A very convenient untruth in an Inconvenient Truth

I am shocked and saddened to report that human caused global warming is likely a scam and that Environmental Saint Al Gore may be little more than an avaricious businessman picking as many pockets as he can. Perhaps by now you may have finally seen this story in the so-called “mainstream media.”

Our Choice Young Reader’s Edition - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Nothing like details, especially in a book geared to young readers. If you want to create a brainwashed generation of American green shirts — the northern half of the Western hemisphere certainly dominates the globe, eh? — at least make sure the cover of your catechism of doom has hurricanes spinning in the correct direction. And a good chunk of Central America is gone. How much do sea levels have to rise to wipe out so much of Mexico, and yet leave a sliver of Florida?

An Open Letter to Climate Change Skeptics

The real people presenting global warming aren't in it for the money, because frankly, there's little money to be had.

The Leadership Campaign

Collectively, we are refusing to sleep in homes, dorms, and apartments powered by dirty electricity until our state commits to repowering with 100% Clean Electricity by 2020.
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The last Boston Common Sleep-out is on Sunday, December 6th at 3:00PM!

[A derivative of the Gore Effect?]: Some areas of Mass. could get 7 inches of snow - The Boston Globe

Forecasters say the Boston area should expect between three to five inches of snow, an estimate that was up sharply from Friday's prediction that the area would only get a "dusting."

Emails that rocked climate change campaign leaked from Siberian 'closed city' university built by KGB | Mail Online

Suspicions were growing last night that Russian security services were behind the leaking of the notorious British ‘Climategate’ emails which threaten to undermine tomorrow’s Copenhagen global warming summit.

An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the explosive hacked emails from the University of East Anglia were leaked via a small web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia.

Flashback: “A miracle just happened” « Climate Audit – mirror site

I don’t know why Gavin wants to enter into negotiations about disclosing IP addresses. I’m not interested in such negotiations. The IP address of the commenter at CA was Russian 82.208.87.170.

Flashback: Errata Security: Climategate hack used open proxies

As this post describes, the hacker made a comment to a ClimateAudit blog post from IP address 82.208.87.170. If we Google that IP address, we see that it is indeed an open proxy. We don't know the hacker's real IP address.
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The RealClimate website (which was attacked by the hacker) makes this claim:

The use of a turkish computer would seem to imply that this upload and hack was not solely a whistleblower act, but one that involved more sophisticated knowledge.

This is not true. Using open proxies requires no sophisticated knowledge at all - as this blog post shows.

Carbon dioxide threatens Old Faithful!!

[Lots of dim-witted alarmism here] -- Julie Cart - latimes.com

Spasm Geyser is one of hundreds at Yellowstone -- including Old Faithful -- that may be affected by global warming. Park officials worry that receding groundwater levels could diminish the geysers' dramatic displays.
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Warmer temperatures have extended the park's growing season for plants by up to 30%. Renkin found that given the additional growing time, willows produced powerful defensive compounds that made them unpalatable to wildlife, enabling some to grow more than twice as high.
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In some cases, the changes are imperiling the very features that define some of the nation's most-beloved parks.

The ice fields at Glacier National Park in Montana are quickly fading and may be gone by the end of the decade. In California, the namesake plants at Joshua Tree National Park are disappearing, as are the big trees at Redwood. Increasing hurricane frequency and intensity is destroying the Everglades in Florida.
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Olliff said that in recent years a season's entire wolf pup production was lost to canine distemper or parvo.
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...That approach has support in Washington from newly installed park service Director Jon Jarvis. "Climate change is going to be the most significant challenge to the fundamental premise and foundational management of our national parks that we have ever faced," he said.
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Trees are growing in Yellowstone's mountain meadows, filling open areas that are crucial to the livelihoods of some wildlife.

With food sources and hospitable weather lingering well into fall, Yellowstone's grizzly bears are retiring to their dens later than ever before.

Jim Hoggan | Mainstream media misdirected in stolen email story

There is a crystal clear trail of money and extensive evidence tying a small group of climate change deniers and skeptics, fueled by millions of dollars from polluting industries, who have worked tirelessly for the past few decades to confuse the public about science and delay action on a host of public health and environmental priorities, none with greater potential consequence than global climate change.

Twelve days to change the face of our planet

Globally, 200 million climate migrants are expected by 2050.

Condoms To Fight Climate Change - Page 1 - The Daily Beast

“Loss of healthy life years as a result of global environmental change (including climate change) is predicted to be 500 times greater in poor African populations than in European populations,” The Lancet recently reported.

Tony Abbott with Laurie Oakes Channel Nine

TA: Well, I think that this is something that the public are very conconcerned about Laurie. I mean, sure the public thinks something is happening to our climate, and they think that the government should be doing something about it, and that's right, we should, but they are very concerned about this tax, I mean, something like 80% of the public say that they need more information and that's code for saying that they don't understand it, what I'd look to do, Laurie is I'd like to challenge the Prime Minister to a series of public debates on this subject. I mean, climate change...

Limping into Copenhagen Climate Conference through ‘Climategate’ | Asian Tribune

Those who cry wolf about looming catastrophe by the accumulation of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere have failed to explain millions of sceptics how come this simple ‘plant food’ suddenly became a force for destruction in the new millennium. It is in our primary school that we were taught Carbon Dioxide is taken in by plants to produce not only our food but also oxygen supply too without violating the basic laws of nature.

Doug Giles : It’s Got to Suck to be a Climavangelist! - Townhall.com

What are the global warming grunts going to do now that the Apostles of the Holy Church of Climatology have been busted for cooking the “truth” (I believe the exact word they used was “tricking” us) so that we the sheeple would step-n-fetch to their Chicken Little crap?
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12. And finally, I am going to make certain my girls have Horner’s book Red Hot Lies and Milloy’s book Green Hell so that when their profs and goofy friends open their mouths on behalf global warming they can go Stone Cold Steve Austin on them with the cold, hard facts.

Global Warming Hysteria: China and India Refuse Oversight–But The Fix is In » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

The good news, if any is to be found, is that such threats also can create an intense political backlash. The American people aren’t up for further depressing our own economy, while sending billions and billions of dollars overseas–not when the “crisis” may be mostly manufactured and we have budget black holes that threaten economic implosion. If this goes the way it seems now, look for loud huzzahs in the media, but a major political thumbs down once POTUS gets home.

Why there's no sign of a climate conspiracy in hacked emails - environment - 04 December 2009 - New Scientist

Direct measurements since the 1970s make it certain, for instance, that neither the sun's fluctuating brightness nor changes in the number of cosmic rays hitting Earth are responsible for the recent warming.
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Is it possible that tens of thousands of scientists have got it wrong? It is incredibly unlikely.

