Email that Jim Hansen sent out last night

A draft paper "Current GISS Global Surface Temperature Analysis" is available at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/paper/gistemp2010_draft0319.pdf  
Criticisms welcome.  I intend to revise it for submission to a journal within a month or so.
 
Sorry, it is too long for popular use.  Here are some of the main conclusions:
 
(1) Contrary to popular belief, global warming has not stopped nor has the rate of warming even slowed down in the past decade (Figure 21).
 ...Of course winter weather will always be highly variable and those places cold enough to have snow can expect greater amounts from an atmosphere containing more water vapor.  The AO indices for the past three months are remarkable (Figure 15a), yet the cold temperature anomalies are relatively small compared to say the late 1970s (Figures 15b, 16, 17).
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Somehow we have to do a better job of communicating.  The tricks being used by people supporting denial and business-as-usual are recognizably dirty, yet effective.  We are continually burdened by sweeping FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests, which reduce our ability to do science and write it up (perhaps this is their main objective), a waste of tax-payer money.  Our analyses are freely available on the GISS web site as is the computer program used to carry out the analysis and the data sets that go into the program.
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It seems that a primary objective of the FOIA requestors and the "harvesters" is discussions that they can snip and quote out of context.  On the long run, these distortions of the truth will not work and the public will realize that they have been bamboozled.  Unfortunately, the delay in public understanding of the situation, in combination with the way the climate system works (inertia, tipping points) could be very detrimental for our children and grandchildren.  The public will need to put more pressure on policymakers, enough to overcome the pressure from special financial interests, if the actions needed to stabilize climate are to be achieved.
 
Jim

Nations large and small join climate change campaign

Brunei's Earth Hour would focus on the capital's historic centre and its water village, where about 10 per cent of the population lived in buildings on stilts above the Brunei River, he said.

''And we will have 10 minutes' silence upon the lights off, for the people to reflect and experience the sense of darkness and tranquillity.''

How the Conservatives dodged the climate bullet - The Globe and Mail

Clearly the Conservatives feel it's safe now to disengage from the battle against climate change – a battle they didn't want to wage in the first place. But are they wise to do so?

Mr. Harper came to power four years ago fully intending to dismantle programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.

Investigation reveals private jets are exempt from carbon passenger tax > Data > Research | Click Green

A new untaxed perk for carbon-busting private jet travel in the UK has been revealed by new research by the Campaign for Better Transport.

More than 67,000 flights in private jets and ‘air taxis’ last year avoided paying any tax, despite emitting up to 30 times more carbon dioxide per passenger, according to the research.

Unlike conventional passengers, who pay £11 for short haul and up to £110 for long haul flights, very small aircraft, used almost exclusively by the rich and famous are exempt.

SPACE.com -- Crippled Mars Rover is Chilled, But Still Alive

Now the rover has hit colder temperatures than ever before. A piece of equipment that serves as a proxy for Spirit's electronic system has reached a record low temperature of minus 41.8 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 41 degrees Celsius).

Edwards Magazine Bookclub » Blog Archive » Ultimatum by Matthew Glass

The story begins within the U.S. but the pace of global warming is overwhelming in its path of destruction. The horror is the speed and loss of land worldwide. Coastlines have disappeared and relocation of populations is in the millions.

Coldest winter in Tampa since 1969 ends Saturday

Records compiled by meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Ruskin show that December, January and February — the months meteorologists consider winter — were the coldest in Tampa since 1969 and the 10th coldest since 1890 when records started here.

Why aren’t climate scientists talking about healthcare reform? | Grist

Research shows that climate change is harmful to our health, raising rates of cancer and of respiratory and neurological diseases.

[Warmists in the Arctic: Hundreds of years after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, it's still miserably cold up here]

The team have been on the ice for a few days and they've just had to face the first of many harsh realities of Arctic life - frozen clothing. Listen to Ann describe the discomfort of having dress in frozen gear in an already cold and moist tent first thing in the morning.

EU Referendum: Doomed

In an undistorted market, we would go for nuclear, coal and gas.

Climate Resistance » Do You Want “Ethics” With That?

Environmental ‘ethics’ are an absurdity. First, they are extraordinarily polar, and lack any nuance whatsoever. All bad actions lead ultimately to nothing less than the end of the world, yet the most mundane actions – buying the ‘good’ kind of paper to wipe your arse with, for instance – become acts of planet-saving significance. This happens for the reason Baggini raises – that virtue cannot be likened to “points on a loyalty card”. Yet this is exactly how environmental ethics force us to see the world. Good is measured as the net balance of our exchange with the natural sphere, as calculated by ‘science’. Climate science, then, gives the ground for environmental ethics as a kind of cheap, vulgar moral realism – the idea that there are moral facts in the world.

Rep. Ed Markey: Faces of an American Recovery: Clean Energy Jobs

Nothing has the potential to wean us from imported oil more than electric vehicles.

Navy perhaps not 100% on this going green thing « NCTimes.com Blogs

On my way out, I saw an aide to Adm. French standing by the hybrid car that would carry him back to headquarters. Bonus points for the hybrid vehicle, but minus at least a few for having the engine on and idling while waiting for the admiral to emerge.

Of Chilly Offices and Space Heaters - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

In one 150,000 square foot building (roughly three times the size of the White House), Mr. Cation’s company, which monitors electricity use in big buildings and offers feedback on how to cut bills, spotted 38 space heaters. In a hot climate like Texas, that means they’re probably on when the air-conditioning is blasting.

EU Referendum: Somebody has to be wrong

The Tory rule of politics seems to be that when you are in a hole, dig deeper and fill it with carbon dioxide, leaving the public to pay the bill.

It really isn't carbon dioxide we should be burying.

[Warmists in the Arctic: You may not know this, but right after we shut off our fossil-fueled stove, it gets tremendously cold in our tent]

Off goes the roaring stove ...

Explorers love the stove. Not just for the hot drinks and food it makes possible. Not just because it offers heat in a crisis to frighteningly cold fingers (although most of the time its heat is directed into melting snow and heating water). But also because it generates a comforting background roaring sound. It doesn't just do a good job, it tells you it's doing a good job. Which makes its turning off a bit of a shock! Total quiet.

And then, with the last head-torch switched off, all is inky black in the tent. You can't see the proverbial hand in front of your face. Total dark.

The secure 'indoor world' created by the tent is rapidly revealed to be the transitory state that it is. Within 60 seconds, the deep cold of forty-below purges any residual warmth from the stove. Forget body heat. It never made any contribution - it never existed. And as you feel the chest-compressing cold descend, like a murderous spider down its spun line from the ceiling of the tent, so the polar night, with the stove now silent, starts to make itself heard.

If it takes a lot more people to produce a lot less electricity, is that a good thing?

CLIMATE CHANGE: A Year On, Little Change in Political Climate - IPS ipsnews.net

[European Union's Climate Action Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard] says the U.S. need only look to the EU to see that it is in their best interest to pass a bill. "If you do this intelligently, it will lead to job creation," she said. "Today, Germany has more jobs in renewables than in coal and nuclear combined – very different from the way it used to be…We can actually prove that it is good business to do this."

The question the U.S. needs to ask itself, she said, is "Do you want to be part of this or not? Do you want to be a leader or be left behind?"

[If Germany gets 75% of its electricity from coal and nukes, and another 12% from gas, why does it take so many people to produce some of the remainder?]

Germany obtains one quarter of its electricity from nuclear energy, using 17 reactors.
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Coal provides about half of the country's electricity. Gas supplied 12%, wind 6% in 2007.

