C3: Another Example of Why Public Radio & TV Can't Be Trusted On Global Warming Reporting

Read here. A blog maintained by the Minnesota Public Radio uses a graph to visually suggest that global temperatures are relentlessly rising, along with CO2 emissions, as the climate models have "accurately" predicted. It's a powerful image that unfortunately is totally disconnected from today's reality. This image, on the left below, shows a temperature record that ends way back in 1990's and provides no clue as to actual relationship between CO2 and global temperatures for past decade. It's obvious that the public radio meteorologist who authored this blog post has an agenda that does not include sharing the actual scientific truth, as the below graph on the right reveals.

Demography, growth and the environment: Falling fertility | The Economist

Astonishing falls in the fertility rate are bringing with them big benefits

Energy Secretary Steven Chu on home weatherization: [Not only can you save a few bucks, but as an added side benefit, you can prevent all of our grandchildren from roasting in CO2-induced hellfire!]

Long before I learned about the risks of climate change, I was fanatical about energy efficiency because I’m cheap.

BBC NEWS | Is a global climate treaty an impossible dream?

With six weeks to go, our Science Editor Susan Watts has been in the Danish capital to gauge the mood and talk to some of the key players who will be shaping the agenda.

SPIEGEL Interview With Al Gore: Gore Says Obama Likely to Attend Copenhagen Climate Summit

Gore also asked emerging nations for radical changes in their climate change policy: "They have to accept binding provisions. Many developing nations are still thinking that the wealthier countries will take binding obligations, and the developing countries will have non-binding provisions. That is not a formula for success."

Frayed Tempers in the time of Climate Change - dnaindia.com

Calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene in the dogfight that's broken out between environment minister Jairam Ramesh and the country's climate change negotiators. The negotiators are up in arms because of the way Ramesh has been embarrassing them with off-the-cuff proposals for a change in India's position on the international climate change debate.

Gavin Schmidt: a correction - Telegraph

Dr Schmidt wants it known he has no connection with the GISS temperature record, writes Christopher Booker

Braves-Gamecock: Cockstradamus' predicted climate change consensus collapse

We regret that the chicken who predicted the creation of Huckabee on FNC continues to keep future visions to himself, but did get an earful of crowing concerning all the grief the Cocky version of Jimmy the Greek took for the two years past when he called the whole global warming aka climate change supposed consensus and political power a "fetish" of the spoiled affluent society that would evaporate with $4/gallon gas and the Great Recession, not to mention any suggestion that they give up Le Seur peas for the Bi-Lo brand lest we lose 50 feet of Manhattan Island in 50 years.

The American public cares not a whit about it anymore.

Ryan Maue's Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Activity Update

Global and Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity remains near 30-year historical lows -- three years in a row now of considerably below-average activity globally.

Physicist Howard Hayden’s One-Letter Disproof of Global Warming Claims « LewRockwell.com Blog

It has been often said that the “science is settled” on the issue of CO2 and climate. Let me put this claim to rest with a simple one-letter proof that it is false.

The letter is s, the one that changes model into models. If the science were settled, there would be precisely one model, and it would be in agreement with measurements.

Alternatively, one may ask which one of the twenty-some models settled the science so that all the rest could be discarded along with the research funds that have kept those models alive.

We can take this further. Not a single climate model predicted the current cooling phase. If the science were settled, the model (singular) would have predicted it.

Corn harvest slowest in 42 years - Galesburg, IL

A combination of the coldest summer since record-keeping began in 1900, as well as a number of months of record rainfalls have kept farmers out of the fields.x

National Post editorial board: Europe's green shift - Full Comment

As with Mr. Dion’s proposal, much depends on the assumption that new technologies will be developed, and practices followed, that will bring about the desired goal. It also assumes that the West’s money will be put to these uses, rather than disappearing down untraceable paths as hundreds of billions of dollars in previous aid payments have done.

It is alarming how blithely supporters of climate-change initiatives advocate economic disruption in the name of uncertain goals.

Spoiled green mob | Michael Coren | Calgary Sun

And speaking of children, it is stunning how many of the most active and loud climate change fanatics are childless or have only one child.

Those with the most to lose because they have more children and thus more love for the future seem the most balanced on this issue.

Love for people or obsession with a planet? Please shout the answer, but not illegally and in someone else's house.

Move boldly_ Lugar tells Obama

Lugar said it’s a mistake for Obama to try to enact a climate change bill and overhaul the health delivery system while also coping with the recession and the war.

“If he doesn’t get the economy and the war right,” Lugar said, “the rest really won’t work either, politically. I think he has a chance for success on both grounds.”

More experts on the way, experts warn

Out on the sticky fringes of the expert industry is Professor Ian Plimer, a geologist who wrote a successful book proposing that climate change might not be as bad as all that. The most common criticism of it has been that, as an expert on rocks, he should confine himself to writing and talking about rocks. It's a handy argument that allows his critics, a surprising number of whom proudly proclaim they know nothing about science themselves, to avoid engaging with the actual content of the book.

One of the features of the climate debate is indeed a total reliance on experts. The number of people who say ''I don't understand the science'' and then go on to propose or endorse plans that would completely restructure society is amazing. They do this because a lot of experts, aka ''the consensus'', say they should.

A farmer's field of dreams buries climate change war

The battle's unlikely heroes are Mr Linklater and his 400-horsepower, oxygen-sucking, diesel-guzzling, carbon-spewing tractor.

International debate rages over the cost and plausibility of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power stations by pumping carbon underground.

But Mr Linklater is literally ploughing ahead, injecting his tractor's fossil fuel exhaust fumes directly into the ground, where they enhance the biochemical interaction between plants and soil microbes. And it seems his home-grown version of carbon sequestration, introduced in 2007, is getting results, with this year's crop, aided by better rainfall, his best since 2001.

Vegetarians' meat tax plan just a load of hot air

A tax on meat would penalise the poor and have little effect on climate change.

Kevin Williamson: Is Al Gore a James Bond villain? - Galesburg, IL

I do not believe Al Gore to be sitting inside his underground lair, holding a white cat, plotting to take over the world. However, could the motives of the green movement be more about money, power, and control than we realize?

Sir David King condemns green scaremongering; Herod condemns child abuse; Osama Bin Laden condemns Islamist terrorism; etc – Telegraph Blogs

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100015354/sir-david-king-condemns-green-scaremongering-herod-condemns-child-abuse-osama-bin-laden-condemns-islamist-terrorism-etc/

If I were sensible, moderate Professor Sir David King I would have stern words with this soundalike character: otherwise some people might be in danger of mistaking him for an hysterical fool.

Denver foothills get up to 4 feet of snow

The largest accumulation was reported near Pinecliffe in Jefferson County, where 3.8 feet of snow fell.

News - Impact of religions will have 'deeper roots' than Copenhagen - The Ecologist

Leaders will also announce a new Islamic eco label for goods and services, eco-tourism packages for pilgrimages (still the world's biggest tourism events) and the turning of Shabbat into an environmental celebration of avoiding consumption.

Climate news flooding in and it's [allegedly] not good

In reality, we are going to go to at least 450 ppm, and more likely 500 ppm, before we get our emissions under control, and then we will have to commence the long and arduous task of getting the CO2 in the atmosphere down to a level that will preserve our present climate over the long term.

That may have to be as low as 300 ppm.
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* Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist [he's not even a climatologist!].

