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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Educated liberal's take on health care exasperates - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Taking it for granted that a planetary temperature rise and swelling seas are imminent, Ellis laments that cap-and-trade legislation is "currently on life support in Congress." Just another victim of the "deep-seated aversion to Washington's intrusion in the marketplace," he says.
But isn't it more like a deep-seated aversion to slapping a punishing tax on all of us — industries and consumers — for the benefit of politically-favored "green" technologies that can't make it without taxpayer subsidy? While not controlling the hot flashes of Mother Earth more than a whit.
Miadhu News – Foreign countries express concern over President’s cancelled visits
Certain western countries indicate that the participation of President Mohamed Nasheed in UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is of vital importance and that they are ready to provide the necessary financial assistance and support to take President Nasheed and his delegation to the summit.
Labor Day speaker cool to global warming - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports
Monckton believes global warming is a myth. He outright disputes the findings of the majority of the scientific community as being a con perpetrated on the masses by narrow interests. Greenhouse gases and carbon emissions, he says, have nothing to do with global warming. It's all nonsense.
» Sandals, Snorkelling, and Mudslides: It’s a great time to Visit the Philippines - Blogger News Network
...a lot of global warming is caused by flooding rice fields, the traditional way to kill weeds.
Energy sector losing steam | CJOnline.com
Republican members of the Kansas congressional delegation at the KIOGA gathering -- including Reps. Jerry Moran, Todd Tiahrt and Lynn Jenkins -- expressed opposition to the president's environmental agenda on pollution control.
Tiahrt said a big policy shift on CO2 would weaken U.S. production capacity and make the country more reliant on imported oil. Advocates of cap-and-trade legislation haven't provided sufficient evidence carbon dioxide contributes to climate change, he said.
"I don't know where they get it," Tiahrt said.
Good news: Feds pulling workers away from FAA to staff exploding Cash for Clunkers bureaucracy
There's actually a serious risk here that the feds are going to mismanage a simple car-rebate program into bankruptcy. Oh, and more good news: Confirming earlier suspicions, it's foreign carmakersthat are getting the lion's share of the sales. Exit question: Which is more frightening as an omen for ObamaCare's future problems? Yesterday's $2 trillion upwards budget revision or this wheezing canary in the coal mine?
Holdren Proposed Geo-engineering Option at 2007 Goldman Sachs Conference
Regardless, we have to place Holdren's actions and statements within a well-documented eugenics context. In 2007 Holdren did not suffer the burden of public office. This allowed him to be quite frank about his ideas, just as he was in 1977, when he warmed to the idea of a "planetary regime" to scale back the human population. He also proposed, putting chemicals in the water supply to ensure decline in fertility and chipping people to control their reproductive capabilities. His long and sordid track record speaks for itself.
Global Warming: A Classic Case of Alarmism
There was a cooling scare in the early 1970s at the end of the last cooling phase. The current global warming alarm is based on the last warming oscillation, from 1975 to 2001. The IPCC predictions simply extrapolated the last warming as if it would last forever, a textbook case of alarmism. However the last warming period ended after the usual thirty years or so, and the global temperature is now definitely tracking below the IPCC predictions.
A net-benefit greenhouse gas plan - The Globe and Mail
Something’s Fishy With Global Ocean Temperature Measurements
Democrats are censoring Republican's Congressional mail: the Democrat-controlled Franking Commission's not for being frank. So, what else is new?
"cap and tax"
"Democratic" (Democrats want to substitute 'majority'...supposedly, one can't identify party affiliations)
Record July 2009 Sea Surface Temperatures? The View from Space « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
As can be seen, the SSTs started to fall fast during the last week of July. If you are wondering what I think they will do in the coming months, well, that’s easy…I have no clue.
Demand for tariffs in global-warming [scam] legislation splits allies -- latimes.com
The tariff demand has placed a group of often-reliable allies for President Obama -- including Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin and the newly installed Al Franken of Minnesota -- squarely at odds with the president, who has said that he doesn't want to send "protectionist" signals with the climate change bill.
Friday, August 21, 2009
INTERVIEW-Global forest destruction seen overestimated
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The amount of carbon emissions caused by world forest destruction is likely far less than the 20 percent figure being widely used before global climate talks in December, said the head of the Brazilian institute that measures Amazon deforestation.
The Cop15-capital may have small private wind turbines all over town
Three small mini wind turbines in the garden are [allegedly] sufficient to supply one average household with energy.[While Waxman promotes climate fraud today, he enjoys some refreshing bottled water]
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According to Dong Energy, three wind spires are estimated to supply one average household with energy. The cost is about 32,000 Euros (46,000 US dollars).
Rep. Henry A. Waxman and California state Sen. Fran Pavley are co-hosting a climate change forum at UCLA on Friday, Aug. 21 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
‘The Worst Car on the Road’ - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online
One again, Friend goes to the other experts: “None of the auto executives I spoke with expressed any inclination to build their cars to suit Better Place. . . . Herbert Kohler at German automaker Daimler Benz, said tartly, ‘a standardized battery would have to result from a standardized car, and a standardized car didn’t work under socialism in East Germany.’”Nomads to make a comeback under climate change
Ouch. No one disputes the genius of EV technology. But the question always is, compared to what? The gas engine is one tough competitor.
“We need to re-learn that spirit of co-operation which some of the old nomadic societies still practice – and we need to understand how fragmenting the rangelands leads to their destruction through the economic imperative to get as much as you can from a limited area of land in a highly erratic climate,” he says.Murray chief goes against the climate [fraud] flow
The need is all the more urgent because of the vast extent of the rangelands and their ability to play a vital role in overcoming climate change by locking up large amounts of carbon.
EXTREME climate patterns that have parched south-eastern Australia in recent years will not prove to be the new norm, according to the man in charge of reforming the Murray-Darling river system.
Secretary of Agriculture: Colorado forests to disappear due to climate change
Secretary Vilsack did not explain on what he was basing his statement. The claim comes as a bit of a shock to many in the Centennial State who live, work and play in the mountains and can testify they are as beautiful as ever. His comments do follow on the heels of other seemingly over the top comments advocating for action against manmade climate change.New Documentary Explores Human Cost of Global Warming Propaganda | NewsBusters.org
Contrary to what students have been taught in British schools, human emission have little or nothing to do with melting glaciers, Syun Ichi Akasofu, founding director of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska, concluded in his research.Schott Solar Scraps Earnings Goal, Remains Committed to Listing - Bloomberg.com
“We have ice in the Arctic Ocean and it has been receding, but this receding began around 1850, not the just the last 50 years,” he said in the film. “It does happen all the time because of natural phenomenon. So it is very difficult to associate all the changes in the ice to carbon dioxide.”
