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William M. Briggs, Statistician » Guest Post by Paul “Population Bomb” Ehrlich: Fight the Climate Skeptic Conspiracy!This is satire
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Hi, I’m scientist Paul Ehrlich. You might remember me from such failed predictions as “Everybody’s Going to Die by 1984!” and “Tin to Become More Precious than Water!”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More on WindForget all of the studies for a moment. I used to operate power plants. Any traditional capacity (fossil fuel, nuclear) except perhaps gas turbines takes on the order of a day or more to start up – if you don’t take that long, the thermal stresses alone will blow the whole place up. During the whole startup and shutdown, and through any “standby” time, the plant is burning fuel. Since we don’t have a good wind energy storage system, some percentage of wind capacity must be backed up with hot standby, because it can disappear in an instant. We are learning now, contrary to earlier assumptions, that wind speeds can be correlated pretty highly over wide geographies, meaning that spreading the wind turbines out does not necessarily do a lot to reduce the standby needs. And since plant startups take time, even gas turbines take some time to get running, the percentage of wind power that required hot backup is pretty high — I would love to find this percentage.
I found at least one source for such a percentage, which posits that for England, the percentage of hot backup needed is as high as 80%...
[We're saved: Suzy Amis Cameron to wear "eco-dress"!] : NPRAccording to the Web site, Ecouterre.com, the dress is made from what's sometimes known as ahimsa, or "peace silk," a material spun from cocoons without killing the worms inside.
The Gore-man ShowIn many ways, Al Gore and his colleagues of the “man-made climate change” community have engineered a scam of a show much like Christof did to Truman. Originally coined “man-made global-warming,” Gore and his friends at the Climate Change Unit at the University of East Anglia have been creating a completely false world based on fraudulent data and lies to cover the facts.
Colorado: Legislature OKs senator's energy bill“Global warming is a hoax. I'll go as far as to say that," said Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley.
WeatherAction offers to fill the gap as Met Office admits failure of seasonal forecasts; and calls on Met Office and politicians to give up Global Warming ‘Religion’ | Climate RealistsClick source to read FULL report from Piers Corbyn and WeatherAction.com
BBCW: Carnahan Wind Farms: Robin Carnahan's Family to Benefit From Stimulus MoneyThe Carnahan family through brother Tom has applied for $90 million in stimulus money for his wind farm. This is money the Carnhans will benefit from, that will enslave more American families to higher taxes.
CEOs seek firm signal on climate change [hoax] policy(Reuters) - Global leaders in the energy business say they want some certainty in U.S. climate policy to encourage development of new technologies and other investment, but they do not expect federal legislation to pass this year.
How will David Cameron keep the lights on? - TelegraphNeither of the main parties seems to have any idea how we are to meet the looming shortfall in power, warns Christopher Booker.
"Real"Climate: [You should be "frightened" by trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas]CO2 is plenty to be frightened of, while methane is frosting on the cake. Imagine you are in a Toyota on the highway at 60 miles per hour approaching stopped traffic, and you find that the brake pedal is broken. This is CO2. Then you figure out that the accelerator has also jammed, so that by the time you hit the truck in front of you, you will be going 90 miles per hour instead of 60. This is methane. Is now the time to get worried? No, you should already have been worried by the broken brake pedal. Methane sells newspapers, but it’s not the big story, nor does it look to be a game changer to the big story, which is CO2.
Business & Technology | Frigid Fla. winter is bad news for tomato lovers"Anecdotally, from talking to some real long timers, as well as people who watch the weather, this has been the most extended cold in maybe 60 years," said Terry McElroy, spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture.
Twitter / David RobertsJim DeMint: Graham "isn't going to vote for the House cap™ bill." He's trying to "pull a few Dems our way” on nukes & drilling.
American Thinker: (Honorary) Dr. Al GoreAnd that's just one of his three houses. Gore also has places in Carthage, Tennessee and in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. Between his electric and gas utility bills, Al spends more than $40,000 per year on just the Nashville house's energy.
American Thinker: Theories, Facts, and 'Denialism'The psychological term for attributing one's own trickery and failings onto others is "Projection."
This describes "Denialism" perfectly: projection of the dishonest, illiberal, and anti-intellectual tactics of the Enviro-Inquisition onto those "eco-heretics" who dare to question, however politely and intelligently, these dedicated adherents of the One True Faith.
This corruption of science is an object lesson to the rest of us never to hesitate to look with a gimlet eye at those who are more skilled in the use of invective than rational argument. The truth need not express itself with a sneer.
American Thinker: Activist ScienceThe earth's inhabitants are asked to forgo their prosperity, security, and even survival on the basis of an inconclusive and doubtful scientific "consensus." The public is now aware of the fact that it has been conned, and it is time to move toward the next logical step: the undoing of millions of pages of laws, regulations, and restrictions on those industries upon which life and well-being depend.
The green god is deadGiven recent climate frauds, it is clear that partisan ideologies and cultish environmentalism have replaced prudent science and economic realities in climate policy. What is also clear is that environmentalism no longer offers any product or service in support of our future security and prosperity. Militant environmentalism and green-obsessed bureaucrats have become an “axis of antagonism” that we can no longer afford. Yes, the Green God has died from its own hubris and corruption. May it, and its extremists, rest in peace.
Parliamentary Inquiry into Climategate: Expert Evidence | Energy & EnvironmentYou can get an insider's view of part of the English Parliament's investigation of scientific misconduct at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) by reading this written submission of evidence to that investigation by Dr. Ross McKitrick , a professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and contributor to the Cornwall Alliance's A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming. If anybody tells you the emails and computer code released from CRU last November are a tempest in a teapot and seem significant only if taken out of context, send him to this. The case for intentional deception is overwhelming.
Why not [tell people that riding a train prevents bad weather?] | GristIn short, if you want to gain popular support for a climate bill, rather than rely on the back room deal making that has failed so miserably, there is a strong political argument for focusing on public investment, like trains and subsidies for weather sealing and insulation, and on regulations like the CAFE rules.
Cold snap puts tomato farmers in deep freeze - Business - SunHerald.comForty degrees might not sound too terribly cold, but for a vulnerable tomato crop in Florida, that can be the frosty kiss of death. It also translates into higher prices for wholesalers, retailers, restaurants and consumers.
“It’s a mess,” said Mike Alise, division president of Gulf Coast Produce in Biloxi. “For tomatoes to be in the $50, $55, $60 per crate range — I’ve seen cold snaps over the years, but this could be the worst.”
The California Majority Report // Mayor Villaraigosa Comes Out Swinging Against AB 32 Repeal"We are currently in the midst of a global climate change crisis that is not only a threat to our environment, but our economic and job markets as well,” Mayor Villaraigosa said. “Here in California, we have always been leaders and activists and I am deeply proud that we have taken aggressive steps to combat climate change head-on with environmental initiatives and legislation such as AB 32. This piece of legislation spurs innovation, job creation, and reduces public health costs related to climate change while encouraging investment in renewable energy, clean technology and the new green workforce.
