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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Palm Beach Post : Gore's presentation on climate change draws 800 as 200 protestors gather outside
The former vice president spoke on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater to a crowd of about 800. More than 200 protesters gathered across the street from the event, and their boos and chants could be heard inside the amphitheater as Gore began his presentation.
Palm Beach Post : Gore's presentation on climate change in Boca Raton draws as many as 1,000
As many as 1,000 people attended former Vice President Al Gore's "Going Green" presentation to the public on climate change this evening, while more than 100 demonstrators gathered in Mizner Park to protest his appearance.Focus The Nation Clean Energy
The rally included many members of the conserative Tea Party and 9-12 movements who dispute Gore's views on global warming and advocacy for policies to limit carbon emissions.
Students from Florida A&M and Florida State are doing their part to help the environment by hosting a forum Saturday. It's a part of the "Focus the Nation Clean Energy" campaign.Hurricane Katrina fringe theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The forum was at FSU's Claude Pepper center, and focused on how political, scientific and personal lifestyles affect climate change.
Various political and religious leaders have suggested that Hurricane Katrina was sent as a divine retribution for the sins of New Orleans, or of the South, or for the United States as a whole.Flashback: Minneapolis pastor: Tornado was a warning to Lutherans on gay inclusion
It was only a matter of time before the religious right would chime in to announce that a tornado that hit parts of Minneapolis on Wednesday was a warning from God that the Lutherans should not relax doctrine related to homosexuality. “Jesus Christ,” wrote John Piper, pastor at Minneapolis’ Bethlehem Baptist Church, “controls the wind, including all tornados.”
Barack Obama will make or break deal on climate change - Times Online
Although recent climate data suggest that the herd-like response of environmental absolutists might be plain wrong, low-probability risks with high-magnitude consequences of the sort predicted by some scientists cannot be ignored.New York-Area Farmers End a Season They’d Like to Forget - NYTimes.com
By the time the heat and sun finally arrived, in August, mid- to late-season fruits, especially blueberries, cranberries and apples, swollen by the rains, were the only crops that benefited. Mr. Botticello estimated his overall crop loss this year at about 45 percent.
59 per cent of UK population are ‘village idiots’ thunders The Times – Telegraph Blogs
It is, in fact, another perfect case of what Jonah Goldberg calls Liberal Fascism.What are the “Deniers” denying?: Stephen Murgatroyd
It is also an example of just how increasingly out-of-touch the MSM is with the views of the wider reading world.
As we get near to the December meeting of world governments in Copenhagen, now less than four weeks away, frantic attempts are being made to salvage something from the meeting. What now looks likely is a high-level political agreement to be followed by more talks. The deniers will be blamed for derailing what could have been a powerful moment in Copenhagen, leading to the creation of a powerful global governance organization for climate change strategy management. The deniers certainly influenced public opinion, but the failure of Copenhagen to produce a binding agreement is as much a failure of the intellectual quality of the argument for such an agreement as it is about the politics surrounding it.zThe Carbon Sense Coalition » Penny Wong Admits the IPCC is Wrong
In the past, Ms Wong and Kevin Rudd have said they rely on the IPCC reports for their policy decisions. They also criticise those who disagree with the IPCC.
However, the IPCC report (2007) gives a high and low scenario for sea level rises. The high of the high scenario is a rise of 59cm for the 21st century. That is far less than the 110cm in this new report.
Al Gore's Brain (AlGoresBrain) on Twitter
Have you scared your child yet today about Global Warming?Twitter / Andy Revkin
Marc Roberts hits nail head w 'toon on global inequity framing climate talks http://j.mp/co2cakeTwitter / Andy Revkin
Poll: UK largely not accepting human-caused warming. http://j.mp/UKco2poll Here/now humans still having tough time with climate risk. [Alternate take: Maybe most people aren't stupid enough to fall for such obvious fraud]
World News Australia - Government backflip on Emissions
Earlier today, newspapers were reporting that the government had caved in to opposition demands to permanently exclude agriculture from an emissions trading scheme.The Carbon Sense Coalition » Let’s Hear the Terms Before we Surrender in Copenhagen
In the near future, some 20,000 people are going to descend on Copenhagen to negotiate the terms of surrender of the industrialised west to the United Nations. Obviously no treaty is going to be “negotiated” by 20,000 people. Most are sightseers. Any negotiations will take place in secret meetings. Every day it becomes more obvious that the PM and the Opposition Leader either do not know what is in the drafts already agreed, or they are concealing it from the parliament and the people.APEC scraps emission cut target in draft declaration
Singapore, Nov 15 (IANS) Leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit here have scrapped a provision in their draft declaration pledging to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, an official said.Flannery’s wages of fear | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Yi Xianliang, counselor at the Treaty and Law Department of the Chinese foreign ministry, told a press conference here Saturday that the emission cut proposal was taken off from the draft declaration for fear that the binding provision might disrupt the climate change negotiations, Xinhua reported.
So how much is Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery pulling for this endorsement? Add it to the books, the consultancies, the speeches, the backing of joy rides in space and now a government sinecure.
Huge wind farm in New Zealand canned « Blowing Our Tax Dollars on Wind Farms
Fighting the industry, govt. and the “wind fighters” has been a long and draining experience but hopefully this article from New Zealand will give those in Ont., Canada and the World the strength they need to beat back both the fraud of Wind Farms and MMGW.Solar “Grand Minima” Preparedness Plan, i.e. Little Ice Age Preparedness Plan by James A. Marusek | Solar Cycle 25
Mankind has been down this road before and we will go down this road again and we will survive. The last time we faced this type of disaster was over 300 years ago, as a result it has almost been erased from our collective memory. A solar “Grand Minima” produces a time of great hardship, a time of significant natural global cooling, a time of great famine and starvation and a time of major epidemics.Carbon Claptrap
The whole ‘global warming’ scene really is becoming a laugh-out-loud Feydeau farce.Widespread scepticism on climate change undermines Copenhagen summit - Times Online
Mike Childs, head of climate change at Friends of the Earth, said that the continuing scepticism will make it difficult for politicians to obtain public support on measures to take climate change.Heliogenic Climate Change: Quote of the week
""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer"Twitter / Frank Corder
Ed Begley Jr. at NLC: don't focus on climate change arguments; we can all agree on a few things to help sustain environmentHot Air » Blog Archive » British voters say humans not to blame for global warming
Knowing more about the problem creates … denial? Opposition is really therefore support, you see. Or, it could just be that people think that the weather has changed before, and that creating massive new bureaucracies and taxes has as much chance of affecting the weather as alchemists had in turning lead into gold.
The staggering cost of crazed quangocrats - Christopher Booker - Telegraph
All in all, it would be much easier to admit that the belief in manmade global warming arose just through a very unfortunate scientific blunder, and to redeploy all these crazed quangocrats in jobs where they can do us no more harm.
With Geoengineering Outlawed, Will Only Outlaws Have Geoengineering? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
...Here is my favorite line from the review: “Neither Levitt, an economist, nor Dubner, a journalist, has any training in climate science — or, for that matter, in science of any kind.”
