This isn't really about carbon dioxide, is it?

Party’s over for Planet Earth, Suzuki tells Kitchener audience

“We are using the earth as a garbage can,” Suzuki said. “There is no end to what we desire. We have to think about what the necessities are in life.”

It’s time to think about what kind of Canada we want, he said: It could be one where children grow up asthma-free, or where fish can be eaten without worrying about chemicals in the meat.

Brainless in Montana

UM offers new climate change program | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune

HELENA (AP) — The University of Montana is launching a new Climate Change Studies Program, to be headed by a former Nobel Peace Prize winner....
University of Montana forestry professor Steve Running, who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the issue, said the issue will be bigger than the current health care debate.
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“Where it gets completely wild is when you consider what kinds of things we can do to reduce carbon emissions,” Running said. “The technology doesn’t exist to do that now, without reducing our lifestyles to primitive levels.”

Running said people would have to make dramatic changes to their lifestyles to save their grandchildren.

“I haven’t seen a politician on a national forum actually admit what I just said,” he said.

October 15, '09: Rehberg asks for ag emergency

U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R.Mont, sent a letter to Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Thursday requesting a declaration of emergency for counties and reservations adversely impacted by record-cold temperatures across the state.

The Press Association: Police injured at climate protest

A police officer was airlifted from the scene of a climate change protest with head injuries as hundreds of demonstrators converged at one of Britain's biggest coal-fired power stations, police said.

The male officer was one of three officers who were injured during a demonstration at Ratcliffe-on-Soar near Nottingham.

COP15: 50 things to know with 50 days to go

43. Kung-Fu legend Jet Li, actress Emma Thompson and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu all raise their voices to change climate change.

The Rumors of Our Global-Warming Denial Are Greatly Exaggerated - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

Like those who are criticizing us, we believe that rising global temperatures are a man-made phenomenon and that global warming is an important issue to solve.
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The statements being circulated create the false impression that our analysis of the global-warming crisis is ideological and unscientific. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Murkowski signals interest in compromise on cap-and-trade [swindle] - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

"When you see changes to the land coming about ... what is causing the loss of the sea ice that adds to the erosion issues, yes, in Alaska we are seeing change," Murkowski told C-SPAN. "That's why I have been one of those Republicans who has stepped out front a little bit more on the issue of climate change."

World Climate Report » Settling on an unstable Alaskan shore: A warning unheeded

In earlier times, when the Inuit were more nomadic, they simply would have broken camp and moved to a more suitable location. In fact, the historical scientific literature contains references to abandoned Inuit camps located on the precipices of an eroding coast. For instance, Gerald MacCarthy, in an article published in Arctic in 1953 entitled “Recent Change in the Shoreline Near Point Barrow, Alaska” wrote:

At ‘Nuwuk’ [Point Barrow] the evidence of rapid retreat is especially striking. The abandoned native village of the same name, which formerly occupied most of the area immediately surrounding the station site, is being rapidly eaten away by the retreat of the bluff and in October 1949 the remains of four old pit dwellings, then partially collapsed and filled with solid ice, were exposed in cross section in the face of the bluff. In 1951 these four dwellings had been completely eroded away and several more exposed.

Live chat on climate change | The Stump - - OregonLive.com

It's time to put the so-called "climate debate" to rest and talk about the real uncertainties that pertain to global warming, says Juliane Fry, an assistant professor of chemistry at Reed College. What level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is safe? Is "geo-engineering" an option? How do we find solutions that are globally equitable and cost-effective?

Fry answers those and other questions in the piece "How to stop doubting and love the climate models".

The Cap-and-Trade Bill Will Suffocate Next Generation of Entrepreneurial Innovators

The cap-and-trade bill passed by the U.S. House and now before the Senate not only will straddle future generations with a greater tax burden but also will effectively rob them of the opportunity to seek innovative solutions to climate change.

Meanwhile, back in cold reality... - Telegraph

For the third year running there are signs of an abnormally hard winter in many parts of the world, says Christopher Booker.
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The debate on global warming has truly become "a tale of two planets", as I say towards the end of my new book, The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with climate change turning out to be the most costly scientific delusion in history? On one planet – where David Cameron proved himself to be at home on Friday – we see all these increasingly reckless attempts to keep the panic afloat. On the other, evidence piles up to show that this is the greatest scare story the world has ever known. Alas, it is those who inhabit that first planet who still control the high gound in politics and the media. As we shiver through yet another cold winter, it is high time reality began to break in on their mad dreams.

Vaclav Klaus, the only leader who dared stand up to Europe - Telegraph

Since Klaus is also the only world leader who is scientifically well-informed and highly sceptical about global warming, he merits our admiration as "Europe's last democrat".

The Migrant Mind: The Prevarications about Greenland

Selective use of data to propel a political agenda is a shameful thing for scientists to do.

Quoted as saying: Maher

We need a debate about it [whether vaccinations actually work and are safe]. The science is not settled. I was attacked for saying we should look into this, and I don't believe in it, and lots of people feel the same way. This is not settled science like global warming.

Superfreakonomics on climate, part 1 - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

What you had in the 70s was a few scientists advancing the cooling hypothesis, and a few popular media stories hyping their suggestions. To the extent that there was a consensus, it was that there wasn’t much evidence for anything, and more research was needed.

What you have today is a massive research program involving thousands of scientists and many peer-reviewed publications, with all major international bodies agreeing that man-made global warming is real. You can, if you insist, dismiss it all as a gigantic hoax or whatever — but it’s nothing like the isolated 70s speculations about cooling.

Copenhagen, it's not about climate change

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper once famously described the Kyoto Protocol as “a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.”

Mr. Harper is still facing criticism over those remarks, yet if he were to use them today to describe the proposed follow-up agreement to Kyoto, he'd be entirely accurate and supporters of the deal are not denying it, although some might object to the word socialist.

Andrew Leonard - It's official: The media no longer believes in global warming

I don't think one can really make any determination, official or unofficial, as to whether the media has lost its faith in the theory of man-made global warming. But what we can say is that, just as we have seen with healthcare reform, the near certainty that legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gases is imminent has also driven the special interests whose oxen will soon be gored into a last-gasp fever-driven explosion of propaganda that is day by day ever further divorced from reality. This boiling over of paid-for-and-delivered climate-skeptic insanity is hard to ignore -- thus, perhaps, the sense that we are seeing it reflected more frequently in the media.

Carbon [scam] pays off for Alberta farmers

Fifteen years ago, the 6,100-hectare operation changed to no-till agriculture to increase its productivity.

Never did they imagine they would be able to cash in on climate change.

But the birth of the carbon market is now generating tens of thousands of dollars of unexpected income.

"I didn't even know that this stuff can happen. It's just a bonus," says Waldner, 60, who's headed the colony's agricultural operations for two decades.

Virginia: Puzzling stuff from Bob McDonnell

Climate change confronts McDonnell at McCain rally

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell said Saturday he believes the globe is warming but wouldn't fix blame on manmade carbon emissions as its cause.

McDonnell said after a veterans rally with Sen. John McCain that he remains firmly opposed to energy reform legislation intended to slow global warming by reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

"I think it's a real concern, and we need to find ways to be able to reduce (carbon dioxide) emissions," McDonnell said in advocating development of technology to eliminate pollutants from coal-fired energy plants.

When asked to clarify whether he believes that global warming is scientific fact, however, he hedged.

"Well, there's some debate that various scientists are going on in that," he said. "I think the temperature of the earth, from the science I've seen, is going up."

Then, asked if he believed elevated levels of manmade carbon emissions in the atmosphere were to blame, he said, "Look, it's not going to affect my policy decisions. What the policy decision needs to be is to find ways that are creative to be able to reduce CO2."

