Lindsey Graham: Let's be like those brainwashed young people who still believe in the biggest scientific fraud in history

Op-Ed Columnist - How the G.O.P. Goes Green - NYTimes.com

It is early evening on Capitol Hill, and I am sitting with Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, who, along with John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, is trying to craft a new energy bill — one that could actually win 60 votes. What is interesting about Graham is that he has been willing — courageously in my view — to depart from the prevailing G.O.P. consensus that the only energy policy we need is “drill, baby, drill.”
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What brought you around, I ask? Graham’s short answer: politics, jobs and legacy. We start with politics. The Republican Party today has a major outreach problem with two important constituencies, “Hispanics and young people,” Graham explains:

“I have been to enough college campuses to know if you are 30 or younger this climate issue is not a debate. It’s a value. These young people grew up with recycling and a sensitivity to the environment — and the world will be better off for it. They are not brainwashed. ... From a Republican point of view, we should buy into it and embrace it and not belittle them. You can have a genuine debate about the science of climate change, but when you say that those who believe it are buying a hoax and are wacky people you are putting at risk your party’s future with younger people. You can have a legitimate dispute about how to solve immigration, but when you start focusing on the last names of people the demographics will pass you by.”
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And for those Republicans who think this is only a loser, Senator Graham says think again: “What is our view of carbon as a party? Are we the party of carbon pollution forever in unlimited amounts? Pricing carbon is the key to energy independence, and the byproduct is that young people look at you differently.” Look at how he is received in colleges today. “Instead of being just one more short, white Republican over 50,” says Graham, “I am now semicool. There is an awareness by young people that I am doing something different.”

Five more G.O.P. senators like him and we could have a real energy bill.

“We can’t be a nation that always tries and fails,” Graham concludes. “We have to eventually get some hard problem right.”

Shareholders slam Apple for going green | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Apple tried to go green at this week's shareholders meeting but the meeting erupted into a debate about climate change, stalling progress.
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Two different environmental initiatives were proposed at the meeting. The first was by sustainability consultancy As you Sow, which laid out a greenhouse gas reduction plan. The second proposal recommended setting up a permanent board on sustainability.

Both proposals were roundly rejected by Apple investors, one of whom decried that glaciers aren't really melting and that climate change is a hoax... proof that intelligence and wealth do not necessarily go hand and hand. Jobs himself agreed that the value of environmental reporting is overblown especially considering that the company is already taking strides to reduce the life cycle impacts of their products.

Tax meat, ban burgers on Mondays, the Cambridge Climate Congress knows what is good for us.

The old Catholic habit of abstaining from meat may have faded away in many homes after Vatican II, but what was once taught as being good for your soul is now being promoted as good for the planet by the likes of David Suzuki. It truly does illustrate the point John Allen makes in his book (Mercatornet review here)that traditional Catholics and eco-Catholics may soon be bumping into each other while lining up for fish at the cafeteria, but they'll be doing it for different reasons.

Wonk Room » Rep. Tom Perriello Tells ‘Spineless’ Senate To Get ‘Its Head Out Of Its Rear End’ And Confront "Climate Crisis"

Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) is “sick” of the “insider baseball crap” dominating the Senate debate over global warming and energy reform. In an interview with Grist, the first-term congressman stated in no uncertain terms that the country is at risk from global warming and our economy is at risk of losing the clean energy race. Like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Perriello has not one lick of sympathy for those in the Senate who deny these threats:

Warning Signs: Stop Al Gore Before He Lies Again..and Again...and Again!

It was unworthy of The New York Times to lend itself to the continuing lies of Al Gore, but neither it is surprising since the credibility of this once respected newspaper has been trashed by its appalling biases and a succession of reporters who have been found to be plagiarists and fantasists.

About the only thing left in which a reader can put any confidence is the date under the Times banner each day.

Rudd not backing down on ETS [scam]

"If you look at Mr Abbott's so-called direct action, his climate change con job, I mean you do the numbers on it, maybe at best it would produce a one per cent impact.
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Mr Rudd said he stood by previous comments that climate change was a profound economic and moral challenge for the country's future.

"When our kids look back in 20 year's time and ask the question of this generation, were they fair dinkum or did they walk away from it, I'd rather say that I threw everything at it."

Statement of the IPCC Chairman - WSJ.com

Meanwhile, we stand firmly behind the rigour and robustness of the 4th

Assessment Report's conclusions, and are encouraged by the support demonstrated recently by scientists and governments around the world.

The 4th Assessment Report's key conclusions are based on an overwhelming body of evidence [like what, specifically?] from thousands of peer-reviewed and independent scientific studies. Most significantly, they rest on multiple lines of analysis and datasets.

[More unreliable models?]: Hawaii Escapes Major Tsunami - WSJ.com

Tsunami surges of six to 12 inches in height hit the "Big Island" of Hawaii beginning at 11:38 a.m. local time, 34 minutes later than oceanographers previously forecast, said Bill Hanson, administrative officer with the Hawaii County Civil Defense. Those were far lower than the waves of as high as 14 that feet some officials had predicted.
...Models from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, based in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, had predicted "very rough waves" from six to 10 feet high by the time the tsunami hit Hawaii.

Al Gore pops up at the New York Times to preach to you | CLIMATEGATE

And by the way, I just have to say what a complete coward this man is, hiding out for most of the last few months, avoiding the calls for debate, and then today popping his head out just long enough to preach his gospel from the pages of his sycophant, the New York Times.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Despite hedlines
on methane outburst http://j.mp/ch4burp NOAA CH4 wiz Ed
Duglokencky tells me no chance of runaway. More: http://j.mp/dotTip

Urban Heat Island - World tour

Hide the decline - U-V-W

There are just a few long stations in Brazil, but let's take a look anyway:

These data does not "prove" much on their own, but obviously, they are in line with the viewpoint, that warming trend is boosted when temperatures are measured from growing cities.

The area of Brazil is comparable with the USA. So even though USA has far more temperature stations, the warming trends from the few Brazilian thermometers counts just as much when calculating global temperatures. And indeed it seems that also Brazil has a UHI problem?

[How many of these organizations have realized, to their horror, that Al Gore Warming is a hoax?]: Climate Outreach and Information Network

Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN) is a charity formed in 2004 to directly engage the public about climate change. COIN inspires lasting changes in attitudes and behaviour through the use of innovative action learning methods and by assisting people to communicate their own messages to their peers.

Week-End Fun: Let’s Play “Where’d Al Go?” « Grand Rants

There’s a fun new game that’s sweeping the nation, in light of record freezing and snow storms. Based loosely on the children’s books, “Where’s Waldo?” this game is played by adults wanting to know what’s happened to the former Vice-President, author of the best-seller, “An Inconvenient Truth” and winner of both an Oscar and Nobel Prize. The game is called “Where’d Al Go?”

Computer geek uncovers British climate-data errors | smh.com.au

Dr Graham-Cumming, a London mathematician and computer programmer who describes himself as a ''computer geek'', found that data from seven weather stations in Australia had been accidentally discarded while another 112 Australian stations - or 28 per cent of the Oceania total - had not been fully included in the calculations.

''What appears to have happened is that the Met Office calculated the averages and then got more data from Oceania and then failed to update the averages,'' Dr Graham-Cumming said.

''The site with the greatest error was Napier Nelson Park, in New Zealand, where the average temperature was off by more than 1 degree. That's a lot given that the total warming seen since the 1970s is less than 1 degree and for this location the Met Office had it more than 1 degree hotter than it is. Had the error I'd found been more widespread, it could have had a real effect on the overall picture.''

Mike Mann on How to Fight the Deniers | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

Mooney: Can the scientific community fight harder, or must it draw the line somewhere? You’ve got someone out there like Marc Morano, who is incredibly effective at doing what he does, his website is ClimateDepot, it is very high traffic….the scientific community does not have its equivalent. And the question is, should it, or is that crossing some sort of line?

