Editorial - The Case for a Climate [Swindle] Bill - NYTimes.com

President Obama can start to prove the conventional wisdom wrong by making a full-throated case for a climate bill in his State of the Union speech this week.
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The climate change bills pending in the Senate would not begin to bite for several years, when the recession should be over.
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The bill passed by the House last year calls for emissions in 2020 to be 17 percent lower than they were in 2005. This is the bare minimum required to give the industrialized world a fighting chance of achieving an 80 percent reduction by midcentury, which most mainstream scientists think will be necessary to avert the worst consequences of global warming. [Which scientists, specifically, think this?  Of the scientists who do think this, what percentage support the bill passed by the House?]

Then there is the race for markets. China is moving aggressively to create jobs in the clean-energy industry. [But if they're doing this without cap and trade, why do we need cap and trade?]
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The jobs argument should impress the Senate. [but if the bills wouldn't "bite" for several years, wouldn't the alleged jobs also not appear for several years?]

BBC under Investigation for Misinforming on Climate, Vaccines...

The body which oversees the BBC is to launch a full-scale review into whether its coverage of science and the environment is biased (following Corporations' agenda).

The BBC Trust acted after thousands of complaints that the corporation is acting as a #1 cheerleader for the theory that climate change is a man-made phenomenon.

Desertification may have retarded global warming | Science and Environment | Jerusalem Post

The desert reflects sunlight and releases infrared radiation, which has a cooling effect.

Are the folks at NOAA and NASA global warming co-conspirators? (Wizbang)

You'd think this would be getting wider play. You'd think that there'd be honest media outlets who would indeed stop the presses... or at least publish something other than the standard fare we've been getting.

George F. Will - For Obama, a mandate to be moderate - washingtonpost.com

For example, surely only Democrats tugged by the romance of political suicide will want him to try -- he will fail -- to burden the struggling economy with cap-and-trade legislation.

This complex and costly carbon-rationing plan supposedly would combat the elusive menace of global warming. Serendipitously, on Tuesday, as Massachusetts voters were telling Obama to pause regarding health-care reform, the Wall Street Journal was reporting: "An influential United Nations panel is facing growing criticism about its practices after acknowledging doubts about a 2007 statement that Himalayan glaciers were retreating faster than those anywhere else and would entirely disappear by 2035, if not sooner."

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- co-winner with Al Gore of another absurd Nobel Peace Prize -- issued the questionable 2007 report, which was based on a 2005 report from an environmental advocacy group that relied on a 1999 article quoting an Indian scientist who actually did not mention 2035. Another day, another dollop of evidence of the seepage of dubious science into policy debate, and another reason to proceed cautiously.

‘Mann-Made’ Global Warming? - The Philadelphia Bulletin

The e-mails reveal that Mr. Mann might have committed a variety of acts that constitute significant and intentional scientific misconduct, including data manipulation, inappropriately shielding research methods and results from peers, and retaliating against those who publicly challenged his conclusions and political agenda.

China: Cold freezes sea-farmers' income

Record low temperatures and the worst sea ice in 30 years have caused huge losses to sea-farmers and fishermen as well as chaos on the streets of Shandong and Liaoning provinces.

About 40 percent of the Bohai Sea's surface is already frozen. Sea-farmers said they expected nothing to be left by spring.
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"We can do nothing about the large area covered with thick ice this year, because nobody can break it."
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Ding Zhixi, an official of the Shandong provincial sea and fishing authority, said sea ice has affected 125,500 hectares of sea-farms. Sixteen fishing ports were blocked by ice, and nearly 4,000 fishing boats remain frozen in the sea.

[January 15, 2010]: East China fishery hit by worst sea ice in 40 yrs

The worst sea ice in 40 years appeared began early January along the coasts of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea as cold fronts pushed temperatures below minus 10 degrees Celsius, according to the National Marine Forecasting Station on Sunday.
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Sea ice had affected fisheries of Shandong's Qinghai, Yantai, Weihai port cities, as stocks died and boats were trapped in port.

The direct economic losses of the fishing industry in Weihai City was estimated at 420 million yuan (US$61 million), according to the city's ocean and fishery bureau.

In Yantai City, 200 boats were trapped in Haimiao port, Laizhou Bay, for more than a month.

Global warming: Shall we review the bidding?

It's been one disaster a week for a couple of months now. I said six months ago that it was time to bring some grownups onto the team representing the activist agenda for global warming. I said last week that I didn't think Pachauri would last until June 30th of this year. Looking around the warming blogs--like Real Climate, Climate Progress and others of that type--there seems to be no comprehension of the hole they are digging for themselves. Nor do reports in the major media reflect serious concern on the part of politicians who have championed the fight for so long.

Is it possible that they think nothing's wrong? That they don't need to do anything? It would be an absurdist end to this story to watch the fight against global warming end with a whimper...

IPCC's credibility has increased: Pachauri - India - The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The climate is changing on climate change. And IPCC chief R K Pachauri is feeling the heat. The latest dent to claims that the
Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 has clearly ruffled the climate man.

But while his credibility and that of the IPCC has taken a battering, Pachauri maintains his chutzpah in the face of growing skepticism, arguing that his acceptance that the research on glaciers had been dodgy had actually somehow enhanced the credibility of the body.

Sloppy science is seeping into the climate watchdog | Charles Clover - Times Online

Pachauri also seems to have an awful lot of jobs. He already has a full-time job as director general of the Indian Energy and Resources Institute, which seems to benefit from UK government funding. He is also an adviser to Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and the Chicago Climate Exchange — all of which stand to benefit from carbon trading. His predecessors, Bert Bolin, a Swedish scientist, and Bob Watson, now chief scientist at Defra, were part-time, but they put enormous effort into the job. How much time is Pachauri putting in? It doesn’t appear to be a lot.

If we are to have the best possible predictions about climate change, urgent decisions need to be taken. The agreeable but gaffe-prone Pachauri should accept it would be wise to walk now, so some heavy-hitters can step in and prevent a disastrous slide in the IPCC’s credibility. The sooner, the better.

Steve Janke: Copenhagen goes from failure to farce. (Or maybe it's the other way around) - Full Comment

Clearly no one important is taking global warming seriously anymore. They pay lip service to it, but they know it's a crock. Deadlines that were so important so that we could avoid "climate catastrophe" are now ignored as public opinion shifts and the credibility of the so-called scientists crumbles. I think it's well past time to just forget the whole thing.

Here's my suggestion. It's a message to deliver to global warmists everywhere. If you promise to shut the hell up, you global warming alarmists who have made obscene amounts of money by concocting this whole global warming fraud, we promise not to come after you for the money you've stolen. Let's be frank here. You scammed us good. Maybe you deserve to keep the money. It'll be a lesson for the rest of us (not me, of course, since I never fell for this garbage) about not leaving our common sense at home.

UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters - Times Online

THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report's own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.

EU Referendum: UN climate panel blunders again

The main thing though is that both The Sunday Telegraph and now The Sunday Times have done the story. Pachauri will find this very difficult to ignore. My guess is that he is unlikely to survive this combined assault.
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Amazingly, during the press conference yesterday, Pachauri asserted that his response to the "error" in the IPCC report means that the IPCC's credibility has increased. I give him, a week.

Save the planet and pass the Kool-Aid

My question is, just how many more of the IPCC’s apocalyptic prognostications are the result of cannibalizing/manipulating “bad science/data”?

