Only 10 days left for climate deal, U.N.'s Ban says | Reuters

"There are just 10 negotiating days left until we come to Copenhagen," Ban said, referring apparently to the remaining days of September 28 to October 9 climate talks under way in Bangkok and to a November 2-6 meeting in Barcelona.

"In 10 days we need to decide what needs to be done for our future," he said in a speech at Copenhagen University.

AFP: Sarkozy to be 'twittered' at climate summit

PARIS — Nicolas Sarkozy's every move at the climate summit in Denmark will be tracked on Twitter, but the French president won't be busy typing updates on the micro-blogging website himself, officials said.

"The president won't use Twitter himself, but we will detail his steps all along the summit and the progress of the negotiations," said presidential spokesman Franck Louvrier.

Hope and change - Rasmussen Reports™

For nearly two years, economic issues have held the top spot in terms of importance among voters.

But the latest national telephone survey shows that 83% now view government ethics and corruption as very important, placing it just ahead of the economy on a list of 10 key electoral issues [none of which is global warming] regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports.

Nebraska: Record low

The low temperature at North Platte Saturday morning was 24 degrees, breaking the daily record low temperature for Oct. 3, which had been 25, set in 1959.

Insiders predict China could beat US to cap-and-trade launch | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Senior executives in the carbon market predict China will announce plans for a national emissions trading scheme at Copenhagen.

Another Bad Year for Global Warming: Will Our Grandchildren Know What a Hurricane Is?

I will try to be a nice person and not gloat, but I think I should remind everyone how certain the Gore groupies were that we were going to die in a wave of killer storms. There was no room for doubt. It was a sure thing. Then we had four weak seasons in a row. This year has been the weakest yet. It’s as if hurricanes are becoming extinct.

If they were wrong about the consequences of global warming, why would they be right about global warming itself? By the convoluted logic of the left, global warming (and chiggers and leprosy and the McKinley assassination) was somehow caused by the election of George Bush, whom they all hated. Anything that tended to discredit Bush got them excited, so global warming had them doing cartwheels. This means their opinions on global warming were so colored by bias that they were essentially worthless. If George Bush had been tied to waffles, naked liberals would have been out in the streets demanding laws banning them, and liberal scientists would have linked waffles to everything from trout infertility to Down Syndrome.

Bob Carter - Dear Malcolm

A national climate (as opposed to global warming) policy - at the same time as it covers known natural hazards - will also provide for dealing with hypothetical human-caused change, should it emerge in the future.

If Mr Turnbull is not up to the task of providing leadership for such an important national and environmentally significant task as belling the global warming scam, and fashioning a realistic climate hazard policy, then he should indeed be replaced as leader of the Coalition by someone who is.

David Henderson - Light-Bulb Ban Isn't Best Energy-Saving Move - washingtonpost.com

But many people also have a decided dislike of CFLs and will greatly resent the ban. While they may last longer than incandescent bulbs, the upfront cost is high; the light produced is not as bright as that of incandescent bulbs; they are slow to achieve full brightness; the bulbs don't fit in many old lamps; they can't be dimmed; and their lifespan is greatly shortened by using them for less than 15 minutes at a time.
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There is more political will behind environmental reform than is generally appreciated, but it is not unlimited. We should invest our political capital where it will be most effective, not burn it in compact fluorescents. Congress should regulate matters that require the force of law, such as banning mountaintop removal in coal mining and new coal-burning power plants. Leave people to change their own light bulbs.
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The writer teaches environmental ethics in the philosophy and religion department at Western Carolina University.

Green Is Red - RevolutionRadio.org

I am sick to death of the economically illiterate environmental nonsense peddled in the media in an endless parade of bad thinking disguised as scientific discourse. The Green movement is a collectivist enterprise hell-bent on bending every knee in obeisance to a religious orthodoxy that will cripple the advancement of mankind and create third-world nations where first-world countries used to be, exponentially increasing infant mortality rates and reducing standards of living to make all of us look back on envy at the gold-plated living conditions of medieval serfs. The movement is a nasty brew of National Socialist “blood and soil” (see Anna Bramwells’s books), Marxist bromides and a child-like vision of how the universe works.

William S. Becker, Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project: Senate Climate Bill: Two Futures, One Choice

...carbon emissions are to the atmosphere what virulent cancer cells are to the body.

What makes Met Office long-term forecasts so wrong? - Telegraph

Global warming dogma and faulty computer models led the Met Office to forecast a 'barbecue summer' for 2009, says Christopher Booker.

Global warming is much too cosy a name - Telegraph

THE omens for agreement on a meaningful climate treaty at Copenhagen look increasingly dim, and a sign of the frustration this causes among certain journalists is that they are scrabbling for yet more alarmist terms to convey the apocalypse bearing down on us. "Global warming", complains one, sound far too cosy: shouldn't we be talking instead about "global burning"?

Cycle 24 spotless days keeps moving up the hill – now “competitive with the Baby Grand minimum” « Watts Up With That?

After an exciting encounter last week with some genuine sunspots that weren’t arguable as specks, pores, or pixels, the sun resumes its quiet state this week.

Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Alarmist of the Week: Bill Maher

This week's winner is the Chicken Little of Global Warming alarmists. Week after week on his show Real Time, he either devotes entire segments to worn-out 'facts' that even the IPCC has repudiated, or manages to squeeze in a bit of name-calling that makes little or no sense.

Obama Pressured to Return to Copenhagen for Climate [Hoax] Talks - Bloomberg.com

Dan Esty, head of Yale University’s Center for Environmental Law & Policy in New Haven, Connecticut, said he’s “doubtful” Obama will attend the Copenhagen meeting because the likelihood for a successful negotiation is slim.
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“The first rule for White House staff is to keep the president away from anything that doesn’t make him look good,” said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Low pheasant count expected in North Dakota - News Wires - CNBC.com

State wildlife officials say pheasant numbers are down 40 to 60 percent statewide, thanks to a harsh winter, loss of habit to farming and a wet spring.
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Tourism Division spokesman Mark Zimmerman says the opening of pheasant season likely brings in more visitors to the state than any other event during a one-or two-week period.

Could a Nobel Peace Prize Speed Up Climate Talks? | Triple Pundit

Guardians of the Nobel Peace Prize are getting creative in their attempt to speed up sluggish talks about climate. According to a Reuters report, the guardians are considering awarding an environmental Prize this year in order to prep world leaders for December’s UN Climate Conference and influence politicians dragging their feet on climate change. The thing is, the award would come just two years after the one awarded in 2007 (another was awarded in 2004). Would awarding another environmental Prize so soon have the desired effect?

Granting topical awards (e.g. environment, disarmament, human rights) to influence world events is an established tactic of the five-member Nobel Peace Prize panel. While some wonder whether handing out three environment awards in four years is excessive, others say the timing couldn’t be better. The prize would be announced on December 9th and handed over on the 10th – the anniversary of founder Alfred Nobel’s death – all amidst the Copenhagen Conference occurring between December 7th and 18th.

Maher: Climate Change Skeptics Make Me Question Evolution | HULIQ

I think, one problem with the issue, is that people continue to call it "global warming." It's global climate change, not global warming, and people need to get that straight. Some parts of the world will get warmer, some colder, but all will face much more severe weather patterns.

Open Up and Say Ah, Earth

But the socialists in our government use this bad data as justification to raise our gas prices, raise our electric bills, destroy jobs and take our freedoms for their cap and trade global warming tax.

They need to hear from the American people that we aren’t taken in by their wealth redistribution schemes, and if they have any hope of keeping their congressional seat during their next election, they should vote against this assault on America.

