Matthew Yglesias » Free Markets and Climate Change

...too many of the key institutions that espouse market-oriented approaches are run by people who are too corrupt, incompetent, immoral, stupid, or cowardly to get their side to take the problem seriously.

NBU: ‘Why Do World Leaders Support The Co2 Greenhouse Gas Myth?’ by Guest: Ben Cerruti, 9/26/09

It is disturbing to hear the President of the United States propagate that which is not true. In his speech to the United Nations today he advanced the Global Warming/Climate Change myth. At the same time appearing in the New York Times an article by Andrew Revkin contains the fact that “global temperatures have been stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years”, In addition, there are many scientists, meteorologists and weather experts who have debunked the notion that the creation of excessive amounts of Carbon Dioxide is the cause of global warming if, in fact, it actually exists.

FT.com / Weekend columnists / Tim Harford - Trust me – we have a serious carbon credibility problem

Another proposal, by the economists Warwick McKibbin and Peter Wilcoxen, is more informal: governments should auction off long-term permits to emit carbon dioxide – a ton a year, forever, or at least for decades. The owners of these assets would then constitute a lobby group for high and stable carbon prices. There is something Frankensteinian about the idea of manufacturing a pro-carbon-tax lobby group, but it’s a clever solution. For now, I am more concerned at how few people seem to recognise the nature of the carbon credibility problem.

Obama: From Savior to Leftist Windbag in Nine Months

The cap and trade energy legislation meant to cut greenhouse gas emissions is the persona non grata of Congress since being passed in the House in June. There has been barely a mention of it since, most likely because it’s never going to pass the Senate. During a time when the planet is cooling because of changes in the solar output, regulating CO2 is starting to look crazy to the majority of Americans, especially during of the worst recession in 30 years.

Wind farms cause decline in bird population - RSPB - Telegraph

Wind farms can reduce bird numbers by up to half, according to a new study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, that raises questions about the charity's support of the new technology.

The Blackboard » Temperatures of the Tropical Troposphere: Chad brings Santer up to 2008.

Chad’s analys indicates that IPCC AR1 models driven by the A1B SRES are not tracking the troposphere, and not tracking the tropical troposphere since 1979– or at least they aren’t if the observational data sets are correct. There are of course, caveats.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Study: Regulation costs California economy almost $500 billion

Conservatives and liberals often square off over the proper level of government regulation, but most people agree that some level of oversight is necessary to defend against fraud, waste, and abuse. But at what level does the regulation itself become waste and abuse, this time by bureaucrats rather than stakeholders in the markets?

Jennifer Marohasy » Exile for Non-Believers: Polar Bear Expert Told to Stay Home

MITCHELL Taylor is a Polar Bear researcher who has caught more polar bears and worked on more polar bear groups than any other, but he was effectively ostracized from the Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) specifically because he has publicly expressed doubts that there is a crisis due to carbon dioxide emissions.

PM feels heat on threat to trade | The Australian

The Rudd government believes it constitutes a further reason why Australia must take decisive action on climate change.

India eNews - Leaders at UN debate push for greater efforts on climate change

'I fear that some countries are hoping that the Kyoto Protocol will disappear so that they can take softer emission reduction commitments,' Ielemia said. 'I hope this will not happen as it would certainly be a significant step backwards.'
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Denzil Douglas, prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, said that global warming and climate change and their effects do not discriminate.

'We can all agree that the incidence of catastrophic climatic events such as hurricanes, floods, and mudslides continue to claim more and more lives each year,' he said.

Barack Obama is cooling on global warming - Telegraph

The President's speech to the UN on climate change was commitment-lite, says Christopher Booker.

The 2007-2008 Global Cooling Event: Evidence for Clouds as the Cause « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

But what is really curious is that the 9-year change in radiative forcing (warming influence) of the system seen in the last two figures is at least TWICE that expected from the carbon dioxide component alone, and yet essentially no warming has occurred over that period (see first illustration above). How could this be, if the climate system is as sensitive as the IPCC claims it to be?

United Nations Environment Programme uses unreviewed graph from an anonymous Wikipedia author for official report. « Watts Up With That?

We’ve been lectured time and again about the importance of having climate science work come from peer reviewed papers, saying that the work of dedicated amateurs has no place in climate science unless the work rises to publication/peer review level.

Yet that doesn’t seem to apply for United Nations science publications.

Spreading the Taxpayers’ Green - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

With government spreading the wealth with the blessing of the green religion, it’s Katie bar the door.

YouTube - [Are these people even climatologists?]: Canadian Youth on Climate Change

A message from Canadian youth about the importance of the upcoming UN negotiations on climate change, which will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark this December.

New Zealand's Prime Minister buys into the greatest scientific fraud in history

Scoop: John Key's Statement To UN General Assembly

Distinguished representatives, the major focus of the General Assembly this year must be the challenge of climate change.

Climate change demands innovation and a global response. The world cannot afford to contemplate failure at Copenhagen. Political leadership is needed, and it is on display.

At the Climate Change Summit this week the leaders of the world's three biggest economies showed their determination to both make Copenhagen a success and to take action themselves.
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New Zealand is acutely conscious that most of our greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock methane emissions, which so far no technology can reduce.

Stabroek News - Gov’t/IDB seal US$1.45M contracts for local climate change [swindle]

The government’s efforts to counteract the effects of climate change were given a boost yesterday when two technical cooperation agreements valued at US$1,450,000 were signed between the Finance Ministry and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Microsoft Partners with Carbon Disclosure Project to build Climate Change Data and Reporting Platform

Today at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Microsoft and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) announced the creation of the next generation online solution for the CDP’s global climate change data system.

[Your incandescent light bulbs strain their power generation capacity, but] Electric Utilities Commit to Plug-In Hybrids - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“We really feel that E.V.’s can be a huge catalyst for our industry,” Christopher A. Bennett, an FPL Group executive vice president, said in an interview. “Someone had to step forward and make a volume commitment. There are a lot of toes in the water, but it was time to catalyze change.”

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: David Keith on Air Capture

Air capture may or may not contribute to efforts to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations. But so long as scientists and policy makers frame climate policy as in terms of stabilizing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, then given current indications of its potential effectiveness and cost, air capture deserves to be among the options receiving attention in the international climate policy debate.

Calif. bans high-emission paint thinners, solvents - Nation - The State

Under the regulations, the cost of a gallon of paint thinner or solvent is expected to rise by $1.50.

WWF finds tons of new species about to be wiped out by climate change [slideshow] | Grist

Here are eight of the new-to-us plants and animals you should see before impending climate chaos likely wipes them off the map—and back off our radar.

NSW town dumps bottled water

Mr Kingston said that politicians around the world were grappling with the issue of climate change, and it was " extremely heartening that our small town has become an international role model for grassroots action".

[Non-partisan] AL GORE RALLIES PARTY FAITHFUL IN A.C.

In a speech that lasted approximately 25 minutes, Gore attempted to link Christie to President George Bush, "....George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Chris Christie have policies that are not good for this country and they're not good for the state of New Jersey."