Our weather is manmade, says scientist - Scotland on Sunday

Professor James Curran, director of environmental science at the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, said the rise in greenhouse gas emissions had led to global warming.

Prof Curran said: "The average global temperature has increased by 0.8 degrees, so there is no natural weather left. It's now manmade weather and we are not making a very good job of it."

How to save the world: What the experts think will be achieved in Copenhagen - Green Living, Environment - The Independent

[Porritt] Recover lost ground by powerfully reasserting the scientific consensus delivered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its fourth assessment report. Stay open to legitimate scepticism; nail the crazy stuff.

Flashback: Two children should be limit, says green guru - Times Online

COUPLES who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned.

Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming.

[Is this guy really policy-neutral?]: Climate deal certain, but won't be enough: IPCC scientist

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - The flood of world leaders heading for next week's UN climate summit make an accord certain -- but the new deal will not be enough to truly fight global warming, a top climate scientist said Saturday.

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said more top-level politicians would attend Copenhagen than previous talks in Kyoto, where the current climate treaty was agreed.
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"We will have to go much further afterwards," he urged.

"We only have one inhabitable planet in the solar system, the others are either too hot or too cold," added the scientist.

Why a Cap-and-Trade System Can Be Bad for Your Health

Given that the developing world has now openly declared that it is not willing to accept any binding cap on its own emissions at the Copenhagen summit, it is time to rethink the European approach to combating climate change. The unilateral approach followed so far might do more harm than good. In my next column, I will outline a unilateral approach that will benefit the environment with certainty.

Climategate: Be Skeptical Of Envirojournalism « NCTimes.com Blogs

Someone who is paid to find evidence of environmental catastrophes would probably find them more often than someone whose pay doesn’t depend on finding them. That’s something to keep in mind when you read environmental reporting on Climategate.

Prove Climate Scaremongering

CSIRO has a long record of good and useful science. However, unless it can produce data, evidence and proof to support the government climate scare forecasts, we are forced to conclude that it has abandoned objective science for political advocacy.

Boulder science on display at Copenhagen - Boulder Daily Camera

The work of climate scientists is often the target of intense scrutiny compared to their peers in other disciplines, since their research findings are informing political decisions about whether or how to wean the global economy off of its dependence on carbon-rich fossil fuels. But Abdalati said he welcomes the opportunity to share his research in Copenhagen, and he tries to divorce his personal views on climate change policies from his scientific results.

Bitter cold, snow headed to Boulder, Broomfield counties - Boulder Daily Camera

Area residents should brace for more cold and snow for at least the next few days, according to the National Weather Service.

Obama shifts Copenhagen trip as prospects brighten | AP Business Headlines | Star-Telegram.com

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is shifting the timing of his visit to an international climate summit in Copenhagen as prospects for a political agreement at the event seem more likely.

ClimateGate: Data Fraud is the Method, Statism is the Goal « NewsReal Blog

Again, it’s all well and good to remind the American people of the Left’s propaganda tactics—repetition is an important part of getting a message across—but we can’t lose sight of why they cook the books: to advance their crackpot policy initiatives and all-encompassing vision of government authority.

Obama Goes All In On Climate Hoax « Yes, But, However!

I try and like the President. I really do, but whenever he does something decent he then follows up with a hard left move. Copenhagen is a sham. Shame on the citizens of this country (myself included) for not speaking up sooner about the left’s noxious and dishonest views on the climate.

If President Obama sells out this country in Copenhagen, as expected with his revised travel plans (the President will now be in Denmark during the negotiation phase of the summit), look for his poll numbers to shrink even further. I’m not sure the President cares anymore.

The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Washington Post Warming to Climategate…

So on the one hand, we have a pure, linear, public face of science; and on the other, we see a messy, muddied private face. On the third hand, in the hacked CRU e-mails, we’re shown the intersection of the two faces in a raging, secretive conversation about which facts can safely be released… and which are so explosive they must, at any cost, be suppressed. While this is the norm for politics, it makes for absolutely dreadful science.

Fight back against the hacked email hatchet job « It’s Getting Hot In Here

So when it comes down to it the question is this: who do you trust more? Thousands of scientists and every presitigious scientific organization or the world’s biggest oil companies? I pick the scientists.

Urgent Climate Change Communique from Comrade Brown

"Remember comrades, the anti-soviet greening sceptics may have logic and real scientific evidence behind them but they don't have paid-off scientists doing their research. Their scientists do not get the funding to produce false data, ours do, and there's the difference comrades. We are in power and we alone wield the mighty taxpayer funded cheque book of truth to gain an even more draconian hold over the human race."

ClimateGate Research Unit Sought Funds From Shell Oil | NewsBusters.org

The Climatic Research Unit at the heart of the ClimateGate scandal sought funds from Shell Oil in the year 2000.

Other e-mail messages obtained from the University of East Anglia's computers also showed officials at the school's CRU solicited support from ExxonMobil and BP Amoco, although the nature of this support was not identified.

Only one in two voters accepts man-made climate change, according to new poll - Telegraph

Furthermore, fewer than one in four voters (23 per cent) believed that climate change was "the most serious problem faced by man" – a view endorsed by governments across the world.
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Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice chairman of the IPCC, said it was possible Russian hackers had been paid as part of a global conspiracy to cast doubt on the science of global warming. "I do not think this is a coincidence," he added.
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Despite the drive to do a deal to cut emissions at Copenhagen its is estimated that there will be around 1,200 limousines on the city's road this week – of which just five will be either electric cars or hybrids. Copenhagen's main airport, furthermore, says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets.

Dutch approach to climate change: Adapt - washingtonpost.com

As sea levels swell and storms intensify, the Dutch are spending billions of euros on "floating communities"

Copenhagen: We’ve got them climate blues - Times Online

About 30,000 chilly protesters gathered in London for some warming hellfire sermons
...The scandal has shaken trust in researchers ahead of this week’s Copenhagen summit, according to a poll for The Sunday Times.

YouGov asked more than 2,000 people whether they trusted scientists to tell the truth about climate change. The poll showed that 41% did so, while 44% did not.

Shaken « the Air Vent

I am truly shaken, there’s no other word for it. I’ve been pushed too far by this and am nearly to the point of denying the whole thing- I’m science minded and have no proof but the intentional manipulation, the fraud .. and it was fraud (we don’t use the f-bomb here) the browbeating of senior scientists in less powerful positions. The IPCC is corrupted and thoroughly implicated. It’s ugly and it is REAL!!

Instapundit » Blog Archive

PJTV WILL HAVE CREWS IN COPENHAGEN covering the “climate change” conference.