"I am going to accept the science that's out there, and the science is that we need to do everything that we can to reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere, and that will help," he said.

The Blackboard » Tricking yourself into cherry picking.

The method of simply rejecting the trees that fail to correlate does automatically bias a sample. Seems odd, but it’s true. So, even though the method seems reasonable, and the person doing it doesn’t intend to cherry pick, if they don’t do some very sophisticated things, rejecting trees that don’t correlate with the recent record biases an analysis. It encourages spurious results, and in the context of the whole “hockey stick” controversy, effectively imposes hockey sticks on the results.

Vehicles switched off at 6.30pm to create awareness on global warming risk - Chennai - City - The Times of India

CHENNAI: Exactly at 6.30 pm on Friday, as colourful firecrackers lit up the sky and the signal turned red at the Nandanam traffic junction, the
headlights of waitng vehicles went off. And, engines were switched off one by one at four of Chennai's busiest signals school and college students went around reminding motorists to switch off the ignition while waiting at signals.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts from SNL

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.
Jack Handey

SPPI: IPCC CO2 Projections are Half-Baked

The IPCC assumes CO2 concentration will reach 836 ppmv by 2100, but, for almost eight years, CO2 concentration has headed straight for only 570 ppmv by 2100. This alone halves all of the IPCC’s temperature projections.

The ups and downs of global warming over time

You have to read this chart from right (older time periods) to left (now). In case it's too small for you to read, the thin yellow line is CO2, which you can see has quite often been much higher than today--in fact, we're pretty close to historic lows. The blue line is variation from recent averages--how much higher or lower temperatures were compared to now. Again, for most of the past 600 million years, you can see we're at one of the low cycles, not matched since the Ordovician/Silurian ice ages. The brown fuzzy line is sea levels, which have been 265 meters higher and 120 meters lower than today.

MC: Tea Partiers Don't Like R's Either

The Kyoto Protocols that global warming alarmists believe were carried down from Mount Sinai on stone tablets are only expected to accomplish a fraction of a degree slowing in the rate of temperature increase.

If memory serves, the Kyoto Protocols were only predicted to reduce global temperature increases by less than one degree Fahrenheit by 2100.

And for that paltry, insignificant, theoretical and probably imaginary reduction in the rate of global warming, Lindsey Graham is willing to paralyze America’s economy.

If that’s Republicanism, then count me out.

A tempest in a coffee cup lid - Owen Sound Sun Times - Ontario, CA

It's been just about a year since the Climate Change King and his green minions tried to push through their controversial plan to ban all paper coffee and tea cups with plastic lids.
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(Those options include changing consumer behaviour, spending the $3 million required to outfit the city's Material Recovery Facilities with optical sorters that can separate the lid from the cup and/or retrofitting Ontario paper mills to accommodate hot drink cups.)

Geesh. Only at Socialist Silly Hall would Mayor David Miller and his climate change hangers-on waste this much time over a stinkin' coffee cup.

[Bummer: Maybe global warming drove two or three of 3,800 manatees up north, where they might get hypothermia]

Ilya started his journey north in the summer, startling sailors in the mid-Atlantic. He should have returned to South Florida by fall because once the temperature dips below 68, a manatee can get hypothermia.
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Each year, two or three manatees are known to drift to the northeast, though the numbers are increasing. Biologists aren't sure why. Global warming isn't ruled out.

But the more likely theory has to do with the increase in the number of manatees in the past few years -- current counts say there at least 3,800 in Florida. They might have to travel farther north to get less competition for food.

Maldives Cabinet Signs Climate Change Document 20 Feet Under Sea

As bubbles floated up from their face masks, the president, vice president, Cabinet secretary and 11 ministers signed a document calling on all countries to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.

Early freeze puts winemakers in rush to crush | Spokesman.com | Oct 16, 2009

Greg Lipsker, co-founder of Barrister Winery in Spokane, found himself in a cold vineyard near Pasco just after midnight Tuesday waiting to rescue wine grapes from last weekend’s freeze.

He was part of a frenzy that overtook the wine-growing region of Washington this week as growers and wine makers hustled to harvest and crush their fruit after lows hit 20 degrees in the vineyards.

Spokane Climate Action Event

The Nobel Prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change set 450 PPM (parts per million) of CO2 in our atmosphere as a goal for sustaining life more or less as we know it on planet Earth. However, since 2007, monitoring of the Arctic sea ice, ocean acidity, and other evidence indicate that global warming is occurring much more quickly than the early estimates indicated. NASA’s Dr.James Hansen, a prominent atmospheric scientist, is leading the effort to revise the climate action goal to 350 PPM. Currently the atmosphere has 387 PPM CO2. You can imagine, many world leaders will be reluctant to accept this new target of 350, in their understandable efforts to protect their vision of “the economy”, and to resist change. This is why it is up to us to insist on a Global Climate Change Policy that will have the best chance to protect life as we - including peoples of the Arctic, of small ocean islands, of drought-stricken east Africa, etc.- know it.

[Maybe these people don't know everything]: Harvard’s Bet on Interest Rate Rise Cost $500 Million to Exit - Bloomberg.com

Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University’s failed bet that interest rates would rise cost the world’s richest school at least $500 million in payments to escape derivatives that backfired.

Twitter / C4 Newsroom blogger

Obama's Climate Change Envoy says 'its possible there won't be a deal at Copenhagen..its a tough negotiation'. Tonight at 1830

Climate change 'larceny' - Welland Tribune - Ontario, CA

No longer a covert "Socialist scheme to suck money out of the wealth-producing nations," as Stephen Harper once described it, this UN larceny requires that the new money be remitted directly to the UN for disbursement and effectively usurps the autonomy of sovereign nations to manage their own foreign aid programs.

Historically, Canada has avoided providing foreign aid to genocidal maniacs, human rights violators and nuclear proliferators. But, under Copenhagen, that's about to change. Clearly, it isn't just the cheese that stinks in Denmark.

Ron Michaels Welland

First frost deals blow to Ontario corn crop - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

More than half Ontario's corn crop lost the race with the first frost and failed to reach full maturity, says a provincial crop analyst.
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"But we fell off the cliff late in September and early in October. We are surprised and disappointed how little of the crop made it to physical maturity before the frost," he said.

Johnson said it was the worst year for corn maturity since 1992 -the infamous "year with no summer."

The Associated Press: Biggest economies try again to strike climate deal

But pessimism was mounting that a deal can be struck without policy changes at the highest level.

"In recent months, the prospects that states will actually agree to anything in Copenhagen are starting to look worse and worse," Rajendra Pachauri, head of the authoritative U.N. scientific panel studying climate change, wrote on the Newsweek Web site posted Friday.

An inconvenient tea party - Daniel Libit - POLITICO.com

Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer couldn’t get Hollywood interested in his conservative answer to Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,” so he’s trying to promote it a different way — by getting tea party protesters to turn out for thousands of screenings across the country Sunday night.

Crank up the scare machine!

Dissent is worse than a dirty word at these U.N. meetings. The actual meetings where negotiations occur are closed. Mercy be unto anyone caught with a tape recorder or video camera in an area other than a lobby of cafeteria, or when accompanied by a U.N. staff member. Literature may not be distributed unless first approved by the U.N. staff. In fact, ordinary people cannot even get into one of these meetings. Only official delegates of a government, approved representatives of accredited NGOs, or approved press professionals can register.

Watch the momentum mount as the December meeting draws closer. Ice caps will melt faster, oceans will rise higher, droughts will be more severe, snow falls will be deeper, ice storms will be slicker, crops will fail more often, men will become impotent and African pygmies will be recruited by the Boston Celtics – all because of climate change – with the only cure being enslavement by a new Copenhagen Protocol to the Climate Change Treaty.