The Reference Frame: Extreme Arctic cooled quickly: reduces UAH warming

Among other things, we learn that in the first 22 days of 2010, the temperature in this circle dropped by 14 °C. Incidentally, this is more than those 13 °C whose impact we recently considered. But the change occurred in 3 weeks rather than 100 years. ;-) Today, the temperature in the extreme Arctic is at its lowest level since 2004.

India: Hard times for climate scientists

Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and consequent climate change is perhaps the most contentious issue in the world today.

Climate-change panel gathers in Glenwood | VailDaily.com

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — A panel of experts agreed this week that the Earth is warming, that the warming trend is a result, in some part, to human activity, and that it represents potentially dire consequences for Colorado's recreation-based economy.

But just what those consequences will be remains as much a mystery as the fact that, despite global warming, Colorado's last two winters were colder than usual.

The panel of six spoke to a small audience at the Glenwood Springs Community Center on Thursday.

Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal - Telegraph

In view of the IPCC's statement last week, the very evident anger of the Indian government at his dismissal of its expert's report and now the revelation of the part played in this fiasco by a senior member of his own TERI staff, it appears that what we may soon be looking at here is not just "Glaciergate" but "Pachaurigate".

EU Referendum: Pachauri: the real story ...

But, now that Pachauri has suffered the humiliation of having to admit that his report was wrong all along, we see revealed the part played in this fiasco by a senior member of his own TERI staff.

Royal Society capitulates on climate debate in worst week for global warmers since Climategate | CLIMATEGATE

All in a rush we’ve seen victory upon victory for challengers to AGW. Since the East Anglia CRU emails broke free and introduced climategate to the world, we’ve had win after win over the warmers. But, this last week we’ve seen the momentum take on an acceleration I don’t think anyone expected.
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We ask the Royal Society to co-operate fully with the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee and expose the snake oil salesmen of the IPCC who shamelessly and fraudulently promoted the theory of man made global warming. This should be taken as the first step towards developing a new and more transparent methodology in the way climate science is directed and funded by governments.

C3: NASA Admits No CO2-AGW Warming In USA; Why Is World Warming and Not U.S.?

Check out these links showing contents of NASA emails that were recently released under a 'Freedom of Information Act' request, which speak to zero or little AGW warming in the U.S. Yet at the same time as these insider emails are getting scrutinized, the MSM is trumpeting the PR releases from U.S. climate agencies screaming that the 2000's were the warmest global decade evaaaar! Of course, the climate agencies and press are not about to ballyhoo the significantly cooler temps over the last few years in the U.S...

EU Referendum: Pauchauri: EU caught by "glaciergate" hype

Since the extent of the funding has become clearer, and the link with Hasnain have fully emerged, the response from both Pachauri and Hasnain has been denial and contradiction.

Now, with two heavyweight newspapers pitching in, the pair may find it harder to sustain their denials of what is very clearly documented evidence of conflict of interest and, on Dr Pachauri's part, a misuse of public office. His refusal to resign looks thinner by the minute.

Another Climategate inquiry | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If only our own Parliament were as interested in investigating the implications of this astonishing scandal. After all, it’s on the basis of these scientists’ assertions that our parties are contempating spending billions of dollars and changing the way we live.

Four more Himalayan howlers revealed in official climate report – Telegraph Blogs

More mistakes about Himalayan glaciers seem to have been uncovered in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report, further threatening its credibility and undermining the position of its chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri.
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Prof  Graham Cogley of Ontario’s Trent University, who revealed the original howler, points out for example that the same paragraph  indicates that  the total area of the Himalayan glaciers is 500,000 square kilometres, whereas it is in fact 33,000.

Pajamas Media » Move Afoot in the Senate to Can EPA CO2 Regs

Sen. Lisa Murkowski introduces a resolution that would prevent the agency from treating greenhouse gases as poison.

UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers - Times Online

The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers.

EU Referendum: Decisions, decisions

Gradually, Pachauri's friends and supporters are peeling away. The only real decision now facing the man is whether to jump now or wait until he is pushed. After tomorrow's rash of stories, even he might decide on the former.

UN's dead deadline exposes Rudd scam | The Daily Telegraph

THE UN has dumped the deadline to tackle climate change, leaving Kevin Rudd isolated in his view that "to delay any longer would be reckless and irresponsible for our economy and our environment".

Glaciergate – It ain’t about love. « the Air Vent

This is criminal in my opinion. First the IPCC lets through a comment which has no basis in science, organizations are formed and nobody bothers to check a paper before the millions are spent? And the very same people who put the bogus comment in the IPCC report get the payout. It’s a damned lie!! A scientist specializing in glaciers who doesn’t bother to read the literature……

BULLSHI*T, YOU CROOKS! THE IPCC DOESN’T NEED RESPECT, IT NEEDS PRISON BARS.

More Lies in AGW Unraveling « Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax

University of East Anglia, NASA-GISS, Pennsylvania State, IPCC, Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri are just a few of the big names in the prosperous climate prevarication industry. Maybe Pachauri’s name should come first, even before that of renowned liar Al Gore. We need a forensic investigation to be sure. The pack of lies from the IPCC in particular prepared under Pachauri’s direction is shot through with stretchers – big obvious stretchers which nobody can or wants to back up any longer. Pachauri has a PhD in Economics, apparently the economics of milking international bodies. Pachauri now alludes to legal action against some of the IPCC authors; while he cashes checks from a score of lead liar slots in various components of the “climate” industry.

Northerntruthseeker: The Global Warming Farce: Global Warming Nuts Want Climate Control Accords Passed Quickly!

NTS Notes: Is it not obvious that they know that time is against them? People are rapidly wising up to the truth about the entire Global Warming agenda, and the fact that it is nothing more than a push to take your freedoms away and to make some of the charlatans rich, including the master criminal, Saint Al of Gore himself!

[Inhofe: Rolling Stone Round-Up]

[Another problem for Pachauri]

[susan] Conflicting dates for Pachauri re his statements as to when he knew about the mistakes: 1/23/10, TimesOnlineUK, Pachauri quoted as he only learned about Himalaya mistakes 10 days ago from the media. Yet, BBC reported 12/5/09 Himalaya mistakes, that Pach. was asked about them, and quotes his responses: I have "nothing to add about glaciers" and that a report about the mistakes was "voodoo science," and that the IPCC was a "sober body" whose work "was verified by governments." Conservatively there is at least a month's discrepancy in his version of when he knew about the mistakes. It also means he knew about them in Copenhagen.

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: More Dodgy Citations in the Nobel-Winning IPCC Report

At its heart, the Himalayan glacier scandal that has recently shaken the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) involves a document created by the WWF.

The WWF is an activist organization. Much of its funding comes from public donations. The more successful the WWF is at persuading the public that there's a crisis, the more likely people are to give it money.

Has the Real Environmental Movement Been Hijacked by Climate Profiteers? « Sustainable Future

Although there are compelling arguments that climate change is happening, recent evidence shows it may be mainly caused by the sun’s activity. However, it does seem plausible that GHG, with their insulating affect, do contribute to trapping heat and warming the earth. But is it catastrophically dangerous to our wellbeing? Well, it seems that those predictions are only as good as the theory they’re derived from and now that theory is in question.