[But at least some hurricanes were prevented?]: French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality

...this latest French utopia has met a prosaic reality: Many of the specially designed bikes, which cost $3,500 each, are showing up on black markets in Eastern Europe and northern Africa. Many others are being spirited away for urban joy rides, then ditched by roadsides, their wheels bent and tires stripped.

With 80 percent of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged, the program’s organizers have had to hire several hundred people just to fix them. And along with the dent in the city-subsidized budget has been a blow to the Parisian psyche.

Exclusive: Taking the Bull out of Global Warming

Somebody call Al Gore, because the British found his crazy environmentalist uncle. Britain’s Lord Stern, the country’s climate czar, has some interesting solutions to the alleged global warming problem.

[Jimmy Carter takes a bunch of people on a completely unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to Istanbul, then brags about his brilliance in wearing a sweater in the 1970s]: Bridging the Generation Gap on Climate [Fraud] - NYTimes.com

ISTANBUL — Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 3-year-old granddaughter, Onalenna, was puzzled.

Her older cousin, Mungi, had just deflated a large, blow-up globe to demonstrate the imminent danger of climate change.
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[caption] Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and their fellow Elders invited their grandchildren to join them this week to remind the world of the catastrophic risk of climate change to future generations.
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On Thursday, seeking to highlight the responsibility that older generations bear for climate change, members of the group traveled to Istanbul for a symbolic photo shoot accompanied by young relatives.
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“We should have long ago used recyclable energy,” said Archbishop Tutu, who danced on a lawn as he entertained his grandchildren before the cameras.

“If we had used solar energy or wind power, we wouldn’t have been in this predicament.”
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Mr. Carter recounted the story of his wearing a sweater during the energy crisis of the 1970s, an act that prompted mockery from critics, who accused him of ineffectiveness in the face of rising energy prices. But from the perspective of a new generation, wearing the sweater looked prescient, he said.

May '09: Dana Milbank - Jimmy Carter on Energy Security - washingtonpost.com

The man who tried 30 years ago to cure the nation's energy ills then went downstairs to a reminder of that failed effort: the 14-mile-per-gallon Chevy Suburban that was waiting for him.

Jim Hoggan | Halloween Murder Mystery: Who is killing Copenhagen?

So, what zombie army is responsible for the world coming into a long-anticipated climate conference with no intention of making the long-delayed climate commitments?

Well, one scary picture might feature the face of Christopher Monckton, the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and a poster boy for groundless climate change denial.

The luck of the Irish

Apparently peat bogs can store "three times as much carbon as is held in tropical rainforests". So naturally, in Ireland they dug one up to build a wind farm. As you do. After causing a huge landslide, polluting the river, killing more than 50000 fish, and annoying the locals the Irish Government is now being prosecuted in the EU Court of Justice.

Prince Charles knows best | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Wow. Four out of five politicians picked by Marr are sceptics of two Leftist theories they suspect may, on the evidence, leave us worse off.

Settled Science? 'Our calculations suggest that all the non-C02 greenhouse gases together have a net impact that rivals the warming caused by C02' | Climate Depot

'Chemistry of atmosphere can get hideously complicated...Sorting out what affects climate and what affects air quality isn't simple'

An Inconvenient Truth Transcript

[Gore] That brings up the basic science of global warming. I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this because you know it well.

The Reference Frame: Lord Monckton on Glenn Beck show

It has 7 parts - you can choose them via the "tape" button next to "play" per 8 minutes or so. John Bolton is there, too. They discuss many details about the legal power of the possible Copenhagen treaty to rebuild the world.

RealClearPolitics - Too Small to Lead

...the tonal candidate also had a conventionally liberal policy agenda. And as that agenda has run into resistance -- on spending, health care and climate legislation -- the president's tone has utterly changed.

Weekly address watch: For the fifteenth time in sixteen weeks, Obama completely ignores global warming (The Most Important Issue of All Time)

In this week’s address, President Barack Obama said that while times are still too difficult for too many American families, this week saw real evidence of progress in the economy.

"Policy-neutral" "climate scientist" Pachauri: China and India can use the climate hoax to pressure the US

China and India have achieved so much clout that the two developing countries have the opportunity to shame the rich countries into committing to a climate deal, says UN top climate scientist Rajendra Pachuari.

Yesterday: Pachauri: China and India cannot be pressured

Pachauri, who is also on an advisory panel of the Chinese government, feels Beijing will not come under pressure from either western governments or multinational companies operating in China.

"China is very good at resisting pressures. Chinese leaders never sacrifice their national interests under external pressures," he said. His views on the issue may be somewhat different from that of Jairam Ramesh, the minister of state (independent charge) for environment and forests, who has been wary about possible changes in China's position.

Pachauri, who received the Nobel Prize on behalf of the IPCC, said India will not come under any pressure to agree on issues it is opposing, India will not agree to any mandatory limits on emissions and would reject any attempt to impose a global regime of verification and reporting, he said.

Shock: Alarmist Jonathon Porritt openly wishes for natural disasters killing large numbers of people

Leaders will be shocked into climate action - Jonathon Porritt

Even today’s climate optimists acknowledge that there are going to have to be some traumatic ‘shocks to the system’, induced by accelerated climate change, to jolt politicians the world over to move up a gear (well, several gears).

These shocks will come, and from the perspective of our long-term prospects, they need to come as rapidly as possible. And to be as traumatic as possible – otherwise, politicians and their electorates will rapidly revert to the current mix of non-specific anxiety and inertia.

Post-Katrina, for instance, public opinion in the US provided the best example of this phenomenon. It took just two years for Fox News and other right-wing shock-jocks to straighten out deviant US citizens who’d started to think that it really might be time for the US to get stuck in on climate change.

Jonathon Porritt: Information from Answers.com

Porritt acts as advisor to many bodies on environmental matters, as well as to individuals including Prince Charles and Stuart Rose, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer, advising on that company's forward strategy.

Flight taxes hiked to bail out banks: It's nothing to do with environment, says Darling | Mail Online

In an extraordinary intervention, the Chancellor said the higher air passenger duty being introduced tomorrow was needed to plug gaps in the national finances.

He made no attempt to justify the move - which will add £340 to the ticket for a family of four flying long haul - on environmental grounds, the official reason for the tax.

Airlines warned yesterday that the tax would cost thousands of jobs and do nothing to combat global warming.

Let's kill all the tomatoes!: A.J. DiCintio

...in their insatiable pursuit of power, liberals will connive mightily to institute abominations such as "Cap and Trade," a contrivance so mad Rube Goldberg couldn't even imagine it but one nevertheless beloved by partners at Goldman Sachs as well as accountants at the DNC and IRS.

They will continue to jet fuel all the way to Ulan Bator for a vacation or to Tierra del Fuego to attend a conference on "Reducing CO2 Emissions."

CNX Gas COO: Thumbs-down on cap-and-trade proposals

The region taking one of the biggest dollar losses include Pennsylvania, which would see electricity costs go up by $636.7 million; Ohio ($642.5 million); and West Virginia ($684.1 million). Illinois would see a jump of $763.5 million, but the biggest loser would be Texas, which would see electricity costs go up by about $1 billion.

The legislative proposals tend to directly oppose surveys regarding Americans' opinions about global warming. DeIuliis quoted a Rasmussen Report from September that found that 65 percent of Americans say creating jobs is more important than taking steps to stop global warming, and that 56 percent said they aren't willing to pay more in taxes and utility costs to generate cleaner energy and fight global warming.