Twitter / Eoghan Crawford: Genius move by Maldives

Genius move by Maldives Gov having cabinet meeting underwater to highlight climate change. Our guys should do the same , without the tanks!

American Thinker: Carbon: Passive rider on the Earth/Space Machine

Over time the earth has seen gaseous CO2 levels fall from the original 0.80% to our current 0.04%. Photosynthesis has been busily productive but the relentless tectonic conveyances have carried away and stored life's solidified carbon-containing products, leaving them in limitedly accessible locations awaiting mankind's efforts to disinter some fraction of these vast stores to use as fossil fuels and thus to regenerate CO2. The assertion that neither the mammoth tectonic mechanism nor the immense space radiant mechanism is overawed by either life's maladaptive CO2 burials or by mankind's trifling energy use is surely one of the greater understatements of all time. These primordial earth/space processes acted to warm and to cool the planet and to rearrange its surface features long before life began and they will continue to perform their accustomed activities long after life completes its self-extinguishing sojourn.

Warning Signs: Watch "Not Evil, Just Wrong", Sunday, 8 PM Est

My only caveat is with the title. Much of what passes for environmentalism is evil.

Patrick J. Michaels : Deafening Silence on Real Climate Change - Townhall.com

NASA’s seems to beat the drum only when the news on global warming is bad, and remains mute when it is good. And, for that matter, so is that of the environmental journalism community, apparently incapable of filing an original story about an article from a refereed scientific journal that flies in the face of previous reportage on climate change.

[Don't they get kidney stones?] | Flies cluster in warm spots as cold weather returns | Seattle Times Newspaper

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Harris poll puts Obama approval at 45%

Most troubling for Obama and Democrats as they close out their first year of single-party control of DC are the independents. Obama has a -20 favorability gap among unaffiliated voters, with only 6% rating him as “excellent” while 28% rate him “poor”.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Hate It When I Think Of That Withering Comeback A Few Hours Later

I pointed out the absurdity of drawing every smaller circles on maps and claiming that wealth depended on that circle being self-sufficient.

But the pithy comeback would have been to ask how Ms. Granholm would react if, say, the the governors of California or Texas announced that were upset that billions of dollars leave their state every year to buy cars and that they were suggesting taxpayer-funded initiatives to free themselves of dependence on Rust Belt states for their transportation.

Farcical video: The government of the Maldives holds an underwater meeting to highlight the threat of global warming

Power Station Demonstration: Climate Change Protesters Break Through Fence | UK News | Sky News

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Power-Station-Demonstration-Climate-Change-Protesters-Break-Through-Fence/Article/200910315407966

Officers stationed outside the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station near Nottingham are facing groups of protesters, around 50-strong in places.

Some officers have been attacked in minor skirmishes, Nottingham Police said.

Activists say they are determined to enter the plant and close it down, disrupting power supplies to millions of people.

Obama uses fuel-guzzling Air Force One for travel to private partisan dinner in San Francisco; ties himself to unpopular Pelosi

Obama lauds Pelosi but California voters split

President Obama wrapped up a whistle-stop visit to San Francisco Friday, hours after he stood beside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her home district and called her his key warrior on Capitol Hill, saying she is "doing battle each and every day" for his legislative agenda.
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Pelosi is an invaluable ally in his fights for health care reform and against climate change, among other issues, he added.
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Obama, in his appearances Thursday at a private Democratic National Committee dinner and a fundraising reception in San Francisco, went out of his way to praise Pelosi.

She has worked for "people all across America," he said. "who are looking for a fair shake, who are looking for a decent job, who are looking for quality health care, who want a good education for their kids, who want a planet that they can pass on to their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren."

Two-thirds of Californians dislike Congress, Field Poll shows - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee

WASHINGTON – Californians have an overwhelmingly negative view of Congress, with two of every three voters disapproving of its performance, according to the latest Field Poll.

Only 23 percent said they approve of the way Congress is conducting itself. It's the highest disapproval rate since 1996.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco doesn't fare much better, with more Californians rating her negatively than positively. About one in three – or 34 percent – gave her good marks, while nearly half – 44 percent – said they disapprove of her performance. That's a sharp turnaround from March, when 48 percent approved and 35 percent disapproved.

[Picture of Air Force One]

Air Force One lifts off from a runway at SFO on Friday. President Obama spent the night in San Francisco after attending a Democratic fundraiser.

As they continue to deliberate inject CO2 into our drinks, Coca-Cola gallantly fights trace amounts of atmospheric CO2

Green consumerism can avert climate disaster, say top firms | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Sir Terry Leahy, the chief executive of Tesco, told the conference that combating climate change was now the number one priority of his company, and announced that his multibillion-pound business would be zero-carbon by 2050. "Survival is the issue, not just for our business, but the entire planet," he said.

The president of Coca-Cola, Muhtar Kent, warned politicians: "Act now or you will fail, and so will the world. Politicians need to think like businesses and think about the long term." He claimed that consumers now put the environment at the top of their priorities in all of its customer surveys, including in developing countries such as Brazil and Mexico.
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Kent said Coca-Cola's surveys suggested that as much as 70% of future advertising would have an environmental focus, and his aim was to reduce by 40% the energy footprint of its 10m refrigerators across 206 countries.

Fidel Castro praises fraudster Al Gore; says Obama didn't earn the Nobel

REFLECTIONS BY COMRADE FIDEL

The candidate was Al Gore -when he already was vice president. He was the best informed American politician on the dreadful consequences of climate change. As a candidate to the presidency, he was the victim of an electoral fraud and stripped of his victory by W. Bush.
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In Rome, film maker Michael Moore made a scathing comment: "Congratulations, President Obama, for the Nobel Peace Prize; now, please, earn it."

I am sure that Obama agrees with Moore's phrase. He is clever enough to understand the circumstances around this case. He knows he has not earned that award yet. That day in the morning he said that he was under the impression that he did not deserve to be in the company of so many inspiring personalities who have been honored with that prize.
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Fidel Castro Ruz

October 15, 2009

[No Impact Man cares enough to require others to offset his fossil-fueled anti-fossil fuel book promotion tour]

So Beavan sat at home. If he had to get up to go to the bathroom, he would walk to the other room and turn on the light there – and then run back to turn off the first light. He just couldn't let himself light up more than one bulb at once. He walked around the apartment unplugging things.
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The day after the project ended, Conlin got into a hybrid livery cab with Isabella and set off for the airport for a Thanksgiving trip to see her parents in California.

As they pulled up to the airport curb, she was overcome by a weird feeling of grief. It was over. And here she was getting on an airplane, a decision that by some counts would wipe out all her carbon savings of the last year.

Beavan stayed at home. He just couldn't bring himself to get on a plane.

When Christmas rolled around, they looked into taking the train, but discovered the tickets for the three of them to see her family in Minneapolis would cost a whopping $2,500, more than double the plane fare. So this time Beavan sucked it up, and he went with them to the airport.

The last few weeks he's been flying for his book tour [so his concern for the planet prevented him from flying to see his mother-in-law, but didn't prevent him from flying to sell his books]. He still agonizes over it.

Beavan tries to make up for the damage by requiring those paying for his travel to make a substantial donation to a renewable energy project. He and Conlin are taking fewer trips to visit family, and staying longer when they go.

Police make series of arrests after climate change protestors attempt to shut down a Nottinghamshire power station

[Note the video of people wrecking fences in their insane efforts to save us from carbon dioxide]

The Associated Press: Climate [swindle allegedly will turn] city's smell into cash cow

Getting into the game now — like JBS and the investors eyeing Greeley's energy park are doing — could potentially reap profits: selling credits generated by reducing greenhouse gases now into the emissions-trading market the bill would create.