The time has probably come to admit that neither of us were Ku Klux Klan members either, or sumo wrestlers or Realtors or abortion providers or schoolteachers or even pimps. And yet somehow we managed to write about all that without any horse dung (well, not much at least) flying our way. Kolbert, meanwhile, has written widely about the perils of global warming, both in The New Yorker and in book form (see Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change), and seems to be extremely well-regarded in the field of environmental journalism. And yet, if her Wikipedia page is correct, she somehow accomplished all this with a degree from Yale in … literature.
Mikko Alanne: Where is the real Al Gore and what have you done with him?
As a left coast liberal, it pains me to say this, but someone has to: Al Gore's persistent refusal to engage in a real discussion about the impact of meat production on climate change is starting to severely hurt his credibility as a spokesman for meaningful solutions.
Dissident Voice : Copenhagen Treaty: Premises and Motivations
Ron Paul echoed Lord’s sentiments, stating November 9, 2009 on the Alex Jones show:Desperate climate times call for oddball measures -- latimes.comIf it works it will work for a little while and companies like Goldman Sachs and a few others will rip us off and get even more wealth. But it cannot help the economy; it has to hurt the economy. And it can’t possibly help the environment because they are totally off track on that. It might turn out to be one of the biggest hoaxes of all history this whole global warming terrorism that they’ve been using.
As global warming concerns grow, scientists are taking seriously some of the seemingly crazy proposals of geo-engineering. One suggestion: Launch a million tiny mirrors into space. Every minute.Maunder Shutdown May Be Imminent « Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax
The world today in harsh reality finds itself under a huge pincer attack, with the chilling stars, the predominant long-term climatic mechanism on Earth, on one pincer, and idiots (government politicians and bureaucrats) on the other.How the warming science was tricked up | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
We can’t do anything about the chilling stars, now.
The most incredible jinx in scientific history, Al Gore and his regressive, deluded associates, might be another matter.
Finnish television does the kind of reporting the the ABC won’t touch - exposing the (doubtlessly inadvertent) fabrication of “proof” that the world has never been so warm.
France, Brazil unveil policy for climate conference
PARIS--France and Brazil adopted a common policy Saturday ahead of key UN global warming talks and vowed to launch a worldwide push to convince other powers to back their "climate bible".
Obama to Attend Climate Change [Hoax] Breakfast at APEC Summit - FOXNews.com
President Obama will attend a hastily arranged climate change breakfast Sunday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a White House official said.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Mexican President Felipe Calderon organized what a White House official described as "an informal breakfast meeting on climate change" -- a meeting that was not part of the official APEC program.
People are catching on to the leftist scam « Down under on the right side
This is good news though, I think a year or two ago, most people would have just gone along with the scare-mongering green cultists simply because it was easier just to go along with the ‘harmless’ nut jobs. But things have changed a lot in a year, the financial crisis has left many of us with lighter wallets and now that some of us are starting to figure out that there is an actual price to pay, for this global warming crap they’re holding us responsible for, it’s sobering us up real fast.
Sustainable Progress: World Parliament for Climate Change?
Is the answer to driving real action on Climate Change and other sustainability issues a World Parliament?
In the absence of actual evidence, should alarmists brainwash our children, then hold up the children's testimony as "evidence"?
Global warming [fraud] in children's eyes
BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The earth is moaning from a "fever" -- global warming, which mankind is suffering from and should cooperatively strive against.
What can we do about it?
Let's listen to the voices of the children, the innocent victims of the harmful impacts of the earth's fever, about measures to fight against global warming.
Jack Handy on the weather
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."
Prepare for better weather!
Paul McCartney takes campaign to Brussels (From Congleton Guardian)
Sir Paul McCartney is to take his "meat-free" campaign to Brussels next month as part of a European Parliament conference on the environment.
The former Beatle will urge people to cut back on eating meat as part of the battle against climate change.
He is attending a "Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat" hearing of MEPs and climate change and food experts just days before marathon UN climate change negotiations begin in Copenhagen.
Sir Paul accepted an invitation from European Parliament vice president and Tory MEP Edward McMillan-Scott, who will chair the event.
UN climate change chief Dr Rajendra Pachauri will also be there. All three men do not eat meat.
[Again with the hoax rebranding] | The Guardian
The public doesn't understand the real issues of what is called "climate change" or "global warming" (The Climate Power Game), so what is the point of this junketing by politicians to talk gobbledegook to each other for days on end with little point or conclusion? Should this whole subject not be renamed "global pollution"? Then we'd all understand the problem and, hopefully, do something tangible about it.[Flashback to 2007: That "global weirding" thing never really took off, did it?]
David M Woods Barnard Castle, Co Durham
[Alarmist Tom Friedman] And sweet-sounding “global warming” doesn’t really capture what’s likely to happen. I prefer the term “global weirding,” coined by Hunter Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, because the rise in average global temperature is going to lead to all sorts of crazy things — from hotter heat spells and droughts in some places, to colder cold spells and more violent storms, more intense flooding, forest fires and species loss in other places.[So why was it low in 1949?]: Lake Titicaca at dangerously low levels
Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Bolivian Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949, authorities say.Twitter / Andy Revkin
PBS & Center for Invest. Reporting take remarkable global look at CO2 markets that climate may never notice: http://j.mp/CO2tradeRay Mears: We'll struggle to survive climate change - opinion - 14 November 2009 - New Scientist
Obviously we should be concerned - I've seen signs of global warming myself - but what concerns me more is global pollution.
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I don't think most people will survive climate change.
Virtual Climate Conference on Dec 7: "Copenhagen -- another Pearl Harbor"
[S. Fred Singer] Geologist Leighton Steward and I will both be in CPH, holding forth at a briefing session at the Danish Parliament, together with Lord Monckton and other notables (incl some surprise participants). But we propose to conduct also a Virtual Conference on the Internet, entitled "Copenhagen -- another Pearl Harbor" This title suggests that a CPH Accord would be a disaster for the US, and indeed the whole world -- even worse than the notorious Kyoto Protocol.“Industrial Wind Power in Maine’s Mountains is Bad Policy” (Testimony of Citizens Task Force on Wind Power) — MasterResource
Towns considering wind projects need to understand industrial wind power’s reliance on massive government subsidies (our tax dollars) for its existence. When political support for industrial wind power dries up and the subsidies are removed all of the “tangible benefits” towns believed they would get indefinitely will disappear. The limited liability shell corporations that own the wind turbines will abandon these projects, having received handsome returns on their investments. Lack of funds to remove the turbines and restore the sites, due to the DEP’s failure to require up front set aside of these funds will leave towns with no ability to remove the turbines, or deal with the long term environmental consequences of high mountain clearing and road building.
