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Royal Society unsettles global warming science « Don SurberThe newspaper said, “Sir Alan Rudge, a society Fellow and former member of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee, is one of the leaders of the rebellion who gathered signatures on a petition sent to Lord Rees, the society president.”
It quoted Sir Alan: “One of the reasons people like myself are willing to put our heads above the parapet is that our careers are not at risk from being labelled a denier or flat-Earther because we say the science is not settled. The bullying of people into silence has unfortunately been effective.”
Unearthing Cold, Hard Facts About Climate Change in Antarctica - WSJ.comDuring Ice Age cycles of cooling and warming, temperatures often rose before levels of carbon dioxide changed—sometimes 800 years or so before—according to previous evidence of ice from Antarctica.
"You don't expect the cause to follow the effect," says atmospheric scientist Richard S. Lindzen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a frequent IPCC critic. "That's become an important issue."
Suicidal over global warming « Don SurberWhen it becomes so obvious that a magazine like Newsweek admits that man-made global warming is a dry hole, it is time to give up the hoax. Here’s an idea: Let’s try some real science without the cherry-picking that tells us the benefits as well as the downside of global cooling/global warming/climate change.
Maldives president takes on US in Hay call for direct action on climate | Books | guardian.co.ukAsked about educating people about climate change, he said it was too late for that. "Direct affirmative action 1960s style is what we need," he said. When Ed Miliband suggested he might not be able to answer a question on the US and China for diplomatic reasons, he interrupted to say "Yes I can. The Chinese believe in climate change. Not all Americans do."
Here was a man with honesty and humour. Was the underwater cabinet a publicity stunt? "Of course it was," he says. "The Maldives are a small country and we cannot bomb a city to get people's attention."
Tesla’s Elon Musk: “I ran out of cash” | VentureBeatAccording to the filing — part of his pending divorce case from sci-fi novelist Justine Musk — Elon Musk has been living off personal loans from friends since October 2009 and spending $200,000 a month while making far less. Musk confirmed this in an interview with VentureBeat.
Tesla, likewise, is dealing with its cash flow problems by borrowing money from a friendly source — the United States government, which has eagerly backed cleantech startups through a Department of Energy loan program. Tesla burned through $37 million in cash in the last three months of 2009, according to amended S-1 documents, filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission in preparation for its IPO. Tesla slowed this burn rate in the first quarter of 2010 to $8.4 million, but only by drawing down part of a $465 million loan from the DOE, while reporting a net loss of $29.5 million. Tesla’s sales were flat year-over-year in the first quarter, but declined precipitously in the U.S., according to a former Tesla executive.
Flashback: Govt Picks a "Winner": Tesla Gets $465 Million : Gas 2.0Steven Chu this morning finally puts the nail in the coffin of the congressional No We Can’t contingent’s stance.
The Royal Society: too little, too late – Telegraph Blogs“How did a scientific theory so feeble and ill-supported by any hard evidence yet become the dominant political idea of our age with so much support from people who really ought to know better?”
One thing’s for certain. When the history of this outbreak of mass hysteria comes to be written, few organisations will emerge with more egg on their face than the standing joke that is the Royal Society.
BBC News - Harrabin's Notes: Getting the messageThe danger to the credibility of science institutions from the way they communicate uncertainty in climate change is immense.
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But the blogosphere does not respect past reputations, only current performance. And some of the top performers in the blogosphere are critics of the establishment.
Steve McIntyre, for instance, is a mining engineer who started examining climate statistics as a hobby. He has taken on the scientific establishment on some key issues and won.
He arguably knows more about CRU science than anyone outside the unit - but none of the CRU inquiries has contacted him for input.
Political Affairs Magazine - Can Global Warming Cause Snowstorms?Of course, global warming could also be playing a role, according to Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation. “It’s hard to determine global warming’s effect on any particular storm, but it’s highly unusual to have these really large winter storms in one winter,” she says. “Oddball winter weather is yet another sign of how uncontrolled carbon pollution amounts to an unchecked experiment on people and nature.”
Did early hunters cause climate change? - environment - 29 May 2010 - New ScientistIT'S not just for the last century that humans have been messing up the climate. It may have been going on for thousands of years.
When hunters arrived in North America and drove mammoths and other large mammals to extinction, the methane balance of the atmosphere could have changed as a result, triggering the global cool spell that followed. The large grazing animals would have produced copious amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from their digestive systems. They vanished about 13,000 years ago.
Paul Driessen : Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics - Townhall.comWe have a right to insist that the research be honest and aboveboard. That the work products stay in the public domain, available for scrutiny. That researchers share their data, computer codes and analytical methodologies, and engage in robust debate with skeptics and critics. That those who violate these fundamental precepts forfeit their access to future grants. And that our tax dollars no longer fund bogus acne-and-climate-change studies and alarmist propaganda. (Talk about budget cutting opportunities!)