Turnbull threatens to quit | The Daily Telegraph

MALCOLM Turnbull has told colleagues he will quit politics altogether if his party room does not back his position on climate change and the Coalition loses the next election.
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Mr Minchin said while most MPs strongly opposed the ETS, they would support their leader.

"Well, I have, of course, great sympathy for the range of views that are inour party - and for the fact that many of our colleagues share the Shadow Cabinet's view that this is deeply flawed legislation,'' he told ABC radio.

Climate change [fraud promoter to take yet another long fossil-fueled trip] - DominicanToday.com

Santo Domingo.– Renowned climate change expert Rajendra Pachauri will visit the Dominican Republic to work with the Ministry of Environment on the protection and preservation of the country´s natural resources.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Gray Lady: White House clueless on Olympic bid

Let’s see. The White House jumped in front of a situation without understanding it, relying on the word of political cronies to shape their comprehension without checking for themselves. Only after they failed did they ask themselves about the political environment in which they made their proposal. Are we talking about ObamaCare, cap-and-trade, or the Olympics? It’s hard to tell.
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In short, this is a microcosm of the entire administration. They entered into a situation about which they knew nothing and put the prestige of the presidency on the line without bothering to listen past themselves and the Daley Machine in Chicago. It only occurred to them that they didn’t know the first thing about the situation until after having wasted their time and distracting themselves from much more pressing — and presidential — matters of war and the economy.

C3: What's Revkin, Begley, Eilperin & Big MSM Outlets Have To Say About Massively Bogus Tree Ring Research/Hockey Stick? Nada!

This present example of mainstream media failure affirms why it has lost the credibility and confidence of public, and why these news organizations have become failed business entities that have the look-and-feel of shriveled up raisins they are.

Don't cave in to Coalition, climate [hoax] lobby warns PM

THE Federal Government will lose crucial support from a high-profile group of environmental, union and welfare lobbyists if it caves in to Opposition demands to water down its emissions trading legislation.

Chamber of overstated horrors - The Boston Globe

The verdict has long been in from the vast majority of climate scientists that humans are changing the atmosphere. What’s becoming increasingly clear is that fighting climate change is good for business, because restrictions on carbon emissions will foster innovations in efficiency and renewable-energy technologies.

So if we all install those crappy light bulbs, are we sure that climate change will stop?

Ancient rainforests resilient to climate change

In their paper published in the leading journal ‘Geology’, they show that rainforest species all but vanished at the height of the ice ages. Yet they also reveal that the coal beds that formed shortly after, as the climate warmed, contain abundant rainforest species.

Falcon-Lang said, ‘These discoveries radically change our understanding of the Earth’s first rainforests. We used to think these were stable ecosystems, unchanged for tens of millions of years. Now we know they were incredibly dynamic, constantly buffeted by climate change’.

South Bend Tribune: Report: Great Lakes water levels dropping

Scientists say decline response to climate change.

theblogprof: Great Lakes Water Levels Increasing. Global Warming Alarmists Still Claim They Will Fall!

[IPCC head Pachauri: Hardly policy neutral]

Washington, Oct 3 (PTI) Ahead of the key Copenhagen meet in December to tackle global warming, leading Indian environmentalist R K Pachauri and 29 other global leaders have inked a declaration vowing to jointly work to pursue clean transportation and back national climate change legislations.

2007: Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC, Science and Politics Archives

...the formal mandate of the IPCC is to be "policy neutral." But with its recent higher profile, it seems that the IPCC leadership believes that it can flout this stance with impunity.

Speech by Anders Fogh Rasmussen at Lloyd's of London [Voltaire]

The current science suggests that, for every 1.8 degree rise in temperature above historical norms, food production will drop 10%.
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We know that Arctic ice is retreating. In fact the Arctic is warming faster than other part of the world. This is not necessarily a threat. In many ways it’s an opportunity – opening up the Northwest Passage cuts 4000 nautical miles off the trip from Europe to Asia. You can bet a lot of companies have done that math. But we can’t wish away the security implications. An entire side of North America will be much more exposed. Increased shipping means a greater need for search and rescue. And there will be competition for resources that had, until now, been covered under ice.
...All it will take is a lot more vigour, a lot more innovation, and a lot more cooperation. That is especially true when it comes to climate change. But the first step is realising that a famous environmental group was very wise and very farseeing indeed when they chose their name. Today, more than ever, “green” and “peace” really do go together.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Prime Minister of Denmark (2001-09). Secretary General of NATO (since 2009).

Do caribou population numbers correlate well with atmospheric CO2 concentrations?

Mighty caribou herds [allegedly] dwindle - The Sarnia Observer - Ontario, CA

ENVIRONMENT: Biologists blame global warming
Posted By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Even with trace amounts of carbon dioxide in the air, five million caribou still survive

The world population is about 5 million.

As CO2 rose, the George River caribou herd was so devastated that its size only grow by a factor of 46

In one of the great natural marvels of hoofed mammal demography, the George River caribou herd increased from 15,000 animals in 1958 to 700,000 in 1988 - the largest herd in the world at the time.

Reindeer and Caribou Populations, Alaska Science Forum

Instead of the 7- or 8-year cycle of the hare, the caribou is most likely to be in the range 50 to 100 years. The cycle might consist of population booms and crashes or it might be less drastic.

Columbia researchers: Drought? What drought?  | ajc.com

The drought in 2007 that nearly wiped out our water supply and forced Georgians to conserve really wasn't that bad, according to Columbia University researchers. And it had nothing to do with global warming.

Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Carbon regulation threat from EPA doesn't stir Congress

[Photo caption] Lisa Jackson is not at all happy with Congress snubbing her threats.

[India: Climate fraud promotion train]

The Phase-III of the 'Science Express' which was inaugurated by Chairman, Railway Board Shri S. S. Khurana on 2 October 2009 at Gandhinagar will travel to 55 locations, mostly not covered earlier, covering about 18,000 kms in seven months of its journey. It is covering the entire length and breadth of the country. At each of the locations, it would halt for 3-5 days, during which students and general public would visit the exhibition.
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The sparking white, fully air conditioned train has 16-coaches.
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There is dedicated coach on 'Climate Change – Cause, Effect and Mitigation', sponsored by HSBC

2007: Barclays and HSBC: making the case for climate 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.

Lords of climate change skepticism

Sitting down with a reporter, he uses an innocuous question about how he felt the talk was received to launch a 10-minute lecture on the failings of the prevailing scientific wisdom. Dressed in a pinstriped suit, pink, red and purple checked shirt and a tie dotted with small purple elephants, Lord Monckton quickly fills a piece of scrap paper with formulae and rough graphs, all to illustrate his point.

Miliband to unveil £10m carbon fund | Carbon Offsets Daily

LGC blogger and local improvement adviser on climate change Warren Hatter welcomed the announcement.

“Shaping the low carbon communities of the future isn’t just about providing technical solutions – more than anything, it depends on councils working with communities to change behaviour and lifestyles,” he said. “The Low Carbon Communities Challenge gives a small number of authorities the chance to beef up their work in this area.”

Kevin Grandia | Join DeSmogBlog's James Hoggan at the Vancouver International Film Festival Oct. 6th

Jim will be on hand to sign copies of his groundbreaking new book Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming.

Video: Great collection of Obama climate and clean energy quotes « Climate Progress

With Copenhagen looming, Obama completely ignores global warming yet again in his weekly address

He's now given the issue only one tiny mention in his last twelve weekly addresses combined

Twitter / Heather

"You can't change someone's mind if they do not have one"...Bill Maher on Republican ignorance and climate change.