“We cannot afford to lose sight of the progress we have made because large, out-of-state companies are more interested in lining their pockets with profits than protecting our environment."
Al Gore Appears : Note to Warmers; No More Do-Overs! | MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-TheoryAl Gore made an appearance on a Norwegian television program last night. (approx. 40 min. in, 42 to skip chit-chat) A more impressive move would have been to have accepted the invitation to appear before the US Senate, which could conceivably lead to criminal charges. [Gore says: "There has been a very large organized campaign to try to convince people that it's not real...In my country, the oil and coal companies spent $500 million last year just on television advertising on these questions..There are now five anti-climate lobbyists on Capitol Hill in Washington for every single member of the House and Senate"]
In Denial[Steven F. Hayward] The meltdown of the climate campaign.
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“In the final [post-problem] stage,” Downs concluded, “an issue that has been replaced at the center of public concern moves into a prolonged limbo—a twilight realm of lesser attention or spasmodic recurrences of interest.” The death rattle of the climate campaign will be deafening. It has too much political momentum and fanatical devotion to go quietly. The climate campaigners have been fond of warning of catastrophic “tipping points” for years. Well, a tipping point has indeed arrived—just not the one the climate campaigners expected.
The lingering question is whether the collapse of the climate campaign is also a sign of a broader collapse in public enthusiasm for environmentalism in general. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, two of the more thoughtful and independent-minded figures in the environmental movement, have been warning their green friends that the public has reached the point of “apocalypse fatigue.” They’ve been met with denunciations from the climate campaign enforcers for their heresy. The climate campaign has no idea that it is on the cusp of becoming as ludicrous and forlorn as the World -Esperanto Association.
The global warming alarmists: Christopher BookerGlacial melting, rainforest and crop failures, extreme weather, rising seas: 'Isolated' events that together comprise the 'warmist' message
There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: The Great Peer-Review Fairy Tale...Chapter 5, from Working Group 3's report - which I randomly chose to examine next - is far worse. Only 61 of the 260 references relied on in that chapter have their feet firmly planted in peer-reviewed literature – an abysmal 24 percent. Put another way, three-quarters of the material cited there is grey literature.
Manmade global warming is a fact - Letters, Opinion - Independent.ieClimate change deniers can’t understand that there are numerous factors influencing the earth’s climate, both natural and caused by man, and the existence of one does not disprove the existence of others.
» ‘Symbolic’ Wind Turbines Generating More P.R. Than Power - Big Government“They’re basically for public relations, educational purposes. They’re just not feasible for any significant amount of electrical generation,” said Dan Voss, Municipal Utilities Director for the City of Anoka.
Methane from frozen seabeds could accelerate global warming, new research suggests – Telegraph BlogsIt may just be one of the most ominous bits of evidence yet that global warming could run out of control.
Top 10 Global Warming Denier Arguments Debunked: Part 1 | EcoSalonRaging wildfires, extreme water scarcity, expanding deserts, changing ecosystems. Heatwave deaths, the spread of deadly mosquito-borne diseases, growing dead zones in the oceans, death of healthy trees and other vegetation, coral extinction. War. Climate refugees. That’s only a small fraction of the projected consequences, but it’s surely more than enough.
Heavy snow blasts New York: Snowiest month in city's history / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.comAround other snow-pelted areas around Big Slushy Apple, it was just as bad, if not worse. Harriman, N.Y., dug out from 32 inches of snow, West Milford, N.J., had 28 inches of snow, and Monroe, N.Y., had 31 inches. And, that’s before the drifts, which some people said were seven feet high.
Noise complaints about one in six wind farms - TelegraphE. On, the energy company that runs the wind farm, said it has introduced a "noise reduction monitoring reduction system" that turns off the turbines when they turn in a certain direction in order to resolve the problem.
But David Brierley, a retired policeman who also lives nearby, said there is still a problem. He described the noise as like a train that never arrives or a helicopter landing outside.
"It is a horrendous situation," he added.
Al Gore's global warming claims aren't fooling Americans | tennessean.com | The TennesseanGore and his ilk increasingly resemble the old Japanese soldier who continued to resist surrender on a South Pacific island for three decades after the emperor had called it a day. Al, the war's over. Thousands of legitimate climate scientists have blown your cover. Evidence can be found in Lawrence Solomon's book The Deniers about the "world-renowned scientists who stood up against global-warming hysteria, political persecution and fraud."
For decades, our education and media elite have foisted the false religion of Earth worship on us. The fact that global warming is at the bottom of Americans' list of concerns indicates they get it; and that's a testament to their native intelligence.
The Canadian Sentinel: Climate 'Scientists' Drop Pretense, Get Political, IdeologicalOh, well, they've got too much invested in the Big Lie, in the Scam of the Century... to just give up, so they go for broke, double or nothing, bet it all...
Boucher wants EPA to delay greenhouse gas regulations - Kingsport Times-News OnlineU.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., has introduced legislation to suspend for two years action by the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
How Lindsey Graham Works the White House - Newsweek.comMost Republicans claim global warming is not an urgent threat. Hedging, Graham says he's not sure, but thinks either way it's common sense that pollution is a problem.
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When he sat down with a group of 30 tea partiers at his office in the Russell Building this winter, the conversation was anything but friendly. The activists castigated him for buying into global warming; Graham shot back that there would be plenty of jobs in green technology. "Nobody in the room was buying it," says Randy Simpson, a tea-party organizer.
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As the questions at the meeting in his office grew more hostile, Graham had finally had enough. If they didn't like the way he was doing his job, he told his guests with an aw-shucks smile, they could vote him out of office. In 2014.
Vocal Minority: Failed "Scientist" Paul Ehrlich Among AGW Alarmists Swiping at SkepticsIt isn’t the alarmists but rather the skeptics who are concerned with battling unbeatable big-monied interests.
Every one of these charges are absurd, not only because they are wrong, but also because each and every one of them is a perfect characterization of themselves! In other words, this is a textbook example of projection—one of the two official defense mechanisms of the Democrat Party (the other is denial).
C3: Medieval Warming In The Andes: Glacier Ice Core Reveals Southern Hemisphere Warmth Greater Than Modern TempsGlobal warming scientists claimed that current warming has been "unprecedented" over the past 2,000 years. This claim has no scientific basis as the overwhelming paleoclimate research has proven that the Medieval Warming Period was warmer, and it it was a global phenomenon as this ice core from the Andes indicates.
Scientists misread data on global warming controversy - USATODAY.com"Very few professions enjoy the level of confidence from the public that scientists do, and those numbers haven't changed much in a decade," [polling expert Jon Krosnick of Stanford University] says. "We don't see a lot of evidence that the general public in the United States is picking up on the (University of East Anglia) e-mails. It's too inside baseball."
