Global warming conspiracy theories: Fuller equates fraudster Gore with anti-fraudster Monckton

So grand conspiracies don't successfully explain events over the past 20 years, and I don't buy into them. Which is much different from postulating small groups getting together to advance their interests regardless of the public good. I think there has been plenty of that on both sides, ranging from Al Gore and the Climategate Team on one side to the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Viscount Lord Monckton on the other.

High school student stands up to climate change propaganda

After a high school student was forced to watch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in English class, she's had enough. Rhinebeck High School sophomore, Michelle Dewkett spoke up to her school board about the biased teaching on controversial teach of climate change.

“It says (global warming) will kill us all without offering any alternative views throughout high school,” she said. “This goes against board policy which states ‘Teachers shall approach controversial topics in an impartial and unprejudiced manner.’”

26 analogies to the Global Warming alarm, and they were wrong too | CLIMATEGATE

Here is the “preliminary” list of 26 scares similar to man-made global warming alarm

COP15 farce: There's always more time, till there isn't | The Japan Times Online

As one American climate campaigner, Ken Ward, observed, "An event that was to crown 10 years of international effort produced utterly useless language, unenthusiastically scrabbled together in hours by five out of 192 nations, and this . . . pathetic half-effort got exactly one day of our president's time."

Gorrie: Climate change doesn't scare us. That's frightening - thestar.com

Large numbers of individuals must alter their lifestyles and demand governments enact ambitious wider-scale solutions.
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Nothing that happened in Copenhagen, or that's likely to occur at the conventional political level, will prevent the worst of climate change. Unless people accept that the threat is real, and act as if it is, the coming decade will usher in another experiment – this time, in global crisis response.

Lapland hols fiasco 'caused by the cold' | News Of The World

Transun said it was the fault of CLIMATE CHANGE, plus stroppy hotel staff and moaning holidaymakers.

Boss Paul Kostich told one disappointed family in a statement: "Perhaps as a result of climate change, Lapland experienced an extended period of exceptional cold.

"These abnormal temperatures resulted in burst water pipes... the hotel management regrets the inconvenience and disturbance."

Climate bill pushes trees over food - Washington Times

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model that showed that climate legislation supported by President Obama would make planting trees more lucrative than producing food.

FROZEN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE: BENEATH SNOW AND BELOW NORMAL

According to AccuWeather.com Professional... Glasgow, Scotland is 5.7 degrees below normal making this the second coldest December since 1990. The coldest being the frigid December of 1995 which produced a tie to the UK's all-time coldest reading of -27C or -17 degrees Fahrenheit which was recorded at Altnaharra in Surtherland, Scotland and a -20C low in Glasgow was recorded, which is the coldest on record for the site.

NC Media Watch: Over the e-mail transom - More Al Gore Lies

This came over the e-mail transom this morning from Al Gore's Repower America. Not sure how I got on the Repower America mailing list, but the distortions and lies are always interesting.

"We have to come out of the gate in 2010 by sending a clear message -- that the vast majority of Americans are prepared to press our leaders for immediate action to solve the climate crisis."

BBC News - Midwest US states face fresh blizzards

A severe winter storm in the US that has seen record amounts of snow fall is set to continue, forecasts say.

Climate Delusion: Long Island Libertarian Examiner - Michael Schmitt

Newsweek cries that these global warming deniers are well "funded" with MILLIONS of dollars from free-market think tanks; ie The Cato Institute. Yet CRU and NASA who are zealously advocating the "Global Warming" hoax are funded with BILLIONS of dollars in taxpayer dollars and have a strong motivation to cause panic to receive more funding. The Climactic Research Unit, at the center of the Climategate scandal broke Freedom of Information laws, destroyed data, and engaged in fraud at the expense of billions of dollars of other people's money. The Cato Institute does not take a penny from taxpayers, has never violated a Freedom of Information Act request, has no motivation to lie and has never destroyed data.

Big Government » Blog Archive » Pollster Opposites: Greens Try to Cope With ClimateGate

So let the greens wave about polls whose questions smack more than a little like scripts from late-night real estate get-rich-quick infomercials. Senators know that this stove is hot, and they aren’t about to lay their own hands on it. That’s not to say there won’t be feints and even a few death throes this Congress to try and convince a dispirited left-wing base that they should be excited about voting in 2010.

But cap-and-trade is a dead parrot. In a way, that’s a shame. Actually trying to pass it would allow for salting the political earth from which the sneaky, cynical idea sprang. But that, too, shall come.

America needs to stop pandering to climate alarmist wackos | Steve Volk, Munger - Bay City Opinion - - MLive.com

Is it me or was the ridiculous circus in Copenhagen the cold splash in the face America needed? Add to that Al Gore’s newest lie being exposed about the ice caps melting in five years and the scientists at East Anglia covering up and even destroying original data this whole argument for global social justice is based on. The whole global warming movement is so obviously not credible.

Climate Shifts » Blog Archive » “Heroes of the Environment” gang up on Bill McKibben

A herd of climate change blogosphere heavyweights (Time Mag. “Heros of the environment” all) are pounding on Bill McKibben over his views on the outcome of Copenhagen, in particular, the role of the UN and small island nations in developing global climate policies. And this comes just weeks after a mild flogging by Andrew Revkin at the NYT and Gavin Schmidt at Real Climate.

On The Media: Transcript of "Hot Mail" (December 11, 2009)

ANDREW REVKIN: If you are a foe of restrictions on greenhouses gasses, you can find plenty of real science out there to support your contention. The rate of sea level rise in this century is still largely undetermined. It could be disastrous; it could be five feet. There was just a new study out of Antarctica saying that’s entirely plausible, but there’s no way to characterize the probability of it.
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ANDREW REVKIN: Well, the University of East Anglia has announced an inquiry into how they became public. They describe this as a criminal breach. There are people who describe it as a heroic whistleblower. [LAUGHS] What they contain is thousands of not just emails but documents, including raw computer code, a programmer’s years-long log of his laments of dealing with these confusing data sets and scientists talking to each other about pending papers.
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BOB GARFIELD: In one case, scientists put together a graph of temperature trends, and part of the graph derived from tree ring data and part derived from thermometer measurements and part was kind of lopped off because it suggested that for one important period temperatures were going down, not up. Using nominal facts, assembling them artfully to tell a larger lie, is that not what this graph represents?

ANDREW REVKIN: I can't make that judgment. No one has dived into the data underlying these graphs, except the peer reviewers when the papers were published. I have to wait for the inquiry to be completed before I can make some kind of determination.

Capping wine making is next global warming step - VIEWPOINTS - The News Herald

To my horror, the article stated that all grape wines are made from carbon dioxide. The plants breathe in CO2, the grape forms because of that and then is crushed, stomped or otherwise pulverized and caused to ferment. Then out comes the wine. Wow!

The thing that scares me about this is the fact that the fermentation process also produces more CO2. Big bad word, that CO2.

Global warming initiatives could put Wisconsin lawmakers into quandary | FOX 21 Online

MADISON (WPR) Governor Jim Doyle says one of his top priorities in 2010 will be to pass a package of recommendations from his task force on global warming.

This could set up a tough vote for some lawmakers.