Not Waiting for Copenhagen: Sub-National Leaders Forge Ahead with Climate [Swindle] Action

Schwarzenegger, whose own state has been a trailblazer in progressive environmental and climate policies in the United States, echoed Charest's pledge to lead. He added his own Hollywood-infused spin — the movie Saturday Night Fever did more to increase the number of discotheques than any national program could have done — basically telling national governments that anything you can do, we can do better.
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Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, was optimistic about the momentum leading into the Copenhagen summit, but he also warned that Copenhagen would not be the end of the road and said he expected the fifth IPCC assessment, due in 2013, to jolt the world into even more action.

“We must accept that this battle is not a one-day affair," he said. "We must change our value systems.”

Following journalist Thomas Friedman's discussion of the nine Americas in the world today — the units of 300 million people living and consuming like Americans — Pachuari suggested that perhaps Americans should also become a little “less American” in their consumption patterns.

Flashback: 'Pachauri made the globe wake up to climate change' - India - NEWS - The Times of India

NEW DELHI: A colleague of Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri in the IPCC remembers travelling with him through Heathrow airport, London. "The airport employees and the airline staff all recognised and wished him as he walked through the busy airport. It was crazy."

Not that the cabin crew or the airport authorities knew much about climate change and IPCC, but it's hard to forget a man who has probably spent more time in the air than he has in Delhi, his base, since he became IPCC chief. Pachauri himself often jokes that he "lives at 30,000 feet".

New Greenie villain: Nitrous oxide!

It's not actually a new villain but it has now been upgraded to Jack-the-ripper status. Reading between the lines, this would appear to be an apology for the fact that the Antarctic ozone hole is just fluctuating as normal instead of shrinking -- despite the much touted ban on CFCs. An attempt to ban N2O would be a joke, though. There's a lot of it about

American Thinker: Energy Eco-Activists

With the addition of the mercury containing CFLs into our homes and offices, the cumulative risk to human health has increased, based on the hoax that is man-induced global warming. It is time for Americans to turn out the lights on the Eco-Activists' agenda and their inept, enabling politicians.

YouTube - Climate Change [Hoax] - 10/2 Weekly Radio Address

Gov. Schwarzenegger Discuss Climate Change in Weekly Radio Address

Global Warming Could Reverse a Walrus Comeback - [More harebrained alarmism from Revkin] NYTimes.com

Fatal stampedes among walruses have occurred in past years, Mr. Kelly said, citing research he conducted on a similar event in 1978 and reports by hunters on islands in the Bering Sea more than a century ago. But the expansion of open waters along the coasts raises the odds and adds to other pressures on the animals, he said.

For the moment, the Pacific walrus remains abundant, numbering at least 200,000 by some accounts, double the number in the 1950s.

Olympics-U.N.'s Ban urges Olympic support for climate [hoax] deal | Reuters

COPENHAGEN, Oct 3 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world sports and Olympic officials on Saturday to lend support to a global climate deal which he called a "race against time."

Promising to "sprint like an Olympian" himself to secure a climate deal among nations in December, Ban urged International Olympic Committee members and other sports leaders at a three-day Olympic Congress, to help reach that goal.

Who’s Counting? Obama’s Olympic Failure Has Meaning for Copenhagen and Climate Change : Red, Green, and Blue

As the world closes in on December’s big UN climate change conference — back in Copenhagen — it begs the question: is the White House strategy informed by good ground-level information on where other parties sit?
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But, what if they are not close to 60? What if the lever is not the right one to swing the votes they need. Based on their recent due diligence, it is difficult to say whether the White House even knows where their votes are, who can be swung, and how. That said, should they roll the dice with an EPA plan? How will the inevitable backlash inside the US look on the global stage?

New Zealand: Cold snap bites South Island

A cold front has lashed the bottom of the South Island.

For many farmers and their newborn spring lambs, it's an unwanted return to winter.

"There's more snow on the ground than there was all winter," says farmer Paul Davis. "We haven't had snow all winter like this."

Global warming and the maiming of science: Thomas Fuller

What's happening now in the discussions regarding global warming is injuring science. It is not changing anybody's opinion [how does Fuller know this?]. It certainly is not changing the temperature.

YouTube - Hitler vs AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming, ala "Man-made climate change")

A Hitler Rant. This time Hitler learns the truth about the Yamal Tree-Ring data that has helped promote the "AGW environmentalist religion" via the infamous "Hockey Stick" graph.

YouTube - Cap And Trade Carbon Tax Is Ridiculous Says Brooklyn The Clown

more info on Cap and Trade, the global warming hoax and carbon tax

YouTube - Convert Your Home to Magnet Power Using a Government Grant

In this modern era with global warming and green house gases on the rise, it's important that one takes note of the importance of renewable energy resources to reduce carbon emissions and further harmful effects upon the environment.

From Port Elizabeth, South Africa

PRICES for the humble potato are at an all-time high, with some shops charging as much as R82 for a 10kg pocket – more than triple the average price charged this time last year.
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The sharp rise in prices has been blamed on a shortage of potatoes due to crop damage caused by drought, hail and frost in recent months.

Oscar Bait in the Emissions Debate - D.C. Current - J. McTague - Barrons.com

DIRECTORS PROSPECTING FOR OSCAR- LEVEL TALENT should rush not to London or Sydney or even to Hollywood, but to old D.C. Where else do people so ingeniously disguise their self-interest as high principle?

I'd sign Exelon CEO John Rowe to play the film role of Fibber McGee, a teller of tall tales and popular radio character for two decades, starting in 1935. I'd whip out another contract for Tom Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to play Pinocchio. In my estimation -- no slight intended to the folks in the West Wing or on Capitol Hill -- they are masters of political misdirection and some of this year's best acts.
...During a March 10 investor conference, Exelon lobbyist Elizabeth Moler said she and Rowe had visited Emanuel and that he had told them that congressmen who supported a BTU tax during the Clinton presidency had committed political suicide, and no one would repeat the mistake.

Donohue played the role of elder environmental statesmen, seeking a global pact on emissions that would be less damaging to the economy than congressional proposals. He said: "To combat global climate change, world leaders must agree to a treaty that sets real, enforceable targets for all nations, while allowing each nation the flexibility to meet these targets through whichever policy device it chooses." These idealistic words are a sure-fire formula for failure. The killer: Demanding that it include "all nations." Nevertheless, Donohue uttered his lines with a straight face -- a bravura performance.

Theresa Henderson: Stop cap-and-trade

President Barack Obama's proposal is to reduce U.S. emissions to about the same per capita "carbon footprint" as Americans had in 1867 by the year 2050.

Con: Green job subsidies will destroy far more jobs than they create -- GazetteXtra

The same lesson can be seen in the United States. California has led the states in pursuing a green jobs agenda. Environmentalists often cite it as a model for the rest of the nation. But California also stands out as having higher unemployment and energy costs and a weaker economy than nearly every other state.

Waxman-Markey would take the nation down the same job-killing path. Some jobs would be destroyed entirely. Others would be outsourced to nations that don’t drink the cap-and-trade Kool-Aid.

China, India and other developing nations have wisely stated that they won’t accept similar global warming restrictions on their own economies, and for good reason. They know full well that the policies giving rise to green jobs kill many more jobs in the process.

Former Abramoff allies claim cap-and-trade ‘favors corporate interests’ | Raw Story

In a Friday press release, NCPPR's Free Enterprise Project claims that the plan to "hand out free emissions allowances that are worth billions of dollars ... opens the door for a behind-the-scenes lobbying fest that will reward well connected companies while looting taxpayers."

NC Media Watch: Screwed by the power company!