Mann: Well, it’s the old line about getting into a fight with a pig: “you’ll get dirty, and the pig enjoys it.” There’s some truth to that.

EPA proposes CO2 restrictions, declares war on taxpayers

In short, the incessant fear-mongering about rising CO2 emissions – and the EPA’s decision to declare an atmospheric plant nutrient dangerous – is based on unrealistic and unproven climate models whose predictive accuracy is questionable, if not completely unsound.

The hare-brained anti-CO2 schemes advocated by overwrought global warming alarmists would border on theatrical if it were not for the clear and present danger they pose to economic development and human advancement.

A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC - Telegraph

With all this mighty army of gullible politicians, dutiful officials, busy carbon traders, eager "renewables" developers and compliant, funding-hungry academics standing to benefit from the greatest perversion of the principles of true science the world has ever seen, who are we to protest that their emperor has no clothes? (How apt that that fairy tale should have been written in Copenhagen.) Let all that fluffy white "global warming" continue to fall from the skies, while people shiver in homes that, increasingly, they will find they can no longer afford to heat. We have called into being a true Frankenstein's monster. It will take a mighty long time to cut it down to size.

EU Referendum: Millions of pounds for Rajendra

Over £11 million of British taxpayers' cash has been paid or pledged to Dr Rajendra Pachauri's institute, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), while he has been chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This comprises over £1 million in direct payments over the last five years and £10 million to come from DFID over the next five.

Sceptics seek second Climategate panel casualty - Channel 4 News

...this episode is another example of the way the internet is dominating every aspect of the hacked emails saga.

A driven community of bloggers analysing and communicating about the smallest details, unearthing from the darkest corners of the web snippets of information about climate scientists that in some cases might just come back to haunt them.

Another IPCC Scandal - Sea levels NOT rising

According to expert reviewer for the IPCC
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26 Feb 10 - Dr Nils-Axel Mörner, geologist, physicist, and one-time expert reviewer for the IPCC, announced this week that, contrary to IPCC claims, sea levels are not rising.

"Sea level is not changing in any way, " said Dr Mörner in an hour-long interview with Kim Greenhouse of "It's Rainmaking Time."

The real reason for AGW: Post Normal Science – Telegraph Blogs

How has it happened that so many distinguished scientists around the world have got it so very wrong? Why is that more than a few of them think it’s OK to manipulate evidence, hide or destroy data after inconvenient FOI requests, conspire to silence dissenting scientists, lie and cheat in official hearings, and generally engage in the kind of activities that those of in the non-scientific world had naively assumed that a real scientist would never do?

In three words: Post Normal Science (PNS).

Without PNS, the whole AGW scam might never have got off the ground. PNS was the evil philosophy that gave the scientists involved the intellectual justification to do the wicked things they did.

University ‘tried to mislead MPs on climate change e-mails’ - Times Online

The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails has been accused of making a misleading statement to Parliament.

Antarctica mission for eco-awareness

Abdulla al-Misnad of Shell is going to Antarctica on a mission to help raise awareness in Qatar about climate change, and the importance of protecting the environment.
The Qatari national will join 2041’s ‘Inspire Antarctica Expedition’ from March 5 to 18. The trip will educate participants about global warming, conservation, and Antarctica’s fragile ecosystem.
Al-Misnad will be joined by Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Nuaimi of the UAE, a Shell envoy on the mission. The duo will be part a team of 70 people from 28 countries, who will be exploring the world’s most remote continent.

Region's cost to dig out after record snowfall tops $14 million

Feb. 26--Allegheny County, its towns, schools and hospitals spent more than $9 million for emergency work as storms dumped more than two feet of snow on the region.

The Nature Conservancy in Florida - Scientific Surveys Show Extent of Cold Impact on Florida Keys Corals

During the first two weeks of January, water temperatures in some parts of the Keys dropped into the frigid upper 40s and lower 50s — about 20 degrees lower than the typical temperatures of the upper 60s and lower 70s. The lethal lower limit for corals is 60 degrees.

Warming Panel, Under Attack, Seeks Outside Review - ABC News

"The IPCC clearly has suffered a loss in public confidence," Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field, a chairman of one of the IPCC's four main research groups told The Associated Press on Saturday.
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But one of the troubles is that the IPCC is written by most of the world's top experts in climate science. And the experts who don't write it, often review it, so it's hard to find someone both independent and knowledgeable.

Al Gore - We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change - NYTimes.com

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.
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Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising. Hurricanes are predicted to grow stronger and more destructive, though their number is expected to decrease. Droughts are getting longer and deeper in many mid-continent regions, even as the severity of flooding increases. The seasonal predictability of rainfall and temperatures is being disrupted, posing serious threats to agriculture. The rate of species extinction is accelerating to dangerous levels.

YouTube - Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years

Spurious Warming in the Jones U.S. Temperatures Since 1973 « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

In fact, the results for the U.S. I have presented above almost seem to suggest that the Jones CRUTem3 dataset has a UHI adjustment that is in the wrong direction. Coincidentally, this is also the conclusion of a recent post on Anthony Watts’ blog.

It is increasingly apparent that we do not even know how much the world has warmed in recent decades, let alone the reason(s) why. It seems to me we are back to square one.

C3: Can Coral Reefs Recover From Extreme Warming Events? Tanzania Research Proves They Can

During the extreme warmth of the Super El Nino of 1998, over 40% of northern Tanzanian coral reefs suffered from bleaching. A multi-national group of researchers documented not only the recovery of the reefs, but their actual improvement.

Letter: Truth coming out on global warming - Oroville Mercury Register

Evidence of climate fraud grows. So when are our schools going to present this evidence of a giant hoax? Our local Anthony Watts along with Joe DAleo and E.M. Smith have uncovered global temperature misrepresentations by the two premier U.S. climate agencies: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Doctored temperature records are used by the daddy of them all -- the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is a massive effort to promote government takeover of society and to fill Al Gore's pockets.

The schools need to introduce their students to this new information.

The Institute of Physics condemns junk climate science | CLIMATEGATE

The Institute totally vindicates the attempts of independent auditors such as Canadian researcher, Steve McIntyre, to access the hidden and/or destroyed climate data. The illegal refusal to disclose has undermined claims the world’s climate is undergoing ‘catastrophic’ human-influenced change. This powerful lobby group lambastes crooked climate scientists for their “inappropriate” conduct that made it necessary for analysts like McIntyre to have to waste years seeking appeals to Freedom of Information legislation. Nevertheless, the Institute says, the “right to such appeals has been shown to be necessary.”

Thus the voice of tens of thousands of honorable scientists unhappy with climatologists, has been put to Parliament calling for “a wider inquiry into the integrity of the scientific process in this field.”

Met Office gets £12m bonuses - Telegraph

Staff at the Met Office were awarded more than £12 million in bonuses in the last five years, it has been disclosed.

Climate change [hoax] jobs | Guardian Jobs

Found 14 jobs

Find the latest climate change jobs on Guardian Jobs.
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PRINCIPAL CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICER

* LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON |
* £40,716 to £43,368 per annum...

The Dog Ate my Data: UK to out do Pol Pot to respond to catastrophic global warming

Three hundred Mad Scientists and lackeys in the UK have produced a report entitled Land Use Futures: Making the Most of Land in the 21st Century. John Beddington, the Government’s chief scientific adviser, directed the “research” (a term no doubt used loosely here). He apparently says that climate change and the growing population would present Britain with difficult choices about how it used its (or rather YOUR) land.

So now we have the “scientists” (note Beddington is a Professor of Population Biology and his tenure as Alarmist In Chief in Britain has been dominated by “green” issues) widening the CAGW (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming) myth to include issues such as scientists deciding how to use your free hold property and when to take it from you.
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The fact that anyone of any standing, let alone the UK’s chief scientist, would put his or her name to such a document is telling. Yes it is only three absurd scenarios. But that is the point. The scenarios and suggested outcomes and solutions are absurd and they show no shame in presenting this nonsense to you in a report.

