EU’s click of death for old family friends - Times Online

According to Chris Goodall, author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, the average person in the UK produces 10 tonnes of CO2 a year, of which domestic electricity consumption produces just 0.7 tonnes.

“Even cutting all electricity consumption in the home wouldn’t compensate for the carbon dioxide produced by a return flight to Rome,” he said.

“Politicians feel they can regulate efficiency but they’re not brave enough to regulate lifestyle choices like flying.”

Britain falls behind in the race to win low-carbon trade - Times Online

Britain’s share of the global market for low-carbon products and services is only 3.5%, or about £63 billion, according to research from Mandelson’s department. America is the single biggest player with a 20.6% share, worth £377 billion, followed by China with 13.5%.

Viewpoint: Cap and trade not good for farmers

Let me make it very clear Indiana Farm Bureau is committed to a clean environment; farmers all across the state work daily to improve water, air and soil quality. But this legislation does little but increase costs for farmers, consumers and the elderly; plus it drives U.S. jobs overseas and does not prevent China and India from increasing their smokestack emissions.

Tens Of Thousands Mad As Hell At DC Tea Party

I think it immediately sucks significant political support out of Obama care, more bailouts, the carbon tax stuff as anyone who is up for reelection and isn't in a politically slam dunk district/state is going to try to avoid getting a “GO HOME” vote from these folks. This goes especially for anyone down south who got in on an anti-bush/pro-change we can believe in stance. This is particularly important in a congressional only election where voter turnout is the key to everything. My guess is that no significant legislation will pass before the next election.

Obama’s Coercive Utopia

In global warming today’s coercive utopians have discovered the most potent apocalyptic nightmare thus far devised with which to mobilize masses. Act now to contain greenhouse gases or the earth is doomed. At least the pollution with which the utopians in the 1970s frightened the public (“the generations now on earth may be the last” read the cover of one environmentalist handbook) was real. Man-made global warming is science by “consensus” with the consensus manufactured by the media, which treats dissenters as “flat-earthers.” Anyone interested in going beyond the unscientific fear-mongering should read Climate Change Reconsidered (880 pages, not beach chair reading), describing the findings of hundreds of scientists who are not supposed to exist. It includes a statement signed by 31,478 supposedly non-existent scientists that there is no convincing scientific evidence that man-made global warming will cause a catastrophic disruption of the earth’s climate.

The utopians (as some of them have been honest enough to admit) don’t care if the global warming apocalypse is a scam. It provides grounds to take control of energy and with it the economy. As Van Jones put it shortly before his White House departure: “If all you do is have a clean energy revolution, you won’t have done anything…No, we gonna change the whole system.”

In Climate Change [Hoax] Debate, McCain Largely Disengages as Kerry Goes Full Throttle - washingtonpost.com

"This is a tough lift, in every respect," said Kerry, who has held 40 one-on-one meetings with 25 fellow Democrats over the past couple of months and plans to meet with half a dozen Republicans in the next week or so. "My hope is that common sense and the facts will prevail [I hope so, too], but that doesn't always happen around here."
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"I'm willing to bend, and I'm asking people to bend," said Lieberman, who is working on issues such as additional subsidies for nuclear and coal power as well as money to ease the economic crunch for utilities and consumers. "I'm willing to meet people in the middle of the bridge because this problem is so urgent."

The ever-changing climate of global warming: Orange County Environmental News Examiner

So is global warming and climate change really happening? Apparently so. Is it because of human activity from the use of fossil fuels? At least partly, it seems. Is the earth as we know it going to be destroyed as a result? It's hard to say. Based on the facts and discussions presented, more unbiased research is in order. In the meantime, it wouldn't hurt to continue to find alternative sources of energy at a pace that is affordable and sensible. And keep reading, listening, and thinking.

At least 32 dead in Turkey's floods, government under fire

Main opposition leader Deniz Baykal on Thursday called for the resignation of Istanbul mayor Kadir Topbas who drew widespread ire when he blamed on the disaster on climate change.

"We cannot see this just as a natural disaster. It is a disaster of city planning. The politicians responsible must pay," he said.

When the ice age ended, how did the polar bears feel? - Rupert Wright - The National Newspaper

Hopefully, soon, climate change advocates will think of something else to worry about. At the moment they remind me of the leader of the French tribe in the Asterix book: he was always worried about the sky falling on his head. It is time for Yoko Ono to get involved in climate change and then we can laugh about it and move on to weightier matters.

David Miliband [is still vigorously promoting the greatest scientific fraud of all time] - The National Newspaper

Climate change will result in mass migration, drought, and water shortages causing tension and conflict within and between nations. Global warming may not be on the UN Security Council Agenda now, but it will be in future if we do not wean ourselves off carbon....the EU has six major summits coming up between now and December with all the other big players. Climate change needs to be the centrepiece of those summits. And the EU thrives on big projects: peace and reconciliation after the Second World War, the single market, the euro and enlargement. The next big project for the EU – the environmental union – is to be the catalyst for a world beyond carbon.

Costs and benefits can’t be ignored in finding a solution - Bjorn Lomborg

Everybody wants to prevent global warming

[Alarmist journalist Gwynne Dyer weighs in] - The Japan Times Online

The catch is that Japan's 25 percent offer and the EU's 30 percent offer both depend on other developed countries — by which they mean the U.S. — adopting a similar target. But President Barack Obama isn't promising any cut at all on the 1990 level of U.S. emissions. He's just offering to get back to that level by 2020, citing as an excuse the growth of U.S. emissions during eight years of denial under the Bush administration.

It doesn't really work as an excuse. Japan is also significantly over its 1990 level at the moment.

Charlie Crist's strong support may have shaky base among GOP - St. Petersburg Times

After infuriating conservatives for, among other things, campaigning for President Barack Obama's stimulus package, Crist more recently has criticized the appointment of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, bashed Obama's health care reform plan as "cockamamy," backed off his global climate change initiative and stood by his hand-picked state party chairman in attacking Obama's plans to address schoolkids.

EU Referendum: A triumph for propaganda

Interestingly, the BBC is now downplaying the hype, referring only to "German ships", and admitting that the route has been "passable without ice breakers in 2005", neglecting to tell us that this journey required substantial assistance from ice breakers. So much for global warming.

Not from The Independent though are we allowed to know the truth. Its editorial proclaims that, "One hundred years ago, the news of a ship successfully traversing the treacherous North-east Passage would have prompted popular celebrations and wild enthusiasm." Yet, despite the feat of the Vega in 1879, this is now "a confirmation of just how rapidly and dangerously our climate is changing."

There are lies, damn lies, and then there is The Independent.

Kansas lawmakers slam cap-and-trade

"There is no more devastating piece of legislation for rural America, for the Midwest, for agriculture, for farmers and for small business than this piece of legislation at a time like this economy--bar none,'' said Rep. Jerry Moran

Thousands Protest in Washington Against Government Spending - Bloomberg.com

Demonstrators, wrapped in American flags, holding banners and wearing shirts condemning Democratic President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, expressed disapproval of plans to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, to place a cap on carbon emissions and the bailout of companies. The protesters filled Pennsylvania Ave. near the White House and marched toward the U.S. Capitol.
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Others protested a so-called cap-and-trade plan that provides for trading of carbon emission rights to help limit greenhouse gases.

“This would cost money and create more taxes,” said Sabrina Barr, 38, a real estate broker with four children. “Anything that costs us money costs us jobs.”

Farmer turns to the sun to run Indiana operation

"The system will cover at least 50 percent of electrical usage costs..."...The Loveall system cost nearly $104,000. [How much will maintenance and repair cost?]