Let me ask you, when PG&E is paying homage to Cap and Trade (Tax), who do you think will be paying the bill. You are right -- you are! In the process PG&E will be skimming money off the top for the privilege of collecting these carbon taxes from every customer. PG&E is going to profit from Cap and Trade, and you are going to get screwed. ( My apology for the strong language, but lets not dance around the issue here, everyone understands "screwed")

In case you missed it: Kimberley Strassel: Rent-Seekers Inc. - WSJ.com

An internal memo produced by Bernstein Research in June described how Mr. Rowe met with investors to rejoice that the House legislation will allow Exelon to rake in additional revenue—by some estimates, up to $1.5 billion a year. Others will pay for this Exelon privilege, of course—notably, Midwestern customers of traditional coal utilities who will see their energy prices double. But hey, all's fair in love and lobbying.

The end of the world is nigh

Such was the message which previous generations would have seen from time to time, usually from a man wearing a 'sandwich board', with the message visible from both front and back. Now the message is still seen, but this time via the mainstream media. And today, the lone eccentric has been replaced by the UK's Met Office. In Oxford this week, their latest findings were unveiled: a possibility of a 4°C temperature rise by 2060, within the lifetime of many of today's young people.

The source of these figures is, of course computer models.

Bill Maher Slams GOP Climate Change Skeptics: They're "So Stupid They Make Me Question Evolution" (VIDEO)

On "Real Time" Friday night Bill Maher pilloried climate change skeptics, particularly skeptics in the Republican party, insisting that they must "stop pretending climate change is a future problem."

Maher directed his criticism at Republicans such as Sen. James Inhofe, who has previously referred to global warming as the "greatest hoax," despite having no science background. He also called out Republicans who, while no longer insisting that the issue of global warming 'needed more study,' now insist that it's probably too late anyhow and so need to change our ways. Maher cited the example of GOP Rep. Joe Barton, who has claimed that we will simply "adapt" to massive climate change.

"These people are so stupid they make me question evolution," Maher said.

[Except for that massive 23% gain from its recent low]: Vanishing Arctic ice shows no sign of returning

Arctic ice cover this year was 23% greater than the record-low levels of 2007, according to the latest data from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre at the University of Colorado, which has been keeping records for 30 years.

Blue Virginia: RPV: You're a "Radical" if You Believe Global Warming is Happening!

In reality of course, the "radicals" are people who reject the science and claim that man's emissions of greenhouse gases are not causing serious disruptions to the planet's environment.

Wheel! – – Of! – – Silly! « Watts Up With That?

You have to wonder- what were these guys thinking? The only media visual they could have chosen that would send a worse message of forecast certainty was a dart board…or maybe something else?

Lawrence Solomon: The end is near - Full Comment

The media, polls and even scientists suggest the global warming scare is all over but the shouting
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The great global warming scare is over — it is well past its peak, very much a spent force, sputtering in fits and starts to a whimpering end. You may not know this yet. Or rather, you may know it but don’t want to acknowledge it until every one else does, and that won’t happen until the press, much of which also knows it, formally acknowledges it.

The great global warming scam (ctd): Melanie Phillips - The Spectator

Yet another scientific scandal has come to light which knocks another whopping crater in the already shattered theory of anthropogenic global warming. Eight peer-reviewed studies, which for years have played a significant supporting role behind the IPPC’s claims of AGW, have been shown to be fraudulent.

India wants less 'evangelical' climate [scam] talks - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (AFP) – India said Friday that December's climate meet in Copenhagen should aim to agree on modest goals, calling on wealthy nations to be less "evangelical" in their push for a deal.

Bring on the cold - Freeze Warning issued for Denver again

Will it set another record low temperature? The record low temperature for October 3rd is 31 degrees set way back in 1900. It is quite possible Denver will be breaking a weather record that is 109 years old!

Calculating the carbon footprint of President Obama’s Olympic trip

Grand Total: 8,379 tons CO2 for trip to Copenhagen

By comparison, the average American household has a carbon footprint of 19.5 tons of CO2 per year.

Therefore, President Obama's two day trip deposited as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 430 American families do in an entire year.

Most people in denial over climate change, according to psychologists - Telegraph

The majority of people in Britain are in denial about the risk of global warming in our lifetimes, according to a new study into the psychology of climate change.
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However Clive Hamilton, Professor of public ethics at the Australian National University, said the majority of the population is still in denial about the risks of climate change.

He compared the situation to the psychology of the British and German populations before the Second World War and said the only way to make people change their behaviour is to "ramp up the fear factor."

Climate change [allegedly] wiping out walruses - Telegraph

Mr York said he had observed 20,000 walruses congregating on the shore of Russia's Cape Schmidt last month and warned the animals, who feed on seafood from the ocean floor, could run out of food when they are in large groups.

Walrus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the non-reproductive season (late summer and fall) the walrus tends to migrate away from the ice and form massive aggregations of tens of thousands of individuals on rocky beaches or outcrops. The nature of the migration between the reproductive period and the summer period can be a rather long distance and dramatic. In late spring and summer, for example, several hundred thousand Pacific Walruses migrate from the Bering sea into the Chukchi sea through the relatively narrow Bering Strait.

On the Czechs and the global warming hoax

The Czech Republic makes big money through carbon [swindle]

Japan, the host of the Kyoto Protocol, is badly behind in meeting its own carbon targets. This week, the country bought 20 million carbon credits from the Czech Republic after buying twice as many earlier this year.
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Converted into money, the global market for carbon emissions grew to 126 billion dollars last year, up from 63 billion dollars in 2007 and nearly 12 times the value in 2005, the bank said.

The Reference Frame: Political racketeering

As a Eurocrat, you may want to be annoyed by the Czech Republic, its predominant skepticism about global warming and all kinds of similar politically correct fads that you and your companions began to worship.

Cave News: Czech president: UN climate meeting was propaganda

Czech President Vaclav Klaus, a global warming skeptic, said the climate meeting was “sad and frustrating.”

Climate sceptics fight tide of alarmism

Klaus cited a poll that showed only 11 per cent of Czechs believe humans have a significant influence on warming.

Revkin posts a video of an enormous walrus herd, then claims they're "having a tough time"

YouTube - Walruses and Arctic Warming

Walruses have been having a tough time as sea ice in the Arctic has increasingly retreated from coasts in summer, when the mammals use it as a nursery while they feed in shallow waters.

Andy: Where's your evidence that walruses are "having a tougher time" now than they did 10, 20, 50, 100, 1000, or 10,000 years ago?

On Walruses and Warming - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The giant clam-digging marine mammal, greatly recovered from enormous hunting pressure, appears to be facing rising climate-related stresses

Save Our Snow: No Sean Hannity? No Rush Limbaugh? No Gov. Herbert? - The Park Record

One of the organizers of the Save Our Snow II event said no climate change skeptics were invited to present Wednesday at the Eccles Center to counterbalance the speakers who outlined their predictions that a changing climate could be devastating to the local ski industry.

Trisha Worthington, the executive director of the Park City Foundation, said, though, the organizers asked the experts who spoke to acknowledge there are doubters. She said the speakers "tried to weave that into their presentations."

"The idea never came up" to invite a skeptic to be a presenter, she said.

Climate change threatens survival of mountain birds

There is another survey on the Swiss Alps region, which also showed that since 1990, the number of crooning spigots of snow chicken had at least been decreased by one third. The heat rate mountain cock in Switzerland also dropped by 45 percent from 1971to 2001.

2008: Cold spring kills songbirds in Minnesota

The chilly, snowy spring has killed scores of songbirds in the northern two-thirds of Minnesota.

Officials of the state Department of Natural Resources have received many reports of dead swallows, bluebirds, kinglets, sparrows, robins and warblers since last week.

The birds apparently starved to death because of a lack of insects caused by cold weather and late-April snow.