Warning Signs: The Bill Comes Due for Socialism in America

The proposed “Cap-and-Trade” bill, a huge tax on all energy use—the lifeblood of any economy, must be defeated. This will come most likely from a lack of votes as Senate Democrats are finally scared enough of the electorate to act with some degree of rationality.

An ‘Indian IPCC’ On The Way: Ramesh

Minister for Environment & Forests Jairam Ramesh has said he feels “vindicated” by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) goof-up on Himalayan glaciers. Talking to the The Financial Express, the minister said India would soon have a well-equipped national agency for climate change assessment, as the UN body had proven unequal to the task.

The new agency would be “an Indian IPCC”, the minister said. He added that the UN body, with its biases, seemed incapable of original and genuine research.

Pachauri accepts Himalayan mistake, but won’t resign (Third Lead)

Asked about IPCC’s credibility being affected by the blunder, Pachauri said: “I am sure people all over the world, the rational people, see the larger picture and are not going to be distracted by this one error which of course is regrettable. They would continue to repose their faith in the IPCC and I am reasonably sure that there would be no deviation from that reality.”

“I think our credibility if anything should be enhanced that we have accepted it was a mistake and we are going to ensure that in future such a mistake will not occur. We rely on the best scientists from all over the world. I am reasonably sure that it won’t be shaken,” he said.
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While accepting that the goof-up may have given a boost to climate sceptics, Pachauri said: “Climate sceptics are not looking for a handle. They are looking for anything by which they can demolish the science of climate change. But truth still prevails and world will realise the reality of climate change.”

“There is documentary evidence and in Washington DC alone there are over 1,200 lobbyists being funded to stop anything to do with climate change policy or legislation and they are being funded by 770 companies. This makes four lobbyists for every member of Congress in the US and that’s only the US.”

[I'm not a professional mathematician, but are Pachauri's numbers questionable again?]: United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election.

Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents a district and serves a two-year term. House seats are apportioned among the states by population. The 100 Senators serve staggered six-year terms.

Pachauri not to resign over glacier scandal | mydigitalfc.com

He said that the mistake by IPCC may have given a “handle” to climate skeptics, who he claimed had “lots of money and were backed by lobbyists.” He said in Washington DC there were 1,200 lobbyists working against climate change legislation “backed by 770 companies.” He said he could give “chapter and verse” of the details about them. He said “rational people” would repose their faith in IPCC and there would be no deviation from it.

The normally confident Pachauri showed impatience at the press conference, asking the Telegraph, UK reporter to “get your facts right, mister” when the latter asked him about damage to the credibility of IPCC and Teri. Pachauri said Teri had nothing to do with the mistake. He said Teri had not “benefited at all” from IPCC. The Telegraph had alleged in a report that Pachauri had personally benefited by misusing the position he was in at IPCC. The press conference was jampacked with Indian and foreign reporters.

Pachauri said no action could be taken against the authors who had done the report on Himalayan glaciers, saying they were “not employees” of the IPCC and their works was only a “labour of love.”

Weekly Address Watch: For the twenty-sixth time in twenty-eight weeks, The First Green President ignores global warming

One of the reasons I ran for President was because I believed so strongly that the voices of everyday Americans, hardworking folks doing everything they can to stay afloat, just weren’t being heard over the powerful voices of the special interests in Washington. And the result was a national agenda too often skewed in favor of those with the power to tilt the tables.
...We imposed tough restrictions to prevent funds for our recovery from lining the pockets of the well-connected, instead of creating jobs for Americans.

Climate Observations: Does The Instrument Temperature Record Contradict The Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis?

The Instrument Temperature Record Contradicts The Hypothesis That Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases Have Caused The Rise In Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies Since 1976.

YouTube - RussiaToday: New report feeds climate change skeptics

Independent scientists have discovered that previous estimates regarding the melt rate of Himalayan glaciers were wrong. Combined with last fall's "climategate" scandal, these findings add to the arguments for climate change skeptics.

FOR KIDS: A Global Warming Flap - Science News

These added insects might mix things up in the ecosystem of Central Europe, says Patrick Tobin, an ecologist who works for the U.S. Forest Service in Morgantown, W.Va. An extra generation of insects provides more food to the animals that feed on them. Those predators, in turn, might start to increase their numbers, which would make life tougher on the other species the predators eat, Tobin told Science News. On the other hand, with an extra generation, an endangered insect species might have a better chance of recovering.

[Yeah, right]: Election energizes climate bill talks - The Boston Globe

Kerry, bipartisan bloc discuss compromise

This global warming is pretty cool - The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA

...if we don't stop this global warming, some day we'll have to dig down through the ice to find the Eiffel Tower.

But it's an ill wind that doesn't blow some good. With the ice taking up water from the oceans, there will be lots of new waterfront to buy in Florida. We Canadians can leave the encroaching glaciers and purchase a lot where the ocean has receded.

Arctic temperatures above 80°N are the lowest in six years « Watts Up With That?

According to the Danish Meteorological Institute, Arctic temperatures are currently below 238K (-35.15 degrees Celsius or -31.27 degrees Fahrenheit)

That is more than five degrees below normal (the green line) and the lowest reading since 2004. The slope of decline has also recently been quite sharp, dropping from 252K on January 1, a drop of 14 degrees in 22 days.

Sanity check: 2008 & 2009 Were The Coolest Years Since 1998 in the USA « Watts Up With That?

While the press is hyperventilating over NASA GISS recent announcement of the “Hottest Decade Ever“, it pays to keep in mind what happened the last two years of the past decade.

EU Referendum: Inconvenient truth

With GloriOil, the irony, writes Ajmer, is that the head of an outfit devoted to climate change is promoting the enhanced recovery of a fossil fuel the use of which has, according to IPCC, led to global warming. Equally remarkable, he adds, is the fact that the chair of IPCC, which is advocating emissions trading along with other mitigation strategies, is himself involved in a commercial trading exchange involving carbon credits.

In other words, Pachauri as the climate czar first recommends certain policies for mitigating global warming. He then gets involved with a commercial entity — a climate exchange (akin to a stock exchange) — which benefits from the adoption of those policies by governments.

Meeting Copenhagen's challenge

...what emerged from Copenhagen was a consensus amongst leaders on a collective, long-term response to climate change, and a set of measures to implement global climate action, which came close to completion.
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Yvo de Boer is Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

EU Referendum: Contradicting themselves

It seems to me that both Hasnain and RK Pachauri need to get their acts together and read their own press releases. At the moment, they are contradicting themselves – this is the blunder that could bring them both down.

Evidence for man-made global warming is rapidly melting

Even Congress is starting to question the dogma. Cap-and-trade legislation might be off the table, ostensibly because of the loss of Massachusetts to the heretics, but perhaps there is more to it.

About the only place at which the news has yet to arrive is downtown Denver, specifically a certain hilltop near downtown.

The day might someday come that Gov. Bill Ritter will wake up to the smell of the ancient global-warming incense and comment that it smells a lot like the stuff he grew up around as a farm kid.

NASA Global Warming Alarmist Endorses Book That Calls For Mass Genocide

Prominent NASA global warming alarmist Dr. James Hansen has endorsed an eco-fascist book that calls for cities to be razed to the ground, industrial civilization to be destroyed and genocidal population reduction measures to be implemented in the name of preventing climate change.

