No Leader on Climate Change [Scam] as Nations Prepare to Meet - NYTimes.com

The negotiations for a new climate change agreement to be signed in Copenhagen in December are badly stalled. With the agreement running more than 200 pages — including what negotiators estimate are a couple of thousand brackets denoting points of differences — diplomats and negotiators fear that the document is too unwieldy to garner a consensus in the coming months.

By Degrees - A Plugged-In World, With a Hunger for Electricity - Series - NYTimes.com

Worldwide, consumer electronics now represent 15 percent of household power demand, and that is expected to triple over the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency, making it more difficult to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.
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Most energy experts see only one solution: mandatory efficiency rules specifying how much power devices may use.

Climate Alarmists rush to judgment on dead walruses, ignore other possibilities « Watts Up With That?

Nobody, including me, wants to see our Alaskan wildlife die or be killed through greed, stupidity, or carelessness. But before we go slapping on that catch all label of “global warming did it”, even before the primary wildlife investigators of this weeks event get a chance to get on the ground and determine the cause, we owe it to the animals and to ourselves to look at all the possibilities and to wait to determine the true cause before we go laying blame.

Otherwise, walrus poaching might just get a free pass under the guise of “global warming did it”.

Australian Climate Madness: Astonishing quote from "The Age"

There is not, now, much value in arguing about the science of climate change. Even if it's wrong, enough people now believe it that it may as well be right.

Breaking: Alternative climate conference in Copenhagen at the same time as the Official climate meeting | Climate Realists

"There are many reasons for climate change. Amongst others, there is research that shows that the Sun's magnetic field has great significance. But that research is not included when the UN climate panel prepares reports that will form the basis of an agreement in Copenhagen, "said Morten Messerschmidt, Danish People's Party MEP, who will be moderator at the alternative summit.

Oregon Solar Firm Charged with Theft, Racketeering

In the racket, Wisehard is alleged to have collected full or partial payment upfront with the promise of installing solar or wind equipment, while in most cases never finishing the job. Other times, it’s alleged that after he completed a job he would later return and remove what equipment had been installed.

This is not the only example of fraud in the quickly growing renewable energy business, which is little regulated.

[Climate scam] legislation will mean higher energy costs

"There is little doubt that a climate bill will contain border measures," Dr. Janet Peace, with the Arlington, Va.-based Pew Centre on Global Climate Change, told an audience at the Global Business Forum.

Heliogenic Climate Change: The ethanol boondoggle

One third of the U.S. corn crop wasted to produce ... no net energy!

Climate Change [Fraud] To Be “Front And Center” At G-20 Summit – Talk Radio News Service

John Podesta, President of the Center for American Progress, held a conference call Friday to discuss the importance of putting climate change on the agenda at the upcoming G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pa..

“It is clear that climate change will be back on the table, and we think it is extremely important that it be there, front and center, in the Pittsburgh Summit and that it rise to the top of the agenda”, said Podesta.

Climate Change: 60 Minutes, 09.06.09

Scott Pelley examines increasing the number of forest fires due to global warming

Rep John Boehner at Values Voter Summit

House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said his Democratic colleagues in congress are bankrupting the country. He said the massive deficit spending we’re doing just can’t be sustained.

Boehner talked about the cap and trade global warming tax. He said the plan sets up a large bureaucracy and taxes everything connected with energy. Boehner reminded the crowd that Barack Obama promised before he was elected he wouldn’t tax anyone making less than $250,000, yet everyone who drives a car or uses electricity will pay taxes for this. He said that this past week, we learned that the Treasury Department admits it will cost every American $1,761 a year more.

Arctic Ice Caps Shrink To Third Smallest In 30 Years - Science News - redOrbit

It will not begin to grow again until fall begins.

As of last Saturday, the sea ice only covered approximately 2 million square miles of ocean. In 2007, during the biggest melt in 30 years, the ice only covered 1.6 million square miles, while in the following year the ice covered 1.8 million square miles.
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The size of the Arctic ice cap has increased approximately 14 times over the past 31 years, but the decline of sea ice has definitely been the trend, which directly corresponds to a rise in temperature over the same period, Meier said.

According to Meier, it is better to look at the long-term trend than just year to year.

The record ice loss of 2007 occurred during an unusual Arctic summer, full of destructive events. There were strong winds and high temperatures, which resulted in tragic losses from an already weakened ice pack, said Meier.
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Mead Treadwell, of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, said that he flew hundreds of miles across the Beaufort Sea on a Coast Guard flight this week without ever seeing any multi-year ice. [From a plane, can you always tell how old the ice is? What was the state of the ice 40, 100, 1000, and 10,000 years ago?]

"It's a significant difference for anyone who has been watching this ocean for some time," he said.

[When we "lost" the mile-thick ice at Chicago, was it "tragic"? Should we spend trillions of dollars trying to restore it?]

When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago

BBC NEWS | Europe | North-East Passage navigated

Navigating it without the help of ice-breakers has only become possible because of the thawing of the Arctic ice - caused, some say, by global warming.

Debunking here.

[Is carbon dioxide killing off local aspens, or is it some combination of drought, frost, bugs, fungus, browsing, fire exclusion, etc?]

"Aspen in Arizona have been hit by a multitude of stressing agents over the last decade," said Forest Service Southwest Region Plant Pathologist Mary Lou Fairweather. "In addition to drought, there was a late-season frost event in 1999 and several years of defoliation by the western tent caterpillar. Aspen became so stressed that a canker causing fungus and a wood borer, normally considered opportunistic organisms that only infest weakened trees, were associated with mortality of entire stands of trees."
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Ironically, on a place called Aspen Hill south of Williams, researchers have been unable to find any aspen except in a small grove that has been fenced off from animals, because the deer and elk aren't helping the aspen any either. "We found more than 98 percent of aspen trees surveyed are browsed by ungulates," said forester Mike French of the Kaibab National Forest.
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"Fire exclusion is thought to be one factor in longer term decline of aspen throughout the western U.S. Mature aspen stems produce a hormone, auxin, which prevents the root system from producing new suckers. Fire acts to promote aspen regeneration by removing the mature aspen stems, thus removing the hormonal influence and promoting the growth of new aspen suckers."

Quadrant Online - The Garnaut Cult

But if the Garnauts and Lomborgs of this world are so confident that new technology to replace fossil fuels is just over the horizon, why do we need to accept the early introduction of any of the emissions reduction policies being promulgated at international conferences? [Via An Honest Climate Debate]

Mouthpiece: Peddling the case for more sustainable transport systems - Edinburgh Evening News

In Scotland, an alarming one third of people don't believe their actions contribute to global climate change.

AFP: 'The Age of Stupid': a [promotion of scientific fraud]

Former UN chief Kofi Annan is expected to attend a special "green carpet" showing in New York Monday, on the eve of the world's first United Nation's climate summit.

The film is a serious documentary dressed up as a futuristic climate thriller, with a few bits of animation thrown in to help explain the underlying science.

Q&A with [Global Warming Fraudster] Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Rajendra Pachauri: I think there’s been an enormous amount of movement in this field because in 1988, when the IPCC was established and when I became deeply interested in studying climate change, there wasn’t compelling evidence and we were essentially going along with what science told us. But now we have observations, we have a whole lot of data based on actions which, quite apart from the scientific assessment, we also know on the basis of observations – on the basis of what we see all around us and based on recorded measurements – that climate change is a reality. What’s also very significant is the fact that the bulk of what has happened in the last 50 years in terms of climate change is the result of human actions, so I think the level of knowledge of this field has moved so rapidly that we really have no reason for scientific doubt on human actions and their impact on the climate.
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UN News Centre: As one of the faces of the global fight against climate change, what do you do in your personal life to lessen your carbon footprint? What can individuals do to take actions against climate change?