Dare to be an optimist! - The Globe and MailAlarmism over global warming, [British science writer Matt Ridley] predicts, will meet the same fate as alarmism over cancer epidemics. Even though the Earth may indeed be warming, he’s confident that humankind will adapt. He even has the audacity to argue that fossil fuels are, on the whole, a good thing. “You can regret the sinful profligacy of the modern world, which is the conventional reaction,” he told The Guardian. “Or you can conclude that were it not for fossil fuels, 99 per cent of people would have to live in slavery for the rest to have a decent standard of living, as indeed they did in Bronze Age empires.”
Scientists at academy row over climate sceptic policy - Local News - News - General - The Canberra TimesAustralia's former chief scientist, Professor Robin Batterham, is embroiled in a bitter dispute over climate change within one of the nation's elite science academies.
As president of the peer-elected Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Professor Batterham faces demands by members to drop plans for the academy to issue a policy statement supporting climate sceptics.
Twitter / David RobertsVan Jones says: pay for it up front as a CO2 price, or pay for it on the back end cleaning oil out of the water. http://vimeo.com/12117354
Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Climate change battle ‘wastes billions of pounds’BILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being “wasted” in fighting climate change as other nations are hell-bent on development, a new book claims today.
A Messy Loss For Climate Lawsuit Plaintiffs « On the Docket - Forbes.comThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided, in a convoluted and dissent-provoking way, not to decide a politically charged global-warming lawsuit against ExxonMobil, BP, AES, Dow Chemical and most of the rest of the American industrial establishment.
Al Gore to Launch The Climate [Scam] Project in China WASHINGTON and NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Project, and the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development will host a training session in Beijing, China June 9-11, 2010. The event, held with the support of the Chinese government, led by the Ministry of Science and Technology, will see Vice President Gore personally train a cross-section of 300 Chinese citizens who share a commitment to reduce the harmful effects of climate change.
YouTube - Undue Panic Over Global WarmingFoxBusinessNetwork — May 28, 2010 — Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", argues we need to be smart about global warming and not rush into making policies out of panic and fear.
Kudzu Causes Global Warming! | The Resilient EarthI have a suggestion for all those climate change true believers out there: instead of blaming humanity for global warming, go uproot some kudzu and really fight climate change.
Climate Consensus or Con? | FrontPage MagazineI have long held that if you put an unbiased, open-minded group of ordinary people in a room and let both alarmists and skeptics present their cases for a sufficient period of time, there is no doubt that the vast majority of such an audience would quickly realize what utter nonsense climate change alarmism is. But, the jury at the Oxford Union Society could hardly be described as “ordinary.” This was group of earnest, young students who still live in a sheltered world in which educators have all the answers and those who disagree with those answers are fools at best, or greedy, self-serving liars at worst. It’s hard to imagine the skeptical – realistic – point of view prevailing among such a group. So what was the final tally when all the votes were in?
In favor of putting economic growth before combating climate change: 135.
Opposed: 110.
Big companies ramp up push for climate [hoax] bill - The Hill's E2-WireA suite of major corporations — such as the Big Three automakers, GE, Shell and Honeywell — are ramping up pressure on Congress and the White House to act on climate change legislation this year.
American Thinker: When Professor Obama Meets Dirty RealityThe idea that we must go six miles deep to find our oil is more liberal theoretician environmental groupthink. The problem is, this very idea is now boomeranging back and devastating our environment and a good chunk of the gulf economy with it. And the liberal academic theoretician is finding out that solving these very real problems is very hard indeed. Everything is, 32 thousand feet down.
William M. Briggs, Statistician » Dear Ben Santer...I read that email in which you threatened to bounce your fists off Pat Michaels’s face. I know just how you feel about Pat. Last time I saw him he was wearing red tennis shoes—red!, I swear on my soul—with a suit. It took every drop of self control I had not to pounce on him and rip them off his feet.
We’re too broke to be this stupid - Mark Steyn, Opinion - Macleans.ca...why would you stick a commie in the White House and put him in charge of anything to do with jobs, even “green jobs”?
Well, because “green jobs” is just another of those rich-enough-to-be-stupid scams. The Spanish government pays over $800,000 for every “green job” on a solar-panel assembly line. This money is taken from real workers with real jobs at real businesses whose growth is being squashed to divert funds to endeavours that have no rationale other than their government subsidies—and which would collapse as soon as the subsidies end. Yet Tim Flannery, the Aussie climate-alarmist who chaired the Copenhagen racket, says we need to redouble our efforts. “We’re trying to act as a species,” he says, “to regulate the atmosphere.”
Er, “regulate the atmosphere”? Why not? We’re rich enough to be stupid with the very heavens.
Last Autumn’s Early Freeze Could Make Outdoor Plumbing Spring a Leak | Earth Times NewsDenver, CO (PRWEB) May 28, 2010 -- “If you don’t like the weather just wait 5 minutes” is a popular saying in Colorado, and for good reason: things can change quickly and extremes on either end can come with almost no warning. Such was the case with last October in Denver: the second-coldest October since records began in 1872, five days that either set or tied record-low temperatures, and one day that tied an all-time high for October.