- Bishop Hill blog - How to report climate change after Climategate?

These are notes taken from a discussion meeting at Oxford University on 26th February 2010 and sent to me by reader, Simon Anthony. I think they are extremely interesting.

Question and answer format featuring environmental correspondents Richard Black (BBC), Fiona Harvey (FT), David Adam (Guardian) and Ben Jackson (Sun) and chaired by Fiona Fox, director of the Science Media Centre.
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DA: The meaning of sceptic is very specific. It’s not taxi drivers or people who don’t want to pay higher electricity bills. It’s someone who knows better and takes a contrary view for pathological reasons. No journalists believe that climate science was undermined by the emails.
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BJ: The other day a Sun driver talked to me about the Medieval Warm Period. That wouldn’t have happened 6 months ago. All climate science will now be tested and people will ask how strong the science really is. There’s been a perfect storm of things going wrong – CG, CH, Met Office predictions – it could only be worse if David Attenborough had been caught in bed with Lord Monckton.
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FH: FT readers are versed in risk and probability which are difficult to communicate in the rest of the media. Climate scientists aren’t generally newsworthy; sceptics, IPCC problems and emails are making the news. “Climate – guess what? Still changing” is an unlikely headline. A short-term disaster is needed to guarantee coverage as people aren’t good at processing information about there being no ice at the poles in 30 years. Or get David Attenborough as the front man because everyone trusts him.

RB: I agree that a short term disaster would be effective in persuading people.

DA: Essentially no one read the IPCC report. Climate scientists need to fight on territory the media are interested in. Get the Royal Society to speak out or 2000 scientists to sign a petition protesting at media coverage.

Incredibly stupid sales pitch from Geoffrey Lean

'Greening' economies may be the best way to save them - Telegraph

...Dr Rajendra Pachauri, who had been everywhere in Copenhagen, slipped in as quietly as possible for a few hours, made his excuses for the row that has engulfed his organisation over the past weeks, and left.
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Green technologies also seem to provide plenty of jobs. Exploiting renewables now employs 2.3 million people worldwide, more than the entire oil and gas industries, even though they contribute a small fraction of the amount of energy. They provide several times as much work per dollar invested than fossil fuels, with other green measures like recycling and saving energy proving even more job-intensive.

The importance of climate finance additionality – who loses when climate adaptation money taken for Overseas Development Assistance ?

It is therefore crucial to stress the importance and necessity of climate finance being additional to aid. Shall it not be explicitly stated and implemented, a threat of aid diversion allocated according to adaptation needs (which are, yet, relatively low in SAA compared to other regions) exists. This would lead to SAA’s aid needs neglected. In particular, the health, education and aid-for-trade sectors will suffer the most.

Canadian role in Kyoto appears losing steam since Montreal talks - The Globe and Mail

Canada's role in UN negotiations on climate change appears to be shrinking in response to the Conservative government's mixed messages about the Kyoto Protocol.

Environment Minister Rona Ambrose will officially serve as president of the UN Kyoto talks to take place May 15-26 in Bonn, but her role will be much reduced from that played by former environment minister Stéphane Dion at the last round of Kyoto talks in Montreal.
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"The president makes some administrative decisions, but these are process related and not highly political. In Bonn, Minister Ambrose will open the proceedings and chair a bureau meeting. She is scheduled to leave the same day."
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Since entering office, Ms. Ambrose has said Canada will stay in the Kyoto Protocol, but won't meet its emissions-cutting targets under the treaty. She has stated interest in a rival pact, the Asia-Pacific partnership, which has no targets.

In the Commons yesterday, Ms. Ambrose said the government is working on a "made-in-Canada" solution and seemed to disparage the Kyoto treaty.

King of the hill: Flagstaff atop snowfall total so far

Flagstaff is beating most U.S. cities large and small this year for snowfall, having already surpassed the average snowfall for an entire winter of 109 inches.

There has been 118 inches of snow -- nearly 10 feet -- here so far. The normal through Feb. 22 is 72 inches.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Physicists’ memo to Parliament blasts AGW “science”

This is a devastating critique from an objective scientific community. It exposes as risible the notion that, as EPA Director Lisa Jackson attempted to insist, the UEA CRU e-mails only revealed a lack of interpersonal skills among AGW advocates. As the IoP makes clear, the UEA CRU and its many partners in the AGW movement committed intellectual and scientific fraud — and their conclusions should be viewed as worthless.

Thomas Friedman Trashes Sen. Inhofe as Sellout, Says 'I'm a Dick Cheney Guy' | NewsBusters.org

JAMES HANSEN: Yeah, well, I'd love to have an investigation, which should include Senator Inhofe, who's one of the most well-oiled, coal-fired politicians in Washington. He's very well funded to protect the fossil fuel industry, but he was elected to support the people.
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FRIEDMAN: But what we do know is this, Christiane, and this is really important. We know the gases we put up there stay there for like 3,000 years. In other words, they're irreversible. And we know that the chances of them producing possibly catastrophic climate change, some may say, is 90 percent, 80 percent, but it's not 0 percent.

CO2 residence time: Does it really "stay there for like 3,000 years"?

Sundquist (1985) compiled a large number of measured RTs of CO2 found by different methods. The list, containing RTs for both 12CO2 and 14CO2, was expanded by Segalstad (1998), showing a total range for all reported RTs from 1 to 15 years, with most RT values ranging from 5 to 15 years.

[Evidently Gore's returning to Tennessee?]: Major snowstorm could affect the southeast US next week

The major story to follow this period is the potential for a significant snowstorm over the southeast US including North Carolina next Tuesday and Wednesday...I think there is a threat of snow across areas of the interior southeast, including north Georgia, Tennessee, and north Alabama Monday night and Tuesday but how much snow will depend on when and how much phasing occurs between the southern stream and northern stream.

Welcome to the New World Order – Telegraph Blogs

Bye bye democracy, in other words. Oh, and bye bye your job, your money and your children’s economic future too.
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These people talk about trillions as if it’s handy small change. Do you want to know what a trillion looks like?

Here’s what a trillion dollars looks like. Now multiply that by 45. Remembering all the while that the crisis which it is designed to alleviate exists only in the imagination of your New World Governors.

Instapundit » Blog Archive

I GUESS THIS MEANS MORE SNOW: U.T. Offers Honorary Doctorate to Al Gore. There’s some controversy.

Countries pledge to step up global response on climate change at UN forum in Indonesia - People's Daily Online

"Faced by continued erosion of the natural environment, the persistent and emerging challenges of chemical pollution and wastes as well as the overarching challenge of issues such as climate change, the status quo is not an option and change is urgently needed," said the United Nations' Under-Secretary General and the Executive Director of United Nation Environment Program (UNEP) Achim Steiner.  [Why is climate change mentioned only on an "as well as" basis?]

Newsmax - Drop Climate Change Initiatives, Save Trillions

It might be well for the world's population to step back and take a deep breath and just forget about global warming, which more and more often is being referred to as a hoax.

Grizzly bears move into "polar bear" habitat in Manitoba, Canada

Biologists affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History and City College of the City University of New York have found that grizzly bears are roaming into what was traditionally thought of as polar bear habitat—and into the Canadian province of Manitoba, where they are officially listed as extirpated. The preliminary data was recently published in Canadian Field Naturalist and shows that sightings of Ursus arctos horribilis in Canada's Wapusk National Park are recent and appear to be increasing in frequency.

"Grizzly bears are a new guy on the scene, competition and a potential predator for the polar bears that live in this area," says Robert F. Rockwell, a research associate at the Museum and a professor of Biology at CUNY.

