Another Inconvenient Truth
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Steamboat Pilot & Today: Experts challenge climate crisis
[William Gray, professor emeritus of atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University] said the global warming issue has developed into a hoax.Is the future of energy jobs just hot air?
“Scientific objectivity on this topic has long ago been suspended,” he said.
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Other positive changes can be linked to global warming, he said. As the earth warms, the growing season increases. With it comes more vegetation. People think the South American rainforests are disappearing, Michaels said.
“That is the area where the vegetation is increasing the most on the planet,” he said, showing satellite images of increases in vegetation across the world.
“This is a horrible thing,” Michaels joked. “We really, really, really need to stop this, OK?”
...a report released by the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration indicates otherwise.
Tracking the economy it showed that employment figures would worsen for the first several years--improving slightly in the midterm, peaking in 2024 and then declining steadily-- with 25 percent fewer jobs in 2030.
Don Shelby Meets With Famed Global Warming [Believer] - wcco.com
"The Arctic melting, the world's high-altitude glaciers melting, epic droughts and then epic flood in dry and wet areas. Those kinds of changes are going to be so destructive. And that's with 1 degree of temperature increase, never mind the 5 that scientists think are coming in the course of this century," continued McKibben.Townhall.com::Talk Radio Online
Tuesday August 25, 2009McCain, Udall agree, but they’re still wrong | Kevin Lundberg
Prager Highlight: Dennis talks to leading Earth Scientist, Ian Plimer, on Global Warming With Dennis Prager
Dennis has a second conversation with Ian Plimer, Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences as The University of Adelaide. His new book is Heaven and Earth. [MP3]
Sen. Udall stated at the beginning of the meeting that they were not going to discuss or debate any of the merits of the global warming argument.Truth from India: Global Warming a dangerous hoax - Dianna Cotter
I can understand his desire for a focused discussion on the problems in the park, but I find it a bit troubling to intentionally steer away from discussing such a fundamental assumption.
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If global warming is the main reason for the bark beetle outbreak today, what explanation is there for the bark beetle problems Colorado had in the 1970s? Though not quite as widespread, I remember the bark beetle devastation southwest of Denver at that time. Back then, a drive down U.S. 285 showed the same tree kill as a trip along I-70 does today. How could that have been, as Colorado temperatures were, in the 1970s, at the lowest point we have seen in the past 80 years?
It’s time for those who believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming admit they have been taken in by lies, mistruths, and their own fundamental lack of scientific experience. This is the truth. All it needs is the light of day to prove the AGM myth. Consider this a bright sunny day.
Solar Roadway - Could we replace the road with solar panels?
If all paved surfaces in the U.S. were replaced with 15% efficiency solar panels, the resulting distributed power network could provide three times the electricity the nation consumes, with zero carbon emissions.
So crazy it just might work? Apparently the Dept. of Transportation thinks so: Solar Roadways has received a $100,000 contract from DOT to build a prototype.
Jamie Potter: Climate Camp - Day Three
It's times like these I wonder why I don't wait for the British climate to warm a little bit before getting involved with the fight against climate change...
Indian Scientists Call UN Glacier Retreat Claim Unscientific
Aug. 28, 2009 (EIRNS)—Disputing the forecast made by the United Nations body studying global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which warned in early May that the glaciers in the world's highest mountain range could vanish within three decades, V.K. Raina, a leading glaciologist and former Additional Director-General of Geological Survey of India (GSI), claimed recently that the issue of glacial retreat is being sensationalized by a few individuals. Raina, who has been associated with the research and data collection in over 25 glaciers in India and abroad, debunked the theory that the Gangotri glacier is retreating alarmingly. He maintains that the glaciers are undergoing natural changes which are witnessed periodically.As globe warmed, Georgia cooled - The Augusta Chronicle
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Average global temperatures have risen about 1.5 degrees over the past 150 years, but not in Georgia.Did Rhett Butler have kidney stones?
Instead, average state temperatures have declined a little less than a degree over most of that period, Assistant State Climatologist Pam Knox said at the Georgia Environmental Conference on Thursday.
Gotcha! NBC Catches Villaraigosa Illegally Using Water - LAist
Although he tells the denizens of Los Angeles to cut down on their water use or face fines and higher bills, Mayor Villaraigosa's city-owned mansion has had its lawn watered during illegal hours several times, NBC's Joel Grover found in a month long investigation.[What, and give up that super-valuable seat at the table?]: - PA Coal Association Opposes Federal Climate Change Bill
The Pennsylvania Coal Association (PCA) unanimously voted at its annual board meeting to oppose the federal climate change legislation (H.R. 2454, the Waxman-Markey bill or the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009), which now is before the U.S. Senate.
An American Lion - An American Lion - The Daily Blog - Global Warming Disappears as an Issue
When George W. Bush was President, Global Warming was an urgent issue, feverishly covered in the media and hyped endlessly by liberals, who screamed at us that because Bush was President, Global Warming was going to destroy our lives and drown our cities.Young People Are Biggest Energy Wasters | The Vibe - The World According to SocialVibe
Flash forward to now, when President Obama spends a few billion here and there on green energy, infrastructure and education. Just by giving the appearance of believing in Global Warming, President Obama gets a pass, it would appear.
Green is the new black, and young people will be the first to tell you why you should reduce, reuse and recycle to save the planet (and their future). But do younguns practice what they preach? A recent survey found that individuals under age 24 are actually the most wasteful demographic when it comes to energy and water.UNC study: Ocean warming may increase the abundance of marine consumers
The results suggest that higher temperatures could lead to an increase in the number of consumers in the ocean, such as zooxplankton or fish, but a reduction in the overall mass of living creatures in the sea.Guzzlers still in Bligh fleet
She and five ministers now drive a six-cylinder Chrysler 300C with the acceptable GVG rating of 6. But five other ministers still drive six-cylinder Holden Caprices that rate an unacceptable 4.5, emitting from 261 to 280 grams of carbon dioxide for every kilometre driven.Holden Caprice: Information from Answers.com
The Holden Statesman and Caprice are a series of full-size luxury vehicles produced by the Australian General Motors (GM) division of Holden since 1990.
[Foolishness or fraud?]: It's not drought, it's climate change, say scientists
SCIENTISTS studying Victoria's crippling drought have, for the first time, proved the link between rising levels of greenhouse gases and the state's dramatic decline in rainfall.Don't Exhale: EPA Expected to Declare Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant - Political News - FOXNews.com
A three-year collaboration between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO has confirmed what many scientists long suspected: that the 13-year drought is not just a natural dry stretch but a shift related to climate change.
Kreutzer said he believes the EPA decision is a tool being used by the Obama administration to pressure the Senate to pass the legislation.Himalayan glaciers grew when Asia was hotter | Sindh Today - Online News
"None of this is surprising," he said. "There's a lot of people who want to use the bogeyman of EPA regulation to force people into the cap-and-trade bill. ... They don't want to give up that lever."
Kreutzer called EPA regulation a "ransom" for climate change legislation.
"It's a stone axe to go after something where you need a scalpel," he said.
He suggested a simple solution would be for Congress to pass a one-line bill that declares carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. But it's an unlikely solution.
Washington, August 29 (IANS) A group of Himalayan glaciers grew six-fold during much hotter summers, when temperatures rose steeply by six degrees Celsius in Asia, baffling geologists.