Pen Hadow admits battery was the problem on Arctic climate change expedition - Telegraph

Problems with a battery foiled plans to measure the rate of global warming in the Arctic using a specially-designed radar, explorer Pen Hadow has been forced to admit.
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The expedition was followed online, on television and in newspaper articles by more than 3 billion people in 43 countries in the English-speaking world alone.

Exciting sightings in the avian world | CapeCodOnline.com

During the past week or so, all sorts of very rare birds have been discovered, mostly vagrants from the west and far north. Most excit­ing was the discovery of an adult ivory gull, walking along the beach all by itself, at Race Point in Provincetown on Jan. 14.This shockingly all white gull, a year-round resident of the farthest northern reaches of the planet and known to follow polar bears to scavenge their seal kills, has now appeared in Massachusetts two years in a row for the first time ever. Last year, two different adult ivory gulls thrilled birders from up and down the East Coast and beyond as they came to see the rarest of rare gulls on Cape Anne, north of Boston and in Plymouth Harbor.
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As if there isn’t enough excitement for January, weather conditions in Europe could lead to a significant incursion of vagrants over the Atlantic Ocean.

Mainland Europe is expe­riencing a severe cold snap – among the worst ever recorded. Many overwintering birds are fleeing the cold and heading west to the British Isles and beyond. Observers in Ireland have reported steady streams of several species of birds heading west.

Heavy snow knocks out power in Forest Falls, traps motorists and closes Highway 38 - California

Richard Boyle has grown used to harsh winter weather in the 15 years he's lived in Forest Falls.

But he was a little nervous when the last of four storms knocked out power to the town early Friday and forced Caltrans to close Highway 38, the only way in and out of the community.

"The whole town is trapped and we don't have power. It's kind of a desperate situation," said Boyle, 67.
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Nearly five feet of snow has fallen in the San Bernardino Mountains this week and several inches blanketed Yucaipa and Beaumont.

C3: Peer-Reviewed Journal, Science, Falls For Mann's 'Hide-The-Decline-Trick', Again. Are They Just Stuck On Stupid?

Honestly, the two well-known peer-reviewed journals that the Climategate-Team had twisted around their pinkies, are either seriously "in the bag" or incredibly inept. If you also consider the New Scientist journal with the Glaciergate revelations, it's amazing anyone can refrain from snickering about the concept of professionalism and seriousness for the peer-review process. Is it really that difficult for the peer-review gatekeepers to at least ask the "scientists" about the actual data that is plotted on a chart? Call it minimum due diligence the public should expect, instead of the gross negligence that is constantly exhibited.

Al's Journal : Green Pastors

The environmental and religious communities have long been allies in the fight to save our planet. This trend is increasing in the Northwest where churches are finding environmentalism can help fill their pews...

Melting Himalayan glaciers: no peaceful end to the scandal - Telegraph

So the curse of the Nobel Peace Prize strikes again. Following the recent Obama embarrassment, Rajendra Pachauri - who accepted it in 2007 on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - is, at best, one more blunder away from having to resign its chairmanship, after having to apologise for a claim in its latest report that the Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.

Sceptics are now poring over the report, searching for the new mistake that will oust him.

What would it take? « the Air Vent

Half of global warming happened since 1990 yet less than half of the temperature stations are available since 1990?

Why?

A Full Open, well funded, quality analysis of temperature stations IS with no doubt warranted yet where are the money hungry researchers?

If we are to spend trillions of dollars on fixing warming, don’t you think we should be able to work out how to read ONLY 7000 thermometers regularly!!

One of my beliefs is that the IPCC is a money hungry political organization with no concerns about correcting any scientific details like not melting glaciers, which might get in the way of it’s growth and funding. So if I’m right, where are the demands for funding better and more complete thermometer data?

Twitter / Michael Powers: @revkin RT @NickKristof St ...

@revkin RT @NickKristof Standard of living = power supply. Some say > 2000 kWh per capita per yr is the tipping point. http://bit.ly/6hnCTy

Twitter / SLIDETVNEWS.com

We're Back! 4 Days trapped in a Blizzard in Northern California (Pics & Vids 2 be posted soon). Crazy Weather, 7+ Feet of Snow, #Climategate

Flagstaff gets more snow, several roofs collapse but blue skies come out briefly (with photos)

Snow continued to fall on Flagstaff, Arizona today as the massive winter blizzard continues to hang over the area.

Roofs of several buildings have collapsed including the Jay Lively Ice Rink, Bookmans, JoAnns Fabrics and others according to the Arizona Daily Sun. Check out photos of the collapses HERE.

Iowa: Garage collapse under snow and ice

City officials say the accumulation of snow and ice caused a 12-stall garage at an apartment complex at 4211 Lincoln Swing in west Ames to collapse Friday.

The garage fell around noon on seven parked cars, causing significant damage to several of the vehicles.

Ice rink roof caves in

Flagstaff firefighters were busy Friday morning responding to several dozen calls of possible roof collapses across town.

RK Pachauri admits mistake in IPCC report; Rules out resignation - dnaindia.com

"I have no intention to of resigning from my position. I have a task. I am going to complete the Fifth Assessment Report," he told reporters here.

Pachauri said the IPCC is a body of hundreds of eminent scientists selected and nominated by different governments.

"There are huge problems on climate change. Climate change is not limited to Himalayan glaciers. Rational people will continue to repose faith in IPCC," he said.

Conrad Black: Incompetent Obama teeters on the edge - Full Comment

The administration bought wholly into the unproved claim that carbon emissions are causing global warming, but global warming has not, for the last ten years, been happening. The president padded around the Copenhagen global warming conference trying to generate enthusiasm for $100 billion annual transfers to the Mugabes and Chavezes, as well as the Chinese (the world's largest carbon emitters), as conscience-alleviating payments for the carbon emissions of the economically advanced countries. America's fellow culprits found less tangibly burdensome expiations. So will America.

Mr. Obama must have noticed that the science and the politics were wrong, and that the arithmetic was too. The whole concept, like his promotion of renewable energy, his cap-and-trade bill, his redesignation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and his pursuit of complete nuclear disarmament, is mad. It was a worthy encore to the president's previous cameo appearance in the Danish capital, where his and his wife's prodigies managed to bring Chicago in fourth in contention for the 2016 Olympics, (out of four competing cities).

Global warming is real, and we should be worried: Alarmist JOEL CONNELLY

Global warming skeptics tend to be a sarcastic, sedentary lot. They send out screeds, question the work of scientists, but rarely if ever venture out to look at visual evidence around them.

Flashback: A Little Secret « Climate Audit

...this led to what I’ll call the Starbucks Hypothesis: could a climate scientist have a Starbucks in the morning, collect tree rings through the day and still be home for dinner?

To make a long story short, last summer, when my wife and I visited my sister in Colorado Springs and I thought that it would be rather fun to test the Starbucks Hypothesis and I gave a bit of a teaser report in late July, promising some further reports in a few weeks, but I got distracted by the Hansen stuff. At the time, I mentioned that, together with CA reader Pete Holzmann and his wife Leslie, we visited some bristlecones in the Mt Almagre area west of Colorado Springs.

Dr. Venus, Dr. Venus…It’s Medication Time « SOYLENT GREEN

It’s time for James “We’re turning the planet into Venus” Hansen to go–Now! Until recently he has been mostly an embarrassment, traipsing the globe–on the tax-payers’ dime–promoting his Venusian vision of Thermageddon caused by CO2.