The questions Dr Pachauri still has to answer - Christopher Booker - Telegraph

Just how surreal the business of "carbon trading" has become is illustrated by another project, which has no direct connection with Dr Pachauri but which involves the plan by a Tata subsidiary to build one of the world's largest coal-fired power stations in the state of Gujarat. Nearly $1 billion needed to build the 4 gigawatt Mundra plant is being supplied in cheap "green loans" by the World Bank and the Asia Development Bank (to both of which Dr Pachauri acts as an adviser), because the plant will emit CO2 at a "lower intensity" than older power stations in India. For the same reason, the plant will also qualify for a potential $560 million in "carbon credits" under the UN's CDM scheme, which can then be sold on the world market.
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Similarly it is Tata which next month is to close down its Corus steel works at Redcar, to make a potential £600 million in "credits" from the carbon emissions this will save, while in India it will earn a similar amount in UN CDM "credits" by building a plant of similar capacity in Orissa. It will thus make a potential gain of £1.2 billion, at the expense of 1,700 jobs on Teesside, for no overall reduction in the amount of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere.

Paul Driessen : Taxpayer Robbery Gate - Townhall.com

Aside from ideologues, hydrocarbon haters, Gaia worshipers, profiteers and power-grabbing politicians, most of the sentient world now realizes that the hysteria over global warming disasters is based on dubious to fraudulent temperature data, analyses, models, reports and peer reviews.
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This bogus science and cover-up operation is behind every US, EU and UN proposal to restrict and control our energy, economy, living standards and most fundamental liberties – in the name of preventing alleged global warming disasters.

We need to get to the bottom of this mess. We need a full and complete investigation, by an independent, incorruptible team of knowledgeable scientists, modelers, lawyers and statisticians. We need to start over on the global warming science and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – with honest scientists who do everything in the open.

Global warming is already speeding up insect breeding « Climate Progress

Two butterfly species, the small heath (left) and common blue (right), have become more likely since 1980 to have multiple generations in Central Europe in the same year, as a long-term warming trend has picked up pace

April '09: Conservationists hope a hot summer will rescue British butterflies - Times Online

Two cool and wet summers in a row have left butterfly numbers at their lowest for more than a quarter of a century.

One species, the high brown fritillary, has almost died out in Britain and several others have suffered dramatic slumps.

For a dozen species, last year was the worst on record and conservationists fear that they could suffer long-term damage if there is a third dire summer this year.

Instapundit » Blog Archive

HAWAII VACATIONS? I’d be the last to begrudge anyone a tropical island trip, though I don’t want any goddamn carbon-footprint lectures from people who fly thousands of miles week after week. Meanwhile, whatever you think of Presidents, I think Congress should be required to spend at least 270 days a year outside of Washington . . . .

PATRICK BUCHANAN: The Tea Party: America's last best hope?

We are at the beginning of the biggest con in history.
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The Tea Party irregulars have it in their power to stop the New World Order crowd cold. All they need do is stop cap-and-trade in the Senate for 10 months, until November, and block Hillary's $100 billion fund from ever seeing the light of day.

We're making a list -- latimes.com

Naughty: Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), a vacuum for oil industry political contributions whose nonsensical denials of climate-change science in the face of vanishing ice sheets and decaying coral reefs make him Earth's Public Enemy No. 1.

Nice: Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who are working diligently to craft a bipartisan climate bill despite obstructionism from the likes of Inhofe.

1,000 Arrested while Demanding Draconian State Control « Climate Scam

limate Justice apparently means international law restricting freedom, controlling the number of kids you have and what you eat, and decreasing productivity. ClimateGate has eroded our confidence in so-called Climate Scientists and should be enough to stop these misguided global warming fanatics from demanding a global tyranny. Never-the-less, nearly 1,000 were detained Saturday in a mass rally. It should be obvious that these people are not acting rationally

Satellite measurements show our quiet sun is cooling the upper thermosphere « Watts Up With That?

From NASA News. New measurements from a NASA satellite show a dramatic cooling in the upper atmosphere that correlates with the declining phase of the current solar cycle. For the first time, researchers can show a timely link between the Sun and the climate of Earth’s thermosphere, the region above 100 km, an essential step in making accurate predictions of climate change in the high atmosphere.

The bright side of 'Flopenhagen' | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Both environmentalists and U.N. officials agree ... COP15 was a 'failure.' But the 'Copenhagen Accord,' though flawed could mark the messy beginnings of a post-carbon age.
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But like it or not, it will move forward and it will remain at the top of every leader's national priority list henceforth.
 
So climate skeptics, you can finally pack up your things. The "climate debate" is over.

The best climate cartoons of 2009 « Climate Progress

Climate change is major issue, says church leader

The co-leader of the Anglican Church in New Zealand says climate change will be the biggest issue for the church in 2010.

Weekly Address Watch: Behaving like a man who wishes that the issue would just go away, for the twenty-second time in twenty-four weeks, Obama ignores global warming

...we wanted to take a moment to send greetings from our family—from me, from Michelle, from Malia and Sasha—and from Bo.

Global warming debate stumbles over shady tactics | Elizabeth Hovde - – OregonLive.com

While most people rightly agree the environment is worth protecting, that alternative energy sources need exploring and that reducing energy consumption is a worthwhile goal, whether the Earth is dangerously warming or not, the public deserves to hear all sides of the discussion. We need scientists who are more committed to figuring out how the Earth's climate is changing and why than to having the most Al Gore-friendly theories.

'GMA' Featured Christmas 'Spiritual Leader': Look to God to Ease Fears of 'Upswings in Global Warming' | NewsBusters.org

YouTube - 11/30/09 - Dalai Lama [Promotes Climate Scam]

The world's leaders must prioritise the issue of global warming above all else, the Dalai Lama said on Monday, adding that he was encouraged by next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen.

CarlSpackler.com: Caddyshack Verbatim

Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga...gunga -- gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

Skeptic's Corner: Proof of humanities descent into insanity

The very headline of this article from EcoSeed (need I say more) is irrefutable proof of man kinds descent into insanity. The article confirms it.

European fund buys carbon credits from margarine maker

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Chavez to automakers: Share the wealth, or else

I wonder how Chavez’ buddies in Hollywood would like that? Chavez is unhappy that Toyota doesn’t produce enough gas-guzzling, carbon-emitting 4WD vehicles. That doesn’t exactly square with his demands at Copenhagen that the major industrial powers kneecap their own economies by cutting back on carbon emissions, does it?

Patrick Bond, "Dennis Vincent Brutus, 1924-2009"

Brutus continued to serve in the anti-racism, reparations and economic justice movements as a leading strategist until his death, calling in August for the 'Seattling' of the recent Copenhagen summit because sufficient greenhouse gas emissions cuts and North-South 'climate debt' payments were not on the agenda.

Dailymotion - Klein & McKibben: Take off the kid gloves with Obama. - a News & Politics video

Roger L. Simon » A Climategate Christmas

...people tend to conflate skepticism about AGW with being pro-pollution, as if they were the same thing. Incredibly, I heard James Carville make that very accusation on television, even though the reverse may be true.

American Thinker: The EPA's Goldilocks Rule

There is literally no human activity that cannot be controlled by regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

Global Warming hoax response reveals Obama’s shaky mental acumen

In the midst of perhaps the most spectacular science scam of the last century exposing falsified data used to “prove” Global Warming, President Obama’s official response gave unsettling insights into his modest rigors of mind.

For U.S., leadership role in climate [hoax] talks should begin in Washington: Idiotic LA Times editorial

Granted, the world has to contend only with demagogues like Chavez, who at least grasps the clear evidence that climate change is happening; we've got to deal with the likes of Republican Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, who considers it a hoax. Nonetheless, the U.S. bears an overwhelming burden of responsibility for the problem, and the world will follow only if it first sets a good example.

