Climate change: we’re cooked. | Alexandra Carlton | The Punch

Even the most optimistic expert admits that the scope of change required from the human race to prevent disaster is so large as to be virtually inconceivable. We can’t and won’t do it. Many, like respected, if controversial, climate scientist James Lovelock think we’re just too stupid.
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One: we’re hopeless as a herd but we’re quite nice once you get us alone. There’s no reason why we can’t ease the earth and its inhabitants into their final days with generous levels of palliative care on a small-scale basis. So plant some trees in your area if it will make it more liveable. Hold coal mines accountable for the pollution they inflict on nearby communities. And why not welcome more climate change refugees from countries where things are burning/flooding/starving faster than we are here? We’re all going down together so what difference does it make?
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Or maybe when the Earth becomes so clammy and choking that we can barely breathe, we’ll invent an ingenious way to cool everything down again – one that’s far too costly and boring to bother with now.

But until then we haven’t got a hope in hot, hot hell.

L.A. sets more record low temperatures | Los Angeles Times

The cold summer continued to set records this week.

According to the National Weather Service, UCLA set a new temperature low for the day on Friday, recording a high of 56 degrees. Long Beach Airport tied its record at 59 degrees (the same as 1962).

Forecasters say the Los Angeles Basin is enjoying its coolest summer since 1991.
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Other cool summers in Los Angeles were recorded in 1938, 1939, 1944 and 1976, Seto said.

For Congress, a less angry August | StarTribune.com

Walz's GOP opponent, state Rep. Randy Demmer, went after him at Farmfest, calling the cap-and-trade proposal an "energy tax." The attack provided one of the brightest sparks in an otherwise genial debate.

Peterson's Republican opponent, businessman Lee Byberg, also brought up the Democrats' climate-change bill. Peterson, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, had a hand in crafting it.

Peterson and Walz portray the bill as an imperfect starting point for negotiations on a long-term energy bill. In any case, it appears dead, for now, in the Senate.

Eco-anxiety and green guilt: Feeling blue about not being green | Washington Examiner

When Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was making the rounds, I wrote an article about it for a sustainable living publication. The editors ran it next to a photo of a stop sign floating in the middle of a flooded street. My friend's 5-year-old son saw the picture. Later, he woke up with nightmares, scared the world was coming to an end (sorry, kid). Children aren't the only ones tossing and turning. Adults are suffering full-blown panic attacks over fear of our environment's dismal-looking future. Eco-anxiety is a state of feeling overwhelmed and helpless about the fact that so many actions humans take have bad eco-repercussions.

Climate scientists take fossil-fueled flights to Colorado to save us from CO2-induced biblical apocalypse

Climate [hoax] scientists in race to predict where natural disaster will strike next | Environment | The Observer

The world's leading climate scientists will gather this week in the United States to hammer out plans to set up an early warning system that would predict future meteorological disasters caused by global warming.

The meeting, in Boulder, Colorado, has been arranged at diplomatic level amid fears that storms, hurricanes, droughts, flooding and other extreme weather events now threaten to trigger widespread devastation in coming decades.
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"The events in Moscow and Pakistan are going to focus our minds very carefully when we meet in Colorado," said Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at the UK Met Office. "On both sides of the Atlantic we have been monitoring what has been going on with the aim of understanding their precise causes so that we can provide better warnings of future disasters."

[This poor woman is grieving relatives killed by landslides in China. These landslides were allegedly your fault]

Wayne Higgins, director of the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center, sounds like a denier!

Chilly West, scorching East: There's a link - San Jose Mercury News

As Washington, D.C., prepared today to endure a 54th consecutive day of unusually high temperatures, some Bay Area cities were expecting low temperatures similar to those that, for example, gave Redwood City a record-cold July.

That same month, other Bay Area cities, such as Richmond, came close to breaking low-temperature records dating to 1960.

So, is there some factor linking the extreme weather on the two coasts?

"There definitely is," said Wayne Higgins, director of the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., where he spoke during a power outage caused by severe thunderstorms.
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As to whether other strange weather reported nationwide and around the world -- such as Pakistan's monsoons or a nearly two-pound hailstone found in July in South Dakota, the largest ever recovered in the United States -- are harbingers of lasting climate change, Higgins said there's simply not enough data to draw that conclusion.

"What we're looking at is climate variability, and in some cases it's pretty extreme," he said. "But I would not characterize it as climate change. It's never a good idea to look at one or even a few events and say something about change or trends."

Labor reveals extra $400m savings - The Canberra Times

LABOR has revealed almost $400million in extra savings, including cutting funding for job service providers, climate change measures and its green car innovation program.

The new savings take Labor's total planned cuts to $3.455billion over the next four years, effectively offsetting its $3.452billion of promises.

The green car innovation fund will be cut by $200million to ''better reflect demand'', $79.5million will go from job service providers in a bid to ''remove the overlap and duplication in funding sources''. The Retooling for Climate Change program will lose another $37.6million and Labor will scrap a promised $12.7million information and communications technology-enabled laboratory.

In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming [Fraud] - NYTimes.com

“The climate is changing,” said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climate analysis at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. “Extreme events are occurring with greater frequency, and in many cases with greater intensity.”
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Theory suggests that a world warming up because of those gases will feature heavier rainstorms in summer, bigger snowstorms in winter, more intense droughts in at least some places and more record-breaking heat waves. Scientists and government reports say the statistical evidence shows that much of this is starting to happen.
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“If you ask me as a person, do I think the Russian heat wave has to do with climate change, the answer is yes,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climate researcher with NASA in New York. “If you ask me as a scientist whether I have proved it, the answer is no — at least not yet.”
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“Global warming, ironically, can actually increase the amount of snow you get,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “But it also means the snow season is shorter.”

In general, the research suggests that global warming will worsen climate extremes across much of the planet. As in the United States, wet areas will get wetter, the scientists say, while dry areas get drier.

But the patterns are not uniform; changes in wind and ocean circulation could cause unexpected effects, with some areas even cooling down in a warmer world.

Your Opinion Of Climate Change Depends On Your Social Psychology: Scientific American Podcast

In a public lecture at the Banff Centre for the Arts, science journalist Jay Ingram argues that climate change controversies have little to do with facts and findings. Christie Nicholson reports

Washington Post claim: Carbon dioxide causes more severe snowstorms

Summer's scorching signs of a troubled environment

But now Washington is scorching and Moscow is choking. Of course, one cannot claim with certainty that the general warming of the planet is directly responsible for particular episodes of extreme weather. The proximate cause of both Moscow's heat and Pakistan's floods is a halted jet stream that parked undesirable weather systems over these areas, and it's not clear that climate change would increase the frequency of such "blocking events."

It is likely, however, that climate change will nevertheless result in more severe weather -- heat waves, droughts, hurricanes, snowstorms and other dangerous weather events -- even if not by an identical mechanism. Higher temperatures may also make natural disasters with unrelated causes more destructive. At the least, the events in Moscow and Pakistan serve as examples of the sorts of thing that scientists predict will happen more often in regions unprepared to cope, underscoring why people must take seriously the risks associated with continuing to pump carbon [dioxide] into Earth's atmosphere.