While that should be enough for his removal as NASA GISS director, so far it has not sufficed. Now, however, he has taken action that–in a sane administration–would compel immediate termination, if not hospitalization: The advocacy of eco-terrorism.

WFSU-TV station says Crist can't use Rubio clip on campaign site - St. Petersburg Times

Crist's Web site produced ads titled "Rubio Flip Flop" and "Rubio Cap and Trade." The Rubio campaign called it a "slicing and dicing" of Rubio's words, and the full interview shows that Rubio felt a federal cap-and-trade law was inevitable and that the state should be ready to implement it, subject to legislative approval.

Carbon Offsets Come Under Fire

Mark Shapiro, of Berkeley, Calif.’s Center for Investigative Reporting, has written a scathing report on the carbon offset industry in the February edition of Harper’s. Policymakers crafting U.S. climate legislation, which might include provisions for offset projects, should heed the warning, but the criticism shouldn’t be confused with calls to kill a nationwide cap-and-trade program.

Global Warming Alarmism Falling Apart in Light of ‘Climategate’ and IPCC Errors–Global Warming

[E. Calvin Beisner] “If confirmed,” TimesOnline continued, “it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research.” Well, it is confirmed (3). And it is a serious failure. And there are others. For just three examples, the IPCC wrongly claims that...

Lawrence Solomon: Winds of change - Full Comment

Not that wind, which can be economic in niche applications, ever was in the running as a major source of economically generated power. Wind power in North America costs several times as much as power produced from conventional sources. Its sole competitive advantage came from climate change fears that presaged cap and trade legislation in the U.S., which was expected to sideline coal and other CO2-intensive ways of producing power. That cap and trade legislation is now gone gone gone — after Copenhagen’s failure, the Climategate emails, and President Obama’s loss of grace, there is approximately zero chance that it will now come to pass. Meaning that meaningful U.S. curbs on CO2 are no longer in the offing.

BBC News - Warm Front heating scheme 'needs more funds'

The heavy snow earlier this month brought with it freezing conditions for weeks on end.

Many people were affected by the sub-zero temperatures, but none more so than Marjorie Alcock and her husband Donald. Donald is an Alzheimer's sufferer and needs constant care from his wife.

During the cold spell the boiler they had installed four years ago through the government's Warm Front scheme broke down.

Instead of being helped quickly, the couple, who live in Coventry, was left without heating or hot water for six days.

"It was very, very cold, especially for my husband who has Alzheimer's", says Marjorie Alcock.

DaveWatch: Chairman Cameron sends his steel-hard cadres for re-education on climate change – Telegraph Blogs

As American voters finally scuttle Barack Obama’s climate change legislation, as the IPCC is forced to admit its claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were “speculation” and out by 300 years; as NASA’s GISS institute is implicated in climate data tampering; as a ferocious winter reinforces the global cooling that has been taking place since 1998; as public scepticism about “man-made” climate change becomes majority opinion on both sides of the Atlantic – the Cameronian Conservative Party chains itself to the dead myth of AGW and attempts to indoctrinate its candidates into that discredited socialist superstition.

Jeff Friedrich | Blankenship: 'There are treesitters in the trees;' Plus Lame Questions From Real Reporters and Debate Wrap, Part 1

...While some watchers may have had their opinions or views changed last night, most seemed to leave redoubled to the ideological values they had arrived with.

For me, that was disheartening. It's a naive sentiment, but part of me did want to see a TKO victory for Kennedy, with Blankenship having some kind of on-stage breakdown that would permanently affect the credibility of his arguments. That desire comes from my view of the urgent nature of our climate crisis. In that sense, the argument that these debates cause more harm than good, that they just give well-spoken myth-slingers an additional soapbox, is a compelling one.

Jeff Friedrich | LIVEBLOG: RFK JR and Don Blankenship Debate Energy, Climate Change, And Mountaintop Removal

6:22PM EST If we measured solely by the applause the debaters recieved from their intros, RFK, Jr. wins this debate.

Pachauri to respond on Himalayan glaciers

...Pachauri was avoiding comment on the issue and a host of other controversies and allegations of his commercial gains as heads of many organizations as levelled in British media.

Turkey Not Sure About Copenhagen Accord

Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said Friday Turkey was not sure about whether or not to join the Copenhagen Accord.

In a statement issued on Friday, the MFA said that "in the web page of the news service Bloomberg, articles were published on January 19 and 20, 2010 stating that Turkey has notified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) that it wants to be associated with the Copenhagen Accord".

"Although Turkey welcomes that a compromise text has been formulated in Copenhagen, the above mentioned news does not reflect the truth. Turkey is still at the stage of evaluating whether or not to associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord," the MFA also said.

"Green is Good": Supreme Court Ruling is a Huge Blow to Climate Change [Hoax] Legislation

Besides health care, the climate change legislation comes to mind as the most critical legislation that is now under threat of being derailed thanks to this ruling. The utility industry groups have already been sending out letters to their customers, telling them that climate change legislation would lead to higher rates or a tax on the utility customer. The SCOTUS ruling will open up a floodgate of more mailings, more commercials, and much more money being spent to defeat any legislators who support cap and trade or cap and dividend legislation.

Global warming education

The science behind global warming has been under relentless attack by an increasingly desperate and dishonest coalition of deniers, who often have ties to fossil fuel industries.

Because the science is complex, many people, including Mr. Tomaselli, have been victimized by this disinformation campaign.
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Or, you can go to www.realclimate.org and click on "START HERE" and follow the links. You will find that the science behind global warming is well founded and solid. You'll need to spend some time to get a good layman's understanding of this complex topic.

Global warming may be the greatest problem civilization has ever faced. Citizens need accurate information.

Dallas Dunlap

Global warming theory nothing but a man-made issue | News-Leader.com | Springfield News-Leader

The supporters of the man-made global warming theory should admit they have been duped, and those who have promoted the lie should be prosecuted or at least exposed as the con men they are.
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Steve Wright lives in Christian County and is a small business owner.

NASA: “Hide this after Jim checks it” « Climate Audit

What is that they are planning to “hide”? And why would they be “hiding” it in the first place? And why would Hansen think that one of his employees wouldn’t “want” to send something out to Jim’s email list?

Newly installed wind turbines idled by Minnesota's winter - TwinCities.com

Last year, about a dozen Minnesota communities dreamed of clean, green energy: spinning windmills powering hundreds of homes. Now, months after the deadline, the windmills stand largely immobile, and communities are still waiting for the power to flow.

Eleven cities, including North St. Paul and Anoka, are participating in the wind turbine project, each getting a 115-foot windmill via the Minnesota Municipal Power Association, or MMPA.

The turbines were to be fully operational by Nov. 7. To date, the number is zero.
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The windmills each cost about $417,000 and have been erected in Anoka, Arlington, Brownton, Buffalo, Chaska, East Grand Forks, Le Sueur, North St. Paul, Olivia, Shakopee and Winthrop, as well as at the MMPA's energy park in Faribault. To fund the project, MMPA sold $5 million in zero-interest bonds.
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The turbines were installed to meet a state law requiring energy producers to provide 25 percent of output from renewable sources by 2025.

More bad news for Al Gore: New poll suggests that only 35% of Americans (and only 41% of "elites") still believe that the global warming science is settled

Pollster Frank Luntz Releases New Polling Results: Bipartisan Public Support for National Climate Legislation - AlphaTrade Finance

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pollster Frank Luntz today announced new research that shows the American people are eager for Congress to act on climate legislation that would promote energy independence and a healthier environment.