Snow dumps in Aspen | AspenTimes.com
The mountains surrounding Aspen remain under a winter storm warning until 6 a.m. Saturday, and the National Weather Service was predicting accumulations of a foot more more, with heavy snow Friday night, and the potential for blowing and drifting snow.‘I’m freezing to death’ - Dumfries and Galloway Standard
A DISABLED Dunscore man who fears freezing to death in his home has slammed politicians for not being able to help him.Australia “least affected by climate change” | Australian Climate Madness
Hang on… surely Kevin Rudd is pushing the ETS through because Australia is one of those countries most affected by climate change?Greenlings: Why does mileage drop in winter? — Autoblog Green
This week's Greenlings topic came to us from another reader tip. Don asked why his fuel economy suffers so much in winter weather. In his own experience, mileage drops about 10 percent when the temperatures go from the 60-70 F range to near freezing. This is consistent with our own experience and in fact we've seen even bigger drops than that when testing hybrid vehicles in winter conditions...batteries tend to lose a lot of their power when they get cold, and it means the alternator has to work a lot harder on those cold mornings.
Jobs for the boys: Flannery to head climate change council | Australian Climate Madness
Who says alarmism doesn’t pay? It does when you have a government like ours in charge:Video: Horseheads elementary school [teachers promote global warming fraud]
HORSEHEADS, N.Y. -- Students at Ridge Road Elementary in Horseheads are working to fight global warming.Paul Driessen : An Alarmist Modeler’s History of Climate Change - Townhall.com
The school kicked off its "Cool the Earth" program Friday with a performance from teachers describing the impact things like carbon and methane have on the environment.
Alarmists might be shocked to think the causes of past climate changes were the same natural forces and influences that drive changes in Earth’s complex, chaotic, unpredictable weather and climate today: continental movements and volcanoes, and periodic shifts in water vapor and cloud cover, evaporation and precipitation, ocean currents and jet streams, planetary alignments and the shape of the Earth’s orbit, the tilt and wobble of Earth’s axis, solar energy output, and cosmic rays hitting the planet.YouTube - 11/13/09 John Stossel on the Global Warming Church and More Liberal Lunacy
[5-minute video]Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison won't leave seat for Texas governor's race until after March primaries
"In the Senate, I will be more than simply a no vote," she said. "I will use every tool at my disposal, call in every favor, twist every arm to defeat the Obama health care and cap and trade," she said.
YOUR GLOBAL WARMING PIN NUMBER? « Roman Around
How would such a thing work? Would someone who reached their carbon emissions limit be forbidden by the government from, say, buying more gas for their car? And if that someone’s budget doesn’t allow for the purchase of more carbon credits, is that someone out of luck? Can he or she no longer work? Will the green shirts come swooping in on their environmentally friendly bikes and haul that someone away? Will taxes be raised so more money could become available, via government grants and loans (or welfare), to the people who cannot afford to buy more credits?Casey discusses climate change bill at CMU
Is leftism an inherent disease or is it spread through casual contact?An Environment Agency spokesman said only those with “extravagant lifestyles” would be affected by the carbon allowances. He said: “A lot of people who cycle will get money back. It will probably only be bankers and those with extravagant lifestyles who would lose out.”
While declaring that, "Carbon pollution threatens our future and human life itself," Sen. Bob Casey expressed reservations yesterday about the major climate change proposal awaiting action in the Senate.Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica - NYTimes.com
Even before scientists found temperatures creeping upward over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans’ penchant for eating turtle eggs, considered a delicacy here. But climate change may deal the fatal blow to an animal that has dwelled in the Pacific for 150 million years.Transcript - Al Gore on Larry King for an hour: They spend a lot of time talking about stuff other than Allegedly The Most Important Issue of All Time
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Small rises in beach temperatures can result in all-female populations, obviously problematic for survival.
And most importantly of all, this is a moral issue, not a political issue. The scientific community is saying to everybody in the world alive today: We can't continue putting 90 million tons of this global warming pollution into the atmosphere every day without risking an unprecedented catastrophe that could threaten the future of human civilization.
Text of Obama’s Tokyo Address - Washington Wire - WSJ
...That includes striving for success in Copenhagen. I have no illusions that this will be easy, but the contours of a way forward are clear. All nations must accept their responsibility. Those nations – like my own – who have been the leading emitters must have clear reduction targets. Developing countries will need to take substantial actions to curb their emissions, aided by finance and technology. And there must be transparency and accountability for domestic actions.[Australia: Government produces bogus "scientific" report in support of costly, useless government climate control]
The federal government says its alarming new report on rising sea levels underlines the need to have an emissions trading scheme agreed to without delay.Global Warming: Carbon dioxide emissions increasing in Montana, group reports
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The findings are based on a sea level rise of up to 1.1 metres by 2100, and more extreme weather events.
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Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says the findings can't be ignored.
"The science tells us our climate is changing faster than first projected and the impacts are likely to be more severe," she told reporters in Sydney.
Montana had one of the highest percentage increases among the states and was sixth in per-capita production of CO2.Oct '09: Governor Schweitzer Celebrates Completion of Glacier Wind Project
"We want Montana to be number one,” Schweitzer said. “We are the fastest growing wind power state in the country."
Protest crashes Rees' first leaders' address to ALP | The Daily Telegraph
Mr Rees had just begun his first address to the party faithful as leader when four protestors walked onto the conference floor at the Sydney Entertainment Centre carrying a banner calling for an end to coal-powered fire stations.[Would you like to live within sight of an oil refinery, or underneath a 6-square mile solar farm?]: Supervisor opposes massive solar project in San Bernardino County* | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times
The four shouted at ALP delegates not to be "climate change skeptics like the Liberal Party" but they won few friends with delegates soon drowning their protests out with boos and jeers.
Conservationists, however, are concerned about its impacts on several rare bat, bird, plant and reptile species including the threatened California desert tortoise.U.N.'s Ban to fast in solidarity with world's hungry
The FAO has called the Nov. 16-18 summit with the hope of winning a clear pledge by world leaders to spend $44 billion a year to help poor nations become self-sufficient in food.CBC News - Edmonton - Canada-U.S. carbon [swindle] strategy must match: minister
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Okabe said Ban was expected to say in his address to the summit that it was unacceptable that so many people were hungry when the world had more than enough food.
"He will also highlight the human cost of the recent food, energy and economic crises and say that these crises are a wake-up call for tomorrow," she said, adding that Ban would also stress the link between food security and climate change.
Any efforts Canada might make toward greenhouse gas reduction must depend on what the U.S. does, federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Friday in Edmonton.
"If the United States does not make substantial efforts, going forward, there is nothing that Canada can do, on our own," Prentice said.
"Our own mitigation efforts will be futile as a practical matter. In fact, we should probably at that point simply focus on adaptation."
Kyoto principles crucial in climate talks - China | World | Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will insist the main principles of the Kyoto Protocol are retained in any new global climate change pact, even though others are seeking to abandon them, a high-ranking climate official on Saturday.The Press Association: Britons deny climate change theory
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According to the Kyoto principle, rich "Annex I" countries should take the initiative when it comes to reducing CO2 emissions, while poorer nations such as China and India would not be obliged to set their own mandatory targets until 2020.