Dr Roy's Thoughts: Good

I am a climate realist. Jeffrey simspon is a chicken little. He seems very upset that billions more dollars are not being wasted in the cause of the ridiculous kyoto targets. I say good. Look at the pathetic demo for HM PM Harper's speech at Tim Horton's.
Canadians say they care about this subject, but most are unwilling to allow government to force them to live in he stone age, so that the goreacle can take private jets to yet another photo op.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WHERE GASOLINE really comes from

Yes, Canada is our biggest gasoline supplier. Saudi Arabia is a minor one. That’s why Obama feels justified in bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia and giving cheap, tacky gifts to the head of state of Canada.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » ADM’s Mistake (Mostly Corrected)

As I said in the title, ADM has certainly figured this out, if their approach to the ethanol business is any guide. In ethanol, they have resorted to any number of these tactics simultaneously.

Heavy cost of Kiwi carbon [scam] | Carbon Offsets Daily

The problem with putting a price of carbon on your productive sectors ahead of other countries is that you could lose your exports from sectors that would still be competitive if all countries faced the same price of carbon. Once they are gone, they would be hard to build back up.

Jake Schmidt, NRDC: Seizing the Opportunity: Reflections from the UN Climate Summit

A lot of work is occurring behind the scenes in the Senate, so I'm optimistic that a bill can move quickly through the Senate. Passage of this bill will put the US in a strong position to secure a strong international agreement and seize this opportunity!

Is Copenhagen Dead? | Mother Jones

For enviros holding out hope for Copenhagen, the Podesta-Pachauri statement is a major downer. The two are dramatically depressing expectations—and plotting out an alternative track to the Copenhagen process. What makes Podesta's pessimism especially noteworthy is that for years he was a mentor to Todd Stern, who is now the senior US negotiator for Copenhagen. The two are close friends, and it is unlikely—make that, unimaginable—that Podesta, an experienced political player in Washington (who was a chief of staff for President Clinton), would express such a discouraging position on Copenhagen without consulting Stern.

Given that Podesta is quite well-informed on these matters, this appears to be a strong signal that the Obama administration—as the Senate puts off acting on climate change legislation—is giving up on achieving any grand accord to redress climate change this December. It's a stinging vote of no confidence in Copenhagen—and a sign that Obama administration officials, believing they cannot steer the nations of the world toward a meaningful treaty, are looking for a Plan B.

Inhofe to Kerry: Cap-and-Trade Is Defined As a ‘Tax, and A Great Big One’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today responded to remarks made by Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who said, “‘I don't know what 'cap and trade' means. I don't think the average American does,’ adding, ‘This is not a cap-and-trade bill, it's a pollution reduction bill.’"
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“I think the best way to help Sen. Kerry define cap-and-trade is to turn to Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), who said that cap-and-trade ‘is a tax, and a great big one,’” Sen. Inhofe said. “No matter the semantic games employed, or the extent to which Democrats wish to hide the truth from the American people, cap-and-trade will mean more job losses, more pain at the pump, and higher food and electricity prices for consumers.

“Despite the post-modern denial of ‘the truth’, in which words can mean whatever one chooses, the legislation on display next week will be cap-and-trade, pure and simple. And if the House Waxman-Markey bill is any guide, it will showcase a massive expansion of government mandates, spending, taxes, and energy rationing, all with meaningless effect on climate change.

An E.P.A. Economist’s Climate Complaints - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Please read the news article above and the e-mail sequence and then have a look back at the NASA case. Do you see any merit in the arguments of those seeking parallels between the two situations?

[More trouble for warmists]

The medieval warm period is vastly inconvenient to Warmists and they try on occasions to erase it from their data summaries. But it is not going away so their next line of defence is to say it was a Northern hemisphere event only. That was always pretty absurd (and raised more questions than it answered) but the study reported below gives it another kick in the pants by showing that the Northern and Southern hemisphere climates move in tandem.

Surveys show different views of global warming - JSOnline

"Once you start talking about cost, support just drops off a cliff," said Scott Manley of WMC, the state's largest business lobby.

Australian Climate Madness: "The Australian" supports the ETS because it makes people "feel better"

Feel better? This is an almost unbelievably cowardly justification for supporting the worst single piece of legislation since Federation. The Australian is the only news source that is vaguely critical of the ETS, yet even it shies away from the inevitable shrill cries of "denier" that would be hurled its way if it came out and spoke the truth, namely that the ETS is bad law and should not be enacted.

[Unclear on the concept]: Freeze Flash Mob Protests Inaction on Global Warming

Frozen Grand Central is an improvisational acting “stunt” that took place at one of the busiest stations in the world, Grand Central Station in New York City. It is a brilliant example of live street theater. Over two hundred people suddenly stopped — frozen — caught in the middle of various ordinary activities (picking up papers, eating a banana, looking at a map, kissing) as if in suspended animation.

NYC mayor: Taking copter to U2 show not so 'green'

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg admits that taking a helicopter to the U2 show might not have been the most environmentally friendly way to travel.

The billionaire — who likes to portray himself as a national environmental leader — travels frequently by helicopter and private plane, but rarely talks about it.

It only came up because his pilot had made a test run to Giants stadium on Thursday before he was scheduled to fly the mayor there to see U2 later that evening.

Mayor Compares Threat of Global Warming to Terrorism - February 12, 2008 - The New York Sun

UNITED NATIONS — While he acknowledged that scientists are unable to predict its consequences, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday compared the scourge of global warming to the threat of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Although it is a "long-term" fight, he said, reducing gas emissions may save the life of "everybody" on the planet, the same way that fighting terrorism and its proliferation saves lives in shorter terms.

Taking Warnings Seriously | The Moderate Voice

...when one nation drowns, we could end up paying the price.

IndianPad / Sand image of goddess Durga to highlight global warming

Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik Wednesday created an image of goddess Durga and burning earth on the beach at Puri in Orissa to create awareness global warning.

UN deadlock puts strain on UK’s transport and climate agenda | TXNews | TransportXtra

What will such outcomes mean for transport policy here in the UK? Potentially an awful lot, because the fear of climate change caused by man’s C02 emissions has been at the very heart of transport policy for the last decade.
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Failure at Copenhagen will be greeted with understandable despair by those people who have been convinced by the doomladen prophecies of numerous climate scientists, many journalists, most political leaders, and all ‘green’ pressure groups. But before heading for the cliffs it is worth reflecting for a moment on a question posed in these pages last year by climate policy analyst Benny Peiser: Would the debate at Copenhagen be different if global temperatures were rising rapidly? Almost certainly. But average global temperature isn’t rising and hasn’t for a few years. The world’s leaders may not admit it publicly but perhaps they are no longer quite so sure that this is a planetary ‘emergency’.

Lawrence Solomon: Hot and cold - FP Comment

If a new Little Ice Age soon sets in, as many scientists consider likely, [Northwest Passage] commercial shipping will not happen in our lifetimes.

By taking a snapshot in time, and by ignoring the history and the ecology of the Arctic, global warming alarmists can make a grim case for a disappearing Arctic, and even fool themselves. In May of this year, a six-country effort involving 20 scientists an aircraft outfitted with precision equipment to Canada’s Arctic in an expedition designed to prove that the Arctic ice was thinning. The expedition found the opposite — newly formed ice was up to four-metres thick, twice what was as expected. Around the same time, three other explorers, on behalf of the Catlin Arctic Survey in London, set off on skis on a trek to the North Pole to measure the thickness of the melting spring ice. Unprepared for blizzard winds of 40 knots and Arctic temperatures of 40 degrees below zero, the expedition made little headway, ran out of food, suffered from frost-bite, and finally had to be airlifted to safety — at their slow-going rate of progress, they couldn’t have survived the 82 days required to travel the remaining 542 kilometers.

