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Another storm for climate "expert" -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NYNASA researcher [Jim Hansen] says he is the next target of global climate change critics
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...recent polls show more Americans think that climate change is not real, something Hansen said showed the climate change contrarians, whose efforts are sometimes funded by and mirror the interests of fossil fuel companies that would lose billions in profits under greenhouse gas limits, are swaying public opinion.
"It is surrealistic. As the science gets clearer and clearer, the public gets more and more misinformed," he said.
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Hansen said cap-and-trade won't work, as major polluters like China and India will not agree to join.
KUAR: Ark. GOP congressman announces bid for Senate seat (2010-02-06)UALR Public Radio) - Republican congressman John Boozman announced Saturday that he is seeking the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Blanche Lincoln, criticizing Democratic-led efforts on climate change and health reform as hurting the state's businesses.
MALKIN: We're paying tab for the super-size census boondoggleTaxpayers are also footing the bill for the Mother of all Government Junkets — a three-month road trip by lucky-ducky Census Bureau flacks traveling in 13 buses and cargo vans with trailers. They’ll be partying in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and at parades across the country. In case you were wondering about the anticipated Census Road Show carbon footprint, it’s an estimated 223 metric tons.
But not to worry: The eco-teers of an Al Gore-endorsed carbon offset firm called “Carbonfund.org” have become official government “partners” with the Census to offset all the vehicle emissions — and surf off the free publicity to garner more business.
Tonedeaf: SEC requires Climate Change Warning Label on Stock › 2.0: The BlogmocracyWhat I find especially weird about this is the timing. Right at the time when Toto pulls the curtain back and exposes the little humbug at the controls, they require companies to disclose their “Wizard of Oz” risk. That alone, in my mind, would be good reason to simply tell the stockholders that there’s no credible risk, either physically, or in terms of regulation.
Winter Weather - Yahoo! News PhotosThe snow is piled up in front of the West Wing of the White House in Washington Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Mid-Atlantic residents were buried by a blizzard that the president jokingly called 'Snowmageddon.'
July '09: Obama Considering Solar Panels For White House | NEWS JUNKIE POSTAt a press conference on Thursday, President Barack Obama was asked by a reporter if he was considering adding a “wind turbine” or solar panels to the White House. The president had been meeting with CEO’s from energy companies during the afternoon to discuss their projects for building clean technology.
“I was just talking to Secretary Chu about how he is going to consult with these outstanding folks to figure out how we can improve energy efficiency here,” Obama answered.
The reporter pressed on and asked when such a plan would happen. “I just told you — we’re moving. Come on, guys…I don’t have a date certain,” Obama replied as he left the podium. [He's been in office for a year now--is he or is he not going to do this?]
Express.co.uk - £8bn BBC eco-biasSTRIKING parallels between the BBC’s coverage of the global warming debate and the activities of its pension fund can be revealed today.
How on earth can Rudd bet our economy on this? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogWhat a fiasco. And for this we must have a huge green tax on everything, and shut down our sources of cheap power. To risk so much on such disintegrating evidence is grotesquely irresponsible.
Slattsnews » More bunkumViewing Insiders this morning, you had to marvel at how much the political debate on manmade global warming has changed in a couple of months.
Bolta demanded, and got, his say, Cassidy took the middle road and the Fairfax hack steered clear of climate discussion. Only The Australian’s resident warmenista, Lenore Taylor, held the increasingly discredited faith. However, at times Taylor looked ready to burst into tears as the true believers copped the mockery they so richly deserve.
Climate Resistance » Africagate – Worse than Previously ThoughtAfricagate shows how the poor in less industrial countries are used for political ends. The emergence of this “gate”, lilke “Glaciergate” should not be used simply to win the political war with those attaching themselves to climate institutions, such as the IPCC. Instead, the collapsing credibility of climate alarmism, and rank, anti-human pessimism should be used to make a positive case for development, in the third world, in the emerging economies, and here in the “developed” West. There needs to be a real discussion about why poverty exists in the world, and how it can be abolished. Sceptics need to replace the climate story with a much, much better one.
The Dog Ate my Data: BBC on Australia's shifting Climate PoliticsI see this amongst my own "associates". Twelve months ago non belief in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) resulted in barely concealed sneers. Such strong opinions on science from people who couldn't plot a simple regression line if their lives depended upon it I must admit surprised me at first. Now a skeptical position receives either open support in the majority of cases or at least a considered hearing. Interestingly the most vocal supporter of climate change that I personally know (who has gone strangely quiet in recent months) also strongly believes the moon landings were faked by NASA and yet has no difficulty in basing their own belief in CAGW on "the science" - none of which they have actually read.
I still find it amazing just how quickly public opinion is shifting.
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...why would you compensate people when the whole point is to change behaviour by placing a price signal on carbon for heaven’s sake. Compensating consumers distorts the very signal one is trying to produce!
Climate [scam] team stays even with ETS defeatThe federal Department of Climate Change will continue to have more than 150 staff work on introducing an emissions trading scheme even if the Senate stops it happening, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner says.
The Australian Climate Change Regulation Authority was established in June 2009 and given $81.9 million for this financial year to implement an ETS, The Canberra Times reports.
Senator Jim Inhofe's Photos - Inhofe Family Pokes Fun at Al Gore, Global Warming During DC Feb Blizzard | FacebookSenator Inhofe and his family were in Washington DC this weekend as the blizzard hit the DC area. The Inhofe family had a little fun at the expense of Al Gore and global warming.
PM's stand on Copenhagen a snub to UN climate change secretariat - India - The Times of IndiaSpeaking at an event where UNFCCC executive secretary Evo De Boer, many foreign dignitaries and international climate negotiators were in audience, the PM called the accord merely a catalogue of voluntary commitments.
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In the dying moments of the Copenhagen meet, the Indian and Chinese negotiators had made it clear that they did not want their names inscribed in the chapeau (opening and over-arching paragraph of the accord).
Twitter / Fred ThompsonDHS cites global warming as security threat. Um... worry less about temp of planet, more about temp of terrorist undies
Global warming: IPCC's 'Pic and Pac' techniques lead them to another disastrous errorIt's very clear what is happening. The IPCC decides on a political point they wish to make. They search for an iconic illustration and decide that that will be the example the world sees. They then search for data to show the icon in danger. If the data doesn't suffice, it is laundered through successive paraphrasing with more distant sourcing until it is in effect sanitised. They pick the subject and pack the data. And it just doesn't matter what quality of data is used or if the claim is even true.
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These can no longer be considered as coincidental mistakes of differing gravity. It is now clear that these are the considered outputs of an institutional framework. In other words, the IPCC set up their reporting system to yield these statements, and the statements were far more important than the science that yielded them or the data that was meant to back them up. They needed the headline quotes, the soundbites. They hoped the data held up, or at least was hidden well enough to escape detection.
Rajendra Pachauri must resign. The IPCC must be reconstituted along more accountable and responsible lines. This must happen now.
Peer Review? Soo Last Milenium – WUWT Public Review Rules! « Musings from the ChiefioWere it not for his site, none of what I do here would exist. I started this effort entirely as a place to put things that I found out when I was reading his blog....it is a gold mine of rational thought and clear analysis.
- Bishop Hill blog - Flipping bizarreBecause of the way it works, the algorithm is unable to detect the orientation of the proxy series in a dataset and in the case of Mann 2008, this failing had some unfortunate consequences, namely that some of the series ended up upside-down, with what would normally have been read as declining temperatures flipped over so that they looked like warming.
Robin McKie v Benny Peiser | Comment is free | The Observer[Peiser] The problem with climate science and climate policy in the UK is that it is completely controlled by a group of individuals who are convinced that they are right. As a result, conflicting data and evidence, even if published in peer-reviewed journals, are regularly ignored, while exaggerated claims, even if contentious or not peer-reviewed, are often highlighted in order to scare the public into submission for costly policies.
[Now that the climate change scam has imploded, how about all those *other* allegedly urgent reasons to stop using fossil fuels before we have viable alternatives to them]? | Editorial | Comment is free | The ObserverThere are many excellent reasons to effect the transition to a low-carbon economy: cleaner air, economic independence from oil-exporting states, cheaper energy and, of course, combating global warming. None of these factors has changed. The case for urgent action is undiminished.
[UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner: Now that the climate change scam has imploded, how about all those *other* allegedly urgent reasons to stop using fossil fuels before we have viable alternatives to them]? “The overwhelming evidence [like what, specifically?] now indicates that greenhouse-gas emissions need to peak within the next decade if we are to have any reasonable chance of keeping the global rise in temperature down to manageable levels,” he said.
“Any delay may generate environmental and economic risks of a magnitude that proves impossible to handle.”
Mr. Steiner warned that even without climate change the fact remains that a global transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient future is necessary, given the world's population is rise from 6 billion to 9 billion in the next 50 years.
“We need to improve management of our atmosphere, air, lands, soils, and oceans anyway,” he said. “What is needed is an urgent international response to the multiple challenges of energy security, air pollution, natural-resource management, and climate change.”
CapitalClimate: New All-Time Snowfall Records at Washington Dulles, BaltimoreThe National Weather Service announced this evening that new all-time snowstorm records have been set at Washington Dulles and Baltimore BWI:
AT 5:10 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON...32.4 INCHES OF TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL
SNOWFALL WAS RECORDED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEATHER
FORECAST OFFICE IN STERLING VA. THIS OBSERVATION RECORDED AT THE
STERLING WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE IS DEEMED CLIMATOLOGICALLY
REPRESENTATIVE OF DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT DUE TO ITS PROXIMITY
TO THE AIRPORT.
PRELIMINARY INDICATIONS ARE THAT THIS 32.4 INCH TWO-DAY STORM TOTAL
SNOWFALL BREAKS THE PREVIOUS TWO-DAY STORM RECORD OF 23.2" ON 7-8
JANUARY 1996...AND THE PREVIOUS THREE-DAY STORM RECORD OF 24.6" ON
6-8 JANUARY 1996.
Snow causes multiple roof collapses around region - wtop.comWASHINGTON - At least four buildings have suffered roof collapses in the D.C. area because of the snow.
Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...winter brings sustained cool temperatures and annual snowfall averaging 16.6 inches
[Question: If the federal government ever seriously tried to impose a $175-per-cow global warming fee, how would farmers react?] - Salt Lake TribuneTHUMB DOWN: Cows are culprits » Utah Farm Bureau President Randy Parker believes the Environmental Protection Agency has something against cows and pigs and the farmers and ranchers who raise them. While an EPA-proposed $175-per-cow fee seems steep, the need to control global warming is critical. Methane from livestock accounts for 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, and it is 23 times more potent than CO2 as a heat-trapping gas. Since agriculture will be among the industries hardest hit by effects of global warming -- drought, for example -- farmers have a responsibility to help mitigate those impacts.
Gordon Brown's buildings come bottom of energy efficiency league. | News Of The WorldGORDON Brown's global warming battle was branded a sham yesterday after his own buildings came BOTTOM of the energy efficiency league.
Another blow for the climate change lobby | The SpectatorThis has been an appalling couple of months for the climate change lobby and now there’s been another, sickening, blow – which some of you, undecided in the debate, may well feel is the clincher. Prince Charles has waded into the issue, eviscerating climate change sceptics. “Please be in no doubt that the evidence of long term and potentially irreversible changes to our world is utterly overwhelming,” he said. Hell, you could almost see them, at the IPCC and UEA, cringing, banging their heads against their computers upon which they were, at that very moment, making things up. Just what you need, the support of Prince Charles. It came on the same day that he said he didn’t agree with The Enlightenment.
US President Barack Obama addresses the Democratic National Committee... - Yahoo! News PhotosUS President Barack Obama addresses the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at their annual Winter Meeting in Washington, DC. Obama vowed Saturday to salvage his health reform drive and crusade for change despite a "blizzard" of opposition, as he left a snow-buried White House to rally wavering Democrats.
Iraq: Missile discovered in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb | Mail OnlineThey have been searching in Iraq for the past nine years, 10 months and 15 days.
Today, the hard work finally paid off as soldiers found one of those elusive ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that Saddam Hussein was supposed to have been hiding.
MUST SEE: BBC Newsnight: Climate change scepticism hotting up in Australia | Australian Climate MadnessBBC's flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight, has an extended section on the changing political climate in Australia
U.S. State Department, ECU partner for new climate change [hoax] courseEast Carolina University is working with the U.S. Department of State to promote a course on climate change that will be viewed across the globe.
Intended to foster cross-cultural understanding of global climate change, the first-of-its-kind partnership kicked off Feb. 3 with a presentation by President Obama’s top science adviser, John P. Holdren, on “Science and the Impact of Climate Change.”
New errors in IPCC climate change report - TelegraphThe United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders.
...a diagram used to demonstrate the potential for generating electricity from wave power has been found to contain numerous errors.
The source of information for the diagram was cited as the website of UK-based wave-energy company Wavegen. Yet the diagram on Wavegen’s website contains dramatically different figures for energy potential off Britain and Alaska and in the Bering Sea.
When contacted by The Sunday Telegraph, Wavegen insisted that the diagram on its website had not been changed. It added that it was not the original source of the data and had simply reproduced it on its website.
The diagram is widely cited in other literature as having come from a paper on wave energy produced by the Institute of Mechanical Engineering in 1991 along with data from the European Directory of Renewable Energy.
Experts claim that, had the IPCC checked the citation properly, it would have spotted the discrepancies.
Climate change research bungle - TelegraphThe research institute run by the head of the UN’s climate body has handed out a series of environmental awards to companies that have given it financial support, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), of which Dr Rajendra Pachauri is the director-general, has given corporate awards to companies such as Pepsi and Honda, as well as Indian businesses.
Those same companies have given financial backing to Teri through grants or paid-for consultancy work.
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It has also emerged that Teri’s biggest single sponsor, BP India, which has provided £6 million, paid for dinner and drinks at an event publicising Dr Pachauri’s debut novel. A BP spokesman said it was entirely legitimate to fund the dinner, the company having enjoyed a “long association with Dr Pachauri”.
He confirmed that the firm gave Teri $9.5 million (£6.1 million) between 2006 and 2009 for planting 8,000 hectares of jatropha, a type of bush, as part of a bio-diesel research project.
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A former employee who spent two years at Teri said Dr Pachauri was continually concerned about funding.
“At every single meeting I attended in two years, the only topic was funding,” she said.
The ex-employee gave a fascinating insight into the workings of the institute. When Dr Pachauri, who is described on his personal website as “an international statesman promoting climate change awareness”, marked his birthday a few years ago, the staff were shown a homemade video of their boss’s life story.
“I was appalled when they showed a 10-minute film on Pachauri,” said the ex-employee. “It showed Pachauri as an infant, Pachauri as a toddler, Pachauri at school, Pachauri playing cricket, Pachauri getting married. It was all about ‘Pachauri the Great’ and his achievements.”
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Last Monday he first gave an interview to The Economist where he declared he had no idea the size of his salary but later that day he told The Guardian he earned £30,000 a year. He lives in an inherited house reported to be worth millions in Delhi’s most expensive neighbourhood.
RealClimate: Good news for the earth’s climate system?The authors found that in 98.5% of their regressions, CO2 lagged temperature.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » AGW belief takes a big hit in the UKWhen the public support for AGW was at 41%, the AGW activists had a chance of getting their agenda passed into law. At 26%, they don’t have a prayer, and the rising level of skepticism and cynicism will likely result in less money and less attention for their programs.
The Reference Frame: Chinese media impressed by Fred SingerThe Chinese journalist used some old Chinese wisdom to predict that the number and depth of recent scandals we have seen is enough for the IPCC to perish.
EPA abandons science yet again at Heliogenic Climate ChangeFor example, Cornell agricultural ecologist David Pimental and colleagues in a paper last year concluded that no crop produced more fuel than the energy used to grow it and convert it to ethanol or biodiesel. They found a negative energy return of 46 percent for corn ethanol, 50 percent for switchgrass, 63 percent for soybean biodiesel and 58 percent for rapeseed. Even the most promising palm oil production results in a minus 8 percent net energy return.”
Lawrence Solomon: IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas - FP CommentTwo years ago, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was the world’s most celebrated organization, guardian of the world against the peril of climate change and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for “its outstanding scientific work!”
Today, the IPCC stands among the world’s most infamous organizations, its reputation in tatters, unable to respond to a growing chorus of critics because the critics now include many of its once-fiercest champions, among them its own scientists, and because its chairman and chief spokesman, India’s Rajendra Pachauri, is himself thoroughly disgraced. “The IPCC needs to regain credibility. Is that going to happen with Pachauri?,” asks John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK, “I don’t think so.”
There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Systemic Failure: Invasion of the Drama QueensYou have to be a bit of a drama queen to interpret a few degrees increase in temperature over the span of a century as a catastrophe. The fact that this mindset has been adopted by so many people means the failure has been systemic.
Amazing how old certainties can melt once debate is allowed | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogPeter van Onselen is wrong to claims sceptics didn’t like discussing climate change. In fact, what they demanded was more discussion, not censorship and media shut-ups, to achieve just what now so bemuses Peter
Pielke Debate Online « Climate AuditMaurizio Morabito’s twitter notes here. Audio here.
EU Referendum: Money makes the climate [industry] go roundMy "favourite", if that is the right word, is £10,000 spent by DFID on a "workshop on women as 'sacred custodians' of the Earth", to "explore the spiritual, religious and philosophical views concerning women and ecology and the policy implications of these belief systems".
[To offset this news, how many solar panels should I install on my roof?]: BBC News - Australia signs huge China coal dealAn Australian firm has signed a $60bn (AUS$69bn; £38bn) deal to supply coal to Chinese power stations.
Clive Palmer, chairman of the company, Resourcehouse, said it was Australia's "biggest ever export contract".
Under the deal, the firm will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development (CPI) 30m tonnes of coal a year for 20 years.
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The plan involves building a huge new mining complex in the Australian state of Queensland, and laying 500km (311 miles) of railway line to move the coal to the coast.
Resourcehouse's executive director, Phil McNamara, said the "once-in-a-century project" would include open-cast and underground mines, with construction likely to begin later this year.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: An Excerpt from an Unpublished Paper on IPCCIn the children’s game of “telephone” a group of children sit in a circle and someone starts the game by whispering a phrase to the person seated neat to them and so on all around the circle. After enough transmissions a phrase that begins as “five stories” might come out the end as “jive turkey” to everyone’s delight. The game of telephone provides a cautionary tale for producers and users of scientific assessments. The case of mistaken and misinterpreted information about storm surge impacts illustrates the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests that the IPCC may have its own “jive turkey” problem minus the delight. . .
Blizzard Warning for DC, NYT: “Capital Is Crippled as Blizzard Continues “ « Watts Up With That?A winter storm continued its blizzard rage in some parts of the Mid-Atlantic region on Saturday morning, dumping nearly two feet of wet, heavy snow that cut power to about 200,000 residents, caused the roof of a private jet hangar to collapse at Washington Dulles International Airport and forced the nation’s capital into quiet hibernation.
Why are liberals so condescending?: Washington PostThis liberal vision emphasizes the dissemination of ideologically driven views from sympathetic media such as the Fox News Channel. For example, Chris Mooney's book "The Republican War on Science" argues that policy debates in the scientific arena are distorted by conservatives who disregard evidence and reflect the biases of industry-backed Republican politicians or of evangelicals aimlessly shielding the world from modernity. In this interpretation, conservative arguments are invariably false and deployed only cynically. Evidence of the costs of cap-and-trade carbon rationing is waved away as corporate propaganda; arguments against health-care reform are written off as hype orchestrated by insurance companies.
EU Referendum: And now for AfricagateEven the mildest critics of the IPCC and Dr Pachauri might now be moved to observe that they have eschewed uncertainty, to project the most pessimistic scenario imaginable – with no scientific support and a great deal of embellishment. After "Climategate", "Glaciergate", "Amazongate" and now "Africagate" can either survive?
Monckton’s Australian tour so successful two new tour dates added. Enjoy these video extracts. | CLIMATEGATEDue to the overwhelming success of the tour by Lord Monckton in Australia, two extra tour presentation dates have been arranged in Perth and Sydney.
‘Green’ Ideas Have Consequences - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineWow. It would stink if someone from Chicago were instituting ill-considered "green" policies for the entire nation. Oh, wait . . .
How well do scientists understand how changes in Earth's orbit affect long-term natural climate trends?ScienceDaily (Feb. 5, 2010) — The notion that scientists understand how changes in Earth's orbit affect climate well enough for estimating long-term natural climate trends that underlie any anthropogenic climate change is challenged by findings just published.
Dear Geoffrey Lean, let me explain why we're so cross… – Telegraph BlogsCertainly the most erroneous is the utter nonsense that the measures being proposed to deal with “climate change” will “make the world a better, more prosperous place.”
No they won’t Geoff, and that’s why so many of us are so angry; why some of the emails you get are filled with such poison. We see, as you apparently do not, that in the name of this AGW scare you and your environmental correspondent colleagues have been helping to cook up these last few years our world is being destroyed.
You rightly cite biofuels as an example of green zealotry gone horribly wrong. If only it were the only one.
But how about the fact that, in the name of preserving the environment, the choicest parts of our magnificent British landscape are going to be ruined for generations by ugly, energy-inefficient, wind farms which are really little more than a means of transferring taxpayers’ money into the pockets of a few canny businessmen and pandering to EU bureaucracy but which will contribute nothing to our “energy security” because their power output is negligible?
EU: clear cutting rainforests for palm oil plantations OK at Heliogenic Climate Change“Palm oil plantations are now ‘forests,’ says EU“
FOXNews.com - Penn State Probe into Mann's Wrongdoing a 'Total Whitewash'Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Foundation, a conservative research and educational institute, proposed that the state legislature conduct an independent investigation of the charges and Mann's research.
A spokesman for the foundation said it was a "conflict of interest" for Penn State to investigate itself. Republican State Rep. RoseMarie Swanger also called for a separate investigation to be conducted by the state.
Graduate School Dean Henry C. Foley, who headed the investigation, referred all calls on the subject to media representatives for the school, who failed to return phone calls.
Climate makes money move in mysterious ways - TelegraphIn all the coverage lately given to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its embattled chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, one rather important part of the story has largely been missed. This is the way in which, in its obsession with climate change, different branches of the UK Government have in recent years been pouring hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money into a bewildering array of "climate-related" projects, often throwing a veil of mystery over how much is being paid, to whom and why.
NEW AUSTRALIAN POLLING SHOWS PLUMMETING SUPPORT FOR AN ETSPolling commissioned by ACSC and released February 7th shows the level of support for the government's emission trading scheme has fallen to 33% of Australian voters.
The falling level of support confirms similar polls released recently by Roy Morgan Research. General support for the theory of man-made CO2 emissions significantly affecting climate is also falling.
The Roy Morgan research, undertaken before many of the recent credibility revelations hit the IPCC showed 46% of Australians supported an ETS. This support has now declined rapidly to only one third of voters.
Turnbull ready to cross the floor over [climate scam]Before Christmas Mr Turnbull wrote an article for The Times in Britain, calling Mr Abbott a ''colourfully self-confessed climate sceptic'', and posted a damning blog on his website saying any policy announced by the Coalition would be ''a con, an environmental figleaf to cover a determination to do nothing''.
Are all climate scientists dishonest? | Washington Examiner...I am willing to admit that there are some honest climate scientists, just as there are some honest trial lawyers and used car salesmen, and that honest people in all three professions serve useful functions in our society.
Climate Science: Mend It, Don’t End It « The Enterprise BlogWhen it comes to climate science and policy, I want to mend it, not end it. Hence, while criticizing, I’ll also accept invitations to improve the process from within as well as without.
That being said, there’s a lot of bad tissue that needs cutting away from the body of climate science, and the sooner the climate science world gets started, the sooner it can get back to serious, objective science, and useful work.
Home encased in ice, to draw attention to the nation’s housing problemsDetroit, Feb 6 (THAINDIAN NEWS) To draw attention to the nation’s housing problems, an abandoned Detroit home is encased in ice by a team. It is covered up in sheets of ice, which sparkle in the sunlight, and the sharp-edged icicles almost reach the ground, from the edge of the roof. This rundown neighborhood is part of the Ice House Detroit project. They also want to inform the people that there are plenty of vacant homes in the city, as the foreclosure is very frequent in that area.
'No one expects China or India to become carbon neutral' - Interviews - Opinion - Home - The Times of IndiaNorway has stolen a march over other developed countries by declaring that it would reduce 40% of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and become carbon neutral by 2030. Its 49 year-old prime minister Jens Stoltenberg , in India for the Delhi Sustainability Development Summit, assures that Norway will do everything possible to make this happen.
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[Q] R K Pachauri needn’t quit as chairman of IPCC?
[A] No. When you have thousands of pages of documentation of scientific work, it shouldn’t surprise us that there are some mistakes and some grounds for criticism, and we should welcome the scrutiny and criticism.
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[Q] You are the third largest exporter of fossil fuel. Will you cut back production?
[A] Oil and gas are a substantial part of our total emissions, but we are trying to deal with this. We are investing $1 billion in a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project, injecting methane from oil fields 1,000 metres into the continental shelf sea bed.
Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility - Times OnlineA LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility.
Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.
The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.
March 2008: IPCC head Pachauri's continued ridiculous alarmismCheck this out:
"...By 2020 there will be a 50 per cent reduction of agriculture in Africa effecting their people's survival", Pachauri said.
The leak was bad. Then came the death threats - Times OnlinePHOTOGRAPHS of Professor Phil Jones show a handsome, smiling, confident-looking man. Not chubby exactly, but in blooming good health. The man who meets me at the University of East Anglia (UEA) looks grey-skinned and gaunt, as if he has been kept in prison.
In a way, he has. Since November last year he has been a prisoner of public opprobrium and a target of such vilification that was he was almost persuaded to comply with the wishes of those who wanted him dead.
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“I did think about it, yes. About suicide. I thought about it several times, but I think I’ve got past that stage now.” With the support of his family, and particularly the love of his five-year-old granddaughter, he began to look forward again. He is still unwell, getting through the day on beta-blockers and the night on sleeping pills, and he has lost a stone in weight. But at last there is optimism.
Global Warming Hysteria: Head of IPCC Tells Skeptics To Rub Their Faces with Asbestos » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things BlogOh, the maturity. Oh, the hate. Pachauri is just upset that his own ineptitude helped destroy Al Gore’s “the debate about climate change is over” meme, so that the world is now less likely to allow itself to be governed by UN global warming plutocrats like him. To paraphrase Harry Truman, if you can’t stand the heat of democratic participation, Mr. Pachauri, get out of the kitchen.
Climate change debate no place for silliness, La Trobe UniversityThe famous MIT economist Martin Weitzman has examined the prospects for catastrophic climate change. His estimates are based on 22 simulation models provided by the IPCC and show that if emission control policies are only gradually ramped up remedies that, in two centuries, the probability distributions of temperature outcomes have ‘fat’- tails. In simple terms:
* With probability 0.05 the increase in mean global surface temperatures will be greater than 10 [degrees] C.
* With probability 0.01 the increase in mean global surface temperatures will be greater than 20 [degrees] C.
French fight against climate hype | The Japan Times OnlineSorry to disappoint, but climate skepticism exists beyond the "Anglosphere."
The French Academie des Sciences disputed the "scientific consensus" long before Copenhagen.
Netherlands Enters The Climate Fray - Science News - redOrbitVallaart told reporters that the IPCC “should have been clearer” in their findings. The Dutch office for environmental planning had the exact figures. The error has been brought up to the IPCC several times, but nothing has happened as of yet. He was disappointed that proper procedure could not be followed and added that it should not be left to politicians to review IPCC figures.
The Dutch environment ministry plans on reviewing the IPCC’s 938-page Fourth Assessment Report to see if it contains more errors, Vallaart said.
Holmes' caution applies to warming issue: Compass | adn.comI worry about the integrity of the actual underlying data. A decade ago I worked at an energy company creating a weather derivatives business. The idea was to facilitate counterparties hedging on weather-related events such as temperature and rainfall.
In looking at the data, we noticed that mean temperatures in certain cities seemed to jump. After investigating, we found that the weather recording stations in each case had moved closer to the city, where concrete and asphalt affected the recordings. The time series data was compromised by an unrecognized variable.
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We should all heed Holmes' warning to Watson in the new movie: Avoid "twisting facts to suit theories, when one should twist theories to suit facts." Two good reasons for this: First, you can end up with false conclusions; second, you can destroy your credibility.
Extreme Wisdom » Blog Archive » GK Chesterton on Climate Science “Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
G.K. Chesterton
I wear the label ‘anthropic global warming denier’ with pride. All it takes is a bit of education in science (PV=nRT, earth science, evaporation) to know right off the bat that AGW is nonsense.
We all need to become educated enough to ignore the politicized “experts.”
People don't have power to alter climate | theadvertiser.com | The AdvertiserWater vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas. Does Al Gore have a plan to stop evaporation? How can we sit idly by and let lakes, rivers and oceans just let water evaporate into the sky?
[If the Antarctic is warming so quickly, why was this whisky "deep in the ice"?]: Shackleton's 102-year-old whisky found in Antarctic | Mail OnlineFive crates of rare 101-year-old Scotch whisky and brandy have been discovered intact deep in the ice under Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic hut.
BYU scientists "refute" Utah committee's global warming assertations - KSTUSALT LAKE CITY - State lawmakers are finding themselves in an unexpected debate with scientists from BYU.
The great global warming collapse - The Globe and MailBy exaggerating the certainties, papering over the gaps, demonizing the skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they've discredited the entire climate-change movement. The political damage will be severe. As Mr. Mead succinctly puts it: “Skeptics up, Obama down, cap-and-trade dead.” That also goes for Canada, whose climate policies are inevitably tied to those of the United States.
EU offers to update IPCC report - Developmental Issues - Environment - Home - The Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: A day after it received Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's backing, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), headed by RK Pachauri, Saturday got support from the European Union which offered to update its report.
G7: Iqaluit: 'Cold enough to freeze a can of 10W30' - CTV NewsThe Times said international dignitaries will be handed high-tech warm clothing to prevent frostbite.
"I think we are all getting given some sort of special coat," a tight-lipped Darling told the Times. "Not sure we will be able to go out at night because of the polar bears."
Richmond County Daily Journal - [Global warming]: A broken burning bandwagonNow, I’m not going to make the cheap rhetorical point that plenty of Carolinians wouldn’t have minded a little global warming last month. The real point is that because any state or federal measures to achieve significant reductions in carbon emissions would necessitate pushing energy prices higher, there is simply no constituency for such measures. People have enough sense to recognize that jacking up the cost of operating businesses, creating jobs, and running households is no way to help North Carolina recover its economic footing. No amount of gobbledygook will persuade the public that it’s in their interest to surrender more of their money and freedom to a bigger government with the uncertain promise of some benefit 90 years from now.
That bandwagon over in the ditch is broken and burning. Both faulty mechanics and driver error are to blame.
Is climate change the new faith? | Simon Hoggart's week | From the Guardian | The GuardianAs a climate change agnostic – and I suspect most of us are, especially now, and more especially after the Guardian series this week – I've been bothered by two aspects of the argument. The first is the religious overtone. Humankind has always wanted to blame its own behaviour for natural events, whether Noah's flood, plagues of frogs, or volcanos which demonstrate that the gods are angry.
Three years ago a British bishop announced that gay marriage had caused our floods. I've often wondered whether global warming is another example of this, an irrational belief designed for a rationalist world.
And there is an element of religious faith in the true believers. Those who disagree are "deniers", with its echo of fanatics who don't believe in the Holocaust. Years ago I saw a sceptic howled down at a British Association meeting; scientists shouldn't behave like that. If people disagree with you they might not be morally wrong, or agents of Satan. (Or big oil, as the believers often claim.) This ties in with my second worry. Clearly many believers have played fast and loose with the data: since what they believe is true beyond doubt, they have a right – no, a moral duty – to suppress any evidence that might contradict them.
Climate science: Truth and tribalism | Comment is free | The GuardianThe truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It is the mantra of the courtroom, but it is also the motivating ideal of good science – as well as good journalism. The Guardian's special report into the leaked emails between climate scientists has revealed as many roughnesses, pimples and warts as any Cromwellian portrait. In and among (plentiful) electronic evidence of the University of East Anglia researchers going about their job diligently, we have uncovered an abject failure to ensure essential records were kept on Chinese weather stations, determined manoeuvring to exclude critics from leading journals and international reports, and suggestions of deleting potentially embarrassing correspondence with a view to evading the Freedom of Information Act.
For a newspaper that prides itself on leading the fight to fix the climate, avoiding such a forthright interrogation of the scientific processes on which our call for action ultimately depends might have been more comfortable – comfortable but wrong.
Minn. lawmaker: No bottled water for state workers | StarTribune.comDemocratic state Rep. Paul Gardner of Shoreview says he doesn't want the bill to become law, but hopes to catch the attention of lawmakers about state spending on bottled water.
Gardner estimates it costs the state a $1 a gallon for bottled water when tap water is available. He says the state should cut unnecessary costs in tough economic times.
[Did we say that the cap and trade swindle will prevent hurricanes? We meant it will prevent terrorism]In a series of hard-hitting television ads, a liberal veterans advocacy organization challenges Republican lawmakers for blocking clean energy legislation that would cut oil funds to terrorists.
"Green Police" Ad to air during Super BowlWatch the Audi commercial featuring Cheap Trick, the Green Police, and the Audi A3 TDI® clean diesel, Green Car Journals 2010 Green Car of the Year®.
When Windmills Don’t Spin, People Expect Some Answers - NYTimes.comOne problem, though: The windmills, supposed to go online this winter, mostly just sat still, people in cities like North St. Paul and Chaska said, rarely if ever budging. Residents took note. Schoolchildren asked questions. Complaints accumulated.
[Fraudsters]: Arctic climate changing faster than expected | Reuters"(Climate change) is happening much faster than our most pessimistic models expected," said David Barber, a professor at the University of Manitoba and the study's lead investigator, at a news conference in Winnipeg.
Models predicted only a few years ago that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by the year 2100, but the increasing pace of climate change now suggests it could happen between 2013 and 2030, Barber said.
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Climate change is also bringing more cyclones into the Arctic, dumping snow on the sea ice, which limits how thick it can get, and bringing winds that break up the ice, Barber said.
The study is part of the International Polar Year, a large scientific program focused on the Arctic and Antarctic. The scientists have not yet produced conclusions, but they expect to publish dozens of academic papers.
The cost of the Arctic's rapid melt will be $2.4 trillion by 2050 as the region loses its ability to cool the global climate, the U.S.-based Pew Environment Group said on Friday. The group released a report showing the Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet.
Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis: Cool temperatures over most of the Arctic Ocean; 69,000 more square miles of ice than four years agoArctic sea ice extent averaged for January 2010 was 13.78 million square kilometers (5.32 million square miles). This was 1.08 million square kilometers (417,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average for January, but 180,000 square kilometers (69,000 square miles) above the record low for the month, which occurred in January 2006.
YouTube - Dr. Tim Ball on Alex Jones Tv 1/4: Climate Change Scam Phase 2: Enforcement at The State LevelTimothy 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.
Kelly McParland: Tough times for the guru of climate change - Full CommentEven if sympathize with him, though, it doesn't change the fact that the climate change industry based much of its campaign of hysteria largely on the pronouncements of the IPCC and the University of East Anglia climate unit, both of which have now been discredited. That suggests a shift in the momentum, and maybe even a healthy movement towards questioning the theories of climate preachers, who have hitherto treated doubters as heretics.
The transnational progressivists risk losing global warmingGlobal warming gave it all to the transnational progressivist crowd. In one "problem", wealth and energy are intrinsically tied together. Hence the frustration (bordering on fury) felt by the tranzis at the unraveling of this scam.
Charles Krauthammer - The great peasant revolt of 2010 - washingtonpost.comA year later, after stunning Democratic setbacks in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, Obama gave a stay-the-course State of the Union address (a) pledging not to walk away from health-care reform, (b) seeking to turn college education increasingly into a federal entitlement, and (c) asking again for cap-and-trade energy legislation. Plus, of course, another stimulus package, this time renamed a "jobs bill."
This being a democracy, don't the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don't they understand Massachusetts?
Sir David King: IPCC runs against the spirit of science - TelegraphWhat’s more, this is only one manifestation of a very broad and robust set of evidence. We know from thermometers and satellites that temperatures have risen at least 0.8C. There is now massive monitoring of the loss of land ice around the planet, including the ground-breaking double satellite gravitational measurements. We have robust data on rising sea levels, the acidification of our oceans, and the spectacular multidimensional details of how climate has changed in the past. [so where's the evidence that humans caused these changes?]
Given all this evidence, it’s ridiculous to say this that human-induced climate change isn’t happening, absurd to say we don’t understand why, and any suggestion that we have nothing to worry about is like making a very bad bet.
Sir David King criticises climate scientists - TelegraphSir David King has hit out at climate scientists for 'overstating' the risks of global warming.
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"I know that when I was in Government this was very highly developed in the American lobby system and this has their fingerprints all over it if we look at the sophistication of this. It is a concerted effort and it looks just like the cigarette lobby".
He even suggested that British intelligence may have knowledge of who is behind the campaign.
Flashback | [Speaking of overstatements]And in a speech to the Climate Group in April 2004, he reportedly went a step farther. The Independent on Sunday of 2 May 2004 reported: ‘Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the government’s chief scientist Sir David King said last week.’ (4) [Emphasis added.] King never complained about that report.
Global warming and green technology: Is China eating America's lunch?Green technology isn't that technological. Solar collectors and windmills? (I'm not even sure windmills are that Green, let alone technological. GE can put as many servos in them as they like to make sure they line up right with the wind, but they're still only producing 25% of rated capacity--that's not high tech, that's low tech. In fact, it's perilously close to no tech.) So whoever can make them cheaply, should. And we should buy them. Cheaply. And spend the money we save on research and development. Because we will need high tech solutions, both for global warming and the other challenges we face.
Ordered Notes About The Pielke Jr vs Ward vs Muir Wood London Debate « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE
Global warnings | Harvard Gazette Online“Now we have this instantaneous and intensifying and echo-chamberish concentrating force moving at the speed of light,” said [Revkin] the former New York Times reporter and “Dot Earth” blogger about the Internet, which he contends has helped to intensify the discourse. “What happens is it bounces back and forth within a matter of hours, and then it bounces to Rush Limbaugh or George Will, and then it becomes a really loud message in the political sphere.”
Taxpayer funds needed to study if cow fart methane concentration higher among farting cows | CLIMATEGATEAw come on! You could have paid me $400,000 to tell you that since farting cows produce methane, there would be more methane where there are more cows.
Glenn Beck calls out “Raj” and the IPCC | CLIMATEGATEEven if you don’t like Glenn Beck (we happen to love him), you should listen to the video. He has a way of simplifying the complex, and here he takes on Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC.
‘Green’ Wind, ‘Smart’ Grid–A Thought Experiment and a Policy Proposal for the Environmental Left — MasterResourceWe wouldn’t be so gullible to just take their word for it, would we? Yet this is exactly what we are doing today!
Utah legislative panel digs its heels in against EPA's CO2 regs; passes resolution mentioning 'flawed climate data', and critical of $7B 'climate change gravy train' | GORE LIEDThe resolution itself is a wonder to behold as it lists in a very concise form every single argument the most vehement skeptic could make against regulating CO2 to supposedly solve man-made global warming, as follows
Rajendra Pachauri: head of UN climate change panel clocks up half a million miles of air travel - TelegraphThe embattled head of the United Nations’ climate change panel clocked up more than half a million miles of air travel in a year and a half as he travelled the world warning of the global warming threat, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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Between January 2007 and July 2008, he took more than 120 long-haul flights and 43 short-haul trips, taking in countries such as New Zealand, America and Fiji.
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[Pachauri] “I have to go all over the world and I have to convince people that this is a serious problem that we have to address. But in terms of my personal lifestyle, I’m very careful about not being consumptive in my habits.
“I’m careful about use of transport in my daily life.”
Flashback: Heat on cricket pitch warms this climate change LaureateSo strong is [Pachauri's] love for cricket that his colleagues recall the time the Nobel winner took a break during a seminar in New York and flew in to Delhi over the weekend to attend a practice session for a match before flying back. Again, he flew in for a day, just to play that match.
Flashback: Controversial climate change boss uses car AND driver to travel one mile to office... (but he says YOU should use public transport) | Mail OnlineAs he waited outside the institute office for Dr Pachauri, the chauffeur said: ‘Dr Pachauri does use the electric car sometimes but most of the time he uses the Toyota.’
The electric car might be kinder to the environment and more suitable for short trips, explained the chauffeur – who has worked for the environmentalist for 19 years – but it was simply too small for Dr Pachauri and a driver to share. ‘When he uses it, he has to use it by himself,’ he said.
Met Office to look at more information in forecasts after 'barbecue summer' - TelegraphJulia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the Met Office, said the national weather service had let the public get the wrong message when it predicted a "barbecue" summer earlier this year and then revised the forecast when July and August turned out to be wet.
She also said the Met Office got "a lot of the communication wrong" this winter by predicting a mild winter before heavy snowfall brought much of the country to a standstill.
CBS: Global Warming Science Sound, ClimateGate Just a PR Problem | NewsBusters.orgPhillips concluded his report by explaining the real problem facing global warming advocates: “The scientists may still believe they’re winning the scientific argument, but they’re in danger of losing the public relations war.”
Is Carlton all bile and no brains - or balls? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog[Case Smit] I haven’t had a chance to read it but I understand that you had an article in today’s paper in which you claim to better informed on climate matters than Christopher Monckton.
Would you be prepared to exchange views on the matter face-to-face when Lord Moncton appears at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney on February 12th. It would be educational for the audience to have an expert on hand to point out where Monckton is misleading the public.
Movement to suspend California's global-warming law gathers steam - Living Green - fresnobee.com"We are on fire," said GOP Assemblyman Dan Logue, a sponsor of the proposed initiative. "People are calling from all over the country. This will be the most intense campaign the state has seen in 50 years."
Paul Driessen : Disclosing the Real Risks on Climate Change - Townhall.comMichael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph and ClimateGate email scandals have metastasized into a tsunami of revelations that have besmirched the IPCC’s credibility and its role as dominant arbiter on matters of energy and climate. Manipulated and missing temperature data. Doctored computer models and disaster scenarios. Alarmist scientists rejecting any studies that dissent from climate catastrophe claims. Headline-grabbing disaster “studies” about melting glaciers and parched rainforests based on rank speculation or written by World Wildlife Fund activists. “Mann-made” climate change, indeed.
Forgive me, Planet, for I have flown. Frequently.Some wonder if the environmental and climate change movements are becoming a new religion. If so, are "carbon offsets" a new form of indulgences? You pay to have your environmental sins forgiven?
Recently Seattle based outdoor equipment retailer, REI, has come under fire for its efforts to offset its carbon footprint. Critics complain that REI's sins, caused by its travel business, are actually growing even if the purchase of carbon offsets is some sort of atonement. In other words, a carbon-offsets program may simply allow the sinner to continue in their unrepentant ways and unredeemed life. That was among Luther's complaints about the abuse of indulgences way back when.
For want of a shim: Rutland Herald OnlineWe wish Toyota well. The company's fuel-efficient cars have done much to slow global warming...
Clone Pachauri, 'great fan' Schwarzenegger suggests to India NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (IANS): Cloning might not be legal at present but if ever it is, then India should clone "a 100,000" RK Pachauris, insists Hollywood star-turned-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who is a great admirer of the climate warrior.
NC Media Watch: It's about time: Schwarzenegger turns more critical of environmental lawsI think that the Governor is starting to get it! He is finding out that an unelected State Fish and Game employee, who attends the church of environmentalism, has more power than he does if his Fish and Game staffer chooses to delay projects and obstruct economic development to protect an imaginary squirrel. Time to make some changes - Repeal AB32 and all CARB implementing administrative rulings.
Investigation into climate scientist prompts feds to question taxpayer fundingOn the Senate side, Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, called on the National Science Foundation to conduct its own investigation to, “examine possible violations of federal laws and policies governing taxpayer-funded research.”
Inhofe called attention to the recent rash of errors that were discovered in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climage Change’s AR4 climate report. “We need to reassure the American people that their tax dollars are supporting objective scientific research rather than political agendas," he said.
ETS costs remain a mystery to Labor | The AustralianTHE Rudd government has failed its first GST-style test over the details of its emissions trading scheme and the compensation being offered to Australians for rising prices.
Lulled into a sense of false security through Coalition support for an ETS last year and a largely sympathetic media, Kevin Rudd and his ministers have found themselves ill-equipped and under-prepared to answer basic questions people want answered, whether they are climate change believers or sceptics.
After three years of Labor being formally committed to an ETS, ministers can't answer simple questions. The Prime Minister himself has conceded the government has failed to address the "complexity" of the ETS.
Critics: Emissions Bill Would Cripple Businesses - Albuquerque News Story - KOAT AlbuquerqueSANTA FE, N.M. -- Critics of legislation that would lay the groundwork in New Mexico for a future regional or federal cap-and-trade program are pleading with state lawmakers not to pass the measure.
They contend it would cripple businesses, shutter the state's coal-fired power plants and lead to expensive utility bills for residents.