Journal Editorial Report Gets It! « Musings from the Chiefio

Today, they had a very nice segment on AGW and Climategate. They actually mentioned both the email issues (including the subornation of the peer review process) AND the code issues (including the ‘fudge factor’ usage and cooking the books to achieve a goal).

Bravo Journal Editorial Report and Paul Gigot!

An Inconvenient Lie Exposed | Christianpost.com

The inconvenient lie of climate change has been brought out of the shadows of scientific doublespeak and into the light of revealing emails that prove manipulation of the facts. The leaked emails from climate change giants such as Phil Jones, the current Director of the CRU, Tom Wigley, Michael Mann, Hubert Lamb, and a host of others reveal three shocking strands of a tightly woven web of deception.

How Climategate Ranks in a Media Interest Index « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

The lack of coverage of Climategate by the mainstream news media over the last 2 weeks has been breathtaking.

Climategate reveals 'the most influential tree in the world' - Telegraph

I will only add two footnotes to this real-life new version of the old story. One is that, as we can see from the CRU's website, the largest single source of funding for all its projects has been the European Union, which at Copenhagen will be more insistent than anyone that the world should sign up to what amounts to the most costly economic suicide note in history.

SEPP EDITORIAL: By Kenneth Haapala. Brought to you by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) | Climate Realists

Thus according to the IPCC, compelling physical evidence of extensive warming in one part of the globe is counterbalanced by computer simulations of cooling in another part of the globe for which physical evidence is lacking. The life work of Lamb in compiling physical evidence has been trumped by computer simulations with little or no supporting physical evidence.

Abbott defies doubters with poll wins

Mr Abbott believes the results prove the public is uneasy about Labor's ETS.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Brown: AGW skeptics are “flat-Earthers”

Perhaps Gordon Brown needs to familiarize himself with actual science rather than political hackery. Actual science gets conducted in the open, and needs repeatable conclusions and full data sets to be considered “settled.” It welcomes scrutiny and testing; actual science doesn’t hide from scrutiny, or conspire to block it, and actual scientists don’t plot ways to ruin the careers of those who question the models or results.

Brown has put himself clearly in the “Shut up, he explained” school, which isn’t science at all. It’s what leaders of a cult say when the brainwashing starts to weaken.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Guest Post by Hans Von Storch: The Sustainability of Climate Science

The present essay calls for a sustainable practice of climate science. Such a sustainability requires that science is not degenerating to a sort of politics and policymaking; instead science is supposed to provide coldly, impassionately, knowledge about the options of policymaking. For doing so, it needs first of all to do "good science", which needs openness, reproducibility, falsification, publication. And the acceptance that science the pursuit of satisfying curiosity is a part of our western culture.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Red herring from the Telegraph

Scientists agree that there has been warming (climate change) since the temperature minimum of the Little Ice Age, in fact about half a degree per century. The dispute is over the cause of the warming. Yet the Telegraph spins this as if sceptics dispute the warming itself:

Borrow to the hilt to stop global warming, says Lord Stern - Telegraph

Governments should increase borrowing to tackle global warming despite the dire state of public balance sheets, according to Lord Stern of Brentford, the former chief economist of the World Bank.

The Migrant Mind: Does global warming predict early snows?

Now, let's all sit in a circle, hold hands, and chant the Orwellian slogan, "Warming means cooling"

What Copenhagen can do now to fight global warming

As for Marc Morano, I just watched a funny clip of him debating an English climate scientist over at Watt's Up With That, which concluded with the scientist calling him a dirty word. Morano's been a very effecive aggregator for the skeptic side, and has made a contribution. It looked to me like he both won the debate and deserved the scientist's epithet.
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I should also add that the absolute worst performance by any scientists dealing with this issue was turned in by John Rennie, over at Scientific American. In an article titled 'Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense,' Rennie knocked over seven strawman arguments that nobody mentioned here is even making, and managed to deliberately lie (and I use the word calmly and after reflection) to his audience.

Heliogenic Climate Change: "Adjusted" Alaska data trend over 2 degrees warmer than raw data

Curiously, the magnitude of the adjustments is about the same as the “global warming” signal of the past century. 

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Spinning the Literature

The point here is that a leading figure in the scientific community is publicly misrepresenting what the scientific literature actually says in exactly the same manner as was shown to be occurring in the CRU emails.

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - North American 2008 Cooling Attributed to Natural Causes

Cooler North American temperatures in 2008 resulted from a strong natural effect, and the overall warming trend that has been observed since 1970 is likely to resume, according to university and NOAA scientists.

So is there ever strong natural warming?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » AGW meltdown: UK Met Office needs three years to review East Anglia data

Consider the Brits on the sideline until 2012 on global warming. The Met Office will need three years to rebuild ground-based climate models while recompiling raw data from the past 160 years to replace the data that the University of East Anglia’s CRU destroyed years ago. They want to create an open and transparent full data set, but until then have to back down from any of the conclusions that relied on UEA-CRU’s models...

Who da Mann « the Air Vent

Some fun emails from Singer, Monkton, Mann and others going back and forth on hockeysticks and such.

FOXNews.com - Critics Decry 'One-Sided' Media Coverage of Climate Change Debate

The mainstream media are abandoning objective reporting and acting as full-time advocates for measures to combat global warming, some media watchdogs say, accusing them of pushing for a sweeping international agreement on climate change.

FOXNews.com - Obama Ignores 'Climate-Gate' in Revising Copenhagen Plans

The scandal has prompted calls for Obama from global warming skeptics to skip this month's climate summit in Copenhagen -- instead, the White House is doubling down on its commitment

Audacity of ‘Hopenhagen’

Climategate suggests that this inverse pyramid of activism and appeasement has been based on a pinpoint of poisoned "science." The Danish capital will be filled next week with those attempting to ignore that inconvenient truth while committing earnestly to cripple the world's economy (later rather than sooner) and promising to ship further hundreds of billions of dollars to hold up the development of the world's poorest people.

Heliogenic Climate Change: AGW clergy at EPA about to issue infallible papal decree

Even though they did no independent investigation into the science but relied solely on corrupt, politicized bodies like the IPCC and the NOAA CCSP, EPA is about to decree that the gas of life (there would be no plants and hence no animals without it) is a "dangerous pollutant". If only George Orwell were alive today. This is absolute insanity and is solely the blame of the fanatical imams of the AGW religion. Separation of church and state has ended in America.

Nothing Personal | GlobalWarming.org

1. “They’ve” — implies someone from the group of skeptics they disdain was the one to pilfer and expose their messages. But CRU, Mann, and the rest of their cabal have no idea who exposed the records.