Unlikely Texas environmentalist leaves office
Soward also stood out on the panel because he believes greenhouse gases cause climate change and need to be cut. The governor and other state officials don’t, and Perry has complained federal efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions will hurt Texas’ economy.[In case you missed it: John Coleman on Glenn Beck] - YouTube - Cap And Trade - The Global Warming Fraud Continues
Obama and his leftist comrades in Congress want to punish all Americans with massive energy taxes that will put millions of people out of work and bankrupt entire industries.PlanetSKI | The weather is turning
In Chile the huge falls of last week have eased and access roads cleared. Portillo is still reporting some of the biggest accumulations with season-to-date falls of more than 6.8m and snow lying at the top of the slope nearing 3m. It reports receiving about a metre of new snow in the past 7 days.
Controversy over citizen activist groups
"When someone else does it, it's astroturfing; when you do it, it's community organizing," said Kenneth Green, resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "Both sides do this kind of thing."Dump cap and trade, levy a carbon tax | By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board
The Senate definitely should not pass the House version, a defective bill that would have negative consequences for years to come. It is not in the nation’s best interests.
The Senate truly needs to have the political courage to pass a carbon tax. It would strike a blow for protecting the environment and preventing potentially disastrous climate change.
CO2 is Green... and Green is Good! | Climate Realists
More CO2 in the air means more plant growth.Twitter / Bruce W. Boss
Earth's current atmospheric CO2 concentration is almost 390 parts per million (ppm). Adding another 300 ppm of CO2 to the air has been shown by literally thousands of experiments to greatly increase the growth or biomass production of nearly all plants. This growth stimulation occurs because CO2 is one of the two raw materials (the other being water) that are required for photosynthesis. Hence, CO2 is actually the "food" that sustains essentially all plants on the face of the earth, as well as those in the sea. And the more CO2 they "eat" (absorb from the air or water), the bigger and better they grow.
CNN "State of the UNION," T.Boone Pickens on to talk about climate change bill. Predictable: "Wind and solar do not run the 18-wheelers!" :-)[With recent updates]
A complete list of things caused by global warming[Are these people interested in natural causes of climate change?]: UN seeks signatures for action against climate change
NAIROBI, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN is calling for millions of online signatures for a climate petition and launching the first-ever Global Climate Week as part of its "Seal the Deal!" campaign, 100 days ahead of a crucial UN climate change summit in Copenhagen (COP 15) in December.
Moby backs EU climate change [fraud] effort | Euronews 24
Moby said: 'For me climate change is the most pressing issue, because every other issue — of social justice, human rights, animal rights, economic uncertainty — all these issues are predicated upon the ability for human beings to go about living the way they have been living. And with climate change, if you are suddenly dealing with the middle part of the United States becoming a desert, and food prices becoming one hundred times what they are right now, if you are dealing with potentially a billion refugees, all other issues fall by the wayside. So in order for us to have the luxury to deal with other issues, we first have to deal with climate change, I believe.'Ice children highlight melting glaciers
"The future prosperity of India and China is literally melting away," Yang Ailun added. "With only 100 days to go before the Copenhagen Climate Summit, leaders around the world must take personal responsibility for averting climate chaos and stop the greatest threat to all of humanity."The Storm of the Century (so far) « Climate Progress
Coastal dwellers from Houston to Miami are now playing Russian roulette with maybe two bullets in the gun chamber each year. In a couple of decades, it may be three bullets.I Love CO2: Eco-Imperialism – every Environmentalist's Dream
This web of organizations over which Napier exercises influence means that Napier is responsible for the generation of climate alarmism, input into the IPCC reports, powerful secular and religious eco advocacy, directing of investments exceeding $55 trillion towards the Green agenda, monitoring of eco compliance, manipulating government fiscal policy towards green taxes, and control of the built environment towards the green agenda. Napier is an eco-imperialist, and for him and his cronies it’s all about total social control for the green agenda – controlling all bases: investment, building, land, religion, government, taxes, propaganda, advocacy, monitoring, climate science and data.
Sheep-Maintained Solar Power Plant
The state’s newest solar farm has the capability of generating 650 kilowatts from its 3,240 photovoltaic panels. This is enough energy to power at least 60 homes. They estimate that around 837,000 kilowatt-hours will be produced in the first year alone. North Carolina is definitely serious in its efforts to switch to sustainable energy.Houston’s Energy Citizens Rally (and why was the Houston Chronicle editorial board silent?) — MasterResource
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The public are welcome to view the ground-mounted solar panels from afar. But BB&T, the bank that financed the solar project, required that the $4 million property be enclosed with barbed wires, in order to protect the expensive solar panels.
I have lamented how the editorial board of my hometown Houston Chronicle long ago took a hard left position on the ”problem” and “solution” of anthropogenic global climate change. Not even the U.S. House of Representatives’s Waxman-Markey climate bill–labeled a “monstrosity” and “less than worthless” by NASA scientist and Al Gore mentor James Hansen, and “out of control” by UN Foundation head Tim Wirth–has loosened the grip of climate alarmism and policy activism at the Chronicle despite an opposite view by popular business editorialist Loren Steffy.American Thinker: Bi-Polar Liberals?
Now to the present.
At the same time that we are in the middle of this debate, the Obama administration has loaned Brazil two billion dollars to help fund the development of Brazil's huge offshore oil reserves. So the LPDs are adding to the source of CO2 gasses at a cost of a couple of billion, while demanding that we tax ourselves into poverty to reduce CO2 gas from the burning of petroleum.Pensioners 'stay in bed' to cut fuel bills - Telegraph
Since the LPDs purposes are always noble and just chock-full of empathy and all that warm fuzzy stuff, perhaps they could explain how these two things are not in direct conflict with one another. And they could also explain why George Soros, the ultimate "sugar-daddy" of the LPDs, who is a major shareholder in the Brazilian corporation Petrobras that will be receiving the loan, apparently hasn't divested his holdings in protest of this despoiling of the planet. Maybe they could also explain why he's not a traitor to the planet.
Age Concern and Help the Aged, which commissioned the report, warned that further price rises seen during 2008 would have increased the pressure on older people, forcing many of them to turn down the heating or cut spending in other areas in order to afford their energy bills.
The group said some pensioners were even resorting to staying in bed in a bid to reduce the amount they spent on heating.
The Migrant Mind: Putting Sunshades on the Earth--Catastrophic Idea
It is frosty in New England this year.China Poised to Corner the Market on Solar Cell Production « Doctor Bulldog & Ronin
And the last time that happened was 1816.
So, tell me, how are those “green” jobs going to help our unemployment situation when China, not America, is the one who will be hiring to build those solar panels?NHS spends thousands on climate change [hoax] handbook - Telegraph
Obviously, those “green” jobs won’t be here in the United States.
The NHS has spent thousands of pounds on a booklet that tells nurses to put pot plants in patients' rooms to counter climate change.[WWF-partnered alarmist expedition: Now purchasing fossil fuel for long-distance caribou-killing operation]
They had not found any gas, so we’d have to wait until the fuel station opened, and then we’d be off. Silas was vague about where we were headed, only that it was “about 60 miles away” and a place that promised good caribou hunting. They had planned to go on a caribou hunt later in the week, and were glad for the offer to pay for fuel in exchange for allowing a few tag alongs.
The man who doubted Al Gore - Peter Foster, Financial Post
The Buzz: Buyers Seek Beans Ahead of Frost Threat - Farm Futures
If one were to think of current candidates for the most disastrous of faux pas, surely none could be greater than "The Man Who Expressed Skepticism About Catastrophic Man-made Global Warming." Not merely do mouths gape, but eyes roll at any dimwit's failure to grasp that there is "consensus" on the issue. Indeed, to dissent is seen not merely as evidence of mental deficiency but moral turpitude.That matches my experiences about two years ago, but not now. I've had lots of people volunteer their skeptical views recently, and true believers seem to be the exception.