Is the Chamber of Commerce Its Own Worst Enemy? - TIME

"We are not crazy or outside the mainstream," says David Chavern, the Chamber's COO. "We've been around for almost 100 years because we've done pretty good at figuring out what's needed for the business community to be successful and we are going to be around for another 100 years."

YouTube - Boxer and Whitehouse Answer GOP On Climate Change

At the first day of the Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer bill, Republican Senators accused their Democratic colleagues of writing a climate change bill that will "mean more economic pain" and kill jobs. Senator Boxer responded to these false claims: "Climate change, global warming isn't waiting for who's a Democrat and who's a Republican. Either we're going to deal with this problem or not."

YouTube - One minute: Democrats Highlight the Urgency of Climate Change [Hoax] Legislation

[Note that in this video, the opening graphic refers to the "Kerry/Boxer Global Warming Bill".  Jeff Merkley opens with this remarkable sentence: "We need to understand today what our children already understand: that this is a debate about the security of our nation, about how clean our air is,  about whether we create American jobs, about whether we have a strong economy in the future,  and about whether we are good stewards of our planet for the benefit of our ecosystems and human civilization. "]

Senators Merkley, Sanders and Kerry spoke to the urgency of passing comprehensive climate change legislation on the first day of the Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer bill. This, my friends, is a no brainer, said Senator Bernie Sanders. The science is there. The economics is there. The job creation is there.

Minnesota: Wind turbine follies

Nov '07: An energy model for all to see | StarTribune.com

A towering wind turbine at Great River Energy's new headquarters in Maple Grove is the most visible sign of its determination to be a leader in renewable energy.

[This afternoon, as I drove by in my reliable fossil-fueled vehicle, I noticed that this wonderful model [above] was gone. Where is it?!]

The wind turbine at the headquarters of Maple Grove-based Great River Energy was dismantled last week for maintenance.

Installed in November 2007, the Micon 700 turbine first operated in Denmark before being refurbished by Gary, S.D.-based Energy Management Services (EMS) and erected next to Great River Energy’s headquarters. Capable of generating 200 kilowatts of power, recent inspections of the turbine revealed gearbox problems that required repair.

EMS is expected to repair the gearbox and re-install the unit’s turbine blades before the end of 2009.

After you've assembled all the raw materials, refined the steel, manufactured, shipped and installed a massive amount of cement for the turbine base, shipped the turbine to Denmark, put it up, taken it down, shipped it to South Dakota, refurbished it, shipped it to Minnesota, manufactured, shipped and installed another massive amount of cement for another turbine base, put it up again, taken it down again, shipped it somewhere else for repair, shipped it back to Maple Grove, and put it back up again, then watched it sit motionless while the wind fails to blow hard enough, how much net energy have you gained, and how much better is the weather in Mozambique?

No Minister: Climate Change fraud # 8,345,678

Images from 2001, top, and 2007, bottom, from Philip's Universal Atlas of the World indicating a big decline in Arctic ice, used as proof of climate change

Spot the same cloud cover in 2001 and 2007? What are the chances this is the same photoshopped photo.

CentreRight: The EU Emissions Trading Scheme cost British consumers £3 billion in 2008

The scheme should be abolished. Making sure developed and developing countries are rich, free and democratic enough to deal with whatever nature throws at them and investing in technology, so we have better options than the uneconomic alternatives to fossil fuels available now, is a better way forward.

The Verdict’s In: Cap and Trade Will Not Work » The Foundry

Lost jobs. Lost income. Lost economic activity. Nothing to show for it. The evidence is incontrovertible. Let’s hope the jury listens.

The Reference Frame: Halloween party physics: fun with dry ice

"Global warming" has been increasingly replaced by "climate change" and all the scientific details are being continuously replaced as the old eco-fads are dying. The only true constant of the green movement is not science but their desire to transform or cripple the human civilization which is at the true core of the movement.

A possible means of escape from the horrors of carbon dioxide emission constraints by Richard Courtney | Climate Realists

I repeat that AGW does not pose a global crisis but the policy of attempted global climate control does. And not merely because it is a tool to give children nightmares. The policy threatens constraint of the use of fossil fuels and that constraint would kill millions - probably billions - of people. The use of fossil fuels has done more to benefit human kind than anything else since the invention of agriculture. Most of us would not be here if it were not for the use of fossil fuels because all human activity is enabled by energy supply and limited by material science. Energy supply enables the growing of crops, the making of tools and their use to mine for minerals, and to build, and to provide goods, and to provide services.

Obama Among the (Costly) Solar Panels Again - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Apparently, the White House communications staff thinks that reprising President Jimmy Carter's fantastic solar power photo ops from 1977 is a really nifty way to signal to the public just how forward thinking President Barack Obama is.
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The 25 megawatt DeSoto facility cost $150 million. Scaling it up to 1,000 megawatts would cost $6 billion. But coal power plants operate 90 percent of the time snd solar only 30 percent, so in order to get the equivalent amount of electricity out of solar plant would mean tripling the capital cost for a total of about $18 billion. In other words, building a solar power plant costs between 4- and 6-times more than conventional, or even carbon capture, power. Even worse, a scaled up DeSoto-style plant costs 18-times more than a natural gas plant.

[We're saved!]: Canada sets aside its boreal forest as giant carbon vault | Environment | The Guardian

By banning logging, mining and oil drilling in an area twice the size of California, Canada is ensuring its boreal forests continue to soak up carbon

C3: Africa's Chad Could Be Responsible For Climate 'Tipping' Point; Should We Seek Reparations From Chad In Copenhagen?

Read here. Based on new peer-reviewed research, the dust storms that the Chad government refuses to manage and control is wreaking climate havoc on the rest of the world. Combine these dust storms with the amount of black carbon soot the African populace throws up in the atmosphere, it becomes obvious that the majority of African nations pose a serious global threat to humanity. Africa and its leaders need to be held accountable at Copenhagen!

WARMING IS GOOD: Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

Great work. But greater still is the same crowd’s brilliant poley bear colouring contest – just lookit them babies scream!

Senate panel faces partisan climate [hoax] war - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

The Republican leadership sees cap and trade as an issue that could severely hurt Democratic chances in the midterm elections and they’re pressuring their members to vote against the bill to keep their caucus as united as possible.
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I had a partner in John Warner but I have nobody else,” said Boxer. “These Republicans on this committee are really more of the party of no. They are not interested in tackling this problem at all.”

All seven Republicans on the committee met late Thursday night on the Senate floor and agreed to boycott the mark-up hearing.

N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [envisions carbon derivatives trading]

[Q] How are you working to persuade your Senate colleagues to support the creation of a carbon market involving many financial instruments?

[A] I’m very concerned that we make sure we have a robust financial market that will fuel investments in carbon reductions. I think it’s very important that we have proper oversight and accountability, good regulations that provide transparency, and also capital requirements. I think this kind of regulation will be a derivative market that will be regulated through the [Commodity Futures Trading Commission], and I think it’s critical that we regulate this alongside the other derivatives legislation that we are going to do.

Flashback: Senate May Ban Carbon Derivatives Trading: Kerry

Law360, New York (July 30, 2009) -- Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. — who is helping to draw up climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate — said Wednesday that no carbon derivatives trading would be allowed, although he later backtracked slightly from that comment.

“There will be no derivatives; there will be no credit swaps,” Kerry said during a speech at the National Press Club. “This will be a completely open, transparent market.”

