Gore takes cash for water campaign from chemical firm - Americas, World - The Independent

Al Gore, the self-styled squeakiest-clean and deepest-green politician in American history, has some explaining to do this weekend. His environmental organisation has taken money to raise awareness about the need for clean water from a controversial chemicals company involved in the aftermath of one of the world's worst pollution disasters.

ZIZ - National Broadcasting Corporation of St. Kitts & Nevis

Mrs. Clinton said the United States will also promote the use of shale gas.

[Greenpeace "reviled" in Greenland?]

Less popular, at least among the people of Greenland, is the eco-campaign group Greenpeace, which is reviled there for blocking the import in the west of seal products. The aim was to end the clubbing of baby seals off Newfoundland but the move made it impossible for Inuit to sell sealskin taken in their own separate hunts of adult seals, an injustice and an insult by "ignorant southerners", says Anderson.

Even at The Guardian, brief flashes of climate sanity?!

Feel free to doubt climate change: just don't deny it | Environment | The Guardian

...science is simply organised scepticism. "In truth, we are all climate sceptics," says [Tim Palmer, professor of climate physics at Oxford]
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"There might be a 50% risk of widespread problems or possibly only 1%," says Palmer. "Frankly, I would have said a risk of 1% was sufficient for us to take the problem seriously enough to start thinking about reducing emissions."

Daily scoreboard « Don Surber

“Point Carbon estimates carbon costs of yet-to-be-released Senate climate bill.” A 150% increase in the gas tax to 45¢ a gallon plus a $31 a ton tax on coal doubling the Scorekeeper’s electric bill.

This is a Kill The Red States Act of 2010.
...Despite all the rending of clothes, global warming helps life on the planet; global cooling kills.

Warnings a lot of hot air, says PHART

''Our research shows that up to 60 per cent of deeply tanned bilingual women between the ages of 22 and 23 find the prospect of being warned more alarming than the risk of nuclear war, climate change and Saturday night on King Street combined,'' said CRAP mouthpiece Yossarian Q. Willesee. ''What this makes clear is that we need to radically reduce the number of public warnings being issued by nebulous groups with impressively official titles.''

Happy Lenin’s Birthday, er, Earth Day « Don Surber

The concern back in the 1970s was global cooling. We would freeze to death.

To today’s devotees of the notion that evil capitalism is destroying the world and melting glaciers and the polar icecaps, Happy Lenin’s Birthday.

I try to respect all religions.

Twitter / Repower America [Gore's climate hoax group points us to an ultra-lame video of a cat promoting the greatest scientific fraud in human history]

Cats want clean energy, too: http://bit.ly/97DYxt

[First green president to take lengthy fossil-fueled trip for partisan political purposes?]

WASHINGTON — A White House official says President Barack Obama will go to Los Angeles on April 19 to raise money for Sen. Barbara Boxer.

[Blasphemy: Now there are bigger problems than what was sold as the biggest problem ever?] - Telegraph

Climate change is a threat but deterioration and loss of habitat is a bigger problem, he says.

Newsflash: The fightback campaign against sceptics « JoNova

The advocates of man-made global warming are getting sick of reading all the comments by the masses of skeptical public citizens.

They’re desperate enough to try to rally the troops in blog comment land. They must be hurting.

Rex Murphy: Save the Earth ... or else - Full Comment

Like every self-appointed messiah before them, these militant environmentalists view with chill contempt those others who cannot see their truth, who won’t bow to their self-assigned imperatives. It’s not just that they won’t abide those who differ from them. They want them actively punished.

They are a very tense and unmoored bunch, possessed — in the old sense — with a vision that brooks no dissent. Gene and Polly have done us the wonderful favour of offering a glimpse of the future, were the future theirs to ordain.

Global warming game shows importance of public pressure - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Government leaders love one thing even more than money — staying in power. Imagine if the public could be organized so that reducing emissions were a make-or-break issue for a government.

[We're saved!: People who unnecessarily drive fast for long distances allegedly go green]: | FavStocks

The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) presented by Tequila Patrón unveiled its “Green Dream Team”, a collection of five drivers who will serve as ambassadors for its green racing initiatives. ALMS believes the announcement is the first of its kind in sports addressing the concerns of the global warming, the environment and reducing dependence on foreign fuels and energy sources.

American Le Mans Series: Information from Answers.com

Race lengths vary from 1 hour, 40 minutes to 12 hours.

- Bishop Hill blog - More from Sir Muir and his team

David Holland writes with the latest update on the bizarre attempts by the Russell inquiry to withhold publication of his evidence.

Climategate: a scandal that won’t go away - Telegraph

As is reflected in so many political tragedies, from Macbeth to Watergate, it is often not the original dark act itself which leads to nemesis but the later attempts to “trammel up the consequence”. Nothing will do more to reinforce suspicion of the CRU’s conduct than the failure, first by those MPs, and now by the team led by Lord Oxburgh, to address properly the way in which it appears to have abused the principles of true science – a scandal which should be of concern not just to us here in Britain, who paid for it, but across the world.

[Alarmist Attenborough takes unnecessary, consecutive, fossil-fueled trips to both Poles]

Attenborough, who also recently visited the South Pole, said: 'The Poles - North and South - look superficially very similar. But when you visit them within a few weeks of one another, as I have just done, you realise how profoundly different they are and how what is happening to them is going to affect the entire planet,' he added.

[Academic idiots: Through a complicated chain of "logic", the effect of tiny amounts of CO2 on prairie dogs may cause hundreds of other species to go extinct]

As it turns out, climate change could be a bigger threat to the Utah animal's future than disease, poison and all other factors combined, found one researcher at Northern Arizona University.
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A couple of points are well-established, said Con Slobodchikoff, NAU biology professor and prairie dog expert: There are nine species directly related to the prairie dogs and 200 other animal species with less-direct connections.

Where the prairie dogs die or are removed, these other species also tend to go extinct, too, he said.

[Economics] Professor’s Perspective: Reasons to be Concerned about Climate Change — The Wesleyan Argus

The Senator’s efforts to build support for climate policy will be supported by the release of four separate reports on climate by the National Academies of Science under the rubric of “America’s Climate Choices” and the release of another Academy report on the implications of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations. They will also be augmented by a National Climate Adaptation Summit hosted by the Obama Administration.

The Hockey Schtick: The Incorrect Postulate of Climate Alarmism

Very interesting series of posts today on the blog of Dr. Claes Johnson, Professor of Applied Mathematics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden on his physical derivation of a climate model which predicts the sensitivity of the earth's climate to a doubling of CO2 to be only 0.15ºC, which is in far better agreement with the five peer reviewed studies of empirical satellite data, and in stark contrast to the IPCC/GISS models which artificially inflate the effect of CO2 by a factor of up to 5.35 over the Stefan-Boltzmann prediction to create their artificial alarm.

Does the UN’s involvement in forming and advocating global warming theory impact your belief in it? | Its My Forum

...global warming theory – which is the justification for new taxes (which is what cap and trade is, since it imposes a cost that will be directly surcharged to the consumer) – has been developed and advocated primarily by the UN and other governmental agencies. Very little research into global warming has been funded by non-governmental sources – - and it is the government that stands to benefit from the result.

Dr. James E. Hansen Lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 19 « Upstate NY Permaculture Network

ITHACA, N.Y. – Dr. James E. Hansen, the father of climate-change [junk] science, will speak at Cornell just prior to the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

Climate change engenders reorganisation at all levels : Kaieteur News

From the economic perspective, Member of Parliament, Winston Murray, queried whether the world was prepared to pay a price for Guyana to save its forests.