So to try to see what is happening, Krosnick and colleagues tried a new approach to a standard polling question, "What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?" In a September survey of 906 adults, they asked the question in different ways:
•When asked, without being given any examples of problems, 0% mentioned global warming, but 52% mentioned jobs or the economy.
Climate change debate grows heated - latimes.comSan Diego television station KUSI recently trotted out a global warming documentary rife with old canards. One purports that increasing carbon dioxide really amounts not to a threat but to a sort of 21st century Miracle-Gro, building block for a greener, more fertile, planet Earth. That humdinger had been exposed in the 1990s as part of a coal industry strategy defending CO2-belching power plants.
iowahawk: Your Money or Your GovernmentImagine now, if you dare, the fate that I may choose for you: first your vaunted health care bill will die, unreconciled, leaving you with a primitive 2009-level medical system. Trillions of dollars of your life-giving fiscal stimulus will go unspent, throwing tens of your countrymen out of work. Your 'Smart Diplomacy' peace partnership initiatives will go uncommunicated, resulting in discomfort and ill ease among the international community!
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True, your irritating Agent EPA9 penetrated my secret Arctic ice fortress and foiled my ingenious plot to flood the global market with an endless supply of $0.69 gasoline. And yes, he also detonated my Earth Orbiting Climate Destructo-Satellite, mere seconds before it would have raised your global winter temperatures by 2 degrees.
The Unbearable Lightness of Solar Power - William Tucker - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineThe article features a dramatic photo of 500 acres of solar panels sitting next to an innocuous looking natural gas plant in Indiantown, Fla., owned by Florida Power & Light. The natural gas plant — which occupies no more than 15 acres — produces 3,800 megawatts of reliable electricity. The gigantic 500-acre solar complex next to it (that’s about three-quarters of a square mile) will produce 75 MW of electricity AT ITS MAXIMUM, i.e., on a hot summer afternoon.
EU Referendum: The awakening"To the greens who accuse me of treachery I say this: we do not have a moral obligation to support all forms of renewable energy, however inefficient and expensive they may be. We do have a moral obligation not to be blinded by sentiment. We owe it to the public, and to our credibility, to support the schemes which work, fairly and cheaply, and reject the schemes which cost a fortune and make no difference."
So writes Moonbat, defending his earlier position against the feed-in tariff for solar energy.
For Lighting, an Exception to ‘Buy American’ - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comThe Department of Energy has waived a “buy American” requirement for government projects receiving money from last year’s stimulus bill so that recipients can purchase energy-efficient lighting products for public buildings and roadways.
The department issued the waiver after determining that products like compact fluorescent light bulbs and traffic signals made with light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are manufactured almost exclusively in China and Mexico.
Swedes call out Jones on data availability « Watts Up With That?Climate scientist delivers false statement in parliament enquiry
Ancient Sea-levels Rewrite Ice Age Transitions | The Resilient EarthThe fact is, recent sea-levels have been remarkably stable.
That buys a lot of baas | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogIt is estimated that governments in Australia will spend at least $800 million this financial year on climate change research.
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[Alarmist Stephen H. Schneider] Will the media have the fortitude to take this on--I'm betting a resounding "yes!". Please don't make me miss yet another prediction!@#$% I have to live with cooling to warming "flipflop" every day, phony as that frame is given the history in Chapter 1 of my book.
Klaus warns of environmentalism while on visit to USA - ČeskéNoviny.cz"Environmentalism and its most extreme version, global warming alarmism, asks for an almost unprecedented expansion of government intrusion and intervention into our lives and of government control over us," Klaus said in a speech he delivered to the conservative Club for Growth.
'Snowball Earth': Glaciers, ice packs once met at Equator • The RegisterAmerican boffins say they have discovered evidence that almost the entire world was covered in sea ice and glaciers at certain points in the remote past, during so-called "snowball Earth" periods where the polar ice sheets met at the Equator.
Climategate: Alarmist Scientists Plan a Snow Job | GlobalWarming.orgThe Competitive Enterprise Institute has independently obtained copies of the e-mails. A list of excerpts, with descriptive headlines written by me, can be found below. The entire file of e-mails has been posted as a PDF and can be read here.
In my view, the response of these alarmist scientists to the Climategate scientific fraud scandal has little to do with their responsibilities as scientists and everything to do with saving their political position. The e-mails reveal a group of scientists plotting a political strategy to minimize the effects of Climategate in the public debate on global warming.
Thursday, March 4, 2010: Gore in Oslo to promote his latest climate fraud bookGore concluded the launch with a kick to the politicians: - What is lacking now is political will - but remember that political resources are renewable resources.
An emailer wrote:
On this same day, approximately 275 miles to the east, around 50 ships and more than 1,100 passengers were stuck in the ice between Stockholm and the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea. The amount of ice in northern Baltic Sea is being described as the worst in 15 years.
Richard Littlemore | Canabalizing Environmentalism: Tzeporah Berman under attackStainsby was all fired up, questioning Berman's environmental bona fides and calling her "a Trojan horse" whose true purpose was to "hand all power over to corporations." As proof, Stainsby said that "Ms. Berman actually gave an award to (BC Premier) Gordon Campbell at the Copenhagen talks. While hundreds of thousands of people were in the streets being tear-gassed and arrested, she was on the other side of the picket line giving an award over on the basis of the carbon tax."
EU Referendum: Farting cows onlineHaving toiled hard and diligently, our man now takes a little time out for some modelling, buying up a 1999-2004 package on "UK Pollution climate modelling" (AQ01510) for £1,224,641, a 1998-2001 package on "Pollution climate modelling" (AQ02501) for £127,549, a 2004-2009 "UK Pollution Climate Modelling" (AQ0622) package for £2,550,258 and one covering 2007-11 entitled "Modelling tropospheric ozone - phase II" (AQ0704), for a mere £1,009,291. That adds £4,911,739 to the shopping basket, bringing it to £12,039,277.
[We're saved!]: Poland Sells $41 Million in Emission Credits to Japan (Update3) - BusinessWeekPoland suffered a slump in industrial production after the collapse of communism 20 years ago, leaving it with about 500 million excess permits, the world’s third-largest surplus. They are valued at about 4 billion euros, Kraszewski said in a radio interview last month. He said he’d be “delighted” if Poland sold as much as 1 billion euros of AAUs through 2012.
UN Carbon [Swindle] Board ‘Concerned’ as Offset Prices Slump (Update1) - BusinessWeekThe price of UN carbon credits, which governments and companies can purchase to offset their emissions of greenhouse gases, are languishing at a fraction of the 100 euros ($136) that David King, the U.K. government’s former chief scientific adviser, says is necessary to “de-carbonize” the economy.
[Are these people all gun-clinging, cousin-marrying, Bible-banging Glenn Beck fans?]: Japan: Hatoyama Says Dissent Has ‘Almost Gutted’ Climate Bill Draft - BusinessWeekThe current draft has “almost been gutted” because of dissent, Hatoyama told an Upper House budget committee meeting broadcast on NHK television yesterday.
Japan’s Draft Climate Bill Omits Mandatory Limit on Emissions - BusinessWeekMarch 3 (Bloomberg) -- Draft legislation for a new Japanese climate bill omits mention of a limit on emissions by industry, a sign Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s government may retreat from an earlier promise to start a cap-and-trade system.
C3: The "Gold" Standard Has Become The "Crap" Standard: More Evidence That UN & IPCC Should Not Be Involved With Climate ScienceThe revelations of IPCC scientific incompetence just keep on coming. How any rational, objective person could still maintain that the UN/IPCC effort could be rehabilitated is beyond comprehension. There is no doubt now that the UN/IPCC global warming product (propaganda?) is the antithesis of solid and accurate science.
Pajamas Media » Climategate: ‘The Science is Settled,’ They Told CopernicusThe tactics of Al Gore and the AGW crowd ("No need to check the evidence! There's a consensus!") mirror the pseudo-arguments used to defend the Earth-centric model in 1543.
Kim Strassel: Carbon Caps Through the Backdoor - WSJ.comThus does an unaccountable political body, advised by unaccountable green groups, fundamentally rewrite the rules of business. Many state governors and politicians remain in the dark about this back door power grab. If they want a say in how their states enforce climate policy on the business community, they might want to intervene soon.
World Climate Report » European StormsTwo new articles are out that further confirm that global warming will not be causing mid-latitude winter storms to become some new destructive result of the greenhouse effect.
The man who was always wrong defends global warmingWhat's interesting to speculate on is why Schneider is even exchanging emails with Ehrlich on this, apart from the fact that they are both working at Stanford, which received $100 million for environmental studies from... Exxon. Why would anyone want Ehrlich on their team?
MUST SEE: George Monbiot and James Delingpole on climate change, BBC Daily Politics Show | Climate RealistsClimate change guru George Monbiot takes on sceptic James Delingpole who writes for the Daily Telegraph.
Hydrothermal vents discovered off AntarcticaScientists at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre life forms drawn to these extreme environments.
Hydrothermal vents spew volcanically heated seawater [can they warm as much Antarctic seawater as my northern-hemisphere iPod charger?] from the planet's underwater mountain ranges -- the vast mid-ocean ridge system, where lava erupts and new crust forms. Chemicals dissolved in those vents influence ocean chemistry and sustain a complex web of organisms, much as sunlight does on land. In recent decades more than 220 vents have been discovered worldwide, but so far no one has looked for them in the rough and frigid waters off Antarctica.
The Reference Frame: Methane and warmingRecall, once again, that the gas only survives in the atmosphere for 10 years or so. Even if the Siberian Arctic methane emissions increased by a factor of 100, for unpredictable reasons, it would still not be a problem. Everyone who puts his face into a worried shape because of this "issue" is an irrational sourball.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » E-mails from National Academy of Sciences plot attacks on AGW skepticsAnd besides, a $50,000 back-page ad in the New York Times isn’t going to reach people inclined towards skepticism on AGW anyway. Do these scientists realize who reads the Gray Lady? The only people impressed by an ad in the NYT will be the Times’ business office.
Forbes.com - Weather Hype, Climate TripeExtreme cold and blizzards have long been exploited by warmists. Thirteen years ago the cover of the Jan. 22 Newsweek read, "Blizzards, floods & hurricanes: Blame global warming." The New York Times carried a front-page article headlined "Blame global warming for the blizzard," and a nationally syndicated article by environmentalist Jessica Matthews ran under titles such as "Brrr, global warming brings our blizzard."
Patrick Keeney: Trust us, we're experts - Full CommentWith so many astonishing claims resting on science of such dubious quality, the only rational response is healthy skepticism. And this is now more or less the case across a broad and increasing spectrum of the public.
C3: Tsunami Models, Significantly Less Complex Than Climate Models, Fail Miserably After Chile QuakeThe tsunami models are multiple degrees less complex than climate models and yet they too failed big-time after the major quake off Chile. These tsunami models had just one assignment and they still couldn't get it done.
Businesses failing to recycle - TelegraphThe Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spent £240 million between 2005 and 2008 on encouraging businesses to cut waste. The money was spent on raising awareness, training managers and developing easier ways to recycled.
But a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found the 200 million tonnes of waste from construction and industry only fell by 11 per cent during the period.
[How, specifically, is this percentage calculated?]: 95 per cent chance that Man is to blame for global warming, say scientists - Times OnlineThe study, by senior scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre, Edinburgh University, Melbourne University and Victoria University in Canada, concluded that there was an “increasingly remote possibility” that the sceptics were right that human activities were having no discernible impact. There was a less than 5 per cent likelihood that natural variations in climate were responsible for the changes.
The Reference Frame: Met Office claims to have found the AGW fingerprintYes, ladies and gentlemen, exactly 100 days after the AGW alarmism largely collapsed, the Met Office just found the fingerprints of Man imprinted everywhere in the climate. Because there hadn't been any fingerprints before the paper, we must ask: How did they realize this ambitious goal? ;-)
A Bright, Shining Green Lie - Rich Lowry - National Review OnlineHome weatherization has neither created many jobs nor weatherized many homes.
EU Referendum: Five times the cost of the Manhattan ProjectIf we take all the Annex 1 countries, the sum expended must be well over $100 billion.
That, in terms of equivalent spending, is about five times the cost of the wartime Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb – then the most expensive ever project. It rather puts the current effort in perspective, especially as we seem to have very little to show for it, other than a very large number of academics bought and paid-for by the climate change lobby.
EU Referendum: They just don't get itAfter all these years, they have been completely submerged in their own propaganda, to the extent that they cannot drag themselves free of it. Global "warming" is not and cannot be an "observable" fact. The very concept of a global temperature is an artefact, and the recorded figures are statistical constructs – of extremely dubious provenance.
The more they struggle to deny that their religion is a belief system, the more evident it becomes that that is precisely what it is.
Slow warming now makes predictions about 2100 less likelyEvery year that passes with a lower rate of warming makes long range predictions of severe temperature rises much less likely.
Comment by Bill Gray, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University on Kerry Emanuel’s Boston Globe (15 February 2010) Op/Ed piece titled “Climate Changes Are Proven Fact.” | Climate RealistsThis piece has many inaccuracies, and in my view, is not a positive contribution to the global warming debate for the reasons I present in my rebuttal of various Emanuel statements.
Gutting the credibiltiy of question? « the Air VentI’m curious how they will gut the credibility of people who question the science conclusions, while simultaneously hiding, modifying, and suppressing inconvenient data and exaggerating results. This should be a really special trick. My guess is that planning a fifty thousand dollar ad in a left wing paper won’t have that big an effect. It would make a fun blog post though, which we can then use to mock it — for free.
Only in climate science can this be considered true genius.
Just Your Typical Interview on Scientific Issues.. | Climate SkepticCan you imagine an interview of, say, James Hansen that asked things like
* Do you have any doubts about the Bush National Guard memo’s publicized by Dan Rather?
* Would you vote for Ralph Nader for president?
* Are you an atheist?
* Who funds you?
* Are you willing to defend every statement Harrison Ford has made about global warming?
* Don’t you feel like you are anti-freedom?
The asymmetry of how skeptics are treated in the media is startling.
$100 Million in Stimulus Funds for Green Tech - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com“The idea is to get a whole ecosystem of innovative technologies,” said Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, which is managing the program.
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“Wind is sometimes on and sometimes off; you can’t predict it,” he said. “This intermittency is bad for the grid, when you can not fully utilize a renewable source.”
Climate Change and Its Causes, A Discussion About Some Key Issues by Nicola Scafetta | Climate RealistsA phenomenological theory of climate change based on the physical properties of the data themselves is proposed. At least 60% of the warming of the Earth observed since 1970 appears to be induced by natural cycles which are present in the solar system.
A climatic stabilization or cooling until 2030-2040 is forecast by the phenomenological model.
The Hockey Schtick: Gavin Schmidt's "Good Science" Part 2As the following email shows, the paper Gavin wrote for submission to BAMS (the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society), which was rejected twice by BAMS upon the unanimous recommendation of three peer reviews, was actually written because Gavin needed a single peer reviewed reference on this topic for purposes of debunking Dr. Richard Lindzen on Gavin's blog
IPCC doesn’t do research | CLIMATEGATERound of applause for Russia Today. They always seem to feed us the nitty-gritty that most American media is afraid to cover.
In this video, Pat Michaels of the CATO Institute states: IPCC doesn’t do research; it picks and chooses from scientific reports and environmental organizations “in order to create the reports that it wants to create.”
BBC News - Cameron declares war on climate changeAvatar director James Cameron has called for a mobilisation to tackle climate change, of a scale similar to that of World War II.
Ian McEwan: Failure at Copenhagen climate talks prompted novel rewrite | Environment | guardian.co.ukMcEwan told the Guardian he watched the outcome of the Copenhagen summit in December "very closely and with some despair" and then went back to his novel, Solar, to rewrite a section a few pages from the end.
Tomato prices soar - Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewAn unusually cold January in the Sunshine State ruined entire fields of tomatoes and forced farmers to delay their harvest.
The average wholesale price for a 25-pound box of tomatoes a year ago was $6.50. It's now $30.
The Heat Over Bubbling Arctic Methane - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comDespite portentous headlines — including one on the news release from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, saying “ Arctic seabed methane stores destabilizing…” — there is no evidence (yet) that what is happening is fundamentally new or destabilizing, at least according to some of the scientists most closely tracking levels and sources of this gas from the poles to the tropics.
Junk Science Begets Junk Lawsuits - Investors.comThe "science" grows demonstrably more bogus every day. Federal judges have the power right now to get rid of cases based on flimsy evidence. They can ban "junk science" like that involved in the New York, New Orleans and Alaska cases, and fine plaintiffs for bringing frivolous litigation.
Judges should not hesitate to use these tools to get rid of these cases promptly. The defendants, their shareholders and all of us who buy electricity and gasoline will be better off.
Green energy industry asks for £500m cash injection to meet targets | Business | The GuardianThe renewable power industry has warned that it needs £500m from the government over the next two years if it is to help ministers meet energy and climate change targets.
A fund for climate chaos | Kevin Watkins | Comment is free | The GuardianRBS investment in tar sand exploitation is a highly irresponsible use of public bailout money
How public trust in climate scientists can be restored | Chris Huntingford | Environment | The GuardianEffort should also be made to avoid statements on climate change that could, inadvertently, be perceived as scare-mongering.
Arctic sea ice: the data behind the climate change fightback visualised | News | guardian.co.uk[See the amusing statement: "Of three climate model projections, based on business as usual scenarios of economic growth and CO2 output, two predict that the Arctic will be nearly ice-free by 2060]
2007: Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?"The Arctic is screaming," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.
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Just last year two top scientists surprised their colleagues by projecting that the Arctic sea ice was melting so rapidly that it could disappear entirely by the summer of 2040.
This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: "At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions."
Romney: ‘Climate Change Is Occurring’ « The Washington IndependentIn “No Apology,” Mitt Romney sets himself up in the shrinking “climate change is happening but we don’t need a carbon tax” camp.
I believe that climate change is occurring — the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor.
E-Mails Show Scientists Planning Push-Back Against 'McCarthyite' Attacks on Climate [Junk] Science - NYTimes.com"We need to develop a relentless rain of science and scientific dialog on the incredible, destructive demagoguery that has invaded the airwaves, the news media and the public forum and has prevented a rational discussion about political solutions to human perturbations on the environment," wrote Paul Falkowski, a professor at Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
[But he's not even a climatologist!]: Paul G. FalkowskiThe Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology (EBME) Laboratory at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is an interdisciplinary, multi-user research facility designed to explore the application of biophysical and molecular biological techniques to a wide number of environmental processes in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The EBME program bridges physical and biological sciences in the context of understanding how biological systems function and evolve in the environment.
Obama talks jobs, energy in VA - First Read - msnbc.com[Obama] ...almost all the goods that are required to make homes more energy efficient are actually produced right here in the United States of America [where's the part about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced fiery floods?]
Al Jazeera English - Europe - Ice-trapped ferry returns to SwedenSweden has suffered an unusually harsh winter this year, with temperatures across the country almost continuously well below freezing since December.
Private Emails: Global Warming Believers Desperate, Plan RetaliationNevertheless, like the famous emperor of legend, they continue to insist that their new clothes are oh, so beautiful. Perhaps they feel they have no choice but to double-down (or just audaciously bluffing would be a more appropriate term?), since they’ve dug their grave so deep with their years-long train of tripe. They thought the average peons of the world were too stupid to see through their elitist blatherings, but it was they who were the fools. Now their house of cards is crashing down, and they are hysterical in their attempt to save some sort of face.
Not the great green rip-off, by George | Alan Simpson | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukThere is a strong case for having a full and open debate about what carbon emissions trading is going to deliver. My belief is that it is an intellectual and economic scam. The only people likely to benefit from creating a speculative market in a virtual commodity are the same speculators who have taken us into the current crisis.
Looming Climate Regulations Put EPA in Conservatives' Cross Hairs - NYTimes.com"In an attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a national energy tax by circumventing the legislative process, the EPA (with the backing of the Obama Administration) is pushing emission regulations which will destroy jobs and further impact our already struggling economy," Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a prominent conservative voice, wrote in a blog post this week on townhall.com.
Record-breaking cold this morning, cool day in store for Treasure Coast » FloridaOld Man winter isn’t finished with the Treasure Coast just yet.
This morning saw Vero Beach fall to 33 degrees, breaking the old record low of 37 set in 1999.
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Palm Beach International Airport registered 39 degrees, breaking the previous record low of 40 degrees set in 1971.
The Corbett ReportDate/Duration: 2010/03/04 / 30:51
Description: Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com joins us to discuss the Malthusian motives of the founders of the modern environmental movement including Paul Ehrlich and John P. Holdren.
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Global Warming Conference Heats Up in May 2010 - The Oregon CatalystSome 800 scientists, economists, public policy experts, opinion leaders, elected officials, and journalists are expected to attend the conference, which opens with a keynote address Sunday, May 16, and concludes Tuesday afternoon, May 18, at the Marriott Hotel on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago.
The Great Beyond: Mankind ‘responsible for climate change’ shockerA special prize goes to the Telegraph for its coverage. In a story about an analysis of a huge amount of published evidence, detailing the “many advances” in science that demonstrate climate change is driven by human activity, the paper manages to quote climate skeptic European politician Godfrey Bloom saying, “I have seen no published evidence that goes beyond a rather unlikely hypothesis that man caused global warming and it is getting thinner by the day.”
American Thinker Blog: New natural Climate change discovery in the ArcticAs AGW advocates employ various Rope-a-Dope survival strategies after the knockout barrage of Climategate, scientists have unearthed the existence of possibly another major contributor in the blame game of climate change which could trump all the previous bogeymen. The real cuplrit? Natural causes.
[Did carbon dioxide really cause those cracks in your foundation?] - NYTimes.comExtreme weather possibly linked to climate change, as well as construction on less stable ground, have provoked unprecedented foundation failures in houses nationwide.
Al's Journal : $2.2 Trillion!!!Every year the world’s largest companies cause $2.2 trillion in environmental damage to the planet and most of the time pick up none of the tab.
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More than half of this damage is caused by the emissions of greenhouse gasses. The longer we delay, the more it will cost future generations to clean up our mess.
Lawmakers Offer Bills to Suspend EPA Rules - WSJ.comOn Thursday, the EPA said in a written statement that it is still reviewing Mr. Rockefeller's proposal. The agency said "it is important to note that Sen. Rockefeller's bill, unlike Sen. Murkowski's resolution, does not attempt to overturn or deny the scientific fact that unchecked greenhouse gas pollution threatens the well-being of the American people—nor would it threaten" the EPA's proposal to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles.
EU Referendum: The ice floes of reality...there is nothing scientific in their method. These people are not scientists but advocates of a political cause. Thus we see them reacting in precisely that way, seeking funding to advertise their beliefs in the New York Times.
Little perhaps do they realise that, as they shed the scientific mantles behind which they have been cowering, and enter more fully the political arena, they will find that they have a deal in common with the Baltic shipping. The wind has changed and the ice floes of reality are bearing down upon them.
EU's 'carbon fat cats' get rich off trading scheme: studyEurope's system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent's biggest polluters, with ten firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth 500 million euros, a new report revealed.
Dominated by steel and cement makers, the same "carbon fat cats" stand to collect surplus CO2 permits that -- at current market rates -- could be worth 3.2 billion euros (4.3 billion dollars) by 2012, it said.
The Reference Frame: Ehrlich, Schneider et al.: preparing a pogrom against skepticsIn 1967, Paul Ehrlich predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s. Later, he updated his prediction and argued that most of the U.S. population would starve to death before 2000.
His whole career has been built on making absolutely preposterous statements of this kind.
Of course, he always had to suffer by the knowledge that most people have always realized that he is a kook, a lunatic obsessed with doomsdays, and a parasite on the Academic system.
Anthropogenic Global Warming, or just natural variation? | CLIMATEGATESo, if temperatures on several occasions during our current interglacial period have been higher than now, why this concern about global warming?
#18) INTERVIEW WITH MARC MORANO: PART II – Naming Names (Bill McKibben, Exxon Mobil, George Monbiot, Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe Romm, Dan Weiss, Robert Murtha, Mike Mann, Ed Begley, Jr., Andy Revkin, and Ralph Cicerone) | The Benshi[Check out this selection of questions from alarmist Randy Olson]:
RO: Okay, so let’s start with this — do you have doubts about President Obama’s birth certificate?
RO: Would you vote for Sarah Palin for president?
RO: Are you an anti-evolutionist?
RO: So who funds you?
RO: There are literally hundreds of celebrities on the global warming bandwagon. Are they all mis-informed? And why don’t you have any celebrities on the skeptics side?
RO: Last question. So you don’t feel that you’re anti-science?
Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach" to gut the credibility of skeptics.
A total of about 50 ships were stuck in ice along Sweden's eastern seaboard, said Johny Lindvall, who manages the maritime administration's ice breaker service. Heavy ice cover is not uncommon further north, but the ice rarely gets thick enough in the Stockholm archipelago to trap powerful passenger ferries like the Amorella.
Should Panelists Dismissive of Climate Change Be Included at Campus Forums? : Framing ScienceEilperin explained there is a difference between reporting on the science behind climate change and reporting on the political debate. She also cited President Barack Obama's focus on combating climate change as a possible reason why the issue of global warming is becoming more polarized.
"In our articles [in The Washington Post], we write the fact that the science is settled on that question," she said. "I think there's also the question of the political debate, which is different. It's one thing to . . . inform readers about the science concerning climate change, and it's another thing when you're actually covering in real time what's happening, and how there is a divide."
Methane seen as growing climate risk - washingtonpost.comWASHINGTON -- Methane, a potent global warming gas, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic faster than had been expected.
The Classroom as Science Hot Zone - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comI asked Anthony Leiserowitz at Yale about this, recalling that a recent survey he helped conduct of attitudes on climate, Six Americas, detected a strong tendency of those dismissing human-caused climate change to be evangelical Christians.
Flashback: [Since they don't buy into the climate hoax, can we conclude that most people in India are evangelical Christians?]The US and India, on the other hand, fall at the opposite end of the spectrum, with only 45% of the respondents in each of those countries concerned enough about climate change to consider it a very serious problem – far below the 23-country average of 64%.
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, March 4th 2010 « The Daily BayonetThe green movement is fracturing under the continued pressure of the truth about global warming, Al Gore wrote for the NYT and is widely ridiculed and British Columbia proves that green taxes can’t stop global warming. Also, in a Daily Bayonet exclusive, buy your Axis of Upheaval offsets, this week only.
PJTV - Trifecta - Unfit To Print: Al Gore's Epic OpEd FailWith his climate change empire about to fold like a house of cards, Gore runs to the New York Times with an op-ed called "We Can't Wish Away Climate Change." Unable to wish Gore away, the Trifecta crew takes to his editorial.
Brad Johnson (climatebrad) on TwitterInslee: "My colleagues are in planes every day held up by Newtonian physics, but ignore it for climate. It's frustrating!"
Inslee: "The guys working for tobacco 20 years ago now getting millions to pimp the idea a snowstorm in DC means 700 ppm is hunky dory"
Inslee: "We found out the IPCC report was wrong. It was wrong by not being alarmist enough" -- all new observations of melting, etc are bad
Inslee: "I think climate scientists are way too civilized, way too polite, way too quiet." #climate #cleanenergy
Blue Arkansas » Blog Archive » Arkansas Community Organization And Low Income Arkansans Take On Lincoln Over Climate ChangeArkansas Community Organization (what was once the Arkansas chapter of ACORN) is taking Lincoln to task over her opposition to finding a meaningful solution to climate change, specifically calling out her support for a move by Congress to exempt emissions from stationary sources of gasses, like coal-fired power plants, chemical plants, and manufacturing plants and illustrating a good point while they’re at it.
Man dies testing 'Survivor Man' wilderness skills - CTV NewsHis cause of death is still unknown, but Code's brother Stephen says OPP told him Richard died from hypothermia.
Idaho Legislature urges 'no' vote on cap and trade billThe Idaho Legislature is on its way to requesting the U.S. Congress to vote no on cap and trade legislation and reject efforts to use global warming as a pretext to increase federal revenues.
[Arkansas Democrat] Lincoln’s First TV Ad: Proud Vote Against Public Option, Cap And Trade | FDL News DeskIn the ad, Lincoln proudly cites her votes against “giving more money to Wall Street” (I think she means her vote against releasing more TARP funds in January), against the “auto company bailout,” against “public option health care” and against the cap and trade bill.
Memorandum submitted by John Graham-CummingI am a professional computer programmer who started programming almost 30 years ago. I have a BA in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford University and a DPhil in Computer Security also from Oxford. My entire career has been spent in computer software in the UK, US and France.
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1. Although the code I criticized on Newsnight was not the CRUTEM3 code the fact that the other code written at CRU was of low standard is relevant. My point on Newsnight was that it appeared that the organization writing the code did not adhere to standards one might find in professional software engineering. The code had easily identified bugs, no visible test mechanism, was not apparently under version control and was poorly documented. It would not be surprising to find that other code written at the same organization was of similar quality. And given that I subsequently found a bug in the actual CRUTEM3 code only reinforces my opinion.
Climate Progressive Joe Romm Ducks Debate - Hit & Run : Reason MagazineThe terms and venue couldn't be more favorable to Romm: The magazine Foreign Policy has agreed to host the debate in Washington, DC (Romm's home town) and the winner, as determined by vote of the audience, gets to donate a tidy sum to the charity of his choice.
Closing the Climategate: If Global Warming Were Dinosaur Science - 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Blog : NPRIt's not just someone sticking a thermometer out the window every year. Its ocean and atmospheric measurements, its glacier and sea ice data, its rainfall and hydrology studies, its patterns of habitat creation and destruction. All of it - studied intensively for decades by an army of researchers who make their living tearing each other's results apart - points to the undeniable fact that we have altered the many planetary systems which, together, define its climate. [How, specifically, do we know that trace amounts of carbon dioxide are the cause of everything that has been observed?]
C3: French Alps Peer-Research Provides More Evidence of Significant Medieval Warming & The Little Ice AgeAlthough the IPCC and its Climategate scientists tried mightily to rid the universe of the Medieval Warming Period, the continuing stream of paleo-climate research just confirms how idiotic that strategy was.
Joanne Simpson (1923-2010) « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.It is with sadness that I report on the passing of Joanne Simpson. Joanne is a giant in the science of weather and climate.
Flashback: Dr. Joanne Simpson turns heretic!One by one, an increasing trickle of climatologists is turning into a river of dissent against the political orthodoxy dominating the notion of man-made global warming. The HAFs might sneer at the likes of Steve McIntyre who never claims to be a meteorologist but they can hardly turn on the likes of Dr. Simpson who until very recently was pre-eminent in her field.
Barton Asks Clinton, Pachauri to Detail Taxpayer Funding of Climate PanelCongressman wants halt to U.S. contributions to IPCC pending full audit
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WASHINGTON – Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Joe Barton, R-Texas, today wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, asking for an accounting of U.S. taxpayer support for the panel.
Since fiscal year 1994, the United States has provided roughly $50 million to the panel. Contributions from the United States have more than doubled during the Obama administration, with additional spending proposed for the upcoming fiscal year.
NSIDC Confirms WUWT Ice Forecast « Watts Up With That?Compared to the best year for Arctic sea ice in the past decade, March 3rd this year looks quite solid. The setup for 2010 having more ice looks good.
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The Arctic continues to recover, and one of the last CAGW talking points continues to look weaker and weaker. It wasn’t very long ago when experts were forecasting the demise of Arctic ice somewhere between 2008 and 2013. And it is not the first time that experts have done this – they were claiming the same nonsense in 1969, right before the ice age scare.
YouTube - RussiaToday - Climate Panel Pile-Up: UN to double-check fuzzy researchUN looks to set a new panel overseeing the old one.. Body in question is the IPCC responsible for monitoring climate change. Lately it was accused of fuzzy research hyping the hysteria surrounding global warming.
Warning Signs: Energy Suicide: Unplugging AmericaThe purpose of cap-and-trade legislation, the next horror the Obama administration wants to foists on us, is to make the use of coal very expensive by claiming that it generates so much “greenhouse gas” that global warming is always just around the corner. This is no global warming and those greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, vital to all life on Earth as plant food.
[In case you missed it]: Bill McKibben: The Attack on Climate-Change Science Why It's the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First CenturyAnd here’s what’s odd. In 1989, I could fit just about every scientific study on climate change on top of my desk. The science was still thin. If my reporting made me think it was nonetheless convincing, many scientists were not yet prepared to agree.
Now, you could fill the Superdome with climate-change research data.
Valero, Tesoro Vow To Fight California Global Warming Laws - KTXLHowever, Day added in an e-mail that Valero had set up a website, www.voicesforenergy.org, "to educate consumers about the federal cap-and-trade legislation. Valero has been very outspoken about the dangers of these proposals and the fact that they would badly damage the economy while having no effect on climate change."
Let the AGW lawsuits begin | CLIMATEGATEWe aren’t only facing getting screwed by cap-and-trade schemes, we now need to worry about how much more the cost of these lawsuits will be taken out of the consumers’ (our) pockets.
Validity of the fossil fuel production outlooks in the IPCC Emission Scenarios | Energy BulletinIt is found that the SRES unnecessarily takes an overoptimistic stance and that future production expectations are leaning towards spectacular increases from present output levels. In summary, we can only encourage the IPCC to involve more resource experts and natural science in future emission scenarios. The current set, SRES, is biased toward exaggerated resource availability and unrealistic expectations on future production outputs from fossil fuels.