2. “stolen” — CRU, Mann, etc. cannot prove the records were extracted by an outside entity. They may have been exposed by a whistleblower. Those types are often celebrated as heroes when they scandals are revealed.

3. “personal” — We’ve already addressed that above and elsewhere.

4. “emails” — yes, and so much more. They don’t even want to talk about the corrupted source code, which a software engineer — who is not a climate skeptic — interviewed by BBC said was, let’s say, less than professional.

Copenhagen climate summit: Climate Express sets off from Brussels - Telegraph

The train was packed with people utterly convinced of the science behind global warming and very scared about the consequences. Eco-warriors pressed up against over excited hacks and leading figures from the UN to hear inpromptu lectures on cutting greenhouse gases in carriages so full of hot air it was difficult to breath.

Pajamas Media » Climategate: Obama’s Science Adviser Confirms the Scandal — Unintentionally

Now, I wouldn’t want to jump to any conclusions here, but it kind of looks to me like the “small group of scientists” caught out by Climategate are pretty much the same people who make up the vast and strong scientific consensus on global warming and write the official reports that the U.S. and other governments rely on to inform their policy decisions. I’m sure Dr. John P. Holdren, President Obama’s science adviser, has a plausible alternative explanation. He always does.

Yet another failed prediction?

Thousands march in 'wave' against climate change ahead of Copenhagen conference - Telegraph

Around 20,000 protesters in London, many dressed in blue, circled the Houses of Parliament where they created a human “wave” to highlight their concerns.

Copenhagen climate summit: Women's Institute join the 'Wave' protest - Telegraph

It is expected up to 80,000 dressed in blue will congregate outside the Houses of Parliament. Some will even paint their faces and hands, hence the name the 'wave'.

Warning Signs: Climategate: A Willful Ignorance

The IPCC should be disbanded as a threat to mankind. The EPA should be required by Congress to produce scientific proof that CO2 is a “pollutant” to be regulated. It cannot!

Boxer Undeterred By Global Warming E-Mails Scandal - Peter Roff (usnews.com)

"We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated," she said, announcing a diversionary tactic that could give the scientists who may have perpetrated a scientific fraud of greater significance than the "Piltdown Man" a free pass.

Byrd to coal industry: lose the attitude and embrace [massive fraud]

Get the chip off your shoulder, get out of denial about climate change, and stop fear-mongering about the widespread opposition to mountaintop removal coal mining, wrote Byrd, the longest serving member of Congress in American history.

Equation of panic unravels

Consider just that: This model is the chief tool by which researchers predict the Earth will warm 4 to 7 degrees Celsius in the next century. It is, the e-mail reveals, a semi-functional contraption that, without constant fiddling, produces uncongenial results. Lest you think we can sort this out by re-running the numbers, it transpires that the center discarded its original data. Their predictions now are uncheckable, unfalsifiable -- in short, not science but faith.

Doyle defends climate legislation Business groups say bill will slow state's recovery

Doyle will join two other governors -- Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Chris Gregoire of Washington -- for the climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, which begin next week.

Doyle will attend the conference from Dec. 14-18. He will be joined by a small number of others in his administration, said spokesman Lee Sensenbrenner.

The trip will be paid for by the Climate Registry and Climate Action Reserve, two organizations involved in the fledgling carbon emissions market.

BBC News - UN hits back at climate sceptics amid e-mails row

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8397265.stm

Earlier, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband told the BBC he would be "very surprised" if there had been any wrongdoing on the part of the East Anglia University scientists.

EPA Poised to Declare CO2 a Public Danger - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126003232518778287.html

WASHINGTON--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy, according to several people close to the matter.

Protests add pressure for Copenhagen climate deal

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Protests+pressure+Copenhagen+climate+deal/2308027/story.html

Among protests, activists in Berlin, posing as world leaders, sat inside a giant aquarium that was gradually filled with water to highlight the risks of rising sea levels from melting glaciers and ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica.

The Truth About the ClimateGate E-Mails: Begley | Newsweek Environment | Newsweek.com

http://www.newsweek.com/id/225778

the scientists should be bigger than the know-nothings. Rather than "circl[ing] the wagons," as Curry put it, respond to misinformation with physics, data, and analysis as, for instance, the RealClimate blog does.

More hacking? - Discover Magazine

http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/tag/centre-for-climate-modelling/

To me, though, one thing is clear. The global warming story, which I have watched and covered since the year 2003, is moving to a very new and different place, with a dramatically increased level of chatter and frenzy as the frame changes and this ceases to be a story about science, and becomes one about scandal and wrongdoing. As a result, the whole issue feels on the verge of a new tipping point as we move into the two weeks of Copenhagen.

A Gross Failure of Leadership | Jim Hansen - Newsweek.com

http://www.newsweek.com/id/225811

 We must remember that the -human--made climate -forcing—-changing the planet's energy balance in a way that alters -temperature—is not coming on just a bit faster than the natural forcings of the -past; -on the contrary, it is a rapid, powerful blow, an order of magnitude greater than any other natural forcings that we are aware of.

Will clash of science and politics undermine Copenhagen summit? | csmonitor.com

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/12/05/will-clash-of-science-and-politics-undermine-copenhagen-summit/

The Financial Times says the infamous emails, in fact, strengthen the case for action against global warming, but also sees it as a warning to scientists to refrain from trying to sway the political debate.

I'd rather not know: the psychology of climate denial - Environment - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/id-rather-not-know-the-psychology-of-climate-denial-1834890.html

If the evidence is overwhelming that man-made climate change is already upon us and set to wreak planetary havoc, why do so many people refuse to believe it?

The UN's panel of climate scientists, in a landmark report, described the proof of global warming as "unequivocal." That was two years ago, and since then hundreds of other studies have pointed to an ever-bleaker future, with a potential loss of life numbering in the tens of millions, if not more.

RealClimate: Who you gonna call?

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/12/who-you-gonna-call/

More bizarre is that some journalists seem to have decided that scientists no longer have credibility and hence one can now turn to whomever one wants for expert advice. 

Climategate Professor to Skeptic on Live BBC TV: 'What an Assh*le' | Climate Depot

http://climatedepot.com/a/4292/Climategate-Professor-to-Skeptic-on-Live-BBC-TV-What-an-Asshle

A professor who is accusing global warming skeptics of engaging in "tabloid-style character assassination" of scientists, called an American climate skeptic "an assh*le" on the December 4, 2009 live broadcast of BBC's Newsnight program.

"What an assh*le!" declared Professor Watson at the end of the contentious debate with Climate Depot's executive editor Marc Morano. A clearly agitated Watson had earlier shouted to Morano "will you shut up."

