Billion-dollar power company sues Montgomery over carbon tax | Washington Examiner

Berliner said the county fully expected a fight from Mirant on the carbon tax, and therefore didn't write into the budget the $15 million in revenue the tax would have generated.

American Thinker Blog: Carly Fiorina injects global warming into her race with Barbara Boxer

The warmist scare is losing traction. Should Fiorina win the nomination next Tuesday, and press this line of criticism of Boxer, we shall see if even blue state Californians have had enough of the scam.

New Zealand snowfall 'bodes well for ski season'

The local tourist board revealed that the past week has brought consistent snowfall, including Mount Dobson's largest single deposit of snow since 1986.

With a powder base of around 130cm, the mountain looks set to open for the winter season before its planned launch date of 1 July.

New Zealand: Opposing the climate swindle

Q+A: Nick Smith interview | Q AND A News

JOHN BOSCAWEN - ACT MP

Regardless of whether you believe in the science of global warming or not, New Zealand will be leading the world from 1 July if we introduce the ETS in its current form. Our top four major trading partners don't have an Emissions Trading Scheme, who's gonna buy our exports, it's certainly not gonna be Australia, China, United States or Japan. I've travelled up and down the country from Northland down to Gore in Invercargill and I get a consistent message from National supporters, farmers and New Zealanders generally that they don't want this, they don't understand this, they don't understand where the money's going. I believe the government is under estimating the cost for householders, they're saying that the average household's going to pay an extra $3 a week. For farmers that'll be $80 a week, and it also understates the flow on effect.

What we're doing is we're increasing the price of electricity.

I blame Dick Cheney

Environment minister hedging her bets on global warming - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

WA's Environment Minister, Donna Faragher, says she believes humans are partly to blame for climate change.

This week, the Water Minister, Graham Jacobs came under fire for asking staff to remove the term "climate change" from a number of department documents.

Dr Jacobs rejected claims he was a climate change denier but said he was not convinced it was caused by humans.

Despite upgrade, power cuts haunt South Delhi - Express India

Pachauri proposes tariff hike, CM agrees

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R K Pachauri, on Saturday, came out strongly in favour of increasing power and water tariffs in the Capital.

Speaking at an event to mark the World Environment Day, Diskhit said, “We will have to take serious efforts to save the environment. We will have to control wastage of water and power. If the solution to limit consumption of water and power lies in increasing the tariff as suggested by Pachauri, then we support it.”

Pachauri suggested that increasing tariff would make people appreciate the resources more. [Wait, where's the part about preventing bad weather?]

Did we say global warming was the most important issue in human history? We meant biodiversity

World Environment Day 2010: UNEP website minimizes mention of the climate hoax

United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon

Biodiversity, the incredible variety of life on Earth that sustains us, is in peril. Species are becoming extinct at the fastest rate ever recorded. Most of these extinctions are tied to human activities that are polluting and depleting water resources, changing and degrading habitats and altering the global climate. From frogs to gorillas, from huge plants to tiny insects, thousands of species are in jeopardy.

Marc Ambinder weighs in

#PDF10: Truth Telling and Shaming - Politics - The Atlantic

I won't pretend that climate change isn't happening, and that the scientific consensus, which grows more solid by the day (and not less solid), holds that humans are responsible for much of this change. We can validly debate the solutions, but it is simply stupid to pretend, for the sake of appearing to be fair, as if there is a fundamental scientific debate that has yet to be solved. On the other side of the coin, simply acknowledging the science does not presuppose any particular solution. You CAN cover a debate about how to fix global warming, and whether the trade-offs that must be made are worth their price. These are open, contestable questions. The fact of global warming isn't.

Marc Ambinder - Authors - The Atlantic

Marc Ambinder is the politics editor of The Atlantic. He has covered Washington for ABC News and the Hotline, and he is chief political consultant to CBS News.

More climate fraud from NASA

Global Warming : [On the nasa.gov web site, dated June 3, 2010]

Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels.
How Does Today’s Warming Compare to Past Climate Change?

Earth has experienced climate change in the past without help from humanity. But the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events.
Why Do Scientists Think Current Warming Isn’t Natural?

In Earth’s history before the Industrial Revolution, Earth’s climate changed due to natural causes unrelated to human activity. These natural causes are still in play today, but their influence is too small or they occur too slowly to explain the rapid warming seen in recent decades.

Tom Nelson: [So how can the 20th century warming be spun as more rapid than this 18th century warming?]

[David Archibald] What is also interesting is the 2.2° temperature rise from 7.8° in 1696 to 10.0° in 1732. This is a 2.2° rise is 36 years [in Central England]. By comparison, the world has seen a 0.6° rise over the 100 years of the 20th century. That temperature rise in the early 18th century was four times as large and three times as fast as the rise in the 20th century.

Question: If the Earth is really overheating, why isn't the Antarctic sea ice melting?

Cryosphere today: seaice.anomaly.antarctic.png (PNG Image, 1122x912 pixels)

Wyoming: Beet farmers starting to see freeze damage

RALSTON, Wyo. - Because of a late freeze, Dwight Gilbert has planted his sugarbeets twice.
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Yet, even this week, Dwight said some area farmers who thought they didn't have freeze damage to their beets are starting to see some damage.

Relocating animals to safer climes - Emirates Business 24|7

The days of leaving animals and plants alone in the wild to cope with climate change are over.

Mexico doubtful on climate deal

In an interview, Patricia Espinosa, Mexico's foreign minister, said: "Normally, when you have an exercise of drafting a treaty between 194 nations you need some time, you would need much more than the six months that are left."

Now even the Huffington Post is dissing Al Gore

Annabelle Gurwitch: Al Gore's J-Date Profile - Huffington Post

...I really consider myself to be a citizen of the world, who is looking for a special lady to take short carbon neutral hikes followed by globe trotting in my private plane to attend conferences with other longwinded academics. Must have your own reusable water bottle.

Hobbies? You bet! While I enjoy quiet walks on beaches, my passion is stridently lecturing lesser mortals about the deleterious effects they are having on coastal ecosystems. So if you like the sound of my voice, that will be important because there really won't be much time spent in my company when you won't be lulled into a mind-numbing stupor.

Sounding defensive, climate believers take unnecessary fossil-fueled trips to Hawaii

"Experts" share climate-change findings at UH-Hilo conference

Climate change is a given for scientists converging this week at the University of Hawai'i-Hilo for the Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology.
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His research colleague, James Marsh, professor of international business economics at UH-Mānoa, said progress can be made simply by moving past the debate. Even though he's not a climate scientist, he has reviewed the research and finds it solid, he said.

"I don't listen much to skeptics," Marsh said.

"We were somewhat teased by Mother Nature," said Lorenz Magaard, a scientist at the UH School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. "But if one looks at the total picture, it is clear. I think there is enough scientific evidence that global warming is going on."

Magaard cites the melting of glaciers and increased acidification of oceans as signs. He said a UH colleague has created models that showed predictable climate activity for millions of years, but changes over the past 40 years fit the model only when it includes human activity.

But if Antarctica is really melting, why must the weather stations be regularly dug out of the snow?