Grizzly bears return to Manitoba | Manitoba | News | Winnipeg Sun

Recent sightings of grizzly bears -- extinct from Manitoba for a century -- have raised hopes the iconic Canadian mammal may be making a comeback.

How to debate a climate change believer | CLIMATEGATE

Humans are NOT heating up the planet. Simply check the two oldest and most reliable ground RAW temp records in the world: the CET (England) and the Central European Record (Prague). These prove that for the past several hundred years global warming has been occurring naturally at a rate of 0.25 C per century, entirely normal for the Holocene interglacial period in which we live.

Indeed, the warming blip that climate scaremongers get all hot about is that time from 1975-98, which compares neatly with those entirely natural yet similar blips of 1860-80 and 1910-40 and which no climatologist attributes to human emissions. Therefore, we see no human climate-forcing signal.

The truth is in the science. Science is about facts, not a show of hands. The complexity of climate involves a multiplicity of scientific disciplines. Yet climate scientists have had to rely on a small core of a mere two dozen or so ‘elite’ climate scientists who are responsible for the ‘homogenized’ temp data sets produced from a central WMO source. That is where the fraud lies.

AGW: It's not about 'the science' – Telegraph Blogs

Daffodils will soon be flowering so early you won’t even see them because they’ll already have happened last year.

Climategate lands on WSJ’s front page | CLIMATEGATE

Of course, WSJ readers are likely more skeptical (and intelligent) than readers of most other news publications, but even so, the accompanying readers’ poll showed vast numbers of people are now seeing the whole scheme as a fraud. The poll asked readers to grade the IPCC on how good of a job they were doing. At the time we read it, with about 650 votes in, 82% had given them an F.

UK energy bills set to rocket | CLIMATEGATE

The cost of financing the great Carbon Trading bandwagon is going to be paid for by the rise in consumer energy bills.

[Before breathing air containing carbon dioxide, should you don a surgical mask?] « Climate Progress

[Photo caption] Students from the Clean Energy Works Campaign don surgical masks before visiting the office of Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday to ask her to lobby for regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

Global warming consensus is bunkum - Letters, Opinion - Independent.ie

FOR years the media have told us that there is a "scientific consensus" on catastrophic, man-made global warming with anything up to 99.9pc of scientists supporting it.

I decided to carry out a survey to see if this claim had any merit, and asked journalists, politicians and alarmist lobbyists to name two prominent scientists not funded by government or an alarmist lobby group who have said we are seeing a catastrophic degree of warming. As yet, none have been able to do so. Scientists who are seeking government funds have been understandably reluctant to speak.

Characterizing Climate Blessings as “Weirding” - by James Taylor - Heartland Perspectives

Far from “global weirding,” this should translate into “global milding.” Global temperature data confirm this, showing no signs of “the hots getting hotter.” The all-time high temperature in Africa was set in 1922; in North America, 1913; in Asia, 1942; in Australia, 1889; in Europe, 1977; and in South America, 1920. In the United States, 30 of the 50 states experienced their all-time high temperature between 1910 and 1940. Fully 40 of the 50 states experienced their all-time high temperature before 1980.

High cost could halt Brown's wind farm plan - Times Online

Government plans to generate one third of Britain’s electricity from giant offshore wind parks by 2020 could be scrapped because of the vast costs involved, according to the head of Britain’s biggest utility company, as well as a key investor.

Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, the owner of British Gas, said it was unclear whether the scheme to build an estimated 10,000 wind turbines across swaths of the North and Irish seas would ever go ahead.

Councils to generate green power in Miliband plan to curb emissions | Society | guardian.co.uk

Local councils will be allowed to start generating and selling electricity back to the grid, in legislation being planned to bring about a "local energy revolution".

Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, intends to help councils to become energy providers, individually or jointly, by setting up renewable energy companies. The plan is the latest attempt to shake up the energy provision and encourage sustainable sources. Councils are responsible for some 10% of UK carbon emissions and Miliband thinks they need incentives to move to lower carbon energy.

In response to a massive scientific hoax, should people who don't understand energy invest lots of public money to screw up an absolutely vital system that is already working?

[Completely insane] Climate change report sets out an apocalyptic vision of Britain - Times Online

Mass migration northwards to new towns in Scotland, Wales and northeast England may be needed to cope with climate change and water shortages in the South East, according to an apocalyptic vision set out by the Government Office for Science.

Heathrow would be converted into a giant reservoir by 2035, there could be severe restrictions on flying and driving and farmers would be forced to sell their land to giant agricultural businesses. Greenhouse gas emissions would be controlled by carbon rationing for individuals, which would lead to “significant shifts in lifestyle as everyone tries to stay within budget”.
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The vision is published today in a report entitled Land Use Futures: Making the Most of Land in the 21st Century. John Beddington, the Government’s chief scientific adviser, who directed the research, said that climate change and the growing population would present Britain with difficult choices about how it used its land.
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The report, compiled by 300 scientists, economists and planners, includes three scenarios to “stimulate thought” and “highlight difficult policy dilemmas that government and other actors may need to consider in the future”.

All the scenarios involve dramatic changes in lifestyles and landscapes in response to climate change. In the most extreme scenario, world leaders hold an emergency summit in 2014 when it becomes clear that the impacts of climate change are going to be far worse and happen much sooner than previously envisaged.

The Government responds by taking control of vast tracts of land and using it to grow wood and crops for biomass power stations. An agricultural productivity Bill requires farmers to increase yields per hectare but most have to sell up because they lack the resources to comply.

Woodland league "learns" more about climate - Daily Democrat Online

Niemeier, in a sometimes serious, sometimes amusing talk, highlighted the differences between the current California emission standards laws in place, and the way we implement them as a state.

She compared the amount of petroleum used per capita in America to Norway and Sweden, and then, for good measure, compared the so-called "Happiness Index" of the three countries, demonstrating that using more gas doesn't make us happier.

How many of us would be "happy" after spending one year without any of the benefits of fossil fuels?

What to say to a warmist named Schwarzenegger - Opinion - The Orange County Register

To give the debate a shove in the right direction, here are some global warming tipping-point, talking points to raise over dinner

Gorrie: As warming skeptics gloat, the Earth gets hotter - thestar.com

Supposedly neutral commentators and reporters regularly present as fact that the British researchers fixed their findings, or that the famous hockey stick graph – which illustrates rapid warming of the average global temperature during the past few decades after centuries of relative stability – is a fraud.

Could novels about climate change shake us to our senses? | Grist

A spate of novels and movies that feature climate change as either an overt part of the story line or an implicit backdrop against which mythical heroes strive may be creating the critical mass for a cultural awakening that allows climate change to be perceived at that pre-rational level—the kind of limbic awareness that motivates change. Or so we can hope.

Full disclosure: I am at work on a trilogy that tells the story of one man’s struggle to prevent climate change, and to survive it and preserve some small part of nature when he fails.

Twitter / David Roberts

Michael Morris, CEO of American Electric Power: cap&dividend would take money from "mom in the Midwest and dividend it to Paris Hilton."

Prominent Climate Change Skeptic [Patrick Michaels] Getting Paid by Oil, Coal Companies - Business - GOOD - StumbleUpon

Head over to Treehugger to read the full story. Could this new information perhaps equalize the damage done by Climategate?

["Climate": it's in the headline, but not mentioned in the body of the article]: Cancel phone books to tackle climate change say councils - Telegraph

Households are being asked to opt out of receiving their annual phone book to stop thousands of tonnes of paper being dumped in landfill every year.

Capturing the essence of Inhofe: 'Sure, he’s an “adamant denier,” but he does it with a smile. The other side seems to grimace on' | GORE LIED

I like that aspect of the Senator too. While Joe Romm and his angry comrades stomp their feet, Inhofe calls out the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American public” with a grandfatherly wink and smile. As I’ve said often on this blog – skeptics have more fun.