In e-mails, science of warming is hot debate - washingtonpost.com

Stolen files of 'Climate-gate' suggest some viewpoints on change are disregarded

Doyle’s "smart" approach to climate change

No matter where ideologues stand with regard to the scientific debates regarding climate change -- the overwhelming majority of scientists recognize global warming as a challenge that must be addressed, a few dissenters suggest that claims regarding the crisis have been inflated -- there can be no doubt that the future will be green.

[In case you missed it] » Carbon coaching

No matter how many activists, no matter the number of celebrities or how pretty they are, none can ever change the fact that climate change is normal and unstoppable. Perhaps not always beneficial—that’s just tough if it isn’t—but entirely natural.

Grim evidence that global warming eats at scientists’ brains | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Why did these warmist scientists in the ABC’s report portray an old and relatively common phenomenon as a startling new one, and hail something perfectly natural as evidence instead of extraordinary man-made warming?

Ignorance? Deception?

Chasing Obama | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

There’s no way a man like Rudd could bear to have left the Copenhagen meeting before Obama arrives. Stand by for the third version of Rudd’s flight arrangements.

Met Office to publish climate change data amid fraud claims | Environment | The Observer

Further information may be released at a later date after 188 countries were written to asking for permission to publish historic data.

Mike Tidwell -- To fix climate change, stop going green all alone - washingtonpost.com

All who appreciate the enormity of the climate crisis still have a responsibility to make every change possible in their personal lives. I have, from the solar panels on my roof to the Prius in my driveway to my low-carbon-footprint vegetarian diet. But surveys show that very few people are willing to make significant voluntary changes, and those of us who do create the false impression of mass progress as the media hypes our actions.

Global Warming in the Hot Seat

At the end of the day, the President may well decide that a little academic fraud is a small price to pay for the “noble” cause of change.

FT.com | FT Energy Source | All aboard the Climate [Hoax] Express!

Brussels Midi station had never seen anything like it. At 8am on Saturday morning, scores of people were excitedly milling around platform 3 in a hubbub of noise, as a strangely decorated train waited to set off. The train indicator read “Climate Express to Copenhagen”. Bemused Belgian railway officials tried in vain to keep some kind of order on the platform as squads of TV crews surrounded VIPs in suits, including members of the Belgian government and European officials, and photographers snapped.

Share Your Thoughts On Climate Change - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Throughout the conference, which ends on Dec. 18, we invite readers to share their thoughts — and reply to others’ — about climate change and clean energy.

Pajamas Media » Al Gore: Fraud, Scaredy Cat

Gore backs out of his planned hand-shaking appearance in Copenhagen. Perhaps because anyone allowed to get that close might be able to ask a question.

BBC News - Himalayan glaciers melting deadline 'a mistake'

When asked how this "error" could have happened, RK Pachauri, the Indian scientist who heads the IPCC, said: "I don't have anything to add on glaciers."

Carbon prices fall in RGGI auction - NashuaTelegraph.com

Furthermore, not all the allowances for the future sold, perhaps indicating uncertainty about what a federal cap-and-trade program (should one ever arise) will due to RGGI allowances.

RGGI, said all 28.6 million allowances offered in Wednesday’s auction sold at $2.05 per ton, the lowest price ever. The price was $2.19 per ton in September, $3.05 in the summer and $3.51 back in the first compulstory auction in March.

Climate change: Life and death or just a huge cash grab? - The North Bay Nugget - Ontario, CA

[LORRIE GOLDSTEIN] The thing to understand about the 12-day UN meeting on climate change starting in Copenhagen today, is it's not an environmental conference. It's an economic mugging.

That it's not about saving the planet. It's about making you poorer.

And finally, that the solutions" it proposes to fix" the climate, far from being intended to succeed, are guaranteed to fail.

How do we know? Because they've already failed.

Argentina - The climate change myth is just big business

So, is it all just a gigantic scam? Plenty of people think it is, not because they themselves claim to be specialists in what is an extremely complicated field but because, after listening to what the climate preachers have to say, they have come to the conclusion that there is something very peculiar about them. They suspect that, not for the first time, political, academic and media elites are trying to bully them into accepting drastic changes.

Reader's Comments: Can Copenhagen save us all? - The Courier-Mail

I had a visitor from the US last week. She is an environmental scientist. She told me that she was amazed at how much media coverage an ETS and Climate Change was getting out here. Apparently according to my friend, it hardly "rates a mention" in the US.

NBC adopts right-wing's "climategate" smear | Media Matters for America

NBC Nightly News repeated the unsupported claims that recently stolen emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia "show climate scientists massaging the data" and asked if the "books [have] been cooked on climate change." However, NBC reporter Anne Thompson made no attempt to evaluate the truth of the allegations which are based on a series of discredited smears.

Copenhagen climate summit: glossary of the organisations involved - Telegraph

The Copenhagen climate change summit brings together countries and scientists represented by a mind-boggling range of organisations. Here are some of the key players.

'M and M' stick in craw of climate-change crew

If scientists were really interested in learning the truth about global warming, McKitrick said he and McIntyre would be encouraged for contributing to the debate. Instead, they are seen as unwelcome outsiders, meddling where they have no business.

Global warming state fund grows -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

Raids on account outrage environmental community members

FOXNews.com - What Are Global Warming Supporters Trying to Hide?

This is the age of computers and Web sites. If the institutions have the data sets available on their computers, they can easily be put up on a Web site for the world to see. No researcher should be trusted if he or she is not willing to share their data gladly. Are we now to believe that NASA, the very institution who managed to put man on the moon, finds the task of uploading data to a Web site too difficult?

Is slavery the new green energy? | Environment | The Guardian

How many cyclists does it take to make a cup of tea? About 100, if you run your home on pedal power.
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One of the biggest problems was feeding the cyclists. "You would use more energy feeding them than the energy they produced," says Siddall.

Many of the cyclists were so exhausted that they were unable to walk for days. But Siddall is still confident that volunteer slavery will be the future economic model. "I have no doubt that slavery will return as the world's energy resources get increasingly scarce." This proved a little "off-message" for the BBC. "Its crew had a 20 megawatt generator to keep the lights and cameras going. So you will need around 1,000 slaves to make an hour of TV."

Power Line - Skeptical, For Better or Worse

It is perhaps a sad fact that most Americans are skeptical of what they are told by politicians, businessmen, college professors and other supposed authority figures. An extreme case is the United Nations: Rasmussen finds that only 22% of Americans consider the UN to be "a reliable source of information on global warming." So much for the IPCC "consensus" on climate change.

Whether we would be better off if we were a more trusting people is an interesting question. In this particular case, however, the skepticism is amply justified.