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Schott Solar AG, a German maker of solar modules and receivers for solar thermal power plants, scrapped its target to increase earnings this year and said it remains committed to an initial public offering.
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Heming said the collapse of the Spanish solar market, the financial crisis and a harsh winter in Europe led to overcapacity, pricing pressure and reluctance among customers to invest. He reiterated the company will achieve sales growth of above 10 percent in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
Seattle: Global warming fighter Nickels loses his job over snowstorms?
Seattle's mayor concedes in primary battle | Seattle Times Newspaper
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, viewed as a national leader on environmental issues but dogged by criticism at home for the city's mishandling of December snowstorms and for his support of a multibillion-dollar downtown tunnel, conceded defeat Friday in a primary vote.
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Nickels has been hailed nationally as a visionary on environmental issues, helping persuade nearly 1,000 mayors around the country to abide by the standards of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
Unveiling a Plastic Bag Ban in Mexico City - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Standard plastic shopping bags were officially outlawed in Mexico City this week, but you wouldn’t know from the check-out line at the supermarket.Get ‘Em While They Last: Cash for Clunkers Program to End » The Foundry
One unintended consequence we’ve pointed out before is the effect destroying used cars has on charities relying on car donationsRight Wing Nation » Hehe! Junk Science Awards
The top ten examples of junk science from the last decade areTone down hype on renewable energy | The Australian
The economics of the RET wilt under cost-benefit analysisAmerican Thinker: The Biggest Missing Story in Politics - One Year Update
August 25, 2008, just about one year ago, my article on those Battleground Polls -- which have routinely shown for many years that about sixty percent of Americans are "conservatives" -- stirred up quite a ruckus. If my analysis is right, then that would explain Democrat hysteria over the town hall meetings in America as the revelation that the Left is just a small minority of Americans who have insinuated themselves into the chokepoints of information, education, entertainment, and policy in American society.American Thinker: Obama and the Upchuck Factor
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Is there anywhere in America where liberals outnumber conservatives? Yes, in the District of Columbia liberals are 65% of the population and conservatives are 14%.
This is the first time that the American middle class has taken to the streets in living memory.
Watch live webcast of Waxman-Pavley climate change forum at UCLA / UCLA Newsroom
Rep. Henry A. Waxman and California state Sen. Fran Pavley are co-hosting a climate change forum at UCLA on Friday, Aug. 21 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.Confirmed! Orbital Cycles Control Ice Ages | The Resilient Earth
Yet the global warming doomsayers and climate change catastrophists continue to spout their nonsense, threatening the world with plague, famine and destruction. They claim it is time for action and I agree—we need to disband the IPCC and redirect its funding toward solving the world's real problems. Earth's climate is driven primarily by extraterrestrial events: supernovae, cosmic rays and orbital dynamics. It seems the Bard got it wrong—when it comes to global warming the fault is not in ourselves, but in our stars.Light Rail Uses Twice the Energy as Driving | Coyote Blog
One of the justifications for diverting highway money to ridiculously expensive light rail systems is that light rail supposedly reduces energy consumption. Really?
Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Cash For Clunkers: Two Crimes, Justified By A Lie [Reader Post]
Take THAT all you graduate students, newlyweds, store clerks, aspiring actors, single moms, non-deadbeat dads, warehouse workers, journalists, hippies, and other assorted poor relations. You want a car, you can scrape together your savings for a down payment on the privilege of paying hundreds of dollars a month to Government Motors for FIVE YEARS, just like everybody else.[Ok, we better ban coal-fired power plants, or changes in climate may make it difficult for us to generate enough power to keep the lights on?!]
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Obama’s excuse for decimating the last two generations of used vans, SUV’s, pick-up trucks and full size cars is the global warming hoax. The ascendancy of Obama was, in his own narcissistic words:…the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
Over ninety percent of global electric utilities that report climate change activity to the Carbon Disclosure Project recognised they are at risk from changes in climate and water availability, which are already adding stress to the sector.Biosphere 2 Becomes a Climate Change Laboratory | Spatial Sustain
The University of Arizona has a $30 million grant from the billionaire founder Ed Bass, and they intend to run the facility as a climate change laboratory, specifically studying the impact of climate change on water patternsTwitter / Search - #uclaclimate
Hashtag for Waxman-Pavley climate change forum #uclaclimate @UCLANewsLiveReality check: 230 mpg in the Chevrolet Volt? Maybe if you think electricity is free.: Consumer Reports Cars Blog
In the end, 230 mpg might be the exaggeration of the “century.”
'Long sad history of AP reporter Seth Borenstein's woeful global warming reporting' | Climate Depot
As part of Climate Depot's continuing role as the ombudsman of the Fourth Estate, the below is a small sampling of the long sad history of Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein's woeful global warming reportingMeter Reader: Wading into the Controversial Net Metering Debate - Environmental Capital - WSJ
Our view is that they should receive 100% of the benefit of the net electricity they return to the system, minus their share of the fixed costs to maintain the system.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Failing to Overwhelm
China's emissions have been increasing at around 8% per year. If China can somehow cut this rate in half and maintain it until 2050, then China's emissions in 2050 will still exceed the total global emissions in 2009.[Fraud] Opportunities are in the air - Green Chemicals
Pop the champagne!
My attention was caught last weekend by a segment in Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street Journal Report about how investors can cash in on the pollution market.
According to Richard Sandor, CEO of Chicago Climate Exchange, the carbon [fraud] industry would be huge and would ultimately be the largest commodity in the world.
2050: Philadelphia Becomes Orlando - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
Philadelphia may soon become a bit more like Orlando, scientists say, thanks to climate change[Still more alarmist BS from Bryan Walsh at Time]: Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food
But we don't have the luxury of philosophizing about food. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price of oil — which will affect everything from fertilizer to supermarket electricity bills — our industrial style of food production will end sooner or later. As the developing world grows richer, hundreds of millions of people will want to shift to the same calorie-heavy, protein-rich diet that has made Americans so unhealthy — demand for meat and poultry worldwide is set to rise 25% by 2015 — but the earth can no longer deliver. Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food, they face a future of eroded farmland, hollowed-out countryside, scarier germs, higher health costs — and bland taste.Candlemakers’ Union Endorses Edison’s Lightbulb - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Can the United Steelworkers really believe that it's in their long-term interest to get behind cap-and-trade? Sure, we'll be building all those wind turbines. But after the coal companies are bankrupted (as the president has promised), what will the steelworkers be making then?Government takeover | Tulsa Beacon
Or perhaps there was a little under-the-table agreement of the sort that would never happen in the most transparent administration in American history — you know, like the one that PhRMA is rumored to have reached with the White House.