That market could prove lucrative for projects that reduce methane, which is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere.

The fear in Greeley, and elsewhere, is what else the legislation would change.

Crunch time for EU’s climate [hoax] leadership dream

All those proposals are aimed at allowing the EU to come to Copenhagen with the attitude of, “We’re already doing it: what can you offer to match?”

But they have all sparked bitter political infighting, as member states struggle to protect key national industries against what they see as potentially hugely costly pledges.

Indeed, some Brussels insiders say that the political debate is now so hot that not even ministers will be able to handle it, and that the hottest topics will have to wait until the EU’s next summit, Oct 29-30.

CNN’s Dobbs Interviews Producer of Film Debunking Gore’s Inconvenient Truth | NewsBusters.org

DOBBS: Yes, well, the actual point of contention, as I recall, I love the way that Al Gore makes it sound like that was 200 years ago. That was just two years ago, 2007. It involved four drowning polar bears. It turns out they didn't. That's sort of straightforward and a simple fact, isn't it?

John Vidal: The environment in the decade of climate change [fraud] | Environment | The Guardian

My, how things have changed! In 2000, scientists from the Worldwatch thinktank in Washington teamed up with the UN to spot the greatest threats to the planet over the coming years. Top of the list was ecosystem collapse, such as deforestation and the demise of corals; second were health and diseases, such as Sars and Aids; and third was global poverty. The world's top environmental analysts gave climate change only four paragraphs in an eight-page essay – little more than malaria, trade, air pollution, population, fresh water or food supplies. Carbon emissions, they reported, were "continuing to decline" and global temperatures were "steady".

Ski for Free at Great Divide's Earliest Opening Weekend Ever

Those at the Great Divide Ski area, located just 23 miles north of Helena and 95 miles south of Great Falls, are preparing the slopes for the area's earliest opening date ever.

Beavers May Help Mitigate Climate Change Effects: A Canadian National Park's Wetlands were Healthier During Drought | Suite101.com

Climate change models predict drought conditions in the northern hemisphere but a Canadian study shows that the presence of beaver may reduce impact of rainfall reduction

Coming Soon! 350 Reasons Carbon Trading Won’t Work « It’s [Allegedly] Getting Hot In Here

Rising Tide North America and Carbon Trade Watch would like you to join us on the October 24th day of global climate action to spread the word about the biggest financial scam in history – Carbon Trading.

The Climate Change Mythbuster -  Green - MSN CA

Denialist boom

In fact, Hoggan says, not only are the deniers still around, "they seem to be on the increase." As the public grows more aware of the unshakeable strength of the scientific consensus and the urgency of the problem, so does the desperation and the stubbornness of those determined to deny its importance for the sake of big money. "This isn't a conspiracy--it's an industry," he says.

[Weekly address watch: For the thirteenth time in fourteen weeks, Obama completely ignores The Most Important Issue of All Time]

Now, I welcome a good debate. I welcome the chance to defend our proposals and to test our ideas in the fires of this democracy. But what I will not abide are those who would bend the truth – or break it – to score political points and stop our progress as a country. And what we all must oppose are the same old cynical Washington games that have been played for decades even as our problems have grown and our challenges have mounted.

Last November, the American people went to the polls in historic numbers and demanded change.

Snow forces Penn State to call an audible

For the first time in 108 years, an early-season snowfall blanketed this Central Pennsylvania college town, complicating life for 100,000 Penn State fans expected at today's football game.

AccuWeather said 7 inches of snow fell between Thursday and 8 a.m. yesterday, while the National Weather Service put the total at 4.7 inches.

The previous earliest snowfall recorded here was Oct. 18, 1901, when one-tenth of an inch fell.

With an additional 2 to 8 inches of snow forecast prior to game time, the university has banned tailgating and tents and closed all grass parking lots -- roughly 20,000 spots.

Corn growers devastated - North Dakota

Even if the killing frost had not occurred, the outlook for corn was bleak for much of north-central North Dakota.

Adnan Akyuz, state climatologist, said corn grown in the Minot area needs approximately 2,050 to 2,150 growing degree days, or GDD, to reach maturity. As of Thursday, the area had accumulated 1,874 GDD.
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"Even if we wouldn't have had the hard freeze, the corn was so late getting planted and the summer temperatures were so much cooler and October 26 was coming up so it would have stopped development (of the corn) anyway," he said, adding that Oct. 26 is typically the cutoff date for crops to accumulate GDDs.

[Aren't these people worried about kidney stones?]: Unseasonable cold drives snowbirds south

McALLEN — With the forecast calling for another freezing cold night, Richard and Vickie Burton packed the car and fled south for the blistering heat of the Rio Grande Valley.

After a chilly summer in Missouri and with fall quickly covering the Midwest in cold, the Burton family drove more than 16 hours last Saturday, joining hundreds of other Winter Texans who returned early to their winter homes.

The Punch:: Lessons from Copenhagen

Passion was what turned a movement that started as a fringe science into a fast spreading gospel that is now embraced by the intelligentsia in the West and the world’s leading statesmen. On the other hand, the movement uses wits to perusade us that there is a link between climate change and everything that matters to us: health, agriculture, security etc.

Billionaire philanthropist, George Soros, made this point during a dinner at the Danish Royal House, while explaining his decision to commit $1bn to the cause. He said he had always been wary of the environmental movement, avoiding it and refusing to fund its cause. However, he changed his mind when Al Gore persuaded him that climate change is more than an environmental issue.

Matthews: Fall Classic to Big Chill: It's too cold to play baseball

Frostbite, hypothermia and pneumonia, however, were all very much in play.

Errors a Fundamental Problem for Angels in the Opener - NYTimes.com

...Yankees and Angels still outfitted their players as if they were skiing instead of playing baseball. When the teams took batting practice, most players opted for wool beanies, caps with ear flaps, ski masks, hooded sweatshirts, fleece pullovers or gloves.
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Mark Teixeira, Johnny Damon and Nick Swisher all wore caps with the ear flaps. Cano wore his trusty ski mask and seemed like a threat to sleep with it, too...

Fury at rise in winter deaths - Dumfries and Galloway Standard

THE NUMBER of winter deaths in Dumfries and Galloway has hit an all time high.

From December 2008 to March 2009 a total of 140 people in the region died – 50 more than the previous year.
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[Margaret Syme] said: “Many elderly people in Dumfries and Galloway are in a dreadful situation when the winter months come along. I know for a fact that there are a lot of old people who will sit in cold houses because they cannot afford to turn their heating on. It is a terrible shame.”

Pacific.scoop.co.nz » Ringing the alarm on climate change

Church bells will toll up and down New Zealand on Saturday, October 24 – but not to signal a civil defence emergency. They’ll be ringing support for ‘350 Day’ – a global pointer to the need to cut carbon dioxide concentration in our atmosphere …

Secretaries Chu and Salazar and Sen. Hagan Tour Solar Farm in North Carolina | R&D Mag

"This is a company whose mission is to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change and to build a sustainable, triple-bottom-line that values people, the planet and profit," Salazar said during his visit. "Its employees have installed more than 11,000 solar panels, producing about 2.8 million kilowatt hours of clean energy.

If the company succeeds in its mission, how many microdegrees will the Earth be cooled? Also, why do we want that to happen?

Inuit angry over U.S. proposal to eliminate all trade in polar bears

Canadian Inuit are outraged over a U.S. plan to use an international treaty to eliminate all trade in polar bears anywhere in the world.

They say it would cripple one of their few industries and they're calling on the federal government to step in.