Maurice Newman is dead right about the ABC | The Spectator

Almost two years ago, ABC1 presenter Tony Jones told Crikey publisher Eric Beecher and a Melbourne audience that between 2001 and 2008 the members of the Lateline team made up their minds about the science of climate change. The sceptics, they’d decided, were wrong.

GE: 7,000 tax returns, $0 U.S. tax bill - Apr. 16, 2010

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- General Electric filed more than 7,000 income tax returns in hundreds of global jurisdictions last year, but when push came to shove, the company owed the U.S. government a whopping bill of $0.

PowerPoint slides from Dr. Willie Soon’s Congressional staff briefing held in DC on April 13, 2010 | Climate Realists

In 2007 the Supreme Court commented that “greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of air pollutant.” In this presentation, Dr. Soon will discuss why atmospheric CO2 is not an “air pollutant”. Three points of discussion will be:

(1) CO2 is not an air pollutant,

(2) Ocean acidification claims are exaggerated,

(3) The magical CO2 control knob idea “to save the world” is essentially dead.

The 2007 IPCC report falls well short of its advertising

"People can have confidence in the IPCC's conclusions…Given that it is all on the basis of peer-reviewed literature." - Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairman, June 2008

GOP gov. candidates debate climate change, kicker - Portland, Oregon | Local & Regional

Both Alley and Dudley said they believe in climate change [who doesn't?] but didn’t go so far as to blame humankind.
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Lim, a former state legislator, said he does believe global warming is happening but he does not blame human activity.

[Wisconsin: Climate swindle bill "in trouble"] - JSOnline

Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker (D-Wausau) said Friday he doesn't think there are enough votes in the Senate to support the current version of a bill that would control carbon emissions and require more use of renewable energy sources.
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The legislative leader's comments are a sign that the bill - a linchpin in the agendas of Gov. Jim Doyle and a coalition of businesses and environmentalists - is in trouble.

[This didn't get much publicity, did it?]

On April 15 and 16, energy ministers from across the Western Hemisphere, including U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, gathered in Washington D.C. for the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas.

AFP: Tokyo records rare mid-April snow

TOKYO — Tokyo recorded its latest spring snowfall in more than 40 years on Saturday, when a light dusting mixed with rain fell in the Japanese capital before dawn, the weather agency said.

An unseasonable cold front sent the mercury falling to 1.4 degrees Celsius (35 Fahrenheit), forcing train operators to suspend Shinkansen bullet train services, while roads were closed in some eastern and northern areas.

The Sierra Club: How Support for Industrial Wind Technology Subverts Its History, Betrays Its Mission, and Erodes Commitment to the Scientific Method (Part I) — MasterResource

Energy religionists have run the Sierra Club for some time, and they practice a high church kind of back-to-nature faith in wind as an effective weapon in the war against carbon that is akin to dogma (and as such is not susceptible to right reason). In this, virtually every mainline environmental group has common cause with the Sierra Club in its desire to bring King Coal to his knees, and is similarly inclined about decommissioning coal, nuclear, and hydro power plants.

Reply to: “Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes” « Watts Up With That?

In short, the loss of all ice in Iceland would make the volcanoes less destructive.

- Bishop Hill blog - Overheard

Picking the right team is the sine qua non. A panel of sound people, leavened with a handful of neutrals (purely for effect, you understand) will produce the required result every time. Edward’s appointments to the emails panel were a case in point. True believers are not going to let you down, Bernard.

The true nature of sceptics | The Australian

Unafraid, questioning minds are central to the pursuit of truth and democracy

Weekly Address Watch: For the thirty-eighth time in forty weeks, The First Green President ignores global warming

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama said that in the wake of the economic crisis Wall Street reform is too important an issue for inaction.

From tobacco to climate change, ‘merchants of doubt’ undermined the science | Grist

Although most of these scientists were influential men in themselves (and they are all men), they could not have done as much damage without powerful allies.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Senate climate bill to roll out 4/26 http://j.mp/ClimBill Will atmosphere be impressed after all the horsetrading?

Corn Rises as Decaying El Nino Pattern Boosts U.S. Drought Odds - BusinessWeek

April 16 (Bloomberg) -- Corn rose, capping the biggest weekly gain in two months, on speculation that cooling Pacific Ocean waters will boost the odds for a drought in the U.S. Midwest, reducing yields in the country’s biggest crop.

Severe winter devastates Mongolian herder families

A particularly severe winter in Mongolia is having a devastating impact on more than 12,000 people from herding families, whose entire reserves of livestock have died in the harsh conditions.

These livestock are the primary source of income and food for nomadic families, and as a result thousands are struggling to survive. The impact on the country’s vital livestock reserves has increased dramatically in the past month. In March, the government reported the overall number of deceased animals increased from one million to 4.5 million in less than a month, and now stands at approximately 10 per cent of the country’s total livestock.

Lunch, With a Side of Climate Denial | Mother Jones

The event itself was a case study in how these guys manage to keep this non-issue alive. Discover's Sheril Kirshenbaum has an excellent post up about their strategy and why it works (hint: the Chick-Fil-A is part of it). In any case, don't expect the skeptics to give up on Climategate any time soon. Heritage and CEI are planning another event on the matter for June 17.

Is Our Scientists Learning? | Sheril Kirshenbaum | Discover Magazine

Special interest groups were frequently very well organized. They spoke with a common theme and brought articulate speakers. Rather than stop in our office, they usually hosted large and well attended briefings, supplying easy to digest hardcover books with titles like ‘climate change conspiracy.’ Typically they were funny and made references to Michael Crichton’s science fiction. Perhaps most importantly, they provided a free boxed lunches and held long Q&As to engage the audience.

Ezra Klein - A '50-50' chance that the Senate passes a climate change bill this year?

Color me skeptical. I think the right wing is just too committed to the idea that taxes are always and everywhere bad (even if they're rebated) and that global warming is a hoax Al Gore dreamed up to annoy SUV drivers. But we'll see. The bill will be unveiled in the next few weeks.

[Mountaintop mining is evil, yet mountaintop windmills are wonderful?] - Bluster over allegedly Yale-backed windmills in Maine

About 37 percent of Yale’s endowment is invested in alternative assets such as timber, oil and gas.
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Not only will they generate noise and unwanted lights, said Greg Perkins, a soil scientist who plans to retire with his wife to a cabin on the side of Stewart Mountain, but the turbines will destroy the natural scenery — the main reason, Perkins said, for living in a town that is miles away from offices and that has just one tiny store and one road.

“It’s a great boon financially, and I’m for renewable energy and wind energy,” Perkins said, “but the top of these mountains isn’t a responsible place to site wind turbines because of the ecological destruction it does.”

New poll from Harry Reid's home state: Just over a third are global warming believers

Poll: Nevada skeptical of global warming - News - ReviewJournal.com

Nevadans are cool to the idea the planet is getting warmer and to a proposed government fix, according to a new poll.

Fifty-five percent of respondents believe global warming is "unproven and subject to debate," compared with 35 percent who consider it "a scientifically established reality," according to the poll by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. The percentage of skeptics is up 11 points from a similar survey in 2008.

Although public sentiment doesn't melt glaciers or evaporate Colorado River water, it does affect the way Nevadans view legislation aimed at reducing the rate of planetary warming. Fifty-five percent of respondents oppose legislation to restrict carbon gas emissions, while 37 percent support it.

California: Family Water Alliance founder cold on global warming

The woman who started one of the most powerful grassroots water alliances in the state has now embarked on another crusade.