[A familiar name weighs in]: India's coal reserves [allegedly] to run out in 45 years

''It's a myth that India has a virtually unlimited supply of coal,'' said Rajendra Pachauri, director-general of TERI. ''Much of our coal is so deep that it cannot be mined. We have been fed exaggerated figures.''

So far, estimates from geological studies have suggested that India had about 267 billion tonnes of coal, including 105 billion tonnes of proven reserves. Such estimates gave rise to expectations that reserves would last for more than a century, if not double that.

Global Warming, a Hoax?

Is global warming really a hoax which merely benefited grant-seeking scientists and academics, ratings-obsessed television networks and their misinformed viewers and opportunistic eco-activists, all of whom show the same tolerance to opposing views as the communists did in the 1960s and 1970s? The result of a new study by Dr Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi from MIT that uses temperature data from satellites raises precisely such doubts.

Copenhagen: Hysterical pressure groups lose the plot - Telegraph

Many climate change activists remain sunk in anti-Americanism, says Geoffrey Lean.

How to change climate at party - Winnipeg Free Press

Only time will tell how serious the threat of global warming is or isn't, but one thing is certain: global warming is the new religion.

It's the topic of conversation most likely to inflame emotions and least likely to provoke rational dialogue.

Something to think about between blizzards | Paul Mulshine - NJ.com

The weather for the re-enactment of Washington's crossing of the Delaware seems to have been about the same as for the original crossing back in 1776. That was at the dawn of a mini-ice age. Are we at the dawn of another one? No serious scientist can say.

an inconclusive ruse tshirt from Zazzle.com

Reject the Copenhagen treaty and do not harm America's economy | Ric Windmiller - TheUnion.com

Here's what I am telling my representatives in Congress:

1. Slow down: The rush to label CO2 as a pollutant or pass cap-and-trade legislation will hurt our nation's economic recovery.

2. Know the science: There is no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant.

3. CO2 has benefits: Higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life...

Climate [swindle] scientists unethical but did not fake the science | Steve Berkwitz | Springfield News-Leader

The politics involved in the climate change debate might be contentious and complicated, but the science documenting the problem is not.

Driving treacherous across southern Manitoba - Winnipeg Free Press

The weather outside is so frightful that the I-29 highway from Pembina, N.D., all the way to South Dakota was closed this morning, said Manitoba Highways information clerk Katherine Moody.

American Thinker Blog: 2010: The year that was

October: A scandal erupts when Fox News reveals that ACORN created the falsified climate data in the Climategate scandal. The Democrat Congress responds by awarding ACORN a $100 billion contract to restudy the climate data.

NYRblog - Copenhagen, and After - Tim Flannery

Indeed, as the meeting unfolded I got the feeling that I was watching the death of the old UN-sponsored process and the birth of something new. That’s not to say that COP 16 won’t occur in Mexico next year, as planned, but just that the really important work of abating climate change is likely to take place elsewhere.

The hopelessly confused arrangements for the Copenhagen conference will be cautionary.

C3: Rain Forest Health & Its Carbon Storage Potential Improves Dramitically From Increased Levels of CO2, Peer-Research Finds

Increased atmospheric CO2 levels have done wonders for old tropical rain forests, such as the Amazon, and newer ones growing on former cleared lands.

The Well Disarmed Skeptic - [The mysterious David K.] | Gather

Climate denialists like to argue that they are "well armed" to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. And in some respects they are, because these non-science free market lobbying groups have a long history of setting up fake front organizations and now blogger networks to saturate the public domain with intentional misinformation. They did it to deny that smoking caused cancer, that CFCs affected the ozone hole, that smokestacks in Ohio caused acid rain in New England, and that killer smogs were the result of pollution. In all cases the denialists were wrong, the scientists were right, and policy-makers finally made decisions that helped to fix the problems. In fact, some of the current climate change denialists are the very same people and lobbying groups that denied the earlier science.

Blogger: User Profile: Dake [aka David K.]

I am a scientist working on worldwide environmental issues. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent any company or organization for which I may work now, may have worked for in the past, or may work for in the future.

ZNet - Robin Hahnel - The Left & Climate Change

Two Train Wrecks In Copenhagen

Make no mistake about it, formal negotiations in Copenhagen ended in a train wreck that no spin doctor can put a good face on and was a huge setback for the prospects of averting climate change in an equitable way.
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As a self-proclaimed "market abolitionist" I understand why carbon trading is a bitter pill to swallow for all who abhor the commodification of everything, including the natural environment. But we socialists need to look to ourselves. Had we done our work well the human species would have abandoned capitalism and the false illusion that commodification is the solution to all economic problems long before we had damaged the environment to the point where we are perilously close to triggering cataclysmic climate change.

Arkansas Nuclear One turns 35 amid climate change debate  | Arkansas News

In a speech at the Clinton School of Public Service this month, Entergy Chairman and CEO Wayne Leonard said the EPA’s recent decision to classify carbon dioxide as a potential hazard was a signal to Congress to act quickly to set climate change policy before the agency does.
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Leonard said while he not happy with everything in the omnibus energy bill, he is happy to see the issue of addressing global warming on the front burner for more than business reasons.

“We’re playing Russian roulette with the planet and our economy. The difference is there’s a bullet in every chamber except one,” he said in his Dec. 9 speech at the Clinton School. “We have to answer the question of whether we’re more important than future generations. I believe with all my heart that everybody involved in this debate in their own heart knows what the answer to that question is.”

Four-fifths of Entergy’s power comes from low-carbon or no-carbon fuel. Half is nuclear generated and 30 percent by natural gas.

Die Klimazwiebel: Science Wars revisited

[Werner Krauss] Both parties take a political stance; the hardcore climatologists resemble Stalinists (sometimes you have to lie to the people in order to make them do the right thing), while the constructivists resemble social democrats (political negotiation instead of war).

G. P. Bear goes to Washington: The true story of a freedom-loving carnivore « Watts Up With That?

A 12-part serialized “docu-fable,” “G.P. Bear Goes to Washington” features real issues and real people. It stars Grandpa, a magical, media-savvy and proudly skeptical polar bear who understands his species is in far greater danger from the interventions of the federal government, Barbara Boxer, Al Gore, Leonard DiCaprio and overzealous wildlife scientists than from anthropogenic climate change.

American Thinker: Natural Gas and Capitalism to the Rescue

Marxist grandees slipped in and out Copenhagen last week thanks to the plentiful jet fuel whose combustion they claim poses grave threats to the future of mankind. While they solemnly convened to tax hydrocarbons out of existence, and roundly mocked and discredited the market system whose wealth they covet and hope to steal, we should be grateful that capitalists were at work in America to help increase our carbon footprint.
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And as much as America badly needs this energy jolt, the radical environmentalists need it even more. In order to promote their latest obsession-- the plug-in hybrid-America's electrical grid will need vast electrical capacity upgrades. Only coal and natural gas can scale up fast enough to meet the potential demand. And how they hate coal.

What a delight it's going to be to see that solar, wind and other utopian alternatives that were sucking away our attention, fall from view as a solid, practical energy future occupies our thoughts once again.

WSJ’s "Heard on the Street": Political Energy Down, Market Energy UP Post- Copenhagen (Remembering the risks of Enron’s political capitalism model) — MasterResource

Copenhagen did not fail–energy reality won.
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The Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street page is not about politics. It is about technical, business, and political realities to inform investors to make money. No spin here. And the word is in: consumer-driven energies are sustainable, not political energies that rest on shaky technology and fickle public policy. The long run looks bright for oil, gas, and coal.