The Buzz: Buyers Seek Beans Ahead of Frost Threat - Farm Futures
Soybean importers, especially China, are wasting no time booking supplies. In addition to normal demand, some of the buying appears "front loaded" due to concerns about the potential for frost to damage yields, says Farm Futures Market Analyst Arlan Suderman on this week's The Buzz video program.American Pulse™ Townhall poll of over 4,000 people 18+ (conducted 8/14-8/17/09)
* 59.7% say protests at townhall meetings on proposed healthcare reform are citizens making concerns known, 20.8% say its manufactured protests.S. Fred Singer - Sun spot frequency has an unexpectedly strong influence on cloud formation and precipitation
* 60.7% say “Cash for Clunkers” won’t help the economy recover, 39.3% say it will.
* 28.8% think Cap-and-Trade won’t help the economy grow, 15.2% disagree.
* 43.8% say Cap-and-Trade won’t impact jobs, 30.8% say it will eliminate jobs and 25.4% say it will create new jobs.
Climate modelers seem puzzled that small fluctuations in total solar irradiance (TSI) appear to have large influence on the climate. They feel it necessary to take recourse to complicated mechanisms.
Jennifer Marohasy » NOAA Blunder Explains Claims of Warming Oceans?
SCIENTISTS at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) appear to have made a blunder with a data adjustment and splice resulting in sea surface temperatures being warmer than they would otherwise be by about 0.175 degrees C over the last two decades.Climate alarmism is a runaway fire by Professor Will Alexander « An Honest Climate Debate
Climate alarmism is like a runaway fire. It started quietly with a genuine concern. It was like lighting a match beneath a pile of flammable material. The environmentalists and politicians took over. The fact that the basic science is demonstrably false is no longer an issue.Film Producer Accuses NEA of Enlisting Artists to Push Obama's Domestic Agenda - Political News - FOXNews.com
The welfare of nations is at risk.
Courrielche said officials on the hour-long call -- including NEA Director of Communications Yosi Sergant and Michael Skolnik, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons -- encouraged the artists on the line to create works of art in their respective fields related to health care, energy and the environment.Lawyer: Greenhouse Gas Regulation Not All Downside - State Journal - STATEJOURNAL.com
Although the use of coal will become more expensive as climate warming emissions are regulated, it won’t all be downside for West Virginia business.Cap and Trade : U.S. Congressman John Boozman : 3rd District Of Arkansas
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“We’re past the point of asking whether carbon will be constrained,” Gerrard said. “We’re now addressing the issue of how.”
The Daily Truth about Cap and Tax [see page for links]
#1: Federal Government Intrusion: The Federal Government Wants to Tell You How to Build Your House
#2: Pelosi Wants Fannie and Freddie to do to our National Energy Policy what Has Been Done to the Housing Market
#3: Creates the Largest Welfare Program in Our Nation’s History
#4: Promotes “Green Banks” At a Time of Record Job Losses
#5: Taxpayer-Funded Mobile Homes
#6: Uses American Tax Dollars to Plant Trees
#7: Yet Another Taxpayer-Funded Giveaway to ACORN
#8: Increases Utillity Rates on America's Families and Businesses
#9: Taxpayer Dollars to Help Developing Countries "Adapt" to Climate Change
#10: Raises Electricity Prices and Kills Jobs
#11: Tells Real Estate Appraisers How do do Their Jobs
#12: Attempts to save trees in the Congo while forcing Americans to pay more for energy
#13: Higher Energy Rates to Pay for Bike Paths in Senegal
#14: No Household Appliance is Safe from Government Regulation
#15: Subsidizes Studies on Human Behavior
#16 Taxpayer-Funded “Carbon Content” Labels
#17 Taxpayer Sponsored Infomercials
#18 Marketing “Location-Efficient” Mortgages with Taxpayer Dollars
#19 Federal Government: If It Works, We’ll Replace It
Obama: Losing his religion?!
[For the seventh week in a row, Obama delivers a weekly address with no mention of global warming, climate change, greenhouse gases, etc]
WEEKLY ADDRESS: [This one's all about Katrina and hurricanes]Obama, less than 10 months ago: “The science is beyond dispute… Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response.” « Climate Progress
Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.
The computer has spoken: Copenhagen will be a failure | Grist
Cancel your plans for flying to Denmark this December. Send the polar bear suits back to the costume shop, and quit boning up on all those U.N. acronyms (IPCC ... UNFCCC ... AWG-LCA ...).100 days before Copenhagen, here are 100 things you didn’t know about Copenhagen | Grist
The COP-15 climate talks in Copenhagen will fail. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, “one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists,” has already gamed out the talks, according to the New York Times Magazine
5. 12,000 to 15,000 people are expected to attend the conference, and thousands more journalists, NGO reps, activists, and rabble-rousers will also come to town.The Washington Independent » What Does LeMieux’s Appointment Mean for Climate Legislation?
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9. The average December in Copenhagen has 17 days of rain and a temperature of 28 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yet LeMieux’s primary loyalty seems to be to Crist himself — he’s Crist’s closest adviser, and he describes himself as “a Charlie Crist Republican.” And right now, the last thing Crist wants is to be seen as, well, liberal. Crist is facing a primary challenge in his bid for the U.S. Senate from the conservative Marco Rubio, who will undoubtedly challenge Crist’s conservative credentials. If LeMieux wants to do Crist a favor, he won’t inflame the conservative base by crossing party lines to vote for cap-and-trade legislation.You thought the health care battle was ugly. Just wait for the climate fight. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
So, for now, the jury’s still out on LeMieux.
Add in Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin (both of Michigan), Mark Pryor (Arkansas), John Rockefeller (West Virginia), Jim Webb (Virginia), and Claire McCaskill (Missouri), all of whom did not vote for the Climate Security Act of 2008, and you've got a good dozen Democrats likely to be skittish about climate legislation as envisioned by the House.
...even if health care reform does pass, it's unclear that Blue Dogs will be eager to lie down for the administration a second time. In which case, perhaps climate change—not health care—could be Obama's Waterloo.
Friday, August 28, 2009
William Yeatman and Jeremy Lott: Greens threaten American Indian prosperity | Washington Examiner
Navajo Nation, the largest tribe in the United States, has faced a number of enemies in its long history: Anasazi warriors, Andrew Jackson and now, lawyered-up environmentalists.C3: Is IPCC's Chef Pachauri Secretly Supplying Meatless Recipes To Bloggers? Here's How The 'Chef' Dragged The IPCC Into Lifestyle Governance
...The UN wants to manage your kitchen and food consumption all in the name of saving the planet. Whenever big government proposes a solution, it invariably becomes a bigger problem than one needing to be solved, without fail.President Obama – save your summer home from rising sea levels
At a glance, the paper looked like the popular Martha’s Vineyard Times newspaper, but our edition was dated to August 27th, 2020. On the front page, it told the story of what Martha’s Vineyard could look like if President Obama embraces the clean energy revolution we need. Majestic wind turbines off the shore spin cheap, clean energy into the Vineyard’s homes and businesses. The local economy is buoyed by green jobs. People around the world honor the president for his political courage for standing up to special interests.