Report: Global warming [hoax] treaty monitoring needed - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com

Along these lines, the report makes a number of recommendations for improving greenhouse gas monitoring worldwide, including NASA launching a $287 million replacement for the failed 2009 Orbiting Carbon Observatory. At a cost of $5 - $10 million a year, the capabilities of about 150 weather stations worldwide should be upgraded to directly measure fossil-fuel-related contributions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as well.

Gas pain needed to meet emission targets, Harvard study says | OpenMarket.org

The Harvard study makes even more obvious what should no longer be controversial. Congress has not yet adopted tough controls on GHG emissions not because a “well-funded denial machine” is “confusing the public,” but because Members of Congress seek above all else to get re-elected, and inflicting pain on voters is not a smart way to win their support!

Twitter / Dawn Siemer

Just read an article by my local Sierra Club chapter that they think "global climate change" isn't connecting with people. New words ahead!

Reminder from warmists in the Arctic: It's really cold up there

This week our Ice Base scientists battled for an entire day in their attempts to make a hole through the sea ice from which they can regularly sample, a job made excruciatingly difficult by its ceaseless efforts to refreeze.

Richard Glover spouts climate nonsense | Australian Climate Madness

This kind of reasoning is so childish as to be laughable. Because the science of climate is obviously completely equivalent to checking whether your brake pads are worn down, or whether you have spots and a temperature, isn't it?

Paying greens to be smug | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

So basically taxpayers pay people rebates to install these solar panels and then give them the right to sell back the power generated at 3 times the market rate.

Power bills to rise by up to 64pc in NSW | News.com.au

ELECTRICITY bills in NSW will soar by up to 64 per cent over the next three years, with the blame laid squarely on the Federal Government's proposed emissions trading scheme.

Change: Special interest groups work behind closed doors to shape legislation

Clean Energy Works: Environmental and Climate Groups Applaud Progress on Senate Climate and Energy Bill, Will Work to Shape Details

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 19, 2010) - A number of leading environmental and climate groups issued the following statement today in reaction to a late Thursday meeting with Senator John Kerry on his bipartisan comprehensive climate and energy proposal:
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The 20 groups issuing this statement are: The Alliance for Climate Protection, Environment America, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Environmental Defense Fund, National Wildlife Federation, Blue Green Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Union of Concerned Scientists, National Tribal Environmental Council, ENE (Environment Northeast), National Audubon Society, Interfaith Power and Light, Conservation International, Defenders of Wildlife, Clean Water Action, The Wilderness Society, Climate Solutions, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Green for All.

Princeton Alumni Weekly: Temperatures rising

In an interview last year with The Daily Princetonian, Happer characterized hostility toward climate skeptics in harsh terms. “This is George Orwell,” he said. “This is ‘the Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.’ It’s that kind of propaganda.” In an e-mail following an interview for this article, he warns against “the capture of U.S. society” by a “scientific-technological elite.”

#22) ED BEGLEY, JR. INTERVIEW: A Voice for the Planet | The Benshi

RO: Am I the only one that sent you an email saying that I thought it was awesome what you did?!

EB: There were maybe 5 people total in three days, three by email and two phone calls, versus hate mails coming in at a rate of 50 an hour for a couple days. And so then you start to think, “I know climate change is real, but maybe I am an a$$hole?!”

I should’ve just been quiet. “Lets agree to disagree and let’s get some light bulbs.” This is the interesting thing, the biggest point the angry emails were making was, “How dare you go there to talk about climate change? Who the f*ck are you any way?” And my response was, ‘I didn’t go on there to talk about climate change, I came in there to talk about a light bulb giveaway program!’”
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...let me just make my point, stick only with reputable scientific or nature magazines, things like National Geographic and the website Real Climate.

ClimateGate Goes Back to 1980

Those of you who still believe that the ClimateGate scandal was just a bunch of emails in England should read this article. James Hansen of GISS appears to have systematically adjusted the historical temperature record to remove a cold patch in the ’70s in order to exaggerate the rise since. The amount of change of 0.6 degrees is for one decade is close to the measured change for the whole century. This is vividly seen in these three snapshots of his data being modified:

Embracing the Anthropocene § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

The Earth has entered a new geological period in which human influence dominates the state of the planet, compounding uncertainty about the future.

Global warming's problems

Burt Rutan has presented a thorough presentation of facts showing global warming and cooling cycles correspond very well to sunspot activity which mankind has no responsibility for. Increased solar radiation very much influences our temperatures, and the earth has had cyclic periods of weather changes for a long time. Never let anyone say carbon dioxide is a pollutant. It is a natural product of life influenced by population. The only way to control it is to reduce the population or increase more plant foliage to give off more oxygen. Rutan's presentation is found on the internet at Burt Rutan on climate change.

[Wait a minute: So it's not a full-blown crisis right now?]:  - Don't wait for climate change to become a full-blown crisis before acting - UN's Steiner

Of all the environmental challenges facing the planet, climate change is "perhaps the most over-arching and high-profile challenge of all," he told journalists in Nairobi.

Reducing carbon emissions which, most scientists agree, drive global warming "requires change and to think and to plan beyond our day-to-day lives, something that human beings find tricky to sometimes grasp unless there is a full-scale emergency," he said.

"Climate change will be that full-scale emergency unless we act, and act fast," he added.

Ban Ki-moon: 'Don't wait for disaster' - News - Professional Resources - PreventionWeb.net

No country is immune from disaster, be it earthquakes or floods, storms or heatwaves. More and more intense natural disasters are affecting all five continents, we believe as a result of climate change.

Predictions of Global Warming Hysterics are All Wet

More and more people are waking up to the fact that these people are radicals who do not have the freedom and welfare of average people in mind when they peddle their silly theories. People are also realizing in greater and greater numbers that the actual science–not the “fudged” computer models and the wild-eyed conjecture that forms 90% of global warming theory–presents overwhelming evidence that climate change is natural and cyclic, and has been going on in even greater extremes than today for thousands of years.

We’ve been drunk on their fake Koolaid for far too long. Make sure you tell all your friends what a joke the hypothesis of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is, and let’s get back to guarding our freedom and prosperity from kooks like these.

Language of Religious Fervor Inflames Climate Change Debate - NYTimes.com

For Tom Burke of the London-based climate change think tank E3G, the introduction of such religious labels is symptomatic of a far more sinister agenda at work than the simple but emotive issue of lifestyle and sustainability. He claims it is spreading from the United States, where the climate debate is far more politicized and polarized than in many other parts of the world.

"The use of this kind of language has become very prevalent. The parallels with creationism are undeniable. Creationists and climate deniers are the same people. They are from the political and religious right," he said.

"Climate change becomes a question of reason against unreason, and the use of the religious labels -- propagated by lazy journalism -- is all about controlling the agenda through language. It is a classic right-wing ploy," he added. "The deniers who call themselves agnostics are obfuscating. It is a lie and should be exposed as such."

An Example Of Why A Global Average Temperature Anomaly Is Not An Effective Metric Of Climate « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

it is the regional tropospheric temperature anomalies that determine the locations of development and movement of weather systems [which are the actual determinants of such climate events as drought, floods, ect] not a global average temperature anomaly.

Virginian-Pilot Deceives Readers on Ocean Acidification - by James M. Taylor

The American public understands the news media will often present issues with a certain degree of explicit or implicit editorializing. So long as this editorializing is done within reasonable bounds, the American public is willing to accept it without significant objection. The Virginian-Pilot coverage of the NRDC movie and the ocean acidification issue, however, is a perfect illustration of how the media has overstepped these bounds, has violated public trust, and why it is losing readers. When a “news” publication presents only one side of an argument, does so in a manner that deceives readers regarding the source of the one-sided “facts” presented in the article, and then refuses to publish a cordial letter providing some context and balance, it is little wonder why the media continues to lose credibility, marketability, and relevance.