Love of science in a cold climate

In fact, her area of interest is crucial to the climate change debate. It's her job to measure the snow layer on top of the Antarctic ice so that, in turn, the thickness of the polar ice can be accurately measured. Thinning ice will lead not only to rising sea levels but changes in global weather patterns.
...it meant a lot of time flying over the frozen Antarctic landscape in [fossil-fueled] helicopters, measuring the snow layer with experimental airborne radar and comparing those results with handheld measurements on the ground for accuracy.

Her work was extremely difficult, hampered by outdated computer gear and the challenges of working in a hostile environment. The airborne radar wasn't as accurate as what she was hoping for. ''The readings were accurate to about five centimetres but the thickness of snow is at times only 10 centimetres, so we were really trying to improve the accuracy and fly a larger area. The vibrations of the helicopters contributed to us not collecting much data. We could have done things so much differently,'' she said.

Snow job in Antarctica – digging out the data source | Watts Up With That?

It seems digging out weather stations is a regular pastime in Antarctica, so data issues with snow burial of AWS sensors may be more than just about “Harry”.
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This regular burial and digging out of stations brings the whole network of AWS stations to be used as sensitive climate measurement stations into question.

PM rants at developed nations for climate change [swindle payments]

Speaking at a programme organised to mark the World Environment Day in Kathmandu, the PM reasoned that the developed countries have to pay compensation to the developing and poor countries for their exploitation of natural resources.

Rudd running on anger | The Daily Telegraph

He detailed how Mr Rudd was privately scathing of Chinese efforts to derail a deal in the Copenhagen climate-change talks last year.

"Those Chinese f****** are trying to rat-f*** us," Mr Rudd is quoted as saying.

The "dumbing down" of Carly Fiorina - Joe Romm

Last year, Energy Secretary and Nobel laureate Steven Chu, who ran a major national laboratory in California, warned that if we keep on our current path of unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions, it could be devastating to California's climate: "You’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California."

No worries for Carly, though. She has a bigger concern than her state's future -- her own political future. She wanted an endorsement in her GOP primary contest from the leading anti-climate dis-informer in the Senate, James Inhofe, Boxer's bête noire on the Environment and Public Works Committee and a man once described by the Washington Post as “the last flat-earther.” When she won Inhofe's backing, Fiorina was asked whether she believes in global warming. Her reply: "I think we should have the courage to examine the science on an ongoing basis."

Garrett left out of Rudd's 'gang' on ETS backflip | The Australian

ENVIRONMENT minister Peter Garrett has admitted he was not consulted about the government's decision to ditch its proposed emissions trading scheme and that he knew nothing about it until he read it in the newspapers.

YouTube - TV ad: Safe

Barbara Boxer thinks climate change is a "very important national security issue." Carly Fiorina will work to keep you safe.

Republican candidate Art Robinson hopes to unseat Democratic incumbent Peter DeFazio

ODE: So climate change is not something we should be concerned about?

Robinson: No. It’s something that, basically, you have a field of endeavor in which scientists try to understand the changes and predict them, because there is certainly an advantage in being able to predict ... and it was fine, and then the field got hijacked by the politics and the hijacking didn’t do anything except obscure the good science. And, interestingly, if you look at what man can do to Earth temperature, if we wanted to be prepared for temperature change in the Earth we should hope that it gets too warm, because we can cool it. If it gets too cool, we can’t warm it. If the Earth gets too cold for us, there is nowhere to get the energy to warm it. It’s just not possible. If it gets too warm, it’s very easy to block enough sunlight to cool it, and several scientists have shown very economical ways that that could be done. I don’t advocate doing that today, but mankind can cool it to any extent it wants by blocking the sun, they can’t warm it at all. So if fluctuations go on, and uh, we had our druthers, we better get it too warm because that we can fix. I’ve read every paper in this field; I’ve studied this for ten years, and I can tell you — there is just nothing there. It’s a political front, unfortunately, that’s just what it is.

Maine Scientists Surprised by GOP Candidates' Views on Climate Change

All but one of the seven Republican candidates decline to embrace the science behind climate change. And that surprises and disappoints science professors at Maine's colleges and universities.

Alberta climate change [scam] fund approves $71M in projects

EDMONTON — Alberta’s climate change fund has made its first investment in clean energy, with a decision to invest $71 million in 16 technology projects this year.

The American Spectator : John Kerry's Big Business Buyoff

This is just a sampling of a larger group of businesses whose woolly rhetoric is designed to mask their own-self interest -- at the expense of the American economy as a whole. Big business spokesmen for cap-and-trade claim they are trying to save the planet and achieve regulatory certainty. But the only certainty they're after is guaranteed profits. It's comforting, in a way, to know that their eyes are always firmly fixed on the bottom line.

Losing Glacier Data « Climate Audit

...Perhaps this also explains why Lonnie Thompson has refused to archive sample data for Dunde cores taken in 1989 – still an important contributor to proxy studies. He doesn’t know where the data is and doesn’t want to admit it.

Oxburgh versus Emanuel « Climate Audit

[Emanuel: The documents exist, but you should get them from Oxburgh. Oxburgh: The documents don't exist?]

Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt | Point of Inquiry

This week’s guest is Naomi Oreskes, co-author with historian Eric Conway of the new book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. [43-min MP3]

BEISNER: Move over, global warming - Washington Times

Nonetheless, as global warming fears collapse in the face of Climategate, the green socialist machine is scrambling to be ready to switch gears. Perhaps the new rationale for global wealth redistribution and deindustrialization will be preserving biodiversity. It's a good candidate: It has all the flaws of global warming - bad science, bad economics and totalitarian politics.

Issues in BP War Room photo! - pourmecoffee

[Steven Chu in a room with energy-guzzling big-screen TVs, bottled water and other drinks in disposable containers, Cracker Jacks in wasteful packaging, non-locally grown coffee, etc?!]

[Pure junk science]: Arctic sea ice thinnest in thousands of years

WASHINGTON: Arctic sea ice is at its record low in the recent geologic history, a major international study has claimed. The first comprehensive history of Arctic ice, carried out by a team of scientists from five countries, found that the recent retreat is the worst in thousands of years.

Flashback: The undeath spiral | Watts Up With That?

Over the last three years, Arctic Ice has gained significantly in thickness.

Capitol Alert: Barbara Boxer punches back at Carly Fiorina

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/06/barbara-boxer-t.html

"She's picked a fight with the entire military establishment," Boxer said of Fiorina. "And the military, the intelligence officials, people like John Warner, a war hero, a Republican, have stated unequivocally that in fact climate change is going to be the cause of wars over the next 20 years if we don't do something about it."

Bill Maher: New Rule: Al Gore Must Come Out With a Sequel to His Film and Call It "An Inconvenient Truth 2: What the F*ck Is Wrong with You People?"

On this side of the debate: Every scientist in the world. On the other: Mr. Potato Head.

There is no debate here -- just scientists vs. non-scientists, and since the topic is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. Just because most people believe something doesn't make it true.

Alarmist like me: Revkin praises Roberts

Head to Head on Energy and Climate - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

There’ve been times when I’ve sparred with David Roberts, a smart, funny, valuable voice on energy and the environment over at Grist.