Sue Sutton, founder of Family Water Alliance, a coalition of farmers and others concerned about the future of agriculture and private property rights, is now fighting regulatory actions relating to human-caused climate change — at least until science convinces her global warming exists.

Sutton said the global warming hypothesis, which many claim lacks scientific validity, has serious impacts on legislation, regulations and taxes.

"It's a hoax," Sutton said. "As citizens of America, we really need to speak up."

Obama approves disaster assistance from February's snowstorms - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Pennsylvania could get about $56 million in federal aid for counties around the state affected by February's record snowfall, Gov. Ed Rendell's office announced this afternoon.

UPDATE 2-Toyota to recall 870,000 Sienna 1998-2010 minivans | Reuters

The recalls cover minivans sold in several cold weather U.S. states and Canada due to potential corrosion from long term exposure to road salt that could in the worst case, cause the spare tire to separate from the vehicle, Toyota said.

Amazon dam delay overturned by Brazil judge - Forbes.com

BRASILIA, Brazil -- A judge on Friday overturned a decision that could have delayed construction of a huge Amazon dam opposed by environmentalists, Indians and the director of "Avatar."

Obama ran on a platform of lies under the banner of Hope and Change

There is more than enough hard evidence out there to prove that liberals are far more comfortable with a lie than they are with the truth. Al Gore’s ridiculous assertions in regard to global warming are a good example.

U.K. Rolls Out Carbon Trading for Businesses Would the U.S. Adopt It Too? (Energy Priorities)

It will be important, however, for CRC to avoid becoming a poster child against cap-and-trade by demonstrating that it is not subject to the various problems that have plagued the EU's Emissions Trading System, including price collapses, hackers and improper recycling of certified emissions reductions.

Climategate: 'Hockey stick' bashed by statistician | Midwest Voices

Defenders of climate science say pratfalls like the hockey stick, or the recent melting-glaciers blooper, were isolated instances of human error. Maybe. Yet people are entitled to ask, Why have all the errors run in one direction -- toward hype?

Any questions?

New strategy for Senate's climate bill leaves out global warming

Global warming policy is no longer driving comprehensive climate legislation as it did last year with the House's Waxman-Markey bill. The new message, considered to resonate better with the public and be more agreeable among legislators, has this three-pronged goal: energy independence, job creation, and cleaner air.

Your power bills will triple | Herald Sun

There is one reason and one person to blame: the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. He is condemning all Australians to this literally dim and very expensive future, whether or not Penny Wong's ETS Dead Parrot is brought to life.

Markey presses coal CEOs on climate change denialism, future of the industry in a low carbon economy (posting from Climate Science Watch)

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) was even more blunt. “If you take the lifeline sent to the coal industry in this bill, the industry will have a future. If you do not, it will not have a future.”

C3: Liberals/Democrats Stunned To Learn Glaciers Started Melting 100+ Years Before 1980: Not Aware of Little Ice Age End!

Much to the consternation of leading leftists/liberals/progressives, the press is starting to inform these mainstream elites of real data-based science. They are now learning about the empirical evidence which shows that global warming has been happening since the end of the Little Ice Age.

The Migrant Mind: Polar Bears have seen warmth before.

...This, of course, means that polar bears lived through the last interglacial period when it was warmer than it is today. And we are supposed to worry about us killing the polar bears. What a laugh. The bears can take care of themselves.

Climate Common Sense: Heads in the Sand- Climate Scepticism Can Be Cured!

For those suffering from acute Climate Scepticism brought about by inadvertent exposure to faulty data and contaminated emails help is at hand.
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She should get a lot of business given that two thirds of the UK population obviously have mental problems because they think climate change is a load of bollocks!

Boulder's inaugural climate [hoax] summit draws big crowd with big ideas - Boulder Daily Camera

The City Council, which approved the summits last summer as part of its Climate Action Plan, wants to host one every six months with the goal of creating a central place to share ideas and set goals for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions in the city.

[Claim: Additional highway lane leads to less global warming]

Gibson has suggested constructing an additional lane on the Northway to alleviate traffic congestion, which he said would indirectly reduce global warming because commuters would spend less time in traffic with vehicle engines running.

Claim: More Highways Lead to More Global Warming

According to an analysis by the Sightline Institute, global-warming causing CO2 emissions from one mile of a single lane of new highway, amortized over 50 years, would equal between 116,000 and 185,600 tons, if including construction and maintenance emissions, congestion relief, additional vehicle travel on the facility and induced vehicle travel off facility. In other words, building 10 miles of four-lane highway is like putting 46,700 Hummers on the road.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Gallup: Majority says Obama doesn’t deserve to be reelected

Obama asks businesses to get behind climate [swindle] bill

Obama made the plug during a meeting Friday with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which includes the heads of General Electric, Caterpillar and Oracle, along with labor leaders and economists.

He told the group the climate bill _ which would cap global warming emissions _ is good for business and that members of Congress need to hear that.
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Obama said he expects to work on the legislation after spending several more weeks completing a financial regulation bill.

"This is one of these foundational priorities from my perspective that has to be done soon," the president said of the climate bill.

Climate Change is Not Just About the Climate, it is About Our Lives : TreeHugger

The climate has changed a lot in my community [in Peru]. There is rain and frost when we are not expecting it

[Sign of the times: No mention of climate or warming in this article]: Green vs. Growth: The Battle Rages On - WSJ.com

Warning Signs: A Week of Green Brainwashing

Forget about “anthropogenic” (produced by man) CO2. The Earth generates 97% of all the CO2 in the atmosphere. We would all surely die if there was no CO2 because everything that’s really green, from a blade of grass to a giant Sequoia tree, depends on it.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Carbon Dioxide at $1,000 per Tonne in NSW

Other projects paid for by the fund, which is sustained by a levy on energy and water bills, included a $20,000 grant to Dungog Shire Council to put a solar heater on its swimming pool, saving one tonne of carbon dioxide.

Kim Strassel: The Greens' Ground Zero - WSJ.com

Regulatory wins aside, it's been a bleak 15 months for the environmental left. President Obama's election was supposed to bring a climate-control regime that would finally give greens the tools to dismantle our industrial society. Instead, scandal has left climate science in tatters. The recession has sent the majority scurrying away from a comprehensive cap-and-tax bill. Some Democrats are embracing legislation to curtail the EPA's planned carbon regulations.

Their campaign in the balance, enviros shudder at Mr. Pombo back in Washington.

Not again: Yet another warmist has to be rescued from Arctic cold

Tom Smitheringale's Record Breaking, Unaided North Pole Expedition

Part of the reason Tom’s One Man Epic is taking place now is because of the effect that global warming is having on the polar ice caps. Over the past 20 years, scientists have noticed that our world is heating up. As the great polar ice floes melt, sea levels are slowly rising and the huge glaciers are becoming weaker and weaker. Some scientists have even estimated that the polar ice cap will have entirely melted away by 2014!

April 5: Frostbite

Tom Smitheringale’s frostbitten thumbs caused him a lot of pain, so much so that he decided to ask for an evacuation. After several phone calls and some rest he cancelled his decision and is more than ever determined to carry on.

April 7: Smitheringale's frostbite setback - ABC Perth - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Tom Smitheringale's One Man Epic trek across the Arctic has suffered a setback as agonising frostbite settles in.