Million Climate Jobs Conference – Register Now : Socialist Resistance: Fourth International in Britain

The Campaign Against Climate Change trade union campaign for “One Million Climate Jobs” is going from strength to strength. We have sold thousands of copies of our pamphlet and there is a real sense amongst campaigners far wider than the established trade union movement that this is an important campaign.

The third Campaign Against Climate Change trade union conference takes place against this backdrop. We will be bringing together trade unionists and environmental campaigners to discuss how best we can build a movement that wins both climate and social justice.

Michael Mann responds to the “false and misleading claims” in the error-riddled, defamatory WSJ piece by Jeffrey Ball and Keith Johnson « Climate Progress

[Fraudster Mann] the Mann et al work has stood up remarkably well. the most recent IPCC report not only affirming the Mann et al conclusions, but extending them further back based on the existence of more than a dozen reconstructions that now point to the same question: The 2007 IPCC report found that recent warming is *likely* unprecedented for at least the past *1300* years.

“Hottest January ever” say climate experts, establishing a new comedy genre | CLIMATEGATE

It’s reached a stage where if the IPCC makes a statement, you know it must be wrong or stupid, and that’s where the whole bandwagon breaks down.

Trial by ice – what it takes to be an Arctic explorer [who still believes that the world is overheating] | Environment | The Guardian

"You can train all you like," she says, "but nothing prepares you for the cold. On a good day it can be minus 15, on a bad day minus 45; factor in the wind chill and it can feel more like minus 70. The cold penetrates your bones and never leaves. Even when you're in your tent at night there's no respite. It's with you the whole time; you just have to try and shut it out. You can't always do it, especially towards the end of an expedition when you're exhausted."

It's the cold Hartley and Paton fear most too. They are also polar veterans and know exactly what's coming. "I'd done a lot of climbing in the Himalayas and I thought I knew all about cold," says Hartley, the expedition photographer. "But I was hopelessly unprepared the first time I went to Resolute [the settlement in the north of Canada that is the start point for Arctic exploration]. My equipment was totally inadequate and I would have died if someone hadn't lent me some warmer clothes.
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So what do you do if a bear comes sneaking up on you from behind a pressure ridge?

For the first and only time, the explorers look nervous. They can see the story. Climate change explorers shoot polar bear. "Um, you would fire the gun above its head to scare it off," says Daniels eventually. And if that doesn't work? "Look," Hartley laughs. "There's no such thing as a small polar bear." Fine. So the bear gets it.

Mongolian Freeze Benefits Chinese Energy Shares, Japanese in a Buying Mood - DailyFinance

In Hong Kong, energy companies rose today as temperatures in Mongolia fell as low as -45 C (-49 F) and heavy snows blanketed much of northern China.
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In an interview on BBC radio this morning, David Hadrill of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization described a bleak scene where the carcasses of yaks, cattle, sheep, horses and other animals lay strewn outside traditional homes called yurts. "It's like one giant deep freeze," he said, explaining that in severe cold temperatures the bodies don't rot and are scavenged by dogs. Hadrill called the situation a "tragedy," noting that lambing season is fast approaching.

Centrica warns of higher gas and electricity prices - Telegraph

Roger Carr, Centrica chairman and until recently head of Cadbury, cautioned that a combination of higher wholesale energy prices this year and the huge investment needed to ensure security of supply and meet environmental targets meant the group was in a "very different commodity price environment."

Al Gore Gets Quiet on Climate Change- Heat Sources Affect Climate Data

Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore -- the public face of global warming -- has been mum on the topic.
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"When his movie came out," Inhofe added, "parents of small children told me their kids had to go to the psychiatrist over bad dreams about global warming. We owe it to the public to find out where the science came from. This is the greatest scientific scandal of our generation."
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Inhofe said global warming science is still being used by the Obama administration to support regulations to rein in emissions, despite indications that Britain's official weather office may redo all of its data, and indications that the U.N. will anounce changes in reaction to Climate-gate. He said he believes that global warming legislation could not generate more than 20 votes in the Senate right now.

Yfrog - b7px - Uploaded by climatechamp

Looking forward to another great day's training with all the other Climate Change Champions at CAT Machynlleth!!

NYC Storm Breaks 114-Year-Old Snowfall Record for Central Park - Bloomberg.com

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- A winter storm that pummeled New York City for two days broke a monthly record for snowfall in Central Park that stood for 114 years, according to the National Weather Service.

The storm killed at least three people, knocked out power to more than 700,000 electrical customers across the U.S. Northeast and grounded at least 3,844 flights from regional airports. As the city digs out, forecasters are already watching another storm that may hit the U.S. East Coast next week.

“This is stuff that doesn’t happen too often, maybe a couple of times a century,” said Jeffrey Tongue, a weather service meteorologist in Upton, New York.

Progress Ohio | Dave Harding's Blog: TUESDAY IN COLUMBUS: Senator John Warner (R-VA): "Solving Global Climate Change Can Help Ensure America's Security"

Senator Warner will speak to the critical links between national security, energy and global warming and to new strategies for combating climate change, protecting our national security, increasing our energy independence, and preserving our nation's natural resources.

Obama’s Green Jobs Plan: Losing Jobs through Efficiency and Inefficiency | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

The other way the government can destroy jobs through a clean energy initiative is to mandate and subsidize labor intensive, inefficient, and expensive power sources. If it takes more labor and capital to produce renewable energy, there is a net drain on the economy. Government spending will create some jobs to build windmills and solar panels and work at biomass plants but this diverts labor, capital and materials from the private sector that could be used more efficiently to create even more jobs

Many leading scientists tell the EPA to think again | The SPPI Blog

Because of the need to have only those highly qualified to provide answers to each of the questions outlined above, we strongly suggest that the EPA grant the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Petitions, and in particular, adopt its recommendation regarding the use of the an on-the-record hearing conducted pursuant to 5 U.S.C. §§ 556-57.

While following such an analysis process may well be more arduous than planned, the implications of ill-founded CO2 regulation could be truly catastrophic. Hardly a day goes by without another prominent scientist joining the ranks of those who reject the conclusion of the IPCC that the primary driver of the Earth’s climate system is CO2 emissions from human use of fossil fuels rather than other natural forces.

Senators to propose abandoning cap-and-trade - washingtonpost.com

Three key senators are engaged in a radical behind-the-scenes overhaul of climate legislation, preparing to jettison the broad "cap-and-trade" approach that has defined the legislative debate for close to a decade.

The sharp change of direction demonstrates the extent to which the cap-and-trade strategy -- allowing facilities to buy and sell pollution credits in order to meet a national limit on greenhouse gas emissions -- has become political poison. In a private meeting with several environmental leaders on Wednesday, according to participants, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), declared, "Cap-and-trade is dead."

El Niño, climate change and the East Coast storms | CEJournal

For the record, Kevin Trenberth believes the “fairly strong” El Niño we are experiencing has played a significant role in the spate of storms that have slammed the East Coast in recent weeks. But he also thinks climate change is playing a role as well.

EU Referendum: A profoundly non-feasible option

Generations to come are going to look upon this madness with the same puzzlement that we currently reserve for the medieval enthusiasm for burning witches, asking how it is supposedly rational people could be so easily led astray. Even in the here and now, that is not an easy question to answer.

Evil Denialist Blog Polls « the Air Vent

I’m curious what the readers here think about the effect of CO2 on global warming.

Solar complaints are hotting up

There has been an eightfold rise in complaints about home solar energy systems in the past six months amid claims of dodgy installations, higher bills and unpaid rebates on electricity that has been fed back into the grid.

Study: Whaling speeds up to climate change - UPI.com

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Whaling contributes to global climate change, U.S. scientists have found.
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Whales, which Pershing says are the "forests of the ocean," store carbon in their bodes and the gas can be released when they are killed.

"Whales, like any animal or plant on the planet, are made out of a lot of carbon," Pershing was quoted as saying at the conference by BBC News. "And when you kill and remove a whale from the ocean, that's removing carbon from this storage system and possibly sending it into the atmosphere."

A large blue whale stores around 9 tons of carbon -- only large trees store more of the greenhouse gas scientists say is responsible for global warming.

When a whale dies of natural causes, its body sinks to the seabed, transporting the carbon stored in it to the deep sea, away from the atmosphere for hundreds of years. Harpooning one, however, can release the carbon directly into the atmosphere, thus intensifying climate change.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Tough love in a troubled climate

Although governments have decided the IPCC needs a review, they have also decided that the world needs an IPCC. And that should come as welcome news to those who feared that a tide of "denialism" was about to swamp the world's body politic.

FOXNews.com - "Extremely Overbooked" Gore Too Busy to Talk?

"Thank you for your kind request. Unfortunately, Mr. Gore's schedule is extremely overbooked and we're unable to offer any availability. It's very difficult to decline invitations such as yours, but it's an unfortunate inevitability of the growing influence of the climate crisis message and the demand on Mr. Gore's time. We do apologize, but thanks for your interest."

Managing Peak Demand With Water Heaters - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

customers are paid $12.50 per month to take part in a program that allows the water heaters to use electricity only at night — between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Let There Be No More Scientific Consensuses

When I began examining the climate change debate I was shocked to discover a huge disconnect between how the media described matters and what a few hours of independent research revealed.

World Climate Report » Quick Response to Ben Santer’s Comments at RealClimate

Personally, we find it incredulous that Santer maintains, even to this day, that had they used the full period of available record—which he admits would have shown a decline in the correlation between models and observations—that this somehow “strengthened rather than weakened the evidence for a human fingerprint.”

I Admit: This Will Be a Challenge for the Gore Effect - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Al Gore to headline the Society for Human Resource Management conference in San Diego on June 28.

C3: The Left's Childish View of Climate Science (or is it, The Scientific Stupidity of The Left?)

Despite all facts and evidence demolishing the AGW hypothesis, the left (especially mainstream media representatives) continues to rationalize the CO2-caused global warming with childish logic and hysterical emotional appeal, which only reveals their non-scientific, political agenda.

Green Jobs as Great Source of Job Destruction - Veronique de Rugy - The Corner on National Review Online

This study, from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Spain shows that the reality is quite different. After examining Spain’s experience with an aggressive wind-power program, the researchers concluded, among other things, the cost of creating a green job in Spain was 571,000 Euros each (so roughly $800,000), and for each green job created, two private jobs were lost.

UN climate heads call for consensus and urge attempts to rebuild trust | Environment | guardian.co.uk

UN climate chiefs meet in Bali, admitting they face 'existential challenge' after failure of Copenhagen climate change talks

Michael Mann - Unprecedented Attacks on Climate Research | Point of Inquiry

In response to growing public skepticism—and a wave of dramatic attacks on individual researchers—the scientific community is now bucking up to more strongly defend its knowledge. Leading the charge is one of the most frequently attacked researchers of them all—Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann.

[42-minute podcast] In this interview with host Chris Mooney, Mann pulls no punches.

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner: sea level facts & conditions

Imagery is powerful even if it is untrue. It lingers in the subconscious mind, where it can affect our ability to think critically and receive whole-systems information. We must be vigilant to prevent this.

In this show, Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner clarifies many misconceptions about rising sea levels and offers a comprehensive understanding of this subject.

Clues from Ancient Glacial and Interglacial Times

Today we are in a very cold period in the long-term history of the Earth, and have been for most of the past several million years. Because the Earth is already quite cold, when we have glacial-interglacial cycles, we see large ice sheets coming and going at both poles – in Antarctica, Greenland, and over large parts of North America and Scandinavia. This waxing and waning of polar ice is driven by small changes in the shape of the Earth’s orbit around the sun (it changes from an ellipse to more circular and back again over about 120,000 years), the tilt of the Earth’s axis (it wobbles a bit over 40,000 years), and the exact seasonal timing of when the Earth is at its closest approach to the sun. All of these “orbital” changes impact how much sunlight reaches the Earth as well as when and where it warms the Earth seasonally. Sometimes, the Earth is in an orbital configuration that produces warm winters and cool summers – a combination that usually allows ice sheets to form and grow. Some 10’s of thousands of years later, the opposite occurs – warm summers and cool winters – which can cause ice sheets to rapidly melt. In today’s cold world, these small changes have big effects as the Polar Regions are cold enough to allow large ice sheets to form and last through the warmer periods. Antarctica has been covered in a large ice sheet for many millions of years because of this overall cooling. It still waxes and wanes along its margins but it is always present in the continent’s interior. But prior to about 2.5 million years ago, there was no permanent ice sheet in the north polar regions – it was simply too warm. Further back in time, the Antarctic ice sheet was much smaller than it is today but it was still dancing to the rhythms set by the Earth’s orbit.

Twitter / AlGoresBrain

GNN ALERT: Cap & Trade to now be called Jobs & Tax Refund Bill.

Al Fin: Why Only a Gullible Idiot Trusts the Climate Data

The public is getting tired of being jerked around in this manner. Why are not climate scientists themselves tired of being jerked around? Why are not world governments tired of being jerked around? Why is not the media tired of being jerked around?

That is like asking why a tort lawyer doesn't object to shoddy research which supports his case. When the payout is big enough, corrupt persons will swallow a truckload of crappy data.

- Bishop Hill blog - Getting out of hand again

The stunner for me today has been the Institute of Physics submission to the Science and Technology Committee, which is to the point to say the least. This is really starting to look very bad for the guys at UEA:

1. The Institute is concerned that, unless the disclosed e-mails are proved to be forgeries or adaptations, worrying implications arise for the integrity of scientific research in this field and for the credibility of the scientific method as practised in this context.

With retrospect, once the emails became public it was likely that some of the major learned societies might try to distance themselves from the climatologists. It may be that support for the CRU now starts to fall away. We'll see.

FOXNews.com - Two Huge Icebergs Let Loose Off Antarctica's Coast

Experts are concerned about the effect of the massive displacement of ice on the ice-free water next to the glacier, which is important for ocean currents.
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"There may be regions of the world's oceans that lose oxygen, and then of course most of the life there will die," said Mario Hoppema, chemical oceanographer at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany.

Nuclear Reactors, Dams at Risk Due to Global Warming

As climate change throws Earth's water cycle off-kilter, the world's energy infrastructure may end up in hot water, experts say.
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But in a rapidly warming world, a site that looks ideal when it's built may be in a much different environment 50 years later.

Storm rakes East; more than 1 million in the dark

Snow is still falling in New York City, where nearly 21 inches has been measured.

Institute of Physics damns the Climategaters’ “science” | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This submission in effect warns that this recent warming may not be unprecedented, after all, and those that claim it is may have been blinded by bias or simply fiddled their results and suppressed dissent.

I’ll repeat: Climategate reveals the greatest scientific scandal of our lifetime.

A Picture’s Worth A Thousand (Redacted) Words

This tells you all you need to know about the state of transparency for the government’s efforts on energy and climate change

[Yet another major conflict of interest?]: Yvo de Boer reveals KPMG job was lined up before Copenhagen summit | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Outgoing UN climate chief says he met with accountancy firm in November, believing he did not have the 'stamina' to continue overseeing efforts to reach a new global climate deal

U.S. Sen. Harkin: 21 western Iowa counties designated as presidential disaster declaration areas

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has declared 21 counties in Iowa as “Presidential Disaster” areas. This declaration will trigger the release of Federal funds to help the State and local governments recover from the damage caused during December’s severe winter storms. Harkin wrote to President Obama on January 29 supporting Governor Culver’s request for this declaration.