[I hate it when that happens]: 'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world - Telegraph

An 'immortal' jellyfish is swarming through the world's oceans, according to scientists.

Tories’ green bank to revolutionise power policy - Times Online

The policies will also include a measure that marks a return to the same principle used to defeat Nazi Germany in the 1940s. Mr Cameron will for the first time set out plans for government-backed green “war bonds” to help to finance energy projects of up to £200 billion that are considered critical for Britain to meet its goal of cutting carbon emissions by 34 per cent by 2020.

The danger of being hysterically green | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Chris Baskind, a noted green blogger and newest edition to the MNN team, found what he called "hysterical, opportunistic, overly broad nonsense" over at Change.org in a petition calling for the phasing out of all mining activity because of concerns that they cause earthquakes.
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We can't waste our time on dumb green ideas.

A green idea is dumb if it has no chance of really happening and just stands to turn off a lot of people to the cause when they hear it. An idea can have the best of intentions and ideals behind it and still be a dumb one, a lot of the times it's the ones with the best of intentions and ideals that end up being the dumbest.

[Copenhagen: During a blizzard, warmists attempt to save the world from overheating]

Bikes confiscated, cold bottoms from sitting on the snowy cement, wrists tethered behind our backs with Ziploc ties (they must’ve ran out of handcuffs), we sat calmly in the now blistering blizzard.
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More time passed by, and to our delight, we were given sandwiches for dinner. Turkey sandwich meat, red peppers and Danish cheese. Not bad. An angry vegan English girl in my cell was livid when they had no vegan alternatives though.
...After everyone was escorted to a Politi bus, we were transported to the closest S-train and officially released into the darkness of the night and enduring blizzard.

Bolivia creates a new opportunity for climate talks that failed at Copenhagen | Pablo Solón Romero | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to 'betray its people'

Aiming for a no-carbon economy | Mike Mason | Environment | guardian.co.uk

There is a big difference between a "low-carbon economy" and a "no carbon economy". Both will need massive investments in new infrastructure and the deployment of huge swaths of new technology which will take decades to build. However, getting the last bit of carbon out of the economy is going to be terribly difficult, and many key choices needed to get there must be made more or less today.

Four obstacles facing electric bike popularity | Grist

[I'd add a fifth obstacle: Not many people really believe that you can prevent bad weather by riding a bicycle.]

Poll results handily explained by what bloggers think | Eric Roston - Grist

Marc Morano, the former aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), runs an operation called Climate Depot that feeds a lot of the AGW ((anti-)anthropogenic global warming) blogosphere. This week he asks, "How could Americans show less concern?!" The least scientific of all investigations, the Google Blog search, turned up far fewer liberal posts that match the breathless, ad hominem, conspiracy-exposing tone of these conservatives blogs.

Eric Roston | Grist

Eric Roston is senior associate at the Nicholas Institute and author of The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat.  [or maybe we put the Weber grills too close to the thermometers]

A response from a climate change skeptic

For anyone to refer to the conclusion of human caused global warming as "sound and unassailable" is beyond me in light of all this. Look forward to your next article.

David Davidovics

Climategate Doesn't Even Faze Al Gore

Gore wants to stop our reliance on fossil fuels, yet he opposes offshore drilling and tapping into areas of the United States that hold more barrels of oil than all of the Middle East combined. Gore stated that fossil fuels and the nation's fragile electricity grid pose a significant security threat. But he doesn't explain how he ignores any science that disproves his claims. This man should be forced to return his Nobel Peace Prize and his joke of an Academy Award. Denial is not a river in Egypt, Mr. Gore.

Chuck Justice is the editor-in-chief for Habledash.

climate science: COMING GAS GLUT DUE TO NEW TECHNOLOGY

This article explains how new methods of extracting gas has revolutionised the industry and already ensured the USA is self-sufficient for the foreseeable future. This technology is now being exported all over the world with the potential to ensure sufficient affordable gas for the coming century. The implications for the 'climate change' industry are staggering as the article explains. Those wind turbines could be obsolete before they are built!

A Fine Texas Wind - NewsTrust.net

The big stink and stir over carbon is great fun, possibly, for the policy chieftains in Washington who imagine, possibly, they and their ideas might languish forever in university seminar rooms and on daily blogs. And yet the fun ignores reality. You don't generally, in the Washington, D.C.-California manner, have to kick and pummel people to make them do economically sound things. It helps sometimes just to encourage them.

EU climate chief: US must act now to encourage others to save the world!

[And by the way, without our encouragement, those others are already allegedly rushing ahead of us to save the world!]

If the United States fails to lead, she warned, "others will harvest gains." Ms. Hedegaard said China, South Korea, Brazil and India are moving quickly to deal with climate change. She added it was "crucial" for Washington to send a signal to developing economies of its commitment and willingness to act.

Tories plan new carbon tax to boost clean energy

A Conservative government would penalise electricity production from fossil fuels to stimulate investment in renewable and nuclear power, under plans set out today by David Cameron.

Speaking at the launch of the party’s energy policy proposals, Mr Cameron called for the introduction of a carbon tax on electricity generated from coal and gas-fired power stations.

Gov. Chris Christie: [Remember that money that we desperately needed to save your grandchildren from roasting?  We're going to use it for something else] | - NJ.com

Gov. Chris Christie has said he is taking $65 million from the state’s model cap-and-trade program to balance the state’s $29.3 billion budget, but he is getting pushback from Democrats in the state Legislature,

The money comes from quarterly carbon permit auctions held by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an alliance of 10 Eastern states from Maine to Maryland. The governor said he also is planning on taking all of the proceeds from the next three quarterly auctions in 2010.

"Next year, we plan on getting back to RGGI," Christie said in a meeting at The Star-Ledger.
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The RGGI funds, like the $158 million in the Clean Energy Fund, were earmarked for use in a variety of energy efficiency and renewable-energy programs. In 2009, New Jersey’s RGGI proceeds were $67 million; of that, $22 million has been spent or committed for consumer-oriented programs.

Performance issues in Chicago men’s room reek havoc on water conservation | Grist

Well-meaning politicians installed waterless urinals in the public men's room to save a little water, but they were pissed to learn about the stinky flood of urine building up behind the bathroom walls.

Is The Senate Climate Proposal All That Different From The House Bill? | The New Republic

Honestly, this sounds pretty similar to the Waxman-Markey climate bill that passed the House last June.

Lisa Murkowski: Climate Change Double Agent | Mother Jones

The Alaska Republican talks a good game on global warming—while blocking efforts to tackle it.

Climate Research News » MWP Evident in 3000 Year Climate History from Giant Sequoia Tree Rings

California’s western Sierra Nevada had more frequent fires between 800 and 1300 than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a new study led by Thomas W. Swetnam, director of UA’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.

A 3,000-year record from 52 of the world’s oldest trees shows that California’s western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to a new study led by University of Arizona researchers.

Climate change: both sides dig in

Doubtless there will be a few minor slaps on the wrist over procedure. Pachauri himself may be sacrificed, given his rather intemperate way with critics. But the IPCC juggernaut itself will lumber on unchanged, with the same mission: to assemble evidence that our species is the major driver of climate change.

CSUS dean, professor take heat for global warming study - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

The latest criticism came Thursday from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. In response to an inquiry by Democratic Assemblyman Kevin de León, the LAO dismissed as "highly unreliable" the professors' claim that California's global warming law would wipe out 1 million jobs and $183 million in economic output.