Cheers and Jeers for the Post - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Still, one thing stands out in Rogers's noteworthy achievement, and that is the posture of apologetic dhimmitude that one must accept to participate in establishment alarmist society. Each utterance or paper exposing the deep fallacy of the warming theory — demoted to a hypothesis by observations, I would suggest — carries the ritual "now, I'm no skeptic but" before exposing how the writer or speaker cannot possibly hold the expressed beliefs without being a skeptic.

[Diabolical CO2 again]: Could Colorado’s Aspen Trees Die Off by 2090?

As Reuters reports, the American West, including Colorado, is losing its autumn colors in a die-off that’s perplexing some researchers, although it’s believed to be linked to climate change and the accompanying drought.

The number of acres affected by “SAD,” or “sudden aspen decline,” in Colorado quadrupled from 2006 to 2008, to more than 850 square miles—a situation that also extends into Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho.

Nineteen journalists take fossil-fueled trips to Copenhagen for three weeks of climate fraud brainwashing

Copenhagen, the city where green matters

When I boarded KLM flight Number 4163 in mid June at Entebbe Airport, en route to Copenhagen, I had no idea what awaited me in the Danish capital. I was travelling on a Danish Fellowship ticket to train in media work at the United Nations Climate Summit in December. 19 journalists from developing countries had been invited.
...In all, there was one journalist from Vietnam, two from Brazil, three from Bhutan, one from India, one from Bangladesh, one from Gambia, two from South Africa, two from Kenya, one from Ghana, two from Tanzania, one from El Salvador, one from Malawi, and myself. The three week training had begun.
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At the Climate Change Street in Copenhagen, I was amazed to find shops that sold only environmentally friendly and organic products.

We visited the huge Danish Parliament building, where the ultra modern elevator never stops running
...The United Nations Climate Summit, known as COP 15, will probably be the most important Conference of the 21st Century. This is because the very survival of the human race depends on climate.

The nations who got rich by polluting the world’s climate are expected to cut back on carbon emissions. They are also expected to invest in environmentally friendly technology and help developing nations cope with the effects of climate change.
But even at our meetings, there was already scepticism as to whether rich nations like the US, Japan, Europe, India, China , Brazil and Russia will own up to their “crimes” of endangering the earth’s ecosystem and the life it supports.

While in Denmark, I got surprised at the level of environmental consciousness of the whole population. If only the whole world were like this! I felt so sad that we take environmental issues so lightly back in Uganda.

Our course finally came to an end and we returned to our respective countries to spread the gospel of responsible management of our environment and the earth’s climate.

The toxic by-products of eco-politics - Christopher Booker - Telegraph

...A similar move will put hundreds of people out of work in the US, where incandescent bulbs are to be phased out between 2012 and 2014. Next July, General Electric (originally founded to make light bulbs) will close three plants employing 400 workers to make incandescent bulbs. GE was one of the firms lobbying for the ban (as did Philips and other bulb manufacturers in the EU), because it makes much greater profits from the more expensive "low energy" bulbs. But this will not create jobs in Europe or the US, because most of the compact fluorescent bulbs using toxic mercury vapour are made in China. There are reports of large numbers of Chinese factory workers suffering from mercury poisoning. Few things in this world are so devious and damaging as the politics of environmentalism.

New 'hockey stick' graph on climate change under fire - Telegraph

As usual, there are several odd features of their model, which is largely based on data from Professor Philip Jones's Climate Research Unit in Norwich – the data he refuses to publish because it is a state secret. But perhaps the oddest aspect of all is the contrast between this new study and the comprehensive record of Arctic temperatures compiled by the Danish Meteorological Institute from 1959 to the present day.

Martin Hawes : Tomorrow's road to wealth paved in cleantech - Business - NZ Herald News

Climate change [fraud] will lead to transformation in how and where we live. What does that have to do with building wealth?

Well, everything - whenever there is great change in the world, there is a transfer of wealth.

1,500 graduates to benefit from [Imagined] Low Carbon Economy

University leavers looking for graduate jobs in the energy sector are to be given a helping hand by the government as part of its efforts against climate change.

Speaking yesterday (September 10th), higher education minister David Lammy said that 1,500 graduate jobs will be created in the low-carbon vehicle and marine energy industries.

The jobs on offer will see graduates work with companies in the field to raise awareness of technological developments, while also gaining hands-on experience in the emerging industries.

YouTube - [On health care] Woman Goes Nuclear At California Town Hall Meeting

[Stunningly stupid climate change propaganda] depresses beer drinkers - environment - 13 September 2009 - New Scientist

Mozny's team used a high-resolution dataset of weather patterns, crop yield and hop quality to estimate the impact of climate change on Saaz hops in the Czech Republic between 1954 and 2006. Best-quality Saaz hops contain about 5 per cent alpha acid, the compound that produces the delicate, bitter taste of pilsners.

The study found that the concentration of alpha acids in Saaz hops has fallen by 0.06 per cent a year since 1954, and models of hop yields and quality under future global warming scenarios predict bigger decreases

[Still more data-free (and confusing) climate fraud propaganda]

Many young polar bear cubs are dying when the lairs under the snow in which they are born collapse in unusually early spring rains, while pollution may be affecting their ability to cope with changes to their habitat.

The bears are also suffering from a drop in the number of ringed seals, which they hunt and eat and whose pups have also been dying as a result of their under-snow lairs being washed out, melting or collapsing.

CRESLI ring seal page

Population estimates for ringed seal are between 3 ½ to 6 million, which makes them the most abundant of the Arctic seals.

The young are born in lairs, or dens which the female often digs out in a snow bank. This shelter is thought to protect the pup from predators such as Arctic foxes and polar bears, as well as the bitter cold winds.

If these alleged spring rains (allegedly caused by our cell phone chargers) are making it easier for allegedly starving polar bears to catch ringed seals, is that supposed to be a bad thing?

If it's warm enough to melt their under-snow lairs, why do the ringed seals still need protection from the bitter cold?

If carbon dioxide is so harmful to ringed seals, why are they still "abundant", hundreds of years after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution?

BBC NEWS | England | Kent | Epilepsy woman hoards old bulbs

Louise Whalley, from Epilepsy Action, said: "We have been contacted by a number of people who believe that their epilepsy has been affected.

"We've heard from people who have experienced symptoms such as dizziness or headaches - feelings which some people may experience prior to a seizure."

The EU ruling banned the manufacture and import of 100-watt and frosted incandescent light bulbs, which had been in use since the 19th Century.

The Canadian Press: Renowned sailor finds ice-choked Northwest Passage "not so easy" to travel

"It was not so easy," deadpanned the sailor so famous in his native France he is known familiarly as "Philou."

Speaking from Alaska a few days after completing his trip through the passage, Poupon offered a gentle reality check to anyone who thinks climate change has turned Arctic waters into an ocean highway.

"We found a lot of ice. We had to take care because the ice is still there and when you are on ice, wind, fog or the night, it could be very dangerous."
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Environment Canada reports that total ice concentrations in the central and western parts of the Northwest Passage have been near to slightly above normal this year. Last year and in 2007, ice was much lighter than normal.
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Sailing media report that several would-be Northwest Passagers found themselves passengers after the coast guard had to pluck them off boats hopelessly stranded in ice.

Resident offers several questions for Markey | WindsorBeacon.com

On Wednesday, Sept. 2, Representative Betsy Markey scheduled a modified town hall meeting. Due to unexplained reasons, she was unable to attend and sent two staff members to deal with the full room of constituents. Their intent was to hand out surveys, have the constituents complete them and leave. Things did not go as planned.
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If Mrs. Markey had been there, I would have asked her the following questions:
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You voted for the cap and trade (tax) legislation and were quoted as saying it was budget neutral. How is it budget neutral to the small businesses and individuals who will pay spiraling energy costs if this bill becomes law?

