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Editorial - Climate Change and the S.E.C. - NYTimes.comAt the same time, ordinary stockholders and state insurance regulators have begun expressing increasing [or decreasing] alarm about the potential cost of unchecked climate change for American businesses. The S.E.C. action is simply one more incentive for investors and managers to better understand the risks — and the opportunities — out there for publicly traded businesses.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: More Quiet Post-Publication Changes to the Stern Report"In any academic publication changes to published text to correct errors or to clarify require the subsequent publication of a formal erratum or corrigendum.
"This is to ensure the integrity of the literature and a paper trail, otherwise confusion would result if past work could be quietly rewritten.
"Such a practice is very much a whitewash of the historical record.
"One would assume – and expect – that studies designed to inform government (and international) policy would be held to at least these same standards if not higher standards."
Climate bill: All cost, no benefit - JSOnlineIt's common practice in politics to market legislation in a way that hides its true intent. The so-called Clean Energy Jobs Act, praised by a Journal Sentinel editorial on Jan. 17 is one of the most misnamed bills of all time.
PENNY WONG - Climate Change[Wong]: But we shouldn't be surprised if Mr Abbott doesn't think that a four
degree temperature rise is a big deal because we know what he thinks
about climate change. In his own words Mr Abbott thinks that climate
change is "absolute crap". That's what he thinks about it. And when Mr
Abbott puts his policy out next week, we will know two things about
that policy. It's been put forward by a man who's happy to let
Australia risk a four degree temperature rise - a man who is happy to
risk that kind of temperature rise - and a man who thinks that climate
change is "absolute crap". Happy to take questions.
JOURNALIST: It'll also carry some significantly less tax, according to
Mr Abbott.
The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.
Climate change deceit close to making the Pachauri extinct « Autonomous MindChanging the figurehead will not change the structure or integrity of the ship. The SS IPCC might look a little different, but its crew and destination will remain the same. Even when Pachauri has finally been pushed, or discovers enough humility to jump, the battle against political agendas masquerading as environmentalism will need to continue. The battle against Pachauri is one to expose the reality of the situation for a worldwide public that has been deceived for so long. But in reality it is a battle against the whole IPCC and the small corrupt cabal of core scientists who produce ‘reports’ generated using cherry picked data, that are then used by thousands of others as the baseline in climate science. We have a long way to go to drain the IPCC swamp and see the truth that is well hidden below the surface.
Coral in Florida Keys suffers lethal hit from coldGiven the depth and duration of frigid weather, Meaghan Johnson, marine science coordinator for The Nature Conservancy, expected to see losses. But she was stunned by what she saw when diving a patch reef 2.5 miles off Harry Harris Park in Key Largo.
Star and brain corals, large species that can take hundreds of years to grow, were as white and lifeless as bones, frozen to death. There were also dead sea turtles, eels and parrotfish littering the bottom.
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Cold-water bleaching is unusual, last occurring in 1977, the year it snowed in Miami. It killed hundreds of acres of staghorn and elkhorn corals across the Keys. Neither species has recovered, both becoming the first corals to be federally listed as threatened in 2006.
This big chill, said Causey, shapes up worse.
"They were exposed to temperatures much colder, that went on longer, than what they were exposed to three decades ago," he said.
High heat bills fuel anger among APCo customersIn Madison Heights, customer Christopher Mathews got a $422 bill. He got angry enough that he decided to take action. On Monday he plans to e-mail hundreds of people asking them to contact state lawmakers to speak against APCo.
Mathews said he would like to see laws that rein in rate increases by bringing in competition or simply limiting rate hikes.
In addition to laws, he hopes APCo customers send the company a message by buying less electricity. "I don't think they deserve people's money," he said. "I think people should boycott them and get wind turbines."
So much wasted green for climate-change [scam] talksI asked Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill about the $2,200-a-day tab. "We don't get to pick the hotel we stay in," he answered; the State Department picks hotels for congressional delegations, and it chose a five-star Marriott with a six-night minimum during the summit. Hence, the $4,406 per-room tab for a 48-hour stay. My journalist pal Ola Tedin of Ystad, Sweden, suggested, "They would have found a better deal in Malmö, Sweden," where many attendees stayed. No, I am told, the delegation worked nonstop and didn't have time for the 35-minute train ride.
As for the air fares, Hammill explained they are "government rate." Government rate means that taxpayers fork over as much as $10,000 for a flight that could be purchased online for $800. "Government rate," then, is D.C.-speak for: Money is no object.
No worries on the greenhouse gases spewed to fuel the trek. The House bought "offsets" for the journey's emissions. Of course, that very act explains why so many Americans have come to doubt global warming true believers: Their great crusade is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet they globe-trot to be seen with each other and produce meaningless pieces of paper. Then they tell others that their exhaust fumes don't stink because, like sinners purchasing indulgences, they offset their vapor trail - with other people's money.
Rudd all talk and no ticker: Abbott''If [climate change] really is the greatest enemy that humanity faces, how can it be enough to reduce emissions by just 5 per cent in a decade or by 60 per cent over four decades by which time the real challenge will surely be dealing with disaster rather than avoiding it?'' Mr Abbott said.
Monckton stokes the global warming fireFollowing yesterday's luncheon he said the media and general public in Australia were more welcoming than he had expected and the number of followers had been "staggering".
"I'd expected (the media) to be more hostile," Lord Monckton said.
"I think Australia is thinking much more carefully about climate change than probably its government is."
Climate change: Hoax or danger? -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NYALBANY -- The heated rhetoric over man-made climate change may be on display during a debate today between those who believe the problem is a real crisis that will damage the planet versus those who see it as an overblown hoax that will wreck the economy.
Revealed: the racy novel written by the world's most powerful climate [fraud] scientist - TelegraphThe novel was launched amid much fanfare with Bollywood stars and wealthy industrialists in attendance, a reflection of Dr Pachauri’s esteemed status in the country.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In the acknowledgement of his novel, Dr Pachauri admits to writing the book while flying around the world between meetings as IPCC chairman or else in his capacity as head of a research institute in Delhi.
But with calls for him to resign over academic blunders in the reports he presides over, some critics will question whether he should have devoted more time to scrutinising the science behind the reports.
Book Launch: 'Return to Almora' Photos - Mumbai - Events - The Times of India PhotogalleryPachauri at his book 'Return to Almora' launch at Taj, Mumbai. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
9 Jan, 2010
Global warming: Fighting on too many frontsAlthough the IPCC and its defenders seem beleaguered and beset right about now, it's good to remember the saying about God fighting on the side of the biggest battalions. After all, we call their position the 'consensus' because they [allegedly] have more people on their side.
The skeptics are fewer in number and have fewer resources to commit to the fray. This is why the skeptic argument seems to proceed in jerky stops and starts--there's not only no central direction, individual initiatives are often part of a single scientist's (or blogger's) program--but not the only part.
[Actually, if we're talking about American voters, the skeptics *far* outnumber the alarmists]Only 5% of Americans now agree with Al Gore that the issue is "extremely important"
EU Referendum: Amazongate: the final phaseThe IPCC is holed below the waterline, and our little BBC man is trying to stem the leaks with a paper tissue.
Shock: warming not blamed | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog...is Grattan’s totured formula actually a confession that she’s become a sceptic, too, and is no longer sure at all the climate will have heated dangerously by 2050?
Obama on defensive, US climate Bill in retreat - Special Report - Sunday TOI - Home - The Times of IndiaAmid such a welter of concerns and special interests, the ACES Act (also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill after its sponsors who guided it through the House of Representatives) looks like being stymied in the Senate, even though the historic 219-212 House vote last year was the first time US lawmakers had approved a Bill meant to curb the heat-trapping gases that scientists have linked to climate change. But with the political atmosphere in Washington turning increasingly toxic, and President Obama's loss of prestige and momentum following the electoral setback in Massachusetts (where his party lost a liberal Kennedy pocketborough), there's a distinct loss of appetite for the Bill in the Senate, which has to pass the legislation and reconcile it with the House version for it to become law.
IMF introduces $100 billion [climate hoax] fund - MarketWatchDAVOS, Switzerland (MarketWatch) -- International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Saturday said the institution plans to create a $100 billion "green" fund to fund low-carbon growth.
Final touches on climate [swindle] policy | Top Stories | BigPond NewsTony Abbott and his Liberal Party are putting final touches on their climate change policy before it's being released on Tuesday.
The opposition leader says his party's policy will deliver the same emissions reductions as Labor but cheaper.
Global finance chiefs support [the greatest scientific fraud in human history]“The Climate Principles represent our response to this crisis-in-the-making and our commitment to do something concrete and powerful to avert it.”
Climate of disbeliefWhile panic may not be called for in view of the reassurance about glaciers, there is little to celebrate because man is still very, very far from deciphering the language and laws of Mother Nature. [So how do we know that the late 20th century warming wasn't driven by something other than trace amounts of carbon dioxide?]
The Public Divide over Climate Change [Fraud]: Science, Skeptics and the Media - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International AffairsSurveys show that the American public is among the most divided in terms of agreement with scientific findings that climate change is a serious manmade threat that requires urgent action in the United States and abroad. The public divide appears to be increasing in this country, the United Kingdom and elsewhere.This seminar will focus on the role of the media in communicating about climate change science, policy and politics to the general public and the influence on public opinion. The [Feb 4] seminar will look at ways to improve the public dialogue over climate change.
Andrew C. Revkin: The New York Times "Dot Earth" blogger and journalist, Senior Fellow, Pace University Academy for Applied Environmental Studies
Matthew Nisbet: Assistant Professor, American University School of Communication, "Framing Science" blogger, climate change public opinion expert
Thomas Patterson (discussant): Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Shorenstein Center, HKS
Al Fin: IPCCs Pachauri Lied About Himalayan Glaciers -- AgainFor an openminded, intelligent, and aware person, there is virtually no reason to believe in the alarmist crusade of climate catastrophe as promoted by President Obama, Barbara Boxer, Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri, and the rest of the crusaders of the holy warmer orthodoxy.
Billions of dollars better spent elsewhere are being diverted to the climate crusade. If the crusade prevails over the climate skeptics and infidels, trillions of dollars of resources will be diverted from necessary energy and industrial projects into carbon trading scams and billion dollar gifts to third world dictators.
Climategate: confusion over the law in email case - TelegraphThe Commission is thus impaled on a hook of its own devising. By admitting that serious offences were committed, it is now legally obliged to bring charges. And if these were brought under the 1977 Criminal Law Act, alleging that the offences amounted to a conspiracy to defy the law, there is no time limit anyway.
The real mystery therefore is how the Commission came to misread the very Act which brought it into being. Undoubtedly a successful prosecution involving such world-ranking scientists would be extraordinarily embarrassing, not just to the Government but to the entire global warming cause. So what has persuaded the Commission not to do its duty?
The Politics of Nature « the Air VentRecently Nature has published multiple editorials which will appeal to the consensus scientists of a certian political view so prevalent in climate science. In reading them, these people have completely lost contact with the real world. So in order to help those who have not been paying attention, I’ve included a proper interpretation of what the article is saying.
Before I get started, Nature is continuing the coverup and propagandization of the climategate emails. In covering the truth, they apparently are complicit co-conspirators and open supporters of the corruption recently exposed in climate science. Their attempted coverup of the truth followed by an open advocacy of leftist govenrnment that hints at the breadth of the true problem. The editorial is funny though when it explains that it’s the public’s lack of understanding that creates the problem, not the proposed political system itself. Didn’t Mao say something like that?
Amazongate: new evidence of the IPCC's failures - TelegraphMost disturbing of all are the glimpses the story gives of the inner workings of the IPCC, an institution now so discredited and scientifically corrupted that only those determined to shut their eyes could possibly defend it. This is now compounded by the recent revelations by Dr North and myself in these pages of how its chairman, Dr Pachauri, has built a worldwide network of business links which provide his Delhi institute with a sizeable income.
It is noticeable how many of those now calling for Dr Pachauri's resignation, led by Professor Andrew Weaver, a senior IPCC insider, are passionate global warming believers. Fearing that Pachauri damages their cause, they want him thrown overboard in the hope of saving the IPCC itself. But it is not just Pachauri who has been holed below the waterline. So has the entire IPCC process. And beyond that – and despite the pleading of Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and the BBC that none of this detracts from the evidence for man-made global warming – so has the warmist cause itself. Bereft of scientific or moral authority, the most expensive show the world has ever seen may soon be nearing its end.
U.S. Media Silent as Climate Scandals Continue (Wizbang)Bad science done using bad data to start with is a recipe for disaster. Or, perhaps more to the point, is a recipe for being able to manipulate public opinion. The scientific method is a way of discovering observable truths about the world around us. To use it as a propaganda machine is shameful and the mainstream media's silence on the story is doubly so.
It’s time to stop worshipping the false gods behind global warming | Irish ExaminerTHE global warming crisis is now being rebranded as a climate change crisis because it seems that instead of getting warmer, we may actually be getting colder.
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An article in The Wall Street Journal last October suggested that carbon permits could become the largest commodity market in the world, growing to as much as $3 trillion by 2030. Bernie Madoff got away with his Ponzi scheme for so long because people were afraid to question what he was doing. Surely we should be questioning the so-called global warming scam.
Global warming scam • Letters (www.HometownAnnapolis.com - The Capital)I know a scam when I see one and the man made global warming theory is a scam. Honest debate of science should always be encouraged but man made global warming theorists become enraged with any dissenting discussion of their theory. If they can't debate the science of global warming it is no longer science. It has become their religion.
DAVID STERLING
China Insists That Its Steps on Climate [Hoax] Be Voluntary - NYTimes.comBEIJING — As a Sunday target date approaches for countries to submit to the United Nations their plans for fighting climate change, China is banding together with other major developing nations to stress that only the wealthier countries need to make internationally binding commitments.
So while China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, might put down in writing its targets for slowing the growth of emissions, it will make clear that those efforts are voluntary steps it plans to take domestically that should not imply a binding international commitment.
The Hindu : Arts / Magazine : Homeless on a winter nightThese winter nights were some of the coldest that Delhi had witnessed in a decade, and he recalls collecting 10 bodies in a single night. There is rarely a post-mortem, and many deaths are not even recorded. The lives of the destitute are extraordinarily cheap in our land.
1/30/2010 - Roof Collapes At Smyrna Bowling Center; State Bowling Postponed - Sports - Chattanoogan.comSMYRNA, Tenn. -- A very large section of the roof at the Smyrna Bowling Center collapsed Friday night due to the heavy ice/snow.
Pentagon review to address climate change [hoax] for the first time - TheHill.comSenate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), a key architect of Senate climate plans, was the first to draw attention to the significance of climate change in the QDR. Kerry said last week that the QDR will list climate change as a security problem that could claim U.S. lives.
Rex Murphy: So, whatever happened to Copenhagen? - Full CommentNo one’s really talking about the failure of Copenhagen now because the ostensible threat to humanity was shown to be shrouded in hype. Al Gore and his crew simply don’t have now what we used to call “the face” to deliver another grand and imperiously moralizing lecture to the world and its carbon-consuming innocents after the travesty revealed in Climategate and the clutter of revelations that followed it.
BBC News - Harrabin's Notes: IPCC under scrutinyIt all points to the need for much greater transparency, though that will throw up issues of its own for a body striving to offer a coherent view to policymakers of an issue dominated by risk, uncertainty and values, rather that unambiguous science.
Lord Monkton rallies at The J | Sunshine Coast News The man was rapturously received, however, and clearly enjoyed his deified status among the mainly converted in the audience, although whether in the long-term he will prove truly to be a climate change denial messiah rather than just a very naughty boy remains to be seen.
"Climategate" or how to transform a mouse into an elephant | ScienceBlog.comHowever, it has been shown that climate of the world is dynamic and has been varying. A long time ago, trees were growing in the tundras of northernmost Canada and 100 000 years ago, I would have to dig myself out of a glacier to see the daylight. This means that the odds are against a stable CO 2 independent climate.
Global Warming: the Collapse of a Grand Narrative: StottFor over a month now, since the farcical conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, I have been silent, partly through family commitments abroad in the USA, but also because, in this noisy world, in ‘The Clamour Of The Times’, it is on occasion better to be quiet and contemplative, to observe rather than to comment. And, as an independent academic, it has been fascinating to witness the classical collapse of a Grand Narrative, in which social and philosophical theories are being played out before our gaze. It is like watching the Berlin Wall [pictured] being torn down, concrete slab by concrete slab, brick by brick, with cracks appearing and widening daily on every face - political, economic, and scientific. Likewise, the bloggers have been swift to cover the crumbling edifice with colourful graffiti, sometimes bitter, at others caustic and witty.
Greenpeace cited multiple times in IPCC’s Third Assessment Report « ClimateQuotes.comI don't know how accurate these studies are or how rigorous the peer-review process was (if any existed). Clearly the IPCC's reliance on Greenpeace is not just in the Fourth Assessment report.
'Pachauri didn't correct glaciers' report despite being informed' - India - The Times of IndiaLONDON: R K Pachauri, chairman of the UN panel on Climate Change, took two months to correct the report about melting Himalayan glaciers despite being informed before last year's Copenhagen Summit, a media report claimed today, but the climate czar termed it as "ridiculous".
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Minnesota wind turbines won’t work in cold weatherMinnesota invested itself in alternative energy sources years ago, and so the revelation that the state spent $3.3 million on eleven wind turbines hardly qualifies as news. However, the fact that they don’t work in cold weather does. KSTP reports that none of the wind turbines work, prompting the Twin Cities ABC affiliate to dub them “no-spin zones.”
Twitter / Andy Revkin [incorrectly claims that I haven't "read much"]Those alleging I've only just noted there's complexity in climate haven't read much:
How Many Climategates Are Needed?: Barry NapierThe nerve and audacity of climateers astonish me. No matter how many proofs are given that they are lying, they keep on going, pretending everything is okay. And followers obediently hang on, like blind men.
When Climategate crashed around the world like a rhino with toothache, all climateers could say was “Oh, even if the figures were fraudulent, it won’t alter the conclusions”. In itself, that was a really astounding thing to say. The other one was “Yes, but the emails were misrepresented. They really meant…”
[In order to prevent bad weather in Perth Amboy]: We need ideas to stop a third runway | Ben Stewart | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukJust over a year ago, in a spectacular display of indifference for the climate and the quality of life of millions of people, the government announced its support for a third runway at Heathrow. But two days earlier, Greenpeace had revealed its cunning plan to stop it. We came together with Emma Thompson, Alistair McGowan and Zac Goldsmith to buy a bit of the runway from right under BAA's noses. We called it Airplot. This marked the start of an epic battle.
Luddite: Definition from Answers.com1 Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
2 One who opposes technical or technological change
Obama's 2011 budget will include phantom cap-and-trade revenue | Washington ExaminerA trade publication is reporting this afternoon that President Obama's 2011 federal budget proposal will assume receipt of billions of dollars in revenue generated from the cap-and-trade program even though that proposal appears now to be all but dead in Congress.
Suggestion for Obama at Heliogenic Climate Change“President Obama this week also ordered the federal government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 28% below current levels by 2020. This order follows from Executive Order 13514, which the President signed last fall and which requires federal departments and agencies to set targets for cutting emissions. He has now set their target for them. The most practical way to meet this goal would be to shut down large parts of the federal government. Let’s hope President Obama seizes this opportunity and achieves the most drastic downsizing of government in history.” Cooler Heads Digest 29 January 2010
Another Blow to Obama's Agenda: New SEC Guidance on Climate Change Disclosure Will Force CEOs Who Lobby for Cap-and-Trade to Expose the Business Risk of Cap-and-Trade Legislation to ShareholdersWashington, DC - Corporate CEOs who have been actively lobbying for cap-and-trade climate legislation may soon find themselves in an embarrassing position thanks to a new Securities and Exchange Commission regulation, says Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project.
John Fund: Scott Brown: 'People Aren't Stupid' - WSJ.comMr. Brown says it frustrates him that too many politicians still believe that people will be fooled by what they're proposing. "People aren't stupid, and leaders should figure out they're better informed now than ever." Perhaps that explains how Scott Brown was able to pull off his improbable Cinderella story.
Back in September, picking up on the rising tide of public anger over health reform, excessive spending, and one-party arrogance, he fashioned a simple, compelling narrative to deal with it: no to a rushed, confusing health-care bill, yes to a freeze on federal spending and to introducing some sunlight into government. Mr. Brown repeated it over and over with the inner confidence that his message would eventually resonate. It did.
[In case you missed it]: The Hottest Hoax in the World | OPEN MagazineIf I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrarywise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see? —Alice in Wonderland
The climate change fraud that is now unravelling is unprecedented in its deceit, unmatched in scope—and for the liberal elite, akin to 9 on the Richter scale. Never have so few fooled so many for so long, ever.
The entire world was being asked to change the way it lives on the basis of pure hyperbole. Propriety, probity and transparency were routinely sacrificed.
The truth is: the world is not heating up in any significant way.
Debunking National Wildlife Federation [Climate Scam] Claims – Part 2 « Watts Up With That?[Steven Goddard] One of the NWF claims about global warming is that snow in the Colorado mountains is diminishing and has become very erratic, as seen in the NWF graphic at left.
In this article I will show that the claim is incorrect – Colorado snowfall has been generally increasing for the last hundred years and that year over year variability has always been extremely high.
WWF FRAUD – fabricating the climate « TWAWKIIt needs to be asked at what point does this highly affluent self adulated NGO come under scrutiny and accountability?. WWF and its actions likewise need to be audited so there is great transparency over its actions, connections and how it benefits from those it seeks to lobby.
Alex Jones Show Video Tube: Dr. Tim Ball: Climate Change Scam Enforcement at The State Level 1/4Timothy F. Ball, who is a critic of the climate change scam. He heads the Natural Resources Stewardship Project and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Friends of Science, organizations that reject human-caused global warming.
Warning Signs: Osama bin Laden, Climate ExpertThe silence of Al Gore as the planet has cooled since 1998 suggests that even he knows that his self-enrichment plan is coming to an end. Only President Obama seems or pretends to be oblivious to the idiocy of cutting “greenhouse gas emissions” in the name of a planet that is not warming.
William M. Briggs, Statistician » Welcome-to-Saturday LinksThis one has been making the rounds. “Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen.” Raise your hands if you’re shocked that yet another UN official turned out to be a bit of a fibber? Scandal is so endemic to that organization that it must be the result of planning. Perhaps incoming officials must take some kind of Oath of Graft, or be able to positively demonstrate to have at least one relative that lives in New Jersey.
Pajamas Media » Climate Change [Fraud] Supporters Prove They Don’t Have the Courage of Their ConvictionsInvited to a tea party debate on climate change, AGW supporters opt out of participating — and quite rudely.
C3: Did Antarctica Have A Medieval Warming Period? The Seals & Penguins Tell The StoryIt is a common refrain from global warming alarmists that the Medieval Warming Period was only a regional phenomenon, experienced only in the Northern Hemisphere, primarily in Europe. They continue to state this despite the scientific evidence supporting that the Medieval Warming, and other climatic periods, were world-wide events that affected different areas, at slightly different times and period extent spans.
Kill the IPCC - Dr Patrick MichaelsThe attachment of “gate” to this scandal is more than appropriate. In its original 1973-4 incarnation, little bits of information, snippets of foul play, and deletions of records dripped out one-by-one over a year. Ultimately the person responsible, President Richard Nixon, had to resign.
We’re seeing the same with climategate and the IPCC. Wouldn’t if just save everyone a lot of time and trouble if Rajenda Pauchari resigned and the United Nations disbanded the IPCC. Neither its head nor its body have any remaining credibility, so why not put it out of its misery?
Twitter / Jake Tapperre: OBL condeming climate change -- i forget, is it good for the environment to fly planes into skyscrapers?
Jake Tapper (jaketapper) on TwitterBio Sr White House Correspondent for ABC News
NASA takes our eyes off climategate — now watch out for the “Katrina from outer space” | CLIMATEGATEWhat timing! Right as climategate, glaciergate, Amazonegate, Pachaurigate and NASAgate are turning the heat on global warming to the boiling point, NASA has released a study that we’re sure they and other alarmists hope will take our minds of the rapid busting of climate change.
Update on our book, "Climategate: The CRUtape Letters"As Climategate is in danger of being eclipsed by more recent scandals, it may be time to refresh our memories. When 1,000 emails and assorted files were leaked by person or persons unknown, we learned a lot about how climate science gets done. Or undone:
We learned that scientists will cut the throat of other scientists to keep their papers out of the press, or that they'll try and get editors fired if they don't toe the climate change line.
We learned that getting the scary message across to politicians is so important that it justifies hiding the shakiness of the data.
» Obama’s War on Science: Trillions for a Hoax, but Not One Cent for NASA’s Moon Mission - Big JournalismAnd now Obama is killing space exploration. Billions for graft and corruption and his union army and even more for the junk science of global warming, but nothing for the future discovery and the progress of man. It’s awful. The collapse of science is all but complete.
Trillions for global hoaxing, the middle finger for science. And for Americans, Third World conditions.
Possibly More Deaths at Psychiatric Hospital - Havana Times.orgHAVANA TIMES, Jan. 30 – The number of patients in the Havana Psychiatric Hospital who died due to the cold weather in mid January could be as many as 50, affirmed Elizardo Sánchez, president of the opposition’s Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation. Up to now the Cuban authorities have only acknowledged the death of 26 persons, reported IPS.
Clarkson's climate views back need for Environment Centre in High Wycombe, supporter says (From Bucks Free Press)THE views of climate change sceptic Jeremy Clarkson were today held up as a reason to continue support for High Wycombe’s Environment Centre, set to close in March.
[Pure insanity: Global warming blamed for] snow-affected waste services (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)"...I am aware that residents were particularly disappointed when we had to suspend our recycling service for a short while, and I urge them not to lose faith – local efforts to recycle and compost really are having a positive effect on reducing the impact of climate change.”
He continued: “Periods of exceptionally adverse weather, such as the snow and ice we recently experienced, are likely to become more frequent in the future. The Council needs to be ready for this challenge by adapting to the longer term effects of climate change for all its services. This wasn’t just a local problem – there were disruptions to waste collections across the country - but we want to get ahead of the game in the Cotswolds and ensure that we are pulling out all the stops to minimise any future problems.”
[More unsettled science]: 2 climate studies offer hope on global warming | National | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleA pair of climate papers published this week in the world's top science journals may offer some hope that rising levels of carbon dioxide won't imminently bring the planet to boil.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, levels of water vapor in the stratosphere rose quite dramatically, but in 2000 they suddenly dropped.
“Neither the increase before 2000 nor the decrease in 2000 are well understood,” said Andrew Dessler, an atmospheric scientist at Texas A&M University.
The computer models used to project future temperatures also don't include this feature because it remains poorly understood.
Answer Man: Is global warming worth the worry?he global mean surface temperature rose by about 1.2 degrees F. during the 20th century. During the last three decades of the century, though, the U.S. was cooking at nearly twice the global rate of increase.
The last two years in the U.S. have been a little cooler. Does this mean climate change is bogus?Well, no one promised a straight line to the Inferno; climate experts always have said that violent fluctuations are part of the equation, and no one claims to have ironclad predictions. But a lot of very smart people say we'll regret it if we don't make some prudent changes now. I tend to believe very smart people. [Like Richard Lindzen, Freeman Dyson, Burt Rutan, Lubos Motl, Christopher Monckton, etc etc?]
Text of Governor Doyle's 2010 State of the State Address [lots of talk about "clean energy"; no mention whatsoever of the global warming hoax]Clean energy technology and high-end manufacturing are Wisconsin's future. We have the research capacity – and we have the forests, fields and farms to be the leader in the clean energy economy.
...We are one of the leading producers of ethanol in the country.
U.S. Government Plans to Reduce Its Energy Use - NYTimes.com“As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a responsibility to American citizens to reduce our energy use and become more efficient,” Mr. Obama said in a statement.
Flashback: Barack Obama sets travel record for first year of presidency - chicagotribune.comThe costs of the trips -- borne by taxpayers -- are difficult to measure, but they're high. When the president uses Air Force One, it costs $100,219 an hour to operate, according to the Air Force. And that's just the president's plane.
There also are cargo planes, used to fly in armored limousines, helicopters, staff and other equipment, as well as the Secret Service. A single Air Force C-17 cargo jet, for example, costs $6,960 an hour, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Flashback: Obama Administration Favors Blue States for Travel? - ABC NewsFor President Barack Obama, it's almost as if the election campaign never ended. Just look at his travel schedule.
The same states that Obama targeted to win the White House are seeing an awful lot of the president, Vice President Joe Biden and top Cabinet officials. Only this year, the taxpayers are footing the multimillion-dollar tab for the trips, and Obama officials are delivering wheelbarrows of economic stimulus money — also compliments of taxpayers.
2007: Obama most costly freshman world traveler - Barack Obama News- msnbc.comFirst term senator's charges nearly 45% higher than his classmates
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's two years in the Senate have taken him around the world, from Russia to Iraq to Kenya - an itinerary more costly to taxpayers than any other senator who took office with him.
Flashback: Obama Cranks Up White House Thermostat: "You Could Grow Orchids In There""He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."
An Englishman's Castle: Climate Change CheatingSection 415 in The Indian Penal Code
Cheating.-- Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces the person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to that person in body, mind, reputation or property, is said to" cheat".
Explanation.- A dishonest concealment of facts is a deception within the meaning of this section.
IEEE Spectrum: More Climate Change Lingo...Perhaps that’s why people tell pollsters that climate change is no great concern. After years of dire warnings, apocalyptic predictions, and the-sky-is-falling tirades, maybe they’re just tired.
How the World Works - Salon.comSenate GOP plan to destroy earth doesn't poll well with al-Qaida
[Prepare for cooler weather]: UK firms to pioneer employee carbon cap and tradeA small group of UK firms is poised to trial an innovative personal carbon trading scheme that promises to slash employees' carbon emissions by offering the greenest members of staff financial bonuses.
The initiative, known as the personal allowance carbon tracking scheme, is being organised by environmental consultancy WSP Environment & Energy, which has successfully trialled its own employee carbon trading scheme for the past two years.
Copenhagen Accord Not Legally Binding: UNFCCSeeking to put at rest doubts over the status of the Copenhagen Accord agreed upon at the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) in the Danish capital last year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has issued a clarification saying that the agreement was not a legally binding document but merely a political one.
FT.com / Weekend Columnists / Harry Eyres - Love in a cold climateThis has been an exceptionally hard winter in much of the northern hemisphere; perhaps the hardest in the UK since the great freeze of 1963...
Harsh winter takes its toll as barn owls starve to death - Scotsman.com NewsDOZENS of barn owls have starved to death during the big freeze. RSPB Scotland said it believed severe winter weather had taken its toll on the iconic species.
RSPB conservation officer Stuart Benn said deep snow had made it harder for the owls to catch food such as mice and voles. About five of the birds were found dead in the Inverness area on Saturday.
Roof collapses at former Boker LumberIt was the second major roof collapse in as many days in Durango, which has been hammered by wet, slushy snow after a series of storms that brought more than 30 inches of snow.
Early Thursday, the roof at Iron Horse Inn's conference center and ballroom north of Durango surrendered under the weight of snow.
YouTube - Climate science: The leaked emails part 1 of 230 November 2009 Professor Aynsley Kellow, an Australian IPCC expert reviewer, tells the ABCs Counterpoint just what a scandal Climategate really is, even if other ABC programs refuse to cover it.
Can green technology save us from global warming?There's an assumption in my headline--obviously, the questions isn't worth answering if we don't need to be saved. But I am convinced global warming is a serious problem. Serious enough to be worth the investment in technology to improve how we generate, distribute, consume and conserve energy.
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Steve Mosher and I have written a book. The title is Climategate: The CRUtape Letters. It is available on Create Space here, Amazon here, Kindle here and Lulu here. One Amazon reviewer wrote, "Mosher and Fuller do a good job putting the ClimateGate documents in context, and the book is a riveting read. I received my copy yesterday, and find the book to be faithful to the climate war events that I have followed over a period of years. It reports actual email communications of a small group of paleoclimatologists and their roles in perhaps the biggest scientific hoax since Piltdown Man."
Weekly Address Watch: For the twenty-seventh time in twenty-nine weeks, The First Green President ignores global warmingwhat I won’t accept is changing positions because it’s good politics. What I won’t accept is opposition for opposition’s sake. We cannot have a serious discussion and take meaningful action to create jobs and control our deficits if politicians just do what’s necessary to win the next election instead of what’s best for the next generation.
EU Referendum: He's toastThe Times story (see previous post) is breaking out into the Indian media, being featured on Times Now TV under the headline: "Pachuri knew of climate blunder".
"Another skeleton has tumbled out of the closet of IPCC Chairman, Rajendra Pachauri. A leading UK daily has reported that Pachauri was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit," it reports. Pachauri, it then tells us, was asked about the glacial melt issue last November by a "science journalist."
Twitter / Evan FarmerThere's a foot of snow on the ground in Nashville - and no - just because it's not "warmer" out does not mean this isn't global warming...
Twitter / SkipBREAKING NEWS: Global Warming hits SouthEast. 10" of snow accumulating overnight in Raleigh. Al Gore burns Nobel prize in TN to keep warm.
American Thinker: Why Elitists FailClimategate has shown us that even Ph.D. scientists can be swayed with money, power, and political influence. I may not know which end of the test tube the cork goes into, but such delusional certainty ("the debate is over") about such a massively complicated issue can make a skeptic of anyone. Science and politics go together no better than religion and politics.
bin Laden Hates Global Warming, Global Warming Hates Him …Osama bin Laden just handed the enemies of clean energy a grenade launcher, which they eagerly received.
PR’ing Industrial Wind: Government and Media versus Common Sense — MasterResourceWind is, in the final analysis, a faith-based proposition, requiring people to close their minds and clap their hands to revive it from a life and death struggle against unbelief, bringing the technology back from the oblivion that the steam engine consigned it to hundreds of years ago.
One of the issues such wind promotions raise, particularly those from the NREL, is how political our information-assessment government agencies have become. And this indictment includes the National Academy of Science. The media don’t even question this anymore, simply taking it as business as usual.
The politicalization of knowledge, particularly in areas as important to our modernity as energy, is a major unreported story. It has more than immediate cost implications for our wallets, since it ultimately corrupts our base of knowledge and subverts our intellectual integrity, both essential for achieving wisdom and successful democracy.
All American Blogger » Ten Years for Oil? Bad. Ten Years for Nuke Plants? Sounds Good.So, if a decade is a reason to forego any consideration of drilling for oil in ANWR, why is it not a reason to forget about building nuclear power plants?
In the words of President Obama, let me be clear. I am not opposed to the construction of new nuclear power plants. I am very much for them. But I think the duplicity here by the president in promoting an exercise that will take just as long as a process he and his leftist brethren rejected needs to be highlighted. We need oil just as much as we need electricity from nuclear power.
In reality, this is very easy for him to promote. He knows that any new proposed nuclear power plants would be smothered in red tape, eco-Marxist protests and the usual NIMBY push back.
He loses nothing by pushing it. He knows it will never happen but can position himself as being for it.
Revkin is wobblingAndrew Revkin in the chief Warmist for the NYT. He is trying to cope with the "discovery" (to Warmists) that atmospheric water vapour is a big influence on the earth's temperature.