Are [a few CO2-phobic] Governors Our Best Hope for the Climate [Hoax]? - TIME

Was it an omen when the power went out halfway through the Governors' Global Climate Summit?

With alarmist Heidi Cullen!: The Governors' Global Climate Summit - Video - TIME.com

USW Cites New Report on Needed Provisions in Senate Clean Energy Bill

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW) joined an environmental leader, a U.S. Senator and manufacturing advocates yesterday to unveil a new report on what is needed in climate change legislation to protect American manufacturing jobs as the U.S. Senate gets underway with completing work on a new bill.
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Gerard said, "The 4 million vulnerable jobs in this report are not just in the Midwest, but spread out among all 50 states." He adds, "Two states most at risk of losing jobs are Texas and California. We must recognize it's not Pittsburgh warming, or Chicago warming, but global warming." He explained the issue of carbon leakage as the effect of other countries who don't have environmental standards and use the economic advantage as a subsidy to steal U.S. jobs.

Review: ‘No Impact Man’- We Are Movie Geeks

In 2006, Beaven convinced his wife that they should live one year leaving the smallest “carbon footprint” possible so they gave up electricity, non-local foods, elevators, cleaning products, gas-powered transportation, toilet paper (!), and basically all worldly pleasures that make life enjoyable.
...It’s a thin premise to hang a feature-length documentary on and the most entertaining aspects of THE NO IMPACT MAN is the absurd humor in the scenes illustrating Beaven’s ineptness and hypocrisy and watching Michelle bend the rules. Beavan doesn’t understand why his tiny worm-filled compost bin attracts flies and he explains in great detail how his organic clay-pot refrigerator is going to work (problem is, it doesn’t!). He sets out some solar panels but just enough to power his laptop so he can keep blogging about his experience. Meanwhile, Michelle is sneaking over to her neighbor’s apartment to borrow some ice.

1,000th Mayor -- Mesa, AZ Mayor Scott Smith -- Signs The U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate [Hoax] Agreement

"Global warming is real and demands our immediate response. It is in our national interest to act now and mayors understand that a successful plan in this country for reducing our energy consumption begins in cities and local communities. We are leading by example in the fight against global warming and representing America to the world," Mayor Nickels said in his remarks.
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Mayor Nickels praised the organization of mayors for its successful efforts on the Climate Bill. "We traveled to Washington twice this summer to push for a partnership with the federal government on climate protection, and the Senate has acted in direct response to our calls for support. The Conference has worked long and hard to establish the Block Grant as a cornerstone of our national climate protection strategy, and this climate legislation, including this provision, is a critical component of our effort to empower local officials to make our communities greener, healthier and more sustainable. We urge the Senate to act swiftly to address this global crisis."

We Still Have A 50-50 Chance At Not Frying Ourselves, Says MIT Study : TreeHugger

At least, that's what MIT says after utilizing their Integrated Global Systems Model to create a computer simulation of global economic activity and climate processes.

Obama's EPA sells climate 'handicap-and-trade'

Because there are no carbon-neutral or renewable replacements for the CO2 sources EPA will now regulate, the actual long-term business destruction, job losses, trade distortions and consumer costs of cap-and-trade cannot be known. Without controls on larger global CO2 emitters, such as China, India, Russia, etc., the U.S. carbon controls will handicap our economy during recession for nothing more than gratuitous green symbolism. Maybe EPA should call it “handicap-and-trade.”  [Via Skeptic's Corner]

Atte Korhola: scientific and social playground « Climate Audit

[translation] I put immediately forward a thesis that I'm glad to expose to public criticism: when later generations learn about climate science, they will classify the beginning of 21st century as an embarrassing chapter in history of science. They will wonder our time, and use it as a warning of how the core values and criteria of science were allowed little by little to be forgotten as the actual research topic — climate change — turned into a political and social playground.

Twitter / UniversityofPhoenix: [Or maybe older people tend to be less naive, having seen more scams come and go]

Governor Kulongoski, Oregon: Young people accept the facts of climate change. Elders who resist do not understand impacts of climate change.

[Are we all comfortable with climate swindle votes being bought with our own money?] - St. Petersburg Times

This spring Grayson played tough with President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by holding up his vote for a global-warming bill until he was promised a $50 million hurricane research center that some in Central Florida say is wasteful, a brazen move for any lawmaker, let alone a rookie.

Mainstream media blames carbon dioxide for walrus deaths, but maybe the root cause is a normal predator/prey relationship that has existed for thousands of years?

YouTube - Inconvenient video: 2007 - With no ice in sight, a polar bear is seen stampeding walruses and large number of healthy polar bears are seen feasting on walruses when they might be expected to starve

[The beach is covered with polar bears, walrus meat and bones. When people claim that polar bears can't feed without ice, show them this video.]

YouTube - Here's a polar bear (on ice) successfully taking on a bull walrus

The Associated Press: Trampling [and maybe global warming] blamed for Alaska walrus deaths

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Trampling likely killed 131 mostly young walruses forced onto the northwest coast of Alaska by a loss of sea ice, according to a preliminary report released Thursday.
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Young animals can be hurt in stampedes when a herd is startled by a polar bear, human hunters or even a low-flying airplane. With no human witnesses, biologists said the deaths may have been from "disturbances" that led to trampling.
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Biologists who examined the Alaska carcasses were protected by armed guards standing watch for polar bears.

"It was definitely crisscrossed with bear tracks all over the place," said biologist Jill Prewitt of the Alaska SeaLife Center.

WWF propaganda here: Dramatic Footage of Walruses in Alaskan & Russian Arctic Highlights Threats from Climate Change

York noted that large concentrations of walruses on land can also attract polar bears and lead to increased human-bear conflict. WWF is working with local communities across the Arctic coast to mitigate such conflicts and share information with communities on how to deal with the significantly increasing numbers of walruses and polar bears on land.

More on walrus stampedes here

Also, if polar bear numbers are so threatened by global warming, what are 185 of them doing within six miles of the village?

Did The IPCC Encourage Scientific Fraud? Did The IPCC Ignore More Comprehensive Research?

From what is known, it appears that the IPCC condoned the type of research that the dozen-tree Yamal research represents. The IPCC has relied on this very exclusive dozen-tree history, while totally ignoring more encompassing research (see above), which reveals an incredible lack of scientific due diligence. As a result, the UN's IPCC has obviously done monumental damage to global science credibility. Simply amazing.

Running The Odds on Copenhagen | Mother Jones

BBdM: In general, when one tries to put together a universal, global agreement, there are two sorts of patterns. To get almost everybody to sign on, the agreement might not ask for significant changes in behavior. Or it asks for significant changes but lacks either good monitoring—so it's hard to detect who's cheating—or sanctioning power to punish cheaters. So in essence, it fails to work. If you look at the record of Kyoto, that's a pretty good description. Even the Japanese, who were very enthusiastic, shortly thereafter announced that they couldn't meet the reductions they had agreed to.

How's That Cash-for-Clunkers Deal Working? - Megan McArdle

Cash for Clunkers moved a bunch of auto sales forward, causing people who thought they might replace their car in the next year or two to rush into the showrooms. Now, in the aftermath, sales are plummeting: 47% at GM, 44% at Chrysler, 8.9% at Ford, 16% at Toyota, 23% at Honda, 11% at Nissan. I hope those car companies used the cash infusion now, because they'll be on lean rations for months, even years.