[Maine: Deer herd suffers after two straight harsh winters]

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife issued hunters fewer any-deer permits Friday than the year before because of a second straight harsh winter.
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"This year's harvest is going to be a scary thing," said Lee Kantar, the department's lead deer biologist. "This is going to be a low harvest year -- very low compared to what we've seen over the last decade."

Kantar projects this year's overall harvest to be less than 19,000 deer -- which would put the season on par with record lows seen in the 1970s following harsh winters.

Australia: Green fury at plans to sell brown coal to India

THE State Government is considering exporting millions of tonnes of high-polluting brown coal to developing nations under a plan championed by Energy Minister Peter Batchelor in a recent cabinet meeting.

Brrrrrr! It Was A Cool Summer, Baby! : Stop The ACLU

Meanwhile, Marc Morano of Climate Depot continues to beat the Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman like a rented mule. Freedman has chickened out on an actual debate with Morano. Washington Post meteorologist Matt Rogers has also declared his skepticism (same article.)

Conrad Black: With the U.S. adrift, Canada can shine - Full Comment

...[Obama] wants to introduce a cap-and-trade measure that will not raise government revenues or reduce carbon emissions, is based on unproved assumptions and will soak everyone who has a heater or air conditioner.

[Is this really a sustainable way to travel?]: Hole delays cooking oil adventurer

When full, the vehicle has a range of around 5,000 miles (8,000 km), but he intends to keep the tank topped up during the 12-month journey by using oil from chip shops and burger bars along the route through Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and the Americas, with the help of an on board collection pump, tanks and a filtering system.

Town Holds Symposium on Climate Change : Mindanao

“According to study, 67% of the cause of climate change or enhanced greenhouse effect is caused by deforestation,” Pulhin said.

[Flashback to yesterday]: CO2 is not the only cause of climate change | Achim Steiner | Environment | guardian.co.uk

As the UN climate summit in Copenhagen approaches, we must remember that 50% of climate change is caused by gases and pollutants other than CO2

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Feingold backing away from cap-and-trade?

Obama has two separate but overlapping problems in the Senate for his cap-and-trade bill. He will face the same contingent of Democrats that are skeptical about big-government solutions in health care, whose skepticism will grow for government-dictated energy production caps. The bill will also get opposed on a regional basis with Senators from coal states. Some of these overlap, such as Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor from Arkansas, Evan Bayh from Indiana, and others.

Feingold, however, shows the threat to the bill from what should presumably be a solid left wing. No matter how much Feingold likes big government solutions, he understands that his constituents do not, especially when it means big hikes in energy costs and massive layoffs. Feingold will not be alone in this, either. Obama can expect opposition from Senators in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Robert Byrd already announced his opposition to it. Even reconciliation won’t save cap-and-trade, because Obama will probably not get 51 votes for it, and certainly can’t possibly get 60.

Badgers' home football season goes "carbon neutral"

An analysis done by researchers at the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences estimates that the staging of all home games this season generates the emission of more than 8,100 tons of carbon dioxide. The vast majority of emissions come from fans traveling to and from the game, but the analysis also took into account electrical use, production of concessions and hotel stays by fans.
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Carbon credits will be purchased on the Chicago Climate Exchange [at 20 to 25 cents each?] to offset those emissions. When credits are purchased on the exchange, the money is invested in other projects that offset emissions by a corresponding amount.

University of Minnesota: "Winning the war on global climate change"

The Institute of Technology is in a strong position to help tackle many of the most vexing scientific questions about climate change, ultimately providing policymakers with a sound basis for critical regulatory and resource decisions.

University of Minnesota football coach: Flying around in fossil-fueled helicopter to watch high school games

University of Minnesota Gophers football coach Tim Brewster will be flying in a helicopter tonight around the Twin Cities to watch high school games.
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Berezowitz, who came up with the idea, said Brewster received permission from all three schools to land a helicopter somewhere near their campus so he wouldn't disturb any of the games.

Cap and Trade is not even law and Minnesota sees its first victim

Minnesota has experienced its first victim of the Cap and Trade nonsense in Washington D.C., and the bill hasn't even been passed into law. According to the AP:

“Minnesota-based Otter Tail Power Co. decided Friday to abandon its plans for Big Stone II. Otter Tail cited the economic downturn and uncertainty about federal legislation to regulate carbon emissions.” (emphasis added)
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Lets get serious here. Temperatures have been declining since 1998. CO2 concentrations have been increasing since 1998. Where is the correlation? There doesn't appear to be a cause-and-effect relationship here. Isn't about time we took this Global Warming nonsense and shoved it into the history books along with Phrenology, Physiognomy, and the flat-earth theory.

The American Spectator : Toxic Nancy

Many Blue Dogs also resented the pressure-which came close to arm-breaking-that Pelosi used to secure a 219 to 212 victory for the cap and trade bill designed to combat global warming, but which in reality amounted to a large tax increase. To win, Pelosi forced the bill to the floor only hours after its final version was ready and rejected even a vote on most proposed amendments.

Ironically, Pelosi used to decry such "win at all costs" tactics when she was minority leader.

Twitter / Steve Ertel

Richard Clarke(former counter-terrorism chief) asked by @BillMaher which is bigger threat-terrorism or climate change. Clarke says #climate.

Al Gore's Fight Against Climate Change

Al Gore and his philanthropy, the Alliance for Climate Protection has entered into an integrated partnership with Dot Eco, to secure and promote the .eco top level domain. This new initiative backed by Dot Eco LLC, will donate over 50% of the proceeds back to fund scientific initiatives and research in climate change, ocean analysis, economic policy, and other environmentally-related areas. In practice, more than 57% is already committed to specific organizations, and this number is expected to increase. It is estimated that within a few years of launch, .ECO will be making an annual contribution of millions of dollars to environmental organizations that can make a difference.

California: Almond crop estimated to be down

Hunter said March frost played a big part of why this year's crop is down. "Livingston and Le Grand got really hit hard," Hunter said. "The frost came at the wrong time."

Africa to abandon climate [hoax] talks if demands not met: Ethiopian PM | Ethiopian News

African nations will walk out of climate change talks in Copenhagen if their demands, including hefty compensations from the West, are not met, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Thursday.
One of the key demands that the world’s poorest continent is making is billions of dollars in compensation to help it cope with the effects of climate change.

However a panel representing the continent at the talks is yet to come up with a figure.

[Is the Pentagon using climate fraud in requests for more money?]

The Pentagon’s internal studies see a perfect storm accelerating wars worldwide: Global population growth, limited natural resources and global warming. Our war machine is exploding. The Pentagon gets over 50% in the new federal budget. We’re only 21% of the world’s GDP, yet spend 47% of the world’s total military expenditures.

Singapore says to curb CO2, steps depend on U.N. pact | Industry Summits | Reuters

Asked about additional steps, such as introducing domestic emissions trading and setting an emissions cap, [top climate change negotiator Chew Tai Soo] said: "We will be looking at it, we will be looking at all these instruments."

But he personally felt emissions trading was inappropriate for Singapore, given its size.

Operation Free: [Promoting climate fraud] « Climate Progress

Who will respond when storms of growing frequency and intensity batter the shorelines of the world? Not the Chinese. Not India. We will. The US military. And beyond the count of humanitarian missions that will rise with rising seas, we must not for a moment underestimate the threats that will increase as populations are displaced, as drinking water becomes ever more scarce. Misery and scarcity will spread, creating breeding grounds where terrorists can and will gain a foothold.