American Thinker: The Global Warming Matrix

The public posting of email at the University of Anglia's Climate Research Unit -- also known by members of the irrepressible right wing conspiracy contingent as Climategate -- bear some amusing, yet somewhat disturbing similarities to the popular Sci-Fi movie The Matrix. The movie's script -- particularly that of a character named Morpheus -- yields an arresting parallel to the largely unanticipated, but still no less devastating charges of unethical conduct, fraud, manipulation and plain distortion of the facts, leveled at the rather vociferous cadre of so called scientists originally anointed to preach the gospel of Anthropogenic Global Warming.

timesofmalta.com - Nature Trust disappointed at climate summit outcome

Nature Trust urged the Maltese government and Maltese MEPs to keep up their pressure at EU level for the EU to keep up the pressure on other countries such as USA.

It felt Malta was still too far behind to actually meet the EU targets and the authorities should pull up their socks and start implementing the strategy to ensure that Malta would be the country which first raised the climate change issue at United Nations and which first reached EU targets.

The Hindu Business Line : Global warming: Modi for more use of public transport

“Global warming is a major threat facing the world today. There is a need to cut down the use of vehicles and increase use of public transport,” Mr Modi said while inaugurating the second edition of the Kankaria Carnival here.

“To save the future generation from global warming, public transport system such as Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS), is a solution,” he said adding, “I appeal to people of the city that this BRTS should become part of their lives, and more and more people should start using it.”

Beyond that climate change conference - Trinidad

As was expected by many the much-heralded Copenhagen summit on climate change has essentially achieved no more than an agreement to try to come to an agreement of some kind sometime, hopefully in 2010 or certainly in the not-too-distant future.

Adam Baldwin (adamsbaldwin) on Twitter

AGW zealots have been exposed as frauds & political hacks, not intellectually virtuous scientists (skeptics). See also: http://bit.ly/7UCZ9A

Big Hollywood » Adam Baldwin

Adam Baldwin is a Hollywood actor with 30 years experience in film and television. He is currently working on the NBC series “Chuck," and his credits include the role of “Animal Mother” in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War classic “Full Metal Jacket."

Question about global warming? ? - Askgetanswer

If global warming is heating up the planet then how come here in the middle east the weather is gettin colder every year?

A Dismal Decade | Kelowna.com

I can't be the only person who wondered if sincere dupes of this nonsense, from the Prince of Wales to Elizabeth May, have the remotest idea of what mayhem they have brought down on the world. At least Al Gore has made a lot of money from it. Indeed, it must be said that this unlikely man has had the greatest revenge of anyone ever wrongfully deprived of the U.S. presidency, except perhaps Richard Nixon. Gore has grown rich, eminent, won a Nobel Prize, completely disrupted the world and turned international relations into a gigantic slap-stick farce. The absence of evidence that global warming is actually occurring, and that human activity affects the world's temperature at all, was scarcely mentioned. The real result, however, is the pledged objective of not permitting the world's temperature to increase more than two centigrade degrees by 2050. Since it has only risen one degree in the last 35 years, and not at all in the last ten, this should be safe enough. The heads of government fellowship will pat itself hydraulically on the head and back, and money will be handed over to the toads of despotism when pigs fly and shrimps sing.

Climategate crashes Copenhagen | Editorial | John O'Connor - Merritt News, Merritt, BC

Despite popular reports, there is not a consensus among scientists that the Earth is warming as a direct result of humans and their “carbon footprints.”

Carbon dioxide is not the bad guy former U.S. vice president Al Gore makes it out to be in his film An Inconvenient Truth.

Carbon dioxide is as vital to human life as oxygen. Plants and trees absorb it and in turn give off more oxygen as a result.

Comment: Climategate crashes Copenhagen | Editorial | Merritt News, Merritt, BC

You have done what I think to be the best job so far depicting the heart of the issue. I want to say now, though, that it is not over. They think it is. They think it will dribble off and we'll all forget.

Wrong Homer! Now we are alive and connected. Season Two begins! We are going to take down every single fox-hole of resistance. And I mean this legally. Nothing untoward here. We are going to investigate, expose, sue, litigate, every alarmist who's not genuine. We all support the planet. We all want clean air and less toxins. What we will resist completely is the likes of low life characters like Gore or Suzuki.

We are at least 60 million strong and growing.
And we won't be socially engineered. Hear that mainstream media. Read my lips.

Mel Stump

2009: Could Have Been Worse: William Kristol

The climate change fearmongers are increasingly discredited, and Copenhagen was a farce.

The Migrant Mind: An Old Failed Prediction of Global Warming

In 1976 Stephen Schneider published a book called The Genesis Strategy. It is about how near term cooling of the earth's climate would cause famines around the world. Schneider, at that time the Deputy Head of the Climate Project ant NCAR, proposed storing food to avoid mass starvation.
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False prophets of doom should not be allowed to remain prophets of doom with records like this.

The Bullsh*t Files - TV3 and the climate change deniers - The Strategist

It's depressing that media organizations continue to give deniers a "right of reply" on climate change stories. This despite the international scientific consensus, backed by evidence, that climate change is real and human-induced. This despite the fact that deniers and their claims lack credibility.

A look at major challenges in 2009 _English_Xinhua

The year 2009 is sometimes referred to as "a year of climate change" as devastating natural disasters caused by global warming and a series of global meetings put the issue to spotlight.
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But at least, most countries have already joined hands in spite of their differences to cure the Earth's fever.

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

Forget about the temperature records compiled by researchers such as those whose emails were hacked. Next spring, go out into your garden or the nearby countryside and note when the leaves unfold, when flowers bloom, when migrating birds arrive and so on.
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How do we know the models aren't wrong? From studies of past climate.
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...individual researchers have little to gain from giving away data and software they have spent years working on. Scientific careers depend on how many papers you publish. If you keep data to yourself, no one else can publish papers based on it before you do.

Twitter / Hemp News

United States budget for defense is $687 billion. And for climate change, to save life, to save humanity? $10 billion. Shameful- Evo Morales

Tough Winter Weather for Europe and North America

1. An arctic outbreak chilled Finland, Scandinavia and the Russian heartland. Helsinki, Finland, was as cold as -22 C--17 degrees below normal for the date--on Dec. 18. A low of -16C at Stockholm was about as significant. Gardermoen, near Oslo, Norway, came in at -20C on the coldest day. Windswept snow and cold to -5C chilled Copenhagen conference goers during last weekend. In Russia, Moscow had its harshest cold--down to at least 26 degrees C below zero on the 15th and 16th of the month--since 2006.

White Christmas turns into a headache for US residents

The previous record for Christmas Eve in Duluth, which has gotten more than 22 inches in two days, was 3 inches in 1893, said Kevin Kraujalis, a National Weather Service meteorologist. By the time the storm is over, it could be one of the 10 worst in Duluth's recorded history.

With heavy winds producing snow drifts as deep as 5 feet, "it's awful, it's just awful," Kraujalis said. "It's a big workout just walking outside to check my weather equipment."

The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : Copenhagen, tsunami and hunger

The tsunami of 2004 was a wake-up call alerting us to the consequences of a sudden rise in the sea level. The “Copenhagen Inaction” will lead to more severe coastal storms, tsunamis and sea level rises. A Climate Literacy Movement as well as anticipatory action to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of all those living in coastal areas and islands will have to be initiated.