April 16: Australian rescued by Canadian Forces after Arctic accident

Although the weather was favourable for the rescue mission, Smitheringale was about 460 kilometres northwest of Canadian Forces Station Alert — the edge of the operating range of the two twin otter search planes and civilian helicopter that were dispatched to the accident site, said Robert.
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Smitheringale was picked up around 9 p.m. Thursday and transported to CFS Alert suffering from hypothermia and frostbite in his extremities, said Robert.
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Smitheringale, who had already trekked nearly 300 kilometres and had endured temperatures as low as -50 degrees Celsius over the previous 46 days, is expected to be evacuated from CFS Alert to a civilian hospital on Friday.

No Frakking Consensus: What's Left if We Disregard Non-Peer-Reviewed Claims?

Altogether, the four paragraphs on the page amount to 593 words. But only 98 of those words - 17 percent - are backed up by peer-reviewed research. And remember, according to the IPCC chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, all other research deserves to be thrown into the dustbin (see the end of the linked article).

Ethanol Free Gas - OregonLive.com

You remember the 2007 energy bill? It's another fine mess Congress has gotten us into. Bush should have vetoed it - along with the farm bill. But that's another story. Back then global warming was all the rage. Well, that argument has cooled substantially. What didn't was the 2007 mandate for refiners to goop up our gas with ethanol.

Senate Dems Prepare to Sneak Through Tax & Charade : Stop The ACLU

Remember Lieberman’s participation in this unfolding catastrophe next time someone tries to pass him off as a moderate or a man of principle. If he would take part in Al Gore’s alarming attempt to seize power after losing the 2000 election, it’s unsurprising he would crawl into bed with the likes of Hanoi John Kerry and the quintessential moonbat RINO Lindsey Graham.

Even some Democrats smell a decomposing rat...

California climate [hoax] fight may set spending record

SACRMENTO -- A dispute between environmental groups and refiners Tesoro Corp. and Valero Energy Corp. over global warming laws in California may flare into a political campaign with a price tag exceeding $150 million.

Fla. python hunting season comes to an end - Florida AP - MiamiHerald.com

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Florida's first python hunting season ends Saturday with no reptiles being reported captured and killed, wildlife officials said Friday.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the state's unseasonably cold winter weather is believed to have killed up to 50 percent of the pythons.

Pediatric Environmentalism - Forbes.com

Kids should be learning science--not feel-good advocacy--in school.

Top scientists rush to defend discredited theory of 'runaway' global warming

The late, great newspaperman and critic H.L. Mencken would have thoroughly enjoyed debunking and attacking the silly ravings of today’s global warming alarmists. The following quote, vintage Mencken, describes perfectly the forces at work behind the AGW scare campaign.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Today’s great hobgoblin appears in the shape of a molecule known as CO2.

Greens shouldn't blow their top over Eyjafjallajökull - Telegraph

The volcanic disruption may distract from combating climate change, writes Geoffrey Lean.

AISI | The Wages Of Climate Inaction

Few industry lobbyists or energy analysts are betting that climate-change legislation will become law this year.

Chances Of Climate Bill Passing This Year Are Slim, Says Expert – Talk Radio News Service

The odds of Congress passing a comprehensive climate control bill in 2010 are not very good, according to Margie Kriz Hobson with the National Journal. Hobson, an energy and environment reporter at the Washington, D.C. based political news organization, told Talk Radio News Service on Friday that simply put, Democrats who want a bill passed do not have the votes.

Climate Alarmists Attack iPad & Cloud Computing | The Resilient Earth

The future of the iPad and cloud computing is both bright and green, despite the histrionics of dim-bulb climate change alarmists. They claim to love nature, but it is human progress that they hate.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Duh

Electric current is electric current. However, in a country like Germany, the price that utilities are required to pay for electric current varies based on its source. While electricity from, say, a diesel generator gets 4-5 Euro cents per KwH, ground-based solar gets about 48 Euro cents per KwH. This is a 10x greater price paid solely for absolutely identical power manufactured in a different way. So of course there is going to be fraud as to the current’s source.

[More strange claims from mansion-dwelling alarmist Thomas Friedman]

Friedman said that the world faces twin challenges from "two of the most impersonal forces on the planet: the market and Mother Nature. The years 2008-2009 were the years that both the market and Mother Nature said, 'Enough! What we have been doing is unsustainable. This is your warning.'"

To drive home his point, Friedman said, "It is not a coincidence that we had the meltdowns of Citibank, the national economy of Iceland and the near extinction of the polar bear because of the melting polar ice cap all at the same time.
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Friedman said that regarding the issue of "global warming" or "climate change" he is somewhere in between former Vice President Al Gore's position and more centrist positions. "But I am like (former Vice President) Dick Cheney was on the possibility that if there was even a 1 percent chance that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, it was important to prevent him from using them. And I feel that if there is even a 1 percent chance that we face an environmental catastrophe due to climate chance, then we must do all we can to prevent it from happening."

Regarding those who question whether climate change is a real threat, Friedman said. "It's not just a bunch of extreme Al Gore stuff. Our global temperature is going up 2 or 3 degrees Fahrenheit a year since the Industrial Revolution. If you think this is no big deal, think about a person whose body temperature goes from 98 to 102, who becomes very sick, or at 106, who will go to intensive care. What is true for a person is true for the world."

Hillary Clinton: [Pretends that alternative energy is cheaper than fossil fuel energy]

“For our part, we believe the United States has a lot to learn,” Clinton said at the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas in Washington.
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By decreasing their reliance on fossil fuels, governments – particularly those in the Caribbean -- will be able to spend money instead on social and economic development while decreasing their carbon emissions and protecting the environment, Clinton added.
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Clinton also announced the Peace Corps Renewable Energy and Climate Change Initiative, which will train more than 2,000 volunteers to work on “renewable energy and climate change.”

Row to North Pole announced | Classic Boat News | Classic Boat

It was announced by sponsors Old Pulteney Single Malt yesterday that Scottish adventurer Jock Wishart, veteran of many arduous adventures as well as a crack 12-M sailor, will row to the magnetic North Pole as part of a crew of six.

North Magnetic Pole: Information from Answers.com

In 2001, the North Magnetic Pole was determined by the Geological Survey of Canada to lie near Ellesmere Island in northern Canada at 81°18′N 110°48′W / 81.3°N 110.8°W / 81.3; -110.8 (Magnetic North Pole 2001). It was estimated to be at 82°42′N 114°24′W / 82.7°N 114.4°W / 82.7; -114.4 (Magnetic North Pole 2005 est) in 2005. In 2009, it was moving toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 km) per year due to magnetic changes in the Earth's core.

Wait a minute: All global warming deniers AREN'T cousin-marrying, gun-clinging, Bible-banging US Republicans?!

More than two-third of Tories sceptical about climate change | Just Put Your Feet Up

David Cameron’s ‘new’ Conservatives are deeply sceptical about global warming – and still adore Margaret Thatcher, according to a poll today.

Despite the party leader’s much-vaunted commitment to the environment, just 28 per cent of Tory candidates in winnable seats believe new laws are needed to tackle climate change.

Science and Advocacy | Climate Skeptic

...some advocates for women’s health tried to pressure The Lancet into delaying publication of the new findings, fearing that good news would detract from the urgency of their cause

Southampton News - CO2 is tagged as culprit; Shellfish may be latest victims

Hundreds of scientists and experts from dozens of organizations around the Northeast have spent the last 10 years trying to figure out why shellfish populations on the East End of Long Island have not rebounded since being decimated by “brown tide” in huge numbers in the 1980s and 1990s.

Stephanie Talmage, a doctoral candidate at the Stony Brook University School of Atmospheric and Marine Science, thinks she and her professor might finally have the answer.