After the poll findings emerged, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said: "The overwhelming body of scientific information is stacked up against the deniers and shows us that climate change is man-made and is happening now.Workshop for children deliberates on climate change
"We know that we still have a way to go in informing people about climate change and that is why we make no apologies about pushing forward with our new Act on CO2 campaign. But it's not just the deniers we need to tackle, the defeatists must also be challenged."
While discussions are on in Delhi for taking a stand on climate change policy, the future generation — children — have not been adequately briefed on the situation. What do children from disaster prone areas have to say about the adversities of climate? These and many more queries were raised in the two-day workshop organised by Holistic Child Development India in the city on November 12-13.TBR.cc: Fundaclimatism – rise of the one world greenligion
Fundaclimatism n 1. the view that man-made global warming is literally true. 2. A strong, overriding belief that there is only one Gaia and Algore is his prophet. Fundaclimatist n one who follows the teachings of Algore and makes a pilgrimage to the temple of RealClimate three times a day; one who believes that even if temperatures fall they will rise again; one who believes in repeating the tenets of fundaclimatist faith 'the science is settled' or 'methane clathrates will burst from the ocean floor and destroy all life as we know it' regardless of the scientific evidence staring them in the face. Adj having the attributes of one who follows fundaclimatism, eg, 'Gretchen displayed strong fundaclimatist tendencies in her decision to market reusable hessian toilet tissue as a green product'
Friday, November 13, 2009
[For alarmists, more dismal polling results] - Scotsman.com News
ONLY two out of five British voters believe climate change is real and is caused by human activity, according to a poll released today.
About a quarter of those questioned (28 per cent) by pollsters Populus for the Times agreed that climate change was "far and away" the most serious problem facing Britain, while a further 51 per cent said it was a serious problem, but not as serious as other issues.
Indian climate envoy plays down hopes for Copenhagen
“The fact is that unless very large sums of money are on the table, the kind of response we have led the international community to expect may not be possible,” he said.Flannery named to climate change council
Protecting Australia's much-loved coastline from climate change is the aim of a new council to be established by the federal government.
The Coast and Climate Change Council, headed by Tim Flannery, was officially announced by Climate Change Minister Penny Wong in Sydney on Saturday, coinciding with the release of a report looking at necessary preparations for coastal maintenance.
Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre
The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.WWF campaign to ‘brighten the future with lanterns’
"Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill," the transport ministry said in a statement.
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"Traffic jams will be halved and it helps the environment," the ministry said.
A World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) project aims to give children a voice at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) meetings in Copenhagen in December. Organized as part of the WWF’s Earth Hour campaign, the “Lanterns to Brighten the Future” project invites children to download paper lantern designs from www.wwf.org.tr.
Carbon Scam? Al Gore, Profits, and Copenhagen
As usual, he's playing to adoring fans in the media, who rarely ask a discomfiting question. But change may be on the way.Daschle: No Climate Bill Before Copenhagen
...Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who co-authored the Senate legislation, has indicated he’s open to starting over to get more bipartisan support.Post Draws Line in the Wrong Place | GlobalWarming.org
As Caldara and I told our Post pals 18 months ago, Van Genderen — and now her successor, Madden — could not have a more thorough and all-encompassing conflict of interest on their hands than they do by living off these foundations.
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Greening While Driving - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Already browbeaten by high school texts on recycling and global warming, kids can now look forward to proselytizing from that driver’s ed teacher in the right-hand seat.A divisive climate
Minchin has nailed himself securely to the mast as a climate change disbeliever, and has encouraged other MPs to attach themselves to the cause in what amounts to a revolt against Turnbull on this key issue. The respective Minchin and Turnbull views on climate change cannot be reconciled. Minchin has framed the issue in philosophical and ideological terms, arguing that rejection of the climate change argument is a necessity for the political right in its larger fight with the left. ''For the extreme left it provides the opportunity to do what they've always wanted to do, to sort of de-industrialise the Western world,'' he told Four Corners. ''You know, the collapse of communism was a disaster for the left … and really they embraced environmentalism as their new religion.''
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Sucking the Oxygen Out of the Environmental Movement
I often conclude my presentations on climate that conservationists will likely look back in 10-20 years on the global warming hysteria as the worst thing that has ever happened to the environmental movement. While we focus 110% of our attention on a trace, naturally occurring atmospheric gas that our bodies exhale and plants need to live, here is what we are not focusing on.Deficit push sets climate bill back - POLITICO.com Print View
An aggressive White House push on jobs and deficit reduction in 2010 may be yet another sign that climate-change legislation will stay on the back burner next year.Metro scrubs 'junket' to Copenhagen
Somehow the world will have to hatch a new accord to stop global warming without the aid of Delta Mayor Lois Jackson and Port Moody Mayor Joe Trasolini.
Metro Vancouver directors on Friday axed plans to send the board chair and environment committee chair to Copenhagen for next month's global climate change summit.
Jackson and Trasolini weren't around to defend the merits of the trip – they're still in China as part of a different international delegation.
Intersection of climate change [fraud] and Christianity | Harvard Gazette Online
“What if we face up to the fact that, unlike the U.S. government, Mother Nature doesn’t do bailouts?” Sallie McFague asked an audience at Harvard Divinity School (HDS).Climate sense from Nick Minchin and Mitch Fifield | Australian Climate Madness
In last month’s session, McFague was quoting New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, while offering her own analysis of the current dual crises rocking the globe, one financial and the other environmental. Both, said the theologian in residence at the Vancouver School of Theology, are the product of greed.
Nick Minchin has responded to his “fruit loop” critics with a dignity that some of them would do well to emulateWarning Signs: Solar Power Lies
America, like Great Britain, is closing in on an era of blackouts because the federal government is doing everything in its power to thwart the building of proven sources of electricity production, coal-fired and nuclear plants. America is the Saudi Arabia of coal, sitting atop enough to provide power for the next three hundred or more years. No new nuclear plants have been built in three decades.Himalayan Glaciers Not Melting | The Resilient Earth
Even when faced with data showing the errors in their work, the IPCC seems incapable of admitting they were wrong.
Al Gore interview on Conan (Video) - Monsters and Critics
The Tonight Show entertained ex Vice President Al Gore last night.Al Jazeera English - Climate SOS - Reporter's diary: Arctic warming
They've discovered that the number of cod is increasing, and that the cod population in the Barents Sea is now at a 20-year high. Scientists believe that's partly because Norway has a strict management system, but it's also because the water is getting warmer.World Climate Report » U.S. Record Temperatures—A Closer Look
So, the bottom line here is this—climate change in the U.S. during the past 50 years has resulted in fewer extreme nighttime low temperatures, while the daily extreme high temperatures have been little affected. And, at least one leading climate model fails to correctly capture this behavior.Japan, U.S. grow apart over efforts to tackle global warming - The Mainichi Daily News
Japan and the United States do not appear to be working closely in leading the deadlocked multilateral negotiations on climate change.
What, no solar variation?
Check out this fraudulent illustration from Al Gore's "Our Choice", page 47:
Wisconsin: Analyzing the Unanalyzable | GlobalWarming.org
It concludes that if all the policy recommendations are enacted, that:Heliogenic Climate Change: Atypical solar maxima, minima common in M67
* Wisconsin will lose 43,000 private sector jobs over 11 years.
* Wisconsin will add 12,000 government jobs.
* Motor fuel costs will increase $3.2 billion over 11 years.
* Electricity bills increase $16.2 billion by 2025.
* Every state resident will lose $1,012 a year in personal income by 2020.
The results could mean that past changes in global temperatures are more likely to be related to variations in solar activity than previously thoughtThe Reference Frame: APS fat cats stick to the sinking AGW bandwagon
What was the procedure leading to the official APS reply? The current APS chairwoman Ms Merry Cherry (or so) constructed a "reliable" six-person committee that was asked to recommend the APS Council what is the right way to respond.Common Sense for the Clean Energy and Climate Debate - Robert Redford
Because right now, the Senate is debating the single most important environmental bill of this generation: a clean energy and climate act that could generate millions of jobs and slash our global warming emissions.California Group Blames Immigrants for Climate Change | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit
A California anti-immigration group has created a multimedia ad campaign blaming immigrants for climate change and environmental degradation in California.
2008: Faux’s Smith: Global Warming Deniers “A Little Crazy”
At the end of a Faux News segment on a man who found himself trapped in a portable toilet, anchor Shep Smith compared people who get stuck in toilets to “people who deny the whole global warming thing” and are “just a little crazy, you know?”Who are the real “fruit loops”? | Australian Climate Madness
But who are the real “fruit loops” here? Those, like Senator Minchin, who express the views of a growing proportion of the population concerning doubts about the causes of “global warming”? Or maybe, on the other hand, it’s those who would resort to name calling in order to stifle debate on the single biggest issue to face Australia for a generation? Or maybe it’s those who unquestioningly believe every single word that the IPCC, with its consensus of 2500, 4000 or maybe 10,000 scientists, utters? Or even those who think that negotiating with the government in order to pass the ETS is a sensible course of action? Or those who compare climate realists to people who see UFOs? Or those who think that we should pass an ETS into law before we have a clue what the rest of the world will do?C3: The Bogosity of Corporations Being 'Carbon Neutral': Dell Computers A Classic Example of Worthless, Green PR
The naïve and easily-fooled (journalists/pundits?) eat up this type of anti-CO2, green-preening corporate public relations propaganda. Realistically though, the only means for a corporation to be truly carbon neutral is to go out of business - there just is no other way to reach zero CO2 emissions. Buying carbon offsets does not reduce a company's actual CO2 emissions.Dear Baroness: these natives aren’t for scaring | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
But still the sceptics are dismissed as somehow deranged or evil people who must be dealt with, rather than simply argued with, Melbourne ABC host Jon Faine tells the Baroness that the sceptics are indeed causing “great problems” here...
Electric Cars « the Air Vent
And finally, however vilified, as the Infernal combustion engine always has been and still is, it remains along with its liquid hydrocarbon fuel a faithful servant and a very formidable competitor when it comes to propelling motor cars. In the end it is simple, robust, reliable and cheap. It has been around so long that any mechanic from London to Outer Mongolia can twiddle, tweak and fix it. And behind these mechanics is an organised supply chain that can deliver spare parts almost anywhere, even Darkest Peru, within a day or two. And it has seen off its rivals, even those hardy perennials such as steam and electricity many times before and bids fair to do so again.Mixing trade and global warming — a recipe for disaster | GlobalWarming.org
Do politicians really imagine, for all their delusions of grandeur, that by squandering a few billions of the taxpayer’s money, they can change a great worldwide industry overnight? That is for you, not the author to judge. He has his own view.
Given the fact that global warming policy prescriptions have been extremely controversial even before the Kyoto Protocol 12 years ago, and the fact that the WTO’s Doha Round for 8 years has been mired down in disagreements among rich and poor countries, does it seem likely that putting these two divisive issues together will produce harmony?C3: Fabricating Fake Global Warming? Evidence of Manipulating U.S. Temperature Data To "Prove" Human-CO2 Warming?
A large number of climate scientists are so dedicated to advocating that global warming exists, and it is caused by human CO2 emissions, they are apparently compelled to change (adjust) the actual scientific data in order to provide "proof" that what they advocate is correct. If U.S. and global measured temperatures were not adjusted by these climate scientist advocates, there would be little human CO2-caused global warming to worry about. An accurate assessment of the real temperature data would result in a determination that the global warming and climate change crisis has been juiced-up, to the potential economic and lifestyle detriment of most, and to the huge benefit of the few who stand to profit - just follow the money.Oklahoma Farm Report - We Talk Healthcare, Climate Change and more with AFBF President Bob Stallman
...we also talked Climate Change and the concerns that AFBF has with the Democratic push in this area. Stallman says that his group is fearful that we will see large amounts of cropland be forced out of production and planted with trees to capture large amounts of carbon. That could result in the inability of US Agriculture to meet future food needs if millions of acres are indeed idled from crop production.Latest in the Climate Fairy Story
Democrat spokesmen at the US Senate admitted today that Climate Change legislation is taking a hammering. Can they be surprised when it is being forced on people who know the laws will damage the economy and their own lives? But don’t clap – it has only been put on hold until next year, because government fears the vote. For them, it is too soon to reveal their true colours. It is very frustrating to want power and money and to have to wait! You’ve got to sympathise.
Can you really save the planet by reheating a cold cup of tea? Our Science Editor takes a sceptical look at how we can reduce our carbon footprints | Mail Online
These days, practically all human life involves a carbon impact - from driving and cooking to food and clothes production. With so much conflicting advice on what is environmentally-friendly activity - and what is not - we weigh up the conundrums involved in trying to reduce our carbon footprints . . .Senators seek tweaks in carbon permit plans | Green Business | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the latest obstacle to proposed U.S. climate legislation, key lawmakers on Thursday urged Senate Democrats to change distribution plans for carbon permits to offer more protection for coal-dependent utilities.Greentech Media: Solar Market Declines for First Time Ever
SAN FRANCISCO -- Worldwide demand for solar energy equipment is set to drop about 17 percent in 2009, the first time the market has ever experienced a drop in demand, an analyst said Thursday.Further Evidence In Support Of Klotzbach Et Al 2009 « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
“In particular, I will focus on the localized greenhouse effect of water vapor increases in the boundary layer, which will be referred as surface water vapor feedback (SWVP). SWVP appears to be the major cause of surface warming during winter, particularly at higher elevations, in the model.”Giveaways: Fight Over Carbon-Emission Permits Comes to Senate - Environmental Capital - WSJ
“….observations show largest warming trend in winter when there are much greater increases in the minimum temperatures relative to the maximum temperatures.”
But this isn’t just about politics and vote-counting. There are billions of dollars at stake. Power companies that produce more clean energy stand to gain from climate legislation under the current formula; power companies that produce more dirty energy stand to lose.
That’s one reason companies such as Exelon and Duke have been cheerleading climate legislation: Their bottom lines will bulge.
AP climate reporting shift?
MANILA, Philippines – Next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen is not likely to produce a legally binding treaty to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are widely blamed for global warming, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. [Via Climate Depot]Obama asks, “Who are you going to believe, me or that lying dictionary?” :: Liberty Maven
The “cap and trade” bill will supposedly limit CO2 emissions. But it’s really a giant tax increase, mostly on the middle class. This violates promises President Obama and the Democrats made to get elected. The President even wants to redefine the word “tax” in order to hide the fact that he’s breaking his promise (see my letter to Congress below)Little Ice Age thermometers – History and Reliability « the Air Vent
Clearly this interpretation is of fundamntal importance as there also appears to be no mention that taking readings from the top of the previous warm cycle would have caused entirely diferent conclusions to be reached than have been, namely that todays temperatures were nothing out of the ordinary when seen in context against the pre 1880 datasets when coupled with contemporary acounts of the times reaching back through the LIA to the MWP and Roman optimum.Climate Or Weather? Spot The Difference! « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
Death toll from snow in N. China rises to 40 -- Shanghai Daily
UNUSUALLY early snowstorms in north China have claimed at least 40 lives in weather-related accidents and caused billions of yuan in damage, the Civil Affairs Ministry said yesterday.
Nineteen of the deaths resulted from traffic accidents related to the storms that began on Monday, the ministry said in a news release posted on its Website.
The snowfall is the heaviest in the area since record-keeping began following the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, the ministry said. It estimated economic losses from the storm at 4.5 billion yuan (US$659 million).
The storms have caused the collapse of more than 9,000 buildings, damaged 190,000 hectares of crops and forced the evacuation of 158,000 people, the ministry said.
Al Fin: Oceans Hungrily Soaking Up CO2, SeaLife Thriving
An entire generation of "climate scientists" have been indoctrinated into this faux science of crisis seeking. Like the ambulance chasers of the legal profession, the doom seekers of climate are chasing the prize of quick grants, fame, and the warm cliquish comfort of an empty consensus.A Carrot for ‘Real’ Comment Contributors - Andy Revkin - NYTimes.com
Unfortunately for that "lost generation", true science is proceeding to pass them by.
I was walking our dogs through a blanket of crisp oak leaves this morning, pondering the state of Dot Earth[Doesn't Revkin realize that his dogs may give Africans kidney stones?]: Your Pet Is a Global Warming Machine
Though some environmentalists love their dogs more than they love their Sierra Club reusable water bottles, a single dog can have a bigger ecological footprint than an SUV.Will US 'pirates’ kill climate [fraud] deal? - Telegraph
No one expects this to be sorted out before the Copenhagen conference opens, but there are hopes that enough progress will be made for the US to be able to lay out a provisional offer in the Danish capital – dependent on passing legislation in the spring. And that could be enough to seal the international deal. Of course, it may well go wrong, either in Congress or Copenhagen or both. But it's worth remembering that Sejm's paralysis led to anarchy and the break-up of Poland – and that failure to control climate change would bring even greater disaster on a global scale.
Is Solar Power Expensive or Competitive? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
“Solar is cheaper than coal today,” asserts Jigar Shah, the founder of Sun Edison who now heads the Carbon War Room, a new non-profit group.The Daily Bayonet » Green’s Mercury Conundrum
On one hand we have greens lobbying effectively for automakers to pay for mercury switch disposal, and on the other we have greens lobbying effectively to force people to use mercury-containing CFL’s.Climate Resistance » Why Environmentalism is ‘Unethical’, Anti-Human, and Elitist
The green movement isn’t really a movement at all. At best, it is a phenomenon of individuals whose only thing in common is their sense of disconnect and disorientation. At worst, it is a self-serving elitist club. Yet their shrill demands for ‘action’ count for more than the disinterest of the vast majority, and virtually the entire political establishment has been remarkably sympathetic to the green cause. Hence, the very existence of the Climate Change Committee, whose report Monbiot didn’t feel was sufficient.Al Fin: United States Has More Fossil Fuels
According to this Congressional Research Service PDF report (via Robert Rapier), the US has more total fossil fuels resources proved reserves than any other nation. Russia is a close second, China is a distant third, and Saudi Arabia and Iran are an even more distant fourth and fifth, respectively.Obama Will Blame the Senate for Copenhagen’s Failure? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Does Secretary Chu think the Senate will pre-ratify an international treaty?Global Warming [Allegedly Makes Reindeer Eat Lichen With Ice in It] - Science News - redOrbit
Jonathan Colman, an authority on "reindeer ecology" at the University of Oslo, stated that occasionally "there's wet ice in the lichen. It gets into their stomachs and they can't digest the food."
The Alarmists’ Dilemma - John Hood - Planet Gore on National Review Online
CNN/Money reports that cap-and-trade advocates are having such a hard time attracting support for the legislation because the Left and the Right are so far apart on energy issues. Every deal-sweetener that might tempt a Republican over to the Dark Side has the potential to repel DemocratsAl Gore’s Other Too-Radical Idea - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Over in Media Blog, I have a post on the failed business model of Al Gore's Current TV. At what point do people realize that Gore's ideas on how people should power their lives are as ridiculous as his ideas on what people would want to watch on television?[Amusingly, Gore spends some time in the speech here ridiculing Americans for watching too much TV (31 minute mark): Whatever they're watching, it's not Gore's channel]
Standing before a sea of green-leaning Cambridge liberals (who would later scoff heartily at the suggestion that the average person watches roughly 5 hours of TV per day), Al Gore announced...Banker Seeks to Put a Price on Nature [In lieu of a cash fee, will he accept a chance to view a rabbit?] - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Mr. Sukhdev said his study, which received the backing of the European Commission, could hasten the creation of systems that might include trading water rights, forest credits, and biodiversity credits — and that these would operate similarly to the cap-and-trade system that governs emissions of greenhouse gases in Europe.
All aboard the ARC | Mark Dowd | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
...These were just some of the scenes in the state apartments of Windsor Castle last week enjoyed by the Duke of Edinburgh, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and more than 250 delegates to the "Many Heavens One Earth" gathering organised by the UN-funded Alliance of Religions and Conservation. It's easy to lampoon interfaith gatherings. They are often well-meaning but vacuous ensembles of robed dignitaries sipping cinnamon tea. The shared statements often amount to nothing more than a hybrid Esperanto of platitudes. And after the Windsor three-day event, it's true I did hear one or two muttering voices of dissent: "Isn't it an own goal flying people here for this? Think of the carbon emissions." (You can bet your bottom dollar that the Daily Mail are already at work on the collective carbon footprint of the UN Climate Summit starting on 7 December in Copenhagen.)Should climate deniers be allowed to speak on the Today programme? | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk
No one should be allowed to speak on the Today programme until the interviewer is equipped to challenge them.Kansas farmers would gain from cap-and-trade [scam] | Tom Vilsack - Wichita Editorial | Wichita Eagle
The community of Greensburg [get it?] is doing just that with support from the Obama administration. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced a $17.4 million loan to help build 10 wind turbines near Greensburg that will supply renewable energy, create green jobs and support the local economy. Greensburg stands out as an example of the promise and potential for farming and ranching communities across rural America to embrace the clean-energy economy.Ban Ki-moon climate deputy says Copenhagen deal may take two stage approach
The top climate lieutenant to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that a major — though perhaps preliminary — international agreement to curb global warming is still possible in Copenhagen. One leading option is to set low targets for emissions reductions initially and to boost them if global warming gets worse.