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Amusing bits: He admits that the science is not "settled"; He admits that people have reason to take the IPCC with a grain of salt; He says that decade-long observations are too short to be used, even though the warming period of the late 20th century that started the whole scare was only about two decades; He then offers an alternative authority to the IPCC as confirming the "threat" of global warming -- an "authority" that was published in 1991! He had to go back to 1991 to prop up his faith!; and that he relies on "authorities" -- rather than any facts -- to prop up his faith is the most pathetic thing of all
The Heretics: Lord Christopher Monckton | FrontPage MagazineMonckton re-entered the climate-change fray in 2006, writing two pieces in the Sunday Telegraph criticizing global warming alarmism. The articles caused an immediate stir.
“There were 127,000 hits at the Sunday Telegraph website within the first two hours of my article hitting the site,” Monckton recalled. “There was so much traffic that they actually crashed the site. It was the first time that had happened. I believe it’s still the only time that happened.”
In a world hungry for understandable, reasoned explanations of climate science, Monckton’s greatest gift is his skill as a communicator. Though he is not a climatologist, he is well versed in both the basics and the nuances of the issues surrounding climate change. Typical of his style is this video of Monckton politely explaining the realities of global warming theory to a member of Greenpeace during the Copenhagen climate conference in December.
Pajamas Media » Climategate: NOAA and NASA Complicit in Data ManipulationJoseph D'Aleo and Anthony Watts release a 110-page report on the terrible state of surface temperature data — and on how NOAA and NASA are as guilty as CRU.
Pachauri lied about Himalayan warning | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogAs I wrote last week, more telling than even the IPCC’s bizarre Himalayan error has been Pachauri’s instinctive reaction to deny and abuse those pointing out such mistakes. That, and his blatant conflicts of interest, as he makes money from the warming scare he whips up, demand his sacking.
American Thinker: From Camelot to ScamalotSCAM #8 -- [Obama] talks of "energy independence" but proposes multilayered policies of Less Energy at Higher Prices (LEAHP) -- all of which are devoted to a ruinously low "carbon footprint" belief system which is itself a pseudo-religious scam, correctly being called by many the Branch Carbonian Cult.
SCAM #9 -- He embraces as "scientific consensus" the junk science of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and shamelessly rejects virtually all scientific evidence (re: solar cycles, cosmic winds, ocean currents, volcanic activity, etc.) to the contrary, just as the pseudo-scientific Branch Carbonians do.
SCAM #10 -- He promises "jobs, jobs, jobs" while he relentlessly proposes -- in an apparent state of cognitive dissonance -- both the proactive outforcing of jobs and capital investment and the determined downforcing of most major domestic energy supplies.
Deniers winning climate change war - expert - The Irish Times - Sat, Jan 30, 2010CLIMATE CHANGE deniers are “winning the propaganda war” at present, one of the Ireland’s best-known experts on global warming has admitted.
Prof John Sweeney, director of the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit (Icarus) at NUI Maynooth, acknowledged that scientists were “lousy” at communicating their ideas to the general public.
They were being faced by sceptics, often drawn from the ranks of journalism and lobbying, who were better communicators but had no background in science, he said.
Bin Laden calls for US boycott over climate change - The Irish Times - Sat, Jan 30, 2010AL-QAEDA leader Osama bin Laden yesterday blamed the US and western industrial nations for climate change and called for a boycott of the dollar and US products to halt “the wheels of the American economy”.
More Conflicts of Interest On Environmental Improvement BoardIs Richardson stacking the court that can order a state-wide emissions cap of so-called greenhouse gases? As it is, the Environmental Improvement Board is chaired by a man paid by global warming activists to be their spokesman and lobbyist. Now a leader of one of the most aggressive and radical environmental groups will be joining him on the EIB.
Twitter / Jesse FullfordWe must all become pirates to stop global warming.
2010 National Climate Change [Scam] Summit - Boston | Positioning Business to Succeed in the Low Carbon EconomyBusinesses today face growing uncertainty regarding climate and energy regulation and policy. They need assistance finding the resources and answers to help them plan and position their business more favorably in the coming low carbon economy.
Hosted by Preti Flaherty, ENE (Environment Northeast), AIM (Associated Industries of Massachusetts) and Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Speakers include:
* U.S. Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA)
Submission to the Committee of Enquiry from ROGER HELMER MEP (Conservative, East Midlands). « Roger Helmer MEP6 RECOMMENDATIONS:
(A) Your Committee of Enquiry should appoint a team of independent statisticians, with no established position in the climate debate, to study the source data used by the CRU, and to validate the global temperature data. Your committee should listen not only to CRU scientists, but also to those who have studied and criticised the data collection methods on which the CRU analysis is based, for example Anthony Watts (www.wattsupwiththat.com).
(B) Your Committee should invite Lord Stern to re-work his analysis excluding the presumed additional costs of natural disasters “caused” by climate change. It should also invite a couple of distinguished independent economists to check and comment on Lord Stern’s analysis, and particularly on his choice of a discount rate to evaluate future costs.
EU Referendum: The end is nighAdding to the graffiti, in yet another development, the popular Indian magazine Open rips apart global warming, labelling it: "The Hottest Hoax in the World." Indian blogger Gurmeet in Liberty News Central thinks this could be the most hard-hitting article in the Indian MSM on AGW fraud ever.
Given what is about to descend upon him on Sunday, by the time the Indian media have absorbed the detail, Pachauri will be history.
The Hottest Hoax in the World | OPEN MagazineIt was presented as fact. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, led by India’s very own RK Pachauri, even announced a consensus on it. The world was heating up and humans were to blame. A pack of lies, it turns out.
ABC's new climate expert: Osama Bin Laden | Australian Climate MadnessBut hang on… he isn't a climatologist, is he? Where are his peer-reviewed papers? Oh, wait, that doesn't matter when it's a warmist, does it? They only worry about that kind of thing when it's a sceptic
Inconveniently for the experts, global warming is a con | The Sun |Home Scotland|Scottish News|Columnists|Donald MacLeodTHE lies, the untruths, the paranoid statements, the political point-scoring, the abuse of power, the secretive communications and the cover-ups - not to mention the huge cost to the taxpayer.
Weekly Mulch: Climate change on Obama's back burner | rabble.caCopenhagen accord losing momentum
The small role that climate change played in the state of the union address only emphasized the downward momentum of the issue since the United Nations conference on global warming in Copenhagen. Grist’s Jonathan Hiskes talked to six leaders in climate change activism, and none of them offered a different strategy than they had last year.
That same stasis is showing up in Europe, as well.
Climate [fraud]: The long and winding road after CopenhagenRajendra Pachauri, head of the UN climate science panel whose report underpins the negotiations, was gloomy.
"At this point in time, things don't look very good at all. They look very bleak -- I'm being very completely candid," Pachauri told AFP, referring to the climate talks.
Who Said It, Al Gore or Osama Bin Laden? - BlackBookOsama bin Laden recently had some thoughts on climate change and it got me thinking...if one were to pull a bunch of Al Gore quotes and shuffled them with some Osama bin Laden quotes, could you tell the difference? Well, could you? It's harder to do than you might imagine. After the break, see if you can figure out which quotes are from the world's most wanted man and which quotes are from the should-have-been POTUS.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Overheated facts in a disastrous week for global warming scientists | Mail OnlineMomentous decisions, involving trillions of pounds, depend on the findings of climate-change scientists.