Peter H. Gleick: The new Katrinas: Naming climate change disasters after the deniers

If we act to slow climate change, and the impacts turn out to be less severe than we predict, all we've done is reduce our emissions of pollutants, cut our economic dependence on fossil fuels from countries that fund extremism and terror, and boosted our economy with new green technologies and jobs.
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There is growing evidence from the real world that climate changes are accelerating faster than we originally feared and that impacts -- already appearing -- will be more widespread and severe than expected.
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But to be a climate denier these days means sticking in earplugs, covering your head with a pillow, and then burying your head deeper and deeper in the sand. Why? Because new physical evidence comes in every day that climate extremes are piling up.
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So, I have a new proposal. Henceforth, just as we give names to hurricanes, I propose we name climate disasters after those who deny the reality of climate change in the face of incontrovertible scientific evidence.
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The Marano [sic] Greenland Ice Floe: A 100-square-mile ice island calved off from the Petermann Glacier - the largest ice island to break away in the Arctic in a half-century of observation.

Editor's letter: Ice story was a bit overdone

It may not for anybody who digs out an old encyclopedia, which may not measure up to today’s scientific exactitude but nevertheless remains a friend to the layman who wants to quick refresher on various topics that are otherwise obscure.

In a volume that came out in 1992, well before alarm about global warming had spread, it reminds us that icebergs and ice islands routinely break off from glaciers on the north coast of Greenland and Ellesmere Island.

An ice island, we learn from the author of that entry, a historian who also wrote about Arctic exploration if I’m not mistaken, may be as thick as 200 feet and cover as much as 200 square miles. (That’s a thickness of 61 meters and surface area of 520 square kilometers for metric fans.)

More from newsweek.washingtonpost.com: [In the dying days of the climate hoax, aren't the alarmists using the words "sin" and "biblical" even more often?]

Under God: Environmental apocalypse: fire and flood - Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Russia is on fire, and Pakistan is under water. Scientific studies have not convinced the climate change-deniers to act to save the planet. Perhaps an imaginative game change is what is called for. "Global weirding" is one such imaginative breakthrough, but let's not rule out the fire and flood imagery of Armageddon, especially as apocalyptic imagery can well symbolize the mounting security threat nations face because of the social, political and economic chaos of accelerating climate change.
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This winter, I wrote "Snowmageddon a sign of global weirding" for "On Faith." I firmly believe we need to give up on the nice-sounding, gentle-seeming, bathing-suit wearing weather kind of language that "global warming" implies, and get to the weirdness of it all. In that post, I wrote about the "sin" of climate change deniers, digging out from under such weird, weird weather and still refusing to connect the dots on climate change.
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But what might really break through in terms of the popular imagination connecting fire and flood and mounting threat from world-wide chaos is biblical apocalyptic. These events can been seen as signs of a global environmental catastrophe of biblical proportions. Revelation 8: 12 tells of the "woes" to come at the apocalypse; the text sounds like it was taken from the weather report in western Russia where fires are devastating the country's wheat crop. When the first trump sounds, "there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up."

A fifth of Pakistan is under water, and floods are ravaging parts of Asia. Rampaging floods make their appearance in the apocalypse, pouring out death on the hapless inhabitants of the earth. "Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river." Rev. 12: 15

The 'world-ending' imagery of the earth burning up and snakes spewing water over the land is judgment for the sinful acts of humankind. Failure to act decisively to stop, and perhaps even, over time, reverse the worst effects of global weirding is sin, pure and simple. And the earth will exact revenge for this desecration. In fact, already is exacting such revenge.

The resulting chaos is a huge and potentially catastrophic security threat. It's positively apocalyptic.

Another mad scientist suggests that the sins of Americans are causing biblical plagues of locusts, so we need to paint our roofs white

Dr. Reese Halter: Wild Weather Justifies Global Warming Law -- in California and Nationwide

So far this year, globally, the weather patterns, insects, wild fires, melting glaciers, sea ice and the oceans all appear to be on performance-enhancing drugs eclipsing, in some cases, thousand year events.
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In April Australia experienced a biblical plague of crop-destroying locusts encompassing 190,000 square miles or the size of Spain.
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Energy efficiency in America is a necessity.

The law-makers in Washington, DC must retro-fit all government buildings, colleges and military facilities across our nation. About five million people on Main Street need jobs. Moreover, by painting rooftops white, air conditioning costs on government buildings will be reduced by $750 million dollars a year, which can help offset workers salaries. In addition, white roofs will mimic millions of square miles of missing sea ice, helping to cool the Earth's temperature.
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Dr Reese Halter is a Science Communicator: Voice for Ecology, and a conservation biologist at Cal Lutheran University.

Dyer Prognosis: Interview With "Climate Wars" Author

However, as freelance journalist and specialist on international affairs and geopolitics Gwynne Dyer warns, it's gonna take a lot more than recycled toilet paper to deal with the mess we've created.
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GD: The "point of no return" is where we lose control of the process and the warming goes runaway and most climate scientists reckon it is around +2 degrees C (+3.5 degrees F). Once the warming passes that point, the warmth itself triggers various natural "feedbacks" like the melting of the permafrost around the Arctic, which would release huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. So long as it is mainly our own carbon dioxide emissions that are causing the warming, we are in control, at least in theory, because we could stop the warming by stopping our emissions. Past the "point of no return," nature takes over and cutting our own emissions would no longer stop the warming.

Amazon.com: Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats…

"This is a truly important and timely book. Gwynne Dyer has made the best and most plausible set of guesses I have yet seen about the human consequences of climate change, of how drought and heat may ignite wars, even nuclear wars, around the globe." --James Lovelock, award-winning scientist, inventor, and originator of the "Gaia" hypothesis

Kamikazeconomics

The incredible fact is that the whole thing turns on a preposterous theory based on maligning a wholly benign rare gas that is in fact essential to the existence of life on earth.

On the basis of the myth the British have, for example, passively allowed Indians to take over their steel industry, close it down and move it to India . This is just part of a massive migration of industry from the western nations to the Asian ones, no doubt to the satisfaction of the UN administration.

Global warming ups heart attack risk

The cold weather may make blood more prone to clotting, increasing the risk of developing a cardiovascular event. Every 1C reduction in the temperature on a single day is linked to 200 extra heart attacks, the study found.
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“Although the increased risk is small, if there is a nationwide drop in average temperature it could equate to a significant number of heart attacks each day,” said Ellen Mason, of the British Heart Foundation.

Scientists therefore urged policymakers and individuals to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases based on lifestyle changes, stressing that it would have substantial benefits both for health and climate protection.

Big-name environmentalists head to Aspen for AREDAY | Aspen Daily News Online

A new program aimed at educating students in the United States about climate and energy science also will be launched at the seventh annual AREDAY. The purpose of the AREDAY Climate & Energy Literacy Initiative (ACELI) is to develop, and implement climate and energy curriculum for U.S. public schools and universities, which will be used from third grade through post graduate study.

Green Sahara: How Climate Change Transformed the Desert

The Sahara is not a place you’d expect to catch many fish. But between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago fishermen thrived there as climate change pushed the monsoon northwards and turned the desert green and even blue.

For much of the past 70,000 years, the Sahara has closely resembled the parched desert it is today. But for several thousand years a dramatic warming turned it lush with vegetation.