YouTube - U.S. Congressman Ron Paul on global warming:  "I think, quite frankly, we spend way too much time on this issue"

UK [government converts climate fraud into another $92m in cash]

LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – The British government auctioned 4.2 million European Union carbon emissions permits at 15.05 euros a tonne, it said on Thursday.
Britain’s fifth auction raised 63.21 million euros ($92.14 million) for the UK Treasury.

Giles Slade: 2009, Apocalypse Now - Huffington Post

And yet this is the year -2009- when climate change has begun to show us what 'ugly' really means.

1. Arctic ice has disappeared at such a phenomenal rate that not only are polar bears endangered, but Alaskan walruses are now grounded on the state's northwest coast. The next step will be their death.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

Sea ice extent averaged over the month of August 2009 was 6.26 million square kilometers (2.42 million square miles). This is 900,000 square kilometers (350,000 square miles) above the record low for the month, which occurred in August 2007

THE BATTLE OF OUR TIMES

The International Green Shirts have arrived. The Big Lie they have concocted is: “Man is causing dangerous Global Warming”.

The global warming story has excited the anti-liberty groups as never before. Here is an issue that can be milked endlessly to achieve income re-distribution, population control, social justice, world government, re-forestation, sustainable development and alternate energy. It will fund vote buying and foreign aid on a massive scale and finance whole new bureaus for government “research”. It can be used to yield detailed data on every business in the land, and life-and-death control over every corporation and industry – a central planner’s dream opportunity.

Jennifer Marohasy » Risking the Reputation of Science: Garth Paltridge

So how is it that the rest of the scientific community, uncomfortable as it is with both the science of global warming and the way its politics is being played, continues to let the reputation of science in general be put at considerable risk because of the way the dangers of climate change are being vastly oversold?” Garth Paltridge*

Cooler weather may slow harvest

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — Below-normal temperatures have slowed crop development across Nebraska. That could pose some problems for Husker Harvest Days next week in Grand Island.

[Ok, it happened.  Did millions of people die?]: Sea Levels Rose Two Feet This Summer in U.S. East

Now a new report has identified the two major factors behind the high sea levels—a weakened Gulf Stream and steady winds from the northeastern Atlantic.

[Global warming fraud promotion coming next year to Monterey Bay Aquarium?]

Replacing the "Wild About Otters" exhibit is "Hot Pink Flamingoes ... and Other Stories of Hope in a Changing Sea," scheduled to debut March 27, Peterson said.

Besides flamingoes, he said, the special exhibition will feature coral reef animals, penguins from Brazil, sea turtles and jellies from the South Pacific. The new exhibit will focus on the effects of climate change on these animals.

Health Care Uproar Drowns Out Global Warming | The Jacksonville Observer

“Passing comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation is the quickest and most effective way to create millions of jobs building the clean energy economy, which is why it is imperative that the Senate act to pass this legislation this year,” said David Foster, the alliance’s executive director.  [What happened to the "save your grandchildren from burning in CO2-induced hellfire" reason for urgency?]

Climate Change & Psychological Barriers to Change - Toronto Events

Lecture Climate Change & Psychological Barriers to Change
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Dr. Judith Deutsch is a psychiatric social worker and President of Science for Peace.

Government and Taxes: Solar minimum and Copenhagen

There's no money and additional political power for them if they accept that the Sun is main driver of the planet's climate, whether warming or cooling.

Utah Gov. Herbert quickly changing state's course

In an interview with The Associated Press, Herbert says he is skeptical of how much humans affect global warming

Mexico warns of nationwide strong rain

Mexican authorities have attributed the extreme weather to El Nino, a periodic change in the atmosphere and ocean of the tropical Pacific region. The government says that the phenomenon has grown in recent years due to global warming.

Bill seeking regulation of greenhouse gas NF3 - Press-Telegram

Senate Bill 104, which is now before the governor, would require the California Air Resources Board to regulate nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, as contributor to global warming.

NF3 previously was thought to be a harmless gas used to manufacture TVs, solar panels, microprocessors and other high-tech products, but a 2008 UC Irvine study found it far more harmful for the environment than carbon dioxide.

Lawrence Solomon: Endless oil - FP Comment

Today, Russians laugh at our peak oil theories as they explore, and find, the bounty in the bowels of the Earth. Russia’s reserves have been climbing steadily — according to BP’s annual survey, they stood at 45 billion barrels in 2001, 69 billion barrels in 2004, and 80 billion barrels of late, making Russia an oil superpower that this year produced more oil than Saudi Arabia. Some oil auditing firms estimate Russia’s reserves at up to 200 billion barrels. Despite Russia’s success in exploration, most of those in the west who have known about the Russian-Ukrainian theories have dismissed them as beyond the Pale. This week, the Russian Pale can be found awfully close to home.

Global Warming Causes Outbreak Of Rare Algae Associated With Corals, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2009) — A rare opportunity has allowed a team of biologists to evaluate corals and the essential, photosynthetic algae that live inside their cells before, during, and after a period in 2005 when global warming caused sea-surface temperatures in the Caribbean Ocean to rise.

Wait a minute--aren't they confusing climate with weather? How would anyone know that this particular warm "period in 2005" was caused by trace amounts of carbon dioxide?

Welcome to the Mike & Q Show! | Climate Realists

The ClimateRealists.Com/Forum has become a battle ground for two of our members, in as much we had to give them their own space (The Effect of AGW) to use as they seem to frighten off other members.

How Will Global Warming Change Your Electricity? | Ethiopian News

“Everything will be changed by, driven by climate change [fraud],” Owens said.

[Diabolical CO2 in action in Kenya: It causes warming and freezing cold, and near-simultaneous floods and droughts]

Climate change is believed to be at the heart of it. Droughts and floods are happening at nearly the same time.
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The depleted pastures and the freezing cold, on the slopes of Mount Kenya, have weakened their defences and left them vulnerable to pneumonia and exhaustion.

Obama's Weekly Address: [For the ninth straight week, no mention whatsoever of the alleged climate crisis]

Storm events magnified by increased public awareness, not necessarily by global warming

Geoff Coulson, warning preparedness meteorologist for Environment Canada, was asked if he saw an increase in storm frequency attributable to global warming. "Not that I've seen," he replied.

BBC's One Planet decide to put some balance on their program | Climate Realists

[Patrick Moore, former director of Greenpeace International] "I do not believe that we know for certain that we are causing global warming or climate change. I believe the subject is so much more complex than we understand."

Atmospheric Solar Heat Amplifier Discovered | The Resilient Earth

Previously, the direct impact of increased irradiance on global avarage temperature has been estimated at around 0.25°C last century—a three fold amplifying effect would raise that to 0.75°C. This leaves practically no warming effect for CO2 to account for and renders the whole anthropogenic global warming argument moot. In other words, if the atmospheric solar amplifier theory is correct anthropogenic global warming is wrong, a useless theory describing a nonexistent phenomenon. It seems like poetic justice that a modeling experiment may point the way to discrediting global warming once and for all.

Climate lobby urges Democrats to reject pressure to accept modest energy gains - TheHill.com

http://www.thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/58013-climate-lobby-urges-democrats-to-reject-modest-energy-gains

If healthcare poisons the well for climate change, some observers expect Democrats to settle for more modest environmental gains.

Ditching the cap-and-trade piece to pass a so-called renewable electricity standard and stronger energy-use standards could give Democrats a partial win and President Barack Obama at least something to show off at the climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. 