[Why wasn't this meeting on C-SPAN?]: Enviros Mum on Kerry Meeting | Mother Jones

Leaders of a number of big environmental groups met Thursday evening with John Kerry (D-Mass.) to discuss details of their forthcoming legislation on climate and energy, but were tight-lipped about what they learned.
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Included in the meeting were representatives from LCV, the Center for American Progress, Sierra Club, Environment America, the National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, the Alliance for Climate Protection, and the Blue Green Alliance.

Scandal brewing in the Euro carbon credits market « Watts Up With That?

“Dead” is a word that might describe trading on this exchange.

Maybe it has something to do with the members of the advisory board? On it we find Ed Begley Jr., Joe Kennedy II, and Dr. Rajenda Pachauri. With a team like that, how could it fail? The real problem with carbon credits is that there’s nothing tangible to trade. It’s all spun from thin air, literally. At least if you trade pork bellies, corn, wheat, or even orange juice, there’s something tangible that will eventually be delivered somewhere

Despite environmentalists’ pleas, Massachusetts recycling rate stalls - The Boston Globe

Residential recycling rates in Massachusetts have not budged in the past decade, even as environmental concerns have sparked “sustainability’’ movements and fueled markets for hybrid cars and green products.

Reconsidering the Dessler/North Op-Ed on Settled Alarm, Climategate-as-Distraction (Part III in a series) — MasterResource

This post critically reconsiders the above editorial that argued, in effect, that the science behind climate alarmism is settled and that Climategate is a distraction from the core issues. Just the opposite may well be true.

Overheating detected in Arctic | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Not everyone writing for Nature is a warming alarmist. Take Johannes Oerlemans, professor of meteorology at Utrecht University’s Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, who takes a stick to Henry Pollack, author of the latest scare-book:

In his investigation of the regional effects of global warming on ice, snow and permafrost, Pollack adopts a fearful tone, suggesting that any change in the environment should be interpreted as a local disaster. He lists the many locations where glaciers are retreating, sea-ice coverage is shrinking, permafrost thawing and ski areas declining. And he cautions
that “in only a few decades the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free in the summer, for the first time in 55 million years”.

Yet he forgets that, during the Holocene climatic optimum about 9,000 to 6,000 years ago when summer temperatures in the subarctic regions were 2–5 °C higher than today, the Arctic Ocean in summer was probably ice-free on a regular basis…[why didn't polar bears go extinct?]

Poll: Boxer Suddenly In Trouble - Hotline On Call

Boxer's favorability has taken a big hit. A majority, 51%, of likely voters now view her unfavorably, with only 38% having a favorable impression of the incumbent. In the previous poll, taken in Jan., 48% viewed Boxer favorably, with 39% having an unfavorable image of her.
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The poll's findings are consistent with numbers released yesterday in the GOV race that showed ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman (R) claiming a slight lead over AG/ex-Gov. Jerry Brown (D).

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: A Classroom View of Climate Deniers

The wording of the latest of these bills, Kentucky's "Science Education and Intellectual Freedom Act," seems to be a perfect setup for such in-class intellectual throwdowns: "Teachers, principals, and other school administrators are encouraged to create and foster an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories being studied."

But how would this mandate to discuss the 'disadvantages' of climate change play out in a real classroom? Would teachers hand out articles about James Hansen's hacked emails? Would students learn about the Hockey Stick Controversy alongside the Kyoto Protocol? Would the objections of a few wayward scientists play down the consensus scientists have built over the last fifteen years?

American Thinker: Global Warming on Trial

...The e-mail goes on to say that Antarctic data should be given only 79% of its true value: "Perhaps put it in every fourth box, giving a weighting of 0.79 (bit less than tropical, which is reasonable for spatial correlation reasons)?"

By giving greater weight to the tropical data, you can achieve your "target" of global warming...even if it's only fiction.

The Climate Sceptics Party Blog: Why Cap & Trade Could Cause the Next GFC

Andy Semple writes how a cap and trade emissions trading scheme could cause another financial crisis.

Isn't Global Warming a Paper Tiger?! Discuss the Science & Politics of Climate Change

Public Meeting Weds 24th March 2pm - 4pm at Houses of Parliament
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Organised by Climate-Sense.com, ClimateRealists.com & WeatherAction.com

with the assistance of the good offices of Sammy Wilson MP

Presidential Advisor Holdren Replies To Shanahan Energy Letter | The Resilient Earth

As you can tell, Dr. Shanahan is less than pleased with Holdren's response on behalf of the Obama Administration. In true political fashion, the administration's energy plan consists of false claims, platitudes and evasion. This type of business-as-usual Washington bovine excreta is what motivated Al Simmons and myself to write a second book, soon to be released, on the topic of the growing world wide energy gap. In it we offer positive solutions, not meaningless political babble.

Storm set to deliver snowy blast to the Front Range - The Denver Post

Denver and the suburbs are in line for from 5 to 10 inches of snow by Friday evening from the late-season storm, according to forecasters.

The foothills and northern mountains could see up to 14 inches by Friday evening with "harsh winter conditions," the National Weather Service warns.

BBC News - Fears harsh winter harmed UK wildlife

The harsh winter may have had a devastating impact on Britain's wildlife, it has been warned.

Climate debated should be reframed: Maldives president - Yahoo! News

HELSINKI (AFP) – The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesday.
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"Before we go to Mexico, there has to be more trust built between developing and developed countries," he said, adding the climate change discussion had "no other motive than the survival of our species."

Pacific Basin – The Australian Hockey League « Musings from the Chiefio

Here we have a nice sleepy Pacific, then we get a Hockey Stick right as The Great Dying of Thermometers happens. When we were looking at the raw temperature averages, there was not much going on in the average of the smaller islands, but there was a pretty good “warming signal” in Australia and New Zealand. We also saw a lot of change “by Latitude” and “by Altitude” and “by Airport Flag”. So how much you want to bet we find The Australian Hockey League? And maybe a B League in New Zealand?

The Hockey Schtick: Climate Change Causing Negative Extinction in Arctic

Arctic Wildlife Index Increases 16% over last 34 years

Making the UK's energy systems fit for 2050

Fundamental restructuring of the UK's entire energy system is unavoidable if it is to meet future energy demand while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, even assuming that energy demand in all sectors can be substantially reduced, according to a report published today by the Royal Academy of Engineering. If we are to achieve this, the scale of the undertaking will require the biggest peacetime programme of investment and social change the UK has ever seen, says the Academy.

Back to Spain and Denmark for Team Obama - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Just so you don't think that whole agenda about following the social democracies' histories of reorganizing society by causing "electricity rates [to] necessarily skyrocket" has been placed on hold.

Climate ground zero: 6 things you need to know abut Bangladesh - Year of No Flying

Reducing GHG emissions by 90+% will be politically and personally difficult for those of us from developed nations. But having seen some of the communities that will be drowning for our climate sins, it's painfully clear that our systems make us party to dispossession and murder by proxy.

Climate change [hoax] cited as Mont. leases suspended - BusinessWeek

A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how oil field activities contribute to climate change.
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Schlenker-Goodrich said no drilling has occurred on the 61 leases because companies were waiting on the outcome of the lawsuit.

An Inconvenient Fraud? | Penthouse Magazine

Al Gore and his pals in the science establishment want us to totally change our lives because of a theory that might not even be true. Have the sacred cows of global warming been gored beyond repair?

PBS | Ombudsman

It appears the NewsHour has deliberately chosen not to have skeptic scientists as in-studio guests to rebut IPCC scientists, starting back around 1988. What prompted that decision? Such two-sided discussions are a NewsHour trademark, but — correct me if I am wrong — this has never happened concerning the underlying science of global warming. Why?

Russell Cook, Phoenix, AZ

The real hot topic is CSIRO's prediction on global warming | Herald Sun

First, no one doubts "climate change is real". Climate changes all the time. For the CSIRO to suggest this is the debate is dishonest.