Climate change concern declines in poll - environmentalresearchwebThe results of the YouGov poll, based on a sample of 4,300 adults questioned during the week after the general election, show that interest in climate change fell from 80% of respondents in 2006, to 71% last year and now stands at only 62%
Rain impeding farmers from seeding Saskatchewan cropFarmers will soon be facing tough decisions about possibly not seeding some fields or to switching to different types of crops that can grow faster and still beat the frost, McLean said.
Scientists decry attacks by skeptics of climate change - San Jose Mercury NewsIn the written version of his testimony, Santer mentioned concerns "about my own physical safety when I give public lectures."
Santer is accompanied by bodyguards at some conferences, Stephen Schneider, a prominent climate scientist with Stanford University, said earlier this month.
[Email from Ben Santer]From: Ben Santer ... To: P.Jones@uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: CEI formal petition to derail EPA GHG endangerment finding with charge that destruction of CRU raw data undermines integrity of global temperature record Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:07:56 -0700
.... Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I'll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted.
Global warming roundup – it’s not a good season for the Al Gore fan club - Orange Punch : The Orange County Register...now is the season for climate realism, dose by dose. For example
Birmingham supports recycling with ‘bra banks’ | Recycle.co.ukAt the Birmingham Climate Change Festival on June 5 “bra banks” will be available as a place for women to donate their unwanted undergarments.
'Sulabh toilets can help reduce global warming' - Global Warming - Environment - Home - The Times of IndiaWASHINGTON: An Indian innovator who plans to promote cheap toilet technology in 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East region says his technologies could also help developed nations reduce global warming.
C3: Satellites Confirm Greenland Ice Sheet's Incredibly Tiny Melt Rate - OMG, It May Disappear, In About 19,000 YearsWhat does this really mean? The ice sheet may take some 19,000 years to melt entirely. If the present global cooling trend continues, then it would take longer. ;-) (And scientists remain unconvinced that ice sheets would ever melt entirely based on most recent evidence.)
1 in 10 believe global warming is naturalAlthough a third of respondents to the survey of more than 13,000 people this year said they were very concerned about climate change, 9 percent said they weren't, up from 4 percent when the same survey was conducted two years ago.
MIT to cut electricity use by 15 percent over three years“What we are launching with MIT is a bold new plan for confronting climate change and a proposal to officially establish energy efficiency as the ‘first fuel’ in Massachusetts,” said Tom May, NSTAR Chairman, President and CEO.
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MIT President Susan Hockfield..."...Our participation in the program signals that the solutions for today’s climate and energy challenges will come not only from our research laboratories and classrooms, but also from practice-based management innovations.”
Interview - Clive Hamilton: 'solving climate change is out of the question' - The EcologistAuthor Clive Hamilton on why we've left it too late to stop climate change, his horror over geoengineering and the urgent need to become citizens rather than consumers
The Climate Change Debates -- Kitcher, 10.1126/science.1189312 -- ScienceHaving expanded far beyond atmospheric science, the contentious debate over the prospects of disruptive changes in Earth's climate now also encompasses important political, economic, and social issues. The eight books considered in Kitcher's essay review discuss some of the causes and consequences of the present controversy and how we might best move forward from it. The still-raging clashes on the reality of anthropogenic climate change and the actions we should take to mitigate its effects also raise fundamental questions about how science should work in democratic societies.
World warms, public cools to climate action | Reuters"It's a very consistent ongoing warming trend," said Tom Karl, director of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Centre.
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Scientists say many people wrongly judge global warming by temperatures at home. Karl said he would be rich "if I had a nickel for every time someone asked me: 'global warming? We had record snows and cold temperatures'."
Harsh winter to trim Ukraine wheat harvest | 27 May 2010 | www.commodityonline.comKIEV (Commodity Online) : Prolonged winter with extreme cold conditions are likely to trim Ukraine’s wheat harvest this year.
According to country’s deputy Prime Minister Viktor Slauta, Ukraine’s wheat production may be 15% lower than in 2009".
Climate Business Leaders wantedMUNICH, Germany, May. 27 /CSRwire/ - While politics and a lot of companies are losing precious time in climate protection, every user can now play the online-game CEO2 launched by financial service provider Allianz and WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature). One can slip into the role of a CEO and show which business strategies work out to reduce carbon, reduce risks and increase the long-term profitability.
World Climate Report » Solar Story UpdateThere are still those who claim that the solar influence on Earth’s climate at various spatial and temporal scales is negligible. But as more an more reports come out to the contrary, this view is becoming harder and harder to hold.
EU Referendum: The great deludedBillions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being "wasted" in fighting climate change as other nations are hell-bent on development, a new book claims today – says The Daily Express.
This is "Climate: The Great Delusion", written by Frenchman Christian Gerondeau.