The Migrant Mind: Chippewa Befuddlement

http://themigrantmind.blogspot.com/2009/09/chippewa-befuddlement.html

Why there is this difference I don't know, but note that the variation in the temperature difference between these two towns is about 3x greater than 100 years worth of global warming.

Developing Nations Reject ‘Climate Protectionism’

http://www.indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-12%2000:26:42&key2=1

If climate protection is allowed, it will also open the floodgates to all kinds of protection by blocking developing country products on the basis of how they are made, cautions Khor. 

"The climate-trade issue is thus explosive, and is opening a Pandora's Box which threatens to contaminate the negotiations in the UNFCCC (Framework Convention on Climate Change) as well as the WTO (Word Trade Organization)," cautions the head of the intergovernmental think-tank of the developing countries.

Robertson won't tackle greenhouse gases: Opposition - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/12/2683924.htm

The New South Wales Opposition says the decision to give John Robertson responsibility for energy and environment spells the end of meaningful efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.

Stern: Rich nations will have to forget about growth to stop climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Economic expansion cannot be achieved forever if greenhouse gases are to be curbed, warns the leading economist and author of the UK's government's report on climate change

Kevin Grandia | Global Climate Wake Up Call

There will be a lot of noise around the world on Sept. 21st when people all over the globe - from New York to Guatemala to Dakar - join together in a Global Climate Wake Up Call.

Will Rupert Murdoch's Fox News go for kill on climate change? - Telegraph

Rupert Murdoch went green just over two years ago. Will his media empire do the same, asks Geoffrey Lean.

Claim: China Could Meet Its Entire Future Energy Needs By Wind Alone | The X-Journals

While wind-generated energy accounts for only 0.4 percent of China’s total current electricity supply, the country is rapidly becoming the world’s fastest growing market for wind power, trailing only the U.S., Germany, and Spain in terms of installed capacities of existing wind farms.

EU Plans to Give £13 Billion of Your Tax Money to Third World for “Climate Change” : The British National Party

The European Union plans to dish out £13 billion (€15 billion) of your tax money to help the Third World “fight climate change” in what appears to be yet another blatant rip-off of the citizens of western nations.

AccuWeather's Joe Bastardi presses case against global warming theory

In the video, Bastardi lays out a case that many in the scientific community have come to press – that solar activity is a primary driver of the earth’s climate. Showing charts of solar activity in relation to historical temperatures, he pointed out that there were periods in the not-so-distant climate history that were much warmer than today. Click here to view Joe Bastardi's video on the AccuWeather.com website.

Next Stop for ACE | GlobalWarming.org

Just what the public schools exist for: letting advocacy groups in to take kids out of their classes to get recruited for a “movement.”

AFP: India says not a disaster if Copenhagen climate talks fail

NEW DELHI — India's environment minister said Friday the country will not agree to binding emission targets and that it would not be a disaster if global climate change talks in December fail.

Europe’s climate [scam] offer would rob tomorrow's hospitals and schools in poor countries, warned Oxfam

Europe’s climate offer would seek to divert money already promised for education and health in poor countries, warned development agency Oxfam International.

A warmer world could make current airport runways too short | csmonitor.com

Next time you’re in an airplane racing down the runway for takeoff, make a mental note of that moment when the plane leaves the ground. In a warmer world, that moment of liftoff will come later.

How does ice cause a plane to crash?: Scientific American

For scheduled air carriers [including commercial passenger airlines] icing has been a contributing factor in 9.5 percent of fatal air carrier accidents.

Killer Floods Show Turkey Cannot Handle Consequences of Climate Change, WWF Says - NatGeo News Watch

Flooding occurred mostly because natural irrigation channels had been damaged and unplanned developments blocked the rain water from dissipating into the sea, WWF said.

The World’s Worst Floods By Death Toll | Epic Disasters

The Deadliest Floods As Measured By Death Toll [Of the listed floods, nine of ten occurred before 1939]

Obama sets busy schedule at UN [Surprisingly little emphasis here on The Most Important Issue in Human History] - Boston.com

In addition to the annual speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 23, the same day Obama will host a luncheon for African heads of state and hold a separate gathering for the largest contributors to peacekeeping. The next day, he will preside over an usual summit meeting of the Security Council on arms control. In addition, Obama will speak at the Secretary General's Climate Change Summit.

[The fuel-guzzling world of climate fraud promoter Bill McKibben] – OregonLive.com

In the last couple of weeks, Bill McKibben dined with the American ambassador in Oslo, met with young environment activists in Capetown, South Africa, and tweeted from Ethiopia and Israel. Today, the leading voice for climate action is scheduled to come to Southeast Portland to open the fourth Muddy Boot Organic Festival.
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[McKibben] Physics and chemistry, on the other hand, have already laid out their bottom line--above 350 ppm CO2, the world won't work right.

EU Environment Chief Sees 100% Chance Of Deal In Copenhagen

BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- There is no alternative to a global agreement on fighting climate change, so the chances of securing a deal at a meeting in Copenhagen later this year are 100%, European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said Thursday.

Philly Energy Exec Takes Firm Stance in Favor of Climate Bill | HeatingOil.com

As a for-profit company, it is safe to assume that PECO is serving its own future self-interest. With a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, there has never been a better chance for cap-and-trade and other environmental legislation to become law. In addition, a large amount of money could be made available to companies that use alternative energy sources. For its smart meter rollout, PECO has applied for $200 million in grants available through the federal stimulus program.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Debate with Marc Morano

Looks like I'll be debating Marc Morano in Washington, DC in March. The event will be hosted by AEI and moderated by Andy Revkin.

Do we fix global warming's causes or effects?

It will cost about £1 trillion every year for the next 100 years to lower our CO2 emissions to pre-industrial levels. We will also have to abandon easy ways of doing things, ranging from incandescent lightbulbs to unplanned use of our automobiles to casual vacations using air travel. Without knowing for sure that global warming is coming, will have hugely negative effects, or is really our fault, neither the $1 trillion nor the extensive changes in human behaviour are likely to be forthcoming. Which, by the way, is why so many global warming alarmists are so anxious to convince you that the science is settled.

Greentech Media: Carbon Prices Dive in Latest RGGI Auction

At the quarterly auction earlier this week, 28.4 million allowances with a 2009 vintage sold for an average price of $2.19 per ton.

Meanwhile, 2.2 million allowances with a 2012 vintage were sold for an average price of $1.87 per ton.

That's down from the earlier auctions. In June, RGGI auctioned off 30.9 million 2009 allowances for an average price of $3.23 and 2.2 million 2012 allowances for $2.06. That's a 32 percent reduction in price on the 2009 allowances and an 8 percent decline in volume. In June, 85 percent of the allowances sold.

Cap-and-Trade and Carbon Taxes: Equal Opportunity Boondoggles for Governments | BNET Energy Blog | BNET

The issue, it seems, is not that one plan or another is better, but that any scheme is bound to lose its force upon encountering an electorate and business community that is opposed to losing any amount of money as a result.

UPDATE 1-Carbon [swindle] permits fall 32 pct in U.S. East auction | Markets | Reuters

Optimism about the federal government passing a climate bill with a cap-and-trade market at its heart was much higher in June, the time of the last RGGI auction, a market source said.

"The delay in the climate bill is not a positive sign," Paul Tesoriero, the director of emissions markets for Evolution Markets in New York. "There is lower optimism now and I don't think people are buying as much."

Russia demands U.S. back any new climate deal | Reuters

"The United States and China are leading economies and leading polluters. Should we restrain our development because of them? We won't agree with an approach that allows the exclusion of some countries."