NRSC: Jack Conway Tries to Run from His Support for Obama's Cap-And-Tax Bill While Seeking Promotion to Senate

"Jack Conway previously said that he supported President Obama's job-killing cap-and-tax bill, but after being criticized as out-of-touch by Democrats and Republicans alike, Conway flipped," said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Press Secretary Amber Marchand. "What changed, other than the fact that Jack Conway is trying to convince voters that he's more moderate during the General Election?"

Shackleton Scotch Freed From Antarctic Ice - Science News - redOrbit

The whiskey was first discovered, along with a couple of crates of brandy, back in 2006 by a team that included Al Fastier of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust. However, it could not be extracted until January of this year because it was too deeply encased in ice.

[We're saved!]: Carfax, MIS Extend Carbon Offset Program for 'Show Me The Carfax' Race Weekend - Press Releases: PR Newswire - SunHerald.com

Carfax and MIS are working with The Conservation Fund's Go Zero® program to zero out the CO2 emissions that result from the facility's energy use during the race weekend and fuel used by fans traveling to and from the festivities. The effort will also cover the emissions from the race cars during both NASCAR events at MIS -- the CARFAX 400 Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday and CARFAX 250 Nationwide Series race on Saturday, and qualifying and practice sessions on Friday and Saturday.

Joe Bastardi Unloads On Penn State Corruption – Feels Betrayed

Anyone who reads this blog knows that meteorologist Joe Bastardi is one of my favorites. Yesterday he wrote a scathing piece at his European blog about his alma mater Penn State for the way it whitewashed the Michael Mann affair, and other things.

Not as hot as you thought: Temps yet to reach 100 | Houston & Texas News

If Houston can continue to dance just under the century mark for a few more weeks, it will pass as the first summer in more than a decade without a 100-degree day.
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Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, a professor at Texas A&M University, said it's hard to draw any conclusions about climate from this limited data set.

The location of the official temperature sensor has changed from downtown to Hobby Airport to Bush Intercontinental Airport during the last century. The instrumentation has changed, too, and the city has grown up around the airport.

"I'd say urbanization has had a minor effect, maybe a degree or two on the hottest days," he said. "Likewise, Texas temperatures are overall warmer than they were for most of the previous century, contributing another degree or two on most days. Weather randomness also contributes to streaks such as this. So I'd apportion the blame equally among local urbanization, global warming and random luck."

Blacklisted Scientist Challenges Global Warming Orthodoxy | Energy & Environment

Today Hungarian atmospheric physicist Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi, says he has found and proven that the IPCC and their experts are wrong in their theory about how the greenhouse effect works. In the process, he has shown that changing CO2 concentrations are not the determining factor the IPCC and other scientists claim.

Don't miss this: If you see a big iceberg, is that proof that CO2 is dangerous?

ABC News Watch: More Ice Islands

The Advertiser Friday 5 August 1892
LONDON, August 3.The barque Alice, from Auckland to New York, has arrived in port after aterrible voyage. She was locked whenrounding Cape Horn between a sheet of solid ice on her port side, while an iceberg 40 miles long and 400 ft. high occupied all the sea room to starboard. The Alice only escaped from this perilous position with great difficulty.

A HUGE ICEBERG.
The Brisbane Courier Wednesday 4 May 1870
This mass has received the various denominations of an immense iceberg, an ice island,' groote ijseland,' and a connected mass of icebergs. Its elevation in no case exceeded 300feet, but its horizontal dimensions were sixty miles by forty.
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Liberal blogger Matt Yglesias advocates lying on Twitter « » The Daily Caller

“Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do, yes,” said Yglesias.

The exchange, with Washington Examiner writer Mark Hemingway, came on the heels of a debate between the two on transportation policy.
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Yglesias’s spat with Hemingway revolved around estimates for high-speed rail lines about how many people would ride on those trains. On that subject, Yglesias wrote more than a year ago that advocates for high-speed rail may need to present “unrealistically optimistic” ridership estimates to obtain government funding for the projects. “For better or for worse, that’s politics,” Yglesias said then.
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In concluding his interview with The Daily Caller, Yglesias said “go f*ck yourself” and hung up the phone.

The Reference Frame: Czech speaker of the House against AGW panic

"I don't believe in the theory of man-made global warming. Under the ice sheets that exist today, houses used by humans have been found which makes it clear that the contemporary man is not to be blamed for the oscillating temperatures. Nature undergoes certain cycles that can't be attributed in as short a time frame as 10 or 20 years. Moreover, it has been leaked that the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change has been fabricating its reports. Even this finding should open our eyes a little bit and we should keep our cool," Němcová told our editors.

AFP: Dalai Lama [promotes the greatest scientific fraud in history]

"According to experts these very unusual floods and the devastating fires in Russia are symptoms of a deeper malaise occurring due to unprecedented global warming and other environmental causes," the Dalai Lama said in a statement issued from Dharamshala, his home-in-exile in northern India.

The Associated Press: Feds would lift block on oil leases in MT, ND, SD

At issue are greenhouse gases emitted by oil company trucks and drilling rigs and industry practices such as flaring gas, which sends methane directly into the atmosphere.

In a series of new studies, the Bureau of Land Management said emissions from anticipated drilling on the leases would be negligible compared with other sources.

"We can't show a direct tie between these emissions and climate change, so we can't attach (restrictions on development) to leases," BLM spokeswoman Mary Apple said Friday.

Bummer: "Exceptionally cold" winter hampers efforts to prevent the world from overheating

BBC News - Cold and election 'hampered Highland Council CO2 aims'

Council leaders have blamed the severe winter and tasks linked to the general election campaign for failing to meet a target to reduce CO2 emissions.
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In a new report to the council's resources committee, officers said an "exceptionally cold" winter had hampered progress.

They said December 2009 and January and February this year were 2C colder than for the same period in 2007-08 and 2008-09.

Sheryl Crow, The Queen Of Green | The Smoking Gun

Singer’s 2010 rider demands recycled toilet paper, offers promoters “greening” tips
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According to Crow’s rider, her tour party travels between gigs in two 45-foot buses, while her equipment is packed into two tractor-trailers.

Crow, 48, also offers promoters “venue greening suggestions.” She wants “traditional light bulbs” swapped out for compact fluorescent bulbs in “all offices, dressing rooms and common areas.” “Eco-friendly cleaning and bathroom products” and “post-consumer recycled toilet paper and paper towel” should also be used. Crow’s rider also notes that, “We strongly encourage you to use renewable sources and/or to buy sustainable energy credits where possible. Many local utilities offer ‘green power’ as an option--please check with yours and opt in.”

U.S. Department of Energy - Cleaning Up [Coal's CO2 Emissions] | DOE Blog

The Department of Energy is currently pursuing multiple demonstration projects using close to $4 billion in federal funds

Book Review: Climatopolis By Matthew E. Kahn - Science News

...economist Matthew Kahn has a message for prosperous urbanites in developed (and rapidly developing) nations who worry about the fate of their children and grandchildren in a greenhouse world: Don’t.

In cities, where the world’s population is increasingly concentrated, market forces will ensure that all but the poorest have little to fear, Kahn argues. As long as the market is allowed to set fair prices that reflect the environmental costs of energy and the scarcity of finite resources like water, he says, people and cities will adjust. Some cities may even find themselves better off, Kahn contends, as warmer winters transform today’s snowbelt into the cool place to be. He even offers a list of the most climate-resilient U.S. cities.