EPA’s Dirty Harry Moment « The Enterprise Blog

...That’s why the EPA is now blatantly threatening heavy industry and the power sector to back down in opposition to climate change cap-and-trade legislation. The EPA loaded this gun when they rushed through an “endangerment finding” on the greenhouse gases earlier in the year, and now they are pointing that gun at the U.S. economy in a routine almost certainly choreographed by the Obama administration. You can just see Jackson standing there with a .44 magnum in her hand, and a steely glint in her eye, telling industry “You’ve got to ask yourself one question, ‘do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”

Climate change normal - The Daily Observer - Ontario, CA

The only constant with climate is change, and there is no chance to stop this natural phenomenon, according to a professor of earth sciences at Carleton University.

Dr. Tim Patterson, professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, and Tom Harris, executive director International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), were the speakers at Monday's presentation on climate change held at Pembroke's Festival Hall. The event, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Pembroke, attracted about 70 people.

The main focus of Dr. Patterson's talk was how the sun, stars and clouds can drive the climate and the cyclical nature of climate itself.

Climate Bill Signing 'Not Going to Happen' by Copenhagen -- Browner - NYTimes.com

And Browner shrugged off a reporter's question about how the 2010 campaign could influence the congressional effort on the climate bill.

"It should be done as soon as possible because it's going to create important opportunities," she said.

AD: Respecting Religious Belief by Thomas E. Brewton , 10/2/09

The belief in man-made global warming is a secular religious dogma, one which the rest of us should be allowed to respect without being compelled by the secular political state to suffer its disastrous consequences.

Westwood's Madcap Show Sounds Climate Change Alarm - ABC News

Models at Vivienne Westwood's Paris runway show Friday looked like 18th century French countesses escaping a fire at the chateau.

Wearing outfits that could have been made from a pair of drapes hastily snatched from the window frame, and with their enormous beehive hairdos sprayed yellow and red at their teased tips as if they were being licked by the flames, Westwood's models looked lucky to save themselves.

The chateau, we were meant to understand, is planet earth and the fire, climate change.

The spring-summer 2010 ready-to-wear collection is "about running fast because we have to act very quickly to slow down (climate change) and change our ethics and save this planet," Westwood told The Associated Press in a backstage interview before the show, which was held in an 18th century mansion in central Paris.

Inhofe: EPA Trying to Bully Congress into Passing Climate Bill

"They can do it, but I have a different feeling about this," Inhofe said during an interview yesterday evening on CNBC. "I don't think they really want to do it; I think they want to use this to intimidate Congress to pass this."

Inhofe said that the Obama administration and the EPA wouldn't want to have to take responsibility for imposing new measures that could result in higher taxes and fees for families and businesses, and would rather hang that burden around the necks of lawmakers in Congress.

[What, no "Red Hot Lies"?]: Must-reads for Copenhagen

Mike Hulme, Tony Juniper, Mark Lynas, Oliver Morton, Ron Oxburgh, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Roger Pielke, Jr, Andrew Revkin & Joseph Romm

At the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen this December, talk will turn to scientific, political and economic issues with a global reach and a long history — not easy to pick up from the daily news. We asked select experts on climate change what books we should be reading ahead of the big event.

AISI | Business And Labor Groups Fear Climate Bill Could Be Jobs Killer

Senator Sherrod Brown calls for tariffs on imports from countries that don't meet U.S. standards.

More than 4 million jobs could be at risk if U.S. climate-change legislation does not include a tariff on goods imported from countries that don't adopt similar emissions standards, according to a report released Oct. 1 by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

'Killer' Southeast U.S. Drought Low On Scale, Says Study

ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2009) — A 2005-2007 dry spell in the southeastern United States destroyed billions of dollars of crops, drained municipal reservoirs and sparked legal wars among a half-dozen states—but the havoc came not from exceptional dryness but booming population and bad planning, says a new study.

Global Warming: The New Word for Mandates and Population Control | Energy & Environment

MINOT, N.D. -- It is exceptionally difficult to deny people what they want and enjoy unless force and threats are used to scare them into cooperation and compliance.

The President's chief advisor, Rahm Emanuel, has said, "It's a shame to waste a good crisis" -- certainly this is sound advice. People are willing to give up freedoms and self-determination in times of crisis. In the absence of a crisis, those who wish to force an ideology on a population must create one. Otherwise, it is exceedingly difficult in a free society to convince the population to do what otherwise makes little sense.

Will Global Warming Alarmism Disappear Like the Hula-Hoop?

There’s just one problem. Are we absolutely sure that our enthusiasm for this battle will remain constant for 20 years, making everyone happy to bear the enormous costs involved?

The true tragedy would arise if the world spent trillions of dollars – condemning 7 billion people to live less-affluent and less-fulfilling lives – and at the end of it we discovered that the global-warming alarmism that caused the spending had been temporary.

Coal Executive Slams Climate Science - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Blankenship also criticized some other coal mining executives — though not by name — who he said privately express doubts about climate change science, but keep those thoughts to themselves.

“There is a lot of political correctness and a lot of fear,” he said.

Emission Traders Oppose U.S. Limits on Carbon Credit Imports - Bloomberg.com

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Limiting the number of cheap carbon credits that can be imported from poor countries in a proposed U.S. “cap-and-trade” system will drive up costs for consumers, an emissions trading group said.

Cow (or the Bus if you will) is Already Out of Barn for Mark Kirk | Chicago Daily Observer

Mark Kirk was cute enough to vote for Cap and Trade* in one of the closest votes in the House of Representative. He voted to move forward one of the most dangerous and foot-stompingly idiotic pieces of General Electric legislation to come down the pike in decades. Now, Kirk is trying to parse and weasel his way out of the vote that he expected to be rewarded with kind words on MSNBC and in Huffington Post. Mark Kirk and the Illinois GOP want to make an issue of the ACORN and SEIU synergy – that is all to the good – but having a steer like Mark Kirk try to mooooo- hooo from his self made dung pile is really too laughable.

Miranda Devine on Malcolm Turnbull

But the fact is that you can articulate a position on climate change that does not dispute man's contribution without buying into a complicated ETS, which benefits global financiers but has doubtful value for the environment. You don't have to be a climate sceptic to oppose a new stealth tax on Australians before we even know what the rest of the world plans.

Typhoon Ketsana plays an important supporting role in [climate hoax]

If the typhoon Ketsana, killing hundreds of people in Southeast Asia, has spurred richer countries to act on climate changes, then "the ruin and the pain may not have been in vain", the Philippines' chief negotiator, Secretary Heherson Alvarez said at the Bangkok talks according to AFP.

Maine Ski Mountain Gets Snow - wbztv.com

Saddleback's scheduled to open for the season Nov. 27.

The Voice of Agriculture - Farm Bureau Strongly Opposes Boxer-Kerry Climate Change Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 2, 2009 – The Boxer-Kerry climate change bill introduced in the Senate on Wednesday includes few provisions that are friendly to agriculture and will be strongly opposed by the American Farm Bureau Federation.

“America’s farmers and ranchers did not fare that well in the House-passed climate change bill and they fare even worse in the Senate bill,” said American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman. “There are few benefits and even greater costs to agriculture and the American public.”

AISI | Boxer Wants To Mirror House Language On Allocations

Boxer also offered an explanation for why she and Kerry decided to change the legislative lingo surrounding their bill, dropping references to "cap and trade" and instead labeling the greenhouse gas trading provisions as a "pollution reduction and investment" program.

"No one really understood what cap and trade meant," Boxer said. "You could be talking about putting a cap on a baseball player and trading him to another team. No one got it. We're saying 'pollution reduction investments.' We think it explains it more."

Settled science: Trace amounts of CO2 increase OR decrease strength of India monsoon

2003: Climate Records Show Global Warming Could Influence Asian Monsoon

Scientists have observed that the Asian monsoon has been gaining strength during the past few centuries, possibly due to rising global temperatures.