Administration Shocker: Green-Jobs Schemes Harmful - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

They’ve gone and said it, it’s out there: energy subsidies — like every other subsidy — distort markets, create inefficiencies, and encourage over-investment.

Of course, the administration was specifically addressing tax-break subsidies provided to encourage hydrocarbon production. That is, subsidies going to things that work — hydrocarbons providing the overwhelming majority of our energy. Just imagine how mean they’re going to be when specifically discussing “green energy” subsidies, which don’t work.

The new French disease: Carbon tax-itis « Green Hell Blog

If France stopped emitting CO2 altogether for the next 90 years, the total amount of atmospheric CO2 avoided would be on the order of 1.8 parts per million.

Sacre bleu!

[Absurd propaganda]: Climate Change Will Slash U.S. Corn, Soybean Crops

Research revealed that holding current growing regions fixed, area-weighted average yields are predicted to decrease by 30 percent to 46 percent before the end of the century under the slowest warming scenario and decrease by 63 percent to 82 percent under the most rapid warming scenario.

CentreRight: The department fighting climate change has spent more than £1 million on air travel in less than a year

"DECC has spent the following since its inception: (a) ministerial cars and drivers £166,305; (b) taxis for the whole Department £202,249; (c) train travel for the whole Department £557,637; and (e) air fares for the whole Department £1,179,390. The Department is not able to separately identify the use of helicopters or chartered aircraft except at disproportionate cost."

Global warming hotheads freeze out science's sceptics | The Australian

Almost the only scientists at liberty to speak their minds are retirees, such as William Kininmonth and Paltridge himself. He gives an example, Brian Tucker, a former chief of CSIRO's Atmospheric Research Division. Tucker was "a specialist in numerical climate modelling and therefore knew better than most where the bodies are buried in the climate change game. He kept remarkably quiet about his worries on the matter. Then he retired, and for four or five years thereafter was the bane of the global warming establishment because of his very public stance against many of its sacred cows." Eventually he was marginalised by being described as "one of the usual suspects, who was now out of date and in any event was probably on the payroll of industry".

[Should the US public subsidize companies like this?]: First Solar’s New CEO High Compensation Package

# He will be paid a sign-on bonus of $5,000,000 in cash, 50% to be paid as soon as practicable after his start date and no later than 15 days after his start date, with the other 50% to be paid in a year regardless of whether Mr. Gillette remains employed with First Solar through the applicable payment date.
# Granted fully vested First Solar shares valued on the grant date of $3,250,000;
# Fully vested First Solar stock options with an aggregate Black-Scholes value on the grant date of $3,250,000.00; Restricted stock units with an aggregate fair market value on the grant date of $6,500,000.00, subject to cliff-vesting on the second anniversary of the grant date with no early acceleration triggers other than change in control.

James Pethokoukis » Blog Archive » Why strong climate change legislation is dead | Blogs |

At $2 per ton, American households are simply not on the same “planet” with the radical climate change lobby as to how much they wish to spend on reducing greenhouse gases.

Valero betting 'poor' climate bill won't pass | Business | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Valero Energy Corp. Chief Executive Officer Bill Klesse is so sure the Waxman-Markey climate bill will fail to become law that he's making no strategic adjustments to cope with the legislation.

Ed Miliband opens new green power plant at St Thomas' Hospital [11 September 2009]

There are CHP units at both Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital, which each use a gas engine to drive an alternator that produces enough electricity to meet half of the trust's requirements.
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The units have been funded by a £10 million grant from the Department of Health's Energy and Sustainability Fund.

AFP: Emissions in parts of China 'above rich nations'

BEIJING — One of the world's top authorities on climate change warned on Friday that carbon emissions per person in parts of China were higher than in some developed countries.

Answering the Question: What Will [Imagined] Climate Change Mean to Me?

According to the analysis, in the US, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa really get hosed in the temp department

Team Obama: U.S. Invests Too Much in Oil and Gas - Environmental Capital - WSJ

And energy security, inasmuch as it exists at all, can’t be reached just by drilling more oil and gas wells, he said. Rather, energy security comes when energy gets more expensive

The Free Liberal: The 'Cap and Bribe' Folly

The solution is so simple, that a 5th grader would have no trouble understanding it Just punish the polluters with a stiff charge equal to the cost of the damage. There is no need for a complex “cap and bribe” system. Just send the polluters a bill.

Socialists writing the big-issue bills | Winter Haven, FL

Van Jones - Green Jobs director: He is an avowed communist. (Do I see a red flag waving?)
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Carol Browner - Global warming czar: She was part of Socialist International, a group that supports global governance.

Vattenfall CEO sees global cap and trade by 2020 | Reuters

PLOEN, Germany (Reuters) - The creation of a global "cap-and-trade" market on greenhouse gas emissions is necessary for long-term environmental management, the head of the company aiming to become Europe's largest producer of offshore wind power said on Friday.

The cap-and-trade bill: Waiting for the other shoe to drop | The Economist

Back in the Senate, fear that cap-and-trade will be painted as a murky, confusing job-killer and a bureaucratic hassle makes Democrats in conservative states nervous. They include Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu and both senators from North Dakota. Head counts fall far short of the 60 votes required to ensure passage.
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Environmentalists have problems with the House bill’s concessions to coal and other special interests. But most of the main interest groups support it, including the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defence Fund and the World Wildlife Fund. Greenpeace is a notable exception. Phil Radford, the group’s executive director, says with disappointment that “You have the president really hiding behind Congress.” He complains that Mr Obama has sacrificed his vision to conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats, and that it would be better the other way around.

Joe Romm, a senior fellow at the Democrat-leaning Centre for American Progress, says that while the bill has its limitations, “Obama can’t pass a substantially stronger bill than Waxman-Markey. It’s not possible.” He notes that after Bill Clinton’s health-care reform fell apart it took 16 years to revisit the issue. Climate-change purists should bear in mind the consequences of failure. “If this bill goes down,” he says, “it will be a very long time before we come back to it. [And] I don’t see how the international process survives.”

Whatever Happened To The Climate Bill?

Remember the other sweeping, complex legislation in Congress -- climate change?

The big sucker is still there -- it's ostensibly to clear the U.S. Senate by September 28 -- but it seems unlikely President Obama will sign a bill this year with Washington intensely focused on health care reform.

By the way, the article is accompanied by a picture of ominous black smoke--are we supposed to believe that's carbon dioxide?

[We're saved!]: Seaweed a cure for cow greenhouse gas | The Courier-Mail

A NORTH Queensland nutritionist believes he has found a way of reducing cow farts, the source of much of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

He plans to feed seaweed to a herd of heifers and then check their backdoor trumpets, a scientific experiment that he calls "reef 'n' beef".

SAfrican president calls for "just" climate [fraud] deal | Markets | Reuters

(Reuters) - Global climate talks aimed at reducing harmful emissions should be resolved fairly, taking into account the interests of both rich and poor countries, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. South Africa, whose over-reliance on coal-fired power stations make it Africa's worst polluter, said on Thursday it would not agree to any emission-cutting targets if doing so hurt its recession-hit economy.

African Tea Rises to Record; More Poor Weather Seen (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

The crop in Kenya, the world’s largest black-tea exporter, is “expected to show a decline due to the current cold weather” in parts of the East African nation, Africa Tea Brokers said in today’s report.

We’re a nation of climate change sceptics | The Wardman Wire

I’m so glad to find the proof that Britain is a nation of climate change sceptics. Despite the green pressure groups, media, and political capitulation to the idea that man-made climate change is happening, the vox populi are saying “bugger off and let us get on with our lives”.