[From the report]

Climate has Rudd tongue-tied | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

the climate sure has changed since Climategate and the farcical failure in Copenhagen. This year global warming is the scam that Rudd barely dares to mention
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Remember how Malcolm Turnbull last year warned his Liberal Party to pass Rudd’s emissions trading scheme or face a double dissolution election on the issue that would wipe them out? Just months later, climate change is in fact so smelly that Rudd would like it to disappear as an election issue completely. So fast has this faith imploded.

YouTube - barrassowyo's Channel

Chu Defends U.N. Climate Science to Sen. Barrasso

Senator Lieberman: You aren’t listening. Haven’t you heard of Climategate?

So what else does our Senator have to say?

This could be a watershed moment. We have near scientific unanimity that humans are causing climate change,

[Get a job in the climate hoax industry!]

ODI (www.odi.org.uk) aims to inspire and inform policy and practice to reduce poverty by locking together high-quality applied research and practical policy advice.

Our Climate Change, Environment and Forests Programme (CCEF) has a track record of cutting-edge analysis and policy work around climate change. Its goal is to ensure that the world’s poorest people benefit from policy responses to climate change, and are not further marginalised by its impact.

Sundance film puts human face on climate change [scam]

The film also studies the fate of 300,000 climate refugees closer to the United States, those left destitute following 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

EU Referendum: Keeping it in the family

...it can do RK Pachauri no harm at all having his well-qualified daughter in such an important and prestigious post, working in the same field. One is almost tempted to call the old firm, "Pachauri & daughter", so closely allied are they in the climate change industry.

The Hockey Stick Illusion « the Air Vent

This book by Andrew Montford, is a different beast though. Andrew put a lot of effort into writing a continuous story following the timeline of Steve McIntyres experiences, all done in an exciting, what happens next, fashion.

Will Cass Sunstein stick up for small business, or bless EPA’s legal hair splitting? | OpenMarket.org

Small business clearly needs an advocate in the room and at the table whenever EPA deliberates about any regulatory action pertaining to greenhouse gases and CO2. Congress enacted the RFA to protect small business from regulatory excess. Right now it’s not working. Cass Sunstein has an opportunity to ensure that small businesses have a say in regulatory decisions affecting their very survival. He should seize it.

Glaciergate: Errant little sister of Climategate | CLIMATEGATE

...In other words, Al says lie and exaggerate! It’s no wonder petulance and deceit grows when fed by such sinister role models. The UN encouraged its brats by over-indulging and spoiling them with lavish government grants so that the delinquency spread to corrupt the most impressionable and idealistic in society with hype and propaganda.

So I say to all those believers of climate change who have faith in the UN: if you raise your family on lies then don’t be surprised when they finally disappoint you.

One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show | Environment | guardian.co.uk

One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies.

How to Create a Crisis Graph in 6 simple steps « JoNova

...essentially they say: we don’t know what else could have caused that warming, so it must be carbon. It’s a flawed assumption.

UN climate change expert: there could be more errors in report - Times Online

[Pachuari] admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report, and said that he was considering whether to take action against those responsible.

“I know a lot of climate sceptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them,” he told The Times in an interview. “It was a collective failure by a number of people,” he said. “I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip.”
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Dr Pachauri also said he did not learn about the mistakes until they were reported in the media about 10 days ago, at which time he contacted other IPCC members. He denied keeping quiet about the errors to avoid disrupting the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen, or discouraging funding for TERI’s own glacier programme.

But he too admitted that it was “really odd” that none of the world’s leading glaciologists had pointed out the mistakes to him earlier. “Frankly, it was a stupid error,” he said. “But no one brought it to my attention.”

From Our Man in Delhi - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The Times of India pokes fun at R. K. Pachauri

If Republicans run as strongly as Brown, only 103 House Dems are safe. | Washington Examiner

So that means that 101 of the 256 House Democrats represent 64%+ Obama districts and that 155 House Democrats represent districts which might, according to the Massachusetts metric, be vulnerable in some circumstances to Republican capture. No wonder so many House Democrats refused to vote for the Senate health care bill—enough to prompt Speaker Nancy Pelosi to say publicly that “unease would be a gentle word” to describe their attitude toward doing that.

Newsmax - Expert Warns of 'Climategate' Conspiracy

Renowned meteorologist Dr. William Gray tells Newsmax that a possible new conspiracy regarding global warming has been uncovered in the U.S.

He also said environmentalists, socialists, governments and businessmen are trying to take advantage of climate change concerns for their own benefit, and declared that cap-and-trade legislation would do “very little” to improve the climate.

Climate Cover Up: How To Manipulate Public Opinion |  Global Warming Basics | Allianz Knowledge

[Climate fraud promoter James Hoggan] The idea that this is junk science, for example, is built on a deeply religious, anti-science fundamentalism in the United States.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Boxer admits cap-and-trade bill could be years away

[video] Consider this a good news/bad news update on AGW regulation in Washington. Two days ago in DC, Senator Barbara Boxer told reporters that Congressional action could be years away, “depending on the composition of the Senate,” which changed both incrementally and significantly earlier this week. That spells curtains for Boxer’s cap-and-trade bill, but she’s already fighting on another front here...

Wow! UK parliamentary investigation into Climategate may not be a whitewash – Telegraph Blogs

This is very heartening news for taxpayers, rationalists, and everyone who believes in the integrity of the scientific process. More encouraging still is Bishop Hill’s suggestion that it might be used by climate realists in the US government to launch a pincer movement against the eco fascists in the Obama administration:

‘Green’ Means Living Off the Government | GlobalWarming.org

As I mentioned yesterday, Scott Brown’s election is making the Democrats do all kinds of things that they wouldn’t have considered even last week. Bloomberg reports that cap-and-trade is dead (citing California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, for one) for this year, so the Dems’ thinking is to try and move some of the alt-energy initiatives into a jobs bill

White House Correspondents Dinner to Be the Most Eco-Friendly Ever - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

And for the first time in its 96-year history, the association is taking action to reduce the carbon impact of its annual black-tie gala; these actions include using as much as possible renewable energy for the event, paper products, supplies and services that reduce the threat of global warming, deforestation, toxic wastes, hazardous chemicals and species extinction.

"This will be the most eco-friendly dinner ever hosted by the association,'' said Edwin Chen, the group's president and a Bloomberg News White House correspondent.

New York Times: last decade warmest on record | CLIMATEGATE

As usual, alarmist analysts have cherry-picked, homogenized and smoothed the data to death (PDF). Joseph D’Aleo’s over at ICECAP has done a thorough debunk on this “warmest decade” claim

D’Aleo couldn’t be more damning about it, “NOAA is seriously complicit in data manipulation and fraud.” Strong stuff and you’d think such an “illustrious” institution like NOAA would be filing lawsuits for such defamation. But the fact they haven’t and never will speaks volumes.

News Corp.'s support for combating climate change undermined by deniers at Fox News, WSJ | Media Matters for America

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has stated that News Corp. "can set an example" and "reach our audiences" when it comes to fighting climate change, promising in 2007 to make all of News Corp.'s operations carbon neutral by 2010 and most recently commissioning pollster Frank Luntz to conduct a survey that reportedly studied the most effective way to communicate with voters on climate change. However, media figures at his news outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, have routinely advanced false and misleading claims in denying climate change.

"Prius perks" ending in December; but there's still time to make divisive statements — Autoblog Green

Yes, carpool lane access for some hybrid drivers in California will end this year.

[Another dispatch from Joe Romm's world] « Climate Progress

Nowhere could that be clearer than in climate and clean energy jobs bill.

The public support for action — including by a clear majority of independents and even many Republicans — could not be stronger as poll and poll makes clear. And still we see the likes of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) pointlessly back-pedaling on this straight-out political winner.

Mother Nature Network's cherry-picking of Matterhorn photos fails miserably in their effort to debunk Glaciergate | GORE LIED

I suppose an opportunist could conclude from photos that I found on Flickr that the the amount of snow, ice and glaciers on the Matterhorn have actually grown significantly from 2006 to today, but a realist recognizes that this is not necessarily the case, and that a better explanation would be that the photo showing little snow was shot during the summer, and the other showing a blanket of snow was shot during the winter. Regarding the MNN photos presented, no mention is made of what season each photo was shot ,and it’s doubtful that they even want us to consider such inconvenient thoughts. To the contrary, MNN expects readers to just swallow their photos whole, be scared, and do so without asking any pesky questions.

Vegas v. Detroit: A Tale of Two Trade Shows - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

But with costly hybrids less than three percent of the market, industry analysts express doubt as to whether consumers will buy Washington’s central-planning revolution.

Global warming's new marketing angle | Marketplace From American Public Media

This week, Luntz advised Krupp that Americans don't care as much about global warming as they do ending America's dependence on foreign oil.

If idiotic federal policy makes American electricity prices skyrocket, how would that end America's dependence on foreign oil?

The failure of Copenhagen: what now for the EU?

Raising the EU's emissions-reduction target to 30% should be part of a new, six-point plan for the EU in the wake of the Copenhagen summit.
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The EU has the opportunity to lead the world to a prosperous, low-carbon future while bolstering its competitiveness and the economic and energy security of its citizens. But bold and creative approaches will be required, and Europe must act now if it is not to be left on the sidelines of the next industrial revolution, the low-carbon revolution.

Bert Metz was chief negotiator for the Netherlands and the EU in the international climate negotiations from 1992 to 1998 and co-chairman of the IPCC Working Group on Mitigation from 1997 to 2008.

Twitter / Aram Dulyan

Those climate change deniers sure are fond of recycling: http://j.mp/8L1NHD

Twitter / Tanin Ehrami

Making Climate Change sexy to desensitize the masses http://bit.ly/7ypxr4 I would've picked this picture http://bit.ly/79PmBs

The Reference Frame: A subtle sentence on extinctions

For this reason, the original statement is exactly equivalent to the following statement:

Approximately 70 to 80% of plant and animal species assessed so far are likely to be at reduced risk of extinction if increases in global average temperature exceed 1.5 to 2.5 °C (medium confidence).

Carbon [swindle] market exec still hopes for U.S. climate [swindle] bill

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. federal climate legislation may still pass this year even though a Republican who opposes the bill won a seat in the Senate this week, a carbon markets executive said on Thursday.

"Our view is that it's not dead," Abyd Karmali, managing director and global head of carbon emissions at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, told Reuters in an interview.

[Democrats: Why not say this at your next packed town hall meeting?]

Bo Obama, and the millions of other dogs and cats across the country, need meaningful climate policy passed now as much as we do.

US chief executives rush to revive Obama's faltering climate [swindle] legislation - 22 Jan 2010 - BusinessGreen.com

Bosses at more than 80 companies write to members of Congress urging them to pass climate change bill as quickly as possible or risk American firms "falling behind"

[If 80+ American businesses support climate fraud, how many of these 17,000 businesses DON'T support climate fraud?]

Firms with 500 employees or more     17,047

[People who can charge more if you're more afraid of storms: You should be more afraid of storms]

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Climate change will likely increase the frequency and severity of storm activity in Texas, an area of the country that is especially vulnerable to the “triple threat” of hurricanes, hail storms and tornadoes, weather researchers said today at a conference at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business sponsored by the Willis Research Network.

The Willis Research Network, part of Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, is an industry-leading public-private partnership between Willis and many of the world’s top scientific research institutions.

Green Loans to Private-Jet-Flying Auto Execs - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Taxpayers will also line the pockets of Tesla’s wealthy customers with an additional $7,500 tax break at purchase. Apparently, it’s offensive for Detroit auto executives who use private jets to ask for federal loans, but Palo Alto auto executives using private jets (Tesla’s founder Elon Musk has one in his garage) can get federal loans to build luxury electrics.

Bad data underlie global warming claim

The foundation for the claim for man-made global warming—considering the historical data gathered from San Luis Obispo County’s two reporting stations—is fallacious. Unfortunately, the reported temperature data, not the Earth, are cooked by man.

Matt Kokkonen of San Luis Obispo is a candidate for the California Assembly.

Ohio Professional Geologists Reject Warming Alarmism by Penny Rodriguez, The Heartland Institute | Climate Realists

The Ohio Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists has adopted a position statement rejecting global warming alarmism and calling on Congress to defeat legislation aimed at restricting carbon dioxide emissions.

The First Rule of Fighting Climate Change: Don't Talk About Climate Change | Mother Jones

Republican pollster Frank Luntz—the brains behind Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" and the man who coined politically potent phrases like the "death tax"—wants to help environmentalists in their push for legislation to combat climate change. His advice? Stop talking about climate change.

The environmental community is "fighting the wrong battle," Luntz announced on Thursday at an event to mark the release of a new report by his polling firm, The Word Doctors, outlining strategies to help marshal public support for a climate bill. "The least important component of climate change is climate change."

Luntz's report, "The Language of a Clean Energy Economy," finds that the majority of the public across the political spectrum is convinced that global warming is happening and caused at least in part by humans. But, Luntz says, talking about the problem won't win support for the legislation that would solve it. Among both Democrats and Republicans polled by his firm, addressing climate change was the least important reason to support a cap-and-trade policy.

David Olson's Polar Plunge 2009

For the third time, I am planning to jump into the chilly waters of the Chesapeake Bay, on Jan. 23. But I am not doing it for my own entertainment; this is my way of fighting global warming and climate change, and keeping winter cold!

Agriculture and climate change = trade and energy - The Post - Ontario, CA

So whether we at the farm gate believe in the issue of climate change or not, society has decided it is an issue [not according to these polls]. That's why OFA/CFA attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference to promote and defend our environmentally sustainable practices that are needed to feed nine billion people by 2050.

Twitter / Ed Miliband

We need people in parliament who really care about climate change. Does your MP? http://bit.ly/6aawoe

[Still more of your tax dollars blown on the climate hoax] — Georgia State University

Georgia State is taking a leading role in climate change education through the NASA Global Climate Change Education grant, of which Somerville serves as an advisor. In 2009, the university received the $499,950 grant to help improve learning about global climate change for high school students, undergraduate students and teachers in training. The program has also received federal stimulus funds.

The grant additionally provides funds for a unique urban carbon dioxide monitor to further research and teaching in the field.

The Hockey Stick Illusion: new climategate book hits the street | CLIMATEGATE

The hockey stick is the sacred symbol of the global warming movement. Now, you can get in-depth debunking of it and other climategate falsities in the new book, The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science by Andrew Montford.