Rajendra Pachauri: I really have one area where unfortunately I am guilty of a pretty large carbon footprint, and that is in terms of travel. That is something that unfortunately I can’t do anything about because I have to spread the message: I have to go all over the world and I have to convince people that this is a serious problem that we have to address. But in terms of my personal lifestyle, I’m very careful about not being consumptive in my habits. I’m not a consumerist, just buying stuff and throwing away stuff. I don’t do that. I’m careful about use of transport in my daily life. I make sure that I keep the air conditioner at a fairly high level, setting the thermostat at a high level so that I feel some degree of discomfort. Most importantly, I’ve become a vegetarian over the years because the meat cycle is extremely intensive. I make sure that when I move from one room to the other I switch off the lights, don’t leave them on unless I need them. I try to do what little I can.

Merkel and Sarkozy call for [climate hoax tax]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have called for the UN to support a carbon tax on imports from countries who fail to back international efforts to fight global warming.
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Germany had yet to come out in favor of a carbon tax on imports, which a German minister has warned could be perceived by developing nations as a form of "eco-imperialism."

[IPCC's Jean-Pascal van Ypersele is still promoting the greatest scientific fraud in human history]

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele: Firstly, we have to make clear that it is not likely that climate change is due to human activities, but very likely, according to the last IPCC report. There's a big difference. "Likely" means a two-thirds probability, and "very likely" means a 90 percent probability - that's very close to certainty, that indeed the warming of the past 50 years is really due to human activity, so the controversies about that are really not relevant anymore.
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Look at Katrina in 2005. Again, there's no univocal link between Katrina and climate change, or that climate change caused the hurricane. But you can say that events like Katrina will occur more frequently or with more intensity in the vicinity of North America and the Caribbean.
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There will winners in an initial phase, in the coming decades, mostly in temperate countries in North America and northern Europe, for instance. Warmer temperatures will allow crop cultivation to occur for a longer period - the growing season will increase in length. But that's only a temporary effect. At some point, it will become too hot there as well. Then, you don't have winners anymore, you have losers everywhere.

[Arctic at the peak of the annual ice melt: Still cold]

There was a fair bit of ice drifting around the boat, with the water temperature at 0C. Tobias reckons it’s easier to jump right in…I prefer a few bucketfuls over the head. Either way, even though we’re stark naked on the deck modesty is no issue as everything hides itself at that temperature.

Spectator cancels Monbiot vs Plimer debate « Greenfyre’s

Was the Spectator colluding with Plimer all along? Did they and Plimer both know from the start that Plimer would never answer the questions, and hence it was possible Monbiot would refuse? Was Monbiot the mark for a scam by a con man and his shill?

Cookin’ the global warming books - Orange Punch - OCRegister.com

If global warming really were the threat it’s made out to be, would they need to rig the data?

Temper tantrums at the Spectator : Deltoid

After Ian Plimer reneged on his agreement to answer Monbiot's questions, the folks at the Spectator have reacted just like Plimer does to criticism -- with name calling and nothing to address the criticism.

Conservatives missing boat on climate change

I was shocked and dismayed that the Harper government did not think that it was important to send an official representative to the International Climate Change Conference in Geneva recently.

The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Can the Mideast manage climate change?

The amount and quality of available scientific data on the global impact of climate change, I rediscovered at a seminar organized by the Danish Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen this week, is staggering. The debate that swirled around the issues of climate change and global warming just two or three years ago has vanished. There is much more certainty now on the nature and extent of the changes to the Earth’s climate that can be attributed to the impact of human activity, mainly the burning of fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases.

US says differences in global climate talks narrowing

“There was some narrowing of differences” Stern said, but did not offer specifics.

2004: Hunting Somber Relics of the Cold War in Antarctic Ice - New York Times

Even now, buried somewhere under 100 feet of snow and ice, still unrecovered after 58 years, lie the bodies of three American servicemen, casualties of the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union on the world's most frigid and remote continent.
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''This wasn't just a routine task for us,'' said Capt. Christian Aldunate, the senior Chilean pilot on the recovery flight. ''It was a challenge to find clues that could help locate the plane, even though we knew it would be almost impossible to get at it because of the ice and snow that had piled up over so many years.''

U.S. group urges peace clause in Senate climate [scam] bill | Green Business | Reuters

But many U.S. exporters are worried the provision will backfire on the United States by inviting countries to impose their own tariffs on U.S. goods.

"Border measures, or carbon tariffs, are a sleeping giant ... in the climate change debate" with a tremendous potential to disrupt trade, said Jeremy Preiss, chief international trade counsel at United Technologies Corp.

Swine flu set to add to NHS winter woes (From Worcester News)

SWINE flu will add to a winter cocktail of illnesses in our hospitals but prisons will keep running say health chiefs.

Everest memento for Obama to show climate change impact | Lifestyle | Reuters

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's sherpa community is sending a piece of rock from Mount Everest to U.S. President Barack Obama to underscore the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.

What did carbon dioxide do to this rock?

Guest Opinion: Climate change raises strategic military risks

Never mind the lonely polar bear atop a shrinking ice floe. A more potent symbol for climate change would be an American soldier dodging bullets in a drought-smashed failed state.
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Jim DiPeso of Seattle is policy director for Republicans for Environmental Protection

Climate [Hoax] Rhetoric Heats Up - Washington Wire - WSJ

Stern has spent much of his tenure at the State Department trying to manage other countries’ expectations about what the U.S. will be able to commit to in the way of actions to fight climate change. Friday’s press briefing was no exception. He suggested President Barack Obama’s speech on climate change at the U.N. next might not contain much news. The president, he said, will make “a strong statement” about what the U.S. has done so far to curb its greenhouse-gas emissions.

When asked what he would consider a sign of “success” at the summit, Stern suggested reporters ask U.N. officials. “They’re the ones that set it up,” he said.

Treasury Dept. Admits Mega-Billion Global Warming Tax

Others warn this legislation would likely offshore more American jobs, since countries like China and India do not levy greenhouse-gas taxes. In a February interview with the New York Times, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said, "The concern about cap-and-trade in today's economic climate is that a lot of money might flow to developing countries in a way that might not be completely politically sellable."

Tea Party Set For Saturday On The Lakefront

MILWAUKEE -- The Wisconsin Chapter of the Americans For Prosperity and the Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty present a Tea Party event on Saturday.
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Willie Soon, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Marc Morano, former spokesman for Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma

Builders worry cap and trade will stifle green growth | KY3 | Blog

SPRINGFIELD -- The first few homes in Springfield's first energy efficient subdivision are almost complete, but builders are already worried that pending legislation known as "cap and trade" will be a barrier to future projects.

YouTube - Every 3 Seconds (Bono Makes Another Hundred Grand)

Forget global warming! Filthy rich pop stars with private airliners and venture capital funds pose a greater threat to our civilization than a few sunburned polar bears. The hooded icon and his ilk raise hundreds of thousands to fight hunger and waste millions advertising it. Blurring spiritualism and the bottom line, Bono and the lads take Gordon Gekko's credo to the next level: "Fear is transitory. Greed is permanent!"

YouTube - Caller expressing his views on global warming

Radio talk show host Dennis Prager is challenged by a caller regarding Global Warming.