April '09; Hot summer, absent El Nino set to aid India monsoon - Global Warming- Reuters

NEW DELHI: India's monsoon rains, vital for the farm-dependent economy and the success of major crops, may exceed the norm this year if the El
Nino system that brings drier weather fails to appear, as expected, forecasters say.

India suffers its weakest monsoon for nearly 40 years - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

In late summer 2009, one of India's leading meteorologists gave a warning that global warming had made India's weather more unpredictable.

In a study of monsoon patterns in India over the last 150 years, BN Goswami, director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, explained that the continuous rain for several months which has characterized the Indian monsoon is almost gone, The Telegraph reported. Instead there are now longer dry spells and shorter sudden heavy showers.

At least, his prediction has been fulfilled this year.

YouTube - NewsBusted 10/2/09

Global cooling cools rhetoric on global warming

YouTube - CO2 causes tsunamis?  Brainwashed students weigh in - Part-1

YouTube - Because of trace amounts of CO2, "You're going to see your loved one die in front of you" - Part-2

Obama unlikely to sign climate bill before December | Green Business | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House's top climate and energy coordinator [socialist] Carol Browner on Friday said it is "not likely" President Barack Obama would sign climate legislation ahead of a December U.N. global warming meeting in Copenhagen.

"We'd like to be through the process. That's not going to happen," Browner said at a conference.

Paterson in California For Climate Summit | Politics on the Hudson

Last November, Paterson was co-host of the first summit, but didn’t attend.

President Obama, Please Go Back to the Copenhagen in December! - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

...After all, what's an Olympiad — even if it is the world's last — compared with the greatest threat facing mankind, etc., etc.? The White House said that it is absurd to suggest that hopping on a plane to go to Copenhagen to support an Olympic bid is a distraction from pressing issues. So clearly, we won't be hearing that excuse in December. Ahem.

But, with Olympic Committee voters no more subject to The One's charms than the increasingly restless American electorate appears to be, I now concur with the greens. Mr. Obama, go to the COP!

Who Gets the Green Medal? Not the Obamas » The Foundry

Using an additional plane emitted 434,726 pounds of carbon into the air.
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So, taking an additional plane to lobby for the Olympics to come to Chicago is equivalent to driving an Escalade for nearly 26 years. (434,726 lbs of Co2 / 16,797 lbs of Co2).

Environmental hypocrisy is nothing new to celebrities and politicians that make the push to go green. John Travolta often preaches about the catastrophic consequences global warming but has five private jets that he likes to fly for ‘business purposes’. Senator Harry Reid riding in a Chevrolet Suburban to attend a news conference on energy efficiency when a short walk from the Capitol to the Senate building would have sufficed. Google founder Sergey Brin greened the company’s headquarters but signed up for a Co2-spewing joyride in space.

Who Will Regulate U.S. Carbon [Swindle] Markets? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

If the United States is going to set up a cap-and-trade regime similar to Europe’s in order to slash greenhouse gas emissions, who will regulate the new carbon market?

That question has yet to be settled.

GE ’stimulated’ by $300 million water heater rebate « Green Hell Blog

Everyday seems to bring new revelations about federal stimulus money earmarked for the Obama-blessed General Electric. Yesterday it was smart meters, today’s scheme involves water heaters.

World needs CO2 budget to limit warming: WWF | Green Business | Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The world is in danger of spending its "carbon budget" by about 2025 and risks temperatures rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius unless nations adopt a flexible carbon accounting system, conservation group WWF says in a report.

[Are these people very interested in natural climate variability?]

The Pew Center was established in May 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.

Europe bids to tax personal fuel consumption

A Europe-wide tax on personal or household fuel consumption was proposed on Friday as EU finance ministers met to discuss who should pay what in the fight against global warming.
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Revenues "should be used for climate change [hoax] purposes (and) to finance the climate change efforts of the developing countries, because they need some support and we need revenues to support them," he said.

Obama and Copenhagen: A December Return? - Alarmist Andy Revkin: Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The environmental benefits of Mr. Obama showing his face in the chambers filled with, by then, exhausted negotiators could be limited, given the constraints on any American president in the treaty-making process. As Dave Roberts of Grist said to me earlier this week, it might be hard for people outside the United States (or inside, for that matter) to grasp how a president could have the authority to take a country to war but not to commit it to curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. But that is the nature of a “boisterous democracy,” to use a description applied to both the United States and India by Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister.

Remember, when no treaty was ratified when George W. Bush was president, it was because Bush was all-powerful and evil!

When no treaty is ratified when Obama is president: hey, that's just the way our democracy works!

Cold morning in Denver sets new record low - The Denver Post

The temperature at Denver International Airport dipped to 27 degrees just before 5 a.m. This was low enough to set a new record low for Oct. 2. The old record low had been 30 degrees set in 1999.

Weathering winter illness - WKOW 27: Madison, WI

...the reality is that winter can be harsh and even boost your risk of getting sick.

Being cooped up, along with conditions that boost flu virus survival, spell trouble.

Vicky Kistler, Health Director in Allentown, Penn., says flu organisms live much better in cold weather traditionally. "It will be interesting to see these new strains of flu and how weather has an impact."

AgWeb Blogs: Frost risk

Very cold weather is expected to dip into some lower Midwest areas in both the 6-10 day and 11-15 day forecasts. Frost risks look to be as far south as Northern Missouri.

Obamas' Olympic trip to Copenhagen knocks climate off the winners' podium | Alarmist Suzanne Goldenberg | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Obviously Obama has to pick the right moment to make his stand. But environmentalists say he let an important one go by last week when he chose NOT to use his speech to the United Nations climate change summit to press the Senate to pass a global warming bill fast.

The Economics of [Alleged] Climate Stabilization - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A group of eight leading climate economists have a message for United States senators now considering a new bill to cap emissions: don’t think of long-term mitigation costs as a massive expenditure, but rather a form of reasonably-priced “planetary climate insurance.”

Presentation At The University Of Texas – Austin Titled “Concerns On The IPCC Report – The Actual State Of Climate Science” By Roger A. Pielke Sr. « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

there is a quote by Antonio Busalacchi, Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland;

“Busalacchi…called for the inclusion of a wider range of scientists, including international scientists, in developing these reports. In addition, he warned that some small scientific communities had become ‘incestuous’ with report authors reviewing their own work.”

This in bred arrangement permeates the climate assessment reports and leadership of climate science professional organizations (e. g see also http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/protecting-the-ipcc-turf/). With respect to the IPCC, it managed by a relatively small group of individuals who are using the IPCC process to control what policymakers and the public learn about climate on multi-decadal time scales.

Kimberley Strassel: Rent-Seekers Inc. - WSJ.com

It isn't often an energy company (of all things) gets to present itself as an environmental crusader, cozy up to Washington rulemakers, buy political protection, and pad its bottom line—all in one neat little announcement. So give Pacific Gas & Electric, PNM and Exelon credit for going for the gold.
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"...This is about profit, not Gaia," says Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe.

Speaking of senators, the utility exodus conveniently came only days before Sen. Barbara Boxer released her own draft climate bill. And Mrs. Boxer, also conveniently, left blank the portion allocating credits—all the better to bribe support out of key industry players by dangling precious goods in front of them. Emancipated from the Chamber, Exelon and others are free to play ball. The EPA's new emissions rules were also announced this week in tune with the Boxer bill, reminding companies that if they don't work with Congress, the EPA will make them pay without any compensating emissions credits.

Let's also not forget that Chicago-based Exelon and employees, including Mr. Rowe, contributed tens of thousands of dollars for their home-city presidential aspirant. And that Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, was once a consultant to Exelon. In an energy world in which winners and losers are picked on the Potomac, there is no harm in reminding the president who his friends are.