Federal Task Force Reasserts the Need for a Price on Carbon - NYTimes.com

In Europe, the current $20 price per ton has been both too low and too unsteady; Vollsaeter said it has not catalyzed much CCS development. "We need a price three to four times that, easy," he said. "Fifteen dollars will never reach that goal."

Hmm: So you're saying that if the average temperature in northwest Greenland becomes -24.9 C instead of -25 C, the people there will all be forced to move *toward* the equator?

Linguist on mission to save Inuit 'fossil language' disappearing with the ice | World news | The Guardian

Stephen Pax Leonard will soon swap the lawns, libraries and high tables of Cambridge University for three months of darkness, temperatures as low as -40C and hunting seals for food with a spear.
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"Climate change means they have around 10 or 15 years left," said Leonard. "Then they'll have to move south and in all probability move in to modern flats." If that happens, an entire language and culture is likely to disappear.
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Leonard, who is 36, will have to adapt to many things, not least the extreme temperatures. Although the average temperature is-25C, it can plummet to -40 or soar to zero in the summer.

Michael J. Economides tells us what he really thinks

Energy Tribune- The UN Taxman: Could It Tax Your (Airplane) Seat?

It is billed as a “panel of the world’s leading economists… to fight climate change.” I am not sure what kind of economists they are, but the ones that have been meeting in Bonn, Germany seem to ignore what any undergraduate student in business or engineering can readily conclude: the net present value of carbon dioxide fossil fuels is positive and huge; the net present value of any “green” alternatives is negative to hugely negative.

Unless, of course, they start with the presumption of anthropogenic global warming (which they do) and which is not quite the same as climate change, but even more to the point, they accept lock stock and barrel the most alarmist, direst predictions of the consequences of global warming. If one accepts those, no economic calculation is necessary because the presumed damages have an incalculable impact. There is no real need for “leading economists” to congregate other than to provide authoritative sounding pronouncements for what it is a thinly disguised giant worldwide tax.
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Ideologues seem unrepentant and unmoved by the giant signals from many countries, all in just this year, which led to the Copenhagen fiasco, the wholesale abandonment of subsidized, unrealistic green technologies throughout Europe and the huge disconnect between public pronouncements and actions by practically every country. Now they will try the UN route which is the surest way to further reduce the effort to laughable levels. How is the UN going to compel countries to comply with such massive tax increases?
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Blinded by ideology and an almost religious anti-carbon devotion, have they -- from Bonn to Washington -- lost their senses?

Great question from the National Weather Service: "WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SUMMER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?"

National Weather Service - NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SUMMER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
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AFTER A JUNE IN WHICH TEMPERATURES WERE BELOW NORMAL ACROSS MOST
OF SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA...JULY CONTINUED TO BE VERY COOL. IN
FACT...IT WAS AMONG THE COOLEST JULYS EVER RECORDED ACROSS PORTIONS
OF THE SOUTHLAND.

AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT...JULY 2010 TIED WITH JULY 1948 AND JULY 1965
AS THE COOLEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN THERE IN AUGUST 1944. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 65.7 DEGREES...OR 3.6 DEGREES BELOW
THE NORMAL AVERAGE OF 69.3 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR
THE MONTH AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT WAS A CHILLY 70.5 DEGREES...4.8
DEGREES BELOW NORMAL...AND BY FAR THE COOLEST SINCE 1944. THE
PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 71.6 DEGREES...SET IN 1965.
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DAILY RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE SET OR TIED AT SOME
LOCATION IN SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA ON 24 DAYS DURING THE MONTH.
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AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT...DAILY RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE
SET OR TIED ON 14 DAYS IN JULY...INCLUDING THE LOWEST DAILY MAXIMUM
TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF JULY...65 DEGREES ON THE
8TH. THAT WOULD BE BELOW NORMAL EVEN FOR JANUARY!
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SO FAR THE MONTH OF AUGUST HAS CONTINUED THE VERY COOL THEME.
THROUGH THE FIRST 10 DAYS OF THE MONTH...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE AT
LOS ANGELES AIRPORT WAS 63.8 DEGREES...6.3 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. IN
ADDITION...THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 68.8...NEARLY 8 DEGREES
BELOW THE NORMAL OF 76.4 DEGREES. RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES
WERE SET OR TIED ON EACH OF THE FIRST 9 DAYS OF THE MONTH AT LOS
ANGELES AIRPORT.

[Southern California: Still more record cold] - SignOnSanDiego.com

Record book: Vista and Oceanside Harbor experienced record "low maximum" temperatures on Thursday. In Vista, the temperature only reached 73, the lowest maximum for Aug. 12 since a reading of 75 in 1979. And Oceanside Harbor reached only 65 degrees, which is four degrees cooler than the previous record for that date, set in 2005.

The Climate Wars … ending? | Skeptical Swedish Scientists

Will the Global Warming movement go down in the annals of scientific fraud as have The Piltdown Man, Eugenics and Lysenkoism?

Well, stick with me and be amazed at this infamous tale of the betrayal of a science, that is sure to be a chapter in our grandchildrens’ History of Science textbooks.

NASA Polar Ice Expert on Climate Change and Greenland's Ice Loss: "We Need to Take this Seriously" | WWF Climate Blog

Zwally explained in the interview that warming in the region is 3-4 times greater than the global average. The waters around Greenland are warming and melting the undersides of the glacier "tongues" that extend and float over the water. "We've seen dramatic changes in Greenland over the last ten years," he explained. The glaciers are moving more quickly to the sea and are losing more ice through melting and "calving" (pieces breaking off into the sea) than the glaciers gain from precipitation. The net result is less ice on Greenland and higher sea levels.

The NASA scientist expressed frustration about the degree to which acceptance of solid scientific evidence is affected by political beliefs. "If they're conservative, they don't believe it," he said. "If they're liberal, they believe in climate warming."

Ice Capades – New Iceberg Not What It is “Cracked Up” To Be | Watts Up With That?

So what we know is that the glacier is where it was 50 years ago, a bigger chunk broke off 50 years ago, and the rate of ice moving to the sea has not changed. There is absolutely no story here. Our warming friends get more desperate by the day. It is pathetic.

The Incandescent Bulb Ban: Another Regulatory Overreach | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

If consumers truly preferred fluorescents to incandescents, they would purchase them without any legal incentive. Yet they do not. Many prefer the soft yellow lighting of incandescents to the unnaturally white light of fluorescents. More might prefer the simple affordability of incandescents. Demand for cheap incandescent light bulbs is not going to change because of legislation (and, in fact, could lead to hoarding), so the only option left to environmentalists is to remove the incandescent light bulb from the market altogether and make it impossible for consumers to light their houses inexpensively.

This is one example of the absurdity of federal regulations and how bureaucrats pointlessly try to change human behavior.

From the comment section: Previous floods in Pakistan

Tom Nelson: You know what allegedly proves that CO2 is dangerous? Floods or fires!

1954 Aug 23, 1954 - The United States has to extend emergency assis- tance to east Pakistan, where a fIood drowned thousands and threatened many more with ... The three week long flood, described as the worst in Pakistan's recorded history, washed 15 million persons fr:im their straw ...
From PAKISTAN FLOOD VICTIMS TO GET MORE US HELP -...