Flashback: Chilling Intolerance for Free Speech on Global Warming

"When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg." -David Roberts, Gristmill, Grist Magazine, September 19, 2006

Guessing At CO2 Emissions | The Resilient Earth

This goes back to the three pillars of climate science: incomplete theory, erroneous computer models and inaccurate data. Here is an admission that the connection between human activity and CO2 emissions has not been accurately measured. Climate scientists have inferred mankind's contribution from measurements in overall atmospheric content, blaming humanity for the sharp rise in GHG levels even though there is considerable evidence that levels of such gases have been higher during previous interglacials than they are today. New sources and new sinks are being discovered every day, and nature's response to changing CO2 levels is to change itself. No wonder climate scientists haven't guessed right yet.

Brendan DeMelle | Christopher Monckton Brings His Brand of Crazy To Bonn Climate Talks

Climate deniers often like to talk about “global warming profiteers,” some mysterious breed led by Al Gore who, so the story goes, are out to make the big bucks off scaring people about climate change. But if there’s anyone making money off lying about global warming these days, it is “Lord” Christopher Monckton, who continues his globetrotting tour to hawk confusion and misinformation at the Bonn climate talks this month.

Climate: The Extremists Join the Debate at Last! | CFACT Europe

[Monckton] Just about every one of the 115 slides presented by Abraham in his shoddy little piece of lavishly-funded venom contains serious, serial, material errors, exaggerations, or downright lies. All I have been able to do here is to give you some flavor of how unscientific, inaccurate, and deliberately mendacious Abraham’s video is.

Climate change leading to major vegetation shifts around the world

BERKELEY —  Vegetation around the world is on the move, and climate change is the culprit, according to a new analysis of global vegetation shifts led by a University of California, Berkeley, ecologist in collaboration with researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
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"The dieback of trees and shrubs in the Sahel leaves less wood for houses and cooking, while the contraction of Arctic tundra reduces habitat for caribou and other wildlife," said Gonzalez, who has served as a lead author on reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Mass Climate Disobedience in Texas?

The self-descriptive online propaganda tool SolveClimate selectively "reports" that despite a new rule implemented last year by the Texas Board of Education, which would allegedly require "teachers to cast doubt on human contributions to climate change," that students and educators are largely ignoring it

I'd rather have Monckton in a foxhole with me than Monbiot – Telegraph Blogs

Oh, and there’s one more key difference which I think we would do well to consider when judging Monckton as against the other side. Unlike the Warmists, Monckton is not proposing urinating $45 trillion of your money, my money and the world’s money up against the wall in a name of a problem that doesn’t actually exist.

All hail Monckton. I’m proud to call him an ally and a friend.

Glaciers' wane not all down to humans : Nature News

Is it all down to man-made global warming? Not according to a recent study, which finds that about half of the glacier loss in the Swiss Alps is due to natural climate variability — a result likely to be true for glaciers around the world.

"This doesn't question the actuality, and the seriousness, of man-made climate change in any way," says Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, who led the study. "But what we do see is that current glacier retreat might be equally due to natural climate variations as it is to anthropogenic greenhouse warming."

Snow cover sets new winter record - Sweden

Summer has been a long time coming for Storlien-Visjövalen ski resort in central Sweden, near the Norwegian border, where the last of the snow only melted away on Wednesday.

The late thaw contributed to the longest continuous period of snow cover in the region for at least 60 years, according to the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).
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Storlien was not the only place where the snow cover remained for an unusually long period of time. Southern Sweden was hit with the harshest winter in about 20 years with unusually heavy snowfall.

Obama Appoints Global Warming Scientists to Oil Spill Panel | Before It's News

This has nothing to do with stopping the leak, preventing further leaks or cleaning up the coast. It’s all about advancing Obama’s agenda.

2010 on track to become warmest year ever | Environment | The Guardian

The melt season started almost a month later than normal at the end of March and is not expected to end until September.

US: Cold snap hits farmers hard

Chilly spring has warm-weather crops waiting for sunshine

Many local growers are eager to see the end of an unusually cold and wet spring, which has stalled the growth of many warm-weather crops and potentially set the stage for disease.

A wide array of crops is affected by the cold, said Stacy Gore, vice president of the Butte County Farm Bureau as well as an almond and rice grower.

BP Spill Shows We Need to Pass BP’s Bill? - Planet Gore - National Review Online

How do you know there’s no good reason for any particular agenda? When the reasons — or excuses — offered for pursuing that agenda keep changing.So it is that a global-warming tax became a climate-change tax, then somehow a job-creation energy tax, and then a national-energy-security tax, and now is an energy tax to show how engaged and angry President Obama is at BP’s oil spill.

Today's question: When you drink a beer, do you worry about the bad weather alleged caused by the office stationery of the maker of that beer?

What's the carbon footprint of ... a pint of beer? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The beer at the low end of the scale is based on figures for the Keswick Brewing Company, a microbrewery quite near where I live. Just about everything you can think of was included in the study I did for them. There were the obvious things such as ingredients, packaging, fuel, electricity and transport. I also included such elements as staff travel, the carbon cost of having to replace their equipment every so many years, and office stationery.

Climate Lessons: Children frightened or anxious about climate

This blog has two primary areas for investigation:

1. Examples of children being frightened about climate
2. Examples of children being fed misleading information about climate

May 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.53 deg. C. « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

...SSTs indicate El Nino has ended and we may be headed to La Nina. NOAA issued a La Nina Watch yesterday.

In the race for the hottest calendar year, 1998 still leads with the daily average for 1 Jan to 31 May being +0.65 C in 1998 compared with +0.59 C for 2010. (Note that these are not considered significantly different.) As of 31 May 2010, there have been 151 days in the year. From our calibrated daily data, we find that 1998 was warmer than 2010 on 96 of them.

Monckton takes scientist to brink of madness at climate change talk | John Abraham | Environment | guardian.co.uk

I know a thing or two about global warming. I have worked in the field of heat transfer and fluid mechanics and I have published more than 80 papers on these topics.

I am a university professor and also an active consultant in the energy and environment industry. What I heard in his talk surprised me.

[But he's not even a climatologist!]: University of St. Thomas : School of Engineering : John P. Abraham, Ph.D.

Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Phil Mote at it Again

Phil Mote single-handedly damaged the economy of Washington State when as state climatologist he published a cherry picked data analysis allegedly linking western snowpack to global warming. Action taken by the Governor and Seattle’s equally clueless mayor have moved the state in the wrong directions with regards to energy policy and planning and left the state unprepared for the snow and cold of recent winters, costing lives.

The undeath spiral | Watts Up With That?

We have seen a steady year over year thickening of the ice since the 2007 melt season.

Just what is it that greens like George Monbiot find so offensive about prosperity, abundance, happiness? – Telegraph Blogs

Why, who knows, with luck, Monbiot and his fellow Watermelons might even take us back to that glorious era in 1750 BC when they knew how to treat energy with the respect it deserves. Back then, an hour’s reading time for a sesame oil lamp would have cost you more than 50 hours’ work.

World Cup 2010: Climate change fouls and goals | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The transnational sports clothing company Nike announced that the nine teams wearing its uniforms -- including Brazil, Portugal and Netherlands -- will use jerseys made from recycled plastic bottles.

World Climate Report » Leave it to Beavers

So from Yellowstone Park to Switzerland to Korea, we find good news for critters that don’t like periods of drought. As noted repeatedly, the build-up of greenhouses should warm the Earth as well as increase precipitation. So far, we seem to be witnessing fewer droughts and greater streamflow.

Report: Rising Sea Levels Will Have Dire Impact On Bay Area Economy - KCBS

Financial losses from climate change will be significant unless key infrastructure is reinforced, said the director of the National Ocean Economics Program, Judith Kildow.

“San Francisco aiport is ground zero. Those runways are going to be under water in the not too distant future,” she said.

NASA Charged in New Climate Fakery: Greenhouse Gas Data Bogus by John O'Sullivan, guest post at Climate Realists | Climate Realists

Shock new evidence of a NASA scientist faking a fundamental greenhouse gas equation shames beleaguered space administration in new global warming fraud scandal.

Caught in the heat are NASA's Dr. Judith Curry and a junk science equation by the space agency’s Dr. Gavin Schmidt creating disarray over a contentious Earth energy graph.

Global Temperature Is Warmest on Record, NASA’s Hansen Says: Reality Check | The SPPI Blog

Hansen is a man on a mission to save the planet and this includes civil disobedience. As Michael Goldfarb described it “Recently, but presumably still in his capacity as a private citizen and defender of the Earth, Hansen wrote an op-ed for the Guardian in which he described coal-fired power plants as “factories of death.” This on the heels of testifying in a British court on behalf of six Greenpeace activists on trial for causing $60,000 in criminal damage to a coal-fired power station in England.” Could this civil disobedience carry over to the data?

Will the Midwest Turn Its Back on Addressing Climate Change? - NYTimes.com

...Granholm is leaving office because of term limits, and several of her potential successors are vowing to jump-start new coal plants and take the state in the opposite direction on renewable energy and climate change.

Climate sceptics and fringe political groups are an unhealthy cocktail | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

If their scientific case against anthropogenic global warming is so strong, why can't they simply let their peer-reviewed articles in their chosen specialist fields do their bidding for them?

The Reference Frame: The Arctic doesn't amplify global temperature swings

There is no "climate" in the RSS temperature tables from 1979 to 2010: everything is "weather".

- Bishop Hill blog - The irrational polemicist

George Monbiot has written the most extraordinary review of the book I'm currently reading - Matt Ridley's Rational Optimist. I'm not sure I've ever read such a bilious review of a book before, and certainly few that have been devoted quite so much space to ad hominems. If anything, Monbiot comes over as slightly deranged.

- Bishop Hill blog - Monckton to overthrow government..

...or something like that. Lord Monckton is apparently to be the new deputy leader of the UK Independence Party and politicalbetting.com is wondering if global warming sceptics will now all leave the Conservative Party.

Reid’s Energy Bill Letter: The Case of the Missing Word « The Washington Independent

...as Center for American Progress blogger Joe Romm quickly pointed out, there was one big word missing from Reid’s letter to the chairmen: “climate.” The Senate letter includes no indication that the energy measure under consideration would include a nationwide cap on greenhouse gas emissions or a price on carbon, which President Obama directly called for in his Pittsburgh speech on Wednesday.

Wal-Mart Support for ObamaCare, Cap and Trade Ripped at Annual Meeting | National Legal and Policy Center

Wal-Mart has also endorsed Cap and Trade, which the public is also against. Barack Obama has promised that Cap and Trade will “skyrocket” our electric bills.

One study says Cap and Trade would hike electricity rates 90 percent, destroy over a million jobs, and reduce U.S. gross domestic product by nearly $10 trillion over the next 25 years.

How did Wal-Mart get on THIS bandwagon? It’s called global warming. Al Gore came to Bentonville and convinced Lee Scott that the sky was falling. Mr. Scott even would claim that carbon dioxide causes hurricanes.

Since that time, we’ve had the Climategate scandal. Some of the science behind global warming was faked. And temperatures are not going up much. In fact, some evidence suggests they are going down.

Farmers who lost sheep during hard winter get refund - Herald Scotland | Business | Corporate & SME

The Scottish Government has revealed the details of its £200,000 emergency aid fund, announced in April, to support those Scottish sheep farmers whose flocks were hardest hit by the harsh winter.

As a result of the extremely cold weather, the losses recorded on some Scottish sheep farms during January to April of this year were significantly higher than normal.

Mongolia counts carcasses after harsh winter - World - Wire - Kentucky.com

More than 8.2 million animals, nearly a fifth of all livestock in Mongolia, have died in a winter of snow, cold and gales so severe Mongolians have a special term for it - "dzud." A sense of loss and the stench of decay hang over one broad valley after another across the vast range lands.

The Daily Bayonet « Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jun. 3rd 2010

The WWF wants Canadian hippies to pin car keys on their shirts to show support for alternative transport, polar bears need a new press agent and NASA has more problems than Apollo 13 had extra holes.

C3: U.S. Climate Data Reveals Past Global Warming Far Exceeds Modern Temperature Change

3. Over the 9,000 years, the average temperature increase from the trough of the preceding cooling period to the next temperature peak has exceeded 2.0°C. In contrast, the Modern warming has barely reached a 0.7°C increase since the Little Ice Age cooling trough.

4. There have been nine significant warming trends leading to temperature peaks over last 9,000 years; and, all exceed the Modern warming trend in terms of absolute degree change (increase).

Japan unveils $4 bn of climate cash spending - News - Point Carbon

Japan has allocated over a third of the cash it has pledged to spend on fast-start climate aid.

Opinion: Did Al Gore Invent His Marriage Too? - AOL News

But Gore had a reputation for exaggerating. Among other things, he got himself into hot water with the remark that he helped create the Internet. He also once intimated, inaccurately, that he and Tipper were the models for the couple in the Erich Segal 1970 novel "Love Story," later a movie that starred Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neill.

So why didn't we suspect he was exaggerating the quality of his marriage?

Is Jacobs a climate change sceptic? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

To challenge the theory of climate change is a dangerous thing.

That is the lesson Water Minister Graham Jacobs learnt as the Opposition took the Government through the 2010-11 State Budget.
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Greens member Alison Xamon called for the Water Minister to "immediately resign" and added "To have a climate change denialist in a position of such importance for Western Australia's future planning scenarios is akin to having Dracula in charge of the blood bank."

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The Significance of Climate Model Agreement: A Guest Post by Ryan Meyer

If 18 models get the same result, is that better than just one? Why? Climate science should provide a thorough explanation for this, especially if climate models are to begin informing policy decisions.

We argue in a paper now available in Environmental Science and Policy (PDF here) that agreement is only significant if the models are sufficiently independent from one another. The climate science community has mostly ignored the crucial problem of model independence while taking advantage of a tacit belief in the force of model agreement.

NC Media Watch: May was cold, but how cold?

The average temperature of Grass Valley in May was 49.32, or 9.03 degrees below the average. It makes one wonder where is the Global Warming?

The Answer Sheet - Movies and School Reform: Lessons from ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

But how much did the film actually shift public opinion on global warming? Even a cursory look at the data seems to suggest that over the long term, not much.