A climate "smart" future

The world’s poor will bear the brunt of the impact of global climate change. As the planet warms, rainfall patterns shift, and extreme events such as droughts, floods, and forest fires become more frequent. Millions in densely populated coastal areas and in island nations will lose their homes as the sea level rises. In Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, poor people face prospects of tragic crop failures, reduced agricultural productivity, and increasing hunger, malnutrition, and disease. It will become even harder to attain the Millennium Development Goals – and ensure a safe and sustainable future beyond 2015.
...Robert B. Zoellick is the 11th President of the World Bank Group, which works with 185 member countries.

[And then there were ten: For the tenth straight week, Obama gives a Weekly Address with no mention of the global warming scam]

[Sounds like he's talking about cap and tax here, doesn't it?] We cannot allow the thirst for reckless schemes that produce quick profits and fat executive bonuses to override the security of our entire financial system and leave taxpayers on the hook for cleaning up the mess...We cannot let the narrow interests of a few come before the interests of all of us.

Daily Herald | Will conservatives trust Kirk on cap and trade?

SPRINGFIELD - Senate candidate Mark Kirk's changing positions on a "cap and trade" environmental bill are inspiring angry boos from some fellow Republicans and accusations of flip-flopping from Democrats.

Democrats on Friday challenged Kirk, who's in his fifth term as 10th District congressman, to explain why he now opposes a measure that he said three months ago was good for national security.

[When the Masai migrate, is it the fault of your cell phone charger?]

When the Masai are forced to migrate with their cattle from the countryside to the city, the only thing we can be sure of is that we are in the terra incognita of rapid climate change. At the climate change conference in Copenhagen this December, it might help underline the urgency of reducing carbon emissions and bridge the huge divide between the west and the developing world if there was a satellite hook-up to the docudrama of drought unfolding across large parts of Africa. We are all Kenyans now – at least in our shared experience of having leaders who argue endlessly and indulge in a blame game while forests fall and temperatures rise.

Maasai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rains failed completely in 1897 and 1898.
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As a historically nomadic and then semi-nomadic people, the Maasai have traditionally relied on local, readily available materials and indigenous technology to construct their housing.

2008: BBC NEWS | Africa | Maasai 'can fight climate change'

Africa should make more use of the skills of its nomadic peoples to help combat the challenges of climate change, the aid agency Oxfam says.

U.S. climate [scam] legislation may wait to 2011: Duke CEO | Green Business | Reuters

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (Reuters) - Climate change legislation is unlikely to pass the U.S. Congress until the first half of 2010, and maybe not until 2011, Duke Energy Corp Chief Executive Jim Rogers said on Friday.

Rogers is one of the biggest supporters of national carbon-cutting rules among power utility executives and is active on Capitol Hill both in relations with lawmakers and as a Congressional witness.

Rogers said he has not ruled out passage of legislation this year, but believes that it is highly unlikely.

If the bill does not pass in the first half of 2010, Rogers said "it won't be done until 2011 because 2010 is an election year."

Investor's Business Daily -- Sweet And Sour

...this is no special-interest issue. We've already let the government criminalize tobacco, fossil fuels and trans fat. Will we now let Washington add sugar to its index of forbidden substances?

Sept 4, '09: Labour failure on climate change a 'political crime', says Green leader Caroline Lucas | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Caroline Lucas tells party conference that 300,000 people a year are dying because of global warming

Wall Street buys Washington | Salon

The paper noted that in the first half of the year oil and natural gas groups spent $82.1 million lobbying Capitol Hill -- but that environmental, health and clean-energy interests scraped together less than a quarter of that amount, $18.7 million. Money talks, and it's murmuring in your ear, "Global warming, what global warming?"
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Those energy lobby high rollers in denial aren't the only ones who know how to throw a party...

Flashback: Spending Doubled as Obama Led Billion-Dollar Campaign - Bloomberg.com

In capturing the presidency, Obama, 47, became the first major-party nominee to reject federal funding for the general election. He spent $740.6 million, eclipsing the combined $646.7 million that Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic nominee John Kerry spent four years earlier.

First carbon-zero home available in UK

The first carbon-neutral home to be built in a UK development is available for purchase in Basingstoke. The house has four bedrooms and features numerous environmentally-friendly features well ahead of future more stringent building regulations.

Starting in the year 2016 new regulations will be enacted that require newly built homes achieve carbon neutrality. Within 7 years, energy used within homes must not emit carbon dioxide – the “greenhouse gas” that has been blamed as the cause for global warming.

Welcome to SurvivaBall

We are America's largest companies, and we have a plan to save you from the wide range of catastrophes that are likely to come from our increasingly unstable climate.

While others look to Senate bills or UN accords for a climate solution, we look to our best engineers.

I Love CO2: Green Tea Party Update

St. Mary's County, MD, September 18, 2009—On the heels of the historic 9/12 Tea Party in Washington, DC, Truth About Green, a Maryland-based non-profit organization, will hold the nation's first Green Tea Party on Saturday, September 26 from 1 to 4 pm in Washington, DC's Lafayette Park. The national event will feature guest speakers on proposed global warming legislation before the U.S. Congress and other environmental issues, as well as entertainment by country music artist John Luskey.

Peter Soley on "the new proposed carbon trading scam" - Local News

Just this week an agricultural firm sent out an email to the media outlets in Grenfell (me that is) publicizing the fact that to aid in the fight against global warming and to help agri businesses cope with the new proposed carbon trading scam – the firm is going to run tests to find sheep that give out less methane gas.

Green View

When The Climate Project (India), an independent chapter of Al Gore’s non-profit body, the Climate Project, hosts the Green Job Fair next week, seminars and talks won’t be the only mediums to spread the message. The organisation has roped in a new theatre company from Delhi, Pukar, to provide an essential prod to turn green. The 25 members of Pukar, mostly students and young professionals from the Capital, are looking towards Bollywood to drive home the message to the masses.

Think-tank behind Danish Wind Study Tied to Polluter Funding

It's not surprising that the Kochs would be involved in the effort to block the clean energy legislation, as they have long financed organizations working to raise questions about the reality and urgency of climate disruption. Those groups include Citizens for a Sound Economy, a national policy think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. that has called global warming "a verdict in search of evidence," as well as the North Carolina-based John Locke Foundation, whose efforts to scuttle action on global warming at the state level were documented in a special Facing South investigation.

A Warning on Climate Change - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com

Paradoxically, Burgundy has experienced a short-term benefit from climate change in a series of good vintages over the last 15 years. Similar benefits can be seen in other regions like Barolo, Champagne and the Mosel and Rhine.

Rep. Bachmann: 'Cap-and-Trade' Is Doomed

"We Republicans were trying to sound the alarm on the exorbitant tax increase that this would be with the American people. We were told that we weren’t telling the truth and that we should tap down our remarks. Now we’re finding that we were fully validated and vindicated by seeing that the American people would pay a tremendous increase in taxes and that’s why, I think, this measure is doomed to failure in the United States Senate and when it comes back for a revote in the House,” Bachmann predicted.

Responding to a question about whether some representatives who voted for Waxman-Markey might pay a price in next year’s elections, Bachmann said, "Undoubtedly the American people will make an issue out of this bill. People don’t want to have a new national energy tax. They don’t want the federal government to nationalize energy and take over that industry too. The American people have said enough is enough; we don’t like what you have to sell and I think the Democrats are in for a very rude awakening in November 2010,” Bachmann says.