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Today I accidentally stepped on a snail
on the sidewalk in front of our house.
And I thought, I too am like that snail.
I build a defensive wall around myself, a "shell" if you will.
But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance.
Mine is made out of tin foil and paper bags.

Youth, ‘Fossils’ and Planetary Progress - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

I’ve begun focusing on younger audiences for many reasons, one being a growing realization that many adults I’ve met in 20 years of covering global warming have been locked into rigid views of the world that distort how they absorb what scientists are saying—with some grown-ups seeing utter unfolding catastrophe and others aggressively rejecting any reason for concern or action. In most cases, those reactions were more a function of belief than data.  [How, exactly, does Andy know this?]

A Dog Named Kyoto: The cost of green energy

Despite continued decline in Ontario's electricity demand, prices are soaring as we move away from coal towards "green" energy.
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And cheap electricity has long been one of the big attractions for industry to locate here. Industry that provides jobs.

Hugh Hewitt : Stopping Cap-and-Tax

In addition to Graham, the Republicans from Maine, Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe may be inclined to vote for cloture and should receive respectful requests not to do so via phone and e-mail. Ambinder suggests that Republicans Richard Lugar of Indiana, Scott Brown of Massachusetts and George LeMieux of Florida might also be leaning towards allowing the energy tax to proceed. All of them can be reached via the Capital switchboard

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Reid trails Republican by ten points in full-election poll

The survey of Nevada voters commissioned by the Review-Journal shows Reid getting 37 percent of the vote compared with 47 percent for Republican Sue Lowden, who would win if the election were today, while the slate of third-party and nonpartisan candidates would get slim to no backing.

Sen. Inhofe [video]: Dems Have No More Than 26 Votes To Pass Cap-and-Trade - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

For Oil Sands Project, a Step Forward - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A pipeline that would carry crude oil extracted from Canadian tar sand fields to refineries in Texas has edged a bit closer to approval with the State Department’s release of a draft environmental-impact statement this month. It concluded that the project’s construction and operation would have “limited adverse environmental impacts.”

Emergency aid for big freeze sheep death toll | Scotland

Farmers to receive £200,000 to deal with disposing bodies of estimated 15,000 sheep killed in worst winter in 50 years.

Obama's Curious Climate Strategy | Mother Jones

Will Obama's political calculation pay off at the eleventh hour? With the clock running out, we'll soon know the answer.

[According to the Precautionary Principle, is it OK to run over a few extra blind people if the "payoff" is a tiny chance of slightly less nice weather?]

Quiet electrics and hybrids “could potentially put pedestrians at risk, especially blind pedestrians,” NHTSA Chief David Strickland told the Society of Automotive Engineers' annual convention in Detroit Thursday.

“Strickland said that data from 12 states shows that hybrid electric vehicles do have a significantly higher incidence rate of pedestrian crashes than internal combustion engines for certain maneuvers — like slowing or stopping, backing up, entering or leaving a parking space, and making a turn.”

Proof that carbon dioxide is the Antichrist: Just today, we learn that it causes both increased slavery and increased volcanic eruptions

KENYA: Climate Change, Poverty and Tourists put Maasai Daughters at Risk « Women News Network

As climate change intensifies, the impact for families to find food, brings desperate measures. Families are now seeking any solution to survive. The selling of daughters into slave markets is, one of the solutions, causing young women , girls to be swept away by what many guess are modern slave traders.

Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes: Scientific American

OSLO (Reuters) - A thaw of Iceland's ice caps in coming decades caused by climate change may trigger more volcanic eruptions by removing a vast weight and freeing magma from deep below ground, scientists said on Friday.
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She and Sigmundsson wrote a 2008 paper in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters about possible links between global warming and Icelandic volcanoes.

That report said that about 10 percent of Iceland's biggest ice cap, Vatnajokull, has melted since 1890 and the land nearby was rising about 25 millimetres (0.98 inch) a year, bringing shifts in geological stresses.

Climate Common Sense: Lake Michigan - Green Plans to Deface It's Natural Beauty

Lake Michigan is the latest natural beauty spot targeted for the construction of ugly wind turbines as a monument to Green stupidity. The fact that it is even being considered shows the schizophrenic nature of the green mentality - forty 44 story high ideologically pure monstrosities in a natural wonderland.

Oceans' saltiness reaching extremes › News in Science (ABC Science)

The supercharging of Earth's water cycle by global warming is making some parts of our oceans saltier, while others parts are getting fresher, according to a new study.

Inner City Press: Investigative Reporting from the United Nations

But shouldn't Pachauri at least be required to formally disclose who he works for on the side, and how much he gets paid? He has resisted even this.

Inner City Press asked Ban Ki-moon and his spokesman for the UN view on this lack of transparency. The answer was that the IPCC is not a UN body, and that Pachauri would answer the questions himself. But when he came to the UN, seeking to use Ban Ki-moon as a prop and character witness, neither took any questions from the press.

Did Native Americans contribute to global warming?

Early Na­tive Amer­i­cans caused more car­bon di­ox­ide emis­sions than pre­vi­ously thought—and they thus con­tri­but­ed to glob­al warm­ing even be­fore the in­dus­t­ri­al era be­gan, a new study sug­gests.
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In­i­tial­ly, Spring­er and col­la­bo­ra­tors from Uni­vers­ity of Tex­as at Ar­ling­ton and Uni­vers­ity of Min­ne­so­ta were stu­dying his­tor­ic drought cy­cles in North Amer­i­ca us­ing iso­topes, or vari­ants, of car­bon in stal­ag­mites. To their sur­prise, they said, the car­bon rec­ord con­tained ev­i­dence of a ma­jor change in the lo­cal ec­o­sys­tem be­gin­ning at 100 B.C.

Chinese ‘Leaf’ EV Breaks Laws of Physics to Go Green | Autopia | Wired.com

The flight of fancy continues with the wheel turbines, which spin like those god-awful wheels we used to see on Cadillac Escalades. SAIC claims the turbines generate electricity as the car is moving.

War Footing - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Greens believe we are in a climate war for mankind’s survival. And not unlike WWII, that war requires that government compel — or at least underwrite — private industry to build the machines (not tanks this time, but hybrids and windmills, etc.) to win the conflict.

Unlike WWII, however, it is a war without end. And unlike WWII, it is a war that demands a permanent takeover of the means of production.

The Hockey Schtick: There He Goes Again: Mann Claims His Hockey Stick was Given "Clean Bill of Health"

Mann has been repeating this arrogant duplicitous spin continuously since Climategate and refuses to acknowledge any problems whatsoever with his infamous doomsday hockey stick graph.

Krugman Paints False Picture of Consensus Alarmism — MasterResource

Krugman gives the impression that there is widespread consensus that drastic action is needed to avert catastrophic climate change. This is simply not true, and all we have to do is actually read the consensus reports to see that Krugman is misleading his readers.

[Sad downward spiral]: 'From Drunken Party Girl To Climate Change Activist'

The dining halls decreased food waste by 38 percent by eliminating trays and developed a plan for composting the rest.

Signs of Hope - Conrad Black - National Review Online

History is replete with strange, swiftly passing political preoccupations, such as Nelson Rockefeller’s bomb shelters and Jerry Brown’s Medflies. But President Obama should be aware that he will be spending the rest of his time in office trying to amass credits that will cause historians to overlook his signing on to the inconvenient untruth of Al Gore’s self-enriching magic carpet of eco-bunk. The Himalayan glaciers are not melting; world water levels are not rising; nor is the world’s temperature; and there is no evidence, none, that human-generated carbon emissions have any impact on the world’s temperature at all, whatever other problems they create.