Consider this: When asked by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal in July 1999 for their views on global warming, 23% of respondents said, "Global climate change has been established as a serious problem, and immediate action in necessary." By June 2006, right after “An Inconvenient Truth” came out, that rose to 29%. The figure peaked at 34% in January 2007. Less than three years later, however, by December 2009, the number was back down to where it had been in 1999--at 23%.

Fiorina Vs. Fiorina: Let's Talk About The Weather...Or Not | TPMDC

In an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos in May 2008, Fiorina was asked point-blank about Republican concerns that cap and trade amounts to little more than a tax increase. She showed a truly Boxer-like eagerness for weather talk at the time.

C3: Memo To Senators: The Natives, The Media, The Legal & The Scientific Communities Piss On Global Warming Hysteria

After years of climate alarmism from "scientists" about global warming, the beast known as the public, in all its many forms, is decisively turning against the faux-science used to generate the faux AGW-crisis. Putting aside the multiple polls that reveal climate change/global warming to be of low importance to the general public, there is other evidence that strongly suggests that the global warming hysteria is withering rapidly.

Court Tosses Landmark Global Warming Ruling After Late Recusal - NYTimes.com

After an unusual about-face prompted by a late recusal, a federal appeals court has scrapped a ruling that said the nation's largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions could be sued for the damage caused by global warming.

Carbonrally applies gaming concept to cutting carbon - Mass High Tech Business News

The site makes a game out of cutting carbon dioxide emissions, offering regular carbon-reduction challenges to members who sign up for free.

As a member, you get detailed information about what your actions mean for climate change and you get to see how much CO2 your commitments – such as using a reusable coffee cup or planting a vegetable garden – are saving. You can play individually or as part of a team. (The current winning team on the 30-day leaderboard as of June 3 was the Panthers, a 72-member team that had reduced 37 tons of carbon [dioxide, worth $3.70 at the Chicago Climate Hoax Exchange] .)

Johnny Ball slates 'doom and gloom' climate lobby - Scotsman.com News

PROFITEERS have jumped on the "doom and gloom bandwagon" surrounding climate change and are cashing in on the drive for "green" technologies, according to TV presenter and author Johnny Ball.
Ball, a long-time sceptic of mankind's role in global warming, will outline his views at a seminar in Inverness next week when he will share the stage with leading environmental campaigner Tony Juniper.

'Climate Climbdown' - IBD - Investors.com

Environment: The Royal Society of Britain is rewriting its official position on global warming. We'd say the consensus that man is causing the planet to heat is cracking, but there never was a consensus in the first place.

Nasa analysis showing record global warming undermines the sceptics - Times Online

The Met Office said its own analysis of temperature records suggested that the global temperature remained just below the 12-month record achieved in 1998. However, Vicky Pope, head of climate advice, said it was possible that Nasa was correct because the Met Office had underestimated recent warming detected in the Arctic.

The failure of AB 32

When Gov. Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 four years ago, California’s jobless rate was 4.9 percent. It’s now 12 percent, reaching as high as 20 percent in 8 counties. The state’s budget bleeds with red ink (deficit: $19.1 billion) and its economy is among the nation’s worst.

Global Warming [Hoax] for Young Minds: A Global Warming and Sustainability Guide for Children

This fun and engaging activity book teaches young children about the importance of global warming, and what even kids can do to protect our planet.

Washington Post Exposes BP Ties to Eco-Groups

http://www.livinglakecountry.com/blogs/communityblogs/95519599.html

The revelation that BP was heavily tied to eco-groups like Conservation International and Nature Conservancy angered many of their supporters, yet the networks and other major papers have so far failed to report the relationships between green groups and BP.

Eat less meat to tackle climate change: UN panel | CalcuttaTube

http://calcuttatube.com/eat-less-meat-to-tackle-climate-change-un-panel/95476/

London, June 3 (IANS) Eating meat causes environmentaldegradation and the world population needs to become vegetarian to tackle climate change, says a UN panel.

WashingtonPost.com: Cartoonist/idiot Tom Toles weighs in on the alleged dangers of trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas

Tom Toles - Can the GOP make up its mind?

Several times I have heard variants of this: after listening to climate change warnings, someone asserts that he is going out and buying an even BIGGER SUV. That will annoy somebody! And when the elderly are dying in an unprecedented heat wave or farmers watch their fields blow away in a dust storm or refugees pack what they can carry and head for a camp somewhere, consider that someone will be successfully annoyed. What fun!

But isn't that the same as when I say that Sarah Palin is a preposterous fraud? No. Because unlike oil spills and climate change, she IS a fraud, not least for her downplaying both of those risks for cheap applause and expensive speaking gigs.
--Tom Toles

Mt Everest: Still cold

Everest team forced to leave sick British climber to die - Asia, World - The Independent

...he suddenly went blind and had to be abandoned to die from the cold.
...they were now dangerously close to needing rescue themselves, and had to abandon him and struggled back into camp at 5.30am, exhausted and suffering from hypothermia and frostbite.
...He is the 30th climber to die on the mountain in the past five years.
"...Conditions were sunny, but extremely cold, windy, with blowing snow."

They think you're stupid: You owe money to scammers because it's allegedly too warm on Mt Everest

Quadrant Online - Why scientists get it wrong

Firstly, there aren’t that many scientists involved in the IPCC deliberations. The inner core is possibly twenty souls. Secondly, they were untroubled by the necessity to concoct fraudulent data to get their desired results.

Paul Gipe on Wind’s Ecological Problems Circa 1995: Worth Another Look? — MasterResource

Think about it: industrial wind parks are noisy, intrusive, cement-and-steel intensive, require service roads in the wilds, and must be shadowed by inefficiently-run fossil-fuel generation. And did we say that wind in more expensive than other forms of electric generation that provide non-intermittent power?

C3: Ohio State Sea-Ice Research Blunder: Did They Rely On Discredited "Hockey Stick" Science/Statistical Techniques?

Any science that is based on "certain" skills and some "luck", while only seeking data that "fit together like pieces of a puzzle" and thus rejecting data that does not conform to the IPCC global warming hypothesis, sounds an awful lot like the discredited hockey-stick style of science.

Al Gore Pick-Up Lines: Tongue-in-Cheek Dating Advice on Twitter - ABC News

Borowitz signed his tweets with the hashtag #Gorepickuplines, and thus an Internet meme was born, spawning a trend on Twitter that is yielding some pretty funny responses.

Good News, Ladies: Al Gore Announces Himself 1) Single, and 2) Ready To Mingle

What is the point of this endless hectoring? Al Gore does not live his life this way. We all know that. What is the point of the hypocrisy and false piety, then?

Misinterpreting Natural Climate Change as Manmade « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

...the global warming so commonly blamed on humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions can just as easily be explained as largely natural in origin, most likely due to a natural decrease in global cloud cover.

Millennial Climate Cycles Driven by Random Cloud Variations « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

What I want to demonstrate is one of the issues that is almost totally forgotten in the global warming debate: long-term climate changes can be caused by short-term random cloud variations.