We are on the brink of enacting “cap-and-trade” legislation that will cripple American competitiveness in the global economy, double home utility bills, add thousands to the cost of new cars, and cost U.S. workers an estimated 2.5 million jobs per year - while doing next to nothing to impact a “global warming” problem that is largely fictitious to begin with
In an insane attempt to prevent climate change that will allegedly raise food prices, should we deliberately increase the cost of energy, which will raise food prices?
Urban Poor in Developing Nations Particularly Badly Hit by Rising Food Prices, Climate Change : TreeHugger
Scientists have been highlighting the risk to global food production due to climate change for some time, but a new study from Purdue University quantifies some of the worst effects. Looking at rising grain prices due to changing growing conditions, the researchers found that millions of people in developing nations will be pushed into poverty, with the urban poor to be most strongly hit
Cap-and-Trade Creators Dubious of Waxman-Markey (SO2 vs. CO2; political failure vs. ‘market failure’) — MasterResource
The longer the climate debate drags on, the more skeptical many academics are becoming of Waxman-Markey. Is it time to scrap the bill entirely and look for solutions that do not rely on the political process?MUST LISTEN: Climate change sceptic urges Pacific to be wary of global warming theory: Listen to Ian Plimer | Climate Realists
He tells Bruce Hill Pacific Island nations are seeing changes in their climate and coastline, but he questions whether these are part of a worldwide human-induced climate change phenomenon.Column - Give them blue wedgies | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
..How many scares have we now seen not come to pass? Count ‘em—the scares about nuclear winter, acid rain, giant famines, DDT, the Y2K bug, SARS, avian flu and this swine flu that Australia’s chief medical officer warned could kill 20,000 of us this season alone.
Now we’re told that if we don’t turn off the lights we face a warming hell few humans can hope to survive. Seriously.
Enough with the panic merchants. Hold them to account before they slip free to fight another alarmist cause.
Climate Observations: Borenstien Sea Surface Temperature Article Is Misleading
To sum up the Borenstein article, it’s factually incorrect in places, and in others, it raises alarmism to ridiculous levels by dwelling on a meaningless statistic, the July SST anomaly of the White Sea.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Pathologies in Climate Science: "There Should be Consequences"
Let me emphasize that the vast majority of climate scientists are decent, hard-working people, and I count very many as very good friends. However the actions of a few cast a dark shadow on the entire community, and this will continue until the community starts to self-police the bad behavior of its most publicly visible voices.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Obama Administration Approves Oil Sands Pipeline
Recently, I pointed to an pending decision by the Obama Administration on whether to approve a pipeline to bring carbon-intensive petroluem to the U.S. from Canadian oil sands. President Obama has approved the pipeline:Policy Peril Segment 9: Big Business | GlobalWarming.org
Today’s excerpt from CEI’s film Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself rebuts the argument that regulatory climate policies can’t be bad for the economy because so many big businesses support them.Should Renewables Be ‘Made in the U.S.A.’? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
This is an odd argument coming from people who are usually suspicious of big business, or even hostile to corporations. When did they decide that corporate support is some kind of good-housekeeping seal of approval?
Does it make sense for the country to manufacture solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars? Or will renewable-energy manufacturing – mirroring the electronics, semiconductor and car industries – only end up migrating to China and other countries?
Utility wants to pour $334 million of taxpayer money down carbon capture rathole « Green Hell Blog
So AEP plans to spend $670 million — remember half is taxpayer money — to avoid increasing atmospheric CO2 levels by 0.000077 ppmv per year. That’s only $8.7 trillion per ppmv avoided.Big benefits seen in adapting to climate change | Reuters
OSLO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Helping developing nations to adapt to climate change such as floods or heatwaves can give bigger economic benefits than a focus on deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, a study indicated on Friday.
C3: Obama's Sec. of Ag Says Warming Is Killing Forests; Study Says He's Wrong - It's Beetles That Kills Forests And Then Causes The Warming
...Obama's Cabinet members keep revealing themselves as climate illiterates as they just simply blame every natural event on global warming to convince taxpayers that 'Cap & Tax' is necessary. In the case of Colorado which he was referencing, various beetle types have destroyed millions of acres of lodgepole pine and spruce and the "warming" trend in Colorado since 1998 has been at a -0.86°F per decade rate (yes, minus 0.86°from July 1998 to July 2009).Cluster’s last stand « JoNova
One of the signs of a change in the slope of temperatures is the change in the slope of PR descriptions.A Face-Off Over Arctic (Sea) Ice - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
A confrontational BBC television interview with the head of Greenpeace is stirring a strong reaction in Britain and among conservatives.Does the NY Times often refer to irrational fear of carbon dioxide "among liberals"?
Senators slam climate [swindle] bill - Wyoming
“There’s nothing good about it,” said U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. “I’m going to do everything to make sure it doesn’t pass.”news: Al Gore to speak Oct. 9 at environmental journalists' conference in Madison
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., said the bill is “the biggest hidden tax in America.”
“It’s a Ponzi scheme because we’re just going to print certificates for CO2 and not take care of any CO2,” Enzi said. “It’s just another way to make money.”
Also scheduled to appear at the journalists conference are National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head Jane Lubchenco, environmental reporter Andy Revkin of the New York Times and Maude Barlow, a senior adviser to the president to the United Nations general assembly.AccuWeather.com: New Study, Recent Atlantic Hurricane Activity might have been Highest in 1,000 Years
Our own Hurricane expert Joe Bastardi disagrees with Mann on this...........
What is it with Dr. Michael Mann? His latest "findings" on hurricanes , that we are at some mythical high is nonsense.
ObamaCare to ObamaEnergy: Questioning ‘Telephone-Book-Sized Legislation’ — MasterResource
It is no exaggeration to look at both ObamaCare and ObamaEnergy as moving large parts of the American economy down the road to serfdom. Average Americans are rebelling against the smartest-guys-in-the-room national planning explicit in the ‘telephone-book- sized legislation’ that they cannot read much less understand.The Migrant Mind: The Church of the Warm World
"Let us pray. Our Gaia, which art on earth. Sacred is your air. Thy stability come, thy temperature be one on earth as it is in the air. Give us this day, our daily coolness. Forgive us our emissions as we forgive those who don't doubt. Lead us not into energy temptation; but deliver us from CO2. For doubters should be scorned and left forlorn. Amen.Twitter / James Firestein
Let's stop global warming! Everyone put #350 at the end of their tweets! #NOH8 #350UK: Pack away the barbecue - the end of summer is here, Met Office admits | Climate Realists
Summer is officially over and it's time to pack away the barbecue, forecasters have admitted.Americans' faith in Obama fading: Poll | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
As he prepares for a week off with his family, leaving right after lunch, the president will read in Friday's Washington Post results of a new poll that shows his numbers sharply down.