[How much is enough?]: Renewables investment to breach $200bn in 2010?

London, 18 March: New investment in clean energy is set to recover to at least $175 billion-200 billion this year, according to projections from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

Threadneedle targets £350m for low-carbon property fund

London, 18 March: UK investment management firm Threadneedle has launched a fund that will invest in low-carbon commercial property in the UK, aiming to raise £350 million ($534 million) from institutional investors within three years.
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The partners said: “Around 40 potential occupiers have already expressed interest in the Low-Carbon Workplace concept with demand being driven by the perceived reputational benefits of occupying low-carbon properties, reduced energy costs and legislation including the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. The first occupier announcement is expected within the next few weeks.”

Airbus gets a crafty upgrade by flying the flag for biodiversity | Fred Pearce | Environment | guardian.co.uk

A380 airliner to feature official logo for UN, despite aviation being a major source of emissions that threaten biodiversity
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Announcing the adoption of the logo this month, Airbus's senior vice-president for public affairs and communications, Rainer Ohler baldly claimed that the aviation industry had "already reduced aircraft emissions by 70% in the last 40 years."

The LA Times Refuses To Report Honestly on Costs of Climate Law | GlobalWarming.org

Why is the LA Times citing a discredited report? CARB’s rosy economic analysis of AB 32 was eviscerated by a non-partisan peer review panel of scholars.

Then again, I read about the peer review rebuke of CARB’s analysis in the Sacramento Bee, because the LA Times ignored it. How convenient.

Can We Put a Price on Solving Climate Change? |Triple Pundit

In the carbon economy, governments set prices that drive firms either to invest in mitigating technology or buy their way into compliance with allowances. When governments don’t set prices, markets don’t function efficiently. As it is, some markets have prices and other don’t, creating arbitrage opportunities that shouldn’t exist.

A green ruse: It's about warming, period - Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010

State Environmental Services Commissioner Thomas Burack is peddling the idea that state action to reduce carbon emissions is justifiable entirely for economic and national security reasons without ever considering the question of global warming.

He and other advocates of state initiatives such as rewriting building codes to require energy-efficient construction and subsidizing the creation of vast mass-transit systems hope to avoid the now-controversial global-warming justification. But don't be fooled. The whole reason these initiatives are being promoted is to halt global-warming.

Rosen: Son of global warming - The Denver Post

Emily Litella was Gilda Radner's comic character on "Saturday Night Live" in the 1970s. Emily would fly off the handle on some self-indignant rant. Then, when interrupted and told that it was founded on a wholly mistaken premise, she'd just drop it and say, "Oh, never mind."

AGW, the theory of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming, continues to unravel with each new disclosure of faulty data, duplicity and outright fraud. When this grand deception ultimately collapses, don't expect a public apology from its apostles. More likely, it will be a Litellaesque "never mind" as they move on to the next crusade. Here's a preview. Call it "Son of Global Warming."
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Environmental doom-saying is a growth industry. It's made Al Gore rich and provided a flood of government funding for those on the receiving end of non-economical energy subsidies. Academicians who dance to the tune of AGW have been showered with government research grants and accolades from their like-minded colleagues and the liberal media.

Breaking: To promote the global warming hoax, clueless Al Gore uses that "freezing temperatures when we shouldn't have freezing temperatures" quote

Al's Journal: Witnesses to the Climate Crisis

"Nature is disrupted. It rains when it shouldn't rain." Marisa Marcavillaca of Peru said through a translator. "We have freezing temperatures when we shouldn't have freezing temperatures. Because our yields are down, it is difficult to feed our children."...

All over the world, people are feeling the impact of the climate crisis. There are defenders of the status quo who argue that solutions to the climate crisis will harm those living in poverty. These women are witnesses to the fact that just the opposite is true.

Do these schemes really prevent bad weather?

Carbon Market Chaos Strikes Again « JoNova

...It’s like reselling the three course meal, after it’s been eaten.

When confronted, the Hungarian Government claimed the used CER’s were only sold to non-European investors. (So that makes it alright then? Someone outside Europe wasted money?)
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Things are tough for the fledgeling carbon currency market — first the individual governments issued too many permits creating a glut and then a crash.

Then the top two auditors of the European system were busted one after the other, and suspended for irregularities.

Then Europol discovered that some traders had found a way to collect taxes on behalf of the government and then keep the money for themselves. The fraud may have cost taxpayers about $7 billion dollars and in some markets amounted to 90% of the volume.

Remember when the science was settled?

Climate science: Spin, science and climate change | The Economist

Action on climate is justified, not because the science is certain, but precisely because it is not

The science of climate change: The clouds of unknowing | The Economist

No one doubts that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, good at absorbing infra-red radiation. It is also well established that human activity is putting more of it into the atmosphere than natural processes can currently remove. Measurements made since the 1950s show the level of carbon dioxide rising year on year, from 316 parts per million (ppm) in 1959 to 387ppm in 2009. Less direct records show that the rise began about 1750, and that the level was stable at around 280ppm for about 10,000 years before that.

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Material World, 18/03/2010

With more and more doubts being raised about climate research. Quentin Cooper asks, 'how does science handle the issue of uncertainty?' How do different branches of research quantify what they can't be sure of? The Royal Society is to hosting a special meeting - Handling Uncertainty - to discuss these issues, and Quentin gets a foretaste.

- Bishop Hill blog - Royal Society on uncertainty

The Royal Society is holding a series of discussions on uncertainty in science in a couple of weeks' time. The programme looks pretty interesting. Among the highlights are:

* Lord May on Science as organised scepticism
* Julia Slingo on Uncertainty in Weather and Climate Prediction
* Peter Webster on Uncertainty in predicting extremes of weather and climate
* Leonard Smith on Uncertainty, ambiguity and risk in forming climate policy

Judith Curry is then running the closing panel discussion and overview.

They call this a consensus?

"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."

So said Al Gore ... in 1992.

[Today: PepsiCo announces heroic plan to save us from global warming]

PURCHASE, N.Y. (March 18, 2010) /PRNewswire/ — One year after PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) and the Carbon Trust launched an innovative partnership that began with certifying the carbon footprint of Tropicana Pure Premium® orange juice, Tropicana is announcing a groundbreaking pilot program that could drastically reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint and have a dramatic impact on the broader agricultural landscape for orange growers and producers of other agricultural products.

[Last week]: PepsiCo raises prices on Tropicana orange juice due to Florida citrus freeze

NEW YORK — Pepsico Inc. is raising prices on its popular Tropicana orange juice because of the deep freeze that hurt much of Florida’s citrus crop.

The company said Wednesday it is shrinking its most popular size by about 8 percent — while maintaining its price — and raising the price on another size starting in May.

The 64-ounce container of orange juice drop to 59 ounces. The suggested retail price remains at $3.59.

Copenhagen climate conference doomed by 'arrogance' | The Australian

LONDON: The "arrogance" of rich countries at the Copenhagen climate summit in December contributed to the negotiations' "disappointing" outcome, a leading economist says.

Nicholas Stern, a Briton who wrote an influential 2006 report on the cost of tackling global warming, said yesterday the US and European Union nations failed to properly understand concerns of poorer countries.

Aluminum Maker Eyes Solar Industry - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Aluminum manufacturing, however, is the nation’s most energy-intensive industry, according to the Energy Department. Mr. Kerns said Alcoa had not performed a life-cycle analysis of the total energy costs and benefits of deploying such parabolic troughs, but noted that the company planned to use recycled materials to make the solar collectors.