Brendan DeMelle | Climate denial activists’ parallel to anti-relativity movement of 1920s

As I’ve documented elsewhere, prolific climate deniers such as Ian Plimer, James Delingpole and Christopher Booker who deliberately spread untruths on climate change can be wrong 99% of the time and right for less than 1% of the time and still ‘win the argument’ because the playing field simply isn’t level.

Die Klimazwiebel: Guest post by Vicky Slonosky: A few thoughts on the history and philosophy of anthropogenic climate change

The idea that we are causing climate change can be frightening, but it also implies we are in control; that we can decide whether to let warming continue or whether to stop it. This is an idea has always been with us (Hans has a very good overview on the history of human attempts to control the climate), starting with prehistoric weather gods. It continues with countless examples through history, with priests attempting to save Alpine villages from advancing glaciers by throwing holy water on them during the Little Ice Age, to the Canadians diligently clearing the forest in an attempt to create Montreal-sur-Seine, and on through to today.

EU Referendum: Slowly unravelling

Slowly, slowly, the great global warming scam is unravelling, leaving the politicians stranded, trapped by their vacuous obsession.

High Praise – I’m “insulted” in Parliament « JoNova

[Mr OAKESHOTT, Federal Independent Member for Lyne] “I take this opportunity to raise the issue of the smoking guns that I have seen over the last six months. I smelt a rat in the shift that I saw and what looked to be—to their credit—a very well organised and very well-funded campaign from the likes of JoNova and Viv Forbes.”

Sen. Lugar to propose climate bill alternative

For heavy-polluting coal-fired power plants, they would be excused from investing in expensive scrubbers over the next few years and in return would voluntarily retire the plants in 2020.

Absent from Lugar's bill will be any new "cap and trade" system for carbon pollution permits, an idea that anchors climate change legislation passed nearly a year ago by the House of Representatives and included in a draft bill presented by senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on May 12.
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"Lugar's bill is a main alternative to the divisive cap-and-trade approach," said a press release announcing next week's bill introduction.

 NASA Climate Scientist James Hansen Condemns Attacks From 'Politicized' Media :: Uncensored News For Real People

For anyone interested in how climatologists collate and interpret the all-important average global temperature datasets the paper (which is yet to be peer reviewed) is an illuminating read, but perhaps the most interesting section for a wider audience - which Hansen admits "might not survive depending on the advice of the [journal's] editors" - is the final concluding section

East Anglia Learns Nothing « Climate Audit

In breach of calls for openness and transparency in climate science, the University of East Anglia, together with Eugene Wahl and Caspar Amman, have refused to provide documents critical to the inquiry that Muir Russell should be undertaking.

Fmr US Vice Prez Al Gore And WifeTipper Split After 40-Years

Though Al Gore's reinvention as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmentalist has led to many accolades, Roberts said, he eventually has to come home where "his wife knows he puts his pants on one leg at a time."

"It's much more fun to be a God than a person," she said.

Reliable Source - Al and Tipper Gore separate -- and have a fortune to split or share

They've done all right with real estate, too. The Arlington County house they bought in 1977 for $150K is assessed at $1.1 million. The Nashville mansion they bought in 2002 for $2.3 million is worth $3.3 million. They still have the farm in Carthage, Tenn., valued just below $1 million. And there's that $8.9 million place they just purchased in Oprah's seaside nabe of Montecito, Calif.

Drax Burns Grass as U.K.'s Megawatt Valley Looks Beyond Coal

"We've become more and more concerned about carbon [dioxide]," Thompson, who aims to eventually shift half the plant from coal, said in an interview at the plant.
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Elephant grass and other biomass fuels today cost three times what coal does, so biomass-fueled turbines need subsidies to be profitable, according to Thompson.

Charles honoured for climate [hoax] legacy | Environment | BigPond News

The Prince of Wales was presented with a bottle of 42 per cent proof whisky on Wednesday to commemorate Scotland's ambitious climate change targets.

Obama suggests that trace amounts of carbon dioxide will "smother our planet"

Obama pushes Kerry's climate [swindle] bill

“Without a major change in our energy policy, our dependence on oil means that we will continue to send billions of dollars of our hard-earned wealth to other countries every month – including countries in dangerous and unstable regions,” Obama said. “In other words, our continued dependence on fossil fuels will jeopardize our national security. It will smother our planet. And it will continue to put our economy and our environment at risk.”

Obama on the climate bill: “We will get it done” | Grist

Another interesting aspect: At no point does he mention "climate change" or "global warming." "Smother the planet" is as close as he gets. Obviously he's listening to the messaging folks.

PostPartisan - Obama ["forgets" the word "dioxide"]

"The time has come, once and for all, for this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future," Obama said to applause. "But the only way the transition to clean energy will ultimately succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future -- if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs is unleashed. And the only way to do that is by finally putting a price on carbon pollution."

Fiorina ad launches opening salvo in possible battle against Boxer - San Jose Mercury News

After playing an interview of Boxer calling climate change "one of the very important national security issues we face," the ad shifts to Fiorina speaking directly into the camera. "Terrorism kills," Fiorina says. "And Barbara Boxer is worried about the weather."

Global temps not on the rise, but skepticism is (OneNewsNow.com)

Climate Depot executive editor Mark Morano tells OneNewsNow that global warming used to be a popular priority in Parliament.

"[For] both parties, that was their signature issue. They thought it was political correctness, they thought the public supported it, [and] politicians would drench themselves in the green rhetoric," Morano explains. "And now...economic and scientific scandals [in] England...[are] leading the world in skepticism of global warming. The sub-prime science has finally been exposed, and now people are rallying against it."

Pacific islands found to be growing - not sinking

Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those that have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment.

The findings, published in the magazine New Scientist, were gathered by comparing changes to 27 Pacific islands during the past 20 - 60 years using historical aerial photos and satellite images

Cal Thomas: Sinking 'climate change' | Washington Examiner

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sinking-_climate-change_-95418754.html

Watch for the hard-core "global warming" cultists to continue clinging to their beliefs; but also watch increasing numbers of scientists and eventually politicians to abandon this once "certain" faith and to look for other ways to control our lives. In that pursuit, the left never quits.

Obama on climate [hoax] bill votes: ‘I intend to find them in the coming months’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/101035-obama-on-climate-bill-votes-i-intend-to-find-them-in-the-coming-months

President Barack Obama will vow Wednesday to personally corral Senate votes for a sweeping climate change and energy bill in coming months.

California Crop Weather report

http://westernfarmpress.com/news/california-crop-weather-0602/

Cool temperatures continued to slow the growth of cotton plus rice and other small grains. Some grain fields suffered damage from frost in northern California.

Gores have lots of loot to split | Washington Examiner

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/blogs/yeas-and-nays/Melt-down_-Gores-have-lots-of-loot-to-split-95374384.html

...Since then, the Gores have purchased the Montecito mansion, a multimillion-dollar home in Nashville, Tenn., a condo in San Francisco in addition to their home in the Washington area, an Arlington Tudor. They bought a 100-foot houseboat named, aptly, Bio-Solar One in 2008. And they own a farm in Carthage, Tenn., that includes a zinc mine.

So how did they get all this stuff?