The environment is not the big issue that they all seem to think it is. People simply don’t believe the claptrap that is spouted about it

Denmark back Indian stance on climate

“Any agreement, which starts with a recognition that India and China are part of the problem, will not succeed,” said Ramesh.

How Australia blew its chance to alleviate global warming

We had, but in Australia blew, the chance to spend that money on the energy and transport infrastructure needed to alleviate global warming, which will not only wreak real and lasting damage to our economy, but will slowly rob us and our children of something really valuable: the beauty and variety of the natural world.

[Global warming just one of many alleged impending catastrophes]

SYDNEY - Scientists have sounded the alarm bells over impending global catastrophe as existing governments and institutions are too powerless to head it off.

The world faces a compounding series of crises - from energy, food shortages, to climate change, to new diseases and increasing anti-biotic resistance - all driven by human activity, which is beyond the capacity of existing institutions to cope with, warns a group of eminent environmental scientists and economists.

Polar bears face extinction in less than 70 years because of global warming

Recent projections suggest polar bears could be extinct within 70 years, Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University, who led the latest study, told the Telegraph.

France: Doubt and anger over carbon tax

former Parti Socialiste presidential candidate Ségolène Royal described it as “ineffective, unjust and vicious” adding that people did not have the choice whether to drive or heat their house if there was no proper alternative.

Debate over funding for Lomborg

‘I don’t think we should be giving him money to declare that the government’s climate policy is foolish,’ said Vesselbo to Berlingske Tidende newspaper.

[Cold weather] cuts China crops

The China National Grain and Oils Information Center estimated the soybean crop at 14.5 million tonnes, and said rain and cold weather had hurt yields.

Wheeling area business leaders discuss cap-and-trade-wvpubcast.org

“Cap-and-trade policies won’t solve global warming or energy needs,” said Jennifer Diggins, director of government affairs for a Charlotte law firm.

Harkin, taste for steak draw Franken to Iowa

Franken, the Minnesota senator who was the face behind the famous "Saturday Night Live" character Stuart Smalley, is the headliner to the 32nd annual Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola this Sunday.
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"Tom is a good friend. I admire him a lot, but, also, I like steak," Franken said of the Indianola event.

Flashback: BE VEG! GO GREEN! - Save The Planet: Dr. James Hansen

Dr. Hansen: If you eat further down on the food chain rather than animals, which have produced many greenhouse gases, and used much energy in the process of growing that meat, you can actually make a bigger contribution in that way than just about anything. So that, in terms of individual action, is perhaps the best thing you can do.

Investor's Business Daily -- America's Dim Bulbs

Less light, fewer American jobs, increased Chinese imports and the danger of mercury contamination.

What could possibly be wrong with that? Maybe we should let the consumer decide.

C3: U.S. Reports Nation's Temperatures Continue Cooling Freefall - A Minus 9.0°F per Century Rate: 'New' Little Ice Age?

The 'Isle of Dunces' Foreign Secretary recently quoted as saying "alligators will be basking off Sweden's coast" due to global warming. Using the logic of the razor sharp, scientific minds of the 'Dunces,' this must mean we'll soon have polar bears eating the seals in Lake Michigan.

I Love CO2: Cyclists put boots to drivers

I have a confession to make - and a somewhat grand one, as you might expect. I've abandoned any hope, whatsoever, that the pandemic known as "The Green Movement" is much more than dancing charlatans and shrill harridans, all taking advantage of a slumbering mainstream media, and our rather contemptible embrace of political correctness.

Number of major wild fires by continent and decade since 1950 - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal

Number of major wild fires by continent and decade since 1950. Within industrial countries, the area burned by fires is declining but the number of major fires is increasing. In the United States, for example, the area burned has declined by more than 90% since 1930, while in Sweden the area burned annually fell from about 12,000 hectares in 1876 to about 400 hectares in 1989.

Carbon tax ‘stage act’ could well collapse

Why should power stations be taxed for CO2 emissions but not the camel cullers or, for that matter, beer brewers, who induce CO2 production in the beer fermentation process? The whole carbon tax stage act seems such a contrived act that I have the feeling that it could well collapse. Let us see what happens at the carbon tax bunfight scheduled for Copenhagen, in December.

Obama Factor Plays to Tarnished Senator’s Advantage - NYTimes.com

It is difficult to overstate President Obama’s unpopularity in most of Louisiana. He lost handily to Senator John McCain here, picking up only 14 percent of the white vote (the state is roughly two-thirds white). His health care plan is unpopular. His cap-and-trade plan to reduce greenhouse gases, in a state so dependent on oil and gas, is anathema.

EU Proposes Global Wealth Redistribution

If $2 to $15 billion a year may be considered merely a “tip,” one may question what “bill” organizations such as Greenpeace-EU would like to see thrown at the European Union — and, in time, the United States. The bidding up of the price of imposing the environmentalist ideology on the entire world has only begun; one can scarcely imagine where it will be by the time of December’s conference in Copenhagen.

Thermageddon? Postponed! • The Register

But even the basics are fiercely contested. Does a warmer climate mean more or fewer clouds, and do these trap even more heat, or act as a sunshade, cooling it back down again? Clouds are so poorly understood, you can take your pick. So if the climate isn't getting warmer, the theory requires the view that the energy must be "hiding" somewhere, mostly likely in oceanic heat sinks.

But neither the feedbacks, nor the oceans, are currently being kind to contemporary climate theory

Investor's Business Daily -- How Wishful Thinkers Are Forced To Reconnect With Energy Reality

As we have seen, however, national leaders will ultimately refuse to impoverish their industries even to "save the planet." The still-"disconnected" flower-power generation and its idealistic offspring would do well to grasp that the energy future is not green. It is hydrocarbon, and will continue to be for another century at least.

Europe Tamps Down Expectations on Climate [Hoax] Funds - NYTimes.com

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s commissioner for the environment sought Thursday to tamp down expectations that wealthy nations would immediately hand over vast sums of money demanded by developing countries to manage global warming.

Such funds “cannot be a blank check,” the commissioner, Stavros Dimas, said at a news conference.

The Melting Climate Change Deadline | Mother Jones

Given all that, it's little wonder that Senate aides from committees that are working on cap and trade aren't brimming with confidence that a measure will move forward anytime soon. "I don't think anyone can predict [when a bill will emerge]," says one. "With all the other priorities, folks are wondering if we are ever going to get there."

Survey finds ND pheasant numbers down | KXNet.com North Dakota News

The department says pheasant numbers are down 50 percent from last year, and brood observations are down 31 percent.

Stan Kohn, the agency's upland game management supervisor, says the harsh winter killed many of the birds and the cool, wet spring hurt young ones.

YouTube - SunPower Chief on why global warming is a "great opportunity"

Tom Werner, Chief Executive of SunPower, spoke at Reuters' Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit in San Francisco: "Global warming [fraud] is an economic stimulus"]

[Snape suggests that CO2 threatens seals]

The group says ringed, bearded, and spotted seals are being increasingly threatened by receding sea ice due to global warming...Average Arctic temperatures in some areas have already risen by 7 degrees, and could rise by 18 degrees by the end of the century, the environmental group says.
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The center wants the government to do its job and list the seals and protect them. It is represented by William Snape III.

[WWF-sponsored Arctic trip: Plenty of seals]

As we’ve sailed through the western Arctic and now the central Arctic we’ve seen thousands of seals. In areas where we see no other wildlife we’re still certain to see a seal or two bobbing about in the water, quizzically watching us sail past. They’ve certainly livened up some tedious watches as I’ve stood at the helm.