Forecast: Fishy

['CLOUDY With a Chance of Meat balls"] is a high-tech celebration of Luddism, not because the filmmaking digerati are actually nostalgic for low tech themselves, but because they think it, like poverty and ugliness, suits the sweaty throngs out beyond the 310 area code who are messing up the planet.
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Because no kid movie is complete without a global-warming message, the comedy turns into "The Day After Tomorrow" plus marinara sauce. The breakneck battle scenes, the repetitive slapstick (one guy slips into the body of a giant chicken, another into a giant olive) and the wordplay ("What if we've bitten off more than we can chew?") don't drown out the lecturing: "This mess we're in is all our fault."

Hang on -- it's morally wrong to try to produce an answer to the island's poverty? The movie is as clueless as Marie Antoinette. The peasants are eating too much cake. Let them eat sardines!

AFP: Climate [hoax] groups dismayed by G20's lack of interest

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Climate change campaigners expressed dismay on Friday after the leaders of the world's most important economies failed to earmark funds to pay for a deal to cut carbon emissions.
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Emerging economies, led by a skeptical India, have insisted that they can not sign up to such a deal unless the rich-world nations whose industry caused the problem pay billions to finance their transfer to new clean technologies.
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Pressure groups were outraged, singling out Obama and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel for particular scorn.

"This is a crisis of leadership. The rich-country G20 leaders -- especially Merkel and Obama -- set themselves a deadline for a climate finance proposal, and then slept right through it," said Ben Wikler of Avaaz.

Barack Obama plays down the need to finalise a deal on climate change | Environment | The Guardian

Barack Obama has talked down the importance of sealing a global deal on climate change before the end of the year, world leaders said yesterday.

Obama's comments, made in private talks at the G20 summit, downplay the need to reach a strong deal at UN talks in Copenhagen in December and contradict the United Nations and others, who have billed the meeting as a crucial moment for the world to avoid catastrophic global warming.
...."What is causing increasing concern is the continuing deadlock in political action to deal with this challenge," said Rajendra Pachauri, the UN top climate scientist who shared a Nobel peace prize with Al Gore.
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The issue that could have unlocked negotiations – finance for developing countries to cope with global warming impacts and pay for green energy technology – got pushed to the sidelines at Pittsburgh.

UN deadlock puts strain on UK’s transport and climate [swindle] agenda | TXNews | TransportXtra

The UK’s transport and climate change agenda is facing severe strain as efforts to secure an international agreement on emission reductions founder and new research highlights a growing hostility and cynicism towards the behaviour change agenda among the British public.

International climate negotiators this week expressed increasing gloom about the prospects of securing binding targets to cut emissions at December’s UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.
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Climate policy analyst Benny Peiser of Liverpool John Moores University told LTT: “My own view is the international community is completely deadlocked on the idea of concrete, legally binding targets. It will be delayed indefinitely in my view.”

Peiser, who edits science policy network CCNet, said the lack of international agreement would make it more difficult for governments to introduce policies to cut emissions that are unpopular with voters. “Individual governments will be making policy on the hoof. So they will not be able to legitimise their actions on the basis of ‘The UN or Copenhagen has decided...’,” he said.

Peiser, a long-standing critic of proposals for binding targets, said failure at Copenhagen posed a particular problem for the UK, which has led the international climate change debate. “For the UK a new Government will have to revisit the Climate Change Act, otherwise they will be committing economic suicide. The British Government always argued ‘we will lead and the rest will follow’. Now the others are not following they will have to revisit unilateral action.

The Associated Press: Calif. OKs fee to pay for global warming [scam]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jQZ0cv3hyN9eJBtkogASogrHJVTgD9AUIR8G4

Part of the fee would cover the salaries of 174 people hired to implement the law since Schwarzenegger signed it.

[Fossil-fueled] Travel and tourism’s support for UN’s climate change thrust - eTurboNews.com

Participating at the UN Leadership Forum on Climate Change at the UN General Assembly this week, Secretary-General ad interim Taleb Rifai reinforced the potential of sustainable travel and tourism, particularly for the world’s poorest countries. The sector’s proven catalytic effect as a job, trade, and development provider turns it into one of the pillars of the green economy.

Earthworms may fight climate change - Daily Express

The humble earthworm could hold the key to reducing the impact of climate change in Scotland, scientists have said.

The worm acts as a natural engineer on the soil, providing drainage channels for water and reducing the chances of flooding, a partnership of land scientists claimed.

2007: Scientist Implicates Worms in Global Warming

Jim Frederickson, the research director at the Composting Association has called for data on worms and composting to be re-examined after a German study found that worms produce greenhouse gases 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Can Paul Krugman Read? - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Paul, the Enron retainer has expired. You can stop pushing Kenny Boy's cap-and-trade scheme, already.

If You’re Paul Krugman, It’s Easy Lying About Cap and Trade » The Foundry

And even if, by some divine miracle, cap and trade did cost a postage stamp per day, Climatologist Chip Knappenberger projected that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation would moderate temperatures by only five hundredths of a degree in 2050 and no more than two-tenths of a degree Celsius at the end of the century. We’d rather have a stamp.

News Headlines - Judge averse to global warming trial in Utah case : Townhall.com

Asked after the hearing whether he wants to put global warming on trial, Yengich said: "I'd like to put the Bush administration on trial."

Rudd issues students climate challenge

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has issued a challenge to university students to devote their talents to solving climate change.

Mr Rudd says the world needs policy innovation to develop the technology to reduce carbon emissions as well as the expertise to design a climate change agreement and to work out funding solutions.

GLOBAL WARMING: TRUTH BEHIND THE SCIENCE: IS THE CURRENT RISE IN WILD WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WEATHER SOMETHING ALL THAT UNUSUAL?

Today's is just a repeat of countless warming and cooling periods on earth.

The Associated Press: Calif. OKs fee to pay for global warming [swindle]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California air regulators have approved the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other polluting industries, despite industry objections.

Warning Signs: Making Law, Ignoring Science, Taxing via Ignorance

In sum, cap-and-trade would allow the utilities and other producers or users of energy to makes heaps of money selling so-called “carbon credits” among each other. Think of it as a high stakes game of Texas Hold’m poker or the sale of indulgences by the Church that wiped the purchaser’s sins clean.

Fisking Paul Krugman | GlobalWarming.org

In today’s New York Times, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman preens about intellectual dishonesty while presenting the most intellectually dishonest case about the cost of climate change policies I have seen this side of Joe Romm. It moved me to do something I have not done for some time, and Fisk the entire article.

G20 Leaders Agree to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies - washingtonpost.com

Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that while the statement is "not the firmest commitment" towards creating a low-carbon economy, "it's an important down payment" on such a policy.

"Given that we're talking about deep cuts across the world," Schmidt said, referring to greenhouse gas emissions, "we can't have investments in clean energy competing against investments in fossil fuels that are going in the wrong direction."

Wash. Post's Juliet Eilperin Rejects Journalistic Balance -- Touts 'Political' UN Climate Scare Report | Climate Depot

Climate Depot Editorial - Serving as the Media's Ombudsman

Washington Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin continues her downward slide as an objective and balanced reporter of climate issues. Eilperin's September 25, 2009 article titled “New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase," is a journalistic embarrassment.

Global Warming Science and Public Policy - UN Climate Scientists Speak out on Global Warming

Major media sources continue to parrot the assertion that, except for a few fringe scientists, a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Here, the UN IPCC scientists and others speak for themselves. I invite you to make your own judgment as to their qualifications and whether their views should be considered or their voices even heard.