Eritrea's success Story: [You mean CO2 can go up but malaria can go down?!]
Since the Abuja Summit in April 2000, malaria has been reduced by 90-95%.Major malaria success on small island
Bioko (formerly known as Fernando Po) is a small island (estimated population 130,000) that is part of the troubled African country of Equatorial Guinea. A programme to improve the control of malaria on the island is reported (1) to have achieved remarkable success.Anti-Malaria Efforts Yield New Success - washingtonpost.com
Four years after high coverage, multiple malaria control interventions were introduced: mean prevalence of infection in children aged 2-5 years fell from 42% to 18%; prevalence of moderate-severe anaemia in the same age group declined from 15% to 2%; and all-cause under-five mortality dropped by two-thirds, from 152 per 1,000 births to 55.
Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the-art drugs has succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization is reporting today.
The findings from Rwanda and Ethiopia are the first to show a greater than 50 percent reduction in malaria mortality nationwide in "high burden" countries. Such dramatic reductions had been achieved previously only in smaller regions or in countries where the disease is less pervasive.
'Postpone Kyoto successor', urges climate boffin • The Register
The chances of an international climate agreement being made at Copenhagen in December were already looking unlikely - but Japanese scientist Dr Syun Akasofu thinks we may as well call it off completely.
FEATURE-Carbon [swindle] traders bet on California redwoods | Reuters
The trees, which trap quantities of the carbon dioxide that is warming the planet, are sold as living carbon traps or "sinks" rather than cut for timber, a model that could go global. But the prospect of a worldwide market could also attract hustlers eager to make a quick buck without making a difference to the planet.Gassy mass | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
"It's easy to game it," said forest owner Chris Kelly of the developing forest carbon market. "We just have to figure out how to do it right."
Amazing. For people who want us to cut emissions - like the stuff blown out the back of jets - the global warming alarmists descending on Copenhagen for a new post-Kyoto deal don’t set much of an example, do they?Got Goat's Milk? The Quest to Save Dairy from Climate Change: Scientific American
The researchers concluded that summer milk production in the U. S. would decrease by 16 to 30 percent, about double the normal summer decline.Low milk prices mean tough times for NM dairies - Forbes.com
VEGUITA, N.M. -- Second-generation dairymen Laurent and Maurice Othart say they're losing thousands of dollars a day because of falling milk prices - a situation so dire that their 78-year old father, Leon, is using his social security checks to help keep the business afloat.
Overproduction, sagging demand and a drop in exports are driving down milk prices for dairy farmers.
Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands' | Environment | The Guardian
A 1m rise in the sea level, which many experts think likely within the next 100 years, will cause 20% of the Delta to go underwater. At the other extreme, the 14m rise that would result from the disappearance of Greenland and western Antarctica would leave the Mediterranean lapping at the northern suburbs of Cairo, with practically all of the Delta underwater.Tony Blair: 'We can't ask people not to own cars' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Despite a projected tripling of traffic in China over the next decade, the focus should be on low-carbon technology rather than sacrifice, says a report by Tony Blair's Climate [Fraud] GroupTwo House Democrats Seek Information From Insurers - WSJ.com
WASHINGTON -- Two powerful House Democrats have sent a letter to insurance companies asking them to provide detailed information about their conferences and retreats, executive pay, and other business practices.
The Associated Press: WHO predicts 'explosion' of swine flu cases
Many countries could see swine flu cases double every three to four days for several months until peak transmission is reached, once cold weather returns to the northern hemisphere, said WHO's Western Pacific director, Shin Young-soo.Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Obama now a big NASCAR fan or something
Not quite comedy gold but maybe comedy bronze, as The One delivers a master class on how to B.S. your way through a subject you know and/or care little about. How he managed to keep a straight face talking up the joys of guys driving around in a circle, I’ll never know; I guess a good briefing book and 18 months spent pandering on the trail to whatever local cultural idiosyncrasy you encounter breeds a certain facility with this sort of thing.If you actually believed that carbon dioxide is going to kill our grandchildren, how could you possibly justify fossil-fueled NASCAR racing?
Moby Plays 'Carbon Footprint' Swedish Gig - Spinner
The shaven-headed dance music maestro has launched a special concert campaign to raise awareness of the issue and convince fans to do reduce their carbon footprint.newsminer.com • Fairbanks flirts with frost as early cold weather arrives
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"It's almost like, not to be overly dramatic, but the long-term survival and the long term well-being of the human race is involved with climate change," he explained. "We all work under the assumption that as a species we're slowly moving forward to better things.
In his website blog Moby -- a committed vegan -- said he wanted to address the fact that nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions is the result of rearing animals for human consumption.
"I asked Al Gore about why he didn't mention this in an 'inconvenient truth' (as animal production is responsible for more greenhouse gases than every car, bus, truck, bus, plane, boat on the planet COMBINED). He answered honestly, basically saying that getting people to drive a hybrid car isn't that difficult. Getting people to give up animal products is almost impossible. I appreciated his honesty.
A temperature of 28 degrees was recorded at Eielson Air Force Base, breaking the old record of 33 degrees for the day, set in 1963. A new record low of 30 degrees was reported at the University of Alaska Fairbanks West Ridge. The old record was 32, set in 1963.Greenpeace's sea ice 'mistake' delights climate change sceptics | Environment | guardian.co.uk
This is all sensible advice, especially given there's simply no need to exaggerate. The facts are scary enough, without having to resort to artificially magnifying them. Greenpeace will be bruised by this furore, but it should also see it as an instructive exercise in how best to engage with its critics.Greenpeace's Director Busted For Lying About The Effects Of Global Warming
On July 15th, Greenpeace put out a press release saying the arctic ice caps would melt by 2030, a claim that Leipold now admits is false. Rather than own up, and say it was a mistake and he'd never let it happen again, he says Greenpeace is "a pressure group" that has to "emotionalize issues, and we're not ashamed" of it.
This is horrible. Imagine if an oil company executive, or the head of the American Petroleum Institute made the same concession.
Sea Surface Temperatures “warmest on record”…but « Watts Up With That?