YouTube - James Hansen: "We've already proven that cap and trade doesn't work"
From his New York City office, he spoke with Climate Crisis Coalition Coordinator Tom Stokes, on May 10, 2008, about the science of climate change, the urgency of enacting effective climate legislation and why he is speaking out about it.Energy bill ‘fatally flawed,’ ex-Murphy chief says | Arkansas News
While the Obama administration talks about the “green jobs” that will be produced by the bill, it does not talk about jobs lost, Deming said.Leave population out of climate talks, Indian minister says
He estimated as many as 5,000 jobs could be lost in South Arkansas, including at Murphy Oil and at Lion Oil refinery in El Dorado. Green jobs would probably pay less and offer fewer benefits than the jobs lost, he said.
Asked what he might say to the UK climate change minister, Ed Miliband, who arrives next week, Ramesh said pointed out that the only leader to come up with a "concrete offer (of money)" was Gordon Brown. "He said earlier this year that there should be a fund of $100bn (£60bn). We don't know if that is every year or what. But it is an offer on the table."Whose money is being offered here?
CPR: Story- Capitol "Tea Party" Rally Message: "Taxes Are Too High & Business Is Fleeing California"
The protesters say tax hikes in the recent state budget deal and what they call “burdensome” environmental rules are forcing businesses to flee California.Joyce is right
They waved signs that read “Global Warming is a Lie” and “Save Jobs At Any Cost!”
Dennis Nokleby “The government and environmentalists are just taking over. Their driving businesses out of the state. Their causing hardships and loss of jobs. The state can’t afford that...”
Barnaby Joyce, leader of the National Party in all but name, gave a formative speech on Sunday at the Party Federal Council in Canberra. He underlined his party’s opposition to any emissions trading scheme, and called for a referendum on the use of nuclear power in Australia. His determination to stake out a National Party position independent of his Liberal coalition colleagues is understandable. The ETS is a political boon for the Nationals. Long a party in decline, they are now the only major Australian party that is outright opposed to an ETS. Many Australians support this position, and far more will support it once the full cost and futility of an ETS become widely apparent.100 ice kids melt to mark 100 days until the UN Climate [Hoax] Summit | green LA girl
Today, Greenpeace put ice sculptures of 100 children at the Temple of Earth in Beijing, “symbolizing the disappearing future of the more than 1 billion people in Asia who are threatened with water shortages by the changing climate” — plus an ice sculpture in the form of the number “100” on a world map in New Delhi to show “the world washed away” by glacial melts.Be ready for Cap & Trade they’re hiring! : Conservative Thoughts
ROBERT HARDMAN: The un-PC supermayor who has slashed public spending, axed pointless jobs and banned the word 'diversity' | Mail Online
Here's Davies on climate change: 'I'm not green and I'm not conned by global warming.'Greta Browne’s Sometimes Lonely Environmentalist Trek - NYTimes.com
As she has plodded along, Ms. Browne said, she has come to understand her journey as a one-woman survey of the American mindset on global warming, though one, she readily concedes, that is deeply unscientific. Normally a glass-half-full type, she says the trip has made her “more pessimistic.”Miramonte grads leave behind climate change [scam] lessons - Inside Bay Area
“Mostly people think it is a problem,” she said, “but mostly they think it will not impact them anytime soon.”
California Climate Champions, one of 13 such programs worldwide and the only one in the United States, is a partnership between the state Air Resources Board and the British Council, the U.K.'s cultural relations agency.
Once selected as Climate Champions, Finzer and Ouziel were required to develop a project that would bring the issue directly to students.
A bit about Washington Post/ABC energy polling
Poll Finds Broad Support for Obama on Energy Front - washingtonpost.com
Most Americans approve of the way President Obama is handling energy issues and support efforts by him and Democrats in Congress to overhaul energy policy -- including the controversial cap-and-trade approach to limiting greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.[The article above calls 55% "broad" support. Why does it fail to mention that the same poll found 64% support for increased oil and gas drilling?]
This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone Aug. 13-17, 2009, among a random national sample of 1,001 adults [not necessarily voters; where, exactly do these people live?] including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by TNS of Horsham, PA.[Also, why is the Democrat/Republican split at 35/25 in the above sample, when Rasmussen has a split at 38/43?]
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24. To address the country's energy needs, would you support or oppose action by the federal government to (ITEM)? Do you support/oppose that strongly, or not strongly?*
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c. Increase oil and gas drilling
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NET Strongly Not strongly NET Strongly Not strongly opinion
8/17/09 64 48 16 33 21 12 3
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901. Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as (a Democrat), (a Republican), an independent or what?....
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Democrat Republican Independent Other No op. Dem. Rep. Lean
8/17/09 35 25 34 6 1 15 14 11
This summer brought a significant shift in voter preferences in the Generic Congressional Ballot. As Republican Congressional candidates once again lead Democrats by a 43% to 38% margin this week, this is now the ninth straight ballot the GOP has held a modest advantage.
Oil refiner says CO2 bill to cost it $7 billion a year | Green Business | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. climate bill would cost Valero, the country's largest oil refiner, more annually than it has ever made in a year, forcing it to warn consumers at filling stations that fuel prices will rise, the company's top government affairs official said.[In case you missed it]: How Can the Climate [Swindle] Bill Get to 60 Votes?
...here are how the 100 senators rank in order of most to least likely to vote for the bill.
The Johnny Appleseed of Climate [Fraud]: Meet Terry Tamminen | Use Celsias.com - reduce global °Celsius
Tamminen is currently traipsing the globe, determined to make a positive impact on climate change.John Kinsellagh - Right Angle – Obama’s failed experiment with bicoastal governance - True/Slant
The behemoth cap and trade legislation, the brain-child of Beverly Hills Representative Henry Waxman, was a romper room exercise in irresponsibility and liberal feel-goodness, drafted to “save the planet,” yet destined never to pass the mandatory adult supervision test that would ultimately be imposed by the Senate. As details of that legislative behemoth were revealed, many independents, who were largely responsible for securing Obama the presidency, recoiled from the Administration’s pronounced lurch leftward.
NAM Targeting Senators on Cap-and-Trade With Multimillion Dollar Ad Buy - Roll Call
The National Association of Manufacturers has begun targeting Senators in seven states on cap-and-trade legislation that awaits the Senate when it returns in less than two weeks.americanenergyalliance.org - Pennsylvania AEA Launches New Waxman-Markey Energy Tax Ad
Call Arlen Specter at 412-644-3400. Tell him Pennsylvania can’t afford the higher energy bills and job losses caused by a new national energy tax.David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts: On the Impact of Personal Eco-Behavior
I cringe every time I see someone on TV going on about unplugging power strips—the most time-consuming, irksome, low-impact change a person can make.Annual cost of climate change 'will be £190bn' - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent
"Many of the previous estimates, it would be fair to say, were based on back-of-the-envelope calculations. In fact, one person said they were written on the back of a metro ticket. We think these numbers are underestimates... they don't stack up," Professor Parry said.
YouTube, London Climate Camp 2009: Should we remake civilization based on these people's irrational fear of a harmless natural atmospheric gas?
How many are old enough to remember the global cooling scare of the 1970s?
London Climate Camp 2009 - Amelia Gregory clip#15By the way, in this clip, the young folks seem to be enjoying a carefree, jolly summer camping adventure. How many of them are there because they really, truly believe that carbon dioxide is dangerous?
How many are old enough to remember the global cooling scare of the 1970s?
Utah governor says climate change debate not over
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says he will host the first "legitimate" debate about whether humans contribute to global warming.Sharon Hanshaw: Four years after Katrina, 100 days to Copenhagen
Despite widespread acceptance in the worldwide scientific community and in the U.S. government, the Republican says the debate over humans' role in climate change is far from over.