Is it too much to ask that they feed us facts instead of propaganda?
Templeton student on a mission to curb climate changeClark is a member of the International Climate Champions, which is part of the British Youth Council. Locally, she is part of the California Climate Champions, which is with the Air Resources Board and British Council. The international group includes youth from 36 counties.
She applied with International Climate Champions to attend the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen and had her way paid for by the organization.
"It was really exciting to go that way," Clark said.
Clark was one of 25 youth that went as part of the program. She was one of only two youth from the United States - the other also from California.
"There were a lot of youth from Asia," Clark said.
More Doubts Surround Global Warming Claims - Health & Science - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.comOne thing seems to be melting faster than the glaciers in the Himalayas and that's the belief that climate change is something people should care about.
The climate change movement continues to be rocked by scandal.
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"I don't know where the cooling is. It's certainly not on this planet," Pachauri charged. "Maybe they're talking about some other planet."
Flashback: Pachauri on Recent Climate Trends ArchivesRajendra Pachauri, the head of the U.N. Panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, said he would look into the apparent temperature plateau so far this century.
"One would really have to see on the basis of some analysis what this really represents," he told Reuters, adding "are there natural factors compensating?" for increases in greenhouse gases from human activities.
Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.
Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.
Colorado: Spruce beetles still head for the hillsAccording to Blakeman, the forest generally cycles through a dramatic change or “disturbance” such as this every 300 years, but it appears the bug infestations occur as frequently as every 200 years. The natural disturbance must run its course before the forest can begin to rebuild, he explained.
“We have a lot of old forests and these are natural events,” he said. “We just happen to be around to watch this disturbance occur.”
Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze'Judicial Watch said the newly obtained 2,000 pages of documentation show Pelosi's military travel cost the U.S. Air Force $2,100,744.59 over two years – including $101,429.14 for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.
Among the newest highlights revealed:
* Pelosi used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. Of 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations (CODEL), 31 trips included members of the House speaker's family.
Copenhagen: what next? | Environment | guardian.co.ukRahmstorf reckons that climate scientists have communicated their work quite well, particularly through the IPCC. While 2010 is the UN year of biodiversity, the biodiversity community has "not yet managed to get as much high-level attention to the biodiversity crisis; it is only now calling to set up something like the IPCC for biodiversity". On the other hand, "climate science could still do a lot better if more climate scientists get involved, take an interest in public understanding of science and educate themselves more about how to effectively work with the media". Rahmstorf reckons that "too many scientists are still stuck in the ivory tower and – for example – shrug off and ignore wrong media reports about climate science, rather than recognizing that public perception matters and that they should not leave the public debate to people with a political agenda".
The last word goes to de Boer: while the Copenhagen negotiations "didn't produce the final cake", they did leave countries "with all the key ingredients to bake a new one". Although the proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating.
Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals | Environment | The GuardianExperts say their research does not undermine the scientific consensus on man-made climate change, but call for 'closer examination' of the way computer models consider water vapour
Obama sees the positives as US gives formal notice on greenhouse gases | Environment | guardian.co.uk[Stern] said America was acting on the assumption that other countries which signed the accord would take similar action.
Davos: Funding switch threatens aid to developing world, campaigner warns | Business | guardian.co.ukRich countries are raiding their aid budgets to bankroll a new global fund to help poor countries adapt to climate change, one of the world's leading development campaign groups warned today.
Jamie Drummond, executive director of the One group co-founded by the rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof, said the west was being "dishonest" about the $30bn (£18bn) of fast-track finance proposed in Copenhagen last month to persuade developing countries to agree a deal on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenpeace plans to build fortress on Heathrow runway site | Environment | guardian.co.ukEnvironmental group says the plan will create a legal headache for any government pushing ahead with airport's expansion
EU Referendum: The Great Glacier Show – Part IIAs it stands, therefore, the British government (i.e., British taxpayers) shelled out £315,277 to disprove Hasnain's claims. But, when WG II of the IPCC came to consider the issue of melting glaciers – funded by British taxpayers to the tune of £1,436,162 – it ignored the Sagarmatha report (which had also been written up in a per-reviewed journal) and went with Hasnain's not only baseless but also discredited claim.
Carbon Market Could Grow 33% This Year - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comThe global carbon market is expected to total $170 billion this year, a 33 percent jump from 2009, driven mostly by higher prices in Europe and a growth in the nascent carbon market in the United States, according to a new report from Point Carbon, a market analysis firm.
Obama sets aside curbing greenhouse gases in talk with House GOP - The Hill's E2-WirePresident Barack Obama avoided talking about mandatory greenhouse gas curbs that are deeply unpopular within the GOP caucus Friday at the House Republican retreat.
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On Friday, Obama avoided any specifics on emissions policy but did refer to a “serious disagreement” with Republicans that he said he hoped the Senate could help solve.
“We have to plan for the future. And the future is that clean energy -- cleaner forms of energy are going to be increasingly important. Because even if folks are still skeptical in some cases about climate change in our politics and in Congress, the world's not skeptical
about it,” he said.
Axelrod stresses the ‘energy’ side of ‘energy and climate legislation’ - The Hill's E2-WireWhite House senior adviser David Axelrod spoke with The Hill after President Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday.
Here’s the transcript:
The Hill: There were quite a few mentions of climate change in the president’s speech.
Axelrod: I don’t know. There was a couple of paragraphs.
Can Obama Re-energize Climate? - Energy & Environment ExpertsPresident Obama and his energy advisers would do well to ponder the conclusion that MIT’s Thomas Lee, Ben Ball, Jr., and Richard Tabors come to in Energy Aftermath, a retrospective on Carter-era energy policies:
The experience of the 1970s and 1980s taught us that if a technology is commercially viable, then government support is not needed and if a technology is not commercially viable, no amount of government support will make it so.
Per-cow fee would hurt cattlemen, says Utah Farm Bureau boss - Salt Lake TribuneLehi » The part of Utah's economy that depends on agriculture would be hobbled if the government increases pressure on greenhouse-gas emissions, a panel warned Utah's farmers and bankers.
Randy Parker, Utah Farm Bureau president, said a "cow tax" the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing would cost Utah livestock managers $104 million a year. The government would assess a $175-per-cow fee to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Bin Laden – How To Respond « It’s Getting Hot In Here[Bin Laden's] plan is to drive the wedge between the climate cynics and climate activists even further, and it’s already working. This is the perfect story to kill any federal climate bill in the U.S. In fact it’s the perfect strategy if you desire chaos and destruction.
Any association with him immediately demonises the climate movement, and will maintain the stranglehold of oil-rich nations over the American economy. More worryingly in the long term, a world in the throws of extreme weather and an unpredictable food-supply is rich pickings for a fanatic totalitarian.
Bin Laden Endorses Cap-n-TaxWhile stopping short of endorsing any particular candidates, it is clear that bin Laden has adopted the populist platform embraced by the current administration.
CAP.TRADE.DEC2010 21:47[Intrade: Yet another all-time low on the cap and trade 2010 contract: 12.7 cents]
Heavy snow, ice bury southern Plains, head east | National news | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleThe storm left 13 inches of snow in the northern Texas Panhandle, where nearly all of Interstate 40 from the Texas-Oklahoma line to New Mexico was closed.