The point I’m making here. Yes the ocean is warm, it has gotten warm before. Should we panic? No.Cap and trade will destroy the nation | visaliatimesdelta.com
Energy resources newly discovered here in the United States are quickly locked up by environmental laws, because of a scam called "global warming." The climatologists not funded by government and free to tell the truth say any global warming is controlled only by the output of the Sun, and is not caused by humans. That tells me the promoters of environmental laws destroying prosperity in the United States have an entirely different agenda.Redfaced Greenpeace insists ‘we didn’t make it up’ - we just ‘emotionalised the issue’ - Telegraph Blogs
I really can’t decide which is more enjoyable here. The humiliation of Greenpeace’s worrying lack of scruples when promoting the “Anthropogenic Global Warming” myth. Or the sterling performance - and by a man in the pay of the BBC, for heaven’s sake - of Stephen Sackur in exposing it.South Africa: Widespread snowfall kills three
I do definitely know one thing though. Stephen Sackur is most definitely this blog’s official Hero Of The Week.
Snow in the Eastern Cape claimed the lives of three correctional services officials on Thursday when their car crashed on the slippery N2 at Mzimvubu Cuttings.
An admission that trace amounts of CO2 are NOT the key factor in our ability to navigate the Northwest Passage in any given year?
Crew Log 68 - At Sea 68 38N, 098 34W
"Without charts, chart plotter(s), radar, depth sounder(s), GPS, wind instruments and satellite ice reports - not to mention a reliable engine - it is hard to imagine negotiating this passage at all, much less in a few weeks - or even a year! Did I mention ice?Note that the Northwest Passage has been navigated many times before, without the benefits of modern technology.
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It is hard to imagine negotiating the passage without the benefits of modern technology.
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As we continue to make our way through the Passage with all of our modern conveniences, we do understand that weather rules the day today as it did hundreds of years ago. It would be foolish to think otherwise.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Climate change: intense cold front has killed 20,000 alpaca in Puno so far this year | Peruvian Times
Climate change continues to wreck havoc in Peru’s southern Altiplano, where the arrival of freezing temperatures since March — almost three months earlier than usual — have killed at least 20,000 alpaca, reported Peru’s National Agriculture and Sanitation Service, or Senasa.Veterans push for climate [fraud] bill with new ‘Operation Free’ coalition | Grist
Operation Free’s first major event will be in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9 and 10, when 100 veterans will come to the capital to lobby for a Senate climate and energy bill. The group is also spreading its message through the internet and in-person outreach, as well as through partnerships with national security organizations and other nonprofits.
The Operation Free website uses military terminology to try to engage support. “Mission: Secure America with Renewable Energy,” declares the site, asking volunteers to “enlist” in the cause and “deploy in support of Operation Free.” Each page prominently features a photo of a hand holding a gun with an oil fire burning in the distance.
How psychology can help the planet stay cool - environment - 19 August 2009 - New Scientist
The affluent young, for instance, tend to be diet conscious, and this could be used to steer them away from foods like cheeseburgers - one of the most climate-unfriendly meals around because of the energy it takes to raise cattle. So when trying to convince them to forgo that carbon-intensive beef pattie, better to stress health benefits than harp on about the global climate.[Flashback: If Gore thinks carbon dioxide may kill us all, why does he eat cheeseburgers?]
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Tawanna Dillahunt and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, think such opportunities presented by Facebook can be combined with our liking for furry animals. Inspired by the attachment that people can develop towards Tamagotchi virtual pets, the team is testing the persuasive power of a "virtual polar bear" standing on an ice floe that grows bigger as people adopt environmentally friendly behaviours such as taking shorter showers. Initial results suggest the polar bear has pull.
"If you ever eat with Al Gore, let him order," Boone said. "I just said, 'I'll have whatever you're having,' and it was a cheeseburger and fries. I won't order a cheeseburger, but I sure will eat one."ASU praised for green efforts by national magazine | ASU News
Sierra magazine has named the nation’s top 20 “coolest” schools for their efforts to stop global warming and operate sustainably.[Flashback to 2008]: Kangaroos could play key role in climate change
The controversial scientific study published in the journal, Conservation Letters, is proposing that Australia reduce its stock of sheep and cattle by 30 per cent and instead farm kangaroos in an effort to fight climate change.
Investor's Business Daily -- Consensus Thaws On Global Warming
Global Warming: What's the climate change scare really about? Not what the alarmists want the public to think. Just ask the retiring head of Greenpeace. In an unguarded moment, he might spill the secret again.Newsmax.com - Zogby: Obama Hits Record Low in Poll
Pundits pay especially close attention to trends involving swing voters.TheHill.com - Special interests battle for climate-change ground
Continued evidence of declining popularity there will ratchet up the pressure on congressional blue dogs and other conservative Democrats to go their own way on controversial proposals such as public-option healthcare and energy cap-and-trade, knowing they can't rely on presidential coattails to prop them up with voters.
The pro-climate bill campaign started Thursday continues the theme Democratic pollsters have said is the best way to sell the legislation – not just as a climate protection bill but as a mechanism for creating millions of new green jobs.Al's Journal : What we're up against
The tour’s official moniker is the “Made in America Jobs Tour” and is being supported in part by the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of labor and environmental groups that joined forces to push a climate bill and build support for the pro-organizing legislation, the Employee Free Choice Act.
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“A clean energy economy is a surefire way to put our country back to work,” said Maggie Fox, president and CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, which is also sponsoring the pro-climate tour.
Make no mistake, fossil fuel companies and their allies will make every effort possible to resist [the largest attempted swindle in human history].
On the climate scam, should we allow each of 700 brainwashed young people to speak for over four million others?
World youth calls for more action and less talk
700 young climate activists gathered in South Korea expressed frustration and concern that their governments are not doing enough to combat climate change.
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The largest-ever gathering of young climate activists on Thursday urged world leaders to do far more to combat climate change, Reuters reports.
"We young people – 3 billion of the world population – are very concerned and frustrated that our governments are not doing enough to combat climate change ... we feel that radical and holistic measures are needed urgently from us all," they said in a statement following their conference in Daejeon in South Korea.
Random Thoughts: I Told You So !
The lunatic fringe, using scare tactics won the first battles, because of the lack of facts on the ground. Now that the facts have piled up over the last 20-30 years it is overwhelming against a trend of human caused global warming.[Alarmist in the Arctic]: Cameron Dueck (OPEsailing) on Twitter
Silent Sound has left Cam Bay with full tanks, her engine fixed and a bear paw in the fridgeEnsign talks Tahoe, but won't talk affair
Unlike other officials, [U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif] blamed global warming for the degradation of Lake Tahoe.Former British PM [Blair's fantasy world]
“The real culprit in my mind is global warming,” she said.
"I think the single most important thing is to understand China's developing plan, in other words, how the Chinese economy grows in the coming years, low-carbon growth is at the heart of its plan," Blair said.