YouTube - My Carbon Foot Print Global Warming Hah!

A Common Man's Tribute to Global Warming Vol. 3, The Mid-West Blizzard of 09, I Invite the Polar Bears to live in my back yard in the 3' Snow Drifts, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Three die in sawmill fire in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory

"The preliminary cause of the incident is fire safety rules violations while using heating equipment," she said.

Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory has been hit by bitter cold. Temperatures plunged to minus 35-40 degrees Celsius (minus 31-40 Fahrenheit) with minus 53 degrees Celsius (minus 63.4 Fahrenheit) in some parts of the region. The shivery cold weather will remain in the area until Sunday.

NWS Issues Freeze Warning for Phoenix, Mesa

The areas affected are the greater Phoenix area, including the city of Mesa.

Overnight lows are expected to reach the upper 20's to the low 30's in many locations.

Reasons to be fearful: Democrats face triple whammy for elections - Times Online

Though President Obama has managed to remain above much of the fray, his less agile former colleagues in Congress are bearing the brunt of an aggressive and ambitious legislative agenda of health care reform and climate change at a time when many Americans would prefer the focus to be on improving the worst economic conditions since the end of World War II and creating jobs.

Power Line - The Climate Change Scam: A Concise Summary

In the wake of Climategate, common sense deniers like to say that there is lots of other evidence for global warming, in addition to that which has been debunked by the East Anglia whistleblower. Actually, however, the scientific evidence for AGW is remarkably weak. At Icecap, Lee Gerhard, geologist and reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sums up the key scientific evidence with admirable brevity

[First green president to take yet another unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to Hawaii]

...it looks like the First Family will still make it to Hawaii for Christmas.
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The Obamas have celebrated Christmas in Hawaii, where the President grew up, nearly every year since the girls were born.

Flashback: Obama camp spies endgame in Oregon

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

CBS's Knoller: Obama Burned 9,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel for One Earth Day Speech | NewsBusters.org

The press office at Andrews AFB wouldn’t give me the fuel consumption numbers for the 747 that serves as Air Force One without the approval of the White House Press Office, which as I write this has yet to be given.

But Boeing says its 747 burns about 5 gallons of fuel per mile.

Copenhagen Climate Conference failed because prosperity matters

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the Lead House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee issued the following statement after the Copenhagen Global Warming Conference ended with an agreement so "vague, hastily hatched and non-binding President Obama isn’t even sure he’ll be required to sign it."

"Copenhagen failed because countries large and small fear the loss of economic prosperity that will accompany these arbitrary and scientifically questionable limits on carbon," said Congressman Brady. "A growing number of people around the world are reluctant to pay devastatingly higher fuel costs as part of an unproven experiment that will not likely change the natural cooling and heating cycles of the earth."

NY Times: Believer Kate Galbraith fired

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Many @ NYT still shocked Kate Galbraith among those fired to reach 100 fewer news slots.

Sept '09: Utility Quits Alliance Over Climate Change - KATE GALBRAITH - NYTimes.com

The chamber’s stance against efforts by the administration and Congress to regulate carbon dioxide, the main gas that causes global warming, has been the subject of vigorous debate in the business community.

Heliogenic Climate Change: California's a mess because of "green" regulations and taxes

...businesses and entrepreneurs are being strangled by higher taxes and thousands of new regulations. The regulations alone cost $493 billion a year

Treetops glisten, but storm snarls Midwest holiday

Oklahoma City had received 14 inches of snow by Thursday night, breaking a record set back in 1914 of 2.5 inches. Winds gusted to 50 mph in central Kansas, while winds gusting at up to 65 mph in Texas drifted the snow as deep as 5 feet in some areas.

Energy Tribune- Robert Bryce - A Panoply of Energy-Related Holiday Blessings

I’m thankful that the US emits such huge amounts of carbon dioxide. Yes, I know that’s not a politically correct statement. But the simple truth is that carbon dioxide emissions are closely correlated with energy consumption and energy consumption is almost perfectly correlated with wealth. The US is wealthy because Americans are able to consume huge amounts of hydrocarbons. And those hydrocarbons provide nearly 90% of the primary energy consumed in the US.

seoulcyclist: You think climate change is a scam?

Well, let's say it is. There's so much "green business" and "green marketing" full of lies nowadays that maybe it would be better to give up the concept, and theory (evident or not) of climate change. Should we also give up on doing anything to change the current course of development along with giving up believing to the existence of climate change? No, we should not.

Life In A ‘Climate Change’ Box « Paul Driessen - PA Pundits – International

Copenhagen and the circling of alarmist wagons over the climate change email and computer code scandal has made one thing absolutely clear, to anyone with open eyes and minds. The caterwauling over warming has nothing to do with science or saving Planet Earth.

It has everything to do with global governance, UN control of energy, economies and lives, and of course money – for research, renewable energy, bureaucracies, and international welfare.

Op-Ed Columnist - The Copenhagen That Matters - NYTimes.com

“Already the green taxes here are quite high,” said [Danish minister, Lene Espersen]. “And even though we know this is not popular with business and industry, it has made all the difference for us. It forced our businesses to become more energy efficient and innovative, and this meant that, suddenly, we were inventing things nobody else was inventing [like what, specifically?] because our businesses needed to be competitive.”

Utopian New Left Just Like Old Left » The Foundry

Environmentalism, particularly in its more radical forms, has inherited all of the old left’s habits of mind, only on a far grander scale. It seeks to transform not just civilization, but the physical planet as well.

As with the old left, new left environmentalists view capitalism and the free market as enemies. But so, too, is reason. The lengths to which some scientists will go to stifle dissent reveal not only a disrespect for the scientific method, but also contempt for using reason to understand reality. If truly understanding climate change were the main goal, there would be no hesitation to look at all the evidence of global warming. In the minds of many climate-change scientists, however, the top goal is not to understand the planet but to “save” it. The cause transcends the science.

Giving the Gift of Carbon Dioxide [Hysteria] - NYTimes.com

To some people, the certificate may be as welcome as a lump of coal. But Ms. Young, a marketing manager for the environmental Web site Care2.com, was delighted.
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Last year, the Adirondack Council began bidding at the auctions and selling certificates for the allowances it retired from the market. Each certificate represents three allowances and sells for $25 through the council’s Web site at www.adirondackcouncil.org.

CCX CFI End of Day Summary: 2009 carbon credits currently going for a dime each

CFI 2009 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.10 - 0

Breaking Down Climate Change into its Undeniable Parts « Dr. Michael Kagan - Climate of Change

One of the points that I have been making a lot recently in order to totally diffuse the debate over “who caused the climate to change?” is forget the change in climate, forget greenhouse gas emissions, forget global warming, now look at the terrible state of the oceans, the terrible state of the top soil, the terrible state of food production, health, economics, air purity, water purity, rain forests, wetlands, death of species etc. etc. there is no doubt that these are all human made devastations upon the well-being of the planet. Let’s clear up this mess then global warming will fall in place. The denial of our responsibility in the release of greenhouse gases is fear and laziness so child psychology recommends side-stepping that issue and going for the undeniable.

“Global Warming” Cancels Christmas for Many Travelers – Breaks Records

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/25/global-warming-cancels-christmas-for-many-travelers-breaks-records/

The Star-Telegram said the Dallas-Fort Worth area was experiencing its first White Christmas in more than 80 years. While the area had a sprinkling of holiday snow in 2004 and 1997, the lasttime it experienced "a true, New England-style dose of snow on Christmas Day was Dec. 25, 1926," the newspaper reported.