1970 Nov 23, 1970 - of the League of Red Cross Societies, said today earlier difficulties in getting aid to East Pakistan flood victims had been overcome and operations are in full swing. according to our figures, two and a half million persons were affected by the disaster and a half million of those ...
From East Pakistan Flood Victim Aid Program Is Started . - Related web pages
news.google.com/newspapers?id=kVEwAAAAIBAJ ...

1971 Mar 22, 1971 - THE PAKISTAN FLOOD IT WILL BE A GREATER DISASTER IF WE DONT CARE The two million survivors of the Pakistan flood need our help One dollar feeds ten Pakistani children a day. Please send what you can. Save the Relief Fund Box 1670 Washington DC 20013.
From The Pakistan Flood. It Will Be A Greater Disaster If We Don't Care . - Related web pages
news.google.com/newspapers?id=qy8gAAAAIBAJ ...

Conventional Wisdom on BP Leak was Wrong, Knee-jerk, Reactionary

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081310/content/01125109.guest.html

RUSH:  The BP oil spill hysteria about a lie, ladies and gentlemen, was child play compared to the hoax that's global warming, child play.  This hoax was nothing.  It only lasted a couple of months.  The global warming hoax has been ongoing for 25 years.  It has determined the curricula at every level of education in the country.  It's a lie, it is a hoax.  

Global warming lies, damn lies and easy rebuttals | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/13/global-warming-lies-damn-lies-and-easy-rebuttals/

Recently San Diego's Lynceans group hosted a global warming debunking seminar in which several speakers highlighted effective debate tactics for global warming skeptics.

Dayton Daily News : Global warming already hitting Ohio, study says

http://m.daytondailynews.com/dayton/db_/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=ABAA8A825DCDBC492E2E34ACF9EC79A7?contentguid=ibFW49SZ&full=true#display

Air pollution in urban areas could get worse, bringing increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and asthma attacks. Children, the elderly, poor, and people of color are especially vulnerable to these effects. Public health experts are especially alarmed.

"Global warming is one of the most massive health emergencies facing humanity. Its effects are already life-threatening for people with asthma and allergies and it's only going to get worse if we do nothing," said Mike Tringale, vice president of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

Pictured: large plankton mass off Irish coast 'so big it was spotted by space satellite' - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7945157/Pictured-large-plankton-mass-off-Irish-coast-so-big-it-was-spotted-by-space-satellite.html

The electric blue mass was so large it was spotted by satellites hundreds of miles above the planet.

A changed climate on climate change | Alexandra Stark | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/13/bonn-climate-change-talks-cancun

Add in strong American leadership, and Cancun could end very differently to Copenhagen.

For Climate Change Piece, ABC's Dan Harris Skips Agenda of Global Warming Scientist | NewsBusters.org

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/08/13/climate-change-piece-abcs-dan-harris-fails-mention-agenda-global-war

SCHMIDT: Well, nobody ever said that it would never snow again. I mean, you're still going to get cold anomalies but they're just going to happen less often. And soon they won't happen hardly at all whereas the other anomalies will come more and more frequently.

SatelliteGate: Lake Michigan Temp July 4th 2010: 489.2°F ?

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog/~3/ZkwmHCrUTKE/index.php

Well according to NOAA at least part of Lake Michigan reached that temperature, while other parts had temperatures in excess of 100°, 200°, 300° and 400° F

One of Our Hemispheres Is Missing!

http://notrickszone.com/2010/08/13/one-of-our-hemispheres-is-missing/

These reports are from local sources. The mainstream media rule seems to be "If it doesn't support our agenda, don't report it." For their practical purposes, the globe stops at the equator. Not only do they shut out scientific dissent, but also the cold hard facts from half the globe.

“Is Jim Hansen’s Global Temperature Skillful?” Guest Post by John R. Christy

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/is-jim-hansens-global-temperature-skillful-guest-weblog-by-john-christy/

The result suggests the old NASA GCM was considerably more sensitive to GHGs than is the real atmosphere since (a) the model was forced with lower GHG concentrations than actually occurred and (b) still gave a result that was significantly warmer than observations.

Watching the Deniers

http://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/lets-call-it-for-what-it-is-climate-change-is-here-welcome-to-the-anthropocene/

The Greenland ice sheet?

Most likely gone.

The Great Barrier Reef.

Most likely gone.

Toles’ “last rant about the climate” and Tom Tomorrow on conservatives, “Reality: Who needs it!”

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/climateprogress/lCrX/~3/66eyF-Y8CY8/

...We are apparently going to let the debate on the science run until hell freezes over. If you can't accept theconclusions of 98 percent of the scientists whose FIELD IT IS, then why even bother with science? If that high a percentage of field of study is to be discounted ENTIRELY, then we are in deep trouble, which, of course, we are. It would be so simple if it were just a matter of ignoring the yelping commenters hereabouts: "Move on, Mr. Cartoonist! Chill out Tommy! There are more important things to worry about!"

Really? Which would those things be? This may be the only political issue whose results could be catastrophic PERMANENTLY. But the deliberate dust storm thrown up by fossil-fuel-centric interests has succeeded in contaminating and paralyzing the American response. Quite a victory for the deniers! It looks like mass-suicide to me. And so, my final rant on climate. Except not really. There has to be a drinking fountain out there somewhere. –Tom Toles

Japan Owns Up to Costs of a 'Green Economy'

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/243226/japan-owns-costs-green-economy-chris-horner

Kudos to the Japanese energy ministry, too (and note well the slight cultural difference): Instead of the government making fantastic claims about the riches that will flow from selling windmills to one another, they say "This is gonna hurt." And it will. AsGermany and Spain have shown.

Revkin: greenhouse effect is at best a tertiary wild card

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/KU9Cvq8344o/revkin-greenhouse-effect-is-at-best.html

That's quite a statement from someone whom we would consider to be an alarmist - although a moderate one - just a few months ago. Frankly, I don't really see any "effective" difference between Revkin's opinions and the opinions of those who are normally considered climate skeptics.

Indeed, the industrially driven greenhouse effect is at most a tertiary wild card, one of many less-than-secondary effects that may influence the life on Earth but that will not dominate any important issues...
I think it's time for Joseph Romm or another breathtaking loon of the same kind to declare Andrew Revkin a heretic, much like they recently did in the case of Judith Curry. ;-)

Watching the Wiggles

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/08/watching-wiggles.html

The scientific community in my view loses credibility when it tells the public in the winter that "weather is not climate" but then in the summer forgets that admonition.

Despite Costs, 'Clean Coal' Remains Obama Priority

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/despite-costs-clean-coal-remains-obama-priority/

The problem? In all of the fevered recent discussions over next steps for climate legislation, I haven't heard anyone put forward a template for a bill that would lock in a carbon pricing path coming anywhere close to $60 to $95 a ton on a timescale that would make the technology globally competitive in time to blunt the burst of emissions coming by 2030 in China and India. (Click here to explore federal projections of carbon costs under various bills. Some bills included provisions that would give carbon-capture projects enough extra credits to reach that high carbon payout from the start.*)

That's why, to my mind, clean coal, in the context of climate change, remains an enticing, but empty, pipe dream.

The Lemur Demur

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2010/08/lemur-demur.html

The alarmist pronouncement today,  Biodiversity Hot Spots More Vulnerable to Global Warming Than Thought, turns out to be a very far-fetched hypothesis based on thedisproven notion that global warming causes more frequent El Niños, which then might cause more heavy rains in Madagascar, which thenmight "anecdotally knock fruit off the trees when lactating lemurs need it most, and may even kill trees outright, " and thus might malnurish lemur babies...