September Auto Sales Go Clunk - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Edmunds.com reports that “September’s light-vehicle sales rate will fall to 8.8 million units . . . the lowest rate in nearly 28 years, tying the worst demand on record. After the cash-for-clunkers program boosted August sales to their first year-over-year increase since October 2007, demand has plunged. In at least the last 33 years, the U.S. seasonally adjusted annual rate has only dropped as low as 8.8 million units once — in December 1981 — with records stretching back to January 1976.”

Heather Taylor-Miesle, Director of the NRDC Action Fund: Senator Murkowski Lights a Fire Under Alaskan Ice

Senator Murkowski, the melting ice, rising sea, displaced people, and drowning polar bears don’t see the difference in the sources of pollution – all they see are the dire impacts of not cleaning up the pollution itself. It is time to address the impacts of global warming pollution. You - of all of our elected-officials - should be leading the charge.

Conservative Christians assail Obama agenda | Politics | Reuters

Obama's falling poll numbers and what they depict as his ultra-liberal views on abortion rights, healthcare and climate change are galvanizing a group that could prove vital to Republican prospects of taking back control of Congress in the 2010 congressional elections or the White House in 2012.

Conservative activists see exploitable opportunities in Obama's policies and performance that also can stir more centrist voters, such as suspicions of "big government" and the almost uniquely American skepticism of global warming that prevails in much of the heartland.
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Most of those attending swim far from the political center.

"I don't believe in global warming," said conservative activist Kim Simac, a horse trainer and mother of nine from Wisconsin who also believes that the teaching of creationism and prayer need to be brought back to public schools.

The religious right has been at the forefront of conservative efforts to rally public opposition to climate change legislation aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.

Conservative Christian radio stations have spent the summer saying the legislation's "cap and trade" provisions would represent the biggest tax increase in U.S. history. That has stoked opposition and could have an impact when the legislation, already passed in the House of Representatives, is considered in the Senate.

Flashback: Dingell: Cap and trade a 'great big' tax - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), ousted by Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) in a race for the Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship earlier this year, has called Waxman’s cap-and-trade system “a great big” tax.

Load up your MP3 player: Lots of climate realist audio/video/etc now available here

The Heartland Institute - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Climate Change

This page is your destination for video of all presentations made at the Third International Conference on Climate Change, June 2, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Breaking News: Treasury Admits Global Warming Cap-and-Trade Costs Could Hit $300 Billion Annually | CEI

Washington, D.C., September 18, 2009―Global warming cap and trade costs could hit $300 billion annually, the Treasury Department admitted in documents released today – late in the afternoon and on the day of the Jewish New Year celebration. The same documents had been released by Treasury earlier this week but had important parts redacted. Now, the document is available in its entirety for public scrutiny.

The new information reveals that Treasury estimates that not only could cap and trade cost $300 billion annually, “domestic policies to address climate change and the related issues of energy security and affordability will involve significant costs and potential revenues, possibly up to several percentage points of annual GDP (i.e. equal in size to the corporate income tax).”

Deal on [Climate Hoax] Is Achievable, Delegate Says - washingtonpost.com

John Ashton, the British foreign secretary's special representative for climate change, told reporters Thursday morning that getting a final deal in Copenhagen, where the U.N. talks will conclude in mid-December, "is achievable, but at the moment it's in the balance. . . . It's in reach, but it's not in our hands."
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[Swedish Environment Minister Anders Carlgren] noted that when it comes to dire projections regarding climate change, "science has moved in one direction," adding: "We need to move faster; we need to do more."

Should contraception qualify for climate [scam] funds? | Green Tech - CNET News

The cost for supplying, and distributing contraception over those 40 years would cost an estimated $220 billion, or $7 for each tonne of carbon emissions avoided.

Copenhagen will be a bust for climate change By Ian Bremmer | The Call

It's becoming increasingly clear that the demands of domestic politics in several key countries ensure that there isn't going to be a substantive treaty agreement on climate change from December's Copenhagen summit. No government will want the blame --but Washington is the most likely to take a diplomatic black eye.
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In Copenhagen, [Obama's] negotiators will likely offer broadly defined targets for global emissions reductions, saving the details for a future gathering, when he has a better sense of what he can sell at home. That won't prevent the summit from becoming a major foreign-policy setback for a president whom many around the world would really like to embrace.

June '08: Althouse: "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Most megalomaniacal line in Barack Obama's speech last night. We laughed a lot.

YouTube - how Goldman Sachs will profit from cap and trade bill -global warming

Australian Climate Madness: Climate expert Hugh Jackman to speak at climate forum

If this was the other way round, a celeb speaking at a climate sceptic forum, the media would be having a field day. The air would be thick with ad hominem digs about how he or she was not a climate scientist, or they are otherwise not qualified to speak, or ridiculing them for not understanding the issues, or criticising them for becoming involved in political matters, or… or… But because this fits in perfectly with the media's built in alarmist bias, it's all hushed admiration and fawning news reports
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A voice for a billion people. Modest as always, Hugh.

Mission Accomplished by Will Alexander | Climate Realists

The whole climate change issue is rapidly disintegrating. There is no possibility of a meaningful agreement being reached at Copenhagen for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. The developing nations have made it clear that combating poverty and increasing the welfare of their citizens are higher priorities.

I have one more task before I pack my bags. It is to assemble all my digital material, copy it onto DVDs and make it available to university archives and others who have a close interest. Details are in the attached memo 29/09.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Pork for airports now at $1 million per daily flight

For 12 passengers a day, all GVA needs is a Quonset hut and a desk with a telephone. Only the federal government would spend $2 million on a building that gets 12 people a day passing through it. It’s these kind of decisions that make people uneasy about government running, oh, say, the entire health-care system.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The obligatory “Wolf Blitzer utterly destroyed on Celebrity Jeopardy” clip

Needless to say, my faith in the total intellectual superiority of the mainstream media has been shattered.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The valley hope forgot

This is yet another example of radical environmentalists inflicting unnecessary damage to farming and property rights.

Obama's global-warming crisis before Copenhagen | csmonitor.com

The Copenhagen summit was supposed to be the "meeting that saved the world."

But despite Al Gore's best efforts, Americans are not yet concerned enough about global warming to force Congress to act. Creative alternatives are needed.

"FACT"BOX from Reuters-The science spurring talks on a UN climate pact

IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri says evidence for global warming has strengthened in the past two years.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this month that sea levels may rise by 0.5 to 2 metres this century. He said that summer ice on the Arctic Ocean -- which shrank to a record low in 2007 -- could virtually disappear by 2030
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-- Overall impacts -- there is evidence since 2001 that any benefits of warming would be at lower temperatures than previously forecast and that damages from larger temperature rises would be bigger.

The Thin Green Line : I'm funding the greatest new source of global warming: Ask me why!

A proposed new coal plant in the state of Gujarat, India, would emit 26.7 million metric tonnes of CO2 a year for the next 50 years, making it likely the largest new contributor to climate-changing emissions.

Who's paying for the $850 million project? Why, you and I are, through the World Bank's "Clean Technology Fund," of all things.

[In case you missed it]: Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market

Considering all the logistics, each tomato she purchased had a carbon footprint of several tons.

Video: Wolf's tough 'Jeopardy!' - Patrick Gavin

It was a rough night for CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday night's "Jeopardy!"

Europe to get chief science adviser, new climate [fraud] commissioner - Physics Today

"We need a fundamental review of the way European institutions access and use scientific advice,"said European Commission president José Manuel Barroso in an speech yesterday to the European Parliament.