Spills on black ice send hundreds to hospital | citizen-times.com | North Carolina

ASHEVILLE — The snow of the worst winter storm in more than decade may be melting away, but not before lingering black ice sent hundreds to the emergency rooms with injuries from falls and accidents.

Kyoto Protocol on Life Support for Another Year | SolveClimate.com

Rajendra Pachauri, who heads the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), called Kyoto "sacrosanct" for certain countries.

"Even if the new agreement goes by another name, the essential features of Kyoto Protocol must be preserved," he said.

New climate pact will be ‘firmer’ against defaulters: Pachauri

[Pachauri] Kyoto Protocol did not work as it does not have provisions for stringent measures against the defaulters.

Editorial: Why Mugabe Should Not Have Been At Copenhagen | Features | Peacefmonline.com

That Robert Mugabe should lead an entourage of sixty Zimbabwean technocrats on an expensive frolic to participate in discussions on global warming in Copenhagen is a grave travesty of justice.

How a man under ‘EU sanctions’ can evade arrest for crimes against ‘nature and humanity’ is only explainable by the mysterious world of United Nations protocol.

Copenhagen failed to bring smile in the face of a little girl Severn Suzuki

‘I am afraid to go out to sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe in the air now because I don’t know what chemicals are in it’ said a 12-13 years old Severn Suzuki expressing her concern over the issue of climate change across the globe. ‘Now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day, vanishing forever. Now, in my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and main forests full of birds and butterflies. But now I wonder if they were even exist for my children to see’, said Severn Suzuki asking delegations from across the globe, ‘Did you have to worry of these things when you were of my age?’

Severin Suzuki 1992 | Being Present For The Future

Severin Suzuki Speaks at Rio in 1992
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I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I
am afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in
it.

Only In It For The Gold: Bug Report

[Alarmist Michael Tobis] ...in researching any climate-related question that has crossed his mind of late, Google (presumably Bing is no better) seems to come up with nine denialist sites for every actually informative site. This was Victor's estimate, not mine.
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The progressive left has been congratulating itself with its grasp of the internet as a marketing tool, starting with the Dean campaign and going through the Obama campaign, but is constrained by an ethical sense which doesn't burden the opposition. Marc Morano, to the extent he has orchestrated these events, and/or whoever else is behind it, is a political genius unfettered by decency.
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Am I Taking This All A Bit Too Seriously?

You'll forgive me. The fact that my paternal grandfather among other close relatives was in fact killed at a concentration camp on the basis of right-wing conspiracy theories makes it hard for me to take the matter all that lightly. I don't imagine that climate scientists are going to be rounded up and gassed anytime soon, but the reinvention of the techniques for stirring up mass paranoia would disturb me greatly even if they weren't directed, you know, at me and at some of the people I respect most in the world.

mtobis -  Michael Tobis 

I am a Research Scientist Associate (in practice, mostly a software engineer) at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics in the delightful city of Austin.

More people to carpool amid cold weather in NW China _English_Xinhua

Li said: "It is too cold to wait outside for a taxi, and it would be even more painful hopping on a bus without heaters."

"More people have stopped riding motorcycles and bicycles due to the cold weather," Li added.

Record snowfall and killer cold create challenges for Germany's Christmas markets

Record cold temperatures and abundant snowfall will make 2009's Christmas markets in the heart of Germany one of the most memorable in decades. While Europe's extreme weather brought flooding to Venice, Italy and snow to Nice, France, in Germany the plunging temperatures caused challenges for those attending the annual Christmas markets.

Deluxe river cruise ships were forced to transform into ice-breakers as they navigated their way through ice flows that formed on the Main River from Nuremburg to Frankfurt. Sub-zero temperatures with wind chills of -18C greeted visitors to Christmas markets in Bamberg...

BBC News - Blizzard warnings as holiday storms hit central US

At least 18 people have died as a result of blizzards and freezing temperatures enveloping the US Midwest.

Let's face it: the ETS is dead | The Australian

TONY Abbott almost singlehandedly put the Emissions Trading Scheme on life support. Now Copenhagen has killed it stone cold, motherless dead.

Climate change minister Penny Wong, who is too emotionally committed to it to accept that truth, will carry it into the new year.

Britain wakes to a white Christmas (in some places at least) | Mail Online

At least 19 people have now died in the big freeze.

Dear Naomi Klein, please stop making my work difficult | Natasha Chart

Describing the climate debt owed by wealthy countries as 'reparations' makes it impossible for the US to take part

[Fair and balanced reporting from your mainstream media]: Climate’s lost decade now leads to a ‘last’ decade: CHARLES J. HANLEY - AP Special Correspondent

The decade’s final three summers melted Arctic sea ice more than ever before in modern times. Greenland’s gargantuan ice cap was pouring 3 percent more meltwater into the sea each year. Every summer’s thaw reached deeper into the Arctic permafrost, threatening to unlock vast amounts of methane, a global-warming gas.

warming deniers need to walk on water | StarNewsOnline.com | Star News | Wilmington, NC

Deniers should walk to the North Pole on snowshoes to prove that global warming is a hoax. I hope their faith is strong, because they’ll need to walk on water.

Michael Wolfe

Flashback: Jeremy Clarkson's drive to the north pole

I recently watched the 'Top Gear' special - where Jeremy and James May drove a specially modified Toyota Hilux pick-up to the magnetic North Pole from Canada's resolute bay!
That feat in itself is unbelievabe, as it has never been done before: but what makes it so astonishing is that Jeremy and James managed to do it with a certain amount of ease.

Media manipulation for all to see

What first prompted Watts' commentator to write in was an allegation by Prof. Sir David King, made at the demonstration, that the releaser of the CRU Archive had patiently accumulated e-mails and "mobile phone conversations" for a period of more than eleven years, and timed their release at "a week before [the Fifteenth Conference of Parties in] Copenhagen." In fact, a thorough search of the CRU Archive produces not a single e-mail that purported, or appeared, to be a text message from a cellphone, nor a transcript of a telephonic conversation, whether over cellular radio or landlines. More to the point, previous analysis has already shown that the archive was likely assembled by a regulatory compliance officer and then accidentally (or on purpose) left on a public server, from which the eventual releaser obtained it.

The most important evidence that Watts, Kilty, and Watts' commenter have discovered is probably that AGW alarmists love to manipulate the media, and persons lacking a proper education in science are exquisitely subject to such manipulation, especially in the form of a message repeated too often to count.

Heat line ruptures in Blagoveshchensk in severe frost

KHABAROVSK, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- A heat line ruptured in Blagoveshchensk overnight, leaving 42 apartment buildings, two kindergartens, two schools, a hospital for children and other facilities without heat in severe frost.
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The temperature in Blagoveshchensk is 25 degrees below zero this Friday.

Valley citrus weathers frost - Updates - Fresnobee.com

To date, farmers have spent nearly $10 million on frost defenses with another six weeks of vulnerability left.

Build-a-Bear takes heat for global-warming webisodes -- latimes.com

Conservative bloggers are calling for a boycott of the company. Executives say the series, in which Santa is warned the North Pole could melt before Christmas, was intended to inspire children.

Greenpeace Will Keep Up Pressure on Global Warming - NYTimes.com

The Copenhagen meeting, he said, also saw political acknowledgment of what science says about climate change.