We’ve eaten seal a few different ways on this trip...
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...there are heaps of them left. The political hijacking of their seals has come up in conversation with several Inuit, and they seem pretty united in their response. Which, in brief, is “Piss off!”
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It’s odd to see so many seals along our route, both ringed seals and bearded seals, and think that elsewhere in the world, where they know little to nothing about seals, these creatures are creating such passionate debate.

Lorne Gunter: Global warming takes a break - Full Comment

In the past year, two other groups of scientists -- one, like Prof. Latif, in Germany, the second in the United States -- have come to the same conclusion: Warming is on hold, likely because of a cooling of the Earth's upper oceans. It will resume, though, some day.

But how is that knowable? How can Prof. Latif and the others state with certainty that after this long and unforeseen cooling, dangerous man-made heating will resume? They failed to observe the current cooling for years after it had begun, how then can their predictions for the resumption of dangerous warming be trusted?

My point is they cannot.

Global warming cynicism rises in face of stronger evidence - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

A significant proportion of the population have become more sceptical about climate change and the link with man-made emissions of greenhouse gases despite the fact that the scientific evidence has become stronger.

[Yeah, right]: Wind could cut a third of China's emissions - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

China could cut its emissions by 30 percent in the next two decades if it switches to wind power to meet about half of its electricity demands, US study says.

FT.com / Europe - Sarkozy calls for carbon tax on imports

Mr Sarkozy sought to defend his position, which is clearly aimed at making France’s own carbon tax more palatable in the face of strong public opposition.

“A carbon tax at the border is the natural complement to a domestic carbon tax. More importantly, a carbon tax at the borders is vital for our industries and our jobs. This has nothing to do with protectionism,” he said. “This is about fair play.”

Summer 2009 colder than normal, NOAA says - cleveland.com

You just knew it was cool this summer -- and you were right. Well, at least across most of the country.

For the second day in a row, the nation's top weather and climate agency released a report sure to stoke the fires of debate among climate change believers and non-believers.

On Wednesday, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a new report that said there was greater certainty that aerosols -- the material more commonly known as "haze," the tiny airborne particles from pollution and burning of biomass -- are leading to a net cooling of the atmosphere that is in competition the green house gases causing warming.

Chicago Suffers Unusually Cold Weather; Chicago Tribune Warns of Global Warming | NewsBusters.org

Key word here: "would." Note the complete lack of reference to the actual weather Chicago is experiencing.

The family who just said no - Beyond the Multiplex - Salon.com

You write a lot about the fact that you see No Impact as rooted in various religious traditions.

Feingold: Cap-and-trade bill could hurt Wisconsin

“I’m not signing onto any bill that rips off Wisconsin,” [US Sen Russ] Feingold declared, arguing the bill's mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions could put the coal-dependent Badger State at an economic disadvantage compared to other regions and nations.

Godless Liberal Homo: Global Warming Censored on Weather Channel Since GE Bought It

TWC used to be at the forefront of educating people about Global Warming. Yet, now that GE, a company that makes turbines, light bulbs and electrical appliances, owns TWC, it has been erased from mention. This was particularly glaring given that the coverage of the California wildfires didn't mention climate change...

Twitter / CooperTerence

quote from my comedy tour, "Why do we make Global Warming sound like the next super-villian in the next superman movie?"

Dear Tom Friedman: Are You a Fascist Wannabee? — MasterResource

The New York Times chief foreign affairs correspondent, Thomas Friedman, has finally come out of the closet as a fascist wannabee. Harsh words, but consider the evidence.

The Reference Frame: CO2 makes Earth greenest in decades

In less than 20 years, the "gross primary production" (GPP) quantifying the daily output of the biosphere jumped more than 6%. About 25% of the landmass saw significant increases while only 7% showed significant declines.

Svensmark: “global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning” – “enjoy global warming while it lasts” « Watts Up With That?

This opinion piece from Professor Henrik Svensmark was published September 9th in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Arctic Shortcut, Long a Dream, Beckons Shippers as Ice Thaws - NYTimes.com

MOSCOW — For hundreds of years, mariners have dreamed of an Arctic shortcut that would allow them to speed trade between Asia and the West. Two German ships are poised to complete that transit for the first time, aided by the retreat of Arctic ice that scientists have linked to global warming.

Northeast Passage: Definition from Answers.com

A water route along the northern coast of Europe and Asia between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A goal of navigators since the 15th century, it was first traversed by the Swedish explorer Nils A.E. Nordenskjöld in 1878 to 1880.
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In 1915 a Russian expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky made the passage from east to west.

One year before Nordenskiöld's voyage [ie, 1877], commercial exploitation of the route started with the so-called Kara expeditions, exporting Siberian agricultural produce via the Kara Sea. Of 122 convoys between 1877 and 1919 only 75 succeeded, transporting as little as 55 tons of cargo. From 1911 steamboats ran from Vladivostok to Kolyma (the Kolyma steamboats) once a year.

Asia Times Online: UN treaty melts into climate sideshow

The UN's bureaucratic mentality undermines its call for immediate action. The journey to a Copenhagen treaty on this critical issue has been conducted at a leisurely pace over three years, leading negotiators, experts, NGO executives, media, and various hangers-on on a carbon-spewing odyssey through New York, Vienna, Bali, Bangkok, Bonn - the last two on several occasions - Accra, Poznan, Barcelona, and more.

Those inside the negotiating process highlight the UN's chasm with reality by now speaking of a mere "15 negotiating days" remaining until the start of the Copenhagen conference. The statement really means that there are only 15 more five-star junket days scheduled and, even though life as we know it and the planet's very survival is at stake, there's no chance they'll do anything about it unless there's a chocolate on their pillows.

Even when they do get their chocolates, fluffy robes and designer bath amenities, the UN won't produce a treaty that will stop climate change as long as it exempts so many big emitters.

[How about solar fluctuations?]: CO2 is not the only cause of climate change | Achim Steiner | Environment | guardian.co.uk

As the UN climate summit in Copenhagen approaches, we must remember that 50% of climate change is caused by gases and pollutants other than CO2

Climate change [hoax] urgent, group tells senators | SeacoastOnline.com

Repower Maine is a chapter of Repower America, launched in 2008 by the Alliance for Climate Protection, an organization founded by former Vice President Al Gore. According to the state director of Repower Maine, Andrew Kain, its focus is on green jobs and green energy.
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"The U.N. Climate Change Conference is taking place in Copenhagen in December, and the senators understand that it's critical for us to go into that with something in hand," he said. "The next time (there will be a U.N. conference on climate change) is in 10 years, and we can't wait that long."

New York City Girds Itself for Heat and Rising Seas by Bruce Stutz: Yale Environment 360

By the end of the century, New York’s climate could resemble that of present-day Raleigh, North Carolina and its harbor could easily rise by two feet or more.

July 31, '09: In New York, It’s the Summer That Isn’t - NYTimes.com

But this summer has been conspicuously different in New York City. Not one 99-degree day in Central Park. Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping, the temperature failed to reach 90 in either June or July.

Metro - EU countries step up diplomatic [fossil-fueled travel to fight fossil-fueled travel]

Five EU foreign ministers have been travelling to European capitals for the last week to press the issue...
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The prime ministers of Sweden and Denmark, meanwhile, were travelling to South Africa and India, two of the world's major polluters, to discuss the climate change treaty.

National Post editorial board: UN climate change fantasies - Full Comment

There are almost no scientific discussions of note going on over the new Copenhagen accord. Money has become the dominant topic for the upcoming conference, which isn't surprising. The UN has never been as concerned about preventing global warming as it is about using the issue for social, political and economic ends.