[Oct '09: Tom Harkin on global warming]

On another high-profile issue, Harkin said it is time for the U.S. to move forward to stem global warming via the Boxer-Kerry climate change bill that some see having dim odds of passage in 2009. Harkin says he supports the bill and “hopes” it advances, since the U.S. uses the most energy and is the globe’s biggest polluter.

“We have to take the lead in the world,” and “show the rest of the world we mean business” to reduce carbon emissions, Harkin said.

The Scholar and Feminist Conference on Feminism and Climate Change | NYLCV - New York League of Conservation Voters

Event Date: 02/27/2010
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The Barnard Center for Research on Women brings together a group of panelists to explore how global climate change poses not just a disproportionate threat to some, but also how scholars and activists are responding. How does social exploitation parallel environmental exploitation in regional and global contexts, and how can an analysis of gender and race help build an effective response? How can the diverse groups that are affected find common ground? What are the challenges and complexities of working within multiple movements, including those for environmental, racial, and gender justice?

BBC tells the truth – shock horror! – iceberg not caused by global warming – Telegraph Blogs

It may seem like zero coming up in roulette, but British state television refrained from telling a global-warmist porkie on this one.
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In itself, it is a very small victory for the truth; but its implications are enormous. It tells us the scam merchants are on the back foot; they are in retreat; it will still require trench warfare for years to dislodge them, but the tide has turned. Just one sentence, almost a throwaway line, in a news report, but it signals an awareness that we are on their case. The AGW hysterics have irretrievably lost the battle for public opinion and now it is time to peel their layers of fabrication and falsehood like an onion.

Wintry weather sweeps Scotland - Telegraph

Hundreds of motorists were left stranded in freezing temperatures for more than 17 hours on a 25-mile stretch in Perthshire overnight on Thursday.

4th Longest Cold Weather Streak - Iowa

The NWS says there has been 85 straight days of temperatures below 40 degrees in Dubuque. That's the 4th longest stretch of cold weather in history. The longest was back during the winter of 1979, with 114 days below 40 degrees. There were 90 days in 1978 and 89 in 2001.

Palm Beach, Broward counties to open cold weather shelters due to cold weather - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Palm Beach and Broward counties planned to open cold-weather shelters Thursday evening as temperatures in the region are expected to dip into the 30s and 40s.

Manatee’s winter chill endures - Top Stories - BradentonHerald.com

Growers and residents across the county braced early this morning for a few hours of below-freezing temperatures.
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The numbing temperatures are nothing new for Manatee this winter.

Starting Jan. 3, Manatee County had a record 11 straight days in which the overnight low temperature dipped below 40 degrees. The resultant crop damage led to a federal disaster declaration for 60 of Florida’s 67 counties, including Manatee and Sarasota.

Senators Boxer and Merkley Owe Apology, says SPPI

In recent Senate EPA hearings false claims were made by Senators Boxer (D-CA) and Merkley (D-OR) that the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is ExxonMobil funded, implying its work and findings should be cast aside.

Says SPPI president, Robert Ferguson, “SPPI has never been offered or accepted funds or support in any form from ExxonMobil. Senators Boxer and Merkley owe an apology and a correction in the record.” Added Ferguson, “It is rather simple for any senate staffer to call ExxonMobil to verify the facts, or examine public filings for Exxon Mobil’s Contributions and Community Investments.

The Reference Frame: NCDC UrbanGate: how the urban crap was exported to U.S. countryside

The "clean", purely natural rural figures have been contaminated by the bogus warming desired by the urban AGW believers.

This clearly needs to be verified because it's a potential bombshell. If he's right, the correct natural warming in the U.S. was around 0.1 °C per century, instead of 0.6 °C that follows from the "adjusted" NCDC (and probably also GISS) data, and this small 0.1 °C increment could be identified with the contribution of the growing rural population, too.

Wall Street & Technology: Blog: What's the Future of Climate Change and Carbon Trading?

In a video interview, Editor-at-Large Ivy Schmerken spoke with Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of Tabb Group, about the likelihood of the U.S. Senate passing climate change legislation this year, and how the financial industry would react to carbon trading as a new asset class.

Twitter / Andy Revkin [faces involuntary Earth Hours]

Hud Valley 'historic' blackout http://j.mp/BRRRrrr Scrabble by candlelight. Getting cold. Wish followd @greeninc advice http://j.mp/grnFire

Michelle Malkin » John McCain: Unrepentant Climate Change Republican; Update: Lindsay Graham pushes carbon caps

Update: Brooke Buchanan from McCain’s office e-mails:

Saw your recent post on your blog and wanted to let you know the floor statement was dated wrong on the website and since been updated (see link below). Senator McCain actually gave the floor speech on March, 19 2009. I would appreciate updating your post to reflect.

The Reference Frame: Reuters about "lull" in global warming

...Except that similar "extraordinary" patterns during various seasons and at different places of the Earth occur almost all the time, every year. They're what the whole atmospheric dynamics is all about. Claiming that the dynamics is about something completely different - and attributing every weather event to an "extraordinary" miracle - is a sign of a superstitious, irrational approach to the climate that denies the reality.

Global warming: Stonewalling and preaching instead of communicating

If a commenter disagrees with a blogger on an establishment site, such as Joe Romm's Climate Progress, or Deltoid or Real Climate, they first get massive abuse from other commenters, and then their comments disappear. It's insanity.

IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri to face independent inquiry - Telegraph

Environment and Climate ministers meeting in closed session in Bali last night insisted that an independent review should be carried out following the publicising of mistakes in its last report, and a row surrounding Dr Pachauri's robust response to his critics. If his management is found to be at fault his position could become untenable.

Participants in the unprecedented meeting – held at the annual assembly of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Governing Council in Bali – were sworn to secrecy over the decision and it is only expected to be announced after its detaled scope and composition have been worked out by UNEP and the World Meteorological Organisation, the two UN agencies that oversee the IPCC's work.

The ministers – led by Hillary Benn, the Environment Secretary,and his counterparts from Germany,. Norway, Algeria and Antigua and Barbuda – refused to allow Dr Pachauri to decide who would carry out the review, insisting it must be completely and demonstrably independent of the IPCC.

EU Referendum: Don't laugh

The "global" temperature is manufactured. It isn't real. All it represents is a particular value from a particular set of heavily adjusted temperature measurements, assembled using questionable and less than transparent methodology.

Bridge Glacier to be studied for global warming

In April, world-renowned environmental photographer [he's not even a climatologist?!] James Balog will install two cameras on Bridge Glacier that will photograph the ice field every 30 minutes in perpetuity.
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"Man, you fly over these mountains and as a trained geomorphologist you look at this and say holy s---, there is nothing like this going on anywhere else in the world."  [why not, if the "globe" is "warming" so fast?]
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The retreat of the world's glaciers is one of the most visible indicators of climate change taking place today. The scientific debate over whether global warming is real is over, he said, and the historic decline of the world's glaciers, the rise of sea levels and the rise of atmospheric warming have proven that point.

"It is because of the buildup of greenhouse gases. That's where the whole thing starts. We are absolutely light years beyond [suggesting this is because of] natural variation. This is not natural variation. This is the effects of global warming and we just cannot refute that point any more."
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The project, which is underwritten by government and corporate sponsors, has a budget of about $600,000 a year.

Key senators do not see climate bill in 2010 | Reuters

While the Obama administration and a bipartisan core of senators still hope there is life for a climate change bill that would put a price on carbon emissions and help reinvigorate ailing international talks, the senators interviewed by Reuters this week were much more pessimistic.
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Even long-time supporters of legislation to fight global warming, like Democrat Dianne Feinstein from California, appear to be throwing in the towel for this year.

"I do want a climate bill," said Feinstein. But when pressed further on whether the Senate would likely pass a bill this year, she admitted: "No, but we should."