- Senator Orrin G. Hatch

Liberal Senators Dodge Tough Climate Votes

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/25/liberal-senators-dodge-tough-climate-votes/

By avoiding tough climate-related votes, the Senate is signaling that global warming is quickly becoming a political third rail.

Schwarzenegger: ready to work for Obama, go green

http://us.mobile.reuters.com/m/FullArticle/p.rdt/CPOL/npoliticsNews_uUSTRE58N6GC20090924

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to put his star power to work for President Barack Obama on the environment when his own term ends next year, the former movie actor said on Thursday.

Republican Schwarzenegger is arguably the biggest environmentalist in his party and razzed Washington, which is struggling to pass climate change legislation and prepare for international talks, for wrangling with other countries over global warming goals rather than setting an example.

Vox Popoli: AGW: the biggest science fraud yet

The budding scandal about the disappearing global warming data doesn't surprise me in the least. The whole thing has been an obvious scam from the beginning. What it demonstrates is that science hasn't merely been corrupted, it has been co-opted. It is rapidly becoming obvious that due to the increased dependence upon government funding by scientists, they can be expected to provide information of approximately the same reliable quality as employees at the Department of Motor Vehicles provide service.

Ghana: No ban on plastics – Deputy Minister | Science & Environment | Peacefmonline.com

Dr Boamah sensitized the audience on Climate Change, and explained that vehicular and other emissions emitted into the air formed a thick film which made it difficult for the sun’s rays to penetrate, thus causing changes in the climate patterns of nations.

When this happened the cold places on earth became warmer and vice versa, he said, and noted that this could mean that the west could experience Africa’s diseases, epidemic and pandemics while Africa could also experience the tsunamis, hurricanes and other epidemic of the west.

Think Progress » RNC Chairman Steele Withdraws Support For Rep. Kirk Over His Cap-And-Trade Vote

This past June, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) — who is now running for Senate — was one of the eight Republicans to cast a vote in favor of Waxman-Markey clean energy legislation. But ever since Kirk began taking heat from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, he has been trying desperately to backtrack from his vote.

North Sea could store 100 years worth of carbon dioxide - Telegraph

Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Minister, said it could help tackle climate change.
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He warned that without CCS, which could cut up to 90 per cent of emissions from fossil-fuelled power plants such as coal-fired stations, there was no solution to climate change.

The Future of Cars Was Hydrogen, Once - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“Overall the stimulus is very good but I do worry about the government skewing the market, picking winners and losers,” Mr. Lincoln said.

AFP: Emerging economies must turn climate talk into action: EU

"The negotiating text is more than 250 pages long, has little structure and is peppered by (unagreed) elements in parentheses," one source said.

"There is no doubt that total agreement (in Copenhagen) will be impossible," he added.

What will be important is the number of points outstanding, the will to sort them out and the time it takes to do so, he underlined, as the Kyoto deal will last until 2013.

On Friday, Zhang Guobao, the head of China's National Energy Administration, said China will continue to rely on heavily polluting coal for most of its energy needs "for a long time."

Breaking: Climate-related health researcher recommends 66-fold increase in public spending for climate-related health research

U.S. needs nearly $200 million more on climate-related health research - Public Health -

A recent commentary suggests that the U.S. should spend roughly $197 million more than it currently does to research the impact of climate change on public health.

The analysis found that the U.S. spends about $3 million in federal funds on research related to the health impacts of climate change, says Marie S. O’Neill, one of the commentary co-authors. This isn’t nearly enough to adequately address the public health issues related to global warming, the group concluded.

The commentary’s lead author was Kristie Ebi, a University of Michigan-trained epidemiologist and expert on climate change and public health, who is an adjunct professor of Environmental Health Sciences.

Alarmists on parade, with seriously inconsistent claims!

With Copenhagen Summit Approaching, Leading Polluters US and China Undercut Hopes of Substantial Pollution Cuts

[Alarmists Andrew Revkin, Anna Pinto, and Ted Glick expound here. 

Revkin suggests that use of fossil fuels has made us "very wealthy", and developing countries want the same "benefit"; while Pinto says "Very often, I think development is posited against climate change action, and that is a fallacy."

Revkin talks about "the absence of the big slam from nature"; Glick argues that the "crisis" is already here, right now.

Pinto takes the prize with this gem of alarmism: "...the other is the erratic character that has developed in the monsoon rain, which also causes both drought and flash floods simultaneously."]

March '09: Climate Skeptics Gather In New York City : NPR

[Andy Revkin] If you're trying to make a case to the public in America, if you're not consistent, that's a sign of you may not have reality on your side.

[Trace amounts of carbon dioxide] could undermine El Nino’s mastery of Atlantic hurricanes - Science Fair - USATODAY.com

Of the 11 climate models the scientists used in the research, eight showed that global warming will lead to more central Pacific El Niños.

Comment: When will the U.S. deal with global warming? - CNN.com

The United States has its first black president, but it may have to wait to get a green one. Right now, Barack Obama has his hands full.

China Claims Edge Over US in UN Climate Change Talks | Green Business | Reuters

With every new splashy promise made, the December climate change conference in Copenhagen is threatening to become little more than a public relations event with little real concerted action.

Carbon [Swindle]: It's Business vs. Business - BusinessWeek

...thanks to powerful opposition from business groups such as the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Petroleum Institute, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the chances of Senate action have dimmed, many experts believe. The opponents "clearly have the jump on us," acknowledges Betsy Moler, lobbyist for Chicago utility Exelon (EXC), which strongly supports the bill.

Minnesota: Many crops several weeks late for fall harvest | International Falls Daily Journal

“They talk about global warming, I don’t know where that was this year,” he joked.
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Last week, Gov. Tim Pawlenty asked the federal government to declare six northern Minnesota counties agricultural disaster areas, due to what he called significant losses from heavy rainfall and cold temperatures.

After UN [climate fraud promotion] speech, Lucknow teen eyeing another green first

“You can yourself gauge the thrill and the excitement, if you have US President Barack Obama listening to your speech. I just cannot describe the feeling of sitting close to former US vice-president Al Gore and Noble laureate R.K. Pachauri.”

In her three-minute speech at the summit, Yugratna called upon world leaders and politicians to work together to save mother earth. “I asked them that If we can work together for security and peace, then why not for climatic changes as they affect us all.”

The Daily Show Tackles Environmentalism, Wind Power And Climate Change « ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

In the video, climate scientist Dr. Eugene Tackle shares that wind power isn’t a solution because, “over the past 30 years wind speeds have declined…and this would have an impact on human health, could have an impact on agriculture.”

“It could be due to reforestation. Planting of trees in natural forests create friction to the wind, so this could be the cause for declining wind speed. ”

[If global warming is The Most Important Issue of All Time, why isn't it even mentioned here?] New York Times/CBS News Poll

President Obama is confronting declining support for his handling of the war in Afghanistan and an electorate confused and anxious about the proposed health care overhaul as he prepares for pivotal battles over both issues, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. [PDF]

[Climate hoax grizzly] ruling means ‘more griz, more conflict’

Tilden said people who work in the backcountry have reported to him there could be as many as 800-1,000 grizzlies in the greater Yellowstone area.

The Associated Press reports about 600 grizzlies in the Yellowstone area. An estimated minimum of 20 grizzlies were killed last year by hunters acting in self-defense or after mistaking them for other animals. Hunting the protected bear is illegal, though a hunting season for grizzlies when they were delisted was possibly about just one year away.