Herbert says he's working to bring together people on both sides of the issue so the state can forge good policies in the future.
While I never intended to become an activist, when Katrina came and took my shop away, and took my livelihood away, it was as if God had this already planned something else for me to do. And that's how I became an activist.Democrats Push 'Cap-and-Trade' as Climate Cure
“Climate is only one of many, many factors that affect whether there is violence or not,” [Heritage Foundation homeland security and defense expert James Carafano] said. “So there is no direct correlation between climate change and wars.”
Victoria Jackson mentions the global warming scam
Dennis Prager had the author of “Heaven and Earth” on his radio show today, and I sighed with relief. Finally, someone is addressing the global warming hoax with a real scientist.Snow "dusts" western Labrador
Labrador is known for its long, cold winters, but even the most die-hard lovers of the place known as The Big Land must be shaking their heads at what some of them faced this morning; snow.What's It All About, Barry? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online
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For 13-year-old Konrad Kuhne of Labrador City, it was enough to head straight to the local golf course, where he skied for five kilometres.
Well, lookee here: EIA has updated the numbers, and U.S. CO2 emissions are plummeting. In 2008, they dropped all the way back down to about 2001 levels. So far through 2009, emissions are on track to drop even further — likely to 1999 levels.Al Fin: No Sunspots Throw Climate Models Into Disarray
Real scientists are teaching the climate modelers a lesson: models are not the climate. Climate models are merely hypotheses in mathematics and computer code. They have to be thoroughly tested by scientific observations, before society is massively disrupted to suit the models.Runaway Train: China’s Worried About Over-Heated Clean-Energy Sector - Environmental Capital - WSJ
Climate catastrophists wish to skip the normal steps of the scientific method, and pass from hypothesis directly to a massive overhaul of society and economy. I can hear you saying, "but that is sheer folly!!" Yes, I quite agree, but unfortunately, the US government has recently fallen into a quagmire of folly. Escape from the quagmire will not come easily.
Like Casey Jones, China’s wind and solar industries need to watch their speed.
That’s the word after the Chinese government said “redundant projects” have surfaced in the emerging sectors of wind power and polysilicon, the raw material for solar panels, according to Xinhua.
Analysts following China’s renewable-energy market said the government’s announcement could slam the brakes on what has been a massive buildup of clean-energy manufacturing resources.
Claiborne Deming Makes His Case Against Cap-and-Trade Bill - ArkansasBusiness.com
Deming, the former Murphy Oil CEO and chairman of the Murphy Oil Corp. Executive Committee, made his case against cap-and-trade in a presentation that he is taking across the state and hopes will sway Arkansas' U.S. senators to vote against HR 2454, President Obama's American Clean Energy and Security Act that purports to address climate change.Senators Spend Recess Fine-Tuning Messages on Cap and Trade [Scam] - NYTimes.com
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Deming said the bill was both hypocritical and disingenuous because in addition to potentially crippling the economy, it amounts to a tax and would ultimately have little or no impact on actual climate change.
While a handful of Senate staffers spent the August recess sequestered on Capitol Hill writing a giant energy and climate bill, senators who will debate the legislation were speaking at town halls and in the media in efforts to strengthen support -- or opposition -- to the sweeping package.Can Push for Climate [Hoax] Bill Forge a Lasting Labor-Enviro Alliance? - NYTimes.com
Critics of the House-approved climate bill -- the American Clean Energy and Security Act, sponsored by Democrats Henry Waxman (Calif.) and Ed Markey (Mass.) -- doubt the measure will generate scores of jobs. If they're correct, labor's backing for the environmentalists' agenda will crumble, said Kenneth Green, a resident scholar with the conservative American Enterprise Institute.Meat Industry Tries to Turn Itself Green | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com
"Despite all the happy talk from the environmentalists, Waxman-Markey is going to cost a lot of jobs, and those will be union jobs that will be outsourced to other countries," Green said. "When the unions see the results of this collaboration in a couple of years, they will be more cautious about collaborating."
The more ambitious projects involve tinkering with the cow's genetic code. Researchers at the University of Alberta are examining the DNA in cows' four stomachs to identify the genes responsible for making them burp and regulating how much gas they produce. In time, they hope to be able to breed cleaner cows, which could reduce emissions from cows by 25 percent, says Stephen Moore, professor of beef-cattle genomics at Alberta.
US Rep Tom Perriello, D-Virginia, gets an earful about health care reform at Fluvanna Co. town hall
When Perriello tried to answer a question about his support of the cap-and-trade legislation, he was drowned out by chants of “Drill, Drill, Drill!“YouTube - TCK TCK TCK - It's Time to Act on Climate Change
[The narrator actually says "Be in no doubt, this is the biggest threat humankind has ever faced"]Ag Sec. Tom Vilsack continues Rural Tour
There were two questions about cap-and-trade legislation. The first questioner wanted to know what effect cap-and-trade legislation would have on an energy-intensive industry like agriculture and the second wanted to know what role the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would play in determining offsets in a cap-and-trade system.
Referring to the bill that was passed by the House of Representatives, Vilsack said the fertilizer industry would receive some assistance and benefits in the early years of the process. In the first 7 to 10 years of this effort there should not be any increase in the cost of fertilizer because of the benefits that industry will get from the bill, according to Vilsack.
"On the energy side, I don't think there is any doubt that there will be an increase; the question is whether or not there will be an offsetting income opportunity that will be equal to or greater than the new energy costs," Vilsack said. "Livestock producers will find more opportunities than they think."
Are We Becoming a Nation of Science Dunces? - Green Blawg
Now, we have ample proof of global climate change and what we need to do to combat it, although there are significant forces in place challenging the science behind the theory.Deceived by Al Gore, teenager goes on climate crusade, and parrots Al Gore talking points: '...sea levels will rise over twenty feet', blah, blah, blah. | GORE LIED
It could be that Alec is aware of Gore’s deceptive strategy, but I doubt it. Hopefully, Alec will read this, and find enough inspiration to take a second (and closer) look at the facts in the debate over this issue.[Sen Mark Udall: That's not strangling, that's "unleashing"]
Various questions addressed a carbon cap-and-trade proposal being debated in Congress.
One questioner asked why "strangle our economy" with emissions limits while in China, pollution continues unchecked.
"We're not going to strangle our economy," he said. "What we're going to do is unleash our economy."
He said the legislation would energize the burgeoning market for green energy and result in new technologies [like what?] that could be exported to developing countries to revitalize our economy and allow theirs to grow in a sustainable fashion.
He called maintaining the status quo the more "radical" option because it entails simply sitting by to see what consequences arise from climate change.
He was asked whether his support for cap and trade represented a conflict given the position of his wife, Maggie Fox, as head of Al Gore's organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection.
"My wife has her own career," he said.
C3: Are Coral Reefs At Risk? Peer-Reviewed Studies Indicate That Corals Successfully Adapt & Evolve To Thermal Changes
Read here. Alarmists claim that coral reefs will go extinct due to global warming but all evidence points to corals adapting to new thermal conditions and thriving.Clunkers Bottom Line: ‘Don’t Buy American’ - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online
First the Obama administration punished GM and Chrysler with billions of dollars in added mpg mandates. Now the clunkers program has discouraged customers to “Buy American.” How much more help from Washington can Detroit afford?Morning Bell: Outsourcing Your Tax Dollars » The Foundry
In other words, the left in Congress has already spent 100.3% percent of the “carbon market finance” revenues raised. And not a single penny of it has yet been allocated to India, China, and the other developing countries that are demanding cash payments from us before they lift a finger to reduce carbon emissions.Artifacts « the Air Vent
The point I’m making is that this effect is well known and when an advocate in blogland tells you it’s not about Mann’s hideously bad work there are many papers that create hockey sticks, remember they are all nearly the same thing in different clothes.Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So Why Does Joe Romm Even Bother With Cap and Trade?