"We're fighting with Goliath here," said Gabriel Nirlungyak, director of wildlife with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., which oversees the Nunavut land claim.
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Nirlungyak said there's no evidence the animals are currently endangered and added that Canadian populations are well-managed. Canada has about two-thirds of the world's 25,000 bears.

Twitter / Andy Revkin: WANTED: Social scientist t ...

WANTED: Social scientist to deconstruct 450-comment climate hockeystick tangle: http://j.mp/BlogDoc

Cash for Clunkers: The Bus Version » The Foundry

It’d be much better if TIGGER were just a character on Winnie the Pooh and not a taxpayer handout for bus companies.

UPDATE: Trampling – Not Climate Change or Poaching – Likely Cause of Icy Cape Walrus Deaths « Watts Up With That?

Trampling-related injuries and mortalities are not uncommon at coastal walrus haulouts.
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The cause of the disturbance or disturbances leading to the trampling deaths is unknown. Investigators found no evidence of hunting or other recent human activities near the carcasses.

[Maybe these walruses were startled by one or more polar bears?]

Young animals can be hurt in stampedes when a herd is startled by a polar bear, human hunters or even a low-flying airplane.

Warming framed for squashed walruses | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If the evidence for apocalyptic man-made warming is so clear, why this constant invention of more?

Beware, Rudd's ETS elephant will trash your house | The Australian

IMAGINE if John Howard and Peter Costello had proposed a GST with an indeterminate variable rate, with the "variation" left hostage to the manipulation of clever investment bankers and other main-chancers, and you might begin to understand "Kevin Rudd's GST" -- his Emissions Trading Scheme, or ETS.

"His GST?" If we get the ETS, it is going to add to the price of everything -- not just power and not just carbon-based power in particular. On that point, it's worth noting that it is specifically designed to increase the price of all power -- quite deliberately, to make wind and solar power "competitive". That's to say we pay more for them, but they become "cheaper" than coal-based power.

The Goracle Lands in Virginia - Virginia Politics -

We learned today that if you bring Al Gore into a state to campaign, you're headed for a discussion about the politics of climate change.
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"At this week's debate, Bob McDonnell offered yet another example of his extreme, far-right ideology, when he refused to recognize the science of climate change,'' according to a state Democratic party press release. "While there are a lot of fundamental differences we have as Democrats and Republicans, one thing we can usually agree on is science. Climate change has been widely validated by the scientific community and even by some of the most conservative members of the Republican Party."

YouTube - Deeds Cap and Trade Love Story

Creigh Deeds welcomes Al Gore to Virginia, cementing his support for job-killing Cap-and-Trade legislation.

[But he said he'd heal the planet]: Obama isn't helping. At least the world argued with Bush | Naomi Klein | The Guardian

For all the global love-in, the new president has led rich nations to neglect principled action and row back from climate deals

Kissing off Kyoto - The Globe and Mail

Meanwhile, on the international level, it’s looking increasingly likely that Kyoto will be abandoned. And if Kyoto is abandoned, Canada will not suffer any penalty — as some have feared — for not meeting the commitments that Jean Chrétien’s government imprudently and irresponsibly signed on to.

Industrial countries have accepted that the odds of the United States signing onto Kyoto under this Administration are no greater than under its two predecessors
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It appears that Kyoto will be replaced by nationally set carbon emission targets.

Early Snow Hits Mountains Of New Hampshire - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR Manchester

High atop Mount Washington, 4-foot snow drifts already posed problems for weather observers. The group was forced to take the Cog Railway because a snow plow couldn't safely clear the drifts.

Miliband promises crackdown on soaring utility bills - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

The Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, warns suppliers today to cut gas and electricity bills amid signs the Government is losing patience with the £27bn-a-year industry.

RealClearPolitics - The Liberal Faith

Mr. Gore predicted the Senate would pass a "cap and trade" bill before a UN conference on climate change in Denmark in December. Most of the 500 journalists who heard him speak applauded.

Mr. Gore is someone only a liberal could regard as an expert on climate change. He took exactly two science courses as an undergraduate at Yale, scoring a D in Natural Sciences 6, and a C in Natural Sciences 118.

Mr. Gore's paucity of qualifications may be why he refuses to debate scientists who challenge his thesis. And he rarely answers questions after giving one of his alarmist speeches. Mr. Gore did so in Madison, perhaps because he assumed the audience was friendly.
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But opinion polls in Australia, Britain and here indicate people no longer are buying what they're selling. The Society of Environmental Journalists may not notice, but ordinary people can tell when it's cold outside.

Climate Change: Time Is Running Out | IPCC fraudster R. K. Pachauri | Newsweek.com

All this matters because the effects of climate change are very real. They are also diverse, and will likely hit hardest in the most vulnerable and poorest regions of the world. These areas can expect an increase in the frequency, intensity, and duration of floods, droughts, heat waves, and extreme precipitation. Sea levels, which have already increased in recent decades, are likely to rise even faster, threatening small island states and low-lying coastal areas. Agricultural yields will decline, with some countries in Africa losing up to half of their farm output by 2020. Food security will get worse, and malnutrition and hunger will grow.
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What is clear is that if a strong agreement is not reached this year, the world will have lost a key opportunity to protect future generations and to ensure the well-being of all species on the planet before it's too late.

[Pachauri: He'd "not be dismayed by a delay"]

Pachauri told a press conference that it might take until next year for Washington to formulate its commitments on 2020.

"A reasonably good agreement" could emerge in Copenhagen, Pachauri said, adding though that he would not be dismayed by a delay if this provided a better outcome.

"If we are not getting a good agreement, then the global community really has the option of meeting again six months later or three months later or whatever," he said.

Paul Chesser - Re: Juliet Eilperin is No Joke

Juliet Eilperin's reporting is a joke. In fact, it's not reporting. It's environmental activism, as my post yesterday explained, and as I noted with Marc Morano's documentation of her work. The reason it's a joke is that the Post, which considers itself an objective news organization, runs it in its news section when instead it should be run in the opinion section or not at all. If Eilperin wrote for, say, The Nation, Grist, or some other ideological publication, she wouldn't be the subject of a blog written by me. That she is the star of reporting workshops sponsored and hosted by the likes of the Center for American Progress (where Eilperin's husband, Andrew Light, is a fellow) proves my point.

California Governor Remarks at 2009 Oracle Openworld Conference | The Gov Monitor

Or when you think about something that I’m very passionate about, global warming. I mean, technology is leading to new and cheaper forms of renewable energy. I mean, it’s allowing us to develop cleaner cars and to develop alternative fuels and to clean the air and to fight climate change. I mean, just recently, just last week, I was down in the LA ports at Long Beach port, and let me tell you something, there we’ve seen 70 percent of reduction in greenhouse gases and of the soot from diesel, just all because of technology. It’s not like we cut down on the size of ships or on trucks or on the tugboats, no, the tugboats are now hybrid tugboats, and the trucks that are still carrying the 60,000 pounds of cargo are electric trucks and not anymore the diesel trucks. And so it’s technology that will save the day when it comes to global warming, and so I think that this is very important that we all work together on that.

Good news, arctic to be ice free in summer

If the arctic ice does indeed melt it will result in many positive benefits to the world economy and indirectly to individual consumers. It's not that big a deal.

[Lowering expectations]: Forecasting Climate Change Legislation : NPR

With Congress focused on Afghanistan, the economy and health care, will there be any action on domestic climate policy before the Copenhagen climate summit in December? Eileen Claussen, of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, talks about what to expect in the coming months.

[Now with over 100,000 views]: Al Gore Ignores Inconvenient Questions

As can be seen in the video, instead of either refuting the court’s findings or promising to correct the errors, Gore simply ignores the questions long enough to allow McAleer’s fellow journalists to cut the microphone. So much for journalists doggedly pursuing the truth.