With the return to listing the bears, “We have no control of grizzlies, and they will continue to multiply,” Tilden added.

As they do, so will conflicts with humans, he added.

Also on the rise, he believes, is avoidance of the backcountry by outdoorsmen, especially those with young children, because they fear bear encounters.

“Recovery goals were met since 2000,” Tilden said, speculating that not only more bear-human problems, but also greater livestock and game losses due to bear kills will take place with no hunting season to reduce bear numbers.

A grizzly bear hunting season is not possible with the bear on the threatened list, Tilden said. He called Molloy’s action “horrendous.”

YouTube - [Leading climatologist] Brad Pitt speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative Part 1

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina offers powerful lessons for the global community as we prepare for a future shaped by global warming and recovery from economic crisis.

May '08: Brad Pitt models green living

Parents-to-be Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have just purchased a 1,000-acre estate for their growing family in the south of France for $60 million according to E!.

The estate contains 35 bedrooms, a vineyard, lake, forest, moat, swimming pool, billiards room, indoor pool, gym sauna, jacuzzi, and banquet hall.

Sept 24, 2009: Pitt and Jolie consider building a private jet airstrip in France | Private Jet Daily

Reports say that Hollywood celebrity Brad Pitt is planning to build an airstrip adjacent to his luxury property in France, so that he and his wife—Angelina Jolie—can avoid the paparazzi who ambush them in commercial airports.
...With Angelina’s private jet license, a private airstrip would give the couple the freedom to come and go without paparazzi run-ins.

EPA’s ‘cow tax’ possibilities killed for at least a year | The Daily Republic | Mitchell, South Dakota

The natural and gaseous emissions of cattle produce approximately 5.5 million metric tons of methane per year — or 20 percent of U.S. methane emissions — according to EPA estimates.

[Left-winger Bill Maher: Not happy]

Can we get out of Iraq? No. Afghanistan? No. Fix health care? No. Close Gitmo? No. Cap-and-trade carbon emissions? No. The Obamas have been in Washington for ten months and it seems like the only thing they've gotten is a dog.

The Possibility of Carbon-Trading Fraud Elbows Into Senate Climate Debate - NYTimes.com

"Cap and tax is going to be a recipe for green-collar crime, for greed and for abuse," declared Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) last week. "I'm very concerned that any 'cap and tax' scheme is simply going to benefit the same Wall Street elite who got us in this financial mess we're in today."
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But a deep well of skepticism has emerged in the Senate about whether the same environmental program should be applied to a far bigger carbon market.

"I assure you, with trillions of dollars roaming around, there are hucksters all over this world that can figure out a way to benefit," Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told his colleagues on the Senate panel, suggesting offsets bought by U.S. companies could end up financing fraudulent environmental projects in other parts of the world.

The most efficient solution or a vehicle for manipulation?

Corker likens the cap-and-trade plan to the Rube Goldberg cartoons of the early 20th century. Goldberg drew complicated, byzantine machines designed to do simple tasks.

Op-Ed Columnist - [Stil more embarrassing nonsense from] PAUL KRUGMAN - It’s Easy Being Green - NYTimes.com

Some of them still claim that there’s no such thing as global warming, or at least that the evidence isn’t yet conclusive. But that argument is wearing thin — as thin as the Arctic pack ice, which has now diminished to the point that shipping companies are opening up new routes through the formerly impassable seas north of Siberia. [some debunking here]
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So here’s the bottom line: The claim that climate legislation will kill the economy deserves the same disdain as the claim that global warming is a hoax. The truth about the economics of climate change is that it’s relatively easy being green.

Climate change: Avoiding a crash at Copenhagen | The Economist

Australia has proposed another route. All countries would come up with a “national schedule” of programmes, such as cap-and-trade and low-carbon regulations. Developed countries would also specify an amount by which they mean to reduce their emissions. These commitments would have the force of domestic law, but would not be subject to international sanctions. That’s probably what Mr Obama meant when he spoke at the summit of the need for countries to “stand behind” their commitments. American legislators would find this more palatable; so would developing countries, which fear that internationally binding commitments could be used as justifications for imposing tariffs on them.

Opponents of this approach complain that unless the targets are internationally binding, and there is a compliance mechanism to enforce them, any global agreement will be toothless. Yet Kyoto, in truth, has no teeth.

Solar-Power Incentives in Germany Draw Fire - WSJ.com

As cheaper Chinese rivals threaten to outshine Germany's pioneering solar-power industry, the head of a leading German solar company is proposing a radical counteroffense: cut the generous government subsidies that let German solar firms flourish in the first place.

Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising - washingtonpost.com

Democratic political committees have seen a decline in their fundraising fortunes this year, a result of complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers, who have been put off by the party's harsh rhetoric about big business.

Dr Roy's Thoughts: Climate Realist Marc Morano of Climate Depot on Tommy Schnurmacher's show

 Listen here.

Greenpeace's first Australian court date - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

For the first time in its history, environmental lobby group Greenpeace will face court in Australia.

The group is charged with marine safety offences following two climate change protests in Queensland last month at coal export operations at Abbot Point near Bowen and Hay Point, south of Mackay.

The Global Wake-Up Call Is here!

On 21 September 2009, at more than 2600 events in 135 countries across the globe, we joined together to issue a deafening wake-up call to world leaders on climate change. The breadth and creativity of events is breathtaking, and our message broke through to leaders and international media. Watch the video of highlights

Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON -- A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.

MPs unaware of new build eco-targets | News | Ocean Media

Most MPs do not know that all new homes are supposed to be zero carbon by 2016, new research has found.

A poll by ComRes found that 72 per cent of MPs were unaware of the target, which is the most ambitious attempt the government has made to limit housing’s impact on global warming.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » NYT/CBS poll shows Obama losing ground on health care, Afghanistan

And here’s an indicator that the Hope and Change has begun to wear off: a majority (56%) believe Obama will break his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the middle class.

Chamber of Commerce Departures Continue - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Don Brown, a PNM representative, said in a statement that PNM would not renew its membership in the Chamber when it expires at the end of this year. PNM, he said, [unlike the public] views climate change as “the most pressing environmental and economic issue of our time.”
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“We have over three million members, and we don’t comment on the comings and goings of our membership,” Eric Wohlschlegel, a spokesman for the chamber, told The Times earlier this week in response to PG&E’s announcement.

Profit From The COP15 UN Climate Change [Hoax] Conference | Green Stocks Central

The COP15 Climate Change conference in Denmark will provide extraordinary profit opportunities in what venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers said “could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.”

US Energy Secy: To Push For More Nuclear Loan Guarantees - WSJ.com

"It's part of how we're going to get to the carbon reductions we need in order to avoid the worst of climate change," Chu said.
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The delay in determining the waste issue after the administration decided to cancels plans for a central storage site in Nevada is one of many stumbling blocks that has dogged the industry.

A lapse of judgment at the CBC: A climate change denier goes unchallenged : The Island of Doubt

A few weeks ago the nightly hour-long documentary series on CBC Radio, "Ideas," allowed Canadian climate change pseudoskeptic Larry Solomon an entire hour to make his case against the science of anthropogenic global warming. The producers offered not a single challenge to any of Solomon's arguments, despite the fact that practically every point he made on the science of the subject was either false or grossly misrepresented the science.
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I asked Lucht if he would give similar treatment to anti-vaccine activists or Holocaust deniers. I have yet to receive a reply.