Large Republican gains in House seats are 'inevitable' come November: Rothenberg | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

In a new report to be issued this morning, the respected nonpartisan political prognosticator Stuart Rothenberg will predict "inevitable" Republican gains of House seats this November, likely in excess of two dozen and possibly even above the 40 necessary to turn control of that body over to the GOP.

NC Media Watch: Sunspots, volcanoes, La Nina and the UK summer weather

With the current sun inactivity similar to the Dalton Minimum, a negative PDO, a growing La Nina, and high latitude volcano eruption that could lasting years, the UK and Europe could be in for some very brutal winters and cool summers.
Some of that cool weather could spill over to the United States, including California. Stay Tuned!

Monster Chiller Horror Global Warming! | RedState

What they’re telling us is that all the heat that their whiz-bang thermodynamic climate models say must be getting trapped has gone AWOL.
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Fellas, um, I’m not a climate scientist, but have you considered the possibility that your climate models are wrong? That maybe, just maybe, there are significant earth/atmospheric/oceanic processes that aren’t understood well enough to make a half-decent computer model of them?

[In California, German Chancellor Angela Merkel promotes climate fraud to students] | Stanford Daily

Merkel also touched upon climate change, which she described as, “one of the great challenges of mankind.”

“In Copenhagen we advanced very little…it is very hard to find common answers among more than 100 participants,” she said.
Merkel appealed to the students in the audience to press current leaders to legislate solutions to climate change. “Turn up the heat, exert a little pressure,” she said.

Steven Pearlstein - Congress worked out health care. Is climate change next?

In the end, if Congress is unable to do something about global warming, it won't be because of the opposition of "special interests," but rather because of ideological zealots and Republican partisans who are determined to deny Democrats another victory, even at the cost of a planetary environmental disaster.

Cool down could damage West Michigan fruit crops this weekend | - MLive.com

GRAND RAPIDS -- If overnight temperatures dip into the 20s this weekend, trouble could be brewing for area fruit growers.

Goats still used in religious rituals

[Google uses goats in an attempt to prevent bad weather]

Last year, in our quest to minimize our carbon footprint (and keep people on their toes), we turned to an unlikely solution for mowing an overgrown field: goats. More than 200 goats from California Grazing have once again arrived at our Mountain View headquarters where they’ll stay for over a week chomping away on grassy goodness. The cost of bringing in the goats is comparable to hiring lawn mowers for the same job and the green benefits are clear: the goats eliminate mower emissions, reduce noise pollution, restore plant species and fertilize while grazing.

2007: Nepali airliner sacrifices goats to 'appease sky god' | News.com.au

Nepal Airline Corporation officials worshipped the aircraft by sacrificing two goats to avoid technical glitches while flying," an airline spokesman, Raju Bahadur K.C., said yesterday.

"The goats were offered to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu god of sky protection, whose symbol is printed on all of our aircraft," he explained.

China: Rare April snow falls on Mt. Laoshan

Qingdao has not seen snow in April since 2000, Li said, adding that a current cold front was the main reason for the cold weather, frost and snow.

De Boer: EU 2020 climate targets 'a piece of cake' | EurActiv

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said the EU has failed to convince the developing world that it is serious about global warming.
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Speaking in the European Parliament, De Boer said the sense of suspicion had been heightened by the fact that industrialised nations had shown little willingness to meet their emission reduction pledges under the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

U.S. Coal Industry Fights Climate Legislation at Congressional Hearing

Despite his pleas, Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association, accused Congress and regulators of conducting a “war on coal” by imposing tougher limits on carbon emissions. He criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding” about carbon dioxide emissions, which enable the regulator to take action without legislation.
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“The Ohio Coal Association is challenging this endangerment finding in court, and we will win,” Carey said defiantly. “We believe that the science underpinning the endangerment finding is questionable.”

Peter Foster: Climategate whitewash - Full Comment

Lord Oxburgh suggested this week that attacks on the CRU had come from people who do not like the “implications” of their conclusions. If by “implications” he means suicidal and pointless policies, then that might have been the one thing he got right. Otherwise, his report is a travesty.

Panel "clears" researchers in 'Climategate' controversy - latimes.com

"The fact is we found them absolutely squeaky clean," the head of the panel, Ron Oxburgh, a geologist and former government advisor, told the BBC. He said some of the criticism by skeptics, who pointed to the e-mails as proof of a massive scientific coverup, was "just plain nasty and ill-informed." [Via Pielke Jr]

Flashback: Climategate: the parliamentary cover-up – Telegraph Blogs

In the House of Lords Register of Lords’ Interests, Oxburgh lists under remunerated directorships his chairmanship of Falck Renewables, and chairmanship of Blue NG, a renewable power company. (Oxburgh holds no shares in Falck Renewables, and serves as a non-exec chairman.) He also declares that he is an advisor to Climate Change Capital, to the Low Carbon Initiative, Evo-Electric, Fujitsu, and an environmental advisor to Deutsche Bank. For a year he was non-exec chairman of Shell.

NOAA: March 2010 Warmest March on Record - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I don't understand the furor. I just read 2,000 Hansen e-mails lecturing us all (who were living through a third harsh winter in a row) about the fact that individual years don't mean anything and only a fool would bother unscientifically drawing attention to such small climatic time-scales. Now we're supposed to care about a month?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » New poll: Jewish voters starting to turn on Obama?

To be momentarily underwater on a question about reelection within a demographic that broke for him in 2008 by an almost 60-percent margin seems … astonishing.

[Wishful thinking from the Will Steger Foundation: Brainwashed children are successfully selling the climate scam to skeptical parents?]

Environmental education produces enlightened kids who are great at convincing skeptical parents.

[Why doesn't this alleged success show up in the polling?]

Principles twisted in 
debate on Eskom’s World Bank loan application

Firstly, as many readers, no doubt, know, I do not believe that man-made carbon 
dioxide plays any meaningful role in global warming, so the question before the World Bank was a nonquestion anyway. 
But I am only too aware of the fact that politics does not have to be right or reasonable to become a public force. The whole 
climate change issue is a case in point.
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Dr Kemm is a nuclear physicist and is CEO of Stratek Business Strategy Consultants.

Scoop: Good news for Polar Bears


Kiwi Party leader Larry Baldock welcomed the latest findings but wonders why we have not seen fresh photos on the evening news of this new wide expanse of ice? 


"This new ice cover may still be too thin to completely finish off the global warming alarmists, but if our media are committed to reporting the truth, we should at the very least see an end to the repetitive showing of footage of polar bears floating on little blocks of ice,” said Mr Baldock.

A few grounded planes? We got off lightly . . . | Bill McGuire - Times Online

In 1815 the biggest eruption of the last millennium, at Tambora, Indonesia, wrapped a veil of sulphur gases around the entire planet, blocking the Sun’s rays and leading, the following year, to the so-called year without a summer. Bitter cold and frosts devastated harvests in North America, while in Europe bread riots and famine led to the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world.  [Why weren't people partying in the streets to celebrate their lack of kidney stones?]

Climate-Gate Gets A Whitewash - IBD - Investors.com

Global Warming: The first probe into the integrity of the science being conducted at the Climatic Research Unit is in and nothing's changed. Those who created and perpetuated this sham are not called into account.

Salting streets during big freeze could kill off thousands of trees | Arboriculture | Horticulture Week

Tree experts have warned that council workers may have killed thousands of street trees by using salt to de-ice roads and pavements during the coldest winter for 31 years.