''Bottom line is, not one head of state got up and said: `I question the science,''' Naidoo said.

Naidoo said a Greenpeace climate-change team that worked for the 18 months before Copenhagen has been replaced with fresh campaigners, ''so we won't lose momentum.''

Record snowfall for Dallas-Fort Worth on Christmas Eve 2009

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport recorded the first measurable snowfall for December 24 since weather records began in the Metroplex over 100 years ago, according to the National Weather Service.

As of 7:45pm on 24 Dec 2009 (when an update was issued), 3.0” of snow had fallen.

Much greater totals fell in a band just northwest of the Metroplex; Bowie in Montague County reported 9" with roads impassable; Jacksboro in Jack County reported 9" with roads barely passable, and Grayson County had received 2-3" as of 8pm.

A Job at the End of a Rope - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

True, big wind turbines look pretty impervious as they turn slowly in the stiffest breeze. So why would they need repair? It turns out they can be damaged by lightning, ice buildup and other mishaps that can chip blades or create other problems. So episodic patches and repairs are necessary even for the best-designed turbines.

Ms. Galbraith points out that repairing big blades at the end of a rope is not necessarily an easy business to get into, even for those with the necessary climbing skills. Lining up liability and workers-compensation insurance can be a challenge. Still, some small companies, like Rope Partner in Santa Cruz, Calif., have managed to make it work.

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The Reference Frame: No statistically significant warming since 1995

Because there has been some confusion - and maybe deliberate confusion - among some (alarmist) commenters about the non-existence of a statistically significant warming trend since 1995, i.e. in the last fifteen years, let me dedicate a full article to this issue.

C3: Are Climate Models Worthless? When They Are Used To Predict Future Climatic Conditions, Yes

Politicians and the mainstream press are in love with climate models because they can be used to proffer scary "scientific" predictions to influence the public regarding global warming. Climate alarmists scientists find the climate model predictions a convenient way to help them raise additional research funds. As has been well documented though, climate models are absolutely worthless regarding accurate climate predictions.

Die Klimazwiebel: climate reconstructions and future climate projections

Projection of future climate change are basely almost exclusively on the results of simulations with climate models. Climate models do not include or use any information derived from proxy data. They are not calibrated, or their skill is scored, against past climate reconstructions. The consequence of this simple fact is that revisions of the reconstructions of past climates due to the new data or to the application of new statistical reconstruction methods do not require any revision of future climate change projections. In this sense the world of climate models and the world of proxy-based reconstructions are truly independent.

China’s plan?: Burn coal to make renewables for us | CEJournal

Another possibility is that China wants to exploit its coal reserves to the greatest extent possible to continue on its path to global industrial primacy.  [If they believed in the global warming hoax, why would they do this?]

Climate wars

As I have mentioned frequently, this will be a 30-year struggle, in part because I think that's how long it will take to settle the science, but in part because a generation of scientists, businessmen and politicians need to pass from the world stage in order for accommodation to be reached, in accordance with Planck's Principle, and most of the people blocking progress are still disturbingly young.

Merry Climate-Changemas, Kids! | The Great Illuminator

The politicians were nestled all snug in their scam,
While mountains of greenbacks piled up from the sham.
As Gore in his mansion tells me in my shack,
To stop belching out carbon with a propaganda attack.

Global warming skepticism is fueled by public relations, author says / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

In the book 'Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming,' James Hoggan says the campaign to create skepticism about climate change is 'by far and away the biggest public relations campaign that I've ever seen.'

Greener De-icing « Climate Progress

The winter season means holidays, vacations, and family time, but it also means the arrival of something else: snow. It may be beautiful as it’s falling, but dealing with the aftermath of a large snowstorm can be hard work. Ice and melting snow on sidewalks and streets creates hazardous conditions, but that doesn’t mean clearing it has to be harmful to the environment.

A New Paper On The Role Of Biomass Burning On The Climate System – Tosca Et Al 2009 « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Papers which document human climate forcings other than CO2 continue to be published.

News from WeatherAction

WeatherAction forecast (issued Dec 2) for severe winter storms USA & Canada 19-31 Dec dramatically confirmed

Notably dangerous warning for 28-30 Dec remains in force

* Likely worst hit to be: MidWest, Great Lakes, Central & NE USA
* Short range Met Maps now show developing Northerly blast 28 Dec but it will be more severe than standard meteorology expects

Sting says church feels like home - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

On a cold December night in New York City, an Arctic wind scratches at the exposed skin of any brave souls out on the streets.
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"My memories of winter as a child are that the winters were much harsher," [Sting] said.

"We had long, long periods of frost, ice on the roads, you had to be careful where you walked, fog. With global warming, that's kind of fading away.
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"As global warming takes place, it's flattening out. I worry for many reasons, for environmental reasons, but psychologically we need this."

Flashback: Finally... An honest "progressive"

The estate in the next picture is obviously owned by some oil company executive fleecing the earth for it's natural resources.

At least until you read the article and you find out it's one of Sting's and Mrs. Sting's seven homes.

Where There’s Smoke ... There’s a Trade-In - NYTimes.com

A climate-change bill before Congress would authorize $20 million over five years for a national wood stove exchange program, but the bill’s fate is uncertain.

Twitter / Jarrod Goyette

I'm listening to two retards talk about how global warming doesn't exist. #getaclue #rednecks

Skeptic's Corner: Another unacceptable solution to a non problem

Since this won't hurt capitalism and will allow the evil corporate polluters to survive it obviously will need to be discredited and destroyed. Can't have CO2 being scrubbed, these chemical plants need to be shut down for a more sustainable world.

Three Cheers for Holiday Lights! — MasterResource

If holiday energy guzzling is forgiven, why not excuse outdoor heating and cooling, one-switch centralized lighting, and instant-on appliances that “leak” electricity, not to mention SUVs? Prancing around to turn on individual lights or waiting for the paper copier to warm up wastes the scarcest and one truly depleting resource: a person’s time. Surely extra energy use for comfort and convenience has priority over purely celebratory uses of energy.

I Love CO2: Truth Or Lies?

[Peter T Laird] The whole climate change operation and that is what it is, an operation, is a complete scam to strip people of their money by taxing those same people for a problem that does not exist.

Record Setting Snow Across Oklahoma, All Metro Interstates Closed - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Thousands of Oklahomans remain without power as a massive winter storm blew threw the state bringing record setting snowfall to a large part of central Oklahoma. Will Rogers World Airport reported receiving about 14 inches of snow.

I Love CO2: Fido and Evergreen - True Canadian Corporate Alarmism

This email is in regards to the climate change page on your site. It's too bad your organization is capitalizing on the myth of manmade climate change, and you continue to spread false information about CO2. I just noticed your affiliation with FIDO, and am happy to announce that we have successfully cancelled 4 cellphone lines with Fido because of this partnership with Evergreen.

Dalton Minimum Returns: Another one of Mother Nature's surprises

If cosmic rays turn out to be major modulator of cloud formation a few extra could change the climate.