Gore attending state Democratic convention today in Atlantic City - pressofAtlanticCity.com : Atlantic City

New Jersey Democrats are looking forward to tonight, when former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to visit Atlantic City and wind up the party for the final charge to the November elections...Gore is scheduled to be in Atlantic City today to rally Democrats...

Yesterday: 'Recovering Politician' Gore Taking It One Non-Endorsement at a Time | The New York Observer

"I am a recovering politician," Gore said. "I’m on about step nine, so I try to stay out of the partisan races, but I’m very proud of Mike Bloomberg’s leadership, I really am. I’m not just saying it."

Climate Change in Alps to Leave Europe High and Dry : TreeHugger

Picturesque views of the snow-covered Alps may soon be relegated to picture books due to increasing climate change, a new European environmental report says.

2009: Record snowfall in the Southern Alps

Les Abriès and nearby Ristolas claim nearly 4 meters snow depth on the upper slopes at 2000 meters altitude and 2.40 meters at the bottom of the runs. Currently a record for France. The resort says there is 5 meters at the top of the resort at the Colette de Gilly.
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Elsewhere in the Southern Alps reservations are up 20% in Praloup, le Sauze and Ste Année. The Compagnie des Alpes has reported that Serre Chevalier has 99.9% occupancy and sold a record number of lift passes last Sunday.

Snow, ice chase spring away - New Zealand

Snowfalls have caused traffic chaos in the lower North Island and laid on a frosty welcome for spring lambs.

MetService forecaster Derek Holland said yesterday's chilly easterly blast brought record low temperatures to the Kapiti Coast and single-figure lows to the rest of the region.

Brita Climate [Fraud] Ride 2009 Ready To Roll

Brita Climate Ride 2009 kicks off at the Central Park Zoo in New York on September 25 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Denmark's Secretary of State, Per Stig Moeller, and NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen will wish the riders well on their journey. The Zoo's polar bears, Gus and Ida, members of a species directly affected by climate change, will be on-hand as well.

The Great Wall Embraces Wall Street [Climate Swindle] | Marc Gunther | Reuters

This could lay the groundwork for a mandatory market in the not-too-distant future.

That, at least, was my takeaway from a Low Carbon Conference held in New York that brought together leaders of the world’s big stock exchanges, energy industry executives, environmentalists and experts in carbon finance. [Disclosure: I hosted the event for BlueNext, a French company that recently announced a partnership with the China Beijing Environmental Exchange to develop carbon trading in China.] Not surprisingly, the Chinese are looking for money from the west, specifically from companies and governments looking to offset their emissions. They argue that they can reduce emissions faster and cheaper than the U.S. or the EU. But they also expect to raise money from businesses and individuals in China that care about climate change.
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What was striking was to hear Chinese executives like Xiong Yan, chairman of the China Beijing Environmental Exchange, who has impeccable Communist Party credentials, wholeheartedly agree that banks like Merrill Lynch and Citi and utilities like Duke Energy need to help solve the climate crisis. Merrill, Citi and Duke were all invited to speak by the Chinese, who shaped the agenda for the event.

EU CO2 [Swindle] Permits Rise After Commission Vows to Prevent Surplus - Bloomberg.com

The EU has already decided to revamp the program as of 2013 by scrapping country-based permit grants in favor of a centralized system. While the change will avoid a repeat of the current conflicts, any extra supply of allowances before then could also push down prices after 2012 because permits can be carried over to later years.

Cases challenging the commission’s decisions on national allocation plans are pending from Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania, which are among 10 former Soviet countries that joined the EU since 2004.

Canada and climate change: Nothing gets done, fingers get pointed - The Globe and Mail

The world faces its greatest tragedy of the commons with the warming of the planet's atmosphere that is overwhelmingly caused by human activities, especially emissions of carbon dioxide and methane. Crank scientists and their dwindling band of supporters contest this warming, but the overwhelming majority of scientists have declared it to be a fact. Indeed, the latest scientific evidence suggests an acceleration of warming trends.

REALLY, MEG? Suspending Climate-Change Legislation AB32 is Backwards Thinking | Gavin Newsom

The potential employment upside to AB32 is staggering.

It's spring, but winter won't quit - Weather - NZ Herald News

The extreme cold hit Manawatu, with snow falling in Dannevirke, Woodville and Norsewood. The region also had heavy rain and temperatures down to 3C.

Blogs For Victory » Blog Archive » Why is Global Warming “Ending”?

Mostly ignored in the whole global warming debate is that large, hot, yellow thing which hangs in the sky from dawn until dusk. Global warming enthusiasts have launched a host of reasons for rising global temperatures, and even more excuses for why temperatures have been flat or declining for about ten years now - and all these discussions have ignored the sun. Well, the sun is checking in - and after a period of high activity, we’ve been heading in to a period of low activity. Amazing the way that works, huh?

[It's your DVD player's fault]: Flash Floods in Turkey Signals Global Warming Is Rearing Head In Middle East Region | Green Prophet

Some of these floods have been so bad that many are saying that they are the worst in years, with the heaviest rains in more than eight decades falling in and near Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul.

Fanged frog among animals endangered by climate change - Telegraph

Heather Sohl, of WWF-UK, said: ''It is great news that science is uncovering exciting and unusual new species like the fanged frog and the leopard gecko, but it is very worrying that no sooner do we find a new species, than we have to sound the alarm over their prospects for survival.
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Scientists said there is so much wildlife that some of last year's discoveries - such as the tiger-striped pitviper - were made entirely by accident by researchers exploring the region which spans Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and the south western Chinese province of Yunnan.

Taking Measure of Biofuel Limits « Climate Sanity

Let’s face it – this ambitious goal of 144 billion liters of ethanol per year from biofuels is a very bad idea. Our most precious resources are the land, water and resources for making fertilizer (which is primarily natural gas for nitrogen fertilizers). The dumbest thing we can do is deplete our soil and aquifers, pollute our water with extra nitrogen fertilizer, and waste our natural gas to make ethanol. If you think living with a shortage of gasoline is rough, try living with a shortage of food.

American Thinker: Obama and the Last Hurrah of Liberalism

President Obama has championed "health care reform" and a "carbon tax" in an attempt to control the day-to-day lives of the American people. There are now 32 advisors (czars), to the President, most being left-wing ideologues, with the power to implement his agenda, none of whom have been approved by the Senate.

SurvivaBall [complete with Halliburton logo!]: Your individual climate-change adaptation strategy | Grist

Specially designed to enable its wearer to withstand months of drought, fierce hurricanes, and catastrophic floods (it floats on water!), the SurvivaBall makes it unnecessary to transition to a low-carbon economy or finance adaptation for the world’s poor.

Peruvian glacial retreats linked to European events of Little Ice Age

Licciardi and his colleagues will continue working in Peru toward a more complete understanding of glacial expansion during the Little Ice Age - and their subsequent retreat. "Our new results point to likely climate processes that can explain why these glaciers expanded and retreated when they did, but there are still many open questions," he says. "For example, what's the relative importance of temperature change versus precipitation change on the health of these glaciers?" The research team plans to explore this question using coupled climate-glacier models that evaluate the sensitivity of glaciers in southern Peru to the two main factors that drive glacier expansion - cold temperatures and abundant snowfall.

[Also, why is the formerly mile-thick Chicago glacier so unhealthy right now?]

When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago--an enormous weight that depressed the land beneath.

Cassy Fiano » Mayor Bloomberg is a flaming hypocrite, what a surprise

So, it turns out that, like most liberals, Michael Bloomberg is a flaming hypocrite. Just about everything liberals tell us that we “have” to do, they aren’t willing to do themselves. (This is especially true, by the way, of the global warming alarmists.) With Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, it’s eat as I say, not as I eat.

Carbon-Based: UN 'inaction' in Nepal climate [hoax] struggle

The issue is causing considerable unrest among Nepal's official classes. The failure to hire a climate change consultant by a major donor has seriously delayed work crucial for a country many fear is particularly vulnerable to climate change, government officials told the BBC.

They argue that the absence of a climate specialist in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Nepal means that it cannot help the government prepare the much awaited National Adaptation Programme of Action (Napa) within the required deadline. The UNDP stands accused of not hiring any staff in relation to the project for the last eight months….

Alaskan chardonnary to be a big hit in 2110 | GreenTech Pastures | ZDNet.com

But the report goes on to say: the earth will be as much as 7 degrees (Fahrenheit) hotter by the end of this century. If this be true, your grandkids are NOT going to be thanking us for that little hand-me-down. But it should lead to a land rush by vintners looking for prime land on the Alaskan Riviera.

[More alarmists losing faith in their religion?: Here's that "even if" argument again]: The earth: it's always blowing hot and cold | GreenTech Pastures | ZDNet.com

...even if we humans are totally blameless in the current warming trend and even if it is only a natural cycle, it is likely to have effects for which we are not preparing, and we might be able to lessen the warming by taking action, and even if we converted to non-fossil fuel and the warming continued, we would have cut down on much air pollution that has bad effects far beyond climate change

Schwarzenegger defends legacy from Whitman

Schwarzenegger, speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, dismissed Whitman's recent statements that, if elected governor, she would suspend the California Global Warming Solutions Act until its effects on the economy are better understood.
I would pay no attention to this kind of rhetoric and look toward the substance. ... This is not a political issue, the governor said in response to Whitman's statement.
Immediately after the speech, Whitman issued a statement again slamming the law, referred to as AB32, calling it a job-killing regulation.

MyDD :: One Month To Go Before The Day Of Action

The phrase "350 or bust" is not just fancy rhetoric to paint on your car - if we don't get that low, scientists like IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri and NASA's James Hansen say that we WILL bust, end of story.

The Climate Sceptics Party Blog: ABC Bias

Complaint under the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Code of Practice
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There exists a large and growing body of scientific evidence which is contrary to this theory. The ABC has not been presenting this contrary evidence and has been making quasi-religious assertions that the science is settled when it is not. It has been only presenting information in favour of AGW without any critical analysis of that information or attempt to balance that information with relevant examples of the contrary evidence.

A look at the Thompson et al paper – hi tech wiggle matching and removal of natural variables « Watts Up With That?

If we ignore the short period between the 1982/83 and 1986/87/88 El Nino events when temperatures fell, the “Tdyn/ENSO/Volcano residual global mean” data has not been accelerating; it has been decelerating.

Umm, you know all that climate data that proves global warming, well, nobody’s had it for 20+ years - LJMiller96’s blog - RedState

...there are certain scientists who, because of the faddishness and political correctness of their results, get a pass when they violate every standard of scientific research.

But the fact of the matter is those so-called scientists are frauds, and so are their supporters.

Long road to climate [hoax] deal - Daily Democrat Online

Ban's bid to build momentum for a new climate accord was the latest effort in a long, cumbersome process dating back to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Whitman, Newsom invited to debate state climate change laws | San Francisco Examiner

An online media company wants gubernatorial hopefuls Meg Whitman and Mayor Gavin Newsom to duke it out after school, 3 p.m.

CleanTechnica.com, an environmentally-focused blogging site, has invited Newsom and the Republican candidate to an online debate regarding the state’s climate change legislation, AB32.

The Migrant Mind: CO2 is not melting the Arctic.

Clearly about the time that the Arctic ice began to melt, the sea became more salty. CO2 is not melting the ice; the underlying warm water coming into contact with the ice from beneath is what is melting the Arctic ice.

Why do the global warming hysteriacs NEVER, EVER tell you this? Is it because they simply are pushing a political agenda rather than real science?

HOW I SEE IT: On global warning, the answer is above | Culpeper Star-Exponent

The man-made-CO2-caused global warming scenario is a hoax. Next to the power of the sun, mans’ endeavors are miniscule. Recent research shows that the cause of global warming is the sun. There is a direct relationship between sunspot activity and the amount of energy emitted by the sun.

A climate model for every season - On Line Opinion - 25/9/2009

In other words, just to underline the point, scientists really have no idea what drives climate. They don’t really know why the earth flips in and out of ice ages (much of the theory concerning Milankovich cycles was recently overturned), or why the current interglacial period has been much longer than any of the others, or why the medieval warming period or little ice age occurred.

On Leno's Show, Limbaugh Runs Car Over Al Gore – Then Backs Up and Does It Again | NewsBusters.org

Taking the “Green Car Challenge” on Thursday night's Jay Leno Show, a svelte Rush Limbaugh -- declining to don a helmet -- hopped into the electric Ford Focus on Leno's track behind his NBC studio in Burbank, but instead of driving around the hanging cut outs of Al Gore and Ed Begley Jr., Limbaugh ran right into them.

Bobby Jindal Eyes the Carbon [Scam] Market - Vladimir’s blog - RedState

“We can tap that market to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars without making any modifications to our projects whatsoever,” said Garret Graves, Jindal’s top adviser on the coast and levees.

AFP: At summit, doubts grow on reaching climate [hoax] deal

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — European leaders voiced growing doubts on whether the world will meet a December deadline for a new climate deal as a summit here looked set to take up global warming in generalities.
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But with just a little more than two months before a conference in Copenhagen -- designated two years ago as the venue to seal the successor to the landmark Kyoto Protocol -- pessimism was growing.

"When it comes to the negotiations, they are in fact slowing down; they are not going in the right direction," said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the current head of the European Union.

"We are very worried that we need to speed up the negotiations," he said.

What does cap and [tax] mean for Gillette?

At a chamber lunch Wednesday, representatives from local coal and utility companies, as well as U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, who all adamantly appose the legislation, discussed what cap and trade legislation would mean for Gillette.

Barrasso said cap and trade legislation would have “devastating impacts” on Campbell County and Wyoming. Barrasso, who addressed those attending the lunch in a video message, said thousands of jobs will be lost across the state.

Schwarzenegger backs strong state climate [fraud] bill

Despite calls to suspend California's aggressive plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday insisted that the state's work to combat climate change must soldier on.

"No single issue threatens the health and prosperity of our nation (more) than climate change," Schwarzenegger said during an appearance at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club.
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Schwarzenegger said the success of the economy and environment relies heavily on AB32.

"One hundred and fifty years ago, the Industrial Revolution ushered in a new era," he said. "Today, green technology will do the same."
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"I'm sure [Meg Whitman] doesn't want to be counted as one of those Republicans who wants to move us back to the Stone Age," he said.

EurActiv.com - US official: We have a backup plan if climate [swindle] bill fails

President Barack Obama is drawing up a 'Plan B' to regulate greenhouse gases if the US Senate fails to pass legislation needed to mandate the new administration to negotiate an international climate treaty at crunch talks in December, a senior official said yesterday (24 September).