YouTube - Daring to Question Al Gore

[Update: this one's got 252,958 views]

A big chill on global warming | Washington Examiner

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has formally requested that the Environmental Protection Agency, which helps fund CRU, "reopen the record" and allow CEI and others to submit newly uncovered information regarding the East Anglia data destruction. The conservative think tank also wants to submit information about flaws in other data EPA is using as it devises stringent new anti-global warming regulations. Congress should also investigate the dumping of data partially paid for by U.S. taxpayers and other suspicious global warming anomalies, such as the temperature readings taken from "ghost weather stations" like the one at Maine's Ripogenus Dam. It was officially closed in 1995 but allegedly is still transmitting climate data 14 years later. Such questionable data sources must be eliminated if credible policy decisions are ever to be reached.

Union workers upstage N.J. environmental groups' campaign against planned Linden plant | New Jersey Real-Time News - - NJ.com

But as the activists tried to make speeches from under a city promenade, sheltered from a steady, cold rain, the union workers stood in the down-pour, waving signs and shouting down the speakers’ every word.

"These are environmental extremists. These are the voices of ignorance," said Michael Mulvaney, business manager for the Steamfitters Local 475. "This plant is not experimental. It’s been done in the North Sea and other places, and it’s being done to help the environment. It also will create 250 permanent jobs here, along with 2,000 construction jobs for five years while this is built."

CNSNews.com - 'Green' Customers Get Discounts at Berlin Brothel

(AP) One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door.

Brrrr! First half of October the coldest ever | StarTribune.com

High temperature averaged a chilly 47 degrees for the first two weeks of the month - 16 degrees below normal.
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With 19 consecutive days of below normal temperatures and accumulating snow falling a few weeks before normal, news that this has been the coldest start to an October on record in the Twin Cities probably isn't all that shocking.

Apocalypse Or Extinction? By Guy R McPherson

If we abandon the industrial culture of death, we might persist until your children are old enough to die a "normal" death. But the odds are long and the time short. Barack Obama epitomizes the actions of every politician in the world by ensuring, with every political act, a miserable future and insufferable death for his wife and children.

Now I mourn because the solution is right in front of us, yet we run from it. We fail to recognize our salvation for what it is, believing it to be dystopia instead of utopia. Are we waiting for the last human on the planet to start the crusade?

Guy R. McPherson is Profesor Emeritus at the University of Arizona.

Conmen are already selling dodgy forest carbon - The Ecologist

REDD may look great from the windows of the skyscrapers where it was dreamed up, but cock-fighting, cowboys and sky money are there to trip up the money-men when they come down to ground level.

Can a Deal Be Reached at Copenhagen? | GlobalWarming.org

There were a number of interesting questions from the audience and several quite revealing answers from the panelists. Quite a bit of discussion swirled around the topic of who would be to blame if Copenhagen failed.

Socialist International Meets, But Carol Browner Can’t Make It | GlobalWarming.org

The Socialist International’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society has sent an interesting account of their recent meeting and release of their report, “From a high carbon economy to a low carbon society.” As revealed by Steve Milloy earlier this year, Carol Browner, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration and now President Barack Obama’s “climate czar,” is a long-time member of Socialist International . Here’s what Socialist International said about their meeting held at the UN in September...

Climate Change: Can Obama Juggle Issue Between Health Care And Afghanistan? - ABC News

[If Obama really believes that global warming is The Most Important Issue Ever, why is it waiting in line behind health care?]

Joellen Raderstorf: Swine Flu, Climate Change and a Middle-of-the-Night Tantrum

So I consult the experts: I’m carpooling (chauffeuring) my teenagers, with the beautiful Colorado sky heavy with smoke from California fires, and NPR broadcasting another story of H1N1. I ask this captive crowd “Why aren’t people as concerned about global warming?” Their analysis is spot on: “People can imagine getting deathly sick from the flu; everyone has experienced this to some degree. However, most people don’t know what it feels like to suffer from climate change.” Interesting observation coming from children who literally ran from the Asian tsunami in 2004 [was that caused by CO2?].

If the climate crisis is already here, why aren't we suffering?

Strange Bedfellows - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Politics breeds the oddest of couples. So it is in Virginia, where it seems Al Gore is flying today to help out Democrat candidate for governor, Creigh Deeds. This comes only days after Deeds aggressively fended off attacks over his previously expressed support for a signature issue of his party — "cap-and-trade" energy rationing — by disparaging it and its costs. In this week's debate, he went so far as to call claims that he supports cap-and-trade legislation an example of his opponent lying. Instead, he insisted, he opposes it. Gasp.

Which of Gore's regular name-calling applies to Deeds, then? "Denier"? "Delayer"? "Big Oil-funded shill"?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » AIP column: The cap-and-trade 3-card Monty

States that need to emit more have to buy credits. States that emit less than their allocation can sell credits. This plan does nothing more than force some states to send cash to other states, and cui bono? Why, it’s California, Henry Waxman’s state.

BBC - Ethical Man blog: Is the green movement too radical?

These arguments lead Greens to say that we need to smash capitalism - or at least radically change its priorities - if we are to successfully tackle climate change.

It is not a policy that is likely to engage most mainstream politicians [ya think?] - or for that matter - ordinary people. What is more, spurning market solutions means ignoring one of the most powerful mechanisms for changing behaviour ever developed.

Two days to go to The Cinematic Tea Party « JoNova

Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer have made a desperately needed and polished documentary. Once again, as resistance to the one-sided coverage of the greenhouse crisis grows we can marvel at the determination of people to find a new way to spread the word that there is another side to the story. Once again, grass-roots citizens rise up to fight the witchdoctors who promise to save us from their own exaggerated threats. The indomitable human spirit shines, but sadly so does the destructive power of ideology without rational debate.

Twentieth Century Temperature Correlation with no CO2 influence (update) by Dan Pangburn, P.E. | Solar Cycle 25

The attached work should interest you. It shows a rather simple procedure to accurately (standard deviation of differences between calculated and measured temperature anomalies = 0.0634 C) calculate the average global temperature history of the entire 20th century and to the present time using only the time-integral of sunspot count and an assumption of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) up trend or down trend duration of 32 years and a PDO temperature range of 0.45 C degrees. It assumes no influence from atmospheric carbon dioxide and corroborates previous work.

Dan Pangburn

Three papers from William Gray, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University | Climate Realists

[It's about money, not carbon dioxide]: Utilities split on climate legislation - MarketWatch

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and others have flooded Capitol Hill with a half million postcards urging lawmakers to increase the share of credits doled out to smaller power companies whose plants are fueled by coal, Cash said.

On the other hand, generators with low carbon emissions, including those using nuclear power to generate electricity, currently stand to benefit from climate legislation, and continue to push for it.

Public Still Not Sure What Cap and Trade Is, but They Will If It Passes » The Foundry

Maybe John Kerry and President Obama and proponents of a cap and trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions still have time to change message. “I don’t know what ‘cap and trade’ means. I don’t think the average American does,’ Kerry said recently. And he’s right. According to a new poll released from the Pew Research Center, “just 23% of Americans are aware that legislation often referred to as “cap and trade” concerns energy and environmental policy.” The other choices were banking reform, health care and unemployment.

Graham pollster to Republicans: Abandon ‘cap and tax’, skepticism « Green Hell Blog

Although we are winning the battle against oppressive green climate/energy legislation — or at least holding our own against vastly better funded opponents — “Republican” pollster Ayres says we should change tactics — i.e., don’t say “cap-and-tax” and don’t question whether climate change is manmade. Ayres further advises that we should rely on “third-party validators” like the CBO — a group that thinks Americans will actually benefit economically from cap-and-tax (Oops… it slipped. Sorry, Dim-Whit.)