Twitter / Bárbara Diniz

"If science is the new religion,then the present equivalent of prophets would be scientists, and climate change is their secular apocalypse"

Toy Company's Animated Series Riles Global Warming Skeptics - FOXNews.com

Global warming skeptics are blasting Build-A-Bear Workshop for being anything but soft and cuddly, accusing the well-known toy company of trying to indoctrinate young children with a series of videos warning of the effects of climate change.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Copenhagen Cassandras Don't Have an Answer | Richmond Times-Dispatch

Consider Germany, which has undertaken one of the most stringent emission-reduction regimes in Europe. "A kilowatt of electricity costs three times as much here as it does in the United States, supercharged with high taxes to discourage use and to help fund renewable energy development," reports The Washington Post. "Meanwhile, a 50 percent 'eco-tax' has sent the price of gasoline soaring to $8 a gallon. To manage costs, the [Pokropp] family of three unplugs all their appliances but the refrigerator at night [and] avoids driving . . . . 'We have no choice,' said Andreas Pokropp, a former coal refinery worker. 'We have to be green, even if we can't afford it.'"

Editorial - The Price of [Climate Fraud] - NYTimes.com

But to stop climate change, the price of carbon emissions must go up in other parts of the world — notably in the United States and China, where carbon can still be spewed for free. When we have global conferences, we would prefer them to be of the variety that pushes the price of carbon emissions up.

HP capture change! : HP Climate Change [Fraud] Photography Contest '09

The world around you is changing. When most people think of global warming, they think of icebergs melting, seas rising and low-lying areas getting flooded. But it is no longer just an apocalyptic warning of doom. It is no longer something that will happen in some distant land. Flashfloods, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and other natural disasters are becoming commonplace. Each one of us is being affected. The impact of climate change is no longer something that will come in the future – it is happening right here… right now.

Dyer: Copenhagen aftermath: Not all is lost - Salt Lake Tribune

The developed countries must cut their emissions deeply and fast, and give the developing countries enough money to cover the extra cost of growing their economies with the clean sources of energy that they must use instead of fossil fuels. That's the deal, but most voters in the United States don't understand it yet.

Why is it allegedly so cheap to power the US with wind turbines and solar panels, and why is it so expensive to power other countries with wind turbines and solar panels?

Twitter / John Kubicek

RT @WeThePeopleUSA Balloon boy's parents sent to jail for hoax, but Al Gore and Michael Mann still free. Where's the justice?? #climategate

‘Scaremongering’ only increases public skepticism about global warming: Expert | Top News

London, Dec 25 : A leading global warming researcher has claimed that British Government’s ‘scaremongering’ tactics to convey environmental messages are not effective, and it is only increasing public skepticism about global warming.

Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh, who has carried out extensive research into public mistrust on the issue, said that the Government should rather incentivised low carbon lifestyles, which can save people money and have long term health benefits as well as helping slow climate change.

Mark Davis: The gift of 'Climategate' is a fresh start | News for Dallas, Texas

Santa makes his rounds later this week, but I've already received one of the best gifts ever: the complete unmasking of one of the most insidious movements of recent history – the radical effort to force reckless and needless constraints onto the human race in an attempt to change the planet's climate.

Western Producer - Ag [swindle] a side deal at climate [swindle] talks

McCabe, president of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada and vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, said in Canada agriculture is 10 percent of the greenhouse gas problem and 20 percent of the solution with the right policies.

“Internationally, I would say it is 15 percent of the problem and 45 percent of the solution if carbon is priced at $100 a tonne and the proper policies are in place.”

[Dispatch from the world of long-time believer] Peter Gleick : The real climate hoax

In all of the recent news about climate change, leaked emails, complex negotiations, and watered-down agreements in Copenhagen, one fact has't received enough attention. The climate "hoax" is real. The only problem is that the real hoax is the effort by climate change deniers who argue that the climate isn't changing, or that it isn't because of human actions. It is, and it is. The science is unambiguous. The climate is changing, rapidly, and it is doing so because of our emissions of greenhouse gases.

I know many people have said this. I've been saying it for twenty-five years in my research and writings.
...And the recent lack of action in Copenhagen pretty much ensures we're going to see the most rapid warming scenario. The warming the planet is already experiencing already exceeds that worst scenario.

City Brights: Peter Gleick

Dr. Peter Gleick is one of the world's leading water experts. For over 20 years, Dr. Gleick, president and co-founder of the internationally recognized Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, has worked to find real-world solutions to problems like water shortages, habitat destruction, global warming, and environmental injustice.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Best wishes from a white land

Not everything [alarmist Andy Revkin] has written pleased everybody - that goes with the territory. But as someone who broke a raft of stories during the Bush presidency [yet seems strangely uninterested in ClimateGate], always set climate change in the context of other issues such as the growing human population, and regularly offered tantalising titbits of thought and analysis, he contributed to the understanding of climate change more than he probably realises - and his departure leaves a huge hole.

A History of Hysteria for lost sheep.....READ THIS !!

[David Andolfatto] An interesting recurring fact of human history is the endless supply of doomsayers. One would think that this large supply would drive the price (wages) of these prophets of doom to zero. But from Isaiah to Al Gore, we see that this is not so. We are left to conclude one of two things: either economic theory is wrong; or there exists a large persistent demand for doom and gloom.

From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green » Blog Archive » Are dogs the real population problem on climate change?

So if you care about climate change, join my new campaign. Our key demand is a ‘fish for fidos’ scheme, loosely based on Cash for Clunkers, whereby people trade in their dogs in return for goldfish. It makes at least as much sense to promote this as a solution to climate change as human population control in poor countries. Any takers, pop controllers?

EU Referendum: A hypocrite as well as a liar

Many people will remember the strident headline at the end of November blaring: "Western lifestyle unsustainable, says climate expert Rajendra Pachauri". That was the version in The Guardian, but other papers carried something very similar.

How so very different might have been the reception had the newspapers carried a photograph of the house occupied by multi-millionaire businessman Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, currently 160 Central Golf Links Road, New Delhi. This is situated in a delightful residential area (pictured above and below) very close to Khan Market, the most expensive market in India.

It is described as one of the most expensive places to live in India. The cheapest houses sell for millions of US dollars. It is considered one of the richest neighborhoods in India and the name is inspired by the Delhi Golf Course nearby. It has only 210 detached houses.

Methinks that a man who lives in a house worth millions, travels nearly half a million miles in 19 months by air and then tells us our lifestyles are "unsustainable" might possibly qualify for the label "hypocrite".

EU Referendum: Pachauri: admits to $300,000 in payments

This, however, only covers "some of the payments made to TERI". It includes €100,000 from the Deutsche Bank, $25,000 from Credit Suisse and $80,000 from Toyota Motors. The institute also received $48,750 from Yale University, $4,425 from the Asian Development Bank - which has given loans to Tata - and €1,200 from the French electricity giant EDF. At current conversion rates, that totals $302,746.
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No mention is made of Pachauri's other current posts. Thus, we know nothing of payments (if any) from GloriOil, Siderian ventures, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Nordic Glitnir Bank, the Indochina Sustainable Infrastructure Fund, SNCF, his work as a Hindustan Times columnist, the Asian Energy Institute, FEOP (Far East Oil Price) Advisory Board, the International Solar Energy Society, the World Resources Institute or the World Energy Council.

EU Referendum: Pachauri: hornet's nest stirred

Dr Pachauri has some powerful friends. And these men are demanding an unqualified apology from the newspaper for the "libellous" piece of journalism, "failing which the institute would take recourse to other measures it would deem appropriate."

I guess we're off their Christmas card list then.

EU Referendum: Pachauri: Moving the goalposts

The mighty Rajendra Pauchauri, multi-millionaire extraordinaire, is now working terribly hard on trying to salvage his tattered reputation – but the harder he tries, the deeper he digs himself into a hole.

EU Referendum: Video: Pachauri: they've all got it in for me!