I wonder if there is some kind of psychological profile that causes people to see positive feedback-driven accelerating curves everywhere.
But here is my confusion — he is absolutely convinced that oil is going up by $140 a barrel or more. Let’s look at this in the context of Co2. The CBO estimates the clearing price for a ton of Co2 emissions under the current bill will be between $20-$30 a ton. Since a barrel of oil creates about a third of a ton of CO2 emissions, this implies the cap and trade bill might increase the price of oil by $7-$10 per barrel. But if Romm think oil is going up by natural market forces by $140+, why even bother? Why not just put a tax on coal and be done with it?
UN chief urges world to 'seize day' on climate
VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. chief is urging the world to "seize the day" on climate change ahead of a major conference on global warming set for December in Copenhagen.Why putting climate change on trial is a terrible idea - Ars Technica
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the threat posed by greenhouse gas emissions underscores how the world's nations must all take action. Ban says the outcome of the Copenhagen conference "will impact the planet for generations to come."
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He says "the future of humanity and planet Earth are at stake."
...it's easy to argue that the policy debate was settled by Obama's election.Australian Climate Madness: Cost of tackling climate change to rise
Tackling climate change is a bottomless pit into which Western governments seem only too happy to throw your money.Flashback: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Cap and Trade: The Permanent Recession » The Foundry
Waxman-Markey will deepen and prolong future recessions and weaken future recoveries. The goal of cap and trade is to drive up energy prices so high people will use less energy, but even after reduced consumption, people still need to drive their cars and turn on their lights at home. All cap and trade does is force people to spend more on their energy bills. These higher energy prices result in a slower economy, which means less production, higher unemployment, and reduced income.SpaceWeather.com update
According to NOAA sunspot counts, the longest string of blank suns during the current solar minimum was 52 days back in July, Aug. and Sept. of 2008. If the current trend continues for only four more days, the record will shift to 2009. It's likely to happen; the sun remains eerily quiet and there are no sunspots in the offing. Solar minimum is shaping up to be a big event indeed.Twitter / Chris Riley
Person walking to Climate change camp past my house, complaining that its too cold and wet for August.[If you unplug your cell phone charger, will Montanans really spend less money fighting forest fires?]
Climate change and new development in Montana will cause fire-suppression costs to skyrocket at the taxpayer’s expense if policymakers don’t better manage fire-prone areas, a recently released report says.
It’s the Permits, Stupid - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
They are blaming Bush for this?!?Czech president presents his new book on climate change - ČeskéNoviny.cz
I'll got out on a limb here and say there will never be a wind farm off of Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket.
Prague - Czech President Vaclav Klaus presented his latest book entitled "Blue Planet Endangered" in which he criticises what he calls the global warming hysteria, similarly as in his previous book, "Blue Planet in Green Shackles" (2007).Bjorn Lomborg: Technology Can Fight Global Warming - WSJ.com
Klaus pointed out at the presentation that his is not alone who has such view on global warming.
He said his views were not "politically incorrect" but mainstream.
Klaus writes in the book that he wants to prevent "the controversial idea of global warming and the even more controversial idea of the dominant influence of man on the global climate and global temperature from being abused for further radical intervention of the state and politics into human society."
He claims that freedom and prosperity are endangered rather than the climate. [Via Climate Change Fraud]
Our generation will not be judged on the brilliance of our rhetoric about global warming, or on the depth of our concern. We will be judged on whether or not we stop the suffering that global warming will cause. Politicians need to stop promising the moon, and start looking at the most effective ways to help planet Earth.YouTube - Sink or swim - Oxfam's call to action over climate change.
Watch this exclusive behind the scenes footage of a remarkable photo shoot by Oxfam featuring a family playing out a scene from normal life but with a twist - because of the rise in sea levels caused by climate change, it is taking place at the bottom of the sea amongst sharks, turtles, stingrays and tropical fish!
Hit & Run > Sunspots Do Really Affect Weather Patterns, Say Scientists - Reason Magazine
Doesn't the Eos paper suggest that sunspot activity may not just affect weather but climate too?
Few willing to cough up much cash for climate scam
Dennis McGinn vigorously promotes the greatest scientific fraud in human history
Climate change poses threat of war, USF forum will hear
TAMPA - Military analysts say climate change threatens a cascade of natural disasters – crop failures, famine and disease – that will strengthen terrorists by sparking conflict in unstable countries.
A leading proponent of this scenario is Ret. Vice Adm. Dennis McGinn, who will be at the University of South Florida on Monday for a public forum on climate change. See below for information on attending.
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Q: Why should the average citizen care about this now?
A: You should care because it is going to cause your son or daughter or grandson or granddaughter, if they go into the military, to be put in harm's way much more frequently in much more prolonged conflicts. It threatens your personal, family and national economy. It inhibits our ability as a nation to extend our full moral authority in the cause of democracy and freedom around the world.
Activists seek tough UN climate pact in 100 days | Green Business | Reuters
OSLO (Reuters) - Activists launched what they called the world's biggest campaign to combat global warming on Friday, urging governments to agree a tough U.N. climate pact at talks in Copenhagen starting in 100 days' time.
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He said Friday was the official launch of the campaign, which has already staged some events such as installing a loud ticking noise in a hotel in Bonn where climate negotiators from 180 nations met in June.
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"The outlook is looking bleak -- but it doesn't have to be," Greenpeace wrote in a report on the state of the U.N. talks.
Family Security Matters » Publications » Exclusive: The Pending Tax Nightmare of ‘Cap and Trade’
Our Congress is pending receipt of legislation that will produce the most egregious and regressive tax ever levied on the American people and our economy. This is coming at a time when no one can afford the escalation of all energy prices such a tax will produce in every area of the American economy, from top to bottom, front to back.Emissions scheme is like 'GST from Hell'
The proposed structure of this tax would be to impose a consumption tax of 45 percent on all carbon based energy uses, from buses and trucks, to autos, to energy production. According to Congressional Watch, the price of every vehicle manufactured to the new emissions standard would be upped by $1,300 per vehicle, the price of gasoline would jump by 76 percent, and the price of electricity would jump by 95 percent.
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We are seeing a fantasy focus on job creation, one that has no connection to reality. We have to hope that our legislative processes moderate the extreme elements out of this. If this program isn’t done gradually, this economy will implode: period, no hedge.
The federal government's proposed emission trading scheme is like as a "GST from hell", says an independent think-tank.Times-Gazette.com - Coal lobbyist rips 'cap-and-tax' plan
Carey, who lobbies for the coal industry, said the credits would become a commodity that companies would use to turn a profit, a process he likened to auctioning off the emperor's new clothes.
"We created nothing. We did nothing. We had a product we were able to sell," Carey said. "You think it couldn't happen in America. Just look at the Madoff scheme."