Coffee hit by global warming say growers

GUATEMALA CITY - Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground, putting the cash crop at risk.
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"In the last 25 years the temperature has risen half a degree in coffee producing countries, five times more than in the 25 years before," he said.
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But producers meeting in Guatemala this week are in a state of panic over the impact of warming on their livelihoods.

Coffee Frost and Drought History

[Check this data out carefully--note zero frosts between 1918 and 1942, then frosts in eight different years in the 1967-1984 span, then frost again in 1994 and 2000.  If carbon dioxide drives world temperature, how can this be explained?]

Coffee

Brazil is subject to frosts and freezes and a major freeze occurs about every five years.

I guess the science *wasn't* ever settled: Check out the spinning and backpedaling here

Climate-Change Group IPCC Moves to Fix Crisis Damage - WSJ.com

Mr. Pachauri describes the IPCC's record as "impeccable." Still, he said, the IPCC's reforms will aim to "ensure that even the slightest possibility of someone not adhering to procedures is eliminated completely. We just have to act like monitors at every stage."
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"There is a very broad and deep consensus that I buy into that we're producing too much CO2 and it's going to cause problems eventually," said John H. Marburger III, former science adviser to President George W. Bush. Many details remain uncertain, he said, but "I think it's unequivocal that there is a human component."
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Mr. Mann said in an email interview, "I was not pushing 'hard' for anything of the sort." The chapter's authors, he said, "engaged in a robust, good faith discussion of what the level of certainty was." Mr. Mann also noted that his original 1998 hockey-stick paper stressed the uncertainties involved in reconstructing past temperatures.
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Some researchers continued to feel pressure to boil down science as work began on the IPCC's fourth major report, published in 2007. Things that are "very difficult to quantify must be quantified to keep the policy makers happy," Mr. Alley, the geoscientist, who teaches at Penn State, said in an interview. "It's a very frustrating thing."

Mr. Alley walked that tightrope in helping write the chapter covering his specialty: the degree to which massive Greenland and antarctic ice sheets might melt, raising sea levels. The problem, he said: "Ice-sheet models are not very good."

Many conversations with policy makers—including Mr. Gore, the senators in Greenland and Christian Gaudin, a French senator—left the clear impression that "we scientists had better get better numbers," said Mr. Alley, adding that he understands their desire for detail.

So the scientists put numbers into the 2007 study, along with a big caveat—what Mr. Alley calls a "punt." The study took into account things like glacier melt in most of the world, but it noted that it excluded what's happening in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which "we can't predict," Mr. Alley said.

Inevitably, Mr. Alley said, some people have cited the numbers without that caveat.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Gore said he understands the uncertainties, and that he pointed out in statements "that there was essentially an asterisk" on the 2007 report's sea-level projections. "As he understands the situation from the ice-science community, the uncertainty in sea level applies in both directions," meaning sea-level rise could be greater or smaller than projected, her statement said.

[Alarmist Tom Yulsman: Not happy that some South Dakota politicians are standing up against the greatest scientific fraud in human history] | CEJournal

“If you’re going to teach science and there are two sides, you need to teach both, or it’s about politics,” said Republican state Rep. Don Kopp, quoted in the Rapid City Journal.

As if the highly politicized resolution this politician championed as part of an obvious exercise in political theater with no practical ramifications other than politics is actually has something to do with the sanctity of science and teaching.

Too cold and snowy where you live? Try Nuuk, Greenland [where it is also cold and snowy] | CEJournal

It’s snowing here in Boulder. Again. The Northeast is getting pummeled with yet another blizzard. And a whopper of storm is barreling down on California, promising to bring three feet of snow to elevations above 7,000 feet.

So if you’re a bit weather weary and looking for a nice get-away, consider Nuuk on the west coast of Greenland (the second orange dot), where even at nearly 11 p.m. this evening it was a balmy 30 degrees with only light snow showers.

[Note that Nuuk's high of 33F yesterday fell only 17 degrees short of the temperature there six years ago]

50 °F (2004)

American Thinker: We Are Being Governed by the Elite? Oh, Really?

Every now and then you should remember that the "elites" designed, built and controlled the course and speed of the Titanic. The "elites" designed the Maginot Line, and look how well that worked out for France. Mandarins dreamed up the Great Wall of China. How many waves of Mongol invaders did that actually stop?

Remember these things when you think about the "elites" designing, building, and controlling our healthcare.

Remember these things when you think about the "educated classes" designing, building, and controlling the program that they claim will protect us from global warming. Or deciding how much CO2 we can exhale.

American Thinker: Citizen Cadres of Conservatism

Whatever the devotionals of their secular faith in blind power, these perennial insiders are almost always wrong. Global warming is a grand, malicious fraud? So what!

American Thinker: Congress, Toyota, and CAFE Standards

A 1999 USA Today analysis of crash data found that since CAFE went into effect in 1978, 46,000 people died in crashes they otherwise would have survived. That equates to roughly 7,700 deaths for every mile per gallon gained in fuel economy standards.

Giant iceberg 'could change weather patterns' | Herald Sun

AN iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said.
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The 2550 sq km block broke off on February 12 or 13 from the Mertz Glacier Tongue, a 160km spit of floating ice protruding into the Southern Ocean from East Antarctica due south of Melbourne, researchers said.

Some 400m thick, the iceberg could fill Sydney Harbour more than 100 times over.
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The billion-tonne mass was dislodged by another, older iceberg, known as B9B, which split off in 1987.

Jammed against the Antarctic continent for more than 20 years, B9B smashed into the Metz tongue like a slow-motion battering ram after it began to drift.
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Adrift, they could melt in a could of decades. If they remain lodged against the Antarctic landmass, they could persist far longer.

The Migrant Mind: Worldwide Inability to measure temperature

Temperatures for the UK show the same problem as for the US and China.

The FP Guide to Climate Skeptics | Foreign Policy : CHRISTINA LARSON, JOSHUA KEATING

The field of climate science is under duress, which is wholly different than saying it's discredited. While recent headlines about the woes of U.N.-led efforts to assemble a comprehensive picture of the science have caused gleeful headlines on The Drudge Report and other skeptical media outlets, the vast weight of the evidence -- from melting glaciers to warming oceans to satellite temperature readings, and much more -- still points to a changing climate caused by human activity.  [How, exactly, does any of this "evidence" point to a human cause?]

So why have we heard so much lately about climate-science controversies?

Media Auto Defects - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

By shorting together two normally independent throttle pedal sensors, Gilbert demonstrated that a Toyota Avalon throttle would go wide open regardless of the driver's input. But, as the technically reliable Autoblog.com explains, this only proved “that Gilbert was able to create a fault condition that could never happen without human intervention. To imply otherwise is unethical on the part of both ABC and Mr. Gilbert.”

As with global warming, the MSM has abandoned objective reporting on auto-safety issues. And as with global warming, a growing alternative media in talk radio, blogs, and opinion pages have assumed the role of hard reporting.

Easy, Cheap ‘Green’ Energy? Just the Reverse! — MasterResource

...The biggest price increases would be seen in fuel costs (to the tune of nearly 500 percent for electricity and natural gas) but would also be significant in food costs (20 to 30 percent) and transportation.
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Supporters of greenhouse gas controls often portray them as cheap and easy. But they must resort to economic models that rely on dubious assumptions of future rates of technology development and market penetration. A more straightforward input-output models suggest greenhouse gas controls will be anything but cheap, and they certainly won’t be easy. However, even small steps toward carbon rationing are proving to be unaffordable and politically dubious.

Reality bats last in the energy debate.

The IPCC's carcass by Will Alexander, S. African UN Scientist | Climate Realists

Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) was the blood that circulated through the veins of climate change science and kept it alive. In the short space of four months it has been shown that the globe ceased warming in 1995. Climate change science is dead.

The recent news was a great relief to those of us who have spent many hours of our lives searching in vain for the proclaimed consequences of climate change. We can now relax while watching the predators devouring the climate change carcass. See the attached and previous memos for details.