The New “Skeptical Science” Website: What is Going On Here?

http://www.masterresource.org/2010/08/skeptical-science-website/

if Mr. Cook is saying we should listen only to specialists, and if Mr. Cook is not a specialist in climate science, what is his authority for reaching such a conclusion?  Should I also ask my barber who to listen to?

NASA's GISS: Moscow Is Burning - Human CO2-Induced Unprecedented Global Warming Is To Blame, Not

http://www.c3headlines.com/2010/08/nasas-giss-moscow-is-burning-human-co2induced-unprecedented-global-warming-is-to-blame-not.html

This NASA temperature anomaly map says it all. During July, Moscow was burning up, as well as a major portion of the U.S. This is clear evidence of what the last three decades of massive human CO2 emissions has done to the global climate.... 

Oooops, we bad - OMG, the above image isn't for July 2010, it's for July 1936! Here on the right is the temperature anomaly map for July 2010.

Witches,Warlocks and Weather

http://www.ozclimatesense.com/2010/08/witcheswarlocks-and-weather.html

A paper by Emily Oster reports that in medieval times superstition blamed witches for weather disasters and crop failures - 
"Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that, just as easily as they raise hailstorms, so can they cause lightning and storms at sea; and so no doubt at all remains on these points." 

Sound familiar? The Pope of the day with the medieval version of the IPCC report!

Stunning comment by andy revkin

Building Resilience on a Turbulent Planet - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

[in comment five] To my eye, you have the importance of the "forcings" of population and human-driven climate change reversed. Consider last year's news from sub-Saharan Africa, where populations are confidently expected to double by midcentury. Natural cycles of century-long superdroughts were revealed in a lakebed. So climate super-extremes are inevitable, the number of people is doubling, and greenhouse-driven change, given the uncertainties, is -- at best -- a tertiary wild card.

Where politics and science should not mix | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ

[Audio] A science historian explains why some scientists are trying to undermine recent research on global warming and spread mistruths.

Are The Alarm Bells Of Climate Change In Tune? | Audubon Magazine Blog

maybe we are not ringing the bells loud enough, or perhaps our politicians are deaf.

CBS 5 Poll: Fiorina Widens Lead Over Boxer - cbs5.com

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) - California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer to five percentage points according to a new CBS 5 KPIX-TV poll released Thursday, which also shows gubernatorial candidates Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman in a dead heat.

Dalton Minimum Returns: Solar/Cosmic Rays Combo Is Driving Climate Change, Not Human CO2 Emissions.

A correlation study of high-altitude and midaltitude clouds and galactic cosmic rays by MIPAS-Envisat by Susanne Rohs, Reinhold Spang, Franz Rohrer, Cornelius Schiller and Heinz Vos

NC Media Watch: The environmental left cannot have it both ways

According to the liberals promoting anthropogenic global warming, who are supporting implementation of AB32, the only acceptable evidence that warming is not happening is peer reviewed papers published in approved scientific journals. So how much credibility does this non-peer reviewed report have?

World Climate Report » The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010

Long-term observations suggest a more basic cause—an unusual and unprecedented (at least since 1950) confluence of several naturally-occurring atmospheric circulation patterns that together combined to set the stage for extreme warmth.

BBC News - Peru battles rabid vampire bats after 500 people bitten

Some local people have suggested this latest outbreak of attacks may be linked to the unusually low temperatures the Peruvian Amazon in recent years.

Column - Blinded by the sun | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

THE beauty about solar power stations is that you just have to promise them. Never mind that you won’t deliver. After all, the new green faith is about seeming, not doing, right?
...
The only big solar plant close to being built is that one near Mildura. So keen has the Government been to seem green that it promised this project’s private owners $50 million to get it up, and prime minister John Howard, desperate in his last days to seem funky, threw in $75 million.

This for a plant that would produce only enough wildly overpriced power at peak times for 45,000 homes, but no factories, and would still need conventional power stations humming on line for when the sun didn’t shine.

Yet still the project collapsed last year, throwing 100 people out of work.

In February, with $150 million of investors’ money gone, including up to $3 million of the government handouts, its carcass was sold to Silex Systems for just $20 million.

[About the beachfront mansion of Al Gore's global warming mentor]  - WSJ.com

The La Jolla, Calif., estate of scientist Roger Revelle's family has come on the market for $14 million.

Dr. Revelle, who died in 1991, was among the earliest to study global warming and one of the founders of the University of California San Diego, where a college is named for him.

The Revelles moved into the home in 1947. The property includes 115 feet of beachfront and a 4,100-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bath house. There's a fishpond, a swimming pool and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom detached guest house.

Building Resilience on a Turbulent Planet - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

[Robert R.M. Verchick, the director of Loyola University’s Center for Environmental Law and Land Use] Why is Nature so mad all of a sudden? ...Did I mention climate change? You can’t attribute any single weather-related event to a hotter planet. But climate change is almost certain to lead to more frequent and/or more intense extreme events like fires, floods, and storms. It’s not R.E.M.’s “end of the world as we know it” — not yet — but we had better shape up and get with the program.

'Global Weirding': Extreme Climate Events Dominate The Summer

"We're setting climate records at a record-setting pace," David Orr, a professor of environmental studies and politics at Oberlin College, told HuffPost. "More hottest hots, driest dries, wettest wets, windiest wind conditions. So it's all part of a pattern. If you ask is this evidence of climate destabilization, the only scientific answer you can give is: It is consistent with what we can expect." Orr is the author of "Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse" and five other books on politics and the environment.

You know what allegedly proves that CO2 is dangerous? Floods or fires!

Climate Change Skeptics Living a Lie, Envoy Says | The Jakarta Globe

“Climate change skepticism is a lie, and it disrupts the negotiations we’re conducting,” Rachmat Witoelar, the former environment minister and now the special envoy for climate change, said on Thursday.

“Climate change is real beyond a reasonable doubt, and the proof is empirical. Just look at the floods in Pakistan or the forest fires in Russia. Those weather extremes are the result of a changing climate.”

Nice timing from the climate hoax promoters at Reuters: On the same day that the USDA forecasts bumper crops for corn, soybeans, and wheat, they try to convince us that carbon dioxide is devastating our crops

Analysis: Extreme weather plagues farming, talks flounder | Reuters

When temperatures rise as a result of smokestack and tailpipe emissions, droughts, heat waves, and floods become more frequent and more intense. The temperatures create "more and more hot extremes and worse unprecedented extremes and that's what we're seeing," said Neville Nicholls, a climate scientist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

As the number of extreme weather events mount, they will likely create havoc in agricultural markets and could lead to food riots in poor countries like those in 2007 and 2008 when prices hit records on rabid market speculation.

[August 12, 2010]: Bumper corn, soybean [and wheat] crops forecast

Corn production is forecast at a record high 13.4 billion bushels, up two percent from the previous record set in 2009, the USDA announced Thursday.
...
U.S. soybean production is forecast at a record high 3.43 billion bushels, up two percent from last year. Based on Aug. 1 conditions, yields are expected to average 44.0 bushels per acre, unchanged from last year's record high yield.
...
Winter wheat production is forecast at 1.52 billion bushels, up one percent from last month and up slightly from 2009. The United States yield is forecast at 47.5 bushels per acre, up 0.6 bushel from last month and up 3.3 bushels from last year. If realized, this will be the second highest yield on record, trailing only 1999.