The Road to Copenhagen - Big Obstacle to Global Warming [Swindle] Is How to Pay for It - Series - NYTimes.com

“Developing countries are not convinced that the market will find them the $100 billion they need,” said Mr. Figueiredo Machado, Brazil’s climate negotiator. “They want guarantees.”
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Xie Zhenhua, the lead Chinese climate negotiator, speaking at a news conference in New York last month, said the United Nations should not expect China to pay.

“Global warming is a result of CO2 from developed countries during their industrialization,” Mr. Xie said. “China is one of the countries that has borne the brunt of that.”

More US Aid Proposed for Climate Change

The Reverend Jim Ball is senior director of Climate Campaign for the Evangelical Environmental Network. He says an overwhelming majority of evangelical Christians in the United States support strong action.

"Climate change is a natural disaster intensifier," he said. "It makes floods fiercer, hurricanes harsher, droughts drier. The one thing the world does not need are more victims of natural disasters."

If a little global warming makes everything much worse, would a little global cooling make everything much better?

If warmth is so bad, why do so many people (and other living things) live near the equator, and why do relatively few people (and other living things) live in the Arctic?

Is The Earth Entering A Cooling Cycle? - Science News - redOrbit

For some scientists, there is the lingering possibility that the earth could be entering a period of global cooling, rather than the widely sensationalized warming trend.

Offset potential from forests hugely overestimated - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Bolivian flagship project in forest conservation has only achieved 11 percent of its planned carbon offsetting. Greenpeace: A scam.

Winter weather blasts early fall records across Nebraska

An early blast of winter weather — arriving within weeks of the official end of summer — toppled 100-year-old records as temperatures plunged and snow flew across the region this weekend.

Early snow sets a record for Ithaca area | theithacajournal.com | The Ithaca Journal

The previous record for an early snowfall exceeding 1 inch was Oct. 17, 1970 when 4 inches of snow fell in the Ithaca area.

American Thinker: The Seduction Of Lindsey Graham

According to most conservatives in South Carolina, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has officially gone over to the dark side. Under the guise of 'bipartisanship,' Graham has signed on to one of the left's most ambitious plans to impose a socialist agenda in America - government control of the formerly free market through implementation of cap-and trade, the 1,400 plus page Waxman-Markey bill approved earlier this year by the House.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Time to Recall Al Gore’s Oscar

Ann McElhinney’s and Phelim McAleer’s film “Not Evil Just Wrong” takes apart Gore’s crockumentary piece by piece. It’s part of a growing movement against the AGW movement as the earth gets colder, not warmer. Gore was not only wrong, he was scaring people. His motives are purely avaricious, not humane. Since the film debuted he has made millions and stands to make millions more from so called “green companies” he put in place to reap the windfall from the hysteria.

Democrats Whack McDonnell For Hiding Climate Change Skepticism

"Whether it's his denials of his documented and backward views on women or obfuscation on whether he believes in the science of global warming, this is part of pattern that we've seen time and again from McDonnell of hiding extreme positions in an election year in the hopes of coming off as a moderate," said DNC National Press Secretary Hari Sevugan. "But he can't hide from his record -- a record which clearly shows that Bob McDonnell is far, far out of the mainstream. He's so far outside the mainstream that the Coast Guard's given up the search."

[Check out the polling data: the idea that climate realism is "out of the mainstream" is wishful thinking]

More crushing news for Al Gore: Over half of unaffiliated voters are climate realists

[George W. Obama?]: Enviro Groups Decry U.S. Refusal to List Spotted Seals as Endangered - NYTimes.com

The Obama administration rejected a proposed endangered species listing today for Alaska's spotted seals, saying the animals would adapt to climate change.
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Environmentalists, who had petitioned for the listing by citing threats to the seal from Arctic oil and gas development and melting sea ice, expressed outrage over the decision.
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"While the rhetoric may be better, when it comes to actual action in protecting endangered species, the Obama administration is indistinguishable from Bush," Wolf said. "Sound science and the protection of the environment still take a back seat to political expediency."

India: You know that whole "grandchildren roasting in CO2-induced hellfire" thing? Promise us $100 billion annually and maybe we'll agree to just worry about it later

Reuters AlertNet - India says flexible on [insane climate scam]

"The developing world's demand...is a minimum of 40 percent. Now I am saying, look, that is a political statement," said Ramesh, a fiesty technocrat credited with restoring credibility to India's stance in international climate politics since he took office in May.

"If we say, let's start with 25 percent, that's a beginning. I'm not theological about this. It's a negotiation. We have given a number of 40 but one has to be realistic."
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Initial talk of huge assistance packages has subsided and Ramesh indicated a lower start-off figure would be sufficient.

"My own numbers say that if by 2015 we're able to get a $15-20 billion financing mechanism, going up to a $100 billion by 2020, then we can make progress," said Ramesh, who already faces domestic criticism for softening India's position.

YouTube - Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claims British Lord

On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change expert, gave a presentation at Bethel College in St. Paul, MN in which he issued a dire warning regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty which is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Cooling the Hysteria: Time to Ask the 'Nasty Questions'

When even lead authors of the Teflon-coated IPCC report deplore the notion of scientific consensus and urge politicians and policymakers to get it right, the world should take note. At the very least, let's be sure we're asking all the nasty questions.

Not even God believes in Anthropogenic Global Warming any more, Archbishop – James Delingpole - Telegraph Blogs

Every day, more and more scientific evidence emerges to suggest that mankind’s contribution to the ongoing, natural process of climate change is negligible and that AGW is the biggest money-making scam since the South Sea Bubble.

Is the Archbishop of Canterbury really sure he should still be nailing his colours to the mast of this rapidly sinking ship?

YouTube - DN Dialogue - Monica Sanford and Gerard Harbison: Global Warming - Part 1

Monica Sanford and Gerard Harbison debate the issue of global warming. [Part 2; Part 3]

Eliot Spitzer Attack against U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Left-Wing Politics at its Worst

Spitzer's commentary exposes the left-wing strategy of using public money to advance its cause. Spitzer's political motivation is clear: because the Chamber is fighting cap-and-trade and "Card Check" they need to be taken out.

GOP Mocks Deeds Over Gore Visit | TPMDC

Subject line of an email sent out by the op-research team at the RNC last night: "Cap And Trade Creigh Meets The Goracle"

From the email:

Al Gore Jets In To Virginia To Help His Fellow Cap And Trader, Creigh Deeds

Key Players Quietly Building Carbon [Swindle] Market Infrastructure

While it might seem like a $2 trillion new carbon market will be created overnight with a presidential signature, the current players in this new commodity have been quietly building its infrastructure for several years already.
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Then there’s a whole new group of service providers dedicated to managing the value of your emissions portfolio. While firms like TerraPass offer clients like Ford and American Express  one-stop, carbon-asset management, new emissions brokerages have sprung up to buy and sell carbon credits from offset projects. In this arena, pure emissions brokers, like White Plains-based Evolution Markets, vie with emissions operations of established firms, like Cantor Fitzgerald’s CantorCO2e group.
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With or without cap-and-trade legislation, there’s still a vibrant voluntary market if the carbon credits are solid, says APX’s Musier.

CCX [on that allegedly "vibrant" voluntary market, prices have collapsed to 10 cents per ton]

Roger Pielke, Jr.  - Understanding the Copenhagen Climate Deal: The Fix is In

As long as leaders of the climate movement continue to pretend that progress is being made, the climate policy charade will go on for a while longer, while business proceeds as usual.

President Pinocchio on drilling and nukes « Green Hell Blog

Where have you gone Joe Wilson-iaggio? President Obama is fibbing (again).