YouTube - Glenn Beck : Lord Christopher Monckton World Government p1 10.30.09

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Magnetic attraction of climate 'scepticism'

What some in the sceptical camp do not appear to appreciate is that published, peer-reviewed science is not only the sole way of establishing and improving theories; it's also, now, the only route to the policymakers they want to influence.

Modern-day ministers and their scientifically-qualified advisers are absolutely not going to listen to half-developed, unpublished theories or complaints about fraud and conspiracies.

[Richard Black should take a look at these papers]: Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of "Man-Made" Global Warming

Count: 450

Eco-myth in free-fall « Asian Correspondent

For a while now, there has been a story doing the rounds that those great providers of renewable energy, wind turbines, have an unfortunate side effect of killing birds.

It's a story that climate change activists refute strongly. They say it's not just a misconception, it's a myth, and it's not just a myth, it's an eco-myth.

But now, unfortunately, we have the video.  [Via Climate Change Fraud]

Climate change deal under threat as Europe fails to 'put money on the table' - Telegraph

the EU agreed a vaguer £20 – £45 billion figure, which would mean an annual cost to European taxpayers of £6 – £9 billion a year by 2020. The money is conditional on other nations signing up to a global climate change deal and there was no guarantee that this is additional to aid.

Limiting Growth in Two Provinces Is the Key to Canada’s Greenhouse Goals, Study Finds - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A report by two environmental groups and funded by Toronto-Dominion Bank finds that Canada can only meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets by limiting economic growth in the oil rich provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The White House garden: Typical "green" BS, with real costs orders of magnitude higher than suggested

Note the "to plant" language below: you're encouraged to think that the all-in cost of this garden was $180.

Why don't more people hire crews of workers (overseen by their personal chef) to garden in their backyard?

Michelle Obama Fall Harvest: Reveals That The White House Garden Cost Only $180 To Plant

The First Lady also asked the students how much they thought it cost to plant the garden. They guessed $300, $800, $1000 and $6000 as Michelle acted as auctioneer.

She then revealed the answer: "Over 740 pounds of food have come out of this little piece of land..... It [cost] about $180."

YouTube - Inside the White House [Video shows a crew of at least five working on the garden, along with a tractor, tiller, and other machinery]

First Lady Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kass tell the story of the first garden on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II.

Do these guys work for the National Park Service?

[What's the cost of the White House farmer?]

The White House is looking for a new staff member and one Purdue graduate could fill the position – House Farmer.

The President has always had his own chef, but for the first time the chef wants to focus on locally grown foods; thus the need for a resident farmer. The farmer will transform a five-acre patch of land into an organic garden to grow vegetables for the First Family.
...The top three contestants will be interviewed by Obama, and he will hire one farmer.

[Is the US taxpayer paying this chef to oversee the garden?]

The family's meals are largely prepared by Chicagoan Sam Kass, a White House assistant chef, who also oversees the organic garden.

[How many other people "worked toward this goal"? How much did the US taxpayer pay to maintain this garden?]

We are thrilled to announce that The White House Farmer site and many other grassroots efforts across the country have together resulted in Michelle Obama and a group of school children breaking ground for a vegetable garden on the South Lawn on the Vernal Equinox, March 20!

We congratulate everyone who worked toward this goal. Together we have raised awareness of the value of people growing healthy local foods accessible to all.

[What's the total cost of setting up and maintaining the White House Farmer web site?]

Check back as our White House Garden grows, and read an op-ed piece below written by White House Farmer site coordinator Terra Brockman.

EU climate aid: The politicians are the only winners in this deal | David Adam | guardian.co.uk

Gordon Brown called it a significant breakthrough, yet the green groups label it as disappointing and fatally flawed - welcome to the opening exchanges of the world's attempt to finalise a new global deal on climate change.
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The agreement is a model of political negotiation, in that each national leader gets to go home and report victory to their domestic audiences. Brown, the UK prime minister, gets the credit for forcing through an overall figure, while the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, can point out that Europe has not actually committed itself to provide any specific funds, keeping that card up its sleeve. Meanwhile the heads of the member states most reluctant to put their hands in their pockets, such as Poland, have won concessions on what they are expected to pay upfront.

American Thinker Blog: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years

Language issues? Perhaps -- that’s why I’ve contacted Mr. Husain for further confirmation and will update this entry should I receive relevant advice.

Bankers, lawyers, investors disappointed: Shucks « JoNova

Quick and hurry! Rush to be slaves to corruption, crime, bullies, bankers, and an international bureaucracy redistributing money to make up for alleged carbon “crimes”. Don’t check the science whatever you do. We trust the IPCC.

Remind me again how many degrees cooler we’ll be if we buy all these “permits”?

NFU: [With our imagined climate swindle in place, farmers will be rolling in money!]

In testimony submitted to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today, Johnson said while he is pleased to see the Senate begin to consider climate change legislation, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act currently lacks the robust and flexible agriculture offset program necessary for America's farmers and ranchers to be able to mitigate increased costs that will occur as a result of a cap and trade program.

"According to USDA, producers will economically benefit from an agriculture offset program. In the short term all cost increases are offset and in the long term agriculture will see returns of $4-5 dollars for every dollar of new costs incurred," Johnson said.

November 10 Phoenix Climate Lecture

Author of Climate-Skeptic.com Will Lecture on Climate Science on the Evening Before Al Gore's Visit to the Valley

Cap-n-Trade Update: Part III - Iain Murray - The Corner on National Review Online

Any senator from an energy-producing or -intensive state who votes for this bill is deluded. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of delusion around at the moment. It will take mass popular action to persuade some of them otherwise. So get involved and send a letter to your senator today!

Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson: Cap-and-trade will not pass this Congress - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

A cap-and-trade bill to address climate change cannot pass the Congress this session, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) claimed Friday.

Nelson, a centrist Democrat whose vote is key to leaders wielding its 60-vote majority in the Senate, said he and his constituents had not been sold on the cap-and-trade system proposed in House and Senate bills to address global warming.

"No," Nelson simply responded when asked if those cap-and-trade bills can pass through this Congress during an interview on CNBC.

"I haven't been able to sell that argument to my farmers, and I don't think they're going to buy it from anybody else," Nelson said. "I think at the end of the day, the people who turn the switch on at home will be disadvantaged."

Laughing Gas Knocks Out CO2 | The Resilient Earth

Global warming is the scam of the century and it won't be going away anytime soon—there's too much money to be made and political influence to peddle. And the biggest climate change scam of all is about to resurface in America, it's called Cap and Trade.

Getting Hotter: Geothermal Power Attracts the Big Boys - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Why do the big boys want to get involved in geothermal? First, it’s a government grant. The U.S. Treasury, a.k.a. taxpayers, is giving away money for research that could either lead them into a new business or help their core business. (Baker Hughes develops a drill bit that withstands high temperatures? That could help in the search for oil.)

[We're saved!]: EU Seals Compensation for Bulgaria Nuclear Plant Kozloduy Shutdown

Participants in the EU Council Summit meeting in Brussels Friday approved compensation totaling EUR 300 M for closing Kozloduy Power Station.

Brave Thinkers - The Atlantic (November 2009)

Dyson, a renowned physicist and pioneer in quantum electrodynamics theory, has lately committed a heresy without equal in modern science: questioning climate-change orthodoxy...in Dyson’s case, at least, those arguments have evolved from a lifetime of scientific rigor and intellectual honesty.

With “Low-Power Happy Hour” and a Worm Bin, an Idaho Pub Gets Creative - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

At the Bittercreek Alehouse in Boise, Idaho, “low-power happy hour” is in full swing. The lights are off, the candles are lit and the beer is flowing.

Then the owner, Dave Krick, notices that one of the flat-screen televisions is tuned to CNN. “I’m not understanding why the TV is on,” he confessed.
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The booze menu states about how far every drink has traveled from its point of origin: zero miles for Southwest Idaho wines or beers; 5,100 miles for French ones and so on. This has had the desired effect. “We’ve sold a lot more local wine or beer than we ever did before,” said Mr. Krick. (Yes, Idaho can make decent wine.)

Is Carbon Counting The New Calorie Counting? - The Atlantic Business Channel

...when the average shopper comes across "Climate declared: .87 kg CO2 per kg of product" on an oatmeal box, is he or she going to understand what that means?

Why not express oatmeal's weather-altering power by listing the number of catastrophic hurricanes  spawned per serving?

Europe’s Disastrous Climate Policy – a Lesson for Congress | CEI

The study, The Expensive Failure of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, documents the massive costs imposed by the scheme and the highly volatile nature of the trading mechanism which was supposed to regulate allocation of emissions permits across the continent. The report further details how policymakers in the UK have not only ignored the scheme’s substantial flaws, but have at times adopted policies that have actually increased the burden born by British consumers and taxpayers.

“The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme has cost families across Europe tens of billions of dollars but it has been a goldmine for energy companies, which have made huge windfall profits,” said TaxPayers’ Alliance Research Director and study author Matthew Sinclair. “Despite that, it has failed to produce a stable carbon price, leaving consumers with an unpredictable addition to their bills.

The Reference Frame: Post-socialist Europe still against global climate communism

...Still, I managed to say quite a lot about the IPCC, the differences between the Western and Eastern Europe (West is more enthusiastic because it has spare money to waste for nonsense, and it is not immune against utopias for the future - because of the lack of experience with communism), the actual issues that are important for Africa, and other things.

C3: Multiple Peer-Reviewed Studies Confirm That Severe Flooding Has Not Increased Despite Warming Alarmist Claims

Read here. Climate alarmist scientists and zealots have predicted that "unprecedented" warming in 20th century has caused increased severe flooding. Multiple studies were conducted for the European region and the scientific consensus is that severe flooding has not increased.

Sen. Inhofe offers heresy in a PC world

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe stands out like a heretic in a world in which political correctness has become its own religion. One of the chief tenets of this new faith is that manmade global warming will be the ruination of us all. Inhofe is on a one man crusade to debunk the idea.

CO2’s Political Fingerprint » The Foundry

Unless they had explicitly named them, the Senate’s Kerry-Boxer and the House’s Waxman-Markey global warming bills could not have been better designed to inflict more pain on the states that swung red in the last election than on those that went blue. The American Clean Energy and Security Act in the Senate and House’s Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act both call for dramatic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, eventually 83%. (Isn’t it curious that neither bill is titled after the impending global warming catastrophe that they are supposedly designed to avert?)

Carbon [swindle] market growth stalls in 2009

Point Carbon, 26 October 2009 - The world carbon market will be worth $122 billion in 2009, just $3 billion higher than last year.
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The US Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has seen a pick up in volume traded over the year, but the analysts warned this growth may not last as prices will likely fall further.

“We expect to see a further decline in price, towards the auction reserve price ($1.86) as we are unable to identify any bullish factors for the RGGI market,” the report said.

Congressional Performance - Rasmussen Reports™

Just 15% of voters now give Congress good or excellent ratings, while most (53%) rate the legislature as poor.

EU sets $163bn [annual climate hoax wealth transfer] | The Australian

EUROPEAN leaders set a baseline goal for a world climate summit of E100 billion ($163bn) a year by 2020 to help developing countries fight global warming, a draft text revealed last night.

Willing to give up blue skies for climate fix? - Climate Change- msnbc.com

We can probably engineer Earth's climate to cool the planet, scientists say, but are we willing to live with the downsides? Those could include creating more droughts, more ozone holes and, oh yeah, a thin cloud layer that obscures blue skies and gives astronomers fits.

FT.com / [Fiona Harvey provides a heap of alarmism seldom seen anymore; suggests walruses trampled each other trying to get ON shore]

Life for the Inuits, before air travel opened up the country and the cold war brought a little wealth in the form of air bases and listening posts, was so harsh it seems incredible that human beings could cling on here. Agriculture and livestock husbandry were out of the question, so Greenlanders subsisted on a diet of mainly fish and seals, and learnt to use every part of each creature. With no trees, they relied on driftwood to build their boats. Half the year was spent in darkness, mainly in communal turf houses dug into the thin soil, lit only by blubber lamps. With no means of softening the hides of the animals they killed, Inuit women chewed sealskins for much of the winter, their saliva curing the hides and readying them for use. Early visitors reported that the women’s teeth were worn down to the gums from an early age.
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A US Geological Survey expedition in September spotted a large group of walrus carcasses, more than 100, on an Arctic shore. They were almost certainly corpses from a bigger group seen a few days earlier congregating on the ice. Examination of the carcases, mostly calves and yearlings, indicated they had been trampled to death by other walruses, stampeding to find a place on the crowded shore.
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Greenlanders have been the world’s master survivors, stubbornly carving a life for thousands of years out of the most inhospitable desert on the planet. They have little to fear from warming. Tom Ostermann told us: “I have no concerns that the people of Greenland will survive and will be OK. We have always been able to adapt. We are more concerned about places like Holland, for when the sea level increases. It’s those places where people have to be worried.” He leaned forward in his boat, smiling mischievously, and added: “One up to the Eskimo.”

Bernard Ingham: The world may bankrupt itself in this dubious fight against global warming - Yorkshire Post

NEVER in the field of human deceit have so few taken so many for a ride to so little effect. I refer, with apologies to Churchill, to the ridiculous competition among our politicians to scare us silly about global warming.

[Has Rush Limbaugh convinced the people of India that CO2 won't kill their grandchildren?] -  The Times of India

Pachauri, who received the Nobel Prize on behalf of the IPCC, said India will not come under any pressure to agree on issues it is opposing, India will not agree to any mandatory limits on emissions and would reject any attempt to impose a global regime of verification and reporting, he said.

Senate Hearing On Climate Bill Heats Up : NPR

At one point, several members had their staff hold up placards with tables and charts in a visual battle of numbers. Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer of California couldn't resist herself. "Since you held up a chart," she told Republicans, "we're going to have our little chart wars today — you hold up one and we hold up one; it's kind of equal time."
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All of which led one exasperated committee member, New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg, to try to shift the debate away from dollars and cents and to the subject of a warming climate. "America," he intoned, "wake up, wake up; your kids are in danger."

You call this settled science?

Fight Over Global Warming Heats Up - WSJ.com

Two years ago, a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after concluding that global warming is "unequivocal" and is "very likely" caused by man.

Then came a development unforeseen by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC: Data suggested that Earth's temperature was beginning to drop.
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Such disagreements aren't unusual in a nascent science. "I don't think anybody is surprised that we're going to get one model that suggests it's going to cool and another that suggests it's going to warm," says Vicky Pope, a scientist at the Hadley Center, the U.K. institute where the research for the British paper was done. "That's consistent with where we are with the science."

Severe winter will cripple the UK, report warns | Metro.co.uk

Britain risks grinding to a halt if it suffers another severe winter, a report by local councils said today.

Bus and train companies needed to be better prepared to deal with extreme cold conditions, the report from the Local Government Association (LGA) added.

PRUDEN: Great Pumpkin soon upon us - Washington Times

The Senate is losing its grip on unreality, so it may be up to whoever can teach manners to cows and pigs to save us from the consequences of global warming. (We're supposed to call it "climate change" now, but some of us, being strict constructionists, remain faithful to the original text as set down by the founding father, Al Gore.)

Save the planet? Kill cap-and-trade | Washington Examiner

If members of Congress need yet another reason to kill the Waxman-Markey bill, the Obama administration's economy-suffocating, job-destroying energy program, Princeton University's Tim Searchinger and his colleagues have a humdinger: Carbon reduction laws encourage widespread deforestation as trees and other vegetation are harvested to produce energy from biomass to replace oil and gas. The problem is that in long run, this process actually increases greenhouse gas emissions, which cap-and-trade is meant to reduce, according to Searchinger.

Gordon Brown hails breakthrough as EU names price of tackling climate change - Telegraph

A UK government official said: "All of this is conditional on other countries putting in their fair share".

No Deal: Chamber Chief Battles Obama - WSJ.com

On many of Mr. Obama's priorities, the president and chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is working to defeat the administration—delighting some members, causing some to quit and sparking a furious reaction from the White House and left-wing activists. In the process, he has made the Chamber one of Mr. Obama's most visible opponents.

On climate change, Mr. Donohue's group says warmer temperatures could help by reducing deaths related to cold weather.

British Launch Ad Campaign to Raise Fading Climate Concerns - NYTimes.com

LONDON -- The U.K. government has launched a guilt-laden advertising campaign after a series of opinion polls showed that the majority of the public has not bought into climate change despite years of political haranguing and millions of pounds spent on information and advertising.
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It immediately drew more than 200 complaints to the advertising standards authority, the national watchdog for misleading advertising. The DECC spokeswoman said the bulk of the complaints were over the science cited in the ad.

That, she said, came as something of a shock. "At the climate negotiations, people say the science is settled, and we must move forward. But this suggests that the public doesn't necessarily buy that," she said.
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While pollster IPSOS-MORI said it had not published any recent climate change-related work, a survey last year found that only 1 in 3 people believed that climate change was due mainly to human activities.
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In Australia, a recent poll found that the topic had dropped to seventh on a list of foreign policy concerns, despite a decadelong drought and multiple bush fires. It was ranked No. 1 in 2007, when the country finally ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

YouTube - The Bigger Hoax: Green Jobs or Balloon Boy?

Breaking news: The cap and trade balloon, which had promised to deliver 1.7 million new green jobs, lands with no jobs inside. In fact, cap and trade will actually destroy jobs.

Senate Climate Markup Set for Tuesday but Will Any Republicans Show? - NYTimes.com

But Boxer cannot hold the markup unless at least two Republicans show up, and EPW ranking member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) signaled that he has unanimous support among the panel's minority members to boycott the session until they get more data on the legislation from U.S. EPA and the Congressional Budget Office.

'I'm not big on showing weakness' - Pelosi

At a recent caucus, she quoted her old Shakespeare favorite: “We happy few; we band of brothers.”
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Energy independence and climate change are singularly Pelosi passions. “I’m trying to save the planet,” she once famously said. But health care is rooted deeper in the Democratic Party, and the undertaking now — all compressed into one massive bill — is genuinely enormous.

[Is this really enough delegates?]: U.N. talks in Spain seek to salvage climate deal | Reuters

The November 2-6 talks in Barcelona of almost 4,000 delegates, led by senior government officials, will seek to end deep splits about sharing out curbs on greenhouse gases and ways to raise billions of dollars to help the poor tackle global warming.

Right climate for big bucks | Herald Sun

PSST. Want a surefire way to get a grant - maybe $300,000, or even more - for your university research?

Then gather around, my dear professors, and say these magic words.

Climate change.

You scoff? You say it's too crazy to work, given that your expertise is actually in Bible studies, Aboriginal history, ceramics or sorghum?

Peter Foster: Muddled models - FP Comment

The UN will send billions to the Third World in carbon credits. Remember Oil for Food?

What do L. Ron Hubbard and al-Gore have in common? | No Compromise when you're Right!

1. They both made millions of $$ by starting their own religion.

2. They both had to sell their man-made religion by pretending it was Science.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Should Bulgaria Pay Brazil?

Money also get the attention of voters, especially when you are reaching into their pockets to take it and then sending it to someone else. And in the United States, sending money overseas has never been politically popular, and I don't expect that it will be in the context either. I'll award a prize to the first person who can provide a quote from a U.S. elected official (POTUS, VP or anyone in Congress) advocating sending money overseas as part of a climate deal.

Climate Fools Day rallies the heretics • Andrew Orlowski - The Register

Stop them, before they Deny again!

No evidence of global warming as big snowstorm wallops Colorado, Wyoming (OneNewsNow.com)

DENVER- There's no indication of "global warming" today, as parts of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado are covered in 3 feet of snow as an autumn snowstorm slowly makes its way into Nebraska and Kansas.

The system shuttered schools, caused dozens of traffic accidents and canceled about 200 flights.

Green Been Crops Damaged by Frost - 10/30/09 - Fresno News - abc30.com

This is the peak season for harvesting green beans. Xiong says the frost devastated his top crop.

Snow storm shifts east, paralyzing plains - wtvr

The snow and wind created blizzard conditions and forced the closure of several major highways, including Interstate 70 which was shut down from Aurora to the Kansas state line.

Also closed were I-76 from Brighton to Neb., US 34 from Brush to Neb., CO 71 from Neb. to Ordway, CO 61 from Sterling to Otis, and CO 59 between I-76 and Yuma.

Clean energy bill bad for Midwest consumers, Dusty Johnson tells Senate panel

“I am no Neanderthal,” he said. “I believe the globe is warming, and I believe we should reduce our carbon footprint. … I am hopeful that we can improve this bill so it moves us farther down the field in the right way.”

Southwest rolls out 'green plane' to show commitment to environment - Las Vegas Sun

The airline at its annual media day unveiled a Boeing 737 jet loaded with environmental extras that reduce its weight, making it more fuel-efficient. Two artificial leather seat covers are lighter than the ones they replaced and newly installed interior floor coverings are recyclable.

The Brandeis Hoot » Borde-nough: Busting a cap into Cap-and-Trade

In effect, the Chinese and Indians have told the “developed” countries to take their emissions commitments and stick them where the climate doesn’t change. “Developed” countries should feel free to hamstring their own economies, that’s fine, but the “developing” giants will happily pollute in their place and eat their economic lunch. “Developed” countries can make binding emissions limits for themselves in Washington and Copenhagen. But without agreements on limits that will also bind important “developing” countries, the latter countries may soon make just about everything else.

Emissions trading hits the poor | Matthew Sinclair | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The ETS has been an expensive failure. Having been implemented through the EU without a real debate here, it lacks democratic legitimacy and it is imposing a significant burden on the poorest families while achieving very little. It should be abolished.

FPL's Change of Heart on Cap and Trade ClimateBiz.com | Green Business | Reuters

Put simply, Hay, like most CEOs, is a pragmatist. He made his case for a carbon tax. (As of today, the arguments are still there, on the FPL website, along with a thoughtful position paper critical of cap and trade. When I mentioned that to Hay, he said it probably should be taken down.) The arguments for a carbon tax didn’t carry the day. And so he’s turned to the next best option, an imperfect cap-and-trade approach that’s better than inaction.