Texas Fight! What Other States Can Learn from Texas vs U.S. EPA — MasterResource

Texas is fighting back against the heavy hand of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). All Americans should be proud of–and other states should take note of—not just the spirit but the technical arguments of the Lone Star revolt.

Sky News: No carbon tax for three years - Labor

Treasurer Wayne Swan has promised a re-elected Labor government won't put a tax on carbon during its next term of office.

Study: 60% of Species Recovery Plans Identify Global Warming as Extinction Threat

The review found that fewer than 5 percent of recovery plans written prior to 2005 mentioned global warming. Since then (from 2005 to 2008), the threat has been included in 60 percent of recovery plans.

Climate change skeptics get mobile phone app - The Hill's E2-Wire

But there are competing mobile phone apps that tout the far more widely held view among scientists that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and dangerously destabilizing the climate.

Warning Signs: The EPA Must Be Stopped!

On August 12, the Environmental Protection Agency sent out a press release, “EPA Proposes Rules on Clean Air Act Permitting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions”.

It is a frontal attack on the U.S. economy that is currently in the throes of a decline that has not been seen since the Great Depression.

If the EPA succeeds in this Big Lie, the provision of affordable energy in America will cease.

Lack of climate bill hinders carbon storage, fed agencies say - The Hill's E2-Wire

Technologies to trap carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and store them underground face no “insurmountable” barriers to widespread adoption, but the lack of climate legislation is a big stumbling block, a new federal report concludes.

ICE cuts staff at Chicago Climate Exchange-sources | Reuters

prices for the carbon credits traded on the bourse since its 2003 launch, which were based on voluntary but legally binding emissions reduction commitments by its members, have crashed to around 10 cents a tonne from all-time highs of over $7 in 2008, and trading volumes have largely dried up.

Last week, ICE chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher said the CCX may be pared due to a lack of profitability and that ICE is now seeking feedback about what to do with the exchange.

Michael Tomasky admits that he's cheering for more natural disasters, because he thinks that'll convince us to swallow climate hoax legislation

Russia, Pakistan and food for thought | Michael Tomasky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

I sometimes imagine what it would take, weather-wise, for people to see that we have to do something about this. It puts one in the odd and perhaps I confess morally unsupportable position of cheering for a certain amount of calamity, the better to put the crisis in stark relief, but hopefully not too much calamity, lest many die.

It's 2010, we have access to the Internet, and the Associated Press still thinks we'll believe that floods are punishment for our sins

[More pure climate hoax propaganda from your mainstream media]: The Associated Press: Long hot summer of fire and floods fit predictions

NEW YORK — Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Pakistan and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way.

The weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists, the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization says — although those scientists always shy from tying individual disasters directly to global warming.
...
Stott and NASA's Gavin Schmidt at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, said it's better to think in terms of odds: Warming might double the chances for a heat wave, for example. "That is exactly what's happening," Schmidt said, "a lot more warm extremes and less cold extremes."

[Note the dates of the ten worst floods here: Which ones were caused by carbon dioxide?]

Date Location Dead
1887, September-October Hwang Ho (Yellow) River, China Over 900,000
1939 North China 500,000
1642 Kaifeng, Honan Province, China Over 300,000
1099 England and the Netherlands 100,000
1287, December 14 The Netherlands 50,000
1824 Russia 10,000
1421, November 18 The Netherlands 10,000
1964, November-December Mekong Delta, South Vietnam 5,000
1951, August 6-7 Manchuria 4,800
1948, June Foochow, China 3,500

New troubles for revamped ‘clean coal’ project - The Hill's E2-Wire

A long-troubled federal project to demonstrate the viability of capturing carbon from coal-fired power plants and socking it away underground has hit a new snag.

The town of Mattoon, Illinois wants no part of the Energy Department’s revised “FutureGen” project after seeing its role in the program change and shrink.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Aug. 12th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

A Democrat wants skeptics put on ice, NOAA nuked Wisconsin and the Chinese are pretty sure global warming is a Western plot against the developing world.

Is Al Gore Sane Enough to Stand Trial? | MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory

Al Gore’s bogus green enterprises have pulled in some major public funding based on fraudulent claims; leading to the suggestion that he may eventually stand trial. There’s something more. In his obsessive lectures, it seems he’ll not be content until he’s destroyed the economy and forced his political enemies, those who he credits for bringing his 2000 presidential dreams to an end, to their knees.

Is it a simple kind of Napoleon complex? Or is there something psychologically deeper? Will he be allowed to stand trial if Senate investigations lead to indictments?
...
I thought again about what he’s been doing, obsessively, for several years. He’s made the effort, semi-successfully, to build a vast army of ding-bats to spread his message and do battle with his mortal enemies; including some that can’t defend themselves, like carbon dioxide. The “vast army” is actually smaller than he’d like to imagine and the most involved are actually paid mercenaries, some on his own payroll.
...
A lying politician? Perhaps so. But for years he’s been begging us to believe that he believes. A cry for help? Maybe that’s true too. If he is indicted, I’m not betting against an order for a psychological evaluation.

Fraudster Al Gore | Climate [Hoax] Town Hall Discussion

[Five minute audio "highlights" here--at the 2:20 mark, Gore claims that "More than 97% of the climate scientists around the world are telling us that the evidence is very clear"]

Computers are Causing Global Warming | Climate Skeptic

At least, that is, in Nepal. Willis Eschenbach has an interesting post looking into the claim that Nepal has seen one of the highest warming rates in the world (thus threatening Himalayan glaciers, etc etc). It turns out there is one (1) GISS station in Nepal, and oddly enough the raw data shows a cooling trend. Only the intervention of NASA computers heroically transforms a cooling trend into the strong warming trend we all know must really be there because Al Gore says its there and he got a Nobel Prize, didn’t he?

More on the Monckton/Abraham debate on global warming | The SPPI Blog

Why is Chris Monckton the victim of a global warming attack campaign? Effectiveness. Few have been so brilliantly effective at debunking the global warming scare as this compellingly articulate British Lord.

Just When I Thought I Had Seen the Worst Possible Peer-Reviewed Climate Work… | Climate Skeptic

This is really some crazy-bad science in a new study by Welch et al on Asian rice yields purporting to show that they will be reduced by warmer weather. This is an odd result on its face, given that rice yields have been increasing as the world has warmed over the last 50 years.

Why It Is Good to Have Two Sides of A Debate | Climate Skeptic

OK, so 600F readings will be thrown out, but how do we have any confidence the rest of the readings are OK. Just because they may read in a reasonable range, e.g, 59F, the NOAA is just going to assume those readings are OK?

Poll: Public favors Dems on energy, while Obama spill rating rises - The Hill's E2-Wire

The new poll gives Dems a bigger edge on dealing with global warming, with 40 percent of respondents saying the Democrats would do a better job and 13 percent saying the GOP would do a better job. But that’s still smaller than the 45-point edge Dems had in a January 2008 survey.

Danish Scientist on 'huge' Greenland ice floe break: 'The size of ice floes is not unusual..."