UN climate talks face up to cash flow fears - 02 Jun 2010 - BusinessGreen.com

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2263995/un-climate-talks-face-cash-flow

The already fraught international climate change negotiations are facing a fresh challenge after Yvo de Boer, the outgoing head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, revealed that the secretariat does not have sufficient funds to host two additional meetings ahead of the Cancun summit in November.

Fifth Circuit Dismisses Comer v. Murphy Oil | The SPPI Blog

http://sppiblog.org/news/fifth-circuit-dismisses-comer-v-murphy-oil#more-1793

Fifth Circuit Dismisses Comer v. Murphy Oil — A Victory for Industry In Climate Change Tort Litigation?

The Death Spiral for Climate Alarmism Continues — MasterResource

http://www.masterresource.org/2010/06/the-death-spiral-for-climate-alarmism-continues/

My colleague, Steve Hayward, thinks that future historians will peg 2008 as the year that climate alarmism jumped the shark. If so, it's clear that in 2010, the Fonz is on the sharp declining phase of the jump, headed back down to the water. On every front, climate alarmists are losing, from international negotiations, to domestic legislation, to public opinion. Even the UK's Royal Society is being forced to reconsider their position on climate change.

Night-time temperatures could rise above 25C because of climate change - Times Online

The number of sweltering nights when the temperature in cities stays above 20C (68F) and the elderly become vulnerable to heat exhaustion will increase fivefold because of climate change, a Met Office study has found.

Climate Observations: GISS Deletes Arctic And Southern Ocean Sea Surface Temperature Data

Hay festival: 'Climate change is a long struggle' | John Harris | Books | The Guardian

Global warming has always energised Hay audiences – but this year the mood is much more sober
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"Who knows? Everybody might be wrong," [James Lovelock] says. "I may be wrong. Climate change may not happen as fast as we thought, and we may have 1,000 years to sort it out."

Pajamas Media » Global Cold Wave May Be Looming — This Time, the Science Is Good

La Nina, a solar minimum, and a massive volcanic eruption make a threesome of cold weather events not seen for two hundred years.

The days of these huge climate scam meetings are numbered: 4,500 people gather in Bonn

The Canadian Press: Squabbling marks first day of new UN climate talks in Germany

U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer and activists from groups including Oxfam, Greenpeace, and WWF pressured industrial nations to live up to their promises of financial aid to poor countries as about 4,500 participants from 182 countries gathered in Bonn.

WWF-Canada Encourages Canadians to End Their Love Affair With Cars | Earth Times News

"Pin It for the Planet calls on Canadians to wear their hearts on their sleeves - literally. We are encouraging people to pin their car key to their shirt to demonstrate their commitment help the planet," says Gerald Butts, President, WWF-Canada.

Heat waves are dangerous, but the cold kills more

While in winter the average daily mortality rate for persons aged over 65 is set at 18 per 100,000 people, in summer the mortality rate falls to 12.5 per 100,000 people.

Road tolls could help in climate-change [swindle], Ontario commissioner says

Ontario's environmental commissioner is recommending road tolls and other charges to help the province cut the greenhouse gases it produces.

James Hansen and Climate Change; NASA’s Disgrace

It’s the pattern of blocking seen throughout the official climate science community.

Die Klimazwiebel: Maybe Some Inconvenient Similarities

A recent commenter (the only one to date concerning Uncle Joe and the Watermelons) seemed to have trouble making the link between the posting concerning Stalin’s reign and the antics of the AGW + Green crowd. In the previous posting I didn’t realize the need to be so explicit concerning what I thought to be the obvious. In the following I have tried to make these inconvenient similarities a little more explicit.

Oxfam: Eleventy.2 zillion climate swindle dollars needed annually

Climate change cash 'must not be loans' - The Scotsman

THE annual £69 billion pledged by rich countries to help poor nations deal with climate change must not be given as loans.
Oxfam warned yesterday that such a move would simply increase Third World debt.

The aid agency also said the amount provided for developing countries to develop without polluting and handle the impacts of rising temperatures needs to double to £137 billion a year.

Revkin vs Brad Johnson on scientists "overselling" the climate hoax

Twitter / Brad Johnson

Somehow I doubt @Revkin can actually find an unambiguous example of scientists "overselling" the science http://bit.ly/dkNAt9

Andy Revkin (Revkin) on Twitter

# @climatebrad More climate overstatements: Arctic methane, other extinctions, hurricanes, ice "death spiral," Pachauri '09 Himalaya defense.. about 11 hours ago via web

# @climatebrad Climate overstatment #3, not just by scientist, but NSF: http://j.mp/hotFrogs Background: http://j.mp/frogBye #agw about 11 hours ago via web

# @climatebrad Unambiguous example of climate overstatement by scientist #2: "Malaria moving north" http://j.mp/malariaNorth Just not the case about 11 hours ago via web

# http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/amazon-experts-cautious-on-climate-threat/ @climatebrad about 13 hours ago via mobile web

Iowa Sierra Club leader says right uses fear on environment: [By the way, if you don't give your money to fraudsters, trace amounts of carbon dioxide may kill your beloved grandchildren]

Buell said a summit of about 30,000 Sierra Club members a half decade ago steered the organization toward the push to stem global warming.

[Question: If it's so warm on Mount Everest, how can bodies lie there for decades without decomposing?]

Scores of corpses preserved by the freezing temperatures remain on the mountain, some for decades.

Weather News - Perth has its coldest May in 15 years

Perth has just had its coldest May since 1995

Figueres Says UN Will Set ‘Pillars’ of Climate [Swindle] Deal (Update1) - BusinessWeek

Investors in emissions permits have “no entitlement” to the carbon market, she said, because its existence is dependent on governments including it in a new treaty.

Real Climate’s Gavin Schmidt: A Foot in His Global Warming Mouth by John O'Sullivan, guest post at Climate Realists | Climate Realists

Thanks to the enlightened insight of more credible climate researcher such as Siddons the blogosphere is becoming an increasingly uncomfortable stomping ground for snake oil peddlers such as ‘Real Climate’s' Gavin Schmidt.

Chris de Freitas: Carbon scheme may be costly symbol - National - NZ Herald News

Over the first 12 months of the emissions trading scheme the Government will have given out to foresters well over $1 billion in carbon credits. Presumably this money will come from carbon suppliers such as Solid Energy and these costs will have to be passed on to the public.

The emissions scheme will have negligible environmental gain or impact on emissions so its purpose can only be symbolic. Are we as consumers prepared to pay for a symbol?

A mind-blowing conflict of interest: As Reuters pushes the global warming scam, Reuters buys another global warming scam company

Thomson Reuters to buy Norway's Point Carbon | Reuters

Point Carbon (www.pointcarbon.com/) provides analysis and news about the carbon, oil, gas and other energy markets to banks, traders, portfolio managers, companies and governments, Thomson Reuters said.

The purchase price was not disclosed.

The agreement to buy Point Carbon comes as public concern about global warming and rising energy consumption grows and investors seek opportunities to make money from these trends.

Last year, Thomson Reuters rival Bloomberg LP bought New Energy Finance, a company that provides similar services.

One of the more popular ways to trade in the energy sector with an eye on the environment is through carbon markets, where investors buy and sell "carbon credits."