NASA: Climategate’s Second Shoe? | The Admonition

NASA may just be the second shoe to drop in climategate, more to come I’m sure. Chris Horner will either get the information he’s looking for by the Freedom of Information Act or by the lawsuit he’s planning. It’s a lose lose for NASA and the warmers.

'Climategate'; Praise to the Whistleblower!

The hero of ‘Climategate’ who retrieved the 1000 emails and 2000 documents from the East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, and who released those document onto the Internet for the World to see, did more for the American people in that one act, than Obama has done in the twelve months he has been in office.

GOP Whispers About Investigating Obama, 'Climategate' - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)

Republican foes of President Obama's bailouts of automakers and Wall Street, global warming proposals, and healthcare reform are eagerly considering investigating those programs should the GOP retake control of the House, according to several involved in the discussions. Topping the list is global warming and the controversy over whether supporters of curbing carbon dioxide output used "tricks" to promote their claims of disastrous climate change. "Just imagine 13 months from now when we have subpoena power," said one Republican involved.

A climate skeptic's guide to fun and profit - The Globe and Mail

Mr. Coxe is one of the few people connected to a big bank who goes against that grain. He might even be Bay Street's most forceful climate-change skeptic. The Earth isn't warming, it's cooling, he says. The green movement? A joke. Coal? Fuel of the future. Al Gore? A money-hungry opportunist.

Climate Observations: Met Office Involved In Different Type Of Cover-Up

They’ve got an advertisement covering the last 5 to 6 years of data, and you can’t close the ad.

Coalition of denial: The sceptics who are trying to reshape the climate debate | Environment | The Guardian

The prominent climate change sceptics do not speak with one voice

Laboratories' outer limits | Mike Hulme | Comment is free | The Guardian

We owe it to our fellow citizens to listen and understand the reasons for their scepticism over man-made climate change. It is not all irrational fundamentalism.

[Does he hate your grandchildren?]: Bloomberg Drops Measure to Cut New York’s Greenhouse Gases - NYTimes.com

After intense opposition from building owners, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has dropped the most far-reaching initiative of his plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Politicians unimpressed with McCartney's vegetarian campaign Music, movie & Entertainment News

Sir Paul McCartney's plan to use vegetarianism to help combat global warming has met with mixed reactions from European politicians, with one minister labelling his proposals "muddled, misleading and wrong."

Scientists Behaving Badly

A corrupt cabal of global warming alarmists are exposed by a massive document leak.
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...even before Climategate, the campaign was beginning to resemble a Broadway musical that had run too long, with sagging box office and declining enthusiasm from a dwindling audience. Someone needs to break the bad news to the players that it's closing time for the climate horror show.

Global warming: Forget the climate sceptics, the real experts are scared - Science and Health Blog - Mirror.co.uk

[Alarmist Vicky Pope] Only when human activity is included in the models is the rise in temperature explained.

Does COP15 want us to recall the tiger cages of Saigon?

The Parliamentary Ombudsman Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen for more information on police mass detention during the climate summit, writes politiken.dk.

 It happens after the police have shown the 37 cages to house up to 346 demonstrators in an earlier processing plant. The Ombudsman has oversight of detention.

George F. Will - The last chance for Earth -- until the next one - washingtonpost.com

Some climate scientists compound their delusions of intellectual adequacy with messiah complexes. They seem to suppose themselves a small clerisy entrusted with the most urgent truth ever discovered. On it, and hence on them, the planet's fate depends. So some of them consider it virtuous to embroider facts, exaggerate certitudes, suppress inconvenient data, and manipulate the peer-review process to suppress scholarly dissent and, above all, to declare that the debate is over.

Consider the sociology of science, the push and pull of interests, incentives, appetites and passions. Governments' attempts to manipulate Earth's temperature now comprise one of the world's largest industries. Tens of billions of dollars are being dispensed, as by the U.S. Energy Department, which has suddenly become, in effect, a huge venture capital operation, speculating in green technologies. Political, commercial, academic and journalistic prestige and advancement can be contingent on not disrupting the (postulated) consensus that is propelling the gigantic and fabulously lucrative industry of combating global warming.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Brief Media Critique

It is amazing that a scandal that has appeared on something like 14 million web pages (per Google, though ymmv as I see people getting all kinds of numbers) in a matter of just 2 weeks has yet to appear on the US mainstream network news. I mean, these were the guys who spent breathless hours of live coverage reporting every breaking rumor about changes to Michael Jackson’s coffin.

Copenhagen, Climate Files, Hot Sharks - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

And, last but not least, Minnesotans for Global Warming has a music video of a song titled “ Hide the Decline,” while The Washington Examiner compiled something of a rogue’s gallery of those implicated in “Climategate,” including yours truly:

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Doubling down: Obama now set to attend negotiation sessions at Copenhagen

Needless to say, if no deal results from a personal appearance by Holy Barry, Father of God, the great hope of the “international community,” it’ll be an even bigger blow to his prestige than the Olympics debacle. As for the terms of the prospective deal, sounds like we’re going to fight this war with half-measures too.

Re: On the Horn with the Warming All-Stars - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I might have missed a question, but I think that’s it. Three of the eight reporters didn’t even mention the leaked e-mails. Two of the remaining five didn’t confront the group with the content of the e-mails, but merely asked them to comment on the ensuing furor. Only three of eight actually asked about the substance of the controversy. Delingpole is right: The MSM, by and large, just don’t care about this scandal, even though their readers and viewers plainly do.

It is what it is- and the GOD of Physics will have it no other way! « the Air Vent

Is global warming from CO2 real? – Hell yes!

Is it measurably warmer due to CO2 — not sure.

Are claims of ice melt, fish shrinking, model projections, temperature measurements, paleo science, drought, increased storms and FLOODING!! exaggerated? – Yup!

Is it being done with intent. OH HELL YES.

Copenhagen climate summit: Women's Institute join the 'Wave' protest - Telegraph

A very 'polite protest' of grandmothers, bird watchers and church groups will surround Parliament to ask the Government to take action against climate change.
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It is expected up to 80,000 dressed in blue will congregate outside the Houses of Parliament. Some will even paint their faces and hands, hence the name the 'wave'.

American Thinker: Save the planet by banning ice cream

Soon the image of a family sitting around a table in a lighted and heated home eating a cooked meal will be demonized as selfish and repulsive. The ideal family will be one that has one child, does not engage in commerce, and lives in a small home made of waste material where they burn a single candle for an hour each night while they eat raw vegetables while wearing 5 year old dungarees that were made from recycled 10 year old dungarees.