Barroso promised to set up two new science positions: a chief scientific adviser, and a commissioner for climate action, "to reflect the fact that climate change is a challenge that needs to be addressed across the whole range of our policies....[and] send an important signal to the world that, independent of the level of ambition that comes out of Copenhagen, Europe is serious about maintaining momentum for action."

Is Kaufman 'Robust'? « Climate Audit

Thus when one sees study after study which has modern-medieval differentials that are always just slightly in the black, any prudent analyst would arch his/her eyebrow slightly and examine any accounting policies that may have contributed to getting the result in the black. And let there be no doubt: when one is dealing with CPS reconstructions with very small data sets (20 or so), it is quite possible to affect the differential through accounting policies.

Twitter / Cameron Dueck: [this doesn't sound like thin first year ice]

Passing a HUGE iceberg with seals doing flips and belly flops into the water from 15m ledges

Democrats Strong, But Not Invincible In Virginia : NPR

Distancing From The Obama Agenda

Deeds has been playing defense some as well. While Obama won Virginia last year with 52 percent of the vote, economic jitters and concerns over issues from health insurance to cap-and-trade have led Deeds to put some distance between himself and the White House. In the debate he called the president "smart" and "innovative," but asked by moderator David Gregory of NBC News whether he considered himself an "Obama democrat," Deeds, demurred, saying "I'm a Creigh Deeds democrat."

MidAmerican president vows to "fight to our last breath" against cap and trade | DesMoinesRegister.com

MidAmerican Energy president Bill Fehrman said again that a cap and trade provision of the climate change bill before congress, would cause a rate increase of at least 20 percent and said Friday "we'll fight to our last breath for our customers."
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"This would amount to a transfer of wealth between $6-$7 billion from Iowa and would do nothing to make the air cleaner or help our economy," said Fehrman, whose utility provides electric service to about 700,000 Iowans. "I really think that money would be better spent here in the state to improve our own environment."

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company: Information from Answers.com

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway controls the company.

The Washington Independent » Barton’s Greatest Hits: Wind Power Might Mess Up Global Wind Patterns and Make the Earth Warmer

Speaking of Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) — who apparently is weighing a run for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) — Kate just passed along the all-time money-est Barton quote ever (and that’s saying something) about how wind power might aggravate climate change.

For those who have zero tolerance for the slightest anthropogenic climate change: why wouldn't altering natural wind flows change the climate?

Climate change campaigners should not have fixated on carbon dioxide - Telegraph

Concentrating on carbon dioxide was understandable. It is, after all, the biggest single cause of climate change.

Iceberg Stories Are a Wet Lettuce — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy

It’s not entirely Goldenberg’s fault. She has been primed by years of press releases from the likes of NOAA and USIDC to believe that the ice is retreating on an almost daily basis. As we have noted before, in their attempts to maintain the excitement, these agencies are caught between the temptation to overplay the importance of new datapoints that reinforce the idea of a downward trend, and the need to downplay those that don’t fit easily with the catastrophe narrative. Regardless of where a new datapoint falls on the graph, it’s a portent of doom.

China Fights Back: Scientists Find ''no solid scientific evidence to strictly correlate global temperature rise and CO2 concentrations'' | Climate Realists

The IPCC’s estimate of a global temperature increase of 2.5 degrees C due to CO2 emissions increase is an average value obtained by some meteorologists through multiple model calculations. Ding’s report found that there is no solid scientific evidence to strictly correlate global temperature rise and CO2 concentrations. Some geologists believe that global temperature is related to solar activities and glacial periods. At least human activity is not the only factor to cause the global temperature increase. Up to now not a single scientist has figured out the weight ratio of each factor on global temperature change.

UPDATE 1-G20 climate [hoax] finance deal unlikely-sources

Sept 18 (Reuters) - G20 leaders are unlikely to agree at a summit next week on how much money rich countries should pay poorer nations as part of talks aimed at reaching a global pact to fight climate change, G20 sources preparing the meeting in Pittsburgh said on Friday.

"The temperature will be taken in New York at the U.N. General Assembly, but as it stands, G20 leaders are unlikely to discuss climate finance in any detail, or reach any agreement on this," one source told Reuters.
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"The EU will continue to press the United States and others to reveal their positions on climate finance. But it is likely to be left until the last minute at climate talks in Copenhagen in December," another source said.

Author Chris Mooney Urges Creation of 'Counter-Morano' – Accuses Climate Depot of spreading 'misinformation about global warming' | Climate Depot

Morano Responds: 'Why did Mooney fail to appear on CNN to debate me about alleged 'censorship?' -- 'Why no outrage over Obama EPA's censorship?'

Al's Journal : $1 Trillion [since his climate scam is falling flat, he's increasingly trying to convince us that we can all get rich selling each other windmills]

Our investments now will determine our economic and environmental health for the next century. We cannot afford inaction.

[Another dubious UN claim: Global warming allegedly making Hudson Bay polar bears hungry]

Despite a decline in the overall number of polar bears in West Hudson Bay, Canada, incidents where hungry bears threaten humans are on the rise. Global warming is to blame.

August '09: Cold summer means thick sea ice, healthier Hudson Bay polar bears - Yahoo! Canada News

WINNIPEG - A cold summer in many areas of the country may have meant fewer barbecues and camping trips this year, but lower temperatures have been a boon for the beleaguered Hudson Bay polar bears.

Experts say the summer sea ice has lasted longer than it has in years, which has given the region's more than 1,000 bears extra time to hunt, feed and raise healthy cubs.

One scout captured a picture of a mother with three strapping youngsters - a rare sight that has heartened those who are fighting what they say is the probable extinction of the iconic mammal.

Polar Bears International - Bear Facts

In Churchill's early days, any bears that wandered through the town were shot as food for sled dogs.

During World War II, an air base was built eight miles east of Churchill. Polar bear skins were highly prized at the time. Servicemen hoped to bag a bear and ship the trophy home.

Today, most Churchill residents are fond of their polar bears, despite occasional damage.

The marginal cost of humanity for global warming

Al Gore, James Hansen, George Monbiot of the Guardian, all the premier advocates of drastic change to combat global warming, have some kind of deafness--a deafness of the heart. It's why they are getting their posteriors kicked in public debate and policy discussions.

Washington Plays ‘Absurd’ MPG Numbers Game - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...“All of this means,” continues the respected auto monthly, “that the anticipated $1,300 price increase per vehicle quoted by the Obama administration is absurd.”

Absurd. Which is what General Motors used to say before it became Government Motors.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cap-and-trade will take 3.5% off of GDP by 2050

In other words, we’re about to impose a policy that curtails growth, creates serious employment problems, and hammers the middle class on wages and spending power. For what? To appease the environmental lobby over a hypothesis that the last ten years has all but disproven.

Do Americans want to pay this kind of price to surrender to climate-change hysteria?

[If we get these ridiculous calculations right, will the weather improve?]: Hate Calculus? Try Counting Cow Carbon - WSJ.com

The U.S. dairy industry is updating its own study, and the new version uses a more-complicated calculation preferred by the International Organization for Standardization. It seeks essentially to look inside the cow, separating the portion of the animal's biological functions that go to producing milk from the portion that go to producing the cow itself. Those functions include the cow's eating, burping, flatulence and waste.

[A date which will live in infamy?]: Worldwide Dairy Industry to Sign Global Declaration on Climate Change [Fraud]

ROSEMONT, Ill., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ — On 24 September, the dairy industry will make history signing a Global Dairy Agenda for Action during the World Dairy Summit in Berlin, Germany.

Signed by seven organisations on behalf of the world’s dairy associations and companies, the Global Dairy Agenda for Action is an industry pledge to reduce carbon emissions as part of its contribution to help address global warming. This pledge builds on past performance to address climate change.

[Do climate realists ever "win" this kind of money?]: Heinz award to Chris Field

One of this year's Heinz awards - a $100,000 prize for achievement in environmental science and leadership - is going to Chris Field, the Stanford ecologist and leading carbon-cycle expert who became co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2 in 2008.

[Was Richard Lindzen considered for this appointment?]: IPCC Member Appointed as UNEP’s First Chief Scientist

16 September 2009: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has appointed environmental modelling and systems expert Joseph Alcamo as its first Chief Scientist.

The appointment comes in response to a decision by the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum.

National Journal Magazine - Dems Should Focus On The Color Purple

Most House Democrats live in blue America and show little awareness that their party has a problem. However, the Democrats' majority is built on a layer of 54 seats that the party picked up in 2006 and 2008 that are largely in purple -- or even red -- America. Democrats ought to keep in mind that 84 of their current House members represent districts won by President Bush in 2004 or John McCain in 2008.

A whopping 48 of those Democrats -- eight more than the size of their party's majority -- are from districts that voted for both Bush and McCain. That America is very different from the Democratic base in blue America, and it sees many major issues very differently.

Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

"We always assumed there would be some secret lairs here and there, but the sheer number now being exposed is indeed troubling," said noted climatologist Anders Lorenzen, who claimed that the Arctic ice caps have shrunk at the alarming rate of 41,000 square miles per year. "In August alone we discovered 44 mad scientist laboratories, three highly classified military compounds, and seven reanimated and very confused cavemen. That's more than twice the number we had found in the previous three decades combined."

White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Think Progress » Rep. Price: If Obama Signs Health Reform, GOP Will Take Back Congress And ‘Repeal The Disaster And Tyranny’

This weekend’s Values Voter Summit, sponsored by Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council, is featuring a who’s who of the conservative movement, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. Besides today’s health care event, the conference will also feature a breakout session on “Global Warming Hysteria: The New Face Of The ‘Pro-Death’ Agenda.”

Energy Ration Coupons Cost A Mint - Even When They’re Given Away for “Free” | GlobalWarming.org

Also, in Europe, we see that the ration coupons were given away for free, just as Waxman-Markey — again, not the focus of the Treasury documents– largely does as well for the scheme’s first few years. In Europe, prices of electricity and that which has electricity or energy embedded in it (everything) went up. Period.

Meteorologist suggests NOAA is manipulating data to support climate claims and political goals | Climate Depot

[Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo, the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman of the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting] This is not an indictment of the hard-working and honest rank-and-file NOAA employees at the local offices and even behind the scenes at NCDC. It is the fault of higher ups and managers whose jobs and reputations rely on perpetrating the global warming hoax long enough so the governments can have their way to control virtually every aspect of our lives and keep the funding at the highest possible level for those who have abused the science to their benefit.

Carbon offset kiosk at SFO sells carbon credits at 60 times the market rate « Watts Up With That?

Here’s the rub, you can buy a ton of carbon offset on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) for 20 cents. That’s about 60 times less than what you would pay at the SFO kiosk!

[We're saved! College students go trayless]

Interestingly, SGA refused to poll the student body about going trayless or even doing a "trial run" because they were afraid that students would immediately react negatively.

Le Provocateur poll: What is your favorite thing about Assumption's new dining options??

No trays in Taylor 0%
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I don't care - just give me my food! 67%

Mainstream media desperately needs writers clever enough to look at "northeast passage" search engine results

Reopening the Northeast Passage, Thanks to Global Warming - TIME

Shunning conventional shipping routes between Asia and Europe in what appears to be the first commercial navigation via the treacherous Arctic sea-lane, Beluga, the shipping company behind the voyage, said in a statement that "we are all very proud" to have "successfully transited the legendary Northeast Passage."
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Even with global warming, the route will be viable for just a couple of months each summer, and only then by spending tens of thousands of dollars on chartering Russian icebreakers to help clear the way. What's more, cargo ships would themselves need to be "ice class": built with an extra layer of steel at roughly 15% more than the cost of a regular vessel, reckons Kamar Zaman, a director at London-based shipping consultants Drewry.

[Some debunking here]

It has been commercially exploited since 1935 when four cargo motor ships passed through the route during a single navigation season. In 1936, warships of the Baltic Fleet successfully arrived in the Far East. Russia, we are told, has invested enormous material and human resources in exploring and equipping this route. Powerful icebreakers and icebreaking cargo ships have been constructed, navigational and hydrometeorological systems established. And furthermore, up until the end of the 80s, the Arctic transportation system was self-supporting. The volume of sea traffic reached 7 million tons in 1987.

Feds are burning: [song promotes climate fraud!] | The Australian

The song's references to Australia's Western Desert, Holden wrecks and cockatoos have been replaced by ones about an overheated global village that stretches from Beijing to Timbuktu.
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[Video] A teaser of the revamped Midnight Oil song used in the 'tck tck tck' campaign for climate justice.

SUN'S HIBERNATION APPROACHES, NEW ERA OF HARSH WINTERS LOOM, COULD 09-10 BE A TASTER

...this for me is the winter which will rewrite the history books and bring to the front row the shouts and screams of a coming ice age.

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market

Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?

Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:

The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens.

Unexpected admission from the OECD « Green Hell Blog

So even if you believe in the global warming alarmist fairy tale, since India and China have vowed not to cut emissions at the expense of growth, nothing will be achieved by the developed world committing economic hara-kiri over CO2.

Offsets are a CROC. « It’s Getting Hot In Here

The situation is so absurd that Greenpeace this week launched thecroc.org, a satirical look at how carbon offsets could undermine both U.S. legislation and the U.N. climate negotiations by giving big polluters a giant loophole to continue dirty business as usual.

[Gore takes another fossil-fueled trip] | The Indianapolis Star

Vice President Al Gore and other political leaders were expected to attend the funeral for [Melvin Simon] the long-time Democratic donor.

A police officer arranged barricades at the entrance to the synagogue’s parking lot as a handful of SUVs carrying mourners pulled in.

Kevin Rudd set for climate failure at Copenhagen | The Australian

KEVIN Rudd has talked down prospects of international agreement at a crucial climate change summit in Copenhagen in December, amid fresh predictions the conference is doomed to failure.
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Alan Oxley, a former senior trade negotiator for the Australian government, said it would take years to craft workable agreements on reducing carbon emissions and emissions trading.
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Mr Oxley, a former Australian ambassador to GATT - the precursor to the World Trade Organisation - said the Copenhagen talks would not deliver an agreement because the US, the EU, China and India were "miles apart" in their positions.

[Again, because evil carbon dioxide helps species that you dislike and kills species that you like]: Sea Stars Grow Faster as Water Warms | LiveScience

Climate change will deal clams, mussels, and other marine bivalves a double whammy.

The Cheapest Way To Curb Carbon Dioxide: Contraception | Popular Science

If we're trading carbon credits now, will we be trading baby credits in the future? Should the right to bear children be more regulated, or is it a fundamental right that we should breed nilly-willy even if it destroys the planet? Is China ahead of the rest of the world on this one? Should we be urgently airlifting condoms to regions of the world that don't have enough access to contraception?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: [2007's Obama debunks 2009's Obama]

Back in the day, Barack Obama really did work as a mythbuster. In this clip from Naked Emperor News and Breitbart TV, Obama explains that any health-care overhaul will require $100 billion a year in new spending, for which Obama would push new taxes as a funding mechanism. Cutting red tape and “profits” out of the existing system would not be enough to fund a transition to a new system. Medicare and Medicaid, he warns, get used by politicians to manipulate budgets at the expense of health-care providers.

Rooftop Solar Setback in California - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The solar industry faces a setback in California, the largest solar market in the country, after an important bill failed to win approval before the state legislative session ended last week.

YouTube - [Australian climate fraud promotion]

Is this the world you want to inherit? If not, vote for the one you do in Youth Decide, Australia's first national youth climate vote.
www.youthdecide.com.au. Video made by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.

Reid pledges to move cap-and-trade bill “as quickly as we can” « Climate Progress

Even more important, I’m told, the climate science realists in the Cabinet had a come-to-jeepers* meeting this week with the political team, and the word went out from the White House that the climate bill is still a top priority of the administration, with a strong desire to see the Senate act this year.

New kiosks at SFO first to sell carbon offsets

Despite his purchase, Peskoe said he's a bit skeptical about the concept of carbon offsets. Some critics question whether some of the programs that receive money are effective in reducing carbon dioxide.

San Francisco Launches First Airport Carbon Kiosks : CleanTechnica

A portion of the offset sales will also go to the San Francisco Carbon Fund, helping to develop local San Francisco carbon reduction projects. The first project supported by the fund is Dogpatch Biofuels, San Francisco’s only publicly-owned biodiesel filling station. It is estimated the Dogpatch project will reduce as much as 660,000 pounds of CO2 [worth maybe $82.50 at the Chicago Climate Exchange!] in its first year of operation. Offsets will also help to pay for the planting of urban trees in San Francisco.

Rudd role looms as [climate scam] mediator

During the climate talks, Mr Rudd has been given a central role as co-chairman of one of the round tables, a role that acknowledges the Government's efforts to forge a new treaty.

[Remember when this type of story was far more common?]: UB signs on for climate change

After two years of planning, drafts, public presentations and feedback, the University at Buffalo has submitted a plan for achieving climate neutrality

The plan was submitted Sept. 15 to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).

UB faculty, students and staff contributed to the 100-page UB Climate Action Plan to fulfill the promise UB President John Simpson made in March 2007 when he signed the Presidents Climate Commitment. When signing the statement, Simpson pledged that UB would develop and release an institutional action plan describing how the university would achieve “climate-neutrality,” reducing or offsetting all of its greenhouse gas emissions.
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Earlier this year, UB and the New York Power Authority announced construction of a 1.1 megawatt solar energy array that will power UB’s student apartments.

Join the Global Climate [Hoax] Wake-Up Call!

Join the September 21st Global Climate Wake-Up Call! There are many types of events: phone-call flash-mobs, The Age of Stupid film premiere screenings, mass rallies -- all organized by Avaaz and our partners in the TckTckTck campaign. Click on your country below to find events in your city or town. Sign up, and invite friends!

About Peer-reviewed Dogmas, or ‘Meet The Peeritarians’ « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

If anything has not been peer-reviewed, Peeritarians will deny its very possibility of existence. Worse, if anything has been peer-reviewed it is then taken as their new dogma…because Peeritarians are characterized by being impervious to critical thinking upon reading peer-reviewed material.

Climate as Art: What's Your Review? - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

If I were still running CNN, I would run an endangered species story everyday introduced by one of the graphics created by D. Kim. 
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I would run the graphic card series in succession as a game entitled, "The Road to Extinction."

Reese Schonfeld
Co-Founder, CNN

Opposition to Health Care Plan Hits New High of 56% - Rasmussen Reports™

Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed.

Just 43% now favor the proposal, including 24% who Strongly Favor it.

Brazil proposes banning sugarcane in Amazon

Brazil's president is proposing a plan to prohibit sugarcane-ethanol plantations in the Amazon and other ecologically sensitive areas.

World Needs Strong Climate [Scam] Policies to Ensure Economic Growth | SolveClimate.com

The world’s biggest investors see enormous money-making potential in the fight against climate change, but they stress that they need “clear, credible long-term policies” from governments to step up their investments.

Defenders of Wildlife [Fraud]

The news is grim: Walruses by the thousands are flocking ashore as they flee retreating sea ice, abandoning their young and risking fatal stampedes that could kill thousands.
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And global warming could very well doom polar bears to extinction in our lifetime. Vanishing sea ice is already causing these arctic icons to drown in their search for the sea ice they need for hunting and denning. Some are even resorting to cannibalism to survive as their quest for food becomes increasingly difficult.

Is a herd of thousands of walruses likely to continue stampeding until they've all trampled each other to death?

[Who says walruses on ice floes can't crush each other?]

BEHAVIOUR: Walruses are highly social animals and are almost always found in herds, numbering from hundreds to several thousand individuals. On ice floes or on land, walruses are often seen packed together like sardines, with calves resting on top of adults to avoid being crushed.

Climate [hoax] revenue soars 75 per cent as businesses lead global warming fight - 18 Sep 2009 - BusinessGreen.com

HSBC predicts global revenue from climate change-related products and services will hit $2 trillion a year by 2020
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Global revenue at firms providing climate change-related products and services grew by a record 75 per cent during 2008 to $530bn (£324bn), making the fast-growing sector larger than the aerospace and defence industries.

That is the conclusion of HSBC's annual review of its climate change indices, which assess the financial performance of firms that provide goods and services designed to cut carbon emissions or support climate adaptation measures.

The report found that climate change-related revenue at listed firms has already exceeded the $500bn a year that economist Lord Stern predicted would be generated by the sector in 2050, while the number of people employed in climate-related activities globally has doubled since 2004 to more than 2.4 million.

[October '07]: making the case for climate [scam] action by big banks - ClimateChangeCorp.com

The opportunities for banks from climate change are huge, according to HSBC, one of the world’s biggest banks.

“We can finance a wholesale shift to a low carbon economy”, Jon Williams, head of sustainable development for the bank, told the summit. “Climate change can be tackled at minimal economic cost if we do it today”.

‘India gives breakthrough on climate change talks’

The new targets will be consistent with an annual growth rate of 8 to 9 per cent for India’s GDP, Ramesh said.

He said that in Copenhagen India will stick to its long-standing commitment to keep per capita greenhouse gas emissions below those of developed nations - and would not agree to any internationally binding cuts.

“This notion that India is intransigent on mitigation is crap. We are mitigating and mitigating considerably to save our forests and our rivers. But for an international agreement, the developed world has to demonstrate its seriousness much more credibly than it has done so far,” Ramesh told the paper.

NCAR: “number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun’s impact on Earth” « Watts Up With That?

From an NCAR press release September 17, 2009

BOULDER—Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun’s impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar cycle. The study, led by scientists at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Michigan, finds that Earth was bombarded last year with high levels of solar energy at a time when the Sun was in an unusually quiet phase and sunspots had virtually disappeared.

The Climate Sceptics Party Blog: Penny Sackett and the Evidence (3)

It’s as if they had never before encountered real live competent skeptics or their arguments. Actually, there is a technical reason for this: they probably hadn’t. Only alarmists work in alarmist organizations; they only hire like-minded people. Skeptics who know what they are talking about are booted off alarmist websites (the good arguments are nearly all on the skeptic websites). Like the mainstream media, alarmists suppress and avoid skeptic thought at all cost. This has left alarmists generally very ill informed about either the skeptic arguments or the caliber and numbers of skeptics. It is easy for alarmists never to encounter competent skeptics, and to believe their own political line that the skeptics are just a few misinformed cranks in the pay of big oil.