Live webcast today: How to Make the U.S. a Leader in the Clean Energy Economy « Climate ProgressVan Jones, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Founder, Green For All
ClimateGate corruption, stench 'overwhelming' (OneNewsNow.com)Marc Morano (GOP EPW)Climate Depot executive editor Mark Morano comments that Inhofe's report is very comprehensive.
"Senator Inhofe has alleged criminal activity on the parties," Morano notes. "He's calling for the head of the U.N. to testify, [and] he's calling for Al Gore to come back and defend his climate claims. This is a huge development because this is going to turn into testimony. You're going to have congressional hearings on this, investigations. It's going to keep it in the public eye."
The journalist finds it amazing how the mighty have fallen. "This was an insular industry that didn't answer to anyone," he comments, "and now they've been cracked open like an egg -- and the corruption and the stench is overwhelming."
Green-Jobs Fantasy - Iain Murray - National Review OnlineSen. Lindsey Graham picks up the standard for job-killing energy taxes.
EU Referendum: Only another millionShannon Love, over at Chicago Boyz picks up on the fatuity of basing our energy policy on "alternative energy".
"There exists no alternative energy source, no combination of alternative energy sources, and no system of combinations of alternative energy sources that can fully replace a single, coal fired electric plant built with 1930s era technology," she writes. "Yet many want to make this group of functionally useless technologies the primary energy sources for our entire civilization."
The theme is amplified by Wolf Howling, who makes more cogent points, referring also to this blog. We are voices in the wilderness.
More Hybrid Show Cars - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineTo go along with the Ferrari yesterday, Lotus has a hybrid, as does Porsche. Limousine liberalism at its finest..
Post Carbon: Rockefeller pushes to rein in EPA - Juliet EilperinSen. John D. Rockefeller (D-WVa.) will introduce legislation Thursday to impose a two-year moratorium on the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants and other stationary emitters, a move that could undermine the Obama administration's plan to pursue a cap on carbon emissions in the face of congressional opposition.
Obama advocates energy efficiency as job creator with ‘Cash for Caulkers’ program « Climate Progress “Now, we know this will save families as much as several hundred dollars on their utilities. We know it will make our economy less dependent on fossil fuels [how much less dependent?], helping to protect the planet for future generations. But I want to emphasize that HOME STAR will also create business and spur hiring up and down the economy,” said President Obama.
[But don't they emit carbon dioxide and methane?!]: Can Wild Bison Repopulate the Plains? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comAfter three years of meetings and study, a broad array of conservation groups, government scientists and other experts on North American wildlife policy have produced a road map for restoring some large free-roaming populations of bison in the North American plains.
Hurricane Katrina victims to sue oil companies over global warming - TelegraphVictims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the 2005 storm.
[Who gets the blame for this one?]The oldest and the worst cyclone on record is that of October 1737 which hit Calcutta and took a toll of 3,00,000 lives in the deltaic region. It was accompanied by a 12 metre high surge. A violent earthquake coinciding with this storm enhanced the destruction.
American Thinker: The Pathetic God of EnvironmentalismThe theological conclusion that follows from worshiping Mother Earth is that she is no god at all. She doesn't even have the power to defend herself from the CO2 that is emitted when we exhale.
The real gods of the environmentalists are the politicians and the scientists who believe that they can save the planet. Those who worship the environment should understand exactly who their gods are.
Twitter / raylevHobnobbing with some very impressive UCLA alumns at the "Climategate, Climate Change and California" presentation in San Francisco
Fear-mongering demagogue Al GoreAl Gore is not a serious person. He's a get-rich-quick artist who is peddling the biggest con game in the history of man.
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I'll tell you how we combat this: Al Gore needs to be the punch-line of more jokes.
And, later on this year, we have to throw out all of the bums who have partnered with him on selling this scam of manmade catastrophic climate change.
The day of reckoning is coming.
Where Has All the Carbon Gone? « the Air Vent[DeWitt Payne] Carbon is going missing. We know to a reasonable approximation how much carbon is being emitted to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel and land use changes. But the concentration in the atmosphere isn’t going up as fast as expected. Where is it going and what will be the long term effect? I don’t have the answer, but I’ve learned some things by looking at the data that weren’t obvious in relation to what I’ve previously read about the carbon cycle. This is important, because any strategy for stabilization of atmospheric CO2 is completely dependent on our understanding of the carbon cycle.
Flashback: Tom Segalstad on atmospheric CO2It is nature's coupling between the temporary, short-lived atmospheric reservoir, with 0.5 x 1017 moles CO2, and the relatively enormous oceanic reservoir, with 30 x 1017 moles of dissolved (and hydrolyzed and protolyzed) CO2 in contact with calcium carbonate, that determines the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. This coupling is in turn coupled to the much larger lithospheric reservoir. The rates and fluxes of the latter coupling control the amount of carbon in the surface reservoir of the Earth. All kinds of measurements show that the real residence time of atmospheric CO2 is about 5 years.
Our Lights Are On To Climate-Gate So Leave Your Lights On Saturday March 27th 8:30pm! :T.O.P.S. Paranormal BlogSaturday March 27th, at 8:30 pm, your time anywhere in the world, please join me and turn your lights ON in order to symbolize that you are aware of Climate-Gate.
Prosecuting climate fraud – 1 « TWAWKIProsecuting climate communism fraud. Countries typically have a constitution that is there to protect the rights and freedoms of its citizens. Most of those rights and freedoms are recurrently being violated and removed through the green fraud of AGW. People have had enough and are taking the fight to a new level – not only will we see the fall of political parties but many will quite likely go to jail for the ongoing carbon fraud of selling the hot air indulgences to allay peoples supposed climate guilt!
The Climate Article The New York Times Editors Did Not Want You To See « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGEThe article finally appeared online in the early AM GMT hour of 3 March, titled “Scientists Taking Steps to Defend Work on Climate“. Tellingly, the structure has been heavily changed, and the interviewees as well. I have had a series of e-mail exchanges with Mr Broder today and won’t report any of them. The impression remains that some Editor at the NYT panicked (**) after reading the IHT version, and got Mr Broder or some sub-editor to rewrite it almost from scratch to eliminate some inconvenient names and acquire warmist respectability by giving the concluding remarks to Gavin Schmidt (*).
All in all, it has been an episode wholly consistent with an atmosphere of climate bullying at the NYT.
Speedos-loving Opposition Leader Tony Abbott lampooned in giant climate change [scam] billboard | The Daily TelegraphActivist group GetUp! has coughed up $90,000 for a massive billboard featuring the scantily clad Opposition Leader along with the message: "Tony, abstinence is not a climate change option! Climate action now."
The Reference Frame: RSS MSU: 0.05 °C of month-on-month coolingThe global anomaly is +0.588 °C which is 0.052 °C lower than the January 2010 anomaly. The newest February 2010 reading is also a whopping 0.148 °C cooler than the warmest February reading on their record, namely +0.736 °C in February 1998.
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