Officials with the New Mexico Environment Department and supporters of the measure dismissed the concerns during a hearing Friday before the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee. They say the bill would not establish any cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon credit scam threatens NZ firms | Stuff.co.nzThe ministry said hoax emails were sent to businesses in several countries aimed at persuading them to click on links that took them to fake websites, where they were asked to key in their account details and passwords.
Such "phishing" scams are commonly used to defraud banks, but ministry spokeswoman Emilia Mazur said it was believed to be the first time the US$135 billion (NZ$196b) carbon credit market had been targeted.
Climate sceptic Lord Monckton gets a rock star reception - - News | The Noosa JournalNOOSA: The man described by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as being ``part of a worldwide conspiracy of sceptics’’ received a rock star welcome when he arrived in Noosa on Saturday.
Hundreds of people queued around the building to hear Lord Christopher Monckton speak on global warming at The J in Noosa Junction.
Fears the controversial aristocrat would receive an aggressive reception went unfounded as the crowd cheered and clapped.
Despite extra space being made available at The J, around 100 people were turned away.
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In an exclusive interview with The Noosa Journal last week, Lord Monckton said he was prepared to deal with hecklers ``fairly and, where necessary, firmly’’. He needn’t have worried. With few dissenters in the room, he received a standing ovation.
Climate Science Under FireThe drizzle of allegations that climate scientists have fudged data, drawn on dodgy sources, withheld information and frozen out dissenters has now become a downpour.
Pachauri gets a thumbs-up from PM and world leaders- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic TimesNEW DELHI: Putting up a united front against climate sceptics, world leaders led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stepped up to pledge support to
the troubled chief of the UN climate panel, RK Pachauri. Mindful of the mistake in the IPCC report, the leaders from across the globe stressed that some errors in the report cannot shake the scientific evidence on the impact of global warming.
Debunking the myths behind the pontificating potty peerThe viscount and his performing eyeballs caper around the globe like some gibbering reject from a Monty Python sketch, to the febrile applause of the sort of dopes who - in this country, anyway - once thought Pauline Hanson was their Joan of Arc.
Big freeze sinks or ruins many yachts | Sailing news | Yachting MonthlyThe numbers of yachtsmen claiming for damage caused by split or fractured pipes is 'alarmingly high' report insurers Navigators & General.
Complete Microblogging Of Tonight’s Pielke Jr vs Ward vs Muir Wood London Debate « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGEI will blog with more details in the next few days or maybe even tonight: for now, you can read the whole thing as microblogged live by me on Twitter starting from here.
There has been a remarkable consensus and at one point it even looked like they were going to kiss each other. For example everybody agreed the IPCC procedures must be considerably changed before next report is out…
Signs of Damage to Public Trust in Climate Findings - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comAs recently as last week, senior members of the intergovernmental climate panel had told me that some colleagues did not see the need for changes in practices and were convinced that the recent flareup over errors in the 2007 report was a fleeting inconvenience. I wonder if they still feel that way.
Australia "out of step" with the rest of the world on emissions trading | Australian Climate MadnessThe Rudd government's position on climate is looking increasingly lame and out of touch with reality, and secretly I would bet Kev would love to see the whole thing ditched - it will be a political disaster. But he cannot be seen to do that, having branded climate change "the greatest moral challenge of our generation", so I think they will just let the Coalition defeat it in the Senate and hopefully move on to other things.
Prius' woes not limited to brakes - latimes.comThe most persistent problem involves headlights. Since 2001, Prius owners have lodged more than 1,300 complaints about exterior lights shutting off without warning, most frequently the headlights.
According to complaints, the high-intensity discharge (HID) headlights, anoption on the Prius, shut off without warning, sometimes in dangerous situations, leading to four crashes and at least one injury.
Climategate witchhunt fingers scientist • The RegisterThere are simpler methods. Ducking stools should suffice. If the accused "denier" floats, he's guilty. But if he drowns, we can pronounce him guilty upon his death. Sorted.
The Reference Frame: A slap from its dad, IPCC, forces Greenpeace to behaveThe two unethical organizations clearly have no credentials to criticize each other - they should be outlawed simultaneously.
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...At the same time, 99% of the politicians have completely lost the touch with the 74% majority of the people. Imagine how crazy the democratic arrangement in most countries has become if e.g. Václav Klaus remains the only top EU politician who agrees with 74% of the population on an issue that is claimed to be important.
We need to cool down the climate change row - TelegraphBut is there a productive way forward? All sides condemn waste of the world’s resources. Conserving energy, reducing the use of fossil fuels and replacing them with clean sources is important for national security, and reducing other forms of air pollution besides the emission of greenhouse gases. It is also, as more and more economists and entrepreneurs are realising, an effective way of creating jobs and stimulating new, and sustainable, economic growth.
I think such a programme is necessary to head off dangerous climate change. But even if I am wrong, it would [allegedly] make the world a better, more prosperous place.
Women Hardest Hit by Bad Weather -- and Bad Public Policy - Carrie Lukas - The Corner on National Review Online...the real problem for Speaker Pelosi and her fellow travelers is that women will also be the ones most harmed by their supposed fight against climate change.
» An Honest IPCC Scientist Warns His Colleagues: Don’t Dismiss ‘ClimateGate’ - Big GovernmentIn an amazingly telling moment, green energy consultant Andy Van Horn, who introduced Sprigg, admitted he’d never heard of ClimateGate until Sprigg suggested it a few weeks ago as a topic worthy of discussion. (Who are the real “deniers” again?)
Media cools on global warming | The AustralianClimate-change sceptics are being vindicated by scientific scandals that are no longer being ignored
LAST weekend looks likely to have been a tipping point in the media debate on climate change in the English-speaking world.
The two daily papers in Britain which have campaigned most single-mindedly on the urgent need for action on man-made global warming have begun to change their tune.
Climategate takes steam out of global warming litigation | PublicNuisanceWire.com“The cumulative and inescapable message is that those at the highest levels of 'climate science' admit -- in their own words, in full context, desperate spin to the contrary notwithstanding -- that they cannot make their case, and the lengths to which they are willing to go in the face of this,” Horner said. “Clearly, this is not helpful to the argument that the science is reliable.”
Horner emphasizes that the science must now be debated before proceeding, which doesn’t bode well for plaintiffs and the legal strategy of the alarmist industry in general.
BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Rising scepticism - a chill wind?In terms of the global politics of climate change, it's hard to see the poll results making any difference at all.
One of the lessons of Copenhagen is that the question of whether and how the international community will get to grips with rising emissions is currently in the gift of a small, select group of nations - and the UK isn't one of them.
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