Landrieu Caucus Grows ‘Raucous’ - Vladimir’s blog - RedState
The next loudest cheers followed on a doctor’s statement about the need for “tort reform” and a questioner who said, “We need to stop President Obama from getting cap-and-trade.” The same man brandished a copy of the U.S. Constitution and said, “Where does the federal government get any right to stick its hands anywhere in the health care system.”Obama Faces Uphill Climate-Change Battle - Forbes.com
Outlook. Senate passage of a cap-and-trade emissions reduction regime this autumn is less than a 50-50 proposition; it is much more likely that Congress will approve an energy bill that promotes a renewable energy standard for electricity production. If cap-and-trade fails this year, Obama may attempt to revisit a simpler carbon tax scheme in 2010 as economic recovery gathers pace.Intrade suggests that cap and trade has about a 1 in 8 shot of passing this year - CAP.TRADE.DEC2009 12:16
American Thinker: Probability and Global Warming
If I ran America, I would not bet the future of our economy on the successful outcome the proposed cap and trade legislation. The odds are against it.Global Warming [Fraud]: China and India Will Suffer Most | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com
A special place in climate hell is being reserved for India and China. That is, they will suffer more from global warming than, for instance, Western Europe.Ten Unprecedented Points « the Air Vent
All these papers saying ‘whatever’ factor is unprecedented, and completely without verification.UN Scientist: African Nations Rebelling at 'measures to use climate change to maintain colonialist master-servant relationship' | Climate Depot
'Perceive global warming is intended to suppress the rise to economic competitiveness of the African nations'[Northwest Passage update]
"While we were making our way toward Bellot Strait we encountered very heavy ice - stuff that hadn't been predicted - and that was one thing. The other was that most of the surface water between the ice floes was either frozen or in the process of freezing and each bay we passed was chock full of ice - that's precisely how boats for the past 300 years have found themselves suddenly and unexpectedly bound into an Arctic winter, something none of us wanted to experience.Kenya tea output falls 11 pct in July: board | Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tea output fell 11 percent in July to 21.5 million kgs compared with the same month last year due to cold weather in some areas and drought conditions in others, the Tea Board of Kenya said on Friday.[Utah: Children rallied to blame humans for damaging the weather about 15,000 days in the future]
Park City, UT - Children representing sports teams, schools and youth groups will gather on Saturday to create a visual depiction of climate change’s effect on Park City’s snowpack. The event will be recorded via video and photography. The product of "Where’s the Snow?" will be a short film about the event that shows climate change's potential impact on the local skiing and economy, and will utilize data from a study commissioned by The Park City Foundation, with support from Park City Mountain Resort ski area. This film will premiere at the second "Save our Snow" event, scheduled for September 30th at the Eccles Center in Park City.
“Children will line up at the top of Payday lift -- about 8,200 feet. This is where we will have skiable snowpack during early December and Spring break in 2050, not below and not at the current base,” says Brent Giles of Park City Mountain Resort.
LOWELL DUNN: Global warming not emergency; nuclear power key
Global warming is not the toxic emergency that some fanatics say.Stop 'emotionalizing' the cap-and-trade debate | Washington Examiner
Peer-reviewed scientists do not blame global warming for fires and droughts and have said that during the last 20 years, the biomass of the planet has increased by 7 percent. That means the earth is getting greener. So we have time to think and act.
Environmental activists who favor anti-global warming regulations like the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill now before the U.S. Senate have long claimed that government intervention is essential to save the planet from an imminent man-made catastrophe. In fact, only Waxman-Markey threatens to be a man-made catastrophe.RE: U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THREATENS EPA WITH LAWSUIT
The world has already been cooling for over seven years, and the EPA which has a duty to the country to inform the public that global cooling is now the problem, continues to fail in its mandate and promotes measures that are not only meaningless but have crippled the economy, increased the cost of food, and increased the cost of power, all for the purpose of maintaining a self serving environmentalist agenda.The Waxman-Markey Gravy Train (Part II): Specific Winners in the Electric Industry — MasterResource
There has never been any science involved in the promotion of catastrophic global warming. When the Earth cooled from 1942 to 1975 CO2 emissions were increasing five times more rapidly than any time in history completely contrary to the AGW hypothesis proposed just 13 years after this cooling ended. None of the other greenhouse gases mentioned in the Kyoto Protocol are of sufficient quantity or affect a portion of the Earth's radiative spectrum that will result in any detectable effect on global temperature. These radiative bands are so narrow and in such low energy portions of the Earth's radiative spectrum, that even a ten-fold increase in all of the mentioned "greenhouse gases" will still not have a detectable effect on global temperature.
I have discussed carbon legislation with many of these companies that publicly declare their concern about anthropogenic climate change yet privately see this as the greatest money-making opportunity of their lifetimes. The Bootleggers and Baptist model of government intervention is in clear evidence. Adam Smith must be turning over in his grave given the enormous “invisible handout” that Waxman–Markey provides to a select few in the electricity generation market.
Pope says atheists are responsible for global warming | National Secular Society
The Pope has claimed that atheism is responsible for the destruction of the environment. In a speech at the Vatican on Wednesday, Ratzinger said: “Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where his existence is denied? If the human creature's relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to egoistic possession, man becomes the ‘final authority,’ and the objective of existence is reduced to a feverish race to possess the most possible.”Listen to climate experts, whether or not you like conclusions | StatesmanJournal.com | Statesman Journal
At a recent conference in Corvallis, 300 climate scientists from across the world gathered to discuss their latest findings.Nature Conservancy opens climate change research site - Salt Lake Tribune
Several things were notable. Not one of the attendees seemed to be a smoker. And not a single speaker expressed any doubt that man is now influencing the Earth's climate.
As one scientist said, "we've nailed that." They are moving on to the next questions — how different regions will be influenced by human kind.
The scientists at the Past Global Changes conference at Oregon State University are the ones who do the hard, dirty work of science.
These scientific experts have no doubt — drastic action is needed now or life on Earth will be harmed.
Strangely, none of the infamous "climate skeptics" showed up for this real scientific conference.
The new center at the Dugout Ranch, the first of its kind in Utah, will eventually include a building that will focus on education and practical research.Nepal villagers on climate change frontline - Yahoo! News
There is no firm scientific evidence linking the winter droughts to climate change, and rapid population growth and a lack of development during the 10-year civil war have contributed to Nepal's rising food shortages.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Breitbart.tv » AUGUST IN NEW ENGLAND: FROST, TEMPS IN HIGH 30s...
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hidden camera video: How much does a left-wing astroturfer get paid, anyway?
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hidden camera video: How much does a left-wing astroturfer get paid, anyway?
Answer: There are no left-wing astroturfers, silly. They do it because they love the cause and the “fight” and the Unicorn King currently installed in the White House.Sun causes 'La Nina-like effect' on earth › News in Science (ABC Science)
That $33,000 a year plus benefits is just their share of the wealth that belongs to all of us.
"It's a small signal but it does explain some of our climate variability," says Arblaster.Continuing cooler temps suggest late corn harvest for Minnesota
LAMBERTON, Minn. - It looks like we could have another late corn harvest.NFU president says Congress must address climate change > The Independent > News > Ag
Temperatures across Minnesota and the Corn Belt have been cooler than normal, and the corn crop still has a ways to go before it is mature.
According to Hansen of Nebraska Farmers Union, "It's easy to scare folks about cap and trade, but when they sober up and say, 'Let me get this straight, it's going to be EPA or cap and trade.' Then it's a very different answer than if it's just cap and trade or do nothing."
Hansen said having the EPA begin a regulatory process to address climate change would be a "worst-case scenario."