Climate fears based on lies, Calgary told

"How long it's going to take this (global warming) scare to end, I cannot foresee. That it will come to an end is now certain because the science is in, the truth is out and the scare is over," he told reporters.

Monckton cited the "biofuels scam," as another misfire related to the climate change scare.
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Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein, on hand for the presentation, said he, too, is concerned about the science, generally.

[Yet the whole point is to make fossil energy more expensive]: Climate Bill in Senate Would Devote Pollution Allowances to Easing Energy Costs - washingtonpost.com

Senate Democrats will initially devote 70 percent of the pollution allowances in their new climate measure to making it easier for people to pay their energy bills, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer said in an interview to be aired Sunday on C-SPAN.
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Boxer also acknowledged that the climate bill does not have enough votes to pass right now in the Senate, adding that she will work to change that. "We're gaining ground, but at this point I can't count to 60," she said. "But you just do your job and move forward."

Motorist Group Slams ‘Congestion Pricing’ - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“Placing restrictions on mobility for the individual or increasing its cost will not improve the citizens’ quality of life nor enhance economic development,” according to the group, which said it represents 34 million European motorists through national motoring and touring organizations

Sean Parnell: Alaska Can Meet U.S. Energy Needs - WSJ.com

The U.S. has long supported offshore oil and gas development in other countries. The Obama administration is even offering political and financial support for Brazil to develop its offshore oil fields. If we are willing to finance offshore development overseas, certainly we should be able to support it domestically.

Exxon’s Tillerson: Forget Cap-and-Trade, Carbon Tax is the Answer - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Here’s a question: When the head of Exxon, the world’s biggest publicly-traded energy company, calls for a carbon tax, is that serious or is it just a tactic to avoid any action on climate change?

A fearful America may speak at the polls | greenbaypressgazette.com

The swell of fearful Americans is increasing, according to the news media. What is their fear based on? This is what they are saying:
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2. Cap and trade. This proposed legislation will continue the transfer of industrial jobs to other countries (who flatly refuse to adopt such a plan). Utility bills are predicted to skyrocket in the United States.

The American Spectator : Kerry'd Away on Cap and Trade

Kerry was optimistic that his bill would pass. "I'm convinced it has a shot," he said in an interview with MSNBC. But the response to both the Kerry-Boxer legislation and the concept of cap and trade more generally has been less than overwhelming.
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All told, sources tell TAS that as many as 15 Senate Democrats are either opposed to cap and trade or on the fence. It would take as few as four to deny the majority the votes for cloture, which means that Kerry-Boxer would fall to a filibuster unless the Democratic leadership -- already tangled in the weeds of health care -- wanted to try to ram it through using the reconciliation process.

Farmers prove tough sell on climate [hoax] bill

Some Democrats also have aired concerns about the credit trading.

"We are seeing a system that is just inherent with special interests," said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
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There's little disagreement that foreigners will earn the majority of credits, since land values overseas are lower than they are in the United States. Analysts with the Environmental Protection Agency say the foreign credits would quickly reach a billion tons a year, half the total allowed by the House bill. Domestic credits would likely lag far behind.
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Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, opened a recent Senate hearing by warning that "some of the ideology and recklessness that helped drive our economy and our market over the cliff are now surfacing in discussion of a cap-and-trade system."
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Another hurdle: Many farmers are skeptical about global warming, Kaldenberg said.

"They are going to have a harder time signing up for a program," he said, "when they believe the problem is a hoax to begin with."

[Should we create denser cities based on politicians' alleged belief in a fraud?] « The Dirt

M.I.T. Technology Review wrote that creating denser cities doesn’t reduce C02 emissions enough to make a major difference by 2050, when some of worst effects of climate change are expected to take effect.

The Carbon Sense Coalition » No Global Warming in 351 Year British Temperature Record

Wilson Flood comments:

“Summers in the second half of the 20th century were warmer than those in the first half and it could be argued that this was a global warming signal. However, the average CET summer temperature in the 18th century was 15.46 degC while that for the 20th century was 15.35 degC. Far from being warmer due to assumed global warming, comparison of actual temperature data shows that UK summers in the 20th century were cooler than those of two centuries previously.”

Danish official [pushes climate hoax at the University of Minnesota]

Deputy Chief of Mission for the Royal Danish Embassy SØren Jensen spoke at the University of Minnesota Thursday about the United States’ role in the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.
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Jensen urged students to mail their congressmen and push the political process to create change before the Copenhagen conference.

“It’s a battle we can win,” Jensen said. “But we cannot wait.”

Obama in Copenhagen: will he come again for climate? | Green Business | Reuters

Obama told Rasmussen he was eager to return to the Danish capital but declined to answer when asked by a reporter whether he would come back for the U.N. negotiations, from December 7 to 18.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Hockey Stick Gets Personal: Lies from Real Climate

Gavin's outright lie about McIntyre is an obvious attempt to distract attention from the possibility that Steve may have scored another scalp in the Hockey Stick wars. Rather than distract attention from McIntyre, Gavin's most recent lie simply adds to the list of climate scientists behaving badly. When will these guys learn?

Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill: Preliminary Thoughts

Allocations. [Sound of crickets chirping.] The bill is eerily silent on allocations. It goes to a good deal of trouble to set forth a detailed list of entities and programs that will receive free allowances and programs that will receive auction revenue, but it doesn't give specific numbers. Presumably, this is going to be left to the Senate Finance committee and other negotiations.

No Swedish Model for Obama - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

An e-mailer from across the pond notes that the Royal Swedish Engineering Science Academy has come out with a new report called "The Five Choices."

It seems they've become familiar with the wind-power experience of their neighbors to the south, so we won't be hearing President Obama saying, "Let's look at what's being concluded in countries like Sweden . . . "

Lily Allen is pictured having a cigarette whilst [gearing up to fight trace amounts of completely natural atmospheric gas]

Chilling out in a West London neighborhood, Lily Allen was spotted smoking and chatting with two friends this afternoon (October 1).
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And it sounds like Miss Allen is gearing up for the world’s first digital musical petition- a re-recording of the Midnight Oil song, “Beds are Burning” that will be aimed at pressuring world leaders to make a hard-hitting deal over climate change at the upcoming Summit in Copenhagen.

Climate [hoax] talks stall on targets, finance: U.N. | Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Efforts to convince rich nations to toughen emissions cuts have failed to make much headway at climate talks in the Thai capital, the U.N. said on Friday.
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The September 28-October 9 talks are the last major negotiating session before environment ministers meet in Copenhagen to try to seal a tougher global pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

"Progress toward high industrialized world emissions cuts remains disappointing during these talks. We're not seeing real advances there," Yvo de Boer, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told reporters.

"Movement on the ways and means and institutions to raise, manage and deploy financing support for the developing world climate action also remains slow."

EU carbon drifts on weaker energy prices | Markets | Reuters

Democrats in the U.S. Senate, who this week sketched out legislation to tackle global warming, now faced the hard part -- convincing enough fence-sitters to join their cause.

"We have to bring people to the table. This is a starting point ... the opening of the negotiating process," Senator John Kerry, co-author of the Democrats' proposals, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Poland leads dissent at EU finance meeting on climate change costs - Monsters and Critics

'From our point of view, it is totally unacceptable that the poor countries of Europe should help the rich countries of Europe to help pay the poor countries of the rest of the world,' said Polish Finance Minister Jan Rostowski ahead of the informal meeting of EU finance ministers.
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Poland, for example, gets more than 90 per cent of its electricity from polluting and ageing coal plants. And its government argues that only ability to pay, not pollution levels, should be taken into account - a view shared by many former communist nations from Central and Eastern Europe.

Prince Philip Implies World Needs 95% Population Reduction - JustGetThere

“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund