"We have to get to the 60 votes, but it's not going to happen, I think, without the public really weighing in a major way — and we need Republican votes," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
Another Inconvenient Truth
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
All the Oil In the World
Brian Wang provides an edifying comparison of the amount of oil and the amount of water in the world.
If you mixed it all of the oil into the oceans then you would be looking at about 1 part per million. Which is about 35 times less than the EPA defined safe limit of 35 parts per million limit. _NextBigFuture
Q+A: Rodney Hide interview | Q AND A News
GUYON Let's look at the actual reason though behind some of this, despite all the technicalities about what the best solution is. I mean the blunt truth is that you simply don't believe that man made climate change is occurring do you?
RODNEY I'm very sceptical.
GUYON You're very sceptical about this, but you have a recent survey in a scientific magazine of 1372 climate science experts - 98% of them believe that man made climate change is affecting the planet. I mean isn't your position a little bit ridiculous?
RODNEY Not at all. Science isn't a matter of doing a survey and a consensus. Science is about the facts and about the theories, and about testing those theories against the facts. When you take the theory of human induced climate change, the facts don't support. Now what we're saying is, it could be true but we doubt it, and why would we be rushing off having this complex scheme if it hasn't been demonstrated to be true? Particularly we've also seen NIWA now having to rework all it's own figures because of the work that ACT's done in parliament and others, exposing them for being nonsense.
Gillard shuts door on 'big Australia' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Only 11 per cent of the 800 voters polled believe Ms Gillard should revive the emissions trading scheme to tackle climate change and 13 per cent feel she should get tougher on asylum seekers.
Judithgate: IPCC relied on one solar physicist
This is a typical story showing the character of the "consensus".
Whenever there are questions that really matter, the IPCC minimizes the number of people who have something to say about the subject - because many people could make the situation "complex". The purpose of this strategy is clear: the small number of authors (in this case, a single author) are expected to say that nothing aside from CO2 really matters - so that the important question isn't even discussed.
Whenever there are questions that really matter, the IPCC minimizes the number of people who have something to say about the subject - because many people could make the situation "complex". The purpose of this strategy is clear: the small number of authors (in this case, a single author) are expected to say that nothing aside from CO2 really matters - so that the important question isn't even discussed.
OregonLive : The Al Gore story: What to make of Bambi and the sex poodle
...Yet for all that, I tend to believe Portland's red-headed masseuse and her accusations about Al Gore. Though she does carry on in the 67-page play-by-play she finally dumped on police detectives in 2009, there's the ring of truth in the breathless narrative about a politician coming on like Bill Clinton to a woman who has no interest in being Monica Lewinski.
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As Tony Frost, the National Enquirer's editor-in-chief, notes that his "reporters are working on a follow-up story about former Vice President Gore with information coming from DC to Portland and Los Angeles to Tennessee," it's far too early to predict when and where the truth will come out.
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As Tony Frost, the National Enquirer's editor-in-chief, notes that his "reporters are working on a follow-up story about former Vice President Gore with information coming from DC to Portland and Los Angeles to Tennessee," it's far too early to predict when and where the truth will come out.
Amazongate: the missing evidence - Telegraph
The story of the IPCC's claims about threats to the Amazon rainforest takes another bizarre turn, says Christopher Booker
Positive (?) Feedbacks in a Warming Arctic | KQED's Climate Watch
According to Breck Bowden, a scientist from the University of Vermont who studies permafrost here at Toolik, the latest modeling shows that approximately half of the permafrost in the Arctic will thaw in the next 50 years.Slate.com blogs : What Looks Worst for Al Gore? The Al Gore Defenders.
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Bowden was careful to point out that thermokarsts are a natural phenomenon. (They also have been known to occur when roads and houses are built in the Arctic without proper insulation.) But he also believes that the increase in thermokarsts observed in remote areas around Toolik is not natural.
"Thermokarsts have been going on as long as there's been an arctic landscape, and there have been more of them when it’s warmer and fewer of them when it’s colder," he said. "But I do firmly believe that there are more of them now than there were 20 years ago, as a consequence of warming we can document in a variety of places. The question is, why is the warming occurring?"
...These are the readers of a liberal website? Again: I have no idea what happened. And neither do any of these people.Maggie's Notebook: Gore Response to Masseuse Story: Enquirer Did Not Pay Massage Therapist
We could have a conversation all day long about the problem of balancing the rights of the accused with deference to the particular problems of rape victims. I would not always end up on the side of feminism in that discussion. But this is disgusting
When an accused person indicates they remember the incident differently, they're lying. He obviously remembers this particular massage therapist, this particular night in this particular hotel.
Yes, Gore remembers it well, and not in hindsight. His attorneys have been trying to keep it under the rug since 2007, once again in 2008 - and used not-so-subtle threats when talking to the Portland Tribune...
Journalist takes fossil-fueled trip to Alaska in summer; gets boot stuck in mud; blames CO2
...and from there, it no doubt follows that the UN gets to run the world?
Chelsea Wald: Adventures in Alaskan science: How I escaped from a thermokarst
...I had taken a helicopter out to one of the important thermokarst sites on Alaska's North Slope, where hydrologist Mike Gooseff of Penn State is working. This one formed following a massive fire that burned 1,000 square kilometers of the Arctic tundra in 2007.Chelsea Wald - Bio
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It's into one of those gloopy places that I stepped—and sank. First, my boots went up to the ankles. I wasn't too worried. But the more I struggled, the more I sank. I finally got one boot out, but at the cost of the other...It's not unreasonable to think that the rise in thermokarsts is the result of global warming.
I'm a freelance journalist specializing in (but not limited to) science, medicine and the environment. After graduating from Columbia University with a bachelor's in astronomy, I traveled to Chile on a Fulbright grant to study ancient Andean cosmology. I returned to the United States and earned a master's in journalism from Indiana University.
Anybody see a conflict of interest here?: Al Gore, senior advisor to Google, unsuccessfully tries to sell his crappy company to Google for up to half a billion dollars
Report: Al Gore sought Current TV sale to Google
Perhaps the most surprising revelation to come out of my feature story on the state of Al Gore's Current TV was the fact that the former vice president negotiated with the almighty Google to sell the cable channel. As recounted in the story, these were negotiations that went beyond just the preliminary stage, pegged Current's value in the $400-500 million range, and ultimately, it didn't happen despite Gore being chummy with Sergey Brin and Larry Page through his senior advisor status to them.
Framing climate [hoax legislation] - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
Obama pollster Joel Benenson has been, Mike Allen reports, making the case to legislators on behalf of the League of Conservation Voters that climate legislation is a political winner, especially when cast as an assault on big corporations.
What's Weird About the Al Gore Sex Case | Portland Mercury
The Secret Service, the FBI, and the Oregon State Police all refused to take the case when approached by the alleged victim, a 54-year-old massage therapist. They passed her on to the Portland Police Bureau.David Brooks: If liberals can't win us over in these times, when will they ever?
..And, indeed, everything Faustus wished for came to pass. Yet he watched events unfold with growing horror. Not in 70 years had there been a sequence of events so perfectly designed to fortify liberalism. Yet the country wasn't swinging to the left; it was swinging to the right!
Surveys showed public opinion drifting rightward on issue after issue: gun control, abortion, global warming and the role of government. Far from leading Americans, Democrats were repelling them. Between 2008 and 2010 the share of voters who considered the Democrats too liberal surged from 39 percent to 49 percent, according to Gallup surveys.
Prospects for the 2010 election are grim. Election guru Charlie Cook suspects the GOP will retake the House...
Decisive moment coming in biggest transition since the Industrial Revolution – Telegraph Blogs
The battle will take place in California, of course, where trends tend to originate, and where the environmental movement first took off more than four decades ago. It will focus that most bad-tempered of slanging matches, overglorified as the “global warming debate”. And it will deliver much the most important popular verdict so far on what, if anything should be done to combat climate change – 10 years, almost to the day, after the election of George W Bush pulled the United States out of international attempts to address it.SqueezePlay : June 25, 2010 : Summit 2010: Climate Policy Debate [06-25-10 5:20 PM]
[10 minute video] Climate change policy is on the G20 agenda. Will we see traction on commitments to end fossil fuel subsidies? For more, BNN speaks to Elizabeth May, leader, Green Party of Canada, and Marc Morano, executive editor, Climate Depot.
Germany to break climate aid promises - The Local
Germany will not deliver the financial aid to help developing countries deal with climate change it promised at the Copenhagen climate summit last December, media reports say.Genetically Altered Salmon Get Closer to the Table | HeraldTribune.com
According to a report in news magazine Der Spiegel, cuts in Germany's environment and development budget mean that the money promised for 2011 and 2012 will not be made available.
Normally, salmon do not make growth hormone in cold weather. But the pout’s on-switch keeps production of the hormone going year round. The result is salmon that can grow to market size in 16 to 18 months instead of three years, though the company says the modified salmon will not end up any bigger than a conventional fish.
Yet another extremely inconvenient truth: A severe lack of global warming at "ground zero for climate change"?
Latest Barrow Ice Breakup On Record? | Watts Up With That?
The University of Alaska has been tracking breakup of this ice for the past decade. The latest breakup was July 11 which occurred last year. The earliest breakup occurred in 2004 on June 16. They have devised a model which forecasts the breakup, based on solar radiation already received and forecast into the future by NCAR’s WRF weather model. Their current forecast has it breaking up after July 10, which would at a minimum tie the record.Flashback: Bob Reiss on “Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, Ground Zero for Climate Change” | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
I got on the phone and email and asked numerous experts in many fields, if there was one place on the planet that epitomized all the aspects of climate change going on in the Arctic, if there could be such a single place, what would they pick? I was surprised because everybody said Barrow.
The inconvenient truth behind the Gore story | OregonLive.com
The only unusual detail in this week's high-profile story of alleged sexual misconduct in Portland is the name of the alleged suspect: former Vice President Al Gore.Massage therapist who has accused Al Gore says she no longer works on VIP clients at hotels | OregonLive.com
The other details are all too common -- which is a cold reminder of how difficult it is for most people to seek justice after a sexual assault.
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For starters, the police didn't follow up. Detectives didn't go to the hotel, obtain potential evidence or interview possible witnesses. The case didn't appear to be a priority, despite the public figure involved.
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We encourage the Police Bureau and prosecutor's office to look into this case on three levels -- first, to see if a crime was committed; second, to determine whether the police followed appropriate protocols; and third, to decide what can be learned from this stranger-than-fiction story. We also encourage the city to revisit the 2007 audit, to make sure the bureau has continued to improve its response to victims of sexual assault.
The loneliness these victims feel, even when they come forward, is the most inconvenient truth of all.
She also told police that she knew of some massage therapists who were possibly sexually involved with their hotel clients, adding that she had reported them to the state Board of Massage Therapists. The board said the woman has no record of disciplinary action being taken against her license.Letters: [Even if the Gore accusations are true, injuring women during sexual assaults shouldn't be illegal?!]
With regard to former Vice President Al Gore's alleged groping of a massage therapist back in October 2006, all I can say is that his behavior may have been abhorrent, bad, contemptuous, distressing, eccentric, fatuous, gluttonous, heinous, ignoble, juvenile, kinky, lascivious, manipulative, narcissistic, offensive, perverse, questionable, raunchy, seductive, tactless, unexpected, vexatious, waggish, X-rated, yearning or zany, but I don't really see anything criminal about it.
I have always liked and respected Al Gore, and regardless of how this matter turns out, I will not be changing my mind.
ELTON L. STEWART
[Nancy Pelosi: If we'd all take fossil-fueled trips to Alaska, we'd all understand the dangers of trace amounts of invisible, completely natural atmospheric gas?] - NYTimes.com
In conversation, she’s a runaway train. Talking about global warming in an interview last week, she warned: “You don’t want me to go into the melting of the polar cap and the glaciers and the great rivers of Southeast Asia and the water supply in Tibet and the encroachment of the Gobi Desert and the sandstorms in Beijing and the rise of sea level in all of our maritime areas in the world and. ... I would just recommend you go to Alaska to see what is happening.”[Casual claim in the New York Times: Carbon dioxide is making polar bears swim to Iceland] - NYTimes.com
THE polar bear idea, for example, was not totally facetious. As a result of global warming, a handful of polar bears have swum to Iceland in recent years and been shot. Better, Mr. Gnarr said, to capture them and put them in the zoo.Flashback: Polar Bear Shot in Iceland; Icy Spring May Have Led It There - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
The bigger story in the bear’s journey is that it may have been facilitated by the unusual abundance of pack ice between Greenland and Iceland this spring.
If scientists want to educate the public, they should start by listening: Climate hoax promoter Chris Mooney
Take climate change. The battle over global warming has raged for more than a decade, with experts still stunned by the willingness of their political opponents to distort scientific conclusions. They conclude, not illogically, that they're dealing with a problem of misinformation or downright ignorance -- one that can be fixed only by setting the record straight.
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In other words, it appears that politics comes first on such a contested subject, and better information is no cure-all -- people are likely to simply strain it through an ideological sieve. In fact, more education probably makes a global warming skeptic more persuasive, and more adept at collecting information and generating arguments sympathetic to his or her point of view.