Freaking Amazing | Climate Skeptic

LOL, let’s see, I will go to a Federal Agency, and tell them that their funding is flat but that they can get more funding, potentially, if any of their problems are caused by climate change. I wonder how many will then blame all their problems on climate change? Anyone who has studied the government for 12 seconds will know that government departments are more than happy to pitch all their efforts in the context of the boogeyman de jour, whether it be terrorism or climate change, if doing so will get them some extra bucks in the appropriations process. If the guy handing out goodies says “I really, really care about X,” then do you really think the Department of Whatever is going to say that X is irrelevant to them?

Here are some of the devastating non-trends in US Climate

FOXNews.com - Questions Swirl Around U.N.'s Climate Auditors

"I've never heard of the group," Howard Hayden, editor and publisher of the Energy Advocate newsletter, told FoxNews.com.

He cited the first sentence from the IAC's 2007 report, "Toward a Sustainable Energy Future," which states that "achieving a sustainable energy future presents an urgent challenge for the 21st century. Current patterns of energy resources and energy usage are proving detrimental to the long-term welfare of humanity."

"From that much, I doubt we can expect objectivity," Hayden said.

What's Next? ‘Green’ Smart Bombs? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Quote of the day on the U.S. Navy's program to use biofuels and renewable energy to power the fleet:

So if it's impractical, why move forward with such a sweeping plan? Energy security, military officials said. By 2016, Rear Adm. Philip Cullom, director of the Navy's fleet readiness division, imagines a green strike fleet with Naval aircraft powered solely with biofuels. "We know we can't make the market," he said, "but we can be an early adopter."

Global warming changes natural event: first causal link - environment - 18 March 2010 - New Scientist

For the first time, a causal link has been established between climate change and the timing of a natural event – the emergence of the common brown butterfly.
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The researchers used several climate models to find out what is likely to have caused the rise in Melbourne's temperature, and ruled out the possibility that natural weather events could account for the warming.

The Hockey Schtick: Austrian Alps Glaciers Have Almost Disappeared Due to Abnormal Warmth!

From the National Geographic Article November 1976 "What's happening to our climate?" showing the melting of the glaciers due to the "abnormal warmth" of the 1940's, followed by the abnormal cooling from the 1940's to 1970's

Is global warming the new apocalypse? - Times Online

Today, it is not the mushroom cloud that threatens to suffocate children psychologically but carbon emissions. The new bogeyman is climate change: submerger of nations, polluter of skies, slayer of polar bears.
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“More and more parents are telling me that they are worried about how their children are dealing with the climate issue,” says Dr Angharad Rudkin, a clinical child psychologist based in Hampshire....But, Dr Rudkin says, parents shouldn’t fret too much: if it were not climate change, children would find other issues to fixate on: “My personal opinion is that we all need something to worry about.”

EU Referendum: What energy crisis?

You can tell that civilisation as we know it is coming to an end when they call a car "The Leaf", the new Nissan electric fantasy which is going to cost the British taxpayer £20.7 million in grants, topped up with a soft loan from the European Investment Bank of £197.3 million.

We are told that this thing will have an average range of 100 miles and a top speed of 90mph, although the egregious hacks writing this stuff forget to tell us that it is one or the other – not both. They don't tell either that you need a calendar rather than a speedometer to gauge the acceleration.

Nor, of course, do they tell you that, in terms of net efficiency, the electric car performs far less well than a petrol-driven motor, by the time you have taken into account the power station and transmission losses, to say nothing of the conversion losses in charging the batteries.

And then, since about 40 percent of our electricity comes from coal, and will do so until it is replaced by gas generation, the odds are that this wonderful "green" car will be driven by fossil fuels, only very inefficiently at one stage removed.

Why Scientists Are Losing the Public-Relations War - Sharon Begley - Newsweek.com

My final hypothesis: the Great Recession was caused by the smartest guys in the room saying, trust us, we understand how credit default swaps work, and they're great. No wonder so many Americans have decided that experts are idiots.

Here's an idea: Let's schedule lots of town hall meetings to discuss the global warming hoax

Climate scientists are getting a little too angry for their own good. - By Matthew C. Nisbet - Slate Magazine

To be sure, there is a need for better, clearer explanations of the science, but it's wrongheaded to imagine that researchers and their organizations could ever compete effectively, in the long term, in a political debate with climate skeptics and their allies at the Chamber of Commerce and Fox News.
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Climate skeptics hope to erode this trust by drawing scientists out into the open of political debate. Instead of going on the counterattack, scientists and their organizations should employ their communication capital by partnering with opinion leaders from other sectors of society and engaging with local communities through public meetings and social media. By creating a public dialogue on climate change in cities and towns across the country, they can make the issue more personally relevant without getting mired in ideological differences. In these contexts, scientists and their community partners can talk about climate change as more than just an environmental problem. They can frame the issue in terms of national security, religion, public health, or economics—with an emphasis on policies that would lead to societal benefits rather than sacrifice and hardship.

Flashback: Compelling video: Angry voters confront Congressman who voted for cap and trade swindle

At the 4:12 mark, a speaker says that he hopes Castle loses his Congressional seat over his support of cap and trade, and the crowd cheers. Castle smiles briefly, then his face grows grim.

Around the 7:12 mark, Castle is booed after he says he believes in AGW.

Michigan farm groups mad over Governor’s meatless decision | Farm and Dairy - The Auction Guide and Rural Marketplace

LANSING, Michigan — A resolution proclaiming March 20 a “meatless” day is being called a “meat-headed” decision by the state’s top agriculture groups.

The resolution, sponsored by the Great American Meatout of Michigan, was endorsed by Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm and “encourages the residents of this state to choose not to eat meat.”

The resolution is critical of dairy and livestock foods, blaming them for sickening millions of Americans and says vegans and vegetarians are on the rise, with increased benefits of meat-free diets.

But many in the farm industry, and consumers, are outraged.

“Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s resolution is quite possibly the most meat-headed idea yet coming from a tone-deaf administration that is out of touch with agriculture and the jobs and opportunities we provide to Michigan citizens,” said Jim Byrum, president of Michigan Agri-Business Association, in a released statement.

Byrum is one of many who are asking for an apology from the governor. So far, none has been issued, but her office acted quickly in later declaring the same day Michigan Agriculture Day.

EDITORIAL: Obama surrenders gulf oil to Moscow - Washington Times

The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United States attempts to shift gears to alternative fuels to battle the purported evils of carbon emissions, Russia will erect oil derricks off the Cuban coast.

Aerology Analog Forecasting Method | Aerology Research

With an active program for compiling the effects and using algorithms, the trends seen in the whole (18.6 year long term cycle) of normals forecast from this method, can be used to separate out the 18.6 cyclic influence on the climate drivers to get a better handle on the solar influence and the interactions of the outer planets on the production of tornadoes, generation and intensification in the global production of cyclones, hurricanes, giving a method to forecast the timing and expected location of tropical storms, not just the number expected each year.

Climate Common Sense: Carbon Capture Industry Worth Up To 6.5 Billion in 2030 - By the Brothers Grimm

Another fairy tale from the fertile minds of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the UK. No one apparently has told these turkeys that commercial carbon capture has never been done, is an engineering impossibility that is not worth doing anyway and exists only in the minds of bureacrats eco-nuts and those who will get the billions for research . The picture is of the Cottingley fairies which are just as real as the Carbon Capture myth.The Unicorn declined to be photographed .How much cash does the UK have with all the billions being offered for one crackpot scheme after another. When are Uk voters going to say "Enough"

Young farmers, ranchers face concerns but express optimism for the future | Farm and Dairy - The Auction Guide and Rural Marketplace

The informal survey shows young farmers and ranchers have a high level of apprehension about government climate change regulations, with 79 percent of those surveyed expressing high or very high concern.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, March 18th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

London has a new building that can shred birds, appropriately called ‘The Razor’, the green mask slips to reveal some very inconvenient truths and we learn about the missing link between cargo cults and global warming science.