My moment of rock-star glory at a climate change sceptics’ conference in America[James Delingpole] It’s no wonder that the bit of my speech that got the biggest laugh was when I asked: ‘How many of you here are in the pay of Big Oil?’ No hands were raised. ‘And how many of you would like to be in the pay of Big Oil?’ Up shot 150 arms. ‘Guess we picked the wrong side of the debate to be on,’ I said, hardly needing to explain that companies like Shell and BP pump far, far more money into eco-nonsense like carbon trading and green posturing than they do into sceptical science.
That’s the problem with being an Evil Climate Change Denier. The tide is turning in our favour. History will vindicate us. But until then the only perks of the job are the joy of one another’s company and the smug satisfaction of knowing that one day we’ll be able to look at the wreckage of disasters like cap and trade, David Cameron’s wind farms and the IPCC’s junk science predictions and say: ‘I told you so.’
Why I keep banging on and on about Global bloody Warming | James DelingpoleAround the world, in the greatest financial crisis we have faced since the 1930s, our leaders are behaving like imbeciles. And nowhere is this imbecility more painfully manifest than in their approach to the non-existent problem they now call Climate Change.
That’s why I keep banging on about Climate Change. It is, unfortunately, the Key to all Mythologies.
Will the UN's forest protection dream turn into a nightmare? | Environment | guardian.co.ukHigh hopes are pinned on an international plan to protect forests. But doubts remain over whether the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation project, known as Redd, will actually reduce deforestation and carbon emissions
A forum to make sense of climate science | Chris Rapley | Environment | guardian.co.ukThe Science Museum's new gallery aims to deepen the understanding of those who accept man-made global warming and inform those who are unsure
[Fraudster suggests that an Arctic oil spill would cause bad weather in Topeka?]A major oil spill in the Beaufort Sea could have a "catastrophic" impact on Canada's Arctic ecosystem and worsen the effects of climate change, a former senior government scientist has warned.
William Adams, a former scientist at Environment Canada, was one of the researchers in a joint government-industry study of the impact of an oil spill in the Canadian portion of the Beaufort Sea. The Beaufort Sea Project, which began in 1976 and lasted nearly a decade, remains the only "comprehensive" study of its kind, says Adams.
Flannery 'feels betrayed' by Rudd on climate | theage.com.auPROMINENT scientist Tim Flannery has said he is unlikely to vote for Labor again after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's ''profound betrayal of trust'' on climate change.
It came as the head of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Martin Parkinson, conceded bureaucrats were ''terribly, terribly disappointed'' and caught by surprise by the decision to shelve the emissions scheme.
Climate kamikaze | The SpectatorReading today's cover story in The Times, the lesson the eco-friendly EU Commission seems to have drawn from this experience is that 20 percent emission cuts were not enough; the EU has to put sharper emissions cuts on the table "to inspire other countries to follow suit".
Really? That strikes me as the most naïve kind of thinking. Worse still, it is costly naivety given the likely £33 billion price tag.
[Whatever happened to The Climate Desk?] | A journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate.[I don't see any articles from this month]
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 27th 2010 « The Daily BayonetAl Gore channels Monty Python, there’s a long list of hyphen-gate scandals for you to cut out and keep, Big Green is out of step with ordinary people and there is a planet doomed by global warming, but it’s not Earth.
[Idiotic 13-year-old travels the world promoting a debunked hoax]KATHMANDU, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The global climate change has a lot of impact over mountains and we should protect this feature of world, said Jordan Romero, the youngest summiteer of Mt. Qomolangma, in an interview with Xinhua here on Thursday.
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Jordan has aimed to summit the seven highest peaks of seven different continents and Mt. Qomolangma is his sixth one that he summitted. The youngest summitteer is yet to summit Mt. Vinson in Antarctica.
After his return, he will go on to the 50 states in his country and climb the highest mountain of all the states and give motivational speeches among others, he informed.
EU Climate Head: Conditions Not Met for 30% Cut in CO2 EmissionsEU Climate Action Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, told reporters in Brussels her answer would be no to higher reductions at “this very moment.” The report indicates that conditions for a 30 percent cut “are clearly not met.”
Twitter / Andy Revkin [Obama allegedly still believes in the greatest scientific fraud in history]Obama sci chief: POTUS will give major speech on climate (not imminent). "He believes it, he understands it, we’re going to get it done."
Why Man-Made Global Warming is a load of cobblers; Pt 1 – Telegraph BlogsIndeed, [Bob Carter] says, some scientists suggest that the rise in atmospheric CO2 in the Twentieth Century may represent ocean outgassing caused as long ago as the Medieval Warm Period.
And if you think his disquisition on the oceans drives a coach and horses through the Warmists’ AGW doom religion, wait till you hear what he has to say in his chapter on Computer Modeling.
[Brainwashed] Teen Takes on Global Warming - National Geographic's Green GuideLoorz and his organization are now planning a nationwide, and possibly worldwide, million-kid march for 2011.
Carbon-Rule Delay Has ‘Better Chance’ Than Repeal (Update1) - BusinessWeekMay 26 (Bloomberg) -- Lawmakers should try this year to delay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing greenhouse gas regulations instead of repealing them, Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said today.
Kerry: Defy Conventional Wisdom by Passing the Bill - Roll CallMorally speaking, it’s even more urgent. Al Gore and I held the Senate’s first climate change hearings in 1988, 22 wasted years ago. I can’t count the press conferences after votes or international summits came up short where we said: “Wait till next year. Don’t give up on the Senate.” When we announced the American Power Act, an evangelical leader, the Rev. Joel Hunter, got it right: “I don’t want to be standing before God on Judgment Day and say, ‘You know, I really wanted to work to protect the Earth and the poor but wasn’t sure the votes were there.’” This is a matter of political will, not capacity. We’re not waiting any longer. The votes will be there — if we lead the way.
NASA accused of 'Climategate' stalling - Washington TimesThe man battling NASA for access to potential "Climategate" e-mails says the agency is still withholding documents and that NASA may be trying to stall long enough to avoid hurting an upcoming Senate debate on global warming.
Nearly three years after his first Freedom of Information Act request, Christopher C. Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he will file a lawsuit Thursday to force NASA to turn over documents the agency has promised but has never delivered.
Americans Are Becoming Global Warming Skeptics - US News and World ReportIt’s no secret that massive government interventions are not going over well with voters. Coming on the heels of the stimulus package, the healthcare reform law, and federal auto and banking bailouts, a sprawling federal mandate to fight climate change while drastically raising costs on working families is not going to win elections.
Mesa County Teachers Petitioned To Stop Teaching Global Warming, Other 'Personal' ViewsThe signatures were presented at District 51's school board meeting Tuesday night by 40 people who dismissed global warming as "junk science." The petition is aimed at preventing teachers from imparting their "personal, political views in the classroom," Rose Pugliese, author of the petition, told the Grand Junction Sentinel.
Wind Integration Realities: The Bentek Study for Texas (Part IV) — MasterResourceIn summary, the Netherlands experience is that at wind penetration of about 3% the fossil fuel and CO2 emissions saving is reduced to zero. As wind penetration is increased, the Colorado and Texas experience shows that the savings become negative, that is, fossil fuel and CO2 emissions are increased.
Fourth International Conference on Climate ChangeVideos from the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change, May 2010, Chicago, IL.
The Reference Frame: Gavin Schmidt on attributionGavin Schmidt must have heard what science actually is when he studied physics in the past. That's why I think that his distortion of the scientific method is obviously deliberate, driven by his financial and ideological interests. And that's why I find it so important for all ethical attorney generals to go after the neck of hundreds of crooks such as Gavin Schmidt.
What to Eat on a $17,600 Date With the President | NBC Bay AreaMr. Obama's 19-hour whirlwind Bay Area fundraising trip filled Sen. Barbara Boxer's wallet with $1.75 million and he used a $17,600 a person dinner at the Getty Mansion in San Francisco to bring in the big bucks.
The president's 80 dinner guests were treated to an elaborate meal prepared by chef Jennifer Johnson, according to SF Gate, who got the scoop on the menu.
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The main course was braised Kobe beef short ribs with potato puree and a salsa verde-topped spring vegetable ragout. And the evening was topped off with buckwheat crepes with roasted cherries and almond ice cream.
Flashback: Obama camp spies endgame in OregonPitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
EDITORIAL: Tax dollars perpetuate global-warming fiction - Washington Times$6 million study is used to lobby for cap-and-tax
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With public faith in the global-warming myth on the wane, leftist zealots are desperate to spin a new tale - and they're spending your tax money to do it. Three years ago, Congress appropriated $5,856,600 for the National Academy of Sciences to complete a climate-change study. This bureaucratic attempt to cook the books, which was completed last week, may be too late to save this dying religion.
Just the thing for Memorial Day - skiingA rare late-spring storm, coming at the end of what has been a chilly May, will lead to a most unusual promotion this weekend at one Sierra resort - skiing on Memorial Day.
Students Petition Congress About Global Warming « Diana EppsThe Alaska chapter of Youth for Environmental Action, a high school program of the National Wildlife Federation, has traveled to Washington, D.C., to deliver a message about global warming to Congress. The group has a multimedia presentation that explains how increased emissions of the byproducts of burning fossil fuels, carbon dioxide and methane gas, have created a reflective greenhouse effect that has caused a rise in temperatures globally.
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The students traveled throughout Alaska to basketball games, field trips, ski meets, wrestling contests, school breaks, and debate events in 103 Alaska communities. The signatures represent about 10 percent of the teenage population of Alaska.
US climate [scam] envoy urges transparency on China trip - inSing.comThe US climate change envoy said Wednesday it was crucial that all countries accept outside reviews of their greenhouse gas emissions, speaking during a trip to China, which has rejected such calls.