“‘Denialism’ has no place in scientific debate,” my letter in Nature Medicine | GlobalWarming.org
The key sentence in the letter is this, “‘Denialist’ is an ad hominem argument, the meaning of which is defined entirely by the user, intended to discredit the accused without evidence.” The “anti-denialism” campaign is, to use a word I rarely employ, a literal conspiracy–albeit something of an open one in that it’s openly pushed by Chris Mooney. (Inset.) The purpose is two-fold. 1) Brand those with the “wrong” scientific views not just as “kooks” or “nuts” but as literally pathological.Poster comments on wind energy | The SPPI Blog
It is no accident that corporations like these, as well as BP, AES, and Sieman’s, either have purchased wind projects outright or entered into “equity partnerships” with them. In addition to the lucrative tax sheltering, these companies then market wind for its unearned environmental cachet. And of course, many buy the notorious green tags, in the process avoiding cleaning up their dirtiest burning coal facilities, reaping even more income.Push comes to shove in a cold climate
Australian Workers Union secretary Paul Howes, a key player in the leadership change, said this week that the tide turned for Rudd at Copenhagen. If this is true, it is only in the sense that it hardened a belief among factional leaders, some of them sceptical about the need for Australia to introduce a carbon price, that Rudd had overreached on climate change.Masseuse accuses Al Gore assaulted her | abc7.com
Friends of the alleged victim say she is now hiding out in fear since her allegations have been made public.
"She's afraid for her life. She's scared because of who he is," said Donna Burleigh, a friend of the masseuse.
Al Gore has not responded to the accusation. Portland police say they have investigated the case three times over the last few years, but so far have not found enough evidence to file any charges.
My Further Response To Real Climate’s Gavin Schmidt and Eric Steig « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
I continue to be amazed at how Gavin Schmidt and Eric Steig are so convinced of their viewpoints, that they fail to see that their autocratic tenor and tone is turning off many of their colleagues. In my engagement with them at Real Climate, apparently, I never learn either (see). :-)Shining More Light on the Solar Factor by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM | Climate Realists
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It appears that Eric, although he apparently does not want to admit it (perhaps even to himself), provides evidence to reject Hypothesis 2b. If in parts of the climate system, non-CO2 human climate forcings are more important than CO2 radiative forcing, than Hypothesis 2b must be rejected.
The authors of a newly published paper on the role of the sun’s variability on global temperatures overstate their case that there has been no impact of solar variations on the earth’s temperature history during the past several decades. Antithetically, changes to the sun are generally known to influence the earth’s climate on all time scales, from eons to hours. However, the difficulty comes in trying to fully measure the magnitude of the sun’s variability and then to understand how such changes result in changes to the earth’s climate.Instapundit » Blog Archive
ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE LATEST GORE DEVELOPMENT: “What is the evidentiary weight of a contemporaneous statement like this? It was taken very seriously when aimed at a notable conservative.” Well, sure, one of them.For climate relief, US will turn to gas : Nature News
New study finds untapped shale reservers set to displace coal if carbon pricing enforced
John Kerry: Pass a climate hoax bill now, before all those other countries rush ahead and save our grandchildren without us?
Is It Energy’s Turn Now? - Green Blog - NYTimes.com
“Everybody was in agreement that this is the moment,” Mr. Kerry said after meeting with his Democratic colleagues. “In January, the E.P.A. has said it will move to regulate those sources of pollution in our country. Many companies have come to the table, many industries have come to the table. We have gas and coal and nuclear and renewable and alternative and energy efficiency and many others, all of whom believe this is the moment to create these jobs in our country and secure our energy future. We’re convinced that we can do it.
“We obviously need some Republicans to stand up and be with us, but we’re determined to bring a bill to the floor of the Senate that we think is reasonable, makes sense, and that will help Americans be able to grab a hold of the future and not leave it to China and India and Brazil and other countries that are moving much faster than we are.”
Senate Democrats still short on answers after caucus meeting on energy bill - TheHill.com
“There was discussion about different ways in which to advance a bill, so people were putting ideas out. One was forming a group from different parts of the country and different committees to work on this,” Klobuchar said, but added it was not a “consensus proposal.”Graham won't negotiate on energy bill while oil spill influences politics - The Hill's E2-Wire
“The main focus was there was a clear sense of urgency,” she said.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday that he won't negotiate an energy bill between now and November because the politics of the oil spill does not "favor what [he] wants."Clinton or Obama: Who's the bigger asset on midterm campaign trail? - TheHill.com
...It's also unlikely that former Vice President Al Gore will be welcomed by any Democrats in competitive races given the negative press attention that has followed the news of his separation with wife Tipper.Harness the heat in a cool season - Spokesman.com - June 26, 2010
Mother Nature has been playing with us big time this year. She’s been generous enough to give us some good spring rain but the trade-off has been downright cold weather that has most of our warm-season vegetables sulking in the soil. Unlike a cranky kid though, the plants can’t take their marbles and go home; they are stuck.
The long-range weather forecast indicates that a La Niña event has begun and that means generally cooler weather into July with the possibility of a cooler late July into August when we normally get our warmer weather. This all boils down to the fact it may take some work to get things ripe in the garden.
Changing The Climate In California - IBD - Investors.com
The study put the cost of AB32 at $49,691 per small business in California. For households, the estimated cost is $3,857 a year. Statewide that translates to $52 billion in added burdens for California families.Green Activist Defends Climate-Change Skeptics | The Atlantic Wire
All this pain for exactly what gain? Not long ago, the New York Times reported that a new coal-fired plant big enough to serve every household in San Diego comes online in China every eight to 10 days, exporting more pollution to California and the western United States than such draconian environmental proposals would ever hope to eliminate.
Supporters of AB32 want to see us continue to export jobs to and import pollution from China.
Though you'd expect some howls of indignant rage from conservative publications, it seems the first to come out strong against the study is actually a climate-change believer from Slate.Louisiana: Rough winter affected crawfish season
A harsh winter delayed crawfish growth and led to a poor harvest, according to industry members.Green Fever has hit North Carolina
RALEIGH- Bills introduced during the 2010 would expand the already unmanageable bureaucracy in North Carolina, waste millions of your valuable tax dollars and push a “green” agenda that is nothing more than a veiled power grab and an attempt to supplement revenue. For those who thought former Vice-President Al Gore had cornered the market on climate change alarmism, meet North Carolina’s Green Team global warming alarmists.Canada Canola Output May Fall Nearly 2 Million Tons, Group Says - BusinessWeek
As it is almost 10 days past June 15, the so-called crop insurance deadline, it is unlikely any farmers would want to risk planting canola now, White said. Canola takes at least three months to mature, so any crops planted today face higher risk of frost in September, so most insurance companies won’t cover crops seeded past June 15, White said.
Frost on average begins on Sept. 15 in Western Canada, he said.
Controversial Philip Mote named an IPCC lead author!
OSU pair to write climate report
CORVALLIS — Two Oregon State University scientists have been named lead authors for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, to be issued in 2013.Western Snowpack Update, June 2010 | Watts Up With That?
Peter Clark, an OSU professor of geosciences who studies glaciers, and Philip Mote, head of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at OSU, will begin working with colleagues from around the world on the follow-up to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
...Mote is a lead author on cryosphere observations, and will focus on snowpack.
Mote also was a lead author for the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
[Steve Oregon comment] Here’s the scoop on the snow pack episode.
http://www.sustainableoregon.com/nwsnow.html
The Phil Mote is the same one who is now the Oregon Climate guru. He recently apologized for getting political and sending out a political email from his state office.
http://theoregonpolitico.com/blog/2010/06/01/university-e-mail-chain-creates-climate-controversy/
Willie Soon is now calling for Mote to resign.
It is simply unacceptable to have phil mote running his own personal brand of
“climate justice” under tax-payer funded money from his office while taking
such deliberate attacks on Art Robinson as a candidate to the US House of Representatives …
his apology needs to come with actual punishment … words are no longer enough in his case (considering the history
of exaggerations and activism from him completely outside of the realm of his office for “climate science”)
Friday, June 25, 2010
In 2010, Conservatives Still Outnumber Moderates, Liberals
Gallup finds 42% of Americans describing themselves as either very conservative or conservative. This is up slightly from the 40% seen for all of 2009 and contrasts with the 20% calling themselves liberal or very liberal.Songs on This Fossil Age - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
LIBERATED CARBON (© 2010 Andrew Revkin)
It took a thousand generations for our species to rise.
But gathering and hunting was no way to get by.
We yearned to burn more than dung and sticks.
Then someone [1] came along and said, “Hey, try lighting this.”
He opened up the ground and showed us coal and oil.
He said, “Come liberate some carbon. It’ll make your blood boil.”
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Come on and liberate some carbon, babe, it’s the American way.
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1 ) When I first wrote the tune, I used “Satan” here. I explained my decision to change it to “someone” in a recent interview with Curtis Brainard at Columbia Journalism Review.
Global warming [hoax] subject of new Field Museum exhibit - chicagotribune.com
"An overwhelming scientific consensus recognizes that global climate change is currently taking place at an accelerating pace," said Field President John McCarter, underscoring how the exhibit confronts arguments against manmade global warming.Government ditching majority of websites in £100m saving bid
Many sites have been competing against each other, with the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Energy Saving Trust bidding against each other for Google search terms.An Update on Obama’s Weatherization Promise - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Texas, for example, had planned to weatherize 33,908 units. As of Feb. 16, 2010, it had not weatherized any.
Progressive Eleanor Clift enjoys a nice conversation about an alleged incident where a powerful man injured a working-class woman during a felonious sexual assault
Al Gore: A Joke on Late-Night Talk Shows Once Again
On my run this morning, a fellow jogger, a 60-ish baby boomer like Gore, said it was nice to know Gore had these urges, because he had come across in the past so monk-like and weirdly repressed. Then, noting that Gore had requested an abdominal massage, he mused, "I wonder where the abdomen begins and ends . . ." I told him I wondered if other women Gore may or may not have had an encounter with will begin revealing themselves. "Like Tiger?" my fellow runner laughed.
Breaking: Explosive new release in the Al Gore sexual assault story
Gore's accuser: "I don't want to be bought off into silence. I only want justice and having this ugly thing come out of the shadows and into the light where it cannot continue any more, and for this man to be stopped from what he has been doing which should have been done a long time ago. I know I'm not the first woman assaulted by him. My guts told me that when I was struggling in the room with him and I stand by it today. I hope the others will be brave enough to come forward in spite of his public stature and army of lawyers. I even wonder who he may have already paid off to shut them up. I believe if someone had spoken up before, this would have not happened to me. And I feel like I must speak up to prevent it if I can, some other woman going through what I went through or worse. He should not get a free pass merely because of his position..."
Don't miss this: Listen to her say some of the words above here.
OregonLive : Police tapes: Portland massage therapist accuses Al Gore of groping her
[With MP3s] Portland police this afternoon released an audiotape of a Portland massage therapist’s statement to police on Jan. 8, 2009, as well as clarifications the therapist made to her statement when she returned on June 3 of this year to get a copy of her report.From the Al Gore investigation transcript, pages 22 and 23
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By January 2009, the therapist returned to Portland police and gave her detailed statement. Portland police did not investigate, citing insufficient evidence without contacting any of her friends, talking to hotel staff or examining clothes she kept from that night. Portland police also did not consult the district attorney’s office and closed the case. The woman came back earlier this month to police, obtained a copy of her statement, and said she was going to take her case to the media.
Don't miss this: Listen to her say some of the words above here.
Climate Change is Creating More Space Junk
Scientists at the University of Southampton have studied the orbits of 30 satellites over the past 40 years and discovered that they're taking longer to drop out of orbit and burn up. The scientists think that increased CO2 in the upper atmosphere is causing it to cool and become less dense, slowing the braking effect and allowing satellites and spent rockets to circle for longer.
Outcry from farmers over spilled milk rule - Holland, MI - The Holland Sentinel
New Environmental Protection Agency regulations treat spilled milk like oil, requiring farmers to build extra storage tanks and form emergency spill plans.Polar Sunlight Drives Climate Change | The Resilient Earth
Local farming advocates says it’s ridiculous to regulate a liquid with a small percentage of butter fat the same way as the now-infamous BP oil spill.
A small reduction in high latitude insolation can negate the effect of all the carbon dioxide the interglacial warming released from the ocean and frozen land. Advocates of CO2 driven anthropogenic global warming have refused to accept the role the Sun and changes in insolation play in climate change, preferring instead to exaggerate the potency of CO2. The changes in insolation are too small and affect the wrong regions, they claim. We now know better: it's the small changes in insolation that matter, not the CO2 levels.
Portland massage therapist who accused Al Gore of groping confided in a friend shortly after the 2006 incident | OregonLive.com
Within a few days of the Oct. 24, 2006 encounter at the Hotel Lucia in downtown Portland, Burleigh said she spoke by phone with her friend.
"She told me 'Donna, I was assaulted by someone in the higher ups.' It broke my heart, and I said, 'God, I'm sorry.' "
Her friend didn't go into details, Burleigh said, but said it was during the course of her work. She kept saying "things are going to come to a head" and worried that there'd be "all kinds of media coverage," Burleigh said.
"She said she was meeting with a rape crisis unit, stuff like that," Burleigh said. "She said it was a high authority person who has a lot of power. She was scared of him."
Burleigh said her friend was insulted by what occurred, stressing that she takes her licensed massage therapist job seriously. The therapist also has health problems and the incident made them worse, Burleigh said.
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The veracity of the complaint could be compromised, said Broward County Sheriff's Sgt. Adam Hofstein, supervisor of the special victims unit that handles sex crimes in Fort Lauderdale. "Your forensic evidence is waning, the time weighs on people's recollections and their credibility."
Yet, Hofstein said, in a case like this, "We are still going to take all the steps. You are still within the statute of limitations, you still have a felony."
Audio of Gore sex assault accuser to be released | kgw.com | KGW News | Portland, Oregon
Portland police are set to release an audio statement of Gore's accuser, according to a Portland Police spokesperson.
The audio recording which involves explosive details accusing Gore of groping, kissing, and unwanted contact could be released as early as Friday, said Police Spokesperson Greg Stewart.
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A close friend of the massage therapist who accused former Vice President Al Gore of repeated, unwanted sexual contact says the woman was not after money, and just wanted Gore held accountable.
Donna Burleigh told KGW the massage therapist called her after the alleged 2006 incident and described being sexually assaulted by a high-profile public figure. Burleigh said her friend wouldn't identify the alleged attacker. But Burleigh soon figured it out.
"She told me that her predator was coming back to town and guess what was on on the news?" Burleigh said. "Al Gore."
Burleigh said her friend was an honest woman and would never make up such a story. She said the massage therapist runs a professional business and was caught off guard by Gore's alleged advances.
"She is not a predator. She is not looking for money," Burleigh said. "She just wants him to be accountable for his actions."
These people think you're stupid: If a large block of ice starts melting in 76 degree summer weather, can we conclude that CO2 is dangerous?
Media Advisory/Photo-Op: Ice Bear Sculpture in Toronto for G8/G20 Summits
The media is invited to a photo opportunity of the Ice Bear sculpture in downtown Toronto, tomorrow (Friday, June 25) from 11:30 a.m. to noon.Toronto : Weather Underground
Sculpted from a 10 tonne block of ice covering a 500 kg bronze skeleton, the Ice Bear is intended to raise public awareness about the need for political leadership on climate change at the G8/G20 summits, which start tomorrow. The Ice Bear's appearance was made possible by the organizations WWF-Canada, Équiterre, and Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec.
Max Temperature [average 76 degrees F on this date]
The Trend | Watts Up With That?
Conclusion: You can count on NSIDC to continue reporting a downwards trend, regardless of what happens over the next few years. For now, it will be fun seeing what happens over the next eight weeks.Wind turbine lawsuit; Cape Wind project - latimes.com
Environmental groups plan to file suit in federal court, accusing the Obama administration of violating the Endangered Species Act with its approval of the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound.Blanchett launches theatre green energy project - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Seventy per cent of the theatre's energy needs will [allegedly] be provided by the solar panels and Blanchett says all of the companies at The Wharf would benefit from the green power.
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It has taken three years of planning and fundraising to get the $5.2 million project off the ground.
How John Cook unskeptically believes in a hotspot (that thermometers can’t find) « JoNova
In the end, John Cook trusts the scientists who collect grants funded by the fear-of-a-crisis and who want more of his money, but he’s skeptical of unfunded scientists who ask him to look at the evidence and tell him to keep his own cash.The Reference Frame: If Greenland melted, sea level in Iceland would drop
Clearly, the melting ice is not a problem for the immediate vicinity of the island whose ice melts. In fact, some very close points could experience dropping sea level. For example, for the Europeans and the Americans, it's much more important what happens in the Antarctica. And be sure it won't melt anytime soon.Roger L. Simon » Al Gore jumps twenty-five sharks
...But all this emerges at the very moment that our “progressive” (talk about Orwellian constructs!) administration is about to proffer another round of energy legislation predicated on the anthropogenic global warming concepts promulgated by one Al Gore. This legislation will be voted on by several hundred people, few of whom — other than a handful of doctors — have any scientific training whatsoever.Mr. Stone's Massage - National - The Atlantic
You would think, though, that since so many of them are lawyers, they would be aware of that hoariest of Roman legal principles — Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (You lie about one thing, you lie about all). That might give them pause that they have relied on propagandistic drivel like An Inconvenient Truth (how ironic that title now!) as a source of scientific knowledge. This is a film — already discredited in a British court — now revealed to have been produced by a man who is just a general all around creep or worse.
The more I read the report, the more I developed two incongruent points of view: the detail was too incredible to be false, or it was too convenient -- in that Gore seemed to be deliberately unburdening himself of the public wrongs he suffered through -- to be true. But then there are details like this: most people don't know that ex-vice presidents don't (usually) get Secret Service protection. The way "Gore" answered the woman's question about why there were no agents posted is exactly the answer Gore would give if John Q. Non-Massage Therapist asked him: no one cares about former VPs, and no one threatens their lives. Also: the fact that the woman was seeing a counselor for her trauma, something that police could verify and, if they found it not to be true, use to charge her with filing a false police report.
Adios El Niño, hello La Niña?
"The central equatorial Pacific Ocean could stay colder than normal into summer and beyond. That's because sea level is already about 10 centimeters [4 inches] below normal, creating a significant deficit of the heat stored in the upper ocean," said JPL oceanographer and climatologist Bill Patzert. "The next few months will reveal if the current cooling trend will eventually evolve into a long-lasting La Niña situation."FTSE index to highlight investor climate [hoax] risk | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The two new indices, the FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy All-Share Index and the FTSE CDP Carbon Strategy 350 Index, have been developed in partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) investor group and analyst firm ENDS Carbon.Aberdeen airport climate change protesters found guilty | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The indices work by analysing the carbon strategies and "tilting" their rating based on their exposure to climate change related risks such as proposed carbon pricing mechanisms. As a result investors will be able to quickly assess which firms and sectors are most at risk from climate-related impacts.
Plane Stupid activists face fines or jail after jury finds that direct action is not justified by fight against climate changeHeavy snow for Europe's glaciers plus more Southern Hemisphere resorts open
# Up to 30cm (a foot) of new snow so far today around Queenstown's ski areas.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Peter Webster on PNAS Paper: "Very Likely Disgusted"
# Up to 50cm (20 inches) of fresh snow in the Alps.
# Second Californian ski area to open in July.
Sorry PNAS, but I have evolved, since 2007! But at least my view of the science is not determined by orthodoxy. I imagine Roger Sr. feels the same way.
Re the PNAS paper, it is rather louche. What is the point of this paper? Are the arguments so old and stale that it has to rely on past statements to substantiate a point of view? Death rattle come to mind. Perhaps we are seeing the death throes of the old guard. Perhaps out of these ashes will emerge a more solid scientific view on climate and global change, free of orthodoxy and invigorated by debate.
Dire climate change warning to Australia
A dire warning will be delivered to Australia when almost 1000 delegates from around the world arrive on the Gold Coast next week for the country's first international conference on the science of climate change, and how to adapt to it.Solid Utah ski season ranks No. 4 all-time | Deseret News
The total number of skier days for 2009-10 was 4,048,153, up roughly 2 percent over the previous year, which was 3,972,984.PlanetSKI | News | It's snowing!
The second-best season was 2006-07 with 4,082,094 skier days and the third best was 2005-06 with 4,062,188. The record season was 2007-08 with 4,249,190 skier days.
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As noted, snow fell in inches at the start of the season but in feet near the end.The final total at Snowbird was 603 inches. Alta, recognized as Utah's snow measuring stick, had a 255-inch base Feb. 1. Over the next two months, though, it received a total of 171 inches. In April, it received 152 inches.
The glaciers in Europe, the resorts down under and some in South America have all received some fresh snow. Scotland though has finally closed.ski report: chile's resorts are open
Calling all ski and snowboard bums – new snow in The Andes!Sun Road rises: Glacier Park drive opens despite deep snow
On top of last weekend’s system, areas have received 3-6 feet of new snow over the past seven days.
This year's Sun Road opening was slowed by late-season winter storms, which have dumped several feet of snow on the precipitous roadway in recent weeks. Those storms forced plow crews to retreat several times, and caused avalanches that buried previously plowed sections of roadway.Crime Scene - Is summer weather prime for crime?
While cold weather does not always deter crime, several feet of snow within one week did just that.
Serious crime dropped 71 percent in Baltimore and D.C.'s homicide rate dropped to zero during the back-to-back snowstorms of early February.
The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth - Newsweek
Eric Pooley weaves the 15-year saga of climate-change politicking around the story of the mercurial partnership of environmentalist Fred Krupp and big-energy businessman Jim Rogers. Oh, and Al Gore, of course. At the fringes are activists chaining themselves to bulldozers, deniers spreading anti-global- warming propaganda, and immovable idealists on both the left and right. The climax comes in Copenhagen, when President Obama makes big proclamations but offers little policy. In the end, dithering seems to have become everyone’s No. 1 course of action. As Pooley shows, that’s at all of our peril.
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Andrew Revkin, in his New York Times blog, Dot Earth, has praised the book. There’s also been an Al Gore tweet to his more than 2 million followers, an Oprah Radio spot, and Bloomberg TV coverage.
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Don’t Miss These Bits
1. The “denialosphere” is devious, and smart. Though much of the world has cut CO2 emissions, amazingly, many Americans still doubt that humans are even responsible for climate change. Well, it’s no hoax. Despite its lack of scientific street cred, the denial camp has swayed public opinion through fake “he said, she said” journalism (page 35). Quick slogans work, too: cap-and-trade quickly became cap-and-tax. Just look at Congress for further examples . . .
Energy Secretary Huhne Promises ‘New Economy’ [based on the most massive scientific fraud in human history]
“Most of the houses we will be living in in 2050 have already been built,” he said. “We need retrofitting if we are to meet our target of reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.” And the green deal will be a big deal, he said, because 14 million homes need insulated: at £6500 per house, that could mean a total investment of £90 billion.
But if the Arctic ice really is so thin and fragile, why the need for heavy icebreakers?
America’s Heavy Icebreakers Are Both Broken Down - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
Even as the long-term trend in the Arctic is toward less sea ice in summers, for decades to come — and routinely in other seasons — any nation with interests in the far north will need to be able to navigate in heavy ice.
Are Senate Dems going to go for it on climate? | Grist
Of course, climate is no finance. There's nothing like the same public anger or demand for action. No senator yet fears opposing climate action. A more cynical Senate staffer told me that Reid's new ambition is a sign that all hope for passage has been abandoned and this has become a "message bill."What do climate scientists think - and why does it matter? | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Attempts to portray the scientific community as fractured and in disagreement have prompted efforts to quantify the credibility of climate scientists, says Gavin SchmidtNo Frakking Consensus: Who is William R.L. Anderegg?
Could you run that by me, again? The lead author of a paper which purports to assess the achievements and credibility of hundreds of collective years of scientific expertise, that lead author is a climate change student at Standford University?
Popular Technology.net: NASA Astronaut Legends Skeptical of AGW
Four NASA Astronaut Legends; Buzz Aldrin (Gemini 12, Apollo 11), Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17), Phil Chapman (Apollo 14) and Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7) are all skeptical of "man-made" global warming.American Thinker: Democrat 'Suicide Bombers'
Here is where the Democrats' delusions come to full flower. After passing Cap-and-Trade and a VAT tax, and rubbing it in the faces of the electorate, daily, for two years, the Democrats assume that they will return to power in 2012, and Obama will be re-elected by overwhelming margins.Cap and Trade Dying in the Senate; Utilities-Only Cap Possible | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit
Given the dwindling amount of time left for the Senate to act, and the deep pessimism from all corners, my guess is that cap and trade’s fate will be sealed if and when that meeting with Obama does take place.Oklahoma Senator On Global Warming: I've Been Vindicated
"We've won that battle," Inhofe told the gathering of about 50 people in Perry.Mexico Sees 2009/10 Coffee Exports Falling - Food Industry News
Senator Inhofe insists the 'consensus' on global warming is now unraveling, and says, after enduring years of name-calling and disparagement, the last laugh will be his.
"Everything you found out in Climategate on how they're cooking the science, I said on the Senate floor back then," Inhofe explained to the crowd. "Now I've been vindicated."
The country, which produces mostly arabica coffee, was hit early in the season by a cold snap which led in part to a dip of about 4 percent in production to 4.4 million 60-kg bags, Trampe told Reuters in an telephone interview.China to Issue Almost 1 Million Tons of Cotton Quotas - BusinessWeek
Planting delays due to cold weather in Xinjiang, China’s biggest producer, may slow the availability of the new crop, Dong said. Nationwide harvesting may be delayed until October, up to 20 days later than normal, Dong said.
Washington Post: National Enquirer says it decided not to pay for Gore sex story interview
The police never sought a statement from Gore or attempted to interview him about the claim.Al Gore in enough hot water to melt an ice cap - BostonHerald.com
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According to a source friendly with the Gores, Al Gore confirmed that he received a therapeutic massage in his hotel room that night, and likely from the therapist making the accusation. But, the source said, Gore remembers getting a massage without incident and the therapist leaving on good terms.
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The Enquirer report was followed up by a number of news organizations, including the Associated Press, the Portland Oregonian, the New York Post and The Washington Post.
The Enquirer's story, which Levine says was approved for publication just before the paper's deadline Monday night, relied heavily on documents. The tabloid confirmed that Gore, who had just released the film "An Inconvenient Truth," was in Portland at the time of the alleged incident to give a speech on global warming. The paper obtained the $540 bill -- including a 20 percent gratuity -- that the masseuse submitted to the Hotel Lucia, which retained her, along with her subsequent e-mail correspondence with the hotel.
Imagine, a newspaper in Portland had this story two years ago and never pulled the trigger - professional courtesy for a fellow limousine liberal and all that.YouTube - Al Gore Accused of Sexual Assault of 54 Year-Old Masseuse
She told detectives she only wanted "justice" and that her complaint was not an attempt to receive money.LATEST! PORTLAND DA CRIMINAL: PROSECUTION A "POSSIBILITY" IN THE AL GORE SEX SCANDAL - National Enquirer
Gore family spokeswoman Kalee Kreider told the Oregonian that the former Vice President has no comment regarding the allegations.
Our investigative team uncovered the amazing story just weeks after the former Vice President announced that he and wife TIPPER were ending their 40-year marriage - amidst reports she suspected her husband was involved with "a gorgeous massage therapist."DNA On The Masseuse? (VIDEO) Al Gore Assault Sex
We have verified the 62-year-old former VP was in Portland at the time of the alleged incident - Oct. 24, 2006 - and we saw the $540 massage bill.
According to the New York Post, the woman is prepared to sell her story, and not unlike the "inconvenient truth" Clinton had to face with Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, this woman reportedly has a pair of pants holding Gore's DNA - and it's locked up in a safe deposit box until she pens a media deal for the story!The Gore Allegations: What You Need To Know | TPMMuckraker
You've no doubt heard by now about the sexual assault allegations made against Al Gore by a Portland, Oregon massage therapist stemming from a 2006 incident. It's a complicated case, and we've now read the 73-page police report so you don't have to.[Some stuff left off the "what you need to know" above]
According to this report: The woman describes herself as living in "The Birkenstock Tribe"; she had voted for Gore and had "inherently trusted him". During Gore's assault, the woman's left leg and knee were injured. She says that it is "very clear that I was not the first woman he had sexually assaulted". She called a friend in Houston immediately afterward to tell him what had happened; she also reported the incident with "much detail" to the Rape Hotline within about 72 hours.Portland Tribune: Our decision on Gore story based on evidence, responsibility
[From the police report: "So I called the Rape Hotline. Much detail, within about 72 hours, the Portland Women's Crisis, at the Portland Women's Crisis Line"]
2. Isn’t your decision not to run a story in 2007 or 2008 a sign of liberal bias in the media? Wouldn’t you have printed the story if the person accused was George W. Bush or Dick Cheney?
This is an easy question to answer, because we did, in fact, very much want to publish a story about the allegation against Al Gore. If we hadn’t wanted to publish a story, we wouldn’t have spent much of a year looking into it. We wouldn’t have made public-records requests for documents that hadn’t previously been released. We wouldn’t have spent hours calling various massage therapists until we identified the correct one. We wouldn't have interviewed hotel employees and numerous people who know the woman. We wouldn’t have contacted Gore for a response to the allegation. We wouldn’t have placed carefully worded ads in cities around the country trying to find other massage therapists who might have had a similar experience with Gore.
The idea that we were protecting Gore is ludicrous, because we were doing everything we could to try to move this story forward.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Dr. Roy Spencer, One of America’s 100 Most Hated by the Left « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
“As I stand upon the shoulders of those scientists who came before me, who dared to change the direction of science, I will continue to suffer the slings and arrows from the Deniers of Natural Climate Change!”
PostPartisan - Washington Post blog - Al Gore: big lummox or crazed sex poodle?
There are hundreds of jokes to be made here. I won’t make any of them, because I don’t want the world to be destroyed by global warming.Neighbors say woman who has accused Al Gore is friendly, honest, spiritual | OregonLive.com
"She's a very spiritual person," said Pepe Moscoso, an artist and photographer who lives in the same apartment complex in Southeast Portland. "We'd talk about the Zodiac and other astrological things."Power Line - "Crazed Sex Poodle"?
He described her as "a very honest person."
I know the "imagine if it were a Republican" theme gets tedious, but still: is it conceivable that if there were a police report accusing Dick Cheney of a sexual assault, it would not be the occasion for the biggest media frenzy of recent years? No, it isn't. It is hard to resist the speculation that Al Gore has been protected not only because he is a Democrat, but because he is the leading symbol of the global warming movement, which our journalist class enthusiastically supports.
The Daily Bayonet « Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jun. 25th 2010
Al Gore morphs into El Grope and continues his rapid descent into PR hell. Warmist hippies draw up an enemies list, David Suzuki drops the F bomb in a cafe and a Beatle is concerned with ‘climate warming’.Perth's cold snap chilliest in four years | Perth Now
This morning was the coldest for June since 0.9 °C was recorded on June 18, 2006. Perth Metro's coldest night ever was -0.7 C on the June 17, 2006.Gulf oil spill - A hole in the world | Naomi Klein | Environment | The Guardian
As US comedian Bill Maher put it, "You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash."The Bait-And-Switch On Cap-And-Trade - IBD - Investors.com
In short, the president's speech to the nation was a classic political bait-and-switch maneuver that, unfortunately, errs not only by embracing make-believe solutions but bad make-believe solutions at that.
To offset one Australian bushfire, how early do I have to go to bed?
What's the carbon footprint of … a bushfire? | Environment | guardian.co.uk
One season of Australian bushfires can cause as much CO2 as the annual emissions of 5 million Australians or 50 million Chinese people
Paul McCartney is still a jerk | The Daily Caller
When last we heard from Paul McCartney, the superannuated superstar was informing us that George Bush, whose wife is a librarian, doesn’t know what a library is. Now he’s saying skeptics of global warming, who pay attention to things like history, don’t know what the Holocaust was.Futbol’s Footprint « Climate Progress
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I’m not sure how the BP oil spill proves global warming, but then again, I didn’t write “Silly Love Songs.” The point is, if you disagree with Paul McCartney, you’re a Nazi.
To prove his dedication to giving our kids a decent world, McCartney has sworn off all petroleum products and now tours by pack-mule caravan. Ha ha, just kidding! He flies around all over the place, same as always. He doesn’t care. He just wants to tell you what to do. He was in the Beatles, you know.
The carbon footprint for the 2010 World Cup is more than eight times that of the 2006 World Cup (excluding international travel).Reid's high-stakes climate [hoax] bill gamble - POLITICO.com
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is planning a high-risk, high-stakes strategy for bringing climate and energy legislation to the floor ahead of the August recess.
The gamble: yoking a bipartisan, fast-track measure to overhaul offshore drilling rules with a broad, contentious bill capping greenhouse gas emissions that otherwise would have almost no chance of passage on its own.
Senate Dems vow action on energy bill: The Swamp
Senators called the meeting "motivating" and "almost like a little revival - a lot of clapping, a lot of yelling" as one speaker after another voiced a desire to debate the thorny issue.Global warming's Stephen Schneider: The Light That Failed
In Schneider's fight for his cause, he allowed his name to be put on junk science--progaganda, and propaganda that will be used maliciously in the future.Climate Change Fraud - Weather is not climate unless Joe Romm says it is
Sadly, at least for Romm, today's temperature breaks only one of three remaining records for June from the 19th century, long before the explosion of CO2-spewing machines began in the 1950s. If it had snowed today, he'd claim it was an anomaly not worthy of his climactic doom-and-gloom prognostications.Regulation of the Day 143: Your Bedtime | GlobalWarming.org
It is astounding that the Japanese regulators think that your bedtime is government business.Warning Signs: The UN's New Scams
Most Americans are by now familiar with the UN’s Environmental Program that has been at the heart of the “global warming” hoax. It was based entirely on falsified computer models whose primary source was the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain and even U.S. government agencies such as NOAA.
Does even Michael Mann believe in his own hockey stick?
BBC - The Editors: What's up with the weather?
[1 minute video] We also hear from the scientist behind the graph which has become an icon in the climate-change debate. Professor Michael Mann regrets the way his so-called "hockey-stick graph" was put in the spotlight by politicians. [Mann in the video: "I always thought it was somewhat misplaced to make it a central icon of the climate change debate...I've done my best whenever I've been given an opportunity to try to clarify the uncertainties in our work..."]Climategate email
From: "Michael E. Mann" ,,,Subject: RE: IPCC revisions Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:35:24 -0400
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Walked into this hornet's nest this morning! Keith and Phil have both raised some very good points. And I should point out that Chris, through no fault of his own, but probably through ME not conveying my thoughts very clearly to the others, definitely overstates any singular confidence I have in my own (Mann et al) series.