Idaho: May shaping up to be coldest on record

Through Sunday, three all-time record low temperatures had been set this month. Depending on what today’s average temperature is, this could be the coldest May ever recorded in Pocatello.

Presence of world leaders 'paralysed' climate summit, UN letter claims | Environment | The Guardian

United Nations climate chief says Danish presidency's backing for US also derailed Copenhagen negotiations

Climate Change Skeptics | Is there really a Climate Change Hoax?

The more I read their blogs, and watch their videos, the more I am convinced that they’re a motley crew of far right bible-bashers, rednecks, natural born anarchists and otherwise lonely people with nothing better to do than get in the way of progress towards creating a more sustainable world. These people are more likely to be shooting wildlife than seeking to preserve it.

The Soap Opera Continues As Graham Floats Utility Only Climate [Hoax] Bill : TreeHugger

It's another day, which must mean there is a new development in the climate world's most drama-packed storyline: just what will the Senate do or won't do on its climate and energy bill? On Friday, the story's most mercurial character, Sen. Lindsey Graham, added a new wrinkle, stripping the climate bill to just an electric utility industry tax. Graham thinks that by doing so a bill could muster the support of 60 Senators and that it would send the right market signals to prompt growth in nuclear power generation and renewable energy.

Australians losing interest in climate change issue | Earth Times News

Sydney - Australians are losing interest in global warming, according to an opinion poll released Monday showing less than half of them now consider it a serious problem.

The latest annual poll by Sydney's independent Lowy Institute showed 46 per cent of respondents really worried by climate change, compared with 68 per cent four years ago.

Ted Turner: If We Don't Prepare For Global Warming We'll Be Extinct | NewsBusters.org

CNN founder Ted Turner said Saturday that if we don't prepare for global warming, we'll be extinct.

Fiddling while planet burns on climate change - PHILLIP ADAMS - The Herald

...he urgent need for action is undisputed.

Except by the fraudulent and the exceptionally foolish.

I'm increasingly pessimistic and particularly concerned that Western democracies may be unable to effectively tackle the problem.

Garbage a clean, reliable, sustainable fuel to burn into energy | Business - The News Tribune

What emerges from the stack is invisible carbon dioxide, two-thirds of which is “good CO2,” Gilman said, because it’s the result of burning biomass. Unlike a landfill, the facility produces no methane to contribute to global warming.

Global Warming, The Royal Society, and William Hazlitt

We now have a momentous chance to save science from political exploitation and organisational PC-speak. But the stakes are high. If we fail, science may be downgraded in the eyes of the public for a very long time.

No global warning processes in Antarctic: Explorer - The Times of India

ST PETERSBURG: Allegations about global warming processes in the Antarctic have nothing to do with real facts, a Russian polar explorer has said.

"They are of opportunistic and time-serving character, and have nothing to do with the real weather and climate on the southern continent," Head of Russia's 54th Antarctic expedition Viktor Venderovich told Itar-Tass.

Global Political Shenanigans: Propaganda & Evangelism

I am sure that many of today’s youngsters would ask what The Third Reich has to do with the UN’s promotion of the myth that through our use of fossil fuels humans are causing climate change leading to global catastrophe. The connection is summed up in that one word “propaganda”.

Facing cold, hard truths about global warming - The Boston Globe

Bill McKibben, probably the nation’s leading environmentalist, argues in “Eaarth’’ that we have already so thoroughly altered the physical features of the planet (to an extent that he has renamed it with an extra “a’’) that we must start preparing for a radically simplified lifestyle. Important strands of environmental thought merge in McKibben’s new book, making for some truly scary reading and prompting urgent questions about the nature of the environmental catastrophe at hand.

Methodists Launch Churchwide Consultation on Climate Change

LONDON – The Methodist Church of Great Britain is giving its members the opportunity to make their voices heard on climate change as part of a newly launched consultation.

They are being invited to share their views on the draft Methodist Conference Statement on climate change, "Hope in God’s Future."

The statement draws on a joint report of the same title on climate change received by the Methodist Conference in 2009 and written in collaboration with the United Reformed Church and Baptist Union of Great Britain.

The report states that the church must repent for its complicity in climate change and take action to reduce its carbon footprint.

Stabroek News - The LCDS as El Dorado: Will the carbon market become the world’s largest market ever?

Its growth has been nothing short of spectacular. At a size of approximately US$11 billion in 2005, it has had a compound annual rate of growth of about 90 per cent since then. Indeed the market value has doubled over two successive years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008.
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The global carbon market saw a marginal decline of 1 per cent in 2009 over 2008.

Dr. Martin Hertzberg: Climate change beyond our control | SummitDaily.com

It has been known for almost a hundred years that the cause of those long-term cycles of cooling and warming are the variations in the Earth's orbital parameters: changes in its orbital ellipticity around the Sun, changes in its obliquity, and the precession of its axis of rotation. Shorter term variations over hundreds of years such as the Medieval Warm Period (considerably warmer than today) and the Little Ice Age, are caused by variations in Solar activity. Changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations are about as significant for weather as a few farts in a hurricane!

Martin Hertzberg, Ph D

Dr Hertzberg has a Ph D in Physical Chemistry from Stanford, earned his B A degree, cum laude, from the Heights Campus of New York University, and was trained as a meteorologist at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School. His honors include membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a Meritorious Service Award, a Foreign Visiting Scholar at CNRS in Orleans, France, and a Fulbright Professorship. He has traveled extensively in France, England, China, Israel, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, and Mexico; is fluent in French and understands German.

[Mansion-dwelling, high-flying Friedman again] - Malia for President - NYTimes.com

And, Daddy, why can’t you even mention the words “carbon tax,” when the carbon [dioxide] we spill into the atmosphere every day is just as dangerous to our future as the crude oil that has been spilling into the gulf?

“Climate change is real and a threat.”… (Yawn…) | RedState

Ms. Rozenthal likes writing about the environment… especially stories where she can describe in the most patient of condescending terms the pity/animosity she bears for the child-like/selfish ignorance of ”doubters/deniers” who refuse to just accept her cause and don’t want to keep funding the failing eco-idiocy programs it inspires.

NPR Paints Conservative Virginia Attorney General as Persecutor of Science in Climategate Suit | NewsBusters.org

Ken Cuccinelli, the conservative Attorney General of Virginia, came under attack on Friday night's All Things Considered on National Public Radio. This is one angle of Climategate the national media have noticed. But they pitch the battle as Cuccinelli vs. Science or Cuccinelli vs. Academic Freedom.

What's most infuriating is the notion that it's Cuccinelli who's "politicizing" science, and not Michael Mann's openly politicized e-mails explaining his data manipulations and plotting to censor his political opponents. Somehow, the Union of Concerned Scientists is painted as non-political.

ClimateGate Reconsidered

An Open Letter to Prof Edward Acton, Vice Chancellor, University of East Anglia, UK from S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project
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Dear Prof. Acton

After careful study, I have reached the conclusion that the CRU temperature trends published by Prof. Phil Jones of UEA (and used by the IPCC) are spurious and should be corrected. Instead of the major warming that’s been claimed between 1979 and 1996 (the crucial period), the actual warming seems to be minor or even close to zero.