Emissions-Reduction Wizardry - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So, Europe's only success story, relative though it may be, also presents the greens with a bit of a conundrum: Do we smash atoms and burn little bunny rabbits? Surely we ought to expect the BBC ad campaign for children on this any day, right?

Risk of "half-baked" climate deal

Unless rich nations agree to do more to cut emissions, this year's UN climate conference in Copenhagen may be "half-baked", says Yvo De Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

"We need more will" and more ambitious targets from rich nations, de Boer said on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg.

"The time for speeches is over" before final negotiations in December, he said. "Our planet is being plundered and pillaged on an unprecedented scale."

EU falls silent on funding for climate [hoax] deal

BRUSSELS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The European Union has fallen silent on earlier talk of paying up to 15 billion euros ($22.4 billion) a year to poor countries as part of a deal to tackle climate change, draft documents show.
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"Reducing emissions by 20 percent is nothing more than a scam," [Greenpeace campaigner Joris den Blanken] said. "Data shows we've already reduced emissions by well over 10 percent, and that's without factoring in reductions resulting from the economic slowdown."

Scientific love-in on climate does not prove a pointy-head job

The presence of a vocal few trying to rebut the reasoned science of climate change is becoming the tyranny of the minority, distracting us from limiting the damage. Climate science is long and complicated, providing many rabbit holes down which deniers can run and forcing scientists to explain - again and again - why the deniers are wrong. The interaction of air, land and sea is so complex that it's a wonder there's any scientific consensus at all, but there is - a strong one. And yet denials continue.

[Alarmist Revkin still imagining a "verbal Pearl Harbor"] - NYTimes.com

My job, to steal a phrase from a climate scientist I quoted in the tipping points story, is to be “caustically honest” about such murkiness where it’s real, and to be similarly probing when someone is trying to manufacture murkiness — as has happened a lot in recent years in the climate fight.

And my job also is to probe and write when there’s evidence that aspects of human nature make it unlikely that a “verbal Pearl Harbor” will jog us into action on energy and climate.

Senator Graham confronts crowd at town hall meeting - News

In another exchange, Graham asked the crowd how many people believed climate change wasn't real. Nearly every hand was raised.

More than 200 complaints at government's climate change TV ad | Media | guardian.co.uk

Advertising regulator fields claims that hard-hitting Act on CO2 ad is misleading and excessively scary

President Obama must come to Copenhagen to save climate change talks says Ed Miliband - Telegraph

President Obama must personally intervene to ensure the world reaches an ambitous deal to stop catastrophic global warming, according to British energy minister Ed Miliband.

Cold snap kills 4 in Poland, cuts power to hundreds of thousands | WORLD News

A cold snap with unseasonable early snow storms killed at least four Poles, cut off power and heating to hundreds of thousands and caused traffic chaos across central Europe, media reported.

Three people, including a shepherd, froze to death in the mountains of southern Poland due to the severe weather over the past 36 hours, Polish television said.

Pajamas Media » Media Redemption in Unmasking Global Warming Scam?

The mainstream press might just reclaim some of its tarnished reputation by investigating the climate change charade.

Scoop: Is the Climate Bill Being Fossil/Nuked?

Preserving our ability to survive on this planet demands we phase out fossil fuels and nuclear power, and win a green-powered Earth based solely on renewables and efficiency. Ultimately, we cannot live with less.

Editorials | No spare police for Edmonton, but plenty of other available workers | Seattle Times Newspaper

Seattle has a perfectly good mayor, assistant mayor and a flotilla of mayor-appointees, all experienced and ready to go. Our mayor has international credentials in global warming, a matter that must be of very great interest to a city in which the average temperature in January is 11 degrees Fahrenheit. Do not, however, ask him about how he would handle snow. You'll have to set the policy about that.

California appears poised to be first to ban power-guzzling big-screen TVs -- latimes.com

Reporting from Sacramento - The influential lobby group Consumer Electronics Assn. is fighting what appears to be a losing battle to dissuade California regulators from passing the nation's first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions.

The James Clayton column: White House movie-watching - Den of Geek

Having a luxurious home cinema set-up with supersized comfy seats and a giant screen is the dream of every movie buff, and when you’re in such a pressure position as that of the President, having such a facility is essential.

[March '09: Obama uses big screen TV]

[Obama] read his text from a massive flat screen TV positioned directly below the straight-on camera.
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It was HOT. Just like last month, the news conference was held in the East Room of the White House. But unlike last time, it was super hot in there. A TV reporter seated near your Gaggler worried about sweating his make-up off. It was hard to tell if it was the heat from the all the lights or if it was a thermostat thing. We do know that Obama likes it warm.

Photo: See role model Gore simultaneously using three massive computer monitors AND a TV

Pachauri vs Obama: Inconsistent message on whether delay is an option

Oct '09: IPCC head Pachauri: Delay IS an option

Pachauri added that over the last two years he had witnessed "a massive explosion of awareness and therefore willingness to take action" in climate change.
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"A reasonably good agreement" could emerge in Copenhagen, Pachauri said, adding though that he would not be dismayed by a delay if this provided a better outcome.

Nov '08: Obama on climate change action: Delay no longer an option

Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all. Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high. The consequences, too serious….

Flashback: Climate Skeptics Gather In New York City : NPR

Mr. REVKIN: They're not gaining traction, let's put it that way. They're still out there. There are people on the other side of the issue who have a very extreme view of, you know, the climate becoming unraveled in real time where the science also is maybe not there. 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.

Should we expect Revkin to speak out strongly about this inconsistency?

Eco-Messiah Al Gore and his global warming flock can’t handle the truth - True/Slant

Is it any wonder McAleer’s heretical interrogation of Gore was cut short? For the hoax of global warming can now be distilled into one proposition: If facts conflict with the dogma, the facts are to be ignored.

In his De Gustibus column, Eric Felten wonders what James Bond would have to say about a new CIA directive on global warming. - WSJ.com

"I get it," Bond said with a sly smile. "You've discovered that the U.N. climatologists are out to destroy the economies of the West, something even the Reds couldn't pull off. Your job is to subvert them. Brilliant."

"No, no. We're not allowed to question the science, James. There's no room for skepticism in intelligence."

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Juliet Eilperin is a Joke

Marc Morano at Climate Depot has kept up with Eilperin's work, and it is truly abysmal, especially if you believe in reasonably balanced reporting (she doesn't) and the value of human life over phony, manufactured environmental issues. A self-respecting news organization that calls itself objective would either put her on the opinion page or drop her, but that's not what the Post is.

"let me be clear": Obama’s soundbites

In Italy, bemoaning poor US leadership on climate change: “Let me be clear: Those days are over.”

Whatever Happened To The Blog Of Bloom? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Perhaps it just wasn’t meant to last. The Blog of Bloom, either The Best BBC Climate Blog…or their way of “showing impartiality”, is definitely no more.

Real Estate | Green Lake eco-friendly homes going for much less | Seattle Times Newspaper

The ultra-green Ashworth Cottages homes near Green Lake are for sale again — with prices lopped by 25 to 45 percent from two years ago.

The Canadian Press: Ready, set, shiver: Will global warming or Bud ruin baseball's post-season first?

The ALCS between the Angels and Yankees opens Friday, with the forecast calling for wind, rain and 4.4 C temperatures that will make it feel like -3 C.

Is the Global Warming Debate Over?

The article closes with an admission that the debate is far from over. There is ample scientific evidence disproving the idea that global warming is man-made and that to avoid imminent eco-catastrophy, we must shackle ourselves with crippling government regulations to curb carbon emissions. Though Hudson's reporting is hardly objective, he at least gives voice and legitimacy to a modicum of that evidence. Most of his eco-savvy colleagues would not have that decency.