Why enviros can't sleep at night | Marc Gunther

“China wants a deal in Copenhagen,” Kenber says. “They realize that there’s a big opportunity in the low-carbon economy for them.”

There’s an opportunity for the U.S., too. Not to mention a moral obligation to deal with the climate threat and not leave it as a legacy for our children. The question is, can we find the political will to act?

The Climate Sceptics Party Blog: Climate Cools for Global Warming Party.

Thankfully there are signs that, at last, the public is getting sick of supporting this never ending party...

TCF Bank Stadium Receives LEED Certification | StadiaTech.com

University of Minnesota has announced that TCF Bank Stadium has been awarded LEED® Silver Certification established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI).

TCF Bank Stadium scoreboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The scoreboard for the stadium was designed and built by Daktronics at a cost of $9 million. At 48 feet (14.6 m) high by 108 feet (32.9 m) wide, the HD-X light-emitting diode (LED) video display technology scoreboard is the third largest in college football stadiums.[47]

UN chief hoping for a breakthrough

Adding to the heightened expectations is that US President Barack Obama's first speech to the United Nations will come at this summit and deal solely with climate change, one day before he and other heads of states and ministers begin delivering their broader messages to the 192-nation General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Fox News poll: Obama’s credibility on health care pretty much shot

Even in a poll where respondents tilt blue, The One can’t do better than negatives across the board.

[From James H. Rust]

Aryan Physics Revisited: A Comparison of 1930s German Physics and Global Warming Science Today

Clarkson, the Baronet’s grand-daughter and a pile of poo - Telegraph Blogs

What is it about privately educated, toffy rich kids and the modern green movement? Obviously there’s none quite so grand as Old Etonian the Hon Sir Jonathon Porritt (both a baronet and the son of a Lord), but billionaire’s son (and Old Etonian, natch) Zac Goldsmith is hardly what you’d call a smelly prole; nor is eco-columnist Charles Clover (a Wet - ie an old boy of Tamsy Wamsy’s alma mater Westminster), nor is George Monbiot (who went to Palladian finishing school for the nice but dim Stowe); nor of course is desperately WASP-establishment Climate Fear Promoter Al Gore. Then of course there’s Prince Charles, who, though something of a Hanoverian arriviste still knows enough not to eat the peas off his fish knife or drop too many aitches when he goes to dinner with his upmarket chum Sir Jonathon.
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There is nothing clever or original or indeed counter-cultural about the modern green movement. They are protesters pushing against an open door. Any fool can go to Jeremy Clarkson’s house dressed in frills and chant drivel.

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Pause in Arctic's melting trend

NSIDC scientist Walt Meier said the reasons for the somewhat cooler temperatures this year were not entirely clear yet.

'Faux-bama' gets the climate message across for Greenpeace : Asia World

Bangkok - "President Obama" vowed Friday in Bangkok to end the climate crisis by committing the US to emissions reductions at the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Summit in December. Not!In a publicity stunt outside the US Embassy in Bangkok, Barack Obama lookalike Ilham Anas, 34, from Indonesia, said all the things Greenpeace wishes the real President Obama would say.

"I will attend the Copenhagen Climate Summit," said the famed "Faux-bama." "I will ensure an ambitious, fair and binding global climate treaty. I will make funds available for climate mitigation and adaptation, starting with funds to protect the remaining forests."

Christian Aid campaigners sing climate change message to Miliband

An impromptu choir made up of Christian Aid climate justice campaigners sang a ‘Coal Kills’ message to Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband outside his offices this week.

Green campaigners warned about public apathy

Global warming is now one of the issues at the top of the agenda for the media and politicians, but a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) found that the general public do not feel the same way.

Patrick J. Michaels : Cap-and-Trade Is Dead. Long Live Cap-and-Trade - Townhall.com

But even though it’s now clear the bill is not getting out of Congress, look for the Obama Administration to saddle our economy with this huge new energy tax through other means.

First, a brief flashback: The blowback against Obamunism began over global warming, not health care. By a squeaky 219-212 vote, the House rushed the 1,300-page cap-and-trade opus out the door so the members could get back to the hustings for the Fourth of July. When many freshman Democrats got home, those who voted for it experienced the first angry town halls of their careers. In our minds, it is easy to remember that the rancorous public meetings that continued in the August recess were always about health care, but they weren’t.

Climate Tax Czar Browner

Carbon taxes would punish prosperity during normal economic times, but would be economic suicide during a recession. With no practical reduction in greenhouse gases, cap-and-trade has been a costly failure in Europe since 2005. Look for climate czar Carol Browner to be a laud and persistent voice in proliferating the climate propaganda of cap-and-trade carbon taxation. Here are some other interesting things you should know about Carol Browner

Paul Chesser: Global warming propaganda infiltrates schools | Washington Examiner

ACE has also targeted the San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston and Boston areas, and aims to reach 140,000 students by the end of this year. Its goal is simple: Get students active in the name of dubious (at best) global warming alarmism, demonize fossil fuels and push solutions such as alternative energy — like wind.

Unfortunately, many teachers and administrators are all too willing to let this biased bunch extract students from classes and force-feed them its pap. Parents should be aware that their kids might be the targets of this political recruitment effort during valuable class time.

YouTube - Where Is The Goverments Global Warming?

Please leave all your feedback on what you feel about global warming and if you were a stong believer in this new religon do you now have any doubts

Live Earth Shows If You Love the Climate, It’ll Love You Back | Triple Pundit

There’s a lot of doom and gloom out there when it comes to the climate change issue, ranging from mild concern to full scale panic, but Live Earth decided to take a different approach with their “Love, the Climate” initiative. From September 15th through September 25th, you can give the environment a voice by sharing creative messages that will be used to help communicate the importance of passing the Climate Bill to senators, and motivate them to take action in a compelling, optimistic way.

Environmental Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God – Eco-Idolatry

These are discouraging times for environmentalists. The momentum to adopt sweeping measures to combat man-made global warming has slowed, even ground to a halt in some places.

Australia and New Zealand, for example, have rejected and repealed their attempts to reduce CO2 emissions. And the French public is up in arms over the government’s plan to impose a “carbon tax.”

Even after all the scare stories, people are having second thoughts about the cost of-or even the need for-reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What’s needed, according to one prominent environmentalist, is a more reliable source of motivation-that is, religious belief.

Virginia: Deeds, McDonnell square off in debate - Roanoke.com

McDonnell sought to tie Deeds to two measures emerging in Congress -- a proposed "cap-and-trade" bill designed to curb pollution emissions, and another bill that would make it easier for workers to organize unions.

Deeds said he opposes the cap-and-trade bill that emerged from the U.S. House and would not support a measure that increases utility costs. He criticized McDonnell for television ads his campaign is running in Southwest Virginia, saying, "He's spending hundreds of thousands of dollars downstate lying to people about my record right now."

Obama can't hide from the Cap and Trade lies

So let me pull a Joe Wilson and be the first to say to the president, "You lied."

I just don't know when he was lying. Was he lying about the skyrocketing cost when it's really only a postage stamp or was he lying about the postage stamp when it's really a huge skyrocketing cost?

I don't know. You decide for yourself.