Open Left:: Senate calendar pushes health care, climate change, immigration legislation further back# As a background to a jobs bill and the financial regulation package, health insurance reform will drag on for several more weeks, and might never be passed.
# As a result of that, climate change legislation is on life support, and will likely be shelved (and even the back-up plan of using the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses might be shelved).
Steve Janke: More unsettling science in the global warming camp - Full CommentThe scientists' models are better than the warmists' models. Our model says correctly that water vapor is the big player, while your model says (incorrectly) that carbon dioxide is the sole driver.
Wow.
The split has come. The real scientists are no longer counting themselves among the global warming alarmists and are saying so out loud. And they are challenging the warmists with new research.
The avalanche is coming.
What's next? Hey, let's go with another prediction. If the scientists start to shift dramatically away from the global warming orthodoxy, I expect we'll be seeing the editorialists next. I expect that in some short time frame, columnists and pundits who have been cheerleaders for the warmist camp will start issuing semi-apologies. They'll admit to having been perhaps a smidge too keen on believing everything the IPCC had been saying, and a touch too cavalier when it came to mocking the skeptics. They'll take cover behind research like this, saying that it's only now that it can be said that maybe the skeptics were on to something. Whatever. In any case, we'll see if that happens. If and when it does, I'll issue my next prediction.
Feds Freeze Out Frost Fix - Forbes.comFrost damage to crops is not unusual; it causes American farmers to lose billions of dollars annually. Peaches, plums, citrus and other crops are regularly threatened by frost in the Southeast. California is also susceptible: A January 2007 freeze there cost farmers more than $1 billion in losses of citrus, avocados and strawberries, and a 1990 freeze that caused about $800 million in damage to agriculture resulted in the layoff of 12,000 citrus industry workers, including pickers, packers, harvesters and salespeople. In 2002 lettuce prices around the country went through the roof after an unseasonable frost struck the Arizona and California deserts.
Technology could mitigate much of the damage, but government regulation has placed obstacles in the way of innovative solutions.
Climate change: sailing through the perfect storm - Telegraph...so far, much less damage than might be expected has actually been done.
Despite the sceptics' best efforts, for example, the basic edifice of global- warming science remains intact.
Shivering Southerners stunned by Jan. heat bills - BusinessWeekThe South's unusual cold snap is showing up in customers' heating bills, with monthly charges up an average of 50 percent and requests for payment assistance on the rise.
It's Time for the IPCC to Open Up & the Blogosphere Can Help : TreeHuggerBlogosphere Can Improve Public Confidence in Science
UEA 'gravely concerned' over data findings request - Norfolk News - EDP24A claim that the University of East Anglia broke the law by refusing a climate sceptic's request for scientific data was last night disputed by under fire officials who said they had “grave concern” about the findings.
Cap And Trade Scam To Be Enforced At State LevelIndividuals and businesses in Austin and a plethora of other states to be taxed for emissions of life-giving gas carbon dioxide
UK Scientists Must Comply with British Freedom of Information Act Requests, Says Union of Concerned Scientists | Union of Concerned ScientistsBelow is a statement by Francesca Grifo, director of the Scientific Integrity Program at UCS:
"There are right ways and wrong ways for scientists to fight back against the climate skeptics who are trying to confuse the public about global warming. Failure to comply with the Freedom of Information Act is the wrong way. This unfortunate distraction takes our attention away from the critical task before us. We need to dramatically curb global warming emissions to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.
Twitter / Andy RevkinThe secret life of scientists: http://bit.ly/bJ5AwL #climate Fun stuff from realclimate.org's Gavin Schmidt
US pledges to cut federal government emissions by 28% by 2020 | Environment | guardian.co.ukBarack Obama used his presidential authority to help advance his climate change [hoax] agenda today, announcing that the US federal government and agencies would cut their giant carbon footprints by 28% by 2020.
The announcement was held up by administration officials as evidence of Obama's commitment to his climate and energy agenda, which has run into opposition in Congress and from coal, oil and manufacturing groups.
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The cuts will come from across 35 government agencies and departments. The Treasury department pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33%. The department of Defence – which operates 300,000 of those government buildings – pledged to cut its emissions by 34%. However, that effort excludes combat operations, and would cover just 40% of DoD greenhouse gas emissions.
Sutley said government departments across the country were already taking action, installing solar panels and wind turbines. The National Renewable Energy Labs in Denver was aiming to reduce energy use of its data centre by 65%.
Bin Laden, eco warrior | Marcus Brigstocke | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukIt's bad enough when greenies in hairshirts treat climate change as an excuse to discuss compulsory veganism. I shudder when semi-retired socialists use it as the latest wheeze to bring down capitalism. Anyone who's been outgreened by a point-scoring eco bore will know how ugly it can get. But al-Qaida? Any attempt to claim green credentials on their part would be as laughable as oil companies putting pretty mountain-scapes in their adverts. Overpopulation may be the elephant in the room when it comes to talking about sustainability, but no one wants to see Dumbo flown into a building as a solution.
Indian glaciologist criticised by IPCC chief joins calls for resignation | Environment | guardian.co.ukRajendra Pachauri falls out of favour in home country, as scientists and campaigners add to pressure on him to step down
Man's death blamed on cold; 11th overall : ChicagoA Wisconsin man who collapsed on Chicago's West Side early Friday died in part because of cold exposure, marking the 11th cold-related death this winter in Cook County.
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Ellzey's is the 11th cold-related death this season and seventh this year in Cook County. Seventeen people died in the county at least in part from cold exposure between November 2008 and February 2009.
Heavy snow in Colorado: Conference center roof collapses under weight of heavy snow - KDVRDURANGO, Colo. - One building in southwest Colorado just couldn't take all of the snow the region has received recently. The roof of the 7,000-square-foot ballroom and conference center at the Iron Horse Inn in Durango collapsed from the weight of heavy snow early Thursday.
Utah - Snow destroys Henrieville fire stationHENRIEVILLE, Utah -- Heavy snow has devastated the fire department in Henrieville, Utah.
Snow collapsed the roof of the fire station Thursday morning and bowed the walls of the reinforced-concrete block building.
The fire trucks are a total loss, the back of a Mack truck is completely smashed, and a roof truss went right through another other truck.
It's The Water Vapor, Stupid! | The Resilient EarthOnce again the limitations of our understanding of the mechanisms that control Earth's climate are revealed. Here is a plausible explanation as to why the period from 1980 to 1999 was one of noticeable warming, and why since 2000 things have leveled off or even cooled down a bit. Because the mechanisms that link water vapor to temperature regulation are complex and not well understood the climate change clique concentrated on CO2—and it has become obvious that treating CO2 as a form of planetary thermostat is simply not a viable explanation. It is no wonder that the IPCC's carbon dioxide centric climate models didn't get recent temperature swings right. To steal a phrase from American politics, “It's the water vapor, stupid!”
The greening of Davos | The CallWith this year's "green Davos," the issue of climate change is probably getting a solid third billing after the financial crisis and rising protectionism. Given the general disillusionment with any progress at an international government level, the debate is all tending towards the private sector.
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