[Study: To prevent global warming, we should start massive forest fires] - NYTimes.com

A new study offers a prescription to increase carbon storage in western U.S. forests: Use more controlled burns to prevent a completely scorched earth.

[Flashback: To prevent global warming, we should ban tiny beach fires]

According to a memo to the park board from the staff released Thursday, "The overall policy question for the Board is whether it is good policy for Seattle Parks to continue public beach fires when the carbon ... emissions produced by thousands of beach fires per year contributes to global warming."

Can Small Lifestyle Changes Lead to Huge CO2 Cuts? - The World Energy Technologies Summit - TIME

A couple of weeks ago President Barack Obama stopped by OPOWER, a small Arlington-based energy company, to talk about green jobs and clean power. The White House doesn't schedule just any company for a Presidential visit, so you might wonder why OPOWER made the cut.
...OPOWER's reports encourages its hundreds of thousands of customers — spread across the country — to cut back on needless energy waste, enough to reduce average household consumption of electricity by more than 2% annually.

Flashback: Obama Cranks Up White House Thermostat: "You Could Grow Orchids In There"

The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

"He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."

[Warmists in the Arctic: By the way, it's really REALLY cold up here]

Today was not the best of starts for a cook in the high Arctic. Having arrived at the mess tent I found Simon wrestling with our snow melter / heater which turned out to have gained some overnight ice in the wrong spot. He had been struggling to start it for one hour and then when we came to light the Coleman stove for breakfast water and food it too decided to go on a go-slow as it didn’t like the temperature of circa -35 degrees Celsius.
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I do not think I have been as cold at night before and the obligatory pee stop during in the small hours is truly memorable for all the wrong reasons.

[Warmists in the Arctic: Ice not frighteningly thin]

We then spent the next eight hours trying to dig a one metre square hole in the sea ice. This was quite a feat as the ice was 1.5 metres thick! This hole is vital for our research, and so we were all on a mission to get through to the sea beneath the ice.

Harald laboured hard with the drill whilst Ceri, Glenn, Helen and I used shovels and picks to clear the debris away. Almost as quickly as we dug the ice out, more water froze to take its place because the ambient air temperature on the surface was in the region of minus 35 degrees Celsius.

Future low solar activity periods may cause extremely cold winters in North America, Europe and Russia | Facts & Arts

by Jarl R. Ahlbeck The writer is D.Sc. and lecturer at Abo Akademi University, Finland 17.03.2010

The mystery deepens — where did that decline go? « JoNova

If 1958 temperatures were similar to the 1990’s, it rewrites the entire claim of all the unprecedented warming of late. Lansner also remind us of the photos taken in the arctic by submarines that surfaced around the north pole.

AGW Not Blamed For Record-Breaking Weather Event « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

No dust devil has been seen this far from the equator at such an early season before. Is the planet warming up? Why doesn’t anybody blame humans?

Climate Action Network Canada

OTTAWA - A new report from the Climate Action Network Canada- Réseau action climat Canada details a “troubling catalogue of actions” by the federal government to muzzle its own climate scientists and weaken the research capacity of Canada’s climate science community.

Released just days after a federal budget that effectively slashed funding for university-based climate science by failing to renew the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, the report documents a disturbing pattern of federal actions that undermine the scientific research that must underpin responsible federal climate change policy.

World Climate Report » Problems with the Permafrost?

Blok et al. conclude “These results suggest that the expected expansion of deciduous shrubs in the Arctic region, triggered by climate warming, may reduce summer permafrost thaw. Increased shrub growth may thus partially offset further permafrost degradation by future temperature increases. Permafrost models need to include a dynamic vegetation component to accurately predict future permafrost thaw.”

All You Need To Know About KGL - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

You can't choose or design those things which threaten you, but if I could, I'd have chosen this. And the fact that the promoters can't risk having it be the subject of public scrutiny or conversation as they seek to massage deals with industry — so proud! — also reveals an opponent I'd prefer.

[1.5 hour video] Panel: ‘The Changing Debate on Climategate’ - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit — As with the health-care bill currently staggering through Congress, voters may not know all the details of Climategate — but they know corruption when they smell it. Michigan’s Mackinac Center took advantage of increased public awareness of the issue by organizing a panel, “The Changing Debate on Climate Change,” for the benefit of a state in the crosshairs of Washington warming legislation. The event was held Tuesday at Oakland University north of Detroit.

American Thinker: Breaking the Obama Code: The Green Money Machine

Weeks before falsified documents surfaced confirming global warming as little more than another far-left power grab, a CPA report celebrated $1,248,740,645,930.00 invested since 2007. The monies came from finance institutes and corporations in North America, Europe, China, India, Japan and Brazil.

Welcome to the ethics-based global revolution. The tangle of corrupt, hypocritical liars is made far worse by the growing realization of just how badly America was duped.

The Texas Petition against the U.S. EPA’s Endangerment Finding: A User’s Guide (Part II in a series) — MasterResource

The complete Texas Petition is available here in a single pdf file. But to make it easier to navigate, we have broken the full Petition up into its individual sections, and linked them into the Table of Contents page, which we reproduce below. Hopefully, this will enable you to read through it in a more directed fashion so that you can go straight to which ever section you may be most interested in and see how Texas lays out its case for Reconsideration.

End the climate science madness

This climate madness is based on a massive delusion, spearheaded by ignorant politicians, officials and cynical industries lining up to profit from idiotic “green” subsidies.

We must keep the pressure on the Senate not to ratify any treaty advocated by the administration and its equally science-ignorant cheerleaders.

(Sabella lives in Napa.)

Is Cap and Trade Really the Answer?

...maybe the story should focus on Jobs, National Security, Energy Independence, and then Global Climate Change.

Michigan's Costly Tab for 'Cap-and-Trade' [Mackinac Center]

Cap-and-trade legislation will hit Michigan hard by 2030 if passed, costing the state as many as 91,000 jobs while raising residential energy costs as much as 60 percent and cutting a family's disposable income by as much as $1,400 a year, according to a new study.

Reuters AlertNet - 'Pervasive, wide-ranging' climate impacts in US, White House task force finds

Climate change is already having "pervasive, wide-ranging" effects on "nearly every aspect of our society," a task force representing more than 20 federal agencies reported Tuesday.

"These impacts will influence how and where we live and work as well as our cultures, health and environment," the report states. "It is therefore imperative to take action now to adapt to a changing climate."

Indeed, climate change has begun to affect the ability of government agencies to fulfill their missions, reports the White House Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

The hysteria of warming | delawareonline.com | The News Journal

Al Gore, Hollywood VIPs and deep-thinking intellectuals are scared we are cooking planet Earth. Their grim reports about global warming's cataclysmic effects (certain to occur anytime between later this afternoon and the middle of the 23rd century) are the latest in a string of disaster scenarios that make great movie themes. But in real life, such frenzied, Chicken Little predictions have posted a solid losing record.

HSBC bankers turn climate crunch champions - Telegraph

Bankers may not be the world's most popular people, but at HSBC they have the good of the planet at heart – the bank has invested $35 million in sending employees to assess the potential effects of climate change and preach the green gospel to colleagues back at the office. Serena Allott joins a group of volunteers in India.

Flashback: Gee, thanks a lot, HSBC!

Barclays and HSBC: making the case for climate action by big banks - ClimateChangeCorp.com

The opportunities for banks from climate change are huge, according to HSBC, one of the world’s biggest banks.