Interior Secretary Defends Obama's Energy Policies - cbs4denver.com
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) ― President Barack Obama wants a climate change bill that addresses his top priorities: energy independence, job creation and preventing pollution, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday.India, US Can Devise Together a Plan on Climate Change [Fraud]: Clinton
“I am very confident—and even more so after my trip to India, the United States and India can devise a plan that will dramatically change the way we produce, consume, and conserve energy. And, in the process, start an explosion of new investments and millions of jobs,” Clinton said.Public Says No To Copying Key Parts Of Australia's Ets | New Zealand
More New Zealanders agree than disagree that New Zealand is doing enough about climate change (up 10% since February).
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Asked to rate the current Government's management of climate change, on a scale where 1 equals poor and five excellent
27% rate it poor (10% choose 1, 17% 2)
42% are neutral (3)
15% approve (4 and 5), of which
2% rate it excellent (5 )
Could Australia Blow Apart the Great Global Warming Scare? « The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed
Since the Australian government first introduced its Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation—the Australian version of cap-and-trade energy rationing—there has been a sharp shift in public opinion and political momentum against the global warming crusade. This is a story that offers hope to defenders of industrial civilization—and a warning to American environmentalists that the climate change they should be afraid of just might be a shift in the intellectual climate.Video: Alarmists on parade: National Clean Energy Summit
August 10, 2009 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Cox PavilionGrist: Barack Obama is not Bagger Vance | David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts
Things are pretty grim among progressives these days, what with health care bogging down and climate legislation on indefinite delay; right wing crazies everywhere and Blue Dogs intransigent; the organized coalition that brought Obama to office fractured and ineffective. Disillusionment is in the air.AUSTRALIA'S PROSPECTIVE MASSIVE & CATASTROPHIC METEORITE TAX > Senator Barnaby Joyce > This week in politics
In response, on listservs and private conversations, I’m hearing more and more people express some version of the following sentiment: Barack Obama should save us.
...Mr Rudd would have to save the planet with a Massive Meteorite Tax (MMT). First of all he would work out who was going to be affected that is people living above ground. He could create a tradeable permit system to live above ground, permits which the government would issue, and reduce the number of permits each year. This would deliver a market approach to moving Australia underground.
If you argued against the scheme Mr Rudd could say that you were denying the existence of massive meteorites and putting all of humanity at risk. It would be stated that on the basis of evidence the existence of massive meteorites was overwhelming and we in Australia are not going to sit back and do nothing. He could create a new cause de jure to be demonstrated for and rallied around. Mr Rudd could be a world leader and go to forums in certain Danish towns stating that he was leading the world in burying Australia. He would affirm that if Australia could be successfully buried that other nations too could bury their economy and people, using Australia as a working example.
Warning Signs: Don't Just Stand There. Panic!
We were told that unless the Cap-and-Trade act was passed, the planet would be destroyed by global warming. Apparently this will happen well before any member of Congress actually reads the bill.The Steal City - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Al Gore has been telling us this for quite some time and recently the Secretary General of the United Nations said we only had four months to act before we were doomed. Americans have, however, concluded, based on empirical observations of cold temperatures, expanding glaciers, and other indicators, that the Earth is cooling. No need for panic after all.
As a one time Pittsburgher, having prowled the mean streets of Upper St. Clair as an adolescent, I couldn't resist this one. It turns out that the G-20 meeting there on September 24-25 will focus — at this time of economic crisis — on the "global warming" issue. Really.How Hot, Wet & Dry Will the US Become Because of Climate Change? Climate [Fraud] Wizard Has the Answer! : TreeHugger
By the end of century, unless emissions are curbed, large areas of the Great Plains (including nearly all of Kansas) are forecast to have mean temperatures rise by 10°F; even greater areas of the midwest and rocky mountain states show rises of 8 or 9°F.Janet Contreras, “We the people are coming!”: Open Letter to Our Nation’s Leadership | Red Pills
Four: Cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.“Is Glenn Beck finished?” | No Compromise when you're Right!
“Is Glenn Beck finished?” is the headline over an article on a left-wing website, insisting that a campaign against Beck’s Fox News Channel program has cost him 36 advertisers and that his show may be cancelled as a result. The campaign against Beck is being waged by a group called Color of Change, whose co-founder, Van Jones, is now Obama’s green-jobs czar.
Not coincidentally, Beck has repeatedly singled out Van Jones for criticism, citing evidence of his communist past.
Investor's Business Daily -- Carbongate (Cont'd)
Junk Science: The EPA may be considering closing the watchdog office that exposed the flimsy evidence of man-caused warming. So much for the administration's promise to "restore science to its rightful place."Twitter / Nick Bunker
Pat Sajak just made climate change denial joke. Alex Trebek would never do such a thingCash for Clunkers - John Stossel's Take
Most power-hungry lawyers and others who run for office to rule over others—not to mention the media who cheer them on—are economically illiterate. I don’t think that this bunch is better or worse than their predecessors.Listen Now: Climate Depot's Morano on Mike Rosen Show discusses Potential Climate 'Trial' of Century [MP3]
New Vision Online : Gaddafi in the spotlight as he leads AU to climate forum
However, despite the American protests, the Gaddafi they will soon meet in Copenhagen for the Climate Change Forum will be a different Gaddafi from the one of the 1980s.
Bruce Nilles: [Stupidity] Stops A Train - and Global Warming Slowed
The $6 billion rail line would have carried 100 million tons of coal annually, enough to power about 50 coal plants. If burned, the coal shipped by this rail line alone would have emitted approximately 200 million tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of adding about 40 million cars to our highways. By stopping this coal line we are ever closer to averting runaway global warming and jumpstarting a clean energy revolution.Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™
Seventy-seven percent (77%) now view the President as politically liberal, the highest total to date.Harvesting in Saskatchewan weeks behind schedule
A Rasmussen video report notes that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unfavorable ratings have grown to a new high at 64%.
REGINA — Harvesting in Saskatchewan is now two-to-three weeks behind schedule and concerns are mounting that an early frost could cause major damage.Not Since 1996
Allendale research data discovered not since 1996 has the percent dough stage for corn has been as delayed as it is at present.Rural support for Rudd plummets
Senior lecturer in politics at Monash University, Dr Nick Economou, said the dramatic swing back to the Opposition in rural seats would most definitely be as a result of the Government's climate change and emissions trading policies.
C3: Greenland Warming Unprecedented: Ooops, New Study Confirms That 1919-1933 Warming Was 33% Greater Than 1994-2007
Read here. Another global warming alarmist claim/lie squashed. Real science is unrelenting - the truth is out here, and it will be found.YouTube - 'Naked Lies' Protest outside of Bonner and Associates Lobbying Firm
Protest outside of Bonner & Associates after news that Bonner lobbyists sent several letters to Congressman Tom Perriello (D-VA) under the forged letterhead of several organizations opposing climate change legislation, including the local branch of the NAACP.The Grand View: 4 Billion Years Of Climate Change | The Resilient Earth
As Earth's climate history has shown, nothing predicted by the global warming alarmists would be unprecedented—Earth's climate has been colder than today's and much, much warmer. CO2 levels have also been many times higher than they currently are, even during ice ages. Ice ages come and go, caused by mechanisms mankind is powerless to control. And after every ice age the world warms and the glaciers disappear only to return millions of years later. No change in climate is irreversible. Given 4 billion years of Earth history and 542 million years of complex life, blaming mankind for 9,000 years of global warming seems rather silly. As it says in Ecclesiastes: “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.”Willie Soon Power Point lecture at the Heartland Inst. | Climate Realists
I have converted this Willie Soon power point lecture from the Heartland Inst. into a PDF download to display more information concerning the impact of more CO2 on plants. There are many interesting points and lots of charts and photos.......enjoy.
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