“Let me clear -- we fully support a cap-and-trade program,” Hay told me. “The frameworks that Congress is working on are pretty good.”

Scientists: [New Hampshire] could lose entire coastline by 2100 - Fosters

Hamilton said the sea level could rise anywhere from 18 to 59 centimeters by 2029.

Save energy the electric car way: Unload the kids, the dog, and your stuff, then start walking

Mini-E Hits Pothole, Shuts Down: Electric Car Durability in Question : Gas 2.0

When Lyle over at GM-Volt.com hit a pothole though, the power electronics unit failed (for the second time), popping his car into neutral and preventing any kind of motorized motion.

Praying to Gaia for pay | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Take away all the free money, and who’d be left to believe in a man-made climate catastrophe?

Flannery’s hope: a global treaty to influence your every move | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

To say that Leftist groups are using the global warming scare to further their dreams of world government is not a conspiracy theory but the literal truth, as their very own words prove.

EU still struggling to reach agreement

Negotiations are slow for various reasons.

EU agrees on offer for global climate talks - Brown | Reuters

"Europe is making three conditional offers, money on the table, saying we will do everything we can to make a climate change deal happen," [Gordon] Brown told reporters.

"I think this is a breakthrough that takes us forward to Copenhagen and makes a Copenhagen agreement possible."

There was no immediate comment on his remarks by other ministers and no confirmation of a breakthrough.

Fore! Cash for Clunkers Hits the Links » The Foundry

Golf Cart Man is referring to his offer in which you can buy the cart for $8,000, get a $5,300 tax credit off your 2009 income tax, lease it back for $100 a month for 27 months, at which point Golf Cart Man will buy back the cart for $2,000. “This means you own a free Golf Cart or made $2,000 cash doing absolutely nothing!!!” You can’t blame a guy for exploiting loopholes that Congress offers.”

Texas: Field of Dreams for Wind - Drew Thornley - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So, to recap: $1.5 billion of Chinese-built windmills are going to go up in West Texas, thanks in no small part to "an assist from the United States government in the form of loan guarantees and grants from the federal stimulus package. . . . 'This wind farm project came about thanks to the openness of the United States for investments in the field of renewable energy.'" Translation: Were it not for your hefty government handouts, we wouldn't be doing this. For all you baseball fans out there, translation: If you subsidize it, they will come.

Granted, simply building more and more and more windmills (and solar panels) won't make them cost efficient — because you still have to deal with wind's intermittency and volatility, a current lack of commercial-scale electricity storage, and an electric grid not built for the large-scale addition of remote renewable energies — but at least the $1.5 billion dollars will create "roughly thirty" jobs.

Dalton Minimum Returns: Its Time To Prepare For Another Dalton Minimum

James William Smith writes his views on the return of the Dalton Minimum. I was thinking of writing about the impacts when I read that Canada's grain production was down 20% this year due to the wet cold weather. Not climate change yet, just weather but we need to keep our eyes open and plan ahead should a long string of winters reduce the Canadian, Russian and US grain production.

Charles Adler: Venus Flytrap Climate Scam

Does anyone have any clue as to how expensive it is to run a country where the government is intimidated by Suzuki Sycophants and Al Gore Groupies and Venus Fly traps?

Gullible eager-beaver planet savers - Mark Steyn - Macleans.ca

‘The environment’ is the most ingenious cover story ever devised for Big Government

Lord Monckton: Who is Al Gore Nemesis, Lord Monckton?

Lord Monckton is one man railing against the charlatans of Climate Change.

It won’t be the last time–hopefully–we hear from this brave Brit.

Climate Research News » EU Emissions Trading Scheme Costs UK Consumers £3 billion a Year

A new report (PDF) from the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) reveals the high costs being imposed on British and European consumers by the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The ETS is intended to reduce carbon emissions across Europe by increasing the cost of energy for households, businesses and other organisations. This increases household bills, but also increases business running costs and the cost of running public services such as hospitals.

Off Air: Chris Uhlmann - In praise of the sceptics

So, here is another piece of modern heresy, anyone who puts their faith in computer predictions of the future, is dealing with digital astrology.

But the climate change debate is worse still. You can be branded a denier if you accept the problem and question the solutions.

It’s time to listen to the youth climate movement « It’s Getting Hot In Here

But the present reality of this great [media] silence has made it abundantly clear that, without such outbursts of collective frustration, no one is listening.

Environmental Economics: The simple math of green jobs

To simplify this whole discussion, the simple math of green jobs is this: 1-1=0.

Richard Littlemore | Mark Fiore: What if we handled Hitler like we're dealing with climate change?

Jackson: "We have not run the full economic modeling"

Voinovich: Secretary Jackson, you and I and our staffs have had an ongoing disagreement about the thoroughness of your, doing your analysis, and in your report about the impacts 1733 you state, "Because of these many similarities and the relatively small differences between the two bills, it is likely that a full analysis of 1733 would show economic impacts very similar to H.R. 2454." The fact is that you have not done a complete analysis, is that correct?

Jackson: We have not run the full economic modeling, sir.

Warning Signs: Are They Stupid or Evil or Both?

Both Pelosi and Reid are trying desperately to pass two of the worst ideas to come before Congress in decades, the “reform” of healthcare in America and the imposition of a bizarre “cap-and-trade” scheme designed to sell “carbon credits” in order to avoid a natural global warming that stopped ten years ago.

Obama Automotive - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

With its pork barrel politics, union favoritism, and massive taxpayer subsidy, the Delaware plant is a case study in Washington industrial-policy boondoggles.

Lone Star, Meet Red Star: China’s $1.5 Billion Wind-Power Deal in Texas - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The thing is, even if this is just one small order, it hints at a potentially bigger problem with the administration’s clean-energy and green-jobs push in the U.S. When it comes to wind power, most of those jobs are in manufacturing; most wind-turbine makers are foreign, even if a growing number have U.S. factories for some components.

Al's Journal : Meet me at the Wall

When a clean energy economy finally becomes a reality in America, people will look back to the day that together, you and I launched The Repower America Wall.

Climate Observations: Like Others Of Its Ilk, The Minnesota Public Radio Censors Comments On Its Climate Blog

And what did Meteorologist Paul Huttner do?

He rejected my comment.

Al Gore to Promote “Our Choice” on Letterman | Sustainability Ninja

“[This book] is meant to depoliticize the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action—not only on an individual basis but as participants in the political processes by which every country, and the world as a whole, makes the choice that now confronts us,” Gore writes in the forward.

Combet talks CPRS at Carbon [Swindle] Expo

Greg Combet, Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change, opened the Australasian Carbon Market Expo 2009 on the Gold Coast, using the opportunity to highlight the need for the passing of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).

Climate efforts waning: UNFCCC

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has released a report concluding that carbon emissions in its member states rose by 3.9 per cent between 2000 and 2007, despite efforts to curb emissions.

Could Coal Lobby Chief Be Probed For Perjury? | TPMMuckraker

It's a crime to lie to Congress.

Cash for Clunkers costs taxpayers $24,000 per car - Oct. 28, 2009

The average rebate was $4,000. But the overwhelming majority of sales would have taken place anyway at some time in the last half of 2009, according to Edmunds.com. That means the government ended up spending about $24,000 each for those 125,000 additional vehicle sales.

Marc Morano: Controlling climate? More like controlling humans

The proposed "solutions" to scientifically fading man-made global warming fears are set to alter American lifestyles and sovereignty in ways never before contemplated.

MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen has warned: "'He who controls carbon controls life. It is a bureaucrat's dream to control carbon dioxide." Washington, D.C., and the U.N. are in a field of dreams right now as they envision one of the most massive expansions of controls on human individual freedom ever contemplated by governments.

Snapshot: Northeast Clean Energy Projects - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

More than half of all planned energy projects in the Northeast Power Coordinating Council region — an electric grid reliability cooperative linking northeastern states and parts of Canada — are renewable energy projects, according to a recent report by SNL Financial, a business research firm.

Q&A: what do we know about climate change and the world's future? - Times Online

Evidence of the past climate shows that rising greenhouse gas levels have been followed by warming. In the past decade, scientists have also established that it is impossible to account for recent observed changes in global temperatures unless human activities have had an impact.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Blogs vs. MSM

There are of course plenty of ways to interpret this information, and my first reaction is that if your topic is sandwiched between the balloon boy and cross dressing [on blogs], and nowhere to be seen in the MSM, then you've probably got a PR problem on your hands.

China’s pearl river being poisoned by factories due to inadequate pollution regulation

“As climate change leads to a rapid depletion of the world’s water resources it is even more important than ever that we stop poisoning our precious rivers.”

Where's the evidence that tiny amounts of CO2 will rapidly deplete the world's water resources?

Where will the water go?

Arizona gets some interesting new minimum high records « Watts Up With That?

Flagstaff, and Prescott, Williams, and Winslow Arizona all significantly bested the old records set on this date.

Yamal treering proxy temperature reconstructions don’t match local thermometer records « Watts Up With That?

Conclusions: There is no sign whasoever of a Hockey Stick shape with serious uptick in the twentieth century, in the thermometer records. Yet these records are clearly very consistent with each other, no matter how long the record or how cold, high, or maritime the locality, with a distance span of over a thousand miles. Neither does the Hockey Stick consistently show in the treerings except in the case of a single tree. Even with thermometer records that are incomplete and suffering other problems, the “robust” conclusion is -
“Warmist” treering proxy temperature evidence is falsified directly by local thermometer records.

Rich countries must pay for [climate hoax] | ABS-CBN News Online Beta

During the negotiations, the Philippines is poised to drive home its demand that first-tier nations set aside 0.5%-1% of their gross domestic product as ‘remuneration’ for accelerating global warming with their high level of greenhouse gas emission.

World Wide Views on Global Warming :: Deliberative Democracy Poll Finds Support for [Climate Scam]

World Wide Views' process differed significantly from traditional opinion polls. Participants received balanced expert information in advance, building largely on the most recent assessment by the Nobel Prize-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Is global warming a hoax? | CapeCodOnline.com

Developing a green economy would win us back lost manufacturing jobs and offer our grandchildren at least a fighting chance, but we've blown our money in Iraq, and then rescued our richest financiers from the consequences of their own bad decisions. Now, we're told, there's nothing left for old Mother Nature. If we believe that, we'll have fallen for the greatest hoax of all.

Lawrence Brown of Hyannis teaches humanities at Cape Cod Academy in Osterville.

Christopher Monckton on Glenn Beck--October 30th!

He will be on, with former UN Ambassador John Bolton, for the full hour.

The topic will be all aspects of the Global Warming Scare and the push for a “new world order” to “deal” with it.

Expect fireworks!

Biggest October Snow in Denver in 12 Years

Climatologists at Colorado State University in Fort Collins say these types of storms, packing this much snow, in October are rare, but they do happen. Those same climatologists say in an average year parts of eastern Colorado will see about 56-inches of snow. So far, this year about 25-inches of recordable snow has fallen.

Al Gore still addicted to nonexistent hurricane-climate link in new book « Watts Up With That?

Gore 2.0, now with Pacific Hurricanes, coming to a book store near you. Gore plans to hawk it on David Letterman next Tuesday night. One more reason not to watch Dave anymore.
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[comment] Today I received my monthly Costco Mag with Al Gore on the front cover (an old before weight gain photo) which went into the trash. I sent Costco an email requesting that the next mag have an alternate view to Al Gore’s on the issue of global warming and that I was suspending my shopping at Costco until they present a balanced view of this issue. This stand will cost me $ for some home an office products, but I am tired of everyone getting on the CO2 bandwagon to make themselves look “green”.

Gordon Brown’s climate change [hoax] finance package hangs in balance - Times Online

Gordon Brown’s plan for Europe to lead the world in tackling climate change stands on the brink of failure as a row about its cost threatens to overshadow the European Council.

The Prime Minister was the first to call for a $100 billion (£60 billion) fund to help emerging nations to meet the terms of the replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, to be finalised at a United Nations summit in December.

FACTBOX: Congress boosts spending on environmental programs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmental programs would receive a substantial boost under spending that cleared Congress on Thursday. The bill now goes to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign into law.
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* Boosts the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 26 percent to $10.3 billion.
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* Boosts funding for climate change [scam] programs by 40 percent to $385 million.

UPDATE 1-Sen. Boxer to move ahead on climate bill

Senator George Voinovich of Ohio said Democrats had fashioned a bill that would help the east and west coasts of the United States, at the expense of Southern and Midwestern regions that are more reliant on coal.

"California's going to make out like a bandit with this legislation," the lawmaker said, glaring at Boxer who represents that state.

Boxer said an EPA analysis did not find the bill would favor some regions of the country over others.

Referring to the possibility Republicans would prevent the committee from acting on the bill soon, Boxer said: "I hope we don't see a boycott of a markup of a landmark bill. That would be tragic."

[Same old story: The science was allegedly settled yesterday, but now we allegedly find that the situation is far worse than expected]- Methane’s impact on global warming far higher than previously thought - Times Online

The effects of a critical greenhouse gas on global warming have been significantly underestimated, according to research suggesting that emissions controls and climate models may need to be revised

Methane’s impact on global temperatures is about a third higher than generally thought because previous estimates have not accounted for its interaction with airborne particles called aerosols, Nasa scientists found.

Hilarious: Alarmists David King and Vicky Pope now warn against alarmism

Exaggerated claims undermine drive to cut emissions, scientists warn - Times Online

They fear, however, that the contribution of natural climate variations towards events such as storms, melting ice and heatwaves is too often overlooked, and that possible scenarios about future warming are misleadingly presented as fact.

“I worry a lot that NGOs [non=governmental organisations] are very much in the habit of doing exactly that,” said Professor Sir David King, director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and a former government chief scientific adviser.

“When people overstate happenings that aren’t necessarily climate change-related, or set up as almost certainties things that are difficult to establish scientifically, it distracts from the science we do understand. The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering. Also, we can all become described as kind of left-wing greens.”

Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at the Met Office, said: “It isn’t helpful to anybody to exaggerate the situation. It’s scary enough as it is.”

David King: Hot Girls and Cold Continents « Climate Audit

“Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King said last week. He said the Earth was entering the ‘first hot period’ for 60 million years when there was no ice on the plane and “the rest of the globe could not sustain human life”.
(The Independent on Sunday, 2 May 2004)

Flashback- Video: Bishop Hill blog - Vicky Pope on climate change

* a 1 degree warming will lead to irreversible changes in marine ecosystems
* a 2 degree warming will lead to the irreversible loss of the Greenland ice sheet and over longer timescales to a 7m rise in sea levels
* a 3 degree warming will lead to the loss of the Amazon rainforest.