FCPP Publications :: Dr. Madhav Khandekar, [IPCC] Scientist
FC: Does CO2, or the more politically correct term greenhouse gas emissions, have any impact whatsoever on global temperatures or are they entirely irrelevant?Low-carbon industry new boon for China?
MK: They are entirely irrelevant. I don’t see that CO2 is inducing any climate change. CO2 may have induced a small amount of warming that we saw in the 80’s and 90’s but more importantly CO2 is an inert gas, it is not a pollutant. That’s a misleading misconception. It is a very healthy ingredient for the world’s agriculture and forestry. We have shown definitely through satellite data that world forestry has been enriched in the last 10 years because of increased CO2. I think it is incorrect to say that CO2 is a pollutant and a dangerous gas and it’s a misleading concept.
“I’m not so optimistic about the low-carbon industry,” [Zhang Yue, vice chairman of Sustainable Buildings and Construction Initiative of the United Nations Environment Program] told the Global Times. “It is exaggerated too much.”Ohio.com - Roundtable speaker says global warming threat is real
Larry J. Schweiger, president and chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation with 4 million members, told the Akron Roundtable that ''the world is in a very dangerous place'' and too many Americans are unaware of the potential consequences.
Schweiger told an audience of 350 people that he was not trying to be an alarmist but the science of global warming — more than 10,000 studies in all, he said — is ''alarming . . . and a very disturbing trend.''
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Evidence of global warming is widespread: an ice-free Arctic, melting ice in Greenland, methane gas escaping from lakes in Siberia and Alaska, thawing Arctic soils, increased storms, forest fires and lightning strikes, pine beetles that are wiping out Western forests and warmer oceans.
Tony Blair: Copenhagen climate summit must not be about 'percentages'
The Associated Press: In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record
Add to that an unusual weather pattern this summer where the warmest temperatures seem to be just over oceans, while slightly cooler air is concentrated over land, said Deke Arndt, head of climate monitoring at the climate data center.
Charlie Cook: Dem situation has 'slipped completely out of control' - The Scorecard - POLITICO.com
Cook scrupulously avoided any mention that Democratic control of the House is in jeopardy but, noting a new Gallup poll showing Congress' job disapproval at 70 percent among independents, concluded that the post-recess environment could feel considerably different than when Congress left in August.
"We believe it would be a mistake to underestimate the impact that this mood will have on Members of Congress of both parties when they return to Washington in September, if it persists through the end of the Congressional recess."
Study: Global warming worst in Western Europe - Science Fair - USATODAY.com
Crowd turns farm forum into health care debate | argusleader.com | Argus Leader
"I will work with every fiber of my being to defeat the [Waxman-Markey] bill that was passed by the House of Representatives," [Thune] said.The Daily Bayonet » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Aug. 21st 2009
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Thune is worried about the price farmers will pay because of the Democrats' environmental policies. Herseth Sandlin took issue with the characterization. "Don't be scared that the Democrats are in charge," Herseth started to state but was drowned out by laughter and a few boos from the crowd.
This week British kids wear eco-uniforms, polar bears refuse to drown and greens celebrate their efforts to make our lights go out.
New acreage enrolled in farmers’ [climate scam] program | Jamestown, North Dakota
“To date Farmers Union has sold nearly $10 million worth of soil carbon offsets through the Chicago Climate Exchange,” said Carlson. “Agriculture provides an immediate and proven way to offset emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.”
NDFU has historically sold its pool of carbon credits in the spring and summer and returned proceeds to contract holders in July. This year, however, the Chicago Climate Exchange market has been slow so NDFU anticipates disbursing proceeds later than usual.
“It’s a lot like marketing durum,” said Dale Enerson, the Carbon Credit Program director. “You know it’s in the bin and you can wait for a better price.”
Carlson said NDFU is committed to the program and will stay in it regardless of price.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Greenpeace: Yeah, we misled, but we needed the emotionalism!
The global-warming movement isn’t really about climate. It’s about stunting the economic growth of the West. That’s why groups like Greenpeace like to “emotionalize” rather than conduct and promote actual science. They’re interested in specific outcomes, not scientific truth, and that specific outcome is statist control over energy production and economic activity to redistribute wealth.Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » EXCLUSIVE: Lies Revealed — Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration
Leipold said later in the BBC interview that there is an urgent need for the suppression of economic growth in the United States and around the world. He said annual growth rates of 3 percent to 8 percent cannot continue without serious consequences for the climate.IAAF endorses Global Alliance for Climate Justice | TrackAlerts
BERLIN – President Diack has announced today that the IAAF will endorse the initiatives of the Global Alliance for Climate Justice.International Association of Athletics Federations: Information from Answers.com
Founded by Kofi A. Annan of Ghana, who was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Global Alliance for Climate Justice is focussed on creating the biggest online petition ever that will be targeted at the world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, from 7 to 18 December 2009, demanding that they make fair and robust decisions that deliver a just climate deal.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics
ZNet - Climate Anarchists vs Green Capitalists
...it's likely that in the future there will be either an ecoliberal/ ecosocial dialectic (the conflict between green capitalists and climate anarchists) or an ecofascist/ ecoanarchist dialectic (envirodespots fighting steampunks), depending on the severity of global warming and its effects on human settlements.McCain, Udall to discuss climate change at RMNP | coloradoan.com | The Coloradoan,
Though the size of Rocky Mountain National Park's glaciers fluctuated in size throughout the last century and even showed some growth in some years, they began to retreat in the 1990s, when summer temperatures began to rise significantly, according to a Web site on the park's glaciers created by Portland State University and the National Park Service.
Carbon Tax Center » What Can Replace Faltering Cap-and-Trade?
Is Waxman-Markey doomed? Revulsion at the special favors and sheer complexity built into the 1,400-page bill that squeaked through the House in June has been building nationwide this summer. Now, a Washington Post editorial signals the impending collapse of not just the bill but of cap-and-trade as the central mechanism for controlling U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.Carla Carlisle on the migration of snow geese
The well-fed birds were in better shape for their long journey and for breeding. However, once the for-aging birds reached the arctic regions, they were stripping the vegetation of the salt marshes, causing seawater to seep into the marshes, which in turn increased the reflectivity to the sun, making the temperatures to rise. The snow geese were contributing to global warming.Today’s news: Vilsack, attack ads, GOP budget ideas | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs
Prof Jefferies’ discovery won him a Nobel Prize he was part of the UN panel on Climate Change that shared the prize with Al Gore in 2007.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack predicted approval of both health care and climate change legislation this year, saying President Obama won’t settle for small steps. “I’ll tell you right now, he is not interested in moving the dial just a smidge. He’s interested in transformational change.”