EcoEquity's Tom Athanasiou on the Climate Justice Movement

TakePart: Given this issue of relevance, especially coming out of Copenhagen where the movement was arguably ignored by the decision-makers, what is the EcoEquity strategy for this year?

Athanasiou: We have convinced ourselves that the relevance of our project did not end with Copenhagen.

Bone up on what lie beneath at marine research institute - St. Petersburg Times

While you are there, take the kids to visit the sea turtle research area and learn why this winter's spell of cold weather brought nearly 5,000 of these endangered creatures on shore.

Climate Change and Activists Won’t Delay, But United Nations Will « It’s Getting Hot In Here

I wish I could tell you that the meetings were efficient and resulted in an action plan for 2010, but I cannot. In fact, by 6:30 pm on Sunday when I left to catch a train back home, the plenary sessions for the day had yet to begin (they were scheduled to start at 11:30 am) and no decisions regarding further meetings of the UNFCCC before Cancun had been reached. Despite the lack of journalists, disgruntled Non Governmental Organizations, and activists taking to the streets in frustration, the United Nations could not even get it together to schedule some meetings and come up with an action plan for how to move forward after the failure that was Copenhagen.

Old Habits Die Hard at First UN Climate [Hoax] Conference of 2010

Bonn, Germany - The first UNFCCC meeting since the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Summit closed today, with countries agreeing to minimal measures on how to move forward. The meeting was marred by a complete lack of the required sense of urgency as many countries fell back on bad habits.

Google climate change [scam] chief wants price on carbon | Grist

Google wants a price on carbon and wants it now -- both for lofty reasons like combating global warming, but also because it could be good for business.
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Reicher gives us a compelling vision full of smart grids that know when your fridge needs to defrost and when your car's battery can turn you a profit by selling spare juice.

Google, don’t be evil?

"Don't be evil" is the corporate motto of Google, which is admirable for a profit-making company to uphold such a value system.

More on the Google Guys

...how this PR-fluff squares with the so-called “Google party jet” — Page and Brin’s gargantuan personal Boeing 767, which burns about 1,550 gallons/hour — is any one’s guess.

[Alarmist] Tom Toles' Editorial Cartoon, April 14, 2010 on GoComics.com

[Shows a guy building an ark]

MUST READ: Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception? UPDATED | Climate Realists

The startling conclusion that we cannot tell whether there was any significant “global warming” at all in the 20th century is based on numerous astonishing examples of manipulation and exaggeration of the true level and rate of “global warming”.

State climate change regulations face opposition « New Mexico Independent

As states grapple with how to move forward, in New Mexico, gubernatorial candidates on both side of the aisle agree that climate change regulation is not a state’s prerogative.

Dr. James Hansen on Climate Change and Social Media

Dr. Hansen commented that there is not enough global understanding to create the public pressure and made reference to how long it took to make significant strides with the racial justice problem in this country.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Oil Sands and a Price on Carbon

The proposed project assumes a carbon price much higher than the ceiling that Waxman-Markey would have established. The then leads to a question: If cap and trade, as proposed, would not halt oil sands development due to simple economics then how exactly would it compel innovation in the renewable energy sector?

Climate Common Sense: Sceptics Interviewed By Terrorist Squad !

In a letter to the Financial Times, Sebastian Nokes, a climate change sceptic and businessman, said he was interviewed by an officer who "wanted to know what computer I used, my internet service provider, and also to which political parties I have belonged, what I feel about climate change and what my qualifications in climate science are. He questioned me at length about my political and scientific opinions

Calm Sun Is Bringing a Chill to England - ScienceNOW

In 1801, astronomer William Herschel wrote that when sunspots were rare, the price of wheat in England jumped. Although his result is a historical footnote, a recent study has discovered a strong correlation between the sun’s cycle and temperatures in the United Kingdom. Decreased solar activity results in winter temperatures about half a degree colder than average.

Whitewashing is quick work! | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Until such time as an independent inquiry actually addresses these concerns in a thorough and, yes, unbiased manner, Climategate will remain an open wound in the side of climate science.

Al's Journal : Not A Surprise

At every level, legislation to solve the climate crisis is being opposed by those with a vested financial interest in the burning of fossil fuels. Not only can we beat them in states like California, but also by passing comprehensive clean energy and green jobs legislation in the Unites States Senate.

FOXNews.com - Top Climate Scientist Under Fire for 'Exaggerating' Global Warming

Britain's top statistician absolved U.K. scientists following the climate-data scandal -- and blasted U.S. researcher Michael Mann for exaggerating the size of global warming.

Death blow #1,000,006 for the global warming hoax?

“Missing” Heat May Affect Future Climate Change

Newswise — Current observational tools cannot account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, according to a “Perspectives” article in this week’s issue of Science. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) warn in the new study that satellite sensors, ocean floats, and other instruments are inadequate to track this “missing” heat, which may be building up in the deep oceans or elsewhere in the climate system.

“The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later,” says NCAR scientist Kevin Trenberth, the lead author. “The reprieve we’ve had from warming temperatures in the last few years will not continue. It is critical to track the build-up of energy in our climate system so we can understand what is happening and predict our future climate.”

Obama administration will 'hold South Africa to account for Eskom plant emissions' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate chief Jonathan Pershing defends abstention on World Bank loan for controversial power station while holding country to account for carbon emissions
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The administration has denied funding to Ecuador and Bolivia, it emerged last week. Other countries could also be penalised if they register strong opposition to the agreement, Pershing told the Guardian.

"We are not saying that if you are not signed on to the deal you will not get funding," he said. "We are saying that if you actively oppose or reject the deal [you will not get funding]," he said.

Twitter / Brad Johnson [Hmm...looks like a lot of special interests here.  Did he meet with the Tea Partiers?]

Rahm Emanuel just met with heads of @LCVoters, @CAPAction, @Sierra_Club, @EnvDefenseFund, @NRDC, @NWF to talk #climate action

Senate Climate Bill Debut Set for April 26 - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, has promised to find time for floor debate on the energy measure in a crowded legislative calendar that includes a broad financial regulation measure and confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court nominee.

Twitter / Don Gerritsen [Unqualified left-winger to preach climate hoax to a captive audience of innocent young children?]

Back to primary school tomorrow: teaching sustainability and climate change once more...

About Don Misha Gerritsen

Don Gerritsen (24 January 1984) is the former official United Nations youth representative in the Netherlandsgovernment delegation to the United Nations climate change conferences (UNFCCC) in Poznan and Copenhagen and the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in New York.
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Don has studied Social and Political Sciences of the Environment at the Radboud University (Nijmegen), International Environmental Politics at the University of the West of England (Bristol) and International Relations at the International School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam)

Cherry blossoms get major boost in odd spring | The Japan Times Online

Cherry blossoms took as long as 19 days from blooming to reach their peak in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, the longest ever observed in the city, followed by 16 days in Miyazaki, 15 days in Kobe and Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, and 14 days in Osaka — all record lengths. In Nagoya, the period was a record-tying 15 days.

In the six cities, the average number of days from blooming to full bloom has been 6.9 to 8.5 days.

[Delayers]: New Date Set For Senate Climate [Hoax] Bill -- Energy Section

Looks like a Senate climate bill will not be unveiled the week of Earth Day after all. The new goal for Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., to publicly release a potential deal is April 26, sources said.

Earlier this week, Graham explained why the bill would not be released on Earth Day, April 22. "One, we're not ready," he said. Second, he said, the message "had been driven by global warming policy" but is now domestic energy policy, job creation and cleaner air.