...I had been using the entire 20th century, but in the case of Keith's, we need to align the first half of the 20th century w/ the corresponding mean values of the other series, due to the late 20th century decline.
The Hockey Schtick: IPCC "Consensus" on Solar Influence was Only One Solar Physicist who Agreed with Her Own Paper
Her name is Judith Lean... On the basis of this "consensus of one" solar physicist, the IPCC proclaimed solar influences upon the climate to be minimal. Objection to this was raised by the Norwegian government as shown in the AR4 second draft comments below (and essentially dismissed by the IPCC): "I would encourage the IPCC to [re-]consider having only one solar physicist on the lead author team of such an important chapter. In particular since the conclusion of this section about solar forcing hangs on one single paper in which J. Lean is a coauthor. I find that this paper, which certainly can be correct, is given too much weight"...New troubles at Al Gore's Current TV
He couldn't sell the channel; now he has to fix itMorning Shows Skip Sexual Assault Charge Against Al Gore | NewsBusters.org
All three morning shows on Thursday ignored allegations of "unwanted sexual contact" by Al Gore against a woman in 2006. This is despite the fact that the claim was reported by the AP, the New York Times and the Washington Post.More on Al Gore’s character… « Green Hell Blog
Gore claimed to invent the Internet, claimed to be the basis of “Love Story,” uses 20 times as much electricity as the average American while urging the rest of us to cut back, made a bundle off scaring people about the climate, blamed the tobacco companies for his sister’s death from smoking even though his family raised and sold tobacco, sat by while an innocent man was prosecuted for his own negligence, and now, at the very least seems to have betrayed his wife and possibly committed a violent sexual assault.
What part of Al Gore’s character is not simply creepy?
Specifics? We don't need no stinking specifics
Dems On Energy Package: Lots of Enthusiasm, Few Actual Details | Mother Jones
Senate Democrats emerged from today's caucus meeting with little in the way of clarity on what their energy package might look like. But they were determined, however, to use the issue as a bludgeon against Republicans.
Senators described a meeting in which caucus members were united in enthusiasm for passing an energy package, but they also said not many specifics were discussed.
A questionable study claims that climate skeptics are lousy scientists. - By Michael Levi - Slate Magazine
The White House says they are.Twitter / OSTP
...Since pretty much all arguments against the basics of climate science are silly, it stands to reason that those who peddle them are silly, too.
#TOTD Scientists agree on climate change...the few that don't? not cream of crop http://bit.ly/cjQ08F (article) http://bit.ly/crkTiw (paper)OSTP (whitehouseostp) on Twitter
Bio Official Twitter account of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Pajamas Media » BREAKING: ‘Green’ Energy Company Threatens Economics Professor … with Package of Dismantled Bomb Parts
The author of a damning study about the failure of Spain's "green jobs" program — a story broken here at PJM — received the threatening package on Tuesday from solar energy company Thermotechnic.
Paul McCartney: "Some people don't believe in climate warming - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust."
The Beatles legend said: "Sadly we need disasters like this to show people. Some people don't believe in climate warming - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.Sir Paul McCartney confronts the ghosts of his past - Times Online
The most famous “ordinary guy” in the world enjoys a £400m fortune, travels in a private jet, owns a dozen or so homes around the globe and has an entourage to attend to his every whim.Paul McCartney 'horrified' as his eco car is flown 7,000 miles from Japan - Telegraph
But instead of arriving by boat as expected, the car was flown to Britain on a Korean Air flight, creating a carbon footprint almost 100 times bigger than if it had come by sea.
Al Gore sexual assault case: Did Glenn Reynolds actually read the Portland police report before saying he was "underwhelmed" by the allegations?
According to this report: The woman describes herself as living in "The Birkenstock Tribe"; she had voted for Gore and had "inherently trusted him". During Gore's assault, the woman's left leg and knee were injured. She says that it is "very clear that I was not the first woman he had sexually assaulted". She called a friend in Houston immediately afterward to tell him what had happened; she also reported the incident with "much detail" to the Rape Hotline within about 72 hours.
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Al Fin: Hungry Plankton Gobble CO2, Astound Scientists
There is so much that scientists still do not know about Earth's climate, the oceans, the carbon cycle, and so much more. Recently, scientists were surprised to learn that plankton travel relatively long distances -- in terms of ocean depth -- to seek out both nutrients and CO2. Back to the drawing boards.Hot Air » Obama drops under 50% approval … in California
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There are a large number of ocean organisms that take CO2 out of the atmosphere on a semi-permanent basis -- as is obvious from observing geologic phenomena such as limestone and chalk. Fossil fuels are still being formed under the oceans, as well as the massive layers of fossil rock. All of that carbon was cycled through life forms -- including the lowly plankton.
...Unfortunately for Boxer, she has to run in the whole state and not just the Bay area. If Obama’s star is fading, Boxer’s will be descending even further, and for the same reasons — a lousy economy and too much spending. Voters can’t punish (or support) a President in a midterm election, but they can take out their frustrations on those who closely aligned themselves to him, which Boxer has certainly done over the last two years.Spill not likely to change dislike for cap and trade | NewsOK.com
Continuing to tell Americans that green energy will magically transport them away from the need for oil — and the risk of oil spills offshore — is "intellectually shallow,” Samuelson writes. "Clean energy won't displace oil or achieve huge reductions in greenhouse gas emissions — for example, the 83 percent cut by 2050 from 2005 levels included in last year's House climate change legislation. Barring major technological advances (say, low-cost 'carbon capture' to pump CO2 into the ground) or an implausibly massive shift to nuclear power, this simply won't happen. It's a pipe dream.”
Ezra Klein - Reid: Climate bill must have 'broad bipartisan support' or he won't bring it to the floor
I don't want to say that a serious climate change bill is dead, exactly, but this statement from Jim Manley, Harry Reid's spokesman, doesn't inspire confidence. “Sen. Reid has made it clear to proponents on and off the Hill and at the White House that anything he brings to the floor will need broad bipartisan support,” Manley told Politico. Does anyone think that a genuine climate bill has any chance of "broad bipartisan support" in an election year?C3: What's The Matter With Australia? Temperature Data Adjustments Out-The-Wazoo
Temperature data sets have been so heavily manipulated across the globe that it's difficult to make sense of what is the truth regarding temperatures. Another example of this incredible data buffoonery (fraud?) was found in a metro area of Australia.[And all pigs may be able to fly as early as 2019]: Solar PV ''could generate 40% of EU power by 2020''
Around two fifths of Europe''s electricity could be generated by photovoltaic (PV) solar panels within the next ten years, an industry organisation has said.
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