Potential carbon-capping law a 'life-changer for all of us' - CharlotteObserver.com
“This shift is going to be a life-changer for all of us,” said Lee Lushbaugh, fossil power chief for Bechtel Power Corp., which designs and builds power plants.POLITICO Interview: Gov. Tim Pawlenty [Again, no mention of global warming]
POLITICO: What are the issues I’m going to hear you talking about in the next month, two months, three months?US unions, green groups unleash climate change campaign - Yahoo! News
PAWLENTY: You’re going to hear me talking first of all about the bread and butter issues that we’ve been talking about here, specifically: jobs, the economy, taxes, spending, health care and education reform.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A coalition of US environmental groups and major labor unions on Wednesday unveiled a national campaign to refute charges that legislation to battle climate change would cost US jobs in a recession.
"The fact of the matter is, you're either going to have both, or you'll have neither," Leo Gerard, the head of the United Steelworkers union, told reporters on a conference call to announce the 50-stop, 22-state push.
"This is about creating good family-supporting jobs as we do the right thing for the planet," said Gerard, who predicted that legislation to fight global warming would create hundreds of thousands of jobs "if we do it right."
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"And if you make real things that will reduce our carbon footprint, and create good family-supporting jobs in America, that ought to be the direction this country is going in. I've have enough of Wall Street throwing up on my shoes because they pigged out at the candy store," he said.
Thatcher’s press officer joins [anti-] turbine campaign, Teesdale Mercury
[Sir Bernard Ingham, who worked as Margaret Thatcher’s Chief Press Secretary while she was Prime Minister] said: “I am wholeheartedly opposed to wind farms for Bolam and for anywhere else for that matter – they are a Government-organised racket at the expense of energy consumers and cannot be justified by their stated purpose – to reduce carbon emissions. A total scam.”Greenpeace admits: BBC got it wrong about arctic sea ice melting
The right wing conservative climate-denial blog-and-twitosphere is abuzz with the news: Greenpeace admits live on the BBC that it lied about arctic melting.
That's not true, it's being promoted by the handful of global warming skeptics still standing, and we're hitting back. You can help us by tweeting, blogging, and sharing this clarification on Facebook.
ICE Canada Weekly Outlook: Canola Treading Water
...because the crop is late in development, it remains extremely vulnerable to frost damage and certain downgrades to quality.[In case you missed it]: Markey, Stulp meet with farmers, ranchers in Greeley | TheFencePost.com
“Many of my people think global warming is a hoax, and I'm a little skeptical myself. But it's going on all over the world, and it's not good to put all that carbon in the atmosphere.” [U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn] said.Jay Lehr: Carbon dioxide isn't guilty
I will explain as simply as I can that carbon dioxide plays essentially no role in determining the temperature of the planet. Secondly, that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and that without the carbon dioxide we have on the planet we could not exist because vegetation would not exist. Hundreds of millions of years ago when the dinosaurs roamed the world we had five times more carbon than we have today.
My primary concern with climate control legislation is the disaster it will have for the less advantaged. If we are going to see poor people throughout the world, particularly in Africa, advance and improve their standard of living it can only be by supplying them inexpensive energy. But with climate control legislation our energy will increase in value and their chances of improving their plight is going to diminish.
Supporters, opponents to rally on climate [fraud] bill
Hundreds could turn out today for a Greensboro rally that is part of a national effort to convince U.S. senators to vote against proposed climate change legislation.YouTube - Global Green 2007
[From San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi's home district] Fashion show for the homeless featuring models to promote Global Warming AwarenessNancy Pelosi: Biography from Answers.com
The 8th District, which includes much of San Francisco, is considered one of the more liberal districts in the United States, and thus Pelosi has often been accused of extreme liberalism by her political opponents.New York By 2050 Is Projected to Be Hotter Than Atlanta Today - Bloomberg.com
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Summers in the Big Apple are set to get a whole lot hotter. That’s according to projections by Climate Central that show New York in 2050 will have more hot days in August than Atlanta does now.New Energy Focus - Oxford city council unveils wind turbine plan
"Compared to ugly electricity pylons, wind turbines are a huge improvement for Oxford's environment," he explained. "The real threat to our countryside is not wind turbines but climate change. I hope everyone will support this plan."
The American Spectator : Good Night, Sweet Rose
By the way, as a total contrast, is anyone keeping track of the whoppers that Mr. Obama has told recently?Carbon Tax Would Be a Blow to West Virginia - State Journal - STATEJOURNAL.com
My favorites of course are his saying during the campaign that he would read every line of the budget to weed out wasteful spending. There are millions of lines in the budget. I will bet he has not read ten. He did not even read his own stimulus, cap and trade, and health care bills, or so I am told. And he claims to be against wasteful spending? Is that a joke? This man is to spending what cattle are to manure. He invented wasteful spending on a scale no one ever dreamed of.
At best, it would have a negligible impact on world temperatures while causing serious economic damage, particularly to West Virginia and its residents.[Obama's Ag Secretary promotes the greatest scientific fraud in human history]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack defended efforts by the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress to pass climate change legislation, saying: "I start from the proposition that climate change is real. I know some disagree."
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Vilsack said he directed an Agriculture Department study that has said that the cap-and-trade provision of the bill would be "break-even for agriculture in the short run," he said. "But longer term, there would be substantial opportunities billions of dollars of income for agriculture in trading carbon credits."
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"I wish I could take opponents of climate change legislation to Colorado," he said. "There the forests are dying because of climate change. People go there to be photographed in front of beautiful forests, which in a few years won't be there."
Yet another alarmist expedition with ice trouble: The Ola Skinnarmo in the Northeast Passage
[Google Translation]Earth Talk: Is global warming killing people?
For their part, though, global warming skeptics such as atmospheric physicist Fred Singer maintain that cold weather snaps are responsible for more human deaths than warm temperatures and heat waves. “The elderly die in inadequately heated homes. People get skull fractures from falls on the ice. Men die of heart attacks while shoveling snow. People get colds, flu, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Infectious diseases proliferate. Hospital admissions rise.”Alabama Legislature Rebukes Federal Climate Change Assault on Economy
In a move reminiscent of the flurry of recent Tenth Amendment and state’s rights legislation, the Alabama legislature has passed a resolution stating that any climate change legislation passed by the federal government should not gut the U.S. economy as the cap and trade global warming tax passed by the U.S. House would.Tea-party protesters gather outside Space's office, demand change | newarkadvocate.com | The Newark Advocate
"You are what makes this country great, not the government," Beau Bromberg said to the audience. "You can change what and who we send to Congress. If this health care bill goes in, it will affect every aspect of your life. It's all about government control with taxes, cap-and-trade, health care, No Child Left Behind, etc. We have a congressman who votes with Nancy Pelosi 99 percent of the time; that's not a moderate Democrat."
