men, a survey conducted for the Australia Institute has found.Senators Want Carbon Tariff to Protect American Jobs from Cap and Trade - WSJ.com
The online poll of 1000 people found that the most popular climate-friendly actions were installing energy-efficient light globes, spending less time in the shower and turning off appliances at the switch, reports The Daily Telegraph.
President Obama says his cap-and-trade energy tax won't hurt the economy, but at least 10 Senate Democrats disagree. Last week they sent Mr. Obama a letter demanding that any bill taxing U.S. CO2 emissions must include a carbon tariff "to ensure that manufacturers do not bear the brunt of our climate change policy."
Hmmm. This sure sounds like an explicit admission that cap and tax would add so much to the cost of doing business in the U.S. that it would drive factories and jobs overseas.
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All of which puts the President in an economic policy bind. When the House passed its cap-and-tax bill in June, he warned against a carbon tariff by saying "I think we need to be very careful about sending any protectionist signals." But these 10 Senate Democrats are saying explicitly that protectionism is the price of their support. So Mr. Obama can opt to impose a huge carbon tax and drive jobs overseas, or he can impose the tax along with a tariff, and kick off a trade war. Better to call the whole thing off.
City of Dallas lobbies for climate swindle cash
Even the City of Dallas joined the party. The city paid Barbara T. McCall Associates Inc. $120,000 to lobby on its behalf in 2008.4x4 trek slammed for spreading wrong message > National News > News | Click Green
Brett Wilkinson, director of intergovernmental services for the city, said that figure is the total amount the city paid McCall for all of her lobbying efforts last year, including transportation, stimulus funds and the Trinity River Project.
He said McCall lobbied for the climate change bill to include funding for an energy efficiency and conservation block grant program. The city doesn't have an official position on climate change policy, he said.
A 22,000-mile 4x4 expedition to highlight the dangers of climate change has been criticised for “spreading the wrong message”.[Again, I'd like to see this writer defend this idea in front of a town hall packed with actual taxpayers] | Indiana Daily Student |
The team of three green campaigners is travelling off-road in a brand new Land Rover Defender to visit remote communities in 31 countries and warn of the need to reduce carbon footprints.
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Leading environment expert Kevin Smith, of Carbon Trade Watch, warned: “How can they travel all the way to these communities in Africa and South America to warn them of the dangers of climate change?
“These places probably have a neglible carbon footprint and yet we're pitching up in a 12-mile-to-the-gallon Land Rover to tell them to do more – I couldn't think of anything more hypocritical.”
Though tariffs can only be selectively implemented, and can have negative repercussions, there are better industrial solutions to climate change. Perhaps the best of which is for First-World countries to pay for emissions reduction in developing countries, which have yet to implement many of the cheapest (and most effective) technologies.
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