Google Oversæt

According to Leif Toudal Pedersen, a researcher in sea ice at DMI, it is not unusual for huge flakes of ice breaks loose.
...The size of ice floes is not unusual, says the researcher.
..."It is a completely natural process...Some summers the ice hanging and other summers break it up, "he said.

Flashback: Detached giant [Antarctic] iceberg may cause colder winters

According to Australian researchers may iceberg blocking an area that produces a quarter of the world's most condensed and cold seawater.
Researchers say that if production of this seawater is beginning to happen more slowly, it could result in colder winters in the North Atlantic.

Can Peer Review be fixed? « JoNova

The peer review system, so important to the bolstering the voice of the climate establishment and suppressing dissent, is broken. Not that it was perfect and somehow got wrecked, but that it was never stringent or transparent in the first place. As the force of money, power, and reputations was ramped up, it was an eminently corruptible system, and thus it has become. Seriously, what other profession would call unpublished comments by two unpaid anonymous colleagues “rigorous”?

Dear IRS officer, my tax return was audited by two accounting friends I won’t name, and they say it’s right. OK?

Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » Trust and Climate Diplomacy

I was writing up some notes last week from a trip to India earlier this year when I came upon this from an interview with a senior official:

“No negotiator believes that the U.S. goal is to address climate change. They think they need to protect themselves.”

Russian Scientist: Extreme Central Russian Heat Wave Not An Indication Of A Future Climate Catastrophe

A Russian scientist says the regional heat wave taking place in Russia is not a sign of catastrophic climate change and that the permafrost has been thawing since the last ice age 10,000 years ago, and its rate of thawing is also not catastrophic.

'Fake fishermen' conning BP out of Gulf of Mexico compensation money - Telegraph

Fraudsters are posing as fisherman to con BP out of thousands of dollars in compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Colder Arctic melt season temperatures - prognose 2010 - 6 days to go

http://hidethedecline.eu/pages/posts/colder-arctic-melt-season-temperatures---prognose-2010---6-days-to-go-189.php

The DMI Arctic melt season temperature maybe headed for all time record low.

Check out this quote from an IPCC scientist

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: It Has Been Foretold

I am coming to the conclusion that there is something about the climate issue that makes people -- especially but not limited to academics and scientists -- completely and utterly lose their senses. The WMO statement is (yet) another example of scientifically unsupportable nonsense in the climate debate. Such nonsense is of course not going away anytime soon .

But because various unsupportable and just wrong claims are being advanced by leading scientists and scientific organizations, it would be easy to get the impression that on the issues of extreme events and climate change, IPCC science has a status similar to interpretations of Nostradamus and the Mayan calenders.

Roger Pielke Jr. - SourceWatch

In a February 2, 2010 televised interview on BBC TV, Dr. Pielke said his work for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had been misrepresented in a report produced by the IPCC. In particular, he cited a graph that was included in the report that showed a relationship between rising temperatures and the increasing costs of damages from weather-related occurrences. Dr. Pielke stated he was surprised to see the graph, "because there's no evidence in the literature to suggest that that relationship exists." "Even more troubling," Dr. Pielke said, was the fact that one of IPCC's reviewers asked the IPCC to check with him (Pielke) about this information. Pielke said that the IPCC responded by saying they thought he had changed his mind on the topic. Pielke maintains that this was not true.

Spinning the Defeat of Cap-and-Trade | GlobalWarming.org

Finally, Republicans betray themselves (ask President George “Read My Lips; No New Taxes” Bush) when they vote for rather than against higher taxes. Because carbon is intrinsic to the chemistry of fossil fuels, a carbon cap-and-trade scheme is a virtual broad-based energy tax. The same cannot be said of the SO2 program, which was merely a virtual pollution tax. Moler and Sharp would like GOP lawmakers to believe they can win elections by becoming the Party of Energy Taxes. Fortunately, most Republicans don’t need much coaching to realize that is complete bunk.

When the Smoke Clears in Russia, Will Climate Policy Change? - NYTimes.com

This summer's wildfires, which covered 175,000 hectares as of Monday, have killed 52 people, according to Russian government numbers.

Flashback - Peru Government Declares Cold Wave Emergency

According to official figures, so far this year at least 409 people have died of pneumonia and ailments related to the cold weather, most of them younger than 5 years old (200 deaths) and over 60 years (158 deaths).

- Bishop Hill blog - What next for greenery?

It's [Richard Black's] slack-jawed acceptance of the premise of the piece that I find so interesting. I mean, don't we pay the guy to question what greens and scientists are telling us? Do you think a seminar in which the views of the biodiversity crisismongers were challenged might illuminate things more than what we see here?

To me, this looks very much like the BBC staff being briefed on the next narrative. There is no sense of BBC journalists being asked to consider different sides of a scientific debate, no sense that the assembled journalists are meant to question anything. We simply have one scientist saying what he thinks the problem is and another telling the journalists how to convey that scientist's message to the public.

The planning of a propaganda campaign in full public view? What do you think?

Mistakes made by the Consensus by Dan Pangburn P.E. guest post at Climate Realists | Climate Realists

Thus the so-called global climate models are actually global weather models. It is woefully naïve to believe that all that is needed to turn a global weather model into a global climate model is to run it longer.

Warning Signs: Big Green Lies are Imploding

To demonstrate how deranged Gore is, he actually blamed a “biased right-wing media…bolstered by professional deniers.” There is The Wall Street Journal and Fox News whose reporting reflects a conservative philosophy and outlook, but the rest of the mainstream media has been so demonstrably left-wing there was little else available to the public until the advent of cable television and the Internet. And they all lied about global warming.

Quadrant Online - Election climate

Voters object to paying the bill for climate fixes
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Australian voters showed some enthusiasm for the environment in the last election, but this election has shown that their enthusiasm stops well short of paying to fix its supposed problems.
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In other words, efforts to seriously reduce carbon emissions are a waste of time, but activists simply will not see this. The only sensible response of the two major parties in this election campaign is to make noises about the environment but avoid committing themselves to any concrete policy that promises increases in electricity prices.

Climate Change Fraud - Official: Satellite Failure Means Decade of Global Warming Data Doubtful

World-renowned Canadian climatologist, Dr. Timothy Ball, after casting his expert eye over the shocking findings concluded, “At best the entire incident indicates gross incompetence, at worst it indicates a deliberate attempt to create a temperature record that suits the political message of the day.”

Tales from the Chip | The Resilient Earth

Real scientists know that model output is not proof of how the real world works. Such output are just numbers spun by computer code, and the interpretation of those numbers by climate change alarmists merely tales from the chip. Climate scientists know they have no proof of future global warming, only model projections—and that means global warming is not really science at all.

Queensland solar power project in Cloncurry stalls because of bright light of panels | Courier Mail

But The Courier-Mail can reveal that three years after its launch, instead of a forest of 8000 mirrors the project consists only of four test panels and a fake tower behind a locked gate.

Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires - environment - 10 August 2010 - New Scientist

There is some tentative evidence that the sun may be involved. Earlier this year astrophysicist Mike Lockwood of the University of Reading, UK, showed that winter blocking events were more likely to happen over Europe when solar activity is low – triggering freezing winters (New Scientist, 17 April, p 6).

Now he says he has evidence from 350 years of historical records to show that low solar activity is also associated with summer blocking events (Environmental Research Letters, in press). "There's enough evidence to suspect that the jet stream behaviour is being modulated by the sun," he says.