[Why doesn't this detailed poll contain any mention of climate change?]: Poll Finds Americans Pessimistic, Dissatisfied with Washington - Political Hotsheet - CBS NewsAmericans are frustrated with nearly everyone in Washington - including President Obama, Congress, and the Democratic and Republican parties - and have become increasingly pessimistic about what the future holds, according to a new CBS News poll.
Die Klimazwiebel: Casus BelliTo invoke war or the danger of war to justify other political means is not really new. It has been often, and recently, used to curtail citizens rights and/or to limit the extend of democratic control of governments. In this interesting pod-cast (13 MB, duration 28 minutes) by the BBC, the tension between climate policy and democracy is discussed, among others, by James Lovelock, Mark Lynas and Michael Jacobs, advisor on climate change to the former UK Prime Minister Brown.
My Interview on Climate with Esquire Middle East | Climate SkepticI received an email-based interview request on climate a while back from Esquire Middle East. I have decided to include my whole response below. The questions they ask are nearly as informative as anything I say, as they betray that the editors of the publication have pretty much bought into not only global warming alarmism, but all the memes alarmists use to discredit skeptics. Its pretty clear all they know about the skeptic’s position is what they hear from alarmists about skeptics.
NM gov participating in climate adaptation summit - KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com |President Barack Obama's administration helped organize the event. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a number of other administration officials are speaking at the summit.
Drought followed by harsh winter spells disaster - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Mongolia is counting the cost of one of the harshest winters on record. Across the country an estimated 8.5 million goats, sheep, horses, camels, yaks and cows have died of hunger or succumbed to the freezing conditions. That's one in five of the entire national herd.
Great Britain Wises Up On Global Warming | Unambiguously AmbidextrousClimate change legislation is so 2008 chic. Just ask British Columbia. But now, scarcely two years later, people the world over are slowly dumping the fashion trend in favour of a healthy dose of skepticism. According to the New York Times, a February poll run by the BBC found that just 26% of Britons now believe in manmade global warming, down from 41% in November.
Lake Havasu City one cool place Sunday Official temperatures for May 23, in Lake Havasu City broke a lowest high temperature record set on the same day in 2008. This year, the lowest high temperature was 70 degrees compared to 75 degrees in 2008, weather officials said.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Barry Pierce, based in Las Vegas, said the low temperature of 59 degrees was the low on May 23 therefore officially breaking the record of 62 degrees set in 2002.
Push to teach "other side" of global warming heats up in Colorado's Mesa County - The Denver PostGRAND JUNCTION — A national group that thinks global warming is "junk science" and that teaching it is unnecessarily scaring schoolchildren brought its first petition effort for "balanced education" to Mesa County Schools on Tuesday night.
Death of the Postmodernist Dream - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review OnlineAl Gore will continue to channel from his Montecito hilltop the latest green consensus of the international academic community. But fairly or not, neither he nor it will be listened to all that much: He has made one too many millions off his hysteria, and professors have fudged one too many publicly funded studies. The result is that both have lost the people’s trust. A volcano, not hot weather, shut down European air travel. The Sierra Nevada is still buried under snow in late May. At least this year, a wet, cold state of California is not going to blow away, as Energy Secretary Chu warned not long ago.
Carbon traders get gloomy(er), but new plans are afoot | FT Energy Source | FT.comThe International Emissions Trading Association says a survey carried out by PriceWaterhouseCoopers showed that 60 per cent of carbon traders believe there will be no agreement before 2011, and that “current uncertainty will have a significant negative impact on long-term low-carbon investment”.
US climate bill is a "blunt and inappropriate instrument" that would cost airlines $5bn a year, says ATA on GreenAir OnlineTue 25 May 2010 – The American Power Act proposed by US senators Kerry and Lieberman represented the “wrong approach for aviation,” said Nancy Young, Vice President Environment of the Air Transport Association of America (ATA). She estimated the cost to airlines and their passengers in 2013, should the bill be passed, would be around $5 billion, based on a predicted carbon price of $25 per tonne. However, she accepted there were some positive aspects in the draft bill, notably an exemption for bio-derived fuels and recognition that aviation greenhouse gas emissions should be addressed internationally. Meanwhile, Young revealed the action brought by the ATA and three US airlines against their inclusion in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme is due to be heard in the UK High Court on May 27.
War of words heats up over climate changeIn other words, Weaver and hundreds of other climate scientists think the problem is much worse than they initially thought.
Left on the Cutting Room Floor: Climate Depot's Marc Morano Takes on ABC News' Dan Harris'World News' segment cut skeptic interview from 11 minute to just 10 seconds, then links it with white supremacists.
Melting Everest hard to climbKATMANDU - A NEPALESE Sherpa [bought and paid-for Apa] who climbed Mount Everest for a record 20th time said on Tuesday that the melting of glacier ice along its slopes due to global warming is making it increasingly difficult to climb the peak.