Calif. air regulators establish program to promote forests, help polluters meet emission goals

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California air regulators Thursday expanded the state’s carbon-offset program to include forests across the country, creating the most far-reaching effort of its kind in the nation.

The program is voluntary and was endorsed unanimously by the California Air Resources Board.

Under it, land owners would receive so-called carbon credits [currently selling for 20 cents per ton] for planting more trees, better managing their forests or agreeing not to convert their property to another use that would require cutting down trees.

Cap & Trade Will Likely Not Pass This Year

INDIANA (Indiana's NewsCenter) - The Cap and Trade bill may not have such a bright future after all.

That according to Indiana's Senior Senator Richard Lugar.

Lugar made the comments Wednesday night while addressing an event sponsored by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.

He says the climate change legislation will likely not pass this year due to the health care reform debate.

Chasing a More Accurate Global Trend by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow | Climate Realists

The long term global temperature trends have been shown by numerous peer review papers to be exaggerated by 30%, 50% and in some cases much more by issues such as urbanization, land use changes, bad siting, bad instrumentation, and ocean measurement techniques that changed over time.

[Who pays for all of this?  Wyoming researcher burns enormous amounts of fossil fuel to investigate report of a single collared polar bear allegedly in distress]

About twelve hours after receiving the phone call, I had dropped all other plans and I was on a plane to Alaska. Within several days we mobilized two helicopters and pilots up to the coast, rounded up all the necessary gear, and performed the capture near Kaktovik. After examining the bear closely, fortunately, she was not in ill health and she was not experiencing any complications from previous sampling. Although it is difficult to know, it seems she simply had a tough spring, perhaps due to poor hunting success or other factors.

I did not return to Laramie until the following Monday, after missing the first week of classes on campus.

Texas Tech Atmospheric Scientist Available to Discuss Climate Change Concerns Relevant to G-20 Summit

Katharine Hayhoe, a prominent climate researcher at Texas Tech University, is available to discuss the latest developments in the international climate treaty discussions at the G-20 summit.

A Climate for Change

"As Christians committed to the truth in both science and faith, Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley present a compelling case for why addressing climate change is a part of what it means to be a Christian today."

Larry J. Schweiger
President and CEO, National Wildlife Federation
Author, Last Chance

Blog Action Day Thursday October 15th 2009 on Climate Change « The Hedon Blog

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.

EU says rich states must pay up to save climate [swindle] | Environment | The Guardian

Barroso was also scathing about the red tape surrounding the negotiations. "The text that is currently on the table contains 200 pages with a feast of alternatives and a forest of square brackets," he said. "If we do not sort this out, it risks becoming the longest suicide note in history."
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The consequences for the most vulnerable states of climate change grew even more stark yesterday with a report from the UN Environmental Programme warning its pace and scale was exceeding even the most definitive predictions made in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.

Sea levels could rise by as much as 6ft by the end of the century – instead of the 18in projected by the IPCC. The Arctic could be in summer ice-free as soon as 2030 rather than 2100.

AFP: New Mekong species at risk from climate change: WWF

BANGKOK — Scientists discovered 163 new species in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region last year, but all are at risk of extinction due to climate change, the WWF said in a report released Friday.

Reuters AlertNet - In Brief: Crucial climate [scam] negotiations to be held in Thailand

"Let us make this a year that we, united nations, rise to the greatest challenge we face as a human family: the threat of catastrophic climate change," Ban told a meeting of the UN General Assembly on 23 September.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Inhofe going to global-warming conference in Copenhagen

What could be more out of place than a Republican in an ACORN office? Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) at a global-warming conference. The leading Congressional skeptic of global warming plans his first trip to the annual conference in six years to act as the “only voice” of opposition, and hopes to force the attendees to deal with rising skepticism about the claims of climate-change advocates

The American Spectator : Copenhagen Smokeless Chu

Activists like Richard Branson pride themselves on perpetual adolescence, seeing no contradiction between the jet-setting hedonism they practice and the abstemious environmentalism they preach. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's comparison of the American people to adolescents should offend these celebrity activists a bit.

The Deadly Silence of the Electric Car - washingtonpost.com

...an as-yet-unreleased NHTSA study of accidents in 12 states compares accident rates for some hybrid vehicles and their internal combustion engine counterparts.

Covering more than 8,000 hybrid electric vehicles and nearly 600,000 gasoline-fueled cars, the analysis suggests that during certain low-speed maneuvers such as turning and backing up, hybrid vehicles are 50 percent more likely to be involved in an accident with a pedestrian, said Ronald Medford, acting deputy administrator of NHTSA.

"We certainly know that blind pedestrians rely heavily on the sound of vehicles as a means of determining when it is safe to cross the road," Medford said. "But all of us are susceptible."

[Shock: In the controversy over the greatest scientific fraud of all time, The Grey Lady continues to side with the fraudsters]: Furor Over Alan Carlin, a Climate Change Skeptic - NYTimes.com

Adora Andy, the agency’s chief spokeswoman, called the accusation that Dr. Carlin had been muzzled for political reasons “ridiculous.”

“There was no predetermined position on endangerment, and Dr. Carlin’s work was not suppressed,” Ms. Andy said in an e-mail response to questions. “This administration has always welcomed varying scientific points of view, and we received much of it over this process.”

New Groups Revive the Debate Over Causes of Climate Change - washingtonpost.com

"We thought that the debate had moved from the science of global warming to what to do about it," said Josh Dorner, spokesman for Clean Energy Works, a recently formed coalition lobbying for climate legislation.

Jairam Ramesh speaks to rediff.com: Rediff.com news

During his six-day stay, the minister engaged in informal talks with counterparts from as many as 309 countries at a meeting in upstate New York, convened by Denmark.

'India and China have emerged as villains on climate change'

Below is a complete listing of the 195 official independent countries of the world and their capital cities.

[Climate swindle advice from Bill Clinton]

Although Bill Clinton portrayed himself as at peace in his new role as a former president and an outsider to the current administration, he did not refrain from listing all the ways that Obama could use his executive power to show a strong US response to global warming.

"If we look like we are wimping out on this...they will think that America has grown long in the tooth, that our best days are behind us," he said, before moving onto a session that included actor Brad Pitt, a senior White House aide, and the executive director of a New Orleans housing organization. "People have got to think we have our mojo going, that we are alert, alive and on top of the changes in the world."

He said he believed that a "decently good cap-and-trade bill" to combat global warming could pass the US Senate, but he said: "This is not going to happen unless you can prove its good business."

"Based on the world my foundation does, I don't think it is a close question," he said. "It will create more jobs than it costs, by light years, but nobody has been able to make that sale yet to America."

The Pope blesses the climate swindle [PDF].

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Daily Gut: God Bless Vaclav Klaus; Shut Up Kids!

Anyway, here’s a key rule one must know about left-wing propaganda: that once they trot out the kids, you know you`re being fed a pile of crap the size of Al Gore`s houseboat. Using pubescent pawns is based on the successful belief that no one dare question children – because they`re smaller and weaker than adults – and for the most part, sincere. Also: they`re adorable and can make up damaging stories about you if you don’t submit to their fickle wishes.

Governor Rendell to [Promote the Greatest Scientific Fraud in History]

Governor Edward G. Rendell will discuss the need for action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change while creating “green collar” jobs at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25, at the August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh.

The Governor will be joined by Washington, D.C.-based environmental advocacy organizations.