It's a tough climate for Elizabeth May and the Greens - The Globe and Mail

Whither the Green Party? Since Copenhagen, climate change has done a fast fade as a high-priority issue. Al Gore is yesterday's man. Michael Ignatieff has moved on from his carbon-tax days. Those discrediting climate change have gained ground. And Elizabeth May isn't happy.

The Green Party Leader is getting even less news media attention than usual, the usual being crumbs. There's no doubt, she says, that the neo-cons are being heard, no doubt that journalists have changed focus, no doubt that Copenhagen was a failure.
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The naysayers on climate change are driving her up the wall. “There is this completely bogus attempt to say that there is something wrong with the science. It amazes me.” The science tells us how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere, she says. “The data is rock-solid and it tells us that there's now 30 per cent more CO2 than at any time.” It's “not complicated. It's like, if you add salt to water, you're going to get salt water.”

Most Africans Blame Themselves for Climate Change, Poll Finds : TreeHugger

Most of the Africans interviewed hadn't heard of climate change, much less understood that it was the result of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere. They've just seen firsthand how weather conditions are changing (droughts, for one) for the worse, and have adopted a belief that they must be responsible for the shift.

Smog danger inflated: climate change critic

A Canadian economist known for his controversial critique of climate-change science has turned his sights on the health effects of smog, concluding in a new study that pollution has no impact on the number of hospital admissions for respiratory illness.

Estimates that airborne contaminants cause thousands of deaths a year - often cited by public-health authorities and medical associations - are gross exaggerations, argues the University of Guelph's Ross McKitrick in the paper.

Frost fans on early to beat cold snap | New Zealand

Nervous grapegrowers were on standby as temperatures fell to unseasonably low levels overnight.
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Francis Estate vineyard manager Polly Francis said three of the Ward company's four frost fans ran intermittently from 3.30am until 5.30am to combat the 1C ground temperature.

"We've never had this before so early on in the season," she said.

Anorak News » Blog Archive » Greens Losing War On Climate Change As Americans No Longer Care

Another issue though, of special importance, is the degree of concern about tropical rain forests. Despite being a poster child of the warmists, the level here is at an absolute all-time low, down to 33 percent from 42 percent in 1989.

What makes this special, amongst other things, is that as public subscriptions to environmental groups such as WWF is actually going down, the proportion of their income from trusts and foundations, governments and corporate is actually going up, with a huge increase in spending on Amazon projects.

Thus, these figure – to a certain extent – measure not only public sentiment but the growing divide between us and our rulers and the corporate world. Never in the field of human history, perhaps, have so many been out of touch with the public.

Electric cars and 40 new nuclear power stations to meet climate change [swindle] targets - Telegraph

Every car on the road will need to be electric and there will be solar panels on every home, 10,000 wind turbines onshore and 40 new nuclear power stations if the Government is to stand a chance of meeting strict climate change targets, engineers have warned.

Beware of the climate change mind police - Chris James - On Line Opinion - 18/3/2010

Congratulations to the mining and resources industries and their cohorts for a successful campaign in mind control. They have managed to change public opinion on global warming. How do these executives sleep at night knowing that millions of people across the world are going to lose their homes and possibly their lives to climate change and rising sea levels?
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The genuine scientists who worked on the IPCC report were lost in the mire of the climate sceptics’ public relations propaganda, which, everyone suspects, is backed by enormous mineral industry funds.

The result is clear: an absolute campaign of mind control is occurring, but this happens with fascist governments, or in a dictatorships or a military regime doesn’t it? Surely it doesn’t happen through the Western democratic processes; or does it?

Chris James - On Line Opinion Author

Dr Chris James is an artist, writer, researcher and psychotherapist. She lives on a property in regional Victoria and lectures on psychotherapeutic communities and eco-development.

Coal Beats Solar as Analysts Favor Peabody Energy (Update1) - BusinessWeek

March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street’s contribution to the debate on how to curb global warming: Buy coal, sell solar.

Peabody Energy Corp., the biggest coal producer, is rated a “buy” by 79 percent of analysts, while 44 percent recommend First Solar Inc., the largest maker of thin-film solar panels. The Stowe Global Coal index of 38 coal producers has gained 6.5 percent in 2010, and the Bloomberg Global Leaders Solar index of 38 solar module and component makers has dropped 17 percent.

Amazon.com: Hemp For Victory: A Global Warming Solution (9780979376511): Richard M. Davis: Books

His book is a visit to the USA Hemp Museum's Environmental and Biofuel rooms, teaching folks how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.

Today’s Global Warming Fear-Mongering Is Tomorrow’s Late-Night Camp TV

Today, these ’70s efforts are seen as equally campy as Refer Madness became three or four decades after its release. The eco-doomsday films of the naughts, such as The Day After Tomorrow, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, and Al Gore’s own An Inconvenient Truth are well on the way to becoming late night camp TV themselves, and at much faster rate as their equally schlocky predecessors.

Perhaps someone can recut Al’s film and dub it “Climate Madness.” Maybe hire William Shatner to cut an exaggerated Jack Webb-style parody opening.

Who knows: “Climate Madness” could eventually even have the same impact on its genre as his wife Tipper’s efforts to curb raunchy lyrics in pop music.

Climate change defeating one in five farmers, many close to that point | Courier Mail

CLIMATE change is pushing more farmers to breaking point, with almost a fifth of surveyed farmers unable to cope with any further changes in farm conditions and another third close to that point, experts say.

[But why are people so healthy in places where it's much warmer?]: Climate Change Could be Affecting Human Health in Alaska | APRN

The story of climate change reshaping our natural environment is well known. But the warming planet has also had dramatic impacts on human health in Alaska and around the world. Health experts in the state addressed the topic at a forum Tuesday night in Anchorage sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation.

UN: You should go back to Stone Age living to protect polar bears. By the way, we don't really care about polar bears.

The Associated Press: Polar bear ban defeated at UN conservation meeting

DOHA, Qatar — A U.S.-backed proposal to ban the international trade of polar bear skins, teeth and claws was defeated Thursday at a U.N. wildlife meeting over concerns it would hurt indigenous economies and arguments the practice didn't pose a significant threat to the animals.
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Data available on polar bear trade shows that since the early 1990s the market for polar bear carcasses and parts has increased. From 1992 to 2006, approximately 31,294 live polar bears, carcasses or parts were exported to 73 different countries, according to data collected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Christian Coalition backs Sen. Graham on climate [hoax] legislation | Grist

Could the Christian Coalition give fledgling climate legislation the leg up it needs? The organization boasts 2.5 million supporters, largely conservative Republicans; if they embraced the cause, they could give a big boost to efforts to build a bipartisan coalition for a clean-energy and climate bill.

USD Forum Discusses Effects Of ‘Global Warming’

Sweeney said trends are averaged over decades or more, and that even a trend might not accurately represent the state of the overall climate.

“For the last eight years, people have been saying that South Dakota has been cooler than normal,” he said. “While that is true, the climate has still been warming, the oceans have been warming, the atmosphere has been warming.”

A rough winter for global warming - NJ.com

Pay these errors no mind, we are told. There are bound to be minor gaffes in data so voluminous, and they do nothing to detract from the consensus. The "science is settled" is the common refrain, despite the fact that the phrase is, in itself, not a terribly scientific thing to say. And even they must admit there comes a point when we find enough unsettling revelations behind the science to legitimately question whether it is, in fact, settled.

Global Warming Heats Up at the Smithsonian - The Human Condition Blog - Newsweek.com

Greenpeace activists were staging a “climate-crime-scene investigation” at the entrance to the museum. We had to pass “climate-crime unit” squad cars (with flashing green signals) and emergency vehicles, yellow crime-scene tape, and a line of activists holding up WANTED signs for a billionaire by the name of David Koch and his brother Charles.