Flashback: Climate for Life, a WWF Campaign: CFL Ambassadors Apa and Dawa on “European Expedition” to raise awareness on Climate Change in the Himalayas | Facebook19 November 2009, Kathmandu – Legendary mountaineer Apa Sherpa and Everest summiteer Dawa Steven Sherpa set off on a European Expedition through 10 European cities starting from Prague, through Brno, Bratislava, London, Rome, Geneva, Chamonix, Vienna, Brussels and finally to Copenhagen to raise awareness about impacts of Climate Change in the Himalayas.
How many dead bodies are up on Mount Everest?Mount Everest is both the highest mountain and the highest graveyard in the world. As of 2002, 175 climbers had died on the mountain, and the vast majority of these bodies were left behind. There are reported to be at least 41 bodies on the north side of Everest.
Some people simply run out of gas on the trail and freeze to death in place. Others are consumed by avalanches. And, as veteran mountaineer David Breashears points out, removing dead bodies from this elevation is an enormous task.
Mt. Everest InformationWhat is the temperature high on Everest?
At the summit, the temperature can be 100°F below zero. But on a good summit day, a climber can expect around -15°F
Dangers of Mt. EverestFrostbite is one of the most common dangers on Mt. Everest. It normally happens to hands or feet. It happens from not keeping different body parts warm enough. The frostbite will make the body part turn to a blackish blue color. If the frostbite goes to far without being treated the body part that has it will probably have to be amputated.
Four days of warming made all the difference | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogMay 26: Sherpa says climate change is making Everest harder to climb.
May 22: 13-year-old Californian youngest to top Everest
U.S. senator criticizes climate bill he helped writeWASHINGTON - The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has seriously eroded chances for the U.S. Senate to pass a climate change bill this year, Senator Lindsey Graham said Monday, as he also leveled new criticisms against the legislation he helped to write.
UN urges rich to honour $30 bln climate [swindle] pledge | Reuters"I think it's extremely unlikely we will see a legally binding agreement in Cancun," de Boer said. "Having a treaty, if we are to get to a treaty, in South Africa a year later would be much more realistic."
Pope Catholic; night follows day; IPCC found telling pack of lies about sea level rises – Telegraph BlogsIPCC lies, cheats, distorts again. Yes, all right, it is a bit of a “dog bites man” or “pizza found to contain mozzarella and tomato resting on dough base” kind of story. But on the day in which Britain’s new Prime Minister announced in the Queen’s speech that one of his government’s main goals is to “combat climate change”, it’s perhaps just as well to remind ourselves of the kind of junk science and misinformation that is inspiring his green policies. (Hat tip: Barry Woods)
No Debate: Calhoun Valedictorian Leads a Full LifeSo how good is Jun Luke when it comes to debating? I decided to put him to the test:
Global warming?
"Science has clearly established that global warming is real, it's a pressing problem that needs to be addressed," he says without hesitation.
Explain, I add.
He quickly goes into a scientific soliloquy, about how carbon dioxide levels correlate with rising temperatures.
Unusually persistant cold weather in Sacramento breaking records | McClatchyThe chilly weekend temperatures were among the coldest in more than a half-century from Redding to Stockton, the National Weather Service reported Sunday.
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The dogged pattern of rain and cold has prompted worries of another sort: Melon crops are less likely to be ready for market in time for July 4 celebrations, and tomato harvests likely will be delayed.
Cold "slows everything down," Yolo County Agriculture Commissioner John Young said Sunday. "We're not getting the temperatures we need for germination of seed. It slows the melons down, it slows the rice down, it slows any of the warm-weather crops."
The Limits Of The Green Machine - Forbes.comHerein lies the Achilles heel of environmentalism--its profound disconnect from public preferences and aspirations. By embracing such a radical social engineering agenda, the greens may end up undermining their own long-term effectiveness.
Late rains mean plenty of water | TheUnion.comAn abundant snowpack boosted by late spring storms could fill Northern California's thirsty reservoirs, state water officials said.
On Monday, the state's snowpack was 167 percent of normal for this time of year, California Department of Water Resources spokesman Don Strickland said.
Baxter Pharr: Save our ski resorts from climate change | SummitDaily.comWhat do coal mining disasters in West Virginia, oil washing up on the shores of Gulf Coast states, the destruction of our national forests, and Vail not opening their Back Bowls until after Christmas all have in common? According to many experts in climate science, these and other disasters are the direct result of our nation's continued addiction to fossil fuels and stubborn refusal to transition to renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal and biofuels.
Scientists Challenge: 'A Greenhouse Effect on the Moon?' | Climate Depot'Belief that radiating trace gases explain why earth's surface temperature deviates from a simple mathematical formula is based on deeply erroneous assumptions about theoretical vs. real bodies'
Is Global Warming Really Cause for Alarm? by Paul Driessen, Willie Soon and David R. Legates | Climate RealistsIf we didn’t know better, we’d think the operative rules were: Never seek logical or alternative answers, if you can blame a phenomenon or problem (like decreasing frog populations) on global warming. Do whatever it takes and fund whatever research is needed, to advance the goals of ending hydrocarbon use, increasing government control and “transforming” society. And always include the terms “global warming” or “climate change” in any grant application.