US set at damage control
Trying to avoid “having Copenhagen failure laid at its doorstep”, the US administration is reported to be considering patching up a limited short-term climate deal.Farms on the radar at Copenhagen climate [scam] talks | Green Business | Reuters
"We're not happy with an emissions trading scheme full stop, we remain emphatically opposed," said Don Nicolson, president of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. The American Farm Bureau (AFB) opposes draft U.S. climate bills which would cap carbon emissions from industry, but not from agriculture.Readers Respond on "Grassoline": Scientific American
As a retired farmer, I know that the information in “Grassoline at the Pump,” by George W. Huber and Bruce E. Dale, about agricultural residues is false in a most dangerous way. There is NO extra residue from the corn harvest. Sure, you can take it away and use it to create fuel. But that residue is desperately needed right where it fell, to renew the soil. All of it and more are needed to sustain our already low organic matter levels created by years of plowing and other unsustainable agricultural practices. Soil can and does “die,” and then it is unable to produce food. Energy creation is important, but so is our ability to feed the world.Britain's problem with pets: they're bad for the planet | Environment | The Guardian
Vale does not – as some of his critics seem to assume – advocate a mass cull of the world's pets. But some of his proposed solutions are still likely to shock some pet owners. For example, the book suggests catching vermin such as rats and processing them into a "natural" cat food. Equally, the book proposes a return to the days when families would – hence the book's title – have edible pets. For example, a pair of rabbits would be kept as pets and their offspring would be eaten. It's hard to see that one gaining much traction.
EPA Censorship of Video Raises New Questions about Suppression of Science
Washington, D.C.– Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson should explain her agency’s efforts to silence two employees who used a video posted on YouTube to question the value of a carbon trading system currently being considered in Congress, Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in a letter to Jackson.Obama to Vote ‘Present’ in Copenhagen? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online
“This is another example of the EPA playing dirty to get green,” said Sensenbrenner, ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
We are the change we have been waiting for, at some later date to be determinedThe Future Of Climate Alarmism Is Bogus Statistics « JoNova
The organizations that measure temperature are in government control. No private group has an interest in measuring global temperatures over the decades required. The government organizations that measure temperatures will tend to produce the answers the government needs. Anyone with a passion to find the adjustments that cool the statistics will feel like they wade through mud uphill; all that hard work and yet no one will get excited. Rewards will be muted. People who do not comply with the unspoken culture will be effectively forced out of those organizations—their careers will stall, or they won’t be hired in the first place if they don’t have the right “attitude”. The staff will self select. Only true believers, for whom the ends justify the means, and those with a sufficiently flexible attitude to truth, will survive and thrive in those organizations.India defends its climate-change strategy while calling for room to develop -- latimes.com
Think a future of systematic cheating of temperature data to justify taxes, profits, and world government is too cynical? It’s already started...
Both [China and India] have also resisted, however, arguing that it's unfair for wealthy nations that degraded the environment for centuries to now deny poor countries the opportunity to get ahead.But if wind and sun are really such great, cost-effective energy sources, why don't these countries use them to "get ahead"?
Obama and Hatoyama Pledge 'Success' at Copenhagen Climate [Hoax] Summit
TOKYO, Japan, November 13, 2009 (ENS) - Meeting for the first time on Japanese soil, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and President Barack Obama today committed their governments to "a new era in the global fight against climate change" by shifting to low-carbon growth and achieving "a successful outcome" at the UN climate conference next month.[In case you missed it]: Prof Ian Plimer: tenets of a climate change sceptic - Telegraph
Prime Minister Hatoyama said, "By 2050, we have set out this goal of an 80 percent reduction" in greenhouse gas emissions. "Both Japan and U.S. have agreed on this, and we want to make COP-15 a success, and we agreed to cooperate towards this end," he said...
In an interview with ABN Newswire in June he said: "Carbon dioxide has an effect on the atmosphere and it has an effect for the first 50 parts per million and once it's done its job then it's finished and you can double it and quadruple it and it has no effect because we've seen that in the geological past, and we've seen it in times gone by when the carbon dioxide content was 100 times the current content. We didn't have runaway global warming, we actually had glaciation."After spending binge, White House says it will focus on deficits - Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei - POLITICO.com
Democratic lobbyist Steve Elmendorf says the White House focus on deficit reduction could easily kill the cap-and-trade effort. “I think this means cap-and-trade has to go to the backburner,” he said.Kevin Rudd: A shape-shifter in the Lodge
But he is a shape shifter, all the same.[Typical alarmism: Mix natural variability, measurement error, and maybe some fraud, then multiply by 100; result still unimpressive] | Reuters
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A public proponent of the "calm, methodical" approach to policy debate, who last Friday night capped off a week of such measured exhortations with a foaming, quasi-Biblical attack on climate change sceptics, whom he accused of conspiring to "destroy our children's future".
Greenland's current rate, of 0.75 mm a year, would be 7.5 cms if continued for 100 years. "This is...much more that previous estimates of the Greenland contribution," van den Broeke said.Gop wins: Effect on Copenhagen?
But I would bet the farm Angela Merkel is not fooled. Obama took a shellacking Tuesday night and, combined with the voters’ anger at continuing job losses, that can mean only one thing: loss of clout at home and abroad.
Copenhagen, it seems, will wind up without an American signature and this omission is likely to encourage other countries to hold back.
I imagine that even Germany, the most seriously committed global-warming firefighter in the world, may lose heart. What UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will say next is anybody’s guess, but the White House can hardly be sanguine about what American voters will say in the mid-term congressional elections next year.
Obama and Hatoyama Pledge 'Success' at Copenhagen Climate [Hoax] Summit
TOKYO, Japan, November 13, 2009 (ENS) - Meeting for the first time on Japanese soil, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and President Barack Obama today committed their governments to "a new era in the global fight against climate change" by shifting to low-carbon growth and achieving "a successful outcome" at the UN climate conference next month.[In case you missed it]: Prof Ian Plimer: tenets of a climate change sceptic - Telegraph
Prime Minister Hatoyama said, "By 2050, we have set out this goal of an 80 percent reduction" in greenhouse gas emissions. "Both Japan and U.S. have agreed on this, and we want to make COP-15 a success, and we agreed to cooperate towards this end," he said...