Energy Debate Yields Little Middle Ground - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Kennedy refused to engage the scientific debate, suggesting only that the cost to society of acting to prevent global warming — even if the science is ultimately proved wrong — is a legacy of cleaner fuels, a healthier environment and energy independence.

If global warming skeptics are believed now, and then ultimately proved wrong, Mr. Kennedy said, “the whole of civilization is destroyed.”

How warm would it have to get to destroy all of human civilization?

Glaciergate threatens a climate change | The Australian

Fred Pearce, a British environmental journalist who has found himself at the centre of the Glaciergate row, agrees with Cogley's prediction and says the stakes are now dangerously high for Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC.

"People who want to undermine the science on climate change will be crawling over the report looking for another mistake like this and if they do find another one it will be curtains for Pachauri," Pearce says. "The way he has handled this glacier issue means he's now a sitting duck if anything else turns up."

Climate change [scam] is topic of physics lecture

Community members who wonder how climate change could impact Houston and the resulting 21st century solutions are invited to attend a free lecture called “Can Houston Survive Inaction on Climate Change?” by noted physicist Joseph Romm, Jan. 23, 6–8 p.m., in University of Houston-Clear Lake’s Bayou Theater.

Romm is senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the author of “Hell and High Water: Global Warming—The Solution and The Politics.” A question and answer segment and open reception will follow the presentation.

Will this be a real question and answer segment, or will Romm cherry-pick softball questions from written submissions?

Let’s Keep It At Schaudenfreude, Not Masochism

A new study pointed out to us by the Institute for Energy Research shows the troubling experience in Germany as that nation has tried to subsidize renewable energy options that are still very expensive. The lesson: let’s not throw our own good money after bad.

Some key findings:

* Financial aid to Germany’s solar industry has now reached a level that far exceeds average wages, with per worker subsidies as high as $240,000 US...

EPA Getting Too Big for Its Britches?

Cap-and-trade may be appropriately shelved for the time being, particularly in light of the Massachusetts Senate upset, but that may only embolden “Action Jackson” and her gung ho EPA to more aggressively pursue regulatory measures that Congress won’t touch. Inside EPA (subscription required) speculates on whether or not the agency is taking on too much and risks endangering its own credibility.

Pajamas Media » Actually, Weather Is Climate

It is statistically appropriate to point to this year's frigidity as evidence that the theory of man-made global warming is suspect.

C3: What Per Cent of Global Warming Is Natural? Past Climate History Has The Answer

Though it is true human CO2 emissions and other human forces may have a slight influence on temperatures, especially in local/regional areas, the fact remains that modern temperature changes are not unlike the previous global temperature movements already experienced. World temperatures are predominantly driven by the dynamic natural forces that the previous 18 climate temperature changes have exhibited. That's what the ice core climate science tells us.

What per cent of global warming is natural? Based on 9,000 years of climate change history, the answer is very close to 100%.

James Hansen: Would you buy a used temperature data set from THIS man? – Telegraph Blogs

Now reader Michael Potts has drawn my attention to yet further evidence of Dr Hansen’s radical, virulently anti-democratic instincts. He has lent his support to an eco-fascist book advising on ways to destroy western industrialisation through propaganda, guile and outright sabotage.
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It’s an important thing to remember when we talk about AGW: many of the activist-scientists pushing it passionately want the earth to be getting hotter and it for it to be largely man’s fault. These watermelons certainly don’t want the opposite to be true, because then they wouldn’t have the excuse they so desperately need to destroy the capitalist system and take us all back to the agrarian age.

NewsBusters Interview: Tim Carney, Author of 'Obamanomics' | NewsBusters.org

My broader point is, Obama is GE's whole story; they are the for-profit arm of the Obama administration. Obama says embryonic stem cells, GE starts an embryonic stem cell line. Obama says high-speed rail and freight trains, GE goes ahead and hires Linda Daschle to be their lobbyist in that. Obama says health care reform, GE launches a line of health care imaging, MRI-type things. Obama says global warming, GE is all over that creating greenhouse gas offsets already, something that only gets a real value once cap and trade passes. And GE spends more on lobbying than any company in America. When you put that all together, you see the success of Barack Obama is the success of General Electric, so that's where the conflict of interest is just utterly glaring.

Our Latest Cartoon: … And All We Got Was This Shirt

Text: Nancy Pelosi and her friends went to Copenhagen on three military jets, stayed in five-star resorts, and dine liked royalty. And all I got was this lousy T-shirt!

[We're saved!]: Students vow to stop global warming with symbolic handprints | Brunei

STUDENTS and teachers of Pehin Datu Seri Maharaja Secondary School, Mentiri recently had a chance to pledge their commitment in stopping global warming by adding their handprints to what is possibly the largest banner in Brunei.

IPCC: “Our bad! Global warming not about to melt Himalayas. | GlobalWarming.org

You didn’t need a Cray computer to figure that this was nonsense, that temperatures would have to more or less instantly soar to incredible heights and stay there for this to happen. (As it turns out, 18 degrees Centigrade.) But people wrote it, read it, and believed it.

Pachauri mum on Himalayan blunder- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times

Despite two successive controversies, the IPCC chief chose not to clarify referring only to the statement issued by the panel on Wednesday. “I do not want to speak on the issue (controversy) right now,” Dr Pachauri said.

[Will this $350 million expenditure really prevent bad weather?]: Solar Water Heaters Get a Boost in California - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

California regulators on Thursday approved a $350 million program to subsidize the installation of solar water heaters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Arizona: Bookmans, Jo-Anns Roofs Collapse

The roofs at both Bookmans Entertainment Exchange and its neighbor Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts collapsed at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday night.
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Bob Orrill with the Flagstaff Fire Department said employees at the fabric store had left only 30 minutes earlier. Bookmans had closed at 12:30 p.m. Thursday due to heavy snowfall.

NASA - From Space to the Classroom: NASA [Uses Your Tax Dollars To Spread Climate Scam Propaganda]

WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded approximately $1.4 million in cooperative agreements to enhance learning through the use of the agency's unique Earth science resources. The grants will support elementary, secondary and undergraduate education, along with lifelong teaching and learning.

Recipients are the University of Washington, the National Wildlife Federation in Reston, Va., and Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia. NASA also provided approximately $210,000 in additional funding for an earlier award made to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Aborigines, not climate, killed megafauna - report | Herald Sun

THE giant marsupials, reptiles and flightless birds - known as megafauna - that inhabited Australia more than 40,000 years ago were most likely killed off by early Australians, according to new research that shows mankind and the huge beasts co-existed only for a short period, The Australian reported.

The findings challenge the long-held theory that climate change wiped out the animals, which included giant wombats and kangaroos.

Are meteorologists climate experts? « Climate Progress

The scientific literature is very clear — the hockey stock is not bogus science.

“Rotten” ice again at Heliogenic Climate Change

What do you do when arctic sea ice increases, contrary to AGW dogma? Why say the ice is “rotten” of course

Die Klimazwiebel: Climate Change as Religion?

[Video] Sorry, this is only for German speaking readers, it was on German TV a few days ago and is very interesting, if a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Major biblical themes are applied to climate change alarmism, Sociologist Norber Bolz says: "an atheist society such as ours can finally believe again, this time on the basis of (climate) science"