Fence-Sitting Dems Lay Out Plans They'd Support -- Energy Section

...they do ask for a "significant" phase-in for manufacturers to be covered under a cap-and-trade program "if the funding for rebates to energy-intensive and trade-exposed industries is inadequate." During this period, these industries need to receive rebates that can be used to purchase greenhouse gas emissions credits. "It is critical that a sufficient number of allowances are set aside for EITE industries in order to provide the kind of certainty that will lead to investment in U.S. facilities," they wrote.

They also ask bill authors John Kerry, D-Mass.; Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; and Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., for "an automatically triggered" border tax on "imports from countries that do not have in place comparable greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements to those adopted by the United States."

Obama blames company for West Virginia mine deaths | Reuters

"This tragedy was triggered by a failure at the Upper Big Branch mine, a failure first and foremost of management, but also a failure of oversight and a failure of laws so riddled with loopholes that they allow unsafe conditions to continue."

Obama said the company's management should be held accountable for the accident.

If a failure of laws caused this accident, why didn't Obama/Reid/Pelosi fix the laws *before* this accident occurred?

It's not a gas tax: it's just an additional global warming hoax fee that you'll pay at the pump

White House: ‘No Support for a Gas Tax’ - Washington Wire - WSJ

...“gas tax” is a compound cuss word in Washington, even less acceptable in polite society than “cap and trade.” The quick moves to squelch such talk show that terms such as “price on carbon” or “linked fee” – the working euphemism among those involved in the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman discussions - aren’t going to fool anyone, especially in an election year.

Senate Bill Likely to Result in Carbon Price of $31 per Ton 2013-2020

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - April 15, 2010) - Point Carbon's North American Research division has forecasted a price of $31 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in a United States Emissions Trading System (US ETS) from expected parameters of the forthcoming Kerry-Graham-Lieberman (KGL). This would result in an increase of 27 cents per gallon of gasoline at the pump for the average US consumer.

China Vows to Fight ‘World War’ Scale Climate Destruction - BusinessWeek

Climate change represents a threat to Chinese economic Development, and laws should be strengthened to meet climate targets, the Chinese president’s special envoy Xie Zhenhua wrote in the China Economic Herald.

“The scale of economic destruction would be equivalent to that of the two world wars and the Great Depression combined” if global temperatures rise by 3 degrees (5.4 Fahrenheit) to 4 degrees Celsius, Xie said. “Human beings and the Earth cannot afford such disasters.”

Kent Brockman (Simpsons Character) - Quotes

[Kent Brockman is covering a summer camp mutiny]
Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.

Climate Bureaucracies Are The Choice Because They Perpetuate Problems: Tim Ball

Total government control is a far more important agenda than any individual political career

Twitter / Mac King

Earthquakes all over the world, a volcanic eruption in Iceland and a cyclone in India in a five month span. Global Warming is *not* real.

Upcoming climate change summit could be decisive | The Progressive

Bolivian President Evo Morales was a leading voice of dissent at the global climate talks in Copenhagen last year.
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“We have an obligation to save [all of] humanity and not just half of humanity,” said Morales. He warned that if we don’t do more to curb global warming, “many islands will disappear and Africa will suffer a holocaust.”

Obama describes Rudd as 'smart and humble' | Adelaide Now

On climate change, Mr Obama pointed out that the US and Australia had, per capita, some of the world's biggest carbon footprints.

But he said Mr Rudd had played a "critical" role at the ultimately-doomed UN climate change summit in Copenhagen last year.

Development bank boosts climate [scam] lending - The Hill's E2-Wire

IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno said that the bank faces "surging demand" from Latin American and Caribbean nations that want to boost renewables development and fight global warming.

He also announced that going forward, the bank intends to devote a fourth of its total lending to "solving energy and climate-related problems," up from five percent in years past.

Global Warming Hysteria: Arnold, Call Gov. Christie!

Here in California, our collapsing economy is being pushed even further into the abyss by Gov. Schwartzenegger’s misguided “green” laws. (When Arnold found the going tough in staunching our arterial budget bleed out, he shrugged his shoulders and worked with the Left legislature to push global warming hysteria policies intended to turn us Green. Instead, the state has assumed the palor of death, and jobs are fleeing elsewhere.)

No Frakking Consensus: The Water Cannon of the Climate Debate

People who want to ask questions are told the experts have spoken, that the gospel is contained in the climate bible, and that that book identifies carbon dioxide as the Great Satan. So shut your mouth, stop impeding attempts to save the world, and get with the program we're told.

Climate Change Bill Loses Support

At least four of the eight GOP Members who voted for the climate change bill in June have since reconsidered their support and said this week that Democrats should not count on them again. Reps. Mike Castle (R-Del.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) — both moderates who are running for open Senate seats — are among those who say they now would oppose the House-passed bill and anything similar to it.

Castle, in fact, stopped just short of saying he regretted his June vote.

“What I know now is not what I knew then,” he said. After learning more about the legislation, he said, he’s become increasingly concerned about many aspects of it

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 15th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

Our clever planet tries to offset a volcano by grounding aircraft, a hippie lawyer wants ‘deniers’ tried for ecocide and those skeptics outside of the USA will be very surprised to learn that they are all Republicans.

Solar Growth Dims, With Homes a Glaring Exception - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A new report from a solar industry group found that the pace of solar installations slowed last year amid the economic downturn.

GISS: Warmest March ever in Finland « Climate Audit

In the March 2010 GISS temperature anomaly map Finland appears as a “hot spot” surrounded by cold temperatures
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Well, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute, March 2010 was colder than usual all over Finland, especially in the northern part. For instance, the mean temperature in Sodankylä was -10.3 °C, which is almost three degrees below the base period 1971-2000 average (-7.5 °C). So the GISS March value for Sodankylä is off by amazing 11.8 °C!

Enviro group hopes to unseat Rep. Michele Bachmann - The Hill's E2-Wire

The group criticized Bachmann for voting against climate and energy legislation the House approved last year. LCV also cited several Bachmann statements on environmental issues, such as her pronouncement that global warming is “voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”

The Great Beyond: University told to hand over tree ring data

Now the Commissioner has ruled that all the grounds cited by the university for withholding the data are not valid.

Twitter / Brad Johnson: The planet is burning...

The planet is burning. http://bit.ly/aFRgqm #climate #agw

Cold May Worsen Toll in China Quake - NYTimes.com

MADUO COUNTY, China — As trucks heaped with relief supplies labored over corkscrew mountain roads Thursday toward the site of an earthquake that killed more than 600 people, frigid temperatures threatened to claim hundreds more who remained missing, trapped beneath debris for more than a day.

Twitter / John Kerry

Climate negotiations meant I didn't see a single at bat, but thank you boston.com for telling me John Lackey got first win for Sox.

Pickens Still Has a Plan, Even If It Doesn't Include Wind Turbines : TreeHugger

T. Boone Pickens hasn't been showing up as much in these pages since the wind power part of the Pickens Plan went south during the Great Recession, but, as Greentech Media reports, he's still pushing The Plan, even if it's just focused on natural gas vehicles at the moment.

Police question climategate information seekers - Telegraph

Police are investigating anyone who requested information from the university department at the centre of the ‘climategate’ scandal.

C3: New Mexico's Democrats/Liberals Push Global Warming Legislation: Oops, New Mexico Is Cooling At -5.1° Per Century Rate

Despite the U.S. government temperature data indicating that the continental U.S. and the state of New Mexico are both cooling over the past 12 years, the liberal Democrats of New Mexico have decided to implement legislation to fight the fake "global warming." Why?