In an interview with ABN Newswire in June he said: "Carbon dioxide has an effect on the atmosphere and it has an effect for the first 50 parts per million and once it's done its job then it's finished and you can double it and quadruple it and it has no effect because we've seen that in the geological past, and we've seen it in times gone by when the carbon dioxide content was 100 times the current content. We didn't have runaway global warming, we actually had glaciation."After spending binge, White House says it will focus on deficits - Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei - POLITICO.com
Democratic lobbyist Steve Elmendorf says the White House focus on deficit reduction could easily kill the cap-and-trade effort. “I think this means cap-and-trade has to go to the backburner,” he said.Kevin Rudd: A shape-shifter in the Lodge
But he is a shape shifter, all the same.[Typical alarmism: Mix natural variability, measurement error, and maybe some fraud, then multiply by 100; result still unimpressive] | Reuters
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A public proponent of the "calm, methodical" approach to policy debate, who last Friday night capped off a week of such measured exhortations with a foaming, quasi-Biblical attack on climate change sceptics, whom he accused of conspiring to "destroy our children's future".
Greenland's current rate, of 0.75 mm a year, would be 7.5 cms if continued for 100 years. "This is...much more that previous estimates of the Greenland contribution," van den Broeke said.
How 7.4% of Americans can block humanity's efforts to save itself | David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts | guardian.co.uk
The absurd procedural chokepoints in the US Senate are what is really killing climate [fraud] legislation.INTERVIEW-UPDATE 1-Exxon says winter demand won't trim oil glut By Reuters
Exxon, sceptical in the past about green energy and having supported research that questioned climate change, is now facing regulation from a controversial U.S. climate change bill that cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate last week.Chavez's Economic Problems Turn Nasty - Megan McArdle
Tillerson said it would have a "dramatic" effect on U.S. oil refiners. According to research studies, about 10-15 percent of refining capacity would have to be shut down, leading to imbalances in U.S. refined product supplies, he added.
Meanwhile, carbon trading was not a workable solution, due to its high price volatility and the huge amount of red tape involved in overseeing the system, Tillerson said.
For a long time I have been saying (along with a lot of other people), that Hugo Chavez was running his country into the ground. He diverted investment funds from PDVSA, Venezuela's state-run oil company, into social programs. As long as the price of oil kept rising, he could do that. Unfortunately, Venezuela's sour, heavy crude is particularly hard to get at and refine, and requires a high rate of investment in order to keep production up. As a result, the number of barrels per day (bpd) that Venezuela produces has declined pretty sharply since he took office in 1999.Twitter / Andy Revkin: [Maybe it's OK to measure temperature near the Weber grills?]
Updated http://j.mp/ColdHot If Pat Michaels & NCAR agree on temp. patterns, does this challenge @wattasupwiththat on surface records? #eco
Press Briefing: Copenhagen Climate Talks 101
WASHINGTON – With one month to go before the Copenhagen summit, leading climate experts joined Janos Pasztor, the director of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, on a November 12 phone briefing to set the stage for the upcoming climate meeting. Speakers briefly discussed what happened during this year’s international talks, the current state of play in these negotiations and what is expected out of the United States in Copenhagen.The Seattle activists' coming of age in Copenhagen will be very disobedient | Naomi Klein | Comment is free | The Guardian
For instance, the direct action coalition Climate Justice Action has called on activists to storm the conference centre on 16 December. Many will do this as part of the "bike bloc", riding together on an as yet to be revealed "irresistible new machine of resistance", made up of hundreds of old bicycles. The goal of the action is not to shut down the summit, Seattle-style, but to open it up, transforming it into "a space to talk about our agenda, an agenda from below, an agenda of climate justice, of real solutions against their false ones … This day will be ours".Brazil celebrates 45% reduction in Amazon deforestation | Environment | The Guardian
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What will be the significance of Copenhagen? I put that question to John Jordan, whose prediction of what eventually happened in Seattle I quoted in my book No Logo. He replied: "If Seattle was the movement of movements' coming-out party then maybe Copenhagen will be a celebration of our coming of age."
He cautions, however, that growing up doesn't mean playing it safe, eschewing civil disobedience in favour of staid meetings. "I hope we have grown up to become much more disobedient," Jordan said, "because life on this world of ours may well be terminated because of too many acts of obedience."
A police offensive and the global economic crisis have combined to produce the largest fall in more than 20 yearsBike blog: Police beat off criticism about 93-page manual on how to ride a bike | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Boris Johnson pedals into the Sun's 'police farce' story on cycling manual
Urinate on the compost heap to save the planet says the National Trust - Telegraph
Men should urinate outside on their compost heaps to help fertilise their gardens and save on flushing the lavatory, the National Trust has urged.
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Urinating outdoors or in the shower is advocated by environmental activists, including Cameron Diaz, as a way of tacking climate change by saving water and energy.
Politicians are gloomy about reaching climate deal in Copenhagen. Awwwwwwwwww! - 12-Nov-2009 - Generational Dynamics - Web Log
The "legal climate change treaty" that activists were hoping for was for a tax on all financial transactions in Western nations. That money would be diverted to the activists and their favorite causes. For some strange reason, that proposal even went too far for the Obama administration.Climate bill advocates want to see President Obama in Copenhagen - TheHill.com
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has said there are no world-leader level meetings scheduled.CEOs of Aspen Skiing Company and The North Face: “Climate change threatens our livelihoods–and yours” « Climate Progress
Milder winters mean a shorter ski season and greater reliance on artificial snowmaking, a costly and carbon-intensive practice.If these guys really believe that CO2 is dangerous, why don't they set a good example by immediately halting all artificial snowmaking until it can be 100% powered by wind or sun? And shouldn't the Aspen Skiing Company only market their services to "local" skiers, say those living within walking distance? And wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly to require skiers to walk up the hills, rather than running fossil-fueled ski lifts? And shouldn't the chalet thermostats be set no higher than 65 degrees in winter?
Wind Integration: Incremental Emissions from Back-Up Generation Cycling (Part I: A Framework and Calculator) — MasterResource
The general conclusion is clear: industrial wind power does not produce the claimed benefits of reductions in fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions when up-and-down backup generation inefficiencies are taken into account.Another parallel with the Maunder Minimum « Watts Up With That?
Activity and timing of the current minimum, as well as the timing of the Solar Cycle 24 maximum in 2015, is paralleling the start of the Maunder Minimum. There is no data to date which diverges from the pattern of the start of the Maunder Minimum.The Migrant Mind: Saving the Bangladeshi's
While debating global warming, I am often told that if we don't do something we will drown the Bangladeshi people. That of course presumes that they are so stupid as to stand still while the ocean waters cover them--which says something about the lunacy and condescension of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) advocates.NCAR: Number of record highs beat record lows – if you believe the quality of data from the weather stations « Watts Up With That?
I believe this study is hopelessly flawed due to the fact that the authors take the data from the weather stations at face value without considering bias due to measurement error or siting error, both of which are rampant in the US surface station network.
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