It may not be corruption. But it sure skews the research, conclusions and policy recommendations.
Science 135, global warming 110 « Don SurberIt is a well-off society that can debate how many angels are on the head of a pin — or how many exhalations a man can have before he raises the Earth’s temperature beyond repair. Al Gore is right. The debate is over. His side lost — as doomsayers always do.
Don’t let frustration paralyse climate talks: UN environment chief (Interview)“We should recognise how close (to a global treaty) we came in Copenhagen - recognise the number of miles walked, not just the last mile that was not,” Steiner, also a UN Undersecretary General, told IANS.
No Frakking Consensus: We Trusted Too CompletelyThe fact that not one government - and not one science body - on this planet has conducted an independent audit of even a small portion of this report is breathtaking.
Almost June? A winter snow storm on I-80 amazes travelers, warnings issuedIn Utah and Wyoming today travelers are wondering wheather there is global warming, as large snowflakes fall in an unseasonably cold storm system. This storm will result in significant snow for the mountains and mountain valleys of Northern and Central Utah as well as Southwest Wyoming.
Winter advisory is in effect until noon as snow accumulates to 1-4 inches.
The Reference Frame: BBC: Polar bears are quantizedNow, with Molnar's excellent new idea, the situation has changed dramatically. They can always say: "Screw any observations." The observations may show whatever they want and no change can be apparently occurring. However, at some tipping point, when the global mean temperature reaches 15.001917 °C, all the catastrophes take place overnight, very dramatically, and very rapidly. ;-)
[In Canada, is it really too hot for grizzlies?]: Half-Grizzly, Half-Polar Grolar Bears Are Global Warming's Cutest OutcomeThey happen when global warming drives grizzlies north.
Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Two degrees C Urban Heat Island in small village of Barmedman, NSW, AustraliaDriving from Canberra to West Wyalong last Sunday morning I tried out a temperature logger and scored this signature from the centre of the village of Barmedman which is in flat country between Temora and West Wyalong – conditions were not windy.
Carbon dioxide frost consigns Phoenix Mars Lander to history - Oneindia NewsAccording to McEwen, it gets so cold during the Marian winter that carbon dioxide, which accounts for 95 percent of the planet's atmosphere, forms a frost blanket up to one or more feet thick that covers the entire northern landscape each winter, including any spacecraft that might be on the surface.
"The Mars Lander's solar panels were not designed to withstand significant loads of such carbon dioxide frost," said McEwen.
China all but dashes hope of climate deal this yearBEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Chinese climate official said on Tuesday that negotiators aim to seal a binding global pact on warming by the end of 2011, a blow to any lingering hopes the world could reach a deal at talks this year in Mexico.
Abstract: Use of Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods in Climate Debates (2010 AAAS Annual Meeting (18-22 February 2010))New scientific findings are found to be more than twenty times as likely to indicate that global climate disruption is "worse than previously expected," rather than "not as bad as previously expected," strongly supporting the ASC perspective rather than the usual framing of the issue in the U.S. mass media.
The findings add further support to the growing realization that media coverage of supposed debates has been strongly skewed by a tactic so widespread that it has its own name -- "Scientific Certainty" Argumentation Methods, or SCAMS. Partly because most citizens expect science to produce black-and-white certainty, rather than cumulative or "normal" improvements in understanding, well-funded special interest groups can exploit mass-media desire for controversy in stories, creating a false impression that "scientists" are still debating consensus findings.
Record low of 32 set at Spokane airport today - Spokesman.com - May 24, 2010Cool spring weather continues across the Inland Northwest with a record low of 32 at Spokane International Airport this morning.
Cold weather isn't imaginary ... we're setting records for late springNorthern California matched or broke cold records from Redding to Stockton this weekend, the National Weather Service reported Sunday.
And more cold -- and likely rain -- is on its way.
In fact, the region is facing the coldest spell for this late in the season in more than a half century.
Brazilian Coffee Crops May Face Frost Next Week (Update1) - BusinessWeekMay 24 (Bloomberg) -- Coffee crops in Brazil, the world’s largest producer and exporter of the bean, may be harmed by frost next week as a cold air mass approaching the southeast of the country pushes temperatures down, a forecaster said.
Freshinfo | News | Valencia stonefruit suffersThe stonefruit sector in the Spanish growing region of Valencia is facing crisis with an estimated 30 per cent of its crop lost to frost, hail, disease and abandonment.
Coral reefs off Fla. Keys already at risk, now under oil threat | ScrippsNewsThis past winter's cold spells had "drastic" effects on corals, and experts have just begun to collect data on the loss of corals that resulted, Ruzicka added.
Corals that were 200 to 300 years old and perfectly healthy died during the five-day cold snap in January, said Causey.
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