Six Ways to Cool Down Over the Climate-Change Security Scare - Esquire
There's perhaps no one better than our resident global-threat expert to smack down what the Times calls our "new" global-warming threat. So breathe easy and learn something, because it's really just another spooky headline.An Englishman's Castle: Ed the Horse can talk the talk, but not walk the walk.
Climate Change department keep air-conditioning rather than open windows - Telegraph2009 Coldest Year on Record? | News Talk 650 CKOM
The trial was abandoned after three days because staff at the department complained about noise from construction works, "the wrong kind of breeze" and the potential security risk.
Wow, all that saving energy and returning to pre-industrial times stuff is not as nice as enjoying the fruits of our labours is it? Now will you kindly shut the f*ck up about how everyone else should do it and put up with it.
2009 could very well be the coldest year on record for Saskatchewan.Why Is Big Oil Staging Its Fake Climate-Bill Protests NOW?
Environment Canada's top weatherman Dave Phillips says we've had colder than normal temperatures since December. "I could only find one year where you had nine consecutive months of cooler than normal, so it really is historic in the wrong way so to speak."
We suppose it's a slow news period, so maybe, there will be bigger splash, but aside from dopey "Green" blogs, is anyone even talking about the climate bill right now? Why start protesting when nobody is paying attention?
Global Climate Scam » Blog Archive » Cool and Stormy Weather Didn’t Deter Climate Realists Symposium
About 300 people attended the event. The Minnesota Taxpayers League, Minnesotans for Global Warming and Minnesota Majority maintained information booths there.Budget crisis keeps Maldives President from Copenhagen
For some, the symposium was a refresher course in skepticism of man-made (anthropogenic) global warming. For others it was an eye-opener. “I came here with an open mind,” said one attendee, who stopped at the Minnesota Majority / GlobalClimateScam.com booth, “I didn’t really know what to think [about global warming]. A lot of the things I heard here, I’d never heard before,” she said.
President Mohamed Nasheed has canceled his trip to decisive UN climate talks in December as a measure to cut government expenditure.The Only One - Climate Justice - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
First of all, we have to recognize that Climate Justice is not only the right tool for climate stabilization but the underlying principle for global equity.Chinese carbon [swindle] trading at a crossroad - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
Half of the carbon credits traded worldwide under the present UN-backed mechanism stem from projects in China. Still, restrictions hold the Chinese market back, its key official says.
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For example, a campaign launched during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing has generated 8,026 tons of carbon credits, which have been bought at only 5 US dollars per ton – far below prices on other markets.
Ranking Universities by ‘Greenness’ - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Universities these days are scrambling to burnish their sustainability credentials, with wind power, organic food, and competitions to save energy, among other efforts.[Does Tony Blair not have access to the Internet?]
There is renewed commitment in the United States and China to tackle the problem of climate change, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview with China Daily on Thursday after meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and other government and business leaders in Beijing this week.Global Warming 'Hoax' Costly | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL
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Blair, however, argued that this question can be at least partially sidestepped by focusing on the development of green technology. "What we've got to do is develop the science and technology that allows us to consume differently," he said. "It's not how do we stop consuming."
And the global economic crisis, he says, represents an opportunity to do just that.
"It is a crisis, but it's also an opportunity to restructure our economies. So let us invest in clean technology for the future," he said.
Everyone knows that I am a self-proclaimed expert, similar to Al Gore. Everyone knows the difference between Al Gore and me: I deal in facts and Al Gore, like so many other liberals, deals in what-ifs and insidious fear mongering, which the blind, obedient, adoring liberals in the media and ill-informed gullible lemmings swallow hook, line and sinker.Lord Adonis: no need to cut travel to save the planet, says Transport Secretary - Telegraph
While I challenge all to do research and investigate my statements, Al Gore, like so many demagogues, simple says those who disagree with him are deniers, they must not be heard.
Personal sacrifices are not necessary in the fight against global warming, according to Lord Adonis, the Transport Secretary, who promised that greener technologies would mean Britons should have no need to cut back on travel.
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Instead Briton could meet green targets through technology such as ultra low carbon cars, new generations of low-emission aircraft and electrified rail lines that cut rail carbon emissions by a third compared with using diesel locomotives.
Climate [scam] summit flop feared
Hotel reservation cancellations spark failure fears for the upcoming climate conference in CopenhagenUN summit on climate change [swindle] under fire - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
The Foreign Ministry has cancelled 20,000 overnight hotel reservations meant for people attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December.
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The two-week conference in December is expected to attract between 12,000 and 15,000 participants.
The ministry described the cancellations as a natural ‘adjustment’.
But Thomas Færgeman, the director of environmental think tank Concito, was concerned the government had lost confidence that it could broker a ground-breaking climate and had therefore lowered expectations as to how many participants were expected.
The much-ballyhooed UN summit on climate change, scheduled to take place on September 22 in New York, is mired in controversy even before it gets off the ground.Cool summer produced fat arctic bears
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According to current plans, only a limited number of world leaders will be speaking at the summit while a "working dinner" to be hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is being confined to only 25 of the 192 world leaders who are expected to be present at the summit.
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The summit, which is expected to be attended by virtually all Western leaders including US President Barack Obama, is being advanced as a high-profile one-day political meeting, just ahead of the high-level segment on the opening day of the General Assembly sessions.
Hedman said polar bears stay on the Hudson Bay ice for as long as possible so they can feed, adding this year the ice was so thick that the bears stayed out for an extra two weeks.
That's resulted in fatter, healthier bears this summer, Hedman said, adding the development is not likely a long-term trend.
"It's probably a blip," Hedman said of the thicker ice and cooler temperatures.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Lawmakers weigh views in climate-change debate - Salt Lake Tribune
Utah lawmakers continued their fact-finding exploration of climate change on Wednesday.The Climate Bill | Issues | Energy Citizens
They heard from a metals scientist, a lawyer, a politician, businessmen and more -- a chorus of critics who decried the heavy price they say Utahns will pay in lost jobs and high energy costs for Washington's climate change policy. They also heard how the science behind the policy is dubious.
But, in the hours of testimony on Wednesday, one voice was notably absent: that of an actual climate scientist.
Unfortunately, the recently passed U.S. House of Representatives climate bill is a badly flawed 1,427-page piece of legislation that will drive up the price of energy, deter American job creation and send jobs overseas and bring greater stress to a still struggling economy.New Valve Increases Maple Syrup Yields
Warming has shortened the Vermont maple season by 10% over the last 40 years, according to research conducted by Perkins.
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