YouTube - Obama censors PM for global warming

On Gustakhi Maaf, US President Barack Obama asks Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cut down on India's tea intake, as the hot tea is "contributing to global warming".

Evangelicals Push Back Against Climate Change 'Hoax' | Christianpost.com

WASHINGTON – A group of evangelicals, comprised of scientists, economists and theologians, called the mainstream view of pending catastrophe caused by climate change a “hoax” at an event Thursday just days ahead of a key U.N.-sponsored climate change conference in Copenhagen.

Copenhagen climate summit: what is global warming? - Telegraph

The climate summit at Copenhagen will aim to stop man-made global warming. But are temperatures really rising and is it caused by humans?
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The evidence became overwhelming two years ago after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report by 152 [not 2,500?!] scientists from 30 countries and reviewed by 600 experts that said global temperatures are increasing and it is very likely due to man made greenhouse gases.

Copenhagen climate summit: The protesters - Telegraph

But it does not look like the Danish are expecting violence. Denmark has 10,500 police officers and while most will be drafted into the capital for summit duties, they are not seeking reinforcements.

Biggest news this year? Global warming goes back to the drawing board

The story, carried by The Times, has one curious item in it: "The Government is attempting to stop the Met Office from carrying out the re-examination, arguing that it would be seized upon by climate change sceptics." Does this mean that Gordon Brown's Labour Party would rather work with compromised data rather than get accurate readings? Curious, if true.

Don't let ‘Climategate' melt down your portfolio - The Globe and Mail

If you think that calling global warming an irrational mania is a bit harsh, consider this: Say that a pharmaceutical company's researchers were caught fudging their tests to make their drug look effective; then, when found out, conveniently lost the non-fudged data. If a doctor prescribed for your child the fraudsters' drug, would you let her take it? If you said yes, would we not be justified in saying you are acting irrationally?

This, in effect, is what's happening now: global warming has become a near-religious test of civic virtue, just as being invested in Internet stocks became a test of investment savvy in 2000. Which is why many investors dazedly held on to Nortel all the way down to zero, even after its accounting issues had been revealed. And now, even though you can't trust the climate change data, the Copenhagen conference still goes on and promoters including Al Gore are out begging the public to give the scientists the benefit of the doubt. This is the same Mr. Gore who is profiting from tax credit-based environmental investments.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Global cooling in 1976 – deja vu all over again

Alan Wilkie – well known TV weatherman on the Australian Channel 7 of a few decades ago. Enjoy the four pages from his 1976 book describing global cooling and the associated bad effects breaking out here and there around the globe.
It is just so familiar to the utter twaddle we are constantly badgered these days with about “global warming”.

Brown rejects 'flat-earth' climate sceptics - Yahoo! News

LONDON (AFP) – World leaders heading to UN climate talks next week must not be distracted by "flat-earth" sceptics who deny humans are to blame for global warming, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Saturday.

"With only days to go before Copenhagen, we mustn't be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics," Brown told The Guardian newspaper ahead of the landmark UN summit in the Danish capital.

"We know the science. We know what we must do. We must now act and close the five-billion-tonne gap. That will seal the deal."

Lake effect snow sets a few records | Michigan

Forecasts had been calling for three to five inches in some places, but a small band of snowstorms blew that total away, dropping 14 to 15 inches in some places.

Scandal shakes foundations of climate science - The Globe and Mail

Now the pirating of thousands of e-mail messages from within its walls has revealed a dangerous bunker mentality among the scientists who guarded those records and a data-fudging scandal that has created a crisis of confidence in global-warming science that is threatening to destroy the political consensus around next week's carbon-policy summit in Copenhagen.

Said one scientist working at the institute: “It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this has set the climate-change debate back 20 years.”
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Unusually, even sympathetic scientists and some activists have concluded that the credibility of climate science has been seriously harmed.
...Some of his colleagues also say the IPCC now does more harm than good and should be disbanded.

That position has led some of his colleagues to attack him. This week, several said in Internet posts that such transparency would be unworkable because the matter of climate is too urgent and the stakes too high to allow skeptics to have any influence on policy.

That, Prof. Hulme said, is exactly the attitude that led to the sort of questionable practices chronicled in the CRU e-mails.

BBC News - Newsnight - CRU's programming 'way below expected standards'

As the row caused by the Climatic Research Unit's leaked e-mails continues, Newsnight has been told there are now serious concerns over the quality of the computer programming used to produce the global temperature records at the heart of the debate.

Newsnight's Science Editor Susan Watts looks at how the source code used in the CRU's computer files is way below expected standards for this type of commercial software, according to software engineer Dr John Graham-Cumming.

In his weekly address, Obama ignores both ClimateGate and Copenhagen

Weekly address watch: For the nineteenth time in twenty-one weeks, Obama ignores global warming (The Most Important Issue of All Time)

I’m determined to meet our responsibility to do what we know will strengthen our economy in the long-run. That’s why I’m not going to let up in my efforts to reform our health care system; to give our children the best education in the world; to promote the jobs of tomorrow and energy independence by investing in a clean energy economy; and to deal with the mounting federal debt.

On the Horn with the Warming All-Stars - Stephen Spruiell - Planet Gore on National Review Online

3. The first question comes from Andrew Revkin of the New York Times. “You guys have worked really hard to keep yourself separate from the political process,” Revkin says, and yet [Center for American Progress] has a specific political agenda. Why do this call through CAP? Mann replies that the conference call was CAP’s idea, and that he agreed to it because CAP is “a wonderful venue for us to get out what the science has to say and to address these specious allegations.”
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C) Despite Revkin’s assertion that these guys have “worked really hard” to steer clear of politics, the scientists repeatedly talk about the importance of their relationship with policymakers, which necessarily involves politics.

Climategate II: Revenge of the Climate Modelers « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

...my bigger concern is that the “it’s-OK-to-fudge” attitude pervades the entire IPCC apparatus.

Video - Inhofe: It’s ‘Dishonest’ for Obama to Attend Global Warming Summit and Say America Will Cap Carbon Emissions

CNSNews.com - Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says it is “dishonest” for President Barack Obama to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next week to announce that the United States will cap its carbon emissions because legislation to do so has no chance of passing in Congress.

Confronting Al Gore - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Oh my. Protests against Al Gore at a book signing, and subsequent reaction of Gore's green shirts.

The Big Question: Does 'climate-gate' matter politically? - The Hill's Congress Blog

Some of the nation's top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer some insight into the biggest question burning up the blogosphere today.

RGGI: A tax is a tax is a tax | GlobalWarming.org

t’s just like my colleague Myron Ebell likes to say. “There are three things you need to know about cap-and-trade: It’s a tax, it’s a tax, it’s a tax.”

RUSS DUERSTINE: The great global warming scam» Standard-Times

This global warming scam has defrauded everyone from the taxpayers to carbon offset buyers to donors of scientific grants. We fundamentally are changing our lives with drastic cuts in our standard of living, all for the sake of a lie, and for the benefit of the few.

So before we agree to pass cap-and-trade or go to Copenhagen and sign a disastrous global warming treaty that will further cripple our economy, we should demand that our elected leaders base their decisions on fact, not fraud.

Penguin brains at work | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Rather than crash, the penguin population boomed.

So why didn’t a real crash in penguin populations - the one in that second report I quoted - cause similar apocalyptic warnings of global warming?

Simple. It’s from The Argus of March 19, 1940.

Kevin Grandia | Breaking: Hackers attempt to access Canadian government Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis

“This is disturbing news and it shows that there is an organized criminal campaign that is going to great lengths to infiltrate secure facilities and steal private data,” said Jim Hoggan, author of the new book Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. “We don’t know who is behind these criminal acts, but we hope they will eventually be unmasked by police. In the meantime, what we do know is that the individuals and organizations that quickly launched an online PR campaign to misrepresent the content of the hacked emails from the University of East Anglia are part of a decades-long confusion campaign to delay government action on the issue.”

How hotter it truly was | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

And still I hear BBC reports on how this is a scandal about nothing, and does not affect the “fundamental” science. Listen to the true denialists.

Obama’s Change of Plans for Kyopenhagen - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Amusing to see the BRICs' promises to raise their emissions a little less in exchange for big sacks of cash being touted as a sign of momentum. I'm not so sure about the central premise, either. If Copenhagen blows up, doesn't showing up on the last day give Obama a chance to lecture the world rather than look incompetent for not getting anything done?

Copenhagen climate [fraud] conference: Cash for climate change could encourage warfare - Telegraph

A plan to give billions of pounds to poor countries to help them adapt to climate change could fuel conflicts as rivals fight over the cash, a new report has warned.

Copenhagen [Brainwashed] Children’s Climate [Hoax] Forum declares: the time to fight climate change is now

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 4 December 2009 - After a week of intensive work and debate, about 160 young people from all over the globe finalized a Declaration today in Copenhagen, committing to personal changes in their own lives and demanding that governments worldwide take actions to protect our planet from the impacts of climate change.

C3: 'Nature' Journal Reveals Its Absolute Institutional AGW Bias: Their Own Words Prove Objective Peer-Review Has Become Joke

Climategate is bringing out the worst in many. The formerly well respected Nature science journal openly condones science fraud, as long as it supports their "science" agenda. Scientific process and critical scientific skepticism has officially become the victim of politically correct thinking of those entrusted to protect the credibility of science. Not good at all, for anyone.

[Obama plans to blow more taxpayer money on the climate swindle]

Obama originally planned to attend the UN climate conference next week, but the White House said Friday that he would now be there at the climax of the negotiations on December 18.

At the same time, the White House said the United States was ready to pay a "fair share" of 10 billion dollars in annual aid to developing countries to cope with climate change.

Met Office to re-examine 160 years of climate data - Times Online

The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.

Technology Review: Blogs: Information Processing: Climategate and the American Physical Society

This is a matter of great importance to the integrity of the Society. It is being sent to a random fraction of the membership, so we hope you will pass it on.

By now everyone has heard of what has come to be known as ClimateGate, which was and is an international scientific fraud, the worst any of us have seen in our cumulative 223 years of APS membership.

YouTube: A California Climate Change [Hoax] Primer with Your Host, Gov. Schwarzenegger - Truthdig

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apparently isn’t one of those Republicans who believe that growing international concerns about climate change stem from a vast left-wing conspiracy. Here, he takes stock of the climate-related challenges his adopted home state may face and what’s to be done about them.

Houston braces for icy night after record early snowfall | Houston & Texas News

The National Weather Service noted that it's the first time Houston has had two consecutive years of measurable snow.

Obama in Copenhagen

Global Warming is real. Let's start off with that. Somehow it's become fashionable in this country and elsewhere around the globe to reject scientific investigation of natural phenomena as broadly unreliable if not threatening to personal, religious truths.

Climategate? What Climategate? - WSJ.com

After the hearing, Rep. Sensenbrenner said the refusal of committee Democrats or President Obama's representatives to take the leaked emails seriously indicated that the "the President's science advisers are at the bottom of the whole climate change debate," and just as intent as the East Anglia scientists in not having a full and open airing of the issue.

Scientific American channels Tammy Wynette: Standing by Their Men

Check out David Biello’s coverage of the Friday press conference with some of the researchers whose email was hacked, stolen, cherry-picked and reported out of context at www.scientificamerican.com.

The recycling conundrum: How your blue bin hurts the environment | Kelowna.com

San Francisco's Department of Waste recently calculated it paid $4,000 a tonne to recycle plastic bags. Its resale price for the recycled product? $32. "Nobody wants it. There's no value. It doesn't make sense," says Joseph Gho, CEO of EPI Environmental Products Inc., a Vancouver manufacturer of biodegradable plastics. "Besides the financial, the economic cost, you've got the environmental cost" of recycling unwanted material. "The trucks running out there, burning fuel … you have to use energy, you've got CO2 emissions."

[Is this really enough people?]: 700-strong Brazilian delegation for climate talks

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to head a delegation of 700 officials at the global climate talks starting in Denmark next Monday, authorities said.

The group includes 80 federal government officials, 100 regional officials, 40 lawmakers, as well as an unspecified number of scientists and environmental workers, the foreign ministry told O Globo newspaper on Friday.

Obama weighing second trip to climate summit - Monsters and Critics

Washington - US President Barack Obama is weighing the possibility of making a second trip to the climate change summit in Copenhagen this month, a senior aide said Friday.

Pajamas Media » Dutch: Gore Wrong on Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Netherlands is afire today over a Dutch study concluding Mount Kilimanjaro's snow melt — used as a symbol of AGW by Al Gore — is entirely natural.

Podcast: Cap and trade stinks, recycling sucks - Posted

If you happen to believe in man-made climate change — and you're excited about the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit — you need to listen to today’s podcast. Kevin Libin warns us that recycling can be a hugely wasteful activity if you’re interested in protecting the planet because it diverts energy and cash away from far more beneficial practices.

Canada won't be swayed by Copenhagen 'hype': Prentice

The Harper government won't buy into the "hype" surrounding the Copenhagen climate summit to rush into a new deal, said Environment Minister Jim Prentice on Friday.

Climate sceptics: are they gaining any credence? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Hacked emails and a political victory in Australia have emboldened the denial lobby